Recaps

Qian Chongling visited the Rouge Pavilion to wait for his target, Dai Tianyue, and saw the celebrated Lu Mian arrive. The chapter left Qian Chongling captivated by Lu Mian’s eyes.

• Qian Chongling found the Rouge Pavilion and entered, waiting in a corner while listening to guests praise Lu Mian.
• Dai Tianyue, the Star Luo Empire’s fourth prince and Dai Tianfeng’s supporter, arrived with two Soul Emperor guards.
• Dai Tianyue grabbed a young woman and followed her toward the third floor.
• Lu Mian appeared on the central platform, and Qian Chongling was struck by her beautiful eyes.

At Lu Mian’s debut at the Rouge Pavilion, wealthy guests competed to bid for a night with her while Qian Chongling watched for Dai Tianyue to enter the contest. Just before Qian Chongling could intervene, a guest in a third-floor room offered a folding fan bearing his own inscription.

• Lu Mian played the guqin as the courtesans danced, leaving the audience enthralled.
• The madam opened bidding at one hundred and fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins, and the offers climbed toward one million four hundred thousand.
• Lu Mian noticed Qian Chongling ignoring the spectacle and sent a maid to learn who he was.
• Qian Chongling worried that Dai Tianyue had not bid and reached for his bidding button.
• A guest in private room one on the third floor offered a folding fan inscribed in his own hand.

Dai Tianyue won Lu Mian’s favor at the Rouge Pavilion by offering 2.99 million Gold Soul Coins and a fan inscribed with his name. The madam escorted him to Lu Mian’s private room, where she welcomed him with wine and music.

• Dai Tianyue offered his inscribed fan and 2.99 million Gold Soul Coins, and no one raised the bid.
• Lu Mian chose Dai Tianyue as her intimate guest, and the madam announced her decision to the crowd.
• The madam escorted Dai Tianyue to a separate building and asked his guards to wait outside.
• Dai Tianyue entered Lu Mian’s room, where she poured him wine beside her zither.

Ye Mengwei revealed that she had secretly controlled the Star Luo Emperor and confronted Dai Tianyue in the Rouge Pavilion. She brought Ghost Fox and a young man Dai Tianyue believed was dead out of a hidden room, where the man declared that the Dai Family still owed him.

• Ye Mengwei appeared before Dai Tianyue, insulted him, and warned that death was near.
• Dai Tianyue challenged Ye Mengwei, who revealed her Illusory Dream martial soul had let her control the Star Luo Emperor.
• Dai Tianyue called for his guards, but they did not respond, and Ye Mengwei disclosed that she was a Level 97 Super Douluo.
• Ye Mengwei summoned Ghost Fox and a young man from a hidden door behind the wardrobe.
• Dai Tianyue recognized the young man as his supposedly dead fourth imperial brother, who said the Dai Family had not repaid its debt to him.

Dai Yeyu received an imperial edict that ordered him to drink poisoned wine, while the eunuch Huang Quan learned that the guards had leverage over his hidden son. After Dai Yeyu died, the story shifted to a shabby house where a young man began to awaken as an old man worked over him.

• Dai Yeyu knelt to hear an edict praising his lack of ambition and bestowing century-old wine upon him.
• Dai Yeyu realized the wine was poisoned, but obeyed the edict and died after drinking it.
• Zhang Hu and Zhao Long revealed that they had forced Huang Quan to help kill Dai Yeyu by threatening his son, Huang Tianxing.
• Huang Quan agreed to leave Dai Yeyu's corpse to the guards and arrange a substitute body for the mass grave.
• An old man finished tinkering with a young man's bare upper body, and the young man's eyelids twitched.

Dai Yeyu and Dai Tianyue were drugged so Chen Chuan could use Soul Transference to place Dai Yeyu’s soul in Dai Tianyue’s body. Qian Chongling arrived afterward, learned the operation had worked, discussed the Rouge Pavilion’s recruitment and infiltration, and delivered Seven-Insect Seven-Flower Pills.

• Dai Yeyu accused Dai Tianyue of harming his mother and sending Dai Yejun to marry an old prince, while Dai Tianyue defended the marriage.
• Ye Mengwei reassured Dai Yeyu that Dai Yejun’s intended husband was one of their people, then had Chen Chuan give both men a drug that made them collapse.
• Chen Chuan used his ninth Soul Skill, Soul Transference, to remove Dai Tianyue’s soul and put Dai Yeyu’s soul into his body.
• Qian Chongling emerged from the cabinet and learned from Chen Chuan that the transferred soul should wake in about seventy-two hours.
• Qian Chongling discussed Lu Mian’s Demonic Ninefold Melody and the Rouge Pavilion’s recruitment and infiltration plans with Ye Mengwei.
• Qian Chongling gave Ye Mengwei ten bottles of Seven-Insect Seven-Flower Pills, which made Ye Mengwei and Lu Mian recoil while Chen Chuan welcomed them.

