Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan fought Tai Jian, a Strength Clan Soul King hired to assassinate him, and used the Purple Firmament Lightning Bamboo’s piercing power and lightning to gain the upper hand. She Long watched from a tree and waited to intervene until Xiao Xuan was in real danger.

• Tai Jian refused to reveal who had hired him and attacked Xiao Xuan with his Great Strength Gorilla Martial Soul.
• Xiao Xuan met Tai Jian’s punches with the Purple Firmament Lightning Bamboo and was driven back by the Soul King’s greater strength.
• Xiao Xuan pierced Tai Jian’s arm, and the spear’s lightning numbed him and disrupted his attacks.
• Xiao Xuan used his spear technique to target Tai Jian’s openings, leaving him with several wounds and unable to press his strength advantage.
• She Long observed Xiao Xuan’s skill and decided to wait until he was truly in danger before stepping in to save him.

Xiao Xuan killed Tai Jian, a level fifty-five Soul King of the Strength Clan, after combining gravity suppression, lightning paralysis, and a lethal spear thrust. She Long departed to report Xiao Xuan’s strength, while Xiao Xuan resolved to investigate the Strength Clan and began looting Tai Jian’s body.

• Tai Jian unleashed his full strength and fifth Soul Skill, but Xiao Xuan revealed his four Soul Rings and slowed him with Gravity Field.
• Xiao Xuan trapped Tai Jian in Thunderous Purgatory, then pierced his chest with Destruction, killing him.
• She Long watched in astonishment and left to report Xiao Xuan’s strength to the young master.
• Xiao Xuan concluded that the Strength Clan had sent Tai Jian to assassinate him and decided to investigate them.
• Xiao Xuan began searching Tai Jian’s corpse for valuables.

After Tai Jian tried to assassinate him, Xiao Xuan brought the Strength Clan warrior’s corpse to Dugu Manor and asked Dugu Bo for help confronting the clan. Dugu Bo agreed to demand justice and set off with Xiao Xuan, leaving Dugu Yan behind.

• Xiao Xuan took Tai Jian’s belongings, decided to seek help against the Strength Clan, and carried the corpse to Dugu Manor.
• Xiao Xuan told Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan that Tai Jian, a level fifty-five Soul King of the Strength Clan, had tried to kill him and that he had killed Tai Jian.
• Dugu Bo examined Tai Jian’s fatal wound and realized Xiao Xuan had defeated the powerful Soul King head-on.
• Dugu Bo agreed to stand up for Xiao Xuan and make the Strength Clan answer for the assassination attempt.
• Dugu Bo refused Dugu Yan’s request to come along, then flew off with Xiao Xuan and Tai Jian’s corpse.

Dugu Bo and Xiao Xuan confronted the Strength Clan after Tai Jian's failed attempt to assassinate Xiao Xuan. Dugu Bo dropped Tai Jian's corpse before Tai Tan, demanding to know who had sent him.

• The Strength Clan elders dismissed concerns about Tai Jian's delay, while Tai Tan worried that their secret arrangement might be exposed.
• Dugu Bo arrived at the Strength Clan estate with Xiao Xuan and Tai Jian's corpse, overwhelming the clan with his Titled Douluo pressure.
• Tai Tan greeted Dugu Bo, who accused the Strength Clan of sending Tai Jian to assassinate Xiao Xuan.
• Tai Tan denied the accusation and called it a misunderstanding, but Dugu Bo dropped Tai Jian's corpse before him and demanded an explanation.

Dugu Bo confronted the Strength Clan over Tai Jian’s assassination attempt on Xiao Xuan, while Tai Long’s words appeared to connect the attack to an earlier dispute over ore. As Tai Tan denied that the clan had ordered the attack, Crown Prince Xue Qinghe arrived and challenged the clan for trying to bully Xiao Xuan.

• Tai Long recognized Tai Jian’s corpse and reacted with shock when he realized his second uncle was dead.
• Xiao Xuan suggested Tai Jian had attacked him because of Tai Long’s earlier dispute with him over ore, and Tai Long’s denial made the crowd more suspicious.
• Dugu Bo accused Tai Tan and the Strength Clan of sending Tai Jian to assassinate Xiao Xuan, then pressured them with his Titled Douluo aura.
• Tai Tan denied that the Strength Clan had ordered the attack and argued that Tai Jian’s death left the matter requiring investigation.
• Xue Qinghe arrived at the Strength Clan residence, greeted Dugu Bo and Xiao Xuan, and accused Tai Nuo of making excuses instead of giving Xiao Xuan an explanation.

Xue Qinghe pressured Tai Tan to accept responsibility for Tai Jian’s attempted assassination of Xiao Xuan, and Tai Tan offered compensation. Xiao Xuan rejected the offer of 500,000 Gold Soul Coins alone and demanded three Soul Bones as well.

