Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• A supernatural Fanfiction Livestream appears across Douluo Continent, dividing viewers into Elite and Ordinary rooms. It announces that performances will be carried out by their subjects and broadcast continent-wide, with no rewards or punishments—only fame and embarrassment.
• Yu Xiaogang is selected for the first performance: strike a “victory” pose for everyone at Notting Academy. Initially excited by the prospect of presenting his Martial Soul theories, he grows confused about what the assigned pose means and rehearses in his office mirror.
• Though Yu Xiaogang cannot control his body, the livestream makes him climb to Notting Academy’s roof, where students and teachers gather to watch.
• He squats, raises both hands in V-signs, and sticks out his tongue—an unexpectedly silly pose that leaves the spectators bewildered.

Character developments

• Yu Xiaogang shifts from eager anticipation of becoming famous to nervous uncertainty, then enjoys the attention—until the livestream compels him to perform an embarrassing pose.
• Tang San feels a quiet, unacknowledged discomfort about Xiao Wu sharing a bed with Gu Xingzhou, while also feeling proud that Yu Xiaogang has recognized his talent and become his teacher.
• Xiao Wu and Gu Xingzhou treat the livestream playfully and look forward to seeing Yu Xiaogang’s performance.

Significant themes

• Public exposure and humiliation: The livestream turns private people into continent-wide entertainment.
• Powerlessness versus fame: Yu Xiaogang welcomes recognition but cannot control how he is presented.
• Jealousy and unspoken feelings: Tang San hides his discomfort rather than admitting it.

Character interactions

• Xiao Wu and Gu Xingzhou discuss Yu Xiaogang’s impending fame with Tang San, who outwardly agrees that the show might improve the Grandmaster’s reputation.
• The Elite Livestream Room reacts to Yu Xiaogang’s selection: Flender and Zhao Wuji joke about his becoming a star, while Ning Rongrong questions whether participants can refuse.
• Bibi Dong, Liu Erlong, Flender, and others are surprised to see Yu Xiaogang appear in the shared broadcast; his involuntary performance confirms that participation is compulsory.

Chapter Summary

• Yu Xiaogang’s humiliation: A livestream magically freezes Yu Xiaogang in an embarrassing pose and broadcasts him to viewers across the continent. He cannot explain or defend himself while the crowd laughs and speculates that he has an unusual kink. After about three minutes, he regains control, leaves the rooftop in shame, and locks himself in his room.
• The livestream’s rules: The broadcast ends and grants every viewer one Popularity Vote. Yu Xiaogang may return for another performance if he receives enough votes. However, viewers can also vote for other candidates: the livestream will randomly select three people to compete with him, and whoever proves most popular will appear next.
• Fear spreads among the cast: Members of the Elite Livestream Room realize that anyone could be selected. Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Bai Chenxiang panic, while Gu Xingzhou suggests that the elite group may be the candidate pool. Tang San tries to reassure them, but the group remains uneasy.
• Character interactions and development: Liu Erlong, Flender, and Tang San defend Yu Xiaogang, though their reassurance is mixed with awkward jokes and disbelief from others. Ordinary viewers, meanwhile, enjoy the spectacle and joke about what the livestream might show next. Ning Fengzhi advises Rongrong to stay quiet, then mischievously offers to rally support so Yu Xiaogang gets voted back—prompting Yu Xiaogang to react in dismay.
• Themes: The chapter uses public humiliation for comedy while emphasizing the livestream’s power to turn people into unwilling spectacles. It also introduces popularity as a force that can determine who suffers next, creating suspense beneath the jokes. The chapter ends just as the three alternate candidates are announced.

Plot points and events

• The livestream asks viewers to vote anonymously for one of four prominent Soul Masters—Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong, Ning Fengzhi, or Dugu Bo—to star in the next fanfiction.
• The Elite Room reacts: Yu Xiaogang expects trouble, Ning Rongrong is pleased her father is nominated, and Dugu Bo jokes about poisoning anyone who picks him. Tang San privately worries that being chosen could expose his Twin Martial Souls.
• In the Ordinary Room, viewers weigh the risks of voting for the powerful nominees. Spirit Hall threatens to punish people who openly mock Bibi Dong, while some voters are swayed by rewards offered by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for voting for Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang wins decisively with 50 million votes, compared with Bibi Dong’s 8 million, Ning Fengzhi’s 2 million, and Dugu Bo’s 1 million. The other 39 million people abstain.
• After the livestream closes for everyone else, Gu Xingzhou’s scroll remains visible. The system reveals that he secretly orchestrated the livestream and awards him 61 million popularity points.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Xiaogang is dismayed by the result, while Flender and Zhao Wuji tease him about his newfound continent-wide fame. Dai Mubai notes that the vote has made him known even in remote regions.
• Ning Rongrong sympathizes with her father’s relatively low tally; Dugu Bo is pleased that most viewers avoided voting for him, though he scorns the million who did.
• Ma Hongjun wants more provocative nominees, prompting Xiao Wu to condemn his preference for bullying the weak. Their exchange turns into playful hostility.
• Gu Xingzhou’s role shifts from apparent livestream participant to revealed mastermind, though his identity remains unknown to everyone else.

Significant themes

• Popularity as power: The vote turns public attention into measurable currency, while the system lets Gu Xingzhou spend it to grow stronger.
• Fear, influence, and self-interest: Viewers’ choices are shaped by threats from Spirit Hall, financial incentives, and fear of Dugu Bo.
• Public reputation versus private power: Yu Xiaogang becomes famous through the spectacle, while the seemingly unimpressive Gu Xingzhou controls it behind the scenes.

