Chapter Summaries

Qian Chongling broke into Ah Yin’s waterfall cave and took her Seed of Life and the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone. He left with both prizes, intending to use them against Tang Richao and Tang San.

• Qian Chongling reached the waterfall cave behind Holy Soul Village, where Tang Richao had hidden Ah Yin’s Seed of Life.
• Qian Chongling found Ah Yin’s potted Blue Silver Grass neglected in the cave and mocked Tang Richao for leaving her without water.
• Qian Chongling discovered the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone hidden beneath the earthen platform behind Tang Hao’s soul power barrier.
• Qian Chongling moved Ah Yin’s pot, watered her, and took her Seed of Life.
• Qian Chongling opened the earthen platform and stored the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone in his soul tool.

Qian Chongling tried to use seven soul bones as sacrificial offerings for a lucky summoning, but the Dumb System interrupted him with a Genius Summoning Card enhancement event. After the system enhanced four cards, Qian Chongling misunderstood its cost and offered to pay five hundred thousand gold soul coins.

• Qian Chongling arranged seven soul bones left by Third Brother's relatives and ancestors, then prepared to crush four Genius Summoning Cards for a summoning.
• The Dumb System warned Qian Chongling against using the cards that way and offered a special enhancement event.
• The system explained the enhancement options, and Qian Chongling told it to maximize everything at level 99.
• The system set the cards' cultivation level at forty-one and enhanced their soul rings, innate soul power, and martial souls.
• The system announced a total cost of four hundred thirty-three thousand, but Qian Chongling mistook the reported units and offered to pay five hundred thousand gold soul coins.

Qian Chongling discovered that the system had traded away five hundred thousand years of his lifespan for four summoning cards that would produce ten-year-old geniuses, disrupting his plan for Spirit Hall’s team. Meanwhile, Tang Hao woke in a trash can after his Soul Power barrier was broken and flew toward Holy Soul Village, suspecting Spirit Hall.

• Qian Chongling realized the system had deducted five hundred thousand years from his lifespan, then consoled himself that the four enhanced Genius Summoning Cards were still worth the cost.
• Qian Chongling recalled sneaking onto Sea God Island to abduct Bo Saixi for Qian Daoliu, only to encounter her Sea God Martial Soul and damage the Sea God’s Stairway during their negotiations.
• Qian Chongling examined the cards and discovered they summoned ten-year-old geniuses rather than six-year-olds, so he decided to wait four years before using them against Third Brother.
• Tang Hao woke in a trash can in Nuoding City after discovering someone had broken his Soul Power barrier, and he flew toward Holy Soul Village while accusing Spirit Hall.

Qian Chongling reviewed Hongdou and Lou Gao’s progress on the Essence Cultivation Pill and pushed for a faster, more secure production process. He accepted that the pills might become less effective for now and left the institute with a temporary plan to increase output.

• Qian Chongling met with Hongdou and Lou Gao at the Martial Soul Research Institute and asked Hongdou to report on the Essence Cultivation Pill.
• Hongdou explained that missing herbs had forced her team to use substitutes, reducing each pill’s effect to roughly level three or four Innate Soul Power.
• Hongdou reported that the team could produce only fifty pills a month because of limited skilled staff, secrecy, low success rates, and herb shortages.
• Qian Chongling told Hongdou to document the refining process, divide herb processing among separate departments, include unnecessary herbs, and request supplies from the Air Transport Department.
• Hongdou worried that the standardized process would reduce the pills’ potency, but Qian Chongling ordered her to use it as a temporary measure until trusted refiners improved their success rates.

Qian Chongling inspected Lou Gao’s Desert Eagle and Barrett Soul Tools, learning their range, power, ammunition capacity, and slow recharging times. He suggested ways to speed up production and recharging, leaving Lou Gao with new ideas for improving the weapons.

• Lou Gao showed Qian Chongling the Desert Eagle and Barrett, and explained that the Desert Eagle could penetrate a Soul King’s defenses while the Barrett had killed a low-ranking Soul Douluo with one shot.
• Qian Chongling asked about the weapons’ ammunition and recharging, then proposed installing multiple charging mechanisms to reduce their reload times.
• Lou Gao said he and his disciples could make only ten Desert Eagles and three Barretts per month because they handled every production step themselves.
• Qian Chongling urged Lou Gao to delegate forging and assembly to other craftsmen and reserve the charging mechanism installation for his specialists.

Qian Chongling forced Lou Gao and Hongdou to follow his orders by threatening them with a year-long research ban, then took them to test the Barrett. In Infinite Hell, Tang Hong revealed to Tang Xiao that Tang Chen had not truly surpassed Qian Daoliu, leaving Tang Xiao to confront the truth about his grandfather’s strength.

