Chapter Summaries

Liu Erlong brought Dan Heng’s tactics to the Blue Tyrant Team, then invited Gu Yuena to watch their rematch against Yu Tianheng’s group. The Blue Tyrant Team countered Dugu Yan’s poison with Realgar Wine and fire, leaving the match underway.

• Liu Erlong taught the Blue Tyrant Team Dan Heng’s tactics for coordinating against their opponents.
• Liu Erlong met Gu Yuena, invited her to watch the match, and arranged for Gu Yuena to take credit for the tactics.
• At the Soul Arena, Liu Erlong introduced Gu Yuena as the academy’s special consultant while Yu Tianheng prepared for the rematch.
• The Blue Tyrant Team used long-range attacks and teamwork to keep Yu Tianheng’s group from picking them off.
• Dugu Yan released poisonous mist, but Tai Long ordered the team to burst Realgar Wine skins and ignite the fumes, burning the poison away.

The Blue Tyrant Team used new tactics to push the Royal Fight Team hard, but Yu Tianheng ultimately won the final sparring match. Liu Erlong hoped Dan Heng’s guidance would help the Blue Tyrant Team improve further, while Yu Tianheng asked whether his aunt had hired a powerful master.

• The Blue Tyrant Team surrounded Yu Feng and eliminated him after Jiang Zhu healed him, then trapped Yu Tianheng in a U-shaped formation.
• Tai Long grabbed Dugu Yan while a teammate’s water attack pushed them toward the edge, forcing Yu Tianheng to grapple with Tai Long rather than use his electric soul skills.
• Dugu Yan used her snake tail to suspend herself, Tai Long, and Yu Tianheng, then slammed the two men down and fell off the stage with Tai Long.
• Yu Tianheng charged the Blue Tyrant Team in anger, but its members failed to follow Dan Heng’s tactics and were thrown off one after another, leaving the Royal Fight Team’s three members victorious.
• Ye Lingling healed the injured fighters, and Yu Tianheng asked Liu Erlong whether she had hired a powerful master; she replied that it was classified.

After the Blue Tyrant Team’s match, Dan Heng’s guidance earned him the Strength Clan’s respect and Liu Erlong’s request for Gu Yuena to teach at the academy. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi decided to visit Dan Heng, while Dugu Yan still dismissed him as a weakling.

• Tai Tan praised Dan Heng’s talent and thanked Gu Yuena, then left with Manager Ning after their groups spoke with Liu Erlong.
• Liu Erlong scolded the Blue Tyrant Team for backing down, then asked Gu Yuena to teach at Blue Tyrant Academy; Gu Yuena agreed to discuss it with Dan Heng.
• Manager Ning told Ning Fengzhi about Dan Heng’s guidance, and Ning Fengzhi decided to visit him in person the next day.
• Dugu Yan called Dan Heng a weakling, but Poison Douluo told her that Dan Heng’s strength of heart was exceptional and that she did not understand him yet.

“Xue Qinghe” visited Gu Yuena’s home and asked Dan Heng for advice on finding officials to govern under the Endowment Order. Dan Heng suggested an Imperial Examination System, while Zi Ji’s scheme to send Bi Ji away backfired, and “Xue Qinghe” left after an awkward dinner.

• “Xue Qinghe” visited Gu Yuena’s home with pork, where Bi Ji recognized that she was a woman.
• Zi Ji tried to send Bi Ji to the Crown Prince Residence to remove her as a rival for Gu Yuena’s favor.
• “Xue Qinghe” praised Dan Heng’s Endowment Order and asked how the Heaven Dou Empire could recruit more officials.
• Dan Heng suggested choosing officials from commoners through an Imperial Examination System and recruiting locally for the fiefs.
• Zi Ji offered Bi Ji as a gift to “Xue Qinghe,” but Gu Yuena told Zi Ji to leave instead.

Gu Yuena asked Dan Heng for permission to teach at Blue Tyrant Academy, and he agreed, allowing her to use her abilities as long as she avoided causing trouble. She joined the academy as the Genius Class's supervising teacher and impressed Liu Erlong with her insightful evaluations of the students.

• Gu Yuena told Dan Heng that Dean Liu had invited her to teach, and he encouraged her to accept if she wanted to.
• Gu Yuena suggested that she and Dan Heng have a child, then the next day went to work with him at Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Liu Erlong introduced Gu Yuena as the supervising teacher of the newly formed Genius Class, made up of the academy's top thirty students.
• Tai Long greeted Gu Yuena as his mistress and warned the class not to oppose her before correcting himself and calling her Teacher Gu.
• Gu Yuena had the students introduce themselves, then evaluated their performances in the match against the Royal Fight Team.
• Liu Erlong recognized the depth of Gu Yuena's analysis and wondered if she had discovered another exceptional talent.

