Chapter Summaries

Bai Ge freed ten girls from the auction cages and accepted Ning Fengzhi’s offer of an empty castle to house them. After collecting his auction earnings, he parted from Ning Fengzhi and headed with Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and the girls to visit Dugu Bo.

• Bai Ge opened the cages and left Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran to comfort the frightened girls.
• Ning Fengzhi offered Bai Ge an unused castle near Heaven Dou Imperial City and gave him its keys.
• Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran brought the ten girls out, and Bai Ge collected 1.8 million Gold Soul Coins from the auction house.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo parted ways with Bai Ge, Ning Rongrong, and Meng Yiran.
• Bai Ge explained that he planned to ask Dugu Bo to help Meng Shu hunt his Ninth Spirit Ring, then led the group toward Dugu Bo’s residence.

Bai Ge brought Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and the ten rescued girls to Dugu Manor to check on the Pill Pavilion shop and seek Dugu Bo’s help with other matters. While they waited for Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan arrived, and Ning Rongrong grew nervous at how familiar she and Bai Ge seemed.

• Bai Ge considered training the ten girls as maids and asking Ning Rongrong’s family to lend him capable people for the Pill Pavilion.
• Bai Ge led the group to Dugu Manor and showed a servant the Bile-Green Token, gaining entry to wait for Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Yan arrived and asked Bai Ge why he had come, then explained that Dugu Bo was cultivating in seclusion.
• Dugu Yan asked Bai Ge to introduce Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and the ten girls accompanying him.
• Ning Rongrong quietly asked whether Bai Ge was close to Dugu Yan and felt uneasy about the possibility of another woman joining him.

Bai Ge met with Dugu Bo to discuss the purchase of a large auction building in Heaven Dou Imperial City. Dugu Bo handed him the deed to Tianbao Building, which Prince Xue Xing had previously tried to acquire for himself.

• Ning Rongrong introduced herself to Dugu Yan as Ning Fengzhi's daughter, and Meng Yiran introduced herself as part of the Dragon Snake Family.
• Dugu Yan asked about the black-robed girls behind Bai Ge, but Bai Ge refused to explain their identities.
• Bai Ge left the reception hall with Dugu Bo to discuss a private matter.
• Dugu Bo told Bai Ge he had bought Tianbao Building for 3,870,000 Gold Soul Coins and explained that Prince Xue Xing had kept other buyers away while trying to force its price down.
• Dugu Bo gave Bai Ge the deed to Tianbao Building, and Bai Ge said he had another matter to ask him about.

Bai Ge asked Dugu Bo to help Meng Shu hunt for his ninth Spirit Ring after the pills had enabled Meng Shu to become a Titled Douluo, and warned that creating too many such Soul Masters would attract Spirit Hall's attention. After leaving Dugu Manor with Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and the ten girls, Bai Ge headed to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect estate, where the group entered Ning Rongrong's family Castle.

• Bai Ge told Dugu Bo that Meng Shu had reached Titled Douluo and asked him to help hunt for Meng Shu's ninth Spirit Ring.
• Dugu Bo asked about the pills' limits, and Bai Ge explained that they could help rank eighty-seven to eighty-nine Soul Douluo break through but warned that too many new Titled Douluo would draw Spirit Hall's attention.
• Bai Ge arranged to take Dugu Bo to meet Meng Shu at Shrek Academy the next day, then left Dugu Manor with Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and the ten girls.
• Bai Ge asked Ning Rongrong to lead the group to her family's Castle because Shrek Academy could not accommodate everyone.
• The group left Heaven Dou Imperial City and reached the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect estate, where Bai Ge used Ning Fengzhi's keys to open the gate.

Bai Ge brought the ten rescued girls to the Ning Family Castle, promised to train them as Soul Masters and help them seek revenge, and gave them new names based on their Martial Souls. He had not yet decided on their development paths, which would also depend on their personalities.

• Bai Ge and Ning Rongrong brought the ten girls into the Castle, where the girls introduced themselves and explained that the Heaven Dou Auction House had enslaved them after their families were ruined.
• Bai Ge told the girls he would train them to become capable Soul Masters and help them take revenge when he was strong enough; one girl said she believed him.
• Bai Ge declared that the girls would become skilled maids, prompting the girls to blush and Meng Yiran and Ning Rongrong to look at him disdainfully.
• The first girl revealed that her Martial Soul was an eye, and Bai Ge named her Spirit Eye and encouraged her despite her low Innate Soul Power.
• Bai Ge named the beast girls Liuli, Holo, Ahri, Shizuka, and Cailin, and named the other Body Spirit girls Linglong, Mei, and Saori after their Martial Souls.

