Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• The livestream room announces that it will hide performers’ private moments from viewers of the opposite sex, offering them only a brief text description. Women can watch Bibi Dong’s scene, while men can watch Gangzi’s; viewers complain about the arrangement and joke about the imbalance.
• Bibi Dong realizes the privacy rules mean her clothing may be removed, and feels embarrassed by the scene she had just been acting out. Yu Xiaogang is distressed that Gu Xingzhou may see his former girlfriend in a way he never did.
• Gu Xingzhou instead focuses on saving Bibi Dong: her wound has stopped bleeding, but the poison is still spreading. A pill has failed, and he lacks the healing skills and Soul Power to treat her normally.
• He recalls Tang San’s “Tang Sect Thirteen Needles,” a treatment he remembers being used on an injured Yu Xiaogang. The livestream switches to a flashback, showing Tang San beginning the procedure on Gangzi.
• The treatment seems ordinary at first, but when Tang San reaches the eleventh needle, he lifts the cloth covering Yu Xiaogang. The chapter ends as Gangzi senses what is coming and tenses up.

Character developments

• Gu Xingzhou is presented as considerate and self-controlled: despite the suggestive setup, he concentrates on finding a way to save Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong is vulnerable and embarrassed, but her immediate danger is the spreading poison.
• Yu Xiaogang (Gangzi) feels helpless and jealous over Gu Xingzhou’s access to Bibi Dong, then becomes anxious as the flashback hints at an embarrassing or painful part of Tang San’s treatment.
• Tang San appears confident in his self-developed needles and begins applying them to his teacher.

Significant themes

• The chapter contrasts provocative spectacle with genuine concern: viewers expect romance or scandal, while Gu Xingzhou prioritizes Bibi Dong’s survival.
• The livestream’s privacy rules create comic unfairness and fuel teasing, but also reveal how little control performers have over being watched.
• Humiliation and misfortune—especially Gangzi’s recurring role as the livestream’s target—serve as a central source of comedy.

Character interactions

• Viewers argue over who gets to watch and tease both Gu Xingzhou and Gangzi.
• Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang are linked by their brief past romance, though neither acts on it in the present scene.
• Gu Xingzhou tries to save Bibi Dong by recalling Tang San’s earlier treatment of Yu Xiaogang, bringing the wider group—Flender, Zhao Wuji, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Dai Mubai, and others—into the flashback.

Plot points and events

• Gu Xingzhou realizes that the treatment needed to save Bibi Dong may be the same needle technique Tang San used in the livestream’s fictional scenario.
• Tang San performs the Tang Sect Thirteen Needles on the unconscious Yu Xiaogang. The first needle makes Xiaogang jerk and cough up poisoned blood, confirming the treatment is working.
• Tang San completes all thirteen needles. Xiaogang wakes in pain, discovers the needles in his body, and immediately faints again.
• The livestream announces that, because the next treatment involves a woman’s privacy, male viewers will be blocked and the scene will instead be summarized in text.
• Gu Xingzhou approaches the helpless Bibi Dong to treat her, but just as he reaches for her clothes, Qian Renxue arrives at the door, calling Bibi Dong “Mom.”

Character developments and interactions

• Tang San is embarrassed by the audience’s crude interpretation of the needle technique, but insists he would use it only to save his teacher. Flender and the others reluctantly let him proceed.
• Gu Xingzhou focuses on observing the procedure so he can use it to help Bibi Dong.
• Xiaogang’s ordeal revives his insecurity about his body and his regrets about his relationship with Bibi Dong. He dreads watching his former lover receive treatment from another man.
• Bibi Dong is furious and humiliated by the livestream’s control over her. She had expected a romantic or conventional rescue, not another degrading ordeal, and cannot refuse or warn Gu Xingzhou.
• Qian Renxue’s sudden arrival interrupts the treatment at its most compromising moment, setting up a confrontation.

Significant themes

• Powerlessness and humiliation: The livestream dictates what characters can do and exposes them to public ridicule.
• Public spectacle: Viewers turn private suffering into entertainment, while the broadcast’s restrictions only intensify their curiosity.
• Regret and insecurity: Xiaogang’s physical and romantic anxieties resurface as he watches events unfold.
• Expectation versus reality: Bibi Dong’s hopes for a conventional rescue repeatedly give way to increasingly distressing surprises.

