Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang avoided choosing between Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong by claiming he would focus on his career, then drove them away when they confronted him. As Qian Xunji arranged for four men to assist him, Yu Xiaogang grew more enamored with his status and decided he might take over Spirit Hall rather than destroy it.

• Yu Xiaogang told Qian Xunji that romance could wait until his name shook the world, earning Qian Xunji's exaggerated praise and leaving Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong thinking they would have to keep their distance.
• Yu Xiaogang scolded Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong in his room, rejected Liu Erlong's appeal to their past-life marriage, and ordered them both out.
• Qian Xunji watched the women leave and instructed Brother Jie, Brother Wei, Brother Billy, and Brother Jiao to give Yu Xiaogang round-the-clock assistance.
• Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong continued competing for Yu Xiaogang's attention while he basked in his medals and reconsidered his oath to destroy Spirit Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled how the four men had rushed to help him pick up soap during a bath and felt deeply moved by their consideration.

Yu Xiaogang joined Brother Jie and the others for a night of drinking and was lured into a room under the pretense of examining rare Martial Soul Theory books. The chapter ended with the men beginning a forced practical demonstration of his theories, followed by the author's note that the chapter still would not pass review.

• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Flender and Liu Erlong and agreed to spend the night with Brother Jie, Brother Wei, Brother Billy, and Brother Jiao.
• Liu Erlong followed Yu Xiaogang to Brother Jie's mansion and passed out after drinking several bowls of liquor.
• Brother Jie and the others mocked Yu Xiaogang's drinking and challenged his claims about his mastery of Martial Soul Theory.
• The four men led Yu Xiaogang into a room, changed into unusual outfits, and blocked his attempt to leave.
• Brother Jie removed his glasses, and the men began forcing Yu Xiaogang to test his theories in a practical demonstration.

Liu Erlong caught Yu Xiaogang conducting an overnight theoretical discussion with four men, but Qian Xunji persuaded her not to interrupt. By morning, the men had blackmailed Yu Xiaogang with recordings and left him humiliated and despairing.

• Liu Erlong woke thirsty, heard activity behind a door, and saw Yu Xiaogang researching theory with four men.
• Qian Xunji stopped Liu Erlong from barging in and convinced her that interrupting would damage Yu Xiaogang's pride and make him avoid her.
• Liu Erlong listened outside through the night, then lowered her hand from the door and stumbled away at dawn.
• The four men threatened Yu Xiaogang with an Image Recording Stone, and he smashed several copies before Brother Jie revealed they had prepared dozens more.
• Yu Xiaogang submitted to the humiliation as Brother Jie suggested changing his name, while Brother Wei promised the men would soon take him to meet Brother Scar and Brother Long.

Liu Erlong and Bibi Dong grew suspicious of Yu Xiaogang’s nightly absences, each believing he might be secretly involved with the other woman. They followed him to Brother Jie’s mansion and discovered him studying theory with Brother Jie and three other men, though they did not understand the coercion behind it.

• Flender brought Liu Erlong hot soup, but she angrily left to look for Yu Xiaogang.
• Liu Erlong secretly watched Yu Xiaogang and saw him spend his days with four scholars and his nights returning with them to Brother Jie’s mansion.
• Yu Xiaogang endured the men’s threats, which included exposing recordings of him, and had no choice but to comply with them.
• Bibi Dong noticed Yu Xiaogang’s absences and suspected he was secretly seeing Liu Erlong.
• Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong independently sneaked into Brother Jie’s mansion and met outside a window.
• Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong saw Yu Xiaogang surrounded by Brother Jie and the other men, apparently studying theory, and Liu Erlong admitted she had already known.

Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong confronted Yu Xiaogang’s four research partners, believing they had coerced him into studying Martial Soul Theory. Yu Xiaogang defended the scholars, rejected the women, and went back into the research room with them, leaving Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong stunned in the corridor.

