Chapter Summaries

After the Heavenly Dao Rankings revealed the power of Dou Di experts, Sea God Island and other major factions feared the three reborn Exposers and began seeking information about them. The Silver Dragon King judged that a Dou Saint could destroy the God Realm and suggested that the Exposers might benefit the Soul Beasts, but she had not yet explained how.

• The people of the Douluo Continent reacted in shock to the rankings, while Sea Maiden Douluo asked Bo Saixi whether the Sea God could defeat a Dou Di expert.
• Bo Saixi avoided answering and ordered the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardian Douluo to search for the Exposers of Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Cailin, inviting them to Sea God Island if they had already been Soul Saints.
• The Star Luo and Heaven Dou Imperial Families, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the Clear Sky Sect also ordered their followers to investigate the three Exposers.
• Di Tian asked the Silver Dragon King whether a Dou Di expert or a God King was stronger, and she said that even a one-star Dou Saint could destroy the God Realm.
• The Silver Dragon King said that the three Exposers might benefit the Soul Beasts, prompting Di Tian to ask what she had in mind.

The Silver Dragon King planned to ally with three Exposers to help the Soul Beast clan survive and recover, then decided to seek them out with Di Tian. Meanwhile, Zhu Zhuqing gained powerful cultivation methods and a second martial soul, while Hu Liena learned that Bibi Dong was an Exposer and wondered what Xiao Yan’s reincarnation was like.

• The Silver Dragon King told Di Tian that the God Realm had altered Douluo Continent’s cultivation rules to make humans hunt Soul Beasts, and proposed allying with the three Exposers in exchange for cultivation methods and help healing her injuries.
• The Silver Dragon King stopped Di Tian from setting out alone and decided to go with him, ordering him to have Xiong Jun and the others guard their territory and to call her Gu Yuena in the human world.
• A golden light entered Zhu Zhuqing, who awakened powerful bloodline talent and numerous cultivation methods and combat skills, then summoned a goddess phantom resembling Gu Xun'er and realized she had a second martial soul.
• In Spirit Hall's Pope's Palace, Bibi Dong received a golden light while Hu Liena guarded her and confirmed that her master was an Exposer.
• Hu Liena wondered what Xiao Yan’s reincarnation looked like and amused herself imagining how she would address him if he had reincarnated as a girl.

Bibi Dong awakened the strength and memories of her past life as a Dou Emperor, unleashing an aura that forced beings across the world to kneel. She rejected the Rakshasa God’s temptation and shattered its divine position, leaving the continent facing upheaval.

• Bibi Dong awakened her past-life memories and power, and her aura forced living beings across the continents and Sea God Island to their knees.
• Bo Saixi abandoned Sea God Island’s interception plan and warned the Sacred Pillar Guardian Douluo to keep residents from leaving.
• The Nine-Headed Bat King feared that Xiao Yan might come for its wings, relinquished control of Tang Chen’s body, and left Tang Chen to wonder whether someone had become a god.
• Bibi Dong confronted the Rakshasa God, who claimed its divine core had bound itself to her soul and urged her to embrace hatred and its divine throne.
• Bibi Dong crushed the Rakshasa God’s phantom and shattered its divine position, then withdrew her aura and dismissed it as a mere Deity.

After killing the Rakshasa God and recovering her past-life memories, Bibi Dong struggled with her guilt over her past and confronted the Worship Hall's enshrined ones. She forced Qian Daoliu to the ground after he invoked her daughter Xue'er, then ordered the others to leave.

• Hu Liena congratulated Bibi Dong on killing the Rakshasa God, but noticed her teacher was troubled by memories of her past life.
• Bibi Dong found that Xun'er had been reborn as Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Yan as Yu Bai, and felt pain and hatred over her past.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo reported that Qian Daoliu and the other enshrined ones had come to the Pope's Palace.
• Qian Daoliu declared that the Worship Hall would obey Bibi Dong, then explained that his life was needed for Xue'er to become a god.
• Bibi Dong sent Qian Daoliu crashing into a wall and overwhelmed the enshrined ones with her pressure after he reminded her that she owed Xue'er as a mother.
• Bibi Dong released the enshrined ones and ordered them to get out.

After Bibi Dong’s awakening, Qian Daoliu reassured the worshippers that she would not harm Qian Renxue, while Golden Crocodile Douluo questioned whether they could pursue a different path to godhood. In the God Realm, the weakened Rakshasa God sought Asura’s help, but he killed her to conceal his secret about Tang San, leaving the other gods demanding an explanation.

