Chapter Summaries

Tian Rui discovered the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng let his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon fly and influence the weather, while Ning Yulin gained a powerful Five-Colored Divine Light domain from his fifth spirit ring. As Zhou Xuefeng watched Xue Luochuan grow furious over a petition to name Xue Canghai crown prince, An Lan considered working with Bibi Dong to approach him.

• Tian Rui tested his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, discovered it could fly and summon storms, and failed to use Magnetic Field Rotation.
• Ning Yulin gained a Martial Soul Domain that enhanced allies and disrupted or attacked enemies after acquiring a Golden Scale Armored Beast spirit ring.
• Ning Fengzhi reconsidered the Glazed Pagoda disciples' prospects and weighed which son should marry Xue Ke.
• Zhou Xuefeng observed Xue Luochuan smash his estate after learning officials had petitioned for Xue Canghai to become crown prince.
• An Lan considered cooperating with Bibi Dong to make contact with Xue Luochuan.

An Lan persuaded Bibi Dong to oversee a plan involving the Heaven Dou Empire, then provoked her by warning her about Hu Liena and the Judgment Hall. He later returned to the Spirit Academy, while Qian Rensue hurried there after sensing a disturbance at the Pope’s Palace.

• An Lan visited Bibi Dong at night and proposed that she lead the plan concerning the Heaven Dou Empire; Bibi Dong told him to bring her the details the next day.
• An Lan handed Bibi Dong his plan, and she agreed to make arrangements after reading it.
• An Lan warned Bibi Dong that Hu Liena could face the Judgment Hall if she leaked Spirit Hall intelligence again, making Bibi Dong erupt in anger; after he left, she revealed her rage had partly been an act.
• An Lan returned to the Spirit Academy and passed Hu Liena during training, but he did not stop to instruct her as he usually did.
• Qian Daoliu sensed a disturbance at the Pope’s Palace and suggested An Lan might have clashed with Bibi Dong; Qian Rensue rushed to the Spirit Academy after checking that An Lan seemed unharmed.

An Lan asked Qian Renxue to marry him, and Qian Daoliu agreed to consider it if An Lan met a demanding strength condition. Meanwhile, Zhou Xuefeng continued working undercover for Xue Luochuan, who followed a suspicious voice to a neighboring room and confronted a hook-nosed man.

• An Lan asked Qian Renxue to marry him, and she fled in embarrassed confusion to ask Qian Daoliu.
• An Lan told Qian Daoliu that he truly loved Qian Renxue, and Qian Daoliu said he would agree to their marriage if An Lan reached Level Ninety without hidden dangers or fought an elder without losing within five years.
• Zhou Xuefeng gained Xue Luochuan's trust and supplied him with ineffective by-products while secretly serving as an undercover agent.
• Xue Luochuan visited a nobles-only club, where he overheard a neighboring guest complain about an inheritance dispute and wanting to kill his family.
• Xue Luochuan went to investigate the neighboring room and found a hook-nosed man in a bathrobe opening the door.

Tian Rui explored the Frozen Forest, encountered dangerous ice soul beasts, and then visited Shui Bing'er at Tianshui Academy, where he offered her a rare pill and learned she needed time to decide whether to accept it. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi reconsidered how to approach a possible marriage alliance with the imperial family because the succession remained uncertain.

• Zhou Xuefeng planted altered historical books in Xue Luochuan's study while Xue Luochuan encountered a hawk-nosed man and told him to pretend he had not seen him.
• Tian Rui marked an unexplored section of the Frozen Forest after spotting a Mirror Shadow Beast and fighting off an Ice Jade Scorpion, then flew away as the forest's soul beasts descended into chaos.
• Tian Rui visited Tianshui Academy, where Xue Wu and Yu Hairou welcomed him and helped him meet Shui Bing'er.
• Tian Rui offered Shui Bing'er a Mysterious Water Pill that he claimed could improve her aptitude, but she asked for time to consider accepting it.
• Ning Fengzhi weighed the risks of using Ning Rongrong's birthday banquet to test Xue Ye's attitude, since a mistaken marriage proposal could complicate his own plans and the imperial succession was unresolved.

Ning Yulin reconsidered how his faction might gain control of the Heaven Dou Empire, while Zhou Xuefeng helped Xue Luochuan arrange Xue Canghai’s assassination without Spirit Hall’s direct involvement. After Spirit Hall exposed Xue Luochuan’s role, he plotted further attacks and asked Zhou Xuefeng for poison to stage his own near-fatal injury.

