Recaps

Tang San collected the down payment from the Liu and Ous families, then assassinated Snow Sword in Tokes Province. He returned to the families after news of the killing spread and demanded the rest of his payment.

• Tang San waited three days for an attack from the Heaven Frost Duchy and Tokes Province, but neither mobilized against the Salikol Duchy.
• Tang San collected 700,000 Gold Soul Coins from the Liu and Ous families and promised to complete the assassination that night.
• The two patriarchs agreed not to hire Tang San against each other and discussed making the Hong Family their next target.
• A Liu Family servant reported that Snow Sword had been ambushed and killed, and that the Governor's Mansion was searching for the assassin.
• Tang San appeared in the Council Hall, revealed he had completed the assassination the previous night, and asked for the remaining payment.

Tang San collected the remaining payment from Patriarch Liu and Patriarch Aos for assassinating Snow Sword and offered them a way to commission the Tang Sect again. The patriarchs hired him to kill Hong Luan and several powerful Hong family elders, agreeing to pay him twenty percent of the value of the Hong family's businesses.

• Tang San collected the rest of the Gold Soul Coins from Patriarch Liu and Patriarch Aos and gave them Tang Character Darts as tokens for future Tang Sect commissions.
• Tang San declined the patriarchs' invitation to stay, but Patriarch Aos stopped him to discuss another job.
• Patriarch Liu asked Tang San to help the Liu and Aos families annex the Hong family's businesses and eliminate the Hong family from Tokes Province.
• Tang San refused to manage the annexation but agreed to assassinate Hong Luan and several influential elders.
• Tang San requested twenty percent of the Hong family's businesses' value as payment, and Patriarch Liu agreed.

Tang San secured funding for the Tang Sect, directed Worton to recruit reserve soldiers, and prepared to assassinate Hong Luan. Meanwhile, Ning Bei established the Evil Extermination Sect in the Heaven Frost Duchy to counter the Tang Sect, and Tang San set out to carry out the next contract.

• Tang San agreed to a contract with the Liu and Os clan heads and returned to the Salikol Duchy to organize the Tang Sect's expansion.
• Tang San gave Worton Gold Soul Coins to recruit ordinary reserve soldiers and ordered the Tang Sect to begin taking simpler assassination missions while maintaining a perfect completion rate.
• Ning Bei sent Er Ming, A Bao, and their companions to establish the Evil Extermination Sect in the Heaven Frost Duchy, with support from Xue Qinghe's substitute and Ning Fengzhi.
• Three days later, Tang San collected the agreed payment from the Liu and Os clan heads and told them to prepare to seize the Hong Family's businesses after Hong Luan's assassination.

Tang San completed the Hong family assassination and helped the Tang Sect grow into a feared mercenary and assassination organization. Meanwhile, Ning Bei let the sect develop unchecked while waiting for Qian Renxue to complete her trial and join him in the eastern Heaven Dou Empire.

• Tang San met with Patriarch Liu and Patriarch Aos, and a messenger confirmed that Patriarch Hong and several Hong family elders had been killed.
• Tang San accepted the remaining payment and returned to Salikol Duchy, where the influx of funds and merchants helped the duchy prosper.
• The Tang Sect expanded its missions and trained trusted members in movement techniques and Hidden Weapons, becoming feared across the eastern region.
• Tang San grew uneasy about the inactive Evil Extermination Sect branch in Heaven Frost Duchy and had people monitor it.
• Ning Bei received Qian Daoliu's reply about Little Angel's next trial and allowed the Tang Sect to develop, hoping Qian Renxue would join him after completing her Sixth Trial.

Over the past year, Tang San expanded the Tang Sect across the Heaven Dou Empire while Ma Hongjun struggled with his worsening Evil Fire. Qian Renxue arrived at the Evil Extermination Sect and reunited with Ning Bei, where they ended the chapter together after sharing how much they had missed each other.

• Tang San reflected on the Tang Sect’s growing influence and kept expanding it to advance his God Trial, while reserving the option of sacrificing the sect if necessary.
• Ma Hongjun told Tang San that his Evil Fire had become unbearable, and Tang San promised to search for a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower during his trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang San left the Tang Sect headquarters for the Star Dou Great Forest and told Ma Hongjun to avoid using his Soul Power.
• Qian Renxue arrived at the Evil Extermination Sect in Heaven Frost City, where Snake Lance Douluo left her to enter alone.
• Ning Bei embraced Qian Renxue from behind, and the two reunited with a long kiss before she complained that he had not visited her sooner.

