Chapter Summaries

After the Nine Revolutions Reincarnation Grass survived its nine hundred thousand years Heavenly Tribulation as Su Yu’s Soul Spirit, Su Yu broke through to Level 89 and considered his Ninth Soul Ring. When Tang Zhen, Wang Dong, and Titan arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Su Yu refused to yield the treasure site to them.

• The Beast Kings sensed the Nine Revolutions Reincarnation Grass’s nine hundred thousand years Heavenly Tribulation in Sunset Forest, while the Silver Dragon King told Di Tian not to concern himself with it.
• Su Yu absorbed the Nine Revolutions Reincarnation Grass as his eighth Soul Ring, reached Level 89, and began considering the Golden Ancient Tree and Plane Will as a path to his Ninth Soul Ring.
• Su Yu learned that he, Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Bai Feng had received the five Sea God Pavilion cultivation slots, and he planned to return to Shrek for his fifth test.
• Tang Zhen and Wang Dong arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Titan, who sensed that Su Yu possessed Limit Douluo-level power.
• Titan claimed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had belonged to the Clear Sky Sect, but Su Yu stopped him and refused to hand it over.

Su Yu defended his claim to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and spent three days fortifying it, then placed it under the protection of Illustrious Virtue Hall Soul Engineers. After discussing advances in forging with Old Ma, he left the Sunset Forest for Shrek City.

• Su Yu rejected Er Ming's claim that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well belonged to the Clear Sky Sect, and Er Ming withdrew rather than risk a fight with Wang Dong and Tang Zhen nearby.
• Su Yu spent three days securing the valley with barriers, linked Soul Tools, and a poison-based formation designed to deter even a Limit Douluo.
• Old Ma brought more than a hundred Illustrious Virtue Hall Soul Engineers, whom Su Yu equipped with Purification Seeds, linked ray cannons, and a defensive grand formation to guard the poisonous miasma.
• Su Yu asked Old Ma to surround the miasma and discussed Kuang Tie's progress in forging Spiritual Metal for Advanced Battle Armor, suggesting that Runes and Soul Tool Arrays could improve the process.
• Su Yu left the Sunset Forest in Old Ma's care and set out for Shrek City.

Su Yu traveled to Shrek City to assess Qian Duoduo’s stance and enter Sea God Pavilion with Huo Yuhao and the others. As Shrek struggled with declining influence and enrollment, Su Yu saw the Golden Ancient Tree’s aura and noticed that the flow of laws was clearer around it.

• Su Yu asked Qian Tong whether Qian Duoduo’s attitude had softened, and learned that Qian Duoduo had received Soul Tool technology in Qiankun Wenqing Valley and was secluded while nearing a breakthrough to Super Douluo.
• Su Yu and Qian Tong agreed that Shrek’s Qian Duoduo should be encouraged to remain neutral as the Sun Moon Empire continued consolidating its new territories.
• Su Yu met Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Bai Feng, and Xuan Ziwen at Shrek Academy, where Xuan Zi and Old Song prepared to escort them into Sea God Pavilion.
• Su Yu entered Shrek Academy and saw that its Outer Court had become desolate as students and potential recruits turned to Illustrious Virtue Hall or their own factions.
• Su Yu reached Sea God Lake and observed that the flow of laws was clearer around the Golden Ancient Tree.

Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Su Yu entered Shrek’s Sea God Pavilion and felt the Golden Ancient Tree’s extraordinary origin qi and laws. Su Yu planned to use the cultivation opportunity to communicate with the Plane Will and advance Virtual Soul Core Technology.

• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen sensed the Golden Ancient Tree’s dense origin qi and anticipated gains from cultivating in Shrek’s Inner Court.
• Meng Hongchen felt close to a bottleneck after her martial soul evolved through the Ninth Grade Dragon Ganoderma, which had resolved its poison flaw.
• Su Yu sensed the laws surrounding the Golden Ancient Tree and recognized it as the core of the plane.
• Old Song stopped Xuan Ziwen at the Sea God Pavilion entrance, and Xuan Ziwen let Su Yu and the other four enter without protest.
• Inside the pavilion, Su Yu decided to communicate with the Plane Will and use his insights to help perfect Virtual Soul Core Technology.

