Recaps

Qian Daoliu released Tang Hao and Tang San after the Asura God influenced his mind, while Bibi Dong planned to strengthen her alliance with the Sun Moon Sect. In Heaven Dou City, Xue Ye demanded that the Forging Association copy the Sun Moon Sect’s Soul Tool technology in three months, and Lou Gao spent the night examining a Hand Cannon without understanding it.

• Bibi Dong let Yu Xiaogang take Tang Hao and Tang San away, while Yue Guan left to check on Gui Mei.
• The Asura God revealed that he had influenced Qian Daoliu to spare Tang Hao and Tang San, intending to make Tang San destroy Li Chen.
• Li Chen gave Heaven Dou City’s Forging Craftsmen Soul Tool blueprints and instructions, leaving the Core Magic Arrays for the Sun Moon Sect to inscribe.
• Xue Ye ordered the Forging Association to reverse-engineer the array inscriptions within three months or face the destruction of its president’s clan.
• The Forging Association President woke Lou Gao and asked him to study the Sun Moon Sect’s Hand Cannon, which Lou Gao examined until dawn without figuring it out.

Lou Gao joined the Sun Moon Sect after marveling at its Soul Tools, while Ning Fengzhi plotted to use Spirit Hall to seize the sect’s technology. Li Chen arranged to move the sect’s forces and sent Ji Juechen to Heaven Dou City, where he eagerly went to challenge Chen Xin.

• Lou Gao left the Forging Association and decided to join the Sun Moon Sect, leaving the old president devastated and Tang San worried about losing a master weapon-maker.
• Ning Fengzhi distributed Soul Tool Hand Cannons to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and proposed alerting Spirit Hall so it would attack the Sun Moon Sect.
• Chen Xin objected to Ning Fengzhi’s ruthless scheme, but Ning Fengzhi remained intent on acquiring the Sun Moon Sect’s technology and talents.
• Li Chen and Huo Yuhao prepared the Heaven Dou City branch and planned to relocate the satellite and the sect’s forces to a safer base.
• Ju Zi began moving the Soul Engineer Corps, and Ji Juechen agreed to go to Heaven Dou City after Li Chen told him Chen Xin had insulted his swordsmanship.

Li Chen recruited Dugu Bo to spy on the Heaven Dou Empire for the Sun Moon Sect, arguing that war with its rivals was inevitable. Dugu Bo agreed, and Li Chen gave him instructions for sending reports.

• Li Chen explained that he had brought powerful experts to oversee the shop’s low-end Soul Tools so the Heaven Dou Empire would mistake them for prized weapons.
• Li Chen met Dugu Bo three days late at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and offered to cure his poison in exchange for intelligence on the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Dugu Bo refused to betray Prince Xue Xing, but Li Chen argued that Xue Xing—not the empire—had saved him and promised not to kill the prince.
• Li Chen warned Dugu Bo that the Sun Moon Sect, the Heaven Dou Empire, and Spirit Hall would eventually be drawn into war, and that Dugu Bo’s family would be in danger if he chose the wrong side.
• Dugu Bo realized Xue Ye would not act against the Sun Moon Sect while he depended on its Soul Tools, then agreed to spy for Li Chen.
• Li Chen handed Dugu Bo a booklet and prepared to teach him how to send reports through his Soul Guide Communicator.

Li Chen cured Dugu Bo’s poison through a method that preserved his poison attacks, gave him powerful armor, and recovered Ah Yin before returning to Heaven Dou City. There, Ji Juechen challenged Sword Douluo Chen Xin and defeated him with a single sword strike, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Li Chen left Dugu Bo a manual explaining how to channel his poison into a Soul Bone, along with supplies and Martial Soul Avatar Armor that increased his strength.
• Li Chen used detectors to find Ah Yin hidden in a cave, took her into his Storage Soul Tool, and vowed to settle accounts with Tang Hao and Tang San.
• Li Chen arrived at Heaven Dou City and found Ji Juechen blocking Chen Xin at the gate to demand a swordsmanship match.
• After Li Chen and the crowd urged Chen Xin to accept, Chen Xin agreed to suppress his Soul Power to level eighty-nine and fight Ji Juechen.
• Ji Juechen used swordsmanship and his Sword-Obsessed Domain to drive Chen Xin back, forcing him to use his Seven Kill Sword Avatar and Myriad Swords Return to the Origin.
• Ji Juechen unleashed one immense slash that shattered Chen Xin’s attack and defeated him, then sheathed his sword and walked away.

