Chapter Summaries

Hu Liena tried to trap Dai Yichen in a powerful illusion, but he only pretended to be affected and walked toward her. The match continued with Hu Liena realizing her bewitchment had not truly worked.

• Hu Liena boosted her Mental Power and covered the arena in mist with her Fox Bewitchment and Formless Body skills.
• Tang San, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang could not see through the mist and worried about Shrek's prospects against the other teams.
• Dugu Bo saw Dai Yichen approaching Hu Liena and suspected he might be faking being caught in the illusion.
• Hu Liena disguised herself as Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun and tried to lure Dai Yichen deeper into an illusion.
• Dai Yichen admitted he had only been half-affected and told Hu Liena he could break free from the illusion at will.

Hu Liena used her illusion and Amorous Eyes soul skills to try to make Dai Yichen fall in love with her and obey her. Though he appeared to submit, Dai Yichen secretly altered what the observers could see and prepared to exploit her confidence.

• Hu Liena challenged Dai Yichen to experience her complete Charm, and he said he was attracted to her appearance but would never let her control him.
• Hu Liena unleashed Bewildering Illusion and Amorous Eyes, draining Dai Yichen’s Soul Power and Mental Power while attacking him with an illusion.
• Hu Liena’s soul skill struck Dai Yichen, and she ordered him to turn around, believing she had made him infatuated with her.
• Dai Yichen secretly used the System Store to hide the real scene from the people watching outside, then obediently turned as he moved closer to Hu Liena.
• Hu Liena celebrated her apparent success, unaware that Dai Yichen’s soul skills and Inheritance Soul Ring protected him from her control.

Dai Yichen pretended to fall under Hu Liena’s Charm while using her soul skill to draw her into an embrace. Hu Liena’s affection rebounded onto herself, and she confessed her love as their contract formed.

• Hu Liena ordered Dai Yichen to do a somersault, and he obeyed before asking her to give him a chance.
• Dai Yichen hugged Hu Liena and refused to let go, while she struggled to push him away and tested whether he was truly under her control.
• Hu Liena asked Dai Yichen to cancel his Martial Soul Possession, and he revealed his handsome face and warm body.
• Dai Yichen continued embracing Hu Liena and guided her into believing she was falling for him.
• Hu Liena confessed that she liked Dai Yichen, and their contract formed as he lowered his head.

Dai Yichen defeated Hu Liena’s charm by kissing her, and Hu Liena admitted defeat after accusing him of taking advantage of her. As the tournament moved to a palace luncheon, Zhu Zhuyun considered taking their relationship with Dai Yichen further during the break.

• Dai Yichen kissed Hu Liena, then claimed her confession of affection had been her own choice after her charm seemed to backfire.
• Hu Liena accused Dai Yichen of tricking her, threatened to make him pay when her Mental Power improved, and conceded the match.
• Kong Qingfeng saw the red mist disperse without either fighter appearing injured, while Hu Liena left the arena and Dai Yichen returned to his teammates.
• Zhu Zhuyun noticed Dai Yichen suppressing his stirred desires and wondered whether she should approach him during the break.
• Dai Yutian invited the tournament participants to a palace luncheon, and Dai Yichen set off with his teammates.

Dai Yichen and Zhu Zhuyun became intimate, triggering rewards that strengthened Zhu Zhuyun and gave Dai Yichen the Netherworld Spirit Cat Ability Lock. The rewards exposed their relationship to the other women, who confronted Hu Liena about her attempt to use her soul skill on Dai Yichen.

• Zhu Zhuyun teased Dai Yichen about his encounter with Hu Liena, and the two went to his room and became intimate.
• The system awarded Dai Yichen the Netherworld Spirit Cat Ability Lock and gave Zhu Zhuyun a full fusion rate, Ultimate Darkness, and expanded Soul Power reserves.
• Zhu Zhuyun realized that the reward announcement was public, and the women at the banquet learned what had happened between her and Dai Yichen.
• Zhu Zhuqing resented that Zhu Zhuyun had gotten ahead of her, while Hu Liena felt jealous and questioned her feelings for Dai Yichen.
• Dugu Bo revealed that Soul Douluo and Titled Douluo could see through the mist during the match, drawing attention to Hu Liena.
• The women added Hu Liena to a group chat and criticized her for using her soul skill to make Dai Yichen fall in love with her; Hu Liena apologized and admitted she may have acted out of jealousy.

