Chapter Summaries

Su Xuan and Gu Yuena went shopping before meeting Qian Renxue, whom Su Xuan advised on how to repair the relationship between her and her mother. Gu Yuena grew jealous of their private conversation, but Su Xuan worried over her, and she admitted her jealousy as they left together.

• Su Xuan woke to find Gu Yuena had tucked him in, then got ready and set out with her to help mend a mother-daughter relationship.
• Su Xuan gave a tailor a bishop-level token and ordered a custom outfit to be made within three days.
• Su Xuan and Gu Yuena shopped through the morning before meeting Qian Renxue at a tea house.
• Su Xuan privately coached Qian Renxue on charming women, and Gu Yuena grew upset when Qian Renxue returned flushed.
• Su Xuan stopped eating and tried to take Gu Yuena to a doctor when she lost her appetite, but she admitted she had been jealous of his closeness with Qian Renxue.

Wood Spirit urged Su Xuan to confront the suffering and lawlessness of the world, and Su Xuan resolved to uphold righteousness in troubled times. After returning to camp, he walked in on Gu Yuena and Bibi Dong in a compromising situation, then fled in embarrassment and worried about their relationship.

• Wood Spirit told Su Xuan that his first task as the Saint Son of Taoism was to see the world's cruelty, and Su Xuan declared that he would uphold righteousness in troubled times.
• Gu Yuena returned to the tent looking for Su Xuan, learned he was still away, and asked Bibi Dong whether her brother might know how to enhance her breasts.
• Gu Yuena playfully groped Bibi Dong, leaving both of them flushed and disheveled.
• Su Xuan entered the tent, kicked Wood Spirit away before it could follow him inside, saw Gu Yuena and Bibi Dong, and fled after apologizing.
• Wood Spirit demanded an explanation for being kicked, and Su Xuan later worried that Gu Yuena might be getting involved with Bibi Dong.

Su Xuan left the Papal Palace and arrived at Martial Soul Junior Academy to enroll, where he learned that Gu Yuena’s strength and the rumors surrounding him had made the siblings famous. He reached the teachers’ office and introduced himself to his homeroom teacher, Wang Yan.

• Su Xuan left the Papal Palace, and Bibi Dong wondered how Zhu Zhuqing would react to an unfamiliar girl joining her brother at home.
• Su Xuan traveled to Martial Soul Junior Academy, where the gatekeeper recognized his name but was surprised that he did not look frightening.
• Su Xuan met Lu Qi, who explained that Gu Yuena had defeated the entire first grade and that rumors had turned Su Xuan into a terrifying monster.
• Lu Qi led Su Xuan to the teachers’ office and asked him to put in a good word with Gu Yuena.
• Su Xuan entered the office and told the napping Wang Yan that he was a new student in First Grade, Class One and had come to enroll.

Heaven Dou and Star Luo responded to the threat posed by Su Xuan in sharply different ways. Heaven Dou entrusted an investigation to Ning Fengzhi, while Star Luo's emperor ordered Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun to handle the matter and revealed that he knew of a Holy King.

• Xue Qinghe urged Xue Ye to investigate Spirit Hall's warning, but Elder Wang argued that the mission might be a trap.
• Xue Ye assigned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to investigate, while Qian Renxue privately reflected on how deeply Spirit Hall had infiltrated Heaven Dou.
• Xue Qinghe warned Ning Fengzhi to be cautious about his choice, leaving Ning Fengzhi to suspect that Heaven Dou's Crown Prince was close to Spirit Hall.
• Star Luo's emperor ordered Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun to deal with the threat and told Dai Weisi to kill Mo Bai while giving Zhu Zhuqing to Su Xuan.
• Star Luo's emperor wondered who had inherited the Holy King's power in this generation.

Su Xuan and Emma waited at a dessert shop while Gu Yuena slept through her ongoing evolution, and Su Xuan explained that their greatest enemy lay beyond the Douluo Continent. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue revealed her identity to Ning Fengzhi, who accepted that the Heaven Dou Empire was doomed and that he had to protect his sect.

• Su Xuan watched Emma eat while Gu Yuena slept on his lap, and he worried about when her evolution would end.
• Su Xuan reassured Emma that they had no reason to fear their enemies on the Douluo Continent, but their true enemy was elsewhere.
• Ning Fengzhi weighed his duty to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect against his old friendship with Xue Ye and concluded that the Heaven Dou Empire could not be saved.
• Qian Renxue asked Ning Fengzhi to guess her identity, then told him she was the Pope's daughter and Su Xuan's older sister.
• Ning Fengzhi reacted with shock as Qian Renxue reflected on the irony of being called the Pope's daughter.

