Chapter Summaries

Zhu Zhuqing used a seven-in-one fusion skill to manifest her Martial Soul Avatar and defeat Dai Weisi, Zhu Zhuyun, and the rest of the Star Luo team, securing Blue Tyrant Academy’s victory. The next day, Blazing Fire Academy forfeited to Blue Tyrant Academy, and the fourth round determined the top three teams.

• Zhu Zhuqing unleashed her Martial Soul Avatar and used Netherworld's Fury to break Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun’s Hell White Tiger fusion before defeating all seven Star Luo team members with Netherworld Consecutive Slash.
• The cardinal announced Blue Tyrant Academy’s victory, and Gu Ye examined Zhu Zhuqing while Spirit Hall Academy and other teams won their remaining third-round matches.
• Bibi Dong told Spirit Hall Academy to disrupt Blue Tyrant Academy’s seven-in-one fusion skill, while Qian Daoliu watched Qian Renxue refine an Angel God Suit soul bone and worried Zhu Zhuqing might become her rival.
• Blue Tyrant Academy advanced when Blazing Fire Academy forfeited, and Huo Wu reminded Gu Ye of his promise to teach her after graduation.
• Spirit Hall Academy defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Skywater Academy won its match, and Blue Tyrant Academy, Spirit Hall Academy, and Skywater Academy reached the top three.

Blue Tyrant Academy faced Spirit Hall in the tournament final, where Zhu Zhuqing defeated Duo'er in a fierce duel but then forfeited the team match. The championship battle ended without Blue Tyrant Academy continuing, leaving Zhu Zhuqing satisfied with her victory over Duo'er and her earlier revenge against the Star Luo Empire.

• Skywater Academy forfeited, sending Blue Tyrant Academy and Spirit Hall directly to the decisive final.
• Gu Ye told Zhu Zhuqing and her teammates to fight with everything they had, though victory was unlikely.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Duo'er fought one-on-one, matching their cat-like martial souls and powerful soul skills.
• Zhu Zhuqing used her External Soul Bone to overpower Duo'er, who admitted defeat.
• Zhu Zhuqing and her teammates forfeited the team match because they were exhausted and outmatched by Spirit Hall's stronger lineup.

After Spirit Hall won the tournament, Gu Ye said goodbye to Bibi Dong and prepared to return to the Heaven Dou Empire with his group. On the way out, Qian Renxue questioned his visit to Pope's Palace, Zhu Zhuqing refused to return to the Star Luo Empire, and the Heaven Dou procession set off while Tang San waited for his father.

• Bibi Dong awarded Spirit Hall Team the championship prize and presented Zhu Zhuqing's team with medals, while Zhu Zhuqing declined her invitation to join Spirit Hall.
• Gu Ye told Bibi Dong he was leaving to help Qian Renxue in the Heaven Dou Empire, and the two spent the night together in Pope's Palace.
• Qian Renxue encountered Gu Ye leaving Pope's Palace, questioned him, and told him she had reached Soul Power rank seventy-seven after gaining a seventh soul ring and refining a soul bone.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun asked Zhu Zhuqing to return to the Star Luo Empire, but she refused, and Dai Mubai failed to persuade her to go back.
• Gu Ye and the others joined the Heaven Dou Empire procession and left Spirit City, while Tang San waited in a carriage with Yu Xiaogang and his companions for his father.

Tang San left with Tang Hao to train, while Xiao Wu refused to go with them and planned to return to the Star Dou Great Forest. On the journey back to Heaven Dou City, Xiao Wu drew closer to Gu Ye, and Xue Qinghe planned to arrange a palace identity for him.

• Yu Xiaogang supported Tang San leaving with Tang Hao for training, and Tang Hao arrived to take his son away.
• Xiao Wu declined Tang San’s invitation to join them, saying she would return to the Star Dou Great Forest, while Tang San promised to find her within five years.
• Tang San and Tang Hao bid farewell to Yu Xiaogang and left, unaware that Xiao Wu had grown closer to Gu Ye.
• Xiao Wu privately met Gu Ye in the carriage, and they shared an intimate moment while the convoy traveled back toward Heaven Dou City.
• Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe discussed winning Gu Ye and Blue Tyrant Academy over to the Heaven Dou Empire, and Xue Qinghe decided to arrange a palace identity for Gu Ye.
• That night, Xiao Wu told Gu Ye she planned to return to the Star Dou Great Forest, then hugged and kissed him.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Gu Ye accepted Emperor Xue Ye’s appointment as an imperial worship elder, while Liu Erlong and several students declined or chose their own paths. The group returned to Blue Tyrant Academy, where Jiang Zhu decided to stay and work at Gu Ye’s Medical Hall.

