Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue asked Bai Shu to bring Dugu Bo to the palace to examine Xue Ye, whose worsening condition she had secretly caused with poison. Bai Shu accepted her token and invitation, intending to use Dugu Bo’s improved knowledge to expose the poison and turn Qian Renxue’s scheme against her.

• Qian Renxue told Bai Shu that Xue Ye’s health had declined and claimed the palace physicians suspected a concealed chronic poison.
• Qian Renxue asked Bai Shu to persuade Dugu Bo to examine Xue Ye, presenting the request as concern for her father.
• Bai Shu recognized that Qian Renxue wanted Dugu Bo’s authority to dismiss suspicions of poisoning and accepted the request.
• Qian Renxue gave Bai Shu her personal token and left to return to the palace.
• Bai Shu decided Dugu Bo would uncover the poison and headed to Dugu Manor.

Bai Shu told Dugu Bo that Qian Renxue had poisoned Xue Ye and planned to expose her while ensuring she survived. Bai Shu and Dugu Bo entered the palace and arrived at Xue Ye’s bedchamber, where Qian Renxue was waiting.

• Bai Shu summoned Dugu Bo and revealed that Qian Renxue had replaced the real Xue Qinghe and poisoned Xue Ye.
• Bai Shu instructed Dugu Bo to expose Qian Renxue and help detoxify Xue Ye, but to hold back against her and her Titled Douluo guards.
• Bai Shu warned Xiao Wu and the other two girls to stay at Dugu Manor, then left Ju Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Dai Hua to protect them.
• Bai Shu and Dugu Bo traveled to the imperial palace, where the guards admitted them and a eunuch led them to Xue Ye’s bedchamber.
• Bai Shu entered the bedchamber and saw Xue Ye lying pale and weary while Qian Renxue stood beside him.

Dugu Bo discovered that Xue Ye had been poisoned by a hidden compound toxin lodged in his heart, after Xie Biyan pointed him toward it. Qian Renxue concealed her alarm and continued posing as the concerned crown prince, while Xue Ye asked Dugu Bo to save him.

• Dugu Bo examined Xue Ye but found no poison until Xie Biyan told him to check the heart.
• Dugu Bo detected a concealed compound poison in Xue Ye's heart and judged that it could be removed with careful treatment.
• Dugu Bo told Xue Ye that he had indeed been poisoned and explained why the imperial physicians had missed it.
• Xue Ye asked whether Dugu Bo could treat him, and Qian Renxue urged Dugu Bo to save her father while hiding her annoyance.

Dugu Bo exposed the sachet Qian Renxue carried as a likely catalyst for the poison afflicting Xue Ye. When Dugu Bo seized it for inspection, Qian Renxue fled the bedchamber, leaving her identity in danger of exposure.

• Dugu Bo told Xue Ye that a medicinal catalyst had recently worsened the poison in his body.
• Dugu Bo indicated Qian Renxue's sachet as the suspected catalyst, while Qian Renxue denied poisoning Xue Ye.
• Dugu Bo used Soul Power to pull the sachet from Qian Renxue and detected an ingredient that resonated with Xue Ye's toxins.
• Qian Renxue realized she could no longer preserve her disguise and fled the bedchamber.
• Dugu Bo feigned pursuit but moved in front of Bai Shu instead.

Qian Renxue’s attempted escape from the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace was blocked by Dugu Bo, while Pufferfish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo prepared to protect her. Bai Shu’s teasing parting words left Qian Renxue and her allies uncertain whether he knew her true identity.

• Pufferfish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo burst into the bedchamber and faced Dugu Bo as palace staff panicked.
• Pufferfish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo recognized Dugu Bo’s strength and decided to prioritize escaping with Qian Renxue as guards approached.
• Qian Renxue accepted that her plans had failed, praised Dugu Bo, and challenged Bai Shu to meet her again when he was stronger.
• Bai Shu began to say “Qian—,” prompting Qian Renxue, Pufferfish Douluo, and Snake Lance Douluo to ready themselves for a fight.
• Bai Shu finished by telling Qian Renxue to work hard so she could see his back the next time they met.

Qian Renxue escaped the imperial palace after her identity was exposed, and Bai Shu gained 10,000 Luck Value from the upheaval. Xue Ye realized that the crown prince was an impostor and collapsed from grief, leaving Dugu Bo to treat his poison.

• Qian Renxue threatened Bai Shu before fleeing through the shattered roof with Pufferfish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo.
• Bai Shu saw his Luck Value rise from 84,000 to 94,000 as the fates of Qian Renxue, Xue Ye, Xue Beng, Xue Xing, and others changed.
• Bai Shu told Dugu Bo to treat Xue Ye’s poison, and Dugu Bo warned the emperor not to move while removing it.
• Xue Ye realized that the crown prince was likely a fake protected by two Titled Douluo and grieved over his sons’ deaths.
• Xue Ye spat blood and collapsed unconscious, while Dugu Bo prepared to continue treating him.

