Chapter Summaries

Qian Daoliu and Tian E persuaded Ye Renxin to join Spirit Hall by offering Aromatic Silk Golden Pills and an ancient medical text, while Ye Lingling accidentally ate one of the pills. Ye Renxin accepted and arranged for his servants to follow; Qian Daoliu and Tian E then prepared for a meeting at the Papal Palace the next morning.

• Ye Renxin explained that Aromatic Silk Beauty could evolve certain martial souls, while Qian Daoliu described the pills made from the herb.
• Ye Lingling ate an Aromatic Silk Golden Pill, and Tian E offered Ye Renxin the three remaining pills and the Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases.
• After reading the medical classic, Ye Renxin agreed to join Spirit Hall in exchange for safeguarding his family and advancing his medical studies.
• Qian Daoliu assured Ye Renxin that his servants would be brought from the Heaven Dou Empire to Spirit City, and a servant escorted Ye Renxin and Ye Lingling to rest.
• Tian E told Qian Daoliu that the old master had called a meeting of the elders and enshrined at the Papal Palace for eight the next morning.

Xue Ye investigated the lockdown in Spirit City as Qian Chongling discussed the Pope's recovery and his plans to retaliate against the Clear Sky Sect. Qian Chongling ordered attacks on its vassal clans and prepared to lead Spirit Hall forces against the sect.

• Xue Ye learned that people could enter Spirit City but could not leave, and heard a rumor that a Spirit Hall elder had been injured.
• Qian Chongling told Bibi Dong that the Pope had recovered under Ye Renxin's care and that Ye Renxin had joined Spirit Hall.
• Qian Chongling ordered the Shadow Hall to spread the claim that Tang Hao and a Humanoid Soul Beast had attacked the Pope and killed several elders.
• Qian Chongling ordered Spirit Hall elders to annihilate the Speed Clan and Strength Clan, while allowing the Breaking Clan and Defense Clan to surrender.
• Qian Chongling ordered most of Spirit Hall's elders and enshrined elders to accompany him to attack the Clear Sky Sect the next day.

Ning Fengzhi chose to secretly support the Clear Sky Sect rather than exploit the scandal surrounding Tang Hao, while the sect confidently trusted its protections against Spirit Hall. Qian Chongling arrived with two Titled Douluos and confronted Tang Qishi at the Clear Sky Sect’s gate, where the elders and disciples mocked him.

• Bone Douluo Gu Rong urged Ning Fengzhi to join Spirit Hall and pressure the Clear Sky Sect, but Ning Fengzhi refused and resolved to help the sect in secret.
• Tang Lie worried that Qian Daoliu might attack, but Tang Qishi assured the Clear Sky Sect that an agreement with Tang Chen would keep Spirit Hall away.
• Qian Chongling arrived near Heaven Dou City with seventeen Titled Douluos and ordered Golden Crocodile and Demon Bear to accompany him to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Qishi sensed three hostile auras approaching and went to the mountain gate, where he met Qian Chongling, Golden Crocodile, and Demon Bear.
• Qian Chongling identified himself as Spirit Hall’s new Pope and falsely claimed Qian Xunji had died from Tang Hao’s injuries, prompting the Clear Sky Sect’s elders and disciples to mock him.

Qian Chongling rejected Tang Qishi’s defense of Tang Hao and Ah Yin and ordered Dugu Bo to poison the Clear Sky Sect’s younger generation. When two Clear Sky Sect elders attacked Dugu Bo, Tian E intercepted them and crushed their Clear Sky Hammers, leaving both gravely injured.

• Qian Chongling asked Tang Qishi to explain Tang Hao’s alliance with a humanoid soul beast, but Tang Qishi insisted Ah Yin was human and refused to yield.
• Qian Chongling summoned his reinforcements and told Dugu Bo to clear the field by attacking the Clear Sky Sect’s younger generation with poison.
• Dugu Bo transformed into his Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor avatar and unleashed his eighth and ninth soul skills.
• Tang Qishi ordered two elders to stop Dugu Bo, and the elders combined their Clear Sky Hammers in a Ring Stacking attack.
• Tian E appeared, caught the combined hammer, crushed both elders’ weapons, and struck them down with grievous injuries.

