Chapter Summaries

Lin Rong defeated the Clear Sky Sect’s Seventh Elder with a Thunder True Dragon while the other battles in the valley continued. The Dragon Snake Couple had killed the Fourth Elder but were exhausted and faced the wounded Fifth Elder, whom Meng Shu still hoped to defeat for his Soul Bone.

• The Seventh Elder tried to destroy Lin Rong’s forming Thunder True Dragon, but banyan roots blocked his Clear Sky Hammers and sent him flying.
• Lin Rong unleashed the Thunder True Dragon, and the Seventh Elder met its attack with his eighth Soul Ring’s blazing hammer strike.
• The Seventh Elder’s Soul Power ran out, allowing the Thunder True Dragon to pierce through and kill him, leaving no Soul Tool behind.
• Lin Rong noted that Dugu Bo was clearing enemies efficiently and that Grandpa Yu was suppressing two elders, while the Dragon Snake Couple’s fight was going poorly.
• The Dragon Snake Couple and the Fifth Elder were left exhausted after the Fourth Elder died saving him, and Meng Shu resolved to defeat the Fifth Elder for his Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.

Lin Rong finished off the remaining Clear Sky Sect elders and distributed Soul Bones to his allies. He sent Dugu Bo to deliver the elders’ jade statues to Tang Yuehua, while planning to recruit Yang Wudi after reaching level sixty.

• Lin Rong gave Meng Shu the Green Wood Twin Lotus Right Leg Bone as a reward for completing half the mission.
• Lin Rong and Old Butler Yu Yuan killed the Clear Sky Sect’s Second Elder and Third Elder with Star Casting Jade, turning them into irreversible jade statues.
• Dugu Bo arrived and received the more than forty-thousand-year Left Arm Bone as his reward.
• Lin Rong ordered Dugu Bo to secretly place the statues beside the ailing Tang Yuehua and make her death appear natural if necessary.
• Lin Rong planned to recruit Yang Wudi after reaching level sixty and defeating him, then have him treat Dugu Bo’s poison.

Tang San showed little reaction to Tang Yuehua’s death and focused on claiming her inheritance, while nobles gathered for her funeral in Heaven Dou City. Salas arrived uninvited and challenged the funeral’s hosts, leaving the ceremony tense as Lin Rong watched for an opportunity to undermine Tang San.

• Tailong told Tang San that Tang Yuehua had died, and Tang San thought about taking possession of her savings and Moonlight Pavilion.
• Nobles and members of the royal family attended Tang Yuehua’s funeral, where Ning Fengzhi noticed Tang San’s emotional change and the absence of Tang Xiao and Tang Hao.
• Lin Rong recognized Tang San’s anger toward him and discussed Salas’s approach with Old Butler, then planned to use the funeral’s chaos to expose Tang San’s Dragon Whisker Needles to the royal family.
• Salas entered the cemetery uninvited and accused the hosts of disregarding Spirit Hall’s dignity.
• Salas approached Tang Yuehua’s coffin and complained that he had not been told about the funeral in time to prepare flowers.

At Yue’s funeral, Salas provoked the mourners by throwing Lycoris Radiata at the coffin, and Tang San escalated the dispute by demanding a bet. Salas struck Tang San down with Soul Power, after which Lin Rong’s hidden influence drove Tang San to attack with Dragon Whisker Needles, leaving the royal family stunned.

• Salas tossed a bouquet of Lycoris Radiata toward the coffin, and Xue Qinghe knocked it aside with a sleeve arrow.
• Xue Xing warned Salas that the Royal Knights could provide white chrysanthemums, but Tang San objected to letting Salas’s offense pass without consequence.
• Ning Fengzhi tried to calm the dispute and urged Tang San through Soul Power Telepathy to back down, but Tang San challenged Salas to a bet and demanded that Salas kneel if he lost.
• Salas unleashed Soul Douluo pressure that forced Tang San to the ground and made him cough blood.
• Lin Rong sent a spiritual spike into Tang San’s sea of consciousness, prompting Tang San to fire Dragon Whisker Needles at Salas, whose Soul Power barrier stopped them.
• Salas examined a Dragon Whisker Needle and suppressed his urge to kill Tang San out of fear of Tang Hao, while Xue Xing and Xue Qinghe reacted to the hidden weapons.