• Xiao Wu kissed Gu Ye to thank him, then the group resumed its journey while Liu Erlong rested against him.
• Emperor Xue Ye welcomed the returning teams and granted noble titles, but Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu refused to serve the empire.
• Xue Ye offered Zhu Zhuqing, Gu Ye, and Liu Erlong positions as imperial worship elders; Zhu Zhuqing and Liu Erlong declined, while Gu Ye accepted.
• Xue Ye appointed Gu Ye a worship elder, granted him palace access, and arranged a mansion and attendants for him.
• At Blue Tyrant Academy, Tai Long returned to the Strength Clan, Huang Yuan and Jing Ling joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Ning Rongrong departed for home.
• Jiang Zhu told Gu Ye she wanted to stay at the academy and treat patients at his Medical Hall, while Xiao Wu planned to return home in a few days.

After the competition, Zhu Zhuqing tried to use Gu Ye’s promise to make him accept her as his woman, but Liu Erlong’s unexpected return interrupted them. Liu Erlong decided to train Jiang Zhu as her successor and asked Gu Ye what he thought.

• Jiang Zhu planned to remain at Blue Tyrant Academy and cultivate, while Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing also intended to stay near Gu Ye.
• Liu Erlong left to handle the academy’s new special-grade status, and Zhu Zhuqing persuaded Xiao Wu and Jiang Zhu to leave her alone with Gu Ye.
• Zhu Zhuqing embraced and kissed Gu Ye, then told him she wanted to be his woman; Gu Ye began to give in before Liu Erlong returned.
• Liu Erlong found Gu Ye and Zhu Zhuqing together, asked where Jiang Zhu was, and became suspicious when she learned Xiao Wu and Jiang Zhu had left.
• Liu Erlong said she planned to train Jiang Zhu to manage the academy after her and asked Gu Ye for his opinion.

Gu Ye welcomed Ye Lingling and her aunt Ye Zhixing to his clinic, where he arranged for Lingling to work as his nurse and promised to protect her as his little sister. After helping both women cultivate, he planned to take them spirit-ring hunting once Liu Erlong returned.

• Gu Ye agreed that Liu Erlong should train Jiang Zhu to become Blue Tyrant Academy’s next principal, while he and Liu Erlong spent the night together.
• Gu Ye treated patients as his Soul Power neared rank seventy, Zhu Zhuqing cultivated in seclusion, and Liu Erlong escorted Xiao Wu back to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ye Lingling arrived at Gu Ye’s clinic with Ye Zhixing, and Gu Ye bound Lingling as his treatment assistant.
• Ye Zhixing asked Gu Ye not to give Lingling hope unless he could make her happy, so Gu Ye acknowledged Lingling as his little sister and promised to protect her.
• Gu Ye helped Ye Lingling resolve her martial-soul flaw and gave both women medicinal essence, after which Ye Zhixing reached rank eighty and Lingling reached rank fifty.
• Gu Ye decided to take Ye Lingling and Ye Zhixing spirit-ring hunting with Liu Erlong when she returned.

Gu Ye met with Qian Renxue, and they set their plan in motion to weaken Xue Ye so she could inherit the Heaven Dou Empire’s throne. Afterward, Zhu Zhuqing emerged from seclusion and learned that Ye Lingling had become Gu Ye’s younger sister and Ye Zhixing was now regarded as his aunt.

