Chapter Summaries

Yu Xingchen told the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family elders that Purple Micro Palace would sell them five Longevity Pills for fifteen million Gold Soul Coins. With the clan unable to afford them from its annual income, Yu Luomian proposed opening the True Dragon Cave to retrieve its ancestors’ buried treasures.

• Yu Xingchen arrived at the council meeting with Yu Tianmeng’s grandfather, father, and uncles, then explained that her letter reported a pill that could extend people’s lives.
• The elders reacted excitedly to the Longevity Pill, and Yu Luomian asked how many pills Purple Micro Palace would provide.
• Yu Xingchen said Purple Micro Palace would sell five pills for three million Gold Soul Coins each, while planning to auction them at a higher price.
• Yu Yuanzhen said the family could not afford fifteen million Gold Soul Coins, and Yu Xingchen explained that the offer was already below the expected auction price.
• Yu Yuanzhen considered but rejected opening the True Dragon Cave, and Yu Luomian urged him to retrieve the treasures buried with their ancestors.

Yu Luomian persuaded the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family’s elders to open True Dragon Cave and sell its burial goods to fund a Longevity Pill for Yu Xingchen. The clan began excavating that afternoon and uncovered treasures worth over ten million Gold Soul Coins, with most of the cave still untouched.

• Yu Luomian argued that the clan’s survival mattered more than preserving its ancestors’ burial goods, and most elders stayed silent or voiced support.
• The elders voted on opening True Dragon Cave, and only three opposed it; Yu Yuanzhen approved the decision after one elder fainted in anger.
• Yu Luomian proposed starting the excavation that afternoon, and Yu Xingchen and the other elders agreed.
• More than a thousand Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family disciples began digging at True Dragon Cave under Yu Luomian’s leadership.
• The diggers unearthed burial goods worth over ten million Gold Soul Coins in half a day, though they had excavated only one percent of the cave.

Zhou Chen prepared with Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianmeng to attend a Heaven Dou Imperial Family banquet. The three departed in a lavish royal carriage, and Zhou Chen fell asleep on the journey.

• Zhu Zhuqing reminded Zhou Chen about the royal banquet and helped him dress in formal clothes bearing the Xuanyuan Family crest she had designed with Yu Tianmeng.
• Yu Tianmeng arrived in a silver gown and told Zhou Chen that the royal carriage had come to pick them up.
• Zhou Chen left his residence with Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianmeng and saw the extravagant carriage and its Royal Knight escort.
• Zhou Chen rode between Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianmeng, then reclined on Zhu Zhuqing's legs and fell asleep.

Yu Tianmeng, Zhou Chen, and Zhu Zhuqing arrived at the Heaven Dou Imperial Family’s heavily guarded banquet and entered the Golden Palace. Their entrance drew everyone’s attention, while Zhou Chen regretted arriving before the other important guests.

• Yu Tianmeng saw the City Garrison’s extensive deployment and wondered whether the banquet was a trap, but concluded the imperial family was likely showing off its power.
• Zhou Chen woke in the carriage beside Zhu Zhuqing as they reached the palace square, where nobles and their guards had to leave their carriages outside.
• Zhou Chen and the two women entered the Golden Palace directly in an imperial carriage, then used Yu Tianmeng’s calling card to avoid announcing Zhou Chen’s and Zhu Zhuqing’s identities.
• The herald announced Yu Tianmeng as a member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family, prompting banquet guests to suspect the gathering had a purpose beyond celebrating Xue Ke’s birthday.
• Zhou Chen, Zhu Zhuqing, and Yu Tianmeng entered the hall and attracted the guests’ attention with their appearance.
• Zhou Chen saw no one he knew and regretted arriving too early to make a suitably grand entrance.

Zhou Chen attended a royal banquet with Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianmeng, where the arrival of Prince Hilo and Platinum Bishop Salas drew his attention. Zhou Chen sensed that Hilo might be an Evil Soul Master and decided to kill him after seeing his predatory interest in the women beside him.

• Zhou Chen, Zhu Zhuqing, and Yu Tianmeng enjoyed the banquet’s lavish food while other guests kept their distance because of their high status.
• Yu Tianmeng casually called Emperor Xue Ye “that old man,” and the nearby eunuchs pretended not to hear her.
• Prince Hilo, King Kundera, and Platinum Bishop Salas arrived at the banquet together.
• Zhou Chen sensed an Evil Soul Master-like aura from Hilo, who briefly stared greedily at Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianmeng.
• Zhou Chen decided Hilo had to die, while recognizing Salas as a powerful Platinum Bishop.

