Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian stabilized his cultivation and lured Bear Lord out of Star Dou Forest by spreading a story about the human who killed Big Flower. Bear Lord charged toward Sky Azure City for revenge, while a wary Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear rushed to warn Bi Ji.

• Yang Jian managed Spirit Hall’s official business, oversaw the Star Luo Empire, and checked Yang Jiao and Yang Chan’s cultivation before stabilizing his rank-eightieth cultivation.
• Yang Jian spread word that he had killed a hundred-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and was staying in Sky Azure City.
• After hearing that Yang Jian had killed Big Flower, Bear Lord killed an injured man and charged out of Star Dou Forest.
• A ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear grew suspicious of the story and ran to Lake of Life to warn Bi Ji.
• The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear told Bi Ji that Bear Lord had gone alone to Sky Azure City to take revenge on Yang Jian.

Bi Ji summoned the Star Dou Forest’s powerful beasts after learning that Bear Lord had gone alone to Sky Azure City to avenge his mate by killing Yang Jian. The Myriad Demon King feared Yang Jian would kill Bear Lord, but Zi Ji and Scarlet King dismissed his warning and supported Bear Lord’s right to seek revenge.

• Bi Ji remembered Yang Jian’s overwhelming strength and sent an urgent signal to summon help.
• The Myriad Demon King arrived, and Bi Ji told him that Bear Lord had gone to Sky Azure City to kill Yang Jian.
• Zi Ji and Scarlet King arrived at the Lake of Life and heard what Bear Lord intended to do.
• Scarlet King and Zi Ji argued that Bear Lord should be allowed to avenge his mate, while the Myriad Demon King warned that Yang Jian could kill him with ease.

The ferocious beasts debated whether to avenge Bear Lord's woman, with Myriad Demon King and Bi Ji wary of the human who killed her. Di Tian ordered Myriad Demon King, Bi Ji, Scarlet King, and Zi Ji to join Bear Lord, while he stayed behind; the four set off for the outskirts of Star Dou Forest.

• Scarlet King and Zi Ji urged Myriad Demon King and Bi Ji to join forces against the human, but Bi Ji remained shaken by her fear of him.
• Di Tian arrived at Lake of Life and listened as Bi Ji recounted how Bear Lord had gone alone to seek revenge.
• Di Tian declared that Bear Lord's revenge was justified and ordered Myriad Demon King, Bi Ji, Scarlet King, and Zi Ji to join him.
• The four ferocious beasts flew toward the outskirts of Star Dou Forest while Di Tian stayed behind, reflecting on their fear.

Yang Jian waited in Sky Azure City for Bear Lord to arrive, then faced the enraged beast that blamed him for Big Flower’s death. After Yang Jian admitted killing her and provoked Bear Lord with his calm response, Bear Lord charged at him.

• Yang Jian sensed Bear Lord approaching from Star Dou Forest and left the inn to meet it outside Sky Azure City.
• Bear Lord emerged from the forest and recognized Yang Jian as the human who killed Big Flower.
• Yang Jian confirmed that he had killed Big Flower, and Bear Lord threatened to kill him.
• Bear Lord roared, waking the city’s residents and frightening the guards.
• Yang Jian dismissed Bear Lord’s loud threats, and the enraged beast charged at him.

Yang Jian revealed his Heavenly Transformation and endured Bear Lord’s strongest attacks without injury. He captured the defeated Bear Lord and warned him that he should never have provoked him.

• Bear Lord struck Yang Jian with his claws, but Yang Jian transformed into a thousand-foot giant and remained unharmed.
• Bear Lord attacked again with all his strength, injuring his own claw when Yang Jian’s defense held.
• Bear Lord unleashed his trump card, Sky-Rending Claw, but Yang Jian grew to ten thousand feet and the attack left only a faint mark.
• Terrified by Yang Jian’s power, Bear Lord lost the strength to fight back.
• Yang Jian seized Bear Lord in his hand and told him he should have known not to provoke him.

