Chapter Summaries

Three months after losing to Zhu Zhuqing, Su Cheng discussed a partnership with her and agreed to test a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Their first attempt failed and injured them, but Su Cheng gained insight into how the fusion worked.

• Su Cheng lost his duel with Zhu Zhuqing, and the faction gathered around her dispersed afterward.
• Zhu Zhuqing met Su Cheng in the academy's rear mountain and proposed that they work together to use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Zhu Zhuqing gave Su Cheng a manuscript of the Nirvana Sutra as proof of her sincerity, and he agreed to cooperate while rejecting her suggestion that they were friends.
• Su Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing summoned their White Tiger and Hell Spirit Cat Martial Souls and attempted to fuse them, but the backlash injured both of them.
• Su Cheng concluded that aligned Soul Power and spiritual fluctuations mattered more than emotional resonance, and he encouraged Zhu Zhuqing to keep trying.

After two years of cultivation, Su Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing reached level twenty and traveled to the Star Luo Empire’s Soul Hunting Forest to test whether they could absorb soul rings older than the usual limit. Su Cheng helped Zhu Zhuqing absorb a nine-hundred-year soul ring and reflected on how their Hell White Tiger fusion might enable his research into Bloodline Seizure.

• Su Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing improved their Martial Soul qualities through the refined Nirvana Sutra and reached level twenty.
• At the Soul Hunting Forest, Su Cheng explained that inherited techniques and medicines could let them safely absorb second soul rings from beasts over nine hundred years old.
• Su Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing fused into the Hell White Tiger and killed a Mottled Cat that had cultivated for more than nine hundred years.
• Su Cheng gave Zhu Zhuqing medicine and a Silver Needle, then stood guard as she prepared to absorb the Mottled Cat’s soul ring.
• Su Cheng considered how the Hell White Tiger’s perfect Martial Soul complementarity could support Bloodline Seizure and wondered whether a single person’s fused bloodline could approach a God-level Martial Soul.

Su Cheng, disguised as Zhu Hongtao, told Zhu Zhuqing that she had learned all he could teach her and would soon need to rely on herself. They decided to wait until they reached the Soul Elder realm before approaching Zhu Zhuyun and Dai Weisi, while Su Cheng considered how much time remained to carry out his plans.

• Su Cheng praised Zhu Zhuqing's progress, said she could graduate, and suggested she discuss the family with her sisters when the time was right.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Su Cheng practiced their soul skills and Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then discussed continuing their studies at Star Luo Advanced Royal Academy.
• Su Cheng warned Zhu Zhuqing that Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun were at the academy, and Zhu Zhuqing chose to wait until they reached the Soul Elder realm before meeting them.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Su Cheng about his plans, and he said he could only pursue them after regaining his freedom.
• Su Cheng estimated they had around twenty years to grow stronger and privately judged that reaching at least the Soul Sage level was essential to his final plan.

Su Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing confronted Zhu Zhuyun at Star Luo Royal Academy, where Zhu Zhuqing challenged her sister and revealed her strength. After Su Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing demonstrated their unusually powerful Hell White Tiger fusion, Zhu Zhuyun was left uncertain, and Zhu Zhuqing waited to see how she would respond to the revelation that Su Cheng was her new fusion partner.

• Su Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing met Zhu Zhuyun at Star Luo Royal Academy, where she tried to persuade Zhu Zhuqing to withdraw from the family struggle.
• Zhu Zhuqing challenged Zhu Zhuyun and revealed that she was a Level 32 Battle Soul Grandmaster with two yellow Soul Rings and one purple Soul Ring.
• The sisters fought, with Zhu Zhuqing holding her ground despite Zhu Zhuyun's greater Soul Power.
• Su Cheng dismissed Zhu Zhuyun's disbelief about Zhu Zhuqing's rapid cultivation, prompting Zhu Zhuqing to agree to show her their fusion.
• Su Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing performed a powerful Hell White Tiger fusion that shocked Zhu Zhuyun and left her uncertain about the future.
• Zhu Zhuqing waited to see how Zhu Zhuyun would react to learning that Su Cheng, the emperor's illegitimate son, was her fusion partner instead of Dai Mubai.

