Chapter Summaries

Ink Serpent was assigned to recruit Spirit Masters for Fate Defying Pavilion, while Gui Mei inspected its Soul Tool Hall and sent Bibi Dong a cautious report about its strength and the sword restoration process. Luo Can then fished Zhang Lexuan from Fate-Defying Lake and began healing her, intending to remove Shrek Academy’s influence from her.

• Qian Renxue named the former Blood Fiend Blade Spirit Master Ink Serpent and ordered him to recruit Spirit Masters for Fate Defying Pavilion.
• Luo Can destroyed the Blood Fiend Blade Spirit Master's corpse with golden dragon-shaped flames.
• Ju Zi showed Gui Mei the restoration plan for the Ancient Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and explained that Spirit Hall must provide materials and that research could take one or two years.
• Gui Mei witnessed Lou Gao forging Soul Tool components, then wrote to Bibi Dong that Fate Defying Pavilion was powerful and urged her to act cautiously.
• Luo Can fished Zhang Lexuan from the lake, appraised her as a Level 84 Soul Douluo, and used the lake water to heal her injuries.

Zhang Lexuan awakened in Fate Defying Valley after absorbing a Hundred Thousand Years Spirit Ring and learned that Luo Can had brought her there. Qian Renxue revealed that she and Ma Xiaotao came from ten thousand years in the future and asked Zhang Lexuan to choose whether to join their fight against Tang San and Shrek Academy.

• Zhang Lexuan awakened with her new Spirit Ring and discovered that Scarlet King, Xiong Da, and other powerful Spirit Beasts surrounded her.
• Luo Can introduced himself as the human leader of Fate Defying Valley, explained that he had fished her from another era, and brought her to a courtyard.
• Zhang Lexuan resolved to learn about her new surroundings and seek a way to escape rather than join an unknown faction.
• Qian Renxue visited Zhang Lexuan and revealed that Ma Xiaotao had also been brought to Fate Defying Valley.
• Qian Renxue told Zhang Lexuan that they were ten thousand years in the past and that Fate Defying Valley aimed to eliminate Tang San and Shrek Academy, then asked her to choose a side.

Qian Renxue challenged Zhang Lexuan’s faith in Shrek Academy by accusing it of helping Evil Spirit Masters grow, leaving Zhang questioning why Ma Xiaotao had joined the Fate Defying Valley. Meanwhile, Yang Gang returned from an exploration mission, and Luo Can brought him to meet a prospective master as Ma Xiaotao argued with Cheng Gang over taking Law Enforcement Hall members on a hunt.

• Qian Renxue accused Shrek Academy of driving people with dark-attribute Martial Souls toward the Holy Spirit Cult, and Zhang Lexuan could not refute her examples.
• Zhang Lexuan wondered what had made Ma Xiaotao join the Fate Defying Valley, while Qian Renxue decided to let her see other ways of handling Evil-Attribute Martial Soul Masters.
• Luo Can reviewed an expanded list of Evil-Attribute Martial Soul Masters and lamented the shortage of people available to pursue them.
• Ye Qingyu told Luo Can that Yang Gang and five other disciples had returned, and Luo Can praised their mission before asking Yang Gang to pass the Inner Pavilion assessment.
• Luo Can told Yang Gang he had found him a master and led him to the Law Enforcement Hall courtyard.
• Ma Xiaotao insisted on taking five Spirit Emperor members to hunt Evil Spirit Masters, while Cheng Gang protested that the Law Enforcement Hall needed them.

Luo Can brought Ma Xiaotao to reunite with Zhang Lexuan in Fate Defying Valley, where Xiaotao defended the valley and questioned Shrek Academy’s practices. Zhang Lexuan’s loyalty remained, but Xiaotao’s words planted doubts as the old friends began catching up.

• Luo Can teased Ma Xiaotao in the Law Enforcement Hall, then introduced Yang Gang to Cheng Gang as his new disciple.
• Luo Can took Ma Xiaotao back to Fate Defying Valley, where she said she wanted to join and questioned Shrek Academy’s rules and reputation.
• Ma Xiaotao reunited with Zhang Lexuan and explained that Qian Renxue had cured her evil fire and that she supported the valley’s approach to evil martial souls.
• Zhang Lexuan objected that Ma Xiaotao was Dean Yan’s disciple and belonged to Shrek, but Ma Xiaotao urged her to judge Shrek after seeing the current era for herself.
• Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan set aside their disagreement to reminisce, while Luo Can left quietly, believing he had planted a seed of doubt.

