[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-douluo-the-exiled-immortal-descends-sword-and-wi":3,"chapter-douluo-the-exiled-immortal-descends-sword-and-wi-douluo-the-exiled-immortal-descends-sword-and-wi-chapter-217":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Douluo: The Exiled Immortal Descends, Sword and Wine Slay the Gods",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1550732,2014,"Chapter 217 - 217 – Reunion with Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling — The Same People, the Same Place","douluo-the-exiled-immortal-descends-sword-and-wi-chapter-217",217,"\u003Cp>The two of them drank together deep into the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Li Zhexian finally rose to take his leave, Dugu Bo suddenly said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zhexian, aren't you going to see Yanyan?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That girl's been thinking of you every day for the past five years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There's plenty of time ahead. Now that I'm back in Heaven Dou, we'll see each other soon enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Bo nodded with a smile, watching the youth's figure leap a few times before vanishing into the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lifted his head toward the bright moon and stroked his beard softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zhexian, that kid's finally back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This Heaven Dou City won't be so boring anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the northern outskirts of the city stood a quiet courtyard —\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian's home in Heaven Dou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stopped before the closed gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lifting a finger slightly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strand of sword qi slipped silently through the crack of the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A soft click followed, and the latch within snapped apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pushing open the gate, he entered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moonlight spilled across the pebble path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along the walls, the four-season plum trees were in full bloom;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the plum branches were heavy with fruit;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and there, in the courtyard, the pair of sandalwood chairs he used to sit on — polished smooth by time — quietly waited as if they had never been moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He brushed his fingers across the tabletop. Not a trace of dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, someone had been tending to the place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The house before him even seemed newer than it had five years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm home.\" A low whisper scattered into the night wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night, he slept peacefully for the first time in years,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>washing away the fatigue of five long years of wandering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At dawn, after washing up, Li Zhexian shed his black robes and changed into a plain white long shirt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bronze mirror reflected a handsome young face, though a faint sharpness still lingered between his brows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rubbed his cheeks, forcing a smile that softened his expression—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and for a moment, he looked almost exactly like he had five years before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was different from those other survivors who crawled out of the Slaughter City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others had to struggle to cleanse themselves of their killing intent,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>lest it consume their minds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his killing intent—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he had long since sealed it into his sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without that,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he could never have forged the sixth form of Qinglian Sword Song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless one were a Titled Douluo,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no one could even sense the killing intent hidden deep within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Time to head out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He strolled into the bustling streets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The quiet of the northern suburbs quickly faded, replaced by the hum of the marketplace — warm, vibrant, alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian blended into the crowd, stopping here and there, pausing before trinket stalls, even haggling with street vendors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Auntie, how much for the sugar figurines?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The plump woman behind the stall, with a mole by her lip, lifted her gaze, sizing up the young man in white before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Small ones, two copper coins. Big ones, three.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian raised a brow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, Auntie, do you take me for an outsider?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The old man at the Jinxi Bridge makes the best sugar figures in Heaven Dou — big ones for just one coin!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of flustered, the woman smiled brightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's my father! I'll give you the same price then — one coin!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without giving him a chance to protest,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>she deftly pulled up a string of amber-colored syrup,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>her hands working quickly as she shaped it into a sugar figurine, muttering softly all the while:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Father hasn't set up his stall in a year now… this kid looks kinda familiar…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian took the sugar figure—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the sweet aroma hit him instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The taste… exactly the same as it used to be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He bought two steaming hot buns from the next stall,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and as he walked, he ate slowly, savoring each bite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the bun shop's owner—wearing a greasy apron—craned his neck and squinted at the departing white-robed figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That build… that face…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why does he look exactly like that guy… what was his name again…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, right! Lord Sword Wine!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>High walls, deep courtyards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian's thoughts stirred slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Invisible strands of sword qi manifested out of thin air, darting into the academy grounds like swift fish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yazi Sword Rift...