Chapter Summaries

Su Yu and Huo Yuhao spent four months searching Phoenix Continent for treasures and teaching its tribes Soul Tool technology before returning to Douluo Continent. Feng Kuang told them that the Sun Moon Empire had expanded its wars and that the White Tiger Duke was surrounded in the Ming Dou Mountain Range.

• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao found Phoenix Blood Essence and phoenix-stained Rare Metal, then concluded that many powerful phoenixes had once lived on the continent.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao named the land Phoenix Continent and taught its Phoenix, Peng Bird, and Golden Crow tribes to understand and create Soul Tools.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao returned to the Endless Volcano after completing their work on Phoenix Continent and met Feng Kuang outside their base.
• Feng Kuang reported that the Profound Nether Sect had withdrawn from the outside world and that the Sun Moon Empire had occupied territory from the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Feng Kuang said the Sun Moon Empire had intensified its war against the Star Luo Empire and surrounded the White Tiger Duke in the Ming Dou Mountain Range.

Su Yu and Huo Yuhao stayed away from the Sun Moon Empire, borrowed the Profound Nether Sect’s pill-refining room, and turned their harvested medicines into powerful pills that greatly increased their soul power. After more than half a year, they investigated the empire’s situation and learned the rebellion was close to being crushed, while another war had broken out.

• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao decided to postpone returning because Xu Tianran’s wars and purges had left the Sun Moon Empire unstable.
• Su Yu offered Xu Yang a Snake Spirit Mushroom in exchange for six months’ use of the Profound Nether Sect’s pill-refining room.
• Su Yu studied the Medicine Chapter and refined increasingly effective pills with Huo Yuhao’s help, eventually producing nine Great Return Pills.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao divided the Great Return Pills and cultivated; Su Yu reached Level 79, while Huo Yuhao reached Level 59 after receiving his Fifth Soul Ring.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao went to a nearby town to learn about current events and heard that war had resumed in the Sun Moon Empire and the rebels were nearly defeated.

Su Yu traveled toward the Star Luo Empire while developing his plan to create a Soul Beast embodying reincarnation and strengthening himself with Phoenix Blood Essence. Fate drew him to the Star Dou Great Forest, where the Three-Eyed Golden Lion set out to meet him, while Qian Tong received news of Su Yu and Yan Shaozhe returned Bei Bei’s Dragon Pearl after recovering from his wounds.

• Huo Yuhao decided to skip returning to Ming Capital and head for the Far North Land, while Su Yu parted from him and set out for the Star Luo Empire.
• Su Yu condensed a crimson-gold Blood Essence Soul Ring from the Phoenix Blood Essence and resolved to create a plant Soul Beast capable of embodying the cycle of life and death.
• Su Yu used Electrolux’s knowledge of creating undead to guide his research, then visited his old courtyard in Moon Gazing City and found that its Blue Silver Grass had mutated with the Star Attribute.
• Drawn by the Power of Fate, Su Yu entered the Star Dou Great Forest and prepared for possible danger as the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King went to meet him.
• Qian Tong received a letter from the Moon Gazing City branch about Su Yu and was pleased, while Yan Shaozhe returned Bei Bei’s Dragon Pearl after using it to heal his injuries from fighting Zhongli Wu.

Yan Shaozhe shared his insights about using the Dragon Pearl to help Tang Ya while Huo Yuhao traveled to the Far North Land to seek Snow Empress as a potential Soul Spirit. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Su Yu received the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s essence blood and left after their debt was settled.

• Yan Shaozhe gave Bei Bei his insights on suppressing Tang Ya’s Martial Soul and advised that she seek a light- and life-attributed Soul Ring when she reached Level Fifty.
• Huo Yuhao arrived in the Far North Land with Ice Empress, who planned to ask Snow Empress to become his Soul Spirit if she doubted she could survive her seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation.
• Snow Empress met Huo Yuhao and Ice Empress, learned what had happened to Ice Empress, and beat Sky Dream Ice Silkworm after hearing his role in it.
• Su Yu met the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in the Star Dou Great Forest and accepted the Power of Fate she offered on the Silver Dragon King’s behalf.
• Su Yu requested and received the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s essence blood, then left the Star Dou Great Forest without incident.

After returning from the Star Dou Great Forest, Su Yu strengthened his ties with Qian Tong, gave him pills, and returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to cultivate a Blood Essence Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Snow Empress revealed to Huo Yuhao that Su Yu had been investigating how to condense a Soul Ring, giving Huo Yuhao insight into his mandatory trial.

