Chapter Summaries

After Bibi Dong helped Spirit Hall destroy the Clear Sky Sect in exchange for Yu Xiaogang’s continued survival, Qian Xunyi ordered Red Star to obliterate the sect’s mountain with a meteor shower. He then told Ning Fengzhi that the sects would be ranked anew, leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect expected to attend.

• Bibi Dong told the Clear Sky Sect prisoners she considered their lives a fair price for Yu Xiaogang’s right to survive five more years.
• Qian Xunyi’s forces gathered across from Clear Sky Mountain, where Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong remained because Qian Xunyi still held Ning Fengzhi’s Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda.
• Qian Xunyi ordered Red Star to light the final candle for the Clear Sky Sect, and Red Star used his ninth soul skill, Meteor Volcano, with Qian Xunyi’s enhancements.
• Red Star’s magma fists fell like meteors, melting Clear Sky Mountain and reducing the remnants of the Clear Sky Sect to a sea of flames.
• Qian Xunyi thanked Ning Fengzhi for lending his pagoda and summoned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to attend his planned new ranking of the soul master sects.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to attend and left with Gu Rong after Qian Xunyi dismissed him.

After Spirit Hall destroyed the Clear Sky Sect and captured nearly all its disciples, Qian Xunyi rewarded Ling Yuan for her work by helping her become a Title Douluo. He then turned to Yue Guan and Gui Mei to acknowledge their handling of the Four Single-Attribute Clans.

• Yue Guan subdued the Defense Clan, Breaking Clan, and Speed Clan, while the Strength Clan split and Tai Tan fled with his loyalists.
• Ling Yuan and Evil Lord captured nearly all Clear Sky Sect disciples across the continent, leaving Tang Hao and Tang San untouched by Qian Xunyi’s design.
• Qian Xunyi gave Ling Yuan a Soul Pearl, which produced a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring that she absorbed to reach level 92.
• Ling Yuan gained the Blazing Flame Domain and Heaven-Burning Fire Feather Formation, then became Ling Yuan Douluo, the Papal Hall’s seventh guardian douluo.
• Qian Xunyi praised Yue Guan and Gui Mei for their work with the Four Single-Attribute Clans, despite some escaping his net.

Qian Xunyi rewarded Spirit Hall’s elders for their victory over the Clear Sky Sect, strengthening Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Qing Zhang, Red Star, and Huang Mian. After Yue Guan and Gui Mei taunted Bibi Dong for being excluded, she decided to confront Qian Xunyi and claim the rewards she believed she had earned.

• Qian Xunyi gave Yue Guan and Gui Mei Soul Pearls, which they fused into their ninth Soul Rings, gaining powerful new abilities and domains.
• Qian Xunyi rewarded Red Star with three Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Bones and Qing Zhang and Huang Mian with two each, then distributed resources for the elders’ subordinates.
• Outside the Papal Hall, Yue Guan celebrated his new Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring until Gui Mei warned him that people were watching.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei taunted Bibi Dong by showing her their upgraded Soul Rings and pointing out that she had received no reward.
• Bibi Dong recalled her contributions to the Clear Sky Sect battle and headed to the Papal Hall to reclaim what she believed was owed to her.

Yue Guan loudly corrected people who credited him with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, while Bibi Dong discovered that Qian Xunyi treated her reward as permission for Yu Xiaogang to breathe freely and coerced her into another mission. Spirit Hall publicized the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction, and Tang Hao finally learned what Spirit Hall had been doing as he wandered with little A-San.

• Yue Guan repeatedly asked people when he had told them his ninth Soul Ring was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, embarrassing Gui Mei.
• Bibi Dong asked Qian Xunyi for a reward, and he claimed her reward was five years of fresh air for Yu Xiaogang.
• Bibi Dong refused Qian Xunyi’s mission, but he threatened to stop Yu Xiaogang from drinking water, so she accepted the dossier.
• Bibi Dong vowed to take revenge on Qian Xunyi after she attained the Rakshasa God position.
• Spirit Hall posted an account of the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction throughout the continent.
• Tang Hao wandered with little A-San while waiting for Qian Daoliu to pursue him, then saw a Spirit Hall notice.

