Chapter Summaries

The Divine Realm Empire's Diplomatic Mission arrived in Spirit City, where Long Yue noticed the city's unusual restrictions and sluggish economy. He sent Dugu Bo to deliver a forged letter in Tai Tan's name, baiting Spirit Hall with a supposed hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit in Nuoding City, while warning that Tang Hao might be nearby.

• The Diplomatic Mission entered Spirit City after a lavish welcome, and Long Yue observed that the streets were quiet and the city permitted only soul masters to live and work there.
• Long Yue left Sima Lanxiao and Joander to their discussion and asked Dugu Bo to deliver a sealed letter without revealing his identity.
• Dugu Bo read Long Yue's letter claiming that Tai Tan would trade information about a human-form Soft Bone Rabbit for Spirit Hall's mercy toward the Single-Attribute Clans.
• Dugu Bo guessed that Long Yue meant to turn Spirit Hall against the Speed Clan and the Breaking Clan, but Long Yue insisted the letter's claims were true.
• After Long Yue warned that Tang San and possibly Tang Hao were with the Soft Bone Rabbit, Dugu Bo still considered pursuing her soul bone, and Long Yue told him to use Spirit Hall's forces as cover.

Long Yue introduced the Divine Realm Empire’s Soul Tools and blacksmithing system to Spirit Hall’s young geniuses and met Lou Gao, the Douluo Continent’s Divine Craftsman. Lou Gao agreed to exchange forging knowledge with Long Yue, who questioned whether he could perform heavenly refinement.

• Long Yue and Dugu Yan met Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena, and Long Yue discussed the Heaven Dou Empire’s prospects and the Divine Realm Empire’s Soul Tools.
• Lou Gao hurried over after hearing Long Yue talk about Soul Tools and showed him a Soul Guidance Desk Lamp.
• Long Yue explained Soul Tool construction and stressed the importance of blacksmiths, then asked Lou Gao to exchange forging pointers.
• Lou Gao led Long Yue and the others to a smithy, where Long Yue described the Divine Realm Empire’s nine blacksmith ranks and asked whether Lou Gao could perform heavenly refinement.

Long Yue explained the Blacksmith ranks to Lou Gao and demonstrated Thousand Refinement at Lou Gao’s smithy. Lou Gao recognized Long Yue’s extraordinary skill and praised him as a heaven-sent genius.

• Long Yue explained Heavenly Refinement, Soul Forging, and Spirit Forging, and Lou Gao admitted that he could not perform Spirit Forging.
• Long Yue decided to demonstrate Thousand Refinement to earn Lou Gao’s support and followed him to a smithy on the outskirts of Spirit City.
• Long Yue criticized the smithy’s crude surroundings, then heated an ordinary lump of iron and began forging it with his Thousand Refinement Sunken Silver hammer.
• Long Yue quickly removed the iron’s impurities through Hundred Refinement, astonishing the smith’s workers with his speed and skill.
• Long Yue completed Thousand Refinement with a final hammer strike, and Lou Gao called him a heaven-sent genius.

Long Yue recruited Lou Gao for the Divine Realm Empire and attended an audience with Pope Bibi Dong, where Spirit Hall challenged the mission over Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan’s disappearance. The chapter left Long Yue denying that the empire had killed Yue Guan while Ghost Douluo pressed the accusation.

• Long Yue offered Lou Gao a place at the Empire Forging Academy and promised greater opportunities for Blacksmiths from the Douluo Continent.
• Sima Lanxiao prepared the diplomatic mission for an audience with Bibi Dong, and Long Yue agreed to attend.
• At the Pope’s Palace, Long Yue’s Mountain Dragon King roared at Bibi Dong’s probing gaze, and Long Yue introduced his teacher as the Level 99 Holy Dragon Douluo.
• Bibi Dong asked what the mission knew about Yue Guan, and Sima Lanxiao denied that Chrysanthemum Douluo had contacted them.
• Long Yue suggested that Yue Guan had defected to the Divine Realm Empire, prompting Ghost Douluo to declare that Chrysanthemum Guan was dead.
• Long Yue denied that the empire had killed Yue Guan, while Bibi Dong watched his bold response.