• Su Yu met Qian Tong in Shrek City, learned about his ties to Qian Duoduo, and proposed helping the Ten Thousand Household Building trade with Mingde Hall while supporting Qian Duoduo's Soul Tool research.
• Su Yu gave Qian Tong five Essence Cultivation Pills and advised him to refine them carefully to strengthen his cultivation.
• Er Ming sensed a dangerous Titled Douluo carrying a powerful weapon had entered Shrek City, but the intruder left before the Sea God Pavilion members could locate him.
• Su Yu returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, refined the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's essence blood, and formed a rose-gold Blood Essence Soul Ring.
• Snow Empress told Huo Yuhao that Su Yu had sought to condense a Soul Ring himself, and Huo Yuhao realized this could explain Su Yu's unusual seventh Soul Ring and relate to his God of Life trial.

Huo Yuhao learned that the divine inheritance Snow Empress had encountered vanished after Su Yu and Yu Ge left, while Snow Empress recommended the Ice Bear King as a possible Soul Ring for him. After four months of cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Su Yu left for Ming Capital and encountered Kuang Tie searching the Poisonous Miasma for a Medusa.

• Snow Empress told Huo Yuhao about the vanished inheritance of the God of Life, and she recommended the Ice Bear King if he needed a Soul Ring.
• Su Yu spent four months cultivating spirituality and advancing the breastplate, belt, and wings of his Advanced Battle Armor toward Super Battle Armor standards.
• Su Yu left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and sensed Kuang Tie searching the Poisonous Miasma for a Medusa to use as his eighth Soul Ring.
• Kuang Tie introduced himself as the Iron Blood Sect's sect master and explained his search to Su Yu.
• Su Yu declined to join Kuang Tie and pointed out large stone statues in the southern Poisonous Miasma that might be connected to Medusa.

Su Yu discovered that the Holy Spirit Cult had placed resentment-gathering arrays across battlefields to harvest souls from wars, and he resolved to destroy the cult before the coming conflict helped it grow stronger. After destroying the array in Heaven Armor City, he searched the western battlefield and found the same setup throughout the region.

• Su Yu arrived at Heaven Armor City, assessed the Sun Moon Empire’s military pressure and the political schemes surrounding the city, and sensed an evil presence through the surrounding Blue Silver Grass.
• Su Yu found an array gathering remnant souls and resentment, destroyed it, and concluded that the Holy Spirit Cult was using wars to build its resources.
• A fierce middle-aged Evil Soul Master noticed the array’s destruction, feared it was a trap, and fled north without returning to his hotel.
• Su Yu traveled west across the battlefield and discovered soul-gathering arrays throughout the region, then worried that even more extensive arrays existed near the Ming Dou Mountain Range.

Su Yu investigated the faith and authority bestowed on him by the Blue Silver Grass Race, then rescued Bai Feng from an Evil Soul Master and awakened his martial soul. After discovering Bai Feng had Innate Full Soul Power and a Star Soul Sword that could counter Evil Soul Masters, Su Yu took him toward Ming Capital to seek a suitable soul ring.

• Su Yu connected with the Blue Silver Grass Race's faith and began using his runes to awaken its spirituality, deepening the Clear and Bright Runes through a day of enlightenment.
• Su Yu stopped an Evil Soul Master from killing Bai Feng and gave the boy a dagger, which Bai Feng used to kill his tormentor.
• Bai Feng told Su Yu that the Evil Soul Master had massacred Starfall Village and vowed to kill Evil Soul Masters, so Su Yu urged him to gain strength first.
• Su Yu awakened Bai Feng's martial soul, the Star Soul Sword, and confirmed that Bai Feng had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Bai Feng chose a Star Attribute soul ring, and Su Yu invited him to Ming Capital to join the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and consult Su Yu's senior brother about suitable soul beasts.

Su Yu returned to Ming Capital with his new disciple, Bai Feng, and discussed academy reforms and battle armor with Jing Hongchen. After learning about Star Valley’s Star Attribute soul beasts from Xuan Ziwen, Su Yu set out with Bai Feng to obtain his first soul ring, while aiming to become a Ninth-Level Soul Engineer before the Soul Fighting Tournament.

