Recaps

Mo Lin reflected on Grace Hall’s growth and the political upheavals across the continent over the past year. The Heaven Dou Empire had split between Qian Renxue and Prince Xue Xing, leaving Qian Renxue with control of less than a third of its territory, though Spirit Hall’s allies supported her.

• The Snow Empress trained Mo Lin’s five pairs of students in combat while Mo Lin watched from a distance.
• Gengxin City grew into a major metropolis, and the Blacksmith Association became the Craftsmen Association.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing left Gengxin City after their mission failed, while Dai Weisi regained the advantage in Star Luo’s succession struggle.
• Prince Xue Xing attempted to assassinate Qian Renxue, then declared himself the rightful Heaven Dou Emperor and accused her of murdering members of the royal family.
• Qian Renxue pursued Prince Xue Xing, but his faction controlled more territory; the subordinate kingdoms and duchies supported her through Spirit Hall.

Mo Lin prepared Grace Hall for a continent-wide war by prioritizing city defenses and military construction, then refused Yu Yuanzhen’s request to release Yu Xiaogang. He planned to travel to Spirit City with Snow Empress, his students, and artifact refiners to present his experimental results to Spirit Hall.

• Mo Lin ordered Grace Hall to shift resources toward city defenses and military construction and to issue magical artifacts to the city's defenders.
• Yu Yuanzhen privately asked Mo Lin to free Yu Xiaogang, but Mo Lin refused and said he would reconsider after completing his grand undertaking.
• Mo Lin decided to visit Spirit Hall to show his experimental results and seek its influence in promoting his methods.
• Mo Lin told Snow Empress and his ten students to prepare for the journey to Spirit City.
• Mo Lin asked Lou Gao to bring his experimental results and several artifact refiners with natal magical artifacts to Spirit City.

Mo Lin traveled by carriage to Spirit City after reflecting on the limits of “Wind Queen's Arcane Gate” and “Grand Luo Insight.” He reunited with Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue at the Papal Palace and asked what they planned to do about the Heaven Dou Empire’s division.

• Mo Lin considered Gu Yuena’s advice that he should travel by carriage and develop his understanding of space instead of relying on shortcuts.
• Mo Lin and his companions arrived in Spirit City in Spirit Hall carriages, and he used the Papal Decree to bring them into the Papal Palace.
• Mo Lin went to Bibi Dong’s room and unexpectedly found Qian Renxue there as well.
• Qian Renxue teased Mo Lin about going straight to Bibi Dong, and he explained that he had expected to find Qian Renxue in Heaven Dou City.
• Mo Lin broke the awkward silence by asking Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue how they viewed the Heaven Dou Empire’s division.

Mo Lin explained why the Heaven Dou Empire remained divided and argued that the split would let their side defeat its factions separately. He then revealed a new method of obtaining soul rings, leaving Bibi Dong impressed by its promise but concerned that few people could understand it well enough to spread it.

• Mo Lin told Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue that the Heaven Dou Empire's divided power and Qian Renxue's ruthless rise had made complete control unlikely.
• Mo Lin said they should maintain their standoff with Prince Xue Xing and take advantage of the empire's division as the continent approached chaos.
• Mo Lin revealed that the Grace Hall and Craftsmen Association had developed a method of obtaining soul rings without hunting soul beasts.
• Mo Lin gave Bibi Dong a booklet explaining the method, and she read its novel spirit theory.
• Bibi Dong judged the method feasible but warned that promoting it across the continent would be difficult because few people could understand its theories.

Mo Lin assured Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue that he had prepared demonstrators for his new soul-ring method and discussed Spirit Hall’s cautious role in the growing conflict. He revealed the Star Crown Clan’s plan to destroy the Dai Family and replace them, and argued that the continent’s chaos would draw out more enemies for Spirit Hall to confront.

• Mo Lin told Bibi Dong that people who had tested his new soul-ring method would demonstrate it to Spirit Hall.
• Mo Lin asked Qian Renxue whether leaving the Heaven Dou Empire was safe, and she explained that Spirit Hall controlled the officials remaining in Heaven Dou City.
• Qian Renxue questioned whether Grace Hall’s people would continue supporting Spirit Hall if they bore the costs of war, and Mo Lin said Spirit Hall would wait until the Star Crown Clan moved against the Star Luo Empire.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue admitted they knew little about the Star Crown Clan, so Mo Lin explained that the clan had contacted him and intended to destroy the Dai Family and replace them.
• Bibi Dong worried that the continent’s growing chaos would bring more losses, while Mo Lin said it would draw hidden forces and enemies into the open, giving Spirit Hall a reason to act.

