Chapter Summaries

Ling Yuan revealed Spirit Hall’s infiltration plan and gave Long Qianming a list of undercover agents in his businesses. Long Qianming exposed the network in Häagen-Dazs, killed the manager who attacked him, and began identifying the remaining suspects.

• Ling Yuan told Long Qianming that Spirit Hall had planted Soul Masters in his businesses and handed him a list of agents she knew.
• Long Qianming accepted Ling Yuan into his camp, instructed Bibi Dong to care for the two children, and hurried to Häagen-Dazs.
• Long Qianming closed the city’s businesses and summoned all seventy-three Soul Masters of Soul Elder rank or higher to a meeting.
• Long Qianming confronted the gathering about betrayal and invited the guilty to confess, then crushed the hotel manager with spiritual pressure when he attacked.
• Long Qianming revealed his Titled Douluo strength and three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, then matched the names on Ling Yuan’s list to those present.

Long Qianming exposed infiltrators in his businesses and offered them a chance to join the Heavenly Dragon Sect in exchange for loyalty. By the time Heavenly Dragon Academy and its training grounds were completed, he had recruited more than sixteen hundred Soul Masters and their families.

• Long Qianming identified a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan infiltrator among the suspected spies and gave the assembled infiltrators the choice to leave or join his sect.
• The infiltrators chose to follow Long Qianming after he promised academy access for their children and showed them Soul Bones as rewards for outstanding students.
• Long Qianming rewarded twenty-five Soul Elders with pills, then urged the infiltrators to reveal other agents in his businesses in exchange for future rewards.
• Long Qianming used the informants and business rosters to find and recruit hidden agents across the empire, gathering more than sixteen hundred Soul Masters and their families in less than a year.
• Heavenly Dragon Academy was completed in the south of the city, and its Mimicry Training Grounds for the ten elemental attributes began operating.

Three years later, Long Qianming ordered Lin Shan to prepare a strike against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, intending to capture its scattered disciples alive before settling his grudge with the clan. Lin Shan began the operation in Heaven Dou City, while Long Qianming promised him a chance to undergo his Martial Soul’s Second Awakening afterward.

• Long Qianming played with Long Zishu at Heavenly Dragon Academy, then sent her away with Ah Yin when Lin Shan arrived.
• Lin Shan reported that the clan’s disciples outside their territory were under surveillance and that the five-meter great bell Long Qianming commissioned was ready.
• Long Qianming gave Lin Shan a Yin Yang Token for his future Second Awakening and ordered him to capture the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s scattered disciples alive within three days.
• Lin Shan led powerful Soul Masters to raid a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan business in Heaven Dou City, arresting or knocking out designated targets despite the staff’s protests.

Long Qianming’s campaign against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan spread across the continent, capturing or hunting down its scattered members. As Yu Yuanzhen sought help from the Clear Sky Sect and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Long Qianming appeared above the clan.

• Long Qianming’s forces arrested fifty-six Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan descendants and began dismantling the clan’s businesses and pursuing its hidden members.
• A collateral disciple and his family tried to return to the clan, but three Soul Masters found them and chased the man as he fled with his son.
• Yu Luomian urged Yu Yuanzhen to seek Spirit Hall’s protection, but Yu Yuanzhen refused and instead ordered the Clear Sky Sect and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to send help.
• An elder reported that the disciples sent away under the Martial Soul inheritance plan were disappearing, and Yu Luomian urged Yu Yuanzhen to recall the others.
• Long Qianming appeared above the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as the sky darkened and a massive dragon coiled in the clouds.

Long Qianming arrived at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and rejected Yu Yuanzhen’s offer to surrender, giving the clan members three minutes to choose whether to leave or die. As disciples began fleeing, Yu Luomian tried to stop them and was crushed to death by Long Qianming’s pressure.

