Chapter Summaries

Shu Yan stayed with Ruan Qinyu as she recovered and reunited with her family, while Su Mingxuan explained the clan’s strength and discussed whether it should leave its secluded valley. The chapter ended with Ruan Qinyu meeting Xu Jiujiu and welcoming her as Shu Yan’s girlfriend.

• Shu Yan stayed beside Ruan Qinyu overnight, and she grew calmer with him near her.
• Su Mingxuan told Shu Yan that the family had ten Titled Douluo and three Super Douluo, and offered to formally welcome him back into the clan.
• Shu Yan suggested that the family discuss together whether to leave its secluded life before making a decision.
• Ruan Qinyu awoke and reunited with Shu Yan and Su Tong, while Su Mingxuan expressed his joy at having his family together again.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced herself to Ruan Qinyu as Shu Yan’s girlfriend, and Ruan Qinyu thanked her for raising him.

Shu Yan and Electrolux began reshaping Ruan Qinyu’s body with Lovesick Heartbreak Red while purifying the resentment and evil energy in her Sea of Consciousness. After stabilizing her condition inside a golden-red cocoon, Shu Yan left to meditate and prepare for his next breakthrough.

• Shu Yan explained that Ruan Qinyu could gain a healthy body and improved potential, while Su Mingxuan’s resentment was the main obstacle to his breakthrough.
• Shu Yan revealed Ice Empress’s identity to Ruan Qinyu and told her that Snow Empress was also his companion.
• Ruan Qinyu agreed to endure the pain of having her body destroyed and rebuilt, and Shu Yan began refining Lovesick Heartbreak Red while supplying Life Energy.
• Electrolux purified the resentment and evil energy in Ruan Qinyu’s Sea of Consciousness and helped repair it as Shu Yan reshaped her body.
• Shu Yan placed the Hundred Thousand Year Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and Living Gold into Ruan Qinyu’s golden-red cocoon, which Electrolux said could create a perfect body and improve her talent.
• After explaining the situation to the waiting family, Shu Yan flew to a distant mountain peak to meditate and prepare for his next breakthrough.

Shu Yan neared Rank 77 while preparing for the challenges of eventually condensing a second Soul Core, and Xu Jiujiu told him about recent family developments and her progress merging with the Star Luo Spirit Pearl. Shu Yan acknowledged his ancestry at the shrine and was announced to the village as a potential opponent for its young fighters.

• Shu Yan remained in seclusion for three days as his Soul Power approached Rank 77 and he considered how to strengthen himself before attempting to condense a Yin-Yang Complementary second Soul Core.
• Xu Jiujiu told Shu Yan that Uncle Su had entered seclusion after receiving help from Medical Immortal Grandma, and that cracks had appeared in the cocoon around Auntie.
• Xu Jiujiu reported that she had fused nearly half of the Star Luo Spirit Pearl and that its star power had cleansed her Star Crown Martial Soul.
• Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu returned to the village, where Shu Yan's Seventh Granduncle took him to the ancestral shrine to worship his forebears and enter Su Yan in the family registry.
• The elders announced Shu Yan's identity to the village and invited every outstanding youth under twenty-five to challenge him.

Shu Yan helped Ling Luochen evolve her Ice Element Martial Soul into an Extreme Ice Element by having her absorb two rare treasures in the family’s secret chamber. After the breakthrough, Ling Luochen kissed Shu Yan, and he took her back to his room.

• Shu Yan offered Ling Luochen an Octagonal Black Ice Crystal and a ten-thousand-year Extreme Ice Snow Lotus to advance her Ice Element Martial Soul.
• Ling Luochen absorbed the treasures overnight in the underground chamber beneath the stream.
• Ling Luochen’s Martial Soul evolved into an Extreme Ice Element, greatly increasing her control over ice.
• Ling Luochen embraced and kissed Shu Yan, then asked him to take her back to her room.
• Shu Yan carried Ling Luochen to the pavilion and they spent the night together.

After Ling Luochen woke from spending the day with Shu Yan, he offered to take responsibility, and she demanded an equal relationship rather than becoming his lesser partner. Xu Jiujiu accepted Ling Luochen as a sister and took her away, while Shu Yan was left facing a three-month ban from their beds.

