Chapter Summaries

Chu Ye and Qian Renxue confronted Tang San and Xiao Wu over Chu Ye’s beating of Yu Xiaogang, but Tang San refused to reconsider his teacher’s account. Xiao Wu attacked and Chu Ye brutally subdued her, driving Tang San into a rage and a direct fight.

• Chu Ye admitted he had beaten Yu Xiaogang, and Qian Renxue explained that Yu Xiaogang had attacked them after they criticized his theories.
• Tang San dismissed their explanation and declared he would avenge his teacher, while Chu Ye challenged him and considered Xiao Wu’s spirit abilities and spirit bone.
• Xiao Wu released her martial spirit and used Charm before rushing Chu Ye, but he grabbed her braid, smashed her into the ground, and pinned her beneath his foot.
• Tang San erupted in anger, used Blue Silver Entanglement, and threw hidden weapons at Chu Ye, who cut apart the grass and blocked the weapons.
• Tang San charged with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track as the confrontation escalated.

Chu Ye overwhelmed Tang San and Xiao Wu, leaving Tang San beaten and desperate. Just as Chu Ye considered killing them, Tang Hao appeared and knocked Chu Ye and Qian Renxue away.

• Chu Ye blocked Tang San's attack, slapped him away, and continued to overpower him while Xiao Wu begged for help.
• Tang San unleashed hidden weapons and Blue Silver Grass attacks, but Chu Ye evaded or neutralized them and shattered Tang San's fingers before slamming him into the ground.
• Chu Ye considered killing Tang San and Xiao Wu while checking whether Tang Hao was nearby, and Tang San begged for mercy.
• Tang Hao's voice stopped Tang San from kneeling, then his soul power sent Chu Ye and Qian Renxue flying before he appeared in front of them.

Tang Hao arrived to rescue Tang San and Xiao Wu, then clashed with Chrysanthemum Douluo, who had reached level 96. As Tang Hao and Chrysanthemum Douluo fought, Chu Ye and Qian Renxue moved to intervene, planning to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill against Tang Hao.

• Tang Hao recognized Tang San and Xiao Wu, pulled them behind him, and charged at Chu Ye before Chrysanthemum Douluo stepped in.
• Tang Hao underestimated Chrysanthemum Douluo and was blasted back by his opponent's level-96 strength.
• Tang Hao released his nine spirit rings, including a red one, and Chrysanthemum Douluo prepared to hold him off.
• Qian Renxue recognized Tang Hao as the man she believed had killed her father, and Chu Ye agreed to help her attack him.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu watched eagerly as Chu Ye and Qian Renxue charged into the battle between the two Title Douluo.

Chu Ye and Qian Renxue used their martial soul fusion skill to severely injure Tang Hao and force him to retreat. After Tang Hao fled with Tang San and Xiao Wu, Chu Ye acknowledged that their opponents’ presence had been what let them escape.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo distracted Tang Hao while Chu Ye and Qian Renxue unleashed Angel Demon God Annihilation, severely injuring him.
• Tang Hao got up and threatened to kill Chu Ye and Qian Renxue, but they activated the Demon God Angel state and threatened Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Tang Hao hesitated to fight because of the danger to Tang San and the consequences of provoking Spirit Hall, while Chu Ye bluffed him with a demand to leave.
• Tang Hao swept up Tang San and Xiao Wu and fled, and Chrysanthemum Douluo celebrated that he had been forced back.
• Chu Ye and Qian Renxue ended their fusion, and Chu Ye admitted they would have had to flee if Tang Hao had not been protecting Tang San and Xiao Wu.

After the clash with Tang Hao, Chu Ye and Qian Renxue left the area and discussed why they could not yet make a major move against him. While traveling to Gengxin City, Chu Ye reviewed his progress and learned that reaching level 50 would reward him with the Spirit Soul Contract Method.

• Chu Ye judged that Tang Hao could have defeated them if he had fought seriously, then led Qian Renxue and Chrysanthemum Douluo away toward Gengxin City.
• Qian Renxue considered targeting Tang Hao through his son, but Chu Ye urged her to wait because killing Tang Hao would require the Worship Elders and cause too much commotion.
• Chu Ye asked Chrysanthemum Douluo whether he had noticed anything unusual about Xiao Wu, but Chrysanthemum Douluo had not detected that she was a spirit beast.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo said the medicinal effects of his Immortal Herb were nearly absorbed and that his strength had improved.
• Chu Ye checked his System Task List, saw that he was at level 47, and reviewed the Spirit Soul Contract Method reward waiting at level 50.
• Chu Ye considered how spirit souls could preserve a spirit beast's intelligence, fight alongside a Spirit Master, and ascend with them to godhood.

