Chapter Summaries

Luo Chuan and his companions reached the lawless border between the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires, where bandits ambushed their carriage. The bandits surrounded the group, but Luo Chuan stepped forward to fight them.

• Luo Chuan traveled with Hu Liena, Zhu Zhuqing, Gu Yuena, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong toward the Star Luo Empire, uncertain whether the Heavenly Dao was behind the upheaval.
• After more than half a month, the group reached the border, and Zhu Zhuqing took the reins while Luo Chuan rested inside the carriage.
• A hidden pit trapped three horses and stopped the carriage, waking Gu Yuena and putting the group on guard.
• A stubbled Soul Saint and his bandits surrounded the carriage and threatened the women, boasting of their strength and their intentions.
• Luo Chuan confronted the bandit leader and told Zhu Zhuqing he would handle the fighting.

Luo Chuan and his companions killed a bandit group, then transformed their remaining horse into the powerful Big Black and continued their journey. As the Heavenly Ranking shifted against teams and talents connected to Luo Chuan, Hu Liena worried about the Spirit Hall Team, while Bibi Dong recognized the gods' hand behind the changes.

• Gu Yuena killed a Soul Emperor, Hu Liena killed the bandits around him, and Luo Chuan obliterated the black bear Soul Sage and the remaining attackers.
• Gu Yuena burned the bodies, and Luo Chuan used pills and a spiritual herb to strengthen the surviving horse into a hundred-year soul beast.
• Luo Chuan named the transformed horse Big Black, and the group resumed their journey with Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu recovering from the killings.
• The Heavenly Ranking shifted, with Feng Xiaotian rising to fourth, Oscar falling outside the top ten, and the Divine Wind Team climbing above the Star Luo Empire's War Team.
• Hu Liena worried that the Spirit Hall Team would miss the top three, and Bibi Dong watched the ranking, knowing the gods were behind it.

Bibi Dong learned that Hu Liena was returning to Spirit City with Luo Chuan and arranged a grand welcome while considering Spirit Hall’s future. After Luo Chuan arrived, he and Bibi Dong exchanged probing remarks about cooperation, and he sensed an unsettling presence from the mountaintop.

• Bibi Dong heard that Hu Liena was traveling with Luo Chuan and ordered Ghost and Yue Guan to welcome them with the highest honors.
• Bibi Dong set aside Spirit Hall’s proposed merger with Luo Shen Hall and ordered its eligible young disciples to train in the Longitudinal Mountain Range after Hu Liena returned.
• Luo Chuan and the women arrived in Spirit City, where Ghost and Yue Guan tested his composure and then escorted the group to Pope Mountain.
• Bibi Dong personally greeted Luo Chuan, and they exchanged pointed remarks about Spirit City, destiny, cooperation, and their relative ages.
• Luo Chuan sensed an uncomfortable presence from the mountaintop as the group continued into Pope Palace.

Hu Liena reunited with Bibi Dong, who questioned her relationship with Luo Chuan and proposed an early wedding to strengthen an alliance between Spirit Hall and Luo Shen Hall. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong astonished by Hu Liena’s transformed Martial Soul and level fifty-four cultivation.

• Hu Liena reunited with Bibi Dong at the Pope Palace and praised Luo Chuan when Bibi Dong asked how he treated her.
• Bibi Dong questioned Hu Liena about Luo Chuan’s other women, and Hu Liena awkwardly explained that Luo Chuan was too strong for her to handle alone.
• Bibi Dong proposed arranging Hu Liena and Luo Chuan’s wedding early so she could name him Spirit Hall’s Saint Child and stabilize the alliance with Luo Shen Hall.
• Hu Liena objected that Luo Chuan was busy and changed the subject by showing Bibi Dong her Martial Soul Possession.
• Bibi Dong saw Hu Liena’s Nine-Tailed Immortal Exquisite, five Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, and level fifty-four cultivation, and learned Luo Chuan had called her Martial Soul God-level.

