Chapter Summaries

Su Cheng acted to reshape Spirit Hall's coming conflict by guiding Bibi Dong's understanding of her Martial Soul and arranging for Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo to leave. The chapter ended with Qian Renxue completing her divine test and becoming Angel God Qian Renxue.

• Su Cheng had given Yu Xiaogang a manuscript to publish under his own name, knowing Bibi Dong trusted his theories and would read them.
• Qian Renxue followed Qian Daoliu in her divine test as Spirit Hall prepared for the tournament, while several powerful elders disappeared and Bibi Dong entered seclusion.
• Su Cheng asked Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo to leave Spirit Hall and go to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Chen Xin held the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone.
• Yue Guan accepted Su Cheng's proposal to go to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and stay there for three years before deciding whether to return.
• The Angel Statue shattered as Qian Renxue emerged in golden armor and became Angel God Qian Renxue.

Qian Renxue completed the Angel God inheritance, mourned her grandfather, and began training with Su Cheng to control her new divine power. When Bibi Dong emerged from her own divine trial, the long-awaited confrontation drew near.

• Qian Renxue told Su Cheng that her grandfather had sacrificed himself to open her final trial, and Su Cheng comforted her as she grieved.
• Qian Renxue described surviving the Angel God trials by holding on to her true heart, and Su Cheng concluded that the inheritance in the simulated world had not been interfered with by the God Realm.
• Su Cheng decided to train Qian Renxue while she awaited Bibi Dong, keeping the deaths of the Three Great High Priests from her for the time being.
• Qian Renxue practiced basic sword forms with the Angel Holy Sword while suppressing her divine power, and Su Cheng told her she was not yet ready to comprehend the Sword Dao Domain.
• Su Cheng and Qian Renxue sensed that Bibi Dong had emerged from her divine trial at the Pope's Palace.

Bibi Dong confronted Qian Renxue in the empty Spirit City, and the two fought a fierce battle with Qian Renxue using Su Cheng’s techniques to hold her ground. When Bibi Dong unleashed a devastating strike, Su Cheng stepped in front of Qian Renxue and took the blow, leaving him gravely wounded and certain to die.

• Qian Renxue demanded that Bibi Dong admit to killing her father, and Bibi Dong confessed while laughing maniacally.
• Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong clashed with their divine weapons and domains, while Qian Renxue used Su Cheng’s Severing Meridians and Continuing Qi Method to counter Bibi Dong’s attacks.
• Bibi Dong’s nine Rakshasa Demon Scythes combined into a massive blade and struck toward Qian Renxue before she could defend herself.
• Su Cheng detonated his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and took the blow in Qian Renxue’s place.
• Qian Renxue stared in shock as Su Cheng lay against the ruins with his right leg gone, coughing blood.

Su Cheng, mortally wounded by Bibi Dong’s Rakshasa power, told Qian Renxue that Bibi Dong was possessed by the Rakshasa God and urged her to kill her. As Qian Renxue returned to fight, Su Cheng accepted that he had sacrificed himself to make the two clash.

• Su Cheng assessed that he had less than two hours to live as Rakshasa Divine Power eroded his body.
• Qian Renxue found Su Cheng gravely wounded, but her Angel God Power could not heal him because his sword shadows blocked it.
• Su Cheng told Qian Renxue that Bibi Dong had been consumed by the Rakshasa God and that Spiritual Power was her weakness.
• Su Cheng urged Qian Renxue to kill Bibi Dong, and Qian Renxue returned to the battlefield with bloodlust in her Angel Holy Sword.
• Su Cheng ignored his completed quest notification and reflected that he had entered the conflict himself to make Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong fight to the death.

Qian Renxue fought Bibi Dong while Su Cheng revealed that he had secretly engineered Yu Xiaogang’s theories and helped him, exposing how Bibi Dong had been manipulated. Bibi Dong’s shaken faith left her vulnerable to Qian Renxue’s divine will, and Qian Renxue struck her down with the Angel Holy Sword as snow fell.

• Qian Renxue attacked Bibi Dong with lethal intent, and the two battled across the square using their divine power.
• Su Cheng revealed that he had written Yu Xiaogang’s theory about Beast Martial Souls and had designed it to lead Bibi Dong to devour powerful Spirits.
• Su Cheng explained that he had also helped Yu Xiaogang overcome his Spirit’s flaws, while Bibi Dong had taken credit for his methods and trusted Yu Xiaogang instead of Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong’s faith and inner balance crumbled as Su Cheng mocked her, and her Rakshasa Domain erupted with uncontrolled evil aura.
• Qian Renxue unleashed her divine will, severely injured Bibi Dong, suppressed her Rakshasa Domain, and pierced her chest with the Angel Holy Sword.

