Chapter Summaries

Ning Fengzhi brought Liu Erlong, Su Chen, and the Blue Tyrant Academy group to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, where academies from both empires gathered to compete for the chance to reach Sea God Island. The gathering left Dai Mubai face-to-face with his older brother and rival, Dai Weisi.

• Ning Fengzhi stopped Liu Erlong from crushing Dai Mubai by asking her to spare him, then noticed that she deferred to Su Chen.
• Ning Fengzhi sent Ning Rongrong to reconnect with Zhu Zhuqing while he spoke with Liu Erlong and escorted the group away from Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Ning Fengzhi led the group to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, where thousands of students and teachers from academies across both empires had gathered.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong departed after bringing the group to the front of the plaza, leaving Ning Rongrong with Su Chen and the others.
• Dai Weisi approached Dai Mubai with Zhu Zhuyun behind him and greeted his younger brother.

Dai Mubai tried to get the Star Luo Empire’s Second Worship to punish Su Chen and his companions, while Su Chen decided to cripple him rather than kill him. Xue Ye announced a tournament to select ten people for the Sea God Trial, and a masked Tang San watched the crowd with contempt.

• Dai Mubai asked Dai Weisi to take him to the Second Worship, but Dai Weisi refused to bring him into the main hall.
• Su Chen rejected Liu Erlong’s suggestion to attack Dai Mubai openly and said they could cripple him without killing him.
• Zhu Zhuyun asked Zhu Zhuqing to return home after the gathering, but Zhu Zhuqing refused because she distrusted their father’s intentions.
• Xue Ye announced that one-on-one spirit battles would select ten participants for the Sea God Trial, who would also receive marquis rank from both empires.
• Tang San, concealing his awakened Blue Silver Emperor bloodline behind a mask, listened to the crowd and dismissed their hopes of claiming the Sea God’s position.

After her Martial Soul evolved, Yu Xiaogang discovered that she had become a woman and suffered Flender’s assault. The Rakshasa God then chose her as a potential instrument of revenge against Bibi Dong.

• Tang Hao and Tang San returned to the Clear Sky Sect, whose elders welcomed them after learning Tang San would inherit the Sea God and Asura God.
• Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul Evolution Pill broke her level-twenty-nine bottleneck, raised her Soul Power to level thirty-eight, and transformed her Martial Soul into a top-tier one.
• Yu Xiaogang realized that her evolved Martial Soul had changed her into a woman, while its fragrance drove Flender to attack her.
• The Rakshasa God recognized Yu Xiaogang, saw her as a possible ally against Bibi Dong, and entered her body.

Yu Xiaogang accepted the Rakshasa God’s inheritance and killed Flender as her first trial, then went to Heaven Dou City seeking Tang San. Meanwhile, Dai Mubai and Ling You confronted Su Chen’s group at Blue Tyrant Academy, where ‘Liu Erlong’ prepared to respond.

• Yu Xiaogang awoke consumed by hatred and accepted the Rakshasa God’s offer to become an inheritor.
• The Rakshasa God began Yu Xiaogang’s first trial, ordering her to kill Flender, and Yu Xiaogang stabbed him to death.
• Yu Xiaogang searched for Tang San in Heaven Dou City, hoping to draw him close and bring him under her control.
• Su Chen forged Deep Silver while ‘Liu Erlong’ guided Zhu Zhuqing’s cultivation at Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Dai Mubai and Ling You arrived in the courtyard to confront ‘Liu Erlong’ and Zhu Zhuqing, and ‘Liu Erlong’ told Zhu Zhuqing to stop cultivating.

Dai Mubai provoked Zhu Zhuqing, and Liu Erlong attacked Ling You and crippled Dai Mubai when they tried to take them for judgment. Ning Fengzhi intervened to prevent further fighting, but after he left, Su Chen told Liu Erlong to kill their enemies if they returned.

• Dai Mubai accused Zhu Zhuqing of associating with others and claimed he had seen a masked man drag her into a room.
• Ling You demanded that Zhu Zhuqing and Liu Erlong go with him to face the Emperor's judgment, but Liu Erlong blocked his pressure and struck him into the air.
• Liu Erlong seized Dai Mubai as he tried to flee and crippled him, while Ling You prepared to attack her.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived with Gu Rong, Ning Rongrong, and Dugu Bo, then persuaded Ling You to take Dai Mubai for treatment and promised to resolve the matter.
• Su Chen defended Liu Erlong's actions as self-defense, and after Ning Fengzhi left, he told her to kill their enemies if they came again.

