Chapter Summaries

Lu Muke sent Ma Hongjun a letter asking him to seek Emperor Xue Ye’s approval for his marriage to Xue Ke, while Xue Ke cultivated with Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong and broke through to Rank 80. In the Truth World, Xue Ke passed the first stage of the second trial, but learned that a second stage required Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong to join her.

• Lu Muke wrote to Ma Hongjun, asking him to speak with Xue Beng about Emperor Xue Ye granting a marriage to Xue Ke.
• Xue Ke told Lu Muke she would enter seclusion, then reunited with Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong in the Dao Demon Space.
• Xue Ke shared a trace of the Source of Truth with Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong as they cultivated, and she broke through to Rank 80.
• Xue Ke entered the Truth World with Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong and began the second trial on the cliff outside Tianxue City.
• Xue Ke understood the principle of acting without form and cleared the first stage by striking the river with her palm.
• The white figure told Xue Ke that the second stage required Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong to complete it with her.

Qian Renxue balanced the light and darkness in her martial soul and passed the first stage of the Truth World’s second trial. Bibi Dong fought the Snow Empress in the Far North and defeated her, leaving the trial’s outcome unresolved beyond the Snow Empress’s surrender.

• Qian Renxue realized her Demon Seed held both light and darkness, then used their equal power to balance the golden world and pass the first stage of her trial.
• Qian Renxue returned to Xue Ke and learned from the white figure that Bibi Dong had encountered trouble in her trial.
• Bibi Dong found the Snow Empress in an ice-crystal palace and began a duel against the ruler of the Far North.
• The Snow Empress used Emperor Cold Heaven, Emperor Palm, and Emperor Sword, but Bibi Dong countered her attacks with her higher-level spiritual energy and divine power.
• Bibi Dong used her ninth soul skill, Void Tear Space Slash, to strike through space and injure the Snow Empress with intertwined ice and light energy.
• The Snow Empress admitted defeat after Bibi Dong’s spider-leg attack left her palm bloody and her Soul Power eroding.

After Bibi Dong passed the first stage of the second trial by fighting Snow Empress, the group learned about the Sun Moon Continent and the Sea God's efforts to keep it isolated. The next trial sent Xue Ke, with Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue assisting, to retrieve the Snow Drink Demonic Blade from the Ice God Palace within two years.

• Bibi Dong defeated Snow Empress in the trial and vanished after Snow Empress admitted defeat.
• Xue Ke and Qian Renxue reunited with Bibi Dong, and the white figure confirmed Snow Empress was real and named other powerful soul beasts.
• The white figure explained that Sea God Island and Poseidon's followers had blocked travel between the Douluo Continent and the Sun Moon Continent for a thousand years.
• The white figure assigned Xue Ke to lead Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue in retrieving the Snow Drink Demonic Blade from the Ice God Palace within two years.
• After Bibi Dong left, Qian Renxue touched Xue Ke's shoulder, and Xue Ke recoiled while hiding what Gu Yuena had done to her.

Xue Ke confided in Qian Renxue, who marked her with an angel tattoo after learning Gu Yuena had left a dragon tattoo on her. Meanwhile, Xue Xing and Xue Beng investigated Tang San’s letter and tried to use Xue Ke’s relationship with Lu Muke to uncover Xue Ye’s motives for arranging her marriage.

• Xue Ke told Qian Renxue about the burdens she had been carrying, then prepared to part from her as Qian Renxue returned to Spirit City for her fourth trial.
• Qian Renxue realized Gu Yuena had marked Xue Ke’s left shoulder and carved the Six-Winged Angel emblem into her right shoulder.
• After returning from the Dao Demon Space and learning four days had passed, Xue Ke visited Lu Muke and invited him to spar.
• Xue Beng gave Xue Xing Tang San’s letter to Ma Hongjun, and they discussed Tang San’s intentions and Xue Ye’s push to marry Xue Ke.
• Xue Xing told Xue Ye that Xue Ke was seeing Lu Muke, an eighteen-year-old Soul Douluo, and Xue Ye reacted with astonishment.

