Chapter Summaries

Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong killed Shi Nian after Dai Mubai countered his illusions, and Dai Mubai gave Shi Nian’s thirty-thousand-year head Soul Bone to Ning Rongrong. Half a month later, Zhao Wuji returned as a Soul Douluo after absorbing a sixty-five-thousand-year Earth Demon Bear’s Soul Ring, and the group set out for Star Luo City.

• Dai Mubai saw through Shi Nian’s illusion and confronted him outside town with Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong.
• Dai Mubai used his Icefire Spirit Eyes and White Tiger Vajra Break to defeat Shi Nian’s illusions and badly injure him, allowing Zhu Zhuqing to kill him.
• Dai Mubai extracted Shi Nian’s thirty-thousand-year Illusion Wisdom Head Soul Bone and gave it to Ning Rongrong to absorb after they returned to the academy.
• Canghui Academy searched for the missing Shi Nian, found no clues, and hurriedly left the town.
• Zhao Wuji, Yang Wudi, and Bai He returned after killing a sixty-five-thousand-year Earth Demon Bear, and Zhao Wuji broke through to become a Soul Douluo.
• The group set out for Star Luo City.

Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi competed for the command of a joint campaign against Wolf Bandits at the Star Luo–Heaven Dou border. Their contest began in the palace square, where Dai Mubai revealed that he had become a Soul King and evolved his Martial Soul.

• Dai Tianxing summoned Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi to a military council to choose which prince would lead the campaign against the Wolf Bandits.
• Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai both volunteered, but a general proposed that they decide the command through a Soul Battle.
• Dai Tianxing approved the contest and declared that the victor would lead the army to the western border.
• Dai Weisi released his Evil-Eyed White Tiger and displayed four Soul Rings, while Dai Mubai revealed his Gengjin White Tiger and five Soul Rings, including a black one.
• Dai Tianxing explained that Dai Mubai's Martial Soul had evolved, and Dai Weisi reluctantly agreed to begin the fight.

Dai Mubai defeated Dai Weisi and was ordered by Dai Tianxing to lead troops against the Wolf Bandits. He left for the western border alone after telling his friends to stay at the academy and spending the night with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.

• Dai Mubai overpowered Dai Weisi in two exchanges, and Dai Weisi conceded the fight.
• Dai Tianxing ordered Dai Mubai to lead troops to the western border and wipe out the Wolf Bandits.
• Back at the academy, Dai Mubai refused to take his friends along and told them to focus on training.
• Ning Rongrong asked to accompany Dai Mubai, but he told her to stay at the academy; they kissed before he left her dormitory.
• Dai Mubai went to Zhu Zhuqing's dormitory, and they spent the night together.
• At dawn, Dai Mubai left the academy alone while Zhu Zhuqing was still asleep.

Dai Mubai recruited members of the Breaking Clan and Speed Clan for a campaign against the Wolf Bandits, then took command of the Northern Soul Master Legion. The army prepared to march toward Broken Tooth Mountain, where it would meet Heaven Dou's forces for a joint campaign.

• Dai Mubai told Yang Wudi, Bai He, and Niu Gao that he would lead troops against the Wolf Bandits and asked Yang Wudi and Bai He to select clan members to join him.
• Yang Wudi and Bai He gathered ten Soul Kings each, while Niu Gao stayed in Star Luo City to oversee the Three Clans' estate.
• Dai Mubai and the twenty clan members reached the Northern Camp, where Han Qing and four battalion commanders received him.
• Han Qing reported that at least three thousand Wolf Bandits occupied Broken Tooth Mountain and that the empires' envoys would meet at Fude Mountain City in half a month.
• Dai Mubai ordered the Northern Soul Master Legion to march at first light the next day.

Dai Mubai visited Gengxin City to meet Divine Craftsman Lou Gao and impressed him with a Pistol that damaged Lou Gao’s finest armor. The chapter ended with Lou Gao asking about the unfamiliar weapon and Dai Mubai explaining how it worked.

• Dai Mubai led his army toward the northwestern border and stopped outside Gengxin City after five days of marching.
• Dai Mubai entered the city with Yang Wudi and Bai He, then visited the Blacksmith Association headquarters to meet Lou Gao.
• Dai Mubai praised blacksmiths and discussed forging with Lou Gao, who showed him the Eight Treasure Ruyi Soft Armor.
• Dai Mubai fired his Pistol at the armor, denting and warping it without piercing it.
• Lou Gao reacted with shock, and Dai Mubai explained that the Pistol held fifteen rounds and could be reloaded.

Dai Mubai recruited Lou Gao to manufacture pistols and gave Bai He three weapons for the campaign against the Wolf Bandits. After reaching Fude Mountain City, he prepared to cooperate with the Heaven Dou army and met Xue Qinghe, whose disguise he could not penetrate.

