Chapter Summaries

Tang Zhen won the Three Upper Sects contest by detonating all nine soul rings, securing five Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones for the Clear Sky Sect. After the Seven Great Sects were selected, Xia Mu accepted Chen Jianjun’s challenge and offered terms that led Chen Xin to pledge himself to the Holy Spirit Cult to save his father.

• Tang Zhen detonated all nine soul rings, defeated Yu Yuanzhen, and claimed the rare Trunk Bone and five Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• The Clear Sky Sect, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect were confirmed as the Three Upper Sects, while the Elephant Armor Sect, Wind Sword Sect, Black Tiger Sect, and Fire Leopard Sect took the Lower Four Sects places.
• Tuoba Xi considered seeking help from his clan uncle Tuoba Xuanfeng, but Chen Jianjun stepped forward to challenge Xia Mu.
• Xia Mu asked Chen Xin whether he would seek revenge if his father died, and Chen Jianjun insisted that he would not burden his son with a vendetta.
• Xia Mu proposed sparing Chen Jianjun if he lost, provided Chen Xin served as his vanguard for twenty years and Chen Jianjun submitted to his command.
• Chen Xin agreed to Xia Mu’s terms and asked him to spare Chen Jianjun, while Xia Mu welcomed both father and son into the Holy Spirit Cult.

The Seven Kill Sword Sect faced absorption by the Holy Spirit Cult, and Chen Jianjun decided to submit the sect and pursue his own Dao. After handing leadership to Chen Xin, he traveled to challenge Xia Mu and learn from his Sword Dao.

• Tang Zhen dismissed the Seven Kill Sword Sect as weak, while Yu Yuanzhen accepted that he could not oppose the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Chen Jianjun told Chen Xin that the Seven Kill Sword Sect needed to choose a side and that joining the Holy Spirit Cult was its best chance to survive.
• Chen Jianjun stepped down as sect master and entrusted the Seven Kill Sword Sect to Chen Xin.
• Chen Jianjun traveled with Chen Xin to the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters to challenge Xia Mu.
• Xia Mu explained the four realms of the Sword Dao and described the Holy Spirit Sword Technique he had created.
• Chen Jianjun praised Xia Mu's Sword Dao attainments and asked to experience his Sword of Sentiment and Sword of Detachment.

Xia Mu defeated Chen Jianjun, prompting him to break through to level 98 and awaken the Seven Kill Sword Domain before Xia Mu overwhelmed him with the Slaughter Domain. Chen Jianjun accepted Xia Mu’s offer to join the Holy Spirit Cult and oversee Slaughter City, while Xia Mu invited Chen Xin to become the cult’s Right Guardian.

• Chen Jianjun displayed the Nine-Character Killing Inscription, and Xia Mu countered it with his Holy Spirit Sword Technique.
• Under Xia Mu’s pressure, Chen Jianjun broke through to level 98 and awakened the Seven Kill Sword Domain.
• Xia Mu’s Slaughter Domain swallowed Chen Jianjun’s domain and left him unable to fight back.
• Xia Mu offered Chen Jianjun a chance to obtain another domain and appointed him as the Holy Spirit Cult’s Adjudicating Elder, with the duty of overseeing Slaughter City.
• Chen Xin checked on his injured father, and Xia Mu invited him to become the Holy Spirit Cult’s Right Guardian.
• Tuoba Xuanfeng introduced himself as the Left Guardian, revealing his level 96 strength and eight black rings and one red ring.

Xia Mu recruited Chen Xin and empowered both him and Chen Jianjun, then ordered Ge Long to secure the gifted Aude for the Holy Spirit Cult. In Heaven Dou City, Zhi Lin and Meng Shenji confronted Tang Hao and Tang Xiao over recruiting Aude.