System rewards and options

• At 100 million cumulative points, the livestream room will level up. Gu Xingzhou can already spend points to raise Soul Power, improve Soul Rings, attempt Martial Soul evolution, or make random draws. At his current rank, 1 million points buys one Soul Power level; a random draw costs 10 million.

Plot points and events

• Gu Xingzhou spends five million popularity points to raise his Soul Power to level 10. He has 56 million points left and plans to stage another spectacle involving Yu Xiaogang to reach the 100 million needed for a Martial Soul transformation.
• His Martial Soul, the Blank Mask, can disguise his appearance and conceal his aura, though it is weak and easily seen through by stronger Soul Masters.
• Worried about being mocked by the parody livestream again, Yu Xiaogang decides to turn its attention to his advantage. He brings Tang San breakfast and plans to take him to find a first Soul Ring, hoping to demonstrate his theories.
• Tang San chokes on a steamed bun. Yu Xiaogang panics and summons Luo Sanpao, hoping its fart will make Tang San vomit. Instead, the blast of stench makes Tang San gasp, drives the bun deeper, and knocks him unconscious.
• The livestream broadcasts the rescue attempt to the whole continent. When it detects that Tang San is near death, it announces that it will take control of Yu Xiaogang’s actions.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Xingzhou prioritizes quietly strengthening himself before taking a risk on the lottery. He watches the disaster unfold from Dorm Seven and shuts the door to keep the fumes out.
• Yu Xiaogang tries to respond proactively to the livestream, but his improvised rescue is disastrously misguided. He is genuinely frantic when Tang San appears to be suffocating.
• Tang San is embarrassed by memories of the previous broadcast but follows his teacher and accepts the breakfast. His choking turns the planned trip into an emergency.
• The master-disciple bond is shown through Yu Xiaogang’s concern and Tang San’s trust, though the livestream audience interprets the rescue attempt as absurd and dangerous.
• Xiao Wu, Dugu Bo, and others react with shock and disgust, while Gu Xingzhou’s comments underscore how close Tang San seems to death.

Significant themes

• Comedy through public humiliation: The livestream transforms Yu Xiaogang’s sincere intentions into a continent-wide spectacle.
• Good intentions versus competence: Yu Xiaogang wants to save his disciple, but his reliance on his own theory worsens the crisis.
• Power, reputation, and survival: Gu Xingzhou quietly builds strength while trying to exploit the livestream’s popularity system without exposing himself.

Key plot points and events

• Tang San chokes on a steamed bun and collapses. Yu Xiaogang panics, but a livestream takes control of his body and guides him through the Heimlich maneuver.
• The thrusts dislodge the bun, but Tang San remains unconscious and in danger. The livestream instructs Yu Xiaogang to perform CPR and rescue breaths.
• After thirty chest compressions, Yu Xiaogang is forced to give Tang San two rescue breaths in front of a vast audience. The livestream viewers react with shock and embarrassment.
• Tang San revives. He initially assumes his teacher saved him by summoning Luo Sanpao, whose foul-smelling fart he remembers.
• The livestream then shows Tang San a private replay of the rescue. When he sees the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, he is horrified and begins retching as Yu Xiaogang tries to explain.

Character developments

• Yu Xiaogang is distressed by the livestream’s control but cooperates because it may save Tang San. He is relieved to succeed, though mortified by the rescue breaths and concerned about how the incident affects his reputation.
• Tang San moves from unconscious vulnerability to gratitude and then revulsion when he learns what actually happened.
• Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong, along with the other viewers, react with discomfort, jealousy, or disbelief at witnessing the intimate-looking rescue.

Significant themes

• Life-saving care versus embarrassment: The scene emphasizes that emergency treatment matters more than appearances, while playing the situation for comedy.
• Public scrutiny and loss of control: Yu Xiaogang must perform an embarrassing but necessary act under the gaze of millions, with his body controlled by the livestream.
• Misunderstanding and comic irony: Tang San’s mistaken memory—and the replay that corrects it—turns a rescue into a humiliating shock.

Character interactions

• Yu Xiaogang physically rescues Tang San, then tries to reassure him after he wakes.
• Livestream viewers debate the first-aid methods and react to the rescue breaths, while Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong show particular discomfort.
• Tang San’s gratitude gives way to disgust once the replay reveals what Yu Xiaogang did, and his retching prevents the teacher from explaining.

Key plot points and events

• After the disastrous breakfast incident, Tang San thanks Yu Xiaogang for saving him but retreats to the dormitory, shaken and wanting to be alone. Xiaogang also needs time to recover.
• The livestream selects Yu Xiaogang, Xiao Wu, Zhao Wuji, and Ma Hongjun as candidates for a popularity vote. Viewers favor Xiao Wu at first, but Yu Xiaogang narrowly wins with 40 million votes to her 39 million. He is therefore guaranteed another fan-created performance.
• The livestream does not close as expected. Instead, it announces that reaching 100 million viewers has upgraded the room to level two.
• The upgraded system adds a daily performer slot and program. Two performers will act out scripts and compete for votes: the winner gets a random reward, potentially ranging from improved Soul Rings, Martial Souls, or Soul Power to godhood; the loser must undergo a random punishment.
• The announcement excites viewers and potential participants, though they recognize that rewards are uncertain and punishments may be humiliating. Yu Xiaogang is pointed out as a strong entertainer—and as someone who has suffered twice without receiving a reward.