Chu Ye chose the spirit beasts he wanted for his future rings and arrived in Gengxin City. After Tang Hao rescued Tang San and Xiao Wu from Chu Ye, he warned them about Chu Ye’s Spirit Hall ties and arranged for them to leave Nuoding City.

• Chu Ye selected the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress for his seventh through ninth rings, and chose Xiao Wu as a likely candidate for another ring.
• Chu Ye and his companions reached the gate of Gengxin City.
• Tang Hao brought Tang San and Xiao Wu back to Nuoding City, where he reassured Xiao Wu that he would keep her spirit beast identity from Tang San for now.
• Tang Hao told Tang San not to challenge Chu Ye again until he reached Title Douluo strength, explaining that Chu Ye was a gifted Spirit Hall genius.
• Tang Hao decided Tang San and Xiao Wu should transfer to a school in territory directly governed by the Heaven Dou Empire, and said Yu Xiaogang could come if he wished.
• Yu Xiaogang was shocked to learn Chu Ye was from Spirit Hall and pleased to discover Tang San was Haotian Douluo’s son, so he agreed to follow Tang San to his new school.

Chu Ye and Qian Renxue arrived in Gengxin City to investigate whether Miles had killed the Inspection Hall personnel and to approach the Blacksmith's Association. Chu Ye registered for a blacksmith assessment while Qian Renxue began investigating, and he waited to take the junior assessment.

• Chu Ye and Qian Renxue agreed to keep their arrival secret and visit the Blacksmith's Association before investigating Miles.
• At the association, Chu Ye went to the third floor to register for a blacksmith assessment, while Qian Renxue stayed to make inquiries.
• The receptionist explained that Chu Ye had to pass the junior assessment before advancing to higher levels, and he received a token to enter the assessment hall.
• The receptionist asked Chu Ye for his contact information, but he said he had a girlfriend and left for the assessment hall.
• An association member called those registering as junior blacksmiths into the assessment room.

Chu Ye stunned the Blacksmith's Association by passing several blacksmith assessments in half a day and earning a Blacksmith Master assessment. With Divine Craftsman Lou Gao watching, Chu Ye prepared to forge a sword for the final test.

• Chu Ye forged a sword in under an hour, passed the Junior Blacksmith assessment, and named Grandmaster Kamel as the blacksmith who had taught him.
• An examiner recommended Chu Ye to skip the intermediate assessment, and Chu Ye quickly earned his senior blacksmith and blacksmith master certificates.
• Chu Ye's rapid rise at age thirteen or fourteen drew a crowd, and Si Long began administering his Blacksmith Master assessment.
• Divine Craftsman Lou Gao arrived to watch Chu Ye, who chose the best iron material and prepared to forge a sword within the six-hour limit.

Chu Ye forged a top-tier iron sword before a growing crowd, revealing his mastery of the Meteor Consecutive Hammer Technique and earning Blacksmith Master rank. He confirmed the sword was his first finished work made public, while Lou Gao looked to recruit him into the Blacksmith's Association.

• Chu Ye heated a carefully selected piece of iron and began forging before the assembled blacksmiths.
• Chu Ye used the Meteor Consecutive Hammer Technique, astonishing the crowd and prompting Lou Gao to recognize their shared lineage.
• Chu Ye shaped, quenched, polished, and fine-tuned the iron into a sword over four hours.
• Si Long judged the sword a top-tier product and certified Chu Ye as a Blacksmith Master.
• Chu Ye told the crowd the sword was his first finished work made public.

Chu Ye sold the first sword he forged for fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins and built ties with Lou Gao and the Blacksmith's Association. He learned that Miles was suspected of killing the Inspection Hall personnel sent to Gengxin City, leaving Chu Ye with a lead in his effort to deal with the corrupt bishop.

• Chu Ye sold his first forged sword to a buyer for fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins after blacksmiths bid for it.
• Lou Gao and Si Long welcomed Chu Ye as a fellow disciple of their lineage after learning that Grandmaster Kamel had taught him forging.
• Chu Ye agreed to stay at the Blacksmith's Association and use its Forging Rooms while he finished a longsword and pursued his plans concerning Miles.
• Lou Gao condemned Miles for abusing his position, and Si Long explained that Miles had resumed his misconduct after Inspection Hall personnel died.
• Si Long said he had seen Miles leave the city with a Spirit Sage on the day the new inspectors were killed, though he had no proof of Miles's involvement.

