Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Lin Fan, an outspoken webnovel reader, angrily criticizes Yu Xiaogang online. A mysterious system binds him to a role-playing game in which he must inhabit characters and earn more than 85% approval from Douluo Continent’s viewers.
• He awakens as twenty-year-old Yu Xiaogang, at a time when the family has marginalized him. Treating the situation as an immersive game, Lin Fan immediately plans to investigate and repair Luo Sanpao’s failed mutation using meridian techniques and his own theories about genetics and Soul Power.
• Unknown to Lin Fan, his actions are being broadcast across the continent. A vast Sky Screen appears during Tang San’s Martial Soul awakening, displaying Lin Fan’s harsh accusations against Yu Xiaogang.
• The public denunciation devastates the present-day Yu Xiaogang, exposing his insecurities and damaging his carefully maintained “Grandmaster” image.
• Bibi Dong is shaken by the accusations, which recall Yu Xiaogang’s past cowardice when she was assaulted by Qian Xunji. Yet Lin Fan’s claim that Yu Xiaogang could have used his resources more effectively also sparks her curiosity.
• The Sky Screen switches to Lin Fan as young Yu Xiaogang. He confidently announces that he will transform Luo Sanpao into a Golden Sacred Dragon. The present-day Yu Xiaogang faints, while Bibi Dong watches the unfamiliar version of him intently.

Character developments

• Lin Fan / young Yu Xiaogang: Lin Fan approaches his new identity with gamer-like enthusiasm and confidence. Rather than accepting Yu Xiaogang’s limitations, he intends to experiment and change Luo Sanpao’s fate.
• Present-day Yu Xiaogang: Publicly humiliated, he loses composure as the Sky Screen challenges his reputation, competence, and integrity.
• Bibi Dong: The broadcast revives painful memories and intensifies her anger toward Yu Xiaogang, but it also introduces doubt and curiosity about what he might have accomplished.
• Tang San: He recognizes the Sky Screen as a power beyond ordinary techniques, but cannot determine its source.

Significant themes

• Reputation versus truth: Yu Xiaogang’s public persona is shaken when hidden accusations become a continent-wide spectacle.
• Rewriting fate and potential: Lin Fan believes Yu Xiaogang’s failures are not inevitable and sets out to pursue possibilities the original man abandoned.
• Public judgment and spectacle: The Sky Screen turns private criticism into a mass event, instantly affecting reputations and relationships.
• Knowledge and innovation: Lin Fan intends to combine modern scientific ideas with Douluo’s Soul Power system.

Character interactions

• Lin Fan initially interacts with Luo Sanpao as a gamer-turned-researcher, inspecting the creature and promising to help it evolve.
• The Sky Screen forces present-day Yu Xiaogang to confront the public’s judgment, while students and teachers begin to view him with suspicion.
• Bibi Dong’s reaction links the broadcast’s accusations to her personal history with Yu Xiaogang; her anger gives way to wary curiosity as she watches his younger counterpart.

Plot points and events

• Lin Fan, inhabiting Yu Xiaogang’s body in a single-player VR game, rejects the game’s fixed limits: he is twenty years old, stuck at Soul Power level 29, and considered a failure by his family.
• Applying ideas from physics and anatomy, he decides conventional meditation merely fills a limited “container.” He attempts to break through by forcibly compressing his Soul Power, treating his meridians as high-pressure pipes.
• The process causes extreme pain and apparent bodily damage, but Lin Fan refuses to stop, believing the game’s pain and health systems can be endured.
• His pale-purple Soul Power transforms from gas to liquid and finally into a tiny, solid golden crystal in his Dantian—apparently proving his unprecedented cultivation method works.
• The entire continent watches the feat on a Sky Screen, including a holographic view of his energy and meridians. Powerful figures react with astonishment, alarm, and ambition.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan is introduced as defiant, reckless, and fiercely determined. Rather than accept his imposed role and level cap, he challenges the established rules through experimentation and sheer will.
• Ning Fengzhi immediately recognizes the method’s strategic value for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, whose support-type disciples struggle with slow cultivation and bottlenecks. He discusses its potential with Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo Gu Rong.
• Chen Xin interprets the technique as an extreme trial of will and predicts that, if successful, it could make Lin Fan far stronger than others at the same level. He also expresses interest in testing the resulting power.
• Gu Rong admires Lin Fan’s breakthrough but stresses its cost: his meridians appear badly damaged, and few people may dare imitate the method.
• Yue Guan reacts with horror, initially fearing that Lin Fan’s reversed energy flow will destroy his meridians.

Significant themes

• Defiance of conventional limits: Lin Fan questions traditions that others treat as unchangeable laws.
• Innovation through risk: His breakthrough comes from applying unfamiliar ideas, but at potentially ruinous physical cost.
• Power and sacrifice: The new method may offer enormous strength, yet requires enduring pain and risking one’s life.
• Knowledge as a source of conflict: Once the method is witnessed, it inspires not only wonder but also fear, competition, and greed among the continent’s powerful factions.

