Chapter Summaries

Di Tian abandoned his attempt to force Luo Nan to join the Spirit Beasts and departed to seek the Silver Dragon King's advice. Luo Nan returned safely to Moonlight Pavilion, where Tang Yuehua reunited with him in relief after the battle.

• Di Tian realized Luo Nan had grown strong enough to challenge him and chose not to risk a fight.
• Di Tian returned toward the Star Dou Forest to ask the Silver Dragon King how to handle Luo Nan's refusal.
• Luo Nan arrived at Moonlight Pavilion, where he waited for Dugu Bo and the others to return.
• Dugu Bo brought Tang Yuehua, Ye Ci, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and the young master back to the courtyard.
• Tang Yuehua ran to Luo Nan, checked him for injuries, and embraced him after he reassured her he was unharmed.

After reuniting with Tang Yuehua and their child, Luo Nan learned that the previous night's battle had terrified Heaven Dou City and the continent's major powers. Shaken by the destruction, Emperor Xue Ye ordered a continent-wide recruitment drive and committed ten million Gold Soul Coins to a new imperial training camp.

• Tang Yuehua clung to Luo Nan in relief, and he comforted her before greeting and lifting their child.
• Scouts found a vast crater where a mountain had stood, with no bodies or traces of the combatants.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed the battle's terrifying aura, while the Upper Three Sects investigated the two mysterious fighters.
• Xue Ye panicked over the threat such powerful Soul Masters posed to his empire and ordered the recruitment of loyal Soul Masters.
• Xue Ye allocated ten million Gold Soul Coins to establish an Imperial Soul Master Training Camp and build a force for the imperial family.

Xue Ye invited Luo Nan to the palace, hoping to enlist his wealth and power in building a Soul Master legion to defend the Heaven Dou Empire. Luo Nan attended the meeting, where Ge Long challenged his manner, and Xue Ye reprimanded the marshal.

• Xue Ye sent state letters to Luo Nan and Yu Luomian, seeking their support for his Soul Master legion plan.
• Dugu Bo told Luo Nan that Xue Ye was recruiting Soul Masters because of the rumors about Luo Nan’s power, and Luo Nan agreed to attend the palace meeting.
• Luo Nan arrived at the reception hall and saw Xue Ye, Prince Xue Xing, Ge Long, and Yu Luomian waiting there.
• Yu Luomian greeted Luo Nan with unusual deference, while Ge Long grew suspicious of Luo Nan’s casual attitude.
• Ge Long rebuked Luo Nan for disrespecting Xue Ye, but Xue Ye ordered Ge Long to stand down.

Xue Ye proposed that the Heaven Dou Empire, Moonlight Pavilion, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect work together to build a loyal Soul Master army. Luo Nan did not accept or refuse, saying he needed time to consider the plan.

• Xue Ye apologized for Ge Long’s temper before explaining that he had summoned Luo Nan and Yu Luomian to discuss the empire’s survival.
• Xue Ye said the destructive battle outside Heaven Dou City convinced him that ordinary troops could not protect the empire, so he planned to create a Soul Master army.
• Xue Ye asked Moonlight Pavilion to provide financial support and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect to supply instructors for training young Soul Masters.
• Yu Luomian asked whether Xue Ye wanted to unite the three powers, and he agreed that their cooperation was necessary to preserve the empire.
• Luo Nan weighed the risks to Moonlight Pavilion and the potential value of the empire as a counterweight to Spirit Hall, then told Xue Ye he needed time to consider the proposal.

Luo Nan left Xue Ye’s proposal to form an imperial Soul Master army under consideration, while assuring Yu Luomian that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect could accept the offer without worrying about displeasing him. He delayed a decision for a few days, leaving Yu Luomian waiting for his lead.

• Xue Xing urged Xue Ye not to rush Luo Nan, and Xue Ye insisted that he would establish a Soul Master army regardless of the cost.
• Luo Nan and Yu Luomian left the palace after discussing the empire’s situation, prompting Ge Long to complain about Luo Nan’s arrogance.
• Xue Ye warned Ge Long that Luo Nan was powerful enough to command respect, recalling his victory over Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin in the Star Dou Forest.
• Yu Luomian asked Luo Nan whether he would accept Xue Ye’s proposal, and Luo Nan said the plan was worthwhile but needed consideration.
• Luo Nan told Yu Luomian that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect could join the imperial project without waiting for his approval.
• Luo Nan said he would let the imperial family wait a few days before discussing the matter again, and Yu Luomian respectfully agreed.

Luo Nan explained his plans for Moonlight Pavilion’s future to Tang Yuehua: use the royal Soul Master army project to secretly build their own loyal force, then exploit the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect’s overtures. He also proposed targeting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as a stepping stone to establish Moonlight Pavilion’s prestige.