Bai Shu and Dugu Bo treated the unconscious Xue Ye after the palace attackers fled. Dugu Bo removed the poison, and Bai Shu used his Life Domain to restore Xue Ye, leaving the emperor recovering as the attendants watched.

• Dugu Bo began carefully drawing the poison from Xue Ye while Bai Shu explained to the arriving guards that they had been invited to treat the emperor.
• The guard commander recognized Bai Shu and Dugu Bo, ordered the guards to sheath their weapons, and let Dugu Bo continue treating Xue Ye.
• Dugu Bo removed the poison but warned that Xue Ye's heart meridians were damaged and he would need time to recover in bed.
• Bai Shu summoned his Chaos Green Lotus Spirit and spread a Life Domain over himself and Xue Ye.
• Bai Shu's life force repaired Xue Ye's damaged organs and meridians, and the emperor's color and breathing improved.

After Bai Shu and Dugu Bo saved Xue Ye from the poison and exposed the fake Xue Qinghe, Xue Ye began dealing with the palace crisis. Prince Xue Xing told Xue Beng what had happened and suggested the fake crown prince’s escape might give him an opportunity.

• Xue Ye woke after Bai Shu withdrew the Life Domain, learned that the impostor had escaped, and thanked Bai Shu and Dugu Bo for saving him.
• Xue Ye arranged for Bai Shu and Dugu Bo to leave the palace, while Bai Shu considered how close he was to reaching one hundred thousand Luck Value.
• Prince Xue Xing visited Xue Beng at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and explained that Xue Qinghe had been an impostor who had poisoned Xue Ye.
• Xue Beng realized that his uncle’s advice to pose as a useless playboy had helped him survive, and Prince Xue Xing told him the escaped impostor might create an opportunity.

After Xue Beng realized he might become crown prince, he moved to recast his notorious past as a disguise for survival and wisdom. With Prince Xue Xing’s help, he began reshaping public opinion across Heaven Dou City, where his reputation had been reversed by morning.

• Xue Beng recognized that his past crimes could undermine his claim to the throne and gathered his followers to make them bear the blame.
• Xue Beng had imperial guards seize his most vicious servants and planned to portray their crimes as acts committed behind his back.
• Prince Xue Xing used his connections to spread a story that Xue Beng had feigned incompetence to escape persecution by the false crown prince.
• Former supporters of Xue Qinghe praised Xue Beng, while families he had mistreated changed their stories under threats and inducements.
• The people of Heaven Dou City woke to widespread claims that Xue Beng had endured humiliation to conceal his talent, and his reputation was transformed.

After Xue Beng became Crown Prince, Bai Shu learned that Xue Ye’s extended lifespan was suppressing the prince’s fortune and left him four thousand Luck Value short of his goal. Seeking a faster gain, Bai Shu chose Clear Sky Sect master Tang Xiao as his target and sent Dugu Bo to ask Xue Ye where the sect was hiding.

• Xue Beng completed his investiture ceremony and became the Heaven Dou Empire’s heir, earning Bai Shu two thousand Luck Value.
• The system explained that Xue Ye’s improved health and longer lifespan had increased his imperial fortune and suppressed Crown Prince Xue Beng’s fortune.
• Bai Shu considered targeting people around Tang San and settled on killing Tang Xiao, whom he viewed as a powerful future backer for Tang San.
• Bai Shu left Xiao Wu sleeping and summoned Dugu Bo to ask Xue Ye about the Clear Sky Sect’s hidden location.
• Dugu Bo doubted that Xue Ye knew where the Clear Sky Sect was, since the sect had concealed itself from even Spirit Hall.

Bai Shu learned that the Heaven Dou imperial family knew the Clear Sky Sect’s general location and sent Xie Biyan to assassinate its sect master, Tang Xiao. Xie Biyan infiltrated the sect’s mountain stronghold and spotted Tang Xiao, preparing to act.

• Bai Shu asked Xie Biyan whether he could silently kill a level ninety-six Titled Douluo, then ordered him to target Tang Xiao and recover his inherited Spirit Bone.
• Dugu Bo returned with a map from Xue Ye marking a village and supply routes connected to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xie Biyan took the map and departed after Bai Shu instructed him to eliminate witnesses if a quiet assassination proved impossible.
• Xie Biyan found the village, followed hidden traces and mountain chains, and slipped past the Clear Sky Sect’s outer defenses.
• Xie Biyan watched young disciples spar with Clear Sky Hammers and suppressed his urge to poison them while searching for Tang Xiao.
• Tang Xiao emerged from the main peak, and Xie Biyan recognized him as the sect master.

Xie Biyan poisoned Tang Xiao while the Clear Sky Sect master was relaxed, then revealed himself in the sect master's hall. Despite the poison weakening him, Tang Xiao summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and attacked Xie Biyan.

