Chapter Summaries

Xue Ke taught Wei Xi the Five Animal Frolics and trained with the manor guards before receiving Tianxue City’s lord, Mo Wu. She then set out with him to inspect the city’s defenses.

• Xue Ke taught Wei Xi the Five Animal Frolics and told her to practice carefully to strengthen her constitution.
• Xue Ke sparred with the manor guards, defeated them without using her martial soul, and advised them on improving their cultivation.
• Mo Wu visited Xue Ke, presented her with gifts, and handed over Tianxue City’s tax and household registration records.
• Xue Ke asked Mo Wu to show her Tianxue City’s defenses, and they traveled by carriage to the city walls.

Xue Ke inspected Tianxue City’s defenses with Mo Wu, then followed the city lord’s predatory son, Mo Yu, to the manor after he tried to abduct her. There, Mo Yu bragged about assaulting dozens of women, and Xue Ke prepared to deal with him.

• Mo Wu showed Xue Ke Tianxue City’s formidable walls, weapons, and defenses against siege attacks.
• Xue Ke wandered through the city and attracted the attention of Mo Yu, the city lord’s son, who tried to take her for himself.
• Xue Ke pretended to accept Mo Yu’s advances and followed him to the city lord’s manor, deflecting his attempts to touch her.
• Mo Yu threatened to rape and kill Xue Ke if she refused him, then boasted that he had assaulted at least seventy or eighty women.

Xue Ke crippled Mo Yu after he threatened her, then ordered a sweeping investigation of Tianxue City’s lawless noble youths. After reading the Dark Guards’ findings, she sent Zhang Tianlin to arrest the accused and punish anyone who resisted.

• Xue Ke crippled Mo Yu and confronted City Lord Mo Wu over his son’s crimes against women.
• Xue Ke returned to her mansion and ordered Zhang Tianlin to investigate Mo Yu and the other noble youths in Tianxue City.
• The Dark Guards delivered their findings, and Xue Ke ordered the mansion guards to arrest the criminals and kill anyone who resisted or fled.
• Zhang Tianlin presented Xue Ke’s golden token when Mo Wu tried to shield Mo Yu from arrest.
• Mo Wu yielded, and Zhang Tianlin’s men dragged Mo Yu away from the City Lord’s Manor.

Xue Ke punished Tianxue City's corrupt nobles and established her authority, winning the commoners' support. Seven days later, Spirit Hall forces launched a surprise attack on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Yue Guan faced Yu Yuanzhen in battle.

• Zhang Tianlin announced the crimes and sentences of captured nobles, while Xue Ke comforted Wei Xi, whose parents Wu Yong had murdered.
• Tianxue City's commoners celebrated Xue Ke's justice, and the Prince's Mansion urged them to report nobles who oppressed them.
• Over the next seven days, Xue Ke cultivated and trained the Prince's Mansion guards, earning their respect.
• Several thousand black-clad attackers ambushed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, killing or wounding more than half its members before the clan responded.
• Yu Yuanzhen transformed with his seventh soul skill and attacked Yue Guan, who summoned a golden-red barrier with the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

Spirit Hall destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Xue Ye’s suspicions about Xue Qinghe led to a plot to force the Crown Prince to father an heir. Xue Qinghe and Xue Ke staged his poisoning to end that pressure, and Xue Qinghe later joined Xue Ke in Tianxue City.

• Yue Guan defeated Yu Yuanzhen, and Spirit Hall exterminated the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan before reporting its victory to Bibi Dong.
• Xue Ye discussed Spirit Hall’s growing threat with Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi, then learned from Su Pei that Xue Qinghe had never consummated his marriage to Su Jingwen.
• Xue Ye ordered Su Jingwen to help produce an heir and kept her in the palace, but she sent Xue Qinghe a warning through Xiao Yuan.
• Xue Ke devised a plan with Qian Renxue, and Xue Qinghe drank the drugged wine at the banquet before collapsing from a staged poisoning.
• After the imperial physician declared that Xue Qinghe could no longer father children, Xue Ye summoned the Emerald Prince, while Xue Qinghe told Su Jingwen that he had poisoned himself to advance Xue Ke’s claim.
• Xue Ke refined her saber techniques and trained Wei Xi, then welcomed Qian Renxue to her mansion after Qian Renxue said she and Su Jingwen were recuperating in Tianxue City.