Dai Yichen arrived late to the banquet with Zhu Zhuyun, and Dai Yutian inferred what had kept them away before warning Dai Yichen to focus on the coming competition. Dai Yutian then recounted Bibi Dong’s cold encounter with Yu Xiaogang, which left their old disagreement unresolved.

• Dai Yichen and Zhu Zhuyun entered the banquet hall, where everyone stared at them and Zhu Zhuyun kept her head down in embarrassment.
• Dai Yutian pulled Dai Yichen aside, questioned his lateness, and inferred from Zhu Zhuyun’s flushed appearance that something had happened between them.
• Dai Yutian warned Dai Yichen not to miss the three high-year soul bones at the competition a year later, then offered to tell him about Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang.
• At the earlier banquet, Bibi Dong rejected Yu Xiaogang’s familiar address and told him to call her Your Holiness the Pope.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Bibi Dong to forgive his past cowardice, but she reminded him that she had waited for him in a city for a day and night.

Bibi Dong attacked Yu Xiaogang, ended their relationship, and declared that Spirit Hall would no longer protect him. Hu Yanzhen then accused Yu Xiaogang of copying Spirit Hall’s research and causing harm with his theories.

• Bibi Dong struck Yu Xiaogang with Soul Power after accusing him of planning to marry his cousin, while Flender restrained Tang San from intervening.
• Bibi Dong intensified the pressure when Yu Xiaogang tried to invoke their past, leaving him badly injured and warning him not to mention it again.
• Bibi Dong announced that Spirit Hall would no longer protect Yu Xiaogang and told him that she would stop cleaning up his messes.
• The assembled factions turned their attention toward Yu Xiaogang, and he questioned Bibi Dong’s claim that she had protected him.
• Hu Yanzhen accused Yu Xiaogang of copying Spirit Hall’s theories, adding his own flawed ideas, and harming commoner Soul Masters.

Bibi Dong challenged Yu Xiaogang’s theories about soul rings and martial souls, explaining that compatibility and innate soul power mattered more than rigid rules. Tang San was left questioning why his Blue Silver Grass could cultivate, while Bibi Dong pointed to his Innate Full Soul Power as the reason.

• Hu Yanzhen criticized Yu Xiaogang for presenting soul ring age limits without warning that individual soul masters might not withstand them, and Bibi Dong explained why Spirit Hall had not published incomplete research.
• Bibi Dong told Tang San that his Blue Silver Grass’s vitality and affinity let him safely absorb animal soul rings, though other plant martial souls might not be compatible.
• Bibi Dong explained that martial soul type did not strictly determine which soul rings a person could absorb, and Hu Yanzhen mocked Yu Xiaogang’s theories and his claim that no martial soul was useless.
• Tang San defended his Blue Silver Grass, and Bibi Dong explained that his Innate Full Soul Power—not the martial soul itself—enabled him to cultivate and that absorbing soul rings could strengthen a martial soul.

Bibi Dong challenged Yu Xiaogang’s advice about Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and exposed flaws in his theories, then revealed that Tang San possessed a second martial soul. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong identifying it as the Clear Sky Hammer and acknowledging that Tang Hao was nearby.

• Bibi Dong questioned Yu Xiaogang’s advice that Tang San use beast soul rings and pursue poison control, arguing that Blue Silver Grass’s vitality conflicted with poison and that it should not have withstood beast soul rings.
• Tang San looked to Yu Xiaogang for an explanation, but Yu Xiaogang could not reveal that his reasoning depended on Tang San’s other martial soul.
• Bibi Dong criticized Yu Xiaogang’s theories and warned Ning Fengzhi that his factions would not protect Yu Xiaogang after the tournament; Ning Fengzhi said he would only ensure Yu Xiaogang stayed alive while he led the team.
• Bibi Dong declared that Tang San possessed two martial souls, prompting Tang San to ready himself to defend against an attack.
• Bibi Dong identified Tang San’s second martial soul as the Clear Sky Hammer and said Spirit Hall would not attack Tang Hao in Star Luo City.

