Chapter Summaries

Qian Xunji learned that Bibi Dong had fallen in love with Yu Xiaogang and planned to use Yu Xiaogang as leverage to control her. Qin Xuan returned to Spirit Hall with Jing Ni and was welcomed by Douluo Qian Jun in the Elder Hall.

• A masked Soul Douluo reported Bibi Dong's closeness with Yu Xiaogang, and Qian Xunji kicked him before ordering him to continue monitoring her.
• Qian Xunji rejected a guard's suggestion to kill Qin Xuan and decided he could use Yu Xiaogang to keep Bibi Dong from escaping him.
• A palace guard announced Qin Xuan's return, and Qian Xunji reacted with disbelief and jealousy.
• Palace guards stopped Qin Xuan and Jing Ni at the Elder Hall, but let them pass after Qin Xuan asserted his status and called Jing Ni his wife.
• Douluo Qian Jun greeted Qin Xuan and Jing Ni inside the Elder Hall.

Qin Xuan returned from Slaughter City with Jing Ni, whose disguised cultivation and martial soul impressed Douluo Qian Jun. After checking Qin Xuan and hearing about his gains on the Hell Road, Qian Jun praised his prospects and decided to choose a different opponent to test his strength.

• Douluo Qian Jun was astonished by Jing Ni's apparent talent and Qin Xuan's rapid cultivation, while Qin Xuan introduced Jing Ni as his wife and explained how she had helped him escape Slaughter City.
• Jing Ni revealed her disguised martial soul and seven soul rings, including a thousand-year second ring and a ten-thousand-year fourth ring, surprising Douluo Qian Jun.
• Qin Xuan claimed Jing Ni's teacher had given her the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone and said he had found a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum; Douluo Qian Jun examined him and read the Immortal Herb Catalog.
• Qin Xuan described absorbing the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core as his sixth soul ring and strengthening the Vermilion Bird sealed in Everbright Sword, while keeping its unsealing secret.
• Douluo Qian Jun envied Qin Xuan's opportunities, praised his prospects, and said he would change the opponent originally chosen to test him.

Qin Xuan gave Douluo Qian Jun the Immortal Herb Catalog and said he had devised a sword technique for their Martial Soul Fusion, but Qian Jun postponed discussing it until after Qin Xuan's matches. Back in the Elder Hall, Qin Xuan told Jing Ni why he distrusted Spirit Hall's power structure and explained his conflict with Qian Xunji.

• Qin Xuan handed Douluo Qian Jun the Immortal Herb Catalog and said he had memorized it, then revealed he had figured out a sword technique for Martial Soul Fusion.
• Douluo Qian Jun arranged rooms for Qin Xuan and Jing Ni, urged them to rest and settle their killing intent, then went to report to Qian Daoliu.
• Jing Ni questioned Qin Xuan about giving up the catalog and recognized that he felt uneasy among Spirit Hall's powerful members.
• Qin Xuan explained that Douluo Qian Jun sincerely cared for him but would remain loyal to Spirit Hall and the Angel Lineage.
• Qin Xuan told Jing Ni that Qian Xunji had lusted after him and that he had entered Slaughter City to escape him.

Qin Xuan spent the night with Jing Ni, checked his rapidly rising Emotion Points, and prepared to face a gathering of Spirit Hall’s powerful figures. He joined the assembled elders and worshippers, where Ling Yuan Douluo greeted him with teasing interest.

• Qin Xuan told Jing Ni that bringing her back would undermine his chance of marrying the Holy Maiden, while admitting he also desired her.
• Qin Xuan checked his system and saw his talent had risen to SSS, with his Emotion Points climbing past four hundred thousand.
• Qin Xuan woke to find his Emotion Points had reached 970,000, and Jing Ni warned him that Spirit Hall’s leaders had gathered to arrange his opponent.
• Qin Xuan ate breakfast with Jing Ni, then went to the Elder Hall’s first-floor hall after she finished eating.
• Qian Daoliu directed Qin Xuan to stand beside Ling Yuan Douluo, who praised him for surviving Slaughter City.

