Chapter Summaries

Dugu Bo and the Nine Heart Begonia Clan joined the Clear Sky Sect, and Ning Rongrong evolved her martial soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda with Tang Feng’s help. Ning Fengzhi rewarded Tang Feng with a forty-thousand-year left leg bone, and Rongrong was invited to join the group’s upcoming trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Tang Zhen formally welcomed Dugu Bo and Ye Qingxin as elders of the Clear Sky Sect, alongside Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Ning Rongrong visited Tang Feng to claim the opportunity he had promised Rongrong.
• Tang Feng gave Ning Rongrong the Aromatic Silk Beauty, and after absorbing it she evolved her martial soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and broke through rank forty.
• Ning Fengzhi thanked Tang Feng and gave him a forty-thousand-year strength-type left leg bone suited to the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Feng invited Ning Rongrong to join the group’s upcoming Soul Ring hunt in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Ning Fengzhi agreed if she wanted to go.

Tang Feng’s newly formed team set out for the Star Dou Great Forest, while Tang San and Tang Hao secretly returned to Shrek Academy to tell Yu Xiaogang that the Clear Sky Hammer was badly injured. Yu Xiaogang recalled forbidden methods that might repair its Martial Soul Origin and began to explain two perilous paths.

• Tang Feng gave Tang Jian a forty-thousand-year strength-type Left Leg Bone, which helped Tang Jian break through to rank fifty while absorbing it.
• Five days later, Tang Feng led a nine-person team toward the Star Dou Great Forest, including Tai Long and Bai Chenxiang, who needed Soul Rings.
• Tang San and Tang Hao slipped into Shrek Academy and reunited with a shocked Yu Xiaogang, who learned that Tang San could no longer summon the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao asked Yu Xiaogang how an injured Martial Soul Origin could be repaired, prompting Yu Xiaogang to recall forbidden Evil Soul Master methods.
• Yu Xiaogang said there were theoretically two extremely perilous paths to restore the Martial Soul Origin.

Tang San rejected Yu Xiaogang’s brutal proposal for repairing his Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang Hao took him and Meng Yiran away from Heaven Dou City. Later, Tang Feng led a group into the Star Dou Great Forest, where Bai Chenxiang and Ning Rongrong gained new Soul Rings and Tai Long found a fourth-ring target.

• Yu Xiaogang described two ways to repair Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer, including stealing the life force and Martial Soul Origin of another Clear Sky Hammer Soul Master, but Tang San and Tang Hao refused.
• Tang Hao decided to leave Heaven Dou City with Tang San and Meng Yiran, and the three secretly escaped Shrek Academy and headed into the night.
• Half a month later, Tang Feng led nine people from a town near the Star Dou Great Forest, assigning them a formation and objectives for their Soul Ring expedition.
• Bai Chenxiang absorbed a two-thousand-year-old Streaming Light Swallow Falcon’s Soul Ring, reached rank thirty-two, and gained Swallow Shadow Streaming Light.
• Ning Rongrong absorbed a six-thousand-year-old Crystal Armor Rhinoceros Turtle’s Soul Ring, reached rank forty-five, and gained a defensive amplification skill.
• Two days later, Tai Long found a fourth Soul Ring target in a six-thousand-five-hundred-year-old Mountain-Shaking Giant Ape.

The team hunted a twenty-one-thousand-year Berserk Demon Bear, and Tang Jian defeated it after a brutal battle. He absorbed its Soul Ring to reach rank fifty-two, then Tang Feng offered the bear’s Soul Bone to Tai Long.

• The team entered the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast territory and, after five days of tracking, found a Berserk Demon Bear with twenty-one thousand years of cultivation.
• Tang Jian, Zhu Zhuqing, and the team’s other members fought the bear for nearly an hour as Ning Rongrong boosted their attacks and Ye Lingling healed Tang Jian.
• Tang Feng revealed that the bear’s heart was vulnerable during its berserk state, and Tang Jian provoked it before striking through its mouth and smashing its chest.
• Tang Jian absorbed the bear’s Soul Ring after twelve hours of resisting its destructive will, reaching rank fifty-two and gaining the Furious Bear Strike Soul Skill.
• The bear also dropped a powerful Right Arm Bone, which Tang Jian gave to Tang Feng; Tang Feng offered it to Tai Long, who hesitated because of its value.

