Chapter Summaries

Luo Can revealed to Bibi Dong that Qian Renxue was her daughter with Qian Xunji and explained how her older self’s love for Yu Xiaogang led to her imprisonment, rise to the papacy, and eventual plan to destroy Spirit Hall. Bibi Dong fled to process the revelations, while Luo Can remained confident she would join his side.

• Bibi Dong questioned whether becoming Pope meant she would be a puppet while Qian Xunji retained power.
• Luo Can revealed that Qian Renxue was Bibi Dong and Qian Xunji’s daughter, whom the older Bibi Dong had sent undercover to the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Luo Can explained that Bibi Dong had fallen in love with Yu Xiaogang, prompting Qian Xunji to imprison and assault her, and recounted how she later became Pope and sought to destroy Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong left to process the revelations, and Qian Renxue asked Luo Can whether she would understand; he believed she would.
• Ju Zi returned with the completed level-eight Containment Disk and asked whether Bibi Dong might join them, and Luo Can said she would become one of them.

After reflecting on her past and the harm caused by her era’s Bibi Dong, Bibi Dong chose to join Fate Defying Valley and grow strong enough to live on her own terms. She began a new life as a teacher at Qichen Academy, while Qian Renxue welcomed her and Luo Can believed she might surpass her counterpart.

• After three days in seclusion, Bibi Dong told Luo Can she would stay in Fate Defying Valley to grow stronger and avoid repeating her counterpart’s mistakes.
• Luo Can welcomed Bibi Dong into Fate Defying Pavilion and told her to avoid contact with the Spirit Hall of this era until she was strong enough.
• Bibi Dong toured Qichen Academy and learned from Ju Zi that the academy gave adopted children a chance to change their fates.
• At Fate-Defying Lake, Bibi Dong apologized to Qian Renxue, who told her she did not need to apologize for another version of herself and welcomed her to the valley.
• Bibi Dong began cultivating and teaching at Qichen Academy, where she recognized that Fate Defying Pavilion built its disciples’ physiques, Soul Power, and mental power.
• While fishing with Qian Renxue, Luo Can said Bibi Dong might go farther than her counterpart, and Qian Renxue agreed that would be a good outcome.

Luo Can learned that Cheng Gang and Ling Yuan had advanced two Soul Power levels, then visited Fate Defying Pavilion and heard that its fame and pharmacy sales had grown across the continent. The chapter ended with Ye Qingyu asking whether to sell a large order of medicinal herbs to Spirit Hall.

• Cheng Gang and Ling Yuan reported that they had both advanced from level ninety-four to level ninety-six after their seclusion, and Luo Can sent them to their respective posts.
• Ling Yuan encountered a young Bibi Dong at Qichen Academy and gradually adjusted to the younger woman's presence, though she remained wary of being alone with her.
• Luo Can visited Baican Village and saw the Defense Clan building a Defense Hall and renovating the Grand Competition finals arena under Niu Gao's direction.
• Ye Qingyu told Luo Can that Fate Defying Pavilion's reputation and pharmacy sales had spread across several cities, with monthly revenue exceeding ten thousand in each of three branches.
• Ye Qingyu reported that a Spirit Hall team had ordered a large quantity of premium herbs from the Nuoding City branch, whose manager, Bai Chen, was awaiting permission to sell them.

Luo Can agreed to Spirit Hall’s large herb order at a premium while keeping the Pavilion’s secrets guarded. At Jueming Cliff, he reassured the newly advanced Core Disciples that their White Silkworm Martial Souls could transform and set them on a rigorous path toward the Spirit Saint realm.

• Luo Can accepted Spirit Hall’s herb purchase at a thirty percent markup and instructed Ye Qingyu to limit what Bai Chen revealed about Fate Defying Pavilion.
• Luo Can flew to Jueming Cliff, where the thirty-one Core Disciples were discouraged after losing their sparring matches despite advancing to Soul Grandmaster.
• Luo Can explained that the White Silkworm Martial Soul could transform after reaching the Spirit Saint realm and showed how his own Martial Soul had evolved from an ordinary White Silkworm.
• Luo Can assigned the disciples the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Purple Demon Eye, and Flowing Soul Body Tempering Method, and promised them medicinal liquid every seven days.
• The disciples renewed their resolve, and Luo Can distributed thirty-one bottles of medicinal liquid before leaving the Cliff of Desperate Fate.

