Chapter Summaries

Su Yu returned to Ming Capital with Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, helping Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen improve their strength. After spending two weeks digesting his gains and building the framework for the Universal Cultivation Method, he visited Xuan Ziwen to hear about a breakthrough in bone inscription research.

• Su Yu took several Immortal Herbs and their seeds from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, left herbs for Zou Yun and Feng Kuang, and rushed back to Ming Capital.
• Su Yu gave Kong Deming the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and Beautiful Silk Tulip, which raised Kong Deming to level ninety-seven and began their Soul Spirit contracts.
• Su Yu gave Jing Hongchen an Earth Dragon Golden Gourd fruit, stabilizing his cultivation and removing the barrier to his next breakthrough.
• Su Yu worked at the research institute and completed the framework for the Universal Cultivation Method, then left its detailed development to the researchers.
• Su Yu visited Xuan Ziwen's Research Lab to discuss bone inscriptions, and Xuan Ziwen told him that the team had made a major breakthrough.

Su Yu learned about Xuan Ziwen’s Bone Rune research and prepared to forge Advanced Battle Armor with materials approved by Jing Hongchen. Shrek paid thirty Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones to ransom Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu, and Fan Yu returned to Shrek as He Caitou struggled to develop a Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon.

• Xuan Ziwen told Su Yu about his preliminary Bone Rune findings and shared a technique that maximized physical training’s feedback to Mental Power.
• Su Yu gave Xuan Ziwen three top-grade Ice Attribute Soul Bones and asked Jing Hongchen for Rare Metals to forge Advanced Battle Armor.
• Jing Hongchen warned Su Yu about Xu Tianran’s growing power and advised him to travel with Huo Yuhao to pursue a second awakening for Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eyes.
• Jing Hongchen negotiated with Old Song, and Shrek paid thirty Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones to ransom Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu while providing soul-beast information.
• He Caitou struggled with a Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon project at Shrek until Fan Yu returned, delighting his former student.

After returning to Shrek, Qian Duoduo reflected on the cost of delayed Soul Tool development while Su Yu completed his Advanced Battle Armor and discussed the threat of divine interference with Kong Deming. Su Yu then left Ming Capital with Huo Yuhao, who revealed he wanted a powerful Spirit Attribute Soul Beast for his fourth ring and had quickly advanced in bone inscriptions.

• Qian Duoduo reunited with Fan Yu, lamented Shrek’s late support for Soul Tools, and argued with Qian Tong about defecting to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Su Yu completed his Advanced Battle Armor, reached level seventy-four, and learned from Jing Hongchen that he and Huo Yuhao should leave before Xu Tianran’s succession upheaval.
• Su Yu told Kong Deming that gods might have interfered in past wars and urged him to pursue Level 10 Soul Engineer research and develop battle armor capable of opposing gods.
• Kong Deming said his Super Battle Armor was nearly finished and agreed to pursue Level 10 Soul Engineer research after the new emperor took power.
• Su Yu met Huo Yuhao, who showed off his Bone Wings and revealed that he wanted a fifty-thousand-to-seventy-thousand-year Spirit Attribute Soul Beast for his fourth soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao said he had cultivated Xuan’s Bone Inscription System for half a year, and Su Yu was stunned by his rapid progress.

Su Yu and Huo Yuhao followed strange guidance to a hidden inheritance ground connected to the God of Life. Huo Yuhao began the God of Life’s inheritance trial, receiving a red-level eight-trial assessment.

• Su Yu suspected Huo Yuhao’s rapid Bone Inscription cultivation came from the Ice Empress’s soul bone and transformation, then questioned him about finding a Spirit Attribute soul beast.
• Huo Yuhao mentioned Sunset Forest and Falling Soul Valley as possible hunting grounds, but Su Yu warned that the information might be unreliable and chose to search elsewhere.
• Su Yu sensed a powerful northwestward guidance, and Electrolux said he had tested himself against a life-aligned god who knew of his existence.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao followed the guidance for two days and entered a hidden, vitality-rich space filled with powerful Life Attribute soul beasts.
• Su Yu identified the place as a likely God of Life inheritance ground, and Huo Yuhao accepted its trial, receiving a red-level assessment with eight trials.