• Luo Nan returned to Moonlight Pavilion and told Tang Yuehua about Xue Ye’s plan to join forces with them and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect to build a Soul Master army.
• Luo Nan told Tang Yuehua that Moonlight Pavilion needed its own loyal Soul Master legion to survive and remain powerful after he left for the God Realm.
• Luo Nan proposed funding the royal army in exchange for using its recruitment and resources to secretly cultivate Moonlight Pavilion’s core Soul Masters.
• Tang Yuehua understood the plan and offered to prepare a proposal to recruit talented commoner Soul Masters with clean backgrounds.
• Luo Nan said Moonlight Pavilion should take advantage of Yu Luomian’s overtures and identified the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as a target to help establish their prestige.

Luo Nan planned to use the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect to prevent the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect from regaining power, while Tang Yuehua prepared Moonlight Pavilion’s expansion. He told Yu Luomian that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had gained a new Titled Douluo and began pressing him to oppose Ning Fengzhi’s plans.

• Luo Nan decided that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect would confront the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect while Moonlight Pavilion supported it from the rear.
• Tang Yuehua gathered Moonlight Pavilion’s trusted subordinates and worked through the night on plans to build influence, recruit Soul Masters, and manage imperial funds.
• Luo Nan summoned Yu Luomian to a secret reception room and asked whether he knew the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had cultivated another Titled Douluo.
• Yu Luomian confirmed that a veteran Soul Douluo had recently advanced to rank ninety-one with Ning Fengzhi’s support.
• Luo Nan claimed that Ning Fengzhi was secretly contacting Heaven Dou Empire forces to restore the sect’s former dominance, and Yu Luomian realized Luo Nan meant to use his sect against them.

Luo Nan persuaded Yu Luomian to rely on Moonlight Pavilion and target any renewed expansion by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. At the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Xiao and Tang Hao discussed the continent’s shifting alliances and the overwhelming power displayed by the mysterious experts.

• Luo Nan warned Yu Luomian that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect had to prove its value and promised to protect it from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Titled Douluos.
• Luo Nan urged Yu Luomian to seize any industries the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect tried to reclaim, and Yu Luomian pledged to stop its rise.
• Tang Xiao told the Clear Sky Sect elders and Tang Hao that the Heaven Dou Empire planned to build a Soul Master army with Moonlight Pavilion and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect.
• Tang Xiao reported that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was expanding again, Spirit Hall might intervene, and the Star Luo Empire was mobilizing troops.
• Tang Hao told Tang Xiao and the elders that the mysterious experts’ mountain-flattening power had made him realize how insignificant their martial strength was.

Tang Xiao urged the Clear Sky Sect to seek allies and resources before the continent’s rising powers left it behind, but the elders rejected his warnings and chose to remain secluded. Tang Xiao and Tang Hao were left with little leverage to change their minds, while Tang Xiao hoped Tang Hao would recover and the larger rabbit would grow into a Title Douluo.

• Tang Xiao warned the elders that the Heaven Dou Empire, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Spirit Hall were gathering strength, and called for the Clear Sky Sect to act.
• The Second Elder argued that the sect’s three Title Douluo, natural stronghold, and Clear Sky Hammer made it strong enough to stay out of the conflict.
• The Second Elder urged the sect to keep its mountain sealed and cultivate until it could emerge with five or six Title Douluo.
• Most elders supported the Second Elder, leaving Tang Xiao and Tang Hao worried that the sect’s isolation would lead to its decline.
• Tang Xiao hoped Tang Hao would recover quickly and that the larger of the two transformed rabbits Tang Hao had brought back would eventually become a Title Douluo.

Tang Yuehua presented Xue Ye with Moonlight Pavilion’s proposal to establish an independent foundation that would fund and train a Soul Master army. Xue Ye approved the framework but wanted the Imperial Family to revise its oversight and future command arrangements, leaving the parties to negotiate the details.

• Tang Yuehua, Luo Nan, and Yu Luomian met Xue Ye in the Heaven Dou Palace and presented Moonlight Pavilion’s proposal for the Soul Master army.
• Tang Yuehua proposed that the Imperial Family and Moonlight Pavilion jointly fund an independent foundation to manage the army’s finances.
• Tang Yuehua proposed that the foundation recruit talented children through nationwide Martial Soul awakenings and provide their upbringing and cultivation resources.
• Yu Luomian offered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect’s training system and said he would turn Yu Xiaogang’s theories into teaching materials.
• Xue Ye praised the proposal but said the Imperial Family needed to revise oversight and command arrangements, and Tang Yuehua agreed to discuss the details.

