Chapter Summaries

Back at the residence, Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue shared a meal with their family before Jun Xuehan began teaching Yue Yi basic combat skills. Yue Yi chose to learn everything, and her first lesson left her struggling to hold a weighted spear as Jun Xuehan insisted she finish the exercise.

• Jun Xuehan, Qian Renxue, Yue Yi, Mochen, and Qian Daoliu ate Qian Renxue’s cooking, and Yue Yi honestly criticized several dishes after Jun Xuehan encouraged her.
• Jun Xuehan offered to teach Yue Yi spear, sword, and fist techniques, and Yue Yi said she wanted to learn them all.
• Jun Xuehan made Yue Yi a small spear and tied a stone to it so she could practice holding it steady for half an hour.
• After Yue Yi dropped the spear from fatigue, Jun Xuehan told her to continue, and Qian Renxue encouraged her to endure the remaining eight minutes.

Mochen secretly practiced with Yue Yi’s wooden spear while Heaven Dou unified its territory and prepared for war with the Star Luo Empire. Bibi Dong arrived in Heaven Dou City to see Yue Yi and gave her a white cat, leaving Yue Yi happily doting on her grandmother’s gift.

• Mochen took Yue Yi’s wooden spear at night and struggled to lift it, while Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue let him practice.
• Over three months, the Heaven Dou Empire unified its principalities and mobilized troops toward the Star Luo Empire as Spirit Hall sealed the border.
• Bibi Dong traveled to Heaven Dou City with Hu Liena and the Golden Generation, eager to see Yue Yi and planning a gift for her.
• Bibi Dong found Yue Yi practicing, took the spear from her, and held her while they caught up.
• Hu Liena brought Yue Yi a rare white cat from Bibi Dong, and Yue Yi happily accepted it.

Jun Xuehan, Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong discussed their plans against the Clear Sky Sect while Yue Yi and Mochen played outside. Jun Xuehan began teaching Yue Yi spear fundamentals, and Mochen watched closely so he could secretly practice them later.

• Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue returned to their residence, where Yue Yi said someone had stopped her from training further.
• Jun Xuehan found Bibi Dong in the main hall and learned she had come to visit Yue Yi.
• Jun Xuehan explained that Mochen was a homeless child they had taken in, then he, Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong discussed making a move against the Clear Sky Sect.
• Mochen asked Yue Yi whether Jun Xuehan still took disciples and what talents a disciple needed.
• Jun Xuehan showed Yue Yi the Silver Dragon Spear and began demonstrating basic spear movements while Yue Yi and Mochen watched intently.

Jun Xuehan watched Yue Yi practice spear techniques, gave Mochen a book about medicinal herbs, and reunited with old companions over dinner in Heaven Dou City. Their gathering was interrupted by Bule, who tried to rob the inn, only to face Gui Mei and Yue Guan’s Titled Douluo display.

• Jun Xuehan coached Yue Yi’s spear practice and gave Mochen a medicinal-herb book to study before asking for further instruction.
• Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan praised Yue Yi’s spear skills and discussed her promising future talent.
• Yan invited Jun Xuehan and the others to dinner at a remote inn in Heaven Dou City, and Jun Xuehan accepted.
• Bule and two companions kicked open the inn’s door, demanded money, and threatened the attendants and diners.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan revealed their seven soul rings, while Gui Mei and Yue Guan displayed their nine rings and ordered Bule to leave.

Yue Yi and Mochen accidentally broke the hairpin Jun Xuehan treasured, then tried to make Yan appear responsible for the damage. Yan was left stunned by the broken hairpin and recalled that Jun Xuehan had once nearly killed him for breaking one before.

• After dinner, Jun Xuehan told Yue Yi that the Wooden Box held the first hairpin Qian Renxue had given him, and that it was his most precious possession.
• That night, Mochen practiced spear movements while imitating Jun Xuehan, and Qian Renxue remarked on his persistence.
• After Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue left for the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, Yue Yi enlisted Mochen to retrieve the Wooden Box, and they dropped it, breaking the hairpin inside.
• Yue Yi and Mochen put the broken hairpin back in the box and planned to blame someone else for the damage.
• They asked Yan to take down the box, then Mochen bumped into him so it fell, and Yue Yi and Mochen claimed Yan had broken Jun Xuehan's treasured hairpin.
• Yan stared at the broken hairpin in disbelief and recalled that Jun Xuehan had once nearly killed him after he broke a hairpin.

Yue Yi and Mochen helped Yan replace Jun Xuehan’s hairpin after it was accidentally knocked from its box, but Jun Xuehan discovered the substitution. Meanwhile, Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue planned their assault on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the chapter ended with Jun Xuehan asking Yan to return the original hairpin.

