Chapter Summaries

Zhuge Lan learned that Bai Huyang remained missing, then received Liu Shenlong’s supposedly sincere apology. Liu Shenlong’s questions about Zhuge Lan’s miraculous items exposed suspicious motives, and Zhuge Lan resolved to watch him closely.

• Dugu Bo told Zhuge Lan that he and Bai He had found no clues to Bai Huyang’s whereabouts, and Zhuge Lan left the search to Bai He and Nebula Douluo.
• Liu Shenlong visited Zhuge Lan the next morning, apologized on behalf of Senior Er Long, and knelt until Dugu Bo invited him inside.
• Liu Shenlong tried to make tea, but Dugu Bo went to prepare it himself, leaving Liu Shenlong alone with Zhuge Lan.
• Liu Shenlong asked where Zhuge Lan’s miraculous items came from, and Zhuge Lan warned him not to pry into secrets or risk being killed.
• Liu Shenlong apologized again and hid his anger as Zhuge Lan ordered him to drink the tea and leave.

Zhuge Lan discovered Liu Shenlong had poisoned the tea and stopped Dugu Bo from drinking it, but Liu Shenlong suddenly died from poison himself. Zhuge Lan feared Spirit Hall had framed him to turn the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan against him, and asked Dugu Bo how they could bring Liu Shenlong’s body back.

• Dugu Bo brought tea, and Zhuge Lan grew suspicious when Liu Shenlong repeatedly offered to brew more.
• Zhuge Lan warned Dugu Bo not to drink the next tea, then tested Liu Shenlong by refusing to drink first.
• Zhuge Lan knocked Dugu Bo’s cup away, and the tea foamed and corroded a hole in the floor.
• Liu Shenlong threatened Zhuge Lan over Liu Erlong, then collapsed and died before he could escape.
• Dugu Bo determined Liu Shenlong had been poisoned for several days, and Zhuge Lan suspected Spirit Hall was framing him.
• Zhuge Lan asked Dugu Bo how they could take Liu Shenlong’s body back.

Zhuge Lan saved Liu Shenlong from poison and uncovered Chrysanthemum Douluo’s plot to frame him on Spirit Hall’s behalf. Liu Erlong took Liu Shenlong away and ordered him to stay confined until the secret realm opened.

• Dugu Bo tried to draw the poison from Liu Shenlong while Zhuge Lan searched the system store for an antidote.
• After rumors spread that Zhuge Lan had killed Liu Shenlong, Zhuge Lan used an elite Antidote Pill to save him, though some poison remained.
• Liu Shenlong woke and revealed that Chrysanthemum Douluo had ordered him to poison Zhuge Lan, promising him a night with Qian Renxue.
• Liu Shenlong said he did not know where Chrysanthemum Douluo or Qian Renxue were hiding.
• Liu Erlong arrived, learned Liu Shenlong had colluded with Spirit Hall, slapped him, and ordered him not to leave until the secret realm opened.

Zhuge Lan prepared to enter the secret realm under a hidden identity by buying a God-level Sticker that gave him a Qilin Martial Soul and arranging a disguise as Lei Yun. As he joined Ning Rongrong’s team as vice-captain, she warned him that five Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples resented his sudden appointment.

• Zhuge Lan realized he had forgotten to prepare for the secret realm and bought a God-level Sticker, choosing a Qilin Martial Soul.
• Zhuge Lan applied the sticker, revealed his Qilin Martial Soul to Ning Rongrong, and agreed to enter the secret realm under a new identity.
• Ning Rongrong arranged for Zhuge Lan to join the team as Lei Yun, its vice-captain, while she served as captain.
• Zhuge Lan made a human-skin mask for Lei Yun and prepared a puppet Zhuge Lan with Teleportation Talismans as a decoy.
• Ning Rongrong told Zhuge Lan that five disciples with Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Souls were unhappy about his appointment, and he asked whether she wanted him to demonstrate his strength.

Zhuge Lan, posing as Lei Yun, faced a challenge from Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples questioning his right to be vice-captain. He revealed his rank and agreed to fight Tang Shan and a boosted teammate, leaving the battle poised at their first clash.

• Ning Rongrong agreed with Zhuge Lan’s plan to rely on Soul Skills while disguised as Lei Yun.
• Five Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples challenged Lei Yun’s qualifications, and he offered to give up the vice-captain position if he could not withstand their strongest opponents for three moves.
• The disciples brought Tang Shan, an eighty-seventh-level Clear Sky Sect War Soul Master, to fight Lei Yun, an eighty-ninth-level War Soul Master.
• Lei Yun asked to face Tang Shan alongside the strongest Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciple, and the woman amplified Tang Shan with all eight of her Soul Skills.
• Tang Shan attacked with his Clear Sky Hammer and fifth soul skill, while Zhuge Lan met the blow with his first soul skill, Qilin Fist.

