Chapter Summaries

The Sky Azure Bull Python sacrificed himself to Dugu Yan, giving her a powerful Soul Ring and Soul Bone while asking her to protect Xiao Wu in Heaven Dou City. Qi Dao warned Xiao Wu to stay away from Tang San and revealed that he had killed Tang San’s father, leaving Xiao Wu shocked to learn Tang Hao was a Titled Douluo.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python agreed to sacrifice himself, and Qi Dao promised to take Xiao Wu to Heaven Dou City and keep her safe.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python urged Xiao Wu to care for herself and wait for him and Er Ming to be resurrected before he began his sacrifice to Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan absorbed the Sky Azure Bull Python’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone, rising from level seventy to level seventy-seven and gaining new skills.
• Qi Dao told Xiao Wu not to seek out Tang San, warning that they were enemies and revealing he had killed Tang Hao.
• Xiao Wu reacted with disbelief when she learned Tang San’s father was Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao.

Qi Dao sowed doubt in Xiao Wu about Tang San and spent nearly half a month helping Dugu Yan evolve her Eight Spider Lances before returning with them to Heaven Dou City. Tang San recruited Tai Tan to the Strength Clan and learned about Gengxin City, which he planned to visit after moving the clan to the Star Luo Empire.

• Qi Dao told Xiao Wu that Tang San knew her identity and that Tang Hao had turned his Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor wife into a Soul Ring, leaving Xiao Wu suspicious of Tang San.
• Qi Dao searched the Star Dou Great Forest with Dugu Yan and Xiao Wu, finding three high-level Man Faced Demon Spiders that allowed Dugu Yan's Eight Spider Lances to reach the hundred-thousand-year level.
• Tang San met Tai Tan at the Strength Clan and told him that Tang Hao had been crippled by Spirit Hall's pursuit and later killed by an unknown enemy.
• Tang San described his plan to use the Strength Clan's forging skills to produce hidden weapons for the Star Luo Empire and handed Tai Tan a blueprint.
• Tai Tan told Tang San that Gengxin City had skilled smiths and large stores of rare metals, and Tang San ordered preparations to relocate the Strength Clan before visiting it.

Qi Dao brought Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where she absorbed the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and broke through to level eighty. After Dugu Yan teased him about their relationship, Qi Dao carried her to his cabin, and she said he had finally gotten the hint.

• Qi Dao took Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and urged her to consume the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, promising to find crystal blood dragon ginseng to help her absorb it fully.
• Dugu Yan consumed the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, whose medicinal power overcame the earth dragon golden melon’s resistance and began transforming her body.
• Qi Dao guarded Dugu Yan for a day and a night until she finished absorbing the herb’s surface effects and reached level eighty.
• Qi Dao told Dugu Yan that her cultivation could rise to level eighty-six or eighty-seven after she obtained her eighth soul ring, and she hoped to become the continent’s youngest Titled Douluo.
• Dugu Yan teased Qi Dao for treating her like an older sister, so he carried her to his cabin, where she said he had finally gotten the hint.

Qi Dao visited Qian Renxue at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, where she explained her plans to leave the empire and asked him to keep Yu Xiaogang alive. He then infiltrated the Speed Clan estate and took Bai He’s crystal blood dragon ginseng.

• Qi Dao asked Qian Renxue about Xiao Wu and the state of the Heaven Dou Empire, and she said she had arranged for capable officials to govern after she faked her death.
• Qian Renxue asked Qi Dao to find Yu Xiaogang after he conquered the Star Luo Empire and make sure he did not die, and Qi Dao agreed.
• Qi Dao traveled to Flying Feather City to steal the crystal blood dragon ginseng from the Speed Clan patriarch Bai He.
• Bai He and his granddaughter Bai Chenxiang discussed attending a gathering of the Four Great Clans in Heaven Dou City.
• Qi Dao knocked Bai He and Bai Chenxiang unconscious, took Bai He’s Soul Tool, and found the crystal blood dragon ginseng inside a jade box.

Qi Dao returned the crystal blood dragon ginseng to Dugu Yan and helped her prepare to inherit the Sea God godhood. Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan both absorbed powerful treasures, and Dugu Yan emerged with improved strength, constitution, and talent.

