Chapter Summaries

At Spirit Hall Junior Soul Master Academy, Qian Renfeng reflected on the war between the two great empires while talking with Qian Renxue and their younger friends about their lessons. Yan grew jealous when he saw Hu Liena speaking with Qian Renfeng, challenged him, and was slapped down before learning Qian Renfeng’s connection to her.

• Qian Renfeng condemned the two great empires for going to war and thought Spirit Hall should replace them.
• Qian Renxue and Qian Renfeng visited Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Hu Liena after class and heard what the first-years had learned.
• Qian Renfeng explained that his class had covered how Martial Soul attributes countered one another in combat.
• Yan confronted Qian Renfeng for talking with Hu Liena, then released his Martial Soul and attacked him.
• Qian Renfeng slapped Yan away and told him that he was Hu Liena’s brother and the son of her teacher.

Qian Renxue and Qian Renfeng showed Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Hu Liena around Spirit Hall Junior Soul Master Academy, where the siblings were renowned for their strength. After the tour, the girls returned to their dormitory to cultivate.

• Yan realized Qian Renfeng was Hu Liena's brother, but Hu Liena rejected Yan's familiar address and left with Qian Renfeng and Qian Renxue.
• Xie Yue told Yan he had no chance with Hu Liena and warned him to stop pursuing her.
• Qian Renxue and Qian Renfeng toured the academy with Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Hu Liena, then joined them for lunch in the cafeteria.
• Qian Renxue explained that she and Qian Renfeng had defeated every student who challenged them and offered to help the girls if anyone bullied them.
• Qian Renfeng showed the girls the academy's Mimicry Cultivation Environment before he and Qian Renxue returned to their separate dormitories.
• Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Hu Liena went back to their dormitory and began cultivating.

The Heaven Dou Empire and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect struggled against the Star Luo Empire while wondering why Spirit Hall had not stopped the war. The Holy Dragon Sect joined the Heaven Dou side, but its secret aim was to wear down Star Luo and make it seek Spirit Hall’s intervention.

• Xue Ye and the empress discussed Heaven Dou’s battlefield defeats and questioned why Spirit Hall had not intervened, while the Holy Dragon Sect agreed to help.
• The Star Luo Emperor suspected Spirit Hall was behind the Holy Dragon Sect’s entry into the war and worried that the new support would make Heaven Dou harder to defeat.
• The chapter explained that the Holy Dragon Sect intended to bleed the Star Luo Empire until it begged Spirit Hall to step in.
• Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin lamented the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s mounting losses and regretted the events that had helped ignite the war.
• Ning Fengzhi distrusted the Holy Dragon Sect, while Chen Xin accepted its help as a chance to ease pressure on their forces.

The Holy Dragon Sect helped stabilize the Heaven Dou Empire’s front, turning the war into a costly stalemate while Spirit Hall stayed out of the fighting. As losses mounted, Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, and factions from both empires decided to send envoys to ask Spirit Hall to intervene.

• The Holy Dragon Sect helped Heaven Dou hold its front lines in exchange for a price agreed upon by Xue Ye and Tuoba Xi.
• The Star Luo Emperor grew furious as the front stalled, while the Star Luo Empress suspected Heaven Dou had promised the Holy Dragon Sect something for its aid.
• As the war became a contest of attrition, some Star Luo factions secretly helped Heaven Dou, and the losses mounted on both sides.
• Xue Ye grew anxious about Spirit Hall’s silence and decided to send someone to sound it out.
• Ning Fengzhi urged Chen Xin to arrange a discreet envoy to Spirit Hall, and factions from both empires sent people there as well.

Qian Xunji delayed Spirit Hall’s intervention until the Two Great Empires were desperate for help, then brokered a ceasefire between them. The war ended with Spirit Hall’s prestige greatly strengthened, while both empires accepted terms to resolve their dispute.

• Qian Xunji celebrated that factions were asking Spirit Hall to stop the war, but chose to wait before intervening.
• After Spirit Hall stepped in, Xue Ye and the Star Luo Emperor welcomed the prospect of ending the war, while exhausted soldiers and allied factions felt relieved.
• Qian Xunji met with the two emperors in Spirit City, where three days of negotiations ended with the Heaven Dou Empire paying Gold Soul Coins for the return of occupied territory.
• The Two Great Empires scheduled a ceasefire, and people across the continent praised Spirit Hall for ending the war.

The war ended with the Star Luo Empire and Heaven Dou Empire both weakened, while Spirit Hall gained prestige and the Holy Dragon Sect profited. At Seven Treasure City, Ning Fengzhi regretted his choices and ordered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to withdraw and rebuild.

