Chapter Summaries

After defeating Yu Xiaogang, Lin Chen gave Xiao Wu an Aromatic Silk Beauty sachet to conceal her Soul Beast presence, while Tang Hao secretly watched over the injured Tang San. Three days later, Lin Chen and Xiao Wu left Nuoding City with Dugu Bo and headed for Heaven Dou City.

• Lin Chen gave Xiao Wu a sachet containing Aromatic Silk Beauty, which altered her presence so she would be less likely to be recognized as a Soul Beast.
• Tang Hao found the unconscious Tang San and Yu Xiaogang at Nuoding Academy, carried them to Yu Xiaogang's room, and vowed to watch over Tang San from the shadows.
• Lin Chen spent three days exploring Nuoding City with Xiao Wu before preparing to leave with her and Dugu Bo.
• Xiao Chenfeng and Xiao Chenyu bid Lin Chen farewell, and Lin Chen asked Xiao Chenfeng to pass his regards to his parents when they returned.
• Lin Chen, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Bo departed for Heaven Dou City, where Lin Chen promised to show Xiao Wu around and introduce her to friends.

Lin Chen returned to Heaven Dou City with Xiao Wu and brought her to the Crown Prince's Residence, where Xue Qinghe questioned him about the trouble he had caused with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Xue Qinghe tasked him with approaching Ye Lingling, while privately investigating Xiao Wu and deciding to leave the strained clan relations alone for now.

• Lin Chen arrived in Heaven Dou City with Xiao Wu and took her to the Crown Prince's Residence, where she met Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Qinghe confronted Lin Chen about castrating Yu Xiaogang and the resulting damage to relations with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Xue Qinghe told Lin Chen that Ye Lingling had been looking for him and urged him to recruit her to help the Crown Prince's Residence.
• After Lin Chen left, a servant reported that Xiao Wu had a rabbit Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, and appeared to be an ordinary talented student rather than a spy.
• Xue Qinghe called off the investigation into Xiao Wu and ordered that the strained relations with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan be left alone for the time being.

Lin Chen enrolled Xiao Wu at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where she met Dugu Yan. After learning Ye Lingling had repeatedly asked for him, Lin Chen visited her and heard that she wanted to join the Crown Prince's Residence to protect her family.

• Lin Chen brought Xiao Wu to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Zhao Mingyuan completed her enrollment for classes starting the next day.
• Lin Chen introduced Xiao Wu to Dugu Yan, who told him that Ye Lingling had been seeking him out and gave him her address.
• Lin Chen left Xiao Wu with Dugu Yan and went to the Nine Heart Begonia Villa to find Ye Lingling.
• Ye Lingling asked Lin Chen to help her join the Crown Prince's Residence so she could protect the Nine Heart Begonia Family.

Ye Lingling asked Lin Chen to help treat her seriously ill mother and joined the Crown Prince's Residence because she trusted him. Xue Beng came to pressure Ye Lingling into becoming his follower, but Lin Chen invoked the Crown Prince's authority to protect her.

• Ye Lingling told Lin Chen that her mother had been seriously ill for three months and that Xue Beng had offered treatment in exchange for her becoming his follower.
• Ye Lingling explained that she wanted to join the Crown Prince's Residence because Lin Chen had cured Dugu Yan's poison, and Lin Chen agreed to examine her mother without promising a cure.
• Xue Beng arrived with two servants and demanded to know whether Ye Lingling had considered his proposal.
• Lin Chen warned Xue Beng to leave, and Ye Lingling denied ever agreeing to his terms.
• Xue Beng claimed that only he could help Ye Lingling's mother through Prince Xue Xing, but Lin Chen said the Crown Prince's Residence would handle her affairs and that Xue Qinghe already knew.

Lin Chen drove Xue Beng away after Ye Lingling refused to go with him, then examined Ye Lingling's ailing mother. He used the Blue Silver Emperor to replenish her fading vitality, leaving it with Ye Lingling as her mother's condition began to improve.

• Lin Chen and Ye Lingling ordered Xue Beng to leave, and he departed angrily after threatening that Ye Lingling would regret her choice.
• Ye Lingling brought Lin Chen to her mother's room, where he sensed that her vitality was steadily draining away.
• Lin Chen remembered the Blue Silver Emperor in his Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch and decided its life force might help her mother.
• Lin Chen planted the Blue Silver Emperor in a flowerpot beside the bed, and its golden light helped steady the woman's breathing and restore some color to her face.
• Lin Chen left the Blue Silver Emperor with Ye Lingling and promised to return to check whether her mother's condition improved further.

During the half month after Lin Chen treated Ye Lingling's mother with the Blue Silver Emperor, her condition improved and Ye Lingling grew warmer toward him. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Yu Tianheng confronted Lin Chen over his uncle Yu Xiaogang, and the chapter ended with their fight set for the next day.

• Lin Chen visited Ye Lingling's home regularly, and her mother progressed from being bedridden to taking a few steps with support.
• Ye Lingling's attitude toward Lin Chen softened, and she began bringing him tea and making occasional conversation.
• Lin Chen arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Dugu Yan, Xiao Wu, and Ye Lingling, drawing envious looks from the male students.
• Yu Tianheng blocked Lin Chen's way and accused him of insulting the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan by crippling Yu Xiaogang.
• Lin Chen agreed to fight Yu Tianheng, who challenged him to a match at the academy's cultivation grounds the following day.

Lin Chen faced Yu Tianheng in a crowded academy duel and overwhelmed him with his three Soul Rings and superior speed. He left Yu Tianheng sprawled on the training ground after declaring him defeated.

• Lin Chen brushed off Yu Tianheng’s challenge and told Xiao Wu that only a Soul Emperor might beat him.
• Xue Qinghe read a report about the upcoming duel but made no arrangements, confident in Lin Chen’s strength.
• Yu Tianheng arrived at the training ground and challenged Lin Chen in front of the gathered students.
• Lin Chen revealed his purple, purple, and black Soul Rings, shocking the crowd and unnerving Yu Tianheng.
• Yu Tianheng attacked with Blue Lightning Dragon Claw, but Lin Chen blocked it, appeared behind him with Void Instant Slash, and kicked him across the training ground.

Lin Chen defeated Yu Tianheng, and Ye Lingling formally joined the Crown Prince's Residence after her mother's health improved. Before returning to the residence, Lin Chen sensed a faint, reassuring response from the growing Blue Silver Emperor.

• Lin Chen knocked Yu Tianheng down again, forced him to admit defeat, and left the training ground with Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling.
• Ye Lingling told Lin Chen that her mother's condition had stabilized and formally joined the Crown Prince's Residence as the Nine Heart Begonia Family's representative.
• Ye Lingling asked to move with her mother, and Lin Chen offered them a place inside the Crown Prince's Residence.
• Lin Chen examined Ye Lingling's mother and sensed a faint, reassuring response when he touched the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Lin Chen left for the Crown Prince's Residence, where he planned to tell Brother Xue about Ye Lingling's decision.

A year and a half later, Lin Chen had reached level forty-four and continued training under Qin Ming while Qian Renxue had become a level-fifty Soul King. After learning that Ye Lingling and her family had joined the Crown Prince's Residence, Lin Chen went to visit her.

• Lin Chen fought Qin Ming in a training session and was told he had improved but still had not used his full strength.
• Lin Chen's fourth Soul Ring came from a thirty-five-thousand-year light- and space-attribute Soul Beast, granting him the Voidlight Reversal Shield skill.
• Dugu Bo reached level ninety-four after condensing his Soul Core and cultivating with the Snake Spirit Jade Blood Vine.
• Qian Renxue told Lin Chen that Ye Lingling's mother had recovered and that the remaining members of the Nine Heart Begonia Family had joined the Crown Prince's Residence.
• Lin Chen left to visit Ye Lingling at her secluded courtyard, where begonias surrounded a space reserved for the Blue Silver Emperor's flowerpot.

Lin Chen received a vision of the Blue Silver Emperor thanking him, then accepted Ning Fengzhi’s invitation to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as a representative of the Crown Prince’s Residence. He agreed to help Qian Renxue’s Nation-Stealing Plan and prepared to travel with Dugu Bo.

• Lin Chen touched the Blue Silver Emperor and briefly saw a woman’s phantom thank him before the vision vanished.
• Qian Renxue showed Lin Chen Ning Fengzhi’s invitation and explained that the sect master might be assessing his talent or the Crown Prince’s Residence’s attitude toward him.
• Qian Renxue told Lin Chen to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as the Crown Prince’s representative, and Lin Chen agreed to bring Dugu Bo for protection.
• Lin Chen offered to help Qian Renxue deal with Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing, while she explained that she needed to prevent the Upper Three Sects from intervening in her plan.
• Lin Chen asked Dugu Bo to accompany him to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect the next morning, and Dugu Bo agreed while planning to seek medicinal herbs.

Lin Chen and Dugu Bo traveled to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi asked Lin Chen to humble his spoiled daughter, Ning Rongrong. The next morning, Rongrong confronted Lin Chen at the Guest Courtyard and dismissed him as unimpressive.

• Lin Chen and Dugu Bo rode for five days to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect on Seven Treasure Mountain.
• Ning Fengzhi welcomed Lin Chen and Dugu Bo, then invited them into the sect's main hall for tea.
• Ning Fengzhi told Lin Chen that his daughter Ning Rongrong had grown arrogant and neglected her cultivation, and asked Lin Chen to show her that greater geniuses existed.
• Lin Chen agreed to consider helping, and a disciple escorted him and Dugu Bo to the Guest Courtyard.
• The next morning, Ning Rongrong made a commotion outside the courtyard, met Lin Chen, and haughtily said he did not look impressive.

Ning Rongrong challenged Lin Chen, but her attacks could not move him, and he harshly criticized her arrogance and the limits of her support Martial Soul. The next morning, Ning Fengzhi thanked Lin Chen because Rongrong had gone to train on her own for the first time.

• Ning Rongrong challenged Lin Chen to a fight, and he agreed not to use his Soul Rings or Soul Skills if she could make him take half a step back.
• Ning Rongrong used her Strength Amplification Soul Skill and struck Lin Chen repeatedly, but he remained unmoved.
• Lin Chen criticized Ning Rongrong's arrogance and explained the limits of her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and its flaw.
• Ning Rongrong ran away angrily, while Dugu Bo told Lin Chen that his words had been harsher than a beating.
• The next morning, Ning Fengzhi told Lin Chen that Rongrong had shut herself in her room overnight and then gone to the training ground.
• Ning Fengzhi thanked Lin Chen because Rongrong had never gone to train of her own accord before.

After Ning Rongrong refused to accept her defeat to Lin Chen, she persuaded Bone Douluo Gu Rong to challenge him at the same Soul Power Level. Lin Chen agreed after Dugu Bo urged him to fight, and the chapter ended as Lin Chen and Gu Rong prepared to spar.

• Ning Rongrong went to Gu Rong and complained that Lin Chen had humiliated her, asking him to help her challenge Lin Chen.
• Gu Rong accompanied Ning Rongrong to Lin Chen’s courtyard and offered to fight using Lin Chen’s Soul Power Level and only his first four Soul Rings.
• Lin Chen refused until Gu Rong promised to grant him one request if he won, and Dugu Bo told him to accept.
• Lin Chen agreed and followed Gu Rong to an open stretch of grass, where he donned the Ultimate Armor and prepared to fight.
• Gu Rong suppressed his Soul Power to the level of a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor, summoned four Soul Rings, and taunted Lin Chen to begin.

Lin Chen battled Gu Rong, who had suppressed his Soul Power to level forty, and unleashed his third Soul Skill when he fell behind. The chapter ended with Lin Chen's thirty-meter Light Sword driving Gu Rong back after he raised his Soul Power to level sixty, leaving Gu Rong stunned by Lin Chen's strength.

• Gu Rong outmaneuvered Lin Chen's opening attacks and knocked him back with a series of strikes.
• Lin Chen activated his third Soul Skill, Holy Radiance Possession, and gained enough speed and strength to put Gu Rong on the defensive.
• Lin Chen broke through Gu Rong's bone walls and armor, blocked a counterattack with Ultimate Holy Shield, and drove Gu Rong back with an elbow strike.
• Gu Rong raised his Soul Power from level forty to level sixty and blocked Lin Chen's thirty-meter Light Sword, but his bone armor cracked under the impact.

Lin Chen defeated Gu Rong and kept his reward as a favor he could claim later. After three days at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, he and Dugu Bo departed, leaving Ning Rongrong with an apology and a new understanding of support-type Soul Masters.

• Lin Chen defeated Gu Rong, who admitted he had broken the rules and agreed to owe Lin Chen a favor.
• Ning Fengzhi visited Lin Chen over three days, brought him gifts and intelligence, and asked him to pass a message to Qinghe.
• Lin Chen told Ning Fengzhi that Qinghe had become a Soul King and agreed to relay the message.
• Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and others saw Lin Chen and Dugu Bo off as they left the sect.
• Ning Rongrong apologized to Lin Chen, who told her that support-type Soul Masters were important partners and could fight, though she was too weak to charge into battle.

Lin Chen helped Qian Renxue devise a plan to frame the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan for Emperor Xue Ye’s death as she prepared to seize the throne. The next day, he learned that Xue Beng had been harassing Ye Lingling, and he reacted angrily.

• Lin Chen returned to Heaven Dou City and met Qian Renxue, who told him she planned to move against Emperor Xue Ye within the next month and wanted Xue Beng and Xue Xing out of the city.
• Qian Renxue explained that her evolved Martial Soul and Soul Power made it impossible to keep her identity concealed much longer, forcing her to launch the Nation-Stealing Plan early.
• Lin Chen proposed using Thunderlight Purple Splendor Grass and Dugu Yan’s Dragon Aura to make Xue Ye’s death look like a lightning strike caused by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Qian Renxue accepted the plan and told Snake Lance Douluo that she would use the accusation to exterminate the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Dugu Yan told Lin Chen that Xue Beng had repeatedly harassed Ye Lingling and had nearly gotten physical with her.

After learning that Xue Beng had bullied Ye Lingling, Lin Chen threatened him at the academy and then confronted Prince Xue Xing, warning that he might kill the fourth prince. Xue Xing let Lin Chen leave and ordered Xue Beng sent out of Heaven Dou City while he investigated.

• Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan told Lin Chen that Xue Beng had bullied Ye Lingling and that the teachers had not dared intervene.
• Lin Chen comforted Ye Lingling, promised to help her get even, and went to confront Xue Beng.
• Lin Chen held the Ultimate Zero Sword to Xue Beng’s neck, warned him to wait, and left despite Xue Beng’s angry threats.
• Lin Chen visited Prince Xue Xing and said he would beat Xue Beng, then joked that he might kill him and leave Xue Xing to collect the corpse.
• Prince Xue Xing stopped his guards from detaining Lin Chen and ordered Xue Beng to leave Heaven Dou City while he investigated.

Prince Xue Xing sent Xue Beng to the Northern Border after suspecting Lin Chen was planning something, while Lin Chen helped Qian Renxue prepare an assassination of Xue Ye. Qian Renxue planned to act the next day, and Lin Chen warned her to be careful.

• Prince Xue Xing ordered ten Heaven Dou Royal Knights to escort Xue Beng to the Northern Border and accompanied them himself.
• Lin Chen asked Dugu Yan to imbue Thunderlight Purple Splendor Grass with draconic aura, then delivered it to Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue explained that an assassin would poison Xue Ye and use the Immortal Herb to draw lightning to his corpse, allowing her to take control of the aftermath.
• Qian Renxue told Lin Chen to stay at the Crown Prince's Residence and advised him to warn Dugu Yan and the others to stay inside during the coming unrest.
• Lin Chen wished Qian Renxue caution before leaving, and she assured him she knew.

Xue Qinghe poisoned Emperor Xue Ye, then used lightning and a staged fire to disguise the murder before the emperor’s death was announced at dawn. The chapter left Xue Qinghe beside the emperor’s corpse as the palace mourned.

• Emperor Xue Ye suspected the old eunuch had been sent by Crown Prince Qinghe and confronted him.
• Xue Qinghe revealed himself and watched as the poisoned Emperor Xue Ye died.
• Xue Qinghe used the Thunderlight Purple Splendor Grass to summon lightning, burn the corpse, and set the bedchamber ablaze.
• Snake Lance Douluo ordered the Imperial Guards to seal off the bedchamber and search Heaven Dou City for the culprit.
• After dawn, Xue Qinghe led guards into the ruins as the palace announced that Emperor Xue Ye had passed away.

After Xue Ye was killed by lightning, Qian Renxue blamed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and took control of the Royal Knights, imposing a total lockdown on Heaven Dou City. Lin Chen and Dugu Bo watched the palace from the Crown Prince's Residence as the city remained under heavy patrol.

• The imperial guards found Xue Ye's burned body and reported lightning wounds and traces of dragon presence to Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue told the ministers that Xue Ye had been assassinated and placed the Royal Knights under the Crown Prince's Residence's command.
• Qian Renxue ordered Heaven Dou City's four gates closed, increased patrols, and ordered Yu Tianheng taken into custody for questioning.
• Soldiers swept through Heaven Dou City, forcing vendors indoors and searching homes as residents whispered about Xue Ye's death and the suspected Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan assassin.
• Dugu Bo told Lin Chen that Xue Ye was dead and predicted Xue Qinghe would succeed him, while Lin Chen wondered how Brother Xue was handling the crisis.