Chapter Summaries

Yang Tian rewarded Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo with pills and a sword art in exchange for Ning Fengzhi's help managing Holy Soul Hall. He then learned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had a vast Energy Stone vein in its back mountain, leaving him eager to obtain the stones.

• Ning Fengzhi demanded benefits before agreeing to manage Holy Soul Hall, and Yang Tian offered a soul bone for Sword Douluo and a pill for Bone Douluo.
• Yang Tian gave Sword Douluo a Brave Grade sword art and Ning Fengzhi a pill that could evolve his martial soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Yang Tian gave Ning Fengzhi two bottles of Soul Power-enhancing pills and asked where he could find energy-rich stones.
• Sword Douluo brought Yang Tian several Energy Stones, and Yang Tian recognized that their energy was richer than that of Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's back mountain held one of Douluo Continent's largest Energy Stone veins, and Yang Tian became excited.

Yang Tian negotiated with Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo to have the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect mine Energy Stones in exchange for soul bones and increased soul-ring ages. The group agreed to begin mining, with Yang Tian providing Storage Rings for transporting the stones.

• Ning Rongrong explained that Yang Tian needed Energy Stones because his cultivation required too much Soul Power to advance through meditation alone.
• Ning Fengzhi offered to have the sect mine the stones for a fee, and Yang Tian offered Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo soul bones in exchange for their help.
• Sword Douluo asked for a skull bone, and Yang Tian offered both Titled Douluo two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and increased soul-ring ages.
• Ning Fengzhi objected that the sect's Soul Masters should not work for free, but Ning Rongrong urged him to accept Gold Soul Coins as payment.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to organize mining, and Yang Tian produced several large Storage Rings to transport the stones.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Yang Tian for soul bones and increased soul-ring ages for himself, and offered to help locate more mines for a fee.

Yang Tian gathered spirit stones from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and reached Soul Power Level 70, planning to gain his seventh ring from the World Tree. As the continent’s political and supernatural conflicts continued, he prepared to raise Ning Fengzhi’s soul-ring ages first.

• Yang Tian received spirit stones and soul bones from Ning Fengzhi, then entered seclusion while Shui Bing'er and the other women took Zhu Zhuqing and two others to the Land of the Extreme North for the Ice and Water Dual Gods’ trials.
• Xue Qinghe’s position as Crown Prince strengthened as Xue Ye fell ill, while Tang San returned to the Clear Sky Sect and began training in its secret arts under Tang Hao.
• Spirit Hall named Swordsman its Holy Son and announced his engagement to Hu Liena; the next day, Swordsman left Douluo Continent to seek intelligence on overseas Evil Soul Masters, and Hu Liena entered seclusion.
• At the Land of the Extreme North, Snow Empress admitted to Xiao Wu that she missed Yang Tian, and revealed that he had already made a move on her.
• After half a month of cultivating with spirit stones, Yang Tian reached Soul Power Level 70 and decided to seek his seventh soul ring from the World Tree with his wives.
• Yang Tian received another ring of spirit stones and told Ning Fengzhi he would raise his soul-ring ages before helping Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.

Yang Tian used Energy Stones to raise Ning Fengzhi’s soul rings to Ten Thousand Years, greatly strengthening his Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and raising his soul power. He continued enhancing Ning Fengzhi’s rings until Ning Fengzhi told him to stop, since he had no ninth soul ring.

• Ning Fengzhi questioned Yang Tian about his Energy Stone use, and Yang Tian said he had reached Level 70 and needed far more energy to advance further.
• Yang Tian explained that raising Ning Fengzhi’s rings to Ten Thousand Years would take only three to four hundred Energy Stones per ring, then set up the process in the main hall.
• Yang Tian raised Ning Fengzhi’s seventh and eighth soul rings to Ten Thousand Years, and Ning Fengzhi found that his support effects had grown dramatically and his soul power had increased by three levels.
• Yang Tian continued raising Ning Fengzhi’s first soul ring and then directed more energy into the eighth ring.
• Ning Fengzhi told Yang Tian to stop because he had no ninth soul ring and further enhancement would be useless.

Yang Tian stopped raising Ning Fengzhi’s Soul Rings and left with Ning Rongrong for the Far North. At Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to mine another Energy Stone vein and promised rewards for helping Swordsman.

• Yang Tian stopped after Ning Fengzhi’s first eight Soul Rings reached a hundred thousand years, then explained that his physical cultivation also consumed vast energy.
• Yang Tian told Ning Fengzhi about other planets, then left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with a God-given Soul Ring and carried the exhausted Ning Rongrong through the Sword Estate to the Far North.
• Bibi Dong asked Yue Guan where else Energy Stones could be mined, and Yue Guan reported a large vein at Imperial Mausoleum Mountain in the Star Luo Empire.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to mine the Star Luo vein, offering the three Soul Bones Swordsman had left behind as compensation and promising Soul Bones to Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo.
• Bibi Dong learned that mining behind Spirit Hall was nearly halfway complete and instructed Yue Guan to search for more veins afterward.

