Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue learned that Bibi Dong’s disciple Gui Yuan was a nearly nine-year-old rank forty-eight Soul Ancestor with a deity’s inheritance, and that the seven Great Enshrined had gone to the Far North to hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Mirror Shadow Beast for him. Bibi Dong agreed to let Qian Renxue meet Gui Yuan the next morning, then sent Ghost Leopard Douluo to bring Gui Yuan and his guardians to the Pope’s Palace.

• Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong and asked where her grandfather and the other Great Enshrined had gone.
• Bibi Dong said the seven Great Enshrined had gone to the Far North to find a Hundred-Thousand-Year Mirror Shadow Beast for Gui Yuan, her disciple.
• Qian Renxue demanded to meet Gui Yuan, and Bibi Dong agreed to arrange a one-hour meeting the next morning.
• Bibi Dong sent Ghost Leopard Douluo to fetch Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Gui Yuan for the Pope’s Palace.
• Ghost Leopard found Yue Guan and Gui Mei asleep together on a sofa, woke them, and told them the Pope wanted Gui Yuan brought over.

Bibi Dong summoned Gui Yuan to meet Qian Renxue, who questioned him about his rapid cultivation, divine inheritance, and Martial Souls. Gui Yuan revealed that Yue Guan and Gui Mei were his fathers, leaving Qian Renxue astonished by the story of his unusual birth.

• Ghost Leopard hurried toward the Pope's Palace, keeping the earlier scene to himself.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei brought Gui Yuan to Bibi Dong, who told him that Qian Daoliu's granddaughter wanted to meet him and that she was disguised as Xue Qinghe.
• Qian Renxue questioned Gui Yuan about his age, Soul Power, hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring prospects, and cultivation path.
• Gui Yuan said his Martial Souls came from Yue Guan and Gui Mei, prompting Qian Renxue to ask whether they were his fathers.
• Yue Guan confirmed that he and Gui Mei were Gui Yuan's parents, and Gui Yuan explained what happened at Qiankun Asking Love Valley.

Gui Yuan showed Qian Renxue his Soul Core method, helping her understand why Qian Daoliu supported his search for a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. After Qian Renxue returned to Heaven Dou City, Gui Yuan asked Bibi Dong why she had been sent to impersonate the crown prince.

• Gui Yuan gave Qian Renxue his complete record of the Soul Core method and explained its benefits.
• Gui Yuan revealed that Bibi Dong had first succeeded in condensing a Soul Core after repeated explosions, embarrassing her as Qian Renxue listened.
• Qian Renxue decided to begin condensing a Soul Core once she reached the Soul Saint realm and resolved to spend more time cultivating.
• Qian Renxue accepted Gui Yuan's invitation to call her Sister Xue, then left the Pope's Palace for Heaven Dou City.
• Gui Yuan asked Bibi Dong why Qian Renxue had to infiltrate the Heaven Dou Imperial Family instead of cultivating in Spirit Hall.

Gui Yuan persuaded Bibi Dong to leave open the possibility of Qian Renxue returning to Spirit Hall, while his cultivation advanced to Level 49. In the Far North, Qian Daoliu’s group encountered the Ice Empress, and Golden Crocodile Douluo struck her down in their first clash.

• Bibi Dong told Gui Yuan that Qian Renxue could return to Spirit Hall if she chose to abandon her mission, and Gui Yuan left the Pope’s Palace with Yue Guan and Gui Mei.
• Three months later, Gui Yuan had advanced from Level 48 to Level 49, with one month remaining until his ninth birthday.
• Qian Daoliu and the six Revered Elders found the hundred-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast’s lair, and Qian Daoliu marked the beast before the group departed.
• The Ice Empress confronted Qian Daoliu’s group and identified herself as the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan’s sovereign with three hundred and ninety thousand years of cultivation.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo transformed into his Golden Crocodile King form and shattered the Ice Empress’s ice attack with a tail strike, sending her flying.

