Chapter Summaries

Skywater Academy faced Spirit Hall Academy in several tournament matches, where Xiao Wu and Hu Liena quickly defeated their opponents. Xie Yue kicked Shen Liuyu out of the arena so hard that she cried, and Ye Mu ordered him to go comfort her.

• Xiao Wu used her overwhelming five black Spirit Rings and Teleportation to defeat Yu Hairou in two seconds.
• Hu Liena used her charm skill to make Xue Wu leave the arena while trapped in an illusion.
• Shui Bing'er sent Shen Liuyu to face Xie Yue, joking that she should seduce him before telling her to accept defeat.
• Xie Yue kicked Shen Liuyu out of the arena, leaving her in tears.
• Ye Mu ordered Xie Yue to comfort Shen Liuyu, and Xie Yue awkwardly went to her.

Xie Yue attempted to comfort Shen Liuyu by threatening to beat her if she cried, while Spirit Hall Academy continued dominating the matches. Ye Mu finally took the field against Shui Bing'er, whose team feared his strength, and revealed a Level 68 cultivation with five ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings and a hundred-thousand-year sixth ring.

• Xie Yue told Shen Liuyu not to cry or he would beat her, and she anxiously held back her tears.
• Ye Mu praised Xie Yue's effort, while the Skywater Team watched Spirit Hall Academy win every match decisively.
• Shui Bing'er admitted that Ye Mu was much stronger than her and asked her teammates whether she could surrender immediately.
• Shen Liuyu warned Shui Bing'er not to surrender until she had been beaten into tears, then grew frightened when she saw Xie Yue watching her.
• Ye Mu and Shui Bing'er introduced themselves before their match, and Ye Mu displayed his Level 68 cultivation and six powerful Spirit Rings.

Ye Mu overwhelmed Shui Bing'er in the exchange tournament spar, forcing her to use most of her Soul Power and eventually concede. After she warned him that making her cry would mean he had to marry her, he briefly froze, but Shui Bing'er still fell to his counterattack and Ye Mu won.

• Ye Mu revealed five black Spirit Rings and one red hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring, shocking the venue before his match with Shui Bing'er began.
• Shui Bing'er attacked with her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul, but Ye Mu countered with his first and second Soul Skills and drained much of her Soul Power.
• Ye Mu kept Shui Bing'er on the defensive as she used her fifth Soul Skill, while the audience marveled at his strength.
• Shui Bing'er warned Ye Mu that if he made her cry, he would have to marry her, and his brief pause let her launch Phoenix Meteor.
• Ye Mu blocked Shui Bing'er's icy feathers with Iron Steed and Frozen River Enter the Dream, struck her with an ice horse, and won when she conceded.
• Ye Mu offered Shui Bing'er a hand and asked why she had conceded so quickly, but she told him he looked like someone who would launch a sneak attack.

After Spirit Hall Academy crushed Skywater Academy in the Exchange Tournament, Shui Linglong announced that Skywater Academy would join Spirit Hall Academy while retaining its independence. Ye Mu welcomed the decision, and Spirit Hall departed as the audience absorbed the news.

• Ye Mu and the Golden Generation defeated Skywater Academy, and the referee declared Spirit Hall Academy the tournament winner.
• Shui Linglong announced that Skywater Academy would join Spirit Hall Academy while preserving its independence.
• The audience protested the decision, and Marquis Cioks demanded an explanation from Shui Linglong.
• Shui Linglong explained that the imperial family had already made a cooperative agreement with Spirit Hall and that Skywater Academy would remain independent.
• Ye Mu welcomed Skywater Academy on Spirit Hall's behalf, promised not to interfere in its affairs, and led the Golden Generation away.

Skywater Academy’s entry into Spirit Hall Academy stirred suspicion across the Heaven Dou Empire, while Yu Yuanzhen ordered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to help hunt Tang Hao. Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er then told Ye Mu they would join Spirit Hall Academy as exchange students, leaving him surprised but welcoming them.

• News of Skywater Academy joining Spirit Hall Academy spread across the empire and raised concerns about Spirit Hall’s growing influence.
• Yu Luomian told Yu Yuanzhen that Clear Sky Sect had issued a Sect Kill Order against Tang Hao, and Yu Yuanzhen ordered an investigation into Tang Hao’s whereabouts.
• Yu Luomian asked about winning Liu Erlong back, but Yu Yuanzhen said they would handle the matter slowly.
• Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er told Ye Mu that Shui Linglong had decided to send them to Spirit Hall Academy as exchange students.
• Ye Mu welcomed Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er to Spirit Hall Academy.

