Chapter Summaries

Tang Hao arrived in Spirit City and overwhelmed Spirit Hall’s forces to rescue Tang San and Xiao Wu. He escaped after striking Pope Palace, leaving the tournament title to Spirit Hall Academy and the plaza in ruins.

• Tang Hao descended into Central Soul Plaza and stood between Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Spirit Hall’s experts.
• Tang Hao struck back Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, then unleashed the Great Clear Sky Hammer against Pope Palace.
• Gu Changsheng shielded Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan from the hammer strike’s aftershock.
• Tang Hao seized Tang San and Xiao Wu, used Ring Detonation to deter their pursuers, and escaped into the sky.
• Bibi Dong declared Spirit Hall Academy the tournament champions as the stunned crowd watched the ruined plaza.

After Spirit Hall awarded the championship and placed Tang San and Xiao Wu on its wanted list, Bibi Dong questioned Gu Changsheng about what he had known and assigned him to gather intelligence on Tang San. Gu Changsheng later examined Tang Hao’s hammer technique through the Myriad Heaven Book, which revealed that a new chapter could be deduced.

• Bibi Dong awarded Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue Spirit Bones, promised Gu Changsheng a different reward, and ordered Shrek Academy to leave Spirit City while placing Tang San and Xiao Wu on Spirit Hall’s wanted list.
• Bibi Dong questioned Gu Changsheng about his suspicions regarding Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Tang Hao, then ordered him to organize intelligence on them and the remnants of Clear Sky School.
• Hu Liena privately asked Gu Changsheng whether he had anticipated the events, and warned him not to scheme himself into ruin or forget their promise.
• After Hu Liena left, Gu Changsheng studied Tang Hao’s hammer techniques in the Myriad Heaven Book, which announced that the Myriad Heaven Momentum-Breaking Chapter could be deduced.

Gu Changsheng deduced a momentum-breaking technique from Tang Hao’s hammer strike and tested it against Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena. After presenting his assessment of Tang San to Bibi Dong, he learned that the Elder Hall wanted to meet him.

• Gu Changsheng used the Myriad Heaven Book to develop the initial form of the Myriad Heaven Momentum-Breaking Chapter.
• Gu Changsheng disrupted Yan’s Spirit Bone attacks and Xie Yue’s Moon Blade rhythm, while only partially weakening Hu Liena’s mental attack.
• A Spirit Hall Guard summoned Gu Changsheng to Pope Palace, where he gave Bibi Dong a detailed dossier and predicted Tang Hao would train Tang San in seclusion.
• Gu Changsheng suspected Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass was tied to his maternal bloodline, and Bibi Dong ordered further investigation.
• Bibi Dong told Gu Changsheng that the Elder Hall wished to see him and reminded him that he was her disciple.

Gu Changsheng faced Qian Daoliu’s scrutiny in Elder Hall, then received seven days of leave from Bibi Dong. He and Hu Liena set out for Yunshui Town, agreeing to put Spirit Hall’s conflicts aside for their trip.

• Qian Daoliu tested Gu Changsheng’s loyalty to Spirit Hall and warned him that the Hall would not tolerate betrayal.
• Gu Changsheng explained what he had learned from Tang Hao’s hammer strike, and Qian Daoliu acknowledged his courage.
• Gu Changsheng asked Bibi Dong for seven days of leave, and she agreed on the condition that he stay near Spirit City and report his whereabouts.
• Gu Changsheng told Hu Liena about the leave, and she chose Yunshui Town for their vacation.
• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena left Spirit City by carriage, and Hu Liena asked him to set aside thoughts of Tang San, Tang Hao, Elder Hall, and Bibi Dong for their seven days together.

Hu Liena and Gu Changsheng traveled to Yunshui Town for a peaceful hot spring trip, where Hu Liena asked whether she had a place in his destiny and he said yes. As they relaxed in separate pools, a hidden watcher reported their arrival and received orders to watch them, keep Gu Changsheng alive, and capture Hu Liena if possible.

• Hu Liena and Gu Changsheng arrived in Yunshui Town, where Gu Changsheng drove off four Spirit Masters who harassed them at the inn.
• Hu Liena teased Gu Changsheng on the way to the hot springs, then asked whether she was part of his destiny, and he answered yes.
• Hu Liena and Gu Changsheng soaked in separate hot spring pools, each reflecting on their conversation.
• A Black Shadow reported their arrival to an unknown superior, who ordered him to watch them, spare Gu Changsheng, and capture Hu Liena if he could.

Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena enjoyed a peaceful outing in Yunshui Town until masked Spirit Masters ambushed them on the lake. Trapped in a Water Prison designed to drain their Soul Power, Hu Liena stood guard while Gu Changsheng searched for a way to break the array.

• Hu Liena and Gu Changsheng strolled through Yunshui Town, then boarded a painted boat and spoke about wanting a peaceful future together.
• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena detected a controlled boatman and were surrounded by more than a dozen masked Spirit Masters led by a Grey-Robed Spirit Saint.
• Hu Liena and Gu Changsheng fought off the attackers, disrupted their ambush and forced the Grey-Robed Spirit Saint back, while learning he had orders not to kill Gu Changsheng.
• The Grey-Robed Spirit Saint activated an array beneath the lake, trapping Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena in a Water Prison that extracted Soul Power.
• Hu Liena stood between Gu Changsheng and their enemies while he studied the prison’s Soul Patterns and announced that he had found its weakness.

Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena were trapped in a Water Prison laced with Love Poison, which amplified their emotions and threatened to make them lose control. They joined their Mental Power to break the formation, escaped together, and turned to face the Grey-Robed Spirit Saint.

• The Grey-Robed Spirit Saint revealed that the red mist was Love Poison meant to make Hu Liena lose control and torment Gu Changsheng.
• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena cut their palms to stay awake, then clasped hands and linked their Consciousness Seas so they could resist the poison and locate the formation eye.
• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena shared their feelings through the spiritual connection, and Gu Changsheng admitted he would no longer hide his feelings from her.
• Gu Changsheng used the Myriad Heaven Book and Hu Liena's Mental Power to shatter the formation eye, collapsing the Water Prison and driving back the black-robed Spirit Masters.
• Gu Changsheng pulled Hu Liena to safety amid the waves, then turned toward the wounded Grey-Robed Spirit Saint and prepared to settle the score.

Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena defeated the attackers on the lake, but the Grey-Robed Spirit Saint died after revealing only the clues “Tiandou” and “Xue.” They withdrew to a secluded courtyard so Hu Liena could recover, and the chapter ended with Gu Changsheng studying the snow-patterned token and suspecting the clues pointed toward a larger plot.

• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena stopped the Black-robed Spirit Masters from escaping and captured the Grey-Robed Spirit Saint.
• Hu Liena prepared to search the Grey-Robed Spirit Saint's memories, but a seal on his neck triggered a deadly backlash that Gu Changsheng partly suppressed.
• Under pressure, the Grey-Robed Spirit Saint revealed “Tiandou” and “Xue” before his Soul Power exploded and killed him.
• Gu Changsheng found a snow-patterned jade token and concluded that the mastermind was connected to Tiandou, though the obvious clues might be a setup.
• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena retreated to a secluded courtyard, shared Qingxin Pill, and comforted each other as Hu Liena recovered.
• After Hu Liena fell asleep beside him, Gu Changsheng examined the token's clues and began to suspect the meaning of the character for snow.

After surviving the attack in Yunshui Town, Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena chose to stay together for their promised seven days while he reported the incident to Bibi Dong without presenting uncertain clues as fact. A hidden figure in Tiandou territory ordered the operation’s traces erased, and Gu Changsheng suspected Qian Renxue was behind it.

• Hu Liena woke beside Gu Changsheng, confirmed that his promise not to hide his feelings still stood, and persuaded him that she did not want to return to Spirit City.
• Gu Changsheng sent Bibi Dong a brief report about the attack and arranged for the Yunshui Town branch hall to handle the survivors and bodies, while withholding the uncertain Snow-Patterned Jade Token clue.
• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena walked through town holding hands, exchanged sugar figurines, and agreed to face future difficulties together rather than let him shoulder everything alone.
• A Black Shadow reported the failed operation to a hidden figure in Tiandou territory, who rebuked him for targeting Hu Liena and ordered him to erase every lead connected to Yunshui Town.
• After the Black Shadow left, the hidden figure wondered at Gu Changsheng’s abilities, while Gu Changsheng sensed something and suspected Qian Renxue’s intentions.

Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena discovered an ancient array beneath Yunshui Lake and learned that the Black-Robed Person had corrupted it to create the Water Prison. After imprinting its patterns into the Myriad Heaven Book, Gu Changsheng suspected that someone was searching for Ancient Soul Guidance Arrays across the continent.

• Gu Changsheng spotted Soul Patterns on Yunshui Lake at sunrise and realized an ancient array lay beneath the water.
• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena descended to a hidden stone gate and entered an ancient trial ground beneath the lake.
• The Myriad Heaven Book identified a Heart-Reflecting Soul Crystal, and Gu Changsheng learned that the Black-Robed Person had twisted the array into the Water Prison.
• Gu Changsheng imprinted the array patterns and gained an incomplete Myriad Heart-Reflecting Chapter without removing the crystal.
• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena decided to report the discovery while concealing details about the Myriad Heaven Book, then sealed the ruin for the branch hall.
• Gu Changsheng suspected the Black-Robed Person was collecting Ancient Soul Guidance Arrays, with Yunshui Lake only the first target.

Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena investigated Yunshui Branch, uncovering links between the ruin beneath Yunshui Lake, the White Tower, and crude Soul Tools. After the Pope ordered them to investigate any Silver Runes they found, they prepared to pursue the trail rather than return to the city.

• Hu Liena questioned the surviving captives, and one died after mentioning the White Tower core and Spirit Hall.
• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena found an old file about a vanished expedition at Yunshui Lake and a Silver Fragment connected to the lake’s array.
• Shen Rong set fire to the evidence room and attacked with a crude Soul Guidance Ray before Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena captured him.
• Gu Changsheng disrupted Shen Rong’s Soul-Destroying Restriction, but Shen Rong died before he could identify Mr. Xue or reveal the White Tower’s location beyond the Northern Territory.
• Gu Changsheng identified the short cylinder as a damaged Soul Guidance Ray Caster, and he and Hu Liena concluded the enemy was pursuing the ancient array and Soul Tools.
• Bibi Dong’s reply ordered them not to return to the city if they saw Silver Runes, so Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena stayed to investigate.

Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena followed Bibi Dong’s secret clues to uncover a network of Silver Rune tools and the Northern White Tower’s search for ancient ruin cores. Their raid on the Old Dock exposed a girl being used as a vessel, while a Silver Light Pillar signaled that the path to the Northern White Tower had opened.

• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena revealed Bibi Dong’s hidden message, which linked the Silver Rune case to the Northern White Tower and arranged a meeting at Yunshui’s lantern festival.
• At the festival, Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena met a blind informant, but an attacker poisoned him; they captured the attacker and learned that Silver Pattern Fragments were being moved through the northern canal.
• The informant revealed that Shen Rong had helped transport the fragments and gave Gu Changsheng a map marking Yunshui Lake, Fengling Valley, and Chisha Town as connected ruin sites.
• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena led six branch elites to the Old Dock, where they found a Defective Array Disk and a Core Vessel assembled from Silver Pattern Fragments.
• The Core Vessel opened to reveal an unconscious girl marked with Silver Runes, and a Silver Light Pillar from the array signaled that the route to the Northern White Tower had opened.

Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena fought to stop the White Tower’s teleportation array from sending an unconscious girl away, severing the silver runes fused into her body as the array neared completion. They redirected the teleportation and rescued her, but a coordinate fragment pointed to the Northern Territory, and the girl warned that artifacts there were eating people.

• Gu Changsheng used the Myriad Heaven Book to disrupt the teleportation array while Hu Liena fought the Black-Robed Persons and protected the unconscious girl.
• Gu Changsheng identified the silver runes as devices fused with the girl’s body and life force, then severed them one by one as Hu Liena shielded her mind.
• The Black-Robed Person Leader revealed his own silver-rune modifications and tried to complete the array, but Gu Changsheng redirected its destination, sending the leader and silver fragments through the gate.
• Gu Changsheng severed the girl’s final rune before the gate collapsed, then rescued her and Hu Liena from the blast.
• Gu Changsheng recovered a fragment marked with the Northern White Tower’s coordinates, and the girl briefly woke to warn them that artifacts there were eating people.

Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena reached Fengling Valley, where White Tower agents attacked them and used the ruin’s wind array. After they disrupted the formation and survived the agents’ self-destruction, the Fengling Ruins entrance opened, and they entered the valley as a ruined White Tower emerged in its depths.

• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena stopped at an abandoned relay station and discovered that the Silver Pattern Fragment pointed into Fengling Valley.
• A White Iron Bird marked their location, and Gu Changsheng disabled it before White Tower’s White-Robed Deacon and Black-Robed People arrived.
• The White Tower agents attacked with Silver-Patterned Instruments, but Gu Changsheng broke their Mental Disc and Hu Liena used Charm against them.
• The White-Robed Deacon activated the ruin’s wind array, but Gu Changsheng identified a formation node and Hu Liena struck it, disrupting the wind and damaging his Silver Glove.
• Mr. Xue appeared through a transmission and described silver runes as a way to free people from Martial Soul limits before the White-Robed Deacon self-destructed.
• The Fengling Ruins entrance opened, and Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena entered the valley as a ruined White Tower emerged from the depths.

Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena explored Fengling Valley’s ruined tower, uncovered its connection to two other ancient ruins, and defeated its tower-guarding puppet. A message revealed that the White Tower planned to ignite a furnace in Chisha Town within three days, but the town had already been out of contact for two days.

• Gu Changsheng identified the ruined White Tower as a Transit Ruin and discovered its Wind-Resonating Crystal was only a deputy core.
• Gu Changsheng copied the tower’s array patterns and deduced that the Yunshui Lake, Fengling Valley, and Chisha ruins had formed one ancient artifact-forging system.
• A Bronze Puppet attacked Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena, who disabled the tower’s rune nodes and shattered its core to defeat it.
• The Wind-Resonating Crystal played a message stating that the main core had been transferred to Chisha and Mr. Xue had ordered the furnace ignited within three days.
• Ghost Douluo Guimei arrived with covert support from His Holiness the Pope and told Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena that Chisha Town had been out of contact for two days.

Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena secretly entered Tiandou territory to investigate the White Tower’s Silver Furnace in Chisha Town, where they met Crown Prince Xue Qinghe and secured a way into the town. After learning that Xue Qinghe was also investigating the disappearances but warning them not to trust anyone, they infiltrated an ore convoy bound for Chisha Town.

• Guimei reported that the Spirit Hall branch in Chisha Town had sent a final message saying the Silver Furnace was about to open, and Gu Changsheng deduced that Chisha was key to the White Tower’s plans.
• Gu Changsheng arranged a false report that he and Hu Liena had returned to Spirit City, while the pair traveled in disguise toward Tiandou’s borderlands.
• In Hanya City, Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena met Xue Qinghe, who gave them a Pass Token and shared information about missing villagers, Viscount Rowan, and an ore convoy headed for Chisha Town.
• Gu Changsheng agreed to share limited intelligence on the White Tower’s Silver-Patterned Instruments in exchange for Xue Qinghe’s help, and sensed angelic Soul Power when their hands touched.
• Xue Qinghe warned them that Tiandou nobles, Spirit Hall traitors, and others seeking conflict were active in Chisha Town, then hinted that Tiandou might offer Gu Changsheng a place.
• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena joined the ore convoy in disguise, agreeing to use Xue Qinghe’s help without fully trusting him as they approached Chisha Town.

Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena infiltrated Chisha Town’s Furnace Field, where the White Tower was using townspeople and Spirit Hall Spirit Masters to power the Chisha Furnace. Gu Changsheng seized the Furnace Core and saved the captives, but the White Tower’s Mr. Xue revealed that he wanted Gu Changsheng himself and invited him to the Northern Territory.

• Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena discovered that the White Tower had turned Chisha Town into an array and was using captives to test the Chisha Furnace.
• The mine manager trapped them inside the Furnace Field, where the array suppressed Hu Liena’s Mental Power and drained life from the chained townspeople.
• Xue Qinghe arrived with Tiandou Dark Guards to stop the plot and exposed the Snow Patterned Jade Token as part of a frame-up against the Tiandou Xue Clan.
• Gu Changsheng used the Myriad Heaven Book to sever the Silver Runes linked to the captives and seize the Chisha Furnace Core, extinguishing the array.
• A Silver-White Phantom named Mr. Xue revealed that the White Tower had tested Gu Changsheng at the three ruins and declared him more valuable than their cores.
• Mr. Xue vanished after inviting Gu Changsheng to the Northern Territory, where a Silver Light Pillar marked the true White Tower’s location.

