Chapter Summaries

Elder Zhang and Elder Tie's staged raid convinced the Defense and Breaking Clans that the Clear Sky Sect was targeting them, prompting them to seek the Star Luo Empire's protection. As the empire agreed to enlist them and Spirit Hall called a continental conference, Tang Hao reacted violently to insults against the Clear Sky Sect in a tavern.

• Niu Gao vowed revenge after Elder Zhang and Elder Tie withdrew, while the two elders laughed that they had fooled him into blaming the Clear Sky Sect and headed for Gengxin City.
• Sunday heard news of the raids and suspected Ning Fengzhi had arranged them to damage the Clear Sky Sect's reputation.
• Niu Gao and Yang Wudi moved their clans into a fortress and petitioned the Star Luo Emperor for sanctions, offering to join the empire in return for protection.
• Bibi Dong invited the continent's powers to a conference, leading the Star Luo Imperial Family to accept the clans and require their members to join its army.
• Tang Hao heard tavern patrons disparage the Clear Sky Sect, killed one of them, and revealed his nine soul rings, including a red one.

Tang Hao revealed himself as a Clear Sky Sect Titled Douluo and attacked the people who had insulted the sect. Sunday later shared tea with Tang Yuehua, who asked about the attacks on the Four Great Clans and the tournament; he left her without a verdict on the accusations.

• Tang Hao displayed his nine Soul Rings, identified himself as a Clear Sky Sect Titled Douluo, and attacked the Soul Masters who had insulted the Clear Sky Sect.
• Sunday went to a teahouse and invited Tang Yuehua to sit and drink tea with him.
• Tang Yuehua asked Sunday about the attacks on the Speed Clan and the other remaining clans, and urged him to investigate rumors implicating the Clear Sky Sect.
• Sunday declined to judge who was responsible, and Tang Yuehua apologized for losing her composure.
• Sunday told Tang Yuehua that the attacks had forced the Exchange Tournament to end early, with only the Heaven Dou Division still competing.

Sunday and Qian Renxue investigated a massacre near Heaven Dou City and concluded that Tang Hao was likely responsible, prompting Qian Renxue to issue a warrant for his arrest. As they prepared to travel to Spirit City, Sunday agreed to take Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to find Soul Rings, with Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo joining them.

• Tang Yuehua invited Sunday to hear her practice, but he said he would soon leave for Spirit City after receiving a meeting invitation from the Martial Soul Temple.
• Qian Renxue told Sunday that a brutal attack near Heaven Dou City had left no survivors and that the attacker might be a hammer-type Soul Master.
• Sunday and Qian Renxue suspected Tang Hao, and Qian Renxue decided to issue a warrant for his arrest with Xue Ye's approval.
• Qian Renxue told Sunday that she would travel with him to Spirit City the next day, and Sunday agreed.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing told Sunday they had reached Level 40, and he agreed to take them to find Soul Rings after the meeting.
• Sunday told Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing that Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo would accompany them.

Ning Rongrong traveled with Sunday and the others toward Spirit City while Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed the sect’s plans and her future. The chapter ended with Chen Xin insisting that Rongrong should be allowed to grow up happy before she has to shoulder the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s responsibilities.

• Ning Rongrong was barred from sharing a carriage with Sunday and then with Ning Fengzhi, so she rode with Zhu Zhuqing and complained about being excluded.
• Zhu Zhuqing reassured Ning Rongrong that her father and teachers were trying to give her a chance to relax, while she privately enjoyed the journey’s sense of freedom.
• Chen Xin worried that Bibi Dong might act unpredictably and that the alliance would put the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect at odds with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi said Sunday’s strength and the Imperial Fighting Team’s promising members gave the sect confidence in its future, especially because Rongrong had gained powerful allies.
• Ning Fengzhi raised Osler as a possible match for Rongrong, but Chen Xin rejected the idea and warned against deciding her future for her.
• Chen Xin acknowledged that Rongrong might eventually have to lead the sect, but said he wanted her to be happy while she was still young.

Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin debated the obligations Ning Rongrong faced after her martial soul evolved, while Sunday and the others arrived in Spirit City for the conference. Hu Liena welcomed them to the hotel, where Sunday drew the attention of two representatives from the Star Luo Empire.

• Ning Fengzhi told Chen Xin that Rongrong’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda made her marriage important to the sect, while Chen Xin warned that she was being sacrificed.
• The group reached Spirit City after seven days of travel, and Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing admired the city before heading out to explore with Sunday’s permission.
• Hu Liena greeted Xue Qinghe, Sunday, Ning Fengzhi, and Chen Xin at the hotel and told them their rooms were ready for the conference.
• Sunday noticed a young man and woman from the Star Luo Empire watching him from the second floor, and the man grew uneasy when Sunday met his gaze.

Zhu Zhuyun secretly visited Zhu Zhuqing in Spirit City and revealed that she had been trying to protect her younger sister from the Dai Family. After the sisters reconciled in tears, Dai Weisi met Zhu Zhuyun in the corridor and led her away.

• Sunday watched a young man leave, while Xue Qinghe mistook his gaze for interest in the Woman in Black and grew jealous; Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin also noticed the woman’s resemblance to Zhu Zhuqing.
• At midnight, Zhu Zhuyun entered Zhu Zhuqing’s room and mocked her for returning to Spirit City, warning that she would be in danger once she left.
• Zhu Zhuqing called Zhu Zhuyun her sister and hugged her from behind, prompting Zhu Zhuyun to break down and explain that the Zhu Family could not resist the Dai Family without strength.
• Zhu Zhuyun urged Zhu Zhuqing to return to the Heaven Dou Empire and live safely, but Zhu Zhuqing insisted she would become a Titled Douluo and change their circumstances.
• Zhu Zhuyun left the room in tears, and Dai Weisi met her in the corridor, wiped her tears, and told her they should go.

Xue Qinghe, Sunday, and Ning Fengzhi attended a meeting at the Papal Hall, where Bibi Dong assigned Sunday the Clear Sky Sect’s seat. The choice alarmed Dai Weisi and pleased Ning Fengzhi, while Sunday accepted it without concern.

• Dai Weisi assured Zhu Zhuyun he would not harm her after dealing with Dai Mubai.
• Ning Fengzhi, Xue Qinghe, and Sunday went to the Papal Hall, where Hu Liena escorted them to the meeting.
• Xue Qinghe and Sunday found that the Heaven Dou Empire had only one seat, while the Clear Sky Sect’s seat remained unoccupied.
• Bibi Dong came out early and told Xue Qinghe that Sunday could sit in the Clear Sky Sect’s chair.
• Ning Fengzhi welcomed the arrangement, while Dai Weisi feared Sunday and the Heaven Dou Empire could replace the Clear Sky Sect as the leading sect.

Bibi Dong convened the sect representatives to discuss attacks across the continent, but first humiliated the tardy Yu Luomian, whose hostility toward Spirit Hall boiled over. After he interrupted her assurances to the Defense and Breaking Clans, Bibi Dong knocked him down again and ordered him to address her as Your Holiness the Pope.

• Xue Qinghe sulked over being seated apart from Sunday, while Sunday took the Clear Sky Sect's seat beside Ning Fengzhi.
• Bibi Dong waited for Yu Luomian, then mocked him when he arrived late and dismissed her authority over the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Bibi Dong forced Yu Luomian to his knees, and representatives from rival clans mocked him as Ning Fengzhi criticized his leadership.
• Bibi Dong announced that the meeting would address recent attacks and killings, and the Defense and Breaking Clans asked her to protect them from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yu Luomian challenged Bibi Dong's promise to help the clans, so she smashed him and his chair to the floor and ordered him to call her Your Holiness the Pope.

