Recaps

Tian Chen confronted Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Sword Douluo after a dispute with Rongrong, and accepted Sword Douluo’s challenge to move him within three moves. Tian Chen raised the stakes by wagering a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Bone, then revealed the Earth Bear left arm bone he had previously taken from Ning Fengzhi.

• Sword Douluo arrived with Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong, and his immense pressure alerted Tian Chen.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized Tian Chen as Golden Crocodile Douluo’s grandson and explained his identity to Sword Douluo.
• Sword Douluo offered to use only Level 56 Soul Power and challenged Tian Chen to move him within three moves or apologize to Ning Rongrong.
• Tian Chen accepted the challenge but proposed wagering a Soul Bone worth at least ten thousand years.
• Tian Chen produced an Earth Bear left arm bone that he and his grandfather had taken from Ning Fengzhi.

Tian Chen faced Sword Douluo in a wagered duel and revealed the overwhelming power of his Evil God Domain and a lightning-infused Dark Gold Dreadclaw. He won Ning Fengzhi’s Cave Demon Spider Soul Bone, while quietly considering the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s eventual fate.

• Ning Fengzhi accepted Tian Chen’s wager and offered a nearly thirty-thousand-year Cave Demon Spider Soul Bone as the stake.
• Sword Douluo leveled a hilltop for the duel, and Tian Chen covered the field in his Evil God Domain, frightening Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Fengzhi withdrew with Ning Rongrong and told her to return to the sect and focus on cultivation.
• Tian Chen attacked Sword Douluo with a lightning- and Evil Qi-infused Dark Gold Dreadclaw, nearly exhausting himself and forcing Sword Douluo to use a Soul Skill.
• Ning Fengzhi healed Tian Chen and awarded him the Soul Bone, and Sword Douluo urged Ning Rongrong to let the matter go.
• Tian Chen accepted Ning Fengzhi’s invitation to visit the sect, while privately contemplating whether to spare or destroy it.

Ning Fengzhi worried that Tian Chen's ambition and potential alliance with Bibi Dong could threaten the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Meanwhile, Tian Chen welcomed Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to his estate and introduced them as its future mistresses.

• Ning Fengzhi told Sword Douluo that Tian Chen's ambition and possible alliance with Bibi Dong could bring danger to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Rongrong slept during the carriage ride as a faint wisp of black Qi briefly appeared between her brows and vanished.
• Tian Chen waited outside Spirit City for Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, then met them when their carriage arrived at dusk.
• Tian Chen brought Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to his family estate and said they would both be its mistresses.
• Zhang Zhen was surprised by Tian Chen's introduction and privately wondered whether to give him his family's tiger-bone medicinal wine.

Tian Chen welcomed Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan with a feast featuring rare Emerald Swan meat, then used potent whale glue and medicinal wine that brought out the tension between the three. Dugu Yan confronted him about favoring Ye Lingling but accepted their relationship, leaving Tian Chen alone with her as the whale glue took effect.

• Tian E visited Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan, then returned to the Worship Hall and declined to interfere in Tian Chen's affairs.
• Tian Chen served Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan a feast that included ten-thousand-year Emerald Swan meat and offered to help Ye Lingling hunt one for her Soul Ring.
• Dugu Yan slapped Ye Lingling's thigh when she grew jealous of Tian Chen's attention, and Tian Chen turned to medicinal wine and ten-thousand-year whale glue.
• Tian Chen swallowed the whale glue with tiger bone wine, and Ye Lingling fled when she sensed its effects taking hold.
• Dugu Yan told Tian Chen she knew he favored Ye Lingling and said she would allow only Ye Lingling, before leaning close to him.

Tian Chen cultivated with Ye Lingling, learned that she and her family planned to move to Spirit City, and heard that Dugu Yan's Martial Soul had evolved into the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor. The chapter ended with Tian Chen carrying Ye Lingling to his room after Dugu Yan left them alone.

• Tian Chen woke beside Dugu Yan, left her to rest, and went to the castle's top floor to cultivate beside Ye Lingling.
• After cultivating for six hours, Tian Chen shared meat porridge with Ye Lingling, who told him her grandfather planned to move her and Uncle Niu's group to Spirit City.
• Tian Chen agreed to arrange their relocation, and he and Ye Lingling later joined Dugu Yan in the main hall.
• Dugu Yan told Tian Chen that her Martial Soul had evolved into the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor, possibly because of the bloodline within him.
• After Dugu Yan returned to her room, Tian Chen carried Ye Lingling to the castle's fifth floor.

