Chapter Summaries

Chi Xiu admitted that he had destroyed the Clear Sky Sect and set off for Star Luo to claim the imperial palace as his residence. On the journey, he remembered promising Zhu Zhuqing that she could be his girlfriend once she reached Soul King level, accepted her, and began pursuing intimacy with her.

• Qian Renxue learned that Chi Xiu had killed the Clear Sky Sect members who planned to attack him, then warned him to prioritize the empire and Spirit Hall.
• Chi Xiu left his teammates and announced that he was going to turn the Star Luo Imperial Palace into the Purple Star Royal Residence.
• Zhu Zhuqing joined Chi Xiu on the carriage ride to Star Luo to visit her family, who were guarding the palace.
• Zhu Zhuqing reminded Chi Xiu that she had reached Soul King level and asked whether she now qualified to be his girlfriend.
• Chi Xiu remembered his promise, kissed Zhu Zhuqing, and accepted her as his girlfriend while asking her to keep their relationship secret from his other girlfriends.
• Chi Xiu stopped the carriage and suggested that Zhu Zhuqing was wearing too much; she began unfastening her collar.

Chi Xiu brought Zhu Zhuqing to the Star Luo Imperial Palace, where she reunited with her family, then visited Bai Chenxiang and White Bird. He used light elements to comfort White Bird and encouraged Bai Chenxiang to help her recover, leaving Bai Chenxiang grateful enough to hug him.

• Chi Xiu and Zhu Zhuqing reached Star Luo City, where he noted the lack of order and planned to raise the problem with Qian Renxue.
• At the Star Luo Imperial Palace, Chi Xiu told Zhu Zhuqing that her family could live there, and she reunited with her father and Zhu Zhuyun.
• Chi Xiu visited Bai Chenxiang and learned that White Bird remained withdrawn after being imprisoned and abused by Dai Mubai.
• Chi Xiu offered White Bird a warm flower of light and reassured her that her abuser was gone; she thanked him before fainting.
• Chi Xiu advised Bai Chenxiang to help White Bird gradually return to the sunlight, and Bai Chenxiang hugged him in gratitude.

Chi Xiu found Tang Yuehua alone and grieving in the abandoned Clear Sky Sect, then took her down the mountain to get food. At the restaurant, Tang Yuehua insisted on paying for her rice and kept her distance, while Chi Xiu ordered a meal and left her staring at the dishes he pulled out of her reach.

• Chi Xiu left Bai Chenxiang and traveled to Clear Sky Sect, where he found Tang Yuehua alone in the inner hall.
• Tang Yuehua guarded herself against Chi Xiu, but he learned she had not eaten and gave her a lollipop.
• Chi Xiu took Tang Yuehua down the mountain, removed the dagger she had hidden in her sleeve, and offered to bring her back to Moon Pavilion.
• Chi Xiu drove Tang Yuehua to a roadside restaurant, where she paid one Copper Soul Coin for a bowl of rice.
• Chi Xiu ordered several dishes and soup, then pulled them away from Tang Yuehua as she watched them hungrily.

Chi Xiu took the starving Tang Yuehua to a restaurant, where his teasing left her desperately needing a latrine, then brought her to a waterfall where she fell into the pool. After drying her with Wind Element, he began grilling fish for her, while Tang Yuehua reflected on how strength shaped life on Douluo Continent.

• Tang Yuehua ate her rice and drank five glasses of water while Chi Xiu withheld the dishes, then discovered the restaurant's latrine was too filthy to use.
• Tang Yuehua finally admitted she needed to relieve herself, and Chi Xiu drove her along a bumpy road to a secluded waterfall.
• Tang Yuehua relieved herself into the pool and slipped into it; Chi Xiu used water to blast her onto shore and Wind Element to dry and clean her clothes.
• Tang Yuehua cried in humiliation, and Chi Xiu caught fish from the pool and began grilling them for her.
• Tang Yuehua watched Chi Xiu handle the fire and realized that strength gave people the right to speak on Douluo Continent.

Chi Xiu escorted Tang Yuehua back to Clear Sky Sect, learned how she entered through a hidden passage, and left her money before returning to the palace. There, he found Zhu Zhuqing waiting for him in the garden.

