Chapter Summaries

Qin Xuan organized Spirit Hall’s campaign to exterminate the Clear Sky Sect and its affiliated clans, assigning forces across the continent while keeping the main assault under his command. He and his personal guardian Douluo prepared to march on the Clear Sky Sect as the planned purge began.

• Qin Xuan ordered Demon Wolf, Giant Rhinoceros, and Silver Hammer to ambush Clear Sky Sect disciples fleeing toward the mountain range and capture the women while killing resisting men.
• Qin Xuan assigned Demon Bear to attack the Strength Clan, ordering him to seize its wealth, kill its male Soul Masters, and spare Old Tai Tan, Tai Nuo, and Tai Long for punishment.
• Qin Xuan sent Ghost Leopard against the Speed Clan and planned for Chrysanthemum Elder and Ghost Elder to subdue the Breaking Clan and Defense Clan.
• Qin Xuan ordered Snake Lance and Ci Xue to hunt Clear Sky Sect disciples in the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire, with Huyan Zhen and the Lower Four Sects helping take over the sect’s businesses.
• Qin Xuan appointed Ling Yuan and Bibi Dong as his personal guardian Douluo and prepared to lead them and Spirit Hall forces against the Clear Sky Sect.

After Qin Xuan became Pope, he mobilized Spirit Hall to destroy the Clear Sky Sect and its affiliated forces, while Ning Fengzhi realized the threat could extend to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo reached Heaven Dou City as Spirit Hall attacked the Strength Clan, and they watched from afar.

• Qin Xuan declared that Spirit Hall would seize the Clear Sky Hammer and avenge Qian Xunji, then sent its forces against the Clear Sky Sect, the Four Single-Attribute Sects, and the two empires.
• Qian Daoliu told the six other Worships that Qin Xuan’s strength had surpassed his and Tang Chen’s.
• Bone Douluo told Ning Fengzhi that Tang Hao had killed Qian Xunji, and Ning Fengzhi warned that Qin Xuan would endanger the Clear Sky Sect and possibly the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Sword Douluo reported that Qin Xuan had become Pope and declared war on the Clear Sky Sect, prompting Ning Fengzhi to hurry with him to Heaven Dou City to see the emperor.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo arrived in Heaven Dou City and saw Demon Bear Douluo and Spirit Hall forces overwhelmingly attack the Strength Clan while the city’s authorities stood aside.

Ning Fengzhi watched Spirit Hall annihilate the Strength Clan and questioned Mo Ya about its actions, but Mo Ya blamed Tang Hao for breaking the major powers’ rules. Demon Bear Douluo defeated Old Tai Tan and carried out Qin Xuan’s brutal order, leaving the Strength Clan destroyed and its women taken captive.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Mo Ya why the Soul Master Guild was allowing Spirit Hall to attack the Strength Clan, and Mo Ya explained that Tang Hao had crossed the major powers’ limits by assassinating the Pope.
• Spirit Hall killed the Strength Clan’s men, captured its women, and looted its estate, while Tai Nuo and Tai Long were taken prisoner.
• Old Tai Tan charged Demon Bear Douluo after learning Tang Hao’s actions had brought Spirit Hall’s retaliation upon the clan.
• Demon Bear Douluo overpowered Old Tai Tan and ordered that he, his son, and his grandson be castrated, while Old Tai Tan also lost an arm.

Spirit Hall destroyed the Strength Clan and Speed Clan while seizing their women and property, and Ghost Leopard Douluo found a Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng. At the Breaking Clan estate, Yang Wudi and Yang Wushuang discussed Spirit Hall’s campaign before a mysterious attacker trapped them.

• Ning Fengzhi watched the Strength Clan’s destruction until Sword Douluo took him back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect; Demon Bear Douluo escorted the women away, and imperial guards cleaned up the estate.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo’s forces killed the Speed Clan’s men and captured the women, then Ghost Leopard Douluo discovered a Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng in Bai He’s Soul Tool and ordered it sent to the Pope.
• Elephant Armor Sect disciples took over the Speed Clan’s estate after Spirit Hall withdrew, while the Breaking and Defense Clans remained quiet amid the looming threat.
• Yang Wushuang told Yang Wudi that Spirit Hall was hunting Clear Sky Sect disciples and warned that the Four Single-Attribute Sects could be next; the brothers resented Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect for abandoning them.
• A voice urged the Yang brothers to surrender, then a black-mist attacker appeared and bound Yang Wudi and Yang Wushuang with enormous ghostly hands.

