Chapter Summaries

Lin Rong reached level fifty and traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest, where he obtained his Fifth Soul Ring and discovered it granted Dragon Soul Clone. After learning that Lin Rong had entered the forest, Tang Yuehua sent Tang Xiao and Tai Tan to intercept him, and Lin Rong prepared to confront whoever was waiting at the exit.

• Lin Rong broke through to level fifty at age ten and set out for the Star Dou Great Forest with the Old Butler.
• Tang Yuehua learned of Lin Rong’s breakthrough, ordered Butler Aude to notify Tai Tan, and hurried back to the Tang Sect.
• Lin Rong absorbed a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring from a Green Wood Twin Lotus and gained Dragon Soul Clone, which created a second Nine Bend Vine Dragon with all his spirit skills except the fifth.
• Tang Xiao and Tai Tan reached the forest and hid near its entrance, hoping to catch Lin Rong when he came out.
• Lin Rong found that the Green Wood Twin Lotus had dropped a Left Leg Bone and a Right Leg Bone, stored them for later, and told Grandpa Yu to prepare for battle at the forest entrance.

Lin Rong and the Old Butler confronted Tang Xiao and Tai Tan, who had prepared an ambush at the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest. The Old Butler battled Tang Xiao while Lin Rong trapped Tai Tan in a banyan forest and prepared to test his soul bone skill.

• Lin Rong told the Old Butler he would handle Tai Tan while the Old Butler fought Tang Xiao.
• Lin Rong and the Old Butler approached openly, and Lin Rong used his Vine Dragon Domain before the Old Butler’s attack forced Tang Xiao and Tai Tan out of hiding.
• Tang Xiao saw Lin Rong’s five-ring cultivation and ordered Tai Tan to follow their plan, then fought the Old Butler after spotting his hundred-thousand-year spirit ring.
• Lin Rong summoned his Nine Bend Vine Dragons and trapped Tai Tan beneath banyan roots inside a Thunder Barrier.
• Tai Tan activated his Martial Soul Avatar and broke free, prompting Lin Rong to prepare Thunder Prison: Heavenly Punishment for a combat test.

Lin Rong tested the power of his Thunderclap Nether Vine Soul Bone against Tai Tan and then unleashed its second stage, the True Form of the Thunder Dragon. The chapter ended with Tai Tan struck by the Thunder True Dragon while Lin Rong left him with a final rebuke.

• Lin Rong's Thunder Prison: Heavenly Punishment scorched Tai Tan and showed Lin Rong that he could contend with soul masters below the Titled Douluo rank.
• Lin Rong summoned the Thunder True Dragon as Tai Tan tried to break through the Thunder Barrier.
• Tai Tan's attempt to escape was interrupted by Lin Rong's Evil-Breaking Dragon's Roar, and the barrier repaired itself before he could break through.
• Tai Tan charged toward Lin Rong, but Lin Rong used silver-white light to evade and appeared outside the barrier.
• The Thunder True Dragon swept Tai Tan into a pit, struck him with lightning, and passed through his body as Lin Rong bid him farewell.

Lin Rong and Yu Yuan defeated Tang Xiao after Titan died and Tang Xiao tried to flee. Tang Xiao used Exploding Ring to break Yu Yuan’s attack, but its backlash killed him.

• Titan died after Lightning Shadow pierced him, and Tang Xiao became distracted by the explosion.
• Tang Xiao hurled his Clear Sky Hammer toward Lin Rong to draw Yu Yuan away, then fled, but Yu Yuan appeared in his path.
• Yu Yuan trapped Tang Xiao with the nine stars and unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill, Starfall: Heavenly Phoenix Azure Origin Break.
• Tang Xiao shattered six Soul Rings and used the Great Sumeru Hammer to break free and clash with the Nine-Plumed Star Phoenix.
• Lin Rong and Yu Yuan escaped the blast with Spatial Swap, and Tang Xiao died from Exploding Ring’s backlash.

