Chapter Summaries

At the orphanage’s awakening ceremony, Hu Liena and Xie Yue awakened with Innate Soul Power of nine and a half, while Yan revealed Innate Full Soul Power. Qian Xunyi arranged for the trio to attend Spirit Hall’s academy and learned that the Body Camp had also found promising recruits.

• Luo San watched as the orphanage children awakened their Martial Souls, and Hu Liena revealed an orange fox Martial Soul with Innate Soul Power of nine and a half.
• Xie Yue awakened his Moon Blade Martial Soul with Innate Soul Power of nine and a half, then Yan awakened the Ancient Flame Lord with Innate Full Soul Power.
• Yue Guan reported the trio’s results to Qian Xunyi, who recognized their names and ordered them to study at Spirit Hall Soul Master Academy without committing major resources to their cultivation.
• Red Star reported that 152 Body Martial Spirit Soul Masters had awakened that year, including fifteen with high-tier Martial Souls and one with the top-grade Spine Martial Soul.

Tang Hao and Tang San discovered that both had been reborn, and Tang San resolved to regain the power and plans he had lost. The chapter ended with Tang San determined to complete the Asura God Trial in this life.

• Tang Hao doubted that the strange-looking child was his original Tang San, but recognized him when he cultivated the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Tang Hao began caring for Tang San, who tested his father by saying "Plane Lord" and learned that Tang Hao remembered his previous life too.
• Tang San explained that a black vortex had swept him away while he descended to Falan Continent, resetting the empire he had built across the Douluo realms.
• Tang San blamed hidden gods for disrupting his plans and resolved to follow his former path toward godhood.
• Tang San vowed to complete the Asura God Trial with full affinity so he could rival Destruction God and resume his plans.

Tang San and Tang Hao planned to reclaim the Sea Godhood and avenge the Clear Sky Sect, while dismissing Qian Xunyi as a minor threat. They learned that Bibi Dong remained a guardian elder in Spirit Hall, leaving Tang San puzzled about why Qian Xunyi trusted her.

• Tang San decided to inherit the Asura Godhood first and then demand the Sea Godhood, while Tang Hao agreed that it should stay in the Tang Family.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that Qian Xunyi had become Spirit Hall's Pope and destroyed the Clear Sky Sect, and Tang San promised to avenge the sect and revive its people.
• Tang San reassured Tang Hao that Qian Xunyi was no serious threat compared with Bibi Dong and her Rakshasa Godhood.
• Tang Hao suggested Tang San take a Spirit Hall girl who had feelings for him, but Tang San declared that he loved only Xiao Wu.
• Tang San learned that Bibi Dong had become one of Spirit Hall's guardian elders and wondered why Qian Xunyi had not executed her.

Tang San and Tang Hao discussed their plans for Tang San’s new life, while Qian Xunyi welcomed Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Sea Princess back from their studies on the Sun-Moon Continent. The three soul beasts revealed their remarkable Title Douluo strength and explained how Qian Xunyi’s blood had accelerated their cultivation.

• Tang San concluded that the Asura God had kept Bibi Dong alive to serve as a stepping stone, and Tang Hao lamented the Clear Sky Sect’s losses.
• Tang San told Tang Hao he would still use Yu Xiaogang as a teacher and rely on hidden weapons, while Tang Hao offered him Whale Rubber.
• Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Sea Princess returned to Spirit Hall and greeted Qian Xunyi after nearly twenty years away.
• Snow Empress demonstrated her level-97 strength, while Ice Empress and Sea Princess showed that they had each reached level 95.
• Snow Empress explained that Qian Xunyi’s blood had multiplied their origins, and Ice Empress said Snow Empress’s longer cultivation history explained her greater strength.

Qian Xunyi learned about the Sun-Moon Continent’s Soul Tool development and began building a Soul Tool program for Spirit Hall. After assigning the transformed soul beasts new duties, he established training and military units that relied on imported high-grade Soul Tools.

• Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Sea Princess explained that the Sun-Moon Continent had developed Soul Tools up to Grade Six, and Qian Xunyi asked them to pioneer higher grades before appointing them as Spirit Hall’s Guardian Elders.
• Ice Empress sent Tian Meng back into his Soul Ring when he greeted her flirtatiously, and the next day Tian Meng asked Qian Xunyi for permission to transform.
• Qian Xunyi allowed Tian Meng and Evil Lord to transform on the Sun-Moon Continent, but retained Evil Lord temporarily to oversee the Cosmic Star-Sealing Map and Mental Department with Sea Princess.
• Tian Meng transferred the Cosmic Star-Sealing Map’s authority to Sea Princess and left for the Sun-Moon Continent to transform and cultivate anew.
• Qian Xunyi established Soul Tool Archives and a Soul Tool Department at Spirit Hall Soul Master Academy, then expanded Spirit Hall’s Soul Master Legion with a Soul Guidance Battalion that would use imported high-grade Soul Tools.

Lu Tao brought a powerful melee Soul Tool to Lou Gao’s sixtieth birthday banquet, demonstrating that it could cut through Tai Tan’s mithril shield. Lou Gao recognized the weapon as a Soul Tool, and the Blacksmith Association saw the potential of Spirit Hall’s gift.

• At Lou Gao’s birthday banquet, Tai Tan presented a mithril shield that Lou Gao suggested improving.
• Lu Tao arrived with a gift from Spirit Hall and rebuked Tai Tan for turning the Blacksmith Association against Spirit Hall over his family’s feud.
• Lu Tao presented Lou Gao with a short blade and invited him to test it against Tai Tan’s shield.
• Lou Gao infused the blade with Soul Power and sliced the shield cleanly in half.
• Lou Gao identified the blade as an offensive melee Soul Tool.

Lou Gao visited Spirit Hall to learn about its Soul Tool technology, while Tai Tan was barred from entering and defeated by Lu Tao. After seeing Spirit Hall’s collection and accepting an invitation to join its Soul Tool Department, Lou Gao returned to the Blacksmith Association to consult its elders.

• Lou Gao accepted Lu Tao’s invitation to visit Spirit Hall in three days, and Tai Tan agreed to accompany him.
• At the bishop’s residence, Lu Tao stopped Tai Tan from forcing his way inside and threw him to the ground after overpowering him.
• Gui Mei showed Lou Gao Spirit Hall’s Soul Tools and offered to recruit him and the Blacksmith Association into the new Soul Tool Department.
• Lou Gao accepted the offer for himself and asked for two days to persuade the association’s members, then spent the day examining the Soul Tools.
• After returning to the Blacksmith Association, Lou Gao gathered the elders and asked what they thought about joining Spirit Hall to research Soul Tools.

Lou Gao persuaded the Blacksmith Association to join Spirit Hall by revealing its generous offers and demonstrating Soul Tool technology, while Tai Tan opposed the move out of loyalty to Tang Hao. After the association voted to join, Tai Tan went home and angrily reaffirmed that the Strength Clan would remain loyal to Tang Hao.

• Tai Tan argued that Spirit Hall could not be trusted, while Lou Gao described its benefits for blacksmiths and presented a Soul Tool.
• Lou Gao explained that Soul Tools could let blacksmiths become Soul Engineers, and the grandmasters grew eager to learn the technology.
• Lou Gao admitted that he wanted to join Spirit Hall but would leave the decision to the association, which voted overwhelmingly to join.
• Tai Tan left the meeting in anger and told Tai Nuo that Lou Gao had led the association to Spirit Hall because of Soul Tool technology.
• Tai Tan slapped Tai Nuo for admitting that he was tempted by Soul Tool technology and warned him to stay loyal to Tang Hao and the Strength Clan.

Tai Tan plotted to kill Lou Gao and frame Spirit Hall to prevent the Blacksmith Association from joining it. His assassination attempt failed when Gui Mei froze him, and his identity was revealed to the gathered blacksmiths.

