Chapter Summaries

Tang San’s attempt to reconcile with the Clear Sky Sect ended in a furious confrontation, and Tang Xiao knocked him unconscious to protect him. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Tai Tan reached Star Luo City to recruit the Breaking Clan, only to find a fight underway at its residence.

• The Second Elder questioned Tang San about his defeat by Xiao Yan, and Tang Yuehua revealed that Xiao Yan was Tang Hao’s son while Tang San said the family had stripped him of the Tang surname.
• Tang San offered to atone for Tang Hao’s actions and urged the elders to unite against Spirit Hall, but the Seventh Elder and the gathered disciples blamed Tang Hao for their losses and turned against him.
• After the Seventh Elder insulted Tang San and his mother, Tang San challenged him, so Tang Xiao struck Tang San unconscious to keep him from being killed.
• The next morning, Xiao Yan and Tai Tan traveled with Dugu Bo toward Star Luo City, where Tai Tan explained the Four Single-Attribute Clans and the Breaking Clan’s medicine-making skills.
• Upon reaching the Breaking Clan residence, Xiao Yan and Tai Tan heard fighting inside and entered to find two groups facing off as someone accused Wushuang of joining Spirit Hall.

Spirit Hall attacked the Breaking Clan after Yang Wushuang failed to persuade Yang Wudi to submit, but Xiao Yan and Dugu Bo arrived and turned the battle around. Yang Wushuang was struck down while fleeing, and Xiao Yan gravely injured Ghost Leopard Douluo, who had tried to escape.

• Yang Wudi refused Yang Wushuang's offer to join Spirit Hall, and Ghost Leopard Douluo arrived to threaten the Breaking Clan.
• Yang Wudi fought Ghost Leopard Douluo, but two Soul Douluos joined in and put him at a disadvantage as Spirit Hall's forces attacked the estate.
• Xiao Yan appeared in the sky, and Dugu Bo wiped out the surrounding Spirit Hall Soul Masters with poison.
• Yang Wushuang pretended to attack Xiao Yan, then fled, but Xiao Yan dragged him back with Suction Palm and struck him with Blowing Flame Palm.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo used the distraction to flee, but Xiao Yan pursued him and sent him crashing into the courtyard, gravely injured.

Xiao Yan killed Ghost Leopard Douluo while defending the Breaking Clan, then challenged Yang Wudi to an alchemy contest to persuade him to join the Flame Alliance. Yang Wudi lost, accepted Xiao Yan’s gift of aromatic silk beauty, and agreed to bring his clan to Heaven Dou City and recruit their two remaining allied clan leaders.

• Xiao Yan burned Ghost Leopard Douluo to ashes after rejecting his threat that Bibi Dong would retaliate.
• Tai Tan introduced Xiao Yan as the Flame Alliance’s leader and Dugu Bo as its Chief Elder to Yang Wudi.
• Yang Wudi explained that he distrusted factions because the Clear Sky Sect had abandoned the Four Single-Attribute Clans, so Xiao Yan proposed an alchemy contest to win his allegiance.
• Xiao Yan and Yang Wudi went into the Alchemy Hall and each took the other’s poison; Xiao Yan suffered no harm, while Yang Wudi became ill from Xiao Yan’s pill.
• Xiao Yan gave Yang Wudi an aromatic silk beauty that could ward off poison, and Yang Wudi agreed to join the Flame Alliance and bring his clansmen to Heaven Dou City.
• Yang Wudi suggested bringing their two remaining brothers into the Flame Alliance as well.

Xiao Yan traveled to Longxing City to invite the Defense Clan and Speed Clan into the Flame Alliance, and challenged Niu Gao to a wager over his strength. Meanwhile, a middle-aged man carrying a blood-red greatsword arrived at the foot of the Clear Sky Sect and announced his return.

• Xiao Yan and his companions reached Longxing City and reunited Tai Tan and Yang Wudi with Niu Gao at the Defense Clan's estate.
• Xiao Yan invited Niu Gao and Bai He to join the Soul Hall, promising pills that could increase their strength.
• Niu Gao rejected the invitation because Xiao Yan was Tang Hao's son, then proposed a test of strength.
• Xiao Yan wagered that Niu Gao would join the alliance if he could not withstand one punch, while Tai Tan warned him that Xiao Yan had defeated a Titled Douluo in fewer than three moves.
• A middle-aged man carrying a blood-red greatsword reached the foot of the Clear Sky Sect and declared that he had returned.

