Chapter Summaries

Yan fought Hu Liena and Xie Yue’s Demon Charm on the Soul Master Academy training grounds, using flying blades, tricks, and an explosive flame attack before unleashing his soul skill. The battle ended with Hu Liena being caught by Bibi Dong and calling her “Mommy” in a daze.

• Yan dodged Demon Charm’s attacks and tested it with a volley of tiny flying knives.
• Demon Charm attacked with its Moon Blades, but Yan disrupted their flight paths while evading them.
• Yan ensnared Demon Charm with fine threads and ignited powder from two bottles, engulfing it in an explosion.
• Yan activated Inferno Demon Lion Transformation and charged into the weakened red light as the flames and domain collided.
• A figure flew toward Bibi Dong, who caught Hu Liena as she murmured “Mommy.”

After Yan’s scheme disrupted the academy ceremony and Hu Liena caught Bibi Dong’s attention, Bibi Dong visited Yan alone to question him about his role in the disturbance. Yan’s confidence unsettled her, and their conversation ended with her asking what he meant by saying Hu Liena had explained everything clearly.

• Bibi Dong ended the event, carried Hu Liena away, and left the academy as the other Spirit Hall powerhouses departed.
• Yan helped the unconscious Xie Yue to the lounge, where recovery-type Soul Masters treated them, and later went to his study to write and consult his marked map.
• Bibi Dong appeared in Yan’s study, and Yan greeted her with surprise before asking whether Hu Liena had told her about him.
• Bibi Dong questioned Yan about arranging the disturbance, explaining that Hu Liena had told her how he gathered information and planned the disruption.
• Yan said Hu Liena had explained everything clearly and returned to writing, prompting Bibi Dong to ask what he meant.

Yan explained that the academy disturbance had been meant to bring Hu Liena and Bibi Dong together, then presented Bibi Dong with a map and notes to prove his value. Bibi Dong recognized the usefulness of his information but warned that she could kill him now that she had memorized it.

• Yan told Bibi Dong that the academy incident had been intended to leave an impression on Spirit Hall's leaders and create an opportunity to rise.
• Yan kept his plan to foster a bond between Hu Liena and Bibi Dong secret, knowing Bibi Dong might kill him if she learned the truth.
• Yan showed Bibi Dong a map and his notes, which she studied with growing astonishment.
• Yan explained that he had gathered the information to demonstrate his usefulness and inferred that Bibi Dong needed capable people to help her achieve her goals.
• Bibi Dong warned Yan that his actions were dangerous and that she could kill him now that she had memorized the information.

Yan persuaded Bibi Dong to hear him out and offered a detailed plan to help her consolidate control over Spirit Hall. Bibi Dong was impressed by his proposals, though Yan left the work and its rewards in her hands.

• Yan acknowledged that Bibi Dong could kill him and tried to persuade her to listen rather than act against him.
• Bibi Dong laughed at Yan's nervousness, wiped his forehead, and asked what other bargaining chips he had.
• Yan told Bibi Dong that she lacked allies and offered advice on bringing Spirit Hall's factions under her control.
• Yan explained that Bibi Dong could divide and neutralize powerful families by exchanging benefits and using new commercial ventures to win their loyalty.
• Bibi Dong read Yan's detailed proposal, suggested he carry it out himself, and tapped his forehead as she wondered what else he had hidden in his head.

Yan explained why he had rushed to attract Bibi Dong’s attention and asked to become her disciple, hoping to rise quickly within Spirit Hall. Bibi Dong agreed to keep him under her protection and consider his requests for instructors, while warning him not to use Nana again.

• Bibi Dong asked Yan why he had taken a risky shortcut instead of rising gradually, and Yan said he could not afford to wait or rely on an advanced academy.
• Yan told Bibi Dong he had already accepted the danger, believing that he needed to plan ahead to counter Tang San’s future rise.
• Bibi Dong offered to help Yan if he proved his value, and Yan asked to become her disciple while requesting two instructors.
• Yan proposed Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo as suitable instructors, and Bibi Dong agreed to try to meet his requests.
• As Bibi Dong and Yan concluded their first meeting as master and disciple, she warned him not to use Nana again.