Spirit Hall Academy’s team departed for Heaven Dou City as Tang Hao learned that both Clear Sky Sect and Spirit Hall had issued kill orders against him. He returned to the Abandoned Village determined to hide, while Tang San and the others remained unaware of the truth behind the orders.

• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er agreed to travel with Spirit Hall Academy, and Ye Mu arranged for Shui Linglong to join Spirit Hall’s Elder Hall.
• Spirit Hall Academy’s team departed for Heaven Dou City with Shui Linglong and the others seeing them off.
• Tang Hao learned that the Four Great Clans had exposed the truth about his past, prompting Clear Sky Sect to issue a kill order against him.
• Tang Hao returned to the Abandoned Village and lied to Tang San and Flender that wary nobles had thwarted his attempt to obtain resources.
• Tang Hao gathered intelligence and discovered that Spirit Hall had issued its own kill order, offering a bounty for information about their whereabouts.
• Tang Hao decided he would have to remain hidden and avoid revealing himself.

Tang Hao learned that his past had been exposed and planned to hide with Shrek so Tang San would not discover the truth. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue decided she could disguise herself and go beat Tang Hao herself, while Ye Mu remained confident that the Book Friends would keep him safe.

• Tang Hao resolved to keep Tang San from learning the truth and planned to take Shrek somewhere isolated.
• Xue Ye hosted a banquet for Spirit Hall's Golden Generation, and Qian Renxue went with Ye Mu and the others afterward.
• Qian Renxue said she had watched Tang Hao for days but could not find a chance to attack him because he was gathering information instead of robbing nobles.
• Ye Mu suggested that Qian Renxue disguise her appearance and aura and go beat Tang Hao directly.
• Ning Rongrong offered to join using an Expert Experience Card, but Qian Renxue refused to waste it.
• Zhu Zhuqing warned Ye Mu that Tang Hao and Tang San would target him, but Ye Mu said the Book Friends' many trump cards would protect him.

Qian Renxue confronted Tang Hao at the Abandoned Village and attacked him after condemning his actions. Tang Hao was forced back by her sword aura and wondered where another powerful Titled Douluo had come from.

• Qian Renxue left to confront Tang Hao, while Ye Mu returned to cultivating and Ah Yin decided to save her turn to beat him later.
• Tang Hao planned to move the Shrek people into the Star Dou Great Forest to isolate them from the world.
• Qian Renxue appeared before Tang Hao with nine simulated Spirit Rings, including four red ones, and challenged him.
• Tang Hao ordered Tang San and the others to leave, then recognized that his shattered martial soul left him unable to use Soul Skills.
• Qian Renxue fired a golden sword aura that drove Tang Hao back thirty meters and carved a deep trench through the ground.

Qian Renxue overwhelmed Tang Hao in battle and broke both of his legs. She then demanded his full set of Spirit Bones, leaving Tang Hao shocked and afraid as she approached him.

• Qian Renxue used a rapid sword technique to suppress Tang Hao, whose damaged Martial Soul left him unable to fight at full strength.
• Tang San watched helplessly while Flender and Yu Xiaogang urged the group to retreat, and Shrek’s party fled the area.
• Qian Renxue mocked Tang Hao and struck him with sword qi before breaking both of his legs with kicks.
• Qian Renxue demanded Tang Hao’s Spirit Bones, and Tang Hao realized she intended to take them.

Qian Renxue defeated Tang Hao, severed his legs, and took his Spirit Bones before leaving him behind. Tang San and the others found Tang Hao alive but badly maimed and fled the village with him, while Qian Renxue returned to Heaven Dou City and urged her companions to cultivate.

• Qian Renxue cut off Tang Hao’s legs, removed his Spirit Bones, and pulverized his legs so they could not be reattached.
• Qian Renxue mocked Tang Hao as the Lame Douluo and flew away without revealing her identity.
• Flender and the others returned to the ruined village, where Tang San found his father alive but legless.
• Zhao Wuji urged the group to leave, and Ma Hongjun carried Tang Hao away with them.
• Qian Renxue returned to Ye Mu’s residence, celebrated her victory, and encouraged everyone to cultivate.
• Hu Liena asked about Ye Mu’s progress, and he said he expected to reach level seventy within a month.

Ye Mu and the Book Friends tracked Tang Hao and Flender’s group after they fled into the mountains, and they planned to confront the Shrek members. Qian Renxue also revealed her intention to eliminate Xue Beng and asked Ye Mu how to do it without drawing suspicion.