The Ice Empress escaped as Golden Crocodile and the others set out for Spirit Hall, hoping to tell Gui Yuan about the Soul Ring they had secured for him. Gui Yuan asked Bibi Dong for tougher combat training, and she promised to arrange a Soul Saint sparring instructor and introduce him to talented students at Spirit Hall Academy.

• The Ice Empress retreated, and Golden Crocodile chose not to pursue her because he wanted to preserve her Soul Ring for Gui Yuan’s second Martial Soul.
• Qian Daoliu led the group toward the outskirts of the Far North and back to Spirit Hall.
• Gui Yuan asked Bibi Dong where he could find real combat training, explaining that sparring with Xie Yue and Hu Liena was not enough.
• Bibi Dong offered to arrange a Soul Saint-level sparring instructor and introduce Gui Yuan to talented members of Spirit Hall Academy.
• Gui Yuan asked the instructor to fight him hard enough to test his limits, and Bibi Dong agreed to make the arrangements.

Qian Daoliu and the other six returned from the Far North with news of a hundred-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast, then learned that Gui Yuan’s Soul Rings grew older every year. On Gui Yuan’s ninth birthday, all four rings crossed into the ten-thousand-year range, strengthening his first Soul Skill.

• Qian Daoliu and the other six visited Gui Yuan and told him they had found a hundred-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast in the Far North’s core region.
• Gui Yuan revealed that his Soul Rings gained years of age every year, shocking Qian Daoliu and the other six.
• Golden Crocodile promised that the enshrined grandpas would accompany Gui Yuan to hunt the Mirror Shadow Beast when he reached Level 60.
• On his ninth birthday, Gui Yuan’s [Hedge Fund] Hex added four thousand five hundred years to each Soul Ring, turning his first ring black.
• Gui Yuan tested his strengthened first Soul Skill and confirmed that it increased his defense and resistance by seventy percent for five minutes.

Gui Yuan reached rank fifty and prepared to obtain his fifth Soul Ring, while Bibi Dong took him and Hu Liena to the Star Dou Great Forest. The chapter left them on the way to hunt for Soul Rings, with Gui Yuan expecting to absorb one around fifty-five to sixty thousand years old.

• Gui Yuan asked Bibi Dong to speak with Grandpa Qian about bringing Sister Xue back to Spirit Hall, and Bibi Dong agreed.
• Bibi Dong advised Gui Yuan to make his fifth Soul Skill an all-attribute boost and said she would search for suitable Soul Beasts.
• Over five months, Gui Yuan trained at Spirit Hall Academy, improved his combat skills under Lu Ka, and broke through to rank fifty.
• Three days later, Bibi Dong took Gui Yuan and Hu Liena to the Star Dou Great Forest after Hu Liena also reached rank fifty.
• Gui Yuan told Hu Liena he planned to absorb a Soul Ring at least fifty thousand years old, and she joked that his progress would make anyone comparing themselves to him shut down.

Bibi Dong took Gui Yuan and Hu Liena to the Star Dou Great Forest to find Soul Beasts for their fifth Soul Rings, while Gui Yuan considered how his changes might affect Hu Liena’s chances of obtaining an External Soul Bone. After ten days of searching, they had found no suitable beasts, and Gui Yuan was still seeking a Man Faced Demon Spider Emperor over fifty thousand years old.

• Gui Yuan reflected on his plans to help Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue reconcile and to strengthen his place in Bibi Dong’s heart.
• Bibi Dong traveled by carriage with Gui Yuan and Hu Liena, and they reached the Star Dou Great Forest ten days later.
• Gui Yuan considered how Hu Liena’s changed fifth Soul Skill might affect her chance of gaining a fox-tail External Soul Bone.
• Bibi Dong led the group through the forest’s mixed zone as they searched for suitable high-level Soul Beasts.
• After ten days of searching, the group camped without finding a suitable Soul Beast, and Gui Yuan continued targeting a Man Faced Demon Spider Emperor above fifty thousand years old.