Ghost Douluo persuaded the Breaking Clan to submit to Spirit Hall by offering an Aromatic Silk Beauty, and Yang Wudi agreed to protect his clansmen. He brought Spirit Hall’s offer to Niu Gao, whose Defense Clan had been captured, but Niu Gao reacted furiously when Yang Wudi urged him to surrender.

• Ghost Douluo offered the Breaking Clan an Aromatic Silk Beauty and invited them to join Spirit Hall.
• Yang Wushuang urged Yang Wudi to accept, and Yang Wudi agreed to submit to save the Breaking Clan.
• Yang Wudi asked to persuade the Defense Clan, and Ghost Douluo sent him there under escort.
• Yang Wudi found the Defense Clan captured by Spirit Hall, while Niu Gao fought Chrysanthemum Pass and refused to surrender.
• Yang Wudi asked Niu Gao to submit to Spirit Hall, and Niu Gao angrily reminded him that Spirit Hall had destroyed the Speed Clan.

Spirit Hall attacked the Clear Sky Sect while its elders remained unaware that war had been declared. The assault left the castle burning and its disciples dying, as the five elders recognized their attacker as a Titled Douluo from Spirit Hall.

• Yang Wudi persuaded Niu Gao that their clansmen’s deaths were tied to their own weakness, Tang Hao, and the Clear Sky Sect, and Niu Gao submitted the Defense Clan to Spirit Hall.
• Yue Guan ordered the captured Defense Clan members released and took Yang Wudi and Niu Gao to meet the Pope.
• At night, a giant flaming bird and venomous spiders attacked the Clear Sky Sect’s patrol, killing Tang Xiaochuan and other disciples and capturing Tang Xiu.
• The five elders discussed the missing disciples and suspected Spirit Hall, unaware that Tang Hao’s letter about Qian Xunji’s death and Spirit Hall’s declaration of war remained undiscovered.
• A Spirit Hall attacker struck Tang Xiao with the Blood Boiling skill, setting the Clear Sky Sect castle ablaze while sparing its women with the falling feathers.
• The five elders recognized Spirit Hall behind the attack when they saw the attacker’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

Qin Xuan led Spirit Hall’s forces to surround the Clear Sky Sect, aiming to seize its resources and capture female disciples to spread the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul. As the Sect’s survivors formed a powerful lightning formation to resist Ling Yuan, she dodged Tang Xiao’s massive hammer strike.

• Qin Xuan explained to Bibi Dong that Spirit Hall’s goal was to obtain the Clear Sky Sect’s resources, while she suspected his motives for capturing its female disciples.
• A Red-Robed Cardinal reported that Spirit Hall had killed 108 male patrol disciples and captured 28 women, and Qin Xuan ordered the passes sealed before authorizing Ling Yuan to begin her attack.
• Qin Xuan and Bibi Dong flew toward the battle after Ling Yuan’s firebird collided with the Clear Sky Sect’s defensive formation.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s five elders and surviving disciples formed the Clear Sky Formation, greatly boosting Tang Xiao’s power.
• Tang Xiao attacked Ling Yuan with a gigantic Clear Sky Hammer, but Ling Yuan evaded the blow by flying higher.

Ling Yuan shattered the Clear Sky Sect’s formation and devastated its forces before Qin Xuan and Bibi Dong arrived to confront the survivors. The sect was left surrounded and at the mercy of Spirit Hall.

• Ling Yuan lured Tang Xiao into defending the Clear Sky Formation, then burst from beneath it and killed or injured most of the sect’s fighters.
• Tang Bai grieved over the Third Elder’s death and ordered the remaining Clear Sky Sect disciples to fight Ling Yuan to the death.
• Qin Xuan arrived and told Ling Yuan that Spirit Hall had already intercepted the sect’s most valuable resources.
• Tang Xiao questioned Qin Xuan’s attack, and Bibi Dong pinned him with her spider spears as Spirit Hall’s forces surrounded the sect.

Qin Xuan confronted the Clear Sky Sect over Tang Hao’s murder of Qian Xunji, while the sect’s disciples turned their anger on Tang Hao. The elders threatened that Tang Chen would return to avenge them, but Bibi Dong tore off Tang Xiao’s arm and took his Soul Bone, leaving him crippled.

