Chapter Summaries

After Bibi Dong urged Qian Renxue to kill her, Qian Renxue stabbed Bibi Dong and then tried to take her own life. The Angel God revived Qian Renxue and directed her to begin the Divine Examination, while Lan Hong tried to save Bibi Dong and extract Ah Rou’s soul; he ended by revealing that Bibi Dong had been manipulated as part of the Asura God’s plan for Tang San.

• Bibi Dong taunted Qian Renxue into stabbing her, and Qian Renxue then slashed her own neck.
• Qian Daoliu attacked Lan Hong in anger, but the Angel Mark left Lan Hong and revived Qian Renxue.
• Lan Hong used golden needles to protect Bibi Dong and began transferring Ah Rou’s soul into the Purple Cloud Sword.
• The Angel God told Qian Renxue that her heart had returned to the right path and sent her to accept the Divine Examination.
• Lan Hong confronted Bibi Dong’s corrupted consciousness and told her that Tang San was the Asura God’s inheritor and that she had been used as his stepping stone.

Lan Hong awakened Bibi Dong’s will to live, rescued Ah Rou’s soul, and stabilized Bibi Dong’s injuries. After Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue reconciled briefly, Lan Hong revealed Ah Rou’s soul to Xiao Wu and continued cultivating.

• Lan Hong’s words rekindled Bibi Dong’s hatred and will to live, and she thanked him for helping her awaken.
• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King transferred Ah Rou’s dormant soul from Bibi Dong’s Spirit Ring into the Purple Cloud Sword, while Lan Hong treated Bibi Dong’s injuries.
• Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue arrived, and Lan Hong told Qian Renxue she would need to complete her Divine Examination to have a chance to revive Qian Daoliu.
• After a Healing System Soul Master saved Bibi Dong, she apologized to Qian Renxue, and the two shared a tender embrace.
• Lan Hong showed Xiao Wu that Ah Rou’s soul was preserved in the Purple Cloud Sword, and Xiao Wu fell asleep in his arms.
• Lan Hong began cultivating and compressed his Soul Core until his Soul Power started to transform.

As the tournament’s top three battled for a place in the finals, Bibi Dong began the Rakshasa Divine Examination while Qian Daoliu maintained order at Spirit Hall. The Goddess of Life met Lan Hong and Xuan Di, gave Xuan Di a mysterious leaf, and warned Lan Hong that Bo Saixi had come to confront him.

• Qian Daoliu took Bibi Dong’s place at the tournament while she began the Rakshasa Divine Examination, and Qian Renxue continued her Angel God examination.
• Dugu Yan defeated Yan with poison and advanced after Xie Yue conceded, while Spirit Hall Battle Team crushed Godwind Academy Team in the afternoon match.
• Bo Saixi and Sea Woman Douluo arrived at Spirit City, and Bo Saixi sensed the evil existence she had been seeking.
• The Goddess of Life appeared before Lan Hong, confirmed Xuan Di was the Child of Nature, gave him an emerald leaf, and warned Lan Hong that Bo Saixi had come to cause trouble.
• Xuan Di ate the leaf and felt stronger, while Lan Hong considered how to prepare for a possible attack involving the Sea God.
• Qian Daoliu sensed the aura Bo Saixi had deliberately released for him to detect.

Qian Daoliu welcomed Bo Saixi to Spirit City, while the Heaven Dou Royal Team defeated the Spirit Hall Battle Team in the final. Dugu Yan distributed the tournament’s three Soul Bones, and Bo Saixi remained in the city with her search still ahead.

• Qian Daoliu met Bo Saixi outside the city and invited her to search Spirit City for the person and item her god had sent her to find.
• Lan Hong warned Dugu Bo and the others to leave Spirit City after the final if anything unexpected happened, identifying Bo Saixi as a possible danger.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue used Demon Charm, but Dugu Yan’s poison and Ye Lingling’s evasive skills helped the Heaven Dou Royal Team defeat the Spirit Hall Battle Team.
• Yue Guan announced the Heaven Dou Royal Team as the winners after Dugu Yan and Demon Charm clashed and Hu Liena and Xie Yue could no longer fight.
• Dugu Yan accepted the three Soul Bones and assigned the skull and left leg bones to herself and Ye Lingling, and the right arm bone to Yu Tianheng.