Tian Chen reflected on his powerful foundations and slow cultivation before relaxing with Ye Lingling at his estate. Wu Zi delivered a message that Miss Nana and the others would return to Spirit City in about an hour.

• Tian Chen reviewed his Soul Bones, physical strength, domains, and the slow cultivation caused by his supreme evil attribute.
• Tian Chen and his subordinates had failed to find Ah Yin’s rebirth site, but they had captured a ten-thousand-year Blue Silver King and transplanted it to his estate.
• Tian Chen rested with Ye Lingling beside the Blue Silver King, and she scolded him for letting his hand wander.
• Wu Zi delivered Tian Chen an envelope from Hongjun while Ye Lingling was present, then withdrew.
• Tian Chen opened the envelope after Ye Lingling left and learned that Miss Nana and the others would return to Spirit City in about an hour.

Tian Chen reunited Hu Liena with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, then admitted that he had been involved with all three. When he refused Hu Liena’s demand to end the other relationships, she left, and Dugu Yan took Ye Lingling away in anger.

• Tian Chen destroyed a letter and entered the castle, while Hu Liena and Ma Hongjun returned to Spirit City with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.
• Hu Liena and Ma Hongjun arrived at Tian Chen’s estate and found Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling with him.
• Tian Chen explained his relationships with the three women, and Hu Liena demanded that he cut ties with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• Tian Chen refused Hu Liena’s demand, and she left the hall in anger.
• Dugu Yan accused Tian Chen of deceiving her and Ye Lingling, then took Ye Lingling back to their room.

Tian Chen learned that he and Hu Liena would compete in four years to become Spirit Hall’s next papal successor, and he chose to enter secluded cultivation in Death Canyon. Hu Liena secured Bibi Dong’s permission to train in Slaughter City and received a Soul Bone before leaving, determined to return alive.

• Tian Chen reflected on his troubled relationships with Hu Liena, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling as Tian E joined him atop the castle spire.
• Tian E told Tian Chen that Bibi Dong had announced a contest between him and Hu Liena in four years to decide Spirit Hall’s next papal successor.
• Tian Chen said he planned to enter secluded cultivation in Death Canyon, and he and Tian E spent the night talking in the garden.
• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong she intended to cultivate in Slaughter City so she could compete with Tian Chen, and asked to go without a protector.
• Bibi Dong agreed on the condition that Hu Liena return alive and gave her a Soul Bone to absorb before she left.

Tian Chen comforted Ye Lingling after Dugu Yan returned to Heaven Dou City, then invited Ye Lingling to travel with him to the Star Luo Empire. Ma Hongjun interrupted their evening, and Tian Chen told him to focus on his studies at Spirit Hall Academy.

• Tian Chen apologized to Ye Lingling and comforted her after learning Dugu Yan had gone back to Heaven Dou City.
• Ye Lingling told Tian Chen that her family would soon move from Barak City to Spirit City.
• Tian Chen helped Ye Lingling serve dinner and advised her to strengthen her physical constitution.
• Tian Chen invited Ye Lingling to accompany him to the Star Luo Empire the next day, and she agreed.
• Ma Hongjun arrived, ate Ye Lingling's cooking, and Tian Chen told him to stay at Spirit Hall Academy and focus on his studies.

Tian Chen reviewed intelligence on the Star Luo Empire’s ruling families and the Clear Sky Sect’s former subsidiary clans before traveling with Ye Lingling and Wu Zi to visit the Speed Clan. The group reached Xiyang City after nightfall, and Tian Chen directed Wu Zi to take them to the Bai Family.

• Tian Chen studied reports on Dai Weisi, Zhu Zhuyun, and Zhu Zhuqing, learning that Zhu Zhuqing had left for the Star Dou Great Forest three days earlier.
• Tian Chen learned that the Speed Clan was based in Xiyang City and planned to visit it.
• Tian Chen and Ye Lingling rested overnight, then departed Spirit City with Wu Zi in an unmarked carriage.
• The party crossed into the Star Luo Empire and reached Xiyang City after nightfall.
• After entering the city, Tian Chen told Wu Zi to take them to the Bai Family in the south.

