Chapter Summaries

Xia Yi defeated Tang Jing, and Wujin quickly defeated Zhong Wenjun, while Gu Yue struggled against Yang Shuangshuang’s element-absorbing Enchanted Sword. Gu Yue revealed a glimpse of her dragon power to win, and the Tang Sect’s three opponents were all defeated.

• Xia Yi defeated Tang Jing with his Absolute Zero, leaving the Tang Sect higher-ups stunned.
• Gu Yue and Wujin brought out their Battle Armor as their matches continued; Wujin’s armor used ice-attribute Energy Cores to suppress the Wraiths inside him.
• Wujin overwhelmed Zhong Wenjun with the pressure of his Battle Armor and defeated him soon after Xia Yi’s victory.
• Yang Shuangshuang’s Enchanted Sword absorbed Gu Yue’s elemental attacks and kept her on the defensive.
• Gu Yue teleported behind Yang Shuangshuang, caught her Enchanted Sword with the aid of silver Dragon Scale, and struck her with a four-element attack.
• The referee intervened before Gu Yue could strike again, and Gu Yue left the match having defeated Yang Shuangshuang.

Xia Yi, Gu Yue, and Wujin continued their undefeated challenge of Tang Sect branches and arrived in Ming City for their next match. Tang Sect arranged for Soul Emperor Xiao Yicai to face Xia Yi, while a mysterious girl watched from a rooftop and took an interest in Xia Yi and Gu Yue.

• Xia Yi, Gu Yue, and Wujin won their ninth city match without using battle armor, intensifying the Tang Sect's embarrassment.
• Sentimental Douluo Zang Xin met with Xiao Jingxing, who promised that his grandson Xiao Yicai would defeat Xia Yi; Zang Xin offered to arrange Four-Word Battle Armor if the branch won.
• Xia Yi felt uneasy upon reaching Ming City, and Gu Yue gave him his Phoenix Heart-Linked Jade as a precaution.
• After resting and meditating, Xia Yi, Gu Yue, and Wujin arrived at the Tang Sect branch to find Xiao Yicai, a rank-sixty-seven Soul Emperor with Two-Word Battle Armor, waiting to fight Xia Yi.
• A mysterious girl watched the match venue from a rooftop, scorned Xiao Yicai, and grumbled about Xia Yi and Gu Yue holding hands; Xia Yi sensed someone watching but saw no one.

Xia Yi faced Xiao Yicai, a Tang Sect Soul Emperor who sealed his Soul Power to claim he was only a Soul Ancestor. Xia Yi effortlessly seized and struck Xiao Yicai’s Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, leaving the arena and audience overwhelmed by its power, while Gu Yue and Wujin wondered what had happened.

• Xiao Yicai introduced himself as a Soul Emperor with sealed Soul Power and insisted he was eligible to fight Xia Yi as a Soul Ancestor.
• The referee silenced the crowd and began the match, and Xiao Yicai summoned his Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron to seal Xia Yi.
• Xia Yi withdrew his Martial Soul Possession, caught the cauldron with one hand, and tapped it with two fingers.
• The cauldron’s sound made Xiao Yicai kneel and compelled people across the arena to look up at Xia Yi in awe, while Gu Yue and Wujin remained unaffected.
• Gu Yue and Wujin took advantage of their opponents’ distraction to strike them, then asked what was happening.

Xia Yi broke through to the Spirit Abyss Realm and sensed that something had appeared in his mind, so he went to the Spirit Pagoda to investigate. After he entered his Spiritual World, Gu Yue lost all trace of the Reverse Scale and feared someone had taken him.

• Xia Yi’s spiritual power reached the early stage of the Spirit Abyss Realm, and he returned Xiao Yicai’s Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron before leaving.
• Gu Yue confronted Xia Yi about his troubled behavior, and he told her that his breakthrough had brought something into his mind that he needed to understand in seclusion.
• Gu Yue, Wujin, Zi Ji, and Di Tian supported Xia Yi as he went to the Spirit Pagoda’s Cultivation Rooms with Gu Yue.
• Gu Yue kissed Xia Yi and promised to guard him while he entered his Spiritual World.
• Xia Yi vanished after activating the Reverse Scale, and Gu Yue could no longer sense it.

