Chapter Summaries

Summary of “Taking a Day Off”

• Plot and events: The narrator takes a day off to spend time with a relative who has returned from out of town. The chapter centers on this planned reunion rather than on any major external conflict.
• Character development: The narrator is presented as valuing family relationships and making an effort to prioritize personal connections over routine responsibilities. The returning relative is introduced as someone whose arrival is significant to the narrator.
• Themes: Family, reunion, quality time, and balancing personal relationships with everyday obligations.
• Character interactions: The main interaction is the narrator’s anticipated time together with the visiting relative, though no detailed conversation or encounter is shown in the excerpt.

Dugu Bo seized Master Yu and flew him toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Yao Yan and his companions used a martial soul fusion skill to trick Yu Tian Heng into carrying an unconscious Tang San away. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo arriving at the clan and angrily summoning Yu Yuanzhen.

• Dugu Bo choked Master Yu with Soul Power, bound him, and carried him toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yao Yan stopped Tang San from drugging Dugu Yan, then planned to use Yu Tian Heng to expose him.
• Yao Yan and Long Qiuer used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Dreamscape, to make Yu Tian Heng mistake Tang San for Dugu Yan.
• Yu Tian Heng carried the unconscious Tang San upstairs while Yao Yan, Long Qiuer, and Dugu Yan left to eat.
• Yu Yuanzhen waited in vain for Dugu Bo to discuss Yu Tian Heng's engagement to Dugu Yan, until Dugu Bo's coercion swept over the clan and he shouted for Yu Yuanzhen to come out.

Dugu Bo confronted Yu Yuanzhen with evidence that Yu Xiaogang had incited his nephew and demanded an accounting. Yu Yuanzhen punished his son in the ancestral hall, but Yu Xiaogang still challenged him after hundreds of blows.

• Yu Yuanzhen faced Dugu Bo, who showed the clan a recording of Yu Xiaogang inciting his nephew and accused him of wrongdoing.
• The clan members cursed Yu Xiaogang, while Yu Yuanzhen agreed to deal with his unfilial son himself.
• Yu Yuanzhen took Yu Xiaogang to the ancestral hall, ordered him to kneel, and summoned the family punishment ruler.
• Yu Yuanzhen confronted Yu Xiaogang over his schemes involving Dugu Yan, the Dugu Family, and the Scarlet King, but Yu Xiaogang claimed he had acted for the clan.
• Yu Yuanzhen beat Yu Xiaogang hundreds of times with the Soul-Eating Wood ruler, and Yu Xiaogang finally demanded to know what right his father had to beat him.

Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian confronted Yu Xiaogang over his selfishness and failures, and Yu Yuanzhen eventually expelled him from the clan and stripped him of his surname. When Yu Xiaogang pleaded to stay, Yu Yuanzhen castrated him with a Short Blade.

• Yu Xiaogang accused Yu Yuanzhen of neglecting him, while Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian blamed him for wasting the clan's resources and abandoning his cultivation.
• Yu Yuanzhen beat Yu Xiaogang until he stopped, but Yu Xiaogang continued blaming his father and claimed Yu Yuanzhen had ruined his future.
• Yu Yuanzhen collapsed after Yu Xiaogang dismissed the sacrifices he had made, and Yu Luomian prepared to kill Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Yuanzhen stopped Yu Luomian and declared that Yu Xiaogang was expelled from the clan and stripped of the Yu surname.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered Yu Xiaogang to castrate himself, then used a Short Blade to castrate him when he refused.

Yu Yuanzhen expelled Yu Xiaogang from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and negotiated with Dugu Bo to spare Yu Tian Heng in exchange for Soul Bones, treasure, and half of the Golden Holy Dragon Bloodline. Dugu Bo intercepted Liu Erlong's party and began extracting the bloodline from Yu Xiaogang, leaving his fate unresolved.

• The Discipline Elder announced that Yu Xiaogang had been expelled, stripped of the Yu surname, and crippled, while Yu Yuanzhen refused to interfere in his affairs beyond sparing his life.
• Dugu Bo rejected Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian's initial offer, then demanded additional Soul Bones, valuables, and half of the Golden Holy Dragon Bloodline in exchange for sparing Yu Tian Heng.
• Yu Yuanzhen accepted the terms and left Dugu Bo to deal with Yu Xiaogang, while Yu Luomian told him that Liu Erlong was escorting Yu Xiaogang toward Shrek Academy.
• Dugu Bo appeared before Liu Erlong's party in the canyon and demanded that they leave Yu Xiaogang behind.
• Dugu Bo seized Yu Xiaogang and began forcibly extracting the Golden Holy Dragon Bloodline, causing Luo Sanpao to shrink and Yu Xiaogang to scream in agony.

