Chapter Summaries

Zhu Zhuqing gained a darkness-based Spirit Ability, and Yang Yunhai’s group captured the Sky Azure Bull Python to bring back to Sea God Island for Dugu Yan’s future Soul Ring. Qian Renxue prepared to consolidate imperial control while Yang Yunhai repeatedly struck the captive’s mind, leaving the Sea God to conclude that Yang had lost his chance to become a God King.

• Zhu Zhuqing reported reaching rank 63 and described her Darkness Barrier Spirit Ability after absorbing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Spirit Ring.
• Yang Yunhai, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo used a knockout drug and their combined powers to capture the Sky Azure Bull Python, while the Titan Giant Ape vowed revenge after it disappeared.
• Qian Renxue read Yang Yunhai’s letter confirming the group was safe and planned to summon the duchies’ leaders to secure the empire’s military authority.
• Yang Yunhai returned to Sea God Island with the others, and Zhu Zhuqing resumed her Sea God’s Light trial.
• Yang Yunhai used repeated Mental Impacts on the restrained Sky Azure Bull Python until it was left mindless, and the Sea God privately decided Yang’s treatment of soul beasts had cost him his chance to become a God King.

Dugu Yan absorbed the Sky Azure Bull Python’s Spirit Ring and Soul Bone, while Yang Yunhai completed his training on Sea God Island and departed for the continent with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo. On the way to Heaven Dou City, he rescued a village from Wolf Thieves and arranged for aid and a search for any survivors.

• Sea Horse Douluo warned Chrysanthemum Douluo to keep the captured Sky Azure Bull Python hidden from Xiao Bai, while Yang Yunhai studied the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s bead during his training.
• Hu Liena reported to Bibi Dong that she had reached rank 60, and Bibi Dong planned to send her for a Spirit Ring before she entered Slaughter City after the New Year.
• Dugu Yan killed the Sky Azure Bull Python, absorbed its Spirit Ring and right arm Soul Bone, and advanced to rank 75 with two new Soul Bone skills.
• After ten more days on Sea God Island, Yang Yunhai departed with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, leaving the women to continue their cultivation.
• Yang Yunhai killed the Wolf Thieves attacking a village, healed the injured villagers, and planned to send relief and troops to search for remaining Wolf Thieves.

Yang Yunhai returned to Heaven Dou and reunited with Qian Renxue and their children after hearing how Xue'er had consolidated control of the empire. Meanwhile, Tang San stayed behind in Heaven Dou City, confident he would soon surpass Yang Yunhai and planning to cultivate in Sunset Forest.

• Dugu Bo told Chrysanthemum Douluo that Xue'er had used a purge to take control of the duchies and their armies, and that the government was being reorganized before the empire's Soul Master Forces were targeted.
• Yang Yunhai recounted his travels, introduced Yinhua, gave Dugu Bo letters for the Ye Family and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and left to visit Qian Renxue.
• Yang Yunhai reunited with Qian Renxue, then spent the next day playing with their two children and giving them toys from the Sun Moon Continent.
• Tang Yuehua told Tang San she was returning to the sect to discuss the situation and offered him a final test when she came back, but Tang San declined to go with her.
• After Tang Yuehua left, Tang San dismissed the final test, planned to cultivate in Sunset Forest, and vowed that he would soon surpass Yang Yunhai.

Yang Yunhai warned Qian Daoliu that Tang San might use Slaughter City to cultivate, while Clear Sky Sect leaders decided their clan could no longer stay hidden in the mountains. The sect began evacuating overseas, leaving Tang Yuehua unconscious and carrying her with them.

• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo discussed Rongrong's progress, planned precautions against Tang San, and arranged to continue collecting Medicinal Herbs.
• Tang San slipped out of Heaven Dou City at night and headed toward Sunset Forest.
• During New Year celebrations, Yang Yunhai urged Qian Daoliu to persuade the Pope to eliminate Tang San if he entered Slaughter City, and Qian Daoliu agreed to speak with her.
• Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders decided to relocate the clan overseas rather than risk Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire using an inspection as grounds to attack.
• Sixth Elder knocked Tang Yuehua unconscious after the elders insisted she leave with the clan, and the Clear Sky Sect began its nighttime evacuation through the snowy ice crevice.