• Qi Dao stole the crystal blood dragon ginseng from Bai He and left him and Bai Chenxiang unconscious; after waking, Bai He discovered the theft and accepted that they were fortunate to be alive.
• Qi Dao reunited with Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo, and Dugu Bo warmly acknowledged his relationship with Dugu Yan.
• Qi Dao gave Dugu Yan the crystal blood dragon ginseng and urged her to absorb it before they traveled to Sea God Island.
• Qi Dao gave Dugu Bo two poison-compatible soul bones over fifty thousand years old, which Dugu Bo absorbed without immediately reaching level 98.
• Dugu Yan absorbed the crystal blood dragon ginseng, fully assimilated the stored power of the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, evolved her Eight Spider Lances, and increased her talent enough to qualify to inherit the Sea God godhood.

Tang San began the Rakshasa God’s trials by slaughtering over ten thousand soldiers and gained a God-given Soul Ring, while Qi Dao brought Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong to Vast Sea City. The story left Qi Dao preparing to find Dugu Yan an eighth soul ring before they continued toward Sea God Island.

• Dugu Yan finished absorbing the crystal blood dragon ginseng, and Qi Dao planned to help her find an eighth soul ring before taking her to Sea God Island.
• Qi Dao visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Nine-Hearted Begonia Clan, then set out with Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong.
• Tang San and Tai Tan slaughtered over ten thousand soldiers at Suotuo City's military camp to begin the Rakshasa God’s trials, drawing Qian Renxue's anger and a search by the Angel Legion.
• Tang San told Tai Tan he had passed the first trial, gained five percent Rakshasa God affinity, and received a God-given Soul Ring upon reaching level sixty.
• Tang San absorbed the God-given Soul Ring and rose to level sixty-six, while the Rakshasa God watched with satisfaction as he embraced the power gained from devouring people.
• Qi Dao brought Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong to Vast Sea City and planned to hunt for Dugu Yan's eighth soul ring before heading to Sea God Island.

Qi Dao took the Wavebreaker to the Poison Python Sea to secure a hundred-thousand-year soul ring for Dugu Yan. He confronted the Deep Sea Poison Python and split its enormous body in two with a single sword strike.

• Qi Dao asked Captain Zuo Ge about dangerous sea territories and learned of the hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Poison Python.
• Qi Dao ordered Zuo Ge to sail the Wavebreaker to the Poison Python Sea.
• Five days later, a giant sea creature approached the ship, and Qi Dao recognized it as the Deep Sea Poison Python.
• Qi Dao used Instantaneous Movement to reach the sea above the python and attacked with his Heart Sword State and Peerless Sword Domain.
• Qi Dao's sword light split the Deep Sea Poison Python in two before Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong.

Qi Dao and Dugu Yan killed a hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Poison Python, and Dugu Yan absorbed its Soul Ring and Soul Bone. Her strength rose to Level 88, and the Wavebreaker later arrived at Sea God Island.

• Qi Dao cleaved the Deep Sea Poison Python in two, leaving it badly wounded and fleeing toward deeper water.
• Dugu Yan transformed into her Jade Phosphorus Dragon form and killed the wounded Deep Sea Poison Python with her Azure Phosphorus Sky Azure Dragon Soul.
• Dugu Yan collected the python's Soul Bone and absorbed its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Dugu Yan emerged from absorbing the Soul Ring at Level 88, surprising Ye Lingling and Ning Rongrong.
• Several days later, Qi Dao, Dugu Yan, and the others arrived at Sea God Island.

Qi Dao arrived at Sea God Island carrying the Sea God Token, and Xiao Bai escorted him to the forbidden ground to meet Bo Saixi. After Qi Dao severed his connection to the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, Poseidon sent his divine sense into Qi Dao’s Spiritual Sea and discovered the Snow Empress there.

• The Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan surrounded the Wavebreaker, but Qi Dao dispelled Xiao Bai’s pressure and showed her the Sea God Token.
• Recognizing the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud as the Sea God’s Heart, Xiao Bai agreed to escort Qi Dao and his companions to Bo Saixi.
• Xiao Bai brought the group to the forbidden ground and flew toward the Sea God Hall to summon the High Priest.
• Qi Dao severed his connection to the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, prompting Poseidon to send his divine sense through it to check on him.
• Poseidon entered Qi Dao’s Spiritual Sea and was astonished to find the Snow Empress’s Spiritual Avatar inside a level-eighty Soul Saint.

