Chapter Summaries

Xia Mu helped Bibi Dong hunt her sixth Soul Ring and promised to take her to Sea God Island to seek God-Bestowed Soul Rings. After she absorbed the Purple-Winged Demon Spider Emperor’s ring, she gained a rare External Soul Bone, and Xia Mu chose to protect it for her.

• Bibi Dong stopped resisting when Xia Mu promised he could help prevent her Martial Soul Possession from making her look ugly, and he explained that he was helping because he also had Twin Martial Souls.
• Xia Mu told Bibi Dong about his Body Skeleton Martial Soul, its three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, and the God-Bestowed Soul Rings available through trials on Sea God Island; Bibi Dong asked to go there after obtaining her sixth Soul Ring.
• Xia Mu’s group found the Purple-Winged Demon Spider Emperor, and Bibi Dong killed it before absorbing its sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong’s Soul Power rose to level sixty-three, and she gained the External Soul Bone Six-Winged Purple Light Wings.
• Bibi Dong feared Xia Mu would take the priceless Soul Bone, but he left it with her and offered to help her fuse with it safely.

Xia Mu took Bibi Dong, Ci Xue, and She Long to Vast Sea City and planned to travel on to Sea God Island after the Lantern Festival. During the festival, Xia Mu and Bibi Dong discovered their Martial Souls could form a fusion skill, while Bibi Dong reconsidered Yu Xiaogang’s intentions.

• Xia Mu brought Bibi Dong, Ci Xue, and She Long to Vast Sea City and announced they would head to Sea God Island after resting and enjoying the Lantern Festival.
• Xia Mu told Ci Xue and She Long that Sea God Island’s trials could improve Soul Power and enhance Soul Ring and Soul Bone ages, and the two agreed to go with him.
• Bibi Dong explored the Lantern Festival with Xia Mu and asked why he had married six wives, prompting him to explain their Soul Power resonance and Martial Soul Fusion Skills.
• Xia Mu and Bibi Dong joined their Soul Power, and their Martial Souls reacted together to form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Bibi Dong questioned her feelings for Yu Xiaogang and realized he might have approached her to exploit her connection to Spirit Hall and its confidential information.

Bibi Dong broke free of her infatuation with Yu Xiaogang and chose to accept Xia Mu’s help so she could become stronger. Xia Mu gave her two powerful Soul Bones and a rare Immortal Herb, and she accepted them, deciding to end things with Xiaogang.

• Bibi Dong recognized that Yu Xiaogang and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had been scheming around her, then asked Xia Mu whether his offer to help her with Martial Soul Possession still stood.
• Bibi Dong entered Xia Mu’s room that night and explained that she understood Qian Xunji and Yu Xiaogang’s desires, while finding Xia Mu’s motives unusual.
• Xia Mu warned Bibi Dong that only power could protect her fate and said he was investing in her ahead of time.
• Xia Mu gave Bibi Dong a seventy-thousand-year Purple-Winged Demon Spider Emperor left leg bone, a sixty-thousand-year Mental Immunity Skull, and a Snow-Colored Swan Kiss.
• Bibi Dong accepted the treasures and decided that she and Xiaogang were completely over.

Bibi Dong chose to ally herself with Xia Mu, used the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss to evolve both Martial Souls, and traveled with his group to Sea God Island for trials. She received the Top-Level Eight Trial, while the group began their own assessments under Bo Saixi’s watch.

• Bibi Dong agreed to gamble on Xia Mu as an ally, and he gave her the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss and promised to help refine its power.
• Bibi Dong’s Death Spider Emperor and Soul-Eater Spider Emperor evolved into humanoid Death Spider God and Soul-Eater Spider God forms, and Xia Mu advised her to absorb Soul Bones on Sea God Island.
• Xia Mu brought She Long, Ci Xue, Ye Renxin, Dugu Bo, Gui Mei, Yue Guan, and Bibi Dong to Sea God Island, where Sea Dragon Douluo opened their trials.
• She Long and Ci Xue received Black-Level Four Trials, while Ye Renxin received Black-Level Five, Dugu Bo and Gui Mei received Black-Level Six, and Yue Guan received Red-Level Seven.
• Bo Saixi revealed her Peak Demigod strength and warned the group to obey Sea God Island’s trial rules.
• Bibi Dong received the Top-Level Eight Trial, and Bo Saixi said she might eventually reach Peak Quasi-God or prove her own godhood.

