Chapter Summaries

Ye Tian completed a successful batch of Heavenly Essence Pills and gave them to Chen Jian, encouraging him to pursue the rank of Titled Douluo. As Ning Fengzhi prepared to bring Qian Renxue back to the imperial capital, she reflected on her peaceful stay with Bibi Dong and made her a request.

• Ye Tian finished refining four Heavenly Essence Pills and offered the batch to Chen Jian, who accepted them as payment for overseeing Ye Tian’s wedding.
• Ye Tian urged Chen Jian to use the pills to break through to Titled Douluo, and Chen Jian vowed to do so within ten years, before Thirteen.
• After two weeks of recovery, Qian Renxue could move around the villa, but she felt reluctant to return to her dangerous undercover life in the imperial capital.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Renxue that she and Na Na would move to the farm before Ning Fengzhi arrived at the East Sea Coast.
• Qian Renxue asked Bibi Dong for something, leaving her request unrevealed.

Qian Renxue clashed with Bibi Dong over recruiting Ye Tian to help seize control of the Heaven Dou Empire, and insisted she would make her own offer. Meanwhile, Yu Tianheng learned that potatoes had undermined his grain scheme and went to Butterfly Farm to confront Ye Tian, who was preparing for his wedding.

• Qian Renxue argued that she could recruit Ye Tian with her own terms, while Bibi Dong warned her not to expose her identity and allowed her to try.
• Gao Yao told Yu Tianheng that potatoes were widely planted in Eastsea and had weakened demand for the grain the Lightning Commerce Guild had stockpiled.
• Yu Tianheng recognized Butterfly Farm as Ye Tian's operation and decided to visit with lavish gifts to make him take back the potatoes.
• Yu Tianheng set out for Butterfly Farm with Gao Yao after Gao Yao prepared the gifts and carriage.
• Ye Tian inspected the enormous wedding stage at Butterfly Farm, criticized Chen Jian's extravagant design, then went to receive Yu Tianheng.

Yu Tianheng visited Ye Tian's potato plantation and demanded that he delay promoting potato cultivation, offering money and invoking the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's power. Ye Tian refused to be cowed, and Yu Tianheng ended by offering 150,000 Gold Soul Coins' worth of gifts plus 100,000 in cash if Ye Tian stopped promoting potatoes.

• Ye Tian found Yu Tianheng inspecting the potato fields and learned that he had brought gifts.
• Ye Tian said the thousands of mu of potatoes could prevent a famine in Sylvis Province, angering Yu Tianheng.
• Yu Tianheng asked Ye Tian to wait three months before promoting potatoes, while Gao Yao threatened him on behalf of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Chen Jian challenged Gao Yao, and Yu Tianheng claimed the clan would not lightly act against minor forces.
• Ye Tian pretended that Gao Yao's threat had frightened him, provoking Yu Tianheng.
• Yu Tianheng offered goods worth 150,000 Gold Soul Coins and another 100,000 in cash in exchange for Ye Tian abandoning potato promotion.

Ye Tian rejected Yu Tianheng’s demands and dismissed him, while Yu Tianheng planned to gather nearby Tyrannosaurus Family experts to force Ye Tian to comply. Afterward, Hu Liena and Bibi Dong arrived at the farm, where Hu Liena learned the wedding preparations were nearly complete and went to find Ye Tian.

• Gao Yao threatened Ye Tian, but Yu Tianheng ordered him to stand down and warned that Ye Tian could be killed by a Soul Sage’s power.
• Ye Tian dismissed Yu Tianheng and refused to be pressured by the shipbuilding order, which Yu Tianheng could not cancel because the Star Luo Empire’s royal family was the true client.
• Yu Tianheng scolded Gao Yao and ordered him to gather nearby Tyrannosaurus Family experts so they could make Ye Tian pay and force him to accept their demands.
• Bibi Dong and Hu Liena arrived at the farm, and Hu Liena realized the workers were preparing for her wedding to Ye Tian.
• Chen Jian invited Hu Liena to inspect the nearly finished wedding stage, and she headed with Bibi Dong toward the Farm Courtyard to find Ye Tian.

Ye Tian prepared for his wedding to Hu Liena and revealed to Bibi Dong that he planned to move with his bride to Pearl Island after their marriage. Bibi Dong learned that the overseas island held a large population, while Hu Liena and Bibi Dong continued hiding a wedding-day surprise from Ye Tian.

