Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian and Hu Liena finally acted on their feelings before spending the next day together in Spirit Hall. Their outing ended when Qian Daoliu summoned Yang Jian to Worship Hall, where Yang Jian found the Grand Worshiper praying before the Angel God statue.

• Hu Liena asked Yang Jian to stay, confessed her feelings, and declared she would stand by him despite the conflict he expected with his teacher.
• Yang Jian accepted Hu Liena’s kiss, and the two spent the night together.
• Yang Jian cultivated the Eight-Nine Mysteries beneath the osmanthus tree while Hu Liena slept, then walked around Spirit Hall with her after she woke.
• Xie Yue saw Hu Liena and Yang Jian together, recognized her radiant mood, and left them with a knowing smile.
• A guard told Yang Jian that Qian Daoliu wanted to see him, so Yang Jian followed the guard to Worship Hall and found Qian Daoliu praying before the Angel God statue.

Yang Jian gained Qian Daoliu’s support for overthrowing Bibi Dong and unifying the continent, while agreeing to leave Bibi Dong’s fate to Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue. Qian Daoliu then asked Yang Jian to marry Xiaoxue, and Yang Jian asked why.

• Qian Daoliu agreed to support Yang Jian in overthrowing Bibi Dong, but asked him to leave her fate to Qian Daoliu and Xiaoxue.
• Yang Jian declared that his ultimate goal was to unify the continent and explained his plans to deal with the Upper Three Sects and the two great empires.
• Yang Jian revealed that he had killed Tang Chen, and Qian Daoliu accepted his plan despite his old promise to Tang Chen.
• Qian Daoliu asked Yang Jian to marry Xiaoxue after everything was settled, and Yang Jian asked why.

Qian Daoliu imprisoned Bibi Dong and set Yang Jian to work, after which Yang Jian traveled to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. At the clan gate, he found Tang San and Yu Xiaogang trying to gain entry.

• Qian Daoliu explained that his failing health left him unable to protect Qian Renxue and proposed binding her to Yang Jian through marriage; Yang Jian agreed only if Qian Renxue chose it herself.
• Three days later, Qian Daoliu defeated Bibi Dong and imprisoned her while Yang Jian and Hu Liena watched.
• Qian Daoliu signaled Yang Jian to act, and Yang Jian left Spirit Hall after Hu Liena asked him to be careful.
• Yang Jian flew for three days to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, where he saw Tang San and Yu Xiaogang at the gate.
• Yu Xiaogang told the gatekeeper he was Yu Yuanzhen's son, but the gatekeeper refused to let him in.

Yang Jian confronted Yu Xiaogang and Tang San at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s mountain gate, then attacked the clan after its members challenged him. As the clan rushed to fight, Yang Jian stood ready to kill them.

• Yu Xiaogang failed to persuade the gatekeeper to deliver his letter to Yu Yuanzhen, then threatened him by claiming to be close to Bibi Dong.
• Yang Jian appeared and greeted Tang San, whose fear and anger left him unable to speak.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that Yang Jian apologize to Tang San and stop opposing him, invoking his relationship with Bibi Dong.
• Yang Jian slapped Yu Xiaogang and then sent Tang San crashing into a stone pillar.
• Yang Jian called on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to come out or die, then killed Elder Wang when he challenged him.
• Several Soul Emperor and Soul Saint elders activated their Martial Souls and charged at Yang Jian.

Yang Jian forced the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to submit to Spirit Hall after killing its elders and revealing Yu Yuanzhen’s soul bone as proof of his death. After Yu Luomian agreed, Yang Jian demanded that Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian’s direct relatives step forward, declaring that he intended to kill them too.

• Yang Jian killed several elders with blasts of fist force, leaving the clan’s disciples terrified.
• Yu Luomian confronted Yang Jian, who offered the clan submission or annihilation.
• Yang Jian revealed Yu Yuanzhen’s soul bone, and the elders recognized it as proof that their sect master was dead.
• The elders attacked Yang Jian, but he killed four of them with a single volley of fist force.
• Yu Luomian agreed to submit the clan to Spirit Hall while secretly planning to seek allies among the other Upper Three Sects.
• Yang Jian ordered Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian’s direct relatives to step forward, saying they must die to prevent future trouble.