Su Yu revealed that he had prepared multiple Ninth Grade Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons outside Shrek City, preventing Shrek’s elders from seizing his group or interfering freely. Ju Zi obeyed Xu Tianran’s decree and ordered a simultaneous offensive against the Star Luo Empire, while Su Yu’s remarks about Qian Duoduo’s wife and Yan Shaozhe’s family left the Shrek elders unsettled.

• The Sea God Pavilion elders considered detaining Su Yu, Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Bai Feng, unaware of how strong Su Yu and Huo Yuhao had become.
• Su Yu warned the elders that he had deployed three Ninth Grade Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons outside Shrek City, with additional threats sensed nearby.
• The elders realized the cannons could destroy Shrek’s foundation and might also keep them from aiding the Star Luo Empire.
• A Ninth-Level Soul Engineer delivered Xu Tianran’s order to Ju Zi, who commanded the Sun Moon armies to advance on both the Ming Dou and eastern Star Luo battlefields within three days.
• Su Yu told Qian Duoduo that his wife was being held at the Illustrious Virtue Hall, then challenged Yan Shaozhe over the unresolved information about his family.

Su Yu and his companions chose cultivation rooms in Sea God Pavilion while the Sun Moon Empire launched a successful offensive. Su Yu used the Golden Ancient Tree to reach the Plane Will and discovered Ah Yin trying to take it over, before his consciousness entered a hazy space.

• Su Yu challenged Shrek's elders over Yan Shaozhe's origins and insisted that his group choose their own Sea God Pavilion rooms.
• Su Yu guided Huo Yuhao and the others to sense which rooms suited them, then entered a room rich in the Life Rule as they chose rooms of their own.
• Ju Zi received Xu Tianran's secret letter about his demand concerning an heir and delayed returning to Ming Capital so she could see Huo Yuhao again.
• Su Yu used the Power of Fate to reach the Golden Ancient Tree and sensed Ah Yin attempting to devour its original will and take its place as the plane's core.
• Su Yu touched the Golden Ancient Tree's original consciousness, gained another insight, and found his consciousness transported into a hazy space.

Su Yu communicated with the Douluo Plane Will, agreed to grow stronger and help it absorb the Abyss, and gained a path toward condensing the God of Wisdom position. While Su Yu remained in deep meditation, Huo Yuhao left Shrek and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen continued cultivating in Sea God Pavilion.

• Su Yu entered the Plane Will’s spiritual space and learned it wanted his growth to help it become an independent life-form.
• Su Yu and the Plane Will agreed to cooperate: Su Yu would use the Abyss’s energy to strengthen himself, while the Plane Will would help devour the Abyss.
• Su Yu continued cultivating in the spiritual space, deepening his life-and-death insights and refining many Runes.
• Huo Yuhao woke from Deep Meditation, received a letter from Ju Zi, and left Shrek.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen cultivated in Sea God Pavilion, improving their Soul Power and Mental Power while Xiao Hongchen worried about Su Yu’s prolonged meditation.

Bai Feng emerged from five months of Deep Meditation with greatly increased Martial Soul fusion and a plan to develop his Demon Slaying Intent. After a year in the Sea God Pavilion, Su Yu left with his companions and learned that Qian Duoduo had changed Shrek’s direction through his arguments and was studying at Illustrious Virtue Hall.

• Bai Feng raised his Martial Soul fusion to 50, comprehended Unity of Heaven and Man, and decided to seek a Soul Ring that would strengthen his Demon Slaying Intent.
• Yan Shaozhe ended Su Yu’s year of cultivation, and Su Yu joined Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Bai Feng, and Xuan Ziwen outside the Sea God Pavilion.
• Xuan Ziwen told Su Yu that Qian Duoduo had persuaded Shrek’s leaders to change course and had gone to Illustrious Virtue Hall to study Soul Tool theory.
• Su Yu retrieved his Ninth Grade Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon and its defensive arrangements from outside Shrek City before departing with the others.
• Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe accepted Qian Duoduo’s plan to stop recruiting Outer Court students and gradually dissolve the Outer Court.

Su Yu sought out the Body Sect to persuade Du Busi to stop resisting the Sun Moon Empire and learned that the sect had relocated to Phoenix Continent. After meeting Du Busi, Su Yu discussed the Soul Spirit cultivation system and confronted the Body Sect’s focused research into Blood Essence Soul Rings.

