Chapter Summaries

Zhao Linchuan arranged for Bibi Dong to raise the reborn infant, who was named Qian Renxue and welcomed into Spirit Hall under a carefully fabricated identity. Back at the Saintess Hall, Bibi Dong cared for Xue'er while Zhao Linchuan prepared to meet with Yue Guan and Ghost Charm.

• Zhao Linchuan suggested that Bibi Dong raise the infant and that Spirit Hall present her as a lost pure-blooded Angel Clan descendant, and Qian Daoliu agreed.
• Qian Daoliu named the child Qian Renxue and wrapped her in a Snow Velvet Blanket before Bibi Dong took her back to the Saintess Hall.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other Enshrinners celebrated the child's arrival as a blessing for Spirit Hall.
• At the Saintess Hall, Zhao Linchuan reminded Bibi Dong to support Qian Renxue's head and neck while caring for her, and Bai Qingqing announced that Ghost Charm and Yue Guan were waiting.
• Bibi Dong introduced Zhao Linchuan as Bai Qingqing's son-in-law and Spirit Hall's Second Worship, then took Qian Renxue to the side hall.
• Yue Guan and Ghost Charm entered to meet Zhao Linchuan, who stopped them from bowing and invited them to sit.

Zhao Linchuan explained why Soul Masters struggled to advance beyond level ninety-five, then used Divine Power to transform Yue Guan and Ghost Charm’s Ninth Soul Rings into Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and raise their levels to ninety-two. He gave Ghost Charm a Hundred-Thousand-Year Great White Shark Right Arm Bone, leaving the two Titled Douluo stunned by his power.

• Zhao Linchuan asked Yue Guan why Soul Masters found it difficult to break through the higher cultivation bottlenecks, and Yue Guan explained the roles of Soul Power, comprehension, and physical strength.
• Zhao Linchuan told Yue Guan and Ghost Charm to release their Soul Rings and drew Divine Power from Space onto their Ninth Soul Rings.
• Yue Guan and Ghost Charm’s Ninth Soul Rings became Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, and the energy raised both of their Soul Power Levels to ninety-two.
• Zhao Linchuan gave Ghost Charm a Hundred-Thousand-Year Great White Shark Right Arm Bone, and Ghost Charm wondered if Zhao Linchuan had become a god.

Zhao Linchuan rewarded Yue Guan and Ghost Charm with powerful Soul Bones and assigned them to build a newspaper network and a loyal team. After he left, the two Elders celebrated their decision to serve him and recognized the scale of the opportunity they had gained.

• Zhao Linchuan gave Yue Guan and Ghost Charm seventy-thousand-year Great White Shark Left Arm Bones, and they knelt to swear lifelong loyalty to him.
• Zhao Linchuan ordered Yue Guan to establish the Douluo Daily, using Fax Machines, low-cost printing, serialized stories, entertainment news, and weather forecasts to reach readers across the continent.
• Zhao Linchuan tasked Ghost Charm with helping run the newspaper, secretly recruiting absolutely loyal people, and using dozens of Soul Bones to reward them.
• Zhao Linchuan instructed Ghost Charm to bring his benefactor's family to Spirit City if they agreed, cultivate suitable children, and give the family a Bronze Token if they refused to move.
• After Zhao Linchuan left, Yue Guan and Ghost Charm celebrated their new alliance and called it an enormous opportunity.

Zhao Linchuan used the laws of time and Tian Yu’s divine power to restore a young girl’s remains and gather her scattered soul. After playful teasing about Tian Yu’s body and abilities, the chapter ended with Zhao Linchuan holding the girl’s recovered soul light.

• Yue Guan and Ghost Charm agreed to keep Zhao Linchuan’s strength and their new fortune secret, then began fusing with their Soul Bones.
• Zhao Linchuan opened a grave and used his power over time to reverse the decay of a young girl’s remains.
• Tian Yu appeared and added her divine power to help the girl’s scattered soul gather.
• Tian Yu teased Zhao Linchuan, who joked that he planned to win over the Life Goddess to improve their future chances.
• Tian Yu demonstrated how she could disperse and reassemble her body, then Zhao Linchuan drew the girl’s restored soul light into his hand.

