Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue reconsidered her plan to sponsor Blue Tyrant Academy after finding Yu Xiaogang with Liu Erlong and deciding she could not risk Tang San and Shrek Academy joining the team. She ended the proposed cooperation, leaving Liu Erlong bewildered and trying to explain that she had misunderstood.

• Qian Renxue spent two months longing for Li Yu, searching for him in Sunset Forest, and declining to pursue Dugu Bo after Dugu Yan urged her to wait.
• Qian Renxue recalled that she had secretly approached Liu Erlong about sponsoring Blue Tyrant Academy and arranging tournament places for Li Yu and Zhu Qing.
• Qian Renxue saw Yu Xiaogang in Liu Erlong's dean's office and realized Shrek Academy might join Blue Tyrant Academy, putting her plans at risk.
• Liu Erlong linked arms with Yu Xiaogang and blushed as she assured Qian Renxue that he was not an outsider.
• Qian Renxue condemned Yu Xiaogang, criticized Liu Erlong's judgment, and ended their cooperation before leaving.
• Liu Erlong called after Qian Renxue, using her alias Li Qian, and tried to explain that she had misunderstood.

Yu Xiaogang insulted Qian Renxue while defending himself, and Liu Erlong apologized and tried to end the dispute. Qian Renxue ordered someone to keep an eye on them before she went to stretch her limbs.

• Yu Xiaogang accused Qian Renxue of seeking cheap publicity and called him a spoiled young master who was worthless without his family’s support.
• Yu Xiaogang boasted that the Golden Iron Triangle could challenge a Soul Douluo, while Liu Erlong realized he was venting over Li Yu’s unusual Soul Ring configuration.
• Qian Renxue revealed that she knew about the Golden Iron Triangle and stared Yu Xiaogang down.
• Liu Erlong blocked Yu Xiaogang, apologized to Qian Renxue, and offered to let the two prospective students compete fairly at Shrek Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang called Qian Renxue vile and despicable, and Qian Renxue told someone to keep an eye on them while she went to stretch her limbs.

Qian Renxue beat Yu Xiaogang after revealing that a powerful figure was secretly protecting Li Qian, while Liu Erlong and Flender were held in place by the figure’s pressure. She left Yu Xiaogang alive but gravely injured and warned them to keep the incident secret.

• Qian Renxue said she would loosen up, and Liu Erlong realized Yu Xiaogang was about to be attacked by someone backed by a powerful protector.
• A terrifying pressure restrained Liu Erlong and crushed Flender behind the office’s folding screen, exposing their scheme.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to beg Qian Renxue for mercy, but she appeared before him and punched him into a shattered bookcase.
• Liu Erlong and Flender stayed still as Yu Xiaogang remained pinned and gravely wounded.
• Qian Renxue criticized Yu Xiaogang and warned Liu Erlong, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang not to reveal what had happened before she left.

Qian Renxue prepared Thousand Feather Academy while waiting for Li Yu to return. At Shrek, Yu Xiaogang remained injured and withdrawn, and Flender tried to rally the remaining students for the approaching tournament despite the team’s absences and departures.

• Qian Renxue reflected on Yu Xiaogang’s relationship with Liu Erlong and revealed that she had secretly taken over an academy and renamed it Thousand Feather Academy for Li Yu.
• Flender told the badly injured Yu Xiaogang that his loss of Soul Power might free him to study Martial Souls, then left after Yu Xiaogang said Flender and Liu Erlong could be together.
• Flender told Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun that Yu Xiaogang’s condition would not improve and ordered them to focus on tournament preparation.
• Flender assigned Dai Mubai to lead the remaining students and urged him to apologize to Zhu Zhuqing and bring her back.
• Flender told Dai Mubai to begin training with Jiang Zhu, Tai Long, Huang Yuan, Jing Ling, and the others while they waited for Tang San and the rest to return.

Tang San returned to Shrek Academy with a newly awakened Blue Silver Grass and the strength of a Soul Ancestor, prompting the team to believe they could reach the tournament finals. When they learned Xiao Wu was missing and Zhu Qing had not returned, Tang San set out to find Xiao Wu.

• Ma Hongjun told Dai Mubai and Oscar that Tang San had returned, and the three hurried to the principal's office.
• Dai Mubai and Oscar were startled by Tang San's changed appearance, four Soul Rings, and black Ten Thousand Years Fourth Soul Ring.
• Flender said Tang San's breakthrough made reaching the finals almost certain, but ordered Dai Mubai to bring Zhu Qing back and took charge of training.
• Flender told Tang San that Xiao Wu was missing, and Tang San said he had not seen her while training with his father.
• Tang San left to search for Xiao Wu and promised Flender he would bring her back.

