Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen fed the Thousand Jun Ant Brothers Seven Star Agaves until they reached the 100,000-year threshold, then guarded them as they began their Heavenly Tribulation. The brothers survived the first lightning strike, but a second wave of three Thunder Dragons descended and still threatened them.

• Lu Chen gave the three Thousand Jun Ants Seven Star Agaves, raising each one’s cultivation from 35,000 to 55,000 years.
• Lu Chen continued feeding the ants and drove away Spirit Beasts drawn by the herbs’ fragrance while the brothers grew and slept through their transformation.
• The three Thousand Jun Ants reached their limits and triggered a combined Heavenly Tribulation as they emerged from the cave.
• The brothers joined their strength to fire jade-green beams that shattered the first Thunder Dragon, and they endured the scattered lightning as it tempered their bodies.
• Three more Thunder Dragons descended, and the Thousand Jun Ant Brothers each fired a jade-green beam at one of them, breaking the dragons into smaller bolts of lightning.

The Thousand Jun Ant Brothers survived their Heavenly Tribulation and became Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts, but Lu Chen killed them while they were weakened. As Lu Chen prepared to claim their three Spirit Rings, the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python arrived to investigate.

• The Thousand Jun Ant Brothers endured successive waves of Thunder Dragons, broke through the final barrage by burrowing underground, and survived the Heavenly Tribulation.
• After the clouds cleared, the Thousand Jun Ant Brothers emerged as Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts, badly injured and depleted of Soul Power.
• Lu Chen attacked with Blood Shadow Hundred-Break Strike and dismembered the weakened Thousand Jun Ant Brothers.
• Three crimson pillars of light condensed into three Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings as Lu Chen prepared to absorb them.
• The Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python arrived to investigate the new Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts.

Lu Chen absorbed three hundred-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant Spirit Rings and awakened the Slaughter Domain, whose Cutting Attribute made his Black Iron Sickle capable of cutting through any defense. The two Martial Souls then fought for control of his body, and Lu Chen used the Blue Silver Emperor and Seed of Life to restore balance between them.

• Lu Chen asked the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape to guard him while he absorbed the three Thousand Jun Ant Spirit Rings, and they agreed.
• Lu Chen absorbed all three rings together, and their energy fused as it strengthened his body and Black Iron Sickle.
• Lu Chen awakened the Slaughter Domain, explained its Cutting Attribute to the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, and startled the two beast kings with its power.
• Lu Chen's Black Iron Sickle and Blue Silver Emperor clashed over territory in his body after the absorption, causing his Soul Power to surge out of control.
• Lu Chen combined the Blue Silver Emperor's life energy with the Seed of Life to suppress the Black Iron Sickle, then yielded it more space so the two Martial Souls reached a balance.

Lu Chen absorbed three hundred-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant Spirit Rings, gaining powerful new skills, then discovered that the ants’ essences had fused into a Three-in-One Spirit Bone. As he absorbed it, his Dark Gold Terrorclaw evolved into a true divine artifact, and his peak rank 98 Soul Power began to rise.

• Lu Chen suppressed the clash between his Twin Martial Souls and gained the fifth, sixth, and seventh Black Iron Sickle Spirit Rings, with skills including Thousand Jun Barrier, Gravity Distortion, and Black Sickle Avatar.
• Lu Chen searched the Thousand Jun Ant remains and found one unusually powerful right arm bone instead of three separate Spirit Bones.
• Lu Chen learned that the three ants’ matching essences had formed a three-hundred-thousand-year Three-in-One Spirit Bone with Thousand Jun Body Protection and Thousand Jun Giant Strength.
• With Da Ming and Er Ming guarding him, Lu Chen began absorbing the right arm bone and endured the intense pain as its energy strengthened his body.
• The Spirit Bone’s energy fused with Lu Chen’s Dark Gold Terrorclaw, transforming it into a divine artifact and causing his peak rank 98 Soul Power to show signs of increasing.

Lu Chen broke through to Rank 99 Peerless Douluo, then left the Star Dou Forest after promising gifts to the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape. Meanwhile, Tang Hao arrived at Moonlight Pavilion in Heaven Dou City, hoping his sister Tang Yuehua could help him seek support from the Clear Sky Sect.

