Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu and Qian Renxue prepared to seize Heaven Dou Empire while the continent’s factions gathered strength during a brief peace. Spirit Hall then founded its own empire, and the defection of the Balak Kingdom caused Xue Ye to collapse at court.

• Qian Renxue told Xiao Yu that Xue Ye would die within months and described Xue Xing’s failed attempt to find help for him.
• Xiao Yu entered the Netherworld and used his Death Scythe to cultivate a soul ring under its altered rules.
• The factions spent months rebuilding their strength while the continent enjoyed a temporary peace.
• Bibi Dong gathered allied sects and unaffiliated soul masters, withdrew Spirit Hall’s branches from Heaven Dou Empire, and declared the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Several kingdoms and duchies joined the new empire, which severed the connection between Heaven Dou and Star Luo; the Balak Kingdom’s defection made Xue Ye collapse unconscious at court.

As Xue Ye lay dying, he named Xue Qinghe as his successor and demanded that he oppose Spirit Hall and spare Xue Xing and Xue Beng. Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, ascended the throne as Emperor Qinghe and declared war on the Spirit Hall Empire.

• Xue Ye told Xue Qinghe that the empire's future depended on him and urged him to reclaim the lands taken by Spirit Hall.
• Xue Ye made Xue Qinghe swear to forgive Xue Xing and Xue Beng and provide for them, and Qian Renxue agreed in disguise.
• Xue Ye died after securing the succession and his final request.
• Qian Renxue, as Xue Qinghe, ascended the throne as Emperor Qinghe amid the ministers' acclamations.
• Emperor Qinghe issued a decree refusing to recognize the Spirit Hall Empire and declaring war to reclaim Heaven Dou's former territories.

After Xue Qinghe became emperor, he began sweeping reforms in the Heaven Dou Empire instead of attacking the Spirit Hall Empire, while Tang San and the Shrek group arrived at Sea God Island. The chapter ended with Bo Saixi doubting Tang San’s worthiness as Sea God heir and the others receiving lesser trials.

• Xue Qinghe issued reforms targeting the Heaven Dou Empire’s corrupt nobles, officials, and institutions, while Grand Marshal Ge Long reorganized the border defenses.
• The Star Luo Emperor condemned Xue Qinghe’s reforms, but Tang Yuehua believed they could strengthen the Heaven Dou Empire and saw Ge Long’s deployment as a way to control the border legions.
• Bo Saixi guided Tang San, Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and Ma Hongjun safely to Sea God Island, where Tang San received the Sea God Nine Trials.
• Bo Saixi discovered that Tang San had secretly devoured sea soul beasts during the journey and feared his hunger for power might eventually turn him against humans.
• Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and Ma Hongjun each received a Black Level Four Trial.

Tang San completed the Sea God’s Seventh Trial and received the Sea God’s trident, while Bo Saixi worried about his methods and his fitness to inherit the divine position. Back in Heaven Dou Palace, Xiao Yu enjoyed time with his three children before Miao arrived with urgent news.

• Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and Ma Hongjun completed their Black Level Assessment, while Tang San reached the Level 80 bottleneck after secretly devouring sea soul beasts.
• Tang San pulled the Sea God’s trident from the ground and passed the Seventh Trial, and Bo Saixi warned him against pursuing easy increases in Soul Power.
• Tang San promised Bo Saixi that the sea soul beasts he had devoured could be resurrected, then received the Sea God’s Eighth Trial and decided to return to the mainland with his companions.
• Xiao Yu spent time with Xiao Muxue and Xiao Ling while Huo Wu held their infant son, Xiao Lie, and Qian Renxue and Ye Lingling watched nearby.
• Miao interrupted Xiao Yu’s family time to report an important matter.

After Tang San returned from Sea God Island, Xiao Yu and Qian Renxue learned he had gone southwest toward the Blue Silver Forest. Tang San killed the Blue Silver King to absorb its power, leaving the forest barren.

• Miao reported that Tang San and the others had returned from Sea God Island, and that Tang San had separated from them and headed southwest.
• Xiao Yu deduced that Tang San was going to the Blue Silver Forest to target the Blue Silver King.
• Tang San ambushed the Blue Silver King with his Eight Spider Lances, poisoning it and draining its life force.
• Tang San used his Blue Silver Domain to absorb the life force of the forest's Blue Silver Grass and expose the wounded Blue Silver King.
• Tang San overpowered the Blue Silver King's resistance with his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and killed it with the Eight Spider Lances.

Tang San absorbed the Blue Silver King’s spirit ring and Soul Bone, raising his Soul Power to level eighty-four. When Spirit Hall investigators arrived, he killed them rather than answer their questions, leaving no survivors.

