Chapter Summaries

Lin Rong instructed Ghostly to remain in Spirit Hall as an undercover informant, then met with the Old Butler to hear about Ye Wenxin and his family’s history. The chapter ended with the Old Butler grieving as he recalled Lin Rong’s mother and Lin Rong addressing him as Grandpa Yu.

• Lin Rong warned Ghostly that leaving Spirit Hall openly would provoke Bibi Dong, then ordered him and Guang Yue to stay at her side and secretly report confidential information.
• Ghostly accepted Lin Rong’s plan and began refining the Water Lily Jade Bone.
• Lin Rong returned to the balcony and reflected on his Marrow Cleansing Scripture before the Old Butler arrived with news of Ye Wenxin’s invitation to meet at the Manor at noon the next day.
• The Old Butler explained that Ye Wenxin had once loved Lin Rong’s mother and recounted the deaths of Lin Rong’s parents and the family’s past.
• Lin Rong lowered his head and called the tearful Old Butler Grandpa Yu.

Lin Rong learned about his family’s past from Old Butler, then heard about Guang Yue’s disastrous attempt to cook breakfast for Dugu Bo. Meanwhile, Ghostly absorbed the Water Lily Jade Bone and regained signs of life, leaving Guang Yue stunned when he appeared downstairs transformed.

• Lin Rong asked Old Butler to tell him about his parents and grandfather, then woke the next morning unsure whether he had spoken in his sleep.
• Old Butler told Lin Rong that Guang Yue had nearly burned down the kitchen while making breakfast for Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo ate Guang Yue’s charred pastries so he could keep ordering Guang Yue around, while Lin Rong watched and remarked on his poison resistance.
• Ghostly’s meditation with the Water Lily Jade Bone restored his build, warmth, complexion, and ability to feel pain, and he expected his Soul Power to reach level 96 after more than half a year.
• Ghostly came downstairs looking like a handsome middle-aged man, and Guang Yue failed to recognize him at first.

Lin Rong met with Ye Wenxin and asked whether the Ye Family would support him if he took the throne from the Xue Family. He revealed his Divinity to demonstrate his power and demanded that Ye Wenxin choose a side.

• Guang Yue attended the Hundred Flowers Appreciation Convention with Ghostly while Lin Rong and Dugu Bo stayed behind in Dian Du City.
• Lin Rong visited Ye Wenxin’s Manor, where Ye Wenxin welcomed him and served dishes that had been Lin Rong’s mother’s favorites.
• After the attendants withdrew, Lin Rong asked Ye Wenxin how the Ye Family would respond to a continent-wide war and to Lin Rong claiming the throne.
• Ye Wenxin objected that rebellion would bring disgrace and that the Royal Knights would prevent Lin Rong from succeeding.
• Lin Rong revealed his Divinity, overwhelmed Ye Wenxin with his godlike presence, and demanded that he state his choice.

Lin Rong secured Ye Wenxin’s support by revealing his Divinity, then gave him cultivation techniques and urged him to prepare for the future war. As Lin Rong readied himself to leave Dian Du City, he trained and taught secret arts to Guang Yue and Ghostly, warning them to keep the Tang Sect techniques hidden from Tang San.

• Ye Wenxin submitted to Lin Rong after the Nine-Hearted Begonia reacted to Lin Rong’s Divinity, and Lin Rong outlined his plan to take the throne after the Royal Family fell.
• Lin Rong gave Ye Wenxin the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Purple Demon Eye, urging him to cultivate toward Soul Douluo and allow his daughter to learn the techniques in secret.
• Ye Wenxin said he knew of no healing-type Titled Douluo and explained that his family’s strongest ancestor had only reached rank eighty-nine.
• Lin Rong cultivated in Dian Du City and reflected that learning about his relatives had loosened the bottleneck of the Marrow Cleansing Scripture’s third realm.
• Before Lin Rong’s departure, Guang Yue and Ghostly learned the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Purple Demon Eye, and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Lin Rong warned Guang Yue and Ghostly not to let Tang San discover they knew the Tang Sect secret arts before Heaven Dou changed hands.

