Chapter Summaries

Li Changqing searched the Star Dou Great Forest for Huo Yuhao and tried to draw Electrolux’s lingering consciousness into his Spiritual Sea. Instead, an unknown force expelled Electrolux, and purple and green lights entered Li Changqing’s mind, leaving him stunned by what he had attracted.

• Tang Ya chose a thousand-year Mandala Snake for her soul ring, and Li Changqing and Bei Bei helped her defeat one so she could absorb it.
• While Tang Ya absorbed the soul ring, Li Changqing sensed a faint spatial fluctuation and went to investigate.
• Li Changqing searched the forest but found neither Huo Yuhao nor any trace of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Li Changqing used a Taiji Diagram to draw Electrolux’s lingering consciousness toward himself.
• A domineering voice expelled Electrolux from Li Changqing’s Spiritual Sea, and purple and green lights entered it in his place.

Li Changqing discovered that the God of Destruction and Life Goddess had settled in his Spiritual Sea while Tang Ya absorbed her third soul ring and became a Soul Elder. On the way out of the Star Dou Great Forest, the group found an unconscious Huo Yuhao, while Tang San and the other God Kings prepared to discuss the two gods’ inheritance in the Divine Realm.

• Li Changqing returned to camp with the God of Destruction and Life Goddess residing in his Spiritual Sea and focused on helping Tang Ya finish absorbing her soul ring.
• Tang Ya successfully absorbed her third soul ring and became a Soul Elder, then thanked Li Changqing for his help.
• Li Changqing, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya left the forest and found an unconscious Huo Yuhao lying on their path.
• Li Changqing told Bei Bei to bring Huo Yuhao with them, suspecting that his sudden appearance might be tied to fate.
• Tang San told the Evil God King and Kindness Goddess that the God of Destruction and Life Goddess had passed down their Godhood, and two sets of footsteps approached the Divine Realm Committee hall.

Tang San confronted the God of Destruction and the Life Goddess over their decision to pass both Godhoods to one successor, but they countered his objections by pointing out that he himself held two Godhoods. After returning to the Sea God Palace, Tang San erupted in anger at the threat their successor posed to his plans for Douluo Star.

• Tang San asked the God of Destruction and the Life Goddess whether they had passed down their Godhoods, prompting the God of Destruction to accuse him of spying.
• Tang San challenged them for giving both Godhoods to the same person, but the God of Destruction and the Life Goddess cited Tang San's own Sea God and Asura Godhoods in response.
• Tang San claimed he had no objections, though he secretly clenched his fist as the meeting ended in a tense silence.
• Back at the Sea God Palace, Tang San unleashed his divine power, destroying the furnishings and damaging the hall.
• Tang San raged that the two God Kings had disrupted his plans to make Douluo Star his private garden, and feared their successor would wield both Destruction and Life.

Tang San abandoned forceful interference in the divine inheritances and planned to use Tang Wutong to win over the inheritor of Destruction and Life. In Heaven Dou City, Jiang Nannan learned that her mother needed a rare pill and was offered it in exchange for her virginity, leaving Ye Guyi furious and alarmed.

• Tang San decided to have Tang Wutong approach the inheritor of Destruction and Life and make him fall in love with her.
• Li Changqing left Shrek City for Heaven Dou City after asking Bei Bei for Jiang Nannan's address.
• Jiang Nannan returned home and told Ye Guyi that her mother could not be cured without a Black Tortoise Divine Pill from the Netherworld Sect.
• Jiang Nannan explained that the sect would not sell the pill, but had offered to trade it for her virginity.
• Ye Guyi demanded to know whether Jiang Nannan was truly considering the offer.

Jiang Nannan resolved to accept the Netherworld Sect’s demand for her virginity in exchange for a Black Tortoise Divine Pill, hoping to save her dying mother. Li Changqing visited her home and questioned whether the pill could actually cure her mother, leaving the truth behind the offer in doubt.

• Jiang Nannan told Ye Guyi that she had to do everything she could to save her mother, even if the pill might not work.
• Li Changqing followed an elderly physician to the Netherworld Sect, then left without confronting him.
• The next morning, Li Changqing arrived at Jiang Nannan’s home with fruit and supplements and asked about her mother’s condition.
• Ye Guyi told Li Changqing that the Netherworld Sect had offered the Black Tortoise Divine Pill in exchange for Jiang Nannan’s virginity.
• Li Changqing asked who had told Jiang Nannan that the Black Tortoise Divine Pill could cure her mother.

Li Changqing revealed that a doctor had deceived Jiang Nannan about the Black Tortoise Divine Pill to lure her into trading her body to the Netherworld Sect. He used the power of merit to revive Jiang Nannan’s dying mother, then gave Jiang Nannan a Black Tortoise Divine Pill.

