Chapter Summaries

Su Yuntian reunited with Ning Rongrong at the Crown Prince's Mansion, where she demanded revenge for a humiliation from two years earlier. Xue Qinghe proposed a fight between Su Yuntian, Ning Rongrong, and Ning Fengya, and the chapter ended as Ning Rongrong and Su Yuntian revealed their martial abilities.

• Ning Rongrong recognized Su Yuntian and angrily confronted him, while he pretended not to know her and greeted Ning Fengya instead.
• Xue Qinghe arrived with Ning Fengzhi, and Ning Rongrong complained to her father about Su Yuntian's past treatment of her.
• Su Yuntian apologized, but Ning Fengzhi left the matter to Ning Rongrong, and Xue Qinghe suggested they settle it with a fight.
• Ning Fengya questioned the fairness of a two-on-one fight against Su Yuntian, who was only level 19 while the siblings were level 22.
• Ning Rongrong summoned her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and threatened Su Yuntian, who revealed his Aether Gates and prepared to fight.

Su Yuntian used the Gate of Babylon to keep Ning Rongrong at a distance while she and Ning Fengya tried to close in on him. After Ning Fengya revealed his Frosty Blade Soul Skill, Su Yuntian baited him into using it and unleashed a barrage of weapons at the siblings.

• Ning Rongrong charged at Su Yuntian, but he repeatedly fired weapons that forced her to change direction and kept her circling out of reach.
• Ning Fengya joined the fight and warned Ning Rongrong to conserve her Soul Power, but she continued charging recklessly.
• Ning Fengya used his Black Tower to shield them from Su Yuntian's ordinary weapons as the siblings advanced together.
• Su Yuntian used Blink to appear behind the siblings, but Ning Fengya anticipated him and struck him back with Frosty Blade.
• Su Yuntian pretended to approach Ning Rongrong, baited Ning Fengya into missing with Frosty Blade, and opened eight Aether Gates to bombard the siblings.

Su Yuntian defeated Ning Fengya and Ning Rongrong in a two-on-one Soul Battle at the Crown Prince’s Mansion, leaving Ning Rongrong humiliated and furious. As Ning Fengzhi praised Su Yuntian and Ning Rongrong sought comfort from Sword Douluo Chen Xin, Su Yuntian sensed danger and wandered toward the kitchen.

• Ning Fengya used Draw Ground as Prison to shield Ning Rongrong, but Su Yuntian struck him with another barrage of thrown eggs once the Soul Skill ended.
• Ning Rongrong charged Su Yuntian with her strength and speed auras active, but his eight eggs hit her and ended the Soul Battle.
• Ning Fengzhi applauded Su Yuntian’s victory, and Ning Rongrong cried, blamed her father and everyone else, and ran from the courtyard.
• Ning Fengya accepted blame and went to retrieve Ning Rongrong while Ning Fengzhi reassured Su Yuntian that he had done nothing wrong.
• Sword Douluo Chen Xin comforted Ning Rongrong and promised to beat up Su Yuntian, though he also recognized the youth’s potential.
• Su Yuntian accompanied Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi through the garden, sensed someone watching him, and eventually wandered near the kitchen.

Su Yuntian attended a family banquet with Ning Fengzhi and his family, while Xue Xing discovered that two princes had died from the same chronic poison. Xue Xing began to suspect Xue Qinghe, who had benefited most from their deaths.

• Su Yuntian told Da Xue that Ning Fengzhi had visited, but she insisted that Xue Qinghe mattered most to her and hinted at having waited six years.
• Xue Qinghe hosted Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Ning Fengya, and Ning Rongrong at a family banquet, where Ning Fengya befriended Su Yuntian and Ning Rongrong threatened him.
• Xue Qinghe teased Su Yuntian about Ning Rongrong and Da Xue as they saw the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect guests off.
• Xue Xing compared the autopsy reports for Xue Haicang and Xue Luochuan and learned that both had died from chronic poison.
• Xue Xing recalled that Xue Qinghe had benefited most from the princes' deaths and wondered if his nephew had arranged the poisonings.