Qian Renxue appeared in the scroll as Bibi Dong’s daughter, shocking the livestream viewers and distressing Bibi Dong. When Qian Renxue tried to draw the poison out of Bibi Dong, it entered her own body, leaving both women in danger.

• The scroll revealed Qian Renxue as Bibi Dong’s daughter, while Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong both resented the forced public revelation.
• The livestream viewers and Yu Xiaogang reacted with shock to Bibi Dong having a daughter and speculated about Qian Renxue’s father.
• Gu Xingzhou told Qian Renxue that Bibi Dong’s ten-year solitary bamboo poison resisted treatment and that he planned to use the Tang Sect Thirteen Needles.
• Qian Renxue tried to purify the poison with her soul power, then attempted to draw it out of Bibi Dong and into herself.
• Gu Xingzhou warned Qian Renxue to stop, but she refused, and the poison began infecting her as Bibi Dong feared they would both be bedridden.
• The real Qian Renxue in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace grew frantic and burst into tears.

Qian Renxue collapsed after drawing half of Bibi Dong’s poison into herself, and Gu Xingzhou treated Bibi Dong with the Tang Sect Thirteen Needles while the viewers mocked her. After finishing, he turned to Qian Renxue, who feared she would suffer the same humiliating exposure.

• Qian Renxue realized the livestream had planned to involve her and vowed to kill Gu Xingzhou if he performed the Tang Sect Thirteen Needles on her.
• The viewers and Elite Livestream Room discussed Qian Renxue’s involvement and worried about who the livestream might target next.
• Qian Renxue lost consciousness after absorbing half of Bibi Dong’s poison, and Gu Xingzhou laid her beside Bibi Dong before preparing to treat Bibi Dong.
• Gu Xingzhou administered all thirteen needles to Bibi Dong, whose reactions prompted mocking comments from the women watching.
• After Bibi Dong spat out poisoned blood, Gu Xingzhou turned to treat Qian Renxue, who became frightened by what she had witnessed.

Gu Xingzhou won the popularity contest against Bibi Dong and drew a ten-thousand-year Myriad-Aspect Phantom Beast Origin Soul Ring, which he absorbed safely. The chapter ended with his martial soul transformed and Tang San bitter over how much more the livestream favored Gu Xingzhou.

• The livestream ended Bibi Dong's rescue theater before Gu Xingzhou could use the Tang Sect Thirteen Needles on Qian Renxue, then began the popularity vote.
• Viewers speculated about the vote and Qian Renxue's possible future script while Qian Renxue worried about what might happen to her.
• Gu Xingzhou won the vote with 50 million popularity votes to Bibi Dong's 45 million, and the livestream began drawing his reward and Bibi Dong's punishment.
• The livestream awarded Gu Xingzhou a ten-thousand-year Myriad-Aspect Phantom Beast Origin Soul Ring, which appeared above his head and stunned viewers across the continent.
• Tang San felt envious as he compared Gu Xingzhou's reward with his own, while Gu Xingzhou absorbed the ring and transformed his martial soul.

Gu Xingzhou absorbed the Myriad-Aspect Illusion Beast’s ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, reaching level twenty and unlocking the Perfect Mask skill. While factions hesitated to approach him because he had angered Bibi Dong, Yu Xiaogang unexpectedly asked him to become his disciple.

• Gu Xingzhou absorbed the Myriad-Aspect Illusion Beast’s Soul Ring, reached level twenty, and unlocked Perfect Mask, which let him disguise himself and replicate Soul Skills by spending joy points.
• Gu Xingzhou realized Perfect Mask could help him escape danger and let him secretly influence events.
• Viewers in the Elite Livestream Room congratulated Gu Xingzhou and reacted to his ten-thousand-year first Soul Ring.
• Major factions held back from openly recruiting Gu Xingzhou because they feared Bibi Dong’s response to his offense against her.
• Ning Fengzhi had Ning Rongrong invite Gu Xingzhou to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Yu Xiaogang publicly asked Gu Xingzhou whether he would take him as his master, surprising the other viewers.

