Chapter Summaries

Shui Qinghan and Shui Qingrou completed their Titled Douluo coronation and entered Douluo Hall, where Qian Daoliu had them inscribe their titles and names. Afterward, powerful factions gathered to court them, and the Star Luo Empire offered them noble ranks and support for founding academies.

• Bibi Dong completed Shui Qinghan and Shui Qingrou’s coronation, granting them Titled Douluo robes and Pope Tokens.
• Shui Qinghan and Shui Qingrou entered Douluo Hall, met Qian Daoliu and the seven enshrined elders, and engraved their titles and names on golden plaques.
• Qian Daoliu hung the women’s plaques beside the plaque for Poison Douluo and dismissed them from Douluo Hall.
• Representatives of the Two Empires and major sects offered congratulations and gifts, while the Lower Four Sects and Yu Luomian departed.
• Netherworld Grand Duke Zhu Yuan offered Shui Qinghan and Shui Qingrou ducal ranks, enshrined positions, and support for establishing academies in the Star Luo Empire.

Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe competed to recruit Shui Qinghan and Shui Qingrou, but Xue Qinghe’s lavish promises persuaded Shui Qinghan to accept the Heaven Dou Imperial Family’s offer. As they prepared to attend Xue Qinghe’s banquet, Yue Guan summoned Shui Qinghan to the Pope, who wanted to test her disciple and daughter.

• Ning Fengzhi offered Skywater Academy ten million Gold Soul Coins annually in exchange for an alliance with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Zhu Yuan presented Shui Qinghan and Shui Qingrou with a one-million-coin gift from the Star Luo Empire.
• Xue Qinghe offered five million Gold Soul Coins annually, noble titles, fiefs, land for the Elemental Academies, and two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones in ten years if Shui Qinghan and Shui Qingrou became Imperial Offerings.
• Shui Qinghan accepted Xue Qinghe’s offer, and Ning Fengzhi gave the two women a five-million-coin gift to strengthen ties with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Xue Qinghe invited Ning Fengzhi, Shui Qinghan, and Shui Qingrou to a banquet, but Yue Guan stopped them and said the Pope wanted to see Shui Qinghan’s disciple and daughter demonstrate their strength.
• Shui Qinghan agreed to go to the Pope, while Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe asked to watch.

Bibi Dong invited Shui Qinghan and her disciples to Spirit Hall Academy to assess their abilities and learn about Shui Qinghan’s mysterious opportunity. Jiang Lan met Xue Qinghe there, privately judged him harshly, and left him with a flattering compliment that improved Xue Qinghe’s impression of him.

• Bibi Dong considered trading Spirit Hall’s stored Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones for Shui Qinghan’s opportunity and summoned her to talk.
• Bibi Dong proposed that their disciples demonstrate their abilities at Spirit Hall Academy, and Shui Qinghan agreed.
• Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe joined the group as they headed to the academy, where Jiang Lan and his companions arrived as well.
• Jiang Lan silently criticized Xue Qinghe’s character and judgment while watching him.
• Xue Qinghe asked Jiang Lan why he was staring, and Jiang Lan praised his bearing and potential as a ruler, improving Xue Qinghe’s opinion of him.

Xue Qinghe welcomed Jiang Lan and the Skywater Team, while Ning Rongrong and Hu Liena arrived at Spirit Hall. Bibi Dong arranged a tournament-style team match between Hu Liena’s group and Shui Qinghan’s disciples and daughters, and everyone headed to the training arena.

• Xue Qinghe gave Jiang Lan and the Skywater girls gold cards and invited them to call him Brother Qinghe.
• Ning Rongrong reunited with Ning Fengzhi, greeted the elders, and excitedly questioned Jiang Lan, while Chen Xin challenged Shui Qinghan to spar.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan arrived, and Bibi Dong told Hu Liena to lead a team against Shui Qinghan’s disciples and daughters.
• After the Skywater girls laughed at Hu Liena’s group’s confidence, Bibi Dong proposed a match following the Elite Tournament format, and Shui Qinghan agreed to begin with a team match.
• The group went to Spirit Hall Academy’s Training Arena to start the match.