Gu Yuena won the Blue Tyrant Team’s trust and began reorganizing their training, while Dan Heng discovered that Dugu Yan was poisoned by her own martial soul and started researching a treatment. Poison Douluo approached the occupied Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to seek a medicinal herb for Dan Heng, despite the powerful soul beasts guarding it.

• Gu Yuena told the Blue Tyrant Team to build coordination, courage, and conviction, then divided them into four training teams with rotating support members.
• Dugu Yan visited Dan Heng in the library and questioned him about his deal with Poison Douluo.
• Dan Heng diagnosed Dugu Yan with Jade Scale Serpent Venom poisoning and instructed her to wait while he worked on a treatment.
• Poison Douluo watched the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well from a treetop and prepared to enter, knowing powerful dragon-type soul beasts guarded the mountain.

Dugu Yan waited anxiously for Dan Heng to find a way to treat her venom, then watched him succeed in redirecting it into her soul ring. After she ran off in embarrassment, an elegant middle-aged man approached Dan Heng and praised his solution.

• Dugu Yan mistook Gu Yuena’s intimacy with Dan Heng for proof that she was his wife and, embarrassed, returned to wait for treatment.
• Gu Yuena told Dan Heng she planned to teach the students and suspected Poison Douluo had sent Dugu Yan to pursue him.
• Dan Heng explained that Dugu Yan could guide her venomous Soul Power into her soul rings, and she followed his diagram to attempt it.
• Dugu Yan’s first soul ring rippled as the venomous Soul Power merged with it, confirming Dan Heng’s method had worked for her mild condition.
• Dugu Yan’s stomach began rumbling, and she fled in embarrassment as an elegant middle-aged man praised Dan Heng’s skill.

Ning Fengzhi visited Dan Heng to discuss the Imperial Examination System and left deeply impressed by him. He decided to visit the library often, while Sword Douluo confirmed that Dan Heng was an ordinary human.

• Ning Fengzhi personally visited Dan Heng after learning of his medical knowledge and praised his reputation.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Dan Heng for his views on the Imperial Examination System, but Dan Heng initially declined to discuss it.
• Ning Fengzhi assured Dan Heng that he would keep his identity and visit secret, then handed him a book of thoughts on the Endowment Order and Imperial Examination System.
• Dan Heng praised Ning Fengzhi's thorough analysis, and Ning Fengzhi realized he had been overthinking the policies' significance.
• Ning Fengzhi read quietly beside Dan Heng, then left feeling refreshed and resolved to visit often.
• Ning Fengzhi told Sword Douluo he wanted to befriend Dan Heng, and Sword Douluo confirmed Dan Heng was human.

Gu Yuena trained the Genius Class and planned to strengthen the Blue Tyrant Team through combat practice and a possible Martial Soul Fusion Skill. At the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Di Tian caught Poison Douluo investigating and drove him away.

• Gu Yuena explained to Liu Erlong that students needed different weights suited to their individual potential, and Liu Erlong reconsidered Flender's training methods at Shrek Academy.
• Liu Erlong frightened Tai Long and the exhausted students into running again with her fiery dragon phantom.
• Gu Yuena asked Liu Erlong to arrange sparring matches and considered finding the Blue Tyrant Team a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Poison Douluo watched the dragon-type soul beasts at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and abandoned his plan to poison them.
• Di Tian confronted Poison Douluo and ordered him to leave, forcing him to fly away without the herbs.

Dugu Yan told Poison Douluo that Dan Heng had purged the Jade Scale Serpent Poison from her body, giving him hope that Dan Heng could treat him too. On the way home, Dan Heng offered Gu Yuena an idea for a Soul Power Fusion Technique, while an imperial proclamation announcing the Imperial Examination System drew cheers from the public.

• Dugu Yan returned to Poison Douluo furious after Dan Heng's treatment left her spending hours in the toilet.
• Dugu Yan revealed that Dan Heng already had a wife, and Poison Douluo gave up on pairing them together.
• Dugu Yan explained that Dan Heng had removed all the Jade Scale Serpent Poison from her body and that her talent seemed to have improved.
• Poison Douluo sensed that Dugu Yan was free of poison and listened closely as she recounted the treatment.
• Gu Yuena asked Dan Heng how to give the Blue Tyrant Team a combat trump card, and Dan Heng suggested a Soul Power Fusion Technique.
• Dan Heng and Gu Yuena passed a proclamation for the Imperial Examination System, and Dan Heng hurried away as the crowd cheered for the Crown Prince.

