Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong learned that Su Chen had destroyed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and was now attacking the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, then passed the Rakshasa God's Seventh Trial. She learned that her Eighth Trial required her to kill the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, while Hu Liena left to support Su Chen.

• Hu Liena reported that Su Chen had led a thousand Soul Masters and four Titled Douluo to destroy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, killing Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Ning Fengzhi.
• Bibi Dong learned that Su Chen had suffered no injuries and was likely leading an attack on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Bibi Dong passed the Rakshasa God's Seventh Trial and learned that her Eighth Trial required her to kill the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape.
• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong she would join Su Chen's forces before their planned attack on the Clear Sky Sect, and Bibi Dong urged her to return safely.
• After Hu Liena left, Bibi Dong read Qian Renxue's letter asking Su Chen to spare her mother's life.

Spirit Hall launched its Soul Hunting Operation against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, using a concealed force and a massive tsunami to break through the clan’s lake defenses. The attack continued as Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters struck the clan’s disciples with lightning.

• Spirit City's intelligence agents realized the Pope and several elders were absent and concluded that the Soul Hunting Operation had begun, so they tried to warn the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and other factions.
• A force of eight thousand Spirit Hall members approached the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s island through fog, while fish-type Soul Masters killed the clan’s lake patrols.
• The clan’s gate guards spotted the boats, and the young man at the front used his fifth soul skill, Water Release: Tsunami, to send an enormous wave crashing into the mountain gate.
• The young man ordered Spirit Hall’s lightning unit to attack the flooded area, electrocuting clan disciples caught in the water.
• Spirit Hall’s second squad advanced and killed disciples who escaped the tsunami or tried to fly out of the water.

Spirit Hall’s forces, led by Su Chen, swept through the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s mountains while Yu Luomian fought to avenge Liu Erlong and buy his clan time. At True Dragon Mountain, Yu Yuanzhen rejected surrender and urged the clan to face Spirit Hall without disgrace.

• Su Chen’s forces captured seven mountains and advanced toward True Dragon Mountain as Yu Luomian confronted them on Tyrant Dragon Mountain.
• Yu Luomian’s grief over Liu Erlong’s death had mutated his martial soul into a Purple Lightning Demon Dragon, and he challenged Su Chen to fight.
• Su Chen sent Thousand Jun Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo to kill Yu Luomian, while Spirit Hall’s army pressed on toward True Dragon Mountain.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s elders debated surrender as Spirit Hall’s troops and powerful Douluo surrounded them.
• Yu Yuanzhen declared that the clan would rather die standing than surrender and live on its knees.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan prepared to resist Spirit Hall as Yu Yuanzhen sent Yu Xiaolong away with the Snow Jade Crown and a group of young disciples. During the battle, Su Chen refused the Four Sons of the Royal Banner’s offer to face Yu Yuanzhen, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Yu Yuanzhen told Yu Xiaolong to escape with the Snow Jade Crown and several young disciples so he could seek help from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragons, and Yu Xiaolong reluctantly obeyed.
• Su Chen offered the clan a chance to surrender, and many Outsider Disciples defected to Spirit Hall after one revealed Yu Xiaolong’s escape plan.
• Yu Yuanzhen killed the disciple who revealed the secret, and Su Chen sent Elder Flame Hawk to pursue Yu Xiaolong before ordering the attack on the clan.
• Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan Soul Saints unleashed their martial soul avatars as the Four Sons of the Royal Banner approached Su Chen and offered to fight Yu Yuanzhen.
• Su Chen refused the Four Sons of the Royal Banner’s offer because he wanted to prevent them from dying alongside Yu Yuanzhen.

Su Chen and Spirit Hall attacked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but Yu Yuanzhen unleashed the True Dragon Nine Crowns and broke the Four Sons of the Royal Banner’s barrier. Su Chen faced Yu Yuanzhen alone, and the chapter ended as he joined with his golden sword to prepare his promised one-move attack.