Xue Xing realized Xue Ye might be preparing to replace Xue Qinghe with Xue Ke as heir, so he resolved to secure the throne for Xue Beng. After learning that Xue Qinghe had been made incapable of relations, Xue Xing and Xue Beng planned to use the revelation to destabilize the succession and seize power.

• Xue Ye approved Lu Muke's marriage to Xue Ke, then hinted to Xue Xing that Xue Ke might advance to the throne; Xue Xing and Xue Beng pledged to support the emperor's decisions.
• At his residence, Xue Xing asked Xue Beng if he still wanted the throne, and Xue Beng admitted that he did.
• Xue Xing promised to fight for Xue Beng and proposed taking control of Heaven Dou City before Xue Ke could challenge them.
• Two days later, Xue Xing interrogated the imperial physician who had treated Xue Qinghe, and the physician said the poisoning had left Xue Qinghe incapable of relations.
• Xue Beng proposed spreading the news to force Xue Ye to remove Xue Qinghe as Crown Prince, while Xue Xing vowed not to lose the throne struggle again.

Gu Yuena toured human cities before arriving at Spirit City to meet Bibi Dong and assert that she should lead their family. Bibi Dong agreed, leaving Gu Yuena’s place in the family established by force of her presence.

• Gu Yuena spent five days exploring more than a dozen cities and learned about human entertainment.
• Gu Yuena took five bags of Braised Donuts from a shop near Spirit City, ate two, and planned to give the rest to Bibi Dong.
• Gu Yuena arrived at the Papal Palace and made the Palace Guard Knights summon Bibi Dong to receive her personally.
• Bibi Dong came out to meet Gu Yuena, then took her to a side hall to talk.
• Gu Yuena declared that she wanted the final say in the family, and Bibi Dong agreed.

Gu Yuena joined Bibi Dong’s group because of Xue Ke, while rumors about Xue Qinghe’s impotence pushed Xue Ye’s court to consider Xue Ke as the next heir. Xue Ye decided to arrange a marriage for Xue Ke, and she continued caring for the recovering Blue Silver Emperor in Tianxue City.

• Gu Yuena gave Bibi Dong Braised Donuts, explained that she wanted to join because of Xue Ke, and agreed not to cause trouble in Spirit City.
• Xue Xing and a minister used rumors about Xue Qinghe’s impotence to argue for replacing him as Crown Prince.
• Gelong backed Xue Ke as a suitable heir, citing the threat from Spirit Hall, and Xue Ye revealed that she had reached level 80 before eighteen.
• Xue Xing proposed arranging a marriage for Xue Ke to build her public standing, and Xue Ye ordered a decree granting the marriage to Lu Muke.
• Xue Ke fed spiritual energy to the Blue Silver Emperor, which had grown taller and regained its vitality.

Xue Ke discovered that the Blue Silver Emperor had been destroyed, and suspected Lu Muke—who was actually Tang San—of killing his own mother to protect his identity. After learning that Xue Ye planned to arrange her marriage to Lu Muke, Xue Ke decided to turn Tang San’s schemes against him.

• Xue Ke planted the Blue Silver Emperor in the rear garden, where it reached affectionately for Lu Muke, and Lu Muke concealed their connection.
• Lu Muke thought the Blue Silver Emperor might expose him and resolved to eliminate it.
• Xue Ke found the Blue Silver Emperor missing, and used the Eye of Reincarnation to discover traces of a destructive purple aura at its former spot.
• Xue Ke concluded that Tang San had destroyed his own mother, then blamed the Blue Silver King’s broken promise on fate.
• A Speed Clan disciple delivered news that Xue Ye planned to issue a marriage decree pairing Xue Ke with Lu Muke.
• Xue Ke suspected Lu Muke had spread word of their relationship and began planning how to turn his schemes against him.