• Bibi Dong prepared to attack the four scholars, but Liu Erlong stopped her and warned that Yu Xiaogang might be studying with them willingly.
• Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong waited outside the research room the next day and confronted Yu Xiaogang as he emerged, exhausted and muttering theories.
• Brother Jie arrived and teased Yu Xiaogang about continuing their research, while Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong accused him of threatening and mistreating Xiao Gang.
• Brother Jie threatened to spread Image Recording Stones around Spirit City if Yu Xiaogang failed to defend him, and Yu Xiaogang angrily told the women he was studying by choice.
• Yu Xiaogang scolded Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong, called them a hindrance to his academic work, and threatened to cut ties with them.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to the research room with Brother Jie and the other scholars, and they locked the door, leaving Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong alone in the corridor.

Bibi Dong nearly ordered four scholars killed because she believed they were coercing Yu Xiaogang, but Qian Xunji stopped her and persuaded her to join a Soul Ring hunt with Yu Xiaogang. Yu Xiaogang welcomed the trip as a chance to escape the scholars and planned to enlist Qian Xunji or Bibi Dong against them.

• Bibi Dong ordered hall guardian knights to quietly kill the four scholars she thought were troubling Yu Xiaogang.
• Qian Xunji dismissed the knights and warned Bibi Dong that killing the scholars could damage Spirit Hall and make Yu Xiaogang hate her.
• Qian Xunji offered to take Bibi Dong to the Star Dou Great Forest for her Sixth Soul Ring, with Yu Xiaogang accompanying them.
• Bibi Dong changed her mind and agreed to set out the next day after learning she could spend time alone with Yu Xiaogang.
• A guard told Yu Xiaogang to accompany Bibi Dong on the hunt, and Yu Xiaogang secretly planned to ask Qian Xunji or Bibi Dong to eliminate the four scholars and destroy their Image Recording Stones.

Yu Xiaogang convinced Bibi Dong that Lone Bamboo would strengthen her Death Spider Emperor, while Gu Yue secretly created a ten-thousand-year dark-attribute specimen to fulfill his theory. Bibi Dong began absorbing its Soul Ring, and Qian Xunji left Yu Xiaogang alone with her as several unseen watchers fixed their attention on him.

• Qian Xunji asked Yu Xiaogang which Soul Beast Bibi Dong should hunt for her Sixth Soul Ring, and Yu Xiaogang declared that Lone Bamboo could strengthen her spider legs.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed that Bibi Dong use Lone Bamboo for all thirteen of her remaining Soul Ring slots, and Bibi Dong trusted his advice.
• Gu Yue heard Yu Xiaogang's plan, used the Goddess of Life's divine power to age a Lone Bamboo into a ten-thousand-year dark-attribute Soul Beast, and placed it in the group's path.
• Yu Xiaogang identified the mutated Lone Bamboo as a perfect Soul Beast for Bibi Dong, and Qian Xunji subdued it so she could kill it.
• Bibi Dong began absorbing the black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, while Qian Xunji left Yu Xiaogang to guard her and unseen figures watched him.

Yu Xiaogang was cornered by Brother Jie, Brother Wei, Brother Billy, and Brother Jiao while Bibi Dong absorbed a Soul Ring, then faced a horde of Yin-Yang Mating Apes. Gu Yue had secretly arranged the encounter, and the chapter ended with the scholars forcing Yu Xiaogang to summon Luo Sanpao.

• Brother Jie and the other three scholars found Yu Xiaogang beside Bibi Dong and threatened to expose his secret Martial Soul Theory recordings if he called for help.
• Gu Yue watched the scholars' antics, decided to involve Soul Beasts in their theoretical research, and secretly influenced Qian Xunji before directing Yin-Yang Mating Apes toward them.
• More than a dozen Yin-Yang Mating Apes charged at Yu Xiaogang and the four scholars, who prepared to fight them.
• Brother Jie ordered Yu Xiaogang to summon Luo Sanpao, but Yu Xiaogang protested that his martial soul could not handle the Soul Beasts.
• Brother Jie and Brother Wei pressured Yu Xiaogang until he summoned Luo Sanpao.

Bibi Dong completed her breakthrough to Soul Emperor and demonstrated the strange Sixth Soul Skill Yu Xiaogang had chosen for her, which he defended as a mobility technique. Meanwhile, Gu Yue watched from the Great Ferocious Land and ordered the Goddess of Life back to work.

