Chapter Summaries

Shi Meng activated the God-Tier Three-Choice System after appearing in Bibi Dong’s bath and chose a Herrscher Authority that let him rewrite causality. He collapsed after using it, then woke with his head in Bibi Dong’s lap as their causal bond began restoring his energy.

• Shi Meng surfaced in Bibi Dong’s bath, and she restrained him with spider silk and demanded to know who he was.
• The system offered Shi Meng three starting gifts, and he chose the Herrscher Authority option.
• Shi Meng received temporal sequence authority and used it to rewind Bibi Dong’s life before severing and reconnecting her causality.
• Shi Meng exhausted his Imaginary Energy, and the system said it would recover as he deepened his causal bond with Bibi Dong.
• Shi Meng passed out and later awoke with his head resting on Bibi Dong’s lap as the system registered a deeper bond and restored one energy point.

Shi Meng pretended to have lost his memories, and Bibi Dong took him in as her disciple and future Holy Son. At the Spirit Hall awakening ceremony, Miles and Raine mocked him, while Bibi Dong calmly waited for Shi Meng’s martial soul to surprise them.

• Shi Meng claimed he remembered only his name and age, and Bibi Dong promised to care for him from then on.
• Shi Meng gained three energy points when he accepted Bibi Dong’s offer, and she named him her disciple and future Holy Son.
• Bibi Dong introduced Shi Meng to Hu Liena, who welcomed him and took him to get food before the next day’s awakening ceremony.
• At the ceremony, Miles bragged that Raine would awaken a high-tier martial soul and had the makings of a Holy Son.
• Bibi Dong arrived holding Shi Meng’s hand, and Miles and Raine sneered at him while she silently anticipated their disappointment.

At the martial soul awakening ceremony, Miles and Raine boldly asked Bibi Dong to make Raine her disciple before he awakened, then celebrated his Golden Flame Lion and innate rank-nine soul power. Shi Meng remained unimpressed as Bibi Dong watched the father and son with growing chill, and his own test was called next.

• Yan questioned Xie Yue about Hu Liena's closeness to Shi Meng, while Xie Yue studied the boy with curiosity.
• Bibi Dong led Shi Meng onto the dais and kept holding his hand, prompting spectators to speculate that he was her illegitimate son.
• Miles and Raine interrupted the ceremony to demand that Bibi Dong take Raine as her disciple before his awakening.
• Raine awakened a Golden Flame Lion martial soul and tested at innate rank nine, prompting Miles and Raine to boast at Shi Meng.
• Bibi Dong silently watched Miles and Raine as the attendant called Shi Meng to the awakening platform.

Shi Meng awakened an unusual clock-hand Martial Soul that made other Martial Souls submit, while Bibi Dong and the elders recognized him as the returning Time Douluo. His Soul Power test appeared to show nothing until the crystal shattered, leaving Miles and Raine's apparent victory in doubt.

• Shi Meng awakened a blue-flamed clock-hand Martial Soul, and Bibi Dong recognized him as the returned Time Douluo.
• Qian Daoliu and the worship elders sensed Shi Meng's return and sent Light Feather Douluo to sound him out.
• Shi Meng's Martial Soul exerted overwhelming pressure on the other Martial Souls, stunning the crowd and silencing Miles and Raine.
• Miles ordered the officiant to test Shi Meng's Soul Power, but the crystal showed no reaction at first.
• As Miles and Raine celebrated and prepared to seek appointments, the Soul Power crystal shattered beneath Shi Meng's hand.

Shi Meng shattered the standard Soul Power crystal and revealed level twenty Innate Soul Power, prompting Bibi Dong to appoint him Holy Son. Miles challenged the appointment, but Bibi Dong confronted him over his conduct and authority, leaving him kneeling before her.

• Shi Meng shattered the standard Soul Power crystal, and an Advanced Soul Power Crystal confirmed his Innate Soul Power was level twenty.
• Bibi Dong appointed Shi Meng Holy Son of the Spirit Hall, equal in standing to Hu Liena, while Raine and Miles were stunned.
• Shi Meng joined Bibi Dong on the platform and grabbed her hand, replenishing his energy.
• Miles objected to Shi Meng's appointment, arguing that the Council of Elders should review it and that Shi Meng's origins were unclear.
• Bibi Dong challenged Miles to cite a regulation requiring consultation and reminded him that he had pressured her to take Raine as her disciple and that Raine had insulted Shi Meng.
• Bibi Dong accused Miles of questioning her judgment, and Miles dropped to his knees and insisted he would never dare.

Bibi Dong punished Miles and Raine for their schemes against Shi Meng, then took Shi Meng and Hu Liena to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Shi Meng’s first soul ring. Shi Meng requested a thousand-year ring and sensed an ice-type thousand-year soul beast nearby.

