Chapter Summaries

At Xue Qinghe’s Crown Prince investiture ceremony, Su Bei controlled a Ministry of Revenue official and made him expose corruption and scandals throughout the Heaven Dou Empire’s court. The ceremony descended into chaos, and Xue Ye ordered the disruptive officials executed and their deaths kept secret.

• Su Bei controlled a senior Ministry of Revenue official, who accused the vice governor of Fasinuo Province of extortion and exposed schemes behind the western provinces’ famine.
• The official claimed that he had evidence of the Minister of Revenue’s embezzlement and revealed that the Grand Minister of the Military had affairs with several officials’ wives.
• The court officials erupted into anger as the revelations disrupted Xue Qinghe’s investiture ceremony, while Xue Qinghe wondered whether Su Bei was behind the unexpected scandal.
• Xue Ye ordered the two officials who had disrupted the ceremony executed at Meridian Gate and instructed that their deaths be concealed.

Su Bei’s puppet disrupted Xue Ye’s court plans, allowing Xue Qinghe to claim the Crown Prince Seal and legitimate authority. After court, Liu Erlong warned Su Bei against getting involved in the royal family’s political scheming.

• Xue Ye declared that Xue Qinghe would take his place in the Eastern Palace, and Su Bei received his system rewards.
• The Ministry of Revenue operator and a young official were seized and dragged from the court after their outbursts.
• The Minister of Revenue accused the operator of embezzlement and presented an accounting of the stolen funds.
• Xue Qinghe gained the Crown Prince Seal while Xue Ye temporarily suppressed his suspicions.
• Liu Erlong told Su Bei that Xue Qinghe could visit Blue Tyrant Academy but that she would never let him recruit Su Bei as an official.

Su Bei told Liu Erlong that conflict with Spirit Hall was unavoidable and that strength was necessary, then spoke warmly with Xue Qinghe. Liu Erlong grew concerned about Su Bei’s feelings for Xue Qinghe and tested his reaction by kissing his cheek, leaving Su Bei eager for more.

• Su Bei explained to Liu Erlong that Spirit Hall’s rise would eventually bring war and that strength was essential.
• Xue Qinghe arrived, affectionately held Su Bei’s hand, and agreed to visit Blue Tyrant Academy when he had more time.
• Yu Yuanzhen saw Liu Erlong and Xue Qinghe getting along, while Liu Erlong was stunned by Xue Qinghe and Su Bei’s closeness.
• In the carriage, Liu Erlong asked Su Bei how he felt about Xue Qinghe, and Su Bei said he liked him.
• Liu Erlong removed Su Bei’s mask, kissed his cheek, and asked whether a kiss from Xue Qinghe would repulse him; Su Bei said it would not.

After mistaking Su Bei’s innocent friendship with Xue Qinghe for romantic interest in boys, Liu Erlong tried to steer him toward women. Several days after Xue Qinghe’s investiture, Liu Erlong established a group at Blue Tyrant Academy to gather Heaven Dou Empire’s prodigies, with herself setting its rules.

• Liu Erlong warned Su Bei against liking boys and urged him to prefer beautiful, virtuous women.
• Su Bei explained that his relationship with the Crown Prince was pure friendship and that his wink at Notting Academy had been a man’s promise.
• Rumors about the Crown Prince’s investiture spread despite the royal family’s efforts to suppress and reshape the story, leaving Xue Ye baffled.
• Liu Erlong’s concern about Su Bei’s orientation shifted, and she began having intimate encounters with him at his suggestion.
• Liu Erlong established the Blue Tyrant Academy Heaven’s Pride Group to recruit prodigious Soul Masters and personally set its rules.

Su Bei oversaw Blue Tyrant Academy’s strict selection for its female-only Heaven’s Pride Class while crowds of admirers and painters gathered to see him. The chapter left him accustomed to the commotion his beauty caused as another painter fainted trying to capture his likeness.