Tang Hao learned that Qian Xunyi had destroyed the Clear Sky Sect and blamed him for the sect’s fate. At the ruins, he discovered Qian Xunyi’s warning and the heads of three sect disciples, then vowed to kill the Spirit Hall Pope.

• Tang Hao read a notice claiming Spirit Hall had destroyed the Clear Sky Sect and rejected the claim that Tang Chen was dead.
• Tang Hao reached the sect’s former grounds and found its peaks melted into lava and no trace of survivors.
• Tang Hao discovered Qian Xunyi’s message, which predicted he would attack Spirit Halls and warned him not to seek revenge.
• Tang Hao opened three boxes and found the heads of Tang Nian, Tang Zhao, and Tang Sheng, along with a threat against the remaining Clear Sky Sect disciples held by Spirit Hall.
• Tang Hao erupted in rage, vowed to kill Qian Xunyi, and smashed the surrounding peaks with his Clear Sky Hammer.

After Spirit Hall destroyed Clear Sky Sect, Tang Hao vowed revenge and believed Tang San could someday restore the dead, while Yu Xiaogang realized Bibi Dong’s role in the massacre had ruined his hopes of benefiting from both her and Tang San. In Spirit Hall’s prison, surviving Clear Sky Sect members blamed Tang Hao for their downfall, and Tang Xiao defended him.

• Tang Hao mourned at Clear Sky Sect’s former site, blamed himself for its destruction, and vowed to collect the debt from Spirit Hall.
• Tang Hao reasoned that Tang San could become a god and resurrect Clear Sky Sect’s dead, then left the ruins in a black cloak.
• Yu Xiaogang read Spirit Hall’s announcement in Notting City and realized Bibi Dong had led the slaughter of Clear Sky Sect, making her future alliance with Tang San impossible.
• Yu Xiaogang concluded that Bibi Dong could not defeat Tang San and cursed her for destroying his hopes of reaching the God Realm through her.
• In Spirit Hall’s prison, Tang Lie and other Clear Sky Sect survivors blamed Tang Hao for provoking Spirit Hall, while Tang Xiao defended his younger brother.
• Tang Lie challenged Tang Xiao’s defense of Tang Hao and accused him of loving the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who brought calamity to Clear Sky Sect.

Tang Zhen and the Clear Sky Sect prisoners learned that Tang Yuehua had betrayed their scattered branches to Spirit Hall. After Tang Zhen collapsed in shock, Tang Xiao tried to defend his sister as Yue Guan and Tang Yuehua left the prison.

• Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao endured the other prisoners' insults as Spirit Hall brought in Clear Sky Sect survivors from branches across the continent.
• Yue Guan told Tang Zhen that Spirit Hall had captured nearly all Clear Sky Sect disciples and revealed Tang Yuehua as the informant.
• Tang Yuehua admitted she had helped Spirit Hall find the hidden branches and said she had the Pope to guide her as a Soul Master.
• Tang Zhen spat blood and collapsed, while Yue Guan praised Tang Yuehua and left with her.
• Tang Xiao insisted Spirit Hall had controlled Tang Yuehua, but Tang Lie and the other prisoners mocked his defense.

Tang Hao hid Ah Yin’s Seed of Life in a dark cave near Sacred Soul Village, believing it would preserve his plans for Tang San. After learning how Tang Hao had deceived and exploited her, Ah Yin turned against him and agreed to help Evil Lord, who said Qian Xunyi would take her away when the time was right.

