Chapter Summaries

Yu Tianheng secured an imperial title and fief, then married Dugu Yan in a lavish ceremony attended by their allies and families. After the wedding, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan pledged support for his plans to take control of Suotuo City, and the couple set out for the city.

• Yu Tianheng received an imperial decree naming him an Earl and granting him Suotuo City, while planning to claim real authority over the fief.
• Yu Tianheng declined Xue Ye’s offer to marry an imperial princess and returned with Dugu Yan to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to prepare their wedding.
• Dugu Bo, Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, Flender, and representatives of several major powers attended Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan’s wedding.
• Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan completed their wedding ceremony, and Dugu Bo celebrated at the three-day banquet.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered two hundred clan Soul Masters with at least three rings to serve under Yu Tianheng in Suotuo City.
• Half a month later, Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan set out for Suotuo City.

Yu Tianheng arrived outside Suotuo City with a large force of Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan Soul Masters and martial artists to take up his post as Earl. At the city gates, a Seven-Ring Soul Sage attacked him to intimidate him, and Yu Tianheng faced the strike surrounded by lightning.

• Yu Tianheng traveled to Suotuo City with two hundred clan Soul Masters and three hundred martial artists, including Yu Linglong, who warned the group to stay alert.
• City Lord Hammond and Suotuo City's nobles gathered at the gates to welcome Yu Tianheng, while a Seven-Ring Soul Sage stood ready to challenge him.
• Yu Tianheng stepped out with Dugu Yan and approached the gates as Hammond offered him a welcoming banquet.
• The Soul Sage released his Martial Soul and attacked Yu Tianheng with a powerful palm strike, while Yu Tianheng remained calm and lightning surged around him.

Yu Tianheng blocked Zhao Wuji’s attack, but Dugu Bo intervened and forced Zhao Wuji and Suotuo City’s nobles to submit. Yu Tianheng entered the city with his position secured and Zhao Wuji recruited to serve him.

• Yu Tianheng used his dragon claw to block Zhao Wuji’s Great Strength Vajra Palm and knock him back.
• As Zhao Wuji prepared to unleash Vajra Earthshaker, Dugu Bo appeared and suppressed his Soul Power with poisonous mist.
• Dugu Bo revealed his Titled Douluo strength, and Zhao Wuji knelt, begged for mercy, and offered to serve Yu Tianheng.
• Yu Tianheng asked Dugu Bo to spare Zhao Wuji, and Dugu Bo warned Zhao Wuji to serve him faithfully.
• Dugu Bo threatened Suotuo City’s nobles and warned them against opposing Yu Tianheng.
• Yu Tianheng ordered his group to enter Suotuo City.

Yu Tianheng assessed Suotuo City's factions and found them all willing to attend his banquet because they feared Dugu Bo, so he left city affairs to Dugu Yan and secluded himself to cultivate. After a month, he reached Soul Power Level 60, and Dugu Bo reacted with surprise when Yu Tianheng emerged.

• Yu Tianheng investigated Suotuo City's factions and planned to win over those that attended a banquet while suppressing those that refused.
• The city lord Hammond and the leaders of the other major factions attended Yu Tianheng's banquet and showed him respect because they feared Dugu Bo.
• Yu Tianheng left the management of the fief to Dugu Yan and began secluded cultivation to reach Soul Power Level 60.
• After thirty days of cultivation, Yu Tianheng broke through to level 60 and emerged from the quiet chamber.
• Dugu Bo saw Yu Tianheng and froze in surprise as he sensed his strength.

Yu Tianheng killed a Lava Earth Dragon, absorbed its Soul Ring, and became a Six-Ring Soul Emperor. He then extracted the beast’s heart to refine its Bloodline Power and strengthen his Martial Dao cultivation.

• Yu Tianheng used his Thunder Punishment Heavenly General manifestation to battle the Lava Earth Dragon and killed it with a lightning spear thrust.
• Yu Tianheng absorbed the earth dragon’s sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring and broke through to become a Six-Ring Soul Emperor.
• Yu Tianheng considered targeting the Sky Azure Bull Python in the Star Dou Great Forest for a future Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Yu Tianheng tore the Lava Earth Dragon’s heart from its corpse and sealed it in a jade box to refine its Bloodline Power.
• Yu Tianheng recognized the dragon’s blood, scales, flesh, and bones as other valuable cultivation resources.

