Chapter Summaries

Shen Hanyu negotiated nine leaves from You Mengchu’s regenerative Cloud Star Tea Tree, then returned with her and Snow Empress to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. You Mengchu began gathering immortal herbs to suppress her toxins, while Dugu Bo revealed a badly damaged Aromatic Silk Beauty.

• You Mengchu explained the Cloud Star Tea Tree’s regenerative properties and refused to give Shen Hanyu the tree itself, but he bargained her into giving him nine leaves.
• Shen Hanyu returned to the declining Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and buried the wilted Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor he had forgotten in his Soul Tool.
• You Mengchu explored the garden and asked for an Immortal Dew Flower, a Star Spirit Grass, and the stamen of an Aromatic Silk Beauty to suppress the toxins in her body.
• Dugu Bo produced a sealed jade box containing a badly damaged Aromatic Silk Beauty, and Shen Hanyu asked whether he had eaten it like a meal.

You Mengchu refined pills, controlled her poison, and shared information about a rare Qilin with Shen Hanyu, while Shen Hanyu and Snow Empress grew closer amid her fears about his feelings. After Skywater Academy’s defeat by the Royal Fight Team, Ye Lingling treated the injured girls and left, drawing Shen Hanyu’s and Snow Empress’s attention.

• You Mengchu took the Aromatic Silk Beauty’s stamen and went to Dugu Bo’s cave to refine pills, asking everyone not to disturb her.
• Shen Hanyu and Snow Empress spent time alone together, and Snow Empress pleaded with him never to leave her.
• Shen Hanyu and Snow Empress learned that Skywater Academy’s girls had lost to the Royal Fight Team, with Dugu Yan’s poison and Yu Tianheng’s attacks injuring several of them.
• Ye Lingling used her healing Martial Soul to treat the injured girls, accepted Shui Bing’er’s thanks, and left after briefly watching Shen Hanyu.
• You Mengchu explained how she had diluted and absorbed the immortal herb’s toxins, then agreed to visit Skywater Academy and gave Shen Hanyu a marked map of Qilin locations.
• Snow Empress confronted Shen Hanyu about his divided affections, and he promised she would remain by his side as they reconciled in private.

After the attack on Skywater Academy’s team, Shen Hanyu and Shui Ningbing suspected Spirit Hall and prepared to leave Heaven Dou City. Shen Hanyu then set his sights on hunting the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for his Seventh Soul Ring, but he and Snow Empress knew the challenge could draw Sea God Island into the fight.

• Heaven Dou officials launched an investigation into the attack, while Shen Hanyu ordered the attackers’ bodies disposed of and warned Shen Liuyu and the other girls to stay close.
• Shen Hanyu examined You Mengchu’s Sea Abyss Ink equipment, and she gave him a copied medicinal codex before returning to her room.
• Shen Hanyu and Snow Empress considered hunting the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, but recognized that his strength and Sea God Island’s likely intervention made the fight perilous.
• Shui Ningbing led Skywater Academy’s group back to Element City, while Shen Hanyu asked You Mengchu to stay behind and prepared to pursue his own plans.
• Shen Hanyu learned that Dugu Bo was in seclusion absorbing a Soul Bone and attempting to break through to the Super Douluo level.

After helping Dugu Bo reach the Super Douluo realm, Shen Hanyu persuaded him and You Mengchu to travel with him and Snow Empress to Vast Sea City. The group prepared to head to Sea God Island, while Shen Hanyu and Snow Empress spent the evening together before their journey.

• Dugu Bo broke through to the Super Douluo realm and agreed to accompany Shen Hanyu after Shen Hanyu pressed him for help.
• Shen Hanyu learned that You Mengchu's Imperial Feather Falcon Martial Soul gave her exceptional speed and offensive power.
• Shen Hanyu, Dugu Bo, You Mengchu, and Snow Empress flew day and night to reach Vast Sea City.
• At a hotel, Shen Hanyu explained their plan to travel to Sea God Island, and You Mengchu regretted joining the expedition while Dugu Bo prepared to stabilize his cultivation.
• Shen Hanyu took Snow Empress sightseeing and then sat with her on the beach as the sun set.

