Chapter Summaries

Zhou Chen and Zhu Zhuqing fought Dugu Bo above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where both sides held back their strongest attacks to avoid destroying it. After Dugu Bo refused to surrender and prepared his ninth soul skill, Dugu Yan appeared, and Zhou Chen seized her as leverage.

• Dugu Bo used Medusa’s Gaze to turn Zhou Chen’s Earth Covering Seal to stone, and the two paused their aerial fight rather than risk destroying the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Zhu Zhuqing flew up to aid Zhou Chen, and the two wounded Dugu Bo while remaining unharmed themselves.
• Dugu Bo refused Zhou Chen’s offer to surrender and began activating his ninth soul skill, Jade Scale Divine Light.
• Dugu Yan left her cave and ran toward Sun Moon Mountain as she feared for her grandfather.
• Dugu Yan cried out as Zhou Chen prepared to strike, and Zhou Chen grabbed her and threatened Dugu Bo with her safety.

Zhou Chen forced Dugu Bo to surrender by holding Dugu Yan hostage, then offered him a chance to live in exchange for loyalty to the Purple Micro Palace. Dugu Bo accepted after Zhou Chen promised he could cure Dugu Yan’s inherited poison, and Zhou Chen appointed him the palace’s Second Offering.

• Zhou Chen threatened Dugu Bo with Dugu Yan’s safety until Dugu Bo agreed to surrender.
• Zhou Chen swore not to harm Dugu Yan and gave Dugu Bo a Soul Dissipation Pill, which dispersed his Soul Power.
• Zhou Chen and Zhu Zhuqing brought Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan down to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Yan rushed to her wounded grandfather.
• Zhou Chen told Dugu Bo that Dugu Yan could die from the Jade Scale Serpent poison she had inherited, and offered to cure her if Dugu Bo pledged loyalty.
• Dugu Bo accepted Zhou Chen’s offer, and Zhou Chen named him the Second Offering of the Purple Micro Palace and gave him a Rebirth Pill.

After recovering, Dugu Bo learned the Heavenly Nether Poison Classic from Zhou Chen, cured much of his poison, and broke through to Rank 92. When Dugu Bo asked whether Zhou Chen would marry Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing reacted with hostility and volunteered to guard him while he consolidated his realm at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Dugu Bo recovered with the help of Zhou Chen’s pills, and Dugu Yan thanked Zhou Chen for saving him.
• Zhou Chen gave Dugu Bo the Heavenly Nether Poison Classic, which neutralized most of his Jade Scale Serpent poison and helped him break through to Rank 92.
• Dugu Bo asked whether Zhou Chen would marry Dugu Yan, prompting Zhu Zhuqing to summon her Soul Rings and Shadow God Spear.
• Zhou Chen calmed Zhu Zhuqing and asked Dugu Bo to return to Purple Micro Palace, but Dugu Bo requested ten days at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to consolidate his realm and study the technique.
• Zhu Zhuqing offered to protect Dugu Bo during his retreat, while giving him an ill-intentioned look.

Zhou Chen escorted Dugu Yan from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where they encountered Yu Feng and the aerial patrol. After Dugu Yan helped Zhou Chen enter, Yu Feng decided to tell Yu Tianheng that she had a boyfriend.

• Zhu Zhuqing agreed to guard Dugu Bo and told Zhou Chen to take Dugu Yan down the mountain because she was too weak to remain at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Zhou Chen flew Dugu Yan to Heaven Dou Royal Academy on the Xuanyuan Sword, and she asked him to call her Yan Zi.
• Yu Feng and the academy's aerial patrol stopped Zhou Chen for flying over academy grounds, but Dugu Yan ordered them to let him pass.
• Yu Feng's team members speculated about Dugu Yan and Zhou Chen, and Yu Feng silenced them before flying off to tell Yu Tianheng what he had seen.

Zhou Chen brought Dugu Yan to her apartment, where Yu Tianheng confronted them after seeing them together. Zhou Chen challenged Yu Tianheng’s claim over Dugu Yan, and the dispute ended with a warning that Dugu Bo might punish him.

• Zhou Chen and Dugu Yan rode his sword through the academy before turning back toward her apartment.
• Dugu Yan invited Zhou Chen inside, and he hesitated over whether entering would harm her reputation.
• Yu Tianheng arrived with Yu Feng, Oslo, and the Shi Brothers and angrily demanded to know what Dugu Yan was doing with Zhou Chen.
• Dugu Yan told Yu Tianheng that her choices had nothing to do with him because she had never agreed to be his girlfriend.
• Yu Tianheng accused Zhou Chen of stealing his woman, and Zhou Chen rejected his claim and warned him not to damage Dugu Yan’s reputation.