Lin Rong and the Old Butler recovered Tang Xiao’s soul bone and searched the Soul Tools of Tang Xiao and Tai Tan, finding Clear Sky cultivation notes and Tang Sect weapon materials. Lin Rong left with valuable resources and plans to use the blueprints to challenge Tang San’s control of Tang Sect hidden weapons.

• The Old Butler took Tang Xiao’s over seventy-thousand-year left arm soul bone after Lin Rong gave it to him.
• The Old Butler explained that Tang Xiao’s mastery of the Nine Absolute Skills of Clear Sky had made him a formidable opponent despite Lin Rong’s Talent Domain helping turn the battle.
• Lin Rong searched Tang Xiao’s Soul Tool and found a booklet containing Clear Sky Hammer cultivation insights, including notes on the Great Sumeru Hammer.
• Lin Rong inspected Tai Tan’s Soul Tool and found Tang Sect hidden-weapon blueprints and finished weapons, blacksmithing notes, Iron Smith Hand instructions, metals, and poisons.
• Lin Rong decided the complete blueprints and finished weapons could help him break Tang San’s monopoly over Tang Sect hidden weapons.

After Tang Xiao's death, Lin Rong confronted Feng Xiaotian and Godwind Academy's headmaster, Mu Feng, because they had witnessed him and Old Butler at the scene. Mu Feng pledged Godwind Academy's loyalty, and Lin Rong tasked him with winning over the other three Elemental Academies when future upheaval made them vulnerable.

• Lin Rong and Old Butler found Feng Xiaotian and Mu Feng hiding nearby and told them they could surrender or die.
• Feng Xiaotian recalled meeting Lin Rong four years earlier and explained that he and Mu Feng had come to investigate the battle.
• Lin Rong said their presence was enough to prevent them from leaving and gave them one minute to decide their fate.
• Mu Feng pledged Godwind Academy's direct teachers and students to Lin Rong's duke and asked about Old Butler's strength.
• Lin Rong ordered Mu Feng to win over Blazing Academy, Skywater Academy, and Thunderclap Academy, and Mu Feng agreed to try.
• Lin Rong predicted a future upheaval would leave the four academies relying on their direct-line members, giving Mu Feng a chance to persuade the other academy heads.

Lin Rong tasked Feng Xiaotian with winning the tournament championship and obtaining Spirit Hall’s Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, then offered him a different way to overcome Spirit Hall’s team. Feng Xiaotian left with a book explaining the Seven-in-One Fusion Skill, while Lin Rong revealed that his own Ring Fusion could let him wield power equivalent to a level 96 Titled Douluo.

• Lin Rong asked Feng Xiaotian to win the tournament four years later and hand him the Spirit-Gathering Wisdom Skull, and Feng Xiaotian assessed Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation as a formidable obstacle.
• Feng Xiaotian requested a powerful Soul King as an outside reinforcement, but Lin Rong refused because that person had more important duties.
• Lin Rong told Feng Xiaotian that he had a safer route to victory and asked whether he knew the Seven-in-One Fusion Skill.
• Mu Feng explained the skill to Feng Xiaotian, and Lin Rong gave them a book containing a theory master’s method for combining different martial souls through Ring Fusion.
• Lin Rong revealed that Ring Fusion could work with fewer than seven people and that he and the Old Butler could use it to give Lin Rong power comparable to a level 96 Titled Douluo.

Lin Rong returned safely to Heaven Dou City, while Tang San grew suspicious that Tang Yuehua had drawn Tai Tan into a plot involving the Tang Sect’s hidden weapon blueprints. Lin Rong planned to recruit Lou Gao to build a hidden weapon production line and prepared to use the Green Leaf Mark he had secretly placed on him.

• Feng Xiaotian praised Yu Xiaogang’s theory of the Seven-in-One Fusion Skill before Lin Rong and the Old Butler departed for Heaven Dou City.
• After Lin Rong returned, Tang Yuehua feared that Tang Xiao had failed to kill him but reassured herself that Tang Xiao was powerful enough to survive.
• Tang San questioned Taino about Tai Tan’s month-long absence and learned that Tai Tan had left after receiving a message from Moonlight Pavilion.
• Tang San suspected Tang Yuehua had persuaded Tai Tan to steal the Tang Sect’s hidden weapon blueprints, and her uneasy reaction strengthened his suspicions.
• Lin Rong examined the hidden weapon blueprints and decided to lure Lou Gao into helping build a production line, relying on the Green Leaf Mark he had placed on Lou Gao.

