Chapter Summaries

Ju Zi and Lou Gao worked together to solve design problems in the Energy-Gathering Piercing Cannon and agreed to share knowledge and resources. Lou Gao welcomed Ju Zi, Luo Can, and Qian Renxue as collaborators, then invited them to dinner and offered them a place to stay.

• Lou Gao examined Ju Zi’s Energy-Gathering Piercing Cannon blueprint and identified a stability flaw in its Star-Patterned Mithril core.
• Ju Zi explained her proposed buffer array, and she and Lou Gao debated ways to resolve its conflict with the cannon’s energy supply.
• Lou Gao asked about Ju Zi’s training, and she attributed her designs to a deceased reclusive researcher whose legacy she had inherited.
• With Luo Can’s approval, Ju Zi agreed to share the designs with Lou Gao, who offered them access to his forge and the association’s materials.
• Lou Gao invited Ju Zi, Luo Can, and Qian Renxue to dinner and suggested that they move into the forge.

Lou Gao and Ju Zi completed and tested several powerful Level 5 Soul Tools, drawing Lou Gao deeper into Soul Tool research. After Luo Can demonstrated Battle Armor’s destructive power, Lou Gao agreed to join the Fate Defying Pavilion and help research a set of Battle Armor.

• Lou Gao and Ju Zi finalized the Energy-Gathering Piercing Cannon and tested it, confirming that it could fire ten times without damaging its core or energy circuits.
• Lou Gao and Ju Zi built more Level 5 Soul Tools, and Ju Zi invited Lou Gao to join the Fate Defying Pavilion.
• Luo Can showed Lou Gao his Battle Armor and destroyed a distant hill with its attack.
• Lou Gao accepted Luo Can’s invitation and agreed to join the Fate Defying Pavilion.

Luo Can persuaded Lou Gao and dozens of blacksmiths to join Fate Defying Pavilion by showing them Battle Armor, Soul Tools, and the Pavilion’s strength. As Lou Gao’s group left Gengxin City, Tai Tan and the association’s conservative elders intercepted them, and Lou Gao declared that forging’s future lay in Soul Tools.

• Luo Can offered Lou Gao the chance to study Ju Zi’s Second-Class Battle Armor, Firefly, and Lou Gao pledged his life to Fate Defying Pavilion.
• Oscar and the conservative elders learned that Lou Gao planned to leave, so they summoned Vice President Tai Tan to persuade him to stay.
• Lou Gao recruited nearly one-fifth of the association’s master-level blacksmiths, including his four direct disciples, to join Fate Defying Pavilion.
• Luo Can explained the Pavilion’s ideals and strength to the blacksmiths, and Qian Renxue revealed her Title Douluo power and Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, winning their commitment.
• Luo Can led Lou Gao and thirty blacksmiths out of Gengxin City, but Oscar, the elders, and Tai Tan surrounded them on the road.
• Tai Tan accused Lou Gao of abandoning traditional forging, and Lou Gao firmly answered that Soul Tools were the future of forging.

Luo Can and Qian Renxue confronted Tai Tan after he tried to stop Lou Gao from embracing Soul Tools, and Luo Can defeated him with a single punch. Qian Renxue began interrogating the wounded Tai Tan about Yang Wudi’s whereabouts, using her bewitching power to break his resistance.

• Tai Tan condemned Soul Tools and threatened Luo Can and his companions for influencing Lou Gao, but Qian Renxue revealed her overwhelming Title Douluo strength.
• Luo Can struck Tai Tan down with one punch, then shattered his Great Strength Ape avatar and severely wounded him when Tai Tan fought back.
• Luo Can asked whether Tai Tan wanted to live or die, but Tai Tan refused to submit.
• Qian Renxue used her bewitching voice to ask Tai Tan where Yang Wudi of the Breaking Clan was, and Tai Tan struggled against the temptation to answer.

Luo Can and Qian Renxue defeated Tai Tan and the Blacksmith’s Association members who tried to stop Lou Gao, then spared Tai Tan at Lou Gao’s request. In Nuoding City, Luo Can prepared to leave with Qian Renxue for Longyin City while Ju Zi took charge of Lou Gao and his people, but Ju Zi and Qian Renxue had other plans for their last night together.