Zhu Zhuqing persuaded Zhu Zhuyun to reconsider her place in the imperial succession struggle, then returned home years later as a powerful political force. She told Zhu Hongtao that an unprecedented cultivation method had driven her rapid growth and handed him its manuscript.

• Zhu Zhuyun questioned Zhu Zhuqing and Su Cheng's Hell White Tiger, and Su Cheng explained that their Martial Soul Fusion Skill was unusually powerful because of their compatibility.
• Su Cheng left the sisters alone, and Zhu Zhuqing urged Zhu Zhuyun not to place her hopes in the royal family or let the Dai Family dictate her future.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Zhu Zhuyun to keep her options open and watch events unfold; Zhu Zhuyun agreed, then asked about Zhu Zhuqing's relationship with Su Cheng.
• More than ten years later, Zhu Zhuqing had become a prominent imperial figure, reached the peak of Rank 69 Soul Emperor, and postponed her engagement to Dai Mubai by five years.
• Zhu Zhuqing visited Zhu Hongtao at the Zhu Family Residence and gave him a manuscript, explaining that an unprecedented cultivation method had caused her rapid progress.

Su Cheng killed Zhu Hongtao and took his place, then used the Netherworld Duke’s identity to weaken the Imperial Dai Family and strengthen Zhu Zhuqing’s faction. After Zhu Zhuqing reached level 70, Su Cheng urged her to delay advancing and revealed a secret art for seizing Martial Soul bloodlines, which she refused to use on Su Cheng.

• Zhu Zhuqing demonstrated the Nirvana Sutra’s effects to Zhu Hongtao, then killed him with the Severing Meridians and Continuing Qi Method.
• Su Cheng revealed himself beneath his disguise and took Zhu Hongtao’s identity, explaining that the real Zhu Hongtao had to die to prevent suspicion.
• Su Cheng handed the Duke’s Mansion’s authority to Zhu Zhuyun and assassinated several key Imperial Dai Family members, allowing Zhu Zhuqing’s faction to seize vacant positions.
• Three months later, Su Cheng told Zhu Zhuqing to delay absorbing her Seventh Soul Ring so her Soul Power could continue accumulating.
• Su Cheng offered Zhu Zhuqing a secret art to seize another person’s Martial Soul Bloodline and named Su Cheng as the best target, but she refused and left the study.

Zhu Zhuqing learned that the Star Luo Empire was nearing defeat and faced pressure to use the Bloodline Seizure Secret Method on Su Cheng to save the Zhu Family. She took the potion and manuscript but had not revealed whether she would act.

• Zhu Zhuqing rejected the idea of sacrificing Su Cheng to secure her position and declared that she would take control of the Zhu Family.
• Within five years, Xue Qinghe became Heaven Dou's emperor, Spirit Hall stayed out of the war, and Heaven Dou attacked a Star Luo Empire already weakened by the destruction of major factions.
• Su Cheng told Zhu Zhuqing that Star Luo would fall within three years and warned that the Zhu Family could be targeted because of its ties to the Dai Family.
• Su Cheng urged Zhu Zhuqing to seize his White Tiger bloodline, saying it could raise her cultivation to the Titled Douluo level and save the Zhu Family.
• Zhu Zhuqing accused Su Cheng of having planned to target Su Cheng for years, then took the Bloodline Seizure Secret Method manuscript and the Chronic Potion.

Su Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing hunted down and killed three ninety-thousand-year Qian Jun Ant Emperors in the Star Dou Great Forest. After Zhu Zhuqing hesitated over absorbing their soul rings, Su Cheng’s remarks about their uncertain future prompted her to stop and turn back with a bottle of potion.

• Su Cheng teased Zhu Zhuqing about her troubled mood, and she asked whether he would choose family or friends and what he most wanted from life.
• Su Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing reached the lake where the three Qian Jun Ant Emperors waited and unleashed their Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Hell White Tiger used its Wind God Domain to suppress the Ant Emperors and killed them after baiting them into a coordinated attack.
• Su Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing emerged exhausted and injured as three black soul rings appeared above the Ant Emperor corpses.
• Zhu Zhuqing hesitated to absorb a soul ring, and Su Cheng remarked that they might both meet bad ends as imperial illegitimate children; she stopped and turned back holding a bottle of pale red potion.