Xia Yi faced Leng Yulai, who recognized Leng Yaozhu’s Phoenix Heart-Linked Jade and sent him away after taking the ring Leng Yaozhu had prepared. He then met the sealed memories of his past self and rejected merging for now, choosing to remain Xia Yi and Little Fox of Star Dou Forest.

• Xia Yi stopped Leng Yulai’s Dark Phoenix feather with the Phoenix Heart-Linked Jade, and she mistook his connection to Leng Yaozhu for a secret romance.
• Xia Yi gave Leng Yulai the Storage Ring from Leng Yaozhu, and Leng Yulai took it before sending him through a Spatial Vortex.
• Xia Yi met a youth who explained that he was the sealed memories of Xia Yi’s past self and offered to restore them through merging.
• The youth warned that merging could erase Xia Yi’s current identity, while promising power, a return to his original world, and a reunion with his mother.
• Xia Yi chose to remain himself and leave, and the youth urged him to live boldly before they eventually merged.

Xia Yi refused to merge with his past-life memories and was sent back to Leng Yulai after deciding to seek his own path. Leng Yulai revealed that Xia Yi could destroy her Martial Soul through the Dark Phoenix Mark, but her sudden submission left him suspicious of her motives.

• Xia Yi declined to merge with his past-life memories and asked the young man about learning Soul Skills, but learned he knew only divine abilities and spells.
• The young man warned Xia Yi that relying on his past life could overshadow his new identity, then sent him through a Spatial Vortex to Leng Yulai.
• Leng Yulai apologized for her earlier offense, knelt before Xia Yi, and begged him to spare her.
• Leng Yulai explained that the Dark Phoenix Mark on Xia Yi's arm was her Martial Soul Origin and helped him unlock the power to shatter her Martial Soul.
• Xia Yi questioned whether Leng Yulai had previously intended to die alongside him and grew wary of her sudden change in attitude.

Xia Yi escaped the strange bronze enclosure by touching the vortex in his Spiritual World and returned to Gu Yue. He told her he had chosen to live this life before considering his past memories, leaving them reunited and closer.

• Leng Yulai rose after Xia Yi allowed her to stop kneeling, kissed his cheek, and explained that she could not escape the bronze enclosure.
• Xia Yi touched the golden vortex in his Spiritual World and returned to the Spirit Pagoda's Cultivation Room.
• Gu Yue embraced Xia Yi in relief, and he promised he would not leave her or the Star Dou Forest.
• Xia Yi told Gu Yue about the past memories and Leng Yulai, and Gu Yue realized he had given up the chance to recover his memories for her.
• Gu Yue tearfully kissed Xia Yi.

Xia Yi questioned Leng Yulai about her intentions and explored the Bronze Space in his Spiritual World. Leng Yulai explained how the space had purified her Martial Soul and revealed that its wall carvings were rubbings of the River Chart and Luo Book, whose mysteries she had begun to comprehend.

• Gu Yue warned Xia Yi that Leng Yulai wanted to follow him to become a god, and Xia Yi considered whether he could bring Leng Yulai out of the Bronze Space.
• Xia Yi returned to the Bronze Space and found that Leng Yulai had transformed it into a room and prepared a Soul Forged metal stool for him.
• Leng Yulai explained that staying in the space had purified her Dark Phoenix Martial Soul and was helping her leave behind her status as an Evil Spirit Master.
• Leng Yulai told Xia Yi that she had tried to capture him four years earlier to threaten Zhen Hua into making Four-Word Battle Armor, and Xia Yi then examined the Bronze Wall carvings.
• Leng Yulai identified the central carvings as rubbings of the River Chart and Luo Book, demonstrated her limited comprehension of the Luo Book's power over time, and explained that the other patterns held powerful spiritual intent.

Xia Yi left the Bronze World and spent a playful day shopping and drinking with Gu Yue in Ming City. Back at the hotel, Gu Yue confessed her love and Xia Yi accepted her, while an unseen girl revealed she had helped bring them together with a drug and Wine Gourd.