• Luo Sanpao startled the Yin-Yang Mating Apes with his foul gas, and the apes and scholars began a seminar on Martial Soul Theory.
• After Bibi Dong finished absorbing her Soul Ring, she asked Yu Xiaogang whether the scholars had forced him to research, but he denied it to protect himself.
• Bibi Dong threatened to kill the scholars, and Yu Xiaogang retched from the strange smell before Qian Xunji appeared and congratulated her on reaching Soul Emperor.
• At Qian Xunji's request, Bibi Dong demonstrated her Sixth Soul Skill, bouncing through eight consecutive launches before she could stop.
• Yu Xiaogang named the skill Eight Extremes Bounce and explained it as a powerful mobility technique, while Bibi Dong accepted his reasoning.
• Gu Yue wondered why Bibi Dong's Soul Skill differed from Haozi's, then scolded the Goddess of Life for slacking and ordered her to continue stabilizing the spatial barrier.

After returning to Spirit City, Qian Xunji prevented Yu Xiaogang from revealing the scholars’ threats and kept him under their watch. Qian Xunji then announced a Continental Soul Master Theory Competition and assigned Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and the four scholars to invite the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Bibi Dong was left to organize the event.

• On the return journey, Yu Xiaogang nearly told Qian Xunji about the Image Recording Stones, but the four scholars threatened to spread them, so he claimed he had only wanted to comment on the wind.
• After the group reached Spirit City, Brother Jie, Brother Wei, Billy, and Brother Jiao carried Yu Xiaogang away to the Theory Discussion Hall, and Yu Xiaogang shouted that they were discussing academic matters to stop Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong from intervening.
• Qian Xunji asked Bibi Dong about an expedition to Sea God Island, but postponed it after she urged him to lead the attack.
• Qian Xunji announced the first Continental Soul Master Theory Competition and said Yu Xiaogang would serve as chief envoy, with Liu Erlong as deputy, to invite the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• When Bibi Dong objected to Liu Erlong accompanying Yu Xiaogang, Qian Xunji assigned the four scholars to go with them and ordered Bibi Dong to help prepare the competition.

Spirit Hall's theory competition drew mixed reactions from the major clans, and Yu Xiaogang delivered its invitation to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. After Yu Yuanzhen refused to participate, Yu Xiaogang insulted him and was beaten with a belt, leaving the clan meeting in chaos.

• The Clear Sky Sect rejected Spirit Hall's theory competition, while Ning Fengzhi decided to attend with a team to investigate.
• Liu Erlong endured days of hearing Yu Xiaogang and the four scholars discuss Martial Soul Theory during their journey to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yu Xiaogang entered the clan council hall as Spirit Hall's envoy and announced the competition invitation, boasting of his status and theories.
• Yu Yuanzhen refused to let the clan participate, and Yu Xiaogang angrily insulted him and demanded that the clan attend.
• Yu Luomian restrained Liu Erlong as Yu Yuanzhen seized Yu Xiaogang and beat him with his belt; Yu Xiaogang cried out for help.

Brother Jie, Brother Wei, Brother Billy, and Brother Jiao pressured the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to accept Spirit Hall’s theory tournament by provoking its pride and threatening Yu Xiaogang with an incriminating Image Recording Stone. Yu Yuanzhen accepted the tournament, then beat Yu Xiaogang unconscious and ordered the visitors to stay while his son recovered.

• Yu Yuanzhen stopped beating Yu Xiaogang and asked the Spirit Hall envoys about the theory tournament, whose date had not yet been decided.
• The clan elders debated whether to enter, fearing both public humiliation if Yu Xiaogang competed and ridicule if the clan stayed away.
• Brother Jie, Brother Wei, and Brother Jiao mocked the clan as cowards, angering the elders and Yu Yuanzhen.
• Brother Jie and Brother Billy threatened to expose recordings of Yu Xiaogang’s research, forcing him to confront his father and claim he knew hand-to-hand combat.
• Yu Yuanzhen beat Yu Xiaogang with his belt, then declared that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would enter the tournament.
• Yu Yuanzhen told the envoys that Yu Xiaogang had injured himself and invited them to remain at the clan while he recovered.

