Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong traveled to Heaven Dou Imperial City with Su Mo, planning to win Dugu Bo’s loyalty by curing the Azure Phosphorus Clan’s Blue Phosphorous Poison with a Spirit Bone. After arriving, she spent the afternoon sightseeing with Su Mo while Yue Guan and Gui Mei secretly protected them, leaving her plan to approach Dugu Bo for later.

• Bibi Dong determined that she could recruit Dugu Bo by using a Spirit Bone to draw the Blue Phosphorous Poison out of his family’s bodies.
• Bibi Dong obtained a thousand-year Spirit Bone from Spirit Hall and arranged a trip to Heaven Dou Imperial City with Su Mo and Salas.
• Qian Xunji sent Yue Guan and Gui Mei to protect Bibi Dong and Su Mo on their journey.
• Bibi Dong and the convoy arrived at Heaven Dou Imperial City, where she left the escort and took Su Mo to explore the city.
• Bibi Dong sampled local food and browsed shops and stalls with Su Mo while Yue Guan and Gui Mei guarded them from the shadows.

Bibi Dong visited Dugu Bo with Su Mo, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei, intending to recruit him by offering help with the Blue Phosphorous Poison afflicting his family. Dugu Bo became interested when she revealed that she knew his son Dugu Xin’s condition and asked whether Spirit Hall could cure the poison.

• Bibi Dong took Su Mo, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei to Dugu Manor and requested an audience with Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo welcomed the Spirit Hall Saintess and her companions into his manor and brought them to the guest hall.
• Bibi Dong told Dugu Bo she had come to help him and admitted that recruiting him was one of her goals.
• Bibi Dong revealed that she knew Dugu Xin’s Blue Phosphorous Poison had begun to flare up.
• Dugu Bo asked whether Spirit Hall had found a way to remove the poison, saying his clan might submit if the cure worked.

Bibi Dong persuaded Dugu Bo that a Spirit Bone could contain the Azure Phosphorus Clan’s Blue Phosphorous Poison and gave him one, winning his pledge of loyalty. Su Mo realized Bibi Dong had come to recruit Dugu Bo and seek the Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Bibi Dong explained that the Azure Phosphorus Clan’s Blue Phosphorous Poison could be forced into a Spirit Bone, protecting their bodies from its effects.
• Dugu Bo worried that his clan had no Spirit Bones, but Bibi Dong revealed a thousand-year Gale Wind Leopard Right Arm Bone.
• Bibi Dong gave Dugu Bo the Spirit Bone, and he knelt and pledged his loyalty to her.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei privately questioned whether Dugu Bo was worth the gift, but remained silent.
• Su Mo concluded that Bibi Dong had come to recruit Dugu Bo and obtain Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Bibi Dong confirmed that Spirit Bones could cure the Blue Phosphorous Clan’s poison and secured Dugu Bo’s cooperation. He led her, Su Mo, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Yue Guan spotted a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

• Dugu Bo had his son fuse with a Spirit Bone and confirmed that it could draw out the Blue Phosphorous Poison.
• Bibi Dong spoke privately with Dugu Bo, then asked him to take the group to his medicinal garden in Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo led the group through his poisonous traps and up the mountain to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Su Mo and the others saw the spring’s crimson and icy blue waters, while Yue Guan recognized a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum beside it.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei discovered a garden of rare spiritual herbs beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, including the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum. Bibi Dong promised them herbs in exchange for keeping the garden secret, and they agreed to align themselves with her.

• Yue Guan recognized the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, and Gui Mei realized that legendary Immortal Spiritual Herbs existed.
• Yue Guan identified the garden’s rare herbs for Dugu Bo and Bibi Dong, then apologized for taking over the introductions.
• Bibi Dong said she intended to use the herbs, and Yue Guan asked her to give him the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Bibi Dong promised the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to Yue Guan and another Immortal Spiritual Herb to Gui Mei, provided they kept the discovery from Spirit Hall.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei agreed to conceal the garden and its herbs from Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong gathered Yue Guan and Gui Mei into her faction by sharing the Immortal Spiritual Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After distributing rare herbs to her allies, she gave Su Mo an Aromatic Silk Beauty, leaving him stunned by its significance.

