Chapter Summaries

Hu Liena failed to understand the Jade Pot Ice Heart Art and became interested in Dai Mubai, while Oscar diligently studied a cookbook. Ma Hongjun discovered he had received a mysterious art and demonstrated it to Bibi Dong, whose mood changed as she joined his fiery dance in the Papal Hall.

• Hu Liena set aside the Jade Pot Ice Heart Art, welcomed Dai Mubai, and sent Yan away so she could spend time with him.
• Wang Qiye gave up on Hu Liena and watched Oscar study a cookbook and roast sausages.
• Ma Hongjun woke with a mysterious art and knowledge in his mind, then went to find Bibi Dong after learning Flender and Zhao Wuji were away.
• Ma Hongjun told Bibi Dong about the art but could not write it down, so he demonstrated it instead.
• Bibi Dong felt her mood lift as Ma Hongjun danced, drew closer, and joined him in the strange dance.

Ma Hongjun’s cultivation method caused him and Bibi Dong to act drunkenly, and their conversation about Yu Xiaogang enraged her. At the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang Hao pressured Tang San to reveal his cultivation method, while Yu Xiaogang tried to escape using Luo Sanpao’s corrosive farts.

• Ma Hongjun and Bibi Dong chatted foolishly under the cultivation method’s influence until Bibi Dong learned that Tang Hao had broken Yu Xiaogang’s leg and angrily sent Ma Hongjun away.
• Tang Hao asked Tang San where his unknown cultivation method came from, then pretended to leave when Tang San stayed silent.
• Tang San knelt and promised to tell Tang Hao about the method, while Da Ming and Er Ming worried that Tang Hao could not be trusted and Xiao Wu reassured them.
• Yu Xiaogang used fruit-fed Luo Sanpao’s dark-corrosive farts in an attempt to blast through his restraints, but the blasts sprayed him instead.

Qian Renxue set out for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to meet Wang Qiye, while Wang Qiye explained his Martial Dao Transcendence Plan and used Yu Yuanzhen as part of it. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang escaped through the Star Dou Great Forest and called out to a supposed Titled Douluo, drawing the attention of many scarlet-eyed creatures.

• Qian Renxue prepared a long procession of gift-laden carriages and departed Heaven Dou City for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Wang Qiye reviewed his disciples’ progress and recalled refusing the gods’ offers of divine positions because he believed ascension trapped them in the Divine Realm.
• Wang Qiye told Yu Yuanzhen that his disciples’ cultivation would strengthen his own path, then used the True Dragon Nine Crowns to make Yu Yuanzhen obey him.
• Yu Xiaogang used a naturally shed Sky Azure Bull Python scale to frighten off a King of the Earth and continued fleeing west through the forest.
• Yu Xiaogang found Soul Beast corpses and called out for a Titled Douluo, and scarlet eyes opened throughout the forest to watch him.

Wang Qiye purified the corrupted cats surrounding Yu Xiaogang, restoring Zhu Zhuqing to life in two bodies and explaining that her three-tailed Martial Soul gave her three lives. Zhu Zhuqing asked him to teach her to become stronger and avenge her death, but he told her to master control of both bodies before setting off for a cultivation gift he had prepared.

• Yu Xiaogang appealed to the shadowy Soul Master for help, but the confused, malicious beings around him considered eating him.
• Wang Qiye arrived and released golden power that purified the black cats and freed the souls trapped within them.
• The smoke from the purified cats gathered into two bodies, and Zhu Zhuqing awoke with three tails and memories of the cats’ final fear.
• Wang Qiye explained that Zhu Zhuqing had died once and could still die twice more, while warning that she had nearly lost herself to cultivation deviation.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Wang Qiye to help her grow strong enough to control her fate and kill Tang Hao, and he named her cultivation art the Nine Lives Profound Art of Penetrating the Netherworld.
• Wang Qiye told Zhu Zhuqing he had prepared a cultivation gift package to the west, then asked her to stay and learn to control both bodies before leaving.