Ning Rongrong worried whether her father would accept her relationship with Luo Chuan, while Luo Chuan and Gu Yuena discussed his unusual martial soul and plans for the Contract of Life. The conversation revealed Gu Yuena’s identity to Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong, and ended with the women teasing each other over Luo Chuan.

• Ning Rongrong told Luo Chuan she wanted to be intimate with him, but he asked her to wait until she reached level fifty and promised to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with her.
• Gu Yuena proposed that powerful soul beasts such as Ten Thousand Demons King sacrifice themselves to give Luo Chuan soul rings, and said Xiao Wu could do so despite her low cultivation.
• Luo Chuan revealed that his Three Lives Twin Lotus gave each soul ring three soul skills, then explained he wanted to study soul-ring breakthroughs to develop the Contract of Life.
• Gu Yuena offered Zhu Zhuqing a Hundred-Thousand-Year soul beast for her fifth ring, while Luo Chuan asked her to wait as he continued researching the Contract of Life.
• Gu Yuena admitted to Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong that she was the king of soul beasts, then Ning Rongrong and Gu Yuena traded teasing remarks about Luo Chuan.

Luo Chuan comforted Xiao Wu, and the two grew closer during the night, leaving her exhausted by morning. Gu Yuena cared for Xiao Wu while Hu Liena took Luo Chuan to meet the Pope, where the Spirit Hall Team was waiting.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu slipped away from Gu Yuena, who later returned to her room and went to sleep after hearing Luo Chuan and Xiao Wu next door.
• Luo Chuan asked Xiao Wu whether she resented Gu Yuena, and Xiao Wu cried as she confessed her regrets and reassured him about her past with Tang San.
• Luo Chuan kissed Xiao Wu and helped her through the night; Gu Yuena and Ning Rongrong were awakened by the noise.
• Hu Liena found Xiao Wu's room in disarray and scolded Luo Chuan, while Xiao Wu refused treatment and Gu Yuena stayed to care for her.
• Gu Yuena told Xiao Wu to call her Sister Na'er, then went to make her carrot soup.
• Hu Liena led Luo Chuan to the Pope Palace, where the ten members of the Spirit Hall Team were waiting.

Luo Chuan reunited with Hu Liena and faced Bibi Dong in the Pope Palace, where he rejected her attempt to pressure him into admitting he could evolve Martial Souls. After he extinguished Qiandao Liu’s spying spiritual power, Bibi Dong asked him to assess the Spirit Hall Team.

• Xie Yue recognized Luo Chuan, learned that he and Hu Liena were together, and advised Yan to give up on her.
• Luo Chuan and Hu Liena met Bibi Dong, and Luo Chuan silently challenged her before she rose to greet him.
• Bibi Dong summoned the Spirit Hall Team and questioned Luo Chuan about his supposed ability to help others undergo Martial Soul Evolution; he denied it and resisted her threat to punish Hu Liena.
• Luo Chuan sensed and destroyed Qiandao Liu’s spying spiritual power, impressing Qiandao Liu at the Worship Hall.
• Bibi Dong asked Luo Chuan what he thought of the Spirit Hall Team’s talents, and he noticed Leng Yan’s level-fifty-three Soul Power.

Luo Chuan bargained with Bibi Dong over immortal herbs for Hu Liena and the Spirit Hall members, then silenced the Spirit Hall Team by revealing his four powerful soul rings. He gave Xie Yue an immortal herb and was left alone with Bibi Dong after Hu Liena and the others departed.

• Luo Chuan refused Bibi Dong's request for immortal herbs, and Bibi Dong tried to bargain by treating Hu Liena's marriage agreement as leverage.
• Hu Liena asked Luo Chuan to give Bibi Dong and her brother immortal herbs, and Luo Chuan agreed to give Bibi Dong one for Hu Liena's sake.
• Bibi Dong challenged the Shrek Team to spar against the Spirit Hall Team, but Luo Chuan revealed four red soul rings, including one with three golden patterns, and no one dared fight him.
• Luo Chuan offered immortal herbs to Spirit Hall members who signed a contract, and Bibi Dong ordered everyone except Xie Yue to leave.
• Luo Chuan gave Xie Yue a golden immortal herb, then put away the Contract Stele when Bibi Dong objected, and Xie Yue left to refine the herb under Chrysanthemum Elder's protection.

