Chapter Summaries

Qian Xunzong took Shen Ye, Mo Hengchuan, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei on a high-speed ride in his new Cloudstep Light-Carriage across land, river, and sky. After landing, Yue Guan and Gui Mei collapsed and vomited, while the others recovered from the journey.

• Qian Xunzong summoned the Cloudstep Light-Carriage and invited everyone to ride in it.
• Qian Xunzong sped across the Qingchuan Plains, performing sharp turns that left Shen Ye dizzy and terrified Yue Guan and Gui Mei.
• Qian Xunzong drove the carriage across and beneath the Canglan River, while Yue Guan and Gui Mei screamed in fear.
• Qian Xunzong launched the carriage into the clouds and made an aerial dive as Mo Hengchuan calmly admired the view and Shen Ye endured the motion in silence.
• Qian Xunzong landed the carriage, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei tumbled out, collapsed on the grass, and vomited.

Bored at Cloud-Treading Villa, Qian Xunzong went to the Papal Palace to ask Qian Daoliu for work and discovered the Pope was buried in petty complaints. He ended up helping Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji review the memorials.

• Qian Xunzong grew restless at Cloud-Treading Villa and decided to visit the Papal Palace with Shen Ye to seek something to do.
• Qian Xunzong kicked open the hall doors, startling Qian Daoliu and waking Qian Xunji, then asked his father for work.
• Qian Xunzong read aloud several absurd local complaints, and Qian Daoliu ordered the local officials to handle one minor dispute.
• Qian Xunzong and Qian Xunji laughed over the trivial and bizarre memorials while Qian Daoliu continued reviewing them.
• Qian Daoliu assigned the three of them stacks of documents, leaving Qian Xunzong to annotate trivial civilian matters.

Qian Xunzong grew bored of reviewing trivial memorials, so Qian Daoliu assigned him to oversee the renovation of Martial Soul Academy’s Mimicry Training Grounds. He accepted the job to escape the paperwork and prepared to begin inspections the next morning.

• After reviewing memorials about minor disputes, Qian Xunzong complained that the work was dull, and Qian Xunji agreed.
• Qian Daoliu assigned Qian Xunzong to survey, coordinate, and supervise repairs and upgrades to the Mimicry Training Grounds within half a year.
• Qian Xunzong tried to bargain for an easier assignment, but Qian Daoliu made him choose between the renovation task and reviewing memorials.
• Qian Daoliu gave Qian Xunzong a Repair Superintendent Command Token and ordered him to meet the Engineering Division head the next morning.
• Qian Xunzong accepted the assignment and left, while Qian Daoliu explained to Qian Xunji that the demanding work would help temper his younger son.

Qian Xunzong inspected the damaged training grounds at Martial Soul Academy and received a permit to build a complete top-tier academy. He left planning to establish the new school as the foundation of his own faction.

• Qian Xunzong went to Martial Soul Academy with Shen Ye, Xiaojing, and an Engineering Division team to inspect its facilities.
• Qian Xunzong ordered repairs after finding the Spirit-Gathering Light Elms, Shallow Enlightenment Spirit-Gathering Field, and middle-layer earth vein badly damaged.
• Qian Xunzong inspected the ruined Holy Light Valley and signed in at Martial Soul Academy, earning a Construction Permit for a Complete Top-Tier Soul Master Academy Foundation.
• Qian Xunzong told the foreman to record Holy Light Valley’s repairs and planned to build his own academy in a secluded mountain-and-water setting.
• Qian Xunzong finished the inspection and returned by Cloudstep Light-Carriage with Xiaojing.

After discovering that Su Jian had stalled the Martial Soul Academy repairs to protect his spirit plants, Qian Xunzong went to Moon-Watching Tower and forced him to comply. Su Jian promised to deliver the plants and restart construction before dawn.

