Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang imposed an intense training program on the Clear Sky Sect disciples, then devised a method to make their Clear Sky Hammers feel heavy for weighted running. The disciples began the fourth stage carrying their Martial Souls, while Tang Bai's concerns and the disciples' complaints were ignored.

• Yu Xiaogang ordered the Clear Sky Sect disciples to run ten laps around the back mountain each morning, gradually removing Soul Power assistance and adding pace and weight requirements.
• Tang Tian and Tang Yu complained about the distance and lost cultivation time, while Tang San defended Yu Xiaogang and insisted everyone follow the plan.
• After three weeks of training, Yu Xiaogang introduced weighted running and decided the disciples could use their Clear Sky Hammers as weights.
• Yu Xiaogang taught the disciples to cut off Soul Power to their Martial Souls and use Mental Power to reject them, making the hammers feel heavier.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered the disciples to carry their Clear Sky Hammers on their backs and run ten laps each day.

Tang Bai learned that Yu Xiaogang planned to use Clear Sky Sect funds for Tang San’s hidden weapon materials, while Liu Erlong freed Flender from prison and confronted Han Tao over taking his blood. Han Tao revealed that he wanted Liu Erlong’s Fire Dragon blood for research, and she asked what he would pay in return.

• Tang Bai questioned Yu Xiaogang about repelling Martial Souls, but Yu Xiaogang dismissed his concerns and proposed misusing funds for Tang San’s materials.
• Liu Erlong bribed and threatened the merchants who had accused Flender until they withdrew their charges, securing Flender’s release from prison.
• Han Tao met Liu Erlong and Flender, explained that he had taken Flender’s blood while caring for him, and neutralized Liu Erlong’s soul power when she challenged him.
• Han Tao said he wanted Liu Erlong’s Fire Dragon blood to research the Golden Iron Triangle’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill and the Golden Saint Dragon.
• Liu Erlong asked Han Tao what he would pay for her blood and pointed out that he had risen from Innate Soul Power level 1 to Soul King.

Han Tao traded his explanation of a way to raise Innate Soul Power for Liu Erlong’s Fire Dragon blood, while Flender remained hopeful that Han Tao could help him surpass his physical limits. Ye Lingling shared her family’s Element Advancement theory and learned that the Holy Element could provide the purification ability Han Tao sought.

• Han Tao suggested that Tang San’s cultivation technique could raise Innate Soul Power, prompting Liu Erlong and Flender to question whether Yu Xiaogang had misjudged Tang San.
• Han Tao collected Liu Erlong’s Fire Dragon blood after reminding her and Flender to honor their promise, and he assured Flender not to forget his own promise to find a way past his physical limits.
• Ye Lingling showed Han Tao Branches of Element Advancement and explained that Incineration was an advancement of the Fire Element, which did not suit her ocean growth route.
• Han Tao explained that the Holy Element could also grant purification abilities and shared secret knowledge about Qian Renxue’s Angel powers.

Ye Lingling and Han Tao refined a Golden Saint Dragon bloodline and developed a theory connecting Physical Fitness to a soul master’s racial baseline, bloodline strength, and bloodline tempering. They concluded that tempering progresses after the Soul Emperor stage and generally reaches completion by Soul Sage, leaving their framework for physique growth more fully defined.

• Ye Lingling combined Yu Xiaogang's, Flender's, and Liu Erlong's blood with the Cat Eagle as a catalyst, producing a high-grade Golden Saint Dragon bloodline that could improve Physical Fitness.
• Ye Lingling explained that Physical Fitness determined how much a soul master could improve their physique through training, and Han Tao noted that his training methods had stopped working at his current stage.
• Han Tao cautioned that bloodline alone could not explain Physical Fitness and proposed accounting for species and human racial baselines.
• Ye Lingling suggested that Martial Soul Strength set the upper limit of bloodline strength, and she and Han Tao discussed how bloodline tempering and inheritance affected that relationship.
• Han Tao and Ye Lingling used Yu Xiaogang and Tang San as counterexamples, then established racial baseline, bloodline strength, and tempering progress as the three key elements of Physical Fitness.