• Li Changqing explained that an ordinary doctor could not have known the Netherworld Sect’s rare Black Tortoise Divine Pill and had likely lied about its ability to cure Jiang Nannan’s mother.
• Li Changqing told Jiang Nannan and Ye Guyi that the Netherworld Sect sought Jiang Nannan’s willing participation in a ritual to awaken its direct-line disciples’ martial-soul bloodline.
• Jiang Nannan realized the doctor had deceived her and broke down, believing she had no way to save her mother.
• Li Changqing examined Jiang Nannan’s mother and used the power of merit to restore her enough to wake and see Jiang Nannan.
• Li Changqing gave Jiang Nannan a wooden box containing the Black Tortoise Divine Pill.

Li Changqing gave Jiang Nannan the Black Tortoise Divine Pill, and Ye Guyi grew closer to him after he promised to help her as well. Jiang Nannan’s mother refused the pill and died after urging her daughter to use it herself.

• Li Changqing gave Jiang Nannan the Black Tortoise Divine Pill and left the room with Ye Guyi.
• Ye Guyi asked why Li Changqing helped Jiang Nannan, and he told her he would help her just as wholeheartedly.
• Ye Guyi smiled and rested her head against Li Changqing’s arm as they sat together in the courtyard.
• Jiang Nannan’s mother insisted that Jiang Nannan use the pill to improve her potential rather than spend it on her illness.
• Mother Jiang spoke with Jiang Nannan about her friends and her hopes for her future, then closed her eyes and died.

After Jiang Nannan's mother died, Ye Guyi told her about the plan to preserve their mothers' life souls and revive them after becoming gods. Jiang Nannan chose to pursue that hope, and the chapter ended as an elderly visitor arrived demanding her decision about the Netherworld Sect.

• Jiang Nannan mourned her mother's death while Ye Guyi comforted her and offered the possibility of bringing her back to life.
• Ye Guyi explained how Li Changqing had preserved her own mother's life soul and described their plan to revive their mothers after becoming gods.
• Jiang Nannan agreed to join them, and Li Changqing placed her mother's life soul in Ye Guyi's Spiritual Sea beside Ye Guyi's mother.
• Jiang Nannan saw her mother in the Spiritual Sea, resolved to become a god, and began burying her mother by hand in the backyard.
• An elderly man called from the front courtyard, saying he had settled matters with the Netherworld Sect and was waiting for Jiang Nannan to agree; Li Changqing and Ye Guyi went to meet him.

Li Changqing exposed the physician’s scheme to deceive Jiang Nannan, and Ye Guyi defeated him when he tried to flee. After Jiang Nannan buried her mother, she chose to kill the physician herself.

• Li Changqing challenged the physician to pay with his life if he could not cure Jiang Nannan’s mother, revealing that he saw through the scheme.
• The physician tried to escape and attacked Ye Guyi, but she shattered his strike and left him incapacitated.
• Li Changqing stopped Ye Guyi from killing the physician and told her to let Jiang Nannan settle the matter herself.
• Ye Guyi dragged the physician to the rear courtyard, where Jiang Nannan had buried her mother.
• Jiang Nannan rejected the physician’s plea for mercy and killed him with her blade.

Jiang Nannan struggled with having killed someone as Li Changqing and Ye Guyi brought her back to Shrek Academy. There, Li Changqing discovered that Wang Dong had been assigned to his dormitory, while Mu En privately suspected the Sea God had arranged it to bring Wang Dong and Li Changqing together.

• Jiang Nannan trembled after killing the old man, and Ye Guyi comforted her while Li Changqing burned the corpse and led them back to Shrek Academy.
• Li Changqing returned to his dormitory and found Wang Dong, a new student disguised as a boy, occupying Bei Bei's former bed.
• Wang Dong told Li Changqing that Bei Bei had moved to another dormitory and that she had been assigned to his room.
• Bei Bei questioned Mu En about making him leave, but Mu En only said Wang Dong was not simple and sent him away.
• Mu En wondered whether the Sea God had arranged Wang Dong's stay to make Li Changqing his god inheritor, unaware that Li Changqing already had the Life Goddess and Destruction God as his inheritors.
• Li Changqing asked Wang Dong what his martial soul was.

Li Changqing questioned whether Wang Dong’s martial spirit was truly the Radiant Goddess Butterfly and suspected Mu En had altered it for the Sea God’s purposes. In the girls’ dormitory, Ye Guyi told Jiang Nannan that although their own chances of becoming gods were slim, Li Changqing might be their best hope of reviving Jiang Nannan’s mother.