At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Yu Tianheng challenged Zhou Chen over Dugu Yan, but Zhou Chen condemned him for treating her as property and won the admiration of the women present. Dugu Yan fell in love with Zhou Chen, while Yu Tianheng, humiliated and furious, launched an attack with his Thunder Dragon Claw.

• Yu Tianheng activated his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul and revealed his dragon-like right arm.
• Zhou Chen questioned Yu Tianheng's right to decide Dugu Yan's future and rebuked him for disregarding her wishes.
• The female teachers and students admired Zhou Chen, and Dugu Yan realized she had fallen in love with him.
• Yu Tianheng, enraged by the crowd's reaction, leapt toward Zhou Chen and unleashed his first spirit ability, Thunder Dragon Claw.

Yu Tianheng launched a sneak attack on Zhou Chen, but Dugu Yan stopped it before Zhou Chen offered to fight without summoning his martial soul. Zhou Chen left the crowd stunned when he caught Yu Tianheng’s Thunder Dragon Claw with one hand and twisted his dragon arm out of shape.

• Yu Tianheng tried to ambush Zhou Chen with Thunder Dragon Claw, drawing furious condemnation from the onlookers.
• Dugu Yan intercepted Yu Tianheng’s attack with Azure Scale Purple Poison, then stepped aside when he continued to challenge Zhou Chen.
• Yu Tianheng insulted Dugu Yan and admitted he cared only about satisfying his own desire, provoking more anger from the crowd.
• Zhou Chen offered to stand still and fight with one hand, without summoning his martial soul, and said Yu Tianheng would win if he touched his clothes.
• Yu Tianheng charged Zhou Chen with Thunder Dragon Claw, but Zhou Chen caught the attack and snapped Yu Tianheng’s dragon arm with one hand.

Zhou Chen effortlessly defeated Yu Tianheng, Oslo, and Yu Feng while holding back, then praised the Shi Brothers for protecting their teammate and offered them jobs. The Shi Brothers stood their ground as Zhou Chen made his first move and asked whether they would work for him.

• Yu Tianheng amplified his strength with Thunder's Fury and attacked Zhou Chen, but Zhou Chen remained unharmed and broke both of Yu Tianheng's arms.
• Oslo attacked Zhou Chen with Shadow Blade, but Zhou Chen snapped the blade, struck Oslo unconscious, and shattered Yu Feng's Wing Blade.
• The Shi Brothers shielded the unconscious Yu Tianheng, and Zhou Chen praised their loyalty and courage before asking them to work for him.

Zhou Chen ended the duel with the Shi Brothers and invited them to join Purple Micro Palace, hoping to recruit the Black Tortoise Turtle Family. After offering a method to improve their clan’s fertility, he drew the attention of Teacher Qin Ming, who questioned how he had defeated three students without using his martial soul or soul skills.

• Zhou Chen gave his name, agreed to end the duel, and told the Shi Brothers to consider his invitation to join Purple Micro Palace.
• Zhou Chen explained that he wanted to recruit the Black Tortoise Turtle Family and gave Shi Mo two Big Dipper Tokens, promising a secret method to increase soul master fertility.
• Shi Mo excitedly agreed that the brothers would inform their elders about Zhou Chen’s offer once the matter was settled.
• Qin Ming arrived, checked that Oslo, Yu Tianheng, and Yu Feng were not in mortal danger, and asked Zhou Chen how he had defeated them without using his martial soul or soul skills.

Zhou Chen defeated Yu Tianheng and the others, then avoided fighting Qin Ming after revealing they were both Shrek alumni. Ye Lingling healed the injured team members and revealed that her mother had considered Zhou Chen as a live-in son-in-law, before admitting she had taken a fancy to him herself.

• Qin Ming challenged Zhou Chen after learning he had defeated Yu Tianheng and the others, but withdrew when Zhou Chen said they were fellow Shrek alumni.
• Ye Lingling arrived and used her Nine Heart Begonia martial soul to heal Oslo, Yu Feng, and Yu Tianheng.
• Qin Ming sent Oslo and Yu Feng away with the still-unconscious Yu Tianheng, while Ye Lingling mocked Yu Tianheng for his supposed brain damage.
• Ye Lingling told Zhou Chen that a Titled Douluo surnamed Tang had mentioned him to her family two years earlier and that her mother had considered him a suitable live-in son-in-law.
• Ye Lingling told Zhou Chen that she had taken a fancy to him, leaving him and the others stunned.

Ye Lingling confessed to Zhou Chen, and after he tried to explain that he already had girlfriends, she accepted the situation and quickly arranged to meet his family and discuss marriage. The chapter left Zhou Chen with Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan, who claimed he would stay at her place that night.