Bai Ge settled the ten rescued girls in the castle, cooked dinner for everyone, and then brought Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran to a room to give them special gifts. He revealed an Immortal Grade Spirit Herb and a rare bamboo shoot, but had not yet explained what the bamboo shoot would do.

• Bai Ge told the ten girls they could stay in the castle for now and promised to teach them how to cultivate the next day.
• Bai Ge cooked more than twenty dishes, and the ten girls, Ning Rongrong, and Meng Yiran shared the meal before the maids helped clear the table.
• Bai Ge took Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran upstairs, where they mistakenly thought he wanted intimacy before he clarified that he had gifts for them.
• Bai Ge showed the girls the Aromatic Silk Beauty and Ink Jade Divine Bamboo Shoot, then explained that the flower could help Ning Rongrong's Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda evolve and described how to absorb its essence.

Bai Ge gave Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran the Aromatic Silk Beauty and Ink Jade Divine Bamboo Shoot to consume, and both refined the Immortal Grade herbs to evolve their Martial Souls. Their evolutions completed, they summoned a Nine-Storied Crystal Pagoda and an Ink Jade Long Spear.

• Bai Ge explained that he could not refine the Aromatic Silk Beauty or Ink Jade Divine Bamboo Shoot into pills, then gave one herb to Ning Rongrong and the other to Meng Yiran.
• Ning Rongrong inhaled the Aromatic Silk Beauty's essence and meditated as her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda glowed and began to evolve.
• Meng Yiran ate the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo Shoot and refined its energy as her Serpent Cane transformed and grew.
• After more than two hours, Ning Rongrong's pagoda gained additional stories while Meng Yiran's cane changed into a long spear.
• Bai Ge congratulated Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran when their Martial Soul evolutions finished, and they summoned a Nine-Storied Crystal Pagoda and an Ink Jade Long Spear.

Bai Ge’s Immortal Grade Spirit Herbs evolved Ning Rongrong’s and Meng Yiran’s Martial Souls and raised them to level 40. He told them to stabilize their cultivation before hunting for fourth Spirit Rings and offered to teach them cultivation techniques and Spirit Combat Skills.

• Ning Rongrong discovered her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda had evolved into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and tearfully apologized to Bai Ge.
• Meng Yiran discovered her Serpent Cane had evolved into the Ink Jade Spirit Snake Spear, with improved Spirit Skills.
• Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran both revealed they had reached level 40 after taking Bai Ge’s gifts.
• Bai Ge told the girls to stabilize their foundations and wait for Senior Dragon Duke to help them hunt for fourth Spirit Rings.
• Bai Ge offered to teach Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran cultivation techniques and Spirit Combat Skills as a second gift.

Bai Ge gave Ning Rongrong a Shadow Winged Serpent egg and taught her and Meng Yiran several martial techniques before they went to Shrek Academy for class. The chapter ended with Bai Ge seated in the classroom, where Tang San was absent and the other students had gathered.

• Bai Ge gave Ning Rongrong the Shadow Winged Serpent egg and promised to teach both girls Spirit Combat Skills suited to them.
• Bai Ge used the Heaven and Earth Great Shift Technique to transmit the Nine Yin Manual's internal cultivation method, Spiral Nine Shadows, and the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Spear to Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran.
• Bai Ge fed Swablu Little White a Spirit Ascension Pill, then put it to sleep in the Dimensional Castle and went to bed.
• Bai Ge took Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran to Shrek Academy after breakfast and told the maids to move freely in the Castle until he returned to teach them Soul Power cultivation.
• Bai Ge entered the classroom with Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran, noticed the boys' jealous hostility, and sat with the girls in an empty corner.
• Bai Ge saw Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar together, while Zhu Zhuqing sat alone and Xiao Wu sat beside her; Tang San was absent.

Bai Ge brought Dugu Bo to meet Meng Shu and arranged for him to help Meng Shu obtain a Ninth Spirit Ring. He then warned Xiao Wu that he knew she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and offered to help conceal her identity, leaving her hopeful for his solution.

• Dugu Bo met Meng Shu, and Bai Ge asked him to accompany Meng Shu while he obtained his Ninth Spirit Ring.
• Bai Ge told Grandmaster and Flender that he, Ning Rongrong, and Meng Yiran might leave Shrek Academy.
• Bai Ge privately revealed to Xiao Wu that he knew she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and warned that Titled Douluo would attend the tournament.
• Xiao Wu said she did not want to leave Third Brother, and Bai Ge assured her that he had a way to keep others from discovering her identity.