Qin Xuan reunited with Bibi Dong at Spirit Hall, where Qian Xunji arranged for them to fight. Bibi Dong resolved to defeat Qin Xuan to avoid marrying him, and the match began with both taking their places in the hall.

• Ling Yuan Douluo flirted with Qin Xuan, who politely reminded her that he was a family man.
• Qian Xunji entered Elder Hall with Bibi Dong and two guardian Douluo, and Qin Xuan was surprised to see Bibi Dong among them.
• Bibi Dong recognized Qin Xuan and realized his return from Slaughter City meant Qian Xunji's promised marriage could go ahead.
• Qian Xunji privately told Bibi Dong to defeat Qin Xuan and offered to call off the marriage if she won; Bibi Dong agreed to fight but felt conflicted.
• Qian Jun called for Qin Xuan to show the results of his training, and Qin Xuan and Bibi Dong stepped into the hall's open space.
• Bibi Dong introduced herself as a Level 72 control-system Battle Soul Saint with the Death Spider Emperor martial soul and prepared to fight Qin Xuan.

Qin Xuan and Bibi Dong prepared to spar in the Elder Hall, where Qin Xuan revealed his powerful Soul Rings and rapid cultivation. After explaining his gains from Hell Road and an Immortal Herb, he focused his killing intent on Bibi Dong as the Titled Douluo sealed the battlefield.

• Bibi Dong transformed through Martial Soul Possession, and Qin Xuan revealed his Everbright Sword and six Soul Rings, including a formidable black sixth ring.
• Douluo Qian Jun explained that Qin Xuan's sixth Soul Ring came from the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and told Qian Xunji that Qin Xuan's girlfriend was Jing Ni, who had fought her way out of Slaughter City while pregnant.
• Qian Xunji welcomed the news of Jing Ni, believing Qin Xuan's relationship with her gave him grounds to reject Qin Xuan's former agreement concerning Bibi Dong.
• Qin Xuan announced that he was a Level Sixty-Eight Soul Emperor, astonishing Bibi Dong and the Titled Douluo with how far he had advanced in one year.
• Douluo Qian Jun attributed Qin Xuan's rapid cultivation to the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, and Qin Xuan then released his killing intent and locked onto Bibi Dong.

Qin Xuan fought Bibi Dong, whose Death Domain initially overwhelmed him, but his combined Vermilion Bird Domain and Divine Slaughter's Domain shattered it. Bibi Dong then used poisonous mist and her speed to keep the fight going, and the chapter ended with her launching a close-range claw attack that Qin Xuan blocked.

• Bibi Dong unleashed her Death Domain, suppressing Qin Xuan's Divine Slaughter's Domain and prompting the spectators to expect his defeat.
• Qin Xuan revealed his Vermilion Bird Domain and combined it with Divine Slaughter's Domain to break Bibi Dong's Death Domain.
• Qin Xuan rushed Bibi Dong with the Everbright Sword, but she dodged and filled the hall with poisonous mist from the shattered domain.
• Bibi Dong used the golden pillars and her spider legs to evade Qin Xuan's attacks, while he used the Wisdom Skull to track her movements.
• Bibi Dong appeared behind Qin Xuan and attacked with her black claw, but he blocked it with the Vertical Sword Technique.

Qin Xuan and Bibi Dong continued testing their strength in a close-quarters battle, and Qin Xuan used his Vermilion Bird Possession without losing control. The chapter ended with Qin Xuan severing the poisonous spikes on Bibi Dong’s Thorned Spider Armor without using a Soul Ring skill.

