Chapter Summaries

After Qian Wuji stole the Heaven Dou Imperial Jade Seal and the founding emperor’s King's Sword, he and Qian Renheng hid in a hotel as Xue Ye sealed Heaven Dou City and ordered a citywide search. Qian Renheng urged Qian Wuji to return the sword to end the lockdown, but Qian Wuji refused and left to send the imperial family a different signal.

• Qian Wuji admitted he had stolen the Imperial Jade Seal and King's Sword, and Qian Renheng promised to plead for him in exchange for keeping the jade seal.
• Xue Ye discovered the missing King's Sword, ordered Heaven Dou City sealed, and launched a sweeping search after a minister linked the theft to a previous robbery by an Ultimate Douluo.
• Royal Knights soldiers searched Qian Wuji and Qian Renheng's hotel suite but found no evidence connecting them to the thefts.
• Qian Renheng warned that the prolonged search could expose them and suggested secretly returning the King's Sword to let them leave the city.
• Qian Wuji rejected the idea of returning the sword and transformed into a gust of wind before Qian Renheng could stop him.

Qian Wuji returned to the Heaven Dou Royal Mausoleum and carved a message daring the imperial family to stop searching for him. Xue Ye abandoned the investigation, and Qian Wuji and Qian Renheng later left Heaven Dou City to continue their journey.

• Qian Wuji slipped into the guarded Ancestral Temple, incapacitated the soldiers without killing them, and carved a message telling the Heaven Dou Imperial Family to give up looking for him.
• The guards found the inscription and alerted Xue Ye, who rushed to the mausoleum and erupted in anger.
• The ministers warned Xue Ye that the thief was a Peerless Douluo who could threaten his life, so Xue Ye ordered the lockdown lifted and the search abandoned.
• Qian Wuji told Qian Renheng that he had ended the search by carving the message in the mausoleum, and Qian Renheng called his action an open threat.
• Qian Renheng and Qian Wuji agreed to rest a few more days before leaving Heaven Dou City to hunt for Soul Rings.
• After a few peaceful days, Qian Renheng and Qian Wuji checked out of the hotel and quietly left Heaven Dou City.

Qian Wuji and Qian Renheng reached Vast Sea City while traveling to find Qian Renheng an eighth soul ring. After several days of sightseeing, they left the city and flew out over the ocean to search for a suitable sea beast.

• In Spirit City, the Old Ancestors read reports about the lockdown of Heaven Dou City and blamed Qian Wuji for causing trouble.
• Qian Wuji suggested visiting Sea God Island, but Qian Renheng refused and warned him not to stir up trouble in Vast Sea City.
• Qian Wuji proposed hunting the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for Qian Renheng’s ninth soul ring in the future, while Qian Renheng insisted they first find his eighth soul ring.
• Qian Wuji and Qian Renheng spent several days enjoying Vast Sea City’s restaurants, auctions, and taverns.
• Qian Renheng urged Qian Wuji to resume their search, and the two departed Vast Sea City by flying out over the ocean.

Qian Wuji and Qian Renheng searched the deep sea for a Soul Beast suited to Renheng’s eighth Soul Ring and found a two-hundred-thousand-year Hell Death Sea Urchin. After Qian Wuji dragged the beast from the water, Renheng killed it, and its scarlet Soul Ring began to form.

• Qian Wuji and Qian Renheng spent three days searching the sea for a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast whose attributes matched Renheng’s Death Angel Martial Soul.
• Qian Wuji sensed a concealed beast beneath dark waters, told Renheng to wait in the air, and dived into the sea to capture it.
• Qian Wuji emerged after an hour and hurled the weakened Hell Death Sea Urchin onto the surface, explaining that underwater combat and fear of killing it had made the capture difficult.
• Qian Renheng struck the sea urchin repeatedly in the same spot until he broke its shell and killed it.
• A scarlet Soul Ring began forming above the Hell Death Sea Urchin’s corpse.