• Xia Mu appointed Chen Xin as the Holy Spirit Cult's Right Guardian and transformed Chen Xin's ninth soul ring into a hundred-thousand-year ring.
• Xia Mu also upgraded Chen Jianjun's ninth soul ring and stabilized his level 98 cultivation, earning both men's wholehearted allegiance.
• Bai He reported that Aude, a level-eight innate talent with the Ghost King Vine martial soul, had drawn interest from both the Holy Spirit Cult and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xia Mu ordered Ge Long to travel to Heaven Dou City and bring Aude back to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Tang Hao and Tang Xiao arrived to recruit Aude, but Zhi Lin and Meng Shenji challenged their claim and identified themselves.

Tang Hao tried to take Aude for the Clear Sky Sect, provoking Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin into a standoff with the Spirit Pagoda and Holy Spirit Chamber of Commerce. Ge Long arrived and Tang Hao attacked him, but Ge Long revealed a startling six-black, three-red Soul Ring Configuration.

• Tang Xiao warned Tang Hao that Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin were powerful Soul Douluo tied to the Spirit Pagoda and Holy Spirit Chamber of Commerce.
• Tang Hao declared that the Clear Sky Sect would take Aude and challenged Meng Shenji when he objected.
• Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin confronted Tang Hao, and the two sides prepared to fight over Aude.
• Ge Long appeared in the air, and Tang Hao dismissed him before hurling his Clear Sky Hammer at him with his eighth Soul Skill, Heaven-Splitting Strike.
• Ge Long unleashed the Golden Sacred Dragon and revealed six black and three red Soul Rings, leaving Tang Hao and Tang Xiao stunned.

Ge Long trapped Tang Hao and Tang Xiao in his Sacred Dragon Domain, while Tang Hao revealed his six Inherited Soul Bones and detonated all eight soul rings to attack. Ge Long and his allies restrained both brothers as Leo's meteor shower began raining down.

• Ge Long blocked Tang Hao's Heaven-Splitting Strike with his Golden Peerless Sword Shield, then summoned his Golden Sacred Dragon Avatar and Sacred Dragon Domain.
• Tang Hao's Divine Slaughter's Domain failed to overcome Ge Long's domain, so Tang Hao prepared to use the Great Sumeru Hammer.
• Tang Hao told Tang Xiao that he had absorbed the sect's six Inherited Soul Bones and could use the Great Sumeru Hammer without backlash, leaving Tang Xiao bitter over their unequal treatment.
• Tang Hao detonated all eight soul rings and unleashed the Slaughter Character Formula as Tang Xiao fought Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin.
• Ge Long called down Leo's Meteor Shower while Zhi Lin's vines immobilized Tang Hao and Tang Xiao and Meng Shenji's dreamscape put them to sleep.

Ge Long defeated Tang Hao and left him gravely injured while sparing him and Tang Xiao to draw on the Clear Sky Sect’s resources. He then revealed that Xia Mu planned to hunt the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff for Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua arrived to help Tang Hao.

• Tang Hao fought Ge Long’s attacks while Tang Xiao remained trapped in Meng Shenji’s nightmare.
• Ge Long caught Tang Hao with his Golden Shattering Claw, leaving him near death, then decided to spare him and Tang Xiao rather than risk a conflict with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Ge Long explained that Xia Mu intended to hunt the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff for Liu Erlong’s ninth soul ring, and encouraged Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin to distinguish themselves in the coming battle.
• After Meng Shenji’s soul skill ended, Tang Xiao found Tang Hao gravely injured and sent for their father while Tang Yuehua took charge of bringing Tang Hao to the Moonlight Pavilion.

Tang Yuehua learned that only Ye Renxin could treat Tang Hao’s severe internal injuries and resolved to seek his help despite the Holy Spirit Cult’s role in the conflict. At the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, Chen Xin offered the Seven Kill Sword Technique and Soul Ring Refinement Secret Art, and Xia Mu rewarded him with a Soul Bone that raised him to rank ninety-four.

• Lin Ke failed to heal Tang Hao’s severed meridians and told Tang Yuehua that Ye Renxin was likely the only person in Heaven Dou City who could save him.
• Tang Yuehua decided to ask Ye Renxin for help, while Xiaotao criticized Tang Hao and Tang Yuehua’s eldest brother for provoking the Holy Spirit Cult over Aude.
• At the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, Chen Xin presented the Seven Kill Sword Technique and Soul Ring Refinement Secret Art after the Seven Kill Sword Sect joined the cult.
• Xia Mu praised the secret arts, gave Chen Xin the Dugu Nine Swords, and rewarded him with a thirty-thousand-year Shieldblade Monster King left arm bone.
• Chen Xin refined the Soul Bone, reached rank ninety-four, and accepted Xia Mu’s prediction that he could eventually become a Peerless Douluo.