• Yue Yi suggested that Yan buy an identical hairpin in Heaven Dou City, and Yan left after asking her and Mochen to keep it secret.
• Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue planned their attacks on the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, agreeing that Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue would handle the latter together.
• Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue returned to their residence and discovered that the hairpin in its box was an intact replacement.
• Mochen explained that Yue Yi had accidentally knocked over the box and that Yan had taken the original hairpin away.
• Jun Xuehan calmly asked Mochen to have Yan bring back the original hairpin.

Jun Xuehan visited the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and offered Yu Yuanzhen a choice between joining Wind Snow Pavilion or facing a divided clan. Yu Yuanzhen heard his warning but had not yet answered.

• Yan returned the broken hairpin, and Jun Xuehan gently reprimanded Yue Yi before sending Yan and Mochen away.
• Seven days later, Yu Luomian urged Yu Yuanzhen to join Spirit Hall or Wind Snow Pavilion to halt the clan's decline, but Yu Yuanzhen refused to serve either.
• A disciple announced that Jun Xuehan had arrived at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Yu Yuanzhen went with Yu Luomian to receive him.
• Jun Xuehan claimed to have calculated two possible futures: the clan could enter a golden age or split, with one part destroyed and the other preserved.
• Jun Xuehan asked Yu Yuanzhen whether he would consider joining Wind Snow Pavilion.

Jun Xuehan revealed that Bibi Dong was his teacher and attacked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan after Yu Yuanzhen refused to join Wind Snow Pavilion. Jun Xuehan battled Yu Yuanzhen as Wind Snow Pavilion stormed the clan grounds, and the chapter ended with the clan’s defenders falling and fires spreading.

• Yu Yuanzhen firmly refused Jun Xuehan’s offer to join Wind Snow Pavilion and said the clan would join neither faction.
• Jun Xuehan revealed that Bibi Dong was his teacher, and fighting erupted across the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan grounds.
• Jun Xuehan and Yu Yuanzhen fought in the air while Wind Snow Pavilion’s soul masters attacked the clan below.
• Yu Luomian fought Yu Tianheng at the gate, suppressed him, and refused to kill him.
• Wind Snow Pavilion’s fighters killed Yu Tianxin and continued cutting down the clan’s defenders as blood and flames spread across the grounds.

Jun Xuehan killed Yu Yuanzhen and left Yu Luomian to take control of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. After the clan was burned, Liu Erlong vowed to attack Spirit Hall and Wind Snow Pavilion, but Flender warned that they would be killed.

• Jun Xuehan defeated Yu Yuanzhen, killed him when he refused to submit, and ordered that he receive a proper burial.
• Jun Xuehan left Yu Luomian to deal with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Yu Luomian urged Yu Tianheng to accept cooperation with Spirit Hall.
• Yu Luomian defeated Yu Tianheng as his allies killed the clan members who resisted, then ordered the dead buried and the clan grounds set ablaze.
• Liu Erlong and Flender arrived at the burning clan gates, where Liu Erlong wept and then set out to attack Spirit Hall and Wind Snow Pavilion.
• Flender stopped Liu Erlong and warned that their Soul Douluo strength was no match for either force.

After the Clear Sky Sect was annihilated, Xue Qinghe agreed to yield the Heaven Dou throne to Spirit Hall, leaving Wind Snow Pavilion to decide whether to submit or fight. Jun Xuehan revealed his ties to Spirit Hall and persuaded Niu Gao to follow his decision, though the Breaking Clan remained an obstacle.

• Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue arrived at the Clear Sky Sect, where Bibi Dong said its remnants had fled toward the Star Luo Empire and the cleanup was nearly complete.
• Half a month later, Spirit Hall's forces annihilated the Clear Sky Sect at the border between the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires, and news of both the Clear Sky Sect's and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's destruction spread across the continent.
• Xue Qinghe announced that he would yield the Heaven Dou throne to the Pope to avert war, and Jun Xuehan and the officials supported his decision.
• Jun Xuehan told Wind Snow Pavilion's leaders that Heaven Dou had submitted and argued that Wind Snow Pavilion should also join Spirit Hall to prevent its allies from being destroyed.
• Jun Xuehan revealed that he came from Spirit Hall and had served as its White Robe Pope and the Worship Hall's Great Worship Elder.
• Niu Gao agreed that the Defense Clan would follow Jun Xuehan, but warned that the Breaking Clan would be harder to persuade.

Bibi Dong declared the Heaven Dou Empire dissolved and established the Spirit Hall Empire, appointing Jun Xuehan to leadership roles as Wind Snow Pavilion merged into Spirit Hall. Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue left for Spirit City with their companions, where Yue Yi proudly claimed her spear skills had defeated Gui Mei and Yue Guan.