Xue Xing and Xue Qinghe recognized the golden pellets at the scene as evidence implicating Tang San in the theft of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, but they chose to leave the matter to Emperor Xue Ye. The next day, Tang San learned that the Royal Family had seized his aunt’s inheritance and demanded funeral expenses, while Emperor Xue Ye refused to explain his plans for dealing with him.

• During the All-Continent Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament, Xue Qinghe and Xue Xing identified the golden pellets as a clue linking Tang San to the theft of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and agreed to let Emperor Xue Ye decide what to do.
• Xue Xing and Xue Qinghe ignored Salas’s dispute with Tang San, so Salas forced Tang San to kowtow three times before leaving.
• The next day, Tailong told the injured Tang San that the Royal Family had seized Moonlight Pavilion and its assets and demanded that he pay its funeral expenses.
• Tang San saw the huge bill, spat blood, and fainted, prompting Tailong to rush out for an apothecary.
• Xue Xing urged Emperor Xue Ye to demand Tang San’s hidden-weapon blueprints as compensation, but Emperor Xue Ye said he had his own plans and told Xue Xing to focus on the academy.

After Xue Ye ordered the Royal Knights to protect the Imperial Palace, Lin Rong studied the knights’ commanders and considered how to gain control of them. Three months later, Lin Rong broke through to level sixty.

• Xue Ye gave up on recovering the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and ordered the Royal Knights to tightly surround the Imperial Palace.
• Lin Rong reviewed intelligence on Xue Zhong, Jin Wen, and Zong Xuan, deciding to approach Jin Wen and deal with the other two.
• Lin Rong credited Dugu Bo with obtaining the intelligence and resolved to reach level sixty so he could help detoxify Dugu Bo with Yang Wudi.
• After three months of cultivation, Lin Rong broke through to level sixty during a heavy snowfall.

During a snowy winter at the Manor, Lin Rong decided he and Old Butler would travel by air with the Nine Bend Vine Dragon rather than wait for the roads to clear. As he waited to depart, he reviewed how Yu Xiaogang’s schemes had strained his relationships and how Tang San had turned his attention to cultivation.

• Lin Rong agreed with Old Butler to set off without a carriage, using the Nine Bend Vine Dragon to fly despite the heavy snow.
• Lin Rong recalled that Yu Xiaogang’s reunion with Liu Erlong had intensified his longing for Bibi Dong, and he expected Yu Xiaogang might eventually seek answers from her in Spirit City.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit Tang San as his disciple, but Tang San rejected him and drove him out of the Tang Sect.
• Dai Mubai argued fiercely with Yu Xiaogang over the failed recruitment, but the two reconciled while concealing the rift between them.
• The Tang Sect’s orders from Heaven Dou City’s nobles fell sharply, and Tang San handed over its affairs so he could devote himself to cultivation.

Lin Rong reached the Blue Silver Forest and confronted the Blue Silver King, persuading it to accept nine drops of Royal Blood Essence and become the Blue Silver Emperor. The Blue Silver King swallowed the essence, and its transformation began.

• A Shadow Guard reported Jin Wen’s drunken complaints about the Royal Family to Lin Rong, who planned to deepen their friendship before revealing his purpose.
• The Nine Bend Vine Dragon carried Lin Rong and Old Butler south to the Blue Silver Forest, where Lin Rong used the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone to find the Blue Silver King.
• Lin Rong pressured the Blue Silver King with the Nine Bend Vine Dragon’s Dragon Might and said he intended to absorb its Soul Ring, but promised to spare the other Blue Silver Grass.
• Lin Rong offered the Blue Silver King nine drops of Royal Blood Essence and argued that it was destined to become the Blue Silver Grass clan’s emperor.
• The Blue Silver King overcame its hesitation and swallowed all nine drops of blue blood.

