Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi challenged Ning Fengzhi to demonstrate the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s strength, but Qian Xunji intervened with a proposal for battles between prominent Titled Douluo. The ceremony ended with the assembled spectators awaiting the proposed matchups.

• Ling Yi challenged Ning Fengzhi to prove the strength of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, leaving Ning Fengzhi under pressure until Qian Xunji intervened.
• Qian Xunji introduced Qian Jun and Jiang Mo, twin Titled Douluo of Spirit Hall, and Ling Yi greeted them from his seat.
• Ling Yi asked whether Qian Xunji intended for the brothers to challenge Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin.
• Qian Xunji proposed that Qian Jun and Jiang Mo fight Chen Jianjun together, while Tang Xiao and Tang Hao challenge Chen Xin together.
• The spectators grew excited at the prospect of two major battles between powerful Soul Masters.

Qian Xunji proposed that Thousand Jun Douluo and Subduing Demon Douluo fight Chen Jianjun, believing the brothers could hold their own against the Level 97 Titled Douluo. Tang Hao wanted to challenge Chen Xin to recover his pride, but Tang Xiao restrained him, recognizing Qian Xunji’s attempt to provoke conflict between Clear Sky Sect and Lingyun City.

• Ling Yi and Qian Xunji judged that Thousand Jun Douluo and Subduing Demon Douluo could contend with Chen Jianjun if they fought together.
• Thousand Jun Douluo and Subduing Demon Douluo accepted Qian Xunji’s proposal and fixed their battle intent on Chen Jianjun, who waited for Ling Yi’s signal.
• Ling Yi calmed Chen Jianjun and turned his attention to Tang Hao, whose battle intent had risen at Qian Xunji’s challenge.
• Tang Hao wanted to challenge Chen Xin to regain his dignity after his past defeat, but Tang Xiao held him back.
• Tang Xiao judged that Clear Sky Sect could not risk a conflict with Lingyun City while Tang Chen was absent and Tang Zhen was seriously injured, and remembered their undisclosed connection to the city.

Chen Jianjun overwhelmed Thousand Jun Douluo and Subduing Demon Douluo with his Ninth Soul Skill, but the brothers countered with their own Ninth Soul Skills. The battle ended on a cliffhanger as Chen Jianjun faced their pincer attack from above and below.

• Ling Yi reassured the fighters that he could heal them as long as they did not die instantly, and Qian Xunji signaled the start of the battle.
• Chen Jianjun, Chen Xin, Thousand Jun Douluo, Subduing Demon Douluo, Tang Xiao, and Tang Hao activated their Martial Soul Avatars.
• Thousand Jun Douluo and Subduing Demon Douluo combined their Eighth Soul Skills to attack Chen Jianjun from above and below.
• Chen Jianjun answered with his Ninth Soul Skill, God-Demon Dual Slash, knocking Thousand Jun Douluo back and forcing Subduing Demon Douluo to kneel beneath his sword.
• Subduing Demon Douluo unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill, Salvation of All Beings, while a voice above Spirit City called out the Ninth Soul Skill, Sea of Bitterness Calamity.
• A golden dragon and seawater formed a giant staff that descended from the sky as Subduing Demon Douluo drove a red giant staff upward toward Chen Jianjun.

Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin fought the Spirit Hall elders and Tang brothers at the Pope’s Palace, revealing that both still had strength to spare. As Tang Hao unleashed Ring Detonation, the scene shifted to two red-eyed figures meeting in a ruined town, where one demanded human Soul Masters as food.

• Chen Jianjun combined his Soul Rings and spirit with the Seven Kill Sword to withstand Thousand Jun Douluo and Subduing Demon Douluo’s attacks, then the three ended their clash after a warning that Chen Jianjun seemed unstrained.
• Chen Xin held off Tang Xiao and Tang Hao, whose attacks intensified until Tang Hao became consumed by his desire to win.
• Tang Hao used the Clear Sky Sect’s secret Ring Detonation technique, prompting Tang Sheng to crush the armrest of his chair.
• In the Northern Territory of Heaven Dou, two straw-caped figures reached a ruined town and entered the remains of a former Spirit Hall branch hall.
• One figure demanded human Soul Masters for food, and the other asked what people tasted like.

