Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hai experimented with visualizing his Bronze Coffin martial soul, creating a new cultivation method that strengthened his spiritual power and soul-power circulation while suppressing the Demon Empress’s spiritual consciousness. After testing other images, he began visualizing the Holy Emperor’s statue, startling the Blood-Clothed Elder.

• Jiang Hai replaced the Demon Empress’s image in his mind with the Bronze Coffin, suppressing her spiritual consciousness and accelerating his soul-power circulation.
• Jiang Hai began developing the Bronze Coffin Visualization Method and found that visualizing the Magnetism Mother Tree and Glazed Heart Mirror produced distinct effects.
• Jiang Hai tested visualizing the Holy Emperor’s statue in the plaza.
• The Blood-Clothed Elder realized Jiang Hai was looking toward the Holy Emperor and saw a fleeting ray of light flash across the statue.

The Holy Spirit Cult began its Blood Trial, sending more than twelve hundred participants to Three Abyss Peak to collect tokens and compete for ranks. Jiang Hai entered the trial and headed for a mountain rather than following Tang Ya into the dangerous central abyss, planning to first digest what he had gained at the Holy Emperor Grand Plaza.

• The Blood-Clothed Elder saw a brief flash of light around the Holy Emperor statue while Jiang Hai was looking at it.
• Evil Phoenix Douluo Feng Ling and Tang Ya arrived with four Worships, and the Worships announced that the top token holders would earn cult ranks and rewards.
• A Worship killed participants who refused to seal their five senses before the group was transported to Three Abyss Peak.
• The Worship warned that leaving the trial grounds meant death, and Tang Ya led the Holy Spirit Cult Disciples into the central abyss.
• Jiang Hai avoided the Middle Abyss and went toward the mountain to its left, intending to digest his gains before searching for tokens.

Jiang Hai killed Ye Jun when the Holy Spirit Cult disciple tried to turn him into a puppet, then evaded the enshrined observers and hid inside the Bronze Coffin. There, he began testing a strange secret art he had obtained from the Holy Emperor Statue.

• Ye Jun ambushed Jiang Hai, hoping to control him with the Wind-Weaving Witch and claim his Holy Spirit Tokens.
• Jiang Hai used his soul skills and Magnetic Field to immobilize Ye Jun and destroy him with a blazing punch.
• Xuancha Douluo Night Rakshasa and Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng watched Jiang Hai leave and discussed his history and extraordinary strength.
• Jiang Hai sensed that he was being watched, escaped toward the mountain woods, and concealed the Bronze Coffin in an underground hollow.
• Jiang Hai entered the Bronze Coffin with Ye Jun's corpse and began trying the secret art he had obtained from the Holy Emperor Statue.

Jiang Hai learned part of the Holy Emperor’s Soul Refining Art and used Ye Jun’s Soul Rings to strengthen his second Soul Ring, improving the Glazed Heart Mirror. After finding 123 Holy Spirit Tokens, he decided to hunt Soul Beasts to further upgrade the skill before taking tokens from other Soul Masters.

• Jiang Hai visualized the Holy Emperor’s eyes and received part of the Soul Refining Art, a secret technique that could increase the age of Soul Rings by absorbing others.
• Jiang Hai used Ye Jun’s corpse to raise his second Soul Ring’s age from about 4,100 years to 5,200 years, expanding the Glazed Heart Mirror’s range to 152 meters.
• Jiang Hai warned himself not to become enslaved to power, then let Ye Jun’s corpse crumble and restored his Soul Power.
• Jiang Hai searched the mountain with the Glazed Heart Mirror and gathered 123 Holy Spirit Tokens, despite losing ten tokens for killing Ye Jun.
• Jiang Hai decided to hunt a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast to raise the Glazed Heart Mirror to a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill before seizing tokens from other Soul Masters.

Jiang Hai fought a Darkness Saber-Toothed Tiger guarding a cave while hidden evil soul masters waited to ambush him for his Holy Spirit Tokens. He used his Gravity Domain and the tiger to defeat them, then spared the beast and entered its cave to recover.