Yang Jian massacred the direct bloodlines of Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, sparing only Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong. He then shattered Yu Xiaogang's dantian, stripping him of all Soul Power and any chance to cultivate.

• Yang Jian killed Yu Luomian and every fleeing person at the clan gate, then forced a disciple to identify the clan leaders' direct bloodlines.
• Yang Jian executed Yu Luomian's sons, daughters, grandsons, and granddaughters, leaving only Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong unaccounted for.
• Yang Jian ordered the surviving disciples to prepare for Spirit Hall to take over the clan and walked back outside the mountain gate.
• Yu Xiaogang begged Yang Jian to spare him, offering his martial soul knowledge and warning that Bibi Dong would retaliate.
• Yang Jian shattered Yu Xiaogang's dantian, causing his Soul Power to fall to zero and leaving him unable to cultivate.

Yang Jian attacked the Clear Sky Sect, determined to annihilate it to protect his brother and sister from future revenge. After overwhelming the sect’s disciples and injuring Thunder Heaven Douluo, he faced Gale Douluo and Senran Douluo as they launched a pincer attack.

• Yang Jian left Tang San and arrived at the Clear Sky Sect three days later, crossing an iron chain over a deep gorge to reach its mountain stronghold.
• Yang Jian knocked aside the gatekeepers and beat back the disciples who tried to stop him, then announced that he had come to annihilate the sect.
• Yang Jian recalled that the Clear Sky Sect could threaten his loved ones, especially his brother and sister, and resolved to leave no chance for revenge.
• Yang Jian struck down the sect’s disciples as they charged, leaving the plaza strewn with injured and dead while others fled.
• Gale Douluo, Senran Douluo, and Thunder Heaven Douluo arrived; Yang Jian punched Thunder Heaven Douluo away and cracked his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Gale Douluo and Senran Douluo attacked Yang Jian together from opposite sides.

Yang Jian destroyed the Clear Sky Sect and returned to Heaven Dou City to confront Tang Yuehua at Moonlight Pavilion. He told her he had annihilated her sect, leaving her shocked and asking him to repeat himself.

• Yang Jian defeated Gale Douluo, Senran Douluo, and Thunder Heaven Douluo, killing Gale Douluo and overpowering the other two.
• Yang Jian used Heavenly Transformation to destroy the Clear Sky Sect's main peak, then killed Senran Douluo and Thunder Heaven Douluo.
• Yang Jian returned to Heaven Dou City, intending to deal with Ning Rongrong, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua before heading to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Yang Jian went to Moonlight Pavilion, where Tang Yuehua received him and asked why he had come.
• Yang Jian told Tang Yuehua that he had destroyed the Clear Sky Sect, and she reacted with disbelief.

Yang Jian destroyed Tang Yuehua’s martial soul and left her alive before heading toward Blue Tyrant Academy. On the way, he stopped Xue Beng’s runaway carriage, saw that his own compassion had faded, and left the prince alive as well.

• Yang Jian told Tang Yuehua the Clear Sky Sect had been destroyed, then used the Eight-Nine Mysteries to shatter her martial soul and disperse her Soul Power.
• Yang Jian left Moonlight Pavilion and set out for Blue Tyrant Academy, buying candied hawthorn as he walked through Heaven Dou City.
• A runaway carriage struck and killed or injured several pedestrians while Yang Jian watched without trying to save them.
• Yang Jian stopped the horse and the carriage wrecked, revealing Xue Beng, who cursed and threatened him.
• Yang Jian recognized Xue Beng as a prince pretending to be a wastrel, noticed the guilt in his eyes, and turned to leave.

Yang Jian exposed Xue Beng’s secret act and left him terrified before going to Blue Tyrant Academy to meet its dean, Liu Erlong. Liu Erlong refused to let Spirit Hall take control of her academy, while Yang Jian silently weighed how to deal with her and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Yang Jian knocked Xue Beng and the guards to the ground with a stomp, then revealed that he knew Xue Beng was pretending to be a wastrel.
• Yang Jian left without harming Xue Beng, who feared Xue Qinghe would discover his secret and staggered away.
• Yang Jian introduced himself as a member of Spirit Hall at Blue Tyrant Academy and was escorted to Liu Erlong.
• Liu Erlong warned Yang Jian that Blue Tyrant Academy would not submit to Spirit Hall.
• Yang Jian drank tea in silence and considered how to deal with Liu Erlong and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yang Jian abandoned his plan to give Ning Rongrong the Aromatic Silk Beauty before killing her and instead took her to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. He and Ning Rongrong reached the main hall, where Yang Jian had located Ning Fengzhi.