Qian Renheng absorbed the Hell Death Sea Urchin’s Two-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, reached Soul Power Level Eighty-Four, and gained two large-scale attack skills. He and Qian Wuji returned to Spirit City after a half-month journey, with Qian Renheng promising to plead for his great-uncle over their trouble in Heaven Dou City.

• Qian Renheng absorbed the Soul Ring as Ming Ji and Chun Xing destroyed the Hell Death Sea Urchin’s remnant soul in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Qian Renheng reached Soul Power Level Eighty-Four and learned the soul skills Death Tide and Death Rain Needles.
• Qian Wuji suggested visiting Sea God Island, but Qian Renheng refused and insisted they return to Spirit City.
• Qian Wuji dawdled along the way, and the two took half a month to reach Spirit City’s borders.
• Qian Wuji reminded Qian Renheng to plead for him before the Supreme Elder Hall, and Qian Renheng promised to try.

Qian Wuji was confronted by the Qian Clan Old Ancestors for causing chaos in Heaven Dou City and stealing the empire’s Imperial Jade Seal and founding emperor’s sword. After the beating, he gave Qian Renheng a two-hundred-thousand-year Hell Death Sea Urchin Spirit Bone, while the Old Ancestors decided to let Qian Renheng rest before asking him to revive another ancestor.

• Qian Wuji and Qian Renheng entered the Supreme Elder Hall, where Qian Yanyan and the other Old Ancestors confronted Qian Wuji over the Heaven Dou City disturbance.
• Qian Renheng tried to save himself by blaming Qian Wuji, and the Old Ancestors beat Qian Wuji for his misdeeds.
• Qian Wuji admitted that he had stolen the Heaven Dou Empire’s Imperial Jade Seal and the founding emperor’s King’s Sword, then revealed the seal was with Qian Renheng.
• Qian Renheng claimed Qian Wuji had threatened and bribed him, prompting the Old Ancestors to beat Qian Wuji again before letting them leave.
• On the way out, Qian Wuji gave Qian Renheng the Hell Death Sea Urchin’s two-hundred-thousand-year left leg Spirit Bone and told him to absorb it.
• The Old Ancestors noted that Qian Renheng had reached Rank 84 and agreed to let him recover for a few days before discussing his revival of another slumbering ancestor.

Qian Renheng returned to the Worship Hall with a level eighty-four Soul Power and told Qian Renxue about Great-Uncle’s thefts in Heaven Dou City and his proposed trip to Sea God Island. After absorbing the Hell Death Sea Urchin’s Soul Bone, Qian Renheng resumed cultivating while Qian Renxue trained in her room.

• Qian Renheng told Qian Renxue that his two-hundred-thousand-year Hell Death Sea Urchin Soul Ring had brought him to level eighty-four.
• Qian Renheng revealed that Great-Uncle had stolen Heaven Dou’s Imperial Jade Seal and the founding emperor’s King’s Sword, then been beaten by the Old Ancestors.
• Qian Renheng told Qian Renxue that he had refused Great-Uncle’s suggestion to visit Sea God Island during their sea voyage.
• Qian Renheng returned to his room to absorb the Hell Death Sea Urchin’s left leg bone and prepare to revive another Old Ancestor.
• Qian Renxue returned to her room and cultivated, determined to catch up with her brother.
• After several hours, Qian Renheng finished absorbing the Soul Bone and summoned Ming Ji and Chun Xing to continue cultivating with him.

Qian Renheng revived his distant ancestor, Qian Wentian, and the newly restored Peerless Douluo was stunned by the powerful descendants surrounding him. Convinced that the scene had to be a hallucination, Qian Wentian climbed back into his grave, and Qian Xuanling rushed to pull him out.