At the banquet, Zhou Chen noticed Spirit Hall Platinum Bishop Salas alongside the princes Kundera and Hilo, suggesting a major event was underway. When Hilo invited Zhu Zhuqing to dance and she refused, Zhou Chen insulted him and challenged him to a duel, leaving the confrontation ready to escalate.

• Yu Tianmeng reacted with displeasure to Salas's presence, while Zhou Chen suspected the Heaven Dou Imperial Family had invited him for an important reason.
• Salas recognized Zhou Chen, and the nobles gathered around Salas and princes Kundera and Hilo to flatter them.
• The waltz began, and Hilo invited Zhu Zhuqing to dance; she politely refused, saying she already had a partner.
• Hilo turned his anger toward Zhou Chen, who mocked him, called him a mutt, and challenged him to a Life and Death Duel.

Zhou Chen provoked Hilo into a duel after Hilo showed interest in Zhou Chen’s woman, but Hilo refused and threatened him instead. When Hilo challenged a green-eyed woman who intervened, she summoned her grandfather Dugu Bo, who forced Hilo to his knees and demanded an apology to Yan'er.

• Zhou Chen threatened Hilo and challenged him to a duel, while Yu Tianmeng and Salas watched.
• Hilo refused the duel to avoid exposing his identity as a Blood Soul Master and threatened Zhou Chen instead.
• A green-eyed woman told Hilo to leave, then called for her grandfather when he challenged her.
• Dugu Bo appeared, pressed Hilo to his knees, and demanded that he apologize to Dugu Yan.

Dugu Bo forced Hilo to apologize to Dugu Yan, then spared him to avoid causing trouble for the Heaven Dou Imperial Family. Zhou Chen secretly ordered Xiao Chenyu to kill Hilo as he left the palace, while his reunion with Dugu Yan exposed his relationship with her to the banquet guests.

• Dugu Bo threatened to kill Hilo until Hilo begged Dugu Yan for forgiveness, then released him after Hilo apologized.
• Zhou Chen signaled Xiao Chenyu, who was hiding in the palace, to ambush Hilo when he left the Golden Palace.
• Hilo left the Golden Palace in disgrace, and Xiao Chenyu prepared the Tian Ji Guard to attack him.
• Dugu Yan confronted Zhou Chen for neglecting her, and Zhu Zhuqing urged him to hug her.
• Zhou Chen embraced Dugu Yan, shocking the onlookers who saw her join the women already beside him.

At the palace banquet, Zhou Chen drew attention as guests speculated about his connection to Purple Micro Palace. Ye Yinzhu and Ye Lingling arrived, and Ye Yinzhu revealed Zhou Chen was her son-in-law, prompting Zhu Zhuqing to confront him over his growing number of women.

• Guests watched Dugu Yan, Yu Tianmeng, and Zhu Zhuqing gather around Zhou Chen, while Salas hinted to Kundera that Zhou Chen was connected to Purple Micro Palace.
• The herald announced Ye Yinzhu and Ye Lingling, whose arrival silenced the palace and drew everyone's attention.
• Ye Yinzhu and Ye Lingling walked over to Zhou Chen after Ye Lingling pointed him out.
• Ye Yinzhu greeted Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, then called Zhou Chen her son-in-law, stunning the guests.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked whether Ye Lingling was another of Zhou Chen's women, and Zhou Chen admitted it.
• Zhu Zhuqing angrily accused Zhou Chen of adding three more sisters while she was away, and Ye Yinzhu urged her not to blame herself for a man's mistakes.

At the Heaven Dou palace banquet, Marshal Ge Long teased Zhou Chen and hinted that a great joyous event awaited him. Meanwhile, Xue Ye prepared his shy daughter Xue Ke for her engagement to Zhou Chen, but the chapter ended with news that Prince Hilo had died.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianmeng comforted Zhu Zhuqing and threatened Zhou Chen with a beating when they got home, while Dugu Yan and Ye Yinzhu refused to shelter him.
• Marshal Ge Long arrived at the banquet with armed generals, reassured the guests, and resumed the festivities.
• Ge Long teased Zhou Chen about the women around him, prompting Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Tianmeng to pinch him, then hinted that a great joyous event awaited him that night.
• Xue Ye encouraged Xue Ke as she sat in her bridal robe before her engagement banquet, telling her to carry herself like a princess.
• A palace attendant told Xue Ye that Prince Hilo of the Silves Kingdom had died.

Xue Ye learned that Hilo had been killed inside the imperial palace, threatening to make the Heaven Dou Imperial Family appear responsible and potentially provoke rebellion. At the abandoned side hall, he discovered Hilo and fifty-seven guards dead, exposing how easily the palace’s defenses could be breached.