Dan Heng and Gu Yuena encountered Poison Douluo on their way to Blue Tyrant Academy, where he gave Dan Heng a wedding gift and asked about alternatives to his treatment. At the academy, Gu Yuena agreed to prepare the Blue Tyrant Team for a match against Thunder Academy, while Poison Douluo remained marked as a future target for her anger.

• Dan Heng and Gu Yuena discussed training the Blue Tyrant Team and Gu Yuena's plan to challenge the Four Elements Academy.
• Poison Douluo intercepted Dan Heng and Gu Yuena, admitted Dan Heng's treatment had not worked on him, and asked about other options.
• Poison Douluo gave Dan Heng a jade pendant as a wedding gift and warned him that marriage was a cage before leaving.
• Gu Yuena postponed confronting Poison Douluo and met Liu Erlong, who said Thunder Academy would arrive in three or four days.
• Gu Yuena planned to train the Blue Tyrant Team's coordination and resolve before its match against Thunder Academy.

Gu Yuena developed a weakened Soul Power Fusion Technique for the Genius Class and revealed it as the Blue Tyrant Team’s trump card for their upcoming spar with Thunder Academy. In the library, Dan Heng agreed to attend Tang Xuanzhu’s masked banquet after Ning Fengzhi suggested he could win jewelry for Gu Yuena.

• Gu Yuena read about Soul Power Fusion Techniques, then used her elemental power to shade the training field while Liu Erlong supervised the students.
• Gu Yuena adapted the technique so soul masters with different martial souls and attributes could use it, then taught it to the Genius Class.
• Liu Erlong realized the technique resembled a mass-produced Martial Soul Fusion Skill and excitedly embraced Gu Yuena.
• Ning Fengzhi invited Dan Heng to Tang Xuanzhu’s masked literary banquet, where guests could earn her jewelry designs.
• Dan Heng agreed to attend that evening so he could try to get a gift for Gu Yuena.

Dan Heng accepted Ning Fengzhi’s invitation to a masked banquet, leaving Gu Yuena to worry about what kind of event it was. Frustrated after he left, Gu Yuena went to punish Poison Douluo for breaking her order to stay away from Heaven Dou City.

• Dan Heng agreed to attend a banquet with Ning Fengzhi, and Gu Yuena reluctantly let him go after Ning Fengzhi assured her it would be proper.
• After Dan Heng and Ning Fengzhi left, Gu Yuena decided to take out her frustrations on Poison Douluo.
• Gu Yuena used a Space Tunnel to reach Poison Douluo’s courtyard at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and confronted him for returning to Heaven Dou City before the ten-day deadline.
• Poison Douluo tried to flee but struck Gu Yuena’s invisible barrier, then summoned his martial soul and protested that she was bullying him.
• Gu Yuena appeared in front of Poison Douluo and declared that she was taking her frustrations out on him.

Gu Yuena returned home and teased Zi Ji after Zi Ji’s remarks about Dan Heng, while Dan Heng attended Tang Yuehua’s masked gathering to find jewelry for Gu Yuena. Princess Xue Ke tried to draw Dan Heng’s attention, but he left her to seek a quieter seat; when Tang Yuehua arrived, Xue Ke complained to her about him.

• Gu Yuena returned home alone, and Zi Ji complained that Dan Heng had not cooked for them; Gu Yuena pointed out Zi Ji’s growing understanding of romantic feelings.
• Dan Heng attended the Moonlight Pavilion party to obtain jewelry for Gu Yuena and waited for Tang Yuehua in a quiet corner.
• Princess Xue Ke approached Dan Heng and revealed that she was the Heaven Dou Empire’s princess, but he stood up and moved elsewhere.
• Tang Yuehua arrived at the gathering, and Princess Xue Ke embraced her and complained that Dan Heng had ignored her.

At a gathering in Moonlight Pavilion, Tang Yuehua and Princess Xue Ke watched Dan Heng reject Madam Lister, even after she offered him ten million gold soul coins for one night. Tang Yuehua then announced that she had a newly crafted instrument, leaving the hall’s attention on her next move.

• Tang Yuehua sensed Dan Heng’s unusual noble bearing through Noble Circle, while Princess Xue Ke wondered why he had come to the party.
• Madam Lister approached Dan Heng, but he rejected her advances, drawing curious attention from the guests.
• Madam Lister told Tang Yuehua that she had offered Dan Heng ten million gold soul coins for one night and that he had refused.
• Princess Xue Ke said she wanted to see how Dan Heng had rejected Madam Lister, and Tang Yuehua announced a newly crafted instrument to the hall.

Tang Yuehua introduced a piano at her gathering, and Dan Heng drew the guests into a spellbinding performance. The guests remained captivated after the music ended, while Dan Heng’s place among them became impossible to ignore.