• Gu Ye instructed Ye Lingling to keep treating patients and promised to take her and Ye Zhixing to hunt for spirit rings when the time was right.
• Qian Renxue told Gu Ye she missed him, then discussed beginning to trigger Xue Ye’s poison so Gu Ye could gradually weaken him over two years.
• Gu Ye and Qian Renxue became intimate in her room, and she fell asleep in his arms afterward.
• Zhu Zhuqing broke through to level forty-nine after cultivating in seclusion and went to the clinic looking for Gu Ye.
• Ye Zhixing and Ye Lingling explained to Zhu Zhuqing how Ye Lingling had become Gu Ye’s younger sister and why Ye Zhixing called herself his aunt.

Gu Ye returned to the Medical Hall after leaving Qian Renxue, where Zhu Zhuqing had come out of seclusion and chatted with Ye Lingling and Ye Zhixing. In the Star Luo Empire, the emperor ordered Zhu Zhuqing brought back for a final duel, while her mother Zhu Qingyun and elder sister Zhu Zhuyun faced the clan’s cruel rules and her uncle’s hidden schemes.

• Gu Ye left Qian Renxue sleeping in the crown prince's palace and returned to the Medical Hall, where Zhu Zhuqing ignored him while speaking with Ye Lingling and Ye Zhixing.
• The Star Luo Emperor declared the contest between Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi a draw, ordered Zhu Zhuyun to bring Zhu Zhuqing back, and gave the brothers three months before their final duel.
• Dai Mubai resolved to investigate a forbidden place guarded by the White Tiger Clan in hopes of becoming strong enough to defeat Dai Weisi.
• Zhu Zhuyun told Zhu Qingyun that Zhu Zhuqing had become powerful, then accepted a bell from her mother and arranged for clan members to summon Zhu Zhuqing to the Star Luo Empire.
• Zhu Zhuyun rejected her second uncle's offer to care for Zhu Qingyun and warned him against improper intentions toward her mother.
• After Zhu Zhuyun left, her second uncle revealed that he intended to possess Zhu Qingyun and believed she owed him.

Gu Ye discovered that Qian Renxue’s poison was killing Xue Ye, but concealed the danger and told the emperor he had about a year to live. Facing his impending death, Xue Ye asked Gu Ye to take care of Empress Yun Lianyi after he was gone, leaving Gu Ye stunned.

• At the palace, Gu Ye examined Xue Ye and recognized that Qian Renxue’s poison had begun to take effect.
• Gu Ye intensified and concealed the poison, then woke Xue Ye and reassured the gathered court that his condition was not serious.
• Xue Ye dismissed the others but asked Yun Lianyi to remain while he spoke privately with Gu Ye.
• Gu Ye told Xue Ye that he had about a year or less to live, and Yun Lianyi grew distressed.
• Xue Ye asked Gu Ye to protect and take care of Yun Lianyi after his death, and Gu Ye was stunned by the request.

Xue Ye entrusted Gu Ye with protecting Empress Yun Lianyi and accepted his treatment to prolong his life. While Gu Ye treated the emperor, he grew physically familiar with the Empress, as Xue Beng returned to the palace and waited outside with Xue Qinghe and the others.

• Xue Ye asked Gu Ye to protect Empress Yun Lianyi after his death, and Gu Ye agreed.
• Gu Ye said he could add a year to Xue Ye's life, then used golden needles to extend it and suppress his poison, causing Xue Ye to faint.
• Yun Lianyi climbed onto the imperial bed to support Xue Ye, tripped, and fell into Gu Ye's arms; Gu Ye caught and held her.
• Gu Ye asked Yun Lianyi to change positions, then pressed close behind her while continuing to treat Xue Ye.
• Xue Beng arrived and told Xue Qinghe he had hurried back after hearing of Xue Ye's condition; he waited outside and watched Consort Ming, whom he liked.

Gu Ye treated the unconscious Emperor Xue Ye while Empress Yun Lianyi sat close against him, and Xue Ye briefly woke before falling asleep again. After Gu Ye finished, he and Yun Lianyi shared a tense, intimate moment as Xue Beng waited outside and worried about Xue Qinghe.