Plot points and events

• After completing his own Soul Power “engine overhaul,” Lin Fan turns to upgrading Luo Sanpao, Yu Xiaogang’s deformed Martial Soul. He uses a newly formed strand of golden, compressed Soul Power to try to reactivate Luo Sanpao’s dormant Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline.
• The transformation initially begins: Luo Sanpao sheds fat, lengthens, and develops golden scales. But the process stalls because Lin Fan underestimated how much energy the weakened bloodline required. Luo Sanpao’s heart stops.
• Lin Fan refuses to give up. Despite his own injuries and exhaustion, he performs chest compressions and pours the last of his energy into Luo Sanpao.
• Luo Sanpao revives and fully transforms into a majestic Golden Sacred Dragon, surrounded by golden lightning and sacred power. Its immense aura suppresses Beast Martial Soul users across the continent, forcing many weaker Soul Masters to their knees.
• At the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, Yu Yuanzhen recognizes the dragon as a pure-blooded Golden Sacred Dragon. He orders the sect to bring his son back and claims Lin Fan’s Soul Power-compression method for the sect.
• In the Papal Palace, Bibi Dong watches Lin Fan in shock, questioning whether this commanding figure can truly be the same man who once fled from Qian Xunji.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan proves both ingenious and dangerously persistent. His experiment nearly kills Luo Sanpao, but he risks his remaining strength to save it and succeeds. His satisfaction comes from accomplishing what others might have considered impossible.
• Luo Sanpao changes from a helpless, deformed Martial Soul into a powerful Golden Sacred Dragon, revealing the strength of its suppressed bloodline.
• Yu Yuanzhen shifts from presumed disappointment in his son to fierce pride and possessive ambition. He sees the transformation as proof that his family is destined for greatness and vows to protect the technique.
• Bibi Dong is shaken by the contrast between the man she remembers and the formidable Lin Fan on the Sky Screen. Despite her doubts, she remains captivated and wants to see what he will do next.

Significant themes

• Transformation through knowledge and effort: Lin Fan uses experimentation and determination to awaken potential others had written off.
• Risk and perseverance: His refusal to stop nearly proves disastrous, but his last effort turns failure into a breakthrough.
• Bloodline, status, and power: Luo Sanpao’s transformation overturns assumptions about its worth and triggers political interest from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
• Reputation and identity: Lin Fan’s public display forces observers, especially Bibi Dong, to reconsider who he really is.

Key plot points and events

• After enduring a brutal trial in the Quiet Room, Lin Fan succeeds in reshaping his Martial Soul into a Golden Sacred Dragon. He curses the system but takes pride in overcoming it through sheer persistence and exploiting its rules.
• The Void Sky Screen suddenly switches to “comparison mode,” pairing Lin Fan’s triumphant transformation with the real-world counterpart it identifies as Yu Xiaogang.
• The screen portrays Yu Xiaogang as a frail, unsuccessful Soul Grandmaster and accuses him of stealing Spirit Hall’s theories to build his reputation as the “Grandmaster.”
• At Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy, students and staff recognize Yu Xiaogang and turn on him. Humiliated and unable to defend himself, he faints into his spilled meal.
• In Spirit City, Bibi Dong sees the comparison and realizes that the Yu Xiaogang she once loved was a coward who abandoned her. Enraged, she orders Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo to go to Nuoding City and punish him.
• The two Titled Douluo privately question the order but decide to obey, then set off for Nuoding City.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan emerges as defiant and resourceful, treating even a punishing ordeal as a satisfying challenge.
• Yu Xiaogang is publicly stripped of his respected image. His fear and collapse reinforce the Sky Screen’s portrayal of him as weak and vain.
• Bibi Dong shifts from lingering affection to disgust and murderous anger after the comparison overturns her former belief that Yu was merely unlucky.
• Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo remain wary of Bibi Dong’s command because of her past with Yu Xiaogang, but comply rather than risk defying her.
• The academy’s students, once deferential toward Yu, openly condemn him after the Sky Screen exposes him.

Significant themes

• Comparison and humiliation: The stark contrast between Lin Fan’s heroic struggle and Yu Xiaogang’s alleged mediocrity makes the exposure especially devastating.
• Merit versus reputation: The chapter contrasts genuine achievement and self-determination with status built on supposedly stolen work.
• Love, betrayal, and disillusionment: Bibi Dong’s remaining affection collapses when she believes Yu’s past actions reveal cowardice rather than misfortune.
• Public judgment and power: The Sky Screen’s revelations rapidly reshape others’ opinions, while Bibi Dong’s authority turns her anger into an immediate threat.

Key plot points and events

• The Sky Screen launches the first universal vote: viewers must decide whether the “true Grandmaster” is Lin Fan, the actor on the left, or the real Yu Xiaogang on the right. Voters who choose the eventual winner will receive Heavenly Dao rewards—purified Soul Power or improved physical constitution.
• Although some factions initially suspect a trap, early voters visibly glow with the promised benefits. The proof sparks a rush toward Lin Fan, whose vote share climbs above 95%, leaving the real Yu Xiaogang almost entirely unsupported.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s leader, Yu Yuanzhen, reacts with pride at the Sky Screen’s glorification of “Yu Xiaogang,” but also shame over the real man’s public humiliation. He retracts his plan to welcome his son home, claiming he meant to retrieve the Sky Screen version instead.
• Inside the game-like instance, Lin Fan receives a system notice that audience approval has exceeded 99% and that he can proceed to the core story settlement. He wonders briefly why a single-player game has an “audience,” then dismisses the thought and prepares to meet the young Bibi Dong.
• A half-finished letter from Yu Xiaogang to Bibi Dong—“Dong’er, if I hadn’t left that day…”—stirs an unexplained irritation in Lin Fan. Outside the Sky Screen, Bibi Dong sees the letter and feels both anticipation and unease, despite her icy demeanor.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan remains confident and focused on progressing through the scenario, but the system’s references to an audience and the letter awaken hints of unease and emotional connection he cannot explain.
• Yu Yuanzhen shifts from wanting to bring his son home with honor to disowning the real Yu Xiaogang publicly, prioritizing the sect’s reputation. His elders share both excitement over the vote and anxiety about its consequences.
• Bibi Dong is affected by the letter and Lin Fan’s actions, revealing conflicted feelings beneath her hostility.
• The continent’s voters rapidly unite behind Lin Fan once they see that the promised rewards are real; cautious Spirit Hall elders and other factions are swept aside by the evidence.

