Chapter Summaries

After Xiao Wu’s identity was exposed and Qin He was smeared for loving a Soul Beast, he saw the scandal as a chance to resign as emperor and retire with her. At Shrek Academy, Tang Hao urged Tang San to help Clear Sky Sect smear Qin He so they could return to the sect, and Tang San questioned why they wanted to go back.

• Xiao Wu worried that her exposed identity would force Qin He to choose between her and public opinion.
• After Xiao Chenyu reported the rumors, Qin He welcomed the attack and ordered him to admit that Qin He loved Xiao Wu and Soul Beasts, adding that he might give up the throne.
• At Shrek Academy, Tang San asked Tang Hao whether it was appropriate to smear Qin He over his relationship with Xiao Wu.
• Tang Hao said that completing Clear Sky Sect’s task could let them return to the sect.
• Tang San questioned why their family was so determined to return to Clear Sky Sect.

Xiao Wu worried that Qin He would abandon her as rumors about her being a soul beast turned public opinion against them. Xiao Chenyu traced the leak to the Clear Sky Sect, whose attempt to stir trouble against Qin He left his response uncertain.

• Xiao Wu feared Qin He would choose public approval over staying with her as soul masters condemned their relationship.
• Xiao Chenyu warned Qin He that people were smearing him and stirring unrest across Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xiao Chenyu said the Clear Sky Sect had leaked Xiao Wu's identity after the Four Single-Attribute Clans rejected its effort to win them back.
• Xie Yue admired Qin He for being with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast and wondered how he would respond to the condemnation.

Tang San criticized Tang Hao for smearing Qin He over his relationship with Xiao Wu, while Tang Hao defended the tactic. News that Qin He had given up the Heaven Dou throne for Xiao Wu amazed Spirit Hall, and Yu Xiaogang concluded Qin He must have had a political scheme.

• Tang San told Tang Hao that he was the least qualified person to criticize Qin He for dating a Soul Beast, but Tang Hao said the public would focus on Qin He because of his fame.
• Bishop Salas and Bibi Dong discussed Qin He’s choice to give up the Heaven Dou Emperor position rather than marry Xiao Wu, and Bibi Dong praised him as a devoted man.
• Salas warned Bibi Dong that Qin He must have had a hidden motive, and she returned to her senses with disappointment.
• At Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang told Flander that Qin He’s decision was likely part of a political scheme that achieved several goals at once.

Salas argued that Qin He’s rule had improved the lives of commoners and reduced conflict, then claimed Qin He married a Soul Beast to ease the conflict between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts. He warned that hunting Soul Beasts for soul rings could drive them to extinction and provoke a devastating war.

• Bibi Dong questioned Salas’s claim that Qin He had a deeper purpose in giving up his status to be with Xiao Wu.
• Salas said Qin He sought long-term peace and prosperity across the Douluo Continent, not merely unification.
• Salas pointed to fewer Soul Master conflicts under Qin He’s rule, improved conditions for commoners, and Qin He’s shared cultivation insights.
• Bibi Dong challenged Salas to explain how marrying a Soul Beast could be justified.
• Salas argued that Qin He’s marriage could help prevent Soul Beasts from being hunted to extinction and avert a war between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts.

Bibi Dong considered the conflict between soul masters and soul beasts and chose not to interfere with Qin He's marriage, though she expected public opposition to defeat him. At Shrek Academy, Qin Zhan panicked over his son's public scandal until news arrived that someone had spoken up for Qin He.

• Salas argued that Qin He was courageously trying to ease hostility between soul masters and soul beasts, prompting Bibi Dong to reflect on her own motives for unifying the continent.
• Bibi Dong decided Spirit Hall would not interfere, but she remained convinced that public opposition would crush Qin He.
• At Shrek Academy, Qin Zhan complained that Qin He had made his planned marriage to a soul beast a public spectacle.
• Yu Xiaogang and Flander pointed out that Qin He's marriage would make him a historic figure, which only made Qin Zhan more upset.
• A messenger announced that someone had begun speaking up for Qin He, suggesting the controversy had taken a turn.

Former Heaven Dou Emperor Xue Ye defended Qin He against claims that marrying a Soul Beast violated propriety, arguing that Qin He and Xiao Wu were still innocent and that humans had inherited Martial Souls through interbreeding with Soul Beasts. His remarks silenced the critics, while Qin Zhan resented Xue Ye for speaking up for his son.

