Chapter Summaries

Qian Chongling refined pills for his companions and gave Bibi Dong a Mysterious Ice Blazing Fire Pill to take in the Ice-Fire Spring Water. The chapter ended with her beginning the treatment that would grant her immunity to ice and fire.

• The system distracted Qian Chongling during pill refinement, burning most of two batches, so he forced Yue Guan and Gui Mei to swallow the two surviving Lingzhi Pills.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei absorbed the pills’ energy and advanced to rank ninety-two, while Qian Chongling resumed refining pills and distributed them among his companions.
• Qian Chongling gave Bibi Dong a Mysterious Ice Blazing Fire Pill, and its effects made her body turn blue and red.
• Bibi Dong jumped into the Ice-Fire Spring Water and began circulating her Soul Power as Qian Chongling explained that the treatment would give her immunity to ice and fire.

Qian Chongling and the others tested the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, but no one could pluck it until Bibi Dong succeeded. Her unexpected claim to the herb left Qian Chongling demanding to know whom she had been thinking of.

• Qian Chongling helped Bibi Dong out of the Ice and Fire Spring Eyes, gave her a dress, and put a protective ring on her finger.
• Yue Guan tried to pluck the Lovesick Heartbreak Red but failed when memories of his lost love unsettled him.
• Qian Daoliu tried next, but thoughts of Bo Saixi kept the flower from detaching, and he lamented that he had let Liu Mengning down.
• Gui Mei, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and Dugu Bo declined to try, while Qian Chongling's own attempts also failed.
• Bibi Dong spat blood onto the petals and plucked the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, stunning everyone.
• Qian Chongling asked Bibi Dong whom she had been thinking of, privately vowing to kill whoever it was.

Qian Chongling woke Bibi Dong with his Cold Ice Palm and gave her a God-Given Soul Ring to help her obtain her first Soul Ring. After she absorbed a powerful ring, he prepared a Hundred Herbs Pill and another God-Given Soul Ring for her next attempt.

• Qian Chongling teased the sleeping Bibi Dong awake and asked why he had told her to delay obtaining a Soul Ring.
• Qian Chongling gave Bibi Dong a God-Given Soul Ring, and she began absorbing it with help from her Death Spider Emperor Martial Soul.
• Bibi Dong endured the pressure and gained a twenty-two-hundred-year purple Soul Ring with the Soul Skill Venomous Ray.
• Bibi Dong explained her new Soul Skill to Qian Chongling, who gave her a Hundred Herbs Pill and a second God-Given Soul Ring for further cultivation.

Three months later, Qian Chongling summoned four Titled Douluo and assessed their strengths and abilities. After the Dark Hall’s Ying Mi and Ying Mi arrived, he introduced them to the new summons.

• Qian Chongling activated four Titled Douluo cards, summoning Xue Peng, Ye Mengwei, Chen Chuan, and Situ Kuang, whose cultivation levels ranged from 91 to 99.
• Qian Chongling considered the summoned Titled Douluo’s usefulness and noted that pills had strengthened Spirit Hall’s elders but became far less effective after the first dose.
• Ye Mengwei explained that her Illusory Dream Martial Soul could permanently control people, but using it sharply reduced her cultivation according to her target’s strength.
• Chen Chuan explained that his eighth and ninth Soul Skills could exchange two Soul Masters’ bodies and abilities, killing one of them in the process.
• Xue Peng noticed two approaching Soul Douluo, and Ying Mi and Ying Mi arrived to meet Qian Chongling.
• Qian Chongling reassured the sisters that they had done nothing wrong and told them he had summoned them to meet the four Titled Douluo.

Qian Chongling gave Ying Mi and Ying Mi pills that could raise them to Titled Douluo rank, assigned them to gather intelligence on Yu Xiaogang, and refused to mediate a brewing conflict between the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires. He left the Spirit Hall leaders to coordinate, intending to take his disciple to witness the coming war.

• Qian Chongling gave Ying Mi and Ying Mi Soul Power Boosting Pills, warning that they would never advance beyond Titled Douluo rank after taking them.
• Qian Chongling ordered the Dark Hall to stop investigating the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Clear Sky Sect, but first compile every detail about Yu Xiaogang.
• Qian Chongling gave Ying Mi a bottle of Seven-Insect Seven-Flower Pills, which Ghost Fox Douluo recognized as a dangerous poison made with poisonous insects and herbs.
• Ying Mi explained that a dispute over a missing concubine had brought twenty thousand soldiers from each empire to Longxing Fortress, and Qian Chongling rejected mediation.
• Qian Chongling left the six Spirit Hall leaders to discuss the remaining matters, and Ying Mi invited them to continue at the Martial Soul Hotel.