Character developments

• Yu Xiaogang shifts from humiliation and exhaustion to renewed hope. He sees the new reward system as a possible way to overcome the limitations of his Martial Soul and level-29 Soul Power.
• Tang San remains withdrawn and emotionally shaken, mirroring his master’s stunned focus on the new announcement.
• Xiao Wu is relieved to narrowly avoid being selected for the next performance.
• Ma Hongjun initially wants to volunteer for a chance at powerful rewards, then becomes wary after Ning Rongrong reminds him of the punishment risk.
• Zhao Wuji and Flender take a more cautious view, emphasizing that the rewards are random and selection is not voluntary.

Significant themes

• Temptation and risk: The possibility of extraordinary advancement encourages people to accept public embarrassment, despite the threat of punishment.
• Popularity as power: Audience votes now decide not only who performs but who receives potentially life-changing rewards.
• Hope after humiliation: Yu Xiaogang reframes his recent ordeals as a possible prelude to a chance at transforming his life.
• Human nature and spectacle: The livestream exploits viewers’ appetite for entertainment and participants’ desire for advancement.

Character interactions

• Tang San respectfully thanks Yu Xiaogang but asks to be left alone; Xiaogang accepts, recognizing that they both need space.
• The elite-room participants tease and speculate about the candidates, while Xiao Wu rejects Ma Hongjun’s suggestion that they perform together.
• Ning Rongrong cautions the group about punishments, tempering Ma Hongjun’s enthusiasm and prompting broader concern.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Ning Fengzhi discuss the system’s uncertainty, while Liu Erlong and others argue that Yu Xiaogang’s performance skills give him an advantage in future votes.

Plot and events

Gu Xingzhou’s livestream room upgrades and introduces a reward-and-punishment system, prompting him to consider joining future performances. He spends 100 million Popularity Votes to evolve his Blank Mask into the Joy Mask, which converts laughter and joy he causes into Joy Points. Those points can temporarily boost his Soul Power and physical abilities, though the mask currently has limited storage. He decides he needs a Soul Ring to strengthen it and prepares another livestream performance.
The next performers are Yu Xiaogang and Tang San. Each receives three script options, and both choose “Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo.” The livestream transports them to Soul Hunting Forest, where Xiaogang hopes to demonstrate his theory by selecting Tang San’s First Soul Ring. He explains that a First Soul Ring should be no more than 423 years old and says he wants one as close to that limit as possible. Yet he soon identifies a ten-year Lone Bamboo as suitable for Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass—though only as a fallback—leaving viewers baffled by the contradiction.
Just as Xiaogang is about to explain himself, the script takes control of his words. He solemnly declares that Tang San’s Innate Full Soul Power and Twin Martial Souls mean he can absorb eighteen ten-year Lone Bamboo Soul Rings and gain eighteen “Pole-Vault Soul Skills.”

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Xingzhou sees new opportunities in the livestream system, evolves his Martial Soul, and gains a power that rewards him for entertaining others.
• Yu Xiaogang enters the performance confident that he can vindicate his research. His explanation of Soul Ring age is undercut by his willingness to settle for a ten-year Soul Beast, leaving him embarrassed before the audience.
• Tang San carefully weighs the script choices, avoiding “Peace Sign” and the risky random option. He trusts Xiaogang’s guidance but notices the inconsistency in his advice.
• The audience teases and questions Xiaogang’s reasoning. Flender and Liu Erlong try to defend him, while Dugu Bo openly ridicules the idea. Xiao Wu and others anticipate the comic potential of the performance.
• Xiaogang and Tang San’s teacher-disciple relationship is central: Xiaogang tries to teach and guide Tang San, but their shared script turns that bond into the source of the joke.

Significant themes

• Public humiliation and performance: Xiaogang’s authority and theories are judged by a vast audience, and the script exposes the gap between his confident claims and actions.
• Comedy through contradiction: The chapter builds humor from Xiaogang’s “423-year” standard colliding with the absurd suggestion that Tang San absorb eighteen ten-year rings.
• Entertainment as power: Gu Xingzhou’s Joy Mask turns laughter into a tangible resource, linking audience reaction directly to his strength.

Plot points and events

• The livestream reveals that Tang San supposedly has Innate Full Soul Power and Twin Martial Souls, alarming him because the public attention could expose his secrets.
• Viewers argue over whether Grandmaster’s claim—and the absurd idea of pole-vaulting with eighteen stalks of Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo—is real or merely part of a script. The livestream begins a “deduction” to test it.
• Tang San’s body acts against his will. Using one bamboo stalk after another, he performs eighteen increasingly powerful pole-vaults, rising through the clouds and reaching a golden gate to the Divine Realm.
• The livestream begins a second deduction: Tang San becomes a god without taking his teacher, Yu Xiaogang, along. Xiaogang calls for Tang San to take him, but Tang San turns away and enters the gate alone.
• Though Xiaogang knows it is only a performance, the rejection affects him. He resolves to reach the Divine Realm himself and begins training with Luo Sanpao, using explosive farts as propulsion.
• The simulation shows his progress over a year: first lifting himself inches, then feet, and finally rising through the clouds toward the Divine Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang San is anxious about his hidden abilities being exposed and helpless as the deduction controls his actions. At the Divine Realm gate, he appears to abandon Xiaogang, though this is part of the scripted scenario.
• Yu Xiaogang shifts from stunned theorist to wounded teacher, then turns his hurt into fierce determination. He commits to reaching the Divine Realm by his own absurd method.
• Luo Sanpao supports Xiaogang’s effort, mirroring his crouch and supplying the gas that propels them upward.
• The viewers react with disbelief, jokes, arguments, and growing admiration. Some initially dismiss the events as fictional, while others consider trying the bamboo method. Several defend Tang San and insist the livestream is trying to sow discord between teacher and student.