• Qin Xuan established bonds with nearly two hundred Clear Sky Sect members who liked Tang Yuehua, triggering their fear and resentment.
• Tang Bai asked why Qin Xuan had attacked the sect, and Qin Xuan explained that Tang Hao had killed his elder brother, Qian Xunji, and demanded blood repayment.
• Tang Xu and other Clear Sky Sect disciples blamed Tang Hao for the sect’s losses and the deaths of their relatives.
• Tang Bai and several elders invoked Tang Chen’s power and threatened that he would take revenge if Spirit Hall destroyed the sect.
• Bibi Dong ripped off Tang Xiao’s left arm, crushed it, and took his intact Soul Bone, reducing his Soul Power from Level-Ninety to Level-Eighty.

Qin Xuan and Bibi Dong subdued the Clear Sky Sect, and Qin Xuan began executing its most talented young disciples to force Tang Chen to appear. The chapter ended with the sect’s members in grief and rage as Tang Chen, already controlled by the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, failed to answer their pleas.

• Bibi Dong seized Tang Xiao’s Soul Bone, while Qin Xuan’s pressure pinned the Clear Sky Sect’s disciples and elders to the ground.
• Qin Xuan challenged Tang Chen and threatened to kill ten Clear Sky Sect members every ten breaths until Tang Chen appeared.
• Silver Hammer brought out the sect’s captured disciples, including Tang Lie, and reported the youths’ talent rankings to Qin Xuan.
• Qin Xuan selected ten talented children and youths for execution, ignoring Tang Xiao’s pleas to spare them.
• Qin Xuan insulted Tang Chen and called for him to appear, but Tang Chen did not answer.
• Qin Xuan ordered another group killed, leaving the Clear Sky Sect disciples screaming in grief and fury.

Qin Xuan forced the Clear Sky Sect to denounce Tang Chen while Spirit Hall slaughtered and captured its members. After the elders and disciples gave in, Qin Xuan offered Tang Xiao one more chance and asked how Tang Hao had also become a eunuch.

• Qin Xuan killed the remaining third-generation disciples and demanded that the Clear Sky Sect call Tang Chen a coward.
• Qin Xuan ordered Spirit Hall Soul Masters to strip the sect members of their Soul Tools and bury them alive, prompting them to curse Tang Chen and Tang Hao and plead for their lives.
• Tang Bai and the other elders denounced Tang Chen, and the rest of the sect followed, leaving Tang Xiao as the last holdout.
• Qin Xuan gave the sect another chance and asked Tang Xiao how Tang Hao had become a eunuch after Qin Xuan remembered Tang Xiao castrating himself to preserve Tang Hao's family line.

Qin Xuan forced the Clear Sky Sect to surrender its female disciples and accept harsh conditions while holding its members captive. He left them facing a choice between severing their arms, suffering Tang Lie’s fate, or jumping into the pit together.

• Tang Bai revealed that the Clear Sky Sect did not know when Tang Hao had been castrated and said Tang Hao had disappeared after returning badly injured.
• Qin Xuan gave the Clear Sky Sect three days to summon Tang Hao and demanded all its resources, then ordered its younger female disciples taken back to Spirit Hall.
• Tang Bai agreed to Qin Xuan’s demands after Qin Xuan threatened to kill the sect members and claimed the female disciples were among the resources he wanted.
• Qin Xuan demanded that every Clear Sky Sect member sever an arm, and when Tang Lie defied him, Qin Xuan ordered Silver Hammer to castrate him.
• Qin Xuan warned the captives that anyone who jumped into the pit would cause the rest of the sect to be buried with them.

Qin Xuan mutilated and buried Clear Sky Sect disciples to pressure Tang Hao into appearing, while the surrendered Defense and Breaking Clans were bound to Spirit Hall by a contract. The three-day deadline passed without Tang Hao showing up, and Qin Xuan explained to Bibi Dong that keeping the sect alive could restrain him from attacking Spirit Hall branches.