Luo Can recruited Li Qingyue as a teacher for Qichen Academy and reunited with Bibi Dong after she emerged from seclusion. He helped Bibi Dong reach rank seventy and prepared to give her a Soul Spirit.

• Luo Can caught Li Qingyue, a rank-eighty-two Soul Douluo, and recruited her to Fate Defying Valley.
• Luo Can assigned Li Qingyue to teach at Qichen Academy, where she assured Principal Ling Yuan that she would stay.
• Luo Can waited for Bibi Dong to finish teaching, then spent the afternoon with her and promised to help her reach rank seventy.
• Qian Renxue returned and found Luo Can and Bibi Dong together, then joined them on Lake Heart Island.
• Bibi Dong refined Hundred Thousand Years Whale Rubber and broke through to rank seventy.
• Luo Can summoned a crimson Soul Spirit shaped like a sinister spider for Bibi Dong to contract.

Bibi Dong successfully contracted the Hundred Thousand Years Netherworld Spider Emperor after an all-night spiritual battle, gaining a crimson Spirit Ring and reaching level seventy-five. After she flew off to explore the valley with her new soul spirit, Qian Renxue took Luo Can away to test her Clones’ combat ability.

• Luo Can prepared the Netherworld Spider Emperor for Bibi Dong, and Bibi Dong began the dangerous contract with the creature.
• Bibi Dong fought the Netherworld Spider Emperor spiritually through the night, gradually wearing down its spiritual origin.
• At dawn, Bibi Dong completed the contract and gained a vivid crimson Spirit Ring, breaking through to level seventy-five.
• Bibi Dong summoned the Netherworld Spider Emperor and rode it away to tour the valley after thanking Luo Can.
• Qian Renxue took Luo Can to her residence to test the entangling combat ability of her three Clones, leaving him crying out in alarm.

Luo Can visited Ju Zi in the Soul Tool Hall, then was pulled away by Qian Renxue when Ye Guyi and Zhao Yan returned with captured Evil-Attribute Martial Soul Masters. As Ma Xiaotao showed Zhang Lexuan around Fate Defying Valley, Zhang Lexuan continued to wrestle with her impressions of the faction.

• Luo Can fished up Spirit Bones and a Golden Dragon Crocodile, then spent the night at the Soul Tool Hall helping Ju Zi with her documents.
• Over the next two days, Luo Can kept Ju Zi company and taught Ning Rongrong before Qian Renxue told him Ye Guyi and Zhao Yan had returned with six people and four captured Evil-Attribute Martial Soul Masters.
• Qian Renxue planned to purify the captured Martial Soul Masters in front of Zhang Lexuan, and Luo Can went to notify Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan.
• Ma Xiaotao guided Zhang Lexuan around Fate Defying Valley, showing her its academy, town, food, and disciples.
• Zhang Lexuan noticed that Fate Defying Valley felt more relaxed than Shrek Academy and that its people still deeply respected their approachable Valley Master.

Zhang Lexuan watched Qian Renxue demonstrate the purification of Evil-Attribute Martial Souls, expecting the ritual to expose the Valley Master’s deception. The first captive died in agony, leaving the gathered Spirit Masters and Zhang Lexuan convinced that purification was actually execution as Qian Renxue began on another captive.

• Luo Can brought Zhang Lexuan to the Martial Arts Arena to witness the Purification Ritual, where she met Ye Guyi, Zhao Yan, and Bibi Dong.
• Ma Xiaotao told Zhang Lexuan she planned to help Ye Guyi capture Evil-Attribute Martial Soul Masters, but Zhang Lexuan urged her to leave.
• Qian Renxue arrived with ten people, four of them bound by Soul-Binding Locks, and announced a demonstration of purifying evil attributes.
• Qian Renxue used a Seed of Desire on a bound man with a bone-blade Martial Soul, and he died in agony as its markings spread across him.
• The other Evil-Attribute Martial Soul Masters doubted Zhao Yan’s promise that purification could make them normal Spirit Masters again, and Zhang Lexuan concluded the ritual was a pretext for killing them.
• Qian Renxue planted a Seed of Desire in another captive, revealing a Soul-Eating Demon Spider Martial Soul that Bibi Dong recognized as an evil form related to her own.