Zhao Linchuan and Tian Yu revived Hua Ying, granting her powerful potential as they discussed creating worlds and God Positions. Hua Ying reunited with her younger brother Yue Guan, and both pledged their service to Zhao Linchuan.

• Tian Yu gave Hua Ying ten levels of Innate Soul Power, while Zhao Linchuan prepared a Soul Core foundation for her and discussed world creation with Tian Yu.
• Zhao Linchuan brought the newly revived Hua Ying to the back mountain, while Tian Yu stayed behind and revealed her playful exchange with another aspect of herself.
• Zhao Linchuan explained Hua Ying's resurrection, and Yue Guan and Ghost Charm arrived after completing their Soul Bone fusion.
• Yue Guan recognized Hua Ying and proved his identity by recounting private childhood memories, and Hua Ying confirmed that he was her younger brother.
• Yue Guan and Hua Ying knelt before Zhao Linchuan and thanked him for restoring Hua Ying to life, pledging their service.

Zhao Linchuan restored an ancient ice spirit to life and explained the forces behind her death. She joined him against their common enemy and introduced herself as Ling Qingyue.

• Zhao Linchuan reassured Yue Guan and Hua Ying, then left as Ghost Charm gave the reunited siblings privacy.
• Yue Guan decided to send Hua Ying to the Saintess Hall so she could stay near Zhao Linchuan and pursue cultivation opportunities.
• Zhao Linchuan used his divine blood, life energy, and the Ice Soul Sacred Heart Sword to revive the being within the Ice Lotus.
• The newly reborn woman questioned Zhao Linchuan about her identity and the Dragon God, and he explained the curse and the altered Heavenly Tribulation that had caused her death.
• Zhao Linchuan asked her to join him against their common enemy, and she accepted, naming herself Ling Qingyue.

Wang Defa led a Martial Soul Hall party to Qingshi Village to find Shi Shan’s family, who had rescued the Second Worship months earlier. Little Stone revealed that the stranger they saved had left with Sister Ah Yin, and Wang Defa realized the family were the Second Worship’s lifesavers.

• Ling Qingyue began condensing her remaining origin power into a First Soul Ring, which rapidly reached deep black.
• Wang Defa recalled how Ghost Charm had helped him become a Soul Douluo and assigned him to retrieve people from Qingshi Village.
• Wang Defa instructed his party to treat the villagers respectfully and asked Village Chief Old Fak to lead them to Shi Shan’s family.
• At the stream, Wang Defa questioned Little Stone, who said his grandfather and uncle had rescued a nearly drowned man months earlier.
• Little Stone explained that the man later disappeared with Sister Ah Yin, and Wang Defa exclaimed that Shi Shan’s family had saved the Second Worship.

Wang Defa brought Shi Shan and Little Stone to Spirit City at Zhao Linchuan’s request, but Old Man Shi refused to leave Qingshi Village. The chapter ended with Little Stone receiving the name Shi Ruijin and beginning a new life in Spirit City under Wang Defa’s guidance.

• After learning that outsiders rarely visited Qingshi Village, Wang Defa panicked over the importance of the family he had come to escort.
• Wang Defa saved Old Man Shi from falling off his boat, then shared wine and fish with him and Shi Shan.
• Wang Defa invited Old Man Shi’s family to Spirit City, but Old Man Shi refused to leave and sent Shi Shan and Little Stone instead.
• Wang Defa gave Old Man Shi a Bronze Token Ghost Charm had provided and became sworn brothers with Shi Shan.
• In Spirit City, Zhao Linchuan named Little Stone Shi Ruijin and ordered Wang Defa to settle the family and teach the boy cultivation.

Ning Fengzhi examined Douluo Daily’s rapid, low-cost spread and suspected Spirit Hall was pursuing a larger goal through the newspapers. After discussing Crown Prince Xue Ye’s confinement and his request for the sect’s support, Ning Fengzhi planned to push him toward rebellion and then make him dependent on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect; Gu Rong left to arrange it.