Shen Hanyu and his companions traveled into the deep ocean to hunt the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, learning more about the beast and bargaining over their help. Snow Empress revealed her vast Soul Bone collection, and the group ended the chapter near Sea God Island and the whale’s territory.

• Shen Hanyu’s group flew out to sea, while Hai Xi warned them that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was an ancient, powerful ruler with a wife and daughter.
• You Mengchu and Dugu Bo agreed to help in exchange for Soul Bones, and Shen Hanyu promised to pay them.
• Snow Empress told Shen Hanyu that she had more than twenty Soul Bones stored in her palace in the Far North and offered to support him.
• After three days at sea, the group weathered a storm and drove off an eighty-thousand-year Blue Venom Octopus when Shen Hanyu pierced four of its tentacles.
• The group reached the ocean’s depths, less than three hundred kilometers from Sea God Island and over seven hundred kilometers from the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s territory.

Shen Hanyu’s group confronted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King in Demon Whale Waters, where Shen Hanyu wounded him with divine power and offered him a chance to escape the Sea God’s plans. The Whale King questioned whether he could trust Shen Hanyu, who offered to swear before God King Asura and the Silver Dragon King.

• Shen Hanyu’s group entered Demon Whale Waters, where the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King sensed them and emerged to attack.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King refused Shen Hanyu’s offer to negotiate and unleashed his lightning attack on the group.
• Shen Hanyu and his companions fought back, and Shen Hanyu struck the Whale King with an attack strengthened by divine power, badly wounding him.
• Shen Hanyu told the Whale King that the Sea God’s rules barred Soul Beasts from becoming gods and offered him survival if he joined Shen Hanyu with his family.
• The Whale King asked how he could trust Shen Hanyu, who offered to swear that his claims were true before God King Asura and the Silver Dragon King.

Shen Hanyu faced Bo Saixi while trying to take the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King away from the Sea God’s plans. After trading Bo Saixi information about Tang Chen for her cultivation insights, Shen Hanyu left with the injured whale king, who began gathering his family to leave the sea.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King learned that the Sea God’s eighth trial required his death, and Shen Hanyu explained that he was an inheritor of multiple divine legacies.
• Bo Saixi arrived with three Sea Soul Master Titled Douluo and ordered Shen Hanyu to leave the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King alone.
• Shen Hanyu challenged Bo Saixi’s authority and revealed that he knew Tang Chen was in Slaughter City, prompting Bo Saixi to trade her breakthrough insights for the information.
• Bo Saixi let Shen Hanyu, Snow Empress, Dugu Bo, and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King depart, explaining that the young man had attracted the attention of powerful gods.
• Shen Hanyu confirmed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s decision to leave, and the whale king summoned another member of his family and a miniature Deep Sea Demon Whale.

Shen Hanyu gave the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King a Transformation Grass, allowing Lan Fuzi to transform into a human and join the group traveling to the human world with the Demon Queen. In Vast Sea City, Lan Fuzi discovered candied hawthorns, and Shen Hanyu’s group bickered over the treats.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King said he needed to visit the Star Dou Great Forest and consult Di Tian before deciding whether to accept Shen Hanyu’s proposal.
• Shen Hanyu exposed You Mengchu’s hidden Transformation Grass and gave it to the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, who fed it to Lan Fuzi.
• Lan Fuzi transformed into a human, and the Demon Queen decided to accompany Shen Hanyu’s group while the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King departed for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Shen Hanyu, the Demon Queen, and Lan Fuzi traveled to Vast Sea City, where Lan Fuzi eagerly asked Snow Empress about candied hawthorns.
• Shen Hanyu bought the stall’s entire rack of candied hawthorns, and You Mengchu, Snow Empress, the Demon Queen, and Dugu Bo each took some while joking with him.

