Ch. 422World's Pinnacle

As Tang Chen battered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Zhu Zhuqing moved to seize the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, while Bone Douluo’s ultimate-ice defense failed to stop the Clear Sky Hammer. Han Tao returned to the battlefield and began a new Martial Soul Fusion with Ning Rongrong, developing a powerful Blue Silver form as Tang Chen’s hammer descended.

  • Zhu Zhuqing used the Advanced Distraction Control Method she learned through Flender and her sister Zhu Zhuxuan to attempt to control the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
  • Bone Douluo used Frost Cold, Spatial Lockdown to shield the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but Tang Chen shattered his defense and Ye Lingling’s healing could not undo his injuries.
  • Tang Chen raised the Clear Sky Hammer to strike again as Bone Douluo continued coughing blood.
  • Han Tao regained his consciousness and returned to the battlefield, then asked Ning Rongrong to prepare for Martial Soul Fusion.
  • Han Tao fused his Blue Silver Martial Souls with Ning Rongrong’s Nine Heart Begonia and Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, rapidly developing a new Blue Silver Domain and ultimate-level power as Tang Chen’s hammer fell.

Ch. 423Clear Sky Hammer Shattered

Han Tao used earth-vein tremors and a tornado to meet Tang Chen’s Divine Level Clear Sky Hammer with Frequency Resonance, shattering the hammer. As Han Tao tried to retreat underground, the Titan Giant Ape sensed his location and stopped the ground from closing.

  • Tang Chen dismissed Han Tao’s power and swung his accumulated Clear Sky Hammer, whose aura made evasion impossible.
  • Han Tao combined Blue Silver Grass earth-vein tremors with Feng Yin Grass and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s wind to create a powerful tornado.
  • Tang Chen’s Clear Sky Hammer entered the tornado, where Divine Level Frequency Resonance shattered it despite Tang Chen’s efforts to protect himself.
  • Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders watched in disbelief as the Clear Sky Hammer broke.
  • Han Tao tried to escape underground, but the Titan Giant Ape used its connection to the earth to locate him and interrupt the ground’s closing.

Ch. 424The Price

Han Tao used Xiao Wu to force the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python into a deadly choice as the shockwave of a Divine Level clash approached. The Sky Azure Bull Python sacrificed itself to Ye Lingling, who healed Xiao Wu and gained its Soul Ring and External Soul Bone, leaving Xiao Wu to plead for Da Ming’s remains.

  • Han Tao revealed Yang Wudi as a defector who had become an enshrined elder of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, with Xiao Wu standing beside him.
  • Xiao Wu was pierced by the shattered Clear Sky Hammer, and the Titan Giant Ape rushed to shield her from the oncoming Divine Level shockwave.
  • Han Tao explained that only a Soul Beast’s sacrifice could counter the Divine Level force, and Ye Lingling rejected the Titan Giant Ape’s offer.
  • The Sky Azure Bull Python sacrificed itself to Ye Lingling, who accepted its Soul Ring and External Soul Bone while healing Xiao Wu.
  • Xiao Wu grieved for Da Ming and asked Ye Lingling to give her the External Soul Bone.

Ch. 425Tang Chen Fled

Han Tao forced Xiao Wu to accept Da Ming’s sacrifice and urged Ye Lingling to fuse with the Sky Azure Bull Python’s External Soul Bone. He used the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to unleash divine-grade Jade Phosphor against Tang Chen and the Clear Sky Sect, but Tang Chen escaped with two survivors.

  • Han Tao refused to give up Da Ming’s External Soul Bone and told Ye Lingling to fuse with it, while warning Xiao Wu that Da Ming’s sacrifice had come at a price.
  • Ye Lingling accepted Han Tao’s advice, began fusing with the Sky Azure Bull Python’s tail bone, and used Nine Heart Begonia to heal Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.
  • Han Tao sent a tornado carrying divine-grade Jade Phosphor toward Tang Chen and the Clear Sky Sect, killing Third Elder and Fifth Elder.
  • Tang Chen ordered Tang Xiao and First Elder to flee through the poison tornado, and the three escaped with Tang Xiao and First Elder grievously injured.
  • Han Tao watched Tang Chen get away and recognized that the Nine Headed Bat’s resistance to poison had helped him survive.

Ch. 426Gains?