• Ling Luochen woke beside Shu Yan, remembered what had happened, and asked what their relationship would be; Shu Yan said they were boyfriend and girlfriend.
• Ling Luochen insisted she would not be the lesser partner or share her future boyfriend, but Shu Yan said he considered his companions equal and revealed Xu Jiujiu already knew what had happened.
• Ling Luochen said she needed time to think, then struggled downstairs and encountered Xu Jiujiu.
• Xu Jiujiu comforted Ling Luochen, called her a sister, and blamed Shu Yan for taking advantage of her.
• Xu Jiujiu pulled Ling Luochen away and said Shu Yan would not be allowed into their beds for three months.

Shu Yan and his family awaited Ruan Qinyu’s rebirth while Su Mingxuan broke through to Super Douluo and Su Tong received powerful cultivation resources. Ruan Qinyu emerged with a healthy new body and an evolved Martial Soul, but she embraced Shu Yan instead of her husband.

• Xu Jiujiu explained to Ling Luochen that she had accepted Shu Yan’s other relationships as long as her place as his principal wife remained secure.
• Su Mingxuan resolved his inner turmoil and broke through to Super Douluo, bringing the family’s total to four Super Douluo.
• Shu Yan gave Su Tong a seventy-thousand-year Ice Bear left arm bone and a Hundred Thousand Year Iceheart Immortal Herb, raising her Soul Power to Rank 59.
• After nearly five more days, Ruan Qinyu’s golden-red cocoon cracked open and she emerged in a restored, healthy body.
• Ruan Qinyu tearfully embraced Shu Yan, while Su Mingxuan watched in surprise.
• Shu Yan confirmed that Ruan Qinyu’s rebirth had succeeded, though her Soul Power had fallen to the Soul King level and her Martial Soul had evolved.

Shu Yan and his family relaxed on the beach after Ruan Qinyu’s Martial Soul evolved and she gained new Soul Rings. He told Ruan Qinyu and Su Tong that they could join him in Star Luo City, then Ruan Qinyu left to absorb her newly captured Sixth Soul Ring.

• Shu Yan chose an eighteen-thousand-year Fortune Luck Sea Star as Ruan Qinyu’s Fifth Soul Ring, and she advanced to the Soul Emperor realm.
• Shu Yan, Xu Jiujiu, Ling Luochen, and Dugu Yan enjoyed a day at the beach while Ruan Qinyu and Su Tong joined them.
• Ruan Qinyu asked when Shu Yan would return to the Star Luo Empire, and he invited her, his father, and Su Tong to go with him to Star Luo City.
• Ruan Qinyu became overjoyed when Shu Yan called her Mom, accidentally splashing fruit juice onto Dugu Yan before apologizing.
• A clan girl told Ruan Qinyu that a Silver Moon Whale had been captured for her Sixth Soul Ring, and Ruan Qinyu left to absorb it.

Ice Empress brought back a ninety-thousand-year Deep Sea Demon Whale Torso Bone, which Shu Yan gave to Ling Luochen after Ruan Qinyu and Su Tong declined it. The group made arrangements to leave for Star Luo City, then departed the next morning with Su Mingxuan, Ruan Qinyu, and Su Tong.

• Ice Empress returned with a ninety-thousand-year Deep Sea Demon Whale Torso Bone and explained that she had killed the beast after it chased her.
• Ruan Qinyu declined the Torso Bone because she had already absorbed one, and Su Tong said she planned to absorb family-provided Soul Bones later.
• Shu Yan offered the Torso Bone to Ling Luochen, who accepted it, while Xu Jiujiu pulled her behind her and glared at Shu Yan.
• Shu Yan entrusted three Soul Bones and three medicinal pills to his Second, Third, and Fourth Granduncles to support the family after his departure.
• Shu Yan and the others finalized their arrangements and flew toward Star Luo City the next morning.

Shu Yan returned to Star Luo City with his family, where they settled into new roles and strengthened the empire’s forces. At the Starlight Auction House, he unexpectedly reunited with Tian Ling and Luo Qinghan, then became angry when he learned Luo Qinghan had absorbed an inferior Head Soul Bone.