Chu Ye and Qian Renxue uncovered evidence of Bishop Miles’s crimes in Gengxin City and investigated the Spirit Sage suspected of killing the inspection team. After three days of forging, Chu Ye completed a powerful golden sword for Qian Renxue’s birthday and joined the Blacksmith’s Association; he left to prepare her gift.

• Chu Ye learned from Si Long that Miles had taken a Spirit Sage out of the city on the day the inspection team was attacked, then asked Qian Renxue to meet him.
• Qian Renxue told Chu Ye she had found evidence that Miles and other Sacred Hall Spirit Masters had abused and killed civilians, and they agreed to have Chrysanthemum Douluo search for the missing Spirit Sage.
• Chu Ye stayed at the Blacksmith’s Association, forged Qian Renxue a sword with Lou Gao’s guidance, and helped her gather more evidence against Miles.
• Lou Gao praised the finished sword as one of the continent’s finest and invited Chu Ye to join the Blacksmith’s Association; Chu Ye accepted.
• On Qian Renxue’s birthday, Chu Ye put the sword in a gift box with her favorite flowers and went to find her.

Chu Ye gave Qian Renxue a sword he had secretly forged, then exposed Bishop Miles’s crimes and executed him publicly in Gengxin City. After reorganizing the Sacred Hall, Chu Ye and Qian Renxue prepared to return to Spirit City, and Chu Ye asked the Blacksmith's Association whether it would join Martial Soul Hall.

• Chu Ye gave Qian Renxue a golden sword, and they named it Qianye.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo brought in a captured Spirit Sage, who confessed to killing Inspection Hall personnel on Miles’s orders.
• Chu Ye and Qian Renxue gathered Miles and the other accused Spirit Masters outside the Sacred Hall and announced their crimes to the citizens.
• Chu Ye beheaded Miles with one sword, and the citizens of Gengxin City cheered for Martial Soul Hall.
• Chu Ye and Qian Renxue reorganized the Sacred Hall, then Chu Ye asked Lou Gao and Si Long whether the Blacksmith's Association would join Martial Soul Hall.

Lou Gao agreed to bring the Blacksmith's Association into Spirit Hall under Chu Ye's leadership, and Chu Ye and Qian Renxue returned to the Pope's Palace. There, Chu Ye challenged Snake Lance Douluo to a duel after he refused Chu Ye's attempt to ease their strained relationship.

• Lou Gao agreed to join Spirit Hall with the Blacksmith's Association, keeping its headquarters in Gengxin City.
• Chu Ye and Qian Renxue returned to the Pope's Palace, where Qian Renxue agreed to stay at Chu Ye's residence.
• Chu Ye greeted Snake Lance Douluo at Qian Renxue's urging, but She Long ignored him and respectfully addressed Qian Renxue instead.
• Chu Ye challenged Snake Lance Douluo to a one-on-one fight after he reached the Spirit King realm, wagering that the loser would apologize and follow the winner's lead.
• She Long accepted the challenge and said he would obey Chu Ye if Chu Ye defeated him.

Chu Ye and Qian Renxue discovered that Na'er had left after recovering her memories, and Chu Ye guessed that she and Gu Yue might eventually return to them. The next morning, they resumed cultivation at the Pope's Palace training ground, where Chu Ye stood atop the disciples' ranking stele.

• Chu Ye and Qian Renxue returned home and found Na'er missing, with a farewell letter on her desk.
• Qian Renxue read Na'er's letter and mourned her departure, while Chu Ye realized Na'er's memories had awakened.
• Chu Ye comforted Qian Renxue and explained that Na'er might resist merging with Gu Yue, possibly leading them to return on their own.
• The next morning, Chu Ye and Qian Renxue went back to the Pope's Palace training ground to focus on cultivation.
• The disciples recognized Chu Ye and Qian Renxue as they arrived, and Chu Ye saw his name at the top of the ranking stele.

Hu Liena confessed her feelings to Chu Ye, but he rejected her and reaffirmed his love for Qian Renxue. More than a year later, Chu Ye reached level 50 and received a Spirit Soul Contract Method that let him forcibly bind defeated soul beasts as obedient Spirit Souls.

• Chu Ye and Qian Renxue greeted the disciples, then spoke with Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena about their cultivation.
• Hu Liena confessed to Chu Ye and offered to become his concubine, but he rejected her and told her he loved Qian Renxue.
• Hu Liena ran off crying, and Qian Renxue asked Chu Ye what had happened; he declined to explain.
• Chu Ye and Qian Renxue spent the following year and several months cultivating in the Pope's Palace.
• Chu Ye reached level 50 at age fifteen and received the Spirit Soul Contract Method, which allowed him to bind defeated soul beasts as obedient Spirit Souls.

