Chapter Summaries

Qi Dao and Qian Renxue discussed Tang Hao’s death, shared Soul Bones, and his upcoming trip with Ning Rongrong to Gengxin City. Qian Renxue asked him to investigate the city’s Spirit Hall Main Hall for possible corruption, leaving Qi Dao prepared to judge its archbishop.

• Qi Dao explained that Tang Hao had probably severed his own arm and leg to survive Spirit Hall’s pursuit, and Qian Renxue regretted that Tang San had escaped.
• Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance Douluo to withdraw four Soul Bones from her Treasury, letting the Douluos choose two and giving one each to Qi Dao and Wang.
• Qi Dao told Qian Renxue he planned to take Ning Rongrong to Gengxin City in half a month and declined her offer to send two Titled Douluo with him.
• Qian Renxue said the Gengxin City Spirit Hall Main Hall had reported rising metal prices and shrinking supplies despite repeated purchases, and she asked Qi Dao to investigate its archbishop.
• Qi Dao agreed to investigate and considered how Bibi Dong’s appointments had allowed corrupt officials to rise through Spirit Hall.

Qi Dao took Dugu Yan to the Star Dou Great Forest after giving her a Sixty Thousand Year Head Soul Bone, which helped her reach Level 60. He found a Man Faced Demon Spider and arranged for her to obtain its External Soul Bone, leaving her with the Eight Spider Lances.

• Qi Dao gave Dugu Yan Tang Hao's Sixty Thousand Year Head Soul Bone, and she absorbed it to reach Level 60.
• Qi Dao and Dugu Yan flew to the Star Dou Great Forest to find her a Soul Ring.
• After searching for seven days, Qi Dao found a Two Thousand Year Man Faced Demon Spider and wounded it so it would flee.
• Qi Dao pursued the spider for another day until it died of exhaustion, revealing an External Soul Bone.
• Dugu Yan absorbed the External Soul Bone, and eight purple-black spider legs emerged from her back.

Qi Dao helped Dugu Yan kill a fifty-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider Emperor and evolve her Eight Spider Lances by devouring its essence. Dugu Yan then successfully absorbed its soul ring as her sixth ring.

• Qi Dao and Dugu Yan searched the Star Dou Great Forest for three days and found a fifty-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider Emperor.
• Qi Dao wounded the Man Faced Demon Spider Emperor with the Peerless Sword and restrained it with the Vast Sea Spirit-Detaining Shroud.
• Dugu Yan killed the restrained spider, then used her Eight Spider Lances to devour its essence.
• The Eight Spider Lances evolved, gaining greater sharpness, offensive power, leaping ability, and stronger neurotoxin.
• Dugu Yan absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider Emperor's soul ring and successfully gained her sixth soul ring.

Qi Dao, Dugu Yan, and Ning Rongrong traveled to Gengxin City to search for rare metals, with Ning Rongrong using her appraisal talent to find promising ore. After buying up rare metals at the Blacksmith Headquarters, they attracted the attention of two young men who followed them upstairs.

• Qi Dao agreed to take Dugu Yan with him to Gengxin City, and Ning Rongrong joined them on the journey.
• Qian Renxue, Dugu Bo, and Ning Fengzhi saw the group off, while Li Luo drove their carriage to Gengxin City.
• Ning Rongrong appraised ores in the city's streets and found several pieces that made her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda react.
• Qi Dao and his companions visited the Blacksmith Headquarters and bought nine hundred jin of rare metals, along with seven pieces of ore selected by Ning Rongrong.
• Two young men followed Qi Dao and the others upstairs after the group's purchases drew the Blacksmith Association's attention.

The Blacksmith Association learned that a new large-scale purchase of rare metals might be tied to the earlier market manipulation by Gengxin City's Spirit Hall Main Hall. Lou Gao approached Qi Dao and his companions to speak privately, giving Qi Dao a chance to investigate what was happening in the city.

• Wang Li and Zhou Xin reported to Si Long and Si Yu that Qi Dao's group was buying rare metals in bulk.
• Si Long and Si Yu recalled how Gengxin City's Spirit Hall Main Hall had helped drive rare-metal prices up before leaving merchants with costly stock, then buying it cheaply.
• Si Yu went to inform Lou Gao while Si Long decided the association should meet the new buyers and determine their intentions.
• Qi Dao bought five tons of rare metals on the second floor, while Ning Rongrong identified dozens of promising ores.
• Lou Gao arrived with four disciples, recognized Li Luo as a Soul Saint, and invited Qi Dao's group to speak privately.
• Qi Dao accepted Lou Gao's invitation, suspecting the Spirit Hall Main Hall was involved in recent events.