Xia Mu helped Bibi Dong advance to level seventy-three and obtain a hundred-thousand-year seventh Soul Ring before returning to the mainland. In Sunset Forest, Tai Tan and the Four Clans leaders debated his eighth Soul Ring and the Clear Sky Sect’s neglect of them, until an unknown person offered them another allegiance.

• Bo Saixi told Xia Mu that his parents had passed the first two trials and were undergoing Tidal Body Tempering, and Xia Mu urged the group to focus on their trials.
• Xia Mu helped Bibi Dong absorb two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, then gave her Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, which led her to gain a hundred-thousand-year seventh Soul Ring, reach level seventy-three, and unlock her Martial Soul’s Innate Domain.
• Xia Mu left Sea God Island alone and returned to the mainland to guard the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• In Sunset Forest, Tai Tan questioned whether a thirty-thousand-year Thousand-Jin Ant King was strong enough for his eighth Soul Ring, while Bai He warned that a stronger beast would be too dangerous to hunt.
• Yang Wushuang and Bai He lamented the Clear Sky Sect’s treatment of the Four Single-Attribute Clans and their family, when an unfamiliar voice asked whether they had considered pledging themselves to someone else.

Xia Mu confronted the leaders of the Four Great Clans and tried to recruit them into the faction he planned to establish. After proving his strength and offering resources, he won the loyalty of the Strength, Defense, and Breaking Clans, then made an offer to the Speed Clan.

• Xia Mu introduced himself to Tai Tan, Bai He, Niu Gao, Yang Wudi, and Yang Wushuang as a level ninety-eight Titled Douluo and invited them to join his new faction.
• Xia Mu revealed his extraordinary Soul Ring configuration and promised the clan leaders cultivation resources, Soul Rings, and Soul Bones.
• Tai Tan challenged Xia Mu, who defeated him with one finger; Tai Tan then acknowledged Xia Mu as his master and pledged the Strength Clan's loyalty.
• Niu Gao pledged the Defense Clan's loyalty, and Yang Wudi agreed to represent the Breaking Clan after Xia Mu offered him the chance to receive an Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Xia Mu offered the Speed Clan ten million Gold Soul Coins a year, or resources of equivalent value.

Xia Mu recruited the Four Single-Attribute Clans and helped Tai Tan absorb a sixty-thousand-year Soul Bone and Soul Ring, advancing him to rank eighty-three Soul Douluo. He then assigned Tai Tan to watch the Clear Sky Twin Stars while he continued planning to hunt the Blue Silver Emperor.

• Bai He agreed to join Xia Mu after seeing the benefits offered to the Four Single-Attribute Clans.
• Xia Mu led the clan heads into Sunset Forest and subdued a six-thousand-year Mutated Thousand-Jin Ant King with his fourth Soul Skill.
• Xia Mu gave Tai Tan the Mutated Thousand-Jin Ant King's sixty-thousand-year Right Arm Bone, and Tai Tan absorbed it before successfully absorbing the Soul Ring and advancing to rank eighty-three Soul Douluo.
• Tai Tan offered to bring the Strength Clan to pledge allegiance, while Xia Mu gave Bai He time to see whether Clear Sky Sect would abandon the clans and asked Tai Tan to monitor Tang Hao and Tang Xiao.
• Tai Tan reported that Tang Hao was rank seventy-five and Tang Xiao rank seventy-seven, and Xia Mu resolved to wait for his chance to hunt the Blue Silver Emperor.

Xia Mu exposed Ah Yin as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor and demanded her sacrifice in exchange for sparing Tang Hao and Tang Xiao. Ah Yin sacrificed herself, giving Xia Mu a soul bone and two soul skills as he broke through to Peerless Douluo.

• Tai Tan captured Ah Yin under Xia Mu's orders, and Xia Mu arrived to confront Tang Hao and Tang Xiao.
• Xia Mu revealed Ah Yin was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast, and Ah Yin confirmed that her true form was a Blue Silver Emperor.
• Tang Hao detonated all seven of his Soul Rings and attacked Xia Mu, but Xia Mu blocked the strike with his sixth Soul Skill and left Tang Hao unable to fight.
• Ah Yin offered to sacrifice herself if Xia Mu spared Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, and Xia Mu demanded her sacrifice and a Hundred-Thousand-Year left arm bone.
• Ah Yin sacrificed herself, leaving behind a soul bone, while Xia Mu gained two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Skills and broke through to Peerless Douluo.