After the tournament, Lan Hong accepted Dugu Yan’s Soul Bones for research and planned to take the group to another continent. Bo Saixi confronted him in Spirit City over the Sea God’s oracle, and their battle continued outside the city, where Lan Hong faced her Sea God Avatar.

• Dugu Yan gave Lan Hong the two Soul Bones she had won, and he accepted them so he could study their connection to Soul Tools.
• Lan Hong told Dugu Yan and the others that he would take them to another continent after they returned to Heaven Dou City.
• Bo Saixi and Sea Woman Douluo blocked Lan Hong’s way, while Dugu Bo escorted Dugu Yan and the others out of Spirit City.
• Bo Saixi attacked Lan Hong with her Sea God Domain and a mental spirit skill, but Lan Hong countered with his domains and Golden Bell Shield as Qian Daoliu intervened.
• Lan Hong followed Bo Saixi out of the city to settle their fight, and Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo left with Ning Rongrong.
• Bo Saixi summoned her Sea God Avatar and tried to draw Lan Hong into Sea Burial, while Lan Hong used the Five Dragon King to freeze the water she had raised.

Lan Hong and his allies defeated Bo Saixi and her Sea God Divine Sense, though Qian Daoliu stopped Lan Hong from killing her. After recovering and reuniting with Dugu Bo’s group, Lan Hong returned to Heaven Dou City, where Prince Xue Xing came to visit.

• Lan Hong, the Five Dragon King, Xuan Di, Hong Mao, and Blue Cat combined their attacks to shatter the Sea God’s Divine Sense and Bo Saixi’s Martial Soul Avatar, leaving her unconscious.
• Lan Hong tried to strike Bo Saixi, but Qian Daoliu intervened and asked him to spare her; Lan Hong warned that he would settle the matter on Sea God Island someday before leaving with Blue Cat.
• Bo Saixi woke in Spirit City, and Qian Daoliu told her to return to Sea God Island and warned that he would oppose her if she caused trouble again.
• Bo Saixi and Sea Woman Douluo left Spirit City, and Bo Saixi decided to search for the Heart of the Sea God.
• Lan Hong reunited with Dugu Bo and the others, returned to Heaven Dou City ahead of the other academies, and arranged for Ye Lingling to tell her family she was training.
• Prince Xue Xing arrived to visit Lan Hong and Dugu Bo after they returned to Heaven Dou City.

Lan Hong helped Dugu Bo diagnose and treat Emperor Xue Ye’s accumulated poison, negotiating the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud in return. After leaving Heaven Dou City, Lan Hong took his companions to Gengjin City and discussed its defenses and administration with Lou Gao.

• Prince Xue Xing brought Dugu Bo and Lan Hong to Heaven Dou Palace to examine Xue Ye, whose fatigue came from poison planted by Qian Renxue.
• Dugu Bo identified a specially mixed poison he could not cure, and Lan Hong offered to treat Xue Ye in exchange for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Lan Hong treated Xue Ye with a Detoxification Pill and the Golden Needle Acupoint Technique, then received the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from Prince Xue Xing.
• Lan Hong told Dugu Bo that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud was the Heart of the Sea God and that he intended to cut off Poseidon’s inheritance.
• After Ye Lingling returned, Lan Hong took Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and others to Gengjin City and discussed Soul Tool defenses and city management with Lou Gao.

Lan Hong and his group reached the Sun Moon Continent and discovered that the Snake Spirit Cult was forcing village girls to serve as sacrifices. After they defeated the cultists, Lan Hong explained why Fallen Ones could act more openly there than on the Douluo Continent.

• Lan Hong and his group traveled from Gengjin City across the sea and landed near a village on the Sun Moon Continent.
• The villagers knelt before the group, and the village chief begged the Soul Masters to spare the residents after preparing sacrifices.
• A Soul Saint called Left Protector and other Snake Spirit Cult members arrived and threatened Lan Hong’s group.
• Lan Hong ordered Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, Fei Ju, and Ye Lingling to attack; they killed the cultists, and Lan Hong captured Left Protector with the Changhong Sword.
• Lan Hong advised his students on fighting in life-and-death battles and explained that the City of Slaughter and Spirit Hall kept Fallen Ones in check on the Douluo Continent.