• Su Chen sent the Four Sons of the Royal Banner to test Yu Yuanzhen while he cut down the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s disciples.
• Yu Yuanzhen used Thunderstorm to injure and kill many Spirit Hall soul masters.
• The Four Sons of the Royal Banner trapped Yu Yuanzhen in their Death Barrier, but he summoned eight crowns from the surrounding mountains and greatly strengthened his soul rings.
• Su Chen ordered the Four Sons of the Royal Banner and the other combatants to withdraw, then told Yu Yuanzhen that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had been destroyed and offered to spare him if he surrendered.
• Yu Yuanzhen rejected Su Chen’s offer and began Dragon Transformation, but Su Chen activated Man and Sword as One, frightening him with the sword’s aura.

Tang San, Ning Rongrong, and Dai Mubai were summoned to His Majesty Xue Ye after Shrek Academy lost more students and teachers to Spirit Hall’s attack. Ning Rongrong learned that her father and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had been destroyed, while Dai Mubai suspected the emperor was hiding his satisfaction.

• Ma Hongjun told Tang San that twelve more students had withdrawn from Shrek Academy, and Tang San urged him to understand their fear and focus on those who remained.
• An imperial official summoned Tang San, Ning Rongrong, and Dai Mubai to meet His Majesty Xue Ye.
• Ning Rongrong recognized her Seventh Grandfather in the imperial study, and Xue Qinghe realized that Tang Yin was Tang San.
• Ning Rongrong’s Seventh Grandfather told her that Spirit Hall had destroyed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and killed her father, Ning Fengzhi.
• Dai Mubai questioned whether Spirit Hall was responsible and noticed concealed satisfaction in His Majesty Xue Ye’s reaction to the sect’s destruction.

After Spirit Hall destroyed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Xue Ye and the survivors planned to unite against it and protect scattered disciples. Meanwhile, Su Chen and Hu Liena reached Wowo Village, where Su Chen suspected the hidden Clear Sky Sect was nearby.

• Yu Xiaolong reported that Spirit Hall had killed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s members, including its patriarch, and stolen its Soul Bones and resources.
• Ning Rongrong and Yu Xiaogang vowed revenge, while Xue Ye agreed to move troops to escort the sects’ scattered disciples rather than launch an immediate attack.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan relocate to the Imperial Capital, and Xue Ye and the elders agreed.
• Dai Mubai offered to persuade the Star Luo Emperor to join forces with Heaven Dou against Spirit Hall, while Xue Ye hoped Tang San could bring the Clear Sky Sect into the alliance.
• Su Chen and Hu Liena arrived at Wowo Village, where Su Chen indicated that the Clear Sky Sect was their next target.

Su Chen led Spirit Hall’s forces to the Clear Sky Sect and ordered the slaughter of its village defenders after they refused to surrender. At the sect’s mountain stronghold, he rejected the old agreement between Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen and declared that only he could decide Spirit Hall’s policy.

• Hu Liena urged Su Chen to plan carefully before attacking the Clear Sky Sect, but Su Chen insisted they would attack that day.
• Su Chen’s army surrounded Wowo Village, where the defenders denied that it housed the Clear Sky Sect and refused to surrender.
• Su Chen ordered his troops to kill everyone in the village taller than a cartwheel, and they slaughtered the village’s outer and outsider disciples.
• Su Chen led Spirit Hall’s forces to the mountain stronghold, where Tang Xiao and the elders confronted him and demanded to know why he had attacked.
• Tang Ying questioned Su Chen’s motives, and Su Chen accused the Clear Sky Sect of hiding until it could return and oppose Spirit Hall.
• Tang Yan invoked Qian Daoliu’s promise never to enter the area, but Su Chen declared that promises made without his consent were void.

Su Chen confronted the Clear Sky Sect over its false claims of withdrawing from the world, then faced its taunts and Spirit Hall elders’ doubts about attacking its mountain stronghold. He declared that he would show them how he would reach the peak himself.