• Ju Zi told Luo Can that Oscar and the others had attacked her while he and Qian Renxue confronted Tai Tan, and she had beaten them with Soul Tools.
• Luo Can spared Oscar and the others for Lou Gao’s sake, while Qian Renxue frightened them into silence with a curse she claimed was deadly.
• Luo Can agreed to spare Tai Tan after Lou Gao pleaded for his life, and Qian Renxue planted a Seed of Desire in Tai Tan to magnify his evil thoughts.
• Luo Can, Qian Renxue, Ju Zi, and Lou Gao’s group traveled to Nuoding City, where Luo Can said he and Qian Renxue would go to Longyin City to find the Breaking Clan.
• Ju Zi and Qian Renxue exchanged knowing smiles after Ju Zi asked Luo Can to compensate her before their separation, and Luo Can spent the night with them.

Luo Can and Qian Renxue traveled to Longyin City to seek out Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan. After Qian Renxue revealed her Title Douluo strength, Yang Wudi came out to meet them and asked why they had come.

• Luo Can and Qian Renxue located Longyin City on a map and flew toward the northern frontier of the Star Luo Empire.
• They entered Longyin City, sensed the powerful Spirit Masters there, and headed toward the guarded compound in the western outskirts.
• Breaking Clan patrols surrounded them and sent Little Six to warn Yang Wudi that strangers had arrived.
• Qian Renxue revealed her nine Spirit Rings, including a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, and demanded to meet the patriarch.
• Yang Wudi came out of the compound and asked Luo Can and Qian Renxue why they had sought him out.

Luo Can persuaded Yang Wudi to lead the Breaking Clan into Fate Defying Pavilion by promising protection, a path to Title Douluo, and valuable pills. After Yang Wudi's Soul Power pill raised him to Rank 80, the clan agreed to join, though its members remained wary of repeating Clear Sky Sect's betrayal.

• Luo Can invited Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan to join Fate Defying Pavilion, but Yang Wudi initially refused because he feared another betrayal.
• Luo Can displayed his extraordinary Spirit Ring configuration and promised to protect the Breaking Clan and help Yang Wudi break through to Title Douluo.
• Yang Wudi accepted the offer, swallowed Luo Can's Soul Power Pill, and broke through from Rank 79 to Rank 80.
• Yang Wudi announced the decision to the Breaking Clan, whose elders and clansmen objected because of Clear Sky Sect's past betrayal.
• Yang Wudi reassured the clan that it would focus on refining pills and cultivating while Fate Defying Pavilion protected it, and every member present agreed to join.

Luo Can brought the Breaking Clan to the Fate Defying Pavilion and established a Medicine Hall under Yang Wudi. After settling the clan in, he went to the Ye Clan to bring his three young disciples back to the valley.

• Luo Can and Yang Wudi arranged for the Breaking Clan to travel in three groups and reunite in the Balak Kingdom before heading to Baican Village.
• Luo Can, Qian Renxue, and Yang Wudi led their groups to Baican Village, where Luo Can welcomed Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan into the Fate Defying Pavilion.
• Luo Can placed the Breaking Clan under the Medicine Hall, appointed Yang Wudi as its Hall Master, and offered gifted juniors a chance to earn Associate Inner Pavilion Disciple status.
• Luo Can learned that Ye Lingling and Yanyan had created a first-level Soul Tool, then left for the Ye Clan to collect his three disciples.
• Luo Can found Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan working on their Soul Tool in the Ye Clan's rear courtyard while Tang Ya watched them.

Luo Can returned to find Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling practicing Soul Tool crafting while Tang Ya worried that she was falling behind. After encouraging Tang Ya and reviewing the disciples’ progress, he led them back to the valley with Qian Renxue and Ju Zi.

• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling tested their First-Rank Illumination Soul Tools, and Luo Can praised their work when he returned.
• Tang Ya admitted she felt inferior because she had reached only Level Eight, and Luo Can encouraged her to focus on cultivation and trust that her aptitude could improve.
• Ye Lingling reported that she had stabilized at Level Twenty-Seven and advanced her combat training, while Dugu Yan said she had reached the peak of Level Twenty-Five.
• Luo Can reminded his disciples that Soul Power, martial souls, and practical combat were a Spirit Master's foundation, then led them toward the valley.
• Qian Renxue and Ju Zi met Luo Can and the girls at the Cliff of Desperate Fate, and the three adults carried them down into the valley.

Luo Can returned to Fate Defying Valley and began fishing with Qian Renxue and Ju Zi watching him. His final cast brought up a hundred-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear named Xiong Da, who told him about Huo Yuhao and Di Tian’s Soul Spirit project and Xiong Jun’s doubts about it.

• Luo Can arrived home with Qian Renxue, Ju Zi, and the others, while Stone and Ghost Tiger rushed out to greet him.
• Qian Renxue and Ju Zi argued over who would spend the night with Luo Can, so he went fishing instead, with both women accompanying him.
• Luo Can’s early casts yielded high-quality items, and his thirty-sixth cast pulled a hundred-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear from the lake.
• The bear introduced itself as Xiong Da and said it felt close to Luo Can because of his Dragon King Bloodline.
• Xiong Da told Luo Can that Huo Yuhao and Di Tian were developing the Soul Spirit method and that Xiong Jun had been punished for secretly interfering with the process.
• Luo Can told Xiong Da that the Soul Spirit method would ultimately hasten the destruction of the soul beast tribe.

Luo Can persuaded Xiong Da that humans and Tang San had caused the Spirit Beasts’ future extinction, and Xiong Da joined Fate Defying Valley to help prevent the catastrophe. The next day, Luo Can confirmed thirty-one children as Core Disciples and headed to assess the Associate Inner Pavilion Disciples.

• Luo Can told Xiong Da how the Soul Spirit Method became a tool for exploiting Spirit Beasts and falsely blamed Tang San for plotting the clan’s downfall.
• Luo Can persuaded Xiong Da to cultivate in Fate Defying Valley and help stop Tang San from causing the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python to sacrifice themselves.
• Luo Can finished his daily Fishing session, then spent the night with Qian Renxue and Ju Zi.
• Luo Can reviewed the thirty-one disciples’ Spirit Master paths and First Spirit Rings, then named them Core Disciples and gave them rewards and cultivation resources.
• Luo Can left the Cliff of Desperate Fate to handle the promotion assessment for the Associate Inner Pavilion Disciples.

Luo Can promoted eighteen Associate Inner Pavilion Disciples after their assessment, while Aisha, Zhou Tiezhu, and Desante failed to advance. At Fate Defying Pavilion headquarters, he rewarded Ye Qingyu and arranged for Ye Shengxin to acquire herbal shops in Suotuo City and Nuoding City.

• Luo Can watched Yang Tie and Yang Gang battle and confirmed that both brothers had reached Rank 31 and qualified as Inner Pavilion Disciples.
• Luo Can announced that Aisha, Zhou Tiezhu, and Desante had failed the advancement assessment, while the other eighteen Associate Inner Pavilion Disciples passed.
• Luo Can awarded the eighteen new Inner Pavilion Disciples resources and told them they would train at the Great Soul Arena in Suotuo City after three months, aiming for Silver Soul Fighting Badges.
• Luo Can brought the three unsuccessful disciples to Fate Defying Pavilion headquarters and entrusted them to Ye Qingyu, then gave her a Ten Thousand Year Right Arm Spirit Bone and a Black-grade Soul Power Pill.
• Luo Can asked Ye Qingyu to have Ye Shengxin acquire herbal shops near the Soul Master Academy in Nuoding City and the Great Soul Arena in Suotuo City, but Ye Shengxin volunteered to handle it himself.

Luo Can arranged Fate Defying Pavilion’s expansion into Suotuo City and Nuoding City, then returned to Fate Defying Valley and discovered the Immortal Herbs might be developing sentience. He suspected Fate-Defying Lake’s abundant life energy had accelerated their awakening.