Yu Tianheng refined the Lava Earth Dragon's heart and advanced to the Heavenly Human Realm Third Stage. He then traveled to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to trade valuable items with Ning Fengzhi and offer Ning Rongrong the Aromatic Silk Beauty.

• Yu Tianheng refined the Lava Earth Dragon's heart over three days and raised his cultivation from the Heavenly Human Realm First Stage to the Third Stage.
• Yu Tianheng tested his increased strength, then set out from the Star Dou Great Forest for Seven Treasure City.
• Yu Tianheng planned to trade Shi Nian's illusion-type Head Soul Bone to Ning Fengzhi for financial support to build his military force in Suotuo City.
• Yu Tianheng also planned to give Ning Rongrong the Aromatic Silk Beauty, which could evolve her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Yu Tianheng reached Seven Treasure City and recalled the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's power, its leaders, and its future history.

Yu Tianheng visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to meet Ning Fengzhi and discuss a deal that could strengthen his influence. Sword Douluo Chen Xin personally escorted him, while Yu Tianheng reflected on Chen Xin’s tragic fate in the story he remembered.

• Yu Tianheng presented his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan emblem at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s gates and requested an audience with Ning Fengzhi.
• A sect attendant led Yu Tianheng inside toward the Bright Heart Pavilion, where Ning Fengzhi awaited him.
• Sword Douluo Chen Xin recognized Yu Tianheng, sensed his Soul Power Level of 61, and praised his talent.
• After Yu Tianheng explained that he had come to make a deal with Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin dismissed the attendant and escorted him himself.
• As they walked, Yu Tianheng admired Chen Xin and recalled how he had died protecting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after repeatedly helping Tang San.

Yu Tianheng sold Ning Fengzhi a Ten Thousand Year gemstone Head Soul Bone for ten million Gold Soul Coins, then proposed a second, more valuable deal. After learning why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was limited to seven Soul Rings, he asked whether Ning Fengzhi would accept a way to remove that restriction.

• Yu Tianheng met Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and offered them a Ten Thousand Year gemstone Head Soul Bone.
• Ning Fengzhi bought the Soul Bone for ten million Gold Soul Coins, intending it for Ning Rongrong, and Chen Xin took custody of it.
• Yu Tianheng revealed that he had come to discuss another deal, which he claimed was worth at least as much to the sect as a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could only bear seven Soul Rings because its Martial Soul could not withstand the energy of an eighth.
• Yu Tianheng asked Ning Fengzhi what he would think if there were a way to change that restriction.

Yu Tianheng offered Ning Fengzhi the Aromatic Silk Beauty, an Immortal Herb that could help the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolve, and Ning Fengzhi chose to give it to his daughter Ning Rongrong. Rongrong arrived to receive the gift, while Yu Tianheng wondered how her future might differ now that she had not gone to Shrek Academy.

• Yu Tianheng revealed the Aromatic Silk Beauty and explained that it could help the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolve beyond seven levels.
• Ning Fengzhi eagerly accepted the Immortal Herb and agreed to discuss its price after testing its effects.
• Ning Fengzhi chose to give the herb to Ning Rongrong rather than use it himself, and he asked Chen Xin to fetch her.
• Ning Rongrong arrived and excitedly asked her father to show her the present.
• Yu Tianheng recalled Rongrong's reputation as the Little Demoness and considered how her future might change without meeting Oscar at Shrek Academy.

Ning Fengzhi gave Ning Rongrong a Ten Thousand Year Head Soul Bone, which she successfully absorbed, gaining the Illusion Space skill and stronger spiritual power. He then promised her another gift that might evolve her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

• Ning Fengzhi introduced Yu Tianheng to Ning Rongrong and praised his strength and accomplishments.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Ning Rongrong a Ten Thousand Year gemstone-type Head Soul Bone suited to her Martial Soul.
• Ning Rongrong absorbed the Soul Bone while Ning Fengzhi and Grandpa Sword guarded her.
• Ning Rongrong gained the Illusion Space skill, which strengthened her spiritual power and could dispel and reflect spiritual attacks.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong his next gift might evolve her Martial Soul and let her break past its cultivation limit.

Ning Rongrong absorbed the Aromatic Silk Beauty, evolved her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and broke the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s thousand-year limitation. Yu Tianheng secured the sect’s promise of a future favor before leaving, intent on preparing for the Heaven Dou Empire’s coming struggle for power.

