Chapter Summaries

After Qian Ren Shang defeated her, Qian Ren Xue summoned Porcupine Douluo and Serpent Spear Douluo, two Title Douluo who had secretly guarded her. As the two allies prepared to kill everyone, Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena mocked Qian Ren Xue, who ordered them killed.

• Qian Ren Xue revealed that she still had a trump card, while Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena sensed powerful presences nearby.
• Porcupine Douluo and Serpent Spear Douluo appeared, revealed their Title Douluo strength, and bowed to Qian Ren Xue.
• The nobles lost hope as Qian Ren Xue explained that Qian Daoliu had sent the two Douluo to protect her and that they had concealed their auras.
• Qian Ren Xue taunted Qian Ren Shang and offered Gu Yuena a chance to join her, but Gu Yuena and Qian Ren Shang joked that Qian Ren Xue was unwell.
• Qian Ren Xue lost her temper and ordered Porcupine Douluo and Serpent Spear Douluo to kill Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena.

Qian Ren Xue ordered Porcupine Douluo and Serpent Spear Douluo to kill Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena while her forces attacked the nobles. Qian Ren Shang faced Porcupine Douluo alone, and the battle began with his Golden Dragon Body resisting a barrage of spikes.

• Ye Lingling tried to stop the two Title Douluo by reminding them that Qian Ren Shang was the former Pope’s son, but they declared Qian Ren Xue was their only Young Master.
• Qian Ren Shang reassured Ye Lingling that he could fight, and Gu Yuena agreed to duel Serpent Spear Douluo while he faced Porcupine Douluo.
• Qian Ren Xue ordered her allies to attack the nobles and told Porcupine Douluo and Serpent Spear Douluo to kill Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena.
• Porcupine Douluo confronted Qian Ren Shang, who readied his Golden Dragon Spear and unleashed Golden Dragon Body against the incoming spikes.

Qian Ren Shang fought Porcupine Douluo, using his Golden Dragon abilities and Spring of Life to withstand the Title Douluo’s attacks. He chose to stall for time, but Porcupine Douluo saw through his plan and began transforming with his Martial Soul Avatar.

• Porcupine Douluo attacked Qian Ren Shang with his Fifth Spirit Ability, but Qian Ren Shang met the black energy sphere with Golden Dragon Roar and was forced back by the clash.
• Qian Ren Shang charged with Golden Dragon Claw, but Porcupine Douluo dodged his attacks and struck him in the back.
• Qian Ren Shang spread his Golden Dragon Wings and launched Golden Dragon Flame, which Porcupine Douluo blocked with a black curtain of light.
• Qian Ren Shang drank Spring of Life to restore his strength, alarming Porcupine Douluo, who accused him of cheating.
• Qian Ren Shang turned and ran to stall for time, but Porcupine Douluo recognized his plan and activated his Seventh Spirit Ability, Martial Soul Avatar.

Qian Ren Shang faced Porcupine Douluo’s devastating Ninth Soul Skill and summoned his Twelve-Winged Fallen Angel Second Spirit instead of using Di Tian’s Reverse Scale. Meanwhile, Gu Yuena drew Serpent Spear Douluo away and began fighting him.

• Porcupine Douluo unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill, Porcupine Storm, against Qian Ren Shang.
• Qian Ren Shang considered using Di Tian’s Reverse Scale but saved it for a more critical danger.
• Qian Ren Shang replaced his six soul rings with three black rings and manifested his Twelve-Winged Fallen Angel, shocking Porcupine Douluo with his twin spirits.
• Gu Yuena led Serpent Spear Douluo away from Qian Ren Shang and challenged him to fight.
• Gu Yuena charged Serpent Spear Douluo with her Silver Dragon Spear, and he activated his Martial Soul Avatar.

Gu Yuena fought Serpent Spear Douluo, countering his spirit abilities with precise elemental control and replenishing her Soul Power with Spring of Life. As Serpent Spear Douluo unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill, Gu Yuena prepared to meet it with her 100,000-year Sixth Spirit Ability, Chaos Light.

• Serpent Spear Douluo activated his Martial Soul Avatar and attacked Gu Yuena, but she stopped his strike with Water Shield.
• Gu Yuena countered Serpent Spear Douluo's spear shadows and serpent illusions with fire and wind, then hit him with her Elemental Storm.
• Serpent Spear Douluo used Serpent Spear Heavenly Punishment, but Gu Yuena's earth-water shield, strengthened by wind, blocked the lightning.
• Gu Yuena drank Spring of Life to replenish her Soul Power, revealing to Serpent Spear Douluo that he could not outlast her.
• Serpent Spear Douluo unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill, and Gu Yuena used her Sixth Spirit Ability, Chaos Light, despite its heavy Soul Power cost.