Han Tao decided not to risk injecting a high-level bloodline and recorded his physique theory for Ye Lingling. At the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Hao confronted Yu Xiaogang, and Tang Bai suspected Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer had degenerated because of Yu Xiaogang’s theory.

• Han Tao added Physical Fitness to his theory of a soul master’s physique, gave the page to Ye Lingling, and considered Flender a future subject for bloodline research.
• Yu Xiaogang praised the Clear Sky Sect disciples’ improved running times, while Tang Xiao and the disciples accepted his training plan’s results.
• Tang Hao arrived at the sect, confronted Yu Xiaogang, and blamed him for Tang San’s inability to awaken the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Tang Xiao and Tang San defended Yu Xiaogang as Tang Hao’s Killing Intent injured him and his Clear Sky Hammer descended toward the sect.
• Tang Hao had Tang San weigh his Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang Bai concluded that its reduced weight indicated Martial Soul Degeneration caused by Repulsion Martial Soul.

Yu Xiaogang convinced the Clear Sky Sect that Tang San's weakened Clear Sky Hammer was degenerating as part of a path toward a God-level Martial Soul, and the Sect turned against Tang Hao. Tang Hao struggled to contain his anger and pressed Tang San about how he had found the Sect.

• Tang Bai explained that Yu Xiaogang's Repulsion Martial Soul method had severed the Clear Sky Hammer's connections to its foundation, causing its strength to decline.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed Martial Soul degeneration was necessary for the Clear Sky Hammer to evolve, and Tang San accepted his explanation while Tang Xiao defended him.
• Yu Xiaogang boasted that his theories had produced Ultimate and God-level Martial Souls, convincing Tang Xiao and the elders to protect him from Tang Hao.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered training to continue, and Tang San and the other disciples resumed repelling their Martial Souls despite Tang Hao's fury.
• Tang Hao asked Tang San how he had found the Clear Sky Sect, and Yu Xiaogang claimed credit for using a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan Bloodline Secret Method with his theory.

Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer had weakened as its weight fell below two hundred jin, and Yu Xiaogang devised a plan to restore it by having Tang San absorb the Man-Faced Demon Spider Emperor's Soul Ring and collect Evil Intent. Tang San sought permission to hunt a Soul Beast, and Tang Xiao assigned the Fifth Elder to accompany him.

• Tang San showed Yu Xiaogang that his Clear Sky Hammer had lost quality and dropped below two hundred jin.
• Yu Xiaogang researched Tang Chen's records on Clear Sky Hammer evolution and learned that Killing Intent and Divine Slaughter's Domain could improve it.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to absorb the Man-Faced Demon Spider Emperor's Soul Ring, hoping to reactivate the Eight Spider Lances and use their Devouring ability to absorb Evil Intent.
• Tang San praised Yu Xiaogang's plan and went to Tang Xiao to ask permission to hunt a Soul Beast and absorb a Soul Ring.
• Tang Xiao ordered the Fifth Elder to take Tang San out to hunt.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang followed the Fifth Elder into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a powerful Man-Faced Demon Spider, but their argument with him escalated into an attack that left Yu Xiaogang poisoned. Tang San healed the visible wound but discovered that the venom had damaged Yu Xiaogang internally, and he feared the lasting harm to his cultivation.

• Tang San asked the Fifth Elder to help find a fifty-thousand-year-old Man-Faced Demon Spider Emperor, but the elder explained that an emperor would be a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and too dangerous to hunt.
• Yu Xiaogang called the Fifth Elder a coward, and the elder struck Yu Xiaogang across the face while pointing out a Man-Faced Demon Spider King nearby.
• Yu Xiaogang identified the spider as seventy thousand years old, and the Fifth Elder attacked it with his Clear Sky Hammer after Tang San asked him to check for offspring.
• The spider fired venom at Tang San and Yu Xiaogang; Tang San dodged, but his Blue Silver Grass failed to pull Yu Xiaogang out of the way, and venom corroded Yu Xiaogang's waist.
• Tang San used his Begonia Flower healing Soul Skill to repair the visible wound, then poured his Innate Soul Power into Yu Xiaogang to mend the internal damage from the poison.