Luo Nan secured a vast tract of wasteland outside Heaven Dou City as Moonlight Pavilion’s private territory through Xue Ye’s special decree. After the Imperial Family delivered the deed that night, Luo Nan realized he needed help turning the barren land into Moonlight Pavilion’s future base.

• Tang Yuehua said Moonlight Pavilion would help revise the proposal with the Imperial Family, then asked Xue Ye for assistance as thanks.
• Luo Nan requested more than a hundred li of wasteland outside Heaven Dou City as Moonlight Pavilion’s private territory, barring even the Empire’s military from entering without permission.
• Xue Ye agreed to grant the land by special imperial decree at the next morning court.
• The Imperial Family delivered the decree and deed to Moonlight Pavilion that same night.
• Luo Nan worried that planning and constructing a major base on the barren land would be tedious, and Tang Yuehua laughed as she massaged his temples.

Tang Yuehua and Luo Nan chose the Defense Clan to build Moonlight Pavilion’s planned new city and asked Bai He to recruit them. Bai He agreed to help, and Tang Yuehua urged him to approach Niu Gao on his own behalf rather than as a representative of the Clear Sky Sect.

• Tang Yuehua explained that the Defense Clan excelled at construction and could be reached through Bai He’s ties to the other affiliated clans.
• Luo Nan agreed to fund the effort and told Tang Yuehua to summon Bai He.
• Bai He arrived at Moonlight Pavilion, grateful for the support Moonlight Pavilion had given the Speed Clan, and promised to help.
• Tang Yuehua told Bai He about the approved territory and Moonlight Pavilion’s plan to build a new city there.
• Bai He understood that Tang Yuehua wanted him to invite Niu Gao and the Defense Clan to oversee construction.
• Tang Yuehua asked Bai He to speak with Niu Gao personally, distinguishing Moonlight Pavilion from the Clear Sky Sect.

Bai He returned to Heaven Dou City with Niu Gao, clan head of the Defense Clan, to discuss moving the clan and helping build the new city. Niu Gao accused Luo Nan of trying to make his clan a subordinate, but Luo Nan rejected the idea and said he had no interest in supporting an entire clan.

• Bai He agreed to visit Longxing City and recruit Niu Gao by showing him the Speed Clan's prosperity and Moonlight Pavilion's sincerity.
• More than a week later, Bai He returned to Moonlight Pavilion with Niu Gao, who had shown interest in helping build the new city but insisted on speaking with Luo Nan directly.
• Niu Gao confronted Luo Nan, accusing him of trying to make the Defense Clan a subordinate like the Clear Sky Sect had done in the past.
• Luo Nan calmly told Niu Gao that he did not deal in subordinate clans and had neither the leisure nor the energy to support an entire clan.

Luo Nan explained that Moonlight Pavilion wanted to hire the Defense Clan for a long-term construction project, not bind them as subordinates. Niu Gao raised concerns about relocating hundreds of clansmen and their resentment toward the Tang Family, and Tang Yuehua handed him documents addressing resettlement.

• Luo Nan told Niu Gao that Moonlight Pavilion needed the Defense Clan's expertise and manpower for a vast, expanding development project, and that it would pay them as employees.
• Tang Yuehua assured Niu Gao that Moonlight Pavilion valued the clan's abilities and would reward their work, easing his suspicion of Luo Nan's proposal.
• Niu Gao accepted that Moonlight Pavilion meant to hire the clan but explained that moving hundreds of people would be difficult and could revive their resentment over the Tang Family's past actions.
• Tang Yuehua apologized personally for the harm the Clear Sky Sect had caused and stressed that Moonlight Pavilion was separate from the sect and led by Luo Nan.
• Tang Yuehua gave Niu Gao a thick stack of documents about resettlement, and he opened them with widened eyes.

Luo Nan and Tang Yuehua secured Niu Gao’s agreement to move the Defense Clan to Heaven Dou City and build Moonlight Pavilion’s new city by offering generous property, relocation, and wage arrangements. Niu Gao began planning the construction, confident Moonlight Pavilion would fund even the most expensive materials.

• Tang Yuehua offered Niu Gao vacant properties, relocation support, living expenses, and double wages for Defense Clan workers.
• Niu Gao recalled the Defense Clan’s past abandonment and hardships, then accepted Moonlight Pavilion’s offer and promised to relocate the clan.
• Bai He celebrated Niu Gao’s decision, and Luo Nan and Niu Gao sealed their partnership with a handshake.
• Niu Gao and Tang Yuehua reviewed the territorial plan and discussed the new city’s construction details.
• Niu Gao warned that the soft ground required expensive Obsidian Iron Mother and Deep-Sea Sunken Silver foundations, and Tang Yuehua told him not to worry about the budget.

