Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue decided to return to Spirit City with Ah Yin after Xiao Wu and the others woke. Meanwhile, Flender’s group learned that Tang Hao had deceived them about Spirit Hall hunting them and planned to find a city where the younger members could attend Advanced Soul Master Academies.

• Qian Renxue and Ah Yin agreed to wait for Xiao Wu and the others before returning to Spirit City together.
• Ning Rongrong, Hu Liena, and the others woke sore and exhausted, and Ye Mu went to prepare food for them.
• Flender and his companions left the Star Dou Great Forest, rested at a hotel, and listened for news about Spirit Hall’s pursuit.
• Flender’s group learned that Spirit Hall and other factions were pursuing Tang Hao and Tang San, not them, and that Tang Hao had schemed against Ah Yin.
• Flender realized Tang Hao had kept the group confined to hide the truth, then proposed finding a city and enrolling the younger members in Advanced Soul Master Academies.

Flender and Zhao Wuji weighed academy options for Dai Mubai and the others, while Ye Mu learned that Tang Hao planned to take Tang San to Slaughter City and decided to use his control of the city against them. The chapter ended with Tang Hao promising to find Tang San a suitable Spirit Bone before they reached Slaughter City.

• Flender and Zhao Wuji discussed whether Dai Mubai and the others should enroll in an Advanced or Intermediate Soul Master Academy, and agreed to inspect several schools before deciding.
• Ma Hongjun warned that facing Spirit Hall Academy's Golden Generation could be dangerous, while Dai Mubai considered asking the Star Luo Royal Family to intervene over Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ah Yin reported that Tang Hao planned to take Tang San to Slaughter City, and Ye Mu said he would have the Slaughter Envoy watch them and make their journey difficult.
• Xiao Wu looked forward to Tang Hao and Tang San entering Slaughter City, but Ye Mu planned to take the group to Spirit City instead.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that Slaughter City could help him improve quickly and promised to find a suitable Spirit Bone for his injured hand before they arrived.

Tang Hao told Tang San about Slaughter City and planned to recover their injuries before going there, while the group resolved to steal Spirit Bones from their targets. Ye Mu and his allies chose to watch Tang Hao’s group and wait for them to leave, as Qian Renxue spent the next few days bored and increasingly focused on Ye Mu.

• Tang Hao explained Slaughter City’s rules and dangers, and Tang San decided to enter after healing his injuries.
• Tang Hao proposed killing Soul Masters and nobles to take their Spirit Bones, and Tang San and Yu Xiaogang accepted the plan.
• Ning Rongrong suggested killing Tang Hao’s group immediately, but Ye Mu chose to wait and judge their targets before intervening.
• Ye Mu asked Ah Yin to monitor Tang Hao’s group, while Qian Renxue arranged for Blue Silver Grass Subjects to keep watch over Flender and the others.
• During the next three days, Ah Yin watched Tang Hao’s group while Qian Renxue grew bored and noticed Ye Mu spending time with Xiao Wu and the other girls.

Ah Yin urged Qian Renxue to acknowledge her feelings for Ye Mu, while Tang Hao and Tang San searched noble estates for Spirit Bones to repair their bodies. Ye Mu followed them using Ah Yin’s shared vision and realized Tang San’s Protagonist Halo was making their thefts unusually successful.

• Ah Yin told Qian Renxue she could call her Auntie and encouraged her not to hesitate if she liked Ye Mu, leading Qian Renxue to recognize her feelings.
• After three days of recovery, Tang Hao left the cave with Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, guiding them out of the Star Dou Great Forest in search of Spirit Bones.
• Ye Mu tracked the group through Ah Yin’s shared vision as Tang Hao decided to search a nearby city for Spirit Bones.
• Tang Hao and Tang San broke into a noble estate’s storeroom and found a ten-thousand-year left arm bone among the valuables.
• Tang Hao and Tang San searched several more noble estates and found more Spirit Bones, while Ye Mu concluded Tang San’s Protagonist Halo was giving them opportunities.

Tang Hao and Tang San stole several Ten Thousand Year Spirit Bones from the city’s nobles and used them to restore their bodies, leaving Yu Xiaogang without any. Yu Xiaogang grew resentful, while Tang Hao began to suspect him, and Ye Mu’s group watched the events through Ah Yin’s vision.