• Yang Jian left Liu Erlong at Blue Tyrant Academy after seeing her care for her students.
• Back at home, Yang Jian decided it was pointless to use the Aromatic Silk Beauty on Ning Rongrong and then kill her.
• Yang Jian took Ning Rongrong into the sky and flew with her toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• The sect’s disciples welcomed Ning Rongrong back and wondered whether Yang Jian was her boyfriend.
• Yang Jian used his spiritual power to find Ning Fengzhi in the main hall, and Ning Rongrong followed him there.

Yang Jian came to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and demanded its submission after destroying the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Clear Sky Sect. He declared that Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin had to die, and the chapter ended with Ning Rongrong collapsing after Yang Jian released her throat.

• Ning Rongrong returned with Yang Jian and cheerfully greeted Ning Fengzhi, who waited tensely beside Chen Xin.
• Yang Jian announced that he had come to make the sect submit and revealed that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Clear Sky Sect had been destroyed.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to submit, but Yang Jian said he and Chen Xin must die while sparing the sect members who did not know Gu Rong had died.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin asked Yang Jian to spare Ning Rongrong and the others, offering their own lives in exchange.
• Ning Rongrong demanded to know what had happened, but Yang Jian grabbed her by the throat.
• Ning Fengzhi told Yang Jian to let Ning Rongrong go, and Yang Jian released her, leaving her gasping on the floor.

Yang Jian forced Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin to die by each other’s hands, then left Ning Rongrong alive to inherit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After arranging for Yue Guan to take control of the sect, he visited the sealed Bibi Dong and learned that Qian Daoliu could not contain her much longer.

• Yang Jian spared Ning Rongrong but ordered Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin to begin, and Chen Xin killed Ning Fengzhi with the Seven Kill Sword.
• Ning Fengzhi urged Ning Rongrong to live without hatred or revenge, then died; Chen Xin killed himself with the same sword.
• Yang Jian told Ning Rongrong that Yue Guan would help her take control of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, then left her grieving beside the bodies.
• Yang Jian returned to Spirit Hall and ordered Yue Guan to take over the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect; Yue Guan agreed and left at once.
• Yang Jian met Qian Daoliu, who warned that his seal could not hold Bibi Dong much longer.
• Yang Jian entered the secret chamber and saw Bibi Dong struggling against the weakening golden chains binding her.

Yang Jian tried to purge the Rakshasa God's will from Bibi Dong, but could only suppress it temporarily before leaving the secret chamber. He then parted from Hu Liena and planned to target the Star Luo Empire by exposing its crimes and establishing a just cause.

• Yang Jian confronted Bibi Dong about the Rakshasa God's influence and used the Eight-Nine Mysteries to purify her soul.
• The Rakshasa God's will pulled Yang Jian into a spiritual world, where he fought it but failed to destroy it.
• Yang Jian left Bibi Dong confused and returned to his courtyard, where Hu Liena noticed his emotional distance and kissed him goodbye.
• Yang Jian decided to secure the smaller sects' submission and prioritize the Star Luo Empire, planning to gather evidence of its crimes.

Yang Jian gathered evidence of nobles exploiting commoners across the Star Luo Empire and infiltrated the Zhu Clan residence in search of decisive proof. After overhearing Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun discuss Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, he discovered a deeply buried secret chamber and began descending toward it.

• Yang Jian stole account books and other records documenting abuses by gentry families throughout the Star Luo Empire.
• After collecting evidence for a month, Yang Jian decided to search the Zhu Clan for proof that could implicate the imperial family.
• Yang Jian entered the Zhu Clan residence undetected and overheard Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun discussing killing Dai Mubai and preventing Zhu Zhuqing from interfering in imperial affairs.
• Zhu Lingtian revealed that Dai Mubai had already been crippled by a youth from Spirit Hall and said the Zhu Clan should avoid provoking Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian searched the residence with his spiritual power, found a secret chamber dozens of meters underground, and used the Shrinking Earth Technique to descend to its entrance.