Jiang Lan fought the Spirit Hall Team alone and revealed an astonishing Four-Ring Soul Ancestor cultivation with two purple and two black soul rings. He blasted nearly the entire team off the platform in moments, leaving only Hu Liena and Xie Yue standing.

• Shui Qinghan told Jiang Lan to face the Spirit Hall Team alone, and he accepted.
• Jiang Lan stepped onto the platform despite Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe questioning the decision.
• Both sides released their martial souls, and Jiang Lan revealed his four-ring configuration, stunning Bibi Dong and the spectators.
• At Bibi Dong's signal, the match began, and Yan tried to attack while Hu Liena and Xie Yue prepared their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Jiang Lan rushed through the Spirit Hall Team and sent every member except Hu Liena and Xie Yue off the platform.

Jiang Lan overwhelmed the Spirit Hall Academy team with his speed, then dispelled Xie Yue and Hu Liena’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill and defeated them. The match ended with the siblings injured on the arena as Jiang Lan mocked Hu Liena.

• Jiang Lan used his speed to knock Yan and the other four Spirit Hall Academy team members off the arena, leaving Xie Yue and Hu Liena behind.
• Bibi Dong questioned Shui Qinghan about her sudden increase in strength, and Shui Qinghan attributed it to a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow Cave.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Demon Charm, enveloping the arena in red mist and weakening Jiang Lan’s senses and movements.
• Jiang Lan used his third soul skill, Water and Sky in One Color, to remove Demon Charm’s effects and disperse the red mist.
• Jiang Lan activated Flash Strike and struck Demon Charm, breaking the fusion and sending Xie Yue and Hu Liena crashing onto the arena.
• Jiang Lan laughed at the injured siblings and told Hu Liena he would probably forget her tomorrow.

After Jiang Lan healed Xie Yue and Hu Liena, Shui Qinghan negotiated with Ning Fengzhi and Bibi Dong over her method for strengthening bodies to absorb higher-limit soul rings. As Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er led Skywater Academy against Spirit Hall Academy, their team turned the battle around with chained control skills.

• Jiang Lan healed Xie Yue and Hu Liena after their Martial Soul Fusion Skill was forcibly broken, and Bibi Dong conceded the individual matches before agreeing to a team match.
• Shui Qinghan agreed to teach Ning Fengzhi and Bibi Dong her method for strengthening soul masters' bodies, explaining that it could not prevent the soul shock caused by ten thousand-year soul rings.
• Ning Fengzhi asked whether Ning Rongrong could study at the planned Four Elements Academy, but Chen Xin persuaded him to wait until she was older; Ning Fengzhi offered to fund the academy's construction.
• Hu Liena's Bewitchment caught the Skywater Academy team off guard, but Shui Bing'er broke free, woke her teammates, and used Repelling Ice Ring to push back Spirit Hall Academy.
• Yu Hairou held off Yan, while Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er repeatedly controlled Spirit Hall Academy with Instant Ice Seal and Destruction of the Mirror.

Skywater Academy defeated Spirit Hall Academy as Shui Bing'er’s ultimate ice overwhelmed their plan to wear her down. Xie Yue was immediately sealed again, leaving the teams’ rivalry unresolved.

• Xie Yue remained trapped in his dark red crystal while Skywater Academy eliminated the Spirit Hall Academy team, and Hu Liena apologized to Bibi Dong.
• Jiang Lan watched Xue Qinghe’s jealousy of Hu Liena and considered revealing the truth about Qian Renxue’s childhood after they returned.
• Shui Bing’er’s team sent Shen Liuyu, Qiu Ruoshui, and Gu Qingbo against Li Kai, then Yu Hairou defeated him before losing to Zhang Ping.
• Shui Bing’er instantly froze Zhang Ping with Repelling Ice Ring, and Yan’s flames shrank when he tried to warm her.
• Xie Yue encouraged Hu Liena to keep fighting, then entered the match and was immediately taken out by Shui Bing’er’s Ice Seal.