• Bibi Dong acknowledged Qin Xuan’s strength and attacked him with her Death Spider Web Binding.
• Qin Xuan destroyed Bibi Dong’s spiderwebs with his Vermilion Bird flames and activated Vermilion Bird Possession.
• Qian Jun realized that Qin Xuan had overcome Vermilion Bird Possession’s former loss-of-control drawback.
• Qin Xuan closed in on Bibi Dong, who used Thorned Spider Armor to block his sword and counterattack with poisonous spikes.
• Qin Xuan used Everbright Sword Song to resist the spikes, then changed his stance and severed them with Four Directions Throughstrike.

Qin Xuan overwhelmed Bibi Dong with his sword techniques and mutated soul skill, then revealed his Vermilion Bird flames when she forced him to use his sixth soul skill. The chapter left the elders stunned as his flames burned through her attack and began cracking their barrier.

• Qin Xuan used his sword techniques to suppress Bibi Dong and break her Thorned Spider Armor.
• Qin Xuan’s mutated fourth soul skill pursued Bibi Dong with flexible golden blades, while Qian Daoliu praised his potential.
• Bibi Dong identified that Qin Xuan could not move while sustaining the skill and attacked him with Bloodsucking Spider Spikes.
• Qin Xuan used his second soul skill and Weapon Soul Clone to defend himself against Bibi Dong’s repeated waves of spikes.
• Qin Xuan spread his fiery red wings and unleashed golden-red flames, burning the spikes and cracking the Titled Douluo elders’ barrier.

Qin Xuan defeated Bibi Dong in a fierce duel but stopped his final strike and confessed that he could not bear to hurt her. He then told Qian Daoliu he planned to marry Jing Ni, leaving Bibi Dong unsettled and Qian Xunji relieved.

• Mighty Lion Douluo, Guangling Douluo, and Douluo Qian Jun repaired the barrier as Qin Xuan unleashed his sixth Soul Skill, Ten Headed Fierce Yang Slash, against Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong used her Death Spider Emperor Avatar to withstand the attack, while Qin Xuan was blasted back and lost nearly all his Soul Power.
• Qin Xuan summoned a thunder dragon and used Hundred-Pace Flying Sword to break Bibi Dong's Martial Soul Avatar, then stopped his sword fingers at her throat.
• Qin Xuan told Bibi Dong he could not bear to hurt her, and her affection for him increased by five.
• After the Worships and Titled Douluo gathered, Qin Xuan told Qian Daoliu he planned to marry Jing Ni once Jiang Mo finished his seclusion, and Qian Xunji was relieved that Qin Xuan had given up on Bibi Dong.

After Qin Xuan’s victory over Bibi Dong, he secured the elders’ approval for his marriage to Jing Ni and began addressing his injuries and cultivation. He discovered that his blind boxes contained a pair of storage pouches and the Wheel-Turning Divine Skill.

• Bibi Dong left Elder Hall with Qian Xunji, troubled by her feelings for Qin Xuan, while Qian Xunji privately considered how to manipulate Yu Xiaogang.
• Qian Jun fused with Qin Xuan into a blue form resembling Black Dragon Sky, found the threshold of Rank 97, and returned to secluded cultivation.
• Qian Daoliu advised Qin Xuan to control his killing intent, and Qin Xuan planned to study in the Papal Hall library while receiving cultivation guidance from him.
• Qin Xuan treated his injuries and recovered his Soul Power in the cultivation room after his battle with Bibi Dong.
• Qin Xuan opened the Bronze Blind Box and obtained two pouches that could store living creatures, then opened the Silver Blind Box and received the Wheel-Turning Divine Skill.

Jing Ni continued learning about the Douluo Continent while Qin Xuan gave her a storage pouch to protect their unborn child. Later, Qin Xuan returned to the library and used Divine Slaughter's Domain to terrify Yu Xiaogang before heading upstairs, expecting Bibi Dong to arrive.