Yu Xiaogang arrived at Spirit City in a battered state and was arrested after the guards dismissed his claim to be a Spirit Hall elder. Meanwhile, Tang Hao joined the Tang Sect and mastered the Mysterious Heaven Skill, while Bibi Dong continued searching for Yu Xiaogang.

• Ning Fengzhi prepared to receive Xue Beng at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and suspected the prince had come to court Ning Rongrong and Qiye.
• Yu Xiaogang reached Spirit City with all four limbs broken, but the guards mocked him, kicked him over, and eventually dragged him to the dungeon for impersonating a Spirit Hall elder.
• Dai Mubai and Hu Liena returned to Spirit Hall, where Bibi Dong dismissed the Titled Douluos after their search for clues about Yu Xiaogang had failed.
• Bibi Dong remembered her past with Yu Xiaogang and vowed to find him and help him fulfill his ambitions.
• Tang Hao formally joined the Tang Sect under Tang San and mastered the Mysterious Heaven Skill in the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Dragon-Tiger Ranking announced a level-zero contest where contestants would fight as consciousness entities, with nine winners receiving soul-power increases. As factions prepared to enter, Wang Qiye struggled to teach the Zhu Zhuqings while missing Ning Rongrong, whose exceptional comprehension he finally learned about.

• Ning Rongrong learned from Xue Qinghe that the Dragon-Tiger Ranking had already been released, and the rules promised nine winners soul-power increases for competing without soul power and without killing.
• Dugu Bo registered for the contest after learning that fighters would compete as consciousness entities, then offered to train Dugu Yan in fighting techniques when she said she could beat him.
• At Spirit Hall, Dai Mubai explained the contest’s consciousness-based fights and registration requirements, and Hu Liena promised Bibi Dong she would enter and win.
• Tang Xiao ordered the Clear Sky Sect members to register for the ranking while secretly keeping most Blacksmith Association funds flowing to the sect.
• Wang Qiye continued teaching the Zhu Zhuqings and learned that Ning Rongrong had unmatched comprehension, leaving him to wonder why the others struggled with his simplified cultivation methods.

Hu Liena confronted Ma Hongjun over his private meetings with Bibi Dong, and the argument escalated into a fight after Dai Mubai helped restrain him. Ma Hongjun’s ignorance fire overwhelmed both of them before Bibi Dong arrived and demanded an explanation.

• Hu Liena accused Ma Hongjun of doing something shameful with Bibi Dong, but he refused to explain their yoga cultivation practice.
• Hu Liena used her Charm soul skill and attacked Ma Hongjun, who tried to flee rather than fight her.
• Dai Mubai tripped Ma Hongjun, pinned him down, and declared that he had never considered him a teammate.
• Hu Liena used Demon Fox Transformation to charm Ma Hongjun, but ignorance fire in his consciousness broke the effect and he burst into flames.
• Ma Hongjun burned Dai Mubai’s hands to charcoal and resisted Hu Liena’s charm before advancing on her in a rage.
• Bibi Dong arrived, stopped Ma Hongjun, and asked Hu Liena to explain what had happened.

Bibi Dong accepted Hu Liena’s accusation and had Ma Hongjun imprisoned, where Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan oversaw his torture. Ma Hongjun recovered in secret and resolved to seize power, while Wang Qiye noticed his cultivation progress rising and continued correcting Zhu Zhuqing’s understanding of her clone.

• Hu Liena accused Ma Hongjun of attacking her, and Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to take him to prison under the rules.
• Yue Guan gagged Ma Hongjun and had jailers torture him, blaming him for Dai Mubai’s injuries.
• As Ma Hongjun endured the torture, his inner flames changed into distinct red and black halves, and he vowed to make his tormentors pay.
• After the jailers left, Ma Hongjun used red flames to heal most of his injuries and quietly waited for a chance to turn the tables.
• Wang Qiye wondered why Ma Hongjun’s cultivation progress was rising faster than Zhu Zhuqing’s, then summoned Zhu Zhuqing and told her she and her clone were one person.
• Zhu Zhuqing said she still thought her original body and clone could act independently, while her shadow voiced the same objection.

