Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiaoxue and Qin Yun killed Zhang Bailang and every bandit at Black Tiger Stronghold after discovering their brutal abuse of captives. Qian Chongling then made the five Skywater Academy students clean up the battlefield, leaving them shaken and resentful.

• Chen Xiaoxue and Qin Yun reached Black Tiger Stronghold and found captives being whipped while the bandits joked about abusing their victims.
• Chen Xiaoxue and Qin Yun revealed their Martial Souls and used their sixth Soul Skills to kill Zhang Bailang and the surrounding bandits.
• After clearing the summit, Chen Xiaoxue and Qin Yun dispelled their Martial Soul Avatars and became weakened.
• Qian Chongling brought the five Skywater Academy students to the summit, where they saw the bloody aftermath and felt sick.
• Qian Chongling ordered the five students to gather the bodies so he could burn them, and they spent the next few days gloomy and resentful.

Five years later, Chen Xiaoxue trained Shui Yuewu, Feng Aotian, and Huo Baoshou in the Three Talents Formation as they prepared for the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament. Skywater Academy reached the finals, where Qian Daoliu welcomed the competitors and announced the prize of three Soul Bones.

• Chen Xiaoxue tested the Three Talents Formation in a sparring match and found that Shui Yuewu, Feng Aotian, and Huo Baoshou could challenge her Soul Saint strength.
• Shui Rou explained that the three academies had entrusted their talented students with the formation, which Qian Chongling had provided along with a Seven-Star Sword Formation for Skywater Academy.
• Shui Rou told Chen Xiaoxue and the students that Qian Chongling was waiting for them in Spirit City, where the tournament would begin.
• Skywater Academy and Blazing Fire Academy advanced to the finals, while Qian Chongling resigned from Skywater Academy and prepared to leave after the tournament.
• Spirit Hall Academy and the Tianshui Girl Group entered the finals, and Pope Qian Daoliu declared the tournament fair and announced three Soul Bones as the prize.

Skywater Academy and Spirit Hall Academy began the championship match, with both teams targeting their opponents’ supports as their Soul Kings fought. Shui Yuewu’s fifth soul skill created an opening for Skywater Academy to eliminate four Spirit Hall members, leaving Spirit Hall at a severe disadvantage.

• Qian Daoliu announced the finals, and Skywater Academy faced Spirit Hall Academy after Blazing Fire Academy forfeited.
• The teams introduced their captains, Shui Yuewu and Jingang, then began the seven-on-seven battle.
• Jingang attacked Shui Yuewu while Ao Ying and Ao Ye restrained her with vines, but Qin Yan raised an ice wall that blocked his punch.
• Both teams sent their agility attackers after the opposing supports while their remaining fighters engaged the enemy Soul Kings.
• Shui Yuewu unleashed her fifth soul skill, Phoenix Cry Across the Nine Heavens, disrupting Spirit Hall’s team.
• Liu Yuting and Liu Yufen used Frost Slash to eliminate Spirit Hall’s two supports and two agility attackers.

Shui Yuewu’s final attack failed to defeat Jingang, and the Spirit Hall Team won the tournament. After receiving their Soul Bone rewards, the teams departed Spirit City, while Skywater Academy returned home one person short.

• Qin Yan and Zhao Ziyi were eliminated after helping Shui Yuewu complete her fifth Soul Skill, Phoenix Cry Across the Nine Heavens.
• Shui Yuewu’s attack knocked out the two exhausted Spirit Hall Soul Ancestors, but Jingang survived with his Earth Guard skill, leaving her unable to continue.
• The host declared the Spirit Hall Team the tournament champions, and Qian Daoliu presented them with three thirty-thousand-year Soul Bones.
• The teams left the Papal Palace, and Shui Ning’s Skywater Academy group returned home after spending a few days in Spirit City, one person short.

Luo Tian and his pregnant wife, Lin Yan, were cornered by Jin Zhuan and other Spirit Hall members while fleeing through the rain. Sun Yan attacked Lin Yan, and Luo Tian took the blow, leaving the couple injured and surrounded.

• Jin Zhuan confronted Luo Tian and condemned him for fleeing with the Evil Soul Master Lin Yan.
• Zhao Changge, Qian Buduo, Sun Yan, and Li arrived and helped surround the couple.
• Lin Yan offered to die if the others would spare Luo Tian, but Sun Yan attacked her in anger.
• Luo Tian shoved Lin Yan aside and took Sun Yan's palm strike, which shattered his collarbone.
• Lin Yan cradled the wounded Luo Tian as they exchanged declarations of love, while Sun Yan denounced Lin Yan and Zhao Changge and Qian Buduo were moved by the couple's affection.