Qi Dao rejected Poseidon's inheritance and recommended Dugu Yan as his successor, giving her the Sea God's Heart after Poseidon agreed. Bo Saixi arrived and learned that Poseidon had personally approved the transfer, leaving her shaken by how highly he regarded Qi Dao.

• Qi Dao met Poseidon in his spiritual sea and refused to inherit the Sea God’s godhood.
• Qi Dao recommended Dugu Yan, and Poseidon judged her worthy to become his successor while urging Qi Dao to reconsider.
• Poseidon left after telling Qi Dao to give Dugu Yan the Sea God's Heart, and Qi Dao handed it to her.
• Bo Saixi arrived with Xiao Bai and recognized the Sea God's Heart in Dugu Yan's hand.
• Qi Dao explained that Poseidon had just approved the transfer, and Bo Saixi realized Poseidon had sent his divine sense because he valued Qi Dao's talent.

Bo Saixi brought Dugu Yan to a Sacred Pillar to receive a Sea God trial, while Qi Dao and the others accompanied her. Dugu Yan received the Sea God's Nine Trials, leaving Bo Saixi and Sea Dragon Douluo astonished by her golden assessment.

• Bo Saixi led Qi Dao, Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling to a Sacred Pillar and introduced them to Sea Dragon Douluo.
• Qi Dao rode a summoned sword across the water with the three women, surprising Bo Saixi with his self-created skill.
• Bo Saixi invoked the Sea God and a red light rose along the Sacred Pillar as Dugu Yan underwent her assessment.
• The red light continued to the top of the pillar, then turned golden and enveloped Dugu Yan, revealing the Sea God's Nine Trials.
• Dugu Yan thanked Qi Dao, saying his careful planning had helped her earn the Sea God's recognition.

After Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong received their Sea God trials, Poseidon secretly prepared to protect Dugu Yan with the Sea God Trident and his Golden Thirteen Halberds. In Gengxin City, Tai Tan introduced Tang San as Tang Hao’s son while arranging to move the Strength Clan to the Star Luo Empire, and he told Lou Gao that Qi Dao served Spirit Hall.

• Bo Saixi arranged red-level Sea God trials for Ye Lingling and Ning Rongrong, while Qi Dao declined a trial and planned to leave for Slaughter City after absorbing his eighth soul ring.
• Qi Dao agreed to stay with Dugu Yan for three more days before departing.
• Poseidon sent his divine sense and the Golden Thirteen Halberds into the Sea God Trident so he could intervene if Dugu Yan faced danger.
• Tai Tan reunited with Lou Gao in Gengxin City and introduced Tang San as his young master and Tang Hao’s son.
• Tai Tan told Lou Gao that Xue Qinghe was a Spirit Hall infiltrator and that he planned to move the Strength Clan to the Star Luo Empire.
• Tai Tan claimed that Qi Dao was another of Spirit Hall’s agents, leaving Lou Gao to consider which side Qi Dao supported.

Tang San and Tai Tan visited Lou Gao in Gengxin City to buy rare metals and revealed Tang San’s Godly Zhuge Crossbow, hoping to secure a large supply. Lou Gao recognized the weapon’s military value, but Tang San said he had no intention of trading its blueprint, leaving Lou Gao unsure of his purpose.

• Lou Gao suspected Qi Dao had purged Gengxin City's Spirit Hall but still spoke well of him, while Tang San considered killing Lou Gao and spared him for Tai Tan’s sake and because he needed his skills.
• Tai Tan told Lou Gao that he and Tang San wanted to buy as many rare metals as possible, surprising Lou Gao.
• Tang San showed Lou Gao a blueprint and explained that the Godly Zhuge Crossbow could fire sixteen bolts at once and pierce the defenses of Soul Masters below rank forty.
• Lou Gao tested the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and recognized its potential as a mass-produced weapon for an army.
• When Lou Gao asked whether Tang San would trade the blueprint for rare metals, Tang San refused, leaving Lou Gao puzzled.

Tang San persuaded Lou Gao to join the Tang Sect by showing him a powerful hidden-weapon blueprint and asking to borrow the Blacksmith Association’s rare metals. He learned the association had only four tons left because Qi Dao had purchased the rest, leaving Tang San furious and worried about Qi Dao’s plans.

