Recaps

Lin Chen divided the spirit fruits among the women and gave Shui Bing'er a water-attributed Soul Bone. He then gave Ning Rongrong a speed-enhancing Leg Soul Bone, and she fell in love with him and became his exclusive support.

• Shui Bing'er found twenty-four Vermilion Fruits and a lake rich in spiritual Qi, and Lin Chen divided the fruits among the women.
• Lin Chen gave Shui Bing'er an Eighty Thousand Year water-attributed Soul Bone, which she accepted.
• Ning Rongrong asked Xiao Wu about Lin Chen's Soul Bones and reflected on her feelings for him by the lake.
• Lin Chen gave Ning Rongrong a speed-enhancing Leg Soul Bone, explaining that it would help protect the team's only support Soul Master.
• Ning Rongrong thanked Lin Chen with a kiss, and he drew her into his arms and kissed her.
• Ning Rongrong accepted Lin Chen as her lover and became his exclusive support, tying the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect more closely to Spirit Hall.

Lin Chen used a spirit fruit to break through to level sixty-one, then absorbed Xiao Wu’s hundred-thousand-year sacrifice to gain a powerful Sixth Soul Ring and Soul Bone. He restored Xiao Wu’s human form with a Transformation Pill, and three days later he and the women had grown stronger from their spirit fruits.

• Lin Chen consumed a spirit fruit and broke through to level sixty-one, then told Hu Liena and Xiao Wu that the others could use their fruits.
• Lin Chen took Xiao Wu aside to obtain his Sixth Soul Ring, and Xiao Wu chose to sacrifice her hundred thousand years of cultivation to him.
• Xiao Wu’s sacrifice gave Lin Chen a red Soul Ring and pink Left Arm Soul Bone, raising him to level sixty-five and granting Invincible Golden Body and Nihility.
• Lin Chen gave Xiao Wu a Transformation Pill, allowing her to regain human form despite losing her previous cultivation and Soul Rings.
• Three days later, Lin Chen had reached level sixty-six, while the women’s levels had also risen substantially after refining their spirit fruits.

After helping the girls hunt Soul Rings, Lin Chen discovered a barrier at the bottom of a lake and entered a strange realm filled with dense spiritual and demonic Qi. He found Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena fighting Beast God Di Tian and Demon Empress Zi JI, and realized they had joined forces to seize her bloodline while she recovered from her injuries.

• Lin Chen helped the girls hunt Soul Rings, and Xiao Wu regained her old Soul Skills and awakened Soft Bone Lock.
• Lin Chen searched the lake, discovered a barrier releasing spiritual Qi, and returned to tell the girls before going back to break through it with a Barrier-Breaking Stone.
• Lin Chen entered a barren, magma-filled realm where ancient trees and strange spiritual treasures grew amid dense spiritual and demonic Qi.
• After traveling through the realm, Lin Chen heard a battle and found black and purple true dragons fighting a silver dragon before a crowd of powerful Soul Beasts.
• Lin Chen recognized the silver dragon as Gu Yuena and realized Di Tian and Zi JI were attacking her to devour her bloodline while she recovered.

The Silver Dragon King fought Di Tian and Zi JI until her injuries forced her avatar to weaken, leaving both sides at a standoff. When Lin Chen appeared, he offered to join forces with her against them, and the chapter ended with him drawing Zi JI away while Di Tian engaged the Silver Dragon King.

• Di Tian and Zi JI worked together to attack the Silver Dragon King, but her Dragon God's Wrath shattered their techniques and badly injured them.
• The Silver Dragon King's avatar weakened as her injuries flared, and Di Tian hesitated to attack while both sides faced a dangerous stalemate.
• Lin Chen arrived at the battlefield, evaded the Sabertooth Tiger with his Nihility skill, and offered to help the Silver Dragon King.
• The Silver Dragon King accepted Lin Chen's offer, and Di Tian ordered Zi JI to eliminate him while he held the Silver Dragon King back.
• Lin Chen drew Zi JI away from the battlefield as Di Tian charged at the Silver Dragon King.

