Chapter Summaries

Oscar traveled back toward Heaven Dou alone, but was poisoned and came to believe Tang San had secretly attacked him before they parted. As Oscar lost consciousness, Blue Silver Grass appeared and slowed the poison’s spread.

• Tang San promised Ma Hongjun he would search for a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, and the two continued toward Slaughter City.
• Oscar rested alone overnight, planning to use Ma Hongjun’s blood to make a Mirror Sausage and hurry toward Heaven Dou.
• Oscar suddenly suffered the effects of a powerful poison and pretended to collapse, hoping to lure out an attacker.
• After no one approached, Oscar realized the poison had likely been planted earlier and recognized purple marks spreading from the shoulder Tang San had patted.
• Oscar lost consciousness and began turning purple, but Blue Silver Grass wrapped around his arm and temporarily slowed the poison.

Ning Bei saved Oscar from Tang San’s deadly poison, and Oscar asked to return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Ning Bei accepted that Oscar’s departure had been understandable, leaving their reconciliation underway.

• Ah Yin told Ning Bei that Tang San had poisoned Oscar after Oscar discovered his secret by copying his spirit and soul skills.
• Ning Bei traveled to Oscar and used a Life Restoration Pill to remove the poison, waking him from his coma.
• Oscar mistook Ning Bei for his brother-in-law before apologizing and thanking him for saving his life.
• Oscar declared his hatred for Tang San and asked Ning Bei to accept him back into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Bei told Oscar that the sect had not nurtured him carefully and that his wish to change allegiances had been understandable.

Ning Bei explained why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had kept its distance from Oscar, then accepted him into the sect and gave him an Immortal Herb to cultivate with. Oscar asked whether Ning Bei would also give Ma Hongjun an Immortal Herb, but Ning Bei refused to seek him out.

• Ning Bei told Oscar that the sect had neglected him because it feared he would side with Tang San through his ties to Shrek Academy.
• Oscar vowed never to join Tang San and accepted Ning Bei’s invitation to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Bei gave Oscar an Eight Petal Immortal Orchid and explained that it would strengthen his foundation and help his future cultivation.
• As Ning Bei prepared to take Oscar back to the sect, Oscar asked about the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower for Ma Hongjun.
• Ning Bei said he had the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower but would not go out of his way to offer it to Ma Hongjun or recruit him.

Ning Bei brought Oscar into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi welcomed him and promised him cultivation resources. After Oscar was settled, Ning Bei and Ning Fengzhi discussed establishing the Evil Extermination Sect and prepared for a coming outbreak of Evil Soul Masters.

• Ning Bei told Oscar that Ma Hongjun might eventually break with Tang San and promised to give him a chance to survive if he was not killed immediately.
• Ning Bei warned Oscar that Ning Rongrong was unlikely to defy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s rules about forming bonds with Support Soul Masters, and Oscar agreed to focus on cultivation.
• Ning Bei introduced Oscar to Ning Fengzhi, who welcomed him into the sect and agreed to provide him with cultivation elixirs.
• Ning Fengzhi arranged for Oscar’s residence after Oscar promised to help the sect in a future crisis.
• Ning Bei told Ning Fengzhi that the Evil Extermination Sect’s site had been chosen and warned that many Evil Soul Masters might soon appear and cause chaos.

Tang San and Ma Hongjun settled in Slaughter Town to establish Tang Sect, and Tang San drove off a group of Fallen Ones who targeted them. The bald leader and a rhinoceros Martial Soul user survived Tang San’s first attacks, leaving them facing him in battle.

• Tang San explained that Slaughter Town’s outskirts offered Tang Sect a better chance to survive and recruit people than the Far North Land, and Ma Hongjun agreed to stay.
• Tang San noticed a group of Fallen Ones watching their house and went outside to confront them while Ma Hongjun stayed behind.
• The group’s cautious bald leader and reckless companions argued over whether to attack Tang San and Ma Hongjun.
• Tang San released Divine Slaughter's Domain, overwhelming most of the group, then used Zhuge Repeating Crossbows and Blue Silver Grass to kill or restrain them.
• The bald leader and a fat man with a rhinoceros Martial Soul broke free and blocked Tang San’s arrows, realizing the weapons carried formidable power.

Tang San killed the Fallen Ones who attacked him, then demonstrated his Blue Silver Grass’s ability to drain corpses and transfer their nutrients and Soul Power to Worton. The chapter left Ma Hongjun wondering whether Tang San’s methods would make the whole continent hunt him down.

• Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and his Clear Sky Hammer to kill the fat man and break both of Worton’s legs.
• Worton identified himself, explained that he had fled to Slaughter Town after stealing a Spirit Bone from a Spirit Hall squad, and begged Tang San to spare him.
• Tang San bound Worton and dragged him and the attackers’ corpses back to the wooden house, where Ma Hongjun questioned why he had brought them inside.
• Tang San used his fifth spirit skill to drain the corpses, then used his sixth to transfer their blood nutrients and Soul Power into Worton.
• Worton’s legs healed and his Soul Power rose to level 68, while Ma Hongjun stared in shock and asked whether Tang San would be hunted across the continent.

Tang San persuaded Ma Hongjun to stay and help establish the Tang Sect, then used Worton's network to absorb Slaughter Town's gangs and rapidly expand. Three months later, the Tang Sect prepared to crush the last major opposition, while Ma Hongjun watched his influence and strength fall behind Worton's.

• Tang San convinced Ma Hongjun that he would use his power only on criminals, and Ma Hongjun agreed to help develop the Tang Sect.
• Tang San ordered Worton to catalogue Slaughter Town's gangs and introduced Ma Hongjun as an elder of the Tang Sect.
• Over three months, Tang San absorbed Worton's recruits and grew the Tang Sect into a powerful force with more than ten Soul Saints.
• Worton identified Niu Lei and the Anti-Tang Alliance as the Tang Sect's final obstacle, and Tang San assigned Worton and Ma Hongjun to handle the others while he fought Niu Lei.
• Ma Hongjun felt resentful as Worton treated him with contempt, having advanced far more quickly in strength.

Tang San infiltrated the Anti-Tang Alliance camp and confronted its leader, Niu Lei, after the alliance discovered that its sentries had gone missing. Their first clash left both men reeling, and Niu Lei prepared to continue fighting, confident that Tang San’s Soul Emperor cultivation could not overcome his defense.

• Tang San encouraged Ma Hongjun, who left to help Worton's group, then went to test Niu Lei’s defenses himself.
• Niu Lei accepted the Anti-Tang Alliance leaders’ praise and promised to handle Tang San while they dealt with the Tang Sect’s other protectors.
• The alliance learned that its sentries and the men sent to relieve them had gone missing, prompting the leaders to leave the banquet and search for Tang San.
• Tang San appeared before Niu Lei, rejected his offer to join the Bullpen, and revealed his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Niu Lei summoned his seven-ring stone ox and charged with Rock Impact, but Tang San met him with Clear Sky Crushing Strike, forcing both fighters back.

Tang San and Niu Lei fought a duel of overwhelming offense against formidable defense, ending with Tang San’s eighty-one-strike hammer technique leaving Niu Lei badly injured but still alive. With Ma Hongjun arriving, Tang San prepared to use their old combination skill to finish the fight by other means.

• Tang San tested Niu Lei’s layered defensive Spirit Skills with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, but his forty-nine-strike attack failed to injure him.
• As Tang San stacked the hammer technique toward its limit, Niu Lei activated his Stone Ox Avatar, and Tang San completed eighty-one strikes and smashed him into the ruins.
• Worton kept Ma Hongjun from joining the battle until Tang San’s devastating strike drew him to the Anti-Tang Alliance headquarters.
• Ma Hongjun found Tang San suffering backlash and Niu Lei badly injured, while Niu Lei claimed Tang San could not repeat the attack or deal a fatal blow.
• Tang San asked Ma Hongjun whether he remembered their combination skill from the Soul Master Competition.

Tang San and Ma Hongjun defeated Niu Lei with their Martial Soul Combination Skill, Plague Poison Flame Explosion. Afterward, Ma Hongjun admitted that he both disdained the others' methods and craved a rapid increase in strength, and Tang San encouraged him to trust his potential.

• Tang San turned his back on Niu Lei and released his Fragrant Pig Universe Fart as Ma Hongjun rose into the air.
• Ma Hongjun detonated Tang San's toxic gas with his Phoenix Piercing Cloud Strike, engulfing Niu Lei in a massive explosion.
• Tang San examined Niu Lei's charred body and confirmed that the attack had killed him.
• Tang San set off to check on the other fight, but Ma Hongjun stayed behind and confessed his doubts about wanting greater strength.
• Tang San urged Ma Hongjun to follow his own path and said finding the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower could help him rise rapidly in strength.

Tang San used Niu Lei’s corpse to raise Ma Hongjun’s cultivation from level 62 to nearly level 66, then helped the Tang Sect defeat the Anti-Tang Alliance and take control of Slaughter Town. After the battle, Tang San promised to increase the strength of the surviving Tang Sect members.

