Chapter Summaries

Qin Chuan forced Tang Hao to confess that he had deliberately engineered Ah Yin’s sacrifice to gain her Soul Ring and Soul Bone while preserving his reputation. After Tang Hao’s rage triggered a Game Domain penalty, Qin Chuan left him immobilized, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect cut ties with the Clear Sky Sect.

• Qin Chuan used Truth or Dare to compel Tang Hao to reveal that he had exploited Ah Yin’s love and arranged for her to sacrifice herself.
• Yue Guan, Gu Rong, Chen Xin, and Gui Mei condemned Tang Hao, while Bibi Dong realized Qin Chuan had staged the public exposure.
• Tang Hao flew into a rage, violated the game’s rules, and was frozen by Qin Chuan’s Red Light soul skill.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong declared that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would sever its close ties with the Clear Sky Sect and denounced Tang Hao’s claim to Ah Yin’s legacy.
• Qin Chuan and Bibi Dong left Tang Hao immobilized in the wilderness for six hours as the others remained behind.

Tang Hao told Tang San that Qin Chuan and Bibi Dong had taken the treasures from the back hills, then sent him to Slaughter City to pursue the Divine Slaughter's Domain. Back in Spirit City, Bibi Dong visited the Game Hall at night, where Qin Chuan began showing her around.

• Tang Hao told Tang San that Qin Chuan and Bibi Dong had taken the treasures from the back hills and that he had failed to reclaim them.
• Tang Hao urged Tang San to leave for Slaughter City and seek the Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Tang San burned Xiao Wu's gifts and drawings, then left Holy Soul Village with Tang Hao.
• Qin Chuan stored the Blue Silver Emperor's seed in the Wishful Treasure Bag, gave the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to Bibi Dong, and assigned Yue Guan to coordinate the Soul Beast Protection Law.
• Bibi Dong arrived at the closed Game Hall with Yue Guan and Gui Mei, ordered them to guard outside, and entered with Qin Chuan.
• Qin Chuan toured Bibi Dong through the Game Hall and began explaining the Fruit Machines.

Qin Chuan brought Bibi Dong into the Otherworld Survival game, where the four-star Haunted Dormitory scenario sealed her martial souls and Soul Power. They found a double-bed room and began upgrading its defenses as the game started.

• Bibi Dong learned that the blind box wall offered a chance to obtain high-age Soul Rings, then followed Qin Chuan to the second floor.
• Qin Chuan activated Otherworld Survival with his Diamond Member card, and the game selected the four-star Haunted Dormitory scenario.
• Bibi Dong discovered that the Game Domain had sealed both her martial souls and all her Soul Power, with failure threatening to reduce her level by one.
• Qin Chuan led Bibi Dong through the corridor and found room 105, which had a double bed and a turret.
• Qin Chuan and Bibi Dong lay on the bed to double their coin production, then Qin Chuan upgraded the door, bed, and turret.

Qin Chuan and Bibi Dong survived the Nightmare Demon's increasingly powerful attacks in Haunted Dormitory, earning Bibi Dong enough Soul Power to reach level 98. They switched to Object Hide-and-Seek, where Bibi Dong began the first round as a purple vase and hurried to hide.

• The fifty-thousand-year Nightmare Demon attacked door 105, and Qin Chuan repeatedly repaired it while Bibi Dong watched in fear.
• The Nightmare Demon grew to eighty thousand years, but Qin Chuan kept upgrading and repairing the defenses until the final wave was defeated at dawn.
• The game rewarded Qin Chuan with a 10% Soul Power increase and Bibi Dong with enough power to advance from level 97 to level 98.
• Qin Chuan suggested a more relaxing game, and Bibi Dong agreed to play Object Hide-and-Seek.
• Qin Chuan activated Game Domain, and Bibi Dong became a purple vase as the first round began.

Bibi Dong played Object Hide-and-Seek with Qin Chuan for five hours and discovered that the Game Hall could rapidly increase her Soul Power. She planned to return the next night, then disguised herself before leaving the Game Hall with Qin Chuan.

• Bibi Dong hid as a vase, flagstone, and firewood, while Qin Chuan found her in each round and she became increasingly engrossed in the game.
• After five hours, Qin Chuan ended the game because he was exhausted, and Bibi Dong found that her Soul Power had increased by about 0.1%.
• Bibi Dong calculated that playing regularly could help her reach level 99 in about three years and told Qin Chuan the Game Hall was the most important thing on the continent.
• Bibi Dong told Qin Chuan she would return to play the next night, then sent Yue Guan and Gui Mei back without her.
• Bibi Dong put on a hat and veil to disguise herself, and Qin Chuan complimented her appearance.