• Gu Rong brought Ning Fengzhi newspapers from cities across the region, and Ning Fengzhi noticed their identical contents, efficient distribution, and prices too low to cover their apparent costs.
• Gu Rong dismissed the newspapers as trivial entertainment for ordinary people, while Ning Fengzhi worried about the influence behind their spread.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong discussed Emperor Xue Yu’s recovery, Xue Ye’s confinement, and Xue Xing’s request that the sect support Xue Ye’s claim to the throne.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed secretly pressuring Xue Ye into rebellion, then helping him seize the throne so he would depend on the sect.
• Gu Rong praised the plan and departed to arrange pressure on Xue Ye.

Xue Xing persuaded the imprisoned Crown Prince Xue Ye to rebel against Emperor Xue Yu, who had recovered his health and strengthened his rule. Xue Ye launched an attack on the emperor in his bedchamber, leaving Xue Yu gravely wounded as the chapter ended.

• Xue Xing met secretly with dismissed generals and urged them to prepare for sudden action while he tried to win Xue Ye's support.
• Xue Xing told Xue Ye that their enemies were targeting them and that Xue Yu might rule for another twenty years, persuading Xue Ye to hear his rebellion plan.
• Xue Yu celebrated his recovery, fused with three Soul Bones, and reached level sixty-seven.
• Masked attackers struck Xue Yu with sharp weapons while he was with a favored consort, badly wounding him.
• Xue Ye stormed into the bedchamber in armor with a sword and a group of generals.

Xue Ye seized the Heaven Dou Empire's throne after Xue Xing forged a succession decree and blamed the favored consort for Emperor Xue Yu's death. Gu Rong and Ning Fengzhi suspected a hidden force had engineered the unusually smooth coup, so they rescued the Ninth Prince as a possible future pawn.

• Xue Ye declared that Emperor Xue Yu had named him successor, and soldiers killed the favored consort before she could defend herself.
• Xue Xing used the Imperial Seal to stamp a prepared succession edict, and the assembled generals acclaimed Xue Ye as emperor.
• Xue Ye ordered the elimination of rival princes, and Xue Xing left to oversee the campaign against them.
• Gu Rong questioned why the palace's two Soul Douluo Enshriners had not appeared and went to alert Ning Fengzhi.
• Gu Rong, Chen Xin, and Ning Fengzhi rescued the Ninth Prince from Xue Ye's soldiers, and Ning Fengzhi decided to keep him alive as a potential asset.

Ghost Charm rescued Xue Hongwen from the failed attempt to capture him, while Xue Ye struggled to legitimize his bloody seizure of the throne as the Douluo Daily exposed him as a patricidal usurper. Xue Ye rushed to persuade the Prime Minister to reverse his resignation, leaving his new rule increasingly unstable.

• Ghost Charm rescued Xue Hongwen after making him sign a contract, and Yue Guan followed with Xue Hongwen's two Princess Consorts.
• Xue Ye learned that Xue Hongwen had escaped and that the force sent after the Ninth Prince had disappeared.
• Xue Ye read the Douluo Daily's report accusing him of forcing the palace and murdering his father, while Xue Xing urged him to ascend the throne at once.
• Xue Xing proposed publishing scandalous stories about the Star Luo Empire to distract the public, and Xue Ye ordered him to arrange it.
• A guard reported that the Prime Minister had resigned and was preparing to leave for his hometown, so Xue Ye hurried to the Prime Minister's Mansion to persuade him to return.

After an intimate reunion, Zhao Linchuan, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress turned to important matters as Immortal Spirit Pavilion rose to prominence following its clash with Spirit Hall. The chapter ended with newly enthroned Xue Ye facing an almost empty treasury and seeking ways to raise funds.