Lin Rong returned to Windy City with Dugu Bo and the Old Butler to seek Yang Wudi’s help curing Dugu Bo’s deadly poison. After arriving at the Breaking Clan estate, Lin Rong offered Yang Wudi an Aromatic Silk Beauty, and Yang Wudi eagerly proposed to refine medicine and treat Dugu Bo in exchange.

• Dugu Bo and Lin Rong waited in a long queue to enter Windy City, where Lin Rong heard that a Spirit Hall Red Archbishop had attended Wind Sword Sect’s banquet and considered the sect a future enemy.
• After more than two hours, Lin Rong, Dugu Bo, and the Old Butler reached the Breaking Clan estate and were invited inside by Yang Wudi.
• Yang Wudi recognized Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Venom and said he could cure the poison, but requested rare medicinal herbs as payment.
• Lin Rong produced an Aromatic Silk Beauty, and Yang Wudi offered to refine medicine for free and treat Dugu Bo in exchange for it.

Lin Rong challenged Yang Wudi to a duel, wagering the Aromatic Silk Beauty against the Breaking Clan’s submission. After revealing his strength and gaining the upper hand in their opening exchanges, Lin Rong prepared to face Yang Wudi’s all-out attack with a decisive strike of his own.

• Lin Rong offered Yang Wudi the Aromatic Silk Beauty if Yang Wudi won, while Yang Wudi would lead the Breaking Clan to submit if he lost.
• Lin Rong revealed his six Soul Rings and declared himself a sixty-sixth-rank Control System Battle Soul Emperor, and Yang Wudi accepted the bet duel as an eighty-first-rank Soul Douluo.
• Yang Wudi summoned the Soul Breaking Spear, and Lin Rong revealed his External Soul Bone spear and amplified himself with his dragon soul skills.
• Lin Rong and Yang Wudi exchanged spear strikes, but Lin Rong’s dragon scales blocked Yang Wudi’s attacks and his wounds healed almost instantly.
• Yang Wudi used his Martial Soul Avatar and prepared an eighth-soul-skill attack, while Lin Rong poured his remaining Soul Power and some spiritual power into his spear and proposed settling the duel in one move.

Lin Rong defeated Yang Wudi by holding off his strongest attack with the Dragon Scale Shield, damaging the Soul Breaking Spear and ending their match. Yang Wudi accepted his loss and revealed how much he wanted the Aromatic Silk Beauty, while Dugu Bo realized it had protected Lin Rong from his poison years earlier.

• Lin Rong summoned a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon whose roar weakened Yang Wudi's aura, but Yang Wudi unleashed his strongest attack before it could fall further.
• Lin Rong blocked Yang Wudi's Soul Breaking Spear with the Dragon Scale Shield, and the spear's tip cracked when its attack rebounded.
• Yang Wudi withdrew his damaged martial soul, and Lin Rong ended the fight and declared that Yang Wudi had lost.
• Yang Wudi accepted defeat and promised to honor their bet, then explained that he wanted the Aromatic Silk Beauty for the Breaking Clan's medicine-making.
• Dugu Bo recalled that Lin Rong's Aromatic Silk Beauty had made him immune to poison at the Tang Sect banquet three years earlier.

Lin Rong lent Yang Wudi the Aromatic Silk Beauty, allowing him to clear most of Dugu Bo’s venom in three days. Yang Wudi received the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Purple Demon Eye, then told Lin Rong what he knew about the Wind Sword Sect.

• Lin Rong lent Yang Wudi the Aromatic Silk Beauty and told him to detoxify Dugu Bo.
• Three days later, Yang Wudi explained that he used the Aromatic Silk Beauty, a medicinal bath, acupuncture, Dugu Bo’s Dan Pearl, and his opened meridians to clear most of the venom.
• Yang Wudi asked to cultivate the Mysterious Heaven Skill, and Lin Rong gave him a booklet containing it and the Purple Demon Eye, restricting cultivation to Yang Wudi’s direct blood relatives.
• Lin Rong ordered Yang Wudi to prepare Seven-Colored Splendor and asked him about the Wind Sword Sect.
• Yang Wudi reported that the Wind Sword Sect had five Soul Douluo-level cultivators on the surface and that its former sect leader was an eighty-seventh-ranked Assault System Soul Douluo.

