Chapter Summaries

Mu Yuan sparred with Sword Douluo through the night, then returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and fell asleep holding Xiao Wu. Ning Rongrong admitted she still liked Mu Yuan and was encouraged by Sword Douluo to pursue him, while Flender, Grandmaster, and Liu Erlong arrived with Tang San to demand Xiao Wu; their confrontation with the academy’s leaders ended with the Golden Iron Triangle beginning its Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Mu Yuan and Sword Douluo finished their overnight spar, and Sword Douluo accepted the Aromatic Silk Beauty to deliver to Ning Rongrong’s teacher.
• Mu Yuan returned to the dormitory, where Xiao Wu had waited for him, and fell asleep holding her.
• Ning Rongrong cried over losing Mu Yuan, but Sword Douluo urged her to express her feelings and told her she still had a chance.
• Flender, Grandmaster, Liu Erlong, Tang San, and more than thirty teachers confronted Heaven Dou Royal Academy and demanded that it hand over Xiao Wu.
• Meng Shenji refused to release Xiao Wu, and the Golden Iron Triangle activated its Martial Soul Fusion Skill as Mu Yuan woke to the disturbance.

Mu Yuan defeated the Golden Sacred Dragon and Tang San collapsed after Xiao Wu declared her love for Mu Yuan. Tang Hao arrived seeking Xiao Wu, but Mu Yuan and Sword Douluo confronted him as the battle shook Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Mu Yuan used a wooden giant to pin and crush the Golden Sacred Dragon, leaving Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang badly injured.
• Xiao Wu ran to Mu Yuan, and Tang San attacked him after learning they had slept together; Xiao Wu stopped Tang San and said she loved Mu Yuan.
• Tang San collapsed after Xiao Wu told him to respect her choice and apologize to Mu Yuan.
• Tang Hao appeared and claimed Xiao Wu as a soul beast he had found first, so Mu Yuan shielded her while Sword Douluo challenged Tang Hao.
• Mu Yuan joined Sword Douluo in fighting Tang Hao, and their clash forced the academy Council Members to protect the buildings with a Soul Power barrier.

Mu Yuan and Sword Douluo battled Tang Hao, who threatened to detonate his remaining spirit rings and endanger Rongrong. They agreed to a seven-year duel between Mu Yuan and Tang San, though Mu Yuan privately planned to defeat the Clear Sky Sect within a year.

• Mu Yuan's Wood Dragon drained Tang Hao's Soul Power while Mu Yuan and Sword Douluo attacked him, and the Divine Tree's howl injured both fighters' Spiritual Power.
• Mu Yuan trapped Tang Hao with giant wooden hands, and Sword Douluo's Eighth Spirit Skill struck him as he used Exploding Rings to survive.
• Mu Yuan gave Sword Douluo an Ink Jade Divine Bamboo to restore his Soul Power, while he and Sword Douluo held back rather than risk Tang Hao's desperate attack on Rongrong.
• Mu Yuan and Tang Hao agreed to meet for a fair duel in seven years, and Tang Hao carried the unconscious Tang San away.
• Mu Yuan resolved to suppress the Clear Sky Sect within one year.

Tang Hao hid with Tang San after his injuries left him unable to fight, while Mu Yuan helped Xiao Wu cope with her exposed identity and Heaven Dou Royal Academy dealt with the aftermath of Blue Tyrant Academy’s attack. The remaining Shrek members joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s first team, and Mu Yuan removed Dugu Yan’s inherited toxins before giving her an Immortal Herb.

• Tang Hao took Tang San to a secluded mountain cave and collapsed from his wounds and the backlash of detonating his spirit rings.
• Mu Yuan carried a distraught Xiao Wu back to the dormitory, leaving Ning Rongrong unable to speak to him.
• Meng Shenji reported Blue Tyrant Academy’s actions to Xue Ye, who ordered the instigators arrested; the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan offered compensation, Flender was imprisoned, and Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang received light punishments.
• Meng Shenji assigned Mu Yuan and the remaining Shrek members to Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s first team, where Yu Tianheng apologized and Dugu Yan thanked Mu Yuan.
• During the team’s sparring, Mu Yuan absorbed Dugu Yan’s inherited toxins, weakening her Poison Cultivation, then gave her an Immortal Herb as compensation to Dugu Bo.