Yu Xiaogang used Hannibal’s power to evolve Luo San Pao into a Blood Shadow Demon Dragon and gained a surge of Soul Power. In Spirit City, Chen Xin defeated Tang Xiao and Tang Hao, and Tang Xiao admitted the brothers’ loss after Ling Yi healed him.

• Yu Xiaogang watched Luo San Pao emerge from its cocoon as a Blood Shadow Demon Dragon, then absorbed the enormous Soul Power within his body and set his sights on Slaughter City.
• Ling Yi considered how he might prepare for powerful gods while watching Chen Xin fight Tang Xiao and Tang Hao in Spirit City.
• Chen Xin pierced Tang Xiao with the Seven Kill Sword and held back Tang Hao’s Clear Sky Hammer as Tang Sheng reacted from the sidelines.
• Ling Yi used his Blue Silver Domain and Divine Grace Rain to stabilize and heal Tang Xiao’s injuries.
• Tang Xiao declared that he and Tang Hao had lost to Chen Xin and said he was sincerely convinced, while Tang Hao remained defiant.

After the Title Conferment Ceremony, Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect elders waited outside Spirit City to meet Ling Yi, while Tang Hao struggled with his defeat and Ling Yi’s rapid rise. Tang Sheng and Tang Xiao suggested that Ling Yi’s Blue Silver Grass domain and the spread of Blue Silver Grass might have turned the continent into his Mimetic Cultivation Ground.

• The ceremony’s sparring matches established Lingyun City among the continent’s top forces and displayed the strength of Chen Jianjun, Chen Xin, and Spirit Hall’s twin Douluo.
• Tang Hao waited with Tang Sheng, Tang Xiao, Bai He, and others to meet Ling Yi, troubled by his defeats and Ling Yi’s advancement to Seven-Ring Soul Sage at age thirty-two.
• Tang Hao asked how Ling Yi cultivated so quickly, and Tang Xiao and the others cited Ling Yi’s body-tempering methods, forging strength, and combat skills as evidence that he was no ordinary Healing System Soul Master.
• Tang Sheng reminded Tang Hao that Ling Yi’s Martial Soul had a domain and that Blue Silver Grass had spread across the continent.
• Tang Xiao proposed that the widespread Blue Silver Grass could provide Ling Yi with a Mimetic Cultivation Ground, and Tai Tan voiced the possibility that Ling Yi had made the entire continent one.

Ling Yi treated Tang Zhen in the Blue Silver Grass valley while the Clear Sky Sect leaders watched, and the treatment ended as the gathered life force vanished. The chapter left Tang Xiao and Tang Hao waiting to learn whether Tang Zhen had been healed, while they continued considering Lingyun City's possible connection to Wu Wudi and the Rakshasa Sect.

• Chen Zhong Yuan and Wang Zhe watched pale green lights from the Blue Silver Grass gather around Ling Yi as Tang Zhen received treatment.
• Chen Zhong Yuan recognized that Xuan Baiyu had secretly been treating Tang Zhen during his supposed work reports to the Sect Master.
• Tang Yuehua declared her confidence in Ling Yi, and Tang Hao's hostility toward him weakened as the life force in the valley grew stronger.
• Tang Hao and Tang Xiao reflected on whether the armored Erlang was connected to Wu Wudi, the Rakshasa Sect, or Spirit Hall.
• The gathered life force vanished, revealing Ling Yi and Tang Zhen as the first treatment ended.

Ling Yi explained that Tang Zhen’s long-standing injury could not be cured safely with his current abilities, though treatment and the Heavenly King Life-Preserving Pill could extend Tang Zhen’s life for several years. On the road, Ling Yi and Dugu Bo discussed the treatment and Ling Yi’s plans to charge wealthy clients for repeated care, before turning to the Spirit Hall official assigned to Lingyun City.

• Ling Yi told Tang Zhen that the foreign force left by the Wu Family Titled Douluo had fused with his organs and could grow dangerous again, while a full cure required a stronger healer or an Eight Ring Soul Douluo of the Nine Heart Begonia.
• Ling Yi offered alternatives involving Tang Zhen advancing his own realm or joining forces with a powerful Nine Heart Begonia healer, but Tang Zhen had little prospect of waiting for either option.
• Ling Yi treated Tang Zhen and, with Yang Wudi and Yang Wushuang, deduced the formula for the Heavenly King Life-Preserving Pill, which could preserve Tang Zhen for three to five years if he avoided fighting.
• Dugu Bo questioned Ling Yi about Tang Zhen’s condition as their group traveled, and Ling Yi said repeat treatments could extend Tang Zhen’s life further, especially if he stayed in Lingyun City.
• Ling Yi admitted he intended to charge wealthy clients for repeated treatment and resources, then Dugu Bo asked about the strength of the Spirit Hall representative sent to Lingyun City.