Ji Juechen defeated Chen Xin in a sword duel, while Li Chen gathered materials for a Level 8 Fixed-Installed Soul Tool Shell and coordinated Ju Zi’s relocation to the Star Luo Empire. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao reporting that craftsman Lou Gao wanted to join the Sun Moon Sect.

• Ji Juechen wounded Chen Xin with his swordsmanship, rejected Chen Xin’s request to teach him, and left for Heaven Dou City.
• Chen Xin left to lead the Soul Hunting Operation, while Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong followed Ji Juechen into the city.
• Li Chen sold bargain versions of Ji Juechen’s Demon Sword: Thousand Blades and gathered enough materials to build a Level 8 Fixed-Installed Soul Tool Shell.
• Ju Zi told Li Chen that she had moved the two Soul Engineer Corps to Gengxin City, and Li Chen proposed negotiating a Soul Guide Train line connecting Heaven Dou City, Star Luo City, and Gengxin City.
• Huo Yuhao told Li Chen that the craftsman Lou Gao wanted to join the Sun Moon Sect.

Ju Zi negotiated with the Star Luo Emperor to build a Soul Guide Train railway and offered the empire a powerful defensive Soul Tool Shield in exchange for control of Gengxin City. The emperor accepted the deal despite Dai Mubai’s warnings, leaving Dai Mubai fearing for his life.

• Li Chen rejected Huo Yuhao’s suggestion to kill Lou Gao and proposed sending him to persuade the Star Luo Emperor to approve railway construction.
• Ju Zi entered the Star Luo Imperial Palace alone to negotiate with the Star Luo Emperor, while Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi attended.
• Dai Mubai challenged Ju Zi, but she rebuked him and explained the railway’s economic and military benefits to Dai Weisi and the emperor.
• Ju Zi demonstrated a Soul Tool Shield that could withstand a Soul Douluo’s attack and offered it in exchange for Gengxin City’s autonomous rule and metal supplies.
• The Star Luo Emperor slapped Dai Mubai for objecting and shook Ju Zi’s hand to seal the partnership, leaving Dai Mubai terrified.

Ju Zi secured Star Luo Emperor’s approval for the railway project, while Li Chen refused Ning Fengzhi’s request to buy Flying Soul Tools because the sect lacked spare materials. After a month, the sect completed a powerful Level 8.5 high-explosive bomb, and Ji Juechen announced that he had broken through to a new sword realm and was ready to seek his ninth Soul Ring.

• Ju Zi told Lou Gao that the Star Luo Emperor had approved the railway project and agreed that Lou Gao could join the Sun Moon Sect under her arrangements.
• Li Chen turned down Ning Fengzhi’s request to buy Flying Soul Tools, explaining that the sect’s resources and workers were committed to railway construction.
• Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming completed a Level 8.5 high-explosive bomb, and Li Chen discussed finding a place to test it.
• Ji Juechen revealed that he had reached level ninety and entered the Unity of Heaven and Man sword realm after studying his breakthrough for a month.
• Li Chen proposed testing the bomb in the Star Dou Great Forest while Ji Juechen sought his ninth Soul Ring, and Kong Deming agreed.

Li Chen, Kong Deming, and Ji Juechen used a satellite-guided Soul Tool shell to kill Da Ming and Er Ming in the Star Dou Great Forest, while Di Tian noticed the blast. In the Sunset Forest, Dugu Bo found the weakened Tang Hao searching for Ah Yin and captured him alive.

• Kong Deming took Li Chen and Ji Juechen to the Star Dou Great Forest, where they used detectors to locate Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Li Chen fired a tracking Level 8 Fixed-Installed Soul Tool High-Explosive Shell at the two beasts, killing Er Ming and leaving Da Ming mortally wounded.
• Ji Juechen killed Da Ming and began absorbing his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring as Di Tian sensed the disturbance.
• Dugu Bo spotted the weakened Tang Hao searching a cave for Ah Yin in the Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo used his Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor true body and poison to knock Tang Hao unconscious and capture him.

Li Chen and Kong Deming collected Soul Bones from the Star Dou Great Forest after a powerful Soul Tool blast, drawing Chen Xin and Di Tian toward the site. At Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang assured his students they could match the Sun Moon Sect’s prodigies, but Tang San decided to leave and return to the Clear Sky Sect.