Xue Ke returned to Heaven Dou City after Xue Ye summoned her and rejected his demands that she marry and produce heirs, threatening to leave with Xue Qinghe if he stripped him of the Crown Prince position. Xue Ke learned that Xue Ye might be considering her as a successor, then dismissed Xue Xing and Xue Beng’s attempt to use her marriage to win her support.

• Xue Ke nearly lost control when Divine Slaughter's Domain magnified her desire, but she calmed herself with the Sunflower Scripture and explained the domain’s side effects to Qian Renxue.
• Xue Ye summoned Xue Ke to Heaven Dou City, where she reunited with Dugu Yan, Bai Chenxiang, and Zhu Zhuqing before discussing her marriage and the imperial succession with him.
• Xue Ye proposed that Xue Ke marry and bear heirs or take Xue Qinghe’s place as Crown Prince, and Xue Ke refused both choices, threatening to leave the empire with Xue Qinghe if he displaced him.
• Xue Qinghe and Su Jingwen helped Xue Ke reconsider Xue Ye’s intentions, and Su Jingwen outlined a plan to weaken the nobles by dividing their lands and authority across generations.
• Xue Xing and Xue Beng planned to use Xue Ke’s marriage to gain her support, but Xue Ke dismissed their attempt to turn her against Xue Qinghe and refused their interference in her affairs.

Xue Ke fled Heaven Dou City to avoid an arranged marriage, helped Feng Xiao Tian win Fire Dance’s hand, and then sought to secure Godwind Academy and Blazing Fire Academy as allies. She revealed an Angel Token and accepted the deans’ challenge to prove her strength, leaving the fight against Feng Wu Ming about to begin.

• Xue Ke left for Liet City with Dugu Yan, Bai Chenxiang, and Zhu Zhuqing, and gave Dugu Yan the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s inner core.
• Xue Ke advised Feng Xiao Tian on how to understand Huo Wu’s response to his proposal and helped him arrange a successful marriage proposal; Feng Xiao Tian and Fire Dance married three days later.
• Xue Ke met Feng Wu Ming and Huo Ling and proposed cooperation, warning them that Spirit Hall was preparing to bring the continent’s forces under its control.
• Xue Ke showed Feng Wu Ming and Huo Ling Qian Renxue’s Angel Token and promised to protect their academies; both deans agreed to follow her if she endured their attacks for the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Xue Ke and Feng Wu Ming entered Godwind Academy’s Soul Fighting Arena, where their introductions and soul rings revealed the battle’s strength disparity before the fight began.

Xue Ke defeated Feng Wu Ming, broke through to level seventy, and opened the Gate of Truth, where she passed a trial by overcoming her fear of advanced mathematics. Qian Renxue faced a separate trial built around her fear of losing Xue Ke and began a scheme to win the trial by controlling the simulated Xue Ke.

• Xue Ke fought Feng Wu Ming, unveiled a new saber technique that forced him to concede, and earned the allegiance of Godwind Academy; Huo Ling also conceded without fighting.
• Xue Ke declined Feng Xiao Tian’s and Huo Ling’s attempts to arrange a match for her, then punished Dugu Yan for telling Feng Xiao Tian about her marriage troubles.
• Xue Ke reached level seventy, entered the Gate of Truth with Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong, and arrived in a gray world where a featureless white figure announced a test.
• Xue Ke passed repeated exam simulations by tearing up her mathematics paper and refusing to fear the test, earning rewards and receiving the Ice Heart Art and a Fire Law Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue’s trial made her confront a simulated Xue Ke who rejected and accused her; after failing, Qian Renxue resolved to regain the simulated Xue Ke’s affection.
• Qian Renxue had Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo bring the simulated Xue Ke to her secret chamber, where she sealed Xue Ke’s Soul Power.

Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong completed their first Truth World trials, while Xue Ke learned more about the trials and the Dao Heart Seed Demon Method. After returning, Xue Ke helped Dugu Yan evolve her martial soul; meanwhile, Tang San was pulled into a gray world and confronted by a colossal, terrifying creature.

• Qian Renxue completed her trial after keeping the trial-world Xue Ke imprisoned for two months, and she received a Light Law Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong failed her first trial when Qian Renxue learned that she had killed Qian Xunji, then passed after she confessed the truth and Xue Ke helped reconcile them.
• Xue Ke questioned the white figure about the Dao Heart Seed Demon Method, learned that it knew she came from Blue Star, and left the Gate of Truth with Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue.
• Xue Ke helped Dugu Yan absorb the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent inner core, evolving her martial soul into the Ice Flame Poison Flood Dragon and raising her Soul Power to Rank 62.
• Tang San, after spending a year and a half in the City of Slaughter and naming his daughter Tang Wutong, awoke in a gray world and was forced to his knees by a gigantic creature.

Austin Griffin revealed his origins and recruited Tang San to help him absorb the power of a cosmic incarnation, which he identified as Xue Ke. After returning to the City of Slaughter with a new appearance and martial soul, Tang San set his sights on Xue Ke, while Xue Ke returned to Tianxue City to support Wei Xi at her awakening ceremony.

• Austin Griffin told Tang San that he was the universe’s first being of destruction, had been sealed by Creation, and had destroyed a continent before entering his first reincarnation.
• Austin Griffin gave Tang San a Purple Pearl, ordered him to obtain the cosmic incarnation’s power from Xue Ke, and transformed his face and martial soul into the Judgment Sword of Destruction.
• Tang San and Tang Wutong appeared outside the City of Slaughter, where Tang San vowed to make Xue Ke suffer.
• Xue Ke received Wei Xi’s letter requesting her presence at the martial soul awakening ceremony and returned to Tianxue City with Dugu Yan, Bai Chenxiang, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xue Ke reassured the nervous Wei Xi that she would love her regardless of her awakened martial soul or cultivation talent, but Wei Xi showed no martial soul after the awakening ritual began.

Wei Xi awakened a rare Body Martial Soul and reached Innate Soul Power Rank 8, prompting Xue Ke and Bibi Dong to investigate whether the Five Animal Frolics could raise innate talent. After meeting Lu Muke, Xue Ke watched him try to impress her with philosophical talk, though his attempt did not move her as much as he hoped.

• Wei Xi awakened her eyes as a Body Martial Soul and tested at Innate Soul Power Rank 8.
• Xue Ke suspected the Five Animal Frolics had helped raise Wei Xi’s Innate Soul Power and asked Bibi Dong to secretly test it on Spirit Hall orphans.
• Xue Ke asked Bibi Dong to care for Wei Xi at Spirit Hall Academy, then spent the night cultivating with Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue.
• Ye Lingling introduced Xue Ke to Lu Muke, who had helped her and Ye Sheng Shou escape an attack.
• At Xue Ke’s banquet, Lu Muke tried to approach her with noble etiquette, then staged a sorrowful mood and spoke about the sky, human life, and worldly ambition.
• Xue Ke found Lu Muke’s reflections interesting but not novel, while he believed he had begun to win her over.

Xue Ke tested Lu Muke’s knowledge and strength, becoming suspicious when his power rivaled her own and her Eye of Reincarnation could not see through him. After Lu Muke confessed that he had come to pursue her, Xue Ke answered with a cryptic description of her love for white lilies.

• Xue Ke challenged Lu Muke’s shallow-sounding philosophy, exposed his lack of understanding, and left him privately furious.
• At the mansion training grounds, Lu Muke defeated the guards, and Xue Ke discovered that her Eye of Reincarnation could not discern his cultivation.
• Xue Ke and Lu Muke sparred, and his violet-gold sword energy matched her powerful self-created soul skills.
• Xue Ke questioned Lu Muke about the Gate of Truth and his martial soul, but he refused to reveal the source of his power.
• Lu Muke confessed that he had come to pursue Xue Ke, and she responded by describing the white lilies she loved and asking whether he understood her meaning.