Yang Jian crushed Bear Lord and summoned the Howling Celestial Dog when Scarlet King charged him. Scarlet King was left gravely wounded, while Zi Ji, Bi Ji, and Myriad Demon King faced the aftermath.

• Yang Jian crushed Bear Lord to death, and a red soul ring rose from the corpse as Sky Azure City's citizens watched in fear.
• Scarlet King, Zi Ji, Bi Ji, and Myriad Demon King arrived and found Bear Lord dead.
• Scarlet King attacked Yang Jian in a rage despite Bi Ji's warning.
• Yang Jian summoned the Howling Celestial Dog, which struck Scarlet King into a trench and left him near death.
• Zi Ji froze in terror and looked to Bi Ji and Myriad Demon King for guidance.

Yang Jian absorbed Bear Lord’s red soul ring and reached level eighty-three while the surviving beasts returned to the Lake of Life. After hearing what happened, Di Tian went through a spatial rift toward Sky Azure City to confront the human and Howling Celestial Dog.

• Myriad Demon King, Bi Ji, and Zi Ji fled with the gravely injured Scarlet King while Howling Celestial Dog stayed beside Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian absorbed Bear Lord’s soul ring, reached level eighty-three, and prepared to search Bear Lord’s corpse for soul bones.
• At the Lake of Life, Bi Ji treated Scarlet King as Zi Ji regretted letting Bear Lord go alone and Myriad Demon King warned that Howling Celestial Dog might rival Di Tian.
• Di Tian arrived, heard Zi Ji’s account of Bear Lord’s death and Scarlet King’s injuries, and decided to go after the human despite the danger.
• Di Tian opened a spatial rift and disappeared through it toward Sky Azure City, leaving the others at the lake.

Di Tian arrived on the plains and demanded that Yang Jian kill himself for killing Bear Lord, threatening to destroy Sky Azure City if he refused. Yang Jian sent the Howling Celestial Dog into his body, drew the Three-Point Double-Edged Saber, and faced Di Tian as the Beast God launched an attack.

• Di Tian emerged from a spatial rift and sensed an unfamiliar, powerful aura from the Howling Celestial Dog.
• Di Tian saw Bear Lord's corpse and ordered Yang Jian to die, threatening to kill everyone in Sky Azure City otherwise.
• Yang Jian challenged Di Tian, recalled the Howling Celestial Dog, and summoned the Three-Point Double-Edged Saber.
• Di Tian fired a fast black ray toward Yang Jian's forehead.

Yang Jian and Di Tian escalated their battle, with Yang Jian cutting through Di Tian’s attacks and wounding him with a reflected flame. Di Tian unleashed his Sun and Moon Shine domain and appeared before Yang Jian with his Black Dragon Sword, exploiting the moment Yang Jian’s movements slowed.

• Yang Jian split Di Tian’s black beam with his Three-Point Double-Edged Saber and challenged him to show his full strength.
• Di Tian transformed into a colossal black dragon and fired a devastating black fireball at Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian activated seven soul skills and cleaved the fireball in two, with one remnant burning and injuring Di Tian’s left wing.
• Furious, Di Tian released his dragon roar and expanded his Sun and Moon Shine domain, which began disrupting Yang Jian’s consciousness and slowing his movements.
• Di Tian used the opening to rush Yang Jian and materialized his Black Dragon Sword.

Yang Jian broke free of Purple Moon's mental corrosion, overwhelmed Di Tian in battle, and survived the Dragon God's Claw with only shallow wounds. Di Tian escaped through a spatial rift, while Yang Jian returned to Sky Azure City, wary of confronting the Silver Dragon King before reaching Titled Douluo.

• Yang Jian used Heavenly Transformation to grow into a ten-thousand-foot giant and shattered Di Tian's Black Dragon Sword with a punch.
• Yang Jian seized Di Tian, but Di Tian escaped his grasp using his spatial ability.
• Di Tian unleashed the Dragon God's Claw, and Yang Jian blocked it with his Three-Point Double-Edged Saber, suffering only three shallow cuts.
• Di Tian fled through a spatial rift, and Yang Jian chose not to pursue him because he feared the Silver Dragon King.
• Yang Jian healed his wounds, stored Bear Lord's corpse in his storage Soul Tool, and walked toward Sky Azure City.

