Chapter Summaries

After killing Tang Hao, Chu Zhao destroyed his soul to prevent his resurrection, then faced a new crisis when the Death God Cultivation System ordered her to kill Qian Renxue. Qian Renxue followed her to Moonlight City, unaware that the mission had left Chu Zhao furious and distraught.

• Chu Zhao killed Tang Hao's soul after his death, ensuring Tang San could not revive him.
• Qian Renxue rushed to Chu Zhao after sensing her attack, but Chu Zhao avoided her and returned to Moonlight City alone.
• Qian Renxue followed Chu Zhao and entered the city after showing Gold and Poison Two Douluo her Parting the Clouds to See the Moon emblem.
• Chu Zhao smashed things in her residence and raged after the Death God Cultivation System assigned her an emergency mission to kill Qian Renxue within a year.
• Chu Zhao learned that completing the mission would grant three Soul Power levels and a Million Year Soul Ring, while failure would reduce her overall strength by 50%.

Chu Zhao refused the Death God Cultivation System’s task to kill Qian Renxue, even after the system shortened its deadline and raised the penalty. As its relentless prompts began affecting her, Chu Zhao sent Qian Renxue away while deciding she had to find a way to remove the system.

• Chu Zhao angrily rejected the system’s task and threatened to give up the Martial Soul that allowed it to exist, so the system reduced the deadline to three days and changed the failure penalty to sealing all her power.
• Qian Renxue broke into Chu Zhao’s room, comforted her as she cried, and promised to inherit the Angel God Position and protect her.
• Chu Zhao realized the system might keep issuing tasks targeting Qian Renxue and began considering stripping it away.
• The system continued announcing the task every hour, and Chu Zhao suppressed an urge to take her anger out on Qian Renxue.
• Chu Zhao urged Qian Renxue to return to Spirit Hall and continue her Angel God Test; Qian Renxue agreed after asking if staying away would help.
• Qian Renxue asked Chu Zhao to send her a handwritten letter every day, and Chu Zhao promised the situation was temporary while she sought a solution.

Qian Renxue worried that Chu Zhao faced an imminent crisis, but Qian Daoliu could not leave Spirit City to protect her. Guang Ling emerged from seclusion two levels stronger thanks to an immortal herb Chu Zhao had given him, while Xu Quan arrived at Moonlight City and demanded Chu Zhao surrender two sealed boxes.

• Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu to protect Chu Zhao, but he refused because leaving Spirit City might endanger her.
• Guang Ling emerged from seclusion at level 98, revealing that Snow Soul Candle Moon, an immortal herb from Chu Zhao, had helped him break through two levels.
• Chu Zhao waited in Moonlight City for her countdown to end, deciding against attacking the Clear Sky Sect before she knew what would happen.
• Xu Quan arrived outside Moonlight City and threatened to destroy the Great Zhao Dynasty unless Chu Zhao came out to meet him.
• Chu Zhao confronted Xu Quan from the city wall, and he ordered her to hand over the two boxes she could not open.

Chu Zhao opened the box with Xu Quan’s key and learned from the letter that Xu Quan was her uncle and her birth name was Xu Ziwei. Xu Quan asked her to return to the Star Sect and reclaim her inheritance, but Chu Zhao insisted on keeping the name Chu Zhao.

• Xu Quan gave Chu Zhao a key, and she opened the box to find a letter revealing the truth about her origins.
• Xu Quan tried to take the letter, but Guang Ling intervened and fought him until Chu Zhao stopped them.
• After reading the letter, Xu Quan told Chu Zhao that he was her uncle and called her Xu Ziwei.
• Xu Quan called Guang Ling old, prompting the two men to argue about their ages.
• Xu Quan invited Chu Zhao to return to the Star Sect, but she rejected the name Xu Ziwei and affirmed that she was Chu Zhao.

Xu Quan tried to take Chu Zhao to Star Sect, but a god’s power suddenly seized her before they could resolve their dispute. Chu Zhao identified the intruder as the Asura God, drove out its will, and gained complete mastery of Death God Power.

• Xu Quan urged Chu Zhao to return to Star Sect, but she refused, and Guang Ling blocked him from taking her by force.
• Xu Quan’s suspicious look angered Chu Zhao and Guang Ling, who denied his insinuations about their relationship.
• The Asura God’s power enveloped Chu Zhao and repelled Xu Quan and Guang Ling when they tried to rescue her.
• Xu Quan used his purple safety pendant with Chu Zhao’s to strike at the divine power, briefly weakening its hold on her.
• Chu Zhao recognized the intruder was not the Death God and summoned the Scythe of Fate to drive out the Asura God’s will.
• The Death God Cultivation System declared Chu Zhao’s emergency mission complete and rewarded her with complete mastery of Death God Power, raising her Soul Power to level eighty-six.