• Flander and Yu Xiaogang wondered who would dare publicly defend Qin He over the Soul Beast marriage controversy.
• Yu Xiaogang reflected on how he had fled from difficult relationships before learning that Xue Ye had spoken up for Qin He.
• Yu Xiaogang joked that Qin He might be Xue Ye's biological son, prompting Qin Zhan to accuse Xue Ye of trying to steal his son.
• Xue Ye addressed Soul Masters criticizing Qin He and said the alleged marriage was only a rumor because Qin He and Xiao Wu still had an innocent relationship.
• Xue Ye cited records in the Heaven Dou Royal Library claiming humans had inherited Martial Souls through intermarriage with Soul Beasts, leaving the critics speechless.

Xiao Chenyu and Xie Yue interpreted Qin He's proposed marriage to a soul beast and his release of Battle Through the Heavens as steps toward peaceful coexistence between humans and soul beasts. Qin He, unaware of their theories, wondered why nobody was upset enough to let him resign.

• Xie Yue questioned whether humans had once been born from soul beasts after Xue Ye's declaration supporting Qin He's marriage.
• Xiao Chenyu argued that Qin He was testing a path toward peace by challenging the need for soul rings and soul-beast hunting.
• Xie Yue doubted that Qin He could replace Douluo Continent's entrenched cultivation system, but Xiao Chenyu pointed to the dou qi system in Battle Through the Heavens.
• Xie Yue realized that Battle Through the Heavens could strengthen soul beasts by teaching them new cultivation methods, potentially making humans and soul beasts equals.
• Qin He sneezed and complained that, despite his efforts, nobody seemed willing to smooth things over or care about his marrying a soul beast.

Qin He lamented that the soul masters of Douluo Continent praised his marriage to a soul beast instead of condemning him. At the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Xiao and Tang Hao decided to recast Tang Hao’s marriage to A Yin as an earlier act for peace and claim that Qin He’s Battle Through the Heavens was based on him.

• Qin He realized that public opinion portrayed his marriage to a soul beast as a sacrifice for peace, ruining his plan to abdicate.
• Tang Hao resented that Qin He was celebrated for marrying a soul beast when Tang Hao had suffered Spirit Hall’s persecution for marrying A Yin.
• Tang Xiao reflected that the Clear Sky Sect could not return to prominence while Qin He’s influence overshadowed even Spirit Hall.
• Tang Xiao proposed using the new public sentiment to promote Tang Hao as the original soul-beast husband and the model for Qin He’s Battle Through the Heavens.
• Tang Hao agreed to claim that he had married A Yin for peaceful coexistence rather than desire.

At Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong and Salas discussed how Qin He’s novel had softened soul masters’ attitudes toward marrying soul beasts. Bibi Dong imagined that Medusa was based on her and Qin He was the inspiration for Xiao Yan, but Salas’s report that Tang Hao claimed the novel and social change as his own enraged her.

• Salas and Bibi Dong noted that marrying soul beasts had become more accepted, partly because Qin He’s Battle Through the Heavens made Medusa appealing to soul masters.
• Bibi Dong decided that Medusa resembled her and wondered whether Qin He had created the character because he had feelings for her.
• Bibi Dong imagined herself as Medusa and Qin He as Xiao Yan, then concluded she might welcome Qin’s advances.
• Salas told Bibi Dong that Tang Hao claimed to have pioneered marriage with soul beasts and said Xiao Yan was based on him.
• Bibi Dong rejected Tang Hao’s claim and accused him of shamelessly stealing Qin He’s credit.

Tang Hao returned to the Clear Sky Sect with Tang San as the sect publicized its emergence from seclusion and tried to restore its influence by portraying its history as a sacrifice for peace. Tang San warned that provoking Qin He would backfire, and a sudden boom at the sect entrance left the story poised for an unexpected arrival.

• Tang Hao returned to the Clear Sky Sect and celebrated the prospect of restoring its former glory.
• Soul Masters across the continent discussed the sect’s return and its claim that Tang Hao’s marriage to a soul beast had served peace.
• Tang San warned Tang Hao that using Qin He’s popularity and provoking him would likely end badly.
• Tang Hao insisted that Tang San remain loyal to the Clear Sky Sect and believe they could eventually defeat Qin He.
• A thunderous boom sounded at the Clear Sky Sect’s entrance, where a crowd had gathered.