Gu Yuena and Serpent Spear Douluo resumed their evenly matched battle while Qian Ren Shang revealed his Twelve-Winged Fallen Angel Spirit and used its skills to evade Porcupine Douluo’s Ninth Soul Skill. Qian Ren Shang’s Shadow Puppet redirected Porcupine Douluo’s attack, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Gu Yuena recovered with a Spring of Life, and Serpent Spear Douluo decided to wait for Porcupine Douluo to defeat Qian Ren Shang so they could fight her together.
• Gu Yuena charged Serpent Spear Douluo and resumed their battle.
• Porcupine Douluo was shocked to see Qian Ren Shang’s Twelve-Winged Fallen Angel Spirit and unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill against him.
• Qian Ren Shang used Void Shadow Escape three times to avoid Porcupine Douluo’s attack until the skill’s uses ran out.
• Qian Ren Shang summoned a Shadow Puppet, which redirected Porcupine Douluo’s remaining Ninth Soul Skill away from him.

Qian Ren Shang survived Porcupine Douluo’s Ninth Soul Skill, but Dugu Bo arrived and turned the battle against Qian Ren Xue’s forces. The chapter ended with Qian Ren Xue learning that Qian Ren Shang had a second, Black Angel Spirit and that neither Title Douluo could defeat him and Gu Yuena.

• Qian Ren Shang endured Porcupine Douluo’s Ninth Soul Skill and remained standing despite his injuries.
• Dugu Bo burst into the hotel, revealed that he had killed Lao Qin, and realized a bloody battle was underway.
• Dugu Bo killed two Soul Emperors who were pursuing Dugu Yan, and Dugu Yan exposed Qian Ren Xue’s identity and her plot to seize the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Serpent Spear Douluo forced Dugu Bo back and rescued Qian Ren Xue as most of her forces lay dead.
• Porcupine Douluo and Serpent Spear Douluo told Qian Ren Xue that Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena had proved too powerful to defeat, and Porcupine Douluo revealed Qian Ren Shang’s Black Angel Spirit.

Qian Ren Shang confronted Qian Ren Xue after she failed to carry out her attack, and their argument revealed her complicated feelings toward her brother. Qian Ren Xue escaped with Porcupine Douluo and Serpent Spear Douluo, while Dugu Bo discovered that Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena had already left.

• Qian Ren Xue blamed Qian Ren Shang for ruining Spirit Hall's plans, and he shouted back that he owed her nothing and had not caused her suffering.
• Qian Ren Xue tearfully objected that Qian Ren Shang had yelled at her because she was his sister, but he denied that she was.
• As Heaven Dou Empire forces surrounded them, Porcupine Douluo and Serpent Spear Douluo urged Qian Ren Xue to retreat, and she left after declaring she would defeat Qian Ren Shang next time.
• Dugu Bo led experts in pursuit but returned unsuccessful, saying he had poisoned Porcupine Douluo and Serpent Spear Douluo during the chaos.
• Dugu Bo asked where Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena were and learned that they had left as soon as the battle ended.

After their battle, Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena walked alone beneath the moonlight, both wrestling with their growing feelings for each other. Gu Yuena agreed to stay with him, and they continued their walk holding hands as Qian Ren Shang recounted his experiences.

• Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena walked together after their battle while powerhouses from the Heaven Dou Empire prepared to deal with the night's aftermath.
• Gu Yuena praised Qian Ren Shang's strength, then suggested he no longer needed her protection, prompting him to insist that he still needed her.
• Qian Ren Shang asked Gu Yuena to stay and teach him, and Gu Yuena agreed.
• Qian Ren Shang asked Gu Yuena to stop calling him a little guy; after teasing him about his childhood, she agreed to call him Qian Ren Shang.
• Qian Ren Shang told Gu Yuena about his life over the past nineteen years and recent experiences on the Douluo Continent as they walked hand in hand.

After a fierce battle, Gu Yuena and Qian Ren Shang spent the night together at his villa, where their teasing and awkward closeness culminated in an accidental kiss. The chapter ended with them frozen in each other’s arms, staring at each other after their lips touched.

• Gu Yuena agreed to stay at Qian Ren Shang’s villa and warned him not to peek while she showered.
• Qian Ren Shang tried to resist imagining Gu Yuena in the bathroom, got a nosebleed, and rushed in to wash after she came out.
• Gu Yuena teased Qian Ren Shang by pretending to offer him the bed, then both prepared to sleep.
• Gu Yuena got up to use the bathroom and paused to admire Qian Ren Shang as he slept.
• Qian Ren Shang turned over, causing Gu Yuena to lose her balance and fall into his arms, where she accidentally kissed him.

Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena discovered that embracing each other caused their Soul Power to achieve one hundred percent Spirit Fusion, accelerating their cultivation and repairing Gu Yuena’s Source Power. They named the resulting cyclical power Moonfall Power.

• After an accidental intimate moment, Gu Yuena panicked and told Qian Ren Shang not to mention it.
• Qian Ren Shang asked Gu Yuena to hold his hand and embrace him again so he could investigate how their bodies responded.
• As Qian Ren Shang released his Soul Power, it intertwined with Gu Yuena’s and formed a powerful resonance that sped up their Soul Power circulation.
• Gu Yuena recognized their connection as one hundred percent Spirit Fusion and realized it was repairing her Source Power.
• Qian Ren Shang discovered his Soul Power had reached level 69 and proposed naming their fused cyclical power Moonfall Power, which Gu Yuena accepted.

Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena discovered that Moonfall Power let them cultivate together through hand-holding, and they spent the night using it to improve their strength and repair Gu Yuena’s Source Power. The next morning, Meng Shen Ji arrived to invite them to the imperial palace, where Xue Ye wanted to reward them and discuss the Spirit Hall plot they had uncovered.

• Gu Yuena agreed to call their hand-contact cultivation method Moonfall Power and shared a bed with Qian Ren Shang to use it overnight.
• Qian Ren Shang gained the equivalent of a week of cultivation, while Gu Yuena felt her damaged Source Power slowly repairing.
• The two woke still holding hands, and Gu Yuena allowed that they might hold hands again later for cultivation.
• Meng Shen Ji arrived and teased Qian Ren Shang after noticing his disheveled clothes and Gu Yuena behind him.
• Meng Shen Ji invited Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena to the imperial palace at Xue Ye’s request, to receive rewards and discuss the assassination and Spirit Hall’s actions.

Qian Daoliu grew troubled by visions of Spirit Hall being destroyed by someone with a Black Angel Spirit, then questioned Qian Ren Xue after she returned from Heaven Dou City in distress. Suspecting that something had happened there, he summoned Porcupine Douluo and Serpent Spear Douluo and demanded an explanation.

• Meng Shen Ji urged Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena to accompany him to the imperial palace, and they agreed.
• Qian Daoliu recalled repeated dreams of Spirit Hall's destruction by someone with a Black Angel Spirit, though he tried to dismiss them.
• Qian Ren Xue returned to the Worship Hall and claimed she needed seclusion because of a cultivation bottleneck, then hurried into the Angel Temple.
• Qian Daoliu suspected something had gone wrong in Heaven Dou City and ordered Thousand Jun Douluo to bring Porcupine Douluo and Serpent Spear Douluo to him.
• Porcupine Douluo and Serpent Spear Douluo arrived looking nervous, and Qian Daoliu demanded to know what had happened.

Qian Daoliu learned that Qian Ren Shang had survived and confronted Qian Ren Xue over her attempt to kill him. Qian Ren Xue insisted that Qian Ren Shang was not her brother, leaving Qian Daoliu furious and newly aware of how badly the boy had been treated.

• Qian Daoliu used his spiritual power to force Serpent Spear Douluo and Porcupine Douluo to recount what happened in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qian Daoliu learned that Qian Ren Shang was alive, and Thousand Jun Douluo celebrated the return of another Qian family heir.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Thousand Jun Douluo to bring Qian Ren Xue before him.
• Qian Daoliu forced Qian Ren Xue to kneel and demanded to know why she had tried to kill Qian Ren Shang.
• Qian Ren Xue denied that Qian Ren Shang was her brother and blamed him for exposing her identity and disrupting her plans.
• Qian Daoliu realized that Qian Ren Shang had been mistreated by Bibi Dong and Qian Ren Xue before he fled Spirit Hall.

Qian Ren Xue revealed the pain behind her obsession with Bibi Dong’s love, and Qian Daoliu decided to seek out Qian Ren Shang in Heaven Dou City. Meanwhile, Xue Ye summoned Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena to the palace and offered them major rewards for helping the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Qian Daoliu slapped Qian Ren Xue and condemned her hostility toward Qian Ren Shang.
• Qian Ren Xue confessed that she knew the truth about her parents and explained how loneliness and her sense of being a mistake had driven her to cling to a goal.
• Qian Daoliu acknowledged the older generation’s responsibility, told Thousand Jun Douluo to care for Qian Ren Xue, and flew toward Heaven Dou City to find Qian Ren Shang.
• Meng Shen Ji escorted Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena into the palace, where Xue Ye praised Qian Ren Shang’s strength.
• Qian Ren Shang urged Xue Ye to get to the point, and Xue Ye offered him and Gu Yuena inherited First-Class Duke titles, a choice of fief outside the major cities, and access to the palace treasury to select a Soul Bone.