Di Tian returned to the Lake of Life wounded and admitted that Yang Jian had defeated him, but he refused to awaken his lord while she was at a critical juncture. Yang Jian returned to Heaven Dou City with bear meat for his family, where Zhu Zhuqing began preparing it and asked how he had been.

• Di Tian returned to the Lake of Life badly wounded and told Zi Ji, Bi Ji, and the Myriad Demon King that he had lost to Yang Jian.
• Di Tian rejected Zi Ji's request to awaken his lord, saying she must not be disturbed during her critical juncture.
• Yang Jian ate roasted bear meat outside Sky Azure City, gained a small amount of Soul Power, and flew to Heaven Dou City.
• Yang Jian reunited with Yang Jiao and Yang Chan and told them to skip class so they could try the bear meat he had brought.
• Zhu Zhuqing volunteered to cook the meat, and Yang Jian helped her prepare it in the kitchen.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Yang Jian if he had been doing well lately.

Yang Jian shared roasted beast meat with Zhu Zhuqing and his siblings, while Xiao Wu refused to eat it. The next morning, he checked Yang Jiao and Yang Chan’s progress in the Two-Nine Mysteries and began guiding Yang Chan’s blocked circulation.

• Yang Zhuqing told Yang Jian that the courtyard had become quieter, then served the roasted meat.
• Yang Chan and Yang Jiao ate the meat and felt their Soul Power rise, while Xiao Wu panicked and retreated to her room without eating.
• Yang Jiao cultivated steadily beneath the osmanthus tree as Yang Chan struggled to focus.
• Yang Jian asked about their progress, and Yang Jiao reported completing the third level and entering the fourth while Yang Chan had not completed the second.
• Yang Jian placed his fingertips on Yang Chan’s shoulder and guided his Soul Power through her obstructed meridians.

Yang Jian corrected Yang Chan and Yang Jiao’s cultivation, then checked Zhu Zhuqing’s progress and heard that Xue Qinghe had repeatedly come looking for him. When Zhu Zhuqing asked whether he would leave again that night, Yang Jian said he could stay.

• Yang Jian corrected Yang Chan’s breathing rhythm and showed Yang Jiao how to improve his Soul Power circulation.
• Yang Chan asked whether Yang Jian would return for dinner, and he gave no definite answer before she and Yang Jiao left for school.
• Yang Jian checked Zhu Zhuqing’s cultivation and found that her progress had stabilized at level forty-three, with the fifth level within reach in about half a month.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Yang Jian that Crown Prince Xue Qinghe had visited several times seeking him, and Yang Jian said he understood without revealing Qian Renxue’s identity.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked whether Yang Jian would leave that night, and he said he could stay the night.

Yang Jian spent a quiet day at home with Zhu Zhuqing and his siblings, then shared a night with Zhu Zhuqing. The next morning, he left for Heaven Dou Palace.

• Yang Jian stayed home for the day while Zhu Zhuqing tended to the household and stole glances at him.
• Yang Chan teased Yang Jian and Zhu Zhuqing at dinner, urging them to spend the night together.
• Zhu Zhuqing went upstairs after Yang Jian, and they shared the bedroom that night.
• Yang Jian woke the next morning, left Zhu Zhuqing sleeping, and saw Yang Jiao and Yang Chan off to school.
• Yang Jian walked through the busy morning streets toward Heaven Dou Palace.

Yang Jian visited Qian Renxue at the Crown Prince's residence to learn how long Xue Ye had left and discuss taking control of the Heaven Dou Empire with minimal casualties. Qian Renxue said Xue Ye would live at most seven days and outlined how she planned to secure the empire for Spirit Hall after ascending the throne.

