Chapter Summaries

Xiao Wu and Ye Tian escaped the Titan Prison, then investigated the skull whose golden light had knocked Xiao Wu unconscious. A twin-dragon tattoo appeared on Xiao Wu’s wrist and absorbed some of her Soul Power, leading Ye Tian to suspect it was connected to the Dragon God.

• Xiao Wu woke and told Er Ming to break the Titan Prison, then defended Ye Tian when Er Ming accused him of wrongdoing.
• Er Ming teased Xiao Wu about falling for Ye Tian, and Xiao Wu grabbed his ear and insisted Ye Tian was only a guest.
• Xiao Wu recognized that cracks on the skull resembled a map of the Central Area and the Lake of Life.
• Xiao Wu discovered her Soul Power had increased, but half of the newly absorbed power was being drawn into her right arm.
• Xiao Wu found a twin dark-gold and silver dragon tattoo on her wrist, and Ye Tian suspected it was related to the Dragon God.

Ye Tian concealed the meaning of Xiao Wu’s Dragon God mark with a delayed brocade-pouch message, then tested Fire Rhinoceros horn marrow and began refining pills. The Sky Azure Bull Python asked if a pill could help him survive his approaching tribulation, and Ye Tian confirmed that a Thunder Tribulation Pill existed.

• Ye Tian gave Xiao Wu a brocade pouch and told her to open it in three days, hiding the mark’s significance until he could leave the Central Area.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python brought Ye Tian Fire Rhinoceros horns from the Mist Swamp, and Ye Tian tasted their marrow and discovered its calming effect on the neurons.
• Xiao Wu tried the horn marrow herself, spat it out because it felt freezing, and watched Ye Tian prepare to refine pills.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python asked whether pills could help soul beasts evade thunder tribulation, revealing his fear of the approaching two-hundred-thousand-year tribulation.
• Ye Tian identified the remedy as a Thunder Tribulation Pill and said it existed but was extremely difficult to refine, leaving the Sky Azure Bull Python astonished and hopeful.

Ye Tian’s knowledge of the Thunder Tribulation Pill prompted Da Ming and Er Ming to ask for his help, while Xiao Wu cared for the gravely injured Dai Ya. Dai Ya revealed why Ye Tian’s name mattered to her and asked Xiao Wu to take her to see him, leaving Xiao Wu to honor what she believed might be Dai Ya’s final wish.

• Ye Tian explained that refining the Thunder Tribulation Pill carried a terrible cost, and Da Ming and Er Ming offered to protect him in exchange for one.
• Er Ming challenged Ye Tian, but Da Ming and Xiao Wu rebuked him and kept him away while Ye Tian focused on refining a pill.
• Xiao Wu comforted Dai Ya in the Golden Treehouse and offered her the remaining half of the Heavenly Profound Grass, but Dai Ya refused it.
• Dai Ya told Xiao Wu that Ye Tian shared the name of her younger brother, who had escaped with her to the Heaven Dou Empire after their parents were killed.
• Dai Ya asked Xiao Wu to tell her younger brother she had married if she died, and Xiao Wu promised to visit him and insisted Dai Ya would recover.
• Dai Ya asked to see Ye Tian, and Xiao Wu finally agreed to help her go to him.

Ye Tian refined three Soul Cleansing Saint Pills to treat Dai Ya and prepared to leave the Central Area. Before departing, he persuaded Da Ming and Er Ming to become his master's mountain guardians in exchange for possible Thunder Tribulation Pills, and told them to find him in Eastsea City in three months.

• Ye Tian refined the Soul Cleansing Saint Pills beneath the Golden Ancient Tree, and the process triggered a lightning tribulation that Da Ming and Er Ming endured outside.
• Ye Tian warned Xiao Wu that Dai Ya could not take the pill directly and instructed her to dissolve it in bathwater for Dai Ya to soak in for a day.
• Ye Tian said he was leaving to look for his sister, and Xiao Wu gave him a letter for Shrek Academy and offered him a way to seek her help in Heaven Dou City.
• Da Ming and Er Ming asked Ye Tian how they could obtain Thunder Tribulation Pills, and he offered them a chance to become his master's mountain guardians for a hundred years.
• Da Ming and Er Ming agreed, and Ye Tian told them to find him in Eastsea City in three months, prompting Xiao Wu to react thoughtfully to the city name.