Xue Ke refused Xue Ye’s decree to marry Lu Muke after learning that her father hoped the marriage would support her succession to the throne. She accused Lu Muke of exposing their relationship to force the match, then offered him three trials, leaving him eager to win her over.

• Elder Mo delivered Xue Ye’s decree ordering Xue Ke and Lu Muke to marry, but Xue Ke refused to accept it.
• Elder Mo explained that rumors about the Crown Prince had prompted ministers to demand his removal and that Xue Ye intended to make Xue Ke the next heir.
• Xue Ke rejected the throne’s demands, saying she would choose her own marriage and needed to focus on cultivation and the threat posed by the God of Heavenly Punishment.
• In the rear garden, Xue Ke accused Lu Muke of revealing their relationship to pressure her into marriage, and he admitted he had acted out of worry about her distance.
• Xue Ke offered Lu Muke three trials as the condition for winning her, though she had not yet decided what they would be.
• Lu Muke accepted the prospect of the trials and privately resolved to pursue Xue Ke, hoping to fulfill Austin Griffin’s task and satisfy his own desire for revenge.

Xue Xing and Xue Beng seized the opportunity created by Xue Ye’s illness to have Crown Prince Xue Qinghe assassinated and force the emperor to appoint Xue Beng as his successor. At the Prince’s Mansion, Su Jingwen realized that Xue Xing had planned the coup and feared the household was in danger.

• Xue Ye fell gravely ill after learning that Xue Ke had refused the marriage, and Xue Xing and Xue Beng agreed that the time had come to act.
• A disguised attacker stabbed Xue Qinghe in the heart during his visit to Heaven Dou City’s slums, after his guards had been killed.
• Xue Xing and Xue Beng entered the palace with ministers and demanded that Xue Ye appoint a new heir, while Xue Ye asked where Su Pei was.
• Xue Xing admitted Su Pei had been sent away, then forced Xue Ye to seal an edict naming Xue Beng Crown Prince.
• Su Jingwen learned that Xue Xing and Xue Beng had taken control of the succession and worried they might target everyone in the Prince’s Mansion.

Su Jingwen fled the Prince's Mansion with Spirit Hall members to seek shelter at the Speed Clan's residence, but Xue Beng's men captured her and brought her to him. She warned Xue Beng that Xue Xing might be using him as a disposable pawn, then pretended to sympathize with him, leaving Xue Beng wondering whether she had feelings for him.

• Su Jingwen ordered Spirit Hall's people to split into small groups and meet at the Speed Clan's residence, while Xue Beng arrived at the empty Prince's Mansion and ordered his men to find her.
• More than a dozen of Xue Beng's men cornered Su Jingwen and her two maids; she agreed to go with them after securing the maids' release.
• Xue Beng brought Su Jingwen to his room and admitted he wanted her because she was Xue Qinghe's wife and his sister-in-law.
• Su Jingwen rejected Xue Beng's advances and warned him that Xue Xing had the real power and might discard him to claim the throne.
• Su Jingwen feigned sympathy for Xue Beng, making him wonder whether she had feelings for him.

Su Jingwen escaped Xue Beng with Bai He’s help, leaving him a letter that exposed her contempt and pushed him to confront his political weakness. Determined to strengthen his position against Xue Xing, Xue Beng recruited Flender’s support at Shrek Academy, while learning that Yu Xiao Gang had disappeared and Liu Er Long had gone into seclusion.

• Su Jingwen stalled Xue Beng by urging him to focus on Xue Xing, then left with Bai He during the night and left Xue Beng a scornful letter.
• Xue Beng learned that the Speed Clan had fled Heaven Dou City and, after hearing his adviser explain Xue Xing’s political advantage, resolved to prove himself.
• Xue Beng visited Ma Hongjun at Shrek Academy and asked Flender to support him in his struggle for the throne.
• Flender accepted Xue Beng’s offer of imperial funding and a hereditary title for Shrek Academy.
• Flender told Xue Beng that Yu Xiao Gang had vanished after the Elite Competition and Liu Er Long had gone into seclusion.

