Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang's failed attempt to ambush Zhao Ling led to another severe beating, while the Great Soul Arena struggled to care for him and hoped the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would take him away. After the morning matches, Bibi Dong and Ah Yin competed openly for Zhao Ling's attention, leaving Yue Guan concerned about Bibi Dong's growing attachment.

• Yu Xiaolong learned that Yu Xiaogang had become infatuated with a woman from Spirit Hall and told Yu Yuanzhen, who ordered him to bring his brother back from Suotuo City.
• Yu Xiaogang crept toward Zhao Ling with a wooden chair, but Qian Hu spotted him, kicked him down, and beat him unconscious with the chair.
• Zhao Ling told Qian Hu to leave Yu Xiaogang for the Great Soul Arena staff, and the arena manager arranged treatment while worrying about the costs and further trouble.
• Bibi Dong asked whether Zhao Ling and Ah Yin had been frightened, and Ah Yin sweetly emphasized her closeness to Zhao Ling.
• Bibi Dong pulled Ah Yin away from Zhao Ling and linked arms with him, while Yue Guan wondered whether Bibi Dong had fallen for him.

Yu Xiaogang woke in the Great Soul Arena, badly injured and only partly healed, while Liu Erlong set out for Suotuo City after learning Zhao Ling and Yu Xiaogang were there. Yu Xiaogang struggled to eat and remained determined to recover, take revenge on Zhao Ling, and win back Miss Dong'er.

• Zhao Ling uploaded a diary entry about wanting to gather Douluo's beauties into one family and received a thousand-year increase to all his Soul Rings.
• Ah Yin and Bibi Dong read Zhao Ling's entry, pinched his waist, and left him bewildered as Bibi Dong led Spirit Hall's group to eat.
• Yu Luomian told Liu Erlong that Yu Xiaogang had embarrassed the clan in Suotuo City, and Liu Erlong decided to travel there to see Zhao Ling and her cousin.
• Yu Xiaogang awoke in the Great Soul Arena with severe pain and recalled being kicked and beaten after approaching Zhao Ling.
• The Great Soul Arena staff refused to fully heal Yu Xiaogang, brought him food, and left him to struggle through eating a pork knuckle.

Yu Xiaogang escaped the guards his elder brother had assigned to take him back to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, determined to stay near Bibi Dong. Meanwhile, the team match began and Liu Erlong arrived at the Great Soul Arena searching for Zhao Ling.

• Zhao Ling and Ah Yin watched the Martial Soul Team face the Dark Night Team, and Zhao Ling praised Bibi Dong while pretending not to know her future.
• Bibi Dong restrained the opposing support fighters as Qian Hu engaged an enemy fighter, while Liu Erlong entered the arena and searched the crowd for Zhao Ling and her cousin.
• Yu Xiaolong ordered Yu Xiaogang to return to the clan, but Yu Xiaogang insisted that Bibi Dong loved him and reluctantly agreed to leave only after his brother threatened to take him by force.
• Yu Xiaolong left two clan members to guard Yu Xiaogang, who decided he could not be taken back and lured the guards into the room with cries for help.
• Yu Xiaogang struck both guards unconscious with a wooden stool and apologized, promising to invite them to his wedding with Bibi Dong.

Yu Xiaogang escaped the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s attempt to take him home, prompting a citywide search that emptied the Great Soul Arena. Meanwhile, Liu Erlong identified Zhao Ling and followed him, and Ah Yin kissed him as Bibi Dong watched; Zhao Ling then received a new cultivation technique and sword.

• Yu Xiaogang knocked out two collateral branch members, disguised himself in one man’s clothes, and fled to avoid being taken back to the clan.
• Yu Xiaolong learned that his second brother had escaped and organized a search with the Great Soul Arena, offering 100 Gold Soul Coins for finding Yu Xiaogang.
• Liu Erlong recognized Zhao Ling, Bibi Dong, and Ah Yin at the Great Soul Arena, then followed their group to a restaurant.
• Zhao Ling embraced Ah Yin and Bibi Dong at the restaurant, while Liu Erlong watched and judged him for holding both women.
• Ah Yin kissed Zhao Ling, and he uploaded a diary entry celebrating the kiss before receiving the Canglan Sword Art and the Canglan Sword.