Xia Mu forced Tang Xiao to take the crippled Tang Hao away while concealing the scandal that Tang Hao had destroyed his soul rings for a transformed soul beast. He then bound the four clan leaders more closely to him, showed them his medicinal garden, and began strengthening them for the conflict ahead.

• Xia Mu mocked Tang Hao and made Tang Xiao agree to claim that Tang Hao had fallen by himself, then let the Clear Sky Sect brothers leave with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor seed in his possession.
• Xia Mu told Tai Tan, Niu Gao, Yang Wudi, and Yang Wushuang that their quarrel with the Clear Sky Sect had cut off their retreat, and they accepted their place as his followers.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Xia Mu showed the four leaders his private garden of rare herbs and revealed that several powerful Titled Douluo had pledged themselves to him.
• Xia Mu gave Yang Wudi and Yang Wushuang rare medicinal herbs, including a Nine-Grade Dragon Lingzhi, and helped the four leaders refine their gifts to increase their strength.
• Tai Tan reached Soul Power Level eighty-four after refining a Ninth-Grade Purple Lingzhi, and Xia Mu planned to complete his remaining five Soul Bones so he could become a Titled Douluo.

After Xia Mu helped Niu Gao and Yang Wushuang obtain powerful Soul Rings and Soul Bones, their Soul Power rose to level eighty-three. In Sunset Forest, Xia Mu spotted Demon Bear and Ghost Leopard hunting an eighty-thousand-year Mighty Vajra Bear and decided to try recruiting them.

• Xia Mu explained that Yang Wudi and Yang Wushuang had advanced to Soul Douluo after their marrow was cleansed and their medicinal toxins were converted into Soul Power.
• Xia Mu helped Niu Gao defeat a seventy-thousand-year Lava Giant Rhinoceros, and Niu Gao absorbed its right leg bone and Soul Ring, reaching level eighty-three.
• Yang Wudi gave his brother the chance to hunt a seventy-thousand-year Gold-Devouring Ant King, and Yang Wushuang absorbed its skull bone and Soul Ring, reaching level eighty-three as his Soul-Breaking Spear underwent a beneficial mutation.
• Xia Mu explained the Ultimate Metal attribute and described the attributes of his Light-Hiding Sword to the group.
• Xia Mu and the others encountered Demon Bear and Ghost Leopard hunting an eighty-thousand-year Mighty Vajra Bear, and Xia Mu decided to wait and try to recruit them.

Xia Mu’s group seized the Mighty Vajra Bear from Demon Bear and Ghost Leopard, and Yang Wudi killed it to claim its eighty-thousand-year right arm bone. After Xia Mu revealed he was a level ninety-nine Peerless Douluo and promised a path to hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, Demon Bear and Ghost Leopard agreed to follow him.

• Xia Mu’s four companions entered the battle, and Yang Wudi and Yang Wushuang blocked Ghost Leopard and attacked the Mighty Vajra Bear.
• Tai Tan clashed with Demon Bear Douluo, while Yang Wudi killed the Mighty Vajra Bear and found an eighty-thousand-year right arm Soul Bone.
• Demon Bear ordered Ghost Leopard to summon reinforcements, but Xia Mu’s Slaughter Domain pinned Ghost Leopard down and revealed Xia Mu’s level ninety-nine strength.
• Xia Mu offered Demon Bear and Ghost Leopard a chance to follow him and promised to help them obtain ninth Soul Rings without wasting their potential.
• Demon Bear agreed to follow Xia Mu after hearing his promise of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and Ghost Leopard was convinced by Xia Mu’s extraordinary Soul Ring configuration.

Xia Mu gathered soul bones and strengthened his companions while developing the Evil God Hook’s power. After Tai Tan failed to reach Titled Douluo through soul bones alone, Xia Mu gave him two-hundred-thousand-year Whale Rubber, which helped him break through.

• After absorbing the Mighty Vajra Bear’s soul ring and soul bone, Yang Wudi reached level eighty-four, and Xia Mu sent Yang Wushuang to protect the Strength Clan while the others returned to their clans.
• Xia Mu hunted ape-type soul beasts for half a year and gave Tai Tan five Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, raising him to level eighty-nine; Demon Bear and Ghost Leopard also gained soul bones, and Ghost Leopard reached Titled Douluo.
• Xia Mu’s Evil God Hook surpassed one hundred thousand years, gained Evil God Power and the Evil God Domain, and let him raise his first five soul rings to one hundred thousand years.
• Xia Mu used a Whale Pearl to raise the age of his Evil Orca King soul bone to three hundred thousand years, then gave Tai Tan two-hundred-thousand-year Whale Rubber to refine.
• Tai Tan absorbed the Whale Rubber and broke through to Titled Douluo six hours later.