Su Cheng sacrificed his White Tiger Martial Soul to transform Zhu Zhuqing’s Martial Soul into the Hell White Tiger, leaving his own cultivation permanently crippled. Zhu Zhuqing began absorbing three ninety-thousand-year soul rings at once, and as the strain threatened to overwhelm her, Su Cheng approached her while she silently accepted his presence.

• Su Cheng drank Zhu Zhuqing’s bloodline potion, and she used the Bloodline Seizure Secret Method to consume the essence of his White Tiger Martial Soul.
• Zhu Zhuqing’s Martial Soul transformed into the Hell White Tiger, while Su Cheng’s cultivation fell below level thirty and his Martial Soul was permanently crippled.
• Zhu Zhuqing summoned a soul ring from one Qian Jun Ant Emperor, but all three ninety-thousand-year soul rings reacted and enveloped her Martial Soul.
• Zhu Zhuqing chose to absorb all three soul rings simultaneously, and their violent energy began tearing apart her body and meridians.
• Su Cheng approached Zhu Zhuqing and cut away her tattered clothes with his Soul Power; she felt shocked but did not resist.

Su Cheng helped Zhu Zhuqing withstand the second surge of energy from her three Qian Jun Ant Emperor Soul Rings, then guided her to understand the Hell White Tiger and her own desire for freedom. Zhu Zhuqing’s Martial Soul transformed, grew Wind God Wings, and gathered power as the final surge approached.

• Su Cheng drank a life-draining potion to raise his Soul Power and break through Zhu Zhuqing’s defensive energy barrier.
• Su Cheng stimulated Zhu Zhuqing’s meridians and guided her to launch an attack before the Soul Ring energy could gather for its second surge.
• Zhu Zhuqing endured the second collision, but Su Cheng sensed that the final surge would be even harder to survive.
• Su Cheng asked Zhu Zhuqing to consider the essence of the Hell White Tiger and reminded her that she sought freedom rather than authority or power.
• Zhu Zhuqing understood her Martial Soul and merged her energy with it as the Hell White Tiger absorbed Soul Ring energy and formed transparent Wind God Wings.

Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the three Qian Jun Ant Emperor spirit rings, broke through to level ninety-five, and gained complete control of the Netherworld White Tiger Martial Soul. She realized she regretted betraying Su Cheng, while he returned to the Duke's Mansion and decided to avoid her as he watched the political situation unfold.

• Zhu Zhuqing assimilated the three spirit rings, healed her injuries, and broke through to become a level ninety-five Peak Douluo.
• Zhu Zhuqing saw that the three spirit rings had become 100,000 Year Spirit Rings, then realized Su Cheng had left the lake.
• Zhu Zhuqing regretted failing to trust Su Cheng and understood that they shared the same goal of seeking freedom.
• Su Cheng returned to the Duke's Mansion before Zhu Zhuqing finished absorbing the rings so he could avoid explaining his actions and sudden strength.
• Su Cheng considered whether Zhu Zhuqing would claim the throne and decided to avoid meeting her while he monitored events in the imperial capital.

Zhu Zhuqing turned the tide of a border battle with her mutated Netherworld White Tiger, then returned to the capital with Zhu Zhuyun and began questioning her relationships and her father’s past. The chapter ended with Zhu Zhuqing destroying a teddy bear after learning it had once belonged to Zhu Zhuyun and recognizing a troubling connection to her own memories.

• Heaven Dou's forces attacked the Star Luo camp, but Zhu Zhuqing arrived in her Martial Soul Avatar and killed two weakened Titled Douluo, forcing Heaven Dou to withdraw.
• Zhu Zhuyun questioned Zhu Zhuqing about her strength and told her she believed Su Cheng was a genuine companion; Zhu Zhuqing insisted she had never treated him as a tool, then began doubting how well she knew him.
• After the battle eased, Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun returned to the imperial capital, where Zhu Zhuqing avoided seeing Zhu Hongtao and reflected on her mixed gratitude and suspicion toward him.
• In Zhu Zhuqing's room, Zhu Zhuyun recognized a teddy bear as one Zhu Hongtao had given her in childhood and said it had been their last private meeting.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Zhu Zhuyun about that meeting, then destroyed the teddy bear after Zhu Zhuyun left.

