Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen entered the imperial treasure vault and found the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, the Heart of the Sea God. He learned some of its abilities, tested its invisibility, and discovered that a powerful force repelled his spiritual power.

• Jiang Chen used the emperor's gold plaque to enter the treasure vault and found the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud in a box on the lower level.
• Jiang Chen took the shroud, intending to keep Tang San from inheriting the Sea God's legacy.
• Jiang Chen infused the shroud with Soul Power, and it sent information about its invisibility, control, and attack abilities into his mind.
• Jiang Chen expanded the shroud around himself, tested its invisibility, and returned it to its palm-sized form.
• Jiang Chen tried to extend his spiritual power into the shroud, but a vast force repelled it.

Jiang Chen was struck and drained of blood by the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, awakening the Sea God’s phantom. After clashing with the Sea God over his forced attempt to claim Jiang Chen as an inheritor, Jiang Chen was joined by the Asura God.

• The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud repeatedly struck Jiang Chen’s forehead and drew his blood, bringing him back to consciousness.
• The Sea God’s phantom emerged from the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and declared that Jiang Chen could bear the power of the vast sea.
• Jiang Chen slapped the Shroud and the Sea God phantom into a wall, then challenged the Sea God’s authority.
• The Sea God threatened Jiang Chen with divine punishment for refusing his inheritance, but Jiang Chen remained unaffected by his killing intent.
• The Asura God’s voice rang out, and his figure appeared before Jiang Chen.

The Asura God appeared to stop the Sea God's phantom from frightening Jiang Chen, revealing that Jiang Chen had already become his inheritor. After warning the Sea God, the Asura God vanished, and Jiang Chen put the Heart of the Sea God away.

• The Asura God confronted the Sea God's phantom and declared that Jiang Chen had passed his trial and received the Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• The Sea God's phantom apologized and withdrew into the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud after the Asura God warned him not to bring ruin upon himself.
• Jiang Chen greeted the Asura God, who told him to slap away anyone who tried to force an inheritance on him.
• The Asura God vanished, and Jiang Chen removed the Heart of the Sea God from the wall and returned it to its brocade box.

Jiang Chen reunited with Xiao Xuening after returning from the treasure vault and heard how her strength had caused trouble while he was away. Hu Liena explained that Bishop Salas had helped resolve the incident, leaving Jiang Chen to consider his daughter’s mischievous behavior.

• Jiang Chen returned to Xiao Ying’s room and caught Xiao Xuening when she flew into his arms.
• Jiang Chen joined Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Xiao Ying, and Xiao Qing as Qian Renxue recounted leading the imperial expedition.
• Qian Renxue returned to the palace to handle her duties as emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Hu Liena and Xiao Ying told Jiang Chen that Xiao Xuening had broken bones in several boys after they pinched her face and stole her food.
• Xiao Ying went to the Holy Hall for help, and Bishop Salas sent people to resolve the dispute with the boys’ parents.

Jiang Chen learned that Tang San had returned from Slaughter City and entered Moonlight Pavilion under the name Tang Yin. As the Heaven Dou Empire came under Spirit Hall’s control, Jiang Chen recognized Tang San’s arrival as a sign of the coming chaos.

• Jiang Chen and Qian Renxue decided to send Xiao Xuening to Moonlight Pavilion, with Xiao Ying accompanying her.
• Over the next year, Spirit Hall eliminated Heaven Dou officials who had rejected its recruitment and promoted its own hidden elites.
• Xiao Xuening told Jiang Chen that a cold, intimidating visitor named Tang Yin had arrived at Moonlight Pavilion and grown close to Tang Yuehua.
• Jiang Chen realized Tang Yin was Tang San, who had returned from Slaughter City four years after their last meeting.

Jiang Chen and Qian Renxue discussed Tang San’s arrival in Heaven Dou City and the coming Soul Hunting Operation against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Jiang Chen planned to return to Spirit Hall the next day to take part in the campaign and earn military merit.