Su Xuan waited for Gu Yuena to return after she had played a prank on him and gone missing for hours, then confronted her about her behavior. He explained that her safety was the reason for his anger and decided he would personally take her to school every day.

• Su Xuan waited at the dining table for Gu Yuena, who had stayed out and returned home late.
• Su Xuan called Gu Yuena over and frightened her before embracing her and asking what she had done wrong.
• When Gu Yuena could not answer, Su Xuan let her cry alone briefly, then hugged her from behind and comforted her.
• Su Xuan told Gu Yuena that her prank did not matter as much as leaving without telling anyone and shaking off her guards.
• Su Xuan explained that he had spent hours searching for her and promised to take her to school himself each day.
• Gu Yuena comforted Su Xuan and said that they were twins who would always be together.

During Su Xuan’s martial soul awakening, he encountered the Golden Dragon King and gained its bloodline memories, then used his spiritual journey to meet figures tied to his future, including Zhu Zhuqing. He returned to Spirit Hall and challenged the Divine Realm, injuring the Asura God’s projected eye before collapsing, while Gu Yuena understood that he had acted to draw attention away from her.

• Su Xuan’s crystal-ball awakening showed no reaction, but he entered a dark inner realm, freed one of the Golden Dragon King’s foreclaws, and learned that Gu Yuena was not his biological sister.
• Su Xuan’s spiritual presence visited Tang San, Ning Rongrong, Qian Renxue, and others, then reassured Zhu Zhuqing and exchanged half of a crescent necklace with her.
• Su Xuan gave a drop of Golden Dragon King blood to the sleeping Xiao Wu, sensed a Bronze Tree in the Star Dou Great Forest, and learned that Snow Empress faced a seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation within three years.
• Su Xuan returned to his body in Spirit Hall and performed an ancient Dragon God ritual, provoking the Asura God to project a blood-red eye into the lower realm.
• Su Xuan and the Old Dragon God’s visions struck the Asura God’s eye and split it in two, forcing the god to retreat before Su Xuan collapsed.
• Gu Yuena stayed beside her unconscious brother and realized that his confrontation had drawn the Divine Realm’s attention toward him and away from her.

Su Xuan found Uncle De’s secret signal at a dangerous spatial passage and decided not to risk entering himself. He used a blood sacrifice to create a powerful clone, which he sent into the other world to gather information and cause destruction.

• Su Xuan investigated the area where Uncle De’s aura had vanished and suspected that Uncle De had entered the formation.
• Su Xuan found Uncle De’s secret signal by the lightning-filled spatial passage and chose to stay behind rather than endanger the larger mission.
• Su Xuan performed a blood sacrifice and created a clone with seventy percent of his strength, independent intelligence, and absolute obedience.
• Su Xuan ordered the clone to change its face, proceed into the other world, and cause as much destruction as it could.
• The clone leaped into the spatial passage while Su Xuan watched from behind.

After Gu Yuena woke from half a month unconscious, Su Xuan took her for a checkup and then accompanied her on a long shopping trip through Spirit City. Hu Liena delivered an invitation to a mysterious evening gathering, and Su Xuan agreed to attend after learning Bibi Dong had allowed them to choose.

• Gu Yuena woke in Su Xuan's care, learned she had been unconscious for half a month, and kissed him on both cheeks before they went to see a Soul Sage.
• The Soul Sage confirmed Gu Yuena was healthy, and Su Xuan returned home with her and arranged guards before taking her shopping.
• Gu Yuena changed into a dress Su Xuan had given her, and Su Xuan dressed to match her before they set out together.
• Su Xuan won dolls at a ring-toss stall and rushed to protect Gu Yuena when he saw Hu Liena speaking with her, but Hu Liena stopped him and revealed she had a gathering invitation for them.
• Su Xuan learned Bibi Dong had given them permission to attend and accepted the invitation; he and Gu Yuena continued shopping until their meeting with Hu Liena at six-thirty.

Bibi Dong told her disciple Hu Liena that Su Xuan and Gu Yuena were her family and said she would introduce the children that evening. At breakfast, Su Xuan accidentally choked Gu Yuena with a fried dough stick, and they made up after she bit his arm; he promised never to leave her.

• Bibi Dong told Hu Liena that Su Xuan and Gu Yuena were her true family and that she hoped the three children would get along.
• Su Xuan tried to feed Gu Yuena a whole fried dough stick, causing her to choke and cry.
• Su Xuan comforted Gu Yuena and apologized, but she bit his arm after suspecting he enjoyed her punches.
• Gu Yuena stopped biting Su Xuan, apologized sweetly, and accepted his forgiveness.
• Su Xuan held Gu Yuena and promised that he would never leave her.