Ning Rongrong worried about Lin Chen but found acceptance from Xiao Wu for their relationship. Inside the barrier, Lin Chen used a Soul Bone skill to suppress Zi JI’s Soul Power and began forming a soul seal.

• Ning Rongrong hid Lin Chen’s Soul Bone when Xiao Wu came to visit her by the lake.
• Xiao Wu admitted she already knew about Ning Rongrong and Lin Chen, and encouraged Rongrong to become one of Lin Chen’s wives.
• Lin Chen outran Zi JI through the sky until she stopped and attacked him with Heavenly Demon Reversal and a dragon tail sweep.
• Zi JI approached Lin Chen’s body in the crater, but he suddenly appeared before her and blocked her Death Withering attack with Invincible Golden Body.
• Lin Chen activated Soul Power Suppression, weakening Zi JI, then formed hand seals to create a square soul seal.

Lin Chen subdued Zi JI with the Beast Taming Art after suppressing and wounding her, then healed her and returned with her to the battlefield. Zi JI struck Di Tian and trapped him in her Heavenly Demon Domain, leaving him confused and vulnerable.

• Lin Chen's first Beast Taming Seal failed to control Zi JI, so he injured her with Sky-Piercing Strike and forced her to submit with a second seal.
• Zi JI became Lin Chen's obedient servant, and he healed her wounds with his Bloodline Power before deciding they would wait for a chance to act.
• The Silver Dragon King's avatar continued to overpower Di Tian while the nearby Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts lay badly injured.
• Zi JI returned to the battlefield, struck Di Tian into the earth with her dragon tail, and trapped him in her Heavenly Demon Domain.

Lin Chen helped Gu Yuena subdue Di Tian, and Gu Yuena brought him and Zi JI to Guangyue Hall to repay the favor. After Lin Chen teased and punished Zi JI in a side hall, Gu Yuena realized she had witnessed everything through her awareness of the hall.

• Zi JI trapped Di Tian and declared that she was Lin Chen's beast pet, while Lin Chen and Gu Yuena confronted the injured dragon.
• Gu Yuena subdued Di Tian, made him call her My Lord, and ordered him and the surrounding Soul Beasts to leave.
• Gu Yuena brought Lin Chen and Zi JI to Guangyue Hall, where Lin Chen discovered the hall's rich spiritual Qi and met the little rabbit Xiao Yu.
• Gu Yuena offered Lin Chen and Zi JI a place to heal and cultivate, but warned them not to enter the rear hall.
• Zi JI teased Lin Chen about admiring Gu Yuena, so Lin Chen playfully punished her in a side hall.
• Gu Yuena realized that, as the hall's master, she could sense what happened inside and blushed in embarrassment.

After spending a year and a half cultivating in Guangyue Hall, Lin Chen broke through level seventy and spoke with Gu Yuena about his Seventh Soul Ring. He persuaded her to help him as a friend rather than as repayment for an old favor, and she agreed to become his friend.

• Gu Yuena's clone endured the sounds from the side hall, then sealed off her senses while Lin Chen and Zi JI remained together.
• Over the following year and a half, Lin Chen cultivated in Guangyue Hall and broke through the level-seventy threshold.
• Gu Yuena summoned Lin Chen to the rear hall and noticed that he had reached level seventy.
• Gu Yuena offered to help Lin Chen find a Seventh Soul Ring to repay him for helping her escape a calamity.
• Lin Chen told Gu Yuena he would accept her help if she considered him a friend, and she agreed to become his friend.

The women reported Lin Chen's prolonged disappearance inside the barrier, prompting Hu Liena to send an elder to Spirit Hall. Qian Daoliu learned of the situation and urged Qian Renxue to rescue Lin Chen herself and use the opportunity to grow closer to him.

