Chapter Summaries

Chen Qingling joined Shui Bing'er and the others for a lesson about Skywater Academy, then stayed behind for personal guidance from Teacher Nian Chu. When Qingling revealed her four soul rings, Nian Chu was stunned by her extraordinary configuration.

• Shui Bing'er joked that she wanted Chen Qingling's father as her godfather, and Qingling proudly insisted nobody could take him away.
• Chen Qingling returned to her private Dormitory, cultivated overnight, and reflected that her strength would make the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Tournament pointless.
• Shui Bing'er and the others greeted Chen Qingling the next morning, and Teacher Nian Chu explained Skywater Academy's water-focused curriculum.
• Teacher Nian Chu examined Chen Qingling's Light Goddess Butterfly and promised the academy would build a suitable Simulated Cultivation Ground for her.
• Chen Qingling revealed her four soul rings to Teacher Nian Chu, who was shocked by their Yellow, Purple, Black, Black configuration.

Chen Qingling shocked her teachers and classmates with her extraordinary soul ring configuration, which they believed her father had enabled through soul beast sacrifices. At the Thatched Cottage, Chen Shenge killed a Ten Thousand Year Giant Lizard while Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts wondered why their Lord might have entered the place; Skywater Academy began considering joint training for Qingling with the other element academies.

• Chen Qingling credited her father for her soul ring configuration, and Teacher Nian Chu and Shui Bing'er and the others were stunned by her Yellow, Purple, and two Black soul rings.
• Chen Shenge checked his system and found he had 47,000 Points before noticing that a Ten Thousand Year Giant Lizard had entered the area around the Thatched Cottage.
• Chen Shenge killed the Giant Lizard with One Sword Three Thousand Miles and decided to use it as firewood.
• Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts discussed why soul beasts could enter the Thatched Cottage when they could not, and Zi Ji speculated that their Lord might have entered before.
• Teacher Nian Chu reported Chen Qingling's talent to Shui Ling'er, who discussed whether Skywater Academy should train her together with the other three element academies.

Chen Qingling visited Shui Bing'er's Simulated Cultivation Ground and revealed that she had become a Soul Ancestor after cultivating for just over a year, leaving Shui Bing'er astonished. Meanwhile, Tang San secretly resented Qingling, and Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts faced a devastating sword strike sent from Chen Shenge's cottage.

• The Notting Academy staff discussed how they might support Chen Qingling and hoped she would help the academy compete with Spirit Hall Academy.
• At Notting Academy, Xiao Wu told Wang Sheng to focus on cultivating, while Tang San secretly blamed Qingling for separating him from Xiao Wu and resolved to grow strong enough to settle accounts with her.
• Tang Hao returned from drinking and was relieved to see Tang San cultivating diligently, unaware that his son had changed into someone else.
• Shui Bing'er showed Chen Qingling the Ten Thousand Year Cold Marrow in her Simulated Cultivation Ground, and Qingling said she had cultivated for only a little over a year.
• Shui Bing'er realized Qingling had reached Soul Ancestor in just over a year and admitted she could not catch up to her.
• Chen Shenge roasted a Ten Thousand Year Giant Lizard as Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts confronted his stray One Sword Three Thousand Miles, with Di Tian attempting to catch it.

After Di Tian survived a portion of Chen Shenge’s sword strike, Chen Shenge speculated about the calamity and Tang San while Qingling confided in Shui Bing’er. Qian Renxue arrived at Skywater Academy to meet Qingling, intending to recruit or befriend her, and went to see her in person.

• Di Tian took Chen Shenge’s sword strike, which shattered his dragon scales and wounded his claw, then said he could recover at the Lake of Life.
• Chen Shenge wondered whether the calamity involved the Jialing Pass Battle or Tang San, but decided to face whatever came.
• Qingling told Shui Bing’er that Sword Dao Chenxin and Bone Melting Gu Rong were her masters, then shared more about her friends.
• Shui Bing’er told Qingling about her family, including her mother leaving after her birth and Shui Yue’er being her half-sister.
• Qian Renxue arrived in Skywater City and told Spear Serpent Elder she would try to control Qingling or befriend her rather than conflict with her.
• Qian Renxue reached Skywater Academy, declined the Vice-Deans’ offer to summon Qingling, and went to visit her personally.