• Tang Xiao returned from guiding Clear Sky Sect disciples and visited Ah Yin's portrait, recalling his feelings for her and hoping to find and protect Tang Hao.
• Xie Biyan's poison erupted inside Tang Xiao, causing him to cough up corrosive black blood and weakening his Soul Power.
• Xie Biyan emerged from the shadows and declared that Tang Xiao had no need to know his identity because he would soon die.
• Tang Xiao summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and struck at Xie Biyan with all the Soul Power he could still control.

Xie Biyan used his overwhelming physical strength and deadly poison to overpower Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders. As he trapped the Seventh Elder and fired a three-colored poison needle, the Seventh Elder narrowly dodged it, but Xie Biyan’s mocking smile suggested the danger had not passed.

• Tang Xiao struck Xie Biyan with the Clear Sky Hammer to summon reinforcements, but Xie Biyan blocked the blow and knocked the hammer aside, worsening Tang Xiao’s poisoned condition.
• The Second Elder arrived and tried to suppress the poison in Tang Xiao’s body, while the remaining elders gathered around Xie Biyan.
• Xie Biyan declared that everyone present would die, and the Seventh Elder attacked him with his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Xie Biyan snapped the Seventh Elder’s Clear Sky Hammer handle with one hand and restrained his arm.
• Xie Biyan launched a three-colored poison needle, which the Seventh Elder narrowly dodged as Xie Biyan smiled mockingly.

Xie Biyan killed the Seventh Elder with poison, then revealed his hundred-thousand-year soul ring and wiped out the Clear Sky Sect’s Titled Douluo elders. He returned to Bai Shu with Tang Xiao’s Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, and Bai Shu lamented that the other elders had been killed too soon.

• The poison entered the Seventh Elder’s brain, and he died despite the Third Elder’s attempt to save him.
• The Second Elder demanded an antidote, but Xie Biyan revealed his hundred-thousand-year soul ring and overwhelmed the elders.
• Xie Biyan killed everyone in the ruins, leaving the Clear Sky Sect’s Titled Douluo-level upper ranks nearly wiped out.
• Xie Biyan gave Bai Shu Tang Xiao’s Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone and explained that he had killed the elders after they joined the fight.
• Bai Shu accepted Xie Biyan’s actions as loyal but said killing the elders had been wasteful.

After Xie Biyan killed Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders, Bai Shu accepted that the deed was done and gained Luck Value from their deaths. He traveled with Yue Guan, Gui mei, and Xie Biyan to Western Ocean City to find a ship bound for the Water Qilin’s sealed location in the deep sea.

• Bai Shu stored the Spirit Bone, learned that Xie Biyan had escaped the battle uninjured, and checked his Luck Value, which had risen to 101000.
• Bai Shu reviewed the system’s Water Qilin coordinates and summoned Yue Guan and Gui mei, who had been protecting Xiao Wu and the other women.
• Bai Shu left Dugu Manor with Xie Biyan, Yue Guan, and Gui mei and flew west across the desert to the coast.
• Bai Shu and his companions entered Western Ocean City and went to its docks, where they needed a sturdy ship for the journey to the deep-sea coordinates.
• Bai Shu’s group stopped in front of the strongest-looking vessel at the docks.

Bai Shu chartered a ship and ordered it into the deep sea despite the captain’s warnings, then encountered a powerful octopus Spirit Beast in a storm. He began testing his Chaos Green Lotus Spirit against it while Yue Guan and Gui mei protected the ship.

• Bai Shu paid the captain to charter his ship, and Xie Biyan forced the reluctant captain to set sail.
• The ship entered a storm as it approached the deep-sea region, but Bai Shu ordered the crew to keep going.
• A giant octopus Spirit Beast attacked the ship, and Yue Guan offered to fight it before Bai Shu stopped him.
• Bai Shu released his Chaos Green Lotus Spirit and formed water blades that wounded the octopus’s tentacle.
• Yue Guan and Gui mei shielded the ship from the octopus’s tightening grip while Bai Shu prepared to continue the fight.

Bai Shu used his Chaos Green Lotus to restrain and kill a twenty-thousand-year octopus Spirit Beast attacking the ship. A black Spirit Ring condensed above the beast’s corpse.

• The octopus Spirit Beast sprayed poisonous ink at the ship, but Bai Shu blocked it with a wall of water.
• Bai Shu used Flying Flowers Like a Dream to cover the beast in vines and Freeze to stop it from escaping into the sea.
• As the octopus Spirit Beast broke free of the ice and battered the ship, Bai Shu cycled the five elements to strengthen metal power.
• Bai Shu formed twelve golden blades and drove them into the octopus Spirit Beast’s brain, killing it.
• A black Spirit Ring condensed above the octopus Spirit Beast’s corpse.