Chapter Summaries

Nalan Yanran worried that Young Master Lu River wanted her to work for him in exchange for growing stronger, and Yun Yun suspected he was interested in her romantically. At Mittel Auction House, Ya Fei clarified that Lu River would never bargain for or coerce someone’s affection.

• Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun that Young Master Lu River had offered her a way to grow stronger, and she feared the price was working under him.
• Yun Yun concluded that Lu River had taken an interest in Nalan Yanran and offered several possible reasons for his attention.
• Nalan Yanran refused to trade herself for strength, then learned that Ya Fei had requested a meeting with Yun Yun.
• Ya Fei told Yun Yun that Lu River was interested in Nalan Yanran but would get to know her and pursue intimacy only if they both wanted it.

Lu Chuan told Gu Yuan that origin qi was the missing requirement for reaching Dou Di and revealed Hun Tiandi’s plan to seize and mature an Emperor-Grade Embryonic Pill. Gu Yuan and Xun'er were shocked by the danger to the ancient clans, while Lu Chuan intended to pursue the path to becoming a Dou Di himself.

• Ya Fei suggested that Yun Yun could earn rewards from Lu Chuan herself, but Yun Yun politely declined his regard.
• Xun'er summoned her father, Gu Yuan, to meet Lu Chuan in person.
• Gu Yuan offered Lu Chuan a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill in exchange for information about becoming a Dou Di.
• Lu Chuan explained that the continent’s origin qi had run dry and that an Emperor-Grade Embryonic Pill containing origin qi lay inside Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• Lu Chuan revealed that Hun Tiandi planned to mature the pill by refining people across the Central Plains and those with Dou Di bloodlines, shocking Gu Yuan and Xun'er.

Lu Chuan traded the location of Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion to Gu Yuan for a Heaven Rank Dou Technique, Cultivation Methods, and other goods. After Gu Yuan returned to the Gu Clan, Xun'er joined Lu Chuan, who planned to take her to the Douluo Continent.

• Gu Yuan suspected Gu Yang of being a Hun Clan traitor and negotiated with Lu Chuan for the cave mansion's location.
• Lu Chuan agreed to reveal the location in exchange for a low-grade Heaven Rank Dou Technique and Cultivation Methods of multiple attributes.
• Lu Chuan told Gu Yuan that the cave mansion lay beneath Jia Nan Academy's Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, then traded Spirit Bones for Dou Techniques and medicinal ingredients.
• Gu Yuan privately spoke to Xun'er before returning alone to the Gu Clan to prepare the agreed-upon items.
• Xun'er asked to join Lu Chuan, signed his contract after examining it, and said she looked forward to learning from him.

Gu Yuan completed his deal with the land, then warned Xiao Zhan that a powerful enemy was after the Xiao Family’s Ancient Jade and took it in exchange for a Low Earth Rank Cultivation Method. Xiao Zhan gave the method to Xiao Yan, who accepted it after learning it was a gift from Xun’er’s father.

• Gu Yuan gave the land the promised Cultivation Methods and Dou Techniques, then asked him to look after Xun'er.
• Gu Yuan warned Xiao Zhan that an evil force sought the Xiao Family's Ancient Jade and offered the Nine Flames Burning Heaven Scripture in exchange for it.
• Xiao Zhan retrieved the Ancient Jade from the family shrine, handed it to Gu Yuan, and agreed to keep their meeting secret.
• Xiao Zhan brought the Nine Flames Burning Heaven Scripture to Xiao Yan, who initially refused it because he suspected it came with a price.
• Xiao Zhan explained that Xun'er's father had given the Cultivation Method as thanks, easing Xiao Yan's concerns.

Xiao Yan promised to deliver a thunder-attribute Cultivation Method to his second brother, while Nalan Yanran and Xun'er settled into the Trading House. There, Dugu Bo confronted Yue Guan and Gui Mei, but let them shop after deciding he did not want to risk losing his position.

• Xiao Yan offered Xiao Zhan a jade slip to exchange for a wind-attribute Cultivation Method, but Xiao Zhan preferred a thunder-attribute one for Xiao Yan's second brother.
• Yun Yun advised Nalan Yanran to focus on cultivation and accept that she might not become Young Sect Master, then left her with Lu Chuan and Xun'er.
• Lu Chuan asked Qing Lin to take Xun'er and Nalan Yanran to the living quarters and settle them into clean rooms.
• Dugu Bo recognized Yue Guan and Gui Mei in the Trading House, threatened them, then dispelled his venomous snake Dou Technique when they said they were customers.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei planned their purchases, including Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid and items for Nana, while Yue Guan admired unfamiliar flowers and plants.