Luo Chuan and Bibi Dong discussed how Luo Shen Hall and Spirit Hall would cooperate to unify the continent, but Luo Chuan proposed taking both empires himself and having Qian Renxue assist him. He left to return home, while Bibi Dong stopped him to ask about the immortal-grade herbs.

• Luo Chuan revealed that he knew Bibi Dong possessed a God Inheritance and challenged her belief that she could silence him.
• Bibi Dong proposed that Luo Shen Hall handle Heaven Dou while Spirit Hall attacked Star Luo, but Luo Chuan argued that Heaven Dou would be easy to control through Xue Qinghe.
• Luo Chuan questioned Bibi Dong about Nana, Qian Renxue, and the future of Spirit Hall, then offered to handle both empires if Qian Renxue cooperated.
• Luo Chuan explained that he could control emperors with the Soul Absorption Technique but lacked the cultivation needed to enslave powerful soul masters.
• Luo Chuan rose to leave for home, and Bibi Dong asked him about the immortal-grade herbs.

Luo Chuan gave Bibi Dong a God Devouring Flower and learned that the Rakshasa Secret Realm had been sealed, while Bibi Dong tried to recruit his help. Back at the guesthouse, Luo Chuan healed Xiao Wu, and Bibi Dong later plotted to use Hu Liena to persuade him.

• Luo Chuan gave Bibi Dong a God Devouring Flower and explained how to absorb it, then learned that she could no longer enter the sealed Rakshasa Secret Realm.
• Bibi Dong asked Luo Chuan to help open the secret realm, offering Hu Liena’s marriage and the Spirit Hall Saint Child position, but he refused.
• Luo Chuan returned to the guesthouse and used an Essence Nurturing Pill and golden light to heal Xiao Wu, who then pounced on him before he shut the door with her inside.
• Bibi Dong lectured Hu Liena for helping Luo Chuan, then hinted that she wanted Hu Liena to use pillow talk to persuade him.

Luo Chuan accompanied Bibi Dong to Rakshasa Valley to help her open Rakshasa Gate, where they encountered a powerful Rakshasa Spider. He demonstrated his strength and began stripping the spider of its corrupted power, but it continued to struggle.

• Bibi Dong told Luo Chuan that her disciple would need at least two days to recover, then led him out of Spirit City toward Rakshasa Valley.
• Bibi Dong warned Luo Chuan that Rakshasa Valley's soul beasts were exceptionally vicious as they entered the lifeless canyon.
• A Rakshasa Spider ambushed Luo Chuan, and Bibi Dong identified it as a fifty-thousand-year beast strengthened by Rakshasa Divine Power.
• Luo Chuan blocked the spider's attacks with his Indestructible Lotus Robe and severed one of its spider spears with his bare hand.
• Luo Chuan blocked the spider's poisonous arrow with a wall of fire, then used Deprivation to strip away some of its corrupted power.
• The weakened Rakshasa Spider collapsed but continued to struggle for a final attack.

Luo Chuan and Bibi Dong fought their way through Rakshasa Valley and reached a gate sealed by Shura power. Bibi Dong rejected Luo Chuan’s warnings about Rakshasa’s influence, and the Shura God spoke to Luo Chuan from the barrier.

• Luo Chuan defeated the Rakshasa Spider, absorbed its pure energy, and collected its soul ring for Bibi Dong.
• Luo Chuan and Bibi Dong ventured deeper into Rakshasa Valley until they found a gate carved with a blue-faced beast.
• Luo Chuan dispelled Rakshasa’s influence from Bibi Dong and explained that the Shura God might be considering her as an inheritor while keeping the Rakshasa inheritance sealed.
• Bibi Dong rejected Luo Chuan’s explanation and insisted that the Rakshasa divine position suited her better.
• Luo Chuan touched the gate and was blasted back by Shura power, then heard the Shura God tell him to take Bibi Dong inside because words could not make her see the truth.

