Chapter Summaries

After Dai Mubai was restrained and Dai Yutian was ordered imprisoned, Cao De was brought back gravely wounded from his mission to Star Luo Prison. His companions learned his injuries were treatable, but the doctor also said he had excessive yang kidney energy, while Zhu Zhuqing remained alone at his bedside.

• Xiao Leng identified Dai Mubai as Dai Yutian's son, and Xiao Lingmeng ordered Dai Yutian imprisoned and Dai Mubai assigned to care for him.
• Shadow carried the bloodied Cao De to the Spirit Hall Branch, where Wu Chen summoned doctors to treat him.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Shui Bing'er, and Huo Wu learned that Cao De was hurt and rushed to the main hall, where they found him badly wounded.
• The doctors stopped Cao De's bleeding and said he should recover in a little over ten days, while warning that his abundant yang kidney energy needed daily release.
• Wu Chen told Zhu Zhuqing that Cao De had gone to Star Luo Prison to rescue someone, and Shui Bing'er pulled Huo Wu outside so Zhu Zhuqing could be alone with him.

Zhu Zhuqing confessed her feelings to the unconscious Cao De, then tried to deny them when he woke and teased her. After noticing him steaming as he circulated the Great Sun Heart Method, she locked the room and decided to help him, leaving Cao De confused.

• Zhu Zhuqing reminisced to Cao De about how she had come to like him and how he had become someone she could lean on.
• Cao De woke and teased Zhu Zhuqing about what she had said, but she stubbornly denied her feelings and tried to leave.
• When Cao De cried out after the wine bottles touched his injured arm, Zhu Zhuqing hurried back and agreed to stay beside him for the night.
• Cao De circulated the Great Sun Heart Method, and Zhu Zhuqing mistook the steam rising from his body for a sign of excessive kidney yang energy.
• Zhu Zhuqing locked the door, drew the curtains, and told the bewildered Cao De that she would help him.

After recovering from the previous night’s injuries, Cao De learned that Xiao Lingmeng had arrived with an army to see him. Xiao Lingmeng teased him at his bedside, and the chapter ended with Zhu Zhuqing asking who she was.

• Zhu Zhuqing left Cao De after wrapping herself in a black robe, and he rested until dawn.
• Four doctors examined Cao De and said he would recover in less than seven days, while Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er discussed helping him.
• Wu Chen told Cao De that Xiao Lingmeng had surrounded the Branch Hall with an army and demanded to see him.
• Cao De tried to send Xiao Lingmeng away, but she entered, poked his wound, and teased him.
• Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, Huo Wu, Wu Chen, and the doctors left Cao De alone with Xiao Lingmeng and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Lingmeng joked that Cao De's maid had called her Mistress, and Zhu Zhuqing asked who she was.

Cao De rejected Xiao Lingmeng’s offer to marry him and take over the Star Luo Empire, demanding the information promised in their partnership instead. After Li Hu confessed that the emperor had ordered his kidnapping over the missing Star Luo Empire Pearl, Cao De concluded that the pearl was the Blood Pearl he had been searching for and that it was no longer in the palace.

• Xiao Lingmeng admitted she had fallen for Cao De and hinted that she might kill the women around him, so Cao De warned her that their relationship had only been a partnership.
• Xiao Lingmeng offered to marry Cao De and help him become emperor, but he refused and insisted that he only wanted answers; she promised to give him information at the palace the next day.
• After Xiao Lingmeng left, Zhu Zhuqing called her dangerous, while Xiao Lingmeng asked Xiao Leng how to kill a Titled Douluo so she could keep Cao De.
• Wu Chen told Cao De that Li Hu had confessed, and Cao De went to the interrogation room to question him.
• Li Hu confessed that he was a Star Luo Empire spy and that the emperor had ordered him to abduct Cao De because the object Cao De sought resembled the missing Star Luo Empire Pearl.
• Li Hu said Zhu Jiqing of the Zhu Family had stolen the pearl and that the emperor had arrested the Zhu Family to force Zhu Jiqing out; Cao De concluded the pearl was the Blood Pearl and had already left the palace.

Zhu Zhuqing learned that Xiao Lingmeng planned to marry Cao De and keep him imprisoned, so she went to the palace to confront her. When Xiao Lingmeng threatened to kill Cao De’s other women, memories of Zhu Zhuqing’s kindness from their childhood began to calm her.

• Cao De ordered Wu Chen to investigate Zhu Jiqing and prepare a carriage.
• Zhu Zhuqing met Xiao Leng at the palace gates and learned that Meow Meow had died and Cao De had been badly injured saving Xiao Lingmeng.
• Xiao Leng told Zhu Zhuqing that Xiao Lingmeng was preparing for her coronation and intended to marry Cao De the next day.
• Zhu Zhuqing found Xiao Lingmeng overseeing the palace preparations and warned her that her plans would not work.
• Xiao Lingmeng said she would kill Cao De’s other women, but seeing Zhu Zhuqing reminded her of the kindness Zhu Zhuqing had shown her as a child.