Significant themes

• Public opinion and spectacle: The Sky Screen shapes reputations across the continent, turning Lin Fan into an admired figure while deepening Yu Xiaogang’s disgrace.
• Incentives and belief: Tangible rewards overcome suspicion and rapidly drive mass participation.
• Identity and authenticity: The vote’s contrast between actor and reality raises questions about who truly deserves a title or family name.
• Emerging awareness: Lin Fan’s unease about an audience, alongside Bibi Dong’s unexplained reaction, hints that the game and its characters may be more real—or more interconnected—than they appear.

Plot points and events

• Eighteen-year-old Bibi Dong enters her cultivation chamber, believing Yu Xiaogang’s recent success means they can finally be together. She tries to embrace him, but Lin Fan—inhabiting Xiaogang’s role—dodges her.
• Lin Fan rejects the expected romance and rebukes Bibi Dong for focusing on love while ordinary people and low-ranking Soul Masters suffer under entrenched power.
• He argues that the Two Great Empires, the Upper Three Sects, and Spirit Hall all help preserve a system that concentrates land, knowledge, Soul Beast resources, and cultivation opportunities among elites.
• Through the Sky Screen, his speech reaches the whole continent. Commoners recognize in his words an explanation for the oppression they have long experienced.
• Lin Fan presents a three-part program: compulsory Soul Master education, redistribution of resources and investment in commoner-led Soul Tool research, and abolition of hereditary sect rule—with force against those who resist.
• In the present, the powerful Bibi Dong watches the broadcast and compares Lin Fan’s conviction with the real Yu Xiaogang, whom she considers far less worthy of the ideals she sees.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan/Yu Xiaogang turns away from romance and presents himself as a revolutionary advocate for commoners. Though he briefly senses the emotional weight of Bibi Dong’s affection, he suppresses it and focuses on his political mission.
• Young Bibi Dong moves from adoration to confusion, then to doubt as Lin Fan challenges the beliefs she learned from her teacher. Remembering the treatment of poor children and Spirit Hall’s low-ranking attendants, she asks what can be done and begins seeking a new foundation for her beliefs.
• Present-day Bibi Dong is shaken by the broadcast. She feels regret and admiration, wondering whether this uncompromising, far-seeing man was the real Yu Xiaogang.
• Their interaction shifts from presumed lovers reunited to teacher-and-believer-like exchange: Lin Fan confronts Bibi Dong’s assumptions, and she listens as her worldview begins to crack.

Significant themes

• Class oppression and inequality: The chapter exposes how political and sectarian elites restrict commoners’ access to education, cultivation, and resources.
• Ideological awakening: Bibi Dong’s inherited assumptions are challenged by concrete examples of exclusion she had previously overlooked.
• Collective reform versus private romance: Lin Fan frames social transformation as more important than personal happiness.
• Equality and the costs of revolution: His program promises broad access and the end of hereditary privilege, but its uncompromising threat of violence hints at the danger and severity of his methods.

Plot points and events

• Lin Fan’s brief remarks on the Sky Screen—especially equality, universal education, and challenging hereditary privilege—cause alarm among the continent’s rulers and powerful institutions.
• Emperor Xue Ye of the Heaven Dou Empire realizes that common-born guards are beginning to question their loyalty. The Star Luo emperor is similarly frightened by the ideas’ potential impact.
• Ning Fengzhi initially fears that equality will destroy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s status, but quickly shifts to planning how the sect might adapt. He orders secret acquisitions of Soul Power theory and commoners’ cultivation notes.
• Yu Yuanzhen of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect recalls young direct-line descendants and closes the sect to visitors while it waits to see how events unfold.
• In Spirit Hall, Qian Daoliu acknowledges that Lin Fan’s claims about commoner oppression and Spirit Hall’s recruitment practices are true. He judges their truth to be what makes them dangerous, orders an investigation into the Sky Screen, and summons Bibi Dong.
• The Sky Screen’s approval vote exceeds its limit, prompting an enthusiastic response from commoners and low-ranking Soul Masters.
• Unaware of the upheaval, Lin Fan reflects on a half-written letter to Dong’er and wonders what might have happened if he had not left. His earlier carefree mood gives way to regret and unease.

Character developments

• Ning Fengzhi proves pragmatic: rather than resist an unstoppable movement outright, he considers positioning his sect to survive—and possibly benefit from—the coming change.
• Yu Yuanzhen responds cautiously, prioritizing containment and protecting his clan until the political situation becomes clearer.
• Qian Daoliu emerges as a composed but formidable strategist. He recognizes the legitimacy of Lin Fan’s message and treats him as a potential force capable of destabilizing the whole continent.
• Lin Fan shifts from casual confidence to private melancholy as he recalls his past with Dong’er.

Significant themes

• Equality as political upheaval: Ideas that empower commoners threaten hereditary rule, noble status, and sect authority.
• Truth as a source of danger: Qian Daoliu argues that accurate criticism can mobilize people more powerfully than lies.
• Adaptation versus resistance: The major factions respond by calculating, retreating, or preparing rather than immediately confronting the movement.
• Private regret amid public change: While Lin Fan’s words ignite a continent-wide storm, he remains preoccupied with personal choices and lost possibilities.

Character interactions

• Ning Fengzhi confers quietly with Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, directing them to secure forbidden cultivation materials.
• Yu Yuanzhen faces questions from his elders but insists that the sect must wait before acting.
• Qian Daoliu rejects an enshrined elder’s suggestion to dismiss Lin Fan as a mere deceiver, then orders the elders to investigate the Sky Screen and bring Bibi Dong to him.
• Lin Fan’s only interaction in the closing scene is with the memory represented by his letter to Dong’er, which exposes his regret.