• Hu Liena and the Book Friends were shocked that Ye Mu expected to reach level seventy within a month.
• Qian Renxue said she had assigned a Soul Douluo to track Tang Hao and Flender’s group, then showed their location through a Storybook reward.
• Ye Mu and the Book Friends saw that the group was hiding in the mountains and discussed going there to deal with Tang San, Oscar, and the others.
• Qian Renxue said she wanted to get rid of Xue Beng because he threatened her plan to inherit the throne.
• Qian Renxue asked Ye Mu for a way to kill Xue Beng without letting suspicion fall on her.

Ye Mu advised Qian Renxue to publicly scold Xue Beng before arranging for his enemies to kill him, making the assassination look like a frame-up. The next morning, Xue Beng visited Ye Mu and secretly proposed cooperating with him, but Ye Mu rejected the offer and distanced Spirit Hall from the imperial succession struggle.

• Qian Renxue asked Ye Mu for a way to eliminate Xue Beng without attracting suspicion, and Ye Mu proposed using a public reprimand to disguise a later attack by Xue Beng's enemies.
• Qian Renxue understood the plan and decided to use her informants to find nobles or powerful Soul Masters who would target Xue Beng.
• The next morning, Xie Yue told Ye Mu that Xue Beng had arrived with four attendants, and Ye Mu invited the prince into the reception hall.
• After Xie Yue left, Xue Beng lowered his voice and offered to cooperate with Ye Mu, promising benefits equal to those provided by the crown prince.
• Ye Mu declined Xue Beng's offer, said he would soon leave Heaven Dou City, and stated that Spirit Hall would not interfere in the imperial power struggle.

Ye Mu rejected Xue Beng’s attempt to recruit him into the Heaven Dou imperial succession struggle, while Qian Renxue arrived and drove Xue Beng away. Qian Renxue then revealed that she planned to deal with Xue Beng soon, and Ye Mu suggested using the Golden Phoenix Pavilion as an opportunity.

• Xue Beng offered Ye Mu support and even provinces in exchange for his help, but Ye Mu insisted Spirit Hall would not join the imperial power struggle.
• Qian Renxue entered, and Xue Beng hurriedly hid his Gold Soul Card and claimed he had only come to chat and invite Ye Mu to the Golden Phoenix Pavilion.
• Qian Renxue angrily ordered Xue Beng to leave and forbade him from visiting pleasure houses, allowing him to depart without realizing she suspected him.
• Ye Mu and Qian Renxue discussed Xue Beng’s attempt to win Ye Mu over and his habit of visiting the Golden Phoenix Pavilion.
• Qian Renxue said she planned to deal with Xue Beng within days, and Ye Mu suggested carrying out the plan at the Golden Phoenix Pavilion.

Xue Beng went to the Golden Phoenix Pavilion and staged a public disturbance to strengthen his wastrel disguise. Qian Renxue arrived, slapped and reprimanded him in front of the crowd, then ordered him back.

• Xue Beng swaggered into the Golden Phoenix Pavilion and demanded that Xiao Cui and Yan Hong serve him, though both had guests.
• Xue Beng kicked open Xiao Cui’s room, then had his guards throw her Soul Emperor guest out the window.
• The crowd condemned Xue Beng for his behavior as he threatened to have them imprisoned.
• Qian Renxue arrived with the Royal Guard and confronted Xue Beng while the onlookers described his misconduct.
• Qian Renxue slapped Xue Beng several times, denounced his arrogance, and ordered him to return to the palace.

Qian Renxue publicly humiliated Xue Beng, then reported his misconduct to Emperor Xue Ye to establish an alibi. As Xue Beng secretly headed to Count Kang’s residence to meet the Countess, Ye Mu and Qian Renxue realized the visit could help their plans, though soul masters were following him to take revenge.

• Qian Renxue slapped Xue Beng in public, and he knelt, apologized, and fled while the crowd applauded her.
• Qian Renxue told Emperor Xue Ye about Xue Beng’s behavior at the Golden Phoenix Pavilion, enraging the emperor.
• Xue Beng accepted his confidant’s urging to visit Count Kang’s wife, despite Count Kang having returned to Heaven Dou City.
• A Soul King and other soul masters secretly followed Xue Beng, intent on taking revenge for his earlier humiliation of them.
• Ye Mu and Qian Renxue watched Xue Beng’s movements through the light screen, and Ye Mu suggested his visit could benefit Qian Renxue’s plans.

