Chapter Summaries

Dugu Bo asked Zhao Linchuan to purge the poison threatening Dugu Yan’s life, and Zhao offered to save her while preserving her strength if they both served him for fifty years. Dugu Bo ordered Yan to leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy and test whether Yu Tianheng truly cared for her, leaving her heartbroken and uncertain.

• Dugu Bo offered to become Zhao Linchuan’s servant in exchange for saving Dugu Yan from the poison in her body.
• Zhao Linchuan offered to preserve as much of Dugu Yan’s strength as possible if she and Dugu Bo served him for fifty years, and gave them three days to decide.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan to withdraw from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, cut contact with Yu Tianheng, and go with him to Azure Dragon Academy.
• Dugu Bo said Yu Tianheng might value him as a Title Douluo rather than genuinely love Dugu Yan, and told her to claim he had died and see whether Yu Tianheng would seek revenge for him.

Zhao Linchuan returned unharmed after his battle with Dugu Bo and told everyone that he had shattered Dugu Bo’s ninth soul skill and Martial Soul Avatar. Ning Fengzhi and Qian Renxue reacted to the claim in different ways, and the chapter ended as Zhao Linchuan entered his bedroom and saw two figures on the bed.

• Qian Renxue asked Ning Fengzhi why Sword Douluo had not accompanied him, and Ning Fengzhi said Uncle Gu had returned home to visit relatives.
• Zhao Linchuan landed safely in the courtyard, where Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong eagerly asked about his battle with Poison Douluo.
• Zhao Linchuan recounted the fight, leaving Qian Renxue stunned while Ning Fengzhi privately suspected a hidden Titled Douluo had intervened.
• Ning Fengzhi and Qian Renxue left the villa, and Qian Renxue glanced back at Zhao Linchuan with mixed feelings.
• Zhao Linchuan entered his bedroom after showering and found two figures on the bed.

Qian Renxue heard She Long’s report confirming Zhao Linchuan had fought Dugu Bo alone, with a powerful sacred aura and no other Titled Douluo involved. She concluded Zhao Linchuan was likely a God Trial Candidate and decided their fates were destined to become entwined.

• Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing wore Xiao Wu and Rongrong’s tight clothes and welcomed Zhao Linchuan after the battle.
• She Long reported to Qian Renxue that Dugu Bo had fought one opponent whose sacred aura rivaled her Seraphim Martial Soul.
• She Long told Qian Renxue he had seen Sword Douluo Chen Xin heading toward the battlefield.
• Qian Renxue reasoned that Zhao Linchuan was a God Trial Candidate protected by an Ultimate Douluo-level figure.
• Qian Renxue recalled Zhao Linchuan’s drunken bathhouse encounter with her and declared that they were destined to become entangled.

After Yu Tianheng abandoned Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling joined her in leaving Heaven Dou Royal Academy for Azure Dragon Academy, seeking protection for the Nine-Heart Begonia Clan. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue arrived at Azure Dragon Academy to speak with Zhao Linchuan, but Zhu Zhuyun told her he was still asleep and offered to hear her matter first.

• Dugu Yan packed to leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy after Yu Tianheng refused to avenge Dugu Bo and cut ties with her.
• Ye Lingling told Dugu Yan she had rejected Yu Tianheng's marriage alliance proposal and wanted to join her at Azure Dragon Academy for her clan's protection.
• Ye Lingling explained that Poison Douluo had told her about Dugu Yan's plans and that Zhao Linchuan was waiting at Azure Dragon Academy.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling clasped hands and agreed to leave for Azure Dragon Academy together.
• Qian Renxue arrived uninvited at the villa on Azure Dragon Academy's back mountain and asked to speak with Zhao Linchuan.
• Zhu Zhuyun told Qian Renxue that Zhao Linchuan had not gotten up yet and offered to hear her matter first.

Qian Renxue waited most of the day for Zhao Linchuan, pretending he had seduced and abandoned her to get Zhu Zhuqing to hurry him downstairs. After Zhao Linchuan finally appeared, Qian Renxue tried to confront him about important business but ended up matching his casual attitude.

• Qian Renxue refused to leave and waited for Zhao Linchuan while Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing prepared lunch.
• Xiao Wu went upstairs to wake Zhao Linchuan, and Ning Rongrong hurried after her.
• Qian Renxue told Zhu Zhuqing that Zhao Linchuan had seduced and abandoned her, persuading Zhu Zhuqing to go hurry him along.
• After waiting for hours, Qian Renxue heard Zhao Linchuan descend the stairs and accused him of forgetting what he had done to her the previous day.
• Qian Renxue said she had important business to discuss, then kicked off her heels and made herself comfortable when Zhao Linchuan refused to act formally.