Plot points and events

• Bibi Dong recognizes that compulsory education would threaten the nobles and ruling powers, who are unlikely to surrender their privileges willingly.
• Lin Fan argues that technological and military transformation—not negotiation—can overcome those entrenched interests. He proposes equipping ordinary soul masters with mass-produced soul-powered rifles and artillery, claiming disciplined volleys could defeat even a Titled Douluo.
• Bibi Dong asks what this revolution means for her, since she benefits from the system as Spirit Hall’s Holy Maiden.
• Lin Fan tells her revolution need not eliminate every noble; it must end nobility as a license to exploit others. If she gives up her privileges, she can join the cause as a “Fellow Traveler.”
• Bibi Dong accepts the idea with an emotional smile. Across the continent, powerful figures such as Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo react with alarm to Lin Fan’s proposed weapons.
• The Sky Screen ends the first plot segment and announces the vote results: the staged Lin Fan’s Yu Xiaogang receives 89.2%, surpassing the 85% threshold. Commoners and low-tier soul masters who voted for him receive a blessing that purges bodily impurities and permanently increases soul-power affinity by 10%.

Character developments and interactions

• Bibi Dong shows both political insight and moral conflict. She understands the resistance the reform would provoke, then confronts her own complicity as a privileged member of the ruling order. Lin Fan’s invitation gives her a way to choose solidarity over status.
• Lin Fan shifts from presenting a social ideal to laying out a forceful strategy for achieving it. He frames Bibi Dong not as an enemy to be discarded but as a potential partner in the struggle.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong embody the elite’s fear: they realize mass-produced weapons could make individual power and rank far less decisive.
• The central interaction is Lin Fan and Bibi Dong’s candid exchange about whether a revolution can include someone who benefits from the system it seeks to change.

Significant themes

• Technology versus inherited power: Industrialized weapons and organized mass forces may challenge the dominance of elite soul masters.
• Reform, privilege, and complicity: Change requires beneficiaries of an unjust order to relinquish their advantages.
• Solidarity over status: “Fellow Traveler” reframes Bibi Dong’s identity around shared purpose rather than rank.
• Popular support and material change: The vote and blessing give ordinary people tangible benefits, reinforcing the chapter’s focus on empowering the lower classes.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Fan’s Sky Screen rewards give Soul Power breakthroughs to more than 90% of the continent’s lower classes. The newly empowered commoners hail him as the “Sky Screen Saint Master” and embrace the Sky Screen’s anti-noble message.
• In Heaven Dou, Emperor Xue Ye learns that most of the soldiers outside the capital have received the blessing and may turn against their officers. Fearing both a popular uprising and the possibility that the real Yu Xiaogang possesses the Sky Screen’s weapons blueprints, he orders a force of 3,000 Royal Griffin Knights to capture him.
• The knights storm Notting Academy and seize the real Yu Xiaogang. He insists he has no knowledge of the rifles, production plans, or political schemes shown in the Sky Screen, but the commander interprets his panic and pleas as an elaborate act. Yu Xiaogang is shackled and taken toward the imperial prison for interrogation.
• Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo witness the arrest. Bibi Dong orders them to stand down, reasoning that Xue Ye’s capture will achieve Spirit Hall’s aims—though more slowly and painfully.

Character developments

• Xue Ye shifts from fear to ruthless action. Though he briefly considers that the Sky Screen’s Yu Xiaogang may have nothing to do with the real man, he decides the risk is too great and orders the wrong man arrested rather than let a potential threat escape.
• The real Yu Xiaogang remains clueless about the inventions and plans attributed to his Sky Screen counterpart. His humiliation and terrified breakdown only deepen the authorities’ suspicion.
• The Soul Douluo commander becomes convinced that Yu Xiaogang’s apparent helplessness is a masterful disguise.
• The lower classes gain power and confidence, becoming devoted supporters of Lin Fan and receptive to the idea of challenging noble rule.
• Bibi Dong chooses to let Heaven Dou take Yu Xiaogang, treating his suffering as an acceptable alternative to Spirit Hall capturing him directly.

Significant themes

• Misinformation and mistaken identity: The real Yu Xiaogang is punished for another version’s supposed knowledge and actions.
• Fear-driven power: Xue Ye’s uncertainty leads him to treat speculation as fact and authorize extreme measures.
• Revolution and class conflict: A gift of power fuels commoners’ hopes of overturning the social order.
• Propaganda and perception: Yu Xiaogang’s every reaction is reinterpreted as evidence supporting the authorities’ belief that he is a dangerous mastermind.

Character interactions

• Commoners unite in praise of Lin Fan and repeat the Sky Screen’s message against the nobility.
• Xue Ye gives the Royal Knights orders to seize Yu Xiaogang and extract the supposed blueprints and rebellion plans.
• Yu Xiaogang pleads with the commander that he is innocent; the commander dismisses his claims as deception.
• The two Spirit Hall Douluo discuss the arrest, receive Bibi Dong’s order to stand down, and leave Yu Xiaogang to the empire’s custody.

Plot points and events

• Spirit Hall’s patrols have intensified, and Lin Fan notices that hostility toward him is nearing its peak. Bibi Dong reports that Qian Xunji has been questioning her about Lin Fan and condemned his ideas about commoner Soul Masters as heretical.
• Lin Fan decides he must leave Spirit City before Qian Xunji moves against him. He plans to seek a safer place to gain strength while continuing his campaign for equality.
• Bibi Dong begs to go with him, but Lin Fan persuades her to remain in Spirit Hall. He frames their separation as a strategy: he will build support outside, while she uses her position to gather influence and information from within.
• When Bibi Dong admits she is frightened and unsure how to deceive or resist her teacher, Lin Fan gives her a manageable first task: observe Qian Xunji and Spirit Hall’s shifting alliances, learning one thing each day. She agrees.

