Chapter Summaries

Zu Zong shopped in Heaven Dou City and caught the attention of a noblewoman, while Old Titan arrived at Shrek Academy seeking revenge for his family. Tang San was mistaken for the Blue Silver Grass Soul Master who had beaten Tai Long and Tai Nuo, and went to confront them.

• Zu Zong bought supplies and two Storage Soul Tool rings, then passed a noblewoman whose gaze followed him.
• Old Titan arrived at Shrek Academy after learning that his son and grandson had been defeated by a Blue Silver Grass Soul Master.
• Oscar told Tang San that the academy believed he had beaten Tai Long and Tai Nuo, though Tang San denied having fought them.
• A student identified Tang San as the Blue Silver Grass Soul Master Old Titan had come to punish.
• Tang San sent Meng Yiran to find Zhao Wuji and went with Oscar to face Tai Long and his family.

Tai Tan confronted Tang San over the injuries to his son and grandson, then challenged him to withstand a stick of incense of pressure. As Tang San collapsed under the strain, Zu Zong watched from the academy roof until a sudden danger forced him to flee.

• Tai Tan brought Tai Nuo and Tai Long to Shrek Academy and demanded to know which student had a Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
• Zu Zong secretly made a student identify Tang San, and Tang San denied injuring Tai Tan's family while refusing to name Zu Zong as a scapegoat.
• Tai Tan wagered that the Strength Clan would join Tang Sect if Tang San endured his pressure for one stick of incense, while Tang San would join the Strength Clan if he failed.
• Tai Tan's pressure forced Tang San to the ground, and he struggled to resist with Blue Silver Grass, Oscar's sausage, and Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Meng Yiran urged Tang San to give up, but Tai Tan increased the pressure and Tang San vomited blood.
• Zu Zong watched from a rooftop, hoping Tai Tan would cripple Tang San, then used Body Flicker Technique to escape a sudden sense of danger.

Bone Douluo Gu Rong tested Zu Zong, who answered with increasingly powerful Blue Silver Emperor attacks and trapped him in a five-layer Extreme Flame cage. The onlookers feared the cage’s lethal power, while Zu Zong’s confrontation with Gu Rong remained unresolved.

• Titan stopped his pressure when Bone Douluo Gu Rong appeared, and Tang San fainted after the pressure lifted.
• Gu Rong challenged Zu Zong, who summoned his Blue Silver Emperor and attacked with empowered Blue Silver Blades.
• Gu Rong blocked Zu Zong’s fiery, sword-infused blades with a bone barrier, while Zu Zong spotted Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong watching nearby.
• Gu Rong pressured Zu Zong and noticed his External Soul Bone, but Zu Zong used the Eight Spider Lances to escape the pressure.
• Zu Zong trapped Gu Rong inside a five-layer Extreme Flame Blue Silver Cage and activated Poisonous Devour, startling the gathered crowd.

Zu Zong survived Bone Douluo’s attack before Ning Fengzhi arrived and ended the confrontation. Ning Rongrong rushed to Zu Zong’s side, while Ning Fengzhi turned to Titan and asked him to release Tang San.

• Bone Douluo shattered Zu Zong’s Blue Silver Cage, injuring him and damaging the building, but Ning Fengzhi stopped him before he could attack again.
• Ning Rongrong ran past Oscar to help Zu Zong and scolded Bone Douluo for hurting him.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed he had been watching Zu Zong and Tang San, and was impressed by Zu Zong’s talent and abilities.
• Ning Fengzhi greeted Titan and asked him to let the unconscious Tang San go.

After Bone Douluo injured Zu Zong while testing him, Ning Fengzhi healed him and offered him a place in the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, but Zu Zong declined. Days later, Zu Zong accepted an invitation to Moonlight Pavilion and arrived to meet its host.

• Bone Douluo intervened when Old Titan confronted Tang San, and Old Titan left with Tai Nuo while Tai Long remained at school.
• Ning Fengzhi healed Tang San and Zu Zong, apologized for Bone Douluo’s test, and offered Zu Zong generous terms to join the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Zu Zong declined to join the sect, while Ning Rongrong tried to ease the awkwardness and Oscar was relieved that Zu Zong had refused.
• Zu Zong agreed to supply Ning Fengzhi with ordinary firearms and earned several million Gold Soul Coins.
• After receiving an invitation signed by Moonlight Pavilion Master, Zu Zong went to Moonlight Pavilion and waited in a reception room with a handsome young man.