Bai Ge helped Xiao Wu obtain Lovesick Heartbreak Red so he could refine a Spirit Grade Breath Concealing Pill for her, and promised to keep her identity secret. He left Shrek Academy with Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran, planning how to train his maids and develop their unusual Martial Souls.

• Bai Ge explained that Xiao Wu needed to spit sincere heart's blood onto Lovesick Heartbreak Red to make it fall from the Dark Absolute Stone.
• Xiao Wu recalled falling in love with Tang San, spat blood onto the flower, and watched it separate from the stone.
• Bai Ge promised to give Xiao Wu a Spirit Grade Breath Concealing Pill before the Elite Continental Soul Master Academy Tournament and agreed to keep her identity secret.
• Bai Ge escorted Xiao Wu to the girls' dormitory, then left Shrek Academy with Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran for the Ning Family Castle.
• Bai Ge planned combat roles for his five Body Spirit Maids and considered using body-refinement techniques and spirit herbs to improve their abilities.

Bai Ge brought Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran to Ning Family Castle, then taught ten maids cultivation arts and combat skills while secretly implanting suggestions that made them love and obey him. After exhausting himself and sleeping, he woke to find the maids had taken over cooking and decided to identify which one should learn cooking skills.

• Bai Ge returned to Ning Family Castle with Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran, where he found the maids dividing household tasks.
• Bai Ge gathered ten maids on the lawn and explained that he would teach them the Nine Yin Manual and Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Bai Ge used the Heaven and Earth Great Shift Technique to teach each maid cultivation arts and martial techniques, secretly planting suggestions of love and loyalty in their minds.
• After spending more than two hours teaching the maids, Bai Ge took a Hundred Herbs Pill and went to sleep to recover his Spiritual Power.
• Bai Ge woke at night and found the maids had taken over cooking, then decided to see which one cooked best before teaching her cooking skills.

Bai Ge and the others arrived at Shrek Academy to find Tang San confronting Tailong, who had been pursuing Xiao Wu. Tang San challenged Tailong to stay away from Xiao Wu, revealed his new Soul Ancestor rank, and trapped him with his Blue Silver Spider Web.

• Bai Ge learned from Ma Hongjun that Tailong, a powerful admirer of Xiao Wu, had repeatedly bothered her with unwanted advances.
• Xiao Wu rejected Tailong's roses, and Tang San warned Tailong to stay away from her.
• Tailong insisted that Tang San defeat him first, so Tang San accepted the challenge.
• Tang San revealed four Spirit Rings, shocking Tailong, who had thought Tang San was still level thirty-four.
• Tailong activated his Great Strength Gorilla Martial Soul and charged, but Tang San bound him with the Blue Silver Spider Web, whose poison began numbing him.

Tang San defeated Tailong in a classroom duel, then agreed to face him again after class. Meanwhile, Bai Ge took Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran to inspect the Tianbao Building he had bought in Heaven Dou Imperial City.

• Tang San restrained and poisoned Tailong with his Blue Silver Grass, then removed the poison after Li Yusong intervened.
• Tailong regained consciousness, challenged Tang San again, and threatened him before class began.
• After class, Tang San accepted Tailong's challenge and left with him while Bai Ge chose not to watch.
• Bai Ge invited Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran to inspect Tianbao Building, which he had bought for a little over three million Gold Soul Coins.
• Bai Ge and the two girls parted ways with Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar at Shrek Academy's gate and headed toward Tianbao Building.

Bai Ge arrived at Tianbao Building with Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran and planned to turn the property into Pill Pavilion, a center for selling and refining Pills. After giving manager Zhang Ziling five million Gold Soul Coins and instructions for renovations and new buildings, Bai Ge left the project in his hands.

• Bai Ge reached Tianbao Building with Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran and showed the attendant his deed as the new owner.
• Bai Ge met manager Zhang Ziling, who introduced himself as a level thirty-two Battle Spirit Master with the White Brow Eagle Martial Soul.
• Zhang Ziling guided Bai Ge and the others through the five-level building, which had been emptied of its former treasures.
• Bai Ge told Zhang Ziling to rename Tianbao Building Pill Pavilion, convert the underground floor into refining rooms, and reorganize the upper floors for selling and testing Pills.
• Bai Ge ordered Zhang Ziling to build two Dormitory Buildings, a reception building, a Cafeteria, and a Castle on the back mountain, then gave him five million Gold Soul Coins.
• Bai Ge left Tianbao Building with Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran, telling Zhang Ziling he could remain manager if he handled the work well.

Bai Ge watched Titan challenge Tang San at Shrek Academy, where Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer to stop Titan’s pressure. After catching the collapsing Tang San, Bai Ge mentioned Tang Hao, shocking Titan and leaving him demanding answers.