Lin Rong received the Blue Silver Emperor’s sacrificed Soul Ring and absorbed it safely, raising his Soul Power to level sixty-four. As Grandpa Yu regretted that the emperor had left no Soul Bone, Lin Rong hinted that their luck might not be over.

• The Blue Silver King’s bloodline transformed into that of the Blue Silver Emperor, though its cultivation remained above eighty-five thousand years.
• The Blue Silver Emperor chose to sacrifice itself, and Lin Rong explained to Grandpa Yu that the grass’s flames were part of the sacrifice.
• The Blue Silver Emperor became a black Soul Ring that settled over Lin Rong’s Nine Bend Vine Dragon, while its soul energy merged into the ring.
• Lin Rong absorbed the Soul Ring in less than fifteen minutes and reached the peak of level sixty-four Soul Power.
• Lin Rong noticed Grandpa Yu regretting the missing Soul Bone, then opened his palm and asked him what he saw.

Lin Rong explained the Emperor Sacred Spear and his new Vine Dragon Prison Heaven Array to Old Butler, then planned to use Shi Nian’s Nightmare ability to make Tang San reveal the Mysterious Heaven Skill’s mental cultivation formula. The chapter left Lin Rong preparing to pursue that plan while intending to defeat Yang Wudi head-on with the spear.

• Lin Rong showed Old Butler the Emperor Sacred Spear, a weapon-type External Soul Bone formed from the Blue Silver Emperor’s soul energy.
• Lin Rong explained the spear’s soul skill enhancements, interruption ability, and Spirit Attachment with his Nine Bend Vine Dragon.
• Lin Rong agreed with Old Butler that the spear paired well with Dragon Soul Clone and confirmed he would challenge Yang Wudi head-on.
• Lin Rong described the Vine Dragon Prison Heaven Array, which trapped enemies in a vast, shifting Banyan Forest and could absorb ambient Soul Power.
• Lin Rong considered how Tang Hao’s death and the Blue Silver King’s fate might affect Tang San’s martial soul, but judged it irrelevant to his plan.
• Lin Rong decided to ask Shi Nian to use Nightmare to make Tang San reveal the Mysterious Heaven Skill’s mental cultivation formula in his sleep.

Bibi Dong oversaw Spirit Hall’s secret political gains while nursing hatred toward Qian Daoliu and the world. After completing Rakshasa’s Fifth Trial and beginning the Sixth, she feared the Rakshasa Secret Realm’s negative emotions would make her forget Xiao Gang.

• Guang Yue and Ghostly reported that the kings of several kingdoms and duchies had secretly agreed to submit to Spirit Hall, and Bibi Dong dismissed them.
• Bibi Dong vowed to destroy Qian Daoliu’s Angel Lineage and the world, then entered the Rakshasa Secret Realm in her transformed form.
• Bibi Dong learned that Rakshasa’s Fifth Trial was ninety-five percent complete, then completed it and received ten percent Rakshasa Affinity.
• As the Sixth Trial began, the realm’s negative emotions threatened Bibi Dong’s memories, and she pleaded not to forget Xiao Gang.

Bibi Dong left the Rakshasa Secret Realm and remembered her first love, while Yu Xiaogang secretly mourned her and Liu Erlong discovered his portrait. Shi Nian intensified his Nightmare attack on Yu Xiaogang, then met Lin Rong, who revealed Tang San’s origins and gave Shi Nian a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone as advance payment for completing his mission.

• Bibi Dong left the Rakshasa Secret Realm and fondly wondered whether Xiaogang had been well.
• Yu Xiaogang drew Bibi Dong’s portrait and hid it when Liu Erlong brought him dinner; Liu Erlong found the portrait, burned it, and left in tears.
• Shi Nian watched the exchange, condemned Yu Xiaogang, and used Nightmare on him while he slept.
• Lin Rong summoned Shi Nian and gave him a written account of Tang San’s origins, warning him not to ask questions.
• Lin Rong offered Shi Nian a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone as an advance reward, and Shi Nian promised to complete the mission.