• Qian Daoliu told Golden Crocodile Douluo that Bibi Dong would not harm Qian Renxue and ordered the worshippers to obey her while keeping their lives otherwise unchanged.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo suggested that future Exposers might offer another way for Qian Renxue to become a god and save Qian Daoliu, but Qian Daoliu insisted that faith mattered more than life.
• The Rakshasa God’s power fell to the level of an eighty-ninth-level Soul Douluo after her Divine Core shattered, and she decided to report an Outer Realm Demonic Fiend to Asura.
• Asura mistook the Rakshasa God’s warning for a threat to his secret plan involving Tang San and killed her before she could finish speaking.
• The four God Kings and other deities confronted Asura over the Rakshasa God’s death, but he swore that he had not shattered her godhood, leaving them to wonder who had done it.

Yu Bai absorbed Xiao Yan’s memories and powers, then realized Cassell Academy was searching for the Exposer. After sensing Queen Medusa’s newly awakened Dou Di pressure, he devised a way to conceal himself by posing as another student seeking information.

• Yu Bai hid in the woods as the Heavenly Dao Rankings ended and Cassell Academy students began searching for its Exposer.
• Yu Bai absorbed Xiao Yan’s cultivation techniques, alchemy knowledge, and combat experience, then worried that discovery would attract powerful factions.
• A crushing pressure struck Yu Bai, and he recognized it as Queen Medusa’s Dou Di might, concluding that her reincarnation had become the world’s strongest being.
• Yu Bai used the commotion to approach a group of students and pretended to share their excitement about finding the Exposer.
• Yu Bai told the students that girls had heard teachers believed the earlier pressure came from an Exposer who had become a Dou Di.

Yu Bai spread rumors that the academy’s Exposer had a Dou Emperor protecting them, deterring powerful outsiders and helping conceal his identity. With the academy’s dean banning the search and Yu Bai still only a Soul Grandmaster, Yu Bai decided he had to act before his deception was exposed.

• Yu Bai persuaded students that whichever Exposer attended Cassell Soul Master Academy would be protected by a Dou Emperor and gain support for their allies.
• Yu Bai staged his participation in the search, planted rumors among other students, and spread the claim that a Dou Emperor backed the academy’s Exposer.
• Shady figures abandoned plans to target the Exposer, while noble students and students from powerful clans rushed to report the news to their families and sects.
• The dean of Cassell Soul Master Academy forbade students from searching for the Exposer and threatened violators with expulsion, halting the search.
• Yu Bai reviewed how the rumors and the dean’s order had protected his identity, then resolved to take the initiative before his cover was discovered.

Yu Bai put aside his questions about the Burning Art as news spread that a final Exposer was studying at Cassell Advanced Soul Master Academy, drawing the attention of powers across Douluo Continent. Ning Fengzhi explained that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had sent people to Keling City to maintain stability and compete to recruit the Exposer, while Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo warned of the danger.

• Yu Bai postponed discussing the matter with the old man and others and focused on comparing cultivation methods from Douluo Continent and Dou Qi Continent.
• News spread that a final Exposer attended Cassell Advanced Soul Master Academy, prompting people and major powers to rush toward Keling City.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong warned Ning Fengzhi that the powers in Keling City could provoke the Dou Emperor expert if they acted recklessly.
• Ning Fengzhi said he had sent sect disciples, Soul Saints, Soul Douluos, and intelligence personnel to Keling City to preserve stability and seek the Exposer.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that other major powers had also deployed people and would compete to win over the Exposer, while the assembled men defended Ning Rongrong's personality.

Yu Bai analyzed Douluo Continent’s cultivation system and concluded that its weak foundations, blocked acupoints, and Soul Ring restrictions might have been arranged by the gods of the God Realm. Determined to strengthen his own insubstantial soul power, he began refining it with the Emperor Grade Burning Art.

• Yu Bai used Xiao Yan’s cultivation experience to work out how martial soul awakening, Innate Soul Power, meditation, acupoints, and Soul Rings functioned on Douluo Continent.
• Yu Bai reasoned that the strange restrictions on martial souls and Soul Rings likely came from the gods of the God Realm, and joked about setting their realm on fire.
• Yu Bai mocked Douluo Continent’s weak soul power and decided to rebuild his foundation rather than become like a so-called Hydrogen Man.
• Yu Bai sat cross-legged and circulated the Emperor Grade Burning Art, rapidly compressing his twenty-seventh-rank soul power as a visible vortex of heaven-and-earth soul power surged into him.

Yu Bai refined his Soul Power, awakened and renamed his Heavenly Flame Eyes as Blazing Eyes, then headed with Shi Zheng to the Keling Great Soul Arena as factions gathered in Keling City. He left planning to discuss the influx of outsiders with the elders after his match.

• Yu Bai repeatedly refined his Soul Power until it reached Level 30, and his strength rose sharply.
• Yu Bai discovered the Green Lotus Core Flame in his Heavenly Flame Eyes and renamed the martial soul Blazing Eyes.
• Shi Zheng called Yu Bai to their daily match, and the two set off for the Keling Great Soul Arena.
• Yu Bai noticed that many people from major factions had arrived in Keling City and decided to speak with the elders after the match.
• Yu Bai told Shi Zheng that he had found no clues about the Exposer, while several nearby listeners departed after the pair left.