Xiao Wu encountered Yue Guan and Gui Mei, who recognized her as the transformed Soul Beast they had tried to hunt six years earlier. After the boss promised to protect her and agreed to let Da Ming and Er Ming guard the Trading House, Xiao Wu set off to fetch them and met Xun'er and Nalan Yanran.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei recognized Xiao Wu as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast, and Dugu Bo warned them not to target her.
• Xiao Wu rushed upstairs to the boss, asked him to take Da Ming and Er Ming as gatekeepers, and he agreed while encouraging her to cultivate so she could revive her mother.
• Xiao Wu decided to return to Star Dou Forest and asked Dugu Bo to accompany her for safety.
• Xiao Wu collided with Nalan Yanran, whom Xun'er introduced as a new Trading House resident, and invited them to spend time together.
• Xiao Wu told Xun'er and Nalan Yanran that she planned to bring her sworn younger brothers, both Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, to guard the Trading House.

Xiao Wu took Dugu Bo into the Star Dou Forest to persuade Er Ming and Da Ming to join her in the human world for respectable jobs. After hearing about her powerful boss and the rewards available, Da Ming agreed to go with her, though he remained ready to protect her if the humans proved dangerous.

• Xun'er and Nalan Yanran learned about the points system and its potential rewards, then left to explore Heaven Dou City and handle Xiao Wu's forgotten shopping errand.
• Dugu Bo flew Xiao Wu into the Star Dou Forest, where Er Ming attacked him until Xiao Wu explained that he was on their side.
• Xiao Wu told Er Ming she had come to take him and Da Ming to the human world for jobs with food and lodging included.
• Er Ming brought Xiao Wu to the Lake of Life, where Da Ming greeted her and Er Ming offered her the vegetables he had saved.
• Xiao Wu reassured Da Ming that her boss had protected her and offered valuable rewards, and Da Ming agreed to go with her so he and Er Ming could stay by her side.

Xiao Wu brought Da Ming and Er Ming to the Trading House, where Lu Chuan assigned them guard duties and places to live. The group welcomed them with a hotpot dinner, while Dugu Bo urged Dugu Yan to pursue Lu Chuan before more women arrived.

• Xiao Wu, Dugu Bo, Da Ming, and Er Ming traveled from the Star Dou Forest toward Heaven Dou City, startling Soul Masters who saw the giant beasts accompanying humans.
• Xiao Wu and the others reached the Trading House, where Lu Chuan welcomed Da Ming and Er Ming as new guards and assigned them the nearby lake and forest as homes.
• Lu Chuan invited everyone to hotpot, while Dugu Bo privately urged Dugu Yan to make her move; she blushed and hurried inside.
• At dinner, Zhu Zhuqing stole Xiao Wu's beef for Lu Chuan, Queen Medusa boldly tried the spicy broth, and Nalan Yanran coughed after eating chili-coated tofu.

At a lively dinner, the land and river discussed the Snake-People Tribe’s relocation with Queen Medusa while the guests bonded over hotpot. At Blue Tyrant Academy, Liu Erlong learned that a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan member and two others had died at the Trading House, and she feared one might have been Xiao Gang.

• The land and river encouraged Nalan Yanran and Xun'er to eat clear broth, while Qing Lin joined the dinner and Dugu Yan affectionately fed her.
• The land and river asked Queen Medusa about her people, and she said the Snake-People Tribe would relocate to the Northern Region of the Magical Beast Mountain Range in half a month.
• Ya Fei switched seats with Queen Medusa and kept the dinner conversation lively, while the Titan Giant Ape complained that the Sky Azure Bull Python had burned its fish.
• Teacher Xiaotao told Liu Erlong that a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan member and two others had died at the Trading House, but their names and the missing bodies remained unknown.
• Liu Erlong suspected Xiao Gang might have been among the dead and decided she needed to sound out Old Flender.

Liu Erlong searched Shrek Academy for Dai, but Zhao Wuji and Oscar concealed what had happened to the other students and Flender. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong pressed her researchers to analyze the Trading House’s Medicinal Pill, then asked Hu Liena about its effects.

• Liu Erlong arrived at Shrek Academy looking for Boss Dai, and Zhao Wuji told her Flender was away and directed her to the students.
• Oscar told Liu Erlong that Fatty was away, Tang San had left with Clear Sky Douluo, Boss Dai had gone to the throne struggle, and the female students had dropped out.
• Shao Xin secretly brought food and healing sugar beans to the injured Flender, then told him that Liu Erlong had left without discovering the truth.
• Bibi Dong gave Yue Guan and a pharmacology Soul Master one month to analyze the Medicinal Pill, threatening them with punishment if they failed.
• Hu Liena visited Bibi Dong and said the Medicinal Pills had saved her several months of cultivation.