Lin Rong gave Shi Nian a thirty-three-thousand-year soul bone, strengthening Shi Nian’s cultivation and renewing his hope of reaching the Titled Douluo realm. Eager to obtain the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Shi Nian began his mission against Tang San and used special incense to put him to sleep.

• Lin Rong gave Shi Nian the Green Wood Twin Lotus Left Leg Bone, which Shi Nian absorbed and used to raise his soul power to the beginning of rank seventy-four.
• Shi Nian reflected that he needed more powerful soul bones to overcome the rank-ninety bottleneck and recalled his ambition to reach the Titled Douluo realm.
• Shi Nian resolved to obtain the Mysterious Heaven Skill’s mental cultivation formula from Tang San, hoping to earn permission to practice it.
• When night came, Shi Nian entered the Tang Sect residence and reached the sect master’s bedroom without being noticed.
• Shi Nian lit the Rosemary incense Lin Rong had prepared and sent its smoke into the bedroom, causing Tang San to fall asleep.

Shi Nian trapped Tang San in an illusion that convinced him his life in another world had been a coma dream and that he had returned to Tang Sect. After Tang San transcribed the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record inside the illusion, Shi Nian erased his memories of the dream and left before dawn.

• Shi Nian used Nightmare True Body to create an illusion based on Lin Rong’s design.
• In the illusion, Tang San woke from a half-month coma after falling from Ghost’s Worry, and Tang Lan told him he would inherit the Tang Sect leadership.
• Tang Da forgave Tang San for stealing the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record after citing his talent and creation of Buddha’s Fury Tang Lotus.
• Over the following years, Tang San recovered, joined the inner sect, and came to believe his eleven years in another world had been a dream.
• After becoming Sect Master, Tang San transcribed the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record in the illusion and handed it to Shi Nian.
• Shi Nian collapsed the illusion, fed Tang San Forget Worry Grass to erase his dream memories, and left the Tang Sect before dawn.

Lin Rong distributed Tang San’s secret arts among his allies and guards, sparking a winter training frenzy. In early spring, Old Butler opened his final blocked extraordinary meridian and completed a perfect circulation of Mysterious Heaven Skill.

• Tang San woke after collapsing during cultivation, and Tai Tan suggested exhaustion had caused him to pass out.
• Lin Rong gave Shi Nian annotated cultivation guides for Mysterious Heaven Skill, Purple Demon Eye, and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, then translated the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record into the characters of Douluo Continent.
• Lin Rong organized cultivation of the secret arts among the Lin clan’s guards, Old Butler, Dugu Bo’s family, the Dragon Snake Couple’s family, Ma Hongjun, and Xu Pan, assigning different arts according to their needs.
• The winter passed as Lin Rong’s circle trained, and Old Butler cultivated Mysterious Heaven Skill to the realm of Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown.
• Old Butler broke through the bottleneck of his Ren Meridian, opened all Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and completed a perfect grand circulation of Mysterious Heaven Skill.

After the Old Butler opened his final meridian and advanced his Soul Power, Lin Rong told Dugu Bo they would set out to find Yang Wudi the next morning. He warned Dugu Bo to keep the supreme arts secret and ordered him to pass the warning to Dugu Yan.

• The Old Butler finished opening all eight meridians, gained more than half a level of Soul Power, and bathed before leaving the quiet room with Lin Rong.
• Dugu Bo pressed Lin Rong to hurry and seek Yang Wudi, hoping to free himself and Dugu Yan from their martial soul backlash poison.
• Lin Rong asked whether Dugu Yan had told Yu Tianheng about the supreme arts, then warned that anyone who leaked their existence would be killed.
• Lin Rong told Dugu Bo to set out early the next morning and to pass his warning on to Dugu Yan.
• On his way home, Dugu Bo realized Dugu Yan had not seen Yu Tianheng during her recent cultivation and decided to relay Lin Rong's threat.