Tang Feng’s team encountered five Elephant Armor Sect Soul Masters who threatened the girls, and the two sides erupted into battle. Tang Feng unleashed his Clear Sky Domain and powerful hammer skills, leaving the five enemies trapped amid lava and demon-fire explosions.

• Tai Long absorbed the Soul Bone, gained the Berserk Heavy Strike skill, and reached rank forty-three.
• Tang Feng detected five powerful figures approaching, and the group encountered two Elephant Armor Sect Soul Saints, one Soul Emperor, and two Soul Kings.
• The Elephant Armor Sect members threatened the team and demanded that the girls be left behind, so Tang Feng insulted the sect and provoked them into attacking.
• Tang Feng and Tang Jian revealed their Clear Sky Hammers, and the Elephant Armor Sect members recognized the weapons and decided to kill the team to keep them silent.
• Tang Feng ordered the team into formation as Ning Rongrong boosted the fighters and Dugu Yan spread poisonous mist over the attackers.
• Tang Feng used his Clear Sky Domain, Lava Purgatory Hammer, and Heaven-Burning Meteor Strike to strike all five enemies with lava and demon-fire blasts.

The team found and killed a twenty-thousand-year Dark Night Demon Fox so Zhu Zhuqing could obtain her fifth Soul Ring. After resisting its corrosive spiritual imprint, she absorbed it and gained a stealth-based assassination skill, completing the team’s main objectives in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Tang Feng, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others located a Dark Night Demon Fox deep in the banyan grove and surrounded it to prevent its escape.
• Tang Feng drew the fox’s attacks while Zhu Zhuqing repeatedly tried to ambush it, and Ye Lingling healed Zhu Zhuqing after the fox wounded her shoulder.
• Tang Feng struck the weakened fox with the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes’ Shock Formula, leaving Zhu Zhuqing an opening to kill it.
• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the fox’s Soul Ring for nearly eight hours while resisting its illusions and corrosive spiritual imprint.
• Zhu Zhuqing reached rank fifty-two and gained the fifth Soul Skill Nether Shadow Stealth, which concealed her presence and strengthened her first attack from stealth.

Tang Feng and his teammates annihilated a five-member Elephant Armor Sect squad in the Star Dou Great Forest, then recovered a defensive Soul Bone from one of the corpses. After clearing the battlefield, they resumed searching for a Soul Beast for Zhu Zhuqing.

• Tang Feng used Devil Tiger Unleashes Might to suppress the enemies and boost his strength, then killed the two injured Soul Saints with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Zhu Zhuqing used her Dark Gold Dreadclaw and Nether Dreadclaw to kill a Soul King with a strike to the neck.
• Tang Jian crushed the other Soul King's arms and chest with a berserk Clear Sky Hammer blow.
• Tang Feng pursued and killed the fleeing Soul Emperor with a thrown hammer, ending the battle in five minutes.
• Tang Feng found a roughly twenty-thousand-year-old defensive Right Leg Bone on a Soul Saint's corpse and kept it for a future candidate or trade.
• After erasing traces and eating Oscar's Recovery Sausages, the team left the battlefield and continued searching for a Soul Beast for Zhu Zhuqing.

On the way out of the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang Feng’s team encountered Qian Renxue hunting a Holy Light White Tiger. After she mistook Tang Feng for a Clear Sky Sect genius and tried to recruit him, he refused, and she moved to detain the group; Tang Feng offered to stay behind so his teammates could leave.

