Chapter Summaries

Jiang Huai obtained a brutal light-attribute Soul Skill and advised Bibi Dong on developing Hu Liena’s mental abilities as she absorbed her third Soul Ring. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Yue Guan assessed Dugu Yan’s inherited poison and explained how Spirit Hall could temporarily prevent its backlash.

• Bibi Dong praised Jiang Huai’s serrated wheel Soul Skill and led him and Hu Liena deeper into the forest to hunt Hu Liena’s third Soul Ring.
• Hu Liena began absorbing a roughly 3,000-year-old Purple Spirit Bei Soul Ring while Jiang Huai considered ways to expand her mental-type abilities.
• Jiang Huai suggested that a Silver Hero Beast could give Hu Liena Mental Replication, and Bibi Dong agreed to consider his advice.
• Dugu Bo arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Dugu Yan, and Yue Guan identified signs of poison backlash from her Jade Phosphorous Serpent lineage.
• Yue Guan told Dugu Bo that medicinal herbs could move Dugu Yan’s toxins into a Soul Bone and suppress the backlash, while a permanent cure would depend on Dugu Bo’s contributions to Spirit Hall.

Hu Liena absorbed her third Soul Ring and gained a powerful weakening skill, while Bibi Dong resolved to recruit a Nether Civet Martial Soul wielder to support Jiang Huai’s cultivation. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Bibi Dong rewarded Dugu Bo, brought Dugu Yan into Spirit Hall as a nominal disciple, and prepared to return to Spirit City.

• Hu Liena’s third Soul Ring raised her Soul Power to level 35 and granted her Group Weakening, but her charm failed to affect Jiang Huai.
• Bibi Dong decided to recruit a Nether Civet Martial Soul wielder so Jiang Huai could cultivate alongside a compatible partner.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Bo temporarily dealt with his snake venom and gained a Soul Power level, while Yue Guan gave Bibi Dong the collected immortal herbs.
• Bibi Dong gave Dugu Bo a ten-thousand-year right leg Soul Bone and instructed him to remain undercover in Heaven Dou City after absorbing it.
• Bibi Dong accepted Dugu Yan as her nominal disciple and told her to cultivate diligently in Spirit City.

After returning to Spirit City, Jiang Huai spent his holiday exploring the city with Hu Liena, while Bibi Dong planned to bring Zhu Zhuyun to help him cultivate. Yan challenged Jiang Huai to a duel, but Gui Mei stopped the match before Jiang Huai could strike him with Ultra Slash.

• Bibi Dong gave Jiang Huai a holiday to consolidate his Soul Power and considered abducting Zhu Zhuyun, then Zhu Zhuqing, to help him cultivate.
• Bibi Dong left Gui Mei in charge of the Papal Hall's administration and told him to coordinate with Yue Guan about bringing Dugu Bo's granddaughter back.
• While walking with Hu Liena, Jiang Huai encountered Yan, who challenged him to a wagered duel after becoming jealous of their closeness.
• At the training ground, Jiang Huai revealed his thousand-year first Soul Ring and formed an Ultra Slash, shocking Yan and Xie Yue.
• Jiang Huai warned Yan to use his defensive Soul Skill, but Yan panicked as the Ultra Slash drew near; Gui Mei intervened before Jiang Huai could hit him.
• Gui Mei cautioned Jiang Huai to spar only in the Soul Fighting Arena or with a senior present, and Jiang Huai accepted.

Spirit Hall’s worshippers discussed Jiang Huai’s exceptional talent, while Old Qian considered how he might fit into Spirit Hall’s future. In the Star Luo Imperial City, Zhu Zhuqing was betrothed to Dai Mubai, but Bibi Dong suddenly seized Zhu Zhuyun at the Nether Duke’s Mansion.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other worshippers wondered how Jiang Huai had obtained a thousand-year first soul ring, while Old Qian dismissed him as no threat without a divine inheritance.
• Old Qian suggested that Jiang Huai and Tianyao spend more time together, and Golden Crocodile Douluo agreed to consider it.
• Zhu Zhuyun rejected Zhu Zhuqing and declared that the sisters were now competitors, while Dai Weisi warned Dai Mubai that their struggle had begun.
• Empress Zhu Tiancai confirmed Zhu Zhuqing’s betrothal to Dai Mubai and reminded Dai Weisi not to cross the empire’s public red lines.
• Bibi Dong appeared at the Nether Duke’s Mansion, seized Zhu Zhuyun, and checked that she was still untouched.