Ye Mu devised a plan to expose Xue Beng’s affair with Count Kang’s wife and make the count kill him, while Qian Renxue stayed in the palace. The plan succeeded, leaving Count Kang shaken after killing the Fourth Prince in front of his banquet guests.

• Ye Mu told Qian Renxue to remain in the palace while his people arranged to expose Xue Beng’s affair.
• Xue Beng entered Count Kang’s residence and went to the Countess while Count Kang entertained guests in the front courtyard.
• Ye Mu’s people sparked a fight in the backyard, drawing Count Kang and his guests to the scene.
• Count Kang found Xue Beng with the Countess and killed him with a single blow.
• The fighting ended with two soul masters dead, one captured, and the others fleeing as the guests asked Count Kang what to do.

Count Kang killed Xue Beng and turned the murder into a public demand for justice from the imperial family, forcing the court to consider the consequences of punishing a frontier general. Ye Mu and his companions watched from afar and planned to return to Spirit City before their presence in Heaven Dou City aroused suspicion.

• Count Kang argued that Xue Beng had disgraced him by committing adultery with the Countess and demanded an explanation from Xue Ye and the emperor.
• Count Kang ordered his guards to seize the Countess, then set out for the imperial palace as his banquet guests followed.
• Ye Mu praised Count Kang for making the imperial family’s own disgrace a shield against retaliation, but refused Xiao Wu’s suggestion that they watch in person.
• Ye Mu said the group would return to Spirit City soon because their identities made a long stay in Heaven Dou City dangerous.
• Ye Mu suggested Qian Renxue could return to Spirit City without drawing suspicion if they wanted to see her.

Count Kang killed Xue Beng after catching him with the Countess, then used the Audience Drum and the scandal to force Xue Ye to spare and compensate him. Qian Renxue advised promoting Count Kang while suppressing the story, leaving her closer to taking control of the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Count Kang struck the Audience Drum outside the palace, prompting Xue Ye to summon him and Qian Renxue to the Imperial Study.
• Count Kang admitted that he had killed Xue Beng and revealed that Xue Beng had been caught committing adultery with the Countess in front of witnesses.
• Xue Ye realized he could not punish Count Kang without risking a scandal and unrest among the hundred thousand border troops.
• Qian Renxue urged Xue Ye to compensate Count Kang, promote him to marquis, and make the banquet guests keep silent.
• Ye Mu praised Count Kang's strategy, while the Book Friends noted that Xue Beng's death would make Qian Renxue's control of the Heaven Dou Empire easier.

After Xue Beng died, Xue Ye ruled that Count Kang was not to blame and promoted him, while Prince Xue Xing continued to suspect Qian Renxue. When Xue Xing decided to investigate, Qian Renxue used a Live Broadcast to tell Ye Mu and the others, and Liu Erlong offered to eliminate him.

• Ye Mu and the others discussed how Xue Ye's ruling left him unable to avenge Xue Beng and worried that Prince Xue Xing would suspect Qian Renxue.
• Prince Xue Xing rushed to Xue Ye after hearing of Xue Beng's death and accused the Crown Prince of being involved.
• Xue Ye explained Xue Beng's death at Count Kang's estate and demanded evidence before Xue Xing could accuse the Crown Prince.
• Prince Xue Xing left Xue Ye's bedchamber and decided to investigate the Crown Prince himself.
• A guard warned Qian Renxue that Prince Xue Xing suspected her, so she opened a Live Broadcast and explained the situation to Ye Mu and the others.
• Liu Erlong offered to get rid of Prince Xue Xing.

Ye Mu advised Qian Renxue to pressure Prince Xue Xing by threatening to relinquish her position as Crown Prince, turning his investigation into a political liability. Qian Renxue decided to confront him the next day while preparing for the possibility that the tactic might fail.

• Qian Renxue worried that killing Prince Xue Xing would make Xue Ye and the Heaven Dou Imperial Family suspect her, and she asked Ye Mu for advice.
• Ye Mu told Qian Renxue to confront Prince Xue Xing, offer to give up the Crown Prince position, and then tell Xue Ye she wished to relinquish it.
• Ye Mu predicted Xue Ye would refuse to lose his only remaining son and might punish Prince Xue Xing, while Qian Renxue firmly rejected the idea of leaving the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qian Renxue decided to meet Prince Xue Xing the next day and began preparing other options in case his investigation continued.
• Liu Erlong questioned Ye Mu's plan, and he explained that public opinion would force Prince Xue Xing to abandon his investigation or risk appearing to seek power.
• Qian Renxue learned that Prince Xue Xing had sent more than a hundred elite men to investigate Xue Beng's death.