• Su Bei sat outside Lakeheart Island to personally assess applicants for the Heaven’s Pride Class, which accepted only talented girls under twelve.
• Liu Erlong placed Soul Kings and Soul Emperors around Su Bei to keep his devoted admirers away.
• Painters gathered to sketch Su Bei, but they complained that their art could not capture his appearance.
• The crowd said the Heaven Dou Empire’s foremost royal painter had gone bald after failing to paint Su Bei.
• The foremost painter fainted while holding his brush, and the onlookers noted that other artists had also exhausted themselves trying to portray Su Bei.

Su Bei talked Xiao Wu into accepting the attention he received from the female students, then Tang San arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy hoping to join him. The gatekeeper told Tang San that enrollment had ended, leaving him outside the academy.

• Xiao Wu offered to massage Su Bei, but he insisted that he was busy working for Blue Tyrant Academy and the Heaven's Pride Class.
• Xiao Wu objected to the female students' attention, and Su Bei convinced her that his hugs had saved their lives before kissing her cheek.
• The female students erupted with cheers and called for Su Bei to kiss them too.
• Tang San reached Blue Tyrant Academy after traveling from Notting City and asked the gatekeeper about Su Bei.
• Tang San recalled how Su Bei's Herb Growth had strengthened his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and decided to seek refuge with him, but the gatekeeper said enrollment had ended.

Tang San learned that the Heaven's Pride Class only accepted women, so he went to a clothing store to disguise himself and get close to Su Bei. As the day ended, Su Bei heard that a girl with Innate Full Soul Power had arrived and eagerly asked to meet her.

• Tang San arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy, where a gatekeeper told him the Heaven's Pride Class accepted only women.
• Determined to reach Teacher Su Bei, Tang San entered a clothing store to find an outfit that would let him pass as a girl.
• Su Bei wondered whether his recruitment standards were too high after another day without finding a goddess who could trigger his system.
• A staff member told Su Bei that a girl with Innate Full Soul Power had come for the selection, and Su Bei ordered them to bring her to him.

Tang San disguised himself as a girl to enter Blue Tyrant Academy and find Su Bei. After explaining his plan, he knelt and begged Su Bei to accept him as a disciple.

• A staff member brought Tang San, dressed as a girl, before Su Bei, who recognized him after hearing his name.
• Su Bei took Tang San to Lakeheart Island to speak away from the crowd.
• Tang San explained that he had disguised himself to enter the academy’s Heaven’s Pride Class and get close to Su Bei.
• Tang San knelt and kowtowed to Su Bei, asking him to accept him as a disciple.

Su Bei accepted Tang San as his disciple and invented the Su Sect, laying down its rules. Tang San swore obedience and summoned his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul at Su Bei’s command.

• Su Bei helped Tang San up and told him to call him Brother, but Tang San insisted on honoring him as Teacher.
• Tang San explained that he had given up his work-study status at Notting Academy to follow Su Bei and begged him to accept the disciple.
• Su Bei agreed to take Tang San into the Su Sect, despite its usual preference for talented young girls.
• Tang San hesitated over how the Su Sect’s rules might relate to the Tang Sect, then agreed to hear them.
• Su Bei set three rules requiring Tang San to respect his master, protect the sect, and obey his orders, and warned him of dire consequences for breaking them.
• Su Bei ordered Tang San to extend his hand and summon his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, and Tang San obeyed.

Su Bei gave Tang San Herb Growth, explained its value, and accepted him as his disciple. They returned to Lakeheart Island, where Tang San met Xiao Wu and declared his devotion to Su Bei as his teacher.

• Su Bei sprayed Herb Growth on Tang San's Blue Silver Grass, strengthening it until Tang San could use its vines as a spear.
• Tang San asked how the medicine worked, and Su Bei told him to use every drop to support the continent's forests.
• Tang San asked Su Bei's Soul Power level and learned that he was a level fifteen Soul Master with the Dragon God's Gate Martial Soul.
• Xiao Wu welcomed Su Bei back to Lakeheart Island, hugged him, and asked him for a kiss before noticing Tang San.
• Tang San introduced himself as Su Bei's disciple and addressed Xiao Wu as Master's wife, then declared Su Bei the person he respected most.