Shen Hanyu’s group enjoyed a day in Vast Sea City, where Dugu Bo reflected on the burden Shen Hanyu carried and the era he was trying to guide. After corrupt Spirit Hall members disturbed the group’s romantic evening, Shen Hanyu and Lan Fuzi attacked the local branch, leaving the city cheering the purge.

• You Mengchu accepted two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins from Shen Hanyu, while Dugu Bo spoke to her about Shen Hanyu’s exhaustion and the weight of his responsibilities.
• Shen Hanyu and the Snow Empress shared a romantic moment on the beach as Lan Fuzi played nearby with You Mengchu and the Demon Queen.
• Dugu Bo captured a group of attackers, and Shen Hanyu killed them after learning they had ties to the master of Vast Sea City’s Spirit Hall Branch Hall.
• Lan Fuzi asked to join Shen Hanyu in confronting the branch hall, and he agreed to take her along.
• The next morning, Shen Hanyu and Lan Fuzi had killed thirty-seven members of the Vast Sea City branch, and the city’s people celebrated the purge.

You Mengchu planned to publish a scholarly work on soul beast age limits and other little-known knowledge, with Shen Hanyu lending her his notes. He cautioned her to limit what she revealed, and she began rewriting her draft with the new material.

• Shen Hanyu and the Snow Empress returned to the hotel after three days of leisure in Vast Sea City, where You Mengchu was absorbed in writing.
• Shen Hanyu saw You Mengchu's draft about soul beast age limits, and she explained that she wanted to publish what she had learned under her own name.
• Shen Hanyu warned You Mengchu that revealing too much could cause unrest amid the continent's rising tensions, then lent her his notes and advised her to keep the material within limits.
• You Mengchu asked whether publishing the knowledge would amount to stealing Shen Hanyu's credit, and he said he did not care about the fame and trusted her character.
• You Mengchu read Shen Hanyu's notes, discarded her earlier draft, and started writing again more carefully.

The group returned to Element City, where Shen Hanyu relaxed at Skywater Academy while You Mengchu processed his revelations about powerful Soul Beasts and higher cultivation realms. Shui Ningbing then reported that Huyan Zhen had become a Titled Douluo and that Spirit Hall had strengthened its local forces, leaving Shen Hanyu confident they could wait and respond only if threatened.

• The group flew from Vast Sea City toward Element City as You Mengchu studied Shen Hanyu’s knowledge about Fierce Beasts and realms beyond Limit Douluo.
• Shen Hanyu returned to Skywater Academy and relaxed with Shen Liuyu and Snow Empress while Shui Liuyu chatted about their parents.
• Shui Ningbing arrived with Shui Bing’er and her sister and told Shen Hanyu that Huyan Zhen had broken through to the Titled Douluo realm.
• Shui Ningbing reported that Spirit Hall had replaced Element City’s branch hall leaders with stronger personnel.
• Shen Hanyu said Spirit Hall was monitoring Skywater Academy and that he and Snow Empress would act if its forces made a move, while Shui Ningbing’s Martial Soul could counter Huyan Zhen.

Shen Hanyu discovered that Huyan Zhen had become a Titled Douluo and witnessed an unsettling scene at the Elephant Armored Sect. The next morning, You Mengchu asked him to take Shui Bing'er to obtain a Soul Ring, and he chose a flock of Ice Jade Phoenix Birds while promising Snow Empress he would not slaughter indiscriminately.

• Shen Hanyu learned that Huyan Zhen had become a Titled Douluo but was still no match for a powerful opponent like him.
• Shen Hanyu spotted a hidden Soul Sage in Element City's Martial Soul Branch Hall, then sensed Huyan Zhen at the Elephant Armored Sect and witnessed him with two female students.
• Shen Hanyu returned home to Snow Empress, and they spent the night together before preparing breakfast the next morning.
• You Mengchu brought Shen Hanyu her new book, and he praised it and suggested that Aunt Shui publish it.
• You Mengchu asked whether Shen Hanyu would take Shui Bing'er to obtain a Soul Ring, and he agreed to go with her.
• Shen Hanyu chose the Ice Jade Phoenix Bird flock as a possible source for Shui Bing'er's Soul Ring, and Snow Empress told him not to slaughter indiscriminately.