• Tang San told Lou Gao that the Tang Sect possessed hidden-weapon blueprints capable of threatening a Titled Douluo and offered to show one if Lou Gao joined and lent him the association’s rare metals.
• Lou Gao examined the Buddha’s Fury Tang Lotus blueprint, agreed to join the Tang Sect, and asked Tang San to provide an IOU for the metals.
• Tang San asked how much rare metal remained, and Lou Gao sheepishly said the warehouse held only four tons.
• Si Long explained that Qi Dao had bought large quantities of rare metals from the Blacksmith Association, including a recent batch.
• Tang San feared Qi Dao might be using the metals to increase his strength and inwardly cursed him.

Tang San recruited Lou Gao to find blacksmiths and rare metals for the Tang Sect, then planned to have the Star Luo Empire fund his hidden weapons. Meanwhile, Qi Dao returned to Heaven Dou City, investigated the attack on Suotuo City's military camp, and recognized Tang San's hand in the Strength Clan's relocation.

• Tang San asked Lou Gao to recruit blacksmiths for the Tang Sect and help obtain rare metals, then decided to seek supplies from the Star Luo Empire.
• Qi Dao saw the seven Sinking Silver Pillars beneath Sea God's Island's Raging Waves Peril but chose to wait until Dugu Yan became a god before taking them.
• Qi Dao spent three days on Sea God's Island with Dugu Yan, then returned to Heaven Dou City and learned about the fallen Soul Master's attack on the Suotuo City military camp.
• Qian Renxue told Qi Dao that her Angel Legion had found no clues about the attacker, whom they suspected was a powerful fallen Soul Master.
• Qian Renxue reported that the Strength Clan had moved to the Star Luo Empire, and Qi Dao concluded that Tang San had caused the relocation.

Qi Dao and Qian Renxue suspected Tang San was completing Rakshasa God trials after he and Tai Tan attacked a military camp. In the Star Luo Empire, Tang San reunited with Yu Xiaogang, renewed his trust in his teacher, and vowed to destroy Heaven Dou for revenge.

• Qi Dao identified Tang San as the likely killer of the soldiers at Suotuo City's military camp and reasoned that Tai Tan had probably helped him.
• Qi Dao and Qian Renxue concluded that Tang San's attack was likely part of God Trials, possibly those of the Rakshasa God.
• Tang San and Tai Tan traveled from Gengxin City to the Star Luo Empire's capital, where Tang San went to find Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang welcomed Tang San tearfully, and Tang San's doubts about his teacher disappeared as he felt Yu Xiaogang's concern.
• After seeing that Yu Xiaogang had only one eye, Tang San swore to destroy the Heaven Dou Empire and avenge him, and Yu Xiaogang agreed they would do it together.

Tang San reunited with Yu Xiaogang, who adopted him as his son and planned to introduce him to the Star Luo Emperor. Two months later, Qian Renxue reached level 90 and staged an attack on Emperor Qinghe so she could leave Heaven Dou and return to Spirit Hall for her god trials.

• Yu Xiaogang showed Tang San the Star Luo Second Soul Master Legion’s training and heard how Tang San had been chosen for the Rakshasa God Trial.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San to become his son, and Tang San agreed.
• Yu Xiaogang took his new son to meet the Star Luo Emperor, hoping to secure him an important position and access to rare metals.
• Qian Renxue broke through to level 90 after two months of cultivation in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
• Qian Renxue arranged an attack on Emperor Qinghe, leaving him gravely injured and throwing Heaven Dou City into turmoil.
• Qi Dao agreed to watch over the Heaven Dou Empire while Qian Renxue returned to Spirit Hall to inherit the angel godhood.

Qi Dao and Qian Renxue staged an assassination attempt and used Qian Renxue’s feigned death to place Xue Ke on the Heaven Dou throne. The Star Luo Emperor and his companions were left baffled by Xue Qinghe’s sudden death.

• Qi Dao and Qian Renxue passed off a double as the wounded Emperor Qinghe and blamed the attack on a hidden powerhouse from the Star Luo Empire’s White Tiger Sect.
• Xue Ke visited the imperial bedchamber, where Qian Renxue pretended to be near death and Qi Dao appeared to stabilize her.
• Qian Renxue told Xue Ke she would inherit the throne, and Xue Ke agreed to become empress.
• Three days later, Xue Qinghe was declared dead, and Xue Ke became the Heaven Dou Empire’s first empress.
• The Star Luo Emperor and his companions were stunned by Xue Qinghe’s apparent death and wondered why a Spirit Hall spy had left so soon.