• Ye Tian explained that he planned to catch a fish himself as a traditional betrothal gift for Hu Liena, who promised to give him something on their wedding day.
• Bibi Dong told Ye Tian that Qian Renxue would soon return to Heaven Dou City with Ning Fengzhi, though Ye Tian wished she would leave Eastsea City.
• Chen Jian said the wedding preparations and outfits were ready, and Hu Liena took Bibi Dong to Butterfly Valley to try them on while discussing their secret.
• Ye Tian told Bibi Dong that the continent’s growing turmoil had led him to plan a move to an overseas island after marrying Hu Liena.
• Ye Tian explained that Pearl Island had thirty thousand residents, surprising Bibi Dong, who had thought of the sea mainly as a dangerous region inhabited by powerful soul beasts.

Ye Tian gave Hu Liena precious pills while Bibi Dong considered his proposal to move the family to an island. After the wedding preparations, intelligence agents returned from Spirit City with news that Spirit Hall's Pope had disappeared.

• Ye Tian urged Bibi Dong to consider relocating to an island, but she deferred her answer while privately planning to confess the truth after Na Na's wedding.
• Ye Tian and Bibi Dong arrived at Butterfly Valley, where Hu Liena admired the grand wedding stage and accepted the Heavenly Essence Pill and Soul Solidifying Pill from Ye Tian.
• Ye Tian asked Hu Liena about her martial soul, and she claimed it was her eyes to conceal the truth.
• Hu Liena went with Bibi Dong to try on her wedding dress, while Chen Jian told Ye Tian that the intelligence agents sent to Spirit City had returned.
• Ye Tian rewarded the agents with double bonuses and heard that they had found Spirit Hall's Pope had secretly disappeared for several days.

Ye Tian learned that Bibi Dong and Hu Liena had disappeared from Spirit Hall, then continued preparing to move to Pearl Island after his wedding. As Hu Liena and Bibi Dong tried on wedding clothes, Chen Jian prepared the wedding inscription and chose the words “forever and ever.”

• An intelligence officer told Ye Tian that Bibi Dong and Hu Liena had vanished and that conflict between the Hall of Elders and the Pope Palace had intensified.
• Ye Tian asked Chen Jian about the relocation plans, and Chen Jian reported that five hundred Heavenly Strategy Army soldiers had sailed for Pearl Island and that Purple Pearl had offered Ye Tian an estate there.
• Ye Tian said he planned to move to Pearl Island after marrying, and Chen Jian accepted his decision.
• Ye Tian returned to find Hu Liena and Bibi Dong wearing wedding outfits, praised Hu Liena, and teased Bibi Dong about finding a husband.
• Chen Jian explained the Eastsea City custom of writing wedding inscriptions on red screen paper and chose “forever and ever” as his blessing for Ye Tian and Hu Liena.

Ye Tian began to suspect that the woman posing as his sister was actually Bibi Dong, while Qian Renxue met with Ning Fengzhi at the villa. The chapter ended with Ye Tian riding back to compare his sister’s letters as Qian Renxue agreed to leave Eastsea City.

• Bibi Dong wrote a blessing for Ye Tian and Hu Liena, and Ye Tian noticed her handwriting differed from his sister’s letters.
• Ye Tian connected his sister’s return with Bibi Dong and Hu Liena’s disappearance, and began suspecting his sister was an impostor.
• A staff member told Ye Tian that Crown Prince Xue Qinghe had summoned him to the villa, and Ye Tian set off to retrieve his sister’s old letters.
• Qian Renxue, appearing as Xue Qinghe, received Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong, who urged her to leave Eastsea City for her safety.
• Qian Renxue agreed to leave Eastsea City just as Ye Tian arrived at the villa.

Ye Tian met Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong after Qian Renxue summoned him, but declined Ning Fengzhi’s offer to become a minor official in Eastsea City. Qian Renxue took Ye Tian upstairs for a private conversation, while Ning Fengzhi and Jian Chenxin discussed his character with Ning Rongrong.

• Ye Tian greeted Qian Renxue and Ning Fengzhi, who learned that he was an ordinary healer rather than a soul master.
• Ning Fengzhi offered to recommend Ye Tian for an official position in Eastsea City, but Ye Tian refused because he preferred healing.
• Qian Renxue told Ning Fengzhi to stop persuading Ye Tian and revealed that she had summoned him to speak privately.
• Qian Renxue led Ye Tian upstairs, and Ning Fengzhi asked Jian Chenxin whether he had noticed anything special about him.
• Ning Rongrong criticized Ye Tian for looking at her, but Ning Fengzhi and Jian Chenxin argued that his temperament was admirable despite his lack of soul-master talent.

Qian Renxue tried again to secure Ye Tian’s support, reframing her offer as cooperation and promising not to control his decisions. She revealed that she was Qian Renxue, the Angel Family Successor of Spirit Hall, leaving Ye Tian to respond to her candid offer.