After the Clear Sky Sect’s failed attack, Tang Chen resolved to become the Asura God and defeat Han Tao, while the others mourned Gu Rong’s death. Han Tao examined his growing abilities and physical enhancements, but recognized the enormous gap between himself and Tang Chen.

  • Tang Xiao reported that the Clear Sky Sect had lost four Titled Douluo and that Han Tao had defeated their attack, while Tang Chen blamed the terrain and vowed to win after completing his final Asura Trial.
  • Tang Chen declared that he would become the Asura God, and Tang San secretly coveted the godhood inheritance.
  • Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong mourned Gu Rong, whose consumption of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass had made his poisoning incurable.
  • Han Tao and Ning Rongrong reflected on how understanding martial soul evolution or pharmacology might have saved Gu Rong, and Han Tao planted Blue Silver Grass where the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass had grown.
  • Han Tao reviewed his Blue Silver Emperor’s Nine Leaves, Bloodline Tempering, and Blue Silver Body Fusion, then recorded a total physical enhancement value of 671.5 and compared it with Tang Chen’s 3000.

Ch. 427Disturbing Airflow

After achieving a Demigod Physique, Han Tao discovered that his body could disturb airflow and proposed studying bodily movement with Ning Rongrong. Xu Tianhui asked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to help restore the Star Luo Empire, but Han Tao rejected reclaiming Douluo Continent and suggested seeking a new homeland on another continent, where his martial soul might reach the Divine Level.

  • Han Tao activated Martial Soul Avatar and found that Blue Silver Body Fusion had raised his physique beyond one thousand, giving him the power to disturb airflow through sheer physical force.
  • Han Tao and Ning Rongrong discussed researching how the body coordinated with mental and physical forces, and Han Tao realized she had waited for their bond to be renewed.
  • Xu Tianhui asked Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to help restore the Star Luo Empire, whose surviving royal descendants were hiding in Evil Eye's secret realm.
  • Chen Xin objected that Spirit Hall had two Peerless Douluos, while Xu Tianhui insisted the Sect could assist the Star Luo Empire once it had absolute strength.
  • Han Tao told Xu Tianhui that the fallen Star Luo Empire could not reclaim Douluo Continent, but might restore its nation on another continent.
  • Han Tao wondered whether the other continent's Blue Silver Grass clan and Blue Silver Emperor could help his martial soul reach the Divine Level.

Ch. 428Conception of the Blue Silver Bodyguard Barrier

Xu Tianhui explained that the White Tiger transformations worked better when accumulated and nested than when stacked, inspiring Han Tao to experiment with a Blue Silver Bodyguard Barrier. His first attempt failed, so he planned to seek help from Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters in Heaven Dou.

  • Xu Tianhui gave Han Tao his research on the White Tiger Bodyguard Barrier and explained that the White Tiger system had four transformations, with amplification above 250% causing instability.
  • Xu Tianhui proposed nesting each transformation into the next, and Han Tao praised the theory while considering whether it could strengthen Blue Silver Grass.
  • Han Tao removed the Jade Phosphor Origin from his fourth Soul Ring, refilled it with Blue Silver Origin, and created the fourth soul skill Blue Silver Barrier.
  • Han Tao spread the Blue Silver Barrier around himself with Mental Power, but it still failed to form a Blue Silver Bodyguard Barrier.
  • Han Tao decided to seek Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters in Heaven Dou as a possible way to obtain the missing soul-skill information.

Ch. 429Failure amp Success?

Han Tao returned to Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy to research Blue Silver Grass Soul Skills with three students, Lin San, Lin Si, and Lin Wu. Lin Si successfully absorbed a Frost Condensation Grass Soul Ring and gained a barrier skill, but Han Tao found its usefulness depended on the presence of frost.

  • Han Tao visited Principal Su and asked for Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters to help him research a special Soul Skill.
  • Principal Su sent Lin San, Lin Si, and Lin Wu with Han Tao, who discussed Blue Silver Grass's limitations and urged them to research its potential for themselves.
  • Han Tao weakened a hundred-year Frost Condensation Grass and explained that absorbing its Soul Ring would be risky for Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters.
  • Lin Si absorbed the Soul Ring while focusing on the need for a defensive-barrier Soul Skill, gaining the First Soul Skill, Frost Aura Barrier.
  • Han Tao used the Spiritual Contract to examine Lin Si's Soul Skill and found that the barrier worked only when supported by frost, leaving the experiment both a success and a failure.

