Chapter Summaries

Ye Yan confronted Yan after Yan challenged him to a duel over Hu Liena’s attention, then overwhelmed him with his power. The chapter ended with Ye Yan stripping Yan of his Golden Generation status and privileges.

• Hu Liena and the other female Soul Masters stared at Ye Yan as he approached, making Yan jealous.
• Yan challenged Ye Yan to a duel, wagering that the loser would kneel and kowtow three times.
• Ye Yan revealed his extraordinary Soul Rings, and Yan charged him with his Flame Lord abilities.
• Ye Yan teleported past Yan’s attack and knocked him into a crater with a single punch.
• Ye Yan stopped Xie Yue from helping Yan and forced Yan to honor the wager with three head strikes.
• Ye Yan removed Yan from the Golden Generation and ordered his resources and privileges reduced to the lowest tier.

Ye Yan met Hu Liena in Spirit City, then went to Worship Hall and introduced himself as Xue'er's lover. After revealing his powerful soul rings and twin martial souls, he challenged the worshippers and found himself surrounded as they tried to injure him before the incense burned out.

• Hu Liena teased Ye Yan and invited him to explore Spirit City, but he teleported away after remembering Snake Lance was watching.
• Ye Yan and Snake Lance entered Worship Hall, where Ye Yan introduced himself to Qian Daoliu and the other worshippers as Xue'er's lover.
• Qian Daoliu tested Ye Yan with soul power, and Ye Yan revealed his Blue Silver Emperor martial soul with one hundred-thousand-year ring and two ten-thousand-year rings.
• Ye Yan explained that he had twin martial souls, showed an emerald-green sword without rings, and declared that he would give it only rings of at least one hundred thousand years.
• Ye Yan challenged the worshippers to injure him before a green incense stick burned out, then activated his Blue Silver Domain and dodged their opening attacks.
• The worshippers coordinated their attacks and surrounded Ye Yan with a rain of feathers, leaving him with no clear escape.

Ye Yan outmaneuvered the worship elders by hiding until their wager expired, then met Bibi Dong outside the Worship Hall. Bibi Dong offered to take him as her disciple, and Ye Yan accepted, agreeing to stay and cultivate with her in the Papal Hall.

• Ye Yan used his Vast Sea Protective Shroud to vanish from the worship elders’ senses, causing them to lose their wager when the incense burned out.
• Ye Yan told the elders that his first soul ring came from a human-form soul beast who had voluntarily sacrificed herself after he promised to avenge her mother.
• The worship elders shut the Worship Hall doors, and Snake Lance left Ye Yan alone outside.
• Bibi Dong confronted Ye Yan about his decision to reduce Yan’s resources and privileges, then restrained him with her soul power.
• Bibi Dong offered to settle the matter if Ye Yan became her disciple, and he accepted, asking her to help care for his hair.

Bibi Dong welcomed Ye Yan as her disciple, examined his talent, and urged him to study soul-master theory. After Ye Yan revealed that Xiao Wu had offered him a sacrifice in exchange for avenging her mother, Bibi Dong demanded to know what he intended to do about the fact that she had killed her.

• Bibi Dong checked Ye Yan’s age and soul power, then asked him to attend Spirit Hall Academy, but he said he wanted to learn directly from her.
• Bibi Dong gave Ye Yan a copy of Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul and scolded him for dismissing theoretical knowledge, pinching his cheeks until his eyes watered.
• Bibi Dong introduced Ye Yan to the Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluos, and he displayed his martial soul, soul rings, and domain before tumbling into her arms.
• Ye Yan told Bibi Dong that he had captured Xiao Wu and that she had offered her sacrifice in exchange for his promise to avenge her mother.
• Bibi Dong realized that Ye Yan might eventually seek revenge against her and asked what he intended to do since she had killed Xiao Wu’s mother.