• Dai Mubai persuaded Lou Gao to join him by promising the pistol-making method, and Lou Gao agreed to produce five hundred pistols within six months.
• Dai Mubai gave Bai He three pistols for the campaign and explained how the weapons could strengthen the Speed Clan.
• Dai Mubai's army reached Fude Mountain City, and he sent Bai He and ten clan members to scout Broken Cliff Mountain for the Wolf Bandits.
• A scout reported that the Heaven Dou army had arrived under Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, and Dai Mubai recognized that Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue in disguise.
• Dai Mubai and Xue Qinghe met with their delegations to discuss cooperation, but Dai Mubai's Icefire Spirit Eyes could not see through her disguise.

Dai Mubai and Xue Qinghe exchanged insults before agreeing to clear the Wolf Bandits from their respective sides of Broken Cliff Mountain. After wiping out the bandits in Star Luo territory, Dai Mubai crossed into Heaven Dou and continued the campaign, bringing his Soul Power close to a breakthrough.

• Xue Qinghe and Dai Mubai traded barbs and agreed to compete in clearing the Wolf Bandits from their sides of Broken Cliff Mountain.
• Dai Mubai organized his army into three columns, using Bai He's intelligence and Speed Clan scouts to guide their advance.
• Dai Mubai led his elite troops through days of battles, honing his combat skills and refining his Soul Power.
• A month later, Dai Mubai's forces had destroyed the Wolf Bandit lairs in Star Luo territory and killed more than two thousand bandits.
• Dai Mubai crossed into Heaven Dou territory to help Xue Qinghe and continued attacking Wolf Bandit lairs with his reunited army.
• While meditating at camp, Dai Mubai realized his Soul Power had reached the edge of the level fifty-four bottleneck and that level fifty-five was near.

Dai Mubai discovered Qian Renxue fighting a Wolf Bandit pack alone and intervened when she was overwhelmed. He killed the pack leader, and the two joined forces to defeat the remaining wolves, leaving Qian Renxue wounded but standing proudly beside him.

• Dai Mubai investigated a distant fire and spotted Qian Renxue battling Wolf Bandits while Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo watched from nearby.
• Dai Mubai saw Qian Renxue struggling against the pack and decided to step in before her guards were forced to act.
• Dai Mubai charged into the fight, wounded the Wolf Bandit leader with his fourth Soul Skill, and killed it with his fifth.
• Qian Renxue recognized Dai Mubai as a Five-Ring Soul King and joined him in defeating the remaining Wolf Bandits.
• Dai Mubai withdrew his martial soul and saw that Qian Renxue was bleeding from her arm but refused to show her exhaustion.

Dai Mubai met Qian Renxue after defeating the Wolf Bandits, recovered a Soul Bone, then crossed into Heaven Dou territory and provoked Xue Qinghe while claiming a reward for his army’s help. Xue Qinghe paid him one million Gold Soul Coins, and Dai Mubai withdrew to Star Luo territory before reaching headquarters outside Fude Mountain City five days later.

• Dai Mubai met the injured Qian Renxue, who gave her name as Qian Xue and quickly flew away.
• Dai Mubai searched the Wolf Bandit leader’s corpse, found a left leg Soul Bone, and returned to camp.
• Dai Mubai’s army continued northeast and found Heaven Dou troops besieging a Wolf Bandit lair under Xue Qinghe’s command.
• Dai Mubai taunted Xue Qinghe for arriving late, then demanded payment for Star Luo’s assistance.
• Xue Qinghe gave Dai Mubai one million Gold Soul Coins, and Dai Mubai led his army back across the border.
• Five days later, Dai Mubai’s army reached its headquarters outside Fude Mountain City.

Dai Mubai returned to Star Luo City after defeating the Wolf Bandits, delivering weapons from Lou Gao, and reporting his campaign to Dai Tianxing. He reunited with his academy companions, learned of their progress, and prepared them for intensified training ahead of the Soul Master Tournament.

• Dai Mubai distributed a million Gold Soul Coins among the troops, and the army's morale rose as it secured the border.
• Dai Mubai's Soul Power reached level fifty-five, and he collected five hundred pistols, ammunition, and repaired armor from Lou Gao in Gengxin City.
• Dai Mubai returned to Star Luo City and reported his campaign to Dai Tianxing, who praised him and told him to prepare for the Soul Master Tournament.
• Dai Mubai reunited with Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and the academy group, who reported their Soul Power advances and new Soul Skills.
• Dai Mubai ordered everyone to begin more demanding training the next day for the tournament.

