Chapter Summaries

Yang Xiu promised Ning Rongrong an immortal herb that could evolve her Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda into a Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda, while the chat group debated Yu Xiaogang’s abilities. He said he would discuss Yu Xiaogang after the group chat upgraded, leaving Liu Erlong confident that Yu Xiaogang would prove his critics wrong.

• Yang Xiu’s offer to help Ning Rongrong evolve her martial soul stunned the chat group, and Ning Rongrong excitedly imagined gaining a Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda.
• Yang Xiu confirmed he had found a suitable immortal herb, and Ning Rongrong thanked him and asked where she could meet him.
• Yang Xiu said he would discuss Yu Xiaogang after the group chat upgraded, prompting Qian Renxue, Ah Yin, and others to share their interest in hearing about him.
• Liu Erlong defended Yu Xiaogang, while Bibi Dong privately acknowledged that his abilities were limited and partly defended him because of their past.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong bet that Liu Erlong would be proven wrong, and Ning Rongrong reported that her father had called Yu Xiaogang stubborn and foolish.
• Zhu Zhuqing and A Healer Cannot Heal Themself argued that Yu Xiaogang’s rank-twenty-nine soul power undermined his claim to be a martial soul theory master.

Yang Xiu collected immortal herbs at the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Eyes, where Dugu Bo evolved his martial soul and Yang Xiu cultivated the Ice-Fire Golden Body. On his way back, Yang Xiu saw Zhu Zhuqing’s first group-chat video and was caught off guard by its close-up opening.

• Yang Xiu entered the poisonous miasma around the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Eyes and collected immortal herbs, leaving their roots and seeds behind.
• Yang Xiu gave Dugu Bo a Nine-Grade Purple Zhi for himself and another for his granddaughter, then swallowed the Fiery Apricot Delicate and Star Anise Ice Grass and entered the lake.
• Dugu Bo refined the Nine-Grade Purple Zhi, controlled the toxins in his body, evolved his martial soul into the Jade Phosphor Flood Dragon Emperor, and reached level ninety-five.
• Yang Xiu emerged after cultivating the Ice-Fire Golden Body and searching unsuccessfully for the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, then gave Dugu Bo medicinal herbs to plant.
• Yang Xiu opened a group-chat video recorded by Zhu Zhuqing, nearly fell from the sky, and remarked on her appearance.

Zhu Zhuqing’s video sparked a chat-group frenzy over her appearance, while Yang Xiu openly praised her and Ning Rongrong’s feet. Liu Erlong tried to silence Ning Rongrong’s criticism of Yu Xiaogang by posting revealing photos, leaving Yang Xiu admiring her figure.

• Zhu Zhuqing’s video shocked the group, and several women compared themselves with her before she admitted she had not realized her figure was unusual.
• Yang Xiu endorsed Zhu Zhuqing’s appearance, making the group feel closer to him and encouraging Ning Rongrong to send him a photo of her feet.
• Yang Xiu praised Ning Rongrong’s feet, delighting her and prompting Liu Erlong to challenge her with photos of her own figure.
• Liu Erlong posted several photos to intimidate Ning Rongrong into stopping her criticism of Yu Xiaogang, while Yang Xiu admired the images.

The chat group mocked Yu Xiaogang after Xiao Wu shared his photo, while Liu Erlong and Dugu Yan competed by posting pictures of their legs. Bibi Dong defended Yu Xiaogang, but growing doubts about his theories and faded feelings left her embarrassed and faintly disgusted.

• Bibi Dong compared her figure with Liu Erlong’s photos but decided not to share her own, while Dugu Yan and Liu Erlong traded insults and leg pictures.
• Ye Lingling recognized Dugu Yan from a mole visible in her thigh photo, and Yang Xiu compared Dugu Yan’s and Liu Erlong’s legs.
• Xiao Wu photographed Yu Xiaogang and posted the image, prompting Ning Rongrong, Qian Renxue, Zhu Zhuqing, and others to mock his appearance and Bibi Dong’s taste.
• Liu Erlong recognized Yu Xiaogang, declared that she missed him, and restrained herself from going to see him.
• Bibi Dong defended Yu Xiaogang by recalling his youthful looks and praising his soul, but she had begun to suspect he stole his theories from Spirit Hall’s library and felt humiliated by the mockery.