After Yu Xiaogang was whipped by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Liu Erlong tried to protect him from Brother Jie and his companions. They pressured her into letting them enter his room, where they approached the helpless Yu Xiaogang to “treat” his paronychia.

• Yu Xiaogang lay badly injured after receiving a hundred lashes and vowed to prove himself through theory at the Continental Theory Competition.
• Brother Jie, Brother Wei, Brother Billy, and Brother Jiao arrived, claiming they had come to check on Yu Xiaogang’s paronychia.
• Liu Erlong confronted the four, but Brother Jie and Brother Wei belittled her as incompetent and said she could not help Yu Xiaogang pursue his dream.
• Brother Jie reminded Liu Erlong that she lacked standing in the clan and threatened that Yu Xiaogang would have no theory to study if she resisted.
• Liu Erlong gave way, and the four entered Yu Xiaogang’s room and transformed into theory Grandwets.
• The four approached the frightened, immobile Yu Xiaogang and said they would treat his paronychia.

Qian Xunji plotted to unite Spirit Hall and the two empires in an expedition against Sea God Island, hoping its battles would provide negative emotions to strengthen him. After the empires agreed to join, he leaked the plan, drawing the Upper Three Sects into the contest and prompting Tang Chen to leave the Clear Sky Sect for the island.

• Qian Xunji planned an attack on Sea God Island and kept Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Bibi Dong too occupied to reveal what they knew.
• Qian Xunji persuaded the Star Luo and Heaven Dou representatives to consider a joint expedition by promising a share of Sea God Island’s wealth.
• Heaven Dou and Star Luo verified that Sea God Island existed, and Xue Ye and Dai Tianfeng approved the expedition.
• Qian Xunji leaked the plan, prompting Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen to seek involvement while the Clear Sky Sect debated what to do.
• Tang Chen declared that he would go alone to Sea God Island and appointed Tang Zhen to act as sect master in his absence.

Qian Xunji persuaded the continent’s powers to form an expedition alliance against Sea God Island by promising a chance to become a god. The alliance prepared its overseas campaign, while Gu Yue recognized Qian Xunji’s schemes and decided to take part.

• Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and Tang Chen joined Emperor Xue Ye, Dai Tianfeng, and Spirit Hall at a council convened by Qian Xunji.
• Qian Xunji described Sea God Island’s powerful defenders and claimed it held a chance to advance from level ninety-nine to godhood at level one hundred.
• After the emperors confirmed the intelligence, Tang Chen demanded the lion’s share of the spoils in exchange for facing the island’s Titled Douluo.
• Ning Fengzhi argued that the alliance needed a scout, and Qian Xunji volunteered Spirit Hall for the dangerous mission, concealing his plans to use Tang Chen and make enemies fight one another.
• The leaders established the Continent-wide Expedition Alliance, the empires began building warships, and Gu Yue decided to join the expedition.

Gu Yue sent Gu Yuena to rally powerful sea Soul Beasts against the preparations to attack Sea God Island. She subdued the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and ordered him to gather the sea’s leaders, leaving him compliant and the assembly underway.

• Gu Yue decided to have Gu Yuena help stir up opposition to the Sea God Island expedition and considered finding a way to give her a separate body.
• Gu Yue told Gu Yuena to gather powerful sea Soul Beasts that did not worship the Sea God, then handed her control of their body.
• Gu Yuena confronted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King in the Demon Whale Sea and knocked him back with two elemental strikes.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King recognized the Silver Dragon King's bloodline pressure and hurriedly submitted to Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena ordered the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to summon the leaders of every sea group with more than a hundred thousand years of cultivation that did not worship the Sea God.

Gu Yuena gathered the Sea Soul Beasts and directed them to prolong the coming war between the continental allied army and Sea God Island by secretly supporting whichever side was losing. After the beasts embraced her scheme, she promised to intervene if Poseidon’s divine consciousness appeared and returned to the Sea of Consciousness.