• Ning Yulin asked Ning Fengzhi about suitable imperial candidates, then messaged Tang Yin to ask whether he would enter the imperial family through Xue Ke.
• Xue Luochuan’s trusted aides debated Spirit Hall’s offer to help him seize the throne, and Zhou Xuefeng proposed exploiting resentment among the three great kingdoms to kill Xue Canghai.
• Xue Luochuan assigned Zhao Gao to carry out the plan, and three months later Xue Canghai was ambushed and killed while hunting spirit beasts.
• Xue Ye ordered Xue Qinghe and Xue Luochuan to find the killer, while Spirit Hall sent Xue Luochuan evidence linking him to the assassination.
• Xue Luochuan considered killing the other princes and staging a grave injury to himself, then asked Zhou Xuefeng to provide poison for the scheme.

Xue Luochuan requested poison medicine from Zhou Xuefeng, while Bibi Dong directed Spirit Hall agents to monitor the prince and prepare to act. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Ning Yulin intervened when Zhu Zhuyun was harassed and persuaded the Education Committee to place both tournament teams under his training; the chapter ended with Zhu Zhuqing excitedly trying to explain how amazing Zhou Xuefeng was.

• Xue Luochuan asked Zhou Xuefeng to prepare medicine and dismissed the possibility that Dugu Bo or the Ye Family would help him if he were poisoned.
• Bibi Dong ordered Zhao Gao to observe Xue Luochuan's plans and arranged for Spirit Hall agents to stand by around Xue Qinghe and Xue Beng.
• Wang Dachui earned his thirtieth consecutive victory in the City of Slaughter.
• Zhu Zhuyun kicked away a noble student who harassed her, and Ning Yulin stopped Xue Beng from approaching the Zhu Sisters.
• Ning Yulin proposed candidates for both tournament teams and received the Education Committee's approval to train them.
• Dugu Yan asked Zhu Zhuyun about Zhou Xuefeng, and Zhu Zhuqing enthusiastically described him while the others struggled to follow her story.

Ning Yulin organized Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s next Spirit Master Tournament team while Xue Luochuan was poisoned as part of a plot to implicate the people around him. Ning Fengzhi learned that Ning Yulin had not arranged the poisoning, and Zhou Xuefeng continued searching for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

• Dugu Yan questioned Zhu Zhuyun about her intimate experiences with Zhou Xuefeng, but Ning Yulin’s arrival ended the conversation.
• Ning Yulin took command of the tournament team, tested its members, and began preparing training plans while Dugu Yan accompanied him.
• Xue Luochuan was poisoned in his residence, and Xue Ye summoned Ye Rouhan and Ning Fengzhi to try to save him.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Yulin to warn him before making another move, but Ning Yulin said An Lan was responsible for the princes’ deaths.
• Ning Yulin advised Ning Fengzhi to wait before proposing a marriage alliance with Xue Ke.
• Zhou Xuefeng watched Xue Ye leave and wondered where the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud had been hidden.

Zhou Xuefeng planned to search underground for a suitable seventh Spirit Ring and left a puppet in his place while he departed. Before leaving, he tested Zhu Zhuyun’s feelings through hypnosis, then Xue Qinghe learned Xue Luochuan was near death but refused to return and instead pursued the culprit behind Xue Luochuan’s poisoning.

• Zhou Xuefeng decided to seek powerful Soul Beasts in caves and underground caverns, then made a puppet with Ning Yulin to maintain his presence at the Prince’s Mansion.
• Zhou Xuefeng hypnotized Zhu Zhuyun to learn whether she wanted revenge, and found that she would leave with her sisters rather than kill him.
• Zhou Xuefeng cleared the hypnosis, reassured Zhu Zhuyun, checked on her sisters, and left after confirming Ning Yulin could replenish the puppet’s Soul Power.
• Xue Qinghe received news that Xue Luochuan had been poisoned and was near death.
• Xue Qinghe’s subordinate urged him to return before the emperor suspected him of harming his brothers, but Xue Qinghe insisted on catching the culprit behind Xue Luochuan’s poisoning.