Long Yue and Sima Lanxiao persuaded Bibi Dong that Tang Hao had likely killed Chrysanthemum Douluo, allowing Spirit Hall and the Divine Realm Empire to resume friendly talks. At a banquet, the Divine Realm Empire demonstrated soul spirits, and Ghost Douluo challenged why Long Yue’s fifth ring was only a thousand years old.

• Long Yue argued that Spirit Hall should suspect Tang Hao rather than accuse the Divine Realm Empire, and Sima Lanxiao warned that the accusation could damage their future friendship.
• Bibi Dong concluded that Tang Hao had probably killed Chrysanthemum Douluo while he was plotting with the Defense Clan, then smoothed over the dispute with Sima Lanxiao.
• At the banquet, Joander demonstrated a class-three Soul Guidance Paralysis Ray, but a level-fifty-nine Palace Guard Knight defeated him, and Spirit Hall dismissed offensive soul tools while praising civilian ones.
• Bibi Dong asked to see a soul spirit, and Long Yue revealed five purple thousand-year soul rings after claiming he had recently advanced to Soul King.
• Sima Lanxiao explained that Huo Yuhao had created soul spirits and that one purple soul spirit could provide three thousand-year rings, prompting Ghost Douluo to question Long Yue’s fifth ring.

Long Yue explained to Bibi Dong how soul spirits evolved and produced varied soul ring configurations on the Spirit Ice Continent. Bibi Dong learned that spiritual power limited how many soul spirits a Soul Master could absorb, and she asked what was required to fuse with them.

• Long Yue told Bibi Dong that Titled Douluos on the Spirit Ice Continent generally had four purple and five black soul rings because their rings came from soul spirits.
• Long Yue explained that soul spirits could evolve and provide different numbers of soul rings, and Bibi Dong realized Blood-Weeping Douluo Chu Tiange’s configuration came from this system rather than twin martial souls.
• Long Yue described how spiritual power realms determined the number of soul spirits Soul Masters could absorb, and how soul spirits could be nurtured or upgraded into stronger configurations.
• Long Yue cited Zhang Geyang’s four soul spirits and unusual five-black, four-red configuration, including two hundred-thousand-year soul spirits obtained through the Spirit Pagoda.
• Bibi Dong read the soul spirit introduction on a Tablet Soul Tool and asked about fusion requirements, and Long Yue answered that they depended on spiritual power realm.

Bibi Dong declined to have her own spiritual power tested, and the Divine Realm Empire’s guests demonstrated their measuring device on Spirit Hall’s younger generation. Their results exposed how little the Douluo Continent’s Soul Masters had developed their spiritual power, and Bibi Dong decided to buy a device and asked whether it could test a Titled Douluo.

• Bibi Dong rejected Sima Lanxiao’s offer to test her spiritual power and asked him to test Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan instead.
• Long Yue explained the Divine Realm Empire’s six spiritual power realms and numerical measurement system while Joander prepared the device.
• Xie Yue tested at sixty-seven in the Spirit Connection Realm, and Long Yue said that Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent generally lacked fine control over spiritual power.
• Yan tested at fifty-one, while Hu Liena reached seventy-four, which Long Yue attributed to her charm-focused demon fox martial soul.
• Spirit Hall’s senior officials grew interested in buying the measuring device, and Bibi Dong agreed to purchase one before asking whether it could test a Titled Douluo.

Spirit Hall agreed to host a free Soul Guidance physical-testing event with the Divine Realm Empire, beginning with Spirit Hall Academy students. After Dugu Bo departed, Bibi Dong received intelligence about a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit and the Strength Clan’s proposed bargain.

• Sima Lanxiao proposed setting up the Divine Realm Empire’s testing instruments at Spirit Hall, and Bibi Dong agreed to send staff to oversee the public event.
• Long Yue persuaded Bibi Dong to host the testing in Spirit City and secured her condition that Spirit Hall Academy students be tested first.
• Sima Lanxiao signed an agreement with Spirit Hall’s newly appointed overseer of Imported Soul Guidance Devices.
• Dugu Bo told Long Yue that he had delivered a letter about a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, then left after asking him to care for Yanyan.
• Elder Zhang told Bibi Dong that Tai Tan offered information about a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit in exchange for a promise not to attack the Speed Clan or Breaking Clan.

