Chapter Summaries

Shui Rou'er asked Luo Li for an Immortal Herb for Shui Bing'er, and he went to see Bing'er train rather than answering directly. At Frost Rime Academy, Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er defeated Huo Wu with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill as they prepared for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition.

• Luo Li confirmed that Dugu Yan's dramatic improvement came from an Immortal Herb and explained that such treasures required loyalty to the Northern Border.
• Shui Rou'er told Luo Li that Shui Bing'er wanted to join the Northern Border and serve him after graduation.
• Luo Li asked where Shui Bing'er was training and went with Shui Rou'er to watch the academy team's preparations.
• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er defeated Huo Wu with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill in the Spirit Dueling Arena.
• Huo Wu insisted she would not fear Shui Bing'er in a one-on-one fight, and Shui Yue'er teased her for losing.

Dugu Yan broke up Shui Yue'er and Huo Wu’s standoff, then praised Shui Bing’er’s progress as Frost Rime Academy’s team trained. Luo Li summoned Shui Bing’er and Ning Rongrong to explain that Dugu Yan’s transformation came from an Immortal Herb, revealing that Shui Rou’er had approached him on Shui Bing’er’s behalf.

• Dugu Yan intervened when Shui Yue'er and Huo Wu glared at each other, and the two backed down.
• Dugu Yan praised Shui Bing'er’s cultivation, while Ning Rongrong teased Huo Wu about being less composed.
• Zhu Zhuqing reflected on how she had joined Frost Rime Academy and hoped to catch up with its strongest students.
• Luo Li arrived with Shui Rou'er, greeted the trainees, and called Shui Bing'er and Ning Rongrong aside.
• Luo Li told Shui Bing'er and Ning Rongrong that Dugu Yan’s transformation was connected to an Immortal Herb and that Shui Rou'er had met with him for Shui Bing'er’s sake.

Luo Li offered Shui Bing'er and Ning Rongrong immortal herbs suited to their Martial Souls after confirming Shui Bing'er's sincere wish to remain in the Northern Border. Ning Rongrong saw the herbs as a chance to overcome the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's level limit.

• Luo Li told Shui Bing'er that she could obtain an immortal herb and admitted he had restricted access to the herbs to keep them from outsiders.
• Luo Li revealed he had already prepared an immortal herb for Ning Rongrong and that Xue Ke had received one suited to her as well.
• Luo Li asked Shui Bing'er to confirm that she wanted to remain in the Northern Border for her own reasons, and she swore upon her Martial Soul that she did.
• Luo Li produced the Aromatic Silk Beauty and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, explaining that they suited Ning Rongrong's and Shui Bing'er's Martial Souls and might cause them to evolve.
• Ning Rongrong realized that Martial Soul evolution might let her break the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's level limit.

Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er absorbed Immortal Herbs under Luo Li’s protection, and both gained major advancements. Ning Rongrong awakened the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, while Shui Bing’er’s Ice Phoenix transformed into a Demigod-tier Martial Soul.

• Ning Rongrong finished absorbing the Aromatic Silk Beauty, reached Soul Ancestor, and discovered that her pagoda had nine floors.
• Ning Rongrong playfully tried to kiss Luo Li, who stopped her, and their exchange left them both embarrassed.
• Shui Bing’er’s absorption of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass unleashed an extreme chill, which Luo Li contained with his Soul Power.
• Shui Bing’er’s Ice Phoenix transformed into a Martial Soul of Extreme Ice, reaching the Demigod tier.

Shui Bing'er and Ning Rongrong revealed the transformations caused by their Immortal Herbs, with Shui Bing'er’s Ice Phoenix evolving into Ice God's Descent and greatly increasing her strength. Luo Li’s team reacted with envy and surprise, while Dugu Yan felt newly motivated to compete as the chapter left Shui Bing’er poised to become the team’s strongest member.

• Shui Bing'er sensed that her evolved Martial Soul had made her far stronger, though she remained content with Dugu Yan as captain.
• Luo Li told the Frost Rime Team that Shui Bing'er and Ning Rongrong had received the same kind of Immortal Herb as Dugu Yan.
• Shui Bing'er and Ning Rongrong released their transformed Martial Souls, leaving most of the team envious and Zhu Zhuqing especially eager for power.
• Shui Yue'er teased Huo Wu about no longer matching Shui Bing'er, and Huo Wu accepted that Shui Bing'er's Ice Phoenix now countered her Fire Shadow Martial Soul.
• Shui Bing'er rebuked Shui Yue'er for mocking Huo Wu, and Shui Yue'er fell silent.
• Dugu Yan felt melancholy about Shui Bing'er closing the gap between them, but the change strengthened her resolve to train harder.