• Li Chen and Kong Deming gathered Soul Bones from the blast zone and counted the haul as a huge profit from the Level 8 Fixed-Installed Soul Tool Shell.
• Chen Xin saw the mushroom cloud while leading Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect members through the forest, guessed a disaster or Ferocious Beast clash had caused it, and flew toward the blast site in search of Soul Bones.
• Di Tian sensed the explosion and rushed toward its source after emerging from the Lake of Life.
• Flender urged Yu Xiaogang to stop provoking the Sun Moon Sect, but Yu Xiaogang claimed its prodigies had shallow cultivation and that his students could rival them.
• Xiao Wu and the others accepted Yu Xiaogang's reassurance, while Tang San rejected it, resolved to leave Shrek Academy, and planned to return to the Clear Sky Sect with Tang Hao.

Ji Juechen absorbed the Sky Azure Bull Python’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone, while Chen Xin discovered the Sun Moon Sect’s hidden weaponry and was caught trying to flee. Di Tian arrived, spared Li Chen after learning of the Soul Spirit Method, and killed Chen Xin before returning to the forest.

• Ji Juechen absorbed the Sky Azure Bull Python’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone, gained new abilities, and drew its Soul Spirit into his Sea of Spirit.
• Chen Xin secretly watched Li Chen, Kong Deming, and Ji Juechen, realized the Sun Moon Sect had concealed powerful Soul Tools, and tried to escape.
• Kong Deming and Ji Juechen trapped Chen Xin, and he failed to break through the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield or persuade them to let him go.
• Di Tian arrived and confronted the group about the explosion, but Li Chen revealed the Auspicious Beast Soul Spirit and explained the Soul Spirit Method.
• Di Tian agreed to let Li Chen continue developing the method, then killed Chen Xin for killing Soul Beasts and threatened Li Chen before leaving.

Li Chen and his companions returned to Heaven Dou City after killing Sword Douluo, and Li Chen considered ways to balance humans and soul beasts with help from his supercomputer martial soul. Back at the shop, Huo Yuhao prepared to fight Shui Bing'er, but news that their Soul Guidance Milk Bottles had been stolen left the situation unresolved.

• Li Chen, Kong Deming, and Ji Juechen discussed how to balance humans and soul beasts, and Li Chen asked his supercomputer martial soul for solutions.
• The supercomputer proposed a soul spirit habitat, digital life after death, crime monitoring, and an underworld where soul spirits could be released from their contracts.
• Li Chen returned to Heaven Dou City and learned that Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and the Five Elemental Academies wanted to buy Soul Guidance Milk Bottles.
• Huo Yuhao told Li Chen that Shui Bing'er had challenged him, and they arranged to fight at the Soul Fighting Arena that night.
• A panicked messenger reported that the Soul Guidance Milk Bottles being transported had been stolen, and Li Chen and Huo Yuhao went outside to investigate.

Li Chen and Huo Yuhao discovered that Liu Erlong had staged the theft of Blue Tyrant Academy’s two thousand Soul Guidance Milk Bottles, then confronted her when she demanded her deposit and compensation. After Liu Erlong attacked Huo Yuhao, he suppressed her Fire Dragon Martial Soul with Ultimate Ice and launched Ice Emperor’s Pincer.

• Sun Moon Sect guards reported that a masked attacker had stolen the shipment of two thousand Soul Guidance Milk Bottles bound for Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Li Chen reviewed satellite footage and, with Huo Yuhao, identified Liu Erlong as the person who had robbed the guards.
• Liu Erlong arrived at the workshop demanding her deposit back and compensation for the lost shipment.
• Li Chen and Huo Yuhao accused Liu Erlong of staging the theft, and Huo Yuhao demanded that she pay the balance.
• Liu Erlong attacked Huo Yuhao with her Fire Dragon Martial Soul, but he caught her hand and unleashed Ice Emperor’s Pincer.

Huo Yuhao defeated Liu Erlong and exposed her theft of the Soul Guidance Milk Bottles, while Li Chen used the Satellite to uncover Ning Fengzhi’s plan to frame the Sun Moon Sect. Li Chen decided to strike first against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and enlisted Meng Hongchen in his scheme.