Lin Rong assessed the growth of his soul bones and planned to abduct Lou Gao from the Tang Sect after nightfall. He also prepared for Tang Hao’s likely response to Tang Xiao’s death, deciding to monitor and ambush him while considering the soul bones and other treasures he could seize.

• Lin Rong examined his growing Divinity and soul bones, noting that two were close to becoming Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and anticipating a new ability from the Heart of the Banyan Wood.
• Lin Rong decided to wait until night to abduct Lou Gao from the Tang Sect and considered how to manage the fallout from Tang Xiao’s death.
• Lin Rong reasoned that Tang Hao might seek revenge or lie low for Tang San, then ordered Shadow Guards in Nuoding City to watch him and alert Lin Rong if he left Holy Spirit Village.
• Lin Rong planned to ambush Tang Hao with the Old Butler on the road to Heaven Dou City and considered claiming Tang Hao’s soul bones, Blue Silver Emperor Life Seed, and transformed spirit beast.
• Lin Rong planned to give the hundred-thousand-year rabbit soul bone to Grandpa Yu and use the Blue Silver Emperor Life Seed to strengthen the Blue Silver King before selecting his Sixth Soul Ring.

Lin Rong infiltrated the Tang Sect and abducted Lou Gao, discovering and taking the nearly completed Peacock Plume and its materials. He returned to the forging room’s alley teleport point while Tang San felt an ominous premonition but dismissed it.

• Lin Rong considered who could absorb the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring and concluded that no one under him was suitable for it at present.
• Lin Rong teleported from an alley in southern Heaven Dou City into Lou Gao’s private forging room at the Tang Sect.
• Lin Rong knocked Lou Gao unconscious and stored him in the Ruyi Bag of Treasures.
• Lin Rong took the rare metals and found that Lou Gao had nearly completed the Peacock Plume, including its components and the Black Veined Iron for its final pieces.
• Lin Rong took the Peacock Plume components and left the Tang Sect, while Tang San felt foreboding and planned to check on Lou Gao the next morning.

Tang San discovered that Lou Gao had left the Tang Sect with its Rare Metals, while Lou Gao eagerly began forging for Lin Rong after receiving Cold Heart Iron Essence. Lin Rong withheld his Deep Sea Silver to protect Lou Gao and retain his usefulness, and waited for Tang Yuehua to learn of Tang Xiao’s death so he could pursue what Tang Hao carried.

• Tang San entered Lou Gao’s locked forging room through a hidden passage and found Lou Gao and the Rare Metals gone.
• Lou Gao recognized Lin Rong’s Cold Heart Iron Essence and left to continue forging the Peacock Plume, asking whether Lin Rong had Deep Sea Silver for the Rain of Pear Blossom Needles.
• Lin Rong concealed his Deep Sea Silver, reasoning that forging the Rain of Pear Blossom Needles could cost Lou Gao his life and that Lou Gao was more valuable alive.
• Lin Rong reflected that Lou Gao had readily abandoned the Tang Sect for better materials and planned to use his connections to build a hidden-weapon manufacturing team.
• Lin Rong wondered whether Tang Yuehua had learned that Tang Xiao was dead and hoped she would soon send people to investigate, giving him a chance to obtain what Tang Hao carried.

Lou Gao completed the Peacock Plume for Lin Rong, who tested his Exploding Ring technique and planned to test the weapon against Tang Hao. After a long wait, Lin Rong and Old Butler ambushed Tang Hao’s route near Heaven Dou City.