• The women discussed their rapid cultivation gains and their concern that Lin Chen had remained inside the barrier for too long; Xiao Wu reassured them that her soul imprint showed he was alive.
• Hu Liena sent Elder Li to Spirit Hall to report Lin Chen's disappearance, and Elder Li chose to inform Qian Daoliu before the Pope.
• Qian Daoliu rewarded Elder Li and told him not to report the matter to the Pope, saying he would inform her himself.
• Qian Daoliu advised Qian Renxue to rescue Lin Chen before the Pope did and gradually build a connection with him.

Gu Yuena used her clone's divine power to form Lin Chen's Seventh Soul Ring, raising his Soul Power to level seventy-three, and the two grew closer before she broke free of his unwanted embrace. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong learned that something had happened to the Sovereign and set out for Heavenly Ridge with several Spirit Hall experts.

• Gu Yuena explained that she would use her clone's remaining divine power to condense Lin Chen's Seventh Soul Ring, and Lin Chen agreed.
• Gu Yuena formed a bright red Soul Ring, which Lin Chen absorbed over half a day, reaching level seventy-three.
• When Gu Yuena's clone weakened, Lin Chen caught her and pulled her into an embrace, but she recovered enough strength to break free and reprimand him.
• Bibi Dong completed her cultivation in the Pope's inner palace and learned from Ghost Douluo that something might have happened to the Sovereign.
• Bibi Dong ordered Ghost Douluo to summon Chrysanthemum Guan, Ling Yuan, and Wild Lion, then set out for Heavenly Ridge.

Hu Liena and the Worship Hall forces found an unbreakable barrier beneath the lake where Lin Chen had disappeared, and Qian Renxue and Qian Daoliu failed to break it. Bibi Dong arrived and ordered the punishment of Li Shi for delaying the report about Lin Chen’s disappearance.

• Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue arrived at the lake, where Hu Liena confirmed that Lin Chen had disappeared beneath it.
• Qian Renxue used Angel Judgment against the barrier, but it remained undamaged.
• Qian Daoliu struck the barrier with Angel Blade, but he also failed to break it.
• Bibi Dong arrived and challenged Qian Daoliu over why she had not been told about Lin Chen’s disappearance sooner.
• Bibi Dong ordered Li Shi’s cultivation abolished and expelled him from Spirit Hall for delaying the news.

Bibi Dong punished Li Shi for allowing the Emperor to fall into danger, despite Qian Renxue and Qian Daoliu's objections, while warning the Worship Hall faction not to scheme against Lin Chen. Inside the barrier, Lin Chen watched Bibi Dong arrive and called her his first wife, leaving Gu Yuena confused about the word.

• Qian Renxue and Golden Crocodile Douluo objected to Bibi Dong's order to cripple and expel Li Shi, but Bibi Dong had Ling Yuan cripple him for his failure to protect the Emperor.
• Qian Renxue saw Li Shi's fate as a reflection of her own, while Qian Daoliu suppressed his anger and led the Worship Hall faction away.
• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong that the barrier was too sturdy for even Qian Daoliu to break, and Xiao Wu assured her that Lin Chen's soul imprint remained unchanged.
• Qian Renxue said Bibi Dong had punished Li Shi to warn them not to scheme against Lin Chen, and Qian Daoliu ordered Holy Dragon Douluo to investigate a suspected informant without exposing him.
• Inside the barrier, Gu Yuena showed Lin Chen the scene outside, and Lin Chen delightedly called Bibi Dong his first wife, prompting Gu Yuena to ask what wife meant.

Lin Chen tricked Gu Yuena into calling him “husband,” then left her barrier and reunited with Bibi Dong and the other women. Gu Yuena was left thinking about him as her true body’s breathing steadied and its Divine Power stopped leaking.

