Chapter Summaries

Tie Li fought Spirit Hall’s forces in the Star Dou Great Forest while Yang Wudi held off Ghost Leopard Douluo. He broke through the Golden Generation’s resistance, but Chrysanthemum Douluo and Gui Mei turned their attacks on him, leaving him to face their domains as Tie Wu told him to go find Xiao Wu.

• Ghost Leopard Douluo led fifty Spirit Hall Soul Masters into the forest after a signal flare, and Tie Li sensed danger as they arrived.
• Tie Li used Boundless Guard to survive Ghost Leopard Douluo’s ninth soul skill, while Yang Wudi attacked Ghost Leopard Douluo to hold him back.
• Tie Li charged at Chrysanthemum Douluo and Gui Mei, and Tie Wu pretended to attack him before being struck down by Tie Li’s hammer.
• Demon Charm tried to stop Tie Li, but Tie Li dispersed the crimson mist and killed him with a blow from his Quake Dragon Hammer.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Gui Mei abandoned their hold on the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python to attack Tie Li, while Tie Wu told him to go find Xiao Wu.

Chrysanthemum Douluo rescued Xie Yue and Hu Liena as Spirit Hall reinforcements arrived and attacked the Wind Thunder Sect survivors. Tie Li fought off the Soul Douluos and Soul Sages, then revealed a destruction attribute that left the Spirit Hall force terrified.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo handed the comatose Xie Yue and Hu Liena to Yan and left him to care for them and Tie Wu.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python sent the Titan Giant Ape after Tang San and Xiao Wu while Tie Li moved to support Yang Wudi.
• When Spirit Hall's reinforcements arrived, Yan ordered them to kill the Wind Thunder Sect remnants and sent Soul Sages after Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Tie Li used his lightning speed and Quake Dragon Hammer to gravely wound three agility-attack Soul Douluos, whose allies pulled them away and tried to dispel the lingering lightning.
• Spirit Hall's remaining forces surrounded Tie Li, but he revealed a destruction attribute that made them fear his power.

Tie Li and the Sky Azure Bull Python fought Spirit Hall’s forces while Tang San and Xiao Wu escaped their pursuers with the Titan Giant Ape’s help. Bibi Dong arrived as Ghost Douluo faced death, and the Titan Giant Ape rushed back after hearing the Sky Azure Bull Python roar in pain.

• Tie Li’s destruction-attributed Black Lightning overwhelmed Spirit Hall’s Soul Sages, while the Sky Azure Bull Python kept Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo on the defensive.
• Ghost Douluo held off the Sky Azure Bull Python as Chrysanthemum Douluo moved to attack Yang Wudi and Ghost Leopard Douluo continued fighting him.
• Tie Li used Thunder Sovereign Thousand Realms to kill a Soul Douluo and tried to stop Chrysanthemum Douluo from reaching Yang Wudi.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python struck down Ghost Douluo, and Bibi Dong arrived with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring to intervene.
• Tang San evaded Spirit Hall’s Soul Sages with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and poisoned one with Sleeve Arrows.
• The Titan Giant Ape killed the pursuing Soul Sages, then rushed toward the Sky Azure Bull Python after hearing its pained roar, leaving Tang San and Xiao Wu behind.

Tie Li fought to protect the Sky Azure Bull Python and Yang Wudi from Bibi Dong and the Spirit Hall forces. He used Thunder Spirit Crossing, fueled by the Thunder God Mark, to drive Bibi Dong away, and the battle ended with Spirit Hall retreating.

• Tie Li unleashed his full strength against Bibi Dong, but she blasted the Sky Azure Bull Python away and attacked him with poisonous soul skills.
• Tie Li blocked Bibi Dong's Soul-Devouring Spider Thorn with Boundless Guard and endured Chrysanthemum Douluo's attack as he tried to escape her range.
• Bibi Dong pursued Tie Li and attacked with her scythes, but the Thunder God Mark triggered Thunder Spirit Crossing and forced her to withdraw.
• Thunder Spirit Crossing struck the poisoned Sky Azure Bull Python, briefly alleviating its poison and leaving a faint mark between its brows.
• The Titan Giant Ape roared, and Chrysanthemum Douluo ordered Spirit Hall to retreat; Tie Li then released his martial soul avatar after exhausting much of his soul power.