Bibi Dong presided over a meeting about the attacks on the Defense and Breaking Clans, and the representatives agreed to form an Inspection Team to pursue members of the Clear Sky Sect. The meeting moved on to selecting the team's first candidates while Bibi Dong prepared a detailed plan.

• Yu Luomian stood chastened as Bibi Dong insulted him and asked whether he supported the other representatives' accusations against the Clear Sky Sect.
• Niu Gao claimed the attackers were Soul Douluos with giant hammer martial souls who had invoked the Clear Sky Sect and revenge.
• Bibi Dong condemned the Clear Sky Sect and proposed an Inspection Team to capture its members found outside its headquarters.
• Ning Fengzhi and the other representatives supported Bibi Dong's proposal, while the Defense and Breaking Clans accepted it despite their dissatisfaction.
• Bibi Dong asked the attendees to discuss the Inspection Team's initial candidates as she went to prepare a detailed plan.

Bibi Dong announced generous rewards for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament, including three Soul Bones for the champions, while leaving the assembled factions eager but uncertain about their chances. Tuoba Xi proposed combining Holy Dragon Sect and Elephant Armor Sect geniuses under Elephant Armor Academy, and Huyan Zhen agreed after they settled how to divide any Soul Bones they won.

• Bibi Dong revealed tournament rewards of up to one million five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and three Soul Bones over fifty thousand years old for the champions.
• Dai Weisi, Zhu Zhuyun, and the sect leaders considered how the Soul Bones could strengthen their positions, but worried about defeating Spirit Hall and other major powers.
• Bibi Dong ended the meeting and left the attendees to prepare for the tournament.
• Tuoba Xi proposed combining Holy Dragon Sect geniuses with Elephant Armor Sect students to compete as Elephant Armor Academy.
• Huyan Zhen agreed to Tuoba Xi's proposal after Tuoba Xi suggested that they each take one Soul Bone and leave the third for the younger generation.

After the meeting, Xue Qinghe asked Sunday to accompany her to meet Bibi Dong, who welcomed her as Qian Renxue and discussed her future relationship with Hu Liena. Qian Renxue then asked about the three fifty-thousand-year soul bones, and Bibi Dong explained her contempt for the other factions’ strategies while criticizing Ning Fengzhi.

• Yu Luomian objected to Tuoba Xi’s plan to send his children to Elephant Armor Academy, but Tuoba Xi and Huyan Zhen mocked him.
• Sunday left the meeting, and Xue Qinghe followed him until Hu Liena relayed Bibi Dong’s invitation.
• Xue Qinghe asked Sunday to accompany her to Bibi Dong’s courtyard, where she revealed herself as Qian Renxue and joyfully greeted her mother.
• Bibi Dong encouraged Qian Renxue to get along with Hu Liena, but Qian Renxue asked about the three fifty-thousand-year soul bones being coveted by other factions.
• Bibi Dong dismissed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and criticized the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Ning Fengzhi, glancing at Sunday because of his ties to the sect.

Bibi Dong explained that Spirit Hall’s team had four Soul Kings, including a distant relative of Golden Crocodile who awakened the Golden Crocodile King martial soul. She revealed that Golden Crocodile agreed to let him join after she offered him a pair of Golden Camel-Deer Soul Bones, leaving Sunday exasperated at gaining another nickname.

• Qian Renxue asked about the Lower Four Sects, and Bibi Dong said they remained dependent on Spirit Hall and could not claim the three promised Soul Bones.
• Bibi Dong revealed that Spirit Hall’s team had four Soul Kings, including a distant descendant of Golden Crocodile who had awakened the Golden Crocodile King martial soul.
• Bibi Dong explained that the young man’s martial soul evolved after he ate a golden flowering plant, prompting Golden Crocodile to bring him to the Worship Hall and nurture him.
• Bibi Dong said Golden Crocodile initially refused to let his descendant join the team, but agreed after she cited the Imperial Fighting Team’s god-backed strength and promised a golden-bloodline Soul Bone.
• Bibi Dong revealed that the Golden Camel-Deer had dropped both a skull and a left leg bone, worth nearly ninety thousand years together, and Sunday complained about getting another nickname.