• Shen Ye told Qian Xunzong that Su Jian had halted the project and was drinking with subordinates instead of working.
• Qian Daoliu said he expected Qian Xunzong to settle the matter gently, while Qian Xunji privately doubted his younger brother would reason peacefully.
• At Moon-Watching Tower, Su Jian mocked Qian Xunzong and boasted that the Pope would not punish him for delaying construction.
• Qian Xunzong arrived with Shen Ye, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan; Shen Ye sealed the room with his Titled Douluo power, and Qian Xunzong beat Su Jian.
• Qian Xunzong ordered Su Jian to deliver his spirit plants and have the craftsmen work through the night, threatening to cripple him if he delayed again.

After Qian Xunzong brutally beat Su Jian at Moon-Watching Tower, Su Jian went to the Papal Palace to accuse him of abusing his authority and seek Qian Daoliu’s justice. Qian Xunzong arrived as Su Jian pleaded his case, carrying the shoe he had used to beat him.

• A guard reported that Qian Xunzong had beaten Su Jian and his men at Moon-Watching Tower, and Qian Daoliu reluctantly accepted that the crude approach had been effective.
• Su Jian spent the night resenting his humiliation and, the next morning, ignored orders to resume construction work so he could appeal to Qian Daoliu.
• Su Jian entered the Papal Palace and accused Qian Xunzong of assaulting him and threatening to cripple his Soul Power, while concealing his own delays and hoarding of spirit plants.
• Qian Xunzong arrived after learning Su Jian had gone to complain, kicked open the palace doors, and challenged anyone who would distort the truth in front of Qian Daoliu.

Qian Xunzong and Qian Xunji beat Su Jian in the Papal Palace after Qian Daoliu secretly sealed his Soul Power, then Qian Xunzong destroyed his Soul Power origin and sent him to the mines. Qian Xunzong promised to finish the delayed Engineering Division work himself and left with Xiaojing, while Qian Daoliu ordered Su Jian’s associates crippled and exiled.

• Qian Daoliu sealed Su Jian’s Soul Power while pretending to read memorials, allowing Qian Xunzong to beat him with a shoe sole.
• Qian Xunji feigned an attempt to stop the fight while secretly pinning Su Jian and striking him, then forced him to thank him for supposedly helping.
• Qian Xunzong destroyed Su Jian’s Soul Power origin with Judgment Divine Flame, and Qian Daoliu ordered the guards to take him to the mines.
• Qian Daoliu lamented that Su Jian’s crippling would delay the Engineering Division’s work, but Qian Xunzong said he could complete it himself and left with Xiaojing.
• Qian Daoliu ordered everyone connected to Su Jian crippled and exiled.

After confirming that Su Jian had not lied about the shortage of top-grade spirit plants, Qian Xunzong used a system check-in to gain Yun Yan, a loyal Rank 96 formation and spirit plant master. Yun Yan devised an upgrade plan for the Martial Soul Academy’s training grounds but lacked enough spirit plants, so Qian Xunzong promised to obtain them from a plentiful source and prepared to head to Sunset Forest.

• Qian Xunzong visited Su Jian’s spirit plant base and found only three millennium-old plants, confirming the shortage of top-grade supplies.
• Xiaojing purified the fields, and Qian Xunzong checked in at the valley, summoning Yun Yan, a loyal Rank 96 Super Douluo and master of formations and spirit plant cultivation.
• Yun Yan surveyed the valley and completed a comprehensive upgrade plan for the Martial Soul Academy’s training grounds in half an hour.
• Yun Yan warned Qian Xunzong that the project lacked enough top-grade spirit plants to power its formations.
• Qian Xunzong told Yun Yan to prepare the blueprints and craftsmen, promising to bring enough spirit plants from a source near Sunset Forest.

Qian Xunzong led his companions to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in the Sunset Forest to gather spirit plants for the academy’s formations. After discovering the valley’s abundant immortal herbs, he signed in and obtained the portable Jade Light Spirit-Void Pool, leaving him with a new source of spirit plants and a powerful cultivation sanctuary.

