Chapter Summaries

Yin Chuan joined Qian Renxue at the Heaven Dou court, where Spirit Hall elders challenged his right to sit beside Qian Daoliu. He used his authority as Grand General to have Demon Bear Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo stripped of their military appointments, prompting Qian Daoliu to question who truly ruled the court.

• Qian Renxue greeted Yin Chuan with relief and seated him beside her, in a place corresponding to Qian Daoliu's.
• Demon Bear Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo challenged Yin Chuan's rank and right to occupy a seat of honor.
• Yin Chuan asked whether the generals of the four expeditions answered to the Grand General, and Ghost Leopard Douluo confirmed they did.
• Yin Chuan invoked the rules against insubordination, and Qian Renxue stripped Demon Bear Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo of their military offices while allowing them to keep their noble titles.
• Qian Daoliu coldly questioned whether the Qian Family or Yin Chuan held final authority in the Heaven Dou court.

Yin Chuan stood firm against Qian Daoliu and persuaded Qian Renxue to uphold her authority as emperor by removing Demon Bear Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo from their posts. When Qian Renxue asked how to respond to Spirit Hall’s planned invasion, Yin Chuan proposed feigning surrender, a strategy that left her and the elders impressed.

• Yin Chuan refused Qian Daoliu’s pressure and insisted that Demon Bear Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo lose their posts.
• Qian Renxue sided with Yin Chuan, citing the law and her authority as emperor, and Qian Daoliu accepted her decision.
• Demon Bear Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo lost their official posts and realized they could not return to Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue asked Yin Chuan how to counter Spirit Hall’s hundred-thousand-strong army, and he recommended winning through strategy rather than a head-on clash.
• Yin Chuan proposed feigning surrender to Bibi Dong, and Qian Renxue, Qian Daoliu, and the other elders praised the plan.

Qian Renxue and Yin Chuan planned to feign surrender to Bibi Dong, while Qian Daoliu and the Spirit Hall Titled Douluos agreed to keep the scheme secret. Bibi Dong received Qian Renxue’s peace letter and mistook it for weakness, leaving her eager to attack the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Qian Renxue approved Yin Chuan’s feigned surrender plan, and Chrysanthemum Douluo volunteered to lead the effort.
• Qian Daoliu and the Spirit Hall Titled Douluos decided to keep the scheme secret and wait for Yin Chuan’s instructions.
• Yin Chuan advised Qian Renxue to ask Bibi Dong for peace before surrendering, and Qian Renxue asked him to track who favored surrender or war at court.
• Bibi Dong received Qian Renxue’s peace letter, interpreted it as a sign of weakness, and resolved to seize the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Yu Xiaogang told Bibi Dong that she would soon unite the continent and become an empress whose name would echo through the ages.

Yu Xiaogang urged Bibi Dong to conquer the Heaven Dou Empire, while Bibi Dong threatened Qian Renxue with revealing her identity. Yin Chuan told Tang San that Qian Renxue would feign surrender, but Tang Hao arrived with Meng Shenji's body and angered Tang San.

• Yu Xiaogang praised Bibi Dong's ambitions, and she declared that she would become an empress remembered for all eternity.
• Bibi Dong sent Qian Renxue a letter demanding her surrender and threatening to reveal that she was Spirit Hall's young master.
• Yin Chuan told Tang San that Qian Renxue planned to feign surrender and asked him to record who supported surrender or war at court.
• Yin Chuan praised Tang San as a man of the Blue Silver Family, and Tang San left feeling proud.
• Tang Hao approached Tang San with a box containing Meng Shenji, and Tang San berated him for leaving his mother unguarded and causing trouble.

Tang Hao tried to reconnect with Tang San but was told to focus on protecting Ah Yin, while Tang San prioritized Yin Chuan’s plans. At court, Qian Renxue staged outrage over Spirit Hall’s supposed invasion, and Yin Chuan confronted Marshal Ge Long when he boasted of defeating it.

• Tang Hao offered to help Tang San, but Tang San told him to return to Ah Yin and protect her.
• Tang Hao left after telling Tang San that his aunt, Tang Yuehua, lived in Heaven Dou City, and Tang San agreed to visit her someday.
• Yin Chuan brought Tang San to court, where Qian Renxue seated Yin Chuan beside her and assigned Tang San to guard the entrance and record proceedings.
• Qian Renxue announced that Spirit Hall had sent troops against the Heaven Dou Empire, prompting Marshal Ge Long to offer a hundred thousand soldiers to destroy it.
• Yin Chuan rebuked Ge Long’s boast, and Ge Long mocked Yin Chuan and challenged his authority.