Ye Tian returned to the place where the Sky Azure Bull Python had taken him, then followed markers through the Star Dou Great Forest to reunite with the Sea Witch. Xiao Bai arrived shortly afterward and revealed that Xuan Miaoyin and Xiao Ying had gone to Spirit City to bring reinforcements.

• Xiao Wu learned that Ye Tian planned to travel through Eastsea City, then said goodbye to him.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python gave Ye Tian the Tyrant Terror Bear Claw External Soul Bone as promised, and Ye Tian warned him that life on the Immortal Mountain would be plain.
• Ye Tian followed the group's markers through the Star Dou Great Forest, found a Sea God Island Jade Token, and smashed it to signal the Sea Witch.
• The Sea Witch arrived and urged Ye Tian to inherit the Sea God position, but Ye Tian said he did not want Bo Saixi to die as a result.
• Xiao Bai arrived and told Ye Tian that Xuan Miaoyin and Xiao Ying had gone to Spirit City to bring reinforcements.

Ye Tian learned that the woman found dead in the Star Dou Great Forest was likely his sister, Ye Xinglan, and went with the Sea Witch and Xiao Bai to visit her grave. At the grave, Xiao Wu and the Sky Azure Bull Python arrived, and Xiao Wu recognized the place where she had saved Sister A Ya.

• The Sea Witch told Ye Tian that a woman's body had been found near the Central Area with an identity token marked "Lan," and Ye Tian feared it belonged to Ye Xinglan.
• After grieving alone, Ye Tian learned the Sea Witch and Xiao Bai had buried the body and asked them to take him to the grave.
• Ye Tian explained that he knew the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, and said he would ask them who had killed his sister.
• The Sea Witch led Ye Tian and Xiao Bai to the grave, where Ye Tian asked whether Ye Xinglan had died peacefully.
• Xiao Wu and her companions arrived, and Xiao Wu recognized the grave site as the place where she had saved Sister A Ya.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python questioned Xiao Bai about being a soul beast and asked what had happened to Ye Tian.

Ye Tian learned that Dai Ya was his missing older sister, Ye Xinglan, and the two reunited on Lake Heart Island. Dai Ya hesitated to return home because of Spirit Hall’s demands, while Ye Tian suggested they might overcome them and resolved to uncover what she was hiding.

• Sky Azure Bull Python said Tyrant Terror Bear Lord had probably attacked Ye Xinglan, and Xiao Wu explained that Dai Ya was Ye Tian’s missing sister.
• Ye Tian hurried to Lake Heart Island, where Dai Ya recognized him and embraced him after he revealed she was his sister.
• Ye Tian comforted Dai Ya by telling her about his life and asked why she had changed her name; she claimed she was with Spirit Hall, though he sensed she was concealing something.
• Dai Ya said Spirit Hall would demand repayment and triple compensation if she left, but Ye Tian insisted it was manageable and hinted they could change the situation.
• Ye Tian introduced Sea Witch as his friend and revealed that a Titled Douluo was with him, surprising Dai Ya.
• Xiao Wu returned and celebrated the siblings’ reunion, while privately missing her mother.

Ye Tian explained the Dragon God legend and agreed to accompany Xiao Wu to the Secret Realm, while Xiao Bai hoped to learn soul beast cultivation methods there. The group prepared to search the Central Area, but Ye Tian corrected Xiao Wu’s upside-down map and began working out its scale.

• Ye Tian told Xiao Wu and the others the legend of the Dragon God and the war with the God Realm, and Xiao Wu decided the group should visit the Secret Realm.
• Xiao Wu, the Sky Azure Bull Python, and the Titan Giant Ape agreed to go, and Ye Tian joined them to repay Xiao Wu for saving Dai Ya.
• Sea Witch encouraged Xiao Bai to seek cultivation methods for her clan from the Silver Dragon King, while Ye Tian warned that the Silver Dragon King might not be friendly.
• After resting for a day on Lake Heart Island, Xiao Wu showed Ye Tian her map and he pointed out that she had it upside down.
• Ye Tian used the shape of the Lake of Life to establish the map’s direction and began calculating its scale.