Shen Hanyu and Snow Empress took Shui Bing'er, Shen Liuyu, and Shui Yue'er to hunt for Soul Beasts. Shui Bing'er absorbed a thirteen-thousand-year Ice Jade Phoenix Bird's Soul Ring without complications.

• You Mengchu told Shui Ningbing that Shen Hanyu was sharp-tongued, and Shui Ningbing reassured her that he was generous to those close to him.
• You Mengchu told Shui Ningbing that Shen Hanyu had confirmed Shen Hanyu's information was sound, and Shui Ningbing promised to release it through the academy.
• Shen Hanyu and Snow Empress set out with Shui Bing'er, Shen Liuyu, and Shui Yue'er to find suitable Soul Beasts.
• Shen Hanyu found an Ice Jade Phoenix Bird with a fatal wound and brought it back for Shui Bing'er, while Snow Empress persuaded the bird to approach her.
• Shui Bing'er absorbed the Ice Jade Phoenix Bird's thirteen-thousand-year Soul Ring without spiritual shock, and Shen Hanyu sealed away some of its excess energy.

Shen Hanyu arranged for Xiao Bai to help Xu Yan and Xu Shuishui confront the Star Crown Sect’s purge, while Shui Ningbing prepared to spread Shen Hanyu’s controversial book across the Heaven Dou Empire. The book then swept across the continent, bringing Huang Yu Douluo’s new ideas into public debate and throwing the factions into turmoil.

• Xu Yan and Xu Shuishui told Shen Hanyu that the Star Crown Sect was undergoing a purge led by Xu Shuishui’s father and the sect master, and Shen Hanyu promised them help.
• Shen Hanyu sent Xiao Bai to meet the two teachers and accompany them to the Star Luo Empire to handle their troubles.
• Shui Ningbing secured the support of three influential merchants to distribute Shen Hanyu’s book throughout the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Shen Hanyu and Shui Ningbing discussed the coming uproar, and Shen Hanyu said he and Snow Empress would watch over the city while he planned future travels with the academy’s students.
• Three days later, Shen Hanyu’s book spread across the continent, provoking fierce debate and making Huang Yu Douluo’s ideas known to the leaders of the top factions.

As factions across the continent reacted to rumors surrounding Huang Yu Douluo, Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo connected him to Shen Hanyu and Skywater Academy. Bibi Dong ordered an investigation and arranged a public invitation for Huang Yu Douluo while preparing to travel herself.

• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo linked Huang Yu Douluo to Shen Hanyu, Dugu Bo, and Skywater Academy, while Bone Douluo asked who Shen Hanyu was.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, the royal court, and elders of the Clear Sky Sect also considered the rumors and their implications.
• Bibi Dong received Ghost Douluo's report that Shen Hanyu was close to Skywater Academy and Dugu Bo, and that Huang Yu Douluo also had ties to the academy.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to gather information, then planned a trip with Gui Mei and several men skilled at concealing their tracks and auras.
• Bibi Dong instructed Spirit Hall to invite Huang Yu Douluo to give a lecture in half a month, offer him a top-tier Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, invite other major factions, and investigate Suotuo City.

You Mengchu sought Shen Hanyu’s advice about Spirit Hall’s invitation, which he suspected was a pretext to gather intelligence and test the factions. He decided that he, Snow Empress, the Demon Queen, and the girls would accompany her to Spirit City, both to protect her and to let the girls meet Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation.

• You Mengchu told Shen Liuyu and the girls that she wanted Shen Hanyu’s opinion about Spirit Hall’s invitation and hoped to visit its book collection.
• Shen Hanyu considered how Spirit Hall could exploit You Mengchu’s appearance or absence to damage her credibility and gather information on rival factions.
• Snow Empress comforted Shen Hanyu, and they kissed before You Mengchu and the girls arrived at the courtyard.
• Shen Hanyu told You Mengchu he would not interfere with her choice of reward and said he would accompany her to Spirit City with Snow Empress, the Demon Queen, and the girls.