• Bibi Dong explained the powers of Immortal Spiritual Herbs to Dugu Bo, who regretted not asking for some but kept his promise.
• Bibi Dong harvested nearly all the Immortal Spiritual Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after reaching an agreement with Yue Guan and Gui Mei.
• Bibi Dong gave Yue Guan a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Gui Mei an Ink Jade Star Moon Epiphyllum, and Dugu Bo an Azure Jade Serpent Orchid and a Nine Rank Purple Ganoderma.
• Dugu Bo gratefully accepted the herbs, while Su Mo recalled that Tang San had once taken every herb from Dugu Bo's garden without giving him anything in return.
• Bibi Dong handed Su Mo an Aromatic Silk Beauty, and he recognized it as a legendary herb comparable to Lovesick Heartbreak Red.

Su Mo refused Bibi Dong’s Aromatic Silk Beauty and chose the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot instead, proposing that he use them with the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After a Soul Beast survived the experiment and gained power, Bibi Dong allowed Su Mo to try the herbs himself.

• Su Mo persuaded Bibi Dong to keep the Aromatic Silk Beauty and let him select other Immortal Spiritual Herbs.
• Su Mo chose the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot and explained his plan to combine their energies with the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Bibi Dong tested Su Mo’s theory by feeding both herbs to an ape-like Soul Beast and throwing it into the well; it survived and its cultivation increased greatly.
• Bibi Dong killed the Soul Beast after its successful test and agreed to let Su Mo try the herbs.
• Su Mo consumed portions of both herbs and prepared to jump into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Dugu Bo consumed Immortal Spiritual Herbs, with Yue Guan gaining the most cultivation and Dugu Bo’s martial soul evolving. Bibi Dong concealed most of her gains by consuming three herbs while at level fifty-nine, and remained at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well caring for Su Mo as the others went to hunt a Soul Beast.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei consumed their Immortal Spiritual Herbs, raising their cultivation from level eighty-two to levels eighty-seven and eighty-five respectively.
• Dugu Bo consumed Azure Jade Serpent Orchid, reached level eighty, and evolved his martial soul into the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.
• Bibi Dong sent Yue Guan and Gui Mei with Dugu Bo to the Star Dou Great Forest to help him hunt a Soul Beast while she stayed with Su Mo.
• After Su Mo left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Bibi Dong explained that she had consumed Aromatic Silk Beauty at level fifty-nine so most of its cultivation increase would appear after she absorbed a Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong consumed Dark Night Beauty and Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, gaining benefits for her martial souls and spiritual power while keeping her visible increase to one level.

After gaining the Soul Devour skill and returning to Spirit City, Su Mo rose to Soul King over two years while hunting evil Soul Masters, and Bibi Dong quietly prepared to seize control of Spirit Hall. Her apparent closeness to Yu Xiaogang finally provoked Qian Xunji, who summoned her.

• Su Mo absorbed a Soul Devouring Beast's Soul Ring and gained Soul Devour, then left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Bibi Dong while resolving to return for the Ice Fire Dragon King's remnant souls when he was stronger.
• Su Mo returned to Spirit City and trained; over the next two years, he joined Spirit Hall's Enforcement Team, hunted Fallen Soul Masters and Evil Soul Masters, and advanced to Soul King.
• Bibi Dong kept her cultivation quiet and plotted to eliminate Qian Xunji and take control of Spirit Hall, while using Yu Xiaogang's humiliation and ambition to keep him close.
• Yu Xiaogang became obsessed with his Martial Soul Theory persona despite Spirit Hall's contempt, believing that Bibi Dong could help him prove himself and return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan with honor.
• Qian Xunji could no longer tolerate Bibi Dong's apparent intimacy with Yu Xiaogang and sent someone to summon her.

Bibi Dong pretended to accept Qian Xunji’s proof that Yu Xiaogang had deceived her, persuading Qian Xunji to drive him out of Spirit City. After Qian Xunji left, she began a long-prepared plan to ensure Qian Renxue’s birth.

• Bibi Dong told Qian Xunji she had fallen in love with Yu Xiaogang, and he angrily accused her of becoming his girlfriend.
• Qian Xunji showed Bibi Dong evidence that Yu Xiaogang had plagiarized Spirit Hall’s knowledge, and she acted devastated.
• Bibi Dong asked Qian Xunji to drive Yu Xiaogang away without telling him she knew the truth, and Qian Xunji left to confront him.
• Once alone, Bibi Dong secretly drugged Qian Xunji’s tea in Pope’s Hall and his study with a gradual aphrodisiac that required a perfume catalyst.
• Bibi Dong revealed that her plan, involving a maid who resembled her, was meant to ensure Qian Renxue would be born.

Qian Xunji confronted Yu Xiaogang over his theories and his relationship with Bibi Dong, then ordered him beaten and sent to the Hall of Punishment. Yu Xiaogang was left barely alive, with further torture awaiting him.