• Tai Tan told Tai Nuo he planned to kill Lou Gao and blame Spirit Hall for the murder.
• Tai Tan broke into Lou Gao's workshop at night and tried to stab him, but the blade could not pierce Lou Gao.
• Lou Gao's scream brought Si Long, Si Yu, and the other master smiths to the workshop as the assassin's blade and escape were halted by Soul Power.
• Gui Mei appeared, identified the dropped token as a Spirit Hall Bishop's Token, and explained that Spirit Hall had come to recruit the Blacksmith Association.
• The blacksmiths uncovered the assassin's face and recognized Tai Tan, who admitted his attempt and lamented that he would not see his master defeat Spirit Hall.

Tai Tan failed to stop Lou Gao from joining Spirit Hall and was stripped of his title, maimed, and castrated after Lou Gao spared his life. He returned to find the Strength Clan had suffered the same punishments, but he still blamed Spirit Hall and defended Tang Hao.

• Lou Gao rejected Tai Tan’s claim that the Blacksmith Association belonged to Tang Hao and explained that Soul Tools offered blacksmiths a path to a better future.
• Lou Gao severed ties with Tai Tan and stripped him of his Divine Craftsman title, while Gui Mei tore off Tai Tan’s arm and castrated him for his attempted assassination and plot to frame Spirit Hall.
• The Blacksmith Association began relocating from Gengxin City to Spirit City.
• Tai Tan returned to the Strength Clan’s residence and found Tai Nuo, Tai Long, and the other male clan members maimed and castrated by Spirit Hall.
• Tai Long questioned their loyalty to Tang Hao, but Tai Tan struck him and insisted that Spirit Hall alone was to blame.

Qian Xunyi welcomed the Blacksmith Association into Spirit Hall, upgraded its members’ Soul Rings, and promised generous rewards for their Soul Tool research. After Lou Gao became a First-Rank Soul Engineer, Qian Xunyi used the Qian Character Secret to advance his Glory Shield to a Seventh-Rank Soul Tool and gave its specifications to the Soul Guidance Hall.

• Lou Gao led the Blacksmith Association members in pledging themselves to Qian Xunyi, who incorporated them into the Soul Guidance Hall and appointed Lou Gao its temporary hall master.
• Jialing used Fire Dragon divine power to improve the members’ Soul Ring configurations, raising Si Long’s rank to 73 in the process.
• Yue Guan announced Spirit Hall’s rewards and support for Soul Tool research, prompting the blacksmiths to denounce Tai Tan and Tang Hao and embrace Spirit Hall.
• Lou Gao forged a First-Rank Soul Tool in under three months and advanced to First-Rank Soul Engineer.
• Qian Xunyi used the Qian Character Secret to refine his Glory Shield into a Seventh-Rank Soul Tool, recorded its information, and handed it to the Soul Guidance Hall.

Qian Xunyi learned that the system’s new Pantheon missions could eventually grant him passage between worlds, and he began planning to raise his Prestige Points. Seeing how widespread Sea God Faith had become, he summoned Evil Lord to retrieve the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and convened Spirit Hall’s Elder Council to discuss the next move.

• Leng Yue laid a dragon egg, and Qian Xunyi agreed to keep her pregnancy secret from Qian Daoliu until their child was born.
• The system unlocked Pantheon achievement missions that required Spirit Hall to acquire godly power and rewarded progress toward stabilizing and merging the Two-World Gate.
• Qian Xunyi learned the gate could connect to other planes or alternate Douluo timelines, and he resolved to stir up major news to increase his Prestige Points.
• After seeing through the Cosmic Star-Sealing Map how widespread Sea God Faith was among sea Soul Masters and Soul Beasts, Qian Xunyi ordered Evil Lord to retrieve the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qian Xunyi convened Spirit Hall’s Elder Council to address the coming matter involving Sea God Island.

Qian Xunyi called an Elder Council meeting and proposed an expedition against Sea God Island, splitting Spirit Hall between supporters and cautious opponents. Qian Daoliu delayed the vote for three days, then questioned Qian Xunyi, who claimed the Sea God was preparing to destroy the Angel Lineage.