Bai Chen sold Spirit Hall a shipment of premium herbs, and Bibi Dong became wary of Fate Defying Pavilion’s resources and restraint. She ordered Spirit Hall to maintain the herb trade cautiously, while Luo Can fished on Lake Heart Island.

• Bai Chen prepared the herbs and sold them to Renault for the stated price, while refusing to reveal their source.
• Renault returned to Pope Palace, where Yue Guan confirmed the herbs were exceptionally potent and worth far more than Spirit Hall had paid.
• Bibi Dong questioned Renault about Bai Chen and grew wary when she learned Fate Defying Pavilion had kept its operations secret and remained low-key.
• Yue Guan suggested asking about offensive Soul Tools, but Bibi Dong told him to stabilize the herb supply line and avoid alerting Fate Defying Pavilion.
• Luo Can sat fishing on Lake Heart Island in Fate Defying Valley.

While fishing on Lake Heart Island, Luo Can caught a rare Spirit Bone and then pulled Ye Guyi from the water. Qian Renxue revealed that she was Ye Guyi’s ancestor and began explaining how Ye Guyi had arrived ten thousand years in the past.

• Luo Can caught a hundred-thousand-year ice-attributed right arm Spirit Bone and decided to save it for Bai Ningshuang until she reached Spirit Saint.
• Qian Renxue and Ju Zi told Luo Can that Spirit Hall had paid 210,000 Gold Soul Coins for medicinal herbs, and they agreed to limit future sales and auction extra plants.
• Luo Can’s twenty-ninth cast pulled Ye Guyi, an eighteen-year-old Spirit Emperor with a Holy Angel Martial Soul, onto the shore.
• Ye Guyi woke in an unfamiliar cultivation haven and drew her Holy Light Sword, uncertain where she was.
• Qian Renxue showed Ye Guyi her twelve pairs of holy wings, identified herself as Ye Guyi’s ancestor, and led her away to explain the time displacement.

Ye Guyi began to accept Qian Renxue’s explanation that she had been brought from the past to Fate Defying Valley after Luo Can demonstrated his fishing ability with a Sheng Huan Pill. After the pill raised her first Spirit Ring from a hundred years to ten thousand years, Luo Can took her to find a place to rest.

• Ye Guyi agreed to stay in Fate Defying Valley while she investigated its claims, and Qian Renxue introduced Luo Can as her husband and the valley’s master.
• Luo Can fished a Sheng Huan Pill from the lake and offered it to Ye Guyi, who initially suspected it was connected to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Ye Guyi sensed that the pill was pure and swallowed it, raising her first Spirit Ring from a hundred years to ten thousand years.
• Qian Renxue teased Ye Guyi about believing the valley’s claims, while Luo Can promised to bless her after she had processed what happened.
• After the six-hour fishing limit ended, Luo Can led the still-dazed Ye Guyi away from Lake Heart Island to rest.

Ye Guyi decided to leave Fate Defying Valley and explore the Douluo Continent of ten thousand years earlier, receiving an evolved Martial Soul from Luo Can and a protective Soul Tool from Ju Zi. After she set out, Luo Can checked on the Grand Competition arena’s construction and resumed his routine as Bibi Dong settled into teaching at Qichen Academy.

• Ye Guyi told Luo Can she wanted to leave the valley, and he agreed while enhancing her Holy Angel Martial Soul to four wings.
• Qian Renxue guided Ye Guyi out of Fate Defying Valley, and Ju Zi gave her an eighth-grade Soul Tool called Holy Wing Guard.
• Luo Can visited the Grand Competition arena site, where Niu Gao reported that construction was on schedule and nearing completion.
• Luo Can resumed his daily inspections, while Bibi Dong grew comfortable teaching martial soul theory at Qichen Academy but remained troubled by Ling Yuan’s attitude toward her.