Qian Renxue visited Skywater Academy to meet Chen Qingling and offered to help find her missing Mother, but Chen Qingling knew almost nothing about her parents. The chapter left Chen Qingling discouraged, while Qian Renxue and the Spear Serpent Elder were astonished by her Father’s ability to communicate with her from afar.

• Qian Renxue found Chen Qingling at Shui Bing'er's Simulated Cultivation Ground and introduced herself as Xue Qinghe.
• Chen Qingling asked Qian Renxue whether she knew of any outstanding women in Heaven Dou who might be her missing Mother, and Qian Renxue offered to search if given clues.
• Chen Qingling explained that she had never seen her Mother and that her Father had said a woman forced herself on him on a dark, stormy night.
• Chen Qingling used Mind Communication to ask Chen Shenge for his title, and he said he would reveal it when she became the strongest person on the continent.
• Shui Bing'er explained that Chen Shenge could use Mind Communication, astonishing Qian Renxue and the Spear Serpent Elder.
• Qian Renxue said finding Chen Qingling's Mother would be like searching for a needle in a haystack, and Chen Qingling felt despondent.

Chen Qingling learned from her father that Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue in disguise and that Qian Renxue belonged to Spirit Hall. Qian Renxue left Skywater Academy worried that Qingling might have seen through her disguise.

• Qian Renxue gave Chen Qingling a Gold Token and invited her to lunch, but Qingling declined because she believed Xue Qinghe was a man.
• After watching Qian Renxue leave, Chen Qingling told Shui Bing'er that Xue Qinghe's back did not seem like a man's, then asked her father who Xue Qinghe was.
• Chen Shenge revealed that Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue, who had taken the original Xue Qinghe's place to pursue her ideals without causing widespread slaughter.
• Chen Qingling learned that Qian Renxue came from Spirit Hall and decided that the organization was not wholly bad, despite her existing grievances against it.
• Qian Renxue told Shui Ling'er she had visited to see Chen Qingling, then agreed with Spear Serpent Elder that she would try to resolve the conflict with Qingling.
• Spear Serpent Elder warned that Chen Qingling might have noticed Qian Renxue's disguise, leaving Qian Renxue uneasy.

Qian Renxue returned without confronting Chen Qingling, while Skywater Academy and three Vice-Deans moved ahead with plans for a Four-in-One and a suitable Simulated Cultivation Ground. Chen Qingling raised her First Soul Ring’s age with pills from Chen Shenge, triggering a ten-level Soul Power increase for him, who remained frustrated at being confined to the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Qian Renxue declined Spear Serpent Elder’s offer to secretly watch Chen Qingling and headed back.
• Shui Ling'er agreed to the Four-in-One on the condition that the Vice-Deans find simulated items suited to Chen Qingling’s Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul.
• Huo Shenge proposed using light-related objects and a docile butterfly Soul Beast for Chen Qingling’s Simulated Cultivation Ground, and Feng Wuji and Rex agreed to try.
• Chen Shenge exchanged three Low-Level Soul Ring Enhancement Pills after learning Chen Qingling wanted to strengthen her First Soul Ring.
• Chen Qingling swallowed the pills, raised her First Soul Ring’s age to a thousand years, and gained a Soul Power level.
• The system’s tenfold feedback raised Chen Shenge’s Soul Power by ten levels, while he continued to complain that he could not leave the Star Dou Great Forest.

Chen Qingling spent time with Shui Bing'er at Skywater Academy, where they shared a meal and teased each other. At the academy entrance, Shui Bing'er inspected the three mimicry items brought for Qingling and criticized the choices.