Yue Guan began gathering Energy Stones for Yang Tian, while Yang Tian returned to the extreme north and reunited with Snow Empress. He announced that he had reached Level 70 and prepared to help the girls obtain Rule Rings and evolve their Soul Rings.

• Yue Guan agreed to mine every Energy Stone vein in Heaven Dou and Star Luo and send the stones to Spirit City.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu each passed two divine assessments; Zhu Zhuqing reached Level 64, while Xiao Wu reached the Level 60 bottleneck and waited to obtain a Soul Ring.
• Yang Tian arrived at the extreme north with Qian Renxue and a sleepy Ning Rongrong, then embraced Snow Empress after Ning Rongrong left with Qian Renxue.
• Huo Wu teased Yang Tian about taking Snow Empress, but he changed the subject by announcing that he had reached Level 70 and would seek a Rule Ring.
• Yang Tian offered to help the girls form Rule Rings and evolve their Soul Rings, then prepared a rune formation and Energy Stones to raise their rings to three hundred thousand years.

Yang Tian gathered the women to comprehend the World Tree after preparing a Spirit Gathering Array and a Heaven Deceiving Array. He received the Dao of the Physical Body and gained a seventh soul ring, while the women gradually awakened with Rule Rings suited to their powers.

• Yang Tian elevated the women’s soul rings with Energy Stones and gave them Enlightenment Tea, while Ying'er reached the bottleneck of Level 40.
• Yang Tian retrieved more Energy Stones, built a Spirit Gathering Array in the snowy mountains, and later set up a Heaven Deceiving Array to conceal the World Tree from the God Realm.
• Yang Tian brought the women, Shuang'er, and Ice Bear King Xiao Bai to comprehend the World Tree, whose Rule Power drew them into enlightenment.
• A World Tree leaf sent a chain of rules into Yang Tian, revealing the Dao of the Physical Body; his five non-Golden Flame soul rings changed, and he gained a simple jade-white seventh ring.
• Ying'er awakened with a fourth Rule Ring, followed by Huo Wu, Xu Youyou, Xu Xiaoxiao, Shui Bing'er, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Hu Liena, Qian Renxue, Zhu Zhuqing, and Lin Zhiling, each gaining a Rule Ring reflecting her powers.

After comprehending the Great Dao’s Rule Ring, Yang Tian drew a Cosmic Tribulation from the universe’s Great Dao. He faced the gathering storm alone, and the first bolt struck far harder than he expected.

• Snow Empress awakened after three days of comprehension, while Yang Tian continued forming his seventh ring.
• Dark tribulation clouds gathered over the Far North, and Yang Tian reached Level 72 as he restored his Soul Power with Energy Stones.
• Yang Tian moved away from the women and identified the approaching storm as a Cosmic Tribulation triggered by his progress toward the Divine Bans.
• Ice Empress and Snow Empress said the gathering tribulation had already surpassed the intensity of their own past trials, while the women watched anxiously.
• A Thunder Dragon formed in the clouds, and the Heavenly Tribulation struck Yang Tian with a huge bolt of pale violet lightning.
• Yang Tian grimaced as the lightning grew much stronger upon impact.

Yang Tian weathered the heavenly tribulation and used its lightning to forge a cauldron from Profound Yellow Mother Qi, while Xiao Cai remained with him. After the tribulation ended, he sent the Swordsman overseas to find the Sun Moon Continent and was surprised when Xiao Cai woke without asking for food.

• Yang Tian blocked the first lightning strike with the Palm Heaven Bottle, then began shaping Profound Yellow Mother Qi into a cauldron in his dantian.
• Yang Tian redirected successive lightning bolts through his Golden Taiji Circle to temper the cauldron, then realized the denser tribulation cloud was also targeting Xiao Cai.
• Yang Tian endured the final tribulation, which shattered his Golden Taiji Circle, and finished with a clearly shaped three-legged, two-handled cauldron in his dantian.
• Yang Tian absorbed the spiritual energy left by the nine tribulations aimed at him and reached Soul Power Level seventy-three.
• Yang Tian gave the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword and other items to the Swordsman, who set out overseas to find the Sun Moon Continent.
• Xiao Cai woke and hopped onto Yang Tian's shoulder without asking for food, surprising him.