Qi Dao learned that Gengxin City's Spirit Hall Main Hall had manipulated rare-metal prices and exploited the Blacksmith Association, then bought the association’s entire remaining stock. The deal left the association with much-needed funds and Qi Dao with the metals he had come to acquire.

• Qi Dao introduced himself and his companions to Lou Gao, who recognized Qi Dao as King Peerless.
• Qi Dao asked why Gengxin City had so few rare metals available, and Lou Gao explained how the local Spirit Hall Main Hall had manipulated the market two years earlier.
• Qi Dao realized that the Spirit Hall branch had profited by driving prices up, selling its stock, and later buying metals back cheaply.
• Lou Gao told Qi Dao that the Blacksmith Association had only five or six tons of most rare metals left after helping indebted blacksmiths.
• Qi Dao bought the association’s entire remaining stock for 360,000 Gold Soul Coins.

After uncovering the crimes of Gengxin City's Spirit Hall Main Hall, Qi Dao stormed the hall with Li Luo and killed its master, Miles. He confronted a kneeling Soul King who admitted to embezzling money, leaving the hall's other survivors at Qi Dao's mercy.

• Qi Dao bought dozens of tons of Rare Metals from Lou Gao and agreed to return every six months to purchase more.
• Qi Dao ordered Li Luo to gather evidence of the Spirit Hall Main Hall's crimes, then devoured the metals he had bought.
• Li Luo uncovered Miles's extensive abuses, and Qi Dao ordered him to help punish everyone responsible.
• Qi Dao and Li Luo entered the Spirit Hall Main Hall, where Qi Dao knocked out the weaker Soul Masters and confronted Miles and the surviving Soul Kings.
• Miles pleaded for mercy and invoked his connection to Platinum Bishop Sila, but Qi Dao beheaded him after confirming the accusations.
• Two men knelt and blamed Miles for their crimes, and one admitted to embezzling money, prompting Qi Dao to challenge his confession.

Qi Dao judged the Spirit Hall Soul Masters who had served Miles, killing the three whose crimes were unforgivable and sparing two who offered to help make amends. Their information led him to Miles’s hidden stockpile of hundreds of tons of Rare Metal.

• Qi Dao identified Olide, Kane, and Wang Mao as deeply involved in Miles’s crimes and killed them when they tried to resist.
• Qi Dao spared two other Soul Kings after one offered to reveal Miles’s hidden wealth and the other promised to identify Miles’s accomplices.
• Qi Dao entered a warehouse and found hundreds of tons of Rare Metal that Miles had secretly stockpiled.
• Qi Dao realized Miles had hidden the metal while overcharging Qian Renxue for purchases.

Qi Dao purged corrupt Spirit Hall officials in Gengxin City, rewarded honest workers, and uncovered rare metals with Ning Rongrong’s help. Dugu Yan suggested he thank Ning Rongrong with an Immortal Herb, leaving her hopeful that her fate was about to change.

• Qi Dao collected Miles’s three million Gold Soul Coins and ledger of Spirit Hall bribes, then heard that seventeen remaining Soul Masters had been executed and six others punished.
• Qi Dao promoted four honest Spirit Hall deacons, awarded them five thousand Gold Soul Coins each, and ordered the two remaining senior deacons to keep the hall stable until new appointments arrived.
• News of Miles’s punishment spread through Gengxin City, where commoners and the Blacksmith Association began to view Spirit Hall more favorably.
• Qi Dao used Sword Intent to uncover several tons of Rare Metals, including Black Iron, Gold Hair Crystal, and Cold Heart Iron Essence, from the ores Ning Rongrong had helped him obtain.
• Dugu Yan urged Qi Dao to thank Ning Rongrong by choosing an Immortal Herb from her grandfather’s herb garden, and Ning Rongrong sensed that her fate might soon change.

Qi Dao and Dugu Yan promised Ning Rongrong an Immortal Herb and spent their last days in Gengxin City before returning to Heaven Dou City. There, they learned Xue Ye was critically ill, and Qian Renxue said he had only three days left to live.

• Qi Dao suggested the Star Luo Spirit Pearl might suit Ning Rongrong, and Dugu Yan promised to bring her an Immortal Herb after they returned to Heaven Dou City.
• Qi Dao and his companions visited the Blacksmith Association, where Ning Rongrong bought Lou Gao's two sets of Yin-Yang Eight Treasure Ruyi Soft Armor for one million Gold Soul Coins.
• After five days in Gengxin City, Qi Dao, Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Li Luo set out for Heaven Dou City.
• Ning Rongrong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Dugu Yan went back to Heaven Dou Academy, and Qi Dao and Li Luo headed to the Crown Prince's Residence.
• Qian Renxue told Qi Dao that Xue Ye was critically ill and would die within three days.

