Chapter Summaries

Shui Bingyue and the full Heavenly Water Committee intervened when Tang Xiao attacked Tang Yuehua’s ally, forcing the Clear Sky Sect brothers to face a powerful group of Soul Douluos. Tang Hao was left silenced by Shui Bingyue’s threat, while the confrontation over the academy’s vice dean remained unresolved.

• Shui Bingyue and the entire Heavenly Water Committee arrived and knocked Tang Xiao’s hammer aside as he attacked.
• Shui Bingyue revealed that Tang Yuehua was Heavenly Water Academy’s Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, shocking Tang Xiao.
• Shui Bingyue challenged Tang Hao and Tang Xiao for attacking within Skywater City and invoked the Spirit Hall Pope’s past defeat of Tang Hao.
• Shui Bingyue threatened that Tang Hao would never leave Skywater City if he spoke again, and Tang Hao fell silent.

Shui Bingyue defended Chen Yue against Tang Xiao’s demand to take Tang Yuehua, arguing that the Clear Sky Sect’s account of the abduction did not add up. Tang Xiao left with the injured Tang Hao, while Tang Yuehua remained at the Heavenly Water Academy.

• Tang Xiao accused the Heavenly Water Academy of abducting Tang Yuehua and threatened to hold Chen Yue accountable.
• Shui Bingyue questioned how Chen Yue, a Soul Ancestor, could have abducted Tang Yuehua past two Soul Saints, leaving Tang Xiao unable to answer.
• Tang Xiao demanded that Chen Yue hand Tang Yuehua over and threatened to attack.
• Shui Bingyue suggested Tang Yuehua had taken a liking to Chen Yue, persuading the committee members to stand against Tang Xiao.
• Tang Xiao carried the injured Tang Hao away, and Chen Yue thanked Shui Bingyue after confirming Xue Wu was unharmed.

Shui Bingyue arranged for her daughters Shui Bing'er and Shui Yuer to become Chen Yue’s disciples, while Chen Yue considered how they would share his Courtyard House with Huo Wu and Xue Wu. The chapter left the two daughters set to report to Chen Yue the next morning.

• After Chen Yue thanked Shui Bingyue, she sent committee members to take Xue Wu and Tang Yuehua to his Courtyard House.
• Shui Bingyue asked Chen Yue to take Shui Bing'er and Shui Yuer as disciples and teach them everything he knew, and Chen Yue agreed.
• Chen Yue realized Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, and Shui Yuer would have to share the northern courtyard, while pregnant Xue Wu stayed in the southern courtyard.
• Shui Bingyue explained that she had sought advice after fearing Chen Yue would join Huo Lie, and then told him Shui Bing'er and Shui Yuer would report to him the next morning.

Qian Xunji arranged for Tang Xiao and Tang Hao to attack Chen Yue, expecting them to kill him and reclaim Tang Yuehua. He received news that the brothers had failed and the Clear Sky Sect had not reacted, leaving him stunned.

• Qian Xunji recalled how Tang Hao and Tang Xiao had once escaped his ambush with A Yin and the newborn Tang San after Tang Hao detonated his soul rings.
• Qian Xunji waited for a report after arranging for Tang Xiao and Tang Hao to meet his plan in Skywater City.
• Qian Xunji received a secret letter reporting that Tang Xiao and Tang Hao had returned in defeat without bringing back Tang Yuehua.
• Qian Xunji was shocked that the Clear Sky Sect had shown no reaction to the failure.

Qian Xunji failed to understand why Chen Yue had faced no backlash after getting together with Tang Yuehua, so he devised a plan to turn the Clear Sky Sect against him. At Heavenly Water Academy, Shui Yuer asked Chen Yue whether they were going out that night, while Huo Wu listened hopefully.

• Qian Xunji realized his attempt to use Chen Yue and Tang Yuehua’s relationship to win Bibi Dong over had failed.
• Qian Xunji decided to make the Clear Sky Sect confront Chen Yue and smiled as he imagined Heavenly Water Academy would be unable to protect him.
• Chen Yue sneezed on Shui Bing’er’s face while relaxing at Heavenly Water Academy and awkwardly wiped it clean.
• Shui Yuer asked Chen Yue whether they were going out that night, and Huo Wu listened eagerly.
• Huo Wu regretted rejecting Chen Yue after learning that Xue Wu’s martial soul had transformed into the top-tier Snow Heart.