Tang San tried to help Yu Xiaogang recover his damaged meridians, then sought a Soul Ring from the Man-Faced Demon Spider King. His attempt to absorb a sixteen-thousand-year spider’s Soul Ring became life-threatening, and the chapter ended as the crippled Spider King began a Sacrifice Ritual.

• Tang San used his Innate Soul Power to improve Yu Xiaogang’s Cultivation Talent, lowering his own Soul Power to level 40.
• Tang San injured the Man-Faced Demon Spider King’s offspring and threatened the King, but it refused to sacrifice itself.
• Yu Xiaogang advised Tang San to absorb the Soul Rings of the Man-Faced Demon Spiders and hoped the King would drop a Soul Bone.
• Tang San began absorbing the sixteen-thousand-year Man-Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring and was overwhelmed by Soul Vibration.
• Fifth Elder explained that Tang San could survive only by killing the King and absorbing its Head Soul Bone to resist Soul Vibration.
• The crippled Man-Faced Demon Spider King began the Sacrifice Ritual.

Tang San absorbed the Man-Faced Demon Spider King's skull soul bone, but a second spider sacrificed itself to seize his body. The takeover stalled when the soul bone could not reach one hundred thousand years, and the chapter ended with the Demon Spider King controlling Tang San's body while Yu Xiaogang failed to challenge the change.

• The Man-Faced Demon Spider King condensed its power into a skull soul bone, and Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to absorb it.
• As Tang San fused with the skull, the injured offspring began a second sacrifice, prompting the Fifth Elder to recognize a plan to occupy Tang San's body.
• The Demon Spider King used neurotoxin to paralyze Tang San and drew power from three same-kind soul rings to strengthen its soul bone.
• The skull soul bone reached 99,999 years but could not break through to one hundred thousand years, preventing the Demon Spider King's full possession plan.
• The Demon Spider King used its Origin Power to transform Tang San's external soul bone into eight Deep Blue Spider Legs and spoke through Tang San's body.
• Yu Xiaogang asked if Tang San was all right, and the Demon Spider King answered while Yu Xiaogang chose not to voice his suspicions.

Tang Hao stopped the Man-Faced Demon Spider King from controlling Tang San, but discovered that the creature’s consciousness remained inside Tang San’s fused Head Soul Bone. The group left with a plan to seek a way to strengthen the Soul Bone while Tang Hao pursued the Distraction Control Method.

• Tang Hao arrived, suppressed the Man-Faced Demon Spider King through the Eight Spider Lances, and forced it to return control of Tang San’s body.
• Tang Hao tested Tang San by asking who they had sought on their previous visit, and Tang San correctly answered the Blue Silver King.
• Tang San discovered that his Clear Sky Hammer’s three soul rings had lost their Origin Power and that his Head Soul Bone contained the Man-Faced Demon Spider King’s consciousness.
• Tang Hao confronted Fifth Elder over who had told Tang San to absorb the Soul Bone, but Yu Xiaogang used his Clear Sky Sect Medal of Honor to prevent Tang Hao from acting against him.
• Tang San revealed that the Head Soul Bone’s Spiderweb skill was weak and slow, so Yu Xiaogang proposed finding an inheritance that could strengthen Soul Bones.
• Tang Hao planned to seek the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Distraction Control Method while Yu Xiaogang searched for a way to raise the Soul Bone’s age.

Han Tao discussed how Mental Power and bloodline continued converging as a Soul Master advanced, then Ning Rongrong revealed that medicinal plants depended on soil, water, and sunlight. Their discussion gave Han Tao a new path to strengthen Blue Silver Grass, leaving him hopeful about its potential to reach the ultimate level.

• Han Tao asked Ye Lingling about the hidden Mental Power change at the Soul King stage and how Martial Soul Evolution could affect Martial Soul Avatar; she explained that Mental Power and bloodline could converge again over time.
• Ning Rongrong told Han Tao she had discovered that medicinal herbs needed soil, water, and sunlight, prompting him to realize he had overlooked the basics of plant growth.
• Ning Rongrong identified Earth Power as soil and described rainwater and ocean elements as helpful forms of moisture; Han Tao decided to visit Skywater Academy to seek Xue Wu's help.
• Han Tao identified the Power of the Sun as a higher transformation of the Fire Element and connected earth, ocean, and sun to Blue Silver Grass's growth.
• Han Tao concluded that these elements could provide Blue Silver Grass with a stronger foundation and wondered whether they could help it reach the ultimate level.