• Tang Hao settled Tang San in Sacred Soul Village, then hid Ah Yin’s Soul Bone and planted her Seed of Life in the Water Curtain Cave.
• Tang Hao explained that he had chosen the cave because he wanted Tang San to awaken the Blue Silver Emperor in the Blue Silver Forest later.
• Ah Yin, awake inside the Seed of Life, heard Tang Hao’s words, and Evil Lord revealed that Tang Hao’s child was not hers.
• Ah Yin confronted the truth about Tang Hao’s betrayal and asked Evil Lord to take her to the Blue Silver Forest so she could recover and help him oppose Tang Hao.
• Evil Lord refused to move Ah Yin yet, saying Qian Xunyi wanted Tang Hao to remain in Sacred Soul Village, while Tang Hao continued visiting the cave and venting his grievances to her.

After Dai Tianlong’s death deepened the conflict between Spirit Hall and the Star Luo Empire, Qian Xunyi sent Bu Kuaile to deliver demands designed to provoke Dai Tianfeng. Bu Kuaile accepted the dangerous mission after Qian Xunyi promised to raise his son Bu Le and arrange for him to inherit the Clear Sky Hammer.

• Qian Xunyi declared that Spirit Hall and the Star Luo Empire were still at war because Dai Tianlong had sided with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Qian Xunyi ordered Bu Kuaile to demand territory, reparations, and a humiliating treaty from Dai Tianfeng.
• Qian Xunyi promised two Title Douluo escorts and rewards for Bu Kuaile, including two Soul Bones if he completed the mission.
• Qian Xunyi promised to raise Bu Le and arrange for him to marry a Tang woman so their descendants could inherit the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Qian Xunyi ordered Bibi Dong and Ling Yuan to accompany Bu Kuaile to Star Luo City, and Bibi Dong obeyed.

Bu Kuaile led Spirit Hall’s diplomatic mission into the Star Luo Empire, where he provoked Emperor Dai Tianfeng instead of offering appeasement. Dai Tianfeng threatened him with a boiling-oil cauldron and unleashed his power, leaving the confrontation on the verge of violence.

• Qian Xunyi sent Bu Kuaile and two Title Douluo to demand territory from the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Tianfeng raged over Spirit Hall’s earlier killings of a Star Luo envoy and prince, then ordered a cauldron of oil prepared for the envoys.
• Bu Kuaile entered White Tiger Hall without kneeling or bowing, and declared that an envoy of a superior state did not bow to an inferior ruler.
• Bu Kuaile insulted Dai Tianfeng and the Star Luo Empire, while one of his masked companions dispersed the officials’ Soul Power pressure.
• Dai Tianfeng threatened to kill Bu Kuaile in the boiling oil and released his nine Soul Rings.

Bu Kuaile provoked Dai Tianfeng into backing down from a public confrontation, then delivered Spirit Hall’s ceasefire terms to the Star Luo Empire. He demanded that Dai Tianfeng cede Watercloud Pass to Spirit City to avert war.

• Bibi Dong and Ling Yuan revealed themselves as level-92 Title Douluo and repelled Dai Tianfeng’s pressure, forcing him and Zhu Tiancai to withstand them with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Bu Kuaile taunted Dai Tianfeng and dared him to throw him into the boiling pot, while Dai Tianfeng suspected Spirit Hall wanted to provoke a war.
• Dai Tianfeng withdrew his Martial Soul and claimed the pot had been prepared to cook lamb for Bu Kuaile and his party.
• Bu Kuaile explained that the Star Luo Empire remained at war with Spirit Hall because it had opposed Spirit Hall during the attack on the Clear Sky Sect.
• Bu Kuaile presented Spirit Hall’s proposed ceasefire agreement, which required the Star Luo Empire to cede Watercloud Pass and its territory to Spirit City.

Bu Kuaile presented Dai Tianfeng with Spirit Hall’s demands for territory, reparations, and trade rights, warning that refusal would mean war. Dai Tianfeng chose to delay his decision for five days, leaving the Star Luo Empire under threat of Spirit Hall’s attack.

