Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue swept through Skywater Academy without revealing her Martial Soul, securing Hidden Sword Peak a flawless victory and a place in the top eight. The other academies feared drawing her next, while Xue Qinghe and Xue Beng congratulated her and Xue Qinghe privately plotted to possess her.

• Shui Bing'er accepted Skywater Academy's defeat, asked Qian Renxue how strong she was, and led her team away after Qian Renxue declined to answer.
• Platinum Bishop Salas declared Hidden Sword Peak the flawless winner over Skywater Academy, and Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wushuang worried their teams might face Qian Renxue in the quarterfinals.
• Xue Qinghe and Xue Beng congratulated Qian Renxue, but she challenged Xue Beng's claim that Hidden Sword Peak would now become famous.
• Xue Qinghe felt pleased when Xue Beng was rebuffed, then privately resolved to make Qian Renxue his.

Bibi Dong revived in a newly forged energy body that was stronger than her former body, though she had not yet become a god. She told Hu Liena she would sacrifice Spirit City to gain the power needed for the Rakshasa Ninth Trial and take revenge on Ling Feng.

• Bibi Dong absorbed the Blood Pool’s remaining energy and completed her resurrection in a new body.
• Hu Liena greeted Bibi Dong, and Bibi Dong thanked her for helping bring her back to life.
• Bibi Dong told Hu Liena that her new strength had brought her close to godhood, but she still needed to pass the Rakshasa Ninth Trial.
• Bibi Dong said she would sacrifice Spirit City to obtain enough energy for the trial and then take revenge on Ling Feng.

Qian Renxue and Ling Feng accepted Xue Qinghe’s invitation to stay at his Crown Prince’s Mansion, frustrating Xue Beng. After Xue Ye questioned Xue Beng about Hidden Sword Peak, Xue Beng resolved to poison his father, while Xue Qinghe restrained his anger at Ling Feng’s blunt judgment of his residence.

• Xue Beng invited Qian Renxue and Ling Feng to his residence, but Xue Qinghe made a more appealing invitation, which they accepted.
• Xue Beng concealed his resentment and told Xue Qinghe that the Crown Prince’s Mansion was a better place for them to stay.
• Xue Ye asked Xue Beng what he thought of Hidden Sword Peak, and Xue Beng admitted he could not judge the mysterious force.
• Xue Beng decided to have a pawn poison Xue Ye slowly, intending to kill him before winter passed.
• Xue Qinghe brought Qian Renxue and Ling Feng to his mansion, then suppressed his anger when Ling Feng compared it favorably only to Hidden Sword Peak’s thatched cottages.

Ling Feng left Qian Renxue with Xue Qinghe at the Crown Prince's Mansion, then transformed into a sword and went to confront Xue Ye. Xue Ye denied knowing why Ling Feng had come, but his brief flash of fear suggested Ling Feng had uncovered his secret plan.

• Xue Qinghe arranged for Qian Renxue to stay in a side hall and invited her to tour the Crown Prince's Mansion, while she sensed something dangerous beneath his gentle manner.
• Ling Feng declined to join them and flew toward Heaven Dou Imperial Palace in sword form, leaving Xue Qinghe pleased to be alone with Qian Renxue.
• Xue Ye returned to the palace furious with Xue Beng for praising Hidden Sword Peak, and Meng Shenji questioned the reason for his anger.
• Ling Feng descended into the palace hall, where Meng Shenji shielded Xue Ye from his Sword Intent before recognizing the visitor.
• Ling Feng told Xue Ye he knew why he had come; Xue Ye briefly showed fear, then claimed he did not understand.

Ling Feng confronted Xue Ye over his secret scheme against Hidden Sword Peak and refused to spare him despite his pleas. After Xue Ye threatened him and launched a desperate attack, Ling Feng effortlessly dispersed his punch.

• Ling Feng cut Xue Ye's face with Sword Qi, forcing him to admit he had planned to harm Hidden Sword Peak.
• Meng Shenji disavowed Xue Ye's scheme, withdrew his martial soul, and pledged allegiance to Ling Feng.
• Xue Ye threatened Ling Feng with the Heaven Dou Empire, but Ling Feng attacked him with Sword Qi and covered him in wounds.
• Xue Ye activated his Swan martial soul and fifth soul ring, then attacked Ling Feng with an enhanced punch.
• Ling Feng tapped Xue Ye's fist with one finger and neutralized the attack.