• Qian Xunji led Spirit Hall Soul Masters to Yu Xiaogang's residence and forced their way inside.
• Qian Xunji accused Yu Xiaogang of plagiarizing Spirit Hall knowledge and trying to lure away Bibi Dong, and said he had imprisoned her in Pope's Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang denied trying to abduct Bibi Dong and claimed his research would benefit commoner Soul Masters, but Qian Xunji rejected his explanation.
• Qian Xunji ordered his Soul Masters to beat Yu Xiaogang until he was nearly dead, then had a healing-type Soul Master keep him alive.
• Qian Xunji ordered Yu Xiaogang taken to the Hall of Punishment for torture and left, citing his ties to Yu Yuanzhen as the reason he would not kill him outright.

Bibi Dong’s scheme led Qian Xunji to sleep with his maid, who later gave birth to a daughter. Bibi Dong named the child Qian Renxue, and the baby responded with laughter.

• Qian Xunji learned that Bibi Dong had left Pope’s Hall without incident and then handled Spirit Hall’s affairs.
• Bibi Dong’s maid, wearing perfume that triggered the aphrodisiac in Qian Xunji’s doctored tea, entered his room, and Qian Xunji carried her to his bed.
• Qian Xunji woke beside the maid, decided to keep the night’s events quiet, and dismissed his suspicions after checking his food and tea.
• Bibi Dong’s fertility medicine helped the maid become pregnant, and ten months later the maid gave birth to a daughter.
• Bibi Dong persuaded Qian Xunji to let her name the baby Qian Renxue, and the infant opened her eyes and laughed at Bibi Dong.

After being released from Spirit City, Yu Xiaogang blamed Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall for his suffering and set off for Heaven Dou Imperial City. Three years later, Qian Renxue was being raised by Bibi Dong and Su Mo, while Bibi Dong’s plans to eliminate Qian Xunji were nearing fruition.

• Qian Xunji had Yu Xiaogang treated before throwing him out of Spirit City after days of torture.
• Yu Xiaogang resented Spirit Hall and Bibi Dong, then limped toward Heaven Dou Imperial City, where he later met Flender and Liu Erlong and became their sworn sibling.
• Qian Renxue was born, and Qian Xunji let Bibi Dong raise her and become her godmother at Bibi Dong’s insistence.
• Su Mo spent much of the next three years raising Qian Renxue with Bibi Dong, and his cultivation rose from the Soul King realm to the Soul Emperor realm.
• Bibi Dong monitored Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Ah Yin and found that the opportunity to eliminate Qian Xunji was approaching.

Su Mo told Bibi Dong that Ah Yin had chosen Tang Hao over Tang Xiao, and Bibi Dong ordered him to shift Spirit Hall’s surveillance to Tang Hao and Ah Yin. Tang Xiao returned to the Clear Sky Sect, where Tang Zhen learned that Tang Hao had found a girlfriend and frowned.

• Su Mo read a letter reporting that Ah Yin had rejected Tang Xiao and gotten together with Tang Hao.
• Bibi Dong returned home, and Su Mo told her the news about the Tang brothers and Ah Yin.
• Bibi Dong asked Su Mo to stop watching Tang Xiao and focus on Tang Hao and Ah Yin.
• Tang Xiao returned to the Clear Sky Sect without Tang Hao and explained that his younger brother was still traveling.
• Tang Zhen summoned Tang Xiao and frowned when he heard that Tang Hao had found a girlfriend.

Tang Xiao tried to persuade Tang Zhen to accept Tang Hao’s relationship with Ah Yin, but he could not reveal that she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form. Tang Zhen demanded that Tang Hao bring Ah Yin to the Clear Sky Sect to prove her potential, leaving Tang Xiao kneeling and fearing her identity would be exposed.

• Tang Zhen scolded Tang Xiao for failing to stop Tang Hao from finding a girlfriend and explained that he intended to arrange advantageous marriages for his sons.
• Tang Xiao concealed his own feelings for Ah Yin and struggled to explain her background to Tang Zhen.
• Tang Xiao argued that Ah Yin’s talent would make her a Titled Douluo, but Tang Zhen questioned how she could reach that level without family or sect resources.
• Tang Zhen refused to approve the marriage unless Tang Hao brought Ah Yin to the Clear Sky Sect to demonstrate her potential.
• Tang Xiao remained on his knees, torn because bringing Ah Yin to the sect could expose her identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Tang Xiao helped Tang Hao and Ah Yin hide from Tang Zhen, then revealed Ah Yin’s identity to his father, who fainted in rage. The chapter ended with the author announcing plans to change how Spirit Hall discovered Ah Yin.

