Chapter Summaries

Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong woke after a passionate night, then hurried to hide the evidence when Qian Renxue came looking for them. Later, Yue Guan reported that the two academies were ready, and Qian Xunji decided they would open within the next two days.

• Qian Xunji woke beside Bibi Dong and asked whether she felt like two different people by day and night.
• Qian Renxue knocked on the door, prompting Bibi Dong and Qian Xunji to dress in a hurry and explain why they had slept until afternoon.
• Qian Renxue teased Qian Xunji about bullying Bibi Dong, and Qian Xunji claimed they had stayed up late handling matters.
• Qian Xunji, Bibi Dong, and Qian Renxue left their quarters and boarded a carriage with Yue Guan.
• Yue Guan told Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong that Martial Soul Academy and Scholarship Academy were complete and that Flender and Liu Erlong were preparing them.
• Qian Xunji decided the academies would open within the next two days without further publicity.

Qian Renxue told her parents she wanted to experience ordinary school life, and they brought her to Martial Soul Academy as it prepared to open. Flender reported that the academy was nearly ready, though it still needed several practical instructors and teachers for some Scholarship Academy subjects.

• Qian Renxue asked Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong to let her go to school, hoping to make friends and experience academy life.
• Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong brought Qian Renxue to Martial Soul Academy, where crowds gathered to see the new school and learn about enrollment.
• Yue Guan woke Flender in the Dean's Office, and Flender claimed he had been meditating while Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong questioned him about preparations.
• Flender reported that the faculty list, schedules, materials, supplies, and admissions policies were ready.
• Bibi Dong said the academy would open and begin admissions the day after tomorrow, and Flender warned that several teaching positions remained unfilled.

Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong set affordable tuition and higher salaries for Spirit Hall’s new academies, which opened to long lines of applicants. While touring the Training Ground with Qian Xunji, Qian Renxue insisted on trying the strength test, and the chapter ends with her stepping onto the platform as the waiting crowd doubted her.

• Bibi Dong rejected Flender’s suggestion to make tuition as cheap as possible, and they settled on tuition twenty percent below other academies and teacher salaries twenty percent higher.
• Martial Soul Academy and Scholarship Academy opened two days later, drawing crowds of children and parents to the admissions tests.
• The academies admitted applicants who met the posted requirements, while those who failed left disappointed.
• Qian Xunji explained that the admission threshold had been set at Soul Power Level fifteen so the academy could help ordinary children grow into exceptional Soul Masters.
• Qian Renxue asked Qian Xunji to let her try the Strength Tester, and he agreed despite her being only two years old.
• The testing teacher brought Qian Renxue to the platform as students and parents whispered and laughed at the sight of her.

Qian Renxue stunned the academy crowd by scoring 330 on the Strength Tester before her second birthday, and Qian Xunji ended her testing early. After enrollment finished, Flender looked ahead to the academy’s future while Qian Xunji assigned Elder She Long and Elder Ci Xue to help with follow-up work.

• Qian Renxue punched the Strength Tester and scored 330, silencing the crowd that had doubted her.
• Flender inspected the machine and confirmed it was working properly.
• Qian Xunji asked an eleven-year-old boy to test the machine, and the boy scored 343, only thirteen points higher than Qian Renxue.
• Qian Xunji stopped Qian Renxue’s testing before the pressure test and carried her away from the Training Ground.
• Flender watched the final family leave after enrollment ended and reflected on the beginning of his dream.
• Qian Xunji gave Elder She Long a list and asked Elder She Long and Elder Ci Xue to assist Dean Flender with follow-up work.

Qian Xunji and Qian Renxue returned to their quiet home, where he cooked dinner and she drew a birthday cake. Bibi Dong came home, heard about Qian Renxue’s remarkable strength test, and joined the family for dinner before Qian Renxue promised to play her flute.

• Qian Xunji and Qian Renxue returned home, and he began cooking while she drew a three-tiered cake.
• Bibi Dong came home from Scholarship Academy, and Qian Renxue greeted her warmly.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Xunji that parents at Scholarship Academy were already discussing Qian Renxue’s strength test result of three hundred and thirty.
• Qian Xunji prepared the family’s dinner, and Bibi Dong cooled spoonfuls of steamed egg for Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue said she would play the flute Grandpa had given her after dinner, and Qian Xunji agreed to listen.

Qian Renxue played the flute and helped Qian Xunji wash dishes before he persuaded her to prank Bibi Dong. After Qian Xunji trapped Qian Renxue in the bedroom with Bibi Dong, she tried to appease her mother by blaming her father.

• Qian Renxue played Gusu Journey for Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong, then claimed Azure Luan Douluo had taught her the piece.
• Qian Renxue helped Qian Xunji wash the dishes after dinner.
• Qian Xunji persuaded Qian Renxue to slap Bibi Dong's leg while she wore a cucumber mask, and they repeated the prank twice.
• Qian Xunji shut Qian Renxue in the bedroom with Bibi Dong and claimed he was going downstairs to get something.
• Qian Renxue approached Bibi Dong and said she liked her mother most and that Qian Xunji was the worst.

Qian Renxue exposed Qian Xunji for encouraging her to hit Bibi Dong, and Bibi Dong teamed up with their daughter to punish him. Over the next half year, Spirit Hall expanded its Soul Tool forces and influence while its academies and research institute continued to grow.

• Qian Renxue bit Qian Xunji and told Bibi Dong that he had encouraged her to hit her, then locked her away and abandoned her.
• Bibi Dong bound Qian Xunji with spider silk, and she and Qian Renxue beat him until he admitted his mistake.
• Spirit Hall established the Martial Soul Hall Soul Tool Legion, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Lower Four Sects received weapons and partial technology licenses.
• Ning Fengzhi refused the Heaven Dou Royal Family's request to sell Soul Tool technology, while Dugu Bo's poison stabilized and Dugu Xin became a leading poison-attribute Soul Tool researcher.
• Martial Soul Academy and Scholarship Academy filled their places, and Flender recruited Zhao Wuji and Shao Xin as teachers at Martial Soul Academy.

Ling Yuan gave birth to a healthy daughter, and Bi Bixi and their family gathered to meet the baby. The newborn remained unnamed as Ling Yuan rested and Liu Xiulan cared for her.

• Bi Bixi paced anxiously while Ling Yuan was in labor, with their family waiting nearby.
• The midwife announced that Ling Yuan and her daughter were both safe.
• Bi Bixi rushed to Ling Yuan’s bedside, and the family welcomed the newborn girl.
• Qian Renxue gently touched the baby’s hand and promised to teach her many things and protect her.
• Bi Bixi could not settle on a name, and Ling Yuan fell asleep while Liu Xiulan held the baby.

Qian Renxue met her newborn little sister and returned home with Bibi Dong, where Qian Xunji announced plans to help Bibi Dong hunt a Soul Ring and eventually enter Slaughter City. After dinner, Qian Renxue insisted that she was old enough to sleep alone, secretly hoping to avoid being woken by her parents at night.

• Bibi Xi and Bi Dashan stayed behind to care for Ling Yuan as Bibi Dong took Qian Renxue home.
• Qian Renxue told Qian Xunji that Auntie had given birth to a tiny little sister, and he said she was an older sister now.
• Qian Xunji told Bibi Dong that he would take her to the Star Dou Forest for a Soul Ring, accompanied by Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Ghost Leopard Douluo.
• At dinner, Qian Renxue asked Bibi Dong whether childbirth hurt and whether she had been worth it; Bibi Dong assured her she was.
• Qian Renxue announced that she would sleep by herself, claiming she was old enough because she was an older sister, though she really wanted to avoid being woken by her parents at night.

Qian Renxue insisted on sleeping alone, and Bibi Dong and Qian Xunji left her safely settled in her room. After Qian Xunji checked on her during the night, the system rewarded him with a Soul Storage Bottle for trusting his daughter to sleep independently.

• Bibi Dong prepared a room for Qian Renxue and laid quilts on the floor in case she fell out of bed.
• Qian Renxue insisted she was not afraid and happily went to sleep alone while her parents left the door ajar.
• Bibi Dong teased Qian Xunji for being eager to have their daughter sleep separately, then bit his shoulder as they playfully argued.
• Qian Xunji checked on Qian Renxue, found her sprawled across the bed, and covered her with the quilt.
• The system awarded Qian Xunji a Soul Storage Bottle after detecting that Qian Renxue had fallen asleep independently for the first time.

Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong led Spirit Hall’s forces toward Star Dou Forest to confront its two great overlords. After making camp on the forest’s outskirts, they planned their approach while Bibi Dong prepared to advance to Titled Douluo.

• Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong set out from Spirit Hall with Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Ghost Leopard Douluo, Cardinals, and elite knights.
• The procession reached Star Dou Forest at night, and Qian Xunji ordered the troops to make camp.
• Qian Xunji assigned Yue Guan and Gui Mei to restrain the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, with Ghost Leopard Douluo assisting.
• Bibi Dong said she needed to hunt Soul Rings and advance to Titled Douluo before fighting the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, and Qian Xunji agreed to help her choose rings on the way.
• The group studied a map and discussed their tactics for reaching the Core Area and fighting the Soul Beasts.
• Inside their tent, Bibi Dong asked Qian Xunji whether he was nervous about facing Star Dou Forest’s strongest Soul Beasts.

Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong entered the Star Dou Forest's core region and used Soul-Attracting Incense to draw out Soul Beasts. They spotted a sixty-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider and a fifty-thousand-year Green-Fang Demon Armor Beast as possible targets.

• Qian Xunji comforted Bibi Dong as they talked about their daughter Xiao Xue before going to sleep.
• At dawn, Qian Xunji led the Knights and elders into the forest's core region with Bibi Dong beside him.
• Qian Xunji enhanced the Aromatic Silk Beauty's fragrance with Soul-Attracting Incense and set it out to lure Soul Beasts.
• Several lesser Soul Beasts gathered nearby, and Qian Xunji waited for more valuable targets to appear.
• Qian Xunji spotted a sixty-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider that suited Bibi Dong's Spider Emperor Martial Soul and told her to keep it as a backup.
• A fifty-thousand-year Green-Fang Demon Armor Beast emerged from the undergrowth.

Qian Xunji’s forces weakened the Green-Fang Demon Armor Beast so Bibi Dong could kill it and obtain its Soul Ring. Qian Xunji then shot the Man Faced Demon Spider from the canopy, leaving it wounded but still alive.

• Qian Xunji chose the Green-Fang Demon Armor Beast as the first target and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, the Cardinals, and the Knights to surround and exhaust it while Elder Ghost Leopard watched the Man Faced Demon Spider.
• The Cardinals and Knights attacked the Green-Fang Demon Armor Beast until its shell cracked and its stamina waned.
• Ghost Douluo struck the beast’s unarmored belly, and Chrysanthemum Douluo pierced its front legs, knocking it down.
• Bibi Dong used her sixth Soul Skill, Blood-Sucking Spider Thorn, to kill the Green-Fang Demon Armor Beast, and a black Soul Ring rose from its corpse.
• Qian Xunji summoned the God of Light Bow and shot the Man Faced Demon Spider through its armored back, sending it crashing from the canopy while it still struggled to fight.

Bibi Dong killed a Man Faced Demon Spider, and Qian Xunji gave its External Soul Bone to Ghost Leopard. With Qian Xunji’s support, Bibi Dong began absorbing the Man Faced Demon Spider’s sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring and the Green-Fang Demon Armor Beast’s fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring at the same time, but the process was still underway.

• Bibi Dong killed the Man Faced Demon Spider with her sixth Soul Skill, leaving behind a sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring and an External Soul Bone.
• Qian Xunji offered the External Soul Bone to the elders, and Ghost Leopard accepted it after Yue Guan declined.
• Qian Xunji asked Bibi Dong to absorb both Soul Rings at once and assured her that her strengthened body and his help would protect her.
• Bibi Dong began absorbing the two Soul Rings as Qian Xunji supported her and her Martial Soul suppressed the Soul Beasts’ resentment.
• Bibi Dong overcame the resentment, but the two Soul Rings’ immense Soul Power continued surging through her body.

Bibi Dong reached level ninety after Qian Xunji helped her absorb the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor’s Soul Rings, and Spirit Hall’s party continued toward the Star Dou Forest’s core. The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape fled when they sensed the approaching group, but Qian Xunji caught up and the pursuit turned into a fight.

• Qian Xunji controlled the flow of Divine Light Power into Bibi Dong until she reached level ninety, one Soul Ring short of becoming a Titled Douluo.
• Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall’s party advanced into the Star Dou Forest’s core to seek her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape sensed Qian Xunji and the larger force approaching, then fled west because they believed they could not defeat them.
• Qian Xunji found the two overlords’ trail and pursued them as Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Ghost Leopard, and the Knights spread out to surround them.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python attacked Qian Xunji with Dragon Breath, but his God of Light Shield blocked it.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo struck the Titan Giant Ape, which countered with Titan Fist and sent him crashing through trees, leaving him injured but completing his mission.