• Lu Chen absorbed the energy of the Three-Hundred-Thousand-Year Thousand Jun Ant Right Arm Bone and broke through to Rank 99 Soul Power, drawing the attention of the God of Destruction.
• After completing his breakthrough, Lu Chen told the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape that he would bring them Seven Star Agave and assured them that Xiao Wu was safe and had reached Rank 51 Soul King.
• Lu Chen summoned his evolved Black Iron Sickle and discovered that its three Thousand Jun Ant Spirit Rings had become Two-Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings.
• Lu Chen used Space Slash to leave the Star Dou Forest and planned to return to Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan before hunting powerful sea Spirit Beasts.
• Tang Hao, badly injured and unable to fight, went to Moonlight Pavilion to ask his sister Tang Yuehua to help him approach the Clear Sky Sect.
• When two guards tried to drive Tang Hao away, he released killing intent that frightened them into falling to the ground.

Tang Hao returned to Clear Sky Sect after Lu Chen crippled him, hoping to secure the sect’s help for revenge. Tang Xiao persuaded him to apologize to the elders, and the chapter ended with the elders debating his return after he offered to surrender his title and Spirit Bones.

• Tang Yuehua recognized her disheveled second brother, Tang Hao, at Moonlight Pavilion and promised to help him return to Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Yuehua told Tang Xiao about Tang Hao’s condition, and Tang Xiao went with her to meet him and urged him to apologize to the five elders.
• Tang Xiao brought Tang Hao back to Clear Sky Sect and summoned the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh Elders.
• Blazing Sun Douluo berated Tang Hao for bringing shame and hardship upon the sect and demanded his title and Inherited Spirit Bones.
• Tang Hao knelt and offered to surrender his title and Spirit Bones, then tried to strike his left leg with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Xiao stopped Tang Hao and argued that the sect should accept him and focus on restoring his strength.

Tang Xiao won the elders’ agreement to bring Clear Sky Sect out of seclusion and ally with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, while Lu Chen returned to the Longevity Sect at level 99 and learned of the threat. After promising Dugu Bo to spare Prince Xue Xing if he cooperated, Lu Chen reunited with Zhu Zhuqing as Dugu Yan arrived.

• Tang Xiao persuaded the five elders to accept Tang Hao back and consider emerging from seclusion with support from the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Lu Chen returned to the Longevity Sect with three new hundred-thousand-year Spirit Rings and level 99 Soul Power, astonishing Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo told Lu Chen that Clear Sky Sect had accepted Tang Hao and was preparing an alliance with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Dugu Bo gave Lu Chen his Guest Elder Token and asked him to spare Prince Xue Xing, who had once saved his life; Lu Chen agreed if Xue Xing disclosed the alliance.
• Lu Chen summoned Dugu Yan, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhu Zhuqing reached him first and embraced him.
• Dugu Yan arrived after Zhu Zhuqing and revealed that her cultivation had risen to level 66.

Lu Chen reunited with Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan after reaching Rank 99, then went to Prince Xue Xing’s residence to discuss the Heaven Dou Empire’s alliance with the Clear Sky Sect. He asked whether Xue Xing wanted the throne, but Xue Beng seized the chance and declared his ambition to become emperor.

• Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing welcomed Lu Chen, then Xiao Wu arrived and asked about his time in the Star Dou Forest.
• Lu Chen revealed that he had killed three hundred-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ants and reached Rank 99 Soul Power.
• Lu Chen promised Xiao Wu he would retrieve her mother’s Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone from Spirit Hall after dealing with the Clear Sky Sect and Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Lu Chen took the three women to Heaven Dou City, then entered Prince Xue Xing’s residence to ask about the alliance with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Lu Chen asked Prince Xue Xing whether he would become emperor after Xue Ye’s death, and Xue Beng immediately begged Lu Chen to help him take the throne.

