Chapter Summaries

Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue sparred at night, then joined Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu to review plans to infiltrate the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires. They were asked to remain disguised for years as part of Spirit Hall’s plan, and Bi Zihan learned how he could avoid exposing his inability to use Hell White Tiger.

• Qian Renxue asked Bi Zihan why he had stayed behind in the illusion and whether Tang Hao was hiding in Holy Soul Village, and he confirmed the information.
• Qian Renxue challenged Bi Zihan to a rematch, and they sparred in the garden through the night.
• Bi Zihan learned that Bibi Dong had gone to the Worship Hall and was summoned there to discuss an important matter.
• Bibi Dong gave Qian Renxue and Bi Zihan plans to infiltrate the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires, explaining that they might need to stay disguised for ten or twenty years.
• Bi Zihan raised concerns about the Star Luo Empire’s Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Bibi Dong told him to avoid fighting while disguised.

Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, Qian Renxue, and Bi Zihan traveled to Nuoding City to find Tang Hao in Holy Soul Village and avenge Qian Renxue’s father. After a month on the road, they arrived at the Spirit Hall Branch and asked whether the village’s children had undergone their martial soul awakening.

• Qian Renxue insisted that Tang Hao’s role in her father’s death be settled, and Qian Daoliu promised to confront him if he was in Holy Soul Village.
• Bibi Dong brought Bi Zihan along to witness a battle between Titled Douluo.
• During the journey, Bi Zihan tried to break through to Sword Intent, and Qian Daoliu advised him that he still had a path ahead to discover.
• Qian Renxue reacted with displeasure when Bi Zihan called Bibi Dong his mother, while Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu did not respond to her reaction.
• After a month of travel, the group reached the Spirit Hall Branch in Nuoding City to rest before going to Holy Soul Village.
• Bibi Dong asked the branch deacon who would awaken the village children’s martial souls and whether the ceremony had already taken place.

Bibi Dong ordered a subordinate to investigate Holy Soul Village and awaken the children’s martial souls, while Bi Zihan added that he should look for Tang San. In Nuoding City, Qian Renxue thanked Bi Zihan for helping her find Tang Hao, and he was reminded of scenes from an illusion.

• Bibi Dong sent a subordinate to Holy Soul Village to awaken the children’s martial souls and discreetly investigate Tang Hao, and Bi Zihan told him to look for Tang San as well.
• Bi Zihan said he wanted Tang San eliminated to prevent future trouble, while Qian Renxue agreed that they should remove the threat.
• Bibi Dong told Bi Zihan to relax instead of cultivating because his state of mind seemed troubled, so he went sightseeing in Nuoding City with Qian Renxue.
• Qian Daoliu privately connected Bi Zihan’s troubled state of mind to the Angel God’s prediction about the Nine Trials of Guardianship.
• Qian Renxue asked Bi Zihan about their sparring matches and thanked him for helping her find Tang Hao, and Bi Zihan recalled scenes from an illusion.

Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue were confronted by a young teenager and his soldiers after stopping his runaway horse, but they left without revealing their identities. Meanwhile, Qing Sheng visited Holy Soul Village to awaken the children’s martial souls, learned that Tang Hao and Tang San lived there, and headed back to report to the Pope.

• Bi Zihan stopped the teenager’s charging horse with a Soul Power barrier, and the startled horse threw its rider to the ground.
• The teenager ordered his soldiers to surround Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue, but they let the pair leave after a captain warned that their identities might be important.
• Qing Sheng asked the old village chief how many children would undergo martial soul awakening and whether anyone surnamed Tang lived in Holy Soul Village.
• The old village chief told Qing Sheng that Tang Hao and Tang San had arrived three years earlier, and Qing Sheng memorized the information.
• Qing Sheng awakened the martial souls of five children, found that none could become a soul master, and left for the Martial Soul Main Hall in Nuoding City to report to the Pope.

Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu identified Tang Hao as the likely blacksmith living in Holy Soul Village and prepared to visit him. Bibi Dong warned Bi Zihan that his state of mind had developed a crack, then the group set out for the village at night.

• A young man reported to Bibi Dong that Tang Hao and Tang San had settled in Holy Soul Village three years earlier, where Tang Hao worked as a blacksmith.
• Qian Daoliu agreed with Bibi Dong that Tang Hao was likely the Clear Sky Douluo and decided they would visit the village that night.
• After Bi Zihan and Qian Renxue returned, Bibi Dong asked Bi Zihan about his state of mind, and he described the illusion while leaving out some details.
• Bibi Dong connected Bi Zihan's problem to the Nine Trials of Guardianship and told him he would need to mend the crack by listening to his own heart.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Renxue they would visit Tang Hao, and Bibi Dong invited Bi Zihan to observe the coming battle.
• Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, Qian Renxue, and Bi Zihan left the Spirit Hall Branch with their guards and headed for Holy Soul Village.

Tang Hao confronted Qian Daoliu and Spirit Hall while Bi Zihan focused on the blacksmith shop. After Yue Guan and Ghostly Charm killed Tang San in their attack on the shop, Tang Hao detonated all nine soul rings and unleashed his strongest strike at them.

• Tang Hao sensed Spirit Hall surrounding Holy Soul Village and told Tang San to stay inside and escape through a window.
• Qian Daoliu arrived and overpowered Tang Hao, while Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, and Bi Zihan watched.
• Bi Zihan prepared to enter the blacksmith shop, but Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan and Ghostly Charm to handle whoever remained there.
• Yue Guan and Ghostly Charm attacked the blacksmith shop with their ninth soul skills, killing Tang San and collapsing the building.
• Enraged by Tang San's death, Tang Hao detonated all nine soul rings and swung the Clear Sky Hammer at Qian Daoliu and the others.

Qian Daoliu killed Tang Hao after the Spirit Hall forces survived his Ring Detonation, and Qian Renxue collected Tang Hao’s six soul bones. Back at the Spirit Hall Branch, Bi Zihan began comprehending sword intent, entering a mysterious state where countless paths appeared before him.

• Yue Guan and Ghostly Charm were blasted away by Tang Hao’s Clear Sky Hammer, while Bibi Dong shielded Qian Renxue and Bi Zihan with help from Bi Zihan’s necklace.
• Qian Daoliu dismissed Tang Hao’s attack as a dying struggle and killed him with a palm strike to the chest.
• Qian Daoliu gathered Tang Hao’s six soul bones and gave them to Qian Renxue to store in her Soul Tool.
• Bibi Dong led the group back to the Spirit Hall Branch in Nuoding City to recover from the battle’s injuries and losses.
• Bi Zihan considered how he might replicate Ring Detonation, then chose to focus first on comprehending sword intent.
• Bi Zihan meditated on his bed and entered a profound state in which countless paths and sharp swords appeared before him.

Bi Zihan rejected the Guardian Sword Intent for now and sought Bibi Dong’s advice on his Ring Detonation theory, learning that attempting it could destroy his Soul Rings and cultivation. When Yu Xiaogang arrived to meet Bibi Dong with Yu Tianheng, Bi Zihan stayed in the room, and Yu Tianheng angrily demanded to know why he was there.

• Bi Zihan found that only the Slaughter Sword Intent and Guardian Sword Intent remained, but he withdrew without choosing the Guardian Sword Intent because it did not suit him yet.
• Bi Zihan told Bibi Dong about his theoretical plan to replicate Ring Detonation, and she warned that it could cause a devastating explosion and ruin his cultivation.
• Bi Zihan accepted Bibi Dong’s warning and agreed not to attempt the theory before he was certain it was safe.
• A deacon announced that Yu Xiaogang had come to see Bibi Dong, and she told the deacon to let him in.
• Yu Xiaogang and Yu Tianheng entered and were surprised to see Bi Zihan with Bibi Dong, while Yu Tianheng angrily asked why Bi Zihan was there.