• Huo Yuhao overwhelmed Liu Erlong with his ice abilities and captured her after she tried to flee.
• Li Chen showed the crowd footage of Liu Erlong stealing the Milk Bottles, and Huo Yuhao found the stolen goods on her.
• Shui Bing'er watched Huo Yuhao’s display and abandoned her plan to fight him that evening.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered Gu Rong to arrange killings with Thunder Hand Cannons and frame the Sun Moon Sect to provoke Spirit Hall.
• Li Chen watched Ning Fengzhi’s plotting through the Satellite and decided to destroy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect first.
• Li Chen told Meng Hongchen his plan, and she eagerly agreed.

Ning Fengzhi sent Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect operatives to attack Spirit City and frame the Sun Moon Sect, but Li Chen used satellite footage to stage a warehouse fire that implicated the sect instead. With Qian Renxue and Dugu Bo backing Li Chen’s accusation, Emperor Xue Ye ordered Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo summoned and threatened their arrest.

• Ning Fengzhi dispatched suicide operatives armed with Thunder Hand Cannons to sow chaos in Spirit City and provoke Spirit Hall against the Sun Moon Sect.
• Li Chen and the others watched satellite footage of Ning Fengzhi’s plot, then set fire to a warehouse of Soul Guidance Milk Bottles and blamed Bone Douluo and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Li Chen rallied witnesses and planted rumors among Heaven Dou City residents before reporting the destruction of thirty thousand Soul Guidance Milk Bottles to Emperor Xue Ye.
• Qian Renxue argued that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had both the motive and the strength to attack the workshop, and Dugu Bo recommended arresting Ning Fengzhi immediately.
• Emperor Xue Ye ordered Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo summoned, authorizing their arrest if they refused to appear.

Ye Yulin captured two Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect operatives in Spirit City, while Li Chen accused Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong of burning the Sun Moon Sect’s warehouse. Huo Yuhao brought a captured operative before Xue Ye, leaving Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong confronted with evidence of their secret plan.

• Ye Yulin intercepted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect operatives in Spirit City, killed most of them, and ordered one survivor sent to Heaven Dou City as a witness.
• Qian Renxue summoned Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong to the palace, while a sect subordinate arrived too late to warn them that the Sun Moon Sect’s warehouse had burned down.
• Xue Ye questioned Ning Fengzhi about the warehouse fire, and Li Chen accused Gu Rong of carrying it out.
• Ning Fengzhi denied responsibility and claimed Gu Rong had been playing chess with him when the fire occurred.
• Huo Yuhao entered the palace hall with a paralyzed captured operative, and Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong recognized the man.

Li Chen exposed Ning Fengzhi’s plot to implicate the Sun Moon Sect and Heaven Dou Empire, leading Emperor Xue Ye to order the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s destruction. After Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo were killed, Li Chen declared that the Sun Moon Sect would replace their sect, recruit disciples, and prepare an army for war.

• Li Chen used Necromancy to reveal the death warrior’s memories of Ning Fengzhi ordering an attack on Spirit City, then showed his own memories to refute Ning Fengzhi’s claim that the evidence was fabricated.
• A guard reported that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s forces were attacking Heaven Dou City, and Bone Douluo tried to flee with Ning Fengzhi before Kong Deming trapped them in his Silver Bowl.
• Emperor Xue Ye ordered the Sun Moon Sect’s elders and Dugu Bo to capture the two men and commanded the destruction of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ji Juechen killed Bone Douluo, and Li Chen revealed that the Sun Moon Sect had burned its own warehouse before killing Ning Fengzhi.
• Emperor Xue Ye awarded the Sun Moon Sect half of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s assets, while Qian Renxue confirmed the deaths of Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo.
• Li Chen told Huo Yuhao that the Sun Moon Sect would recruit disciples, train an army, and prepare to unify the continent.

After the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect fell, Li Chen and Kong Deming occupied its castle, used its resources to equip their Soul Engineer Corps, and developed new soul tools. Li Chen finally let Lou Gao enter the restricted castle to learn their technology, despite warning that he might never leave.

• Li Chen and Kong Deming claimed the sect's rare metals and planned full equipment for both Soul Engineer Corps, including a linked soul tool capable of trapping a Limit Douluo.
• The Sun Moon Sect moved into Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Castle, where the Imperial Soul Engineer Corps secretly arrived and trained while Kong Deming began researching Humanoid Soul Tool Battle Armor.
• Li Chen started building a soul tool production line and two Soul Tool Satellites as the castle remained sealed for a month.
• Lou Gao arrived at the castle after being kept from learning core soul tool techniques in Gengxin City, but guards refused him entry without permission.
• Li Chen warned Lou Gao that learning the sect's secrets could mean staying there for life, then allowed him inside when Lou Gao accepted the risk.
• Huo Yuhao asked Li Chen what Lou Gao wanted, and Li Chen replied, "Hear the Dao at dawn, and one may die content at dusk."