Bibi Dong explained how she had secured matching soul bones for the Spirit Hall team and expressed confidence in their tournament victory, while Qian Renxue revealed her progress and plans for divine trials. As Qian Renxue asked Sunday about his godhood, an unfamiliar power suddenly struck Bibi Dong and filled her with fear.

• Bibi Dong told Qian Renxue that she had promised the remaining matching soul bone to the opposing team’s leader, ensuring Spirit Hall would receive both if they won and one if they lost.
• Sunday answered Bibi Dong’s provocation by confidently predicting that her Spirit Hall team would fail, and Bibi Dong grew flustered when he recalled her past defeat.
• Qian Renxue told Bibi Dong that she had reached level 70 and planned to undertake the Divine Trials after completing her mission.
• Bibi Dong agreed to let Qian Renxue choose when to begin the trials, noting Sunday’s help, and Qian Renxue asked him what kind of god he was.
• An unfamiliar power descended on Bibi Dong as she dismissed Sunday’s ideals, shaking her and filling her with fear.

Bibi Dong was pulled into the Path Rift, where a purple-haired woman explained that Sunday came from the same realm and described his uncertain fate. After Bibi Dong was nearly overwhelmed by the Aeon of Nihility, the woman began a strange ritual to send her back.

• Sunday stabilized Bibi Dong as her consciousness was pulled into an unfamiliar domain, while Qian Renxue anxiously asked what had happened.
• Bibi Dong encountered a purple-haired woman, who identified the place as the Path Rift, or Land of Divine Revelation, and warned her to leave.
• After Bibi Dong mentioned Sunday, the woman said he was the lord of Paradise and described his failed plan, his disappearance, and the Family’s progress under Robin.
• The purple-haired woman explained that she followed the path of Nihility, and the Aeon’s gaze left Bibi Dong dazed until the woman pulled her back to herself.
• The purple-haired woman drew her blade, transformed, and began a tearful invocation to return Bibi Dong.

Bibi Dong learned that the black hole was Nihility and that becoming a Self-Annihilator would grant power at the cost of eventually erasing her body, mind, and memories. She refused to take a step toward Nihility because she could not abandon Qian Renxue and Hu Liena, and the Purple-Haired Woman introduced herself as Raiden Bosenmori Mei, also known as Acheron.

• Bibi Dong asked the Purple-Haired Woman about Paths, Nihility, and how their power compared with Sunday.
• The Purple-Haired Woman explained that Self-Annihilators were shrouded by Nihility and would ultimately be consumed by it.
• Bibi Dong considered becoming a Self-Annihilator for the power to defeat Sunday, but stopped when she thought of Qian Renxue and Hu Liena.
• Nihility withdrew after Bibi Dong declined to take a step toward its Path, and the Purple-Haired Woman said she had lost a rare opportunity.
• Bibi Dong introduced herself, and the Purple-Haired Woman gave her name as Raiden Bosenmori Mei, also called Acheron, the Emanator of Nihility.

Bibi Dong encountered Acheron in the Nihility Path Rift, where Acheron sent her back by slashing through her consciousness. After waking beside Sunday and Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong learned about Paths and Emanators, then told Sunday she had met Acheron.

• Bibi Dong asked Acheron whether she could someday step onto a Path, and Acheron suggested asking Garden Master Qixiu.
• Acheron slashed Bibi Dong to expel her consciousness from the Path Rift, and Bibi Dong fainted as her body dissipated into light and shadow.
• Bibi Dong woke beside Sunday and Qian Renxue, reassured Qian Renxue, and asked Sunday what a Path was.
• Sunday explained Paths, Pathstriders, and Emanators, then identified the being Bibi Dong had encountered as IX, the Aeon of Nihility, also called Black Marshal.
• Bibi Dong told Sunday she had encountered a woman named Acheron.