• Qian Wuji smashed open Qian Wentian’s grave and coffin, accidentally shattering the tombstone before telling Qian Renheng his distant ancestor’s name.
• Qian Renheng and Ming Ji performed the resurrection ritual, restoring Qian Wentian’s body and soul while the mysterious Death Gate echoed in Qian Renheng’s consciousness.
• Qian Wuji replenished Qian Renheng’s drained Soul Power as Qian Wentian awoke with his peak Ninety-Ninth Rank strength and demanded to know what had happened.
• Qian Wentian sensed the descendants’ bloodlines, then panicked when he saw the many Peerless Douluos and the young Qian Renheng and Qian Renxue’s cultivation levels.
• Qian Wentian climbed back into his grave and tried to bury himself, so Qian Xuanling rushed over and dug the dirt away while insisting that everything was real.

Qian Wentian revived, learned that Qian Renheng’s Martial Soul had brought him back, and quickly turned his attention to finding food in Spirit City. He left the Hall of Douluo with Qian Xuanling, whom he had beaten for slapping him awake, as his guide.

• Qian Xuanling dug Qian Wentian out of the dirt and slapped him awake, prompting Qian Wentian to kick him and then beat him for daring to strike his father.
• Qian Wuji and Qian Renheng stopped Qian Wentian from continuing the beating, and Qian Xuanling explained how Qian Renheng’s Martial Soul had revived the ancestors.
• Qian Wentian praised Qian Renheng, accepted that the young descendants now led the era, and asked to borrow Gold Soul Coins so he could eat.
• Qian Xuanling offered money and to guide Qian Wentian around Spirit City, and Qian Wentian agreed before leaving the Hall of Douluo with him.

After four years of cultivation, Qian Renheng reached the Ninetieth Rank and told the Old Ancestors he wanted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's near-million-year Soul Ring as his ninth. The Old Ancestors agreed to help hunt the beast the next morning, while Qian Renxue returned to cultivation, determined to begin the Angel God Trial.

• Qian Renxue reached the Eighty-Third Rank and absorbed a Hundred-Thousand-Year eighth Soul Ring, while she and Qian Renheng completed the Qian Clan's ninth-form Angel Sword Technique.
• Qian Renheng ended his four-year seclusion and announced to Qian Renxue that he had reached the Ninetieth Rank at age sixteen.
• Qian Renxue congratulated Qian Renheng, then returned to cultivation, hoping to qualify for the Angel Assessment and catch up to him.
• Qian Renheng told the Old Ancestors that absorbing his ninth Soul Ring would let him use his resurrection ability one last time.
• Qian Renheng chose the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for his ninth Soul Ring, and Qian Wentian agreed to lead the Old Ancestors to hunt it the next morning.

Qian Renheng and Qian Renxue set out with nine peerless Douluo to hunt the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for Qian Renheng’s ninth Soul Ring. After traveling to Vast Sea City and resting overnight, the group boarded a chartered ship and began sailing toward the Demonic Whale Sea.

• Qian Renheng and Qian Renxue found nine peerless Douluo waiting outside the Worship Hall to accompany them on the hunt.
• Qian Wuji took Qian Renheng and Qian Wentian took Qian Renxue as they flew with the others to Vast Sea City.
• Qian Yanyan scolded Qian Wuji for suggesting a detour to Sea God Island, and the group agreed to rest in the city.
• The next morning, Qian Lingfeng and the others chartered a large ocean-going ship and departed for the Demonic Whale Sea.

Qian Renheng and the Old Ancestors searched the Demonic Whale Sea for the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and Qian Wuji found its hiding place. After the group reached the marked waters, Qian Wentian dove in and provoked the beast, which erupted from the sea before Qian Renheng and Qian Renxue.

