Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiu visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to discuss Tang San, the Four Single-Attribute Clans, and the growing influence of Xue Beng’s faction. He learned that Emperor Xue Ye had begun showing strange lapses, leaving the reason for his condition uncertain.

• Ye Qiu left Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing at Blue Tyrant Academy and returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ye Qiu met Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Sword Douluo, then explained that he planned to kill Tang San if Tang Hao’s death was confirmed.
• Ye Qiu and Ning Fengzhi discussed recruiting the Four Single-Attribute Clans and the possibility that Xue Beng’s faction would approach Tang San.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ye Qiu that Xue Beng had gained another Title Douluo and that Emperor Xue Ye had recently begun spacing out and showing a stiff, vacant expression.

Ye Qiu worried about Xue Ke and Xue Ye, then watched Tang San and Yu Xiaogang struggle with their romantic losses before going to visit Xue Ke. In the Crown Prince's Mansion, Xue Qinghe learned Ye Qiu had hidden key information about Tang San and demanded that he explain himself.

• Ye Qiu asked Ning Fengzhi to keep watch on Tang San, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to send Bone Douluo.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang when they could go to the Speed Clan to replace his third Spirit Ring, while Yu Xiaogang lamented his broken legs and Liu Erlong's rejection.
• Tang San promised to help Yu Xiaogang win Liu Erlong back and vowed to take Xiao Wu back from Ye Qiu.
• Ye Qiu found no powerful experts near Tang San and went to Moonlight Pavilion to spend time with Xue Ke.
• Xue Qinghe learned from Tang San's intelligence that Ye Qiu had known Tang San's identity, stopped Jiang Mo Douluo from seizing him, and insisted Ye Qiu explain himself.

Ye Qiu and Zhu Zhuqing spent the night together, then shared a teasing breakfast with the women before heading to the Star Dou Great Forest for a soul-beast hunt. The hunt was nearly finished, with Dugu Yan and Xiao Lan bringing down the two strongest Crimson Flame Lions.

• Ye Qiu massaged Zhu Zhuqing and agreed to take her to see Zhu Zhuyun when he had time.
• The next morning, Ye Qiu borrowed stockings from Dugu Yan and helped her put them on before returning to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dugu Yan teased Zhu Zhuqing during breakfast, while Ning Rongrong and Liu Erlong also joined in teasing Ye Qiu beneath the table.
• The group went to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul beasts, where Ye Qiu restrained three Crimson Flame Lions for training.
• Dugu Yan poisoned the 33,000-year-old and 25,000-year-old Crimson Flame Lions, and Xiao Lan bound them with her Blue Silver Emperor.

Ye Qiu gained new abilities after Xiao Lan advanced in the Star Dou Great Forest, then returned to Blue Tyrant Academy to examine his new Soul Skills. That night, Qian Renxue greeted him with an icy, murderous expression, leaving him unsure what had happened.

• Ye Qiu stored the defeated Crimson Flame Lion and helped the group settle the rescued Jiang Zhu and the others.
• Xiao Lan advanced to level forty-two, gained her fourth Spirit Ability, and grew emerald-and-gold wings that let her fly.
• Ye Qiu reviewed his new eye abilities, including powers to enhance combat perception and examine or alter memories, and learned about Xiao Lan's Blue Silver Sacred Wings.
• Ye Qiu went to the Crown Prince's Mansion Secret Chamber for dinner with Qian Renxue and noticed her suddenly cold, murderous look.

Qian Renxue confronted Ye Qiu for hiding information about Tang San, and he explained that Tang Hao knew Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. After Ye Qiu revealed that Xiao Lan was also a soul beast, Qian Renxue threatened him, but the next day they reconciled after cultivating together.

• Qian Renxue demanded to know why Ye Qiu had kept Tang San's situation from her, accusing him of not trusting her.
• Ye Qiu explained that he had stayed quiet because Tang Hao knew Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form.
• Qian Renxue promised not to tell anyone about Xiao Wu, and Ye Qiu revealed that Xiao Lan was also a soul beast.
• Qian Renxue grabbed Ye Qiu by the throat and demanded to know what else he was hiding.
• The next day, Ye Qiu and Qian Renxue finished cultivating, kissed, and began teasing each other affectionately.

Qian Renxue resolved to keep pursuing Ye Qiu, while Xie Xue Douluo ordered Xue Beng to win Tang San’s trust by arranging a meeting. Tang San accepted the invitation to discuss Clear Sky matters, and Ye Qiu agreed to take Ye Lingling home for dinner.