After his companions finished sparring and refining Immortal Herbs, Mu Yuan visited Xue Qinghe, who arranged for him to obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud through an auction. The chapter ended with Mu Yuan realizing the disguised Soul Tool was a national treasure that contained the Sea God Inheritance.

• Xiao Wu defeated Yu Tianheng, Zhu Zhuqing defeated Osler despite being badly injured, and Ye Lingling healed the fighters.
• Dugu Yan finished refining her Immortal Herb, evolved her martial soul, and advanced to Soul Power level forty.
• Ning Rongrong hesitated to confess her feelings to Mu Yuan when a Crown Prince's official summoned him to Xue Qinghe's residence.
• Xue Qinghe welcomed Mu Yuan with tea and a feast, then took him to the Heaven Dou Auction House to reveal his gift.
• Xue Qinghe explained that the auction's sapphire cube was the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which he had taken from the treasury and disguised so Mu Yuan could obtain it.

At the Heaven Dou Auction House, Mu Yuan and Xue Qinghe discussed commoners, slavery, and reform before Mu Yuan recognized two siblings from the Star Dou Great Forest being sold as slaves. Mu Yuan began bidding to save them, angering a powerful masked noble.

• Xue Qinghe criticized the waste of talented commoners and proposed training them as imperial soldiers, while Mu Yuan argued that ending slavery and poverty would address the problem at its root.
• The auction displayed a slave girl and a scarred man, and Mu Yuan recognized them as the siblings who had helped him in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xue Qinghe grew furious after Mu Yuan explained how the siblings had been captured, but Mu Yuan chose to rescue them himself and leave the wider issue for later.
• The auctioneer described the siblings’ abuse and invited bidders to exploit the girl in front of her brother, prompting Mu Yuan to bid against an elderly masked noble.
• Mu Yuan raised his bid to four hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and the furious noble stood up to confront whoever was opposing him.

After rescuing two siblings from Old Marshal Ge’s attempt to seize them, Mu Yuan confronted the Empire’s lawless nobility and bought the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud at auction. Xue Ye summoned Mu Yuan to the palace after Old Marshal Ge complained, leaving Mu Yuan dissatisfied with the emperor’s attempt to blame both sides.

• Mu Yuan learned that slave catchers had captured and sold the siblings after he helped them obtain spirit rings, and he asked Xue Qinghe to arrange a safe place for them.
• Old Marshal Ge barged in and demanded the siblings, but Xue Qinghe refused to hand them over.
• When Old Marshal Ge tried to seize the siblings by force, Mu Yuan struck him down and stomped him until the auction house supervisor begged him to stop.
• Mu Yuan bought the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud for three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• After Old Marshal Ge complained to Xue Ye, the emperor ordered Mu Yuan to explain himself at the palace and appeared ready to reprimand both men.

Mu Yuan continued cultivating in seclusion while helping Zhu Zhuqing with her training, and Xiao Wu grew anxious after Ning Rongrong admitted she wanted to reconsider her feelings for him. Xiao Wu sought reassurance from Mu Yuan and stayed with him at his cottage.

• Xue Ye reprimanded Xue Qinghe after Mu Yuan refused to visit the palace, but Ning Fengzhi dismissed the matter and it had no effect on Mu Yuan.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Mu Yuan she admired his strength rather than loving him, and Mu Yuan agreed to let her follow him.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Mu Yuan for help with a Self-Created Soul Skill, then went to practice in the nearby woods.
• Ning Rongrong told Xiao Wu she was having second thoughts, and Xiao Wu asked her to wait one day before discussing it further.
• Xiao Wu found Mu Yuan and asked to stay with him, and he reassured her that he would never leave her.
• Mu Yuan carried Xiao Wu to the bed, and they became intimate inside the secluded cottage.