• Wang Dong revealed her Radiant Goddess Butterfly and rank-twenty-three soul power, but Li Changqing doubted the identity of her martial spirit and suspected Mu En was involved.
• Li Changqing considered whether the Sea God planned to use his daughter to win him over, then resolved to face whatever came.
• Jiang Nannan asked Ye Guyi whether they could become gods, and Ye Guyi admitted their chances were low.
• Ye Guyi declared that Li Changqing might be the only person with a real chance of becoming a god.
• Jiang Nannan hoped Li Changqing could help revive her mother someday, and Ye Guyi urged her to cultivate and help him with his troubles.

Li Changqing met Tang Ya and Huo Yuhao at the night market and confirmed that Electrolux’s remnant soul had chosen Huo Yuhao as its vessel after the Destruction God drove it away from Li Changqing. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao revealing that his first soul ring was only ten years old, shocking Jiang Nannan and Ye Guyi.

• Li Changqing, Ye Guyi, and Jiang Nannan ran into Tang Ya and Huo Yuhao at a grilled fish stall, where Huo Yuhao thanked Li Changqing for saving him.
• Li Changqing realized Electrolux’s remnant soul had settled on Huo Yuhao after being blasted away from Li Changqing by the Destruction God.
• Huo Yuhao served Li Changqing grilled fish, and Li Changqing asked whether he had obtained his first soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao said he had a ten-year soul ring, leaving Jiang Nannan and Ye Guyi wide-eyed in shock.

Li Changqing examined Huo Yuhao’s ten-year spirit ring and left him wondering whether the senior could see through his secrets. After explaining his connection to Huo Yuhao and giving Jiang Nannan the Black Tortoise Divine Pill, Li Changqing insisted she keep it, and Ye Guyi asked if he was kind to Nannan because he had a crush on her.

• Li Changqing asked Huo Yuhao to show his white ten-year spirit ring, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao that Li Changqing might see what others could not.
• After Li Changqing left, Tang Ya told Huo Yuhao that Li Changqing was a fourteen-year-old Soul King at level fifty-four, inspiring Huo Yuhao to want to become stronger.
• Ye Guyi asked Li Changqing why he had taken an interest in Huo Yuhao, and Li Changqing explained that he and Bei Bei had saved Huo Yuhao in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Jiang Nannan offered to return the Black Tortoise Divine Pill, but Li Changqing told her to keep it, and Ye Guyi caught the box and put it back in her hands.
• Ye Guyi asked Li Changqing whether he was so nice to Jiang Nannan because he had a crush on her.

Li Changqing teased Jiang Nannan about pursuing her, and she admitted he might have a chance, leaving Ye Guyi upset and questioning her feelings for him. After discussing Wang Dong’s complaints about Zhou Yi, the chapter ended with Ye Guyi wondering whether she had fallen for Li Changqing.

• Li Changqing teased Ye Guyi about being jealous and asked Jiang Nannan if she would accept his pursuit; Jiang Nannan said there might be a chance, and Ye Guyi walked away in a sulk.
• Li Changqing watched Jiang Nannan follow Ye Guyi, then considered Huo Yuhao’s reliance on Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux.
• Li Changqing returned to the dormitory and warned Wang Dong not to provoke Zhou Yi, explaining that Zhou Yi’s husband was Fan Yu, vice dean of the Soul Tool Department.
• In the girls’ dormitory, Ye Guyi asked Jiang Nannan why she had responded positively to Li Changqing, and Jiang Nannan explained that rejecting someone capable and kind would be difficult for her.
• Ye Guyi reflected on her irritation and wondered whether she had fallen for Li Changqing.

Ye Guyi and Jiang Nannan prepared to travel with Li Changqing to Mingdu during the break, excited to explore the city. On the way, Li Changqing warned Ye Guyi that her Holy Angel martial soul could attract Evil Soul Masters and told her to keep it concealed.

• Ye Guyi blushed at her thoughts about Li Changqing and hurried into the bathroom after Jiang Nannan asked if she felt unwell.
• Ye Guyi and Jiang Nannan packed clothes for their trip to Mingdu, which Li Changqing had suggested because they had no families to visit.
• Li Changqing met them at the school gates, and the three set off for Mingdu in a carriage.
• Ye Guyi and Jiang Nannan discussed the city's shopping street and night market during the journey.
• Li Changqing warned Ye Guyi that her Holy Angel martial soul made her conspicuous to Evil Soul Masters in Mingdu and told her not to reveal it or wander off.
• Ye Guyi agreed to heed Li Changqing's warning.

Li Changqing, Jiang Nannan, and Ye Guyi arrived in Mingdu, where Jiang Nannan realized their sightseeing trip might actually be a test of Ye Guyi’s restraint around Evil Soul Masters. Ye Guyi recognized that Li Changqing was guarding against her acting recklessly and promised not to cause trouble.