Tian Chen barged into the Speed Clan’s residence and asked Bai He to sell him the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng. Bai He received Tian Chen cautiously, and the chapter ended before he answered the offer.

• Tian Chen arrived at the Speed Clan’s residence with Ye Lingling and Wu Zi, and threatened two gate guards who stared at Ye Lingling.
• Tian Chen and his companions forced their way into the courtyard, where they met Bai He and his granddaughter, Bai Chenxiang.
• Bai He invited the visitors to the main hall and discreetly signaled Bai Chenxiang to be cautious.
• Tian Chen asked Bai He whether he was willing to sell the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng.

Tian Chen demanded Bai He hand over the Speed Clan’s Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, but Bai He refused to sell the heirloom. Tian Chen summoned his forces and ordered them to exterminate the clan.

• Tian Chen offered Bai He ten million Gold Soul Coins for the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, but Bai He refused and ordered him to leave.
• Tian Chen threatened to take the ginseng by force, and Bai He released his Sharp-Tailed Swift Martial Soul as the clan members blocked the hall.
• Wu Zi used his Dark Crow Martial Soul to block Bai He’s Soul Power pressure while Tian Chen prepared to fight.
• Tian Chen fired a ball of black-purple lightning through the roof, signaling the forces he had stationed around the Speed Clan’s residence.
• Zhang Zhen arrived with a hundred Soul Masters, and Tian Chen ordered them to leave none alive.

Bai He ordered the Speed Clan to scatter while he fought Wu Zi and Zhang Zhen, but a hidden spider-web cage and Tian Chen’s domain trapped the fleeing clan members. Bai He remained cornered in the reception hall, unable to use his clan’s flight-based speed as the assault continued.

• Bai He transformed into a Sharp-Tailed Swift and used his Eighth Soul Skill to create four clones, ordering the Speed Clan to flee.
• Bai Luo escaped into the air but was decapitated by the spider silk surrounding the clan.
• An old man revealed himself as a giant spider, drew his web inward, and sliced apart Speed Clan members who struck it.
• Tian Chen’s golden domain stopped the clan members from flying, leaving them to fall into the spider-web cage.
• Bai He recognized that Tian Chen’s domain suppressed his flight and speed while Wu Zi and Zhang Zhen continued to wear him down.

Tian Chen oversaw the destruction of the Speed Clan and recovered the crystal blood dragon ginseng from Bai He's Soul Tool. After learning that Bai Chenxiang had escaped, he ordered his people to return to Spirit City rather than risk an immediate confrontation with the Breaking Clan.

• Wu Zi plunged Bai He into darkness while Zhang Zhen broke his limbs, and Bai He offered the crystal blood dragon ginseng in exchange for the Speed Clan's survival.
• Tian Chen refused Bai He's plea, and Wu Zi crushed Bai He's head after Zhang Zhen immobilized him.
• Tian Chen left with Ye Lingling as the Speed Clan was slaughtered through the night without interference from the city's authorities.
• Zhang Zhen reported that 225 members of the Speed Clan had been executed and gave Tian Chen the crystal blood dragon ginseng from Bai He's Soul Tool.
• Zhang Zhen told Tian Chen that Bai Chenxiang had escaped, and Tian Chen ordered his group to return to Spirit City to avoid facing Yang Wudi before they were prepared.

After returning to Spirit City from the Speed Clan expedition, Tian Chen comforted Ye Lingling and prepared to enter Death Canyon, where a mysterious place called the Lake of Death drew his attention. He then visited a guarded manor and encountered a crazed old man tending medicinal herbs.

• Tian Chen slowed the convoy as it crossed into Spirit Hall territory, and Ye Lingling remained troubled by the massacre of the Speed Clan.
• The convoy reached Spirit City, and Tian Chen sent his household Soul Masters to rest while he returned to the castle with Ye Lingling.
• Tian Chen comforted Ye Lingling until she fell asleep, then studied a map of Death Canyon and wondered whether the Lake of Death held the truth his grandfather had mentioned.
• Tian Chen set out for a guarded manor outside Spirit City, carrying the Death Canyon map in his Soul Tool.
• Tian Chen spotted an old man tending herbs, and the old man angrily demanded that they stop disturbing him.

Tian Chen forced Yang Wushuang to submit and ordered him to refine pills from the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and other treasures. Meanwhile, a letter from the Speed Clan enraged Tai Tan with news that someone had attacked the Four Great Clans.