Ye Yan explained how he had revived Xiao Wu and gave Bibi Dong two immortal herbs, prompting her to reward Chrysanthemum Douluo with a powerful soul bone. After Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo left, Bibi Dong confronted Ye Yan for behaving too familiarly in front of outsiders, and he tried to appease her.

• Ye Yan told Bibi Dong that he had used precious immortal herbs to revive Xiao Wu's remains, and Chrysanthemum Douluo explained the herbs' extraordinary effects.
• Ye Yan gave Bibi Dong the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and a golden primordial immortal herb, while warning that the red flower had strict consumption requirements.
• Ye Yan asked Bibi Dong to reward Chrysanthemum Douluo for providing the immortal herb catalog, and she gave him a thirty-thousand-year Explosive Burning Flame Right Arm soul bone.
• Bibi Dong dismissed Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, then rebuked Ye Yan for acting brazenly before them.
• Ye Yan clasped Bibi Dong's hand and pleaded cutely for her not to be angry, weakening her resolve to discipline him.

Ye Yan went to Death Canyon with three worshippers and obtained an External Soul Bone from a Star-Nightmare Spirit Fox. After absorbing it, he gained a fluffy fox tail and a charm-enhancing skill, then planned to write a book refuting Grandmaster’s work to undermine his place in Bibi Dong’s heart.

• Ye Yan decided to seek Hu Liena’s External Soul Bone and asked the worshippers to take him to Death Canyon to hunt fox-type soul beasts.
• Golden Crocodile, Qian Jun, and Jiang Mo escorted Ye Yan through Death Canyon, where he hunted soul beasts for two days.
• Ye Yan found an External Soul Bone in a Star-Nightmare Spirit Fox and hid it when the worshippers gathered around, but Golden Crocodile reassured him they would not take it.
• Ye Yan returned to his quarters and absorbed the fox-tail Soul Bone, gaining a fluffy tail and the passive Soul Skill Frost-Tail Dust Bewitchment.
• After cultivating and eating dinner, Ye Yan took out Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul and planned to write a book refuting Grandmaster.

Ye Yan wrote two books exposing Prison Xiao Gang’s plagiarism and his imagined history of deceiving Bibi Dong. After Bibi Dong read them, she began to question her past judgment of Xiao Gang.

• Ye Yan criticized the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul and wrote an autobiography portraying Prison Xiao Gang as a plagiarist and opportunist.
• Bibi Dong finished refining the soul ring and immortal herb, reaching the peak of Level 98, then visited Ye Yan.
• Ye Yan claimed his fox tail was an external soul bone, and Bibi Dong discovered that stroking it left him helpless.
• Ye Yan gave Bibi Dong his two books, and she read them while playing with his tail.
• Bibi Dong read the autobiography’s account of Prison Xiao Gang’s life, including his pursuit of knowledge, his relationship with Dong'er, and his plans to use Tang San and the Pope Token.

Bibi Dong turned against Prison Xiao Gang, accepted the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and refined the Immortal Herb until she reached Level 99 and obtained the Rakshasa Demon Scythe. After Ye Yan claimed to be a Sea God inheritor, she took him to meet powerful guests who had arrived at the council hall.

• Bibi Dong read the account of Prison Xiao Gang's betrayal and asked Ye Yan where he was so she could eliminate him.
• Bibi Dong accepted the Lovesick Heartbreak Red after Ye Yan told her the story of the youth and the flower fairy.
• Bibi Dong began absorbing the Immortal Herb while Ye Yan guarded her, and two months later she emerged as a Peerless Douluo wielding the Rakshasa Demon Scythe.
• Bibi Dong questioned Ye Yan about how he recognized the scythe, and he claimed that he had inherited the Sea God’s power.
• Bibi Dong sensed powerful auras at the council hall and led Ye Yan there to meet the guests as her disciple.

Bibi Dong defeated Golden Crocodile, forced the enshrined elders to submit, and accepted their allegiance as she declared her ambition to unite the world. She agreed to take Ye Yan to the Far North after he claimed he wanted to seek the Ice and Snow Empresses, then teased him privately.

