Chapter Summaries

Lusen helped Dugu Bo prepare the poisonous ingredients needed to manage the Dugu Clan’s inherited curse, and Dugu Bo told Dugu Xin about their family’s burden as they left Sunset Forest. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Tian Meng’s show was interrupted when he stumbled into another fight between Shana and Zhu Qinluo.

• Dugu Bo explained his poison preparations to Lusen, who identified the missing yin-attributed herbs and led him to them.
• Lusen extracted and blended the plant toxins for Dugu Bo, who thanked him and said he could finish the mixture himself.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Xin left Sunset Forest, and Dugu Bo told his son about the Dugu Clan’s past and the need to cultivate for strength.
• Dugu Xin asked about Lusen, and Dugu Bo said Lusen was about his own rank but too unusual to explain yet.
• Tian Meng left his cave after his signal cut out and found Shana and Zhu Qinluo fighting while onlookers watched.

Zhu Qinluo and Shana competed in a restrained battle until Tian Meng stopped them with a psychic storm, and they called the match a draw. Watching Zhu Qinluo leave, Xiao Wu was struck by how far she had advanced and how little Xiao Wu herself seemed to have changed.

• Zhu Qinluo and Shana fought over their pride, with Zhu Qinluo's Nether Mist countering Shana's close-combat advantages.
• Tian Meng unleashed a psychic storm to halt their fight, then revived the Den Den Mushi's signal and returned to watching dramas.
• Shana and Zhu Qinluo agreed to call the contest a draw and exchanged parting warnings before leaving.
• Xiao Wu watched the onlookers disperse and reflected on Zhu Qinluo's rise from Soul Elder to Titled Douluo in just over twenty years.

Xiao Wu worried that her cultivation had fallen behind her peers, and Ye Qing explained that she had been less diligent before taking her to resume training. The chapter ended with Da Ming and Er Ming watching them leave and agreeing that Xiao Wu had been playing with fire and getting burned.

• Xiao Wu compared her progress with Shana, Zhu Qinluo, Ah Yin, and the other young Spirit Beasts, and worried that she could no longer act as their big sister.
• Ye Qing returned from Sunset Forest and found Xiao Wu sitting alone by the lake, wondering why Spirit Beasts cultivated more slowly than humans.
• Ye Qing told Xiao Wu that her long lifespan and lack of diligence explained her slower growth, then ordered her to start extra training.
• Xiao Wu asked for the cultivation aid Tian Meng used, but Ye Qing refused and dragged her to the Mimicry Training Ground.
• Da Ming and Er Ming watched Xiao Wu leave with Ye Qing and remarked that she had been playing with fire and getting burned.

Ye Qing brought Xiao Wu to the training grounds, where he noticed a gifted young Beast-Human and decided to test Xiao Wu’s progress. After quickly capturing her, he taught her to keep fighting when seized and shared a ruthless three-part combo.

• Ye Qing arrived at the training grounds and learned that a newly arrived, beast-born Honey Badger girl was the most gifted child there.
• Ye Qing challenged Xiao Wu to last three moves against him to avoid extra training, and she tried using Charm, only to suffer a painful spiritual backlash.
• Xiao Wu tried to build momentum and catch Ye Qing off guard, but he seized her arm and captured her in one move.
• Ye Qing told Xiao Wu not to give up after being grabbed and taught her to stomp an enemy’s foot, kick them in the groin, and gouge their eyes.

Ye Qing taught Xiao Wu a brutal self-defense combination and explained why it could help her escape a restraint. He withheld its history, though he privately recalled that Ice Empress had invented it to use against him, and he left Xiao Wu with instructions to keep training at her current level.

• Ye Qing explained how Xiao Wu could stomp an attacker's foot, kick their groin, and gouge their eyes to escape and incapacitate them.
• Xiao Wu asked whether Ye Qing had invented the combination or learned it through experience, and he changed the subject.
• Ye Qing recalled that Ice Empress had devised the move during their rivalry, though he had stopped her before the kick landed.
• Ye Qing decided Xiao Wu did not need harsher training because she had maintained her previous skills and had strong potential.
• Ye Qing told Xiao Wu to practice the combination with a girl rather than Da Ming or Er Ming.

Zhu Qinluo learned that her grandmother had refused a life-extending pill and requested a secret meeting, then traveled to the Zhu Family estate to meet her beneath Flying Mountain. She found her grandmother waiting beside the rockery she had once named Flying Mountain.