Bibi Dong declared that she would oppose Pope Bibi Dong if she continued down a path that harmed ordinary people. In Heaven Dou City, Tang Xiao learned that the Clear Sky Sect had suffered heavy losses, expelled Tang Hao, and vowed revenge on the Fate Defying Pavilion.

• Bibi Dong told Luo Can she would stand against Xue'er if Xue'er returned to Spirit Hall to bring down the other Bibi Dong, because she believed the other Bibi Dong's path was wrong.
• Tang Yuehua learned that the Fourth Elder, the Fifth Elder, and many Clear Sky Sect disciples had died in Longxing City, and she collapsed in grief.
• Tang Xiao arrived at Moonlight Pavilion, heard Tang Yuehua's account, and received the Ring Detonation Manual Tang Hao had left behind.
• Tang Xiao officially expelled Tang Hao from the Clear Sky Sect and decided that Tang Hao's son should be brought back and trained personally.
• Tang Xiao ordered Tang Yuehua to gather information about the Fate Defying Pavilion and vowed to destroy it; Tang Yuehua also swore revenge.

Tang Xiao returned to the Clear Sky Sect with news of the elders’ deaths and proposed finding Tang Hao’s talented son to restore the sect, while Luo Can and Ju Zi discussed the Fate Defying Pavilion’s plans. The Clear Sky Sect agreed to let Tang Xiao investigate the boy, and Ju Zi’s team continued preparing its first Fire Starter Mark I.

• Tang Xiao told the elders that Fourth Elder, Fifth Elder, and their disciples had died, while Yang Wudi and Niu Gao had joined the Fate Defying Pavilion.
• Tang Xiao declared that Tang Hao was no longer connected to the Clear Sky Sect and proposed seeking Tang Hao’s son, who had Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power.
• Second Elder and Third Elder agreed that Tang Xiao should personally assess the boy, while Seventh Elder objected.
• Ju Zi reported Ye Guyi’s route from Suotuo City through Heaven Dou City toward Vast Sea City to Luo Can.
• Ju Zi told Luo Can that she was studying Level 9 Soul Tool blueprints and that her team expected to finish its first Fire Starter Mark I by the beginning of next month.

Luo Can brought more than two hundred orphans into Fate Defying Valley and arranged for students to help them settle in. He then had Du Bisi teach harsh body-tempering classes at Qichen Academy, including for Luo Can’s six disciples, and ended the chapter fishing at Lake Heart Island.

• Luo Can recruited Laird and Cheng Yi as teachers before bringing the second batch of orphans into Fate Defying Valley.
• Luo Can asked Ling Yuan to house the newcomers and encouraged academy students to guide them, helping the children settle in within days.
• Du Bisi asked about children with Body Martial Souls, and Luo Can assigned him to teach body-tempering classes at the academy.
• Du Bisi began harsh training sessions, and Luo Can ordered Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, Xiao Xiao, Wu Sidu, Tang Ya, and Wang Dong'er to attend.
• Xiao Xiao complained to Luo Can about the training, but he encouraged her to endure it, and she returned to motivate her companions.
• Luo Can went to Lake Heart Island at night and cast his fishing line.

During a fishing session, Luo Can pulled Vina, a princess of the fallen Heaven Dou Empire and a Body Sect member, into Fate Defying Valley. After she learned Du Bisi was alive, he comforted her and Luo Can promised she could be reunited with Long Aotian; Vina and Du Bisi left together to rebuild the Body Sect.

• Luo Can estimated how many Hundred Thousand Years Soul Bones he would need for Ju Zi and his disciples while continuing to fish.
• Luo Can fished up Vina, who arrived exhausted and wary after leading the remnants of the Heaven Dou Empire and Body Sect toward Shrek.
• Luo Can explained Fate Defying Valley and fishing through spacetime, but Vina doubted him and asked to leave.
• Luo Can contacted Du Bisi, who rushed over and recognized Vina as a former acquaintance.
• Vina told Du Bisi that the Heaven Dou Empire and Body Sect had fallen and that Long Aotian had died in battle.
• Du Bisi comforted Vina, and Luo Can promised he would eventually fish up Long Aotian; Vina and Du Bisi then left to rebuild the Body Sect.