Lan Hong learned how the Sun Moon Continent was ruled by kingdoms, Fallen Ones, and the Academia Faction, and discovered that the Snake Spirit Cult controlled the Snake Spirit Kingdom. He and his companions attacked a nearby cult stronghold, where Bishop Lou Yunyi prepared to confront them.

• Lan Hong questioned Du Ying, who revealed that the Snake Spirit Cult had founded the Snake Spirit Kingdom and that its leader was the king.
• Du Ying described the Sun Moon Continent’s five kingdoms, the Fallen Ones’ cults, and the Academia Faction’s research into Soul Tools.
• Lan Hong killed Du Ying, freed the villagers from the immediate threat, and left with Xiao Wu and the others.
• Lan Hong and his companions agreed to attack the Snake Spirit Cult, and he identified its king as a Level 95 Titled Douluo and Lou Yunyi as the local Level 79 bishop.
• Dugu Yan’s poison and the others’ attacks overwhelmed the cult stronghold’s defenders, while Lou Yunyi set out to confront them.

Lan Hong and his companions dismantled Snake Spirit Cult strongholds and reached the royal city to stop Xudra’s sacrifice ritual. Lan Hong stormed the palace alone, where the Five Dragon King killed two of the cult’s elders before Xudra summoned his Nine-Headed Serpent.

• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Fei Ju, and Dugu Yan defeated Lou Yunyi and purged the stronghold, then freed the imprisoned girls and learned that the cult planned to send sacrifices to the royal city.
• Lan Hong discovered the cult’s widespread network and a map of its strongholds, then led his group toward the royal city while they cleared cult outposts along the way.
• Xudra learned that his strongholds were under attack and ordered three thousand sacrifices gathered for his breakthrough ritual.
• Lan Hong reached the royal city with his companions and told them to fight cult members outside the palace while he confronted its leaders alone.
• Lan Hong entered the palace at night and sent the Five Dragon King against the five great elders, killing the Fourth Elder and the Great Elder.
• Xudra summoned his Nine-Headed Serpent martial soul after watching two elders fall.

Lan Hong defeated Xudra and the Snake Spirit Cult elders during the battle at the royal palace. After Xudra died, a general tried to capture Lan Hong, who activated the Heavenly Qin Divine Skill against the surrounding soldiers.

• Lan Hong killed the Fifth, Third, and Second Elders while the Five Dragon King battled Xudra's Nine-Headed Serpent.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, Fei Ju, and Ye Lingling retreated after holding off the Snake Spirit Cult's reinforcements.
• Xudra devoured the incoming Fallen Soul Masters to restore his Soul Power, but Lan Hong and the Five Dragon King overwhelmed him.
• Xudra used Serpent Shedding to survive as a small snake and tried to seize Lan Hong's body, but Lan Hong erased him with ice and fire energy.
• A Snake Spirit Kingdom general ordered his soldiers to capture Lan Hong, who played his qin and activated the Heavenly Qin Divine Skill.

Lan Hong purged the Snake Spirit Cult’s strongholds and rescued captives while the cult’s archbishops secured Academy City’s help against him. Ju Feng and Academy City’s Soul Engineers trapped Lan Hong in Sparrow City and launched an attack.

• Lan Hong reunited with Xiao Wu and the others, then purged another Snake Spirit Cult stronghold and rescued over a thousand girls.
• The cult’s archbishops asked Academy City dean Ju Feng to help stop Lan Hong, and Ju Feng agreed on the condition that they lure him to a chosen place.
• Lan Hong’s group continued purging cult strongholds, and Fei Ju reached level 30 and gained her third Spirit Skill, Sharpness.
• After learning the cult planned a sacrifice in Sparrow City, Lan Hong went there with Xiao Wu and the others waiting outside.
• Ju Feng revealed that Academy City was protecting its interests by backing the cult, then ordered his Soul Engineers to attack Lan Hong.

Lan Hong destroyed the forces of Academy City and the Snake Spirit Cult in Sparrow City, then reunited with Xiao Wu and vowed to visit Academy City after finishing the purge. As Lan Hong entered Academy City with his companions, Dragon Ridge Kingdom’s King Xu Yulong considered recruiting him.