Ning Rongrong confessed her feelings to Mu Yuan, but he gently rejected her and said he saw her as a little sister. Meanwhile, Xiao Wu accepted Ning Rongrong’s proposal to compete fairly, and Mu Yuan promised to protect Xiao Wu and transformed spirit beasts from persecution.

• Ning Rongrong imagined making up for the hurt she had caused Mu Yuan, while Tang San trained beneath a waterfall and resolved to return to Xiao Wu after becoming stronger.
• Xiao Wu asked Mu Yuan whether he knew she was a Spirit Beast Transformation, and he promised to protect her and create a world where transformed spirit beasts could live without being hunted.
• Xiao Wu agreed to compete fairly with Ning Rongrong, promising they would remain friends regardless of who won.
• Ning Rongrong confessed to Mu Yuan and explained that she had always liked him, but Mu Yuan said he regarded her as a little sister and rejected her.
• Ning Rongrong protested that she was not too young to understand love and reminded Mu Yuan that he had once agreed to follow her father's arrangements.

Mu Yuan cultivated while Sword Douluo broke through to Level 97, and he ignored Marshal Ge Long’s attempt to pressure the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Five months later, as Mu Yuan reached a breakthrough, his Divine Tree Martial Soul formed a flower bud and drew in the surrounding Soul Power.

• Mu Yuan explained to Ning Rongrong that he had agreed to Ning Fengzhi’s proposal before meeting Xiao Wu, then rejected the idea of loving Rongrong while assuring her he would remain her brother.
• After consuming the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo Mu Yuan had given him, Sword Douluo broke through to Level 97.
• Marshal Ge Long used the cancellation of military cooperation with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to pressure Mu Yuan, who decided to deal with him after reaching Level 70.
• Xue Qinghe told Mu Yuan that the siblings he had rescued were safe and settled, and visited him while Xiao Wu stayed close by.
• Five months later, Ning Rongrong and other Heaven Dou Royal Academy students cultivated diligently as Mu Yuan absorbed Soul Power from within a hundred li and a flower bud sprouted atop his Divine Tree Martial Soul.

Mu Yuan broke through to level 70 and planned to hunt the Ice Empress in the Extreme North for his seventh soul ring. After returning to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, he reunited with his teachers and disrupted Xue Ye’s attempt to settle a dispute between the sect and Marshal Ge Long.

• Mu Yuan broke through to level 70 after absorbing energy from the surrounding area, and Xiao Wu suggested he investigate the Myriad Monster King for a soul ring.
• Mu Yuan rejected hunting in the Star Dou Great Forest and decided to lure the Ice Empress away from the Extreme North’s core region and hunt her instead.
• Mu Yuan returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, gave Bone Douluo an immortal herb, and learned that Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo were at the palace.
• Xue Ye urged Ning Fengzhi to accept Ge Long’s apology and have Mu Yuan apologize in return, but Bone Douluo arrived and announced Mu Yuan’s return.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo left with Bone Douluo, leaving Xue Ye furious in the palace.

Mu Yuan gave Ning Fengzhi the Aromatic Silk Beauty, evolving his Martial Soul into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and allowing him to break through to Spirit Douluo. The group entered the Extreme North to hunt the Ice Empress, but first needed to find a way to keep the Snow Empress from intervening.

• Mu Yuan told Ning Fengzhi he could handle the Ge Long matter himself and urged him to consume the Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Ning Fengzhi consumed the herb, evolved his Martial Soul into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, and broke through beyond Level 79.
• Bone Douluo refined an immortal herb and broke through to Level 96 before joining Mu Yuan, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Dugu Bo on the expedition.
• The group entered the Extreme North, and Ning Fengzhi hunted a suitable soul beast, absorbed its spirit ring, and reached level 86.
• Mu Yuan planned to track the Ice Jade Scorpions to find the Ice Empress, then lure her far enough away that the Snow Empress would not notice the hunt.