• Qin Xuan ordered the Clear Sky Sect disciples to lose an arm and demanded that Tang Xiao surrender an eye, then began burying a hundred disciples each day until Tang Hao appeared.
• Qin Xuan sent word to Tang Hao that the sect would be buried if he failed to arrive within three days or attacked a Spirit Hall branch; Tang Hao remained in hiding and turned to drinking, while Tang Yuehua sought help in Heaven Dou City.
• After three days, Qin Xuan had more than two hundred Clear Sky Sect disciples left alive, and Chrysanthemum Pass reported that the Strength and Speed Clans had been executed while the Defense and Breaking Clans had surrendered.
• Qin Xuan made Niu Gao and Yang Wudi sign a blood-bound contract and ordered them to kill Clear Sky Sect disciples.
• Bibi Dong asked why Qin Xuan had not simply killed the Clear Sky Sect, and Qin Xuan said the survivors could keep Tang Hao from freely attacking Spirit Hall branches.

Qin Xuan explained why he would delay unifying the empires, then accepted Yan Fei’s intervention and spared the Clear Sky Sect after a staged battle. He left the sect alive but ordered it to seal its mountain and rename itself the Haozi Sect within three days.

• Qin Xuan said that unifying the empires could provoke the gods and cause civilian deaths, so he would wait until he could withstand the God Realm.
• As Qin Xuan prepared to execute the Clear Sky Sect members, Yan Fei, Yue Shen, and Yan Lingji arrived to ask him to spare them.
• Yan Fei punished Silver Hammer for insulting her, then followed Qin Xuan away while their clones remained behind and their true bodies went to the Soul Master Guild Headquarters.
• Qin Xuan and Yan Fei returned the next evening after their battle, and Qin Xuan agreed to spare the Clear Sky Sect in exchange for its surrender and renaming.
• Tang Bai accepted Qin Xuan’s terms, and Qin Xuan warned the sect to change the mountain’s name within three days before Spirit Hall departed.

Yan Fei rescued the Clear Sky Sect from Spirit Hall, but the sect was forced to surrender its assets, give up its name, and withdraw from the world as the Haozi Sect. Ning Fengzhi assessed Spirit Hall’s growing power and prepared for his wedding, while worrying that Qin Xuan might bring trouble.

• Tang Bai thanked Yan Fei for saving the Clear Sky Sect, and Yan Fei warned him that Qin Xuan had held back during their fight.
• Yue Shen and Lingji made Tang Bai sign over the sect’s shares, while explaining that Tang Yuehua had entered the Soul Master Guild’s service to save the sect.
• News spread that the Clear Sky Sect had been renamed the Haozi Sect and would seal itself off, while the Speed Clan was destroyed and the Breaking Clan and Defense Clan submitted to Spirit Hall.
• Gu Rong told Ning Fengzhi that Yan Fei and Qin Xuan had fought to a draw, and Ning Fengzhi ordered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to avoid conflict with Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi arranged invitations for his wedding and decided that Yue Shen would choose the principal wife, with Min Rou as the fallback.

At his first formal meeting as Pope, Qin Xuan announced a plan to increase Spirit Hall’s strength through descendants born from powerful Martial Souls, then demonstrated his power by upgrading two elders’ Ninth Soul Rings to a hundred thousand years. The elders marveled at the transformation, while Qin Xuan’s proposal to use captured Clear Sky Sect members remained under discussion.

• Qin Xuan addressed Spirit Hall’s elders after the fall of the Clear Sky Sect and its affiliated clans, then announced a breeding decree to produce talented descendants.
• Qin Xuan said his children with Jing Ni, Bibi Dong, Ling Yuan, Nong Yu, Ah Yin, and Liu Erlong all had Innate Full Soul Power, and two had Twin Martial Souls.
• Qian Daoliu objected that Qin Xuan’s plan might offend Heaven, so Qin Xuan clarified that he would not force Spirit Hall’s members and intended to use captured Clear Sky Sect members instead.
• Qin Xuan summoned Qian Jun and Jiang Mo, then used Soul Ring Age-Enhancement Cards to turn both of their Ninth Soul Rings into hundred thousand year Soul Rings.
• The elders were astonished by the upgrade, and Qian Jun reminded the excited Jiang Mo to thank Qin Xuan as Pope.

Qin Xuan established rewards for Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluo elders and assigned them Clear Sky Hammer women to produce children, then ordered the clans’ resources and young members reorganized into future military forces. He introduced new cultivation manuals as part of an education reform aimed at strengthening Spirit Hall’s abilities and loyalty.