Xia Mu arranged to acquire a seventy-eight-thousand-year-old thunderclap hellvine and heard that Yue Guan had cultivated a Blue Silver King close to one hundred thousand years old. He welcomed Aude into the Holy Spirit Cult as Zhi Lin’s disciple and rewarded the men who brought him, while planning to obtain an Illusion Wisdom Skull for Meng Shenji.

• Yue Guan reported that a seventy-eight-thousand-year-old thunderclap hellvine had been found, and Xia Mu decided to buy it and reserve it for Zhi Lin’s Ninth Soul Ring.
• Yue Guan revealed that he had raised a Blue Silver King to ninety-five thousand years, so Xia Mu gave him an eighty-thousand-year-old Raging Gold Bear King Right Arm Bone and promised him the Blue Silver King’s soul bone once it reached one hundred thousand years.
• Ge Long, Meng Shenji, and Zhi Lin brought Aude to Xia Mu, who confirmed Aude’s innate rank-eight soul power and ghost king vine martial soul.
• Xia Mu accepted Aude into the Holy Spirit Cult as a True Inheritor Disciple and assigned him to cultivate under Zhi Lin.
• Xia Mu rewarded Zhi Lin with an eighty-thousand-year-old Earth Demon Bull Right Leg Bone, deferred Ge Long’s reward, and told Meng Shenji he would try to acquire Shi Nian’s ten-thousand-year-old Illusion Wisdom Skull for him.

Xia Mu urged Meng Shenji and Ge Long to pursue martial soul transformations by taking power from others, then explained that his plans to unite humanity required confronting the Three Upper Sects and eventually the Soul Beast threat. He warned his followers about the powerful beings hidden in the Star Dou Great Forest while saying he did not yet intend to make enemies of the true dragons.

• Xia Mu told Meng Shenji that Shi Nian's Remnant Dream martial soul and ten-thousand-year skull bone could help transform Meng Shenji's Black Demon martial soul, and Meng Shenji agreed to try.
• Xia Mu told Ge Long that Yu Xiaogang's Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline could help advance Ge Long's martial soul, and Ge Long worried that abducting Yu Xiaogang would provoke Yu Yuanzhen.
• Xia Mu assured Zhi Lin that his Azure Sky Vine could advance through a carefully chosen ninth soul ring.
• Xia Mu declared that he intended to establish a unified alliance and eventually remove the Three Upper Sects, while explaining that Spirit Hall and humanity faced a major threat from the Soul Beasts.
• Xia Mu revealed that the Scarlet King was one of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts and a minor figure serving greater powers in the Star Dou Great Forest, including a deity, but said he did not want to become an enemy of the true dragons.

Tang Zhen sought help from Xia Mu and paid two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones to secure Ye Renxin’s aid in healing Tang Hao. After Tang Hao recovered, Tang Zhen warned his family about the Holy Spirit Cult’s strength and prepared to preserve the Clear Sky Sect’s inheritance.

• Tang Zhen arrived at the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters and apologized for Tang Hao provoking Ge Long, while Xia Mu and Ge Long reminded him that Tang Hao had brought the danger upon himself.
• Tang Zhen offered two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, and Xia Mu agreed to let Ye Renxin accompany him to treat Tang Hao.
• Ye Renxin used his Ninth Soul Skill to heal Tang Hao’s injuries, but warned that Tang Hao needed to rest because Ring Detonation had left him without usable soul power.
• Tang Zhen rebuked Tang Hao and Tang Xiao for challenging Ge Long, then warned them that the Holy Spirit Cult was far stronger than the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Zhen asked Tang Yuehua to care for Tang Hao and took Tang Xiao to the sect’s ancestral grounds to pass on the Great Sumeru Hammer and safeguard the Clear Sky Sect’s inheritance.

