Chapter Summaries

Shen Hanyu hunted a Mysterious Sea Glazed Beast in the Far North and absorbed it as his fourth Soul Ring before returning to Tianbing City to rest. As he reflected on his past, he recalled his transmigration, exceptional talent, and decision to leave home and cultivate on his own.

• Shen Hanyu pinned a wounded Mysterious Sea Glazed Beast with the Cold Sky Spear, killed it, and absorbed its black Soul Ring.
• After five hours of cultivation, Shen Hanyu crossed the Mixed Zone toward Tianbing City, complaining about his exhausting training and eating dried meat on the way.
• Shen Hanyu entered Tianbing City and checked into an expensive hotel to recover from the cold and his long battle.
• Shen Hanyu remembered his former life as a mercenary and how a missile blast had led to his transmigration into Love Continent as Shen Liuyu’s older brother.
• Shen Hanyu recalled awakening a strange spear Martial Soul with Innate Full Soul Power, keeping his talent secret, and leaving home after reaching Soul Grandmaster to cultivate independently.

After recovering from his exhausting battle, Shen Hanyu absorbed a Left Arm Bone from a Mysterious Sea Glazed Beast and raised his Soul Power to level forty-four. He left Tianbing City to return home, hoping to see his parents and his younger sister, Shen Liuyu.

• Shen Hanyu woke after a day and night of sleep, ate several meals, and changed out of his dirty clothes.
• Shen Hanyu absorbed the Mysterious Sea Glazed Beast's Left Arm Bone, which matched his fourth Soul Ring and raised him to level forty-four.
• Shen Hanyu meditated with his Cold Sky Spear overnight and considered how quickly his cultivation might advance.
• Shen Hanyu ate breakfast, paid for his lodging, and went to Tianbing City's carriage station to begin his journey home.
• Shen Hanyu thought about his parents, Shen Junhe and Qin Yi, and his younger sister, Shen Liuyu, whose Martial Soul had likely awakened.

Shen Hanyu traveled south from the Far North toward the Shen Family and learned that Spirit Hall had a new disciple. When Wolf Bandits ambushed his carriage, he sent the frightened coachman to hide and prepared to fight them with his Cold Sky Spear and four Soul Rings.

• Shen Hanyu hired a luxurious carriage and traveled south toward the Shen Family near Element City.
• The coachman told Shen Hanyu that Bishadong had displayed a red ninth Soul Ring and that Spirit Hall had recently announced a new disciple.
• Shen Hanyu spotted twenty or thirty Wolf Bandits stealthily following the carriage through a mountain valley.
• Shen Hanyu warned the coachman that the Wolf Bandits had targeted them, and the coachman stopped the carriage in terror.
• Shen Hanyu told the coachman to hide inside and flee if necessary, then summoned his Cold Sky Spear and four Soul Rings as the surrounding plants froze.

Shen Hanyu fought off a pack of Wolf Bandits, killed their leader, and recovered a rare Soul Bone. Afterward, he discovered that the coachman had abandoned him with a mocking note and a bag containing a few coins and rocks.

• Shen Hanyu ambushed the Wolf Bandits and targeted their leader, but the leader used a subordinate to block his attack.
• The Wolf Bandits swarmed Shen Hanyu, and the leader summoned Gale Magic Wolves while the battle left Shen Hanyu wounded and outnumbered.
• Shen Hanyu unleashed his Soul Skills, crippled the leader with Shocking the Heavens, then killed it with his fourth Soul Skill.
• The surviving Wolf Bandits fled, and Shen Hanyu found the Bloodthirsty Berserk Hurricane Right Leg Bone in the leader's remains.
• Shen Hanyu packed the Soul Bone as a gift for his sister, then found the coachman's note and bag of coins and rocks where the carriage had been.
• Shen Hanyu roared angrily as the coachman hummed away through the woods.

Shen Hanyu returned to Four Seasons City after three years away and reunited with his worried parents at the Shen Family estate. As the family welcomed him home, his little sister tugged his sleeve and asked whether he had forgotten her.

• Shen Hanyu walked the remaining road to Four Seasons City after his coachman left him behind, dealing with a few robbers along the way.
• Shen Hanyu entered Four Seasons City and returned to the Shen Family estate, where Liu Liu recognized him and said his family had missed him.
• Shen Junhe and Qin Yi spoke about Shen Hanyu before he entered the main hall and announced that he was home.
• Qin Yi embraced Shen Hanyu in tears, and Shen Junhe welcomed him back.
• Shen Hanyu chatted with his parents until his little sister tugged his sleeve and asked whether he had forgotten her.