• Jing Ni told Qin Xuan she had nearly mastered the world's language but still needed to learn its customs and Soul Master theories.
• Qin Xuan gave Jing Ni the mother pouch, explaining that it could store living things and help keep their child safe.
• Yu Xiaogang reflected on his nearly completed Ten Core Theories of Martial Souls and imagined becoming a respected Grandmaster.
• Qin Xuan entered the library, silently enveloped Yu Xiaogang in Divine Slaughter's Domain, and left after taking a book without harming him.
• Yu Xiaogang trembled with fear, then felt humiliated and resentful as Qin Xuan went upstairs, expecting Bibi Dong to come to the library.

Qin Xuan used his Emotion Points to buy a Revival Coin, then read Spirit Hall records on Soul Ring absorption limits and recognized that Yu Xiaogang had copied them for his theories. He reflected on Yu Xiaogang’s reputation and predicted the backlash he would face for publishing plagiarized knowledge.

• Qin Xuan inspected the system shop and spent one million Emotion Points on a Revival Coin.
• Qin Xuan read Spirit Hall’s recorded Soul Ring absorption limits and found his own name listed as the record holder for the fourth ring.
• Qin Xuan realized that Yu Xiaogang had copied the Spirit Hall’s records almost word for word.
• Qin Xuan dismissed Yu Xiaogang’s theories as largely common knowledge and criticized the praise he had received from others.
• Qin Xuan concluded that Yu Xiaogang’s publication of plagiarized theories could force Yu Yuanzhen to expel him from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.

Qin Xuan considered writing a book to expose Yu Xiaogang’s theories, while Bibi Dong sought Qin Xuan out in the library and confronted her lingering feelings for him. The chapter ended with Qin Xuan cornering Bibi Dong against a wall as she warned him not to act recklessly.

• Qin Xuan decided he might publish a book criticizing Yu Xiaogang’s theories after Yu Xiaogang released his Invincible Theory.
• Bibi Dong met Yu Xiaogang in the library, and Yu Xiaogang told her Qin Xuan had gone to the third floor.
• Bibi Dong hurried upstairs, hoping Qin Xuan might have found a way to resolve Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul Mutation.
• Bibi Dong found Qin Xuan and congratulated him on his wife and child, while reflecting on how much he had changed since returning from Slaughter City.
• Qin Xuan advanced on Bibi Dong until she was pinned against a wall, and she warned him that someone could enter the library.

Qin Xuan challenged Bibi Dong’s request for an Immortal Herb for Yu Xiaogang by questioning his loyalties and reminding her of her duty to Spirit Hall. He then asked whether her teacher would approve of her devotion to Yu Xiaogang, leaving her to answer.

• Bibi Dong asked Qin Xuan about Immortal Herbs and sought one to cure Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul mutation.
• Qin Xuan warned Bibi Dong that Yu Xiaogang had not formally left the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and might choose his clan over Spirit Hall.
• Qin Xuan reminded Bibi Dong that Spirit Hall had raised and protected them, and questioned whether Yu Xiaogang’s research was meant to claim credit for Spirit Hall’s work.
• Bibi Dong defended Yu Xiaogang and admitted she was willing to give everything for him.
• Qin Xuan asked whether Bibi Dong believed her teacher would approve of her love for Yu Xiaogang.

Bibi Dong agreed to try persuading Qian Xunji to help Yu Xiaogang, while Qin Xuan secretly prepared for his plans against Qian Xunji and Tang Hao. He shut himself in the library and used his Vermilion Bird Soul Bone skill to create four clones that joined him in studying its books.

• Bibi Dong told Qin Xuan she would try to persuade Qian Xunji, but she fell silent when Qin Xuan questioned what she would do if her teacher refused.
• Qin Xuan decided to prepare for a chance to act against Qian Xunji in the underground chamber beneath Papal Hall and to pursue Ah Yin before Tang Hao met her.
• Qin Xuan told Bibi Dong he would look for an Immortal Herb for Yu Xiaogang in exchange for one future condition.
• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang that an Immortal Herb might cure his Martial Soul Mutation, though Qin Xuan had found only one and would keep searching.
• Qin Xuan asked Otto to keep people out of the third-floor library, then gathered books there while Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang discussed their theory.
• Qin Xuan used his Vermilion Bird Soul Bone skill to split into four clones and sent all five versions of himself into the books.