With one month left before the tournament, Dai Mubai tested the seven-member team he had prepared for the preliminaries and advancement rounds, defeating them with Zhu Zhuqing’s help. He planned to keep himself, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong off the field until the grand finals, leaving the younger members to gain experience while concealing the team’s core strength.

• After eight months passed, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing faced Ma Hongjun, Yang Pojun, Niu Zhen, Oscar, Dai Lingling, Bai Chenxiang, and Chen Feng in a training match.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing joined their powers to summon the evolved Hell White Tiger, while the seven opponents used their formation and Oscar’s sausages to fight as a team.
• The seven tried to wear down the Hell White Tiger by flying out of reach, but Dai Mubai used his speed to knock Oscar from the air and eliminate him.
• Without Oscar’s support, the remaining opponents lost their flight and the Hell White Tiger defeated them one by one.
• Dai Mubai explained that the seven would serve as the main team in the preliminaries and advancement rounds, while he, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong would wait until the grand finals to compete.

After eight months of training, Dai Mubai’s team had grown stronger, and Oscar became Dai Lingling’s prince consort. Dai Mubai then founded the Heavenly Strategy Sect with the Three Clans and the Blacksmith Association, leaving the new sect celebrating its first day.

• Dai Mubai’s team reached new levels of strength, with Ma Hongjun, Yang Pojun, Niu Zhen, Oscar, and Dai Lingling becoming Soul Ancestors.
• Dai Mubai told Dai Tianxing about Oscar, and Dai Tianxing named Oscar the Star Luo Prince Consort and granted him the title of Marquis.
• Dai Mubai gave the team a day off as the Breaking Clan, Defense Clan, and Speed Clan settled into their new estate and prepared to found the Heavenly Strategy Sect.
• Dai Mubai led his team and Zhao Wuji to the sect’s founding ceremony, where he took the main seat as sect master and announced rules for the sect.
• Dai Mubai assigned the elders to manage the sect’s affairs, and the members celebrated the founding with a feast.

Dai Mubai distributed newly improved pistols to the sect and arranged for Lou Gao to continue managing the Blacksmith Association. When Song Qing arrived to bring Ning Rongrong home, Dai Mubai agreed to travel with her to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, though the journey would overlap with the Soul Master Tournament preliminaries.

• Dai Mubai gave Bai He half of the pistols and ammunition for the sect to distribute, while Lou Gao agreed to keep handling the Blacksmith Association's affairs.
• Song Qing arrived at Star Luo Royal Academy and asked Ning Rongrong to return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Rongrong initially refused to leave before the tournament, but Dai Mubai offered to accompany her home and formally visit Ning Fengzhi.
• Song Qing left to report their decision, and Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong decided to depart the next day.
• Dai Mubai told his teammates that he and Ning Rongrong would travel to the sect, and he acknowledged they might miss most of the preliminaries.

Dai Mubai left Star Luo City with Ning Rongrong and Yang Wudi to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, stopping at the Icefire Yin Yang Well along the way. He entrusted Yang Wudi with developing its reblooming medicinal garden for the Heavenly Strategy Sect.

• Dai Mubai appointed Zhu Zhuqing acting captain and Dai Lingling vice-captain while he traveled with Ning Rongrong.
• Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong visited Dai Tianxing, then settled affairs at the Heavenly Strategy Sect and invited Yang Wudi to join them.
• After more than twenty days on the road, Dai Mubai left Ning Rongrong at a hotel near Sunset Forest and led Yang Wudi toward the Icefire Yin Yang Well.
• Yang Wudi used a Poison-Repelling Pill to cross the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison miasma with Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai showed Yang Wudi the medicinal garden and entrusted him with cultivating its plants for the Heavenly Strategy Sect.

Dai Mubai left the Blue Silver Emperor with Yang Wudi to study and cultivate, then brought Ning Rongrong back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. He met Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong, while Rongrong happily reunited with her family.

• Dai Mubai showed Yang Wudi the Blue Silver Emperor and asked whether she could be used to make medicine or pills.
• Yang Wudi agreed to study the Blue Silver Emperor, said she could yield powerful pills, and replanted her in the valley's richest spiritual area.
• Dai Mubai flew back to town, met Ning Rongrong, and traveled with her by carriage to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Rongrong eagerly led Dai Mubai into the sect compound and reunited with Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong.
• Dai Mubai introduced himself to Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong, and Ning Fengzhi thanked him for looking after Rongrong.

Ning Rongrong reunited with Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong and revealed her rapid cultivation, evolved Martial Soul, and Soul Bone, all thanks to Dai Mubai. After the couple addressed Ning Fengzhi’s concern that she would have to join the Star Luo royal family, he and the elders approved their relationship.

