Chapter Summaries

Dai Yichen considered how the Star Luo Empire could replace Spirit Hall’s influence by funding commoner soul masters directly and dismantling its network of sub-halls. He also criticized Ning Fengzhi’s arrogance and imagined that Spirit Hall could cripple the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect by killing Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, alarming Ning Rongrong.

• Dai Yichen reasoned that Spirit Hall’s sub-halls spread its influence by awakening commoners’ martial souls and providing subsidies, while the empires had been unable to stop them.
• Dai Yichen decided to replace Spirit Hall’s passive role in supporting commoner soul masters with proactive funding from the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Yichen considered confiscating wealthy nobles’ estates to help fund the empire’s program.
• Dai Yichen criticized Ning Fengzhi for relying on Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo while pursuing influence and speaking of unity among the Upper Three Sects.
• Dai Yichen imagined that Spirit Hall could destroy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect by killing Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, and Ning Rongrong was startled by the thought.

Qian Renxue considered using Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo to kill Gu Rong, weakening the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. At the Blacksmith Association, Dai Yichen heard about Lou Gao’s Gravity Training Room concept, which he could not make, before Ning Fengzhi questioned why he had come.

• Qian Renxue decided she could ambush Gu Rong while he was alone at the sect and use Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo to kill him.
• Dai Yichen returned to the Reception Room, where Ning Rongrong hid her resentment over his thoughts about her grandfathers.
• Lou Gao explained Ning Rongrong’s Gravity Training Room idea, and Dai Yichen concluded that its materials and energy-conversion technology were beyond his abilities.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Dai Yichen what had brought him to the Blacksmith Association, and Dai Yichen recognized that Ning Fengzhi was probing him.

Dai Yichen confronted Ning Fengzhi at the Blacksmith Association and then asked him to send Ning Rongrong to Star Luo Royal Academy. Ning Fengzhi considered the political and personal benefits but ultimately said he could not agree because of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s ties to the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.

• Dai Yichen told Ning Fengzhi that he had the right to inspect the Blacksmith Association because it was in Star Luo Empire territory.
• Dugu Bo backed Dai Yichen and explained that the association belonged to the Star Luo Imperial Family.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Dai Yichen to sell him high-year Whale Rubber for Ning Rongrong, and Dai Yichen hinted that he wanted something in return.
• Dai Yichen pointed at Ning Rongrong and clarified that he wanted her to enroll at Star Luo Royal Academy, not to marry or abduct her.
• Chen Xin objected, while Ning Fengzhi weighed the opportunity against his sect’s alliance with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Ning Fengzhi told Dai Yichen that he could not agree to the request because of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s relationship with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.

Dai Yichen secured Ning Fengzhi’s agreement to send Ning Rongrong to Star Luo Royal Academy, while Ning Rongrong’s feelings for Dai Yichen became apparent. That night, Dai Yichen gained Lingbo Micro Step and immunity to most poisons, and Ning Rongrong received a talent that could help her awaken a Domain.

• Ning Rongrong agreed to go to the Star Luo Empire, surprising Dai Yichen and prompting Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin to take her outside to discuss it.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Ning Rongrong about the distance and danger, while Chen Xin suspected she had feelings for Dai Yichen; Ning Rongrong blushed and looked away.
• Ning Fengzhi accepted Dai Yichen’s terms, and Dai Yichen gave him a piece of ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber before Ning Fengzhi agreed to enroll Ning Rongrong at Star Luo Royal Academy.
• At midnight, Dai Yichen completed his diary and received Lingbo Micro Step and Manggu Toad Version Immunity to All Poisons.
• Ning Rongrong received Domain Talent after being mentioned most in Dai Yichen’s diary, giving her a high probability of gaining an Innate Domain after becoming a Soul Sage.

Dai Yichen brought Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing to Sunset Forest’s Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, where he identified its Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire energies. He proposed using two immortal herbs to suppress the poison afflicting Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, leaving them to prepare the pills.

• Dai Yichen and Lou Gao arranged for Lou Gao to begin establishing the Soul Guidance Academy in Star Luo City, and Dai Yichen allocated him five million in funding.
• Dai Yichen, Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing traveled to Sunset Forest, with Dai Yichen using Tiger's Roar Flash to help Dugu Bo fly faster.
• Dugu Bo led the group through his poisonous miasma to the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dai Yichen claimed his immunity to all poisons would protect him.
• Dai Yichen identified the lake’s red and blue energies as Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Ice and urged Dugu Bo to test the lake’s depths, but Dugu Bo changed the subject.
• Dai Yichen selected Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot to make pills that would suppress Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent (Emperor) Poison and grant them poison resistance.

