Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang sought Dan Heng’s supposed ancient books, then used Zhu Zhuqing’s rapid cultivation to persuade Tang San and the Shrek students that she had taken a harmful shortcut. Huo Wu visited Dan Heng’s home and tried Zhu Zhuqing’s pressure training, while Xue Ye received reports of the Clear Sky Sect’s private dealings with Xue Beng.

• Yu Xiaogang asked Dan Heng for the ancient books that had inspired his knowledge, and Dan Heng gave him a list of more than a hundred titles.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San and the Shrek students that Zhu Zhuqing’s fast cultivation must come from an evil method that would limit her future growth.
• Huo Wu followed Zhu Zhuqing home, swore to keep the household’s secrets, and entered the Cultivation Room to experience Zhu Zhuqing’s pressure training.
• Huo Wu reached her limit at pressure level twenty-five, while Zhu Zhuqing said her own training limit was around level thirty-four.
• Xue Ye learned that the Clear Sky Sect had been meeting privately with Xue Beng and angrily questioned their motives.

Tang Yuehua tried to recruit Xue Beng for the Clear Sky Sect, but his drunken wastrel act made her suspect he was hiding something. Huo Wu revealed Zhu Zhuqing’s planned ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring, prompting Dai Mubai’s group to consider investigating her cultivation.

• Tang Yuehua visited Xue Beng to draw him closer to the Clear Sky Sect, but recognized that his drunken behavior was an act and continued pressing him to speak openly.
• Huo Wu told Huo Wushuang that she and Zhu Zhuqing were cultivating together and urged him to hunt for his next soul ring without them.
• Huo Wu revealed that Zhu Zhuqing planned to obtain a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast for her fourth soul ring, shocking Huo Wushuang.
• Ma Hongjun teased Dai Mubai about Zhu Zhuqing’s planned soul ring, and Dai Mubai tried to conceal his scheme to follow Dean Liu.
• Oscar suggested that the group investigate Zhu Zhuqing’s cultivation and treat it as practical training.

Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai planned to capture Zhu Zhuqing in Sunset Forest, while Spirit Hall celebrated Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue as its Golden Generation. Prince Xue Xing tried to recruit Dan Heng with lavish gifts and women, but Dan Heng rejected his advances as Qian Daoliu watched.

• Dai Mubai told Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun about Zhu Zhuqing's strength, and they planned to ambush her in Sunset Forest.
• Bibi Dong awarded Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue the Purple Record Medal and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to find their soul beasts.
• Hu Liena questioned whether anyone could be more talented than the Golden Generation, while Yan and Xie Yue insisted they were unmatched.
• Prince Xue Xing offered Dan Heng a residence, gifts, and several women to win him over.
• Dan Heng rejected Prince Xue Xing's advances, and Prince Xue Xing promised to return with even more beautiful women as Qian Daoliu watched.

Dan Heng rejected Prince Xue Xing’s gift of courtesans and continued helping Zhu Zhuqing prepare for her next breakthrough. After testing her resistance to Zi Ji’s simulated Dragon Might, Dan Heng told Qian Renxue about Prince Xue Xing’s pestering, and she promised to handle it.

• Dan Heng asked Qian Daoliu to find the Red-Bearded Fire Dragon, but said he had already entrusted the search to others.
• Dan Heng told Zhu Zhuqing to hunt a soul beast of about eleven thousand years after her pressure resistance reached the Fortieth Rank.
• Qian Renxue arrived at Dan Heng’s home disguised as Xue Qinghe and brought half a slab of pork.
• Zi Ji tested Zhu Zhuqing with simulated Dragon Might, while Huo Wu tried the five-thousand-year pressure and quickly fled.
• Dan Heng stopped Zi Ji’s test and promised to list suitable Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts for Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dan Heng told Qian Renxue that Prince Xue Xing was pestering him, and she promised to handle the matter.

Zi Ji tried to assassinate Prince Xue Xing but killed one of his stand-ins, while Qian Daoliu humiliated the real prince at the palace with urine disguised as wine and a degrading banquet. Prince Xue Xing was left kneeling under the enshrined elders’ pressure as Qian Daoliu threatened to castrate him.