Luo Li told Huo Wu and the others they could earn Immortal Herbs by proving their strength and allegiance, and Zhu Zhuqing pledged loyalty despite her ties to the Star Luo Zhu Family. Ye Lingling, still weighing her family’s position, realized an Immortal Herb might also cure the Nine Heart Begonia curse and resolved to discuss it with her mother.

• Luo Li said the others could also receive Immortal Herbs if they became valuable to him through strength and allegiance.
• Zhu Zhuqing worried that her Star Luo Zhu Family background would prevent Luo Li from accepting her, but he assured her she had a chance.
• Zhu Zhuqing swore loyalty to Luo Li, and he accepted her oath while clarifying that loyalty alone would not earn her an Immortal Herb.
• Ye Lingling felt isolated after Zhu Zhuqing pledged herself and recognized that an Immortal Herb might lift the Nine Heart Begonia curse.
• Ye Lingling decided to return to her family and discuss the possibility with her mother.

As the Clear Sky Sect allied with the Star Luo Empire, Tang Yuehua prepared to close Moonlight Pavilion and leave Heaven Dou City. Luo Li visited her before she departed, and they reunited as former teacher and student.

• The Clear Sky Sect's alliance with the Star Luo Empire prompted nobles to withdraw from Moonlight Pavilion, forcing Tang Yuehua to prepare to leave Heaven Dou City.
• Tang Yuehua reflected on her strained position between her sect and Luo Li, and on the affection she had buried for him.
• Luo Li arrived at Moonlight Pavilion and called Tang Yuehua his teacher.
• Luo Li told Tang Yuehua she could still call him by the name she had once used, and she greeted him, “Long time no see, A'Li.”

Luo Li met Tang Yuehua at the soon-to-be-empty Moonlight Pavilion and warned her against returning to the Clear Sky Sect. He exposed how the sect had neglected her, leaving Tang Yuehua unable to dismiss her doubts about her place in it.

• Tang Yuehua sent the carriage ahead and stayed at Moonlight Pavilion to meet Luo Li.
• Tang Yuehua brewed tea for Luo Li, and they recalled the calmer days when he studied at the pavilion.
• Tang Yuehua asked about Luo Li's relationship with Xue Ke, and he said it was progressing steadily.
• Luo Li questioned Tang Yuehua's plan to return to the Clear Sky Sect and reminded her that the sect had failed to protect or value her.
• Tang Yuehua defended her sect and brother Tang Xiao, but Luo Li told her to stop deceiving herself about their priorities.

Tang Yuehua chose to leave Clear Sky Sect rather than risk being forced into a marriage alliance, and Luo Li arranged protection for her journey to the Northern Border. After writing a final farewell to the sect, Luo Li met Qian Renxue outside Heaven Dou City.

• Luo Li warned Tang Yuehua that Clear Sky Sect might use her in a marriage alliance with the Star Luo Empire and offered to help if she wanted to leave.
• Tang Yuehua asked Luo Li for help, and he gave her a token to secure the White Robe Army’s protection on her journey to the Northern Border.
• Fang'er refused Tang Yuehua’s offer of Gold Soul Coins and chose to remain by her side.
• Tang Yuehua wrote a final farewell letter to Clear Sky Sect and sent it to Star Luo.
• Luo Li met Qian Renxue in a forest outside Heaven Dou City and called her Xue'er after she showed displeasure at his formal greeting.

Qian Renxue brought Luo Li to meet her grandfather, Qian Daoliu, who proposed an alliance between Luo Li's Northern Border and Spirit Hall's Worship Hall. Luo Li accepted, and Qian Daoliu offered to hold his Title Conferment Ceremony.

• Qian Renxue led Luo Li through a sealed forest outside Heaven Dou City to meet someone in a pavilion.
• Luo Li recognized the elderly man as Qian Daoliu, Spirit Hall's Great Enshrined, and greeted him respectfully.
• Qian Daoliu noticed Luo Li had advanced from Soul Douluo to Titled Douluo, surprising Qian Renxue.
• Qian Daoliu proposed an alliance between Luo Li and the Worship Hall, explaining that Bibi Dong could not interfere with his affairs.
• Luo Li accepted the alliance, and Qian Daoliu offered to arrange his Title Conferment Ceremony.

Bibi Dong opposed Qian Daoliu’s plan to hold a Title Conferment Ceremony for Luo Li, while Qian Daoliu insisted that the ceremony served Spirit Hall’s interests and could support Qian Renxue’s relationship with Luo Li. He left Bibi Dong alone in the Pope’s Hall, where she silently wrestled with her anger and the reminder of her own past.