Significant themes

• Reality versus performance: Though labeled a deduction, the events feel physically real, blurring the line between simulation and reality.
• Ambition and perseverance: Xiaogang transforms apparent rejection into an unlikely, single-minded quest.
• Teacher–student loyalty: Tang San’s apparent departure provokes questions about gratitude and attachment, even as viewers recognize the scenario may be manipulating their feelings.
• Humor through the outrageous: The chapter turns pole-vaulting into godhood and fart-powered flight into an inspirational training arc.

Plot and events

• In the scripted simulation, Yu Xiaogang reaches the Divine Realm through the bizarre “Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo” path, which has involved countless days immersed in foul farts. He celebrates exuberantly, and his tears are genuine: becoming a god means years of humiliation and struggle might finally be vindicated.
• Yu confronts Tang San, accusing him of failing to bring his teacher to the Divine Realm and insisting that his method helped Tang San become a god.
• Tang San angrily rejects the credit. He says the method only worked because he already had the potential to ascend, and that it left him the weakest god, mocked by the others.
• Yu regains his composure and argues that Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo is sound; Tang San simply never learned to use it properly. Tang San challenges him to prove it in a fight, and Yu eagerly accepts.
• Just as the battle begins, Tang San pulls off a shoe and ties his sock over his nose to block the stench. The chapter ends before the fight unfolds.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Xiaogang shifts from ecstatic, tearful triumph to anger at Tang San, then back to confident, teacherly conviction. He sees divine status as a chance to redeem his reputation and prove his theories.
• Tang San is resentful and contemptuous, blaming Yu’s method for his low standing among the gods. Though he wants to challenge Yu, the script prevents him from acting freely.
• Their exchange exposes a strained, love-hate master–disciple bond: Yu seeks recognition from his former student, while Tang San refuses to acknowledge him and belittles his abilities.
• The livestream audience alternates between mocking Yu’s “fart god” status and suggesting that the unusual path might have real potential. Some viewers encourage Yu to pursue it, since he has little left to lose.

Significant themes

• Recognition and redemption: Yu longs to overturn years of ridicule by proving himself a god and a worthy teacher.
• The gap between theory and results: Yu insists his method works, while Tang San judges it by the weak status it supposedly produced.
• Comedy through humiliation: The characters’ grand divine ambitions are undercut by fart-based powers, insults, and Tang San’s improvised sock-mask.
• Fate and constrained agency: The scripted simulation forces the characters to speak and act, adding absurdity to an already tense confrontation.

Key plot points and events

• Tang San uses his first soul skill, Lone Bamboo Pole Vault, to leap behind Yu Xiaogang and Luo Sanpao, apparently putting himself in the path of their notorious attack.
• Yu Xiaogang boasts that his next fart will be glorious. Before the pair can unleash it, Tang San strikes with his self-created Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo Strike, using two exceptionally tough bamboo stalks to block them.
• The attack leaves Yu Xiaogang and Luo Sanpao screaming in agony. Tang San wins the simulated battle, while viewers joke about the bamboo’s toughness and rush to absorb it themselves.
• The simulation ends, restoring everyone to their original state. Yu Xiaogang’s physical pain disappears, but he remains deeply shaken by the experience.
• The livestream opens a one-minute anonymous vote for the most popular performer. Viewers debate whether to vote for Yu Xiaogang or Tang San, with many favoring Tang San because Yu Xiaogang might receive a powerful reward if he wins.

Character developments

• Yu Xiaogang no longer resents Tang San much, recognizing that Tang San’s actions were part of the simulation. More troubling to him is the brief experience of godhood: losing it leaves him feeling bereft, and he wonders whether the livestream’s path to becoming a “Fart God” could actually work.
• Tang San shows quick thinking and a willingness to fight dirty when necessary. Afterward, he wants to apologize and comfort his teacher but hesitates.
• Liu Erlong strongly sympathizes with Yu Xiaogang and is angered by viewers who resist voting for him.
• The viewers treat the battle as comic spectacle, while some seriously reconsider Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo because of its supposed toughness.

Significant themes

• The gap between fantasy and reality: The divine power and pain felt in the simulation vanish afterward, but Yu Xiaogang’s emotional attachment to godhood remains.
• Comedy through vulgarity and exaggeration: The battle and audience commentary turn an absurd fart-based “divinity” into a running joke.
• Ambition and insecurity: Yu Xiaogang is tempted by a path to godhood despite its ridiculous nature, while viewers debate whether he deserves a reward.
• Public judgment and popularity: The anonymous vote turns the performers’ fortunes into a contest shaped by viewers’ amusement and expectations.

Character interactions

• Tang San defeats Yu Xiaogang through an unexpected, deliberately underhanded strike, then tries to approach him afterward.
• Yu Xiaogang focuses less on blaming Tang San than on processing his lost godhood.
• In the livestream chats, viewers tease one another about bamboo, godhood, and the battle, while Liu Erlong defends Yu Xiaogang against their mockery and voting strategy.

