Chapter Summaries

After Yu Luomian left, Liu Erlong set out alone to find Yu Xiaogang, and Bai Ye intercepted her in a city. Liu Erlong remained determined to reunite with Yu Xiaogang despite learning they were cousins, while Bai Ye tried to make her reconsider.

• Yu Luomian stayed with Liu Erlong for more than ten days to keep her from finding Yu Xiaogang, then returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
• Liu Erlong refused Flender's offer to accompany her and began searching for Yu Xiaogang alone.
• Bai Ye approached Liu Erlong in a city and confirmed that she had ignored his warning about her fate with Yu Xiaogang.
• Liu Erlong asked Bai Ye to predict Yu Xiaogang's location, but he said his predictions could not reveal where someone was.
• Liu Erlong insisted that love would overcome the obstacles between her and Yu Xiaogang, and Bai Ye argued that love could not solve everything.

Bai Ye and Liu Erlong arrived at the impoverished Red Mountain Village, where Bai Ye explained how its isolation kept the villagers from escaping poverty. He used his knowledge to impress Liu Erlong and began trying to draw her away from Yu Xiaogang, though she still regarded him as a younger brother.

• Bai Ye and Liu Erlong reached the remote Red Mountain Village in the Verno duchy after a long journey.
• Liu Erlong was shocked by the village’s isolation and the villagers’ extreme poverty.
• Bai Ye explained that the surrounding mountains made trade difficult and kept the village poor.
• Liu Erlong was impressed by Bai Ye’s knowledgeable remarks and thought they recalled Yu Xiaogang’s scholarly manner.
• Bai Ye decided to imitate some of Yu Xiaogang’s appealing qualities to win Liu Erlong’s attention and help her let go of her feelings for him.

Liu Erlong woke in Bai Ye’s arms and struggled with her growing closeness to him and her loyalty to Yu Xiaogang. After visiting Red Mountain Village and other places, she began to doubt whether she and Yu Xiaogang could build the future she wanted, while Bai Ye’s companionship steadily weakened her attachment to him.

• Liu Erlong woke with her head on Bai Ye’s arm, and Bai Ye reassured her that she could lean on him while she recovered from being separated from Yu Xiaogang.
• Bai Ye and Liu Erlong visited every household in Red Mountain Village, leaving Liu Erlong troubled by the villagers’ hardships and the possibility that her future children could suffer similarly.
• After they left the village, Liu Erlong resisted Bai Ye’s argument that she and Yu Xiaogang were incompatible, insisting that a few examples proved nothing.
• Bai Ye took Liu Erlong to several more places like Red Mountain Village, and the repeated evidence gradually wore down her hope of being with Yu Xiaogang.
• As they traveled together, Liu Erlong grew more accustomed to Bai Ye and her feelings for Yu Xiaogang began to fade.

Bai Ye and Liu Erlong went fishing while Bai Ye worried about the delayed arrival of the Evil Spirit Masters he had been tracking. Three Evil Spirit Masters appeared and attacked them, leaving Liu Erlong to recognize their threat as a storm of crimson skulls rushed toward them.

• Liu Erlong grew frustrated when Bai Ye caught another fish, but insisted she would still catch one before noon.
• Bai Ye wondered why the Evil Spirit Masters he had lured toward them had not appeared after more than ten days.
• Three Evil Spirit Masters emerged from the forest and spotted a village, then chose Bai Ye and Liu Erlong as their first targets.
• Liu Erlong and Bai Ye stood to face the approaching men, and one Evil Spirit Master launched his Fourth Soul Skill, Blood Skull Devour.
• Liu Erlong recognized the attackers as Evil Spirit Masters as their crimson skulls flew toward her and Bai Ye.

Bai Ye and Liu Erlong became lovers, built Blue Tyrant Academy together, and parted after Bai Ye learned Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Ah Yin had met. He returned to Spirit City, where Bibi Dong greeted him with jealousy over how long he had stayed away.

• Liu Erlong realized her feelings for Yu Xiaogang had faded and grew closer to Bai Ye.
• Bai Ye and Liu Erlong officially became lovers as they traveled together.
• At Bai Ye’s suggestion, Liu Erlong secured funding from Yu Luomian and established Blue Tyrant Academy in Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Bai Ye learned that Tang Hao and Tang Xiao had met Ah Yin and sworn themselves as siblings, so he decided to return to Spirit Hall.
• Bai Ye comforted Liu Erlong, promised to meet her again more than twenty years later, and left Blue Tyrant Academy for Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong met Bai Ye alongside Qian Renxue and resented how little time he had spent in Spirit City.