• Yu Yuanzhen and the clan elders decided that surrendering to Long Qianming was their only chance to preserve the clan.
• Long Qianming arrived atop the Dark Sacred Dragon Emperor, while his forces surrounded the mountain and drove fleeing disciples back toward the summit.
• Yu Yuanzhen offered to submit, but Long Qianming rang a great bell and gave everyone three minutes to choose whether to leave or die.
• A wounded Thunder Lizard Soul Master escaped after declaring that his service to the clan had settled his debts, encouraging other unaffiliated disciples to leave.
• Yu Luomian threatened the departing disciples, and Long Qianming’s pressure crushed his ribs until they pierced his heart and killed him.

Long Qianming confronted the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and revealed that Yu Yuanzhen had once cast him aside as a child. He rejected Yu Yuanzhen’s pleas for reconciliation and prepared to destroy the clan.

• Long Qianming killed Yu Luomian with crushing pressure, leaving Yu Yuanzhen and the clan members horrified.
• Long Qianming reminded Yu Yuanzhen of the six-year-old child with a trash Martial Soul, and Yu Yuanzhen recognized him as his supposedly dead son.
• The elders tried to win Long Qianming over by offering him the clan leadership, but he and Yu Yuanzhen silenced them with a wave of draconic might.
• Yu Yuanzhen claimed he had abandoned Long Qianming to test him and begged him to return, but Long Qianming vowed to erase the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon bloodline.
• A clan member exposed Yu Xiaolie’s attempt to flee; Yu Yuanzhen condemned his son, then pleaded for the clan’s lives as Long Qianming’s Dark Sacred Dragon Emperor descended with flames gathering in its jaws.

Long Qianming destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and spared the crippled Yu Yuanzhen, condemning him to live alone in the ruined mountain range and repent. He brought Yu Yuanzhen to the site of his former home, where they found only weeds, ruins, and scorched earth.

• Yu Yuanzhen attacked Long Qianming with his clan's elders, but Xiao Tian's Inextinguishable Black Flame burned him nearly to death.
• Long Qianming's dragon-tail strike killed Yu Xiaolie and many clansmen, then he hunted down all eight fleeing elders.
• Long Qianming ordered the execution of 259 captured members of the clan, including the young Yu Tianxin, despite pleas to spare him.
• Yu Yuanzhen begged Long Qianming to kill him, but Long Qianming left him alive to repent for what he had done to Long Qianming's mother.
• Long Qianming carried Yu Yuanzhen to his former home and found it reduced to weeds, ruins, and a patch scorched by black flames.

Long Qianming avenged his mother by forcing Yu Yuanzhen to kneel at her grave before burning his body and leaving with his followers. After the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was destroyed, the Clear Sky Sect sealed its gates and sent Long Qianming tribute, while he brought his family and followers to the Star Yang Mountain Range for an important undertaking.

• Long Qianming brought the dying Yu Yuanzhen to his mother's grave, broke his legs, and forced him to kneel until he died.
• Long Qianming cleared and reopened his mother's grave, burned Yu Yuanzhen's body, and departed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's ruins with most of his followers.
• Long Qianming rewarded Lin Shan with a lightning-type lesser dragon left arm bone for his service.
• News of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's destruction spread, and Tang Zhen died from fear before Tang Xiao sealed the Clear Sky Sect and sent Long Qianming money and ore.
• Long Qianming brought Bibi Dong, Long Xiaoyao, Long Zishu, Dugu Yan, and his followers to the Star Yang Mountain Range near the Five Elements Yin Yang Spring.

Long Qianming raised ten peaks above the clouds and introduced the structure and rules of the Heavenly Dragon Sect. The gathered leaders received thick rulebooks as Long Qianming began taking questions about the new sect.

• Long Qianming used ten Soul Tools to lift ten mountains and anchored them with chains, explaining that the tools would keep the peaks aloft.
• Long Qianming and Bibi Dong led the group onto the floating peaks, where they gathered on the highest summit.
• Long Qianming announced that Heavenly Dragon Academy would select talent for the Heavenly Dragon Sect, which would comprise seven peaks and three halls.
• Long Qianming described the Ten Elders, the roles of the peaks and halls, and a Rakshasa Bell system for reporting crimes.
• Long Qianming distributed rulebooks containing the sect's regulations and duties, then explained that the rules were meant to ensure a stable and equal environment.
• One of the gathered members asked Long Qianming a question.