Yan reached Level Twenty and checked his condition before Hu Liena drew him into Bibi Dong’s hall with a story about being scolded. The chapter ended with Yan finding Bibi Dong exhausted amid scattered scrolls and explaining that Hu Liena had sent him because she feared Bibi Dong no longer liked her pastries.

• Yan reached Level Twenty in the medicinal bath, and Dawn scanned his condition.
• Hu Liena used Charm to act pitiful and told Yan that Bibi Dong had scolded her after she brought her pastries.
• Yan entered Bibi Dong’s hall, found the room in disarray, and tasted the pastries Hu Liena had delivered.
• Bibi Dong asked Yan why he had come, and he said Hu Liena feared she no longer liked her.

Yan learned that the Worship Hall planned to restart the Infiltration Plan to replace Xue Qinghe and take control of the Heaven Dou throne. Bibi Dong resented Qian Daoliu’s interference, and Yan argued that the plan would waste resources and risk serious losses if exposed.

• Bibi Dong challenged Yan about his intentions, and he said he wanted to improve her circumstances.
• Yan noticed Bibi Dong’s agitation and asked what had happened.
• Bibi Dong told Yan that the Worship Hall planned to replace Xue Qinghe and seize the Heaven Dou throne through the Infiltration Plan.
• Yan recalled that Qian Xunji had sent Qian Renxue to study Xue Qinghe, but the plan had been suspended after Qian Xunji’s death.
• Bibi Dong angrily accused Qian Daoliu of opposing her by restarting the plan.
• Yan warned that the plan would divert resources and could damage Spirit Hall if the deception were exposed.

Yan opposed the plan to infiltrate the Heaven Dou Empire and set out to confront the issue at the Worship Hall, believing Qian Renxue herself was driving it. Before leaving, he asked Hu Liena to look after Bibi Dong and visited the children training in the Papal Hall.

• Yan warned Bibi Dong that the infiltration plan would waste Qian Renxue's talent and weaken Spirit Hall, while Bibi Dong worried that opposing Qian Daoliu would threaten her authority.
• Yan told Bibi Dong that Qian Renxue, not Qian Daoliu, was the key to stopping the plan, but Bibi Dong believed Qian Daoliu was using her young daughter.
• Yan offered to visit the Worship Hall and gave Bibi Dong a pastry, then left after telling Hu Liena to care for her teacher.
• Yan caught Hu Liena eavesdropping outside the hall and told her he was going on a long journey to the Worship Hall.
• Yan and Hu Liena entered the Papal Hall cultivation room, where Feng Lin, Liya, Guimei, Yue Guan, Tuo Ba Hong, and Xie Yue were present.

Yan set out for the Worship Hall to stop the infiltration plan and deal with Qian Renxue, carrying a temporary spirit herb petal Yueguan gave him. He reached the foot of Pope Mountain, where the Worship Hall remained hidden on the rear slopes.

• Ghost Douluo offered to accompany Yan to the Worship Hall, but Yan declined because his mission did not require confronting the Worships.
• Yueguan gave Yan a half-illusory petal of his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and explained that it could still benefit Yan's body.
• Yan left the Papal Hall with Golden Eagle Soul Sage Lor Diarra and an armed escort, while an unidentified figure watched their departure from a tower.
• Yan's group reached Pope Mountain, and Yan looked toward the mountain where the Worship Hall remained after Spirit Hall's other major halls had moved to Spirit City.

Yan met the Angel Spirit awakener on the Pope’s behalf and urged her to abandon the infiltration plan, arguing that it would waste her exceptional talent. She demanded to know how he learned her secrets, and Yan offered to explain if she would guide him in cultivating the Angel Spirit.

• Lor Diarra presented the Pope’s token, allowing Yan to enter Worship Hall and wait in a conference chamber.
• The golden-haired girl entered, and Yan told her that the Pope opposed her plan to activate the infiltration operation.
• Yan questioned whether the girl should waste her talent on scheming and said Grand Elder Qian Daoliu was not the person she seemed to suspect.
• The girl lost her composure and demanded to know how Yan had learned about her and the plan.
• The girl revealed that her cultivation was at level thirty-nine, and Yan said he was seven with level-twenty Soul Power.
• Yan asked the girl to guide him in cultivating the Angel Spirit, promising to explain what he knew afterward.