Bibi Dong took Zhu Zhuyun from the Star Luo Imperial Family to make her a disciple, forcing the family to surrender and provide their Martial Soul Fusion Skill cultivation notes. After Bibi Dong left for Spirit City, Dai Weisi demanded that his mother seek justice, but Zhu Tiancai recognized that war with Spirit Hall was out of the question.

• Dai Weisi insulted Bibi Dong after she abducted Zhu Zhuyun, but Zhu Tiancai slapped him and apologized to the Pope.
• Bibi Dong said she wanted Zhu Zhuyun as her disciple, while Dai Mubai welcomed the loss of his brother’s fiancée and Dai Weisi tried to object.
• Bibi Dong’s Soul Power pressure forced everyone to their knees, and Zhu Tiancai agreed that Zhu Zhuyun could become her disciple.
• Bibi Dong demanded the Dai and Zhu families’ cultivation insights for the Hell White Tiger, and Zhu Tiancai handed her the booklet.
• Bibi Dong declared Zhu Zhuyun severed from both families and flew with her toward Spirit City.
• Dai Weisi complained to Zhu Tiancai and urged her to make the emperor seek justice, but she saw that the family could not risk war with Spirit Hall.

After Bibi Dong took Zhu Zhuyun, Emperor Dai Tianfeng made Zhu Zhuqing the key to the contest between Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai for the crown prince position. Dai Weisi gained Zhu Tiancai’s support, while Dai Mubai vowed he would not give up Zhu Zhuqing.

• Zhu Tiancai brought Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Weisi, and Dai Mubai to the palace to report that Bibi Dong had taken Zhu Zhuyun.
• Dai Tianfeng learned that Zhu Zhuqing was the only exceptionally talented Nether Civet left in her generation and ordered that whichever prince formed the Hell White Tiger with her would distinguish himself in the crown prince contest.
• Dai Mubai protested the emperor’s decision, but Dai Tianfeng left with Zhu Tiancai without hearing him out.
• Dai Weisi secured Zhu Tiancai’s support and told Dai Mubai he would lose the contest and be given a comfortable life instead.
• Dai Mubai grew furious and insisted that nobody, not even Bibi Dong, could take Zhu Zhuqing away from him.

Bibi Dong brought Zhu Zhuyun to meet Jiang Huai and told her to help him cultivate the Hell White Tiger. After discovering his powerful White Tiger and twin Martial Souls, Zhu Zhuyun decided to secure her future by helping him, and they prepared to explore the Nether Civet Martial Soul.

• Bibi Dong took Zhu Zhuyun to Jiang Huai and said she would assist him in cultivating the Hell White Tiger.
• Jiang Huai revealed his White Tiger Martial Soul and Thousand-Year First Soul Ring, shocking Zhu Zhuyun.
• Zhu Zhuyun realized her ties to Spirit Hall had ended her chances of becoming Star Luo Empress and chose to ally herself with Jiang Huai.
• Jiang Huai revealed his Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul, and Zhu Zhuyun was thrilled to learn he had twin Martial Souls.
• Zhu Zhuyun activated her Martial Soul Possession and agreed to help Jiang Huai understand the Nether Civet Martial Soul.

Jiang Huai and Zhu Zhuyun successfully fused their Martial Souls into the Hell White Tiger and both reached Soul Power bottlenecks. Bibi Dong gave Zhu Zhuyun an Immortal Herb and said she had prepared Soul Rings for them, leaving them ready to advance further.

• Jiang Huai and Zhu Zhuyun fused their Martial Souls into the Hell White Tiger, exhausting their Soul Power.
• Zhu Zhuyun reached level 30, while Jiang Huai reached level 20, and they asked Bibi Dong for help finding Soul Rings.
• Zhu Zhuyun guessed Jiang Huai had other advantages helping him cultivate, but he denied it.
• Bibi Dong and Hu Liena arrived after hearing the tiger's roar, and Jiang Huai confirmed the fusion had succeeded.
• Bibi Dong gave Zhu Zhuyun the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, and Hu Liena explained that it could improve her talent.

