Chapter Summaries

Lin Ye gave Flender a Level 9 Soul Tool that could withstand attacks from Titled Douluo below level 95, earning his gratitude while Yu Xiaogang questioned its power. Lin Ye then began distributing more Soul Tools, introducing Xiao Wu’s specially designed Soft Bone Divine Armor.

• Flender accepted Lin Ye’s Soul Tool, and the girls recognized that Lin Ye hoped to win his support.
• Hu Liena recalled learning that Yu Xiaogang had sourced his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul from the Central Library and considered investigating his past with Liu Erlong.
• Yu Xiaogang doubted the Soul Tool, but Zhao Wuji mocked him and challenged him to test it; Yu Xiaogang backed down.
• Hu Liena laughed at Yu Xiaogang and briefly took Ning Rongrong’s Great Iron Hammer, making him panic before she returned it.
• Lin Ye gave Xiao Wu a pink crystal and revealed it was the Level 9 Soft Bone Divine Armor, a full-body Soul Tool that would not interfere with other Soul Tools or Soul Bones.

Lin Ye gave Xiao Wu and the other girls powerful custom Level 9 Soul Tools, then presented Xiao Wu with the Level 10 Starfall Annihilation Cannon. He planned to stay in Suotuo City after learning that Hu Liena's teacher was coming to meet the mysterious president of the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce.

• Lin Ye explained the abilities of Xiao Wu's Soft Bone Divine Armor and gave Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Hu Liena their own Level 9 Soul Tools.
• Lin Ye handed Xiao Wu the Level 10 Starfall Annihilation Cannon, while Yu Xiaogang left empty-handed after Lin Ye mocked him.
• Xiao Wu asked whether Lin Ye was going away, and he assured her he was only going out for a stroll.
• Hu Liena revealed that her teacher was coming to Suotuo City to meet the mysterious president of the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce.
• Lin Ye decided to stay in Suotuo City and see what would happen when Hu Liena's teacher arrived.

Lin Ye decided to stay at Shrek Academy while he waited for Bibi Dong, whose arrival Hu Liena expected but could not confirm. The girls discussed how they might change Spirit Hall’s future, and Hu Liena asked to see the Trial Tower.

• Lin Ye thought about Bibi Dong and wanted to meet her, while Hu Liena and the other girls puzzled over his thoughts about Spirit Hall’s downfall.
• Ning Rongrong and the girls speculated that Hu Liena, Bibi Dong, and Yu Xiaogang might each help bring about Spirit Hall’s destruction, and Hu Liena resolved to change that future.
• Hu Liena said Bibi Dong might visit in a few days because she was interested in the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce’s General President.
• Lin Ye abandoned his plans to go out and returned to his dormitory so he could wait for Bibi Dong and watch what happened when she met Yu Xiaogang.
• The girls reflected on how they had helped Zhu Zhuqing gain temporary freedom from her political engagement, and Hu Liena asked to visit the Trial Tower.

Xiao Wu brought Hu Liena into the Trial Tower by adding her Soul Power signature, and Hu Liena spent several days marveling at its training modes. Lin Ye then met Pope Bibi Dong in Suotuo City, where his unspoken rant about her and Yu Xiaogang left Bibi Dong and the four girls stunned.

• Xiao Wu added Hu Liena's Soul Power signature to the Trial Tower and led her, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing inside.
• Hu Liena trained in the Trial Tower for two or three days and emerged impressed by its varied combat modes and benefits.
• Lin Ye waited for Bibi Dong to arrive, then hurried to Suotuo City after Li Xilai announced her arrival.
• Lin Ye met Bibi Dong at the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce and stared at her while she silently judged him.
• Bibi Dong heard Lin Ye's thoughts criticizing her love for Yu Xiaogang and calling him a scumbag, while the four girls heard them too.

Bibi Dong heard Lin Ye’s thoughts and learned that Yu Xiaogang had deceived her, that she planned to destroy Spirit Hall, and that it would fall in the future. She pursued a closer alliance with the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce, while Hu Liena and the others secretly listened; Ghost Douluo caught them at the end.

• Bibi Dong realized she could hear Lin Ye’s thoughts and learned that he believed Yu Xiaogang had deceived her and found another woman.
• Bibi Dong concealed her shock and proposed closer cooperation between Spirit Hall and the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce.
• Lin Ye agreed to cooperate and proposed a ten-year agreement, while his thoughts revealed that Spirit Hall would fall and Bibi Dong intended to destroy it.
• Hu Liena, Ning Rongrong, and the other girls heard Bibi Dong’s plan from the next room and debated what to do.
• Ghost Douluo entered the room, caught the girls eavesdropping, and ordered them to come with him.