• Xue Beng waited outside Xue Ye's bedchamber and secretly admired Consort Ming while wondering what his father and Gu Ye were discussing.
• Gu Ye treated Xue Ye with golden needles while Yun Lianyi sat on Gu Ye's legs and tried to hide her embarrassment.
• Xue Ye woke briefly, thanked Gu Ye, asked where the Empress was, and then fell asleep again without seeing Yun Lianyi beside Gu Ye.
• After the treatment, Yun Lianyi's numb legs made her fall back onto Gu Ye, and he teased her about obeying Xue Ye's instruction to cooperate with him.
• Xiao Wu invited Liu Erlong into the Star Dou Great Forest to meet Da Ming and Er Ming, and Liu Erlong agreed to go with her.
• Xue Beng worried that Xue Qinghe might inherit the throne, while Gu Ye set Yun Lianyi down and apologized for startling her.

Gu Ye revived Xue Ye, who had only two years left to live, and was ordered to stay overnight in the Imperial Harem. After Consort Ming visited his courtyard that night, Gu Ye carried her inside.

• Gu Ye used Soul Power to wake Xue Ye, who felt stronger and asked about medicine to improve his body.
• Xue Ye rejected medicine that might worsen his condition and summoned Xue Qinghe, Xue Beng, Consort Ming, and the others.
• Xue Ye told Gu Ye to stay overnight in the Imperial Harem, and Gu Ye explained that Ye Lingling was his sworn younger sister.
• Gu Ye settled into his courtyard while Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and Ye Zhixing waited for him at the clinic.
• Consort Ming dismissed her guards and knocked on Gu Ye's door, and Gu Ye pulled her inside and carried her into the room.

Gu Ye spent the night with Consort Ming, then drew Empress Yun Lianyi into his room when she came to confront him about their earlier encounter. The chapter ended with Gu Ye holding Yun Lianyi on his lap and kissing her.

• Xue Xing learned from Xue Beng that Emperor Xue Ye trusted Gu Ye and urged his nephew to approach Gu Ye cautiously.
• Xue Qinghe wondered why Gu Ye had been kept in the Imperial Harem and resolved to ask him the next day.
• Gu Ye carried Consort Ming into a room, where the two became intimate.
• Yun Lianyi left Emperor Xue Ye's bedchamber and went alone to Gu Ye's residence late at night.
• Gu Ye brought Yun Lianyi into the room where Consort Ming was waiting, then used their earlier encounter and the risk of being discovered to make Yun Lianyi cooperate.
• Gu Ye pulled Yun Lianyi onto his lap and kissed her.

Gu Ye became intimate with Empress Yun Lianyi, and Consort Ming discovered them and joined them, leaving the three together overnight. The next morning, Xue Ye woke feeling healthier but wondered where his Empress had gone.

• Gu Ye and Yun Lianyi embraced in a private room while Consort Ming waited for him nearby.
• Consort Ming heard Yun Lianyi’s cry, recognized her voice, and entered the room to join Gu Ye and the Empress.
• Afterward, Yun Lianyi questioned Consort Ming about her relationship with Gu Ye, and Gu Ye promised to take care of both women.
• Liu Erlong returned to Blue Tyrant Academy, worried that Zhu Zhuqing might have become involved with Gu Ye, and decided to ask him about it.
• Xue Ye woke feeling much healthier, ordered an imperial meal, and wondered where Yun Lianyi was.

Gu Ye secretly returned to the Imperial Harem and joined Yun Lianyi on her Phoenix Bed, only to hide beneath her quilt when Xue Ye came to visit. After Xue Ye left, he went to check on Consort Ming, who was also exhausted.

• Xue Ye learned that Yun Lianyi had cared for him overnight and summoned Gu Ye to examine his health.
• After confirming Xue Ye had recovered, Gu Ye left the Imperial Harem, then used Surgical Space to return to Yun Lianyi’s sleeping palace.
• Gu Ye joined Yun Lianyi on the Phoenix Bed, and she asked him to care for her for the rest of her life.
• When Xue Ye entered the sleeping palace, Gu Ye hid beneath the quilt while Yun Lianyi pretended she was merely tired.
• Xue Ye left Yun Lianyi to rest and went to Consort Ming’s palace, where he found her exhausted on her bed.

