Chapter Summaries

Qian Renyue revealed that she had cut off Tang Hao’s right arm to obtain a seventy-thousand-year Soul Bone for Guang Ling. The chapter left Guang Ling embarrassed and pleased after admitting his jealousy.

• Guang Ling wondered why Qian Renyue had chosen a right-arm Soul Bone when she already had one, and grew jealous at the thought she might give it to Chen Xin.
• Qian Renyue teased Guang Ling by saying she would give the Soul Bone to Chen Xin, and he accused her of lying.
• Guang Ling admitted he was unhappy that Qian Renyue was so generous to other people and pulled her into an embrace.
• Qian Renyue laughed and explained that she had chosen Tang Hao’s right arm to give Guang Ling a Soul Bone for his right arm, completing the pair with the one in his left.

Guang Ling teased Qian Renyue until she grew angry, then remembered a storybook trick to soothe her. When she demanded that he let go, he kissed her, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Guang Ling realized Qian Renyue liked him and teased her with suggestive remarks until she blushed.
• Guang Ling mocked Qian Renyue for feeling shy and tightened his embrace.
• Guang Ling tried to appease Qian Renyue with food and promises, but she refused and demanded he let her go.
• Guang Ling remembered a storybook trick for soothing girls and kissed Qian Renyue.

After spending the night together, Qian Renyue and Guang Ling returned to Spirit Hall, where Azure Luan confronted Guang Ling about their absence and learned they had wounded Tang Hao and taken his seventy-thousand-year Soul Bone. Qian Renyue planned to leave for the Clear Sky Sect the next day, while Guang Ling began teasing her about Azure Luan and Jiu Lan.

• Qian Renyue and Guang Ling returned to Spirit Hall the next day after kissing through the night, while Azure Luan had waited for them at Angel Hall.
• Guang Ling told Azure Luan that he and Qian Renyue had fought Tang Hao outside the Moonlight Pavilion, and Qian Renyue confirmed Tang Hao had lost an arm containing a seventy-thousand-year Soul Bone.
• Qian Renyue said she planned to leave for the Clear Sky Sect the next day, and Azure Luan agreed to rest before she sent him away.
• Guang Ling tried to hold Qian Renyue in Angel Hall, but Jiu Lan appeared, and Qian Renyue reminded him that she had introduced Jiu Lan the day before.
• Guang Ling learned Jiu Lan had been waiting at Angel Hall with Azure Luan and joked that something might be going on between them, prompting Qian Renyue to scold him.

Qian Renyue learned that her spirit runes could lead to a third awakening of her martial soul, but achieving it required a dangerous metamorphosis. Green Yaxin explained that failure could destroy Qian Renyue’s martial soul, reduce her soul power to zero, or leave her crippled.

• Qian Renyue sent Guang Ling away, then told Jiu Lan she would take her to the Clear Sky Sect the next day.
• Green Yaxin explained that Qian Renyue’s spirit runes could temporarily double her soul power and that the Core Area of the Sunset Forest held answers about them.
• Green Yaxin revealed that the nine-petal immortal lotus had three awakenings, with its complete form able to absorb nine additional Soul Rings without age limits.
• Green Yaxin said Qian Renyue would need to cultivate her spirit runes and undergo metamorphosis, shattering and reconstructing her martial soul, to reach the third awakening.
• Green Yaxin estimated the metamorphosis had about a forty-percent chance of success and warned that failure could leave Qian Renyue crippled with zero soul power.

Guang Ling searched for Azure Luan and suspected Mighty Lion Douluo was hiding where he had gone, then set off to find the Staff Brothers. At the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, Tang Yuehua complained to Xue Ye about Qian Renyue, and Xue Ye ordered Qian Renyue expelled from the Heaven Dou Royal Academy and barred from the empire.

• Guang Ling visited Mighty Lion Hall looking for Azure Luan, but Mighty Lion Douluo claimed he had not seen him.
• Guang Ling noticed three teacups on the table and concluded Azure Luan had been there and was avoiding him.
• Guang Ling decided to find the Staff Brothers and planned to wreck Jiang Mo Hall because Jiang Mo had wrecked his hall before.
• Tang Yuehua told Xue Ye that Qian Renyue had attacked her, while Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe listened.
• Xue Ye ordered Xue Qinghe to expel Qian Renyue from the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, reclaim what she had received, and forbid her from entering the Heaven Dou Empire.

After Xue Ye banned Qian Renyue from entering the Heaven Dou Empire, she prepared to continue her questions for him indirectly and entered the Kindness Secret Realm to begin the second test. The first stage transported her to a forest, where a mysterious force attacked her mental power and a roar interrupted Little Phoenix’s warning.