Ch. 430Halo Thorns, Wind Entangling Serpent Vine

Han Tao guided Lin San, Lin Si, and Lin Wu through Soul Beast hunts while testing ways to develop the Blue Silver Bodyguard Barrier. Lin Wu gained a soul bone and a new barrier skill, and Han Tao returned with the students to Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy, where he offered Principal Su his help.

  • Han Tao killed a thousand-year Dark Shadow Leopard and extracted the essence of its Purple Soul Ring with his Martial Soul Phantom.
  • Han Tao wounded a Halo Thorns and guided Lin San through an attempted Soul Ring absorption, but the experiment failed; he used Firefly Light to repair Lin San’s meridians and improve his Cultivation Talent.
  • Han Tao told Lin Wu he could not yet absorb the Wind Entangling Serpent Vine’s ring, then gave him a thousand-year Blue Silver Grass Left Arm Bone.
  • Lin Wu absorbed the soul bone and the Wind Entangling Serpent Vine’s Soul Ring, gaining the Wind Entangling Bodyguard Barrier skill.
  • Han Tao read Lin Wu’s skill through their Spiritual Contract and combined it with his own abilities to reproduce the Blue Silver Bodyguard Barrier and greatly increase his physique.
  • Han Tao brought the three students back to the academy and told Principal Su that he could call on Han Tao for help against any threat he could not handle.

Ch. 431Yu Xiaogang's Return

Tang San and Oscar broke into Heaven Dou Prison, where Tang San rescued Yu Xiaogang and killed Qin Ming. After Yu Xiaogang proposed threatening Zhu Qi by targeting Bamboo Node Village, Tang San agreed to use the villagers to draw him out and pressure Han Tao.

  • Oscar led Tang San to Heaven Dou Prison using intelligence from an Image Stone, and Tang San said he wanted to kill Ye Lingling.
  • Tang San killed a prison guard who tried to stop him, then found Yu Xiaogang imprisoned with Qin Ming.
  • Yu Xiaogang accused Qin Ming of tormenting him, and Tang San killed Qin Ming with the Clear Sky Hammer despite Qin Ming's protests.
  • Tang San freed Yu Xiaogang, who proposed killing Zhu Qi and using him to threaten Han Tao.
  • Yu Xiaogang suggested targeting the villagers of Bamboo Node Village to force Zhu Qi out, and Tang San praised the plan.

Ch. 432Coercion?

Tang San threatened Han Tao and Zhu Qi with the villagers of Bamboo Forest Village, demanding they come to the Clear Sky Sect, while Yu Xiaogang failed to fuse his Martial Soul with Liu Erlong's. Zhu Qi chose to save his villagers and asked Han Tao to trade Xiao Wu for them, but Han Tao refused.

  • Tang San reasoned that Ye Lingling could not detoxify poison and planned to kill her with his toxins and the Wrath of the Buddha Tang Lotus.
  • Yu Xiaogang reunited with Liu Erlong at Blue Tyrant Academy, dismissed Flender, and failed to fuse Luo Sanpao with her Fire Dragon.
  • Ning Rongrong received Tang San's letter stating that Yu Xiaogang had captured the villagers of Bamboo Forest Village and demanding Han Tao and Zhu Qi apologize at the Clear Sky Sect within two days.
  • Zhu Qi asked Han Tao to help save the villagers, but Han Tao refused to risk himself and said he would avenge them if Tang San killed them.
  • Zhu Qi suggested exchanging Xiao Wu for the villagers, and Han Tao rejected the idea, revealing his cold resolve.

Ch. 433Slaughter

Han Tao killed Zhu Qi rather than let Tang San use him as leverage, and Tang San retaliated by slaughtering the villagers of Bamboo Node Village. Han Tao and his companions confronted Tang San at the Poison Barrier in Sunset Forest as he pursued the three surviving youths.