Bibi Dong demonstrated her superior combat and mental-power techniques while sparring with four Soul Emperors, then explained that mental power could control bodies and objects. Yu Xiaogang, impressed by her abilities, approached the Soul Emperors to learn more about her.

• Bibi Dong easily destroyed an Iron Thorn Vine attack and threw a spear-wielding Soul Emperor off balance and across the training ground.
• Wan Qiushuang used her Pink Charm soul skill, but Bibi Dong overwhelmed her with mental power and left her staggered.
• Bibi Dong used mental power to make Wan Hanshuang’s left hand turn his saber against his own chest, then explained her approach as Divine Object Control.
• Bibi Dong ended the sparring session, and the Soul Emperors discussed how much stronger she had become.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to learn about Bibi Dong and introduced himself to the Soul Emperors as a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan exchange delegate interning at the Martial Soul Research Institute.

Qian Chongling coached Dai Tianyue on imitating his own lecherous mannerisms before Dai Tianyue returned to Star Luo City, while rumors about his exploits spread through Moon Wheel City. At the Spirit Hall's Book Repository, Bibi Dong encountered an unfamiliar research intern studying Sea God Island.

• The Rouge Pavilion's madam persuaded Dai Tianyue's guards, Wang Han and Ma Wei, to rest in a tent while Dai Tianyue spent three days in Lu Mian's boudoir.
• Qian Chongling demonstrated Dai Tianyue's usual lustful expression and gave him a copy of An Actor's Self-Cultivation.
• Dai Tianyue returned to Star Luo City with Huang Quan, unaware that rumors about his supposed stamina were spreading through Moon Wheel City.
• Bibi Dong entered the Spirit Hall's Book Repository and found an unfamiliar Martial Soul Research Institute intern reading about Sea God Island.

Bibi Dong met Yu Xiaogang, saw through his rank-sixteen cultivation and his rehearsed account of being mocked by his clan, and decided to use their growing acquaintance to investigate why Qian Chongling was watching him. She encouraged Yu Xiaogang to pursue martial soul research and offered to teach him the basics of her ringless Soul Skills, while he eagerly imagined winning her favor.

• Yu Xiaogang introduced himself to Bibi Dong as an intern from the Martial Soul Research Institute and admitted he belonged to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed he had run away from home after enduring mockery, while Bibi Dong recognized that most of his story matched the intelligence dossier she had read.
• Bibi Dong recalled her own time at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and decided to get closer to Yu Xiaogang to learn why Qian Chongling was interested in him.
• Bibi Dong advised Yu Xiaogang to pursue martial soul research because his low innate soul power made the Soul Master path difficult.
• Yu Xiaogang asked about Bibi Dong's Soul Skills that required no Soul Rings, and she offered to teach him their basics.

Bibi Dong persuaded Qian Daoliu to give Qian Chongling access to Spirit Hall’s foundational texts, while Dai Tianfeng attended a banquet with Consort Ye and Dai Tianyue. Dai Tianyue’s convincing performance kept their plot hidden, as Dai Tianfeng left determined to claim the throne and Consort Ye.

• Bibi Dong asked Qian Daoliu to give Qian Chongling full access to Spirit Hall’s foundational texts and accepted responsibility for the consequences.
• Dai Tianfeng went to Consort Ye’s bedchamber after she invited him and Dai Tianyue to a banquet.
• Dai Tianyue joined Dai Tianfeng and Consort Ye for dinner and acted well enough that Dai Tianfeng noticed nothing amiss.
• After Dai Tianfeng left, Ye Mengwei praised Dai Tianyue’s acting and warned him not to expose their plan.
• Dai Tianfeng returned to his room resolved to become emperor and make Consort Ye his.

Bibi Dong spent the Lantern Festival with Yu Xiaogang, letting him believe she would accept his advances while arranging to reject him the next day. After learning that her teacher would arrive in Spirit City, she prepared to stop running from the future she had awaited for six years.

