Chapter Summaries

Su Qi defeated Dugu Bo, spared him and his granddaughter in exchange for his allegiance, and revealed that he was Ye Fan, Spirit Hall’s former Holy Son. Dugu Bo broke with the Heaven Dou Empire and swore loyalty to Su Qi, who prepared to show him the value of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Su Qi emerged in complete Shura Armor and struck Dugu Bo with a giant Blood Sword after resisting his Time Freeze, leaving Dugu Bo gravely injured and unable to fight.
• Su Qi threatened Dugu Bo’s granddaughter, then agreed to spare them both after Dugu Bo revealed the Jade Phosphor Serpent Clan’s poison backlash weakness.
• Su Qi demanded that Dugu Bo join Spirit Hall and revealed that he was Ye Fan, the former Holy Son who had once received Dugu Bo’s guidance.
• Su Qi gave Dugu Bo Xue Ye the Great’s Imperial Scepter and demanded that he choose between the Heaven Dou Empire and loyalty to Su Qi.
• Dugu Bo broke the scepter, renounced his ties to the Heaven Dou Empire, and swore an oath of loyalty to Su Qi.
• Su Qi invited Dugu Bo to see the true value of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Su Qi took control of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, accepted Dugu Bo's Ruyi Treasure Pouch, and promised to share its immortal herbs with him. Outside the formation, Ning Fengzhi ordered Gu Rong to monitor and consider assassinating Su Qi, while Su Qi reached the herb trove and claimed its treasures for himself.

• Su Qi led the injured Dugu Bo through the Asura Sword Formation and explained that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had originally been his discovery.
• Dugu Bo gave Su Qi his Ruyi Treasure Pouch, and Su Qi promised him a share of the herbs and a chance to improve his cultivation potential.
• Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Fengzhi arrived outside the formation and recognized Su Qi as the swordsman whose strength rivaled a Titled Douluo.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered Gu Rong to monitor Su Qi and proposed that the Upper Three Sects coordinate with the Heaven Dou Empire before attempting an assassination.
• Su Qi dispersed the mist at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and surveyed its abundant immortal herbs, which he intended to keep from Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils.

Su Qi harvested and absorbed the Primordial Immortal Herb, reaching level eighty-five and forming balanced Asura and Evil God-King Soul Cores. He realized Soul Spirits might help him control additional cores as he pursued the powers of the Five Great Primordial God-Kings.

• Su Qi explained the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s immortal herbs to Dugu Bo and gave him an Earth Dragon Golden Melon suited to evolving his Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Martial Soul.
• After Dugu Bo left to refine the melon, Su Qi chose to seek the Primordial Immortal Herb, which could strengthen Soul Power and help condense Soul Cores.
• Su Qi used his soul perception to find and carefully harvest the concealed Primordial Immortal Herb, then absorbed all nine leaves over roughly two hours.
• The herb raised Su Qi’s Soul Power to level eighty-five and solidified his Evil God-King Soul Core while advancing his Slaughter God Soul Core into an Asura Soul Core.
• Su Qi formed Yin-Yang Complementary Twin Soul Cores and concluded that Soul Spirits could help control additional cores; then Dugu Bo shouted from the Asura Sword Formation that he had succeeded.

Dugu Bo absorbed the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, healed his snake-venom backlash, and evolved his Jade Phosphor Snake Emperor into the Jade Phosphor Dragon Emperor before pledging sincere loyalty to Su Qi. After Su Qi harvested the treasures at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Bo invited him to the Dugu Residence, while Su Qi prepared to store the spring waters in his Twin Yin-Yang Ring.

• Dugu Bo emerged from his transformation healed, at rank ninety-three, and with an evolved Jade Phosphor Dragon Emperor Martial Soul and a core that absorbed his toxins.
• Dugu Bo knelt to pledge loyalty to Su Qi and asked for an Earth Dragon Golden Melon for his granddaughter, Dugu Yan; Su Qi said no more would mature for a hundred years but promised to find another cure for her.
• Su Qi harvested the immortal herbs and heavenly treasures around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, including the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and stored them in the Ruyi Treasure Pouch.
• Dugu Bo invited Su Qi to his estate in Heaven Dou City and hinted that he wanted his granddaughter to become Su Qi's concubine; Su Qi agreed to visit later.
• After Dugu Bo left, Su Qi prepared to use the Twin Yin-Yang Ring to store the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's spring waters for the Asura Sword Formation.

