Chapter Summaries

Bai Wanwan warned Guangling that Qian Xunji would return gravely wounded, hoping to gain his trust and later improve her cultivation prospects. Guangling dismissed her prediction, but Qian Xunji arrived at the Papal Hall unconscious, leaving Bibi Dong to oversee his treatment.

• Bai Wanwan told Guangling she could foresee Qian Xunji returning gravely wounded, but Guangling explained that Qian Xunji had gone with Chrysanthemum and Ghost and dismissed her warning.
• Guangling left Bai Wanwan at home and promised to awaken her martial soul when he returned.
• Bai Wanwan revealed that she had used the prediction as an excuse to persuade Guangling to help her obtain immortal herbs if her martial soul proved weak.
• Gui Mei and Yue Guan returned to Spirit City with the unconscious Qian Xunji after their force suffered a crushing defeat.
• Gui Mei and Yue Guan handed Qian Xunji to Bibi Dong and went to report the defeat to the Grand Elder.
• Bibi Dong concealed her murderous intent, ordered healers to treat Qian Xunji, and carried him to the Rear Hall.

After Tang Hao defeated Spirit Hall’s forces, Qian Xunji died from his injuries, and Qian Daoliu took charge while leaving Bibi Dong under suspicion. As the elders departed with Qian Daoliu, Azure Luan went to perform Bai Wanwan’s martial soul awakening ceremony.

• Qian Daoliu heard Gui Mei and Yue Guan’s account of their defeat and questioned Qian Xunji’s fitness as pope.
• Bibi Dong announced that Qian Xunji had died, and Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile went to examine his body.
• Qian Daoliu paused at Qian Xunji’s chest and looked at Bibi Dong, while Golden Crocodile sensed that the death might not be as it appeared.
• Qian Daoliu assigned Golden Crocodile to hold Spirit City and Azure Luan to manage the Papal Hall, then left at daybreak with the elders and Qian Xunji’s body.
• Guangling asked Azure Luan to awaken Bai Wanwan’s martial soul, and Azure Luan agreed.
• Azure Luan arrived at Bai Wanwan’s courtyard, where Bi’er woke her and announced the awakening ceremony.

Bai Wanwan awakened the Water Dragon King martial soul and demonstrated innate full soul power. Azure Luan brought her to the Papal Hall to cultivate, where she wondered why the hall seemed so deserted.

• Azure Luan performed Bai Wanwan's martial soul awakening ceremony while Guangling was away.
• Bai Wanwan awakened the ice-blue Water Dragon King martial soul, and Azure Luan judged its aura comparable to the Six-Winged Angel.
• Bai Wanwan tested as having innate full soul power and realized her martial soul suggested she had ties to the Dragon Clan rather than being Guangling's biological granddaughter.
• Azure Luan offered to take Bai Wanwan to the Worship Hall to cultivate alongside the Young Master, and she agreed to go immediately.
• Azure Luan explained that Bai Wanwan could focus on her martial soul's water or ultimate ice attribute as they headed toward the Papal Hall.
• Bai Wanwan entered the Papal Hall with Azure Luan and was puzzled by how magnificent yet deserted it seemed.

After learning that Pope Qian Xunji had died and Grand Elder Qian Daoliu had gone to the Clear Sky Sect, Bai Wanwan considered how the upheaval might affect her plans. Azure Luan introduced her to the grieving Young Master, Qian Renxue, and Bai Wanwan offered her candy.

• Azure Luan told Bai Wanwan that Qian Daoliu and several elders had left the Papal Hall, leading her to realize Qian Xunji had died and that the Grand Elder had gone to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Bai Wanwan decided not to reveal what she knew about Qian Xunji's death and considered how the coming changes could give her room to maneuver.
• Azure Luan brought Bai Wanwan to meet Qian Renxue, who was grieving in a garden pavilion, and explained that Bai Wanwan would live in the Worship Hall.
• Qian Renxue invited Bai Wanwan to sit beside her and suggested they call each other sisters.
• Qian Renxue asked Bai Wanwan about her innate soul power, and Bai Wanwan answered that it was full before offering her candy.

Bai Wanwan comforted Qian Renxue after she learned that her father, Qian Xunji, had died, and offered her candy and a sister’s companionship. Qian Renxue accepted Bai Wanwan’s kindness and invited her to explore the garden she had planted.

• Bai Wanwan offered Qian Renxue candy and told her that well-behaved children could end up bearing their pain alone.
• Qian Renxue remembered Qian Xunji’s care and grieved over his death, which had filled her with hatred for Tang Hao.
• Bai Wanwan promised to share her happiness and listen to Qian Renxue, and Qian Renxue accepted her as a sister and playmate.
• Qian Renxue told Bai Wanwan that she had planted the garden and offered to show her around.
• Azure Luan watched Qian Renxue’s improved spirits and headed toward the Hall of Enshrinement Main Hall.