After Qian Renxue reached level 60, she and Chu Ye planned to hunt the Titan Giant Ape and Azure Ox Python for their next spirit rings. Bibi Dong struggled with the news because those same beasts were her targets, and Chu Ye offered to help her find two other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

• Qian Renxue broke through to level 60 at eighteen, becoming the continent’s youngest Spirit Emperor.
• Chu Ye and Qian Renxue decided that Chu Ye would target the Titan Giant Ape and Qian Renxue would target the Azure Ox Python, and agreed to ask Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong who would lead the hunt.
• Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu to lead the expedition with several Worship Elders, while Chu Ye went to tell Bibi Dong about their targets.
• Bibi Dong fell silent when Chu Ye revealed their plan because the Titan Giant Ape and Azure Ox Python were also her intended targets for her final two spirit rings.
• Chu Ye reminded Bibi Dong that he had promised to find her two Hundred-Thousand-Year spirit rings, and Bibi Dong asked how he planned to do so.

Chu Ye proposed hunting Hundred-Thousand-Year Sea Spirit Beasts for Bibi Dong and explained that his Evil God Space could neutralize the dangers of fighting them underwater. He revealed that he knew the location of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Orca King, and Bibi Dong agreed to pursue it.

• Chu Ye asked Bibi Dong whether the sea held Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, and she agreed that the ocean might contain more than the land.
• Bibi Dong warned Chu Ye that natural hazards, weakened land soul masters, and the vastness of the ocean made hunting Sea Spirit Beasts difficult.
• Chu Ye explained that Evil God Space could trap a Sea Spirit Beast on land, where it would lose its aquatic advantage.
• Chu Ye told Bibi Dong that he had found the territory of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Orca King, Evil Tiger, whose Evil attribute suited her.
• Bibi Dong said she would be satisfied if Chu Ye helped her find the Evil Orca King.

Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu each led a group of powerful Title Douluo into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python for Chu Ye and Qian Renxue. The two groups confronted the beasts at the Lake of Life, and Qian Daoliu revealed his Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul as the hunt began.

• Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu both insisted on leading a team to help Chu Ye and Qian Renxue hunt the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• Bibi Dong took Chu Ye while Qian Daoliu took Qian Renxue, and both groups traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• At the forest’s outer region, Bibi Dong assigned her group to handle the Titan Giant Ape and Qian Daoliu’s group to handle the Sky Azure Bull Python.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python sensed the approaching humans and warned the Titan Giant Ape that danger was coming.
• Chu Ye and the others appeared before the two beasts at the Lake of Life, where Bibi Dong demanded their Spirit Rings and Spirit Bones.
• Qian Daoliu calmly defended the hunt and summoned his Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

Qian Daoliu, Bibi Dong, and six Title Douluo launched a hunt for the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape in the Star Dou Great Forest. The two soul beasts were overwhelmed and left badly injured as Chu Ye anticipated claiming their powers and souls as Soul Spirits for himself and Qian Renxue.

• Qian Daoliu revealed his formidable strength, while Bibi Dong released her Martial Soul and concealed traces of her divine power.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu ordered Jiang Mo, Qian Jun, Stingray Douluo, Gu Yue, Ghost Douluo, and the Ninth Elder to attack the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape tried to flee, but Qian Daoliu intercepted them and Jiang Mo and Qian Jun struck the Sky Azure Bull Python with their Eighth Spirit Abilities.
• Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo used Two Extremes Stillness Domain to immobilize the Titan Giant Ape, allowing Stingray Douluo and the Ninth Elder to injure it severely.
• Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong joined the six Title Douluo in suppressing both soul beasts, while Chu Ye calmly considered the Soul Spirits he and Qian Renxue would gain.

Chu Ye and Qian Renxue used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to delay the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, allowing Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong to defeat the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. With the beasts incapacitated, Chu Ye and Qian Renxue prepared to convert them into spirit souls and absorb them.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape used their domains and charged at Chu Ye and Qian Renxue in a final attempt to take them down.
• Chu Ye and Qian Renxue joined hands and used Angel Demon God Annihilation to block the beasts long enough for Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong to attack.
• Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong struck down the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, leaving both unable to resist.
• Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong told Chu Ye and Qian Renxue to deliver the fatal blows and absorb the beasts’ spirit rings and spirit bones.
• Chu Ye stood before the Titan Giant Ape and Qian Renxue before the Sky Azure Bull Python, preparing to use the spirit soul method with Chu Ye’s help.