Li Yu completed three months of detoxification, removing the poison that had permeated Dugu Bo’s body while carefully controlling Absorption so it would not drain his cultivation. Dugu Bo’s Soul Power rose from Level 91 to Level 93, and his martial soul showed signs of a second awakening; he vowed to protect Li Yu.

• Li Yu continued detoxifying Dugu Bo while managing Absorption, which now drew on both harmful and beneficial poison.
• During the treatment, Li Yu reached Level 60 and accumulated 258,000 Free Allocation Years.
• The detoxification ended when ten armor plates were expelled from Dugu Bo’s back and his Titled Douluo aura erupted.
• Dugu Bo sensed that the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor showed signs of a second awakening and discovered that his Soul Power had risen from Level 91 to Level 93.
• Dugu Bo felt grateful to Li Yu and vowed that anyone who tried to harm her would have to step over his corpse.

Li Yu congratulated Dugu Bo on his recovery and showed him the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss, an Immortal Herb that could strengthen his newly cured body and possibly awaken his martial soul again. Before leaving to find Li Yu a Soul Beast, she began using her Elemental Sprite Domain to take the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its surroundings with her.

• Li Yu declined Dugu Bo’s suggestion that she establish her own faction, saying she only wanted to help Qian Renxue inherit the Imperial Throne.
• Dugu Bo offered Li Yu the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after deciding to leave and seek opportunities elsewhere.
• Li Yu presented Dugu Bo with the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss and explained that, with his poison cured, it could serve as a tonic and trigger a second martial-soul awakening.
• Dugu Bo stored the herb in his Ruyi Treasure Sack and offered to take Li Yu to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Soul Beast for her next Soul Ring.
• Li Yu began spreading the aura of her Elemental Sprite Domain, intending to transplant the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its surroundings into it.

Li Yu used the Elemental Sprite Domain to take the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then left Dugu Bo behind in Sunset Forest. Dugu Bo covered up the disturbance, while a Spirit Hall monitor was stunned when he offered an explanation.

• Dugu Bo sensed Li Yu's new domain and was shocked by her talent and ten wings.
• Li Yu's Elemental Sprite Domain helped her pull the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well into the domain, though its weight slowed her Spiritual Power.
• Li Yu told Dugu Bo to recover from his breakthrough and left for the Star Dou Great Forest by merging with the surroundings.
• Dugu Bo erased Li Yu's traces and told a Spirit Hall monitor that his cultivation breakthrough had caused the disturbance.
• The monitor was overwhelmed that Dugu Bo had explained himself without being asked and cried, "Mom, I've made it!"

Dugu Bo visited Qian Renxue at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace and revealed that Li Yu intended to help her ascend the throne. He displayed his newly increased power as a level 93 Titled Douluo, leaving the palace and city’s powerful figures wondering whose side he had chosen.

• Qian Renxue panicked when Dugu Bo arrived without Li Yu and asked whether Li Yu was safe.
• Dugu Bo entered Qian Renxue’s hall, where she served him tea despite their mutual displeasure.
• Dugu Bo asked whether Li Yu planned to establish her own force and told Qian Renxue that she only wanted to help her ascend the throne.
• Dugu Bo unleashed his level 93 aura, and Qian Renxue resisted its pressure and vowed not to disappoint Li Yu.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin sensed Dugu Bo’s aura, Prince Xue Xing hurried toward Qian Renxue’s palace, and Emperor Xue Ye wondered whether Dugu Bo had chosen a side.

Qian Renxue won Dugu Bo’s support after convincing him she would not ally with Spirit Hall’s current leadership, and she began resolving to build her own faction. When she learned Li Yu was heading to the dangerous Star Dou Great Forest, she rushed after her.

• Dugu Bo agreed to support Qian Renxue for Li Yu’s sake, provided she did not collude with Spirit Hall’s current leadership.
• Qian Renxue reconsidered her loyalty to Spirit Hall and resolved to pursue her own faction and claim the Heaven Dou throne.
• Qian Renxue arranged a guest room for Dugu Bo, who revealed that Li Yu had reached Soul Power Level 60 and was heading to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qian Renxue initially doubted Dugu Bo’s account, then realized Li Yu would face deadly Soul Beasts alone and ran to stop her.