Shen Hanyu reunited with his family, learned about Shen Liuyu’s Martial Soul, and revealed that he had become a Soul Ancestor. His parents entrusted Liuyu’s future education to him, while Liuyu suggested their parents might be planning another child.

• Shen Hanyu asked about Shen Liuyu’s Martial Soul and learned that her mutated Enamel Crocodile gave her Level Seven Innate Soul Power and that she had reached Level Nine.
• Shen Hanyu offered his parents a Thousand-Year Snow Lotus, and they scolded him for entering the Far North alone to hunt Soul Rings.
• Shen Hanyu revealed four Soul Rings and explained that physical strength and Mental Power determined how many years a Soul Ring a Soul Master could absorb.
• Shen Hanyu withdrew his chilling Martial Soul, warmed Shen Liuyu, and agreed to take charge of her education at his parents’ request.
• Shen Liuyu told Shen Hanyu that their parents seemed to be planning another child.

Shen Hanyu used Whale Rubber to help Shen Liuyu break through to become a Soul Master, then prepared a medicinal bath to support her growth. He warned his parents against having either sibling absorb the Shen Family’s old five-thousand-year Soul Bone, revealing that he had other Soul Bones.

• Shen Hanyu brought Shen Junhe, Qin Yi, and Shen Liuyu to the secret chamber, where Shen Junhe refined the Whale Rubber for Shen Liuyu.
• Shen Liuyu endured the Whale Rubber’s unpleasant taste, then experienced a transformation and broke through to become a Soul Master.
• Shen Hanyu carried the sleepy Shen Liuyu away and promised to take her to hunt for a soul ring the next day.
• Shen Hanyu selected herbs from the family warehouse and gave his parents a medicinal bath recipe for Shen Liuyu to use every three days.
• Shen Hanyu told Qin Yi and Shen Junhe that he possessed more than one Soul Bone, keeping them from considering the warehouse’s damaged five-thousand-year Soul Bone for their children.

Shen Hanyu searched the Frozen Forest for a suitable first Soul Ring for Shen Liuyu and found three unfamiliar, violent humanoid Soul Beasts slaughtering Ice Crocodiles. He chose a roughly six-hundred-year-old beast as her target and attacked, leaving Shen Liuyu watching from hiding.

• Shen Hanyu showed Shen Liuyu an Ice Snow Lion, but she rejected it and revealed she wanted a Snow Domain Demon Ape because her father’s first ring had come from one.
• Shen Hanyu explained that Soul Skills depended on the Soul Beast and suggested looking for Ice Bears or crocodile Soul Beasts instead.
• Shen Hanyu and Shen Liuyu spotted a group of Ice Crocodiles beside a river valley and three blood-eyed, white-furred humanoid Soul Beasts approaching them.
• The three Unknown Soul Beasts slaughtered the Ice Crocodiles and began eating them while Shen Hanyu guessed they might be related to Titan Snow Demons.
• Shen Hanyu told Shen Liuyu to hide, then leaped down with his Cold Sky Spear and four Soul Rings to attack the roughly six-hundred-year-old Soul Beast.

Shen Hanyu and his family traveled to Element City so Shen Liuyu could enroll at Skywater Academy, while Shen Hanyu explored the city and met Shui Bing'er. After learning that she was only five years old, he bought a comb and hurriedly carried her into an alley.

• Shen Junhe and Qin Yi agreed to send Shen Liuyu to Skywater Academy after she reached Soul Power level thirteen.
• Qin Yi took Shen Hanyu and Shen Liuyu by carriage from Four Seasons City to Element City, where she sought a meeting with Skywater Academy's headmaster about enrollment.
• Shen Hanyu wandered through Element City and browsed stalls, carrying more than a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Shen Hanyu and Shui Bing'er reached for the same Green Horn Bull horn comb and awkwardly negotiated over who would buy it.
• Shui Bing'er introduced herself as a Skywater Academy student and revealed she was five years old.
• Shen Hanyu bought the comb, scooped Shui Bing'er up, and rushed with her into a nearby alley.

Two years after settling in Heaven Dou City, Shen Hanyu reached level forty-nine and traveled to Sunset Forest to find a Soul Beast for his Soul King breakthrough. He killed a ten-thousand-year Cave Spider and found a skull Soul Bone, leaving him to decide what to do with it.

• Shen Hanyu spent two comfortable years cultivating in a manor and waited to visit Dugu Bo until he reached Soul King.
• Shen Hanyu entered Sunset Forest, where a Cave Spider ambushed him near a stream.
• Shen Hanyu wounded the Cave Spider with the Cold Sky Spear and killed it using his Ice Flame soul skill.
• Shen Hanyu found a ten-thousand-year skull Soul Bone in the Cave Spider and decided to keep it rather than absorb or give it away for free.