Xiao Wu confronted Bibi Dong over her mother’s death, but Lin Ye’s thoughts revealed that Bibi Dong had not killed her mother and had used an illusion to fuel Xiao Wu’s growth. After Bibi Dong confirmed the truth, Lin Ye unmasked himself, and Bibi Dong moved ahead with a ten-year cooperation agreement.

• Xiao Wu recognized Bibi Dong and nearly attacked her, but Lin Ye’s thoughts revealed that Xiao Wu’s mother had died fighting a powerful Soul Beast and had given Bibi Dong her Soul Ring in exchange for protecting Xiao Wu.
• Lin Ye’s thoughts explained that Bibi Dong had used an illusion to make Xiao Wu believe she had witnessed her mother’s death, hoping hatred would drive Xiao Wu to grow stronger.
• Bibi Dong confirmed the truth, leaving Xiao Wu stunned and unsure how to feel about the enemy she had hated for years.
• Lin Ye removed his mask, and Xiao Wu explained that his token and the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce’s name had helped her realize who he was.
• Bibi Dong asked Lin Ye to sign a cooperation agreement, and he agreed to a ten-year term.

Lin Ye insisted on a ten-year cooperation agreement with the Spirit Hall, then unwittingly exposed how Yu Xiaogang had manipulated Bibi Dong to gain access to the Central Library. Bibi Dong pieced together the truth about their past, while Hu Liena feared her teacher might silence everyone who had heard it.

• Lin Ye insisted that the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce sign a ten-year agreement with the Spirit Hall before considering a longer partnership.
• Bibi Dong asked Lin Ye about the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul to draw out what he knew about Yu Xiaogang.
• Lin Ye thought that Yu Xiaogang had targeted Bibi Dong to gain access to the Central Library's fourth and fifth floors and had later fled when his scheme was exposed.
• Bibi Dong recalled how Yu Xiaogang had arranged chance encounters and persuaded her to take him into the restricted library floors.
• Bibi Dong grew dark-faced as she realized Yu Xiaogang had deceived her, while Hu Liena worried that her teacher might kill the witnesses.

Bibi Dong learned more about Lin Ye's revelations and discovered that Tang San would destroy Spirit Hall and kill her in the future. She ordered Hu Liena to stay near Lin Ye and report what she learned, then directed Spirit Hall to strengthen its ties with the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce.

• Bibi Dong believed Lin Ye's thoughts about Yu Xiaogang and learned that Tang San would kill her and destroy Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong took Hu Liena aside and asked her to reveal everything she knew about Lin Ye and the future.
• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong about Lin Ye, Tang San, and the possibility of changing the future, and Bibi Dong decided to keep Tang San alive for now and seek his future opportunities.
• Bibi Dong ordered Hu Liena to remain at Shrek Academy and secretly report what she learned, while keeping her teacher's secrets.
• Bibi Dong told Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo that Lin Ye and the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce were formidable, then produced an Elder Token for Lin Ye.

After Bibi Dong gave Lin Ye a top-rank Elder Token, the Rakshasa Divine Sense drove her toward hatred and destruction. Lin Ye used his Holy Arrow to weaken its influence, leaving Bibi Dong calmer and considering how he might help her further.

• Bibi Dong gave Lin Ye a highest-rank Elder Token, and he privately wondered if she had romantic designs on him.
• Bibi Dong brooded over Yu Xiaogang’s betrayal as the Rakshasa Divine Sense intensified her resentment and evil aura.
• Lin Ye fired his Holy Arrow through the wall after distracting Bibi Dong, and it shattered the black vapor around her.
• Bibi Dong collapsed from the shot but found that the Holy Arrow had greatly weakened the Rakshasa Divine Sense and eased her resentment.
• Bibi Dong decided Lin Ye could help her and resolved to seek him out if the divine sense troubled her again.
• Lin Ye told Hu Liena and the other girls that the sow they had looked for was a Piggy Hero who had climbed back down.

Lin Ye returned to the academy with Xiao Wu and the others, while Bibi Dong decided to visit Shrek Academy and confront Yu Xiaogang and Tang San. When Bibi Dong arrived the next day, Yu Xiaogang mistook her presence for a chance to gain her support against Lin Ye.

• Lin Ye suggested returning to the academy so he could continue pursuing check-in rewards, and Xiao Wu and the others agreed.
• Bibi Dong decided she would visit Shrek Academy to beat Yu Xiaogang and limit Tang San’s growth, ordering Yue Guan and Gui Mei to accompany her the next day.
• Xiao Wu and the others trained in the Trial Tower, while Ma Hongjun complained that Hu Liena was allowed inside and Yu Xiaogang said they might get a chance someday.
• Ma Hongjun and Oscar resented Spirit Hall for taking Dai Mubai away, and Yu Xiaogang noticed Bibi Dong approaching the academy.
• Yu Xiaogang assumed Bibi Dong still loved him and believed she would help him defeat Lin Ye and claim the Trial Tower and Soul Tools.