Yang Yunhai discovered that the Clear Sky Sect had abandoned its residence and ordered an investigation into its escape route and likely destinations. On Sea God Island, Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan completed their first trials, received rewards, and learned the challenges of their second trials.

• Yang Yunhai and his companions found the Clear Sky Sect's residence deserted and uncovered traces leading to a collapsed hidden passage in the mountains.
• Yang Yunhai ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to report the sect's flight and arrange arrests and a warrant, while the group prepared to track the Clear Sky Sect toward the coast.
• Ning Rongrong completed her first trial and received a God Bestowed Soul Ring, which Dugu Yan advised her to save for later.
• Ye Lingling completed her first trial and received a Soul Power increase and a 500-year increase to each Soul Ring's age.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan completed their first trials, receiving Soul Ring and Sea God rewards, including God Bestowed Soul Rings.
• Dugu Yan and the others learned the requirements for their second trials, then left with plans to organize and discuss tactics.

Yang Yunhai learned that the Clear Sky Sect had fled overseas, then reached Sea God Island and enlisted Purple Pearl to search nearby waters for the sect. On a remote island, Tang Xiao settled the Clear Sky Sect and gained the elders’ agreement to seek Tang San as their best hope of restoring the sect through the Sea God’s inheritance.

• Dugu Bo reported that strangers had recently bought boats and sailed away at night, while Sword Douluo said Soul Master Forces were beginning to migrate toward the Star Luo Empire.
• Soldiers seized the Clear Sky Sect’s village and Moonlight Pavilion, and Xue Qinghe’s decree punished their abandoned followers while the Star Luo Empire announced a manhunt for the sect.
• Yang Wudi, Bai He, and Niu Gao condemned the Clear Sky Sect’s abandonment of its followers and reflected on their own earlier break with the sect.
• Yang Yunhai reached Purple Pearl’s island, asked her to patrol the surrounding islands for unfamiliar fleets, and gave her a signal flare to report discoveries.
• Tang Xiao discussed finding a larger base and visiting Sea God Island, while the elders agreed that the sect could search for Tang San and send him to pursue the Sea God’s inheritance.

Yang Yunhai reunited with Dugu Yan and the others on Sea God Island while they trained for their assessments, then arranged for Xiao Bai and her clan to help hunt a Fallen Soul Master. The chapter left Xiao Bai fetching her clan to receive Yang Yunhai’s mysterious gift.

• Yang Yunhai arrived at Sea God Island and found Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and the others training in the Ring Sea with Xiao Bai.
• Yang Yunhai explained that a Fallen Soul Master had fled to the sea, and Xiao Bai offered to help hunt him with her clan.
• Dugu Yan explained that she had deliberately used Xiao Bai as a sparring partner to train for her Sea God assessment, impressing Xiao Bai and the Sea God.
• Yang Yunhai promised Xiao Bai a gift in return for helping train the girls, and she went to summon her clan.
• Dugu Bo and the others brought out reclining chairs and settled in to wait while Xiao Bai was away.

Yang Yunhai transformed into the Tree of Life and shared its gathered vitality with Sea God Island and the surrounding sea beasts, helping Sword Douluo break through to rank 97. The gods discussed Yang Yunhai’s future as the Child of Nature, while Purple Pearl’s fleet spotted an unfamiliar ship.

• Yang Yunhai revealed his Lifebound Soul Rings and transformed into a thirty-meter Golden Giant Tree, drawing life energy from the island’s plants and elements.
• Yang Yunhai directed the gathered vitality toward Xiao Bai and the Demon Soul Great White Sharks, then shared it with the Holy Pillar Guardians as Bo Saixi and the island’s residents watched.
• The energy helped Sword Douluo break through to rank 97, and Xiao Bai thanked Yang Yunhai before leading her clan back to its territory.
• Bo Saixi thanked Yang Yunhai on behalf of Sea God Island, and Yang Yunhai returned to his quarters with the others to await news from Purple Pearl.
• The Sea God, the God of Destruction, and the Goddess of Life discussed Yang Yunhai’s future, with the God of Destruction setting a hundred-year limit before he would approach him.
• Several days later, an underling on Purple Pearl’s fleet spotted an unfamiliar ship to the west.