• Dugu Yan and the others were shocked by Qian Renyue’s expulsion, while Yu Tianheng sent someone to investigate the ban.
• Xue Ke returned to the palace after learning Tang Yuehua had persuaded Xue Ye to ban Qian Renyue, and Xue Qinghe sent Qian Renyue a letter explaining what had happened.
• Qian Renyue told Guang Ling about the ban and said she would still seek answers from Xue Ye, but would wait for him to invite her.
• Qian Renyue entered the Kindness Secret Realm to begin the second test, which had nine stages represented by colored bricks.
• Qian Renyue stepped onto the green brick and appeared in a forest, where a glow attacked her mental power and Little Phoenix warned her to resist it.
• An enormous roar suddenly rang through the forest as Qian Renyue tried to regain her clarity.

Qian Renyue fought the illusion forest’s Moon Blades while her mental power and perception weakened, then revealed her second martial soul, the Goodness Staff. The Moon Blades remained poised to attack as she began using its first soul skill.

• Qian Renyue struggled against sound-driven attacks and used her Green Vine to evade the Moon Blades.
• She froze the forest with the Silver Frost Sword, and Little Phoenix recognized the Moon Blades as the true bodies of the forest’s guardian beasts.
• Qian Renyue tried to catch a Moon Blade, but it cut her and attacked her from behind as her mental power weakened.
• Qian Renyue summoned her second martial soul, the Goodness Staff, suppressing the Moon Blades slightly.
• Qian Renyue swung the Staff and activated her first soul skill, Goodness Guides the Void.

Qian Renyue used her Goodness Staff and Void Skill to crush Moon Blades before a Calamity Beast appeared. At Moonlight Pavilion, Tang Yuehua tried to protect the injured Tang San, who learned Tang Hao had left and vowed to punish Qian Renyue for hurting Yu Xiaogang.

• Qian Renyue became intangible, froze a Moon Blade in her grasp, and crushed it along with the others.
• A furious roar swept through the forest, the last Moon Blade vanished, and a Calamity Beast appeared before Qian Renyue.
• Tang Yuehua returned to Moonlight Pavilion after securing Xue Ye's order forbidding Qian Renyue from entering the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Tang San woke and asked Tang Yuehua where Tang Hao was, then learned his father had left him in her care.
• Tang San asked Tang Yuehua to find Yu Xiaogang and swore he would make Qian Renyue pay for hurting his teacher.
• Tang Yuehua reassured Tang San that Qian Renyue could not enter the empire and that they had time to deal with her.

Tang San learned that Xue Ye planned to ban Qian Renyue from the Heaven Dou Empire and grew more resentful toward her, while Xue Ke rushed to stop the ban from being finalized. After Flender and Liu Erlong returned to Shrek Academy battered and alone, Flender told Xiao Wu that Qian Renyue had killed Tang San with help from a Titled Douluo.

• Tang Yuehua told Tang San that Xue Ye planned to ban Qian Renyue from the Heaven Dou Empire, and Tang San worried that his aunt had been harmed.
• Xue Ke hurried to the imperial palace to try to stop Xue Ye from making the ban public.
• Tang Yuehua sent people to search for Yu Xiaogang, while Flender and Liu Erlong searched Sunset Forest and were attacked by its soul beasts.
• Flender brought the injured Liu Erlong back to Shrek Academy, where Zhao Wuji and the students questioned him about what had happened.
• Xiao Wu asked Flender why Tang San had not returned, and Flender said Qian Renyue had killed him with a Titled Douluo's help.

Xiao Renyue completed the first step of the Kindness second test and returned to find two divine forces surging through her body. As Green Yaxin tried to help her withstand them, Little Phoenix warned that Qian Renyue was draining Green Yaxin’s Soul Power.

• Xiao Wu blamed Qian Renyue for Tang San’s death, while Zhu Zhuqing listened unseen outside the door and then left.
• Xiao Lu and Xiao Zi recognized Qian Renyue as the Flower God’s descendant and placed green and purple divine marks on her arms.
• Qian Renyue found the Calamity Beast’s weakness, struck its head with the Goodness Staff, and completed the first step of the Kindness second test, gaining 2% affinity.
• Qian Renyue returned from the Kindness Secret Realm as two unfamiliar forces surged through her arms and toward her heart.
• Green Yaxin poured Soul Power into Qian Renyue to help her, but Little Phoenix urgently warned that Qian Renyue was draining her and told her to stop.

Green Yaxin used her life force to help Qian Renyue awaken and merge two mysterious powers while Guang Ling and the others watched. Qian Renyue regained consciousness, and four distinct auras emanated from her eyes, leaving Guang Ling stunned.

• Guang Ling rushed in and stopped Green Yaxin from consuming her life force, but she explained that Qian Renyue needed help merging two powers inside her.
• Little Phoenix told Guang Ling that Qian Renyue had completed the first stage of the kindness second test but did not know where the powers had come from.
• As Green Yaxin's soul power reached her, Qian Renyue coaxed the powers out and merged them, calming the surging aura around her.
• Qian Renyue opened her eyes as Guang Ling, Green Yaxin, and Little Phoenix watched, and four distinct auras emanated from them.