• Chen Shenge wondered whether Chen Qingling’s encounters were changing Qian Renxue’s fate and thought Tang San had been left with nothing, unaware that Tang San had joined Spirit Hall.
• After spending five days indoors, Chen Qingling went with Shui Bing'er to Heavenly Water Dining Hall, where the cafeteria auntie piled food onto Qingling’s tray and teased her about being thin.
• Chen Qingling recognized Soft Bone Rabbit meat, but avoided telling Shui Bing'er the story behind her previous encounter with it.
• Shui Bing'er teased Chen Qingling about her cooking skills and appearance, and Qingling blushed before turning to her meal.
• At Skywater Academy’s entrance, Shui Bing'er criticized the three mimicry items brought for Chen Qingling, then accepted them from Shui Ling'er.

Chen Qingling discovered that the Butterfly Attracting Flower her father gave her could help her cultivate in her Simulated Cultivation Ground. Shui Ling'er told the three vice-deans their experimental items were useless, but Qingling already had a suitable item of her own.

• Shui Ling'er showed Qingling, Shui Bing'er, and Shui Yue'er the Glowing Stone, Ten Thousand Year Blazing Butterfly, and Ten Thousand Year Glowworm, but Qingling felt no effect from them.
• Chen Qingling took out her Butterfly Attracting Flower, which stirred the Blazing Butterfly and helped her feel calm; Shui Ling'er agreed it barely counted as a simulated item.
• Shui Ling'er offered to remove the three experimental items, but Qingling kept them to add life to her grounds and planted the Butterfly Attracting Flower.
• Chen Qingling meditated overnight and felt her Soul Power grow denser, bringing her closer to advancing beyond rank forty-four.
• Shui Ling'er told the three vice-deans that their items were useless and that Qingling already had a Butterfly Attracting Flower from her father; they asked whether their Four-in-One plan would still proceed.

Bibi Dong ordered the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Tournament moved forward by one year after learning the Four Elements academies would merge, and considered recalling Qian Renxue to strengthen Spirit Hall’s team. In Notting City, Tang San obtained money and a medicinal bath from Su Yuntao while concealing his sinister intentions.

• Ju Hua Guan reported that the Four Elements academies planned to merge, and Bibi Dong ordered the tournament moved forward by one year.
• Bibi Dong considered recalling Qian Renxue to help Spirit Hall’s team defeat Chen Qingling and the merged academy.
• Tang San visited Spirit Hall in Notting City, where Su Yuntao greeted him despite his bad reputation.
• Tang San asked Su Yuntao for money and a medicinal bath, and Su Yuntao gave him one thousand Gold Soul Coins while promising the bath in a week.
• Tang San left after promising to repay Su Yuntao, while privately revealing his true nature.

Tang San pursued an alliance with Spirit Hall to kill Chen Qingling while Tang Hao worried that his son was beyond saving. At Shrek Academy, Zhao Wuji forced Zhu Zhuqing to confront Dai Mubai, and Ning Rongrong and Chen Xin intervened just as Dai Mubai challenged them.

• Tang San accepted any sacrifice necessary to kill Chen Qingling, while Tang Hao secretly watched and feared his son was sinking into darkness.
• Xiao Wu missed Sister Qingling at Notting Academy and complained that she had to wait to graduate before she could see her again.
• Dai Mubai trained relentlessly for Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhao Wuji brought Zhu Zhuqing to Shrek Academy despite her refusal.
• Zhu Zhuqing rejected Dai Mubai's apologies and refused to join Shrek Academy, while Zhao Wuji tried to persuade her to forgive him.
• Ning Rongrong and Chen Xin landed at Shrek Academy after noticing the confrontation, and Ning Rongrong accused its members of bullying Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dai Mubai rudely told Ning Rongrong and Chen Xin to mind their own business.

Ning Rongrong defended Zhu Zhuqing from Dai Mubai and Shrek Academy, then the story jumped ahead a year as Tang San began taking revenge on Wang Sheng. Tang San murdered Wang Sheng’s parents while waiting for Wang Sheng to return home.

