Chapter Summaries

Chen Qingling defeated Zhao Wuji with her mental soul skill, forcing him to retreat and warning Shrek Academy not to trouble her and Zhu Zhuqing. Tang San vowed revenge from his medical bed, while Chen Shenge planned to find Qingling a Soul Beast for her fourth soul ring the next day.

• Chen Qingling used Butterfly God's Voice to overwhelm Zhao Wuji until he begged for mercy, then ordered him to leave her and Zhu Zhuqing alone.
• Zhao Wuji told Flender that Chen Qingling had defeated him, and Flender warned him not to provoke her because of her powerful background.
• Dai Mubai heard that his grudge would go unavenged, became agitated, and fainted when his injuries flared up.
• At Notting Academy, Tang San blamed his father for not defending him and swore to become stronger and make Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Chen Xin pay for humiliating him.
• Chen Qingling and Zhu Zhuqing went to sleep together at the Rose Hotel, while Chen Shenge planned to find Qingling a suitable Soul Beast for her fourth soul ring.
• The next morning, Chen Qingling woke beside Zhu Zhuqing and pinched her cheek.

Chen Qingling went to Sunset Forest to obtain her fourth soul ring and encountered Dugu Bo with his granddaughter, Dugu Yan. After Dugu Yan challenged her, Qingling defeated her in one move, leaving Dugu Yan to acknowledge her loss.

• Chen Qingling left Zhu Zhuqing at the hotel and traveled alone to Sunset Forest to seek her fourth soul ring.
• Chen Qingling met Dugu Bo, who introduced his granddaughter, Dugu Yan.
• Chen Qingling teased Dugu Yan and agreed to settle their dispute in one move.
• Dugu Yan attacked with her Martial Soul, but Chen Qingling's Light Butterfly Blades crushed her strike and forced her backward.
• Chen Qingling recalled her blades, and Dugu Yan admitted defeat.

Chen Qingling attracted the butterfly-type soul beasts without using the Butterfly Attracting Flower and received a Twenty Thousand Year Heavenly Spirit Butterfly’s sacrifice for her fourth soul ring. Chen Shenge gained the Sword Rise Cloud Fall soul skill and demonstrated its power, alarming the Ferocious Beasts at Lake of Life.

• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan left Chen Qingling after learning she had come to Sunset Forest for her fourth soul ring.
• Butterfly-type soul beasts flocked to Chen Qingling, recognizing her as the Butterfly God because she possessed the Butterfly God Left Arm Bone.
• A Twenty Thousand Year Heavenly Spirit Butterfly sacrificed itself, giving Chen Qingling her fourth soul ring, Spirit Butterfly Light.
• Chen Shenge received the God-Given Soul Ring Sword Rise Cloud Fall and gained ten Soul Power levels through Tenfold Feedback.
• Chen Qingling unleashed Sword Rise Cloud Fall, frightening the Ferocious Beasts at Lake of Life.
• Di Tian told the Ferocious Beasts not to meddle as long as the disturbance did not affect the Lord.

Chen Qingling was attacked in Sunset Forest by a thirty-eight-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider, but her butterfly swarm killed it and she discovered an External Soul Bone. Chen Shenge witnessed her extraordinary luck and doubted the bone would be useful to her.

• Di Tian and Bi Ji discussed the mysterious place near the Thatched Cottage and the power of the sword strike they had witnessed.
• Chen Qingling tested her fourth soul skill, Spirit Butterfly Light, after gaining three Soul Power levels.
• A wounded Man Faced Demon Spider ambushed Chen Qingling, but her butterflies knocked it back and revealed its injuries.
• The butterflies told Chen Qingling the spider was thirty-eight thousand years old, then swarmed and killed it.
• Chen Qingling found an External Soul Bone on the spider's glowing corpse, while Chen Shenge marveled at her luck and questioned whether she could use it.

Chen Shenge considered giving the Man Faced Demon Spider's External Soul Bone to Dugu Yan, while Dugu Bo revealed the poison threatening both his and his granddaughter's lives and begged Chen Qingling for help. Chen Qingling agreed to help, but her father told her that none of the Immortal Herbs could detoxify poison, leaving Dugu Yan's fate uncertain.