Character development

• Lin Fan recognizes the danger of his growing notoriety and chooses retreat over a confrontation he is not strong enough to survive. Though he thinks pragmatically about Bibi Dong as a liability, he hesitates to dismiss her commitment and comforts her with a bold, idealistic vision.
• Bibi Dong moves from fear and dependence toward a tentative sense of purpose. She accepts the burden of working alone inside Spirit Hall, even though she doubts her ability.
• Their relationship deepens: Lin Fan’s reassuring gestures and Bibi Dong’s willingness to sacrifice her security suggest a bond that has become more personal than either his “game” perspective or their political mission would imply.

Themes

• Resistance through divided strategy: The old order must be challenged both from outside and from within.
• Power and survival: Lin Fan recognizes that ideals alone cannot overcome a stronger enemy; timing, preparation, and information matter.
• Growing into responsibility: Bibi Dong is not immediately transformed into a capable insider, but begins with observation and small steps.
• Trust and emotional attachment: Their shared cause brings them closer, while Lin Fan’s inner cynicism contrasts with his increasingly genuine care.

Character interactions

Lin Fan first listens as Bibi Dong describes Qian Xunji’s suspicions, then gently but firmly rejects her plan to flee with him. He recasts her staying behind as vital to their cause, comforts her when she fears she cannot manage, and gives her a concrete task. Bibi Dong responds with tears, uncertainty, and finally a wavering but sincere promise to try.

Key plot points

• Young Bibi Dong gives Lin Fan her Saintess Token for protection at Spirit Hall checkpoints. Lin Fan accepts it, then leaves without looking back. She promises to “hold it” for him.
• The Sky Screen shows the farewell to the present-day Bibi Dong. Furious that her younger self received the care she never got, she is moved by Lin Fan’s trust and begins to cry. She resolves to take Spirit Hall for him.
• Qian Daoliu summons Bibi Dong and questions her intentions toward the man shown in the Sky Screen. He suspects she is keeping Yu Xiaogang alive so Lin Fan will remain connected to this world. Bibi Dong confirms that Lin Fan is the only one who can change it; Qian Daoliu agrees not to interfere unless her actions threaten Spirit Hall.
• In the Heaven Dou palace, the officials watch the Sky Screen and become convinced that Yu Xiaogang secretly engineered Bibi Dong’s rise and has been manipulating Spirit Hall for decades. Their speculation spirals into fear that he has an even larger plan.
• Panicked, Emperor Xue Ye orders the royal guards mobilized and demands that the captured Yu Xiaogang be tortured for information about the supposed conspiracy.

Character developments

• Bibi Dong: Her anger at the past gives way to grief and renewed purpose. Lin Fan’s acceptance offers her a glimpse of the love she once lacked, strengthening her resolve to support him.
• Qian Daoliu: He recognizes Bibi Dong’s hidden strategy and permits her to proceed for now, while making clear that his loyalty to Spirit Hall has limits.
• Ning Fengzhi and Xue Ye: Both interpret the Sky Screen through suspicion and fear. Ning Fengzhi imagines Yu Xiaogang’s apparent failures conceal a vast scheme; Xue Ye’s paranoia quickly overwhelms reason.
• Lin Fan: Though absent from the present-day scenes, his quiet trust in young Bibi Dong profoundly affects her.

Significant themes

• Trust and emotional healing: Lin Fan’s willingness to listen and give Bibi Dong a role contrasts with the abandonment and humiliation she remembers.
• Power and loyalty: Bibi Dong is determined to use Spirit Hall to protect a chance at change, while Qian Daoliu warns that her authority cannot override the institution’s interests.
• Misinterpretation and paranoia: The Heaven Dou court turns incomplete information into an imagined conspiracy, showing how fear can distort judgment.
• The weight of the past: The Sky Screen connects past and present, revealing how old wounds continue to shape Bibi Dong’s choices.

Character interactions

• Lin Fan and young Bibi Dong share a restrained, intimate farewell; her gift of the Saintess Token expresses care beneath her practical explanation.
• Present-day Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu exchange a tense but controlled assessment of her plans and the risks to Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi and Xue Ye react together to the Sky Screen, with Ning’s theories feeding the emperor’s growing panic.

Chapter Summary: “This Is Called Science!”

• Lin Fan arrives in Tack Town, a poor border settlement whose residents are mostly powerless laborers. Having left the politically crowded world of Spirit City, he sees the town’s coal, iron, and cheap labor as ideal resources for building an industrial enterprise.
• He spends most of his remaining money on a ruined smithy and recruits three starving boys: A Mu, a cautious but protective leader with a stick Martial Soul; Little Nail, quiet and observant, with a rusty nail Martial Soul; and Stone, the smallest and most stubborn, who cannot summon a Martial Soul at all.
• When A Mu doubts they can forge without Soul Power, Lin Fan rejects the idea that Soul Masters alone can accomplish great things. He promises to teach them “science.”
• Over the next half month, Lin Fan guides the boys through gathering materials, rebuilding the forge into a primitive blast furnace, and producing gunpowder. He explains chemical energy and projectile force, though the boys don’t fully understand the concepts.
• Despite repeated failures and furnace explosions, they eventually forge a crude matchlock and a lead-core bullet using no Soul Power. Lin Fan fires it at a thick bluestone slab; the shot punches a large hole through it, demonstrating that ordinary technology can damage something a Soul Grandmaster would struggle to break.

Character Development and Interactions

Lin Fan appears as an intense, ambitious builder, treating the town as the starting point for an industrial project. He takes the boys out of starvation and gives them work and instruction. The boys begin as frightened, marginalized children, but Lin Fan’s teaching gives their resentment and humiliation a possible direction. A Mu voices their doubts, Little Nail watches carefully, and Stone’s stubbornness suggests determination.