Bibi Dong led Spirit Hall to the Clear Sky Sect after its members replaced Qin He with Tang Hao in their promotion of his novel. She prepared to punish the sect for ruining her reading experience, leaving Tang Xiao and the elders bewildered.

• A thunderous boom alarmed the Clear Sky Sect, and Tang Xiao led the elders to investigate the mountain gate.
• Tang Xiao found Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall waiting outside and protested that they had already forced the Clear Sky Sect into retreat ten years earlier.
• Bibi Dong said she had come because she was displeased with the Clear Sky Sect, which had replaced Qin He with Tang Hao in its novel publicity.
• Bibi Dong privately complained that Tang Hao was unfit to romance Medusa and decided to teach the Clear Sky Sect a lesson.
• Tang Xiao and the others were left confused by a conflict sparked by fictional characters in a novel.

Bibi Dong used Tang Hao’s portrayal in Qin He’s novel as an excuse to attack the Clear Sky Sect, and the two factions went to war. Qin He dismissed the conflict as a political maneuver and continued writing, introducing Zi Yan into his story.

• Tang Xiao tried to explain that Tang Hao had nothing to do with Xiao Yan, but Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to attack the Clear Sky Sect.
• Spirit Hall’s Soul Ring Cannons blasted open the Clear Sky Sect’s mountain gate, and Tang Xiao ordered his forces to fight back.
• Xiao Chenyu praised Qin He for supposedly causing the war, while Qin He suspected Bibi Dong had used his novel as a pretext to target the Clear Sky Sect.
• Qin He’s status showed that Douluo Continent’s world level had risen to 1.8, with its ceiling reaching Level 180.
• Qin He continued writing Battle Through the Heavens and began introducing Zi Yan, a purple-haired magical beast who looked like a young girl.

Qian Renxue grew jealous of the girls rumored to be close to Qin He and decided to visit him, while Qian Daoliu encouraged the match for both her sake and Elder Hall’s. Qin He heard she was coming to discuss cultivation and worried because he had no idea how anyone drew profound lessons from his novel.

• Qian Renxue complained that Qin He preferred soul beasts and other women over her, while Qian Daoliu worried about her romantic fixation and her cultivation.
• Qian Daoliu contrasted Tang San’s betrayal of Qian Renxue with Qin He’s strength and suggested she visit Qin He to discuss cultivation.
• Qian Renxue accepted the suggestion, wondered why Qin He did not like her, and resented the rumors linking him to other women, including Bibi Dong.
• Qin He learned that Qian Renxue was coming to the palace and fretted that he knew nothing about cultivation despite the breakthroughs people claimed to gain from his novel.

Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue visited Qin He, easing tensions between Spirit Hall and Qin He’s faction. The chapter ended with Qian Daoliu asking Qin He for guidance on the latest plot of Battle Through the Heavens.

• Qian Renxue and Qian Daoliu arrived at Qin He’s palace and were impressed by Qin He, while Qian Renxue blushed at his appearance.
• Qin He welcomed Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue, and the visitors and host exchanged pleasantries.
• Qin He regarded the visit as a chance to ease misunderstandings with Spirit Hall and reflected that he did not want to destroy it.
• Xie Yue and Xiao Chenyu watched the meeting and hoped Spirit Hall would join Qin He’s ranks.
• Qian Daoliu stated that he had come to seek Qin He’s guidance on the latest plot of Battle Through the Heavens.

Qin He and Qian Daoliu bonded over cultivation and Battle Through the Heavens, while Bibi Dong worried that Elder Hall was aligning with Qin He. Salas concluded that Bibi Dong was secretly helping Qin He and that the apparent conflict between them concealed a plan against Clear Sky Sect.

• Qin He and Qian Daoliu enjoyed their conversation, and Qian Daoliu revealed that he had sought Qin He’s advice about advancing beyond level ninety-nine.
• Bibi Dong condemned Qian Daoliu for befriending Qin He and asked Salas how she could respond.
• Salas suspected that Bibi Dong had been secretly supporting Qin He while pretending to oppose him.
• Salas decided that Bibi Dong and Qin He were likely conspiring against Clear Sky Sect, leaving its members in danger.

