Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong raged over Qian Renxue’s happiness and resolved to kill Yun Chen, but hid her madness when Hu Liena arrived. News of Qian Renxue reaching rank 70 only deepened Bibi Dong’s determination to deny her daughter peace.

• Bibi Dong destroyed the letter and blamed the Qian family for her misery, then threatened to devour Yun Chen to advance toward godhood.
• Hu Liena entered the hall and told Bibi Dong she had reached rank 43.
• Bibi Dong praised Hu Liena’s progress while the narration contrasted her cultivation with Yun Chen’s restrained advancement and Qian Renxue’s rapid growth.
• Bibi Dong learned that Qian Renxue had reached rank 70 and would leave to hunt for a soul ring.
• Bibi Dong decided she could not let Qian Renxue live peacefully, fearing her daughter might become a god before her.

Yun Chen comforted Qian Renxue as they traveled toward Spirit City, where she promised to show him around. Half a month later, Spirit Hall gave the Heaven Dou Empire's delegation a conspicuously grand welcome, signaling a contrast with its treatment of the Star Luo Empire.

• Yun Chen asked Qian Renxue about her hometown, and she promised to show him around Spirit City.
• Yun Chen embraced Qian Renxue and reassured her that he would always be there for her.
• Half a month later, Heaven Dou Empire's delegation arrived at Spirit City's southern gate to a formal welcome.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan greeted the delegation on orders from the Hall of the Pope because Qian Renxue was among its members.
• Spirit Hall's grand welcome contrasted with the modest reception given to the Star Luo Empire's delegation and served as an indirect warning.

Qian Renxue arrived at the tournament venue with Yun Chen, where Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan greeted her and noticed Yun Chen’s unusual aura. Yue Guan realized Yun Chen had consumed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and then escorted Qian Renxue toward the Pope’s Hall for a discussion about the tournament.

• Qian Renxue asked Yun Chen whether Ghost Douluo was nearby since Yue Guan had come to receive them.
• Qian Renxue greeted Yue Guan as Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, and Yun Chen’s laughter prompted her to pinch his waist.
• Yue Guan recognized Yun Chen as the young man he had once been sent to capture and sensed something extraordinary in his aura.
• Yue Guan briefly released his Title Douluo pressure, then excused the outburst as an insight during cultivation.
• Yue Guan realized Yun Chen had consumed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and invited Qian Renxue to meet the Pope about the tournament.

Yun Chen and Qian Renxue arrived in Spirit City to visit Bibi Dong, while Qian Renxue made clear she wanted little to do with her mother and planned to stay with Qian Daoliu. The chapter left them at the Hall of the Pope as Chrysanthemum Douluo separated Qian Renxue from the accompanying ministers.

• Yun Chen and Qian Renxue admired Spirit City's busy streets and agreed to try a popular roast duck restaurant after their visit.
• Qian Renxue told Yun Chen she would avoid Bibi Dong after seeing her and take him to the Worship Hall to meet Qian Daoliu.
• Yun Chen blamed Bibi Dong's decision to send Qian Renxue undercover for slowing her cultivation and privately dismissed her belated expression of love as crocodile tears.
• The carriage carrying Qian Renxue and Yun Chen stopped near the Hall of the Pope, and Chrysanthemum Douluo prepared to handle the accompanying ministers.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told the ministers that Qian Renxue would stay separately in lodgings arranged for the crown prince, and they reluctantly agreed.

Qian Renxue returned to Spirit Hall with Yun Chen after completing her three-year mission, and she entered the Papal Hall to face Bibi Dong. Bibi Dong watched them arrive with conflicted emotions, while Yun Chen wondered why mother and daughter looked so different despite sharing the same personality.

• The ministers accepted that they could not interfere with Spirit Hall and believed it had no reason to assassinate Xue Qinghe.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo welcomed Qian Renxue and Yun Chen, then led them into the grounds of the Hall of the Pope.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Qian Renxue she could return to her true form and left them outside the Papal Hall.
• Qian Renxue transformed into her true appearance and strode toward the Papal Hall with Yun Chen, intending to confront Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong sensed their arrival and watched Qian Renxue enter with Yun Chen.
• Yun Chen met Bibi Dong's gaze and wondered why she and Qian Renxue looked so different despite having the same personality.

Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong over their painful relationship and declared her love for Yun Chen, while Yun Chen stood firm against the Pope’s intimidating pressure. The pair left the hall together despite Bibi Dong’s furious orders to stop them.

• Bibi Dong watched Qian Renxue and Yun Chen show affection, then blurted out that she wanted Qian Renxue to call her Mother.
• Qian Renxue rejected Bibi Dong as her mother, criticized the infiltration plan, and said she had succeeded without abandoning her cultivation.
• Qian Renxue declared that she had found her beloved, Yun Chen, provoking Bibi Dong into crushing her scepter and throne armrest.
• Bibi Dong directed her anger at Yun Chen, but he resisted her Soul Power pressure without backing down.
• Qian Renxue took Yun Chen by the hand and walked toward the exit while Bibi Dong shouted for them to stop.

Qian Renxue and Yun Chen left the Hall of the Pope and headed to the Worship Hall to meet Qian Daoliu. After sensing Rakshasa divine power, Yun Chen realized Bibi Dong might be targeting him.

• Qian Renxue took Yun Chen out of the Hall of the Pope despite Bibi Dong's furious protests.
• Yun Chen and Qian Renxue teased each other before setting off to meet Qian Daoliu.
• Bibi Dong blamed the Angel Clan for ruining her love and vowed to destroy Qian Renxue and Yun Chen's relationship.
• Bibi Dong entered the Rakshasa Secret Realm through a rift behind her throne.
• Yun Chen sensed Rakshasa divine power and suspected Bibi Dong had developed hostility or killing intent toward him.

Yun Chen worried that Bibi Dong posed an immediate danger because of her hostility and power, then accompanied Qian Renxue to the Worship Hall to meet Qian Daoliu. He began climbing its sacred stairs to show his sincerity, only to learn that Qian Renxue could have carried him there by flying.

• Yun Chen judged Bibi Dong a more urgent threat than Tang San and resolved to avoid being alone with her until he had greater strength.
• Qian Renxue mistook Yun Chen's nervousness for fear of meeting her grandfather, and Yun Chen assured her that Qian Daoliu might like him.
• Yun Chen and Qian Renxue reached the Angel Clan's residence, where Yun Chen took her hand and began climbing the stairs to the Worship Hall.
• Qian Renxue told Yun Chen that her Angel Martial Soul could fly them up, and Yun Chen asked her to carry him instead.

Yun Chen explained to Qian Daoliu and the worshippers why he had come, linking his cultivation goals with his commitment to Qian Renxue. He won their approval, but Qian Daoliu still refused to agree to their relationship, prompting Qian Renxue to protest.

• Yun Chen told Qian Daoliu that he had come to become stronger, surprising Qian Renxue and the worshippers.
• Yun Chen explained that meeting Qian Renxue's family and strengthening their relationship mattered to him as much as cultivation.
• Qian Daoliu laughed and praised Yun Chen, and the worshippers expressed their approval of him.
• Qian Daoliu warned Yun Chen that he had not agreed to his relationship with Qian Renxue, and Qian Renxue objected.

Qian Daoliu reconsidered his plan to test Yun Chen after Qian Renxue objected, while the worshippers examined Yun Chen and discovered his extraordinary abilities. The chapter left Qian Daoliu acknowledging Yun Chen’s talent.

• Qian Renxue confronted Qian Daoliu after he changed his mind about approving her relationship with Yun Chen.
• Light Feather Douluo investigated Yun Chen and was astonished by his physical strength, spiritual power, and Soul Ancestor cultivation.
• The worshippers and Qian Daoliu examined Yun Chen, and the seventh worshipper exclaimed that Yun Chen had reached Soul Ancestor at only ten years old.
• The worshippers discussed Yun Chen’s ability to potentially absorb a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his fourth ring, while Qian Renxue proudly showed off.
• Qian Daoliu praised Yun Chen as a monstrous genius and acknowledged his talent.

Qian Daoliu announced that he would test Yun Chen before accepting him as Qian Renxue’s future husband. Yun Chen praised Qian Daoliu’s reputation so deftly that the Grand Worship agreed not to make the test life-threatening, though he had not yet revealed what it would be.