Ah Rou rushed to save the injured Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python from Qian Xunji’s forces, leaving Xiao Wu alone at their cave. Ah Rou shattered the Polarity Stillness Domain, but Qian Xunji struck at her with a powerful Soul Skill as her protection had faded.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei trapped the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape in the Polarity Stillness Domain while Qian Xunji prepared to attack.
• Xiao Wu begged Ah Rou not to go, but Ah Rou left her at the cave and rushed to help Daming and Erming.
• Bibi Dong attacked the wounded Titan Giant Ape, and Ah Rou used Invincible Golden Body to shield it from her spider thorns.
• Ah Rou cut down three Cardinals and fought past the Knights while trying to reach Yue Guan and Gui Mei.
• Ah Rou used her Charm skill to stun Yue Guan and struck him, breaking the Polarity Stillness Domain and freeing Daming and Erming.
• Qian Xunji unleashed Angel Holy Light Slash at Ah Rou just after her Invincible Golden Body disappeared.

Bibi Dong killed Ah Rou and absorbed her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring with Qian Xunji’s help. She emerged two days later as a level ninety-two Titled Douluo, while the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape escaped with Xiao Wu in their care.

• Qian Xunji wounded Ah Rou as the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape fled, then ordered the Spirit Hall forces to pursue them without killing them.
• Bibi Dong killed Ah Rou, took her Spirit Bone, and reflected on the compassion she felt before deciding to absorb the Soul Ring.
• Qian Xunji helped Bibi Dong endure the violent Soul Power and Ah Rou’s lingering resentment as she absorbed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring over two days.
• Bibi Dong reached level ninety-two and thanked Qian Xunji, embracing him.

Bibi Dong discovered that her ninth Soul Ring gave her Invincible Golden Body and Teleportation, while she and Qian Xunji hunted for Xiao Wu. A mysterious figure took Xiao Wu away, and Yue Guan attacked the exhausted Daming and Erming as they fled through the forest.

• Bibi Dong tested her new Invincible Golden Body and Teleportation soul skills, and Qian Xunji realized her abilities differed from those in the original timeline.
• Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong decided to kill the remaining Soft Bone Rabbits and left Ah Rou's corpse to lure Xiao Wu into their trap.
• Xiao Wu returned to her mother's corpse, agreed to a black-mist figure's offer of revenge, and vanished with it before Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong returned.
• Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong searched the empty area but could not detect Xiao Wu or determine how she had disappeared.
• Yue Guan told Qian Xunji that Daming and Erming were near exhaustion, and Qian Xunji ordered him to hold them until he arrived.
• Yue Guan unleashed Golden Stamen Flowing Rosy Clouds at the fleeing Daming and Erming.

Qian Xunji returned to the battlefield as Daming and Erming broke free from Yue Guan and Gui Mei’s domain. He seized the exhausted Sky Azure Bull Python while Bibi Dong attacked the Titan Giant Ape, ending with her surviving its Titan Firmament Cannon through Invincible Golden Body.

• Ghost Leopard Douluo struck Erming with his ninth soul skill, but Erming shattered the phantom panther and severely wounded him.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei joined their Martial Souls and froze Daming and Erming with the Polarity Stillness Domain while Cardinals tried to heal Ghost Leopard Douluo.
• Qian Xunji arrived with Bibi Dong and healed Ghost Leopard Douluo using Light Praise.
• Daming and Erming shattered the domain with a burst of energy and confronted Qian Xunji, who admitted that he had killed Ah Rou.
• Qian Xunji seized the exhausted Sky Azure Bull Python with Burning Heaven Rending Sky Claw and told Bibi Dong to face the Titan Giant Ape.
• Bibi Dong used her clone and Teleportation to attack the Titan Giant Ape, then survived its Titan Firmament Cannon with Invincible Golden Body.

Bibi Dong and Qian Xunji killed the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python, leaving two hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings. Qian Xunji learned that Bibi Dong could attempt to absorb both at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and told her he had an idea.

• Bibi Dong and her clone fatally poisoned the Titan Giant Ape, then Qian Xunji defeated the Sky Azure Bull Python's final attack.
• Bibi Dong killed the wounded Sky Azure Bull Python, and two hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings and a Spirit Bone appeared.
• Qian Xunji healed the Spirit Hall forces as they gathered around the two Soul Rings, while the group debated whether Bibi Dong could absorb both.
• The system assessed a sixty-percent risk in absorbing both Soul Rings at once, but said the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and Bibi Dong's Asura Divine Power could reduce it to twenty percent.
• The system said the Soul Rings could remain stable in Bibi Dong's body for twelve hours, and Qian Xunji told her he had an idea.