Gu Xingzhou declined Yu Xiaogang’s offer to become his disciple, then accepted Bibi Dong’s offer to become her adopted son and an Honorary Holy Son. He prepared to leave Xiao Wu behind and planned to adjust the live stream’s future punishments now that he had gained Bibi Dong’s trust.

• Yu Xiaogang urged Gu Xingzhou to become his disciple, offering martial-soul guidance and more chances to earn live-stream rewards.
• Gu Xingzhou refused Yu Xiaogang, saying he no longer wanted to perform the bizarre scripts.
• Bibi Dong offered to take Gu Xingzhou as her adopted son and grant him the title of Honorary Holy Son.
• Xiao Wu anxiously asked whether Gu Xingzhou would accept, worried that she would have to part from him.
• Gu Xingzhou accepted Bibi Dong’s offer, reasoning that it was his best option and that refusing could provoke her.
• Gu Xingzhou privately decided to change the live-stream punishments now that he had gained Bibi Dong’s trust.

Gu Xingzhou agreed to become Bibi Dong’s adopted son and Spirit Hall’s honorary holy son, while arranging for Xiao Wu to live in a house he would buy near Spirit City. After Spirit Hall announced his new status, Bibi Dong drew the punishment of doing peace-sign squats.

• Gu Xingzhou teased Xiao Wu about leaving, then offered to buy houses near Spirit City so she could move in and look after them.
• Gu Xingzhou accepted Bibi Dong as his mother and honorary holy son, and Bibi Dong dispatched Ghost Douluo to escort him from Notting to Spirit City.
• Spirit Hall announced Gu Xingzhou’s appointment across the continent, prompting public speculation about Bibi Dong’s motives and Qian Renxue’s anger over Gu Xingzhou’s past treatment of her.
• The livestream announced Bibi Dong’s punishment as peace-sign squats, and Bibi Dong felt faint as she anticipated performing them before the entire continent.

Bibi Dong, Gu Xingzhou, Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and one hundred thousand spectators were transported to an arena for an in-person punishment show. The livestream room revealed a speed contest in which Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang would perform Peace Signs while their teammates helped them complete 100 squats.

• The livestream room announced that Gu Xingzhou, Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San would join Bibi Dong, with one hundred thousand spectators watching in person.
• Bibi Dong despaired at the prospect of performing before such a huge crowd and was transported into the arena.
• Ma Hongjun found Flender, Zhao Wuji, and many other familiar faces among the spectators, while they discovered they could not leave their seats.
• The Elite Livestream Room members noted that many of them had been selected, and Xiao Wu confirmed that Gu Xingzhou would soon go to Spirit Hall.
• The livestream room assigned Bibi Dong and Gu Xingzhou to one team and Yu Xiaogang and Tang San to the other, ordering Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang to make Peace Signs while their teammates assisted them through 100 squats in a speed contest.

Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang prepared for a livestream punishment that made Bibi Dong perform a humiliating pose while competing in squats with Yu Xiaogang. The livestream room announced that assistants would be bound tightly to the performers, leaving Bibi Dong facing the contest with Gu Xingzhou as the rules grew more severe.

• Bibi Dong urged Gu Xingzhou to give the competition everything he had, while Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to perform well for audience approval and future rewards.
• Yu Xiaogang privately hoped to use the performance to take revenge on Bibi Dong for betraying him.
• The livestream room announced that Bibi Dong had to make the peace sign, roll her eyes, and stick out her tongue herself or face harsher punishment.
• Bibi Dong broke down when she learned she could not rely on the livestream room to control her body during the pose.
• The livestream room ordered assistants to press against performers' backs and be bound tightly to them, with assistants leading the squats.

The livestream room made Gu Xingzhou and Tang San appear as their adult selves so they could race despite the height differences, leaving Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue distracted by Gu Xingzhou’s looks. The performers took their positions as the one-minute squat competition was about to begin.