• Li Changqing arrived in Mingdu with Jiang Nannan and Ye Guyi, and the three checked into a hotel after admiring the city.
• Jiang Nannan asked Ye Guyi whether their trip to Mingdu was really just for sightseeing and suggested Li Changqing had another purpose related to Evil Soul Masters.
• Jiang Nannan reasoned that Li Changqing had warned Ye Guyi because he feared she would attack Evil Soul Masters despite being a visitor who could leave afterward.
• Ye Guyi realized Li Changqing was testing her because she might act on her hatred of Evil Soul Masters and recalled his warning that he would leave if she put herself in danger.
• Jiang Nannan reassured Ye Guyi that Li Changqing was trying to protect them, and Ye Guyi promised to restrain herself.

Li Changqing secretly visited Orange in Mingdu, where she worried about Xu Tianran’s growing power and waited for revenge. After promising that Dai Hao and the Star Luo Empire would fall, Li Changqing said he could stay only half a month, and Orange asked him to spend half that time with her.

• Ye Guyi and Jiang Nannan received a gold card from Li Changqing and went out to explore Mingdu’s nightlife.
• Li Changqing visited Orange at a secluded manor, and she told him she feared Xu Tianran’s growing influence.
• Li Changqing assured Orange that Dai Hao would die and the Star Luo Empire would fall, reminding her of their deal.
• Orange affirmed that she wanted revenge and an end to the war, then asked how long Li Changqing would remain in Mingdu.
• Li Changqing explained that he had brought two female friends, and Orange asked to meet them over a meal.
• Orange asked Li Changqing to spend half of his time in Mingdu keeping her company.

After visiting Orange, Li Changqing returned to the hotel, where Ye Guyi asked whether he cared more about her or his female friend; he told her she mattered more. Later, he considered his plans for the Snow Empress as Huo Yuhao entered the Far North and released his Taiji aura.

• Li Changqing left Orange's place at midnight and reflected on how the Sun Moon Empire's strength and the destruction of Spirit Hall had left the continent divided.
• Li Changqing returned to the hotel and found Ye Guyi waiting; she asked whether he had gone to see a woman and whether he was close to her.
• Ye Guyi asked Li Changqing to compare her with his friend, and he answered that Ye Guyi mattered more, making her smile before she left.
• Li Changqing considered why he could not obtain the Ice Empress before Huo Yuhao and decided the Snow Empress was a better target.
• Li Changqing sensed that Huo Yuhao had entered the Far North and released a vast aura as a Taiji diagram appeared behind him.

Huo Yuhao crossed the Far North as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm prepared to help him gain Ice Empress's power, while warning him that Li Changqing might be connected to a god and would be difficult to surpass. In Mingdu, Ju Zi arrived at Li Changqing's dinner with Jiang Nannan and Ye Guyi, leaving the women unsettled as she called him “Little Qing.”

• Huo Yuhao asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm whether his plan would let him surpass Li Changqing, and Sky Dream said it would be difficult.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that Li Changqing's Heaven-Earth Black-Yellow Exquisite Pagoda might be God Rank and warned Huo Yuhao not to make him an enemy.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the warning as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm focused on persuading Ice Empress to join his God-Making Project.
• Li Changqing, Jiang Nannan, and Ye Guyi discussed their shopping while dining at a restaurant in Mingdu.
• Ju Zi approached Li Changqing's table, said she had come because he had not visited her, and sat beside him.
• Ju Zi asked Li Changqing to introduce Jiang Nannan and Ye Guyi, calling him “Little Qing.”

Orange joined Li Changqing, Ye Guyi, and Jiang Nannan for a meal in Mingdu, where Orange and Ye Guyi quietly competed over their closeness to him. After Li Changqing left the table, the two women compared stories of how he had saved them, leaving Jiang Nannan to watch their tense exchange.

• Li Changqing introduced Orange to Ye Guyi and Jiang Nannan, and Orange called him Little Qing, prompting Ye Guyi to respond with pointed politeness.
• Ye Guyi revealed that she had known Li Changqing for years outside the academy, and Orange realized they had met during his travels too.
• Li Changqing cut off their probing questions and invited Orange to eat with them, while Jiang Nannan stopped Ye Guyi from revealing her martial soul.
• After Li Changqing left the restaurant table, Orange asked how Ye Guyi had met him, and Ye Guyi refused to answer.
• Jiang Nannan asked how Orange had met Li Changqing, and Orange said he had rescued her from a serious predicament while traveling.
• Ye Guyi countered that Li Changqing had also saved her life, and Orange paused over her teacup as the rivalry continued.