Prince Xue Xing concealed his suspicions about Xue Qinghe and tried to protect Xue Beng by raising him as a wastrel, while Qian Renxue worried that Xue Xing suspected her. Unable to sleep, Su Yuntian went to the rear garden and found Crown Prince Xue Qinghe already waiting in a pavilion.

• Prince Xue Xing burned the princes’ autopsy reports and decided to protect Xue Beng by making him appear frivolous.
• Prince Xue Xing spent a month taking Xue Beng to new amusements, and Emperor Xue Ye ignored the teachers’ complaint and later memorials against his brother.
• Salas and Xue Qinghe received reports about Xue Ye’s response, and Qian Renxue privately wondered whether choosing the Pope’s Palace’s orders over Xiao Tian’s advice had been a mistake.
• Su Yuntian lay awake thinking about the attack on the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch Hall, Elder Ma Xiunuo’s death, and the disappearance of his brother, Su Yuntao.
• Su Yuntian went to the rear garden and found Crown Prince Xue Qinghe sitting in the pavilion.

Su Yuntian and Qian Renxue talked late into the night about their ambitions and the burdens they carried. Qian Renxue was unsettled by Su Yuntian’s apparent understanding of her loneliness and wanted to flee his tenderness.

• Su Yuntian joined Xue Qinghe in the pavilion and praised the bearing and gaze of the person behind Xue Qinghe’s disguise.
• Su Yuntian said he wanted enough strength to protect himself and those he loved while living freely.
• Qian Renxue challenged Su Yuntian’s wish to enjoy freedom and protection without accepting obligations, then admitted she did not know what she wanted.
• Su Yuntian reflected on Qian Renxue’s lonely upbringing and wondered whether his own desire to live for himself was selfish.
• Qian Renxue read understanding and tenderness in Su Yuntian’s gaze, became afraid he might know her identity, and wanted to escape him.

Su Yuntian rode through heavy snow to keep his appointment with Ning Fengya at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed his potential and political ties. He arrived and confronted Ning Rongrong, who had threatened to break his legs, leaving her hiding behind a table as he joked that he had come to break hers.

• Su Yuntian left Heaven Dou City in winter to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as promised to Ning Fengya.
• Ning Fengya waited in the snow at the sect gate despite Ning Rongrong urging him to return indoors.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin discussed Su Yuntian's potential and his connection to the Crown Prince.
• Su Yuntian arrived on horseback, and Ning Fengya welcomed him into the sect's warm pavilion.
• Su Yuntian teased Ning Rongrong about her threat to break his legs, and she hid behind a table, telling him not to come closer.

Su Yuntian encouraged Ning Fengya to see the potential in his mutated Black Tower Martial Soul, and the two parted as close friends after Ning Fengya gave him a Mysterious Spirit Ganoderma. Ning Fengzhi discussed their friendship with Ning Rongrong, who refused to see Su Yuntian off.

• Su Yuntian spent three days at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, touring, sparring, and discussing Soul Power cultivation with Ning Fengya.
• Ning Fengya described his mutated Black Tower Martial Soul as useless, but Su Yuntian argued that his first two Soul Skills could make him a powerful combat and support fighter.
• Su Yuntian's suggestions about using Draw Ground as Prison and Frosty Blade gave Ning Fengya new confidence in his Martial Soul.
• Ning Fengya gave Su Yuntian a Mysterious Spirit Ganoderma, and Su Yuntian accepted it before leaving the sect.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong that Ning Fengya regarded Su Yuntian as a kindred spirit, but Ning Rongrong said she would not see him off.

Su Yuntian learned that Xue Qinghe had plenty of heavenly treasures, then used a Seventh-grade Purple Ganoderma to reach level twenty. Xue Qinghe advised him to seek a roughly thousand-year soul beast for his second soul ring and asked what kind of Soul Skill he wanted.