• Bibi Dong spent six months giving Yu Xiaogang advanced martial techniques, leaving him convinced that he lacked talent for self-created soul skills.
• Bibi Dong accepted Yu Xiaogang’s invitation to Spirit City’s Lantern Festival, and they wore masks as they toured the festivities.
• Yu Xiaogang asked to call Bibi Dong “Dong'er,” and she told him she would give him an answer in a grove the following evening.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to his lodgings delighted, imagining that Bibi Dong would become his lover and help him gain power in Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong told Luo Yunxue to meet Yu Xiaogang the next evening, reject him, and give him a Soul Tool containing a seven-hundred-year Soul Bone and twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Bibi Dong confirmed that her teacher would arrive the next afternoon and brought out bridal clothes, saying she would stop running away after six years.

Qian Chongling discovered that Bibi Dong’s apparent relationship with Yu Xiaogang had been a test of his feelings, and learned she had loved him for years. After Bibi Dong confronted him with her interpretation of his past actions, Qian Chongling accepted her wedding outfit and proposed to her.

• Qian Chongling found Yu Xiaogang in Spirit Hall’s Book Repository and used his ability to question him, learning that Bibi Dong had invited him and that he expected them to become a couple.
• Qian Chongling summoned Bibi Dong to the secret chamber and demanded an explanation about Yu Xiaogang.
• Bibi Dong reminded Qian Chongling that she had taken his ring as a marriage proposal and recalled how he had comforted her when she was young.
• Bibi Dong revealed that she had made him a wedding outfit and said she had embroidered bridal clothes as well.
• Qian Chongling realized Bibi Dong had loved him all along, embraced her, and proposed marriage.

Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong became engaged and planned a wedding alongside Little Xiaojie's in seven days, while Bibi Dong arranged for Luo Yunxue to reject Yu Xiaogang in disguise. Yu Xiaogang believed he was meeting Bibi Dong, but she rejected him and left him stunned.

• Qian Chongling proposed to Bibi Dong, and she accepted; they agreed to marry in seven days despite the lack of a separate wedding ceremony.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Chongling she planned to have Luo Yunxue impersonate her and reject Yu Xiaogang, and he approved the plan.
• Bibi Dong gave Qian Chongling chicken soup with an unusual seasoning, and the two spent the night together in the Book Repository's secret chamber.
• Yu Xiaogang waited in a grove for Bibi Dong, expecting to marry her and gain influence in Spirit Hall.
• Disguised as Bibi Dong, Luo Yunxue told Yu Xiaogang he was unworthy of the Saintess, left him a Soul Tool with twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins and a five-hundred-year Soul Bone, and walked away.
• Yu Xiaogang realized Bibi Dong had rejected him and stood stunned as she ignored his calls.

Qian Xunji celebrated his grand wedding to Huang Yuyao in Spirit City, while Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong secretly held a wedding of their own. The chapter ended with the newlyweds in private and the Seven Great Enshrined enjoying a separate feast in the Elder Hall.

• Qian Xunji welcomed representatives from major sects and empires to his lavish wedding banquet, where they congratulated him and presented gifts.
• Yu Luomian watched Qian Xunji and thought about taking his nephew back after the nephew failed to learn Spirit Hall's fuel formula.
• Qian Xunji left the banquet and comforted Huang Yuyao, who wept beneath her bridal veil before they celebrated their marriage in private.
• Qian Daoliu and the other Seven Great Enshrined skipped Qian Xunji's wedding to eat at Qian Chongling's banquet, and Tian E took the last piece of roast meat.
• Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong secretly held their own wedding while Qian Chongling's feast kept the Seven Great Enshrined occupied.

Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong celebrated their completed trials and spent a night together on a mountain summit. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue was born in Spirit City, where she was welcomed by her loving parents.

• Qian Chongling completed two Chaos Trials, while Bibi Dong unlocked two achievements and rose to Second-Level God.
• Yu Xiaogang, furious after Yu Luomian called him trash, vowed to publish the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.
• Three years later, Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong climbed a mountain, camped on its barren summit, and watched the sunrise together.
• Huang Yuyao gave birth to a daughter in the Papal Palace, and Qian Xunji named her Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue began life surrounded by the love of her parents and grandfather.

Dai Tianfeng conspired with Consort Ye to poison Star Luo Emperor Dai Lümao and take the throne. Half a month after Dai Lümao’s death, Dai Tianfeng became the new emperor of the Star Luo Empire.