Luo Chuan broke the Shura seal on the Rakshasa Gate and followed Bibi Dong into the Rakshasa Secret Realm, where he shielded her from Rakshasa's influence. He challenged Rakshasa's manipulation of Bibi Dong's hatred, and the enraged goddess rose from her throne to confront him.

• Luo Chuan used the Merit Golden Lotus to dissolve the Shura Barrier, and Rakshasa Divine Power burst through the gate as it opened.
• Bibi Dong entered the Rakshasa Secret Realm, and Luo Chuan followed after taking pills to restore his Soul Power.
• Luo Chuan covered himself and Bibi Dong with Red Lotus Karmic Fire, preventing the Rakshasa Aura from influencing her.
• Rakshasa tried to summon Bibi Dong to reclaim her inheritance, but Bibi Dong resisted and questioned Luo Chuan about what he had done.
• Luo Chuan accused Rakshasa of creating Bibi Dong's hatred through illusions and interference in the mortal world, prompting Rakshasa to rise and threaten him.

Luo Chuan revealed that Rakshasa had fabricated Bibi Dong’s memories of her past and Qian Renxue’s birth, then attacked the Rakshasa God’s divine consciousness to free Bibi Dong from the illusion. His Red Lotus Karmic Fire trapped the divine consciousness, but the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Luo Chuan told Bibi Dong that Rakshasa had made her believe she had lost her virginity and given birth to Qian Renxue, though he claimed both were illusions.
• Luo Chuan explained that his Merit Golden Lotus had protected Bibi Dong’s mind and that destroying the inheritance ground could weaken Rakshasa’s influence.
• Luo Chuan attacked Rakshasa’s divine consciousness with the World-Destroying Lotus, but Rakshasa deflected the explosion and advanced to kill him.
• Luo Chuan sealed Rakshasa’s divine consciousness with the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, devouring the secret realm’s divine power and binding her with chains of fire.
• Rakshasa’s divine consciousness struggled against the flames as Luo Chuan summoned the Merit Golden Lotus again.

Luo Chuan used karmic fire to burn the Rakshasa God’s divine thought, but it escaped into Bibi Dong and manipulated her into attacking him. As the fire scorched Bibi Dong’s soul, Luo Chuan entered her Sea of Consciousness to protect her, while Rakshasa saw a chance to deepen her hatred.

• Luo Chuan weakened and deprived the Rakshasa God before trapping its divine thought in karmic fire.
• Rakshasa severed its own arm and entered Bibi Dong’s body, revealing that it had saved her from Qian Xunji and that her memories of pregnancy had been an illusion.
• Rakshasa tried to make Bibi Dong hate Luo Chuan, then controlled her body and sent her into the karmic fire.
• Luo Chuan poured Source Qi from a Source Stone into his life spring and tried to suppress the flames, but Bibi Dong struck him while Rakshasa remained inside her.
• Luo Chuan entered Bibi Dong’s Sea of Consciousness and sheltered her spiritual power as the fire consumed it.
• Rakshasa watched them inside the burning Sea of Consciousness and declared that Luo Chuan’s arrival was helping its plan.

Asura offered Bibi Dong the Shura God inheritance after the Karma Fire Red Lotus purified her martial souls, and she accepted the final task of defeating the Slaughter King. When Luo Chuan woke, Bibi Dong chased and struck him, then worried that she might have seriously injured him.

• Asura revealed that Bibi Dong had passed the first Shura trial and offered her his divine inheritance, explaining that her purified martial souls no longer suited Rakshasa.
• Bibi Dong accepted the task of defeating the Slaughter King, while Asura branded her and Luo Chuan with Shura divine power; Luo Chuan's powers initially purified the mark before he allowed it to remain.
• Bibi Dong realized Luo Chuan was awake and kicked at him, but he dodged, dressed, and protested that he had protected her.
• After Asura departed, Bibi Dong chased Luo Chuan through the Rakshasa Secret Realm as he explained that Rakshasa had caused what happened and that he had exhausted himself protecting her.
• Bibi Dong struck Luo Chuan in the chest, and when he lay motionless, she crouched beside him and asked if he was all right.