Zhuge Lan, posing as Lei Yun, defeated Tang Shan and secured his place as vice-captain of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. As the secret realm competition began, the assembled sects wondered who the unfamiliar Lei Yun was.

• Lei Yun overpowered Tang Shan's Clear Sky Hammer with his qilin Martial Soul Avatar, and Tang Shan conceded after receiving healing.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples accepted Lei Yun as their vice-captain and discussed whether he could defeat Clear Sky Sect captain Tang Ao.
• Lei Yun asked Tang Shan about Tang San, but Tang Shan did not recognize the name.
• The secret realm competition began, and elders from other sects speculated that Lei Yun was either an illegitimate son of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect or outside support.

Before the teams entered the Wood Emperor Forest Secret Realm, Sovereign Ning explained the scoring system and confirmed that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast lived inside. Several disguised participants recognized Zhuge Lan, while rival teams made plans to target him and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Sovereign Ning explained that teams and individuals earned points by hunting Soul Beasts, then confirmed that the secret realm contained a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Zhuge Lan considered hunting the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, while disguised as Leng Xiaoxue, Qian Renxue planned to claim its soul ring and Soul Bone.
• Tang San, disguised as Tang Fei, recognized Zhuge Lan as Lei Yun, rejected Luo Baiwei, and decided she could not be allowed to live.
• Liu Shenlong planned to find the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and pursue Ning Rongrong, despite his disciple warning him that Zhuge Lan might retaliate.
• Yan Hu planned for Spirit Hall's team to hunt normally at first, then kill the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's male disciples and seize its female disciples.

Sovereign Ning opened the Wood Emperor Forest secret realm for the sect competition, but the Ancient Divine Tree awakened and sent its Soul Beasts to attack the human teams after sensing too many Titled Douluo. As the scoreboard showed mass deaths and rapidly changing scores, Sovereign Ning sent Sword Douluo to investigate the disturbance.

• Sovereign Ning used a wooden crown to open the secret realm entrance, and the sect teams entered in order.
• The Ancient Divine Tree awakened two other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and the Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts, ordering them to kill the human invaders.
• Grass Spirit and Tree Xiao ambushed small sect teams, while attacks across the realm killed many participants.
• The scoreboard showed mass deaths and rising scores, including Tang Ao reaching first place with two thousand points.
• Mighty Lion Douluo and Tang Li opposed suspending the competition, while Sovereign Ning agreed to send Sword Douluo into the realm to investigate.

After the Ancient Divine Tree sealed the secret realm, Ning and the sect leaders learned that it would take a month to reopen the entrance, leaving their disciples trapped amid the Soul Beast tide. Tang Li calmed the furious elders by insisting that several powerful disciples could break through to Titled Douluo and defeat the beast, and the chapter ended with everyone studying the rankings.

• Sword Douluo reported that the Ancient Divine Tree had closed the entrance and planned to kill everyone inside, while Ning said reopening the realm would take at least a month.
• Tang Li, Mighty Lion Douluo, Liu Erlong, and Ning pinned their hopes on Soul Douluo disciples such as Tang Ao, Liu Shenlong, and Lei Yun advancing to Titled Douluo.
• Sect elders demanded an immediate rescue as they learned that most of their disciples had died or were in danger.
• Tang Li struck the ground with his Clear Sky Hammer, silenced the elders, and promised that several disciples would become Titled Douluo and confront the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• The leaders and elders examined the scoreboard, which listed Tang Ao first, Leng Xiaoxue second, Liu Shenlong third, Tang Fei fourth, and Ning Rongrong fifth.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect team investigated the unexpectedly powerful Soul Beasts in Wood Emperor Forest and headed toward Wood Wraith Forest. Zhuge Lan, disguised as Lei Yun, fought a Wood Kui but stopped short of killing it when Ning Rongrong reminded him of the sect’s contract.

• After the team found no Soul Ring or Soul Bone from their Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast kill, Zhuge Lan questioned why such powerful beasts had appeared so soon.
• Ning Rongrong consulted the map and led the group northeast toward Wood Wraith Forest to renew their contract with the puppet chief.
• A female disciple warned Zhuge Lan that his closeness to Ning Rongrong could draw suspicion, so he agreed to act less familiar with her.
• When the group was attacked by a Wood Kui controlling a towering tree, Zhuge Lan destroyed the tree with his Qilin Fist.
• Ning Rongrong told Zhuge Lan not to kill the Wood Kui, and he captured it and brought it before her.

Zhuge Lan and Ning Rongrong reached the Wood Wraith Leader Mu Wan’s treehouse, where they learned that the Wood Kui clan had been receiving human women from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to eat. Zhuge Lan abandoned the planned contract and fought Mu Wan, but the leader trapped his Qilin Soul with tentacles.