Key plot points and events

• Tang San wins the livestream round with 60 million votes to Yu Xiaogang’s 30 million; 10 million people abstain. The audience jokes that Yu Xiaogang is repeatedly denied rewards and saddled with punishments.
• Tang San’s random reward is a Four-Hundred-Year Solitary Bamboo Soul Ring. He is horrified, since the livestream’s earlier performances implied that absorbing Lone Bamboo may be the path to godhood. Though he can refuse it, the reward cannot be given to someone else.
• Yu Xiaogang instead sees the reward as proof that his own absurd ambition—to become the “Fart God”—might be achievable. He resolves to train hard.
• Tang San postpones deciding whether to absorb the ring, hoping to find a more suitable Soul Beast first. Yu Xiaogang agrees to help him search in the Soul Hunting Forest.
• The livestream then announces Yu Xiaogang’s punishment: “Tough Bamboo Temptation.” He must use a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo to pole-dance and teach Tang San the self-created soul skill of the same name.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang San shifts from embarrassment and disbelief to anxious calculation. He is tempted by the possibility of godhood but reluctant to stake his future on Lone Bamboo, and he tells the others he may reject the reward.
• Yu Xiaogang remains devoted to Tang San, saying his disciple’s reward is enough, yet the bamboo reward rekindles his personal hopes. He readily offers to guide Tang San’s Soul Ring search—until he is reminded that his own punishment is still due.
• The onlookers tease Tang San about his pole-vaulting “path to godhood,” while several joke that his earlier performance has created a new combat rule: never let him get behind you. Ning Rongrong, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Dai Mubai react with disgust or alarm.
• Liu Erlong objects to Yu Xiaogang losing out again, while Gu Xingzhou and Ning Rongrong encourage him by predicting the livestream will keep featuring him.

Significant themes

• Humiliation as entertainment: The crowd’s votes and jokes turn the characters’ embarrassment into spectacle, with Yu Xiaogang repeatedly bearing the cost.
• Ambition versus dignity: Tang San wants a respectable route to power; Yu Xiaogang is willing to embrace an absurd one if it offers a chance at godhood.
• Fate, choice, and uncertainty: The livestream’s rewards appear to validate its projections, but Tang San can still choose whether to accept the bamboo ring, leaving the consequences unresolved.

Key plot points and events

• Yu Xiaogang’s punishment continues in the Soul Hunting Forest. Though the livestream has humiliated him repeatedly, he insists he has become emotionally numb and prepares to teach Tang San a “self-created Soul Skill.”
• He calls the technique Tough Bamboo Temptation, claiming that flirtatious dancing can distract an enemy and create an opening for attack.
• The livestream dresses Yu Xiaogang in an outfit identical to Xiao Wu’s: a tight pink dress, thigh-high socks, and bunny ears. He is mortified, while the viewers find the spectacle either outrageous or entertaining.
• Yu Xiaogang demonstrates the technique, posing and dancing around the unbending Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo. He explains that the performance culminates in pole dancing, which supposedly conceals a shift into a fighting stance.
• Tang San watches in stunned silence as Yu Xiaogang completes the performance.
• Once Yu Xiaogang’s punishment ends, the livestream announces the next round’s candidates: Tang San, Bibi Dong, Flender, and Gu Xingzhou. The two with the most popularity votes will be selected to perform.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Xiaogang presents himself as composed, but the outfit and dance overwhelm even his practiced ability to endure humiliation. He nevertheless commits to teaching Tang San, treating the absurd technique with complete seriousness.
• Tang San feels sympathy and respect for his teacher, recalling Yu Xiaogang’s past help and defending his loyalty despite the livestream’s mockery. He follows the livestream’s prompting and agrees to study the technique, then watches the demonstration in disbelief.
• Xiao Wu recognizes the costume as her own and is disgusted that Yu Xiaogang is wearing it. She asks Gu Xingzhou to take it off so she can avoid wearing it herself, and later seeks compensation for the embarrassment.
• Gu Xingzhou, along with Flender, Ning Rongrong, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar, comments on Yu Xiaogang’s apparent composure and the performance. Liu Erlong is left speechless by the sight.

Significant themes

• Humiliation as spectacle: The livestream turns Yu Xiaogang’s punishment into public entertainment, with viewers reacting in real time.
• Loyalty and gratitude: Tang San’s sympathy for Yu Xiaogang persists because he remembers the teacher’s support and feels indebted to him.
• Absurdity treated as expertise: Yu Xiaogang describes an outrageous dance as a disciplined combat strategy, creating the chapter’s central comic contrast.
• Public image and embarrassment: Xiao Wu’s distress over seeing her outfit reused highlights how the livestream’s antics affect more than just its current performer.

• Plot: Viewers vote for the next livestream participants. Bibi Dong wins with 12 million votes, while Gu Xingzhou comes second with 10 million; Tang San and Flender lose. The two winners will compete in the next broadcast. Afterward, Bibi Dong contacts Gu Xingzhou directly, offering him money and cultivation supplies if he follows her instructions and chooses an ordinary script. She also warns him against deliberately making things difficult for her. Gu Xingzhou agrees to cooperate, while privately welcoming the chance to gain a reward and a payment.
• Character developments: Gu Xingzhou reveals how deliberately he manipulates the livestream’s presentation and audience discussion to generate lottery draws, though he cannot control the final vote. He is pragmatic about Bibi Dong’s offer: he needs money, but values system-based power-ups more than conventional cultivation resources. His deeper priority is keeping Tang San from obtaining Xiao Wu’s hundred-thousand-year soul ring. Bibi Dong is shown as ambitious and accustomed to using both authority and incentives to get what she wants.
• Interactions: Xiao Wu angrily defends Gu Xingzhou when she hears Bibi Dong’s threat, while he outwardly agrees and conceals his excitement. In the Elite Livestream Room, Liu Erlong looks forward to Bibi Dong’s turn, while Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun express unease. Ordinary viewers are also excited by Bibi Dong’s appearance but fear the consequences of opposing Spirit Hall, helping explain why many abstained from voting.
• Themes: The chapter highlights the livestream’s power as a tool for spectacle and personal advancement, the tension between public entertainment and political intimidation, and the difference between immediate material rewards and genuine power. It also underscores Gu Xingzhou’s calculating opportunism and his rivalry with Tang San.