• Qian Xunzong assembled Shen Ye, Gui Mei, Yue Guan, and Yun Yan and led them toward the Sunset Forest to find spirit plants.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, a sixty-thousand-year Datura Snake King attacked, and Shen Ye killed it with one strike.
• The group entered the valley and found countless rare immortal plants growing around the twin spring eyes.
• Yue Guan became ecstatic over the immortal herbs, while Gui Mei mocked his loss of composure.
• Qian Xunzong signed in at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and received the portable Jade Light Spirit-Void Pool, which could produce high-grade spirit plants and enhance cultivation.

Qian Xunzong distributed immortal herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, strengthened his allies and family, and secured the valley for Spirit Hall. Qian Xunji evolved his Martial Soul and broke through, only for Qian Daoliu to hand him Spirit Hall’s paperwork before leaving to cultivate.

• Qian Xunzong ordered Yun Yan to select spirit plants for the Mimicry Training Grounds and gave immortal herbs to Gui Mei, Yue Guan, Shen Ye, and other Spirit Hall figures.
• Qian Xunzong absorbed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, raising his spiritual sense to the Soul Douluo level, then ordered the Embroidered Uniform Guards to secure the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Qian Xunzong returned to Spirit City and gave Qian Daoliu the Sun-Chasing Divine Fruit and Qian Xunji the Scarlet Flame Glazed Flower.
• Qian Xunji advanced to level forty-five and evolved his Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul into a Seraphim, while Qian Daoliu’s cultivation bottleneck loosened.
• Qian Daoliu assigned Spirit Hall’s daily administration to Qian Xunji and left to cultivate, leaving Qian Xunji overwhelmed by the paperwork.

Qian Xunzong gave the Worship Hall elders matched Immortal-Grade Herbs, and their effects drove the elders into seclusion to stabilize their realms. With Spirit Hall’s leaders unavailable, he left to explore Spirit City with Shen Ye, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan.

• Qian Xunzong brought top-tier Immortal-Grade Herbs to the Worship Hall and gave each Pontiff Elder a herb suited to his Martial Soul.
• Qian Xichen and the other Pontiff Elders refined the herbs and felt their foundations improve as their bottlenecks loosened.
• Qian Xichen ordered the elders to enter seclusion, and they hurried away to stabilize their realms.
• Qian Xunzong left the empty Worship Hall with Xiaojing and decided to look around Spirit City.
• Shen Ye, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan joined Qian Xunzong as his guards for the walk.

Qian Xunzong visited Spirit City's slave market and chose the disgraced Ma Jinyan, whose pride and combat instincts remained despite decades of imprisonment. Ma Jinyan swore loyalty to him, and Qian Xunzong received a pill capable of restoring his strength.

• Qian Xunzong toured the slave market with Shen Ye, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan, then decided to inspect its Heaven-grade slaves.
• The manager described Ma Jinyan as a former expert crippled by the Pope after violating the Hall's rules, while other slaves begged Qian Xunzong to choose them.
• Qian Xunzong offered to recruit Ma Jinyan if he killed the noisy slaves, and Ma Jinyan killed them as the group was leaving.
• Ma Jinyan gave his name and pledged lifelong loyalty after Qian Xunzong promised to heal him.
• Qian Xunzong checked in at the slave market and received an Origin-Returning Soul-Raising Pill.

Ma Jinyan revealed his identity as the former young master of the Blazing Flame Sect and recounted how his mutated martial soul, years of slaughter, and a desperate battle left him gravely injured. He had just reached the Titled Douluo rank and decided to absorb a powerful soul beast’s Soul Ring when his tragedy began.