Shen Hanyu met Dugu Bo at his secluded residence and offered to suppress or cure the poison affecting him and Dugu Yan. After Shen Hanyu accurately described Dugu Bo’s symptoms and endured his strength, Dugu Bo was left shocked and demanded to know how Shen Hanyu knew.

• Shen Hanyu reached Dugu Bo’s residence and called for him through the poisonous miasma.
• Dugu Bo appeared and threatened Shen Hanyu, but eased his hostility after Shen Hanyu explained he had come to make a deal.
• Shen Hanyu resisted Dugu Bo’s pressure with his Cold Sky Spear and Soul Rings, and Dugu Bo let him enter the poisonous miasma.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Shen Hanyu offered to suppress or cure the poison affecting Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo seized Shen Hanyu, but Shen Hanyu described his recurring pain symptoms accurately, shocking Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo released Shen Hanyu’s arm after realizing his grip had not injured him, then asked how he knew about the symptoms.

Shen Hanyu negotiated with Dugu Bo, promising to help him and his granddaughter treat their poison in exchange for safety and medicinal herbs. He presented three possible remedies, ending with a plan to condense the toxins into a Poison Pearl using a powerful herb from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Dugu Bo grew interested in befriending him.

• Shen Hanyu asked Dugu Bo to swear on his Martial Soul not to harm him and to provide medicinal herbs in return for help treating the toxins.
• Dugu Bo learned Shen Hanyu was thirteen and, impressed by his talent, swore not to harm him.
• Shen Hanyu explained that consuming the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass could remove the poison but might weaken the Dugu family's Martial Souls.
• Shen Hanyu proposed using a Soul Bone to contain the toxins and his detoxifying blood to help Dugu Bo and his granddaughter.
• Shen Hanyu suggested condensing Dugu Bo's toxins into a Poison Pearl after amplifying them with a medicinal herb from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo praised Shen Hanyu's talent and knowledge, and laughed when Shen Hanyu described him as better-natured than his reputation suggested.

Shen Hanyu explained the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s immortal herbs to Dugu Bo and gave him several herbs suited to him and his granddaughter. They parted as friends, with Shen Hanyu promising to look after Dugu Yan and her descendants, while Dugu Bo regretted that she already loved someone else.

• Dugu Bo asked Shen Hanyu about the pool and its rare herbs, and Shen Hanyu called them immortal herbs capable of helping create Titled Douluo.
• Shen Hanyu gave Dugu Bo a Water Immortal Jade Bone for Dugu Yan and explained its benefits.
• Shen Hanyu gave Dugu Bo Dragon Blood Grass for Dugu Yan, plus the Aromatic Silk Beauty, Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma, and Blood Swan Kiss for his own cultivation and poison.
• Dugu Bo thanked Shen Hanyu, and Shen Hanyu promised to look after Dugu Yan and her descendants in the future.
• Dugu Bo lamented that Dugu Yan already loved someone, and Shen Hanyu reflected that she was with Yu Tianheng.

Shen Hanyu consumed two rare herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and emerged with a vastly strengthened, poison-immune body. He and Dugu Bo then searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a Purple Gold Profound Ice Beast, but found a strange marsh crowded with crocodile Soul Beasts.

• Shen Hanyu swallowed the Infernal Delicate Apricot and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, then endured a day and night submerged in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Dugu Bo stood guard.
• Shen Hanyu emerged with greatly enhanced physical strength, Ice and Fire Immunity, and a poison-immune constitution, prompting Dugu Bo to marvel at his body.
• Shen Hanyu and Dugu Bo discussed the Clear Sky Sect and Shen Hanyu’s hidden killing intent before heading into the Star Dou Great Forest two and a half days later.
• Shen Hanyu questioned whether the unusually quiet marsh could be home to the Purple Gold Profound Ice Beast, and Dugu Bo explained that the area had changed since he last visited.
• Shen Hanyu and Dugu Bo reached a river where swarms of Swamp Crocodiles and Spined Earth Crocodiles stared at one spot on the water amid a grim killing aura.

Shen Hanyu and Dugu Bo witnessed a bloody battle between two crocodile Soul Beast packs before the Purple Gold Profound Ice Beast appeared. Dugu Bo weakened the beast for Shen Hanyu, who killed it and began absorbing its Black Soul Ring.