Ning Rongrong paid Xiao Wu to return and record Yu Xiaogang, who dismissed Soul Tremor as worthless nonsense and admitted he had never heard of it. The group watched the video and mocked him, while Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong tried to defend him.

• Ning Rongrong asked Xiao Wu for more pictures or a video of Yu Xiaogang and sent her a thousand gold soul coins to bring her back.
• Xiao Wu returned, called Yu Xiaogang “Gangzi,” and asked whether he knew what Soul Tremor was.
• Yu Xiaogang dismissed the term as something from a worthless book and praised his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Souls instead.
• Xiao Wu recorded Yu Xiaogang’s response, sent the video to the group, and called him useless.
• Qian Renxue mocked Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong for defending Yu Xiaogang, while Bibi Dong made excuses and Liu Erlong reaffirmed her devotion to him.

Yang Xiu reached Heaven Dou City and encountered Liu Erlong at the Seven Treasure Restaurant, while Xiao Wu shared photos of Tang San in the chat group. The photos sparked doubts among the members, including Ah Yin, about why Tang San looked so ordinary.

• Yang Xiu arrived in Heaven Dou City and went to the Seven Treasure Restaurant, where Ning Zhiyuan welcomed him and thanked him for saving his life.
• Yang Xiu saw Liu Erlong at the restaurant, and Liu Erlong secretly photographed him before asking who he was.
• Yang Xiu learned from Ning Zhiyuan that Liu Erlong was the dean of Blue Tyrant Academy and wondered why she was so irritable.
• Xiao Wu sent Ah Yin several photos of Tang San, and the chat group discussed his ordinary appearance and years of blacksmithing.
• Ah Yin began to suspect that Tang San's appearance was an aberration caused by the transmigrated soul.

Xiao Wu shared photos of the work-study students while the chat members argued over soul beasts, looks, and family insults. Qian Renxue and others kept the group unusually active, allowing the chat to upgrade, and Yang Xiu renamed it before announcing a new reward draw.

• Bibi Dong offered to help Ah Yin kill Tang San, but Ah Yin insisted on doing it herself, while Qian Renxue pointed out the danger posed by Tang Hao.
• Xiao Wu photographed the work-study students, told Tang San they needed separate beds, and introduced herself to the chat as her academy's boss.
• The group members argued about Xiao Wu, handsome men, and Qian Renxue's family, and Qian Renxue traded insults with Bibi Dong for hours.
• Yang Lin found the chat upgrade ready after the members' prolonged arguments and changed the group name to “A Family That Loves and Kills Each Other.”
• Yang Xiu announced that the upgrade was complete and started a reward draw in which the highest roll would win.

The chat group held a dice lottery, and Ah Yin and Zhu Zhuqing both rolled three sixes to claim the two rewards. Xiao Wu celebrated too early, then lost her chance when Zhu Zhuqing rolled higher, leaving Tang San baffled by her anger.

• Ah Yin rolled three sixes, while Xiao Wu rolled five sixes and believed she had secured a reward.
• Xiao Wu rejected Tang San’s carrots and ordered him to leave, while Tang San silently vowed to punish whoever had angered her.
• Yang Xiu announced that the two highest rolls would receive rewards, and Bibi Dong rolled three four five.
• Xiao Wu celebrated after learning her roll was among the top two, but Zhu Zhuqing then rolled three sixes and took the other reward.
• Xiao Wu angrily knocked Tang San’s carrots to the ground again, and Tang San wondered who had made her angry this time.

Zhu Zhuqing received a Teleportation skill and Ah Yin gained thirty thousand years of cultivation from the group chat’s rewards. Yang Xiu revealed the chat’s new private messaging feature, invited Ning Rongrong to Heaven Dou City, and prepared to tell the group Yu Xiaogang’s story.