Zhu Zhuqing visited Xiao Lingmeng and shared her troubled friend's tragic past with Cao De, asking him to show leniency if possible. Before they parted, Zhu Zhuqing and Cao De spent an intimate afternoon together, and she later insisted it would not happen again.

• Xiao Lingmeng dismissed Zhu Zhuqing from the Main Hall, and Xiao Leng escorted her out after sensing Xiao Lingmeng's deadly warning.
• Zhu Zhuqing returned to Cao De and told him how Xiao Lingmeng had been her childhood friend before Meow Meow's death changed her.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Cao De to forgive Xiao Lingmeng if possible, and he promised to handle the situation.
• Zhu Zhuqing said she would resolve matters with the Zhu Family and then wait for Cao De at Shrek.
• Cao De carried Zhu Zhuqing into his Living Quarters, where she tried to suppress her sounds until she eventually fell asleep, exhausted.
• Afterward, Zhu Zhuqing declared that their intimacy had only been repayment and that there would be no next time.

Cao De received system compensation after suspecting the system had withheld Emotion Points, then used soul-ring upgrade cards to raise all four of his rings to the hundred-thousand-year level. He also investigated Zhu Jiqing and prepared to leave, ending the chapter as he found Shui Bing'er, Huo Wu, and Shui Yue'er looking at an illustrated book.

• Cao De discovered that his system showed only 26 Emotion Points, prompting a hidden girl to spend points on items and issue him compensation for a repaired system bug.
• Cao De received soul-ring upgrade cards, a skill upgrade card, 1000 Emotion Points, and a Poké Ball, then asked the system about restoring a martial soul and obtaining a short-legged cat.
• Wu Chen gave Cao De information about Zhu Jiqing, who had vanished after stealing the Star Luo Treasure, and said he was suspected to be a Titled Douluo.
• Cao De used the upgrade cards to turn all four of his soul rings into hundred-thousand-year rings and comprehended Ring Detonation, which he decided not to test.
• Cao De found Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu reading an illustrated book while Shui Yue'er tried to see it, and Shui Bing'er hid the book when he entered.

Cao De left Star Luo City after giving Xiao Lingmeng a farewell gift, and she discovered that the kitten inside helped soften her grief over Meow Meow. On the road, Cao De headed for the Sunset Forest, where he planned to seek the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while nearing a breakthrough to level 50.

• Cao De gave Wu Chen a box for Xiao Lingmeng and ordered him to keep investigating Zhu Jiqing as he departed with Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er.
• Shadow knocked out the Soul Masters Xiao Lingmeng had stationed outside the city, allowing Cao De's carriage to leave.
• Xiao Lingmeng arrived too late to catch Cao De, received his letter and a sphere, and summoned a kitten by dripping blood onto it.
• Xiao Lingmeng recalled killing other kittens after Meow Meow died, but the new kitten calmly nuzzled her, so she took it home and asked Xiao Leng to buy powdered milk.
• Cao De chose the Sunset Forest as his destination and realized the second image in his mind showed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well; his soul power had reached level 49.

Cao De entered the Sunset Forest with Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu while Shui Yue'er stayed behind with the coachman and secretly read her sister’s illustrated book. After avoiding a powerful Titled Douluo, Cao De found a dying Blue Silver Emperor in a cave and realized it was Ah Yin.

• Cao De left Shui Yue'er with the coachman outside the Sunset Forest and placed a Remote Sensing Mark on her for protection.
• Shui Yue'er secretly read the explicit illustrated book Jade Turn while Cao De led Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu into the forest.
• Shadow warned Cao De that a Titled Douluo stronger than her was nearby, so Cao De changed course to avoid the stranger.
• Cao De, Shui Bing'er, and Huo Wu played by a river and discovered a cave containing a wilted blue silver grass.
• Cao De saw golden light flash from the plant and recognized it as the Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin.

Cao De discovered that the wilted Blue Silver Emperor was Ah Yin and rescued her from Tang Hao’s neglect by transplanting her into a specialized flowerpot. He left Sunset Forest with Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er, while Yu Xiaogang later arrived at the cave in an urgent and embarrassing predicament.

• Cao De examined Ah Yin and realized Tang Hao had left her parched, overwatered with alcohol, and repeatedly uprooted.
• Cao De bought a Robust Brand Flowerpot and used high-grade fertilizer to transplant Ah Yin, whose foliage responded to his touch.
• Cao De left the cave with Ah Yin, Huo Wu, and Shui Bing'er, heading deeper into Sunset Forest to avoid Tang Hao.
• Hours later, Yu Xiaogang hurried toward the cave while desperately trying to hold in his bowels.
• Liu Erlong and Vlad emerged from the bushes, and Liu Erlong asked Yu Xiaogang what was wrong as he reached the cave entrance.

