Chapter Summaries

After three days of torture, Dai Mubai was sentenced to public execution in Heaven Dou City, while Flender and the others learned they had little power to save him. The chapter left Oscar and Ma Hongjun facing the likelihood that Dai Mubai would die in three days.

• Xue Xing reported Dai Mubai’s condition to Xue Ye, who approved a public execution outside Heaven Dou City three days later.
• Xue Xing spread the execution announcement, and people throughout Heaven Dou City discussed Dai Mubai’s torture and impending death.
• At Blue Tyrant Academy, Flender reflected that he had taught young people to value boldness without enough restraint, while Zhao Wuji mourned Dai Mubai’s fate.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun rushed to Flender and Zhao Wuji, begging them to save Dai Mubai.
• Flender told Oscar and Ma Hongjun that Dai Mubai was the Star Luo Empire’s Third Prince and that even his father had abandoned him as a bargaining chip, leaving Flender unable to challenge the Tiandou Imperial Family.

Dai Mubai was abandoned by the Star Luo Empire and brought to Heaven Dou City for public execution. As Flender, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun watched helplessly, Dai Mubai was beheaded.

• Oscar and Ma Hongjun learned that neither the Tiandou Imperial Family nor the Star Luo Empire would save Dai Mubai, and they could only wait for his execution.
• Flender, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun gathered at the execution ground as Xue Ye, Xue Qinghe, and Xue Xing arrived with Dai Mubai in a prison wagon.
• The guards dragged Dai Mubai onto the platform, where Xue Xing publicly accused him of killing Xue Beng and announced his sentence.
• Xue Xing ordered the execution, and the executioner beheaded Dai Mubai.

After Dai Mubai’s death, Flender and Zhao Wuji honored him with a symbolic grave while Su Yu and his companions continued cultivating. Ning Rongrong persuaded Su Yu to attend the Heaven Dou Auction House’s large auction, and the group arrived to register for entry.

• Flender and Zhao Wuji erected a symbolic tombstone for Dai Mubai and mourned him at a secluded hillside outside Heaven Dou City.
• Ma Hongjun and Oscar recovered from their grief and resumed cultivation.
• Su Yu broke through to Level 60, absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, reached Level 64, and gained the sixth soul skill Four Symbols Array: Fusion.
• Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Zhu Qing, and Dugu Yan made progress in their cultivation, and Zhu Qing obtained her Fourth Soul Ring.
• Ning Rongrong persuaded Su Yu to accompany her, Zhu Qing, Dugu Yan, and Xiao Wu to the Heaven Dou Auction House.
• The group arrived without a reservation, and a greeter led them to the registration counter and introduced them to Sister Hua.

Su Yu and the others entered the auction house, where he spotted Tang San among the guests before the bidding began. The first item was revealed as Tang San’s poisoned Hidden Weapon, Sand Ejection, and the auction opened with a starting price of ten thousand soul coins.

• Sister Hua verified Su Yu’s Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect savings card and allowed the group into the auction house.
• An attendant led Su Yu and the others to a private room, then flirted with Su Yu before leaving.
• Su Yu noticed Tang San sitting alone in the auction hall and inferred that he had come as a seller.
• The auction began, and the host introduced Sand Ejection, a Hidden Weapon that could shoot thirty-six poisoned needles.
• The host opened bidding for Sand Ejection at ten thousand soul coins, with minimum increases of two thousand Gold Soul Coins.

At the auction, a mysterious young girl with pale green feline ears was revealed as a high-priced lot, drawing the crowd’s shock and greedy attention. The host exposed the girl’s face, while her fate remained in the bidders’ hands.

• Ning Rongrong questioned the value of the Sand Ejection tubes, which a noble bought for one hundred and fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• The host introduced a mysterious lot with a starting price of one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and teased the audience about its nature.
• The host removed the red cloth to reveal a frightened young girl in an iron cage, dressed in only a few strips of cloth.
• The host touched the girl’s head with a stick, revealing her pale green feline ears, then lifted her chin to show her face.

Su Yu and the others saw a Cat Girl being auctioned and decided to rescue her. Su Yu outbid Prince Xue Xing for two million Gold Soul Coins, and the chapter ended with a knock at their private-room door as Ning Rongrong feared the prince had sent assassins.