Dugu Bo extracted Luo Sanpao’s Golden Holy Dragon Bloodline, leaving Master Yu at level nineteen and shattered by the loss of his dreams. In Heaven Dou City, Shrek and the Imperial Fighting Team clashed over drinks, then discovered Tang San and Yu Tian Heng together behind a closed door, prompting Xiao Wu to charge at it.

• Dugu Bo drained Luo Sanpao’s bloodline into a jade bottle, reducing Master Yu to level nineteen before flying away.
• Yao Yan lured Shrek to a private room where the drugged Imperial Fighting Team members were recovering, and the two teams traded insults.
• Dugu Yan challenged Shrek to a drinking contest, and she outdrank Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Huang Yuan.
• Yu Feng heard sounds from Yu Tian Heng’s room and led the others to eavesdrop, where they heard Tang San’s name and realized he was with Yu Tian Heng.
• Xiao Wu recognized Tang San’s voice, became furious, activated her Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul, and kicked at the closed door.

Xiao Wu caught Tang San and Yu Tian Heng in a compromising situation, while Bibi Dong convened Spirit Hall’s elder assembly to discuss Yao Yan’s plan to establish an empire. Most proposals passed, but the assembly reached a tense impasse over a plan to attack the Clear Sky Sect.

• Xiao Wu saw Tang San and Yu Tian Heng together and ran off after accusing Tang San of betraying her, while their companions teased them about the apparent setup.
• Bibi Dong reviewed Yao Yan’s proposals and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to summon the Elder Hall and Worship Hall for an assembly.
• Qian Daoliu arrived with the Seven Great Enshrined, and Bibi Dong proposed rewarding Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo with Soul Bones; Qian Daoliu raised the reward to Fifty Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• The assembly approved newspapers for Spirit Hall branches and established a Discipline Hall with Ghost Douluo and Azure Luan Douluo as its representatives.
• Bibi Dong reached the proposal’s final point, which called for an attack on the Clear Sky Sect, and the hall fell silent.

Bibi Dong overcame Qian Daoliu’s objections and ordered Spirit Hall to attack Clear Sky Sect during its upcoming ancestral rite. The chapter ended as Clear Sky Sect welcomed its Fourth and Fifth Elders out of seclusion.

• Qian Daoliu opposed the final clause because of his agreement with Tang Chen, but Bibi Dong argued that Clear Sky Sect might shelter Tang Hao and support Tang San.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other Enshrined Ones vowed to attack Clear Sky Sect, and Bibi Dong secured Qian Daoliu’s reluctant approval by framing the operation around Tang Hao’s attacks on Spirit Hall branch halls.
• Bibi Dong assigned Golden Crocodile Douluo to lead the operation at the beginning of next month, during Clear Sky Sect’s ancestral rite, and gave him a brocade pouch to open upon arrival.
• Bibi Dong revealed that Yao Yan had helped devise the plan, while Qian Daoliu said he would hand over full command of Elder Hall only when she accepted Xiao Xue and relinquished her grudge.
• At Clear Sky Sect, Tang Xiao and the disciples gathered at the ancestral hall, where the Fourth and Fifth Elders emerged from seclusion and received the disciples’ welcome.

The Clear Sky Sect celebrated two elders reaching Rank 94, but learned that Bibi Dong had reached Rank 98 and decided to seek an alliance with the other Upper Three Sects. Tang Yuehua invited Ning Fengzhi to the ancestral ceremony and asked about Tang Hao and Tang San, while Tang San tried to win Xiao Wu’s forgiveness after they saw Prison Master carried into the academy.

• The Clear Sky Sect welcomed the Fourth Elder and Fifth Elder after they reached Rank 94, while Blazing Sun Douluo blamed Tang Hao for the sect’s past losses.
• Tang Xiao told the elders that Bibi Dong had reached Rank 98, so the sect would not reopen its mountain gate yet.
• The elders decided to invite Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen to the ancestral ceremony and discuss an alliance after it.
• Tang Yuehua visited Ning Fengzhi, invited him to the ceremony, and asked about Tang Hao and Tang San; Ning Fengzhi agreed to attend and praised Tang San.
• Tang San tried to earn Xiao Wu’s forgiveness as they saw Prison Master being carried into the academy on a stretcher.