• Ning Rongrong urged Ning Fengzhi to use the treasure, but he insisted she absorb it because her potential was greater.
• Ning Rongrong swallowed the Aromatic Silk Beauty and raised her Soul Power from level 35 to level 40.
• Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul grew from seven levels to nine, becoming the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin congratulated Yu Tianheng and promised the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would repay his kindness.
• Yu Tianheng asked Ning Fengzhi to count the debt as one future favor, then attended a banquet and left.
• Yu Tianheng planned to use his ties with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to prepare for Qian Renxue’s future bid for power in the Heaven Dou Empire.

Yu Tianheng recruited Ye Lingling to serve him in Suotuo City, promising generous pay and the resources she needed to cultivate toward becoming a Titled Douluo. Three days later, she had graduated from Heaven Dou Royal Academy and was ready to leave with him.

• Yu Tianheng decided he needed Ye Lingling's group-healing ability to strengthen his forces and traveled to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to recruit her.
• Yu Tianheng offered Ye Lingling protection, cultivation resources, Soul Rings, Soul Bones, and an annual salary, and she agreed to join him.
• Yu Tianheng gave Ye Lingling a silver card with two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins as advance wages and arranged to leave for Suotuo City in three days.
• Ye Lingling graduated from Heaven Dou Royal Academy and rejected the academy officials' offers to keep her or have her serve the empire.
• Yu Tianheng returned as promised, and Ye Lingling was packed and ready to accompany him to Suotuo City.

Yu Tianheng brought Ye Lingling to Suotuo City, where the lecherous Bu Le harassed her and challenged Yu Tianheng. After Bu Le revealed his Soul Ancestor strength and attacked with his Martial Soul, Yu Tianheng prepared to fight him.

• Yu Tianheng and Ye Lingling arrived in Suotuo City, and she asked to explore before going to the Earl's manor.
• As Yu Tianheng escorted Ye Lingling through the city, Bu Le spotted her and blocked their path, offering to show her around.
• Bu Le tried to grab Ye Lingling, but Yu Tianheng pulled her behind him and ordered Bu Le to leave.
• Bu Le recognized neither Yu Tianheng nor his authority, and Yu Tianheng recalled Bu Le's past crimes before threatening him with lightning.
• Bu Le summoned four Soul Rings and unleashed his Heavenly Gauze Twin Covers, sending one toward Yu Tianheng's knees.

Yu Tianheng defeated Bu Le after he tried to abduct Ye Lingling, then had him arrested and declared that he would judge him in three days. Ye Lingling went to Yu Tianheng’s residence, where she reunited with Dugu Yan and agreed to stay with her.

• Yu Tianheng revealed his six Soul Rings and used his Thunder Dragon Claw to overpower and badly injure Bu Le.
• Yu Tianheng showed the patrol soldiers his official seal, ordered them to imprison Bu Le, and said he would personally judge him in three days.
• Yu Tianheng apologized to Ye Lingling and took her to his residence in Suotuo City.
• Dugu Yan greeted Ye Lingling, checked that she was unharmed, and scolded Yu Tianheng for letting her face danger.
• Ye Lingling explained how Yu Tianheng had rescued her, and Dugu Yan invited her to stay at the residence; Ye Lingling accepted.

Yu Tianheng reviewed Bu Le’s confession and planned a public trial, then sent Zhao Wuji to capture Bu Le’s accomplices, E Kao and Tian Ya. Zhao Wuji confronted the two men and immobilized them, beginning their arrest.

• Ye Lingling moved into the Earl’s residence with Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan for her safety.
• Bu Le confessed to his crimes in the dungeon, and Yu Tianheng ordered that he be kept under guard until a public trial in three days.
• Yu Tianheng showed Zhao Wuji Bu Le’s confession and asked him to capture the other two members of the Three Obscene Scoundrels, E Kao and Tian Ya.
• Zhao Wuji found E Kao and Tian Ya abusing women in a residence and broke down the door to confront them.
• Zhao Wuji used his gravity abilities to pin E Kao down and crush Tian Ya’s legs into the floor.

Zhao Wuji captured E Kao and Tian Ya, and Yu Tianheng publicly tried and executed them for years of abusing civilians. Yu Tianheng’s promise to punish Soul Masters who oppressed the people won him popular support, and a month later he began recruiting soldiers for his private army.