• Ye Lingling told Zhou Chen she liked him, and Zhou Chen carefully assured her that he liked her too.
• Zhou Chen said he already had a girlfriend, but Ye Lingling accepted Dugu Yan and his other girlfriends without objection.
• Zhou Chen accepted Ye Lingling's confession, and she proposed that he meet her mother and discuss marriage.
• Qin Ming and the Shi Brothers left, stunned by Zhou Chen and Ye Lingling's swift romance.
• Dugu Yan linked arms with Zhou Chen and insisted he would stay at her place, so Ye Lingling agreed and went home.

Zhou Chen reflected on how Tang Hao’s connection to the Ye Family had led Ye Lingling to seek him out, then received a report on Purple Micro Palace’s forces gathering in Heaven Dou City. He learned that more reinforcements were on their way as he prepared to use the God Crystals to strengthen them.

• Zhou Chen recalled that Tang Hao had become the Ye Family’s protector after Ye Yinzhu saved his life, and realized Tang Hao’s stories had brought the family’s attention to him.
• Zhou Chen understood that Ye Lingling had recognized him during the incident with Yu Tianheng and had deliberately pursued him as a potential husband for the Ye Family’s heir.
• Xiao Chenyu arrived at Zhou Chen’s room and reported that sixty Tian Ji Guard Soul Elders had reached Heaven Dou City.
• Xiao Chenyu told Zhou Chen that Wang Sheng’s two hundred Tian Shu Guard members would arrive by the next day, while Marx’s force of more than three hundred weaker soul masters was expected within ten days.
• Zhou Chen approved the incoming reinforcements, planning to have Purple Micro Palace’s soul masters use the God Crystals to rapidly increase their strength.

Zhou Chen arranged housing for the arriving Tian Shu Guard and rewarded Purple Micro Palace's soul masters with God Crystals that dramatically raised their Soul Power. The 260 guards reached the peak of level 40, poised to become Soul Ancestors after obtaining fourth soul rings.

• Dugu Yan offered her grandfather Dugu Bo's large Heaven Dou City residence as lodging for the arriving Tian Shu Guard.
• Zhou Chen, Dugu Yan, Wang Sheng, and Xiao Chenyu gathered the 200 Tian Shu Guard and 60 Tian Ji Guard at the residence's training ground.
• Zhou Chen praised the soul masters and distributed one God Crystal to each of the 260 guards.
• The guards swallowed their crystals and meditated, rapidly advancing to the peak of level 40.
• Zhou Chen considered sending the guards to Sunset Forest to obtain soul rings and become Soul Ancestors.

Zhou Chen watched Marx absorb an eighth soul ring after Purple Micro Palace’s mass hunt in Sunset Forest, where the God Crystals had greatly increased the soul masters’ strength. After returning to Heaven Dou City, Zhou Chen was confronted by Ye Lingling, who demanded to know when he would meet her mother and arrange their engagement.

• Zhou Chen watched Marx, aided by Wang Sheng and Xiao Chenyu, defeat a fifty-thousand-year Ink Scale Python in Sunset Forest.
• Marx absorbed the python’s soul ring and became a level-81 Soul Douluo.
• Zhou Chen ordered the Purple Micro Palace soul masters to return to Heaven Dou City in batches.
• Zhou Chen, Dugu Yan, and Marx returned to Dugu Bo’s residence while Xiao Chenyu and Wang Sheng led the other soul masters back separately.
• Ye Lingling waited at the entrance and pressed Zhou Chen to visit her mother and get engaged to her.

Zhou Chen agreed to meet Ye Lingling’s mother and went with her to the Ye Family’s Begonia Marquis Manor. There, he met Ye Yinzhu, the Undying Douluo and Lingling’s mother.

• Ye Lingling confronted Zhou Chen about meeting her mother and getting engaged, and he apologized and agreed to visit the Ye Family.
• Ye Lingling led Zhou Chen to the Begonia Marquis Manor, where the guards welcomed them as honored guests.
• Zhou Chen noticed an enormous begonia sculpture in the manor’s courtyard, but Ye Lingling hurried him onward to a lake.
• Ye Yinzhu greeted Zhou Chen and introduced herself as Ye Lingling’s mother and the Undying Douluo.

Zhou Chen and Ye Yinzhu agreed to betroth him to Ye Lingling, with their wedding postponed until he turned sixteen. Ye Yinzhu then explained how Spirit Hall persecuted her family and revealed that several powerful bloodline families shared the same enemy.