Zhao Ling’s diary revealed his extraordinary cultivation speed, shocking Liu Erlong, Ah Yin, and Bibi Dong; Bibi Dong then kissed him in public, prompting Zhao Ling to offer Yue Guan an alliance with Spirit Hall. After Liu Erlong encountered a suspicious injured man hiding nearby, Qian Xunji learned of Zhao Ling and ordered Yue Guan to bring him to Spirit Hall for a meeting.

• Liu Erlong realized Zhao Ling had become a Titled Douluo at thirty-one after only fifteen years of cultivation, and Ah Yin and Bibi Dong were stunned by how much stronger he might have been had he started young.
• Bibi Dong kissed Zhao Ling on the lips in front of the Spirit Hall group, while Ah Yin angrily tried and failed to pull her away.
• Zhao Ling told Yue Guan he would consider an alliance with Spirit Hall, and Yue Guan agreed that Zhao Ling’s worth would determine whether Qian Xunji accepted his relationship with Bibi Dong.
• Liu Erlong checked into a hotel beside Zhao Ling’s group and noticed an injured, head-wrapped man enter the neighboring room; the man was Yu Xiaogang, hiding from the search for him.
• Qian Xunji received Yue Guan’s report about Zhao Ling, decided not to confront him with force, and ordered Ghost Douluo to ask Yue Guan to bring Zhao Ling to Spirit Hall.

Zhao Ling and Ah Yin became intimate, and Ah Yin regretted reading his boastful diary entry about it. Bibi Dong reacted angrily to the diary, while Liu Erlong considered the system’s benefits; meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang discovered that his eldest brother had found him after bribing the driver who had promised to help him escape.

• Zhao Ling recorded his night with Ah Yin in his diary, and the system rewarded his second martial soul with a fifty-thousand-year soul ring.
• Ah Yin read Zhao Ling’s diary copy, learned about his constitution bonuses, and wondered whether there was a cure for regret.
• Bibi Dong read the diary, became furious at Ah Yin, and asked Chrysanthemum Douluo to arrange five more arena matches so she could vent.
• Liu Erlong focused on the system’s powers and suspected she would need Zhao Ling to receive further rewards.
• Zhao Ling brought lunch to Ah Yin and stayed with her at the hotel while she recovered.
• Yu Xiaogang’s eldest brother and six collateral relatives found him after the carriage driver accepted a hundred-gold-soul-coin bounty to reveal his location.

Yu Xiaolong agreed to take Yu Xiaogang back to the clan after teaching Zhao Ling a lesson, but the brothers failed to find Zhao Ling at the Great Soul Arena. The next morning, Zhao Ling and Ah Yin prepared to meet Bibi Dong, who was waiting for them outside their room.

• Yu Xiaolong hired a Healing-type Soul Saint, who healed Yu Xiaogang's back but warned that his injured kidney could leave him impotent or infertile.
• Yu Xiaogang blamed Zhao Ling and the person who kicked him, while Yu Xiaolong promised to seek a cure and punish those responsible.
• Yu Xiaolong took Yu Xiaogang and clan members to the Great Soul Arena, but they could not find Zhao Ling and decided to wait for another chance.
• Zhao Ling woke beside Ah Yin, and the two hurried to get ready to visit the Great Soul Arena.
• Zhao Ling and Ah Yin found Bibi Dong waiting by the stairs, and Zhao Ling awkwardly tried to greet her.

At the Great Soul Arena, Bibi Dong refused Ah Yin’s effort to draw her into a relationship with Zhao Ling until she had her teacher’s approval. Zhao Ling and Ah Yin shared a tender moment in the VIP seats, while Yu Xiaogang and Yu Xiaolong watched them from a nearby platform.

• Ah Yin urged Bibi Dong to become intimate with Zhao Ling, but Bibi Dong said she would not interfere in their relationship without her teacher’s approval.
• The three entered the Great Soul Arena, where Chrysanthemum Douluo told Bibi Dong to prepare for five individual matches and one team match.
• Zhao Ling sat Ah Yin on his lap and asked her to call him “hubby”; her coquettish tone nearly made him lose control, so he returned her to her seat.
• Zhao Ling and Ah Yin exchanged affectionate words in the VIP seats while Yu Xiaogang and Yu Xiaolong watched them from a raised platform.
• Yu Xiaogang identified Zhao Ling to Yu Xiaolong and said his damage-transfer Soul Skill probably came from a Soul Bone.