• Qin Xuan offered every Titled Douluo elder an opportunity to increase a Soul Ring’s age and promised further rewards for producing children with Clear Sky Hammer Martial Souls, while warning them to keep the plan secret.
• Qin Xuan asked Qian Daoliu to have another child for the Angel Clan, but Qian Daoliu declined because he remained devoted to Bo Saixi.
• Qin Xuan ordered Chrysanthemum Pass and Gui Mei to manage the resources and young members of the Clear Sky Sect, Speed Clan, and Strength Clan for future armies and support forces.
• Qin Xuan announced educational reform and had Liu Erlong distribute his Soul Master Cultivation Manuals to the elders.
• The elders studied the manuals’ cultivation methods and advanced techniques, while Qian Daoliu praised their potential to strengthen Spirit Hall’s cohesion and disciples’ loyalty.

Qin Xuan outlined Spirit Hall’s educational reforms, assigned Ghost Leopard Douluo and Demon Bear Douluo to enforce discipline, and appointed Liu Erlong to lead Spirit Hall’s education programs. He then challenged Qian Daoliu’s ideas about honor and fairness, leaving the Grand Worship reflecting on his past choices.

• Qin Xuan ordered the first volume of the Soul Master Handbook distributed to Spirit Hall branches and arranged training for instructors who would teach at local academies.
• Qin Xuan appointed Ghost Leopard Douluo and Demon Bear Douluo as Law Enforcement Elders, tasked them with punishing corrupt members, and offered leniency to Elders who confessed within three days.
• Qin Xuan made Liu Erlong an Honorary Elder and dean of Spirit Hall Academy, putting her in charge of academy education, branch Soul Master training, and orphanage moral instruction.
• Qin Xuan told Qian Daoliu that he had unfairly abandoned his aerial advantage and Angel Divine Power when fighting Tang Chen, and argued that the resulting defeat encouraged Tang Chen’s descendants to look down on Spirit Hall.
• Qian Daoliu considered Qin Xuan’s words and regretted that his sense of fairness and caution may have cost him both victory and the chance to become a god.

Qin Xuan outlined Spirit Hall’s combat training and reforms, appointing Xuan Jian as chief combat instructor and entrusting Qian Daoliu with secret manuals. He then announced plans to select the seven greatest sects again, with Elephant Armor Sect set to replace Haozi Sect among the Upper Three Sects, before beginning to discuss infiltration.

• Qin Xuan urged the Titled Douluo to abandon chivalric restraint, fight cautiously, and use every advantage to defeat their opponents.
• Qin Xuan introduced Xuan Jian, a Level-Ninety-Seven Peak Douluo, as the combat instructor who would train Spirit Hall’s members through successive fights.
• Qin Xuan offered the elders techniques from the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and gave Qian Daoliu manuals containing those methods and Ring Explosion.
• Qian Daoliu confirmed the Ring Explosion manual’s authenticity, and Qin Xuan appointed Xuan Jian as Spirit Hall’s chief combat instructor.
• Qin Xuan announced that Spirit Hall would reselect the seven greatest sects in a month and give Haozi Sect’s former Upper Three Sects position to Elephant Armor Sect.
• Qin Xuan began discussing Spirit Hall’s infiltration plans.

Qin Xuan set Spirit Hall’s training priorities and academy tournament plans while considering how to manage the newly awakened Hu Liena. Ten days later, the sects were reorganized, and Huyan Zhen’s promotion to Titled Douluo brought the Elephant Armor Sect into the Upper Three Sects.

• After Spirit Hall’s meeting, Qin Xuan reviewed the awakening roster and ordered Xie Yue and Yan to train under Xuan Jian, while the other talented children received focused training.
• Qin Xuan ordered the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament suspended for five years and established the Martial Soul Ten Elites for selecting and training young participants.
• Bibi Dong offered to take Hu Liena as her disciple, but Qin Xuan insisted she first complete compulsory education at Spirit Hall Academy because he feared she would betray Spirit Hall for love.
• Ten days later, the old Papal Decree was abolished, the Elephant Armor Sect replaced the Haozi Sect among the Upper Three Sects, and the Fire Leopard Sect filled a Lower Four Sects vacancy.
• Huyan Zhen advanced to Titled Douluo with Spirit Hall’s help, raising the Elephant Armor Sect’s standing and drawing envy across the Soul Master world.