Lin Rong planned to have Dugu Bo and Yang Wudi destroy Wind Sword Sect and frame Spirit Hall, while warning Yang Wudi not to attack Spirit Hall directly. He then offered Dugu Bo a mysterious herb to prevent rumors from escaping, terrifying him at the sight of it.

• Lin Rong assessed Wind Sword Sect's strength and decided Dugu Bo and Yang Wudi could destroy it without his or Yu's help.
• Lin Rong ordered Dugu Bo to capture Windy City's Red Archbishop, wipe out Wind Sword Sect, and retrieve its valuables, especially its inherited Soul Bone.
• Yang Wudi proposed destroying Windy City's Spirit Hall too, but Lin Rong explained that doing so would provoke Spirit Hall and endanger his secret plans.
• Dugu Bo revealed that detoxifying his poison had raised his Soul Power to Level 95, and Lin Rong asked about his Mysterious Jade Hand practice.
• Lin Rong produced a snow-white herb for Dugu Bo, who recoiled in terror when he saw it.

Lin Rong explained how Dugu Bo could safely use the Snow Swan Kiss to amplify his poison for the mission against the Wind Sword Sect. Dugu Bo left with Yang Wudi to test the herb and plan their tactics, while Lin Rong considered candidates for a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring.

• Yang Wudi identified the herb in Lin Rong’s hand as the Snow Swan Kiss and recognized its danger to anyone carrying toxins.
• Lin Rong told Dugu Bo that the Mysterious Jade Hand would shield him from the herb’s effect, then urged him to pick it up.
• Dugu Bo used the Mysterious Jade Hand to take the Snow Swan Kiss and confirmed that he remained unharmed.
• Lin Rong warned Dugu Bo to test the amplified poison carefully and explained that the Aromatic Silk Beauty would not cancel the Snow Swan Kiss’s effect once he left its range.
• Dugu Bo took Yang Wudi to discuss the mission and promised to leave no poison behind at the Wind Sword Sect’s base.
• Lin Rong considered Yang Wudi for a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, then thought he might give the Soft Bone Rabbit’s ring to Meng Shu after his breakthrough to rank ninety.

Dugu Bo and Yang Wudi raided Wind Sword Sect, with Dugu Bo killing most of its members and capturing three Soul Douluo elders while looting valuables. Yang Wudi chose to fight the Old Sect Leader, and their battle began as Dugu Bo went to find the remaining opponent.

• Yang Wudi openly approached Wind Sword Sect's gate, and Dugu Bo killed the two night-watch disciples before warning him to follow the plan.
• Dugu Bo stealthily killed Wind Sword Sect's patrols and sleeping members while collecting their valuables.
• After about half an hour, Dugu Bo had left only the sect leaders and five Soul Douluo elders alive, capturing three elders in his Ruyi Bag of Treasures.
• Dugu Bo offered Yang Wudi a choice between the new sect leader and the Old Sect Leader, and Yang Wudi chose the strongest opponent.
• Dugu Bo led Yang Wudi to the Old Sect Leader's bedroom, then left to find the other opponent.
• Yang Wudi released his Soul Breaking Spear and charged the awakened Old Sect Leader, demanding a fight.

Lin Rong divided Wind Sword Sect’s Soul Bones between Dugu Bo and Yang Wudi, healed Yang Wudi, and ordered the Breaking Clan to leave Windy City. Two days later, rumors blamed Spirit Hall for Wind Sword Sect’s destruction, while townspeople speculated about the massacre and noticed Spirit Hall’s people arriving.

• Lin Rong examined Wind Sword Sect’s spoils and gave Dugu Bo its twelve-thousand-year Torso Bone.
• Lin Rong gave Yang Wudi the fourteen-thousand-year skull bone and used his Talent Domain to heal Yang Wudi’s wounds.
• Lin Rong ordered the Breaking Clan to pack and migrate from Windy City before trouble followed Wind Sword Sect’s destruction.
• Two days later, Windy City residents spread rumors that Spirit Hall had destroyed Wind Sword Sect and killed a witness.
• Old Wang and Old Li speculated that Spirit Hall had massacred the sect to seize a hidden treasure, until Old Li warned that Spirit Hall’s people were nearby.