Long Qianming appointed leaders for the Heavenly Dragon Sect and oversaw the completion of its buildings across ten peaks. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang, Yu Tianheng, and Liu Erlong grieved the fall of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, with Liu Erlong hoping Xiaogang was still alive.

• Long Qianming explained the purpose of the Soul Tool Hall and appointed Bibi Dong and Wang Lin as deputy hall masters of the Punishment Hall, Dugu Bo as Mission Hall master, and several others as peak masters.
• Long Qianming asked Bibi Dong to oversee sect construction, while Long Zishu and Long Xiaoyao teased their father for trying to avoid responsibility.
• More than a thousand Soul Masters finished the buildings and roads on the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s ten peaks in less than half a month.
• Yu Xiaogang drank alone in a small city and blamed Long Qianming for destroying the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yu Tianheng stopped Liu Erlong from confronting Long Qianming, warning that revealing they had survived could put them in danger; Liu Erlong mourned Yu Xiaogang and hoped he was alive.

Long Qianming used the Dragon God's power in Dragon Valley to try to revive extinct Soul Beasts, and after three years, a Golden Qilin was born. With the Qilin tasked with continuing the revival, Long Qianming faced six powerful Soul Beasts who arrived to meet the auspicious beast.

• Long Qianming released fifteen mountains of Soul Beast remains in Dragon Valley and cultivated with the Dragon God's Heart to revive extinct Soul Beasts.
• After three years, Long Qianming reached rank 99, and a Golden Qilin spontaneously formed from the Dragon God Origin gathered over the remains.
• The Golden Qilin thanked Long Qianming for his new life, and Long Qianming ordered him to use his auspicious power to revive the dead Soul Beasts.
• Six Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts arrived, and Long Qianming summoned Xiao Tian, the Nether Thunder Azure Dragon, and the dragon souls to confront them.
• The Earth Domain Coiling Dragon said the group only wished to meet the Golden Qilin, and Long Qianming agreed not to pursue their arrival.

Long Qianming confirmed that the Dragon Soul Banner could resurrect a Soul Beast and return its beast soul to the banner, then hurried back to the Heavenly Dragon Sect for his children’s Martial Soul Awakening. He arrived just in time to begin Dugu Yan’s awakening, which left her feeling discomfort as golden light filled the formation.

• Long Qianming tested the Dragon Soul Banner by resurrecting a Golden Dragon Lion cub, killing it, and watching its beast soul return to the banner.
• Long Qianming explained his plan to use the banner to resurrect Soul Beasts and expand their population, then left it in Dragon Valley with instructions for the six Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• Long Qianming returned to the Heavenly Dragon Sect, where Bibi Dong and the others had gathered for the children’s Martial Soul Awakening.
• Long Qianming set up the awakening formation and called Dugu Yan forward to awaken her martial soul first.
• Dugu Yan entered the formation and felt discomfort as golden light appeared, while Long Qianming urged her to sense the changes in her body.

Dugu Yan awakened twin Martial Souls—the Jade Phosphor Poison Dragon and Emerald Dragon—with innate full Soul Power. Long Xiaoyao also had innate full Soul Power and discovered his Black Dragon Spear could transform into a Dark Sacred Dragon; as Long Zishu began her awakening, a Death Dragon Spider Empress appeared on her shoulder and a miniature Dark Sacred Dragon emerged from a tear in space.

• Dugu Yan awakened the Jade Phosphor Poison Dragon and Emerald Dragon, then tested as having innate full Soul Power.
• Long Zishu eagerly waited while Long Qianming had Long Xiaoyao enter the awakening formation first.
• Long Xiaoyao manifested a black-and-gold spear, learned it could transform into a Dark Sacred Dragon, and tested as having innate full Soul Power.
• Long Zishu entered the formation and awakened a Death Dragon Spider Empress that climbed onto her shoulder.
• A space tore open behind Long Zishu, and a miniature Dark Sacred Dragon emerged and landed on her other shoulder.