After Skywater Academy’s victory, Xue Qinghe hosted Jiang Lan and tried to recruit him while probing his views on Spirit Hall. Jiang Lan praised Spirit Hall but said he would not join under Bibi Dong, then began to reveal information his teacher had shared with him.

• Bibi Dong congratulated Shui Qinghan on Shui Bing'er’s talent, and Ning Fengzhi resolved to build ties with Skywater Academy.
• Bibi Dong invited Shui Qinghan and Ning Fengzhi to discuss limit-break soul-ring absorption, while Ning Fengzhi left Ning Rongrong with Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Qinghe hosted Jiang Lan and the others, then privately asked Jiang Lan to join his household; Jiang Lan declined to commit and thought the offer lacked concrete benefits.
• Xue Qinghe asked Jiang Lan what he thought of Spirit Hall, and Jiang Lan praised its support for commoners while condemning some of its leaders.
• Jiang Lan said he would not join Spirit Hall while Bibi Dong was its pope and claimed his teacher had told him why, prompting Xue Qinghe to ask for more.

Jiang Lan told Xue Qinghe about Bibi Dong’s past relationship with Yu Xiaogang and the secrets she had revealed to him. Xue Qinghe left determined to ask Qian Daoliu what had really happened.

• Jiang Lan criticized Yu Xiaogang’s theories, then told Xue Qinghe that Yu Xiaogang had been Bibi Dong’s former lover.
• Jiang Lan said Bibi Dong had used her authority as Holy Maiden to show Yu Xiaogang Spirit Hall’s secret documents, including information about the angel soul bones.
• Xue Qinghe worried that the secrets could expose his disguise, but Jiang Lan described the angel soul bones’ supposed ability to evolve after all six were absorbed.
• Jiang Lan recounted that the previous Pope had forced Bibi Dong to end the relationship, expelled Yu Xiaogang, and kept Bibi Dong under house arrest for nearly two years.
• Xue Qinghe excused himself and left, planning to seek Qian Daoliu’s account of what had happened.

Qian Renxue learned the truth about her parents from Qian Daoliu, then revealed her identity to Jiang Lan and sought his comfort. The chapter ended with Jiang Lan agreeing to listen to her troubles.

• Qian Renxue returned to Douluo Hall and asked Qian Daoliu whether Bibi Dong had loved Yu Xiaogang and planned to leave Spirit Hall with him.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Renxue that Bibi Dong had killed Qian Xunji and explained why he had sent her to infiltrate Heaven Dou.
• Qian Renxue rejected Qian Daoliu's offer to abandon the plan, then wept in her hotel room and vowed to take away the power Bibi Dong coveted.
• The next day, Qian Renxue asked Jiang Lan if she could trust him and pulled him into her room.
• Qian Renxue removed her mask and revealed that she was Qian Renxue, the former Pope's daughter and Spirit Hall's young master.
• Qian Renxue said she needed someone close to talk to, and Jiang Lan sat beside her and agreed to listen.

Qian Renxue confided in Jiang Lan about her past and worried that killing Xue Ye’s princes made her evil. Jiang Lan comforted her with political reasoning and schemes, and she left feeling better while making him her trusted confidant.

• Qian Renxue told Jiang Lan about her family and asked whether killing Xue Ye’s princes made her a bad person.
• Jiang Lan reassured Qian Renxue by arguing that rulers were judged by how they treated ordinary people and that royal succession was ruthless.
• Jiang Lan described ways he could have framed the second and third princes, making Qian Renxue laugh and easing her guilt.
• Qian Renxue invited Jiang Lan to advise her and gave him a Crown Prince’s Gold Token, but he declined to join her.
• Jiang Lan left Qian Renxue’s room, recognizing that she had made him her new emotional anchor and resolving not to betray her.

Jiang Lan joined Hu Liena, Shui Yue'er, and Qian Renxue on a tour of Spirit Hall Academy. Qian Renxue asked him to seduce Hu Liena to make Bibi Dong suffer, and Jiang Lan agreed as she promised him a reward.