Tang Yuehua and Niu Gao finalized Moonlight Pavilion’s plans to build a new city, and Niu Gao set off with Bai He to bring the Defense Clan to Heaven Dou City. As construction began, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect learned of the project and recognized the scale of Luo Nan’s ambitions.

• Tang Yuehua and Niu Gao finalized their cooperation contract, construction plans, and initial materials list for the new city.
• Niu Gao left for Longxing City to organize the Defense Clan’s relocation, and Bai He accompanied him to protect him from Spirit Hall’s spies.
• Luo Nan and Tang Yuehua anticipated that the project would draw opposition from major forces and declared the city a base for their conquest of the continent.
• Moonlight Pavilion sent over a thousand laborers and Soul Masters to begin clearing the site and opening transport routes outside Heaven Dou City.
• Ning Fengzhi learned that Moonlight Pavilion was building a city with the Defense Clan and told Chen Xin that its defenses could surpass the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s castle.

Ning Fengzhi recognized Moonlight Pavilion’s rapid rise, while the Clear Sky Sect elders angrily condemned the Defense Clan for joining it. Tang Xiao rebuked them for demanding loyalty after the sect had abandoned the Defense Clan, leaving the elders silenced.

• Ning Fengzhi reflected that Moonlight Pavilion had become powerful enough to threaten the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s position in Heaven Dou City.
• The Clear Sky Sect elders cursed the Defense Clan and Tang Yuehua for joining Moonlight Pavilion, calling Niu Gao a traitor.
• Tang Hao silently endured the elders’ accusations, blaming himself for the disaster that had driven the Defense Clan from its home.
• Tang Xiao silenced the meeting hall and challenged the elders to remember how the Clear Sky Sect had abandoned the Defense Clan to Spirit Hall.
• Tang Xiao reminded the elders that Moonlight Pavilion had offered the Defense Clan respect, compensation, and a home, then warned that the Clear Sky Sect would be cast aside if it clung to its arrogance.
• The elders fell silent, unable to answer Tang Xiao’s rebuke.

Tang Xiao confronted the Clear Sky Sect elders’ jealousy and despair as Moonlight Pavilion expanded, while Qian Daoliu chose to avoid provoking Luo Nan and focus on Qian Renxue’s Angel God Trial. The chapter left Spirit Hall hoping that Qian Renxue’s ascension could give it a chance against Moonlight Pavilion.

• Tang Xiao saw that the Clear Sky Sect elders blamed Moonlight Pavilion’s success for their own decline, while he knew their stubbornness was deeply rooted.
• Qian Daoliu read reports that Luo Nan had leveled a mountain and that Moonlight Pavilion was building a city outside Heaven Dou City.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo proposed confronting Moonlight Pavilion, but Qian Daoliu reminded him of their previous losses and forbade the provocation.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Spirit Hall members to stay away from Heaven Dou City and Moonlight Pavilion, then resolved to help Qian Renxue complete the Angel God Trial.

The Defense Clan arrived in Heaven Dou City after a long journey and received an extravagant welcome from Moonlight Pavilion. Niu Gao was moved by Luo Nan and Tang Yuehua’s hospitality and praised the estate as far better than anything the clan had enjoyed with the Clear Sky Sect.

• Qian Daoliu worried that Luo Nan and Moonlight Pavilion might eventually threaten Spirit Hall, admitting he had no way to stop Luo Nan.
• Niu Gao and Bai He led the Defense Clan’s large convoy from Longxing City to Heaven Dou City.
• Tang Yuehua’s steward welcomed the clan at the city gate and escorted them to a luxurious estate prepared as their temporary residence.
• Luo Nan and Tang Yuehua arrived during the welcoming feast and assured Niu Gao that Moonlight Pavilion would address any needs or complaints.
• Niu Gao thanked Luo Nan and said the estate was far more luxurious than the Defense Clan’s former home under the Clear Sky Sect.

The Defense Clan settled into its new estate and began construction on Moonlight Pavilion’s new city. At the groundbreaking ceremony, imperial and sect envoys arrived with lavish gifts, including the unexpected sect masters Huyan Zhen and Huo Yanbao.

• Niu Gao agreed that the Defense Clan would rest briefly and begin construction in three days.
• Luo Nan promised to attend the groundbreaking ceremony, and Niu Gao led the Defense Clan members into work when the day arrived.
• Tang Yuehua watched the construction progress as envoys from the Heaven Dou Imperial Family and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect arrived with valuable gifts.
• Tang Yuehua informed Luo Nan that Huyan Zhen and Huo Yanbao had come to present gifts, surprising him because their sects were among the Lower Four Sects.
• Huyan Zhen and Huo Yanbao paid Luo Nan and Tang Yuehua a grand salute, and Huyan Zhen began presenting the Elephant Armor Sect’s gift list.