Tang San brought Prison Master back to Shrek Academy, where Prison Master blamed Dugu Bo for his ruin and resolved to ask Dong'er for help finding an Immortal Herb. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, Yao Yan and the Dugu Family celebrated their progress and prepared to make pills.

• Liu Erlong delivered the helpless Prison Master to Shrek Academy and left Tang San to care for him, while Xiao Wu avoided Tang San.
• Members of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan dumped Prison Master from his stretcher, so Tang San carried him to his room.
• Prison Master told Tang San that Dugu Bo had attacked him and stolen his Golden Holy Dragon Bloodline, and Tang San condemned Dugu Bo.
• Tang San described the Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma, prompting Prison Master to decide that Dong'er would help him find it and to write her a letter.
• Yao Yan and Dugu Bo celebrated the gathered ingredients and their plans to prepare pills, while Dugu Yan thanked Yao Yan for helping her see Yu Tian Heng's true nature.

Yao Yan used Long Qiuer’s dragon might and the Scarlet King’s Hell Demon Fire to refine the Dragon Transformation Pill from the NineRank Purple Ganoderma, Earth Dragon Golden Melon, and Golden Holy Dragon Bloodline. Dugu Bo swallowed the completed pill and plunged into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye to undergo its effects.

• Yao Yan began refining the Dragon Transformation Pill while Long Qiuer suppressed the clashing dragon phantoms with her Golden Dragon might.
• Yao Yan extracted the NineRank Purple Ganoderma’s essence and prepared the Earth Dragon Golden Melon and Golden Holy Dragon Bloodline in the cauldron.
• The Earth Dragon and Golden Holy Dragon phantoms fought inside the cauldron until Long Qiuer’s blood formed a Golden Dragon Phantom that subdued them.
• Yao Yan and the Scarlet King fused the materials and refined the pill as three dragon forms appeared above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, making spirit beasts across the area bow.
• Yao Yan gave the finished Dragon Transformation Pill to Dugu Bo, who swallowed it and jumped into the spring.

Dugu Bo used the Dragon Transformation Pill to evolve his martial soul into the Golden Jade Phosphor Poison Dragon and break through to rank ninety-four. Yao Yan invited him to join XinHuo Academy and help establish a new Spirit Hall, and Dugu Bo and Long Qiuer agreed to support him.

• Dugu Bo swallowed the Dragon Transformation Pill, endured the forces of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, and evolved his martial soul into the Golden Jade Phosphor Poison Dragon.
• Dugu Bo broke through to rank ninety-four, and his dragon might frightened the spirit beasts across the Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo gave Yao Yan the Medusa Head Soul Bone, but Yao Yan chose to let Dugu Yan absorb it; Dugu Yan also received two three-thousand-year soul bones and went into the cave to absorb them.
• Yao Yan invited Dugu Bo to serve as a dean of XinHuo Academy, and Dugu Bo agreed to help hold down the fort.
• Yao Yan revealed his plan to establish a force called Spirit Hall, and Dugu Bo and Long Qiuer pledged to help him.

Yao Yan and Dugu Bo discussed how to build Soul Hall, while Bibi Dong received Yu Xiaogang’s letter and learned that Snake Lance Douluo might have encountered an Immortal Herb. Bibi Dong set out for Heaven Dou City with Chrysanthemum Douluo to investigate.

• Yao Yan told Dugu Bo that he would be Soul Hall’s only public member for now, and suggested recruiting Xiao Yan and Patriarch Yang through Pill Tower.
• Bibi Dong read Yu Xiaogang’s letter, rejected his plea for help, and ordered stricter rules for using Pope’s Tokens.
• Bibi Dong instructed Spirit Kite Douluo to warn the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan about the misuse of a Pope’s Token.
• Bibi Dong asked Chrysanthemum Douluo about the Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma, and he said Snake Lance Douluo had carried the scent of an Immortal Herb.
• Bibi Dong and Chrysanthemum Douluo left Spirit Hall and headed for Heaven Dou City.

Bibi Dong secretly visited Qian Renxue in Heaven Dou City, saw how exhausted her daughter was, and ordered help for her official duties. The next morning, she followed Qian Renxue to the palace, where Emperor Xue Ye prepared to confront the Crown Prince over a disaster-relief scandal.

