Chapter Summaries

Qian Mochen treated his injuries after Qian Daoliu beat him, then learned the tea that had angered his father was linked to Bo Saixi and imagined arranging her as Qian Daoliu’s partner. He later demonstrated his pills to the Worshippers, helping Golden Crocodile Douluo break through to level ninety-eight, and began recommending pills to the others.

• Bibi Dong treated Qian Mochen’s bruises and learned that Qian Daoliu had beaten him after he brewed some unusual tea.
• Bibi Dong identified the tea as likely coming from the sea, and Qian Mochen connected it to Bo Saixi and planned to bring her to Qian Daoliu for his hundredth birthday.
• Four days later, Qian Mochen summoned the Worshippers and offered them a choice among more than ten types of pills.
• Qian Mochen recommended a Foundation-Cultivating Pill to Golden Crocodile Douluo, who used it to break through to level ninety-eight.
• Qian Mochen began recommending pills to the other Worshippers and handed one to Qingluan Douluo.

Qian Mochen announced Spirit Hall’s Merit Point reforms and promised valuable rewards for service, then ordered Bibi Dong to acquire rare medicinal materials for his plans. The Merit Hall opened the next day and drew such a crowd that its staff were left hoarse from answering questions.

• Qian Mochen distributed pills to the worship elders, joined their feast, and passed out after only a few cups of wine.
• Qian Mochen and Qian Daoliu finalized Spirit Hall’s reforms, and Qian Mochen summoned its Soul Sage and higher officials to a meeting.
• Qian Mochen introduced Merit Points, unveiled a catalog of valuable exchanges, and explained how officials could earn points through missions, achievements, or resource contributions.
• Qian Mochen ordered Bibi Dong to buy Whale Rubber, Blood Ginseng, and other ingredients, intending to cultivate precious herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Merit Hall opened to a huge crowd, and its hundred staff members grew hoarse explaining the exchanges.

After ten days of refining pills, Qian Mochen distributed them around Spirit Hall and encouraged Yue Guan to cultivate toward becoming a Super Douluo. Seeing how the Merit Points system had transformed the orphanage, he came away with a new idea.

• Bibi Dong confined Qian Mochen to refining the medicinal herbs, and he completed more than a hundred bottles of pills after ten days.
• Qian Mochen gave Bibi Dong a Vitality Beauty Pill, offered the remaining one to her sisters-in-law, and proposed teaching medicinal theory students to make ordinary healing pills.
• Qian Mochen gave Qian Xunji Fertility Pills for him and his wives, restoring his hope of having children and easing his exhaustion.
• Qian Mochen visited Yue Guan at the academy and urged him to cultivate near Dugu Bo at Sunset Forest until he could become a Super Douluo.
• Qian Mochen saw that Aunt Lan had used her Merit Points to improve the orphanage, then spent the afternoon talking with her and formed a new idea.

Qian Mochen established an education fund and used rewards and Fertility Pills to encourage Spirit Hall members and consecrators to have gifted children who could inherit their strength. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong reporting that a Spirit Hall caravan had been attacked in Falkes Province, and Qian Mochen doubting the claim that evil soul masters were responsible.

• Qian Mochen persuaded Bibi Dong to establish an education fund for orphanage children and post a merit-point reward for members whose top-tier-spirit children joined Spirit Hall.
• Spirit Hall members rushed to exchange merit points for Fertility Pills after learning they could earn three hundred merit points for each qualifying child.
• Qian Mochen urged the consecrators to build families and pass down their powerful spirits, winning over all but Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo supported Qian Mochen's proposal, imagining his family might one day grow powerful enough to become the Golden Crocodile Empire.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Mochen that a Spirit Hall caravan had been attacked in Falkes Province, and Qian Mochen suspected the attackers were not evil soul masters.

Qian Mochen learned that the White Tiger Sect had arranged the robbery of a Spirit Hall caravan and set out with Bibi Dong to confront them in the Star Luo Empire. After arriving in Star Luo City, he ordered Sami to make the sect pay twice over for every Spirit Hall member it had killed.