• Su Yu parted from Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Bai Feng, instructing Bai Feng to reach Soul Ancestor before the next Soul Fighting Tournament and to wait for Su Yu’s return before acting with Huo Yuhao.
• Su Yu traveled to Heaven Dou City, met Feng Kuang and Zou Yun, and asked Feng Kuang to arrange a meeting with Du Busi outside the Endless Volcano’s spatial passage.
• Feng Kuang confirmed that the Body Sect had relocated to Phoenix Continent, and agreed to pass Su Yu’s message to Du Busi.
• After cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Su Yu flew to the Endless Volcano and met Du Busi, arguing that the Body Sect should not favor any empire.
• Du Busi acknowledged that the sect had studied the Soul Spirit cultivation system and recognized that its soul rings belonged to the soul master as well as the martial soul.
• Su Yu displayed his Blood Essence Soul Rings and inferred that the Body Sect had been researching how to condense them.

Su Yu explained to Du Busi that he wanted the Body Sect to stop serving as a faction’s private force and offered to help end Xu Tianran’s rule so the continent could adopt a federal parliamentary system. He then argued that Douluo Continent had to overcome its internal divisions and develop to face the wider universe, leaving Du Busi contemplating the existence of other life-bearing worlds.

• Du Busi studied Su Yu’s Blood Essence Soul Rings and asked what it would take to learn how to condense them.
• Su Yu urged Du Busi to reconsider the Body Sect’s alliance with the Tianhun Royal Family and argued that Vina and her kin feared being purged by the Sun Moon Empire.
• Su Yu proposed helping Du Busi’s plan to kill Xu Tianran, explaining that his death could clear the way to end the feudal imperial system and establish a federal parliament.
• Du Busi questioned Su Yu’s motives and learned that Su Yu believed the new system would let former imperial factions, including Vina’s, take part in governing.
• Su Yu told Du Busi that countless life-bearing planets and cultivation civilizations existed beyond Douluo Continent.
• Su Yu argued that Douluo Continent had stagnated because powerful factions fought among themselves instead of developing the soul master world.

Su Yu secured Du Busi’s agreement not to interfere after Xu Tianran’s death, then shared cultivation and forging guidance to strengthen the soul master world. Five days later, he returned to a greatly expanded Ming Capital, where the chapter ended with an author’s book recommendation.

• Su Yu persuaded Du Busi to accept Blood Essence Soul Ring techniques and stay out of the war after Xu Tianran died.
• Three days later, Su Yu gave Feng Kuang a method to restore his lost martial soul rings through Blood Essence Soul Rings.
• Su Yu visited Kuang Tie at the Iron Blood Sect and explained that Spiritual Metal needed to survive a Thunder Tribulation to reach the level required for Super Battle Armor.
• Kuang Tie entered Deep Meditation after grasping Su Yu’s guidance, and Su Yu asked the Iron Blood Sect disciples to have him develop Heaven Forging.
• Five days later, Su Yu returned to Ming Capital and found that the city had expanded several times while becoming more desolate.

Su Yu told Kong Deming he intended to replace imperial rule with a federal parliamentary system after unifying the continent, and Kong Deming approved. As Su Yu and Huo Yuhao prepared for the coming political transition, Xu Tianran finalized his plan to trap and destroy the Holy Spirit Cult’s two Limit Douluo.

• Kong Deming told Su Yu he understood his pursuit of godhood and agreed that the imperial system should be replaced with a federal parliamentary system.
• Su Yu entrusted Huo Yuyao with establishing the new system and warned him not to fear the gods if he was summoned to the God Realm.
• Huo Yuhao reported that the Sun Moon Empire had occupied nearly half of the Star Luo Empire and was improving life in the occupied territories.
• Su Yu said Xu Tianran was likely preparing to attack the Holy Spirit Cult and assured Huo Yuhao that their allies could handle its two Limit Douluo.
• Xu Tianran fantasized about using Ultimate Battle Armor to gain divine power and ordered Feng Yuan to report on the Demon Sealing Array.
• Feng Yuan said the array’s framework was complete and that over a hundred Ninth Grade Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shells were ready; Xu Tianran planned to lure the Holy Spirit Cult’s leaders into the trap.