• Qian Xunzong had Ma Jinyan cleaned and brought to the front hall, where his transformed appearance astonished everyone.
• Qian Xunzong asked Ma Jinyan about his past, and Ma Jinyan revealed that he was the only son of the former Blazing Flame Sect master, Ma Mingshan.
• Ma Jinyan explained that his mutated Blood Soul Sky Phoenix drove him toward slaughter and eventually led him to spend ten years in Slaughter City.
• After learning that his father was gravely wounded and the Blazing Flame Sect was in danger, Ma Jinyan completed Slaughter City's final trial and escaped.
• Ma Jinyan fought and killed a powerful soul beast in the Endless Sea Desert, suffering devastating injuries before breaking through to the Titled Douluo rank.
• With his strength exhausted and his journey home impossible, Ma Jinyan chose to absorb the soul beast's Soul Ring in a desperate attempt to heal himself.

Ma Jinyan recounted how a mutated Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring drove him into a killing frenzy, leading Qian Daoliu to cripple his martial soul and leave him enslaved. After learning his father was near death, he begged Qian Xunzong to let him return home; Qian Xunzong agreed to take him to the Blazing Flame Sect in two days.

• Ma Jinyan explained that his Soul Ring had transformed into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, unleashing his Blood Soul Sky Phoenix and driving him to slaughter everything within a hundred-mile radius.
• Qian Daoliu stopped Ma Jinyan's rampage by crippling his martial soul and severing his Soul Power foundation, after which slave traders abducted him and he endured years of torment.
• Qian Xunzong sent Embroidered Uniform Guards to verify Ma Jinyan's story, and their report confirmed it while revealing that Ma Mingshan was gravely ill and had only months to live.
• Ma Jinyan pleaded to return to the Blazing Flame Sect and offered a Martial Soul Oath, but his ruined body could not summon his martial soul or swear the oath.
• Qian Xunzong permitted Ma Jinyan to visit his father and said they would travel to the Blazing Flame Sect together in two days.

After completing the upgraded Mimicry Training Grounds, Qian Xunzong reported to Qian Daoliu, who praised him before trying to recruit Yun Yan into the Papal Palace. Qian Xunzong refused to give up his subordinate, and they settled on Yun Yan teaching the Engineering Division basic skills.

• Qian Xunzong completed the Mimicry Training Grounds in ten days, transforming them into a secret realm that surpassed the original facilities.
• Qian Xunzong kicked open the Papal Palace doors and handed Qian Daoliu the assessment files while Qian Xunji struggled with official documents.
• Qian Daoliu praised Qian Xunzong's work, then revealed that he wanted Yun Yan to join the Papal Palace Engineering Division.
• Qian Xunzong accused Qian Daoliu of poaching his subordinate and refused to transfer Yun Yan.
• Qian Daoliu compromised by asking Yun Yan to teach the Engineering Division basic formation repair and spiritual plant cultivation, and Qian Xunzong agreed while protecting Yun Yan's core techniques.

Qian Xunzong left Spirit City with Gui Mei, Yue Guan, Shen Ye, and Ma Jinyan for the Blazing Flame Sect. After Ma Jinyan was recognized as the returning young sect master, the group was welcomed inside, while he hurried off to reunite with his father.

• Qian Xunzong departed Spirit City with his companions aboard the Cloudstep Light-Carriage, bound for the Blazing Flame Sect.
• The group arrived at the sect's mountain gate, where its guards stopped them and could not verify Ma Jinyan's identity.
• Ma Mingyu recognized Ma Jinyan as the returning young sect master and welcomed him back after years away.
• Ma Jinyan introduced Qian Xunzong as Spirit Hall's Second Young Master, leaving Ma Mingyu and the guards stunned.
• Ma Mingyu escorted Qian Xunzong and his companions into the sect, while Ma Jinyan hurried to see his father, Ma Mingshan.

Qian Xunzong visited the declining Blazing Flame Sect and learned of Sect Master Ma Mingshan’s failing health and Ma Jinyan’s ruined cultivation. After Ma Mingshan offered him a rare Soul Bone in gratitude for saving his son, he made one further request, leaving its nature unrevealed.