Huo Yuhao and Su Yu received Red Level Eight god trials, though the God of Life and God of Destruction had different plans for Su Yu’s inheritance. Su Yu completed his first trial and began exploring Faith Power, while Huo Yuhao gained a Bewitching God Butterfly Soul Spirit and the chapter ended with Su Yu reassuring him about fairness and fate.

• Huo Yuhao received a Red Level Eight trial requiring him to reach Level Fifty Soul Power and obtain a Fifth Soul Ring, while the God of Destruction arranged for Su Yu to receive a trial as well.
• Su Yu received the God of Life’s first trial, comprehended the true meaning of life, and earned ten thousand points of Faith Power.
• Su Yu helped Huo Yuhao make a contract with a fifty-thousand-year-old Bewitching God Butterfly, who became his Soul Spirit and supplied his Fourth Soul Ring.
• After leaving the inheritance space, Su Yu received a second trial to explore Faith Power, with a reward of fifty thousand points.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether it was unfair that Su Yu had not received a divine inheritance, and Su Yu told him that unfairness came from those who disrupted the world’s natural rules.

Su Yu studied the Faith Power application required by his second trial, but could not determine what hidden condition would complete it. Suspecting the trial was connected to Burial Soul Valley, he prepared to investigate and agreed to let Huo Yuhao accompany him after learning about Huo Yuhao’s new abilities.

• Su Yu warned Huo Yuhao not to let hatred harm innocent people, and Huo Yuhao said he understood.
• Su Yu discovered that the entrance to the God of Life’s inheritance space had disappeared and began working on his second trial.
• With Old Yi’s guidance, Su Yu used Faith Power to strengthen his soul rings and Mental Power, but the trial did not register as complete.
• Su Yu suspected the trial was linked to Burial Soul Valley and warned Huo Yuhao that powerful Evil Soul Masters might be there.
• Huo Yuhao explained that his new Mental Illusion skill and Bone Wings could help Su Yu, and Su Yu considered taking him along.

Su Yu and Huo Yuhao entered Burial Soul Valley, where the Zhongli Three Brothers were sacrificing soul beast spirits, and Su Yu unleashed Purification Fire to destroy their ritual. After gauging the brothers’ strength, Su Yu prepared to attack before they could combine their power, unaware that Scorpion Tiger Douluo was flying toward the valley.

• Su Yu brought Huo Yuhao into Burial Soul Valley, where Huo Yuhao detected three powerful Evil Soul Masters and the tortured souls of many slaughtered soul beasts.
• Su Yu received Necromancy spells from Old Yi and used Purification Fire and the Great Purification Art to cleanse the valley’s resentful spirits.
• The Zhongli Three Brothers fled the spreading flames, but their stored soul beast spirits fueled the fire and it began burning their bodies.
• Su Yu estimated the brothers’ combined strength and decided to attack quickly, while Zhang Peng, the Scorpion Tiger Douluo, rushed from Evil Demon Forest toward Burial Soul Valley.

Su Yu unleashed his full martial-soul power to defeat the Zhongli Three Brothers, while Huo Yuhao helped bring down Zhongli Di with mental attacks. After they escaped Burial Soul Valley, Su Yu purified the Faith Power he had gained and completed his second assessment.

• Su Yu combined his Blue Silver domains to paralyze the Zhongli Three Brothers, then killed Zhongli Tian with Heaven-Shocking Slash.
• Zhongli Ren sacrificed himself to strengthen Zhongli Di, who escaped Su Yu’s second sword strike but was intercepted and badly wounded by a third.
• Huo Yuhao used mental attacks to stun Zhongli Di, allowing Su Yu to burn away his evil energy and kill him.
• Su Yu restored Huo Yuhao’s strength, cleaned up the scene, and flew away with him as Scorpion Tiger Douluo arrived at the empty Burial Soul Valley.
• A day later, Su Yu purified the Faith Power he had obtained and received notification that his second assessment was complete, with a reward of fifty thousand points of Faith Power.

Su Yu strengthened his Fourth Soul Ring with Faith Power, then taught Huo Yuhao the demanding principles behind developing Soul Skills. In Heaven Armor City, the God of Life assigned Su Yu a trial to investigate and stop the Holy Spirit Cult’s Fallen Plan, and the two found signs of Evil Soul Masters in a dilapidated courtyard.