Flender sold Golden Feathered Eagle feathers to Greenwood Chamber of Commerce and considered joining Lingyun City after hearing how it treated its people. Meanwhile, Liu Erlong seized the opportunity to be alone with Ling Yi, who found her waiting for him in the dining hall.

• Flender sold thirty-two Golden Feathered Eagle feathers for eight hundred Gold Soul Coins and spent the money on eleven Soul King-level Ten Tonifying Herbs Soup sets.
• Flender overheard Mo Yuxiong persuading Zhao Wuji to sell Thunder Pattern Iron Essence at the annual auction and consider joining Lingyun City.
• Flender decided to wait until he became a Six-Ring Soul Emperor before considering joining Lingyun City.
• Liu Erlong learned that Yang Shelly and Ah Yin had escorted valuable materials to Lingyun City and that Ah Rou had gone to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ling Yi returned to City Lord Manor and found Liu Erlong waiting for him in the dining hall.

Ling Yi and Liu Erlong shared Mystic Ice-Fire Wine, and Liu Erlong took her tipsy companion to her boudoir. Meanwhile, Zi Yaoshi had Thousand Year Whale Oil appraised and secured an invitation to Lingyun City’s annual auction, where he hoped to obtain Dragon Transformation Liquid for Pearl.

• Liu Erlong served Ling Yi Mystic Ice-Fire Wine and encouraged him to drink until he grew hazy with intoxication.
• Liu Erlong asked Ling Yi if she was beautiful, received his praise, and led him toward her boudoir.
• Zi Yaoshi brought Thousand Year Whale Oil to the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce’s Vast Sea City branch for appraisal.
• Feng Yongheng identified the oil as a Grade A Second Class treasure worth at least thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins and confirmed it qualified for Lingyun’s annual auction.
• Zi Yaoshi collected an auction invitation and deposit receipt, and his companion said they hoped to win Dragon Transformation Liquid for Niece Pearl.

As Lingyun City's annual auction opened, Ling Yi observed the arriving visitors and assessed how its rare offerings could draw powerful groups and useful talents into his plans. He resolved to accelerate his effort to cultivate knowledge across the continent and seek more minds to aid his work.

• Zi Yaoshi brought his daughter Purple Pearl to Lingyun City and warned a subordinate against talking about robbing it, where two Titled Douluo protected the city.
• Li Yusong and Lu Qibin discussed the auction's advertised Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, while Gu Rong asked Hao Te about Lingyun City's wine.
• Ning Fengzhi connected the auction's Aromatic Silk Beauty Pollen to the legendary herb that could evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and decided his family would pursue it at any cost.
• Dragon-blooded clans and Soul Masters set their sights on Dragon Transformation Liquid, which promised to awaken or purify dragon bloodlines.
• Ling Yi used Blue Silver Grass across Green Cloud Mountain to monitor the city, evaluate its visitors, and consider how to recruit talent and develop Lingyun City's influence.
• Ling Yi concluded that the continent's knowledge remained immature and decided to accelerate his educational efforts and find more minds to help him think.

Qian Daoliu arrived at Slaughter City and challenged its Black Armor Knight over a breach of Spirit Hall’s agreement, while Yu Xiaogang continued slaughtering his way toward one hundred victories. The chapter also followed Lingyun City’s auction as Qingqiu Xin presented a fiery right leg Soul Bone for bidding or trade.

• Qian Xunji gained greater control over Spirit Hall after Qian Daoliu left Spirit City to support him.
• Qian Daoliu entered the ruins of Cold Stone Town and reached Slaughter City, where a Black Armor Knight confronted him about Spirit Hall’s old agreement.
• Yu Xiaogang completed his nineteenth consecutive killing match and relied on Luo San Pao devouring corpses to recover and grow stronger.
• An explosion shook Slaughter City, and the Slaughter King appeared in a flash of blood-red light before flying toward the outer city.
• Qingqiu Xin unveiled a seventeen-thousand-year Exploding Crimson Flame Right Leg Bone at Lingyun City’s auction, offering it for bids or an exchange for a water- or ice-attribute Soul Bone.