Bibi Dong encouraged Hu Liena to refine her Medicinal Pills and prepare to become the youngest Soul King, while Xiao Yi Xian awakened her Woeful Poison Body under Lu Chuan's supervision. After rapidly reaching level twenty-four, Xiao Yi Xian discovered a poison mark on her abdomen and grew flustered thinking about Lu Chuan.

• Bibi Dong told Hu Liena that the Medicinal Pills came from the Cross-World Trading House and promised to find her a powerful Spirit Ring when she reached her next bottleneck.
• Hu Liena assured Bibi Dong that Xie Yue and Yan did not resent her for receiving the pills, and she vowed to win the All-Continent Soul Master Tournament.
• Lu Chuan instructed Dugu Bo to gradually expose Xiao Yi Xian to poison as she activated her Heavenly Poison Woman Martial Soul beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed poison and rapidly rose from level sixteen to level twenty-four before Lu Chuan stopped the session and warned her not to overdo it.
• Xiao Yi Xian returned to her room, found a faint seven-colored poison mark on her lower abdomen, and blushed as she imagined Lu Chuan disliking it and thought about him.

Xiao Wu interrupted Xiao Yi Xian while she was secretly mining, then spread the secret to several friends despite promising to keep quiet. By dinner, Xiao Yi Xian confronted Xiao Wu and learned the gossip had reached six other girls.

• Xiao Wu went to check on Xiao Yi Xian with Ye Lingling, who realized Xiao Yi Xian was not sick and told Xiao Wu not to disturb her when her door was shut.
• Xiao Wu guessed what Xiao Yi Xian had been doing and promised not to tell anyone, but she soon shared the secret with Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Rongrong told Dugu Yan that Xiao Yi Xian had been secretly mining, and Dugu Yan dismissed the matter while finishing her poison.
• At dinner, Xiao Yi Xian noticed Qing Lin bringing her restorative soup and suspected the secret had spread.
• Xiao Yi Xian dragged Xiao Wu outside and threatened her with medicine until Xiao Wu admitted she had told Ning Rongrong, Qing Lin, Yanran, Xun'er, Yan, and Zhu Qing.

Xiao Yi Xian punished Xiao Wu with a prank after Xiao Wu named nearly everyone at the Trading House, then Zhu Zhuqing urged her to spend the night with the land-river. Xiao Yi Xian went to his room, where they kissed and became intimate, and she eventually fainted from the experience.

• Xiao Yi Xian used harmless medicinal liquids to scare Xiao Wu into thinking she had been poisoned, then gave her an antidote and let her believe the effects were still coming.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Ning Rongrong that she had only scared Xiao Wu, then harvested herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Zhu Zhuqing visited Xiao Yi Xian and told her to go to the land-river's room that night, offering to sleep in Xiao Yi Xian's room.
• Xiao Yi Xian entered the land-river's room, and he pulled her onto the bed and kissed her.
• The land-river reassured Xiao Yi Xian about the seven-colored poison mark on her abdomen, and they became intimate until she lost consciousness.

Lu Chuan took the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from the Heaven Dou Palace and negotiated with Poseidon to alter the Sea God trials in exchange for finding him a successor. He brought Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Yi Xian, and Ya Fei to begin the trials, while Bo Saixi learned that people bearing the Shroud would soon arrive on Sea God Island.

• Lu Chuan entered the Heaven Dou Palace treasury and took the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Inside the Shroud, Lu Chuan rejected Poseidon's attempt to mark him for the Sea God's Nine Trials and offered to find Poseidon a successor.
• Poseidon agreed to adjust the trials so Lu Chuan could gain Soul Power levels without receiving God-given Spirit Rings.
• Lu Chuan told Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Yi Xian, and Ya Fei they would go to Sea God Island for the trials, then flew there with them.
• Poseidon instructed Bo Saixi and the seven Sacred Pillar Douluo to welcome the people carrying the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

Bo Saixi accepted Sea God's oracle and prepared to sacrifice herself, while Lu Chuan and the three women explored Vast Sea City before taking a ship out to sea. The group began fishing aboard the ship, where Ya Fei caught a huge fish and Xiao Yi Xian comforted Lu Chuan over his smaller catch.

• Bo Saixi told the seven Sacred Pillar Guardians to welcome their guests and returned to Sea God's Hall, thinking sadly of Tang Chen.
• Lu Chuan brought Xiao Yi Xian, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ya Fei around Vast Sea City, where Zhu Zhuqing and Ya Fei bought pearl hairpins and Xiao Yi Xian shared grilled seafood with him.
• Lu Chuan rented a soul-guided ship and sailed with the three women toward the outskirts of the Forbidden Sea.
• The captain provided fishing gear, and Lu Chuan taught Xiao Yi Xian how to fish while Zhu Zhuqing and Ya Fei tried it too.
• Ya Fei caught a fish over two meters long, and Xiao Yi Xian comforted Lu Chuan about the smaller fish in his bucket.