Lou Gao explored the Sun Moon Sect’s advanced Soul Tool production and research, while Li Chen revealed his newly condensed soul core and encouraged Huo Yuhao to travel in search of a way to revive his loved ones. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong leading Yue Guan and Gui Mei to confront the Sun Moon Sect.

• Lou Gao entered the Castle, marveled at the Soul Tool weapons and training, and eagerly began studying the blueprints.
• Li Chen urged Huo Yuhao to travel the continent, and Huo Yuhao decided to leave for the Far North the next day.
• Li Chen showed Huo Yuhao the soul core he had condensed after completing the Evil God King’s first three trials.
• Li Chen encouraged Huo Yuhao to believe that he could find or create a way to reverse time and revive his loved ones.
• Yue Guan reported that Spirit Hall could not replicate the Sun Moon Sect’s Soul Tools, and Bibi Dong decided to confront the sect’s master.
• Bibi Dong flew toward the Sun Moon Sect with Yue Guan and Gui Mei, intending to prevent it from helping the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires.

Bibi Dong confronted Ye Yulin and Zheng Zhan over the Sun Moon Sect’s cooperation with the empires, then learned the sect claimed to come from another continent. She flew to Heaven Dou City to meet its supposed sect master, while Ye Yulin contacted Kong Deming and Li Chen for help.

• Bibi Dong demanded that Ye Yulin end the Sun Moon Sect’s cooperation with the two great empires and disclose its arrangements, but Ye Yulin rejected her authority and ordered her to leave.
• Ye Yulin claimed the Sun Moon Sect ruled the Sun Moon Continent and had come to the Douluo Continent to trade, making Bibi Dong suspect it might possess a godhood inheritance.
• Bibi Dong insisted on meeting the Sun Moon Sect master, and Ye Yulin told her the master had arrived in Heaven Dou City.
• Bibi Dong flew to Heaven Dou City with the Chrysanthemum and Ghost elders, while Zheng Zhan worried that the sect had no Limit Douluo to back its claim.
• Ye Yulin called Kong Deming and Li Chen, and Li Chen told him to let Bibi Dong come.

Li Chen and the Sun Moon Sect prepared to trap Bibi Dong and strike her with a space-based kinetic weapon. Kong Deming severely wounded her in battle, and as she tried to escape, Li Chen’s tungsten rod descended from the sky.

• Li Chen revealed a satellite-launched, spirit-forged tungsten rod and planned to use Kong Deming’s Silver Moon Divine Light Shield to keep Bibi Dong from dodging it.
• Bibi Dong arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Castle with Chrysanthemum and Ghost, where Kong Deming confronted her and transported them away from the city.
• Kong Deming trapped Bibi Dong and withstood her attacks, including her second martial soul’s Eternal Wound, before reflecting the attack back at her with the Silver Moon Divine Light Wave.
• Bibi Dong used Undying Body to survive the blast, then tried to escape as Ji Juechen held Chrysanthemum and Gui Mei back.
• Li Chen told Kong Deming to leave the rest to him, and a tungsten rod fell from the sky toward Bibi Dong as she solidified her body.

A tungsten-titanium alloy rod and its explosion gravely wounded Bibi Dong, forcing her to flee while Chrysanthemum and Ghost held off her pursuers. Li Chen stopped Ji Juechen from killing the defeated pair, leaving their fate in Sun Moon Sect custody.

• Kong Deming's tungsten-titanium alloy rod pierced Bibi Dong and exploded, leaving her near death in a crater.
• Chrysanthemum and Ghost reached Bibi Dong and used Soul Guidance Milk Bottles to restore enough soul power for her to revive.
• Bibi Dong learned Kong Deming intended to fire again, activated a secret art, and fled while Chrysanthemum and Ghost stayed behind.
• Chrysanthemum and Ghost used their Two Extremes Stillness Domain to delay Kong Deming, Ji Juechen, and Jing Hongchen for twenty seconds, then collapsed.
• Li Chen stopped Ji Juechen from killing Chrysanthemum and Ghost and said the Sun Moon Sect would spare prisoners.