• Chen Shenge decided that the Man Faced Demon Spider's External Soul Bone might best suit Dugu Yan, but left the choice to fate.
• At the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that their Jade Phosphorous Serpent martial souls caused poison to build up and that her condition was worse than his had been.
• Dugu Bo left Dugu Yan at the well and flew to Chen Qingling, where he knelt and begged her to save his granddaughter.
• Chen Qingling promised to help Dugu Yan and asked her father whether any Immortal Herb could detoxify poison.
• Chen Shenge told Chen Qingling that no Immortal Herb could detoxify poison, and she feared Dugu Yan would die young.

Chen Qingling gave Dugu Bo a Man Faced Demon Spider External Soul Bone in hopes of curing Dugu Yan’s poison, and Dugu Yan successfully absorbed it and gained control over the poison. Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan vowed to remember Qingling’s kindness, while Qingling looked forward to fighting Dugu Yan again.

• Chen Qingling offered Dugu Bo the Man Faced Demon Spider’s thirty-eight-thousand-year-old External Soul Bone as a possible cure for Dugu Yan’s poison.
• Dugu Bo brought the soul bone to Dugu Yan, who accepted it after learning Qingling had given it to her.
• Dugu Yan absorbed the soul bone and discovered she could sense and control the poison in her body, using it to become stronger.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that Qingling had given her the priceless soul bone, and Dugu Yan promised to remember the kindness and catch up to Qingling.
• Chen Qingling felt relieved after giving away the soul bone and looked forward to fighting Dugu Yan again.

Chen Qingling left Sunset Forest after hunting a Soul Beast, but Shi Nian trapped her in his Lingering Dream and tried to kill her. She realized she was facing a powerful illusionist, and the chapter ended with her trapped and under threat.

• Chen Shenge wondered what calamity the system had predicted and reflected on his daughter’s future.
• Chen Qingling left Sunset Forest and rode toward Suotuo City while a black shadow followed her carriage.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong spent time together in Notting City and worried about Chen Qingling.
• The coachman sensed something was wrong, and Shi Nian appeared on the road, declaring that he wanted Chen Qingling to disappear.
• Chen Qingling attacked Shi Nian, but her strikes passed through him because he had trapped her in his Lingering Dream.
• Shi Nian said he would kill Chen Qingling and take pleasure in watching her go mad inside the illusion.

Shi Nian trapped Chen Qingling in his Nightmare soul skill, forcing her to witness her father, mother, friends, and loved ones die. Chen Qingling broke free, killed Shi Nian with Butterfly God's Voice, and left the coachman stunned by her victory over a Soul Sage.

• Shi Nian used his seventh soul skill, Nightmare, to make Chen Qingling relive her deepest fears, including the deaths of her parents and friends.
• Chen Shenge watched Chen Qingling's ordeal through the Sky Screen and chose to trust that she could defeat Shi Nian.
• Shi Nian grew impatient when Chen Qingling continued to resist and prepared to kill her, but she suddenly broke free of Nightmare.
• Chen Qingling unleashed Butterfly God's Voice at full power, tortured Shi Nian, and killed him.
• The coachman saw Shi Nian's corpse and asked Chen Qingling if she was all right.

Chen Qingling resolved to grow stronger before reaching Suotuo City, where Ma Hongjun harassed her outside the Rose Hotel. The chapter ended as she used Martial Soul Possession and Ma Hongjun stared at her in stunned admiration.

• Chen Qingling vowed to become stronger so she could find her mother and protect those she cared about, then continued her journey to Suotuo City.
• At the Pope's Palace, Ghost reported Chen Qingling's whereabouts to Bibi Dong, who dismissed him and watched him leave alone.
• Chen Qingling arrived in Suotuo City and saw Ma Hongjun arguing with Cui Hua outside the Rose Hotel.
• Ma Hongjun turned his attention to Chen Qingling, who rejected him and told him to get lost.
• After Ma Hongjun insulted her, Chen Qingling used Martial Soul Possession, and he was stunned by her appearance.

After dealing with Ma Hongjun, Chen Qingling learned Zhuqing had left and accepted that they would meet again. She went to the Suotuo City Grand Soul Arena and arranged to fight all its Soul Ancestors at once, leaving the arena buzzing with anticipation.

• Chen Qingling sent Ma Hongjun flying after he apologized for harassing her, then stopped pressing him when he mentioned Shrek Academy.
• The receptionist told Chen Qingling that Zhuqing had left more than five hours earlier, and Chen Qingling decided they would meet again someday.
• Zhu Zhuqing, camped outside Suotuo City, wondered whether Chen Qingling had returned and happily imagined her talking about her.
• Chen Qingling arrived at the Suotuo City Grand Soul Arena and asked Wang Qing to help register her challenge to all the Soul Ancestors there.
• The person in charge agreed to the challenge, and news of Chen Qingling fighting a group alone spread through the arena and beyond.