• Ning Rongrong introduced Dai Mubai as the third prince of the Star Luo Empire and the man she had chosen.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that she had risen from level twenty-six to level forty-six in two years and that her Martial Soul had evolved into the Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda after she consumed the Aromatic Silk Beauty Dai Mubai gave her.
• Ning Rongrong demonstrated her Illusion Space Head Soul Bone skill and explained that Dai Mubai had given her the thirty-thousand-year gem-type soul bone, helping her Heart Separation Control reach the Five-Aperture Scattered Heart.
• Ning Fengzhi thanked Dai Mubai for his generosity, then raised his concern that Ning Rongrong was destined to inherit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and could not enter the Star Luo royal family.
• Ning Rongrong and Dai Mubai explained that she would remain with the sect and that their children who inherited the Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda could stay there to inherit it.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong agreed to let Ning Rongrong and Dai Mubai be together.

After securing Ning Fengzhi’s blessing to marry Ning Rongrong, Dai Mubai worried about Spirit Hall’s growing power and the danger it posed to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. At dinner, he warned Ning Fengzhi that Spirit Hall was preparing for greater ambitions, but Ning Fengzhi remained unconvinced.

• Ning Fengzhi blessed Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong’s marriage, then invited them to a family dinner with Chen Xin and Gu Rong.
• Dai Mubai considered how to protect the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect from Spirit Hall, but saw no easy way to move it or prevent Qian Renxue from gaining power.
• At dinner, Dai Mubai said he planned to focus on cultivation after the Soul Master Tournament, while Ning Rongrong shared stories from her travels.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Dai Mubai about the continent’s political situation, and Dai Mubai warned that Spirit Hall’s expansion threatened the existing balance of power.
• Ning Fengzhi argued that the empires and Upper Three Sects would keep Spirit Hall in check, but Dai Mubai insisted that Spirit Hall was gathering strength and infiltrating territories across the continent.

Dai Mubai warned Ning Fengzhi that Spirit Hall could target the Upper Three Sects and urged the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to prepare. He revealed the Clear Sky Sect’s hidden strength and proposed cooperation with his newly founded Heavenly Strategy Sect.

• Dai Mubai warned Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin that Spirit Hall might strike the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and suggested moving most of its forces to the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Mubai proposed drawing the Clear Sky Sect back into the world, strengthening the sect’s defenses, and sending core disciples to Star Luo City as a fallback.
• Dai Mubai told Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong that the Clear Sky Sect had five Titled Douluo elders, with Tang Xiao likely at rank ninety-six, and that Tang Hao brought its known total to seven.
• Dai Mubai privately considered exposing Tang Hao and Tang San to force the Clear Sky Sect to respond, but kept that plan to himself.
• Dai Mubai told Ning Fengzhi that he had founded the Heavenly Strategy Sect with several clans and the Blacksmith Association, and proposed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect help sell its products and services.

Ning Fengzhi agreed to cooperate with the Heavenly Strategy Sect, and Dai Mubai demonstrated how pistols could strengthen the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. The chapter left Ning Fengzhi’s cultivation limits and the elders’ stalled progress as a problem Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong seemed ready to address.

• Ning Fengzhi agreed to use the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s trade routes to distribute the Heavenly Strategy Sect’s goods and gave Ning Rongrong authority over affairs in Star Luo City.
• Ning Rongrong demonstrated her pistol to Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong, and Chen Xin tested its power against his sword-intent barrier.
• Dai Mubai gave Ning Fengzhi five hundred pistols and fifty thousand bullets, and Ning Fengzhi paid him ten million Gold Soul Coins.
• Dai Mubai warned Ning Fengzhi that pistols could not replace stronger cultivation and high-level combatants against Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda Soul Masters were limited to level seventy-nine and that Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and several elders had been unable to advance.

Dai Mubai gave Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong immortal herbs suited to their martial souls and promised pills to help the sect’s elders break through. After they went into seclusion, Ning Rongrong took Dai Mubai to the treasure vault and thanked him affectionately for his gifts and support.

• Dai Mubai told Ning Fengzhi he could help him break through and presented him with a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma.
• Dai Mubai gave Chen Xin Nine-Leaf Sword Grass to strengthen his sword comprehension and Gu Rong a Nine-Grade Dragon Ganoderma to improve his Bone Dragon martial soul.
• Dai Mubai promised three pills for elders nearing rank ninety, and Ning Fengzhi gave Ning Rongrong a token to take Dai Mubai to the sect’s treasure vault.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong to stay for the Soul Master Tournament, and then he, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong hurried off to cultivate.
• Ning Rongrong embraced and kissed Dai Mubai, then thanked him for his gifts and for helping her family.