Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue bound to the Daily Intelligence System, which revealed that Su Yu would awaken a Brass Book martial soul with Innate Full Soul Power. She had him brought from Full Moon Village and confirmed his potential, leaving his future in her hands.

• Qian Renxue received intelligence about Xue Beng and Xue Xing's secret meeting and Su Yu's coming awakening, then ordered Snake Lance to find Su Yu and bring him to Heaven Dou City.
• Snake Lance kidnapped Su Yu from his home in Full Moon Village and delivered him to Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue introduced herself to Su Yu as Xue Qinghe and told him to awaken his martial soul.
• Su Yu summoned a Brass Book, and the Soul Power Crystal shone brightly, revealing his Innate Full Soul Power.

Su Yu revealed his Innate Full Soul Power and the unusual Book of Rules, then agreed to serve Qian Renxue in Heaven Dou. After Su Yu began studying his martial soul, Qian Renxue reported his recruitment to Xue Ye, who planned to tie the future Title Douluo to the imperial family through his daughter.

• Su Yu showed Qian Renxue and her guards the Book of Rules, whose dense text overwhelmed them, and accepted her offer to serve Heaven Dou.
• Qian Renxue arranged for Su Yu to rest, promised support for his village, and said she would take him to obtain his first soul ring after he recovered.
• Alone in his room, Su Yu confirmed that reading the Brass Book consumed mental energy and that its black foundational rules could not yet be changed.
• Qian Renxue confirmed that her system's information about Su Yu was true and resolved to learn more about his martial soul.
• Xue Ye praised Qian Renxue for hiding Su Yu's talent, ordered his public aptitude reported as Level Nine Innate Soul Power, and suggested marrying him to Ke'er if his soul skill proved suitable.
• Qian Renxue concealed her contempt for Xue Ye's plan and began considering how to deal with the uncle-nephew pair posing as wastrels.

Qian Renxue learned that Tang San had awakened Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power, while Su Yu met Xue Ke at the Crown Prince's Residence. The chapter ended with Qian Renxue arranging medicinal cuisine for Su Yu and promising to take him to Sunset Forest for his first soul ring once he had recovered.

• Qian Renxue read the system's intelligence that Tang San would awaken Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power, and decided to let him live for now.
• Su Yuntao awakened the children of Holy Soul Village, discovered Tang San had Innate Full Soul Power, and gave him a martial soul certificate.
• Qian Renxue introduced Su Yu to Xue Ke and asked her to show him around the Crown Prince's Residence.
• Su Yu and Xue Ke bickered in the garden about his Brass Book martial soul and the beauty of martial souls.
• Qian Renxue found Su Yu and Xue Ke getting along, then offered Su Yu medicinal cuisine and promised to take him to Sunset Forest for his first soul ring.

After recovering from his martial soul awakening, Su Yu entered Sunset Forest with Qian Renxue to obtain his first soul ring. He absorbed the Golden Lion King's ring successfully, and the chapter ended as he awoke with his new power.

• Qian Renxue asked Su Yu which soul beast he wanted to hunt, and he chose a pack king whose species had strong bloodlines.
• Qian Renxue reviewed intelligence reports and became wary of Count Lionheart Cyril's secret meeting with Prince Xuexing.
• Qian Renxue and Su Yu entered Sunset Forest with guards, who found several packs for Su Yu to choose from.
• Su Yu chose the Golden Lion pack, and the guards restrained its king while the group dealt with the pride.
• Su Yu killed the Golden Lion King and absorbed its yellow soul ring after enduring an hour of pain.

Su Yu tested his first soul skill, Rule Creation, and explained its powers and limitations to Qian Renxue while hiding its full potential. As Su Yu and Qian Renxue left Sunset Forest, Dugu Bo arrived and blocked their way.

• Su Yu used his Brass Book soul skill to create rules against theft, property damage, and harming others, then explained how Rule Creation consumed Soul Power and punished violations.
• Qian Renxue had Snake Lance Douluo test the theft rule, and invisible lashes struck him when he crushed a Gold Soul Coin.
• Su Yu attempted to create a rule against breathing, but the Brass Book rejected it; he also explained that rules affected allies and could not be freely made against common sense.
• Su Yu privately reflected that he could create less reasonable rules by spending extra Soul Power and designate Enforcers to gain exemptions, while his martial soul might eventually alter the world's rules.
• Su Yu followed Qian Renxue and her guards out of Sunset Forest as Dugu Bo left the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and descended to block their path.

