Chapter Summaries

Yang Tian visited the Clear Sky Sect with the Snow Empress during its Third Generation Disciples' Chief Disciple competition and offered the sect a movement technique in exchange for Tang Xiao’s support against Evil Soul Masters. Tang Xiao refused to accept it as payment, and the competition continued with Yang Tian watching Tang San.

• Yang Tian and the Snow Empress arrived at the Clear Sky Sect, where the gatekeeping disciples admitted him without delay.
• A disciple escorted Yang Tian to the martial arts arena, where the sect was holding its Chief Disciple competition.
• Tang Xiao welcomed Yang Tian, who greeted Tang Hao and Ah Yin and settled down to watch the contest.
• Yang Tian praised the Clear Sky Hammer and discussed Tang San's Chaotic Cloak Dance and his refusal to teach Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Yang Tian offered the Clear Sky Sect a movement-type soul skill, but Tang Xiao said the sect could not accept it as a gift for helping fight Evil Soul Masters.

Yang Tian condemned the Clear Sky Sect’s elders for their timidity and demonstrated his overwhelming strength, provoking Seventh Elder into unleashing a desperate hammer strike. Tang Xiao and Tang Hao acknowledged that the sect had disgraced Clear Sky as Yang Tian faced the blow with a single finger.

• Yang Tian identified Tang San as the strongest candidate among the Clear Sky Sect’s Third Generation Disciples and called the others trash, angering the elders.
• Yang Tian immobilized Seventh Elder and most of the Martial Arts Arena with his pressure, then criticized the sect for hiding instead of confronting danger.
• Yang Tian left with Snow Empress, but Seventh Elder pursued him and launched a massive Clear Sky Hammer strike with all his strength.
• Tang Hao blocked the strike’s residual force, while Tang Xiao and Tang Hao agreed that the sect had disgraced Clear Sky.
• Yang Tian lightly tapped Seventh Elder’s enormous hammer with one finger, and Tang Xiao and Tang Hao raised an energy barrier over the Martial Arts Arena.

Yang Tian defeated the Clear Sky Sect elders and challenged them to abandon their cautious ways, prompting them to reconsider the sect’s retreat and agree to leave seclusion. After learning that Tang Chen’s missing sect-master token limited Tang Xiao’s authority, Yang Tian agreed to recover it in exchange for the Clear Sky Sect merging into the Holy Soul Hall as an autonomous Clear Sky Hall.

• Yang Tian sent Seventh Elder flying, mocked the elders and the Clear Sky Hammer, then sealed the attacks of six elders and redirected their power into the sky.
• The elders were injured when their seal broke, and Yang Tian praised the Clear Sky Sect’s true fighting spirit as they lay defeated.
• Tang Xiao and the elders acknowledged that the sect’s retreat had cost it its dignity, while Yang Tian restored Seventh Elder’s dislocated arms.
• Tang Xiao declared that the Clear Sky Sect could no longer remain in seclusion, and Yang Tian offered it guest-sect status without requiring it to give up its name.
• Tang Hao explained that Tang Chen’s missing sect-master token had weakened Tang Xiao’s authority, and the system assigned Yang Tian a mission to recover it and merge the sect.
• Yang Tian promised to recover the token and establish the autonomous Clear Sky Hall within the Holy Soul Hall, and Tang Xiao agreed.

Yang Tian left the Clear Sky Sect after resolving its crisis and went to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to persuade Yu Yuanzhen to join the Holy Soul Hall. He left Yu Yuanzhen with a challenge, proposing they settle the matter with a fight.

• Yang Tian left Strengthening Origin pills at the Clear Sky Sect, urged Tang San to claim the chief disciple position, and departed with Snow Empress.
• Tang Hao told Tang San to grow stronger on his own and promised to send him to Slaughter City after he became chief disciple.
• Yang Tian and Snow Empress arrived at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, where Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan were discussing their marriage.
• Yu Tianheng led Yang Tian to meet his grandfather, Yu Yuanzhen, at the clan's castle.
• Yang Tian explained that he wanted to spare the clan casualties in a future war, then challenged Yu Yuanzhen to a match.

Yang Tian challenged Yu Yuanzhen to a spar at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and proved his overwhelming physical strength. As Yu Yuanzhen escalated the fight, Yang Tian revealed his Chaos Planting Green Lotus phenomenon and told him to use his full power.

• Yu Yuanzhen accepted Yang Tian’s challenge and transformed into his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon form.
• Snow Empress shielded Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan from Yu Yuanzhen’s bloodline pressure.
• Yang Tian struck Yu Yuanzhen with a bare fist and blasted him backward, astonishing the clan’s experts.
• Yu Luomian arrived with Flender, Liu Erlong, and Little Dragon, and Flender identified Yang Tian as a Shrek Academy student.
• Yu Yuanzhen used soul skills to strengthen himself, and Yang Tian summoned the Chaos Planting Green Lotus phenomenon, trapping him in its oppressive power.

Yang Tian faced Yu Yuanzhen’s strongest attacks, countering them with the Sun Shooting Divine Bow, the Immortal King phantom, and a powerful True Dragon Claw. After the dragon’s aura left Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan shaken, Yang Tian gave the weakened Thunder Douluo a pill and left him wondering what kind of dragon Yang Tian had manifested.

• Yu Yuanzhen used his full strength and struck Yang Tian with Divine Dragon Tail Swing, but Yang Tian blocked the attack with one arm.
• Yu Yuanzhen launched Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Spear, and Yang Tian’s golden arrow pierced through the lightning before Yu Yuanzhen shattered it with a follow-up claw strike.
• Yu Yuanzhen unleashed Thunder Lightning Radiance, but Yang Tian’s Immortal King phantom seized the energy sphere and exhausted its power.
• Yu Yuanzhen fired Blue Lightning Divine Dragon Break, and Yang Tian crushed the thunder dragon projection with True Dragon Claw, leaving Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan overwhelmed by its dragon’s might.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked whether Yang Tian’s apparition had been a dragon, and Yang Tian gave him a pill to restore his depleted vitality and blood.

Yang Tian revealed his True Dragon Bloodline and used promises of bloodline refinement and cultivation to persuade Yu Yuanzhen to cooperate with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Yu Yuanzhen was deeply tempted by the prospect of reaching rank 99 and helping his clan grow stronger, but had not yet agreed.

• Yu Yuanzhen took Yang Tian's pill and felt his vitality restored, raising his hopes of advancing to Level 97.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked whether Yang Tian had Twin Martial Souls, and Yang Tian explained that he had True Dragon Bloodline and a flame martial soul.
• Yang Tian described the True Dragon as the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon and Progenitor Dragon, prompting Yu Yuanzhen to warn him not to use that title lightly.
• Yang Tian revealed his Bloodline Evolution Method by summoning a Thunder Dragon phantom, and Yu Yuanzhen eagerly admired it.
• Yang Tian promised that Yu Yuanzhen could reach rank 99 without side effects and offered to cultivate Tian Heng into a Peerless Douluo, leaving Yu Yuanzhen wavering.

Yang Tian reassured Yu Yuanzhen that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan could join the Holy Soul Hall as an autonomous branch, then demonstrated the benefits by upgrading Yu Tianheng’s five spirit rings. Yu Yuanzhen was impressed, and the chapter ended when Flender arrived at the hall.

• Yang Tian explained the Holy Soul Hall’s branch autonomy, contracts, and benefits to Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Tianheng.
• Yu Yuanzhen agreed to let Yang Tian upgrade Yu Tianheng’s spirit rings before deciding whether the clan would join.
• Yang Tian raised Yu Tianheng’s five spirit rings to Ten Thousand Year level, bringing his Soul Power to its bottleneck and greatly strengthening him.
• Yu Tianheng thanked Yang Tian, while Yu Yuanzhen praised him and Yang Tian joked about the burdens of being an emperor.
• Flender entered the hall, criticized Yang Tian’s unreliable behavior, and greeted Yu Yuanzhen as Thunderbolt Crown.

Yang Tian exposed Yu Luomian’s collusion with Spirit Hall and his plan to destroy the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s True Dragon Nine Mountains. Yu Yuanzhen turned on his younger brother, while Liu Erlong was left devastated by her father’s betrayal.

• Yu Luomian objected to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan joining the Holy Soul Hall, and Yang Tian challenged his authority.
• Yang Tian suppressed Yu Luomian, sealed his Soul Power, and used a soul-seizing technique to question him about Spirit Hall.
• Yu Luomian confessed that Spirit Hall had ordered him to destroy the True Dragon Nine Mountains in exchange for becoming clan leader.
• Yu Yuanzhen inspected the True Dragon Nine Mountains, returned in fury, and attacked Yu Luomian for betraying the clan.
• Yang Tian stopped Yu Yuanzhen from killing Yu Luomian, but Yu Yuanzhen struck his brother again as Liu Erlong faced the truth about her father.

Yu Yuanzhen imprisoned Yu Luomian and agreed to have the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan join the Holy Soul Hall after Yang Tian began repairing its Dragon Vein. Yu Tianheng joined the Holy Soul Main Hall under a voluntary soul-bound contract, hoping Yang Tian would help evolve his martial soul.