• The Star Luo Empire returned occupied territory, while both empires, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the fighting academies suffered heavy losses.
• The Clear Sky Sect withdrew from the world, and the Holy Dragon Sect gained influence after joining the war late on terms agreed with Xue Ye.
• Spirit Hall gained fame and goodwill after secretly helping the factions negotiate an end to the fighting.
• Ning Fengzhi lamented that his hunt for Tang Hao and the sect's entry into the war had cost the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect its next generation and left it crippled.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered the sect to pull back its forces, rest, rebuild, and encourage surviving members to have more children.

Spirit Hall celebrated the prestige it gained after the empires’ war ended, crediting Qian Xunji’s leadership. In Holy Soul Village, Tang Hao learned the war was over and brooded over his weakness, his father’s death, and his inability to return to the Clear Sky Sect.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other worshippers praised Qian Xunji for letting Spirit Hall gain prestige while the Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect suffered heavy losses.
• Qian Daoliu defended his own strength but conceded that Qian Xunji had governed Spirit Hall effectively, while the others teased him about his son.
• Tang Hao heard villagers say that the empires’ war had ended and that Spirit Hall had intervened to stop it.
• Tang Hao blamed himself for the Clear Sky Sect’s defeat and retreat, his father’s death, and the war, then lamented that he was too injured to seek out the sect’s hidden location.

Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect's surviving elders discussed their losses after the war and the sect's retreat into hiding. They decided to remain concealed and rebuild, while Tang Hao remained missing and the Four Single-Attribute Clans stayed gone.

• Tang Xiao told the elders that Spirit Hall had ended the war between the Two Great Empires.
• The elders compared the Clear Sky Sect's losses with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's devastation and the gains made by the Holy Dragon Sect and Spirit Hall.
• Tang Xiao and the elders wondered whether Tang Hao was alive and why he had not returned.
• The elders argued over abandoning the Four Single-Attribute Clans, and Tang Xiao recalled that the Elders' Council had made the decision before he signed off on it.
• A Clear Sky Sect elder asked how the sect should proceed, and the elders resolved to stay hidden and rebuild their strength.

Three years after the war, the continent remained at peace while Qian Renxue and Qian Renfeng returned from school as twelve-year-old Soul Kings. Their family praised their progress and discussed how diligently Hu Liena and their classmates were cultivating.

• The Clear Sky Sect stayed hidden, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect remained hostile toward it, and the Holy Dragon Sect continued to grow.
• Qian Xunji and Ah Yin discussed taking Qian Renxue and Qian Renfeng on an outing during their break and marveled that both siblings had reached Soul King at age twelve.
• Qian Renxue and Qian Renfeng returned to the Papal Palace's Back Garden, followed by Hu Liena, and Ah Yin welcomed them.
• Qian Xunji praised the siblings' Soul Power Levels of fifty-three and fifty-seven, and he noted Hu Liena had reached level thirty-one.
• Qian Renxue and Qian Renfeng told their parents that Hu Liena, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling worked hard at Spirit Hall Junior Soul Master Academy, and Qian Xunji said they would become pillars of Spirit Hall.

Qian Renfeng told Qian Xunji and Ah Yin about Hidden Weapons and showed them a Godly Zhuge Crossbow, claiming it could kill a Soul Elder or Soul Ancestor caught off guard. The chapter left him preparing to prove the weapon’s power to his skeptical parents.

• Qian Xunji and Ah Yin invited Qian Renxue, Qian Renfeng, and Nana on a trip, and the group agreed to visit the Far North.
• Qian Renfeng worried about the Far North’s powerful Soul Beasts, so Qian Xunji proposed bringing Qian Daoliu along for protection.
• Qian Renfeng told his parents he wanted to discuss something and asked whether Qian Xunji knew about Hidden Weapons.
• Qian Renfeng took out a Godly Zhuge Crossbow and explained that it could kill a Soul Elder or Soul Ancestor who failed to defend themselves.
• Qian Xunji examined the crossbow while Ah Yin and Hu Liena questioned its strength, and Qian Renfeng decided he would have to demonstrate it.

Qian Renfeng demonstrated the Godly Zhuge Crossbow to Qian Xunji and Ah Yin, then proposed establishing a Hidden Weapon Hall to manufacture hidden weapons for Spirit Hall. Qian Xunji approved the plan, appointed Qian Renfeng as its first hall master, and suggested dividing production among different workers to protect the designs and speed up manufacturing.

