Chapter Summaries

After Qian Renxue told Qian Ran she was pregnant, he grew excited about becoming a father and went to watch the Soul Master Tournament. When the Martial Soul Sect faced the Earth Dragon Sect, Qian Ran challenged all seven opponents at once, drawing Nan Qiuqiu’s interest.

• Qian Renxue confirmed that she was pregnant, and Qian Ran celebrated the news and imagined their child inheriting the family business.
• Qian Ran considered getting Xiao Wu pregnant but decided to wait, then spent the day in high spirits.
• Qian Ran went to the tournament in Mingdu and watched the match announcement for the Martial Soul Sect versus the Earth Dragon Sect.
• Qian Ran recognized Nan Qiuqiu as the Earth Dragon Sect leader’s daughter and stepped onto the platform in place of Wu Feng.
• Qian Ran challenged the entire Earth Dragon Sect team to fight him together, and Nan Qiuqiu welcomed the chance to face him as a group.

Qian Ran faced the Earth Dragon Sect team alone and froze six Soul Kings before testing Nan Qiuqiu’s Annihilation attribute. After she conceded, Nan Qiuqiu asked about the Martial Soul Sect’s ties to Spirit Hall, and Qian Ran said the sect would consider letting her join.

• Nan Qiuqiu persuaded the referee to let the entire Earth Dragon Sect team fight Qian Ran at once, with the Martial Soul Sect’s elimination at stake if he lost.
• Qian Ran froze six Earth Dragon Sect members with his ice-attribute Soul Power as the match began.
• Nan Qiuqiu used her Annihilation attribute and Soul Skills against Qian Ran, but he defended himself with his Ultimate Attributes.
• Nan Qiuqiu conceded after failing to threaten Qian Ran and complained that her team had been eliminated in the first round.
• Nan Qiuqiu asked whether the Martial Soul Sect came from Spirit Hall, and Qian Ran confirmed it and said she could join.

After Nan Qiuqiu lost to Qian Ran, he invited her to join the Martial Soul Sect, which he revealed was Spirit Hall. Nan Qiuqiu and her mother considered the sect’s prospects and Qian Ran’s intentions, while he overheard their private conversation.

• Qian Ran agreed to let Nan Qiuqiu join the Martial Soul Sect and considered recruiting the Earth Dragon Sect to strengthen it.
• Nan Shuishui scolded Nan Qiuqiu for being cheerful after her first-round defeat, then learned Qian Ran had offered her a place in the Martial Soul Sect.
• Nan Qiuqiu explained that the Martial Soul Sect was Spirit Hall, and Nan Shuishui recognized the opportunity to align the Earth Dragon Sect with a powerful faction.
• Nan Shuishui suspected Qian Ran had personal motives and advised Nan Qiuqiu to secure a future with him; Nan Qiuqiu protested that she did not know whether he liked her.
• Qian Ran overheard their conversation and was stunned by Nan Shuishui’s suggestion that Nan Qiuqiu secretly sabotage contraception.

Nan Shuishui urged Nan Qiuqiu to pursue Qian Ran for the benefits he could bring the Earth Dragon Sect, then spoke with Vina about the Martial Soul Sect’s ties to Spirit Hall. Vina and Mu Xue left believing Spirit Hall’s return might help check the Sun Moon Empire.

• Nan Shuishui told Nan Qiuqiu that having Qian Ran’s child could secure him and help the Earth Dragon Sect, while Nan Qiuqiu rejected her mother’s brazen advice.
• Vina arrived with Mu Xue and a middle-aged escort, and Nan Shuishui confirmed that the Martial Soul Sect had inherited Spirit Hall’s power.
• Nan Shuishui said she did not know whether the Martial Soul Sect planned to restore Spirit Hall or how strong it truly was, but noted its team had been placed alongside the Body Sect and Shrek Team.
• Vina asked Nan Qiuqiu for more information, then left with Mu Xue discussing how Spirit Hall might deter the Sun Moon Empire’s powerful Royal Soul Tool Legion.

Qian Ran slept with Feng Ling, then agreed to compete for the Xishui Alliance in Mingdu’s Soul Engineer Tournament. He also asked Feng Ling to recruit women for his Soul Engineer Maid Corps, and she eagerly accepted.

• Qian Ran slept with Feng Ling, who reflected that serving him was better than remaining Vice Cult Master of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Feng Ling asked whether Qian Renxue was a demigod, and Qian Ran confirmed that she was.
• Qian Ran learned that the Xishui Alliance faced a possible alliance between the Ordinary Alliance and the Aodu Chamber of Commerce.
• Qian Ran agreed to enter the Mingdu Soul Engineer Tournament on behalf of the Xishui Alliance and planned to appear in the later rounds.
• Qian Ran told Feng Ling to recruit candidates for his Soul Engineer Maid Corps, and she promised to find them.