Yan challenged Qian Renxue to a fight, and she suppressed her Soul Power to level twenty while relying on her Six-Winged Angel Spirit. Yan resisted her Angel Domain and golden flames before using White Phosphorus Powder to engulf them both in fire.

• Yan challenged Qian Renxue, and she agreed to fight while suppressing her Soul Power to level twenty and limiting herself to her first soul ring.
• Qian Renxue revealed her Six-Winged Angel Spirit and used her Angel Domain and first soul skill to attack Yan with golden light.
• Yan retreated from Qian Renxue's domain and raised his flames above a thousand degrees, forcing the golden radiance to withdraw.
• Qian Renxue pursued Yan and attacked with golden flames, but Yan scattered White Phosphorus Powder that ignited and engulfed them both.

Yan defeated Qian Renxue by trapping her in a blazing tornado and shattering her golden defenses with a high-speed charge, but the attack left him nearly incapacitated as well. After they collapsed together, Qian Renxue summoned a healer and ordered her to treat Yan too.

• Qian Renxue formed a golden energy sword and attacked Yan, but he dodged and used his speed to create a fire tornado around her.
• Yan intensified the heat by narrowing his running circle, while Qian Renxue's Angel Assault failed to break through the tornado.
• Yan charged into Qian Renxue's golden defensive sphere and shattered it, and they crashed through the arena wall, badly injured.
• Yan and Qian Renxue lay together until he recovered enough to get up, and she scolded him when she noticed him staring at her.
• Qian Renxue summoned a nun to heal her and then told her to treat Yan as well.

After Yan defeated Qian Renxue, he revealed enough about Bibi Dong’s past to make Qian Renxue question what she had believed about her parents. She sought out Qian Daoliu, who comforted her and began to explain Bibi Dong’s feelings.

• Yan recovered from the spar with Qian Renxue, who pressed him to explain what he had meant earlier.
• Yan told Qian Renxue to consider Bibi Dong’s past and suggested that her mother might not have been at fault.
• Qian Renxue inferred that her father had concealed the circumstances of her birth and left the palace in shock.
• Qian Renxue found Qian Daoliu before the Six-Winged Angel statue and broke down in his arms.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Renxue that Bibi Dong was suffering too and that her feelings were not what Qian Renxue imagined.

Yan tried to win Qian Daoliu’s support for changing Spirit Hall and helping Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong move beyond their past. Qian Daoliu was impressed by Yan’s plan but remained hesitant, while Yan left intending to persuade Qian Renxue.

• Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu to let her be alone and left the hall as Yan arrived.
• Yan told Qian Daoliu he had uncovered the truth himself and argued that Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong needed to look forward.
• Qian Daoliu rejected Yan’s initial reasons, but his attitude changed after he read Yan’s plan to move the Worship Hall to Spirit City.
• Yan argued that Spirit Hall needed a new holy land where the angel statue could regain its faith, and Qian Daoliu questioned whether Yan could secure Bibi Dong’s agreement.
• Yan said Qian Daoliu’s support would let him persuade Bibi Dong, then offered to persuade Qian Renxue as well.
• Qian Daoliu watched Yan leave and prayed that he would succeed in helping Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong move forward.

Yan encouraged Qian Renxue to focus on cultivation rather than schemes, and she regained her confidence and broke through to rank forty. She then carried Yan into the sky to search for a soul beast for his next soul ring, where they encountered a powerful solar flame aura.

• Yan told Qian Renxue that cultivating her own strength mattered more than political schemes, prompting her to reconsider her priorities.
• Qian Renxue regained her confidence and broke through to rank forty, astonishing Yan.
• Qian Renxue teased Yan, then carried him into the sky to search for a soul beast suited to his next soul ring.
• Qian Renxue sensed a dangerous aura of intense light and flames and followed it toward its source.

Qian Renxue and Yan discovered a fire-wreathed insect soul beast that wielded Solar Trueflame and watched it hunt a rare Blazing Gold Bird. Yan recognized the insect as a Solar Worm, a powerful soul beast he believed belonged to the Sun Moon Continent, and the chapter ended with the two beasts clashing overhead.