Xue Ke and her allies planned to return to Heaven Dou City to rescue Emperor Xue Ye and stop Xue Xing and Xue Beng from taking power. As they prepared to leave, Lu Muke received Xue Beng’s request to win Xue Ke’s support, but remained intent on bringing her down; Xue Ke then told him she was leaving the next day.

• Xue Ke read a letter describing Xue Xing’s plot and learned that Emperor Xue Ye had been imprisoned in Heaven Dou City.
• Bai He, Su Jingwen, Xue Ke, and their allies discussed secretly entering the city, taking control of the Royal Knight Order, and rescuing the emperor.
• Xue Ke announced that the group would leave the next day, and Dugu Yan, Bai Chenxiang, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ye Lingling insisted on going with her.
• Lu Muke received Xue Beng’s letter asking him to win Xue Ke’s support, but he wanted Xue Ke to lose her power and status instead.
• Xue Ke went to Lu Muke and told him she was leaving the next day.

Xue Ke returned to Heaven Dou City and arranged with Royal Knight Order commander Chu Yunfei to rescue Xue Ye from Xue Xing’s conspiracy. Meanwhile, Xue Beng was lured into a scandalous trap by Duke Hotz and realized his position was in danger.

• Xue Ke left Lu Muke after he mistook her goodbye for proof of her love and desire to protect him.
• Xue Ke, Dugu Yan, Bai Chenxiang, Ye Lingling, Zhu Qing, Su Jingwen, Bai He, and the others rode Xue Aotian to Heaven Dou City and entered through Dark Guard channels.
• Xue Ke met Chu Yunfei, explained Xue Xing’s conspiracy, and asked him to help her enter the imperial palace and rescue Xue Ye.
• Xue Beng gave in to the steward’s offer of fine merchandise and went to his room, where a woman had been placed as bait.
• Duke Hotz arrived with his household soldiers, seized the steward, and carried the woman away while threatening to report Xue Beng to Xue Ye.
• Xue Beng collapsed and realized he had fallen into a trap.

Xue Xing framed Xue Beng for an assassination attempt and stripped him of the Crown Prince title, while Xue Ke secretly entered the imperial palace to rescue Xue Ye. The chapter ended with Xue Ke and Bai He preparing to draw off the guards around Xue Ye’s quarters.

• Xue Beng raged over his defeat and vowed to take revenge on Xue Xing.
• Xue Xing trapped Flender at the Heaven Dou Auction House and forced him to testify that Xue Beng had ordered the assassination attempt.
• Duke Hotz accused Xue Beng of abducting and violating his daughter, and Xue Xing stripped Xue Beng of his Crown Prince title and reduced him to a commoner.
• Xue Xing feared Xue Ke’s influence, strengthened the guard around Xue Ye, and increased patrols throughout Heaven Dou City.
• Xue Ke, Bai He, Dugu Yan, Bai Chenxiang, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing secretly entered the imperial palace under Chu Yunfei’s arrangements.
• Xue Ke and Bai He approached Xue Ye’s quarters, where Bai He revealed his soul rings and drew the guards’ attention.

Xue Ke searched the palace for Xue Ye, discovered he had been moved, and confronted Xue Xing’s forces while trying to escape. The chapter ended with Xue Ke devastating two Soul Douluo opponents, killing Bai Yunqi and gravely injuring Tang Qi.

• Xue Ke exposed the fake Xue Ye in the bedchamber, learned that Prince Xue Xing had moved the emperor, and reunited with Bai He.
• Xue Ke and her companions found the exit blocked by Royal Knights as Xue Xing accused them of treason and Chu Yunfei accused Xue Xing of imprisoning the emperor.
• Xue Xing summoned Tang Chao, Tang Qi, and Bai Yunqi, but Xue Ke’s powerful soul rings and aura unsettled the three Soul Douluos.
• Xue Ke attacked Tang Qi and Bai Yunqi with two saber auras, splitting Bai Yunqi apart and severing Tang Qi’s left arm after damaging his Clear Sky Hammer.