Significant Themes

• Science versus Soul Power: The chapter challenges the belief that supernatural ability is the only path to power.
• Dignity and opportunity: Those dismissed as worthless may gain purpose and capability through education and practical work.
• Industrial progress: Knowledge, experimentation, and persistence can transform a poor settlement—and potentially disrupt the existing hierarchy.

Plot points and events

• Lin Fan demonstrates a crude musket inside the Sky Screen. Three ordinary boys fire it and blast a hole through a thick bluestone slab, despite having no Soul Power or Soul Rings.
• Lin Fan dismisses their awe, calls the weapon “science,” and plans to begin mass production. Though he briefly recognizes what the musket could do to a Soul Master, he tells himself it is only a game.
• Outside the Sky Screen, the demonstration shocks the continent. Commoners realize that ordinary materials and knowledge could give them weapons capable of threatening Soul Masters.
• Blacksmiths begin working through the night. In Nuoding City, Wang Manchui copies the gunpowder recipe, risking punishment because he feels the discovery has given his life’s work new purpose.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Star Luo’s ruler recognize the threat. Ning Fengzhi fears that even children could kill Soul Masters; Emperor Dai Yutian orders materials and blacksmithing suppressed, but knows the knowledge has already spread.
• Six-year-old Tang San starts forging a crude barrel and sketches ways to improve firearms, wondering whether the Tang Sect’s Hidden Weapons can evolve into guns.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan moves toward mass production but remains detached from the real-world upheaval his actions have caused.
• The three boys shift from disbelief to reverence, then to fierce excitement about their newfound power.
• Wang Manchui changes from a man who has long felt useless because of his weak Martial Soul into someone inspired by science; his frightened son tries to stop him from copying the recipe.
• Ning Fengzhi loses his composure, while Chen Xin confirms that even a powerful Soul Master could be vulnerable to massed gunfire.
• Dai Yutian responds with furious repression, ordering executions, but cannot contain knowledge already broadcast.
• Tang San sees firearms as a challenge to the Tang Sect’s legacy and begins adapting his technical ingenuity to the new weapon.

Significant themes

• Technology challenges inherited power: firearms threaten the Soul Masters’ longstanding dominance.
• Knowledge cannot easily be contained: the Sky Screen’s public demonstration inspires ordinary people across the continent.
• Equality and empowerment: people once dismissed as weak discover that skill and tools can let them challenge the powerful.
• Fear versus adaptation: rulers seek to suppress the change, while others—including Wang Manchui and Tang San—try to learn from it.

Key plot points and events

• A slave boy, Gou’er, uses a crude iron gun loaded with black powder and iron grit—made from the formula shown on the Sky Screen—to kill the Soul Grandmaster overseer who is beating his father.
• The other slaves, inspired by Gou’er’s act, revolt and attack the overseers’ camp.
• Similar homemade-gun attacks spread across the continent. Some weapons fail, but others kill Soul Masters, demonstrating that ordinary people can challenge the Soul Master hierarchy.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and both empires learn of the uprisings and recognize the gunpowder knowledge as a threat to their rule.
• Heaven Dou and Star Luo issue sweeping bans on sulfur and saltpeter, order iron tools seized, and authorize brutal searches and executions to prevent more weapons from being made.

Character developments

• Gou’er moves from a powerless, abused boy to the first spark of armed resistance. His fear gives way to defiance after he kills the overseer.
• Ning Fengzhi interprets the uprising as a direct assault on the established order and the powerful families behind it.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong, usually formidable and confident Soul Masters, are shaken by how quickly an ordinary person can threaten their strength.
• Xue Ye and Dai Yutian set aside their rivalry temporarily, responding together to what they see as an existential danger.

Significant themes

• Technology versus inherited power: A simple gun can overcome the years of training and resources invested in Soul Masters.
• Class conflict and rebellion: The weapon gives the oppressed a means to resist exploitation, turning isolated violence into a wider uprising.
• Knowledge as power: The Sky Screen’s formula spreads beyond its original audience and cannot easily be recalled or contained.
• Fear-driven repression: The rulers answer the threat with collective punishment and extreme control, risking further brutality against commoners.

Character interactions

• Gou’er acts to protect his father, then directly confronts and kills the overseer; the slaves respond to his example by rising up.
• Ning Fengzhi discusses the threat with Chen Xin and Gu Rong, whose disbelief and alarm reinforce the danger the weapon poses to Soul Masters.
• The two emperors, despite their longstanding conflict, coordinate their response through bans, confiscations, searches, and executions.

Plot points and events

• The empires launch a violent crackdown to stop ordinary people from learning to make gunpowder. They burn workshops, execute people, and try to erase the formulas.
• Most people retreat into hiding, but some preserve the knowledge or die resisting. The repression strengthens Lin Fan’s reputation as a savior, and the people who remember the formulas keep the possibility of change alive.
• Inside the Sky Screen, Lin Fan builds a rudimentary water-powered forge and an assembly line where teenagers produce parts for smoothbore flintlocks.
• Lin Fan dismisses the weapons as crude and unreliable, complaining that he lacks the technology and materials for far more powerful firearms.
• Hearing this, Emperor Xue Ye collapses in despair, realizing that the weapons already feared by the ruling class are only the beginning of what Lin Fan might create.
• Bibi Dong orders Spirit Hall to withdraw from the empires’ crackdowns and forbids its members from attacking armed civilians, openly breaking with the empires.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan remains absorbed in practical progress, unaware of the bloodshed his lessons have caused. His casual criticism of his own weapons reveals ambitions far beyond what others can imagine.
• Xue Ye shifts from directing the suppression to fearing that his regime cannot contain the coming technological threat.
• Bibi Dong moves from silent observation to decisive action. She declares that the continent must change and uses Spirit Hall’s power to oppose the crackdown.
• Ordinary people show varied responses—silence, concealment, sacrifice, and armed resistance—but their shared memory keeps the ideas alive.
• Bibi Dong and her commanders clash over her order: Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo are stunned, but she leaves no room for objection.