After the Sky Azure Bull Python was poisoned and left near death, Tang San promised to protect Xiao Wu, but the beast sacrificed itself to Tie Li instead. Tie Li gained a Hundred-Thousand-Year soul ring and right arm soul bone, and his Soul Power rose to level eighty-four.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu found the gravely poisoned Sky Azure Bull Python after the Spirit Hall soul masters fled, and Tang San admitted he could not save it.
• Tang San promised to protect Xiao Wu and revealed that his mother had been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and that the Clear Sky Sect had seven Title Douluo.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python drove everyone away except Tie Li, but its mark prevented it from destroying its soul bones or escaping its fate.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python sacrificed itself to Tie Li, leaving a final message for the Titan Giant Ape before its soul ring formed around him.
• Tie Li gained a Hundred-Thousand-Year soul ring and right arm soul bone, and his Soul Power surged through level eighty-four.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Tie Li revealed to Tang San and Xiao Wu that Tie Wu was his younger brother and asked them to keep his identity secret. Tie Li left Zhu Zhuqing in the city and departed again, while Tie Wu returned to Spirit City and found Tie Wen dying from poison.

• Tang San thanked Tie Li for helping him obtain a sixth soul ring, and Tie Li explained that his own rapid progress was a secret and suggested Sea God Island.
• Tie Li told Tang San and Xiao Wu that Tie Wu was his younger brother and that his identities were false to protect his family; they promised to keep the truth secret.
• Tie Li returned to Zhu Zhuqing and told her to remain in Heaven Dou City rather than return to the Star Luo Empire, then left again.
• Tie Wu returned to his residence in Spirit City and gave Tie Wen the antidote, but the poison continued to kill him.
• Tie Wen told Tie Wu that he could sacrifice his power to him and began to lose consciousness.

Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and Tie Wu entered the Soul Beast Forest to obtain Soul Rings, where Ma Hongjun ambushed them with two Fallen Soul Masters. The four fought back, and Tie Wu’s Three-Colored Flame began burning away his opponent’s black mist as Yan struggled against the other Soul Emperor.

• Hu Liena and Yan learned that Spirit Hall had ordered them, Xie Yue, and Tie Wu to hunt for Soul Rings together as punishment.
• Three days later, the four entered the Soul Beast Forest, where Hu Liena sensed a familiar aura from Tie Wu and noticed his momentary lapses.
• Ma Hongjun and two Fallen Soul Masters confronted the group, and Ma Hongjun threatened to kill them before Spirit Hall could discover their fate.
• Xie Yue assigned Yan and Tie Wu to fight the two Soul Emperors while he and Hu Liena used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to hold off Ma Hongjun.
• Tie Wu attacked a Fallen Soul Master, and his Three-Colored Flame burned away the man’s black mist while Yan faced a dangerous battle against the other Soul Emperor.

Tie Wu killed two Fallen Soul Masters and tried to save the badly wounded Yan, but Ma Hongjun overwhelmed Xie Yue and Hu Liena and took her hostage. The chapter ended with Ma Hongjun demanding that Yan kill either Tie Wu or Xie Yue to prove how much he cared about Hu Liena.

• Tie Wu used Skyfire Transformation and Blazing Flame Skyfall to kill the six-ring Fallen Soul Master, then rushed to support Yan.
• Tie Wu burned back another Fallen Soul Master, gave Yan an antidote pill, and combined six Inferno Rings while Yan restrained their enemy; the attack killed the Fallen Soul Master but left Yan unable to fight.
• Ma Hongjun defeated Xie Yue and Hu Liena’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, leaving Xie Yue injured and taking Hu Liena hostage.
• Ma Hongjun taunted Yan and demanded that he kill either Tie Wu or Xie Yue if he wanted Hu Liena released.

