Chapter Summaries

The Defense Clan split between members who wanted to join Spirit Hall for the Soul Controller System and those who followed Niu Gao in opposing it. Su Mo revealed that he had deliberately engineered the clans’ divisions to draw Spirit Hall’s opponents into the open, and prepared to win over part of the Breaking Clan.

• Niu Gao and the Defense Clan elders argued over whether to resist Spirit Hall or join it, splitting the clan into opposing factions.
• Niu Gao and Titan led away members of the Defense Clan and Strength Clan who refused to join Spirit Hall, while the remaining Defense Clan elders agreed to join.
• Tang San asked Titan and Niu Gao whether they would visit the Speed Clan or Breaking Clan next, and they chose the Speed Clan.
• Hu YanZhen reported the Defense Clan’s split to Su Mo, who explained that he had deliberately arranged for the Four Great Clans to gather Spirit Hall’s hidden opponents.
• Su Mo said that the Speed Clan and Breaking Clan could not be won over in the same way, but that he intended to recruit part of the Breaking Clan.

Su Mo persuaded Yang Wushuang to help him bring the Breaking Clan under Spirit Hall, while Titan, Niu Gao, and Tang San arrived at the Speed Clan and revealed Tang San’s family ties to Bai He. The chapter left Bai He shocked by the deaths of Tang Hao and Tang Chen and asking how Su Mo had defeated them.

• Su Mo visited Yang Wushuang at the Medicine Hall, and Yang Wushuang agreed to help subdue the Breaking Clan.
• Titan, Niu Gao, Tang San, and members of the Strength Clan and Defense Clan arrived at the Speed Clan in Yak City.
• Bai He welcomed Titan and Niu Gao, then heard that Tang Hao and Tang Chen were dead and that Tang San was his grandnephew.
• Bai He comforted Tang San and asked Titan and Niu Gao how Su Mo had managed to kill Tang Hao and Tang Chen.

Tang San urged Bai He and the Speed Clan to join the Star Luo Empire's Anti-Spirit Hall Faction, citing the God Realm's support and the God of Speed's inheritance. After weighing the risks, the Speed Clan agreed to join only if Tang San married Bai Chenxiang.

• Tang San told Bai He that the God Realm planned to support the Star Luo Empire and offer Anti-Spirit Hall Faction members a chance to pursue divine inheritances.
• Bai He summoned the Speed Clan elders, along with Titan, Niu Gao, and Tang San, to discuss whether the clan should join the faction.
• The elders questioned whether the Gods could guarantee victory over Spirit Hall or ensure that clan members would become Gods through the God of Speed's trials.
• Tang San demonstrated his Soul Saint cultivation, convincing the elders that divine trials existed, and Bai He asked Tang San, Titan, and Niu Gao to leave while the clan deliberated.
• Bai He told them the Speed Clan would join the faction if Tang San agreed to marry Bai Chenxiang.

Tang San agreed to marry Bai Chenxiang to secure the Speed Clan’s support, while privately planning to leave her if she no longer proved useful. Su Mo brought Yang Wushuang back to the Breaking Clan, where Yang Wudi welcomed his brother before Su Mo revealed he would explain Yang Wushuang’s return.

• Bai He told Tang San that the Speed Clan would support him only if he married Bai Chenxiang, and Tang San reluctantly agreed.
• Tang San privately resented Bai He and considered the marriage a temporary bargain.
• Su Mo and Yang Wushuang arrived at the Breaking Clan’s residence in Bawei City and asked to see the family.
• The Breaking Clan’s Guards recognized Yang Wushuang as their long-missing vice patriarch and hurried to inform Yang Wudi.
• Yang Wudi embraced Yang Wushuang and asked how he had returned, but Yang Wushuang could only apologize.
• Su Mo offered to explain Yang Wushuang’s situation to Yang Wudi and the clan.