Qian Renxue reunited with Ning Bei and immediately clashed with the Silver Dragon King, whom Ning Bei introduced as the lord of Star Dou Great Forest. After their jealous quarrel and Ning Bei’s “family discipline,” the three met again at breakfast, where the Silver Dragon King urged Ning Bei to deal with Tang Sect.

• Qian Renxue arrived at the Evil Extermination Sect branch with Ning Bei and found the Silver Dragon King waiting in his room.
• Qian Renxue challenged the Silver Dragon King, and Ning Bei stopped her and explained who she was.
• Qian Renxue accused Ning Bei of having improper relationships with Soul Beasts, so Ning Bei sent the Silver Dragon King away and punished Qian Renxue.
• Ning Bei and Qian Renxue came out the next morning and joined the Silver Dragon King for breakfast.
• The Silver Dragon King told Ning Bei it was time to eliminate Tang Sect, which she had wanted to do for some time.

Ning Bei explained how the Tang Sect’s crimes fit Qian Renxue’s Seventh Trial and prepared to help her target its members. After Ah Yin located a group, Ning Bei and Qian Renxue set out for her first battle since returning to the continent.

• Big Mother Dragon told Qian Renxue that Ning Bei had left the Tang Sect and waited for her so she could take part in the operation.
• Ning Bei described how the Tang Sect’s corpse-harvesting and assassination work matched the three sins in Qian Renxue’s Seventh Trial.
• Ning Bei and Qian Renxue waited for news, shared stories about their divine trials, and talked about Ning Rongrong.
• Ah Yin reported the latest movements of Tang Sect members, and Ning Bei asked her to keep tracking the others.
• Ning Bei took Qian Renxue to intercept the Tang Sect members, beginning her first battle after returning to the continent.

The Tang Sect accepted a contract from Aoswei nobles to eliminate the Xun Family’s leaders, who had refused to raise their port fees at the nobles’ demand. Magic Eagle led a group of Tang Sect Disciples into position and began the nighttime attack on the Xun Family.

• The Xun Family kept its port fees low for commoners, angering nobles who wanted to monopolize the kingdom’s fishing and trade.
• Aoswei nobles pooled nearly a million Gold Soul Coins to hire the Tang Sect to kill the Xun Family’s upper ranks.
• Magic Eagle ordered the Tang Sect Disciples to scout the Xun Family and learned that Xun Guang was a Soul Saint while several elders were powerful Soul Masters.
• Magic Eagle assigned his subordinates to engage the elders and planned to kill Xun Guang quickly, promising rewards while warning them against failure.
• Magic Eagle launched the operation at deep night, and his disciples moved to eliminate the guards as he approached the center of the clan grounds.

Magic Eagle infiltrated the Xun Family estate and fought its head, Xun Guang, while the guards were killed in a surprise attack. After poisoning Xun Guang with hidden weapons, Magic Eagle advanced to finish him before reinforcements arrived.

• Xun Family guards were silently killed across the estate before they could raise the alarm.
• Magic Eagle approached Xun Guang’s room, dodged a Soul Power arrow, and announced that he had come to kill him.
• Xun Guang and Magic Eagle fought, with Xun Guang firing arrows and Magic Eagle answering with storms and hidden weapons.
• Magic Eagle used Dragon Capturing Crane Controlling to send fallen hidden weapons into Xun Guang’s back after his barrier dropped.
• Xun Guang activated his Spirit Avatar but collapsed after the hidden weapons’ poison took effect, and Magic Eagle moved in to kill him.

Qian Renxue and Ning Bei intervened when Magic Eagle was about to kill Xun Guang and destroy the Xun Family. Ning Bei cured Xun Guang’s poison while Qian Renxue fought Magic Eagle, leaving Magic Eagle wounded and furious.

• Magic Eagle prepared to kill the poisoned Xun Guang, but Qian Renxue arrived and blocked his attack with Angel’s Guard.
• Qian Renxue confronted Magic Eagle while Ning Bei appeared behind Xun Guang and gave him an Elixir.
• Xun Guang swallowed the Elixir, and its medicinal power quickly eradicated the poison and restored him.
• Qian Renxue used her First Spirit Skill to strike Magic Eagle and leave a deep wound across his chest.
• Magic Eagle threatened to tear Qian Renxue to pieces.

Little Angel defeated and killed the Phantom Magic Eagle, then left the Xun Family grounds with Ning Bei to hunt more Tang Sect members. She felt that killing Tang Sect villains was steadily advancing her God Trial, and the pair headed toward their next target.