Dai Yichen gathered the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot for Dugu Bo to refine into pills, explaining how they would affect the poison in Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan. While Dugu Bo refined the pills, Dai Yichen searched the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well for herbs suited to himself and Zhu Zhuqing, and discovered a dark-attributed immortal herb for her.

• Dai Yichen used the Taiji Diagram to bring the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot together, then gave the herbs and auxiliaries to Dugu Bo to refine.
• Dai Yichen told Dugu Bo that the pills would prevent his poison from relapsing but would not completely cure Dugu Yan, who would need to condense an Inner Core as a Titled Douluo.
• Dai Yichen said he could later help Dugu Bo refine his Soul Core, or Dugu Bo could raise his strength to rank ninety-five or ninety-six and attempt it alone.
• Dugu Bo began refining the pills as Dai Yichen gathered useful immortal herbs and selected Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum for himself.
• Dai Yichen searched for a dark-attributed herb for Zhu Zhuqing and found the Netherworld Dark Night Orchid beneath a tree near the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well.

Dai Yichen gathered immortal herbs for Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo, then planted Ah Yin at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well so she could recover her cultivation. Ah Yin heard that he planned to leave her behind and feared he was abandoning her, while Dugu Yan questioned whether he was truly comfortable leaving her there.

• Dai Yichen asked Dugu Bo for permission to take several immortal herbs, then gave him an Eight Petal Immortal Orchid and prepared herbs for Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dai Yichen warned Dugu Yan to wait until after taking the Ice Fire Pill before absorbing the Azure Phosphorous Seven Absolute Flower.
• Dai Yichen planted Ah Yin at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well and explained to Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan that its environment could help her regain her hundred-thousand-year cultivation.
• Ah Yin overheard Dai Yichen say he would leave her at the well and worried that he was abandoning her, despite her growing attachment to him.
• Dugu Yan asked Dai Yichen whether he was really comfortable leaving Ah Yin behind.

Dai Yichen, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Bo used immortal herbs and Ice Fire Pills to improve their abilities in the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well. Dugu Bo emerged younger and stronger, ready to settle his score with Yue Guan.

• Dai Yichen reassured Dugu Yan about Ah Yin and told her to watch Dugu Bo make pills while he and Zhu Zhuqing absorbed their immortal herbs.
• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the Netherworld Dark Night Orchid, reached level twenty, and felt her cultivation speed increase.
• Dai Yichen absorbed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, raising his Mental Power to the Soul Elder realm and his Soul Power to level thirty.
• Dugu Bo gave Dai Yichen, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan Ice Fire Pills, and they jumped into the lake to let the spring water activate the medicine.
• Dugu Bo emerged younger, cured of the backlash that had limited his strength, and two levels stronger at level ninety-three; he resolved to defeat Yue Guan.

Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan absorbed immortal herbs, gaining strength and discovering that their evolved Jade Phosphorous Serpent powers came with Inner Core prototypes. After a month of cultivation and hunting, Dai Yichen obtained his third Soul Ring and strengthened several existing rings.

• Dugu Bo absorbed an immortal herb, reached level ninety-four, and teased Dai Yichen about marrying Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan's Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul evolved into the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, raising her to level thirty-nine and giving her a tiny Inner Core prototype.
• Dai Yichen advised Dugu Yan to control her toxins and told Dugu Bo to cultivate before attempting to condense a Soul Core.
• Dai Yichen and Zhu Zhuqing agreed to rest before searching Sunset Forest for suitable Soul Beasts.
• A month later, Dai Yichen obtained a nine-thousand-year White Tiger Soul Ring and the White Tiger Vajra Transformation Soul Skill, while several of his existing Soul Rings also rose to nine thousand years.

After Dai Yichen and Zhu Zhuqing grew stronger, Dai Yichen decided to return from the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well. Ah Yin chose to remain there but gave him a Blue Silver Bracelet and promised to find him, while Dai Yichen kept his suspicions about her ties to Tang Hao.

• Dai Yichen's Soul Power rose to level thirty-five, and Zhu Zhuqing gained Netherworld Stealth as her second soul skill and reached level twenty-nine.
• Dai Yichen agreed with Dugu Bo that it was time to return, and explained that Ah Yin would grow best beside the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well.
• When Dai Yichen prepared to leave, Ah Yin wrapped a branch around his hand, and he told her to stay and recover her cultivation.
• Ah Yin formed a blue-gold bracelet around Dai Yichen's forearm and arranged the words, "Wait for me to come find you."
• Ah Yin withheld her knowledge of the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone in Holy Soul Village, while Dai Yichen wondered whether she had truly severed her ties to Tang Hao.

Dai Weisi confronted Zhu Zhuyun and demanded she improve their martial soul compatibility, but she rejected him and refused to join his rivalry with Dai Yichen. When Dai Weisi attacked her, she trapped him in an enhanced illusion and proved her speed and attacks could injure him.