• Tang Feng halted his team after sensing three powerful figures pursuing a wounded Holy Light White Tiger.
• Tang Feng and his companions emerged from hiding and recognized Qian Renxue, Snake Lance Douluo, and Porcupinefish Douluo.
• Qian Renxue suspected Tang Feng belonged to the Clear Sky Sect and offered him a place in Spirit Hall.
• Tang Feng refused Qian Renxue’s offer, and she ordered that he stay.
• Tang Feng asked Qian Renxue to let his teammates go and offered to remain alone.

Tang Feng fought Qian Renxue and two Titled Douluo after sending his companions away, revealing his Clear Sky Domain and powerful hammer techniques. Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo joined the fight, and Tang Feng narrowly escaped their combined assault by teleporting into a tree’s shadow.

• Qian Renxue let Tang Feng’s companions leave and ordered Tang Feng to stay and face her.
• Tang Feng revealed his Clear Sky Domain and six Soul Rings, then used the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes to overpower Qian Renxue’s attacks.
• Snake Lance Douluo attacked Tang Feng from behind, but Tang Feng blocked the strike with Chaotic Cloak and activated his Flame Dragon Wings to evade further attacks.
• Porcupinefish Douluo joined Snake Lance Douluo and covered Tang Feng’s escape routes with venomous spines.
• Tang Feng used his left leg Soul Bone’s Teleportation to escape the attack, though several spines grazed him.

Tang Feng fought to survive against Qian Renxue, Snake Lance Douluo, and Porcupinefish Douluo until his grandfather Tang Lie arrived and drove them away. Tang Lie healed Tang Feng and ordered him and his companions to end their training trip and return to the sect.

• Tang Feng used his Bloodthirsty Demonic Sound and Tiger-Guarding Diamond Body to resist Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo, but his Soul Power ran nearly dry.
• Qian Renxue prepared to deliver the final blow as Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo closed in on Tang Feng.
• Tang Lie arrived with his Level 96 strength and struck the ground with his giant hammer, forcing Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo to flee with Qian Renxue.
• Tang Lie healed Tang Feng, learned what had happened, and decided they would return to the sect immediately.
• Tang Feng and Tang Lie reunited with the companions, and Ye Lingling and Oscar helped Tang Feng recover.

After Tang Feng’s group survived the encounter, Qian Renxue confronted the limits of her confidence and resolved to grow stronger while advancing her Heaven Dou Empire plan. The groups left the forest, and Zhu Zhuqing prepared to return to her family and its brutal political struggles.

• Tang Lie’s group rested safely while Qian Renxue, Snake Lance Douluo, and Porcupinefish Douluo fled to a remote valley to recover from their injuries.
• Qian Renxue asked the Douluos whether they had ever encountered Tang Feng’s unprecedented Soul Ring Configuration, and they speculated that his Martial Soul or a special method might explain it.
• Qian Renxue relived her defeat by Tang Feng, then resolved to accelerate her plan in the Heaven Dou Empire and train under her grandfather in the Worship Hall.
• The next morning, Qian Renxue’s group resumed its search for a suitable Soul Beast, while Tang Feng’s group safely withdrew from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang Feng’s group rested in a nearby town, then gathered to part ways, and Zhu Zhuqing said she needed to return to her family.

Zhu Zhuqing left for the Star Luo Empire while Tang Feng and the others returned safely to the Clear Sky Sect, where Tang Xiao praised their journey and revealed his breakthrough to Level 98. Far away on Sea God Island, Tang Chen neared death in Bo Saixi’s care and entrusted her with helping Tang Feng claim the Asura Demon Sword.

• Zhu Zhuqing thanked her companions and departed alone for the Star Luo Empire, while Ning Rongrong offered help through the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s contacts.
• Tang Feng and the others traveled back to the Clear Sky Sect, discussing their cultivation gains and wishing Zhu Zhuqing well along the way.
• Tang Xiao welcomed the returning group, learned that Tang Feng had fought Qian Renxue and the Titled Douluo Snake Lance and Pufferfish, and praised the group’s efforts; he had reached Level 98.
• On Sea God Island, the dying Tang Chen told Bo Saixi that their final five months together had been the happiest time of his life and asked her to live on.
• Tang Chen asked Bo Saixi to help Tang Feng when he came to retrieve him and to give him the Asura Demon Sword, which could let him pass the first six Asura trials.
• Bo Saixi promised to protect Tang Feng and help him obtain the sword, and Tang Chen smiled with relief.