• Qian Lingfeng proposed that the nine peerless Douluo spread out and search the Demonic Whale Sea with their Mental Power.
• Qian Renxue meditated aboard the ship while Qian Renheng waited for the Old Ancestors to return.
• Qian Wuji returned first and announced that he had found the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's location beneath the sea.
• The Old Ancestors regrouped, and the ship sailed overnight to the waters Qian Wuji had marked.
• Qian Wentian plunged into the sea to lure the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King out, and the enraged beast burst through the surface.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King faced nine Peak Douluo who had come to claim its Soul Ring and Spirit Bone. After its escape attempt was stopped by Qian Wentian’s Heavenly Net, it burned its source power and launched a desperate counterattack as the nine experts charged.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King froze in fear when it discovered that nine Peak Douluo surrounded it.
• Qian Renheng and Qian Renxue watched from a sailboat as Qian Wuji and Qian Caidie mocked the whale.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King tried to negotiate by offering to lead the humans to other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, but Qian Wentian rejected the offer.
• Qian Wuji attacked, and the whale raised towering waves before abruptly fleeing into the deep sea.
• Qian Wentian trapped the whale inside his Heavenly Net, and it crashed into the spatial barrier while fleeing.
• The trapped Deep Sea Demonic Whale King burned its source power and attacked the nine Peak Douluo, who charged it with their Martial Soul Avatars.

Qian Renheng killed the nearly million-year-old Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and began absorbing its Soul Ring, while the Qian family discussed his coming God King trials and Qian Renxue’s future Angel God trial. The chapter left Qian Renheng refining the Soul Ring as the nine Peerless Douluo celebrated his imminent rise to Title Douluo at age sixteen.

• Qian Wuji urged Qian Renheng to finish off the gravely wounded Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and absorb its Soul Ring.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King warned Qian Renheng that its Soul Shock and resentment would destroy him, but Qian Renheng dismissed the threat and killed it with his Sword of Death.
• Qian Renheng absorbed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's nearly million-year Soul Ring and transformed its corpse into an Undead Creature under his command.
• Qian Wuji and the other revived ancestors discussed Qian Renheng's two God King inheritances and proposed that Qian Renxue begin the Angel God trial after reaching Title Douluo.
• Qian Lingfeng and the ancestors remarked that Qian Renheng would become the youngest Title Douluo in history at sixteen.

Qian Renheng overcame the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's soul resentment with help from Ming Ji and Chun Xing, allowing him to continue absorbing the near-million-year Soul Ring. As his absorption neared completion, Qian Wuji found the beast's Torso Bone, and the Old Ancestors waited to learn how much Qian Renheng's Soul Power would rise.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's remnant soul invaded Qian Renheng's Sea of Consciousness and threatened to destroy it, but Qian Renheng called on Ming Ji and Chun Xing.
• Ming Ji and Chun Xing struck the remnant soul with their Swords of Death and Life, destroying it and clearing the way for Qian Renheng to absorb the Soul Ring faster.
• Qian Wuji searched the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's corpse and found its near-million-year Torso Bone, which the Old Ancestors set aside for Qian Renheng.
• As Qian Renheng's Soul Ring absorption neared its end, Qian Wuji asked the Old Ancestors to guess how many Soul Power levels he would gain.
• The Old Ancestors debated their predictions until Qian Wushuang urged them to wait for Qian Renheng to finish absorbing the Soul Ring.

After absorbing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's Soul Ring, Qian Renheng reached Peak Ninety-Fourth Rank and gained two powerful ninth-ring Soul Skills. He fused the whale's Torso Bone and prepared to return to Spirit City to contact the God Kings about beginning his God Trial.

• Qian Renheng emerged from absorbing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's Soul Ring as a Peak Ninety-Fourth-Rank Title Douluo, with three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Qian Renheng explained that his ninth Soul Ring granted him the wide-area attack Death Tsunami and the single-target attack Sea of Death: Demonic Whale's Fury.
• Qian Wuji gave Qian Renheng the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's Torso Bone, and Qian Renheng fused it into his body.
• Qian Renxue heard that her brother was eleven ranks ahead of her and resolved to train harder so she could reach Title Douluo.
• After finishing the fusion, Qian Renheng told Qian Wuji that he would contact the two God Kings about beginning his God Trial once they returned to Spirit City.
• Qian Daoliu ordered the group to raise the sails and set course for the Douluo Continent.

After returning to Spirit City, Qian Renheng entered his Life Realm and found that his herbs had matured into hundred-thousand-year Immortal Herbs. He collected an Aromatic Silk Beauty for Ye Lingling and offered the Sky Dragon Tree’s spirit the freedom to leave the realm in human form.