Su Qi collected the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s spring water, then visited Dugu Bo at the Dugu Estate and met Dugu Yan. In Heaven Dou Palace, Ning Fengzhi proposed tracking Su Qi and assassinating him if necessary, while Xue Qinghe secretly resolved to warn her teacher.

• Su Qi stored the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s ice and fire spring water in the Twin Yin-Yang Ring, then saw the dragon souls below and chose not to approach the dragon king corpses.
• Dugu Bo returned to the Dugu Estate, reunited with Dugu Yan, and told her that his distinguished guest was an extraordinary young man he hoped she would pursue.
• Su Qi teleported to the estate, where Dugu Bo introduced him to Dugu Yan; she recognized him as the Soul Sage who had defeated a Spirit Douluo at the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena.
• Su Qi rested while Dugu Bo explained the situation to Dugu Yan, then planned to find a suitable fairy herb for Ye Lingling and pursue his other divine-trial objectives.
• Ning Fengzhi told Xue Ye the Great and Xue Qinghe that Dugu Bo might have fallen or defected, and proposed having Gu Rong track Su Qi and assassinate him if needed.
• Xue Qinghe concealed her anger and resolved to warn Su Qi about Ning Fengzhi’s plan.

Xue Ye the Great and Ning Fengzhi arranged for Gu Rong to assassinate Su Qi, while Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan tried to bind Su Qi to their side with a drugged bowl of soup. Su Qi left Dugu Estate ahead of the empire’s troops and appeared before Qian Renxue, who warned him of the assassination plot, before he took her to absorb a soul ring.

• Xue Ye the Great agreed to Ning Fengzhi’s plan, and Ning Fengzhi ordered Gu Rong to assassinate Su Qi when an opportunity arose.
• Dugu Bo drugged a bowl of soup with an aphrodisiac and sent Dugu Yan to Su Qi’s room, where she tried to seduce him and then confessed after he exposed the drug.
• Su Qi forgave Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, then told them to go to Spirit City and seek help from Chrysanthemum Elder and Ghost Elder.
• After sensing the approaching forces sent by Xue Ye the Great, Su Qi had Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan leave and teleported away from Dugu Estate.
• Su Qi appeared in Qian Renxue’s secret chamber, where she warned him about the assassination plot, and he took her away to absorb a soul ring.

Su Qi avoided Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo’s attempt to bind him with an aphrodisiac, then escaped the estate before Xue Ye the Great’s forces arrived. He reunited with Qian Renxue beneath the Crown Prince’s Palace and took her away to absorb a soul ring.

• Xue Ye the Great and Ning Fengzhi agreed to have Gu Rong assassinate Su Qi and sent people to investigate Dugu Estate.
• Dugu Bo gave Dugu Yan an aphrodisiac-laced soup to deliver to Su Qi, hoping to tie their family to him.
• Su Qi recognized the drugging, calmly forgave Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo, and explained that he was focused on his cultivation and Shura God's Trial.
• After sensing Xue Ye the Great’s forces approaching, Su Qi sent Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to Spirit City with his Holy Son Token and vanished from the estate.
• Su Qi appeared in Qian Renxue’s secret chamber, learned that she had heard of the assassination plot, and took her away to absorb a suitable soul ring.

Su Qi used the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to strengthen himself and Qian Renxue, whose Six-Winged Angel evolved into a Ten-Winged Angel and who absorbed a powerful sixth soul ring. After returning to Spirit City, Su Qi offered immortal herbs to the Seven Great Consecrated Elders, leaving them stunned when he revealed Qian Renxue’s transformation.