Bibi Dong responded to Wind Sword Sect’s destruction by dismissing Klaus as Star Luo City’s bishop and assigning Lor Diarra to replace him, while sending Guang Yue and Ghostly to discipline Fire Leopard Sect and Elephant Armor Sect. After the meeting, Hu Liena visited Bibi Dong to comfort her, leaving the two together in the Pope’s Palace.

• Three Spirit Hall members entered a restaurant, where diners fell silent and the men suspected they might not know about a confidential operation.
• Klaus accepted responsibility for Wind Sword Sect’s destruction and blamed the Star Luo Royal Family, White Tiger Sect, and Star Crown Sect, while Guang Yue and Ghostly suspected that a powerful lord they knew had carried it out.
• Bibi Dong rejected Klaus’s proposal to warn Star Crown Sect, removed him from his post, and appointed Lor Diarra as the new bishop in Star Luo City.
• Bibi Dong ordered Guang Yue and Ghostly to teach Fire Leopard Sect and Elephant Armor Sect to follow Spirit Hall’s rules, and they accepted the assignment.
• Hu Liena visited Bibi Dong to keep her company after hearing about Wind Sword Sect, and Bibi Dong warmly praised her thoughtfulness.

On his eleventh birthday, Lin Rong sensed a Martial Soul Hall Enforcement Team pursuing Fallen Ones and sent Dugu Bo to eliminate both groups before they could encounter the convoy. Dugu Bo returned with an ancient Engraving Knife that drained vitality and Soul Power, and Lin Rong recognized it as the Spirit Devouring Fierce Blade.

• Lin Rong celebrated his eleventh birthday with Old Butler in their carriage as the convoy traveled along the official road.
• Lin Rong sensed Fallen Ones fleeing a Martial Soul Hall Enforcement Team and worried their chase would expose his connection to the Breaking Clan and the Wind Sword Sect's annihilation.
• Lin Rong ordered Dugu Bo to kill the Fallen Ones and the Enforcement Team without leaving clues.
• Dugu Bo returned about fifteen minutes later and reported that he had handled everyone.
• Dugu Bo showed Lin Rong an ancient black Engraving Knife that devoured vitality and Soul Power, and Lin Rong identified it as the Spirit Devouring Fierce Blade.

Lin Rong recognized the cursed Spirit Devouring Carving Knife as the Blade of Life and used his Life Dragon Soul to begin purifying it. After rewarding Dugu Bo with a fifty-seven-thousand-year Soul Bone, Lin Rong exposed himself to the knife’s curse and started transforming it into vitality.

• Lin Rong picked up the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife and told Dugu Bo that it held a vast, pure life force and represented an opportunity.
• Lin Rong gave Dugu Bo a fifty-seven-thousand-year Right Leg Bone as a reward, while revealing that he had already missed out on a seventy-eight-thousand-year Torso Bone.
• Dugu Bo complained about the lost Torso Bone, then kept the Right Leg Bone rather than trade it for a twenty-three-thousand-year Right Arm Bone.
• Lin Rong explained to Old Butler that the Engraving Knife’s value lay in its material and that purifying its curse would restore it to the Blade of Life.
• Lin Rong removed the cloth and grasped the knife, allowing its curse to begin eroding him as Life Dragon Soul transformed the curse into pure vitality.

Lin Rong removed the curse from the Blade of Life and stored it safely before his convoy reached the Heaven Dou Empire border. He avoided revealing his identity to keep Spirit Hall from learning of his movements, and the group crossed after Yu Yuan paid the border captain.

• Lin Rong spent two hours using his Talent Domain and Life Dragon Soul to purify the curse on the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife, restoring it to the Blade of Life.
• The Nine Bend Vine Dragon sensed the Blade of Life's life force, but Lin Rong told it to wait until they returned to the estate before absorbing the Gold of Life.
• Lin Rong stored the Blade of Life in a wooden box and later led his convoy to a border checkpoint for inspection.
• Yu Yuan described the group as a family of healers returning to their main branch and discreetly gave the captain a Gold Soul Coin card worth ten thousand coins.
• The captain let the convoy pass, and Lin Rong told Dugu Bo that paying to avoid registration was safer than displaying a Spirit Hall Elder Token.

