Chapter Summaries

During the two months before the Federation Grand Competition, Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena completed Tai Kun’s Rank 3 Soul Armor and discussed its effects. Qian Gu Huang Yu then proposed researching whether Soul Spirits could be transformed back into Spirit Beasts.

• Qian Gu Qing Feng reached rank seventy, fused with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as his Soul Spirit, and became the first of the seven to reach Soul Sage rank.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena completed Tai Kun’s Rank 3 Soul Armor, which raised his combat power to the level of a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu noted that Di Xuan’s Rank 3 Soul Armor had raised his combat power to the level of a sixty-thousand-year Spirit Beast.
• Gu Yuena scolded Tai Kun for dismissing the specialized work required to design Soul Armor for Spirit Beasts.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu suggested that Soul Spirits might be transformed back into Spirit Beasts and proposed researching the process with Gu Yuena.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena prepared to travel to Mingdu for the Sun Moon Federation Youth Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament. Bei Gong Li took them by Soul Guided Train, leaving the three of them aboard as she reminisced about her first trip to Mingdu.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu proposed turning the Spirit Ascension Platform’s virtual soul beasts into soul spirits and then into soul beasts, pleasing Gu Yuena.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena waited at Spirit Pagoda headquarters for Bei Gong Li before departing for Mingdu.
• Bei Gong Li explained that Qian Gu Die Ting and the others had left early for meetings and preparations, while Di Tian stayed behind to guard the headquarters.
• Bei Gong Li gave Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena soft-sleeper tickets and took a hard seat, recalling her first journey to Mingdu as a girl.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu, Gu Yuena, and Bei Gong Li boarded the Soul Guided Train, and Bei Gong Li sat outside their compartment to watch the passing scenery.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena encountered Ye Linglong, whom Electrolux identified as a Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Master. Ye Linglong’s past revealed how her blood-dependent Martial Soul led her to kill and how her sister Ye Lingshang saved her and fled with her.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena entered their compartment, where Ye Linglong arrived, and Electrolux warned that she was a powerful Evil Soul Master.
• Ye Linglong grew up in a cruel orphanage while her sister, Ye Lingshang, gained fame as a gifted Soul Master.
• After Ye Linglong awakened the Purple Gold Blood Bat and Innate Full Soul Power, her cultivation remained stagnant, and others mocked her as Ye Lingshang’s unimpressive younger sister.
• Ye Linglong discovered that consuming blood raised her Soul Power, killed those who had humiliated her, and was defeated by an academy teacher.
• Ye Lingshang arrived, defeated the teacher, and chose to flee with Ye Linglong rather than hand her over to the Spirit Pagoda.

Ye Linglong recalled how jealousy of her sister Ye Lingshang shaped her life in the Holy Spirit Cult and drove her to become a Titled Douluo. On the train, she tried to corner Qian Gu Huang Yu, but Bei Gong Li appeared at the door and filled her with terror.

• Ye Linglong remembered how Li Renwang rescued her and Ye Lingshang, brought them to the Holy Spirit Cult, and made Ye Lingshang his disciple.
• Ye Linglong grew jealous as Ye Lingshang rose to become the Limit Douluo Blood Emperor, while others identified Ye Linglong through her sister.
• Ye Linglong cultivated desperately, reached Titled Douluo before thirty, and fled after seeing pain in Ye Lingshang's eyes.
• Ye Linglong entered the train compartment and decided to tease Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena, approaching Qian Gu Huang Yu until she was cornered.
• Bei Gong Li opened the door to remind Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena not to miss their stop, and Ye Linglong recognized her and panicked.

Ye Linglong, an Evil Soul Master, feared Bei Gong Li after realizing she had tried to bully the granddaughter of Spirit Transmission Tower’s master. After Bei Gong Li left without recognizing her, Qian Gu Huang Yu revealed that she knew Ye Linglong’s identity and pressured her into obeying.

