Chapter Summaries

Xiao Wu learned that she was a Goodness God Test Taker and received her first trial, while Ye Qingcang cautioned her not to depend on divine titles or put her fate in another’s hands. After warning her about storing the divine token, he finished reviewing an intelligence report and left to check on Mother.

• Xiao Wu asked Ye Qingcang whether he was the Evil God Test Taker, and he said the Goddess of Goodness’s words were only an implication and urged her to rely on her own strength.
• Xiao Wu said the Goodness God King did not seem like a liar, and Ye Qingcang told her to follow her intuition while judging people by their motives.
• Xiao Wu’s forehead feather mark produced a token announcing her First Goodness Trial: reach Soul Power level seventy within five years for a Soul Ring age-limit increase and a God-Given Soul Ring.
• Ye Qingcang stopped Xiao Wu from putting the divine token in her Storage Soul Tool and explained that she could store it through her forehead mark or in a suitable divine artifact.
• Ye Qingcang reviewed his intelligence report, noted his remaining Asura trials, and left to check on Mother.

Qian Renxue interrogated a spy who held positions with five different powers and offered him a chance to join Spirit Hall. After he used a poetic line to identify himself as one of A Ying’s people, she contacted Ye Qingcang, leaving the spy convinced he could safely pass on his top-secret intelligence.

• Qian Renxue listed the spy’s five known identities and asked which power he truly served and whether he had another identity.
• The spy recounted how an accidental clash and the ensuing interrogations had led agents from several factions to accuse him of betrayal.
• The spy opened his Soul Power suppression handcuffs and asked Qian Renxue whether she recognized the line, “I will draw my carved bow full like the moon.”
• Qian Renxue recalled the rest of the poem and identified the spy as one of A Ying’s people.
• Qian Renxue messaged Ye Qingcang with her Jade Seal Machine, and the spy concluded that she was an ally and he might deliver his intelligence.

Ye Qingcang received urgent intelligence from Mole, the Sky Merchant Guild’s Heaven Dou Empire operative, about new God Test Takers and growing political turmoil in the Dou Two World. He and Qian Renxue suspected the three kingdoms were preparing a counter-invasion, and Ye Qingcang proposed changing the Soul Master Competition.

• Ye Qingcang arrived in the interrogation room and recognized that Qian Renxue had summoned him to meet a Sky Merchant Guild operative.
• Mole revealed how he had inferred Ye Qingcang’s connection to Spirit Hall and proved his identity with their code phrase.
• Ye Qingcang read Nan Nan’s letter, which reported that Mu En and Ma Xiaotao had become God Test Takers and described Shrek Academy’s factional conflicts and the Guild’s contingency plans.
• Ye Qingcang and Qian Renxue discussed the three kingdoms’ political maneuvering and suspected they might be planning a counter-invasion of their world.
• Qian Renxue proposed letting the God Test Takers decide the conflict, and Ye Qingcang suggested changing the Soul Master Competition.

Ye Qingcang proposed a Two Worlds Elite Soul Master Competition that could both intimidate the rival world and reveal its strength. Qian Renxue and the others recognized that allowing Titled Douluo to compete could turn the event into a way to assess both sides’ high-level combat power before deciding whether to go to war.

• Qian Renxue warned Ye Qingcang that the rival world’s Deities, aristocratic system, and ability to recruit Spirit Hall members made reforms and recruitment difficult.
• Ye Qingcang argued that power shaped people’s ambitions and that the Soul Master Competition could showcase geniuses while also eliminating them.
• Qian Renxue realized that a joint competition could let both worlds compare their geniuses and use the gap to intimidate the other side.
• Ye Qingcang proposed removing the Advanced Soul Master Academy restriction from the competition so any qualified Soul Master, including Titled Douluo, could participate.
• Spear Douluo explained that competing Titled Douluo could reveal each world’s immediate combat strength and help both sides judge whether to fight and whom to target.

Ye Qingcang proposed dividing the two-world Soul Master Competition into nine age- and rank-based divisions, with individual and team events in each. Qian Renxue supported the plan and suggested a Miracle Item Door as the grand prize for someone who collected all nine Diamond Badges.

• Ye Qingcang outlined six standard divisions based on age and three special divisions based on age, Soul Power rank, or unrestricted rules.
• Ye Qingcang proposed separate Individual and Team Competitions, allowing registration for both and setting team limits of ten competitors and ten reserves.
• Spear Douluo asked whether a division could have separate individual and team champions, and Ye Qingcang confirmed that it could.
• Ye Qingcang proposed Gold, Silver, and Bronze Badges for placements, with Diamond Badges awarded for winning both championships in a division and a grand prize for collecting all nine.
• Qian Renxue suggested making a Miracle Item Door the grand prize to give future Soul Masters a path toward creating their own divine position.