• Su Qi split the Lovesick Heartbreak Red’s medicinal power between himself and Qian Renxue, gaining six Soul Core housing points and a godlike body while her Martial Soul evolved into a Ten-Winged Angel.
• Qian Renxue absorbed the captured Fire Spirit Sacred Sunbird’s soul ring, reaching level sixty-seven, and she and Su Qi sensed an intense resonance between them.
• Su Qi attributed their new closeness to the One Body, Two Souls Secret Art, then returned Qian Renxue to the Crown Prince’s Palace and left for Spirit City.
• Several days later, Su Qi arrived at the Consecration Hall and offered the seven consecrated elders immortal herbs suited to their Martial Souls.
• Qian Daoliu urged Su Qi to save his herb for Qian Renxue, but Su Qi revealed that she had already consumed an herb and gained a Ten-Winged Angel Martial Soul, shocking the elders.

Su Qi gave the Seven Great Consecrated Elders herbs to strengthen them and help them pursue godhood, while promising Qian Daoliu a chance to survive his sacrifice for Qian Renxue. As the elders absorbed the herbs, several gained powerful transformations and two pairs discovered they could develop Martial Soul Fusion Skills.

• Qian Daoliu thanked Su Qi for giving Qian Renxue an herb that could evolve her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, and Su Qi revealed he might save Qian Daoliu from dying in her final Angel Trial.
• Su Qi told the elders that Immortal Herbs could help them reach godhood, and the Seven Great Consecrated Elders agreed to follow him and ascend to the Divine Realm.
• Su Qi distributed herbs suited to each elder, giving Qian Daoliu Nine-Grade Purple Zoysia and the others various Immortal Herbs.
• The elders consumed their herbs under Su Qi's watch; Golden Crocodile Worshipper strengthened his body, while Azure Luan and Lion Worshipper's martial souls began to resonate.
• Thousand Jun Worshipper and Demon Subduing Worshipper gained an immediately usable Martial Soul Fusion Skill with two forms after absorbing Black Jade Divine Bamboo.

Su Qi’s Seven Great Consecrated Elders absorbed immortal herbs, gaining stronger cultivation and new abilities, while several received second-rank Deity inheritances. After revealing that he was undergoing the trials of three God Kings, Su Qi asked the Elders to accompany him to the Star Dou Great Forest for his Asura Third Trial, and Qian Daoliu agreed.

• Light Feather Douluo gained an ice attribute close to Ultimate Ice and the ability to conceal himself and his arrows, while the other Elders reported gains including breakthroughs, stronger bodies, and Martial Soul resonance.
• Golden Crocodile Worshipper, Lion Worshipper, and Azure Luan revealed that they had received Divine Trials to inherit the War God, Beast God, and Phoenix God godhoods, respectively.
• Su Qi encouraged Thousand Jun Worshipper, Demon Subduing Worshipper, and Light Plume Worshipper to keep cultivating despite not yet receiving Deity inheritances.
• Qian Daoliu asked Su Qi what help he needed, and Su Qi explained that his Asura Third Trial required a one-hundred-thousand-year soul beast possessing the Kindness God-King to sacrifice itself.
• Su Qi revealed that the target was hidden among powerful Ferocious Beasts in a forbidden area of the Star Dou Great Forest and asked the Elders to accompany him; Qian Daoliu ordered the six Great Consecrated Elders to go with them.

Su Qi led the Seven Great Consecrated Elders to the Star Dou Great Forest to find its hidden Ferocious Beasts, while Bibi Dong seethed over her losses and plotted revenge. After Su Qi called out Di Tian, the Beast God and four other Ferocious Beasts emerged, leaving the Silver Dragon King hidden within the Spatial Forbidden Zone.