• Qian Daoliu told Yun Chen that he would have to undergo a test, and Qian Renxue protested before Yun Chen reassured her.
• Yun Chen accepted the test and called himself Qian Daoliu’s future grandson-in-law, irritating the Grand Worship.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo teased Yun Chen about Qian Daoliu’s protectiveness toward Qian Renxue.
• Yun Chen praised Qian Daoliu’s strength and benevolent reputation, making it awkward for him to impose an unfair trial.
• Qian Daoliu said he would not make the test a life-or-death trial and grumbled that Qian Renxue would otherwise make a fuss.

Yun Chen underwent the Angel God’s character test, but the Sea God’s power intervened and revealed him as the Sea God’s inheritor. Qian Renxue dragged him away to demand an explanation, while Qian Daoliu recognized the divine inheritance and the worshippers debated what it meant.

• Qian Daoliu brought Yun Chen before the Angel God Statue and began the character test as Qian Renxue watched anxiously.
• The Angel God’s power entered Yun Chen and attempted to reach his sea of consciousness, so Yun Chen used his Sea God’s Mark to suppress it.
• A message appeared in Yun Chen’s sea of consciousness, telling him to go to Sea God Island and undertake the Sea God’s Nine Trials when he reached Rank 60 Soul Emperor.
• Qian Daoliu recognized Yun Chen as the Sea God’s inheritor, and the worshippers discussed his connection to Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue grabbed Yun Chen’s wrist and pulled him out of the hall, demanding to know why he had hidden his divine inheritance.

Poseidon learned that the Angel God Position was trying to claim Yun Chen as its heir, then discovered the Destruction God King also intended to pass down his vacant god position to Yun Chen. The Destruction God King openly named Yun Chen as his candidate, leaving Poseidon furious over the threat to his succession.

• Poseidon complained that the Angel God Position was trying to take his heir, Yun Chen.
• The Destruction God King visited Poseidon and praised his growing strength.
• The Destruction God King said he had come to discuss the Douluo Plane and revealed that he wanted to pass down the vacant Destruction God Position.
• Poseidon realized the Destruction God King was targeting Yun Chen and tried to conceal his anger.
• The Destruction God King named Yun Chen as his intended heir, citing his closeness to the Angel God's heir.

The Sea God rejected the God of Destruction’s plan to take Yun Chen as an inheritor and revealed that Tang San was a Shura God candidate, prompting scrutiny of the Shura God’s unsanctioned succession. Worried that Yun Chen faced threats from Bibi Dong and Tang San, the Sea God began considering how to ensure Yun Chen’s safe ascent to the God Realm.

• The Sea God told the God of Destruction that Yun Chen was already his inheritor and argued that the Douluo Continent had a fourth god candidate, Tang San.
• The Sea God revealed that the Shura God had intervened for Tang San, and the God of Destruction said he would raise the unsanctioned God King succession at the next committee meeting.
• After the God of Destruction left, the Sea God angrily vowed not to let him take Yun Chen as an inheritor.
• The Sea God worried that Bibi Dong’s Rakshasa inheritance and Tang San’s hostility could threaten Yun Chen.
• The Sea God decided to make plans for Yun Chen’s safe ascent and considered borrowing the God of Destruction’s help through Dual-God Unity.

The God of Destruction sent his godhood seed to seek out Yun Chen, hoping to make him his successor. Meanwhile, Yun Chen and Qian Renxue reconciled after she learned he had hidden the Sea God’s inheritance from her, but Yun Chen ended by teasing that he wanted to bully her.

• The God of Destruction reviewed the Shura God’s choice of successor and decided to wait before interfering.
• The God of Destruction sent his godhood seed toward Yun Chen, whom he considered a natural fit for the Destruction God’s inheritance.
• The Life God King Xiao Lu arrived, and the God of Destruction told her about the promising candidate connected to her.
• Qian Renxue confronted Yun Chen for concealing his Sea God inheritance, bit his shoulder, and then sobbed in his arms.
• Yun Chen promised Qian Renxue he would not hide anything else from her, and she forgave him.
• Yun Chen pinched Qian Renxue’s cheek and whispered that he was angry and wanted to bully her.