The land brought Zhu Zhuqing, Ya Fei, and Xiao Yi Xian to Sea God Island, where they received Black-Level Six Trials. He refused to take a trial, insisting that the Sea God could not decide one for him.

• The land caught a giant fish with Soul Force, and he and the women enjoyed a seafood meal during their voyage.
• When the ship reached the Forbidden Sea, the land carried the three women to Sea God Island, where Bo Saixi welcomed them after seeing the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Bo Saixi led the visitors to the Seahorse Sacred Pillar and explained the Sea God Trials.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Ya Fei, and Xiao Yi Xian each received a Black-Level Six Trial and were told to pass through 110 levels of Sea God's Light.
• The land declined to touch the Sacred Pillar and told Bo Saixi that the Sea God could not decide his trial.

Lu Chuan helped Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Yi Xian, and Ya Fei train under the Sea God's Light, then traded Medicinal Pills to Bo Saixi for Spirit Bones. The deal earned Lu Chuan a Spiritual Head Soul Bone that raised his mental power, and he considered how valuable such bones would be to Alchemists.

• Zhu Zhuqing reached the ninth step of the Sea God's staircase before the pressure threw her off, and Lu Chuan caught her.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Ya Fei each reached the fifth step before being thrown off, and Lu Chuan advised the three women to cultivate at their limits and return as they grew stronger.
• Bo Saixi asked Lu Chuan about the pills that quickly restored the women, and he offered to trade Medicinal Pills for Spirit Bones, prioritizing Head Soul Bones.
• Bo Saixi asked Xiao Bai and the Demon Soul Great White Sharks to search for Spirit Bones, then brought Lu Chuan bones from Sea God Island's treasury.
• Lu Chuan exchanged Medicinal Pills for the Spirit Bones and gained a Spiritual Head Soul Bone that increased his mental power by 40 percent.

The land offered to save Bo Saixi from the fate of sacrificing herself and urged her to imagine a life beyond Sea God Island, though she remained undecided. After months of cultivation on the island, the river returned to the Trading House and accidentally startled Ning Rongrong while she was bathing, leaving her convinced a ghost had appeared.

• Ya Fei, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Yi Xian washed up after descending the staircase, then grilled food with the land and Bo Saixi.
• Bo Saixi explained that she was destined to sacrifice her life and Sea God Divine Power when the successor completed the Sea God's Nine Trials.
• The land offered to save Bo Saixi and invited her to travel to the mainland, while she said she would consider leaving Sea God Island.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, and Zhu Zhuqing spent the next few months cultivating on Sea God Island under Bo Saixi's care.
• The river returned through Ning Rongrong’s contract and landed on a rubber duck in her bathroom, startling her as she bathed.
• Ning Rongrong ran out wrapped in a towel and called to Brother Lu Chuan for help, shouting that there was a ghost in her bathroom.

Ning Rongrong engineered an accidental exposure so Lu Chuan would agree to marry her, then formed a contract with him. After leaving her with Zhu Zhuqing on Sea God Island, Lu Chuan departed to visit Jia Nan Academy and find a big dragon and a little dragon.

• Ning Rongrong pretended to hear a ghost in the bathroom, then staged an accidental exposure when Lu Chuan came to investigate.
• Lu Chuan offered to marry Ning Rongrong, and she accepted, admitting that she liked him and was ready to devote herself to the sect.
• Lu Chuan and Ning Rongrong formed a Martial Soul contract, leaving her exhausted and unconscious.
• Lu Chuan teleported to Sea God Island and entrusted Ning Rongrong to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Lu Chuan kissed Zhu Zhuqing, reassured her that she was special to him, and left to visit Jia Nan Academy on the Dou Qi Continent.

The river searched the Black-Corner Region for a map fragment to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, then traveled to Jia Nan Academy to take Zi Yan home. Su Qian learned Zi Yan's origins and agreed to lead him to her.

• The river reached the Black-Corner Region and forced a passing cultivator to guide him to the Eight Gates in Black Seal City.
• The river found Yuan Yi negotiating with a mercenary leader and asked whether the Eight Gates possessed a map fragment.
• Yuan Yi said the Eight Gates had no fragment, and the river offered a cultivation breakthrough as a reward for sending any future fragment to the Mittel Auction House.
• Yuan Yi gave the river a Naji and ordered his scouts to search for map fragments after the river left for Jia Nan Academy.
• The river passed through Jia Nan Academy's barrier and told Su Qian he had come to take Zi Yan home.
• The river explained that Zi Yan belonged to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Su Qian agreed to lead him to her.