Chapter Summaries

Su Xuan stood up for Tang San after Chief Steward Aude insulted him and tried to throw him out of Moonlight Pavilion. Su Xuan returned with his guards to confront Aude, while Su Xiaomei asked him to protect the pavilion from damage.

• Chief Steward Aude ordered Tang San removed from Moonlight Pavilion, and Su Xuan objected that Tang San was his friend.
• Aude released his Soul Emperor aura and threatened Su Xuan, while Tang San silently burned with anger and longed for power.
• Su Xuan led Tang San outside, and Su Xiaomei followed, promising that the Pavilion Master would punish Aude when she returned.
• Su Xuan summoned his guards and agreed with Su Xiaomei to avoid damaging Moonlight Pavilion as they went back inside.
• Su Xuan entered Moonlight Pavilion with his guards and criticized its owner for hiring a foolish chief steward.

Su Xuan called a meeting of Spirit Hall’s influential figures and warned them that the front lines were about to fall to the undead. After comparing intelligence, the attendees realized the Undead World’s forces were far stronger than they had understood.

• A young nobleman insulted Su Xuan and Bibi Dong, but Su Xuan confronted him and ordered Emma to take him to prison.
• Su Xuan told the gathered nobles that the undead were about to break through the front lines and invited them to exchange information.
• The nobles shared what they knew and learned that Soul Kings were among the weakest fighters in the other world, while even Titled Douluo might serve only as minor commanders.

Tang Yuehua learned that Tang Hao had died and initially suspected Su Xuan, but Tang San explained Su Xuan had helped him and defended his character. Su Xuan joined Tang Yuehua and the others for a meal at Moonlight Pavilion, where he discovered he had mistaken her name for Yuexuan.

• Tang San told Tang Yuehua that Tang Hao had died protecting him, and Tang Yuehua broke down in grief before suspecting Spirit Hall.
• Su Xuan identified himself as the Pope’s son and Spirit Hall’s Saint Son, while Tang San assured Tang Yuehua that Su Xuan had helped him and delivered Tang Hao’s belongings.
• Tang Yuehua apologized to Su Xuan after Tang San explained what had happened, then invited Tang San to stay and later return with her to acknowledge his ancestors.
• Su Xuan shamelessly asked Tang Yuehua to provide a meal, and Uncle De teased him about being attracted to her before Su Xuan threatened to cut his allowance.
• Su Xuan asked about Moonlight Pavilion and its etiquette lessons, then learned that the pavilion master’s name was Tang Yuehua, not Yuexuan.

Su Xuan endured the consequences of eating Zhu Zhuqing’s egg fried rice while the two grew closer. After recovering, they chose Treasure Mountain as their travel group’s destination to watch the sunset, leaving them to prepare for the trip.

• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Su Xuan for being part of her life, and he promised to eat all the egg fried rice she had made for him.
• Su Xuan ate the badly cooked meal and spent the next three days suffering alternating diarrhea and constipation.
• Su Xuan practiced Dao Scripture techniques, learned the Five Thunders True Scripture, and reached Soul Power level 22.
• Su Xuan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Wood Spirit discussed their travel destination, and Zhu Zhuqing suggested watching the sunset from Treasure Mountain near Star Luo City.
• Su Xuan proposed preparing hiking gear, but Wood Spirit questioned whether Soul Masters needed it, sparking an argument as Zhu Zhuqing looked forward to the trip.

Su Xuan and Wood Spirit became trapped in a foggy forest they suspected was a Ghost Wall, and none of Su Xuan’s powers or cheats could help them escape. As Su Xuan began preparing a formation against an approaching threat, countless red-eyed Fierce Souls appeared, revealing that they had stumbled into a nest.

• Su Xuan and Wood Spirit marked their path through the fog but found themselves circling back to their first marker.
• Su Xuan sought help from the Dao Scripture, then considered his other powers and cheats, but none offered a solution.
• Su Xuan grew increasingly frustrated as he worried that danger and the continent’s great clans were closing in.
• A cold gust triggered Su Xuan and Wood Spirit’s spiritual senses, and the two prepared to face an approaching threat.
• Wood Spirit raised a green shield while Su Xuan began setting up a yang-aligned formation against a Fierce Soul.
• A red-eyed Fierce Soul struck Wood Spirit’s shield without harming it, and countless more red eyes appeared throughout the forest.