Su Mo revealed that he was Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and tried to persuade the Breaking Clan to join Spirit Hall, arguing that the Clear Sky Sect was responsible for their past losses. Yang Wudi rejected his reasoning, and Su Mo tried to turn the clan members against their leader by framing his opposition as personal revenge.

• Su Mo revealed his identity as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son, stunning Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan members.
• Yang Wushuang explained that he had brought Su Mo to recruit the Breaking Clan before the Star Luo Empire could draw them into its opposition to Spirit Hall.
• Yang Wudi accused Yang Wushuang of betraying the clan, and Su Mo argued that the Clear Sky Sect—not Spirit Hall—had caused the conflict that devastated the Four Great Clans.
• Su Mo offered the Breaking Clan a place in Spirit Hall, Soul Controller abilities, and support for medicine research, citing Spirit Hall’s destruction of the Clear Sky Sect as repayment for past grievances.
• Yang Wudi condemned Su Mo’s persuasion and insisted that Spirit Hall and the Breaking Clan still shared a blood-deep hatred.
• Su Mo accused Yang Wudi of putting personal revenge for his son ahead of the clan’s future, hoping to sway the other Breaking Clan members.

Su Mo used persuasion and a show of overwhelming strength to win over part of the Breaking Clan, while Yang Wudi and most of the clan refused to submit. He took the willing members back to Spirit City and left the others alone so long as they did not obstruct them.

• Yang Wudi summoned his Assault Soul Spear and attacked Su Mo after Su Mo’s arguments began to sway the Breaking Clan.
• Su Mo caught Yang Wudi’s Martial Soul Avatar barehanded, pulled him into the air, and kicked him through a distant house.
• Su Mo summoned the Death God Scythe Spirit, revealed nine hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, restrained the elders with Avici Hell, and blasted them away.
• Su Mo’s earlier promises and display of strength persuaded a small portion of the Breaking Clan to submit, though Yang Wudi, many elders, and most clansmen remained opposed.
• Su Mo let the willing clansmen pack and return with him to Spirit City, while leaving the rest of the Breaking Clan alone if they did not interfere.

Titan, Niu Gao, Bai He, and Tang San persuaded Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan to join the Star Luo Empire’s Anti-Spirit Hall Faction by revealing the Gods’ support and the chance to become Gods. Yang Wudi led the clan toward Star Luo Imperial City, where they arrived with their possessions.

• Yang Wudi welcomed Titan, Niu Gao, Bai He, and Tang San at the Assault Clan Residence and learned that Spirit Hall had already taken some Breaking Clan members.
• Titan explained that the Star Luo Empire was gathering forces against Spirit Hall, and Yang Wudi described Su Mo’s visit and the Breaking Clan’s losses.
• Titan told Yang Wudi about the God Realm’s opposition to Spirit Hall and the divine inheritances, then Tang San demonstrated his Soul Saint cultivation and showed the Asura God Sword as proof.
• Yang Wudi agreed to join the Anti-Spirit Hall Faction, and the Breaking Clan chose to fight Spirit Hall alongside the Star Luo Empire.
• Yang Wudi led the Breaking Clan, Titan, Niu Gao, and Bai He with their belongings to Star Luo Imperial City.

The Four Great Clans arrived in Star Luo Imperial City and met Emperor Dai Tianfeng to pledge allegiance to the Star Luo Empire against Spirit Hall. Dai Tianfeng agreed to find them places to settle and explained that the empire planned to build strength through divine trials rather than launch an immediate war.

• Titan, Niu Gao, Bai He, Yang Wudi, and Tang San entered Star Luo Imperial City while the Breaking Clan waited outside.
• A palace guard reported that four Soul Douluo had come to pledge allegiance, and Dai Tianfeng left a council meeting to receive them.
• Titan and the others told Dai Tianfeng they belonged to the Four Great Clans, opposed Spirit Hall, and had learned of the God Realm's support from Tang San.
• Titan asked Dai Tianfeng for places where the Four Great Clans could settle, and Dai Tianfeng agreed.
• Yang Wudi asked about the six divine officials, and Dai Tianfeng said they were lodging in the city and advised waiting while allies underwent divine trials.