Mo Lin left Bibi Dong’s room and returned to Qian Renxue, who accused him of pursuing the Snow Empress. After Mo Lin insisted they had no intimate relationship, Qian Renxue apologized and offered to try something different that night.

• Bibi Dong urged Mo Lin to leave so he could spend more time with Qian Renxue, and he said good night before returning to his room.
• Qian Renxue teased Mo Lin for coming back early, then dodged his attempt to pull her into his arms and asked him to explain his involvement with other women.
• Mo Lin denied having an intimate relationship with the Snow Empress and complained that Qian Renxue and others wrongly viewed him as a womanizer.
• Qian Renxue reconsidered her assumptions, apologized as she leaned against Mo Lin, and suggested they try something different that night.

Mo Lin confronted Qian Daoliu about the family secrets that had damaged his relationship with Qian Renxue, and Qian Daoliu explained that only she could inherit the Angel God’s legacy. Mo Lin understood that Qian Daoliu wanted his help, but warned that Qian Renxue might refuse the inheritance because of what she had learned about her father.

• Mo Lin arrived at the Worship Hall, where Qian Daoliu tried to intimidate him with Soul Power, but Mo Lin remained unaffected.
• Mo Lin accused Qian Daoliu of causing the family rift by concealing the truth about his son from Qian Renxue.
• Qian Daoliu explained that his level ninety-nine Soul Power had cost him the right to undertake divine trials, leaving Qian Renxue as the only person on the continent qualified to inherit the Angel God’s legacy.
• Mo Lin realized that Qian Daoliu wanted him to persuade Qian Renxue to pursue the inheritance.
• Mo Lin said he had intended to encourage Qian Renxue to inherit the godhood, but warned that she might not accept it now that she knew the truth about her father.

Mo Lin demonstrated a new method of obtaining soul rings to Spirit Hall’s elders and officials, showing that it had helped five students with ordinary talent gain unusually powerful first soul rings. He agreed to let the elders test the method with their disciples, but demanded honest records and that no soul beasts be harmed.

• Mo Lin gathered Spirit Hall’s elders and administrative personnel and had his students and the Craftsmen Association demonstrate their new soul-ring methods.
• The five students’ first soul rings, each older than five hundred and fifty years, shocked the audience, while the Craftsmen Association’s method impressed the Tool Soul Masters.
• Pufferfish Douluo asked Mo Lin for the method’s details so the elders could use it with their disciples, and Mo Lin considered letting them help test its effects on talented soul masters.
• Mo Lin explained that the method required an equal exchange of soul power between a soul master and a soul beast, and required detailed records of the results.
• Mo Lin warned the elders not to falsify data or harm the soul beasts, and they promised to follow his instructions.

Mo Lin followed Ling Yao to the deep-sea waters southwest of Douluo Continent, where he found the trail of Baxia and the Holy Hall Orca Clan. He approached a sea beast whose power surpassed five hundred thousand years of cultivation, while Baxia and the orcas remained under its control.

• Ling Yao told Mo Lin that his clan had found traces of Baxia and the Holy Hall Orca Clan in waters southwest of Douluo Continent.
• Mo Lin learned that the Spirit Dolphin Clan had grown stronger under his cultivation methods and dragon blood, but ordered Ling Yao and his clan to return rather than risk facing the powerful sea beast.
• Mo Lin reached the waters where Spirit Dolphins had detected repeated Soul Power fluctuations and sent Ling Yao and his clan back to Soul Beast Island.
• Mo Lin sensed the aura of a sea beast with more than five hundred thousand years of cultivation and swam toward it, worried about Baxia and the Holy Hall Orca Clan.
• The Abyssal Megalodon Colossus welcomed the arrival of his true target, while Baxia watched helplessly as the Colossus kept him and the Holy Hall Orca Clan trapped in the deep sea.

Mo Lin met Colossus in the ocean and learned that the ancient whale soul beast wanted him to purify Ming Jin’s corrupted Soul Power. The two recognized that they were pursuing the same goal, leaving open the possibility of working together.

• Mo Lin confronted Colossus and asked him to release his subordinates, but Colossus explained that fear alone kept them from leaving.
• Colossus asked whether Mo Lin had helped restore the Holy Hall Orca Clan, and Mo Lin confirmed that he could purify corrupted Soul Power again.
• Colossus asked Mo Lin about another whale-type soul beast near the continent, and Mo Lin identified Ming Jin as their shared concern.
• Mo Lin told Colossus that he had acted to prevent the tragedy suffered by Ming Jin and other whale-type sea soul beasts from continuing.