After uncovering records of the Zhu Clan’s human experiments, Yang Jian confronted Zhu Lingtian and demanded to learn where the experiments were being conducted. He left Zhu Lingtian gravely injured and suspended in the air, still waiting for an answer.

• Yang Jian searched the Zhu Clan’s secret chamber and found records showing that the clan conducted human experiments for the imperial family.
• Yang Jian stored the evidence and learned that experiments were continuing at a location outside Star Luo City.
• Yang Jian confronted Zhu Lingtian at the Zhu Residence and demanded to be taken to the experiment site.
• When Zhu Lingtian denied knowing about the experiments, Yang Jian broke his arms and lifted him by the throat.
• Yang Jian repelled the guards with his Soul Power, leaving them unconscious while Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun stood frozen.
• Yang Jian asked Zhu Lingtian again whether he would talk.

Yang Jian forced Zhu Lingtian to lead him to a hidden underground laboratory, where he found people being tortured in experiments. He killed two researchers, saved the victims, and left one researcher alive as a witness.

• Zhu Lingtian revealed that the secret facility was three hundred li east of the city, and Yang Jian flew there with him.
• Zhu Lingtian opened a concealed passage in a cliff, and Yang Jian took him underground to the laboratory.
• Yang Jian found seven tortured test subjects and three researchers, including a badly injured little girl.
• Yang Jian killed two researchers with punches and knocked out the third to keep him as a witness.
• Yang Jian gave the little girl a healing pill, then freed the other captives, who thanked him as their benefactor.

Yang Jian waited for the Star Luo Empire’s forces, then slaughtered Dai Tianli’s soldiers and forced Dai Tianli, Dai Weisi, and Zhu Zhuyun to choose who would live. Dai Tianli killed the other two and fled, while Yang Jian left the battlefield without pursuing him.

• Yang Jian gave the rescued people Gold Soul Coins and waited after sensing an army approaching.
• Dai Tianli arrived with the White Tiger Army and demanded that Yang Jian release Zhu Lingtian, but Yang Jian warned him to leave.
• Dai Tianli ordered his soldiers to attack, and Yang Jian killed the charging troops and then all those who tried to flee.
• Yang Jian told Dai Tianli, Dai Weisi, and Zhu Zhuyun that only one of them could live.
• Dai Tianli killed Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun, asked Yang Jian to let him leave, and escaped into the forest.
• Yang Jian did not pursue Dai Tianli and left the scene.

Yang Jian told Yue Guan and Gui Mei that he intended to become Pope of Spirit Hall, with the Grand Priest’s approval and only the final step remaining. Yue Guan agreed to help him win the elders’ support, and Gui Mei weighed whether to back Yang Jian.

• Yang Jian returned to Spirit Hall at night, determined to claim the Pope’s position and gain its authority for his plans.
• Yang Jian found Yue Guan tending to Ah Yin, the Blue Silver Emperor, while Gui Mei visited him in the courtyard.
• Yang Jian told Yue Guan that he was preparing to become Pope and said the Grand Priest supported the move while Bibi Dong was imprisoned.
• Yue Guan agreed to help Yang Jian, warning that the elders might resist him and that casualties could follow.
• Yue Guan urged Gui Mei to support Yang Jian, and Gui Mei recalled Yang Jian’s strength before considering his choice.

Yang Jian summoned Spirit Hall’s higher-ups and announced that he would take the position of Pope because Bibi Dong could no longer serve. The gathered officials fell silent as he asked who supported him and who opposed.

• Gui Mei agreed to join Yang Jian and Yue Guan in moving against Bibi Dong.
• Yang Jian sat on the Papal throne and ordered Yue Guan to summon Spirit Hall’s higher-ups.
• Dabus and other officials rejected Yang Jian’s authority and began to leave, while neutral members stayed to see what he would do.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei arrived with two battered officials, and Yue Guan slapped Dabus for defying the summons.
• Yang Jian told the gathered officials that Bibi Dong could no longer serve as Pope and declared that he would take the position.