The Asura God reported that the Golden Dragon King bloodline had found an heir, but the God of Destruction urged caution amid the Divine Realm’s weakened state and the Abyss Plane’s growing aggression. After the Asura God’s damaged Divine Eye returned, golden flames and a curse struck him, leaving his divine soul eroding as the God of Destruction vowed retaliation.

• The Asura God told the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life that the Golden Dragon King bloodline had an heir and that he had sent a Divine Eye to the lower realm.
• The God of Destruction warned that Douluo Continent’s inhabitants could not easily withstand the bloodline’s power and urged caution while the Divine Realm faced threats and lacked its two God Kings.
• The Goddess of Life reported the Divine Realm’s current deity population, and the Asura God returned to his palace in anger.
• The Asura God’s severely damaged Divine Eye merged with him and unleashed golden flames that burned his body while strange blood-red patterns prevented him from fighting back.
• The God of Destruction extinguished the flames, and the Goddess of Life identified the patterns as a Karma Divine Skill curse eroding the Asura God’s divine soul.
• The Goddess of Life said she could heal only the Asura God’s divine body, and the God of Destruction vowed that their enemy would regret opposing the Divine Realm.

Su Xuan discovered that he could no longer summon his martial soul, while Chrysanthemum Douluo mistook his chuunibyo talk for profound wisdom. The two grew closer through mutual flattery but could find no answer to the problem.

• Su Xuan inspected his sea of consciousness and speculated that an unknown force had sealed his martial soul because he was too outstanding.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo considered defecting from Spirit Hall, then decided that being cautious was the way of kings.
• Su Xuan and Chrysanthemum Douluo praised each other until both saw the other as an unusually capable and loyal companion.
• Su Xuan asked Chrysanthemum Douluo why he could not summon his martial soul, and Chrysanthemum Douluo admitted he had no answer.
• Su Xuan and Chrysanthemum Douluo squatted on the training grounds, each trying in vain to figure out what had happened.

Su Xuan questioned Jixiang about Sea God Island and decided to go there despite the dangers and restrictions. After sending Jixiang away, Su Xuan secured the room and joined Emma in bed for dual cultivation.

• Su Xuan asked Jixiang about Sea God Island, its Sea God trials, and the consequences of failing or leaving after passing.
• Jixiang warned Su Xuan that outsiders, especially land-based soul masters, faced dangerous trials and could never leave the island if they passed.
• Su Xuan told Jixiang to guide him to Sea God Island and asked him to return the next afternoon.
• After Jixiang left, Su Xuan checked the surroundings and set up formations to conceal and seal the room.
• Su Xuan joined Emma in bed and began dual cultivation despite her sleepy protests.

Su Xuan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Wood Spirit hiked toward the summit to watch the sunrise, but Zhu Zhuqing’s sandals left her feet sore. Su Xuan carried her up the mountain, and the group neared the summit with the sunrise still ahead.

• Su Xuan teased Zhu Zhuqing about her outfit and joked that she had to take responsibility for him, while Zhu Zhuqing hid her blush beneath her hat.
• Su Xuan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Wood Spirit reached the mountain’s foot and began climbing in the dark.
• Su Xuan noticed Zhu Zhuqing struggling with her sore feet and urged her to let him carry her so they could reach the summit in time.
• When Zhu Zhuqing resisted, Su Xuan picked her up in a princess carry and used his soul skill and Dao Sect talismans to speed toward the summit.
• Wood Spirit grumbled that Su Xuan had left it behind without a Swiftness Talisman, so Su Xuan tossed two talismans back as the summit came into view.

Su Xuan learned that the Dao Canon had its own consciousness and that Wood Spirit had formed a Soul Contract with him to grow stronger. Wood Spirit explained that Su Xuan’s injuries resulted from using up the Ambrosial Arbor’s power early, then began outlining two ways to resolve them.

• Wood Spirit revealed that Su Xuan had passed his trial and scolded him for neglecting the Dao Scripture.
• Su Xuan’s Dao Canon struck Wood Spirit with golden lightning after Wood Spirit teased Su Xuan about Bibi Dong.
• Wood Spirit explained the nature of spirits, Soul Contracts, and Su Xuan’s extraordinary spiritual sense.
• Su Xuan contacted the Dao Canon through spiritual sense, and it encouraged him to follow his heart.
• The Dao Canon directed Su Xuan to ask Wood Spirit about his injuries, and Wood Spirit blamed him for using up the Ambrosial Arbor’s power early.
• Wood Spirit said Su Xuan had two choices to solve his injury problem.