Ye Qingcang and Qian Renxue examined the Nine Decisions Proposal’s schedule and estimated how many Soul Masters might participate. They concluded that even a crowded competition could be completed in about two and a half months.

• Qian Renxue teased Ye Qingcang for thinking about the prizes before they had settled the proposal’s rules and alliances.
• Ye Qingcang outlined a format that could narrow as many as a million Individual Competition entrants to sixty-four in a day, with each division taking seven days and an awards ceremony on the eighth.
• Qian Renxue estimated that the continent held around six hundred thousand Soul Masters, including members of sects’ affiliated forces.
• Qian Renxue concluded that participation would likely be far below a million people and that all nine divisions could finish within seventy-two days.
• Ye Qingcang agreed that a competition lasting roughly two and a half months would be manageable compared with past Soul Master Competitions.

Ye Qingcang explained how the interworld Soul Master Competition could divide resources according to its results and proposed an investment partnership with Qian Renxue. Qian Renxue agreed with his principles, and they concluded that they would decide this future together.

• Qian Renxue described Spirit Hall’s financial limits and agreed that finding a large enough venue was a manageable problem.
• Ye Qingcang offered to split the investment among himself, Qian Renxue, Blue Tyrant Academy, the Sky Merchant Guild, and the Sun Moon Empire.
• Qian Renxue deduced that the championships would determine how Dou One and Dou Two World divided resources, and Ye Qingcang clarified how winners could claim resources for five years.
• Ye Qingcang explained that championships could be offset or used to claim proportional shares of others’ resources, arguing that those capable of achieving more should receive more.
• Qian Renxue agreed that the system would require deterrence and battle, and she said that she and Ye Qingcang would decide the future together.

Ye Qingcang and Qian Renxue discussed how to keep Bibidong from being manipulated by Yu Xiaogang, while Ye revealed that he had planned for the situation. Outside Yelin City, Yue Guan and Gui Mei waited for Ye to act, as Yu Xiaogang disappeared into the crowd.

• Qian Renxue asked Ye Qingcang to take Bibidong to the Dou Two World and give her something to do, but Ye refused to force her before she was ready.
• Qian Renxue explained that she and Hu Liena wanted Ye to undermine Yu Xiaogang's hold over Bibidong, and Ye said Yu Xiaogang could be a turning point in Bibidong's path toward redemption.
• Qian Renxue asked how many Faceless Men Ye had placed in Spirit Hall, then chose not to press him and asked him not to kill innocents indiscriminately.
• Yue Guan told Gui Mei that he had sent intelligence to Ye by dead drop, and they wondered how Ye would deal with Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Tianheng watched Yu Xiaogang vanish into the crowd, while Yu Tianxin reminded him that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family followed its clan leader, Ye.

Ye Qingcang’s elaborate plan to manipulate Bibidong into witnessing Yu Xiaogang’s supposed betrayal began unfolding in Yelin City. The staged confrontation erupted into violence when a young man who looked like Yu Xiaogang attacked him, leaving the crowd stunned.

• In Yelin City, the Faceless Men rehearsed fabricated identities and a layered scheme intended to make Bibidong believe Yu Xiaogang had deceived her.
• Ye Qingcang told Qian Renxue that the plan would force Bibidong to choose between Yu Xiaogang and her disciple and daughter.
• A girl resembling young Bibidong publicly accused Yu Xiaogang of abandoning her while she carried his child, as a young man resembling Yu Xiaogang stood beside her.
• Yu Xiaogang denied knowing the girl and swore that he was telling the truth, prompting Yu Luomian to summon lightning that startled the crowd.
• The girl pretending to be Liu Erlong challenged Yu Xiaogang over his glance at her, while the young man with two yellow soul rings attacked him with a Bone Chopping Knife and accused him of ruining his life.

A young man attacked Yu Xiaogang, but the disguised Faceless Man intervened and killed the attacker, leaving Yu Xiaogang gravely wounded. As panic spread through Yelin City, Bibidong arrived and ordered an orderly evacuation.

• The young man charged at Yu Xiaogang with a Bone Chopping Knife, but Yu Xiaogang’s dragonified arm blocked the blade before dragonfire killed the attacker.
• Yu Xiaogang collapsed with a severe chest and abdominal wound, and the Faceless Man disguised as Liu Erlong pretended to treat him by burning the wound shut.
• Panic spread through Yelin City as spectators and passersby fled in confusion.
• Bibidong arrived in her old festival clothes, rose above the city, and ordered everyone to evacuate quickly and orderly through every exit.