Lin Yan went into difficult labor, and Luo Tian sacrificed his life so she could use her soul-eating demon spider to regain vitality and deliver their child. The baby was born safely, but Luo Tian died, leaving the family’s future uncertain.

• Li Xuemei discovered that Lin Yan's water had broken and hurried the others to find shelter for the birth.
• Li Xuemei realized the baby was coming feet-first and warned that Lin Yan and the child were losing vitality.
• Luo Tian recognized a way to save them and rushed into the cave, urging Lin Yan to drain his vitality with her Martial Soul.
• Lin Yan summoned the soul-eating demon spider and drained Luo Tian, restoring her strength as he died.
• Li Xuemei helped Lin Yan deliver the baby, whose cry filled the cave.

After Lin Yan gave birth to Luo Tian’s daughter, she died, and Jin Zhuan and the others uncovered evidence of an organization creating Evil Soul Masters. Jin Zhuan and Li Xuemei left the baby with a kind elderly couple, then reported the matter to Pope Qian Xunji, who launched a broad investigation.

• Lin Yan told Jin Zhuan and the others that Evil Soul Masters had captured her ten years earlier and forcibly turned her into one of them.
• Jin Zhuan realized Lin Yan had transferred her life force to her newborn daughter, and Lin Yan asked that the child be raised as an ordinary person before she died.
• Jin Zhuan and the others buried Lin Yan and Luo Tian together, and Jin Zhuan and Li Xuemei left their daughter on the doorstep of an elderly couple in Phoenixsong Village, who adopted her.
• Jin Zhuan reported the artificial Evil Soul Masters to Pope Qian Xunji, who ordered Titled Douluo, the two great empires, and the sects to investigate and eliminate them.

Six years after Bibi Dong was left in Phoenixsong Village, she worked alongside the village children and learned that a Soul Master could change their lives. After the children returned from gathering Blue Silver Grass, they hurried to the village Spirit Hall for their martial soul awakening.

• Bibi Nan offered to help Bibi Dong harvest Blue Silver Grass, and the other children teased him about trying to win her over.
• Bibi Qian reminded the children that a Lord Soul Master would awaken their martial souls that day, and Bibi Dong asked what a Soul Master was.
• Bibi Dong and Bibi Nan helped the others finish gathering Blue Silver Grass, and Bibi Nan weighed the harvest before leading the children back.
• The children played along the way and arrived late, where the village elders reminded them of the awakening and sent them to the village Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Nan led the six other children away to the Spirit Hall before the old woman could stop them.

During the martial soul awakening in Phoenixsong Village, Bibi Dong revealed two powerful spider martial souls and innate full soul power. Gu Xuewei confirmed that Bibi Dong had a gentle temperament and invited her to join the Spirit Hall, but Bibi Dong remained unsure.

• Gu Xuewei awakened the village children’s martial souls, and the first six had no soul power.
• Bibi Dong awakened the death spider emperor and the soul-eating demon spider, revealing that she had twin martial souls.
• Bibi Dong’s Blue Crystal Ball test showed she had innate full soul power.
• Gu Xuewei asked the village chief about Bibi Dong and learned she was obedient, kind, and had been adopted as a baby.
• Gu Xuewei invited Bibi Dong to join the Spirit Hall, and the village chief encouraged her to accept.

Bibi Dong agreed to join Spirit Hall and left Phoenixsong Village with Gu Xuewei, while her report brought Qian Xunji’s attention to her exceptional talents. In Spirit City, Qian Chongling arrived and overheard people gossiping that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan heir had awakened a pig.

• Gu Xuewei promised Bibi Dong tuition, food, lodging, and a monthly allowance, and Bibi Dong asked that the money instead help Phoenixsong Village.
• Bibi Dong said goodbye to the village elders and traveled with Gu Xuewei to Spirit City.
• Zhao Rui read Gu Xuewei’s report, took it to Qian Xunji, and received orders to send Ghost Elder and Elder Ju to fetch Bibi Dong.
• Qian Xunji arranged rewards for Gu Xuewei and the Spirit City branch, and planned for Gu Xuewei to become a Soul Douluo’s disciple.
• Qian Chongling entered the Martial Soul Grand Hotel and heard diners discuss the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan heir awakening a pig.