Xia Mu led Tai Tan, Demon Bear Douluo, and Ghost Leopard Douluo into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. Tai Tan absorbed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and became a level-ninety-two Titled Douluo, while Xia Mu kept the ant queen’s torso bone for his own plans.

• Xia Mu promised the newly advanced Titled Douluos Hundred-Thousand-Year ninth Soul Rings and brought them to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xia Mu identified a Hundred-Thousand-Year Thousand-Jin Ant Queen as a suitable Soul Beast for Tai Tan and killed it with his Light-Hiding Sword.
• Tai Tan killed the dying ant queen and began absorbing its blood-red Soul Ring, while Xia Mu found a Hundred-Thousand-Year torso bone and warned Demon Bear and Ghost Leopard not to covet it.
• After three days of refining the Soul Ring with six Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, Tai Tan reached level ninety-two Soul Power and thanked Xia Mu.
• Xia Mu approved Tai Tan Douluo as his title and instructed him to return to the family grounds, protect the other two great clans, and watch out for the Clear Sky Sect.

Xia Mu revealed his Twin Martial Souls to Demon Bear Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo, while the Clear Sky Sect learned that Tang Hao’s injuries came from a failed attempt to protect Ah Yin from Xia Mu. Tang Zhen ordered the sect to keep quiet and strengthen its defenses, as he learned that the Four Single-Attribute Clans had joined Xia Mu and the sect’s elders had driven them away through greed.

• Xia Mu confirmed he possessed Twin Martial Souls and had reached the Peerless Douluo realm, winning Ghost Leopard Douluo’s loyalty and exciting Demon Bear Douluo.
• Xia Mu sent Tai Tan back to the Strength Clan, where Yang Wushuang was holding things together.
• Tang Xiao told Tang Zhen that Tang Hao had detonated seven Soul Rings while fighting Xia Mu to protect Ah Yin, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast.
• Tang Zhen learned that Xia Mu was a level ninety-nine Twin Martial Soul expert and ordered Tang Xiao to keep the matter secret while the Clear Sky Sect strengthened its defenses.
• Tang Xiao revealed that the Four Single-Attribute Clans had joined Xia Mu, and Tang Zhen blamed their departure on the Clear Sky Sect elders’ attempts to seize their inherited secret arts.

Tang Zhen blamed the Four Single-Attribute Clans for the Clear Sky Sect’s losses and sent the Elder Council to attack them, hoping to weaken his rivals. The battle began with Yang Wushuang wounding Tang Kun, and Tai Tan arrived as Tang Ming threatened to wipe out the clans.

• Tang Zhen summoned the Elder Council and assigned Tang Ming and Tang Kun to deal with the Four Single-Attribute Clans.
• Tang Ming and Tang Kun led Clear Sky Sect fighters to the clans’ base and demanded that their leaders come out.
• Yang Wushuang fought Tang Kun, wounded him with the Soul-Breaking Spear, and blocked his ninth Soul Skill with his head Soul Bone.
• Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Bai He came out, but Tang Ming rejected Bai He’s attempt to mediate and demanded the clans’ secret techniques and valuables.
• Tai Tan appeared and challenged Tang Ming after he threatened to wipe out the Four Single-Attribute Clans.

Tai Tan fought the Clear Sky Sect’s Titled Douluo Tang Ming and killed him with his Ninth Soul Skill, Mountain Shifting. After exhausting his Soul Power, Tai Tan left Tang Kun and the remaining enemies to Yang Wudi and the others.

• Tai Tan revealed his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, while Tang Ming threatened to kill him and take his Soul Bone.
• Tang Ming attacked with his Ninth Soul Skill, and Tai Tan countered with his Soul Bone skill and Eighth Soul Skill, leaving both of them seriously injured.
• Tai Tan used Quicksand Hell to trap the Clear Sky Sect fighters and struck Tang Ming with Mountain Shifting, killing him and leaving many others dead or wounded.
• Tang Kun roared in fury over Tang Ming’s death, and Tai Tan turned toward him.
• Yang Wudi told Tai Tan to rest and leave Tang Kun to them, and Tai Tan handed them the battlefield.

Xia Mu arrived in time to help destroy the Clear Sky Sect force attacking the Four Single-Attribute Clans, then invited the clans to join him at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. After they relocated and built a settlement there, he prepared to establish his own faction against the powerful enemies he had made.

