Chapter Summaries

Tang Hao gave Tang San Ah Yin’s soul bone and explained why he would stay behind instead of joining the Divine Realm Empire. As the diplomatic mission prepared to leave Skyfrost City, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang asked to travel with it, and Long Yue questioned Tang San’s identity.

• Tang Hao gave Tang San a Lead Box containing Ah Yin’s soul bone and told him he would not be accepted by the Divine Realm Empire because Spirit Hall wanted him.
• Tang Hao urged Tang San to focus on cultivating and promised to help him find Xiao Wu.
• Dugu Bo told Long Yue that he had obtained a girl’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone after escaping the Forest King.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang stopped Sima Lanxiao’s diplomatic mission and asked to go to the Divine Realm Empire.
• Long Yue stepped forward and asked Tang San who he was.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang boarded the Divine Realm Empire’s fleet bound for the Spirit Ice Continent, while Tang Hao turned toward Spirit Hall’s Skyfrost City Branch Hall to seek revenge. At sea, Long Yue revealed that he knew Tang San was Clear Sky Douluo’s son, welcomed him aboard, and coaxed him into talking about his father.

• Long Yue enthusiastically welcomed Tang San after he called him “Brother Long,” and Sima Lanxiao accepted Yu Xiaogang’s Head Soul Bone in exchange for letting them travel to the Spirit Ice Continent.
• Tang San boarded the ship and silently left Tang Hao behind; Tang Hao decided to pursue revenge and headed for Spirit Hall’s Skyfrost City Branch Hall.
• Aboard the White Tiger, Long Yue confronted Tang San about Clear Sky Douluo being wanted by Spirit Hall and crushed Tang San’s Sleeve Arrow when Tang San tried to threaten him.
• Long Yue introduced Tang San to Dugu Yan and encouraged them to talk as he pressed Tang San about his father and the former Pope’s death.
• After drinking sparkling wine, Tang San insisted that what happened back then had not been his father’s fault.

After absorbing his mother’s Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone, Tang San woke at rank twenty and began planning for his second soul ring. Long Yue explained the limits of soul spirits and brought up the Spirit Ascension Platform, leaving Tang San eager to learn more.

• Tang San woke hungover and learned from Yu Xiaogang that Long Yue had carried him back, then argued that befriending Long Yue could help them establish themselves on the Spirit Ice Continent.
• Tang San absorbed the Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone while Yu Xiaogang stood guard, and his cultivation and constitution improved.
• Long Yue helped Dugu Yan suppress the Hundred Thousand Year soft bone rabbit’s Torso Bone as she began absorbing it.
• Tang San woke three days later at rank twenty, and he and Yu Xiaogang discussed obtaining a ghost vine soul ring through a soul spirit from the Spirit Pagoda.
• Tang San asked Long Yue about buying soul spirits, and Long Yue warned that limited spiritual power could restrict a soul master to three soul spirits and eight rings.
• Long Yue told Tang San there was no harm in absorbing soul spirits and asked whether he knew about the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Tang San used the Mysterious Heaven Skill to calm the violent energy in Dugu Yan’s Soul Bone absorption. The Soul Bone’s resistance eased, while Tang San felt an unexplained sadness.

• Long Yue told Tang San that Dugu Yan was struggling to absorb a Soul Bone and invited him to help.
• Tang San followed Long Yue to Dugu Yan’s room, where Dugu Bo stood guard as she suffered through the absorption.
• Tang San circulated the Mysterious Heaven Skill and used it to regulate the disrupted Soul Power in Dugu Yan’s body.
• The energy of the Xiao Wu Soul Bone settled under Tang San’s influence, and Long Yue praised his help.
• Dugu Bo understood that the Soul Bone belonged to Xiao Wu and that Long Yue had brought Tang San to help Dugu Yan absorb it.

The Ocean Fleet returned to Xinluo City on Spirit Ice Continent, where Tang San and the Douluo Continent delegation encountered the Divine Realm Empire’s modern city and Soul Tools. Long Yue welcomed the returning mission, while the delegation settled in and observed how the empire was integrating native residents.

• The Ocean Fleet arrived at Xinluo City, and Tang San and Yu Xiaogang examined the city’s tall buildings and widespread Soul Tools from the deck.
• Long Yue and Dugu Yan joined the others on deck, and Long Yue predicted that Xinluo City would grow into the largest city on the western coast.
• Long Yue stepped ashore and celebrated his return as members of the Diplomatic Mission wept with relief and city officials welcomed them.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang inspected the asphalt roads, and Tang San explained that the vehicle waiting for them was a Soul Tool Bus.
• The delegation checked into the official guest hotel, where Long Yue observed that native residents were working in local service jobs.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang explored their luxurious hotel room and discovered its Soul Guidance Television, then argued over what to watch. Tang San stormed off to request a new room after Yu Xiaogang repeatedly changed channels, leaving Yu Xiaogang behind with the television.

• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang admired their hotel room’s modern conveniences, and Yu Xiaogang eagerly inspected the Soul Guidance Television.
• Tang San went to Long Yue’s room to ask how to turn on the television and learned that Long Yue was bathing with Dugu Yan.
• Long Yue returned with Tang San and showed him and Yu Xiaogang how to operate the television before going back to his room.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San watched music and news channels, and Yu Xiaogang imagined using television to promote his academic reputation.
• Yu Xiaogang repeatedly changed channels while Tang San tried to watch news and Mecha competitions, prompting Tang San to snatch the remote with Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon.
• Yu Xiaogang switched to a film channel, and Tang San shoved him down, ran out, and declared that he was applying for a new room.

After falling out with Yu Xiaogang, Tang San met Dai Mubai, and the two were captured by the Spirit Pagoda for preparing to fight nearby. Zhu Zhuqing witnessed them being carried away, while Dai Mubai called for her help.

• Tang San stormed out of the hotel after Yu Xiaogang refused to change his room, then wandered through the unfamiliar city.
• Dai Mubai introduced himself to Tang San and invited him out, while Zhu Zhuqing walked away from Dai Mubai in annoyance.
• Dai Mubai tried to make Tang San his underling and shoved him, prompting Tang San to challenge him to a fight with the loser becoming the other's underling.
• As Tang San and Dai Mubai released their martial souls, a purple mecha warned them that fighting near the Spirit Pagoda was forbidden.
• Tang San tried to escape, but the mecha captured him and Dai Mubai and carried them away.
• Zhu Zhuqing returned, saw Dai Mubai being taken, and heard him shout for her to save him.

The Spirit Pagoda brought Tang San and Dai Mubai in after their clash in Xinluo City, where they learned about Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao and his wife, Tang Wutong. A Spirit Pagoda official recognized Tang San’s Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and began testing them, but Tang San refused to step onto the test instrument.

• Zhu Zhuqing ran off to notify the others while the purple mecha took Tang San and Dai Mubai to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Tang San bowed to Huo Yuhao’s statue, and a Spirit Transmitter showed them murals depicting Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong.
• Dai Mubai and Tang San waited in a comfortable room, where they resumed arguing about their bet and how they had ended up there.
• Spirit Pagoda staff arrived to test them, and their leader recognized Tang San’s Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track as a Tang Sect Secret Art.
• The staff tested Dai Mubai and found his physical strength at Level 25, soul power at Level 26, and spiritual power at 45, then asked Tang San to take his turn.
• Tang San refused the test after learning the instrument could detect soul bones.

Long Yue went to the Xinluo Spirit Pagoda after Zhu Zhuqing asked him to help Dai Mubai and discovered that the branch was run by a supporter of Zhang Geyang. He broke into a testing room and pulled Tang San off a Soul Guidance Physical Test Instrument, while Dai Mubai appeared pleased with his test results.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked Long Yue to save Dai Mubai after the Spirit Pagoda took him and Tang San away.
• Dugu Yan persuaded Long Yue to help Zhu Zhuqing, and Long Yue called a Monster Academy senior for assistance.
• Long Yue learned that the Xinluo Spirit Pagoda's leader supported Zhang Geyang and set out for the branch with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Long Yue confronted the receptionist, charged through a door, and found Tang San tied up on a Soul Guidance Physical Test Instrument.
• Long Yue blasted aside the Spirit Pagoda staff and pulled Tang San free, while an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo claimed the Pagoda was helping its guests and pointed to Dai Mubai's pleased reaction.

Tang San avoided being forced to undergo testing by the Spirit Pagoda after Long Yue and the Xinluo consul intervened. As they left, Tang San learned that the Spirit Ice Douluo had known the Tang Sect Secret Arts and decided to regard him as a Tang Sect senior.

• Tang San refused the Spirit Pagoda's physical test and tried to wager for a chance to leave, but Long Yue and the Eight-Ring Soul Douluo rejected the match.
• Sima Lanxiao and the consul of Xinluo arrived, and Long Yue argued that Tang San should be tested in the imperial capital under the protection of the Monster Academy and the emperor's ruling.
• The Spirit Pagoda yielded, and Long Yue led Tang San and the others away.
• Tang San asked why the Spirit Pagoda recognized his Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and Long Yue said the Tang Sect Secret Arts had spread to the Spirit Ice Continent through the Spirit Ice Douluo.
• Tang San concluded that the Spirit Ice Douluo was a Tang Sect senior and claimed he had learned the arts from a strange book when he was young.