• Wang Longhu and Zhao Zhong arranged for the imperial guards to relax their patrol while Dai Tianfeng entered the palace.
• Dai Tianfeng found Consort Ye urging Dai Lümao to drink medicinal broth and offered to feed it to him himself.
• Dai Lümao called for Steward Qin, but Xue Peng arrived with the dead Titled Douluo and confirmed he had been killed.
• Dai Lümao drank the poisoned broth and died, while Ye Mengwei pretended to panic and announced his death.
• Three days later, news of Dai Lümao’s death spread across the empire, and half a month later Dai Tianfeng ascended the throne.

Qian Renxue awakened her six-winged angel martial soul and revealed innate soul power of level twenty-three. Qian Chongling ordered Spirit Hall to publicly report her talent as only level eleven to keep it hidden.

• Bibi Dong awakened Qian Renxue’s six-winged angel martial soul in the Papal Palace.
• Qian Renxue’s innate soul power shattered two measuring crystal balls before a third showed level twenty-three.
• Huang Yuyao praised Qian Renxue and kissed her cheek as Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji celebrated her talent.
• Qian Chongling told Little Xiaojie to announce Qian Renxue’s innate soul power as level eleven.
• Qian Daoliu agreed that everyone should keep Qian Renxue’s true talent secret.

Dai Tianfeng consolidated his rule over the Star Luo Empire through purges while news of his sons and heirs raised hopes for the dynasty. In the Far North, Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender discussed Spirit Hall’s criticism of Yu Xiaogang’s theories and considered founding an academy together.

• Dai Tianfeng executed ministers who resisted his rule after their plan to denounce Ye Mengwei was exposed.
• Dai Weisi awakened the White Tiger Martial Soul with rank-eight Innate Soul Power, Zhu Zhuyun awakened the Hell Spirit Cat with rank-seven Innate Soul Power, and Dai Mubai was born.
• Yu Xiaogang complained that the Martial Soul Daily had rejected his theories, while Liu Erlong and Flender defended his work and their Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• The chapter described how Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang formed the Golden Iron Triangle and how Yu Xiaogang’s low Soul Power limited their Golden Sacred Dragon.
• Flender proposed that the three establish an academy for talented children, and Liu Erlong teased him about lacking Gold Soul Coins.

Yu Luomian interrupted Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong’s wedding, condemned Yu Xiaogang, and expelled him from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Yu Xiaogang fled, and Yu Luomian defeated Liu Erlong and Flender before leaving them behind.

• Yu Xiaogang explained that he had held his wedding opposite the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan so he could see his clan, while Flender and Liu Erlong listened.
• Yu Luomian arrived, revealed that he was Liu Erlong’s father and Yu Xiaogang’s second uncle, and accused Yu Xiaogang of misrepresenting the clan’s efforts to help him.
• Yu Luomian expelled Yu Xiaogang from the clan, and Yu Xiaogang rushed away after Yu Luomian called him trash.
• Liu Erlong tried to chase Yu Xiaogang, but Yu Luomian blocked her and challenged her and Flender with his Advanced Soul Douluo strength.
• Yu Luomian defeated Liu Erlong and Flender, then praised Flender’s backbone and disappeared.

Bibi Dong safely gave birth to a daughter, Qian Guangyue, and reached First-Level God rank, while Qian Xunji set out to hunt the Blue Silver Emperor. In another world, Tang San leapt from Ghost Seeing Sorrow and heard that his game mode had changed to purgatory asura mode.

• Bibi Dong gave birth to a healthy daughter, and a message announced that she had reached First-Level God rank.
• Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong named their daughter Qian Guangyue.
• Gui Mei and Yue Guan reported finding the humanoid Soul Beast hiding with Tang Hao, and Qian Xunji left to hunt her.
• Qian Chongling told Qian Xunji to wear a black-and-white wrist guard, which Qian Xunji put on before departing.
• At Ghost Seeing Sorrow, Tang San left three Buddha's Fury Tang Lotuses for the Tang Sect elders and jumped from the cliff.
• As Tang San disappeared, he heard that his game mode had changed from heaven mode to purgatory asura mode.

Tang Hao and Ah Yin were discovered by Spirit Hall while fleeing with their infant son, Tang San. After Qian Xunji gravely wounded Tang Hao, Ah Yin offered to sacrifice herself in exchange for sparing her husband and child.

• Tang Hao and Ah Yin shared a quiet moment with Tang San in their mountain cabin before Tang Hao urged them to flee as Spirit Hall closed in.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo tracked Tang Hao, and Qian Xunji intercepted the fleeing family.
• Tang Hao refused to surrender Ah Yin and fought Qian Xunji, but the Pope's Angel Holy Sword left him gravely wounded.
• Ah Yin revealed that she could only be killed by her own choice and offered her soul ring and soul bone if Qian Xunji spared Tang Hao and Tang San.
• Qian Xunji agreed to Ah Yin's terms.