Purple Pearl lured the Clear Sky Sect’s Sixth Elder away from her pirate base and signaled Yang Yunhai’s group to intercept him. After they killed the elder and his companions, a rescued island resident revealed that the Clear Sky Sect had occupied his home and forced its people into servitude.

• Purple Pearl handed the black-robed old man a nautical chart and pretended to guide him toward her base while secretly steering him near Sea God Island.
• Purple Pearl escaped by sea before dawn and sent a signal, allowing Yang Yunhai, Dugu Bo, Sword Douluo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo to find her.
• Yang Yunhai’s group hid aboard the Purple Pearl Ship until the Sixth Elder returned to his fishing boat, then Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo froze the Clear Sky Sect members in place.
• Sword Douluo rescued a local resident, and Dugu Bo killed the Sixth Elder and the surrounding disciples with poisonous mist.
• The resident told the group that the Clear Sky Sect had occupied his island and forced its people to serve them, so Yang Yunhai asked Purple Pearl to take them there.

Yang Yunhai and his allies destroyed the Clear Sky Sect settlement on the island, killed Tang Yuehua and the sect’s elders, and took their valuables and Soul Bones. After compensating the island’s residents and rewarding Zi Zhenzhu, they sailed back toward Sea God Island with Tang San’s whereabouts still unknown.

• Yang Yunhai summoned a thunderstorm over the island and led his allies through the clouds while the Clear Sky Sect and residents sheltered indoors.
• Tang Xiao and the elders confronted the attackers, but Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo froze the settlement while Yang Yunhai and Sword Douluo killed the sect’s fighters and elders.
• Yang Yunhai questioned Tang Yuehua about Tang San, then Dugu Bo killed her when she refused to answer.
• Yang Yunhai took the Soul Bones and valuables, gave the island’s residents the surviving supplies, and paid Zi Zhenzhu’s crew to clean up the settlement.
• Yang Yunhai gave Zi Zhenzhu a cultivation booklet and sailed toward Sea God Island with his allies, who divided the recovered Soul Bones.

After returning from Sea God Island, Yang Yunhai helped the empire expose the Clear Sky Sect’s hidden Titled Douluo and settle the aftermath of its destruction. Qian Renxue returned to Spirit Hall and entered the Angel God inheritance, while Bibi Dong announced a Seven Great Sects re-election conference.

• Yang Yunhai replaced Zhu Zhuqing’s and Dugu Yan’s Spirit Bones, raising their Soul Power to levels 66 and 76, then left Sea God Island with them and the others.
• Yang Yunhai and Qian Renxue learned that Hu Liena had found no trace of Tang San in Slaughter City, and Yang Yunhai suggested asking Bibi Dong to investigate it regularly.
• Dugu Bo released Tang Xiao and the four Clear Sky Sect elders’ bodies in court, and Qian Renxue ordered them displayed so major forces could verify their cultivation and physical impurities.
• After Qian Renxue left for Spirit City, Yang Yunhai moved into the East Palace with Dugu Bo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo, while factions confirmed that the four elders had been Titled Douluo.
• Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Bai He celebrated the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction, and Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to hold a Seven Great Sects re-election conference in two months.
• Qian Renxue passed the Angel God’s trial and entered the inheritance grounds as Qian Daoliu watched, while the Sea God considered lending a hand to Bo Saixi.

Yang Yunhai received the Blue Silver King's sacrifice after reaching rank 80, gaining powerful life and mental abilities before returning to the palace to cultivate. Meanwhile, Tang San reached level 60 and set out to find a sixth soul ring, confident that his cultivation surpassed Yang Yunhai's.

• Yang Yunhai broke through to rank 80 and traveled with Chrysanthemum Teacher to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Blue Silver King sacrificed himself to Yang Yunhai, raising him to rank 83 and granting him the Light of Life and Blessing of Life soul skills, along with Mental Sharing and Mental Resistance from a left arm soul bone.
• Yang Yunhai named the Blue Silver King Lan Hao and learned that he had developed spiritual abilities to protect the Blue Silver clan.
• Yang Yunhai and Chrysanthemum Douluo returned to the imperial palace, where Yang Yunhai resumed cultivating.
• Tang San reached level 60 at the outskirts of the Poisonous Barrier Land and entered it to search for a top-tier sixth soul ring, confident that his cultivation exceeded Yang Yunhai's.