Xiao Yan defeated Niu Gao with a single punch, bringing the Defense Clan into Soul Hall, then killed Huyan Zhen with a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus when the Elephant Armor Sect and Spirit Hall attacked. At the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Xiao stood against the elders to protect Tang San, until a mysterious man identified as their grandfather appeared.

• Xiao Yan broke through Niu Gao's defense with Hidden Force, defeated him, and appointed him Soul Hall's Defense Guardian in the Flame Alliance.
• Niu Ben reported Huyan Zhen's arrival, and Niu Gao, Tai Tan, Yang Wudi, Xiao Yan, and Dugu Bo went to meet the Elephant Armor Sect master.
• Huyan Zhen refused Niu Gao's rejection of Spirit Hall and summoned reinforcements, including Demon Bear Douluo, while revealing that he had become a Titled Douluo.
• Xiao Yan formed a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus and killed Huyan Zhen in an explosion after Huyan Zhen charged him; Dugu Bo and the others fled the blast.
• At the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Xiao defended Tang San from the Seventh Elder and the other elders, who wanted to cripple Tang San's Martial Soul.
• A powerful aura filled the Clear Sky Sect, and a blood-robed man with a giant red sword appeared, revealing that he was the elders' grandfather.

Tang Chen returned to the Clear Sky Sect, heard Tang San’s account of the sect’s history, and ordered the sect to rejoin the world and oppose Spirit Hall. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan killed Demon Bear Douluo at Longxing City, where Bai He mistook him for the attacker and charged at him.

• Tang Chen arrived at the Clear Sky Sect, learned Tang Hao had been expelled, and promised Tang San that no one would harm him.
• Tang San blamed the sect’s retreat and Tang Hao’s expulsion for the continent’s troubles, while Tang Xiao defended the decisions made in Tang Chen’s absence.
• Tang Chen revealed that he had inherited the Asura God’s divine position and survived the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King’s corruption with help from a young man; he ordered the Clear Sky Sect to return to the soul master world.
• Tang Chen sent Tang San to find Tang Hao, warned Tang Xiao that Tang San’s unstable soul power seemed to come from an evil cultivation method, and prepared to lead the sect down the mountain.
• At Longxing City, Xiao Yan survived the Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus explosion, defeated and killed Demon Bear Douluo, and collected his soul.
• Bai He saw the ruined Defense Clan estate, blamed Xiao Yan for its destruction, and attacked him.

Xiao Yan defeated Bai He in a speed contest and secured the Speed Clan’s decision to join the Soul Hall, then led the clans toward Heaven Dou. Meanwhile, Tang Chen ordered Tang Xiao to investigate Xiao Yan, and Bibi Dong added him to Spirit Hall’s kill list while Nihility Devouring Flame offered her a sinister cultivation method.

• Bai He challenged Xiao Yan to avoid being touched for ten exchanges, and Xiao Yan won by using Three Thousand Lightning Movement to evade him.
• Bai He accepted the wager and agreed to lead the Speed Clan into the Soul Hall; he then revealed that he was Xiao Yan’s great-uncle and asked about Tang Hao.
• Xiao Yan urged the newly united Four Single-Attribute Clans to leave for Heaven Dou before Spirit Hall could respond to its losses.
• Tang Chen questioned Tang San’s claims about Xiao Yan and ordered Tang Xiao to investigate him while searching for Tang Hao.
• Bibi Dong learned that Xiao Yan had killed three Spirit Hall Titled Douluo, placed him on Spirit Hall’s kill list, and accepted a scroll called Soul Funeral from Nihility Devouring Flame.

Xiao Yan refused Ning Fengzhi’s request to save Xue Ye, while Tang San returned to Shrek Academy and learned that the Clear Sky Sect would oppose Spirit Hall once he found his father. Tang San visited Xiao Yan, who revealed Tang Hao had returned to Holy Soul Village, leaving Tang San to depart with concealed resentment.