• Zhu Zhuqing drew the Teleportation skill, tested it, and said it strengthened her plan to escape the Zhu Clan.
• Bibi Dong envied Zhu Zhuqing’s reward, while Zhu Zhuqing revealed that the skill grew stronger with her soul power.
• Ah Yin received thirty thousand years of cultivation, and her Blue Silver Grass body rapidly grew as nearby withered plants revived.
• Yang Xiu announced that the upgraded group chat now allowed private messages, and Ning Rongrong privately asked his name.
• Yang Xiu introduced himself to Ning Rongrong and told her to come to Heaven Dou City to receive an immortal herb.
• After Xiao Wu and Motherless Since Childhood provoked Bibi Dong in private messages, Yang Xiu began to tell the group Yu Xiaogang’s life story.

Yang Xiu exposed how Yu Xiaogang’s spoiled behavior and Yu Yuanzhen’s favoritism had turned the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan against him. The group concluded that Yu Xiaogang had reached Rank Twenty-Nine by consuming an enormous share of the clan’s cultivation resources, leaving Bibi Dong to reconsider her first love.

• Yang Xiu revealed that Yu Yuanzhen had killed four Titled Douluo while the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was being destroyed, alarming Liu Erlong and Ning Rongrong.
• Yang Xiu explained that Yu Xiaogang had been spoiled as the clan’s expected heir and had offended many clan members before awakening the useless martial soul Luo Sanpao.
• Liu Erlong defended Yu Xiaogang as gentle and courteous, but Yang Xiu questioned her account that the clan had openly mocked him after his awakening.
• Yang Xiu asked whether Yu Xiaogang had truly cultivated from innate half-rank soul power to Rank Twenty-Nine through effort alone, and the group said he could not have done so without resources.
• Yang Xiu revealed that Yu Xiaogang had consumed a substantial share of the clan’s cultivation resources, and Bibi Dong realized how he had reached Rank Twenty-Nine.

Bibi Dong defended her treatment of Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, then realized she had been unfair to them and ordered them summoned so she could reward them. Yang Xiu explained why Yu Xiaogang’s resource consumption would have angered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect’s other disciples.

• Ning Rongrong questioned how Yu Xiaogang had used so many resources yet reached only level twenty-nine, and Yang Xiu said he had used roughly the resources of one Titled Douluo.
• Yang Xiu criticized Bibi Dong for giving Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo little beyond gold soul coins, and Bibi Dong admitted she had seven soul bones but feared they might defect if rewarded.
• The group chat condemned Bibi Dong’s stinginess, and Yang Xiu assured her Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo had remained loyal until their deaths.
• Bibi Dong felt guilty about how she had treated the two Titled Douluo and ordered the guards to summon them so she could choose soul bones to reward them.
• Yang Xiu explained that Yu Xiaogang’s use of sect resources would have caused resentment because his weak martial soul and slow cultivation took resources away from other disciples.

Qian Renxue and the group discussed why the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan hated Yu Xiaogang, then learned that his Luo Sanpao Martial Soul had originally been the god-tier Golden Sacred Dragon. The chapter ended with Qian Renxue questioning whether it could truly rival the Qian clan's Six-Winged Angel.

• Qian Renxue, Zhu Zhuqing, and others argued that Yu Xiaogang had bullied clan disciples and taken their cultivation resources, while Liu Erlong struggled to defend him.
• The group leader explained that Yu Yuanzhen had weakened himself by transmitting Soul Power to Yu Xiaogang, causing the clan elders to resent Yu Xiaogang for his arrogance and poor cultivation.
• The group discussed Yu Xiaogang leaving the clan after failing to break through Rank 29 and agreed that his treatment by the clan had been unsurprising.
• The group leader revealed that Yu Xiaogang's Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, had originally been the Golden Sacred Dragon, a god-tier Martial Soul that could rival or surpass the Six-Winged Angel.
• Qian Renxue doubted that the Golden Sacred Dragon could be stronger than the Six-Winged Angel, whose inheritance gave the Qian clan innate Rank 20 Soul Power.