Su Xuan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Wood Spirit prepared to leave at two in the morning for a mountain-climbing trip to watch the sunrise. After Zhu Zhuqing finished getting ready, she shyly asked Su Xuan whether she looked good.

• Zhu Zhuqing woke Su Xuan, and they washed up while Wood Spirit slept on the sofa.
• Su Xuan woke Wood Spirit and told him they had to set off soon to catch the earliest sunrise.
• While they waited for Zhu Zhuqing to finish bathing and dressing, Su Xuan teased Wood Spirit about pulling out his beard.
• Zhu Zhuqing arrived dressed for the outing, looked at Su Xuan, and softly asked whether she looked good.

Qian Renxue revealed to Ning Fengzhi that she had infiltrated the Heaven Dou Palace for ten years and explained how she seized control of the succession. She left Ning Fengzhi realizing Spirit Hall’s plan had been underway for years and that Qian Renxue had killed her rivals and poisoned Emperor Xue Ye.

• Qian Renxue used her knowledge of Ning Fengzhi’s dealings with Su Xuan to gain the upper hand in their negotiation.
• Ning Fengzhi tried to redirect their discussion toward the people’s livelihood after Emperor Xue Ye’s death, but Qian Renxue chose to speak plainly instead.
• Qian Renxue told Ning Fengzhi she had entered the palace when she was twelve and had spent ten years posing as Xue Qinghe.
• Qian Renxue recalled that her mother and grandfather treated her as a pawn and that she had been neglected as an heir.
• Qian Renxue admitted that she had killed her brothers and arranged for Emperor Xue Ye to be poisoned gradually.

Tang Yuehua returned to Moonlight Pavilion and learned that Su Xuan’s group had come seeking her. Tang San revealed himself as her nephew through a secret phrase from Tang Hao, and Tang Yuehua embraced him as the story left them reunited.

• Uncle De told Tang Yuehua that Su Xuan was inside Moonlight Pavilion, while Aude explained how he had offended Su Xuan’s group.
• Su Xuan’s guards teased him about his past interest in beautiful women, and Su Xuan threatened to dock their pay.
• Tang Yuehua entered and questioned Su Xuan about injuring her chief steward; Su Xuan stared at her before asking Tang San to recite his father’s secret phrase.
• Tang San recited, “When the full moon wanes, an old friend returns in a haze,” and Tang Yuehua recognized him as her nephew and moved to embrace him.
• Su Xuan reassured Aude that he had acted mercifully and predicted Aude’s cultivation might advance after he rested.

After recovering in Zhu Zhuqing’s home, Su Xuan used the Ambrosial Arbor’s power to heal the unconscious Wood Spirit and then explained to Zhu Zhuqing how he had arrived there. The Wood Spirit woke up and joined their reunion, leaving Zhu Zhuqing’s quiet days poised for change.

• Su Xuan recalled how meeting Zhu Zhuqing had set off a chain of events that nearly killed him, and realized she was the girl who had taken him in.
• Su Xuan channeled the Ambrosial Arbor’s life force into the unconscious Wood Spirit, nearly exhausting himself as the Wood Spirit recovered.
• Su Xuan woke after resting and teased Zhu Zhuqing when she greeted him, then explained that a Teleportation Talisman had sent him and his friend to the forest by chance.
• Su Xuan complimented Zhu Zhuqing’s appearance, and the Wood Spirit woke to remind him about a request Su Xuan had promised to fulfill.
• Su Xuan introduced the Wood Spirit to Zhu Zhuqing as a friend who had survived life-and-death trials with him, while warning her about his sharp tongue.

Su Xuan and Xiaobai led the Demon Soul Great White Sharks toward victory over the Evil Spirit Orcas, but the Evil Orca King began a deadly self-destruction. Su Xuan stopped him by using the Blood Demon Flower to dissolve his protective barrier, though the Evil Orca King’s fate remained unresolved.

• Su Xuan unleashed his power and helped Xiaobai and the Demon Soul Great White Sharks overwhelm the Evil Spirit Orcas, while Emma strengthened allies with talismans and her drone attacked weaker orcas.
• The Evil Orca King was knocked back and released a vast energy field that slowed both sides as his body turned gray.
• Xiaobai realized the Evil Orca King was preparing to self-destruct, while the other Evil Spirit Orcas sacrificed their life force to hold the sharks in place.
• Su Xuan poured the Blood Demon Flower’s bloody spring water onto the Evil Orca King’s invisible barrier, dissolving it and halting his expanding body.