Xue Ke used Lu Muke as a sparring partner while avoiding her promise to heal Gu Yuena, until Gu Yuena arrived at the prince's residence to demand that she honor it. After Gu Yuena caught Lu Muke spying, she began explaining the history of the God Realm and the Dragon God.

• Xue Ke rejected Lu Muke's advances, then secretly sent Wei Xi to Spirit Hall Academy and practiced her saber techniques.
• Xue Ke invited Lu Muke to spar with her daily and clarified to Dugu Yan, Bai Chenxiang, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ye Lingling that she had no romantic interest in him.
• Gu Yuena arrived at the prince's residence and reminded Xue Ke of her promise to heal her injuries after reaching Soul Sage rank.
• Gu Yuena's words led Dugu Yan and the others to misunderstand Xue Ke's relationship with her, and Dugu Yan told Lu Muke that Xue Ke had someone else in her heart.
• Gu Yuena detected Lu Muke spying on her and Xue Ke, knocked him unconscious, then explained how the Dragon God united the Divine Beasts and negotiated a peace treaty with the Human Deities.

Gu Yuena told Xue Ke how the God of Heavenly Punishment corrupted the Dragon God and explained that Lu Muke carried its destructive aura. After Xue Ke healed Gu Yuena, Lu Muke misread her flushed, exhausted appearance and concluded she had been intimate with an older man.

• Gu Yuena recounted how Austin Griffin gave the Dragon God the Destruction Godhead, drove it mad, and led to the war between Divine Beasts and Human Deities.
• Gu Yuena explained that she and the Golden Dragon King were split from the wounded Dragon God, and that she escaped to the Douluo Continent through a Space-Time Turbulence.
• Gu Yuena recognized the God of Heavenly Punishment's aura on Lu Muke and warned Xue Ke that it intended to destroy the world; Xue Ke resolved to question the white figure in the Gate of Truth.
• Xue Ke used the Seed of Life to heal nearly half of Gu Yuena's injuries before exhausting herself, and Gu Yuena caught her in her arms.
• Lu Muke regained consciousness, assumed Xue Ke's mysterious protector was an elderly man, and hid in a distant pavilion.
• Two hours later, Lu Muke saw Xue Ke leave Gu Yuena's room looking flushed and tired, wrongly inferred what had happened, and followed her toward the training ground.

Xue Ke kept Lu Muke close while trying to uncover the purpose behind his pursuit, then told Gu Yuena that she suspected he wanted her in the same way Gu Yuena did. Gu Yuena recalled how she had tracked Xue Ke down and revealed she had planned long ago to make her submit.

• Xue Ke told Lu Muke she was unsure whether she felt friendship or love for him and offered to take time to test their feelings, and he agreed to wait.
• Xue Ke told Gu Yuena about her conversation with Lu Muke and explained that she kept him close to learn the enemy's intentions.
• Xue Ke said Lu Muke's intentions toward her seemed the same as Gu Yuena's, and Gu Yuena teased her about her charm.
• Gu Yuena recalled monitoring Xue Ke through her Reverse Scale until Xue Ke entered the Dao Demon Space and erased her hidden divine consciousness.
• Gu Yuena recalled suppressing her injuries before entering the human world to find Xue Ke, having already devised a plan to make her submit.

Xue Ke pretended to accept Lu Muke’s advances so she could use her Eye of Reincarnation to uncover his conspiracy. After half a month of gaining his trust, she trapped him in an illusion and waited to learn what he would reveal.

• Xue Ke told Gu Yuena she would let Lu Muke believe he was getting what he wanted, then use an illusion to probe his desires and plans.
• Gu Yuena stayed in Xue Ke’s room to absorb the Seed of Life’s energy, while Xue Ke avoided contacting Qian Renxue and sent her a letter explaining the situation.
• Xue Ke spent half a month dining, training, and shopping with Lu Muke, leading Dugu Yan to suspect they were becoming a couple.
• After Xue Ke broke through to rank seventy-nine, Lu Muke took her to a hotel to celebrate and ordered a case of wine.
• Lu Muke brought the apparently drunk Xue Ke to a suite, where she ensnared him in an illusion and watched him lie on the floor, waiting for the result.

