Chapter Summaries

Ning Rongrong asked Wang Zhao if she could call him Hall Lord Brother, and he agreed, making her delighted. Xiao Ying then led Wang Zhao and Rongrong to the birthday banquet, where their close relationship drew attention.

• Ning Rongrong asked Wang Zhao to let her call him Hall Lord Brother, and he agreed to treat her as a little sister.
• Ning Qingyun worried that Rongrong’s closeness to Wang Zhao would complicate her own efforts to hide their shared body and deepen a bond with someone who already had a partner.
• Ning Rongrong hugged Wang Zhao’s leg and celebrated becoming the brother of the continent’s Number One Prodigy.
• Xiao Ying told Wang Zhao and Ning Rongrong that the birthday banquet was about to begin, and Rongrong linked arms with Wang Zhao as they left the courtyard.
• Wang Zhao, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Ying arrived at the crowded plaza, where guests noticed the little princess’s closeness to the Dragon King Hall Lord.

Xue Beng confronted Wang Zhao in public, disguising his resentment as the reckless behavior of a playboy. The chapter explained that Xue Beng had adopted that reputation to avoid becoming a target in the imperial succession struggle, while privately resenting Wang Zhao’s success.

• Xue Beng approached Wang Zhao and asked whether he was the Dragon King Hall Lord, stunning the gathered nobles.
• Wang Zhao calmly identified himself and asked what business Xue Beng had with him.
• Xue Beng recalled that his uncle Xue Xing had urged him to act like a debauched playboy so Xue Qinghe would consider him no threat to the throne.
• Xue Beng remembered that he genuinely enjoyed his playboy lifestyle and resented Wang Zhao’s fame, strength, and admiration from noblewomen.
• Xue Beng recalled holding back from provoking Wang Zhao because of his growing power, including his Hundred-Thousand-Year Fifth Soul Ring.

Xue Beng provoked Wang Zhao by demanding a platinum dragon scale and the necklace around his neck, prompting Wang Zhao to prepare to punish him. Gu Yuena contacted Wang Zhao through the silver dragon scale and offered to teach Xue Beng a lesson, then the scale floated from Wang Zhao’s hand and began shining.

• Xue Beng overcame his hesitation and arrogantly asked Wang Zhao for a platinum dragon scale and his silver scale necklace.
• Wang Zhao guessed that Xue Beng was using the confrontation to bolster his playboy reputation and considered summoning Golden Scale to punish him.
• Gu Yuena contacted Wang Zhao through the necklace and offered to teach Xue Beng a lesson.
• Wang Zhao tore off the necklace and tried to put it away, but the silver dragon scale slipped from his hand and erupted with dazzling light.

At Ning Rongrong's birthday banquet, Wang Zhao restrained Xue Beng with the Silver Scale Necklace after the prince offended its mysterious owner. Ning Fengzhi agreed to call Sword Douluo as Xue Xing sought to rescue his nephew before the twenty-breath deadline expired.

• Xiao Ying told Ning Fengzhi that Ning Rongrong and Wang Zhao had gotten along well and that she had called him “Hall Master Brother.”
• Ning Fengzhi and Xue Xing heard Xue Beng's cries and hurried outside, where they found him suspended and bound by the Silver Scale Necklace.
• Xue Xing asked Wang Zhao to release Xue Beng, but Wang Zhao explained that an unseen senior was punishing the prince for offending her.
• Wang Zhao said the senior would spare Xue Beng if someone broke through the spatial barrier and touched him within twenty breaths.
• Xue Xing asked Ning Fengzhi to summon Sword Douluo, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to intervene.

At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Sword Douluo Chen Xin and the others tried to break the spatial barrier trapping Xue Beng before the deadline. Their strongest attacks failed, leaving Xue Beng still imprisoned as the barrier remained unchanged.

• Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Jade Scale Douluo arrived at the sect and learned that Xue Beng was trapped inside an invisible barrier.
• Chen Xin’s initial attack and Seven Kill True Body were both rebounded without disturbing the barrier.
• Gu Rong attacked and concluded that the barrier’s creator understood space far better than he did.
• Chen Xin unleashed God-Demon Two Cuts, but the barrier sent him flying and remained intact.
• Ning Fengzhi strengthened Chen Xin with his Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda, and Chen Xin tried God-Demon Two Cuts once more.
• The deadline passed, and the gathered Soul Masters found the barrier around Xue Beng unchanged.

Sword Douluo failed to break the Silver Scale Necklace’s spatial barrier, leaving Xue Beng at the mercy of the mysterious powerhouse. The powerhouse punished Xue Beng and left the Heaven Dou Empire weighing whether to bargain for her favor.