Yang Tian returned to the snowy mountain after overcoming his tribulation, while Swordsman investigated an ocean region filled with undead soul beasts. Swordsman discovered that a distant island lay within a boundary separating the undead from areas where living creatures remained.

• Yang Tian returned to the snowy mountain and spent three days in the Cultivation Room with the women, while Snow Empress trained Ying'er outside.
• Swordsman emerged over the sea and encountered a seventy-thousand-year whale soul beast before moving on.
• Swordsman fought off black sea creatures whose attacks carried deathly energy, and discovered that a piranha could reassemble after being shattered.
• Swordsman imprisoned a fifty-thousand-year sea serpent and sensed that the region contained no living creatures, only undead soul beasts.
• Swordsman flew away from the island, found fewer and weaker undead as he traveled, and detected living creatures near an energy membrane about seventy-five kilometers away.

Swordsman crossed the undead barrier and entered a hidden town called Death God Town, where he learned that its small population included an unusually large number of powerful soul masters. He grew suspicious of the town's Five Great Soul Master Factions and the mysterious God Servant Family.

• Swordsman burned the Black Flood Dragon with a fire lotus and made his way onto the island.
• Swordsman used the World-Saving Golden Flame to destroy the island's undead and crossed the boundary into a lush region.
• Swordsman found a small town and discovered that he could barely fly there, despite birds flying freely.
• Swordsman entered Death God Town, imitated the local accent, and gathered information at an inn.
• Swordsman learned that the Five Great Factions each had at least two Titled Douluo and concluded that something was wrong.

Swordsman learned that the island was a Death God inheritance ground where the Five Great Factions competed for treasures, and he discovered that Death Spirit Pearls were pills that concealed a living person's aura. He crafted a Death Spirit Pill and left the hotel after using it to pay his bill, while a young man mistook him for the Divine Attendant's son.

• Swordsman found that the hotel food was nearly inedible and listened to guests discuss the island, the factions' chosen prodigies, and the dangers keeping residents trapped there.
• Swordsman detected a Death Spirit Pearl and used his knowledge of alchemy and Life Energy to create a Death Spirit Pill.
• A lavishly dressed young man approached Swordsman and offered to pay his bill, believing his appearance suggested high status.
• Swordsman declined the young man's offer, paid with the Death Spirit Pill, and left the hotel.
• The waiter accepted the pill as payment, and the young man watched Swordsman depart without daring to follow.

Swordsman learned that Undead Town was an isolated settlement where five factions competed for the Death God’s inheritance. After a Divine Attendant discovered him, she summoned him and Zhang Linghui to come with her.

• Swordsman gathered information about Undead Town’s thousand-year history, its deathly-energy treasures, and its powerful soul masters.
• Swordsman learned that the five major factions were competing to become the Death God’s inheritor and considered whether Ying'er might suit the inheritance.
• The woman in black appeared before Swordsman and questioned how he had entered the island; he claimed he had wandered in while exploring the sea.
• Zhang Linghui arrived, addressed the woman as the Divine Attendant, and bowed as nearby residents knelt.
• The Divine Attendant ordered Swordsman and Zhang Linghui to accompany her, and both followed.

Swordsman accompanied the God Attendant and Zhang Linghui to learn the rules of the Death God Inheritance, then watched Dao Feng undergo the Death God Statue's examination. Dao Feng received the Death God Seven Trials, while Swordsman remained an unreadable outsider whose strength puzzled the God Attendant.

• The God Attendant explained that outsiders had to reach town by their own strength and that qualified candidates needed the Death God Statue's approval to receive the nine trials.
• Zhang Linghui learned that Swordsman was an outsider, and the God Attendant said he qualified to attempt the trial.
• Four young men arrived for the annual treasure hunt, and Swordsman reached for the Death God Statue before one of them rebuked him.
• The God Attendant asked Swordsman why she could not see through his strength, but he told her that her strength was insufficient and stepped aside to watch.
• Dao Feng placed his hand on the Death God Statue and received the Death God Seven Trials.

Swordsman watched the other candidates receive the Death God Trials before touching the statue himself and triggering a red radiance. His divine soul entered a space where he met the Death God, who recognized him as the young man Asura had mentioned.

• Gu Er received the Death God Seven Trials, while Black Flame received the Death God Eight Trials.
• Li Ji received the Death God Eight Trials, and Zhang Linghui received the Death God Seven Trials.
• Swordsman told the candidates they might see the outside world within a few years, provoking Dao Feng's skepticism.
• Swordsman touched the Death God Statue, which shifted directly to black and then turned red.
• Swordsman's divine soul entered another dimension, where the Death God recognized him as the young man who had helped a six-hundred-thousand-year soul beast survive its tribulation.