Lu Chen secured Xue Beng’s cooperation in a plot to eliminate Xue Ye, Xue Qinghe, and the Clear Sky Sect and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect remnants at a banquet the following night. After leaving Xue Xing’s residence, he found Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan confronting Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun in Heaven Dou City.

• Lu Chen agreed to support Xue Beng’s claim to the throne in exchange for his help dealing with the Clear Sky Sect and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect remnants, and permission to visit the imperial treasury.
• Xue Beng revealed that Xue Ye, Xue Qinghe, Clear Sky Sect experts, and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect remnants would attend a private banquet the following night, and Lu Chen planned to eliminate them there.
• After Lu Chen left, Xue Xing confronted Xue Beng, then agreed to support his bid for the throne after Xue Beng promised him a share of the empire.
• Lu Chen detected Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan on a nearby street with Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun, and hurried toward them.
• Xiao Wu insulted Dai Mubai and his companions for their lecherous behavior, and Dai Mubai’s expression darkened.

Zhu Zhuqing confronted Dai Mubai over his depravity and refusal to cultivate, then revealed her strength as a four-ring Soul Ancestor and crippled him. She spared Oscar and Ma Hongjun after they begged, ordering them to leave with Dai Mubai and warning them not to mistreat women.

• Dai Mubai lashed out at the two women who urged him to fight Xiao Wu, and Xiao Wu told Dugu Yan about his past.
• Zhu Zhuqing condemned Dai Mubai for giving up against Dai Weisi and declared that she had never stopped cultivating.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed four Spirit Rings and used her empowered Nether Slash to break Dai Mubai's defenses and leave him near death.
• Zhu Zhuqing kicked Dai Mubai in the crotch, knocking him unconscious and ensuring he could have no descendants.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun begged Zhu Zhuqing to spare them and disavowed Dai Mubai, so she ordered them to take him away and warned them against deceiving women.

After Zhu Zhuqing crippled Dai Mubai, Lu Chen took her, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan shopping, while Dai Mubai was left permanently mutilated and vowing revenge. At a Heaven Dou Palace banquet, Xue Ye allied the empire with the Clear Sky Sect, and Tang Xiao promised to help eliminate Lu Chen before an unexpected interruption struck.

• Zhu Zhuqing warned Oscar and Ma Hongjun to stop deceiving women, then Lu Chen arrived and took her, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan shopping.
• Flender dropped any effort to seek justice after learning Zhu Zhuqing had become a Soul Ancestor and that Lu Chen stood behind her; Dai Mubai woke after an amputation and cursed Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xue Ye hosted Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, the Clear Sky Sect elders, and Ning Rongrong at the imperial palace and declared the Clear Sky Sect the empire's state religion.
• Tang Xiao asked Xue Ye to find a healer for Tang Hao and offered to eliminate Lu Chen, while Xue Ye promised to summon Ye Qingcheng, a Nine Heart Begonia Spirit Master.
• Tang Xiao and Tang Hao toasted Xue Ye, but an unexpected event interrupted the banquet.

Lu Chen trapped the banquet hall inside his Blue Silver Domain and confronted Ning Rongrong, Xue Ye, Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and the Clear Sky Sect elders. Tang Xiao and five elders tried to surround him, but Lu Chen revealed his level 99 Peerless Douluo power, leaving them overwhelmed as Tang Xiao prepared a desperate counterattack.

• Lu Chen entered the hall and told Ning Rongrong that he had killed Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong in retaliation for their attempt to ambush him.
• Xue Ye ordered the Royal Knights to seize Lu Chen, but the Blue Silver Domain cut the hall off from the outside, and Lu Chen declared that everyone inside would die.
• Tang Xiao and five Clear Sky Sect elders summoned their Clear Sky Hammers and surrounded Lu Chen while Tang Hao and Ning Rongrong hoped he would be killed.
• Lu Chen summoned his Giant Scythe and revealed two black and five red Spirit Rings, then released the pressure of a level 99 Peerless Douluo and sent Tang Xiao and the elders flying.
• Tang Xiao recovered enough to charge Lu Chen, activated his Clear Sky True Body and Stabilize the World skills, and formed a massive lightning-wreathed hammer.