• Bibi Dong stripped Miles of his position, abolished his soul power, and expelled him and Raine from Spirit Hall, while Raine also lost his eligibility to join the Hall.
• Shi Meng celebrated Bibi Dong’s support and decided to ask her to take him soul hunting the next day.
• Shi Meng joined Bibi Dong and Hu Liena on a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest and asked for a thousand-year first soul ring.
• Bibi Dong agreed that Shi Meng could handle a thousand-year ring, recalling that he had surpassed the usual limit in his previous life.
• Shi Meng sensed an ice-type thousand-year soul beast to the southeast, surprising Bibi Dong and Hu Liena.

Shi Meng and Bibi Dong’s group found a thousand-year Time-Ice Mystic Butterfly and encountered Skywater Academy, which offered its resources and future ice-attribute Soul Masters to Spirit Hall in exchange for help finding a Soul Beast for one of its disciples. Shi Meng supported the deal, and the chapter ended as he began addressing Skywater Academy’s instructor.

• Bibi Dong sent Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to confirm a thousand-year ice-attribute Soul Beast, then led the group southeast with Hu Liena holding Shi Meng’s hand.
• The group found a twelve-hundred-year Time-Ice Mystic Butterfly at an icy lake, but Shi Meng noticed Skywater Academy approaching from the opposite shore.
• Skywater Academy’s instructor greeted Bibi Dong and explained that her group had tracked the butterfly for three days for a disciple with a Frost Sword martial soul.
• The instructor offered Skywater Academy’s ice marrow, jade marrow, Skywater Token, and first pick of its future ice-attribute Soul Masters in exchange for Spirit Hall’s help finding a suitable thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Shi Meng advised Bibi Dong to accept the offer, arguing that Skywater Academy’s ice-attribute legacy suited his martial soul, then turned to address the instructor.

Shi Meng used his time-controlling Clock-Hand Pointer to defeat a Time-Ice Mystic Butterfly and secure its soul ring, while Bibi Dong accepted Skywater Academy as a Spirit Hall affiliate. The chapter left Shi Meng poised to claim the defeated beast, with Ghost Douluo searching for an ice-attribute soul beast for Skywater Academy’s Frost Sword student.

• Shi Meng advised the Skywater Academy instructor that the Frost Sword needed a power-oriented ice soul beast, then asked Ghost Douluo to find a Thousand-Year Ice Soul Python.
• Bibi Dong approved Skywater Academy’s affiliation with Spirit Hall and granted the Time-Ice Mystic Butterfly to Shi Meng.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo secured the perimeter as Shi Meng approached the butterfly in the lake.
• Shi Meng used his Clock-Hand Pointer to distort time, evade the butterfly’s icy attack, and burn away its cold with blue flames.
• Shi Meng struck the butterfly with Weight of Ages, rapidly draining its soul power and vitality until it fell from the reef.

Shi Meng absorbed the Time-Ice Mystic Butterfly’s thousand-year Soul Ring as his first ring, which transformed into a blue-gold ring and granted him Time’s Continuous Slash. After demonstrating the skill’s destructive power to Skywater Academy, he left everyone stunned.

• Shi Meng began absorbing the Time-Ice Mystic Butterfly’s Soul Ring, and its color changed as his Martial Soul adapted it to him.
• Bibi Dong explained the ring’s transformation, and Shi Meng finished absorbing it to gain Time’s Continuous Slash.
• Shi Meng told Bibi Dong about his new Soul Skill while Hu Liena congratulated him and pinched his cheek.
• Ghost Douluo returned with a dying thousand-year Ice-Soul Python, and a Skywater Academy student began absorbing its ring.
• Xue Wu asked Shi Meng to demonstrate his first Soul Skill, so he slashed the lake and showed that his blue flames burned on water.
• Shi Meng unleashed repeated slashes that aged and destroyed the lake’s ice, leaving the Skywater Academy instructor convinced the display could not be a first Soul Skill.

Shi Meng helped Shui Bing'er find and defeat an Iceheart Snow Silkworm, then saved her from its counterattack. Their Soul Power merged, leaving Shui Bing'er wondering whether they could perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill as she began absorbing her first Soul Ring.

• Shui Yue'er called Shi Meng her big brother, while Hu Liena guarded him from the Skywater Academy girls.
• Bibi Dong asked Shi Meng to find a suitable ice-attribute Soul Beast for Shui Bing'er, and he led her to a Cold Cavern containing a 420-year-old Iceheart Snow Silkworm.
• Shi Meng and Shui Bing'er fought the Soul Beast together, and he rescued her when it unleashed a powerful counterattack.
• Shi Meng defeated the Iceheart Snow Silkworm, and his Soul Power merged with Shui Bing'er's as he held her.
• Shui Bing'er killed the weakened Soul Beast, gained its Soul Ring, and began absorbing it while Xue Wu noticed her Soul Power felt strange.