After surviving the Asura God’s interference in her divine trial, Chu Zhao refused Xu Quan’s offer to return to the Star Sect and declared her plan to besiege the Clear Sky Sect. Xu Quan revealed he was her uncle, promised to support her campaign, and disclosed that the Star Sect was on a remote island east of southeast.

• Chu Zhao learned that resisting the Asura God’s interference had been a mission assessment, then reassured Guang Ling and Xu Quan that she was unharmed.
• Xu Quan asked which god had interfered, and Chu Zhao identified the Asura God before refusing to return to the Star Sect.
• A letter told Xu Quan that Chu Zhao had killed Tang Hao and asked him to avenge Tang Hao by killing her.
• Chu Zhao confirmed she had killed Tang Hao and announced that she planned to besiege the Clear Sky Sect, but Xu Quan offered to send a hundred elite fighters to help.
• Xu Quan explained that he had only helped Tang Hao in exchange for three requests and revealed that he was Chu Zhao’s uncle.
• Xu Quan told Chu Zhao that the Star Sect was on an island east of southeast, and she asked whether he could prepare his fighters in a day.

Chu Zhao gathered forces from Spirit Hall and the Star Sect to march against the Clear Sky Sect, after learning more about her mother Xu Xuan and why Xu Quan had once tried to kill her. The allied forces set out toward Sentry Village, where Chu Zhao and Qian Renxue planned to arrive first and take control quietly.

• Chu Zhao reflected on Xu Quan's past hostility and the letter revealing that Xu Xuan had been a God-Given Child who fled the Star Sect to protect her daughter.
• Chu Zhao agreed with Guang Ling's suggestion to bring Spirit Hall into the campaign against the Clear Sky Sect.
• Spirit Hall assembled four Titled Douluo and a large force, while the Star Sect sent three Titled Douluo and its own formidable army.
• Chu Zhao sent two of her four Titled Douluo back to guard her base and joined the allied force on its march.
• Chu Zhao and Qian Renxue went ahead, planning to take control of Sentry Village before the others arrived.

Chu Zhao and the allied forces attacked Clear Sky Sect to reclaim the lives lost through Tang Hao’s crimes, overwhelming the sect in battle. Chu Zhao found Tang San holding Hu Liena hostage, then fired her Reaper Arrow at Hu Liena after confronting her about Tang Yin.

• Qian Renxue and Chu Zhao raced to Sentry Village and split its people between them before Chu Zhao led her forces to Clear Sky Sect.
• Clear Sky Sect discovered the attackers and challenged Spirit Hall, but Chrysanthemum Douluo defeated a Haotian Sect Elder and read the order to reclaim three thousand lives.
• The allied forces defeated Clear Sky Sect’s Titled Douluo, and Chu Zhao noticed that Tang San was missing from the battle.
• Chu Zhao found Tang San holding Hu Liena hostage after Hu Liena had attacked him and been captured.
• Chu Zhao confronted Hu Liena about Tang Yin and fired the Reaper Arrow at her.

Chu Zhao and Qian Renxue defeated the Clear Sky Sect’s forces, captured Hu Liena after her betrayal, and claimed the sect’s assets. Back in Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong spared Hu Liena and ordered her to train in Death Canyon for a year, leaving others dissatisfied with the lenient punishment.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo blocked Chu Zhao’s arrow, allowing Tang San to escape with Tang Yuehua while Hu Liena stayed behind.
• Qian Renxue ordered Hu Liena captured, and Chrysanthemum Douluo stopped her from leaping to her death; Qian Renxue bound her with a chain that suppressed Soul Power.
• After the Clear Sky Sect was defeated, Qian Renxue confided in Chu Zhao about her longing for Bibi Dong’s maternal love, and Chu Zhao claimed the sect’s assets.
• Bibi Dong ruled that Hu Liena would train in Death Canyon for one year, while Guimei and others considered the punishment too lenient because Hu Liena had helped Tang San escape.

Bibi Dong protected Hu Liena from meaningful punishment, prompting Qian Renxue to decide she no longer needed her mother. Meanwhile, Tang San and Tang Yuehua found refuge with the Speed Clan, where they discovered a letter addressed to Chu Zhao among Tang Hao's belongings.

• Bibi Dong rejected Eighth Elder's proposed punishment for Hu Liena and threatened to strip him of his elder status.
• Qian Renxue told her younger and older selves that they needed to love themselves, and Qian Daoliu noticed her clearer state of mind.
• Tang Yuehua brought Tang San to the Speed Clan, whose leader sheltered them because of her family ties.
• Tang Yuehua examined the items from her Storage Soul Tool and gave Tang San three pills that could temporarily increase Soul Power.
• Tang San opened a letter addressed to "My Daughter Zhao Zhao" and realized it was likely from Chu Zhao's parents.
• Tang Yuehua read the letter after seeing Tang San's reaction, and her expression turned grim.