Long Zishu awakened twin martial souls and innate full soul power, then Long Qianming took her, the other children, and Dugu Bo to the Star Dou Great Forest. Meanwhile, Tang San awakened a native dog martial soul but also showed innate full soul power, and he was directed to enroll at Nuoding Academy.

• Long Zishu chose to follow Dong'er's advice about which martial soul to cultivate first, then tested at innate full soul power.
• Long Qianming and Dugu Bo left for the Star Dou Great Forest with the three children to obtain soul rings.
• The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud emitted a strand of pale platinum energy that drifted toward Holy Soul Village.
• Tang San concealed the Clear Sky Hammer during his awakening and manifested a gray native dog martial soul.
• Tang San's soul power test revealed innate full soul power, but he declined Su Yuntao's offer to join Spirit Hall.
• Su Yuntao gave Tang San a martial soul certificate for Nuoding Academy and left to continue the village awakenings.

Tang San awakened twin Martial Souls, prompting Tang Hao to approve his studies at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy and warn him to hide the Clear Sky Hammer from their enemies. While preparing lunch, Tang San met the Sea God in his mind and learned he had been chosen to inherit the god’s position, but the revelation left him frightened by the dangers ahead.

• Old Jack brought Tang San home and urged Tang Hao to let him attend Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, but Tang Hao dismissed Tang San’s wolf Martial Soul as useless.
• Tang San revealed the Clear Sky Hammer in his left hand, and Tang Hao agreed to his schooling while ordering him to cultivate only his wolf Martial Soul, conceal the hammer, and keep a low profile.
• As Tang San prepared lunch, the Sea God appeared in his sea of spiritual consciousness and chose him as a successor, promising extra Soul Power with each of his first five Soul Rings.
• The Sea God warned Tang San that the lower realm was dangerous and that he needed to inherit the divine position to have a chance at revenge.
• Tang San wondered whether the Sea God’s visit was real and feared that his father’s enemy might be an existence comparable to a god.

Long Qianming brought the children to the core zone of the Star Dou Great Forest to meet Bi Ji and arrange suitable Soul Rings for them. He offered Bi Ji a Dragon Soul Banner that he said could eventually restore absorbed beast souls to life, leaving her ready to test his claim.

• Long Qianming led the children and Dugu Bo into the core zone, explaining that the Soul Beasts there would provide suitable Soul Rings and that he had other matters to settle.
• At the Lake of Life, Bi Ji greeted Long Qianming, and he introduced her as a four-hundred-and-ten-thousand-year Ferocious Beast and the current leader of the Soul Beast Clan.
• The children played with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion while Long Qianming and Bi Ji went into a treehouse and set up Soul Power barriers.
• Long Qianming gave Bi Ji a Dragon Soul Banner and said beast souls placed inside could eventually revive in new bodies.
• Bi Ji questioned whether the banner could truly revive Soul Beasts, and Long Qianming suggested testing it with a Ten-Year Soul Beast or an ordinary creature.

Long Qianming demonstrated how the Dragon Soul Banner could strengthen and resurrect Soul Beast souls, prompting Bi Ji to rally the Soul Beast leaders around its potential. He then helped Long Zishu and Dugu Yan choose which of their Martial Souls to cultivate first, leaving both girls set on their paths.

• Long Qianming used the Dragon Soul Banner to absorb and restore six Soft Bone Rabbit souls, then explained the banner's combat potential to Bi Ji.
• He strengthened Blue Silver Grass and Lightning Rabbit souls, and Bi Ji observed that the revived Lightning Rabbits had improved bloodlines and surpassed their cultivation limits.
• Bi Ji thanked Long Qianming and hurried away to discuss the banner with the Soul Beast clan leaders, while he warned that it needed protection from a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Long Qianming asked Long Zishu which Martial Soul she would cultivate first, and she chose her Death Dragon Spider Empress Martial Soul, following her mother's advice for twin Martial Soul Soul Masters.
• Long Qianming recommended that Dugu Yan cultivate her Jade Phosphor Poison Dragon Martial Soul first, and she agreed, saying she wanted to follow Long Xiaoyao's example.