After Tang Chen died, the Asura God selected Tang Feng as his next successor and summoned him to the Asura God Temple. The Asura God offered him the chance to accept the Asura God Trial.

• Tang Chen died beside Bo Saixi, and his body merged with Sea God Island, leaving six powerful Soul Bones behind.
• Bo Saixi gathered Tang Chen's Soul Bones and placed them in her Storage Soul Tool.
• The Asura God sensed Tang Chen's death and the Asura Demon Sword's severed bond, leaving its power and inheritance available for a new successor.
• The Asura God searched those who possessed the Divine Slaughter's Domain and chose Tang Feng, whose abilities and potential impressed him.
• The Asura God summoned Tang Feng from meditation to the Asura God Temple and revealed his identity.
• The Asura God offered Tang Feng the Godhood Inheritance and asked whether he would accept the Asura God Trial.

Tang Feng learned that the Asura God had chosen him for the inheritance trial after Tang Chen’s trial was interrupted, but discovered that becoming a god would not let him return home without his former world’s coordinates. The Asura God gave him ten years to decide, leaving Tang Feng awake in his Clear Sky Sect courtyard, devastated by the loss of his hope of returning.

• The Asura God told Tang Feng that his potential, foundation, will, and fortune made him the best candidate for the inheritance after Tang Chen’s trial was interrupted.
• Tang Feng asked whether becoming a deity would let him travel to other worlds, and the Asura God explained that he would need to relinquish his godhood duties, master space-time laws, and know his destination’s coordinates.
• Tang Feng realized he had no way to identify his former world’s coordinates and was overwhelmed by despair over his lost hope of returning home.
• The Asura God gave Tang Feng ten years to reach Sea God Island and gain the Asura Demon Sword’s recognition, after which he could begin the trial once he reached Titled Douluo.
• Tang Feng returned to his room in the Clear Sky Sect courtyard and woke from the encounter, convinced it had truly happened.

After learning that returning home might be impossible without completing the Asura God's inheritance, Tang Feng questioned his years of single-minded pursuit and resolved to understand and accept the world he lived in. After several days of quiet reflection, he gathered his family, Sect Master Tang Xiao, and close companions to announce that he intended to leave the sect for a while.

• Tang Feng struggled with the possibility that he might never return home and wondered whether pursuing godhood still had meaning.
• He realized he had treated this world as a temporary place and resolved to learn about it and accept it as his home.
• For several days, Tang Feng wandered Cloud Mist Mountain and observed the surrounding villages instead of cultivating frantically.
• On the seventh morning, Tang Feng met with Tang Xiao, Tang Lie, Yang Wudi, Tang Jian, Oscar, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Tai Long, and Bai Chenxiang.
• Tang Feng calmly announced that he intended to leave the sect for a while.

Tang Feng left the Clear Sky Sect to travel as an ordinary wayfarer, hoping to broaden his understanding of the world beyond cultivation and factional struggles. He headed east and began living and working alongside villagers, listening to their daily hardships and hopes.

• Tang Feng explained to Tang Xiao, Tang Lie, Yang Wudi, and his companions that he wanted to travel to understand the continent and strengthen his state of mind.
• Tang Xiao and Tang Lie approved his decision, advised him to stay cautious, and asked him to send word that he was safe.
• Tang Feng dressed in coarse clothes, said farewell at the mountain gate, and walked away without looking back.
• Tang Feng traveled east through rural communities, exchanging work for meals and lodging while helping farmers through the seasons.
• Tang Feng learned practical skills and listened to villagers describe their worries about taxes, crop damage, poverty, and sending children to Soul Master academies.