• Qian Xunyi proposed the De-Sea-God-Faith Special Military Operation against Sea God Island, citing the losses from Qian Xunji's earlier expedition.
• The Papal Hall elders supported Qian Xunyi's proposal, while the Worship Hall faction opposed provoking the Sea God, whose power rivaled the Angel God.
• Qian Daoliu weighed Spirit Hall's strength against the risks of angering the Sea God and announced that the council would vote in three days.
• Qian Daoliu urged Qian Xunyi to abandon the war, arguing that force would breed hatred and could not win faith.
• Qian Xunyi insisted that the Sea God was moving to destroy the Angel Lineage, and Qian Daoliu asked whether he meant the Sea God would soon attack them.

Qian Xunyi revealed that the Sea God had taken control of the Angel God Examination and that the Angel God Ancestor had fallen, prompting Qian Daoliu to demand war against Sea God Island. At the Elder Council, Bibi Dong argued for the expedition while the Worship Hall elders warned of its dangers, and the debate ended as the vote was about to begin.

• Qian Xunyi showed Qian Daoliu the Sea God's Divine Power controlling the Angel God Examination and told him the Angel God Ancestor had fallen.
• Qian Daoliu abandoned his caution and called for Spirit Hall to attack Sea God Island.
• Three days later, Qian Daoliu arrived late to the Elder Council, where Qian Xunji announced a coming vote on the De-Sea-God-Faith Special Military Operation.
• Bibi Dong urged Spirit Hall to avenge its past defeat at Sea God Island, while Azure Luan and Qianjun Douluo warned that the expedition could cause devastating losses.
• Bibi Dong and the Worship Hall elders argued until Qian Xunyi called time, ending the debate before the vote.

Qian Xunyi secured Spirit Hall’s support for a long-term campaign against Sea God Island, while Bibi Dong recalled the disastrous expedition that had left her terrified of Bo Saixi and the Sea Soul Masters. After celebrating the prospect of Spirit Hall and Sea God Island weakening each other, Bibi Dong was summoned to the Papal Hall and realized she might be sent to the front.

• Qian Daoliu unexpectedly supported Qian Xunyi’s resolution, and the worshippers followed by voting in favor of a campaign against Sea God Island.
• Qian Xunyi declared Sea God Faith a heresy and made purging its believers a long-term military objective for Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong remembered how Bo Saixi had destroyed Spirit Hall’s fleet, how Heavenly Ruler Douluo died while rescuing Yu Xiaogang, and how Spirit Hall had later accepted Sea Soul Master control of the ocean.
• Bibi Dong returned to her manor and laughed at the prospect of Qian Xunyi repeating Qian Xunji’s disastrous expedition.
• A messenger summoned Bibi Dong to the Papal Hall, and she considered protecting herself or deserting if she was sent to fight on Sea God Island.

Qian Xunyi forced Bibi Dong to carry Spirit Hall’s ultimatum to Sea God Island and threatened Xiao Gang to ensure her obedience. After she departed, Evil Emperor returned with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and Qian Xunyi captured Poseidon’s divine sense and revealed that he knew of the gods’ plans against Spirit Hall.

• Bibi Dong urged Qian Xunyi to conquer Sea God Island, and he appointed her as an envoy to demand that its Sea Soul Masters abandon the Sea God Faith and submit to the Angel God.
• Bibi Dong warned that the mission could get her killed, but Qian Xunyi threatened Xiao Gang and promised rewards, forcing her to accept.
• Qian Xunyi planted an Angel’s Feather in Bibi Dong’s Mental Sea to monitor her as she departed for Sea God Island with the Angel Tally.
• Evil Emperor returned with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and Qian Xunyi drew Poseidon’s divine sense out of it and bound it with the God-Binding Rope.
• Poseidon threatened Spirit Hall and spoke of fate’s plans to overthrow it, but Qian Xunyi said he knew of the gods’ scheme and invited Poseidon to see his formidable lineup.

Qian Xunyi taunted Poseidon with Spirit Hall’s formidable Soul Beast allies and revealed that he had seized Slaughter City and brought the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King under his command. Poseidon’s Divine Sense learned that the ocean’s Evil Soul Beast clans had united under the Demon Empress, threatening his influence over the sea.