• Lou Gao and Hongdou asked Qian Chongling if they could keep making Soul Tools themselves, but he ordered them to follow his plan and threatened them with a year of paid leave without research.
• Qian Chongling told Lou Gao to bring the Barrett and summoned Hongdou to join its test.
• In Infinite Hell, Tang Xiao reassured Tang Hong that Tang Hao would avenge them, but Tang Hong doubted that Tang Hao could ever surpass the Blood Pope.
• Tang Hong asked Tang Xiao whether Tang Chen had truly been stronger than Qian Daoliu, prompting Tang Xiao to recognize that the Clear Sky Sect would never have accepted an agreement with a foe it had defeated.
• Tang Hong explained that Tang Chen had fought Qian Daoliu over Bo Saixi, but Qian Daoliu had used only eighty percent of his strength and still nearly killed Tang Chen.

Tang Xiao realized that Qian Daoliu could destroy the Clear Sky Sect while Tang Chen was missing, then watched Spirit Hall take Tang Hong from his cell to meet Qian Chongling. Qian Chongling revealed that he had kept files on every Clear Sky Sect member in each generation whose innate soul power exceeded level seven, leaving Tang Hong shaken by how much Spirit Hall knew.

• Tang Xiao feared that Tang Hao could not withstand Qian Daoliu and Qian Chongling if they confronted him.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo freed Tang Hong from his shackles and escorted him out of the dungeon.
• Tang Hong emerged into the sunlight and recognized Qian Chongling as the man he had known as the Blood Pope.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo corrected Tang Hong, saying Qian Chongling was Spirit Hall's Saint Emperor.
• Qian Chongling told Tang Hong that he had never met him in person but had read his file and kept records on Clear Sky Sect members with innate soul power above level seven.

Qian Chongling offered Tang Hong a chance to live as a jailer in Infinite Purgatory if he survived a Soul Tool attack. Tang Hong endured Lou Gao’s sniper shot and became a jailer, leaving the Clear Sky Sect without its Fourth Elder.

• Qian Chongling told Tang Hong he could live under a new identity if he survived a Soul Saint’s Soul Tool attack.
• Tang Hong accepted the chance to become a jailer and asked whether he could go outside to bask in the sun.
• Lou Gao aimed his Barrett at Tang Hong’s heart from eight hundred meters away and fired a Soul Tool Sniper Round.
• Tang Hong’s barrier cracked and shattered under the shot, but he dodged the weakened round and survived.
• Tang Hong became a Titled Douluo jailer on the first level of Infinite Purgatory, and the Clear Sky Sect lost its Fourth Elder.

Bibi Dong and Qian Chongling visited Phoenixsong Village, where she helped her childhood friends Bibi Nan and Bibi Qian awaken soul power with Essence Cultivation Pills. The chapter ended with the couple realizing they should have saved the pills for their daughter, Chen Shuang.

• Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong arrived at the prosperous Phoenixsong Village and visited Bibi Nan and Bibi Qian.
• Bibi Dong gave Bibi Nan and Bibi Qian Essence Cultivation Pills and helped them absorb the medicine.
• Bibi Nan and Bibi Qian tested the crystal ball and discovered they had gained soul power.
• Bibi Dong congratulated the couple and offered to help them hunt soul beasts.
• Bibi Qian and Bibi Nan remembered that their six-year-old daughter, Chen Shuang, had no innate soul power and regretted not saving the pills for her.

Bibi Dong gave Bibi Nan and Bibi Qian Essence Cultivation Pills, and their daughter Chen Shuang learned she could become a Soul Master despite having no Soul Power. Qian Chongling used the Blue Silver Emperor to begin evolving Chen Shuang’s Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, and she fell asleep as the surrounding grass poured its essence into her.

• Bibi Dong told Bibi Nan and Bibi Qian that she had enough Essence Cultivation Pills for their childhood friends’ dreams of becoming Soul Masters.
• Bibi Qian introduced her daughter Chen Shuang, who said she wanted to become a Soul Master but had Blue Silver Grass and no Soul Power.
• Bibi Dong offered Chen Shuang an Essence Cultivation Pill, but Qian Chongling proposed evolving her Martial Soul with the Blue Silver Emperor instead.
• Qian Chongling took Chen Shuang and her parents outside the village, where Chen Shuang swallowed two leaves and then the entire Blue Silver Emperor.
• Blue Silver Grass poured its essence into Chen Shuang, who fell asleep as Qian Chongling assured her worried parents that her Martial Soul was evolving.