Gu Ye protected Zhu Zhuqing when the Zhu Clan summoned her back and agreed to accompany her to Star Luo after she trained and obtained her fifth Soul Ring. As Zhu Zhuqing reached rank fifty, Gu Ye broke through to rank seventy and began absorbing a system-provided Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

• Xue Ye left Consort Ming, while Gu Ye departed the Empress's palace after Yun Lianyi fell asleep.
• Zhu Clan envoys ordered Zhu Zhuqing to return to Star Luo, but Gu Ye drove them off with his aura.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained that her mother had sent her bell, and Gu Ye promised to accompany her after half a month of training and a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Gu Ye returned to Blue Tyrant Academy with Liu Erlong, while Zhu Zhuqing went into seclusion and Ye Lingling and Ye Zhixing tended the clinic.
• Two assassins sent by Dai Weisi waited outside the clinic for a chance to kill Zhu Zhuqing as she prepared to return home.
• Zhu Zhuqing broke through to rank fifty, and Gu Ye reached rank seventy before absorbing a system-provided Soul Ring that reached one hundred thousand years and raised him to rank seventy-one.

Gu Ye took Zhu Zhuqing, Liu Erlong, Ye Lingling, and Ye Zhixing toward the Star Dou Great Forest to seek Soul Rings, while two pursuers followed them and were killed by Gu Ye. The group entered the forest’s inner region and reached a bamboo grove that Liu Erlong believed held a suitable Soul Beast for Ye Zhixing.

• Gu Ye’s level stabilized at seventy-four, and he set out from Heaven Dou City with Zhu Zhuqing, Liu Erlong, Ye Lingling, and Ye Zhixing.
• Two black-clad men followed the group, but Gu Ye killed them after they approached their campsite at night.
• During the night in the carriage, Gu Ye mistakenly embraced Ye Zhixing, while Liu Erlong held him from behind.
• The group reached Balak Kingdom, and Gu Ye decided to visit Kadan before traveling with Zhu Zhuqing to the Star Luo Empire.
• After arriving at the Star Dou Great Forest, Liu Erlong led Gu Ye and the others into the inner region to a bamboo grove with Soul Beasts suited to Ye Zhixing.

Gu Ye and his companions found soul beasts for Ye Zhixing and Ye Lingling, then continued searching the Star Dou Great Forest for Zhu Zhuqing’s fifth soul ring. They found a powerful Hell Three-Headed Hound, and Gu Ye and Liu Erlong brought it down so Zhu Zhuqing could claim its soul ring.

• Liu Erlong dragged two jade-like bamboo soul beasts out of the grove, and Ye Zhixing and Ye Lingling absorbed their soul rings, with Ye Zhixing also obtaining a soul bone.
• The group spent the night in one tent, then searched for several days until they found a thirty-to-forty-thousand-year Hell Three-Headed Hound.
• Gu Ye and Liu Erlong agreed to attack the Hell Three-Headed Hound together after it charged at the group and fired a dark beam.
• Zhu Zhuqing attacked the beast, but its dark barrier blocked her strikes and it swallowed her black flames.
• Liu Erlong struck the beast with a thunderous punch, and Gu Ye followed with an Electromagnetic Knife that pierced its heart and knocked it down.

Zhu Zhuqing began absorbing the Hell Three-Headed Hound’s soul ring as the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger arrived to avenge its subordinate. Gu Ye and Liu Erlong fought it together, but the tiger survived Liu Erlong’s full-strength ambush and prepared to get serious.

• Zhu Zhuqing decapitated the dying Hell Three-Headed Hound and began absorbing its black soul ring while Gu Ye, Liu Erlong, Ye Zhixing, and Ye Lingling guarded her.
• Gu Ye recognized the approaching tiger’s roar as belonging to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and warned the others that they would have to fight it.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger arrived, accused the group of killing its subordinate, and attacked Zhu Zhuqing, but Liu Erlong blocked its black-light blast.
• Gu Ye teleported before the tiger and split its Dark Demon Giant Claw with a slash, then joined Liu Erlong against its Endless Storm.
• Gu Ye teleported himself and Liu Erlong behind the tiger, allowing Liu Erlong to strike it with her Thunder Flame Fist and send it crashing into the forest.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger rose with little apparent injury, declared that the humans had enraged it, and prompted Gu Ye to warn Liu Erlong to be careful.