Bibi Dong exposed that Yu Xiaogang’s theory about Twin Martial Souls was wrong and argued that he had only guessed Tang San’s talent by chance. She then criticized Shrek Academy’s claims about its teaching and training, leaving Flender and Qin Ming unable to answer her.

• Bibi Dong revealed Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer and challenged Yu Xiaogang’s belief that Twin Martial Soul owners had to possess Innate Full Soul Power.
• Bibi Dong admitted that she had written the Spirit Hall records Yu Xiaogang relied on, but later discovered her theory was wrong.
• Bibi Dong argued that Yu Xiaogang had accepted Tang San because he wanted a uniquely gifted disciple, not because his theory proved Tang San had a second Martial Soul.
• Bibi Dong criticized Shrek Academy’s selective admissions and questioned its resources and teaching, citing Qin Ming’s fifth Soul Ring.
• Qin Ming defended Flender, but Bibi Dong blamed Shrek’s training and Soul Ring choices for preventing Qin Ming from acquiring a ten-thousand-year fifth Soul Ring.

Bibi Dong revealed that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass had a special bloodline, while her treatment of Yu Xiaogang threatened to draw the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan into a dispute with their hosts. Dai Yichen then urged Ning Rongrong to present the Star Luo Imperial Family’s hidden weapons to her father and consider moving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into the Star Luo Empire.

• Bibi Dong told Tang San that his Blue Silver Grass had a special bloodline capable of rivaling the Clear Sky Hammer, prompting Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin to suspect his mother had been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Dai Yutian told Dai Yichen that Bibi Dong had cut off Yu Xiaogang’s manhood, and worried Yu Yuanzhen would blame the hosts and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Dai Yichen reassured Dai Yutian that Dugu Bo had reached Soul Power Level ninety-five and could contend with Yu Yuanzhen, then joked with his father about being an old geezer.
• Zhu Zhuqing confronted Zhu Zhuyun for sneaking away, while Dugu Yan, Xiao Wu, and others considered pursuing a closer relationship with Dai Yichen.
• Dai Yichen asked Ning Rongrong to show Ning Fengzhi the hidden weapons during the team battle and proposed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect relocate to the Star Luo Empire if her father agreed to cooperate.

Dai Yichen persuaded Ning Rongrong to use the promise of an immortal herb to convince her father to relocate the sect, then led the Star Luo Team into battle with only three fighters. He empowered Dai Yuxuan with Ultimate Gold, awakening a terrifying Geng Metal Power that overwhelmed Dai Mubai and disrupted Tang San’s Martial Soul.

• Dai Yichen told Ning Rongrong he trusted her and offered an immortal herb that could evolve her Martial Soul if her father needed further incentive to relocate the sect.
• Dai Yichen chose Dai Yuxuan to lead the Star Luo Team and told him he could use the Hell White Tiger with Zhu Zhuyu if necessary.
• Tang San learned that the Heaven Dou Team would face the Star Luo Team for experience, while Yu Xiaogang sensed Tang San’s growing distance from him.
• The Star Luo Team fielded Dai Yichen, Dai Yuxuan, and Zhu Zhuyu, and Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer before switching to Blue Silver Grass as both teams began their attacks.
• Dai Yichen channeled his Ultimate Gold into Dai Yuxuan, transforming his White Tiger and releasing Geng Metal Power that forced Dai Mubai to the ground and made Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass vanish.

Dai Yichen’s power let Dai Yuxuan’s White Tiger evolve into the Geng Metal White Tiger, forcing Tang San to admit defeat. Meanwhile, Ning Rongrong showed Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and confirmed Dai Yichen wanted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to consider joining the Star Luo Empire; she urged them not to reject the proposal too quickly.

