Chapter Summaries

Lu Yun returned to Dragon Soul Village with Lu Chen and Xiao Wu, where Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo invited the family to Lu Tian’s Platinum Bishop investiture in Spirit City. Xiao Wu revealed their plan to help Lu Yun explain his sudden increase in cultivation, and Bibi Dong discovered the secret collusion through the Chat Group.

• Lu Yun accepted the storage soul tool ring and recommendation letter, then returned to Dragon Soul Village with Lu Chen and Xiao Wu.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo revealed themselves at Lu Yun’s residence, and Lu Yun recognized the two Titled Douluo.
• Ghost Douluo invited Lu Yun and his family to Lu Tian’s Platinum Bishop investiture, scheduled for four days later.
• Lu Yun agreed to travel to Spirit City, and the three elders quietly understood that Lu Yun would need to explain his change from Soul Grandmaster to Soul Ancestor.
• Xiao Wu shared the encounter in the Chat Group, where Qian Renxue deduced that Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo planned to help Lu Yun prepare an explanation for Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong saw Xiao Wu’s account in the Chat Group and angrily called out Yue Guan and Gui Mei, while Lu Chen struggled to hold back his laughter.

Lu Chen persuaded Lu Yun that becoming a Worshipper’s disciple could protect him from Bibi Dong, then used his cultivation breakthrough as a chance to demonstrate his extraordinary growth to Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo. The two Titled Douluos witnessed Lu Chen’s Martial Souls and origins transforming, and Chrysanthemum Douluo demanded an explanation from Lu Yun.

• Lu Chen reassured Lu Yun that his rising talent and the threat of a Titled Douluo turning against Spirit Hall might deter Bibi Dong, then considered taking a Worshipper as his master.
• Lu Yun suggested Lu Chen impress Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, so Lu Yun invited them to watch Lu Chen’s cultivation breakthrough.
• Lu Yun told Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo that Lu Chen needed their help, while Lu Chen secretly used origin upgrades from System Sis.
• Lu Chen’s Soul Power surged in quality as an Azure Dragon phantom and his Martial Souls began changing, astonishing both Titled Douluos.
• Ghost Douluo recoiled from Lu Chen’s divine attribute, while Chrysanthemum Douluo stopped his pressure before it reached Lu Yun and demanded to know what was happening.

Lu Yun asked Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to help Lu Chen enter the Worship Hall after they witnessed his miraculous Martial Soul Evolution and Divine Attribute. As the two resisted, Qian Renxue decided to travel to Spirit City for Lu Tian’s investiture ceremony, hoping to learn more about Lu Chen’s talent.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo used his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to shield the trembling Ghost Douluo from Lu Chen’s Divine Attribute.
• Ghost Douluo recognized Lu Chen’s power and asked Lu Yun why he had revealed the secret.
• Lu Yun bowed and asked the two Titled Douluos to guide Lu Chen and help him enter the Worship Hall.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo rejected the request and warned that the enshrined elders would not welcome their involvement.
• After considering Lu Chen’s extraordinary talent, Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance Douluo to arrange her trip to Spirit City for Lu Tian’s investiture ceremony.

Ning Rongrong insisted on going to Spirit City for Lu Tian’s investiture ceremony, despite Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo trying to stop her. Qian Renxue arranged for Crown Prince Xue Qinghe to invite Ning Fengzhi and a sect-protecting elder to accompany him, leaving Rongrong’s trip within reach.

• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo failed to persuade Ning Rongrong to give up her plans to visit Spirit City.
• Ning Rongrong revealed her real name in the Chat Group and shared her father’s warnings, while the group discussed who might join Xiao Wu’s outing.
• Lu Chen cultivated the Wing Chapter of the Azure Emperor Spirit-Calming Art, gained independent flight, and promised Chrysanthemum Douluo he would put in a good word for him and Ghost Douluo.
• Xiao Wu invited the group to Spirit City, but several members said their identities or circumstances prevented them from going.
• A messenger announced that Xue Qinghe would attend Lu Tian’s investiture ceremony and that Xue Ye wanted Ning Fengzhi and one sect-protecting elder to accompany him.

