Chapter Summaries

Liu Erlong stormed Pope Hall and accused Qian Xunji of abducting Yu Xiaogang, but he denied knowing where Yu had gone and recalled Yu's past misconduct toward Spirit Hall. In the Black World, Bibi Dong watched the comparison video and mocked Liu Erlong and the others for believing Yu's explanations.

• Flender knelt before Qian Xunji and begged him to forgive Liu Erlong, explaining that Yu Xiaogang had vanished and she was frantic with worry.
• Qian Xunji ordered the Holy Emperor Warriors to release Liu Erlong and calmly asked why she was accusing him over Yu Xiaogang's disappearance.
• Liu Erlong demanded that Qian Xunji return Yu Xiaogang, but he denied having him and recounted Yu's past offenses against Spirit Hall.
• Liu Erlong rejected Qian Xunji's account and insisted that Spirit Hall had kidnapped Yu out of jealousy over his martial soul theories.
• Bibi Dong watched the comparison video from the Rakshasa Cult headquarters and ridiculed Liu Erlong, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang's theories.

The White World's Comparison Video showed Qian Xunji challenging Liu Erlong's faith in Yu Xiaogang and accusing him of plagiarizing flawed theories. As commoner soul masters condemned Yu Xiaogang, Mother Yu saw her son’s pain and was heartbroken.

• Liu Erlong felt awkward after realizing Qian Xunji surpassed Yu Xiaogang in talent and wisdom, while Tang San mocked her for defending him.
• Qian Xunji accused Yu Xiaogang of taking credit for a commoner soul master's discovery and warned that his Spirit Ring Absorption Limit Theory could kill those who followed it.
• Qian Xunji told Liu Erlong that Yu Xiaogang had married the former Holy Maiden of Spirit Hall, then dismissed her and Flender from Spirit Hall.
• Liu Erlong refused to believe Qian Xunji and vowed to question people in Spirit Hall about Yu Xiaogang's marriage.
• Commoner soul masters in both worlds denounced Yu Xiaogang, and Mother Yu saw her son lower his head in pain and felt heartbroken.

Mother Yu persuaded Yu Yuanzhen to use the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect’s rare spirit medicines to help Yu Xiaogang evolve Luo Sanpao into the Golden Holy Dragon. After securing the elders’ agreement, they planned a grand public ceremony to surprise Xiaogang and display the evolution to the continent.

• Mother Yu warned Yu Yuanzhen that Bibi Dong could threaten Xiaogang and the sect, and argued that the Dragon Blood Grass and spirit medicines should be used to evolve Luo Sanpao.
• Yu Yuanzhen agreed to gamble on Xiaogang’s Martial Soul Evolution and convened an elders’ council.
• Yu Yuanzhen and the elders reached a compromise: Great Elder and Second Elder received resources for breakthrough attempts, while the sect master’s line secured the final Dragon Blood Grass and other medicines for Xiaogang.
• Mother Yu proposed inviting powerful factions and clans to Thunder Peak to witness a public Martial Soul Sublimation Ceremony without telling Xiaogang beforehand.
• Yu Yuanzhen approved the plan and assigned Mother Yu to organize a grand ceremony.

Bibi Dong used the Joint Enforcement Team’s search for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect’s killers to ambush the Heaven Dou Empire, Star Luo Empire, Clear Sky Sect, and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect teams while sparing Spirit Hall’s forces. After the other powers suffered heavy losses, Xue Ye called for a five-party summit to make Spirit Hall share greater responsibility for fighting Evil Soul Masters.

• Bibi Dong ordered the Rakshasa Cult to attack the Heaven Dou Empire, Star Luo Empire, Clear Sky Sect, and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect teams while avoiding Spirit Hall’s team.
• Rakshasa Cult forces wiped out the Heaven Dou Empire team, badly damaged the Star Luo Empire and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect teams, and forced the Clear Sky Sect team to retreat with casualties.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei led Spirit Hall’s team through several attacks without losing anyone.
• Xue Ye, Dai Tianxiao, and Ning Fengzhi reacted angrily to their forces’ losses and grew suspicious of the stark contrast with Spirit Hall’s lack of casualties.
• Xue Ye proposed a five-party summit in Star Luo Imperial City to reconsider the campaign against Evil Soul Masters and require Spirit Hall to bear greater responsibility.