Qian Ran showed Feng Ling the Mustard Seed Ring and the newly completed Undead World, winning her over with the promise that she might manage the latter. Feng Ling left eager to gather beauties for him, while Qian Ran worried she might resort to kidnapping noble daughters.

• Qian Ran brought Feng Ling into the Mustard Seed Ring, where Huo Yun'er explained that the growing population had disrupted training.
• Qian Ran told Feng Ling he wanted natural beauties, and she looked to Huo Yun'er as a model of someone useful to him.
• Qian Ran took Feng Ling to the Undead World, where Qian Renxue had transformed it into a complete plane and Qianqian helped manage it.
• Qian Ran said Feng Ling could manage the Undead World if she proved herself, and she promised to deliver all the beauties within a month.
• Feng Ling returned to the real world and went to work, while Qian Ran worried she might kidnap noble daughters to satisfy his demands.

Xiao Wu submitted to Qian Ran after deciding he was her best chance to avenge her Third Brother, and Qian Ran began making her his woman. In the Divine Realm, Tang San sensed that the seal he had placed on Xiao Wu had broken and realized events in the Lower Realm were beyond his control.

• Xiao Wu told Qian Ran she would rely on him and offered herself if he promised to avenge her Third Brother.
• Qian Ran agreed to kill Tang San and began an intimate encounter with Xiao Wu.
• Tang San sensed that Xiao Wu’s seal had broken, felt a piercing pain, and spat blood as his Divine Power fell into disarray.
• Tang San raged over who had taken Xiao Wu and feared that the same person would target Tang Wutong.

Tang San realized Xiao Wu was in trouble in the Lower Realm and decided to send Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong to investigate rather than risk exposing himself to the rest of the Shrek Seven Devils. Meanwhile, Qian Ran exploited Xiao Wu’s discovery of Tang San’s restriction to deepen her distrust of him and anticipated that Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong would be sent next.

• Tang San feared that asking the God Realm Committee for help would cost him the Asura God position, and he rejected asking Dai Mubai and the other men for help because they might learn what had happened to Xiao Wu.
• Tang San reasoned that Xiao Wu had likely been caught in a trap, since she had not used enough Asura Divine Power for him to sense it, and planned to send Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong to rescue her.
• Qian Ran played with Xiao Wu’s braid and took pleasure in the thought that Tang San could sense what he was doing.
• Qian Ran told Xiao Wu that Tang San had placed a restriction inside her, and Xiao Wu agreed as Qian Ran held her.
• Qian Ran predicted that Tang San would send Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong to the Lower Realm rather than involve Dai Mubai and the other men.

Xiao Wu became pregnant with Qian Ran’s child, and Qian Ran received an Enlightenment Tea Tree from the system. The tree transformed the Mustard Seed Ring into an Immortal Land, leaving Qian Ran and the others considering its potential as the foundation for his future Heavenly Court.

• Xiao Wu realized she was pregnant and accepted that she would give birth to Qian Ran’s child.
• The system rewarded Qian Ran with an Enlightenment Tea Tree after he obtained Xiao Wu.
• Qian Ran planted the tree in the Mustard Seed Ring, where it grew into a towering divine tree and helped nearby maids break through several cultivation levels.
• Qian Renxue, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Ye Xishui came to see the tree and marveled at its power to aid cultivation and enlightenment.
• Qian Renxue suggested the tree could help create powerful cultivators, while Qian Ran considered developing the Mustard Seed Ring into the headquarters of his future Heavenly Court.

Feng Ling brought Qian Ran sixty talented women to join his Maid Corps, including Soul Engineers and women sent by Xu Tianran. After reviewing the roster, Qian Ran allowed Feng Ling to cultivate in the Mustard Seed Ring after the tournament, leaving her eager to pursue greater power.

• Feng Ling presented Qian Ran with sixty women she had gathered and trained, twenty loyal to the Holy Spirit Cult and Xishui Alliance and ten sent by Xu Tianran.
• Qian Ran reviewed the roster, recognized Shang Yue among the recruits, and noted that most were Soul Engineers.
• Qian Ran praised Feng Ling's work and dismissed her, while Feng Ling mentioned talented women in the Ordinary Alliance, including Shangguan Wei'er.
• Feng Ling asked to cultivate in the Mustard Seed Ring, and Qian Ran granted her ten days there before promising she could stay longer after the tournament.
• Feng Ling thanked Qian Ran and set her sights on becoming a Demigod and eventually attaining Godhood.