Han Tao tested whether fortune influenced his choices, then went to the Worship Hall to study Qian Renxue's Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul. Qian Daoliu confirmed that faith was part of its essence, and recognized Han Tao as Ning Fengzhi's disciple, whose family had a reason to resent him.

• Han Tao tossed a Gold Soul Coin to test fortune, saw no sign of its intervention, and chose water and sunlight for his cultivation.
• Han Tao went to the Worship Hall with Snake Lance Douluo and met Qian Renxue, who asked him to study her martial soul.
• Han Tao asked whether Qian Renxue could absorb Faith Power, and she said it only slightly increased her Mental Power.
• Han Tao argued that faith was important to the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, and Qian Daoliu came out to confirm it was one part of its essence.
• Qian Renxue introduced Han Tao as Ning Fengzhi's disciple, and Qian Daoliu quietly acknowledged the danger posed by his connection to the man whose father Qian Daoliu had killed.

Han Tao questioned Qian Daoliu about the Angel Martial Soul’s Faith Power, then studied how Qian Renxue’s sunlight skill affected Blue Silver Grass. He asked Qian Renxue to help expose his 130 pots of Blue Silver Grass to the Power of the Sun each day, and she hesitated.

• Han Tao asked whether Faith Power enhanced anything besides the spirit, and Qian Daoliu explained that it strengthened only the spirit of Angel Martial Soul users.
• Qian Daoliu said Faith Power transformed the Spiritual Body toward faith, while Qian Renxue was destined to ignite an eternal fire of Mental Power as the Angel God’s inheritor.
• Han Tao asked Qian Renxue to display the Power of the Sun, and she used Angel’s Radiance beneath the sunlight.
• Han Tao studied how the Power of the Sun activated Blue Silver Grass’s chlorophyll and concluded that evolving its structure would require new research.
• Han Tao gave Qian Renxue his 130 pots of Blue Silver Grass and asked her to shine the Power of the Sun on them every day, and she hesitated.

Han Tao persuaded Qian Daoliu to cultivate Blue Silver Grass for the possibility of gaining soul-beast faith, explaining how environmental conditions could speed its growth and giving him a detailed cultivation diary. Meanwhile, Tang Hao demanded the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Distraction Control Method, but a dispute over exchanging secret techniques ended with the Sect Leader's Residence roof destroyed and no agreement reached.

• Han Tao suggested that cultivating intelligent Blue Silver Grass could let the Angel Martial Soul receive faith from soul beasts, and Qian Daoliu agreed to help if Han Tao supplied enough plants.
• Han Tao explained that carefully combined conditions could raise Blue Silver Grass's growth to four thousand years per year, and he gave Qian Daoliu his cultivation diary.
• Qian Daoliu examined the detailed cultivation records, while Qian Renxue asked Han Tao about an unexplained question mark in the section on magnetic fields.
• Tang Hao asked Ning Fengzhi for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Distraction Control Method, and Ning Fengzhi refused unless Tang Hao offered an equivalent secret technique.
• Tang Hao rejected exchanging the Clear Sky Sect's Clear Sky Nine Wonders and Ring Detonation techniques, summoned his hammer, and tore off the Sect Leader's Residence roof before Gu Rong and Sword Douluo confronted him.
• Tang Hao withdrew his weapon and sat down again, but he maintained that his sect's secret techniques were not available for exchange.

Han Tao investigated why Tang Hao wanted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Distraction Control Method and helped arrange an exchange for the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer. After studying Tang Hao's Blue Silver Emperor Soul Ring, Han Tao watched Ning Fengzhi hand over the Advanced Distraction Control Method, leaving Tang Hao to decide whether it was genuine.

• Han Tao questioned Tang Hao about demanding the Distraction Control Method, and Tang Hao explained that he needed it to help his son use a Soul Skill from the Demon Spider Skull.
• Han Tao concluded the Soul Skill might have been influenced by a Soul Beast's lingering will and sent Ning Fengzhi a message agreeing to the trade.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Tang Hao to exchange the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer for the Distraction Control Method, and Tang Hao agreed.
• Tang Hao demonstrated the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer while Han Tao examined the Blue Silver Emperor's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Tang Hao the Advanced Distraction Control Method with its annotations removed, and Tang Hao questioned whether it was real.