Qian Renxue and Tang San grew furious as the White World’s leaders treated Spirit Hall’s sacrifices as its duty, and Tang San considered founding an Evil Soul Master organization to make the continent appreciate Spirit Hall. Meanwhile, Qian Xunji prepared Qian Renchuan for a political meeting in Star Luo Imperial City, where Spirit Hall would face pressure over the campaign against Evil Soul Masters.

• Qian Renxue and Tang San condemned the leaders in the Comparison Video for taking Spirit Hall’s sacrifices for granted, and Tang San thought of establishing an Evil Soul Master organization.
• Qian Xunji received an invitation to a meeting in Star Luo Imperial City about the Evil Soul Master organization that destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect.
• Qian Xunji told Qian Renchuan that the empires and Upper Three Sects might use the meeting to pressure Spirit Hall and shift responsibility onto it.
• Qian Renchuan accepted his father’s invitation and prepared to attend the meeting as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son.
• Three days later, Qian Xunji took Qian Renchuan and flew toward Star Luo Imperial City with his Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

Qian Xunji attended the Five-Party Conference in Star Luo Imperial City, where the other representatives pressed Spirit Hall to send more Title Douluo against the Evil Soul Masters. He argued that Spirit Hall’s forces were already needed to maintain order across the continent, leaving the meeting poised for further debate.

• Qian Xunji and Qian Renchuan arrived at the Star Luo Imperial City and joined the Five-Party Conference with Dai Tianfeng, Dai Tianxiao, Xue Xing, Ning Fengzhi, and Tang Xiao.
• Dai Tianfeng reported that the joint Law Enforcement Teams had suffered catastrophic losses fighting the Evil Soul Master organization, while Ju and Gui’s team had avoided a large-scale assault.
• Xue Xing, Ning Fengzhi, and Tang Xiao each urged Qian Xunji to commit more Title Douluo, arguing that Spirit Hall had the resources and duty to lead the campaign.
• Qian Xunji recognized their coordinated attempt to shift the costs of the campaign onto Spirit Hall but kept his composure.
• Qian Xunji said Spirit Hall’s high-level Soul Masters were needed to protect the entire continent and warned that deploying several Title Douluo for an extended hunt could leave other regions vulnerable.

Qian Xunji deflected demands that Spirit Hall take sole responsibility for hunting the Evil Soul Masters, while Ning Fengzhi offered support if Spirit Hall would lead the campaign. Qian Xunji revealed that he wanted greater authority to form specialized enforcement and guard forces, leaving the others to consider his terms.

• Qian Xunji argued that Spirit Hall had committed as many forces as it could spare and that the Evil Soul Masters evaded direct battles.
• Ning Fengzhi acknowledged Spirit Hall's efforts but warned that the other factions lacked the strength to pursue the Evil Soul Masters safely.
• Ning Fengzhi offered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's help and suggested that the other leaders would also support Spirit Hall if it took charge.
• Qian Xunji said Spirit Hall's restrictions on staffing, training, and authorization hindered its response to major threats.
• Qian Xunji proposed greater autonomy to create specialized law enforcement forces and maintain regular guards.

Qian Xunji’s proposal to let Spirit Hall form and maintain a standing guard force met firm resistance from the empires and sects, ending the meeting without agreement. On the flight home, Qian Renchuan explained that Spirit Hall’s long service had been taken for granted, earning his father’s approval.