The group discussed the God Realm’s hierarchy and the wasted potential of Yu Xiaogang’s martial soul. Xiao Wu vowed to become a God King to avenge herself against Bibi Dong, while Bibi Dong rewarded Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo; the group then began speculating about where Yu Xiaogang went after leaving his clan, prompting Bibi Dong to deny knowing him.

• Strongest explained that the Golden Sacred Dragon had God King potential but Yu Xiaogang’s weak will and constitution caused it to degenerate into Luo Sanpao.
• Strongest ranked the deities and revealed that Bibi Dong had inherited a first-level god position, leading Xiao Wu to vow to become a God King and defeat her.
• Bibi Dong granted Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo one soul bone each, and both swore loyalty to her.
• Strongest said Yu Xiaogang left the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan because he could not advance past level thirty, then asked where he went to solve his martial soul problem.
• The group hinted that Yu Xiaogang had gone to a place connected to Bibi Dong, and Bibi Dong hurriedly denied knowing him.

Yang Xiu explained how Yu Xiaogang gained access to Spirit Hall's library and won Bibi Dong's affection by pretending to be knowledgeable. The group teased Bibi Dong about her youthful naïveté, and she angrily told them to stop asking about her past.

• Qian Renxue was relieved when Bibi Dong began distancing herself from Yu Xiaogang, while the group members mocked and argued about their past.
• Yang Xiu explained that Yu Xiaogang went to Spirit Hall seeking a way to fix his martial soul and asked the group to guess how he entered its library.
• Ning Rongrong and the others guessed that Bibi Dong had helped Yu Xiaogang, and Bibi Dong admitted she had been young and foolish.
• Yang Xiu revealed that Bibi Dong, then Spirit Hall's Saintess, had let Yu Xiaogang into the library because he impressed her with his confident act and a few insights into martial soul theory.
• Bibi Dong admitted she had neglected martial soul theory while focused on cultivation, and the group teased her for being fooled by Yu Xiaogang.
• Xiao Wu retracted a boast that she would never fall for someone like Yu Xiaogang, but the group had already saved it; Bibi Dong told everyone to stop questioning her past.

Yang Xiu recounted how Yu Xiaogang’s relationship with Bibi Dong led to her punishment and descent into darkness, while Bibi Dong refused to explain what happened. The group leader then accused Yu Xiaogang of ruining Liu Erlong’s life too, leaving the group reacting to the claim that he had abandoned her to face humiliation alone.

• Yang Xiu said Bibi Dong considered eloping with Yu Xiaogang, but he refused and later fled Spirit Hall after she was punished by Qian Xunji.
• Ning Rongrong sympathized with Bibi Dong, while Xiao Wu and Liu Erlong defended their own views of Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang.
• Qian Renxue asked Bibi Dong to explain her past, but Bibi Dong refused and cursed Yu Xiaogang instead.
• The group leader said Yu Xiaogang had ruined the lives of two women and revealed that he had left Liu Erlong to endure humiliation and wait for him for over twenty years.
• Ning Rongrong condemned Yu Xiaogang for abandoning Liu Erlong again.

Yang Xiu recounted Yu Xiaogang’s departure from Spirit Hall, the origins of his martial soul theories, and how he and Liu Erlong became a couple. Liu Erlong began to doubt whether Yu Xiaogang had plagiarized his theories, while the group continued condemning him.

• Ning Rongrong and the group mocked Yu Xiaogang for fleeing Spirit Hall, and Bibi Dong revealed that Liu Erlong was the woman waiting for him.
• Liu Erlong defended Yu Xiaogang, insisting he must have had his reasons for leaving Spirit Hall.
• Yang Xiu said Yu Xiaogang pursued fame as a theorist after failing to solve his martial soul problem, while Bibi Dong accused him of copying Spirit Hall’s research.
• Yang Xiu described how Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender formed the Golden Iron Triangle, and how Flender stepped aside so Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong could be together.
• Liu Erlong recalled her past with Yu Xiaogang and began wondering whether his theories were plagiarized and whether she had misjudged him.