Bibi Dong visited Shrek Academy to see Hu Liena and inspect the Trial Tower, while Yu Xiaogang assumed she had come for him. She passed him with disdain, leaving him shocked and calling after her.

• Ma Hongjun and Oscar noticed Bibi Dong, but Yu Xiaogang warned them away and went to meet her, hoping to use her help against Lin Ye.
• Bibi Dong ignored Yu Xiaogang and went to Flender's office, where she asked to see Hu Liena and tour the academy.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Bibi Dong's two Titled Douluo companions accompanied her through the academy as she headed toward the Trial Tower.
• Yu Xiaogang struck a melancholy pose beneath a tree, expecting Bibi Dong to approach him as she had when they first met.
• Bibi Dong glanced at Yu Xiaogang with disdain and walked past him toward the Trial Tower.
• Yu Xiaogang called out, demanding that Bibi Dong stop.

Bibi Dong ignored Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to stop her, and Chrysanthemum Douluo struck him down for disrespecting the Pope. When Yu Xiaogang claimed they had once been lovers, Bibi Dong denied their relationship and left him speechless.

• Yu Xiaogang blocked Bibi Dong’s path, so Chrysanthemum Douluo blasted him dozens of meters away.
• Bibi Dong heard Lin Ye’s thoughts about Yu Xiaogang and decided to question him.
• Bibi Dong asked Yu Xiaogang who he was, and he said he was Yu Xiaogang and asked whether she had forgotten him.
• Bibi Dong said they had never had a relationship and dismissed their past as something from decades ago.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo were shocked to learn that Bibi Dong had once been involved with Yu Xiaogang.

Bibi Dong rejected Yu Xiaogang and exposed that his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul had been compiled from restricted Spirit Hall library materials. She left Yu Xiaogang facing public disgrace and an implied threat beyond it.

• Yu Xiaogang tried to appeal to Bibi Dong’s past feelings so she would help him obtain Lin Ye’s cultivation method, but she said their relationship was over.
• When Yu Xiaogang invoked their past, Bibi Dong warned that she could expose his disgraceful conduct in Spirit City, and Chrysanthemum Douluo slapped him for disrespecting the Pope.
• Bibi Dong revealed that Yu Xiaogang had used her connections to access restricted library floors and built his Ten Core Competencies theory from Spirit Hall’s rare books.
• Flender and the other teachers realized Yu Xiaogang had passed off Spirit Hall materials as his own research, while Yu Xiaogang tried to deny the accusation.
• Bibi Dong said Spirit Hall would publish the library records and produce the books as proof, then warned Yu Xiaogang that he would face more than disgrace if he continued.

Bibi Dong punished Yu Xiaogang for stealing Spirit Hall's information and deceiving the Soul Master World, choosing to ruin his reputation rather than kill him. After Yu Xiaogang collapsed and was carried away, Lin Ye joined Bibi Dong and the others at the Trial Tower, where Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo realized he was hiding his identity as the General President of the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce.

• Flender realized Yu Xiaogang had concealed serious misconduct and reconsidered his friend's reputation as a Grandmaster.
• Bibi Dong decided to spread pamphlets exposing Yu Xiaogang, cut off his and his disciple's Spirit Hall allowances, and leave him alive to bear public shame.
• Yu Xiaogang protested Bibi Dong's decision, then fainted after she said the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would be ashamed of him.
• Bibi Dong led Flender and the others to the Trial Tower, while Ma Hongjun and Oscar carried Yu Xiaogang away.
• Lin Ye arrived at the Trial Tower, and Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo realized he was hiding his position as General President of the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce.

Bibi Dong inspected Lin Ye’s Trial Tower and offered to buy ten for Spirit Hall, agreeing to his price of ten million Gold Soul Coins each. She then asked when he would deliver them and what compensation he would provide if he missed the deadline.

• Bibi Dong asked Lin Ye whether he had made the Trial Tower, and he confirmed that he had.
• Bibi Dong, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo entered the tower to inspect it while Lin Ye waited outside with Flender.
• Lin Ye told Flender that he was willing to sell Trial Towers to any buyer who paid enough.
• After inspecting the tower’s cultivation benefits, Bibi Dong offered to buy ten for Spirit Hall.
• Lin Ye quoted ten million Gold Soul Coins per tower, and Bibi Dong accepted the price and asked about delivery and compensation for delays.

Lin Ye agreed to build Bibi Dong a Trial Tower for one hundred million Gold Soul Coins and planned to deliver it in three months. Bibi Dong left Hu Liena at Shrek to cultivate while Lin Ye considered developing more advanced towers.