Qian Renxue revealed that she was the Angel God's God Trial Candidate and Spirit Hall's young mistress, then questioned Zhao Linchuan about his strength. Zhao Linchuan denied being a candidate and showed her his extraordinary Soul Rings before asking her to explain her plan, leaving her poised to tell him everything.

• Qian Renxue introduced herself as the Angel God's candidate and Spirit Hall's young mistress, and Zhao Linchuan mocked her cultivation progress.
• Zhao Linchuan and Qian Renxue discussed their unguarded selves, and she agreed to let his earlier insults go.
• Zhao Linchuan said Ning Rongrong and the others had grown stronger through Immortal Herbs and that he could raise Soul Ring absorption limits.
• Zhao Linchuan revealed that a phoenix had sacrificed itself to him, giving him a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Spirit Bone.
• Zhao Linchuan displayed his six Soul Rings, including a red ring with two golden patterns, and Qian Renxue accused him of being a God Trial Candidate.
• Zhao Linchuan asked Qian Renxue to explain her plan, and she sat beside him and began her account.

Zhao Linchuan and Qian Renxue discussed their cooperation, and he agreed to take the lead in dealing with Xue Ye and the Heaven Dou court. He revealed that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud was the Sea God's inheritance token, and Qian Renxue agreed to retrieve it before joining Zhao Linchuan for dinner.

• Qian Renxue explained her undercover plan, and Zhao Linchuan criticized her lack of progress in gaining power over the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Zhao Linchuan offered to take the lead in their plans against Xue Ye, and Qian Renxue agreed to work with him.
• Zhao Linchuan told Qian Renxue that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud was the Sea God's token for beginning a Divine Trial and inheriting Godhood.
• Qian Renxue asked whether Zhao Linchuan intended to become the Sea God's inheritor, and he swore that he would not.
• Qian Renxue agreed to find a way to bring Zhao Linchuan the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, then accepted his invitation to dinner.

Zhao Linchuan coerced Qian Renxue into kissing him in front of Ning Fengzhi to conceal her identity. Ning Fengzhi then revealed that Chen Xin had lost an arm while exploring a hidden small world and asked Zhao Linchuan to help restore it.

• Qian Renxue asked Zhao Linchuan for an elaborate dinner, and he joked that Azure Dragon Academy lacked funds.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived on the mountain path and asked who Qian Renxue was.
• Zhao Linchuan introduced Qian Renxue as his fiancée and used Soul Power transmission to make her kiss him so Ning Fengzhi would not discover she was Xue Qinghe.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that Chen Xin had entered a hidden small world and lost his left arm fleeing an ancient ginkgo tree whose leaves attacked him.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Zhao Linchuan to treat Chen Xin and see whether his severed arm could grow back.

Zhao Linchuan agreed to regrow Sword Douluo’s arm in exchange for a high-age Spirit Bone, then entered the hidden small world alone while Liu Erlong guarded its entrance. Inside, he found a verdant landscape and realized its sun seemed to be an artificial energy projection.

• Zhao Linchuan promised Ning Fengzhi he would treat Sword Douluo and regrow his arm if Ning Fengzhi provided a high-age Spirit Bone from the lost limb.
• Qian Renxue offered to accompany Zhao Linchuan to the small world, but he refused and asked her to obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and await his message.
• Zhao Linchuan brought Liu Erlong to the mountain basin and found a white light curtain blocking the crack in the rock wall.
• Zhao Linchuan entered the light curtain alone and asked Liu Erlong to guard the entrance for up to half a month.
• Zhao Linchuan found himself in a world of green mountains, a stream, and spatial Soul Tools, then noticed that its sunlight seemed unnaturally even.

Zhao Linchuan followed a stream of dew to a lake beneath an enormous Ancient Ginkgo Tree and sensed a human mind inside it. The tree attacked him with a storm of leaves, and he defended himself with an ice wall that held against the barrage.

• Zhao Linchuan explored a gardenlike world filled with ancient medicinal herbs and followed thousands of airborne dewdrops across the wilderness.
• Zhao Linchuan reached an emerald lake beneath an enormous Ancient Ginkgo Tree and saw human and animal bones beneath the water.
• Zhao Linchuan sensed that the ginkgo's mental-power fluctuations belonged to a person and wondered whether it was another Tang San.
• The Ancient Ginkgo Tree attacked Zhao Linchuan with millions of sharp leaves, and he raised an ice wall that withstood their strikes.

Zhao Linchuan survived the Ancient Ginkgo Tree’s exploding leaves, but the Holy Origin Spirit Phoenix’s self-destructive strike failed to damage the tree. He empowered himself and unleashed Heavenfire Incinerates the City as the tree raised a light barrier over the lake.

