Chapter Summaries

Tuoba Xi discussed the Holy Dragon Sect’s role in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s destruction of the Clear Sky Sect and ordered the spoils sent secretly to Spirit Hall to prove his loyalty. He expected Spirit Hall to reward the sect and hoped its allegiance would bring it influence if Spirit Hall eventually conquered the Two Great Empires.

• A Holy Dragon Sect elder reported that the sect’s Soul Masters had returned from assisting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with limited losses.
• Tuoba Xi noted that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had suffered heavy losses destroying the Clear Sky Sect and anticipated turmoil between the Two Great Empires.
• The elder reported that the Clear Sky Sect’s remaining wealth had been inventoried, and Tuoba Xi ordered it sent secretly to Spirit Hall.
• Tuoba Xi explained that he expected Spirit Hall to reward the Holy Dragon Sect for demonstrating loyalty and warned that the transfer must not expose Spirit Hall’s involvement.
• After the elder left, Tuoba Xi reflected that the Holy Dragon Sect needed to strengthen its standing with the New Pope and could benefit if Spirit Hall absorbed the Seven Great Sects and the Two Great Empires.

Qian Renfeng reviewed Tuoba Xi’s letter and considered which sect would replace the destroyed Clear Sky Sect among the Upper Three Sects. He decided to inspect Spirit Academy, where Qian Renxue continued teaching combat.

• Qian Renfeng read Tuoba Xi’s pledge of loyalty and ordered Yue Guan to inventory the Clear Sky Sect’s legacy and send part of it to the Holy Dragon Sect.
• Qian Renfeng reasoned that Tuoba Xi feared the Holy Dragon Sect would lose favor to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but he valued the Holy Dragon Sect’s strength and service to Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renfeng considered which Lower Four Sect would pledge allegiance first and take the Clear Sky Sect’s vacant position among the Upper Three Sects.
• Qian Renfeng decided to inspect Spirit Academy and visit Qian Renxue, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and the other students.
• Qian Renxue sneezed during combat training, wondered if Qian Renfeng was thinking of her, and returned to teaching the students.

Rongrong told Xiao Wu that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had declined and that she did not know how it had destroyed the Clear Sky Sect. At the Worship Hall, Qian Daoliu and the other elders discussed the sect’s fall, their agreement with Tang Chen, and whether he was still alive.

• Xiao Wu praised Rongrong’s sect for defeating the Clear Sky Sect, and Rongrong said she had witnessed its decline and knew little about the sect’s victory.
• Qian Daoliu reflected that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, not Spirit Hall, had destroyed the Clear Sky Sect, so he had kept his agreement with Tang Chen.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other elders discussed the Clear Sky Sect’s end and joked about the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s former claims of unity among the Upper Three Sects.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo worried that Tang Chen might still be alive, and Qian Daoliu reasoned that he was likely trapped if he had not completed a God’s Inheritance.
• Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo noted that Spirit Hall now had two Peerless Douluos, and Qian Daoliu said they should treat Tang Chen as dead.

Bo Saixi reflected on the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction and the growing power of Spirit Hall as she discussed the changing situation on the Douluo Continent with Sea Dragon Douluo. She ordered Sea God Island to watch the mainland closely, while the narration confirmed that Spirit Hall intended to reveal its ambitions when the time was right.

• Bo Saixi lamented that Tang Chen’s Clear Sky Sect had been destroyed by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and wondered whether Tang Chen was still alive.
• Bo Saixi told Sea Dragon Douluo that the mainland’s upheavals had made its situation increasingly difficult to understand.
• Sea Dragon Douluo warned that Spirit Hall’s growing power might lead it to establish an empire and threaten Sea God Island.
• Bo Saixi and Sea Dragon Douluo speculated that Spirit Hall, led by Qian Renfeng after Qian Xunji, meant to expand beyond the Soul Master World.
• Bo Saixi ordered Sea Dragon Douluo to monitor the mainland, then returned to the Sea God’s Grand Hall.

Tang Hao grieved over the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction and vowed that Tang San would avenge it, while Tang San learned of the sect’s fall and wondered whether his Clear Sky Hammer connected him to it. Tang San decided to conceal that Martial Soul and grow stronger rather than confront the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Tang Hao mourned the deaths of his elder brother, younger sister, and fellow sect members, blaming the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for destroying the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Hao, crippled and unable to seek revenge himself, placed his hopes on Tang San becoming the strongest Soul Master and avenging the sect.
• Tang Hao recalled his past losses and his hatred of Ning Fengzhi, then drank himself to sleep while promising his dead relatives that Tang San would avenge them.
• At Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, nine-year-old Tang San heard that the Clear Sky Sect had been destroyed by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tang San connected his Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul to the Clear Sky Sect but decided not to reveal it and to focus on becoming stronger.