• Tang Yuehua demonstrated the piano and invited the guests to perform for a necklace she had made.
• Princess Xue Ke questioned Dan Heng about refusing Madam Lister, but he gave her no satisfying answer.
• Several nobles performed, and Ning Fengzhi suggested that someone else might take a turn.
• Dan Heng sat at the piano and played a flowing, dreamlike melody that captivated everyone present.
• The guests slowly returned to their senses after the performance, disappointed that the music had ended.

Dan Heng moved the banquet with a flawless love song, rejected Madam Lister, and collected the jewelry he had come for instead of pursuing Tang Yuehua. After the guests discussed his mysterious performance, Tang Yuehua wrote down the music and wondered who he was and why the jewelry mattered to him.

• Dan Heng's performance left the guests stunned, and Ning Fengzhi began the reluctant applause that others joined.
• Madam Lister offered Dan Heng her wealth and asked him to take her away, but he rejected her.
• Dan Heng asked Tang Yuehua for the jewelry he had won, accepted it, and left without confessing to her.
• The guests praised Dan Heng's music, while Tang Yuehua left the banquet and later transcribed the piece from memory.
• Tang Yuehua wondered about Dan Heng's identity and motives, then considered asking her arriving Big Brother to investigate.

Zi Ji and Bi Ji confronted Dan Heng for returning late, but Gu Yuena forgave him when he gave her a necklace, and they returned to their plans to have a child. The next day, Ning Fengzhi told Dan Heng that Madam Lister had offered a huge reward to find him, while Liu Erlong welcomed Thunder Academy and Yu Tianxin to Blue Tyrant Academy, confident in her team.

• Zi Ji persuaded Bi Ji to block Dan Heng and accuse him of fooling around, but Gu Yuena called them off and let him return to the bedroom.
• Dan Heng told Gu Yuena he had gone to Moonlight Pavilion to buy her a gift, gave her a necklace, and she eagerly pulled him onto the bed.
• Tang Xiao visited Tang Yuehua through a window, told her the Pope of Spirit Hall had arrived, and teased her about seeking news of a man.
• Ning Fengzhi told Dan Heng that Madam Lister had offered a thousand gold pieces for information about him and intended to pursue him, prompting a ten-million-gold-soul-coin bounty from Xue Ye.
• Liu Erlong received Thunder Academy's delegation, including her father Yu Luomian and Yu Tianxin, and declared that Blue Tyrant Team would defeat Thunderclap Team.

Yu Luomian watched the Blue Tyrant Team train, became infatuated with Gu Yuena, and tried to approach her despite her rejection. After Tai Long lost to Yu Tianxin in a spar, Gu Yuena remained confident her team would win their match against the Thunderclap Team, which was scheduled for the next day.

• Liu Erlong brought Yu Luomian and Yu Tianxin to watch the Blue Tyrant Team train, where Gu Yuena refused to demonstrate her methods.
• Yu Luomian praised Gu Yuena’s beauty, and Liu Erlong realized he and Yu Tianxin had both become captivated by her; she revealed Gu Yuena was Dan Heng’s wife.
• Liu Erlong arranged a spar between Tai Long and Yu Tianxin, and Yu Tianxin defeated Tai Long decisively.
• Gu Yuena told Dan Heng she expected the Blue Tyrant Team to win against the Thunderclap Team, and Dan Heng agreed to favor her.
• Yu Luomian confronted Dan Heng and Gu Yuena in the library, but they rejected him, and Tai Long drove him away after he threatened them with his Soul Sage power.

Gu Yuena took Tai Long under her wing while Yu Luomian ordered the Thunderclap Team to cripple members of the Blue Tyrant Team in revenge. Dan Heng joined Ning Fengzhi and “Xue Qinghe” to watch the match, which began with the Thunderclap Team soaking the Blue Tyrant Team to make the ground conduct electricity.

• Gu Yuena praised Tai Long and accepted him as her follower, then left with him after showing affection to Dan Heng.
• Yu Luomian ordered Yu Tianxin to cripple Tai Long and told the Thunderclap Team to injure other Blue Tyrant Team members; Yu Tianxin went to warn Liu Erlong and Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena told Yu Tianxin to follow Yu Luomian’s orders, while Liu Erlong promised to hold her father accountable and protect Gu Yuena.
• At dinner, “Xue Qinghe” praised Dan Heng’s Imperial Examination System and said she would attend the sparring match between the Blue Tyrant Team and the Thunderclap Team.
• Dan Heng went to the Soul Arena with Ning Fengzhi, and Gu Yuena greeted him before the match began.
• The Thunderclap Team opened by splashing water over the Blue Tyrant Team, making the ground wet so it could conduct electricity.