• Su Chen accused the Clear Sky Sect of secretly sending Tang Yuehua and other disciples to prepare for its return, leaving Tang Yan unable to answer.
• Tang Xiao pointed out that Su Chen intended to attack regardless, and Tang Yan and the disciples challenged Spirit Hall to climb the steep mountain.
• Elder Qian Jun and Elder Jiang Mo urged Su Chen to delay the assault and consult Qian Daoliu, while Snake Lance Douluo, Flame Hawk Douluo, the Yellow Banner Four, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo offered varying degrees of support.
• Su Chen assessed the loyalties of the Spirit Hall elders and told the Clear Sky Sect to watch as he climbed the mountain himself.

Su Chen revealed his five red soul rings and used his earth-moving skill to turn the Clear Sky Sect’s cliff into a staircase, allowing Spirit Hall’s army to charge up the mountain. After Tang Xiao’s forces retreated to a second defensive line, he cut the iron cable bridges and claimed that Su Chen’s much larger army still could not conquer the sect.

• Su Chen revealed five red soul rings, shocking the Clear Sky Sect’s leaders and disciples, while Tang Ying suggested his Divine Trial had changed them.
• Su Chen repeatedly used Earth Release-Earth-Moving Core to reshape the mountain into a staircase, then replenished his soul power with food supplied by two bishops.
• Su Chen ordered Spirit Hall’s ten-thousand-strong army to attack, forcing Tang Xiao to retreat his disciples to the second defensive line as some were killed by Godly Zhuge Crossbows.
• Su Chen led his army onto the summit and saw the steep mountain range and iron cables connecting its peaks.
• Tang Xiao ordered the iron cable cut and taunted Su Chen that even an army ten times larger could not conquer the Clear Sky Sect.

Su Chen led Spirit Hall's army against the retreating Clear Sky Sect, using elemental control to freeze a crossing and then shatter the sect's mountain stronghold. Tang Xiao and the surviving disciples were left airborne above the collapsing peak as Su Chen taunted them.

• Su Chen froze the mist between two peaks with his fifth soul skill, allowing Spirit Hall's army to advance while the Clear Sky Sect retreated.
• Tang Xiao ordered the sect to fall back and conserve strength, believing Su Chen would exhaust his soul power; Tang Yan reported that some families had evacuated and teams had gone to seek reinforcements.
• At the Clear Sky Sect's final mountain, Tang Ying invoked Tang Chen, but Su Chen challenged the sect to call him forth and warned Tang Xiao about the height of the peaks.
• Su Chen used his first soul skill to split the mountain beneath the Clear Sky Sect, causing the peak to collapse into fragments.
• Tang Xiao and other flying Soul Masters rescued some disciples into the air, and Su Chen mocked Tang Xiao over the destruction of his sect.

Su Chen’s forces battled Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect after the mountain collapsed, while he prepared an unprecedented ten-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill. As the Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon began to form, Tang Ying urged Tang Xiao to escape and seek Tang Hao so they could avenge the sect.

• Su Chen’s Winter Has Arrived hailstorm sent Clear Sky Sect disciples tumbling into the ravine, and Tang Xiao charged at him with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo used Two Forms Stillness Domain to restrain Tang Xiao, but he shattered it with Clear Sky Nine Absolutes · Quake.
• Tang Ying and the Third Elder attacked Su Chen, while Snake Lance Douluo and the Four Sons of the Royal Banner engaged the other Clear Sky Sect elders.
• Tang Ying broke free of the Four Sons’ Death Barrier, prompting Su Chen to call on Qian Jun Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo to join the fight.
• Su Chen gathered Hu Liena, Zhang Ping, Xie Yue, Yan, Xu Yu, Li Kai, Bull Demon, Xiao Xingyue, and Chrysanthemum Douluo to begin a ten-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• As the Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon began to form, Tang Ying told Tang Xiao to escape, find Tang Hao, and join forces for revenge.