Bibi Dong ordered Ghost Douluo to capture the hundred-thousand-year human-form soul beast alive, while arranging a reward for Elder Zhang. In Spirit City, the Divine Realm Empire began physical testing at its exhibition venue, and Yan became the first to undergo a scan.

• Elder Zhang told Bibi Dong that his descendants could not protect the hundred-thousand-year soul bone, and she granted his family a fifty-thousand-year Head Soul Bone instead.
• Bibi Dong sent Ghost Douluo to capture the soul beast alive and warned him to beware of Tang Hao.
• The Divine Realm Empire and Spirit Hall prepared a public venue in Spirit City's square to display soul tools and offer free physical testing.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and Spirit Hall Academy students arrived, and Long Yue invited them to take the tests.
• Yan stepped onto the testing platform, put on a metal helmet, and received scan results showing level 35 physical strength, level 33 soul power fluctuations, and level 51 spiritual power in the spirit connection realm.

Long Yue used the Divine Realm Empire’s free physical examinations to collect data on Douluo Soul Masters and identify potential recruits, while the results left Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena with only a Pass. The chapter ended with Long Yue leaving without taking the test and Dugu Yan claiming she was better than Hu Liena.

• Yan took the physical examination and received a Pass, while Long Yue ensured the Divine Realm Empire’s representatives recorded the results accurately.
• Long Yue recognized that the examinations gathered data the Divine Realm Empire could use to undermine Douluo’s cultivation system, promote soul spirits, and recruit talented Soul Masters.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena took their examinations and also received Pass assessments, prompting students to question the grading system.
• Long Yue explained that the exam used four grades and told the others they were not good enough, then refused to take the test himself.
• Hu Liena asked whether Dugu Yan had been tested, and Dugu Yan claimed she was better than Hu Liena despite having received a Pass in a private examination.

Yu Xiaogang persuaded Tang Hao to let him take Tang San to Spirit City for a physical assessment and to learn about soul tools. Tang Hao agreed but kept his plans to train Tang San himself when the boy turned fifteen.

• Hu Liena told Xie Yue and Yan that Dugu Bo seemed to be seeking a comfortable retirement in the Divine Realm Empire and noted that he had disappeared from Spirit City.
• Tang Hao confronted Yu Xiaogang at Nuoding Academy and demanded to know why he planned to take Tang San to Spirit City.
• Yu Xiaogang argued that Spirit Hall had never investigated Tang San's unusual innate full soul power and promised to keep the Clear Sky Hammer hidden.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Spirit City's free physical assessments could reveal Tang San's strength and spiritual power, convincing Tang Hao that the trip could benefit his son.
• Tang Hao ordered Yu Xiaogang not to tell Tang San about their conversation and said he would take the boy back and train him when he turned fifteen.

Tang San learned from Xiao Wu that soul beasts retained souls and could suffer after death, then accepted Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang’s plan to travel to Spirit City for assessments and onward to Star Luo City. When Tang San invited Xiao Wu to join him, she refused out of fear of Spirit Hall and the Divine Realm Empire, but a hoarse voice declared that she had no choice.

• Tang San defeated Xiao Wu in a sparring match, then told her about Long Yue and the Divine Realm Empire’s soul spirits.
• Xiao Wu explained that soul beasts had souls and could suffer Soul Shock, prompting Tang San to promise he would not absorb a soul spirit unless the beast willingly became his companion.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San they would travel to Spirit City for free physical assessments and then follow the Divine Realm Empire’s Diplomatic Mission to Star Luo City.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang to let Xiao Wu come along, and Yu Xiaogang agreed as long as she followed their arrangements.
• Tang San invited Xiao Wu to Spirit City, but she refused because of the danger there; an unseen speaker then said she had no choice.

Ghost Douluo discovered Xiao Wu was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and tried to take her, but Tang Hao appeared to protect her and drove Ghost Douluo into flight. Ghost Douluo exposed Tang Hao’s presence to Spirit Hall and vowed to make the continent hostile to him and Tang San.