Li Chen persuaded Yue Guan and Gui Mei to serve the Sun Moon Sect in exchange for Soul Bones, cultivation techniques, and a chance to enter the Great Love Valley. After learning Bibi Dong had fled into Heaven Dou City, Li Chen planned to confront Spirit Hall and use a holographic projection to address Spirit City.

• Li Chen brought the exhausted Yue Guan and Gui Mei to the Castle and offered them a deal involving the Great Love Valley and service to the Sun Moon Sect.
• Li Chen promised Yue Guan and Gui Mei Soul Bones and the Soul Core method, while threatening them with implanted bombs if they betrayed the sect.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei worried that the Sun Moon Sect would kill them after using them, but Yue Guan ultimately agreed to the deal.
• Li Chen told Kong Deming and the others that Bibi Dong had escaped into Heaven Dou City and would likely return to Spirit Hall to recover.
• Li Chen announced that the Sun Moon Sect would go to Spirit Hall the next day and use a Satellite holographic projection to address Spirit City and challenge Qian Daoliu.

Huo Yuhao headed for the Far North to search for the Snow Empress, while the gods considered new inheritance candidates and Shrek Academy fled the Sun Moon Sect. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang urging Flender and Zhao Wuji to fight a squad of Fire Phoenix Soul Engineers that had tracked them down.

• Huo Yuhao set out for the Far North, urged on by the Ice Empress, while the Ice God prepared an inheritance examination along his route.
• The gods lamented that Li Chen had taken the immortal herbs, and the War God decided to consider Ju Zi as his successor.
• Flender fled Suotuo City with Shrek Academy after learning the Sun Moon Sect had destroyed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tang San worried that Tang Hao had not returned and decided to leave the academy with Xiao Wu for the Clear Sky Sect.
• The Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps found Shrek Academy in a border town and ordered everyone out to be arrested as Ning Rongrong's accomplices.
• Yu Xiaogang judged that the seven-member squad was weak enough to fight and urged Flender and Zhao Wuji to confront them.

The Fire Phoenix Soul Tool Group captured Tang San and the other Shrek students after defeating Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang, then took them toward Gengxin City. In Spirit City, Qian Daoliu prepared to retaliate for Bibi Dong’s injuries until Li Xiaoyao’s projection warned Spirit Hall not to attack the Sun Moon Sect, leaving Qian Daoliu and the elders afraid to act.

• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang faced the Female Vice-Regimental Commander while Tang San and the others secretly fled through the inn’s back door.
• The Female Vice-Regimental Commander overwhelmed Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Zhao Wuji, and the Fire Phoenix Soul Tool Group captured Tang San and his six companions with tracking technology.
• The Female Vice-Regimental Commander blamed Tang San for the Fire Phoenix members’ losses, and the group carried their captives toward Gengxin City.
• After Bibi Dong was found gravely wounded, Qian Daoliu ordered her treated and prepared to attack the Sun Moon Sect, suspecting it had harmed her.
• Li Xiaoyao projected himself into the sky and threatened to slaughter Spirit Hall if it touched anyone from the Sun Moon Sect, making Qian Daoliu and the elders halt in fear.

Li Xiaoyao’s projection confronted Qian Daoliu over Spirit Hall’s failed raid on the Sun Moon Sect, then challenged him to defeat the Beast God Di Tian before seeking a duel. Qian Daoliu learned that Di Tian was a nearly nine-hundred-thousand-year-old Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, while Chrysanthemum and Ghost secretly returned to Spirit Hall equipped with the Sun Moon Sect’s gifts and surveillance rings.

• Li Xiaoyao’s projection told Qian Daoliu that Bibi Dong had invaded the Sun Moon Sect and that sparing Chrysanthemum and Ghost had been an act of courtesy.
• Li Chen and Kong Deming returned Chrysanthemum and Ghost to Spirit Hall, and Yue Guan confirmed that Bibi Dong had ordered them to raid the sect after failing to crack its technology.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei returned to their quarters with hidden Storage Rings containing Soul Bones, cultivation methods, Soul Tools, and tracking devices, and planned to use the resources to grow stronger.
• Qian Daoliu agreed to let the matter end, but Li Xiaoyao told him to defeat Di Tian before challenging him.
• Li Xiaoyao explained that Di Tian was a Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King with nearly nine hundred thousand years of cultivation, then said the Sun Moon Sect would stay out of the continent’s affairs if Spirit Hall left its tool-refining business alone.