• Little Angel revealed her eight Soul Rings, stunned Xun Guang and the Phantom Magic Eagle, and severed the eagle's left arm with the Sword of Divinity.
• Little Angel condemned the Phantom Magic Eagle for the Tang Sect's crimes and killed him with another Sword of Divinity, turning him to ash.
• Xun Guang thanked Little Angel for saving his life, then rushed to defend the Xun Family members being slaughtered by Tang Sect forces.
• Ning Bei and Little Angel left the clan grounds and killed several Tang Sect assassins on their way out.
• Little Angel told Ning Bei that her Angel God affinity was increasing as she killed Tang Sect villains, and they traveled toward their next target using Ah Yin's information.

Ning Bei and Little Angel crippled Tang Sect’s operations while Tang San was away hunting for his Seventh Spirit Ring. The chapter left Tang San entering the Star Dou Great Forest unaware that Xiao Die was tracking him and that high-level Soul Beasts had been restrained.

• Ma Hongjun and Worton discussed Tang Sect’s missing mission teams and decided to stop accepting missions until Tang San returned.
• Ning Bei and Little Angel helped the Evil Extermination Sect destroy Tang Sect’s Shu Zhong Wine Houses, driving its influence back into Tokes Province.
• Ning Bei told Little Angel that Xiao Die was following Tang San and planned to trap him in an illusion that could lead him to another hundred-year Spirit Ring.
• Ning Bei and Little Angel headed for Saliker Duchy to meet Ma Hongjun.
• Tang San reached the Star Dou Great Forest alone, unaware that Xiao Die was following him and that Ning Bei had ordered high-level Soul Beasts restrained.
• After a day in the forest, Tang San still had not found any Soul Beasts above ten-thousand-year cultivation and had not realized anything was wrong.

Tang San entered the Star Dou Great Forest seeking a powerful plant-type Soul Beast, unaware that Xiao Die had trapped him inside layered illusions. He found a Lightning Roaring Hell Vine fighting an Adamantine Demon Rhinoceros and decided to wait for the battle to weaken the vine.

• Xiao Die quietly spread an illusion along Tang San's route through the forest.
• Tang San saw through the first illusion and let a thousand-year Phantom Dream Butterfly escape, not realizing a stronger illusion still surrounded him.
• Tang San spotted storm clouds and lightning gathering and hurried toward them to investigate.
• Tang San discovered a roughly thirty-thousand-year Lightning Roaring Hell Vine battling an Adamantine Demon Rhinoceros.
• Tang San recognized the vine's potential to gather lightning and decided to let the rhinoceros weaken it before intervening.

Tang San used a hidden weapon to poison the Adamantine Demon Rhinoceros, then killed the weakened Lightning Roaring Hell Vine and began absorbing its spirit ring. Unbeknownst to him, Xiao Die watched from within an illusion that made him believe he was absorbing a hundred-year Wolf Tail Grass spirit ring.

• The Lightning Roaring Hell Vine unleashed a powerful Thunder Dragon attack that badly wounded the Adamantine Demon Rhinoceros.
• The Adamantine Demon Rhinoceros bit into the Lightning Roaring Hell Vine's roots and stem, while Tang San secretly poisoned it with the Soul-Chasing Life-Taking King of Hell's Post.
• The poisoned Adamantine Demon Rhinoceros died, and Tang San severed the Lightning Roaring Hell Vine's roots and stem with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San prepared for and began absorbing the Lightning Roaring Hell Vine's black spirit ring, feeling its lightning power strain his body.
• Xiao Die watched Tang San from a nearby tree as an illusion made him think he was absorbing a hundred-year Wolf Tail Grass spirit ring.

After gaining a Seventh Spirit Ring from the Lightning Roaring Hell Vine, Tang San encountered three Thousand Jin Ants and used poison and the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer to defeat them. He prepared to absorb the eldest ant’s spirit ring and intended to claim all three brothers’ rings for the Clear Sky Hammer.

• Tang San confirmed that the Lightning Roaring Hell Vine had granted his Blue Silver Grass the ability to store lightning, then left the forest after finding no Spirit Bone and losing the Adamantine Demon Rhinoceros’s spirit ring.
• On his way back to Star Dou Town, Tang San found three Thousand Jin Ants attacking a Cave Demon Spider, and recognized the ants as excellent Clear Sky Hammer spirit-ring targets.
• Tang San poisoned the spider silk with insecticide, causing the Cave Demon Spider to weaken before one of the ants killed it; the three ants then ate its body and ingested the poison.
• Tang San used the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer to kill the eldest Thousand Jin Ant, then severed the other two ants’ legs and knocked off their horns.
• Tang San sat beside the eldest ant’s corpse to recover before absorbing its spirit ring, intending to take the rings of all three Thousand Jin Ants.