Tang San and the Four Great Clans met with Dai Tianfeng, who explained how Dai Lingxuan and Zhu Zhuqing had left Star Luo with Su Mo and agreed to help find Yu Tianheng. The clans were settled in Star Luo Imperial City, but their assigned territories lacked the facilities needed to house them.

• Dai Tianfeng asked why Titan called Tang San Young Master, and Titan explained that Tang Hao had been his master before his death.
• Tang San asked how Dai Lingxuan and Zhu Zhuqing had come to be with Su Mo, and Dai Tianfeng described how he had tried to win the gifted young man over before learning he was Spirit Hall's Holy Son.
• Dai Tianfeng explained that Zhu Zhuqing had reason to fear returning because of the Star Luo and Netherworld inheritance systems, and Tang San and the others understood why the women had stayed away.
• Tang San asked Dai Tianfeng to help find Yu Tianheng, and Dai Tianfeng agreed.
• Dai Tianfeng arranged places for the Four Great Clans, and Titan and Tang San helped the clans reach them, but the empty territories lacked adequate buildings and living facilities.

Su Mo traveled to Gengxin City to recruit its blacksmiths as future Soul Engineers for building Spirit Pagodas. He revealed his overwhelming power at the Blacksmith Guild headquarters, drawing the attention of guildmaster Lou Gao.

• Su Mo chose to visit Gengxin City after taking Yang Wushuang and part of the Breaking Clan under his control.
• Su Mo entered Gengxin City and saw its many blacksmith shops and bustling trade in weapons, armor, and farming tools.
• Su Mo followed directions to the Blacksmith Guild headquarters and told the staff he had come to see Guildmaster Lou Gao.
• Su Mo summoned his Death God Scythe Spirit and revealed nine powerful Soul Rings, shocking everyone in the headquarters.
• Lou Gao sensed Su Mo's terrifying Soul Power pressure while teaching his disciples and grand-disciples, and demanded to know who had arrived.

Su Mo met with Lou Gao at the Blacksmith Guild and explained that he had come to help Gengxin City remain neutral in the coming war between Spirit Hall, Heaven Dou Empire, and Star Luo Empire. Lou Gao remained doubtful that Su Mo could protect the city from Star Luo Empire’s demands if the war worsened.

• Su Mo revealed his nine crimson-red Soul Rings at the Blacksmith Guild, prompting Lou Gao to hurry downstairs and greet him respectfully.
• Su Mo asked to speak privately, and Lou Gao led him to a reception room on the third floor.
• Su Mo warned Lou Gao that Star Luo Empire might demand weapons and armor from Gengxin City, forcing the guild to take sides in the war.
• Lou Gao guessed that Su Mo was from Spirit Hall and worried that he had come to subdue Gengxin City.
• Su Mo said he instead intended to deter Star Luo Empire and help Gengxin City remain neutral, but Lou Gao doubted that neutrality would hold if the empire later demanded the guild’s labor.

Su Mo explained to Lou Gao that blacksmiths could raise their standing by forging weapons that threatened Soul Masters, then revealed he had brought such a weapon to demonstrate. He showed Lou Gao a low-grade Fixed Soul Cannon, leaving its power untested.

• Su Mo explained that he wanted to keep Gengxin City neutral so Tang San could not seize it for the Star Luo Empire.
• Su Mo argued that blacksmiths were undervalued because their weapons could not threaten Soul Masters, and Lou Gao recognized the logic.
• Su Mo told Lou Gao he had come to help change the fate of blacksmiths by introducing a weapon capable of threatening Soul Masters.
• Lou Gao led Su Mo to the guild’s weapon testing room.
• Su Mo took out a low-grade Fixed Soul Cannon, and Lou Gao wondered how the unfamiliar weapon could attack.