Du Bisi brought Vina to the Body Sect’s residence, while Luo Can brought Xuan Ziwen into Fate Defying Valley and introduced him to Ju Zi. As the valley’s orphan settlement and competition arena neared completion, Bibi Dong studied Vina’s body-tempering methods and asked Luo Can about overcoming Twin Martial Soul backlash.

• Du Bisi showed Vina Voyage Town and explained that the valley lay in Douluo Continent ten thousand years in the past, then brought her to the Body Sect’s residence, where she vowed to wait for Long Aotian’s return.
• Luo Can retrieved Xuan Ziwen from Lake Heart Island, interrupting his study of the One-Word Battle Armor “Star,” and introduced him to Ju Zi.
• Ju Zi told Xuan Ziwen she was now an eighth-grade Soul Engineer and took him to explore Fate Defying Pavilion and its research.
• The children settled into Voyage Town, and Niu Gao and Lou Gao completed the Grand Competition finals arena and installed its defensive Soul Guidance Array.
• Bibi Dong showed Luo Can Vina’s body-tempering book and asked whether she could overcome Twin Martial Soul backlash; Luo Can reassured her, and they bickered until Qian Renxue returned.

Qian Renxue reported the Grand Competition’s growing registration, while Luo Can visited the Soul Tool Hall and saw Xuan Ziwen’s improvements accelerate Fire Starter production. Later, he watched Ye Lingling and Wu Sidu spar and decided to create new Self-Created Soul Skills for them, especially a burst-type skill for Ye Lingling.

• Qian Renxue told Luo Can that 318 disciples had registered for the Grand Competition, with more expected from Suotuo City.
• Luo Can and Qian Renxue visited the Soul Tool Hall, where Xuan Ziwen described production improvements he had developed with Ju Zi and Lou Gao.
• Xuan Ziwen officially joined Fate Defying Pavilion after praising its resources and the team’s work.
• Luo Can and Qian Renxue watched Ye Lingling and Wu Sidu fight evenly using the fourth level of the Tiger King Mountain-Crushing Fist.
• Luo Can decided to prepare new Self-Created Soul Skills for both disciples and tailor a burst-type skill for Ye Lingling.

As preparations for Fate Defying Pavilion’s Grand Competition neared completion, Luo Can learned through the Dragon Seal that Yu Xiaogang had broken through to level forty and planned to seek Flender’s help finding a suitable fourth Spirit Ring. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang resolving to pursue Luo Sanpao’s evolution.

• Ye Lingling asked Luo Can to teach her Thunderclap Bombardment Fist, while Wu Sidu asked to learn Tang Ya’s Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and Luo Can agreed after they mastered their current technique.
• The Grand Competition venues and rules took shape, and Luo Can scheduled the Points competition to begin in three days before Ning Fengzhi arrived.
• Luo Can found Bibi Dong and Vina discussing the Body Tempering Art Outline and left them to study together.
• At Lake Heart Island, Luo Can shared his energy with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Golden Lion Mastiff and sensed a tremor from the Dragon Seal inside Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang celebrated reaching level forty and saw that Luo Sanpao had grown dragon horns and begun developing wing-like ears.
• Unable to find anyone at Nuoding Primary Spirit Master Academy to accompany him into the Star Dou Forest, Yu Xiaogang decided to seek Flender’s help finding a dragon-type fourth Spirit Ring.

Luo Can observed Tang San’s rapid cultivation before turning his attention to the Fate Defying Pavilion’s preparations for its first Grand Competition. The Points Competition began, with more than three hundred disciples entering the forest to hunt simulated Spirit Beasts.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang he would cultivate while his teacher was away, and Luo Can noted that Tang San had reached level fifteen at just over seven years old.
• Luo Can completed six hours of Fishing, obtained seven red-quality items, and stored the remaining resources.
• Ye Qingyu led the Executive Group through three rounds of testing the forest arena’s Spirit Beast simulation devices and safety systems.
• Ye Qingyu reported that preparations were complete, and Luo Can approved the plan for the competition to begin the next morning.
• Ye Qingyu announced the Points Competition rules and sent more than three hundred disciples into the forest to compete.
• Ju Zi activated a soul tool machine that displayed the competitors’ names as Luo Can watched the competition begin.