Qian Renyue and her companions reached the Clear Sky Sect, where she demanded accountability and forced one of its disciples to take them to the sect master. The chapter ended with Qian Renyue confronting the sect’s arrogance at its entrance.

• Qian Renyue noticed two unfamiliar auras within her, then set the mystery aside and told Guang Ling she had passed the first stage of the Kindness Second Test.
• Qian Renyue, Guang Ling, Jiu Lan, and Azure Luan flew to the Clear Sky Sect and bypassed its guarded crossing to land at its main entrance.
• Qian Renyue knocked one disciple flying, and Jiu Lan used Blue Silver Grass to catch the disciples tumbling toward the cliff.
• An older disciple asked why they had come, and Qian Renyue said she was there to hold the Clear Sky Sect accountable.
• Qian Renyue seized the older disciple, threw him to the ground, and ordered him to take the group inside to see the sect master.

Qian Renyue confronted the Clear Sky Sect over Tang Hao stealing her mother’s keepsake and injuring her heart meridians. After defeating the sect’s disciples, she faced Second Elder Tang Huang and demanded justice, leaving him to consider the threat Spirit Hall posed.

• Qian Renyue knocked out a Clear Sky Sect disciple and froze four more when they attacked her.
• Tang Huang emerged from the sect gate and demanded to know why Qian Renyue had injured his disciples.
• Qian Renyue said she had come to see the sect master and demand accountability for Tang Hao’s actions.
• Tang Huang argued that Tang Hao had been expelled from the Clear Sky Sect and that the matter had nothing to do with them.
• Qian Renyue claimed Tang Hao had invoked the Clear Sky Sect’s name, and Guang Ling backed her story by saying he had witnessed it.

Qian Renyue brought Spirit Hall’s grievance over Tang Hao to the Clear Sky Sect, where Tang Xiao mistook Jiu Lan for Ah Yin and reacted emotionally. Tang Xiao denied that the sect was responsible for Tang Hao’s actions, while Qian Renyue pressed him for an accounting.

• Tang Huang escorted Qian Renyue, Jiu Lan, Guang Ling, and Azure Luan into the Clear Sky Sect’s Main Hall.
• Tang Xiao recognized Jiu Lan’s resemblance to Ah Yin and rushed toward her, calling her “Third Sister.”
• Jiu Lan retreated and sought help from Qian Renyue as Azure Luan stepped between her and Tang Xiao.
• Qian Renyue told Tang Xiao that Tang Hao had seized her mother’s token, injured her heart meridians, and obstructed Spirit Hall’s work.
• Tang Xiao denied responsibility, saying Tang Hao had been expelled from the Clear Sky Sect, and questioned whether Jiu Lan was really Ah Yin.
• Qian Renyue asked whether Tang Xiao intended to give Spirit Hall an accounting, and he challenged the sect’s responsibility for Tang Hao.

Qian Renyue forced the Clear Sky Sect to surrender its two supreme techniques as compensation for Tang Hao's attack, then traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek her fourth Soul Ring. In the Heaven Dou Empire, Xue Ye lifted the ban on her and ordered Xue Qinghe to escort her to the palace, though Xue Qinghe planned only to pretend to comply.

• Qian Renyue demanded the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique and the Great Sumeru Hammer or a million Gold Soul Coins, and showed Tang Xiao Tang Hao's severed right arm as evidence.
• Tang Xiao concluded the Clear Sky Sect could not fight Qian Renyue's powerful companions and handed over its two great techniques.
• Qian Renyue, Guang Ling, Azure Luan, and Jiu Lan left for the Star Dou Great Forest so Qian Renyue could obtain her fourth Soul Ring.
• Xue Ke told Xue Ye that Qian Renyue was Jiu Xian'er's daughter, and Xue Ye lifted the ban on Qian Renyue and ordered Xue Qinghe to escort her to the palace.
• Xue Qinghe accepted Xue Ye's decree but intended only to go through the motions of bringing Qian Renyue back.

Tang Yuehua returned Tang San to Shrek Academy after Emperor Xue Ye treated Qian Renyue as someone with princess-level status, while Tang San reunited with his friends and reported Yu Xiaogang missing. Qian Renyue returned to Spirit Hall and began a divine test, as Bibi Dong grew stronger by devouring spiritual power and plotted to use Qian Renyue as a vessel.