• Xia Yi left Leng Yulai in the Bronze World after promising to arrange a meeting with Leng Yaozhu, and Leng Yulai privately reflected on how her feelings toward her elder sister had changed.
• Xia Yi gave Gu Yue a metal piece bearing the River Map and Luo Scroll, and the two stayed in Ming City while Wujin returned to Shrek Academy ahead of them.
• Gu Yue dragged Xia Yi through shopping, food, and a bar, where she made him perform a pole dance before apologizing at the hotel.
• Gu Yue drank wine and told Xia Yi she loved him, then explained her fear that he might merge with his past-life memories and leave her behind.
• Gu Yue insisted on being with Xia Yi, and he accepted her before carrying her toward the bedroom.
• A girl on the hotel rooftop criticized Zi Ji's lust-inducing drug and said she had used emotion, desire, and a Wine Gourd to help the team leader.

Xia Hong, a new auxiliary police officer, arrested Xia Yi at his hotel after secretly reporting him, but her captain recognized him and forced her to apologize. Xia Hong left still plotting to preserve recordings of Xia Yi’s embarrassing moments for when he recovered his memories.

• Xia Hong and a female officer burst into Xia Yi’s room, and Xia Hong subdued him with Soul-Sealing Handcuffs and a Spirit-Sealing Helmet.
• Xia Hong accused Xia Yi of prostitution-related offenses, but the female officer recognized him and released him, then made Xia Hong bow in apology.
• The female officer scolded Xia Hong and explained that Xia Yi had not resisted and that they should avoid being used against him by whoever made the report.
• Xia Hong revealed that she had made the report herself and had secretly switched out the wine Gu Yue drank the previous night.
• Xia Hong asked the female officer for a copy of the enforcement video so she could save footage of Xia Yi for when he recovered his memories.

Zi Ji and Di Tian reported that Xia Hong was a fifteen-year-old Soul Ancestor whose martial soul was registered as Silver Dragon Lady, and Gu Yue suspected she might be the lost Dragon Lady who had fled Star Dou Forest. Gu Yue explained the Dragon Lady Clan’s history and planned to confirm Xia Hong’s identity before deciding how to approach her, while she and Xia Yi prepared to watch her fight at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

• Di Tian told Xia Yi and Gu Yue that Xia Hong had enrolled at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, had Soul Ancestor cultivation, and possessed a martial soul registered as Silver Dragon Lady.
• Gu Yue ordered Zi Ji and Di Tian to watch Xia Hong and arrange a meeting if she proved to be the Silver Dragon Lady who had once left Star Dou Forest.
• Gu Yue explained that the Dragon Lady Clan had taken the Dragon God Tree when it fled Star Dou Forest, and revealed that she had consumed the Dragon Lady Sacred Artifact after the clan’s extinction.
• Xia Yi wondered whether Xia Hong had targeted him because of Gu Yue or the Silver Dragon Lady Dragon Scale he carried, while Gu Yue said they would first confirm Xia Hong’s identity.
• Gu Yue proposed that she and Xia Yi visit Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy in three days to see Xia Hong’s strength.

Gu Yue suspected Xia Hong was the Silver Dragon Lady and feared she had taken an interest in Xia Yi, but considered letting them be together so Xia Yi could gain Silver Dragon blood and lead the soul beasts. After sharing Xia Yi’s River Map and Luo Scroll diagrams with Di Tian and Zi Ji, she revealed plans to use them to create a new God Realm and decided to postpone the matter with Xia Hong.

• Gu Yue asked Di Tian and Zi Ji what to do if Xia Hong was the Silver Dragon Lady, and concluded Xia Hong had approached Xia Yi deliberately rather than to reclaim her Dragon Scale.
• Gu Yue proposed fulfilling Xia Hong’s wish by letting her have Xia Yi, explaining that she wanted him to gain Silver Dragon blood and become the true Master of Soul Beasts.
• Gu Yue gave Di Tian and Zi Ji copies of the River Map and Luo Scroll, warned them to guard the diagrams, and said they might enable soul beasts to create a God Realm of their own.
• Gu Yue ordered Di Tian and Zi Ji to slow their cooperation with the Spirit Pagoda while they studied the diagrams and considered changing their plans.
• Gu Yue decided not to bring up sharing Xia Yi with Xia Hong yet, since she expected him to refuse and hoped another solution might arise as his strength grew.