After the Clear Sky Sect was destroyed, Huyan Zhen decided the Elephant Armor Sect would pledge allegiance to Spirit Hall and claim its place among the Upper Three Sects. Qian Renfeng accepted the Elephant Armor Sect as the first to pledge and ordered its promotion, while leaving the vacant Lower Four Sects position open for another sect.

• Huyan Zhen urged the Elephant Armor Sect elders to seize the opportunity created by the Clear Sky Sect's destruction and pledge allegiance to Spirit Hall.
• The Elephant Armor Sect sent its pledge before the Black Tiger Sect, Fire Leopard Sect, and Wind Sword Sect.
• Qian Renfeng received all four pledges and chose the Elephant Armor Sect as the first to act.
• Qian Renfeng ordered Yue Guan and Gui Mei to name the Elephant Armor Sect one of the Upper Three Sects and issue a unilateral condemnation of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Qian Renfeng considered promoting another sect to fill the vacancy among the Lower Four Sects.

Huyan Zhen received an immortal herb and a letter from Qian Renfeng, pledging the Elephant Armor Sect’s loyalty to Spirit Hall as he prepared to break through to Titled Douluo. Meanwhile, Xue Ye and his ministers worried about Spirit Hall’s growing power and decided to seek an alliance with the Star Luo Empire.

• Huyan Zhen learned that the Elephant Armor Sect had replaced the Clear Sky Sect among the Upper Three Sects.
• Huyan Zhen and his elders read Qian Renfeng’s letter and discovered that the herb Spirit Hall sent could help him break through to Titled Douluo.
• Huyan Zhen pledged the Elephant Armor Sect’s loyalty to Spirit Hall and left to refine the immortal herb in seclusion.
• Xue Ye discussed Spirit Hall’s growing influence with his ministers and acknowledged that the Heaven Dou Empire could not confront it alone.
• Prince Xue Xing proposed joining forces with the Star Luo Empire, and Xue Ye assigned him to make contact.

Qian Xunji and Ah Yin finished touring the continent and began their journey back to Spirit Hall, while Qian Renfeng managed affairs as Pope and visited Spirit Academy. The chapter left Qian Xunji and Ah Yin traveling home and Qian Renfeng at the academy.

• Huyan Zhen became Diamond Douluo, and Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed his breakthrough and planned to attend the Elephant Armor Sect's celebration.
• Qian Xunji and Ah Yin visited Vast Sea City after touring the continent, including viewing Sea God Island from afar.
• Ah Yin asked when they would return, and Qian Xunji said Spirit Hall had little to fear from the Two Great Empires' secret cooperation.
• Qian Xunji and Ah Yin left Vast Sea City by carriage for Spirit City, stopping along the way.
• Qian Renfeng finished his work in the Papal Palace, thought about his absent family, and went to visit Spirit Academy.

Tang Hao told Tang San that the Clear Sky Sect had been destroyed by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and demanded that he avenge it, but Tang San refused to inherit a feud from a sect that had never cared for him. After Tang Hao revealed that the sect had also caused Tang San’s mother’s death, Tang San agreed to avenge her alone and left Tang Hao confronting his own past choices.

• Tang San returned to the Blacksmith Shop and found Tang Hao worn down and surrounded by wine bottles.
• Tang Hao revealed that he had come from the Clear Sky Sect, blamed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for its destruction, and demanded that Tang San remember the blood feud.
• Tang San refused to shoulder the Clear Sky Sect’s hatred, citing his lack of ties to the sect and the danger the powerful Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect posed to him and Holy Soul Village.
• Tang Hao argued that Tang San’s twin martial souls would let him become powerful enough to avenge the sect, but Tang San said time would weaken the hatred.
• Tang Hao revealed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had driven Tang San’s mother, a hundred-thousand-year Death Spider Emperor, to sacrifice herself to save him and Tang San.
• Tang San agreed to avenge his mother but not the Clear Sky Sect, then asked why Tang Hao had not stayed behind to protect her; he went to his room as Tang Hao wondered why he had not done so.

After returning to Spirit Hall, Qian Xunji and Ah Yin heard Qian Renxue describe her new job teaching practical combat and praised Qian Renfeng’s work as Pope. Qian Renfeng sensed a mysterious call growing stronger as his power increased, then he and Qian Renxue left the Back Garden.

• Qian Renxue told Qian Xunji and Ah Yin that she had become a practical combat teacher at the Spirit Academy.
• Qian Renfeng described his recent actions as Pope, including the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction and his support for the Elephant Armor and Rock Antelope Sects.
• Qian Xunji and Ah Yin praised Qian Renfeng for taking responsibility for Spirit Hall and Qian Renxue for finding work she enjoyed.
• Qian Xunji reminded Qian Renfeng and Qian Renxue to keep cultivating, and Qian Renxue joked about one day becoming gods with her brother.
• Qian Renfeng recalled the Asura phantom and sensed that a distant call was growing stronger as he gained power.
• Qian Renfeng and Qian Renxue finished chatting with their parents and left the Back Garden.

