Chapter Summaries

Li Wei awakened in Dai Weisi’s body after Dai Weisi lost the throne struggle and poisoned himself. As the system offered choices for surviving or dying, Dai Weisi rejected the first two and demanded to hear the third option.

• A eunuch mocked the confined First Prince Dai Weisi and left his meal in the palace room.
• Li Wei’s soul took over Dai Weisi’s body and received memories of his defeat by Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, his confinement, and the danger facing Zhu Zhuyun.
• Dai Weisi realized he had taken poison and was close to death, while mourning Zhu Zhuyun’s likely fate.
• The God-Level Selection System activated and offered one option to die and transmigrate elsewhere and another to survive as a powerless commoner.
• Dai Weisi rejected both choices and demanded that the system reveal its third option.

After choosing to keep competing for the throne, Dai Weisi recovered from the poison, evolved his Martial Soul, and gained immense power from the system’s rewards. A summons to face the Star Luo Emperor interrupted his transformation, and he left his chamber to confront the court.

• Dai Weisi chose the third option, accepting the dangerous path of competing for the throne in exchange for the system’s rewards.
• The system healed Dai Weisi, evolved his Evil Eye White Tiger into a Holy White Tiger, and raised his Soul Power to level fifty-four.
• Dai Weisi fused with a hundred-thousand-year Golden Hawksbill Turtle Torso Bone, gained two Soul Skills, and reached level fifty-six.
• After reflecting on his future rivals, Dai Weisi was summoned to Chengtian Hall and suspected the Star Luo Emperor planned to publicly depose him.
• Dai Weisi opened his doors and frightened the insolent eunuch with his changed presence, then ordered him to shut up.

Dai Weisi entered Chengtian Hall as officials petitioned to replace him with Dai Mubai, then defied the Star Luo Emperor and was stripped of his title and banished. As imperial guards moved to seize him, the God-Level Selection System offered him a chance to reveal his strength and claim a Titled Douluo guard and three hundred-thousand-year-old Immortal Herbs.

• Dai Weisi silenced an arrogant eunuch and made him lead the way to Chengtian Hall, where the guards felt his imposing presence.
• Dai Tianfeng and thirty-six ministers urged the Star Luo Emperor to depose Dai Weisi and appoint Dai Mubai crown prince, while Zhu Xiaotian watched in silence.
• Dai Weisi refused to kneel, intimidated a goateed minister with a glance, and accused his father of no longer being his sovereign or father.
• The Star Luo Emperor stripped Dai Weisi of his princely status and ordered him confined to the northern gardens’ cold palace for life.
• As imperial guards reached for Dai Weisi, the God-Level Selection System presented options, including revealing his strength for a Titled Douluo guard and three hundred-thousand-year-old Immortal Herbs.

Dai Weisi revealed that his apparent despair after defeat had given way to a transformed Holy White Tiger Martial Soul and a breakthrough to Soul King. His display stunned the court and forced the Star Luo Emperor to reconsider stripping him of his princely position and banishing him.

• Grand Marshal Zhu Xiaotian intervened to urge the Star Luo Emperor to spare Dai Weisi and send him to the Northern Garden as a madman.
• Dai Weisi declared himself clearheaded and called his defeat a blessing that had revealed his path to greater power.
• When the emperor ordered the guards to drag him away, Dai Weisi stopped them and summoned his Holy White Tiger Martial Soul.
• Dai Weisi displayed five Soul Rings, including a black ten-thousand-year ring, and revealed that his Soul Power had reached level fifty-six.
• The Star Luo Emperor rose in shock as Dai Weisi asked whether he still intended to strip him of his title and banish him.

Dai Weisi revealed three Immortal Herbs and gained the protection of a mysterious gray-clad Titled Douluo, shocking the Star Luo court. The Star Luo Emperor ordered him to fight Dai Mubai again in one month, but Dai Weisi vowed to defeat him within seven days.

• Dai Weisi produced three precious Immortal Herbs, silencing accusations that his sudden strength came from an evil method.
• Dai Tianfeng argued that Dai Weisi’s tournament loss should still cost him the crown prince position, and Dai Weisi exposed his uncle’s past failures.
• The Star Luo Emperor tested Dai Weisi with his Soul Power, but a gray-clad old man dispelled it effortlessly and declared he had come to protect the eldest prince on his master’s orders.
• The Star Luo Emperor gave Dai Weisi one month to defeat Dai Mubai at the Royal Hunting Ground or face the destruction of himself and those behind him.
• Dai Weisi accepted the challenge and declared that he would defeat Dai Mubai within seven days.

Dai Weisi agreed to defeat Dai Mubai in seven days and returned to his residence with Shi Mo, a loyal Level 93 Titled Douluo assigned to guard him. He planned to use his Immortal Herbs to strengthen himself and considered seeking access to Dugu Bo’s Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Dai Weisi promised the Star Luo Emperor that he would defeat Dai Mubai fairly in seven days, then left Chengtian Hall with Shi Mo.
• Dai Weisi learned that Shi Mo was a Level 93 Defense System Titled Douluo with absolute loyalty and ordered him to guard the residence.
• Dai Weisi reasoned that Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing would soon return from the tournament and resolved to improve his strength before their arrival.
• Dai Weisi examined the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, and the Infernal Delicate Apricot, planning to take the chrysanthemum and use the other two at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dai Weisi anticipated meeting Dugu Bo and wondered what choices the system would offer him.

Dai Weisi absorbed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, reaching level fifty-eight and further transforming his Holy White Tiger Martial Soul before heading to the White Tiger Marshal's Residence. There, Zhu Zhuyun resisted her family's demand that she marry Dai Mubai, and the chapter ended with news that Dai Weisi had arrived.

• Dai Weisi absorbed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, advancing from level fifty-six to fifty-eight and strengthening his Martial Soul and foundation.
• Dai Weisi summoned Shi Mo and went to the White Tiger Marshal's Residence to bring Zhu Zhuyun back.
• Madam Zhu urged Zhu Zhuyun to abandon Dai Weisi and marry Dai Mubai, whom she expected to become crown prince.
• Zhu Zhuyun refused to betray Dai Weisi, declaring she would rather die than marry Dai Mubai.
• Zhu Zhuyun's second aunt mocked her and urged her to win Dai Mubai's favor, leaving Zhu Zhuyun shaken.
• A maid rushed in and announced that Dai Weisi had arrived.

Dai Weisi arrived at the Zhu Family residence to take Zhu Zhuyun away, but her mother and second aunt tried to shame him and force Zhu Zhuyun toward marriage with Dai Mubai. He chose to use force, seized Zhu Zhuyun, and faced a room surrounded by guards.

• The marshal's wife and Zhu Zhuyun's second aunt mocked Dai Weisi and argued that Zhu Zhuyun should marry Dai Mubai.
• Dai Weisi arrived with Shi Mo and told Zhu Zhuyun he had come to take her with him.
• Zhu Zhuyun's second aunt insulted her and described her as a means to secure the Zhu Family's future, prompting Zhu Zhuyun to protest.
• Dai Weisi rejected the system's options to endure humiliation or persuade the marshal's wife and chose to suppress them by force.
• Dai Weisi seized Zhu Zhuyun's wrist and told her to come with him.
• The marshal's wife and second aunt called for the guards, and dozens of armed guards surrounded the bedchamber.

Dai Weisi went to the Zhu residence to take his fiancée, Zhu Zhuyun, and Shi Mo forced the household guards to kneel with his overwhelming power. Zhu Xiaotian recognized Dai Weisi’s rising position and pledged the Zhu Family’s support ahead of the seven-day duel, while Dai Weisi left the family’s promise hanging over them.

• Dai Weisi ordered Shi Mo to make the guards kneel, and Shi Mo’s pressure subdued the guards, the marshal’s wife, and Second Aunt.
• Zhu Xiaotian returned, saw the scene, and bowed to Dai Weisi as the First Prince, ordering his wife and sister-in-law to apologize.
• Dai Weisi told Zhu Xiaotian that he had come to take Zhu Zhuyun as his fiancée and demanded a promise from the marshal.
• In the reception hall, Zhu Xiaotian explained that he had acted to protect the Zhu Family amid the court’s changing politics.
• Zhu Xiaotian pledged the Zhu Family’s full support to Dai Weisi and promised to witness and back him in the seven-day duel against the Second Prince.

Dai Weisi rescued Zhu Zhuyun from her family’s plans to trade her away and reassured her that no one could harm her again. After they reunited in private, he gifted her the Immortal Herb Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone to help her grow stronger.

• Dai Weisi warned Zhu Xiaotian that careless words could stain the Zhu Family’s legacy, then left the marshal’s residence with Zhu Zhuyun.
• Dai Weisi comforted Zhu Zhuyun in his palace, and she confessed how afraid she had been and declared that she trusted him.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun shared an intimate moment, and afterward he asked whether she believed their earlier defeat by Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing had been caused by inferior talent.
• Dai Weisi presented Zhu Zhuyun with the Immortal Herb Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone and explained how it could strengthen her body and help her challenge Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing again.