Bai Wanwan accompanied Qian Renxue through the garden, helping lift her spirits, before meeting Golden Crocodile and Azure Luan in the Worship Hall. Golden Crocodile tested Bai Wanwan’s strength and praised her potential after seeing her powerful water dragon king spirit.

• Bai Wanwan walked through the garden with Qian Renxue, and their conversation gradually improved Qian Renxue’s mood.
• Azure Luan told Golden Crocodile that Bai Wanwan had an unfamiliar dragon type spirit with absolute control over water and ultimate ice.
• Qian Renxue brought Bai Wanwan into the hall, where Bai Wanwan identified Golden Crocodile as the Second Worship by studying the room’s layout.
• Golden Crocodile increased the pressure on Bai Wanwan, and she endured it until her water dragon king spirit appeared at level eighteen pressure.
• Golden Crocodile withdrew the pressure and praised Bai Wanwan’s promising future, estimating that she could withstand pressure equivalent to at least level twenty.

Bai Wanwan considered Golden Crocodile's offer to become her master and said she would wait for her grandfather Guangling to return before deciding. Golden Crocodile invited her and Qian Renxue to seek a water-attribute Spirit Beast the next day, and the chapter ended with the two girls chatting after he and Azure Luan left.

• Bai Wanwan took Guangling's seat after Azure Luan encouraged her to feel at home in the Worship Hall.
• Golden Crocodile praised Bai Wanwan's talent and offered to teach her, but she said she would consult Guangling before accepting a master.
• Bai Wanwan said she planned to focus on water, use ice as support, and follow the assault system.
• Golden Crocodile planned to take Bai Wanwan to the Soul Beast Forest the next day to find a water-attribute Spirit Beast and invited Qian Renxue along.
• Qian Renxue accepted the invitation, and Golden Crocodile and Azure Luan left the hall.
• Bai Wanwan and Qian Renxue remained behind and talked together.

Bai Wanwan settled into her new room in the Worship Hall and tried meditation before resting, then joined Qian Renxue and Golden Crocodile for breakfast. The three set out by carriage for the Soul Beast Forest near Spirit City, while Bibi Dong worked through plans titled “Plot Tiandou” and “Soul Hunting Operation.”

• Azure Luan told Bai Wanwan that her room was next to Qian Renxue’s, and Qian Renxue took her to see it that evening.
• Bai Wanwan meditated through the night, found that it eased her physical fatigue but did not replace sleep, and napped until morning.
• Bibi Dong wrote “Plot Tiandou” and “Soul Hunting Operation” into an unfinished plan and stored the papers in her Storage Soul Tool.
• Qian Renxue and Bai Wanwan had breakfast with Golden Crocodile, who told them a carriage was ready for their trip to the Soul Beast Forest.
• Golden Crocodile drove Qian Renxue and Bai Wanwan from the Papal Hall in a carriage pulled by a Scale Horse.

Golden Crocodile took Qian Renxue and Bai Wanwan into a Soul Beast Forest to find a suitable first spirit ring for Bai Wanwan. They discovered an eight-hundred-year-old tidal giant turtle that bowed to Bai Wanwan, and she suspected it reacted to her Water Dragon King bloodline.

• Golden Crocodile explained that Bai Wanwan should seek a four-to-five-hundred-year water-attribute spirit beast with an enhancement soul skill.
• As they searched deeper into the forest, Golden Crocodile noticed nearby spirit beasts fleeing from them.
• The group found an eight-hundred-year-old tidal giant turtle at a pool, but Golden Crocodile decided it was too old for Bai Wanwan's first spirit ring.
• The tidal giant turtle walked toward them and knelt, leaving Qian Renxue and Golden Crocodile puzzled.
• Bai Wanwan suspected the tidal giant turtle was bowing to her because she possessed the complete Water Dragon King bloodline, and she seemed to understand its gentle response.

Bai Wanwan absorbed the Tidal Giant Turtle’s Spirit Ring after it willingly offered itself, reaching level fifteen and gaining the defensive Soul Skill Water Curtain Sky Bloom. She rejoined Qian Renxue and Golden Crocodile by the campfire after completing her absorption.

• Bai Wanwan asked the kneeling Tidal Giant Turtle to become her Spirit Ring, and it nodded willingly.
• Golden Crocodile explained that a willing Spirit Beast could allow Bai Wanwan to exceed her normal absorption limit and gave her a short sword.
• Bai Wanwan killed the Tidal Giant Turtle, absorbed its Spirit Ring, and saw its phantom fade in her Sea of Consciousness near the Water Dragon King Spirit.
• Golden Crocodile and Qian Renxue waited as Bai Wanwan absorbed the ring, while Golden Crocodile speculated that the beast had simply wanted to die.
• Bai Wanwan completed her absorption, reached Soul Power level fifteen, and gained the first Soul Skill Water Curtain Sky Bloom.
• Bai Wanwan joined Qian Renxue and Golden Crocodile at the campfire, and Golden Crocodile checked her condition.