• Yang Jian entered the Crown Prince's residence, and Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo recognized him and let him pass.
• Yang Jian found Qian Renxue in the garden, where she dropped her disguise as Xue Qinghe and welcomed him.
• Yang Jian said he had come to assess Xue Ye's remaining time and plan for a controlled takeover of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qian Renxue said Xue Ye would last at most seven days and described her plan to ascend the throne, establish ties with Spirit Hall, and replace key officials.

Yang Jian urged Qian Renxue to purge disobedient officials quickly, then agreed to stay for lunch after she asked him to. After rescuing her failed meal by cooking, he left the Crown Prince's residence while Qian Renxue watched him go and quietly touched her lower abdomen.

• Yang Jian told Qian Renxue to remove disobedient officials by force and finish the purge within a month.
• Qian Renxue agreed to make the list and asked Yang Jian to stay for lunch; he accepted.
• Qian Renxue served a badly cooked meal, and Yang Jian bluntly said it tasted bad before stopping her from trying again.
• Yang Jian cooked several dishes, and Qian Renxue was surprised by how good they were.
• Yang Jian left after lunch, and Qian Renxue watched him go before touching her lower abdomen.

Yang Jian wandered through Heaven Dou City, found Moonlight Pavilion diminished after Tang Yuehua’s departure, and came upon Yu Xiaogang begging Liu Erlong to see him at Blue Tyrant Academy. Yu Xiaogang recognized Yang Jian and recoiled in terror.

• Yang Jian visited Moonlight Pavilion and learned that Tang Yuehua had left months earlier and the pavilion had a new owner.
• Yang Jian wandered through Heaven Dou City until he reached the street near Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang shouted and pounded on the academy gates, pleading for Liu Erlong to come out and see him.
• Yang Jian watched Yu Xiaogang, whose cultivation he had crippled, continue his desperate appeals at the closed gates.
• Yu Xiaogang noticed Yang Jian, recognized him, and staggered back against the gates in fear.

After Yu Xiaogang fled from Yang Jian, Liu Erlong watched him leave and retreated into Blue Tyrant Academy. Yang Jian wandered through Heaven Dou City, observing ordinary street scenes without feeling moved, and came upon a wedding procession.

• Yu Xiaogang turned and fled from Yang Jian, who did not pursue him.
• Liu Erlong opened the academy gate, watched the direction Yu Xiaogang had gone, and then closed herself inside Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Yang Jian wandered through Heaven Dou City and passed a little girl whose grandfather bought her candied hawthorn.
• Yang Jian passed four people arguing over their tangled relationships without looking at them.
• A wedding procession entered the street, tossing wedding candies to the cheering crowd as Yang Jian watched.

Yang Jian spent the day walking through Heaven Dou City, briefly recalling his childhood before returning home to dinner with his family. The next morning, he woke before Zhu Zhuqing and went downstairs without disturbing her.

• Yang Jian caught a wedding candy and watched children playing, which brought back a brief memory of Yang Jiao and Yang Chan in their childhood.
• Yang Jian walked through nearly half of Heaven Dou City before returning home after nightfall.
• Yang Chan welcomed Yang Jian to dinner, where he ate with Yang Jiao, Yang Chan, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• After the others went to their rooms, Yang Jian sat alone beneath the osmanthus tree for a long time.
• Yang Jian woke the next morning, saw Zhu Zhuqing still asleep, and went downstairs quietly.

Yang Jian left Heaven Dou City after telling his family he might be away for days or longer. Three days later, he reached a remote village where the Fallen seized the villagers, and a young man in white appeared beside their ritual array.

• Yang Jian told Yang Chan, Yang Jiao, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu that he was leaving, then walked out of Heaven Dou City.
• Yang Jian traveled on foot for three days and arrived at a small mountain village.
• A group of Fallen stormed the village, captured its residents, and bound them together.
• The Fallen leader began drawing a ritual array beneath the village’s old banyan tree as the villagers pleaded for help.
• A scream interrupted the ritual, and the Fallen leader turned to find a calm young man in white standing beside the banyan tree.