• Zi Ji infiltrated Prince Xue Xing's residence and killed a sleeping man she mistook for the prince, then escaped when guards arrived.
• The guards discovered the dead man was one of Prince Xue Xing's stand-ins and strengthened the residence's defenses.
• Qian Daoliu invited Prince Xue Xing to drink urine disguised as wine, and the prince endured a jug of it.
• Qian Daoliu made Prince Xue Xing watch a performance by elderly, unattractive dancers and demanded that he choose three women to attend his bed.
• Prince Xue Xing protested the humiliation, but Qian Daoliu and the enshrined elders forced him to his knees and Qian Daoliu threatened to castrate him.

Prince Xue Xing faced the fallout of Qian Daoliu’s retaliation and Qian Renxue’s warning, while Zhu Zhuqing and the Blue Tyrant Academy students searched Sunset Forest for Soul Rings. The chapter ended with Huo Wu absorbing a nearly seven-thousand-year Soul Ring as her fourth, leaving everyone to wait and see whether she could withstand it.

• Prince Xue Xing learned that an assassin had successfully attacked him, then received Qian Renxue’s warning not to involve Dan Heng in court affairs.
• Liu Erlong led Zhu Zhuqing and other students into Sunset Forest, where the group discovered that unusually powerful Soul Beasts were making Soul Ring hunts difficult.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji examined Dan Heng’s detailed Soul Beast chart and learned that Zhu Zhuqing planned to obtain a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring.
• The group reunited with Huo Wushuang, who had obtained a four-thousand-six-hundred-year Soul Ring, while Huo Wu claimed she could absorb a much older one.
• Liu Erlong caught a nearly seven-thousand-year Blazing Turtle Dove, and Huo Wu killed it and began absorbing its Soul Ring as her fourth.

Huo Wu absorbed a soul ring nearly seven thousand years old, while the Star Luo Empire's plan to capture Zhu Zhuqing was thwarted by the Shrek and Blue Tyrant teachers. The group then lured out a fifteen-thousand-year Azure Shadow Wolf for Zhu Zhuqing, but Ghost Douluo claimed it as his prey and took it away.

• Huo Wu endured severe pain and successfully absorbed a soul ring nearly seven thousand years old, becoming a Soul Ancestor.
• A Star Luo Soul Sage discovered that Flender, Liu Erlong, Zhao Wuji, and Shao Xin were with the group, then withdrew without attacking.
• Dai Weisi ordered the Star Luo Soul Sage to recruit nearby Soul Masters to help capture Zhu Zhuqing.
• The next morning, Liu Erlong's group used a moose's call to lure out an Azure Shadow Wolf, and Liu Erlong, Flender, and Zhao Wuji subdued it.
• Ghost Douluo appeared, claimed the roughly fifteen-thousand-year-old Azure Shadow Wolf as his prey, and took it for Hu Liena's brother.

Chrysanthemum Douluo recognized Zhu Zhuqing and let her claim a fifteen-thousand-year Azure Shadow Wolf, which she successfully absorbed as her Fourth Soul Ring. The group traveled together with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, but their search for Hu Liena's spirit ring brought them to a Heart Moon Fox's territory, where a host of powerful dragon-type soul beasts appeared.

• Flender warned Ghost Douluo that the Azure Shadow Wolf's spirit ring was too old for Xie Yue, then tried to obtain it for Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo recognized Zhu Zhuqing, learned she was Dan Heng's disciple, and gave her the Azure Shadow Wolf while he and Ghost Douluo guarded her.
• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the ten-thousand-year ring successfully and revealed that her Fourth Soul Skill created a clone with seventy percent of her strength.
• Flender offered Chrysanthemum Douluo a spirit-beast atlas, and the academy group traveled with the two Titled Douluo as Xie Yue, Yan, and several students obtained spirit rings.
• The group found the Heart Moon Fox's territory, but a red dragon-type soul beast and seven or eight other powerful dragon-type soul beasts emerged from the mountain.

Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to help the group flee from dragon-type soul beasts, but a Hundred-Thousand-Year fire dragon recognized Zhu Zhuqing and called off the attack. Later, Chrysanthemum Douluo rescued Zhu Zhuyun after Dai Weisi abandoned her, and Qian Daoliu told Dan Heng that Spirit Hall had found the Red-Bearded Fire Dragon he wanted.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo froze the attacking dragon-type soul beasts with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, giving Flender and the others time to escape.
• A Hundred-Thousand-Year fire dragon spotted Zhu Zhuqing, recognized her from its lord's portrait, and led the pursuing soul beasts away.
• Dai Weisi struck Zhu Zhuyun with a Blazing Light Wave and left her to the Wild Apes, but Chrysanthemum Douluo rescued her and brought her to Zhu Zhuqing, who embraced her.
• Qian Daoliu told Dan Heng that Spirit Hall had found the Red-Bearded Fire Dragon and asked where it should be delivered.

After escaping Sunset Forest, Dai Weisi branded Zhu Zhuyun a traitor, while Zhu Zhuqing offered her sister shelter in Heaven Dou City. Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue celebrated Spirit Hall’s chance to help Dan Heng, but Sea God Poseidon then staged a divine descent over the city while appearing in person beside Dan Heng.

• Dai Weisi told the Star Luo Soul Saint that Zhu Zhuyun had betrayed him and promised Hu Yanzhen and the other Soul Masters they would receive what they had been promised.
• Zhu Zhuqing invited Zhu Zhuyun to stay at her home, and Huo Wu revealed that Zhu Zhuqing was a level forty-two Soul Ancestor with a fifteen-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring.
• Flender bragged to Liu Erlong that he had frightened off a Hundred-Thousand-Year Fire Dragon, while Liu Erlong rejected his proposal to turn Blue Tyrant Academy into Shrek Academy.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Renxue to prioritize maintaining her friendship with Dan Heng, then both witnessed a divine aura descend over Heaven Dou City.
• Sea God Poseidon appeared as a giant enthroned figure above the city, while the Rakshasa God identified him to Bibi Dong and said he would not interfere with her.
• Sea God Poseidon visited Dan Heng in the library and said the giant apparition was drawing attention away from them.

Sea God Poseidon staged a divine miracle to announce his inheritance and secretly sent Red-Bearded Fire Dragons away while Dan Heng tried to limit his interference. The miracle left Liu Erlong with a water dragon martial soul, spared Zhu Zhuqing, and caused the Angel Holy Sword to seal itself in front of Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue.

• Sea God Poseidon told Dan Heng he had fooled the Divine Realm Committee so he could stay in the mortal world, then persuaded Dan Heng to let him visit his home.
• Sea God Poseidon announced his inheritance, sent the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud west, warned Spirit Hall, and used blue light to make Red-Bearded Fire Dragons vanish across the continent.
• Sea God Poseidon singled out Liu Erlong and Zhu Zhuqing at Blue Tyrant Academy; he changed Liu Erlong's fire dragon martial soul into a water dragon, but disappeared before addressing Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dan Heng scolded Sea God Poseidon for meddling, and Poseidon learned that Zhu Zhuqing was Dan Heng's disciple.
• Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue found the Angel Holy Sword sealed in its scabbard, and neither could draw it.

Liu Erlong accepted Dan Heng’s advice to keep her newly changed water dragon martial soul, while Zhu Zhuqing’s unusually powerful soul ring revealed that she had exceeded his instructions. Across the continent, factions reacted to Sea God Poseidon’s warning to Spirit Hall, and Gu Yuena returned home to find Zi Ji hiding in her clothes and making excuses.

• Liu Erlong complained that a god had changed her fire dragon martial soul to a water dragon, then chose to adapt to it on Dan Heng’s advice.
• Liu Erlong revealed that Zhu Zhuqing had absorbed a fifteen-thousand-year soul ring, leaving Dan Heng surprised that she had ignored his instructions.
• Xue Ye lamented losing the chance to connect with a god, while Tang Yuehua and Ning Fengzhi suspected Dan Heng was connected to the divine appearance.
• Ning Fengzhi learned that Sword Douluo was alive and hurried to find him, while Bibi Dong heard of Zhu Zhuqing’s talent from Chrysanthemum Douluo and Hu Liena.
• Gu Yuena returned home and found Zi Ji hiding under a blanket in Gu Yuena’s white dress; Zi Ji blamed Bi Ji when Gu Yuena confronted her.

Dan Heng returned home with Sea God Poseidon and the Zhu sisters, reunited affectionately with Gu Yuena, and hosted everyone for a late dinner. Sea God Poseidon recounted how he and Dan Heng had met Qian Yu Han, while Zhu Zhuyun questioned the story’s mention of Eastsea City.