Tang San absorbed three Thousand Jin Ant Soul Rings for his Clear Sky Hammer and gained new Spirit Skills, but as he left the Star Dou Great Forest, he discovered that his Soul Rings had become weak hundred-year rings. He ended the chapter realizing that his cultivation had fallen to Level 71 and that his gains had been stolen or altered.

• Tang San absorbed the eldest Thousand Jin Ant's Soul Ring, reached Level 73, and gained Thousand Jin Bulwark.
• Tang San killed and absorbed Second Brother Thousand Jin Ant, reached Level 75, and gained Great Earth Ant Emperor Slash.
• Tang San killed and absorbed the third Thousand Jin Ant and gained Clear Sky True Body.
• Tang San left the Star Dou Great Forest and sensed that something was wrong when night fell despite his belief that it was nearly noon.
• Tang San found that his Blue Silver Grass and Clear Sky Hammer Soul Rings were all light yellow, his seventh Spirit Skill had been weakened, and his cultivation was only Level 71.

Ning Bei and Qian Renxue traveled to the Saliker Duchy and prepared to ambush Ma Hongjun. They spotted him near the Smoke Willow District, and Ning Bei said he would handle what came next.

• Tang San's killing intent overwhelmed him, and he went into a nearby town to calm it with blood.
• Ah Yin informed Ning Bei of Tang San's weakened spirit rings, and Ning Bei and Qian Renxue celebrated the news.
• Ning Bei and Qian Renxue arrived in the prosperous Saliker Duchy and discussed how Tang San's sect had built up the territory.
• Ning Bei and Qian Renxue waited in a restaurant overlooking the Smoke Willow District for Ma Hongjun.
• Ma Hongjun arrived, and Ning Bei told Qian Renxue to leave the next step to him.

Ma Hongjun followed an ice phoenix to a restaurant, where he found Ning Bei and Qian Renxue waiting for him. Ning Bei said he had not come to question Ma Hongjun about his strength, leaving Ma Hongjun to wonder what the meeting was about.

• Ma Hongjun headed for Rose Street after recalling the Tang Sect members stationed outside and noting that the attacks had quieted down.
• An ice phoenix appeared before Ma Hongjun and led him to a restaurant, where it vanished outside a private room.
• Ma Hongjun kicked in the room's door, recognized Ning Bei, and nervously paid the attendant for the damage.
• Ning Bei summoned an ice chair and sealed the doorway with an ice door before asking Ma Hongjun about his rapid rise in strength.
• Ma Hongjun tried to explain that he had absorbed Soul Power only from the dead, but Ning Bei said he had not come to hold him accountable.

Ning Bei confronted Ma Hongjun about his Evil Fire, his desire for the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, and his ties to Tang San, then offered him a chance to return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Ma Hongjun learned Tang San had poisoned Oscar and may have deceived him about the herb, and the chapter ended with Ning Bei asking whether he would partner with Oscar.

• Ning Bei explained that Ma Hongjun's impure Martial Soul flames threatened his life and confirmed that he wanted the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower.
• Ning Bei told Ma Hongjun that Oscar had joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and explained that Tang San had poisoned Oscar before he left.
• Ma Hongjun realized Tang San had broken his promise to spare Oscar and grew angry.
• Ning Bei said Tang San knew the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower would not grow in the Volcano Cluster of the Far East, then revealed the herb in his hand.
• Ning Bei asked Ma Hongjun to return and serve as Oscar's Battle Soul Master partner, giving Ma Hongjun renewed hope.

Ning Bei recruited Ma Hongjun to help destroy the Tang Sect in Saliker Duchy, gave him the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, and purged a hidden toxin Tang San had planted in his body. After Ning Bei returned to Heaven Frost Duchy with Qian Renxue, Tang San discovered that Tang Sect branches along his route had disappeared.

• Ma Hongjun chose to stay in Saliker Duchy and help destroy the Tang Sect rather than return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect immediately.
• Ning Bei gave Ma Hongjun the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and forced a hidden toxin out of his meridians, lowering his cultivation from nearly rank 75 to rank 72.
• Ma Hongjun agreed to use his authority to help the Evil Extermination Sect uproot the Tang Sect in Saliker Duchy.
• Ning Bei and Qian Renxue returned overnight to Heaven Frost Duchy, leaving Ma Hongjun to carry out the plan.
• Tang San traveled back toward the Far East and found Tang Sect wine houses and established branch stations missing from town after town.