• Sword Douluo’s enhanced strike failed to disturb the barrier, and Ning Fengzhi accepted that Xue Beng could not be rescued before the deadline.
• Ning Fengzhi and Xue Xing tried to negotiate with the Silver Scale Necklace, and Wang Zhao relayed the powerhouse’s demand for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud in exchange for Xue Beng’s safety.
• Xue Xing invited the mysterious powerhouse to Heaven Dou City, hoping to recruit her, while Ning Fengzhi considered the offer.
• The Seven-Colored Chains pierced Xue Beng’s shoulder, made him bald, struck him between the legs, and burned away his left arm before disappearing and cleaning the blood.

After Gu Yuena’s Silver Scale Necklace settled around Wang Zhao’s neck, the guests watched as Ning Fengzhi treated the unconscious Xue Beng and revealed the lasting injuries he had suffered. Xue Xing took Xue Beng away from the birthday banquet, while Wang Zhao wondered what might happen when Shrek arrived in Heaven Dou City seven years later.

• Gu Yuena told Wang Zhao she would ask before observing him through the dragon scale, and Wang Zhao allowed the Silver Scale Necklace to remain around his neck.
• Ning Fengzhi treated Xue Beng and found that his left arm was gone and his sexual injuries would prevent him from having sex for at least seven years.
• Ning Fengzhi informed Xue Xing of Xue Beng’s injuries, and the guests overheard the news as they consoled Xue Xing and privately mocked the prince.
• Wang Zhao connected Xue Beng’s seven-year recovery to the possible arrival of Shrek in Heaven Dou City and wondered what might happen between them.
• Xue Xing had attendants carry Xue Beng to his carriage, bid Ning Fengzhi farewell, and left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Dugu Bo and Gu Rong began their spar while Ning Fengzhi and the guests watched. Though Gu Rong seemed to have the advantage, Dugu Bo proved far stronger and more resilient than expected, leaving Wang Zhao to declare that cultivation level would no longer define a Soul Master’s strength.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Dugu Bo and Gu Rong to spar while the Sect Protection Array remained active.
• Gu Rong and Dugu Bo entered their Martial Soul Avatar states and began exchanging attacks.
• Dugu Bo used Poison Light to corrode Gu Rong’s bone prison, then advanced to fight him at close range.
• Gu Rong sent Dugu Bo flying but was shocked to see him emerge unharmed, and the two continued fighting evenly.
• Chen Xin remarked that the Dugu Family would rise, while Ning Fengzhi asked Wang Zhao how Dugu Bo had grown so strong.
• Wang Zhao told Ning Fengzhi that cultivation levels would increasingly cease to define strength.

Dugu Bo and Gu Rong escalated their spar at Rongrong’s birthday banquet, each using powerful soul skills to try to decide the fight in one stroke. Gu Rong broke free of Dugu Bo’s time restraint and charged through the Jade Scale Divine Light toward him, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Gu Rong taunted Dugu Bo about his lower Soul Power reserves and said he would end their drawn-out fight quickly.
• Dugu Bo unleashed Time Solidification and Jade Scale Divine Light as Gu Rong transformed into his Bone Dragon form and attacked.
• Dugu Bo restrained Gu Rong and followed with Medusa’s Gaze and Jade Scale Divine Light.
• Gu Rong used a safeguard in his spatial black mist to resist Dugu Bo’s attacks and break free of Time Solidification.
• Gu Rong’s bone dragon endured the Jade Scale Divine Light and charged toward Dugu Bo.

Dugu Bo fought Gu Rong to a draw, astonishing the guests and demonstrating how much Dragon King Hall had grown. Afterward, Gu Rong told Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin that Dugu Bo’s seemingly limitless Soul Power had made him increasingly difficult to overcome.

• Dugu Bo and Gu Rong exchanged attacks until both were exhausted and their Martial Soul Avatars dissipated.
• Dugu Bo called the fight a draw, and the guests were shocked that a level-ninety-four Dugu Bo had matched the level-ninety-five Gu Rong.
• Wang Zhao left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s three leaders with Dugu Bo after noticing they wanted to talk.
• Gu Rong told Ning Fengzhi that Dugu Bo’s Soul Power seemed strange and that he might have lost if the fight had continued.
• Gu Rong explained to Chen Xin that Dugu Bo kept fighting despite weakening, while seeming to grow stronger as Gu Rong tired.
• Wang Zhao asked Dugu Bo whether he enjoyed being admired by the guests.

After Ning Rongrong’s birthday banquet, Wang Zhao and Dugu Bo departed, and Ning Qingyun sought out Chen Xin late that night. She challenged Sword Grandpa to a swordsmanship contest, leaving him startled by her question about whether he truly understood the sword.