• Qian Mochen identified the White Tiger Sect as the force behind the caravan robbery and ordered Yue Guan and Gui Mei to replace Dugu Bo while Dugu Bo went to the Star Luo capital.
• Qian Xunji told Qian Mochen that all four of his wives were pregnant, then agreed to manage Spirit Hall while Qian Mochen and Bibi Dong dealt with the White Tiger Sect.
• Qian Xunji apologized to Bibi Dong for his past actions, but she left with Qian Mochen without responding.
• Qian Mochen and Bibi Dong reached Spirit Hall's Star Luo City branch, where Sami reported that the Star Luo Emperor had refused to acknowledge the White Tiger Sect's actions and had driven him out.
• Qian Mochen ordered Sami to repay the White Tiger Sect's killings twofold and reassigned him to serve as master of a branch hall in the Far North.

Qian Mochen arranged for Dugu Bo to punish the White Tiger Sect and gave Sami orders to retaliate, while explaining why the Star Luo Emperor would not dare intervene. Sami led a midnight assault on the sect, and as its two Soul Douluos fought him, the Star Luo Emperor was invited to watch.

• Qian Mochen asked Dugu Bo to prepare a dormant Gu Insect poison for the Star Luo Emperor and ordered him to cripple the White Tiger Sect’s Soul Power cultivation, or eliminate Sami’s people if Sami betrayed him.
• Dugu Bo told Qian Mochen that his son wished to join Spirit Hall, and Qian Mochen said he could register at a branch hall.
• Sami gathered his trusted subordinates and ordered a midnight attack on the White Tiger Sect, mobilizing more than a hundred Spirit Hall soul masters.
• Sami and his force assembled outside the White Tiger Sect, where Sami assigned routes and sent himself to draw away its two Soul Douluos.
• Sami lured the two White Tiger Sect elders into the barren mountains, and the three Soul Douluos began a destructive battle.
• The Star Luo Emperor sensed the disturbance in his palace, but a voice outside his door invited him to watch the show.

Qian Mochen confronted the Star Luo Emperor over the White Tiger Sect’s attack on Spirit Hall, defeated the Emperor and Empress’s Hell White Tiger with ease, and forced them to accept his demands. He left the Star Luo Emperor agreeing to provide two Zhu Family daughters and to forbid retaliation against Spirit Hall’s branches, then mentioned he had one more matter.

• Qian Mochen entered the Star Luo Emperor’s palace with Bibi Dong and said he had come to settle the White Tiger Sect’s killing of Spirit Hall members and theft of its goods.
• The Star Luo Emperor and Empress fused into a Hell White Tiger and attacked Qian Mochen, but he cut through the beast with a single sword stroke and severely injured them.
• Qian Mochen told the Star Luo Emperor that a barrier prevented anyone from entering or leaving the palace and that he had put nearby guards to sleep.
• Qian Mochen demanded two daughters from the Zhu Family’s next generation and an end to retaliation against Spirit Hall’s branches, and the Star Luo Emperor reluctantly agreed.
• Qian Mochen said he had forgotten one small matter.

Qian Mochen forced the Star Luo Emperor to accept a Gu Insect, then rewarded Sami and his men after they killed more than fifty members of the Dai Family. After learning that Gangzi was preparing to marry Liu Erlong, Qian Mochen set off with Bibi Dong to visit him.

• Qian Mochen implanted a Gu Insect in the Star Luo Emperor and secured his agreement, while the queen arranged a blood-soaked cover-up at the palace.
• Sami presented Qian Mochen with the heads of more than fifty Dai Family members, and Qian Mochen awarded Merit Points and healing medicine to his wounded group.
• Qian Mochen received a letter revealing that Gangzi was preparing to marry Liu Erlong, and decided to bring his friend a wedding gift.
• Bibi Dong handed the branch hall’s affairs to Sami, arranged new personnel, and promised Sami’s group a trip to the Far North.
• Several days later, Qian Mochen traveled with Bibi Dong toward Gangzi’s wedding and insisted that he was going to congratulate his good friend.