• Su Yu used Faith Power to enhance his Fourth Soul Ring and explained that Soul Skill development required mastering a skill well enough to cast it without relying on a Soul Ring.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao traveled to Heaven Armor City, where Su Yu received the Third Trial to investigate and prevent the Holy Spirit Cult’s Fallen Plan.
• Su Yu told Huo Yuhao that the spread of Evil Soul Masters had followed the collapse of unified order and criticized the Douluo Three Kingdoms and Shrek for failing to stop them.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao reached a dilapidated courtyard where blood and resentment suggested Evil Soul Masters had recently stayed.

Su Yu traced a suspected Holy Spirit Cult plot in Heaven Dou City to Tang Ya and the Iron Blood Sect, then decided to draw Shrek’s power into the investigation. He left Huo Yuhao watching the sect while planning to find the evil soul masters and stop Tang Ya from being corrupted.

• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao traveled to Heaven Dou City and asked Zou Yun and Song Zi of the Mad Luck Escort Team for information about evil soul masters.
• Song Zi reported recent slaughtered soul beasts in Sunset Forest and said the Iron Blood Sect’s sect master, Kuang Tie, was nearing Soul Saint.
• Su Yu explained that his trial was to stop an ordinary soul master from becoming an evil soul master and led Huo Yuhao to realize Tang Ya was the target.
• Su Yu speculated that the Holy Spirit Cult was targeting Tang Ya because of her Tang Sect identity and her Blue Silver Grass’s devouring ability.
• Su Yu suspected the Iron Blood Sect was part of the plot and told Huo Yuhao to monitor it while they looked for clues.
• Su Yu decided to borrow Shrek’s strength to confront the Holy Spirit Cult rather than fight its evil soul masters alone.

Su Yu and Huo Yuhao spread word of a possible Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Master near Heaven Dou City to draw Shrek Academy into investigating the area. Xuan Zi sent Yan Shaozhe to lead the response, warning him to prioritize killing Evil Soul Masters over gathering intelligence on the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Su Yu proposed informing Shrek Academy about the supposed Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Master so its powerhouses would investigate and help Tang Ya.
• Two days later, reports of the threat spread through Heaven Dou City, and Zhao Huaijia sent a request for aid to Shrek Academy.
• At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Yan Shaozhe reported that Zhao Huaijia had no concrete evidence, though many Evil Soul Masters had appeared near the city.
• Xuan Zi decided that Shrek needed to investigate and assigned Yan Shaozhe, who had recently reached level ninety-six, to go personally.
• Xuan Zi warned Yan Shaozhe to make killing Evil Soul Masters his priority and not let them escape in pursuit of Holy Spirit Cult intelligence.

At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Shrek’s elders discussed rumors about Tang Ya’s dangerous Martial Soul and the alleged Evil Soul Masters in Heaven Dou City. Yan Shaozhe went to investigate, where he encountered Zhongli Wu and was badly outmatched as their battle began.

• Yan Shaozhe told the Sea God Pavilion elders that Tang Ya’s Martial Soul might devour life force, and they discussed warning Bei Bei and helping her at Shrek.
• Su Yu explained to Huo Yuhao that Shrek would send someone to investigate the Evil Soul Masters, and Yan Shaozhe arrived in Heaven Dou City five days later.
• Yan Shaozhe hunted Evil Soul Masters, learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had a Phoenix Saintess, and feared that she was Ma Xiaotao.
• After searching for three days without finding the hidden Evil Soul Master, Yan Shaozhe realized his opponent’s soul power might surpass his own, and Zhongli Wu revealed himself.
• Zhongli Wu and Yan Shaozhe fought above Heaven Dou City, and Zhongli Wu’s powerful soul rings overwhelmed Yan Shaozhe and left him severely wounded.

Zhongli Wu drove Yan Shaozhe into retreat before a hidden Limit Douluo forced him to withdraw, while Tang San noticed Su Yu and arranged for Rong Nianbing to consider Huo Yuhao as an heir. Su Yu completed his third trial and received a God-given Soul Ring, and Yan Shaozhe returned to Shrek Academy badly injured.