After returning from Skywater Academy with a soul ring and valuable items, Shi Meng set out with Hu Liena to hunt another soul beast. When Tang Tieshan and his companions tried to claim the beast Shi Meng had defeated, Shi Meng asked whether they were Clear Sky Sect collateral disciples.

• Shui Yue'er asked Shi Meng if she could visit him, while Hu Liena moved to stand between them.
• Bibi Dong accepted the Skywater Token, ice marrow, jade marrow, and extra ice grass, and Shi Meng stored the items.
• On the way home, Bibi Dong warned Shi Meng to keep his distance from other girls, and Hu Liena took the warning as support for her.
• Qian Daoliu heard Light Feather Douluo's report about Shi Meng's innate rank and ordered the elders to keep observing him.
• Shi Meng defeated a five-thousand-year Thunderfire Falcon while Hu Liena restrained it, then prepared to absorb its soul ring.
• Tang Tieshan and three companions demanded the Thunderfire Falcon, and Shi Meng asked if they were collateral disciples of the Clear Sky Sect.

Shi Meng and Hu Liena defeated four Clear Sky Sect disciples, and Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to kill them. Shi Meng then absorbed the Thunderfire Falcon’s five-thousand-year soul ring while his allies waited.

• Shi Meng asked Hu Liena to charm all four Clear Sky Sect disciples so he could attack them.
• Hu Liena charmed the four, and Shi Meng used Time’s Continuous Slash to drain their strength and leave them unable to fight.
• Bibi Dong, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo arrived, and Shi Meng ordered the four disciples killed.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo killed all four disciples, and Shi Meng finished off the Thunderfire Falcon.
• Shi Meng began absorbing the Falcon’s five-thousand-year soul ring as Hu Liena, Bibi Dong, and the two Douluos watched.

After absorbing his second Soul Ring, Shi Meng advanced to rank twenty-four and learned that his Authority of Time had fully replenished. Meanwhile, Xiao Wu was reborn on her first day at Notting Academy and brutally attacked Tang San, carrying memories of how he killed Shi Meng in her previous life.

• Shi Meng absorbed the Thunderfire Falcon's Soul Ring, reached rank twenty-four, and named his second Soul Skill Wheel of Time.
• The system told Shi Meng that advancing in rank restored his Authority of Time and improved his control over it.
• Xiao Wu regained memories of her previous life in Dorm Seven and realized she had been reborn as a six-year-old.
• Xiao Wu used Explosive Eight-Stage Throw to slam Tang San repeatedly until Wang Sheng intervened and caught him.
• Xiao Wu recalled falling in love with Shi Meng and how he had protected her after Spirit Hall discovered she was a Soul Beast.
• Bibi Dong had granted Xiao Wu the right to live alongside Shi Meng in Spirit Hall, but Xiao Wu remembered that events afterward led to tragedy.

Xiao Wu awakened six years before meeting Shi Meng and resolved to grow stronger so she could protect him, while Shi Meng and Hu Liena clashed with Dai Mubai over a hotel suite in Suotuo City. The chapter ended as Shi Meng began to explain why he would not fight Dai Mubai over something trivial.

• Xiao Wu remembered Tang San killing Shi Meng in her previous life and wished to live again only to protect Shi Meng.
• Xiao Wu awakened at age six and decided to hide her intentions from Tang Hao while training until she could reunite with Shi Meng.
• Shi Meng and Hu Liena arrived at the Rose Hotel, where the receptionist said only one suite remained.
• Dai Mubai claimed the suite and offered to pay triple, but Hu Liena refused and challenged him to settle the dispute with a fight.
• Dai Mubai boasted about his rank and White Tiger martial soul, and Shi Meng stopped Hu Liena from responding before addressing Dai Mubai.

Shi Meng and Hu Liena challenged Dai Mubai over the Rose Hotel room, wagering on whether its manager would make Shi Meng leave or beg him to stay. The manager arrived and threatened Shi Meng, but the chapter ended before the wager was decided.

• Xiao Wu and Tang San entered the hotel, where Xiao Wu spotted Shi Meng and Hu Liena and hid in the crowd.
• Dai Mubai agreed to bet Shi Meng for the room, with the loser facing humiliating stakes proposed by Hu Liena.
• Hu Liena accepted Dai Mubai's added condition that she join Shrek Academy if they lost.
• The manager came out to greet Dai Mubai, then threatened Shi Meng and revealed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect backed the Rose Hotel.
• Dai Mubai began adding another condition to the wager, but had not finished stating it.