Zhou Xuefeng searched for spirit beasts suited to Blue Silver Grass, traveling from the Sunset Forest to the Star Dou Great Forest and questioning the Sky Azure Bull Python for leads. Meanwhile, Tang San absorbed a Ghost Vine Spirit Ring, and Ning Yulin organized the academy’s tournament candidates; Zhou Xuefeng left with several possible spirit beasts to seek.

• Yu Xiaogang took Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest, where Tang San absorbed a Ghost Vine Spirit Ring and found it more comfortable than absorbing the Mandala Snake’s ring.
• Zhou Xuefeng abandoned his search in the Sunset Forest and flew toward the Star Dou Great Forest after learning that Xue Qinghe was still alive.
• Ning Yulin distributed cultivation plans to the academy’s eleven candidates, while Dugu Yan gave the Three Sisters medicinal pills.
• Zhou Xuefeng asked the Blue Silver King about places with powerful spirit beasts and whether a martial soul could develop intelligence, but the Blue Silver King could not answer the second question.
• Zhou Xuefeng searched the Sky Star Vine’s former habitat, found it empty, and went to the lakeside to confront the Sky Azure Bull Python.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python named several spirit beasts suited to Blue Silver Grass, and Zhou Xuefeng left to search for them.

Zhou Xuefeng pressured the Sky Azure Bull Python into retrieving Essence of Life, then absorbed a suitable Spirit Ring and comprehended his Martial Soul Avatar. After discovering new abilities and entering the Immortal Cultivation Chapter, he left the forest considering how to find a soul beast suited to the Golden Feather Luan Bird.

• Zhou Xuefeng made the Sky Azure Bull Python fetch Essence of Life from the depths of the Lake of Life, and it returned with a large piece and several smaller stones.
• Zhou Xuefeng divided the Essence of Life into five pieces, then found and absorbed a suitable soul beast's Spirit Ring.
• Zhou Xuefeng comprehended his Martial Soul Avatar by experiencing the cycle of Blue Silver Grass growing, dying, and growing again.
• Zhou Xuefeng woke with a breakthrough into the Immortal Cultivation Chapter and found that his Martial Soul Avatar could command water and fire elements while strengthening his soul skills.
• Zhou Xuefeng considered searching for a spirit beast suited to the Golden Feather Luan Bird and realized the five-person fusion state could reveal compatibility between martial souls and spirit beasts.

Zhou Xuefeng was attacked by Bibi Dong while waiting near Spirit City, escaped after revealing his Blue Silver Domain, and met An Lan to deliver Essence of Life for Qian Renxue. He later collected blood samples in Nuoding City and left after a wary encounter with Tang San.

• Zhou Xuefeng flew toward Spirit City to deliver Essence of Life to An Lan and waited in a grove for Tian Rui.
• Bibi Dong attacked Zhou Xuefeng with poisonous mist and spider skills, but his Blue Silver Domain dispersed the mist and resisted her domain.
• Zhou Xuefeng created blue-green knights to distract Bibi Dong and escaped on a Blue Silver Flying Swallow; Bibi Dong hid when An Lan arrived.
• An Lan met Zhou Xuefeng at an inn, accepted Essence of Life for Qian Renxue, and discussed using martial-soul instincts to find spirit beasts.
• Zhou Xuefeng hypnotized Yu Xiaogang, collected his blood and a sample from Three-Eyed Magic Bullet, then encountered Tang San at the academy gate.
• Tang San grew suspicious but did not pursue Zhou Xuefeng, who waited at a herbal tea stall around the corner.

Zhou Xuefeng supplied poison to Zhao Gao and reconsidered how best to shape the Heaven Dou Empire’s succession. After Xue Beng died and Xue Qinghe and Xue Luochuan remained gravely ill, Xue Ye sought help, while Zhou Xuefeng weighed using the crisis to obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

• Zhou Xuefeng secretly collected Tang San’s blood and delivered Essence of Life and an enhanced Mysterious Water Pill to Tian Rui and Shui Bing’er, who accepted their relationship.
• Zhou Xuefeng forged Essence of Life into earrings for the Three Sisters and discussed spiritual cultivation and an Azure Emperor Shrine with Ning Yulin.
• Zhou Xuefeng agreed to prepare poison for Zhao Gao and considered how to manipulate the succession so the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could eventually take power.
• Zhao Gao poisoned Xue Beng and Xue Qinghe; Xue Beng died, while Xue Qinghe clung to life and Xue Luochuan remained bedridden.
• Xue Ye asked Ning Fengzhi about Dugu Bo, and Ning Yulin considered using the princes’ plight to obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Zhao Gao warned Zhou Xuefeng that Xue Luochuan was an unwise ally, but Zhou Xuefeng defended his loyalty to the prince.