• Qian Renxue admitted she could not bring herself to kill Ye Qiu and vowed to keep trying to defeat him.
• Hun Feng reported that Tang San did not know Tang Hao was dead, and Xie Xue Douluo ordered Xue Beng to arrange a meeting with him.
• Xue Beng confessed that he had previously offended Tang San, and Hun Feng advised him to invite the whole group and apologize.
• Xue Beng sent the group a lavish invitation, which reached Tang San at Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Tang San accepted Xue Beng’s invitation after seeing its offer to discuss Clear Sky matters.
• Ye Qiu agreed to take Ye Lingling home for dinner after Dugu Yan asked him.

Ye Lingling returned home with Ye Qiu and faced her mother’s teasing about their relationship. Ye Qinshui then told her that Prince Xue Beng’s people had offered to lift the Nine Heart Begonia curse in exchange for the family’s loyalty, leaving the decision to Lingling.

• Dugu Yan asked Ning Rongrong and the other women how she could help Ye Lingling grow closer to Ye Qiu, and Ning Rongrong suggested Lingling ask Ye Qiu to take her along herself.
• Ye Qiu brought Ye Lingling to the Ye Residence and left after she said she would return to the academy early the next morning.
• Ye Qinshui teased Ye Lingling about Ye Qiu, and Lingling denied they were in a relationship while insisting he was handsome.
• Ye Qinshui told Ye Lingling that Prince Xue Beng’s people had offered to resolve the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul curse if the family pledged loyalty to him.
• Ye Qinshui asked Ye Lingling what she thought, saying the family would be hers to lead in the future.

Ye Lingling rejected Xue Beng’s offer, and Ye Qinshui decided to secretly watch for the boy who had been accompanying her daughter. Ye Qiu went to observe Xue Beng’s meeting with Tang San, while the Shrek group gathered at Heaven Star Restaurant.

• Ye Lingling told Ye Qinshui she wanted to refuse Xue Beng’s offer, and her mother agreed to support her while resolving to stake out the boy visiting her.
• Ye Qiu returned to the courtyard and found the girls hiding what they had been discussing, leaving Jiang Zhu embarrassed.
• After learning Xue Beng and Tang San were meeting, Ye Qiu left for the area around Heaven Star Restaurant.
• The Shrek group arrived at Heaven Star Restaurant, where the manager said Xue Beng had reserved the entire venue for them.
• Yu Xiaogang hoped Tang San would join the Spirit Master Competition and considered having him cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Ye Qiu drank tea with a broad-framed elderly man in a teahouse near Heaven Star Restaurant.

Ye Qiu watched Tang San and his companions meet Xue Beng while Bone Douluo waited with him. At the banquet, Xue Beng persuaded the teachers to return to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then Hun Feng revealed that Tang Hao was at the tavern.

• Ye Qiu used his Sharingan to watch Tang San and his companions enter the tavern across from the teahouse as Bone Douluo told him to keep observing.
• Xue Beng greeted Flender and the others, apologized for driving them away, and claimed he had acted like a playboy to avoid his Crown Prince brother’s suspicion.
• Mo Wuchang’s presence unsettled Flender and Yu Xiaogang, while Hun Feng studied Yu Xiaogang and decided to approach him.
• After the meal began, Yu Xiaogang accepted Xue Beng’s invitation to teach at Heaven Dou Royal Academy despite Flender’s concern about leaving Liu Erlong uninformed.
• Xue Beng asked which young man was Tang Hao’s son, and Tang San identified himself and asked about his father.
• Hun Feng told Tang San that Tang Hao was in the tavern, shocking Tang San and the others.

Ye Qiu discovered that Tang Hao was dead and had been turned into a puppet by Xue Beng’s allies, while Tang San was summoned to meet the disguised corpse. Tang San reunited with the puppet, believed it was his father, and was introduced to Xie Xue as Tang Hao’s life-and-death friend.

• Ye Qiu used his eyes to spy on the restaurant and recognized Tang Hao’s restored body sitting beside Xie Xue Douluo.
• Ye Qiu told Bone Douluo that Tang Hao was dead and suspected the Evil Spirit Masters had made his corpse into a puppet; he also said he intended to kill Tang San.
• Xie Xue sensed Ye Qiu’s surveillance, but dismissed it when Tang San arrived with Hun Feng and Mo Wuchang.
• Xie Xue made the puppet’s heart beat and its eyes appear alive before Tang San entered and saw what he believed was his father.
• Tang San embraced Tang Hao, and Xie Xue soon separated them before introducing himself as the Level 98 Douluo who had saved Tang Hao’s life.