Yu Xiaogang visited Bibi Dong to ask how Yu Tianheng could absorb Ten-thousand-year Soul Rings, but Bibi Dong rejected his request and demanded that he address her as Your Holiness. Yu Tianheng then challenged Bi Zihan to a spar, and Bi Zihan proposed a battle to the death instead.

• Yu Tianheng confronted Bi Zihan at Spirit Hall, and Yu Xiaogang warned him to mind his words.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Bibi Dong to reveal how Yu Tianheng could absorb Ten-thousand-year Soul Rings beyond his rank so he could train him into a powerhouse.
• Bibi Dong refused to help Yu Xiaogang, while Bi Zihan suppressed his killing aura at her command and silently resolved to kill Yu Xiaogang after she had let go of their past.
• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang to address her as Your Holiness, leaving him and Yu Tianheng stunned.
• Yu Tianheng requested a rematch against Bi Zihan, and Bi Zihan challenged him to fight to the death.

Yu Tianheng challenged Bi Zihan to a duel, but Yu Xiaogang persuaded him to make it a spar instead. Bi Zihan quickly overwhelmed Yu Tianheng, and despite Bibi Dong telling him to stop, he knocked him unconscious before Yu Xiaogang could intervene.

• Yu Tianheng agreed to fight Bi Zihan, but Yu Xiaogang urged him to spar rather than risk a fight to the death.
• Bibi Dong sent Bi Zihan and Yu Tianheng outside the Spirit Hall Branch to spar, while Yu Xiaogang warned Yu Tianheng to attack before Bi Zihan summoned his martial soul and to surrender if needed.
• Yu Tianheng summoned his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul and attacked with his second soul skill, but Bi Zihan caught his hand and shattered the bones in his arm.
• Bi Zihan slammed Yu Tianheng into the ground and restrained him, while Yu Xiaogang asked Bibi Dong to stop the spar.
• Bibi Dong told Bi Zihan to stop and privately told Yu Xiaogang to take Yu Tianheng and leave, but Bi Zihan landed another blow and knocked Yu Tianheng unconscious.

Bi Zihan explained to Bibi Dong why he despised Yu Xiaogang, criticizing him for abandoning Liu Erlong and for pressuring Bibi Dong with emotional appeals. Bibi Dong listened in silence as Bi Zihan questioned why she cared for a man he considered worthless.

• Bi Zihan left Yu Xiaogang and Yu Tianheng behind, then told Qian Renxue that he disliked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and had easily defeated Yu Tianheng.
• Bi Zihan went to Bibi Dong's room, where she asked why he had shown such hostility toward Yu Xiaogang.
• Bi Zihan told Bibi Dong that Yu Xiaogang fled the clan on his wedding night after learning Liu Erlong was his cousin, leaving her to face the consequences alone.
• Bi Zihan accused Yu Xiaogang of using emotional pressure against Bibi Dong and argued that he was an unworthy man who took credit for Spirit Hall's research.
• Bibi Dong said Bi Zihan was too young to understand matters of the heart, and he challenged her affection for Yu Xiaogang by pointing to his flaws and mistakes.

After Bibi Dong sent Bi Zihan away, he went to Nuoding Academy to find Yu Xiaogang and instead learned that Yu Xiaogang was caring for the injured Yu Tianheng. Bi Zihan listened from the roof as Yu Xiaogang planned to obtain Bibi Dong’s method for absorbing soul rings beyond one’s level.

• Bibi Dong ordered Bi Zihan out of her room, and he left the Spirit Hall Branch angry at Yu Xiaogang.
• Bi Zihan bribed Nuoding Academy’s gatekeeper, learned Grandmaster was inside, and followed students’ gossip to the back mountain.
• Bi Zihan disguised himself as an ordinary student, seized Xiao Chenyu, and forced him to reveal where Grandmaster lived.
• Bi Zihan knocked Xiao Chenyu unconscious and found Yu Xiaogang’s wooden house on the eastern side of the academy.
• Bi Zihan overheard Yu Xiaogang warn Yu Tianheng about challenging him and say he would seek Bibi Dong’s method for absorbing soul rings beyond one’s level.