Lin Rong’s party arrived in Dian Du City for the Hundred Flowers Appreciation Convention, where Dugu Bo planned to confront Ju Hua Guan. Guang Yue and Ghostly were also traveling to the city, with Guang Yue eager to spend money on rare flowers.

• Lin Rong told Dugu Bo that Ju Hua Guan and Ghostly would attend the convention and agreed that Dugu Bo could fight Ju Hua Guan if he brought him back.
• Lin Rong’s party rented a courtyard in Dian Du City and learned Ju Hua Guan was expected to arrive the next day.
• Guang Yue complained to Ghostly about lacking a soul bone and said he would buy every rare flower he liked at the convention.
• Ghostly tried to cheer Guang Yue by suggesting he might find a flower like his martial soul, but Guang Yue said an Immortal Grade Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum could not be cultivated.

Lin Rong arranged for Dugu Bo to lure Guang Yue and Ghostly out of Dian Du City, then joined the pursuit and trapped them in the Vine Dragon Prison Heaven Array. Guang Yue and Ghostly prepared to fight back against Lin Rong, Old Butler, and Dugu Bo.

• Lin Rong sensed Guang Yue and Ghostly approaching Dian Du City and sent Dugu Bo to intercept them and draw them into the wilderness.
• Dugu Bo destroyed Guang Yue’s carriage and fled, while Ghostly pursued him and Guang Yue caught up, furious over the damaged flowers.
• Lin Rong knocked out the coachman, hid him and the carriage wreckage, and followed the others with Old Butler.
• Deep in the forest, Dugu Bo stopped and taunted Guang Yue and Ghostly as Lin Rong and Old Butler appeared beside him.
• Ghostly sensed danger and tried to flee with Guang Yue, but Lin Rong transformed the trees and sealed their escape with the Vine Dragon Prison Heaven Array.
• Guang Yue and Ghostly prepared to make a last stand, and Guang Yue activated the true body of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

Lin Rong used the Emperor Sacred Spear to interrupt Guang Yue and Ghostly’s Martial Soul Avatars, then tried to recruit them by exposing their grievances with Spirit Hall. He hinted that his offer was something Guang Yue had long desired, and Guang Yue recognized it as a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

• Lin Rong’s Emperor Sacred Spear interrupted Guang Yue and Ghostly’s Martial Soul Avatars, leaving their seventh soul skills unusable for seven days.
• Lin Rong sent Dugu Bo away and invited Guang Yue and Ghostly to talk over tea inside the Vine Dragon Prison Heaven Array.
• Lin Rong recounted how Guang Yue and Ghostly had served Bibi Dong without receiving substantive rewards, prompting Ghostly to recognize the recruitment attempt.
• Guang Yue challenged Lin Rong to name an offer valuable enough to make them leave Spirit Hall, and Lin Rong dismissed wealth and status as inadequate incentives.
• Lin Rong hinted that his offer was one of Guang Yue’s greatest desires, and Guang Yue released his Martial Soul and asked whether Lin Rong had a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

Lin Rong secured Guang Yue and Ghostly’s loyalty by giving them Immortal Grade Medicinal Herbs and offered them access to his supreme arts if they earned Dugu Bo’s approval. Guang Yue went to Dugu Bo that night to seek approval and was ordered to wash his feet, leaving him alone with Dugu Bo in the hall.

• Guang Yue accepted Lin Rong’s Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and pledged to serve him, while mistaking Lin Rong’s martial soul for Dragon Soul Protection.
• Ghostly also submitted to Lin Rong and received the Water Lily Jade Bone, an Immortal Grade Medicinal Herb suited to his martial soul.
• Lin Rong said Guang Yue and Ghostly could learn his supreme arts after earning the approval of his strongest subordinate, and Ghostly and Guang Yue realized that meant Dugu Bo.
• Ghostly urged Guang Yue to settle his grudge with Dugu Bo, so Guang Yue went to Dian Du City and agreed to wash Dugu Bo’s feet to gain his approval.
• Lin Rong and the others left the hall, and Dugu Bo told Guang Yue to hurry up and wash his feet.