• Su Yuntian returned to the Crown Prince's Mansion and showed Da Xue and Xue Qinghe the Purple Ganoderma Ning Fengya had given him.
• Xue Qinghe identified it as a Fifth-grade Purple Ganoderma and revealed that he kept many higher-grade ones, surprising Su Yuntian.
• Xue Qinghe selected a Seventh-grade Purple Ganoderma for Su Yuntian, who absorbed its medicinal power and reached level twenty after two hours.
• Xue Qinghe recommended a soul beast around a thousand years old for Su Yuntian's second soul ring and arranged for someone to assist him in the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Xue Qinghe asked Su Yuntian what direction he wanted to take with his second Soul Skill, and Su Yuntian began thinking it over.

After reaching level 20, Su Yuntian sought advice on his second Soul Skill and traveled with Lu Renjia to the Soul Hunting Forest market. There, Lu Renjia tried to recruit a young Control Type Soul Grandmaster, but she insisted on her 20 Gold Soul Coin fee.

• Su Yuntian admitted he could not decide what Soul Skill suited his Key of Royal Law, and Xue Qinghe recommended a control skill.
• Xue Qinghe sent the level 45 Soul Ancestor Lu Renjia to escort Su Yuntian on his Soul Beast hunt.
• Su Yuntian and Lu Renjia reached the Soul Hunting Forest market, where Lu Renjia explained the different Soul Masters seeking work.
• Lu Renjia offered the masked Control Type Soul Grandmaster a place in the Imperial City Guard, but she pointed to her sign and repeated that auxiliary Soul Hunting cost 20 Gold Soul Coins.

Lu Renjia hired Lin Mengzhui to accompany Su Yuntian on a soul hunt, and the three entered the Soul Hunting Forest to search for a Thousand-year Soul Beast. After a leisurely search and a meal of roasted Tender Bone Charm Rabbit, Su Yuntian noticed Lin Mengzhui’s beauty and teased her about food on her face.

• Lu Renjia offered Lin Mengzhui twenty Gold Soul Coins to join the Heaven Dou City Imperial Guards, but she accepted the money only to accompany him on Su Yuntian’s soul hunt.
• Lu Renjia, Su Yuntian, and Lin Mengzhui traveled to the Soul Hunting Forest, where Lu Renjia explained that Su Yuntian needed a Thousand-year Soul Beast for his second soul ring.
• The group searched the forest for four hours, then Lu Renjia caught and roasted two Tender Bone Charm Rabbits.
• Su Yuntian worried that the rabbits might be related to Xiao Wu, while Lin Mengzhui removed her veil and ate a rabbit leg.
• Su Yuntian admired Lin Mengzhui’s beauty, then told her she had grease and bits of meat on her face.

Su Yuntian, Lu Renjia, and Lin Mengzhui searched the Soul Hunting Forest for a suitable Soul Beast and found a thousand-year Snow Fox. Their coordinated attacks brought it down, and Su Yuntian prepared to finish it.

• Lu Renjia limited the group to two rabbits before they continued into the forest, where Soul Beasts grew more numerous.
• Lin Mengzhui spotted a Ghost Vine, but Lu Renjia rejected it because Su Yuntian needed a Soul Ring stronger than the vine could provide.
• Lu Renjia heard a Snow Fox nearby, and the three pursued it after deciding it was a suitable Soul Beast.
• Lu Renjia used his bow to steer the Snow Fox, while Su Yuntian attacked with blades and swords from his Aether Gates, but the fox evaded most of them.
• Lin Mengzhui blocked the Snow Fox with her Sound Barrier and disrupted it with Sound Blast Blade, allowing Lu Renjia to destroy its right hind leg with an arrow.
• Su Yuntian opened eight Aether Gates and prepared another attack as the wounded Snow Fox lay in the snow.