• Bu Kuaile demanded that Dai Tianfeng cede territory, pay ten million Gold Soul Coins, and open five cities to Spirit Hall’s free trade, while Ling Yuan subdued an officer who protested his insult to the emperor.
• Bu Kuaile argued that Spirit Hall could defeat the Star Luo army by targeting its commanders and described Bibi Dong’s poison and Red Star’s attack on Clear Sky Mountain.
• Dai Tianfeng and his officials saw the projected destruction of Clear Sky Mountain and recognized the danger posed by Spirit Hall’s powerful Soul Masters and Soul Master Legion.
• Dai Tianfeng asked for time to consider the treaty, and Bu Kuaile gave him five days before the Pope would take something by force.
• After Bu Kuaile departed, Dai Tianfeng ended court without making a decision, while the lamb in the hall’s pot had burned to charcoal.

After the Star Luo Empire rejected Spirit Hall’s demand to cede land and pay reparations, Dai Tianfeng tried to rally the continent’s powers against Qian Xunyi. Five days later, abandoned by the other factions, he was forced to sign the treaty and mark territory for Spirit Hall.

• Dai Tianfeng raged at Zhu Tianming after learning that Spirit Hall demanded land and reparations, while Jiang Wei urged him to unite the continent against Qian Xunyi.
• Dai Tianfeng sent messengers to the Heaven Dou Empire, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, and other powers to propose an alliance.
• Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, and Yu Yuanzhen rejected the alliance, fearing Spirit Hall’s power and the danger of provoking Qian Xunyi.
• Five days later, Bu Kuaile presented the treaty at Star Luo’s morning court, and Dai Tianfeng pleaded unsuccessfully for lighter terms.
• When Dai Tianfeng hesitated to mark Watercloud Pass on the map, Bu Kuaile forced his hand across the map and included additional land in the territory ceded to Spirit Hall.

Qian Xunyi’s treaty with the Star Luo Empire secured Watercloud Pass and reparations, provoking Dai Tianfeng and silencing rival powers who feared Spirit Hall. After rewarding Bu Kuaile for the successful mission, Qian Xunyi left him loyal and eager for future opportunities.

• Dai Tianfeng raged after signing the treaty, while Zhu Tiancai watched, and he vowed to repay Qian Xunyi for the humiliation.
• Spirit Hall took control of Watercloud Pass, prompting protests across the Star Luo Empire, while Ning Fengzhi recognized that rival factions could not match Spirit Hall’s strength.
• Qian Xunyi watched the factions’ reactions, welcomed the anger as a source of Emotion Points, and declared that he would keep strengthening Spirit Hall rather than unify the continent.
• Qian Xunyi summoned Bu Kuaile and rewarded his diplomatic success with five high-quality Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Qian Xunyi promised Bu Kuaile future chances to obtain an inherited Martial Soul, and Bu Kuaile pledged to serve him faithfully.

Qian Xunyi rewarded Ling Yuan for her service and offered Bibi Dong a choice between powerful cultivation treasures and sparing Yu Xiaogang from punishment for eating. Bibi Dong chose to protect Yu Xiaogang, and Qian Xunyi insisted that the dead did not breathe.

• Qian Xunyi asked Ling Yuan to choose between a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Bone and a Soul Pearl, and she chose the pearl.
• Ling Yuan used the Soul Pearl to raise her eighth Spirit Ring to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, while Bibi Dong watched enviously.
• Qian Xunyi showed Bibi Dong footage of Yu Xiaogang eating and called it a crime deserving death.
• Qian Xunyi offered Bibi Dong a Spirit Ring, a Spirit Bone, or the chance to erase Yu Xiaogang’s past offense and overlook his eating for a year.
• Bibi Dong chose to protect Yu Xiaogang and declared that eating and drinking were his rights, but Qian Xunyi replied that the dead did not breathe.

Yu Xiaogang learned that Spirit Hall had seized Watercloud Pass and reassured himself that Tang San would eventually defeat it. At Happy Farm, Clear Sky Sect prisoners discovered that their transformed relatives guarded them, then saw Tang Yuehua and Tang Chen take charge of the prison.