Chen Yue refused to keep training Shui Bing'er and the others because improving Martial Souls consumed too much of his lifespan. Tang Yuehua had accepted her new life with Chen Yue and hoped her work would earn his help in becoming a Spirit Master, but he had no lifespan left to spend on her.

• Chen Yue said he needed a rest after spending a thousand years of lifespan training Xue Wu, and he checked that only 31 years remained.
• Shui Bing'er and the other women watched Chen Yue leave, unsure what to do.
• Tang Yuehua welcomed Chen Yue home and told him the meal was nearly ready, asking him to call Xiao Xue.
• Tang Yuehua explained that she had tracked Chen Yue after learning that one of his students had rapidly advanced despite low Innate Soul Power, then decided to care for him and hope he would help her become a Spirit Master.
• Chen Yue recognized Tang Yuehua's determination but had no lifespan left to spend on her.

Chen Yue planned to report his relationship with Tang Yuehua to the Gu Family, while news of his battle in Skywater City reached the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Clear Sky Sect. The chapter left Tang Xiao telling Tang Zhang that Tang Yuehua was still with Chen Yue as the sect debated what to do.

• Xue Wu joined Chen Yue and Tang Yuehua for dinner at Chen Yue's eastern courtyard, where the three had moved in together.
• Chen Yue said he planned to return and report his relationship with Tang Yuehua to the Gu Family.
• Yu Yuanzhen heard that Liu Erlong was eating twenty times as much as usual and that her belly looked as though she were eight months pregnant.
• Tang Xiao told Tang Zhang and the Clear Sky Sect elders that Chen Yue had defeated Tang Hao and broken his domain with a hammer strike.
• Tang Xiao said Tang Yuehua was still in Chen Yue's hands and asked what the Clear Sky Sect should do.

Tang Zhang halted Clear Sky Sect’s plans to retaliate against Heavenly Water Academy after revealing the academy’s council members and the Gu Family were far more powerful than the sect had realized. He ordered Tang Xiao to remain in the sect with Tang Hao while the threat remained unclear.

• Clear Sky Sect recalled Tang Xiao before he could continue watching Chen Yue, and Tang Zhang asked what the sect had learned about him.
• An elder reported that Chen Yue was an instructor hired by Heavenly Water Academy and had some connection to the Gu Family.
• Tang Zhang ordered Tang Xiao to stay in the sect with Tang Hao and rebuked elders who wanted to punish the academy without knowing its strength.
• Tang Zhang revealed that most of Heavenly Water Academy’s council members were level eighty-nine Soul Douluo, and some had reached level ninety but had not absorbed new soul rings.
• Tang Zhang said the Gu Family had a three-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill that had killed a Titled Douluo.

Tang Zhang told the Clear Sky Sect elders that Tang Hao’s eighth and ninth soul rings had been crippled as a consequence of killing a Spirit Hall Titled Douluo. He hinted at making someone the enemy of the entire world, then revealed that Tang Hao could never advance in Soul Power again.

• The Seventh and Fifth Elders challenged Tang Zhang’s decision to endure humiliation from a small academy and spoke of settling the score with Spirit Hall.
• Tang Zhang said the Clear Sky Sect should not act alone and asked what would happen if someone became the enemy of the entire world.
• Tang Zhang ordered Tang Xiao and Tang Hao taken away and forbidden from leaving the sect without his permission.
• The First Elder asked Tang Zhang what he intended, and Tang Zhang blamed a woman for the Clear Sky Sect’s lost glory and Tang Hao’s crippled soul rings.
• Tang Zhang began explaining the personal consequences of the clash and revealed that Tang Hao’s Soul Power could never advance again.

Tang Zhang explained the harsh terms Qian Daoliu had imposed on the Clear Sky Sect after Tang Hao crippled Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluo. The elders learned that Tang Hao’s life had been spared, but the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast he brought back would be sent to Spirit Hall after giving birth.