• Ye Shengxin agreed to secure prime storefronts in Suotuo City and Nuoding City and help plan the Apothecary’s branches.
• Bai Chen and Yang Yan volunteered to manage the new stores, while Luo Can assigned them staff and security and tasked Bai Ningshuang with training employees at the main shop.
• Luo Can returned to Fate Defying Valley and explained to Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Tang Ya that Xiong Da was a powerful Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.
• Luo Can sensed mental fluctuations from the Immortal Herbs and found that they responded to his touch with unusual affection.
• Luo Can wondered whether the life energy in Fate-Defying Lake had caused the Immortal Herbs to begin developing intelligence early.

Luo Can celebrated the Immortal Herbs’ imminent awakening and considered using them to produce Qiankun Creation Pills, while Fate Defying Pavilion’s expansion created an urgent need for funds. After selling Spirit Bones became the plan, Luo Can fished up a remarkable haul before a mysterious catch pulled on his line.

• Luo Can told Qian Renxue that the Immortal Herbs could soon awaken as Hundred Thousand Years plant-type Spirit Beasts and might eventually provide ingredients for Qiankun Creation Pills.
• Ju Zi interrupted Luo Can and Qian Renxue, then insisted on joining them for the night.
• Over the next seven days, Luo Can fished daily, Qian Renxue managed Pavilion affairs, and Ju Zi worked with Lou Gao on Soul Tools; Luo Can also obtained the Clear Sky Sect’s Ring Detonation technique.
• Qian Renxue told Luo Can that Fate Defying Pavilion was nearly out of money, so Luo Can decided to have Dugu Bo auction his Spirit Bones in Heaven Dou City.
• On his thirty-seventh cast, Luo Can’s line suddenly plunged and shook after remaining still for more than twenty minutes.

Luo Can fished Giant Strength Douluo Cheng Gang out of Fate-Defying Lake and explained that he had summoned him from ten thousand years in the future. After Cheng Gang pledged loyalty, Luo Can upgraded his ninth spirit ring and assigned him to guard Fate Defying Pavilion.

• Luo Can pulled a battered Cheng Gang from the lake and learned that he was a Titled Douluo from the Star Luo Empire ten thousand years in the future.
• Luo Can revealed his nine-ring Golden Dragon Moth martial soul and told Cheng Gang he had brought him to the Douluo Continent of ten thousand years earlier.
• Qian Renxue arrived and displayed her Six-Winged Dark Angel martial soul, further astonishing Cheng Gang with her powerful spirit rings.
• Luo Can ordered Cheng Gang to acknowledge him as master, and Cheng Gang immediately knelt and pledged his loyalty.
• Luo Can used the system to upgrade Cheng Gang’s ninth spirit ring from seventy-five thousand years to one hundred thousand years.
• Luo Can assigned Cheng Gang to guard Fate Defying Pavilion, and Cheng Gang went to Fate-Defying Lake to familiarize himself with his upgraded spirit ring.

Luo Can brought Cheng Gang to Fate Defying Pavilion and appointed him Guardian Elder, then arranged security for the medicine shops and introduced him to key hall leaders. With the Pavilion nearly out of money, Luo Can postponed non-urgent spending and sent an urgent letter summoning Dugu Bo.

• Luo Can and Qian Renxue joked about him recruiting more women before their fishing session ended with a Good+ evaluation and 15,000 Points.
• Luo Can introduced Cheng Gang to Ye Qingyu and Ye Shengxin as the Pavilion's new Guardian Elder, responsible for its security.
• After learning the Pavilion had just over 300 Gold Soul Coins left, Luo Can ordered non-urgent projects paused and assigned guard teams to the medicine shops.
• Luo Can introduced Cheng Gang to Ju Zi and Lou Gao, then arranged for him to help Yang Wudi hunt his eighth Spirit Ring in Star Dou Forest.
• Luo Can wrote to Dugu Bo and had Ye Qingyu send a Spirit Emperor elder to deliver the urgent invitation to Heaven Dou City.