Su Mo demonstrated the power of the Fixed Soul Cannon to Lou Gao and explained that it was an offensive Soul Tool. He offered to teach blacksmiths its technology, and Lou Gao agreed to join Spirit Hall and invite others to learn, leaving the choice to them.

• Su Mo fired the Fixed Soul Cannon, destroying a target and blasting a crater into the steel-plated wall.
• Lou Gao asked how the weapon gathered Soul Power, and Su Mo explained that it was an offensive Soul Tool based on technology from a lost era.
• Su Mo told Lou Gao that blacksmiths needed to move beyond hammering iron and learn to create weapon-type Soul Tools.
• Su Mo said the technology required lengthy study and that he could not stay in Gengxin City, leading Lou Gao to suspect he wanted to recruit its blacksmiths for Spirit Hall.
• Lou Gao agreed to leave the Blacksmith Guild and go to Spirit City to learn, offering to invite other blacksmiths while asking Su Mo not to force anyone to leave.

Su Mo accompanied Lou Gao to confront Myers, the corrupt Spirit Hall branch master who had come to accuse the Blacksmith Guild of conspiring against Spirit Hall. The confrontation escalated when Myers's son insulted Su Mo, who blasted him across the hall, leaving Myers furious.

• A staff member told Lou Gao that Bishop Myers had arrived at the Blacksmith Guild, and Su Mo asked to go downstairs with him.
• Myers accused the Blacksmith Guild of conspiring with the Star Luo Empire after noticing a powerful Soul Power fluctuation, while Lou Gao denied the charge and pointed to Su Mo's visit.
• Myers's son insulted Su Mo and questioned whether he could have released the Soul Power fluctuation.
• Su Mo used the Heavenly Demon Force Field to blast Myers's son backward, knocking out his teeth.
• Myers cried out for his son and threatened Su Mo for hurting him.

Su Mo defeated Myers and exposed the corruption in Gengxin City's Spirit Hall Branch, then organized a public trial to restore Spirit Hall's reputation. After punishing the guilty and rewarding principled Soul Masters, he left the city's residents with a renewed trust in Spirit Hall.

• Myers attacked Su Mo with his Martial Soul and Third Soul Skill, but Su Mo repelled him and abolished his cultivation and those of his companions.
• Su Mo told Lou Gao he would hold a public trial and asked him to help notify Gengxin City's residents and investigate the branch's crimes.
• With the Blacksmith Guild's help, residents gathered at Central Grand Square to watch Su Mo apologize and announce the charges against Myers and the other branch members.
• Su Mo sentenced Myers, his son, and the loyal lackeys who had extorted the Blacksmith Guild to death, then executed them after refuting Myers's contempt for commoners.
• Su Mo heard residents' accusations against the remaining Soul Masters, punished those found guilty, and rewarded those who had resisted the branch's corruption.

After Tang San arrived in Star Luo Imperial City with the Four Great Clans, Asura God sent Divine Official Dark Sword to offer him a path to reach Rank 99 through Slaughter City. Tang San eagerly accepted the prospect and resolved to use the power-up to take revenge on Su Mo.

• Dai Tianfeng gave the Four Great Clans territories in Star Luo Imperial City, and news of their allegiance and Tang San's arrival spread.
• Dark Sword and the other Six Divine Officials stayed in Star Luo Imperial City, wary of Su Mo and waiting for Dai Tianfeng to gather talented Soul Masters for divine trials.
• Tang San and Bai Chenxiang walked together while both privately remained dissatisfied with their arranged engagement.
• Dark Sword arrived at the Speed Clan's residence, ignored the clan elders, and bowed to Tang San as a Candidate.
• Dark Sword explained that Asura God wanted Tang San to return to Slaughter City and use its faith and the Blood River to raise his cultivation toward Rank 99.
• Tang San welcomed the plan and imagined using Asura God's power and 100,000-year Soul Rings to defeat Su Mo, avenge his family, and reclaim Xiao Wu.