• Yan Shaozhe fled Zhongli Wu’s attack, and a hidden bull’s roar made Zhongli Wu wary enough to leave.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao stayed concealed as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recognized the roar as belonging to the Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Tang San discovered Su Yu through the God Realm Central Hub, abandoned his scheme involving Tang Ya, and exposed Huo Yuhao’s aura to Rong Nianbing.
• Su Yu received a God-given Soul Ring for completing his third trial and decided to keep it for research into artificial Soul Rings.
• Lin Lao examined Tang Ya and found her condition had eased, while Xuan Zi called a Sea God Pavilion meeting over Yan Shaozhe’s disappearance.
• Yan Shaozhe returned to Shrek Academy three days later, alive but in poor condition.

Su Yu began the Fourth Trial, which required him to create life, and traveled with Huo Yuhao to the Profound Nether Sect to pursue a second awakening for Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eye. They planned to approach the sect with a cooperative transaction rather than steal its awakening ritual.

• After completing the Third Trial, Su Yu left Heaven Dou City with Huo Yuhao and received the Fourth Trial: Creation, which promised guidance from the God of Life.
• Electrolux told Su Yu that his undead and Undead Demiplane could inspire him, while Su Yu resolved to attempt a challenging creation and seek further benefits from the trial.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao discussed how the Profound Nether Sect’s ritual awakened its Profound Nether Tortoise Martial Soul and considered whether the method could help Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eye.
• After traveling to the Dou Ling Empire, Su Yu and Huo Yuhao arrived at the Profound Nether Sect, where Su Yu proposed negotiating a cooperative transaction instead of stealing the ritual.

Su Yu and Huo Yuhao met with Profound Nether Sect Master Xu Yang and used Xu Sanshi’s captivity to negotiate the sect’s withdrawal from the coming war. Su Yu offered Ninth-Level Soul Engineer techniques in exchange for the Profound Nether Tortoise’s Black Tortoise awakening method, leaving Xu Yang to weigh the proposed bargains.

• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao entered the Profound Nether Sect and persuaded its guards to bring them before Xu Yang.
• Su Yu identified himself and Huo Yuhao as disciples of the Illustrious Virtue Hall, then told Xu Yang that they had rescued Xu Sanshi from Death Bringer but had not released him because he might have been corrupted.
• Xu Yang considered taking the two visitors hostage, but Su Yu’s strength and the Illustrious Virtue Hall’s backing made him reconsider.
• Su Yu proposed that the Profound Nether Sect withdraw from worldly affairs and future wars in exchange for Xu Sanshi’s return, arguing that the Sun Moon Empire intended to unify the continent rather than exterminate its people.
• Su Yu asked for the method to awaken the Profound Nether Tortoise Martial Soul into the Black Tortoise Martial Soul and offered Ninth-Level Soul Engineer techniques in exchange.

Su Yu forced the Profound Nether Sect to trade its secret awakening method for outdated Ninth-Level Soul Tool technology, using his cannons and Huo Yuhao’s targeting support to secure their agreement to withdraw into seclusion. Afterward, Su Yu explained his ideals about unification, fairness, and order to Huo Yuhao, and five days later they reached the Endless Volcano on the border of the Dou Ling and Star Luo Empires.

• Xu Yang questioned Su Yu about his interest in the Profound Nether Sect’s awakening method, then threatened to detain him at the sect headquarters.
• Su Yu revealed that he had brought twelve Seventh-Level and three Eighth-Level Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons, and demonstrated his own Eighth-Level cannon as Huo Yuhao secretly located the Grand Elder and helped target him.
• After the Grand Elder ordered Xu Yang to agree, Xu Yang exchanged the sect’s secret awakening method for Su Yu’s Ninth-Level Soul Tool technology, and Su Yu told him the Profound Nether Sect had to go into seclusion within a year.
• As Su Yu and Huo Yuhao left, Su Yu explained that the Soul Tool technology was outdated and argued that he supported unification for progress and greater equality, not out of loyalty to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Su Yu recognized order as a possible path for Huo Yuhao to pursue, and five days later the two arrived at the Endless Volcano on the Dou Ling Empire–Star Luo Empire border.