• Dai Yichen temporarily granted Dai Yuxuan Ultimate Gold, and the evolved Geng Metal White Tiger defeated Yu Tianheng and overwhelmed the other opponents.
• Tang San struggled to suppress his Clear Sky Hammer and admitted defeat when Dai Yichen asked whether he would continue.
• Ning Rongrong showed Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin the Godly Zhuge Crossbow, and Chen Xin tested it by blocking its thirty-six bolts with his Seven Kill Sword.
• Ning Fengzhi deduced that Dai Yichen was using the weapon to persuade the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to join the Star Luo Empire, and Ning Rongrong confirmed his suspicion.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin not to rush into rejecting the proposal, surprising them with her sudden authority.

Ning Rongrong tried to persuade Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin to support the Star Luo Empire, offering Dai Yichen’s discounted hidden weapons as an incentive. When her father remained hesitant, she revealed the immortal grass Aromatic Silk Beauty and explained its benefits, leaving them to consider its value.

• Ning Rongrong argued that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect should support the Star Luo Empire for long-term interests, and Ning Fengzhi admitted he had kept that option open.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that the Star Luo Imperial Family’s soldiers had hidden weapons and that Dai Yichen would sell the sect a full set for one thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Fengzhi weighed the offer against the damage that supporting the Star Luo Empire could cause to the sect’s businesses in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Ning Rongrong withheld what she knew about Soul Tools, then took out the immortal grass Aromatic Silk Beauty that Dai Yichen had given her.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin that the grass could raise Soul Power without side effects, and cited Ling Ling’s healing ability as an example of immortal grass’s benefits.

Ning Rongrong absorbed the immortal herb and evolved her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, prompting Ning Fengzhi to agree that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect should join the Star Luo Empire. Meanwhile, Dai Yichen wrote in his diary about his relationship with Zhu Zhuyun and the Netherworld Spirit Cat Ability Lock he planned to give her.

• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed the risks of joining the Star Luo Empire while protecting Ning Rongrong as she absorbed the immortal herb.
• Ning Rongrong's Soul Power rose from level forty-two to forty-six, and her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong reminded Ning Fengzhi that the herb had solved the sect's inherited Martial Soul flaw, and Ning Fengzhi accepted that joining the Star Luo Empire was their only option.
• Dai Yichen wrote in his diary about Zhu Zhuyun seducing him and how he had wanted to skip the team battle to spend more time with her.
• Dai Yichen revealed that the system had rewarded him with a Netherworld Spirit Cat Ability Lock, which he intended to give to Zhu Zhuyun.

Gu Yuena reviewed the Soul Beast Empire’s growth and decided it was ready to expand and reveal itself to human society. The Soul Beasts planned to seek trade with the Star Luo Empire, hoping Dai Yichen would help open contact.

• Dai Yichen considered giving Zhu Zhuyun the Netherworld Psychic Lock and wondered whether it could grant her an Innate Skill and enable a powerful Super Beast God Combination.
• The women reacted differently to the Psychic Locks: some hoped to obtain them through intimacy with Dai Yichen, while Soul Beasts such as Gu Yuena and Bi Ji doubted they could use them.
• Di Tian reported that the Soul Beast Empire had spent five years building cities and towns in the Star Dou Great Forest, uniting around seventy percent of the Soul Beast Clan.
• Gu Yuena ordered the empire to expand outward and let human Soul Masters learn of its existence, arguing that conflict could train Soul Beasts and help establish trade.
• Bi Ji proposed selling Soul Beast materials and suggested contacting the Star Luo Empire, while Ten Thousand Demon King ruled out Spirit Hall as a first trading partner.
• Bi Ji recommended approaching Dai Yichen because of his past Fate Guidance with the Auspicious Beast.

Dai Yichen's diary exposed the dangers Qian Renxue could face in her Angel God Test and questioned Tang San's desire trial, leaving Qian Renxue and Xiao Wu embarrassed. Ning Rongrong thanked Dai Yichen with a kiss after her martial soul evolved, and he asked whether it meant more than gratitude.