Tang Zhen strengthened Tang Xiao with six soul bones while worrying about Tang Hao, and Tang Yuehua and Tang Hao began a secret relationship tied to her soul bone’s need for dual cultivation. Bibi Dong returned with the God of Darkness’s inheritance trial and revealed its location in Death Canyon.

• Tang Zhen gave Tang Xiao six ten-thousand-year soul bones, raising his soul power to level eighty-seven.
• Tang Yuehua’s evil fire erupted, and she and Tang Hao slept together before she explained that her soul bone required dual cultivation to control it.
• Bibi Dong told Xia Mu that she had condensed three soul cores and reached the Quasi-Demigod realm after completing the Sea God’s Red-Level Eight Trial.
• Bibi Dong revealed that the God of Darkness had granted her a Black-Level Nine Trial and that his inheritance site lay in Death Canyon in the Star Luo Empire’s West Amors Province.
• Xia Mu learned that Death Canyon, long rumored to be a place of certain death, concealed a deity’s inheritance site.

Xia Mu gave Bibi Dong a rare Soul Bone and invited her to the Far North to help hunt the Titan Snow Demon King and the Snow Empress for Xiao Wu’s trial. Meanwhile, the Snow Empress faced unwanted courtship from A-Tai and the Ice Empress.

• Xia Mu gave Bibi Dong a two-hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape Trunk Bone, which she accepted and absorbed.
• Xia Mu invited Bibi Dong to join him in hunting the Titan Snow Demon King and the seven-hundred-thousand-year Snow Empress to help Xiao Wu complete her Eighth Trial.
• Xia Mu told Bibi Dong that his mother had become a Peerless Douluo and inherited the Slaughter God's divine seat, while he planned to pursue self-created godhood.
• Xia Mu said he hoped to create the God of Devastation's divine seat and become a dual God King rather than inherit a divine seat immediately.
• In the Far North, A-Tai courted the Snow Empress, and the Ice Empress confronted him to claim that the Snow Empress was her beloved.
• The Snow Empress grew furious with both A-Tai and the Ice Empress for fighting over her.

The Snow Empress defeated A-Tai after he pursued her, but spared his life at the Ice Empress’s urging. As she sensed Xia Mu’s powerful group approaching, they found the wounded Titan Snow Demon King, and Xia Mu launched a lethal attack.

• The Snow Empress stabbed A-Tai with her ice-crystal sword, then spared him after the Ice Empress warned that killing him could throw the Far North into chaos.
• The Ice Empress threatened A-Tai and left, while the Snow Empress turned her anger toward her and was finally left alone.
• The Snow Empress sensed Xia Mu’s group entering the Far North and hurried after them when she realized they were heading toward the Titan Snow Demon Clan.
• Xia Mu and his companions encountered the badly wounded A-Tai, who realized he was facing four Peerless Douluos and a Level 90 Quasi-Titled Douluo.
• Xia Mu used his ninth Soul Skill, Ice Demon Seven-Sword Kill, and summoned a divine ice-crystal sword to attack A-Tai.

Xia Mu tried to persuade the Snow Empress and Titan Snow Demon King to sacrifice themselves by promising to resurrect them and help them ascend to godhood. Both agreed, but the Snow Empress insisted on settling affairs in the Far North first.

• The Snow Empress arrived to stop the humans from attacking the Titan Snow Demon King and challenged Xia Mu over his knowledge of her coming Seven Hundred Thousand Year Heavenly Tribulation.
• Xia Mu offered the Snow Empress and Titan Snow Demon King resurrection and godhood in exchange for their sacrifices, while the group revealed their extraordinary Soul Ring Configurations.
• The Titan Snow Demon King agreed to sacrifice himself if Xia Mu spared his people, and Xia Mu gave him rare treasures to raise his cultivation age to three hundred thousand years first.
• The Snow Empress agreed to sacrifice herself after settling her affairs in the Far North, convinced that Xia Mu's rare ice-attribute treasures supported his claims.