• Su Qi flew out of Spirit City with the Seven Great Consecrated Elders, shocking Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Bibi Dong, Dugu Bo, and others who saw them depart.
• Bibi Dong blamed Su Qi for taking the consecrated elders' side and stripping her of the Rakshasa Divine Trial, then vowed to destroy her enemies and the continent.
• At the Lake of Life, the Azure Sky Divine Dragon recognized Su Qi and prepared to fight, but it and the Titan Giant Ape sensed the seven powerful elders and hid.
• Su Qi declined to pursue the two hidden soul beasts and told the elders he would confront the Ferocious Beasts in the Spatial Forbidden Zone.
• Su Qi transformed with his Asura soul skills and called out Di Tian, while the Silver Dragon King mistook him for an inheritor chosen by the Shura God and urged Di Tian to negotiate.
• Di Tian emerged from the Spatial Forbidden Zone with Myriad Demon King, Bear Lord, Scarlet King, and Bi Ji to face Su Qi and the consecrated elders.

Su Qi confronted Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts, then demanded that Bi Ji sacrifice herself to him. After Su Qi threatened them with an Asura Divine Skill, Bi Ji gave up her life and cultivation, but he preserved her soul; Di Tian withdrew with the others and warned humanity to stay away.

• Di Tian and the four Ferocious Beasts confronted Su Qi and the Seven Great Consecrated Elders, and both sides revealed their strength before Di Tian agreed to negotiate.
• Su Qi demanded Bi Ji’s willing sacrifice, and when the other Ferocious Beasts erupted in anger, he restrained them and unleashed his Asura Divine Skill.
• Di Tian agreed to Su Qi’s demand to protect the Silver Dragon King’s hiding place, and Bi Ji chose to sacrifice herself for the future of the Soul Beasts.
• Bi Ji burned her life and cultivation to create a Gold-Green Soul Ring and a swan-shaped torso bone, while Su Qi preserved her soul and consciousness.
• Di Tian, Xiong Jun, the Myriad Demon King, and the Scarlet King withdrew into the Spatial Forbidden Zone, and the Consecrated Elders wondered whether Su Qi could withstand Bi Ji’s five-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.

Su Qi absorbed Bi Ji’s five-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, reaching Rank 90 and gaining a second Spiritual Sea, three eighth-ring skills, and the Kindness Left Leg Bone. He emerged with Kindness and Asura divine power fused, while Shura God agreed to seek further rewards for Su Qi’s Asura Third Trial.

• Qian Daoliu reassured Golden Crocodile Worshipper that Bi Ji’s sacrifice made Su Qi’s absorption safe, and the worshippers guarded the pillar of light.
• Su Qi used the Life Gold from Bi Ji’s sacrifice to open a Second Spiritual Sea and gained control over his Asura Soul Core and Evil Soul Core.
• Bi Ji’s soul retained its awareness in Su Qi’s Second Spiritual Sea, while her promised torso bone transformed into a Kindness Left Leg Bone and helped form a third Soul Core embryo.
• Su Qi asked Shura God to raise the Asura Third Trial’s difficulty so he could complete both options, and Shura God agreed to seek additional rewards from the Goddess of Kindness.
• Su Qi absorbed the eighth Soul Ring and Kindness Left Leg Bone, rising from Rank 80 to the Rank 90 bottleneck and gaining three eighth-ring skills and two Soul Bone skills.
• Su Qi emerged from the pillar with Kindness and Asura divine power fused, and Golden Crocodile Worshipper asked whether he was unharmed.

Su Qi completed half of the Asura Third Trial, then set out to help Ye Lingling qualify for a Divine Trial and recruit her clan into Spirit Hall. Meanwhile, Di Tian began planning to use the Azure Sky Divine Dragon to restore his lord and revive the dragon clan, while Ye Renxin considered joining Spirit Hall on the condition that his clan could keep serving the common people.