• Lan Hong used Fire Dance Whirlwind and the Five Dragon King to defeat Headmaster Ju Feng, the Snake Spirit Cult archbishops, and the forces attacking him in Sparrow City, then took the surviving Soul Guidance Cannons.
• Lan Hong reunited with Xiao Wu and explained that Academy City had joined the Snake Spirit Cult against him, and he promised to settle the score after clearing out the cult’s remaining forces.
• Lan Hong’s purge drove the Snake Spirit Cult’s remaining fallen soul masters into hiding or flight, and he set out with his group to visit Academy City.
• Vice Headmaster Yan Shai worried that Headmaster Ju Feng had not returned from his mission and concealed the truth from Academy City’s teachers, council members, and scholars.
• King Xu Yulong and his Teacher Mu Yungge decided Dragon Ridge Kingdom should support the Snake Spirit Kingdom rather than invade, and they discussed trying to recruit Lan Hong.
• Lan Hong brought Xiao Wu and the others into Academy City.

Lan Hong uncovered the Academy City's brutal human and soul beast experiments and began slaughtering those responsible. As the academy's forces confronted him, Xiao Wu and the others fled, while Lan Hong and his companions fought the Soul Tool Troops and academy elites.

• Lan Hong overheard students discussing the use of enslaved people as experimental materials and questioned a teacher to learn that the victims were imprisoned beneath the Spirit Tool Tower.
• Lan Hong entered the underground prison, discovered horrific experiments and research reports, and freed the prisoners before killing researchers and guards.
• Escaped survivors alerted the academy, and Vice President Yan Shai ordered the Soul Tool Troops, cannons, and senior teachers to assemble.
• Lan Hong fired a purple signal flare to tell Xiao Wu and the others to leave, then confronted Yan Shai and revealed that President Ju Feng was dead.
• The Soul Guidance Cannons attacked Lan Hong, but he destroyed their shells and summoned the Five Dragon King and Xuan Di to fight the academy forces.
• Lan Hong and Xuan Di devastated the Soul Tool Troops as Lan Hong's Ice Fire Domain overwhelmed the academy's Soul Saints and Soul Fighting Douluos, while Titled Douluos briefly held him back.

Lan Hong defeated Academy City’s remaining leaders and took control of the city, intending to study its Soul Tool knowledge and make its survivors atone. He began reorganizing the city and sharing its Soul Tool production rather than keeping the technology to himself.

• Yan Shai used his Ninth Spirit Skill, but Lan Hong shattered the dice with the Amber Divine Eye and defeated him; Lan Hong then killed the distracted council member he had been fighting.
• Lan Hong burned the battlefield’s corpses, questioned Yan Shai about the Soul Tool warehouse and Spirit Tool Theory, and killed him after extracting the information.
• Lan Hong reunited with Xiao Wu and the others, then explored the library’s secret chamber and found damaged Ancient Relics that formed the basis of Soul Tool development.
• The next day, Lan Hong addressed Academy City’s survivors and ordered them to atone by manufacturing Soul Tools or working outside the city.
• Lan Hong decided to spread Soul Tools and encourage wider research instead of monopolizing the technology.

After Lan Hong’s campaign against the Snake Spirit Cult left much of the Snake Spirit Kingdom in a power vacuum, commoners began organizing around a faith in him. Meanwhile, Lan Hong developed a Soul Bone-inspired helmet and planned to forge a full set, as news of Academy City’s fall unsettled other kingdoms’ Academy Cities.

• Former sacrifice victims spread Lan Hong’s words among commoners, who took control of towns and formed a growing church devoted to him.
• Lan Hong and Blue Cat studied Spirit Tool Theory and Soul Bones, then developed improved metal capable of bearing complex Soul Guidance patterns.
• With Blue Cat’s help, Lan Hong replicated a Soul Bone circulation pattern and made a helmet that amplified Soul Power, prompting him to plan a complete set.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others discovered that the church worshipped Lan Hong and had named the women Divine Envoys and Saintesses.
• Lan Hong’s companions discussed whether to cooperate with the church and provide Soul Tools so commoners could defend themselves.
• Spies reported the Snake Spirit Kingdom’s upheaval, and word that Academy City had been conquered alarmed Academy Cities in other kingdoms.