• Tang Yuehua, fearing the Moonlight Pavilion was no longer safe, sent Tang San back to Shrek Academy after Emperor Xue Ye dismissed her and acknowledged Qian Renyue's princess-level status.
• Xiao Wu and the Shrek companions welcomed Tang San, who told them Qian Renyue and her Titled Douluo had injured him and Yu Xiaogang, whose whereabouts remained unknown.
• Flender reassured Tang San that the teachers would search for Yu Xiaogang, while Zhu Zhuqing's rapid cultivation progress left Flender curious about her improvement.
• Qian Renyue returned to Spirit Hall with the Clear Sky Sect's supreme techniques, explained Ring Detonation to Qian Daoliu, and gave copies to the Revered Elders.
• Qian Renyue entered seclusion to attempt the Kindness Second Test, while Xue Qinghe delayed Emperor Xue Ye's request to meet her.
• Bibi Dong devoured more spiritual power in the Rakshasa Secret Realm and considered using Qian Renyue as a vessel to strengthen herself.

The God of Kindness and the God of Evil wagered on whether Qian Renyue would become a god, while Yue Guan and Gui Mei went to the Bright Moon Hall to ask about her origins. Their conversation was interrupted by an explosion that covered them in dust.

• Qian Renyue struggled to absorb the light of kindness for her third test, and the God of Kindness discussed her chances with the God of Evil.
• The two gods wagered that Qian Renyue would either become a god or fail, with the loser owing the winner a condition.
• Bibi Dong continued to have Qian Renyue watched, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei speculated about her age and parentage.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei visited the Bright Moon Hall and asked Qian Renyue whether she knew her origins.
• An explosion showered dust over Yue Guan and Gui Mei while Guang Ling pulled Qian Renyue beneath the eaves.

Qian Renyue watched Green Yaxin's adult form defeat Jiang Mo, then learned that Yue Guan suspected her origins were connected to a deceased Papal Hall elder named Xuan Ling. The chapter left Qian Renyue wondering whether Bibi Dong had sent Yue Guan and Gui Mei to reveal this connection.

• Jiang Mo and Guang Ling argued while Qian Renyue searched for Green Yaxin, who appeared behind Jiang Mo and bound him with vines.
• Green Yaxin's adult form released Jiang Mo and left him flustered, while Qian Renyue explained that Green Yaxin had split into Little Ya and Xin.
• Jiang Mo took Little Ya to Jiang Mo Hall, and Guang Ling questioned Qian Renyue about whether she approved of their closeness.
• Yue Guan noticed that Qian Renyue seemed weak, and she admitted that she might be injured without explaining the Light of Kindness's backlash.
• Yue Guan told Qian Renyue that she resembled the deceased Papal Hall elder Xuan Ling, a powerful control-type soul master whose martial soul had been green vine.

Yue Guan revealed that the deceased Xuan Ling might have been Qian Renyue’s father, while he and Gui Mei began to suspect his death had been suspicious. After Qian Renyue’s kindness trial left her troubled by strange visions, she concealed her distress from Guang Ling, ending the chapter with a warning echoing in her mind: “To gain, you must first lose.”

• Qian Renyue examined Xuan Ling’s portrait and recognized a strong resemblance, but said his death made the truth seem unimportant.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei discussed Bibi Dong’s motives and possible irregularities surrounding Xuan Ling’s death.
• Guang Ling offered to take Qian Renyue to visit Xuan Ling in the Heroic Souls Hall, but she chose to wait a few days.
• During the kindness trial’s tenth step, a shadow double stole Qian Renyue’s Nine Pity Sword and accused her of selfishness, indecision, and failing her mother.
• Guang Ling noticed Qian Renyue’s changed aura and asked if she was hiding something, but she reassured him and kissed him.
• As Qian Renyue kissed Guang Ling, she remembered the double’s warning: “To gain, you must first lose.”

Qian Renyue attended Xue Ke’s birthday gathering at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace with Guang Ling, where Emperor Xue Ye explained his bond with her mother and gave her a box entrusted to him by Jiu Xian'er. The chapter ended with Qian Renyue opening the box’s portrait at a hotel and reacting with surprise.

• Qian Renyue accepted Emperor Xue Ye’s birthday invitation and flew to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace with Guang Ling, who told her that Tang Hao remained missing and Tang San and Yu Xiaogang were at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Qian Renyue met Xue Ke, Xue Qinghe, and Emperor Xue Ye, who welcomed her and offered her soul tools from his private treasury.
• Qian Renyue joined Emperor Xue Ye and his children for dinner while Xue Beng watched her suspiciously.
• Emperor Xue Ye told Qian Renyue that Jiu Xian'er had been his younger sister and benefactor, and that he had searched for Qian Renyue to fulfill a promise to her mother.
• Emperor Xue Ye gave Qian Renyue a box Jiu Xian'er had entrusted to him, along with several soul tools and a thirty-thousand-year soul bone.
• Qian Renyue and Guang Ling went to a hotel in Heaven Dou City, where Qian Renyue opened the box and reacted with surprise at the portrait inside.