Tang San hunted spirit beasts in the Poisonous Barrier Land, gained a new Spirit Skill and a Head Soul Bone, then learned that the Clear Sky Sect had been destroyed. Enraged and hunted across the continent, he headed for Slaughter City, vowing revenge and thinking of Xiao Wu.

• Tang San lured spirit beasts with his potions, then used King of Hell's Summons to wound a Man Faced Demon Spider and a Death Demon Spider as they fought.
• Tang San chased down and killed the injured Death Demon Spider, absorbed its Spirit Ring, and gained the Sixth Soul Skill Venomous Spider Thrust and a Head Soul Bone.
• Tang San devoured the Man Faced Demon Spider with his Eight Spider Lances, then left the Poisonous Barrier Land and absorbed the Head Soul Bone, gaining Poison Transformation.
• Tang San heard that the Clear Sky Sect had been destroyed and blamed Yang Yunhai, Dugu Bo, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Xue Qinghe.
• Tang San restrained his anger because the continent was hunting him, vowed revenge, and headed toward Slaughter City while thinking of Xiao Wu.

Tang San entered Slaughter City by defeating its gatekeeper and discovered that Spirit Hall tolerated the city as a prison for criminals. He planned to lie low, train, and learn how Spirit Hall and Slaughter City worked while Hu Liena remained there; meanwhile, Yang Yunhai prepared to use his surveillance records on Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong.

• Tang San evaded Spirit Hall sentries, killed a tavern guard, and forced his way into the passage to Slaughter City.
• Tang San defeated the Black Armor Knight without using soul skills and entered Slaughter City under the name Mr. 9528.
• The Black Gauze Girl explained that Spirit Hall allowed Slaughter City to operate, and Tang San learned that Hu Liena had won eight Hell Slaughterhouse battles in four months.
• Tang San concealed his identity, entered the Inner City, and resolved to hunt Fallen Soul Masters, train, and investigate Spirit Hall's ties to Slaughter City.
• Snake Lance Douluo reported the Seven Great Sects reselection results and surveillance on Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong to Yang Yunhai.
• Yang Yunhai told Chrysanthemum Douluo to accompany him to Spirit City and considered making Yu Xiaogang serve as leverage against Bibi Dong.

Yang Yunhai gave Bibi Dong Soul Tools for Hu Liena and records of Yu Xiaogang’s life with Liu Erlong, urging her to reconsider her memories and choices. After observing Yu Xiaogang and the exhausted Liu Erlong for four days, Bibi Dong burst into their house.

• Yang Yunhai demonstrated a flying Soul Tool and a handgun for Bibi Dong, then gave them to her as help for Hu Liena’s journey through Slaughter City.
• Yang Yunhai gave Bibi Dong detailed records of Yu Xiaogang’s life and challenged her to reassess him and her past.
• Bibi Dong read the records, then left Spirit City and secretly watched Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong in their village.
• Bibi Dong saw Liu Erlong tirelessly handle the household work while Yu Xiaogang remained idle, and wondered whether choosing him would ever have made her happy.
• After four days of watching Liu Erlong’s numb routine, Bibi Dong blasted open the door and entered the house.

Bibi Dong confronted Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong, briefly restoring Yu Xiaogang’s meridians before crippling him again after he failed to ask her to heal Liu Erlong. She left in anguish over her past choices but resolved to live longer to keep Na'er from repeating her mistakes.

• Liu Erlong shielded Yu Xiaogang from Bibi Dong and offered her life, while Yu Xiaogang challenged Bibi Dong to kill him.
• Bibi Dong promised to heal Yu Xiaogang if he knelt and kowtowed, and she restored his meridians with her Soul Power.
• Bibi Dong waited for Yu Xiaogang to ask her to heal Liu Erlong, then crippled him again when he did not.
• Bibi Dong told Liu Erlong to seek her own release, and Liu Erlong carried the unconscious Yu Xiaogang without calling him Xiaogang.
• Bibi Dong fled into the distance, mourned her past choices, considered ending her life, and decided to live longer to protect Na'er from repeating her mistakes.

Liu Erlong urged Yu Xiaogang to rebuild his life, while Bibi Dong visited Hu Liena in Slaughter City and warned her to watch for Tang San. Qian Daoliu later told Bibi Dong that Yang Yunhai offered a deal involving powerful spirit beasts, then revealed why Qian Xunji had spared her; Bibi Dong still refused to forgive him or herself.