• Yu Xiaogang blamed Bibi Dong for his ruined plans and decided to use her while siding with Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang heard that Spirit Hall had forced the Star Luo Empire to cede Watercloud Pass and pay reparations, then trusted the Asura God to protect Tang San’s future.
• At Happy Farm, Clear Sky Sect prisoners recognized their relatives among the Black Fury guards, but Tang Xu and the others attacked them whenever they tried to speak.
• Tang Zhen, Tang Xiao, and the other prisoners saw Tang Yuehua as warden and Tang Chen as deputy warden.
• Tang Yuehua summoned the Warden’s Whip and cracked it against the ground, making the prisoners recoil.

Tang Yuehua imposed brutal rules on the captured Clear Sky Sect members at Happy Farm, forcing them to grow cotton under constant threat of whipping. Deputy Warden Tang Chen began enforcing the rules against his own grandson, Tang Xiao, while trapped in a body he could not control.

• Tang Yuehua announced that the prisoners at Happy Farm would grow cotton for Spirit Hall and ordered Tang Xun to receive five hundred lashes for objecting.
• Tang Yuehua laid out exhausting work hours, strict quotas, punishments for infractions, and small rewards for the top workers.
• Tang Yuehua left Deputy Warden Tang Chen in charge, and he began assigning the prisoners their tasks.
• Tang Xiao recognized Tang Chen as his grandfather, but Tang Chen whipped him for speaking to a Black Fury.
• Tang Chen remembered how Qian Xunyi had killed him and destroyed Clear Sky Sect, and that the Black Tower now controlled his body despite his love for Tang Xiao.

The Clear Sky Sect captives endured brutal labor, spoiled food, and whippings at Happy Farm, while Tang Lie blamed Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao for the sect’s downfall. As the rats sank into despair, Tang Chen urged Tang Xiao to stay alive and wait for a chance at freedom, but on the fifth day Tang Wu was found hanged.

• The Black Furies forced the rats to work in the cotton fields, beat them for slowing down, and fed them rancid swill.
• Tang Lie gathered the rats and blamed Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao for the Clear Sky Sect’s troubles, then led the others in beating them.
• As Tang Xiao considered suicide, Tang Chen told him to live and wait for a turning point, then returned to whipping him when he stopped working.
• On the fifth day, the rats awoke to find Tang Wu’s body hanging from a beam, and Tang Qi said Tang Wu had finally been freed.

Tang Yuehua revealed that Rats who died at Happy Farm were resurrected by the Black Tower as Black Fury and forced to work without rest. The surviving Rats were sent back to the fields, terrified of dying, while their anger turned toward Tang Xiao and his father.

• Tang Yuehua killed a Rat who defied her and ordered the dead to be taken to the Afterlife Employment Center.
• Tang Wu and Tang Ju returned as Black Fury, and Tang Yuehua explained that the Black Tower had made them into tireless farming tools.
• A Black Fury whipped Tang Wu and Tang Ju, whose injuries healed quickly as they were forced to endure the punishment.
• Tang Yuehua told the Rats that death would not free them from labor and sent everyone back to work after delaying their rest period.
• Tang Xiao remembered his grandfather's warning and resolved to stay alive, while the surviving Rats directed their rage at Tang Xiao and his father.

Qian Xunyi inspected Happy Farm’s first cotton harvest, tormenting the Tang family and feeding on the workers’ anger. After Tang Yuehua danced for him, he asked what was missing from the cotton fields.

• Tang Yuehua ordered the Rats and Black Furies to harvest cotton under threat of punishment before Qian Xunyi arrived to inspect the farm.
• Qian Xunyi made Tang Chen and Tang Mie replace the exhausted horses and pull his carriage, while Tang Yuehua whipped them and addressed Qian Xunyi as the Farm Owner.
• Qian Xunyi stopped beside Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao as they picked cotton, and their fury intensified when they saw their relatives pulling his carriage.
• At Qian Xunyi’s request, Tang Yuehua danced before him while Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao watched; Tang Zhen spat blood onto the cotton and both men were whipped for stopping work.
• After praising Tang Yuehua’s dance, Qian Xunyi asked her what the cotton fields were missing.