• Tai Nuo argued that Tai Jian had acted alone, but Xue Qinghe proposed a thorough investigation into Tai Jian’s movements and the Strength Clan’s accounts.
• Fearing what an investigation might uncover, Tai Tan admitted that the Strength Clan could not escape blame and offered compensation to Xiao Xuan.
• Tai Tan offered Xiao Xuan 500,000 Gold Soul Coins, alarming the Strength Clan’s elders.
• Xiao Xuan said the money was not enough to compensate for an assassination attempt and demanded three Soul Bones in addition to the 500,000 Gold Soul Coins.

Xiao Xuan demanded compensation from the Strength Clan for a dispute, escalating his terms until he asked to choose a treasure from its treasury. Tai Tan faced a choice between granting the demand and letting Xue Qinghe investigate, and the chapter ended before he answered.

• Xiao Xuan lowered his demand for three Soul Bones to ones of any age, and Tai Tan agreed to provide them along with five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Xiao Xuan added a final demand: permission to enter the Strength Clan's treasury and choose one treasure.
• Tai Tan objected that Xiao Xuan was being greedy, while the Strength Clan's elders protested the demand.
• Xiao Xuan offered to drop the treasury demand and pursue official channels instead, asking Xue Qinghe to investigate the matter.
• Xue Qinghe promised a thorough investigation and asked Tai Tan what he thought.

Xiao Xuan secured compensation from the Strength Clan and used two Soul Bones to upgrade his Head Soul Bone. The upgrade strengthened his spiritual power, and he discovered he could use it to move objects.

• Tai Tan agreed to give Xiao Xuan five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, three Soul Bones, and one treasure from the Strength Clan's vault, with Xue Qinghe witnessing the agreement.
• Half a month later, Tai Tan delivered three Soul Bones to Xiao Xuan: a hundred-year left arm bone, a hundred-year right arm bone, and a thousand-year torso bone.
• Xiao Xuan fused the two arm bones with his Head Soul Bone, upgrading it and gaining Perception Amplification and Spiritual Power Amplification.
• Xiao Xuan tested his enhanced spiritual power and made a wooden cup wobble by directing his power at it.

Xiao Xuan experimented with the spiritual power enhanced by his Head Soul Bone and developed a visible Spiritual Silver Needle that he could control remotely. He left Sunset Forest without beginning his Soul Hunt, determined to keep testing the technique’s power.

• Xiao Xuan discovered he could use spiritual power to move a wooden cup, then condensed his power into an invisible Spiritual Silver Needle.
• Xiao Xuan entered Sunset Forest to practice his spiritual attack before hunting Soul Beasts to upgrade his first two Soul Rings.
• Xiao Xuan used the needle on a Soul Beast, briefly interfering with its consciousness, but found the attack too weak to meet his aims.
• Xiao Xuan spent several days compressing his spiritual power and formed a visible, crystalline silver needle about an inch long.
• Xiao Xuan learned to steer the needle through the air without hand gestures and prepared to test its true power.

Xiao Xuan tested and refined his Spiritual Silver Needle, proving it could kill a powerful thousand-year mental-attribute Soul Beast. Having mastered the technique, he headed deeper into Sunset Forest to upgrade his first and second Soul Rings to the ten-thousand-year level.

• Xiao Xuan used the Spiritual Silver Needle to kill a hundred-year Soul Beast, bypassing its physical defenses and attacking its mind.
• Xiao Xuan found a thousand-year mental-attribute Soul Beast, whose Spiritual Power initially shattered his first needle.
• Xiao Xuan compressed his Spiritual Power into a denser needle and pierced the Soul Beast’s mental defense, killing it.
• Xiao Xuan concluded that he had mastered the Spiritual Silver Needle and set off into the depths of Sunset Forest to upgrade his first and second Soul Rings.

Xiao Xuan spent two months in the Sunset Forest, raising his first and second Soul Rings to 9,999 years and improving his Spiritual Power attacks. He returned to Heaven Dou City to rest and prepare for the Star Dou Great Forest, then met Xue Qinghe after the crown prince summoned him.

• Xiao Xuan honed his Spiritual Power attacks while hunting Soul Beasts in the Sunset Forest.
• Xiao Xuan raised both Soul Rings to 9,999 years and gained new attribute traits for his Soul Skills, but could not find enough older Soul Beasts to reach ten thousand years.
• Xiao Xuan decided to seek suitable Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest and returned to Heaven Dou City to rest and replenish supplies.
• Xue Qinghe summoned Xiao Xuan to the crown prince's residence, where he greeted him and remarked on his recent training.