Tang San attended a banquet hosted by the Xinluo City Governor, where he exposed Yu Xiaogang’s day of television watching and punctured his attempt to cultivate a scholarly reputation. Yu Xiaogang explained that he hoped the reputation would help them earn a living in the Divine Realm Empire, but he remained baffled that his act failed to impress people as it had Bibi Dong.

• Tang San joined Dai Mubai at the banquet, where Dai Mubai asked whether he had seen Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San pointed her out with Dugu Yan.
• The Xinluo City Governor asked to meet Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San claimed his teacher was too engrossed in reading to attend.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived with a book, but Long Yue called him a musty pedant, and Tang San revealed that Yu Xiaogang had watched Soul Guidance Television all day.
• Yu Xiaogang snapped at Tang San, then explained that he was cultivating his reputation so the Divine Realm Empire would take him seriously and provide work.
• Yu Xiaogang seethed over the fact that Bibi Dong had once believed in his act while the people at the banquet remained unimpressed.

The Divine Realm Empire's railway impressed the Douluo visitors and revealed how it maintained control over its territory, while Long Yue learned about the sparse inland settlements and the natives' suffering. Long Yue proposed bringing in immigrants, and the chapter ended with a historical account of the native lives sacrificed to build the railways.

• Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and the others saw a Soul Guidance Train, and Long Yue explained that it could reach four hundred li per hour.
• Dai Mubai recognized that railways let the Divine Realm Empire move armies quickly and govern its vast territory directly.
• The group rode through the Spirit Ice Continent's sparsely populated interior as Long Yue and Joander discussed the neglected frontier settlements and mistreatment of natives.
• Long Yue suggested bringing in immigrants, prompting Joander to take the idea seriously.
• Jade Phosphor Memoirs recounted that at least a million natives died building the Divine Realm Empire's railway network.

Long Yue and his companions arrived by train at the dazzling Divine Realm Imperial Capital, where Tang San and the others from Douluo Continent confronted the gulf between their home and the modern empire. As the group split up, Cha Weiwei arrived to take Long Yue to Monster Academy, irritating him with her forward behavior.

• Joander questioned why the Divine Realm Empire needed immigrants, and Long Yue explained that the empire needed a large population and young workforce to hold and operate the Spirit Ice Continent.
• Long Yue and his companions traveled by Soul Guidance Train toward the Imperial Capital, watching the empire’s extensive construction and growing population.
• The train crossed the Xiding River Bridge and reached Yunqi District, where Tang San and the others woke to the immense, brightly lit city.
• The foreign affairs staff arranged for the Douluo Continent visitors to stay at the Imperial Capital Grand Hotel, while Joander left and Long Yue waited for a ride to Monster Academy.
• Cha Weiwei arrived in an all-terrain soul guidance car to pick Long Yue up, and he introduced her as his senior before warning her to keep her distance.

Cha Weiwei picked up Long Yue and met Tang San and the others from the Douluo Continent before driving him to Monster Academy. After realizing Cha Weiwei’s Evil Fire Violet Luan had been stirring his desire, Long Yue jumped into the Heavenly Spring Pool to clear his head.

• Cha Weiwei flirted with Tang San and drove Long Yue while the Douluo Continent group traveled to the Imperial Capital Grand Hotel by bus.
• Long Yue and Cha Weiwei argued about her late pickup and her dinner with her boyfriend as she drove him to Monster Academy.
• Cha Weiwei met Jiang Ci in the underground garage and went with him to a restaurant after explaining away her missed calls and smudged lipstick.
• Long Yue walked through Monster Academy, noticed the romantic atmosphere, and jumped into the Heavenly Spring Pool after realizing Cha Weiwei’s aura had affected him.

Long Yue returned to Monster Academy and told En Ci that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had strengthened his Mountain Dragon King bloodline and made him a Five-Ring Soul King. En Ci revealed that he had prepared a ten-thousand-year Tyrant Dragon soul spirit for Long Yue’s sixth ring, and Long Yue planned to visit it despite En Ci’s warnings.

• Long Yue returned to En Ci and confirmed that he was dating Dugu Yan, while explaining that Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had boarded the ship through Sima Lanxiao’s arrangement.
• En Ci warned Long Yue that the Emperor opposed Tang San and Dai Mubai’s arrival and that relations with Zhang Geyang were worsening.
• Long Yue showed En Ci his Mountain Dragon King martial soul and explained that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had strengthened his bloodline and raised him to five rings.
• En Ci revealed that he had captured a ten-thousand-year Tyrant Dragon and prepared it as Long Yue’s fifth-ring soul spirit, but said Long Yue would have to wait until his sixth ring.
• Long Yue insisted he would visit the Tyrant Dragon in the Spirit Pagoda the next day, believing his Mountain Dragon King bloodline might make it accept him.