• Zhu Qinluo’s influence in Star Luo grew as Wan Lu earned Dai Qingkun’s trust and the Wan-Fang Alliance expanded its wealth and reach.
• Wan Ze reported that Zhu Qinluo’s grandmother had refused the life-extending pill and asked to meet her beneath Flying Mountain at midnight.
• Wan Ze congratulated Zhu Qinluo on becoming a Titled Douluo at thirty-nine, the youngest on the continent.
• Zhu Qinluo recognized Flying Mountain as the private name of a rockery she had made for her grandmother and arrived there at midnight.
• Zhu Qinluo found a familiar figure standing beside the rockery.

Zhu Qinluo reunited with her maternal grandmother, who recognized her as the supposedly dead Second Miss and revealed her hopes for the Zhu Family's future. Her grandmother gave her the Zhu Family's secret Nether Guard token and asked her to spare her sister if they ever fought.

• Zhu Qinluo dismissed the nearby Nether Mist and revealed that she had become a Titled Douluo, while her maternal grandmother explained how she had guessed her identity.
• Zhu Qinluo urged her grandmother to take medicine that could extend her life, but her grandmother refused and said she was ready to rest.
• Her grandmother recounted how the Star Luo Imperial Family's selection system had led Zhu Family sisters to kill one another across generations.
• Her grandmother entrusted Zhu Qinluo with the token that gave her command of the Zhu Family's secret Nether Guard and asked her to change the family's fate.
• Her grandmother asked Zhu Qinluo to spare her sister's life if they ever faced each other in battle.

Zhu Qinluo accepted the Zhu Family Nether Guard token after speaking with her grandmother about Zhu Qinwu and left Star Luo. She traveled to the Guard’s headquarters in Heaven Dou, where she proved her identity and was greeted as its Order Master.

• Zhu Qinluo asked whether the token was a deal, and her grandmother told her it was a request while urging her to remember that Zhu Qinwu must face the consequences of her actions.
• Zhu Qinluo accepted the Nether Guard token, said farewell to her grandmother, and departed the Zhu Family estate before dawn.
• Half a month later, Zhu Qinluo’s mother became Zhu Family head and failed to find the missing token, while Zhu Qinluo followed its directions to Heaven Dou.
• In Mengzhou Prefecture, Zhu Qinluo found the shepherd Mao Qi and used the token to prove her authority at the Nether Guard’s hidden entrance.
• Zhu Qinluo revealed her Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul, and Mao Qi bowed to her as the Order Master.

Zhu Qinluo took command of the Nether Guards and assigned them to find talented orphans in Heaven Dou. At the village, she learned that Chen Xin had come to collect a coffin after his father, Chen Jianjun, died, and Chen Xin asked whether his order was ready.

• Mao Qi explained that the Nether Guards had seventy-two core members, with members stationed across Heaven Dou and Star Luo.
• Zhu Qinluo gave Mao Qi Wan Ze's token and ordered the Nether Guards to find young, talented orphans in Heaven Dou and send promising children to the Wan-Fang Chamber of Commerce.
• Mao Qi told Zhu Qinluo that the village's people made coffins and gravestones, and that a visitor named Chen Xin had ordered both.
• Chen Jianjun told Chen Xin about the realms beyond level ninety-five and named Qian Daoliu, Tang Chen, and Sima Jinchi as peerless masters before dying at age one hundred and eight.
• Chen Xin arrived at the village and asked Mao Qi whether his coffin and gravestone were ready.

After Chen Jianjun’s death, Chen Xin bought a natural sword-shaped stone for his father’s gravestone but lacked the money to pay for it. Gu Rong arrived with Ning Fengzhi, paid the shortfall, and tried to recruit Chen Xin, while Chen Xin remained unaware that Mao Qi and Zhu Qinluo were not what they seemed.

• Mao Qi showed Chen Xin a naturally sword-shaped stone that met his requirements for a gravestone.
• Mao Qi quoted Chen Xin one hundred and sixty Gold Soul Coins for the stone and coffin, but Chen Xin had only sixty.
• Gu Rong arrived with Ning Fengzhi, who offered to cover the cost and expressed sympathy for Chen Jianjun’s death.
• Chen Xin accepted Ning Fengzhi’s money as a loan, paid Mao Qi, and stored the stone.
• Gu Rong suggested Chen Xin join Ning Fengzhi’s faction, but Chen Xin declined to commit and told Mao Qi to take his granddaughter away.
• Gu Rong laughed and told Chen Xin that Mao Qi and Zhu Qinluo could not be grandfather and granddaughter.

Ning Fengzhi recalled how his calm smile had helped Gu Rong overcome the inner demon that blocked his breakthrough and join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After discovering Zhu Qinluo alongside Chen Xin, Ning Fengzhi saw a chance to recruit two more Titled Douluo, though Gu Rong remained wary of the unexpected encounter.