• Niu Gao agreed to travel to the Star Luo Empire and persuade Yang Wudi to prioritize the greater good.
• Bibi Dong renamed the Heaven Dou Empire the Spirit Hall Empire, moved its capital to Spirit City, and ordered its army and officials to relocate and receive new appointments.
• Bibi Dong announced that Wind Snow Pavilion had merged into Spirit Hall as its Third Hall and named Jun Xuehan its Pavilion Master, Pope, and Great Worship Elder.
• Jun Xuehan and Xue Qinghe left the palace, and Xue Qinghe resumed Qian Renxue's appearance before they returned to their residence and boarded a carriage for Spirit City.
• Yue Yi boasted that she had defeated Gui Mei and Yue Guan with her spear, and Qian Daoliu solemnly backed up her claim while Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue smiled at each other.

Mochen struggled to explain what he had learned from a medicinal herb book while Jun Xuehan tested him during the carriage ride. In Star Luo City, Zhu Zhuqing rejected Zhu Zhuyun’s attempt to draw her back into family affairs, and Emperor Dai Tian learned that the Wind Snow Pavilion had joined Spirit Hall before ordering Star Luo’s forces to prepare for war without provoking a conflict.

• Mochen told Jun Xuehan that he had memorized a medicinal herb book, but could not answer when Jun asked what he had understood.
• Wang Qiu'er and Yue Yi talked excitedly about visiting Spirit City and enjoying its food and attractions with Qian Renxue.
• Zhu Zhuyun told Zhu Zhuqing that she had become Crown Princess and invited her to visit their mother, but Zhu Zhuqing returned to her work at the Wind Snow Main Pavilion.
• Three months later, Dai Tian learned that the Wind Snow Pavilion had merged into Spirit Hall as its Third Hall and angrily condemned Heaven Dou’s rulers.
• Dai Weisi suggested attacking the Wind Snow Main Pavilion, but Dai Tian refused and ordered troops sent to the border near Jialing Pass to watch and wait.

Qian Renxue succeeded as Spirit Hall’s new Pope while Bibi Dong ascended as Empress of the Spirit Hall Empire and announced Spirit City’s expansion. As the ceremony ended, Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue received a summons to begin the Angel Nine Trials.

• Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue prepared for the succession ceremony while Yue Yi asked about her parents’ childhood and searched for food.
• Bibi Dong announced Qian Renxue as the new Pope, and the elders and worshippers accepted her succession.
• Bibi Dong declared her ascension as Empress and announced that Spirit City would be expanded and a palace built at its center.
• Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue received Angel markings and a summons to proceed to the trial site for the Angel Nine Trials.
• Qian Daoliu headed toward the Douluo Hall.

Jun Xuehan, Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong chose to stabilize the newly founded Spirit Hall Empire instead of immediately attacking the Star Luo Empire, and ordered the Upper Three Sects to be selected anew. As Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue began Angel Nine Trials, Yue Yi was approached by a deity offering her an inheritance, but she demanded her quail back.

• Jun Xuehan argued that the Spirit Hall Empire should secure its rear and prepare before fighting the Star Luo Empire, and Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong agreed to hold their position.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yu Luomian to find a new site for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and announced that the Upper Three Sects would be chosen again.
• Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue entered the Douluo Hall, where the first Angel Nine Trials task required them to kiss for half an hour, and they began the trial.
• Yue Yi was transported from the garden to a red-lit space, where a stern middle-aged man offered to make her his Successor of a Deity.
• Yue Yi refused the offer and demanded that the man return her quail.

The Asura God tried to recruit Yue Yi as his successor, but she refused to trust him and went back to eating. After Yue Yi told Bibi Dong what happened, Bibi Dong said Yue Yi could accept if the god returned, while wondering at her granddaughter’s talent.

• The Asura God appeared before Yue Yi, praised her talent, and asked her to become his successor, but Yue Yi refused because her mother had warned her not to trust strangers.
• The Asura God returned to his temple and decided to visit Yue Yi again in a few days, considering bringing her sugar-coated hawthorns to win her over.
• Yue Yi told Mochen that a strange man had interrupted her meal, but Mochen said he had seen no one.
• Bibi Dong arrived, listened as Yue Yi described the Asura God’s offer, and told her she could accept if he came back, leaving the choice up to her.
• Yue Yi finished eating and joked that Mochen could help with the leftovers, while Mochen admitted he was already full.

Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue received their rewards for completing the Angel's First Assessment and began tempering their bodies on the Holy Fire Staircase. Meanwhile, Yu Luomian planned to rebuild the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and ordered people to bring back his other daughter.