• Zhuge Lan killed a Wood Kui that threatened to take Ning Rongrong as its wife, then reassured her that the Wood Wraith Leader could be forced to accept a contract.
• After two days traveling through the Wood Wraith Forest, Zhuge Lan and the disciples arrived at the Wood Wraith Leader’s treehouse and met Mu Wan.
• Mu Wan revealed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had sent him human women every five years, and Zhuge Lan decided the clan had to be destroyed.
• Ning Rongrong ordered Zhuge Lan to kill Mu Wan, and he summoned his Qilin Soul, knocking out the Wood Kui hiding nearby.
• Mu Wan transformed the treehouse into a giant combat form, but Zhuge Lan’s Qilin Soul shattered its branch and bit it in two.
• Mu Wan revealed that the severed treehouse was a trap as tentacles wrapped around Zhuge Lan’s Qilin Soul.

Zhuge Lan, disguised as Lei Yun, battled Mu Wan and overwhelmed him with his Qilin Soul Skills. Mu Wan tried to absorb the surrounding forest, but Zhuge Lan struck him with Heaven's Wrath as Mu Wan begged for his life.

• Zhuge Lan broke Mu Wan's vines with Qilin Fist and tore apart the treehouse, which reformed into a giant version of Mu Wan.
• Mu Wan attacked with Thousand Blade Slash, but Zhuge Lan blocked it with Lightning Barrier and then tore Mu Wan's body apart.
• Xiao Ai and other disciples praised Lei Yun and declared their affection, making Ning Rongrong glare at him as he sensed her killing intent.
• Mu Wan used Ancient Call to make the trees within ten miles gather and merge into his body, and Ning Rongrong warned Lei Yun to stop him.
• Zhuge Lan unleashed Heaven's Wrath, destroying the trees and disintegrating Mu Wan, who dropped to his knees and begged to submit.

Zhuge Lan defeated Mu Wan and let a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciple absorb her soul ring, while Ning Rongrong distributed the Soul Bone. Elsewhere, Qian Renxue fought a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast Tree Xiao and forced it to accept a Slave Contract, leaving it bound to her.

• After Mu Wan died, Zhuge Lan let a level-eighty disciple absorb her Ten Thousand Year soul ring and handed her Soul Bone to Ning Rongrong to distribute.
• Xiao Ai hugged Zhuge Lan, but he pushed her away and said he already liked someone; Ning Rongrong pulled Xiao Ai back.
• Qian Renxue and her group encountered a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast Tree Xiao and demanded that it take her to its leader.
• Qian Renxue fought the Tree Xiao, overpowered it with her Angel Soul, and made it submit.
• Qian Renxue placed a Slave Contract on the Tree Xiao despite its resistance, and Chrysanthemum Douluo congratulated her.

Qian Renxue reached the Tree Xiao gathering place and challenged its Eighty-Thousand-Year chieftain, who attacked with the surrounding Tree Xiaos. She broke free of its plant-based assault and struck the chieftain with her sixth Soul Skill, leaving it pierced and burning as she questioned whether it could really have died so easily.

• Qian Renxue forced a Ten Thousand Year Tree Xiao to lead her group to the Tree Xiao gathering place, where they found more than a hundred Tree Xiaos and their eighty-meter-tall chieftain.
• Qian Renxue demanded that the chieftain submit or die, and the chieftain ordered the surrounding Tree Xiaos to attack her.
• Qian Renxue's Holy Light Angel cut down the charging Tree Xiaos, while the chieftain used Senluo Vientiane to bind her in vines and plants.
• Qian Renxue shattered the vines, then unleashed her sixth Soul Skill, Holy Light Illumination, piercing and setting the Tree Xiao chieftain ablaze.
• Qian Renxue wondered whether the Eighty-Thousand-Year Soul Beast could truly have been killed by a single attack.

Qian Renxue subdued the Tree Xiao chieftain and learned that the secret realm was ruled by a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, then began planning to use it against Zhuge Lan. Meanwhile, Tang San, disguised as Tang Fei, continued to endure Tang Ao stealing his points on the Grass Spirit Prairie.

• Qian Renxue forced the weakened Tree Xiao chieftain to submit and learned that the Tree God was a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Li Jiaqi proposed trapping Zhuge Lan where he could not teleport, while Ghost Douluo suggested finding Zhuge Lan and guiding him toward the Tree God.
• Qian Renxue ordered the Tree Xiao chieftain to search for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples using portraits led by Lei Yun.
• Tang San, disguised as Tang Fei, knocked down a Thousand-Year Grass Spirit, but Tang Ao killed it and took the points.
• Tang San grew increasingly resentful of Tang Ao, who had repeatedly stolen the points for Soul Beasts he had weakened.