• The Seventh Elder questioned Tang Zhang for accepting Qian Daoliu’s demand, but Tang Zhang asked whether he would rather the elders risk their lives fighting Qian Daoliu.
• The First Elder explained that Qian Daoliu had originally demanded Tang Hao’s life and had only relented because he feared the Clear Sky Sect’s old sect master.
• The Seventh Elder fell silent after realizing that refusing could cost more than half the elders their lives.
• Tang Zhang revealed that Spirit Hall would imprison the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast and take her after she gave birth, while guaranteeing her safety for fifteen years.
• The elders reacted with shock when they realized the spirit beast could yield a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring and spirit bone.

The Clear Sky Sect elders learned that the hundred-thousand-year soul beast had gone to Spirit Hall and debated how to deal with Chen Yue and Heavenly Water Academy. Tang Zhang rejected a direct attack and began to present a plan he had devised with the First Elder.

• The First Elder reminded the elders that Qian Daoliu could overpower nearly everyone in the Clear Sky Sect and silence them with his strength.
• Tang Zhang and the elders assumed Chen Yue had abducted Tang Yuehua and dismissed his martial soul research as nonsense.
• An elder proposed attacking Heavenly Water Academy directly to demand Tang Yuehua’s return.
• Tang Zhang warned that a direct attack would expose the Clear Sky Sect’s hidden Title Douluo and rejected the plan.
• Tang Zhang announced that he and the First Elder had come up with another method.

The Clear Sky Sect’s elders revealed a plan involving Tang Hao’s son that could turn Soul Masters against Chen Yue. At Heavenly Water Academy, Gu Qingbo mistakenly celebrated Chen Yue agreeing to take Tang Yuehua as a concubine and asked him to credit her for the introduction.

• The First Elder reminded Tang Zhang and the elders of Tang Hao’s son, who had been expelled from the Clear Sky Sect.
• The Second Elder realized the Sect Master and First Elder’s plan could use the secret surrounding Tang Hao’s son against Chen Yue.
• Tang Zhang left the matter in the First Elder’s hands and told him to carry out the plan.
• At Heavenly Water Academy, Gu Qingbo hugged Chen Yue and congratulated him for agreeing to take a concubine.
• Gu Qingbo told Chen Yue to tell Second Aunt that she had introduced Tang Yuehua, leaving Chen Yue confused about how she knew and why she was involved.

Chen Yue returned to the Gu residence, where Gu Qingmo questioned him about another drugging incident and learned that it had happened at night. Gu Qingxue had overheard their exchange and hurried away, while Gu Qingmo offered Chen Yue money to support another woman.

• Gu Qingbo insisted that Third Aunt had allowed Chen Yue to take a concubine, but Chen Yue dismissed her and left her crying outside.
• Chen Yue returned to the Gu residence and found Gu Qingmo waiting for him.
• Gu Qingmo asked whether Chen Yue had run out of money or been drugged again, and Chen Yue explained that his latest incident had happened at night.
• Gu Qingxue overheard Chen Yue and Gu Qingmo, then quickly left the residence.
• Gu Qingmo gave Chen Yue money and told him to ask for more if he needed it to support another woman.

Chen Yue left the Gu Family residence confused after Gu Qingmo gave him a bag of Gold Soul Coins and sent him away. On his way back to Heavenly Water Academy, a hostile middle-aged man confronted him and offered him a chance to live.

• Gu Qingmo gave Chen Yue a heavy bag of Gold Soul Coins and expelled him from the residence with a gust of icy wind.
• Chen Yue wondered why the Gu Family tolerated his involvement with another woman and speculated about Gu Qinghan’s absence.
• Chen Yue set off for Heavenly Water Academy, leaving Gu Qinghan’s unused room behind at the Gu Family residence.
• A middle-aged man with a longsword and seven Soul Rings blocked Chen Yue’s path and offered him a chance to live.

Chen Yue confronted three Soul Sages who tried to capture him for a powerful family. He killed them before learning the identity of the Eldest Young Lady, leaving the orders behind the ambush only partly explained.

• Chen Yue mocked the middle-aged Soul Sage and asked whether the swordsmen belonged to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• The middle-aged Soul Sage claimed Chen Yue would be dead if the Eldest Young Lady did not need him to upgrade her martial soul.
• Chen Yue killed the middle-aged Soul Sage and another attacker, then forced the last Soul Sage to explain their mission.
• The surviving Soul Sage said they served Lord Chen Shan and had been ordered to capture Chen Yue to raise the Eldest Young Lady's soul ring age.
• Chen Yue killed the last Soul Sage before he could identify the Eldest Young Lady.