• Tang Xiao told Tang Zhen he would bring Tang Hao back, then secretly warned Tang Hao that their father opposed his relationship with Ah Yin.
• Tang Xiao advised Tang Hao and Ah Yin to hide and have a child, hoping Tang Zhen would eventually accept their relationship.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin agreed to the plan, and Tang Xiao left them with a few final reminders.
• Tang Xiao returned to the Clear Sky Sect and told Tang Zhen that Ah Yin was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form.
• Tang Zhen, fearing the damage to the Clear Sky Sect’s reputation, fainted in rage.
• The author explained that Spirit Hall’s discovery of Ah Yin seemed implausible and said they would provide a different explanation.

Su Mo learned that Tang Zhen opposed Tang Hao and Ah Yin’s marriage and questioned how Spirit Hall would eventually discover Ah Yin. A year later, after learning Tang Hao had married Ah Yin and she was pregnant, Tang Zhen devised a plan after seeing Qian Xunji’s travel itinerary.

• Su Mo read a letter reporting that Tang Xiao had warned Tang Hao and Ah Yin to hide because Tang Zhen opposed their marriage.
• Su Mo considered why Spirit Hall would later discover Ah Yin, then decided to wait and learn how events unfolded.
• Tang Zhen worried that Ah Yin’s identity would endanger the Clear Sky Sect and resolved to break up her marriage to Tang Hao.
• A year later, Tang Zhen received Tang Hao’s letter announcing his marriage to Ah Yin and her pregnancy, and crushed it in anger.
• Tang Zhen noticed a report listing Qian Xunji’s upcoming travels and suddenly conceived a plan.

Tang Zhen learned that Tang Hao and Ah Yin were in Fanos Province and arranged support for their approaching birth, while Su Mo reached level seventy and entered Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for his Seventh Soul Ring. Su Mo chose to seek a high-cultivation Mantis-Type Soul Beast, despite Yue Guan questioning that choice.

• Tang Zhen persuaded Tang Hao's messenger to reveal that Tang Hao and Ah Yin were in Fanos Province, then planned to send midwives and healing Support-Type Soul Masters to Lanxia City.
• Tang Zhen wrote to Tang Hao, agreeing to accept his marriage to Ah Yin and instructing him to wait half a month before bringing her to Lanxia City.
• Su Mo continued monitoring Tang Hao and Ah Yin's situation through Bibi Dong's attention but did not know what their letters contained.
• After another year of cultivation, Su Mo broke through to level seventy and traveled with Yue Guan and Gui Mei to Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for his Seventh Soul Ring.
• Su Mo told Yue Guan he intended to hunt a high-cultivation Mantis-Type Soul Beast, and Yue Guan questioned why its type mattered for a Martial Soul Avatar ring.

Su Mo searched the Star Dou Great Forest with Yue Guan and Gui Mei for a powerful Mantis Soul Beast whose Soul Ring could give his Death God Scythe a Spirit Avatar. Atop a Dead Volcano, they found Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender fighting a giant Crimson Lizard with a Golden Dragon.

• Su Mo explained his theory that a tool Martial Soul Master could gain a Spirit Avatar by absorbing a Seventh Soul Ring from a Soul Beast with similar traits.
• Su Mo, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei searched the Star Dou Great Forest for three days but found no Mantis Soul Beast with cultivation above fifty thousand years.
• The three spotted a Dead Volcano and headed there, hoping its unusual terrain would harbor a powerful Blazing Blast Blade Mantis.
• As they neared the summit, a Golden Dragon appeared above the forest and attacked a giant Crimson Lizard.
• Su Mo reached the summit and recognized Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender standing in formation against the Crimson Lizard.

Su Mo encountered Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender while they fought a Ten Thousand Year Flame Earthwalking Dragon, and considered how he could use his planned rebirth script to disrupt Liu Erlong’s relationship with Yu Xiaogang. When the dragon entered its Berserk State and overwhelmed the Golden Iron Triangle, Su Mo ordered Yue Guan to save them.

• Su Mo recognized the Golden Iron Triangle and decided he needed to monitor their relationship’s progress to choose the right moment to implant Liu Erlong’s rebirth script.
• Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender used their Golden Sacred Dragon fusion skill to push back the Flame Earthwalking Dragon.
• The Flame Earthwalking Dragon awakened its Berserk State, greatly increasing its strength and resistance to the Golden Sacred Dragon’s suppression.
• The berserk dragon charged the three, and their Golden Sacred Dragon could not stop it.
• Su Mo told Yue Guan to rescue Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender.