Chapter Summaries

Swordsman met the Seventh Princess of the Locke Empire while trying to get a hotel room and revealed his seven golden soul rings to prove he was the Great Hero of the Borderlands. The princess fled with him from the gathering nobles and asked whether he truly was the hero.

• Swordsman traded the Seventh Princess’s money pouch for Soul Nourishing Pills, then took fifty Gold Coins before returning the rest.
• Swordsman learned the woman was the Seventh Princess and asked her to arrange a room and take him to see the emperor.
• The Seventh Princess doubted Swordsman was the Great Hero of the Borderlands and refused to believe he could match the hero’s soul rings.
• Swordsman revealed seven golden soul rings, convincing the Seventh Princess and the hotel staff that he might be the Great Hero.
• The Seventh Princess grabbed Swordsman and ran from the gathering nobles, then asked whether he really was the Great Hero.

The Swordsman arrived at the Locke Empire’s imperial city, where the Seventh Princess recognized him as the Great Hero and brought him to Locke the Great. The emperor welcomed him and promised to meet his needs, while the Seventh Princess’s awkward tea service caused a brief misunderstanding.

• The Seventh Princess questioned the Swordsman’s identity, accepted that he was the Great Hero, and led him through the imperial city after his soul rings drew attention.
• The Swordsman told the Seventh Princess that Locke the Great was in the inner palace, and the emperor soon came out to greet him.
• Locke the Great inspected the Swordsman’s Seven Rule Rings, bowed in gratitude for saving the Locke Empire, and invited him to the Hall of Political Affairs.
• The Empress Consort and the Seventh Princess joined them, and the Empress Consort asked Qi Qi to pour tea for the Swordsman.
• After Qi Qi filled the Swordsman’s cup to the brim, he called the drink wine and finished it, prompting Locke the Great to apologize and order Purple Jade Nectar.

Swordsman negotiated with Locke the Great for royal resources, authority, and Soul Engineers to develop weapons, offering protection and pills in return. Locke the Great agreed to judge his strength firsthand, and Swordsman followed him out of the Hall of Political Affairs.

• The Seventh Princess repeatedly refilled Swordsman’s cup with Purple Jade Nectar as Locke the Great asked where he came from and what he knew about the Holy Sect.
• Swordsman revealed that he came from the Douluo Continent, had combat power above Level 100, and believed an enemy beyond Level 100 stood behind the Holy Sect.
• Swordsman told Locke the Great he wanted resources, Soul Engineers, land, money, and autonomous authority to research weapons, and offered pills as an alternative payment.
• The Empress Consort challenged Swordsman for disparaging the Locke Empire, and he explained that its army could not defeat the Holy Sect’s Evil Soul Masters.
• Locke the Great asked Swordsman to demonstrate his strength before granting his request, and Swordsman, the Seventh Princess, and the Empress Consort followed him out of the Hall of Political Affairs.

Swordsman challenged the Locke Empire’s Worship Hall and defeated Black Bear Douluo in two punches, overwhelming the Level 95 Titled Douluo even when he unleashed his strongest skills. After Swordsman healed him, Black Bear Douluo warned the others that they could not withstand Swordsman’s full strength, and Swordsman revealed he had not used any strength at all.

• Locke the Great brought Swordsman to the Worship Hall and told its worshippers that Swordsman wanted to challenge them.
• Swordsman swatted down Golden Eagle and urged the worshippers to attack him together, prompting Black Bear Douluo to use his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Swordsman struck Black Bear Douluo with a casual punch and sent him crashing into the blackstone floor.
• Black Bear Douluo unleashed his ninth soul skill and enhancement skills, but Swordsman’s next punch shattered his Martial Soul Avatar and left him injured in the ruins.
• The stooped old woman began healing Black Bear Douluo, but Swordsman restored him with Life Energy and Soul Power.
• Black Bear Douluo warned the other worshippers against challenging Swordsman, who said he had not used any strength.

Yang Tian returned to Heaven Dou City after killing Gu Yue Na and prepared the Holy Soul Hall members for a long training journey to Sea God Island. The group set off toward Vast Sea City, while the boys and girls argued over who would drive Yang Tian’s carriage.

• Yang Tian returned to Heaven Dou City, ordered Bai He to distribute Soul Bones, and told him to prepare three carriages.
• Yang Tian checked that Yu Tianheng’s group had absorbed their Soul Bones and asked Bai Chenxiang and Ye Lingling about their Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Yang Tian laid out rules for the training, named Yu Tianheng and Shui Yue'er as captains, and set Vast Sea City as their destination.
• Yang Tian rested in his carriage and sent his spiritual power into the Palm Heaven Bottle to observe its expanding small world.
• Yu Tianheng assigned Huo Wushuang to drive Yang Tian’s carriage first, but Shui Yue'er objected and Huo Wushuang suggested letting everyone volunteer.

Yang Tian and his companions traveled by carriage, stopping to camp and hunt while Shui Yue'er repeatedly sought his attention. As Shui Yue'er finally drove his carriage, she climbed inside and hinted at being intimate with him, noting that her sister and Zhu Qing were absent.

• Shui Yue'er and Xue Wu argued over who would drive Yang Tian's carriage, and Yang Tian assigned Tai Long to the job.
• At camp, Shui Yue'er massaged Yang Tian while Bai Chenxiang brought him wild fruit, and the returning hunters teased them.
• Yang Tian's group continued traveling, easily defeating small bands of Mountain Bandits they encountered.
• Shui Yue'er finally got to drive Yang Tian's carriage and told him the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud he gave her seemed powerful.
• Shui Yue'er climbed into the carriage while Yang Tian guided the horses with his divine soul, then hinted at intimacy because her sister and Zhu Qing were away.

Yang Tian sent Yu Tianheng and the others to exterminate a Wolf Bandit pack as their first training mission. The team began its attack after scouting the mountain, where Yang Tian had discovered more than fifty powerful Wolf Bandits.

• Shui Yue'er repeatedly tried to seduce Yang Tian during the journey, but he pushed her out of his carriage and assigned her to join the mission against the Wolf Bandits.
• Yu Tianheng explained the Wolf Bandits’ strength and cruelty, then divided the team into scouting and assault groups.
• Shui Yue'er proposed that she and Dugu Yan join the faster fighters, arguing that their presence would keep the Wolf Bandits from fleeing.
• Bai Chenxiang used her speed and stealth to scout ahead while Yang Tian monitored the mission with his divine sense.
• Yang Tian discovered that the mountain held more than fifty elite Wolf Bandits, including four Soul Emperor-level and two Soul Sage-level members.
• Yu Tianheng, Huo Wushuang, Yang Ke, Feng Xiaotian, Shui Yue'er, and Dugu Yan advanced toward the Wolf Bandits, with Yu Tianheng leading the charge.

Yu Tianheng's group found the Wolf Bandits feasting on human victims and approached their lair while waiting for Tai Long and the others. Shui Yue'er concealed the group with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, but the Wolf Bandits detected their scent, forcing Yu Tianheng to order a retreat and prepare for battle.

• Bai Chenxiang found the Wolf Bandits roasting and eating women, then led Yu Tianheng's group toward their lair.
• Yu Tianheng's group crept close to the Wolf Bandits' mountain caves while Bai Chenxiang informed Tai Long and the others about what the bandits had done.
• A crow's disturbance drew the Wolf Bandits toward the group, so Shui Yue'er hid everyone with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Yu Tianheng realized the Wolf Bandits had detected them by scent, and he told the group to withdraw, fight together, and protect Ye Lingling.

Yu Tianheng and the others attacked the Wolf Bandits outside the mountain cave, using their abilities to kill the pack and contain the battlefield. Two Soul Sage-level Wolf Kings joined the fight, and the group continued battling with support from Dugu Yan, Xue Wu, Tai Long, Bai Chenxiang, and Ye Lingling.

• Yu Tianheng led the attack after Shui Yue'er withdrew the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and a Wolf Bandit howled an alarm.
• Yu Tianheng, Huo Wushuang, Feng Xiaotian, and Yang Ke killed Wolf Bandits while Shui Yue'er slowed their advance with spiritual sound waves.
• Two Wolf Kings ambushed Yu Tianheng and Huo Wushuang, but Yu Tianheng dodged and Shui Yue'er disrupted the Wolf King attacking Huo Wushuang.
• Dugu Yan spread poisonous mist to contain the Wolf Bandits, while Shui Yue'er fought a Wolf General and Feng Xiaotian continued his assault.
• Xue Wu froze the battlefield, Tai Long and Bai Chenxiang joined the fight, and Ye Lingling healed Yang Ke as he continued attacking with his spear.

Yang Tian's group arrived in Vast Sea City to prepare for the journey to Sea God Island, while Bai Chenxiang and Xue Wu clashed with the City Lord's son, Baksa. That night, Baksa's allies came to search the hotel, but someone sent the first intruder tumbling down the stairs.

• Huo Wushuang fought the enlarged Wolf King while Yang Tian's companions defeated the remaining Wolf Bandits and prevented their escape.
• Yang Tian's group reached Vast Sea City, and Shui Yue'er suggested they observe Sea Soul Masters before sailing; Yu Tianheng arranged for them to rest at a hotel.
• Baksa approached Bai Chenxiang, but she rejected him, and Xue Wu kicked him away and froze him in ice.
• Baksa returned that night with allies to search the hotel rooms, while Boss Lu refused to let them enter the guests' rooms.
• As one of Baksa's men climbed the stairs, someone knocked him tumbling back down.

Yu Tianheng and the others punished Baksa’s gang after they tried to break into the hotel, then Yang Ke entered the Vast Sea Grand Soul Arena and shocked the crowd by revealing five red Soul Rings. As Yang Tian warned that trouble had arrived, Yu Tianheng noticed the Hall Master had sensed something above them.

• Yu Tianheng ordered Baksa’s gang dragged out and beaten, and the next morning the group was found hanging from Vast Sea City’s walls.
• Yang Tian and his companions watched Sea Soul Masters fight in the water at the Vast Sea Grand Soul Arena.
• Yang Ke faced Sea Shark and revealed five Blood-Colored Soul Rings, startling the crowd.
• Huo Wushuang told Shui Yue'er that Baksa had tried to abduct the women, prompting them to attack his gang.
• Yang Tian warned that trouble had arrived, and Yu Tianheng asked whether he had sensed it before looking toward the upper levels of the Soul Arena.

Yang Ke defeated the Sea Shark Soul King in the Soul Arena, and Yang Tian suggested the others could learn to fly. Shui Yue'er confessed her feelings to Yang Tian and spent the night with him; the group then set sail for Sea God Island, where the women teased Shui Yue'er about sharing him.

• Yang Ke battered the pool with his Soul Piercing Spear until the Sea Shark Soul King surrendered.
• Yang Tian told the others they could use breath and Soul Power to achieve brief flight, then left the arena.
• Shui Yue'er led Yang Tian to her room, confessed that she liked him, and spent the night with him.
• Yu Tianheng hired Captain Oss and his crew to take the group to Sea God Island aboard a fishing vessel.
• On deck, Xue Wu and the others teased Shui Yue'er for keeping Yang Tian to herself, and Shui Yue'er asked whether Ye Lingling wanted him too.

Yang Tian watched the weakened passengers adapt to the voyage while Captain Oss secretly sent three crew members away. On the Sun Moon Continent, the Swordsman built a technological research base and developed a fighter jet before Locke the Great summoned him to counter the Sail Empire’s advance into the Locke Empire.

• Yang Tian let the passengers recover at their own pace as Captain Oss claimed three crew members had left for personal business, and Yu Tianheng responded with suspicion.
• Locke the Great named the Swordsman Dawn King and granted him a mountain range to establish a technological research base.
• The Swordsman and over a hundred Soul Masters built the laboratory and installed advanced equipment, while the Seventh Princess assisted him.
• The Swordsman developed a fighter jet and took the Seventh Princess across the Sun Moon Continent, deepening her attachment to him.
• Locke the Great told the Swordsman that the Sail Empire had bypassed the Azure Blue Four Cities and was advancing into the Locke Empire’s interior.

Swordsman negotiated with Locke the Great over Energy Stones for city defenses and weapons for the war against the Evil Soul Master Legion. He demanded resources rather than money, and the chapter ended with him doubling Locke the Great’s already generous weapons prices.

• Swordsman told Locke the Great that Energy Stones were needed to build City Protecting Grand Formations, and Locke ordered the border cities fortified first.
• Swordsman explained that his weapons production line would soon produce Barretts and rifles, and that a costly Laser Cannon could injure a Titled Douluo.
• Locke the Great offered to make Swordsman the Seventh Princess’s husband, but Swordsman refused and demanded metal ores and Energy Stones as payment instead.
• Locke the Great drew up prices for weapons and ammunition, and Swordsman immediately demanded double the listed amount.
• Locke the Great protested that his prices were already ten times the material costs.

Swordsman and Qi Qi set out for the Evil Demon Forest to investigate the Sail Empire’s source of Soul Rings and seek help from the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord. Before they arrive, a Holy Cult delegation led by the Seventh Holy Son reaches the forest to obtain a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

• Locke the Great kept the Seventh Princess behind after Swordsman left, scolded her for neglecting the Imperial Palace, and threatened to marry Swordsman to one of her sisters instead.
• The Seventh Princess caught up with Swordsman, followed him back to the research institute, and continued staying with him despite their bickering.
• Swordsman asked Qi Qi where the Sail Empire obtained Soul Rings for its Soul Masters, and she told him the Evil Demon Forest was the only place that could meet its demand.
• Swordsman decided to find the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord and set out for the Evil Demon Forest with Qi Qi.
• Seven guests from the Sail Empire arrived at the Evil Demon Forest, including four red-robed Titled Douluo and the white-clad Seventh Holy Son, who was seeking a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

Swordsman and the Seventh Princess lost their way while searching for the Evil Demon Forest and ended up at the Sail Empire’s coastline. After she broke a tooth biting him, Swordsman tried to stop her tears by promising to fix it and offering her a soul bone.

• The Seventh Holy Son and his companions planned to help Xue Ren and Demon Soul obtain Ninth Soul Rings before hunting the Evil Demon Dragon.
• Swordsman used the Reverse Sky Gate repeatedly as the Seventh Princess guided him, and they crossed the continent to the Sail Empire’s coastline.
• Swordsman tried to leave the Seventh Princess behind, but she cried and insisted that he take her with him.
• The Seventh Princess broke a front tooth biting Swordsman, then demanded that he take responsibility and replace it.
• Swordsman promised to make the tooth grow back, but the Seventh Princess kept crying, so he offered her a soul bone.

Swordsman and Seventh Princess reached the Evil Demon Forest, where Seventh Holy Son and his Evil Soul Masters had killed a Ten Thousand Year Evil Eye Tyrant and faced its enraged Overlord. Swordsman challenged the group and promised to take their spiritual-defense Divine Artifact, leaving the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord watching for a chance to avenge its clansman.

• Swordsman healed Seventh Princess's broken tooth, then opened the Reverse Sky Gate back to the Evil Demon Forest.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord confronted them after Seventh Holy Son's group killed a Ten Thousand Year Evil Eye Tyrant, but a treasure shielded the Evil Soul Masters from its spiritual attacks.
• Swordsman descended with Seventh Princess and condemned the Evil Soul Masters for killing the beast and taking its soul and bones.
• Four red-robed Titled Douluo urged Seventh Holy Son to leave with the corpse so he could absorb its Soul Ring, while the Overlord watched.
• Swordsman said he would take the group's Divine Artifact, a dark-glowing chain, and challenged Seventh Holy Son to face the Overlord without it.

The Swordsman destroyed the Seventh Holy Son’s Divine Artifact and rescued the Seventh Princess before the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord fought the Holy Cult’s Titled Douluo. As the Holy Cult members tried to escape, the Swordsman trapped them and the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord inside a barrier, setting the battle to resume.

• The Swordsman crushed the Seventh Holy Son’s Divine Artifact chain, grabbed the Seventh Princess, and escaped through the Reverse Sky Gate as the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord attacked.
• The Swordsman watched the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord suppress the Holy Cult’s Titled Douluo and told the Seventh Princess he would do his best to protect the Locke Empire.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord warned humans to stay out of the Evil Demon Forest, while the Seventh Holy Son and his men fled with the soul bone.
• The Seventh Holy Son struck an invisible barrier two kilometers from the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord, revealing a four-kilometer enclosure that trapped them together.
• The Swordsman’s barrier resisted the Seventh Holy Son’s attacks, and the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord charged at the Holy Cult group again.

Swordsman negotiated with the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord to launch a surprise attack on the Holy Cult in exchange for help protecting the soul beasts. After they agreed to cooperate, Swordsman turned to planning how to infiltrate the Holy Cult and send the Seventh Princess away.

• Swordsman collected the Seventh Holy Son's group’s Storage Soul Tools and burned their corpses after the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord killed them.
• Swordsman urged the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord to attack the Holy Cult, and the Overlord proposed a limited assault by powerful soul beasts to reduce the risk of losses.
• Swordsman offered to teleport the soul beasts to the Holy Cult's Core Area through the Reverse Sky Gate for a half-hour attack, then return them to the Evil Demon Forest.
• Swordsman demonstrated his powerful draconic might and spiritual power, convincing the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord to cooperate, though the Overlord asked Swordsman to remain by his side during the attack.
• Swordsman decided to infiltrate the Holy Cult and considered sending the Seventh Princess away, while she clung to his arm and asked to come with him.

On the voyage to Sea God Island, Yang Tian and the others shared spirit fruits while teasing one another and pairing off. As Shui Yue'er led Yang Tian toward their room, she kept a crafty eye on Bai Chenxiang and Ye Lingling.

• Shui Yue'er shared spirit fruits with the group and encouraged Bai Chenxiang to find a boyfriend, then whispered advice to her about pursuing Yang Tian.
• Xue Wu tried to get Yang Ke's attention, but he ignored her, while Tai Long and the others watched and teased him.
• Huo Wushuang gave his spirit fruit to Meng Yiran, who accepted it, and she asked him why he had not joined Spirit Hall.
• Xue Wu complained that Huo Wushuang should have saved his fruit for her and tried to make Yang Ke react, but he turned away.
• That evening, Shui Yue'er flirted with Yang Tian and went to their room, while watching Bai Chenxiang and Ye Lingling.