Qin Xuan used his clone ability to accelerate his studies and sword training while settling into life with Jing Ni. Three months later, Jing Ni gave birth to a daughter, and Qin Xuan accepted the child as Ayan, though the chapter left his feelings about fatherhood complicated.

• Qin Xuan considered using his clones to multiply his swordsmanship practice and spent the following months studying, cultivating, and training with the sword.
• Jing Ni gave birth to a healthy daughter, and Qin Xuan rewarded the attending maid before entering the bedroom.
• Qin Xuan reassured Jing Ni that he did not blame her or the child, and Jing Ni reached maximum favorability with him.
• Qin Xuan picked up the crying newborn, who stopped and smiled, and Jing Ni named her Yan, which Qin Xuan expanded to Ayan, Qin Yan.

Qin Xuan received a Diamond Blind Box containing six powerful set Soul Bones and decided to give them to Jing Ni. Six months later, he became a twenty-year-old Soul Saint while Jing Ni demonstrated her newly mastered Sword Flight Technique.

• Qin Xuan opened his Diamond Blind Box and found six near-million-year set Soul Bones that could form Soul Bone Armor when absorbed together.
• Qin Xuan decided Jing Ni should absorb the Soul Bones, and planned to use the Mo Ya Recruitment Card to search for Ah Yin after they grew stronger.
• Over the next three months, Qin Xuan broke through the level-seventy bottleneck and became a Soul Saint at age twenty.
• Jing Ni used the Jing Ni Sword with her Sword Flight Technique to pierce and shatter a specially made iron stake.
• Qin Xuan approached Jing Ni with Ayan in his arms and asked how the technique felt.

After six months in seclusion, Qin Xuan and Jing Ni prepared to leave and obtain Soul Rings, with Qin Xuan planning to strengthen Jing Ni enough to absorb Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings. They set out for an undisclosed destination first, while Qin Xuan weighed the expense of buying powerful Soul Rings.

• Jing Ni absorbed a 99,999-year-old Soul Bone set, while Qin Xuan reached Soul Saint at Level 70 and their daughter Ayan grew into a healthy three-month-old infant.
• Jing Ni demonstrated the Sword Flight Technique, which Qin Xuan had adapted to control his Martial Soul after learning the technique from the Wushuang Sword Case.
• Jing Ni asked whether Qin Xuan's sword techniques and cultivation method came from the Gui Gu lineage, and he admitted that he had taken the secret manuals and joked about teaching the techniques to Ayan.
• Qin Xuan and Jing Ni left their cultivation room after half a year, deciding to obtain Soul Rings because their Soul Power had reached a bottleneck.
• Qin Xuan said he would handle obtaining Soul Rings and planned to visit a place first, while considering Immortal Herbs and the cost of purchasing high-aged Soul Rings.

Qin Xuan reported his departure to Qian Daoliu, who arranged for Ling Yuan Douluo to assist with his seventh Soul Ring hunt. As Qin Xuan, Jing Ni, and Ayan set out with Ling Yuan, she showed an unusually strong fondness for him, and Ayan cried when Ling Yuan tried to pet her.

• Qin Xuan visited Qian Daoliu to report his planned trip after reaching Rank Seventy and calming his killing intent.
• Qian Daoliu assigned Ling Yuan Douluo to help Qin Xuan hunt his seventh Soul Ring, and Qin Xuan accepted the offer.
• Qin Xuan reunited with Ling Yuan Douluo, whose favorability toward him was marked as 90 and Adoration.
• Ling Yuan linked arms with Qin Xuan and asked how he had detected her; he blamed her reflection in a golden pillar.
• Ling Yuan praised Jing Ni and tried to pet Ayan, who burst into tears until Qin Xuan soothed her.