• Hu Liena invited Ice Luan to collect cultivation resources at Spirit Hall Academy and offered to show the group around.
• Xue Qinghe joined Jiang Lan and the others on their way to the academy, and Hu Liena tried to draw Jiang Lan into conversation.
• Qian Renxue pulled Jiang Lan aside and asked him to seduce Hu Liena so she would betray Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue explained that she would seek Hu Liena's hand as her crown princess after Hu Liena turned eighteen, giving Jiang Lan time to pursue her.
• Jiang Lan agreed to help and asked what reward Qian Renxue would give him; she teased that she could be his reward.

Jiang Lan advised Qian Renxue on ways to remove Xue Ye and criticized her for having no loyal supporters in the Heaven Dou court. He agreed to help her under three ground rules, while the Skywater Academy girls misread their closeness and worried that Xue Qinghe was pursuing Jiang Lan.

• Jiang Lan warned Qian Renxue that poisoning Xue Ye was crude and suggested making his death look like an accident or forging an imperial edict.
• Qian Renxue said half the court supported her succession, but admitted she had no officials who would obey her unconditionally.
• Jiang Lan tried to leave, but Qian Renxue pleaded for his help, and he agreed on the condition that she tell him everything and follow his advice on important matters.
• Yu Hairou and the other Skywater Academy girls speculated that Xue Qinghe was romantically interested in Jiang Lan, and Yu Hairou stopped Qiu Ruoshui from confronting him.

After trading whale rubber and whale glue in Spirit City, Shui Qinghan’s group strengthened their cultivation and fought sparring matches before setting off for Heaven Dou City. Xue Qinghe invited Jiang Lan to share his carriage, while the girls warned Jiang Lan that the Crown Prince seemed overly attached to him.

• Shui Qinghan used a rare dragon-blood medicinal bath to improve the bloodline purity of Yu Hairou, Shen Liuyu, Gu Qingbo, and Qiu Ruoshui, while Jiang Lan, Shui Bing'er, and two others received treasures suited to their attributes.
• Guang Ling challenged Shui Qinghan to a sparring match and lost, then Chen Xin fought Shui Qinghan for over a hundred rounds before being defeated.
• Bibi Dong gave Hu Liena a sixty-thousand-year Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull, raising her soul power from rank thirty-six to rank thirty-nine and preparing her to absorb a ten-thousand-year fourth ring.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Ning Rongrong hundred-year whale glue, strengthening her physique and raising the limit of her second soul ring to nearly six hundred years.
• The group left Spirit City together, and Xue Qinghe invited Jiang Lan into his carriage; Yu Hairou, Gu Qingbo, Shen Liuyu, and Qiu Ruoshui warned Jiang Lan about the Crown Prince's attention.

Jiang Lan and Qian Renxue discussed court etiquette, the terms for making his teachers Heaven Dou Imperial Offerings, and his need for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to begin the Sea God's Divine Trials. Qian Renxue embraced Jiang Lan and promised to obtain the treasure, while Jiang Lan planned to help her win Poison Douluo over at the court banquet.

• Qian Renxue teased Jiang Lan about his teachers treating him like a lover, then offered to teach him to dance for Xue Ye's court banquet.
• Qian Renxue explained that she had offered royal titles, fiefs, and financial support to secure her teachers' agreement to become Imperial Offerings.
• Jiang Lan told Qian Renxue that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud could unlock the Sea God's Divine Trials, and she promised to give it to him after getting rid of Xue Ye.
• Qian Renxue asked Jiang Lan to hug her and pleaded with him not to leave; he promised to visit her after the Elemental Academies were built.
• Jiang Lan explained that his Martial Soul could transform Poison Douluo's Jade Phosphorous Serpent into a dragon and said he wanted to bring Poison Douluo into Qian Renxue's camp.
• Qian Renxue said Poison Douluo would be invited to the banquet, while his granddaughter Dugu Yan would definitely attend.