• Su Qi told Qian Daoliu and the worshippers that Bi Ji’s sacrifice had advanced him to an Eight-Ring Spirit Douluo and completed half of the Asura Third Trial, whose remaining requirement was to help a kind-hearted spirit master gain Divine Trial qualifications.
• Su Qi urged the worshippers to cultivate and pursue their Divine Trials, then used Evil God Force to travel instantly; Qian Daoliu and the others returned to Consecration Hall, unaware of the skill he had used.
• Di Tian emerged from the Spatial Forbidden Zone and decided to endure his hatred of Su Qi until his injured lord recovered, then summoned the Azure Sky Divine Dragon and told her to follow his arrangements.
• The Azure Sky Divine Dragon erupted in anger after Di Tian claimed the Shura God had made her Golden Dragon King Bloodline part of Su Qi’s fate, and Di Tian planned to accelerate her growth so his lord could devour her.
• In Heaven Dou City, Su Qi healed patients alongside Ye Renxin while Ye Lingling absorbed an immortal herb; Ye Renxin said the Ye Clan might join Spirit Hall if it could continue practicing medicine and helping ordinary people.

Su Qi persuaded Ye Renxin to bring the Ye Clan into Spirit Hall and used the Millennium Pith Ganoderma to evolve Ye Renxin’s Nine-Heart Begonia into a complete tree, while Ye Lingling’s Immortal Herb transformed hers into a Ten-Heart Begonia Tree. Completing the Asura Third Trial earned Su Qi major rewards and brought the Shura God, Evil God-King, and Kindness God-King into his spiritual world, where the gods argued over his training and the rules of the Divine Realm.

• Su Qi agreed to protect and support the Ye Clan through Spirit Hall, and Ye Renxin pledged to lead his clan into Spirit Hall.
• Su Qi gave Ye Renxin a Millennium Pith Ganoderma and explained that the Nine-Heart Begonia lacked a trunk, preventing its Soul Masters from reaching their full potential.
• Ye Renxin absorbed the treasure, evolved his Martial Soul into a Nine-Heart Begonia Tree, and rose from Soul Power level eighty-five to eighty-six.
• Ye Lingling absorbed the Aromatic Silk Beauty, and her Nine-Heart Begonia evolved into a Ten-Heart Begonia Tree with the potential to reach godhood.
• Su Qi completed the Asura Third Trial and received increased Soul Power, evolved Soul Rings and Soul Bones, greater divine affinities, and opportunities to replace two Soul Rings.
• The Shura God, Evil God-King, and Kindness God-King appeared in Su Qi’s spiritual world, where the Evil God accused the Shura God of breaking Divine Realm law and the Shura God warned that removing him could endanger the Golden Dragon King’s seal.

Su Qi received Kindness divine power and learned that his Asura, Kindness, and Evil powers could form the Three Realms Judgment Sword, a weapon intended to suppress the Golden Dragon King. He activated the Asura Fourth Trial, while the resulting celestial phenomenon drew attention from Heaven Dou’s court, Spirit Hall, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, whose Gu Rong set out to assassinate him.

• Goddess of Kindness granted Su Qi a Kindness Left Leg Bone that evolved into an Asura-Kindness Dual-Inheritance Soul Bone, then departed with Evil God.
• Shura God combined Su Qi’s Asura, Kindness, and Evil divine powers into the prototype Three Realms Judgment Sword and explained its origin and purpose against the Golden Dragon King.
• Shura God activated Su Qi’s Fourth Trial, requiring him to kill a Level 96 Titled Douluo or equivalent soul beast without Asura divine power and to pass judgment on matters of right and wrong within a year.
• Su Qi returned to his body outside Ye Renxin’s room and wondered how to fulfill the Judgment Assessment as Asura Killing Aura and blood-colored pillars stirred Heaven Dou City.
• Xue Ye ordered troops to investigate the phenomenon, Xue Qinghe and Salas mistook it for Su Qi’s breakthrough, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect identified him as its source.
• Ning Fengzhi urged Gu Rong to assassinate Su Qi before he became a Titled Douluo, and Gu Rong vanished to carry out the attempt.

Su Qi protected the Ye Clan while its members escaped to the Spirit Hall Temple, then confronted Gu Rong, whose assassination attempt failed. Su Qi trapped Gu Rong in a larger spatial domain and declared that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would pay for the attack.