• Tang San absorbed the Blue Silver King’s spirit ring and drained the Blue Silver Forest’s life energy, reaching the peak of level eighty-three.
• Tang San found and absorbed the Blue Silver King’s left leg Soul Bone, advancing to level eighty-four.
• A Spirit Hall squad arrived to investigate the withered forest, and Tang San killed the Black Robe Bishop who questioned him.
• The remaining Spirit Hall soul masters attacked, but fled when Tang San revealed his eight spirit rings.
• Tang San used his Blue Silver Grass to pierce and kill the fleeing Spirit Hall soul masters.

Tang San secretly absorbed Spirit Hall soul masters to strengthen himself, then infiltrated the Qingyun City branch hall in pursuit of an even greater increase in power. He began fighting its Soul Douluo and assembled defenders, killing more than ten with his Blue Silver Demonic Thorns.

• Tang San absorbed more than a dozen dead Spirit Hall soul masters, raising his Soul Power from level eighty-four to level eighty-five, and decided to seek out a Soul Douluo.
• Tang San infiltrated the Spirit Hall branch hall in Qingyun City and absorbed more than twenty soul masters before the Soul Douluo noticed the killings.
• The Soul Douluo gathered the remaining defenders and confronted Tang San, who revealed himself and declared his intent to kill them.
• The Soul Douluo and the branch hall's soul masters attacked Tang San together, but he dodged their spirit skills and charged toward the crowd.
• Tang San unleashed Blue Silver Demonic Thorns, piercing and killing more than ten soul masters.

Tang San slaughtered the spirit masters at a branch hall by devouring the Fierce Tiger Soul Douluo, but Xiao Yu arrived and overwhelmed his Blue Silver Domain. The chapter left Tang San flying into the ruins after Xiao Yu slapped him.

• The Fierce Tiger Soul Douluo unleashed his strongest attack, but Tang San revealed the Sea God Trident and knocked him back before binding and devouring him.
• The surviving Soul Sages recognized Tang San as a Fallen Spirit Master and tried to flee, but Tang San trapped them inside a cage of Blue Silver Grass.
• Xiao Yu broke through the Blue Silver Grass barrier and confronted Tang San, who accused him of being responsible for his father's death.
• Xiao Yu's Underworld God Domain rapidly overwhelmed Tang San's Blue Silver Domain, leaving Tang San stunned.
• Xiao Yu appeared before Tang San and slapped him hard enough to send him crashing through several buildings.

Xiao Yu defeated Tang San in their battle at the Spirit Hall branch hall, overwhelming the Sea God Trident with his power. As Xiao Yu moved to finish Tang San, the Sea God appeared in a massive phantom and intervened.

• Tang San invoked the Sea God's power through the Sea God Trident and charged at Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu armored himself, revealed his nine soul rings, and blocked Tang San's divine-weapon strike with the Underworld Sword.
• Xiao Yu wore Tang San down and struck him with a colossal sword attack, shattering his defense and leaving him unable to rise.
• As Xiao Yu prepared to deliver the final blow, the Sea God manifested in the sky and unleashed his pressure against Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu insulted the Sea God, who flew into a rage.

Xiao Yu withstood the Sea God's Golden Thirteen Halberds and revealed his Level 99 strength and Death God Scythe. The Sea God warned Tang San to flee as he faced Xiao Yu's challenge to avenge the Death God.

• The Sea God attacked Xiao Yu with the first three forms of the Golden Thirteen Halberds while passing them on to Tang San.
• Xiao Yu emerged unharmed, revealed his blood-red Death God Scythe with nine scarlet Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings, and disclosed that he was Level 99.
• The Sea God recognized the Death God's divine power in Xiao Yu and summoned the ocean's strength to attack him.
• The Sea God secretly told Tang San to run, and Tang San retrieved the trident before fleeing toward the city's outskirts.

Xiao Yu defeated the Sea God’s phantom after Tang San fled, then exposed Tang San as an Evil Spirit Master to the Spirit Hall. Proclamations from the Spirit Hall Empire and Heaven Dou Empire condemned Tang San and those connected to him, shaking the continent.

• Xiao Yu destroyed the Sea God’s water dragon and broke through his defenses with the Death God Scythe.
• The Sea God unleashed Sea God’s Twilight, but Xiao Yu’s Death God’s Annihilation overwhelmed it and caused the Sea God’s phantom to vanish.
• Xiao Yu told a surviving Spirit Hall Spirit Sage that Tang San was the Clear Sky Sect’s heir and Sea God Island’s Holy Son, and asked him to report the attack.
• The Spirit Sage agreed to report the matter, recognizing that Tang San’s identity and abilities supported Xiao Yu’s accusation.
• The Spirit Hall Empire and Heaven Dou Empire proclaimed that Tang San had absorbed life force and attacked a Martial Soul Branch Hall, leading the continent to condemn him, the Clear Sky Sect, Sea God Island, and the Star Luo Empire.