• Qian Wuji tried to persuade the ancestors to visit Sea God Island by revealing Qian Daoliu’s old connection to Bo Saixi, but Qian Yanyan firmly refused.
• The ancestors returned to Spirit City, where Qian Renheng encouraged Qian Renxue to cultivate toward the Title Douluo realm and her Angel God Trial.
• Qian Renheng tore open a spatial rift and entered his Life Realm, where ten years of outside time had let his herbs grow for a hundred thousand years.
• Qian Renheng met the intelligent Sky Dragon Tree, which had tended the garden, and told Dragon Flower she could leave the Life Realm in human form if she wished.
• Dragon Flower brought Qian Renheng a hundred-thousand-year Aromatic Silk Beauty, which he stored for Ye Lingling before leaving the Life Realm.

Qian Renheng reunited with his friends, revealed his breakthrough to Rank 94 Title Douluo, and gave Ye Lingling an Immortal-Grade Aromatic Silk Beauty to evolve her Martial Soul. The girls agreed to wait five years before confessing their feelings while Qian Renheng began preparing for a god inheritance trial, and the group ended the day celebrating at Angel Hotel with Qian Xunji.

• Qian Renxue told Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Hu Liena that Qian Renheng had become a Rank 94 Title Douluo, astonishing them with his rapid progress.
• Qian Renheng gave Ye Lingling an Immortal-Grade Aromatic Silk Beauty, which he said would evolve her Martial Soul and help her break through to the Quasi-Soul King realm.
• Qian Renxue told the three girls that Qian Renheng would soon begin a god inheritance trial, so they agreed to wait five years before confessing their feelings to him.
• Qian Renheng and his friends toured Spirit City and went to Angel Hotel to celebrate his breakthrough.
• Qian Xunji congratulated Qian Renheng on reaching Title Douluo at sixteen and welcomed the group to a private room at the hotel.

Qian Renheng used his last currently available resurrection opportunity to bring the Qian Clan Progenitor, Qian Cangming, back to life. The ritual succeeded, but it drained Qian Renheng’s Soul Power, and Qian Wuji began replenishing it.

• Qian Lingfeng explained that Qian Renheng’s resurrection slot from reaching the Title Douluo realm was his last one for now.
• Qian Wuji demolished Qian Cangming’s grave and opened his coffin, exposing the Progenitor’s preserved skeleton.
• Qian Renheng summoned Death Realm without Ming Ji’s help and began the resurrection ritual.
• Death Realm’s Blood Moon rebuilt Qian Cangming’s body, and a soul light emerged from the Death Gate and returned to it.
• Qian Renheng completed the ritual but collapsed from exhaustion, so Qian Wuji transferred Soul Power to him.

Qian Cangming was resurrected and learned from Qian Wentian that Qian Renheng’s Martial Soul had brought him and many other Qian Clan ancestors back to life. After marveling at Qian Renheng and Qian Renxue’s abilities, he flew off to explore Spirit City, leaving the others to disperse.

• Qian Cangming awoke in the Hall of Douluo cemetery and, confused by the crowd of descendants, called Qian Wentian over to explain what had happened.
• Qian Wentian recounted Qian Renheng’s mutated Twin God-Level Martial Souls and resurrection ability, revealing that Qian Cangming was now Qian Renheng’s Progenitor.
• Qian Cangming criticized Qian Wuji’s flamboyant clothes, then learned that Qian Renheng was a sixteen-year-old Ninety-Fourth-Rank Title Douluo whose Martial Souls helped cultivate automatically.
• Qian Renheng explained that he had used his final available resurrection, though becoming a god might someday allow his Martial Soul’s abilities to evolve.
• Qian Cangming praised Qian Renheng and Qian Renxue, then flew off to explore Spirit City and promised to visit the Supreme Elder Hall afterward.
• Qian Wentian reassured everyone that Qian Cangming would find his way to the Supreme Elder Hall, and the group left the cemetery.