Zhu Zhuqing discovered that Su Cheng had disguised himself as Zhu Hongtao and confronted him over his years of deception. After learning that Qian Renxue was impersonating Xue Qinghe, she agreed to become Star Luo Emperor, then let Su Cheng leave while realizing his life was nearly over.

• Zhu Zhuqing unleashed her fury at Zhu Hongtao’s study, shattered its walls, and exposed Su Cheng beneath his disguise.
• Zhu Zhuqing questioned Su Cheng about his plans, and he urged her to become emperor and surrender to the Heaven Dou Empire, revealing that Qian Renxue had replaced Xue Qinghe.
• Su Cheng admitted he had arranged events for Zhu Zhuqing and that her father had disappeared five years earlier; Zhu Zhuqing accused him of treating her like a tool.
• Zhu Zhuqing agreed to become emperor after Su Cheng said he was asking her to do it, completing his Main Quest.
• Zhu Zhuqing released Su Cheng and told him to leave, then considered fighting the Heaven Dou Empire and cried as she sensed his failing health.

After awakening from a vivid dream of another life, Zhu Zhuqing tested the Nirvana Sutra and decided to use a Chronic Potion on Dai Mubai. Su Cheng received the True Sight Eye as a simulation reward, but its immense power drained his Spiritual Power and left the Simulator nearly dormant.

• Zhu Zhuqing circulated the Nirvana Sutra to confirm that her dream had revealed a real cultivation method.
• Zhu Zhuqing wrote down the Bloodline Plunder Method and Chronic Potion formula, then decided to trade Dai Mubai’s cultivation potential for a chance to survive.
• Zhu Zhuqing planned to speak with her eldest sister and wondered whether Su Cheng and Qian Renxue truly existed.
• Su Cheng received the True Sight Eye and Source Power, which condensed and strengthened his Spiritual Power.
• Su Cheng used the True Sight Eye to examine his Soul Rings, but exhausted his Spiritual Power before he could fully uncover its vision.
• Su Cheng discovered that the Simulator had nearly fallen silent and decided to focus on digesting his gains and revising his plans.

Su Cheng asked Ning Fengzhi about the Five Element Academies and learned that their ties to powerful clans and sects made it unlikely he could enroll. On the road back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Ning Rongrong confronted him, refused to return, and forced him to challenge her to take responsibility for her choices.

• Su Cheng asked Ning Fengzhi about the Five Element Academies and whether he could join one, and Ning Fengzhi explained their exclusive recruitment and powerful backing.
• Ning Fengzhi added that Ning Rongrong’s sect background would prevent her from joining those academies, while Su Cheng considered learning about them at the academy tournament.
• On their way back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Ning Rongrong asked whether Su Cheng had meant to leave her behind, and he said she would not suit an Element Academy.
• Ning Rongrong accused Su Cheng of trying to avoid her and declared she would attend another academy instead of returning with him.
• Su Cheng told Ning Rongrong she could choose her own future but must accept the consequences and not expect him to rescue her.

Su Cheng informed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect that Ning Rongrong had run away after arguing with him about his choice of academy. Ning Rongrong returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and reconciled with Su Cheng, who explained that talent and family status could not protect her outside the sect.

• Su Cheng returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect without Ning Rongrong and told Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong that she had threatened to run away.
• Gu Rong found Ning Rongrong beneath a tree, and Ning Fengzhi arrived and persuaded her to return to the academy.
• Su Cheng met Dugu Bo and planned to treat his poison at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and find him an Immortal Herb.
• Su Cheng saw Ning Rongrong waiting near the Team Lounge and invited her to eat with him.
• Ning Rongrong asked whether Su Cheng looked down on her, and he reassured her before warning that people outside the sect respected strength rather than talent or status.
• Ning Rongrong guessed that Su Cheng's exceptionally talented acquaintance was the woman who had disguised herself as Xue Qinghe.