• Bibi Dong learned that Qian Daoliu planned to preside over Luo Li’s Title Conferment Ceremony and ordered her subordinate to tell him Spirit Hall would not hold it.
• Qian Daoliu entered the Pope’s Hall and overruled Bibi Dong, arguing that befriending Luo Li would benefit Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong accused Qian Daoliu of supporting Qian Renxue’s relationship with Luo Li while denying her own relationship with Yu Xiaogang.
• Qian Daoliu said the situations differed because Luo Li was a peerless genius, unlike Yu Xiaogang, and because Qian Renxue’s Six-winged Angel made the circumstances distinct.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Bibi Dong to let the matter of Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo end, confirmed the ceremony would proceed as scheduled, and left her alone in the hall.

Spirit Hall held a grand Title Conferment Ceremony for Luo Li, presided over by Qian Daoliu, drawing powerful factions from across the continent. As Qian Daoliu prepared to grant Luo Li his title, Bibi Dong watched from Pope's Hall but ultimately took no action.

• News spread that Qian Daoliu would personally preside over Luo Li's ceremony, alarming the Star Luo Empire and Clear Sky Sect, who had thought Spirit Hall and the Northern Border were opposed.
• Spirit Hall invited famous Soul Masters and factions to Spirit City, while Bibi Dong remained silent and the Elder Hall sent two Titled Douluo to assist her.
• Representatives including Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Yu Yuanzhen gathered in Title Square as Qian Daoliu emerged from Pope's Hall and announced Luo Li's conferment.
• Luo Li rose through a pillar of light with nine powerful soul rings and walked through the air to the altar, where he faced Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu formed a crown of angel Soul Power and began granting Luo Li his title, while Bibi Dong watched from a tower, briefly showing black qi in her eyes before relaxing her fist.

Luo Li received the title Shuangzhou Douluo at his Title Conferment Ceremony, strengthening the Northern Border’s ties with Spirit Hall. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as an Imperial Tutor of the Star Luo Empire, alarming the clan as tensions between the empires rose.

• Qian Daoliu named Luo Li Shuangzhou Douluo, and the crowd celebrated his rise as the youngest Titled Douluo in recorded history.
• Luo Li sensed Soul Power erupting and then being suppressed at Pope's Hall, before attending Spirit Hall’s banquet.
• Luo Li’s ceremony shifted the major factions’ attitudes by making the close relationship between Spirit Hall and the Northern Border clear.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, prompting Yu Luomian and the elders to fear that his Star Luo Empire allegiance would endanger the clan.
• Liu Erlong and Yu Yuanzhen reacted with unease to Yu Xiaogang’s affected manner, while the clan remained uncertain how to handle his visit.

Yu Xiaogang urged the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to ally with the Star Luo Empire and Clear Sky Sect, claiming his connections would secure them favorable treatment. Yu Luomian challenged the alliance’s strength and exposed his suspicion that Yu Xiaogang wanted the clan to raise his own status.

• Yu Xiaogang told the clan that he was the Star Luo Empire’s Imperial Tutor and that the Clear Sky Sect’s future sect master was his student.
• Yu Xiaogang urged the clan to join the Star Luo Empire and Clear Sky Sect’s alliance, arguing that his position would win them special treatment.
• Yu Yuanzhen objected that the clan’s foundations lay in the Heaven Dou Empire, while Yu Luomian asked why they should not side with Heaven Dou and the Northern Border instead.
• Yu Luomian pointed out that the Clear Sky Sect had done nothing about its captured Third Elder and that Mountain City remained under White Robe Army control.
• Yu Luomian accused Yu Xiaogang of seeking the clan’s support to improve his own standing in the Star Luo Empire, leaving Yu Xiaogang pale and exposed.

Yu Yuanzhen uncovered Yu Xiaogang’s betrayal and expelled him from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. After killing the Star Luo Empire guards who accompanied him, Yu Yuanzhen ordered Yu Luomian to seek an audience with Shuangzhou Douluo and offer the clan’s allegiance to the Northern Border.

• Yu Luomian exposed Yu Xiaogang’s plan to use the clan to strengthen his position in the Star Luo Empire, shocking Yu Yuanzhen and the clan members.
• Yu Yuanzhen condemned Yu Xiaogang for betraying his family, while Liu Erlong confronted Yu Xiaogang and ended her faith in him.
• Yu Yuanzhen expelled Yu Xiaogang from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Yu Xiaogang fled toward the mountain gate.
• Yu Yuanzhen stopped the Star Luo Empire guards from leaving and killed them, alarming the clan elders.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Yu Luomian to ask Shuangzhou Douluo for an audience and declare the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s allegiance to the Northern Border.

Yu Yuanzhen chose to surrender the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to the Northern Border after Yu Xiaogang’s visit made neutrality impossible. The Northern Border’s growing power reshaped the continent’s alliances, while Yu Xiaogang returned to the Star Luo Empire with his position weakened and his hopes resting on Tang San.