• Ning Rongrong celebrated her birthday with Ning Fengzhi, Wang Zhao, Dugu Bo, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect leaders.
• Ning Rongrong asked Wang Zhao when they could meet again, and Ning Fengzhi agreed she could visit him at Dragon King Hall.
• Wang Zhao and Dugu Bo left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect on the Platinum Dragon.
• Ning Qingyun found Chen Xin meditating on a courtyard roof and asked him what a sword was.
• Ning Qingyun said a sword seemed to be more than swinging, thrusting, and slashing, then challenged Chen Xin to compete in swordsmanship.

Ning Qingyun challenged Chen Xin to a wooden-sword spar and unexpectedly struck his robes with a technique that gave him a glimpse of the sword Dao. Her explanation connected his breakthrough to the invisible barrier he had failed to break while trying to save the Fourth Prince, while Wang Zhao sensed something strange far away in the Dragon King Hall.

• Ning Qingyun asked Chen Xin to spar using only sword techniques, and Chen Xin agreed to restrain himself and give her three moves.
• Ning Qingyun repeatedly attacked, while Chen Xin easily dodged, blocked, and knocked her back; she kept rising and charging again.
• Ning Qingyun’s movements grew steadier, and she suddenly changed her sword technique and struck Chen Xin’s sword robes.
• Chen Xin asked how she had performed the move, and Ning Qingyun said she had only wanted to hit him, comparing her frustration to his failure to break the invisible barrier while saving the Fourth Prince.
• Wang Zhao sneezed while playing a game with Sister Die in the Dragon King Hall and wondered whether a fellow Daoist had appeared.

Ning Qingyun secretly guided Chen Xin toward a breakthrough by stirring his fighting spirit and directing him to reflect on the sword. Chen Xin steadied his aura and declared that his heart was the sword.

• Ning Qingyun recalled why she believed Chen Xin could advance by cultivating a true understanding of the sword.
• After Chen Xin failed to overcome the distant barrier and witnessed the clash between Poison Douluo and Bone Douluo, Ning Qingyun recognized his chance to break through.
• Ning Qingyun challenged Chen Xin repeatedly and reminded him of his helplessness before the barrier to strengthen his resolve.
• Chen Xin closed his eyes and pondered what a sword was while gripping the Wooden Sword, which remained intact despite his Soul Pressure.
• Chen Xin opened his eyes, drew in his chaotic aura, raised the Wooden Sword, and declared, "My heart... is the sword!"

Chen Xin broke through to level 97 after exchanging sword moves with Ning Qingyun, prompting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to guard him. At the Dragon King Hall, Wang Zhao and Qian Jun discussed the breakthrough before someone covered Wang Zhao’s eyes.

• Chen Xin performed a sword dance in the sky, and Gu Rong recognized that he was about to break through to level 97.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered the sect’s elders and disciples to protect Chen Xin while Ning Qingyun explained that she had exchanged sword moves with him.
• Chen Xin manifested the Seven Kill Sword and announced that he had entered the realm of a level 97 Titled Douluo.
• Wang Zhao, Dugu Bo, and Qian Jun sensed Chen Xin’s breakthrough, and Qian Jun said he would return to seclusion after helping Wang Zhao.
• Chen Xin exchanged banter with Gu Rong, and Ning Rongrong praised him before he glanced at her and fell silent.

Wang Zhao visited Latent Dragon Academy, where Liu Erlong complained that he had left her to handle its administration without giving her a vice dean title. Qian Renxue then described Wang Zhao’s rise to Liu Erlong and contrasted his practical work with Yu Xiaogang’s stagnant theories.

• Wang Zhao brought breakfast to Liu Erlong and defended his decision to leave her managing Latent Dragon Academy as its dean of studies.
• Liu Erlong demanded recognition as vice dean, but Wang Zhao promised support, future advancement, and good compensation instead.
• Liu Erlong asked Qian Renxue how Wang Zhao had become so knowledgeable and capable at a young age.
• Qian Renxue explained that Wang Zhao had overcome poor cultivation talent through study and experimentation before becoming Dragon King Hall Lord.
• Qian Renxue contrasted Wang Zhao’s practical achievements with Yu Xiaogang’s unproven theories, leaving Liu Erlong unable to defend him.

Wang Zhao met Jiu Xin, the Soul Douluo clan head of the Dragon-Patterned Rose Clan, and learned that the clan was a hidden branch from the Vast Mountain Range. He considered recruiting Jiu Xin and his talented granddaughter Jiu Qingyi into Latent Dragon Academy, adding her to his plans for a team of Dragon Maidens.