• Wu Zi attacked Yang Wushuang after Yang Wushuang challenged Tian Chen, then beat him until Tian Chen ordered him to stop.
• Tian Chen reminded Yang Wushuang that he had joined Spirit Hall and revealed the secret medicinal formulas of the Breaking Clan, then ordered him to refine pills.
• Tian Chen rejected Wu Zi’s suggestion to have Yang Wushuang watched and gave Wu Zi a compatible Soul Bone to absorb.
• Tian Chen returned to the estate and examined records about Death Canyon.
• At the Strength Clan, Tai Tan opened a letter from the Speed Clan, smashed his desk in anger, and demanded to know who had attacked the Four Great Clans.

Yang Wudi brought Bai Chenxiang to the Defense Clan, where she revealed that the Speed Clan had been destroyed and her grandfather killed. In Spirit City, Tian Chen spent a quiet evening with Ye Lingling before preparing to leave for a year of cultivation in Death Canyon.

• Yang Wudi arrived at the Defense Clan residence with Bai Chenxiang and asked to see Niu Gao.
• Bai Chenxiang told Niu Gao that the Speed Clan had been destroyed and her grandfather had died fighting.
• Yang Wudi said he did not know who was responsible, and Niu Gao arranged a room for Bai Chenxiang while they waited for the other clan chief.
• Seven days later, Tian Chen told Ye Lingling he would cultivate in Death Canyon for about a year.
• Tian Chen and Ye Lingling spent the evening together, and Tian Chen offered her a maid outfit and a fluffy Snow Fox tail.

Tian Chen left Spirit City for Death Canyon to cultivate and resolve the danger posed by his Martial Soul. After reaching the guarded entrance, he transformed and flew alone into the canyon.

• Tian Chen left Ye Lingling asleep and set out with Wu Zi, while worrying about Hu Liena’s cultivation in Slaughter City.
• Tian Chen and Wu Zi traveled northeast for two days, leaving their carriage to cross the harsh mountains surrounding Death Canyon on foot.
• Tian Chen presented his token at a fortified entrance, and the Soul Masters opened the iron gate for him.
• Tian Chen declined Wu Zi’s offer to escort him, transformed with his Martial Soul, and flew into Death Canyon.

Tian Chen encountered a ten-thousand-year Emerald Demon Bird in Death Canyon and killed it after surviving its lightning-fast attacks. He absorbed its Soul Ring, strengthening his first Soul Ring, then continued toward the dark forest at the canyon floor.

• Tian Chen noticed that an invisible force was dispersing some of the black Qi around him as he descended into Death Canyon.
• A ten-thousand-year Emerald Demon Bird ambushed Tian Chen, but he used Instant Movement and Invincible Golden Body to survive its attacks.
• Tian Chen trapped the Emerald Demon Bird with the Demon-Suppressing Domain, wounded it with lightning, and killed it with Dark Gold Dreadclaw.
• Tian Chen absorbed the bird's Soul Ring, turning his first Soul Ring from yellow to purple and estimating the bird's cultivation at over twenty thousand years.
• Tian Chen concealed himself and flew deeper into the canyon, reaching a dim forest of blackish-purple trees.

Tian Chen explored Death Canyon to test his changed Martial Soul and domains, then encountered a mutated Devouring Dragon whose devouring attack exposed him. He unleashed his Evil God Domain, but the dragon’s destruction attribute weakened it.

• Tian Chen entered Death Canyon cautiously, relying on his own vigilance as he hunted Soul Beasts and absorbed their Soul Rings.
• After several hours, Tian Chen hid with his Simulation Soul Skill when he heard crashes approaching through the forest.
• Tian Chen recognized the purple-scaled Soul Beast as a mutated Devouring Dragon after it used Devour the Heavens and Earth.
• The Devouring Dragon’s wide-area attack disrupted Tian Chen’s concealment and drained his vitality, so it charged him with a stronger blast.
• Tian Chen released his Martial Soul and Evil God Domain, but the dragon’s destruction attribute reduced the domain’s devouring power by more than half.

Tian Chen discovered that a Devouring Dragon wielded the Destruction Attribute and raised his third Soul Ring to ten thousand years by absorbing another Devouring Dragon. Deep in Death Canyon, a newly strengthened old man planned to obtain a ninth Soul Ring and prepare to strike against Spirit Hall.