Bai Ye learned that Tang Hao had married Ah Yin, who was pregnant, and had sent Tang Zhen a letter demanding that he accept her or lose contact with Tang San. Tang Zhen remained unwilling to accept Ah Yin, but a report about the Spirit Hall Pope’s movements gave him a possible solution.

• Spirit Hall spies reported that Tang Hao and Ah Yin had married in hiding and that Ah Yin was pregnant.
• Tang Hao sent Tang Zhen a letter revealing their marriage and pregnancy, and threatening not to bring Tang San back unless Tang Zhen accepted Ah Yin.
• Bai Ye realized Tang Zhen already knew Ah Yin was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form and feared the Spirit Hall would exploit the news against the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Zhen read Tang Hao’s letter, grew furious and conflicted over his unborn grandson, then found an idea after noticing a report about the Spirit Hall Pope’s itinerary.

Bai Ye questioned Tang Hao’s account of how Spirit Hall discovered Ah Yin, while Tang Hao brought his pregnant wife to Yake City, where Qian Xunji exposed her identity as a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Tang Hao escaped with Ah Yin, and Qian Xunji sent Bai Ye a report about her.

• Bai Ye found Tang Hao’s explanation for Spirit Hall discovering Ah Yin illogical and suspected that the real world had produced another reason for her exposure.
• Tang Hao learned that Tang Zhen had arranged a residence and people to assist with Ah Yin’s delivery, then took her by carriage to Yake City.
• Tang Hao showed Ah Yin around Yake City until Qian Xunji’s ceremonial procession passed through the crowded streets.
• Qian Xunji recognized Tang Hao and discovered that Ah Yin was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Tang Hao concluded that Tang Zhen had arranged their encounter, then carried Ah Yin into the air and fled as Qian Xunji ordered Yue Guan and Gui Mei to pursue them.
• Tang Hao escaped, and Qian Xunji sent a letter to Spirit City reporting Ah Yin’s identity to Bai Ye.

Spirit Hall pursued Tang Hao and Ah Yin, and Qian Xunji personally led the hunt after receiving instructions from Bai Ye. Bai Ye expected Tang Hao to kill Qian Xunji because his orders restricted Qian Xunji's defensive strength.

• Spirit Hall hunted Tang Hao and Ah Yin as they fled and hid from place to place.
• After several failed attempts to send Spirit Masters, Qian Xunji decided to lead the pursuit himself.
• Qian Xunji reported to Bai Ye before setting out, and Bai Ye gave him several instructions.
• Bai Ye ordered Qian Xunji to defend himself using only Spirit Douluo-level Soul Power.
• Bai Ye watched Qian Xunji leave and expected Tang Hao to kill him with a single hammer strike.

Bai Ye reunited with Bibi Dong and learned how the Moonlight Treasure Box had merged the Parallel World’s past with his own. He then hunted Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, reached rank seventy, and awakened the God-Slaying Domain.

• Bai Ye followed Hu Liena to Lakeheart Cottage and found Bibi Dong playing the zither in the plum grove.
• Bibi Dong welcomed Bai Ye back and explained that the Moonlight Treasure Box had merged a Parallel World’s timeline with his own, leaving her and Liu Erlong with memories of both pasts.
• Bai Ye spent the night with Bibi Dong, then traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Beasts.
• Bai Ye killed a sixty-thousand-year Sword Dragon and absorbed its Soul Ring, gaining Sword Twenty-Three and reaching rank seventy.
• Bai Ye killed an eighty-thousand-year Adamantine Overlord Tiger and gained the Seventh Soul Skill, God-Slaying Sword Martial Soul Avatar.
• Bai Ye reached Soul Saint and discovered the God-Slaying Domain within the God-Slaying Sword Spirit.

Bai Ye planned to travel to the City of Slaughter and ask Qing Lin, Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Hu Liena to join him. He expected his help and Martial Arts training to make their fights and passage through Hell Road easier.