• Yu Yuanzhen explained that the clan needed to declare its allegiance and treated the Star Luo Empire’s envoys as a pledge of surrender to the Northern Border.
• Yu Yuanzhen judged that the Northern Border’s alliance, Luo Li’s strength, and the Worship Hall’s support made resistance unwise.
• Luo Li accepted the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s surrender after receiving its offer and reports about Yu Xiaogang’s visit.
• The continent learned that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had submitted to the Northern Border, while the Clear Sky Sect allied with the Star Luo Empire.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to the Star Luo Empire, where Dai Tianfeng’s opinion of him worsened after his failed recruitment effort and the clan’s surrender.
• Yu Xiaogang privately called on Tang San, believing his former student was his only hope of regaining status.

As the competition approached, Luo Li told the Frost Rime Team that the tournament would proceed despite the shifting political tensions, though its venue had been moved to Granma City. Zhu Zhuqing learned that her sister Zhu Zhuyun would compete for the Star Luo Team and resolved to settle their rivalry herself.

• Luo Li announced that the championship would award three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and that Frost Rime Academy would provide four additional soul bones.
• Huo Wu celebrated her new strength, while Zhu Zhuqing silently renewed her resolve to repay Luo Li's trust.
• Shui Bing'er asked whether the competition could proceed amid tensions between the major powers, and Luo Li said the Star Luo Empire, Spirit Hall, and Clear Sky Sect would participate.
• Luo Li explained that the event had been moved from Spirit City to Granma City, where the territories of Heaven Dou, Star Luo, and Spirit Hall met.
• Zhu Zhuqing learned that Zhu Zhuyun would compete for the Star Luo Team and resolved to end their rivalry and the Star Luo Empire's cruel system of raising Gu.

At the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition, Luo Li watched Frost Rime Academy reveal its strength with an overwhelming victory. The first day ended with the Northern Border team established as a formidable dark horse.

• Luo Li arrived at the competition stands, where Bibi Dong, Dai Tianfeng, Tang Xiao, and Xue Qinghe gathered to watch the tournament.
• The academy teams entered, and Luo Li recognized the disguised Tang San among Star Luo Empire's participants.
• Dugu Yan led Frost Rime Academy into the arena, where Shui Yue'er raised the Northern Border's ice-blue flag.
• Shui Bing'er used her ice domain to slow and freeze all seven opposing Soul Masters, forcing their captain to concede without Frost Rime Academy's other members attacking.
• Frost Rime Academy left the arena to cheers, and the first day ended with the team regarded as the tournament's most unsettling dark horse.

After Shui Bing'er’s one-against-seven victory, Huo Wu sought a chance to prove herself as the Frost Rime Team prepared to watch Zhu Zhuqing’s former team compete. At the arena, Luo Li publicly supported Zhu Zhuqing ending her engagement, while Dai Tianfeng swallowed his objections and Tang San entered the tournament in disguise with the Clear Sky Sect claiming most of the promised soul-bone reward.

• Shui Yue'er praised Shui Bing'er, and Dugu Yan told her she could take the field if she could match Bing'er’s strength and one-against-seven feat.
• Huo Wu asked for a chance to fight next, and Dugu Yan agreed to let her prove herself.
• Dugu Yan led the Frost Rime Team to watch the Star Luo Team, hoping to assess Zhu Zhuqing’s former team and perhaps give Zhu Zhuqing a chance to fight alone.
• Bibi Dong raised Zhu Zhuqing’s broken engagement before Luo Li and Dai Tianfeng, and Luo Li said Zhu Zhuqing should not be forced to marry; Dai Tianfeng publicly agreed to cancel it.
• Yu Xiaogang had persuaded Tang San to enter the tournament in disguise, and Dai Tianfeng agreed that the Clear Sky Sect would receive two of the three soul bones if their side won.

Disguised as a Star Luo Royal Academy student, Tang San led the team and revealed a powerful Clear Sky Hammer spirit ring configuration, crushing their opponents. His victory won him cheers, while Luo Li recognized that Tang San had sacrificed future potential to gain strength and anticipated his next defeat.

• Tang San subtly took charge of the Star Luo Royal Academy Team, drawing notice from Ning Fengzhi and making Dai Tianfeng uneasy about his conspicuous behavior.
• Tang San revealed five spirit rings on his Clear Sky Hammer, including three black rings, shocking the audience and prompting Bibi Dong to suspect he had Twin Martial Souls.
• Luo Li realized Tang San had absorbed spirit rings for his second martial soul, increasing his strength at the cost of future potential.
• Tang Xiao recalled opposing Tang San's decision, while Dai Tianfeng praised him and saw his power as a reason to value the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San used his hammer to defeat the opposing academy team, then basked in the crowd's cheers as Luo Li watched and anticipated someone else bringing him down.