Qian Renxue purified the remaining Evil-Attribute Spirit Masters, including a Soul-Eating Demon Spider master who revealed his tragic past and resolved to redeem his crimes. Zhang Lexuan watched the newly purified survivors join Qian Renxue and began to doubt Shrek Academy’s teachings.

• Qian Renxue purified the Soul-Eating Demon Spider Spirit Master, whose daughter had sacrificed herself to keep him from becoming a monster.
• The man asked Qian Renxue to kill him, but she urged him to redeem his sins by finding and bringing other Evil-Attribute Spirit Masters to be purified.
• Qian Renxue purified the remaining Spirit Masters; two died, while eight survived and thanked her for giving them new lives.
• The eight survivors agreed to serve Qian Renxue, and Zhang Lexuan compared their treatment with Shrek Academy’s policy of exterminating Evil-Attribute Spirit Masters.
• Zhang Lexuan struggled to dismiss what she had seen as fake as Ma Xiaotao’s transformation and Qian Renxue’s actions shook her beliefs.

Luo Can deepened Zhang Lexuan’s doubts about Shrek Academy by claiming she was related by blood to Kong Deming, while Qian Renxue considered using a Seed of Desire to break her loyalty. That night, Qian Renxue discovered a wisp of Faith Power, and Bibi Dong learned the Soul Core Method before Qian Renxue interrupted her and Luo Can.

• Luo Can promised Ma Xiaotao a Spirit Bone and Black-grade Soul Power Pill if she followed Guyi’s arrangements on their upcoming mission.
• Luo Can told Zhang Lexuan that her moon martial soul resembled Kong Deming’s Silver Moon and claimed they shared a bloodline, making her question Shrek Academy’s motives for helping her.
• Ma Xiaotao comforted Zhang Lexuan and took her away to be alone, while Qian Renxue considered planting a Seed of Desire in her.
• Qian Renxue noticed a wisp of Faith Power in her Sea of Consciousness and wondered whether the Soul-Eating Spider Emperor Spirit Master had caused it.
• Luo Can opened Bibi Dong’s second meridian, taught her the Soul Core Method, and was interrupted by Qian Renxue as Bibi Dong began undoing his belt.

Qian Renxue gained a little Faith Power by purifying fallen Spirit Masters, so Luo Can proposed unifying the Douluo Continent to gather enough faith for her to create a divine position. The next morning, he rewarded Ye Guyi and Ma Xiaotao with Spirit Bones and pills, then set off to fish with Qian Renxue.

• Qian Renxue told Luo Can and Bibi Dong that purifying twelve people had earned her only a tiny wisp of Faith Power, and Luo Can concluded that purifying Evil Martial Soul Masters alone would not be enough.
• Luo Can proposed unifying the Douluo Continent before Tang San became a god, starting by bringing Spirit Hall and Fate Defying Valley together and recruiting more Spirit Master factions.
• Qian Renxue asked why Luo Can was helping her create a divine position, and he said he wanted to support her; they spent the night together without her using a Clone.
• The next morning, Luo Can gave Ye Guyi and Ma Xiaotao ninety-thousand-year Spirit Bones, Soul Power Pills, and Body Refining Pills, then told them to cultivate until they reached Spirit Saint.
• Qian Renxue joined Luo Can on his way to Lake Heart Island, and they went fishing together.

Over the month, Yang Gang’s return and rapid rise in the rankings sparked a fierce mission-taking frenzy among the Inner Pavilion disciples, while Luo Can prepared his disciples for major breakthroughs. The chapter ended as Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan began absorbing the artificial ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings he had made for them.

• Luo Can taught newly selected Core Disciples from Baican Village the basics of cultivation, while Yang Gang and his exploration squad passed the Inner Pavilion assessment and climbed the rankings.
• Yang Gang took on three five-star and seven four-star missions, prompting Li Qing, Yang Fan, and other disciples to plan their own cultivation and compete for ranking positions and rewards.
• The Inner Pavilion disciples rushed to the Mission Hall to accept high-star missions and reclaim their places on the rankings.
• Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, Wu Siduo, and Xiao Xiao broke through to new cultivation levels, and Luo Can prepared Spirit Rings for his disciples.
• Luo Can presented Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan with artificial ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings, and the two began absorbing them despite the expected pain.

Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling absorbed ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings, strengthening their abilities and martial souls. Ju Zi returned to the valley and warned Bibi Dong not to let her past with Yu Xiaogang endanger Fate Defying Pavilion, then took her inside to discuss Luo Can’s preferences.

• Ye Lingling absorbed her Spirit Ring, reached rank forty-four, and awakened stronger life energy, while Dugu Yan gained a second Black Poison Mark and saw her martial soul evolve toward a dragon.
• Luo Can congratulated them, ordered them to stabilize their cultivation for seven days, and assigned them future missions to capture Fallen Spirit Masters alive.
• Ju Zi returned from the Soul Tool Hall and told Luo Can that Gui Mei was behaving obediently at the workshop.
• Ju Zi went with Luo Can to visit Bibi Dong and warned her not to go easy on Yu Xiaogang or let him endanger Fate Defying Pavilion.
• Bibi Dong insisted she had only Luo Can in her heart and vowed to deal with Yu Xiaogang herself, after which Ju Zi led her inside to discuss Luo Can’s bedroom preferences.

Luo Can and Qian Renxue discussed Zhang Lexuan’s growing doubts about Shrek and Spirit Hall’s plans to promote Fate Defying Pavilion, while anticipating a new elder’s arrival. During Fishing, Luo Can finally pulled a powerful ice-attribute Spirit Beast from the lake, whom he identified as the Snow Empress.

• Qian Renxue explained that Zhang Lexuan had been studying Spirit Hall’s commoner awakenings and subsidies, and Luo Can suggested showing her Spirit Hall branches and Shrek’s recruitment practices firsthand.
• Luo Can and Qian Renxue discussed Bibi Dong’s plans to expel the Clear Sky Sect and elevate Fate Defying Pavilion, along with Ling Yuan’s transfer to try to recruit their Ling Yuan.
• Luo Can began Fishing with 4,825,000 Points and dismantled most of his catches as he worked toward five million, keeping an Ice Extreme Divine Crystal.
• Near the end of Fishing, Luo Can’s line pulled taut, and he used his Golden Dragon King Bloodline to haul a silver-haired girl from the water.
• Luo Can sensed that the girl was a powerful ice-attribute Spirit Beast and guessed that she was the Snow Empress.

Luo Can drew the Snow Empress into Fate Defying Valley and persuaded her to stay by offering help with her tribulation. After spending his stored resources to reach level-six clearance, he gained powerful rewards and discovered that his Golden Dragon Emperor now had distinct destruction and life forms.

• The Snow Empress confronted Luo Can after he fished her into his realm, but he demonstrated his strength and offered to help her survive her seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation.
• The Ice Jade Scorpion explained how Luo Can had helped the Ice Empress survive, and the Snow Empress agreed to stay if he could help her tribulation.
• Luo Can dismantled rare items, including fifty-thousand-year whale rubber, to raise his points above five million.
• Luo Can upgraded his system clearance to level six, gaining stronger spirit rings, dragon-related rewards, and other items.
• Luo Can summoned his enhanced Golden Dragon Emperor, entered the Demigod realm, and discovered it could take an emerald-gold form that wielded the life law.

Luo Can absorbed the Golden Dragon Wings and a 200,000-year Spirit Bone, then learned that the Space-Time God King's Favor required him to complete one hundred high-rank Fishing attempts and reach system access level seven. After the system restored his daily Fishing Point rewards, he challenged Qian Renxue to a spar and left their contest unresolved in the secret chamber.

• Luo Can absorbed the Golden Dragon Wings and discovered they could fold and collapse space or absorb and store energy from attacks.
• Luo Can read the Space-Time God King's Favor, which required one hundred Red Rank-or-higher Fishing attempts and access level seven to unlock the Lord of Time and Space Martial Soul and Nine Trials of Time and Space.
• Luo Can saw that level seven required fifty million Points, then received a system prompt restoring his daily Fishing Point rewards after Tang San's Divine Sense was removed.
• Luo Can absorbed the 200,000-year Right Leg Bone but gained almost no cultivation, and concluded he needed to transform his soul power into divine power to advance.
• Luo Can appeared before Qian Renxue and challenged her to a spar; he easily countered her three Clones and then faced Qian Renxue herself.
• Qian Renxue refused to surrender, and Luo Can continued their contest as the secret chamber's lights dimmed.