Spirit Hall overwhelmed the Clear Sky Sect, while Qian Chongling confronted Tang Qishi and challenged him to land a blow. Tang Qishi’s strongest attacks failed to hurt Qian Chongling, who retrieved his sword and prepared to finish him.

• Dugu Bo unleashed his ninth Soul Skill, killing immobilized Clear Sky Sect disciples, while Demon Bear Douluo knocked Tang Xiao aside.
• Qian Chongling revealed himself to Tang Qishi as the Blood Pope and challenged him to attack with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Qishi used the Great Sumeru Hammer, but Qian Chongling remained unharmed and taunted him to keep striking.
• Tang Qishi unleashed the eighty-first swing of Chaotic Cloak, but the attack still failed and the recoil tore open his hand.
• Qian Chongling dismissed Tang Qishi’s techniques as unimpressive, retrieved his sword, and prepared to kill him.

Qian Chongling killed Tang Qishi and ordered Spirit Hall to begin attacking the Single-Attribute Four Clans. The assault on the Strength Clan left Tai Tan fighting White Elephant Douluo as his clansmen were slaughtered.

• Qian Chongling killed Tang Qishi, and Spirit Hall's elders collected soul bones from the Clear Sky Sect's defeated elders and elite disciples.
• Qian Chongling ordered Golden Crocodile Douluo to notify the elders targeting the Single-Attribute Four Clans through an acrostic in the Martial Soul Daily.
• Spirit Hall's Sixth and Seventh Elders led an assault on the Strength Clan estate, where Clouded Leopard Douluo slaughtered clansmen and White Elephant Douluo fought Tai Tan.
• Tai Tan unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and charged White Elephant Douluo, but White Elephant beat him back and said the Clear Sky Sect was already dead.
• White Elephant Douluo urged Tai Tan to surrender, offering to spare some of his clansmen.

Spirit Hall massacred the Strength Clan despite Tai Tan's surrender, then attacked the Breaking and Speed Clans in Star Luo City. Bai He was killed, and Yang Wudi remained surrounded as Spirit Hall demanded his surrender.

• Tai Tan surrendered after Spirit Hall overwhelmed the Strength Clan, but Spirit Hall's Soul Masters began killing the clan members anyway.
• Clouded Leopard Douluo sealed Tai Tan's soul power, then stabbed him and revealed that the order was to leave no one from the Speed or Strength Clans alive.
• Yue Guan fought Yang Wudi at the Breaking Clan compound while most of the Breaking Clan lay dead or wounded and Yang Bubai was captured.
• Bai He arrived seeking Yang Wudi's help, but Golden Eagle Douluo said the Speed Clan had been wiped out by the Forbidden Flight Formation.
• Black Eagle Douluo killed Bai He, then demanded that Yang Wudi surrender or see the Breaking Clan destroyed.

Yang Wudi surrendered the Breaking Clan to Spirit Hall after Niu Gao challenged their loyalty to the absent Tang Hao. Salas then warned Emperor Xue Ye that Spirit Hall had destroyed the Strength Clan and would brook no interference.

• The Third and Fourth Elders arrived at the Breaking Clan compound with Niu Gao, who urged Yang Wudi to stop risking his clan’s lives for Tang Hao.
• Yang Wudi agreed to surrender the Breaking Clan, and Yue Guan welcomed both the Breaking and Defense Clans into Spirit Hall.
• Spirit Hall soul masters disposed of the dead, including Bai He, chief of the Speed Clan, at a mass burial ground outside Star Luo City.
• Salas told Emperor Xue Ye that Spirit Hall had acted against the Strength Clan because it had received no justice from the Clear Sky Sect and its allies.
• After Salas left, Emperor Xue Ye understood his visit as a warning not to interfere with Spirit Hall.