Dugu Bo left Prince Xue Xing after deciding his favor had been spent, while Dugu Yan resolved to catch up with Li Yu through her own effort. At a hidden village hut, Tang Hao told Tang Xiao that Tang San had encountered a re-cultivated human-form Soul Beast and asked about a treasure that could conceal its aura.

• Dugu Bo refused to help Prince Xue Xing and hurried after “Xue Qinghe,” while Xue Xing vowed to target him through Xue Qinghe and Li Yu.
• Dugu Yan refused Dugu Bo’s offer to cultivate beside Li Yu, chose to stay with her team, and headed to the Training Room determined to catch up.
• Tang Hao met Tang Xiao in a remote village and asked whether he knew of a treasure that could hide the aura of a re-cultivated Soul Beast below Soul Saint rank.
• Tang Hao revealed that Tang San had encountered such a Soul Beast, and Tang Xiao reacted with shock.

Li Yu searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a sixth soul ring, explaining how he had upgraded his skull and Thunder Spirit with Free Allocation Years. After rejecting the idea of using Xiao Wu to lure a vulnerable beast to him, he sensed an overwhelmingly powerful presence locking onto him.

• Li Yu killed a thirty-thousand-year soul beast with Thunder Myriad Jun but rejected its soul ring as too weak.
• Li Yu used ninety thousand Free Allocation Years to evolve the Azure Spring Spirit Jade Skull into the Sprite Eternal Skull, gaining Sprite Vision and advancing the Sprite Schedule.
• Li Yu spent seventy thousand Free Allocation Years to raise his Fifth Soul Ring to one hundred thousand years, increasing his Thunder Element Affinity to 100% and making the Thunder Spirit independent with two new skills.
• Li Yu continued searching for a soul beast with at least fifty thousand years of cultivation, hoping to find a suitable sixth soul ring and possibly a soul bone.
• Li Yu considered asking Xiao Wu to find him a rare, powerful soul beast but rejected the idea because it would violate his principles.
• An overwhelmingly powerful aura locked onto Li Yu, making him break into a sweat.

Li Yu killed a Thorn Dragon with Elemental Storm and began absorbing its unusual silver-patterned Black Soul Ring. At the Lake of Life, the Star Dou Great Forest’s fortune suddenly declined slightly, prompting Xiao Wu and the beasts to investigate.

• Li Yu used Thunder Calamity Substitute to escape the Thorn Dragon’s attack, but Thunder Spirit was pierced by the dragon’s space thorns.
• Li Yu identified the attacker as a Thorn Dragon and trapped it with Elemental Storm, then killed it after it failed to escape.
• The Thorn Dragon left a silver-patterned Black Soul Ring and a silver-gray Left Leg Bone, which Li Yu stored before beginning to absorb the ring.
• At the Lake of Life, the water surged and a terrifying aura erupted as the beings there grew enraged.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python noticed the Star Dou Great Forest’s fortune had slightly diminished, and Xiao Wu agreed to investigate with A-Tai while it went to negotiate.

Li Yu absorbed the Thorn Dragon’s Soul Ring, reached level 65, and used Free Allocation Years to raise it to one hundred thousand years, transforming it into a silver-gray ring. He summoned the Thorn Dragon and learned its four space abilities before an earthquake interrupted him.

• Li Yu absorbed the fourteen-thousand-year Thorn Dragon Soul Ring, gained Space Element Control, and advanced to level 65.
• Li Yu allocated years to his Soul Rings, raising the Sixth Soul Ring to one hundred thousand years and turning it silver-gray.
• Li Yu summoned the Thorn Dragon through the Elemental Cube and discovered it could exist independently.
• Li Yu learned the Thorn Dragon’s four space skills: Instant Movement, Shadow Folding, Space Leap, and Space Thorns Domain.
• The ground suddenly began to tremble as Li Yu considered the abilities his evolved Elemental Lifeforms might gain.

At the northern edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, Dugu Bo found Li Yu and was shocked by her newly transformed Soul Rings. When a Titan Giant Ape charged toward her, Dugu Bo rushed to intervene, then abruptly fled with Qian Renxue after seeing something through the snake he controlled.

• Qian Renxue grew impatient as Dugu Bo searched for Li Yu by controlling snakes in the forest.
• Dugu Bo found Li Yu standing amid the signs of a battle and saw her six Soul Rings, including a red Fifth Soul Ring and a silver-gray Sixth Soul Ring.
• The ground shook as a Titan Giant Ape approached Li Yu, and Dugu Bo feared it had come because she absorbed the silver-gray Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo told Qian Renxue to run while he went to bring Li Yu back, and Qian Renxue regretted not bringing Pufferfish and Snake Lance.
• Dugu Bo looked through the snake again, reacted with surprise, and fled with Qian Renxue enveloped in his Soul Power.