Zu Zong met Crown Prince Xue Qinghe while waiting at Moonlight Pavilion and drew his interest with a tea ceremony and his background. After leaving Xue Qinghe and Xue Ke, Zu Zong reached the private fifth floor and came face-to-face with the mature woman who had invited him.

• Zu Zong brewed tea for the young man in the reception room and explained how to savor its flavor.
• Zu Zong learned that the young man was Crown Prince Xue Qinghe and introduced himself before leaving with him to meet Xue Ke.
• Xue Qinghe asked Zu Zong to call him Big Brother Xue and privately considered recruiting the thirteen-year-old Soul Ancestor.
• Zu Zong greeted Xue Ke briefly, then followed the maid to the fifth floor of Moonlight Pavilion.
• A mature woman spoke from the private hall, and Zu Zong recognized her as the woman who had invited him.

Tang Yuehua mistook Zu Zong for the man she had known decades earlier and suspected he had returned from the future, leaving him wondering about his identity and a mysterious person watching him. After receiving a token from Xue Qinghe and returning to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Zu Zong encountered the startled Xue Beng.

• Tang Yuehua embraced Zu Zong, insisting that he was the same Zong who had disappeared decades earlier, while Zu Zong maintained that he was only thirteen and not the man she remembered.
• Tang Yuehua privately suspected Zu Zong had somehow traveled back in time but withheld her theory, and Zu Zong left Moonlight Pavilion wondering whether she was right and who else had recognized him.
• An attendant from the Crown Prince Residence delivered Zu Zong a token and letter from Xue Qinghe, who offered help and praised his tea.
• After his month-long leave from Shrek Academy ended, Zu Zong brought Xiao Wu back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and told her he planned to cultivate in seclusion for a month.
• At the academy gates, Zu Zong met Xue Beng, who cried out in shock and asked how Zu Zong was still alive.

Zu Zong returned to Heaven Dou Academy, dealt with Xue Beng’s attempt to intimidate him, and reunited with Xiao Wu before traveling to Ghost Valley in the world of Qin’s Moon. He caught up with Wei Zhuang, Ge Nie, and Xuan Jian’s family, leaving them with Soul Wine and renewed assurances of friendship.

• Zu Zong tossed Xue Beng’s Shamate Youth to Xiao Wu, who beat him with her Eight Stage Throw, then left with Xiao Wu and urged her to keep cultivating.
• Zu Zong promised Xiao Wu they would be together after the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament, then used the System to travel to Qin’s Moon.
• At Ghost Valley, Zu Zong greeted Wei Zhuang and Ge Nie and gave them jars of Soul Wine, including an extra bottle for Wei Zhuang.
• Zu Zong visited Xuan Jian and Wei Xianxian, helped Wei Xianxian up, and asked the couple to stop treating him as someone above them.

Zu Zong finished a swordsmanship duel with Xuan Jian and decided to travel to Xianyang, drawing attention from the Yin Yang School. Donghuang Taiyi sent Dongjun Yan Fei to protect Ying Zheng and watch for Zu Zong, with orders to kill him if possible.

• Zu Zong sparred with Xuan Jian without using Internal Energy or Soul Power, and Xuan Jian praised his talent while urging him to find more experienced opponents.
• Zu Zong took the Black Sword to draw Net's pursuit, left the White Sword with Xuan Jian to protect Miss Wei, and invited Ge Nie to travel with him to Xianyang.
• Ge Nie said he would remain in Ghost Valley for further training, so Zu Zong used the system to teleport outside Xianyang City.
• Donghuang Taiyi noticed the Emperor Star flickering and ordered Dongjun Yan Fei to go to Xianyang, protect Ying Zheng, and watch for a person she would recognize.
• Donghuang Taiyi told Yan Fei that she could kill that person if the opportunity arose, and she accepted the order.

Zu Zong settled in Xianyang City and drew Net’s attention by carrying the Black Sword, prompting Lü Buwei to send assassins to test him. After defeating the attackers, Zu Zong let their leader escape and left a clone behind while he returned to Douluo Continent to cultivate his Soul Power.

• Zu Zong entered Xianyang City, rented a quiet courtyard in the west, and asked the innkeeper to find him a place to buy.
• A spy reported the blue-haired youth with the Black Sword to Lü Buwei, who ordered Earth-Grade assassins to test Zu Zong and recover the sword.
• Zu Zong sensed five Net assassins waiting in his courtyard and fought them with the Black Sword, killing four after revealing his greater strength.
• An unseen attacker threw a knife, allowing the surviving leader to escape, and Zu Zong chose not to pursue him so he could draw out a larger target.
• Zu Zong burned the dead assassins’ bodies, left an incorporeal Shadow Clone in his room, and returned to Douluo Continent to cultivate his Soul Power.