After killing Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue tried to heal the dying Su Cheng, but he shattered her Angel Godhood and revealed that he had used her to destroy Spirit Hall. As Su Cheng died, he asked Chen Xin to protect Qian Renxue; she then used her last divine power to take her own life, leaving Chen Xin beside both of their bodies.

• Bibi Dong recognized that Su Cheng had manipulated events around her and Qian Renxue, then died after warning Qian Renxue that she hoped her suspicions were wrong.
• Qian Renxue reached Su Cheng and tried to heal his mortal injuries by drawing on her Angel Godhood.
• Su Cheng sent his Sword Intent Entity into Qian Renxue's divine core, shattering her godhood and completing his main quest.
• Su Cheng told Qian Renxue that he had taught and helped her become a god to destroy Spirit Hall, then asked Chen Xin to protect her and urged her to live on.
• After Su Cheng died, Qian Renxue used her remaining divine power to stab herself through the chest and died beside him.

Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue awoke with memories of lives they had experienced in the Simulator, both focused on Su Cheng. Qian Renxue’s hidden, darker self took control and began searching for him, while Su Cheng emerged from the Simulator unaware of the others’ memories.

• Bibi Dong woke from a vivid dream, questioned Yue Guan about Su Cheng, and ordered him to investigate.
• Bibi Dong recalled the dream’s criticism of Yu Xiaogang and Spirit Hall, leaving her uncertain about her beliefs.
• Qian Renxue awoke from her dream with clearer memories and encountered the darker side she had long suppressed.
• The black-clad Qian Renxue used the Severing Meridians and Continuing Qi Method and told her other self she would find Su Cheng.
• Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo to investigate anyone matching Su Cheng’s name, appearance, or sword martial soul.
• In a remote village, Su Cheng exited the Simulator without knowing that Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue had gained fragments of its memories.

After surviving the strain of his sword intent, Su Cheng received his simulation rewards, awakening twin Martial Souls and gaining enhanced physical potential and a Five Elements Domain. A month later, he arrived in Notting City and spotted an old man and a child being harassed outside the academy.

• Su Cheng endured the sword intent's damage as reward energy repaired his body and sea of consciousness, enhancing his physique and awakening his Twin Martial Souls.
• Su Cheng identified his Martial Souls as the Longevity Sword and the Innate Array Diagram, and recognized his Talent Domain as the Five Elements Domain.
• Su Cheng planned to advance to Soul Grandmaster, enter an Advanced Spirit Master Academy, win the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament, and use the opportunity to join Spirit Hall and investigate the Angel Inheritance.
• A month later, Su Cheng traveled with village chief Wang Pan to Notting City and saw an old man and a child being harassed by the academy gatekeeper.

Su Cheng entered Notting College and unsettled Xiao Wu and Tang San with the pressure of his sword intent. He kept his distance from Tang San, wary of the powerful figures connected to him, and resolved to limit contact with others until he could control his aura.

• Su Cheng watched Yu Xiaogang lead Tang San into Notting College, then entered the college after Wang Pan left.
• Su Cheng completed enrollment and arrived at the work-study dormitory, where Xiao Wu demanded that he call her Sister Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu was frightened by Su Cheng’s presence, and Tang San mistook her reaction for bullying and confronted him with a Sleeve Arrow ready.
• Su Cheng warned Tang San to put the weapon away and overwhelmed him with pressure before patting his shoulder and telling him not to bother him.
• Su Cheng sat down to regulate his breathing while Tang San returned warily to his bed and the other students stayed silent.

Tang San accepted Yu Xiaogang’s reassurance about Su Cheng while Su Cheng deepened his understanding of Sword Intent and went to sell a potion formula in Notting City. He left hoping to trade the formula for a Soul Hunting Token so he could obtain his first soul ring.

• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that Su Cheng had only 0.5 innate soul power and encouraged him not to worry about the gap between them.
• Su Cheng experimented with love, family and friends, and hatred as sources of sword intent before identifying fear as the emotion that could anchor it.
• Su Cheng stabilized his Sword Intent and decided to hunt a soul beast for his first soul ring.
• Su Cheng visited a black-market shop and asked its clerk to summon Sol, offering a potion as proof that he had a deal worth over a hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Su Cheng planned to sell the potion formula and use the opportunity to obtain a Soul Hunting Token.

Su Cheng hunted and killed a nine-hundred-year Genshan Earth Suppressing Dragon, then began absorbing its Soul Ring. He planned to remain in Notting City for now and later attend Heaven Dou Royal Academy, unaware that Qian Renxue was furious over his affairs.

• Su Cheng traveled alone through the Soul Hunting Forest to find the Genshan Earth Suppressing Dragon.
• Su Cheng fought the Soul Beast and killed it by striking its clitellum, then finishing it with several more blows.
• Su Cheng prepared his body and began absorbing the Soul Ring, finding the process far easier than it had been in the Simulator.
• Su Cheng decided not to register with Spirit Hall yet and considered joining Heaven Dou Royal Academy in the future.
• Qian Renxue flew into a rage in her study over Su Cheng's affairs.

Qian Renxue found no useful leads while searching for Su Cheng, but learned that Ning Fengzhi seemed to recognize the name. Xue Qinghe then intervened when Xue Beng caused trouble at Moonlight Pavilion, leaving Xue Beng publicly humiliated and privately threatened.

• Qian Renxue threw aside a month’s worth of unhelpful soul master dossiers, then heard that Ning Fengzhi had reacted strangely to Su Cheng’s name.
• A Spirit Hall messenger told Qian Renxue that Xue Beng had fought with Yu Tianzhi, an elder’s son from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, at Moonlight Pavilion.
• Yu Tianzhi explained that Xue Beng had demanded Hua Ge perform and insulted him after he objected.
• Xue Qinghe ordered Xue Beng to apologize and pay compensation, then privately threatened him against causing trouble again.
• Xue Qinghe told Moonlight Pavilion’s attendants they could break Xue Beng’s legs whenever he returned, regardless of whether he caused trouble.

Su Cheng absorbed his first Soul Ring, reached level nineteen, and gained a defensive support skill before returning to the academy. A year later, Tang San challenged him to a spar, hoping to overcome Xiao Wu’s fear of Su Cheng.

• Su Cheng examined his new strength and used Bearing Great Virtue, which increased his strength, stamina, and toughness while enhancing him further when his feet were planted on the ground.
• Su Cheng returned to the Seventh Dorm without revealing his advancement, then left to find a more private place to live and cultivate.
• Su Cheng considered Tang San’s future conflict with Qian Renxue and decided he needed to investigate the Asura God and the power of Tang San’s destiny.
• Over the next year, Su Cheng became a Two-Ring Great Spirit Master and gave Gold Soul Coins to Wang Pan when he visited Wang Su Village.
• Tang San challenged Su Cheng to spar because he wanted to help Xiao Wu overcome her lingering fear of him.

Su Cheng agreed to spar with Tang San after demanding Tang San's storage belt as the wager and an apology to Xiao Wu if Tang San lost. Su Cheng effortlessly defeated Tang San, took the belt, and left him stunned.

• Su Cheng demanded Tang San's Twenty-Four Bridge Moonlight Night as the prize for winning, while Tang San asked Su Cheng to apologize to Xiao Wu if he lost.
• Su Cheng insisted Tang San swear on Xiao Wu that he would honor the wager, and Xiao Wu accepted on Tang San's behalf.
• At the rocky slope, Tang San revealed his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and attacked Su Cheng, who fought with only a wooden stick.
• Su Cheng cut through Tang San's Blue Silver Grass, evaded his attacks, and mocked the limits of his Martial Soul.
• Su Cheng stopped Tang San's Xuan Yu Hand, numbed his arm, and held the stick to his throat, forcing Tang San to concede defeat.
• Su Cheng took Tang San's belt and left, while Tang San remained pale and stunned.

Su Cheng kept Tang San’s Soul Tool after defeating him, while Tang Hao and Yu Xiaogang each interpreted the loss as a minor setback for Tang San. Three and a half years later, Su Cheng graduated early and left for Heaven Dou City.