Plot points

• After livestreaming, Gu Xingzhou and Tang San remain in the Soul Hunting Forest. Tang San cannot immediately obtain a Soul Ring through normal channels: doing so requires official permission and a Soul Ring hunt arranged under academy procedures. Xingzhou also delays acting on his own Soul Ring situation to avoid drawing suspicion about his sudden increase in Soul Power.
• When Grandmaster and Tang San return to Notting Academy, students mock them over Tang San’s earlier association with a four-hundred-year-old Lone Bamboo. Tang San is angered, but Grandmaster restrains him.
• Xiao Wu and Gu Xingzhou ask Tang San about his Soul Ring. He reveals that he and Grandmaster killed a four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake instead, and says he does not plan to use Lone Bamboo for his second Martial Soul.
• The following day, Ghost Douluo secretly delivers Bibi Dong’s promised reward to Xingzhou: a Storage Soul Tool containing 100,000 Gold Soul Coins. Xingzhou waits before starting the next livestream so the payment does not appear suspiciously connected to it.
• The new livestream pairs Xingzhou and Bibi Dong. They must each choose from three scripts, including “Emergency Room,” “The Locked Room,” and titles involving Xiaogang. The audience reacts with confusion and excitement, especially over the Xiaogang scripts.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang San struggles to control his anger as the other students ridicule him, but later calmly explains his choice of Soul Ring and his plans for his second Martial Soul.
• Grandmaster remains protective of Tang San and helps keep him from retaliating against the crowd.
• Xiao Wu worries about sharing a dormitory with Tang San after the teasing and resents Spirit Hall, wishing Bibi Dong would receive embarrassing scripts.
• Gu Xingzhou stays cautious about his Soul Power and public attention, while privately recognizing how much Tang San benefits from Grandmaster’s support. He also receives a major financial boost from Bibi Dong.

Significant themes

• Public ridicule and reputation: Tang San and Grandmaster become targets of school gossip, while Tang San’s reaction shows the personal cost of humiliation.
• Power, privilege, and support: Xingzhou contrasts his limited resources and connections with Tang San’s access to Grandmaster’s guidance—and receives a glimpse of Spirit Hall’s immense wealth through Bibi Dong’s gift.
• Secrecy and suspicion: Xingzhou carefully manages the timing of his actions to conceal his unusual advancement, while the livestream’s script choices promise new public embarrassment and intrigue.

Key plot points and events

• The livestream audience argues over three possible scripts for Gu Xingzhou and Bibi Dong. They speculate about Bibi Dong’s connection to Yu Xiaogang and worry that the scripts may expose a past relationship.
• Bibi Dong rejects “Secret Room”, whose title evokes a deeply painful trauma, and is unwilling to choose “Emergency Rescue Theater” because she believes it would require her to kiss a stranger in public.
• With the countdown nearly over, she reluctantly decides that the remaining script, “Xiaogang, Don’t Look at Me,” would hurt Yu Xiaogang—but then worries that Gu Xingzhou’s and her scripts might be connected.
• At the last moment, Bibi Dong tells Gu Xingzhou to choose “Emergency Rescue Theater.” He agrees, and both actors select it.
• Their choice shocks viewers across the continent, who cannot understand why the powerful Spirit Hall pope would willingly choose a script that appears to involve kissing Gu Xingzhou. The performance theater begins forming, and Gu Xingzhou’s striking appearance is revealed, intensifying the public reaction.

Character developments

• Bibi Dong is torn between protecting her public image, avoiding a traumatic subject, and sparing Yu Xiaogang further pain. Her choice suggests that she sees Emergency Rescue Theater as less unbearable than the alternatives, despite its personal and political risks.
• Gu Xingzhou defers to Bibi Dong’s decision and treats the choice as a job, showing composure amid the uproar.
• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong, along with other viewers, are bewildered by Bibi Dong’s decision.

Significant themes

• Public scrutiny and reputation: A private or scripted choice becomes a continent-wide spectacle, inviting speculation and judgment.
• Trauma and avoidance: Bibi Dong’s intense reaction to “Secret Room” hints at painful experiences she cannot face publicly.
• Love, guilt, and sacrifice: Her lingering love for Yu Xiaogang conflicts with her willingness to choose a script that may hurt him.
• Misunderstanding and rumor: Viewers invent explanations for Bibi Dong’s actions, while the truth behind her motives remains hidden.

Character interactions

• Bibi Dong consults Gu Xingzhou through the livestream, ultimately directing him to choose the same script she does.
• The audience debates Bibi Dong’s history with Yu Xiaogang and reacts with disbelief to her choice.
• Ning Fengzhi tries to reassure Ning Rongrong, while other young viewers react with fear, excitement, and shock.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Xingzhou’s unexpectedly striking appearance becomes the talk of the livestream comments. Viewers joke that Bibi Dong is an older woman “eating tender grass,” while others speculate that her power may have left Gu Xingzhou with no real choice.
• In the Papal Hall, Bibi Dong is startled by Gu Xingzhou’s beauty. Her initial intention to kill him for the script’s humiliation softens when she recognizes that he was forced into the situation and has done nothing wrong. She even wonders whether she, rather than Gu Xingzhou, is the one who has come out ahead—but this only deepens her guilt over Yu Xiaogang.
• The livestream transports Bibi Dong and Gu Xingzhou to the arena outside the Spirit Hall for a scripted “Emergency Rescue Theater.” The setup says Tang San fought Gu Xingzhou in a tournament final, was knocked unconscious, and poisoned Gu Xingzhou before passing out.
• Viewers expect Yu Xiaogang to rescue Tang San and Bibi Dong to rescue Gu Xingzhou. Instead, Yu Xiaogang confronts Bibi Dong and threatens to destroy the Spirit Hall if anything happens to Tang San.