Li Yu detected Xiao Wu approaching the Star Dou Great Forest and tried to flee before Er Ming could find him. Xiao Wu concealed Li Yu’s connection to the damaged Star Dou Luck and tried to delay Er Ming, but he arrived at Li Yu’s location.

• Li Yu sensed Xiao Wu approaching and contacted her through the Life Gate while telling Dugu Bo to flee.
• Xiao Wu realized Li Yu might be connected to the damage to Star Dou Luck, and Li Yu denied responsibility while activating Space Leap.
• Xiao Wu worried that Li Yu’s capture would expose her secret and leave them both in danger.
• Xiao Wu questioned why the damage had occurred at the border of the core region and Outer Perimeter Area to buy Li Yu time.
• Er Ming reached the ruined forest, where Li Yu stood beside a Black Soul Ring, and Xiao Wu panicked when she saw him.

Li Yu’s attempt to escape with Space Leap was interrupted by Er Ming’s Gravity Suppression, and Xiao Wu chose to save her rather than let them both die. Er Ming crushed the ground where Li Yu had been, but Xiao Wu discovered that Li Yu had escaped and was still alive.

• Li Yu activated Space Leap, but Er Ming’s Gravity Suppression collapsed the space before she could escape.
• As Er Ming leapt down on Li Yu, Xiao Wu decided she had to live and shouted for him to stop.
• Er Ming’s momentum carried him down, crushing the ground where Li Yu had been, and Xiao Wu believed she had died.
• Er Ming noticed Xiao Wu’s distress and searched the deep pit for Li Yu, but found nothing.
• Xiao Wu realized she was still alive, stood up, and saw that Li Yu had escaped from beneath Er Ming.

Qian Renxue accused Dugu Bo of abandoning Li Yu and tried to leave the meeting place, but he stopped her. She attacked him after concluding he was hiding the truth, and their confrontation paused when Dugu Bo sensed Li Yu had arrived.

• After waiting an hour with no sign of Li Yu, Qian Renxue suspected Dugu Bo had lied and fled with her.
• Dugu Bo blocked Qian Renxue from leaving, and she angrily rebuked him for abandoning Li Yu during their escape from the Titan Giant Ape.
• Qian Renxue mistook Dugu Bo's silence for guilt and revealed her seven Soul Rings before challenging him.
• Qian Renxue unleashed five Soul Skills, but Dugu Bo used Serpent Python Heavenly Shield to block her attacks.
• As Qian Renxue prepared another attack, Dugu Bo announced that Li Yu had arrived.

Li Yu returned from underground in a severely weakened state after using Elemental Dissolution to escape Er Ming, leaving her unconscious and nearly drained of Soul Power and Spiritual Power. Qian Renxue and Dugu Bo examined her, agreed to let her recover naturally, and carried her toward Heaven Dou City.

• Qian Renxue sensed earth-element power approaching and realized Li Yu might be returning with a new earth-related ability.
• Li Yu emerged from the ground, collapsed, and lost consciousness after Elemental Dissolution left her powerless for seven days.
• Qian Renxue rushed to Li Yu while Dugu Bo examined her and concluded she seemed unharmed but should rest because the escape method's effects prevented outside treatment.
• Dugu Bo reassured Qian Renxue that he cared for Li Yu as family, and Qian Renxue set aside her hostility and agreed to trust his judgment.
• Dugu Bo carried Qian Renxue and Li Yu toward Heaven Dou City and denied responsibility for the day's events.

After waking from his month-long recovery, Li Yu explained his altered Soul Rings to Qian Renxue and Dugu Bo, hiding the truth about his Free Allocation Years. As he became intimate with Qian Renxue, she wondered whether he actually liked women and responded passionately.

• Li Yu recalled how Qian Renxue, Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu had worried about him while he was unconscious.
• After seven days, Li Yu woke fully restored and showed Qian Renxue and Dugu Bo his four black, one red, and one silver-gray Soul Rings.
• Li Yu told Qian Renxue and Dugu Bo that a special Space Power Soul Beast had caused his Soul Rings to mutate, concealing that he had spent 3,000 Free Allocation Years on each of his first two rings.
• Qian Renxue grew increasingly comfortable staying close to Li Yu and gradually changed her disguised appearance toward her original features.
• Li Yu kissed Qian Renxue, who wondered if he liked women and answered him with a passionate kiss.