• Dai Weisi grabbed at Zhu Zhuyun and demanded to know why she would not help improve their martial soul compatibility.
• Zhu Zhuyun revealed she had reached level thirty-nine, said she did not like Dai Weisi, and refused to take part in his contest with Dai Yichen.
• Dai Weisi accused Zhu Zhuyun of falling for Dai Yichen, then attacked her as she tried to leave.
• Zhu Zhuyun revealed that her enhanced Netherworld Spring Fall illusion had trapped Dai Weisi since he entered the villa.
• Dai Weisi attacked with White Tiger Splitting Light Wave, but Zhu Zhuyun dodged and struck him with Hell Stab and Netherworld Hundred Claws, injuring him despite his White Tiger Protective Barrier.

Zhu Zhuyun used her True Illusion technique to overwhelm Dai Weisi, but he countered with a mental attack when she was exhausted. As his attack failed, Dai Yichen’s protective Spiritual Body appeared from the necklace he had given her.

• Zhu Zhuyun realized her incomplete Nine Yin Manual had strengthened her Soul Power but that she needed True Illusion to defeat Dai Weisi.
• Dai Weisi restricted Zhu Zhuyun’s movement with White Tiger Earthshaking Quake and threatened her over her feelings for Dai Yichen.
• Zhu Zhuyun’s True Illusion clones struck Dai Weisi, and their attacks continued even after he trapped one apparent target among boulders.
• Dai Weisi unleashed White Tiger God Extinction as a mental attack while Zhu Zhuyun was too exhausted to dodge.
• Dai Weisi’s attack missed when the necklace Dai Yichen had given Zhu Zhuyun glowed and revealed the Spiritual Body he had sealed inside it.

Dai Yichen’s hidden Spiritual Body killed Dai Weisi while protecting Zhu Zhuyun, revealing his second Martial Soul to the princes who witnessed the aftermath. A month later, Dai Yichen returned to Star Luo City and told Dai Yutian that his second Martial Soul was his eyes, a Body Martial Soul mutated from the White Tiger Martial Soul.

• Dai Weisi attacked Zhu Zhuyun, but Dai Yichen’s Spiritual Body appeared and used Mental Shock to kill him.
• Dai Mubai and Dai Yuxuan arrived to find Dai Weisi dead, while Zhu Zhuyun explained that the necklace Dai Yichen had given her had activated.
• Dai Yuxuan comforted Zhu Zhuyun and advised her to blame Dai Weisi, while he worried about what would happen next.
• Several thousand meters outside Star Luo City, Dai Yichen sensed that his Spiritual Body had been triggered and learned that Dai Weisi was dead.
• One month later, Dai Yichen returned to Star Luo City and told Dai Yutian that his eyes were his second Martial Soul, a Body Martial Soul mutated from the White Tiger Martial Soul.

Dai Yichen told Dai Yutian about his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul and discussed the Soul Guidance Academy, its funding, and the Star Luo Empire’s political position. After learning that Dugu Bo was a level-ninety-four Titled Douluo who might become family, Dai Yutian urged Dai Yichen to inherit the throne and have a child, before they turned to plans for imperial reforms.

• Dai Yichen revealed his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul and explained Body Martial Souls to Dai Yutian.
• Dai Yutian reported that the academy had recruited a talented commoner soul master and established a Soul Guidance Academy for Lou Gao and his blacksmiths.
• Dai Yutian explained that the secret soul guidance project relied on military funds and his private treasury because the Star Luo Empire’s resources were strained.
• Dai Yichen promised Dai Yutian twenty percent of the Godly Zhuge Crossbow profits and said Dugu Bo intended to set him up with his granddaughter.
• Dai Yichen revealed that Dugu Bo was a cured, level-ninety-four Titled Douluo, prompting Dai Yutian to offer him the throne and urge him to have a child.
• Dai Yichen rejected the throne for now, and he and Dai Yutian discussed future imperial reforms and how to handle the Martial Soul Sub-Halls.

Dai Yichen returned to Star Luo Royal Academy and reunited with Zhu Zhuyun, telling her he had reached level thirty-five. He gave her a Nether-aligned immortal herb to help her advance and strengthen her soul skill.

• Dai Yichen went to Star Luo Royal Academy and found Zhu Zhuyun cultivating.
• Zhu Zhuyun embraced Dai Yichen and thanked him for the necklace that had protected her from Dai Weisi.
• Dai Yichen told Zhu Zhuyun that he had reached level thirty-five and asked how Dai Weisi’s death would be handled.
• Zhu Zhuyun said the news had been sealed off and Dai Weisi would be announced to have died young.
• Dai Yichen gave Zhu Zhuyun a dark purple immortal herb, explaining that it could help her break through to Soul Ancestor and strengthen her Mental Power.