• Jiang Hai overpowered the Darkness Saber-Toothed Tiger, which refused to leave the cave entrance.
• Nine evil soul masters attacked Jiang Hai, but he revealed a bloodred Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and trapped them in his sixteenfold Gravity Domain.
• Jiang Hai turned the Darkness Saber-Toothed Tiger against the attackers, exploiting the Blood Trial rules so the beast could kill them without Jiang Hai receiving penalties.
• Jiang Hai summoned five ice clones and fought alongside the tiger, which killed all seven remaining evil soul masters.
• Jiang Hai collected the corpses with the Bronze Coffin, accepted ten Holy Spirit Tokens from the tiger, and entered its cave to recover while the tiger stood guard.

Jiang Hai collected Holy Spirit Tokens and refined the souls of nine Evil Soul Masters before leaving a pregnant Darkness Saber-Toothed Tiger and its mate behind. He traveled to Left Peak to subdue a forty-thousand-year White Sea Eagle, and the chapter ended with him landing on its back after slowing it with his Magnetic Field.

• Jiang Hai retrieved thirty-one Holy Spirit Tokens from nine bodies and used the Soul Refining Art to raise his second Soul Ring to eight thousand years.
• Jiang Hai decided not to take the Darkness Saber-Toothed Tiger away because its mate was about to give birth, then headed toward the White Sea Eagle's territory.
• Jiang Hai reached Left Peak and used the Vermilion Bird Wings to fly down the cliff toward the White Sea Eagle's nest.
• The White Sea Eagle attacked Jiang Hai in midair, but he dodged its talons with the Vermilion Bird Wings.
• Jiang Hai activated his Magnetic Field to slow the White Sea Eagle, then leaped onto its back.

Jiang Hai subdued the White Sea Eagle and enlisted it to help gather Holy Spirit Tokens and fight a Seven Rings Rouge Snake. After the eagle killed the snake, Jiang Hai began using its soul ring to strengthen his second soul ring while the eagle guarded him.

• Jiang Hai used the Bronze Coffin and Magnetic Field to force the White Sea Eagle to submit, then offered to free it after nine days if it wished to leave.
• The White Sea Eagle accepted Jiang Hai's offer, took him to its nest to collect thirty Holy Spirit Tokens, and carried him to Left Abyss.
• The White Sea Eagle brought Jiang Hai to fight its enemy, the fifty-thousand-year Seven Rings Rouge Snake, and Jiang Hai used Magnetic Field to help the eagle defeat it.
• A wolf-headed saber Evil Soul Master witnessed the battle and fled, while Jiang Hai collected thirty more Holy Spirit Tokens from the mire.
• The White Sea Eagle ate the snake's gallbladder and gave its core to Jiang Hai, who refused it and began refining the snake's soul ring to strengthen his second soul ring as the eagle stood guard.

Jiang Hai strengthened his Glazed Heart Mirror Soul Ring with the Seven Rings Rouge Snake’s Soul Ring and continued searching for Holy Spirit Tokens with the White Sea Eagle. Meanwhile, Tang Ya fought to escape four eight-ring Evil Soul Douluos who wanted the hundreds of tokens she had collected, and the chapter left her facing Evil Tiger’s Martial Soul Avatar.

• Jiang Hai’s second Soul Ring reached nine thousand five hundred years, and he resolved to keep the Soul Refining Art secret while leaving behind a legacy of it.
• The White Sea Eagle carried Jiang Hai across Three Abyss Peak and helped him find Holy Spirit Tokens as rumors spread of the White Sea Eagle God.
• Tang Ya fled through Middle Abyss while Blue Silver Grass protected her, and the four pursuers demanded the more than five hundred tokens she had gathered.
• Red Talisman used her Blood Sacrifice Talisman, while Poison Locust’s Blood Locust briefly poisoned Tang Ya before Blue Silver Grass drew out the poison.
• Tang Ya revealed eight black Soul Rings, shattered three Blood Arrows with her Blue Silver Overlord Spear, and countered Red Talisman’s Bloodburst Talisman.
• Evil Tiger unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and charged at Tang Ya as the four pursuers attacked.

Tang Ya fought Evil Tiger, Poison Locust, Red Talisman, and Zhang Sha alone, but their combined attacks left her badly wounded. White Sea Eagle and Jiang Hai arrived, and Jiang Hai killed Zhang Sha, leaving the remaining Soul Douluos still facing Tang Ya and her allies.