Dugu Bo encountered Qian Renxue and Su Yu on their way back from Sunset Forest and became intrigued by Su Yu’s unusual martial soul and soul skill. After returning to Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue urged Xue Ye to delay announcing Su Yu’s engagement to Ke’er, while Su Yu considered seeking information about the Immortal Herbs.

• Dugu Bo stopped Qian Renxue’s party, examined Su Yu’s Brass Book martial soul, and asked about his first soul skill.
• Qian Renxue left with Su Yu after Dugu Bo allowed them to go, while Dugu Bo wondered why Xue Qinghe and Xue Ye valued the boy so highly.
• At the Crown Prince’s Residence, Qian Renxue told Su Yu she would report to Xue Ye and that he might be summoned to the palace.
• Qian Renxue told Xue Ye about meeting Dugu Bo and recommended postponing Ke’er and Su Yu’s engagement to avoid arousing suspicion.
• Su Yu tried to recall the Immortal Herbs’ harvesting and consumption methods, then considered asking Chrysanthemum Douluo for information through Qian Renxue.

Su Yu enrolled at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and met Aornia, the daughter of Marquis Full Moon, whose mutated Blood Moon martial soul reminded him of the Vampire Clan queen. He resolved to study soul beasts and help her choose one when she reached rank ten.

• Qian Renxue arranged for Su Yu to attend Heaven Dou Royal Academy and gave him a storage soul tool with supplies and gold soul coins.
• Su Yu arrived at the academy, learned that Dugu Yan had graduated to the advanced campus, and met Aornia.
• Aornia told Su Yu that her martial soul had mutated into a red moon containing a black human figure and that she had yet to obtain a first soul ring.
• Aornia revealed that her cultivation speed had recently improved and that she had reached rank nine, while Su Yu recognized a connection to the Vampire Clan.
• Su Yu promised to spend the next three months in the library researching a suitable soul beast for Aornia, unaware that her family had already chosen a soul skill combination.

Su Yu learned about Aornia’s rejection by her family and sought books on soul beasts, while Xue Ke revealed that Aornia’s siblings were her classmates. The chapter ended with Marquis Full Moon Orlando arriving to meet Prince Xuexing.

• Su Yu asked Qian Renxue about Marquis Full Moon and learned that Aornia’s martial soul mutation had made her father look down on her and send her away to school.
• Su Yu requested access to books about soul beasts, and Qian Renxue offered him entry to the Royal Library and Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s library.
• Xue Ke visited Su Yu and told him that Marquis Full Moon’s son and daughter were her classmates, while their younger sister was left out of their conversations.
• Su Yu pictured Aornia as an unwanted child and then entertained Xue Ke with stories.
• Orlando, Marquis Full Moon, arrived at Prince Xuexing’s residence and greeted him.

Qian Renxue received intelligence that Tang Hao’s son would encounter a hundred-thousand-year Shapeshifting Spirit Beast and wrote to her grandfather urging the search for Tang Hao. She also planned to exploit Xue Xing’s meeting with Marquis Full Moon, but Su Yu’s friendship with Marquis Full Moon’s daughter gave her pause.

• Qian Renxue reviewed the system’s intelligence and concluded that future events could sometimes be prevented through preparation.
• Qian Renxue wrote to her grandfather about Su Yu’s Brass Book martial soul and warned that Tang Hao’s son might become a grave threat to Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue sent Snake Lance to deliver her letter to her grandfather in Spirit City.
• Qian Renxue considered using Xue Ye’s suspicions to eliminate Xue Xing and the nobles supporting him.
• Qian Renxue remembered that Su Yu was friends with Aornia, Marquis Full Moon’s daughter, and wondered whether the boy had been sweet-talked by her.

Su Yu visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s library with Xue Ke to research soul beasts suitable for Aornia and Xue Ke. He found a possible target for Aornia, the Blood Crown Flower, and left with his notes as Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling arrived at the academy.

• Su Yu and Xue Ke entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Su Yu said he wanted to find a suitable first soul beast for Aornia.
• Su Yu promised to look for a soul beast for Xue Ke too, then took her to the academy library.
• Su Yu researched soul beasts and found the Blood Crown Flower, whose seeds parasitized hosts and whose soul ring might grant a healing ability with a hidden effect.
• Su Yu recorded his theories about the Blood Crown Flower, but found no second suitable soul beast before sunset.
• Su Yu left the library with Xue Ke, and they saw Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling entering the academy.

Qian Daoliu read Qian Renxue’s letter and learned that Su Yu’s Martial Soul contained strange rules that could harm anyone who studied them. Concerned for his granddaughter, he went to Heaven Dou City and appeared before her.