Dai Yichen returned to Star Luo City after securing immortal herbs and strengthening the empire’s position, while reflecting on Xiao Wu’s presence at the academy and the power Dugu Bo had gained. His thoughts about confronting Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect alarmed Ning Rongrong and others, as the Zhu sisters and Dugu Yan anticipated his plans to remove Spirit Hall branches from the empire.

• Zhu Zhuyun accepted an immortal herb from Dai Yichen, kissed him, and told him she would wait for him; she also revealed that Dai Mubai had escaped.
• Dai Yichen learned that Ye Lingling had gained three Soul Power levels and obtained her third soul ring while he was away.
• Dai Yichen returned to Star Luo City and reflected on Xiao Wu’s enrollment, the immortal herbs he had given Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo’s increased strength.
• Dai Yichen thought that Dugu Bo could help the Star Luo Empire confront Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, provoking Ning Rongrong’s concern for her sect.
• Dugu Yan and the Zhu family sisters recognized Dai Yichen’s intention to clear Spirit Hall branches from the empire.

Gu Yuena prepared the Star Dou Great Forest’s soul beasts to establish a Soul Beast Empire, while Dai Yichen returned to his diary and received the Ultimate Gold ability. Xiao Wu got an awkward diary reward, and Bibi Dong used two cards to enter Yu Xiaogang’s dream.

• Gu Yuena asked the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts whether they had anything to add, and Di Tian and the others pledged to obey her orders.
• Zi Ji questioned Bi Ji and the Auspicious Beast about when they had received their Diary Copies.
• Dai Yichen wondered what Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Bracelet meant, wrote a short diary entry, and fell asleep before receiving his Ultimate Gold reward.
• Xiao Wu received 10,000 Gold Soul Coins, stockings, and a maid outfit, then tried on the outfit and wondered whether Dai Yichen would like it.
• Bibi Dong used the Like a Dream Card and Lie Detection Card on Yu Xiaogang, then entered his bedroom in a dream.

Bibi Dong entered Yu Xiaogang’s dream and saw that he hoped to obtain her Twin Martial Soul cultivation knowledge to make Tang San powerful. She revealed herself to him, and Yu Xiaogang recognized that he was dreaming and pretended to weep with joy at seeing her again.

• Yu Xiaogang adjusted Tang San’s training schedule to prioritize cultivation after learning about Dai Yichen’s rapid progress.
• Bibi Dong entered Yu Xiaogang’s dream and watched him imagine Tang San becoming the continent’s strongest Soul Master.
• Bibi Dong considered the strength of Dai Yichen and the other academies ahead of the next Soul Master Competition.
• Bibi Dong made Yu Xiaogang’s dream vanish and appeared before him.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized Bibi Dong and claimed that he had missed her, pretending to cry with joy.

Yu Xiaogang dreamed that Bibi Dong confronted him and forced him to reveal his hidden motives and past choices. Bibi Dong learned the truth about why he approached her and left Spirit Hall, while Yu Xiaogang still demanded the secret method for cultivating Twin Martial Souls.

• Yu Xiaogang asked the dream Bibi Dong how to cultivate his disciple's Twin Martial Souls, then accidentally revealed that the disciple possessed the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Bibi Dong accused Yu Xiaogang of raising a future enemy of Spirit Hall and pressured him until he confessed that he had entered Spirit Hall for its books and approached her for her beauty and status as Saintess.
• Bibi Dong asked why Yu Xiaogang had left Spirit Hall, and he admitted that he had chosen to save himself rather than stay and face Qian Xunji with her.
• Yu Xiaogang confessed that he had discovered Liu Erlong was related to his clan and complained that his Second Uncle had ruined his chance to marry her.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that he had desired Liu Erlong for her looks and figure and found it exciting that Flender loved her too.

The system pulled Liu Erlong into Yu Xiaogang's dream, where she and Bibi Dong heard his true feelings and confronted him. Yu Xiaogang was left battered and begging for death after his forced answer exposed his contempt for them.

• The system merged Liu Erlong's dream with Yu Xiaogang's and brought her into the scene with Bibi Dong.
• Liu Erlong asked Yu Xiaogang why he had fled when Yu Luomian arrived, and he admitted he had rejected her to avoid the shame of marrying his cousin.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that he had wanted to sleep with Liu Erlong before Yu Luomian stopped their wedding, enraging her.
• Liu Erlong used Fire Dragon Possession and repeatedly smashed Yu Xiaogang into the ground.
• Bibi Dong asked Yu Xiaogang to choose between them, and he blurted out that neither woman deserved his love.
• Yu Xiaogang asked for a quick death, and Liu Erlong stomped on his crotch.