Tang San and Dai Mubai explored the Divine Realm Imperial Capital while Yu Xiaogang went to the public library to maintain his scholarly image. The two stopped at a food stall and planned to visit Star Luo Lake, whose name and imperial family reminded Tang San of the Star Luo Empire.

• Yu Xiaogang explained that black coffee had originally been a drink for the Divine Realm Empire’s working classes, then invited Tang San to the public library.
• Tang San declined Yu Xiaogang’s invitation, while Yu Xiaogang left to study and bolster his chances of receiving an academic post.
• Dai Mubai asked Tang San to tour the Imperial Capital with him, and they agreed to help each other while pursuing their own interests.
• Dai Mubai treated Tang San to macaroni at a street stall as they walked through the busy city.
• Dai Mubai consulted the map and suggested visiting Star Luo Lake, while Tang San noted that the Divine Realm Empire’s imperial family shared the Star Luo Empire’s surname and white tiger martial soul.

Dai Mubai tried to impress a young girl at a bar, only to discover she was guarded by four Soul Kings. He claimed to be a member of the Imperial Family, leaving Dai Yun'er wondering whether he was truly related to the household.

• Dai Mubai persuaded Tang San to visit a lakeside bar and approached a girl in a pale yellow dress.
• The girl told Dai Mubai to leave, and her bodyguard struck him before Tang San tried to withdraw with him.
• Dai Yun'er ordered four Soul King bodyguards to block Dai Mubai and Tang San from leaving.
• Tang San appealed to the emperor's authority, while Dai Yun'er questioned Dai Mubai's intentions.
• Dai Mubai released his White Tiger Martial Soul and claimed he belonged to the Imperial Family, leaving Dai Yun'er puzzled.

Dai Yun'er exposed Dai Mubai and Tang San as impostors after they tried to extort her, then ordered her Soul Kings to capture them. Tang San discovered that Dai Yun'er knew Tang Sect techniques and tried to kill her with hidden weapons, leaving him and Dai Mubai defeated and at her mercy.

• Dai Mubai revealed his White Tiger Martial Soul, and Dai Yun'er pretended to fear that he belonged to the Imperial Family.
• Dai Mubai demanded a hundred thousand from Dai Yun'er, who offered her café-bar instead and then ordered her Soul Kings to seize the pair.
• Dai Mubai charged for the exit but was defeated by a Soul King, while Tang San used his martial arts and blue silver grass to attack Dai Yun'er.
• Dai Yun'er broke free using her Nether Civet Martial Soul and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, revealing that she knew Tang Sect Secret Arts.
• Tang San fired Sleeve Arrows at Dai Yun'er, but a Soul King blocked them, subdued Tang San, and threw him beside Dai Mubai.
• Dai Yun'er confronted Tang San about trying to kill her as the two captives huddled together.

Dai Yun’er punished Tang San and Dai Mubai for their offenses, while Dugu Bo negotiated with Emperor Dai Tianling over the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Dai Tianling agreed to recognize the Dugu Family’s claim and reserve them a share of future immortal herbs.

• Dai Yun’er ordered four Soul Kings to beat Tang San and Dai Mubai for impersonating an imperial family member and attacking her.
• Dugu Bo traveled to the palace and met Emperor Dai Tianling in the Imperial Garden.
• Dugu Bo asked for his family to receive a share of the immortal herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to secure Dugu Yan’s inheritance.
• Dai Tianling questioned how the Dugu Family had discovered the well and how they could prove it belonged to them.
• Dugu Bo recounted discovering the well in Sunset Forest, and Dai Tianling agreed to sign an agreement recognizing the Dugu Family’s discovery and allotment of immortal herbs.

Tang San and Dai Mubai received an imperial offer to choose soul spirits at the Spirit Pagoda after Tang San let go of his grudge against Dai Yun’er. Tang San went to the headquarters, where a powerful man named Xu met him.

• Tang San and Dai Mubai returned to the hotel bruised after Dai Yun’er had them beaten, and Tang San secretly resented her.
• Sima Lanxiao told Tang San that Emperor Dai Tianling had arranged free soul spirits for all the visitors from the Douluo Continent, causing Tang San to abandon his plans for revenge against Dai Yun’er.
• Dai Mubai teased Tang San for changing from defiant to grateful, then stayed behind to ice his face instead of going to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Tang San went to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters in Dingchuan District and presented the emperor’s official document to receive permission to choose a hundred-year soul spirit.
• A man surnamed Xu met Tang San on the second floor, and Tang San recognized him as a Titled Douluo at least as strong as his father.