Qian Renxue, Qian Renfeng, and their companions strolled through Spirit City's Great Garden, where they witnessed two academy seniors confess their love. Their romance left Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling worrying that Qian Renfeng, whom they both liked, would never notice their feelings, while Qian Renxue encouraged them to make an effort.

• Qian Renxue and Qian Renfeng took Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Hu Liena, Xiao Wu, and Rongrong to stroll through Spirit City's Great Garden.
• Hu Liena led the group to a crowd, where Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling recognized two sixth-year seniors confessing their long-held feelings to each other.
• After the crowd dispersed, Dugu Yan wondered when she and Qian Renfeng might become a couple and worried that he was oblivious to romance.
• Ye Lingling admitted she also liked Qian Renfeng, and she and Dugu Yan agreed that he seemed to see them only as little sisters.
• Qian Renxue teased Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Hu Liena about their feelings for Qian Renfeng, then urged them to work harder so he would notice.

As the group enjoyed a lively evening together, Qian Renfeng reflected on how much he cherished his peaceful new life and feared losing it. He gave Rongrong an Immortal Herb suited to her Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda Martial Soul, which might help it evolve.

• Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Hu Liena decided they would stay at Spirit Academy as teachers after graduation, while Xiao Wu and Rongrong joked about being their future students.
• Qian Renfeng privately worried that his happiness was only a dream and that he might wake up back in Bashu as an outer disciple, separated from everyone he loved.
• Qian Renxue struck Qian Renfeng on the head and teased him, and he told her he was simply feeling grateful for their happy life together.
• Qian Renfeng presented Rongrong with an Immortal Herb suited to her Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda Martial Soul and said it might help her Martial Soul evolve.

Qian Renfeng gave Rongrong an immortal herb and proposed an experiment to help her Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda evolve by absorbing carefully selected, higher-age Soul Rings. After explaining his theory that Soul Rings can gradually change Martial Souls, he left the garden with everyone and told Qian Renxue the theory could apply even to their Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

• Qian Renfeng gave Rongrong an immortal herb and reminded her to follow the refining method correctly.
• Qian Renfeng offered to test whether selected Soul Rings could overcome the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda's limit, and Rongrong agreed.
• Qian Renfeng explained that Soul Rings can change Martial Souls according to their attributes, citing Blue Silver Grass and Dugu Yan's dragon-blood Soul Rings as examples.
• Qian Renfeng advised Rongrong to choose gem-type Soul Beasts for future Soul Rings, while Xiao Wu asked whether her Soft Bone Rabbit could evolve.
• After everyone left the garden, Qian Renfeng told Qian Renxue that even the Six-Winged Angel could develop a fire attribute if it absorbed only fire-attribute Soul Rings.

Ning Rongrong told Gu Rong about her day in Spirit City and explained Qian Renfeng’s theory that stronger, higher-age Soul Rings might evolve the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda. After dinner, she went to absorb the immortal herb he had given her, while Gu Rong felt increasingly at home in Spirit City.

• Ning Rongrong returned home and told Gu Rong about visiting Great Garden Square with Qian Renxue, Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Hu Liena, and Qian Renfeng.
• Ning Rongrong showed Gu Rong the immortal herb Qian Renfeng had given her and said it might help her Martial Soul evolve.
• Ning Rongrong relayed Qian Renfeng’s theory that every Soul Ring could evolve a Martial Soul, and that high-age gemstone-type Soul Rings might turn her Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda into an Eight-Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Gu Rong agreed that Soul Rings could shape Martial Soul evolution and praised Qian Renfeng’s knowledge.
• Ning Rongrong teased Qian Renxue for being poor at theory, then went to absorb the immortal herb as Gu Rong cleared the table.

Qian Renxue and Qian Renfeng told Qian Xunji about the immortal herb and discussed how Soul Rings could change Martial Souls. Qian Xunji praised Qian Renfeng's leadership before his son called his habit of delegating work slacking off.

• Qian Renxue told Qian Xunji how Qian Renfeng gave Rongrong an immortal herb and explained his theory about Martial Soul evolution.
• Qian Xunji said Soul Rings could make a Martial Soul's attributes more prominent, and he and Qian Renfeng considered whether the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's inherited Martial Soul could evolve.
• Qian Renfeng argued that the Clear Sky Hammer's strength was real but that his grandfather had fought Tang Chen without using the Six-Winged Angel's advantages.
• Qian Xunji described his father as an honorable gentleman who was a poor leader, then praised Qian Renfeng's abilities as Pope.
• Qian Renfeng said a leader should learn to slack off instead of handling every task personally, embarrassing Qian Xunji.