After returning to Spirit City, Qian Renxue saw Bibi Dong treating her new disciple, Hu Liena, with tenderness and felt hurt by the contrast with Bibi Dong’s coldness toward her. In the Worship Hall garden, Bai Wanwan reassured Qian Renxue that she would stand by her as a friend and protect her, leaving Qian Renxue smiling.

• Golden Crocodile confirmed that Bai Wanwan had suffered no harm from absorbing a Spirit Ring beyond her level, then brought her and Qian Renxue back to Spirit City.
• At the Papal Hall, Bibi Dong introduced Hu Liena, her new disciple with innate soul power level nine, while treating Qian Renxue like a stranger.
• Qian Renxue felt hurt and hostile after seeing Bibi Dong show Hu Liena affection, but suppressed her anger and entered the Papal Hall with Bai Wanwan.
• Bibi Dong warned Hu Liena to avoid the Worship Hall because she might get beaten up and have her looks affected.
• Qian Renxue asked Bai Wanwan if she would always stay by her side, and Bai Wanwan promised to protect and support her as a friend and future right-hand woman.

After three months of training, Bai Wanwan learned that the Clear Sky Sect had expelled Tang Hao and withdrawn from the world. Qian Daoliu and the others returned to Spirit City with Yang Wushuang captive, while Golden Crocodile asked Guangling for permission to take Wanwan as his disciple without revealing her talent.

• Bai Wanwan trained with Qian Renxue for three months, raising her soul power from level fifteen to sixteen and growing closer to her.
• Bai Wanwan asked Qian Renxue when Qian Daoliu and the others would return after the Clear Sky Sect expelled Tang Hao and sealed its gates.
• Qian Daoliu led Xiongshi, Guangling, Qian Jun, Jiang Mo, other elders, and captive Yang Wushuang into Spirit City and ordered a council at the Papal Hall.
• Qian Daoliu ordered the Papal Hall deacons to resume their duties and had Yang Wushuang taken to the Rear Hall.
• Guangling asked Azure Luan about Bai Wanwan's martial soul and talent, but Golden Crocodile instead asked to take Wanwan as his disciple.

Qian Daoliu named Bibi Dong as the next Pope, with the enthronement ceremony set for three days later. Afterward, he returned to the Worship Hall, where Qian Renxue learned he had failed to find Tang Hao and resolved to avenge her father herself.

• Golden Crocodile told Guangling that Bai Wanwan had innate full soul power and had reached rank sixteen, prompting Guangling to go see her.
• Qian Daoliu proposed that Bibi Dong succeed as Pope because Qian Renxue was too young, and no one objected.
• Qian Daoliu scheduled Bibi Dong's Inauguration Ceremony for three days later and left the Papal Hall with the worshippers.
• Bibi Dong left for the Rear Hall, and Gui Mei and Yue Guan followed her after the elders departed.
• Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu whether he had avenged her father, and he told her he had been unable to find Tang Hao.
• Qian Renxue said she would avenge her father herself and asked to pay her respects to him, while Qian Daoliu turned to examine Bai Wanwan.

Bai Wanwan revealed her Water Dragon King martial soul to the worships and became Golden Crocodile’s disciple. After learning that Qian Renxue was expected to infiltrate the Heaven Dou Empire, she decided to try to stop the mission and began planning how to persuade Guangling and the other worships.

• Qian Daoliu sensed a faint divine aura on Bai Wanwan and praised her promising future.
• Bai Wanwan released her Water Dragon King martial soul in the Worship Hall, but none of the worships, including Qian Daoliu, recognized it.
• At Guangling’s prompting, Bai Wanwan offered Golden Crocodile tea and became his disciple, receiving a Storage Soul Tool as an apprenticeship gift.
• Bai Wanwan learned that Bibi Dong would become pope in three days and that Qian Renxue’s mission to infiltrate the Heaven Dou Empire was next.
• Bai Wanwan decided to try to prevent Qian Renxue’s mission and planned to get Guangling and the other worships to oppose it.

Bai Wanwan told Guangling that she had dreamed Bibi Dong would become Pope and propose sending Qian Renxue undercover at the cost of years of her youth, leaving him unsure whether to believe her. After Bibi Dong spent two hours speaking privately with Qian Renxue, Qian Renxue appeared troubled the next morning, and Bai Wanwan suspected something had happened.