• Bibi Dong struck Golden Crocodile with a casual attack and sent him flying, shocking the elders.
• Bibi Dong revealed her Rakshasa Demon Scythe and demanded that Qian Daoliu make the enshrined obey her.
• Qian Daoliu ordered the six enshrined to follow Bibi Dong and retired from Papal Hall affairs.
• Bibi Dong made the elders swear allegiance and declared that she would unite all under heaven.
• Ye Yan asked Bibi Dong to take him to the Far North, and she agreed after he claimed the Sea God had told him the Ice and Snow Empresses faced heavenly tribulations.
• Bibi Dong asked whether Ye Yan would show his appreciation and teased him as he knelt before her.

Ye Yan reached the Far North and persuaded the Snow Empress to follow him in exchange for ascending to the Divine Realm together after he became a god. He then asked her to summon two other ferocious beasts so he could seek their sacrifices, and she agreed to bring them to him.

• Ye Yan, Bibi Dong, and the Heng Ha Generals arrived at the Snow Empress’s ice palace, where he introduced himself and presented the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Bibi Dong beat Ye Yan after catching him admiring the Snow Empress, while the Snow Empress examined the shroud and recognized its divine power.
• Ye Yan told the Snow Empress that he would become a god within nine years and asked her and the Ice Empress to help him obtain soul rings without sacrificing themselves.
• The Snow Empress agreed to follow Ye Yan, and Bibi Dong warned her off while continuing to punish Ye Yan for his behavior.
• Ye Yan asked the Snow Empress to summon the Titan Snow Demon King and the Far North Icefield Bear so he could seek their sacrifices and later resurrect them.
• The Snow Empress said she would summon the two ferocious beasts but left Ye Yan to persuade them himself.

Ye Yan and Bibi Dong persuaded the Snow Empress’s companions to sacrifice themselves for his soul rings, with Bibi Dong forcing the reluctant Titan Snow Demon King to agree. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong asking Ye Yan why he did not want the two soul bones and revealing she still needed a torso bone and a right leg bone.

• The Ice Empress arrived after the Snow Empress summoned her and learned that Ye Yan and Bibi Dong were divine exam candidates.
• The Snow Empress introduced Ye Yan to Xiao Bai and A-Tai and asked them to sacrifice themselves, promising that Ye Yan would resurrect them after becoming a god.
• Xiao Bai agreed to sacrifice herself, but A-Tai refused because he had a clan to lead and his next heavenly tribulation was far off.
• Ye Yan prompted Bibi Dong to threaten A-Tai, and she nearly struck him with her Rakshasa Demon Scythe until he agreed to sacrifice himself.
• Ye Yan asked Bibi Dong which soul bones she needed and explained that he did not want the beasts’ bones because he expected to receive others later.

Ye Yan absorbed the soul rings of Xiao Bai and A-Tai, gained powerful ice-based soul skills, and gave Bibi Dong a torso soul bone. After arriving in Heaven Dou City, he reunited with Xiao Wu, whose anger at Bibi Dong and Ye Yan’s defense of his teacher left their relationship strained.

• Ye Yan asked Xiao Bai to form a torso soul bone and A-Tai to form a right arm soul bone, promising to revive both beasts within nine years.
• Xiao Bai and A-Tai sacrificed themselves, and Ye Yan used Ice Ruins, Cosmos-Shattering Tribulation to shatter the resulting snow tornado.
• Ye Yan described the soul skills he gained from the two beasts and gave Bibi Dong her soul bone.
• After Bibi Dong refined the torso bone, Ye Yan left a letter for Qian Renxue in Heaven Dou City and took Xiao Wu with him.
• Xiao Wu recognized Bibi Dong and attacked her, but Ye Yan stopped Xiao Wu and defended his teacher, deepening Xiao Wu’s resentment.