Shen Hanyu explained Spirit Hall’s angel and Rakshasa God inheritances and encouraged his companions to keep pursuing divine trials as they prepared to visit Spirit City. Later, he told Snow Empress that the God Realm’s attitude seemed to have changed and suspected its ruler was weighing him against another chosen successor, a theory that made the blue bead in his Sea of Consciousness tremble.

• Shen Hanyu told his companions that Spirit Hall’s Qian Family inherited the God of Angels, while Bibi Dong inherited the Rakshasa God, both First-level Deities.
• Shen Liuyu, Shui Bing'er, and Shui Yue'er worried about visiting Spirit City, but Shen Hanyu reassured them that divine trials could come to those with sufficient talent.
• After the others left, Snow Empress questioned Shen Hanyu about his earlier remarks, and he apologized for withholding details.
• Shen Hanyu told Snow Empress that Bo Saixi’s changed attitude and the God Sea’s allowing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s family to leave suggested a shift in the God Realm’s attitude.
• Shen Hanyu compared himself and another potential successor to two young lions competing for an aging king’s inheritance, and the blue bead in his Sea of Consciousness trembled in response.

Shen Hanyu and his companions traveled toward Spirit City, where they unexpectedly encountered Qian Renxue and her convoy. After sensing You Mengchu’s formidable aura, Qian Renxue ordered her subordinates to report the discovery and secretly monitor the group.

• Shen Hanyu fell asleep against the Snow Empress during the journey and woke feeling rested, then massaged her leg in thanks.
• Qian Renxue met Shen Hanyu and the others during a stop on the road and exchanged polite words with them.
• Qian Renxue sensed that You Mengchu possessed an aura at the level of a powerful Titled Douluo and asked Shen Hanyu about Spirit Hall.
• Shen Hanyu described Spirit Hall as a potential threat to the Heaven Dou Empire, and Qian Renxue returned to her carriage.
• Qian Renxue sent Snake Lance Douluo ahead to report that she had found someone who might be Huang Yu Douluo and ordered Porcupinefish Douluo to arrange covert surveillance.

Shen Hanyu’s group entered Spirit City, where he assessed the powerful Soul Masters and encountered Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation. After Hu Liena probed him and Yan confronted him, Shen Hanyu overwhelmed Yan and mocked the trio as the convoy continued toward the city center.

• Shen Hanyu sensed the powerful Soul Masters in Spirit City while Snow Empress remarked on Qian Daoliu’s strength.
• Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Yan watched the Skywater Academy convoy pass and discussed its strongest members.
• Hu Liena met Shen Hanyu’s gaze, became frozen by his presence, and Yan accused him of attacking her.
• Shen Hanyu struck Yan with a burst of cold Soul Power, knocking him unconscious and freezing the ground around the tea stall.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue carried Yan away after Shen Hanyu mocked Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation.
• In the carriage, Shen Liuyu criticized her brother, drawing cold looks from Shen Hanyu and Snow Empress.

Shen Hanyu reassured the Skywater Academy group that Spirit Hall would not retaliate over his attack on Yan. Bibi Dong revealed that a dangerous expedition into the Star Dou Great Forest had cost the lives of most of her team, and she chose to remain cautious while investigating the forces behind Yan’s injuries.

• Shen Hanyu walked through Spirit City with Snow Empress while the Skywater Academy students worried about his confrontation with Yan.
• At dinner, Shen Hanyu explained that Spirit Hall would have acted already if it intended to punish them, and said he had attacked Yan because Yan’s companion used Mental Power against him.
• Bibi Dong heard Hu Liena and Xie Yue report that Yan’s injuries were mostly external, though three of his ribs had broken.
• Bibi Dong told Hu Liena and Xie Yue that she and Ghost Douluo had encountered powerful Soul Beasts in a primeval forest, where the rest of their expedition had been killed.
• Bibi Dong said Ghost Douluo’s examination linked Yan’s injuries to powerful, adhesive Ice Attribute energy, and she decided that Spirit Hall should wait for a better chance to respond.