Su Chen continued his unbeaten run and faced Shui Bing'er of Skywater Academy, while Ning Fengzhi watched the mysterious 'Bibi Dong' appear among the spectators. Ning Fengzhi then concluded that Su Chen and the masked woman were the figures from the Sky Screen.

• Su Chen entered the arena to face Shui Bing'er, a level fifty-two Soul King from Skywater Academy.
• Ning Fengzhi reflected on his failed attempts to uncover Su Chen and 'Liu Erlong's' identities and their possible value to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• 'Bibi Dong' appeared behind the viewing platform's leaders, overwhelmed them with her aura, and ordered them to sit.
• Ning Fengzhi told Gu Rong that he suspected the masked pair were Su Chen and 'Liu Erlong' from the Sky Screen.

Ning Fengzhi realized Su Chen's value and urged the others to save him from Bibi Dong after Su Chen forfeited his match with Shui Bing'er and tried to flee. Bibi Dong captured him and pretended to be her old, Rakshasa-influenced self, just as Liu Erlong arrived to confront her.

• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong decided they had to befriend Su Chen and Liu Erlong to help restore the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's former glory.
• Su Chen forfeited his match against Shui Bing'er after Liu Erlong warned him that Bibi Dong had arrived.
• Bibi Dong recognized Su Chen, pursued him, and captured him after Ning Fengzhi revealed his identity to the people on the elevated platform.
• Bibi Dong questioned Su Chen about hiding from her and Liu Erlong, then decided to pretend she still wanted to keep him by force.
• Liu Erlong appeared in a blaze and demanded that Bibi Dong let Su Chen go.

Bibi Dong subdued Liu Erlong and knocked Su Chen unconscious after he feared Liu Erlong had been killed. She carried them into the Empress Palace while the other Bibi Dong prepared to gather materials for rebuilding her cultivation.

• Bibi Dong used Soul Backlash to make Liu Erlong faint when Liu Erlong attacked her with Heart-Burning Dragon Domain.
• Su Chen angrily confronted Bibi Dong, who assured him that Liu Erlong was only unconscious, then made him lose consciousness as well.
• Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile arrived at the Empress Palace, recognized Su Chen and Liu Erlong, and left after Bibi Dong said Su Chen was her lover.
• Bibi Dong carried Su Chen into the palace and used Spirit Qi to bring Liu Erlong with her.
• The other Bibi Dong agreed to gather the materials needed for rebuilding her cultivation and then left.

Bibi Dong, freed from the Rakshasa Divine Power’s influence, held Su Chen captive to make Liu Erlong watch her take him away as revenge for his marriage to Liu Erlong. Afterward, Bibi Dong released Liu Erlong and declared that they were even.

• Liu Erlong awoke in Bibi Dong’s secret chamber and begged her to spare Su Chen, but Bibi Dong said she had recovered and wanted revenge instead.
• Bibi Dong sealed Liu Erlong’s voice and bound her to a chair so she could watch Su Chen through a screen.
• Su Chen awoke and realized Bibi Dong was no longer corrupted, but she refused to release him and explained her plan to make Liu Erlong watch.
• Bibi Dong pressed Su Chen onto the bed while Liu Erlong watched helplessly from behind the screen.
• Afterward, Bibi Dong released Liu Erlong and told her that they were even.

After Bibi Dong carried Liu Erlong away, Su Chen woke sore and embarrassed, then joined Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, and Hu Liena for breakfast. A fiery challenger arrived at the pavilion and called Bibi Dong out to fight.

• Liu Erlong bit Bibi Dong and tried to reach Su Chen, but Bibi Dong restrained her and carried her out of the secret chamber.
• Su Chen woke the next morning sore from the previous night and resolved to become stronger so it would not happen again.
• Bibi Dong told Su Chen that her stimulation had helped Liu Erlong break through toward the Golden Core realm.
• Bibi Dong led Su Chen to the pavilion, where Qian Renxue and Hu Liena met him and noticed his stiff walk.
• As the group finished breakfast, a pillar of fire rose nearby and a streak of fire flew toward the pavilion, with someone challenging Bibi Dong to fight.

Liu Erlong confronted Bibi Dong after her breakthrough, but Su Chen stopped their fight. When Dugu Bo arrived in Spirit City, he revealed that Ning Fengzhi and others had taken Liu Erlong and Zhu Zhuqing; Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong prepared to confront them, while Dugu Bo warned the matter was more complicated.

• Liu Erlong challenged Bibi Dong, but Su Chen intervened and persuaded them to sit down instead of fighting.
• Hu Liena saw the confrontation and withdrew from her feelings for Su Chen, fearing Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong.
• Bibi Dong sensed a fight nearby and learned that Dugu Bo was battling Yue Guan; Su Chen said Dugu Bo had already become his ally.
• Dugu Bo arrived at the pavilion, relieved to see Su Chen safe, and reported that Ning Fengzhi and others had taken Liu Erlong and Zhu Zhuqing after sealing off Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong offered to deal with their enemies, but Dugu Bo warned that the situation was not simple.

Dugu Bo revealed that the Asura God’s faction had arranged a trap to draw Su Chen out, prompting Su Chen to seek help from a powerful being in the Star Dou Forest. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi’s group pressured Liu Erlong and Zhu Zhuqing to surrender their cultivation technique before the God of War appeared before them.

• Dugu Bo told Su Chen and the others that Sea God Island, the King of Slaughter, and other gods were supporting the effort to capture him.
• Su Chen reasoned that the Asura God could not act without limits and proposed seeking help from a powerful being deep in the Star Dou Forest.
• Ning Fengzhi and his group found Liu Erlong and Zhu Zhuqing imprisoned and demanded that they reveal their cultivation technique.
• Yu Luomian offered Liu Erlong a return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but she rejected him and he dropped his pretense.
• Zhu Zhuyun urged Zhu Zhuqing to cooperate, warning that the Star Luo royal family would punish her, but Zhu Zhuqing stayed silent.
• A golden light appeared in the room, and Ning Fengzhi and the others bowed to the arriving phantom as the God of War.

The God of War threatened the Fifth Elder while Liu Erlong and Zhu Zhuqing were held captive, and Su Chen vanished when his simulation attempts reset. As the Sky Screen returned and revealed the gods’ dispute, it announced a comparison between Dai Mubai and Dai Wuchen, leaving an injured Dai Mubai furious at Zhu Zhuqing and Su Chen.

• The God of War unleashed his pressure after the Fifth Elder asked whether he had come alone, but Ning Fengzhi pleaded for forgiveness and the deity relented.
• Liu Erlong and Zhu Zhuqing despaired after learning that deities were targeting Su Chen.
• Su Chen planned to seek the Silver Dragon King as an ally, then vanished after his simulation attempts reset, stopping time across the continent.
• The Sky Screen returned, and Liu Erlong warned its viewers not to rescue her and Zhu Zhuqing because deities were present.
• The God King of Destruction confronted the Asura God in the comments over his intervention, but the Asura God secretly intended to keep his subordinates in the lower realm.
• The Sky Screen announced a comparison between Dai Mubai, the God of War, and Dai Wuchen, the God King of Goodness, and Dai Mubai cursed Zhu Zhuqing and Su Chen from his sickbed.

The Sky Screen showed Dai Mubai’s early life in the Star Luo Empire, from his Martial Soul awakening and fear of the royal deathmatch to his decision to flee after his engagement to Zhu Zhuqing. The God of War condemned Dai Mubai as a deserter, leaving Dai Weisi confident that Dai Mubai would never inherit the Divine Seat.

• Dai Mubai was born to the Star Luo imperial family without affection, then awakened the Evil-Eyed White Tiger with innate Soul Power at level nine.
• Dai Mubai feared the royal deathmatch with Dai Weisi and initially cultivated frantically, but gave up after Dai Weisi suppressed and threatened him.
• Zhu Zhuqing awakened her Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul with innate Soul Power at level seven, and Dai Xun established her engagement to Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai fled the Star Luo Empire while leaving the palace to hunt Soul Beasts, and the Sky Screen concluded his first-stage footage.
• The God of War called Dai Mubai a deserter and rejected him as a worthy heir to the Divine Seat, while Dai Weisi took this as proof Dai Mubai would never receive it.

Su Chen chose the traits Great Love for the World and God's Mercy, then began a simulation as Dai Wuchen. The Sky Screen showed the God King of Goodness blessing Dai Wuchen at birth, while Dai Xun ordered the prince’s name announced and his guards tripled.

• Su Chen selected Great Love for the World and God's Mercy, hoping the God King of Goodness’s favor would protect him from the Asura God.
• The Sky Screen announced that it would show Dai Wuchen’s Stage One footage, drawing the God King of Goodness’s attention.
• At Dai Wuchen’s birth in the Star Luo Imperial Palace, the God King of Goodness appeared, held him, and gave him a glowing peach blossom mark.
• After the God King of Goodness vanished, Dai Xun realized his son had received a deity’s favor and imagined Star Luo unifying the continent.
• Dai Xun named the Second Prince Dai Wuchen and ordered triple guards at the bedchamber.
• Viewers on the Sky Screen envied Dai Wuchen for receiving a God King’s favor at birth.