• The Evil Orca King and the Eight-Clawed Demonic Octopus King mocked the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King before Gu Yuena revealed her dragon wings and subdued the assembled Sea Soul Beasts with her pressure.
• Gu Yuena told the Sea Soul Beasts that the continental allied army was preparing to attack Sea God Island.
• Gu Yuena ordered the beasts to watch the battle and secretly aid whichever side was weaker, keeping both sides locked in a war of attrition.
• The Evil Orca King, the Demon Empress, and the other beasts proposed ambushes and other covert tactics, and Gu Yuena approved their plans.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King asked what to do if Poseidon’s divine consciousness descended, and Gu Yuena told the beasts to flee while she intervened if necessary.
• Gu Yuena dissolved into silver ripples, while Gu Yue watched her from the Sea of Consciousness and reflected on how thoroughly she had developed his instructions.

Yu Xiaogang was appointed as the advance envoy to Sea God Island, where Qian Xunji convinced him that the continent’s allied forces would protect him and that he could win the island over with his theories. He accepted the mission, only to learn that Brother Jie and the other three would escort him and continue their academic “exchanges.”

• Yu Xiaogang was summoned to Pope's Hall, where Brother Jie and the other three insisted on accompanying him.
• Qian Xunji announced plans to send an advance delegation to Sea God Island and named Yu Xiaogang its chief envoy.
• Yu Xiaogang protested that he was too weak for the dangerous voyage, but Qian Xunji revealed that Spirit Hall had enlisted the two great empires and the Upper Three Sects.
• Qian Xunji persuaded Yu Xiaogang that he could represent the continent’s scholars and subdue Sea God Island through theory, prompting Yu Xiaogang to accept the mission.
• Qian Xunji assigned Brother Jie, Billy, Wei, and A-Jiao to escort Yu Xiaogang, and they insisted he help them study their new theories.

Bibi Dong learned that Qian Xunji had arranged for Yu Xiaogang and the four scholars to sail to Sea God Island, and she joined the expedition to protect him. After Brother Jie showed her a recording of Yu Xiaogang being tormented and threatened to expose humiliating material about him if the scholars were harmed, Bibi Dong restrained herself and decided to wait for a chance to deal with all four.

• Qian Xunji told Bibi Dong that Yu Xiaogang had volunteered to go to Sea God Island and ordered Liu Erlong, Flender, and the four scholars to accompany him.
• Bibi Dong volunteered to join the advance delegation, and the Radiant Sacred Dragon set sail with Liu Erlong, Flender, and the others aboard.
• Liu Erlong brooded over her guilt about failing to help Yu Xiaogang, while Bibi Dong watched her and then confronted Brother Jie in the corridor.
• Brother Jie dropped an Image Recording Stone, which Bibi Dong found and played in her cabin.
• The recording showed the four scholars tormenting Yu Xiaogang and revealed Brother Jie's threat to spread embarrassing records about him if the scholars were harmed.
• Bibi Dong suppressed her anger and decided to let Yu Xiaogang suffer for now until she could catch all four scholars at once.

Yu Xiaogang and his companions reached Sea God Island to undertake its trials, where Bibi Dong received the Top-Tier Seven Trials. Yu Xiaogang expected a grand trial of his own, but received only White Level One and was struck after insulting the Sea God.

• A Sea Soul Master explained Sea God Island's trials and their dangers before leading Yu Xiaogang and his companions to Sea Horse Sacred Pillar.
• Flender, Liu Erlong, and the four scholars received Yellow Level or Purple Level trials, while Bibi Dong received the Top-Tier Seven Trials.
• Bo Saixi appeared and explained that Bibi Dong's death-aligned Martial Soul had prevented her from receiving a higher trial.
• Yu Xiaogang confidently approached the Sacred Pillar but received only White Level One, prompting Sea Horse Douluo to slap him after he insulted the Sea God.
• Liu Erlong and Bibi Dong moved against Sea Horse Douluo, but Bo Saixi restrained them and warned the group not to repeat the offense.