Sunday explained that Bibi Dong’s encounter with Nihility could make her a Self-Annihilator, then offered her a way to seek a Path by focusing on her deepest convictions. As Bibi Dong searched her heart, Sunday privately worried that her connection to Nihility and his own experiences were part of a larger plan.

• Bibi Dong asked Sunday how to set foot on a Path, explaining that Acheron had warned her that Nihility would gradually erase her from existence.
• Sunday questioned Bibi Dong about the Path Rift, and she described being pulled into a gray, silent place beneath a starry sky while feeling that an Aeon watched her.
• Sunday warned that Nihility’s interest in Bibi Dong could imply a contradiction in its principles, then joked that the Aeon would not destroy the Douluo Continent.
• Sunday told Bibi Dong that a powerful wish could draw an Aeon’s gaze and that even a single deed, gesture, or sentence might begin a Path.
• Bibi Dong closed her eyes to search her heart while Sunday privately wondered whether Nihility’s attention and his own experiences were part of a plan.

Bibi Dong entered a Path Rift that forced her to confront imagined versions of her past and possible futures. She broke down as Qian Xunji showed her countless versions of herself consumed by revenge, while he watched with satisfaction.

• Qian Renxue asked Sunday whether she could follow a Path, and he warned that Bibi Dong was serving as an experimental subject because the Path might be a trap.
• Bibi Dong entered a Path Rift and saw a scene in which she harshly reprimanded Hu Liena for loving someone outside Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong fled through the Papal Hall doors but found herself watching young Bibi Dong argue with Qian Xunji over Yu Xiaogang.
• Qian Xunji revealed he could see Bibi Dong, dodged her attacks, and accused her of hypocrisy while showing her scenes from Jialing Pass.
• Qian Xunji made Bibi Dong witness countless versions of herself consumed by revenge and brought down Hu Liena and Qian Renxue, leaving her sobbing as he watched.

Qian Xunji used the Garden of Recollection to dredge up Bibi Dong’s memories, but their strain pushed her into a violent transformation. She attacked him with crimson flames carrying the aura of destruction, trapping him as he began to dissipate.

• Qian Xunji examined Bibi Dong’s memories and dismissed the gods of her world as weak compared with Emanators.
• Qian Xunji recognized Sunday in the memories and panicked at the thought of being discovered.
• Bibi Dong’s memories and reflected possibilities overwhelmed her, leaving her apparently broken and murmuring that it was not her fault.
• Qian Xunji tried to help Bibi Dong, but she suddenly drove her hand into his chest.
• Bibi Dong unleashed crimson flames that burned Qian Xunji into a transparent, crystal-like form and declared that he and the world should be destroyed.

Bibi Dong killed a Memokeeper, then surrendered to her destructive impulses and attracted Nanook’s attention. Nanook empowered her, but her body could not withstand more than the strength of a Mid-tier Pathstrider, and she returned to the courtyard in agony as Sunday shielded Qian Renxue.

• Bibi Dong crushed the Memokeeper’s orb and set the Crystal Palace and Mental World ablaze as her desire to destroy overwhelmed her.
• A mocking voice revealed that Bibi Dong had embraced Destruction, while the white-haired Nanook watched her from beyond the red sphere.
• Memokeeper memories and Destruction’s energy reached Bibi Dong, who demanded power from Nanook and declared that she would bring him destruction.
• Nanook empowered Bibi Dong, but her body began cracking under the strain, so he withdrew his power and left her at the level of a Mid-tier Pathstrider.
• Nanook crushed the Garden of Recollection’s constructed space, returning Bibi Dong to the courtyard, where Sunday shielded Qian Renxue from the surging energy.