Ning Fengzhi learned that the Clear Sky Sect and Strength Clan had been destroyed and sought an alliance with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Bibi Dong was crowned Pope, then summoned Tang Yuehua to threaten Tang Hao through her and reveal that Tang Xiao was alive in Spirit Hall’s custody.

• Chen Xin reported that the Clear Sky Sect’s master had died and its younger disciples had been poisoned, while Gu Rong confirmed that Spirit Hall had slaughtered the Strength Clan.
• Ning Fengzhi sent Chen Xin to rest and went with Gu Rong to visit the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to pursue an alliance.
• Bibi Dong completed her coronation as Pope of Spirit Hall, while Qian Xunji continued handling the Pope’s paperwork behind the scenes.
• Bibi Dong told Tang Yuehua that Tang Xiao was alive and imprisoned by Spirit Hall, and threatened to kill him if any Spirit Hall branch hall was harmed.
• Tang Yuehua defended Tang Hao against Bibi Dong’s insult, then was escorted from the Papal Palace with an unopened gift.

Tang Hao secretly met Tang Yuehua at the Moonlight Pavilion, where she told him that Spirit Hall had sent her Tang Xiao’s severed arm and threatened the remaining Clear Sky Sect disciples. Tang Yuehua urged him to avoid revenge for now and focus on raising Tang San, while she planned to turn Heaven Dou’s nobles against Spirit Hall.

• Tang Hao slipped into Tang Yuehua’s room, and she wept as she asked whether he knew the Clear Sky Sect had been destroyed.
• Tang Hao affirmed that his choice had been worth it and introduced the sleeping Tang San, saying he might let the boy live as an ordinary person if he lacked talent.
• Tang Yuehua told Tang Hao that Bibi Dong had given her Tang Xiao’s severed right arm as a gift and identified it by the star-shaped mark the siblings had carved on it.
• Furious, Tang Hao tried to leave to retaliate against Spirit Hall, but Tang Yuehua restrained him and relayed Bibi Dong’s threat to kill Clear Sky Sect disciples for any harm to a Spirit Hall branch.
• Tang Yuehua urged Tang Hao to heal and raise Tang San while she stirred resentment against Spirit Hall among Heaven Dou’s nobles; the siblings spent the night discussing their plans.

Bibi Dong chaired Spirit Hall’s elders’ meeting and proposed removing the Clear Sky Sect from the Upper Three Sects after its destruction. She then arranged a martial competition to determine who would fill the vacant position.

• Bibi Dong reviewed ten corruption cases and ordered the offenders punished according to Spirit Hall’s rules.
• Bibi Dong proposed striking the Clear Sky Sect from the Upper Three Sects and removing the Clear Sky Hammer emblem from the Pope Token, and the enshrined voted in favor.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo, Tian E, asked whether a Lower Four Sect should replace the Clear Sky Sect.
• Bibi Dong proposed inviting qualified sects to Spirit Hall to compete for the vacant position, with sects led by a Soul Douluo eligible to compete.
• Bibi Dong also ordered Spirit Hall to invite the Rouge Pavilion, whose members included Mad Rhino Douluo.

Spirit Hall announced a new selection of the Upper Three Sects, prompting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Rouge Pavilion to maneuver for influence. As Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen traveled to Spirit City, they agreed that backing the Rouge Pavilion could help prevent the Lower Four Sects from strengthening Spirit Hall.

• Ning Fengzhi warned that allowing a Lower Four Sect to join the Upper Three Sects would upset the continent’s balance, while Chen Xin hoped the Rouge Pavilion’s Mad Rhino Douluo could defeat them.
• Ye Mengwei and Xue Peng welcomed the selection as an opportunity for the Rouge Pavilion, and Xue Peng said he, Ghost Fox, and Mad Rhino would attend together.
• Ye Mengwei teased Xue Peng about Dai Tianfeng’s disturbing behavior with a stone pillar, which had ruined Xue Peng’s appetite for three days.
• Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen traveled toward Spirit City with Chen Xin, then stopped for the night and discussed whether to support the Rouge Pavilion.
• Ning Fengzhi argued that an alliance with the Rouge Pavilion and the Star Luo Empire could keep the Lower Four Sects from strengthening Spirit Hall and help unite the continent’s sects against it.