• Ye Linglong realized Bei Gong Li was Qian Gu Huang Yu’s grandmother and feared being exposed as an Evil Soul Master.
• Bei Gong Li glanced at Ye Linglong, then left without recognizing her identity.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu pinned Ye Linglong down and threatened to tell Bei Gong Li unless Ye Linglong played along.
• Ye Linglong stopped Qian Gu Huang Yu from leaving and agreed to obey her.
• Gu Yuena watched Qian Gu Huang Yu tease Ye Linglong and struggled with jealousy and confusion about her feelings for Huang'er.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu warned Gu Yuena that Ye Linglong was an Evil Soul Master and said she would keep her under control.

Qian Gu Huang Yu used her grandmother’s reputation to intimidate Evil Soul Master Ye Linglong, then trapped her in an increasingly humiliating prank on the Soul Guided Train. The chapter ended with Qian Gu Huang Yu pretending to sleep while Ye Linglong endured the effects of a Soul Tool in silence.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu pulled Ye Linglong beneath a blanket and held her, while Ye Linglong refrained from attacking because she suspected Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena had powerful family connections.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu teased Ye Linglong beneath the blanket, and Ye Linglong tried to stop her and pleaded for her to stop.
• Ye Linglong revealed that Blood Emperor Ye Lingshang was her sister, but Qian Gu Huang Yu countered that her grandmother, Heaven's Punishment Douluo Bei Gong Li, was outside the door.
• Ye Linglong gave in, but Qian Gu Huang Yu used a Soul Tool that mimicked one of Whitebeard's fruits, covered Ye Linglong's mouth, and pretended to sleep beside her.

Ye Linglong endured Qian Gu Huang Yu’s teasing on the train, then called Ye Lingshang in tears after reaching the hotel. Gu Yuena confronted Qian Gu Huang Yu over her flirtation, while Bei Gong Li brought them to a car driven by a young Federation major general whose license plate astonished Qian Gu Huang Yu.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu said goodbye to Ye Linglong, who forced herself to respond politely despite her resentment.
• Ye Linglong called Ye Lingshang from her hotel and burst into tears, prompting her sister to ask where she was and offer to come find her.
• Gu Yuena confronted Qian Gu Huang Yu and said she would repay her that night for what she had done to Ye Linglong.
• Bei Gong Li took Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena to an almost empty parking lot, where a masked young woman saluted her as Commander.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu noticed the woman’s Federation major general insignia and was astonished by the car’s Ming A00002 license plate.

Bei Gong Li explained the Federation military’s limited authority and how the major legions were controlled by powerful families. She described the Blood God Legion’s exceptional role and why no family wanted to command it generation after generation.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu learned that her grandmother Bei Gong Li was the Federation’s Minister of Military Affairs.
• Bei Gong Li explained that her position mainly involved balancing the major legions, whose commanders and forces were controlled by powerful families.
• Bei Gong Li described how Yu Hao Sheng commanded both the Central Legion and the War God Hall, while Chen Yi Ming led the Sea God Legion.
• Gu Yuena and Qian Gu Huang Yu asked about the Blood God Legion, and Bei Gong Li explained that its duty to resist the Abyssal Plane made it too important for its commanders to treat as a family inheritance.

Bei Gong Li told Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena how she rose from humble origins to command the Blood God Legion and enter the Federation’s ruling circles. She urged Qian Gu Huang Yu to remember that she did not have to carry the burdens of others, and that her happiness mattered most.