Ah Yin sacrificed her 100,000 years of cultivation to save Tang Hao, who used his new power to fight Spirit Hall. After the Asura God secretly aided Tang Hao, he drove off Yue Guan with Qian Xunji and Gui Mei, while the Divine Realm’s God of Evil and Goddess of Kindness recognized the Asura God’s violations.

• Ah Yin sacrificed herself and gave Tang Hao her 100,000-Year Soul Ring, making him the youngest Titled Douluo on the continent.
• Tang Hao attacked Qian Xunji with the Great Sumeru Hammer, but Yue Guan and Gui Mei stopped him with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Bipolar Static Domain.
• The Asura God secretly sent divine power into Tang Hao, while the God of Evil and Goddess of Kindness discussed punishing him for interfering with the mortal realm.
• Tang Hao used Divine Slaughter’s Domain to break Yue Guan and Gui Mei’s fusion skill, then struck Gui Mei into unconsciousness.
• Tang Hao badly wounded Qian Xunji, but his own strength faded, and Yue Guan fled with Qian Xunji and Gui Mei.

Qian Renxue and Spirit Hall’s elders reacted to Qian Xunji’s grave injuries after Tang Hao’s attack, while Qian Chongling revealed that his divine power was already suppressing the asura power in Qian Xunji’s body. He criticized Qian Daoliu’s response and began laying out how Spirit Hall should frame its demand to the Clear Sky Sect.

• Qian Renxue learned that Qian Xunji might lose his powers unless Spirit Hall found the inheritor of the nine heart begonia within seven days.
• Qian Daoliu promised to find a way to save Qian Xunji and demanded that the Clear Sky Sect answer for Tang Hao’s attack.
• Qian Chongling rebuked Qian Daoliu for accepting the medical team’s diagnosis without examining Qian Xunji himself.
• Qian Daoliu discovered that Qian Chongling’s black-and-white divine power was suppressing the blood-red asura power inside Qian Xunji.
• Qian Chongling explained that he wanted Spirit Hall to recruit a nine heart begonia Soul Master and rejected a mere verbal apology from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Qian Chongling began recounting the events, noting that only Spirit Hall and Tang Hao knew the full truth.

Qian Chongling persuaded Qian Daoliu to abandon his old agreement with Tang Chen and prepare to destroy the Clear Sky Sect, then sent Chrysanthemum Douluo, Holy Dragon Douluo, and Dugu Bo to ask Ye Renxin to treat the injured Little Xiaojie and Gui Mei. At Ye Renxin’s home, Dugu Bo revealed how much his condition had improved, and Ye Renxin asked whether his martial soul’s poison had been cured.

• Qian Chongling argued that Spirit Hall could disregard Qian Daoliu’s agreement with Tang Chen and wipe out the Clear Sky Sect, and Qian Daoliu accepted his authority.
• Qian Chongling told Qian Daoliu to invite Ye Renxin to treat Little Xiaojie and Gui Mei, while he handled the Clear Sky Sect himself.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo, Holy Dragon Douluo, and Dugu Bo went to Ye Renxin’s residence with a group of underlings.
• Ye Renxin welcomed the visitors and praised Dugu Bo for becoming a Titled Douluo.
• Dugu Bo credited Ye Renxin with easing his past suffering, and Ye Renxin asked whether Dugu Bo had resolved his martial soul’s poison.

Ye Renxin traveled to Spirit Hall and healed Pope Qian Xunji and Ghost Elder, then examined a pill made from the rare immortal herb aromatic silk beauty. His granddaughter Ye Lingling also became captivated by the herb’s scent.

• Dugu Bo told Ye Renxin that a senior had resolved the Dugu Family’s Jade Phosphorus Snake Martial Soul poison, and Ye Renxin introduced his granddaughter Ye Lingling.
• Holy Dragon Douluo invited Ye Renxin to Spirit Hall to treat two injured elders, and Ye Renxin agreed to go with him and Dugu Bo.
• At the Papal Palace, Ye Renxin discovered that the first patient was Pope Qian Xunji and healed him and Ghost Elder with his nine heart begonia Martial Soul.
• Qian Daoliu offered Ye Renxin and Ye Lingling a meal, then asked Ye Renxin to identify a pill in a transparent porcelain bottle.
• Ye Renxin recognized the pill as aromatic silk beauty or a medicine made from it and condemned the waste of the rare immortal herb, while Qian Daoliu began coughing urgently.