• Zhou Chen greeted Ye Yinzhu as his mother-in-law, and she teased him by suggesting he marry Ye Lingling immediately before agreeing to an engagement until he turned sixteen.
• Ye Yinzhu sent Ye Lingling away and asked Zhou Chen about Spirit Hall's hunt for him.
• Ye Yinzhu revealed that Spirit Hall had hunted the Ye Family for generations because of the Nine Heart Begonia's healing power, and that Spirit Hall had killed her mother.
• Ye Yinzhu explained that Dugu Bo had saved her from Spirit Hall, but Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo later pursued them until Prince Xue Xing intervened with the Heaven Dou Empire's forces.
• Ye Yinzhu told Zhou Chen that the Ye Family, the Chen Family, and the Ma Family were known as the Lower Three Sects and had all been persecuted by Spirit Hall.

Zhou Chen discussed the Lower Three Sects’ survivors with Ye Yinzhu, then invented a powerful Xuanyuan Family to explain his backing. Ye Yinzhu believed his claim that he had five Titled Douluo relatives and invited him to lunch with Ye Ling Ling.

• Zhou Chen guessed that Chen Xin and Ma Hongjun were the surviving successors of the Seven Kill Sword Chen Family and the Nine Heavens Rainbow Phoenix Ma Family.
• Ye Yinzhu explained how Spirit Hall killed Chen Xun, Chen Jianjun, and most of the Chen Family, leaving Chen Xin to flee and eventually become the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s guardian.
• Ye Yinzhu lamented that Chen Xin had no heirs and feared the Ye Family’s inheritance would also be lost, while Zhou Chen promised to protect it.
• Ye Yinzhu questioned Zhou Chen about his origins, Purple Micro Palace, and the pill that healed Tang Hao, rejecting his claim that he was raised in Holy Soul Village.
• Zhou Chen claimed his family was the secluded Xuanyuan Family and that five generations of his relatives were Titled Douluo, and Ye Yinzhu believed him.
• Ye Yinzhu warmly invited Zhou Chen to eat lunch with her and Ye Ling Ling.

Zhou Chen met with the Black Tortoise Clan’s elders and offered them a fertility-boosting cultivation method in exchange for their loyalty. The elders pledged their Soul Douluo and Soul Sage members to serve him if the method worked.

• Zhou Chen returned to Dugu Bo’s residence and learned that the Shi Brothers and three Black Tortoise Clan elders were waiting to meet him.
• Zhou Chen greeted the three elders, Shi Feng, Shi Yu, and Shi Lei, and joined Dugu Yan and Marx in the council hall.
• Shi Feng explained that the Shi Family had dwindled to fewer than thirty members because their martial soul caused extremely low fertility.
• Zhou Chen presented the Mystic Pass Luminous Light Method, claiming it had been created by the Goddess of Life and could greatly improve fertility.
• Shi Feng asked Zhou Chen to grant the method to the Shi Family and pledged its seven Soul Douluo and eleven Soul Sages to serve him if it proved effective.

Zhou Chen secured the Black Tortoise Clan’s loyalty by giving Shi Feng a secret technique to break the Shi Family’s fertility curse, then accompanied Dugu Yan back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. The chapter ended when a group of excited girls rushed toward Zhou Chen and Dugu Yan recognized Princess Xue Ke among them.

• Shi Feng revealed that the Shi Family had seven Soul Douluos and eleven Soul Saints, then pledged the clan to Zhou Chen after receiving the Mystic Pass Luminous Light Method.
• Shi Feng, Shi Yu, Shi Lei, Shi Mo, and Shi Mo left to test the method, while Marx and Xiao Chenyu also departed.
• Zhou Chen teased Dugu Yan after she laughed at his performance, then carried her away; the next morning, she explained that her rapidly increased strength had worsened the Jade Scale Serpent venom in her body.
• Dugu Yan told Zhou Chen she expected her grandfather to return from Sunset Forest with the Heavenly Nether Poison Classic, and asked Zhou Chen to accompany her to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Zhou Chen and Dugu Yan arrived at her apartment, where several academy girls crowded around Zhou Chen, and Dugu Yan recognized Xue Ke.

At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Xue Ke and a group of noble girls surrounded Zhou Chen to ask for his autograph. After signing for them, Zhou Chen flew off with Dugu Yan to class, while Xue Ke watched him leave.

• Dugu Yan confronted Xue Ke and the girls, who said they had come to see Zhou Chen and praised him.
• The girls crowded around Zhou Chen, and Xue Ke quieted them before asking him for an autograph.
• Xue Ke showed Zhou Chen a portrait she had commissioned from a court artist, and he signed it.
• Zhou Chen signed items for the other girls until Dugu Yan returned in her academy uniform.
• Dugu Yan linked arms with Zhou Chen and took him to class, and Xue Ke watched them fly away on the Xuanyuan Sword.