• Liu Erlong told Yu Xiaogang to recover, take responsibility for his own life, and begin working after two days.
• Tang San saw Bibi Dong in Slaughter City and decided to hide his identity until Hu Liena entered Hell Road.
• Bibi Dong gave Hu Liena two Soul Tools and an antidote to Bloody Mary, and warned her to watch for Tang San.
• Qian Daoliu told Bibi Dong that Yang Yunhai could help three Thousand Jun ant emperors reach a hundred thousand years in exchange for their Soul Bones.
• Qian Daoliu explained that Qian Xunji had spared Bibi Dong to honor his dying wish and urged her to prevent others from suffering similar pain.
• Bibi Dong rejected Qian Daoliu's appeal and declared she would never forgive Qian Xunji or herself.

Yang Yunhai led Bibi Dong and his companions to the Star Dou Great Forest, where he found the three Thousand Jun Ant Emperors and used his evolved Tree of Life martial soul to gather vast life energy. He persuaded the beasts to follow him and began empowering them and his companions, but Bibi Dong questioned him when his Spiritual Power suddenly restrained her.

• Yang Yunhai and Bibi Dong set out with Dugu Bo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo for the Star Dou Great Forest, where Yang Yunhai located the three Thousand Jun Ant Emperors by the lake.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo restrained the three beasts while Yang Yunhai transformed into a golden ancient tree and drew life force from the forest.
• Yang Yunhai contacted Di Tian and explained that he planned to gather life energy to aid the Star Dou Great Forest’s powerful beings.
• Yang Yunhai offered the three Thousand Jun Ant Emperors a choice between becoming Bibi Dong’s Spirit Rings or following him; they chose to follow him.
• Yang Yunhai poured life energy into the three beasts and four pillars of light into Bibi Dong, Dugu Bo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo, then restrained Bibi Dong with his Spiritual Power.
• Bibi Dong demanded to know what Yang Yunhai was trying to do.

Yang Yunhai purged the Rakshasa God’s evil influence from Bibi Dong and helped her begin the Asura God’s trial instead. The Rakshasa God then challenged the Asura God before the God Realm Committee, which ruled that the matter was over and warned the gods against abusing mortals.

• Yang Yunhai sensed the Rakshasa God’s corrupting influence in Bibi Dong and used life energy to cleanse her, triggering a clash between the Rakshasa God’s and Asura God’s divine thoughts.
• Yang Yunhai and the Asura God drove out the Rakshasa God’s influence, and Bibi Dong received the Asura God’s Second Trial.
• Yang Yunhai had two of the Thousand Jun Ant Three Brothers sacrifice themselves to Bibi Dong, while he and the others gained strength from the forest’s life energy.
• The Rakshasa God accused the Asura God of stealing her successor before the God Realm Committee, but the Asura God argued that Bibi Dong had been mistreated and had chosen his trial.
• The God of Destruction ended the dispute and warned the gods not to use their power to toy with people in the lower realm.

Yang Yunhai returned from the Star Dou Great Forest with Bibi Dong and the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor, while the gathered life energy gave the forest’s beasts a chance to cultivate. After Bibi Dong left to pursue a God Trial, Yang Yunhai settled into a quiet routine at the Heaven Dou East Palace as the Rakshasa God marked Tang San as her heir.

• Bibi Dong’s Soul Rings and Soul Bones appeared after her transformation, and Yang Yunhai absorbed the leftover life energy into the forest while Di Tian urged the beasts to cultivate.
• Yang Yunhai named the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor Tian Jun, arranged for him to accompany him and later bring his brothers to Sea God Island, then returned toward Heaven Dou City with Dugu Bo and the two newly advanced Douluo.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Daoliu she would leave Spirit Hall’s affairs to him while she went to take part in the God Trial in Slaughter City.
• The Rakshasa God marked Tang San as her heir after he killed a man in Slaughter City, and the Asura God and Sea God discussed her choice.
• Two months later, Bibi Dong entered Slaughter City, checked on Hu Liena, and passed through a blood-red gate; Yang Yunhai received word of her departure and resumed cultivating and caring for the children.