• Gu Rong confronted Zhu Qinluo after realizing she was a Titled Douluo, while Ning Fengzhi dismissed the meeting as a possible good omen.
• The chapter recounted how Ning Fengzhi’s sincere explanation of his smile helped Gu Rong overcome his childhood resentment and break through to level ninety.
• Gu Rong joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after Ning Fengzhi supported his breakthrough without demanding his allegiance.
• Years later, Gu Rong introduced Chen Xin to Ning Fengzhi, who hoped to recruit him.
• Ning Fengzhi found Zhu Qinluo with Chen Xin and invited both Titled Douluo to speak with him.

Ning Fengzhi secured Chen Xin’s agreement to let the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect fund his cultivation, while Zhu Qinluo sought an alliance with Ning Fengzhi for Ye Qing’s continental plans. The chapter ended with Zhu Qinluo demanding that Ning Fengzhi sign a confidentiality contract, and Gu Rong warning him not to risk it.

• Ning Fengzhi’s history revealed how he had used Gu Rong and political concessions to stabilize the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after his father’s death.
• Gu Rong recommended his friend Chen Xin to Ning Fengzhi, who arranged their meeting by anticipating Chen Xin’s lack of money.
• Zhu Qinluo saw Ning Fengzhi as a potential ally for Ye Qing’s plans and discreetly told Mao Qi to stay out of the discussion.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin agreed that the sect would fund Chen Xin’s cultivation until he was satisfied with his swordsmanship, at which point he would join the sect.
• Zhu Qinluo presented Ning Fengzhi with a confidentiality contract and asked him to seal it with his blood, but Gu Rong warned him against doing so.

Ning Fengzhi signed Zhu Qinluo’s Confidentiality Contract and heard her proposal in a sealed meeting. He then asked Gu Rong to test Zhu Qinluo’s strength, and their spar revealed the luck-dependent boost of her Sixth Spirit Skill.

• Gu Rong warned Ning Fengzhi against signing the blood-bound contract, but Ning Fengzhi accepted it and was sealed inside a barrier with Zhu Qinluo for a private discussion.
• After the barrier fell, Ning Fengzhi asked Gu Rong to spar with Zhu Qinluo while Chen Xin agreed to protect him.
• Zhu Qinluo introduced herself as a Rank 90 Hell Spirit Cat Titled Douluo and struck Gu Rong with her Third Spirit Skill, Hell Slash, which his Bone Shield blocked.
• Zhu Qinluo used her Sixth Spirit Skill, Hell Selection, to gain a random 300% boost to speed and kicked Gu Rong, though the attack only made him stagger.

Zhu Qinluo sparred with Gu Rong, using her unpredictable Hell Selection boosts and Nether Mist combination to evade his attacks. After receiving a Soul Power boost, she summoned a Black Gu Rong with her Ninth Spirit Skill, Nether Mirror Image, and set it against him.

• Zhu Qinluo used her speed boost to evade Gu Rong's Bone Prison while neither fighter could break through the other's defenses.
• When her speed boost expired, Zhu Qinluo's defense boost let her withstand Gu Rong's Bone-Splitting Dragon Breath, and he deduced that her Spirit Skill enhanced random attributes.
• Gu Rong used Space Rift and Bone Dragon Spike to attack Zhu Qinluo, but her Nether Mist turned her intangible and let her counter with black spikes.
• Zhu Qinluo used Hell Selection again and received a Soul Power boost, then summoned a Black Gu Rong with Nether Mirror Image.
• Black Gu Rong copied Gu Rong's Bone Shield, Bone Dragon Spike, and Space Rift, and the two Gu Rongs began fighting.

Zhu Qinluo defeated Gu Rong in a spar by using her Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Skill to create a mirror image, then secured the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as an ally. Ning Fengzhi revealed that Zhu Qinluo was the true master behind the Wan-Fang Chamber of Commerce, leaving the sect with a chance to become immensely wealthy.

• Zhu Qinluo summoned a mirror image of Gu Rong, forcing him to fight both her and a copy that used his own ruthless tactics.
• Gu Rong unleashed his Ninth Spirit Skill, Bone Dragon Transformation, but his mirror image matched it while Zhu Qinluo pressed her attack.
• Zhu Qinluo won the spar and claimed an additional ten percent of the Wan-Fang Chamber of Commerce's profits in Star Luo.
• Ning Fengzhi made the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Zhu Qinluo's ally and agreed to share its resources on the Heaven Dou side, while Zhu Qinluo left to speak with Mao Qi.
• Ning Fengzhi told Gu Rong that Zhu Qinluo was the true master behind the Wan-Fang Chamber of Commerce and that the alliance could make the sect wealthy enough to rival a nation.