• Qian Renfeng fired the Godly Zhuge Crossbow at Ah Yin's Soul Power barrier, and she recognized that its arrows could kill an unprepared Soul Elder or Soul Ancestor.
• Qian Renfeng claimed he had perfected hidden weapons from an incomplete manuscript found in the Library Hall, and Qian Xunji returned the manuscript to him.
• Qian Renfeng proposed a department devoted to hidden weapons, and Qian Xunji approved a Hidden Weapon Hall administered by the Papal Palace.
• Qian Xunji named Qian Renfeng the first hall master and assigned Chrysanthemum Elder, Ghost Elder, Poison Elder, and Elder Ye to assist him.
• Qian Xunji offered Spirit Hall's blacksmiths and storeroom materials, then proposed splitting production into separate tasks to protect the methods and increase output.
• Qian Renfeng agreed that different workers should forge and assemble separate components of the hidden weapons.

Qian Renfeng and Qian Renxue took Hu Liena, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling around Spirit City and invited them to join Qian Renfeng’s new Hidden Weapon Hall. Their outing ended when they recognized Bibi Dong begging on the street, where she reflected on the twelve years she had spent begging and watched Qian Xunji’s children pass by.

• Qian Renxue, Qian Renfeng, and Hu Liena invited Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to join their family’s coming trip, and both girls agreed.
• Qian Renfeng invited the girls to join his Hidden Weapon Hall, and Qian Renxue and all three girls accepted.
• Qian Renfeng told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that their grandfathers would also join the Hidden Weapon Hall.
• Qian Renfeng accompanied the girls shopping in Spirit City and paid for Dugu Yan’s purchases.
• Ye Lingling spotted Bibi Dong begging at the end of the street, and Qian Renfeng told the group to ignore the Spirit Hall traitor.
• Bibi Dong recognized Qian Xunji’s children and reflected that she had spent twelve years begging in Spirit City.

Bibi Dong regretted leaving Spirit Hall after Yu Xiaogang deceived her, while Qian Renfeng and his family continued their peaceful lives. In Holy Soul Village, Tang Hao struggled to care for three-year-old Tang San while mourning A Zhi and wishing he could find the Clear Sky Sect.

• Bibi Dong watched Qian Renfeng and the others, then left in shame and sobbed alone over her past betrayal of Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renfeng told Qian Renxue he planned to teach Yan Yan, Ye Lingling, and Nana the Mysterious Heaven Skill after they joined the Hidden Weapon Hall.
• Qian Renfeng and Qian Renxue returned to the Papal Palace, where Ah Yin called them and Qian Xunji to dinner.
• Three years after A Zhi's death, Tang Hao mourned her while sharing a meager meal with an undernourished Tang San.
• Tang Hao worried that his injuries had left him too weak to provide for Tang San and wished he knew where the Clear Sky Sect was hidden.

Qian Xunji and Ah Yin took Qian Renxue, Qian Renfeng, Hu Liena, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling on a trip to the Far North, with Qian Daoliu secretly watching over them. Back in Spirit City, the Hidden Weapon Hall’s construction continued, but it could not begin making weapons until Qian Renfeng returned.

• Qian Xunji established the Hidden Weapon Hall’s framework and assigned Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Dugu Bo, and Ye Changqing to it.
• Qian Xunji’s group collected Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling before leaving Spirit City by carriage, while Qian Daoliu flew above them to guard the group.
• Dugu Bo, Ye Changqing, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei inspected the Hidden Weapon Hall on Divine Mountain after the travelers departed.
• Yue Guan said the hall should recruit blacksmiths and wait for Qian Renfeng to return before beginning production.

After returning to Spirit City from their travels, Qian Renfeng and Qian Renxue visited the newly completed Hidden Weapon Hall, where he prepared to begin teaching its blacksmiths. Qian Renfeng discovered its storeroom full of rare materials and eagerly began examining them.

• Qian Xunji, Ah Yin, Qian Renxue, Qian Renfeng, and the three girls returned to Spirit City after touring the Heaven Dou Empire, the Far North, Vast Sea City, and the Star Luo Empire.
• Qian Daoliu flew back to the Worship Hall, while Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Hu Liena went to see their families.
• Qian Xunji took Qian Renfeng and Qian Renxue to inspect the completed Hidden Weapon Hall, where Yue Guan and Gui Mei reported that blacksmiths and materials were ready for production.
• Qian Renfeng asked Qian Renxue to stay and help him at the hall, and she agreed before Qian Xunji and Ah Yin returned home.
• Qian Renfeng and Qian Renxue visited the storeroom, where Qian Renfeng delighted in the rare materials and said he would seek a master blacksmith to teach him forging.