• Su Yu introduced Bai Feng, a six-year-old with Innate Full Soul Power, to Jing Hongchen and urged the academy to prioritize soul masters and Battle Armor Masters alongside Soul Engineers.
• Jing Hongchen agreed to consider reforms and confirmed that the Soul Fighting Tournament competitors had already been equipped with battle armor.
• Su Yu brought Bai Feng to Xuan Ziwen, gave him a Great Return Pill, and asked about Star Attribute soul beasts suitable for Bai Feng’s Star Soul Sword.
• Xuan Ziwen recommended Star Valley, where Tian Xing Swordscale Dragons and other rare Star Attribute soul beasts lived.
• Su Yu introduced Bai Feng to Kong Deming, then left with him for Star Valley after Kong Deming promised to explain his Super Battle Armor domain technology later.
• During the five-day journey, Su Yu taught Bai Feng about soul tools and studied Level Nine Soul Tool Theory.

Su Yu guided Bai Feng through training in Star Power and taught him Starlight Shield before helping him obtain a First Soul Ring from a rare Tian Xing Swordscale Dragon. Bai Feng absorbed the ring and gained Peerless Sword Qi, while Su Yu preserved the dragon’s partially formed Soul Bone energy inside it for Bai Feng to develop later.

• Su Yu taught Bai Feng to sense and control Star Power in Star Valley, and Bai Feng learned to cast Starlight Shield.
• Su Yu found a nearly five-hundred-year Tian Xing Swordscale Dragon and subdued it so Bai Feng could claim its soul ring.
• Su Yu captured the energy of a Soul Bone that had begun forming in the dragon and refined it into a malleable form for Bai Feng to develop.
• Bai Feng absorbed the soul ring with Su Yu’s assistance and gained Peerless Sword Qi, which strengthened his sword qi and let him form a defensive barrier.

Su Yu arranged Bai Feng’s cultivation and soul-tool studies, then offered Jing Hongchen rare resources to help Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Xuan Ziwen advance. He presented the Hongchen siblings with Immortal Herbs and a plan to reach Soul Saint before the Soul Fighting Tournament, while Xiao Hongchen renewed his determination to catch up with Su Yu.

• Su Yu taught Bai Feng to seek insight into his soul skills and set him a training plan that included cultivation, Level One Soul Tools, Starlight Shield, and his first soul skill.
• Su Yu learned Xiao Hongchen was Level Sixty-Five and Meng Hongchen was Level Sixty-Six, with Meng’s Ice Fire Poison backlash worsening.
• Su Yu told Jing Hongchen that Ninth Grade Dragon Ganoderma could help Meng, Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum could help Xiao, and the siblings could contract with the Immortal Herbs as soul spirits.
• Old Ma reported that Xuan Ziwen had reached Level Ninety and requested help obtaining his Ninth Soul Ring; Su Yu chose Saint Soul Grass for him and asked Jing Hongchen to assist with the ring.
• Jing Hongchen summoned Xiao and Meng, and Su Yu prepared the Great Return Pill and Immortal Herbs for them to refine before the Soul Fighting Tournament.
• Xiao Hongchen, having successfully made another seventh-level soul tool, resolved to close the gap with Su Yu.

Su Yu gave Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen Immortal Herbs to help them reach level seventy, and advised them to refine Great Return Pills first to stabilize their Soul Power. He then persuaded Xuan Ziwen to absorb a Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant Soul Ring, leaving Xuan Ziwen weighing the benefits of cultivation against the time it would take.

• Su Yu presented the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to Xiao Hongchen and the twin Ninth Grade Dragon Ganoderma to Meng Hongchen, while Jing Hongchen explained their effects.
• Su Yu stopped the siblings from consuming the Immortal Herbs and told them to refine Great Return Pills first; Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen began refining the pills in the secret chamber.
• Su Yu explained how to consume the Immortal Herbs and said the siblings could form Soul Spirit contracts with them afterward.
• Su Yu told Jing Hongchen he would find a way to handle Xuan Ziwen's Soul Ring.
• Su Yu persuaded Xuan Ziwen that absorbing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant Soul Ring could extend his life and strengthen his cultivation, and Xuan Ziwen considered the tradeoff.

Su Yu arranged for Xuan Ziwen to spend five years cultivating before resuming advanced soul tool research, then visited Bai Feng and instructed him in soul tools and martial soul cultivation. He also guided tournament candidates Xiao Ping and Xiao Fan, leaving Xiao Fan with cultivation insights but no promise of discipleship.