• Bai Ye planned to go to the City of Slaughter.
• Bai Ye intended to ask Qing Lin, Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Hu Liena whether they would come with him.
• Bai Ye planned to help the four girls clear Hell Road.
• Bai Ye planned to teach Meng Yiran and Hu Liena Martial Arts so they could win a hundred consecutive fights despite being unable to use Soul Skills.

Bai Ye and the four women entered the Hell Slaughter Arena and built long winning streaks despite the ban on spirit abilities. With Bai Ye at eighty-nine victories and each woman past eighty, the King of Slaughter decided to act.

• After watching several matches, the four women asked Bai Ye for permission to enter the arena, and he agreed.
• Nearly half a year passed as Bai Ye and the women fought in the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Bai Ye reached eighty-nine consecutive victories while each woman won more than eighty matches in a row.
• The King of Slaughter became alarmed when Bai Ye and Qing Lin's group of four women neared one hundred consecutive victories.

The King of Slaughter tried to recruit Bai Ye and the women into the City of Slaughter, but Bai Ye refused because they intended to challenge the Hell Road. When the King of Slaughter threatened them with his Soul Power, Bai Ye summoned the Ruthless Great Emperor Puppet, whose overwhelming strength stunned the King.

• The King of Slaughter offered Bai Ye and the women honorary guest status if they joined the City of Slaughter.
• Bai Ye refused, stating that they had come to challenge the Hell Road and would accept its risks.
• The King of Slaughter threatened Bai Ye and released Title Douluo-level Soul Power pressure against the group.
• Bai Ye confronted the King of Slaughter after the pressure endangered Qing Lin and the other women.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor Puppet emerged from a spatial rift with nine scarlet Soul Rings and forced back the King of Slaughter's pressure.
• The King of Slaughter was shocked by the puppet's nine hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings.

Bai Ye led Qing Lin, Zhu Zhuqing, Hu Liena, and Meng Yiran through the dangers of Hell Road, overcoming its monsters and inner demon trial. He and Qing Lin crossed the Blood River with the others and reached the exit, where they were poised to leave Hell Road and obtain Divine Slaughter's Domain.

• Bai Ye warned the women about Hell Road, then led them forward as they prepared for danger.
• Bai Ye destroyed the Crimson Bat swarm, killed the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King, and beheaded the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent.
• Bai Ye and Qing Lin resisted the inner demon trial, while Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Hu Liena fell into illusions and were knocked unconscious.
• Bai Ye carried Hu Liena and Zhu Zhuqing while Qing Lin carried Meng Yiran through the trial section to the Blood River.
• Bai Ye crossed the Blood River using his Heavenly Demon Force Field, and Qing Lin followed with Meng Yiran as they reached the exit.

Bai Ye traveled to the Star Luo Empire to pressure Zhu Yun and the Nether Duke's Mansion into secretly helping Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire conquer the Star Luo Empire. Zhu Yun agreed to persuade her family, though she bitterly reminded Bai Ye of his earlier promise to help her become empress.

• Bibi Dong told Bai Ye to offer the Nether Duke's Mansion protection and continued status if it aided the invasion, and threatened its destruction if it resisted.
• Bai Ye proposed sparing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect during the Soul Hunting Operation and said he had something that could persuade Ning Fengzhi.
• Bai Ye disguised himself as Dai Weisi to enter the Nether Duke's Mansion, then revealed himself to Zhu Yun in private.
• Bai Ye told Zhu Yun that Spirit Hall had agreed to join the Heaven Dou Empire in conquering the mainland and warned that her family must not inform the Star Luo Imperial Family.
• Zhu Yun recognized that the alliance would defeat the Star Luo Empire regardless of her family's help and agreed to secretly assist the coalition, despite her conflict over betraying her country.
• Zhu Yun angrily bit Bai Ye for breaking his promise to help her become empress, while Bai Ye insisted he had meant it when he made it.

Bai Ye promised to help Zhu Zhuyun become a god by teaching her cultivation methods and martial arts. After Zhu Zhuyun tried to appease him, he forgave her and gave her an Acupoint Chart to memorize before their lesson that night.