Ling Feng killed Xue Ye with Sword Light and told Meng Shenji that the Heaven Dou Empire’s princes could succeed their father without causing chaos. Ning Fengzhi then arrived with Gu Rong and Chen Xin, apparently seeking Ling Feng, while Meng Shenji worried that the newcomers would provoke him.

• Ling Feng’s Sword Light pierced Xue Ye’s brow and killed him despite Xue Ye’s desperate counterattack.
• Meng Shenji objected that killing the emperor could plunge the Heaven Dou Empire into chaos, but Ling Feng pointed out that Xue Ye’s four sons could take his place.
• Ling Feng told Meng Shenji he had spared him because he still had a use, then sensed someone approaching and called them out.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived with Gu Rong and Chen Xin, and Meng Shenji recognized the two Titled Douluo accompanying him.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Meng Shenji to leave, but Meng Shenji urged him not to do anything foolish as Gu Rong and Chen Xin watched Ling Feng warily.

At the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong confronted Ling Feng over Ning Rongrong’s distress after the battle at Shrek Academy. Ling Feng denied harming her and accepted Chen Xin’s challenge, leaving the duel poised to begin as Chen Xin unleashed his Seven Kill True Body.

• Ling Feng asked Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong why they had come to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, and Ning Fengzhi accused him of harming Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that Rongrong had returned from Shrek Academy depressed after Tang Hao’s battle with Ling Feng, so he had summoned Chen Xin and Gu Rong to demand justice.
• Chen Xin challenged Ling Feng, but his Sword Qi vanished harmlessly near Ling Feng, who denied harming Rongrong and agreed to test their Sword Dao.
• Ling Feng summoned the Great Void Bright Origin Sword and suppressed his Soul Power to level 97, matching Chen Xin and angering him.
• Chen Xin activated his seventh soul skill, Seven Kill True Body, as sword shadows and killing intent filled the area.

Ling Feng and Chen Xin fought a devastating duel between Sword Immortals, while Ning Fengzhi persuaded Gu Rong to attack Ling Feng from behind. The chapter ended with Gu Rong’s surprise attack arriving as Chen Xin activated his Seven Kill Domain and unleashed a soul skill.

• Chen Xin rejected Ning Fengzhi’s offer of support and attacked Ling Feng with a colossal Seven Kill Sword formed from the surrounding Sword Qi.
• Ling Feng met Chen Xin’s attack head-on, and their collision shattered space and injured Meng Shenji with the shockwaves.
• Ning Fengzhi urged Gu Rong to exploit Chen Xin’s duel with Ling Feng and launch a surprise attack, and Gu Rong reluctantly agreed.
• Ling Feng used the Taiji Yin-Yang Sword Shock to deflect Chen Xin’s sword momentum and challenged him to show his true skill.
• Chen Xin activated his Seven Kill Domain and unleashed a soul skill as Gu Rong’s bone blades and edges silently reached Ling Feng’s back.

Ling Feng defeated Chen Xin’s strongest sword technique despite the Seven Kill Domain, while Gu Rong rescued Chen Xin from his fall. Ning Fengzhi then offered to support the two elders as they prepared to use their final combined move against Ling Feng.

• Gu Rong launched a sneak attack on Ling Feng, but Ling Feng sensed it and cut through the attack.
• Chen Xin used his eighth soul skill against Ling Feng, whose Sword Gang blocked it without being affected by the Seven Kill Domain.
• Chen Xin unleashed his ninth soul skill, Sword Dao: Chen Xin, but Ling Feng’s Man and Sword as One shattered it and destroyed the domain.
• Gu Rong caught the falling Chen Xin with his Bone Dragon True Body, and Chen Xin admitted that Ling Feng’s Sword Dao far surpassed his own.
• Ning Fengzhi told Chen Xin and Gu Rong to unleash their full strength while he supported them, as the two prepared their final combined move.

Ling Feng used the Unfettered Sword Realm to turn Chen Xin and Gu Rong's combined attack into a sword and redirect it at them. After Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Meng Shenji survived the resulting clash, Ling Feng killed them, leaving Xiao Xue with the chance to take control of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

• Ning Fengzhi amplified Chen Xin and Gu Rong, who unleashed their combined attack, Myriad Bones' End: Heaven and Earth's Last Breath, against Ling Feng.
• Ling Feng used Sword Dao: Swordless Realm to transform the attack into a sword and return it toward Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong.
• Ning Fengzhi empowered Chen Xin and Gu Rong again, and their new combined attack collided with the redirected strike, creating a massive energy storm.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Meng Shenji survived the clash but were left weakened, so Ling Feng killed them with a rain of swords.
• Ling Feng realized Xiao Xue could take control of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect by bringing one or two Titled Douluo.