Tang Yuehua proposed replacing Xue Qinghe with Xue Beng to force the Heaven Dou Empire to clear Tang San’s name and ally with the Clear Sky Sect. She suggested enlisting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to help carry out the plan.

• Tang San raged over proclamations from the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall Empire accusing him of being an Evil Spirit Master.
• Tang Ling explained that the Heaven Dou Empire’s matching accusation made the charges more credible and had driven over two hundred outside-clan disciples away from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Xiao blamed Xiao Yu for causing the accusations, while Tang Yuehua urged everyone to stay calm.
• Tang Yuehua proposed that the Heaven Dou Empire withdraw its accusation and clear Tang San’s name.
• Tang Yuehua revealed that she had contacted Snow Star Prince and Prince Xue Beng about replacing Xue Qinghe and making Xue Beng emperor.
• Tang Yuehua suggested involving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to help her allies gain access to the imperial palace.

Tang San and the Clear Sky Sect secured the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support for a plot against Xue Qinghe and his son. With Ning Fengzhi’s help, their allies infiltrated Heaven Dou Palace, unaware that someone else already controlled the situation.

• Tang Yuehua told Tang Xiao and the others that Ning Fengzhi resented Xue Qinghe and Tang San proposed sending Ning Rongrong to seek his support.
• Ning Rongrong persuaded Ning Fengzhi to help the Clear Sky Sect, and he agreed to arrange palace access despite Sword Douluo’s concerns about Tang San and the assassination plot.
• Tang Xiao led powerful Clear Sky Sect members, while Sea God Island and the Star Luo Empire also contributed fighters to the operation.
• Ning Fengzhi used his influence to help Tang San’s group enter Heaven Dou Palace disguised as guards.
• Tang San and his allies began planning to assassinate Xue Qinghe and his son, unaware that someone else controlled events.

Xiao Yu and Qian Renxue arranged for Tang San and his allies to attack Xue Qinghe, intending to make Xue Qinghe’s death a cover for Qian Renxue’s return to the Worship Hall and her final Angel God Trials. The attack began, but Xue Beng, Xue Xing, and Ning Fengzhi’s forces were surrounded before reaching the bedchamber, where Marshal Ge Long confronted them.

• Xiao Yu told Qian Renxue that Tang San and Tang Xiao planned to attack within days, and they discussed her return to the Worship Hall after Xue Qinghe’s supposed death.
• Tang Xiao and five other Titled Douluo attacked Xue Qinghe’s bedchamber, killed two royal Soul Douluo retainers, and fought through the palace guards.
• Ning Fengzhi, Xue Beng, and Xue Xing led an army of more than ten thousand toward the palace, claiming they had come to rescue the emperor.
• Xue Beng killed a soldier who refused to let the army enter, then ordered the troops to charge into the palace.
• Palace forces surrounded the invading army and rained arrows on its soldiers before Marshal Ge Long confronted Ning Fengzhi, Xue Beng, and Xue Xing.

Xue Qinghe’s forces clashed with Xue Beng and Xue Xing’s rebellion, while Ning Fengzhi ordered Sword Douluo to kill Marshal Ge Long. Yang Wudi intervened to save Ge Long and challenged Sword Douluo as a newly risen Titled Douluo.

• Ge Long arrived with Xue Qinghe’s forces, revealing that the rebellion had been exposed, and Ning Fengzhi urged Xue Beng and Xue Xing’s troops to attack.
• Ge Long commanded his elite soldiers against the rebels as Ning Fengzhi sent Sword Douluo Chen Xin to defeat him.
• Ge Long used his eighth soul skill against Chen Xin, but Chen Xin shattered the attack and struck him from his mount.
• Yang Wudi blocked Chen Xin’s sword strike and revealed that he had become a Titled Douluo with a red ninth spirit ring.
• Yang Wudi named himself Soul Breaker and attacked Chen Xin with his Soul Breaking Spear, causing the battlefield to pause at their clash.

Tang San and his allies attacked the Crown Prince’s chambers, where Huo Wu stopped them and revealed her strength as the Fire Shadow Douluo. As the surviving attackers prepared to overwhelm her, Ye Lingling appeared and revealed that she too was a Titled Douluo.