• Tang Ya used her Blue Silver Avatar and Tang Sect techniques to wound Poison Locust and hold off the four Soul Douluos, while Zhang Sha pressured her from a distance.
• Red Talisman blasted Tang Ya into Evil Tiger, but Tang Ya seized control of Evil Tiger with Blue Silver Soul-Seizing Eyes and drained his vitality and soul power, weakening him and restoring herself.
• Zhang Sha struck Tang Ya and Evil Tiger with Blood God Fission Arrow, while Red Talisman and Poison Locust prepared costly attacks to finish Tang Ya.
• White Sea Eagle ambushed Zhang Sha from above and wounded him, giving Jiang Hai a chance to leap from its back and attack.
• Jiang Hai passed through Zhang Sha's retreating arrow and punched through his heart, killing him.

Jiang Hai intervened in the battle against Tang Ya’s attackers, killing Poison Locust and then using the Bronze Coffin’s Borrow Strength to defeat Evil Tiger. Red Talisman remained engaged with Tang Ya as Zhang Peng and Night Rakshasa watched from the shadows.

• Jiang Hai rejected Red Talisman’s offer to cooperate, and Tang Ya’s connection to him made Red Talisman, Evil Tiger, and Poison Locust wary.
• Jiang Hai dodged Evil Tiger’s trap, countered Poison Locust’s toxins with his defenses and Nine-Lives Cicada Molt, and attacked both enemies while Tang Ya fought Red Talisman.
• Zhang Peng and Night Rakshasa chose not to rescue Poison Locust, allowing Jiang Hai and Tang Ya to prove themselves in the Blood Trial.
• Jiang Hai pierced Poison Locust’s heart and killed him, while White Sea Eagle withdrew after being badly wounded.
• Jiang Hai used the Bronze Coffin’s Borrow Strength to overpower Evil Tiger and punched through his body, killing him.

Jiang Hai and Tang Ya joined forces after she defeated Red Talisman, and Jiang Hai amassed enough Holy Spirit Tokens to secure a leading position in the Blood Trial. When the final day began, the tokens’ lights exposed their holders across Three Abyss Peak, and Tang Ya stared up at the sky in sudden recognition.

• Tang Ya drained Red Talisman’s vitality and soul power, then regained control of the battle as Jiang Hai and White Sea Eagle watched.
• Jiang Hai recognized Tang Ya through her Tang Sect techniques and proposed an alliance; Tang Ya agreed to cooperate in the Blood Trial.
• Jiang Hai counted his tokens and found that his total had reached 1,046, while Tang Ya carried more than 600.
• Tang Ya searched the Middle Abyss for tokens as time passed and the Blood Trial’s final day arrived.
• Bloody pillars of light rose from token holders across Three Abyss Peak, and Tang Ya looked toward the sky, briefly dazed.

Jiang Hai and Tang Ya used Xiao Bai and her thousand Holy Spirit Tokens as bait while they hunted challengers in the Middle Abyss. Jiang Hai killed the Eight-Ring Soul Douluo Dong Hou and took his tokens, leaving Zhang Peng to follow him.

• Jiang Hai gave Xiao Bai the Holy Spirit Tokens and sent her flying as bait while he and Tang Ya hid to ambush pursuers.
• Zhang Peng and Night Rakshasa watched the plan unfold, then split up to hunt in the forest.
• Tang Ya and other hidden attackers ambushed token-seekers as the blood sun drew greedy disciples through the Middle Abyss.
• Jiang Hai attacked Dong Hou, an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo, and used the Magnetic Field to crush him with the Purple Lightning Coffin.
• Jiang Hai collected more than a hundred tokens from Dong Hou and left as Zhang Peng arrived and followed him.

Jiang Hai and Tang Ya used their Holy Spirit Tokens to lure the Blood Trial’s competitors away while the White Sea Eagle carried the largest token cache toward the boundary of Three Abyss Peak. The Eagle crossed the boundary and voided its tokens, leaving Fox Eight eliminated and the other Evil Soul Masters facing a wounded bird whose master had yet to appear.