Han Tao classified soul skills and strengthened Blue Silver Eye to ten thousand years, but realized he could not improve the skill’s recorded information. He then visited Skywater Academy to seek help studying Blue Silver Grass’s evolution, where Shui Bing’er introduced him to Xue Wu.

• Tang Hao threatened Han Tao and Ning Rongrong, but Sword Douluo blocked his Killing Intent, and Tang Hao eventually left after Ning Fengzhi intervened.
• Han Tao organized soul skills into classifications, including characteristic activation, form extension, domain-type, action-type, and body elementalization.
• Han Tao absorbed Blue Silver Grass Origin Power to raise Blue Silver Eye to a ten-thousand-year soul ring, but found that its soul skill remained ordinary in quality.
• Han Tao visited Skywater Academy and told its principal he wanted to explore how water affected Blue Silver Grass’s evolution.
• Shui Bing’er introduced Han Tao to Xue Wu, whose Delicate Dance Snow Satin martial soul could control the weather.

Han Tao used Snow Dance’s Rainfall soul skill to strengthen his Blue Silver Grass with the Rain and Dew element, bringing its power close to the Ultimate level. Snow Dance recovered with food Han Tao provided, while he considered how to repay her further.

• Shui Bing'er persuaded Snow Dance to help Han Tao adapt his Blue Silver Grass to the Rain and Dew element, and Snow Dance warned that her duties kept her busy.
• Han Tao offered Snow Dance one million Gold Soul Coins, but Shui Bing'er explained that her meteorological soul skills already brought her considerable status and wealth.
• Snow Dance used Dark clouds and Rainfall, allowing Han Tao’s Blue Silver Grass to absorb rainwater and dissolve the granite that blocked its energy pathways.
• Han Tao’s martial soul grew stronger than Dark Blue Silver Grass, though it remained just short of an Ultimate Martial Soul.
• Han Tao gave Snow Dance a recovery bun made by a Food System Soul Master and explained how long such food could retain its effects.

After Xue Ye collapsed, Xue Qinghe offered the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud as a reward for saving him, drawing Ye Lingling and Han Tao toward the opportunity. Meanwhile, Tang San obtained a copy of the Distraction Control Method, and Yu Xiaogang devised a dangerous way to help him practice it as the Man Faced Demon Spider overheard their plan.

• Xue Ye collapsed, and Xue Qinghe offered the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud as a reward for anyone who could save him.
• Han Tao told Ye Lingling that his trade with Spirit Hall had helped make the treatment bounty possible, while Ye Lingling prepared to pursue the opportunity.
• Tang Hao returned with a copy of the Distraction Control Method, which Yu Xiaogang examined and claimed Tang San could practice using the soul hidden in his Head Soul Bone.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed exhausting Tang San to provoke the Man Faced Demon Spider's soul attack, and Tang Hao agreed to protect him during the attempt.
• Tang Hao began teaching Tang San the first form of the Clear Sky Nine Wonders, while the Man Faced Demon Spider heard their plan and objected to being treated as unaware.

Han Tao discovered that Purple Demon Eyes affected the hidden transformation of Mental Power and might interfere with his future cultivation, but he broke through the method’s third barrier and permanently reached the Mustard Seed Realm. He ended the chapter confident that luck could no longer stop his growth or leave him unable to advance.

• Han Tao asked Ning Rongrong why his Mental Power had not transformed after reaching Soul King, and Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling confirmed that theirs had changed.
• Ye Lingling used her fifth Soul Skill to purify lingering medicinal auras from Han Tao and Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Rongrong reminded Han Tao of Purple Demon Eyes, leading him to connect its effects on Mental Power with Faith Power and the hidden transformations needed for later cultivation.
• Han Tao concluded that luck had restricted his growth, but declared that Titled Douluo could no longer threaten him and rejected the idea that he would be trapped at level 69.
• Han Tao’s Mental Power reached a crucial node, and the third barrier of Purple Demon Eyes broke, permanently granting him the Mustard Seed Realm.