Qian Mochen told Bibi Dong that Yu Xiaogang was marrying Liu Erlong, his second uncle’s illegitimate daughter, and revealed that he had invited the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect to the wedding. Yu Yuanzhen received the invitations and decided to attend, while Yu Luomian and Yu Langtian mistook the invitation as a chance for Yu Xiaogang to reconcile with his father.

• Qian Mochen teased Bibi Dong about a woman he had met before, then told her that Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender had become known as the Golden Iron Triangle.
• Qian Mochen explained that Flender loved Liu Erlong, who loved Yu Xiaogang, and revealed that Yu Xiaogang knew Liu Erlong was Yu Luomian’s illegitimate daughter.
• Qian Mochen said he had sent wedding invitations to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect so Yu Xiaogang’s father would learn where the wedding was being held.
• A falcon delivered the invitations to the sect, and Yu Yuanzhen grew furious that Yu Xiaogang had not told him about the wedding directly.
• Yu Yuanzhen prepared wedding gifts and summoned Yu Luomian and Yu Langtian, who urged him to attend and take the invitation as a chance to reconcile with Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong began their wedding ceremony while Flender struggled with his feelings for the bride. Qian Mochen and two companions arrived unexpectedly, and a thunder dragon appeared as the ceremony continued, hinting that the Yu Family was approaching.

• Flender checked the wedding preparations with the village chief and lamented that Liu Erlong was marrying Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang nervously prepared to fetch Liu Erlong, then led her to the ceremony as villagers celebrated.
• Qian Mochen and two companions arrived during the first bow, and Yu Xiaogang welcomed them despite his anger.
• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong bowed to Heaven and Earth and then to the elders represented by an incense table.
• Thunder boomed as a thunder dragon flew toward the wedding, and Qian Mochen grabbed sunflower seeds and peanuts to watch what happened.

Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian arrived at Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong’s wedding, where Liu Erlong discovered that Yu Luomian was her father and Yu Xiaogang’s second uncle. Yu Yuanzhen beat Yu Xiaogang and left him despondent, until Qian Mochen revealed he had notified the Yu Family and Yu Xiaogang blamed him for ruining his love.

• Yu Yuanzhen arrived at the wedding and greeted Liu Erlong, while Yu Luomian tore off her veil and recognized her as his daughter.
• Liu Erlong learned Yu Luomian was Yu Xiaogang’s second uncle and attacked him, furious that he had abandoned her mother and disrupted her happiness.
• Yu Luomian led Liu Erlong away, and Yu Langtian went to arrange compensation for the frightened villagers.
• Yu Yuanzhen struck Yu Xiaogang, beat him severely, and warned him to stay away from Liu Erlong before leaving with Yu Langtian.
• Yu Xiaogang lay motionless for a day and a night until Qian Mochen visited and admitted that he had notified the Yu Family.
• Yu Xiaogang glared at Qian Mochen and accused him of leaving him without love.

Qian Mochen tormented Yu Xiaogang, then spent his Emotion Points on four techniques that could strengthen Soul Masters and taught them to Bibi Dong. He planned to promote the techniques during the upcoming Elite Tournament, but Spirit Hall’s young competitors were far stronger than the ordinary team he wanted to showcase.

• Qian Mochen drove Yu Xiaogang into an emotional breakdown and earned 150,000 Emotion Points from the System.
• Qian Mochen returned to Spirit Hall with Bibi Dong, while Dugu Bo headed back to Sunset Forest to arrange for his son to join Spirit Hall.
• Qian Mochen spent 200,000 Emotion Points on four techniques and divided them into simplified, detailed, and original versions.
• Bibi Dong learned the techniques and found her combat strength had increased enough to briefly challenge a Soul Douluo.
• Qian Mochen decided to publicize the techniques during the Elite Tournament, and Bibi Dong explained that Spirit Hall’s youngest competitors were only sixteen.