• Tang Kun fought Yang Wudi while the other Clear Sky Sect elders fled with the disciples, but Xia Mu’s Blue Silver Overlord Spears killed four of the elders.
• Xia Mu arrived with Demon Bear Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo, who had each gained a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Demon Bear killed Tang Kun, and Ghost Leopard killed the remaining Clear Sky Sect disciples, while Yang Wushuang, Niu Gao, and Bai He hunted down the fleeing enemies.
• Xia Mu invited the Four Single-Attribute Clans to submit and relocate to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and Bai He accepted on behalf of the Speed Clan.
• The Four Single-Attribute Clans relocated, and a large complex and small city were built around the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well within half a year.
• Xia Mu considered establishing his own faction to protect his forces from the Clear Sky Sect, Spirit Hall, and the other major powers he had antagonized.

After studying the Four Single-Attribute Clans’ manuals, Xia Mu created and perfected Dragon Roar Iron Shirt, a hard-training art that strengthened the body and Soul Power. He emerged from seclusion with new martial techniques and explained how the clans’ secrets had inspired his complete system of internal and external offense and defense.

• Xia Mu studied the clans’ manuals and devised Dragon Roar Iron Shirt to cultivate qi and blood, strengthen the body, and circulate Soul Power through the meridians.
• After more than half a year of experimentation, Xia Mu completed Dragon Roar Iron Shirt, though it could not yet open all Eight Extraordinary Meridians.
• Xia Mu spent another half year cultivating the art and achieved perfect completion, gaining an Indestructible Vajra Body and immense physical strength.
• Niu Gao, Tai Tan, and Bai He recognized elements of their clans’ techniques in Xia Mu’s power and asked about what they had witnessed.
• Xia Mu revealed that the clans’ secret arts had inspired him to create Dragon Roar Iron Shirt, Mighty Vajra Palm, Mighty Vajra Finger, Mighty Vajra Leg, and the Mind-Intent Six Harmonies Spear.

Xia Mu reunited with his family and allies after their four-year Sea God Island trials, learning how their trials had unfolded and how Spirit Hall had been drawn into the conflict. The group gathered at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where they planned to help Ling Yuan and the others hunt Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts for their next trial.

• Yue Guan mistook Demon Bear and Ghost Leopard for Spirit Hall intruders and nearly attacked them, but Xia Mu explained that they had pledged themselves to him.
• Liu Yuer told Xia Mu that the group had completed their Sea God Island trials and returned to help Ling Yuan and the others with their seventh trial.
• Liu Yuer described her and Xia Feng's trials, including Xia Feng's fight against Bo Saixi, which he passed despite taking a beating.
• Bibi Dong explained that Ci Xue had revealed their whereabouts to Spirit Hall, prompting an invasion that became their fourth trial; Snake Lance and Ci Xue defected during the battle and followed Bibi Dong afterward.
• Ye Ziyi revealed that she had become a level-ninety-four Titled Douluo, while Bibi Dong and Zhu Qingyue had each obtained a Hundred-Thousand-Year seventh Soul Ring.
• Xia Mu learned that Ling Yuan and the other women still needed to hunt Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, while their Soul Ring configurations and trial rewards varied.

Xia Mu learned how much his companions had grown during four years on Sea God Island and discussed the Soul Beasts his wives wanted for their ninth Soul Rings. Nan Boer revealed that a two-hundred-thousand-year Nine-Section Fish Dragon Emperor in the Burial Sea suited her, just as Ghost Douluo returned from scouting it.

• Bibi Dong, Zhu Qingyue, Ling Yuan, Nan Boer, Liu Erlong, and Shui Qingwu reported their Soul Power Levels and trial progress to Xia Mu.
• Ge Long, Dugu Bo, and Ye Renxin reported the group’s gains, including Tuoba Xuanfeng’s level ninety-six strength and newly evolved Hundred-Thousand-Year ninth Soul Ring.
• Ling Yuan chose the Blazing Sun Golden Crow Emperor for her ninth Soul Ring, and Xia Mu offered to help it reach one hundred thousand years.
• Zhu Qingyue chose a Hundred-Thousand-Year Dark-Gold White-Eyed Tiger King, while Bibi Dong wanted a Death Spider Emperor; Liu Erlong had not chosen a target.
• Nan Boer told Xia Mu that a two-hundred-thousand-year Nine-Section Fish Dragon Emperor lived in the Burial Sea and suited her, then Ghost Douluo appeared after scouting the area with Xiao Bai.