Two years later, Bibi Dong fought as a prisoner-slave in the Heaven Dou Empire’s campaign against the Star Luo Empire near Longxing Fortress. During a night assault, she sought a powerful opponent to test herself against, and a Star Luo soldier’s attack abruptly stopped her advance.

• Ge Tian told Meng Yue that the Heaven Dou army would attack the Star Luo reserves that night and use the prisoner-slaves as the vanguard.
• Bibi Dong remained quietly among the prisoner-slaves as the war drums summoned them to battle.
• The prisoner-slaves advanced on the Star Luo camp, and Bibi Dong joined the fighting after three months in the camp and a thousand kills.
• Bibi Dong decided to seek a stronger opponent and walked toward the center of the battlefield.
• A Star Luo soldier thrust his spear at Bibi Dong, but a silver line flashed and his body froze as she continued onward.

Bibi Dong cut through Star Luo Empire soldiers on the battlefield and confronted Zhao Yuan, commander of their troops, to test her strength. After easily evading his attacks, she accepted his demand for a direct contest of strength, leaving Zhao Yuan enraged and ready to fight without his club.

• Bibi Dong killed the Star Luo soldiers who tried to stop her, while a young soldier ran past her calling for his big brother and others to wait.
• Bibi Dong approached Zhao Yuan as he fought the Heaven Dou army, and the Heaven Dou soldiers withdrew when she claimed him as her opponent.
• Zhao Yuan introduced himself and questioned Bibi Dong, who explained that she had come to test whether she was weak or her teacher was too strong.
• Bibi Dong dodged Zhao Yuan's club and punch, then pressed the Ice-Clear Blue Jade Sword to the back of his neck and told him he was too slow to threaten her.
• Zhao Yuan demanded a head-on contest of strength, and Bibi Dong agreed before he tossed aside his spiked club in anger.

Bibi Dong tested her techniques against Zhao Yuan during the battle, easily breaking his Thunderfall Fist and demonstrating her control by leaving him unharmed. She told him that hurting her would end the test and earn her teacher’s help in winning the war, and Zhao Yuan attacked again as she began evaluating his improvement.

• Zhao Yuan activated his Martial Soul and attacked Bibi Dong with his fifth Soul Skill, Thunderfall Fist, but she dodged and identified its weaknesses.
• Bibi Dong struck Zhao Yuan’s wrist to break his technique, then trapped him with her Snowstorm Rasengan and blasted him into the soldiers without injuring him.
• Bibi Dong explained that she had dispersed the Rasengan’s power before impact and revealed that she was testing techniques; if Zhao Yuan could hurt her, her teacher would help him win the war.
• Enraged, Zhao Yuan charged Bibi Dong again with Thunderfall Fist, and she praised his improved power and speed before meeting his punch with her own.

Bibi Dong fought Zhao Yuan until the Heaven Dou Empire sounded a retreat, then returned to its formation. Ge Tian offered Zhao Yuan and his exhausted Star Luo Empire troops a chance to surrender, but Zhao Yuan refused; Ge Tian then revealed a captive the soldiers recognized as A Feng.

• Bibi Dong repeatedly struck Zhao Yuan and continued their fight until the Heaven Dou Empire sounded the retreat gong.
• Bibi Dong left the battlefield, while Zhao Yuan noticed that the Heaven Dou formation was withdrawing in good order and suspected something was wrong.
• Ge Tian rode to Zhao Yuan’s formation and offered the surrounded Star Luo Empire soldiers a chance to surrender.
• Zhao Yuan rejected Ge Tian’s offer and returned toward camp, declaring that Star Luo Empire soldiers did not surrender.
• Ge Tian had two soldiers bring out a chained captive, whom the Star Luo soldiers recognized as A Feng, the man they thought had gone to seek reinforcements.

After learning that the Star Luo Empire had abandoned them, Zhao Yuan refused to surrender and watched Ge Tian kill A Feng before the Heaven Dou army attacked. The next morning, Bibi Dong found the soldiers’ burial ground burned, then agreed to send the convict slaves who had followed her to work at Illusory Dream’s Rouge Pavilion.

• A Feng told Zhao Yuan that Lin Yuanfeng and the Star Luo Empire had abandoned their forces, but Zhao Yuan refused to surrender.
• Ge Tian killed A Feng, and the Heaven Dou troops advanced on the Star Luo camp.
• Bibi Dong reflected on her battlefield experiences and left the camp, believing her training’s purpose had been fulfilled.
• Bibi Dong and Mad Rhino Douluo searched Crescent Canyon for the fallen soldiers but found their burial ground scorched by fire.
• Twenty-odd convict slaves asked to follow Bibi Dong, and she accepted Mad Rhino Douluo’s suggestion to arrange work for them at Illusory Dream’s Rouge Pavilion.