Character developments

• Bibi Dong shifts from anger and humiliation toward sympathy for Gu Xingzhou, while her lingering attachment to Yu Xiaogang continues to torment her.
• Tang San grows jealous of Gu Xingzhou, resenting his popularity with Xiao Wu and his apparent connection to Bibi Dong. His envy is tied less to affection than to his inability to accept being outshone.
• Yu Xiaogang is shown as fiercely protective of Tang San, making an extreme threat against the Spirit Hall.

Significant themes

• Appearance and favoritism: Gu Xingzhou’s beauty shapes how others judge him and may even change Bibi Dong’s reaction.
• Agency and coercion: Bibi Dong recognizes that Gu Xingzhou was selected and scripted without meaningful choice.
• Jealousy and comparison: Tang San’s resentment centers on what Gu Xingzhou receives that Tang San believes he lacks.
• Power and loyalty: Yu Xiaogang’s threat illustrates how personal attachment can escalate into hostility toward an entire institution.

Character interactions

• Bibi Dong silently reassesses Gu Xingzhou, moving from hostility to reluctant compassion.
• Livestream viewers and characters alike compare Gu Xingzhou’s looks with those of Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and other men, prompting embarrassment and jokes.
• Yu Xiaogang’s confrontation with Bibi Dong abruptly overturns the expected rescue scenario: rather than focusing on Gu Xingzhou, he makes Tang San’s safety the priority and threatens the Spirit Hall.

Plot points and events

• Yu Xiaogang threatens Pope Bibi Dong, claiming he would destroy Spirit Hall to protect Tang San. Bibi Dong mocks his low Soul Power and asks what he could possibly sacrifice.
• Xiaogang insists Tang San is like a son to him, then declares, “I have a son, and my son has a father,” prompting the livestream audience to joke about him replacing or marrying Tang San’s real father.
• Tang Hao, secretly watching over Tang San, hears the jokes and becomes furious and uneasy. He fears the livestream may expose him and drag him into a humiliating scenario with Yu Xiaogang.
• Bibi Dong warns that if anything happens to Gu Xingzhou, she will confine Xiaogang and Tang San together in a Secret Room. She then rushes off carrying the poisoned Gu Xingzhou.
• Xiaogang turns his attention back to the unconscious Tang San, while the livestream audience continues ridiculing their “father-son” act.
• Bibi Dong considers whether Gu Xingzhou needs artificial respiration, but realizes he is poisoned, not choking. She looks for the wound and discovers that the poisoned blood is coming from his toe.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Xiaogang presents himself as fiercely devoted to Tang San, but his grand claims are undercut by Bibi Dong’s mockery and the audience’s jokes. His focus quickly returns to Tang San once Bibi Dong leaves.
• Bibi Dong remains protective and anxious about Gu Xingzhou. Her private thoughts reveal embarrassment and a brief willingness to accept the idea of kissing him, before she correctly recognizes that artificial respiration is unnecessary.
• Tang Hao is increasingly resentful of Xiaogang and protective of his own dignity and Ah Yin’s memory. The audience’s “stepmother” jokes make him fear that he, too, could become part of the livestream’s spectacle.
• Tang San is mortified by the livestream’s jokes and especially uncomfortable at the implication that Xiaogang kissed him during treatment.
• Xiaogang and Bibi Dong clash over his supposed devotion to Tang San; meanwhile, the livestream audience turns their exchange into increasingly absurd family-role jokes.

Significant themes

• Public humiliation and performance: The livestream turns private relationships and emergencies into a spectacle, with viewers freely inventing humiliating interpretations.
• Family and possessiveness: The chapter plays with father-son roles, biological parenthood, and the idea of a substitute or step-parent.
• Power versus bravado: Xiaogang’s dramatic threat is contrasted with his limited strength.
• Care amid comedy: Beneath the jokes, Bibi Dong’s concern for Gu Xingzhou and Tang Hao’s protectiveness toward Tang San remain genuine.

Key plot points and events

• Bibi Dong, the Pope of Spirit Hall, realizes she must draw venom from Gu Xingzhou’s foot. She is horrified that she is kneeling before him and that the livestream is broadcasting the scene.
• Despite her distress, Bibi Dong proceeds to suck the poisoned blood from his wound and spits it out until the last of the venom is removed.
• Gu Xingzhou appears unconscious but is actually acting. He expects Bibi Dong may be furious afterward, yet trusts the plan he has devised.
• As Bibi Dong’s embarrassment turns to anger, Gu Xingzhou murmurs “Mom.” The word immediately softens her, and when he reaches for her, she lets him hold her around the waist.
• The whole continent watches the intimate moment. Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, sees it and becomes visibly upset.

Character developments

• Bibi Dong: Her pride and fear of public humiliation clash with her impulse to save Gu Xingzhou. His “Mom” awakens her suppressed maternal feelings, revealing tenderness beneath her formidable public persona.
• Gu Xingzhou: He is calculating and in control, pretending to be helpless so he can influence Bibi Dong’s response. He understands the continent’s underlying “Love God” code and deliberately uses it to trigger her maternal instincts.
• Qian Renxue: Her immediate anger at seeing Bibi Dong embrace Gu Xingzhou suggests jealousy or deep personal resentment toward her mother.