Su Yu returned after a year of cultivation in the Golden Ancient Tree, having advanced his understanding of Martial Soul fusion and domains while preparing to break through Level Eighty-Nine. As Xu Tianran prepared to move against the Holy Spirit Cult, the Demon Empress revealed a plan to create a god, leaving both sides on the brink of conflict.

• Su Yu returned to Jing Hongchen, whose own rapid progress toward Level 98 was aided by battle armor, and discussed Xu Tianran’s likely plan to attack the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Su Yu reflected on how he had refined his domain into a vessel for his insights and considered it a Dao of his own.
• Zhongli Wu emerged from seclusion after using a great deal of blood to break through to Level Ninety-Nine, and the Demon Empress warned Ye Xishui that the Holy Spirit Cult faced a crisis.
• The Demon Empress said she intended to create a god if her side became strong enough, while Long Xiaoyao grew uneasy about her method.
• Xu Tianran learned that the Holy Spirit Cult’s leaders had gone silent and ordered an operation to eradicate the cult, deciding that at least one of its Limit Douluo had to die.

Su Yu reviewed Illustrious Virtue Hall’s new student training plans and urged Jing Hongchen to make education accessible to Soul Masters and commoners across the continent. They considered using postwar reconstruction and Soul Masters’ abilities to establish academies and put their skills to work throughout society.

• Su Yu approved the revised curriculum, which balanced Soul Engineering with Martial Soul cultivation and Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Jing Hongchen explained that students would choose specialties in their fourth year, while elite classes would train in multiple fields and supply tournament candidates.
• Su Yu saw that Bai Feng had skipped to the fourth year’s elite class after reaching level twenty-six and pursuing Combat Soul Master, Soul Engineer, and Battle Armor Master training.
• Su Yu proposed making basic education universal after the war, and Jing Hongchen recognized that the plan could also help address wartime disruption.
• Su Yu argued that the Federation could fund academies with food and labor, and that Soul Masters could apply their talents across society now that the continent was unified.

Su Yu discovered that the Abyss was moving toward Douluo Continent and that the Holy Spirit Cult had interfered with the spatial fluctuations to help establish contact. He planned to use the passage’s eventual opening to trap the cult’s leaders in the Far North, while preparing allies and expecting the confrontation within about a year.

• Su Yu told Jing Hongchen to keep students below Soul King from advancing and to have them train their bodies and Bloodline Power before entering Dragon Valley.
• Jing Hongchen reported that Xu Tianran had failed to recruit the Holy Spirit Cult’s two Limit Douluo, and Su Yu concluded that the cult needed to be dealt with sooner rather than later.
• Su Yu learned from the Snow Empress that spatial fluctuations in the Far North had become abnormal, and he determined that the Abyss was approaching Douluo Continent to form a passage.
• Su Yu suspected that the Holy Spirit Cult, possibly through the Demon Empress, had concealed the Abyss’s approach and planned to surround the Far North when the passage opened.
• Su Yu estimated that the passage would take at least a year to form and began assessing how to gather enough strength, including advancing himself and urging Huo Yuhao to grow stronger.

Su Yu learned that the Abyss’s invasion required the empires to unify sooner, so he arranged to move against Xu Tianran during a public speech in Mingdu. As he prepared for the coming operation, he considered using Virtual Soul Core Technology to strengthen his Battle Armor but recognized its severe limits and risks.

• Su Yu told Snow Empress he would station Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineer legions outside the Far North Land and use Ninth Grade Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shells only as a last resort, and she agreed while planning to evacuate core-area soul beasts.
• After returning to Mingdu, Su Yu told Jing Hongchen about the Abyss and urged the Sun Moon Empire and Star Luo Empire to advance their plans to unify and prepare for its invasion.
• Su Yu sent Du Busi a message about the Abyss and the need to act early, and Du Busi set aside his suspicions and agreed to trust him.
• Jing Hongchen told Su Yu that Xu Tianran would give a final mobilization speech at Mingdu Square in half a month, giving them a likely opportunity to act.
• Su Yu decided to use the next half month to improve himself and build a dual Soul Core array, while weighing the risks and limitations of Virtual Soul Core Technology.

Su Yu developed a three-dimensional theory for three mutually complementary soul cores, then emerged from seclusion as the Star Luo Empire's Titled Douluo attacked Xu Tianran's speech in Mingdu Square. The assault began amid the Sun Moon Empire's defenses, with Du Busi concealed nearby and the square thrown into chaos.