• Chi Xiu shared roasted fish with Tang Yuehua and agreed to take her back to Clear Sky Sect after she said she would live there.
• Chi Xiu accompanied Tang Yuehua through a five-kilometer dark passage and helped her board the lift basket that carried them into Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Yuehua explained that she had struggled to board the lift basket alone and cried when Chi Xiu praised her effort.
• Chi Xiu left Tang Yuehua a bag of Gold Soul Coins and departed through a spatial rift, leaving her alone in Clear Sky Sect.
• Chi Xiu returned to the palace, saw that White Bird was sitting awake in her room, and found Zhu Zhuqing waiting in the garden.

Chi Xiu decided to turn the Star Luo Imperial Palace into the Purple Star Royal Residence despite warnings that the plan would anger the ruler. When Chi Yuan arrived with Snow Empress and Xue Wuyang to dissuade him, Chi Xiu revealed that the ruler was also his father’s daughter-in-law, and the workers began the renovations.

• Chi Xiu reunited with Zhu Zhuqing, hugged her, and teased her after she followed him toward his room.
• Chi Xiu told the Zhu Family head and Second Elder that he would convert the imperial palace into the Purple Star Royal Residence, but they warned him that the ruler might punish him.
• The Purple Star Sect’s workers arrived, and Chi Yuan brought Snow Empress and Xue Wuyang along to persuade Chi Xiu to abandon his plan.
• Snow Empress sided with Chi Xiu, while Chi Yuan realized she had come mainly to see him.
• Chi Xiu whispered to Chi Yuan that the ruler was his daughter-in-law too, and Chi Yuan let the workers begin the renovations.

Chi Xiu supervised the rebuilding of Star Luo Imperial Palace while settling in with Snow Empress and Xue Wuyang, then spent the day caring for the little girl. The palace renovation continued the next morning as Chi Xiu imagined arranging his wives in its many quarters.

• Chi Xiu asked Chi Yuan to rebuild the palace in a brighter, more relaxed style, and Chi Yuan sent workers to begin the renovation.
• Chi Xiu showed Snow Empress and Xue Wuyang around, chose a temporary room, and asked the workers to plant sunflowers in the garden.
• Chi Xiu fed Xue Wuyang far more than she usually ate, and she later cried from her painfully full stomach.
• Xue Wuyang fell off the bed and struck her forehead, so Chi Xiu comforted her and rocked her to sleep.
• The next morning, Xue Wuyang woke Chi Xiu to say she needed to pee, and Chi Xiu took her to the bath while the workers resumed construction.

Chi Xiu finished turning the Star Luo Imperial Palace into the Purple Star Royal Residence and summoned Qian Renxue with a letter. The Dragon God and Asura God revealed they had uncovered his Blue Star origins and offered him nine combined trials for inheriting both their divine positions, but the first eight would keep him separated from his loved ones for an uncertain length of time.

• Chi Xiu completed the brightly repainted Purple Star Royal Residence and sent Qian Renxue a letter inviting her to visit.
• Snow Empress tied Chi Xiu to the bed and playfully took charge after they made sure Xue Wuyang was asleep.
• The Dragon God and Asura God summoned Chi Xiu, revealed they had explored his memories, and learned his soul came from Blue Star.
• Chi Xiu beat both gods at table tennis before they asked whether he wanted to become a god.
• The gods offered Chi Xiu nine combined Dragon God and Asura God trials, with the first eight taking place in an illusion realm that would separate him from his loved ones for an unknown duration.

Chi Xiu told his family and allies he was leaving to undertake the Twin Gods' Ninth Trial, then set off to begin it. After he called for the Dragon God and Asura God the next morning, he discovered that Sea God Island had disappeared.

• Chi Xiu explained the Ninth Trial to the Snow Empress and Xue Wuyang, then said goodbye to Chi Yuan and Zhu Zhuqing before telling Di Tian and Ziji he would inherit the Dragon God's divine position.
• Chi Xiu left a money pouch for Tang Yuehua at Clear Sky Sect, told Bibi Dong he was beginning a God Trial, and asked her to pass his farewell to Qian Renxue.
• Chi Xiu visited Shui Binger at Skywater Academy, watched Qian Renxue working in the imperial palace, and went to Sea God Island to leave a message for the High Priestess, who was taking the Sea God's Ninth Trial inside an undersea volcano.
• Chi Xiu slept on the coast and, the next morning, called on the Dragon God and Asura God to begin the First Trial, but received no answer.
• Chi Xiu noticed that Sea God Island had vanished from the sea.