• Qian Renxue followed the unfamiliar soul beast’s aura and found a fiery insect scattering combustible powder through the forest.
• Yan warned Qian Renxue that the insect’s fire-spreading powder was dangerous, while she considered hunting it despite its low cultivation.
• Yan stopped Qian Renxue from approaching when he noticed the insect was hunting, and they watched fire-attributed soul beasts flee the burning forest.
• A nearly thousand-year-old Blazing Gold Bird emerged from the smoke and confronted the insect in the sky.
• Qian Renxue recognized that both beasts wielded Solar Trueflame, and Yan identified the insect as a Solar Worm from the Sun Moon Continent.

Yan identified the Solar Worm and described its Solar Gaze skill, which Qian Renxue wanted for her Angel Domain. Qian Renxue killed the Solar Worm, and Yan killed the trapped Blazing Gold Bird.

• Yan told Qian Renxue that an ancient book described the Solar Worm's powerful Solar Gaze skill and its potential to strengthen her Angel Domain.
• Qian Renxue ignored Yan's warning to wait and charged into the battle between the Solar Worm and the Blazing Gold Bird.
• Qian Renxue activated her Angel Domain and attacked both soul beasts, weakening the Blazing Gold Bird and prompting the Solar Worm to unleash Solar Gaze.
• Qian Renxue used her third soul skill to kill the Solar Worm, causing its gathered solar power to erupt harmlessly into the empty surroundings.
• Yan found the Blazing Gold Bird trapped beneath a sphere of golden light and killed it with his blade.

Yan risked absorbing the nine-hundred-year Blazing Gold Bird’s Soul Ring with Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum petal to help him endure it. He survived and gained powerful golden-red flames, while Qian Renxue absorbed the Solar Worm’s Soul Ring.

• Yan insisted on absorbing the Blazing Gold Bird’s Soul Ring despite Qian Renxue warning that it was too old for a second ring, and showed her the spirit-herb petal he planned to use.
• Qian Renxue agreed to guard Yan as he absorbed the Soul Ring, and Yan used the petal to help his body withstand its scorching power.
• After about an hour, Yan’s condition stabilized, so Qian Renxue set up defensive barriers and absorbed the Solar Worm’s five-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Yan woke with heightened senses and two yellow Soul Rings, but found no Soul Bone among the Blazing Gold Bird’s remains.
• Yan discovered that he had gained golden-red flames, refined the Solar Trueflame Origin, and believed his fire was now comparable to Ultimate Fire.

Yan tested how his two enhancement skills strengthened his combat ability, then joined Qian Renxue in searching the Solar Worm’s nest. He found no Soul Bone, but discovered a strange space-related Soul Tool fragment and brought it back to be cleaned up by Qian Renxue.

• Yan tested his golden-red flames and concluded that his two enhancement skills could nearly double his combat strength, though his early long-range abilities remained weak.
• Qian Renxue finished refining the Solar Worm’s soul ring and agreed that Spirit Hall’s support meant Yan did not need to risk fighting for opportunities.
• Qian Renxue told Yan that the Solar Worm’s soul-ring information revealed its nest nearby, and she carried him to the cave on a steep cliff.
• Yan searched the foul-smelling nest and found only a few valuable ores and miscellaneous debris, with no Soul Bone.
• Yan discovered a long stone fragment that resisted his storage Soul Tool and showed chaotic blue-white patterns when he infused it with Soul Power.
• Qian Renxue carried Yan back by the neck and tossed him into a pool to scrub him clean.

Qian Renxue met Bibi Dong in the Papal Hall and defended a revised version of the Infiltration Plan, but their reunion ended in an uneasy parting. Yan then spoke with Qian Daoliu in the Hall of Elders and asked for the Worship Hall’s full support at the upcoming meeting.

• Yan sent Hu Liena out of the council chamber before Bibi Dong confronted Qian Renxue about the Infiltration Plan.
• Qian Renxue said she would personally handle a reduced, revised plan, and Yan explained how it would weaken the Tian Dou Royal Family without replacing Xue Qinghe.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Renxue not to neglect her cultivation and dismissed her, then sent Yan away and wept alone.
• Yan entered the Hall of Elders, where Qian Renxue had been with Qian Daoliu, and advised him to give her and Bibi Dong time to reconcile.
• Yan told Qian Daoliu that he had come to request the Worship Hall’s full support at the upcoming Hall of Elders meeting.