Su Yuntian killed the thousand-year snow fox after resisting its illusion, then chose to absorb its 1,700-year soul ring despite being only level 20. Lu Renjia agreed to guard him, while Lin Mengzhui stayed to see whether he could survive the dangerous attempt.

• The snow fox bewitched Su Yuntian with the image of the golden-haired young woman, but he recognized the illusion and killed it with his eight Aether Gates.
• Lu Renjia and Lin Mengzhui saw that Su Yuntian had broken free of the enchantment, and a purple soul ring rose from the fox's corpse.
• Lu Renjia warned Su Yuntian that the 1,700-year soul ring was too powerful for his level 20 Soul Power.
• Su Yuntian asked Lu Renjia to let him try absorbing the ring and promised to explain the risk to Xue Qinghe if anything went wrong.
• Lu Renjia agreed to stand guard, and Su Yuntian sat down to begin fusing with the soul ring.
• Lin Mengzhui remained nearby, curious about Su Yuntian's unusual skills and whether he could absorb the ring.

Su Yuntian absorbed the seventeen-hundred-year Snow Fox’s Soul Ring, gained a charm-like second Soul Skill, and reached level 23. After Lin Mengzhui left in anger, Su Yuntian spent the night reflecting on his missing brother and wanting to return to the Crown Prince’s Mansion.

• Su Yuntian accidentally used his new charm Soul Skill on Lin Mengzhui, who blushed before realizing what had happened and slapping him.
• Lu Renjia congratulated Su Yuntian on absorbing his second Soul Ring and tried to recruit Lin Mengzhui into the Imperial City Guard Army through him, but Su Yuntian refused.
• Su Yuntian told Lu Renjia that his level had risen from 20 to 23 after absorbing the Snow Fox’s Soul Ring.
• Lu Renjia searched the market for Lin Mengzhui but could not find her, then returned to the inn to rest.
• Su Yuntian watched the unfamiliar stars from the inn’s rooftop and thought about his missing brother, Su Yuntao, and his remaining family in Heaven Dou City.

Su Yuntian returned to Heaven Dou City with Lu Renjia and used his second Soul Skill to question Da Xue about Xue Qinghe’s identity. Da Xue revealed that Xiao Xue had replaced the First Prince years ago, and Su Yuntian asked whether Xiao Xue knew Da Xue had learned the secret.

• Su Yuntian abandoned his search for Lin Mengzhui and escorted Su Yuntian back toward Heaven Dou City with Lu Renjia.
• Su Yuntian and Lu Renjia passed a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect convoy, where Chen Xin noticed them and told Ning Fengzhi that Rongrong knew someone who had just passed.
• Ning Fengzhi wondered whether to keep Ning Rongrong in the sect or find her another teacher after the New Year.
• Su Yuntian returned to the Crown Prince’s Mansion and drew Da Xue aside to ask about His Highness’s true identity.
• Su Yuntian charmed Da Xue with his second Soul Skill, and she revealed that Xue Qinghe had been gone for years and Xiao Xue had taken his place.
• Su Yuntian asked Da Xue whether Xiao Xue knew that she knew the secret.

Su Yuntian comforted Da Xue after learning she had long known Xue Qinghe was an impostor, then focused on growing stronger. After returning from the New Year celebration, Xue Qinghe shared a late-night meal with Su Yuntian, who used his new charm skill to ask to see Xue Qinghe’s true face.

• Da Xue admitted she had known for six years that Xue Qinghe had been replaced, and Su Yuntian promised to protect her and treat her as his sister.
• Su Yuntian meditated, sensed that the thousand-year Snow Fox soul ring had strengthened him, and worried that he needed to improve faster than Tang San.
• Su Yuntian found Da Xue’s warmed meal in the kitchen and ate it, unaware that Xue Qinghe had reserved it for himself.
• Xue Qinghe returned from the New Year banquet, and he and Su Yuntian finished the meal together.
• Su Yuntian demonstrated his charm skill on Xue Qinghe and asked to see his true face.