• The auction host revealed that the captive girl was a rare half-beast Cat Girl and invited bids for her.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Qing, and Dugu Yan urged Su Yu to help the girl, and Su Yu agreed.
• Su Yu bid eight hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, then Prince Xue Xing announced his identity and offered one million.
• Su Yu raised his bid to two million, outbidding Prince Xue Xing, who stopped bidding in anger.
• Su Yu instructed an attendant to complete the purchase and bring the Cat Girl to the room.
• Someone knocked at the private-room door, and Ning Rongrong worried that Prince Xue Xing had sent people to kill them.

Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo joined Su Yu and the others in the private room, where they helped welcome the frightened girl Su Yu had purchased at the auction. After the girl was freed from her cage and given clothes, she began to feel safer among them.

• Ning Rongrong insisted on accompanying Su Yu to the door, where they found Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo instead of Prince Xue Xing.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that he and Bone Douluo had come after hearing Su Yu's voice, and Bone Douluo praised Su Yu for standing up to Xue Xing.
• The attendants delivered the covered cage containing the auctioned girl, and Su Yu lifted the cloth to reveal her inside.
• Su Yu and the others gave the girl privacy while Zhu Qing and Ning Rongrong unlocked her cage and removed her shackles.
• Zhu Qing showed the girl her cat ears and tail, helping her feel safe enough to leave the cage and change into new clothes.

Ning Rongrong named the rescued Cat Girl Green Vine, while the auction’s final item turned out to be a thirty-thousand-year-old Icefield Wolf King right leg Soul Bone. Prince Xue Xing bid for it, but competing clans drove the price higher.

• Ning Rongrong gave the frightened Cat Girl the name Green Vine, and Su Yu asked the others to let her rest.
• The auction host unveiled its final treasure: a thirty-thousand-year-old Icefield Wolf King right leg Soul Bone.
• Ning Fengzhi decided the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had no use for the ice-attribute Soul Bone and did not bid.
• Prince Xue Xing bid twelve million Gold Soul Coins, hoping to acquire the Soul Bone for an ice-attribute Soul Douluo under his command.
• Other bidders pushed the price beyond eighteen million Gold Soul Coins, and Xue Xing grew furious as the bidding continued.

Prince Xue Xing won the thirty-thousand-year Soul Bone auction for twenty million Gold Soul Coins, then sent guards to confront Su Yu and the others over their purchase of Green Vine. When he arrived and recognized Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo, he backed down and agreed to let the matter go.

• Prince Xue Xing outbid everyone for the Soul Bone with twenty million Gold Soul Coins, ending the auction.
• Ning Rongrong questioned Xue Xing's outburst, and Ning Fengzhi explained that the prince had been angered by repeated setbacks.
• As Su Yu and the others prepared to leave, Xue Xing's guards threatened them and tried to force open their private room's door.
• Bone Douluo's pressure frightened the guards, and Su Yu said Xue Xing should address the dispute himself rather than send subordinates.
• Prince Xue Xing arrived with a fawning guard, but recognized Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo and withdrew his threat, letting the matter go for Ning Fengzhi's sake.

Su Yu and the others brought Green Vine to Blue Tyrant Academy, where they discovered she had level-nine Innate Soul Power despite her incomplete Martial Soul awakening. After Su Yu taught her to control her Soul Power, she hid her ears and tail, but he left her Martial Soul’s nature unexplained, calling it a special new Martial Soul.

• Ning Fengzhi warned Ning Rongrong that Prince Xue Xing had considerable influence, and the group left the auction house.
• Green Vine told Su Yu and the others how she had been abandoned, captured, and sold after her Martial Soul awakening made her half-beast.
• Green Vine’s Soul Power test crystal shone with the light of level-nine Innate Soul Power, surprising everyone.
• Su Yu examined Green Vine’s Soul Power and learned she had never been taught to use it.
• Su Yu taught Green Vine to control her Soul Power, allowing her to make her ears and tail disappear.
• Su Yu said Green Vine’s Martial Soul was likely a special new Martial Soul.

Su Yu encouraged Green Vine to cultivate after identifying her Cat Girl Martial Soul as a beneficial mutation, then went to Moonlight Pavilion to seek Tang Yuehua and recruit the Four Single-Attribute Families. He met Manager Ode and asked whether the Pavilion Master was available.