• Tang San led four Star Luo Empire Soul Douluo and two Clear Sky Sect Soul Douluo into the Crown Prince’s chambers and killed the guards outside with his Blue Silver Emperor vines.
• Huo Wu emerged from the room and defeated the White Tiger Soul Douluo with one punch, then killed him and his wife after they merged into the Hell White Tiger.
• Tang San urged his remaining allies to attack Huo Wu together, arguing that her powerful Eighth Spirit Skill would drain her Soul Power.
• Ye Lingling stepped out beside Huo Wu and revealed nine spirit rings, identifying herself as the Nine Heart Douluo.

Ye Lingling restored Huo Wu and killed a Clear Sky Sect Soul Douluo with a Soul Tool, forcing Tang San and his companions to retreat. As the palace battle continued, Tang Xiao attacked Xue Qinghe, and Bai Baoshan died protecting him.

• Ye Lingling used Saint Hearted Begonia to restore Huo Wu to her peak condition.
• A Clear Sky Sect Soul Douluo attacked Ye Lingling, but she killed him with her level-nine Soul Tool.
• Tang San withdrew with the other Soul Douluos because Ye Lingling and Huo Wu were too difficult to defeat without his Sea God Trident.
• Yang Wudi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin continued their fierce duel while Ge Long commanded his troops against the forces of Ning Fengzhi, Xue Beng, and Xue Xing.
• Tang Xiao caught up to Xue Qinghe and attacked him with his Eighth Spirit Ring, shattering Bai Baoshan's Heavenly Star Furnace and killing him.

Tang Xiao attacked Xue Qinghe in Heaven Dou Palace, killing Meng Shenji, Zhi Lin, and Bai Baoshan as Qian Renxue disguised herself as badly wounded. Xiao Yu then confronted Tang Xiao and overwhelmed him, but Sea Dragon Douluo and the other Titled Douluo joined the fight, and a thunder attack struck Sea Dragon Douluo.

• Zhi Lin sacrificed himself to save Meng Shenji, and Tang Xiao killed Zhi Lin and Meng Shenji while attacking Xue Qinghe.
• Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, pretended to be severely injured so she could abandon her identity and return to the Worship Hall.
• Xiao Yu intervened as Nine Stars Hall's experts appeared, and Tang Xiao ordered a retreat before fighting Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu repelled Tang Xiao's Martial Soul Avatar and matched his Clear Sky Nine Decisions, forcing the five Titled Douluo behind Tang Xiao to come to his aid.
• Sea Dragon Douluo attacked Xiao Yu with his sixth spirit skill, but a thunderstorm struck the seawater and left Sea Dragon Douluo numb.

Eden, Yi Hui, Shui Bing'er, and other Nine Stars Hall powerhouses arrived to support Xiao Yu and overwhelmed the Sea Spirit Master elders and the retreating army. Dugu Yan confronted Yu Tianheng, defeated him, and left him dead as their paths finally parted.

• Eden appeared before Sea Dragon Douluo and shattered his defenses with lightning.
• Yi Hui interrupted Sea Horse and Sea Ghost Douluo's attacks with his Phoenix Domain and scorched them with his sixth spirit skill.
• Shui Bing'er, now a level ninety-four Ice Phoenix Douluo, faced Tang Ran and Tang Yun while Zilong led other Nine Stars Hall powerhouses against the withdrawing army.
• Dugu Yan met Yu Tianheng amid the chaos and explained that his betrayal had led her to join Nine Stars Hall and grow stronger.
• Dugu Yan's Golden Dragon Jiao engulfed Yu Tianheng in a golden beam, killing him.

Dugu Yan battled Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang’s Golden Sacred Dragon, but Ning Fengzhi’s support tipped the fight against her. Zilong intervened and overwhelmed the Golden Sacred Dragon, leaving Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong badly hurt.

• Yu Xiaogang watched his nephew die, and Liu Erlong attacked Dugu Yan before Flender saved her and Yu Xiaogang from Dugu Yan’s counterattack.
• Liu Erlong, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang formed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill and summoned the Golden Sacred Dragon, which suppressed Dugu Yan with its superior dragon bloodline.
• Dugu Yan’s Golden Jiao Divine Light lost to the Golden Sacred Dragon’s breath after Ning Fengzhi enhanced it, but Zilong protected her with his Azure Dragon Shield.
• Zilong transformed into his Azure Dragon Martial Soul Avatar and confronted the Golden Sacred Dragon without being affected by its bloodline suppression.
• Zilong’s Azure Dragon struck the Golden Sacred Dragon across the chest, causing Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang to spit blood.