Yu Xiaogang and Yu Xiaolong waited for a chance to attack Zhao Ling, while Liu Erlong warned Zhao Ling and Ah Yin that they were being followed. After Zhao Ling and Ah Yin separated from the Spirit Hall group, Yu Xiaogang learned the moment to strike had come and eagerly prepared to move against Zhao Ling.

• Yu Xiaolong promised Yu Xiaogang that he would help him get revenge on Zhao Ling, but warned him to wait until Zhao Ling was away from the Spirit Hall group.
• Liu Erlong recognized the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan members staying nearby as her cousins and wondered whether the disguised man she had seen was Yu Xiaogang.
• Zhao Ling and Bibi Dong discussed the people tailing them, and Zhao Ling decided to deal with the pursuers that night after leaving the Spirit Hall group with Ah Yin.
• Liu Erlong followed the pursuers and warned Zhao Ling and Ah Yin that someone meant them harm, while Zhao Ling assured Ah Yin he had already noticed the surveillance.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan members sent word to Yu Xiaolong and Yu Xiaogang that Zhao Ling and Ah Yin had left the Spirit Hall group, and Yu Xiaogang eagerly prepared to attack.

Yu Xiaolong and Yu Xiaogang confronted Zhao Ling in the night market, but Zhao Ling overwhelmed and severely injured both brothers after Yu Xiaolong attacked him. After returning Ah Yin to the hotel, Zhao Ling left to find the woman who had warned them and investigate her identity.

• Yu Xiaogang and Yu Xiaolong found Zhao Ling and Ah Yin in the night market, where Yu Xiaolong demanded that Zhao Ling kneel and apologize.
• Yu Xiaolong released his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and attacked Zhao Ling with Thunder Dragon Claw, but Zhao Ling stopped the blow and slapped him.
• Zhao Ling beat Yu Xiaolong unconscious, then knocked Yu Xiaogang down and slammed his head into the ground as well.
• The collateral clan members carried the injured brothers to the Great Soul Arena for treatment, while Liu Erlong concluded that her cousins had brought the trouble on themselves.
• Zhao Ling returned to the hotel with Ah Yin, then left to meet the woman who had warned them and learn who she was.

Zhao Ling met Liu Erlong, learned that she had warned him and Ah Yin about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s scheme, and kept her involvement secret. He returned to Ah Yin and gave her Pear Blossom Needles in a Rainstorm to protect her, leaving her grateful for his thoughtfulness.

• Ah Yin locked Zhao Ling out of her room so she could rest, and he left to search for the woman who had warned them.
• Zhao Ling found Liu Erlong, thanked her, and invited her for a drink; she declined and questioned how he knew her name.
• Zhao Ling wrote in his Diary Copy about Liu Erlong’s warning and received Pear Blossom Needles in a Rainstorm as a reward.
• Zhao Ling walked Liu Erlong to her hotel, then returned to his own and persuaded Ah Yin to open her door by promising her a gift.
• Zhao Ling gave Ah Yin Pear Blossom Needles in a Rainstorm and explained that it could threaten a Titled Douluo, and Ah Yin kissed him in thanks.

Yu Xiaogang returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan with his unconscious brother, Yu Xiaolong, and was beaten by his father and uncle for causing the disaster. A Nine Heart Begonia healer restored Yu Xiaolong’s injuries, but his brain damage left him unable to do anything but grin foolishly, devastating his family.

• The collateral clan members brought Yu Xiaolong and Yu Xiaogang back to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, where Yu Xiaolong’s wife arrived and mourned over his unconscious body.
• Yu Luomian and Yu Yuanzhen blamed Yu Xiaogang for provoking Zhao Ling, and both struck him until Yu Yuanzhen’s slaps knocked him unconscious.
• Yu Yuanzhen secured treatment from the Ye Family’s Nine Heart Begonia wielder by offering gifts and two favors from the clan.
• The healer restored Yu Xiaolong’s physical injuries, but discovered that damage to his brain had severely impaired his mental faculties.
• Yu Xiaolong’s wife entered the room and collapsed when she saw him awake but grinning foolishly.