• Yu Yuanzhen denounced Yu Luomian, stripped him of his clan status, and sent him to the Hall of Punishments instead of killing him.
• Yang Tian offered to repair the Dragon Vein, and Yu Yuanzhen agreed that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would join the Holy Soul Hall if he succeeded.
• Yang Tian laid formations across nine nearby mountain ranges and said the Dragon Vein would take half a year to repair.
• Yu Yuanzhen learned about the Holy Soul Hall's branches, voluntary membership, and soul-bound contracts, then agreed to send willing disciples.
• Yu Tianheng volunteered to join the Holy Soul Main Hall, and Yu Yuanzhen accepted after Yang Tian clarified that Tianheng could retain ties to his clan.
• Yu Tianheng signed Yang Tian's contract with a drop of blood, binding it to his soul.

Yang Tian visited the Holy Soul Hall, where the four affiliated clans and several academy groups had joined and begun training with its methods and facilities. He met Bai Chenxiang and asked her to lead him to her grandfather, Elder Bai.

• Yang Tian upgraded Yu Yuanzhen's soul rings to Ten Thousand Years before leaving the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• The Strength, Defense, Speed, and Breaking Clans joined the Holy Soul Hall, received training methods and soul skills, and had their patriarchs appointed as elders.
• Yang Tian established gravity training grounds and welcomed members of several Element Academies into the Holy Soul Hall.
• Yang Tian arrived at the Martial Arts Arena with the Snow Empress, where Huo Wushuang greeted him as Hall Master.
• Bai Chenxiang told Yang Tian that her grandfather, Elder Bai, was in the Elder Hall, and Yang Tian asked her to take him there.

Yang Tian reviewed Holy Soul Hall’s growth, tightened its recruitment plans, and strengthened its senior members. He selected talented young soul masters for a demanding training test, arranged secret letters for Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar, and prepared to take the successful candidates away.

• Bai He reported Holy Soul Hall’s recruitment and development to Yang Tian, who approved an outer hall for the four great clans and set stricter standards for joining the inner hall.
• Yang Tian promised the four clans compensation in the form of clan cultivation methods and soul skills, then elevated Dugu Bo and the four clan patriarchs by strengthening their ninth soul rings.
• Yang Tian reviewed a list of young soul masters he planned to take away and added Dugu Yan to it, while Bai He clarified that Dragon Duke and Serpent Granny had not joined the main hall.
• Yang Tian gave Bai He three sealed letters for Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar and instructed him to deliver them personally without letting anyone else see them.
• Yang Tian ordered Tai Nuo to make everyone on the list adapt to one additional level of gravity within half a month, promising soul bones to those who succeeded and removing those who failed.

Yang Tian reunited with Qian Renxue, then met Emperor Xue Ye, who offered him the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and proposed that he marry Xue Ke. The chapter ended with Yang Tian looking to Ning Fengzhi for a response.

• Yang Tian told Qian Renxue he would visit the Land of the Extreme North and return before staying in Heaven Dou and going to Sea God Island.
• Qian Renxue said Xue Ye had little time left and would likely give Yang Tian something when he visited.
• Yang Tian greeted Ning Fengzhi before Emperor Xue Ye, then learned Xue Ke had brought him the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Xue Ye asked Yang Tian to support the Heaven Dou Empire, and Yang Tian clarified he would not oppose Spirit Hall but would not let it weaken the continent.
• Xue Ye asked Yang Tian to marry Xue Ke, and Yang Tian turned to Ning Fengzhi.

Yang Tian rejected Xue Ke’s proposed marriage but received the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, then spent time with Qian Renxue as they prepared for her eventual ascension to the throne. Before leaving for the Far North, he arranged for Ning Fengzhi to oversee the Holy Soul Hall and operate the Soul Ring Spirit Ascension Formation.

• Yang Tian rejected Xue Ye’s decree to marry Xue Ke, and Xue Ke tearfully accepted his refusal and left.
• Xue Ye gave Yang Tian the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud despite his rejection of Xue Ke.
• Yang Tian and Qian Renxue spent the night together in the Eastern Palace.
• Yang Tian assured Ning Fengzhi that Qian Renxue would face no opposition when she took the throne, then asked him to watch over the Holy Soul Hall during his travels.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to use the Soul Ring Spirit Ascension Formation, and Yang Tian enabled him to operate it before departing for the Far North.

Yang Tian returned to the Land of the Extreme North, reunited with Snow Empress and Huo Wu, and offered the Sea God's inheritance to the women, but none accepted it. After Yang Tian asked who would accompany him to Sea God Island, Shui Bing'er came to his room and hinted that she wanted the inheritance.

• Ning Fengzhi agreed to take the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's accumulated resources, and Yang Tian taught him a method for drawing energy from Energy Stones.
• Yang Tian returned to the Land of the Extreme North, where Snow Empress welcomed him and Huo Wu interrupted them.
• Yang Tian presented the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and offered the Sea God's inheritance, but Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong declined.
• Lin Zhiling said she and Shui Bing'er needed to complete their twin-god trials, while most of the women declined to accompany Yang Tian to Sea God Island.
• Shui Bing'er went to Yang Tian's room, and after he asked what was troubling her, she said, "the Sea God's inheritance..."