• Dai Tianfeng and Prince Xue Xing rejected Qian Xunji’s proposal to give Spirit Hall greater autonomy and the right to train an army, while Ning Fengzhi and Tang Xiao remained silent.
• Qian Xunji set the proposal aside and ended the meeting, leaving the gathered powers wary of Spirit Hall’s ambitions.
• Qian Xunji and Qian Renchuan flew away from Star Luo Imperial City with their Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul wings.
• Qian Xunji asked Qian Renchuan what he had learned from the meeting, and Qian Renchuan said the other powers took Spirit Hall’s sacrifices for granted and resented its request for matching authority.
• Qian Xunji listened with growing approval as Qian Renchuan described the meeting as an example of how a peck of rice earned gratitude while a bushel earned resentment.

Qian Daoliu watched the white world's Qian Xunji explain how Spirit Hall could use the Evil Soul Masters crisis to advance its plans, and he recognized why Spirit Hall's strength was necessary to protect civilians. The chapter ended with him lamenting that the strategic Qian Xunji was not his son and imagining that his own Spirit Hall might have survived.

• Qian Xunji told Qian Renchuan that Spirit Hall's offers to the empires and sects were meant to establish its terms and that they would eventually seek Spirit Hall's help against the Evil Soul Masters.
• Qian Xunji argued that Spirit Hall should use the crisis to unify the continent and rebuild a system that exploited civilians and allowed suffering.
• Qian Daoliu watched the comparison video and recalled the bleak future that followed Spirit Hall's destruction, where civilians lacked protection and Evil Soul Masters ran rampant.
• Qian Daoliu concluded that Spirit Hall's role as a force of order deserved respect and that unrestrained empires and nobles would make the continent worse.
• Qian Daoliu compared the white world's Qian Xunji's political strategy with his own son's failed reliance on brute force and wished the white world's Qian Xunji had been his son.

Tang San rejected Xiao Wu’s offer to hide in the Star Dou Great Forest and decided to go to Slaughter City to form an Evil Soul Master organization against the hypocrites he blamed. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang’s parents secretly arranged a Martial Soul Ascension Ceremony for him, while the White World video showed the northern Heaven Dou Empire’s crisis worsening.

• Tang San refused to enter the Star Dou Great Forest with Xiao Wu and said he had somewhere else to go.
• Tang San decided to travel to Slaughter City, obtain Divine Slaughter’s Domain, and establish an Evil Soul Master organization called Holy Spirit Cult.
• Yu Xiaogang avoided asking Yu Yuanzhen and Mother Yu for spiritual medicine because he feared wasting their resources.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Mother Yu mistook Yu Xiaogang’s silence for newfound maturity and arranged a Martial Soul Ascension Ceremony, inviting powerful factions across the continent.
• The White World video showed the Rakshasa Cult striking the Heaven Dou Empire as Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo staged a half-hearted response, worsening the northern crisis.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect held a grand ceremony to evolve Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, into a Golden Holy Dragon and restore his reputation. As Yu Dalong announced the ceremony before the gathered guests, Liu Erlong brought Yu Xiaogang toward the platform, still unaware of the surprise awaiting him.

• Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin discussed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect’s mysterious invitation, and Ning Fengzhi decided they should attend.
• Major powers across the continent sent representatives to the ceremony at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect.
• Yu Dalong welcomed the guests and announced that Yu Xiaogang would undergo a Martial Soul ascension before the continent.
• Yu Dalong explained that the sect planned to use Dragon Blood Grass and other spirit medicines to evolve Luo Sanpao into a Golden Holy Dragon.
• Liu Erlong brought Yu Xiaogang toward the platform under the pretext that the Sect Master had summoned him.

Yu Xiaogang reluctantly began a public Martial Soul Ascension Ceremony after his family prepared rare spirit medicines, including Dragon Blood Grass, hoping Luo Sanpao would evolve. The Dragon Blood Grass triggered a dramatic reaction, leaving Yu Xiaogang and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect watching as Luo Sanpao began to change.

• Mother Yu urged Yu Xiaogang to prove himself by evolving Luo Sanpao with the spirit medicines prepared by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect.
• Yu Xiaogang climbed onto the platform and welcomed the gathered guests to witness his Martial Soul Ascension Ceremony.
• Yu Dalong displayed Dragon Blood Grass and other rare spirit medicines before encouraging Yu Xiaogang to begin.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao and persuaded him to swallow the Dragon Blood Grass despite his earlier indigestion.
• Luo Sanpao glowed purple and began to twist and expand, filling Yu Xiaogang and the onlookers with hope that his Martial Soul was evolving.