• Ice Empress swallowed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's gel bead, confronted Zhao Linchuan, and later joined Snow Empress in getting dressed to handle important matters.
• Xue Ye completed his controversial ascension ceremony and became the New Emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Immortal Spirit Pavilion defeated Spirit Hall's forces in a battle that reportedly lasted seven days, after which both sides publicly called the conflict a misunderstanding and made peace.
• Ning Fengzhi and others investigated the devastated battlefield, and Gu Rong argued that Spirit Hall and Immortal Spirit Pavilion had only paused their conflict because neither could defeat the other.
• Ling Qingyue entered the world as Immortal Spirit Pavilion's Goddess, while Xue Ye granted the Pavilion fertile land and Ning Fengzhi's offer of Gold Soul Coins was politely refused.
• Xue Ye found the imperial treasury nearly empty after securing his throne and rewarding his generals, so he summoned the ministers to discuss ways to generate wealth.

Xue Ye’s ministers failed to find a way to fill the treasury without burdening the people, then faced a Star Luo military buildup at the border. Yan Song proposed leasing a border city to Spirit Hall in exchange for Douluo Daily’s help spreading rumors against Dai Tianxing, so Heaven Dou could exploit the resulting confusion and win a small victory.

• Xue Xing proposed temporary taxes, and the ministers agreed to impose several new levies on the people.
• A messenger reported that Star Luo had stationed three hundred thousand troops at the border under Crown Prince Dai Tianxing’s command.
• Yan Song advised Xue Ye to suppress rumors about the late emperor and send an army to confront Star Luo.
• Xue Xing revealed that Yue Guan would halt unfavorable coverage and publish secret revelations about Star Luo if Heaven Dou leased Spirit Hall a neighboring border city for one hundred years.
• Yan Song urged Xue Ye to accept the lease, spread prepared allegations against Dai Tianxing, and attack after Star Luo recalled its crown prince and commander.

Xue Ye accepted Xue Xing’s proposal to secretly approach Ning Fengzhi and use the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to counter Yan Song’s faction. Meanwhile, Zhao Linchuan and Tian Yu explored his Wood-attributed Small World, which Tian Yu named Longevity Heaven.

• After the ministers left, Xue Ye asked Xue Xing about his investigation into Yan Song, but Xue Xing reported that he had found no conclusive evidence.
• Xue Ye considered winning over the Immortal Spirit Pavilion through marriage, but Xue Xing explained that its powerful women were unlikely to accept.
• Xue Xing proposed bringing Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into court to counterbalance Yan Song, and Xue Ye agreed to contact him secretly.
• Zhao Linchuan and Tian Yu explored the self-sustaining Wood-attributed Small World and discussed its dense Life Element and lack of intelligent inhabitants.
• Tian Yu named the earlier Five Elements Small World Joyful Heaven and the green world Longevity Heaven.

Zhao Linchuan planned to give the Small Worlds’ God Position origins to his wives, teasing Tian Yu when she hoped to receive Joyful Heaven. Several days later, rumors in the Douluo Daily nearly implicated Dai Tianxing and Consort Mu in treason, and Ghost Charm appeared in Mu Zhiyun’s chamber.

• Zhao Linchuan said Ah Yin would receive the God Position origin of Longevity Heaven and that the Snow Empress would receive Joyful Heaven.
• Tian Yu became jealous, but Zhao Linchuan teased her and left to prepare God Positions for the Snow Empress and Bing'er.
• Dai Yutian questioned Dai Tianxing over rumors in the Douluo Daily alleging an affair with Mu Zhiyun and a plot to rebel.
• Dai Yutian ordered Dai Tianxing to ask Spirit Hall why it had allowed the newspaper to slander the Star Luo Royal Family.
• Mu Zhiyun returned to her chamber, where the candles went out and Ghost Charm introduced himself.

Ghost Charm pressured Mu Zhiyun into joining a longevity-seeking plan, and Zhan Lingwei’s group offered her a Youthful Spring Elixir and protection. Ghost Charm and Yue Guan then discussed their negotiations in Star Luo before returning, while Zhao Linchuan met Steward Francis at the Heaven Dou Grand Auction House.