After learning that Poseidon had corrupted whale-type sea soul beasts to gain faith and become a god, Colossus vowed to help Mo Lin seek revenge. Mo Lin revealed plans to have Ming Jin lead an attack on Sea God Island and to organize the deep-sea soul beasts against the God Realm, leaving Colossus stunned by the claim that soul beasts could never become gods.

• Mo Lin told Colossus what Ling Yao had revealed about Ming Jin and the whale-type sea soul beasts, and Colossus erupted in anger at Poseidon's methods.
• Colossus asked when Mo Lin would cure Ming Jin and destroy Sea God Island, and Mo Lin said the cure would take at least a year and Ming Jin would lead the attack himself.
• Mo Lin told Colossus that Sea God Island's people were deceived accomplices and hinted that he planned to reach the God Realm and reclaim what it had taken from other worlds.
• Mo Lin asked Colossus to gather deep-sea soul beasts so they could resist the God Realm, and Colossus warned that he could not command them all.
• Mo Lin told Colossus to inform a deep-sea wanderer that soul beasts could never become gods, and Colossus reacted with shock and anger.

Mo Lin reassured Baxia after Colossus frightened the Holy Hall Orca Clan, then ordered them to relocate to Soul Beast Island and seek out other whale-type soul beasts. In Heaven Dou City, Tang San faced a Tang Sect struggling with empty halls, scarce supplies, few customers, and no clear way to stay afloat.

• Baxia apologized to Mo Lin for failing his first mission, but Mo Lin told him the encounter with Colossus was no fault of his.
• Mo Lin confirmed that Baxia and the Holy Hall Orca Clan were unharmed and ordered Baxia to take them to Soul Beast Island and search for other whale-type soul beasts.
• Baxia and Sacred Tiger led the Holy Hall Orca Clan toward Soul Beast Island.
• Tang San sat in the Tang Sect's mostly empty main hall with Titan and Ma Hongjun as the sect's outer halls and former clan allies were absent.
• Tang San's plans to attract the other clans with hidden weapons faltered because the Tang Sect lacked funding, reliable materials, production capacity, and customers.

Tang San's shortage of raw ore and hidden weapon production left the Tang Sect unable to meet the needs of either side in the Heaven Dou Empire's looming conflict. Titan proposed securing an imperial client to improve the sect's supply, but Tang San hesitated because he could not decide which side served justice.

• Tang San considered why Ning Rongrong, Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing could not join the Tang Sect or help resolve its difficulties.
• Titan suggested that the Tang Sect negotiate a long-term hidden weapon contract with one side of the divided Heaven Dou Empire.
• Tang San refused to favor either faction until he could determine which one acted justly, and warned that limited production could ruin the Tang Sect's reputation.
• Titan explained that a major client would give him leverage to secure more raw ore from mine owners.
• Tang San wrestled with the conflict between his principles and the business opportunity, while Ma Hongjun agreed with Titan.

Tang San left Titan's proposal unresolved, then heard Flender argue that the Tang Sect should compromise rather than risk its future. The chapter ended with Tang San reflecting on his desire to live honorably and the consequences of choosing a partner he considered evil.

• Tang San dismissed Ma Hongjun's agreement with Titan and left the hall without giving Titan a chance to persuade him further.
• Flender visited Tang San at night and took him aside to discuss the meeting with Titan.
• Flender urged Tang San to set aside some principles to protect the Tang Sect from decline.
• Tang San considered how his past as an ostracized outer disciple shaped his wish to live openly and honorably.
• Tang San recognized that partnering with an evil force could leave him and the Tang Sect burdened by a dark history.

Mo Lin spent the month apart from Qian Renxue and Hu Liena studying heavenly lightning while sharing meals with Bibi Dong. A petition revealed that Tang Sect was seeking to sell hidden weapons to Xue Qinghe, and Mo Lin advised Bibi Dong to approve a smaller order for Spirit Hall to examine.

• Mo Lin continued trying to comprehend the heavenly lightning from his tribulation while Qian Renxue cultivated in seclusion and Hu Liena searched for a divine position.
• Mo Lin joined Bibi Dong for breakfast at the Papal Palace, where she gave him a petition from Heaven Dou City.
• Mo Lin learned that Tang Sect had proposed a hidden-weapons deal with Xue Qinghe's faction.
• Mo Lin explained how hidden weapons worked and advised Bibi Dong to order one hundred sets instead of five hundred, with ten sent to Spirit City for him to study.