• Xuan Ziwen accepted Su Yu's plan to focus on cultivation for five years before mastering ninth-level Soul Tool Theory, and Su Yu planned to ask Kong Deming to help him hunt a Hundred Thousand Year Evil Eye Tyrant.
• Su Yu visited Bai Feng at the academy, demonstrated how to craft a Level One Soul Tool, and gave him money and instructions for studying while he was away.
• Su Yu explained how Bai Feng could improve his Starlight Shield and other soul martial skills, and advised him to develop his Demon Slaying Intent and Mental Power.
• Xiao Ping asked Su Yu for guidance on battle armor, and Su Yu explained that its core was the integration of soul tools and martial souls with the soul master.
• Xiao Fan asked to become Su Yu's disciple, but Su Yu declined and instead gave him advice about mastering and developing his soul skills.

Su Yu guided Xiao Ping and Xiao Fan, arranged for Kong Deming to help Xuan Ziwen hunt a Hundred Thousand Year Evil Eye Tyrant, and traveled to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. There, he learned a more efficient Body Sect qi and blood cultivation method and began helping the Saint Soul Grass undergo rebirth.

• Su Yu answered Xiao Fan and Xiao Ping's questions about soul engineering and Battle Armor Masters, then told Bai Feng that each soul master had to choose a path suited to their circumstances.
• Su Yu asked Kong Deming to help Xuan Ziwen hunt a Hundred Thousand Year Evil Eye Tyrant and planned to retrieve Saint Soul Grass for him.
• Su Yu encountered Kuang Tie in the Poisonous Miasma of Sunset Forest, where Kuang Tie was exploring and tempering himself with poison.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Su Yu observed two Body Sect soul masters using poison and bloodline power to temper their bodies, then developed a more efficient qi and blood cultivation method through trial and error.
• Su Yu asked Aromatic Silk Beauty for the Saint Soul Grass and began helping it undergo rebirth, but the grass objected when he accelerated its growth.

Su Yu helped the Saint Soul Grass grow a new body, gaining insight into the transformation of life and death, then traveled to the Evil Demon Forest to give Xuan Ziwen the herb. When the Evil Emperor’s Mental Power struck the forest, Su Yu endured the impacts and advanced his Mental Power to the tangible and substantial stage.

• The Saint Soul Grass accepted Su Yu’s help to regrow its body, and Su Yu used Ultimate Life to protect and nourish its separated soul until it adapted to the new body.
• Su Yu asked the Saint Soul Grass for a seed, collected seeds from several other herbs, and left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ten days later, Su Yu met Xuan Ziwen outside the Evil Demon Forest and gave him the Saint Soul Grass to consume before absorbing a Soul Ring.
• Su Yu stayed outside the forest as a powerful Mental Impact swept through the area, and he recognized it as the Evil Emperor’s attack.
• Su Yu used the Evil Emperor’s Mental Impacts to temper his Mental Power, which transformed into a blade of grass and reached the tangible and substantial stage.

Su Yu broke through to Tangible with Substance after Evil Emperor’s Mental Impact, while Kong Deming negotiated a century-long ban on humans entering the Evil Demon Forest. Back at Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe began arranging teams for the next Soul Fighting Tournament, including a Tang Sect lineup meant to face the Sun Moon Empire’s formidable contestants.

• Su Yu’s Mental Power broke through during the clash between Kong Deming and Evil Emperor, while Kong Deming’s defenses protected Xuan Ziwen and helped blunt Evil Emperor’s attack.
• Kong Deming threatened Evil Emperor with his fused battle armor and Martial Soul abilities, and Evil Emperor agreed to kill one human for every human who entered the Evil Demon Forest over the next hundred years.
• Evil Emperor warned his clan to stay away from humans, and Kong Deming left the forest with Xuan Ziwen after the confrontation ended.
• Su Yu sensed his new ability and preserved the dying Saint Soul Grass seed, while Kong Deming explained the danger of provoking Evil Emperor and the limits on hunting Evil Eye Clan soul beasts.
• Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe discussed Shrek’s tournament preparations and planned a Tang Sect team with Wang Dong, Ning Tian, Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, Jiang Nannan, Xiao Ya, and Bei Bei.
• Yan Shaozhe noted that Jiang Nannan’s Invincible Golden Body could counter the Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen Siblings’ Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but her joining the Tang Sect left Shrek’s own team without that defense.

After five months of cultivation in the Far North Land, Huo Yuhao returned to Ming Capital seeking a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, but the Evil Emperor’s hostility and Xu Tianran’s palace restrictions blocked his plans. Su Yu told him that a Natal Soul Ring was best condensed at the Seventh Ring, leaving Huo Yuhao torn over what to do about his Sixth Ring.