Yang Xiu and the group exposed how Yu Xiaogang abandoned Liu Erlong when he learned she was his cousin, and discussed the suffering and rash actions that followed. Liu Erlong admitted she still resented him, while the group questioned Flender’s role in trying to reunite them.

• Yang Xiu recounted how Yu Xiaogang fled just before his wedding to Liu Erlong after Yu Luomian revealed they were cousins.
• Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong mocked Yu Xiaogang, while Ning Rongrong and the others reacted with shock and laughter.
• Liu Erlong admitted she had resented Yu Xiaogang for leaving without explanation and revealed she had nearly taken her own life.
• Yang Xiu said Liu Erlong had slaughtered the soul beasts in a forest while grieving, and Liu Erlong acknowledged that she had gone too far.
• Liu Erlong said she had always viewed Flender as an older brother, and Yang Xiu criticized Flender for repeatedly trying to reunite her with Yu Xiaogang.

Yang Xiu and the group discussed Tang San’s “platonic relationship” plan for reuniting Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong, who were cousins. Yang Xiu revealed that they eventually had descendants, then explained why close-relative relationships could cause health problems in ordinary people but not usually in powerful Soul Masters.

• Yang Xiu revealed that Tang San had proposed a platonic relationship to reunite Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong, and the group mocked the idea as self-deception.
• Liu Erlong admitted she could not accept a relationship without physical intimacy, while Bibi Dong supported keeping her tied to Yu Xiaogang.
• Yang Xiu revealed that Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong later had descendants despite their supposed platonic relationship.
• Dugu Yan asked why children of close relatives might be intellectually disabled, and Yang Xiu explained the increased risk of inheriting shared disease-causing factors.
• Yang Xiu added that becoming a powerful Soul Master eliminated those factors, citing the Dai Clan and Zhu Clan’s long history of intermarriage.

The group discussed Yu Xiaogang’s weakness, his conduct at the Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy, and how he had waited for a gifted disciple to prove himself. Liu Erlong abandoned the idea of reconciling with him, while Yang Xiu revealed that the genius Yu Xiaogang found was Tang San, a reincarnator with extraordinary gifts.

• The group mocked the possibility that Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang’s child might inherit a weak martial soul, and Liu Erlong gave up on getting back together with him.
• Feeling adrift after abandoning her goal of waiting for Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong looked at photos of Yang Xiu.
• Yang Xiu explained that Yu Xiaogang had fled to Notting City and spent years waiting for a genius disciple to help him prove himself.
• Xiao Wu said Yu Xiaogang had never taught at the academy, dismissed its students as mediocre, and looked down on commoner soul masters.
• The group questioned what Yu Xiaogang had contributed to Tang San’s growth, and Yang Xiu revealed that Tang San was a reincarnator with innate full soul power, twin martial souls, and memories of another life.

The group discussed Yu Xiaogang’s poor guidance of Tang San, including his choice of soul rings and misunderstanding of Blue Silver Grass. Xiao Wu confronted Tang San about his first soul skill, while Ah Yin explained the Blue Silver Emperor’s life-based cultivation path and the chapter ended with the group mocking Yu Xiaogang for nearly choosing a ten-year Lone Bamboo for Tang San.

• Ning Rongrong and Ah Yin criticized Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao for supporting Tang San.
• Yang Xiu explained that Yu Xiaogang had guessed Tang San possessed twin martial souls and had urged him to cultivate Blue Silver Grass with poison-attributed soul rings.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San why his first soul skill was Entanglement, and Tang San replied that he trusted Yu Xiaogang’s advice.
• Xiao Wu stomped on Tang San’s toes and walked away, while Tang San interpreted the incident as a sign they might become close again.
• Ah Yin said the Blue Silver Emperor should follow the life path, and Yang Xiu described how powerful Tang San could have become if he had followed her advice.
• Yang Xiu revealed that Yu Xiaogang had nearly told Tang San to absorb a ten-year Lone Bamboo, prompting the group to ridicule his teaching.