Ye Qiu discovered that the Evil Spirit Masters had turned Tang Hao into a puppet and were using him to recruit Tang San. After Ye Qiu reported back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi concluded that they might be seeking ties to the Clear Sky Sect through Tang San.

• Xie Xue Douluo helped Tang San up and let Hun Feng answer his questions while Tang Hao pretended to be gravely injured.
• Hun Feng told Tang San that Spirit Hall had injured Tang Hao and killed Tang San's mother, prompting Tang San to swear revenge on Spirit Hall.
• Ye Qiu stopped observing and returned with Bone Douluo to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to report what he had learned.
• Ye Qiu told Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo that Tang Hao was dead and had been refined into a puppet, and that the Evil Spirit Masters appeared to be recruiting Tang San.
• Ning Fengzhi reasoned that the Evil Spirit Masters wanted to use Tang San's identity to gain influence among the four single-attribute clans and the Clear Sky Sect.

Ye Qiu and Ning Fengzhi decided to use Tang San’s importance to the Evil Spirit Masters against them by arranging his death. Meanwhile, Xie Xue Douluo planned to stage an attack by Spirit Hall and save Tang San to earn his trust, while Xue Beng worked to bring Tang San’s group into the Spirit Master Competition.

• Ye Qiu proposed using Tailong to lure Tang San out of Heaven Dou City, then killing him, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to send Bone Douluo along as backup.
• Xue Beng apologized to Flender and promised to invite the Shrek group back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang and the others that a level ninety-eight Title Douluo named Xie Xue had saved Tang Hao, then returned to Blue Tyrant Academy burdened by what had happened.
• Xie Xue Douluo told Hun Feng and the others to stage an attack on Tang San and then rescue him to deepen his trust in them.
• Xie Xue Douluo ordered Xue Beng to ensure Tang San and his group entered the Spirit Master Competition, and Xue Beng agreed.

Ye Qiu and Ning Rongrong shared an affectionate evening before he went to meet Ye Lingling the next morning. Ye Lingling’s mother, Ye Qinshui, teased her about waiting for him, revealing that she suspected her daughter had feelings for him.

• Ning Rongrong asked Ye Qiu to indulge her foot fetish, and he said he would try while insisting that he loved her, not just her feet.
• Ning Rongrong and Ye Qiu soaked their feet together, and she said she would give herself to him after their engagement banquet.
• Ye Qiu kept the danger of the Evil Spirit Masters from Xiao Wu and the others because they were too weak to help.
• Ye Qiu arrived at Ye Lingling’s home and found her waiting to return to Blue Tyrant Academy with him.
• Ye Qinshui joined Ye Qiu and Ye Lingling, teased her daughter about waiting for him, and privately concluded that Ye Lingling’s feelings for him were unusual.

Ye Qiu met Ye Lingling’s lively mother, Ye Qinshui, who mistook the pair for a couple and invited him to lunch at the Ye Residence. Ye Qiu accepted, and he and Ye Lingling left together while Ye Qinshui imagined their future family.

• Ye Qinshui searched around for Ye Qiu until Ye Lingling told her to stop, and Ye Qiu introduced himself as Lingling’s classmate.
• Ye Qinshui teased Ye Lingling about her relationship with Ye Qiu, while Ye Lingling tried to explain her mother’s behavior and hurry them away.
• Ye Qinshui pretended to cry until Ye Lingling gave in and asked what she wanted; Ye Qinshui then invited Ye Qiu to the Ye Residence for lunch.
• Ye Qiu accepted the invitation, and Ye Lingling told Ye Qinshui what food he liked before leaving with him.
• Ye Qinshui watched them go and privately decided they were a perfect match and that she approved of Ye Qiu.

Ye Qiu returned to Blue Tyrant Academy after spending time with Ye Lingling and the others, then began a plan involving Tailong and the Strength Clan. The chapter ended with Tailong following Ye Qiu after catching a glimpse of his concealed red eyes.