• Xu Jiawei welcomed Shu Yan’s family, and Su Mingxuan accepted a position as a worshiper in the Star Luo Imperial Family’s Hall of Worship.
• Han Lin became a Rank Nine Soul Master and crafted his first Level Nine Soul Tool, while Su Mingxuan revealed that he was also an eight-and-a-half-level Soul Engineer.
• Ruan Qinyu became a theoretical teacher at Star Luo National Academy, and Su Tong stayed at the Princess Mansion to train with the Ice Empress and Ling Luochen.
• Shu Yan encountered Tian Ling and Luo Qinghan at the Starlight Auction House, where Tian Ling joyfully greeted him and explained they had come only to look around.
• Shu Yan noticed Luo Qinghan’s increased Soul Power and Spiritual Power, learned she had absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Phantom Butterfly Head Soul Bone, and grew angry at its poor quality.

Shu Yan learned that Luo Qinghan had absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Phantom Butterfly Soul Bone during an emotional crisis and promised to help treat her damaged legs. Tian Ling then returned to ask him for money to buy a Soul Bone, revealing that it might cost fifty million Gold Soul Coins.

• Shu Yan questioned Luo Qinghan about absorbing the Soul Bone, and she explained that her despair and desperate desire for strength had overwhelmed her judgment.
• Shu Yan examined Luo Qinghan's damaged legs, concluded that advanced medical surgery might be needed, and promised to arrange research into scanning Soul Tools and help her with emotional problems.
• Tian Ling secretly left Shu Yan a note asking him to wait, then returned after taking Luo Qinghan to watch Wang Lin and the others train.
• Tian Ling asked Shu Yan to help her buy a Soul Bone at the auction, first estimating its price at thirty million Gold Soul Coins before admitting it might cost fifty million.

Tian Ling asked Shu Yan to help her obtain the dangerous Purple Gold Dragon Torso Bone, offering to become his other woman, and Shu Yan secured it for her through his influence. Xu Jiujiu explained the Soul Bone’s deadly history, while Shu Yan planned to help Tian Ling absorb it before the banquet.

• Tian Ling told Shu Yan that she hoped the Purple Gold Dragon Torso Bone’s Golden Dragon bloodline would awaken her Golden Crocodile Martial Soul into the Golden Crocodile King, and Shu Yan warned that absorbing it could kill her.
• Tian Ling kissed Shu Yan and offered to become his other woman in exchange for his help; Shu Yan accepted her feelings as a possibility and learned why she wanted power and control over her future.
• Shu Yan obtained the Soul Bone from the auction house without paying, then told Tian Ling to bring it to the Rose Hotel so he could help her absorb it.
• Xu Jiujiu told Shu Yan that the Soul Bone had killed several dragon-type Soul Masters, including a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Douluo, when its resentment struck back during absorption.
• Shu Yan reassured Xu Jiujiu, who fell asleep in his arms, while he continued contemplating his plans.

At a banquet, Shu Yan publicly drove off Xu Jiujiu’s persistent suitor, then later met Tian Ling at the Rose Hotel to help her absorb a Soul Bone. The chapter left Tian Ling’s martial soul transformed into the Golden Dragon Crocodile, after which Shu Yan carried her to the bath.

• Shu Yan attended the banquet with Xu Jiujiu, and Giant Strength Douluo noticed Shu Yan’s presence and later witnessed him use Space Power.
• Shu Yan threw out the Northern Legion marshal’s son for pestering Xu Jiujiu, and she explained the man’s position and history of pursuing her.
• After taking Xu Jiujiu home, Shu Yan checked on Ling Luochen, who blasted him away, then left for Star Luo City to meet Tian Ling.
• At the Rose Hotel, Shu Yan helped Tian Ling absorb a Soul Bone, using the Water Dragon King’s power to suppress the Purple Gold Dragon bloodline.
• Tian Ling’s martial soul evolved into the Golden Dragon Crocodile, and Shu Yan carried her to the bath.

Shu Yan returned to the Princess Mansion, where Xu Jiujiu arranged for Ruan Qinyu to meet Meng Ning and possibly take her as a disciple. That night, Xu Jiawei broke through to the Super Douluo realm, strengthening the Star Luo Empire’s prospects.