Xue Ke defeated Xue Xing’s rebellion, rescued Xue Ye, and used the Seed of Life to restore him. After Xue Ye named her heir and regent, he met with Xue Ke and Su Jingwen, and Xue Ke asked how Xue Beng was doing.

• Tang Chao returned with Xue Ye as a hostage, but Xue Ke refused Xue Xing’s offer to share power.
• Xue Ke used the Eye of Reincarnation to free Xue Ye, and Bai He rescued him; Xue Xing killed himself, while Xue Ke killed Tang Chao and Tang Qi.
• Xue Ke used the Seed of Life to restore Xue Ye, who named her Heir to the Throne and granted her Regent Authority.
• Over the next five days, Xue Ye purged Xue Xing’s faction and regained control of Heaven Dou City.
• Xue Ke told Xue Ye and Su Jingwen how events had unfolded, comforted Xue Ye about Qinghe, and asked about Xue Beng.

After surviving the palace coup, Xue Ke became the Snow Family’s sole heir and hinted that Tang San could be used to destroy the Clear Sky Sect. Lu Muke returned to Heaven Dou City to pursue Xue Ke, while Ning Fengzhi visited her and suspected she planned to ally with Spirit Hall against the sect.

• Xue Ye mourned Xue Beng’s execution and urged Xue Ke to protect herself as his only remaining child.
• Xue Ke told Xue Ye that Lu Muke was Tang San and that she had only used an illusion to make him believe they had been intimate.
• Xue Ke suggested that they could destroy the Clear Sky Sect without acting themselves, and she named Tang San as the likely means.
• After receiving Xue Ke’s letter, Lu Muke traveled to Heaven Dou City and sought Ma Hongjun’s advice on pursuing women.
• Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Bone Douluo visited Xue Ke, and Ning Fengzhi asked whether she planned to join Spirit Hall against the Clear Sky Sect.

Xue Ke discussed the Seven Great Sects’ reselection with Ning Fengzhi, then proposed new sects to Bibi Dong and learned that Gu Yuena was studying cooking for her. She gave Lu Muke his first test: destroy the Clear Sky Sect, and he agreed.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Xue Ke about Spirit Hall’s plans to reselect the Seven Great Sects, and she assured him that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would remain among the Upper Three Sects.
• Ning Rongrong accused Xue Ke of neglecting her and decided to stay at Xue Ke’s residence.
• Xue Ke proposed that the Speed Clan, Godwind Academy, and Blazing Fire Academy form sects and join the Seven Great Sects, and Bibi Dong approved the idea as worth discussing.
• Bibi Dong told Xue Ke that Gu Yuena had been learning to cook for her and warned her that Qian Renxue could make things difficult.
• Xue Ke summoned Lu Muke and tasked him with destroying the Clear Sky Sect, and he agreed without hesitation.

Xue Ke sent Lu Muke to infiltrate the Clear Sky Sect, then used an illusion to draw him into a romantic encounter. Afterward, Lu Muke realized his hatred for Xue Ke had become tangled with love, leaving him unable to escape his feelings for his enemy.

• Xue Ke gave Lu Muke a detailed map and ordered him to infiltrate the Clear Sky Sect, assuring him that the sect posed little danger.
• Lu Muke asked Xue Ke for encouragement before leaving, and she used the Eye of Reincarnation illusion with Bibi Dong's spiritual power to ensnare him.
• Lu Muke woke alone and recognized that his experience with Xue Ke had been an illusion, but he felt his affection for her growing.
• Lu Muke recalled how Xue Ke had repeatedly defeated, deceived, and humiliated him, fueling his hatred and desire for revenge.
• Lu Muke realized that his loneliness and growing admiration for Xue Ke had turned his hatred into love, though he still could not tell which feeling was stronger.