Qian Renxue explained how she had pushed Xue Beng toward a desperate bid for the throne while planting informants around him and Prince Xue Xing. After learning of abuses at the Spirit Hall branch in Gengxin City, she vowed to send trusted officials there; meanwhile, Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing learned Emperor Xue Ye was near death and began considering their next move.

• Qian Renxue told Qi Dao she had spread word that she would target Xue Beng after taking the throne, hoping to drive him into a public rebellion.
• Qian Renxue revealed that Qi Dao's earlier warning had led her to plant informants among Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing's people, including a trusted strategist and chief enforcer.
• Qi Dao described the abuses at the Spirit Hall branch in Gengxin City, and Qian Renxue decided to ask her grandfather to send new officials and promote four dutiful stewards.
• Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing learned that Emperor Xue Ye would likely die within days and that Xue Qinghe might move against Xue Beng.
• Xue Beng asked Yuan Fang what they should do, and Yuan Fang said they might have only one option left.

After delivering the Star Luo Spirit Pearl to Ning Rongrong, Qi Dao learned that Emperor Xue Ye had died. Xue Beng entered the emperor’s bedchamber with Prince Xue Xing and hidden fighters, then launched his planned attack on Xue Qinghe.

• Qi Dao gave Ning Rongrong the Star Luo Spirit Pearl and explained that it might evolve her Martial Soul.
• Qi Dao left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and received Qian Renxue’s message that Emperor Xue Ye had died.
• Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing brought three hidden fighters to the emperor’s bedchamber, intending to kill Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Beng found Xue Qinghe beside Emperor Xue Ye with two old men, then shouted for his fighters to attack.

After Xue Beng’s attempt to assassinate Xue Qinghe failed, Xue Qinghe ordered Xue Beng and Xue Xing executed. The next day, she ascended the Throne and became emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Xue Beng’s guards attacked Xue Qinghe, but two old men beside her defeated them with single strikes.
• Xue Xing betrayed Xue Beng and accused him of treason, while Xue Beng blamed Xue Xing and begged Xue Qinghe for mercy.
• Xue Qinghe rejected their pleas, and the ministers called for Xue Beng and Xue Xing to be executed.
• Xue Xing tried to flee, but Snake Lance Douluo stopped and paralyzed him before he and Porcupinefish Douluo carried both men away.
• Xue Beng and Xue Xing died after taking specially prepared poison, and Xue Qinghe ascended the Throne the next day.

Qi Dao and Qian Renxue discussed reclaiming control over Heaven Dou’s vassal states and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s evolution. Qi Dao revealed the existence of powerful ancient Soul Beasts and planned to ask the Snow Empress to become his seventh Soul Ring, leaving Qian Renxue ready to involve Qian Daoliu when Qi Dao reached level seventy.

• Qian Renxue told Qi Dao that Spirit Hall had investigated the tax records of five vassal states so she could use their wrongdoing to reclaim imperial power.
• Qian Renxue revealed that Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul had evolved into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and she planned to have Qian Daoliu meet Ning Fengzhi before she faked her death.
• Qi Dao told Qian Renxue about Heavenly Tribulations and ancient Soul Beasts, including a nearly seven-hundred-thousand-year-old Soul Beast in the Far North and powerful Ferocious Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qi Dao explained that he hoped the Snow Empress would sacrifice herself as his seventh Soul Ring in exchange for accompanying him when he became a god.
• Qian Renxue agreed to inform Qian Daoliu when Qi Dao reached level seventy, which Qi Dao expected to take another four or five months.

Bibi Dong feared Qian Renxue would eventually displace her in Spirit Hall, so she ordered her subordinates to expose Qian Renxue's identity to Heaven Dou's enemies. In Heaven Dou City, Qi Dao resolved to compete with Tang San for the Asura Godhood rather than accept the Sea God inheritance.

• Bibi Dong realized Qian Renxue's successful takeover of the Heaven Dou throne could strengthen her claim to lead Spirit Hall and threaten Bibi Dong's plans.
• Bibi Dong ordered two subordinates to reveal that Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, threatening their families when they hesitated.
• Qi Dao finished digesting the rare metals he had consumed in Gengxin City, though he did not advance to the next level.
• Qi Dao considered how Peerless might evolve into a Super Divine Artifact and compared its potential to the Sea God Trident.
• Qi Dao rejected the easy path to the Sea God Godhood and decided to fight for the Asura Godhood, believing he was more suitable than Tang San.