• Shu Yan returned to the Princess Mansion and joined Ruan Qinyu, Xu Jiujiu, and Ling Luochen.
• Ruan Qinyu told Xu Jiujiu about her shy student Meng Ning, and Xu Jiujiu offered to arrange for Meng Ning to join Ruan Qinyu’s class and become her disciple.
• Shu Yan recalled that Qian Gu Yueyin might challenge Ling Luochen after defeating her, but he decided not to warn Ling Luochen.
• Xu Jiawei released a powerful aura as he broke through into the Super Douluo realm.
• Qian Gu Chaoshēng recognized Xu Jiawei’s breakthrough and rejoiced at what it meant for the Star Luo Empire.

Ruan Qinyu brought Meng Ning to meet Shu Yan and revealed that the girl possessed the twin martial souls Black Demon and Heavenly Star Furnace. Shu Yan accepted Meng Ning as his younger sister and prepared to help cultivate her at the Princess Mansion.

• Xu Jiujiu struggled with state affairs while Xu Jiawei secluded himself to consolidate his new Super Douluo cultivation.
• Ruan Qinyu brought the shy Meng Ning to the Princess Mansion and told Shu Yan that she had discovered the girl’s extraordinary potential.
• Meng Ning revealed her Black Demon and Heavenly Star Furnace martial souls and explained that an incomplete cultivation method had once slowed her progress.
• Meng Ning told Shu Yan that Ruan Qinyu had asked her to cultivate with him, and Shu Yan agreed to treat her as his younger sister.
• Shu Yan decided not to interrupt Su Tong, who was training with the Ice Empress at the Star Luo Grand Arena.

Snow Empress visited Shu Yan after condensing her second Soul Core, gave him an Ice Crystal to protect him, and warned him that Ice Empress was anxious about sacrificing herself for him. Shu Yan later focused on helping Jiujiu and Xu Jiawei prepare sweeping reforms in Star Luo Kingdom, with the removal of obstructive nobles ahead.

• Snow Empress demonstrated her new Space Power and gave Shu Yan an Ice Crystal that could help him fight or summon her to his location.
• Snow Empress congratulated Shu Yan on returning to his family and warned him that Ice Empress was avoiding him because she feared their coming life-and-death bond.
• Shu Yan embraced Snow Empress briefly before she left, and he returned to meditation.
• Shu Yan continued preparing to reform Star Luo Kingdom alongside Jiujiu and Xu Jiawei, while forces loyal to the imperial family gathered in Star Luo City.
• Shu Yan planned to eliminate nobles who opposed reform and hoped Star Luo would transform before the next Soul Master Tournament.

Xu Jiawei, Shu Yan, and Xu Jiujiu oversaw Star Luo’s purge of nobles suspected of resisting the Empire or colluding with the Sun Moon Empire, while Shu Yan’s companions prepared for breakthroughs and new Soul Rings. Ling Luochen returned weary after a difficult fight with Qian Gu Yueyin and reflected on her exhausting training and private life with Shu Yan.

• Xu Jiawei reviewed reports of nobles selling intelligence to the Sun Moon Empire and learned that Star Luo’s purge had removed the leading opponents and seized their wealth.
• Shu Yan urged Xu Jiawei to complete the purge within half a year and use the confiscated property and vacant posts to prepare for the Empire’s next phase.
• Snow Empress guided Su Tong, who neared Soul Emperor, while Xu Jiujiu reached level fifty-nine and Ling Luochen approached her own breakthrough.
• Shu Yan required Meng Ning to wait until Soul Sage before adding Soul Rings to her Heavenly Star Furnace Martial Soul, aiming for nine powerful rings.
• Ling Luochen returned from fighting Qian Gu Yueyin, whose strength and Unbending Staff Technique had pushed Ling Luochen close to a disadvantage.
• Ling Luochen recalled that she cultivated and fought by day while Shu Yan kept her occupied at night.

Shu Yan absorbed the seventy-thousand-year Ice Jade King Scorpion left arm bone and gained a level of Soul Power. When Xu Jiujiu, Ling Luochen, and Su Tong prepared to break through to Soul Emperor, Shu Yan led them and the Ice Snow Two Emperors toward the Star Dou Great Forest, hoping to pursue his own plans there.