Bibi Dong asked Salas about Qin He’s purpose in publishing Battle Through the Heavens, and Salas speculated that Qin He might be a reincarnated God who had recorded real experiences from another continent. Bibi Dong accepted Salas’s advice to avoid confronting Qin He and instead strengthen Spirit Hall by attacking the Clear Sky Sect and other smaller sects.

• Salas privately concluded that Bibi Dong intended to hand Spirit Hall’s resources to Qin He, while Bibi Dong asked him what he thought of Qin He’s novel.
• Salas claimed that Qin He might be a reincarnated God and that Battle Through the Heavens could describe real events from another continent.
• Bibi Dong worried that Spirit Hall could not contend with Qin He, especially if Elder Hall had defected to him.
• Salas advised Bibi Dong to avoid opposing Qin He and attack the Clear Sky Sect and smaller sects to build Spirit Hall’s strength.
• Bibi Dong agreed that Spirit Hall should seize strength from other factions instead of trying to take it from Qin He.

Tang Hao persuaded Tang Xiao to seek an alliance with Spirit Hall against Qin He, but Salas secretly accepted while planning to keep Spirit Hall’s loyalty to Qin He hidden. Meanwhile, Qin He hosted Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue, who eagerly asked him to reveal what happened next in his novel.

• Tang Hao argued that the Clear Sky Sect needed allies to resist Qin He, and Tang Xiao agreed to approach Spirit Hall despite their history.
• A Clear Sky Sect messenger offered Salas a chest of Gold Soul Coins and requested an alliance against Qin He.
• Salas accepted the alliance and sent the messenger back with a secret letter, while privately treating the Clear Sky Sect as an easy target to deceive.
• Qin He hosted Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, where they asked him to reveal the next events in Battle Through the Heavens.

Bibi Dong decided to use Spirit Hall’s Soul Hunt Operation against factions such as the Clear Sky Sect while waiting for Qin He to leave Douluo Continent. The Clear Sky Sect struggled to understand Spirit Hall’s new strategy, and Tang Hao proposed seeking allies against Qin He.

• Bibi Dong concluded that Spirit Hall should avoid competing with Qin He and ordered Salas to launch a Soul Hunt Operation targeting other factions, including the Clear Sky Sect.
• Salas eagerly accepted the order, believing Bibi Dong was secretly working for Qin He and that attacking the Clear Sky Sect would help unify Douluo Continent.
• Tang Xiao lamented that Spirit Hall had begun targeting the Clear Sky Sect after Qin He had already humiliated them.
• Tang Hao explained that Spirit Hall was divided between Bibi Dong’s Pope faction and Qian Daoliu’s Elder faction, then argued that the Clear Sky Sect needed allies against Qin He.
• Tang Xiao asked Tang Hao whether he meant that they should ally with Spirit Hall, showing his reluctance.

Qian Renxue decided she would not accept the God of Angels’ inheritance at the cost of Qian Daoliu’s life and hoped Qin He could help her grandfather reach godhood through cultivation. Xiao Chenyu and Xie Yue watched Qian Daoliu seek Qin He’s guidance, wondering whether Qin He could overcome the continent’s greatest cultivation hurdle.

• Qian Renxue considered how becoming a God could help her stand beside Qin He, but rejected an inheritance that would require Qian Daoliu to sacrifice himself.
• Qian Renxue thought Qin He might guide Qian Daoliu from Level 99 to godhood through the cultivation path revealed by Battle Through the Heavens.
• Xiao Chenyu and Xie Yue watched Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue seek Qin He’s guidance and marveled at Qin He’s influence.
• Xiao Chenyu and Xie Yue wondered whether Qin He could guide Qian Daoliu to break through to the divine level.

Qin He told Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue about Zi Yan’s story and her relationship with Xiao Yan. Qian Renxue decided that Qin He’s treatment of Zi Yan meant he might see Xiao Wu as a younger sister, and she left feeling confident about her chances.

• Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue eagerly asked Qin He to explain what happened later in Battle Through the Heavens.
• Qin He agreed to recount key parts of the plot, beginning with Zi Yan’s origins and life in the Black-Corner Region.
• Qin He explained how Zi Yan met Xiao Yan, helped him find medicinal herbs, and joined Pan Gate after helping him fight his enemies.
• Qin He described how Zi Yan was ultimately separated from Xiao Yan and left to manage the Void Ancient Dragon clan.
• Qian Renxue concluded that Qin He regarded Zi Yan like a younger sister and felt certain her own chances were high.