Bibi Dong, Hu Liena, and Gui Yuan encountered a swarm of Man Faced Demon Spiders led by a nearly sixty-thousand-year-old Emperor in the Star Dou Great Forest. Bibi Dong took on the Emperor while her disciples fought the other spiders, and the battle began with Hu Liena attacking the swarm and Gui Yuan striking a ten-thousand-year spider.

• Bibi Dong, Hu Liena, and Gui Yuan continued searching the mixed zone for several days as Bibi Dong grew quiet.
• Bibi Dong halted the group in a web-covered woodland and identified a swarm of Man Faced Demon Spiders, including a nearly sixty-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider Emperor.
• Bibi Dong told Hu Liena and Gui Yuan to handle the other spiders while she fought the Emperor, then used her Pope's Scepter to push the swarm back and give them time to prepare.
• Gui Yuan created two food items, and Hu Liena consumed them along with a stored petal before releasing her Demon Fox Martial Soul and using her third Soul Skill.
• Hu Liena bombarded the hundred-year and thousand-year spiders with Foxfire while Gui Yuan trapped a ten-thousand-year spider with Ghost Hands and blasted it with Shadow Balls.

Bibi Dong killed the Man Faced Demon Spider Emperor, and Gui Yuan absorbed its sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring. He gained the Singular Velvet Spider Emperor Chrysanthemum skill, and the group planned to find a Soul Beast for Hu Liena the next morning.

• Bibi Dong used her Soul-Eating Spider Emperor abilities to pursue and cripple the Man Faced Demon Spider Emperor as its offspring fled.
• Gui Yuan delivered the final blow, killing the Man Faced Demon Spider Emperor and releasing its Soul Ring.
• Gui Yuan absorbed the sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring while Bibi Dong guarded him through the Soul Shock.
• Gui Yuan awakened his fifth Soul Skill, Singular Velvet Spider Emperor Chrysanthemum, which increased all his attributes by one hundred percent for five minutes but left him weakened afterward.
• Bibi Dong said the group would rest and search for a suitable Soul Beast for Hu Liena the next morning.

Bibi Dong confronted Er Ming, the Titan Giant Ape, after he recognized her as the killer of Xiao Wu’s mother and attacked her. Gui Yuan carried Hu Liena away so Bibi Dong could fight freely, while she aimed to drive Er Ming back before his brother arrived.

• Bibi Dong sensed danger at the camp and told Gui Yuan to take Hu Liena away if the situation worsened.
• Er Ming emerged from the forest, and Bibi Dong revealed her Soul-Eating Spider Emperor Avatar and two hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings.
• Er Ming recognized one of Bibi Dong’s rings as his aunt’s and attacked her to avenge Xiao Wu’s mother.
• Gui Yuan used Spatial Shuttle to carry Hu Liena far from the camp, explaining that staying would only burden Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong realized why Er Ming hated her and prepared to drive him away before the Sky Azure Bull Python could join the fight.

Bibi Dong fought Er Ming in the Star Dou Great Forest, using her domains, poison, and Soul Skills to wound him and drive him to call for help. Meanwhile, Gui Yuan and Hu Liena fled through the forest and encountered Sword Dao Chen Xin and Ning Rongrong beside a campfire.

• Bibi Dong clashed with Er Ming, countered his Gravity Domain with two domains of her own, and injured him with her scythe.
• Er Ming struck Bibi Dong with Titan Sky Shatter, but she blocked it and used her Spider Emperor Clone to attack him from both sides.
• Bibi Dong's clone detonated, leaving Er Ming wounded and poisoned; he recognized her Eternal Wound Soul Skill and roared to summon Da Ming.
• Gui Yuan used repeated spatial jumps to carry Hu Liena to a safer area, but the effort left him pale and exhausted.
• Gui Yuan and Hu Liena found Sword Dao Chen Xin and Ning Rongrong beside a stream, and Gui Yuan recognized them.

Gui Yuan and Hu Liena encountered Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Ning Rongrong after fleeing a hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape. Gui Yuan claimed they belonged to the hidden Body Sect, and Chen Xin offered to save their teacher in exchange for an introduction to the sect.