Xue Qinghe investigated Wang Qiye’s plans at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect while Ning Rongrong grew frustrated with his constant questions. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang Hao advanced in the Mysterious Heaven Skill, and Tang San prepared with him for the Dragon-Tiger Ranking after registration closed.

• Ning Rongrong accused Xue Qinghe of mocking her master’s money-losing project and stormed off to train.
• Xue Qinghe told Ci Xue Douluo that Wang Qiye’s plans could make the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Spirit Hall’s greatest enemy, then recorded his observations of the sect.
• Tang Hao successfully stirred his Soul Power with the Mysterious Heaven Skill and noticed that Tang San’s skills reminded him of Tang San’s mother.
• Tang San and Tang Hao saw the registration closure notice, and Tang Hao prepared for the Dragon-Tiger Ranking with a strategy in mind.

Ma Hongjun entered the Dragon-Tiger Ranking’s consciousness space and discovered that his Bhagavad Gita abilities still worked despite the loss of soul power. He won his first fight, while Qian Renxue and Ning Rongrong also advanced after defeating their opponents.

• Ma Hongjun uploaded his consciousness and found that he could use Martial Soul Possession but not Soul Skills or soul power.
• Ma Hongjun discovered that the red and black flames from the Bhagavad Gita remained active, then prepared for the first round of the Dragon-Tiger Ranking.
• Ma Hongjun dodged a spear-wielding opponent and killed him with a slap, advancing to the next round.
• Qian Renxue saw that the ranking had revealed her true appearance and noted that she had already defeated her opponent.
• Ning Rongrong faced a Clear Sky Sect disciple who threatened and insulted her, then knocked him out with a punch and advanced.

Ma Hongjun advanced through the Dragon-Tiger Ranking and discovered that his cellmate was Yu Xiaogang, who begged him to arrange a meeting with Bibi Dong. Bibi Dong summoned Ma Hongjun because practicing his cultivation method with him helped repair her damaged state of mind, and Ma Hongjun entered the Papal Hall to meet her.

• Ma Hongjun and the crippled Old Beggar both survived the first two rounds of the Dragon-Tiger Ranking, and Ma Hongjun dismissed the man's claim that he was the Pope's lover.
• Soldiers brought Ma Hongjun clean clothes and hot water and told him Bibi Dong wanted to see him.
• The Old Beggar identified himself as Yu Xiaogang and asked Ma Hongjun to help him meet Bibi Dong, and Ma Hongjun promised to help while telling him to wait quietly.
• Yu Xiaogang imagined Bibi Dong healing his limbs and helping him become powerful, while blaming Tang San and Tang Hao for his troubles.
• Bibi Dong grew furious when her cultivation method failed to work alone, but summoned Ma Hongjun because practicing with him had gradually restored her state of mind.
• Ma Hongjun entered the Papal Hall and teasingly asked Bibi Dong why she had summoned him.

Ma Hongjun used the Bhagavad Gita’s curse to bind Bibi Dong to an unbearable bodily urge that only he could relieve. After she had him thrown back into prison, her order to keep him alive left Ma Hongjun confident that he was safe.

• Bibi Dong accused Ma Hongjun of withholding parts of the cultivation method and ordered him to demonstrate it again.
• Ma Hongjun guided Bibi Dong through the yoga poses while preparing the Bhagavad Gita’s curse.
• Ma Hongjun cursed Bibi Dong so that only he could ease the torment of her bodily instincts.
• Bibi Dong felt the curse take hold and demanded that Ma Hongjun remove it, but he said it could not be revoked.
• Bibi Dong sent Ma Hongjun flying and ordered the Temple Army to return him to prison, heal him, and keep him alive.