Ning Fengzhi agreed to escort Xue Qinghe to Spirit City, while Emperor Xue Ye privately instructed the crown prince to watch the sect master. Qian Renxue revealed to the chat group that she had replaced Xue Qinghe, and Lu Chen began considering how to draw Dugu Bo into the upcoming ceremony.

• Ning Fengzhi accepted Emperor Xue Ye's request to travel with Xue Qinghe to Spirit City, accompanied by Sword Douluo and Ning Rongrong.
• Emperor Xue Ye told Xue Qinghe to observe Ning Fengzhi for signs of secret cooperation with Spirit Hall, then reminded him that Xue Beng was still his younger brother.
• Ning Rongrong told the chat group that she would travel with her father, and Qian Renxue shared a picture that led Dugu Yan to recognize Xue Qinghe.
• Qian Renxue revealed that she had been sent to the Heaven Dou Empire as a child and used disguise techniques to replace Xue Qinghe.
• Lu Chen considered exposing the failure of Qian Renxue's palace coup and wondered whether Dugu Yan could persuade Dugu Bo to attend the ceremony in Spirit City.

Dugu Yan returned home with the Poison Core Method and urged her grandfather, Dugu Bo, to study it. Convinced the method could transform his power and perhaps his Martial Soul, Dugu Bo agreed to take her to Spirit City for Archbishop Lu’s Investiture Ceremony.

• After completing her exclusive mission, Dugu Yan received the Poison Core Method and a Martial Soul Bloodline Origin Upgrade, while the host selected the upgrade as a reward.
• Dugu Yan hurried home to Heaven Dou City, where Dugu Bo mistook her tear-streaked face for a sign that someone had bullied her.
• Dugu Yan showed Dugu Bo the Poison Core Method, and his skepticism gave way to excitement as he read about its power and potential for snake-type Martial Souls.
• Dugu Yan claimed she had found the method in the academy’s Book Collection Pavilion and asked Dugu Bo to accompany her to Spirit City for Archbishop Lu’s Investiture Ceremony.
• Dugu Bo recalled his past conflict with Spirit Hall but agreed to travel with Dugu Yan, deciding to repay Prince Xue Xing’s favor another way.

The group traveled toward Spirit City while Lu Chen was secretly meant to visit Spirit Hall before everyone met Pope Bibi Dong. To pass the journey, he activated the Simulation Battle Device and arrived in its battle space, where he chose Tang San as his opponent; the projection appeared before him.

• Ning Rongrong, Qian Renxue, Dugu Yan, and Xiao Wu shared pictures of their unusual flights in the Chat Group, and the others laughed at Lu Chen being carried by Ghost Douluo.
• Lu Chen recalled that his party had little time to eat or rest because he needed to visit Spirit Hall quietly after Lu Yun’s agreement with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.
• Unable to use the Mental Trainer during the journey, Lu Chen activated the Simulation Battle Device and selected custom mode, allocating about seventy percent of his consciousness to the battle space.
• Lu Chen selected a projection of level 39 Tang San, and the device formed Tang San before him in the simulation space.

Lu Chen defeated a level 39 Tang San projection in the battle simulator and assessed his current combat strength. The next day, Ghost Douluo secretly brought him into Spirit City, where they headed toward the Worship Hall atop Martial Soul Sacred Mountain.

• Lu Chen used his domains, defenses, and Spirit-Suppressing Spear to overcome Tang San's hidden weapons and land a decisive blow.
• The simulation declared Lu Chen the victor, and he concluded he could defeat ordinary Soul Ancestors but would struggle against stronger opponents.
• Lu Chen restarted the simulator to pursue an injury-free victory over Tang San.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo stayed behind with Xiao Wu and Lu Yun while Ghost Douluo transformed into black mist and carried Lu Chen into Spirit City.
• Lu Chen and Ghost Douluo looked toward the Worship Hall, the site of the Angel God's Godhood Inheritance.