Su Bei arranged for Tang San to stay at Blue Tyrant Academy after Tang San called Xiao Wu his master's wife. Meanwhile, Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian investigated reports of Su Bei's Martial Soul and headed into the forest to verify his power for themselves.

• Xiao Wu asked Tang San to call her his master's wife, then told him she was Su Bei's one and only master's wife.
• Su Bei arranged for Tang San to wash up and stay in a dormitory near Lakeheart Island at Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Yu Luomian questioned whether reports of Su Bei frightening a thousand-year Hanoverian White Horse were reliable.
• Yu Yuanzhen said he had bought the information from Crown Prince Xue Qinghe's people and confirmed they had seen Su Bei's dragon-headed, fish-bodied Martial Soul.
• Yu Yuanzhen pointed out that the Hanoverian White Horses were in the forest, and he and Yu Luomian went to see them.

Xue Qinghe visited Lakeheart Island and tried to win Liu Erlong’s favor while spending time near Su Bei. Su Bei and Xiao Wu then found Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian behaving suspiciously with the white horses, leaving Xiao Wu furious and Su Bei scandalized.

• Xiao Wu heard Big White and Little White neighing and pulled Su Bei toward the forest stables.
• Xue Qinghe praised Liu Erlong’s cooking during his visit to Lakeheart Island, and Liu Erlong’s expression softened.
• Su Bei and Xiao Wu found Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian holding up the horses’ legs and behaving in a way that shocked them.
• Su Bei covered Xiao Wu’s eyes, but Xiao Wu pulled his hand away and accused the men of bullying Big White and Little White.

Xiao Wu stopped Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian from mistreating the Hanoverian White Horses, while the two clan elders confirmed the horses’ age and sought to recruit Su Bei into Thunder Academy. Yu Yuanzhen tried to take Su Bei back to the clan hall, but Su Bei evaded him and called him shameless.

• Xiao Wu arrived and shielded the Hanoverian White Horses, demanding to know why Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian were bullying them.
• Yu Yuanzhen slapped a horse’s rump, and it farted in Yu Luomian’s face, sending him retching into the lake.
• Xiao Wu asked where the horses were hurt, and Yu Yuanzhen claimed he had healed them with his miraculous hands.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian examined the horses and confirmed that both had cultivation exceeding a thousand years.
• Yu Yuanzhen invited Su Bei to join Thunder Academy and tried to take him back to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s hall.
• Su Bei dodged Yu Yuanzhen with Lingbo Micro-Steps and scolded him for bullying a seven-year-old.

Yu Yuanzhen tried to take Su Bei and Xiao Wu to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, claiming he would train them, and captured Tang San when he intervened. The three geniuses were in his grasp as he celebrated, while Su Bei and Tang San openly defied him.

• Yu Yuanzhen reached for Su Bei and insisted that he and Xiao Wu return with him to Thunder Academy.
• Xiao Wu attacked Yu Yuanzhen with Waist Bow, but he caught her ankle and lifted her helplessly.
• Yu Yuanzhen seized Su Bei and Xiao Wu and prepared to leave before Liu Erlong could find out.
• Tang San confronted Yu Yuanzhen to defend Teacher Su Bei, but Yu Yuanzhen's Soul Power immobilized him.
• Yu Yuanzhen invited Tang San to join the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and celebrated capturing three geniuses.
• Tang San insulted Yu Yuanzhen, and Su Bei spat in his face.

Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian asked Su Bei to reveal his unusual power, and he summoned Chiwen, impressing them with his extraordinary talent. Liu Erlong saw the two men taking Su Bei away and raced after them in fury.

• Yu Yuanzhen asked Su Bei to show his special Martial Soul, and Su Bei summoned Chiwen through the Dragon God's Gate.
• Chiwen greeted Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian, who were astonished to learn it was Su Bei's soul skill rather than his Martial Soul.
• Yu Yuanzhen praised Su Bei's purple thousand-year first Soul Ring and imagined his potential with proper guidance and resources.
• Liu Erlong heard activity in the forest and rushed out with Xue Qinghe, spotting Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian taking Su Bei and the others away.
• Liu Erlong unleashed her Fire Dragon Martial Soul Avatar and pursued the two men, prompting Yu Luomian to warn Yu Yuanzhen that she had caught up.

Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian abducted Su Bei and Xiao Wu, intending to take them away as disciples, while Liu Erlong and Xue Qinghe pursued them. The two elders escaped, leaving Liu Erlong vowing to rescue the children and punish the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan if they were harmed.

• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian argued over taking Su Bei and Xiao Wu, then carried the children away despite their protests.
• Su Bei challenged their claims of strength and warned that Liu Erlong would fight them, while Tang San praised his teacher.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian outran Liu Erlong, who could only watch them disappear.
• Liu Erlong angrily threatened to turn the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan into a living hell if the elders harmed the children.
• Xue Qinghe caught up with Liu Erlong, who explained that her uncle and father had kidnapped Su Bei and Xiao Wu because of Su Bei's talent.

Liu Erlong decided to go to Thunder Academy and provoke the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to try to free Su Bei from Yu Yuanzhen. Two days later, Qian Renxue visited Bibi Dong in Pope's Hall with an urgent request, but the chapter ended before she explained what it was.

• Xue Qinghe offered to help Liu Erlong deal with Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Liu Erlong said she would go to Thunder Academy and publicly provoke the clan to force Yu Yuanzhen to respond.
• Two days later, Qian Renxue entered Pope's Hall to see Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong warned Qian Renxue not to forget her identity as Xue Qinghe, crown prince of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qian Renxue said she had something to ask Bibi Dong.

Qian Renxue asked Bibi Dong to intervene and bring a boy from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to Spirit Hall for training, while Bibi Dong was preparing to investigate the Titan Giant Ape in the Star Dou Great Forest. Bibi Dong questioned the risk of provoking the clan, but Qian Renxue insisted the boy was worth it.

• Bibi Dong asked Qian Renxue why she had come to her instead of Qian Daoliu, and Qian Renxue warned that the matter could affect all of Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Renxue that Guimei and Na'er had found traces of the Titan Giant Ape near the Star Dou Great Forest, and that she planned to hunt it for its Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring and soul bone.
• Qian Renxue said the Star Dou Great Forest was too vast to search without a precise location and revealed that she wanted Bibi Dong to demand a boy from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Bibi Dong challenged Qian Renxue for risking open conflict with the clan over a boy, but Qian Renxue declared that he was worth it.

Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong over her determination to protect a gifted boy, while Bibi Dong weighed his reported potential and agreed to send an envoy to recruit him. The boy remained with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as Spirit Hall prepared to approach him.

• Bibi Dong tried to send Qian Renxue back to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, but Qian Renxue resisted and threatened to visit the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan if necessary.
• Bibi Dong warned that Qian Renxue's actions could expose her identity and disrupt Spirit Hall's plans, while Qian Renxue insisted her grandfather would want to recruit the boy.
• Qian Renxue told Bibi Dong that the seven-year-old boy was a level-15 Soul Master, highly knowledgeable, and the most wonderful boy in the world.
• Bibi Dong was astonished by the boy's reported level and considered that he might become a Super Douluo or even a Limit Douluo.
• Bibi Dong decided not to intervene personally and said she would send a Titled Douluo from Pope's Hall to invite the boy to join Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong studied Su Bei’s portrait and agreed to go to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to retrieve him. The chapter then shifted to an author’s promotional note about the story reaching QQ Reading’s Trending List.

• Qian Renxue told Bibi Dong that Yu Yuanzhen had taken Su Bei to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and might not release him unless Bibi Dong went herself.
• Qian Renxue showed Bibi Dong a portrait of Su Bei and said she was confident she could persuade him to join Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong became captivated by Su Bei’s portrait and agreed to go in person.
• The author celebrated the story’s appearance on QQ Reading’s Trending List and thanked readers for their support.