• Zhu Zhuyun realized Bai Ye could not make her Empress and complained that he had nearly fooled her.
• Bai Ye offered to help Zhu Zhuyun become a god and outlined how he would train her to reach Limit Douluo.
• Zhu Zhuyun eagerly asked whether Bai Ye's cultivation methods and martial arts were like the Self-Created Soul Skills he had taught Zhu Zhuyun.
• Bai Ye pretended to be displeased with Zhu Zhuyun's attitude, so she fawned over him until he forgave her.
• Bai Ye gave Zhu Zhuyun an Acupoint Chart and told her to memorize it before he taught her that night.

Bai Ye set out alone to confront Yu Yuanzhen, while Bibi Dong stopped Ghost Leopard Douluo and Magic Bear Douluo from following. Yu Yuanzhen reached the battlefield, saw the fallen Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect soul masters, and transformed with his martial soul.

• Bai Ye asked Bibi Dong, Ghost Leopard Douluo, and Magic Bear Douluo to stay behind and flew toward Yu Yuanzhen on his God-Slaying Sword.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo tried to stop Bai Ye, but Bibi Dong insisted they trust him and held the two Title Douluo back.
• Yu Yuanzhen reached the inner residential district and saw the corpses of Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect soul masters.
• Yu Yuanzhen summoned the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul and used Dragon Transformation to become a dragon-scaled warrior.

Bai Ye defeated Yu Luomian despite his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Avatar, then ordered the Ruthless Great Emperor Puppet to kill Yu Yuanzhen. Yu Luomian was left grievously wounded for Bai Ye to convert.

• Yu Luomian transformed into his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Avatar, but Bai Ye evaded his attacks and reached his back.
• Yu Luomian tried to shake Bai Ye off, but Bai Ye clung to him with the Heavenly Demon Force Field and severed his dragon tail and claw.
• Bai Ye cut off Yu Luomian’s dragon head, forced him out of his Martial Soul Avatar state, and slowed his fall to keep him alive.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor Puppet killed Yu Yuanzhen on Bai Ye’s command and dropped the True Dragon Nine Crowns and a right arm soul bone.

Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall's Soul Masters to reveal themselves and surround the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect so she could negotiate with it. The sect raised the alarm, and Ning Fengzhi spotted the encirclement from a bell tower, wondering why the Soul Masters had not attacked.

• Bibi Dong waited until dawn and announced that Spirit Hall would negotiate with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Bibi Dong sent Spirit Hall's Soul Masters to emerge from the forest and block the routes off Seven Treasures Mountain.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's guards spotted the black-robed Soul Masters and rang the alarm bells.
• Ning Fengzhi woke, climbed a bell tower, and saw the sect surrounded by Spirit Hall's Soul Masters.
• Ning Fengzhi wondered why the encircling Soul Masters had not begun an attack.

Bai Ye tried to secure the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support for Spirit Hall and His Majesty Qinghe by revealing the destruction of the other two upper sects and offering Ning Fengzhi a rare immortal herb. Ning Fengzhi considered the offer insufficient and demanded that Bai Ye marry both Ning Rongrong and Princess Xueke.

• Ning Fengzhi asked what had happened to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and the Clear Sky Sect, and Bai Ye said they had disappeared.
• Bai Ye assured Ning Fengzhi that Spirit Hall would not harm the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and urged it to join the alliance.
• Bai Ye presented an Aromatic Silk Beauty, explaining that it could increase cultivation and evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul.
• Ning Fengzhi confirmed the herb’s effects through Ning Rongrong but said it was not enough to secure his sect’s support.
• Ning Fengzhi demanded that Bai Ye marry Ning Rongrong and Princess Xueke, leaving Bai Ye stunned.

Bai Ye secured Bibi Dong’s approval to marry Ning Rongrong and Xue Ke as part of the plan to unite the continent. He then accepted Ning Fengzhi’s terms and agreed to marry both women as soon as Xue Qinghe consented.

• Bibi Dong laughed and approved Bai Ye marrying Ning Rongrong and Xue Ke to ease cooperation with the Heaven Dou Empire and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Bai Ye returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and agreed to Ning Fengzhi’s terms.
• Ning Fengzhi promised to persuade Xue Qinghe to let Xue Ke marry Bai Ye and offered Ning Rongrong the Aromatic Silk Beauty as her dowry.
• Ning Fengzhi urged Bai Ye to marry Ning Rongrong and Xue Ke as soon as Xue Qinghe agreed, and Bai Ye reluctantly accepted.