Tang San returned to the Tang Sect’s Toske Province branch and learned that hostile forces had destroyed nearly all its other branches. Believing the attackers had left Toske untouched to lure him there, he sent its members away and headed back toward headquarters alone.

• Tang San reached the Shu Zhong Wine House and found the Toske Province branch still operating, though Magic Eagle was gone.
• A Soul Saint–level steward told Tang San that disciples had disappeared and most branches had been attacked after Elder Ma ordered members to return.
• Tang San suspected the enemy had spared Toske to prevent him from reaching headquarters and ordered more than a hundred members to gather.
• Tang San told the gathered members to scatter and flee far from the Far East, while he returned to headquarters to live or die with the Tang Sect.
• The members left the wine house, and Tang San released a colorless mist before saying his God Trial depended on them laying the foundation.

Tang San tried to escape Tosk City but was intercepted by A Zhu, who pursued him while holding back from delivering a fatal blow. Meanwhile, a fifty-thousand-strong army gathered outside Saliker City, and Worton confronted Ma Hongjun about how to defend the Tang Sect.

• Tang Sect members fleeing toward Tosk City's gates drew the Evil Extermination Sect's forces away as Tang San headed for the north gate.
• A Zhu intercepted Tang San and dismissed his suspicion that she had been involved in the events at the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang San fled from A Zhu, dodging her spider silk and analyzing her abilities as she pursued him.
• A Zhu stopped her poisonous stingers just short of Tang San's vital points after sensing a terrifying threat, then resumed chasing him to pressure and control him.
• The Evil Extermination Sect's main force assembled outside Saliker City with fifty thousand troops, including several hundred Soul Masters.
• Worton asked Ma Hongjun how they should defend the city, and Ma Hongjun replied that they had no choice but to meet the enemy as it came.

Ma Hongjun killed Worton and signaled the Heaven Frost Duchy and Evil Extermination Sect forces to attack Saliker City. As the Tang Sect’s defenses collapsed, fleeing disciples faced Tang San’s hidden safeguard: Plague Poison that would erupt if they left the city for too long.

• Worton prepared Saliker City’s defenses while the enemy army camped outside for several days without attacking.
• Ma Hongjun revealed he knew what the army was waiting for, then stabbed Worton and explained that he had switched sides.
• Ma Hongjun summoned a flaming phoenix as a signal, then used Phoenix Roaring Sky Strike to destroy the city gate as the army advanced.
• Little Angel led the troops into Saliker City and flew toward Tang Sect Headquarters to carry out her assessment.
• Tang Sect members found Worton dead and began fleeing, while Tang San’s medicinal powder suppressed Plague Poison that would erupt if they stayed away from Saliker too long.

Qian Renxue slaughtered the Tang Sect Disciples in Saliker City and destroyed the sect’s headquarters while Ning Bei and the Evil Extermination Sect dealt with the aftermath. Ning Bei then revealed that Slaughter Town held the Tang Sect’s true headquarters, giving Qian Renxue a target for her unfinished God Trial.

• Qian Renxue hunted down Tang Sect Disciples hiding among the city’s residents, though some escaped Saliker City.
• Qian Renxue split the Tang Sect Headquarters landmark building with Sword of Divinity and killed fleeing disciples with Angelic Illusion while sparing ordinary people.
• Ning Bei praised Qian Renxue’s precision, and Ma Hongjun reported that the Tang Sect Disciples in the city had been wiped out before asking to join Ning Bei’s allies.
• Ning Bei told Ma Hongjun to take herbs to resolve his Evil Fire and then report to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Oscar would help him.
• Ning Bei told Qian Renxue that Slaughter Town was the Tang Sect’s true headquarters, and they planned to set out after resting for one night.

Tang San returned to Saliker after escaping A Zhu and confronted Ma Hongjun, whom he suspected of betraying him. Ma Hongjun accused Tang San of deceiving him and poisoning both him and Oscar, leaving Tang San exposed by his certainty that Oscar was dead.

• Tang San escaped A Zhu by using his Chameleon Right Leg Bone to camouflage himself against a cliff, then headed for Saliker.
• Tang San found the Tang Sect Base in ruins and saw Ma Hongjun leaving it unharmed, so he followed him to a restaurant.
• Tang San entered Ma Hongjun's private room and secretly prepared powder to trigger the Plague Poison hidden in Ma Hongjun's meridians.
• Ma Hongjun accused Tang San of knowing the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower could not be found in the Far East and of hiding Plague Poison in his body.
• Ma Hongjun accused Tang San of poisoning Oscar, then challenged him for being so certain Oscar was dead.