Ma Hongjun convinced Yu Xiaogang that Bibi Dong might still help him, while Zhu Zhuqing faced Tang San in the Dragon-Tiger Ranking and defeated him with her shadow technique. The match ended with Zhu Zhuqing warning Tang San that she would kill him the next time they met.

• Ma Hongjun told Yu Xiaogang that Bibi Dong had struck him after hearing Yu Xiaogang's name, but promised to plead Yu Xiaogang's case again.
• Yu Xiaogang abandoned his plan to escape and relied on Ma Hongjun to persuade Bibi Dong to release him.
• Zhu Zhuqing encountered Tang San in the tournament, and Tang San attacked her with crossbow bolts and a barrage of hidden weapons.
• Tang San used Heavenly Maiden Scattering Blossoms, but the weapons passed through Zhu Zhuqing as though she were a shadow, and the Dragon-Tiger Ranking ruled that she had not cheated.
• Zhu Zhuqing's shadow stabbed Tang San in the chest, and she told him she would take his life the next time they met.

Dugu Yan, Dugu Bo, and Spirit Hall’s leaders questioned the Dragon-Tiger Ranking’s unexplained participant numbers while Bibi Dong struggled with Ma Hongjun’s curse. Bibi Dong lost control and injured Hu Liena before the curse briefly lifted, leaving her horrified by what she had done.

• Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo discussed the Dragon-Tiger Ranking’s schedule and wondered how it could take so long to determine a winner.
• Ghost Douluo told Bibi Dong and Chrysanthemum Douluo that Spirit Hall’s records listed far fewer Soul Masters than the Pride of Heaven Ranking’s figures implied.
• Bibi Dong tried ice and other methods to resist the primitive instinct Ma Hongjun’s curse had inflicted on her, but nothing worked.
• Bibi Dong summoned Hu Liena, then lost control and bit her neck as the curse’s power overwhelmed her.
• Bibi Dong regained her reason, saw Hu Liena’s injury, and called for a healing Soul Master.

The Dragon-Tiger Ranking’s afternoon match trapped Tang Xiao and Ma Hongjun in a shrinking arena with a hundred Soul Beasts, while Bibi Dong worried over Hu Liena’s injuries. Tang Xiao died in the melee, and Bibi Dong ordered Ma Hongjun brought to her once his match ended.

• Tang Xiao entered the match expecting to face another Soul Master, but found himself surrounded by a hundred Soul Beasts that could use Soul Power and Soul Skills.
• Tang Xiao tried to retreat and wait for the Soul Beasts to weaken one another, but a shrinking border forced him to fight; a ground spike pinned his foot, and the beasts killed him.
• Ma Hongjun avoided the first attacks and used his Two-Colored Flames on the Soul Beasts, driving them into a berserk frenzy in which they attacked and killed one another.
• Ma Hongjun retreated to the arena’s edge as the Soul Beasts fought, horrified by the violent effects of his technique.
• Bibi Dong learned that Hu Liena would recover from her neck wound, though it might scar, and ordered guards to bring Ma Hongjun to her after his match.

Dugu Bo poisoned the Soul Beasts in his consciousness space and harvested a rare scorpion’s venom, while Ma Hongjun survived his round and was summoned by Bibi Dong. Ning Rongrong defeated a hundred Soul Beasts with ease, and the Dragon-Tiger Ranking finals were set for the next day.

• Dugu Bo used poisonous powder to kill the Soul Beasts around him, then removed the Fallen Red True Scorpion’s stinger and venom sac and stored them in his Space Soul Tool.
• Ma Hongjun dodged a frenzied Six-Eared Elephant until it crashed into the boundary and died, winning his round.
• The Dragon-Tiger Ranking announced that the finals would take place the following day, and Ma Hongjun was summoned to meet Bibi Dong.
• Ma Hongjun left the prison while Yu Xiaogang remained unconscious in the opposite cell.
• Ning Rongrong fought the Soul Beasts head-on, using their attacks against one another and defeating exactly one hundred of them.