Tang Wulin’s squad arrived at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy to issue a challenge, but Xia Hong arrested all six in seconds. Wu Zhangkong confronted her and was ordered to cuff himself and squat beside his students.

• Wu Zhangkong used a recording Soul Tool Megaphone to challenge Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy on behalf of Tang Wulin’s squad, then disappeared and left Tang Wulin to face the crowd.
• A Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy teacher invited the squad inside, but Xia Hong arrived on a police motorcycle and cuffed Tang Wulin before he could react.
• Na'er, Xu Xiaoyan, Xu Lizhi, Xie Xie, and Ye Xinglan attacked Xia Hong, who swiftly evaded them and restrained all five as well.
• Xia Hong identified herself as a Ming City police officer and said she was arresting the squad for disturbing public order and resisting arrest.
• Xia Hong aimed her sidearm at Tang Wulin and warned Wu Zhangkong not to interfere; Wu Zhangkong withdrew his Frost Sky Sword, and Xia Hong ordered him to put on handcuffs and a Spirit-Sealing Helmet and squat beside the others.

Xia Hong arrested Wu Zhangkong and Tang Wulin's group outside Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, forcing Wu Zhangkong to submit after threatening Tang Wulin. The group was taken to the police station, while the responding officer worried about offending Shrek Academy.

• Xia Hong knocked Tang Wulin and Na'er unconscious when they resisted, then warned the others against obstructing law enforcement.
• Xia Hong fired beside the group and held her gun to Tang Wulin's forehead, forcing Wu Zhangkong to put on the Soul-Sealing Handcuffs and Spirit-Sealing Helmet.
• Xia Hong pressed Wu Zhangkong to his knees and declared that she would enforce federal law in Ming City, even against Shrek Academy's powerful members.
• Xia Hong called for officers to escort the seven suspects and asked a Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy teacher to arrange repairs to the crater.
• The female police officer arrived and ordered Wu Zhangkong and Tang Wulin's group taken to the police cars, despite her reluctance to offend Shrek Academy.

After Shrek Academy’s students were punished for causing a disturbance, Ya Li brought them back to Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy for a public sparring match. The match began with Xia Hong facing Xia Yi, who had been unexpectedly thrown into the arena.

• Xia Hong’s surveillance footage sparked public outrage over Wu Zhangkong’s attempted sneak attack, while Xia Hong defended the police response by citing damage caused by Shrek Academy’s noisy challenge.
• The Federal Police Bureau sent Tang Wulin and the other minors to juvenile detention for three days, sentenced Wu Zhangkong to more than three years in prison, and ordered Shrek Academy to pay compensation.
• After the three-day detention, Ya Li brought Tang Wulin and the others back to Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy for a sparring match that drew a huge crowd.
• Xu Cangyu revealed that Xia Hong was also a Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy student, and she entered the arena alone to face Shrek Academy.
• Ya Li pulled Xia Yi from the VIP box and sent him to fight Xia Hong, while Tang Wulin, Na'er, and the others left the arena.

Xia Yi and Xia Hong faced off in the Soul Fighting Arena as a huge crowd watched. After Xia Hong sent him flying with one punch, Xia Yi pretended to faint, leaving Ya Li exasperated.

• Spectators protested Xia Hong's appearance until Xia Yi was brought to the arena, drawing a crowd eager to see the prodigies clash.
• Ya Li quieted the audience, and the referee announced the match rules before asking Xia Yi and Xia Hong if they were ready.
• Xia Yi gathered an imposing aura, impressing Xu Cangyu and making Tang Wulin Team and Ye Xinglan reconsider the gap between him and them.
• The referee started the match, and Xia Yi declared that Shrek's glory must be defended with blood as Xia Hong charged without using her martial soul.
• Xia Hong struck Xia Yi with an apparently ordinary punch, and Xia Yi flew backward, shouted that he was no match for her, and pretended to faint, angering Ya Li.