• Dan Heng brought Sea God Poseidon and the Zhu sisters home, where Gu Yuena greeted him with an emotional embrace and kiss.
• Sea God Poseidon reacted with shock to Dan Heng’s affection for Gu Yuena, then learned that Bi Ji and Zi Ji were transformed ferocious beasts and grew suspicious of Gu Yuena’s identity.
• Zhu Zhuqing showed Zhu Zhuyun to a room, while Bi Ji welcomed Sea God Poseidon and Zi Ji complained about having to wait for dinner.
• Dan Heng and Gu Yuena prepared a lavish meal, and Gu Yuena made Zi Ji serve rice before everyone ate.
• At dinner, Sea God Poseidon told Gu Yuena how Dan Heng had met Qian Yu Han in Eastsea City and how Poseidon’s affection for her had gone unreturned.
• Zhu Zhuyun questioned the story’s setting, saying she knew of Vast Sea City by the Eastern Sea but had never heard of Eastsea City.

Dan Heng collected a Red-Bearded Fire Dragon to study how its two bloodlines could be merged, while Sea God Poseidon worried about Dan Heng’s loyalty to Gu Yuena and the Silver Dragon King. After returning to Heaven Dou City, Dan Heng brought the dragon to the library, where Qian Daoliu admitted that the two Red-Bearded Fire Dragons his group had found had disappeared.

• Zi Ji eavesdropped on Dan Heng and Gu Yuena and urged Bi Ji to help her confront Qian Yu Han, while Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun discussed Qian Yu Han and Poseidon’s ancient past.
• Qian Renxue dreamed that she was Qian Yu Han pursuing Dan Heng, with Poseidon repeatedly interrupting them.
• Dan Heng and Sea God Poseidon traveled to a volcano in Sunset Forest, where Poseidon had gathered and calmed more than three hundred Red-Bearded Fire Dragons.
• Dan Heng examined a Red-Bearded Fire Dragon, collected its blood, and took one away to study how its two bloodlines could be merged.
• Sea God Poseidon asked whether Dan Heng knew Gu Yuena’s identity, and Dan Heng affirmed that she was his wife, leaving Poseidon afraid of a future conflict with the Divine Realm.
• Dan Heng brought the Red-Bearded Fire Dragon to the library, where Qian Daoliu confessed that the two Red-Bearded Fire Dragons his group had found had disappeared.

Dan Heng studied the Red-Bearded Fire Dragon’s blood and discovered that Qian Daoliu’s Holy Light could fuse its two bloodlines, giving him a possible path toward having children with Gu Yuena. After Sea God Poseidon escorted Prince Xue Xing away, Dan Heng followed the dragon into the woods, where Liu Erlong was arguing with Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders who wanted her divine backing to challenge Spirit Hall.

• Qian Daoliu recognized the Red-Bearded Fire Dragon by its scar and watched Dan Heng with growing suspicion while Sea God Poseidon invited Dan Heng to travel with him and was refused.
• Prince Xue Xing confronted Dan Heng about rejecting the royal family, but Sea God Poseidon intimidated him, called himself Yeye, and led him away.
• Dan Heng asked Qian Daoliu to purify the dragon’s blood, saw its Lava Dragon and Bearded Dragon bloodlines fuse, and returned the blood to the Red-Bearded Fire Dragon.
• The Red-Bearded Fire Dragon wandered through Blue Tyrant Academy toward the woods, while Huo Wu petted it, climbed onto its back, and tried to persuade Dan Heng to take her as his disciple.
• Liu Erlong rejected Yu Yuanzhen and the other clan elders’ plan to rely on her divine favor to oppose Spirit Hall, saying the god who changed her martial soul had not contacted her again.

Dan Heng brought the Red-Bearded Fire Dragon to Liu Erlong, where it showed an intense attachment to her and reacted to her water-attributed Martial Soul. Liu Erlong agreed to let it stay with her so Dan Heng could investigate its changing bloodline, despite Yu Yuanzhen’s concerns.