• Su Yu and Xue Ke passed Dugu Yan and her companion on their way back to the Crown Prince’s Residence.
• Snake Lance delivered Qian Renxue’s letter to Qian Daoliu at the Worship Hall.
• Qian Daoliu learned that studying the words in Su Yu’s Martial Soul drained mental power and grew more dangerous with repeated exposure.
• Snake Lance assured Qian Daoliu that Qian Renxue had stopped reading the words, and Qian Daoliu decided to examine her himself.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Lao Er to guard the Worship Hall, then traveled to Heaven Dou City and appeared before Qian Renxue.

Qian Daoliu confirmed that Su Yu’s Brass Book was an Innate God-Level Martial Soul and urged Qian Renxue to secure his loyalty to Spirit Hall. After discovering intelligence about Aornia and Moon Divinity, Qian Renxue considered how to tell her grandfather.

• Qian Renxue’s System Screen revealed that Aornia had been corrupted by Moon Divinity six years earlier and that Su Yu would help her choose her first soul beast three months in the future.
• Qian Daoliu sensed a power beyond Soul Power in Qian Renxue and concluded that Su Yu’s Brass Book was likely an Innate God-Level Martial Soul.
• Qian Daoliu removed the lingering danger from Chi Xue and ordered him not to inspect Su Yu’s Martial Soul again.
• Qian Daoliu examined the sleeping Su Yu and confirmed that the Brass Book was an Innate God-Level Martial Soul.
• Qian Daoliu urged Qian Renxue to win Su Yu’s loyalty and promised to provide him with the greatest support, while Qian Renxue resolved to consider how to tell him about Aornia.

Qian Renxue and Qian Daoliu discussed Tang Hao, Twin Martial Souls, and Su Yu before Qian Daoliu left for Spirit City. Su Yu suspected Qian Renxue knew about his potential to raise a spirit ring’s age, then demonstrated his Martial Soul and revised its first rule when he realized it could expose her disguise.

• Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu how he recognized Su Yu’s divine aura, and they discussed Tang Hao’s son and the risks of Twin Martial Souls.
• Qian Daoliu arranged to intensify the search for Tang Hao, listened as Qian Renxue recounted her life in Heaven Dou City, and left for Spirit City at dawn.
• Qian Renxue suggested that a thousand-year second spirit ring could compensate for Aornia’s weak first ring, prompting Su Yu to suspect she was probing his knowledge of ring-age limits.
• Su Yu decided to reveal Whale Rubber to gain Qian Renxue’s trust and demonstrate his value, then summoned his Martial Soul to show her its first rule.
• When Su Yu realized the rule against deception could expose Qian Renxue’s false identity as Xue Qinghe, he changed it to forbid deceiving others through words.

Su Yu used the Brass Book’s contract-punishment rules to test medicinal ingredients for ways to raise a Soul Master's soul ring absorption limit. After repeated trials involving Chi Xue, they discovered that Whale Rubber roasted until soft and fragrant could increase the limit.

• Su Yu explained that the Brass Book could punish contract breaches and used that rule to devise a way to test medicines.
• Qian Renxue ordered guards to collect medicinal ingredients from major pharmacies, and Chi Xue signed a contract to serve as Party B.
• Su Yu and Chi Xue tested batches of ingredients, with the Brass Book punishing Chi Xue whenever a batch failed to meet the contract.
• After more than a dozen trials, Su Yu identified Whale Rubber as a promising ingredient and proposed testing different ways of preparing it.
• Su Yu, Qian Renxue, and Chi Xue confirmed that Whale Rubber roasted until soft and fragrant could increase a Soul Master's soul ring absorption limit.

Su Yu’s test revealed that his rule-based Martial Soul could deliver Punishment powerful enough to kill a Soul King while using little Soul Power, prompting Qian Renxue and Chi Xue to reconsider its nature. Qian Renxue arranged to gather Whale Rubber to strengthen Su Yu, and Qian Daoliu ordered it purchased across the Star Luo Empire as he considered Su Yu’s chance of surpassing level one hundred.

• Chi Xue reported that Su Yu’s final Punishment had been powerful enough to erase a Soul King, despite Su Yu retaining about half his Soul Power.
• Su Yu realized that his Martial Soul might establish rules that caused the surrounding area to punish violators, but he concealed his insight from Qian Renxue and Chi Xue.
• Qian Renxue told Su Yu to improve his physique with Whale Rubber, training, and medicinal baths, and asked him to keep the Whale Rubber plan from Aornia.
• Qian Renxue sent a letter about Su Yu’s latest situation to Qian Daoliu through Snake Lance.
• After reading the letter, Qian Daoliu ordered Snake Lance to discreetly buy all Whale Rubber in the Star Luo Empire and assigned Ghost Leopard Douluo to do the same in Spirit City.
• Qian Daoliu wondered whether Su Yu could forge his own path and break through level one hundred through his own strength.