Lü Buwei learned that Zu Zong had defeated Net assassins and ordered another attempt to recruit him, while Yan Fei recognized Zu Zong as the person Donghuang Taiyi had told her to watch. At an inn, Zu Zong met Crown Prince Yan Dan, who sought to recruit him, and refused his request to taste the Soul Wine based on his character.

• Lü Buwei questioned the injured Lao Ai about Zu Zong and ordered a group of Kill Grade assassins to recruit or attack him while a masked woman watched.
• Lü Buwei assigned the masked woman to target Wei Wuji after she completed her current mission.
• Zu Zong returned to Xianyang and noticed that more people were watching him as he entered an inn.
• Zu Zong recognized Yan Fei at the inn, while Yan Fei recognized him as the mysterious man Donghuang Taiyi had ordered her to watch.
• Zu Zong opened a bottle of Soul Wine, attracting Yan Dan, who introduced himself and asked to taste it.
• Zu Zong told Yan Dan that only people who suited his temperament could drink his wine, regardless of their status or strength.

Zu Zong rejected Yan Dan’s attempt to befriend him, exposed the crown prince’s likely schemes, and injured his guard with his Soul Power. After Yan Dan left, Zu Zong introduced himself to Yan Fei as Lan Zong and invited her to hear his honest opinion of her.

• Zu Zong called Yan Dan a hypocrite and refused to let him drink the Soul Wine.
• Yan Dan’s guard attacked Zu Zong, who crushed the man with his Soul Power without moving.
• Zu Zong accused Yan Dan of planning to use an ally to escape Qin Country and potentially target the Mohist leader or King of Qin Ying Zheng.
• Yan Dan left the inn, and news of Zu Zong’s accusations reached major powers; the next day, Ying Zheng placed Yan Dan under house arrest.
• Zu Zong offered Soul Wine to Yan Fei, introduced himself as Lan Zong, and began answering her request for his honest opinion.

Zu Zong fought off a force of Net assassins and let the masked Jing Ni escape, then invited Yan Fei to drink with him. Yan Fei questioned why he had spared Jing Ni, and Zu Zong reminded her of his earlier words about taking a fancy to her.

• Zu Zong teased Yan Fei, called her suited to be a wife, and gave her Hundred-Year Soul Wine before vanishing from the inn.
• Net assassins arrived and offered Zu Zong a Heaven Grade First Class rank if he joined them, but he refused and fought them.
• Zu Zong used the Sharingan to study the assassins' swordsmanship, then revealed his strength and killed most of them.
• Jing Ni attacked Zu Zong from the roof but fled after they exchanged several moves, and Zu Zong burned the fallen assassins' bodies.
• Zu Zong invited the hidden Yan Fei to drink, and she asked why he had let Jing Ni escape; he reminded her of what he had said earlier.

Zu Zong kissed Yan Fei after overpowering her in close combat, then agreed to withstand one of her attacks as a condition for her to marry him. Yan Fei secretly inflicted the Six Soul Fear Curse on him and left, but she spent the night worrying that Net would target him.

• Yan Fei attacked Zu Zong after he teased her, but he caught her strikes and kissed her.
• Zu Zong apologized and promised to take responsibility, so Yan Fei offered to marry him if he endured one of her attacks and survived for ten days.
• Yan Fei used the Six Soul Fear Curse on Zu Zong and warned that it would become fatal when he circulated his True Qi.
• Yan Fei returned to her room, worried about Zu Zong and the possibility that Net would send assassins after him, and cultivated through the night.

Zu Zong and Yan Fei clashed after he kissed her, and Yan Fei agreed to marry him if he survived one of her attacks for ten days. She secretly inflicted the Six Soul Fear Curse on him and left, then spent the night worrying that Net would target him.

• Yan Fei struck at Zu Zong, but he restrained her and kissed her before she could react.
• Yan Fei attacked Zu Zong with Soul Dragon Soaring, but he evaded it and restrained her again.
• Zu Zong promised to take responsibility, and Yan Fei set the condition that he survive one of her moves for ten days before she would marry him.
• Yan Fei secretly inflicted the Six Soul Fear Curse on Zu Zong and warned him that activating his True Qi could prove fatal.
• Yan Fei returned to her room, worried Net might send assassins after Zu Zong, and cultivated through the night.

Zu Zong removed Yan Fei’s Six Soul Fear Curse and teased her before meeting Jing Ni, who had been sent to approach him as an apparent refugee. He took Jing Ni into his courtyard and left her there with a warning not to come out, as he continued practicing his sword.