• Ning Rongrong recognized Zhu Zhuqing as Qingling’s friend, confronted Dai Mubai over his treatment of her, and pledged the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing left together, while Dai Mubai later bragged that he would avenge his humiliation once he became a Titled Douluo.
• A year passed, during which Qingling reached rank forty-seven and Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and the others went their separate ways.
• After graduating from Notting Academy, Wang Sheng headed home, unaware that Tang San was waiting there to take revenge.
• Tang San entered Wang Sheng’s family courtyard and killed Wang Sheng’s parents with Blue Silver Grass, then waited for Wang Sheng to return.

Tang San murdered Wang Sheng’s parents and tried to kill Wang Sheng, but Tang Hao stopped him long enough for Wang Sheng to escape. Wang Sheng reached Notting Academy, where Xiao Wu promised to get justice for him.

• Wang Sheng returned home and found his parents dead, then confronted Tang San, who admitted killing them because Wang Sheng had opposed him.
• Tang San attacked Wang Sheng, but Tang Hao appeared and blocked the fatal strike; Tang San insisted he would kill his enemies, and Tang Hao slapped him.
• Wang Sheng fled while Tang Hao stopped Tang San from pursuing him and questioned how his son had become so ruthless.
• Tang San dismissed Wang Sheng’s escape and said that living would be torment for him.
• Wang Sheng reached Notting Academy and told Xiao Wu and the other students that Tang San had murdered his parents.
• Xiao Wu promised to get justice for Wang Sheng and said Tang San had repeatedly shattered her understanding of him.

After Tang San killed Wang Sheng’s parents, Sister Xiao Wu confronted him, and Notting Academy expelled him. Su Yuntao took Tang San to Spirit Hall’s academy, while Wang Sheng remained behind under Director Su’s protection.

• News of Wang Sheng’s ordeal spread through Notting Academy, frightening everyone who had humiliated Tang San.
• Tang San returned to the academy and threatened Wang Sheng, but Sister Xiao Wu confronted him over his parents’ deaths.
• Sister Xiao Wu fought Tang San and revealed the Lovesick Heartbreak Red in her hair, alarming him about changes at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Director Su stopped the fight and expelled Tang San from Notting Academy.
• Su Yuntao took Tang San to Spirit Hall’s academy, while Director Su promised Wang Sheng that the academy would be his home.
• At Skywater Academy, Chen Qingling suddenly raised her head while cultivating in her Simulated Cultivation Ground, as though she sensed something.

Chen Qingling received a clue from Qian Renxue that Moonlight Pavilion in Heaven Dou Imperial City might hold information about her Mother, so she decided to investigate. After Shui Ling'er approved her long leave, Qingling accepted Thunder Academy's Thunder Spirit Pearl and set out for Heaven Dou Imperial City.

• Chen Qingling read Qian Renxue's letter identifying Moonlight Pavilion as a possible source of information about her Mother.
• Shui Bing'er wondered whether Qingling was connected to the Spirit Hall Pope, and Qingling insisted that she could not be.
• Chen Qingling asked Vice-Dean Shui Ling'er for a long leave, and Shui Ling'er approved it.
• The Vice-Deans of the other three academies arrived, and Rex gave Qingling Thunder Academy's Thunder Spirit Pearl despite her protests.
• Chen Qingling packed and left the Four Elements Academy by carriage for Moonlight Pavilion in Heaven Dou Imperial City.

Chen Qingling arrived in Heaven Dou Imperial City and visited Moonlight Pavilion to meet its mistress, Tang Yuehua. Tang Yuehua welcomed her, and Qingling began to explain the purpose of her visit.

• Chen Qingling hurried to Heaven Dou Imperial City by carriage and headed straight to Moonlight Pavilion.
• Chen Qingling asked the staff to arrange a meeting with the pavilion's mistress, and they went upstairs to find someone.
• A purple-robed manager leered at Chen Qingling and tried to intimidate her, so she released her Soul Ancestor aura and rebuked him.
• Tang Yuehua came downstairs and stopped the manager, then greeted Chen Qingling and said Prince Qinghe had told her to expect the visit.
• Chen Qingling began to tell Tang Yuehua why she had come.