• Chen Xin questioned Gui Yuan and Hu Liena about their identities after noticing Gui Yuan's powerful External Soul Bone and cultivation.
• Gui Yuan warned Chen Xin and Ning Rongrong that a hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape was in the mixed zone and claimed their teacher had stayed behind to protect them.
• Chen Xin suspected Gui Yuan and Hu Liena were from Spirit Hall, so Gui Yuan invented the hidden Body Sect and said its sect master was his teacher.
• Gui Yuan demonstrated his Soul Martial Soul, releasing Netherworld Power and claiming that his Martial Soul was his soul.
• Chen Xin introduced himself as Sword Douluo and offered to rescue Gui Yuan's teacher if Gui Yuan arranged a visit to the Body Sect.

Gui Yuan and Hu Liena kept up their cover story while staying at Chen Xin’s camp, and Bibi Dong’s fight with Er Ming ended when Da Ming arrived and carried his injured brother into the forest. The story left Gui Yuan under Chen Xin’s watch and the two spirit beasts fleeing Bibi Dong.

• Gui Yuan and Hu Liena claimed their teachers had been lost to the Titan Giant Ape, and Ning Rongrong introduced herself and praised her Grandpa Sword’s strength.
• Chen Xin declined to search for the teachers but invited Gui Yuan and Hu Liena to stay overnight, and they accepted while trying to preserve their cover story.
• Bibi Dong wounded Er Ming with her sixth Soul Skills and left him poisoned and near collapse.
• Da Ming arrived, learned Bibi Dong had hunted Auntie, and decided the brothers could not defeat her.
• Da Ming and Er Ming used their domains to hinder Bibi Dong, then fled toward the forest’s depths.

Bibi Dong caught up with Gui Yuan and Hu Liena after Gui Yuan repeatedly used Spatial Shuttle to escape Chen Xin, and she carried the exhausted Gui Yuan back to the camp. Chen Xin and Ning Rongrong learned that the two were Spirit Hall disciples, and Chen Xin asked whether Gui Yuan’s stated name, age, and Soul Martial Soul were true.

• Bibi Dong sensed a powerful presence near Gui Yuan and Hu Liena and flew toward them.
• Gui Yuan used Spatial Shuttle repeatedly to bring Hu Liena to Bibi Dong, exhausting himself in the process.
• Bibi Dong reached the pair, gave Gui Yuan the Singular Velvet Life-Giving Pistil, and carried him back to camp.
• Chen Xin and Ning Rongrong confronted Gui Yuan and Hu Liena after realizing they had claimed to belong to the Body Sect.
• Gui Yuan apologized for lying, and Chen Xin asked whether the name, age, and Soul Martial Soul he had given were real.

Gui Yuan revealed his real name and age to Chen Xin and Ning Rongrong before Bibi Dong led him and Hu Liena away from the Star Dou Great Forest. As they traveled, Gui Yuan invited Ning Rongrong to Spirit Hall and advised her to seek a Soul Bone; Hu Liena then teased him about liking Ning Rongrong.

• Gui Yuan admitted he was a little over nine and said Gui Mei was his second dad, surprising Chen Xin and Ning Rongrong.
• Hu Liena confirmed her name, and Bibi Dong thanked Chen Xin before warning him that both a hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape and a Sky Azure Bull Python were in the forest.
• As Bibi Dong left with her disciples, Gui Yuan invited Ning Rongrong to visit Spirit Hall and suggested that she ask her father for a suitable Soul Bone.
• After Gui Yuan recovered some Soul Power, Bibi Dong set him down, and she felt conflicted as she saw his pale face.
• Hu Liena leaned toward Gui Yuan and asked whether he had taken a fancy to Ning Rongrong.

Gui Yuan discussed Spirit Hall’s plans to pressure the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and establish a nation, while Ning Rongrong and Chen Xin left the Star Dou Great Forest. Bibi Dong stayed with Gui Yuan and Hu Liena, and the next morning she led them into the mixed zone to find a suitable Soul Beast for Hu Liena.