• Qian Xunyi mocked Poseidon with Spirit Hall’s assembled Title Douluo, transformed Evil Eyes, the Ice Empress, the Snow Empress, the Sea Princess, and the Icefire Twin Dragon Kings.
• Poseidon accused Qian Xunyi of colluding with Soul Beasts, but Qian Xunyi pointed out that Poseidon’s Chosen One, the child of Tang Hao, also had mixed human and Soul Beast blood.
• Qian Xunyi tortured Poseidon’s Divine Sense with the God-Binding Rope, while Jia Yan and Leng Yue condemned Poseidon’s claims about the Dragon God’s defeat.
• Qian Xunyi took Poseidon to Slaughter City, now renamed Black Fury City, and revealed that he had invaded and reshaped the Asura God’s trial ground.
• Qian Xunyi brought Poseidon to the sea, where the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King appeared as the Demon Empress and reported that she had united many oceanic Evil Soul Beast clans under her command.

Qian Xunyi revealed how Poseidon had divided Sea Soul Beasts into Good and Evil camps, controlling their populations and faith through cycles of protection and slaughter. With the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and the Demon Empress gathering the ocean’s Evil Soul Beast kings under a Heaven-Deceiving Formation, the rebels declared their intent to overthrow Poseidon’s order and reclaim the sea.

• Poseidon’s divine thought explained that he had protected Good Soul Beasts and Sea Soul Masters while restricting Evil Soul Beasts, periodically unleashing them to restore balance and renew his followers’ faith.
• The Demon Empress summoned the kings of numerous Evil Soul Beast clans, many of them over a hundred thousand years old, proving that they had united.
• Poseidon tried to contact his main body but discovered that a Heaven-Deceiving Formation blocked communication between Douluo Star and the God Realm.
• Qian Xunyi asked the gathered Evil Soul Beasts what they wanted, and they demanded freedom to hunt, an end to famine, and vengeance against the Demon Spirit Great White Shark Clan.
• The Demon Empress declared that the sea no longer needed Poseidon’s rule and that she would restore its original order.

Qian Xunyi ordered the Demon Empress and her Evil Soul Beast Legion to eradicate Sea God Faith across the ocean, then assembled six armies to prepare for an assault on Sea God Island. Poseidon’s divine sense feared that the campaign would weaken his faith-based Godhood, while Qian Xunyi waited for Poseidon’s true self to respond.

• Poseidon’s divine sense condemned Qian Xunyi for unleashing Evil Soul Beasts, but Qian Xunyi challenged his distinction between good and evil and argued that the sea did not need its god.
• Qian Xunyi ordered the Demon Empress to make every sea creature abandon Sea God Faith or be physically cleansed, and the Evil Soul Beasts returned to their settlements to gather their forces.
• Qian Xunyi displayed six assembled armies before Poseidon’s divine sense and declared that he would strike at Sea God Island and eliminate Sea God Faith.
• Poseidon warned that his true self might detect the loss of faith and bring the God Realm down upon Qian Xunyi, but Qian Xunyi questioned whether Poseidon would descend alone or with the Asura God.
• Poseidon’s divine sense realized that losing the ocean could make his faith-based Godhood fall in rank and hoped his true self would arrive in time to stop Qian Xunyi.

Spirit Hall demanded that the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires support its planned Holy War against Sea God Island, threatening them with accusations of heresy if they refused. Xue Ye claimed loyalty to the Angel God and asked for time, while Dai Tianfeng weighed his options after Zhu Tiancai whispered to him.

• Salas told Xue Ye that Spirit Hall would wage a Holy War against Sea God Island and demanded military passage, territory, and financial support from Heaven Dou.
• When Xue Ye resisted, Salas threatened to treat the empire as heretics unless it declared itself a follower of the Angel God and backed the war.
• Xue Ye claimed to be a follower of the Angel God and asked for time to consult his court, and Salas gave him three days to answer.
• Bu Kuaile presented similar demands to Dai Tianfeng, including war supplies, passage rights, and the cession of Gengxin City.
• Dai Tianfeng suppressed his anger and considered whether the Star Luo Empire could defy Spirit Hall, while Zhu Tiancai whispered to him using Sound Threading.