Luo Can subdued Qian Renxue’s Clones and negotiated with the Snow Empress to help her survive her Heavenly Tribulation in exchange for her joining Fate Defying Valley. He then arranged for Bibi Dong, Ju Zi, and Qian Renxue to meet Gui Mei and recruit him to their side.

• Luo Can used Life Enlightenment to weaken Qian Renxue’s three Clones, then defeated their attacks and claimed Qian Renxue had lost.
• Luo Can and Qian Renxue met the Snow Empress, who agreed to wait a year for his preparations before attempting her Seven-Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Snow Empress promised to join Fate Defying Valley and command the Spirit Beasts of the Far North Ice Plains if she survived, and asked Luo Can to bring the Ice Empress over too.
• Luo Can found Bibi Dong and Ju Zi getting along in Bibi Dong’s courtyard and invited them to join him in meeting Gui Mei.
• Luo Can explained that he wanted Bibi Dong to win Gui Mei over to their side, and the group joked about recruiting Spirit Hall’s elders one by one.

Luo Can brought Bibi Dong and Ju Zi to the Fate Defying Pavilion, where they discussed expanding the sect by bringing in the elemental academies. They visited Gui Mei, and Bibi Dong revealed that she was Saint Bibi Dong, leaving him stunned by her Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring.

• Luo Can disguised Bibi Dong in a black robe before bringing her, Ju Zi, and Qian Renxue to the Fate Defying Pavilion.
• Bibi Dong assessed the pavilion’s strength, and Luo Can said the arriving Shui Clan would soon add eight or nine hundred disciples.
• Ju Zi proposed absorbing Gale City and Blazing Fire City’s elemental academies, and Luo Can said the Shui Clan would first try to persuade them peacefully.
• Luo Can found Gui Mei examining Soul Tools and offered to let him take several back to Spirit City for the Pope to inspect.
• Qian Renxue told Gui Mei that Bibi Dong wanted to meet him, and Bibi Dong removed her hood and identified herself as Saint Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong displayed her Death Spider Emperor spirit and seventh Spirit Ring, shocking Gui Mei with its Hundred Thousand Year age.

Bibi Dong learned how the current Pope had ruled Spirit Hall and won Gui Mei’s support in reclaiming the position. Luo Can arranged for Zhang Lexuan to see Spirit Hall’s work and the new academy, then Ma Xiaotao and Ye Guyi both emerged from seclusion after reaching rank seventy.

• Bibi Dong told Gui Mei how she had traveled from the past and asked about her future self, then resolved to reclaim the Pope’s position with his help.
• Luo Can discussed cooperating with Gui Mei and instructed Cheng Gang to take Zhang Lexuan to Spirit Hall branches and the academy beside Shrek, bringing her back if she tried to leave.
• Ma Xiaotao rushed over to tell Luo Can she had reached rank seventy and described how her Hell Phoenix had grown stronger.
• Ye Guyi descended with her six wings and told Luo Can she had also reached rank seventy.

Luo Can arranged Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit contracts for Ma Xiaotao and Ye Guyi, then discovered that his level-six permissions greatly increased his Fishing drops. After the women’s contracts transformed their abilities, Ma Xiaotao joked that they might have become Luo Can’s wives if they had met him sooner.

• Luo Can offered Ma Xiaotao and Ye Guyi Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit contracts, and both agreed.
• Luo Can brought Ma Xiaotao, Ye Guyi, and Ju Zi to Lake Heart Island and matched Ma Xiaotao with a Two-Headed Rainbowfeather Kite and Ye Guyi with a Sacred Heavenly Dragon Horse.
• While Ma Xiaotao and Ye Guyi formed their contracts, Luo Can fished and found that level-six permissions produced red-grade items far more often, though natural treasures and Soul Bones remained rare.
• Ma Xiaotao’s spirit power rose to level seventy-four and her martial soul gained a second head and Ultimate Fire, while Ye Guyi’s spirit power neared level seventy-seven and her abilities strengthened.
• Ma Xiaotao wondered whether she and Ye Guyi could have become Luo Can’s wives if they had met him earlier, and Luo Can insisted that he was content with his three wives.