Bibi Dong learned that Game Hall outfits could temporarily raise Soul Masters’ levels, then returned to Spirit Hall with Qin Chuan and discussed the Soul Beast Protection Law. The next morning, Qin Chuan checked his growing system points and browsed the shop, still short of the level needed to unlock his seventh soul skill.

• Bibi Dong learned that a Limited-Time Maid Outfit could raise soul power by ten levels, up to level 91, and that its boost lasted indefinitely in the Third-Floor VR Script Exclusive Area or two hours outside it.
• Bibi Dong walked arm in arm with Qin Chuan toward Spirit Hall, talked about wanting to escape her duties as Pope, and agreed to try a cosplay outfit when Qin Chuan obtained one.
• Bibi Dong asked about the Soul Beast Protection Law, and Qin Chuan reported that most cities had received the decree while the empires and several major sects remained cautious or silent.
• Bibi Dong recognized that the Game Hall’s soul-ring blind boxes could ease resistance to the law and offered to return the next night to play Otherworld Survival.
• The next morning, Qin Chuan checked the system panel and shop, noting that he was level 61 and needed level 70 to unlock his seventh soul skill.

Qin Chuan considered unlocking Douluo Glory as a competitive game that could be livestreamed across the continent. At Shrek Academy, Tang Hao consulted Yu Xiaogang about the God of Drama Martial Soul and learned several ways to challenge it.

• Qin Chuan examined Douluo Glory in the System Shop and noted that he needed to reach level 78 and collect 300,000 points to unlock it.
• Tang Hao visited Yu Xiaogang at Shrek Academy, seeking weaknesses in Qin Chuan's God of Drama Martial Soul.
• Tang Hao told Yu Xiaogang that he had taken Tang San to Slaughter City and worried that his son would lose control; Yu Xiaogang said he still supported Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that the Game Domain let Qin Chuan choose a game, though he could still lose and face punishment.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed countering Qin Chuan with ranged attacks from outside his domain, a point-blank self-destruction, or a relay of challengers exploiting his Soul Skills' cooldowns.

Yu Xiaogang explained to Tang Hao how each of Qin Chuan’s six known soul skills worked and why Qin Chuan could still choose the most favorable game. He warned that Spirit Hall’s Soul Beast Protection Law was a political threat that could lead to the creation of a Spirit Hall Empire and a struggle against the two existing empires.

• Yu Xiaogang described the counters and risks of Qin Chuan’s Coin of Fate, Rock-Paper-Scissors, Truth or Dare, and Destiny Roulette to Tang Hao.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Happy Cultivation was harmless and detailed how One, Two, Three, Red Light could turn rule-breakers into wooden figures.
• Yu Xiaogang concluded that Qin Chuan remained dangerous because he could choose whichever soul skill best favored him, and he outlined strategies to attack Qin Chuan directly.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Tang Hao that Spirit Hall’s Soul Beast Protection Law placed it on the moral high ground and was more frightening than Qin Chuan himself.
• Yu Xiaogang predicted that Spirit Hall would establish an empire and eventually absorb the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire.

Liu Erlong brought Spirit Hall’s Soul Beast Protection Edict to Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao, then went undercover to visit Qin Chuan’s Douluo Game Hall and assess his Soul Skill. She explored the hall’s games and blind boxes, but had not yet met Qin Chuan.

• Liu Erlong delivered the edict to Yu Xiaogang and told him and Tang Hao she planned to visit Qin Chuan’s Game Hall and try to recruit him.
• Yu Xiaogang advised Liu Erlong to observe the changes caused by Qin Chuan’s Happy Cultivation Soul Skill, while he and Tang Hao agreed to approach Qin Chuan cautiously.
• Liu Erlong traveled to Spirit City in casual clothes and waited in line to enter the Douluo Game Hall.
• Liu Erlong examined the claw machine, fruit machine, horse racing machines, and other games in the hall.
• Liu Erlong reached the blind box wall and watched visitors win prizes from Common and Silver Blind Boxes.

Liu Erlong visited the Douluo Game Hall, won a fortune, and discovered that playing games greatly accelerated her Soul Power growth. After becoming a Gold Member, she went upstairs and encountered Qin Chuan and the others leaving an interactive game.

• Liu Erlong tried the first-floor games, won Gold Soul Coins and prizes, and became increasingly absorbed in playing.
• Liu Erlong noticed her Soul Power was increasing at roughly ten times the rate of normal meditation.
• Liu Erlong exchanged her 10,000-Gold-Soul-Coin token for a Gold Membership Card and went to the second floor.
• Liu Erlong saw Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Hu Liena, Yan, Xie Yue, and Qin Chuan emerge from Object Hide-and-Seek.