Bi Zihan ambushed Yu Xiaogang at night, inflicted painful but nonfatal wounds, and fled Nuoding Academy. After a middle-aged Soul Ancestor chased him out of Nuoding City, Bi Zihan questioned why someone of his strength was teaching at an elementary academy.

• Bi Zihan overheard Yu Xiaogang speaking about Bibi Dong and decided to punish him that night.
• Bi Zihan blinded Yu Xiaogang with lime powder, drove Yu Tianheng back into the cabin, and stabbed Yu Xiaogang while avoiding his vital points.
• Bi Zihan poured salt water over Yu Xiaogang's eyes and wounds, then escaped as Yu Tianheng came out to help his uncle.
• A middle-aged Nuoding Academy man with an eagle Martial Soul pursued Bi Zihan out of the city.
• Bi Zihan stopped at a forest and challenged the middle-aged man, questioning why a Soul Ancestor was teaching at Nuoding Academy.

Bi Zihan used his Rakshasa Demon Scythe to defeat the Nuoding Academy dean after the man pursued him, then returned to the Spirit Hall Branch. Bibi Dong scolded him for going out alone, while Bi Zihan realized she had not discovered his encounter with Yu Xiaogang.

• Bi Zihan revealed his Rakshasa Demon Scythe and warned the Nuoding Academy dean to judge their strength before pursuing him.
• The dean attacked with his fourth soul skill, but Bi Zihan's scythe dissolved the feathers and then assaulted the dean from nine directions.
• Bi Zihan's scythes wounded the dean and disrupted his mind, but stopped before delivering a fatal blow; the dean decided not to pursue him again.
• Bi Zihan removed his mask outside Nuoding City and returned to the Spirit Hall Branch, where he found Bibi Dong waiting.
• Bibi Dong scolded Bi Zihan for leaving without telling her, and he reassured her that he was strong enough to face a Soul King.

Bi Zihan returned to Bibi Dong after spending the day outside Nuoding City, and she let him go rest while he considered how to resolve her feelings about Yu Xiaogang. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang and Yu Tianheng tried to identify the masked scythe wielder who had attacked them, and the middle-aged man who confronted the attacker concealed how badly he had been outmatched.

• Bibi Dong gently scolded Bi Zihan, accepted that he had eaten, and sent him to rest before their return to Spirit Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Yu Tianheng who had attacked him, but Yu Tianheng said the assailant had knocked him back before he could see his face.
• A middle-aged man reported fighting a masked attacker with a strange scythe martial soul and warned Yu Xiaogang that the attacker might return.
• The middle-aged man claimed the attacker was weaker than him, though he had actually failed to defeat him and feared another encounter.
• Yu Xiaogang said he had planned to take Yu Tianheng to Suotuo City, but their injuries meant they would remain at Nuoding Academy for a few more days.

On the journey back to Spirit City, Bi Zihan unexpectedly advanced to level thirty-eight while eating, then asked Bibi Dong about learning to identify medicinal herbs and Immortal Herbs. She suggested he seek Yue Guan’s Record of a Hundred Herbs and learn from Yang Wushuang, while warning him not to pressure either man.

• Bi Zihan’s Soul Power rose from level thirty-seven to level thirty-eight as he ate fruit and pastries in the carriage.
• Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, and Qian Renxue questioned Bi Zihan’s unusual breakthrough, and he said his Martial Soul gradually generated Soul Power on its own.
• Bi Zihan asked Bibi Dong whether Spirit Hall had books about medicinal herbs and Immortal Herbs.
• Bibi Dong recommended that Bi Zihan ask Yue Guan to borrow the Record of a Hundred Herbs and consult Yang Wushuang, who had joined Spirit Hall three years earlier.
• Bibi Dong told Bi Zihan not to force Yue Guan or Yang Wushuang to share their personal books or knowledge.