• Bei Gong Li explained that powerful legions could rebel, but the Blood God Legion could not mutiny without risking an Abyss invasion and earning lasting infamy.
• Bei Gong Li recounted growing up without Soul Master connections, struggling to afford her first Soul Spirit, and improving her prospects after becoming the disciple of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy dean.
• Bei Gong Li said she joined the Blood God Legion for its benefits and stayed because commanding it offered her a path to status unavailable to someone without a powerful family.
• Bei Gong Li revealed that marrying Qian Gu Shi Long brought her into the highest Soul Master circles and taught her about the Shadow Council, which made decisions above the Federation Parliament.
• Bei Gong Li encouraged Qian Gu Huang Yu to use her future influence to help others, but told her she had no obligation to bear other people's lives and should live happily.
• Bei Gong Li said her efforts had helped close many red-light districts and helped women from the streets find ordinary work.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena arrived in Mingdu for the Sun Moon Federation Youth Advanced Soul Master Competition and checked into Mingyue Hotel, where Qian Ren Xue was waiting with the Spirit Pagoda team. On the top floor, they encountered Yue Zhengen, a War God Hall competitor and heir to the Angel Family, before Qian Ren Xue led them to their room.

• Bei Gong Li joked with Gu Yuena during the trip, then explained that Mingdu had increased security for the upcoming competition.
• Xiao Yue drove past the security checkpoint after guards recognized the car’s license plate, then took the group to Mingyue Hotel.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena entered the hotel and met Qian Ren Xue, who led them toward the top floor where the three major teams were staying.
• Qian Ren Xue greeted Yue Zhengen, and Qian Gu Huang Yu learned that he was an eighteen-year-old Soul Emperor representing War God Hall.
• Qian Ren Xue explained that Yue Zhengen respected her because of her Six-winged Angel lineage, then brought Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena into the Spirit Pagoda team’s room.

Qian Gu Huang Yu revealed that her Soul Armor could raise her Mountain Dragon’s power to the level of a Limit Douluo, while Yue Hong Chen graduated and learned she was being positioned to become a Spirit Pagoda Deputy Tower Master. The Spirit Pagoda group relaxed before the competition, but Qian Gu Huang Yu warned that she could not supply enough Soul Power to sustain the Mountain Dragon’s strength.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu told Leng Yulai that her Soul Armor preparations were complete, and Gu Yuena explained that it let the Mountain Dragon fight with power equivalent to its hundred-thousand-year state.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu promised to make Soul Armor for the others, and Qian Ren Xue and Leng Yulai eagerly asked for one.
• Bei Gong Li congratulated Yue Hong Chen on graduating and discussed how Yue Hong Chen would eventually meet her junior sister.
• Bei Gong Li told Yue Hong Chen to take over Qian Gu Guang Yao’s Deputy Tower Master position in the Star Luo Empire after reaching Titled Douluo.
• At the Mingyue Hotel, Qian Gu Dong Feng and the others expressed confidence in the competition because of Qian Gu Huang Yu’s Mountain Dragon.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu warned the group that her own Soul Power was insufficient to sustain the Mountain Dragon’s Limit Douluo-level strength.

Qian Gu Die Ting corrected the Spirit Pagoda team’s premature celebration and appointed Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena to lead the team for the upcoming tournament. He then gave them preliminary information on Shrek’s and War God Hall’s representatives, though Yun Ming’s file was blank.

• Qian Ren Xue questioned Qian Gu Huang Yu about withholding information on Tai Kun, and the group realized their confidence in victory had been premature.
• Qian Gu Die Ting arrived, mistook their zoo outing for a visit to parliament, and explained why the Federation Parliament was called the zoo and the military the botanical garden.
• Qian Gu Die Ting named Qian Gu Qing Feng team leader, but Qing Feng declined, so Qian Gu Huang Yu became leader and Gu Yuena became deputy leader.
• Qian Gu Die Ting handed the team information sheets on Shrek and War God Hall, and Qian Ren Xue recalled Yun Ming’s martial soul and limited cultivation details.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng questioned Cai Yuer’s place on Shrek’s roster, while Qian Gu Qing Feng mocked Shrek’s talent selection.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and her companions reviewed the Shrek and War God Hall teams, noting their strengths, secrets, and notable members. They finished examining War God Hall’s roster, while Ya Li’s absence left Qian Gu Huang Yu disappointed.