Tang San and Tang Yuehua discovered that Tang Hao had taken Chu Zhao’s belongings, including three God Sesame Pills left by her mother. After Tang San used one pill to reach level sixty, he recruited the Speed Clan for his own plans, then encountered Chu Zhao at the Breaking Clan, which had just pledged allegiance to her.

• Tang San read Xu Xuan’s letter and realized Tang Hao had taken Chu Zhao’s possessions, leaving him conflicted about his father and Chu Zhao.
• Tang Yuehua persuaded Tang San to take one of Chu Zhao’s God Sesame Pills, and it raised his Soul Power to level sixty.
• Tang Yuehua urged Tang San to avenge and rebuild the Clear Sky Sect, but he privately planned to establish his own Tang Sect instead.
• Tang San recruited the Speed Clan and went with the Agility Clan Leader to seek the Breaking Clan.
• Tang San arrived at the Breaking Clan and met Chu Zhao, unaware that the clan had just sworn allegiance to her.

Chu Zhao spared Tang San’s life but stripped him of all his cultivation, leaving him powerless and without a home. Tang San returned to Holy Soul Village, where Old Jack mistook him for a handsome stranger.

• Chu Zhao gave Tang San a cup of wine and promised to let him leave Moonlight City if he drank it.
• Tang San left the city alive, then discovered the wine had crippled his Soul Power, Mysterious Heaven Skill, Purple Demon Eyes, and Mystic Jade Hand.
• With Tang Hao dead and the Clear Sky Sect destroyed, Tang San chose to return to Holy Soul Village rather than face his former companions.
• Old Jack failed to recognize Tang San after his appearance changed and tried to recruit him as a tourism ambassador.
• Tang San told Old Jack he had come home but did not reveal his identity.

Tang San returned to Holy Emperor Village after his cultivation was crippled, where Old Jack recognized him and offered him a place to stay. In Moonlight City, Chu Zhao revealed that she had spared Tang San to use him as bait, but she did not say who she wanted to draw out.

• Tang San arrived at Holy Emperor Village and was surrounded by villagers whose Soul Power surprised him.
• A villager recognized Tang San’s Twenty-Four Bridges, Moonlit Night belt, and Old Jack welcomed him home.
• Tang San admitted who he was and listened as the villagers criticized him and compared him unfavorably with Chu Zhao.
• Old Jack led Tang San to his old house, where Tang San planned to recover his cultivation.
• In Moonlight City, Chu Zhao told Xiao Chenyu that she had spared Tang San because she intended to use him as bait.

Chu Zhao revealed that she had crippled Tang San to lure out the Asura God, while Tang San struggled to live as an ordinary blacksmith in Holy Emperor Village. After rescuing the badly injured Ma Hongjun, Tang San was attacked when Ma Hongjun mistook him for someone who had stolen his Third Brother’s Twenty-Four Bridges, Moonlit Night.

• Chu Zhao told Xiao Chenyu she intended to lure out a god by using Tang San as bait, explaining that her medicine had dissolved Tang San’s power and left the Asura God as his likely hope of recovery.
• Tang San settled in Holy Emperor Village as a blacksmith, where tourists and guides regularly praised Chu Zhao and her rule, deepening his resentment and sense of being watched.
• Tang San tried leaving the village to escape that feeling but returned after finding the badly injured Ma Hongjun unconscious by the roadside.
• Tang San brought Ma Hongjun home and treated him until he woke up.
• Ma Hongjun failed to recognize Tang San, accused him of stealing Twenty-Four Bridges, Moonlit Night from his Third Brother, and struck him with a Phoenix Fire Line.

Tang San struggled to convince Ma Hongjun that he was his friend after Chu Zhao crippled his cultivation. Ma Hongjun finally believed him, but his insults toward Chu Zhao drew a crowd and summoned reinforcements.

• Ma Hongjun mistook Tang San for an impostor, set him on fire, and nearly attacked him with his fifth soul skill.
• Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer, Blue Silver Emperor, past memories, and Hidden Weapons until Ma Hongjun finally recognized him.
• Tang San told Ma Hongjun that Chu Zhao had captured him and crippled his strength after Tang Hao died and the Clear Sky Sect was destroyed.
• Ma Hongjun angrily insulted Chu Zhao, drawing people to Tang San's house, and Tang San tried to explain his friend's words.
• Ma Hongjun dismissed the crowd as weak Soul Elders, while the gathered people called for reinforcements.

Ma Hongjun insulted Holy Emperor Village and was captured, while Tang San urged him to apologize and explained the villagers’ devotion to Chu Zhao. Ma Hongjun blamed Tang San for not helping him, and the former brothers turned against each other.