Ye Yan persuaded Xiao Wu to help him deceive Da Ming so he could obtain a soul ring, then traveled with Bibi Dong, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress into the Star Dou Great Forest. The group reached a Soul Power Sacred Tree that Ye Yan chose as his next target, and Snow Empress began the attack.

• Ye Yan told Xiao Wu he planned to put Da Ming and Er Ming to sleep and convinced her to help by promising to let her play with his fox tail every day.
• Bibi Dong knocked Xiao Wu unconscious, then used Ye Yan's fox tail to overwhelm him.
• Xiao Wu woke in the Star Dou Great Forest and met Snow Empress and Ice Empress, whom Ye Yan introduced as her seniors.
• Bibi Dong identified a sixty-thousand-year Soul Power Sacred Tree as a possible match for Ye Yan's Blue Silver Emperor, and Ye Yan chose to take its soul ring.
• Snow Empress summoned a massive ice palm and brought it down toward the Soul Power Sacred Tree.

Ye Yan and Bibi Dong killed the Soul Power Sacred Tree and Er Ming, then Ye Yan fled with Xiao Wu while the Ice Empress pursued them. The Sky Azure Bull Python intercepted them to protect Xiao Wu and was badly wounded fighting the Ice Empress.

• The Soul Power Sacred Tree attacked the Snow Empress, but Ye Yan killed it and absorbed its soul ring, gaining a skill that greatly increased his maximum soul power.
• After waiting seven days for Er Ming, Ye Yan detected the approaching Titan Giant Ape, and Bibi Dong killed him with her Eternal Wound skill before absorbing his soul ring.
• Ye Yan shielded Bibi Dong, then took Xiao Wu deeper into the forest while the Snow Empress watched over her and the Ice Empress chased after them.
• Ye Yan and Xiao Wu encountered the Sky Azure Bull Python, who agreed to protect them, and Xiao Wu told him that the Ice Empress had killed Er Ming.
• The Ice Empress countered the Sky Azure Bull Python's attacks and pierced his body with ice spikes as he curled around Ye Yan and Xiao Wu to protect them.

Ye Yan completed Da Ming’s sacrifice, gaining a powerful new soul ring and awakening Demon-Exorcising Divine Thunder. Back in Spirit City, he planned a trip to Sea God Island and decided to take Ning Rongrong, then happily abandoned cultivation in favor of sleeping.

• Ye Yan and Xiao Wu convinced Da Ming that Xiao Wu needed to escape, and Da Ming sacrificed himself to protect them.
• Ye Yan comforted Xiao Wu after the sacrifice and thanked the Ice Empress for helping with their act.
• Ye Yan revealed that Da Ming’s sacrifice gave him two soul skills and awakened his martial soul’s Demon-Exorcising Divine Thunder.
• Bibi Dong returned after absorbing her soul ring, and Ye Yan assured her that he would never be disloyal.
• Back in Spirit City, Ye Yan decided to take Ning Rongrong to Sea God Island and planned to request a Head Soul Bone from Bibi Dong.
• Ye Yan decided to stop cultivating for a while and slept to his heart’s content.

Ye Yan said goodbye to Bibi Dong before departing for Sea God Island and advised her on expanding Spirit Hall’s power. When Bibi Dong discovered Qian Renxue’s angel mark on him, she pinned him down and demanded an explanation.

• Ye Yan told Bibi Dong he planned to go to Sea God Island for the divine trials, but persuaded her to remain behind and oversee Spirit Hall.
• Ye Yan urged Bibi Dong to win over powerful sects, academies, city lords, and blacksmiths, and to crush those who resisted.
• Ye Yan proposed gaining the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support by helping it reach the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and requested two soul bones from Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong withheld the soul bones and dragged Ye Yan to bed before noticing an angel mark on his abdomen.
• Bibi Dong pinned Ye Yan down and demanded to know why he bore Qian Renxue’s mark, and Ye Yan said Qian Renxue had placed it on him in exchange for an immortal herb catalog.