Su Xuan began the second Sea God trial, which required him to cross the Ring Sea without using Soul Skills or killing any Sea Soul Beasts. As over a hundred arrowfish surrounded him underwater, he used a puppet as a decoy and fled through the Land of No Dust.

• Seven streaks of golden light converged above the Sea God Temple, and a golden barrier appeared over the Ring Sea as Su Xuan's second trial began.
• Su Xuan read the trial conditions and entered the Ring Sea, where the water slowed his movements, drained his Soul Power, and hindered his Spiritual Power detection.
• More than a hundred arrowfish surrounded Su Xuan and formed a net of Soul Power, resisting his Dragon Might Domain.
• Su Xuan provoked the arrowfish, left behind a realistic puppet, and escaped at top speed through the Land of No Dust.

After Emperor Xue Ye died, Qian Renxue prepared to secure the Heaven Dou throne by eliminating rivals and dealing with nobles who opposed her. Ning Fengzhi confronted her in the Crown Prince's Palace and revealed that he knew she was not Xue Qinghe and suspected she had increased the poison dose.

• Emma rushed to Su Xuan and reported that Emperor Xue Ye had died, while Su Xuan recognized the death as the start of the struggle for Heaven Dou's throne.
• Qian Renxue feigned grief beside Emperor Xue Ye's body, then dismissed her subordinates and resolved to kill Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing before the enthronement ceremony.
• As news of the emperor's death spread, Qian Renxue learned that Ning Fengzhi had come to see her and received him in the Crown Prince's Palace.
• Ning Fengzhi asked what he should call Qian Renxue and explained that he had concluded she was not Xue Qinghe because Emperor Xue Ye could not have died that day without an increased poison dose.
• Qian Renxue praised Ning Fengzhi for seeing through her, and Ning Fengzhi realized he could no longer understand his former student.

Su Xuan asked the Ice Empress to join his war, and she agreed on the condition that soul beasts would not be treated as disposable cannon fodder. He proposed that the rulers of the Extreme North pursue godhood by using their bodies as divine sparks, leaving the Ice Empress and Xiaobai to consider his plan.

• The Ice Empress agreed to fight alongside Su Xuan if he protected soul beasts from being sacrificed by their own commanders.
• The Ice Empress revealed her connection to the dragon clan and the Old Dragon God, while Xiaobai warned that confronting a supreme deity was beyond their power.
• Su Xuan suggested that the Ice Empress and Xiaobai use their faith to pursue godhood and said his research institute had overcome the obstacle of creating divine sparks.
• Su Xuan explained his Seed of the Self plan, which used the body itself as a vessel and engine for divine power.
• Su Xuan said that several ferocious beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest had already chosen to join the Seed of the Self plan.

Su Xuan easily climbed the Sea God's staircase and passed his first Sea God trial, gaining five percent affinity. Bo Saixi warned him that his second trial had begun and offered him a chance to enter the Sea God Temple by defeating her, while Su Xuan chose to remain low-key.

• Su Xuan used his Five-Clawed Golden Dragon bloodline to resist the Sea God's Light and steadily climbed the staircase.
• Bo Saixi watched Su Xuan's progress and left after recognizing that the trial was easy for him.
• Su Xuan used a Dao Sect enhancement talisman and reached the summit, passing the first trial and raising his Sea God affinity to five percent.
• Bo Saixi told Su Xuan that his second trial's one-year timer had begun and warned that the remaining trials would be harder.
• Su Xuan asked to enter the Sea God Temple, and Bo Saixi said he could do so by defeating her, which would count as completing the first six trials.
• Su Xuan considered challenging Bo Saixi but decided there was no need, leaving her unsettled by his confidence.

Su Xuan settled his group into a new home in Suotuo City while Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing arrived at the shabby Shrek Academy to enroll. Their first glimpse of registration revealed strict rules, a nonrefundable fee, and a confrontation with Dai Mobai.

• Su Xuan reflected on the Dao Scripture's order to visit Shrek Academy while Gu Yuena, Emma, and Cat Nanbei settled into his new property.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing reached Shrek Academy and were surprised by its rundown village entrance.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing joined a long line of applicants, many of whom doubted the academy's reputation.
• The old man rejected a boy who had turned thirteen and refused to refund his family's registration fee.
• The boy's father protested, and the old man called Dai Mobai over to deal with him.