• Liu Erlong questioned whether Yu Xiaogang could compare with Wang Zhao, then told him that a Soul Douluo and a little girl wanted to meet him about Latent Dragon Academy.
• Wang Zhao and Qian Renxue met Jiu Xin and his granddaughter Jiu Qingyi at an inn.
• Jiu Xin introduced himself as the Dragon-Patterned Rose Clan's leader and explained that his clan had left the Vast Mountain Range centuries ago before retreating into seclusion.
• Jiu Xin asked for Jiu Qingyi, a six-year-old with Innate Soul Power of level 7.8, to join Latent Dragon Academy, though some clan elders opposed his plan to bring the clan back into the world.
• Wang Zhao considered how the academy could improve Jiu Qingyi's talent and counted her among the potential members of his planned Seven Dragon Maidens team.

Wang Zhao examined Jiu Qingyi’s mutated Dragon-Patterned Rose Martial Soul and learned it could serve both Control and Food roles. Impressed by its potential and by Jiu Xin’s careful explanation, he became more interested in recruiting him to the Dragon King Hall.

• Wang Zhao gave up on recruiting Huo Wushuang and decided to keep searching for female dragon-related talents to fill the Seven Dragon Maidens team.
• Jiu Xin introduced Jiu Qingyi to Wang Zhao and asked her to show her Dragon-Patterned Rose Martial Soul, which she had not yet used to obtain a First Soul Ring.
• Jiu Qingyi told Wang Zhao she wanted to become both a Control Type and Food Type Soul Master.
• Jiu Xin explained that Jiu Qingyi’s mutated Martial Soul had lost its toxicity but gained stronger dragon-patterned binding power and a beneficial floral fragrance that could invigorate allies and clear negative conditions.
• Wang Zhao praised Jiu Xin’s thoroughness and became more eager to recruit him into the Dragon King Hall.

Jiu Xin entrusted Jiu Qingyi to Latent Dragon Academy after discussing her dual-type cultivation and Soul Ring prospects with Wang Zhao. As Spirit Hall’s Sacred Ceremony drew the continent’s attention, Wang Zhao and Qian Renxue headed into Heaven Dou City and encountered Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and a familiar little girl.

• Jiu Xin explained the Dragon-Patterned Rose’s dragon bloodline and his proposed Soul Ring choices for Jiu Qingyi, and Wang Zhao promised Latent Dragon Academy would train her.
• Wang Zhao left Jiu Qingyi with Qian Renxue, then Jiu Xin formally entrusted the girl to Latent Dragon Academy before departing.
• Jiu Qingyi joined Su Linglong, Tian Yue, Dugu Yan, and Meng Yiran in a residence near the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• As Spirit Hall’s Sacred Ceremony approached, Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, and figures across the continent prepared to observe or attend it.
• Tang Yuehua received a letter bearing the Clear Sky Sect insignia and set out for the Spirit Hall Temple in Heaven Dou City.
• Wang Zhao and Qian Renxue encountered Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin outside Heaven Dou City, where a little girl greeted Wang Zhao as “Hall Master big brother.”

Wang Zhao, Ning Fengzhi, Xue Qinghe, and Ning Qingyun gathered in Heaven Dou City to witness Spirit Hall’s first Sacred Ceremony. As Salas began a prayer before the Angel God Statue, Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe realized Spirit Hall was preparing a major change.

• Wang Zhao tested Ning Qingyun with a code phrase, then wondered whether she had some hidden origin or companion.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Wang Zhao, and Ning Qingyun flew to Heaven Dou City for Spirit Hall’s Sacred Ceremony.
• Ning Fengzhi brought the group to a pavilion overlooking the Spirit Hall Temple, and Xue Qinghe joined them.
• Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe saw Spirit Hall’s newly organized clergy assemble in the square before the Angel God Statue.
• Salas prayed to the Angel God, leaving Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe astonished by his change and the ceremony’s significance.

Ning Qingyun and other powerful figures witnessed Spirit Hall’s Sacred Ceremony awaken Angel God Statues across the continent and place a vision in the minds of nearly every living being. The vision showed the Angel God battling the Co-Lord of Soul Beasts before the gods discussed changing a system that fueled conflict between humans and beasts.

• Salas led Spirit Hall members in prayer, and golden light spread from the Angel God Statue across Spirit Hall Temple and distant locations around the continent.
• Angel God Statues at Spirit Hall Branches lit their eyes, and Spirit Hall members called for their god’s gaze and Divine Decree.
• A vision of a celestial realm and ruined wilderness appeared in the minds of intelligent beings across the continent, revealing the Angel God and a shape-shifting Co-Lord of Soul Beasts fighting.
• The Angel God and the Co-Lord of Soul Beasts fought through the Void while people recognized their opponents as gods and heard the Co-Lord say it was not a deity.
• The gods discussed renewed conflict between humans and beasts and said the system driving that conflict should be changed before the vision vanished.