• Qian Renxue worried that Tang San might endanger Xue Ning, but Jiang Chen reassured her that Tang San did not know she was their daughter.
• Qian Renxue and Jiang Chen discussed Bibi Dong’s plan to begin the Soul Hunting Operation by attacking the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Jiang Chen explained that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had rejected a Spirit Hall elder’s visit and believed it could resist Spirit Hall with Heaven Dou Empire’s support.
• Jiang Chen said Heaven Dou Empire already belonged to Spirit Hall, and Qian Renxue told him Bibi Dong wanted him to return.
• Jiang Chen said he would leave the next day to join the operation and build his military reputation.

Jiang Chen returned to Spirit City with Dugu Bo as Spirit Hall’s leaders gathered, while Bibi Dong continued preparing him to become the next Pope. The chapter ended with Spirit Hall at its peak strength, bolstered by two new Titled Douluo from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Qian Renxue asked whether they needed to worry about Tang San, and Jiang Chen dismissed him as no threat for now.
• Jiang Chen asked Qian Renxue and Senior Sister to look after Xue Ning, then left for Spirit City at dawn with Dugu Bo.
• Jiang Chen and Dugu Bo reached Spirit City in two days, traveling at speeds that matched despite Dugu Bo having greater endurance.
• Bibi Dong invited Jiang Chen to sit beside her on the throne during a gathering of Spirit Hall’s upper ranks, affirming his standing as her successor.
• Spirit Hall’s strength had grown with another elder and two Titled Douluo from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, whose advancement Jiang Chen had aided with lightning tribulation energy.

Bibi Dong appointed Yu Yuanzhen to lead Spirit Hall’s operation against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, with Jiang Chen joining the force. Jiang Chen warned that the sect’s defenders might let some people escape if they fought desperately.

• Bibi Dong called for elders to join the Soul Operation, and Yu Yuanzhen volunteered alongside the other powerful elders.
• Bibi Dong selected Yu Yuanzhen to lead the operation, and he accepted the assignment.
• Yu Yuanzhen said he expected the force to defeat the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect despite Sword Douluo’s strength.
• Bibi Dong chose three more elders and ordered them to carefully consider the Holy Son’s suggestions during the operation.
• Jiang Chen warned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s two Titled Douluo and Ning Fengzhi might help survivors escape.

Bibi Dong approved Jiang Chen’s plan to ambush survivors fleeing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and finalized the attack orders. In private, she told Jiang Chen that she intended to hand Spirit Hall over to him after the war and focus on caring for the children.

• Jiang Chen suggested placing another ambush along the route from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to Heaven Dou City, and Bibi Dong praised his plan.
• Bibi Dong assigned four elders and a thousand Soul Masters to prepare the ambush, while Yu Yuanzhen and three other elders were ordered to lead ten thousand Soul Masters in an assault on the sect’s castle.
• Bibi Dong dismissed the elders and invited Jiang Chen to speak with her in her room.
• Bibi Dong said she would wait until the war ended to reunite with the children and then hand Spirit Hall over to Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen expressed surprise at Bibi Dong’s plan to step down, then complimented her beauty.

Jiang Chen learned Bibi Dong’s plan to destroy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and later establish the Spirit Hall Empire. Five days after their discussion, Spirit Hall’s forces gathered in darkness outside the sect, poised to attack.

• Bibi Dong told Jiang Chen that Spirit Hall planned to attack the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect before marching on the Star Luo Empire, and promised him the future empire.
• Bibi Dong explained that the attack would take place when many of the sect’s disciples were away, and told Jiang Chen to leave with the elders the next morning.
• Bibi Dong entered her secret chamber to continue cultivating her Rakshasa inheritance.
• More than ten thousand Spirit Hall soul masters set out from Spirit City and gathered near the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect over the next two days.
• At night, Spirit Hall’s black-clad main force silently advanced toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Castle under a dark, clouded sky.

Jiang Chen volunteered to eliminate the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s patrols before Spirit Hall’s surprise attack, using his reconnaissance abilities to prevent the enemy from raising an alarm. Yu Yuanzhen agreed, and the operation prepared to proceed with Jiang Chen’s plan.