• Tang San and Gu Xingzhou took their places behind Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong, but both teams struggled with the height differences.
• The Ink Painting Scroll temporarily changed Gu Xingzhou and Tang San into their adult selves and restored their original heights only after the performance.
• Bibi Dong and the spectators admired Gu Xingzhou’s grown-up appearance, while Tang San felt overshadowed and Yu Xiaogang encouraged him.
• Qian Renxue reconsidered her anger toward Gu Xingzhou and realized she blamed Bibi Dong more than him.
• The livestream room announced a ten-second preparation period and a one-minute squat competition.

Bibi Dong and Gu Xingzhou defeated Yu Xiaogang and Tang San in a squat challenge, and Gu Xingzhou advanced to the next popularity vote. Tang Hao and Tang San won the vote and were chosen for the next round, leaving Tang Hao uneasy about what the livestream would make him do.

• Bibi Dong and Gu Xingzhou competed against Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, while Yu Xiaogang used a fart attack to disrupt their opponents.
• Tang San used the Mysterious Heaven Skill to overtake Bibi Dong, but Gu Xingzhou helped her finish with 41 squats to Yu Xiaogang's 40, winning the match.
• The livestream drew Gu Xingzhou, Xue Qinghe, Tang Hao, and Tang San as candidates for the next popularity vote.
• Tang Hao saw the candidates and livestream comments at Notting Academy and feared he would be forced into an embarrassing performance like Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong.
• Tang Hao and Tang San won the vote with 50 million and 20 million votes, respectively, and were selected for the next round.

After Bibi Dong learned that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son, Tang Hao took Tang San away before Ghost Douluo could arrest him. Gu Xingzhou used his livestream popularity to transform his martial soul again, then Ghost Douluo arrived to escort him back to Spirit Hall.

• Bibi Dong recognized Tang San as Tang Hao’s son and ordered Ghost Douluo to arrest him, but Tang Hao said he had already taken Tang San away.
• Xiao Wu left Dorm Seven after agreeing to travel to Spirit City later, once Gu Xingzhou had established himself there.
• Gu Xingzhou spent 100 million popularity to transform his martial soul and gained the Soul Skill Replacement ability through the Joy Mask.
• Gu Xingzhou discovered that the mask had stored several fanfiction soul skills, including Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo Pole Vault and Tough Bamboo Temptation.
• Ghost Douluo appeared beside Gu Xingzhou and said he had come on Bibi Dong’s orders to escort him to Spirit Hall.

Gu Xingzhou returned to Spirit City with Ghost Elder, where Hu Liena challenged him to a friendly spar. He used the Joy Mask to transform her Charm Soul Skill into a farting Luo Sanpao, leaving Hu Liena horrified and Ghost Elder wondering whether the mask could replace an enemy’s soul skill.

• Ghost Elder flew Gu Xingzhou from Notting Academy to Spirit City and brought him before the Papal Hall.
• Hu Liena blocked their way and challenged Gu Xingzhou to test the strength of his ten-thousand-year First Soul Ring.
• Hu Liena used her Demon Fox Martial Soul and tried to force Gu Xingzhou to meet her eyes so her Charm Soul Skill would take effect.
• Gu Xingzhou slapped the Joy Mask onto Hu Liena, causing her soul skill to summon Luo Sanpao and unleash a blast of foul gas.
• Hu Liena fled from the stench, while Ghost Elder asked Gu Xingzhou whether his Martial Soul could replace an enemy’s soul skill.

Gu Xingzhou explained his soul-skill-replacing martial soul to Bibi Dong, who tested a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo skill and warned him to conceal it. The next morning, the live stream announced a PK match between Tang Hao and Tang San, leaving Tang Hao nervous as script selection began.

• Hu Liena questioned Gu Xingzhou about replacing her soul skill, and Ghost Douluo reminded her that she had challenged him first.
• Bibi Dong summoned Gu Xingzhou and learned that his fox-mask martial soul could store observed soul skills, including skills seen in the live stream.
• Gu Xingzhou gave Bibi Dong a mask, and she involuntarily performed the Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo Pole Vault in the Papal Hall.
• Bibi Dong warned Gu Xingzhou to hide the fictional live-stream skills and arranged for him to stay in the Papal Hall for safety.
• Gu Xingzhou ate, slept, and woke the next day to begin the live stream, which announced a Tang Hao versus Tang San PK match.
• Tang Hao grew nervous as the live stream entered the script selection phase.