• Lin Chen explained the real meaning of “wife” and “husband” to Gu Yuena, who hit him and ordered him to leave.
• Gu Yuena asked whether Lin Chen was leaving for his first wife, and he confirmed that Bibi Dong needed his help.
• Outside the barrier, Bibi Dong’s group failed to find a weakness, and Lin Chen was thrown out of the barrier into the sky.
• Lin Chen returned to the women, who rushed to embrace him, and Bibi Dong told him to come back with them as their training period neared its end.
• Gu Yuena reflected on her time with Lin Chen, then her clone returned to her true body as its breathing steadied and Divine Power stopped leaking.

Lin Chen returned to Bibi Dong, who scolded him for risking his life before reconciling with him. Ning Rongrong told her father she wanted to marry Lin Chen, while Ning Fengzhi agreed to discuss it with the Pope; elsewhere, Tang San mastered the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and went with Tang Hao to hunt for his fifth Soul Ring.

• Lin Chen introduced Zi JI to Bibi Dong and described what he had encountered beyond the barrier.
• Bibi Dong tearfully reunited with Lin Chen and told him not to risk his life again.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo about her gains and declared that she wanted to marry Lin Chen.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to discuss the marriage with the Pope, while acknowledging that the sect’s neutrality was difficult to maintain.
• Tang San completed the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer under Tang Hao’s guidance, and Tang Hao took him to hunt for his fifth Soul Ring.

Tang San found the power his mother had left behind and followed Tang Hao to a place where he could grow stronger. Meanwhile, Lin Chen enjoyed his life in Spirit City, then secured Ning Fengzhi’s agreement to his marriage to Ning Rongrong as Bibi Dong prepared a gesture from Spirit Hall.

• Tang Hao brought Tang San to the Blue Silver Emperor Clan, where a tree-man revealed Tang San’s heritage and the power his mother had left behind; Tang San emerged two hours later greatly changed.
• Tang Hao took Tang San to a desolate tavern on the Heaven Dou Empire’s frontier, where they ordered Yellow Springs Dew.
• Lin Chen spent time with Liu Erlong, Hu Liena, Xiao Wu, and the Tianshui Girl Group before Ling Yuan summoned him to the Pope’s Palace.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Lin Chen how he would treat Ning Rongrong, and Lin Chen promised to protect her; Ning Fengzhi then agreed to their marriage.
• Bibi Dong announced that Spirit Hall would offer a gesture for the marriage, and three golden-armored guards entered carrying trays.

Bibi Dong gave Ning Fengzhi lavish betrothal gifts to secure the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s cooperation with Spirit Hall, and Lin Chen and Ning Rongrong agreed to wait until she turned eighteen to marry. More than two years later, Lin Chen reunited with Shui Ningrou at her residence.

• Bibi Dong presented Ning Fengzhi with one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, an Earth Spirit Flower pill, and a fifty-thousand-year Right Arm Soul Bone as betrothal gifts.
• Ning Fengzhi accepted the gifts and promised that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would cooperate fully with Spirit Hall if needed.
• Lin Chen proposed waiting until Ning Rongrong turned eighteen to marry, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to treat the day as their engagement.
• Lin Chen reassured Ning Rongrong that the delay would let him handle important matters and let her focus on cultivation; she kissed him goodbye and promised to surprise him when they met again.
• More than two years later, Lin Chen visited Shui Ningrou, who greeted him as her husband and prepared red-braised pork for him.

Lin Chen spent the night with Shui Ningrou and Ling Yuan, then supported Shui Ningrou’s plan to strengthen Skywater Academy and secure Skywater City for Spirit Hall. After returning to Bibi Dong, he learned that she wanted him to win over newly allied factions, including by courting their leaders’ daughters.

• Shui Ningrou served Lin Chen dinner, and he spent the evening and night with her.
• Ling Yuan reported that Tang Hao and Tang San had gone to Slaughter City, then joined Lin Chen and Shui Ningrou.
• Shui Ningrou chose to remain at Skywater Academy and asked to help Spirit Hall; Lin Chen agreed to support her efforts in Skywater City.
• Ling Yuan questioned Lin Chen’s plans for Skywater City, and he warned that Spirit Hall’s allies might not remain loyal after its enemies were defeated.
• Lin Chen told Bibi Dong that Shui Ningrou would help secure Skywater City, and Bibi Dong asked him to win over the factions newly allied with Spirit Hall.

