Chapter Summaries

Shu Yan rescued Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo from Woman Taming Douluo, then killed the Evil Soul Master Super Douluo in battle. Afterward, Snow Empress offered to refine Shu Yan’s technique and train Su Tong.

• Zhang Lexuan tried to escape with the unconscious Han Ruoruo rather than let the Holy Spirit Cult capture them.
• Woman Taming Douluo used his Martial Soul to suppress Zhang Lexuan and prepared to take both women away.
• Shu Yan arrived, froze the area, and fought Woman Taming Douluo as the latter attacked with Soul Tools.
• Shu Yan emerged unscathed from Woman Taming Douluo’s barrage and killed him with a palm strike.
• Shu Yan collected Woman Taming Douluo’s Soul Bones and sent his corpse to the Undead World.
• Snow Empress praised Shu Yan’s progress and offered to guide him further and teach Su Tong the Three Absolutes.

Xu Jiujiu cared for the recovering Han Ruoruo and learned how she and Zhang Lexuan had been ambushed while hunting a Soul Ring. She invited them to join her group’s hunt, and Han Ruoruo asked whether Xu Jiujiu was pursuing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

• Ling Luochen absorbed the Ice Frost Dragon Vine’s ninety-thousand-year Soul Ring, while Xu Jiujiu’s healing pills and Shu Yan’s lingzhi leaves helped Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo recover.
• Han Ruoruo woke and anxiously asked Xu Jiujiu whether Zhang Lexuan was safe; Xu Jiujiu assured her that Lexuan’s injuries had stabilized.
• Han Ruoruo told Xu Jiujiu that she and Zhang Lexuan had grown stronger after Han Ruoruo fused with an auctioned Soul Bone, but an Evil Soul Master had ambushed them while they hunted a Soul Ring.
• Xu Jiujiu invited Han Ruoruo and Zhang Lexuan to travel with her group and offered to help find a suitable seventy- to ninety-thousand-year soul beast for Han Ruoruo’s Shaking Gold Rope.
• After agreeing to join them, Han Ruoruo asked Xu Jiujiu whether she was hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Han Ruoruo accepted Shu Yan’s offer to leave Shrek Academy and join Star Luo Empire, while Zhang Lexuan resolved to live for herself and entered a state of enlightenment. That night, Scarlet King arrived with the Beast God’s invitation for Snow Empress and Ice Empress to visit the Great Ferocious Land, and they agreed to go the next day.

• Xu Jiujiu told Han Ruoruo that their party was hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and described her own rise to Soul Emperor before age twenty.
• Shu Yan asked Han Ruoruo to leave Shrek Academy and join them, and she accepted, explaining that she owed the academy nothing and would not betray the former Douluo Three Kingdoms.
• After learning Han Ruoruo planned to join Star Luo Empire, Zhang Lexuan decided she had repaid Shrek Academy and entered a state of enlightenment beside the campfire.
• Ling Luochen finished absorbing her Sixth Soul Ring and reached level sixty-three, while Zhang Lexuan remained in meditation.
• Scarlet King arrived at the camp and invited Snow Empress and Ice Empress to the Great Ferocious Land on the Beast God’s behalf; they agreed to go tomorrow.
• Xu Jiujiu reminded the frightened Han Ruoruo to keep what she had heard about the group’s secrets to herself.

After recovering from her enlightenment, Zhang Lexuan learned the truth about Snow Empress and accepted her debt to her, while wondering whether humans and soul beasts could coexist. The group reached the Great Ferocious Land, where Di Tian recognized Water Dragon King's aura in Shu Yan and called him the human Water Dragon King had chosen.

• Zhang Lexuan learned the truth from Han Ruoruo and, after Snow Empress and Ice Empress confirmed it, promised to keep it secret and thanked Snow Empress.
• Scarlet King led the group through the Core Circle and into the Great Ferocious Land, then left to protect the Auspicious Beast.
• The group reached a tranquil lake in the forbidden heart of the Star Dou Great Forest and met Di Tian.
• Di Tian praised Snow Empress for repairing her origin and reaching seven hundred thousand years of cultivation, while Snow Empress and Ice Empress said they would enter the God Realm with Shu Yan after he became a god.
• Shu Yan released his soul rings, and Di Tian recognized Water Dragon King's aura and part of the dragon clan's fortune within them, identifying Shu Yan as the human Water Dragon King had chosen.

Di Tian explained that Shu Yan had inherited the Water Dragon King's share of dragon clan fortune, joining the fortune he already carried as humanity's chosen one. He revealed that the Silver Dragon King had summoned Shu Yan, and Shu Yan entered a spatial vortex with Di Tian while the women remained behind, worried.

• Di Tian explained how dragon clan fortune differed from the fortune of other soul beasts and said Shu Yan had inherited the Water Dragon King's share.
• Di Tian assured Shu Yan that the inherited fortune would benefit his cultivation, and Shu Yan promised to remember the Water Dragon King's kindness if he became a god.
• Di Tian revealed that the Silver Dragon King wanted to see Shu Yan, alarming Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Xu Jiujiu, and the other women.
• The Silver Dragon King's voice ordered Di Tian to bring Shu Yan inside, and its pressure stopped Snow Empress and Ice Empress's Soul Power.
• Shu Yan reassured the women, then entered a spatial vortex with Di Tian, leaving them behind in worry.

Shu Yan met the Silver Dragon King, who explained that he could help counter the crisis threatening the Douluo Plane and might one day become a Dual God King Body. She revealed that an early Space-Time Turbulence and an unknown plane threatened the God Realm and Douluo Plane, leaving Shu Yan shaken by the danger ahead.

• Shu Yan entered the Silver Dragon King's Void Space and greeted her while Di Tian stood respectfully nearby.
• The Silver Dragon King told Shu Yan that the Spirit of the Plane considered him the key to breaking the deadlock caused by the plane's corruption.
• Shu Yan said he already knew the former Clear Sky Douluo and Blue Silver Emperor were opposing the plane and that the Spirit of the Plane had brought him into being to respond.
• The Silver Dragon King explained that Shu Yan could combine the Water Dragon King Divine Position with the complete Ancient Ice God Divine Position and potentially surpass the Sea God.
• The Silver Dragon King revealed that an early Space-Time Turbulence was approaching the God Realm and that an unknown plane had set its sights on Douluo Plane.
• Shu Yan was shaken by the possibility that an outside plane would attack while the God Realm was occupied or weakened.

Shu Yan and the Silver Dragon King agreed to pursue a new path for the Douluo Plane, including restoring the Dragon Clan and Soul Beasts through a new God Realm and testing Soul Spirits to ease the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts. After Shu Yan left, the Silver Dragon King told Di Tian that humanity's growing power made cooperation urgent and ordered him to support Shu Yan's experiments.

• The Silver Dragon King explained that the God Realm might be swept away by Space-Time Turbulence and proposed elevating the Douluo Plane into a source of gods.
• Shu Yan agreed to help the Dragon Clan and Soul Beasts rise again, provided they cooperated, and told the Silver Dragon King about Electrolux's Soul Spirit research.
• The Silver Dragon King offered the Star Dou Great Forest's Soul Beasts for experiments if the method proved viable and asked Shu Yan for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye's coordinates.
• The Silver Dragon King sent Shu Yan away and told Di Tian that humanity's weapons and rapid development threatened the Soul Beast Race.
• The Silver Dragon King identified Shu Yan as a favored child of fortune, ordered Di Tian to bring Snow Empress and Ice Empress to meet her, and told him to support the Soul Spirit experiments.

Shu Yan demonstrated Soul Spirit creation by helping Han Ruoruo bond with an Abyssal Flood Dragon, which evolved into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit. He then helped Xu Jiujiu bond with a Light Unicorn that became a Starlight Unicorn, transforming her Star Crown Martial Soul into the starry sky; Di Tian left impressed, while the group settled beside Life Lake for the night.

• Shu Yan asked Di Tian to find suitable Soul Beasts for Xu Jiujiu and Han Ruoruo, and Han Ruoruo volunteered for the first Soul Spirit experiment.
• Di Tian returned with an Abyssal Flood Dragon and a Light Unicorn, which chose Han Ruoruo and Xu Jiujiu respectively.
• Shu Yan guided Han Ruoruo and the Abyssal Flood Dragon through their contract, and the beast became a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit that granted her a red eighth Soul Ring.
• Shu Yan explained Soul Spirits' potential to Di Tian, who became impressed by their ability to ease the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts.
• Shu Yan helped Xu Jiujiu bond with the Light Unicorn, which became a Starlight Unicorn exceeding one hundred thousand years and helped her Star Crown Martial Soul evolve into the starry sky.
• Di Tian allowed the group to move freely through the Star Dou Great Forest, and the Snow Empress took the others to camp beside Life Lake as Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu embraced.

Shu Yan stayed in the Star Dou Great Forest as Xu Jiujiu absorbed the Starlight Brilliance Right Arm Bone, then met the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and quickly won her curiosity with his attention and pastries. The Fierce Beasts accepted his plans for researching Soul Spirits, while Di Tian and Bi Ji watched the Auspicious Beast grow close to him.

• Xu Jiujiu absorbed the Starlight Brilliance Right Arm Bone and stabilized at the peak of Rank 64.
• Shu Yan and the Fierce Beasts discussed Soul Spirit research and plans to recreate the Spirit Pagoda under the Star Luo Empire.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion approached Shu Yan, who petted her, upset her by roughing up her fur, and offered her pastries.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion questioned why Di Tian treated Shu Yan well, then ate his desserts and fell asleep beside him.
• Scarlet King watched the Auspicious Beast grow comfortable with Shu Yan, while Di Tian and Bi Ji observed them from a cavern.

After leaving the Star Dou Great Forest with new resources and a Black Dragon Inverse Scale, Shu Yan separated from Xu Jiujiu and the others to investigate a hidden space beneath Dragon Burial Mountain with the Snow Empress and Ice Empress. They found the ancient remains of a powerful Dark Holy Dragon, which Shu Yan believed had been a True God-level existence.

• Di Tian gave Shu Yan a Black Dragon Inverse Scale that could summon his help in a crisis, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion mourned Shu Yan and the others' departure.
• Shu Yan took the Golden Tortoise and its Living Gold from the Star Dou Great Forest, and he kept Xiong Jun's Dark Gold Dreadclaw Soul Bones after the others declined them.
• Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo left for Shrek City, while Shu Yan, the Snow Empress, and the Ice Empress continued toward Dragon Burial Mountain.
• The Snow Empress used her Space Power to lead Shu Yan and the Ice Empress through a spatial barrier into a concealed area beneath the mountain.
• The three found a decayed forest and an immense dragon corpse, and Shu Yan identified it as the remains of a Dark Holy Dragon that had reached the True God level.

Shu Yan, the Snow Empress, and the Ice Empress discovered that a three-hundred-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had devoured the Dragon Pill of a god-tier Dark Holy Dragon, then killed it and obtained its Soul Bone and Evil God Bead. Bibi Dong arrived, reprimanded Shu Yan for forgetting to find the Angel inheritor, and explained the bead’s nature; the group planned to take the dragon skeleton and let the Snow Empress and Ice Empress become Shu Yan’s Soul Spirits.

• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress examined the Dark Holy Dragon’s bones before a three-hundred-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger emerged and attacked them.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger transformed after revealing that it had devoured the Dragon Pill, and Shu Yan joined the Snow Empress and Ice Empress in killing it with their combined domains and attacks.
• The Snow Empress retrieved the tiger’s left leg Soul Bone for Shu Yan, who drew out a bead containing the tiger’s essence and residual Dragon Pill energy.
• Bibi Dong seized the tiger’s Soul Ring, scolded Shu Yan for forgetting to find the Angel inheritor, and gave him half a year before threatening him with a rewardless Rakshasa Trial.
• Bibi Dong explained the bead and returned to the Undead World; Shu Yan agreed to take the Dark Holy Dragon’s skeleton and accepted the Snow Empress and Ice Empress’s plan to become his Soul Spirits.
• The Snow Empress realized that Shu Yan and the Ice Empress had a close, secret romance and felt that she had been made a clown.

Shu Yan broke through to Soul Douluo, confirmed his relationship with the Ice Empress, and became her Soul Spirit while discussing the costs of Soul Spirits and the future of Soul Beasts. The chapter ended with Shu Yan offering Xu Jiujiu choices for the upcoming Soul Master Tournament and suggesting they announce their relationship afterward.

• Back in Star Luo City, Shu Yan comforted the angry Ice Empress, and the two confirmed their feelings for each other.
• After absorbing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's left leg bone, Shu Yan broke through to Soul Douluo and gained its powerful abilities.
• Xu Jiujiu explained that her brother had added the starry sky to the royal and sect inheritance, preserving her standing after her Martial Soul evolved.
• Shu Yan and the Ice Empress fused her Four-Hundred-Thousand-Year left arm bone with his existing bone, and the Ice Empress became his Soul Spirit.
• Snow Empress warned Shu Yan about the danger human expansion posed to Soul Beasts, and Shu Yan promised to protect the Extreme North Land.
• After hearing about Qian Gu Yueyin's progress, Shu Yan offered Xu Jiujiu options for the tournament and proposed announcing their relationship afterward.

Xu Jiujiu and Shu Yan discussed competing together in the Soul Master Tournament, having children, and the empire’s recovery after its purges. The chapter left Shu Yan planning to fulfill his promise to Bibi Dong and strengthen himself against threats to the Douluo Plane.

• Xu Jiujiu agreed that aspiring Star Luo National Academy team members would have to defeat the confirmed members, then asked Shu Yan to compete with her at the finals.
• Xu Jiujiu and Shu Yan watched the stars together, and she asked when they might have children; Shu Yan explained that their powerful bloodlines could make having children difficult.
• Xu Jiujiu and Shu Yan discussed how the purges had enriched the Star Luo Treasury and renewed the empire, allowing Xu Jiawei to move ahead with new laws.
• Shu Yan resolved to begin carrying out his arrangements for Bibi Dong and to cultivate diligently against the threats facing the Douluo Plane.

Over the year, Shu Yan recruited Ye Guyi and settled into life with the women at Princess Mansion. As Meng Ning prepared to travel to the Southern Domain, Qian Gu Yueyin confronted Shu Yan over her feelings and made a decision to get closer to him, leaving them together after an intense encounter.

• Shu Yan returned from a three-month trip to the Sun Moon Empire, where he found Ye Guyi purifying Evil Soul Masters and recruited her with the damaged Angel Divine Seat.
• Meng Ning asked to travel, and Xu Jiujiu proposed sending a Titled Douluo to protect her while she visited the Southern Domain; Shu Yan agreed.
• Qian Gu Yueyin ambushed Shu Yan again and accused him of caring more for Tian Ling, then broke down over her conflicted feelings about sharing a partner.
• Qian Gu Yueyin told Shu Yan she had made her decision, bit his mouth, and ended up lying flushed in his arms after he disciplined her.

Shu Yan sent the women on a training expedition under Zheng Lin’s discreet protection while Star Luo prepared for the next Soul Master Tournament. At the Princess Mansion, Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo visited, and Shu Yan learned that the item he had commissioned was ready at Old Han’s.

• Zheng Lin told Shu Yan that the expedition arrangements were complete, and Shu Yan instructed him not to intervene unless the women faced a life-or-death crisis.
• Shu Yan and Tian Ling discussed the approaching Soul Master Tournament and the merchant association’s expansion across Star Luo and toward other empires.
• Shu Yan returned to the Princess Mansion, where Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo were visiting Ruan Qinyu.
• The chapter recounted Zhang Lexuan’s complicated departure from Shrek and her adjustment to life in Star Luo City with Han Ruoruo.
• Ruan Qinyu told Shu Yan that his father had asked him to visit Old Han because the item Shu Yan wanted had been completed.

As Shu Yan’s companions traveled south, the chapter recounted his recent Soul Tool research, his allies’ cultivation progress, and his own plans to condense a Soul Core. He set aside cultivation for the day and returned his attention to Xu Jiujiu.

• Qian Gu Yueyin rode with Meng Ning and the others, hiding her embarrassment while Ling Luochen and Su Tong noticed she seemed different.
• Shu Yan lent military Soul Tools and rare metals from the Sun Moon Empire to Xu Jiawei, Su Mingxuan, and Han Lin for study and research.
• Han Lin and Su Mingxuan upgraded Fall of the Netherworld into a Level Nine Soul Tool, which Shu Yan gave to Su Tong.
• Su Tong reached Soul Power Level sixty-six, Ling Luochen reached sixty-seven after absorbing a fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone, and Shu Yan rose to Rank Eighty-Eight.
• Shu Yan weighed the time needed to condense his Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Core, while Xu Jiujiu advanced to Rank Sixty-Eight.
• Shu Yan abandoned cultivation for the day and planned to spend the evening with Xu Jiujiu.