• Su Yu reasoned that three soul cores could complement one another along the x, y, and z axes, then used a model to work out their complex rotations.
• Su Yu set aside the three-core theory and began building the Core Array in his Battle Armor to prepare for condensing his Second Soul Core.
• Su Yu left secluded cultivation when hundreds of thousands gathered in Mingdu Square to hear Xu Tianran speak.
• Su Yu sensed that Du Busi was concealed in the crowd as a child, while the Royal Soul Engineer Legion identified suspicious energy traces and prepared defenses.
• Five Titled Douluo charged toward Xu Tianran's podium, and Soul Engineer Legions, Ninth-Level Soul Engineers, and the emperor's guards responded as the square descended into chaos.

Xu Tianran revealed that he was a Titled Douluo and used suppression powers and Soul Tool prosthetics to evade Du Busi’s assassination attempt. As Du Busi launched a final attack, Jing Hongchen and two Ninth-Level Soul Engineers prepared to strike, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Five Titled Douluo breached the platform barrier, but Xu Tianran revealed his nine Spirit Rings and trapped them under multiple layers of suppression.
• Xu Tianran blasted the five attackers with his Ninth Soul Skill, Light of Destruction, while Du Busi decided to continue the assassination mission.
• Du Busi unleashed his Bloodline Power, broke through the platform barrier, and attacked Xu Tianran as the other Soul Douluo and the wounded Titled Douluo held off the Royal Soul Engineer Legion and Xu Tianran’s guards.
• Xu Tianran dodged Du Busi’s attacks with Ninth-Level Soul Tool prosthetic legs, while Du Busi pressed him with a barrage of blows.
• Jing Hongchen and two Ninth-Level Soul Engineers activated their powers as Du Busi prepared his finishing attack and Xu Tianran shouted that Du Busi would die.

Xu Tianran tried to destroy the plaza after Du Busi overwhelmed his defenses, but Su Yu reversed time and gave Du Busi the chance to kill him. After the fighting ended, Su Yu healed Du Busi, whose breakthrough left the group with a stronger combatant to face the Abyss.

• Xu Tianran survived Du Busi’s first attack with an Invincible Shield, then activated a Soul Tool intended to concentrate Ming Capital’s firepower on the plaza.
• Jing Hongchen turned against Xu Tianran by intercepting the Ninth-Level Soul Guidance Rays, and Su Yu used Time Reversal to undo Xu Tianran’s activation of the Soul Tool.
• Du Busi fused his Martial Soul, bloodline, and Mental Power spirit rings, then struck through Xu Tianran’s Invincible Shield and killed him.
• Su Yu and Jing Hongchen ordered the capture of the Star Luo Empire’s surviving attackers and brought the dying Du Busi to the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Su Yu used transformed Heaven and Earth Origin Qi to restore Du Busi, whose golden-silver spirit rings and materialized Mental Power revealed a chance to break through to Limit Douluo.

Su Yu helped Du Busi recover and prepare for a breakthrough to Limit Douluo, then arranged defenses against the Abyss and planned trips to the Star Dou Great Forest and Dragon Valley. Before leaving for the Star Dou Great Forest, he stopped in Heaven Dou City to study forging with Kuang Tie, whose confidence in his own expertise was shaken by Su Yu’s progress.

• Su Yu learned that Du Busi could condense a Second Soul Core and advised Kuang Tie to strengthen himself before attempting Heaven Forging again.
• Du Busi thanked Su Yu, explained how he had condensed a Spirit Soul Ring, and decided to return to the Phoenix Continent to cultivate and develop new Body Secret Techniques.
• Su Yu asked Du Busi to aid the Douluo Continent if the Abyss invaded and suggested that Body Sect disciples learn forging from Kuang Tie.
• Su Yu gave Jing Hongchen Soul Tool Array blueprints, asked his teacher to stabilize the Sun Moon Empire, and planned to visit the Star Dou Great Forest and Dragon Valley.
• Su Yu left Ming Capital for Heaven Dou City, where he met Feng Kuang and began studying Kuang Tie’s Spiritual Forging and Heaven Forging techniques.
• After ten days of instruction, Su Yu left Heaven Dou City, leaving Kuang Tie questioning his own life.