Qian Mochen decided to sell Spirit Hall’s cultivation methods to recoup the subsidies Soul Masters had taken for granted, while distributing weaker editions as rewards to loyal officials. He and Bibi Dong began training two teams of young candidates for a future competition, with strict tests to select Spirit Hall’s strongest seven.

• Qian Mochen explained that Spirit Hall’s subsidies had failed to earn Soul Masters’ gratitude and decided to sell four cultivation methods through the Merit Hall.
• Bibi Dong realized that selling the methods widely would prevent rival factions from gaining an exclusive advantage, then promised to select candidates from the academy.
• Qian Mochen sent detailed, weakened editions of the methods to deserving Spirit Hall officials and announced that four methods would be available for five hundred Merit Points each.
• Bibi Dong found two teams of fifteen-year-olds, and Qian Mochen began a trial in which only the strongest seven would represent Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong introduced the four confidential methods and began testing the youths’ ability to memorize and master them.

Bibi Dong and Qian Mochen selected and trained a team for the upcoming tournament while Qian Xunji reached the Titled Douluo level. After Qian Daoliu helped him obtain a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, Qian Mochen arranged for Qian Xunji to wake up in the Pope Hall so he could host the visiting factions.

• Bibi Dong distributed cultivation techniques to promising disciples, and a month of training narrowed them down to the tournament team.
• Qian Xunji emerged from seclusion as a Titled Douluo, and Qian Mochen asked Qian Daoliu to help him find a ninth soul ring.
• Qian Daoliu took Qian Xunji to the back mountain, where he weakened a hundred-thousand-year Radiant Holy Butterfly and Qian Xunji absorbed its soul ring.
• Qian Xunji spent two days at home before Qian Mochen got him drunk and carried him to the Pope Hall.
• Qian Xunji woke in the Pope Hall with a note from Qian Mochen and ordered his attendants to bring him clothes.

As the High-Level Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament finals began, Ning Fengzhi assessed Heaven Dou Empire's young talents while Spirit Hall's unexpectedly weak-looking team drew mockery. Qian Mochen left with Bibi Dong before the matches, confident that the team he had trained could win.

• General Tianshu told Ning Fengzhi that Xue Ye stayed in the palace because the prince was due to be born soon, and he praised Heaven Dou Empire's competing team.
• Ning Fengzhi secretly listed promising Heaven Dou Empire youths and ordered a disciple to gather intelligence and recruit those he could.
• The host introduced the tournament teams, and spectators mocked Spirit Hall's lineup of three Soul Ancestors and four Soul Elders.
• Qian Xunji arrived with ten red-robed elders, and his pressure forced every competing team onstage to kneel.
• Sword Douluo reassured Ning Fengzhi that the ten Titled Douluo were weak compared with him, restoring Ning Fengzhi's confidence.
• Qian Mochen called Bibi Dong away from the arena, saying the team he trained should win against the empire teams or prove unworthy of his resources.

Spirit Hall defeated Star Luo Royal Academy in the semifinals using three powerful Self-Created Soul Skills, drawing the attention of Ning Fengzhi and other major powers. As Heaven Dou prepared for the final, Ning Fengzhi waited with Chen Xin and Gu Rong for news about the skills.

• Spirit Hall drew Star Luo Royal Academy in the semifinals, while Heaven Dou Royal Academy faced the battered team that had advanced through the earlier rounds.
• Spirit Hall sent out only four fighters, and Number One and Number Eight combined their unusual techniques to destroy Star Luo's Hell White Tiger and defeat the entire team.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized the value of Spirit Hall's three Self-Created Soul Skills and secretly sent a message to contact families close to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy defeated its opponent, and its captain warned his teammates to take Spirit Hall seriously in the final.
• That night, Ning Fengzhi waited with Chen Xin and Gu Rong as a disciple arrived with possible news about the three spirit skills.