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His figure blurred—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and in the blink of an eye,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he vanished from the street and reappeared a hundred paces away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two Spirit Emperors guarding the gate remained completely unaware.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the training grounds,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Tianheng stood with his arms folded, brows furrowed in frustration,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>glaring at the group of young students collapsed all over the floor, groaning and out of breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Such weak foundations!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can't even last through a single session in the simulated training room!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You lot want to join the Heaven Dou Battle Team too?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What a joke!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside him stood Yu Feng, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and the others — six in total — all wearing expressions of frustration as they looked at the new students, clearly exasperated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With graduation drawing near, they'd been assigned by the academy to lead the freshmen's training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they hadn't expected it to be such a headache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A young man gasped for breath, then flopped to the ground, drenched in sweat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can't… I really can't anymore!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Senior brothers, senior sisters… no matter what you say, I can't move another inch!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This isn't training, it's torture!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once one spoke up, the others followed suit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, all the freshmen were sitting on the ground in a heap, wailing in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No more training!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We just started school—why train us this hard?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All we need to do to get stronger is cultivate Spirit Power and absorb Spirit Rings!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Tianheng and the other six gathered together, staring at the lazy bunch before them, all feeling massive headaches coming on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were nearing graduation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the academy had assigned them, as outstanding seniors, to mentor the freshmen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But who would've guessed the job would be this miserable?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh, senior brothers, senior sisters…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boy who had first sat down grinned cheekily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if we don't train in that simulated training room, we'll still get stronger, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Tianheng snapped coldly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who taught you that nonsense?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Senior Sword Wine, of course!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boy straightened proudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know this for a fact!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Senior Sword Wine never even went into the simulation training rooms—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>heck, he barely even stepped foot into the academy!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I even heard—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that Senior Sword Wine hated school!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But didn't he still lead Heaven Dou to the championship?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At those words, the seven seniors froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They exchanged looks—speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Sword Wine…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Tianheng drew in a deep breath, then barked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You think you're worthy to compare to him?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not just you — even us, and the geniuses from every other academy, even those from the Spirit Hall — none of us could compare to him!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The younger students' eyes lit up at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Senior brothers, senior sisters!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tell us stories about Senior Sword Wine!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The old storyteller disappeared — we haven't heard his tales in ages!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Feng rubbed his forehead and sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Training first!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What stories?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young ones all groaned miserably, shaking their heads like stubborn mules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We wanna hear the stories!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wasn't Senior Sword Wine wanted by the Spirit Hall? I heard the Pope beat him so hard he coughed blood!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pah! That version's fake! Lord Sword Wine nailed the Pope to the wall!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hah! Forget the Pope—even Senior Yu Tianheng got nailed once!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yufeng, Oslo, and the Shi brothers all turned to stare at Yu Tianheng—whose face had gone pitch-black—barely suppressing their laughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That incident, it seemed, would never be forgotten.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Training for the day was clearly over;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the new students were too busy bickering over half-baked rumors,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the entire training ground had descended into chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smack—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sharp crack split the noise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Yan's whip lashed down like a green serpent,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>her beautiful face now iced over in fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You brats really don't know your place!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You think you can compare to my brother Zhexian?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All of you—ON YOUR FEET!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"TRAIN!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The students jolted as if struck by lightning,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>faces twisted in misery as they scrambled to their feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Tianheng and the others had just started to relax when—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey now—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A calm, cheerful voice suddenly rang out from the entrance of the training ground:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No need to be so fierce…\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1417,"2026-06-06T07:17:02.446Z",1,"novelbin.me","7febdb622299a25cf9a4584ca2a2ca4c3baf959bc1ca6424e5b707f4a54fc74a","douluo-the-exiled-immortal-descends-sword-and-wi-chapter-218","douluo-the-exiled-immortal-descends-sword-and-wi-chapter-216",442,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdouluo-the-exiled-immortal-descends-sword-and-wi-cover.jpg"]