Su Cheng finished treating Dugu Bo’s poison and proposed using an Immortal Herb to help him become a Peak Douluo, asking him to join Spirit Hall in return. Dugu Bo was tempted but had not yet agreed, while Su Cheng planned to move from Royal Fight Team One to Team Two so he could face the Five Element Academy.

• Su Cheng told Ning Rongrong that Heaven Dou Academy was safer and better suited to her, and urged her to advance to Soul Elder by obtaining her Third Soul Ring.
• Three months later, Su Cheng prepared to complete Dugu Bo’s treatment at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while discussing his strained relationship with instructor Qin Ming.
• Su Cheng revealed that he planned to join Royal Fight Team Two so he could fight the Five Element Academy, and Dugu Bo offered to have Dugu Yan join him.
• Su Cheng refused to take Dugu Yan from Team One and explained that doing so could create trouble with Yu Tianheng and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Su Cheng offered Dugu Bo a processed Snow-Colored Swan Kiss to strengthen his foundation and help him break through to Peak Douluo, then invited him to join Spirit Hall.
• Dugu Bo considered Su Cheng’s arguments about Spirit Hall’s benefits and appeared tempted, but did not give him an answer.

Su Cheng left Heaven Dou Royal Academy's first team after clashing with Qin Ming over team training, choosing to join Team Two instead. Ning Rongrong followed him, and the two set their sights on winning the Spirit Master Competition while preparing for Spirit Hall Academy.

• Yu Feng challenged Su Cheng's strength, while Ning Rongrong defended him and Qin Ming criticized the first team's lax attitude toward his absences.
• Su Cheng arrived, effortlessly repelled Qin Ming's intimidating sound attack, and announced that he had already received approval to transfer to Team Two.
• Qin Ming warned Su Cheng that leaving the first team would waste his talent, but Su Cheng questioned Qin Ming's reliance on talent and left the lounge.
• Ning Rongrong caught up with Su Cheng and chose to transfer to Team Two with him, accepting that they would have to earn their way into the finals.
• Su Cheng told Ning Rongrong that he aimed to win the tournament and identified Spirit Hall Academy, especially Qian Renxue, as their greatest challenge.

Zhu Zhuqing followed Dai Mubai to Shrek Academy, where her exceptional cultivation impressed the teachers and applicants. She refused Zhao Wuji’s team combat test and left, then persuaded Dai Mubai to help her enter the academy on her own terms.

• Zhu Zhuqing watched Shrek Academy’s registration and overheard Tang San and Xiao Wu discussing Su Cheng before Tang San and Xiao Wu registered.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed her Hell Spirit Cat and level-thirty-plus Soul Power, astonishing the applicants and teachers, and Dai Mubai led her, Tang San, and Xiao Wu to the fourth test.
• Zhao Wuji announced that the candidates had to work together to withstand his attacks, but Zhu Zhuqing refused and walked away.
• Dai Mubai chased Zhu Zhuqing, and she challenged him over fleeing the Star Luo Empire before agreeing to wait while he arranged for her admission without a fight.
• Zhu Zhuqing gave Dai Mubai a cultivation potion and watched him leave, knowing it could raise cultivation and combat power while causing fluctuations in martial soul and vital energy.

Su Cheng retrieved the Blue Silver Emperor’s Hundred Thousand Year Right Leg Bone and discovered a humanlike figure connected to the Blue Silver Emperor Sapling. After absorbing the bone, he found that it was subtly transforming his body and improving the Nirvana Sutra, and the chapter ended with him looking toward the sapling.

• Su Cheng traveled to the hidden cave beneath the waterfall and took the Blue Silver Emperor’s Right Leg Bone from its lead box.
• Su Cheng used his True Sight Eye to see a sleeping young woman associated with the Blue Silver Emperor Sapling, then transplanted the sapling and destroyed evidence of his visit.
• Su Cheng brought the Soul Bone to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and began absorbing it, as his body and Nirvana Sutra changed.
• Su Cheng completed the absorption after three days and turned his attention toward the Blue Silver Emperor Sapling outside his house.