• Bai Wanwan reminded Guangling that she had predicted Qian Xunji would return gravely injured, then told him her latest dream concerned Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue.
• Guangling doubted the dream but wondered whether it might be true because Bai Wanwan's earlier prediction had come to pass.
• Bai Wanwan began meditating after Guangling left, while Bibi Dong put a detailed plan into her Storage Soul Tool and went to Qian Renxue's room.
• Bibi Dong spoke privately with Qian Renxue for roughly two hours before returning to the Papal Hall.
• The next morning, Qian Renxue seemed troubled and told Bai Wanwan to go to training, while Bai Wanwan suspected that something had happened.

Bai Wanwan learned that Qian Renxue planned to leave Spirit Hall for a long-term mission that Bibi Dong had linked to Qian Xunji’s supposed wishes. Bai Wanwan questioned whether Qian Xunji would truly have sent his beloved daughter away at nine, leaving Qian Renxue to reconsider Bibi Dong’s claim.

• Bai Wanwan finished training with Golden Crocodile, then met Qian Renxue in the garden.
• Qian Renxue told Bai Wanwan that Bibi Dong had given her a detailed plan to carry out away from Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue said Bibi Dong had claimed Qian Xunji had worked on the plan and might have considered it an unfulfilled wish.
• Bai Wanwan questioned why Qian Xunji would choose his nine-year-old daughter for the mission and reminded Qian Renxue how much he had doted on her.
• Qian Renxue concluded that Qian Xunji would not have sent her away at that age and looked toward the Papal Hall in thought.

Bibi Dong presented a plan to infiltrate the Heaven Dou Empire before launching a soul hunting operation, but the elders objected to using Qian Renxue as the undercover agent. Qian Daoliu rejected the proposal in his mind and asked Qian Renxue what she thought.

• Azure Luan summoned Qian Renxue and Bai Wanwan to the Worship Hall, where Bibi Dong presented her plan to infiltrate the Heaven Dou Empire and seize control of its army.
• Qian Renxue read the proposal, which named her as the best candidate to carry out the undercover plan.
• Bai Wanwan prompted Guangling, who objected to sending the young Qian Renxue on a long and dangerous mission instead of letting her cultivate.
• Azure Luan, Golden Crocodile, Xiongshi, Qian Jun, and Jiang Mo also opposed using Qian Renxue for the plan.
• Qian Daoliu quieted the hall and asked Qian Renxue for her opinion, having already decided not to approve the proposal.

After Qian Renxue refused to go undercover, Qian Daoliu scrapped Bibi Dong's plan, but Bai Wanwan proposed an alternative that the worshippers agreed to refine. The next day, Guangling took Bai Wanwan shopping for formal clothes for Bibi Dong's inauguration ceremony.

• Qian Renxue told Qian Daoliu she did not want to go, and he scrapped Bibi Dong's plan.
• Bai Wanwan suggested a different way to achieve the plan's objectives without sending anyone undercover, and Guangling presented a refined version to Qian Daoliu.
• Azure Luan volunteered to refine the plan with the Holy Maiden, and Bibi Dong agreed to help.
• Qian Daoliu left the hall with Qian Renxue, ending the discussion for the time being.
• Bai Wanwan trained with Golden Crocodile the next morning, then went with Guangling to buy formal clothes for the Pope's inauguration ceremony.

Bai Wanwan went shopping with Guangling and chose a Gothic dress and many other blue outfits before returning to the Papal Hall. With the Inauguration Ceremony set for the next day, she reunited with Qian Renxue, while Bibi Dong examined her delivered Pope’s attire.

• Guangling took Bai Wanwan shopping, where she chose a blue Gothic dress and bought several other outfits.
• After five hours of shopping, Guangling brought Bai Wanwan back to the Papal Hall as preparations for the Inauguration Ceremony continued.
• Bai Wanwan met Qian Renxue, who praised her outfit and invited her to shop together next time.
• Qian Renxue told Bai Wanwan that she had visited her father’s grave with Qian Daoliu, and the group returned to the Worship Hall.
• Bibi Dong touched the Pope’s attire in her room and looked thoughtful.

Bibi Dong heard a mysterious voice describe seeing someone who should not exist, then presided over her inauguration as Pope. After the ceremony, Bai Wanwan and Qian Renxue went to explore Spirit City while Qian Daoliu, Golden Crocodile, and Guangling discussed how to develop Bai Wanwan’s talents.

• Bibi Dong heard a hoarse voice say that someone whose death it had witnessed had appeared again, but the voice gave her no explanation.
• Bibi Dong arrived at the Papal Hall and was formally recognized by Qian Daoliu and the gathered Elders before delivering her inauguration remarks.
• After the ceremony, Golden Crocodile told Bai Wanwan she could take a break, so she and Qian Renxue set off to explore Spirit City.
• Qian Daoliu suggested that Bai Wanwan learn several of the Elders’ specialties, while Golden Crocodile advised developing her abilities gradually.
• Guangling wondered what he could teach Bai Wanwan besides archery as he returned to the Worship Hall with the others.