• Yu Yuanzhen halted Spirit Hall’s forces three kilometers from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and explained that its patrols had to be dealt with first.
• Jiang Chen revealed that he had reached rank seventy-seven and offered to handle the patrols himself.
• Jiang Chen summoned three birds and explained that his spiritual power let him scout the patrols’ locations.
• Yu Yuanzhen accepted Jiang Chen’s proposal after the elders recognized that scouting first would reduce the risk of discovery.

Jiang Chen secretly eliminated the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s patrols, allowing Yu Yuanzhen to lead Spirit Hall forces into the castle undetected. The attack was exposed after Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters began killing the sleeping defenders.

• Jiang Chen left Little Black Sparrow with Yu Yuanzhen as a signal and went alone to eliminate the patrols.
• Jiang Chen silently killed fifty patrol disciples within a one-kilometer radius of the sect.
• Little Black Sparrow chirped three times, and Yu Yuanzhen ordered Spirit Hall’s forces to advance.
• Spirit Hall’s assassination specialists found the patrols reduced to sheets of human skin and followed Yu Yuanzhen into the castle.
• Several thousand Spirit Hall Soul Masters entered the castle and killed the sleeping defenders.
• Terrified screams revealed Spirit Hall’s presence and signaled the coming full-scale assault.

Jiang Chen escaped a deadly strike from Sword Douluo as Spirit Hall’s assault on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect began. The outnumbered sect’s disciples rushed to defend themselves, but Spirit Hall’s prepared forces attacked before many could use their hidden weapons.

• Jiang Chen left the castle’s depths after hearing an alarm and sensed Gu Rong and Chen Xin’s powerful auras rising from the sect.
• Sword Douluo’s invisible sword qi targeted Jiang Chen, but he escaped with his third soul ring and reappeared beside Yu Yuanzhen.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect sounded its alarm as Spirit Hall’s ten thousand soul masters attacked its roughly three thousand remaining disciples.
• The sect’s disciples brought out hidden weapons, but Spirit Hall’s soul masters followed Jiang Chen’s advice and attacked before they could use them.

Jiang Chen joined the attacking Spirit Hall army and helped slaughter Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples as hidden weapons devastated the defenders. Sword Douluo confronted the attackers, but Yu Yuanzhen blocked his strike, and Ning Fengzhi ordered the sect’s disciples to regroup and defend.

• Hidden weapons fired continuously, killing many Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples while Spirit Hall’s casualties remained comparatively low.
• Jiang Chen changed his appearance, concealed his Martial Soul, and blended into Spirit Hall’s army to attack the sect’s disciples.
• Sword Douluo and Gu Rong appeared above the central area as thousands of attackers surrounded the castle.
• Sword Douluo unleashed a massive sword aura toward the attackers, but Yu Yuanzhen intercepted it with a Thunder Dragon Claw.
• Ning Fengzhi assessed the siege and ordered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples to retreat and defend together.

Ning Fengzhi prepared the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s surviving disciples to escape as Spirit Hall forces surrounded them. He relied on Chen Xin and Gu Rong to hold off the enemy’s four Titled Douluo while Dugu Bo opened a path through the ranks.

• Ning Fengzhi gathered the survivors and mourned the nearly thousand disciples they had lost.
• Ning Fengzhi identified the attackers as Spirit Hall soul masters and asked Dugu Bo to deal with their lower-level fighters.
• Jiang Chen watched from among the enemy forces and noted that more than two hundred of the remaining disciples were secretly from Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen exchanged accusations over Yu Yuanzhen’s alliance with Spirit Hall.
• Chen Xin agreed that he and Gu Rong could hold off all four enemy Titled Douluo with Ning Fengzhi’s amplification.
• Ning Fengzhi instructed Dugu Bo to clear a path and lead the disciples away without getting drawn into battle.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect fought Spirit Hall as six Titled Douluo clashed, while Ning Fengzhi tried to find a way out of the encirclement. The battle turned against him when hundreds of outer disciples revealed themselves as Spirit Hall infiltrators and fled.