• Su Cheng decided to keep Tang San’s Soul Tool for now and wait to retrieve the Blue Silver Emperor Spirit Bone until Tang Hao was farther away.
• Tang Hao watched the fight, judged Su Cheng a useful training target for Tang San, and let him keep the Soul Tool.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang why his Blue Silver Grass had failed, and Yu Xiaogang reassured him that it would grow stronger with more Soul Rings and Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to treat the Soul Tool as temporarily stored with Su Cheng and win it back later.
• Three and a half years later, Su Cheng added a third Soul Ring to the Longevity Sword, graduated early, and left for Heaven Dou City.

Su Cheng traveled toward Heaven Dou City and decided to undermine Qian Renxue’s plans by backing Xue Beng, believing it would be simpler to force her back to Spirit Hall. Qian Renxue received a report about Su Cheng and recognized him in a portrait, stunned to learn he was not yet eleven and already a Soul Elder.

• Su Cheng reflected on his swordsmanship and concluded that he could fight a Soul Ancestor with ease and might challenge an ordinary Soul King with his strongest form.
• Su Cheng decided against joining Qian Renxue’s faction and considered supporting Xue Beng to expose flaws in her disguise and drive her back to Spirit Hall.
• Snake Lance Douluo brought Qian Renxue intelligence from the Notting City branch about a young Soul Elder who had refused Spirit Hall’s invitation.
• Qian Renxue recognized Su Cheng in the report’s portrait and recalled their past together.
• Qian Renxue asked Su Cheng’s age and was shocked when Snake Lance said he was not yet eleven.

Qian Renxue struggled with another personality over whether to seek out Su Cheng, then agreed not to pursue him for now. Meanwhile, Su Cheng arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy to seek admission and impressed its students with his strength and Martial Soul.

• Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance Douluo to accompany her to Notting City, but a golden light appeared as another voice confronted her from within.
• Qian Renxue and her other personality argued over whether to approach Su Cheng, and they agreed that she would not seek him out but could act freely if they met later.
• Su Cheng headed to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, hoping to enter the Empire's circles of influence and potentially make contact with Ning Fengzhi.
• Su Cheng showed the academy students his three Soul Rings and sword Martial Soul, stunning them into fetching a teacher.
• A silver-clad teacher arrived and asked Su Cheng whether he wanted to join the academy, visibly surprised by his Martial Soul.

Su Cheng entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy and impressed its staff with his cultivation and unusual Second Soul Ring. He was brought before the Education Committee, where he recognized the distinguished guests as Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong.

• Sun Buyu welcomed Su Cheng to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and escorted him toward the main campus.
• Sun Buyu asked about Su Cheng’s background and Second Soul Ring, and Su Cheng claimed he had absorbed a thousand-year Netherworld Wolf Soul Ring alone.
• Sun Buyu brought Su Cheng to the Education Committee and said his talent might earn him a place on the Heaven Dou Royal Battle Team.
• Su Cheng entered the committee office, saw three Soul Douluo elders in formal robes, and recognized the guests as Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong.

Su Cheng impressed the Heaven Dou Royal Academy committee with his age and strength, then asked to challenge the candidates for the Royal Battle Team. Ning Fengzhi offered to introduce him to Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Ning Rongrong took Su Cheng on a tour of the Academy.

• Su Cheng revealed that he was eleven and displayed his Longevity Sword with one yellow and two purple soul rings, astonishing the committee members.
• Ning Fengzhi questioned Su Cheng about Sword Douluo Chen Xin and offered to take him to meet Chen Xin.
• Su Cheng asked to test himself against the Academy's battle team candidates, and Meng Shenji agreed to arrange it.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Ning Rongrong to show Su Cheng around the Academy, and she happily led him away.

Su Cheng tried to impress Ning Rongrong with his story and ideas about auxiliary Martial Souls, but his awkward remarks and unsolicited advice worsened her impression of him. He recognized that she now saw him as an overconfident average guy.

• Ning Rongrong asked Su Cheng about his rapid cultivation and Thousand Year Soul Ring, and he gave her a sympathetic but fabricated account of his upbringing.
• Su Cheng asked to see Ning Rongrong's Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and she proudly showed him her Martial Soul and described her talent.
• Su Cheng awkwardly brought up the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's spouse-selection standards, then argued that auxiliary Soul Masters should develop ways to protect themselves.
• Ning Rongrong rejected Su Cheng's advice and politely defended her family's traditions while privately thinking less of him.
• Su Cheng saw that Ning Rongrong had misunderstood him as an overconfident average guy and regretted how he had handled the conversation.