Ling Feng left the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace after killing Xue Qinghe’s father and hurried back to the Crown Prince’s Mansion, where Xue Qinghe was trying to drug Qian Renxue. Qian Renxue remained unaffected by the drug, but Xue Qinghe continued his scheme and ended the chapter asking whether she felt strange.

• Ling Feng left the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace and wondered whether Qian Renxue had taken down Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Qinghe secretly served Qian Renxue drug-laced pastries, believing they would make her vulnerable to him.
• Qian Renxue ate the pastries without concern because the Immortal Herbs she had absorbed had made her immune to all poisons.
• Xue Qinghe imagined taking the throne from his father and briefly let his sinister ambition show before resuming his gentle disguise.
• Xue Qinghe led Qian Renxue into his garden and asked whether she felt anything unusual.

Xue Qinghe admitted to drugging Qian Renxue’s pastries and tried to coerce her into becoming his wife, believing the drug had taken effect. Qian Renxue showed only thirst and remained powerful enough to blast him away, leaving Xue Qinghe stunned.

• Xue Qinghe grew suspicious when Qian Renxue showed no obvious signs of being drugged, and Qian Renxue realized he had plotted against her.
• Xue Qinghe confessed that he had put a lust-inducing drug in her pastries and claimed she would become Crown Princess and later Empress.
• Qian Renxue felt hot and thirsty, but her killing intent toward Xue Qinghe remained unchanged.
• Xue Qinghe urged Qian Renxue to submit and promised to make her his Empress, while privately wondering why the drug was taking so long to work.
• Xue Qinghe reached for Qian Renxue, and she struck him with sacred Angel Spirit Power, sending him crashing to the ground.

Qian Renxue revealed that she had detected and neutralized Xue Qinghe’s drugged pastries, then exposed her true identity as the Angel Clan’s Young Master and Spirit Hall’s heir. Xue Qinghe realized his scheme had failed and ended the chapter raging over the fortune he had nearly claimed.

• Xue Qinghe grew alarmed when Qian Renxue showed no effects from the drug and suspected she was immune to poisons.
• Qian Renxue explained that her Sword Heart and Angel Spirit Power had suppressed and dissolved the drug, and that she had feigned thirst to expose him.
• Xue Qinghe realized Qian Renxue had discovered his tampering and inferred that she possessed a Six-Winged Angel Spirit.
• Qian Renxue revealed that her real name was Qian Renxue and identified her ties to Qian Daoliu, Qian Xunji, Bibi Dong, the Angel Clan, Spirit Hall, and Hidden Sword Peak.
• Xue Qinghe lamented that Qian Renxue’s powers had ruined his plan and roared in resentment at the fortune he could not claim.

Qian Renxue killed Xue Qinghe after he threatened her with the Heaven Dou Empire, then burned his body and assumed his identity to hide the killing. Ling Feng returned and found her disguised as Xue Qinghe, unaware that she was his Guardian.

• Xue Qinghe claimed his status as Crown Prince would prevent Qian Renxue from killing him, but she revealed that she planned to take control of the Heaven Dou Empire and pierced his brow with Sword Light.
• Qian Renxue decided to accelerate her plan to eliminate the Snow Imperial Clan within a week and ordered Uncle Yu Long and the others to act faster.
• Qian Renxue burned Xue Qinghe's corpse to ashes and used the Angel Spirit Bone's Cloud Illusion to transform into him.
• Ling Feng returned, sensed traces of Angel Spirit Power, and found the disguised Qian Renxue alone, believing that Xue Qinghe had plotted against his Guardian.

Ling Feng recognized that the person disguised as Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue, using her Angel Spirit Bone, Cloud Illusion. He worried that plot forces might make her fall for Tang San and resolved to eliminate him, while Qian Renxue misunderstood Ling Feng’s behavior as proof of his deep affection.

• Ling Feng noticed that Xue Qinghe’s manner and affectionate gaze seemed wrong, then realized he was Qian Renxue in disguise.
• Ling Feng worried that the force of plot progression could make Qian Renxue fall in love with Tang San and thought through the threats remaining to his plans.
• Ling Feng recognized Qian Renxue aloud, and she felt pleased that her Guardian knew her so well.
• Ling Feng saw Qian Renxue’s bright gaze but attributed it to plot progression, then developed killing intent toward Tang San.
• Ling Feng pretended to be confused and asked Qian Renxue why she had disguised herself as Xue Qinghe.