• Gu Yuena recognized Guan Yue on Shrek’s roster, and Qian Gu Huang Yu joked that they would eliminate him quickly.
• Qian Ren Xue warned the group about Zang Xin and Cao Dezhi’s binding Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Leng Yao Zhu pointed out that both teams relied on one control-type Soul Master and several assault-types.
• Qian Gu Die Ting warned Qian Gu Qing Feng to keep the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and Evil God Arena secret until he could protect himself.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu teased Leng Yulai about nearly losing her place on the team, and the group recalled how she and the others had stopped Zhang Geyang from taking her spot.
• Qian Gu Die Ting explained the backgrounds of War God Hall members Yu Guan Zhi, Yue Zhengen, Ao Rui, Chen Hanyu, and Shen Lang, describing the roster as a gathering of military heirs.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu questioned whether Ning Yuqi was related to Ning Qing Yu and noticed Ya Li was absent, regretting that she could not recruit her.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and the Spirit Pagoda contestants arrived at the Federation Grand Competition, where they clashed verbally with Shrek’s members before taking their seats beside them. The preliminary rounds were about to begin, with the rival groups sharing neighboring resting areas.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu and the Spirit Pagoda contestants left the Mingyue Hotel as spectators gathered to watch them.
• Cai Yuer confronted Qian Gu Huang Yu, and Cao Dezhi challenged her while Zang Xin said he and Cao Dezhi would meet her in the two-on-two finals.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu taunted Zang Xin about eating his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, prompting him to storm away as Shrek’s members grew furious.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu and the Spirit Pagoda contestants entered the packed Sun Moon Federation Grand Stadium through their exclusive passage.
• A staff member led the Spirit Pagoda group to its well-equipped resting area, which was directly beside Shrek’s.

The Sun Moon Federation Youth Advanced Soul Master Competition began, and Shrek faced Eastsea Academy in the first knockout match. As both teams took the field, Shrek’s powerful lineup and extraordinary Soul Ring configurations left the audience astonished.

• Yu Chengfeng officially opened the competition, and Bei Gong Li announced the rules with a powerful warning that shook the spectators’ Sea of Consciousness.
• The host announced Shrek versus Eastsea Academy as the first Seven-on-Seven knockout match, and Qian Gu Dong Feng explained that Shrek, War God Hall, and Spirit Pagoda traditionally competed first.
• Yun Ming, Cao Dezhi, and five other Shrek members headed to the arena, while Qian Ren Xue complained about Shrek’s compulsory gratitude education and its fabricated stories praising Tang San.
• Elder Ma instructed both teams to summon their martial souls, and Shrek formed a lineup with Yun Ming at the front and Zang Xin protected in the center.
• Cao Dezhi revealed seven Soul Rings, including two black-and-red rings, while Zang Xin and Guan Yue displayed six black rings each, startling the audience.

At the tournament, Shrek’s lineup impressed the crowd when vice-captain Yun Ming revealed an orange Soul Ring, shocking the other factions’ experts. The chapter left the Spirit Pagoda determined to press ahead with its plan despite Shrek’s display.

• Jun Sheng Bai bragged to Beddon about his disciple Cao Dezhi, and he and Chen Yi argued over whether a calm or cheerful temperament was better.
• Shrek’s team entered the arena, drawing cheers as spectators saw its Soul Sage and Soul Emperors.
• Yun Ming summoned the Sky-Piercing Spear and revealed six black Soul Rings before raising an orange Soul Ring.
• Yu Hao Sheng and Liang Sheng recognized that Yun Ming’s orange ring came from a fierce beast and marveled at his ability to withstand it.
• Qian Gu Die Ting dismissed the threat of Yun Ming’s orange Soul Ring and insisted the Spirit Pagoda could still pursue its tournament goal.

Leng Yang Jun and Qian Gu Die Ting agreed to work together to release the Spirit Pagoda’s Orange Soul Spirits for their younger generation. Shrek defeated Eastsea Academy with Yun Ming’s No-Fly ability, and the next match began between War God Hall and Azure Bird Academy.