Yu Xiaogang found a Blue Silver Emperor leaf in a cave and began boasting about his discovery to Liu Erlong and Flender. Tang Hao arrived, attacked him, and demanded to know where Ah Yin was, leaving Liu Erlong and Flender facing Tang Hao’s nine Soul Rings.

• Yu Xiaogang entered the cave, relieved himself, and uncovered a withered leaf that he identified as belonging to the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Yu Xiaogang showed the leaf to Liu Erlong and Flender and bragged about finding the rare soul beast.
• Tang Hao heard Yu Xiaogang’s claim, rushed to the cave, and slammed him against a wall while demanding to know where Ah Yin was.
• Liu Erlong tried to calm Tang Hao, but his soul power restrained her, and Flender prepared to intervene.
• Tang Hao revealed his nine Soul Rings, including a dazzling red ninth ring, and challenged Flender to fight.

Tang Hao confronted Yu Xiaogang in the cave, demanding to know what happened to Ah Yin, and nearly killed him before Yu Xiaogang claimed he could find the missing Blue Silver Emperor. Tang Hao took Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flaide toward the Core Area of Sunset Forest, while Yu Xiaogang secretly planned to turn a Titled Douluo against Tang Hao.

• Tang Hao used his Fifth Soul Skill to pin Flaide and Liu Erlong, then seized Yu Xiaogang and demanded to know where Ah Yin was.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted he had never seen the Blue Silver Emperor and proved he had only entered the cave to relieve himself.
• After deciding Yu Xiaogang was useless, Tang Hao prepared to kill him, but Yu Xiaogang claimed the Blue Silver Emperor had likely been taken to the Core Area of Sunset Forest.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to use his knowledge of blue silver grass to find Ah Yin, and Tang Hao ordered him to lead the way.
• Liu Erlong followed Tang Hao instead of comforting Yu Xiaogang, while Yu Xiaogang secretly planned to join forces with the Titled Douluo guarding the Core Area and kill Tang Hao.

Ling Yun revealed that he had hired Dugu Bo to watch the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while he sought the Blood Pearl. Cao De and his companions crossed the Poison Miasma, recruited Dugu Bo with a promise to cure him and Dugu Yan, and reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Cao De hesitated to dive in.

• Ling Yun told Red Face that he had arranged for Dugu Bo to guard the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in exchange for treatment.
• Cao De gave his companions Detoxification Pills and had Shadow protect Ah Yin so they could cross the Poison Miasma.
• Dugu Bo tried to stop Cao De's group, but Shadow restrained him, and Cao De offered to cure the poison affecting Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan if Dugu Bo protected him.
• Dugu Bo agreed, and Cao De implanted a Servant Mark in him before leading the group toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Cao De sensed that the Blood Pearl lay beneath the well, but worried that diving into its opposing heat and cold would be dangerous.

Cao De entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to absorb its extreme energies, while Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu gathered Dugu Bo’s immortal herbs above. At the bottom, a red bead merged its energy with the well’s forces, and Cao De’s attempt to redirect the surging power into his bones left his spinal cord crushed.

• Cao De bought a One-Time Teleportation Mark, implanted it in Huo Wu, and told her and Shui Bing'er to stay behind before swallowing the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot and jumping into the well.
• Dugu Bo panicked at Cao De’s plunge, but Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er insisted their master would be fine, then Shui Bing'er borrowed his Wishful Treasure Pouch.
• Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu used her notes on harvesting methods to dig up Dugu Bo’s immortal herbs and store them in the pouch while Shadow kept Dugu Bo from intervening.
• Ah Yin moved her flowerpot into the well and fell in unnoticed as Cao De endured the red and blue energies and swam toward the bottom.
• A red bead flew into Cao De’s Thousand-Blade Demon Sword, adding its energy to the well’s forces; Cao De redirected the overwhelming power toward his spine, which was ground to powder.

Cao De endured repeated cycles of bone destruction and repair while Tang Hao arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and demanded Shui Bing’er's Wishful Treasure Pouch. Shadow and Dugu Bo fought Tang Hao, and Yu Xiaogang prepared to use a martial soul fusion skill to ambush him.

• Cao De repeatedly shattered and repaired his bones until they began to grow smooth and lustrous.
• Tang Hao arrived with Liu Erlong, Yu Xiaogang, and Flaide, and the group found the immortal herbs gone.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang Hao that the Blue Silver Emperor was inside Shui Bing’er's Wishful Treasure Pouch, prompting Tang Hao to demand it.
• Shadow attacked Tang Hao and trapped him in darkness, but he broke free with the Divine Slaughter's Domain and struck her down.
• Shadow compelled Dugu Bo to join the battle, and the two Titled Douluo attacked Tang Hao together.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Liu Erlong to use the Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then began chanting the Sun and Moon Radiance Golden Transformation.