After returning to Spirit City, Bi Zihan borrowed Yue Guan’s Record of a Hundred Herbs with Ghostly Charm’s help and studied its descriptions of medicinal and immortal herbs. The chapter ended with Hu Liena approaching Bi Zihan’s room while carrying a flood dragon.

• Bi Zihan asked Ghostly Charm to help him borrow Yue Guan’s Record of a Hundred Herbs.
• Ghostly Charm brought Bi Zihan to Yue Guan, who lent him the book on the condition that he return it after reading.
• Yue Guan asked Ghostly Charm why Bi Zihan had become interested in herbs, and Ghostly Charm said he trusted Bi Zihan to return the book.
• Bi Zihan returned to his room and carefully read the book, focusing on its sections about immortal herbs.
• Hu Liena walked toward Bi Zihan’s room carrying a flood dragon and looking gloomy.

Hu Liena complained that Jiao had devoured more than three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins in two months, so Bi Zihan decided to send him to the Star Dou Great Forest to grow on his own. At lunch, Bibi Dong told Bi Zihan she had prepared a list for him and urged Hu Liena to cultivate harder.

• Hu Liena brought Jiao to Bi Zihan and told him the picky soul beast had eaten only thousand-year-or-older soul beast meat, costing over three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Bi Zihan decided to send Jiao to the Star Dou Great Forest, where he could grow through battle, and asked Hu Liena to arrange for a deacon or elder to take him there.
• Hu Liena agreed and carried Jiao away while Bi Zihan returned to reading the Record of a Hundred Herbs.
• At lunch, Bibi Dong asked Bi Zihan to meet her in the study after eating because she had prepared a list for him.
• Hu Liena asked about the list, and Bibi Dong urged her to cultivate properly while noting Bi Zihan's exceptional strength and talent.

Bibi Dong gave Bi Zihan a roster of protectors for his future mission in the Star Luo Empire and warned him to stay cautious. Meanwhile, the God Realm Committee confronted Rakshasa God over her mark on Bi Zihan, but she argued that her actions had not broken the rules.

• Bibi Dong warned Bi Zihan about the dangers of the Star Luo Empire and showed him a list of eight protectors, including two Peak Douluo and two Titled Douluo.
• Bi Zihan questioned why Fourth Enshrinement and Fifth Enshrinement from the Worship Hall were assigned to protect him, and Bibi Dong explained that he could command only the other six.
• Bibi Dong told Bi Zihan that the mission’s start date was undecided and sent him back to the garden while she considered whether to make him Holy Son, then decided he needed more experience first.
• The God Realm Committee watched evidence of Rakshasa God gathering Evil Energy and Divine Blood around Bi Zihan and challenged her about it.
• Rakshasa God claimed she had only marked Bi Zihan while considering him as a successor and had later decided against choosing him, so she had not violated the God Realm’s rules.

The Divine Realm gods decided to leave Bi Zihan alone, while Evil God King considered him as a possible inheritor. After losing a sword match to Qian Renxue, Bi Zihan recovered memories of a fatal mission from his previous life and wondered about a fallen-angel gold coin.

• Asura God agreed to leave Bi Zihan alone after the Goddess of Life and Destruction God King advised against interfering, and Evil God King asked for three Life God Seeds to test him as an inheritor.
• Qian Renxue defeated Bi Zihan in their sword match and left, promising to continue training the next day.
• Bi Zihan recalled ignoring an old man's warning and accepting a mission involving a fallen-angel gold coin.
• Bi Zihan remembered rescuing a little girl before being left behind, wounded, and saw the bloodstained coin glow on Broken Sword Peak.
• Bi Zihan spat pale golden blood and wondered why the fallen-angel gold coin felt as if it had once belonged to him.