Yu Bai registered for one-on-one and two-on-two matches at the Great Soul Arena and revealed to Shi Zheng that he was the Exposer, promising to help him increase his cultivation. Yu Bai then entered the arena for a badge-promotion match against Calamity of the Mad Python.

• Yu Bai updated his registration to level thirty and signed up to fight alongside Shi Zheng in a two-on-two match.
• In the waiting room, Yu Bai told Shi Zheng that he had been the Exposer at the academy and promised to help him become an Assault-type food Martial Soul wielder.
• Shi Zheng eagerly accepted Yu Bai's offer and called him his big brother.
• A staff member summoned Yu Bai to Branch 12, where his level was checked before his one-on-one match.
• The host introduced Yu Bai and Calamity of the Mad Python as level-thirty and level-twenty-nine fighters, both seeking to extend four-win streaks and earn Silver Soul Arena Badges.

Yu Bai faced Calamity of the Mad Python in a Soul Fighting Stage match while the audience mocked his mask and bet against him. After effortlessly blocking both of Calamity of the Mad Python’s attacks, Yu Bai pretended to be knocked back and landed safely at the stage’s edge.

• Spectators laughed at Yu Bai’s Comical Smiling Face Mask, while Shi Zheng bet all the Gold Soul Coins on Smiling Face.
• Yu Bai and Calamity of the Mad Python summoned their Martial Souls and began the match.
• Calamity of the Mad Python used his first Soul Skill to rush Yu Bai and punch him, but Yu Bai blocked the blow without moving.
• Calamity of the Mad Python followed with his second Soul Skill, and Yu Bai blocked the sweeping kick with his leg.
• Yu Bai judged the attack weak, then used a slight force to fly backward and landed steadily at the edge of the stage with the Everlasting Sword planted in the floor.

Yu Bai used his Sword Control Technique to overwhelm Calamity of the Mad Python and won their soul battle. The victory earned Smiling Face a Silver Soul Arena Badge and brought his record to thirty-three wins and fourteen losses.

• Calamity of the Mad Python realized Yu Bai had blocked his attacks without using a soul skill and became wary.
• Yu Bai activated his second soul skill, Sword Control Technique, and used the Everlasting Sword to pressure Calamity of the Mad Python.
• Yu Bai closed in and trapped Calamity of the Mad Python between his sword fingers at the throat and the Everlasting Sword aimed at the back of his head.
• The host declared Yu Bai the winner, announced his fifth consecutive victory, and awarded Smiling Face a Silver Soul Arena Badge.

Yu Bai and Little Fatty Shi Zheng defeated one half of their two-on-two opponents, then Yu Bai accepted the surviving fighter Yang Yu’s challenge to a serious duel. The chapter ended as Yu Bai unleashed his first Soul Skill against Yang Yu’s empowered spear attack.

• Shi Zheng used his Ele.me Jerky and Xule.me Jerky Soul Skills while Yu Bai disarmed and threw Yang Hao, knocking him unconscious.
• Yang Yu asked Yu Bai to fight him at full strength, and the spectators urged Yu Bai to accept.
• Yu Bai asked Shi Zheng’s permission to take the challenge, and Shi Zheng left the fight to him after telling him not to waste too much time.
• Yang Yu introduced himself as a Rank 29 Soul Grandmaster from Cassell Academy and attacked with his Charged Strike and Sky-Breaking Strike Soul Skills.
• Yu Bai announced he would go all out and activated his first Soul Skill, Immortal's Heavenly Flight, as Shi Zheng explained that it instantly unleashed two hundred percent of Yu Bai’s power.

After Yang Yu lost to Yu Bai in the Soul Fighting match, Yu Bai told their families that Xiao Yan had identified him as the Exposer. His parents focused on teasing him rather than the danger, while Yu Bai turned to his cautious father for advice.

• Yu Bai defeated Yang Yu with a powerful final strike, and the audience cheered as the host declared the Smiling Tiger Duo the winners.
• The host had a Healing-type Soul Master carry the unconscious Yang Yu away for treatment, and Yu Bai and Shi Zheng left the arena after collecting their points.
• At Yu Manor, Yu Bai recounted Xiao Yan’s warning and asked Yu Fan, Shi Kuan, Luo Ling, and Xie Rou what they should do.
• Luo Ling and Xie Rou pinched Yu Bai’s cheeks and talked excitedly about the Flame Emperor’s reincarnation, prompting him to break free and ask Yu Fan and Shi Kuan for advice.
• Yu Bai recalled that Yu Fan had kept him at home for six months after his martial soul awakening so Spirit Hall and other major powers would not notice his talent.