• Ma Hongjun called Holy Emperor Village a dump, and its residents and visitors subdued him after he attacked.
• The village’s young guard demanded an apology to Chu Zhao and ordered Ma Hongjun to leave by the end of the day.
• Tang San advised Ma Hongjun to apologize, and Ma Hongjun complied before questioning why the villagers cared so much.
• Tang San explained that Chu Zhao had transformed the village from poverty into prosperity and wanted the whole continent to share in that improvement.
• Ma Hongjun accused Tang San of refusing to help him with hidden weapons, and Tang San retorted that Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix Fire Line had injured his hands.
• Ma Hongjun mocked Tang San’s loss of Soul Power, and the former brothers officially fell out.

Tang San poisoned Ma Hongjun after Ma Hongjun insulted his disability and apologized, deciding to settle their old score and punish him for nearly killing an innocent girl. Ma Hongjun realized Tang San had betrayed him only as the poison left him too weak to resist.

• Ma Hongjun called Tang San a cripple, then apologized, and Tang San pretended to forgive him while secretly deciding to kill him.
• Tang San invited Ma Hongjun inside and gave him poisoned medicinal soup, which Ma Hongjun drank without suspicion.
• Ma Hongjun described being beaten after pursuing a girl, leaving out that he had tried to violate her and then attack her family member with Tang San’s Hidden Weapons.
• As Ma Hongjun’s stomach pain worsened, Tang San reassured him that the medicine was working while Ma Hongjun’s vision blurred.
• Ma Hongjun finally suspected Tang San, who revealed the poison and said he was returning Ma Hongjun’s earlier attempt on his life.

Chu Zhao learned that Tang San had poisoned Ma Hongjun to death, then began preparing to conquer Sea God Island while agreeing to visit Star Sect. Entering Star Sect restored her childhood memories, revealing that she had transmigrated before birth and escaped the sect as an infant.

• Tang San poisoned Ma Hongjun after their conflict destroyed their fragile brotherhood, and Chu Zhao received a report of Ma Hongjun’s death.
• Wu Yun told Chu Zhao that Tang San was forging Hidden Weapons, while Chu Zhao judged that his remaining allies could not help him rebuild the Tang Sect.
• Chu Zhao ordered Lou Gao’s craftsmen to build ships and issued an edict to train a navy for an attack on Sea God Island.
• Xu Quan persuaded Chu Zhao to visit Star Sect, and she followed her Ziwei Star Martial Soul through the mist to reach it.
• Xu Quan recalled that Chu Zhao cried whenever she was called by other names as a baby, until someone called her Chu Zhao.
• After entering Star Sect, Chu Zhao regained memories of her early childhood and realized she had transmigrated before birth, escaped the sect at one, and later reached the area near Holy Soul Village with pursuers before Tang Hao appeared.

Chu Zhao recovered memories of Tang Hao’s attack that had nearly killed her as a child, then reached the Star Sect, where its people intended to crown her Star Master. She instead placed the Star Crown on Xu Quan, leaving him recognized as sect leader and prompting the crowd to retreat as she demanded an explanation.

• Chu Zhao remembered Tang Hao killing the people who had protected her and leaving her gravely wounded, then lying to Old Jack about what happened.
• Chu Zhao told Xu Quan she had remembered the true cause of her suffering and was fortunate to have already killed Tang Hao.
• Xu Quan led Chu Zhao through the assembled Star Sect members toward the summit while she kept her Ziwei Star Martial Soul active.
• The Star Sect members knelt as Chu Zhao walked, and Xu Quan presented her with the Star Crown as the Star Master.
• Chu Zhao put the Star Crown on Xu Quan instead and told him to work hard as the sect leader she had chosen.
• Chu Zhao asked Xu Quan to explain what was happening, and the Star Sect members moved away.

Xu Quan explained that Chu Zhao’s Ziwei Star Martial Soul made her the Star Sect’s master and gave her the God Sesame Pill formula. Learning that Xu Xuan’s pills had never reached her reignited Chu Zhao’s killing intent toward Tang Hao, Tang San, and Tang Chen, while the Asura God discovered that Tang Hao had been crippled too.

• Xu Quan explained that Chu Zhao’s Ziwei Star Martial Soul made her the Star Sect’s master and admitted he had once blamed and hated her for Xu Xuan’s death.
• Xu Quan gave Chu Zhao a jade slip containing the God Sesame Pill formula and offered her God Sesame Grass to take from the island.
• Xu Quan said Xu Xuan had taken several God Sesame Pills when she left the Star Sect, but Chu Zhao revealed that she had never received them.
• Chu Zhao suspected Tang Hao had taken the pills and recalled the missing key and unopened box, renewing her intent to kill Tang San and Tang Chen as well as Tang Hao.
• The Asura God discovered that Tang Hao had been crippled and lamented that his previous potential heirs, Tang Chen and Tang Hao, had both been ruined.