• The ginkgo leaves embedded in Zhao Linchuan’s ice wall detonated, shattering the wall and sending ice shards and a shockwave across the lakeshore.
• The Holy Origin Spirit Phoenix flew through the smoke and crashed into the Ancient Ginkgo Tree, but the tree remained completely unharmed.
• Zhao Linchuan released Heaven and Earth Loss of Color, while the Ancient Ginkgo Tree countered with an apricot-yellow domain that resisted his power.
• Zhao Linchuan used Five Virtues Empowerment to raise his strength to Rank Ninety-Eight Title Douluo, then opened a rift in the sky and unleashed Heavenfire Incinerates the City.
• The Ancient Ginkgo Tree formed an apricot-yellow curtain of light that shielded itself, the island, and the lake from the descending flames.

Zhao Linchuan used Ring Fusion and Mingle with Light and Dust to exploit the Ancient Ginkgo Tree’s flawed mental defenses and destroy it. After recovering, he turned his attention to the Soul Ring and apricot-yellow pearl left above the island.

• Zhao Linchuan realized the Lake of Life was sustaining the Ancient Ginkgo Tree’s barrier and that the tree’s conflicting mental fluctuations revealed a weakness.
• Zhao Linchuan fused five Soul Rings into his fifth ring and unleashed Mingle with Light and Dust, which passed through the barrier and turned the Ancient Ginkgo Tree gray and white.
• A breeze caused the motionless Ancient Ginkgo Tree to crumble into dust and vanish.
• Zhao Linchuan replenished his depleted Soul Power with Vegetation Origin Return and reflected on his need for a Soul Core.
• Zhao Linchuan saw a powerful Soul Ring hovering above the island, with an apricot-yellow pearl floating at its center.

After absorbing the White Tiger’s Soul Ring, Zhao Linchuan gained the Western Heaven Immortal Battle Spear and discovered that the Apricot Pearl could strengthen Soul Rings. He upgraded his second, fourth, and fifth rings, leaving his Soul Power at level sixty-six.

• Zhao Linchuan absorbed the White Tiger’s Soul Ring over three days and gained the Western Heaven Immortal Battle Spear.
• Zhao Linchuan examined the Apricot Pearl and discovered that it contained condensed energy similar to Soul Ring energy.
• Zhao Linchuan used the Apricot Pearl to raise his second Soul Ring from three thousand years to ten thousand years.
• Zhao Linchuan invested more of the bead’s energy in his fourth and fifth Soul Rings, raising both to the one-hundred-thousand-year level.
• Zhao Linchuan’s Soul Rings settled into one yellow, two black, and three red, and his Soul Power rose from level sixty-four to level sixty-six.

Zhao Linchuan entered the hidden space above the small world and discovered an ancient storehouse whose artifacts had mostly crumbled to ash. He reached the central device sustaining the world and realized that its lights and revolving platforms held Spirit Bones.

• Zhao Linchuan decided to save the Apricot Pearl’s remaining energy for Liu Erlong and the others, and considered testing whether it could improve Spirit Bones.
• Zhao Linchuan flew through the sky and punched his way into the vast Zenith Space above the small world.
• Zhao Linchuan found hills of ancient Soul Tools and artifacts, most of which disintegrated into ash when touched, while two mountains of gold remained intact.
• Zhao Linchuan flew to the central energy device and saw a giant clock pattern surrounding a purple crystal.
• Zhao Linchuan recognized the faint lights and the objects on the revolving stone platforms as Spirit Bones.

Zhao Linchuan took three ancient Spirit Bones and an artificial demigod-level False Divine Core from the clock that maintained the small world, slowing its operation and ending its day-and-night cycle. He left to bring Liu Erlong into the world, while a black-robed figure emerged from Slaughter City and flew toward the Star Luo Empire.

• Zhao Linchuan identified the clock's three Spirit Bones as exceptionally powerful and suspected its purple crystal was an artificially created False Divine Core.
• Zhao Linchuan removed the three Spirit Bones and the purple crystal, and the clock continued operating more slowly with other Spirit Bones sustaining it.
• Zhao Linchuan returned to the island and found the small world had fallen into endless night, slowing the spiritual herbs' growth.
• Zhao Linchuan wondered who had built the small world and why Soul Beast bodies contained human souls, then flew to bring Liu Erlong inside.
• A black-robed figure emerged from Slaughter City, looked toward Heaven Dou City, and flew toward the Star Luo Empire.

After Zhao Linchuan upgraded Liu Erlong’s Soul Rings and Spirit Bones, her Martial Soul evolved and her Soul Power rose to Rank 88. Liu Erlong mourned the years she felt she had lost, and Zhao Linchuan comforted her as she looked toward the future.