Lu Chen accompanied Ghost Douluo as he used an elaborate set of Soul Skills to sneak toward the Worship Hall, while Bibi Dong secretly watched their approach. They arrived at the hall, where Demon Subduing Douluo attacked Ghost Douluo and swung his staff down at him.

• Ghost Douluo explained that he needed a special concealment technique to get past the guards and the powerful Soul Masters on Martial Soul Sacred Mountain, while Xiao Wu alerted the group to their plan.
• Bibi Dong spotted Ghost Douluo and Lu Chen from outside the Pope's Hall and watched them set off.
• Ghost Douluo combined his first seven Soul Skills, turning ghostly figures into threads that carried him and Lu Chen swiftly toward the mountain.
• Bibi Dong observed their journey through her spiritual power, then left to consider what work to assign them when they returned.
• Ghost Douluo and Lu Chen entered the Worship Hall, where Demon Subduing Douluo confronted Ghost Douluo and brought his blood-red staff down toward him.

Lu Chen revealed his extraordinary powers to stop Demon Subduing Douluo from attacking Gui Mei, then introduced himself to the Offerings as Lu Tian’s grandson. The Offerings realized he might need protection from Bibi Dong, and Qian Daoliu arrived to speak with him.

• Lu Chen manifested his Azure Dragon, Spirit-Suppressing Spear, domains, and Soul Rings, making Demon Subduing Douluo stop and marvel at his talent.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and four other Offerings emerged, helped Gui Mei recover, and questioned Lu Chen about his identity and connection to Bibi Dong.
• Lu Chen told Golden Crocodile Douluo that he was Archbishop Lu’s grandson, and the Offerings recognized him as Lu Tian’s adopted child.
• The Offerings inferred that Lu Chen had come seeking protection from Bibi Dong and understood the danger linked to the Lu family’s Martial Soul evolution.
• Qian Daoliu emerged from behind the Angel God Statue and asked Lu Chen if he could call him Xiao Chen.

Lu Chen toured Douluo Hall and the Angel Altar with Qian Daoliu and the Offerings, who recognized his exceptional talent and Qian Daoliu offered to take him as his disciple. Bibi Dong appeared before Lu Chen could answer, openly challenging Qian Daoliu’s plan.

• Lu Chen met Qian Daoliu and the Offerings, and his friendly words improved their favorability toward him.
• Qian Daoliu guided Lu Chen through Douluo Hall, explaining the Titled Douluo plaques and the souls preserved there.
• Qian Daoliu led Lu Chen up the Angel Stairway to the Angel Altar and showed him its sacred grounds and inheritance statue.
• Qian Daoliu said Lu Chen’s talent qualified him for the Worship Hall’s protection and asked him to become his disciple.
• Bibi Dong appeared in midair and mocked Qian Daoliu’s attempt to recruit Lu Chen.

Bibi Dong stormed the Worship Hall after Demon Subduing Douluo’s commotion exposed Lu Chen’s presence, but Qian Daoliu refused to let her take him. Bibi Dong withdrew with Ghost Douluo, and Lu Chen accepted Qian Daoliu as his teacher.

• Bibi Dong confronted Demon Subduing Douluo and Ghost Douluo for bringing Lu Chen to Spirit Hall and causing a disturbance.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Bibi Dong to leave and insisted Lu Chen would remain in the Worship Hall.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu clashed verbally as Golden Crocodile Douluo defended the Great Enshrined.
• Qian Daoliu used his Peerless Douluo pressure against Bibi Dong, who released her nine Soul Rings to resist it.
• Qian Daoliu threatened Bibi Dong with harm to someone she cared about, so she withdrew with Ghost Douluo.
• Lu Chen called Qian Daoliu his teacher and accepted his offer to become his disciple.

Lu Chen completed his formal discipleship ceremony under Qian Daoliu and learned about the Six-Winged Angel lineage and its surviving descendant. His joke about whether Qian Daoliu’s granddaughter was his senior brother or senior sister revealed that he had secretly recorded the exchange, leaving Qian Renxue embarrassed and vowing revenge.