Dai Wuchen awakened the Holy Radiant Tiger with Innate Soul Power Rank Twenty, but Dai Xun and Dai Weisi left him to face the Star Luo royal succession alone. After Zhu Lan explained that the brothers were destined to kill one another, Dai Wuchen resolved to act by pouring all his Soul Power into his Martial Soul.

• Dai Wuchen grew up kind to the palace maids, who came to admire him despite their initial fear of serving the favored prince.
• At his sixth-birthday Martial Soul awakening, Dai Wuchen revealed the Holy Radiant Tiger and tested at Innate Soul Power Rank Twenty.
• Dai Xun left the grand hall without speaking, while Dai Weisi congratulated Dai Wuchen and then departed.
• Zhu Lan explained that Star Luo princes had to fight their brothers for the throne, and Dai Wuchen protested that they were family.
• Alone in his bedchamber that night, Dai Wuchen summoned his Martial Soul and poured all his Soul Power into it.

Dai Wuchen tried to destroy his Martial Soul to escape the Star Luo Royal Family’s succession struggle, but the God King of Goodness intervened and restored him. The God King remained in the bedchamber, waiting for Dai Wuchen to awaken.

• Dai Wuchen poured his Soul Power into his Martial Soul, enduring severe pain as he began to destroy it.
• Zhu Lan entered the bedchamber and realized Dai Wuchen was destroying his Martial Soul, recalling her own failed attempt to escape the royal rules.
• Dai Wuchen reassured Zhu Lan that he would live well even without a Martial Soul, leaving her overcome with grief.
• The God King of Goodness appeared after sensing Dai Wuchen’s condition and learned what had happened by examining his memories.
• The God King of Goodness used Divine Power to heal Dai Wuchen’s injuries and restore his Martial Soul, then waited for him to wake.

Dai Wuchen realized that withdrawing from the Star Luo royal struggle would not stop his brothers from fighting, and the God King of Goodness offered to guide him as her disciple. The God King of Evil watched from the God Realm, regretting that Goodness had reached Dai Wuchen before he could shape him into an heir.

• Dai Wuchen told Zhu Lan that he did not regret crippling his Martial Soul, but admitted he did not know what to do about the conflict between Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai.
• The God King of Goodness urged Dai Wuchen to become strong enough to change the Star Luo Empire’s rules and offered to guide his cultivation.
• Dai Wuchen gladly accepted the God King of Goodness’s offer to become her disciple, while Zhu Lan rejoiced at the honor.
• The God King of Evil watched the scene and regretted losing the chance to turn Dai Wuchen into his successor.

The God King of Goodness guided Dai Wuchen as he traveled to the Royal Soul Hunting Forest to obtain his first Soul Ring. When a huge herd of Soul Beasts surrounded the group, it stopped just short of attacking, confirming her assurance that Dai Wuchen was safe.

• The God King of Goodness left a fragment of her soul in Dai Wuchen’s spiritual world to guide him.
• The God King of Goodness taught Dai Wuchen about light-attribute Soul Beasts as they rode toward the Royal Soul Hunting Forest.
• A guard warned Dai Wuchen that a beast tide was approaching, but the God King of Goodness sensed the Soul Beasts had no hostility.
• The Soul Emperor Shadow Guard tried to evacuate Dai Wuchen as the herd surrounded the carriage.
• The Soul Beasts stopped in unison less than ten meters away, and Dai Wuchen trusted that his master had been right.

Dai Wuchen gained two purple Soul Rings when a Holy White-Spotted Tiger and a Light-Shadow Swift Leopard willingly sacrificed themselves, raising his cultivation to level twenty-six. After returning to the Star Luo Imperial Palace, Dai Xun worried about Dai Wuchen’s growing strength and decided not to arrange an engagement for him, believing the future duel could still be uncertain.

• Two injured Soul Beasts approached Dai Wuchen, and the God King of Goodness explained that they wished to sacrifice themselves to him.
• Dai Wuchen thanked the Holy White-Spotted Tiger and promised to find a way to revive it as it sacrificed itself to him.
• The Light-Shadow Swift Leopard also sacrificed itself, and Dai Wuchen gained two purple Soul Rings and broke through to level twenty-six.
• The Silver Dragon King recognized that the Soul Beasts had sacrificed themselves because they sensed Dai Wuchen’s goodwill.
• The Soul Emperor Shadow Guard reported the events to Dai Xun, who worried that Dai Wuchen would outgrow Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai.
• Dai Xun decided not to arrange an engagement for Dai Wuchen, reasoning that he would face the future duel without a Zhu Family Martial Soul Fusion partner.