Lu Chen crushed the Clear Sky Sect’s resistance, killing Tang Xiao and all five elders while Tang Hao and Tang Yuehua watched helplessly. He then turned his gravity attack on Ning Rongrong, Xue Qinghe, and six Soul Douluo, leaving their fates unresolved as Ning Rongrong began to die.

• Lu Chen split Tang Xiao’s Clear Sky Hammer with Earth Ant Emperor Slash, shattering his Martial Soul and leaving him severely wounded.
• The five Clear Sky Sect elders combined their hammers in Hammer Shakes the World, but Lu Chen’s Thousand Jun Barrier withstood the attack.
• Lu Chen’s Hundred-Fold Gravity crushed the elders, and he beheaded all five as Tang Xiao and Tang Hao watched.
• Lu Chen killed Tang Xiao, while Tang Hao’s reckless charge failed and Tang Yuehua collapsed in grief.
• Ning Rongrong urged the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect elders to avenge her family, but they refused to fight Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen expanded Hundred-Fold Gravity over Ning Rongrong, Xue Qinghe, and the six Soul Douluo, and Ning Rongrong began to succumb to the pressure.

Lu Chen killed Xue Ye and the remaining Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect forces, turned the Clear Sky Sect elders into Blood Puppets, and took Tang Hao to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. There, Ah Yin came out to meet them, while Tang Hao mistakenly believed she had come to rescue him.

• Lu Chen killed Ning Rongrong, Xue Qinghe, and the six Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect elders with Gravity Distortion.
• Lu Chen beheaded Xue Ye, then raised Tang Xiao and five Clear Sky Sect elders as Blood Puppets and stored them in his Portable Space.
• Lu Chen killed Tang Yuehua, defeated Tang Hao, and took him through a spatial rift to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Xue Beng arrived with Xue Xing, celebrated Xue Ye's death and his claim to the throne, then ordered his men to kill the witnesses.
• Ah Yin came out to meet Lu Chen, and Tang Hao urged her to flee, wrongly thinking she had come to save him.

Lu Chen stripped Tang Hao of Ah Yin’s sacrificed Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and helped Ah Yin absorb it, restoring her origin and raising her Soul Power to level 70. He then carried the weakened Tang Hao toward the hidden Clear Sky Sect, intending to destroy it before him.

• Ah Yin told Tang Hao she remembered him but despised him, and affirmed that she belonged to Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen suppressed Tang Hao’s attempted self-destruction and forcibly removed his nine spirit rings, reducing his Soul Power from level 95 to level 89 and leaving him gravely weakened.
• Lu Chen used his Blue Silver Emperor skill to turn Ah Yin’s body into energy so she could absorb her returned Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.
• Ah Yin regained her origin, reached level 70, and told Lu Chen she needed a Seventh Spirit Ring to become a human.
• Lu Chen took Tang Hao toward the hidden Clear Sky Sect and explained that he planned to destroy it; Tang Hao protested and tried to self-destruct again.

Lu Chen destroyed Clear Sky Sect and killed Tang Hao, avenging his past and collecting Spirit Bones from the ruins. He then returned to Ah Yin in Sunset Forest, where she had chosen an Azure Vine as her Seventh Spirit Ring.

• Lu Chen took Tang Hao to Clear Sky Sect and annihilated the sect with his Black Iron Sickle Spirit Skills.
• Lu Chen killed Tang Hao with Sky-Ripping Claw, and Tang Hao died hoping Tang San would avenge him.
• Lu Chen collected Tang Hao’s six Spirit Bones and found four more among the Clear Sky Sect ruins.
• Lu Chen returned to Sunset Forest and found Ah Yin beside the Azure Vine she had chosen for her Seventh Spirit Ring.
• Ah Yin guessed Lu Chen had killed Tang Hao and felt moved that he had spared her from witnessing the killing.

Lu Chen helped Ah Yin obtain Azure Vine’s sacrifice, raising her Soul Power to level seventy-five, then revived Azure Vine as a seed. They returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where Ah Yin planted it and Lu Chen accelerated the Seven Star Agave’s growth.