Tang San postponed his trip to Slaughter City to find Dai Mubai and tell him about the Gods’ plans to support the Star Luo Empire and offer God inheritances. Dai Mubai seized on the chance to challenge Dai Weisi for the throne and even considered reclaiming Zhu Zhuqing from Su Mo.

• Tang San asked Dark Sword to delay their journey to Slaughter City so he could visit Dai Mubai and learn where Ma Hongjun and Oscar were.
• Tang San learned that Dai Mubai was at Wind Flower Snow Moon House and found him there.
• Dai Mubai explained that Zhu Zhuqing’s departure with Su Mo had ended his marriage contract and left him free from the threat of competing with Dai Weisi for the throne.
• Tang San offered Dai Mubai a chance to defeat Dai Weisi and told him that the Gods planned to support the Star Luo Empire and open God inheritances.
• Dai Mubai became eager to pursue a God inheritance, defeat Dai Weisi, claim the throne, and possibly take Zhu Zhuqing back from Su Mo.

Tang San reunited with Dai Mubai in Star Luo Imperial City and encouraged him to pursue divine trials while planning to sell hidden weapons to the Star Luo Empire. Meanwhile, Dai Weisi learned Su Mo was Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and was left devastated by realizing he had surrendered Zhu Zhuyun to his enemy for nothing.

• Tang San learned that Ma Hongjun and Oscar had joined Spirit Hall, then explained that Dai Mubai might still participate in divine trials with his help.
• Tang San described how Dai Tianfeng had secretly retained the Divine Officials and recruited Star Luo clans and sects to send candidates for divine trials.
• Dai Mubai suggested Tang San sell his hidden weapons to Dai Tianfeng, and Tang San eagerly considered using the profits to create stronger weapons.
• Dai Weisi recalled offering Zhu Zhuyun to Su Mo because he thought Su Mo would help the Star Luo Empire, then nearly coughed up blood after learning Su Mo was Spirit Hall’s Holy Son.

Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun entered a cold war as Dai Weisi blamed her for his troubles, while Tang San demonstrated his hidden weapons to Dai Tianfeng in hopes of selling them to the Star Luo Empire. Dai Tianfeng saw their potential but pointed Tang San toward Gengxin City as a place that might help produce them at scale.

• Dai Weisi privately resented Dai Tianfeng and took out his frustration on Zhu Zhuyun, who refused to tolerate his attitude and stopped seeing him.
• Tang San recalled his hidden weapons as his greatest advantage and accompanied Dai Mubai to meet Dai Weisi at the imperial palace.
• Tang San demonstrated his hidden weapons to Dai Tianfeng, who praised their power and asked about their price and production capacity.
• Tang San explained that he assembled the weapons himself and lacked enough craftsmen to manufacture them in large quantities.
• Dai Tianfeng told Tang San that Gengxin City might have the craftsmen needed to produce enough hidden weapons for the Star Luo army.

Su Mo visited Star Luo Imperial City to question Dai Tianfeng about the God Realm’s Divine Officials and check on Zhu Zhuyun. He learned that Tang San planned to seek the Blacksmith Guild’s help, then reunited with Zhu Zhuyun at the Netherworld Duke’s Mansion.

• Dai Tianfeng explained that Gengxin City was the Blacksmith Guild’s center and advised Tang San to seek its help making hidden weapons.
• After Su Mo demonstrated Soul Tools, Lou Gao and Gengxin City’s finest blacksmiths agreed to join Spirit Hall and left for Spirit City.
• Su Mo secretly entered Star Luo Imperial Palace and asked Dai Tianfeng about the Divine Officials’ plans.
• Dai Tianfeng reported that Dark Sword had gone to find Tang San, who had asked the emperor to buy hidden weapons and help source materials.
• Su Mo found Zhu Zhuyun cultivating, explained why he had been away, and pulled her into his arms.