Yu Xiaogang fed Luo Sanpao all the remaining spiritual herbs in a desperate attempt to complete its transformation, but the Purple Scaled Dragon Pig's overloaded body exploded with a torrent of poisonous filth. The blast destroyed the platform and drenched the guests and Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect disciples, leaving the gathering in chaos.

• Luo Sanpao emerged from the purple cocoon as a huge Purple Scaled Dragon Pig instead of the hoped-for Golden Holy Dragon, shocking Yu Yuanzhen, Mother Yu, Yu Dalong, and the guests.
• Mother Yu and Yu Dalong urged Yu Xiaogang to feed Luo Sanpao the remaining spiritual herbs, and he forced them all into its mouth.
• Luo Sanpao's stomach swelled as chaotic energy built inside it, and Yu Xiaogang recognized the danger but could not stop what was happening.
• Luo Sanpao unleashed an explosive torrent that shattered the platform and launched it into the air.
• Poisonous green rain drenched Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, Prince Xue Xing, Ye Zhilan, and the other guests, while Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect disciples were also splattered.

Yu Xiaogang fled the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect after Luo Sanpao’s disastrous attack left the sect disgraced. Meanwhile, the Comparison Video showed Liu Erlong and Flender discovering evidence that Yu Xiaogang had plagiarized Spirit Hall’s research, leaving them devastated.

• Yu Dalong and Mother Yu saw the ruined ceremony and realized the disaster had destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect’s reputation.
• Yu Xiaogang recovered in the woods, blamed himself for the calamity, and ran away from the sect.
• The Comparison Video showed Liu Erlong questioning a Spirit Hall soul master, who accused Yu Xiaogang of deceiving the Holy Maiden and stealing research.
• A bookseller added that Yu Xiaogang had plagiarized Spirit Hall texts for his theories and named the books he had copied.
• Liu Erlong and Flender asked more people, checked the cited books in the central library, and found that Yu Xiaogang’s work closely matched them.

After learning that Yu Xiaogang had deceived Bibi Dong and secretly married her, Liu Erlong abandoned her affection for him and prepared to leave Spirit City with Flender. On the way, she discovered Spirit Hall’s agricultural research work for commoners and began reconsidering her hostility toward the organization.

• An elderly former Spirit Hall maid told Liu Erlong that Yu Xiaogang had manipulated Bibi Dong, who was expelled after protecting him, and that the two had married.
• Liu Erlong erupted in anger and grief, denounced Yu Xiaogang as a liar, and decided to leave Spirit City with Flender.
• Outside the city, Liu Erlong and Flender noticed a fenced experimental field and asked a young Spirit Hall deacon what it was.
• The deacon explained that the Martial Soul Hall Agricultural Research Division studied improved crops, Soul Skill-assisted farming, and better tools to help commoners.
• Seeing the researchers, farmers, and experimental crops, Liu Erlong remembered Spirit Hall’s past support for her village and herself, and felt shame and remorse.

After witnessing Spirit Hall’s work for ordinary people, Liu Erlong and Flender apologized to Qian Xunji and joined Spirit Hall. In the Black World, Flender and Ma Hongjun watched the comparison video, and Flender reflected that the White World’s Shrek Academy had likely been absorbed into Spirit Hall.

• Liu Erlong regretted believing Yu Xiaogang’s accusations against Spirit Hall and told Flender she intended to return, apologize to Qian Xunji, and join Spirit Hall.
• Flender agreed to go with Liu Erlong, and they returned to Spirit City to request an audience with Qian Xunji.
• Liu Erlong and Flender confessed their past misconduct, apologized, and asked to join Spirit Hall; Qian Xunji forgave them and accepted them into the Enforcement Group and Spirit Hall Academy.
• In the Black World, Ma Hongjun asked Flender whether the White World’s Shrek Academy had been absorbed into Spirit Hall.
• Flender reflected that Spirit Hall protected ordinary people and felt gratified that he and Liu Erlong had chosen to join it in the White World.