Zhu Zhuyun used an Immortal Herb to reach level fifty, while Dai Weisi absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's right palm bone and rose to level sixty. As Dai Weisi prepared for his imminent showdown with Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Tianfeng's ministers urged Prince Cheng to make other plans.

• Zhu Zhuyun consumed the Immortal Herb, transformed her body, and broke through to level fifty, realizing how Zhu Zhuqing had grown so strong.
• Dai Weisi told Zhu Zhuyun that she would have to wait for a suitable Soul Ring because their showdown with Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing was only days away.
• Dai Weisi absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone and used his Holy White Tiger Martial Soul to defeat the beast's remnant will, raising his Soul Power to level sixty.
• At Prince Cheng's residence, Dai Tianfeng berated his ministers after Dai Weisi's display at court and Zhu Xiaotian's change of allegiance.
• A minister urged Dai Tianfeng to make other plans before Dai Weisi's final showdown with Dai Mubai.

Dai Tianfeng rallied his allies around Dai Mubai after learning Dai Weisi had challenged him to a fight to the death and had reached Soul King level with a Titled Douluo backing him. He gave Dai Mubai a treasured Soul Bone to strengthen him, and Dai Mubai prepared to return to the imperial city for the duel.

• Dai Tianfeng rejected the ministers’ suggestion to seek refuge with Dai Weisi and agreed to use the Soul Bone and invite Spirit Hall to witness the duel.
• A guard reported that Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing had stopped at the Flying Eagle City courier station, so Dai Tianfeng set out to meet them.
• Dai Mubai dismissed Zhu Zhuqing’s concerns about their quiet journey and boasted that Dai Weisi was too defeated to threaten them.
• Dai Tianfeng told Dai Mubai that Dai Weisi had called for a fight to the death within seven days, had become a Soul King, and had a Titled Douluo behind him.
• Dai Tianfeng gave Dai Mubai the Swift Shadow Swift Leopard Left Leg Bone in exchange for his promise to win, and Dai Mubai vowed to make him prince regent.
• Dai Mubai said he would absorb the Soul Bone and return to the imperial city early the morning after tomorrow.

Dai Tianfeng secured the Spirit Hall Platinum Bishop’s support as a witness for the princes’ duel by granting his nephews military posts, then launched a propaganda campaign against Dai Weisi. Dai Weisi welcomed the Spirit Hall’s involvement and challenged Dai Mubai to fight in three days, while Dai Mubai reached level fifty and set out to obtain another Soul Ring before the duel.

• Dai Tianfeng persuaded the Platinum Bishop to witness the duel by promising his nephews primary seventh-rank positions in the military.
• Dai Tianfeng ordered his allies to portray Dai Mubai as a righteous hero and Dai Weisi as a traitor, shifting public opinion across Star Luo City.
• Dai Weisi dismissed the rumors, said the Spirit Hall’s presence would make the duel more convincing, and challenged Dai Mubai to a life-or-death battle in three days.
• Dai Mubai absorbed the Swift Shadow Swift Leopard Left Leg Bone, reached level fifty, and gained a major boost to his speed and explosive power.
• Dai Mubai received Dai Weisi’s challenge and ordered his party to return to Star Luo City after first visiting the Royal Soul Hunting Forest to obtain a Soul Ring.

The Star Luo Emperor ordered a public duel between Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi to settle the empire’s succession. At the arena, Dai Weisi rejected Dai Mubai’s moralizing speech and challenged him to trade one attack each without using Soul Rings.

• The Star Luo Emperor ordered the imperial clan and officials to witness the succession duel and had the Royal Imperial Guard seal off the Great Soul Arena.
• Dai Mubai arrived with Zhu Zhuqing and Prince Cheng Dai Tianfeng, while officials speculated that Dai Weisi might not show up.
• Dai Weisi arrived with Zhu Zhuyun and joined Dai Mubai on the platform after paying respects to the Star Luo Emperor.
• Dai Mubai claimed he was acting for the empire and its people, presenting himself as forced to challenge Dai Weisi.
• Dai Weisi used his system selection to expose Dai Mubai’s hypocrisy and proposed that they each take one attack without using Soul Rings.

Dai Weisi agreed to face Dai Mubai’s attack without using a Soul Ring, while the crowd assumed his challenge was reckless. Dai Mubai revealed his Soul King cultivation and Soul Bone, then unleashed his strongest attack as the first round began.