• Zhao Wuji beat E Kao and Tian Ya, bound them, and brought them to the dungeon, where they confessed to their crimes alongside Bu Le.
• Yu Tianheng announced a public trial, then sentenced Bu Le, E Kao, and Tian Ya to death before a cheering crowd in Suotuo City.
• Yu Tianheng promised to punish Soul Masters who oppressed ordinary people, earning a surge of support from the commoners.
• A month later, Yu Tianheng issued a recruitment notice offering able-bodied young men five Gold Soul Coins per month, and applicants such as Zhao Hu came forward.

Yu Tianheng established the Divine Martial Army with five thousand commoner recruits and began teaching them Martial Dao, dismissing the nobles’ doubts that ordinary people could become powerful. After a month of intensive training and support, all five thousand soldiers reached the Skin Refining Realm.

• Noblemen mocked Yu Tianheng for recruiting commoners, but he believed Martial Dao could let them grow stronger regardless of their Martial Souls.
• Yu Tianheng rode through cheering townspeople as they celebrated his recruitment drive, and he encouraged a child who wanted to become a soldier.
• Three days later, Yu Tianheng named his five thousand recruits the Divine Martial Army and assigned three hundred Thunder and Lightning Martial Arts Hall students to train them.
• Yu Tianheng demonstrated the Body Tempering Skill and Innate Skill, then instructed the recruits as they began to feel their strength increase.
• Yu Tianheng supplied the army with cultivation medicines, precious herbs, and Soul Beast meat to accelerate its training.
• After a month, all five thousand soldiers had entered the Skin Refining Realm, with most reaching its third or fourth stage.

Yu Tianheng sought funding to maintain the Divine Martial Army, but Suotuo City's nobles and merchants refused to contribute. He ordered Yu Linglong to investigate them and uncover crimes he could use to bring them under his control.

• Yu Tianheng calculated that military pay and other expenses would consume about one million Gold Soul Coins a year.
• At a council meeting, Yu Tianheng urged Suotuo City's nobles and merchants to fund an army, but they left without agreeing to pay.
• Yu Linglong offered to help, and Yu Tianheng tasked her with secretly investigating nobles and merchants for tax evasion and slave trading.
• Yu Linglong spent over half a month investigating and discovered unusual carriages arriving at several merchant associations and noble residences late at night.

Yu Linglong uncovered a slave-trading operation, and Yu Tianheng used the evidence to arrest its perpetrators and confiscate their wealth. He used the proceeds and forced contributions to equip and train the Divine Martial Army, which grew stronger through regular hunts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Yu Linglong infiltrated merchant warehouses, documented the slave-trading network, and presented the evidence to Yu Tianheng.
• Yu Tianheng ordered a military raid, and Yu Linglong led the troops in arresting the slave traders and freeing their captives.
• Yu Tianheng confiscated eighteen million Soul Coins worth of property and forced Suotuo City's nobles and merchants to contribute enough to bring the total past thirty million.
• Yu Tianheng ordered weapons and armor forged for the Divine Martial Army, and Yu Linglong arranged to purchase metals from Gengxin City.
• Yu Tianheng equipped and trained his five thousand soldiers; six months later, they had reached the Flesh Refining Realm, while Zhao Hu and other talented soldiers advanced further.
• Yu Tianheng sent the Divine Martial Army into the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest every half month to hunt Soul Beasts and gain combat experience.

Yu Tianheng finished training the Divine Martial Army and advanced close to the Martial Saint Realm before leaving for Slaughter City to seek Divine Slaughter's Domain and prevent Tang San from gaining an advantage. He arrived at a tavern near Slaughter City, where hostile criminals watched him enter.

• Ye Lingling healed wounded Divine Martial Army soldiers, and after another half year their five thousand troops had become a formidable force.
• Yu Tianheng entered seclusion while Dugu Yan managed the Earl's residence and advanced to Soul Power Level 52.
• After half a year of cultivation, Yu Tianheng reached the peak of the ninth level of the Heavenly Human Realm and neared the Martial Saint Realm.
• Yu Tianheng decided to seek Divine Slaughter's Domain in Slaughter City and set out after making arrangements at the residence.
• Yu Tianheng entered a tavern near Slaughter City, where criminals fixed hostile gazes on him.