• Ghost Charm threatened Mu Zhiyun until she agreed to help with a significant plan in exchange for a chance at longevity.
• Zhan Lingwei arrived with Soul Douluo brothers Cheng Zhuo and Cheng Feng and six Soul Saint maids to protect Mu Zhiyun and assist with the plan.
• Zhan Lingwei gave Mu Zhiyun a Youthful Spring Elixir, which she swallowed and found restorative rather than poisonous.
• Ghost Charm and Yue Guan discussed their tentative agreement with Mu Zhiyun and Yue Guan’s elder sister persuading Duchess Youming, then decided to return.
• Zhao Linchuan met Snow Empress and Ice Empress in a VIP lounge at the Heaven Dou Grand Auction House, where Steward Francis served them tea and recounted how he became an auction-house steward.

Zhao Linchuan recruited Francis and sent him to the Clear Sky Sect with a secret mission. There, Francis arrived as Tang Yue’s mysterious Fire Poison injury continued to torment him, and the sect’s leaders prepared to hear the auction-house manager’s urgent report.

• Zhao Linchuan revealed his and his companions’ identities to Francis, who swore loyalty rather than risk refusing them.
• Zhao Linchuan ordered Francis to go to the Clear Sky Sect and carry out his instructions, while Snow Empress warned that Francis might betray them later.
• Ye Shiyu treated Tang Yue’s internal Fire Poison and asked who had caused the injury, but Tang Yue’s rage and coughing prevented an answer.
• Tang Zhen dismissed Ye Shiyu and comforted Tang Yue, who insisted his worsening old injury would pass with rest.
• A Clear Sky Sect disciple announced Francis’s arrival, and Tang Zhen ordered that he be admitted.

Francis reported that the Heaven Dou Grand Auction House had received a complete set of Soul Bones, prompting Tang Yue and the Clear Sky Sect elders to mobilize to claim it. Meanwhile, the Star Luo and Heaven Dou Empires dealt with the fallout from recent rumors and border propaganda, before the exiled Second Prince struck at Xue Ye.

• Francis told Tang Yue and Tang Zhen that the auction house had received six Soul Bones from the same source, each at least ten thousand years old.
• Tang Yue summoned the Clear Sky Sect elders, who agreed to move quickly to secure the Soul Bones before rival powers could claim them.
• Tang Yue, Tang Zhen, the Third Elder, and Tang Lie set out for Heaven Dou City while other elders organized support and guarded the sect.
• Dai Tianxing failed to meet Yue Guan at first, then secured an audience after the Star Luo Royal Family paid a large gift; Yue Guan blamed Xue Ye for the rumors.
• Dai Tianxing secretly handed Spirit Hall leasehold rights to three towns to calm the dispute, while Xue Xing publicized a supposed Heaven Dou border victory and Hua Ying refused to print his report.
• Before Xue Ye could celebrate the purported victory, the exiled Second Prince dealt him a serious blow.

After the Second Prince used the Douluo Daily to undermine Xue Ye, the emperor sought Ning Fengzhi’s help in countering Spirit Hall’s influence. Xue Ye later learned that a valuable set of soul bones had appeared at auction and chose to manipulate rival powers rather than spend his favor with Immortal Spirit Pavilion.

• The Second Prince exposed Heaven Dou’s losses and challenged Xue Ye’s legitimacy through the Douluo Daily, stirring public anger by revealing the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Ning Fengzhi advised Xue Ye to unite major factions and pressure Spirit Hall to share control of the Douluo Daily.
• Gu Rong privately informed Ning Fengzhi of an urgent matter, prompting him to leave the Southern Study.
• Xue Xing told Xue Ye that a matching set of soul bones had appeared at the Heaven Dou Auction House, and Xue Ye refused to use Immortal Spirit Pavilion’s favor to obtain them.
• Xue Ye ordered Xue Xing to leak the soul-bone news to the Star Luo Empire and revealed that Ning Fengzhi had demanded a decade of tax exemptions for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.