• Ghost Douluo confronted Tang San and Xiao Wu, revealed Xiao Wu’s identity as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, and tried to take her away.
• Tang San stood up to Ghost Douluo to protect Xiao Wu, while Xiao Wu offered to go with him to keep Tang San safe.
• Tang Hao appeared, rescued Xiao Wu, and revealed himself as a Titled Douluo with a red soul ring.
• Ghost Douluo recognized Tang Hao and fled as Tang Hao pursued him through Nuoding City.
• Ghost Douluo announced that Tang Hao was present and ordered the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch to send word.

Tang Hao destroyed Spirit Hall’s Nuoding City Branch Hall and the city lord’s residence while Ghost Douluo exposed his identity and provoked him. As Spirit Hall’s pursuit threatened Tang San and Xiao Wu, Yu Xiaogang proposed fleeing to the Divine Realm Empire on the Spirit Ice Continent, leaving Tang Hao unsure whether they would be accepted.

• Tang Hao unleashed his Clear Sky True Body, destroyed the Nuoding City Branch Hall, and then reduced the city lord’s residence to ashes as Ghost Douluo called him out as the criminal who murdered the former Pope.
• Lord Xiao fled for safety and ordered someone to get Xiao Chenyu out of Nuoding City.
• Yu Xiaogang took Tang San and Xiao Wu to his room, where Xiao Wu revealed her identity as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and explained the heavenly tribulations that threatened her kind.
• Tang Hao interrupted Xiao Wu’s explanation and tried to take Tang San away, but Yu Xiaogang stopped him and proposed that they flee to the Divine Realm Empire on the Spirit Ice Continent.
• Tang Hao asked whether the Divine Realm Empire would accept them.

Tang Hao, Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Xiao Wu debated how to reach the Spirit Ice Continent, but Xiao Wu realized the Divine Realm Empire’s diplomatic mission would kill her for her hundred-thousand-year soul beast nature. The group parted with Tang Hao and Tang San heading toward Skyfrost City while Xiao Wu returned to the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Yu Xiaogang proposed that Tang Hao and Tang San stow away aboard the Divine Realm Empire’s ship, but Tang Hao rejected the plan because the voyage would be dangerous and exposed them to attack at sea.
• Tang Hao decided they should return to the Clear Sky Sect, but Tang San questioned whether the sect would welcome them, and Tang Hao angrily admitted that he had wronged it.
• Tang San insisted he still wanted to reach the Spirit Ice Continent, and Yu Xiaogang argued that its people would accept Tang Hao, prompting Tang Hao to consider offering a soul bone.
• Tang Hao prepared to leave for an errand and told Yu Xiaogang and Tang San to go to Skyfrost City, while Xiao Wu offered to surrender herself to the Divine Realm Empire’s people in exchange for their help.
• Tang Hao ordered Xiao Wu to return to the Star Dou Great Forest, and Tang San promised to find and protect her once he became a Titled Douluo.

Tang San and Xiao Wu parted at the edge of Star Dou Great Forest, but Dugu Bo ambushed Xiao Wu and killed her for her hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone. Her death enraged the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python.

• Tang Hao left Yu Xiaogang to take Tang San to Skyfrost City and said he would perform one last task for Little San.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu said goodbye and parted beneath the moon as Tang San silently followed her toward Star Dou Great Forest.
• Dugu Bo emerged from hiding, poisoned Xiao Wu, and took her soul bone while her hundred-thousand-year soul ring remained behind.
• The Titan Giant Ape found Xiao Wu’s remains and roared, while the Sky Azure Bull Python bellowed from its lake.

Tang San tried to return to Xiao Wu when the Titan Giant Ape rampaged, but Yu Xiaogang persuaded him to flee with him. Meanwhile, Long Yue prepared to leave Spirit City with the Divine Realm Empire’s diplomatic mission and travel to Star Luo City, where his delegation’s high expectations of their ancestral nation left him wary.