Significant themes

• Public image versus private emotion: Bibi Dong’s concern for her dignity is challenged by an involuntary act of compassion witnessed by everyone.
• Manipulation and performance: Gu Xingzhou uses his staged unconsciousness and carefully chosen words to guide Bibi Dong’s feelings.
• Maternal love and emotional vulnerability: The scene suggests Bibi Dong’s capacity for maternal affection remains, despite her troubled relationship with Qian Renxue.
• Livestream spectacle: The viewers’ reactions turn a private rescue into public entertainment, amplifying Bibi Dong’s humiliation and the scene’s dramatic impact.

Character interactions

• Bibi Dong and Gu Xingzhou: She rescues him, then responds tenderly when he calls her “Mom” and clings to her.
• Gu Xingzhou and the livestream audience: He performs for a public audience, while viewers debate the rescue and speculate about its consequences.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue: Though they do not interact directly in this excerpt, Qian Renxue’s reaction highlights the tension surrounding Bibi Dong’s maternal role.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Xingzhou wakes in Bibi Dong’s arms and explains that he dreamed she was his mother. Bibi Dong asks about his childhood, as prompted by the livestream’s script.
• He says he is an orphan who was raised by villagers and often imagined the mother he never knew. This account is largely true, though he uses it to deepen the emotional scene.
• Moved by his story, Bibi Dong offers to be his mother. Gu Xingzhou accepts, and she tenderly tells him not to push himself so hard.
• Watching from the Heaven Dou palace, Qian Renxue smashes a vase in anger and grief: she longs for Bibi Dong’s affection but sees it given to Gu Xingzhou instead.
• Viewers discuss whether Bibi Dong may retaliate against Gu Xingzhou after the scripted performance, and whether popularity or a powerful reward could protect him.
• Friends confirm that Gu Xingzhou really is an orphan. The broadcast then announces a second round: Bibi Dong’s own “Emergency Rescue Theater” script, apparently involving her being injured and Gu Xingzhou treating her.

Character developments

• Gu Xingzhou uses a vulnerable childhood story to draw Bibi Dong closer, blending genuine hardship with performance. He can improvise beyond the script’s control.
• Bibi Dong shifts from powerful Pope to openly nurturing figure, and her compassion seems sincere despite the scripted setup.
• Qian Renxue’s resentment is revealed to conceal a deep longing for her mother’s approval and affection. Seeing Bibi Dong embrace Gu Xingzhou makes that unmet need unbearable.

Character interactions

• Bibi Dong comforts Gu Xingzhou, asks about his mother, and offers him maternal love; he calls her “Mom.”
• Qian Renxue watches their exchange and reacts with fury and heartbreak.
• Livestream viewers debate the authenticity and consequences of the scene, while Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and others learn that Gu Xingzhou’s orphaned upbringing is real.

Significant themes

• The scene contrasts performed emotion with genuine feeling: the encounter is scripted, but Gu Xingzhou’s past and Bibi Dong’s tenderness carry real emotional weight.
• Longing for family and belonging drives both Gu Xingzhou’s appeal and Qian Renxue’s pain.
• The chapter also highlights the livestream’s power over performers, whose safety may depend on audience popularity and rewards.

Chapter Summary

• The livestream audience speculates about the next installment of Bibi Dong’s “Emergency Rescue Theater,” worrying that it may involve Gu Xingzhou doing something even more humiliating to the Pope.
• The scene shifts to Yu Xiaogang and Tang San. Tang San is dying, and Yu Xiaogang repeatedly attempts artificial respiration. Tang San then dissolves into azure light and is absorbed into Yu Xiaogang, becoming a Soul Ring and a second Martial Soul: a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo. Yu Xiaogang also breaks through his long-standing Level 29 bottleneck and gains a surge of Soul Power.
• The livestream viewers react with disbelief and jokes. In the elite chat, Yu Xiaogang assures Tang San that the scene is fictional and that he would never harm his disciple. Tang San says he understands, though the episode has clearly unsettled him.
• Back in the arena, Bibi Dong prepares to leave with the recovering Gu Xingzhou when Yu Xiaogang confronts her. Declaring that Tang San is dead and he no longer cares about past right and wrong, Yu Xiaogang attacks. He detonates his Soul Rings to unleash overwhelming power and pierces Bibi Dong’s chest with the poisoned Solitary Bamboo. The livestream goes dark as she loses consciousness.
• The broadcast resumes from Bibi Dong’s perspective as she watches Gu Xingzhou lay her on a bed. Seeing the blood on her clothing, she fears that the next rescue scene will require him to undress and treat her in front of the entire continent. The chapter ends before revealing what happens.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Yu Xiaogang changes from a grieving, seemingly powerless master into a dangerous attacker after absorbing Tang San. His grief gives way to resolve—and then to a decisive strike against Bibi Dong.
• Tang San is portrayed as both Yu Xiaogang’s beloved disciple and the source of his sudden power; in the elite chat, he tries to trust his master’s reassurance despite the disturbing scene.
• Bibi Dong moves from a tender moment with Gu Xingzhou to fear and vulnerability: Yu Xiaogang catches her off guard, and she later watches the broadcast while unconscious.
• Gu Xingzhou remains close to Bibi Dong, carrying her away from the arena and laying her down gently.

Significant Themes

• Grief and revenge: Yu Xiaogang’s declaration that he no longer cares about right and wrong frames his attack as vengeance for Tang San.
• Power gained through sacrifice: Tang San’s transformation into Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul and Soul Ring turns loss into strength.
• Public spectacle and humiliation: The characters’ private suffering is turned into entertainment by the livestream, whose viewers speculate, joke, and demand more.
• Reality versus fiction: The elite chat distinguishes the livestream’s invented events from the characters’ real relationships, though the scenes still affect them.