• Dai Mubai pretended to worry about hurting Dai Weisi, but Dai Weisi calmly told him to begin.
• The Platinum Bishop approved their terms and announced that Dai Mubai would attack first while Dai Weisi could not use Soul Ring power.
• Dai Mubai revealed five Soul Rings and shocked the arena by showing that he had reached Soul King cultivation.
• Dai Mubai activated White Tiger Vajra Transformation and a Soul Bone, boosting his power as the crowd watched in alarm.
• Dai Mubai unleashed his fifth Soul Skill, White Tiger God-Slaying Claw, and swung the enormous golden claw at Dai Weisi.

Dai Weisi survived Dai Mubai’s strongest attack without moving, revealing a powerful defensive Soul Bone and humiliating his younger brother. He prepared to strike back as Dai Mubai raised a Soul Skill to defend himself.

• Dai Mubai used his strongest attack, the God-Slaying Claw, and assumed Dai Weisi had been defeated.
• Dai Weisi emerged unscathed, with a fading golden tortoiseshell pattern on his chest, and mocked Dai Mubai’s Soul Skill.
• The spectators recognized Dai Weisi’s defensive Soul Bone, and Zhu Xiaotian estimated that it was a Torso Bone at least fifty thousand years old.
• Dai Weisi announced that it was his turn to attack, and Dai Mubai agreed to take the blow.
• Dai Mubai activated White Tiger Protection Barrier and told Dai Weisi, “Imperial brother, please teach me!”

Dai Weisi revealed an External Soul Bone and unleashed its attack against Dai Mubai’s defensive barrier. The chapter left the massive claw-shaped strike hurtling toward Dai Mubai.

• Dai Weisi warned Dai Mubai that his attack might be too powerful to control, while Dai Mubai braced behind his White Tiger Protection Barrier.
• Dai Weisi manifested five dark-gold claws from his right hand, stunning the spectators and the referee.
• The Spirit Hall Platinum Bishop identified the claws as an External Soul Bone that could evolve as its owner grew stronger.
• Dai Mubai recalled Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances and convinced himself his defenses could withstand Dai Weisi’s attack.
• Dai Weisi named his attack Dreadclaw-World-Destruction and sent a huge claw-shaped strike toward Dai Mubai.

Dai Weisi crushed Dai Mubai’s defense and revealed that he had also consumed a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, deepening Dai Mubai’s despair. Dai Mubai called on Zhu Zhuqing to join the fight, and they fused into a mutated Hell White Tiger that charged at Dai Weisi.

• Dai Weisi shattered Dai Mubai’s White Tiger Protection Barrier with Dreadclaw World Annihilation and left him badly wounded.
• Dai Weisi revealed that he knew about Dai Mubai’s Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and claimed that he had consumed one too.
• Dai Mubai admitted he could not defeat Dai Weisi alone, then insisted the succession contest was a battle between both pairs and called for Zhu Zhuqing to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Zhu Zhuqing overcame her hesitation and rushed to Dai Mubai, fusing with him into a mutated Hell White Tiger.
• The Hell White Tiger roared and lunged at Dai Weisi.

Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing launched a surprise Martial Soul Fusion Skill attack on Dai Weisi, but he blocked the Hell White Tiger’s killing blow with his arms. Dai Mubai then sensed a holy presence in Dai Weisi’s Martial Soul and demanded to know what it was.

• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing fused into the Hell White Tiger and charged at Dai Weisi while Zhu Zhuyun tried to reach him too late.
• Dai Weisi activated his Martial Soul Possession, revealing five Soul Rings and a level sixty Soul Power, then layered his White Tiger Protection Barrier with his Golden Hawksbill Turtle torso bone’s defense domain.
• The Hell White Tiger shattered both barriers and struck Dai Weisi, but he remained standing and stopped its claws with his arms.
• Dai Mubai sensed that Dai Weisi’s Martial Soul carried a sacred presence that made the White Tiger feel reverence, then demanded to know what it was.

Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun summoned a stronger Hell White Tiger and defeated Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, leaving Dai Mubai badly injured and Zhu Zhuqing unconscious. After Dai Mubai refused to yield, the God-Level Selection System offered Dai Weisi three choices for his fate: pardon, execute, or humiliate him.

• Dai Mubai unleashed Hell White Tiger Break at Dai Weisi, but Zhu Zhuyun arrived and joined him in a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun's golden Hell White Tiger tore through Dai Mubai's attack and struck his weakened fusion, breaking it apart.
• Dai Mubai spat blood and collapsed with severe injuries, while Zhu Zhuqing fell unconscious from the backlash.
• Dai Weisi asked Dai Mubai what else he had to say, and Dai Mubai laughed and declared he would rather die than yield.
• The God-Level Selection System offered Dai Weisi rewards for pardoning, executing, or humiliating Dai Mubai.