• Qian Daoliu formally accepted Lu Chen as his disciple and gave him a personal token that could identify him to high-ranking Spirit Hall members and help him mobilize some Elder Hall forces.
• Demon Subduing Douluo warned Lu Chen against gaining too much power too soon, while Lu Chen expressed gratitude for the Enshrined’s protection.
• Qian Daoliu explained Spirit Hall’s purpose and revealed that another descendant of the angels remained in the world, prompting Lu Chen to ask whether she was his senior brother or senior sister.
• Qian Daoliu clarified that the descendant was his granddaughter and Lu Chen’s martial niece, though she was about ten years older and could be called his big sister in private.
• Lu Chen revealed that he had recorded Qian Daoliu’s clarification and posted it in the Notebook, while Qian Renxue concealed her reaction from Ning Fengzhi and vowed to make Lu Chen pay.

Lu Chen reunited with Lu Yun and Lu Tian, who gave him a Soul Bone taken from a Wolf Bandit leader; the gift cost Dai Mubai Fortune and triggered a spell of bad luck. In Star Luo City, Dai Mubai’s misfortune brought him face-to-face with Dai Weisi.

• Lu Chen met Lu Yun and Lu Tian with Xiao Wu, who promised to help Lu Tian find a suitable evil Soul Beast for his ninth Soul Ring.
• Lu Chen told the two elders that Lu Tian could not join the Pope’s faction, and Lu Yun urged him to help Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo if they needed it.
• Lu Tian gave Lu Chen a Bloodthirsty Berserk Hurricane Right Leg Bone and warned him not to absorb it.
• The system reported that Lu Chen had gained 2,000 Fortune Points and that Dai Mubai would suffer a period of bad luck.
• Dai Mubai kicked a pebble that struck Dai Weisi, who confronted him in the Star Luo City palace gardens.

Dai Mubai’s attempt to seek help from his father ended in punishment and humiliation, while Spirit Hall held Lu Tian’s Platinum Bishop Investiture Ceremony before prominent guests. The ceremony began with Charles’s speech and the arrival of Lu Tian, several Titled Douluos, and Pope Bibi Dong.

• Dai Weisi forced Dai Mubai to accompany him to the imperial study, where Dai An berated Dai Mubai, halved his allowance, and threatened to annul his engagement if he failed to reach Soul Grandmaster in two months.
• Dai Mubai left the study humiliated and fell into a lake on his way back to the Third Prince’s residence.
• Ning Rongrong, Qian Renxue, Dugu Yan, and the others toured Spirit City with their families before planning to meet during Lu Tian’s Investiture Ceremony.
• At the ceremony, Charles demonstrated his eight Soul Rings and delivered a speech praising Spirit Hall, while Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe privately discussed Spirit Hall’s influence.
• Charles introduced Lu Tian’s achievements, then welcomed Lu Tian, several Titled Douluos, and Pope Bibi Dong to begin the investiture ceremony.

At Lu Tian’s investiture celebration, Xiao Wu met Dugu Yan, Qian Renxue, Ning Rongrong, and Hu Liena, while Qian Renxue realized Hu Liena’s identity. The chapter ended as Poison Douluo approached Lu Chen’s table and Lu Tian confronted him.

• Bibi Dong presided over Lu Tian’s investiture as a Platinum Bishop, and Xiao Wu left to meet the Chat Group members.
• Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan pretended to meet for the first time before Qian Renxue and Ning Rongrong joined them.
• Hu Liena arrived, pledged loyalty to Qian Renxue, and realized Qian Renxue had likely guessed her identity.
• Poison Douluo appeared at Lu Chen’s table, where Lu Tian stood and addressed him.

Dugu Bo approached Lu Tian to discuss private matters, while Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin watched and tried to protect their interests. As Dugu Yan’s friends read Lu Chen’s Notebook and saw that he might target Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan gave up trying to change the subject.

• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin approached Lu Tian after Dugu Bo asked him to speak privately, and Lu Tian introduced Lu Yun and Lu Chen.
• Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo noticed Lu Chen’s unusual qualities, and Dugu Bo said he had resigned as a guest elder of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Dugu Bo left the VIP seating area with Lu Tian, while Ning Fengzhi stayed behind and struck up a conversation with Lu Yun and Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen wrote in the Notebook that Dugu Bo had helped Tang San and wondered whether he should sabotage him.
• Dugu Yan tried to persuade the girls to plan an outing instead, but Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Hu Liena, and Qian Renxue all wanted to keep reading the Notebook.

Lu Chen revealed the tragic history of Dugu Bo and the Dugu Family’s deadly poison backlash, leaving Dugu Yan and her friends grieving before recounting the humiliating defeat that marked a turning point in Dugu Yan’s life.

• Lu Chen explained that Jade Phosphorous Serpent Soul Masters suffered lethal poison backlash unless they reached the Titled Douluo realm, and that Dugu Bo endured it from childhood.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong comforted Dugu Yan after learning how Dugu Bo’s poison had tortured him and endangered his family.
• Lu Chen revealed that Dugu Bo’s wife and son Dugu Xin died from poison, leaving Dugu Yan alone with her grandfather.
• Lu Chen described how Dugu Yan’s Imperial Fighting Team later lost to Shrek Academy, where Tang San countered her poison with realgar wine despite being a lower rank.

Lu Chen explained how Shrek Academy’s bid to enter the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament would threaten Heaven Dou’s existing teams and likely pit Shrek against the nobles. He also revealed that Dugu Bo abducted Tang San out of malice, but delayed killing him to learn how Tang San had neutralized his poison.

• Lu Chen described Shrek’s plan to affiliate with Heaven Dou Royal Soul Master Academy and the committee members’ unusually generous offer; Qian Renxue clarified who the three Soul Douluo committee members were and said they did not know her identity.
• Spirit Cat explained that Shrek would have to displace either Heaven Dou’s talented first team or the nobles’ second team, and Bibi Dong recognized that the arrangement could spark a conflict that benefited Qian Renxue.
• Lu Chen said Dugu Bo drove Shrek away and later abducted Tang San, whose encounter with Dugu Bo led to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and a major boost for the Shrek Seven Devils and Yu Xiaogang.
• Xiao Wu questioned how Dugu Bo could abduct Tang San while Tang Hao was supposedly watching over him, and Qian Renxue suggested Tang Hao had been occupied elsewhere.
• Liu Erlong threatened to punish anyone who came after Tang San, while Dugu Yan described the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a poisonous place her grandfather had mentioned.
• Lu Chen explained that Dugu Bo abducted Tang San to investigate how he had neutralized the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison, and that Tang San survived because Dugu Bo delayed killing him.

Dugu Yan and the others read Lu Chen’s account of how Tang San took the Dugu family’s treasures and how Dugu Bo helped him, while Lu Chen revealed the family’s later fate. The group ended furious at Tang San, Shrek, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Dugu Yan grew angry at the Notebook’s account of Tang San taking the herbs from her family’s garden, and Xiao Wu tried to comfort her.
• Lu Chen claimed Dugu Bo’s poison remained in his body and that his remains later became poisonous flowers in Tang San’s garden, leaving Dugu Yan and the others horrified.
• Lu Chen described Dugu Bo’s three agreements with Tang San and his role in restoring Tang San’s confidence and protecting him.
• Lu Chen revealed that Dugu Bo exposed Qian Renxue’s poisoning of Xue Ye and helped foil her undercover operation, prompting Ning Rongrong to tease Qian Renxue and get her ear twisted.
• Lu Chen recounted Dugu Bo’s final battle at Jialing Pass, his slaughter of Spirit Hall’s forces, and Tang San washing away the poison to win praise.
• Lu Chen said the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan rejected Dugu Yan because of Dugu Bo’s reputation, and the group vowed revenge on Tang San, Shrek, and the clan.