• Tian Chen's evil Qi failed to overcome the Devouring Dragon's Destruction Attribute, but he eventually devoured the beast and its Soul Ring.
• Tian Chen's third Soul Ring rose from a thousand-year purple ring to a ten-thousand-year black ring, and he realized that absorbing the same type of Soul Beast improved a ring's age efficiently.
• An old man in a gray robe broke through to Soul Douluo and declared his hatred for Spirit Hall.
• A middle-aged man reported that a powerful young Spirit Hall member had entered Death Canyon, and the old man ordered his followers to avoid him.
• The old man rode away on a giant gray python and ordered his followers to hurry so he could obtain his ninth Soul Ring and begin preparations.

After a year hunting Soul Beasts in Death Canyon, Tian Chen reached rank fifty-nine but still had not found the place where a true dragon fell. At the Lake of Death, he discovered that the dragon-blooded Soul Beasts gathered there—and spotted a huge purple-scaled Tyrant Dragon.

• Tian Chen spent a year cultivating in Death Canyon, raising his Soul Power to rank fifty-nine while suppressing the evil thoughts stirred by his prolonged slaughter.
• Tian Chen decided to search the Lake of Death again, though he had already explored it without finding anything unusual.
• Tian Chen used his Simulation Soul Skill to avoid powerful Soul Beasts and reached the lake atop Death Canyon's highest peak.
• Tian Chen noticed that the Soul Beasts drinking at the lake were all Earth Dragons with Dragon Clan blood.
• Tian Chen saw an enormous Tyrant Dragon with deep purple scales like those of the Devouring Dragon and reacted with barely contained excitement.

Tian Chen followed a ten-thousand-year Tyrant Dragon and confirmed that it possessed the Destruction Attribute, then discovered that it was drawn to something hidden inside a mountain. The Tyrant Dragon’s rampage exposed a cavern where a gray-robed man was refining a Corpse Puppet, and the chapter ended as eight Soul Masters emerged to confront the beast.

• Tian Chen identified the Tyrant Dragon as a rare Earth Dragon and secretly followed it using his Simulation Soul Skill.
• In an underground cavern, a gray-robed nine-ringed man continued refining a Corpse Puppet from a tortured Earth Dragon soul, hoping to escape Spirit Hall.
• A middle-aged subordinate warned the gray-robed man that a ten-thousand-year Tyrant Dragon had arrived, and the man ordered his people to hold it off.
• Tian Chen watched the Tyrant Dragon ram the mountainside and confirmed that it possessed the Destruction Attribute and was attracted to something underground.
• Eight figures emerged from the mountain, led by a six-ringed Soul Emperor, as a pungent bloody stench spread through the air.

Tian Chen watched A Xiang, A De, and five other Evil Soul Kings attack a ten-thousand-year Tyrant Dragon, while the middle-aged leader tried to draw the beast’s attention. The leader’s poisoned tongue disintegrated against the Tyrant Dragon’s scales, leaving him shocked.

• A Xiang and A De used their Vampire Bat Martial Souls to evade the Tyrant Dragon from the air while the other Evil Soul Kings attacked.
• Tian Chen watched from hiding and recognized the brothers’ dangerous bat-type abilities, reflecting on the restrictions Qian Daoliu had placed on him.
• The middle-aged leader transformed and attacked the Tyrant Dragon with corrosive poison gas and his purplish-black tongue.
• The poison gas dissolved against the Tyrant Dragon’s scales, and the beast destroyed the tip of the leader’s tongue when it struck its belly.

Salun’s group failed to subdue the Tyrant Dragon, and a powerful old man emerged atop a colossal, horned Soul Beast to punish the fleeing A De and A Xiang. The old man then spotted Tian Chen and ordered him to come out.

• Salun and the other Soul Kings attacked the Tyrant Dragon with poison, but their Soul Skills had no effect.
• The Tyrant Dragon killed four Soul Kings with its tail, while A De and A Xiang fled and left Salun behind.
• A colossal, lifeless-looking Soul Beast emerged as the mountain crumbled, revealing an old man with Titled Douluo-level cultivation standing on its head.
• The old man ordered the Soul Beast to eat A De and A Xiang, and it swallowed the brothers.
• The old man noticed Tian Chen and ordered him to come out, leaving Tian Chen alarmed that his Simulation Soul Skill could not fool a Titled Douluo.