• Dugu Bo explained that the Swamp Crocodiles and Spined Earth Crocodiles were fighting over shrinking waters, while the Purple Gold Profound Ice Beast likely remained nearby.
• The Spined Earth Crocodiles devastated the Swamp Crocodiles and prepared to finish off their king.
• The Purple Gold Profound Ice Beast emerged, and Dugu Bo identified it as a fifty-three-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Dugu Bo attacked the Purple Gold Profound Ice Beast, immobilized it with his Eighth Soul Skill, and pierced it with his Sixth Soul Skill.
• Shen Hanyu killed the weakened beast with his Cold Sky Spear and began absorbing its Black Soul Ring.

After absorbing a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast, Shen Hanyu reached Level fifty-two and received a storage Soul Tool from Dugu Bo. Dugu Bo then asked him to get close to Dugu Yan, while Shen Hanyu insisted he had no romantic interest in her and mentioned his child bride back home.

• Shen Hanyu awoke with his Soul Power at Level fifty-two after absorbing the Soul Beast, and Dugu Bo praised his powerful constitution.
• Shen Hanyu declared that he would raise his family into one of the continent’s top clans, while Dugu Bo doubted his boasts.
• Dugu Bo gave Shen Hanyu a Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch that could store living creatures, and Shen Hanyu promised to repay his kindness.
• Dugu Bo told Shen Hanyu about a forty-thousand-year King Kong Wolf King Right Arm Bone going up for auction, but Shen Hanyu said he would not choose a Soul Bone casually.
• Dugu Bo asked Shen Hanyu to get close to Dugu Yan, and Shen Hanyu said she was not his type and that he already liked his child bride.

Dugu Bo asked Shen Hanyu to become a protective elder brother figure for Dugu Yan, and Shen Hanyu agreed. Dugu Bo then brought Dugu Yan back from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, made her promise to protect herself and focus on cultivation, and prepared to introduce Shen Hanyu as her new elder brother.

• Dugu Bo worried that Dugu Yan’s relationship with Yu Tianheng might leave her emotionally vulnerable and asked Shen Hanyu to become her elder brother or uncle; Shen Hanyu agreed after teasing him.
• Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan back from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where she insisted she would not break up with Yu Tianheng.
• Dugu Bo gently urged Dugu Yan to protect herself and prioritize cultivation, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that he had met a brilliant boy close to her age and wanted her to acknowledge him as an elder brother.

Shen Hanyu confronted Dugu Yan about her devotion to Yu Tianheng, demonstrated his strength as a thirteen-year-old Soul King, and offered to protect her after Dugu Bo’s death. Dugu Yan broke down crying in Dugu Bo’s arms while Shen Hanyu watched.

• Dugu Yan defended Yu Tianheng and challenged Shen Hanyu, who had arrived with Dugu Bo.
• Shen Hanyu summoned five Soul Rings and held his spear to Dugu Yan’s neck, revealing that he was a thirteen-year-old Soul King.
• Shen Hanyu criticized Dugu Yan’s judgment and warned her about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, then offered to protect her after Dugu Bo’s death.
• Shen Hanyu demanded that Dugu Yan reflect on her behavior and write him a self-criticism before deciding whether to accept his support.
• Dugu Yan began crying, and Dugu Bo comforted her while Shen Hanyu watched.

After Dugu Yan began absorbing the Water Immortal Jade Bone, Shen Hanyu told Dugu Bo he was leaving Heaven Dou City to return to the Far North. Five days later, he reached the snowy coast and set out to find the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, though he planned to continue through the Frozen Forest toward Element City.

• Dugu Yan absorbed the Water Immortal Jade Bone while Dugu Bo watched over her.
• Shen Hanyu criticized Dugu Bo for spoiling Dugu Yan and warned him that she could offend others if she remained arrogant.
• Shen Hanyu told Dugu Bo he was returning to the Far North to consolidate his cultivation and handle other matters.
• Five days later, Shen Hanyu arrived on the stormy coast of the Far North and searched for the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, hoping to claim its Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Shen Hanyu planned to travel through the Frozen Forest toward Element City whether or not he found the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Shen Hanyu encountered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fleeing an Ice Horned Rhinoceros and killed the rhinoceros with the silkworm’s help. The chapter ended with Shen Hanyu and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm staring awkwardly at each other.

• Shen Hanyu set up camp for the night and stayed alert to the Far North’s dangers.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fled from a thirty-thousand-year Ice Horned Rhinoceros while calling for help.
• Shen Hanyu ambushed the Ice Horned Rhinoceros with his Cold Sky Spear, but its body repelled the blow.
• The Ice Horned Rhinoceros locked onto Shen Hanyu and charged, but an unknown voice told him to attack as the beast suddenly froze.
• Shen Hanyu repeatedly stabbed the Ice Horned Rhinoceros in the brain until it died and a black Soul Ring appeared.
• Shen Hanyu turned and found Sky Dream Ice Silkworm watching him, and they stared at each other awkwardly.