• Tang Hao and Tang San returned to the hotel with several Spirit Bones they had stolen from the nobles’ storehouses.
• Tang San absorbed three Spirit Bones, recovered his arms and right leg, and reached level forty Soul Power.
• Tang San helped Tang Hao absorb the remaining Spirit Bones, restoring him and raising his Soul Power to level eighty-eight.
• Yu Xiaogang asked for Spirit Bones to heal his legs, but Tang Hao and Tang San told him none were left.
• Yu Xiaogang silently resented Tang Hao and Tang San, while Tang Hao suspected Yu Xiaogang was plotting something.
• Ye Mu’s group watched through Ah Yin’s vision and marveled at the Spirit Bones’ life force.

Ye Mu and the others decided to monitor Tang San’s group while waiting to seize any opportunities and Spirit Bones they found. After Qian Renxue tipped off the nobles about the stolen Spirit Bones, they surrounded the hotel, forcing Tang Hao and Tang San to prepare to fight their way out.

• Ye Mu and the others agreed to let Tang San’s group keep their Spirit Bones for now and have specialists and Blue Silver Grass Subjects track their movements.
• Ye Mu predicted that Yu Xiaogang might retaliate against Tang Hao and Tang San because he felt betrayed after receiving no Spirit Bone.
• Ye Mu suggested leaking information about the Spirit Bone theft, and Qian Renxue sent the nobles to the hotel through Spirit Hall.
• The nobles surrounded the hotel and demanded that the thieves come out.
• Tang Hao decided to force their way through the crowd and told Tang San to carry Yu Xiaogang; Tang San agreed.

Tang Hao, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang escaped the hotel after Tang Hao scattered the nobles and guards, prompting the nobles to seek an imperial wanted notice against them. Ye Mu and his allies planned to use the notice to hunt them openly, while tracking Tang Hao’s group and Flender’s search for a faction to shelter his remaining students.

• Tang Hao burst out of the hotel with Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, knocked down their pursuers with Soul Power, and led his companions away.
• The nobles decided to report Tang Hao’s thefts to the Heaven Dou Empire and push for a wanted notice.
• Ye Mu welcomed the prospect of a wanted notice, and Qian Renxue and Xiao Wu planned to send royal Soul Masters after Tang Hao and Tang San.
• Ah Yin and Qian Renxue learned that Flender and his companions had set out to seek refuge with Soul Master or noble factions.
• Ye Mu dismissed Flender’s late change of plans and ordered his allies to keep tracking Tang Hao’s group, suspecting they were heading toward Slaughter City.

Ye Mu returned to Spirit City with his companions after arranging to monitor Tang Hao and Tang San near Slaughter City. There, he confirmed that the kindly librarian Old Riven was a level-ninety-nine Title Douluo, and the group settled in for lunch before returning to the academy.

• Qian Renxue agreed to keep people watching Tang Hao, and Ye Mu offered to let her agents use spirit skills inside Slaughter City, which he ruled.
• Ye Mu led everyone back to Spirit City, where they visited the Library and greeted Old Riven.
• Ye Mu asked Old Riven if he was a level-ninety-nine Title Douluo, and Old Riven confirmed that he preferred a quiet life among books.
• Ye Mu and his companions helped around the Library while Old Riven prepared lunch, then he offered them a gift with the meal.

Old Riven returned to Spirit Hall with gifts, and Qian Renxue reported that Heaven Dou City was under control. Bibi Dong considered matching Qian Renxue with Ye Mu and asked her whether she liked anyone.

• Old Riven rejected Ye Mu’s suggestion to join the Worship Hall and joked about Qian Daoliu before Ye Mu urged him to find a wife.
• Ye Mu and the others returned to the Martial Soul Temple, where Qian Renxue told Bibi Dong that she had begun managing Heaven Dou’s affairs.
• Bibi Dong advised Qian Renxue to bring the Heaven Dou Empire under Spirit Hall’s influence gradually and without major upheaval.
• Bibi Dong thought Ye Mu would make a good partner for Qian Renxue, while Ye Mu left to cultivate with Xiao Wu and the others.
• Bibi Dong asked Qian Renxue whether she liked anyone and said she wanted to find her a good match.

Bibi Dong and Ah Yin helped Qian Renxue realize she had feelings for Ye Mu, but she rejected an arranged match and decided to pursue him herself. Unsure how to win him over, she asked Qian Daoliu for advice, and he suggested seduction or even kidnapping.

• Bibi Dong tested Qian Renxue’s reaction to being matched with Ye Mu and concluded that her daughter liked him.
• Ah Yin helped Qian Renxue recognize her feelings by asking her to imagine Ye Mu never seeing her again.
• Qian Renxue refused an arranged match, saying she would handle things her own way, and left the hall.
• Qian Renxue worried about how to confirm her relationship with Ye Mu and encountered Qian Daoliu at the Worship Hall.
• Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu how her friend could win over a boy, and he advised her to pursue him by any means, including seduction or knocking him out and bringing him back.

Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu for advice about getting together with Ye Mu, and he urged her to seduce him or force herself on him. Later, Qian Renxue visited Ye Mu’s dormitory and boldly removed her clothes, leaving him stunned.

• Qian Renxue told Qian Daoliu that her friend liked Ye Mu, the Spirit Hall Saint Son, and did not mind his many female confidantes.
• Qian Daoliu advised her to seduce Ye Mu or force herself on him, and Qian Renxue left in embarrassment.
• Qian Daoliu told Golden Crocodile Douluo that Ye Mu had reached level ninety-eight and might be too strong for even him to defeat.
• Ye Mu returned to his dormitory and reflected on his cultivation, his god trials, and Tang San’s scattered former companions.
• Qian Renxue entered Ye Mu’s dormitory, shut the door, and waved her hand, causing her clothes to fall away.

Qian Renxue attempted to seduce Ye Mu, and the other girls joined them after discovering them together. The next day, Ye Mu gave Yan and Xie Yue a potion that raised their Soul Power to level sixty, and they asked him to help them hunt for Spirit Rings.

• Qian Renxue went to Ye Mu's room in silk pajamas, and Ye Mu carried her to the bed.
• Ning Rongrong, Hu Liena, and the other girls discovered them, then entered the bedroom after Qian Renxue called for help.
• Ye Mu woke at noon, brought food for the sleeping girls, and visited the training field, where Yan and Xie Yue were training.
• Ye Mu gave Yan and Xie Yue potions that caused their Soul Power to rise to level sixty.
• Yan and Xie Yue thanked Ye Mu and asked him to take them to hunt for Spirit Rings.

Ye Mu gave Xie Yue and Yan twenty-thousand-year Spirit Rings from the Wordless Heavenly Book and guarded them as they absorbed them. Meanwhile, the Asura God and Sea God plotted to send a God Official to the Douluo Continent before trying to kill Ye Mu themselves.

• Xie Yue and Yan asked Ye Mu for Spirit Rings aged twenty to thirty thousand years, and Ye Mu decided to bestow them instead of hunting Spirit Beasts.
• Ye Mu took Xie Yue and Yan to the academy's back mountain and placed a black Spirit Ring on each of them.
• Xie Yue and Yan began absorbing their Spirit Rings while Ye Mu stood guard and read the Wordless Heavenly Book.
• Ye Mu wondered whether the Asura God and Sea God had accepted what happened to their inheritances, unaware that they were together and furious.
• The Sea God warned the Asura God that a mysterious force prevented them from descending, and the Asura God proposed sending a God Official to kill Ye Mu.

The Sea God and Asura God planned to send God Officials to test whether they could descend and challenge Ye Mu. After Xie Yue and Yan absorbed Ye Mu’s forty-thousand-year Spirit Rings, Qian Renxue left to speak with Bibi Dong, then returned furious at Hu Liena and the others.

• The Sea God and Asura God agreed to select God Officials to descend and test the mysterious power protecting Ye Mu.
• Xie Yue and Yan finished absorbing their forty-thousand-year Spirit Rings and reached Soul Power Level sixty-two, while Ye Mu joked that the rings came from the power of a god.
• Qian Renxue and the other girls woke, ate, and discussed the previous night, unaware that Book Friends had learned about it through the Storybook.
• Qian Renxue left to talk to Bibi Dong, and Zhu Zhuqing and the others slipped away after Ye Mu returned.
• Qian Renxue came back with a dark expression and called for Hu Liena and all the others.

Qian Renxue returned in a fury after learning Hu Liena and the others had publicly teased her relationship with Ye Mu, but Ye Mu took her out for dessert and discussed her plans for Heaven Dou City. Back at the Saint Son Hall, the group discovered that a newly named Book Friend had opened a chat room to ask for help, though they could not identify the person.

• Qian Renxue stormed back to confront Hu Liena and the others for broadcasting details of her relationship with Ye Mu in the Storybook.
• Ye Mu took Qian Renxue to a dessert shop, where she said she would return to Heaven Dou City after the New Year and rely on her humanoid Soul Tool until then.
• Hu Liena, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong returned after Ye Mu and Qian Renxue had left, and Hu Liena joked about how to deal with Qian Renxue's anger.
• Ye Mu and Qian Renxue returned to the Saint Son Hall, where Qian Renxue snorted at the four girls and they quietly attended to her.
• Ning Rongrong noticed that a Book Friend had revealed their name and posted a request for help, but she and Xiao Wu could not identify the person.