Qian Xunji advised Qian Renxue about using strength to protect the innocent, while Liu Erlong finally gave up on Yu Xiaogang after he fled again. In the White World, Shui Bing'er reached level fifty, and Qian Xunji prepared to take her and Qian Renchuan to the Far North for her fifth Soul Ring.

• Qian Xunji told Qian Renxue that protecting good people required confronting evil without being bound by blind kindness.
• Yu Dalong reported that Yu Xiaogang had disappeared from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect after the disastrous ceremony, and Liu Erlong finally let go of him.
• The Comparison Video showed that Shui Bing'er had reached level fifty after nearly a year of cultivation with Spirit Hall's support.
• Qian Xunji praised Shui Bing'er's progress and said her fifth Soul Ring should come from a suitable Ice Attribute soul beast.
• Qian Xunji led Shui Bing'er and Qian Renchuan toward the Far North, then summoned the phantom of a Three-Headed Dragon outside Pope Hall.

Qian Xunji took Qian Renchuan and Shui Bing'er to the Far North aboard Yinglong to find a suitable fifth Soul Ring for Shui Bing'er. He located a seventeen-thousand-year Ice Luan and subdued it, leaving it wounded and unable to move.

• Qian Renchuan explained that Qian Xunji's Second Martial Soul, Yinglong, had evolved from Luo Sanpao into the Holy Light Icefire Dragon King.
• Qian Xunji flew Qian Renchuan and Shui Bing'er to the Far North on Yinglong's back.
• Qian Xunji used his Angel Domain to search for an Ice Attribute soul beast suitable for Shui Bing'er's fifth Soul Ring.
• Qian Xunji found a seventeen-thousand-year Ice Luan in an Ice Valley and brought Yinglong there.
• Qian Xunji used his Time Stasis Soul Skill to immobilize the Ice Luan, then pierced its wing and shoulder with a golden spear.

Shui Bing'er absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Ice Luan's Soul Ring and gained the fifth spirit skill Extreme Ice Blizzard, after which Qian Xunji proposed searching the Far North for Ten Thousand Year Cold Marrow. In the Black World, Shui Yue'er envied White World Shui Bing'er and openly fantasized about marrying Qian Renchuan or Qian Xunji.

• Shui Bing'er killed the wounded Ten Thousand Year Ice Luan and began absorbing its Soul Ring while Qian Xunji and Qian Renchuan guarded her.
• Shui Bing'er successfully absorbed the Soul Ring, grew much stronger, and demonstrated her fifth spirit skill, Extreme Ice Blizzard.
• Qian Xunji explained the benefits of Ten Thousand Year Cold Marrow and led Qian Renchuan and Shui Bing'er deeper into the Far North to search for it.
• Watching the Comparison Video, Black World Shui Yue'er envied the care White World Shui Bing'er received and said she would gladly marry Qian Renchuan or Qian Xunji.
• Shui Bing'er scolded Shui Yue'er for wanting to rely on others, but Shui Yue'er continued admiring the two men on the Heavenly Screen.

Qian Xunji, Shui Bing'er, and Qian Renchuan searched the Far North for Ten Thousand Year Cold Marrow and drew the attention of its rulers. The Snow Empress and Ice Empress arrived at the glacial fissure, where the Snow Empress confronted the three humans riding Yinglong.

• Qian Xunji used his Angel Domain to scan the Far North for Ten Thousand Year Cold Marrow and found a likely source beneath a glacial fissure.
• The Snow Empress sensed Yinglong's powerful aura and left her ice palace to investigate.
• The Ice Empress and Titan Snow Demon King also sensed the aura and headed toward its source.
• Qian Xunji told Shui Bing'er and Qian Renchuan he could pass through the ice with Etherealization to retrieve the Cold Marrow.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress arrived in a strengthening blizzard, and the Snow Empress demanded to know who the three humans were.