Su Xuan and Tang Yuehua shared tea and music at Moonlight Pavilion, joking about her melodramatic romance novels and their closeness. After Tang Yuehua played for him, she earnestly asked Su Xuan to perform a piece together.

• Tang Yuehua teased Su Xuan with romantic lines she had picked up from the novels on the MP4 he gave her.
• Tang Yuehua reflected privately that the novels' love story resembled her hopes for a future with Su Xuan.
• Su Xuan and Tang Yuehua sat together, and he offered to make tea while she played her violin.
• Su Xuan praised Tang Yuehua's performance, and she teased him about sweet-talking pretty women.
• Tang Yuehua asked Su Xuan to perform a piece with her.

Su Xuan inherited the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon bloodline, gaining two powerful innate Soul Rings and learning of its potential and the dangers of destiny’s backlash. After Green Spirit refined the Golden Dragon King bloodline, he began to tell Su Xuan about Taoism’s principle of entering the secular world.

• The Wood Spirit explained the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon’s compatibility with Su Xuan’s destiny and warned him about heavenly punishment before Su Xuan chose it.
• The Wood Spirit invoked Jianmu’s authority, and the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon emerged from Su Xuan before returning to his body.
• Su Xuan asked the Wood Spirit to give the enraged Golden Dragon King bloodline to his sister, and the Wood Spirit agreed to purify it.
• Su Xuan explored his new bloodline and learned that it granted Innate Full Soul Power at level 20, Dragon Might Domain, and Power of Heaven and Earth.
• Green Spirit finished refining the Golden Dragon King bloodline, and he asked Su Xuan whether he had heard of Taoism’s principle of entering the secular world.

Su Xuan gave Emma the same highest authority he held and reassured her that he trusted her. He then met Wood Spirit on a rooftop and decided it was time to set up the valley, trusting the Great Prophecy Technique to keep their plan safe.

• Su Xuan made Emma his equal in authority, and she promised she would not betray him.
• Su Xuan teased Emma about calling him “hubby” after the war.
• Wood Spirit asked Su Xuan what he had learned from watching the clouds, and Su Xuan joked that it would rain tomorrow.
• Su Xuan reminded Wood Spirit that the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon suppressed fortune, leaving Wood Spirit embarrassed about showing off.
• Su Xuan told Wood Spirit it was time to set up the valley, and Wood Spirit worried that an attack could ruin their efforts.
• Su Xuan said the Great Prophecy Technique could not be countered by that world and explained that brutal invasions of owned worlds were forbidden.

Su Xuan and Emma reached the waters near Sea God Island after Jixiang warned them about its hundred-thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Shark guardian and the surrounding sharks. Su Xuan sent Jixiang away with the Purple Pearl and prepared to continue toward the island by lifeboat.

• Jixiang explained that Sea God Island was guarded by a hundred-thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Shark and hundreds of others, making the surrounding waters dangerous to cross.
• Jixiang said a group of land-based Soul Masters had reached the island twenty years earlier only because the sharks were away on a three-day hunt.
• Su Xuan dismissed the need to rely on luck and told Jixiang to lower a lifeboat and leave with the Purple Pearl.
• Su Xuan warned Jixiang not to commit crimes or he would lose everything he had received.
• Jixiang bowed to Su Xuan, gave him a final look, and departed.

Su Xuan used his formation-backed powers to fight the Evil Eye Saint King, injuring him and then evading his attacks while wearing him down. Bibi Dong kept the Asura God from joining the battle as the fight continued.

• Su Xuan taunted the Evil Eye Saint King, who attacked him from behind with a soul-stunning roar.
• Su Xuan reflected the roar with a Dao Sect soul-protection art, then struck through the Evil Eye Saint King’s abdomen with a lightning-charged fist.
• The Asura God confronted Bibi Dong, but she dismissed him, and he chose to observe rather than risk fighting her.
• Su Xuan evaded the Evil Eye Saint King’s attacks with help from the Power of Heaven and Earth and gradually accumulated injuries on him.