• Xiao Yan refused to give Ning Fengzhi the Azure Nether Longevity Pill for Xue Ye and warned him not to overlook the truth behind the Heaven Dou Imperial Family’s affairs.
• Tang San told Grandmaster that the Clear Sky Sect would emerge to oppose Spirit Hall after Tang San found Tang Hao, and that Tang Chen had returned.
• Grandmaster urged Tang San to ask Xiao Yan about Tang Hao’s whereabouts, and Tang San agreed despite his hatred for Xiao Yan.
• Tang San visited Xiao Yan and pretended to reconcile with him while asking where Tang Hao was.
• Xiao Yan told Tang San that Tang Hao had returned to Holy Soul Village to work as a blacksmith, and Tang San left the residence with hidden resentment.

Tang San learned that Tang Hao had crippled his own cultivation and refused to return to the Clear Sky Sect, while Xiao Yan refined pills and planned to seek the Bone Spirit Cold Flame in the Far North. Xiao Yan gave the Four Single-Attribute Clans’ chiefs their pills and said he would soon leave, prompting Dugu Bo to ask where he was going.

• Tang San returned to Holy Soul Village and found Tang Hao living as a powerless drunkard.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that he had crippled his own cultivation, refused to return to the Clear Sky Sect, and wanted Tang San to care for his mother at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang Hao said he would leave Tang San five Soul Bones after his death, and Tang San’s grief was accompanied by a covetous look.
• Xiao Yan refined four Soul Fighting Pills and decided to seek the Bone Spirit Cold Flame in the Far North after raising his soul power to level seventy.
• Xiao Yan made medicinal pellets for Little Dragon Girl, then gave the four clan chiefs their pills and warned them to be careful while he was away.
• Dugu Bo asked Xiao Yan where he planned to go.

Xiao Yan left the Flame Alliance in Dugu Bo’s care and began secluding himself at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to break through to Soul Saint. Meanwhile, Tang Chen ordered the Clear Sky Sect to reenter the world, and Prince Xue Xing sought Dugu Bo’s help as Xue Ye’s condition worsened and Xue Qinghe’s guards barred the way to the emperor.

• Xiao Yan entrusted the Flame Alliance to Dugu Bo, then took Little Dragon Girl to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest to cultivate.
• Tang San told Tang Chen that Tang Hao’s cultivation had been crippled, and Tang Chen blamed Spirit Hall before ordering the Clear Sky Sect to descend from its mountain and settle its old grievances.
• Prince Xue Xing told Xue Beng that Xue Ye was gravely ill again after Xue Qinghe visited him, and the two found unfamiliar guards blocking the emperor’s chambers.
• Prince Xue Xing sent Xue Beng to seek Marshal Ge Long and went to Jia Nan Academy to ask Dugu Bo for help.
• Xiao Yan began cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, using his Purple-Black Flame to refine the valley’s dense energy as Prince Xue Xing arrived at Dugu Bo’s office.

Dugu Bo refused to join Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng in opposing Xue Qinghe, while Xiao Yan advanced to Soul Saint and set out for the Far North. In the Frozen Forest, Oscar killed a Mirror Shadow Beast and discovered that it had dropped a Soul Bone.

• Prince Xue Xing told Dugu Bo that Xue Ye's poison had worsened after Xue Qinghe's visit and that Xue Qinghe's guards had taken control of the palace, but Dugu Bo refused to interfere in the Imperial Family's struggles.
• Prince Xue Xing met Xue Beng, learned Marshal Ge Long had left to mobilize troops, and decided they should seek help from Shrek Academy and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xiao Yan advanced to Soul Saint at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, left Little Dragon Girl behind, and flew toward the Far North.
• Oscar killed a twenty-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast in the Frozen Forest while seeking a Soul Skill that could help him protect Rongrong.
• Oscar and the others saw a ghastly white glow where the beast had been stabbed and realized it had dropped a Soul Bone.

Oscar absorbed a sixth Soul Ring while Haote fought off their Hunting Squad, whose members tried to seize a Soul Bone. Xiao Yan intervened to save Oscar, and the chapter ended with Oscar wary of his former Shrek acquaintance.