Qian Chongling heard rumors about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and learned that Bibi Dong had been brought to Spirit Hall after awakening twin martial souls with innate full soul power. As Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan led her toward the Papal Palace to become the Pope’s disciple, Qian Chongling appeared and declared that he would teach her instead.

• Qian Chongling dismissed the exaggerated rumors about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan but wondered whether Yu Dashi’s reported awakening reflected changes caused by his own actions.
• Qian Chongling followed Golden Crocodile Douluo Tian E, Ghost Douluo Gui Mei, and Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan into a Spirit Hall branch hall.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo confirmed that Bibi Dong had twin martial souls and innate full soul power.
• Yue Guan offered Gu Xuewei a path to become a branch hall master and took Bibi Dong to meet the Pope, who would make her his disciple.
• Qian Chongling appeared beside Bibi Dong and said he would teach her, prompting Yue Guan and Gui Mei to threaten him.

Qian Chongling returned to Spirit Hall, revealed himself as Golden Crocodile Douluo’s former teacher, and made the young Bibi Dong his disciple. He took Bibi Dong home and began preparing nourishing food for her, while Qian Daoliu, Qian Xunji, and their companions joined them for a meal.

• Qian Chongling appeared before Bibi Dong, Gu Xuewei, Ghost Douluo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Golden Crocodile Douluo, who recognized him as his old master.
• Qian Chongling used a favorability card to make Bibi Dong receptive, and she agreed to become his disciple as his third chaos trial was completed.
• Qian Chongling took Bibi Dong home and told the others he was taking Gu Xuewei too, while Golden Crocodile Douluo warned Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo to keep the encounter secret.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo ordered Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo to report the events to the Pope, then went to inform the Great Enshrined; Gu Xuewei had fainted and would not remember Qian Chongling.
• Qian Chongling prepared a meal for Bibi Dong and his guests, including Thunderflame Yak tongue wrapped in raw fish, and explained that he was nourishing Bibi Dong’s weak constitution.

Qian Chongling arranged for Bibi Dong to be cared for and secretly teach her, then helped her settle into an unfamiliar home when she could not sleep. After she fell asleep beside him, he resolved to prevent her from making the mistakes he remembered from the original timeline.

• Qian Chongling told Qian Xunji to present Bibi Dong as his disciple while he taught her himself, and asked him to arrange young maids to care for her.
• Bibi Dong could not sleep in her soft new bed and went to Qian Chongling for help.
• Qian Chongling moved Bibi Dong to his harder stone bed, where she felt comforted by its warmth and familiar scent.
• Bibi Dong watched Qian Chongling paint Dugu Qingyue, accidentally brushed her lips against his cheek, and then went to sleep.
• Qian Chongling finished the portrait and resolved to keep Bibi Dong from falling for Yu Dashi and betraying Spirit Hall.

Qian Chongling taught Bibi Dong that true strength came from controlling one's power, then began training her in the self-created soul skill Rasengan. After a long first practice session, Bibi Dong joined him for a late-night grilled-meat snack.

• Bibi Dong attended Spirit Hall Academy, made friends, and returned home escorted by Luo Yunxue.
• Qian Chongling told Bibi Dong he belonged to the Instant Kill System and could take on ten Titled Douluos with one hand.
• Qian Chongling demonstrated precise control by steering a sword around a tree and carving Bibi Dong's likeness into its bark.
• Qian Chongling began teaching Bibi Dong Rasengan, and she learned to gather soul power in her palm after practicing until late at night.
• Qian Chongling explained Rasengan's next training stages and invited Bibi Dong to have grilled meat with him.

Bibi Dong reflected on her upbringing under Qian Chongling, whose guidance gave her freedom and training unlike the life she would have had under Qian Xunji. In the Papal Palace, Qian Chongling learned about Tang Hao, Tang Yuehua, and Yu Xiaogang, then decided it was time for ten-year-old Bibi Dong to take immortal herbs.

• Bibi Dong recalled how Qian Chongling trained her, let her make friends, and allowed her to visit Phoenixsong Village.
• Ying Mi reported that Tang Hao had reached Soul Douluo and that Tang Yuehua had opened the Moonlight Pavilion.
• Qian Chongling learned that Yu Xiaogang had left the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan because of his soul skill.
• Qian Chongling decided Bibi Dong was old enough to eat immortal herbs.