• Shu Yan absorbed the Ice Jade King Scorpion left arm bone, which raised his Soul Power by one level and granted him the Ice Burst Technique.
• Shu Yan remembered that Huo Yuhao would soon leave White Tiger Duke Manor and considered how powerful he might become before the original plot began.
• Su Tong entered seclusion to break through to Soul Emperor, while Ling Luochen and Xu Jiujiu also reached Soul Emperor and Dugu Yan continued cultivating at Level 58.
• Shu Yan and the others chose the Star Dou Great Forest for the three women's soul rings, setting aside his earlier idea of hunting Sea Soul Beasts in the deep sea.
• Shu Yan gathered Xu Jiujiu, Ling Luochen, Su Tong, the Ice Snow Two Emperors, and himself, then flew toward the Star Dou Great Forest after informing Ruan Qinyu and the others.

Shu Yan's group searched the Star Dou Great Forest for suitable soul beasts, and Su Tong obtained a soul ring from an eighty-three-thousand-year Six-Winged Frost Centipede. They also discovered valuable Meteorite Ice Crystals and discussed winning over the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, before settling in for a quiet night.

• Shu Yan's group traveled deep into the Star Dou Great Forest, where they searched for powerful soul beasts and considered what soul rings Xu Jiujiu, Ling Luochen, and Su Tong needed.
• Ice Empress identified an eighty-three-thousand-year Six-Winged Frost Centipede, and Su Tong chose to hunt it for her soul ring.
• Shu Yan knocked the Frost Centipede from the sky, and Su Tong killed it and absorbed its black soul ring.
• Ice Empress uncovered a mineral vein, and Xu Jiujiu identified its ore as valuable Meteorite Ice Crystal while Shu Yan collected it.
• Ling Luochen and Xu Jiujiu discussed the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's political position and the possibility of using Aromatic Silk Beauty remnants to help it cultivate a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Tower.
• Shu Yan's group prepared a campfire meal and settled in for the night.

Shu Yan left the camp to investigate a familiar aura while the Snow Empress recognized the Ice Empress’s feelings for her. Elsewhere, Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo fled a blood-red mist before a powerful soul beast attacked them, leaving them facing danger in the forest.

• The Ice Empress’s aura drove curious soul beasts away from the camp, and Su Tong continued absorbing her soul ring as her martial soul showed signs of a second awakening.
• The Snow Empress and Shu Yan sensed someone being hunted, and Shu Yan flew off to investigate a familiar aura despite the Ice Empress’s protests.
• The Snow Empress caught the Ice Empress and reassured her that Shu Yan would need to protect them in the future.
• The Ice Empress asked whether she had made the Snow Empress sad, and the Snow Empress said understanding her feelings made her happy.
• Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo fled through the Star Dou Great Forest with a destructive blood-red mist close behind them.
• Zhang Lexuan shielded Han Ruoruo from lightning bolts, and the two women spotted the soul beast that had attacked them.

Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo fought through a coordinated Soul Beast ambush, using their abilities to carve out a chance to escape. After Zhang Lexuan unleashed a devastating hundred-thousand-year soul skill, a sinister man attacked them and revealed that he had engineered their ordeal to capture them as cultivation furnaces.

• Zhang Lexuan recognized a powerful Dragon Demon Wa Daughter while Han Ruoruo and she were trapped between it and swarms of Bloodthirsty Demon Mosquitoes and Withered Blood Moths.
• Zhang Lexuan suspected someone was directing the beast hordes and urged Han Ruoruo to find and kill their leaders so they could escape.
• Han Ruoruo activated her Time-Space Mud Swamp to slow the swarms, and Zhang Lexuan located two beast kings among them.
• Zhang Lexuan transformed her Silver Moon into a blood moon and unleashed a hundred-thousand-year soul skill that killed tens of thousands of Soul Beasts and forced the Dragon Demon Wa Daughter to retreat.
• Zhang Lexuan carried the exhausted Han Ruoruo away, but a giant bloody hand struck Zhang Lexuan down and separated them.
• A sinister middle-aged man emerged and claimed he had planned the ambush to make Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo his cultivation furnaces.