Bibidong took command of the Lantern Festival evacuation and learned that Yu Peiquan had been hunting a Soul Douluo-level Evil Spirit Master. When the Evil Spirit Master revealed their aura, Bibidong saw Yu Xiaogang beside a girl who looked just like her younger self, leaving her to confront the apparent truth of his past.

• Yu Peiquan reported to Bibidong that he had lost the Evil Spirit Master in Yelin City and had stayed to prevent another massacre.
• Bibidong ordered an Angel Squad to search for the Soul Douluo-level Evil Spirit Master while the city was in chaos.
• An Evil Spirit Master exposed their aura, and Bibidong and Yu Peiquan looked toward the source.
• Bibidong saw Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, a black-robed Evil Spirit Master, and a girl resembling her former self in her old clothes.

Yu Xiaogang was framed as an Evil Spirit Master’s accomplice while Bibidong confronted a Holy Spirit Church protector and rejected his offer to join forces. The protector threatened to destroy Yelin City with a Level 9 Soul Tool Bomb, leaving Bibidong to choose between pursuing him and saving the city.

• A black-robed middle-aged man seized Liu Erlong and accused Yu Xiaogang of helping him target Ye Qingcang, prompting Liu Erlong to self-destruct.
• The man’s Scorpion Tiger subdued the explosion’s surviving black-mud figure, then tried to take Yu Xiaogang away as the red-robed bishop attacked them.
• The red-robed bishop accused Yu Xiaogang of colluding with Evil Spirit Masters, and Yu Xiaogang protested his innocence and begged Bibidong to defend him.
• The black-robed man revealed that he belonged to the Holy Spirit Church and offered Bibidong his church’s support, but she refused and defended Spirit Hall elder Gui Mei.
• The man threatened to detonate a Level 9 Soul Tool Bomb capable of destroying Yelin City, then grabbed Yu Xiaogang, killed the girl resembling Bibidong, and threw her at Bibidong.

Bibidong tried to comfort a dying woman who shared her name and face while a Holy Spirit Church Evil Spirit Master manipulated Yu Xiaogang into embracing a path of power. Yu Xiaogang died in a Level 9 Soul Tool Bomb blast, and Ye Qingcang revealed that he had planned for the unexpected outcome.

• Bibidong caught the dying double, granted her the name Bibidong, and promised to provide a gravestone before the woman died.
• The Evil Spirit Master brought Yu Xiaogang to a prepared house, killed two occupants, and urged him to join the Holy Spirit Church by exploiting his grievances.
• Yu Xiaogang fed the corpses to Luo Sanpao, breaking through his bottleneck and declaring that his enemies would kneel before him.
• The Evil Spirit Master revealed that a Level 9 Soul Tool Bomb was hidden on Yu Xiaogang and challenged Bibidong to choose between saving him and pursuing justice.
• Bibidong declared Yu Xiaogang and the Evil Spirit Master would die, and the Lava Giant Bear crushed Yu Xiaogang as the bomb exploded.
• Ye Qingcang crushed the bomb's remote control at the city gate and reflected that he had prepared for Yu Xiaogang's unexpected fragility.

Bibidong survived the Level 9 Soul Tool Bomb but lost a bishop who sacrificed himself to protect her. After explaining that Yu Xiaogang had become the Evil Spirit Master’s willing vessel, she prepared to pursue the enemy with Gui Mei and Yue Guan.

• Bibidong emerged from the ruins, gathered a Storage Soul Tool, and vowed that the fallen bishop’s death would not be in vain.
• Ye Qingcang arrived and explained that he had helped A Xue set the trap, while Bibidong signaled Gui Mei and Yue Guan for support.
• Bibidong told Ye Qingcang that Yu Xiaogang had been deceived by an Evil Spirit Master and had willingly become the vessel for a Level 9 Soul Tool Bomb.
• Bibidong said the bishop had taken the blast head-on, leaving her too little time to suppress it, and admitted she had misjudged Yu Xiaogang.
• Bibidong resolved to use the Evil Spirit Master’s head to honor the bishop and pursue the enemy with Gui Mei and Yue Guan.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei restrained the Ten-Thousand-Year Scorpion Tiger until Bibidong arrived and killed its Evil Spirit Master. Ye Qingcang explained the attack and its consequences, while Bibidong admitted that her own hesitation had contributed to a cardinal’s death.

• Gui Mei trapped the Ten-Thousand-Year Scorpion Tiger in a fog of clones, and Yue Guan attacked it with his soul skills.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to freeze the area, allowing Bibidong to sever the Scorpion Tiger’s head and capture its soul.
• Bibidong killed the unconscious Evil Spirit Master and left Yue Guan and Gui Mei wary of her anger and revealed power.
• Ye Qingcang arrived and said the Evil Spirit Master was likely a Holy Spirit Church remnant from the Dou Two World who had detonated a Level 9 Soul Tool Bomb, killing a cardinal.
• Bibidong admitted that her hesitation and mistake in judgment had contributed to the cardinal’s death and vowed not to repeat the error.