Flaide beat Yu Xiaogang and tried to turn Tang Hao against him while Tang Hao gained the upper hand against Dugu Bo and Shadow. At the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Cao De finished absorbing the energy and discovered that Ah Yin was drawing power from the buried Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King, which could help her take human form again.

• Flaide kicked and beat Yu Xiaogang for proposing a sneak attack on Tang Hao, while Liu Erlong turned away instead of helping him.
• Flaide told Tang Hao that Yu Xiaogang had planned to ambush him, and Yu Xiaogang accused Flaide of hiding the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Tang Hao used his Eighth Soul Skill to overwhelm Dugu Bo and Shadow, then struck Shadow down as she tried to attack him.
• An icy voice forced Dugu Bo to rise and provoke Tang Hao, who charged him with his Fifth Soul Skill as Shadow attacked again.
• Cao De finished absorbing the energy in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found Ah Yin drawing energy from the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King, so he left her undisturbed and swam upward.

Cao De emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as Tang Hao attacked the group over the Blue Silver Emperor. After upgrading Magnetic Hand, Cao De seized control of Tang Hao’s Clear Sky Hammer, forcing Tang Hao to retreat.

• Tang Hao battered Dugu Bo and blocked Shadow’s attacks while toying with them.
• Cao De emerged from the lake, and Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er told him Tang Hao had attacked them and tried to steal the Wishful Treasure Pouch.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang Hao that Cao De carried the Blue Silver Emperor’s aura, prompting Tang Hao to accuse Cao De of taking Ah Yin from the cave.
• Cao De upgraded Magnetic Hand and provoked Tang Hao by asking whether the Clear Sky Hammer contained metal.
• Cao De dodged Tang Hao’s soul skills, then used Magnetic Hand to pull the Clear Sky Hammer from Tang Hao’s grasp.
• Tang Hao recalled the hammer into his body and chose to leave rather than fight Cao De further.

After driving Tang Hao away, Cao De recovered from his injuries and questioned Yu Xiaogang about his past with Bibi Dong. Yu Xiaogang’s tale shattered Liu Erlong’s last hopes, and Cao De sent him away unconscious with Flender.

• Cao De told Tang Hao to leave Yu Xiaogang and the others behind, and Tang Hao withdrew into the poison miasma before secretly escaping.
• Cao De ordered Shadow to check Dugu Bo, then collapsed from injuries sustained while resisting Tang Hao’s Mountain Suppression; Shui Bing’er gave him Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma, which restored him.
• Shadow stopped Flender from leaving with Liu Erlong, while Dugu Bo woke and began setting his broken bones.
• Cao De questioned Yu Xiaogang about his relationship with Bibi Dong, and Yu Xiaogang described them as former lovers torn apart by Qian Xunji.
• Liu Erlong’s heart broke as she listened, and Cao De had Flender take Yu Xiaogang away after knocking him unconscious.

Cao De asked Liu Erlong to guide him to a ten-thousand-year flying soul beast in Sunset Forest, while he arranged for Dugu Bo to guard the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. At a valley, the group found a sixty-thousand-year Cloud Fox Bat hunting red-and-blue-winged soul beasts with a clever ambush.

• Flaide carried the unconscious Yu Xiaogang into the poisonous miasma after Liu Erlong urged him to leave.
• Cao De asked Liu Erlong to guide him to a flying soul beast, then instructed Dugu Bo to guard the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and explained how to expel his poison with a soul bone.
• Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu gave Cao De the Wishful Treasure Pouch and told him they had dug up the immortal herbs.
• Liu Erlong led Cao De and the others to a valley and pointed out a Cloud Fox Bat's cave.
• Cao De and Liu Erlong watched the Cloud Fox Bat use smoke from a burning tree to ambush and swallow a swarm of red-and-blue-winged soul beasts.

Cao De captured the Cloud Fox Bat, transformed its Soul Ring into a hundred-thousand-year ring, and absorbed it as his fifth Soul Ring. He reached Soul Power level 55 and demonstrated his new spatial-travel Soul Skill, Blade Piercing.

• Shadow bound the Cloud Fox Bat, but it escaped with a teleportation skill before Liu Erlong stunned and brutally battered it into submission.
• Cao De summoned his Thousand-Blade Demon Sword and four hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, shocking Liu Erlong.
• Cao De used a red card to transform the Cloud Fox Bat’s black Soul Ring into a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, then absorbed it successfully.
• Cao De’s Soul Power rose to level 55 after he absorbed his fifth Soul Ring.
• Cao De demonstrated Blade Piercing, using Demon Blade Shards as wings to travel through space up to a thousand meters instantly.