• Zhao Linchuan returned to the lake island after searching the small world and finding no ten-thousand-year spiritual herbs.
• Liu Erlong’s crimson-gold flames erupted as she absorbed the torso bone, and her Martial Soul evolved into the Scarlet Sun Dragon Emperor with the Extreme Fire attribute.
• Liu Erlong told Zhao Linchuan that her Soul Power had reached the peak of Rank 88 and that she expected to break through to the Title Douluo level soon.
• Liu Erlong cried over the decades she felt a liar had taken from her and apologized for not having been her best self when she met Zhao Linchuan.
• Zhao Linchuan stroked Liu Erlong’s head and reassured her that the past was over and they had plenty of time ahead.

After returning from the little world, Zhao Linchuan reunited with the girls and recounted how he killed the ancient tree spirit and absorbed its Soul Ring. He revealed to Qian Renxue that he had two Martial Souls, received the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from her, and began asking the girls whether they wanted thousand-year first and second Soul Rings.

• Zhao Linchuan and Liu Erlong discussed guarding the little world's entrance, and Liu Erlong suggested that Dugu Bo could protect it.
• Zhao Linchuan and Liu Erlong returned to the back-mountain villa, where Xiao Wu rushed to embrace Zhao Linchuan and complained that he had been gone for half a month.
• After lunch, Zhao Linchuan told the girls about his experiences in the little world, including killing the tree spirit and absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue asked whether Zhao Linchuan had two Martial Souls, and he confirmed it, explaining that he trusted her as his closest partner.
• Qian Renxue gave Zhao Linchuan the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and he asked the girls whether they wanted thousand-year first and second Soul Rings like Liu Erlong.

Zhao Linchuan upgraded the women’s Soul Rings and promised to help Qian Renxue escape palace intrigue so she could focus on cultivation. After he rejected her flirtation, Qian Renxue vowed to make him recognize her charm.

• Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhu Zhuyun agreed to Zhao Linchuan’s joking condition that they bear him children in exchange for Soul Ring upgrades.
• Zhao Linchuan upgraded the Soul Rings of the four women and Qian Renxue, whose Soul Power rose by a level; Xiao Wu and the others went upstairs to prepare for breakthroughs.
• Liu Erlong went to watch over the women in seclusion, leaving Zhao Linchuan and Qian Renxue alone.
• Zhao Linchuan offered to help Qian Renxue deal with Xue Ye and gave her a jade box containing the Holy Radiance Nine-Heart Lotus.
• Qian Renxue hinted that she might agree to have children with Zhao Linchuan, but he rejected her and left to see Dugu Bo and the others.
• Qian Renxue vowed to make Zhao Linchuan feel her charm, while Liu Erlong overheard and muttered that she was acting like a woman in heat.

Zhao Linchuan refused Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s contract of indentured servitude, then offered to cure Dugu Yan’s poison using the Eight Spider Lances. He asked Dugu Bo to guard his herb garden in return, leaving Dugu Bo to consider the arrangement.

• Dugu Bo presented Zhao Linchuan with a signed contract of indentured servitude for himself and Dugu Yan.
• Zhao Linchuan tore up the contract and assured Dugu Bo that he would help cure Dugu Yan because she was his student.
• Zhao Linchuan revealed the Eight Spider Lances and explained that Dugu Yan could store her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison inside it.
• Dugu Bo recognized the Eight Spider Lances as an External Soul Bone and eagerly asked Zhao Linchuan to name his price.
• Zhao Linchuan asked Dugu Bo to guard his herb garden, where Dugu Bo could also cultivate amid its dense life energy.

Zhao Linchuan gave Dugu Bo the Eight Spider Lances and explained how to help Dugu Yan use them, earning the Dugu Family’s gratitude. Later, Qian Renxue reported that the Holy Radiance Nine-Heart Lotus had greatly strengthened her and helped the others break through their bottlenecks.

• Dugu Bo accepted Zhao Linchuan’s request to guard the house and courtyard, then knelt with Dugu Yan to thank him for giving them the Eight Spider Lances.
• Zhao Linchuan told Dugu Bo that feeding the Eight Spider Lances high-level Soul Beasts would accelerate their growth, and Dugu Bo left with Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo urged Dugu Yan to grow closer to Zhao Linchuan, while she objected to his matchmaking and reminded him that he could resolve his poison problem by following Zhao Linchuan’s advice.
• Zhao Linchuan arranged for Teacher Jing and Teacher Six to guard the entrance to the small world in shifts with Dugu Bo, then returned to the villa.
• Qian Renxue told Zhao Linchuan that the Holy Radiance Nine-Heart Lotus had raised her Soul Power by three levels and made her Sacred Flame at least fifty percent stronger; Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhuqing had also broken through bottlenecks.
• Qian Renxue said she was at Soul Power level sixty-seven and could reach Soul Sage in about a year and a half if she focused entirely on cultivation.