Three years later, Bibi Dong told Qian Chongling that she had spared a child during her assault on the Black Dragon Stronghold because she could not bring herself to kill him. She also admitted she avoided using her martial soul because she found its spider-like form ugly, so Qian Chongling promised to help her obtain a new martial soul.

• Bibi Dong reflected on the Black Dragon Stronghold incident, and Qian Chongling rebuked her for hesitating to kill a child who had benefited from the bandits' crimes.
• Bibi Dong recalled how she had wiped out the Black Dragon Stronghold and beheaded its Soul King chief after learning of the bandits' atrocities.
• Qian Chongling asked why Bibi Dong had fought without using her martial soul, and she replied that its possessed form was too ugly.
• Qian Chongling remembered Bibi Dong's spider-like martial soul form and decided to use a foul-tempered martial soul from his sign-in gift pack.
• Qian Chongling told Bibi Dong that her training journey had ended and promised to help her obtain a new martial soul the next day.

Qian Chongling considered why the Rakshasa God had provoked the Asura God without consequences and concluded they might have been lovers quarreling. He grew upset as he imagined the gods conspiring against Spirit Hall and Bibi Dong.

• Bibi Dong slept in her room at the Star-Moon Hotel while Qian Chongling pondered the relationship between the Rakshasa God and the Asura God.
• Qian Chongling recalled how the Rakshasa God had sabotaged Tang Chen and placed her inheritance in Slaughter City without the Asura God retaliating.
• He considered how the Rakshasa God had delayed Bibi Dong's trials while the Asura God and Sea God raised Tang San as their successor.
• Qian Chongling theorized that the Rakshasa God and Asura God had been lovers whose feud had led them to scheme against Spirit Hall.
• Qian Chongling's face darkened as he imagined the gods' plans and Bibi Dong's role in them.

Qian Chongling abandoned the idea of approaching the Rakshasa God and reasoned that exposing Third Brother’s true nature could block the Asura God from choosing him. He sent Bibi Dong into the Torch Dragon Secret Realm to face a trial for a new Martial Soul whose strength and godhood depended on the projection’s favor.

• Qian Chongling decided the Rakshasa God was too closely tied to the Asura God to be a safe ally and crossed her off his list.
• Qian Chongling concluded that the Asura God could not pass on his godhood if Third Brother revealed a nature incompatible with its rules.
• Bibi Dong entered Qian Chongling’s room, and he instructed her to step into a magic array, break the crystal around the Jade Pendant, and pour her Soul Power into it.
• Bibi Dong crushed the crystal and activated the pendant, disappearing into the Torch Dragon Secret Realm.
• Qian Chongling watched her departure and worried as he explained that the Torch Dragon Martial Soul’s grade and godhood depended on whether its projection favored her.

Bibi Dong faced the Torch Dragon’s trial and received its power after answering what she most desired. Her return unleashed an overwhelming aura that frightened the beings guarding the Angel, Sea God, Slaughter, and Dragon God inheritances across Douluo Continent.

• The Torch Dragon asked Bibi Dong what she wanted most, and she first answered that she wanted most people to have enough food and warm clothing.
• After the Torch Dragon rejected her first answer, Bibi Dong recalled her memories with her teacher and blurted out her resentment toward another woman.
• Bibi Dong gave her final answer, passed the trial, and received a Torch Dragon mark despite using all three chances.
• Bibi Dong returned to the Star-Moon Hotel, where a colossal Torch Dragon phantom erupted behind her and its aura swept across Douluo Continent.
• Qian Daoliu, Bo Saixi, and the King of Slaughter sensed their sacred weapons trembling, while the Silver Dragon King and Di Tian felt fear beneath the Lake of Life.

Bibi Dong gained a Torch Dragon Martial Soul and a God Official-level inheritance that she could improve over time. After testing her new armor and increased power, she sparred with Qian Chongling for training.

• Qian Chongling learned that Bibi Dong had received a Torch Dragon inheritance, and she explained that its divine position was currently at the God Official level but could be raised later.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Chongling that the Torch Dragon Martial Soul had swallowed her two spider-type Martial Souls and their Soul Rings, leaving her with Soul Power above rank fifty but no Soul Rings.
• Bibi Dong used Torch Dragon Possession and transformed the Torch Dragon into black-and-purple armor with bladed wings.
• Bibi Dong attacked Qian Chongling, who estimated that her strength and speed had increased by roughly thirty to forty percent.
• Qian Chongling began sparring with Bibi Dong and coached her to focus her punches and conserve her strength and Soul Power.

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.