Qian Renfeng and Qian Renxue learned that Ah Yin’s Martial Soul was the Blue Silver Emperor and that she was a transformed hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast. Their family discussed how Ah Yin and Qian Xunji had stayed together and how her bloodline affected the siblings before Ah Yin sent them back to cultivate.

• Qian Renfeng asked why Ah Yin had reached Titled Douluo with what he thought was a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Ah Yin revealed her golden-marked Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul and explained its place in the Blue Silver lineage.
• Qian Xunji told Qian Renxue and Qian Renfeng that Ah Yin was a Soul Beast transformed into human form, and both siblings accepted that she was still their mother.
• Qian Xunji explained that the siblings carried both Angel and Blue Silver Emperor bloodlines, though the Angel bloodline suppressed the latter.
• Ah Yin recalled that Qian Xunji had been willing to leave Spirit Hall with their children if his father rejected their family.
• Ah Yin told Qian Renxue and Qian Renfeng to finish eating and return to cultivating.

After taking the immortal herb Pope Brother gave her, Rongrong discovered that her Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda had evolved into an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, freeing her from the Soul Sage cultivation limit. Gu Rong planned to take the news to Fengzhi, while Rongrong looked forward to asking Pope Brother whether her Martial Soul could evolve again.

• Rongrong released her Martial Soul and discovered that the immortal herb had evolved it into the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Rongrong told Gu Rong that she could now cultivate to Soul Douluo and hoped to eventually evolve her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Gu Rong celebrated Rongrong's evolution and said he would return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to tell Fengzhi.
• Rongrong went back to her room, stayed too excited to sleep, and resolved to tell Pope Brother the news and ask about his theory.
• Gu Rong and Rongrong recognized that the Martial Soul's evolution had happened even though Qian Renfeng had not been certain the herb would cause it.

Ning Fengzhi celebrated Rongrong’s Martial Soul evolving into the Eight-Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect discussed its prospects after joining Spirit Hall. In Spirit City, Rongrong showed her evolved Martial Soul to Qian Renfeng and the others, then joined them for a walk through the Great Garden Square.

• Gu Rong told Ning Fengzhi that Rongrong’s Martial Soul had evolved, and Ning Fengzhi rejoiced that she could now cultivate to level eighty-nine Soul Douluo.
• Chen Xin suggested Rongrong might someday evolve her Martial Soul again, while Gu Rong told Ning Fengzhi that Spirit Hall had not revealed how its method helped Soul Masters absorb high-age Soul Rings.
• Ning Fengzhi wondered whether immortal herbs could evolve his own Martial Soul and asked how Rongrong was getting along with Qian Renfeng.
• In Spirit City, Rongrong showed Xiao Wu, Qian Renfeng, and the others her Eight-Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and explained its new cultivation limit.
• Qian Renfeng said he could not guarantee that Rongrong could evolve her Martial Soul again, but encouraged her to follow his advice about absorbing Soul Rings.
• Qian Renfeng urged Rongrong to keep cultivating, then led the group around the Great Garden Square.

Qian Renxue, Qian Renfeng, and their companions visited a flower shop and discovered that its owner was Bibi Dong, Spirit Hall’s former Holy Maiden. After confronting her about her betrayal and learning she had been pardoned, they chose flowers and treated her as an ordinary shopkeeper.

• Qian Renxue and the others entered Flower Language, where they recognized the veiled owner as an old acquaintance.
• Qian Renxue revealed that the shop owner was Spirit Hall’s former Holy Maiden, and Rongrong criticized Bibi Dong for betraying Spirit Hall for a man.
• Bibi Dong admitted she regretted her choices and said the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had fallen through its own arrogance.
• Qian Renxue explained that her father had pardoned Bibi Dong and moved on, while Qian Renfeng rebuked Bibi Dong for calling him Teacher.
• Qian Renfeng told the others to treat Bibi Dong as an ordinary shop owner, and they selected flowers before he asked her the price.

Qian Renfeng and his companions visited Bibi Dong’s flower shop, where he paid extra for their flowers but remained furious at her betrayal of Spirit Hall. After meeting Xie Yue and Yan at Great Garden Square, they continued strolling until evening and then headed home for dinner.

• Bibi Dong told Qian Renfeng that his payment was insufficient for her flowers, so he tossed her another bag of Gold Soul Coins before leaving.
• Bibi Dong reflected on her past betrayal and explained that she had sold the golden bowl given to her by the Pope to fund her flower shop.
• Qian Renxue and the others teased Qian Renfeng about the payment, and he admitted that seeing Bibi Dong made him furious.
• Hu Liena, Dugu Yan, Qian Renxue, and Qian Renfeng ran into Xie Yue and Yan, who greeted the siblings respectfully before the group continued on.
• As evening arrived, Qian Renfeng said he was tired and suggested they go home for dinner, and everyone left Great Garden Square.