• Zu Zong used the Eight Spider Lances to absorb the curse energy Yan Fei had left in his neck, then spent the next two days practicing and exploring Xianyang.
• Zu Zong met Yan Fei at an inn, claimed she would be his wife in seven days, kissed her cheek, and disappeared before she could stop him.
• Zu Zong recognized the woman selling herself to bury her father as Jing Ni and gave her Gold Soul Coins; she introduced herself as Ni Jing and asked to serve him.
• Zu Zong told Ni Jing to come to his courtyard before sunset, then assigned her a room and said she could choose whether to help with household tasks.
• After practicing swordsmanship, Zu Zong accepted tea from Jing Ni and told her to return to her room and stay inside regardless of what she heard.

Zu Zong and Yan Fei fought over their marriage wager, but Yan Fei discovered his Six Soul Fear Curse had been undone and used an illusion to question him. After Zu Zong revealed that he loved her, the two agreed to marry, and he gave her a storage Soul Tool.

• Yan Fei visited Zu Zong and questioned why he had taken in Jing Ni, Net's Heaven Grade First Class assassin.
• Zu Zong reminded Yan Fei that their ten-day marriage wager was about to expire, and she attacked him with Yin Yang Arts techniques.
• Yan Fei realized Zu Zong's Six Soul Fear Curse had been undone and tried to defeat him with Illusion Art and the Mind Control Curse.
• Yan Fei questioned Zu Zong under the illusion, and he said his real name was Lan Zong, he had come to Xianyang City to attract Net assassins, and he liked Miss Fei Yan most.
• After midnight, Zu Zong and Yan Fei agreed to marry, and he placed a storage Soul Tool on her finger.
• Yan Fei learned to store gold coins in the ring and named it the Heart of the Azure Sea.

Zu Zong revealed that he knew Jing Ni was a Net assassin and offered her a chance to leave with him for another world. Three days later, he waited to learn her decision while continuing his relationship with Yan Fei.

• Zu Zong told Yan Fei he knew she was Dongjun of the Yin Yang School and declared that he intended to marry her.
• Zu Zong bought a luxurious, size-changing Soul Tool house and wedding supplies on Douluo Continent before returning to Qin's Moon.
• Zu Zong stopped Jing Ni from working, exposed her identity as Net's Heaven Grade First Class assassin, and offered her freedom if she left with him.
• Zu Zong gave Jing Ni three days to decide whether to abandon Net and meet him at Ten Li Pavilion outside Xianyang City.
• During the three days, Zu Zong raised his Soul Power to rank 47 and spent time with Yan Fei; as the deadline arrived, he waited for Jing Ni's choice.

Yue Shen reported Yan Fei’s plans and Zu Zong’s abilities to Donghuang Taiyi, who chose not to interfere. Outside Xianyang, Jing Ni led Net assassins to confront Zu Zong and Yan Fei, but she suddenly stabbed Luan Shen in the heart.

• Yue Shen told Donghuang Taiyi that Yan Fei planned to leave Xianyang with a powerful blue-haired young man and that Net intended to intercept them.
• Donghuang Taiyi dismissed Yue Shen and reflected that an outsider had changed the world’s course and Yan Fei’s fate.
• At Ten Li Pavilion, Yan Fei asked Zu Zong why he valued Jing Ni, and he explained that he wanted to give her a chance to escape a life of killing.
• More than a hundred Net assassins arrived, with Jing Ni and Luan Shen at the front, and Jing Ni urged Yan Fei to leave.
• Jing Ni ordered Luan Shen to attack Yan Fei, then stabbed him through the heart from behind.

Zu Zong defeated the Net assassins after Jing Ni turned against them, then brought Jing Ni and Yan Fei to Ghost Valley. There, Jing Ni joined Xuan Jian's family in safety, while Wei Xianxian took Yan Fei to try on her wedding dress.

• Jing Ni revealed that she had been forced to pretend to serve the Net and sided with Zu Zong, apologizing to him and Yan Fei.
• Zu Zong unleashed his Blue Silver Emperor Vines, killing the Net assassins and crippling Gan Sha so he could carry a message to Lü Buwei.
• Zu Zong learned that Jing Ni's real name was Tian Jing and teleported her and Yan Fei to Ghost Valley on Yunmeng Mountain.
• Zu Zong introduced Jing Ni and Yan Fei to Xuan Jian, Wei Xianxian, and their daughter Wei Lan.
• Jing Ni agreed to live peacefully at Ghost Valley, and Wei Xianxian led Yan Fei to try on her wedding dress.