At Lingyun City’s auction, a seventeen-thousand-year Exploding Crimson Flame Right Leg Bone was secretly exchanged for Heaven Water Academy’s twenty-one-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Right Arm Bone, with Lingyun City compensating the difference through an extended cultivation arrangement. Lingyun City’s leaders discussed their plans and allies, then learned that the Spirit Hall Main Hall now supervised the Detention Room’s imprisoned Fallen Soul Masters.

• Zi Yaoshi expected the Exploding Crimson Flame Right Leg Bone to be exchanged for an ice- or water-attribute Soul Bone, and Lingyun City completed the confidential trade after bids reached 4.8 million Gold Soul Coins.
• The gorgeous woman showed Shui Qingyue the twenty-one-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Right Arm Bone and explained that Lingyun City had offset the difference by extending Heaven Water Academy’s Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass cultivation period by three years.
• Ice Meow reported the Xiao Family’s and Heaven Water Academy’s arrangements to Long Yin and the other Lingyun City leaders, who discussed cultivating ties with Shui Qingyue and Lan Lan.
• Long Yin and the others joked about Shui Qingyue’s prospects, discussed her past interest in Ling Yi, and heard Zhang Mufeng explain the Wu brothers’ history with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Li Yang reported that Qian Jinye had accepted the Detention Room beneath the Spirit Hall Main Hall after Ling Yi gave him partial authority over its Demon Sealing Soul Guidance Array, allowing the Spirit Hall to supervise imprisoned Fallen Soul Masters, including a Titled Douluo.

Qian Daoliu confronted the Slaughter King outside Slaughter City and recognized him as Tang Chen, but Tang Chen's mind and power appeared corrupted. While the battle escalated, Ling Yi entered the Hell Slaughter Arena in disguise to investigate its hidden corruption.

• The Slaughter King flew out of Slaughter City and challenged Qian Daoliu, who identified him as Tang Chen.
• Tang Chen became confused and then attacked Qian Daoliu, who countered with his Angel Sword and holy power.
• Yu Xiaogang watched the battle from the city wall and judged that Qian Daoliu had the advantage despite Slaughter City's influence.
• Ling Yi, disguised as Wu Wudi, entered the Hell Slaughter Arena and used the Lin Word Seal to cleanse the negative emotions tainting his Mental Strength.
• Qian Daoliu and the Slaughter King continued their fierce fight as Qian Daoliu prepared a powerful strike and Tang Chen charged at him with shield-like bat wings.

The Slaughter King fled Qian Daoliu and encountered Ling Yi in Hell Road, where Ling Yi easily defeated him and drove him to escape. Ling Yi then investigated the Blood Pool, sensed a strange Sword Form pattern at its bottom, and left without pursuing it.

• The Slaughter King arrived at Cold Stone Town, recognized Qian Daoliu as a threat, and escaped north while questioning his identity and missing memories.
• The Slaughter King used a spatial passage to reach Hell Road, where Ling Yi had just killed the Ten-Headed Lieyang Serpent.
• The Slaughter King commanded the Blood Bats and the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King to attack Ling Yi, but Ling Yi broke the stone path, stood in midair, and defeated them.
• Ling Yi punched through the Slaughter King's breastplate and wounded him, while his counterattack wiped out the attacking bats.
• The Slaughter King escaped to the main plane and told the approaching pursuer that he was not Tang Chen but knew where Tang Chen was.
• Ling Yi examined the Blood Pool, sensed an enormous Sword Form pattern at its bottom, extinguished his probing Heart Power, and left.

Ling Yi questioned the hidden logic behind Douluo Continent’s strange coincidences and concluded that Slaughter City connected to other worlds, possibly including Tang San’s former martial world. He left Hell Road without accepting the Slaughter God Domain’s mark and returned to find the Slaughter King facing Qian Daoliu.

• Ling Yi recalled advice from a young lady writer about avoiding false precision when building fictional worlds.
• Ling Yi reconsidered the origins of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s herbs and Xiao Wu’s unlikely meeting with Tang San, while explaining why he had handled the herbs sustainably.
• Ling Yi calculated how Slaughter City’s arena rules and constant killings made its population difficult to account for.
• Ling Yi noticed evidence that Slaughter City connected to other planes and wondered whether Tang San’s previous world and the Asura God were linked.
• Ling Yi stopped before Hell Road’s exit rather than risk exposing himself to the Asura God, then returned to Douluo Continent beside the Slaughter King and Qian Daoliu.

