Chapter Summaries

Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived at Dragon-Snake Manor after Gu You, Tang San, and Meng Yiran had killed Shi Nian, and they learned how the attack had unfolded. Ning Fengzhi became captivated by Shi Nian’s mental-type Head Soul Bone, and Gu You asked whether he wanted it.

• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong entered the damaged manor and found Gu You, Tang San, and Meng Yiran alive after a fierce battle.
• Gu You invited the newcomers to eat, and the group shared a late-night meal after Sebastian and the servants cleared the restaurant.
• Ning Fengzhi learned that the intruder was Shi Nian, who had targeted Meng Yiran after she rejected his offer to become his disciple.
• Ning Fengzhi examined Shi Nian’s Ten Thousand Year Head Soul Bone and considered its potential as an Inherited Spirit Bone for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Gu You to give the Spirit Bone to someone suitable or conceal it, and Gu You asked whether Ning Fengzhi wanted it.

Master Gu You offered Ning Fengzhi a Mental Type Ten Thousand Year Head Soul Bone in exchange for access to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s books and records. Ning Fengzhi accepted and gave him a Rainbow Token, then revealed that he had come to recruit Master Gu You.

• Ning Fengzhi urged Master Gu You to absorb the soul bone, while Gu Rong watched Meng Yiran for any sign of resentment.
• Master Gu You offered the soul bone to Ning Fengzhi, and Ning Fengzhi asked what he wanted in return.
• Master Gu You requested permission to read the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s books and records, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to the exchange.
• Ning Fengzhi stored the soul bone and gave Master Gu You a Rainbow Token granting access to the sect and its support.
• Master Gu You asked whether Ning Fengzhi had come for the soul bone, and Ning Fengzhi said he had come for him.

Ning Fengzhi warned Gu You that joining Xue Qinghe’s faction would entangle him in politics and urged him to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect instead. He offered Gu You and Tang San valuable soul bones, but Gu You answered with a question about how far Ning Fengzhi could see.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Gu You whether he had joined the Heaven Dou Empire, then warned him that political involvement could hinder his cultivation.
• Ning Fengzhi explained how Gu Rong’s lack of focus had kept him from matching Chen Xin’s advancement, and why he feared Gu You would waste his potential.
• Ning Fengzhi invited Gu You to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and offered him the Illusion Wisdom Skull.
• Ning Fengzhi offered Tang San a choice of ten-thousand-year soul bones, hoping to persuade both friends to join the sect.
• Tang San ignored Ning Fengzhi’s extended hand, while Gu You asked him how far he could see.

Gu You challenged Ning Fengzhi to explain how far ahead he could see, then showed him evidence that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and its Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could eventually disappear. Ning Fengzhi recognized that Gu You had rejected joining the sect because he foresaw its decline, and Gu You proposed cooperation to prevent that future.

• Gu You asked Ning Fengzhi how far into the future he could see, and Ning Fengzhi answered that he could see across the continent for a thousand years.
• Ning Fengzhi explained his plan to support Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, secure the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's future, and preserve a balance with Spirit Hall and the Star Luo Empire.
• Gu You gave Ning Fengzhi documents predicting that rising Soul Master strength and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's Level 79 limit would eventually threaten the sect's survival.
• Ning Fengzhi realized that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could prosper for a thousand years but collapse within ten thousand years.
• Gu You asked Ning Fengzhi to cooperate, warning him that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's future destruction could still be prevented.

Gu You proposed cooperating with Ning Fengzhi to find a reliable way to evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Ning Fengzhi agreed after seeing evidence about an Immortal Herb. After the visitors left, Gu You and Tang San recovered from a battle, while Tang San privately vowed to prevent the nightmare he had experienced from coming true.

• Gu You explained the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's Soul Power limit, and Ning Fengzhi revealed that only one ancestor had ever evolved it into an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Gu You offered research into a reproducible evolution method, and Tang San showed Ning Fengzhi a report stating that the Aromatic Silk Beauty could evolve the Pagoda into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to give Gu You the Heart Separation Control technique and promised the sect would carry out three future requests that did not harm it.
• Meng Shenji arrived, and Gu You, Ning Fengzhi, and Gu Rong convinced him that a righteous thief had attacked Dragon-Snake Manor before the guests departed.
• Gu You and Tang San collapsed from the Sun Wheel Potion's side effects, and Tang San admitted he had been ready to poison Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong if Gu You had turned against them.
• Tang San recalled that Shi Nian's Nightmare had shown him a hellish future, and he whispered that he would never let it become real.

Gu You and Tang San recovered from their injuries and went to visit Sister Nightingale at Heaven Dou City’s Martial Soul Sanctuary. They entered the grand building among families bringing children for Martial Soul Awakening, and the chapter left them looking for directions inside.