After absorbing the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, Zhu Zhuyun joined Jiang Huai and Bibi Dong in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Jiang Huai sought a powerful light-attribute Soul Ring. He absorbed a Light Spirit’s ring, awakening stronger sacred power in his White Tiger Martial Soul and revealing the beginnings of a domain.

• Zhu Zhuyun finished absorbing the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, and Jiang Huai admired her jade-like appearance.
• Jiang Huai, Zhu Zhuyun, and Bibi Dong reached a gathering place of light-attribute Soul Beasts, where Jiang Huai aimed to obtain a Soul Ring suited to his Martial Soul.
• Bibi Dong brought a Light Spirit before Jiang Huai, and he used his Ultra Slash to drain its light energy before killing it.
• Jiang Huai absorbed the Light Spirit’s Soul Ring, causing his White Tiger Martial Soul to shine with greater sacred power and spread a luminous radiance around him.
• Bibi Dong recognized the radiance as the embryonic form of a domain and told Zhu Zhuyun that Jiang Huai’s sacred light might surpass that of the Six-Winged Angel by his third Soul Ring.

Jiang Huai absorbed his second Soul Ring, awakened the Holy Light Domain, and gained the Holy Light Shuttle skill before helping Zhu Zhuyun obtain her third Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Tang San remained troubled by the feeling that he had lost an important opportunity, and vowed to find whoever had taken it.

• Jiang Huai broke through to level 23 and formed the Holy Light Domain as he absorbed his Second Soul Ring.
• Jiang Huai told Bibi Dong that his second Soul Skill, Holy Light Shuttle, let him turn into light and reappear anywhere in his line of sight.
• Zhu Zhuyun absorbed a roughly two-thousand-year-old Netherworld Leopard Soul Ring, reached level 34, and gained Netherworld Slash.
• Bibi Dong told Jiang Huai and Zhu Zhuyun to train their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then said Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo would oversee them while she traveled to seek a mental-type Soul Bone.
• Tang San remained irritable despite training and following Xiao Gang’s guidance, then suspected someone had taken an opportunity meant for him and vowed to find them.

Qian Renxue learned that Bibi Dong was treating Jiang Huai like a son and, consumed by jealousy, decided to return to Spirit City and confront him. Meanwhile, Jiang Huai assembled a team to train in the Soul Fighting Arena, where the arrival of Tianyao and Golden Crocodile Douluo left everyone uneasy.

• Qian Renxue read the Worship Hall's report on Jiang Huai and flew into a rage over Bibi Dong's affection for him.
• Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance and Pufferfish to cover for her in Heaven Dou City while she returned to Spirit City.
• Jiang Huai gathered Hu Liena, Zhu Zhuyun, Dugu Yan, Xie Yue, and Yan to form a six-person team and compete in Spirit City's Soul Fighting Arena.
• Yue Guan warned Jiang Huai that revealing his unusual soul ring configuration could attract hostile factions, but Jiang Huai insisted Spirit City was safe.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo arrived with Tianyao, who complained about being sent to meet Jiang Huai, and Zhu Zhuyun pulled Jiang Huai behind her protectively.

Golden Crocodile Douluo agreed to protect Jiang Huai’s team as they competed in the Soul Fighting Arena, while Jiang Huai’s victories and Hell White Tiger fusion skill spread his fame across the continent. The other powers watched Spirit Hall and the Star Luo Empire, as Ning Fengzhi tried to provoke Clear Sky Douluo into acting against the young prodigy.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo entrusted his granddaughter to Yue Guan and Gui Mei’s care and promised to protect their seven-person team from hidden threats.
• News spread that Jiang Huai had a thousand-year second Soul Ring and wielded the Dai imperial family’s Hell White Tiger fusion skill with a young woman who possessed the Nether Civet Martial Soul.
• After a match, Jiang Huai boasted to his defeated opponents, while Zhu Zhuyun stopped other women from flirting with him by promising to bring Zhu Zhuqing to Spirit City to help him cultivate.
• Jiang Huai’s team won several more matches, and spies carried news of the team to the major powers as Golden Crocodile Douluo deterred anyone from attacking them.
• Ning Fengzhi warned that Jiang Huai could threaten the Upper Three Sects and spread news of him through the Heaven Dou Empire, hoping Clear Sky Douluo would respond.