Significant themes

• Knowledge resists repression: Violence can force people into hiding, but cannot fully erase what they have learned.
• Technology threatens established power: The ruling class fears even primitive firearms, while Lin Fan sees them as inadequate prototypes.
• The cost of change: Ordinary people pay in blood for the spread of new ideas.
• Political realignment: Bibi Dong’s decision signals that the conflict is no longer simply between the empires and civilians; Spirit Hall is choosing a side.

Plot points and events

• In the Heaven Dou Empire’s death prison, Emperor Xue Ye tortures the real Yu Xiaogang, hoping to learn how to make the firearms shown in the Sky Screen. Yu Xiaogang breaks down and insists he is ignorant of the science and weapons.
• An attendant examines Yu Xiaogang and confirms he is genuinely a weak, frightened fraud whose knowledge amounts to memorized fragments of Soul Master theory. Xue Ye realizes he cannot get the technology from him, while the powerful Yu Xiaogang shown in the Sky Screen remains beyond reach.
• In the Sky Screen’s game world, Lin Fan’s refugee militia has spent two weeks building an industrial base and arming two hundred ordinary people with flintlock muskets.
• A mission warns that a Spirit Hall force—one Soul King and ten Soul Elders—will arrive in three days. Rather than wait for the attack, Lin Fan rallies the militia and orders them to advance and meet the enemy.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Xiaogang abandons his pretensions and confesses that he stole his famous theories from Spirit Hall’s archives, but he cannot make firearms or reproduce the other Yu Xiaogang’s knowledge.
• Xue Ye shifts from demanding answers to recognizing that his prisoner is useless. His fear grows as he understands that the real threat cannot be interrogated or controlled.
• Lin Fan responds to the incoming threat with confidence and initiative, turning a defensive mission into an offensive campaign. He frames the militia’s struggle as resistance to oppression.
• The militia answer Lin Fan’s rallying speech with a unified refusal to submit, showing their growing discipline and resolve.

Significant themes

• Knowledge and identity: The chapter contrasts the fraudulent Yu Xiaogang in the real world with the brilliant figure in the Sky Screen, showing that the same name does not mean the same person or abilities.
• Technology as a challenge to power: Firearms give ordinary people the means to confront Soul Masters and established rulers.
• Resistance and collective action: Lin Fan’s troops move from being vulnerable refugees to an organized force willing to fight back.
• Fear and control: Xue Ye’s torture fails to secure the knowledge he wants, while the Sky Screen’s influence destabilizes the empire.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Fan’s call to take the offensive appears across the Douluo Continent, reaching rebel forces just as they are close to defeat.
• Near Suotuo City, civilian rebels rally and charge the Royal Knight Corps, unnerving its commander with their willingness to die for the cause.
• In the capital’s death prison, Emperor Xue Ye realizes Lin Fan’s speech has turned into a declaration of war against the ruling order. The real Yu Xiaogang, however, knows nothing about the identity or knowledge of the figure on the Sky Screen.
• Ning Fengzhi recognizes that Lin Fan’s single command may have done the work of an army and could bring an end to ten thousand years of Soul Master rule.
• Qian Daoliu learns that mortal firearms can break through Soul Power defenses. He predicts the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect will soon rebel, but orders Spirit Hall to wait until the conflict deepens and people are desperate for faith.
• Zhao Tie, a former tenant farmer with a weak Martial Soul, uses the formation demonstrated on the Sky Screen to organize three hundred survivors. Inspired by Lin Fan, they prepare to charge imperial cavalry.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan becomes a distant but powerful rallying figure: his words inspire rebels who have never met him and give them confidence in discipline and collective action.
• Zhao Tie grows from an ordinary peasant into a battlefield leader, teaching the rebels how to coordinate their crude firearms.
• Xue Ye shifts from trying to extract answers from Yu Xiaogang to recognizing that the rebellion threatens every throne and noble.
• Ning Fengzhi confronts the possibility that the Soul Master establishment is nearing its collapse.
• Qian Daoliu reveals his patient, calculating nature, choosing to let the bloodshed worsen so Spirit Hall can present itself as a source of hope.
• The rebels’ cooperation contrasts with their opponents’ reliance on individual strength. Xue Ye’s treatment of Yu Xiaogang also exposes the regime’s desperation and the real Yu’s helplessness.

Significant themes

• Collective action over individual power: The rebels are weak individually, but discipline and coordination make them a serious force.
• Hope as a catalyst: Lin Fan’s distant words transform despair into action.
• The upheaval of established power: Firearms and organized commoners threaten a society ruled by Soul Masters and nobles.
• Faith and opportunism: The rebels find purpose in the “Sage,” while Qian Daoliu plans to exploit the people’s need for belief.
• Shared identity: The chapter’s closing image turns the rebels themselves into the formation—and the “Core Flame”—they were taught to rely on.