• The Red-Bearded Fire Dragon arrived with Huo Wu and rushed affectionately toward Liu Erlong, startling the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Dan Heng suggested that Liu Erlong’s Soul Power might attract the beast, and she summoned her water-attributed Martial Soul.
• The Red-Bearded Fire Dragon eagerly pressed against Liu Erlong’s Martial Soul and appeared to absorb her leaking Soul Power.
• Dan Heng asked Liu Erlong to let the Red-Bearded Fire Dragon live with her and spend time near her Martial Soul.
• Liu Erlong agreed despite Yu Yuanzhen’s objections, and Dan Heng left hoping to learn about the beast’s bloodline.

Gu Yuena decided to prepare for pregnancy with Dan Heng and asked Bi Ji and the others to gather auspicious items. Meanwhile, Sea God Poseidon saw through Prince Xue Xing’s attempt to drug him and left after warning him not to oppose Dan Heng.

• Gu Yuena told Bi Ji, Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhu Zhuyun that she wanted to have a baby with Dan Heng and assigned them preparations based on folk beliefs.
• Gu Yuena worried that she had not become pregnant despite a year of trying and thousands of times together with Dan Heng.
• Prince Xue Xing tried to appease Sea God Poseidon with a meal, hoping the food and wine would drug him unconscious.
• Sea God Poseidon revealed that he knew about the drug and the seven Soul Douluo outside, warned Prince Xue Xing not to provoke Dan Heng, and said he would visit every day.
• Prince Xue Xing slumped in his chair as Sea God Poseidon left the residence unchallenged.

Sea God Poseidon learned Dan Heng planned to have a child with the Silver Dragon King, then watched Huo Wu unexpectedly declare herself Dan Heng’s daughter. Two Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan soul masters left after warning Dan Heng they would use force if he would not keep his soul beast away from Dean Liu.

• Sea God Poseidon discovered Dan Heng was reading about reproduction and realized he intended to have a child with the Silver Dragon King.
• Sea God Poseidon reminded Dan Heng that he had helped deal with Prince Xue Xing, but Dan Heng showed little interest.
• Two Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan soul masters offered Dan Heng money and their clan’s friendship if he kept his soul beast from following Dean Liu.
• Huo Wu and Sea God Poseidon provoked the clan members over their offer, then Huo Wu knelt and declared she wanted Dan Heng to become her father.
• Huo Wu called Dan Heng her godfather after he told her to get up, while the clan members threatened coercive measures and left.

Huo Wu insisted on treating Dan Heng like a father while he focused on Liu Erlong’s transformation, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan debated how to protect Liu Erlong without angering her. Dan Heng returned home to find Gu Yuena preparing for a baby, while Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun endured their respective punishments.

• Huo Wu promised to call Dan Heng her godfather only around family, but Dan Heng rejected the title as she plotted how to make him acknowledge her.
• Yu Xiaogang learned that Liu Erlong would become the clan’s future leader and that Zhu Zhuqing had obtained a ten-thousand-year soul ring, leaving him crushed by the setbacks to his theories and ambitions.
• Two soul masters reported their dealings with Dan Heng to Yu Yuanzhen, who criticized their offer of Gold Soul Coins and considered the risks of intervening in Liu Erlong’s situation.
• Yu Yuanzhen reflected that Liu Erlong might abandon the clan for Dan Heng, while Yu Xiaogang envied her divine favor.
• Dan Heng returned home and found pomegranate trees and a child poster, while Gu Yuena wore a tight outfit and signaled her desire for a baby.
• Bi Ji followed Dan Heng to help him, Zhu Zhuqing regretted missing cultivation, and Zhu Zhuyun quietly persevered through a day without food.

Zhu Zhuyun gave in to Dan Heng’s cooking, while “Xue Qinghe” brought the Angel Holy Sword to ask why she could no longer draw it. Dan Heng and Gu Yuena drew it easily, and Dan Heng explained that its awakened divinity required its wielder’s recognition.

• Zhu Zhuyun left her room for Dan Heng’s meal and quickly abandoned her resolve to eat sparingly.
• “Xue Qinghe” arrived with the Angel Holy Sword and asked Dan Heng to examine it because she could no longer draw it.
• Dan Heng drew the sword with ease, and “Xue Qinghe” revealed that Qian Yu Han was the Angel God and the Angel Clan’s ancestor.
• Gu Yuena drew the sword too, while Zi Ji failed to move it despite using her strength.
• Dan Heng said the awakened sword would only yield to someone it recognized, and “Xue Qinghe” left in a daze.