• Huo Yuhao transformed Ice Bear King Xiaobai into a Soul Spirit and left the Far North Land to seek a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring for his Spirit Eye.
• Jing Hongchen told Huo Yuhao that Evil Emperor’s rage and the closure of the Evil Demon Forest made hunting a hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant impossible for the foreseeable future.
• Xu Tianran ordered the guards to deny Huo Yuhao entry to the royal Back Mountain without a Grand Elder’s token, despite Jing Hongchen’s authorization.
• Jing Hongchen brought Huo Yuhao back to the palace, where Su Yu asked whether Huo Yuhao was certain he wanted to condense a Natal Soul Ring as the fourth ring of his Second Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao hesitated after Su Yu said the Seventh Ring was the best time to condense a Natal Soul Ring.

Su Yu gave Huo Yuhao an Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to strengthen his Second Martial Soul and explained how Soul Skills could be developed beyond a Soul Beast’s inherited abilities. Huo Yuhao absorbed the herb and worked with his Soul Spirits to condense two new Soul Rings, leaving his concealed configuration far stronger than the one he showed others.

• Su Yu offered Huo Yuhao an Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass as a Soul Spirit, and Huo Yuhao asked whether it could provide enough powerful Soul Skills for three Soul Rings.
• Su Yu explained that Soul Skills belonged to the Soul Master and could be developed, prompting Huo Yuhao to decide that his Soul Spirits would work together to condense Soul Rings.
• The Ice Empress offered to help Huo Yuhao control his Second Martial Soul’s origin, while Tian Meng reminded him that much of the Spirit Eye’s origin came from his awakened state.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass as Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming discussed battle armor domain technology with Su Yu.
• Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirits helped the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass condense his fifth and sixth Soul Rings, giving his Second Martial Soul a hidden configuration of one red, two orange, one red, and two orange Soul Rings.

Huo Yuhao learned that his Soul Power had reached Level Sixty-Nine and discussed whether to condense a Soul Core before breaking through to level seventy. Su Yu proposed using Super Battle Armor to help Soul Masters prepare for a Second Soul Core, while Huo Yuhao turned to improving his Battle Armor and Soul Engineer skills.

• Huo Yuhao discovered that, despite absorbing the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Ice Empress's sealed Soul Power, he had only reached Level Sixty-Nine.
• Ice Empress encouraged Huo Yuhao to absorb more of her sealed Soul Power, but Su Yu advised him to solidify his Soul Power and condense a Soul Core before advancing.
• Jing Hongchen explained Soul Cores, and Huo Yuhao realized that condensing one at level seventy would mean facing the challenge of a Second Soul Core at Level Ninety.
• Kong Deming learned that Su Yu had condensed a Soul Core, and Su Yu proposed a Virtual Second Soul Core built into Super Battle Armor to aid future breakthroughs.
• Huo Yuhao learned that preparing to condense a Soul Core required undisturbed cultivation, making a level seventy breakthrough before the tournament unlikely.
• Jing Hongchen told Huo Yuhao to improve his Soul Engineer skills and forge Intermediate Battle Armor, so Huo Yuhao resolved to consolidate his Seventh-Level abilities before attempting it.

Su Yu weighed the risks and possibilities of Soul Core cultivation, then watched Xu Tianran recruit Huo Yuhao into the military and advised him that Ju Zi might eventually command the army. Back at Illustrious Virtue Hall, Su Yu prepared to pursue Ninth-Level Soul Engineer rank and learned he would captain the selected Soul Fighting Tournament team as its intensive training began.

• Su Yu concluded that Virtual Soul Core Technology chiefly reduced the risks of forming a second Soul Core, and considered—but rejected—using Space Power to make three Soul Cores complement one another.
• Huo Yuhao and Jing Hongchen met Xu Tianran outside Back Mountain, where they saw that Ju Zi had become empress; Huo Yuhao struggled to contain his feelings.
• Xu Tianran praised Huo Yuhao and offered him command of the Royal Soul Engineer Legion after the Soul Fighting Tournament, and Su Yu signaled Huo Yuhao and Jing Hongchen to agree.
• Huo Yuhao questioned Su Yu's signal, and Su Yu explained that Ju Zi might command the military in the future and that joining it could give Huo Yuhao a chance to meet her.
• Su Yu returned to Illustrious Virtue Hall, encouraged Huo Yuhao to craft Soul Tools with Spiritual Metal, and set out to attempt Ninth-Level Soul Engineer work.
• Jing Hongchen assembled the fourteen selected tournament members, introduced the main team, and told them that intensive training would begin with Su Yu as captain.