  • Zhu Qi left Han Tao and headed toward the Clear Sky Sect to save his former villagers, but Han Tao intercepted and killed him rather than let Tang San use him as a bargaining chip.
  • Han Tao sent Tang San a message declaring that threats against civilians could not coerce him, and Tang San mocked him after learning of Zhu Qi's death.
  • Tang San released the villagers, then hunted them down after dark with Dragon Beard Needles while the village chief sacrificed himself to help Zhu Jiu, Zhu Ten, and Zhu Shiyi escape.
  • Tang San told the three fleeing youths that he had killed their families and blamed Han Tao and Zhu Qi for their deaths.
  • Han Tao, Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, and Sword Douluo emerged from the Poison Barrier and confronted Tang San.

Ch. 434Observing Fortune

Han Tao cornered Tang San and used Dark Blue Silver Grass to drain his soul power and life, while exploring how plant scents could reveal the flow of luck. Snake Lance helped Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang summon the Golden Saint Dragon, but Han Tao stopped it with a casual palm.

  • Han Tao confronted Tang San at the edge of Sunset Forest, and Dark Blue Silver Grass began devouring Tang San's soul power and vitality.
  • Tang San blocked Sword Douluo's strike with Mystic Jade Hand as Han Tao discussed using plant scents to color the rhythm of luck.
  • Ning Rongrong recognized the red frost in the air as resembling Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and Han Tao concluded that Mysterious Heaven Skill had opened new possibilities on the continent.
  • Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang attempted a Martial Soul Fusion, but Snake Lance joined them and helped form the Golden Saint Dragon.
  • The Golden Saint Dragon charged Han Tao, who stopped it with an ordinary palm.

Ch. 435Asura God Descends

Han Tao nearly killed Tang San, but the Asura God's projection intervened and forced Han Tao and his allies to flee underground. The Asura God rescued Tang San and offered him the chance to inherit godhood.

  • Han Tao drained Tang San with Devour and prepared to kill him despite Tang San pleading for mercy.
  • A scarlet sword shadow arrived from the Clear Sky Sect, revealing the Asura God's intervention, and Han Tao ordered everyone to escape underground.
  • Han Tao led his allies through tunnels opened by the Titan Giant Ape, while the Asura God's projection saved Tang San and left a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring behind.
  • The Asura God identified Tang San as Tang Chen's great-grandson and offered him a godhood inheritance, saying he could overcome his lack of talent by gaining power through the Slaughter Arena.

Ch. 436The Utmost

Tang Chen defied the Asura God’s projection and helped Han Tao prepare to destroy the Asura Sword rather than let Tang San inherit its godhood. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei joined the trap as the attack closed in on the sword.

  • The Asura God’s projection attacked Tang Chen, shattered his Adamantine Hammer, and broke his finger bones when Tang San pleaded for his grandfather’s life.
  • Tang Chen confronted the projection about the limits of its power, while Liu Erlong explained that he was calling for Han Tao’s help.
  • Han Tao asked Chen Xin whether the Asura Sword could provide enough material to reforge the Seven Kill Sword, and Chen Xin said it should be enough.
  • Tang Chen rejected the chance to inherit the Asura God Position and warned the projection that Han Tao’s Frequency Resonance could shatter its sword.
  • Bibi Dong appeared outside Sunset Forest and revealed that she had helped Han Tao prepare to kill the Asura God’s projection.
  • Yue Guan and Gui Mei took positions around the Asura Sword at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and the Yin-Yang Stillness Domain began.

Ch. 437God Position

Han Tao’s Frequency Resonance threatened the Asura God’s projection, prompting it to give Tang Chen the Divine Core. Tang Chen began ascending to godhood, but Bibi Dong’s intervention halted the ritual long enough for the Asura Demon Sword to shatter, leaving Tang Chen furious at Spirit Hall.

  • Han Tao drew the earth’s vibrations and a tornado around the Asura Demon Sword, while Tang Chen persuaded the Asura God’s projection to hand over its God Position.
  • Tang Chen fused with the Divine Core, and Han Tao realized divinity was the missing element in his attempts to condense a Soul Master.
  • Tang Chen used Chaotic Cloak to withstand Han Tao’s vibration attack and began advancing from Peerless Douluo to godhood.
  • Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to activate Yin-Yang Stillness Domain, freezing Tang Chen’s ascension.
  • The domain shattered, and Han Tao’s contracting wind vortex destroyed the Asura Demon Sword, leaving Tang Chen gravely injured and vowing revenge on Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Bibi Dong.