• Oscar began absorbing the Mirror Shadow Beast's Soul Ring as Haote prepared to protect him from the Hunting Squad's attack over the Soul Bone.
• Haote transformed into a giant bear and killed several attackers, but the remaining Soul Masters pressed him while others targeted Oscar.
• Xiao Yan recognized Oscar from the treetops and struck down four Soul Emperors who were attacking him.
• Xiao Yan burned one Soul Emperor to ashes, frightening the Hunting Squad into fleeing, then gave Haote a pill that healed his injuries.
• Oscar finished absorbing the Soul Ring, revealed his six Soul Rings, and reacted to Xiao Yan's arrival with disbelief and suspicion.

Xiao Yan rescued Oscar and learned that Oscar had left for the Far North without taking the lifespan pills, so he began refining a pill to extend Oscar’s life. As Oscar absorbed a Soul Bone, a terrifying aura and emerald light swept over the Frozen Forest, suggesting one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North had appeared.

• Xiao Yan reassured Oscar that he held no grudge and learned Oscar had come to gain a Soul Skill and prepare to take revenge on Tang San.
• Xiao Yan discovered Oscar had never taken the pills and promised to refine an Azure Nether Longevity Pill to add ten years to his life.
• Xiao Yan began refining the pill while Oscar explained that his Mirror Image Big Sausage could copy another Soul Master’s Martial Soul and Soul Skills.
• Haote offered Oscar the Mirror Shadow Beast’s Soul Bone, and Oscar accepted it after Xiao Yan declined it.
• As Oscar absorbed the Soul Bone, a terrifying aura spread across the sky and emerald-green light swept in from the northern horizon.

Xiao Yan finished refining the Azure Nether Longevity Pill as the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion arrived to seize it, forcing Oscar and Haote to defend him. Xiao Yan fought her off, but just as she attacked again, she recoiled in fear at a childish voice from the sky.

• The emerald sky signaled the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's arrival, and Haote explained that she was a ruler of the Far North with strength rivaling a Super Douluo.
• Xiao Yan's pill released a powerful fragrance and a pillar of blue light, so he asked Oscar and Haote to protect him while he collected it.
• Oscar used Haote's blood to make a Mirror Sausage, and Haote activated his Martial Soul Avatar before the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion appeared and demanded the pill.
• The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion fired an emerald beam at Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan caught it and told Oscar and Haote to leave the fight to him.
• Xiao Yan activated the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and clashed with the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion using his Heavy Xuan Ruler.
• As the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion recoiled from her next attack, a childish voice from the sky taunted her for being afraid.

Little Dragon Girl joined Xiao Yan in the Far North and overwhelmed the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, while Xiao Yan countered her renewed attack with the Mountain Splitting Seal. In Heaven Dou City, Tang San secured Xue Beng’s allegiance and confronted Xue Qinghe at the imperial palace, where the Clear Sky Sect arrived after Tang San sent a signal.

• Little Dragon Girl followed Xiao Yan to the Far North, dodged the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s attacks, and hurled her into a mountain.
• The injured Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion unleashed Ice Emperor’s Wrath, and Xiao Yan answered with the Mountain Splitting Seal, triggering a massive clash.
• Tang San agreed to support Xue Beng in exchange for becoming his teacher and securing positions and privileges for Grandmaster and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xue Beng knelt to become Tang San’s disciple, and Tang San led the group to the palace to confront Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Qinghe blocked the group from entering Xue Ye’s bedchamber, and Tang San accused him of conspiring with Spirit Hall to seize the throne.
• Tang San sent a signal to summon the Clear Sky Sect, and Tang Xiao arrived with the sect’s disciples.

Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect confronted Xue Qinghe in Heaven Dou City, where Tang Xiao overpowered Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo. Tang San accepted Xue Qinghe’s challenge, but Xue Qinghe revealed his powerful eight-ring cultivation and angel wings as their duel began.

• Tang Xiao blocked the attacks of Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo, then drove them back with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Xiao identified himself as the Clear Sky Sect’s sect master and revealed that Tang Chen had returned, prompting Xue Qinghe to recognize why the sect had dared to challenge Spirit Hall.
• Xue Qinghe admitted that Spirit Hall had placed three thousand soul masters throughout Heaven Dou City and proposed a wager: Tang San would leave if he lost their duel.
• Tang San accepted the wager and summoned his Clear Sky Hammer, while Xue Qinghe mocked him about Xiao Yan before revealing his angel form and eight soul rings.