• The Angel God announced that Qian Renxue and Jun Xuehan had completed the first assessment, then set their second assessment: climb the Nine-Layer Holy Fire Staircase within a year.
• Jun Xuehan tested the staircase, found that its heat and pressure increased with each level, and advised Qian Renxue to start by tempering their bodies on the first level.
• Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue sat on the first level and began body tempering as Spirit Hall's plans to select the Upper Three Sects spread across the continent.
• Yu Luomian chose a site to rebuild the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and declared that it would compete for a place among the Upper Three Sects.
• Yu Luomian agreed to send clan members to bring back his other daughter so she could contribute to the clan's reconstruction.

Tuoba Xi planned to take the Holy Dragon Sect to Spirit City and compete for a top sect position, while leaders at Wind Snow Pavilion discussed forming a new sect with other clans. In Spirit City, Yue Yi mistook the sounds from Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue’s room for something strange, and Jun Xuehan waited for Qian Renxue after she went to bathe.

• Tuoba Xi celebrated the destruction of three major sects and announced that the Holy Dragon Sect would go to Spirit City to compete for the Head of the Upper Three Sects position.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked the sect leaders at Wind Snow Pavilion whether they wanted to compete in the new ranking, and Niu Gao and Yang Wushuang proposed uniting with the Speed Clan to establish a new sect.
• Zhu Zhuqing departed for Spirit Hall with the Rock Antelope Sect Master and Sparrow Bee Sect Master while the others planned to seek out Old White Crane.
• Yue Yi listened at Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue’s door, and Wang Qiu'er carried her away to find sugar-coated hawthorns.
• After Yue Yi left, Qian Renxue confronted Jun Xuehan about being overheard, then went to bathe while he tidied the room and waited for her.

Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue were assigned the Upper Three Sects reselection, and Jun Xuehan processed Pope's Palace affairs while Qian Renxue supervised. Ye Qian asked for help securing Nine Heart Begonia a place among the Lower Four Sects, and Jun Xuehan sent her to seek candidates at Wind Snow Pavilion and consult Dugu Bo.

• Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue joined Bibi Dong and the others for a meal, where Bibi Dong assigned them to preside over the Upper Three Sects reselection.
• Bibi Dong took Yue Yi and Mochen out, while Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue went to Pope's Palace to handle the accumulated government affairs.
• Qian Renxue sat with tea and called it supervising as Jun Xuehan began processing the documents.
• A Temple Knight announced Ye Qian's late-night visit, and Ye Qian and Ye Lingling asked Jun Xuehan to help Nine Heart Begonia compete for a Lower Four Sects position.
• Jun Xuehan agreed to lend support and directed Ye Qian to find candidates at Wind Snow Pavilion and ask Dugu Bo for help.

Mochen wondered about the medicinal-herb book his father had given him while Yue Yi planned a trip to the eastern part of the city. During cultivation, Jun Xuehan’s Divine Seed Ancient Tree changed, leaving the soul beasts in his Spiritual Sea uncertain about its nature and their prospects of revival.

• Yue Yi checked that Mochen had kept all her Sugar-Coated Hawthorns, then told him they would visit the eastern part of the city the next day.
• Mochen asked Yue Yi what his medicinal-herb book meant, but she did not know and went to bed.
• Jun Xuehan and Qian Renxue returned to their room, tucked in the sleeping Yue Yi, and began Meditative Cultivation.
• Jun Xuehan’s Divine Seed Ancient Tree gathered energy and formed a three-wave pattern, giving him a profound but unclear sensation.
• Tian Meng, Ice Empress, and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King discussed the Divine Seed’s unusual change and whether Jun Xuehan could eventually help them revive.

As Spirit City filled with sects preparing for the selection of the Upper Three Sects and Lower Four Sects, Yue Yi encountered a masked pinwheel seller who turned out to be Ning Rongrong. Zhu Zhuqing intervened and warned Ning Rongrong about provoking Spirit Hall, while Ning Rongrong insisted she was not afraid of Yue Yi’s father.

• During Qian Renxue's Angel's Second Trial, Jun Xuehan reached the seventh step while Qian Renxue remained on the fifth.
• Soul Masters from across the continent gathered in Spirit City for the sect selection, and Hu Yanzhen warned the Elephant Armored Sect to avoid causing trouble around Yue Yi.
• Yue Yi wanted a pinwheel, but the masked seller refused to sell it to her, so Gui Mei and Yue Guan prepared to leave with her.
• After the seller sold a pinwheel to a boy, Zhu Zhuqing appeared and gave Yue Yi a pale golden pinwheel, explaining that the woman was an old acquaintance.
• Zhu Zhuqing recognized the seller as Ning Rongrong and warned her to cherish her life instead of provoking Spirit Hall, but Ning Rongrong said she was not afraid of Yue Yi's father.