• Lu Chen used Blue Silver Sovereign to subdue Azure Vine and ordered it to sacrifice its Soul Power to Ah Yin.
• While Ah Yin underwent the five-hour sacrifice, Lu Chen removed twenty-four Spirit Bones from Tang Xiao and the five Clear Sky Sect elders’ Blood Puppets.
• Ah Yin gained a powerful Martial Soul Avatar and reached level seventy-five, then asked Lu Chen to revive Azure Vine.
• Lu Chen extracted Azure Vine’s soul from Ah Yin’s Seventh Spirit Ring and used his Ninth Spirit Skill to revive it as a seed.
• Lu Chen and Ah Yin returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where Ah Yin planted Azure Vine’s seed and Lu Chen infused the Seven Star Agave with life force.

Lu Chen returned to Longevity Sect, distributed Clear Sky Sect’s Spirit Bones among Dugu Yan, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Bo, and prepared to attend Xue Beng’s coronation. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang raged over Tang Hao’s death and Clear Sky Sect’s destruction, unable to accept Lu Chen’s strength.

• Lu Chen appointed Ah Yin Vice Dean of Longevity Academy and tasked her with managing its daily affairs and improving students’ aptitude with medicinal herbs.
• Dugu Bo told Lu Chen that Xue Beng and Xue Xing had blamed Clear Sky Sect for Xue Ye and Xue Qinghe’s deaths, praised Lu Chen as Heaven Dou Empire’s hero, and invited him to Xue Beng’s coronation.
• Lu Chen agreed to attend the coronation and said he would ask Xue Beng to take him to the imperial treasury, then revealed that he had brought back twenty-four Spirit Bones.
• Lu Chen gave Dugu Yan, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing one sixty-thousand-year Spirit Bone each, then invited Dugu Bo to choose Spirit Bones to complete his set.
• Dugu Yan, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing began absorbing their Spirit Bones while Lu Chen stood guard, and Dugu Bo selected Spirit Bones for himself.
• Yu Xiaogang smashed the contents of his room and lamented Tang Hao’s death and Clear Sky Sect’s destruction, questioning why Lu Chen had surpassed the powerful figures he admired.

Yu Xiaogang decided to remain in Heaven Dou City and use Tang San’s tournament prospects to seek Emperor Xue Beng’s protection against Lu Chen. Hoping to grow strong enough to take revenge, Tang San secretly abducted Zhao Wuji and drained his blood, killing him.

• Flender and Liu Erlong urged Yu Xiaogang to flee Heaven Dou City, but Yu Xiaogang insisted that Tang San could earn Emperor Xue Beng’s favor at next year’s All-Continent Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament.
• Tang San overheard Yu Xiaogang’s plan and imagined using his hidden weapons and an army to defeat Lu Chen.
• Tang San decided to absorb the blood of a powerful Spirit Master to accelerate his cultivation.
• Tang San sneaked into Zhao Wuji’s room, carried the helpless teacher to a secluded grove, and slit his throat.
• Tang San drank Zhao Wuji’s blood until his Blood Drain skill increased his Soul Power and Zhao Wuji died.

After Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo absorbed their Spirit Bones, Lu Chen attended Xue Beng’s coronation and took the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from the Heaven Dou treasury. He returned to the Longevity Sect and took the three women to Sunset Forest to hunt Spirit Beasts for Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan.

• Tang San concealed Zhao Wuji’s death and his rise from level 34 to level 37, while Flender, Shao Xin, Lu Qibin, and Li Yusong searched unsuccessfully for Zhao Wuji.
• Dugu Bo awakened after absorbing two forty-thousand-year Spirit Bones, reached level 97, and learned that Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan had also gained substantial Soul Power.
• Lu Chen went to Heaven Dou City, where Xue Beng completed his coronation as emperor with Lu Chen in attendance.
• Lu Chen demanded the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from Xue Beng, took it from the treasury, and warned Xue Beng to rule properly.
• Lu Chen returned to the Longevity Sect, then took Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan to Sunset Forest and used the Blue Silver Domain to direct the forest’s Blue Silver Grass to find suitable Spirit Beasts.