Tang San endured Tang Ao and Luo Baiwei’s bullying while maintaining Tang Fei’s identity to approach Zhuge Lan. After Tang San exposed Luo Baiwei’s visit to his tent, Tang Ao attacked her, then killed a Ten Thousand Year Grass Spirit as the conflict with Tang San came to a head.

• Tang San overheard Luo Baiwei and Tang Ao plotting to deny him points and assign him dangerous duties, but stayed with the group to get close to Zhuge Lan.
• Luo Baiwei visited Tang San’s tent drunk and tried to embrace him, so Tang San threw her outside.
• The next day, Tang Ao ordered Tang San to take the lead against a Ten Thousand Year Grass Spirit, but Tang San refused and confronted him.
• Tang San exposed Luo Baiwei’s visit to his tent, and nearby disciples confirmed seeing her enter.
• Tang Ao slapped and kicked Luo Baiwei away, then killed the charging Grass Spirit with his Clear Sky Hammer as the disciples watched him and Tang San, expecting a fight.

Tang San, posing as Tang Fei, challenged Tang Ao and defeated him in their Clear Sky Hammer duel. After seeing Tang San's strength, Luo Baiwei suspected he was not Tang Fei and decided he could serve as her new backer.

• Tang San answered Tang Ao's challenge and forced him back with a clash of their Clear Sky Hammers.
• Tang Ao summoned his Martial Soul Avatar, but Tang San revealed an even larger Clear Sky Hammer.
• Luo Baiwei realized Tang San was not Tang Fei and considered making him her new backer.
• Tang San shattered Tang Ao's Martial Soul Avatar with one strike and sent him crashing to the ground.
• The disciples acknowledged Tang San's victory and criticized Tang Ao for stealing another man's wife.

Tang San defeated Tang Ao and was accepted by the Clear Sky Sect disciples as their Senior Brother. After Luo Baiwei recognized that he was not Tang Fei and tried to bargain for protection, Tang San killed her and told the disciples she was dead.

• Luo Baiwei realized Tang Fei had truly died as Tang Ao challenged Tang San with his eighth soul skill, but Tang San shattered the thunderclouds with One Hammer Sets the Universe and sent Tang Ao flying.
• The disciples praised Tang San and asked him to become their Senior Brother, while some secretly resented his new position.
• When the disciples proposed killing or exploiting Luo Baiwei, Tang San ordered them to deal with her within three days, then called her aside after she began to reveal his secret.
• Luo Baiwei identified Tang San as an impostor and offered to cooperate, but Tang San pierced her heart with the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Tang San returned to the disciples and calmly told them Luo Baiwei was dead.

Tang San drove the disciples away while planning to use Tang Fei’s identity to infiltrate the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and kill Zhuge Lan. In the Wood Kui Forest, Zhuge Lan persuaded three Ten Thousand Year Wood Kuis to stop fighting, learned the Tree God had marked him for death, and set out for Tree God Lake.

• Tang San threatened the disciples, who left him, then returned and decided to hunt Grass Spirits while waiting for the secret realm to close.
• Zhuge Lan and his companions faced three Ten Thousand Year Wood Kuis, and he knocked back one with Qilin Fist after it attacked him.
• Zhuge Lan convinced the Wood Kuis to choose a new chieftain instead of avenging their dead leader.
• One Wood Kui warned Zhuge Lan that the Tree God had ordered his death and sent the Tree God Priest after him.
• Ning Rongrong explained that the Tree God was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast living at Tree God Lake, and Zhuge Lan decided to go there.
• Zhuge Lan told Xiao Ai that he already liked someone, while Ning Rongrong glared at him.

As the teams headed toward Tree God Lake, the spectators and sect leaders investigated the shifting scoreboard and learned that Tang Fei had defeated Tang Ao. The leaders then discovered that Spirit Hall’s entire team had been wiped out and suspected a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had begun attacking the participants.

• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s team set out for Tree God Lake while Leng Xiaoxue held first place on the scoreboard.
• The sect leaders questioned Leng Xiaoxue’s strength and learned that she was the young sovereign of the Elephant Armor Sect.
• Sovereign Ning explained that Tang Ao had likely lost half his points in a duel, and Mighty Lion Douluo pointed out that Tang Fei’s score had surged as Tang Ao fell to tenth place.
• Tang Li learned that Tang Ao had stolen Tang Fei’s wife and targeted him, then argued with Liu Erlong until Sovereign Ning intervened.
• Mighty Lion Douluo noticed Spirit Hall’s names turning gray, and Liu Erlong saw the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s members dying on the scoreboard as well.
• Sovereign Ning confirmed the scoreboard was accurate, and the leaders concluded that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had attacked and was killing powerful Soul Masters.