Qian Daoliu fought the Slaughter King until Angel Holy Light helped Tang Chen awaken and suppress the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King. Tang Chen revealed that he had failed the Asura God’s Eighth Trial, then met Ling Yi, whose Rakshasa Sect affiliation immediately provoked his killing intent.

• The Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King took control of Tang Chen’s body and tried to persuade Qian Daoliu that Tang Chen was dead, but Qian Daoliu saw through the lie and attacked.
• Qian Daoliu’s Angel Domain and Angel Holy Light overwhelmed the Slaughter Domain, allowing Tang Chen to awaken and repel Qian Daoliu with the Asura God Sword’s power.
• Tang Chen confirmed that he had accepted the Asura God’s nine trials but failed the Eighth Trial, which required him to gain the Asura God Sword’s recognition.
• Ling Yi emerged from Hell Road, and Tang Chen sensed that he was even stronger than Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu recognized Ling Yi as Wu Wudi of the Rakshasa Sect, causing Tang Chen to direct killing intent at him over the Rakshasa God’s corruption of his trial.

Ling Yi, posing as Wu Wudi, explained that he had fought Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, provoking Tang Chen into a duel. After a fierce battle, Ling Yi overpowered Tang Chen with a single strike, leaving Qian Daoliu stunned.

• Tang Chen deduced that Spirit Hall had a hidden agent in Clear Sky Sect and asked Ling Yi about his connection to the sect.
• Ling Yi said he had fought Tang Hao and Tang Xiao without using his martial soul or full strength, angering Tang Chen.
• Tang Chen challenged Ling Yi, and the two fought hand to hand while Qian Daoliu watched.
• Tang Chen unleashed six rings with his Great Sumeru Hammer, but Ling Yi met the blow with a fist and sent him flying into the pit wall.
• Tang Chen spat blood and admitted through his reaction that Ling Yi's overwhelming pressure was unlike anything he had faced, while Qian Daoliu stared in disbelief.

After defeating Tang Chen, Ling Yi let Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen mistake him for a god before vanishing with spatial power. He returned to Lingyun City confident in his overwhelming strength and influence, while still intent on growing further.

• Qian Daoliu suspected Ling Yi was Rakshasa God and respectfully asked about his divine identity and his ancestor, Light Angel Qie Qianxia.
• Tang Chen struggled out of the pit, thanked Ling Yi for showing mercy, and judged that Ling Yi wielded strength and lightning rather than the powers of Rakshasa God or Asura God.
• Ling Yi dismissed Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen, then vanished through an unexplained spatial transfer that neither man could replicate or track.
• Ling Yi confirmed that his combat power exceeded the mortal limit and reasoned that his reputation, alliances, and strength gave him a secure position on Douluo Continent.
• Ling Yi crossed ten thousand li back to Lingyun City and, from Green Cloud Mountain, resolved to continue his long journey at his own pace.

The Lingyun Auction introduced cultivable, multi-attribute Blue Silver Grass soul rings, prompting a continent-wide shift that could reduce low-level Soul Masters’ reliance on hunting soul beasts. In March, Dugu Yan was born in Lingyun City, and Ling Yi helped protect and strengthen her before Dugu Bo and Chen Xin traded barbs over who could hold her.

• The Lingyun Auction presented seventy-two Blue Silver Grass stalks that could serve as soul rings, while Ling Yi’s cultivation method and loan contracts made them accessible to ordinary Soul Masters.
• Soul Master factions generally accepted the spread of Blue Silver Grass soul rings because they could reduce low-age soul beast deaths and ease competition over hunting grounds.
• Dugu Xin and Wan Yanrui welcomed their daughter, Dugu Yan, in March, and Ling Yi gave her pure wood-attribute Dragon Force and a piece of Sealing Spirit Jade.
• Dugu Xin and Wan Yanrui thanked Ling Yi for healing Wan Yanrui and helping their daughter, while Dugu Bo impatiently asked to hold his granddaughter.
• Chen Xin arrived with a skull-faced middle-aged man, and he and Dugu Bo exchanged insults before challenging each other to spar later.
• The middle-aged man moved closer to Ling Yi to look at Dugu Yan.