Chen Qingling faced eighteen Soul Ancestors in the Great Soul Arena and overwhelmed their coordinated attack with Butterfly God Descent. The battle continued as her strike broke through their barrier and eliminated six fighters.

• Zhao Wuji brought the Shrek Academy students to watch Chen Qingling's battle, and Dai Mubai admitted he held an irreconcilable grudge against her.
• The referee announced that Chen Qingling would face eighteen Soul Ancestors, who activated their Martial Souls before stepping onto the stage.
• The eighteen Soul Ancestors unleashed their Fourth Soul Skills together, and Chen Qingling answered with Butterfly God Descent.
• Chen Qingling's attack wore away the Soul Skills one by one until it broke through the fighters' protective barrier.
• Six Soul Ancestors were struck and eliminated from the battle.

After defeating eighteen opponents at the Soto Grand Soul Arena, Chen Qingling left the city and traveled toward Skywater Academy. Ning Rongrong and Chen Xin arrived too late to meet her, while Qingling reached the academy and began asking about entry.

• Chen Qingling defeated the remaining twelve contestants in close combat and won the one-against-eighteen match.
• At the Rose Hotel, Chen Qingling reserved the Red Ocean room as a memento for Zhu Zhuqing, then left for Skywater City.
• Ning Rongrong and Chen Xin arrived in Suotuo City, learned that Chen Qingling had just won at the Grand Soul Arena, and found that she had already left.
• Chen Qingling reached Skywater City, found Skywater Academy, and approached the woman seated at its entrance.

Chen Qingling joined Heavenly Water Academy and told an admissions teacher that she had come to find her missing Mother, whom she suspected might be the dean. The teacher took her to the dean’s villa, where they waited for the dean to answer the door.

• An admissions teacher invited Chen Qingling to join Heavenly Water Academy after learning she was a thirteen-year-old level forty-three Soul Ancestor.
• The teacher showed Chen Qingling around the academy and its simulated cultivation grounds.
• Chen Qingling said she had come to find her Mother, and the teacher wondered whether she was the dean’s illegitimate daughter.
• Chen Qingling admitted she had no proof that the dean was her Mother, but hoped the legendary woman might be the parent she had lost.
• The teacher led Chen Qingling to the dean’s villa and knocked on the door.

Chen Qingling met Dean Shui Qishuang while searching for her missing mother, but learned Shui Qishuang had always been single. After Chen Shenge encouraged her to grow stronger and keep searching, students at Heavenly Water Academy began discussing the academy’s talented new arrival.

• Teacher Nian Chu introduced Chen Qingling to Shui Qishuang, who was impressed by Chen Qingling’s Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul and her strength as a fourteen-year-old Soul Ancestor.
• Chen Qingling asked Shui Qishuang whether she had a lover, hoping to find her mother, but Shui Qishuang said she had always been single.
• Chen Qingling told Teacher Nian Chu that her father said her mother vanished after a dark and windy night, then returned to her dormitory feeling defeated.
• Chen Shenge reassured Chen Qingling through Mind Communication, and she resolved to become a Titled Douluo and search the continent for her mother.
• Chen Shenge recalled being knocked unconscious thirteen years earlier and waking with aches, while students at Heavenly Water Academy discussed Chen Qingling and Shui Bing’er.

Xiao Wu confronted Tang San over his bullying at Notting Academy, and he conceded the fight before leaving. Tang San then recovered memories of a previous life and realized he had returned to his childhood in a changed Douluo Continent, where Xiao Wu opposed him and Chen Qingling was an unfamiliar presence.

• Shui Bing'er rejected concern over titles, and Shui Yue'er and Xue Wu stopped discussing Chen Qingling after she asked them not to talk about people behind their backs.
• At Notting Academy, Tang San continued bullying students, prompting Wang Sheng and others to ask Xiao Wu to stop him.
• Xiao Wu found Tang San picking on students and challenged him to a fight to seek justice for those he had harmed.
• Xiao Wu dodged Tang San's Blue Silver Grass, and Tang San conceded before leaving, while the students celebrated her intervention.
• On his way back, Tang San suffered a sudden rush of memories and realized he had returned to his childhood at Notting Academy.
• Tang San discovered that this Douluo Continent differed from the one he remembered, including Chen Qingling's Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul and Xiao Wu's opposition to him.