Long Qianming organized the Soul Beasts seeking to enter the Dragon Soul Banner, while Zi Ji volunteered to become a beast soul to help the Soul Beast Clan. He accepted her choice and said her Soul Ring and Soul Bone could be absorbed by his son, prompting Long Zishu to ask about changing her cultivation path.

• Long Qianming supported Dugu Yan’s choice of Soul Master role and challenged Long Zishu to follow a strict training schedule if she wanted to become a Power Attack System Soul Master.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed a familiar connection of fate and fortune in Long Qianming, who told her he had met another Auspicious Beast.
• Bi Ji brought Ferocious Beasts and tribe chiefs to Long Qianming, and many offered to enter the Dragon Soul Banner with their clansmen.
• Zi Ji, chief of the Hell Demon Dragon clan, volunteered to enter the Dragon Soul Banner as a beast soul, but Xiong Jun objected and argued that he was better suited to guard it.
• Zi Ji explained that she wanted to follow Di Tian’s example and sacrifice herself for the Soul Beast Clan, and Long Qianming accepted her offer.
• Long Zishu asked whether she could replace her planned Death Dragon Spider Empress with the Dark Sacred Dragon Martial Soul, but Long Qianming told her to keep to her five-Martial-Soul cultivation path.

Long Qianming oversaw Zi JI’s sacrifice to give Long Xiaoyao a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and a Soul Bone, while Long Zishu and Dugu Yan received suitable lower-age rings. Long Xiaoyao reached Soul Power rank twenty and learned four Soul Skills, and the chapter ended with Long Qianming praising the sealed power he would unlock as he grew stronger.

• Long Qianming reassured Long Zishu and Dugu Yan that they would receive suitable Soul Rings, while several ferocious beasts volunteered to become beast souls in exchange for places in the Dragon Soul Banner.
• Long Qianming asked Bi Ji to find suitable one-to-two-thousand-year soul beasts for the two girls, then prepared Long Xiaoyao for Zi JI’s sacrifice.
• Zi JI sacrificed herself to create a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring for Long Xiaoyao, while her Soul Bone merged with his right arm and she sealed the ring’s power behind five seals.
• Long Qianming transferred Zi JI’s weakened beast soul into the Dragon Soul Banner and gave the banner to Bi Ji for the Soul Beast Clan to manage.
• Two suitable soul beasts sacrificed their Soul Rings for Long Zishu and Dugu Yan, and Long Qianming discovered that Long Xiaoyao had reached Soul Power rank twenty and gained four Soul Skills.

Long Zishu, Long Xiaoyao, and Dugu Yan completed their first Soul Ring absorption, and Long Xiaoyao chose to pursue Dragon Transformation. Long Qianming devised another way to develop that ability and agreed to stay with Bi Ji’s group, while asking to claim the bodies of draconic Soul Beasts whose souls entered the Dragon Soul Banner.

• Long Zishu reached rank 15 Soul Power, while Long Xiaoyao and Dugu Yan each reached rank 20; Long Qianming reduced Long Zishu’s copying punishment to ten times.
• Long Qianming arranged suitable second Soul Rings for Long Xiaoyao and Dugu Yan, whose absorption limits had increased for different reasons.
• Long Xiaoyao told Long Qianming he wanted to become a dragonman, and Long Qianming considered how to develop Dragon Transformation without relying on rare Soul Beasts and five-element body tempering.
• Long Qianming recalled the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s Dragon Transformation method and decided to try a similar cultivation path for the children.
• Long Xiaoyao and Dugu Yan obtained their second Soul Rings, reaching ranks 28 and 24 respectively.
• Bi Ji asked Long Qianming to stay because the Dragon Soul Banner and the Soul Beast Clan’s defenses needed support; Long Qianming agreed and asked for the bodies of draconic Soul Beasts that became beast souls.