Ye Tian used the map to lead Xiao Wu and the others to the Secret Realm’s supposed location, but they found no entrance above or below ground. He activated the map engraved on Xiao Wu’s skull, causing it to glow and making Xiao Wu’s arm burn hot.

• Ye Tian calculated the map’s scale and determined that the Secret Realm lay fifteen kilometers from Lake Heart Island, while Xiao Wu asked him to teach at Shrek Academy and he refused to be swayed by status or money.
• Ye Tian led the group through the forest to a low hill, where Xiao Wu and the Sky Azure Bull Python found nothing unusual.
• The Titan Giant Ape dug into the hill with repeated attacks, exhausted his Soul Power, and found no entrance.
• Ye Tian took the skull from Xiao Wu and inserted Taiyi Divine Needles into it, activating the map’s golden formation.
• Xiao Wu exclaimed that her arm was burning hot as the skull’s map lit up.

Xiao Wu’s arm drew in her Soul Power and transported Ye Tian and her into a secret realm, where they met the injured Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena. Ye Tian challenged Gu Yuena to explain why she had summoned them, and she faced him in silence.

• Xiao Wu’s body blazed with ghostly blue flames as Soul Power rushed into her arm, and Ye Tian tried to intervene with a Taiyi Divine Needle.
• A tremendous force pulled Ye Tian and Xiao Wu into a secret realm, leaving Sea Witch and the others behind.
• Ye Tian and Xiao Wu met the Silver Dragon King, who introduced herself as Gu Yuena and led them to a wooden hut near the Golden Ancient Tree’s roots.
• Gu Yuena asked why they thought she had brought them into the realm, and Ye Tian challenged her to explain instead of testing them.
• Gu Yuena warned Ye Tian not to mistake her restraint for helplessness, but he met her gaze and demanded to know her purpose.

Xiao Wu and Ye Tian met Gu Yuena in her Secret Realm, where she revealed that soul beasts faced a coming calamity and wanted them to help prepare. When Ye Tian challenged her authority, he brought out a rocket warhead that threatened to destroy the unstable Secret Realm, forcing Gu Yuena to reconsider his strength.

• Xiao Wu told Gu Yuena that Ye Tian had recognized her serious injuries, and Ye Tian admitted he knew ancient history.
• Gu Yuena explained that her injuries would take a hundred thousand years to heal and warned that soul beasts faced a great calamity to which Xiao Wu and Ye Tian were tied.
• Ye Tian refused to commit to helping the soul beasts, pointing out that he was human and not even a soul master.
• Gu Yuena threatened Ye Tian, but Xiao Wu tried to defend him and urged him to show respect.
• Ye Tian set down a rocket warhead, causing its pressure to destabilize Gu Yuena and make her cough violently.
• Ye Tian asked Gu Yuena whether he had the right to speak to her now, warning that an explosion could erase the Secret Realm.

Gu Yuena tried to recruit Ye Tian with Dragon God Essence Blood and Xiao Wu’s hand in marriage, but he refused both offers and agreed only to help within his capabilities. Before falling into slumber, Gu Yuena gave Ye Tian a divine spear and an egg that held the secret to leaving the Secret Realm, leaving him and Xiao Wu alone with the mysterious object.

• Gu Yuena offered Ye Tian Dragon God Essence Blood in exchange for serving her, but he refused, so she gave the essence blood to Xiao Wu.
• Gu Yuena offered to let Xiao Wu marry Ye Tian, but Xiao Wu objected and Ye Tian clarified that they were only friends.
• Ye Tian agreed to help Gu Yuena as long as the task was within his capabilities, and she gave him the White Dragon God Spear as a reward.
• Gu Yuena asked Ye Tian to take away a silver-patterned egg, saying it contained the secret to leaving the Secret Realm, then fell into slumber.
• Xiao Wu wondered whether Gu Yuena had laid the egg, while Ye Tian suspected it contained Gu Yuena’s avatar.