The disciples completed the one-day Points competition, and Ye Qingyu posted the final top-hundred rankings the next morning, determining who advanced to the arena finals. Luo Can also made a list of seven promising disciples he planned to cultivate, while the Mission Hall crowd celebrated and debated the results.

• Ju Zi and Qian Renxue monitored the live rankings and battle footage as Li Qing built an early lead and Kaido steadily earned Points.
• As the competition continued, Li Qing and Yang Yuxuan held the top spots, while Yang Clan and Ye Clan disciples dominated the rankings and Niu Jie entered the top ten.
• By evening, 153 disciples had withdrawn from exhaustion, and Ye Qingyu announced that the Points competition had ended.
• Ju Zi compiled the final top hundred, and Ye Qingyu told the disciples that the list would be posted the next morning before the arena finals.
• Luo Can wrote down seven promising disciples, including Li Qing, Kaido, and Huang Erhe, for special cultivation before going Fishing.
• Ye Qingyu posted the rankings outside the Mission Hall, where disciples celebrated their placements and argued over the results, including Yang Gang's absence.

Fate Defying Pavilion prepared for the Grand Competition while Luo Can learned that Yang Gang had reached Spirit Emperor rank and found a mysterious ice cavern near Dragon Town. Luo Can also recruited Soul Engineer Lin Mo, bringing him to meet Xuan Ziwen at Soul Tool Hall.

• Ye Qingyu asked Luo Can whether to restrict last-minute exchanges, but he let the disciples prepare as they wished.
• Ye Qingyu reported that Yang Gang had reached rank sixty and found an ice cavern, and Luo Can told her to have him investigate whether the Nan clan lived in Dragon Town.
• While fishing, Luo Can caught a hundred-thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Fox Soul Spirit and a box of Space Silver Fine Gold.
• Luo Can fished up Lin Mo, a sixth-rank Soul Engineer fleeing an Evil Spirit Master, and persuaded him to join Fate Defying Pavilion with the promise of working under Xuan Ziwen.
• Luo Can brought Lin Mo to Soul Tool Hall, where Ju Zi and Xuan Ziwen were discussing core formation designs.

Luo Can prepared his young disciples for the Fate Defying Pavilion’s competition finals and announced that they would fight on the arena. Three days later, Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and young Ning Rongrong arrived at Baican Village, where the steward escorted them into the pavilion.

• Luo Can introduced Lin Mo to Xuan Ziwen as an assistant for the mass-production line, and Xuan Ziwen said he would test Lin Mo’s formation-inscription skills.
• Luo Can visited the training ground, where his six young disciples trained while Dugu Yan and Tang Ya discussed their newly strengthened poison.
• Luo Can told the six girls they would compete in the Grand Competition finals, and they promised to perform well.
• Three days later, Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Ning Rongrong arrived at Baican Village, and Ning Fengzhi reminded his daughter to behave in hopes of becoming Luo Can’s disciple.
• A steward welcomed Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong at the village gate and led them inside at the Pavilion Master’s instruction.

Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Ning Rongrong visited Fate Defying Pavilion, where Luo Can discussed supplies and Soul Tools with Ning Fengzhi and showed them the pavilion’s vast medicine garden. The visitors’ tour ended as Luo Can prepared for the pavilion’s first Grand Competition finals.

• Luo Can welcomed Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Ning Rongrong, and accepted the amber gift Ning Rongrong had brought him.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Luo Can a large order for medicinal herbs and pills, and asked to buy offensive and defensive Soul Tools for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Core Disciples.
• Luo Can invited the visitors to watch Fate Defying Pavilion’s Grand Competition, explaining that its matches would feature Soul Tools, pills, and poison arts.
• A steward toured Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Ning Rongrong around the pavilion and showed them its expansive, barrier-protected medicine garden.
• Ning Fengzhi learned that Luo Can had equipped the garden with arrays to grow rare herbs and supply the pavilion’s shops, deepening his wariness of Luo Can.
• Beside the finals arena, Luo Can asked Ye Qingyu whether the finals process had been finalized as the crowd gathered.