Yu Xiaogang was treated after Zhao Ling’s attack, then learned his older brother Yu Xiaolong had been left an idiot and was sentenced to ten years in the clan dungeon. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan planned revenge against Zhao Ling, while Bibi Dong lamented that Yu Xiaogang had disappeared just as Spirit Hall prepared to leave Suotuo City.

• The Ye Family’s current Nine Heart Begonia bearer treated Yu Xiaogang’s concussion and kidney injury but could not guarantee a full recovery.
• Yu Xiaogang found Yu Xiaolong alive but grinning foolishly, and Yu Yuanzhen ordered him imprisoned in the clan dungeon for ten years.
• Yu Yuanzhen sent the First, Second, and Third Elders to Suotuo City to capture Zhao Ling, while refusing Yu Luomian’s request to go with them.
• Yu Luomian told Yu Xiaojiao about the incident and asked him to search around Heaven Dou City for his missing sister instead of confronting Zhao Ling.
• In the dungeon, Yu Xiaogang regretted what had happened but comforted himself by remembering Miss Dong’er.
• As Spirit Hall prepared to leave Suotuo City, Bibi Dong searched the Great Soul Arena crowd and wished she could beat Yu Xiaogang again.

Bibi Dong, Ah Yin, and Zhao Ling prepared to travel to Spirit City, while Ah Yin tried to recruit Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong into sharing Zhao Ling. Liu Erlong declined to join the journey, and Ah Yin continued pleading with Bibi Dong to let Zhao Ling visit her room.

• Ah Yin told Bibi Dong and Yue Guan that Yu Xiaogang had led a Battle Soul Emperor and several men against Zhao Ling, who defeated them without using his martial soul.
• Zhao Ling and Ah Yin confirmed they would accompany Bibi Dong's group to Spirit City, and Bibi Dong welcomed them.
• Ah Yin eagerly approached Liu Erlong and tried to draw her into a relationship with Zhao Ling, while Bibi Dong pulled Ah Yin aside to question her intentions.
• Zhao Ling invited Liu Erlong to travel with them, but Liu Erlong declined because she planned to return home to Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Ah Yin told Bibi Dong that Zhao Ling had been exhausting her and begged Bibi Dong to let him visit her room, but Bibi Dong refused until her teacher approved their relationship.

Zhao Ling received the Thousand Shadow Art before traveling with Ah Yin and Bibi Dong to Spirit City, where Bibi Dong worried about how her teacher would react to their relationship. Meanwhile, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders arrived in Suotuo City demanding Zhao Ling, only to learn he had already left.

• Ah Yin pushed Zhao Ling and Liu Erlong together, but Liu Erlong refused to spend the night with him after reading his diary complaint about her.
• Zhao Ling and Ah Yin prepared to leave for Spirit City, and Bibi Dong asked whether he was nervous about meeting her family.
• Zhao Ling wrote about Qian Xunji in his diary and received the Thousand Shadow Art, while Bibi Dong worried about returning to Spirit City with him.
• Zhao Ling, Ah Yin, and Bibi Dong traveled toward Spirit City, and Liu Erlong left Suotuo City for Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Three Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders stormed into the Great Soul Arena and demanded that its manager hand over Zhao Ling.
• The Great Soul Arena manager told the elders that Zhao Ling and the Spirit Hall group had already left for Spirit City.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan left the Great Soul Arena after failing to find Zhao Ling, while Liu Erlong returned home and learned what had happened to her cousins. Zhao Ling, Ah Yin, and Spirit Hall’s party reached Spirit City, where Bibi Dong went to see her teacher and Zhao Ling stayed at a hotel for the night.

• The Great Soul Arena’s manager condemned the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders for storming the arena and ordered them to leave.
• The elders left Suotuo City’s Great Soul Arena and sent clan members to search for Zhao Ling, but after three days they accepted that he and Spirit Hall’s people had departed.
• The Great Soul Arena’s higher-ups regretted spending resources to befriend the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan after receiving little in return.
• Liu Erlong returned home, accepted money from Yu Luomian, and learned that Yu Xiaolong had become an idiot and Yu Xiaogang had been imprisoned for ten years.
• Zhao Ling, Ah Yin, and Spirit Hall’s party arrived in Spirit City, where Zhao Ling agreed to stay at a hotel while Bibi Dong went to inform her teacher.