Tang Hao survived the Soul Beast trial and joined the ten finalists, while Ma Hongjun confronted Bibi Dong over her curse and helped soothe its effects. The chapter left Bibi Dong’s meeting with Yu Xiaogang pending as Ma Hongjun resumed their practice to calm her dangerous urges.

• Tang Hao used Tang San’s Hidden Weapons and techniques to survive the Soul Beasts, then killed all one hundred as the trial ended.
• The sky curtain announced the ten finalists, including Tang Hao, Ma Hongjun, and Yu Xiaogang, and Tang Hao boasted that he would take first place.
• Bibi Dong threatened Ma Hongjun with Spirit Hall’s ability to destroy a Soul Master’s Martial Soul, but he insisted that her curse could not be lifted.
• Ma Hongjun guided Bibi Dong through the Bhagavad Gita, easing her restlessness, until a Temple Army soldier announced that Yu Xiaogang had been found.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yu Xiaogang brought to her, then Ma Hongjun stopped their practice and red Karmic Fire flared over her body, provoking dangerous urges.
• Bibi Dong ordered Ma Hongjun to continue, and he resumed the practice and began withdrawing the flames from her body.

Yu Xiaogang was released from his cell and brought to the Martial Soul Main Hall after the jailers retaliated against his threats. Meanwhile, Ma Hongjun’s yoga with Bibi Dong increased his Soul Power, and he began imagining how he could use the curse to control powerful women.

• Yu Xiaogang threatened the jailers with revenge, so Captain Wang and the others pinned him down and secretly abused him instead of killing him.
• The jailers escorted Yu Xiaogang to the Martial Soul Main Hall, where the Temple Army guards mistook his condition for madness caused by Tang Hao.
• Bibi Dong and Ma Hongjun practiced yoga in the Papal Hall, and Ma Hongjun gained a level of Soul Power.
• Ma Hongjun fantasized about using the curse to control powerful women, and even deities, as cultivation cauldrons.

Bibi Dong reunited with a mindless Yu Xiaogang and vowed to care for him while launching a search for Tang Hao. As Zhu Zhuqing continued toward the Heaven Dou Empire, Tang Hao trained with Tang San, and Da Ming and Er Ming took Xiao Wu toward the Far North.

• Bibi Dong found Yu Xiaogang witless and believed Captain Wang's claim that Tang Hao had tormented him, then promised to find physicians and care for him.
• Bibi Dong offered Soul Bones for Tang Hao's location, prompting Ghost Douluo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and other Spirit Hall powerhouses to search the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Wang Qiye left Zhu Zhuqing with a cultivation technique and directed her northwest to collect his gift, while she hid from the powerful figures flying overhead.
• Tang Hao stayed in the cave with Tang San to learn martial cultivation techniques and praised their potential to make the Clear Sky Sect dominant.
• Da Ming and Er Ming persuaded Xiao Wu to leave the Star Dou Great Forest with them and head for the Far North.

The Dragon-Tiger Ranking final began, and Ma Hongjun defeated Dugu Bo by overpowering him in close combat after his black flames neutralized Dugu Bo’s poison. Lou Gao then won against a helpless Yu Xiaogang, leaving the academy students suspecting that someone had injured Yu Xiaogang before the finals.

• The Dragon-Tiger Ranking revealed its finalists, including Lou Gao, whose divine armor and Flamefang Blade were recognized by the Clear Sky Sect elders.
• Ma Hongjun fought Dugu Bo, burned away his poison with black flames, and beat him with superior strength until Dugu Bo conceded.
• Ma Hongjun taunted Dugu Bo and claimed that Bibi Dong was his slave, while Dugu Bo vowed to remember him.
• Lou Gao faced Yu Xiaogang, who only laughed and made no attempt to defend himself, and Lou Gao defeated him with a single slash.
• Ye Lingling suggested Yu Xiaogang had been turned into an idiot before the finals, and Yu Tianheng explained that contestants were unprotected outside the Dragon-Tiger Ranking space.