Chi Xiu woke in the First Trial’s strange coastal illusion, where a hostile tribe had attacked him and two siblings, Xiao Xiao and Da Da, took him in. After discovering his wound had vanished, he shared their scarce Black Pig Meat and began learning about their harsh life on Black Stone Plain.

• Chi Xiu found Sea God Island gone and realized he was in an unfamiliar illusion on Black Stone Plain.
• A group of primitive people attacked Chi Xiu, and a man’s spear pierced his chest before he lost consciousness.
• Xiao Xiao and Da Da revealed that Xiao Xiao had brought Chi Xiu back to their hut and treated his wound with thatch.
• Chi Xiu discovered his chest was completely healed and learned that the siblings had lived in their tribe since birth.
• Xiao Xiao offered Chi Xiu her share of the scarce Black Pig Meat, despite Da Da’s protests.
• Chi Xiu ate the meat, and Da Da secretly tossed a little of his own portion into the pot while warning Chi Xiu to stay quiet.

Chi Xiu learned about the siblings’ fear of dragons and their harsh life on Blackstone Plains as he stayed with Xiao Xiao and Da Da during a typhoon. When a neighbor’s house collapsed in the hailstorm, Xiao Xiao stopped Da Da from going outside, and Chi Xiu asked what would happen if a house collapsed.

• Xiao Xiao and Da Da told Chi Xiu that dragons enslaved humans and that Blackstone Plains was isolated from the rest of the world.
• Xiao Xiao let Chi Xiu stay indoors overnight after Da Da insisted he sleep between them, and the siblings shared their scarce meat soup with him.
• Chi Xiu helped Da Da secure their home as the siblings explained that Black Stone Powder kept dragons away.
• The typhoon brought thick fog and hail, shaking the siblings’ house as the clan hurried to reinforce their homes.
• After someone outside shouted, Da Da feared that Uncle Shu’s house had collapsed and asked to help, but Xiao Xiao held him back.
• Chi Xiu asked the siblings what happened when a house collapsed.

Chi Xiu, Xiao Xiao, and Da Da survived a night in which a mysterious gale destroyed every house on Black Stone Plain and took its people. At dawn, they found the plain empty, and Chi Xiu discovered an enormous footprint on the black rock.

• Chi Xiu stayed inside Xiao Xiao and Da Da's shelter as the typhoon battered it, while Da Da spoke about the kind family who lived nearby.
• As screams sounded through the night, Xiao Xiao counted the households being destroyed and realized that only their own household remained.
• Chi Xiu put out the fire and urged the siblings to stay quiet, and their shelter survived until daylight.
• Chi Xiu led Xiao Xiao and Da Da outside, where they found clear skies and the remains of every other house on Black Stone Plain.
• Da Da searched the wreckage for survivors, found none, and wept with Xiao Xiao for their lost clansmen.
• Chi Xiu noticed an enormous footprint pressed into the black rock and stepped into it to gauge its size.

After a typhoon destroyed the siblings’ village, Chi Xiu helped Xiao Xiao gather food and learned more about the dragons and the Black Stone Plain. As Chi Xiu considered leaving for Dragon City, a fleet of luxurious ships appeared offshore.

• Chi Xiu found enormous footprints and concluded that a gigantic dragon had stood on the Black Stone Plain during the typhoon.
• Chi Xiu joined Da Da and Xiao Xiao in searching the ruins, then followed Xiao Xiao to a freshwater pool and caught two fish.
• Xiao Xiao fell into the shallow water, washing Black Stone Powder off part of her face, and Da Da angrily confronted Chi Xiu before learning what had happened.
• The siblings cooked fish soup with pork, and Chi Xiu asked whether they planned to stay on the Black Stone Plain.
• Chi Xiu decided to build a raft and sail to Dragon City, but then spotted a dense fleet of luxurious ships approaching offshore.

Chi Xiu, Da Da, and Xiao Xiao fled into a cave to hide from ships that Chi Xiu suspected belonged to the Dragon Clan, only to find golden-eyed pursuers entering behind them. They fell through a hidden drop into a bright underground pool, where Chi Xiu discovered eight pillars of light in familiar colors.

• Chi Xiu spotted enormous ships docking at the shore, and he led Da Da and Xiao Xiao toward a Black Pig cave to hide.
• Da Da and Xiao Xiao smeared Black Pig dung over their faces to mask their scent, and the three entered the pitch-dark cave.
• Da Da decided to investigate the shore, and Chi Xiu and Xiao Xiao followed him toward the entrance.
• The group saw silent figures with golden vertical pupils entering the cave, so Chi Xiu led the siblings deeper inside to escape.
• Chi Xiu, Da Da, and Xiao Xiao fell through a hidden opening into an underground pool, where they washed off the dung and black stone powder.
• Chi Xiu looked behind them and saw eight pillars of light, each glowing in a color familiar to him.

Chi Xiu and the siblings were transported from the hidden chamber to a fishing ship bound for Dragon City. After hiding from a dragon, they discovered a frightened mermaid inside a wooden crate.

• Da Da and Xiao Xiao refused to use Black Stone Powder after seeing it had no effect on the Dragon Clan, while Chi Xiu examined the eight elemental pillars.
• Da Da and Xiao Xiao touched the Space Element pillar and vanished; Chi Xiu later teleported away after a gigantic golden eye appeared beneath the pool.
• Chi Xiu arrived on a ship at sea, where Da Da and Xiao Xiao were hiding behind a wooden crate with him.
• The siblings recognized that the ship was heading east toward Dragon City, and the three hid from a dragon who uncovered their crate.
• Xiao Xiao heard water and groaning inside the crate, and Chi Xiu discovered a golden-haired mermaid with a fishtail hiding in it.

Chi Xiu and the siblings hid aboard a ship carrying captured mermaids toward Dragon City, where they narrowly avoided discovery by pretending to be crabs. They were carried into a kitchen storeroom, and Chi Xiu cautiously began to lift their covering.

• Chi Xiu refused Da Da’s suggestion to free the mermaids, but when a golden-haired mermaid tried to escape her crate, he pulled her out and threw her into the sea.
• The golden-haired mermaid swam after the ship because her family remained aboard, while Chi Xiu, Da Da, and Xiao Xiao hid under a cloth as the ship entered Dragon City.
• The ship traveled through Dragon City’s waterways as dragons celebrated its arrival, and the siblings stayed hidden while the vessel reached its destination.
• When the dragons discovered an empty mermaid crate, they searched the deck, but an order to deliver the mermaids to the kitchen warehouse interrupted their search.
• The dragons carried the hidden trio away on top of a crab container, mistaking their weight for heavy crabs, and left them in a storeroom.
• After waiting for about ten minutes, Chi Xiu quietly lifted a corner of the cloth covering them.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The chapter opens with the main character, Lin Fan, receiving a mysterious letter inviting him to the Grand Chapter, a gathering of powerful individuals.
• Lin Fan attends the Grand Chapter, where he meets various influential figures, including the chapter's leader, Elder Li.
• A series of challenges and competitions are announced, with the winner gaining a significant reward and the losers facing severe penalties.
• Lin Fan participates in the first challenge, a battle against a powerful beast, and emerges victorious.

Character Developments

• Lin Fan demonstrates his growth in strength and strategic thinking, proving himself a formidable opponent despite his young age.
• Elder Li reveals his cunning and manipulative nature, hinting at his true intentions for the Grand Chapter.

Significant Themes

• Power dynamics and the struggle for dominance among influential figures.
• The consequences of ambition and the price of failure in a competitive world.
• The importance of strategic thinking and adaptability in overcoming challenges.

Character Interactions

• Lin Fan interacts with various powerful characters, including Elder Li, who takes a particular interest in him.
• Lin Fan's interactions with other participants reveal their diverse motivations and personalities, setting the stage for future alliances and rivalries.
• Lin Fan's battle against the beast showcases his ability to work with his team and make quick decisions under pressure.