Dai Tianfeng learned that Jiang Huai’s mother had died after he drove her away, while Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai plotted to protect their position. After hearing about Jiang Huai’s extraordinary Soul Rings, Tang Hao decided to seek him out and learn the method behind them.

• Dai Tianfeng learned that Jiang Huai’s mother, a woman he had once favored, had died after a severe illness, and he ordered an investigation into who had sent her away.
• Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai agreed to deal with the servants involved without implicating their mother, fearing Jiang Huai’s claim to the throne.
• Zhu Tiancai and Zhu Zhuyun considered how Jiang Huai’s rise and Spirit Hall’s support could benefit the Nether Zhu Family, even if Zhu Zhuqing had to suffer.
• News spread that Jiang Huai had become the Pope’s second disciple and possessed two thousand-year Soul Rings.
• Tang Hao questioned a tavern patron about Jiang Huai, then decided to visit Nuoding Academy and pursue the secret method for absorbing Soul Rings beyond one’s limits.

Tang Hao slaughtered people in a tavern and destroyed a nearby city, blaming Spirit Hall for the deaths before heading toward Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy. He met Yu Xiaogang, told him to find Spirit Hall’s secret technique for absorbing over-limit Soul Rings for Tang San, and left Tang San in his care.

• Tang Hao killed a frightened man in a tavern, then massacred those who tried to escape.
• Tang Hao used his Clear Sky Hammer to destroy a city near Nuoding City, killing thousands, and blamed Spirit Hall before leaving for the academy.
• Yu Xiaogang stayed up studying Jiang Huai’s rapid progress and wondered how the boy had become a Soul Grandmaster at seven.
• Tang Hao revealed himself to Yu Xiaogang as Tang San’s father and asked him to investigate Spirit Hall’s secret technique for absorbing Soul Rings beyond one’s level.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed he was already researching the technique and said approaching Bibi Dong could draw attention to Tang San.
• Tang Hao accepted Yu Xiaogang’s explanation and left Tang San in his care while he went to handle urgent business.

Tang San learned from Grandmaster Yu that Jiang Huai’s thousand-year first Soul Ring supposedly came from Soul Bones, and he began considering taking Jiang Huai’s bones for himself. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue returned to Spirit City to confront Jiang Huai but collided with Golden Crocodile Douluo, who recognized her.

• Grandmaster Yu told Tang San that Jiang Huai had likely used Soul Bones to obtain a thousand-year first Soul Ring and promised to help Tang San find Soul Bones later.
• Tang San decided that killing Jiang Huai and taking his Soul Bones could help his cultivation and be justified as opposing Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue returned to Spirit City with Uncle Pufferfish and Uncle Snake Lance, intending to confront Jiang Huai before visiting the Worship Hall.
• Qian Renxue saw Jiang Huai and Hu Liena fighting in the Soul Fighting Arena and charged at them with Angel Assault.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo rushed to intercept Qian Renxue, but both stopped when they recognized each other.

Qian Renxue returned to Spirit City and challenged Jiang Huai, only for his Holy Light Domain to suppress her sacred power. As Jiang Huai's attack grew stronger, Qian Renxue began to realize she could lose despite her higher cultivation.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo pulled back his strength after striking Qian Renxue, and Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Snake Lance, and Ci Xue rushed to the clash.
• Qian Renxue told Golden Crocodile Douluo she had returned to confront Jiang Huai, whom she blamed for taking Bibi Dong's affection.
• Jiang Huai, Zhu Zhuyun, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena separated from their fused forms as Qian Renxue summoned her Holy Sword and challenged them.
• Jiang Huai activated his Holy Light Domain and used Holy Light Shuttle to strike Qian Renxue's sword with a growing Ultra Slash.
• Qian Renxue discovered that Jiang Huai's attack absorbed her sacred power and suppressed her Six-Winged Angel attributes.