• Bibi Dong and Chrysanthemum Douluo arrived at the Prince's Mansion, where Bibi Dong watched Qian Renxue work late and ordered Salas to assemble capable staff to assist her.
• Bibi Dong entered Qian Renxue's bedroom and, while her sleeping daughter held her hand, sat beside the bed and watched over her through the night.
• Qian Renxue woke to the faint scent of roses, wondered if Bibi Dong had visited, and went to the palace to pay her respects as Bibi Dong secretly followed.
• Emperor Xue Ye learned that disaster-relief grain for South City had been adulterated and that the investigation implicated Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.
• Prince Xue Xing criticized Xue Qinghe for arriving late, while Emperor Xue Ye dismissed him and grew more dissatisfied with the Crown Prince.

Xue Qinghe discovered that Xue Ye deliberately kept the people impoverished to preserve the imperial family's power, while Bibi Dong secretly poisoned the emperor. By dawn, Xue Ye's legs had become paralyzed.

• Xue Xing met Xue Qinghe outside the imperial study and told him Xue Ye was waiting for him.
• Xue Ye confronted Xue Qinghe with impeachment memorials, then explained that disaster relief served the imperial family's reputation and that he manipulated the people to preserve the existing order.
• Xue Qinghe realized that the beneficiaries of the current system would resist any attempt to join Spirit Hall, then left the study shaken.
• Bibi Dong spread Rakshasa poison through Xue Ye's harem and put divine power in his body to ensure his consorts' secret lovers would not be harmed.
• Xue Ye spent the night with five consorts and awoke at dawn unable to move his legs.

After learning that her years undercover in Heaven Dou had been wasted, Qian Renxue fell into despair, and Bibi Dong asked Yao Yan to help reconcile with her. Their night-market outing led Bibi Dong to acknowledge Qian Renxue as her daughter, leaving the two closer as Yao Yan considered persuading her to return to Spirit Hall.

• After Xue Ye revealed that Qian Renxue’s efforts would not help Spirit Hall, she broke down in her bedchamber, and Bibi Dong secretly watched her anguish.
• Bibi Dong summoned Yao Yan, who suggested taking Qian Renxue shopping and gave her a plan for meeting her daughter.
• Yao Yan lured Qian Renxue to the garden, where Bibi Dong appeared and forcibly took her to Heaven Dou City’s night market.
• At a hairpin stall, Bibi Dong declared that Qian Renxue was her daughter, and Qian Renxue cried before calling her mother.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue continued through the market together, while Yao Yan watched and planned to persuade Qian Renxue to return to Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong took Qian Renxue through Heaven Dou City's night market and showed her the Imperial Hospital’s work, helping her recognize the impact of her efforts among common people. Qian Renxue chose to remain in Heaven Dou City and use her Xue Qinghe identity to draw the nobles together so they could be dealt with, while preparations for a sacrificial ceremony continued in the Clear Sky Sect.

• Bibi Dong gave Qian Renxue a ring containing handmade dresses from every stage of her life, and the two went shopping together.
• Bibi Dong brought Qian Renxue to the Imperial Hospital, where Qian Renxue saw doctors treat a poor child and a formerly paralyzed man regain his ability to walk.
• Qian Renxue realized that her work had helped ordinary people and said she had previously focused too narrowly on nobles.
• Bibi Dong asked whether Qian Renxue wanted to return to Spirit Hall, but Qian Renxue chose to stay and use Xue Qinghe to gather the princes and nobles into one trap.
• Yao Yan left for Jieyou Pharmacy to visit Sister Caiyi and Zhu Zhuqing, while preparations for a sacrificial ceremony accelerated within the Clear Sky Sect.

Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo attended the Clear Sky Sect’s ancestral ceremony, where Tang Xiao revealed that five elders were Titled Douluos and declared the sect had returned to the head of the Upper Three Sects. A mocking voice interrupted the celebration, leaving the source of the challenge unseen.

• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo arrived at the Clear Sky Sect and were welcomed by Tang Xiao.
• Tang Xiao led them to the ancestral ceremony, where Yu Yuanzhen and Tang Yuehua were also present.
• Tang Xiao announced that all five elders were Titled Douluos, including four at rank ninety-four, and the elders displayed their nine Soul Rings.
• Ning Fengzhi realized the Upper Three Sects now had nine Titled Douluos, while Yu Yuanzhen and the Clear Sky Sect disciples praised the sect’s strength.
• Tang Xiao declared that the Clear Sky Sect had returned to the head of the Upper Three Sects, but a mocking voice interrupted him.