• Gu You woke in pain, learned Xiao Wu and Ata were well, and agreed with Tang San to rest from research for a day.
• Gu You proposed visiting Sister Nightingale, so he and Tang San left Dragon-Snake Manor and headed to the Martial Soul Sanctuary.
• Gu You and Tang San were astonished by the Sanctuary’s scale, and Tang San wondered whether the Heaven Dou Empire was wary of Spirit Hall’s ambitions.
• Gu You learned that families came to the Sanctuary daily for children’s Martial Soul Awakenings and entered with Tang San.
• Gu You and Tang San admired the Sanctuary’s stained glass and central statue, then Gu You asked whether they should find someone to guide them.

Gu You and Tang San searched the Heaven Dou City Martial Soul Holy Temple for Nightingale and were brought before Platinum Bishop Salas, who recognized the Five Emperor Order and ordered them to her. Nightingale explained that Salas had encouraged colleagues to ostracize her because she had served Ghost Douluo, but she was otherwise unharmed and content to ignore him.

• Gu You stopped a Spirit Hall staff member and asked him to take the brothers to Nightingale.
• Norton brought Gu You and Tang San to Salas, who questioned their purpose and examined their tokens.
• Salas recognized the Five Emperor Order and sent Gu You and Tang San to Nightingale’s room.
• Nightingale rebuked Gu You for claiming she was in trouble, then admitted she had been ostracized by Salas’s subordinates.
• Nightingale explained that Salas opposed Bibi Dong and disliked her because she had been Ghost Douluo’s subordinate, but had not interfered with her official benefits.

After returning to the Imperial Dou Team, Gu You entrusted Lanta with her first independent study, researching Zhu Zhuqing’s Nether Power. Meanwhile, Salas learned of Gu You’s ties to Heaven Dou and decided to target the empire through an academy.

• Nightingale warned Gu You and Tang San that Salas would soon learn about them, offered to help if they contacted her discreetly, and assured Gu You that his grandfather and Nuoding City friends were safe.
• Three days later, Gu You reviewed Yu Tianheng’s and Zhu Zhuqing’s Soul Ring reports and instructed them to improve their control over lightning and Nether Power.
• Gu You asked Lanta to research Nether Power independently, and after hesitating, she accepted the report and promised not to disappoint him.
• Salas questioned why Bibi Dong had allowed Gu You to join Heaven Dou and, unable to confront him openly, began searching for a capable academy unconnected to the royal family to target.

Gu You and Tang San returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and discovered that Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew responded differently to them than it did to Dugu Bo. Gu You suspected the Immortal Herb had intelligence, but Tang San dismissed the idea, and the pair left to prepare for experiments as the plant secretly shook its leaves.

• Gu You, Tang San, and Dugu Bo inspected the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo admitted his poisonous miasma could not reliably stop a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Gu You checked Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and learned Dugu Bo had been unable to part its leaves or inspect the dew inside.
• Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew opened its leaves for Gu You and Tang San but stayed shut for Dugu Bo, prompting Gu You to test whether it was intelligent.
• Tang San argued that the Immortal Herbs showed no signs of intelligence, and Gu You gave up on his guess.
• Gu You and Tang San left to prepare the Plant Council Laboratory for experiments, while Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew shyly shook its leaves after they were gone.

Gu You and Tang San tested their Noble Phantasms with Dugu Bo, then continued preparing an Artificial Spirit Bone while disagreeing over whether to use poison-attribute metal. The chapter ended with Tang San ready to help Gu You take the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot the next morning.

• Gu You tested Ultimate Burst Stream of Destruction on Dugu Bo, who judged it close to a full-power Soul Emperor strike, while Tang San tested Blue Silver Tyrant Spear.
• Dugu Bo prepared to take Dugu Yan soul hunting in Misty Wetland and left Gu You and Tang San to continue their work on the Spirit Bone.
• Gu You and Tang San debated whether the Artificial Spirit Bone's Base Plate should use poison-attribute metal, but neither convinced the other.
• Tang San brought out a flowerpot containing three strands of Blue Silver Grass and told Gu You to prepare for taking the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot the next morning.

Tang San extracted the Ice Rain Dew and Blazing Glue from the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then helped Gu You absorb their extreme ice and fire essence into his Artificial Spirit Bones. Gu You recovered, leaving Tang San to contemplate the strange dinosaur apparitions, while Xiao Wu complained about attending class at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Tang San had Gu You absorb Ice and Fire Spiritual Energy before he extracted Ice Rain Dew and Blazing Glue from the two Immortal Herbs.
• Tang San fed the two essences to Gu You and used acupuncture and Blue Silver Grass to protect him as he directed their medicinal power toward his arm bones.
• Glacier Dinosaur and Meteor Omen Dragon appeared behind Gu You, shocking Tang San when he realized the Artificial Spirit Bones were changing with Gu You's Martial Soul.
• After Gu You recovered, Tang San removed the needles and tended to his own injuries.
• At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Xiao Wu complained to Ning Rongrong about the large classes and prepared to go to the cafeteria.