• Jiang Hai hid his true body while his Cicada Slough Clone carried the tokens, and he and Tang Ya gathered nearly a thousand between them as they hunted rival Evil Soul Masters.
• Jiang Hai survived a Golden Dragon Sparrow’s fatal strike through Time’s Second Hand, then killed its Soul Douluo controller as the skill shattered.
• With less than two hours left, Jiang Hai and Tang Ya drew their own token pillars away while the White Sea Eagle flew toward the edge of Three Abyss Peak with the largest cache.
• The Evil Soul Masters realized the White Sea Eagle was about to escape and attacked it, but its triggered Level 8 Soul Tool shield protected it until the Eagle crossed the boundary and its tokens became void.
• Fox Eight crossed the boundary while chasing the Eagle and was eliminated; after his overdriven Flying Soul Tool exploded, the other pursuers stopped, and one warned them that the White Sea Eagle had a master.

The Blood Trial ended, and Jiang Hai reunited with the White Sea Eagle, healed her, and gave her the Golden Sparrow's corpse and Soul Bone. The White Sea Eagle gained Golden Power and the ability to shrink, while Jiang Hai ranked first with 438 Holy Spirit Tokens after deductions.

• Vice Cult Master Feng Ling ended the fighting and ordered the disciples to report to Middle Abyss within two hours.
• Jiang Hai found the injured White Sea Eagle, healed her, and gave her the Golden Sparrow's corpse; she chose to accompany him.
• The White Sea Eagle swallowed the Golden Sparrow's Head Soul Bone, gained Golden Power, and later demonstrated that she could shrink to palm size.
• Jiang Hai arrived at camp with the White Sea Eagle, and Zhang Peng announced that Jiang Hai had ranked first with 438 tokens after deductions for eleven kills.
• Zhang Peng ordered everyone to seal their five senses.

After the Blood Trial, the Holy Spirit Cult ranked the survivors and awarded its leading participants titles, privileges, and resources. Tang Ya and Jiang Hai were appointed Acting Elders at headquarters, leaving Jiang Hai as Candidate Saint Son, sequence one, and temporary Third Elder.

• Jiang Hai returned to the Holy Emperor Grand Plaza and observed the survivors gathering for the Blood Trial results.
• The Great Elder revealed the blood ranking, placing Jiang Hai first at Level 60 and Tang Ya second at Level 84.
• The Great Elder promoted Wu Qun to Candidate Saintess, sequence three, and Mu Cangyun to Candidate Saint Son, sequence six, then assigned sequences to the other top-ten participants.
• The Great Elder appointed Tang Ya temporary Fifth Elder, granting her elder privileges, heaven-level blood-pool cultivation, and merit points.
• The Great Elder appointed Jiang Hai Candidate Saint Son, sequence one, and temporary Third Elder, awarding him elder privileges, heaven-level blood-pool cultivation, and merit points.

Jiang Hai and Tang Ya became Acting Elders of the Holy Spirit Cult and selected their followers. The Fourth Elder explained Jiang Hai’s duties and plans for his cultivation before bringing him to the Elder Palace to inherit his authority.

• The Great Elder appointed Jiang Hai and Tang Ya Acting Elders and had the Holy Spirit Cult Disciples choose their affiliations.
• Fourteen disciples initially chose Jiang Hai, including eight arranged by the Fourth Elder, while thirty-nine chose Tang Ya; after the final changes, thirteen remained with Jiang Hai.
• The Fourth Elder explained that Jiang Hai had ten years to make his appointment permanent by reaching the Titled Douluo realm or avenging the Third Elder, and proposed taking him somewhere dangerous once he reached Level 70.
• The Great Elder and other senior leaders departed, and the Fourth Elder and Nangong Wan took Jiang Hai and Tang Ya to familiarize them with their duties.
• The Fourth Elder told Jiang Hai to spend his first year training, advised him on using the blood pools, and said Bloodrobe would assist him as a steward.
• Jiang Hai chose to plant the Bloodthorn Flower near the Holy Emperor Plaza, and the Fourth Elder brought him to the Elder Palace and explained the elders’ authority over Headquarters and its Protective Formation.