Star Luo's reforms and free Martial Soul awakenings continued to spread as Shu Yan's aunt, Su Wanqiu, arrived in Star Luo City to meet him. Shu Yan gave her a rare Soul Bone, and the chapter ended with the family sharing warm, playful moments together.

• Xu Jiawei oversaw Star Luo's growing Soul Tool industry and free Martial Soul awakenings in twenty-eight major cities while Titled Douluo suppressed riots.
• Su Wanqiu arrived in Star Luo City after breaking through and greeted Shu Yan with an affectionate hug, then demanded a meeting gift.
• Su Wanqiu teased Su Mingxuan about his past courtship of Ruan Qinyu, embarrassing him and making the family laugh.
• Shu Yan gave Su Wanqiu a thirty-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Right Arm Bone and explained that Xiong Jun had gifted it to him.
• Su Wanqiu accepted the Soul Bone and joked that Shu Yan should help her reach Rank Ninety-Nine, while Su Mingxuan scolded her for neglecting cultivation.

Shu Yan absorbed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's bead as the Soul Dueling Tournament preparations advanced, while Huo Yuhao's altered journey led him to obtain a Fallen Sea Demon as his first Soul Ring. The chapter left Tang San anxious over the approaching Space-Time Turbulence and considering a new plan to protect his ambitions.

• Shu Yan noticed the bead's energy resonating with his Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Left Leg Bone and Ice God Bloodline, but he and his advisers found no immediate cause for concern.
• Xu Jiujiu recruited Tian Ling and Meng Ning to help with Star Luo City's tournament preparations while she focused on breaking through to Soul Sage.
• Shrek Academy replaced Ling Luochen with a collateral-branch Han family Soul King, while Ma Xiaotao's cultivation rose and her suppressed evil fire remained dangerous.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm failed to find Ice Empress or hunt a royal-blooded Ice Scorpion for Huo Yuhao, whose journey through the Extreme North Land led him to the Ice Sea.
• Huo Yuhao obtained a Fallen Sea Demon as the first Soul Ring of his ice-attribute second Martial Soul, gaining a powerful Ice- and Spirit-attribute Martial Soul.
• Tang San worried that the Space-Time Turbulence could destroy the God Realm and jeopardize his daughter's future, so he considered devising another grand plan.

Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu awakened signs of a powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but afterward Shu Yan discovered that the Evil God Bloodline was spreading through his body. Electrolux advised him to reach the Titled Douluo realm to remove it, while Shu Yan sensed the bloodline might bring an unexpected opportunity.

• Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu’s Martial Souls and Soul Power began fusing, and their attempt unleashed a starry, freezing Martial Soul Fusion Skill across part of the palace city.
• Giant Strength Douluo helped handle the aftermath as Xu Jiujiu confirmed there had been no casualties, and Shu Yan freed the frozen Golden Tortoise from the pond.
• Shu Yan went to a secret chamber and asked Electrolux about the dark red aura spreading through him.
• Electrolux explained that the Evil God Bloodline from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s left leg bone was eroding Shu Yan’s ancient bloodline as he tried to condense his second Soul Core.
• Electrolux told Shu Yan to cultivate and reach the Titled Douluo realm, while Shu Yan suspected the spreading bloodline might be an immense opportunity rather than a danger.

Shu Yan struggled to condense a second soul core, while Xu Jiujiu and the others prepared for the Soul Fighting Tournament. He left Meng Ning eager to compete but refused to let her add a soul ring to her second martial soul.

• Xu Jiujiu entered seclusion after the Martial Soul Fusion Skill pushed her Soul Power toward a breakthrough, while Xu Jiawei discussed rising clashes with the Sun Moon Empire in the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Xu Jiujiu completed absorbing her seventh soul ring and reached Level 72, as the others’ cultivation levels and tournament prospects were reported.
• Shu Yan’s latest attempt to condense a second soul core exploded, but he told the Snow Empress he had found the right direction and believed success was near.
• Xu Jiujiu named the Soul Fighting Tournament team, with herself as captain and Su Tong as vice-captain, and Shu Yan agreed that Meng Ning could participate.
• Meng Ning asked to add a soul ring to her Heavenly Star Furnace martial soul, but Shu Yan refused because he wanted her second martial soul’s rings to be at least fifty thousand years old.