After Bibi Dong punished Ye Yan for his ties to Qian Renxue, he traveled toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and refined an ink jade divine bamboo to strengthen his Martial Soul and body. He then gave Ling Yuan a sacred radiance scarlet plume orchid, which evolved her Martial Soul into a Vermilion Bird.

• Bibi Dong accused Ye Yan of becoming involved with Qian Renxue, marked him with her spider Martial Souls, and kept him under her control for half a month.
• Ye Yan traveled with the Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Ling Yuan toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, passing through the Heavenly Spirit Mountain Range near Jialing Pass.
• Ye Yan refined the ink jade divine bamboo, strengthening his bones and making his Blue Silver Emperor vines darker and more powerful.
• Ye Yan gave Ling Yuan the sacred radiance scarlet plume orchid after she asked to exchange for it, and he explained how to refine it.
• Ling Yuan finished refining the orchid three days later, evolving her Martial Soul into a Vermilion Bird and improving her flames and Soul Skills.

Ye Yan visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with three powerful companions and overwhelmed Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong with a display of strength. He met Ning Rongrong, won her favor, and left her with a fifty-thousand-year soul bone.

• Ye Yan rejected the Ice Empress’s suggestion to make an impression by having Xue'er slap Ning Fengzhi and devised a more imposing plan.
• Ye Yan descended on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect amid summer snowfall and displayed his seven soul rings to Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong.
• Ye Yan introduced Ling Yuan, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress, then told Ning Fengzhi he had come to see his daughter, Ning Rongrong.
• Ye Yan greeted Ning Rongrong as Xu Xiaoyan, and she quickly warmed to him and held his hand.
• Ye Yan gave Ning Rongrong a fifty-thousand-year Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull, stunning the Sword and Bone Douluo with his generosity.

Ye Yan gave Ning Rongrong an Immortal Herb and a Soul Bone, helping her evolve her Martial Soul and grow stronger. The next day, Ning Rongrong brought him to the sect hall to show Ning Fengzhi what she had gained.

• Ning Rongrong kissed Ye Yan, and Ye Yan told Ning Fengzhi that he planned to take her to Sea God Island for training.
• Ye Yan revealed that Bibi Dong was his teacher and that she had reached Level 99, persuading Ning Fengzhi and the Sword and Bone Douluo to support Spirit Hall.
• Ye Yan gave Ning Rongrong the Aromatic Silk Beauty, which raised her Soul Power to level twenty-seven and evolved her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong absorbed a Soul Bone, reached level twenty-nine, and gained the Mystic-Pupil Light Arrow Soul Skill.
• The next day, Ning Rongrong brought Ye Yan to meet Ning Fengzhi and proudly teased him about what Ye Yan had given her.

Ning Rongrong revealed that her martial soul had evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Ye Yan enlisted Ning Fengzhi to support Xue Qinghe’s rise to power. Ye Yan then attacked Xue Beng and his allies at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where he confronted the academy’s education committee.

• Ning Rongrong showed Ning Fengzhi her nine-story Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and said Xu Xiaoyan had given her an aromatic silk beauty that also raised her cultivation by six ranks.
• Ye Yan explained immortal herbs to Ning Fengzhi, then asked him to help stabilize the empire after Xue Xing, Xue Beng, and the emperor died and Xue Qinghe took the throne.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to back Xue Qinghe and said he could identify the loyal ministers, while Ye Yan proposed having Soul Saints and Soul Douluos supervise government affairs.
• Ye Yan took Ning Rongrong and the others to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, located Xue Beng with his Blue Silver Domain, and killed Xue Beng, Yu Tianheng, and Qin Ming with his Blue Silver Overlord Spear.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin confronted Ye Yan, who demanded that they choose between serving Xue Qinghe and Prince Xue Xing.
• Ling Yuan summoned her Vermilion Bird martial soul as Ye Yan threatened the committee, and Ning Rongrong prepared to support her.