• Xue Ye heard that Hilo was dead and initially assumed Dugu Bo had killed him according to their plan.
• A palace attendant revealed that Hilo had died in an abandoned side hall, making Xue Ye realize another force might be framing the imperial family.
• Xue Ye ordered his guards to the side hall and told Xue Ke to wait while he investigated.
• Xue Ye found Hilo’s body among fifty-seven corpses, and a Royal Guard commander reported that Hilo’s blood had been drained and all the other dead appeared to be his guards.
• Xue Ye recognized that Hilo had brought more than fifty guards into the palace in violation of the rules and feared the palace’s defenses were dangerously weak.

Zhou Chen learned that Hilo had been killed, but the operation had exposed a hidden group of powerful Soul Masters inside the imperial palace. With the Heaven Dou Imperial Family alerted and the enemy’s purpose still unclear, he was left to decide what to do next.

• Xue Ye reprimanded the Royal Guards commander for the palace breach, then ordered him to summon Poison Douluo and Ning Fengzhi.
• Xue Ye worried that asking the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for help would reveal the imperial family’s weakness, and hoped his marriage alliance with Zhou Chen could save the empire.
• Xiao Chenyu told Zhou Chen that the Tian Ji Guard had tracked Hilo to an abandoned side hall filled with more than fifty powerful Soul Masters.
• Xiao Chenyu revealed that Lin Yang had killed Hilo and most of the enemies, but the Heaven Dou Royal Knights and Royal Enshrinement Group arrived before the Tian Ji Guard could clear the bodies.
• Xiao Chenyu asked Zhou Chen what to do now that the imperial family had discovered the aftermath of the fight.

Zhou Chen ordered the Tian Ji Guard to withdraw from the imperial palace after Hilo’s death risked exposing them, while Lin Yang remained above the Golden Palace to guard it. Yu Tianmeng confronted Zhou Chen about the assassination and helped identify the unknown accomplices, leaving them prepared to strike whoever threatened them.

• Zhou Chen told Xiao Chenyu to withdraw the Tian Ji Guard from the imperial palace and ordered Lin Yang to guard the Golden Palace from above.
• After Xiao Chenyu left, Zhou Chen reflected on his loneliness and the burdens of building the Purple Micro Palace.
• Yu Tianmeng joined Zhou Chen on the terrace, revealed that her Eyes of Truth had seen Xiao Chenyu, and demanded to know whether Zhou Chen had ordered Hilo’s assassination.
• Zhou Chen admitted that the Tian Ji Guard had killed Hilo and explained that Lin Yang had helped defeat more than fifty hidden Soul Master guards.
• Yu Tianmeng deduced that Hilo had accomplices in the imperial palace, and Zhou Chen and Yu Tianmeng considered whether Qian Renxue, Salas, or Kundera was involved before vowing to cut down anyone who provoked them.

Zhou Chen returned to the banquet with Yu Tianmeng, heard rumors that Xue Ye would announce a political marriage, and then danced with Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, Yu Tianmeng, and Ye Lingling. His relationships with the four women became obvious to the nobles, leaving him the public enemy of the men at the banquet.

• Zhou Chen and Yu Tianmeng returned to the palace hall and overheard a court baron claim that Xue Ye would announce a political marriage involving a mysterious man.
• Zhou Chen dismissed Zhu Zhuqing’s concern about the trouble he had handled and accepted her invitation to dance.
• Zhou Chen and Zhu Zhuqing impressed the watching nobles with their dance, then Zhou Chen danced with Dugu Yan, Yu Tianmeng, and Ye Lingling.
• The nobles recognized Zhou Chen’s relationships with the four women, and his romantic fortune made him the men’s public enemy at the banquet.

At the palace gathering, Zhou Chen avoided the Heaven Dou Royal Academy committee members and drew the Crown Prince’s attention by pretending to introduce Zhu Zhuqing as a powerful Xuanyuan Family Douluo. The evening’s arrivals culminated in Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin entering the hall by sword.

• Zhou Chen hid behind the girls when Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin arrived, wary of Meng Shenji’s advances.
• Crown Prince Xue Qinghe greeted Zhou Chen warmly, and Zhou Chen teased him before grasping his hands.
• Xue Qinghe asked to meet Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhou Chen introduced her under the false name Ji Mingyue as the Xuanyuan Family’s Moon God Douluo.
• Xue Qinghe greeted Zhu Zhuqing as Moon God Douluo, while the girls kept quiet about Zhou Chen’s deception.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin arrived together, flying into the hall on Chen Xin’s sword.

Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin arrived at the palace banquet after the emperor summoned them to guard against an undisclosed crisis. The banquet’s guests were stunned when Emperor Xue Ye entered with Princess Xue Ke dressed in wedding robes, leaving Zhou Chen to suspect she was the princess being married to a mysterious person.

• Chen Xin accompanied Ning Fengzhi into the banquet, where Meng Shenji and the other education committee members behaved improperly toward Ning Fengzhi before Ge Long intervened.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ge Long that the emperor had summoned him and that a Titled Douluo was needed at the palace, but he refused to reveal the confidential reason.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized Zhou Chen, and Chen Xin sensed Zhou Chen’s powerful sword intent and qi; Chen Xin’s Seven Kill Sword dimmed and seemed suppressed by Zhou Chen’s martial soul.
• Nine bells and ceremonial music announced Emperor Xue Ye’s arrival, and he entered the hall with Princess Xue Ke.
• The guests saw Xue Ke wearing Phoenix Coronet and Bridal Robes, and Zhou Chen recalled the rumor that the emperor would marry an imperial princess to a mysterious person.

At a royal gathering, Xue Ye invited Zhou Chen to sit beside him and revealed that Zhou Chen was the young master of Purple Micro Palace, the strongest sect in the world. The court was left stunned by Zhou Chen’s identity and status.

• Xue Ye entered the hall with Xue Ke and took his throne while Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, and Salas joined him on the platform.
• Xue Ye ordered another throne for Zhou Chen, then invited him to sit beside him before the confused assembly.
• Zhou Chen took Zhu Zhuqing with him to the platform and sat beside Xue Ye.
• Xue Ye mentioned Zhou Chen’s destruction of the Great Spirit Arena and killing of Blood Soul Douluo, prompting the guests to suspect who he was.
• Xue Ye announced that Zhou Chen was the Palace Master of Purple Micro Palace, shocking the hall.

Xue Ye announced that Zhou Chen and Xue Ke were engaged, using the public ceremony to pressure Zhou Chen into an alliance with the Heaven Dou Empire. Zhou Chen disliked the coercion, and Xue Ye ended by asking whether he would marry Xue Ke.

• Xue Ye declared that Xue Ke was engaged to Zhou Chen and claimed they had secretly pledged themselves to each other.
• Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ye Yinzhu reacted angrily, while Yu Tianmeng urged them to trust Zhou Chen to handle the matter.
• Heaven Dou loyalists welcomed the alliance, while Kundera feared it would thwart his plans for Balak independence and Salas worried about Spirit Hall's ambitions.
• Zhou Chen realized Xue Ye was using the public announcement to force his agreement, and Xue Ye asked whether he would marry Xue Ke.

At the palace gathering, Xue Ye publicly proposed an engagement between Xue Ke and Zhou Chen, who objected to being pressured but agreed to marry her on the condition that she hold equal status with his other wives. Xue Ye accepted, and Zhou Chen and Xue Ke completed their engagement ceremony.

• Xue Ye asked Zhou Chen in front of the assembled guests whether he would take Xue Ke as his wife, surprising the hall and leaving Xue Ke afraid he would reject her.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Xue Ke and urged Zhou Chen to treat her well, while Zhou Chen told Xue Ye he was dissatisfied with the way the proposal had been made.
• Zhou Chen agreed to the engagement if Xue Ke would have equal status with Ye Lingling and his other confidantes, and Xue Ke told Xue Ye she accepted the condition.
• Xue Ye approved the condition, and Zhou Chen called him father-in-law and promised to cherish Xue Ke.
• Xue Ye formally announced the engagement, and Xue Ke took Zhou Chen's hand and kissed him during the ceremony.

At Zhou Chen and Xue Ke’s engagement banquet, Xue Ye demanded a betrothal gift, and Zhou Chen offered him a Longevity Pill. Zhou Chen planned to have Xue Ye take it publicly to prove its effects and promote an upcoming auction, while also pursuing a hidden aim involving Qian Renxue and Spirit Hall.

• Qian Renxue toasted Zhou Chen and urged him to treat Xue Ke well, though Zhou Chen noticed her hidden worry about their alliance.
• Xue Ye sent Xue Ke and Zhou Chen to greet the guests, and Xue Ke introduced him to Heaven Dou City’s powerful figures.
• Ning Fengzhi reminded Zhou Chen to present a betrothal gift, and Xue Ye said it had to be worth more than Xue Ke’s three-million-Gold-Soul-Coin dowry.
• Zhou Chen revealed a Longevity Pill and told Xue Ye it could extend a Titled Douluo’s life by ten years or an ordinary person’s by thirty.