• Ma Hongjun admitted he wanted Tang San to use Niu Lei’s corpse to increase his strength, despite the risks and the slim chance of finding the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower.
• Tang San transferred the energy remaining in Niu Lei’s corpse to Ma Hongjun, raising his cultivation from level 62 to near the level 66 bottleneck.
• Tang San and Ma Hongjun joined the other battlefields, turning the fighting decisively in the Tang Sect’s favor.
• The Tang Sect defeated the Anti-Tang Alliance’s last leader and took control of Slaughter Town.
• Worton praised Tang San and Ma Hongjun, and Tang San promised to increase the surviving Tang Sect members’ strength using their battle spoils.

Tang San established the Tang Sect in Slaughter Town and planned its expansion into the Heaven Dou Empire, first targeting the Salikol Duchy. As Worton and Ma Hongjun prepared to lead the advance, Tang San focused on the sect’s broader plan and his own breakthrough.

• Tang San ordered Worton to search the Volcano Cluster for a scarlet sunflower-like plant while the others consolidated their control of Slaughter Town.
• Tang San explained to Ma Hongjun that the Tang Sect needed to build its strength before risking a wider conflict with the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Tang San sent Worton to seize the Salikol Duchy and told him to stop there, consolidate resources, and await further decisions.
• Ma Hongjun volunteered to join the campaign after abandoning hope of finding the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, and Tang San approved.
• Tang San reflected that Ma Hongjun would die after contributing to the Tang Sect’s fame, while Tang Xian had established the Tool Hall at the sect headquarters.

After the Tang Sect took the Salikol Duchy, Tang San chose to establish a guild there that would accept missions, including assassination and Soul Hunting work, instead of continuing its military expansion. He began arranging the guild and ordered Worton to prepare for a possible counterattack by the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Worton’s Tang Sect forces occupied the Salikol Duchy in three days, meeting little resistance and leaving civilians and infrastructure largely unharmed.
• Tang San arrived after breaking through to Level 67 and said he wanted to turn the duchy into a transit station connecting the outside world with Slaughter Town.
• Worton asked whether the Tang Sect would attack the Heaven Frost Duchy and Tokes Province next, but Tang San said he would establish a mission guild instead.
• Tang San explained that the Tang Sect would accept work from nobles who wanted others to handle inconvenient targets, making the sect’s work include assassination as well as Soul Hunting.
• Worton supported Tang San’s plan, and Tang San assigned him to organize defenses against a possible Heaven Dou Empire counterattack.

Tang San chose Tokes Province governor Snow Sword as the Tang Sect’s first assassination target after learning how his alliance with the Hong Family threatened the Aos and Liu Families. He offered the two patriarchs a way out by promising to remove Snow Sword, but they doubted he could overcome the Soul Saint and his subordinates.

• Tang San sent Ma Hongjun to hold down Salikol Duchy while he traveled to Heaven Frost Duchy and Tokes Province to find the Tang Sect’s first target.
• Tang San learned that Snow Sword had allied with the Hong Family to expand his control over Tokes Province and weaken the Aos and Liu Families.
• Patriarch Aos and Patriarch Liu discussed abandoning their businesses as Snow Sword’s pressure on their families increased.
• Tang San emerged from hiding and offered to help the patriarchs break the deadlock on the Tang Sect’s behalf.
• Tang San proposed making Snow Sword disappear, but the fat middle-aged patriarch scoffed at the plan because Snow Sword was a Soul Saint with powerful subordinates.

Tang San persuaded Patriarch Aos and Patriarch Liu to hire Tang Sect to assassinate Snow Sword, demonstrating his power and revealing his plan to build Tang Sect into a continent-wide assassin organization. The patriarchs agreed to pay a deposit in three days, and Tang San promised Snow Sword would die the day it was paid.

• Tang San told Patriarch Aos and Patriarch Liu he could help them deal with Snow Sword without exposing their involvement, but they doubted his abilities.
• Tang San revealed that he had poisoned both patriarchs before they saw him, then restored their strength to prove he had many ways to defeat his enemies.
• Patriarch Liu recognized that Tang San wanted more than Tokes Province, and Tang San explained that he planned to make Tang Sect the leading assassin organization in the underworld.
• Tang San demanded ten percent of both families' assets and half the commission in advance to assassinate Snow Sword.
• Patriarch Liu agreed on behalf of the two families to pay the deposit in three days, and Tang San said Snow Sword would die that day.

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.