• Bibi Dong asked Lin Ye when the Trial Tower would be ready, and he promised to deliver it in three months.
• After sealing the deal, Lin Ye considered building Advanced Trial Towers for higher-level cultivators and Inheritance Trial Towers that simulated divine powers.
• Xiao Wu and the others emerged from the Trial Tower, and Bibi Dong told Hu Liena to remain at Shrek and cultivate until the new tower was ready.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo gave Flender a Gold Soul Card, and Flender agreed to let Hu Liena stay at the academy.
• Bibi Dong warned Lin Ye not to deliver late or provide a flawed tower, then left after he assured her of its quality.

After the deal with Spirit Hall was settled, Lin Ye agreed to help Xiao Wu and the others find Soul Rings while they continued cultivating in the Trial Tower. Yu Xiaogang woke to find his reputation and influence collapsing, and Bibi Dong began spreading evidence that he had copied the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul, leaving the scandal to spread across Douluo Continent.

• Lin Ye agreed to take Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing to hunt for Soul Rings when they were ready, while Xiao Wu, Hu Liena, and the others returned to cultivate.
• Yu Xiaogang woke in the dormitory and remembered that Bibi Dong had exposed the source of his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun told Yu Xiaogang that Li Yusong would take over their training, then left him alone.
• Yu Xiaogang realized the Academy's students and staff were turning away from him and could only wait to see how far the scandal spread.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to distribute flyers, publish an announcement with evidence from the Central Library, and expose Yu Xiaogang's plagiarism.
• Within days, Spirit Hall's announcement and flyers spread across Douluo Continent and stunned the public.

Spirit Hall exposed that Yu Xiaogang had taken its research for the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul and passed it off as his own, damaging his reputation and dragging the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan into disgrace. Yu Yuanzhen ordered an investigation into Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang, while Bibi Dong declined to warn the clan and said Spirit Hall should provide details if they investigated.

• Spirit Hall circulated evidence that Yu Xiaogang had obtained restricted research materials through Bibi Dong and claimed the work as his own, prompting widespread condemnation.
• Yu Yuanzhen smashed the leaflet in anger as Yu Luomian and the clan elders blamed Spirit Hall for tarnishing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yu Yuanzhen blamed Yu Xiaogang for bringing shame on the clan and ordered an investigation into Bibi Dong's actions and his son's whereabouts.
• Bibi Dong reviewed reports of the public backlash, and Chrysanthemum Douluo offered to warn the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Bibi Dong refused to issue a warning and instructed Spirit Hall to give the clan a few details if it came to investigate.

After Yu Xiaogang’s reputation collapsed, he blamed Bibi Dong, Flender, and Lin Ye, then secretly headed toward Lin Ye’s Forging Room. Lin Ye took Ning Rongrong and the others to the Star Dou Great Forest for Soul Rings, where a fifty-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant unexpectedly offered to sacrifice itself.

• Yu Xiaogang learned that Spirit Hall had exposed the truth about his theory, and teachers and students at the academy began treating him with contempt.
• Yu Xiaogang confronted Flender and Lin Ye over Spirit Hall’s Trial Towers, but Lin Ye dismissed him and shoved him to the ground.
• Lin Ye led Ning Rongrong, Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Hu Liena to the Star Dou Great Forest using his Flight Soul Tools.
• Lin Ye judged that Ning Rongrong and Zhuqing could absorb fourth Soul Rings aged forty to fifty thousand years, then found a fifty-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant suited to Ning Rongrong.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant knelt before Lin Ye and asked to sacrifice itself, calling him Master.

Lin Ye used his Dragon God Martial Soul to secure Soul Beast sacrifices for Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, then helped Xiao Wu condense and strengthen her Fifth Soul Ring. The girls gained powerful new Soul Rings, while Lin Ye kept Xiao Wu’s identity secret.

• Xiao Wu realized the Evil Eye Tyrant had submitted because of Lin Ye’s Dragon God Martial Soul, and Lin Ye arranged for it to sacrifice itself to Ning Rongrong while preserving its soul.
• Ning Rongrong absorbed the Evil Eye Tyrant’s fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring, and Lin Ye thought he could help her evolve her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Lin Ye found a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast for Zhu Zhuqing, which submitted to the Dragon God Martial Soul and sacrificed itself while Zhu Zhuqing absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Lin Ye took Xiao Wu aside so she could condense her Fifth Soul Ring without revealing her identity to Ning Rongrong and Hu Liena.
• Lin Ye used a black crystal to raise Xiao Wu’s Fifth Soul Ring to eighty thousand years, bringing her Soul Power from level fifty to level fifty-four.
• Xiao Wu thanked Lin Ye with a kiss, and he privately wished they could return to the academy soon.