Mu Yuan attacked the Ice Jade Scorpion clan to obtain spirit bones, then lured the Ice Empress away from her territory. He led her into an ambush, where Dugu Bo petrified her and Sword Douluo struck with his strongest sword attack.

• Mu Yuan followed an Ice Jade Scorpion to its clan’s nesting grounds and began killing the scorpions in search of spirit bones.
• Mu Yuan killed increasingly powerful Ice Jade Scorpions until the Ice Empress appeared and attacked him.
• Mu Yuan fought while retreating, drawing the Ice Empress away from the core region of the Extreme North for a day and night.
• Mu Yuan led the Ice Empress to an ambush near the ocean and told his allies to act.
• Ning Fengzhi’s support let Dugu Bo petrify the Ice Empress with Medusa’s Gaze, and Sword Douluo struck her with his strongest ninth soul skill.

Mu Yuan and his allies fought Ice Empress, combining their attacks to injure her and strip away her home-field advantage. When her Ice Emperor’s Wrath overwhelmed them, Mu Yuan revealed the Divine Tree Martial Soul’s true form and drew immense energy from the earth, but the strain threatened to tear his body apart.

• Sword Douluo wounded Ice Empress’s pincers, and Dugu Bo froze her in time for Bone Douluo to strike her wound and smash her into an iceberg.
• Mu Yuan transformed the shattered iceberg into a forest while Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Ning Fengzhi joined him in attacking Ice Empress.
• Ice Empress unleashed Ice Emperor’s Wrath, freezing Mu Yuan’s wooden attacks and Bone Douluo’s dragon claw while the cold injured Sword Douluo and threatened Ning Fengzhi.
• Mu Yuan activated the Divine Tree Martial Soul’s true form and drew energy from beneath the earth, summoning enormous trees and raising his power above Ice Empress’s.
• Mu Yuan formed a towering wooden giant that punched Ice Empress, but she froze its body as Mu Yuan’s own body began to buckle under the power.
• Mu Yuan roared and shattered the ice covering the wooden giant.

Mu Yuan defeated and absorbed the three-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year Ice Empress, gaining a powerful new Martial Soul Avatar and creating a new Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion named One-Tail. After leaving the Extreme North with his companions, he planned to stop at the military camp to deal with Ge Long.

• Mu Yuan used multiple Wood Men to crush Ice Empress, interrupting her distress signal and killing her.
• Mu Yuan absorbed Ice Empress's soul ring and devoured her soul, corpse, and spirit bone with his Divine Tree Martial Soul.
• Mu Yuan demonstrated his Martial Soul Avatar and its Path Seeking Jade, which nearly cost Ning Fengzhi a finger.
• Mu Yuan revealed that his Martial Soul had transformed a branch into a new Ice Empress, an independent being under his control whom he named One-Tail.
• Mu Yuan and the others left the Extreme North for Heaven Dou City, and Mu Yuan planned to visit the military camp to deal with Ge Long.

Mu Yuan went to Ge Long's military camp to settle their grievance, but learned that Ge Long had returned to Heaven Dou City. He confronted Ge Long at the imperial palace, where Ge Long's attack failed to hurt him and Ge Long tried to flee.

• Mu Yuan entered Ge Long's camp, annihilated the soldiers' attacks with the Path Seeking Jade, and killed the general who ordered them to fight.
• An officer told Mu Yuan that Ge Long had been summoned to Heaven Dou City, so Mu Yuan flew there.
• Ge Long learned that Xue Ye wanted him to apologize to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and he agreed reluctantly.
• Mu Yuan confronted Ge Long at the palace and proposed that they each take one blow without dodging.
• Ge Long struck Mu Yuan with his possessed Ya Zi arm, but Mu Yuan's Soul Power robe dispersed the force without injury.
• Ge Long tried to run, and Mu Yuan activated the Cuttings Technique, sending twelve Wood Thorns after him.