Tang San accepted the Heaven Dou Imperial Family’s order for one hundred sets of hidden weapons, but Mo Lin quickly copied the designs for Spirit Hall, which had no intention of placing further orders. The Tang Sect received its final payment and was left tied to Xue Qinghe’s faction, threatening its chances of doing business with anyone else.

• After Bibi Dong reduced the order to one hundred sets, Spirit Hall delivered the deposit to Tang Sect headquarters in Xue Qinghe’s name.
• Tang San accepted the payment but felt troubled about compromising his intentions for the Tang Sect’s urgent needs.
• Mo Lin deciphered the basic hidden weapons and sent their designs and production methods to Spirit Hall’s craftsmen.
• Mo Lin persuaded Bibi Dong to stop at the basic weapons because Tang San would not sell the more powerful designs.
• Xue Qinghe’s envoy delivered the remaining payment without placing another order, leaving Tang San confused and the Tang Sect politically tied to Xue Qinghe’s faction.

The Star Crown Clan launched a coup in Star Luo City, but Dai Weisi warned Dai Tianfeng and helped the imperial family resist. Dai Tianfeng and Dai Mubai were trapped in separate battles, and Dai Mubai hoped reinforcements would soon arrive.

• The Star Crown Clan entered Star Luo City through the bribed South Gate guards and began attacking the imperial palace.
• Dai Weisi forced his way into Dai Tianfeng’s bedchamber to warn him, then summoned Dai Mubai using Dai Tianfeng’s name.
• Dai Tianfeng and his empress fought the Star Crown Clan’s three Titled Douluo inside the palace while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing fought outside with Hell White Tiger.
• The Star Crown Clan held the advantage, and Dai Mubai’s guards suffered heavy losses as they failed to break into the palace.
• Zhu Zhuqing warned Dai Mubai that their forces could not hold out much longer, and Dai Mubai said he had sent for troops from all four gates.

Dai Tianfeng sent Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun to the underground treasury to activate the Star Luo Imperial Family’s hidden trump card while he held off the Star Crown Clan. Meanwhile, Grace Hall delayed reinforcements to the palace, and Mo Ning explained to Yu Tianxin why the Star Crown Clan had requested only limited help.

• Dai Tianfeng ordered Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun to go to the underground treasury, then blocked Xu Siwei and rallied his forces to keep the Star Crown Clan at bay.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuyun remained under pressure at the palace gates as their expected reinforcements failed to arrive.
• Mo Ning’s forces withdrew from the main roads after delaying Dai Mubai’s messengers, while the defenders at the other three gates began deploying troops.
• Yu Tianxin asked Mo Ning why the Star Crown Clan had sought an alliance with Grace Hall for such limited assistance.
• Mo Ning asked whether a nation founded through another force’s fighting could avoid being manipulated by that force afterward.

Mo Ning explained that the Star Crown Clan had only wanted Grace Hall to avoid interfering while sharing blame for the throne seizure. As the palace battle shifted, the city defense army attacked the Star Crown Clan, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Empress prepared to make their move.

• Mo Ning told Yu Tianxin that the Star Crown Clan had never intended to let Grace Hall control its plans, then declared their mission complete.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing collapsed outside the palace after their flying Hell White Tiger was forced to fight until they were badly wounded.
• The city defense army arrived with a barrage of arrows, attacked the exhausted Star Crown Clan Soul Masters, and protected Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing.
• The Star Crown Clan's Soul Douluo ordered signal flares fired to summon reinforcements from the southern gate.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Empress stepped out of hiding, and the Ice Empress urged Tian Meng to take their first mission seriously.

Mo Lin sent Ice Empress and Tian Meng to ensure Dai Tianfeng and Dai Mubai died, while Dai Weisi discovered a secret in the Star Luo Imperial treasury. The chapter left Dai Weisi hearing that the White Tiger blood could trigger his martial soul’s atavistic evolution, though drinking it too soon could kill him.

• Mo Lin placated Ice Empress and Tian Meng into carrying out their first mission involving soul beasts, citing the need to secure Dai Tianfeng and Dai Mubai’s deaths.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun reached the underground treasury while the battle outside the palace resumed, and an elderly man ordered all non-imperial visitors to leave.
• Dai Weisi entered the treasury alone and followed the elderly man to a crystal bottle containing the legendary Divine Beast White Tiger’s blood.
• The elderly man explained that the Dai Family’s White Tiger martial soul was only an imperfect imitation and that the blood could cause atavistic evolution once a person was strong enough.
• The elderly man warned that Dai Weisi was not yet powerful enough to drink the blood safely, while Dai Weisi focused on how to take it.