Liu Erlong disguised herself and visited the second floor, where Xiao Wu introduced her to its games and their rapid soul-power gains. She joined Object Hide-and-Seek and was transformed into a scallion as the round began.

• Liu Erlong disguised herself as a noblewoman, and Xiao Wu mistook her for a new Gold Member.
• Xiao Wu explained the second-floor games and said Otherworld Survival could award soul power, soul bones, and soul rings.
• Liu Erlong learned Object Hide-and-Seek accelerated soul-power growth and followed Xiao Wu into the game room.
• Qin Chuan explained the rules and chose Yan to be the Seeker while the others hid.
• Liu Erlong transformed into a scallion and reacted with disbelief.

Liu Erlong and the others played another round of hide-and-seek, with Yan searching for Hiders using the Spray Soul Tool. Yan found everyone but Qin Chuan, and Liu Erlong discovered that hiding in the game made her Soul Power flow roughly a hundred times faster than meditation.

• Liu Erlong duplicated herself among the scallions in the vegetable patch and felt her Soul Power surge as she hid.
• Yan entered as the Seeker and sprayed the scallion patch until he found and eliminated Liu Erlong, who laughed and said she wanted to be the Seeker next round.
• Yan searched the residence and eliminated Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Zhu Zhuqing, who had hidden as a book, a candle, and a pillow.
• Yan passed over Qin Chuan, who was disguised as a rag on the clothesline, and ran out of time before finding him.
• Qin Chuan emerged as the Hiders' winner while Liu Erlong laughed at Yan's surprise, then joined the group as they gathered to chat.

Liu Erlong took the Seeker role and searched the changing Main Residence map with the Spray Soul Tool. She eliminated three hidden players by blasting suspicious objects, then continued toward the backyard.

• Liu Erlong entered the Main Residence courtyard, checked its changed layout, and searched the main hall.
• Liu Erlong sprayed four teacups and exposed a random player disguised as one of them.
• Liu Erlong swept the study’s bookshelves with shock waves and eliminated Xie Yue, who had hidden as a book.
• Liu Erlong blasted the kitchen but found no Hiders, then shot the corridor paintings and eliminated Hu Liena.

Liu Erlong discovered that playing games in Qin Chuan’s hall rapidly increased her Soul Power and chose to cooperate with him rather than kill him. After the others left, Qin Chuan offered her a free round of Otherworld Survival, where a victory could raise her from level seventy-nine to level eighty, but defeat would cost her two levels.

• After five rounds of games, Liu Erlong found that her Soul Power had increased by five percent and considered how the Game Hall could strengthen Shrek Academy.
• Liu Erlong recalled Yu Xiaogang’s order to kill Qin Chuan, but decided to cooperate with him because the Game Hall could help people grow stronger.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue left the hall, leaving Qin Chuan and Liu Erlong alone.
• Qin Chuan offered Liu Erlong a free round of Otherworld Survival, and they entered the game room together.
• The game selected Plants vs. Soul Beasts, and Liu Erlong learned that victory would grant her one level while failure would cost her two before the countdown began.

Liu Erlong and Qin Chuan defended a cottage in a game-like battlefield, collecting Heaven and Earth Soul Power and planting Soul Beast plants to stop waves of attackers. After their defenses defeated several wolves, Qin Chuan set up a shield oak and a stronger arrow vine against a ten-thousand-year giant bear.

• Liu Erlong discovered that her Soul Power and Soul Skills were sealed, then followed Qin Chuan’s instructions to collect Heaven and Earth Soul Power and water the plants.
• Qin Chuan planted Golden Sunflowers and a Green-Pod Arrow Vine, which killed a Rot-Skinned Wild Wolf before it reached the cottage.
• Three more Rot-Skinned Wild Wolves charged the cottage, and Qin Chuan’s Green-Pod Arrow Vines killed them while Liu Erlong gathered the dropped Soul Power.
• Qin Chuan planted a Crystal-Pattern Shield Oak and a Green-Pod Arrow Vine to defend against an Iron-Armored Giant Bear, whose blows cracked but did not break the shield oak.
• When the Green-Pod Arrow Vine’s shots bounced off the bear’s armor, Qin Chuan planted a twenty-thousand-year Double-Thorn Arrow Vine behind the shield oak.

Qin Chuan and Liu Erlong defended the cottage against successive waves of soul beasts using carefully arranged plants. After countering armored, shielded, and jumping beasts, they faced a forty-thousand-year-old Burrowing Cave-Toothed Beast as the sixth wave began.