Lin Rong’s group settled the Breaking Clan at a Lin Family manor outside Heaven Dou City, where Yang Wudi agreed to treat Dugu Bo’s granddaughter before refining the Seven-Colored Splendor. The chapter ended with Lin Rong giving Dugu Bo a 23,000-year-old Right Arm Bone to serve as a poison container for Yanyan.

• The group arrived at a secluded Lin Family manor outside Heaven Dou City, which Yang Wudi chose as the Breaking Clan’s new home.
• The Old Butler told Yang Wudi that Meng Shu and his family lived in another Lin Family manor nearby, and Yang Wudi looked forward to meeting him.
• Lin Rong reminded Yang Wudi to refine the Seven-Colored Splendor, then told him to treat Dugu Bo’s granddaughter first.
• Yang Wudi explained that a soul bone could temporarily contain Yanyan’s martial-soul poison until she condensed a Dan Pearl.
• Lin Rong gave Dugu Bo a 23,000-year-old Right Arm Bone as an advance on his mission reward, and Dugu Bo accepted it.

Dugu Bo learned that Dugu Yanyan should still be able to condense a Dan Pearl despite signs of Dragon Transformation, and he hurried to bring her to Yang Wudi. In the Banyan Forest, Lin Rong absorbed the Blade of Life’s energy and planned to use his enhanced body to form a powerful Lifebound Spirit Ring after reaching level seventy.

• Yang Wudi told Dugu Bo that Dugu Yanyan’s martial soul should still be able to condense a Dan Pearl because it had not evolved.
• Dugu Bo rushed to bring Dugu Yanyan to Yang Wudi, who went to prepare what they would need.
• Lin Rong sealed off the Banyan Forest with the Nine Bend Vine Dragon and began absorbing the Blade of Life’s energy through the Marrow Cleansing Scripture.
• The Blade of Life’s energy strengthened Lin Rong’s body, sea of consciousness, Nine Bend Vine Dragon, and Divinity, with Divinity absorbing most of it.
• Lin Rong concluded that he could withstand a spirit ring far beyond one hundred thousand years and planned to form a Lifebound Spirit Ring with at least three Gold Patterns after reaching level seventy.

Lin Rong finished absorbing the Blade of Life’s life energy, which greatly strengthened his body, spiritual power, Divinity, Martial Soul, and soul bones before the Blade crumbled away. He assessed his gains in the sealed Banyan Forest, including the evolved Life Dragon Scale and the shortened cooldown of his revival skill.

• The Blade of Life exhausted its life energy, shattered, and disappeared as Lin Rong opened his eyes with pale gold pupils and manifested the Nine Bend Vine Dragon’s soul phantom.
• Lin Rong regretted that the depleted Blade of Life had lost its ability to decompose metals, then assessed his greatly enhanced physical constitution, spiritual power, Divinity, and Martial Soul.
• Lin Rong examined the Life Dragon Scale, recalling how he had guided the Nine Bend Vine Dragon’s evolution and how the scale had formed a shield against Yang Wudi’s attack.
• Lin Rong found that the Emperor Sacred Spear had become his second Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, while the Heart of the Banyan Wood and Kongqing Bamboo head soul bone had also gained age.
• Lin Rong observed that the Heart of the Banyan Wood’s Flower Transfer, Wood Grafting cooldown had fallen to a little over two years and drew a conclusion from its growth.

After seven days of seclusion, Lin Rong learned Yu Xiaogang was heading to Spirit City, apparently to reunite with Bibi Dong. Yu Xiaogang traveled there convinced she still loved him, while Tang San sneezed twice and concluded someone was cursing him.

• Lin Rong considered the limits of Flower Transfer, Wood Grafting and decided the Thunderclap Nether Vine Left Leg Bone needed to absorb lightning in Thunderclap Canyon.
• The Old Butler told Lin Rong that Yang Wudi’s Seven-Colored Splendor was not ready yet and that Yu Xiaogang had secretly left Heaven Dou City for Spirit City.
• Lin Rong learned Shi Nian’s Nightmare had influenced Yu Xiaogang’s dreams, leading him to believe Bibi Dong loved him and to seek her out.
• Yu Xiaogang imagined telling Bibi Dong he believed in her and planned to have her find a gifted disciple for him to train.
• Tang San sneezed twice after cultivating the Purple Demon Eye and decided someone was cursing him.