Tie Wu and the others tried to escape Ma Hongjun, who wanted the head spirit bone they used as bait. Ma Hongjun seized it and fled when Ghost Leopard Douluo arrived, while Tie Wu ran into a group from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and worried they might recognize his Spirit Hall ties.

• Tie Wu threatened to destroy a head spirit bone unless Ma Hongjun released Hu Liena, and Ma Hongjun let her go.
• Tie Wu gave the spirit bone to Yan and fled, while Yan ran in another direction to draw Ma Hongjun away.
• Ma Hongjun struck Yan down, took the spirit bone, and fled after sensing a powerful soul master approaching.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo found the unconscious Yan and rushed him back to Spirit Hall as other soul masters searched for Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Tie Wu.
• Tie Wu encountered a group from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and claimed his elders were secretly protecting him.

Tie Wu escaped Xiong Chuan’s attack with help from Elder Oriole and reported how he had used a soul bone as bait to save the others. Back at Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong offered him one of five soul bones as compensation.

• Elder Xiong, later identified as Xiong Chuan, attacked Tie Wu after learning he was from Spirit Hall, but Elder Oriole rescued him.
• Tie Wu told Elder Oriole that he had used the soul bone as bait while Yan delayed their pursuers.
• Elder Oriole brought Tie Wu back to the agreed location, where Hu Liena and Xie Yue asked to obtain their sixth soul rings before returning.
• Three days later, Tie Wu returned to Spirit Hall and was summoned to the Pope Palace.
• Bibi Dong offered Tie Wu one of five soul bones to compensate him for the one he had lost.

Tie Wu chose and absorbed a fire-compatible left arm soul bone, then joined Xie Yue and Hu Liena on a mission to destroy a family affiliated with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. The chapter ended as Gu Qi’s family estate came under attack by Spirit Hall.

• Bibi Dong offered Tie Wu five soul bones, and Tie Wu chose the Wrathful Burning Left Arm Soul Bone because it suited his fire attribute.
• Tie Wu absorbed the soul bone, which strengthened his fire-element soul skills, and remained focused on the Wind Thunder Sect’s head soul bone.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena told Tie Wu that the three of them would lead a team against a soul master family affiliated with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Gu Qi returned to his family estate and visited his grandfather, the family’s weakened Soul Sage patriarch.
• A family member rushed in to report that Spirit Hall had surrounded the estate and killed many family members.

Spirit Hall’s forces wiped out the Gu Family, while Gu Qi escaped through a secret passage to the Zhou Family. The Zhou Family Patriarch revealed the families’ rivalry had been a façade, but a young Spirit Hall envoy arrived before he could get Gu Qi out of Feather Cliff City.

• Xie Yue and Tie Wu led the assault on the Gu Family, killed Ma Ji after he offered to defect, and ordered the remaining attackers to finish the purge.
• Gu Dong sent Gu Qi through a secret passage, then was stunned by Hu Liena’s Spiritual Impact and killed by Tie Wu.
• Tie Wu went to investigate the Zhou Family residence while Xie Yue handled the Gu Family’s valuables.
• Gu Qi emerged in Zhou Qingshan’s secret chamber, and Zhou Qingshan revealed the Gu and Zhou families had pretended to be enemies while secretly preparing for this attack.
• After learning the Gu Family had fallen, Zhou Qingshan planned to get Gu Qi out of Feather Cliff City, but a clansman reported that a young Spirit Hall envoy had arrived.

Tie Wu and Hu Liena attacked the Zhou Family while searching for Gu Qi, but Gu Qi escaped during the battle. The Spirit Hall branch then announced that both the Gu Family and Zhou Family had been wiped out by an unknown force, leaving the culprit unclear.

• Tie Wu killed several Zhou Family members and strangled an elder while demanding that Zhou Qingshan hand over Gu Qi.
• Zhou Qingshan attacked Tie Wu to keep him from searching the secret chamber, but Tie Wu overwhelmed him with his flames and soul skills.
• Hu Liena arrived to help Tie Wu, and Zhou Qingshan claimed the Zhou Family had not sheltered Gu Qi.
• Gu Qi sensed the battle, escaped with his flying martial soul, and fled toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• The Spirit Hall branch announced that an unknown soul master force had wiped out both the Gu Family and the Zhou Family.