Zhou Xuefeng refused Zhao Gao’s offer to join Spirit Hall and faked his death when the Royal Knights attacked, while Dugu Bo struggled to understand the princes’ living poison before Zhou’s seeds cured them. With the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud secured, Zhou planned his next journey, including a visit to the Star Luo Empire.

• Zhao Gao revealed he served Spirit Hall and offered Zhou Xuefeng revenge and support if he joined, but Zhou refused.
• Zhao Gao summoned the Royal Knights to seize Zhou, who used a Life Weaving puppet to fake his death and escaped underground.
• Dugu Bo studied the princes’ poison, accepted the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud as payment, and secretly took the princes to Ning Yulin for treatment.
• Zhou Xuefeng appeared and gave Dugu Bo Blue Silver Grass seeds that cured the princes, then took the Cosmic Shroud and discussed his travel plans with Ning Yulin.
• Dugu Bo returned the princes to the palace, where Xue Luochuan woke and acted affectionately toward Xue Ye and Xue Qinghe.

Xue Luochuan learned that Xue Qinghe had been killed and grew furious when Xue Ye still did not name him crown prince, while Zhou Xuefeng explored Sunset Forest and discovered a powerful phoenix-like spirit beast. The chapter ended with Zhou Xuefeng sensing that the creature could help evolve the Golden Feather Luan Bird martial soul and trying to speak with it.

• Xue Ye told Xue Luochuan and Xue Qinghe that Xue Beng had died, then blamed the poisoning on a retainer in Xue Luochuan's residence.
• Xue Luochuan questioned Zhao Gao, who assured him that Xue Qinghe would not survive a month and explained that Mr. Gao had been sacrificed to support their cover story.
• Xue Qinghe was ambushed and killed on his way to the Royal Academy, and the Star Luo Empire was blamed without evidence.
• Xue Luochuan raged when Xue Ye failed to name him crown prince and learned that a consort was pregnant, but Zhao Gao urged him to exploit Xue Ye's desire for more children and medicine.
• Zhou Xuefeng explored Sunset Forest and recorded the unusual spirit beasts he encountered before reaching a giant Wutong Tree.
• Zhou Xuefeng discovered a massive phoenix-like spirit beast inside the tree, sensed its affinity with the Golden Feather Luan Bird, and asked whether it could speak.

Zhou Xuefeng and Ning Yulin fought a phoenix-like Divine Beast that repeatedly resurrected until they killed it eighteen times and obtained a strange golden-red Spirit Ring. Ning Yulin began absorbing the ring at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where mysterious pressure gathered around him.

• Zhou Xuefeng scouted the fiery bird in Sunset Forest, then brought Ning Yulin back to attack it together.
• The bird revived after their first apparent kill, revealed its phoenix-like nature, and summoned flocks of birds that Zhou Xuefeng and Ning Yulin fought off.
• After battling the bird for two days and killing it eighteen times, Zhou Xuefeng and Ning Yulin finally destroyed it and formed a golden-red Spirit Ring.
• Zhou Xuefeng suggested drawing the Spirit Ring to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Ning Yulin successfully brought it there for absorption.
• Flames enveloped Ning Yulin as he absorbed the ring, while Zhou Xuefeng noticed an unseen pressure building around them.

Ning Yulin’s Golden Feather Luan Bird evolved into a phoenix, drawing the attention of the Water and Fire Dragon Kings and prompting the group to plan how to gain their help. The others discussed Tang Yin’s possible escape from the City of Slaughter, while An Lan imagined marrying Qian Renxue, who quietly considered their relationship.

• Ning Yulin’s new phoenix power caused the Water and Fire Dragon Kings to emerge, and Zhou Xuefeng persuaded them to meet Tian Rui and inspect his true-dragon Martial Soul.
• Ning Yulin’s Golden Feather Luan Bird evolved into the Golden Feather Red Phoenix, which Tian Rui overlaid onto An Lan and Ning Yulin; Zhou Xuefeng and Tang Yin chose to wait before taking it.
• Tian Rui left to negotiate with the Dragon Kings, while Tang Yin planned to try leaving the City of Slaughter with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and kept the Snowy Swan Kiss as a last resort.
• An Lan imagined his wedding to Qian Renxue, who joined him and silently considered what their relationship meant.