• Qian Xunzong received a report on the Blazing Flame Sect’s strength and signed in to gain the External Soul Bone Sacred Flame Wild Palm.
• Ma Mingshan arrived at the hall gravely ill and welcomed Qian Xunzong, while Ma Jinyan urged his father to rest.
• Ma Jinyan recounted how his martial soul had erupted in Slaughter City, the Pope had destroyed his cultivation, and Qian Xunzong had rescued him.
• Ma Mingshan thanked Qian Xunzong for saving his son and offered him a sixty-thousand-year Fire Spirit Torso Soul Bone.
• Ma Mingshan asked Qian Xunzong to grant him one request.

Ma Mingshan asked Qian Xunzong to protect his crippled son and the Blazing Flame Sect’s disciples as the sect faced collapse. Qian Xunzong offered a pill that could heal Ma Jinyan and Ma Mingshan in exchange for the sect’s submission, then revealed that only one pill existed.

• Ma Mingshan explained that his poisoning and failing lifespan would leave the Blazing Flame Sect vulnerable, and entrusted Ma Jinyan to Qian Xunzong for protection.
• Ma Mingshan described how he had divided the sect’s resources to support its disciples and arranged for the Battle Soul Sect and Undying Sect to help them disperse safely.
• Qian Xunzong decided to bring the Blazing Flame Sect under his command and revealed the Origin-Returning Soul-Raising Pill, which could restore Ma Jinyan’s martial soul and cure Ma Mingshan’s poison.
• Qian Xunzong demanded that the Blazing Flame Sect and all its people and resources submit to him, and Ma Mingshan and the elders agreed.
• Qian Xunzong announced that only one Origin-Returning Soul-Raising Pill existed, leaving the hall facing an unresolved choice.

Ma Jinyan and Ma Mingshan faced the choice of who would receive the sole Origin-Returning Soul-Raising Pill, and Ma Jinyan ultimately accepted it so his father could live. Qian Xunzong offered Ma Mingshan a way to recover in exchange for lifelong service, and both father and son were renewed as the Blazing Flame Sect submitted to Qian Xunzong.

• Qian Xunzong explained that only one of Ma Jinyan and Ma Mingshan could receive the Origin-Returning Soul-Raising Pill, and Ma Jinyan chose to give it to his father.
• Ma Mingshan refused the pill for himself, and the elders persuaded Ma Jinyan to accept it for his own future.
• Ma Mingshan disbanded the Blazing Flame Sect and swore its members to follow Qian Xunzong.
• Qian Xunzong offered Ma Mingshan a Longevity-Extending Herb and the chance to recover fully if he accepted lifelong shackles and guarded a designated territory; Ma Mingshan agreed.
• Ma Mingshan refined the herb and regained vitality, while Ma Jinyan refined the pill, restored his martial soul, and rose to level ninety-four with the Heavenly Soul Rainbow Phoenix.
• Ma Mingshan and Ma Jinyan pledged their service to Qian Xunzong, and Ma Mingshan ordered a feast to celebrate their renewal and the sect's new allegiance.

Qian Xunzong absorbed the Sacred Flame Wild Palm Soul Bone, returned to Cloud-Treading Villa, and completed the Mimetic Cultivation Base handover at the Engineering Division. He checked in there and received the Level-Ten Soul Engineer Kong Deming as his reward.

• Qian Xunzong absorbed the Sacred Flame Wild Palm and gained the Wild Palm Soul Bone skill.
• Ma Mingshan insisted that Ma Jinyan accompany Qian Xunzong, while he stayed behind to manage the Blazing Flame Sect.
• Qian Xunzong returned to Cloud-Treading Villa, then went to the Papal Palace after Qian Daoliu summoned him.
• Qian Daoliu introduced Zhou Heng as the new Engineering Division manager and instructed Qian Xunzong to hand over the Mimetic Cultivation Base documents.
• Qian Xunzong and Zhou Heng verified all ten thousand documents without finding an error, completing the handover.
• Qian Xunzong checked in at the Spirit Hall Engineering Division and received Level-Ten Soul Engineer—Kong Deming.