Ye Tian and Xiao Wu escaped the Secret Realm after Xiao Wu accidentally absorbed the Dragon God Essence Blood and Heavenly Essence Pill together, forcing her to channel the excess power into the dragon egg. The egg hatched into a silver-haired child who called them her parents, and the chapter ended with their companions questioning Ye Tian and Xiao Wu about the child and Xiao Wu’s disheveled appearance.

• Xiao Wu took the Dragon God Essence Blood and Heavenly Essence Pill together, and Ye Tian had her transfer the dangerous excess Soul Power into the dragon egg.
• After three days, Xiao Wu reached Soul Sage and gained two additional levels, while the dragon egg hatched into a silver-haired girl who called Ye Tian and Xiao Wu her parents.
• Ye Tian dressed the hungry girl and named her Gu Yuena, then Xiao Wu copied the formation she gestured and opened the way out of the Secret Realm.
• Ye Tian, Xiao Wu, and Gu Yuena returned to the primeval forest, where Xiao Wu’s companions greeted them after waiting ten days.
• Xiao Bai asked whether the Secret Realm’s time had differed because Ye Tian now had a child, and the Sky Azure Bull Python asked whether Ye Tian had bullied Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu denied having any relationship with Ye Tian, while Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape mistakenly concluded that Gu Yuena was her child. Gu Yuena stayed with Ye Tian and Sea Witch, and Xiao Wu’s attempts to explain herself only deepened Dai Ya’s misunderstanding.

• Xiao Wu insisted to Sky Azure Bull Python that she and Ye Tian were only friends, but Gu Yuena’s calls of “Mommy” convinced him that they had a child together in the Secret Realm.
• Sky Azure Bull Python stopped Titan Giant Ape from openly claiming Gu Yuena as Xiao Wu’s daughter, though the two privately agreed that she was their niece.
• Xiao Wu told Gu Yuena to call her Sister and asked Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape to find the hungry child food.
• Sea Witch held Gu Yuena and teased Ye Tian about explaining the girl to his wife, while Ye Tian confidently said he would handle it.
• Dai Ya asked whether Gu Yuena was Ye Tian’s daughter, and Xiao Wu sarcastically told her to treat the girl as her daughter; Dai Ya took the remark literally, prompting Xiao Wu to ask Ye Tian to explain.

Ye Tian returned to Spirit City with Dai Ya and introduced the newly born Gu Yuena as his daughter to Hu Liena. Hu Liena burst into tears at the revelation, leaving Ye Tian facing her grievance.

• Ye Tian told Xiao Wu that he had adopted Gu Yuena and said his group would leave the Star Dou Great Forest the next day; Xiao Wu stayed behind as they parted.
• After seven days of travel, Ye Tian and his companions reached Spirit City, where Dai Ya thanked him for bringing her home and helping her become a Soul Elder.
• A knight recognized Ye Tian’s token and let the group enter Pope Palace, then sent word to Captain Yan that Ye Tian had returned.
• Hu Liena embraced Ye Tian and told him she had missed him, but Gu Yuena called him Daddy and asked for food.
• Ye Tian teased Hu Liena by saying Gu Yuena was their daughter, and Hu Liena began to cry while Sea Witch warned him he might not be able to smooth things over.

Ye Tian reunited with Hu Liena and clarified that Gu Yuena was an adopted child, then faced Yan’s challenge over his marriage to the Holy Maiden. He accepted the duel, confident that his hidden methods could overcome Yan’s greater strength.

• Hu Liena realized Gu Yuena was not Ye Tian’s child, stopped crying, and learned that Ye Tian had adopted her at someone’s request.
• Yan arrived with Golden Knights, accused Ye Tian of deceiving Hu Liena, and threatened to teach him a lesson.
• Hu Liena defended her husband and warned Yan that their marriage had Bibi Dong’s approval, but Yan demanded a duel and said Ye Tian must divorce her if he lost.
• Ye Tian refused Sea Witch’s offer of secret help, comforted Hu Liena, and prepared to fight Yan.
• After Yan repeatedly taunted him, Ye Tian accepted the duel.