• Ye Qiu reassured Ye Lingling that he would keep his promise to have lunch at her home, despite feeling awkward about Ye Qinshui’s enthusiastic invitation.
• Ye Qiu and Ye Lingling returned to Blue Tyrant Academy, where Liu Erlong and the others teased them about Ye Qinshui possibly wanting Ye Qiu as her son-in-law.
• Dugu Yan encouraged Ye Lingling to give in and join the women, while Ye Qiu left with the others for the Lake of Life.
• After leaving Xiao Wu and the others at the lake, Ye Qiu returned to Blue Tyrant Academy and used Life Mimicry to disguise himself while searching for Tailong.
• Ye Qiu passed Tailong with his blood-red eyes concealed beneath his disguise, and Tailong became entranced by the glimpse before following him.

Ye Qiu altered Tailong’s memories to make him believe Tai Tan had ordered him to invite Tang San home, then went to the Lake of Life and rescued Jiang Zhu from a fall. He left with Ye Lingling for dinner while the women teased him about his stamina.

• Ye Qiu edited Tailong’s memories so he would remember Tai Tan ordering him to invite Tang San back to the residence and warn him to be vigilant.
• Tailong woke in the restroom, remembered the supposed order, and hurried off to find Tang San.
• At the Lake of Life, Ning Rongrong and the others held a barbecue and teased Zhu Zhuqing about using her clones with Ye Qiu.
• Jiang Zhu fell from a swing, and Ye Qiu caught her before she hit the fire pit.
• Ye Qiu told Xiao Lan to lower the swing next time, declined the barbecue, and left with Ye Lingling for dinner.

Ye Qinshui brought Ye Qiu and Ye Lingling to Ye Residence for a meal, but arranged it in Ye Lingling’s bedroom and maneuvered the two onto the same bench. The meal began with Ye Lingling embarrassed and flustered by her mother’s matchmaking efforts.

• Ye Qinshui warmly greeted Ye Qiu at the gate and led him inside, initially leaving Ye Lingling behind.
• Ye Lingling realized her mother was taking Ye Qiu toward her bedroom and hurried after them in embarrassment.
• Ye Qinshui seated Ye Qiu in Ye Lingling’s room and had servants bring out dishes prepared for him.
• Ye Lingling confronted Ye Qinshui, who claimed the dining hall was under renovation and insisted that Ye Qiu was no outsider.
• Ye Qinshui made Ye Lingling sit beside Ye Qiu on the same bench, then sat opposite them and urged them to eat.

Ye Qiu and Ye Lingling shared a meal in her boudoir, where she revealed that she trusted him to break the Nine Heart Begonia curse rather than accept Xue Beng's offer. Lingling kissed Ye Qiu and fled, leaving him to consider what had happened.

• Ye Qinshui served Ye Qiu and Ye Lingling dinner, then left them alone in Lingling's boudoir.
• Ye Lingling explained that Xue Beng had offered the Ye Family help with the curse in exchange for their loyalty, but she had refused.
• Ye Lingling told Ye Qiu she trusted him to solve the curse, and he promised not to let her down.
• Ye Qinshui watched Lingling smile with joy as she kissed Ye Qiu.
• Ye Lingling covered her face with a veil and hurried out before Ye Qiu could respond.

Ye Qinshui pressed Ye Qiu to take responsibility for Ye Lingling, and he promised to give them a satisfactory answer before leaving to meet Bone Douluo. At Blue Tyrant Academy, Tailong arrived to deliver a message from his grandfather to Tang San.

• Ye Qinshui asked Ye Qiu to take responsibility for Ye Lingling, and Ye Qiu promised to give them a satisfactory answer.
• Ye Qinshui told Ye Qiu stories about Ye Lingling, then let him leave to handle urgent business while Lingling stayed at home.
• Ye Qiu met Bone Douluo, confirmed the carriage was ready, and changed his appearance into that of a weathered coachman.
• Tailong visited Tang San at Blue Tyrant Academy and said his grandfather had a message for him.

Tang San went with Tailong to meet Titan, unaware that Ye Qiu had disguised himself as their carriage driver. Ye Qiu lured him onto a deserted road and blew up the carriage, leaving Tang San injured and facing his attacker.

• Tang San agreed to go with Tailong to the Strength Clan, and Tailong promised to inform Tang San’s teachers after they left.
• Ye Qiu, disguised as the carriage driver, watched for spies and drove Tang San out of the city.
• Tang San realized the carriage and Titan’s supposed invitation seemed suspicious, then demanded that the driver stop.
• Ye Qiu threw blue and red explosives into the carriage, causing it to explode as he used Phasing to avoid the blast.
• Tang San survived with injuries, confronted the unfamiliar man, and fired his Godly Zhuge Crossbow at Ye Qiu.