Tang Feng witnessed the poverty and exploitation of commoners across the two empires and recognized how noble privilege and unequal access to Soul Power entrenched their suffering. The chapter left him confronting a society whose rigid hierarchy made escape from a commoner's birth seem nearly impossible.

• Tang Feng recalled village Martial Soul Awakening ceremonies, where Spirit Hall deacons offered children without Soul Power little more than consolation and families with gifted children a sliver of hope.
• Tang Feng saw miners, market vendors, and weaving workers struggling to survive under harsh working conditions and petty fees.
• Tang Feng observed nobles exploiting farmers and townspeople through forced tribute, low prices, corvée labor, and taxes while enjoying impunity.
• Tang Feng considered how corruption, military neglect, and land consolidation harmed ordinary people in the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires.
• Tang Feng recognized that inherited Martial Souls, unequal resources, and widespread beliefs in noble superiority kept commoners trapped at the bottom of society.

After nearly two years of travel, Tang Feng concluded that Spirit Hall had abandoned its duty to protect ordinary people and that the continent’s Soul Power-based order demanded fundamental change. He entered Star Luo City with a firm resolve to challenge that order and seek a fairer way forward.

• Tang Feng witnessed Evil Soul Masters’ atrocities and saw Spirit Hall’s forces neglect investigations into suspected activity.
• Tang Feng recognized that Spirit Hall had shifted from protecting the people toward political expansion and monitoring rival powers.
• Tang Feng decided that restoring the Clear Sky Sect or gaining personal strength would not be enough; he wanted to challenge the order that placed Soul Power above all.
• After nearly two years of travel, Tang Feng reached Star Luo City, capital of the Star Luo Empire, and entered unnoticed among the crowds.

Tang Feng reached rank seventy in Star Luo City and prepared to return to the Clear Sky Sect for help obtaining his Seventh Soul Ring. Before leaving, he learned that the Dai Family had ordered Zhu Zhuqing to cripple her mutated Martial Soul within three days, and that the Zhu Family was divided over how to protect her.

• Tang Feng settled into an inn, meditated, and broke through from rank sixty-nine to rank seventy.
• Tang Feng decided to return to the Clear Sky Sect and seek the help of Tang Lie and Tang Xiao in obtaining his Seventh Soul Ring.
• Tang Feng visited a teahouse to learn about the Star Luo Empire's power structure and overheard officials discussing Zhu Zhuqing's rapid cultivation and mutated Nether Civet Martial Soul.
• The men said the Dai Family had accused Zhu Zhuqing's Martial Soul of having an unknown origin and threatened to clean house if she did not cripple it within three days.
• Tang Feng learned that the Dai Family had dissolved Zhu Zhuqing's engagement and that the Zhu Family was divided over whether to protect her or yield to the imperial family.

Tang Feng learned that the Star Luo Imperial Family intended to imprison or kill Zhu Zhuqing, while Zhu Family elders expelled her and left her to face an imperial execution squad. Zhu Zhuqing fought back against five Soul Saints but was badly injured, with the imperial guards still surrounding her.

• Tang Feng quietly left a teahouse and headed toward the Zhu Family estate, searching for Zhu Zhuqing with his spiritual power.
• The Second Elder and two other Zhu Family elders ordered Zhu Zhuqing to accept the imperial family's arrangements, then formally expelled her and struck her name from the genealogy.
• Zhu Zhuqing accepted the severing of her family ties, but hundreds of imperial guards surrounded the ancestral hall and announced a secret decree to execute her.
• Zhu Zhuqing summoned her Hell Spirit Cat and fought five Soul Saint commanders, using her clones and claws to wound the Ghost Shadow Leopard Soul Saint.
• A Vajra Ape Soul Saint struck Zhu Zhuqing as she attacked, leaving her bloodied and badly injured on the floor of the ancestral hall.