Zhu Qinluo formed an alliance with Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to monitor Heaven Dou while advancing her plans for Star Luo. After Ning Fengzhi prepared a retaliatory business move, Mao Qi told Zhu Qinluo about the mysterious Star Crown Xu Family.

• Zhu Qinluo traded part of the Wan-Fang Chamber of Commerce's Star Luo market share for Ning Fengzhi's share in Heaven Dou, while keeping Ye Qing's wider plans secret from him.
• Ning Fengzhi realized the contract prevented him from revealing certain information and ordered Uncle Gu to prepare a major commercial move against those who had previously harmed the sect.
• Zhu Qinluo had Mao Qi and the Nether Guard sign contracts, then heard Mao Qi ask whether she knew of the Star Crown Xu Family.
• Mao Qi explained that the Star Crown Xu Family was a mysterious but important Star Luo family whose few members passed leadership down through a single heir.

Zhu Qinluo learned that the secluded Xu Family possessed a powerful Star Crown Titled Douluo whose loyalties could affect her plans, so she decided to visit them. She and Shana set out for the Star Crown Mountain Range, where the Xu Family lived.

• Mao Qi explained that the Xu Family's Star Crown Martial Soul was a rare combat-capable Support System Martial Soul and that the family might have a Titled Douluo allied with the Dai Family ancestor.
• Mao Qi advised Zhu Qinluo to recruit the Xu Family or eliminate them, and she ordered him to prepare a report and infiltrate a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect merchant caravan.
• Wan Ze tried to dissuade Zhu Qinluo from visiting the Xu Family alone, but she insisted that she could protect herself and would have Shana with her.
• Shana arrived outside Star Luo City, and she and Zhu Qinluo bickered before racing toward the Star Crown Mountain Range.

Zhu Qinluo and Shana reached the Xu Family’s secluded home on Star Crown Peak, where Xu Ling sensed their arrival through her astrological abilities. Xu Ling recognized the guests as part of a long-awaited opportunity for her family and prepared to meet them.

• Zhu Qinluo and Shana followed a human-made trail up Star Crown Peak after sensing signs of the Xu Family’s presence.
• Zhu Qinluo and Shana found Xu Family children cultivating Star Power under the guidance of a middle-aged man.
• Xu Ling emerged and told the man, Ping'er, to take the children inside because guests had arrived.
• Xu Ling used astrology and her family’s inherited divination technique to interpret signs of great fortune for the Xu Family.

Xu Ling revealed the Star Crown Xu Family’s history and met Zhu Qinluo and Shana, who sought the family’s support in their effort to take the Star Luo throne. The Xu Family signed their contract but promised to stay out of events until the palace coup, and Xu Ling explained that they acted because Heavenly Will had turned against the Dai Family.

• The chapter recounted how the Xu Family ancestor helped Star Luo win its founding war, then withdrew his family into seclusion as the Dai Family gradually erased their influence.
• Xu Ling explained that her family’s ancestors had foreseen their rise during a future Dai Family crisis, but that the moment had arrived earlier than expected.
• Xu Ling welcomed Zhu Qinluo and Shana at Star Crown Mountain, and Shana answered her display of starlight by making ice chairs.
• Xu Ling told them the Xu Family would follow Heavenly Will rather than support either side, and that the stars no longer favored the Dai Family.
• Zhu Qinluo and Shana left after the Xu Family signed their contract, agreeing not to act before the palace coup as long as the Dai Family’s throne remained secure.
• When the Xu Family asked Xu Ling why she had agreed, she answered that Heavenly Will had decreed it.

Ye Qing sensed that the Abyss had returned, while Gu Yuena continued restoring the Dragon Realm and caring for its young dragons. When part of the Abyss’s true body appeared, Gu Yuena ordered the dragons to retreat and signaled Ye Qing to help destroy it and claim the Abyss.

• The World Consciousness leaned toward Ye Qing after he helped it grow, and the Xu Family detected changes in the Imperial Dragon Vein.
• The Wan-Fang Chamber of Commerce and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect made major moves in business while Ye Qing lived in the Star Dou Great Forest and sensed a message from the stars.
• Gu Yuena restored the Dragon Realm’s environment while managing its seventeen surviving dragons and thirty-three dormant Dragon Eggs.
• Gu Yuena watched the Dragon Clouds fade and learned from the adolescent dragons that their restoration work and food gathering were progressing.
• Black threads appeared above the Dragon Realm, and Gu Yuena ordered the dragons to retreat near the remains of the Time Dragon King and Mountain Dragon King.
• Gu Yuena flew toward the threat and sent Ye Qing a signal as part of the Abyss’s true body appeared.