Zhao Ling arrived in Spirit City with Ah Yin and spent the night with her at the Rose Hotel, while Bibi Dong returned to the Papal Hall and told Qian Xunji about Zhao Ling’s astonishing talent. Qian Xunji decided to arrange Bibi Dong’s engagement to Zhao Ling, and the chapter ended with Zhao Ling asking why Bibi Dong was blushing.

• Zhao Ling and Ah Yin checked into the Rose Hotel and took a couples’ suite.
• Qian Xunji praised Bibi Dong’s mission and asked about Zhao Ling, whom she described as a thirty-one-year-old Titled Douluo.
• Bibi Dong revealed that Zhao Ling had awakened his Martial Soul at sixteen and reached Titled Douluo in fifteen years, astonishing Qian Xunji, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo.
• Qian Xunji asked Bibi Dong to bring Zhao Ling to the Papal Hall and promised to arrange their engagement if her account proved true.
• The next morning, Zhao Ling left Ah Yin resting at the hotel and went with Bibi Dong to see Qian Xunji.
• Zhao Ling kissed Bibi Dong at the door and asked why she was blushing, but she hesitated to explain her teacher’s engagement plan.

Bibi Dong told Zhao Ling that Qian Xunji intended to arrange their engagement, and Zhao Ling accompanied her to Spirit Hall. After Qian Xunji witnessed Zhao Ling’s power, he offered him the position of next pope; Zhao Ling refused, and the chapter ended with him gaining an External Soul Bone after Qian Daoliu accepted the engagement.

• Bibi Dong told Zhao Ling that Qian Xunji wanted to choose a date for their engagement and hoped they would leave a child in Spirit Hall.
• Zhao Ling received a Cloud-Piercing Shuttle from his diary system and went with Bibi Dong to meet Qian Xunji.
• Qian Xunji tested Zhao Ling, but Zhao Ling revealed his Netherworld Demon-Suppressing Pagoda and three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, overwhelming the pope.
• Qian Xunji offered Zhao Ling the position of next pope, but Zhao Ling declined and said Bibi Dong could take the role.
• Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo arrived, and Qian Daoliu approved of Zhao Ling and Bibi Dong's engagement.
• Zhao Ling uploaded his diary entry, earned an eighty-thousand-year External Soul Bone, and completed his set of Soul Bones.

Bo Saixi read Zhao Ling’s diary, learned that Tang Chen had been parasitized, and set out for Spirit City after interpreting the diary as a Sea God oracle. In Spirit City, Zhao Ling celebrated gaining Qian Xunji’s approval to marry Bibi Dong, while Ah Yin insisted she needed the night off.

• Bibi Dong read Zhao Ling’s diary while waiting outside the Papal Hall and reacted to its comments about her teacher, Qian Daoliu, Bo Saixi, and Tang Chen.
• Bo Saixi discovered the diary, learned that Tang Chen had been plotted against and parasitized, received a lifespan reward, and decided to travel to Spirit City.
• Bo Saixi instructed the Seven Sacred Pillars to protect Sea God Island and left for the mainland, believing the Sea God had ordered her to help Tang Chen.
• Zhao Ling left the Papal Hall after Qian Xunji agreed to arrange his engagement to Bibi Dong, and the couple went shopping in Spirit City.
• Zhao Ling and Bibi Dong returned to the Hotel and woke Ah Yin, who celebrated their engagement but refused to share the night with Zhao Ling.

Zhao Ling was outplayed by Bibi Dong and Ah Yin at cards and Chinese chess, then brought Ah Yin to live in Spirit Hall and spent the night with Bibi Dong. The next day, he promised to make the women a different breakfast after Bibi Dong complained about the food.

• Zhao Ling taught Ah Yin and Bibi Dong Fight the Landlord and Chinese chess, but both quickly learned and repeatedly defeated him.
• Zhao Ling and Ah Yin checked out of their hotel and moved into rooms in a Spirit Hall side hall arranged by Bibi Dong.
• Zhao Ling spent the night with Bibi Dong, who sent him away the next day and complained privately to Ah Yin about his strength.
• Zhao Ling brought food to Bibi Dong and helped her wash before carrying her to the table.
• Bibi Dong complained about eating milk, bread, butter, and salad again, so Zhao Ling promised to cook her and Ah Yin a different breakfast.