Xue Ye offered Qian Ren Shang a dukedom and two Soul Bones, then revealed that he knew Qian Ren Shang was Qian Xun Ji’s son and asked him to compete for Heaven Dou Royal Academy in the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament. Qian Ren Shang refused to help Heaven Dou Empire attack Spirit Hall but fell silent as Xue Ye explained that defeating Spirit Hall’s team might delay the coming war.

• Xue Ye offered Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena ducal titles and two Soul Bones for saving the nobles, but Qian Ren Shang hesitated to accept.
• Gu Yuena pressed Xue Ye to reveal why he had summoned them, and Xue Ye identified Qian Ren Shang as Qian Xun Ji’s son and Qian Ren Xue’s sibling.
• Qian Ren Shang confirmed his identity and said he would not help Heaven Dou Empire take the initiative against Spirit Hall.
• Xue Ye invited Qian Ren Shang to stay at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and represent it in the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament.
• Xue Ye asked Qian Ren Shang to stop Spirit Hall from winning the tournament and breaking its invincible momentum, hoping to postpone war, and Qian Ren Shang fell silent.

After meeting with Xue Ye, Qian Ren Shang explained to Gu Yuena that he had stopped seeking affection from his mother and sister, and she assured him that he still had her. The two then cultivated together and broke through to rank 70 Soul Power.

• Qian Ren Shang delayed giving Xue Ye an answer about helping the Heaven Dou Empire, then left the palace with Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena asked whether Qian Ren Shang was hurt by Qian Ren Xue and Spirit Hall trying to kill him, and he explained that he no longer expected love from his family.
• Gu Yuena told Qian Ren Shang not to give up on the world because he still had her, and he took her hand.
• Qian Ren Shang and Gu Yuena spent the next few days cultivating with Moonfall Power and broke through from rank 69 to rank 70 Soul Power.

Qian Ren Shang gave Gu Yuena the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King Soul Bones as she broke through to Soul Sage. With his Moonfall Power helping her endure the fusion, Gu Yuena condensed a 100,000 Year Seventh Soul Ring and absorbed both Soul Bones.

• Gu Yuena told Qian Ren Shang she would condense her Seventh Soul Ring and asked him to protect her.
• Qian Ren Shang presented Gu Yuena with the Ice Dragon King Left Arm Bone and Fire Dragon King Right Arm Bone, and she recognized their Dragon King auras.
• Gu Yuena accepted the Soul Bones without learning where Qian Ren Shang had obtained them, then began condensing her Seventh Soul Ring.
• Gu Yuena fused both Soul Bones while enduring clashing ice and fire energies as Qian Ren Shang used Moonfall Power to ease her pain.
• Gu Yuena successfully condensed a 100,000 Year Seventh Soul Ring and fully absorbed both Soul Bones.

Qian Ren Shang attempted to fuse a God-given Soul Ring and pushed its age to 200,000 years. With Gu Yuena’s help and the Dark Dragon King Dragon Core, he completed the fusion and awakened to his breakthrough.

• Gu Yuena told Qian Ren Shang that she had reached Soul Power Rank 74 after condensing her 100,000 Year Soul Ring and absorbing two Dragon King Soul Bones.
• Qian Ren Shang began absorbing a God-given Soul Ring, enduring immense pain as he tried to raise its age beyond 100,000 years.
• Gu Yuena realized Qian Ren Shang was attempting to fuse a 200,000-year Soul Ring and used her Dark Dragon King Dragon Core to help him.
• Qian Ren Shang stabilized the soul ring’s energy and successfully fused a 200,000-year Soul Ring marked with two Golden Patterns.

Qian Ren Shang confessed that he wanted to become a god so he could stay with Gu Yuena, but she restrained her feelings and dodged his advance. A mysterious Black Robed Man summoned him to the academy’s artificial hill and challenged him to last twenty rounds.

• Gu Yuena scolded Qian Ren Shang for risking his life to fuse a soul ring over 200,000 years old.
• Qian Ren Shang told Gu Yuena he wanted to become a god so they could spend their lives together, and she admitted to herself that she might love him but pulled away.
• Qian Ren Shang sensed an unusual fluctuation and left Gu Yuena in the room to investigate a threatening voice in his mind.
• A Black Robed Man appeared by the artificial hill and told Qian Ren Shang to withstand twenty rounds or he would trouble him and Gu Yuena.
• Qian Ren Shang accepted the challenge, released his martial soul, and prepared to fight.