Yang Tian left the Land of the Extreme North after promising Shui Bing'er he would help Yue Er obtain the Sea God's inheritance. At Spirit Hall, he demanded Energy Stones from Bibi Dong and left her wondering whether she should go back and rest that night.

• Shui Bing'er asked Yang Tian to give Yue Er the Sea God's inheritance, and he agreed to help improve her cultivation and talent.
• Yang Tian said goodbye to the women in the Land of the Extreme North and left without them.
• Yang Tian appeared in Pope's Hall and caught Bibi Dong by surprise, prompting her to close the doors and strike him away.
• Yang Tian asked Bibi Dong for Energy Stones so he could reach Level 80 and destroy the Rakshasa God's Will troubling her.
• Bibi Dong attacked Yang Tian, but he easily fended her off and left after teasing her about visiting that night.
• Bibi Dong returned to her throne and wondered whether she should go back and rest that night.

Yang Tian strengthened Spirit Hall's allies and gave Shui Yue'er a spirit bone, a pill, and a God-given Soul Ring after she insisted on earning her own rewards. Shui Yue'er began absorbing the ring with a playful promise to make a small request if she raised it to one hundred thousand years.

• Yang Tian took Spirit Hall's Energy Stones, improved the Heng Ha Two Generals' soul rings, and briefly confronted Bibi Dong in her bedchamber.
• Yang Tian returned to Heaven Dou and upgraded Huo Wushuang and others, while sending three people in Star Luo maps and Spirit Ascension Stones.
• Shui Yue'er visited Yang Tian alone, and he offered her a twenty thousand year head spirit bone, a pill, and later a God-given Soul Ring.
• Yang Tian gave Huo Wushuang a pill made with his blood and Immortal Herbs, along with part of the True Dragon Blood Tempering Scripture.
• After absorbing the spirit bone and pill, Shui Yue'er received the God-given Soul Ring and asked whether she could make a small request if she raised it to one hundred thousand years.

Shui Yue'er successfully absorbed a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and began exploring the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, while Yang Tian went to visit Gu Yue Na. On the Sun Moon Continent, Swordsman arrived at Water Blue City as its exhausted defenders prepared to retreat from the advancing Sail army.

• Shui Yue'er asked Yang Tian to grant her a request if she raised her God-given Soul Ring to a hundred thousand years, but he told her to absorb it first.
• After five hours, Shui Yue'er emerged having successfully absorbed the Soul Ring, and Yang Tian gave her the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to study for their trip to Sea God Island.
• Yang Tian opened the Reverse Sky Gate after his Reverse Scale flashed, and Gu Yue Na sensed his arrival beneath the Life Lake in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Swordsman walked through deserted Water Blue City and learned that the Sail Kingdom's army had surrounded the border city.
• General Biddle ordered his exhausted soldiers to retreat, knowing that many elderly citizens who refused to evacuate would be left behind.

At Water Blue City, Biddle prepared to abandon the city rather than sacrifice his remaining soldiers, but Yang Tian revealed he had installed a City Protecting Grand Formation. The barrier gave Biddle hope of holding the city, while Yang Tian left him a Jade Sword that would summon him if the formation came close to breaking.

• Biddle explained that he would stay behind but wanted to save his young soldiers, and Yang Tian told him the other three cities on the defensive line had held out.
• Yang Tian revealed he had spent Energy Stones to establish city-protecting formations in four cities and activated Water Blue City's barrier.
• Biddle recalled his soldiers to the walls, then thanked Yang Tian and vowed to defend the city.
• Yang Tian burned the corpses outside the walls and warned Biddle that prolonged attacks could deplete the formation's energy.
• Yang Tian gave Biddle a Jade Sword and instructed him to pour in his Soul Power if cracks appeared, explaining that it would guide Yang Tian back to the city.

Swordsman traveled to Locke Imperial City after helping secure the Borderlands and received the title of Empire Dawn King, then tried to check into the Locke Grand Hotel using a stolen money pouch. When the pouch’s owner confronted him, Swordsman returned it empty and paid for his room with gold coins.

• Swordsman reached Locke Imperial City as news spread that His Majesty had named him Empire Dawn King and granted him the Dawn King Mansion.
• Swordsman bought a newspaper with a money pouch he had picked up from a thief and went to the Locke Grand Hotel.
• The front desk girl refused to accept the pouch after recognizing its pattern.
• A woman claimed the pouch was hers and explained that a thief had stolen it from her on the street.
• Swordsman transferred the pouch’s nearly thousand Gold Coins into his Storage Ring, returned the empty pouch, and paid for his suite with gold coins.