• Lou Gao assembled the Peacock Plume and delivered it to Lin Rong, who rewarded him with thousands of Dragon Whisker Needles.
• Lin Rong tested Exploding Ring on all five Soul Rings and found that detonating the Fifth Ring or detonating four rings together exceeded what his body could withstand.
• Lin Rong studied the Peacock Plume and decided to test whether it could kill the injured Tang Hao in an ambush.
• Tang Yuehua received news of Tang Xiao’s death and sent word to Tang Hao, who set out for Heaven Dou City.
• Lin Rong learned that Tang Hao had left Holy Spirit Village and took Old Butler to wait along his route; after seven days, Tang Hao appeared at the canyon.

Lin Rong ambushed Tang Hao at the gorge with the poisoned Peacock Plume and killed him. At the same moment, Tang San felt unexplained grief, then used the resulting opening to loosen the bottleneck in his Yang Wei Meridian.

• Tang Hao hurried through the gorge toward Heaven Dou City, wondering what had caused his elder brother's death.
• Lin Rong prepared the Peacock Plume with concentrated Snow Swan Kiss essence and aimed it at the gorge's exit.
• When Tang Hao emerged, Lin Rong fired the Peacock Plume; the hidden weapons pierced Tang Hao and triggered his suppressed injuries and poisons.
• Lin Rong finished off Tang Hao as he lay unconscious and near death.
• At the Tang Sect, Tang San felt overwhelming sorrow and briefly feared losing control of his body when Tang Hao died.
• Tang San discovered that the grief had loosened his Yang Wei Meridian's bottleneck and began circulating the Mysterious Heaven Skill to break through it.

After Tang Hao died, Lin Rong claimed his Soul Tools and soul bones, then traveled to the hidden Waterfall Valley. He found the Blue Silver Empress and retrieved the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone sealed nearby.

• Lin Rong cleaned Tang Hao’s two Soul Tools and six soul bones, finding Xiao Wu imprisoned in the Coral Pendant and Tang Chen’s cultivation books in the Obsidian Ring.
• Lin Rong gave the two inherited Clear Sky Sect soul bones to the Old Butler and kept the remaining four for later distribution.
• Lin Rong and the Old Butler flew toward Holy Spirit Village aboard the Nine Bend Vine Dragon, then followed Tang Hao’s map to the remote Waterfall Valley.
• Lin Rong located the cave behind the Sky-Hanging Waterfall and found the Blue Silver Empress growing in a stone chamber.
• Lin Rong struck the ceiling with azure lightning, dislodged the Lead Box, and obtained the Blue-Gold Soul Bone inside.

Lin Rong absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, then extracted nine drops of the Blue Silver Grass clan’s imperial bloodline. He waited for Old Butler to finish absorbing the second soul bone, planning to use the bloodline when he reached level sixty and sought his sixth soul ring.

• Lin Rong and Old Butler began absorbing their soul bones while the Nine Bend Vine Dragon guarded the Blue Silver Grass.
• The Nine Bend Vine Dragon singed the Blue Silver Grass, then tried to restore its vitality with life force.
• After absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, Lin Rong used his Talent Domain and life force to burn the Blue Silver Grass and collect nine drops of blue-gold blood.
• Lin Rong considered the soul bone’s powerful flight and healing skills, its boost to his body, and his plans for reaching level sixty in four months.
• Lin Rong put away the blood and sat beside Old Butler, who was nearly finished absorbing his second soul bone.

The Old Butler absorbed a Soul Bone and broke through to level 97, while Ma Hongjun reached level 40 and gained his Fourth Soul Ring. The chapter left Lin Rong considering how to obtain the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Ma Hongjun beginning the long process of transforming his phoenix flames into Seven-Colored Divine Fire.

• The Old Butler absorbed the 72,000-Year Left Leg Bone and broke through to level 97.
• The Old Butler told Lin Rong that he had opened seven of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians but could not open the Ren Meridian.
• Lin Rong considered obtaining the Mysterious Heaven Skill from Tang San to help Ma Hongjun and others cultivate faster.
• In the Star Dou Great Forest, Ma Hongjun absorbed a 5,500-year-old Fire Feathered Sparrow Soul Ring as Ge Long watched.
• Ma Hongjun's golden-red phoenix flames began changing toward pure red and showed faint Seven-Colored Radiance.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Lin Rong ordered Dugu Bo, Meng Shu, and Chao Tianxiang to join him in a siege on Clear Sky Sect. He promised them soul bones as rewards and warned the Old Butler that the battle could be dangerous.