• After hearing the Titan Giant Ape roar, Tang San broke free of Yu Xiaogang and insisted on checking that Xiao Wu was safe, so Yu Xiaogang agreed to accompany him.
• Long Yue told Dugu Yan that the hundred-thousand-year soft bone rabbit was likely dead and discussed the Divine Realm Empire’s completed negotiations and upcoming departure from Spirit City.
• Sima Lanxiao questioned Long Yue about Tang Hao’s reappearance, then arranged for the delegation to proceed quickly to Star Luo City while Spirit Hall focused on hunting Tang Hao.
• Joander presented physical-test data from more than three thousand soul masters, but reported that Bibi Dong and the Consecrated Elders had refused testing.
• After Tang Hao killed Huyan Li and took a soul bone, Spirit Hall, the Elephant Armor Sect, and the Heaven Dou Empire issued wanted notices for him.
• As the delegation traveled toward Star Luo City, Long Yue cautioned Sima Lanxiao against idealizing their ancestral nation, while Sima admitted he was excited to meet their ancestors.

The Divine Realm Empire’s delegation arrived in Star Luo City, where Long Yue met the young Dai princes and Zhu sisters at a palace ball. He warned Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai that their brutal succession system could leave the empire vulnerable, angering Zhu Zhuyun with his hypothetical about the Zhu family’s loyalty.

• Sima Lanxiao and the Divine Realm Empire’s delegation arrived in Star Luo City and were welcomed by the Star Luo Emperor and his officials.
• Joander told Long Yue about Dai Weisi, Dai Mubai, the Nether Duke, and the Star Luo imperial family’s martial-soul lineage.
• At the palace ball, Dugu Yan introduced Long Yue to Dai Weisi, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuyun, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Long Yue praised the Star Luo Empire’s strength, then challenged Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai over the dangers of their violent contest for the throne.
• Long Yue imagined Dai Weisi dying and Dai Mubai being forced to abdicate to the Star Crown Xu, prompting Zhu Zhuyun to insist that her family would never betray the Dai family.

Dai Mubai learned that his place in the Star Luo Empire’s brutal succession system left him with no safe future, while the Star Luo Emperor arranged for him to go to the Divine Realm Empire on the Spirit Ice Continent. Dai Mubai was sent away as the emperor named Dai Weisi crown prince, and the Nether Duke confronted Zhu Zhuqing about her arranged marriage.

• Dai Mubai confided his fear of losing the succession struggle to Long Yue, who warned that fleeing to another country would not protect him from assassination.
• Dugu Yan jokingly suggested that Dai Mubai go to the Divine Realm Empire, and he agreed before dismissing the idea as impossible.
• The Star Luo Emperor asked Sima Lanxiao to take Dai Mubai to the Spirit Ice Continent, explaining that he wanted to spare his younger son from competing with Dai Weisi.
• Sima Lanxiao accepted, and the Star Luo Emperor promised additional trade concessions; Dai Mubai then received an edict sending him to the Divine Realm Empire as a student and symbol of friendly relations.
• The Star Luo Emperor prepared to install Dai Weisi as crown prince and invite the Divine Realm Empire to witness the ceremony, while the Nether Duke asked Zhu Zhuqing what she thought about her arranged future and she said she had never had a choice.

After fleeing her family, six-year-old Zhu Zhuqing followed the Divine Realm Empire’s delegation, hoping to find Dai Mubai, but Long Yue rescued her from wolf bandits and Dai Mubai rejected her. Long Yue agreed to take Zhu Zhuqing with them to the Divine Realm Empire, beginning the journey that later generations remembered as their first meeting.

• Zhu Zhuqing overheard the Nether Duke treat her as a marriage-alliance tool and decided to escape to the Divine Realm Empire.
• The Divine Realm Empire’s delegation set out for Skyfrost City with Dai Mubai, while Zhu Zhuqing secretly followed on foot.
• When wolf bandits attacked the exhausted Zhu Zhuqing, Long Yue saved her and carried her back to the delegation.
• Dai Mubai refused to take responsibility for Zhu Zhuqing and left, prompting her to say she would continue to Skyfrost City alone.
• Long Yue offered to take Zhu Zhuqing to the Divine Realm Empire, and she accepted his help.