Four years later, the Spirit Hall had grown stronger, and Qian Renxue, Qian Renfeng, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Hu Liena had become the academy’s Golden Generation. Qian Xunji discussed retiring in a few years and planned to pass the position of pope to Qian Renfeng, while Qian Renxue remained content to be spoiled.

• The Holy Dragon Sect rose to become the continent’s leading sect beneath the Spirit Hall after the Clear Sky Sect withdrew and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect weakened.
• Qian Renfeng’s Hidden Weapon Hall began operating, while he focused on cultivation and Qian Xunji ordered corrupt Spirit Hall Soul Masters to be killed.
• Qian Xunji and Ah Yin welcomed the return of Qian Renxue and the others for their break, noting their exceptional ranks and status as the Golden Generation.
• Qian Xunji told Ah Yin that he might retire in a few years and intended to pass the pope’s position to Qian Renfeng, since Qian Renxue was too lazy for the role.

Qian Renxue, Qian Renfeng, and Hu Liena returned from vacation and visited Spirit Hall’s expanded Hidden Weapon Hall. Qian Xunji planned to take Ah Yin to Holy Soul Village to watch Tang San awaken his Martial Soul, despite her lack of interest.

• Qian Renxue, Qian Renfeng, and Hu Liena returned to the Papal Palace and reunited with Qian Xunji and Ah Yin.
• Qian Renfeng led Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling through the Hidden Weapon Hall and checked its materials warehouse, but the materials he wanted had not been found.
• Qian Xunji recalled that Tang San was six and said Tang Hao had raised him in severe poverty, leaving him malnourished and apparently ordinary.
• Qian Xunji invited Ah Yin to travel with him to watch Tang San awaken his Martial Soul, and she reluctantly agreed.

Qian Xunji and Ah Yin watched Tang Hao’s malnourished son awaken his Martial Souls in Holy Soul Village. Tang San revealed a Death Spider Emperor and a Clear Sky Hammer, though his severe Congenital Deficiency might limit his talent.

• Qian Xunji showed Ah Yin Tang Hao’s dilapidated blacksmith shop and explained that Tang Hao remained injured and spent most of his earnings on alcohol.
• Qian Xunji and Ah Yin watched a Spirit Hall deacon take the gaunt Tang San from the shop to the village’s Martial Soul awakening ceremony.
• Su Yuntao awakened a Death Spider Emperor Martial Soul in Tang San, while Tang San secretly realized he possessed another Martial Soul.
• Ah Yin sensed Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer, and Qian Xunji judged both of his Martial Souls powerful but worried that his severe Congenital Deficiency would diminish his talent.

Tang San awakened with Innate Seventh-Level Soul Power, and Su Yuntao tried to recruit him into Spirit Hall. Tang Hao refused, then belittled his son’s talent, while the hidden Qian Xunji and Ah Yin left after discussing Tang San’s danger and Tang Hao’s hopes for revenge.

• Tang San tested at Innate Seventh-Level Soul Power, and Su Yuntao urged him to join Spirit Hall.
• Tang San asked to consult his father, so Su Yuntao took him to Tang Hao’s blacksmith shop while Qian Xunji and Ah Yin followed unseen.
• Su Yuntao praised Tang San’s talent and urged Tang Hao to let him join Spirit Hall, but Tang Hao firmly refused.
• Su Yuntao left, and Qian Xunji and Ah Yin noted that Tang Hao could not protect Tang San from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tang Hao called Tang San’s Innate Seventh-Level Soul Power useless, and Qian Xunji and Ah Yin departed.

Tang Hao despaired over Tang San’s seemingly limited talent and forbade him from becoming a Soul Master, fearing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would find them. When Tang San revealed his second Martial Soul, the Clear Sky Hammer, Tang Hao rekindled his hopes for revenge and agreed to let him cultivate.

• Tang Hao lamented that Tang San’s Innate Seventh-Level Soul Power and Death Spider Emperor Martial Soul were not enough to avenge A Zhi against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tang San asked to join Spirit Hall and become a Soul Master, but Tang Hao rejected both ideas and told him to learn blacksmithing instead.
• Tang San insisted that he had another Martial Soul and revealed the Clear Sky Hammer to Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao celebrated Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls, blamed his low Soul Power on malnutrition, and told him to use the hammer to protect his Death Spider Emperor.
• Tang San agreed, and Tang Hao got up to cook for him when he said he was hungry.