Tie Li completed the fourth Thunder God trial and began the fifth, lifting the Thunder God Hammer and triggering a profound transformation of his Quake Dragon Hammer martial soul. As the Thunder God Hammer’s soul entered it, the Dark Thunder Demon Dragon King broke free, and Tie Li’s weakened body became a battlefield between it and the Dragon Core’s hidden baleful energy.

• Tie Li killed the Thunderflame Hell Beast ahead of schedule, raising his Thunder God affinity by fifteen percent and increasing all his soul ring ages by five hundred years.
• Tie Li began the fifth trial, lifted the Thunder God Hammer, and caused its rusted body to shatter as its soul entered his Quake Dragon Hammer martial soul.
• The Thunder God Hammer’s soul broke the seal on the Dark Thunder Demon Dragon King, while Tie Li’s martial soul and lightning underwent a powerful transformation that severely drained his body and Soul Power.
• The Dragon Core’s hidden baleful energy surfaced as Tie Li weakened, and the Dark Thunder Demon Dragon King entered his body to oppose it.
• Tie Li’s body became the battlefield for the two forces, and blood streaks appeared across his skin as he neared his physical limit.

Tie Li’s Quake Dragon Hammer split into the Thunder God Hammer and a second martial soul, the Black Prison Heaven-Destroying Dragon, raising his Soul Power Level to eighty-six. After completing the fifth Thunder God trial, he learned the Thunder Spirit wanted to become a soul spirit and was told to lower his defenses and give it control.

• The Thunder God Mark restored the Thunder God Hammer, and its emergence accelerated the fusion of the Dragon Core’s baleful aura and the Dark Thunder Demon Dragon King inside Tie Li.
• The fusion created Tie Li’s second martial soul, the Black Prison Heaven-Destroying Dragon, with the innate Destruction Domain and a dragonification state that covered him in black scales.
• Tie Li gained the Thunder God Hammer and Black Prison Heaven-Destroying Dragon’s ultimate lightning and ultimate destruction attributes, and his Soul Power Level rose from eighty-four to eighty-six.
• Tie Li completed the fifth trial of the Thunder God Nine Trials and received the sixth trial, Thunder Spirit’s Choice.
• After Tie Li gave the Thunder Sea spirit a condensed mass of lightning, it entered his body and asked to become his soul spirit.
• Tie Li asked what he should do, and the Thunder Spirit told him to lower his defenses around his heart and hand control over to it.

Tie Li bonded with the Thunder Spirit, gained four powerful soul rings, and learned he must strike the Thunder Sea with the Thunder God Hammer to help it nurture new life. Meanwhile, Tang San’s group planned to search Sea God Island and find Dai Mubai, who had resurfaced as the leader of a band of Fallen Soul Masters.

• Tie Li gained three hundred-thousand-year soul rings and one two-hundred-thousand-year soul ring when the Thunder Spirit became his spirit soul, raising his Soul Power to level eighty-seven.
• The Thunder Spirit asked Tie Li to strike the Thunder Sea with the Thunder God Hammer seven more times, once every three days, to help it nurture a new life.
• Yu Xiaogang advised Tang San to visit Sea God Island with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to investigate Tie Li’s rapid cultivation.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that the Star Luo Empire was divided by a palace coup and urged him to find Dai Mubai, but Tang San reported that the search had failed.
• Oscar confronted Dai Mubai in a village where Dai Mubai and two other Fallen Soul Masters had killed every villager.
• Dai Mubai revealed that he killed to increase his strength and survive the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s attempts to devour him.

Oscar confronted Dai Mubai and two other Fallen Soul Masters, revealing his Heavenly Snow Woman Martial Soul and defeating all three while sparing Dai Mubai. After reflecting on how fate and the master of the Far North had shaped his strength, the story shifted to Tie Li training in Thunder Sea with Thunder Spirit.