Qian Renxue told Ling Feng that Xue Qinghe had drugged her after his attempts to seduce her, enraging Ling Feng and making him threaten to turn Xue Qinghe into a puppet. Ling Feng’s protectiveness encouraged Qian Renxue to consider confessing her feelings, and she began putting a plan into action.

• Qian Renxue condemned Xue Qinghe and explained that he drugged girls when his refined persona failed to win them over.
• Ling Feng regretted leaving Qian Renxue alone and vowed to refine Xue Qinghe into a puppet for daring to harm his disciple.
• Qian Renxue took Ling Feng’s anger as a sign that he might care for her romantically and considered confessing her feelings.
• Qian Renxue became conflicted about confessing, then had an idea and returned to her female form.
• Ling Feng stared at Qian Renxue’s swaying chest and wondered whether she was deliberately trying to seduce him.

Qian Renxue pretended the medicine was affecting her and used the excuse to get close to Ling Feng, while Ling Feng tried to decide whether her advances were genuine or caused by outside interference. He ultimately used his Sword Heart Realm to suppress the supposed drug and restore her reason.

• Qian Renxue flushed her cheeks with Angel Spirit Power, leaned against Ling Feng, and pretended to be disoriented by the medicine.
• Qian Renxue pressed against Ling Feng and slipped a hand into his collar, while Ling Feng watched in confusion.
• Ling Feng considered whether Qian Renxue was following her feelings, reacting to the drug, or being influenced by the Heavenly Dao.
• Ling Feng decided not to take advantage of her and pointed two fingers at her brow.
• Ling Feng channeled the power of his Sword Heart Realm into Qian Renxue to suppress the medicine and restore her reason.

Ling Feng suppressed the medicine’s effects on Qian Renxue, while she took his restraint as hope that he returned her feelings. He then revealed that he had killed Emperor Xue Ye and eliminated the leaders of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, freeing Qian Renxue from her Crown Prince Xue Qinghe disguise and leaving her stunned.

• Ling Feng calmed Qian Renxue and confirmed that she had recovered from the medicine’s effects.
• Qian Renxue decided she still had a chance with Ling Feng and resolved to learn to cook to win his affection.
• Ling Feng realized he desired Qian Renxue but suppressed the thought, then asked whether she still felt unwell.
• Qian Renxue blamed the medicine’s effects on her incomplete Sword Heart and weak Angel Spirit Power.
• Ling Feng told Qian Renxue that he had killed Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong, and said she no longer needed to pose as Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.

Ling Feng told Qian Renxue that he had killed Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect leaderless and the Heaven Dou Empire vulnerable to her control. He gave her the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and revealed its connection to the Sea God.

• Ling Feng explained that Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong had confronted him because Ning Rongrong had sought her father's help after Ling Feng destroyed Shrek Academy.
• Qian Renxue realized that Ling Feng's actions had left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect leaderless and opened the way to taking control of it and the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Ling Feng told Qian Renxue to identify and suppress anyone who resisted their takeover, promising to deal with dissenters himself.
• Ling Feng gave Qian Renxue the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and explained that it was the Heaven Dou Empire's national treasure, a Soul Tool connected to the Sea God.

Ling Feng explained that Qian Daoliu would have to sacrifice his life for Qian Renxue to inherit the Angel God’s divine seat, and she decided to pursue the Sea God’s inheritance instead. After Qian Renxue claimed the tournament championship and announced Spirit Hall’s intervention in the Heaven Dou Empire, Prince Xue Xing objected.

• Ling Feng revealed that the Angel God and Sea God’s chosen sacrifices would give their lives to open the ninth trial for their inheritors.
• Qian Renxue learned that Qian Daoliu might have to die for her to become the God of Angels, so Ling Feng gave her the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud as a possible alternative.
• Qian Renxue decided to take the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to Sea God Island and inherit the Sea God’s divine seat to spare her grandfather.
• Ling Feng privately planned for Qian Renxue to inherit three divine seats, while news spread that the Sword Immortal had killed Xue Ye and rumors discredited Xue Qinghe.
• Qian Renxue revealed her Six-Winged Angel Spirit, defeated Feng Xiaotian, won the tournament, and announced that Spirit Hall would oversee the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Prince Xue Xing objected, arguing that the Xue royal family had princes who could inherit the throne without Spirit Hall’s intervention.