Lan Hong prepared Academy City for war and launched a decapitation strike against the Dragon Ridge Kingdom’s Academy City, killing its leaders and taking its resources. After he delivered Zhou Yu’s head to Xu Yulong, the kingdom’s troops were already being routed by the Dragon Sword Cult, leaving the invasion in disarray.

• Zhou Yu persuaded Xu Yulong to send troops into the Snake Spirit Kingdom while the Evil Spirit Kingdom also prepared to invade, and both kingdoms’ cults moved to fill the vacuum left by the purged Snake Spirit Cult.
• Fei Ju told Lan Hong that his rapidly growing church wanted to meet him, and Lan Hong established rules for its followers before they returned to spread his teachings.
• Xiao Wu and the others warned Lan Hong that the two kingdoms planned to reclaim Academy City, so he ordered the city to produce Soul Tools and arm church members.
• Lan Hong traveled alone to the Dragon Ridge Kingdom’s Academy City, destroyed its dungeon, and killed Zhou Yu and the other three Titled Douluo before taking the city’s Soul Tools and Ancient Relics.
• Lan Hong placed Zhou Yu’s head on Xu Yulong’s desk, prompting the king to recall his troops, while the Dragon Sword Cult’s Soul Tool Troops routed Dragon Ridge soldiers at the border.

Lan Hong secured his foothold on the Sun Moon Continent, but the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign came to avenge his descendant and attacked him outside Academy City. Lan Hong and Xuan Di fought back, but the Sovereign’s powerful mental assault shattered the Si Lei Shield and sent the Five Dragon King flying.

• Lan Hong forced the Dragon Ridge Kingdom and the Evil Spirit Kingdom to withdraw, then destroyed their advancing Soul Tool Troops and seized their Soul Tools.
• The king of the Evil Spirit Kingdom went to the Demonic Forest and provoked the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign by telling him Lan Hong had killed his descendant.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign transformed into a black-haired man and went to Academy City, where he attacked Lan Hong with a Mental Storm.
• Lan Hong summoned the Five Dragon King and fought the Sovereign, dodging his mental assaults and cutting through his physical tentacles with swords.
• Lan Hong summoned Xuan Di, but the Sovereign shattered Xuan Di’s Super Ice Bullet and the Five Dragon King’s Si Lei Shield, sending the Five Dragon King flying.

Lan Hong defeated the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign with Seven Swords Convergence and Fire Dance Whirlwind, then absorbed the battle’s immense power and reached the bottleneck of level 90. After awakening at dawn, he explained the nature of Fierce Beasts to his worried students.

• Xuan Di attacked the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign while Lan Hong gathered the seven swords and unleashed Seven Swords Convergence.
• Lan Hong shattered the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign’s Light of Time and Space, but the clash badly damaged his Spiritual Power and left him vulnerable to Mental Attacks.
• Lan Hong entered a selfless state and used Fire Dance Whirlwind to tear the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign apart, preventing its final Mental Attack from harming him.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign’s Spirit Ring and Soul Bone were destroyed in the whirlwind, and the gathered Soul Power, Faith Power, and Heaven and Earth Origin Energy transformed Lan Hong’s power.
• Xiao Wu and the others guarded Lan Hong through the night until he woke, having formed the Heavenly Eye and advanced his Spiritual Power by a major level.
• Lan Hong told Xiao Wu and the others that the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign had been a Fierce Beast and explained how soul beasts became Fierce Beasts through tribulation.

Lan Hong pursued the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to Sea God Island, intending to damage the Sea God's inheritance. He left Sea Star Douluo gravely injured after defeating him with a mental attack, while the other guardians remained before him.

• Lan Hong returned to Academy City, and a few days later the Evil Spirit Kingdom's king died as his mind and soul were destroyed, plunging the kingdom into a power struggle.
• After stabilizing the former Snake Spirit Kingdom's territory, Lan Hong began traveling back to Douluo Continent, but the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud escaped from its Spatial Soul Tool near Vast Sea City.
• Lan Hong and his companions went to Sea God Island, where the Shroud fused with the Sea God's Trident and the island's guardians felt the Sea God's power.
• Lan Hong confronted the six present Sacred Pillar guardians and declared that he had come to settle the score with the Sea God.
• Sea Star Douluo attacked Lan Hong, who severed two tentacles of his Martial Soul Avatar and then incapacitated him with a Mental Storm.