Ye Tian defeated Yan with poisoned needles and returned to the Pope Palace, where he reunited with Hu Liena and met her wary brother, Xie Yue. After learning that the Hall of Elders had obstructed the Pope Palace’s reassignment policy in the Balak Kingdom, Ye Tian declared that he could still break the deadlock.

• Ye Tian struck Yan with four Taiyi Divine Needles coated in Mandala Poison, knocking him unconscious, and gave Yan’s knights a pill that could save him.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo praised Ye Tian’s ability to secure victory, while Qianjun Douluo dismissed his attack as a trick.
• Hu Liena told Ye Tian that Bibi Dong had gone to the Star Dou Great Forest after hearing he was in danger, then brought him to the Pope Palace.
• Ye Tian introduced himself to Xie Yue, who gave him a stack of official documents to handle and left him to deal with the Pope Palace’s work.
• Hu Liena explained that Qianjun Douluo had used the Hall of Elders’ authority to block the reassignment of Spirit Hall families in the Balak Kingdom.
• Ye Tian told Hu Liena he had a way to break the deadlock without moving the reassignment policy elsewhere.

Ye Tian explained how Pope Palace could use an early Selection and Transfer to draw branch masters into competing for central appointments and make Spirit Hall’s families serve its goals. He warned Hu Liena that a continental war would break out within three years, then left with Gu Yuena and Hu Liena to eat.

• Ye Tian read Stute’s transfer appeal and realized that Hall of Elders informants had learned about Pope Palace’s confidential plans.
• Hu Liena admitted that Hall of Elders spies had deeply infiltrated Pope Palace, and Ye Tian proposed using an open strategy to gain leverage over branch masters.
• Ye Tian proposed holding an early Two Halls Competition and offering selected branch masters appointments at Pope Palace, while Hu Liena worried that there would not be enough positions.
• Ye Tian explained that Spirit Hall’s families sought peace while Pope Bibi Dong sought to unite the continent, and he predicted that a continental war would break out within three years.
• Gu Yuena asked for food, and Ye Tian carried her while Hu Liena demanded a hug and joined them as the three Sea Witches watched.

Gu Yuena ate an enormous meal at the Pope Palace cafeteria while Hu Liena and Ye Tian discussed her appetite and the authority Ye Tian refused to claim. Xie Yue learned that Ye Tian had knocked Yan unconscious and recalled that their teacher had praised Ye Tian’s medical skill.

• Gu Yuena finished the set meals and pleaded for more, so Ye Tian ordered ten additional top-tier meals with Hu Liena’s approval.
• Hu Liena teased Ye Tian about refusing a position in the Pope Palace, and he said her status as his wife was enough for him.
• Xie Yue arrived after being unable to order a top-tier meal and questioned Hu Liena about rumors that Yan had collapsed.
• Hu Liena admitted that Ye Tian had knocked Yan unconscious after Yan provoked him despite knowing Hu Liena and Ye Tian were married.
• Xie Yue asked how Ye Tian had defeated Yan, and Ye Tian said he used a paralyzing toxin to briefly knock him out.
• Xie Yue recalled that their teacher had described Ye Tian’s medical skill as worthy of founding a school.

Ye Tian proposed a Balak Kingdom Branch Hall Master Selection Tournament to help the Pope Palace secure control over one region, while Bibi Dong returned to Spirit City amid conflict with the Hall of Elders. Bibi Dong recognized that without control of a region’s forces, the Pope Palace could not truly control it.

• Ye Tian explained his plan to gather Balak Kingdom Branch Hall Masters through a selection event, and Xie Yue realized the scale of the political maneuver.
• Ye Tian suggested that Bibi Dong might eventually move against the Hall of Elders, though Xie Yue doubted the Pope Palace would turn against the Worship Hall.
• Bibi Dong returned to Spirit City after learning that the Hall of Elders was advancing Spirit Hall projects across the regions, and she reunited with Hu Liena and Ye Tian.
• Hu Liena presented Bibi Dong with a draft document establishing a Balak Kingdom Branch Hall Master Selection Tournament that would place the top thirty officials under the Pope Palace.
• Ye Tian argued that the Pope Palace needed to control one region firmly before expanding, and Bibi Dong understood that control meant being able to mobilize that region’s forces.