Yu Bai argued that his unknown wife might be far older than him, but his family insisted he should find her anyway. After the Pope in Spirit Hall secretly reacted to his remarks, Yu Bai’s parents and relatives seemed to confirm their suspicions and left him to solve his predicament himself.

• Yu Bai explained that his father had limited his soul power training and strength, then worried his future wife might be an elderly Soul Saint or stronger.
• Yu Fan and Shi Kuan told Yu Bai to find his wife, arguing that powerful cultivators stayed young and lived for centuries.
• Yu Bai imagined his wife as an enormous person or an old granny, angering someone in the Pope’s bedchamber in Spirit Hall.
• The person in Spirit Hall struck at the air, and a chair leg beneath Yu Bai snapped, causing him to fall and get hit by half the chair leg.
• Yu Fan, Luo Ling, Xie Rou, and Shi Kuan exchanged knowing looks as Little Fatty realized the adults had schemed against Yu Bai.
• Yu Bai went to his room, deciding he would have to solve his predicament himself.

Yu Bai’s parents confirmed that a powerful figure from his past life was watching over him, while Yu Bai and Little Fatty left to handle something important. Elsewhere, two disguised men hired a carriage and headed toward Heaven Dou City.

• Yu Fan and the other adults concluded that one of Yu Bai’s past-life wives was protecting him and that their families were probably safe.
• Luo Ling worried that Yu Bai’s past-life identity might change how he saw her, and Xie Rou wondered if he already liked someone.
• Little Fatty asked Xie Rou for drumsticks, left two Earth Rank Advanced Techniques and a note for the adults, then went out with Yu Bai.
• Yu Fan said the adults would need to change their plans after reading the note and examining the techniques.
• At night, two black-robed figures went to a carriage station, hired a carriage, and left for Heaven Dou City.

Yu Bai and Shi Zheng disguised themselves and traveled to Heaven Dou City to seek Dugu Bo’s help with their families’ crisis. They reached Dugu Manor and tried to secure an audience by revealing knowledge of a mysterious poison that could threaten two important people.

• Yu Bai and Shi Zheng used chicken legs made with Shi Zheng’s mother’s World-Altering Chicken Leg skill to disguise themselves for twenty-four hours.
• Yu Bai explained that they needed a powerful ally and led Shi Zheng through Heaven Dou City toward Dugu Manor, despite Shi Zheng’s fear of Dugu Bo.
• The two arrived at Dugu Manor, where an elderly steward questioned their request to see Dugu Bo.
• Yu Bai described symptoms of a severe poison and warned that two highly important people would die unless Dugu Bo heard his question.

Yu Bai persuaded Dugu Bo’s steward to report the poisoning symptoms to his master, then revealed to Little Fatty that he could cure Dugu Bo’s condition using the alchemy knowledge from his past life as the Flame Emperor. Dugu Bo recognized Yu Bai from the previous day’s exposure and agreed to receive the two men, leaving them invited inside Dugu Manor.

• The steward reconsidered turning Yu Bai and Little Fatty away and went to tell Dugu Bo about the rare poisoning symptoms Yu Bai described.
• Little Fatty realized Yu Bai was referring to Dugu Bo’s poisoning and worried that they might provoke the powerful Poison Douluo.
• Yu Bai assured Little Fatty that his Flame Emperor alchemy knowledge gave him the ability to cure any poison on the Douluo Continent.
• Dugu Bo rushed toward the gates, fearing the visitors might reveal his family’s Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Martial Soul secret and endanger Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo overheard Yu Bai identify himself as the Flame Emperor’s reincarnation and, recalling the Flame Emperor’s alchemy, decided to receive the visitors.
• Dugu Bo instructed the steward to open the gates, and the steward invited Yu Bai and Little Fatty into the manor.

Yu Bai and Little Fatty met Dugu Bo to discuss a deal, and Yu Bai openly called out Dugu Bo for eavesdropping. Dugu Bo revealed their disguises, discovered they were children, and addressed Yu Bai as the reincarnated Flame Emperor while asking his current name.

• The steward seated Yu Bai and Little Fatty in Dugu Bo’s hall, where Dugu Bo appeared to savor his tea.
• Yu Bai asked Dugu Bo whether he had eavesdropped on their conversation and what he thought of their deal, startling Little Fatty.
• Little Fatty prepared to risk his life to protect Yu Bai, while Dugu Bo appreciated his loyalty instead of taking offense.
• Dugu Bo sensed their disguises, swept them with Soul Power, and dispelled the World-Altering Chicken Leg skill without harming them.
• Dugu Bo saw that Yu Bai and Little Fatty were about twelve years old, recognized Yu Bai’s exceptional Soul Power, and asked what name he used now.