Xia Yi faked defeat against Xia Hong and fled with Gu Yue, while Ya Li used the chaos to get Tang Wulin and the others out of Ming City and secure Wu Zhangkong’s release. After reuniting with Wu Zhangkong, Ya Li prepared to leave, and Xia Hong asked Xu Cangyu to secretly support her on a dangerous patrol.

• Xia Yi let Xia Hong win, then escaped with Gu Yue as the furious spectators watched.
• Ya Li pretended to be angry and led Tang Wulin and the others away from Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy before the crowd could react.
• Ya Li revealed that Heavenly Judge Douluo Lang Tian had released Wu Zhangkong after she called him “Brother Tian.”
• Ya Li reunited Tang Wulin and the others with Wu Zhangkong in a hidden alley, and Lang Tian warned her to keep him inside Shrek Academy’s Inner Court.
• Xia Hong told Xu Cangyu that her patrol might be life-threatening, and he agreed to follow secretly and help her.

Lang Tian recaptured Wu Zhangkong after Tang Wulin exposed his identity, while Xu Cangyu protected Xia Hong and prevented Lang Tian from harming her. Xia Hong took Ya Li and the others to the bureau, where Federal Police Department officers seized them; an announcement later reported Wu Zhangkong’s recapture and Xia Hong’s promotion.

• Xia Hong confronted Lang Tian, Ya Li, and Wu Zhangkong, while Xu Cangyu warned Lang Tian not to attack her.
• Tang Wulin revealed Lang Tian’s identity to Xia Hong, prompting Lang Tian to hand Wu Zhangkong over and claim he had recaptured him.
• Lang Tian cleared Ya Li and the others of helping Wu Zhangkong escape, but Xia Hong required them to give statements; Ya Li warned Tang Wulin and the others not to implicate Lang Tian.
• Federal Police Department officers arrived at the bureau with an order and took the Shrek Academy group into their custody.
• The Federal Police Bureau announced that Wu Zhangkong had been recaptured and sentenced to ten years, and Xia Hong had been promoted to squad leader.

After her patrol, Xia Hong joined Xia Yi and Gu Yue for dinner and told them about the team leader who had raised her, Xia Si. Gu Yue suspected Xia Hong was the Silver Dragon Lady and remained wary of her interest in Xia Yi, though Xia Hong denied that he was her type.

• Xia Hong sat down with Xia Yi and Gu Yue after her shift and eagerly ate the food Gu Yue offered.
• Xia Hong told Gu Yue that her family abandoned her as a child and that Xia Si had taken her in, trained her, and once left her on a roller coaster during an urgent mission.
• Xia Hong said Xia Si had gone to a wealthy household’s banquet and never returned, and she vowed to find him and confront him.
• Xia Hong gave Gu Yue her novel, Extreme North Sunset Glow, and Gu Yue suggested Xia Hong start dating to spite Xia Si.
• Gu Yue offered to share Xia Yi with Xia Hong, who laughed and said he was not her type, while Gu Yue continued to suspect Xia Hong was deliberately approaching him.

Xia Yi and Gu Yue read the book Xia Hong gave her, which portrayed Gu Yue as a coward and told the tragic story of Xue Qiling. Gu Yue condemned the insults but came to admire Xue Qiling’s resolve, and the chapter ended with her and Xia Yi laughing about the book’s romantic regrets.

• Xia Yi punished Gu Yue for suggesting he be given to Xia Hong, then asked why she had made the suggestion.
• Gu Yue explained that she believed Xia Hong was a Silver Dragon Lady and wanted Xia Yi to gain strength, so she and Xia Yi read the book Xia Hong had given her.
• Gu Yue grew furious when the book portrayed her as a coward who used suicide to escape reality, and she set out to confront Xia Hong before Xia Yi stopped her.
• Gu Yue finished the book and praised Xue Qiling for continuing to fight for soul beasts despite immense pressure and repeated betrayals.
• Xia Yi and Gu Yue discussed the regrets in Xue Qiling’s relationships, then joked that Xia Hong had written them because she was inexperienced with romance.