Ning Fengzhi planned to secretly obtain three Self-Created Soul Skills from Spirit Hall, while Spirit Hall’s team won the tournament championship with ease. Qian Xunji then invited sect leaders to negotiate for the skills, as Qian Mochen sent him a voice transmission.

• Ning Fengzhi ordered his disciple to monitor the release of the skills and arrange to redeem one copy of each of the three Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong planned a covert escape and prepared a lookalike to take Ning Fengzhi’s place.
• Spirit Hall’s four chosen fighters swiftly defeated the Heaven Dou Empire team and secured the tournament championship.
• Qian Xunji offered to sell the three Self-Created Soul Skills, prompting Huyan Zhen and other sect leaders to follow him into Pope Hall.
• As Qian Xunji entered Pope Hall, Qian Mochen sent him a voice transmission.

Qian Xunji negotiated with Ning Fengzhi over Spirit Hall’s cultivation methods, securing the Heart Separation Control technique and a steady supply of medicinal herbs. Ning Fengzhi left appearing triumphant, prompting the other sect leaders to demand the same methods as negotiations continued.

• Qian Mochen urged Qian Xunji to make extreme demands first so the sect leaders would accept more moderate terms.
• Qian Xunji offered Ning Fengzhi limited cultivation methods for annual payments, then demanded a Ning family member and medicinal herbs for the detailed versions.
• Ning Fengzhi refused to send a clan member and bargained for access by offering the Heart Separation Control technique and medicinal herbs.
• Qian Xunji and Ning Fengzhi signed an agreement for the technique, two million in herbs the first year, and two million annually afterward.
• Ning Fengzhi left Pope Hall with Qian Xunji, and the other sect leaders grew anxious after seeing the agreement’s seals.
• Yu Yuanzhen demanded the three cultivation methods for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, while Qian Mochen watched the tense negotiations with satisfaction.

Ning Fengzhi realized Qian Xunji had used the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to push other factions into buying Spirit Hall’s cultivation methods, while Qian Mochen explained why Spirit Hall should make the collected manuals available through its Merit Hall. After arranging for the manuals to be divided into volumes, Qian Mochen left for a secluded residence.

• Ning Fengzhi recognized that Qian Xunji had used him to make other factions believe the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect possessed cultivation methods, but he decided the sect should still exchange for another set.
• Qian Mochen discovered he had gained over a hundred thousand Emotion Points from the negotiations, and Qian Xunji reported that the guests’ promised items would arrive next month.
• Qian Mochen told Qian Xunji to copy the manuals for the Merit Hall and keep the medicinal herbs for refining into pills, then argued that publishing the methods could help Spirit Hall develop future talent.
• Qian Mochen explained that Soul Masters could earn Merit Points by deducing cultivation methods, giving Spirit Hall a way to benefit from the new materials and attract unaffiliated practitioners.
• Qian Xunji agreed to divide the manuals into upper, middle, and lower volumes and restrict access to the lower volumes to loyal members.
• Qian Mochen bought food on the street, arrived at a secluded residence, and knocked on its gate.

Qian Mochen gave Tian Jin cultivation manuals and set his scheme in motion, first selling stronger methods to sects and then distributing weaker versions to Spirit Hall members. As unaffiliated soul masters protested for equal access, Qian Mochen chose to let the controversy grow.

• Qian Mochen gave the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect one cultivation manual and another to Tian Jin's family, then asked Tian Jin to manage the other factions and find talent to refine cultivation methods.
• Qian Mochen reviewed his long-running plans and prepared to expand the sale of cultivation methods from sects to ordinary soul masters.
• Spirit Hall gave members with at least five years of service a simplified cultivation method, raising their combat strength by ten percent.
• Ning Fengzhi learned that Spirit Hall's methods were weaker than the full versions the factions had purchased, and Spirit Hall assured the factions the benefit would not be repeated.
• Unaffiliated soul masters demanded access to the methods, stirring continent-wide accusations of discrimination while the major factions watched.
• Qian Mochen smiled at the growing unrest and told his companions to let the bullets fly a while longer.