Lin Chen and Ling Yuan toured Spirit Hall’s allied factions, consolidating support and warning rulers to obey. After visiting dozens of groups, they arrived at Blazing Fire Academy, where Dean Huo Ba had avoided greeting them and was revealed to be fleeing his furious wife.

• Lin Chen and Ling Yuan arrived in the Silves Kingdom, where King Baersi and Bishop Jiang Han welcomed them at the palace.
• At the banquet, Lin Chen declined King Baersi’s offer of Xiao Rou and warned him to demonstrate loyalty through his actions.
• News of Lin Chen’s visit spread across the continent, signaling Spirit Hall’s expansion and the Silves Kingdom’s protection; Lin Chen told Jiang Han to monitor Baersi.
• Three months later, Lin Chen and Ling Yuan arrived at Blazing Fire Academy, where Vice Dean Huo Feng explained that Dean Huo Ba was busy.
• A flashback showed Huo Ba fleeing his wife’s fireballs after she accused him of wrongdoing.

Huo Feng took charge of Blazing Fire Academy’s dealings with Spirit Hall after scolding Huo Ba for joining without negotiating. Huo Wu revealed her feelings for Lin Chen, and Huo Feng promised to help her; when Lin Chen arrived, he asked whether the academy would support Spirit Hall in a future war.

• Huo Feng warned Huo Ba that Spirit Hall’s internal affairs were dangerous and said she would manage its dealings while he handled the academy.
• Huo Wu returned as a level fifty-four Soul King and told Huo Feng she wanted to be with Lin Chen.
• Huo Feng questioned whether Lin Chen would treat Huo Wu as a wife or a plaything, then promised to help her win a higher place in his heart.
• Huo Ba left after Huo Feng ordered him out, privately worrying that she had discovered his affair with Xiao Hong.
• Huo Feng received Lin Chen and Ling Yuan at the hall and asserted that she could decide matters for both Huo Ba and Blazing Fire Academy.
• Lin Chen asked Huo Feng whether Blazing Fire Academy would aid Spirit Hall if war broke out.

Lin Chen negotiated with Huo Feng over Huo Wu’s place in his household, agreeing to hold a wedding while explaining that Spirit Hall could not draw attention to itself yet. After spending the night with Huo Wu, Lin Chen told Ling Yuan that he suspected Huo Feng had orchestrated the negotiations to secure her daughter’s future and win his favor.

• Huo Feng said Blazing Fire Academy would follow Spirit Hall’s orders against its enemies but stay out of Spirit Hall’s internal conflicts.
• Lin Chen asked Huo Feng to let Huo Wu stay by his side, and Huo Feng demanded a wedding officiated by Pope Bibi Dong before agreeing.
• Ling Yuan threatened Huo Feng for challenging Lin Chen, but Huo Wu came downstairs and pleaded with them to stop arguing.
• Lin Chen promised a wedding for Huo Wu and his other women, and Huo Feng pledged Blazing Fire Academy’s obedience to Lin Chen and Pope Bibi Dong.
• Lin Chen spent the night with Huo Wu, then joined Ling Yuan on the castle roof and speculated that Huo Feng had used the dispute to influence him.

Lin Chen took Huo Feng on a tour of Blazing Fire Academy, then demanded that she submit to him or risk losing her daughter and academy. Huo Feng refused and accepted his challenge to fight, leaving her fate to be decided in the spar.

• Huo Feng served Lin Chen a lavish breakfast, and he asked her to show him around Blazing Fire Academy while Huo Wu stayed behind.
• Huo Feng led Lin Chen to the mountain above the academy, where he revealed that he wanted to discuss Huo Wu and her future.
• Lin Chen demanded that Huo Feng become his, threatening her and Blazing Fire Academy; Huo Feng refused to submit, even when Ling Yuan appeared behind her.
• Lin Chen offered Huo Feng a spar: if she won, he would protect her, Huo Wu, and the academy, but if she lost, she would belong to him.
• Huo Feng accepted the challenge, believing it was her only chance to protect her daughter and academy.