Gu Changsheng, Hu Liena, and Xue Qinghe uncovered the White Tower’s use of silver runes and insect-like parasites in Chisha Town, then set out for the Northern Territory to investigate its Main Furnace. The White Tower detected the Chisha Furnace Core and locked onto Gu Changsheng as its target.

• Hu Liena and Xue Qinghe argued over the Chisha Furnace Core, and Gu Changsheng gave Xue Qinghe a fragment of its White Tower mark as evidence while Spirit Hall kept the core.
• The group discovered that the dead Viscount Ron had been controlled by silver runes, and his corpse released a swarm of Silver Insects that Gu Changsheng burned with the furnace core.
• Xue Qinghe revealed a trace of golden power while helping protect the townspeople, and he agreed to join Gu Changsheng and Hu Liena in investigating the White Tower.
• Gu Changsheng received Bibi Dong’s letter directing them to investigate the White Tower and not stop Xue Qinghe from traveling with them.
• Gu Changsheng, Hu Liena, and Xue Qinghe left Chisha Town for the Northern Territory, with Gu Changsheng admitting that he intended to use Xue Qinghe as both a witness and bait.
• The Myriad Heaven Book revealed that the White Tower Main Furnace had detected the Chisha Furnace Core and locked onto Gu Changsheng.

Gu Changsheng, Hu Liena, and Xue Qinghe discovered that the White Tower was marking villagers as fuel for its Main Furnace and defeated an attack by Silver-Patterned Puppets. When the White Tower threatened to consume people in thirty-seven villages in two days, Gu Changsheng organized a rescue effort and prepared to go to the tower with Hu Liena and Xue Qinghe.

• Gu Changsheng, Hu Liena, and Xue Qinghe realized the Silver Light Pillar was drawing factions toward the White Tower so it could frame them for any resulting casualties.
• Gu Changsheng found that the White Tower had marked villagers in Hanliu Village with Silver Runes that let its Main Furnace drain their life force, and he used the Chisha Furnace Core to suppress the runes.
• Hu Liena slowed the Silver-Patterned Puppets while Gu Changsheng severed their runes, and she destroyed the silver wind chime in a dry well that was generating the mist and controlling them.
• The White Tower announced that it would activate its Main Furnace in two days and use the marked residents of thirty-seven villages as fuel unless Gu Changsheng brought the Chisha Furnace Core alone.
• Gu Changsheng asked Xue Qinghe to mobilize border troops for civilian rescues and sent Guimei to request healing and sealing Spirit Masters from Pope Palace.
• Gu Changsheng named himself, Hu Liena, and Xue Qinghe to go to the White Tower, with Ghost Elder guarding them from the shadows, and Xue Qinghe agreed to join.

Gu Changsheng and his companions reached the White Tower, where they learned that it had lured ordinary people with the promise of becoming Spirit Masters and was burning lives in its Main Furnace. After Shi Dashan sacrificed himself to open the way, Gu Changsheng entered the tower to confront its leader as the furnace roared.

• The Tiandou Border Army tried to stop people from thirty-seven villages who were being drawn toward the White Tower by Silver Runes, while Gu Changsheng learned the tower had promised them a chance to become Spirit Masters.
• Gu Changsheng, Hu Liena, Xue Qinghe, and Guimei found Shi Dashan guarding the Silver Rune Bridge; he explained that the White Tower had made him a pseudo-Spirit Master and taken his son, Shi Xiaoman, into the furnace.
• Gu Changsheng told Shi Dashan that his wish to become a Spirit Master was not shameful, but the White Tower's use of that wish was wrong.
• When the White Tower took control of Shi Dashan, Gu Changsheng burned away some of his Silver Runes, but Shi Dashan revealed he could not be saved and asked him to tell Shi Xiaoman that his father was not a monster.
• Shi Dashan rammed himself into the bridgehead's Silver Rune node, opening a gap in the formation before he died; Gu Changsheng picked up his hammer, marked with Shi Xiaoman's name.
• The White Tower's leader taunted Gu Changsheng that ordinary people had chosen their fate, and Gu Changsheng entered the tower to fight.