After confirming Yun Chen was the Sea God's heir, Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo discussed Bibi Dong's possible Evil God inheritance and worried about the Angel God's silence. Qian Daoliu suspected the Angel God had fallen or become trapped, but took comfort in Xue'er's relationship with Yun Chen and arranged their next soul-ring hunt.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo asked whether Yun Chen was the Sea God's heir, and Qian Daoliu confirmed that he had sensed the Sea God's power.
• Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo discussed Bibi Dong's Evil God inheritance, and Qian Daoliu said she was still far from becoming a god.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo asked whether something had happened to the Angel God, and Qian Daoliu rebuked him without denying the concern.
• Qian Daoliu instructed Golden Crocodile Douluo to take Yun Chen and Xue'er to the Star Dou Great Forest in a couple of days for their fourth and seventh soul rings.
• After Golden Crocodile Douluo left, Qian Daoliu privately acknowledged that the Angel God might have fallen or been trapped, and found comfort in Xue'er's relationship with Yun Chen.

After spending the morning with Qian Renxue, Yun Chen learned that Bibi Dong’s sixth Rakshasa trial required her to make contact with the Sea God’s inheritor. The Rakshasa God watched Bibi Dong’s reaction and considered stirring up trouble, but knew Yun Chen could not be harmed and Qian Renxue needed to inherit the Angel God Position.

• Qian Renxue woke beside Yun Chen, then got up to handle official matters in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Bibi Dong received her sixth Rakshasa trial, which tasked her with making contact with the Sea God’s inheritor.
• Bibi Dong wondered whether she could recruit or kill the unknown inheritor and ordered her subordinates to gather information.
• The Rakshasa God watched Bibi Dong and considered provoking Yun Chen, but decided against harming the Sea God’s successor.
• The Rakshasa God reflected that Qian Renxue had to inherit the Angel God Position and feared angering the Life God King.

Rakshasa God confronted Asura God over her interference in Tang Chen’s inheritance trial, then suspected that he had chosen a new heir and decided to watch the unfolding events on Douluo Continent before fleeing. Meanwhile, Yun Chen woke in Qian Renxue’s palace, heard the maids praise their match, and learned that Qian Renxue had arranged for him to be fed.

• Asura God entered Rakshasa God’s hall and challenged her for tampering with Tang Chen’s inheritance trial.
• Rakshasa God defended her actions by citing the trial’s difficulty and the Evil God King’s support, but Asura God warned her not to interfere again.
• After Asura God left, Rakshasa God suspected he had chosen another heir and connected his visit to the growing attention on Douluo Continent.
• Rakshasa God decided to keep watching events on Douluo Continent before escaping Asura God’s authority.
• Yun Chen woke in Qian Renxue’s bedroom and learned she had left to attend political meetings as Xue Qinghe.
• Yun Chen heard the maids praise him as Qian Renxue’s future husband and learned she had ordered the kitchen to prepare food for him.

During a break from the Soul Master Tournament, Qian Renxue and Yun Chen spent a leisurely day strolling through Spirit City and sharing a meal. Their affectionate outing ended with Qian Renxue blushing as Yun Chen gently wiped sauce from her face.

• Qian Renxue slipped away with Yun Chen to stroll through the city, sampling candied hawthorns as he followed and paid for them.
• Qian Renxue told Yun Chen how she had rarely been allowed out as a child and how much she had wanted to visit the snack street.
• At a busy grilled fish restaurant, Qian Renxue ordered an enormous meal, and Yun Chen assured her they could finish it.
• Qian Renxue ate enthusiastically while Yun Chen listened to her childhood stories and served her more food.
• Yun Chen wiped sauce from Qian Renxue's mouth, leaving her flustered and red-faced.

Golden Crocodile Douluo agreed to help Qian Renxue and Yun Chen find suitable soul beasts, despite boasting that an eighty- or ninety-thousand-year Light Unicorn would not be a challenge. He revealed that he knew of a mutated Destruction Feather Tyrannosaur well suited to Yun Chen, and Qian Renxue agreed to summon her grandfather to help deal with the Light Unicorn herd.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo reflected on how each generation of powerful soul masters had surpassed the last.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo mentioned Qian Xunji while recommending a Light Unicorn as Qian Renxue's target, and Yun Chen comforted her when she grew sorrowful.
• Yun Chen listed several powerful, metal- and strength-focused soul beasts as candidates for his fourth soul ring.
• Qian Renxue suggested summoning her grandfather because the Light Unicorns lived as a herd, and Golden Crocodile Douluo agreed.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo revealed that he had found a mutated Destruction Feather Tyrannosaur with more than twenty thousand years of cultivation.