• Lin Rong learned that Tang Yuehua had fallen gravely ill after losing her two elder brothers.
• Lin Rong summoned Dugu Bo, Meng Shu, and Chao Tianxiang and ordered them to prepare for a siege on Clear Sky Sect the next day.
• Dugu Bo and Meng Shu questioned the plan, but Lin Rong explained that Tang Hao and Tang Xiao were already dead and assigned the others to kill Clear Sky Sect's lower-ranked fighters and two weakest elders.
• Lin Rong offered Dugu Bo a 44,000-year Left Arm Bone from Tang Hao and offered Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang two soul bones as rewards based on their performance.
• After the three left, Lin Rong warned the Old Butler that Clear Sky Sect's elders might have reached Titled Douluo strength and urged him to avoid close combat.

Lin Rong led Dugu Bo, the Dragon Duke, and the Snake Dowager to the Clear Sky Sect, ordering Dugu Bo to eliminate the villagers while he flew ahead to confront the sect. At the mountain gate, the elders prepared for battle, and the Second Elder secretly planned an escape after realizing the attackers might have killed Tang Xiao.

• Lin Rong found the Clear Sky Sect’s hidden village and ordered Dugu Bo to kill its residents while he and the Dragon Duke and Snake Dowager flew toward the mountain stronghold.
• Dugu Bo entered the village, killed a middle-aged man, and began attacking the remaining villagers to earn his Soul Bone.
• Lin Rong’s group arrived above the Clear Sky Sect’s fifth peak, and the Nine Bend Vine Dragon’s released Dragon Might alarmed the sect.
• The Seventh Elder hurled his Clear Sky Hammer at Lin Rong’s group, but a Stellar Light Screen blocked the attack.
• Lin Rong told the elders he intended to destroy the sect because one of its members had tried to kill him, while the Second Elder secretly ordered a disciple to prepare an escape.

Lin Rong separated the Clear Sky Sect’s five elders from their disciples and led them to a valley, where his allies began fighting them as Dugu Bo reached the sect’s mountain gate. The battle opened with Old Butler facing the Second and Third Elders, Lin Rong drawing the Seventh Elder into the forest, and Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang transforming to fight the Fourth and Fifth Elders.

• Lin Rong used Evil-Breaking Dragon's Roar to stun the five elders, then had the Nine Bend Vine Dragon knock them from the cliff and carry them toward the valley.
• Lin Rong persuaded the elders to descend to the valley, while Dugu Bo arrived at the Clear Sky Sect’s mountain gate.
• Old Butler engaged the Second and Third Elders, while Lin Rong lured the Seventh Elder into the forest and Dragon Duke and Snake Dowager confronted the Fourth and Fifth Elders.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang performed the Dragon Snake Combination, strengthened by Chao Tianxiang’s improved martial soul and Lin Rong’s Talent Domain.

The Clear Sky Sect elders fought the Dragon Snake Couple, Old Butler Yu Yuan, and Lin Rong as the sect’s retreat continued. Lin Rong turned the fight against the Seventh Elder and began unleashing the Thunder Dragon’s true form.

• The Dragon Snake Couple withstood the Fourth and Fifth Elders’ initial attacks and gradually gained the upper hand.
• Old Butler Yu Yuan used Star Attraction to suppress the Second and Third Elders with stars from his Star Disc martial soul.
• Lin Rong led the Seventh Elder into the forest, activated four Dao Spirit Skills, and used the Vine Dragon Domain to weaken him.
• Lin Rong’s banyan-leaf attack wounded the Seventh Elder, who then used his Martial Soul Avatar and Gravity Control against him.
• The Seventh Elder grew greedy for Lin Rong’s suspected Soul Bone, and Lin Rong gathered thunder power to enter the True Form of the Thunder Dragon stage.