Key events

• Lin Fan’s force of 200 ordinary youths waits in trenches outside Tack Town, facing Spirit Hall’s enforcement squad. The civilians are terrified, but Lin Fan steadies them and orders them to hold fire until the enemy is close.
• The squad, led by an arrogant level-51 Soul King, charges without scouting or taking the defenses seriously. At thirty meters, Lin Fan signals the first volley.
• Sixty flintlocks fire in coordinated ranks. Their bullets punch through the Soul Masters’ defenses, killing the leading Soul Elders. Lin Fan’s disciplined three-rank volley tactic continues to cut down the advancing squad.
• Panicked, the captain uses his ten-thousand-year fifth Soul Skill and leaps over the trenches toward Lin Fan. Lin Fan reveals a homemade high-pressure cannon, loaded with a Soul-Power-enhanced armor-piercing shell, and prepares to fire. The chapter ends before the shot lands.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan remains composed and commanding under pressure. He uses patience, firearms, and coordinated tactics to counter the Soul Masters’ superior status and power.
• The young defenders begin frightened and physically shaken, but follow Lin Fan’s orders and hold their positions long enough to deliver disciplined volleys.
• The enforcement captain shifts from contemptuous confidence to shock and fear when his subordinates are killed. His desperate leap at Lin Fan exposes his overconfidence and poor judgment.
• The captain dismisses an officer’s suggestion to be cautious; that disregard for the defenders’ fortifications helps set up the squad’s disastrous frontal charge.

Significant themes

• Technology versus supernatural power: Conventional firearms prove lethal against Soul Masters, challenging the assumption that Soul Power guarantees invulnerability.
• Discipline versus arrogance: Lin Fan’s careful timing and coordinated ranks overcome the enemy’s reckless charge.
• The overturning of social hierarchy: Ordinary civilians, usually expected to submit to Soul Masters, become a force capable of killing them.

Plot and key events

• Lin Fan’s mortal soldiers, armed with crude firearms, destroy the Spirit Hall Border Enforcement Team in under ten minutes. The battle ends when Lin Fan fires a cannon that kills the Soul King leading the squad.
• The victory comes at little cost: only ten soldiers are lightly injured. A novice named Stone is proud to have hit an enemy, despite suffering a nosebleed from his rifle’s recoil.
• Lin Fan dismisses the weapons as poorly made, criticizing the cannon’s fragile barrel and the gunpowder’s weakness.
• The battle is broadcast across the continent, alarming rulers and elites who see that ordinary people can now kill powerful Soul Masters without Soul Power.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Fan remains confident and practical, treating his victory as a first step toward improving weapons and industry rather than a triumph.
• Stone embodies the soldiers’ new confidence: his small success matters because it shows commoners can fight back.
• Spirit Hall’s elders are shaken. Ghost Leopard Douluo urges them not to panic, but warns that Lin Fan—identified as Yu Xiaogang—will likely target Spirit Hall first. The elders suspect Pope Bibi Dong is too consumed by her feelings about the man on screen to focus on the crisis.
• Emperor Dai Yutian reacts with fury, fearing that the soldiers’ loss of reverence signals the collapse of the social order.
• Emperor Xue Ye confronts the imprisoned, original Yu Xiaogang and begs him for a way to counter Lin Fan’s weapons. Yu Xiaogang, unable to reconcile himself with his formidable counterpart, loses his sanity, insisting he can only write theories and imagining the carnage.

Significant themes

• Technology versus supernatural power: Steel and gunpowder defeat elite Soul Masters, challenging the continent’s reliance on Soul Power.
• The collapse of hierarchy: The weapons give ordinary people the means—and confidence—to resist those who once held unquestioned power.
• Identity and displacement: The original Yu Xiaogang is psychologically broken by seeing a version of himself who is decisive, powerful, and capable of actions he cannot imagine taking.
• Fear of change: Spirit Hall and the empires recognize that the battlefield’s transformation threatens not just their armies, but the political and social order itself.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Fan learns that Spirit Hall is sending a much stronger force to Tack Town, led by a Soul Saint above level seventy. His cracked smoothbore cannon may defeat weaker opponents but is unlikely to penetrate a Soul Saint’s Martial Soul Avatar.
• He considers using Bibi Dong’s Saintess Token to summon help, then rejects the idea: Spirit City is too far away, and using the token could provoke Qian Xunji and an even deadlier response.
• Concluding that his weapons need better metal, Lin Fan orders the civilians to load their gunpowder and ammunition. He divides the group: some accompany him to the mountains to mine, while the rest spread out under A Mu’s command and follow his flag signals.
• Lin Fan leads more than a hundred people into the barren mountains to begin a guerrilla campaign. They improvise shelters and tools, and he searches urgently for ore that could provide stronger materials.
• In the real world, viewers misread his careful touch of the Saintess Token as a sign of romantic devotion and a final farewell. Bibi Dong weeps, believing he is risking his life to fulfill their promise; other powers fear he is seeking a catastrophic weapon and consider sealing off the mountains.
• The chapter ends as Lin Fan spots a dark-red rock face and rushes toward it, hoping it may be the key to fighting a Soul Saint.

Character developments

• Lin Fan shifts from confident battlefield dominance to sober strategic thinking. Rather than rely on a distant ally or wait for the enemy, he adapts by seeking resources and organizing a guerrilla force.
• Bibi Dong interprets Lin Fan’s actions through her emotional bond with him, becoming overwhelmed by grief and admiration.
• A Mu and the civilians are entrusted with distinct roles, suggesting a growing degree of organization and cooperation among the refugees.

Significant themes

• Improvisation and survival: Lin Fan turns limited materials and untrained civilians into a practical resistance force.
• Escalation and adaptation: A stronger enemy forces him to change tactics, from defending a town to mobilizing in the mountains.
• Misunderstanding and projection: The Sky Screen audience assigns heroic, romantic meaning to Lin Fan’s actions, while his actual motives are practical and tactical.
• Technology versus supernatural power: The search for better metal reflects Lin Fan’s attempt to overcome the gap between firearms and high-level soul abilities.

Character interactions

• Lin Fan gives A Mu and the civilians clear orders, dividing responsibilities and warning them not to engage the enemy without authorization.
• A Niu questions the purpose of their search; Lin Fan answers that he is looking for something powerful enough to defeat a Soul Saint.
• Bibi Dong’s response is based on her interpretation of Lin Fan’s gesture, while observers across the continent react with fear to the same scene.