• The Ten Thousand Demon King and Zi Ji arranged for Bi Ji and Zi Ji to travel secretly to the Star Luo Empire while Di Tian went to meet the Ice and Snow Two Emperors.
• Dai Yichen recognized Qian Renxue beneath her disguise and wrote that the Sea God might interfere with her Angel God Test, while warning that Tang San and Qian Renxue appeared in each other's desire trials.
• Qian Renxue and Xiao Wu reacted with embarrassment as Dai Yichen speculated that Tang San's desire trial revealed feelings for Qian Renxue despite his devotion to Xiao Wu.
• Dai Yichen considered helping Qian Renxue resist the Sea God but decided it would be too dangerous unless Spirit Hall joined the Star Luo Empire.
• Ning Rongrong returned after completing her mission, kissed Dai Yichen, and told him her martial soul had evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Dai Yichen asked Ning Rongrong whether her kiss was only gratitude or a sign that their relationship had begun, and she hesitated to answer.

At the tournament, Ning Fengzhi declared that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would join the Star Luo Imperial Family, citing Ning Rongrong’s relationship with Dai Yichen and the Star Luo hidden weapons. Tang San was shocked to see Ning Fengzhi’s Godly Zhuge Crossbow, and Dai Yichen revealed that he had made it himself and possessed other hidden weapons too.

• Ning Rongrong showed her affection for Dai Yichen in public, drawing envious reactions from Oscar and concern from Flender and Yu Xiaogang.
• Ning Fengzhi announced that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was joining the Star Luo Imperial Family, and Chen Xin warned Flender not to call their decision a betrayal.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that he had lost hope in the Heaven Dou Imperial Family and privately asked Dai Yichen about publicizing the Star Luo hidden weapons.
• Ning Fengzhi displayed a Godly Zhuge Crossbow and named it as another reason for his sect’s support, prompting Tang San to protest that it could not have come from the Star Luo Imperial Family.
• Dai Yichen asked why he could not make Zhuge Repeating Crossbows and displayed a Hidden Sand Shot and Silent Sleeve Arrows as well.

Dai Yichen claimed that a Tang Sect elder from another world had given him hidden-weapon blueprints, leaving Tang San fearing the elder might come after him. Dai Yichen had invented the story to frighten Tang San, who abandoned his thoughts of discussing cooperation with Ning Fengzhi.

• Tang San confronted Dai Yichen about possessing blueprints for Tang Sect hidden weapons, while Dai Yutian learned that Dai Yichen had developed the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow five years earlier.
• Dai Yichen claimed that an old man from the Tang Sect had given him the blueprints after meeting him in a library.
• Tang San urgently asked about the old man, and Dai Yichen said the elder had come from another world while pursuing a traitor named Tang San.
• Dai Yichen suggested the elder had left blueprints for three powerful hidden weapons, making Tang San fear the elder would find him.
• Dai Yichen privately revealed that he had fabricated the story to scare Tang San, who told Yu Xiaogang he was fine and stopped thinking about cooperating with Ning Fengzhi.

Dai Yichen demonstrated that his upgraded concealed weapons could injure Tang San, then set a high price for selling them to Spirit Hall. Bibi Dong rejected Tang San’s attempt to undercut him and called out Tang Hao, who appeared to confront Spirit Hall over his wife and the Clear Sky Sect.

• Dai Yichen asked Tang San to serve as the test subject for concealed weapons and fired several upgraded weapons at him.
• Tang San’s Mysterious Jade Hand cracked under the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow’s force, and he was forced to dodge before bleeding from his right hand.
• Chen Xin explained that Dai Yichen had infused the weapons with Soul Power, increasing their strength.
• Dai Yichen priced each concealed weapon set at ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Tang San offered to sell sets for eight thousand.
• Bibi Dong rejected Tang San’s offer, cited Tang Hao’s attacks on Spirit Hall, and called him out of hiding.
• Tang Hao appeared and accused Spirit Hall’s Pope Qian Ren of injuring his wife and driving the Clear Sky Sect to seal its gates.