• Ning Rongrong mocked Ye Tian’s lack of soul-master talent, while Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo wondered what made him valuable to the Crown Prince.
• Qian Renxue watched Ye Tian admire the newly sprouted crops and struggled to decide what offer might persuade him.
• Ye Tian asked Qian Renxue to speak plainly, and she declared that she wanted him to assist her.
• Qian Renxue stopped Ye Tian from refusing and offered cooperation, promising to respect his decisions and provide assistance.
• Qian Renxue revealed that she was the Angel Family Successor of Spirit Hall, not the Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Qian Renxue revealed her identity and tried to recruit Ye Tian with threats and promises, but he rejected her offer because he wanted a quiet life. Her response hinted that she had once wanted the same thing.

• Qian Renxue revealed that she was the Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire and threatened that Ye Tian could be implicated if her cover was exposed.
• Qian Renxue explained that Ye Tian’s talent could shift the balance of power across the continent and offered him any condition, including the imperial throne.
• Ye Tian joked that he might ask for Qian Renxue herself, then refused her offer.
• Ye Tian told Qian Renxue that he wanted to live quietly without power or glory, and she said she had once wanted the same thing.

Qian Renxue revealed the hardships of her childhood and explained that she wanted to use Spirit Hall to improve life for people across the continent. Ye Tian was moved by her ideals but refused to join Spirit Hall, offering only limited help.

• Qian Renxue told Ye Tian about her lonely childhood and her resolve to end the empires' rule and free the continent's commoners.
• Qian Renxue invited Ye Tian to join her and promised to support and protect him as they worked to reshape the continent.
• Ye Tian struggled with the consequences of joining Spirit Hall and asked Qian Renxue what she would do if he refused.
• Qian Renxue admitted that Ye Tian would remain under surveillance because his talents made every faction wary.
• Ye Tian said he shared Qian Renxue's desire to help people but declined to join Spirit Hall, offering limited assistance instead.

Qian Renxue tried to bind Ye Tian to her faction by arranging an earldom for him, but Ye Tian seized on Ning Fengzhi’s objections to refuse the title. Qian Renxue remained determined not to let Ye Tian slip away.

• Qian Renxue offered to petition Xue Ye to make Ye Tian the East Sea Earl, giving him a way to communicate with the Heaven Dou court, but Ye Tian recognized the title would constrain him.
• Qian Renxue told Ning Fengzhi she intended to make Ye Tian an earl and involve him in Sylvis Province’s affairs, while privately hoping the appointment would draw him into her faction.
• Ning Fengzhi warned that Ye Tian lacked the merit and status to become an earl and that the appointment could damage Qian Renxue’s prestige.
• Ye Tian agreed with Ning Fengzhi and refused the earldom, asking for money instead, while Ning Fengzhi approved of his answer.
• Qian Renxue’s face darkened at Ye Tian’s refusal, and she resolved not to let him slip away.

Qian Renxue persuaded Ning Fengzhi that Ye Tian deserved a countship by revealing his discovery of high-yield potatoes and the Blast Furnace Steelmaking Method. Ning Fengzhi agreed, while Ye Tian reluctantly accepted that his ennoblement could no longer be stopped.

• Qian Renxue told Ning Fengzhi that Ye Tian had provided villages with physicians and helped commoners' children attend school, but Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong dismissed these efforts as ordinary.
• Qian Renxue revealed that Ye Tian had discovered potatoes yielding five thousand jin per mu, astonishing Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Sword Douluo with their potential to end hunger and strengthen Heaven Dou.
• Qian Renxue explained that Ye Tian's Blast Furnace Steelmaking Method improved iron quality severalfold, and Ning Fengzhi concluded that either discovery alone justified making Ye Tian a count.
• Ning Fengzhi supported Qian Renxue's proposal, leaving Ye Tian bitterly resigned to his ennoblement, while Ning Rongrong remained convinced that soul-masters held the highest status.

Gao Yao led Nightingale and five experts to assassinate Ye Tian and seize his wealth, while Qian Renxue departed from his villa. An arrow attack struck just after her carriage left, and Ning Fengzhi believed the Crown Prince was the target as the attackers launched another attempt.

• Gao Yao gathered five experts and hired Nightingale, a Soul Douluo, to capture Ye Tian alive, agreeing to pay extra for the condition.
• Ye Tian and the others said goodbye to Qian Renxue, who suggested that the assassination attempt was connected to the Star Luo Empire.
• Ning Fengzhi dismissed Qian Renxue's suggestion and suspected Spirit Hall was behind the earlier attempt.
• As Qian Renxue's carriage departed, Sword Douluo warned Ning Fengzhi, and refined steel arrows rained down, wounding the carriage horse.
• Ye Tian signaled his rooftop snipers to hold their fire, while Ning Fengzhi told Sword Douluo to protect the Crown Prince.

Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong defended Ye Tian from assassins using the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and Godly Zhuge Crossbows. After Gao Yao revealed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s involvement, a mysterious woman named Nightingale tore through the barrier and seized Ning Rongrong.

• Ning Rongrong armed herself and Ning Fengzhi with Godly Zhuge Crossbows while Ye Tian stayed behind them and signaled his rooftop snipers not to fire.
• Ning Fengzhi raised a defensive barrier, and Ning Rongrong and Ning Fengzhi killed several assassins with their crossbows.
• Gao Yao arrived, revealed his identity, and ordered his men to kill everyone except Ye Tian.
• Gao Yao and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan fighters attacked the barrier, while Ning Rongrong continued picking off assassins.
• Nightingale appeared, ripped open Ning Fengzhi’s barrier, and grabbed Ning Rongrong by the neck.

Nightingale abducted Ning Rongrong and Ye Tian, but Sword Douluo forced her to release Rongrong and give chase. Ye Tian revealed that he recognized Nightingale as the Black Gauze Envoy and prepared to keep her from escaping.

• Nightingale recognized Ye Tian's knowledge of the Blood Evil Aura and became interested in him, then seized him and Ning Rongrong as Sword Douluo approached.
• Nightingale abandoned Gao Yao, and Sword Douluo killed him before setting out to rescue Rongrong.
• Sword Douluo exposed Nightingale's concealment, but she sent Rongrong flying toward him with her soul skill and fled with Ye Tian.
• Nightingale tried to entice Ye Tian to join her, while Ye Tian stayed calm and refused.
• Ye Tian summoned four or five armed figures to delay Nightingale and identified her as the Black Gauze Envoy Nightingale.

Ye Tian frightened Nightingale into retreating, then used the Taiyi Divine Needle to treat Ning Rongrong’s Blood Demon Power and earn Sword Douluo’s gratitude. He left to check on Crown Prince Qinghe, whose previously broken bones had been injured again.

• Ye Tian revealed Mandala Poison on a bullet, causing Nightingale to flee without pursuing him.
• Sword Douluo arrived with an unconscious Ning Rongrong and asked Ye Tian to treat her bleeding ankle.
• Ye Tian used the Taiyi Divine Needle to stop the bleeding and explained that twenty-three needles formed a Blood Demon Separation Formation to remove the poison gradually.
• Sword Douluo thanked Ye Tian and promised to remember the favor.
• Sword Douluo told Ye Tian that Crown Prince Qinghe had been injured again in the overturned carriage, and Ye Tian hurried to check on him.

Ye Tian treated Qian Renxue after she was badly injured in the explosion, carrying her back to the villa and preparing to repair her shattered shoulder. Qian Renxue distrusted his medicine at first, but took it after he explained it would help the operation.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Ye Tian whether Ning Rongrong was safe, and Ye Tian confirmed she was fine before continuing to Qian Renxue.
• Ye Tian found Qian Renxue bleeding and used the Taiyi Divine Needle to stop the bleeding in her shoulder.
• Ye Tian carried Qian Renxue to a bedroom at the villa and told her to remove her clothes so he could treat her.
• Qian Renxue challenged Ye Tian about staring at her, and he replied that her chest bindings concealed too much for him to judge.
• Ye Tian explained that he would need to cut open Qian Renxue's arm and reassemble the shattered bones, then crushed a pill into powder for her to swallow.
• Qian Renxue mistook the powder for an attempt to take liberties, but accepted it after Ye Tian said it would warm her body and help the operation.

Ye Tian treated Qian Renxue’s broken hand while explaining why he had made her unconscious, and she learned that the City of Slaughter had supposedly been destroyed. Qian Renxue saw the attack as an opportunity to advance Spirit Hall’s plans, but she doubted Ye Tian’s claim about the City of Slaughter.

• Ye Tian used thirty-one Taiyi Divine Needles to set Qian Renxue’s broken hand, then warned her to keep it still as he bandaged it.
• Qian Renxue accused Ye Tian of drugging her, and he admitted he had used an anesthetic to spare her pain.
• Ye Tian helped Qian Renxue dress and told her that Ning Rongrong had also been injured in the attack.
• Ye Tian identified the attackers as likely involving the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the City of Slaughter, and Qian Renxue saw a chance to implicate the Star Luo Empire and advance Spirit Hall’s reforms.
• Ye Tian said the City of Slaughter no longer existed, but Qian Renxue questioned how it could have been destroyed when even her grandfather struggled to defeat the King of Slaughter.