Swordsman met the Death God and arranged for his young disciple Ying'er to inherit the Death God's position, then received a trial to protect her. After cursing the Death God, he discovered his new authority let him lower Dao Feng's trial rank and order the five trial participants away.

• The Death God rejected Swordsman as an inheritor, but agreed to accept Ying'er after Swordsman described her talent and Dark Demon Scythe martial soul.
• The Death God warned Swordsman about a powerful figure on the Sun Moon Continent and refused to reward him with Soul Power, instead giving him locations of other gods' inheritance grounds.
• The Death God assigned Swordsman the Guardian Dao Trial: to find and protect his inheritor until she completed the Death God Inheritance.
• After Swordsman cursed the Death God, Dao Feng demanded punishment, so Swordsman used his authority to reduce Dao Feng's trial level by three grades.
• Swordsman ordered the divine attendant to expel the five participants, and she bowed before telling them to leave.

Swordsman Brother left Death Spirit Island after arranging a teleportation array and continued searching for the Sun Moon Continent. Half a year later, he woke from his long cultivation on a snowy mountain, where Zhu Zhuqing and the other girls had grown much stronger, and announced it was time to move on.

• Swordsman Brother dismissed Dao Feng, questioned the divine attendant about Death Spirit Island, and learned about its undead, Death Spirit Pills, and Darkness Spirit Herbs.
• Swordsman Brother installed a Teleportation Array on Death Spirit Island, left the divine attendant in charge, and departed to seek the Sun Moon Continent.
• Over the following half year, Zhu Zhuqing advanced to level seventy-five, Qian Renxue reached level seventy-eight, and Lin Zhiling rose to level eighty-four as the girls improved their Soul Rings and cultivation.
• Xu Xiaoxiao and Huo Wu played around with the other girls while Yang Tian remained motionless in cultivation atop a snow-covered mountain.
• Yang Tian woke, welcomed Xu Xiaoxiao into his arms, teased the girls, and said it was time to get moving.

After half a year of seclusion, Yang Tian reunited with the Snow Empress and learned that the World Tree had transformed her into a Heaven and Earth Spirit, sparing her from tribulations until she reached a certain limit. He brought her to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi asked about cultivation and Spirit Hall’s search for energy stone veins.

• The Snow Empress told Yang Tian that she seemed to have broken free from the restraints of the heavenly tribulation, and he explained her new spirit form and its limits.
• Yang Tian and the Snow Empress kissed, then left Shuang'er and Ying'er behind to travel together.
• Yang Tian arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with the Snow Empress, making Ning Fengzhi and the elders uneasy around her purity and beauty.
• Yang Tian told Ning Fengzhi that Ning Rongrong had reached Level Sixty-Eight and that he himself had reached Level Seventy-Three.
• Ning Fengzhi said the sect’s energy stone vein had run dry, described a slow mining effort near the Star Dou Great Forest, and asked why Spirit Hall was searching for veins and had nearly excavated the Star Luo Empire’s Imperial Mausoleum.

Yang Tian revealed to Ning Fengzhi that he was the Swordsman and explained his plans to take control of Heaven Dou and Spirit Hall. After Ning Fengzhi accepted the truth and received Soul Bones, he advised Yang Tian on consolidating the Holy Soul Hall’s power; Yang Tian planned to approach the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Yang Tian told Ning Fengzhi that the Swordsman was his incarnation, created to infiltrate Spirit Hall, and admitted that he had many women, including the Saintess.
• Ning Fengzhi grew angry about Ning Rongrong’s status, but Yang Tian promised that all his women would be treated equally.
• Yang Tian revealed that Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue, the former Pope’s daughter and his woman, and discussed how to secure her rule over Heaven Dou.
• Yang Tian gave Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo Soul Bones, including three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, and explained that Beast God Di Tian had helped him obtain them.
• Ning Fengzhi advised Yang Tian to strengthen the Holy Soul Hall and bring the major sects and academies under its influence, so Yang Tian planned to visit the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yang Tian helped Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo raise their soul rings and cultivation, then left with the sect’s Energy Stones for the Clear Sky Sect. He arrived at its mountain gate, intending to see Tang San.

• Yang Tian told Ning Fengzhi he would seek a way for soul masters to advance without hunting soul beasts and asked the Star Dou Great Forest to be left undisturbed.
• Yang Tian spent the night with the Snow Empress, who became his woman.
• Yang Tian raised Sword Douluo’s and Bone Douluo’s soul rings to two hundred thousand years, increasing their cultivation to levels 99 and 98.
• Yang Tian collected the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Energy Stones with Bone Douluo’s help.
• Yang Tian flew directly to the Clear Sky Sect’s mountain gate instead of crossing its iron chains.