Xue Qinghe defeated Tang San with his Angel martial soul and domain, but Tang San refused to honor his promise and Tang Xiao ordered the Clear Sky Sect disciples to trap Xue Qinghe and his allies. The chapter ended with the sect forming a hammer formation as lightning descended around them.

• Xue Qinghe’s Soul Rings shocked Tang San and Tang Xiao, and Xue Qinghe attacked Tang San with Angel Assault.
• Tang San criticized Xue Qinghe’s morality, but Xue Qinghe countered by accusing Tang San of hypocrisy and disloyalty to Spirit Hall.
• Xue Qinghe activated his Martial Soul Avatar and overwhelmed Tang San’s Divine Slaughter’s Domain, then used Angel’s Roar to interrupt Tang San’s hammer technique and defeat him.
• Tang San refused to honor his promise, and Xue Qinghe revealed that Ning Fengzhi and the others had arrived outside the imperial palace.
• Tang Xiao ordered the Clear Sky Sect disciples to form the Clear Sky Formation around Xue Qinghe and his allies as lightning enclosed the area.

Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect attacked the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace to rescue Xue Ye, while Xue Qinghe struggled to keep his collusion with Spirit Hall hidden. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan reached the Titan Snow Demon King's cave in the Far North and entered alone to search for the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.

• Tang Xiao led two hundred Clear Sky Sect disciples through the Royal Guards, forcing Xue Qinghe to send Snake Lance Douluo for reinforcements.
• Tang Xiao's enormous Clear Sky Hammer strike was blocked by the arriving Sword Douluo Chen Xin.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived and accepted Xue Qinghe's claim that Tang San and Xue Beng were rebels, but noticed suspicious guards and an unfamiliar Titled Douluo beside the crown prince.
• Xiao Yan, Oscar, and their companions found the Titan Snow Demon King's cave using the Ice Empress's clues about the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Xiao Yan told Oscar to wait outside, then entered the cave alone.

Xiao Yan fought the Titan Snow Demon King for the Heavenly Flame, offering to refine a Transformation Pill in exchange. With the Ice Empress holding the Snow Demon King back, Xiao Yan entered the cave and found a translucent elderly figure deep inside.

• Xiao Yan offered the Titan Snow Demon King a Transformation Pill in exchange for the Heavenly Flame, but the king refused because Xiao Yan had not yet made one.
• The Titan Snow Demon King attacked, and Xiao Yan countered with his Heavy Xuan Ruler and Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, knocking it down outside the cave.
• Little Dragon Girl and the Ice Empress arrived with the medicinal ingredients needed for the Transformation Pill, and Little Dragon Girl asked Xiao Yan to make one for Bingbing.
• The Titan Snow Demon King charged at Xiao Yan as he flew toward the cave, but the Ice Empress struck it aside and offered to have Xiao Yan make it a Transformation Pill too.
• Xiao Yan entered the cave and followed its winding passage deeper underground, where he found a translucent elderly figure.

Xiao Yan absorbed Bone Spirit Cold Flame, relived memories of his teacher Yao Lao, and advanced to Soul Saint. After returning to the battlefield, he prepared to refine Transformation Pills for the Ice Empress and the defeated Titan Snow Demon King.

• Xiao Yan touched Bone Spirit Cold Flame and remembered how Yao Lao had become his teacher and how he had later vowed to repay the suffering Yao Lao endured.
• Bone Spirit Cold Flame entered Xiao Yan and transformed his body, helping him advance to Soul Saint.
• Xiao Yan collected some ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow while remembering Yao Lao's advice to leave some of a heavenly treasure behind.
• Xiao Yan emerged to find Little Dragon Girl and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion had defeated the Titan Snow Demon King, and he offered to make it a Transformation Pill.
• The Ice Empress questioned whether Xiao Yan's untested Transformation Pill would work, but he insisted she had no choice and began preparing to refine the pills.