Chen Qingling stayed at Moonlight Pavilion with Tang Yuehua, who dismissed the manager after he tried to apologize for mistreating her. The two bonded over their missing family members, while Ning Rongrong and Chen Xin arrived in Skywater City to search for Qingling, unaware she had already left.

• Tang Yuehua told Chen Qingling that the Spirit Hall Pope was the only famous woman she knew, but Qingling insisted the Pope could not be her mother.
• Tang Yuehua invited Chen Qingling to stay at Moonlight Pavilion and rejected the purple-clad manager’s gift, ordering him to leave.
• Tang Yuehua suggested Qingling’s mother might have had an unspeakable reason for leaving and revealed that her older brother had disappeared.
• Chen Qingling accepted Tang Yuehua’s hospitality and stayed overnight at Moonlight Pavilion.
• Ning Rongrong and Chen Xin reached Skywater City and went to search for Qingling at Skywater Academy, not knowing she had already left for Heaven Dou Imperial City.

Ning Rongrong and Chenxin searched for Chen Qingling at Skywater Academy, only to learn she had gone to Heaven Dou Imperial City. After Qingling returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Gu Rong told her that Rongrong and Chenxin had just left to find her.

• Ning Rongrong and Chenxin found the former Skywater Academy site deserted and met Teacher Nian Chu.
• Teacher Nian Chu explained that the four elemental academies had united to train Chen Qingling, who had already left for Moonlight Pavilion in Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Ning Rongrong and Chenxin flew toward Heaven Dou Imperial City, while Teacher Nian Chu realized Chenxin might be the famed Sword Dao Chenxin.
• Chen Qingling enjoyed breakfast at Moonlight Pavilion, then headed to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to see Ning Rongrong and the others.
• Gu Rong welcomed Chen Qingling and told her that Ning Rongrong and Chenxin had gone looking for her, so they had narrowly missed each other.

Ning Rongrong and Chen Xin returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after more than a year searching for Chen Qingling, and the reunited friends caught up and relaxed together. Meanwhile, Chen Xin told Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong that he had encountered the long-missing Clear Sky Douluo in Notting City, where his son Tang San lived.

• Gu Rong told Chen Qingling that Ning Rongrong had spent over a year traveling to find her, then Chen Xin and Ning Rongrong arrived and reunited with Qingling.
• Ning Rongrong and Chen Qingling embraced, chatted about Tang San and Xiao Wu, and compared their cultivation levels; Rongrong learned Qingling had reached level 48.
• Chen Qingling brought Ning Rongrong to her residence, where they soaked together in a hot bath.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong met Ning Fengzhi in the Council Hall, where Chen Xin revealed that he and Rongrong had encountered the missing Clear Sky Douluo in Notting City.
• Chen Xin said the Clear Sky Douluo had a son named Tang San, whose character he considered poor, and Ning Fengzhi reacted thoughtfully to the news.

Ning Fengzhi learned that Chen Qingling had joined Four Elements Academy, while Chen Xin reflected on how people changed after seeing the Clear Sky Douluo in hiding. At her villa, Chen Qingling told Ning Rongrong she would keep searching for her mother, and the two promised to travel the world together before Rongrong left to visit her father.

• Ning Fengzhi heard that Chen Qingling had joined Four Elements Academy and predicted that the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Tournament would become more interesting.
• Chen Xin explained to Gu Rong that people changed, and he sensed that he was close to gaining one level of Soul Power.
• Chen Qingling told Ning Rongrong that she had learned her mother might have had a reason to leave, but she would continue searching and would not return home until she found her.
• Ning Rongrong asked who had told Qingling about her mother, then shared an evening sunset with her and promised to see the world's mountains and rivers together.
• Ning Rongrong left to visit Ning Fengzhi, while Chen Qingling decided she could meet him the next day.