Mu Yuan killed Ge Long and Old Marshal Ge, then eliminated the relatives who vowed revenge or crippled the cultivation of those who refused it. He returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, arranged a gathering at the Clear Sky Sect, and took Zhu Zhuqing to Sunset Forest to find her third spirit ring.

• Mu Yuan killed Ge Long in the imperial palace after Ge Long refused to accept the loss of his cultivation, then killed Old Marshal Ge at the Ge estate.
• Mu Yuan questioned Old Marshal Ge's young relatives, killed those who vowed revenge, and crippled the cultivation of one who said he would not seek revenge.
• Xue Ye ordered the Ge Long Family executed, and Mu Yuan returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where he shared a tender moment with Xiao Wu and sent Ning Fengzhi a message to gather his people at the Clear Sky Sect in one week.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Mu Yuan to help her hunt a third spirit ring after reaching rank thirty, while Ning Rongrong arrived too late to join them and decided to wait for his return.
• Mu Yuan took Zhu Zhuqing to Sunset Forest, searched the surrounding area with his Spiritual Power, and brought back a thousand-year Shadow Leopard for her.

Zhu Zhuqing absorbed a Shadow Leopard spirit ring with Mu Yuan guarding her, while their journey back brought them closer and Ning Rongrong begged Mu Yuan not to leave her. After news of the Ge Long Family’s destruction stirred controversy around the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Mu Yuan set out with its assembled forces and his companions to persuade the Clear Sky Sect to support peace.

• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the Shadow Leopard’s spirit ring and became a Soul Elder while Mu Yuan protected her from spirit beasts.
• Mu Yuan flew Zhu Zhuqing back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where she leaned into his embrace before leaving him on her own.
• Mu Yuan carried a sleepy Ning Rongrong to her dormitory, but she cried and clung to him, begging him not to leave.
• Mu Yuan helped Ning Rongrong hunt a spirit ring the next day as news spread that Xue Ye had executed the Ge Long Family and sent its women to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as slaves.
• Ning Fengzhi told Mu Yuan that 2,500 elite spirit masters had assembled, and Mu Yuan decided to lead them to the Clear Sky Sect to promote peace.
• Mu Yuan brought Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong along to guard against a possible attack by Tang Hao.

Mu Yuan led the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to Clear Sky Sect and invited it to join his plan to end the conflicts between factions. When the elders mocked him and refused, he fought them and used his spirit skills to overwhelm Clear Sky Sect, leaving Tang Xiao badly outmatched.

• Mu Yuan arrived at Clear Sky Sect with thousands of Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Soul Masters and announced that he had come to invite the sect to join them.
• Mu Yuan described his goal of ending conflict and building a peaceful world, but Clear Sky Sect's elders and disciples mocked him.
• Mu Yuan entered Martial Soul Avatar and sent Blazing Sun Douluo flying with a single palm strike.
• Mu Yuan and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect battled Clear Sky Sect as Mu Yuan's attacks and Tree Realm Descent brought its Soul Masters down with poisonous pollen.
• Tang Xiao charged Mu Yuan and unleashed two spirit rings, but Mu Yuan summoned a hundred-meter Wood Man that punched him away.

Mu Yuan defeated and captured the Clear Sky Sect, then demanded that it join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect in the name of peace. When Sect Master Tang Xiao hesitated, Mu Yuan tore down the sect’s mountain, and Tang Xiao agreed to submit.

• Mu Yuan and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect defeated the Clear Sky Sect’s forces, capturing Tang Xiao, six Titled Douluo, and the rest of the sect.
• Mu Yuan told the captured Clear Sky Sect members to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Blazing Sun Douluo challenged his claim that this was an invitation.
• Tang Xiao asked what Mu Yuan would do if the sect refused, and Mu Yuan began drawing energy from underground when Tang Xiao delayed his answer.
• Mu Yuan enlarged the Wood Man and wrenched down the mountain where the Clear Sky Sect was located.
• Tang Xiao declared that the Clear Sky Sect was willing to submit.