• Bai Ge arrived at Shrek Academy with Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran and found Titan, Tainuo, and Tailong waiting to confront Tang San.
• Titan challenged Tang San to endure his pressure for one incense stick, with the wager eventually changed so the loser’s clan would join the winner’s side.
• Tang San struggled under Titan’s pressure while Zhao Wuji arrived but could not intervene.
• Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer, causing Titan to withdraw his pressure, and Bai Ge caught Tang San as he collapsed.
• Bai Ge gave Tang San a Supreme Hundred Herbs Pill and mentioned Tang Hao, prompting Titan to seize Bai Ge’s arm and demand to know what he had said.

Ning Fengzhi arrived at Shrek Academy with Bone Douluo and a group of Soul Masters, while Tang San learned that his Clear Sky Hammer and father’s identity meant more than he had known. Titan recognized Tang San as his young master but hesitated to explain the truth, leaving Tang San to seek answers in the Reception Room.

• Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo arrived as Titan confronted Tang San, and Ning Fengzhi recognized Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer as a sign he was connected to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San recovered with Bai Ge’s Supreme Hundred Herbs Pill, confirmed that Tang Hao was his father, and watched Titan kneel and call him Young Master.
• Titan hesitated to explain Tang San’s heritage, so Tang San asked Zhao Wuji to take him to the Reception Room and promised to speak with him shortly.
• Tang San thanked Bai Ge for helping him, then went to change his bloodied clothes with Xiao Wu following him.
• Bai Ge welcomed Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and the Soul Masters with plant and Fire Attribute Martial Souls into Shrek Academy to discuss his request.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Zhao Wuji for two Quiet Rooms at the reception building.

Ning Rongrong revealed that Bai Ge’s pills and an Immortal Grade herb had raised her to level forty and helped Meng Shu reach level ninety. Ning Fengzhi learned that Bai Ge had brought several powerful Soul Masters under his influence, and he left convinced Bai Ge was destined to become a Titled Douluo.

• Zhao Wuji led Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, Ning Rongrong, and Meng Yiran to quiet rooms, where Bai Ge took the gathered Soul Masters into a separate room.
• Ning Rongrong told Gu Rong that she had reached level forty after receiving a Spirit Ascension Pill and an Immortal Grade herb from Bai Ge.
• Ning Rongrong explained that Bai Ge’s Obstacle Breaking Pill helped Grandmaster reach level twenty-nine and Meng Shu reach level ninety, while Meng Yiran noted that pill-assisted Titled Douluo were weaker than those who advanced normally.
• Ning Fengzhi congratulated Meng Yiran on Meng Shu’s breakthrough and concluded Bai Ge was determined to win her family’s loyalty.
• Ning Fengzhi inferred that Bai Ge had also subdued Dugu Bo and recognized that Bai Ge had a strong chance of becoming a Titled Douluo.

Ning Rongrong revealed that Bai Ge had helped her evolve her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Meng Yiran also showed her evolved Martial Soul. Meanwhile, Bai Ge began explaining alchemy to the gathered youths and left them wondering how to become Alchemists.

• Ning Rongrong summoned her Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, shocking Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong.
• Ning Rongrong said Bai Ge had given her and Meng Yiran Immortal Grade herbs that evolved their Martial Souls.
• Meng Yiran summoned her evolved Ink Jade Spirit Snake Spear, while Gu Rong asked whether Bai Ge had more Qiluo Tulips.
• Ning Fengzhi accepted that the rare herbs were likely one-of-a-kind and felt satisfied that Ning Rongrong had gained the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Bai Ge asked the gathered youths whether they wished to withdraw, then explained what Alchemists and Pills were.
• A red-haired young man asked Bai Ge how someone could become an Alchemist.

Bai Ge explained the requirements for becoming an alchemist and assessed the Martial Souls of the forty-eight Soul Masters Ning Fengzhi had gathered for Pill Pavilion. He identified Chi Yan’s Crimson Flame Thorn as especially promising and concluded that the group could begin training to refine Pills.

• Bai Ge told the candidates that alchemists needed to be Soul Masters with wood- or fire-attribute Martial Souls, then asked them to summon their Martial Souls.
• The forty-eight candidates revealed their Martial Souls, and Bai Ge noticed Chi Yan’s rare fire-attribute Crimson Flame Thorn.
• Bai Ge praised Chi Yan, who became visibly moved by the recognition.
• Bai Ge assessed the candidates’ control of life force and fire energy, explaining how those abilities affected Pill quality.
• Bai Ge judged that the group could refine low-grade Pills, with the most talented potentially progressing to medium- and high-grade Pills, and planned to train all forty-eight for Pill Pavilion.