Ye Qingcang explained the bishop’s death and gave Bibidong intelligence about their opponents’ latest moves. After reading the letters, Bibidong asked what he and Qian Renxue planned to do, warning that the situation hid more complications than the reports revealed.

• Bibidong ordered Gui Mei to give the dead bishop’s Storage Soul Tool to his family, add his name to the List of Heroes, and honor him at the Year-End Sacrifice.
• Ye Qingcang explained that he had originally come to investigate the Faceless Men but found it had self-destructed, then admitted that he and Qian Renxue had planned events without telling Bibidong.
• Ye Qingcang handed Bibidong two letters containing recent intelligence from an agent in Heaven Dou City’s prison.
• Bibidong read both letters and confirmed that Qian Renxue knew the information because she would become an Angel God Test Taker.
• Bibidong asked what Ye Qingcang and Qian Renxue intended to do and warned that the letters did not reveal all the hidden complications.

Ye Qingcang explained how he and Qian Renxue had altered the plan for the coming conflict between Spirit Hall and the empires, and Bibidong agreed to join him on a diplomatic visit to the Dou Two World after making preparations at Spirit Hall. They left together by teleportation.

• Ye Qingcang told Bibidong that Qian Renxue had wanted to strike Shrek Academy and the other three nations first, but he had modified her plan after learning from two letters.
• Bibidong warned Ye Qingcang that Shrek Academy might be trying to manipulate his relationship with Poseidon Tang San, who had offered peaceful coexistence while using others as bait.
• Ye Qingcang explained that the Soul Master Competition would allocate resources between the two worlds and that its contestants needed to make the fighting seem futile.
• Bibidong challenged Ye Qingcang's assumption that she would intimidate Shrek Academy and the other nations, then agreed to travel with him after arranging a diplomatic party at Spirit Hall.
• Ye Qingcang created a Teleportation Array, and he and Bibidong disappeared in its purple light.

Ye Qingcang, Sheng Cai'er, Bibidong, and Spirit Hall's powerful delegation emerged through a gate into another world, where they discussed the strange time difference and Qingluan Douluo warned Guang Ling Douluo to follow the mission's orders. The eighteen-person delegation gathered in the wilderness, ready to begin negotiations in a world filled with formidable opponents.

• Ye Qingcang, Sheng Cai'er, and Bibidong stepped through the gate and noticed that the afternoon sun showed a different time from their world.
• Guang Ling Douluo emerged and remarked on the time difference, but Qingluan Douluo warned him to stay cautious and obey Pope Bibidong's will.
• Guang Ling Douluo quickly promised not to cause trouble, and Qingluan Douluo smoothed over the exchange when Luan Douluo asked what mistake they meant.
• Demon Bear Douluo arrived with Sea Turtle Douluo and the younger Spirit Hall members, confirming that the full eighteen-person delegation had assembled.

Bibidong brought Hu Liena and the Spirit Hall Academy team on a diplomatic mission to the Dou Two World, partly to give Hu Liena a new purpose amid her rivalry with Qian Renxue. After Ye Qingcang identified their location in the Douling Empire, he outlined possible routes to Shrek Academy.

• Demon Bear Douluo confirmed that the diplomatic mission’s personnel were all present, and Hu Liena reported to Bibidong.
• The chapter described how Spirit Hall had split into factions associated with Qian Renxue and Hu Liena, while Qian Renxue’s power and accomplishments far surpassed Hu Liena’s.
• Bibidong brought Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and other Spirit Hall Academy students along to train them and protect Hu Liena from dwelling on her disadvantage against Qian Renxue.
• Bibidong proposed finding a settlement to learn their location and obtain a map, and Ye Qingcang used the Jade Seal Machine to identify their position near the Jinzang River in the Douling Empire.
• Ye Qingcang explained two possible ways to reach Shrek Academy: travel through several regions, or take a group there by teleportation.

Ye Qingcang explained the Jade Seal Machine and its underground Signal Base Stations to Guang Ling Douluo and the others. He planned to give Bibidong and the others ordinary machines so they could stay in contact as they continued onward.

• Guang Ling Douluo inspected Ye Qingcang’s Jade Seal Machine, and Qingluan Douluo apologized for his curiosity.
• Ye Qingcang explained that the Jade Seal Machine used underground Signal Base Stations to show their location and that the red dots marked the stations.
• Guang Ling Douluo returned the machine to Ye Qingcang after understanding how it worked.
• Ye Qingcang considered giving Bibidong and the others ordinary Jade Seal Machines to help them stay in contact if they became separated.