• Leng Yang Jun proposed that the Leng Family and Qian Gu Family join forces to secure the Spirit Pagoda’s Orange Soul Spirits, and Qian Gu Die Ting agreed to let Xiao Yu and the others try them at seven rings.
• Eastsea Academy equipped its team with Flying Soul Tools and took to the air against Shrek, but Yun Ming used No-Fly to disable their flight.
• Shrek quickly defeated Eastsea Academy, drawing cheers from the audience while Beddon praised Yun Ming to Jun Sheng Bai.
• Elder Ma announced the next knockout match between War God Hall and Azure Bird Academy, and Qian Gu Huang Yu asked why the teams represented academies.
• Yu Guan Zhi led War God Hall into battle as a seven-ring Soul Sage, while Shen Lang revealed his Ice Frost Bear King Martial Soul and grew into a three-meter-tall, fur-covered form.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and the others examined War God Hall’s lineup and reacted to Chen Hanyu’s Golden Trident and Shui Qingli’s Flowing Light Ink Snake. As tensions over the Golden Trident rose, Qian Gu Huang Yu decided that she and Gu Yuena would face the opposing team together.

• Qian Ren Xue identified Chen Hanyu’s Golden Trident as a Sea God family weapon, and Qian Gu Huang Yu explained its ties to Tang San and the Qian Gu Family’s history.
• Qian Ren Xue, Qian Gu Dong Feng, and Gu Yuena each expressed a desire to confront Chen Hanyu, with Gu Yuena linking Tang San to the Auspicious Beast’s fate ten thousand years earlier.
• Shrek’s representatives reacted to the Golden Trident, while spectators erupted at the sight of Tang San’s divine artifact appearing as a Martial Soul.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu recognized Shui Qingli’s Flowing Light Ink Snake, and Gu Yuena explained that its Moyan Soul Skill could seal opponents’ Soul Skills.
• After the War God Hall lineup was revealed, Qian Gu Huang Yu told Gu Yuena that the two of them would take the field together.

Chen Hanyu and Yu Guan Zhi overwhelmed Azure Bird Academy in under a minute, showcasing the Golden Trident and the Floating Life Painting World Brush. After Chen Hanyu celebrated her power and left the arena, Qian Ren Xue noted that she had held back some of the Golden Trident’s abilities.

• Leng Yao Zhu worried that Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena might struggle against an Orange Soul Spirit and a God-tier Martial Soul.
• Chen Hanyu unleashed her Sky-Covering Wave, and Yu Guan Zhi sent a conjured Great White Shark charging through it.
• Azure Bird Academy was swept out of the arena and eliminated in under a minute, while its students were seriously injured.
• Yu Guan Zhi reproached Chen Hanyu for failing to hold back, but she dismissed the defeated team and basked in the crowd’s adoration.
• Chen Hanyu passed Spirit Pagoda’s viewing area, and Qian Ren Xue observed that she had held back the Golden Trident’s sacred and Light Attribute powers.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena faced Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy after Shrek and War God Hall arranged for Spirit Pagoda to draw a formidable first-round opponent. They entered the arena as Spirit Pagoda’s only competitors, and Qian Gu Huang Yu declared that the academy’s chance to challenge her would end there.

• Qian Gu Die Ting accused Beddon of rigging the match, while Beddon and Jun Sheng Bai defended the draw as luck and acknowledged Shrek and War God Hall’s agreement to target Spirit Pagoda.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena entered the arena as Spirit Pagoda’s only two competitors, surprising the audience and angering Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy’s team.
• Qian Gu Die Ting and Leng Yang Jun trusted the pair, while observers from Shrek and War God Hall speculated about their confidence and motives.
• Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy’s captain rallied his six teammates to pursue victory against the two Spirit Pagoda competitors.
• After Elder Ma started the match, Qian Gu Huang Yu congratulated Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy for earning the chance to challenge her and declared that it ended there.