• Dai Mubai tried to drive Oscar away from the villagers, but Oscar declared that he would not spare Fallen Soul Masters and challenged him.
• Oscar revealed the Heavenly Snow Woman as his second Martial Soul and defeated Dai Mubai with Emperor's Palm: Great Cold Without Snow.
• Oscar froze the other two Fallen Soul Masters with Emperor's Sword: Ice Ultimate Unrivaled, then gave the wounded Dai Mubai a sausage and left without killing him.
• Oscar told Ice Spirit that lingering brotherly feelings had stopped him from killing Dai Mubai, and he considered how fate and the master of the Far North had granted him his power.
• Tie Li began training in Thunder Sea as Thunder Spirit drove lightning into its depths, and he used the Thunder God Hammer to calm the surging waves.

After completing the Sixth Trial, Tie Li returned to the Thunder Tribulation Realm and began gathering clans willing to follow him. As four clans prepared to leave with him, the other clan leaders plotted over how to preserve their status, unaware of Tie Li’s formidable soul rings.

• Tie Li completed the Sixth Trial, gained partial authority over the Thunder Tribulation Realm, and returned there, where Lei Zhen, Bing Ju, and three Title Douluo sensed his superior aura.
• Tie Li refused to free the Thunder Tribulation Realm’s inhabitants, asked Lei Zhen and Bing Ju whether their clans were ready, and accepted Kui Xin’s Viper Clan as followers.
• A clan of Twin-Winged Thunder Tigers also agreed to follow Tie Li, while sixteen clan leaders gathered to discuss how to bargain for benefits and retain their authority.
• Kui Xin gathered the Viper Clan and joined the Thunder Lion, Thunder Dragon, and Twin-Winged Thunder Tiger clans as they prepared to leave the Thunder Tribulation Realm.
• Tie Li summoned the Thunder God Hammer with four purple, two black, and two red soul rings, and Kui Xin felt reassured that he had chosen to follow him.

After leaving the Thunder Tribulation Realm, Tie Li returned to Thunder Pool with the clans of Lei Zhen, Bing Ju, Kui Xin, and Thunder Tiger, who offered their construction, reconnaissance, and alchemy skills. Bing Ju’s group forced the Heaven Dou Empire army to withdraw from Thunder Pool, reestablishing the Thunder God Sect’s claim to the ruins.

• Mao Yin rushed to the place where Tie Li and the others had vanished, but arrived too late and realized Tie Wu possessed two hundred-thousand-year soul rings.
• At Thunder Pool, Lei Zhen, Bing Ju, Kui Xin, and Thunder Tiger described their clans’ skills, and Tie Li learned that the Thunder Tiger clan could refine powerful lightning-element pills.
• Tie Li told Lei Zhen to handle the Heaven Dou Empire army while he stayed out of sight.
• Bing Ju confronted General Chen Xin and asserted that Thunder Pool belonged to the Thunder God Sect.
• Chen Xin accepted Bing Ju’s deadline and led the army away from Thunder Pool.

Tie Li and the four clan patriarchs established the Thunder God Sect at the Wind Thunder Sect Ruins, while the Heaven Dou Imperial Family debated how to respond. As the clans began securing the surrounding thirty-six mountains and their ore, they clashed with local sects.

• Xue Xing learned that the Thunder God Sect had occupied the Wind Thunder Sect Ruins, and the Heaven Dou Imperial Family debated whether to use force or pressure the new sect into dependence.
• Tie Li showed the four clan patriarchs the Thunderstone and Lightning Pool, and Bing Ju explained how Mao Yin's clansmen could use them to create a powerful defensive formation.
• Tie Li stayed at the mountaintop to cultivate while the four clans took charge of building the sect.
• Kui Xin proposed warning nearby sects and taking their thunder-attributed metal ore, and Thunder Tiger initially suggested wiping them out.
• Bing Ju and Kui Xin identified the thirty-six mountains surrounding the Thunder Pool as territories for the clans, and Kui Xin chose the title Thunder Viper Douluo.
• The clansmen sent to nearby sects clashed with their Soul Masters.