Chen Shuang’s Blue Silver Grass gained traces of the Blue Silver Emperor’s bloodline, transforming her appearance and granting her nearly rank-nine-and-a-half innate soul power. A month later, she obtained her first soul ring in the Star Dou Great Forest and awakened the Devouring skill.

• Qian Chongling’s attempt to awaken Chen Shuang’s Blue Silver Emperor bloodline only partially succeeded, leaving her Blue Silver Grass with faint golden patterns.
• After two days of sleep, Chen Shuang saw that her appearance had changed dramatically and learned she had gained nearly rank-nine-and-a-half soul power.
• Bibi Dong’s childhood friends in Phoenixsong Village all awakened soul power after receiving Essence Cultivation Pills from Bibi Nan.
• A month later, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan chose a six-hundred-year-old Netherworld Vine as Chen Shuang’s first soul ring, while Qian Chongling reassured her that she could absorb it.
• Chen Shuang killed the Netherworld Vine, absorbed its yellow soul ring, and gained the Devouring soul skill.

Qian Chongling considered how to develop Chen Shuang’s Blue Silver Emperor abilities and looked forward to him defeating Tang San at the tournament. In Star Luo Imperial City, Zhu Zhuqing was summoned to meet Consort Ye, who recognized her as Zhu Tiancai’s niece.

• Qian Chongling criticized Tang San’s Soul Skills and planned to make better use of Chen Shuang’s abilities, imagining him defeating Tang San at the continental elite soul master tournament.
• Chen Shuang shuddered while explaining his first Soul Skill to Chrysanthemum Douluo after hearing Qian Chongling cackle.
• Zhu Zhuyun told Zhu Zhuqing that Consort Ye wanted to see her and warned that she might not return.
• Yuzhu escorted Zhu Zhuqing from the Nether Duke’s Mansion to the Drunken Moon Palace, where she met Consort Ye and Yulan.
• Consort Ye greeted Zhu Zhuqing as Zhu Tiancai’s little niece, and Zhu Zhuqing asked why she had been summoned.

Ye Mengwei revealed herself to Zhu Zhuqing as a level 97 Super Douluo and offered to take her as a disciple. Zhu Zhuqing accepted, and Ye Mengwei arranged for her to live at Drunken Moon Palace and rest there for the night.

• Ye Mengwei discussed Zhu Zhuqing's engagement to Dai Mubai and the danger she faced in the Star Luo succession struggle.
• Ye Mengwei revealed that she was the Illusory Dream Douluo, a level 97 Super Douluo, and that the Rouge Pavilion was her organization.
• Ye Mengwei offered to take Zhu Zhuqing as her disciple, and Zhu Zhuqing knelt and accepted.
• Ye Mengwei told Zhu Zhuqing to live at Drunken Moon Palace and said she would handle matters with Zhu Zhuyun.
• Ye Mengwei explained that Zhu Zhuqing's pure-hearted, stubborn, and hardworking personality reminded her of her younger self.
• Ye Mengwei and Zhu Zhuqing shared a meal and talked, then Yuzhu escorted Zhu Zhuqing to a side room for the night.

Ye Mengwei used her Life as a Dream ability on Zhu Zhuqing after discussing Xue Peng’s confidence in Qian Chongling’s strength. In stormy Senluo City, three displaced people found an unconscious man dressed in black.

• Xue Peng told Ye Mengwei that Qian Chongling’s strength surpassed that of a First-Level God, and Ye Mengwei worried Spirit Hall might suffer the Soul Guidance Empire’s fate.
• Ye Mengwei enveloped Zhu Zhuqing’s room in pink soul power, causing Zhu Zhuqing to fall asleep as her teacher’s Life as a Dream began.
• During a storm in Senluo City, Fick, Nicole, and Yuri searched for food while returning toward the city gates.
• Nicole spotted an unconscious black-clad man in an alley, and Fick went to check on him.

Fick, Nicole, and Yuri took in the scarred Zhu Zhuqing, who recovered enough to beg for food with them outside Senluo City. Zhu Zhuqing learned that her sister Zhu Zhuyun had defeated her and that her teacher had died, but she resolved to survive as the group saved money to travel to a city with a Spirit Hall.

• Fick found the wounded black-clad woman alive and carried her back to the slums, where Nicole and Yuri helped him.
• Two days later, Zhu Zhuqing joined Nicole, Fick, and Yuri in begging outside Senluo City, and Nicole shared bread with her.
• Zhu Zhuqing recognized her facial scars as claw marks from Zhu Zhuyun and recalled that her teacher, Illusory Dream Douluo Ye Mengwei, had died while attempting to break through to level 98.
• Zhu Zhuqing frightened passersby into giving her soul coins and resolved to keep living despite her injuries and crippled Soul Power.
• Fick gathered the group's coins and led them back through the rain, saying they had saved enough for the journey.