After Xiao Wu told Huo Yuhao to stop pursuing Tang Wutong, he found Tang Wutong openly devoted to Qian Ran and was crushed by her rejection. Tang Wutong beat him after he lashed out, and Huo Yuhao decided to ask Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect to kill Qian Ran.

• Xiao Wu told Huo Yuhao not to pester Tang Wutong, and he left the conference room devastated.
• Tang Wutong spent time with Qian Ran and displayed his name tattooed on her body as proof of her love.
• Huo Yuhao saw them holding hands and accused Tang Wutong of betraying him, but she said they had never been together and that she had never liked him.
• Huo Yuhao insulted Qian Ran and Tang Wutong, so Tang Wutong knocked him down and beat him while he did not resist.
• Huo Yuhao blamed Qian Ran for bewitching Tang Wutong and Xiao Wu, then planned to use the Clear Sky Sect and Tang Hao to kill him.

Qian Ran learned that winning over Tang Wutong had rewarded him with two Divine Cores, which could let Demigods break through to godhood. Meanwhile, Tang Hao believed Huo Yuhao’s warning that Xiao Wu had been controlled and rushed to gather allies and awaken Ah Yin.

• Qian Ran told Tang Wutong he planned to wait for the Clear Sky Sect to arrive before dealing with them, and persuaded her to leave the decision about Tang Hao to him.
• Qian Ran received two Divine Cores from the system after winning over Tang Wutong and realized they could help his allies become gods.
• Tang Hao received Huo Yuhao’s letter, concluded Xiao Wu had been controlled, and decided to awaken Ah Yin.
• Tang Hao sent Da Ming and Er Ming with the Clear Sky Sect’s powerhouses to Mingdu, then flew to Shrek Academy, where Ah Yin slept within the Golden Tree.

Qian Ran gave Snow Empress and Ice Empress divine cores, explaining that the cores granted divine power but not divine authority. Ye Xishui grew envious and tried to persuade him to give her one, but he said he had only received two and invited her to go shopping instead.

• Qian Ran told Snow Empress and Ice Empress about the divine cores and placed one in each of their Seas of Consciousness.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress thanked Qian Ran and worried that Wang Dong'er and the others might resent their special treatment.
• Qian Renxue realized Qian Ran could potentially use divine cores to create many gods for his planned Heavenly Court.
• Ye Xishui asked Qian Ran for a divine core, but he said he had only had two and had given them to Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
• Ye Xishui suggested they go shopping, and Qian Ran told her to change into a JK uniform.

In Heaven Dou City, Long Xiaoyao discovered Ye Xishui had become Qian Ran’s woman and accepted their relationship despite his heartbreak. He asked to join Qian Ran’s forces so he could continue protecting Ye Xishui, and Qian Ran offered him a place as an elder of the Martial Soul Sect.

• Ye Xishui told Qian Ran that she was surprised Feng Ling had also become his woman, and he confirmed it.
• Long Xiaoyao saw Ye Xishui with Qian Ran, realized she had chosen Qian Ran, and offered them his blessing.
• Qian Ran apologized to Long Xiaoyao, who said he wanted to work under him so he could keep watch over Ye Xishui.
• Qian Ran offered Long Xiaoyao the position of elder in the Martial Soul Sect, and Long Xiaoyao happily accepted.

Ye Xishui accepted that she loved Qian Ran and accompanied him to the Xishui Alliance, where Feng Ling recognized her despite her mask and was stunned by her girlish outfit. Feng Ling compared herself unfavorably with Ye Xishui and began wondering how she could stand out among Qian Ran’s women.

• Ye Xishui decided she had chosen correctly and admitted that her feelings for Qian Ran were true love.
• Qian Ran sent Long Xiaoyao away and planned to bring the Holy Spirit Cult under his control and move it to the Undead World.
• Qian Ran and Ye Xishui went to the Xishui Alliance to watch the underground powers’ Soul Engineer Tournament.
• Feng Ling greeted Qian Ran and recognized Ye Xishui, whose JK uniform and white stockings surprised her.
• Feng Ling felt outmatched by Ye Xishui’s contrast between her status as a powerful Evil Soul Master and her sweet, youthful outfit.

Qian Ran arrived at the Mingdu Soul Engineer Tournament with Ye Xishui and Feng Ling, who competed for his attention before Feng Ling briefed him on the final round and its Level 9 Soul Tool prize. Their appearance together stunned the other powers, while Shangguan Wei'er anticipated that Zhongli Wu would punish Feng Ling.