The selection to replace the Clear Sky Sect among the Upper Three Sects began before the Papal Palace, with Spirit Hall revealing that the masters of the Lower Four Sects had become Titled Douluos. Huyan Zhen challenged the other sects, and Situ Kuang stepped forward to represent the Rouge Pavilion.

• Ning Fengzhi's warning left Yu Yuanzhen silent and unconvinced.
• A month later, representatives of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the Rouge Pavilion gathered at the Papal Palace for the selection.
• Bibi Dong arrived with Gui Mei, Yue Guan, and the masters Huyan Zhen, Tuoba Xi, You Luo, and Yun Lan, revealing that all four Lower Four Sect masters had become Titled Douluos.
• Bibi Dong declared that the Clear Sky Sect had been struck from the Upper Three Sects and left the contenders to settle the new ranking themselves.
• Huyan Zhen activated his Martial Soul Avatar and challenged the gathered sects as the Titled Sky Elephant.
• Situ Kuang stepped forward to fight Huyan Zhen on behalf of the Rouge Pavilion.

Situ Kuang lost to Huyan Zhen, but Xue Peng revealed overwhelming power as a Peerless Douluo and forced the Lower Four Sects to withdraw. After Spirit Hall declared the Rouge Pavilion one of the Upper Three Sects, Xue Peng challenged the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, leaving Yu Yuanzhen facing his taunt.

• Situ Kuang used his Martial Soul Avatar and Savage Charge against Huyan Zhen, then conceded after losing their clash.
• Xue Peng revealed a powerful aura that Chen Xin identified as belonging to a level 98 or 99 Peerless Douluo, and Qian Daoliu appeared to check it.
• After Qian Daoliu acknowledged Xue Peng, Huyan Zhen and the other Lower Four Sects withdrew from the contest.
• Bibi Dong declared the Rouge Pavilion, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to be the Upper Three Sects.
• Xue Peng challenged the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Yu Yuanzhen angrily challenged the Rouge Pavilion in return.

Xue Peng defeated Yu Yuanzhen and secured the Rouge Pavilion’s first place among the Upper Three Sects, while Bibi Dong arranged for new Pope Tokens. As Qian Chongling held a baby, he received confirmation that his Chaos Sixth Trial was complete and the Chaos Trial Secret Realm had opened.

• Yu Yuanzhen used his Martial Soul Avatar and Dragon Transformation to attack Xue Peng, but Xue Peng easily blocked his lightning and knocked him down.
• Xue Peng snapped Yu Yuanzhen’s arm, then condemned him for slandering the Rouge Pavilion and repeatedly kicked him until he lost consciousness.
• Xue Peng challenged the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s claim to the title of greatest sect, and Ning Fengzhi chose to retain its current ranking.
• Bibi Dong ranked the Rouge Pavilion first, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect second, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan last among the Upper Three Sects.
• Xue Peng asked for the Golden-Winged Roc to be engraved on the new Pope Tokens, and Bibi Dong announced the old tokens were invalid and the new ones would be made in three days.
• Qian Chongling received a notification that the Chaos Sixth Trial was complete, his Chaos divine power fusion rate had increased, all his soul rings had gained fifty thousand years, and the Chaos Trial Secret Realm had opened.

Qian Chongling completed his daily sign-in and studied the system’s newly available trial realms, weighing their dangerous penalties against their rewards. He remained wary of the powerful enemies awaiting him, especially in the City of Ruin, and continued examining the void illusion realm.