After arriving in Wangluo City, Zhu Zhuqing saw Spirit Hall offer displaced people work and began questioning the lessons about commoners and nobles taught by her father, Zhu Tianlin. The four registered for jobs, and Fick spent his remaining coins on clothes and a filling meal for them.

• Fick returned from gathering information and told Zhu Zhuqing, Nicole, and Yuri that Spirit Hall was recruiting for a Martial Soul Daily branch in Wangluo City.
• At Spirit Hall, the branch master announced jobs with food and lodging, and Fick excitedly told the others they could sign up.
• Zhu Zhuqing questioned her father's claims about commoners, displaced people, and nobles after reflecting on how Fick and the others had treated her.
• Yuri roused Zhu Zhuqing from her thoughts, and Zhu Zhuqing said people should judge what they heard for themselves; Nicole recalled a saying about reading and travel.
• Fick registered the group, then used his remaining Silver Soul Coins to buy them clothes and a filling meal.

A spatial rift opened above Wangluo City, releasing a beast tide led by five fifty-thousand-year soul beasts. The city’s leaders abandoned the city while the Spirit Hall Branch master and some of his personnel prepared to defend it as the beasts reached the walls.

• Zhu Zhuqing witnessed space crack open above Wangluo City, and a spatial rift appeared.
• A Golden Sword Lion and more than a hundred soul beasts emerged from the rift, including four other fifty-thousand-year beasts.
• The city lord and deputy city lord decided to flee with nearly a thousand soldiers, while the Spirit Hall Branch master chose to stay and defend his hometown.
• The Branch Hall master urged his colleagues to leave if they wished, then flew to the city wall, followed by his deputy and some Spirit Hall personnel.
• The beast tide charged toward Wangluo City, and the fastest soul beasts reached the foot of the walls.

Soul beasts breached Wangluo City's walls, forcing Zhu Zhuqing and Fick to flee as the city fell into chaos. After a Shadow Moon Elf killed Fick, Zhu Zhuqing's sealed cultivation erupted, but the beast inexplicably exploded before her attack landed.

• Wangluo City's defenders killed the first wave of thousand-year soul beasts, but the five fifty-thousand-year beasts and their allies battered down the walls.
• Fick warned Zhu Zhuqing that the city had been overrun, and the four fugitives split up when they encountered a five-thousand-year Golden Sword Lion.
• Fick led Zhu Zhuqing toward a hidden basement, but a ten-thousand-year Shadow Moon Elf ambushed them and pierced his chest.
• Fick died after trying to give Zhu Zhuqing some papers, and she cried out in grief and fury.
• Zhu Zhuqing's five soul rings appeared as her restored Soul King power surged, but the Shadow Moon Elf burst apart before she could strike it.

Zhu Zhuqing awoke at the Drunken Moon Palace and wondered whether her painful journey with Fick had been a dream. At Emerald Moon Lake, Ye Mengwei began teaching her to steady her mind and read an opponent through the lesson of fishing.

• Zhu Zhuqing woke in her own room at the Drunken Moon Palace and found her face smooth, making her question whether her experiences with Fick had been a dream.
• Yuzhu escorted Zhu Zhuqing to Emerald Moon Lake after Ye Mengwei invited her to fish.
• Zhu Zhuqing saw Ye Mengwei dressed simply and called her teacher before taking a seat beside her.
• Ye Mengwei taught Zhu Zhuqing that observing a fish’s behavior could help her analyze an opponent and that she first needed to quiet her mind.
• Ye Mengwei caught a Golden-Scaled Fish and taught Zhu Zhuqing that people died for wealth just as fish perished for food.

Ye Mengwei explained that the Star Luo Empire’s succession struggle was designed to produce the most compatible Hell White Tiger pair, forcing Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun into conflict. She revealed that Zhu Zhuqing could escape the struggle by proving she had the potential to become a Titled Douluo, then sent her to rest before training began.

• Ye Mengwei told Zhu Zhuqing that Zhu Zhuyun suppressed her because the imperial succession system required one of the two sisters to survive.
• Ye Mengwei explained that the Hell White Tiger’s power depended on the pair’s compatibility and that the succession struggle selected the strongest match.
• Zhu Zhuqing questioned why the empire would not allow multiple Hell White Tiger pairs, and Ye Mengwei explained that rival pairs threatened each other.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked whether Ye Mengwei had taken her as a disciple to influence the succession, and Ye Mengwei said she wanted to help Zhu Zhuqing escape it by developing her potential.
• Zhu Zhuqing apologized to Ye Mengwei, accepted her lesson, and began her four years of training at the Drunken Moon Palace.