Lin Chen defeated Huo Feng on Blazing Fire Academy’s rear mountain and forced her to become his slave. Huo Feng returned to the hall and hid what had happened from Huo Wu, while Lin Chen later confronted her privately in the kitchen.

• Huo Feng revealed her rank eighty-three Soul Douluo power and Martial Soul Avatar, but Lin Chen displayed seven Soul Rings, including four hundred-thousand-year rings, and overwhelmed her.
• Lin Chen defeated Huo Feng, made her kneel, and declared that she was his slave.
• Huo Feng returned to the hall and told Huo Wu she had just arrived; Huo Wu noticed bruises on her knees but accepted her explanation that she had bumped them.
• Lin Chen returned with Ling Yuan, and Huo Wu greeted him affectionately before Huo Feng went to prepare dinner.
• Lin Chen embraced Huo Feng in the kitchen, asked whether Huo Ba would return, and told her to leave the door open for him that night.

Lin Chen returned to Spirit Hall after three months with Huo Feng and arranged for her to take control of Blazing Fire Academy. He then persuaded Bibi Dong to let him enter Slaughter City to confront Tang San and pursue an opportunity, leaving her worried as he prepared to go.

• Lin Chen left Huo Feng and traveled toward Spirit Hall with Huo Wu aboard Ling Yuan.
• Huo Feng ordered Huo Ba to move out, made herself dean of Blazing Fire Academy, and appointed him vice dean in charge of discipline.
• Lin Chen reunited with Bibi Dong at Pope's Palace and told her he had claimed Huo Feng.
• Lin Chen told Bibi Dong he planned to enter Slaughter City to find Tang San and obtain an opportunity.
• Bibi Dong initially forbade Lin Chen from going but eventually agreed and asked him to return alive.

Lin Chen prepared to enter Slaughter City with Xiao Wu and Hu Liena, then arrived at its border with Bibi Dong and their companions. In a tavern, Ling Yuan killed three Fallen Soul Masters who threatened the women, leaving the rest of the room terrified.

• Lin Chen told the women he planned to visit Slaughter City and chose Xiao Wu and Hu Liena to accompany him.
• After spending the next few days in the Pope's bedchamber, Lin Chen set out for Slaughter City with Bibi Dong and their group.
• Bibi Dong brought Lin Chen, Hu Liena and Xiao Wu to a tavern so they could experience the atmosphere inside Slaughter City.
• Zhao Laosi, Ding Mosha and Old Wangtou threatened to seize the women, and Hu Liena rose to defend Bibi Dong.
• Lin Chen called on Ling Yuan, who turned the three Soul Kings to ash and frightened the tavern's other Fallen Soul Masters.

Lin Chen, Hu Liena, and Xiao Wu drank Yellow Springs Dew before entering Slaughter City, where they defeated examiner Scott and received their newcomer tokens. The Slaughter Envoy escorted them inside and explained the city’s rules, leaving them about to enter its lawless inner city.

• Lin Chen explained that Yellow Springs Dew could strengthen Soul Power and the spirit but carried dangerous negative effects, and he assured Xiao Wu and Hu Liena he could dispel them.
• Xiao Wu defeated Scott with her agility and Eight-Stage Throw, then waited for Lin Chen and Hu Liena outside the gate.
• Hu Liena used her Charm to disorient Scott and sent him flying with her spirit tail.
• Lin Chen overwhelmed Scott with a single clash of Red Firmament, and he, Hu Liena, and Xiao Wu entered Slaughter City together.
• The Slaughter Envoy gave them tokens numbered 13140, 13141, and 13142 and explained the outer city, inner city, and one-day protection period.