• Qian Chongling checked on Qian Guangyue, prepared breakfast, and completed his sixty-sixth year of daily sign-ins, receiving a year of lifespan, a small intelligence increase, and two Soul Beast Reincarnation Cards.
• Qian Chongling reviewed his attributes and examined the rules and rewards for the three trial illusion realms: Dark City, City of Eternal Night, and City of Ruin.
• Qian Chongling recognized that failure in the first two realms could strip away an ethereal or corporeal soul and judged the trials dangerous despite their substantial rewards.
• Qian Chongling suspected Bainoshu in the City of Ruin might be an overwhelmingly powerful Elementalist and worried about sending children into the trial.
• Qian Chongling moved on to examine the void illusion realm.

Qian Chongling learned that his Chaos Seventh Trial required extracting Tang San’s fortune and planned to do it at the Soul Master Tournament. The next day, he coaxed Qian Daoliu into trying a new cultivation secret realm, despite Qian Daoliu’s suspicions about his past inventions.

• Qian Chongling considered the Void Illusion Realm’s rewards, but the Dumb System warned him that defeating its opponents would be beyond him.
• Qian Chongling identified Tang San as the Douluo World’s most fortunate person and planned to extract his fortune publicly at the Soul Master Tournament after killing Tang Hao.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Chongling that Qian Xue’s first Soul Ring came from a two-thousand-year-old Light Unicorn and granted Angel Assault.
• Qian Chongling decided to punish Qian Daoliu for choosing a barely thousand-year-old Soul Ring for Qian Xue.
• The next day, Qian Chongling urged Qian Daoliu to try the secret realm, and Qian Daoliu recalled being sickened by a motorboat and accidentally shooting his hand with a Soul-Guided Pistol before reluctantly agreeing.

Qian Daoliu entered the Void Illusion Realm and was crushed by a projection of the twelve-year-old Shi Yi, despite using his Angel abilities. Bibi Dong and Qian Xunji tried the realm as well and returned just as despondent, leaving Qian Chongling to learn whom they had faced after several days.

• Qian Chongling opened two Secret Realms, and Qian Daoliu entered the unrestricted Void Illusion Realm.
• Qian Daoliu faced a projection of Shi Yi and assumed the boy could not match his strength.
• Shi Yi overwhelmed Qian Daoliu with powerful punches and Double Pupils-Chaos Light, defeating him and exhausting his attempts.
• Qian Daoliu returned to Douluo Hall bewildered, and Bibi Dong and Qian Xunji entered the realm to challenge it.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Xunji returned with the same despondent expressions, and Qian Chongling learned their opponents' identities several days later.

Three-year-old Tang San practiced his cultivation, harvested Blue Silver Grass to support his household, and accepted Village Chief Jack’s invitation to visit Nuoding City. The village continued to suffer losses from rabbits, while Tang San returned home to prepare breakfast for his father, Tang Hao.

• Tang San practiced the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Purple Demon Eye at dawn, then harvested Blue Silver Grass to earn money for Tang Hao’s wine.
• Jack mourned the damage rabbits had done to Holy Soul Village’s crops and wondered whether a meeting in Nuoding City would address the problem.
• Tang San met Jack at the village entrance, and Jack invited him to visit Nuoding City the next day.
• Tang San returned to his home and prepared porridge for Tang Hao.

Tang San and Old Jack attended a meeting in Nuoding City, where City Lord Xiao Yu announced a way to make rabbit meat edible and turn the rabbit infestation into a source of income. The plan established three slaughterhouses, including one in Holy Soul Village, and left village representatives discussing the new opportunity.

• Old Jack and Tang San traveled to Nuoding City and found seats in a crowded public square.
• Xiao Yu and the city’s leaders explained that maddened rabbits had damaged villages, crops, and homes.
• Xiao Yu announced that the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire had developed a formula to reduce rabbit meat’s unpleasant odor.
• The city leaders agreed that rabbits could be sold as food and outlined a plan to buy them from villagers.
• Xiao Yu offered one Silver Soul Coin for every two jin of rabbits and announced slaughterhouses in Linyuan Village, King Soul Village, and Holy Soul Village.