Su Yu gained insight into the cycle of life and death while cultivating in the Endless Volcano, then traveled deeper with Huo Yuhao and encountered Feng Kuang confronting the Blood Flame Sect. The chapter ended as Feng Kuang attacked Blood Yan after Su Yu and Huo Yuhao arrived.

• Su Yu cultivated in the volcanic heat for a day, then entered a ten-day Deep Meditation and formed a Death Rune alongside his Life Rune.
• Su Yu realized his runes could connect with the rules and directly transform Primordial Energy into vitality and Death Qi.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao went deeper into the volcano, where Huo Yuhao discovered Feng Kuang and the Mad Luck Escort Team facing the Blood Flame Sect.
• Su Yu explained Feng Kuang’s former Soul Saint cultivation and powerful Bloodline Power, while advising Huo Yuhao to develop Bloodline Power through his Bone Runes.
• Feng Kuang accused Blood Yan of trying to silence the escort team and demanded to know what opportunity had led the Blood Flame Sect to produce Blood Essence.
• After Feng Kuang noticed Su Yu and Huo Yuhao, Su Yu approached, and Feng Kuang began fighting Blood Yan with his sixth soul skill, Flame Demon Body.

Feng Kuang killed Blood Flame and learned that the Blood Flame Sect had discovered a passage through the Endless Volcano to a vast, undeveloped world. He agreed to explore it with Su Yu and Huo Yuhao in twenty days, then prepared to assess Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eye Martial Soul and help with its second awakening.

• Feng Kuang defeated Blood Flame and killed him with a punch, then forced Blood Fire to reveal the sect’s secrets.
• Blood Fire explained that the sect had found a passage to another world and that it became safe to cross for a short period each month.
• Su Yu and Electrolux assessed the passage, and Su Yu arranged with Feng Kuang to explore it when it stabilized in about twenty days.
• Su Yu explained that he and Huo Yuhao had come to the Endless Volcano for Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul second awakening, and Feng Kuang recognized the potential of his Spirit Eye.
• Feng Kuang offered to test Huo Yuhao, and Su Yu told him to spar using only his Spirit Eye Martial Soul.

Huo Yuhao completed his Spirit Eye Martial Soul Second Awakening in the Endless Volcano, gaining a stronger Martial Soul and reaching the Tangible without Substance realm of Mental Power. Su Yu sensed the Fire God's divine power deep in the volcano and suggested Huo Yuhao might have found an opportunity connected to the Ice God.

• Huo Yuhao displayed his Spirit Eye abilities in a spar with Feng Kuang, who recommended Purple Yang Valley and invited him to join the Body Sect; Huo Yuhao declined.
• Su Yu led Huo Yuhao into the Endless Volcano, where Huo Yuhao endured the heat and reached Purple Yang Valley after five days.
• Huo Yuhao completed his Martial Soul Second Awakening in the purple flames, gaining a Mental Storm ability and breaking through to Tangible without Substance Mental Power.
• Su Yu explained the Mental Power classifications and said Illustrious Virtue Hall's Mental Detection device had begun quantifying them.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao continued deeper into the volcano, where Su Yu and Electrolux sensed the Fire God's divine power.
• Su Yu told Huo Yuhao that they might have found a god's inheritance and asked whether he believed the Ice God existed.

Su Yu and Huo Yuhao searched the Fire God's inheritance for clues about the Ice God, but received only a month of magma body tempering instead of a trial. They then crossed a spatial passage to Heaven Dou Continent, where Su Yu sensed unusually abundant life energy and decided to explore it.

• Su Yu proposed seeking the Fire God's inheritance for information about the possibly vanished Ice God, and he and Huo Yuhao entered the magma to search for it.
• The inheritance rejected them because they were already undergoing the God of Life's trial, but its magma tempered their bodies for a month, and Huo Yuhao condensed Bloodline Power.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao left the volcano and joined Feng Kuang's group before entering the spatial passage to an unexplored continent.
• After arriving, Su Yu recognized the land as Heaven Dou Continent and sensed that its life force was exceptionally dense.
• Su Yu asked Huo Yuhao to use Mental Detection as they began circling the continent to explore it.