• Su Yu explained that Green Vine's Cat Girl Martial Soul was likely a beneficial mutation and that her Rank Nine Innate Soul Power gave her the potential to become a Titled Douluo.
• Zhu Qing and Ning Rongrong encouraged Green Vine to cultivate, and Su Yu's group completed her enrollment at Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Su Yu set out for Moonlight Pavilion, hoping to use Tang Yuehua's identity to recruit the Four Single-Attribute Families into Xuan Yu Pavilion.
• Su Yu entered Moonlight Pavilion and exchanged formal greetings with Manager Ode.
• Su Yu told Ode he had come to see the Pavilion Master and asked whether she had any appointments.

Su Yu reunited with Tang Yuehua at the Moonlight Pavilion and confessed that he wanted to marry her. Tang Yuehua accepted the idea of becoming his wife, but their teasing revealed that Su Yu had other women as well.

• Ode escorted Su Yu to Tang Yuehua's quiet room at the Moonlight Pavilion.
• Tang Yuehua reproached Su Yu for leaving without writing after he had kissed her and promised to take responsibility for her.
• Su Yu said he intended to propose to Tang Yuehua, and she questioned whether he also planned to marry Rongrong.
• Su Yu pulled Tang Yuehua onto his lap and kissed her, but she stopped his wandering hand.
• Tang Yuehua said she would not be his concubine, and Su Yu declared that she and Rongrong were both his wives.
• Tang Yuehua tugged Su Yu's ear when he revealed that he had provoked other women, then softened and released him.

Su Yu asked Tang Yuehua to help recruit the Four Single-Attribute Families under her name, and she agreed despite worrying that they might resent the Clear Sky Sect’s past abandonment. They traveled to Longxing City and arrived at the Defense Clan’s headquarters, where its disciples saw Tang Yuehua step from the carriage.

• Su Yu asked Tang Yuehua to help him recruit the Four Single-Attribute Families, and she doubted they would accept her because of her standing in the Clear Sky Sect.
• Su Yu assured Tang Yuehua that he would defend her, and she agreed to help while asking him not to be too harsh if the families held a grudge.
• Su Yu and Tang Yuehua traveled by carriage to Longxing City, where the Defense Clan had established its headquarters.
• Tang Yuehua stepped down from the carriage at the Defense Clan’s residence, and the waiting disciples stared at her in astonishment.

Tang Yuehua visited Niu Gao at the Defense Clan estate with Su Yu, hoping to speak with him about the hardships the Four Great Clans had endured. Niu Gao welcomed her but made clear that the Defense Clan had no desire to return to the Clear Sky Sect, leaving Tang Yuehua to address his suspicion about her purpose.

• Tang Yuehua asked the Defense Clan's disciples to announce her visit to Niu Gao, who came out to greet her.
• Niu Gao led Tang Yuehua and Su Yu into the main hall, where he studied Su Yu and asked who he was.
• Tang Yuehua called Su Yu a little rascal, and Su Yu introduced himself as her future husband.
• Tang Yuehua apologized to Niu Gao for the trouble her older brothers had caused the Four Great Clans.
• Niu Gao said the Defense Clan had gained freedom after leaving the Clear Sky Sect and did not want to revisit the past, while Tang Yuehua realized he suspected she had come to urge them to return.

Su Yu and Tang Yuehua invited Niu Gao to bring the Defense Clan into Xuan Yu Pavilion, and Su Yu revealed the force’s assassination and commerce divisions. Niu Gao agreed to join under Tang Yuehua if Su Yu could defeat him, and the battle began with Su Yu summoning four swords.

• Su Yu told Niu Gao that he had come to recruit the Defense Clan for Xuan Yu Pavilion, not to return them to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Su Yu identified the Heavenly Dragon Dart as Xuan Yu Pavilion’s assassination token and explained that the Heavenly Clothes Pavilion represented its commercial division; Tang Yuehua confirmed the business’s success.
• Su Yu offered the Defense Clan stable financial support and protection from Spirit Hall, while allowing Niu Gao to submit to Tang Yuehua instead of Su Yu.
• Niu Gao agreed to lead the Defense Clan in serving Xuan Yu Pavilion if Su Yu defeated him, and he challenged Su Yu to break through his defenses.
• Niu Gao revealed his level eighty-four Armored Giant Rhinoceros Martial Soul and eight Soul Rings, while Su Yu summoned the Immortal Slaying Sword, Killing Immortal Sword, Immortal Severing Sword, and Immortal Trapping Sword.

Su Yu revealed six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and challenged Niu Gao, then used his Immortal Swords’ skills to break through Niu Gao’s defenses and trap him under a storm of flying swords. Niu Gao unleashed his Sixth Soul Skill, Berserk Rhinoceros, as the battle continued.