After Chen Yue killed and burned the bodies of the men who had followed him, he realized he could no longer train at the waterfall without risking exposure. He found another way forward, while Xue Wu stayed with him despite her fear of losing the bond they had formed.

• Chen Yue stripped the three corpses of valuables and burned them, then suspected Lord Chen Shan might be related to Sword Douluo Chen Xin.
• Chen Yue concluded that his trips to the waterfall had likely been investigated and decided he could not train there for now.
• Chen Yue noticed Xue Wu sitting by the lake and asked about her pregnancy; she said she had no symptoms apart from a heavy belly and increased hunger.
• Chen Yue asked why Xue Wu was soaking her feet in cold water late at night, and she admitted she had come out to keep him company.
• Xue Wu regretted not telling Chen Yue the truth before becoming his disciple and feared losing what she had gained.

Shui Yuer suggested using a honey trap to persuade Chen Yue to teach the Shui sisters again, while Huo Wu regretted leaving before he could help her. The next morning, Chen Yue arrived at his newly established classroom, where he had broad authority over his teaching and students.

• Shui Yuer suggested a honey trap to Shui Bing'er, who rejected the idea and told her to sleep before their theory class.
• Huo Wu spent the night regretting that she had left Chen Yue instead of staying to learn from him.
• Huo Wu arrived at class the next morning with dark circles under her eyes.
• After Huo Lie tried to recruit talent from Blazing Fire Academy, the Heavenly Water Committee expanded Chen Yue's privileges, giving him an independent classroom and freedom to set admissions and schedules.

Chen Yue found Ning Hongye dressed provocatively in his office, where she invited him to visit her family and meet Ning Shuangshuang. He went to class and was startled when Ning Shuangshuang called him “Teacher,” leaving Huo Wu, Shui Bing’er, and Shui Yuer equally confused.

• Chen Yue encountered Ning Hongye in a revealing dress and wondered why she had changed her usual style.
• Ning Hongye invited Chen Yue to her home because Ning Shuangshuang wanted to thank him for helping her martial soul evolve.
• Chen Yue tentatively agreed to meet in Skywater City while privately planning to claim he was unavailable once Ning Hongye gave him a time.
• Chen Yue entered the classroom and saw Ning Shuangshuang dressed in a little dress.
• Ning Shuangshuang called Chen Yue “Teacher,” surprising him and confusing Huo Wu, Shui Bing’er, and Shui Yuer.

Ning Shuangshuang insisted on becoming Chen Yue’s disciple and secured his agreement with an apprenticeship gift. Meanwhile, Ning Hongye’s mother ordered her to bring Chen Yue to the Snow Mountain Divine Hall within a month, leaving her confused about the demand and her new outfit.

• Ning Shuangshuang knelt before Chen Yue and asked him to accept her as his teacher, offering a box of Gold Soul Coins.
• Chen Yue accepted Ning Shuangshuang as a nominal disciple and began her lesson.
• Ning Hongye’s mother angrily ordered her to invite Master Chen to the Snow Mountain Divine Hall within one month or not return.
• Ning Hongye recalled that her mother had taken Ning Shuangshuang into the divine hall for three days after her martial soul evolved, then given her a strapless dress to wear beneath her cheongsam.
• Ning Hongye waited in Chen Yue’s office for Ning Shuangshuang’s lesson to end, wondering why her mother had made the demand.

Ning Rongrong disappeared from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and was reported to have gone to Shrek Academy in Suotuo City. Chen Xin’s cousin began to reveal that the real trouble was something else.

• Ning Fengzhi searched Seven Treasure Castle for Ning Rongrong and asked Bone Douluo Gu Rong where she was.
• Chen Xin said Ning Rongrong had been left with his cousin’s son, who had also disappeared.
• Chen Xin’s cousin arrived with several people and reported that Ning Rongrong had left in anger but had been watched.
• The cousin said Ning Rongrong had gone to Shrek Academy in Suotuo City, whose headmaster was Liu Yanlong and whose current manager was her husband, Flander.
• Ning Fengzhi and the elders discussed investigating the academy and possibly inviting Liu Yanlong to train sect disciples.
• Chen Xin noticed his cousin was sweating and heard him clarify that Ning Rongrong’s departure was not the real problem.