Luo Can studied the Ring Detonation Manual, shattered a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring, and tested the resulting power with a devastating Dragon Fist. Afterward, he reassured Ju Zi that Cheng Gang could not betray him, then prepared to visit Xue'er.

• Luo Can watched Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan fight Mu Jin for one incense stick, and both girls were quickly overwhelmed despite their combined efforts.
• Luo Can learned that Tang Ya was close to a cultivation bottleneck and promised to take her to see Tang San when she reached level ten.
• Luo Can refined ginseng into Hundred Ginseng Pills, studied the Ring Detonation Manual, and shattered a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring to test the technique.
• Luo Can unleashed a Dragon Fist that destroyed a Mu Jin pillar and carved a huge crater, judging its strength comparable to a Super Douluo's full-power ninth spirit skill.
• Luo Can told Ju Zi that his restriction prevented Cheng Gang from betraying him, then left to visit Xue'er after Ju Zi urged him to take care of himself.

Luo Can tested detonating multiple Spirit Rings at once, unleashing devastating Dragon Fist attacks but suffering severe backlash. After recovering at Fate-Defying Lake, he returned to Fate Defying Valley, where Qian Renxue and Ju Zi scolded him for wrecking the grounds.

• Luo Can detonated his second and third Spirit Rings simultaneously, gaining nearly five times his strength and destroying a Stone Forest with Dragon Fist.
• Luo Can recovered in Fate-Defying Lake, then detonated his fourth, fifth, and sixth Spirit Rings and created a crater nearly a thousand meters wide.
• Xiong Da witnessed Luo Can's strike and said only Xiong Jun and Di Tian among the Star Dou Forest spirit beasts could withstand it.
• Luo Can recovered in the lake and concluded he needed to strengthen his body before attempting Nine Ring Simultaneous Detonation.
• Qian Renxue and Ju Zi returned to Fate Defying Valley, saw the craters, and reprimanded Luo Can for damaging their home.

Luo Can began tempering his body by opening the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and the first one greatly improved his strength and stamina. At Fate Defying Pavilion, a report about a golden-haired maid named Bai Xue caught Qian Renxue’s attention.

• Luo Can studied body-tempering methods and decided to use Golden Power and Soul Power to open the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.
• Luo Can opened the Yangwei Vessel in three days, boosting his physical strength and Soul Power and letting him sustain Three Ring Simultaneous Detonation for three minutes with less backlash.
• Luo Can left Fate Defying Valley and visited Fate Defying Pavilion’s headquarters.
• Ye Shengxin and Ye Qingyu reported intelligence to Qian Renxue, including Tai Tan’s severe injuries and Ning Fengzhi’s plans for Ning Rongrong.
• Ye Shengxin reported that a golden-haired maid named Bai Xue had appeared beside Xue Qinghe, and Qian Renxue reacted sharply.

Luo Can checked the Fate Defying Pavilion’s medicine shops, Soul Tool production, and pill refining as the organization expanded its operations. Qian Renxue reaffirmed her plan to devour Bai Xue within two years while keeping Xue Qinghe alive and controlling him.

• Qian Renxue told Luo Can that Bai Xue was her transformed true form and that she planned to devour her within two years, then control Xue Qinghe with darkness rather than kill him.
• Ye Shengxin reported that the Suotuo City and Nuoding City medicine shops were renovated and awaiting supplies before Bai Chen and Yang Yan could depart with their staff.
• Si Long told Luo Can that the workshop produced about 150 sets of Soul Tool components daily and that Ju Zi and Lou Gao were addressing the Firefly Battle Armor’s remaining space-array compatibility problem.
• Luo Can found Ju Zi and Lou Gao absorbed in their Battle Armor research and left without disturbing them.
• Yang Wudi told Luo Can that he had mastered three Pill Recipes and could mass-produce basic medicines, so Luo Can instructed him to teach the recipes to other Breaking Clan members.
• Luo Can checked the Inner Pavilion Disciples and Core Disciples at Cliff of Desperate Fate, then returned to Fate-Defying Lake to fish.