• Jiang Chen told Yu Yuanzhen it was time to begin, and Yu Yuanzhen ordered the attack.
• Ning Fengzhi boosted Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo as Chen Xin and Gu Rong engaged the Titled Douluo.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered the Spirit Hall Soul Masters to retreat and watch Dugu Bo while the six Titled Douluo fought.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Dugu Bo to act, but Yu Yuanzhen's shout was followed by the deaths of one or two hundred Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples.
• More than two hundred outer disciples rushed toward Spirit Hall, and several hundred Spirit Hall Soul Masters protected their escape from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's bolts.
• Ning Fengzhi realized the fleeing outer disciples had been Spirit Hall infiltrators and urged Dugu Bo to help them break out.

Dugu Bo unleashed a deadly poison attack while Ning Fengzhi tried to break the encirclement, but the attack struck the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples instead. Ning Fengzhi watched his people die as Dugu Bo claimed he had missed by accident.

• Dugu Bo gathered a powerful sphere of poison while Ning Fengzhi looked for a weak point in Spirit Hall's encirclement.
• Ning Fengzhi directed Dugu Bo to attack a gap so the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could escape.
• Dugu Bo launched the poison sphere toward the disciples, killing those closest to it in the blast.
• The poison mist engulfed two thousand Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples, rapidly killing them despite their high cultivation.
• Dugu Bo told Ning Fengzhi that his skill had accidentally missed its mark.

Dugu Bo nearly captured Ning Fengzhi, but Chen Xin intervened and fought back against Yu Yuanzhen and three other Title Douluo. Gu Rong shielded Chen Xin from their attacks and was gravely injured, leaving Chen Xin to unleash the Seven Kill Sword’s ultimate technique as they retreated toward Ning Fengzhi.

• Dugu Bo reached for Ning Fengzhi, but Chen Xin’s sword aura forced him to retreat.
• Yu Yuanzhen attacked Chen Xin from behind while Chen Xin was distracted saving Ning Fengzhi.
• Gu Rong shielded Chen Xin from Yu Yuanzhen’s attack and the strikes of three other Title Douluo, suffering severe injuries.
• Chen Xin caught Gu Rong and unleashed a furious killing intent that staggered the Spirit Hall forces.
• Chen Xin used the Seven Kill Sword’s ultimate technique against Yu Yuanzhen and the other three Title Douluo as he retreated toward Ning Fengzhi.

Ning Fengzhi watched the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s disciples die from poison and collapsed in despair. After awakening, he blamed himself for the sect’s destruction and mourned the dead, leaving him aged and utterly drained.

• Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Fengzhi regrouped after the four Titled Douluo shattered the black character for “kill.”
• Yu Yuanzhen and the other attackers surrounded Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong as poisoned disciples begged for help and died.
• Ning Fengzhi saw that only a few hundred of the sect’s more than two thousand disciples remained alive, and he collapsed after seeing their deaths.
• Chen Xin revived Ning Fengzhi, who knelt before the dead disciples and declared himself responsible for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s destruction.
• Ning Fengzhi kowtowed three times to the dead, his hair turning white as Chen Xin helped him stand.

Ning Fengzhi confronted Dugu Bo and Yu Yuanzhen, then learned that Spirit Hall had grown far more powerful than he had believed. As Yu Yuanzhen and the elders recovered, Jiang Chen argued that Spirit Hall had brought benefits and stability to the continent, leaving Ning Fengzhi unable to refute him but still consumed by hatred.

• Dugu Bo explained that Spirit Hall had saved his life and greatly increased his strength, and Ning Fengzhi admitted that Yu Yuanzhen had won.
• Yu Yuanzhen revealed that Spirit Hall had gained two Titled Douluo and grown to hundreds of thousands of Soul Masters, then apologized to Jiang Chen for leaking the secret.
• Jiang Chen told Yu Yuanzhen to kill Ning Fengzhi and the other two to keep the secret from spreading, and Yu Yuanzhen agreed.
• Ning Fengzhi accused Spirit Hall of demanding submission and causing war, while Jiang Chen argued that Spirit Hall had protected the continent and given commoners the chance to awaken their martial souls.
• Ning Fengzhi fell silent when Jiang Chen pointed out that the two empires might have gone to war without Spirit Hall, though he continued to hate Spirit Hall.