Qian Chongling punished Qian Daoliu and the other Enshrined after discovering that his own gravestone had been placed in Douluo Hall. He then summoned Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo to Elder Hall, where they found him, Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, and Golden Crocodile already gathered.

• Qian Chongling confronted Qian Daoliu and the other Enshrined over the gravestone bearing his name and made them strike themselves with venom-treated hammers.
• Qian Daoliu, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and the others developed swollen heads that would stay that way for seven days.
• Qian Xunji learned that Qian Chongling had summoned Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo to Elder Hall without inviting him.
• Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo climbed Qian Chongling's enormous Spiral Staircase and entered Elder Hall.
• Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo found Qian Chongling, Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, and Golden Crocodile seated in the conference room.

Qian Chongling revealed that he knew of a medicinal garden containing at least ten immortal herbs and promised the Spirit Hall elders a chance to obtain them. He arranged for Tian E, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei to meet him at Spirit City's Northeast Gate the next morning, leaving Qian Daoliu free to join them.

• Qian Chongling asked Yue Guan about immortal herbs, and Yue Guan explained their benefits and named herbs suited to Tian E, Gui Mei, and himself.
• Qian Chongling said he planned to reward Spirit Hall's devoted elders with immortal herbs, while considering who among his allies deserved a share.
• Yue Guan learned that a medicinal garden held at least ten immortal herbs, including a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum that might suit him.
• Qian Chongling told Tian E, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei to meet him at Spirit City's Northeast Gate at ten the next morning, and invited Qian Daoliu to come if he wished.

Qian Chongling and his companions found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest, where Yue Guan identified several rare immortal herbs. The group discussed who should receive them, but Qian Chongling revealed that he planned to refine them into pills rather than have everyone consume them directly.

• Qian Chongling led Bibi Dong and the others into Sunset Forest to search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Qian Chongling cut a passage through the Jade Phosphorus Snake Venom and guided the group into the valley.
• Yue Guan found several immortal herbs, including the ones consumed by the Shrek Seven Devils in the original timeline.
• Yue Guan found the Netherworld Flower of the Other Shore for Gui Mei, the Eternal Blazing Flame Grass for Qian Xunji, and the Purple-Gold Heavenly Dragon Fruit for Tian E.
• Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo said they would save herbs for their descendants, and Qian Chongling clarified that he intended to refine the herbs into pills.

Qian Chongling led the Spirit Hall group to harvest immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo confronted them. After discovering that Yue Guan and Gui Mei had become Titled Douluos, Dugu Bo yielded the blessed land, while Qian Chongling demanded that the Dugu Family join the Spirit Hall.

• Qian Chongling sent Qian Daoliu, Golden Crocodile Douluo, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan to harvest the mature immortal herbs using Yue Guan’s instructions.
• Dugu Bo arrived and threatened the group, but recognized Gui Mei and Yue Guan and saw that they each had a ninth soul ring.
• Qian Chongling told Dugu Bo that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well now belonged to the Spirit Hall and demanded that the Dugu Family join it.
• Dugu Bo tried to refuse, and Qian Daoliu threatened to exterminate his family if they did not join.
• Qian Chongling rebuked Qian Daoliu and made clear that he wanted to recruit Dugu Bo for his poison abilities, but would imprison the whole Dugu Family if recruitment failed.

Qian Chongling persuaded Dugu Bo to bring the Dugu Family into Spirit Hall by offering a secret technique to cure the Jade Phosphorus Snake martial soul’s poisonous flaw. He then prepared to help Bibi Dong use two dangerous immortal herbs, while the herb-gathering team finished collecting the mature plants.

• Dugu Bo realized Qian Chongling knew the Dugu Family’s hidden flaw and asked whether he could eliminate it.
• Qian Chongling explained two possible remedies, and Dugu Bo chose the secret technique that could convert the toxins into strength.
• Qian Chongling gave Dugu Bo the Five Poisons Pill Formula, and Dugu Bo pledged the Dugu Family’s loyalty to him.
• Qian Chongling told Dugu Bo that refining a poison pill could help him reach Titled Douluo today, then sent him to gather immortal herbs.
• Qian Chongling explained to Bibi Dong how he would prepare and refine octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot for her.
• Dugu Bo joined the herb-gathering team, and the five gatherers collected all the mature herbs while leaving seeds behind.