Shi Meng accepted Dai Mubai’s humiliating bet, but Ning Rongrong arrived with Sword Douluo and revealed her influence by firing the hotel manager. Dai Mubai lost the bet and tried to flee from Shi Xiaoba’s repulsive mini burger, only for Sword Douluo to strike at him with sword energy.

• Shi Meng agreed to Dai Mubai’s bet and calmly counted down as Dai Mubai ordered the guards to throw him out.
• Ning Rongrong entered with Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Dream Academy’s entourage, then respectfully greeted Shi Meng.
• Ning Rongrong announced that she had bought the hotel for Shi Meng and fired the manager, leaving Dai Mubai unable to deny that he had lost the bet.
• Shi Xiaoba offered Dai Mubai a secret-recipe mini burger, and Dai Mubai vomited after opening the packet.
• Dai Mubai tried to escape, but Sword Douluo condensed sword energy and lashed it toward him.

Shi Meng joined Dream Academy after Ning Rongrong invited him, while Xiao Wu joined them and revealed that she shared Ning Rongrong's secret. Dai Mubai was beaten in an alley and returned to Shrek Academy badly swollen as Flender learned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had bought the Rose Hotel.

• Ning Rongrong invited Shi Meng to join Dream Academy, and he accepted.
• Xiao Wu asked to join them, signaled to Ning Rongrong that she had also been reborn, and rejected Tang San's plan to attend Shrek Academy.
• Hu Liena took Shi Meng's hand as the group left the Rose Hotel, while a masked woman paid thugs to beat Dai Mubai.
• Ning Rongrong showed Shi Meng and Hu Liena the grand Dream Academy complex built by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Flender learned the sect had bought the Rose Hotel and other Suotuo City properties, then barely recognized the battered Dai Mubai when he arrived at Shrek Academy.

At Shrek Academy, Flender and Zhao Wuji struggled to respond after Dai Mubai was beaten by Shi Meng and Dream Academy, while rumors of Shi Meng’s strength deepened their worries. Meanwhile, Shi Meng relaxed at Dream Academy and used his remaining authority to select his next target for Causal Restructuring.

• Dai Mubai recounted how Shi Meng had taken the Rose Hotel room and Sword Douluo had struck him down, while hiding the humiliating wager.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji discussed Shrek Academy’s lack of money and their inability to challenge the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect or Dream Academy.
• Ma Hongjun reported rumors that Shi Meng was twelve years old and already had level forty-nine soul power.
• Oscar announced that new students had arrived, and a black-haired boy entered Shrek Academy offering Flender a plan.
• Shi Meng enjoyed the sofa Ning Rongrong had provided, checked his remaining authority, and chose his next target for Causal Restructuring.

Qian Renxue formed a quiet friendship with a strange young man in a secluded valley, where his advice helped her rethink cultivation and learn to act decisively in court. The chapter ended with him reminding her not to stand on ceremony as she pursued her goals.

• Qian Renxue met a carefree young man fishing in a forbidden valley and began returning to spend quiet afternoons with him.
• The young man made Qian Renxue laugh, listened as she spoke, and gave her a place where she could be herself.
• After Qian Renxue nearly suffered cultivation deviation, the young man adjusted her soul power method and asked what she wanted strength for, leaving her unable to answer.
• Qian Renxue considered the question during his month-long absence but still could not determine what she wanted for herself.
• Qian Renxue took the young man's advice to discover what a defiant minister wanted, protected his beloved illegitimate son, and made the minister her loyal pawn.
• When Qian Renxue told him of her success, the young man praised her cleverness and said she had only stood too much on ceremony before beginning another piece of advice.

Qian Renxue remembered how Shi Meng had guided and cared for her in her previous life, then awakened in a parallel world determined to find him and protect him. She found him at Dream Academy, where he was meeting two girls who wanted to enroll.

• Shi Meng returned after eight months away and gave Qian Renxue a handmade Wooden Bird as a gift.
• Qian Renxue built influence in the Heaven Dou Empire, but Tang San killed Shi Meng and later destroyed Spirit Hall, leaving her with nothing to protect.
• Qian Renxue understood that she had wanted to become stronger to protect those she loved, then awakened in a parallel world with her memories intact.
• A message revealed that Shi Meng had been reborn in this worldline but had forgotten his previous-life memories, and Qian Renxue discovered his name carved beneath the Wooden Bird.
• She Long reported that Shi Meng was at Dream Academy in Suotuo City, and Qian Renxue resolved to protect him in this life.
• At Dream Academy, Shi Meng asked two girls if they both wanted to enroll.