• Qin Chuan used Shield Oaks and Double-Thorn Arrow Vines to defeat the Iron-Armored Giant Bear, then arranged defenses across all five lanes while Liu Erlong collected ambient soul power.
• Qin Chuan planted a Beast-Eating Giant Flower to swallow one of two Iron-Armored Giant Bears attacking the third lane, while the arrow vines killed the other.
• Qin Chuan slowed a Shield-Faced Tusked Beast with octagonal mysterious ice grass and trapped it with a Beast-Eating Giant Flower, letting the arrow vines attack its exposed sides and back.
• Qin Chuan used an eight-petal immortal orchid to force a Leaping Cloud Leopard to change lanes, where a Beast-Eating Giant Flower swallowed it.
• The sixth wave began when a forty-thousand-year-old Burrowing Cave-Toothed Beast appeared.

Qin Chuan and Liu Erlong defended the cottage against increasingly varied Soul Beasts, using specialized plants to stop attackers on the ground, underground, and in the air. After the battle lasted nearly two hours, the final boss appeared: a hundred-thousand-year-old Titan Giant Ape.

• Qin Chuan planted Beast-Eating Giant Flowers at the predicted emergence points and swallowed several forty-thousand-year-old Burrowing Cave-Toothed Beasts.
• Qin Chuan used Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to blow away the Blood-Winged Bats, while a fallen bat was eaten by a Beast-Eating Giant Flower.
• Qin Chuan and Liu Erlong faced a combined assault from ground, underground, and flying Soul Beasts as their defenses across all five lanes came under pressure.
• Qin Chuan used a single-use Lovesick Heartbreak Red to clear every Soul Beast from the fourth lane in one explosion.
• Qin Chuan and Liu Erlong continued defending for nearly two hours until the Clown Dwarf announced the arrival of the final boss, the Titan Giant Ape.

Liu Erlong and Qin Chuan faced a hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape and its horde in Plants vs. Soul Beasts, with Liu Erlong risking two levels if they failed. Qin Chuan used rare plants to defeat the ape just before it reached the cabin, and the game announced their victory.

• Liu Erlong panicked as the Titan Giant Ape and its underlings emerged from the forest and advanced on the cabin.
• Qin Chuan pretended they were nearly out of defenses and secured Liu Erlong's promise of compensation if they survived.
• Qin Chuan planted a hundred-thousand-year Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Lovesick Heartbreak Reds, which blasted the horde while the Titan Giant Ape pressed forward.
• Qin Chuan repeatedly planted Shield Oaks and Beast-Eating Giant Flowers to slow the ape while the chrysanthemum bombarded it.
• Qin Chuan used a fifty-thousand-year Infernal Delicate Apricot to wound the ape, then the chrysanthemum's final orb struck its head and killed it two steps from the cabin.
• The Clown Dwarf announced that the players had successfully cleared Plants vs. Soul Beasts.

After Liu Erlong reached level eighty through Qin Chuan’s game, he asked her to marry him, and she left to consider the proposal and arrange a Game Hall branch at Shrek Academy. The next morning, she summoned the academy’s staff to discuss the plan.

• Liu Erlong broke through to level eighty after clearing the game with Qin Chuan.
• Qin Chuan asked Liu Erlong to marry him, and she requested time to think before revealing that she was Shrek Academy’s vice dean.
• Qin Chuan proposed opening a Game Hall branch at Shrek Academy and gave Liu Erlong three questions to challenge Yu Xiaogang if he objected.
• Liu Erlong returned to Heaven Dou City and decided that Shrek’s students could benefit greatly from the Game Hall.
• Liu Erlong called the academy’s teachers and staff to a meeting, where Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Zhao Wuji were present.

Liu Erlong argued that Shrek Academy should open a Douluo Game Hall after her visit helped her advance from rank seventy-nine to rank eighty, but Yu Xiaogang opposed the idea. Unable to solve Qin Chuan’s three math problems, Yu Xiaogang agreed to stop opposing the Game Hall if Qin Chuan could solve even one of them.

• Liu Erlong proposed bringing a Douluo Game Hall to Shrek Academy, citing her breakthrough and the Hall’s appeal to young Soul Masters.
• Zhao Wuji and other teachers objected, while Yu Xiaogang argued that the Game Hall would expand Spirit Hall’s influence.
• Liu Erlong challenged Yu Xiaogang to solve three problems from Qin Chuan before the morning ended, and Yu Xiaogang took them to his office.
• Yu Xiaogang searched his books and worked for hours on the triangle, circle, and dock problems but solved none of them.
• Yu Xiaogang told Flender that he would stop opposing the Game Hall if Qin Chuan could solve one of the problems.