Ning Rongrong explained that she wanted Xiao Wu as a model for developing her unusual support-and-saber fighting style, because Xiao Wu had trained a weak martial soul to its limits. Xiao Wu agreed to train with Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing joined them.

• Xiao Wu questioned Ning Rongrong about repeatedly attending classes with her, and Ning Rongrong admitted she had chosen Xiao Wu as her model.
• Ning Rongrong explained that Murasame had limits and that she wanted to learn from Xiao Wu, who had built her strength through training despite having a weak martial soul.
• Ning Rongrong bowed to Xiao Wu in the crowded corridor, leaving both of them awkwardly frozen until Zhu Zhuqing arrived.
• Xiao Wu told Ning Rongrong she was not qualified to teach her, but offered to train together instead.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked to join their training, and Xiao Wu welcomed her.

At lunch, Lanta reviewed the Imperial Dou Team’s afternoon classes and reported that the team was following its training plans. Qin Ming then met with Lanta and Meng Yiran in a secluded courtyard and asked them to help conduct a martial soul test.

• Xiao Wu and the others joined the Imperial Dou Team girls for lunch, where Ye Lingling and Xiao Wu discussed their cultivation and Lanta outlined the afternoon classes.
• Lanta explained that she and Meng Yiran had a separate task, then left with Meng Yiran after lunch to meet Qin Ming.
• Lanta reassured Qin Ming that the rest of the team had no plans to skip class and was following its training arrangements.
• Qin Ming reflected on Lanta’s foundation-focused training plan, which had the team study other Soul Master types and strengthen their basics.
• Qin Ming told Lanta and Meng Yiran that he had called them there to ask for their help conducting a martial soul test.

Lanta agreed to test Oscar and Ma Hongjun’s martial souls after Flender humbled himself and offered her a storage ring full of his collected treasures. Later, Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong discussed the sea and the dangers of the Star Dou Great Forest before an angry voice called someone a traitor outside the school gate.

• Qin Ming asked Lanta and Meng Yiran to help test Oscar and Ma Hongjun, and Lanta agreed despite Meng Yiran’s anger at Ma Hongjun’s past conduct.
• Qin Ming brought Lanta and Meng Yiran to Shrek’s separate courtyard and explained its history as a residence for the Heaven Dou Emperor’s children.
• Flender and Shrek’s teachers bowed to Lanta and Meng Yiran, while Oscar and Ma Hongjun asked for their help.
• Lanta accepted Flender’s twenty-cubic-meter Storage Soul Tool and left with Meng Yiran to begin the tests.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong talked about the sea and the Star Dou Great Forest, then planned to meet Bai Xiangxiang and Zhu Zhuqing for grilled fish.
• As Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong approached the school gate, someone outside shouted, “You traitor!”

Tai Long and three Strength Clan youths confronted Bai Chenxiang at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, accusing her of betraying the Clear Sky Sect by joining the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Xiao Wu struck down one attacker, and Ning Rongrong drew her sheathed saber as Tai Long threatened Bai Chenxiang.

• Bai Chenxiang waited at the academy gates for Ning Rongrong and was confronted by four youths in matching uniforms.
• Tai Long called Bai Chenxiang a traitor and ordered his companions to surround her, while she challenged them to explain themselves.
• Ning Rongrong arrived with Xiao Wu and demanded that Tai Long leave Bai Chenxiang alone.
• Tai Long identified himself as the Strength Clan patriarch’s grandson and claimed Bai Chenxiang’s family had betrayed the Clear Sky Sect by joining the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tai Long ordered his men to break Bai Chenxiang’s arm, and Xiao Wu kicked Tai Lin into a tree before Ning Rongrong readied her saber against Tai Long.

Tai Long provoked Ning Rongrong and Bai Chenxiang into accepting a Gambling Fight, intending to force Bai Chenxiang into a battle on his terms. Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing suspected someone had coached him, and Tai Long went alone to meet that person in a secluded alley.

• Tai Long challenged Ning Rongrong and Bai Chenxiang to a Gambling Fight, using the watching academy students to pressure them into accepting.
• Tai Long set the match for four students under rank forty, with Bai Chenxiang required to fight, and agreed to kneel and apologize if his side lost.
• Ning Rongrong accepted, demanding that Tai Long apologize to Bai Chenxiang if he lost, while Tai Long demanded that Bai Chenxiang be handed over if they lost.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed she had been watching from the shadows, and she, Ning Rongrong, and Bai Chenxiang concluded that someone clever had coached Tai Long to force them into the arena.
• Tai Long sent his three companions to the arena and entered a secluded alley, where an unseen person told him to stop.

Tai Long prepared to fight for the Strength Clan under the influence of a sinister voice, while Yu Tianheng’s group gathered at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena for a four-on-four Gambling Fight. The chapter ended with Ning Rongrong questioning why Blue Tyrant Academy, which recruited only commoners, had a member of the Strength Clan.

• An unseen man praised Tai Long for arranging the unfair spirit battle and urged him to prove the Strength Clan’s strength, while privately revealing his malicious intentions.
• Yu Tianheng and the others arrived at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, where Sun Buyu scolded Yu Feng and the group discovered Meng Yiran and Lanta were missing.
• Yu Tianheng worried that Ning Rongrong’s four-person roster lacked attackers, but Ning Rongrong refused to add Yu Feng or Osler.
• Sun Buyu identified Tai Long’s academy as Blue Tyrant Academy, and Yu Tianheng explained that its dean, Liu Erlong, was his aunt and that it recruited only commoners.
• Ning Rongrong asked why Blue Tyrant Academy had a Strength Clan member despite recruiting only commoners.

Ning Rongrong and the others learned why the Strength Clan had been excluded from Heaven Dou’s noble circles, then prepared to face them in a Gambling Fight. The packed arena opened the match with the Blue Tyrant Academy team’s introduction, while Yu Tianheng and Sun Buyu reflected on Heaven Dou’s hopes for the Imperial Dou Team.

• Ning Rongrong questioned why the Strength Clan were treated as commoners, and the group learned that Emperor Xue Ye had denied them noble status and barred them from Heaven Dou academies after a failed recruitment visit.
• Sun Buyu advised the team to exploit the Strength Clan’s poor speed and wear them down, while Xiao Wu proposed a direct four-on-four attack.
• Tai Long provoked Bai Chenxiang, who insulted the Strength Clan’s habit of seeking help from their elders, and a powerful Spirit Fight Arena staff member stopped Tai Long from attacking her.
• The Spirit Fight Arena opened its Peak Spirit Fight Platform for the Gambling Fight, and Sun Buyu urged Yu Tianheng to carry Heaven Dou’s hopes as spectators cheered the Imperial Dou Team.
• Host Liu Tianruo welcomed the challengers from Blue Tyrant Academy’s Power Team to the platform.

Tai Long's Strength Clan team faced Xiao Wu's Imperial Dou Team in the Spirit Fight Arena, where Yu Xiaogang's revenge plan began to unravel. The match started with three Imperial Dou members revealing Silver Spirit Fight Badges, leaving Tai Long's side shaken.

• Tai Long and three Strength Clan members entered the arena under the Heaven Dou students' boos, then the Imperial Dou Team arrived to loud cheers.
• Yu Xiaogang watched in disguise and planned to use Tai Long to provoke conflict between the Strength Clan and Bai Chenxiang's Speed Clan as revenge against Tang San and the others.
• Yu Xiaogang learned from spectators that Xiao Wu was known as Cinderace, a popular Spirit Fight Arena fighter, and wondered how her Soft Bone Rabbit martial soul had earned a Silver Spirit Fight Badge.
• Xiao Wu showed Tai Long her Silver Spirit Fight Badge, and Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong revealed theirs as well, unsettling the Strength Clan team.
• Tai Long's team introduced its members and formed a City Wall Formation, while Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Bai Chenxiang, and Ning Rongrong formed a Diamond Formation.
• Sun Tianruo declared the Power Team versus the Imperial Dou Team fight officially underway.

The Imperial Dou Team faced the Power Team’s four heavily built Soul Masters, and Xiao Wu used speed and tactical analysis to expose their weaknesses. Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong struck down the opposing fighters, leaving the battle in the Imperial Dou Team’s favor.

• Tai Long, Tai Shan, Tai Shi, and Tai Linze transformed and charged the Imperial Dou Team, whose members scattered under Xiao Wu’s order.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong evaded their pursuers while Zhu Zhuqing vanished into the arena’s shadows and Bai Chenxiang flew overhead.
• Xiao Wu taunted the Power Team into regrouping, tested Tai Long’s strength and defense with a fireball, and called out the opponents’ defensive weakness.
• Zhu Zhuqing emerged from the shadows and slashed Tai Shan and Tai Shi before stabbing Tai Long, then disappeared again.
• Xiao Wu kicked Tai Lin away, and Ning Rongrong used One-Blade Asura: Flowing Light to cut Tai Long down.