Su Chen’s ten-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill defeated the Clear Sky Sect’s Third Elder, and Su Chen revealed that Tang Chen was near death in Slaughter City because Tang San had poisoned him. With Spirit Hall preparing to finish the battle, Tang Ying urged Tang Xiao to flee while he held them off.

• Hu Liena, Zhang Ping, Xie Yue, Yan, Xu Yu, Li Kai, Bull Demon, Xingyue, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Su Chen formed a ten-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill, creating a nine-clawed Divine Dragon.
• The Divine Dragon’s Dragon God Claw disarmed and gravely wounded the Clear Sky Sect’s Third Elder, who fell into the ravine.
• Tang Ying threatened Su Chen with Tang Chen’s vengeance, but Su Chen revealed that Tang Chen was the King of Slaughter in Slaughter City and was close to death.
• Su Chen explained that Tang San had poisoned the Yellow Springs Dew with snow-colored swan kiss, turning the toxin in Tang Chen’s body lethal.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo urged Su Chen to kill the Clear Sky Sect members quickly, and Tang Ying told Tang Xiao to flee while he held off Spirit Hall.

Spirit Hall’s forces defeated the Clear Sky Sect, killing Tang Ying while Tang Xiao escaped and vowed revenge. After completing his sixth Dragon God trial, Su Chen learned that his seventh required breaking the stalemate and establishing the Spirit Hall Empire, then ordered the troops to return to Spirit City.

• Tang Ying detonated all nine Soul Rings and attacked Su Chen’s nine-clawed Divine Dragon while Tang Xiao fled.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo briefly restrained Tang Ying, but his Clear Sky Hammer cracked their barrier.
• Su Chen and the assembled Spirit Hall fighters launched a Tailed Beast Bomb that killed Tang Ying and destroyed six nearby mountains.
• Tang Xiao carved a path through the enemy, escaped into the forest, and swore to avenge the Clear Sky Sect.
• Su Chen completed his sixth Dragon God trial and learned that his seventh trial required establishing the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Su Chen ordered Spirit Hall’s forces to split into groups of ten, withdraw from the Heaven Dou Empire, and return to Spirit City.

Tang Xiao sought Heaven Dou’s support after the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction and learned that Tang San had destroyed Slaughter City with a Snow-Colored Swan Kiss. Tang Xiao struck Tang San for his actions, leaving him bewildered as the assembled leaders looked on.

• Tang Xiao told Emperor Xue Ye that the Clear Sky Sect had fallen, and learned that Spirit Hall had also destroyed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yu Xiaogang said Heaven Dou needed at least four years to prepare for war against Spirit Hall, while Xue Ye renewed his pledge to stand with the Upper Three Sects.
• Tang Xiao and Tang San recognized each other as uncle and nephew, and Tang Xiao asked whether Tang San had visited Slaughter City and obtained the Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Tang San admitted that he had poisoned Slaughter City's Yellow Springs Dew with a Snow-Colored Swan Kiss to destroy the city.
• Tang Xiao angrily slapped Tang San, who was left bewildered by his uncle's reaction.

Su Chen ordered Spirit Hall to hold a re-election conference for the Seven Great Sects after the Upper Three Sects were nearly destroyed. Worried that Bibi Dong had gone to the Star Dou Great Forest to complete her next trial, he sent Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to support her, while preparing for his own Seventh Trial.

• Su Chen accepted Chrysanthemum Douluo's proposal and ordered Spirit Hall to convene a Seven Great Sects Re-election Conference on the fifteenth day of the eighth month.
• Su Chen asked Hu Liena whether she knew where Bibi Dong had gone, and Hu Liena suspected that Bibi Dong was pursuing her next trial in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Su Chen learned that Bibi Dong might face the Sky Azure Bull Python, the Titan Giant Ape, and other powerful Soul Beasts at the Lake of Life.
• Su Chen gave Chrysanthemum Douluo the Pope Token and a Silver Dragon Scale, then ordered him and Ghost Douluo to take ten others to support Bibi Dong.
• Su Chen prepared to undertake his Seventh Trial and planned to overturn something before establishing the Spirit Hall Empire.