Qian Renxue and An Lan prepared to visit the Wind Sword Sect while Tian Rui and Zhou Xuefeng found the Dragon Kings beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. The Dragon Kings agreed to enter Tian Rui’s body, but warned that his Phoenix bloodline could go berserk, and sent the pair to retrieve their Inverse Scales.

• Qian Renxue questioned An Lan about his changed Spirit Rings, and he attributed the change to his divine trial before they set off for the Wind Sword Sect.
• Tian Rui and Zhou Xuefeng dug more than thirty thousand meters beneath the spring and discovered the sleeping Dragon Kings, a vast lake of Dragon King Divine Blood, and thousands of Dragon Blood Grass.
• Tian Rui used his Golden Feather Red Phoenix martial soul to awaken the Dragon Kings, who agreed to reside within him after learning he could absorb the essence of the sun and moon.
• The Dragon Kings explained that Tian Rui’s Phoenix bloodline might go berserk because it came from a Lesser Phoenix connected to the defeated God of Phoenix.
• The Dragon Kings asked Tian Rui and Zhou Xuefeng to retrieve their Inverse Scales, and the two brought back one scale for each of them.

Zhou Xuefeng and Tian Rui fused with the Water and Fire Dragon Kings, gaining powerful abilities and soul bones before returning to the forest. Zhou Xuefeng then strengthened his companions and prepared to leave again, while Tian Rui returned to Blazing Fire Academy.

• The Fire and Water Dragon Kings created wing External Soul Bones for Tian Rui and Zhou Xuefeng, then fused with them after the men swore oaths on their Inverse Scales.
• The Dragon Kings' power transformed the men's cultivation and martial souls, and they collected Dragon Blood Grass and divine blood before leaving the lake.
• Tian Rui returned to Blazing Fire Academy, while Zhou Xuefeng gained an eighth spirit skill from a Spring Returning Spirit Deer and gave Ning Yulin new resources and spirit rings.
• Zhou Xuefeng treated Zhu Zhuyun, Zhu Zhuyu, and Zhu Zhuqing with diluted divine blood and Dragon Blood Grass, strengthening their bodies over several days.
• Zhou Xuefeng asked Zhu Zhuyun to arrange more fights for the fearful Zhu Zhuyu, bought clothes for the Three Sisters, and hurried away after returning them to the academy.

Tang Yin entered Hell Road after exposing the King of Slaughter as the Crimson Nine-Headed Bat, then fought the King when it came to confront him. The chapter ended with Tang Yin pounding the King into the ground, though it was still struggling.

• After Zhou Xuefeng left, Zhu Zhuyun sorted through the clothes and warned her younger sisters to be careful around men.
• The King of Slaughter announced Tang Yin as the new Slaughter God but refused to hand over the token, then sent the arena spectators to their deaths and opened Hell Road.
• Tang Yin waited on Hell Road for the King of Slaughter, then killed the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat with his Electric Flying Hammer.
• Tang Yin examined a pavilion and speculated that the City of Slaughter had taken over another god’s sacred ground.
• The King of Slaughter confronted Tang Yin, who struck it with a pair of hammers and used his Thunderous Rhinoceros Armlet to batter it into the ground.

Tang Yin defeated the King of Slaughter, recovered the Haotian Token, and escaped Hell Road with Tang Chen alive. After Tang Chen woke, Tang Yin asked to learn Ring Detonation and the Great Sumeru Hammer, and Tang Chen began teaching him.

• The King of Slaughter revived and attacked Tang Yin, who fought back and threatened to release Snowy Swan Kiss across the City of Slaughter.
• Tang Yin used Sage Mode, lost his sanity, and later found the King of Slaughter alive and restored to Tang Chen’s human appearance.
• Tang Yin recovered Tang Chen’s Storage Spirit Tool and Haotian Token, defeated the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, and left Hell Road with Tang Chen.
• Zhou Xuefeng treated Tang Chen and worried that the Crimson Nine-Headed Bat might have parasitized Tang Yin again.
• Tang Chen woke, heard Tang Yin’s account of the Clear Sky Sect and Tang Hao, and agreed to teach Tang Yin Ring Detonation and the Great Sumeru Hammer.