Huo Wu asked the Book Friends how to deal with Tang San and his group, who were nearing Blazing Fire Academy, and revealed that she had used Storybook rewards to make her father a Title Douluo. Bibi Dong began using her spare rewards to strengthen loyal Spirit Hall subordinates, while Huo Wu and Meng Yiran prepared to join forces and livestream their confrontation.

• Huo Wu asked the Book Friends whether she should kill Tang San when he passed through Blazing Fire Academy's territory, and they suggested beating him and his companions instead.
• Huo Wu said her father could help because she had given him Storybook rewards that made him a Title Douluo, and Meng Yiran offered to come to Blazing Fire Academy.
• Bibi Dong gave Yue Guan and Gui Mei treasures to help them advance and summoned several loyal Soul Douluos to receive rewards as well.
• At Saint Son Hall, Meng Yiran prepared to meet Huo Wu, and the Great Author urged her to livestream the coming confrontation for rewards.
• Huo Wu planned to meet Meng Yiran before Tang San's group arrived within two days and intended to punish Tang San, Tang Hao, and Yu Xiaogang.

Ye Mu and his companions traveled to Blazing Fire Academy to join Huo Wu and Meng Yiran in confronting Tang Hao and Tang San. They planned to intercept the pair openly near the academy the next day, while Ye Mu prepared breakfast after a tiring night.

• Ye Mu agreed to travel with Qian Renxue and the others, claiming they needed to protect the Book Friends from Tang Hao and Tang San.
• Ye Mu and his companions reached the city near Blazing Fire Academy, where Huo Wu had already met Meng Yiran.
• Meng Yiran suggested asking Ye Mu whether to ambush Tang Hao and Tang San, and Ye Mu said they should intercept them directly.
• Huo Wu invited Ye Mu and the others to Blazing Fire Academy, where Huo Wushuang was surprised to see his sister with Spirit Hall's Golden Generation.
• Ye Mu got up early the next morning and went to the academy cafeteria to prepare food for Xiao Wu and the others.

Ye Mu and his companions watched as Huo Wu and Meng Yiran confronted Tang Hao, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang outside the city. Huo Wu trapped the group inside a Soul Tool barrier as a crowd gathered, leaving Tang Hao unable to escape unnoticed.

• Huo Wu told Ye Mu that the Storybook rewards gave her confidence to fight Tang Hao, while Ye Mu said he and the others would not intervene unless she needed help.
• Meng Yiran asked Ye Mu if she could visit Spirit City after the confrontation, and he agreed.
• Ye Mu and the others left for the city gate, where Meng Yiran shoved Yu Xiaogang's wheelchair aside and challenged him to stand.
• Huo Wu publicly called Tang Hao a wanted scumbag and accused Tang San and Yu Xiaogang of being with him.
• Huo Wu activated a spherical Soul Tool that created a hundred-meter hemispherical barrier around Tang Hao and his companions as onlookers gathered.

Huo Wu and Meng Yiran ambushed Tang Hao and Tang San with powerful Soul Tools, poisoning and injuring Tang Hao while keeping Tang San from helping him. Meng Yiran then vanished and appeared behind Tang San, striking at his head.

• Meng Yiran attacked Tang Hao with a tracking Soul Tool that exploded into poisonous mist, forcing him to dodge.
• Huo Wu fired a ballista at Tang Hao while Meng Yiran intercepted Tang San with cold glints.
• Tang Hao's Soul Power blocked the first ballista barrage, but an armor-piercing bolt wounded his thigh.
• Poisonous mist seeped into Tang Hao's wound and weakened his stamina and Soul Power.
• Meng Yiran vanished from Tang San's sight, reappeared behind him, and swung her Serpent Cane at his head.

Meng Yiran and Huo Wu beat Tang Hao and Tang San with Soul Tools, but Tang Hao detonated a Spirit Ring to escape. The pair returned to Blazing Fire Academy, where Ye Mu estimated Tang Hao would need several months to recover.

• Meng Yiran repeatedly struck Tang San with her Serpent Cane as Tang Hao charged at her in a rage.
• Meng Yiran trapped Tang Hao in a Heavy Silver cage, forcing him to summon his damaged Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao detonated a Spirit Ring and used the Great Sumeru Hammer, shattering the energy shield before escaping with Tang San and another companion.
• Meng Yiran and Huo Wu returned to Blazing Fire Academy while onlookers prepared to spread news of Tang Hao's defeat.
• Ye Mu praised the pair's teamwork and said Tang Hao would need several months to recover after forcing his martial soul into action.