Tang San and Tang Hao chose scripts tied to Tang San’s mother, and Tang San’s performance began with him transformed into a girl named Tang Yin. The chapter left Tang San alarmed about what scenes awaited him and his father.

• Tang Hao told Tang San about his Clear Sky Sect ancestry and Clear Sky Hammer martial soul but said little about Tang San’s mother.
• The livestream room offered Tang San and Tang Hao scripts, and Tang Hao urged Tang San to choose “Tang Yin.”
• Tang San chose “Tang Yin,” while Tang Hao chose “My Vegetable Wife.”
• The livestream transported them to Holy Soul Village, where Tang San discovered he had become a girl named Tang Yin.

Tang San returned to Holy Soul Village disguised as Tang Yin, and Tang Hao reacted to her resemblance to her late mother with unsettling affection. Yu Xiaogang arrived as a guest actor, leaving Tang San startled and the livestream audience speculating about what would happen next.

• Tang San returned from Notting Academy to the blacksmith shop as Tang Yin and greeted Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao stared at Tang Yin, recalled her mother, and said she looked more like her as she grew up.
• Tang San grew uneasy at Tang Hao's attention and wondered whether he was seeing her mother in her.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived at the shop, and the livestream identified him as this episode's guest actor.
• The livestream audience joked about Yu Xiaogang joining Tang Hao and Tang Yin in a love triangle.

Tang Yin introduced Yu Xiaogang to Tang Hao and invited him to dinner, while Tang Hao grew jealous of their closeness. After the meal, Tang Yin asked Yu Xiaogang to stay overnight, and the revelation that the house had only two rooms left Tang San, Tang Hao, and Yu Xiaogang fearing what the script would demand next.

• Tang Yin introduced Yu Xiaogang to Tang Hao as her teacher, but Tang Hao tried to send him away.
• Tang Yin persuaded Tang Hao to let Yu Xiaogang stay for dinner, and Tang Hao reluctantly agreed.
• After dinner, Yu Xiaogang prepared to leave, but Tang Yin grabbed his wrist and invited him to stay overnight.
• Tang Hao objected that there were only two rooms in the house, leaving Tang San, Tang Hao, and Yu Xiaogang alarmed.

Tang San, acting as Tang Yin, became trapped in a livestream script that forced him to share a room with Yu Xiaogang after Tang Yin defended his teacher against Tang Hao. The chapter ended with Tang San lying rigid in the dark, unable to turn around or speak, while Yu Xiaogang was beside him.

• Tang Hao worried over the livestream room's two-room arrangement and hoped to share a room with Tang Yin rather than Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang Yin angrily insisted that Yu Xiaogang sleep in his room, accusing Tang Hao of mistreating his teacher.
• Tang Hao raised his hand at Tang Yin, but Yu Xiaogang stopped him and defended Tang Yin.
• The Ink Painting Scroll cut to Tang Yin's shabby room, where Yu Xiaogang offered to sleep on the floor and Tang Yin refused.
• After Tang Yin blew out the lamp, Tang San found that the livestream room's control left him unable to move, speak, or turn away from Yu Xiaogang.

Tang Hao entered Tang Yin’s room and climbed into bed beside her, leaving Tang San terrified as he watched through the Ink Painting Scroll. When Tang Hao begged Tang Yin to consider his wishes, she suddenly unleashed a different-looking Blue Silver Entanglement, whose effect remained unknown.

• Unable to sleep, Tang Hao went to Tang Yin’s room while Tang San watched anxiously through the Ink Painting Scroll.
• Tang Hao used his Soul Power to put Yu Xiaogang and Tang Yin into deep slumber, then moved Yu Xiaogang aside and took his place beside Tang Yin.
• Tang Yin woke, recognized Tang Hao by the smell of alcohol, and asked what he had done to Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang Hao admitted he had resented Tang Yin growing close to Yu Xiaogang because she reminded him of her mother, then begged Tang Yin to consider his wishes.
• Tang Yin unleashed Blue Silver Entanglement, which Tang San realized was unlike his own soul skill.