After the Karma Fire destroyed Rakshasa’s divine sense, Bibi Dong and Luo Chuan survived the ordeal, though Bibi Dong was furious at Luo Chuan and struggled to decide whether to kill him. As the flames faded, Asura appeared in the secret realm and told Bibi Dong he would not harm Luo Chuan.

• Rakshasa’s divine sense was burned away, while the Karma Fire purified Bibi Dong and Luo Chuan and left them unconscious and entwined.
• Bibi Dong regained control, discovered her Soul Power had become purer and her cultivation had advanced, then struck Luo Chuan and repeatedly considered killing him.
• Bibi Dong recovered, erased the mark on the throne, and approached Luo Chuan with a dagger, but she could not bring herself to stab him.
• The Karma Fire Domain dispersed, and Bibi Dong checked that Luo Chuan was alive before a voice praised his strength and revealed that he had killed Rakshasa’s divine sense.
• Asura appeared before Bibi Dong and said he would not harm Luo Chuan.

Luo Chuan and Bibi Dong tried to escape as the Rakshasa Secret Realm collapsed, but a Space Collapse pulled them in before Luo Chuan sheltered them inside a golden cauldron. In Spirit City, Hu Liena and the others sensed that something was wrong and began searching for the missing pair.

• Luo Chuan warned Bibi Dong that the Rakshasa Secret Realm was collapsing, and she abandoned the Rakshasa Scythe to help him flee.
• A Space Collapse dragged Luo Chuan and Bibi Dong into a rift, and Bibi Dong refused to let go of him.
• Luo Chuan swallowed pills and summoned the Mystic Yellow Mother Qi Cauldron, which protected them from the spatial fissures.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Gu Yuena, and Ning Rongrong found Hu Liena troubled by a nightmare about Luo Chuan and Bibi Dong being in danger.
• Hu Liena led the women to Pope Palace, where a guard told them Bibi Dong and Luo Chuan had left early that morning.
• Gu Yuena suspected their disappearance was connected to the mountaintop and asked Xiao Wu for Di Tian's scale.

Gu Yuena and the Soul Beasts arrived at Spirit Hall seeking Luo Chuan, but Qiandao Liu told them he had left with the Pope and was likely safe. Yun Ming reassured Luo Chuan’s companions and then fought Golden Crocodile Douluo after Ning Rongrong revealed he had threatened Gu Yuena.

• Xiao Wu summoned Di Tian, Bear King, and the other Soul Beasts to Pope Palace, where they knelt before Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena asked Qiandao Liu where Luo Chuan had gone, and he said Luo Chuan had left Spirit City with the Pope but was not in mortal danger.
• Gu Yuena sent Di Tian to bring Yun Ming from Heaven Dou City, and Yun Ming reassured Zhu Zhuqing and the others that Luo Chuan was alive and would send word.
• Zhu Zhuqing chose to wait at Spirit Hall for Luo Chuan, while Ning Rongrong asked Yun Ming to punish Golden Crocodile Douluo for trying to attack Gu Yuena.
• Yun Ming took Qiandao Liu and Golden Crocodile Douluo away from Spirit City and overwhelmed them, crushing Qiandao Liu with one hand.

After the Profound Yellow Cauldron crashed into the sea, Bibi Dong and Luo Chuan remained trapped in its dark inner space. Luo Chuan recovered while teasing Bibi Dong, and she eventually fell asleep in his embrace as they waited to find a way out.

• The cauldron washed ashore after crashing into the sea, leaving Luo Chuan and Bibi Dong unconscious inside it.
• Bibi Dong woke first and held the still-unconscious Luo Chuan until he came to.
• Luo Chuan reassured Bibi Dong that they would survive, then teased her while recovering and drew several angry blows in return.
• Bibi Dong struck Luo Chuan away when he reached toward her, then panicked when she could no longer find him in the darkness.
• Luo Chuan returned, said he had recovered about thirty percent, and held Bibi Dong while she urged him to recover.
• Bibi Dong ignored Luo Chuan's attempts to win her over, then fell asleep against his shoulder as they remained trapped together.