Dai Weisi urged an old man to take White Tiger blood to the besieged palace, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing retreated to recover outside. As Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress watched, a powerful surge of soul power erupted inside the palace, giving Ice Empress a reason to consider joining the battle.

• Dai Weisi asked the old man to bring White Tiger blood to Dai Tianfeng and help fight the enemy, and the old man fell silent.
• Dai Mubai spat out congealed blood, then stopped trying to charge into the palace and rested with Zhu Zhuqing behind the reinforcements.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress watched Dai Mubai and discussed waiting for Dai Mubai and Dai Tianfeng to be killed by the Star Crown Clan before intervening.
• A powerful surge of soul power erupted from the imperial palace, and Ice Empress asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm whether they could now make their move.

Dai Weisi brought the treasury’s guardian and White Tiger Blood to the palace battle, where Dai Tianfeng drank the blood and transformed. Empowered, Dai Tianfeng attacked the Star Crown Clan and ordered the imperial forces to charge, while the old man remained wary of an unseen threat.

• The treasury guardian joined Dai Tianfeng and Empress Zhu, alarming the Star Crown Clan’s three Titled Douluo.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun returned with White Tiger Blood, and Dai Weisi explained its effects to Dai Tianfeng.
• Dai Tianfeng drank the blood, transformed into a white tiger-like beast, and released a powerful killing intent before calming down.
• The guardian stepped aside and asked Dai Tianfeng to resolve the battle, and Dai Tianfeng claimed the Star Crown Clan was no match for him.
• Dai Tianfeng struck the Star Crown Clan’s patriarch through several walls, then ordered the imperial forces to attack.
• The guardian watched the battle without intervening and wondered why the people he sensed had still not appeared.

Dai Tianfeng lost control during the Star Luo Imperial Family’s attack on the Star Crown Clan, slaughtering enemies and allies alike. Ice Empress ambushed the old man guarding the treasure vault and trapped him in a battle while Dai Tianfeng continued his rampage.

• Dai Tianfeng tore through the Star Crown Clan’s soul masters, while Xu Siwei and Xu Siyi could only delay him briefly.
• Dai Tianfeng accidentally killed a soul master from his own side, then became more reckless and began attacking everyone around him.
• The old man moved to stop Dai Tianfeng, but Ice Empress ambushed him with an icy blast that crippled his left arm and raised a wall of ice between them.
• Ice Empress attacked the old man with Ice Emperor’s Pincer, forcing him to transform using Martial Soul Possession and White Tiger Blood.
• The old man raised his arms to block Ice Empress’s pincers and suffered the agony of her ultimate ice as his nerves began to fail.

The Star Crown Clan regained the advantage at the palace gate while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing struggled with the aftermath of their near-death experience. Elsewhere, Ice Empress overwhelmed the old treasury guardian, who staked his life on one final attack as the two prepared to clash.

• The southern gate guards joined the battle, allowing the Star Crown Clan to regain the upper hand.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing received treatment but fell into a spiritual slump after their first close encounter with death.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sent spiritual power into Dai Mubai's mind, killing him without the nearby healers noticing.
• The old man used White Tiger Protective Barrier to escape Ice Empress' Pincer, but the ultimate ice left his arms numb and badly injured.
• Ice Empress trapped the old man in Eternal Freeze Domain and attacked with Ice Emperor's Wrath.
• The old man unleashed White Tiger Seven Mansions Kill by spending his remaining Soul Power and life force, and Ice Empress summoned her true-body phantom to meet him.

Mo Lin briefed Grace Hall’s elders on the destruction of the Star Luo Empire and reviewed the organization’s preparations for what came next. Qiuniu proposed focusing on the coast, and Mo Lin asked him to explain further.

• Mo Lin received the report that Dai Tianfeng, Dai Mubai, and a Star Luo Imperial Family Title Douluo had died, while Dai Weisi fled toward Gengxin City.
• Mo Lin told the elders that the Star Crown Clan had suffered heavy losses and could no longer pose a serious threat.
• Lou Gao reported that the Craftsmen Association had forged more than ten thousand magic artifacts, with roughly five thousand more in production.
• After the elders reported on Grace Hall’s forces, Mo Lin revealed a map and said their next focus would remain in Star Luo territory.
• Qiuniu suggested that Grace Hall focus on the coastal regions, and Mo Lin asked him to elaborate.