• Gui Yuan told Hu Liena he had no romantic interest in Ning Rongrong and explained that he had invited her to Spirit Hall while considering how it might bring the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect under Spirit Hall’s influence.
• Gui Yuan proposed using Spirit Hall’s victory in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament to display its strength and announce plans to establish a nation, and Bibi Dong approved of his insight.
• Ning Rongrong complained to Chen Xin about Gui Yuan’s invitation and his advice about Soul Bones, while Chen Xin urged her to seek a high-quality offensive Soul Bone and said she might break the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Martial Soul flaw.
• Ning Rongrong asked Chen Xin to leave the Star Dou Great Forest, and they departed after she had obtained her second Soul Ring.
• Da Ming brought the badly wounded Er Ming to a lake, where Er Ming lamented that Bibi Dong was too powerful for Xiao Wu to avenge their loss.
• Bibi Dong chose to remain in the forest with Gui Yuan and Hu Liena, then led them into the mixed zone at dawn to search for a fox-type Soul Beast for Hu Liena.

Bibi Dong led Gui Yuan and Hu Liena into the Star Dou Great Forest, where Hu Liena and Gui Yuan defeated a twenty-thousand-year-old Azure Flame Nether Fox. As Hu Liena absorbed its Soul Ring, an External Soul Bone emerged from her tailbone.

• Bibi Dong brought Gui Yuan and Hu Liena to a valley and identified a twenty-thousand-year-old Azure Flame Nether Fox.
• Hu Liena attacked the fox with her Demon Fox abilities and used Mental Detonation to stun and scorch its mind.
• Gui Yuan struck the fox's hind-leg joint with a Shadow Ball, and Hu Liena finished it with a Flame Ball and Foxfire.
• Hu Liena began absorbing the fox's black Soul Ring while Gui Yuan and Bibi Dong kept watch.
• A day later, an azure fox tail formed at Hu Liena's tailbone, and Bibi Dong recognized it as an External Soul Bone.

Hu Liena absorbed her fifth Soul Ring and an External Soul Bone, gaining a new Soul Skill before she and Gui Yuan returned to Spirit Hall with Bibi Dong. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Chen Xin reported their encounter and Gui Yuan’s strength, and Gu Rong proposed killing him while Ning Rongrong silently objected.

• Hu Liena awakened with her Soul Power increased to Level 52 and an External Soul Bone, then demonstrated her fifth Soul Skill, Azure Flame Soul Devouring.
• Gui Yuan suggested ways Hu Liena could combine her new Soul Skill with her earlier abilities, and Bibi Dong led them back to Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong considered using Ghost Leopard and Ling Yuan alongside two other Titled Douluo to hunt the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, and thought about giving Gui Yuan one of the Soul Bones.
• Chen Xin told Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong about meeting Bibi Dong, Hu Liena, and Gui Yuan in the Star Dou Great Forest, and estimated Bibi Dong’s strength at Level 97 or 98.
• Gu Rong called Gui Yuan a future scourge and suggested killing him, while Ning Rongrong quietly struggled with her lingering favorable impression of him.

Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong discussed Spirit Hall’s growing power but found no workable way to oppose it. After returning to Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong ordered preparations to hunt the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python and promised Gui Yuan a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone if the operation succeeded.

• Ning Fengzhi stopped Gu Rong from targeting Gui Yuan and warned that provoking Spirit Hall could destroy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong discussed Spirit Hall’s strength and the sects’ lack of unity, but came up with no concrete plan.
• Bibi Dong returned to Spirit Hall with Gui Yuan and Hu Liena, then briefed Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Ghost Leopard, and Ling Yuan about the two hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts and their encounter with Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi’s daughter.
• Bibi Dong ordered the four Titled Douluo to prepare for a hunt in half a month and had Gui Mei watch the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Titled Douluo.
• Bibi Dong promised Gui Yuan one of the Soul Beasts’ Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones if the hunt succeeded.
• Gui Mei told Gui Yuan about the planned operation, and Gui Yuan realized his presence had led Bibi Dong to discover the Soul Beasts early.