Su Chen distributed soul bones to Hu Liena and his companions, then offered them locations where they could seek divine trials. The chapter left the Golden Generation and Bull Demon preparing to choose which gods’ trials to undertake.

• Su Chen gave Hu Liena and his companions soul bones, promising more to Bull Demon and Xiao Xingyue once he gained full control of Spirit Hall.
• Hu Liena told Su Chen she was preparing for the Fourth Trial of Lust, which required hunting a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• Su Chen’s companions envied the divine trials he and Hu Liena had received and asked whether they could seek trials themselves.
• Su Chen gave Zhang Ping, Xiao Xingyue, Li Kai, Xu Yu, Xie Yue, and Yan scrolls listing divine-thought locations suited to them.
• Su Chen warned everyone that they could choose only one divine seat and would die if they failed to complete its trials in time.

Su Chen visited the smithy in Spirit City and established the Artifact Refining Sect, appointing Ren Lao and four other master blacksmiths as deputy sect masters. He asked Ren Lao to accompany him to Gengxin City to invite the sect master.

• Ren Lao and four blacksmiths complained that Spirit Hall had overlooked their contributions and Ren Lao announced he planned to leave.
• Su Chen revealed himself as the Pope and asked Ren Lao to explain his criticism of Spirit Hall’s treatment of blacksmiths.
• Bull Demon announced that Ren Lao, Zhao Wang, Qian Zhe, Sun Rong, and Li Yao would become deputy sect masters of the newly established Artifact Refining Sect.
• Su Chen assured Ren Lao that his appointment was final, and the blacksmiths pledged their loyalty to the Pope.
• Su Chen told Ren Lao that the Artifact Refining Sect’s master was in Gengxin City and asked him to help invite that person to Spirit City.

Su Chen traveled incognito to the Defense Clan’s headquarters during the Four Sects Gathering, where he overheard Yang Wudi describe the Wind Sword Sect’s threat against the Breaking Clan. Su Chen wondered whether his order protecting the Single-Attribute Four Clans had failed to reach the sect or been disobeyed.

• Ren Lao brought Su Chen to the Defense Clan’s headquarters, where they were admitted to a side hall while the sect master entertained guests.
• Su Chen and Ren Lao secretly left the side hall and listened outside the room where the four clan leaders were meeting.
• Yang Wudi said the Wind Sword Sect had threatened to destroy the Breaking Clan unless it joined them, and urged the other leaders to unite against Spirit Hall.
• Su Chen recalled ordering Spirit Hall’s affiliated sects not to target the four clans and questioned why the Wind Sword Sect had threatened Yang Wudi.

Yang Wudi rejected the Tang Sect after learning Tang San was Tang Hao’s son, and Tang San challenged him to a wager. A newcomer revealed that the wager was meant to make Yang Wudi break his oath, leaving him demanding that Niu Gao choose between him and Tang San.

• Yang Wudi proposed that the four clans unite and seek protection in the Star Luo Empire, while Bai He and Niu Gao warned that Spirit Hall might try to conquer the continent.
• Yang Wudi revealed that the Wind Sword Sect was preparing to move against him, and Tai Tan introduced Tang San as the Tang Sect’s sect master.
• Yang Wudi learned Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and tried to leave, but stayed after Bai He stopped him and demanded that Tang San be sent away.
• Tang San challenged Yang Wudi to a wager, offering to join the Tang Sect if he lost and asking Yang Wudi to do one thing if he won.
• Ren Lao and an unidentified young man arrived, and the young man warned Yang Wudi that Tang San intended to make him break his oath against the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yang Wudi realized the wager was meant to recruit him into the Tang Sect and demanded that Niu Gao choose whether he or Tang San would stay at the gathering.