Xue Ke discovered that Lu Muke was Tang San, who had used their encounter to siphon spiritual energy and the Source of Truth for God of Heavenly Punishment. She decided to keep Tang San close enough to delay him while she trained to pass the Gate of Truth's trials.

• Xue Ke reasoned that God of Heavenly Punishment had targeted her Source of Truth and confirmed that it leaked from her Demon Seed during the illusion.
• Xue Ke watched Lu Muke absorb her energy into a Purple Pearl and heard him vow to make her fall in love before abandoning her in revenge.
• Xue Ke recognized Lu Muke as Tang San and decided not to kill him yet, instead stalling for time while she grew stronger.
• Lu Muke woke believing he had passed out from exhaustion, bought lilies for Xue Ke, and returned to the Prince's Manor when he could not find her.
• Dugu Yan questioned Lu Muke about what had happened during his night out with Xue Ke.

After Lu Muke claimed he had slept with Xue Ke, Xue Ke sought solitude and unleashed a devastating saber strike that surprised both her and Gu Yuena. Xue Ke told Gu Yuena about Tang San and the Source of Truth, and Gu Yuena suspected the Life God King and Rakshasa God knew its origins and purpose.

• Lu Muke told Dugu Yan, Bai Chenxiang, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ye Lingling that he and Xue Ke had slept together, then agreed not to disturb her while she calmed down.
• Xue Ke went to a cliff outside Tianxue City and split the river with a casual swing of her Extinction Dark Flame Saber, collapsing the cliff and shaking the city.
• Gu Yuena appeared and said Xue Ke's strike had the power of an Ultimate Douluo, though Xue Ke could not reproduce it.
• Xue Ke revealed that Lu Muke was Tang San and had pursued her to obtain the Source of Truth, which she suspected the God of Heavenly Punishment also wanted.
• Gu Yuena told Xue Ke not to hide anything from her, then listened as Xue Ke recounted what happened beyond the Gate of Truth.
• Gu Yuena proposed that the Life God King had used the Seed of Life and the Sunflower Scripture to guide Xue Ke toward opening the Gate of Truth, and that the Life God King or Rakshasa God might know the Source of Truth's purpose.

Xue Ke learned from the Life God King that her transmigration had been arranged so she could cultivate the Sunflower Scripture and obtain the Source of Truth, which both the Life God King and the God of Heavenly Punishment wanted. After Xue Ke chose to trust Gu Yuena over the gods, Gu Yuena carried the exhausted Xue Ke back to the Emerald Prince's Mansion and ordered everyone not to disturb them.

• Xue Ke summoned the Life God King and told her about Lu Muke and the God of Heavenly Punishment.
• The Life God King explained that the God of Heavenly Punishment had caused the past God Realm war and sought the Source of Truth to regain and surpass his former power.
• The Life God King admitted that she had sent Xue Ke's soul to Douluo Continent because the universe's laws had chosen Xue Ke to cultivate the Sunflower Scripture.
• Xue Ke accused the Life God King of using her, then said she preferred Gu Yuena to the scheming gods; Gu Yuena laughed and challenged her to a fight.
• Gu Yuena brought the unconscious Xue Ke to the Emerald Prince's Mansion and told Dugu Yan, the others, and Lu Muke not to disturb them.

After Gu Yuena recovered, Xue Ke persuaded her to leave and arranged for her to go to Spirit City, where she planned to meet Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue. Xue Ke then visited Lu Muke, pretending to still have feelings for him, while he saw her renewed attention as a chance to continue his own plans.

• Lu Muke learned that Gu Yuena was the woman Xue Ke loved and left in anger.
• After recovering, Gu Yuena agreed to leave Xue Ke and chose to go to Spirit City.
• Xue Ke warned Gu Yuena not to cause trouble or expose her identity, then sent her off the next day.
• Xue Ke visited Lu Muke and pretended she needed more time to forget Gu Yuena, giving him hope that they could reconcile.
• Lu Muke believed Xue Ke had returned to him and resolved to pursue his plan while seeking another way out.