Qi Dao planned to help Dugu Yan raise her potential so she could inherit the Sea God’s godhood, while intending to pursue the Asura God’s inheritance himself. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi received a letter claiming Emperor Xue Qinghe was a Spirit Hall spy and began to fear that the truth could force Qi Dao to choose sides.

• Qi Dao planned to take Dugu Yan to Sea God Island after she strengthened her Eight Spider Lances with powerful Man Faced Demon Spider essence.
• Qi Dao intended to hunt a thirty-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider in the Star Dou Great Forest and later find another over fifty thousand years old in the Sunset Forest.
• Qi Dao reasoned that inheriting the Asura God’s godhood would help him advance his swordsmanship, and that Dugu Yan should inherit the Sea God’s godhood rather than struggle to create her own.
• Ning Fengzhi read an unsigned confidential letter claiming Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue, the daughter of Spirit Hall Pope Qian Xunji, who had replaced the original prince fifteen years earlier.
• Sword Douluo dismissed the claim, but Ning Fengzhi connected it to Xue Qinghe’s past head injury and memory loss and worried about which side Qi Dao would choose if the claim was true.

Yu Yuanzhen considered whether the letter accusing Xue Qinghe of being a Spirit Hall spy was true, while Qi Dao broke through level seventy and met Qian Daoliu. Qian Daoliu agreed to accompany Qi Dao in search of a nearly seven-hundred-thousand-year-old Soul Beast for his Seventh Soul Ring.

• Yu Yuanzhen read the letter and decided the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan needed to investigate its claims about Xue Qinghe.
• Qi Dao broke through the level-seventy bottleneck after four months of cultivation, and Qian Renxue congratulated him.
• Qian Renxue told Qi Dao that the imperial palace had seen a rise in suicidal spies, and they suspected the Four Great Kingdoms might be behind it.
• Qian Renxue introduced Qi Dao to her grandfather, Qian Daoliu, who praised Qi Dao's talent and cultivation speed.
• Qian Daoliu discussed Qi Dao's plan to seek a nearly seven-hundred-thousand-year-old Soul Beast for his Seventh Soul Ring and agreed to accompany him.

Qi Dao and Qian Daoliu traveled into the Extreme North and found the Snow Empress in her ice palace. After she rejected their offer to cooperate, Qi Dao asked whether she had ever considered becoming a god.

• Qi Dao explained that he used his Dark Gold Sword Array to fly as he and Qian Daoliu entered the Extreme North.
• Qi Dao and Qian Daoliu sensed powerful Soul Beasts as they traveled deeper toward the region's core.
• Qi Dao and Qian Daoliu found the Snow Empress's ice palace and entered it.
• The Snow Empress sensed the hidden intruders and attacked with freezing cold, but Qian Daoliu revealed them by countering with his sacred aura.
• The Snow Empress refused Qian Daoliu's proposal and condemned humans as treacherous enemies.
• Qi Dao stepped forward, raised the Snow Empress's coming Seven Hundred Thousand Year Heavenly Tribulation, and asked whether she had ever considered becoming a god.

Qi Dao claimed he could help the Snow Empress become a god within thirty years and challenged her to test his potential. He unleashed a heavily enhanced sword strike before her, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Qi Dao promised the Snow Empress he could help her become a god within thirty years, and she threatened to kill him if he could not explain how.
• Qi Dao explained that the Soul Beast path to godhood was nearly impossible and argued that the human path remained open, then asked the Snow Empress to judge whether he could become a god.
• The Snow Empress accepted Qi Dao's challenge, and he summoned the Peerless Sword and displayed his six Soul Rings.
• Qi Dao entered the Heart Sword State and activated three enhancement Soul Skills, causing the Snow Empress to take notice.
• Qi Dao unleashed Heavens Collapse in an Instant, and its immense force made Qian Daoliu think of Tang Chen.

Qi Dao demonstrated the extraordinary power and varied techniques of his swordsmanship to the Snow Empress, convincing her that he had the potential to become a god. He withheld his final sword and left negotiations with the Snow Empress still ahead.

• Qi Dao's Heavens Collapse in an Instant shattered the Snow Empress's profound ice barrier and surprised both her and Qian Daoliu.
• The Snow Empress asked Qi Dao to show her his other abilities, and he unleashed the first three swords of the Six Swords of Supreme Sovereignty.
• Qi Dao used Endless Distance in a Step to strike the Snow Empress from behind, but she knocked the Peerless Sword away before it could injure her.
• Qi Dao stopped before using the final sword, preserving his trump card and noting that the fifth sword had consumed much of his Soul Power.
• The Snow Empress acknowledged Qi Dao's talent and his confidence that he could become a god.