Jiang Huai and the others prepared to fight Qian Renxue after she threatened him, but Bibi Dong arrived and forced Qian Renxue to her knees. Bibi Dong agreed to spare Qian Renxue in exchange for the Worship Hall’s help hunting Soul Beasts to fill her second martial soul’s empty Soul Ring slots.

• Qian Renxue erupted in anger and threatened to teach Jiang Huai a lesson, while Zhu Zhuyun, Hu Liena, and the others rallied to defend him.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo removed Tianyao from the confrontation, and the other elders stayed out of the quarrel.
• Bibi Dong appeared and used her Soul Power pressure to force Qian Renxue to her knees, then criticized her for bullying the children.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo confronted Bibi Dong and asked what she intended to do, warning that he would oppose anything harmful to Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong asked the Worship Hall to help her hunt Soul Beasts for her second martial soul, and Golden Crocodile Douluo agreed in exchange for her sparing Qian Renxue.

Bibi Dong returned to Spirit City after encountering a powerful mermaid in the icy sea, then clashed with Qian Renxue over her sudden return. After learning the mermaid was a six-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beast, Bibi Dong resolved to pursue its Soul Ring and warned the Rakshasa God not to target Jiang Huai.

• Bibi Dong recalled killing a hundred-thousand-year mermaid for its Soul Bone before a powerful presence from the sea forced her to retreat and seek reinforcements.
• Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong, who reminded her that she had chosen her mission and declared, “I am the Pope!” Qian Renxue then flew away crying.
• Bibi Dong dismissed the others, praised Jiang Huai and Hu Liena’s cultivation, and returned to her secluded chamber to question the Rakshasa God about the mermaid’s power.
• The Rakshasa God revealed that the mermaid was a six-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beast, prompting Bibi Dong to covet its Soul Ring and reconsider letting Jiang Huai absorb the mermaid Soul Bone.
• The Rakshasa God offered to find divine inheritances for Jiang Huai, and Bibi Dong warned it not to target him, threatening it with her Eternal Wound.

Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu why Bibi Dong treated her unfairly, but he urged her to return to Heaven Dou City and promised to explain later. Bibi Dong killed the Sea Princess, absorbed her Soul Ring to reach rank ninety-nine, and prepared to use the Sea Princess's Soul Bone to advance Jiang Huai and nominate him as Holy Son.

• Qian Renxue told Qian Daoliu about her grievances with Bibi Dong, and he told her to return to Heaven Dou City while withholding his reasons.
• Bibi Dong and the worshippers battled the Sea Princess and slaughtered most of her people.
• The dying Sea Princess offered to sacrifice herself and leave Bibi Dong her Head Soul Bone in exchange for sparing her survivors, and Bibi Dong accepted.
• Bibi Dong absorbed the Sea Princess's Soul Ring and broke through to rank ninety-nine despite the Rakshasa God Trial's suppression.
• Bibi Dong retrieved the Sea Princess's Soul Bone and told the worshippers to return with her, asking them not to oppose Jiang Huai's nomination as Holy Son.

Bibi Dong gave Jiang Huai and Zhu Zhuyun powerful mermaid Soul Bones, raising them to their next Soul Power bottlenecks and granting them formidable spiritual abilities. After they finished absorbing the bones, Zhu Zhuyun privately told Bibi Dong that their Martial Soul Fusion Skill might be able to include a third person, and suggested her younger sister Zhu Zhuqing.

• Qian Daoliu tacitly accepted the possibility of Jiang Huai becoming Spirit Hall's Holy Son because he could serve as a suitable successor.
• Bibi Dong took Jiang Huai and Zhu Zhuyun to a secret chamber and gave them a hundred-thousand-year Wisdom Skull and a six-hundred-thousand-year Wisdom Skull from the Mermaid Clan.
• Jiang Huai and Zhu Zhuyun absorbed the Soul Bones under Bibi Dong's protection, reaching the Soul Power bottlenecks at levels thirty and forty respectively.
• Jiang Huai and Zhu Zhuyun gained Mermaid's Control and Mermaid Duet, abilities that strengthened their spiritual Soul Skills and could amplify the Hell White Tiger's spiritual damage.
• Zhu Zhuyun asked Bibi Dong to send Jiang Huai away, then explained that their fusion might accommodate another person and suggested her sister Zhu Zhuqing.