Tang San resolved to continue embracing his infamous reputation and focus on cultivation while plotting against Chen Qingling. At Skywater Academy, Qingling learned that she would have to face the students’ challenges to become the academy’s strongest Big Sis.

• Tang San decided that Chen Qingling was an obstacle to his future with Xiao Wu and vowed to grow strong enough to defeat her.
• Ning Rongrong worried about falling behind Qingling, and Chen Xin encouraged her to keep working hard.
• Ghost told Bibi Dong about Qingling’s flawless victories in Suotuo City, and Bibi Dong regretted that Spirit Hall had not recruited her.
• Nian Chu explained to Qingling that Skywater Academy’s strongest student became its Big Sis and that other students would challenge her.
• Nian Chu introduced thirteen-year-old Chen Qingling, a level forty-three Soul Ancestor, to the students waiting by the lake.

Chen Qingling challenged Skywater Academy’s students and shattered Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu’s ice-and-snow Martial Soul Fusion Skill with one strike. After catching Shui Bing’er as she fell, Qingling left the others stunned by her strength.

• Shui Bing’er welcomed Chen Qingling and agreed to have the students attack her together.
• Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu unleashed Ice and Snow Fluttering, empowered by the water attributes of more than a dozen students.
• Chen Qingling charged into the fusion skill and broke it with her Light Butterfly Blade, blasting the students backward.
• Shui Bing’er exhausted her Soul Power and fell from the air, but Chen Qingling caught her.
• Shui Bing’er thanked Chen Qingling, and Xue Wu hurried over to check on her.

After Chen Qingling defeated Skywater Academy’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill with her First Soul Skill, Shui Bing’er accepted her as the academy’s leader. Representatives from Blazing Fire, Godwind, and Thunder Academies arrived to recruit Chen Qingling, leaving her caught in a heated dispute over which academy suited her best.

• Chen Qingling said she had only used her First Soul Skill, and Shui Bing’er accepted defeat and offered her leadership of Skywater Academy.
• Chen Qingling claimed her father was a powerful Reclusive Expert when asked about her background.
• Shui Ling’er confronted Huo Shengxiao at the academy gates after he announced Blazing Fire Academy intended to recruit Chen Qingling.
• Feng Wuji arrived to recruit Chen Qingling for Godwind Academy, and Rex followed to claim she belonged at Thunder Academy.
• The three visiting vice deans invited Chen Qingling to their academies, leaving her speechless as they argued.

Chen Qingling refused offers from the other elemental academies, choosing to remain with Skywater Academy. Qin Ming proposed uniting the Four Elements Academy while letting each school manage its own affairs, and the Vice-Deans agreed; Qingling then reflected on the empire’s frequent border conflicts.

• The Vice-Deans of the other three elemental academies tried to recruit Chen Qingling, but she refused to leave Skywater Academy.
• Qin Ming suggested the Four Elements Academy unite and jointly nurture Qingling while keeping four independent sub-academies.
• Shui Ling'er and the other Vice-Deans accepted the proposal, and the three visitors left to begin building the new academy within Skywater Academy.
• Qin Ming explained that he had come under orders to reduce internal conflict and strengthen the Heaven Dou Empire amid frequent border clashes.
• Chen Qingling worried about the deaths caused by war, then returned to the conversation with Shui Bing'er and her companions, who said their team would lose someone.

Chen Qingling declined to join the planned tournament team, while Qian Renxue learned of her talent and decided she wanted to meet her. At Skywater Academy, Qingling revealed to Shui Bing'er that she came from the Star Dou Great Forest and that her father was Chen Shenge.

• Chen Qingling told Shui Bing'er she did not need tournament fame or rewards and would leave the seven-person team to the others.
• Teacher Nian Chu said the Four Elements Academy merger could change the team, while Shui Qishuang accepted the merger because refusing would invite pressure from the other academies.
• Spear Serpent Elder told Qian Renxue about Chen Qingling, and Qian Renxue decided she wanted to meet her.
• Three vice-deans pooled ten thousand Gold Soul Coins to buy land for the merged academy and received their deans' approval.
• Shui Bing'er asked Chen Qingling where she was from, and Qingling said she had lived in the Star Dou Great Forest with her father, Chen Shenge.
• Shui Bing'er noticed that Chen Qingling kept her clothes in a rare Space Soul Guidance Device bracelet.