• Ning Fengzhi sent Sword Douluo to guard the sect and went with Elder Mu to seek Xue Ye the Great’s support at Heaven Dou Palace.
• Ye Lingling showed Ye Renxin and Su Qi her evolved Ten-Heart Begonia Tree martial soul, which had gained the ability to bind enemies but had not yet broken the single-inheritor curse.
• Su Qi sensed Gu Rong approaching to assassinate him and learned that forces from Heaven Dou Palace and across the city were converging on the Ye Clan.
• Su Qi opened a Dimensional Wall to the Spirit Hall Temple, then formed an Asura Sword Formation around the Ye Clan estate so its members could evacuate safely.
• Gu Rong attacked Su Qi with Time-Space: Thousand Bone Strangulation, but Su Qi’s spatial power shattered the bone blades without harming him.
• Su Qi entered Gu Rong’s dim space, overpowered it with his larger blood-red domain, and vowed to destroy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect; Gu Rong began his ninth soul skill, Bone-Transformed Divine Dragon.

Su Qi defeated and captured Gu Rong, then interpreted the Asura Judgment Assessment as requiring him to target only those responsible for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s assassination attempt. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he absorbed an eight-hundred-thousand-year God-Bestowed Spirit Ring, reached Rank 97, and gained the Asura Blood Sword soul skill.

• Gu Rong transformed into a bone dragon and tried to fight Su Qi, but Su Qi’s Asura Blood Radiance immobilized him and amplified the damage from each sword strike until Gu Rong was gravely wounded.
• Su Qi used Asura Protection to keep Gu Rong alive, rejected his offers to spare the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and imprisoned him in the Ruyi Treasure Pouch.
• Su Qi realized the Judgment Assessment required him to punish the sect’s guilty members rather than slaughter its unrelated disciples, then left the Ye Clan estate as the Ye Clan escaped through Salas’s secret passage.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Su Qi condensed the God-Bestowed Spirit Ring into an eight-hundred-thousand-year Ninth Soul Ring and broke through to Rank 97.
• Su Qi sensed that his Ninth Soul Skill was Asura Blood Sword.

Su Qi completed his Asura Fourth Trial assessment choice and went to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to kill Chen Xin and judge the sect. He froze the castle with Asura Blood Radiance, allowing non-descendants and non-Pagoda martial soul users to flee while trapping the sect’s direct descendants.

• Su Qi learned that his Asura Blood Sword could unleash Shura God’s strongest strike without its usual cost, and Shura God decided to keep his power secret from the other God-Kings.
• Su Qi chose to complete the Asura Fourth Trial without raising its difficulty, then left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to complete the Slaughter and Judgment Assessments.
• Su Qi carried the defeated Gu Rong toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Gu Rong failed to self-destruct because Asura Protection restrained him.
• Ning Fengzhi worried that Gu Rong’s failed assassination would bring disaster to the sect, but Chen Xin tried to reassure him as Ning Rongrong refused to leave.
• Su Qi used Asura Blood Radiance to freeze the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Castle and announced that only non-descendants and those without the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda Martial Soul could escape.
• Sect members who were not direct descendants or Pagoda martial soul users fled, while Su Qi’s Benevolent Domain and Soul Search identified and immobilized everyone connected to the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda.

Su Qi began destroying the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after its deadline for evacuation passed, while Chen Xin and the sect leaders emerged from the great hall. Su Qi revealed that he had captured and killed Bone Douluo Gu Rong, leaving Chen Xin to protect Ning Fengzhi as the sect faced annihilation.

• Su Qi formed an Asura Sword Formation around the castle and unleashed blood lightning on the disciples who had stayed behind.
• Chen Xin and the others regained the ability to move, and Su Qi ordered visiting outsiders to remain inside the great hall while he dragged the sect members outside.
• Blood lightning slaughtered the remaining disciples and destroyed buildings as Chen Xin, Ning Fengzhi, Elder Mu, and Ning Rongrong watched.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized Su Qi, who descended with the badly injured Gu Rong and crushed Elder Mu with a glare.
• Su Qi burned Gu Rong alive, crushed his head, and left his soul bones behind as Chen Xin restrained his grief and protected Ning Fengzhi.