• Ye Xishui used soul pressure against Feng Ling after Feng Ling challenged her, but withdrew it when Qian Ran intervened.
• Feng Ling pretended to cry against Qian Ran, then stopped when he told her to and explained the tournament's final round and prize.
• Qian Ran agreed to attend the competition and entered the Golden Hall with Feng Ling and the masked Ye Xishui.
• The Ordinary Alliance and Aodu Chamber of Commerce representatives were shocked to see Feng Ling openly with Qian Ran.
• Shangguan Wei'er assumed Zhongli Wu would be furious with Feng Ling and saw a chance to eliminate her rival.

At the Mingdu Soul Engineer Tournament, Qian Ran watched the Xishui Alliance and Ordinary Alliance compete and arranged for Xu Sanshi to receive special protection. He let Xue Lingxun see that Xu Sanshi was safe, then the two crossed paths with him after his victory, though Xu Sanshi did not recognize the masked women beside Qian Ran.

• Shangguan Wei'er confronted Feng Ling and declared that the Ordinary Alliance would win the tournament, while Feng Ling dismissed her confidence.
• Qian Ran admired the Ordinary Alliance's blue-dressed Soul Emperor, Lan Ruoruo, and Feng Ling offered to capture her for him.
• Xu Sanshi competed for the Xishui Alliance and defeated the Ordinary Alliance's red-dressed contestant; Qian Ran told Feng Ling to have the Xishui Alliance and Holy Spirit Cult look after him.
• Qian Ran brought Xue Lingxun to watch Xu Sanshi, and she felt relieved to see that he was well.
• After Xu Sanshi bowed to Qian Ran and Feng Ling, he noticed a familiar feeling from the masked beauties beside Qian Ran but did not pursue it.

Qian Ran met Ye Guyi in the tournament after checking in with her and obtaining the Holy Angel Sword. Ye Guyi unleashed her holy angel Martial Soul and attacked him with her Holy Sword, while Xue Lingxun narrowly avoided being recognized by Xu Sanshi.

• Qian Ran praised Xu Sanshi, who credited Qian Ran for his progress in the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xue Lingxun tried to move away from Qian Ran, but he pulled her into his arms; Xu Sanshi found her voice familiar without identifying her as his mother.
• Qian Ran left to compete against Ye Guyi, while Xue Lingxun worried that Xu Sanshi might discover their relationship.
• The system rewarded Qian Ran with the Divine Artifact Holy Angel Sword when he checked in with Ye Guyi.
• Ye Guyi condemned Qian Ran as an Evil Soul Master, released her holy angel Martial Soul, and attacked him with her fifth Soul Skill, Holy Sword.

Qian Ran used the Gate of the Undead to challenge Ye Guyi, who believed her holy power would let her defeat him. As Ye Guyi fought his increasingly powerful summons, Feng Ling revealed her intentions toward Shangguan Wei'er.

• Qian Ran opened the Gate of the Undead and summoned Soul King-level skeletons, most of which Ye Guyi swiftly destroyed with her holy sword.
• Qian Ran wagered that Ye Guyi would become his servant if she could not touch his clothes, and Ye Guyi accepted, confident she would win.
• Qian Ran summoned seven stronger Liches while Ye Guyi replenished her Soul Power with a Class 6 Milk Bottle Soul Tool and attacked them.
• Feng Ling told Shangguan Wei'er that Qian Ran could keep sending creatures from the Undead World until Ye Guyi was exhausted.
• Feng Ling asked Shangguan Wei'er to serve Qian Ran alongside her, leaving Shangguan Wei'er shocked to learn Feng Ling called him her young master.

Qian Ran overwhelmed Ye Guyi by summoning an enormous undead army and demanded that she honor their agreement and become his servant. Watching the display, Shangguan Wei'er realized how little the Ordinary Alliance could do against the Holy Spirit Cult and feared for her own safety.

• Feng Ling threatened Shangguan Wei'er and suggested she would be better off joining Qian Ran than leading the Ordinary Alliance.
• Ye Guyi, exhausted after destroying Qian Ran's undead creatures, believed she had finally won the fight.
• Qian Ran summoned ten Skeleton Dragons and then hundreds of undead creatures, filling the competition stage.
• The undead creatures bowed to Qian Ran, who stood atop the largest Skeleton Dragon and asked Ye Guyi whether she still wanted to fight.
• Qian Ran told Ye Guyi to honor their agreement and become his servant, while Shangguan Wei'er and the spectators were terrified by his power.