Jiang Hai received the authority of an Acting Third Elder and was shown the Holy Spirit Cult’s blood pools before the Fourth Elder helped him establish a residence in a deserted courtyard. He settled into the Bloodthorn Flower Courtyard, where he began visualizing the Holy Emperor Statue as the White Sea Eagle continued refining its accumulated power.

• The Fourth Elder gave Jiang Hai an Elder Token and explained its authority over the Holy Cult’s guardian formation, along with the costs and benefits of blood pools.
• The Fourth Elder showed Jiang Hai the Demon Empress Pavilion’s blood pools and explained the standing of the Holy Cult’s leaders and partners.
• The Fourth Elder brought Jiang Hai to his former courtyard, revived it with a thousand-year Bloodthorn Flower, and gave Jiang Hai its Core of Life.
• Jiang Hai used his thoughts to shape the Bloodthorn Flower into a two-story pavilion with a rooftop balcony, which the White Sea Eagle chose as its perch.
• Jiang Hai faced the Holy Emperor Statue and began visualizing it while the White Sea Eagle continued refining the power from the Seven Rings Rouge Snake and Golden Sparrow.

After a year and a half of secluded cultivation, Jiang Hai’s soul power and visualization methods had advanced greatly, and his White Sea Eagle had become a powerful flying soul beast. The Fourth Elder told him the upcoming Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament would admit sects, and the Holy Spirit Cult planned to enter with Jiang Hai and the Blue Silver Saintess and win the championship.

• Jiang Hai used the Black-Level and Earth-Level Blood Pools and the Bronze Coffin to strengthen his soul power while refining his visualization methods.
• Over more than a year of cultivation, Jiang Hai’s soul power neared Level 63, his Holy Emperor Visualization Method reached minor accomplishment, and his Bronze Coffin Visualization Method advanced to the third layer.
• The Bloodthorn Flower and White Sea Eagle grew stronger; the White Sea Eagle reached forty-six thousand years of cultivation and gained golden eyes and jade-like feathers.
• Jiang Hai returned after a year and a half away and asked whether the Civilization Research Institute had been established.
• The Fourth Elder told Jiang Hai that the tournament would begin in the Sun Moon Empire in less than half a year and would include sects for the first time.
• The Fourth Elder said the Holy Spirit Cult would compete under its own name with Jiang Hai and the Blue Silver Saintess, aiming to win the championship.

Jiang Hai joined Tang Ya, the Fourth Elder, Zhang Peng, and Night Rakshasa on a journey to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a hundred-thousand-year soul beast for his sixth soul ring. After crossing the Ming Dou Mountain Range, the group reached the forest and prepared to enter its dangerous territory.

• The Fourth Elder told Jiang Hai that the Holy Spirit Cult would give him the hundred-thousand-year soul ring while Tang Ya received the soul bone.
• Jiang Hai met Tang Ya, Zhang Peng, and Night Rakshasa at Holy Emperor Plaza, and the group left the headquarters through a concealed passage.
• The group flew out of the Evil Demon Forest, crossed the Ming Dou Mountain Range, and camped in a valley, where Jiang Hai hunted and cooked a Mountaintop Fire Bear.
• The next morning, the group crossed into the Star Luo Empire and continued north toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The group reached the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, where the White Sea Eagle perched on Jiang Hai's shoulder as they faced the forest.

Jiang Hai and the three Titled Douluo tracked a Golden Dragon martial soul through the Star Dou Great Forest and encountered Wang Qiu'er. The Fourth Elder tried to recruit her, and Wang Qiu'er agreed only if Jiang Hai defeated her in a fight.

• Jiang Hai used his Glazed Heart Mirror to reveal that a beautiful woman with a Golden Dragon martial soul had passed through the area.
• Tang Ya followed the Golden Dragon aura through the Blue Silver Grass, leading the group toward the forest's outskirts.
• The group met Wang Qiu'er, whom Jiang Hai recognized as the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Wang Qiu'er realized the three Titled Douluo were likely hunting a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and resolved to warn the forest.
• The Fourth Elder invited Wang Qiu'er to join his sect and claimed Jiang Hai was her equal in soul power.
• Wang Qiu'er challenged Jiang Hai, saying she would join the sect if he defeated her, and the Fourth Elder accepted.