• Su Yu summoned four Immortal Swords and revealed six red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, shocking the Defense Clan disciples and Niu Gao.
• Su Yu asked Niu Gao to test him, and Niu Gao activated his Fourth Soul Skill, Giant Rhinoceros Body Protection.
• Su Yu struck Niu Gao with the Immortal Slaying Sword, forcing him back half a step, and used his Fifth Soul Skill to erase the armor on Niu Gao’s arm and leave a sword-shaped mark.
• Su Yu used his Demon Slaying Barrier to increase gravity and trap Niu Gao beneath a relentless rain of flying swords, leaving him bloodied and struggling to defend himself.
• Niu Gao roared and activated his Sixth Soul Skill, Berserk Rhinoceros, swelling in size and strengthening his armor.

Su Yu defeated Niu Gao in a duel, and Niu Gao pledged the Defense Clan’s allegiance to Tang Yuehua and Jiejiao. With the clan accepting Tang Yuehua as its leader, Su Yu proposed inviting the other three Single-Attribute Families to join them.

• Su Yu fused his flying swords into a giant Demon Slaying Sword and struck Niu Gao, who charged into the attack and suffered a serious shoulder wound.
• Niu Gao acknowledged Su Yu’s strength, accepted defeat, and swore to lead the Defense Clan in submitting to Tang Yuehua and Jiejiao.
• The Defense Clan’s disciples knelt and pledged their allegiance, and Tang Yuehua urged them to work together to build Jiejiao into a major force.
• Su Yu praised Tang Yuehua’s leadership and promised that Jiejiao would support the Defense Clan’s development.
• Su Yu asked Niu Gao whether the other three Single-Attribute Families might also join Jiejiao.

Su Yu stayed with the Defense Clan until the Four Great Clans’ annual gathering, hoping to bring the Speed, Breaking, and Strength Clans under his influence. At the gathering, he met the clans’ young talents, and Tailong was shocked to learn that Niu Pai called Su Yu his Master.

• Niu Gao invited Su Yu and Tang Yuehua to stay with the Defense Clan until the other Clan Leaders arrived for the annual gathering.
• Niu Ben told Su Yu that the other three Clan Leaders were meeting with Niu Gao, while their younger members had gathered at the training grounds.
• Bai Chenxiang complained about the annual gathering and became curious when she noticed Su Yu watching the young clansmen.
• Tailong recognized Su Yu as the man who had defeated him at Blue Tyrant Academy and proudly told the others that Su Yu was his boss.
• Niu Pai greeted Su Yu as his Master, leaving Tailong, Bai Chenxiang, and Yang Wu surprised.

Su Yu challenged Bai Chenxiang to a speed contest, wagering a ten-thousand-year Soul Bone against one of her Twin Fish Jade Pendants. The race was set to cover ten li to Longxing City's gate and back, and Su Yu offered Bai Chenxiang a five-minute head start as the contest began to take shape.

• Niu Pai told Tailong and the gathered clans that the Defense Clan had submitted to Su Yu through Yuehua.
• Bai Chenxiang challenged Su Yu to a speed contest, and Su Yu offered a twenty-thousand-year Sharp-beaked Swallow Right Leg Bone as the prize.
• Su Yu asked for one of Bai Chenxiang's Twin Fish Jade Pendants as his stake, and she agreed.
• Su Yu proposed a ten-li round trip to Longxing City's gate, and Bai Chenxiang accepted, wagering that the Speed Clan's ability surpassed ordinary people.
• Su Yu offered Bai Chenxiang a five-minute head start, and she accepted, determined to see how he would catch her.

Su Yu used the Immortal Slaying Sword to fly past Bai Chenxiang and beat her to Longxing City’s gates, then returned to the training ground before she could make the round trip. Bai Chenxiang arrived exhausted, admitted defeat, and left Su Yu’s speed on display before the Defense Clan’s disciples.

• Bai Chenxiang set off for Longxing City with a five-minute head start while Tailong started the timer.
• After the five minutes passed, Su Yu rode the Immortal Slaying Sword through the air, astonishing the disciples with his speed.
• Near the city gates, Bai Chenxiang discovered Su Yu had caught up and accused him of cheating, but he pointed out that they had both used their Martial Souls.
• Su Yu flew back to the training ground in less than a minute, leaving Niu Pai and the disciples stunned.
• Bai Chenxiang returned several minutes later, exhausted, and told the group that she had lost.