Su Xuan searched Nuoding City for Xiao Wu and learned she had left with Tang San, so he hurried toward Holy Soul Village. Meanwhile, the God of Destruction confronted Tang Hao, who vowed to protect his son, and threatened to kill them all.

• Su Xuan found no trace of the God of Destruction's power in Nuoding City and went to Yu Xiaogang's cottage to ask about Xiao Wu.
• Yu Xiaogang said Xiao Wu had left the city with Tang San the previous day and suggested Tang San lived in Holy Soul Village.
• Su Xuan questioned a Spirit Hall branch and found Su Yuntao, who agreed to guide him to Holy Soul Village after confirming Tang San's name.
• Su Xuan set out with Su Yuntao and noticed a purple-black figure in the clouds.
• Tang Hao confronted the God of Destruction and vowed to protect his son, and the God of Destruction threatened to kill them all.

Su Xuan brought the group into Shrek Academy, where he faced Zhao Wuji and arranged for the students to take the combat test. After the students won, Su Xuan confronted Dean Flender over his threats against Su Xuan’s family, and Uncle De prepared to attack him.

• Su Xuan fooled a teacher at the second checkpoint and led the group deeper into the academy.
• Su Xuan faced Zhao Wuji in an aura clash and persuaded him to test the students’ combat ability.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing worked together to outlast Zhao Wuji and win the test.
• Flender approached Su Xuan, questioned why he had come to Shrek Academy, and threatened him not to harm the students.
• Su Xuan reacted coldly when Flender threatened his family and told Uncle De to leave Flender half alive.

After witnessing the slaughter of ordinary soldiers, Su Xuan gained insight into the powerlessness of the weak and resolved to pass on humanity’s Core Flame. He deciphered the Taiqing Yuandao True Scripture, asked the Dao Scripture for advanced technology, and named the force he planned to establish Core Flame.

• Su Xuan and Wood Spirit observed the Heaven Dou Empire’s battlefield, where surviving soldiers buried and burned their fallen companions, before returning to the cave.
• Su Xuan told Zhu Zhuqing he would enter seclusion, then opened the Wordless Heavenly Book and reflected on the soldiers’ deaths and the strong’s control over the weak.
• Su Xuan resolved to share power with ordinary people and pass on humanity’s inheritance, then read the words Taiqing Yuandao True Scripture on the book.
• Su Xuan asked the Dao Scripture for technology from more advanced worlds so he could help ordinary people resist entrenched classes, and the Dao Scripture agreed to provide it.
• Su Xuan named the force he intended to establish Core Flame, after humanity’s ancient tradition of discovering and passing on fire.

Su Xuan and Xiaobai approached the Evil Spirit Orcas, with Su Xuan using Spiritual Power fused into the seawater to detect the enemies without alerting them. After identifying the Evil Orca King and the size of its group, they began moving closer to gather more information.

• Su Xuan adapted to the deep-sea pressure as Xiaobai guided him to the waters beneath the Evil Spirit Orcas.
• Su Xuan sent his Spiritual Power into Xiaobai, letting them share clear detection of the surrounding sea without revealing themselves.
• Xiaobai realized Su Xuan's Spiritual Power was close to the divine level and greater than that of the Evil Orca King.
• Su Xuan detected roughly two or three hundred Evil Spirit Orcas, including the enormous Evil Orca King at their center.
• Su Xuan told Xiaobai to ascend slowly and avoid disturbing the water, and she began guiding them upward.

Gu Yuena, Zhu Zhuqing, and Hu Liena woke late in their carriage and turned their playful teasing into an all-out mock battle. They discovered they had arrived two shichen earlier and Su Xuan had already left, so they decided to return to playing cards.

• Gu Yuena struggled free from the girls’ tangled sleeping position, dressed, and woke Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena by tickling them.
• Hu Liena attacked Zhu Zhuqing, and Gu Yuena joined in, turning their teasing into a three-way battle.
• Hu Liena and Gu Yuena tried to persuade Zhu Zhuqing to help defeat the other, but Zhu Zhuqing grabbed one of each girl’s breasts before the two teamed up against her.
• Gu Yuena stopped Hu Liena from continuing to tease Zhu Zhuqing, and the girls got dressed and left the carriage.
• Ghost Douluo told the girls they had arrived two shichen earlier and that Su Xuan had left an hour and a half ago, so they decided to go back and play cards.