Ch. 438Advanced Devour

Tang Chen became the Asura God and attacked Bibi Dong and Guimei, but his shattered weapons left him weakened. Han Tao helped Bibi Dong evolve her martial soul with a Dark Blue Silver Grass sacrifice, while considering a way to turn Tang Chen into a false god.

  • Tang Chen used the Asura Domain to split Guimei in two, then demanded that Bibi Dong provide a way to track Han Tao in exchange for sparing him.
  • Bibi Dong revealed that Spirit Hall had once marked Han Tao’s 100,000-year-old Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, but the Soul Master with the tracking skill was dead.
  • Tang Chen attacked Bibi Dong, but she blocked his strike and wounded him with her Soul Bone skills.
  • Han Tao instructed Bibi Dong to sacrifice a ten-thousand-year Dark Blue Silver Grass and focus on advancing the Soul-Devouring Demon Spider’s poison.
  • Bibi Dong’s Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor evolved into the Dark Spider Emperor, and Han Tao considered making Tang Chen a false god with a God Position but no divinity.

Ch. 439God Devouring Spider Emperor

Bibi Dong’s Soul Devouring Spider Emperor evolved into the divine-grade God Devouring Spider Emperor during her battle with Tang Chen, costing her the Death Spider Emperor. The new Martial Soul could not devour Tang Chen’s divinity, but Bibi Dong discovered it could target the Nine-Headed Blood Bat tissue within him.

  • Bibi Dong realized that toxins and other traits, not just Soul Ring age and strength, could guide Martial Soul evolution, while Tang Chen forged a new blade and attacked her.
  • Bibi Dong used her Death Spider Emperor’s defensive Soul Skills to intercept Tang Chen, but his blade shattered her scepter and released Spirit Hall’s accumulated Faith Power.
  • Han Tao observed the Faith Power and scepter patterns drive the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor toward divine-grade, then recorded that integration, pattern possession, and cluster form could lead a Martial Soul to that level.
  • The Soul Devouring Spider Emperor became the God Devouring Spider Emperor and devoured Bibi Dong’s Death Spider Emperor, consuming its Soul Power, origin, and Soul Rings.
  • The God Devouring Spider Emperor’s threads failed to devour Tang Chen’s divine body, but Bibi Dong identified the Nine-Headed Blood Bat as an external flaw and began plundering its tissue structure.

Ch. 440Swan Kiss

Han Tao and the others discovered that a fragment of Snow Swan Kiss had reappeared and was poisoning Tang Chen. Han Tao concluded that Dai Weisi had carried the fragment into the distant past, where it survived until Fortune made it a trap for Tang Chen.

  • The Nine Headed Bat tissue was stripped from Tang Chen as Yellow Springs Dew clouded his mind, but his Asura Domain suppressed the poison.
  • A pure white Snow Swan Kiss appeared, confounding Han Tao and Yang Wudi, who believed its medicinal power had been exhausted.
  • Ning Rongrong explained that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Life and Death Arena had reversed the poisonous barrier and restored a trace of Snow Swan Kiss to the past.
  • Han Tao deduced that Dai Weisi had taken the fragment into an even more distant past while seeking a chance to survive.
  • Han Tao concluded that the fragment had endured for thirteen years and, guided by Fortune, had become a killing trap aimed at Tang Chen.

Ch. 441Macro Vastness

Tang Chen sacrificed half his divine soul to resist the Yellow Springs Dew, then raced east to cultivate Purple Demon Eyes and survive. As Han Tao used Blue Silver Grass to copy Tang Chen’s insight and awaken the Macroscopic Structure of Soul Power, Bibi Dong confronted Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, ending with blue-green vines and golden threads closing around them.

  • Tang Chen seized Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, forcing Tang San to hand over the Distraction Control Method.
  • Tang Chen detonated his divine soul, sacrificed half of it to the Yellow Springs Dew, and bought himself time to act.
  • Tang Chen raced east to meet the dawn and swiftly cultivated Purple Demon Eyes through the Vastness realm.
  • Han Tao used Blue Silver Grass to synchronize Tang Chen’s insights and comprehended how the Macroscopic Structure of Soul Power formed domains.
  • Bibi Dong challenged Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, while Han Tao’s golden threads and blue-green vines surrounded them.
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