Ning Fengzhi learned that Xue Qinghe had secretly bought whale rubber and arranged for him and Su Yu to attend Ning Rongrong’s upcoming martial-soul awakening. Qian Renxue discovered that her purchase had become gossip, while Tang Yuehua’s grain purchases were shown to be supporting the secluded Clear Sky Sect.

• Ning Fengzhi read a report that a Seven Treasure Pharmacy manager had identified one of Xue Qinghe’s personal guards buying whale rubber, and he discussed the discovery with Chen Xin.
• Ning Fengzhi planned to invite Xue Qinghe and Su Yu to Ning Rongrong’s martial-soul awakening in three days so Rongrong could meet peers.
• Qian Renxue learned that news of her whale-rubber purchase would reach Xue Ye, who would admonish her, and noticed that Tang Yuehua had bought another large supply of grain.
• Tang Yuehua’s Moonlight Pavilion supplied grain to the secluded Clear Sky Sect and gathered intelligence for it.
• Tang Xiao watched Clear Sky Sect disciples return to the mountain gate with the grain.

Qian Renxue and Su Yu arrived in Seven Treasure City to attend Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul awakening banquet, where Ning Fengzhi welcomed them. After Su Yu explored the city and overlooked Ning Rongrong, she sat beside her father glaring at him resentfully.

• Inside the carriage, Su Yu questioned Qian Renxue about the risks and significance of Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul awakening, and she explained the Seven Treasure Pagoda’s limits.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Ning Rongrong welcomed Qian Renxue and Su Yu when they arrived in Seven Treasure City.
• Qian Renxue introduced Su Yu as a rank-nine talent who had recently become an eleventh-level Soul Master, and Ning Fengzhi praised him.
• Ning Fengzhi led the guests through Seven Treasure City to the grand reception hall while Su Yu admired the city and failed to notice Ning Rongrong beside him.
• Ning Rongrong sat beside Ning Fengzhi and glared resentfully at Su Yu after he ignored her.

At Ning Rongrong’s awakening banquet, Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo reunited with Su Yu, while Qian Renxue introduced him to the guests. Ning Rongrong awakened the Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda with innate Soul Power at level nine, leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect hopeful that she could eventually surpass the Martial Soul’s limit.

• Dugu Yan recognized Su Yu at the banquet, and she and Dugu Bo revealed that they had both met him before.
• Ning Fengzhi welcomed Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, and Qian Renxue continued introducing the gathered guests to Su Yu.
• Gu Rong used an Awakening Array to awaken Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda.
• Chen Xin tested Ning Rongrong’s Soul Power and announced that she had innate Soul Power at level nine.
• Ning Fengzhi celebrated Rongrong’s rare talent, while Chen Xin and Gu Rong praised her and she promised to cultivate diligently.

At the banquet, Ning Fengzhi made Ning Rongrong promise to reach Rank Ten within a month, with Su Yu as witness. On the carriage back to Heaven Dou City, Su Yu and Qian Renxue discussed Aornia’s impending breakthrough and the risks of their plan, leaving Qian Renxue upset by Su Yu’s remarks about parents who disliked their children.

• Dugu Yan questioned Su Yu about the soul beast books he had been reading, and Qian Renxue explained that Xue Ke had asked him to help find a soul beast.
• Ning Fengzhi challenged Ning Rongrong to reach Rank Ten within a month, betting that he would spend a month with her if she succeeded and that she would attend Heaven Dou Royal Academy if she failed.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Su Yu to witness the bet, and Su Yu agreed.
• On the ride back to Heaven Dou City, Su Yu told Qian Renxue that Aornia might reach Rank Ten in a month and discussed how their plan could expose the secret of the Whale Glue.
• Su Yu complained about Aornia’s parents, and Qian Renxue quietly took his words personally.

After learning that Bibi Dong’s Rakshasa God Trial may have warped her temperament, Qian Renxue resolved to become a god and save her mother. She put her Nation-Stealing Plan on hold and began pushing Su Yu to cultivate harder.

• Qian Renxue returned to her secret chamber, removed her disguise, and wondered why Bibi Dong hated her.
• The System revealed that Bibi Dong had begun the Rakshasa Nine Trials, which corrupted the temperament of anyone who undertook them.
• Qian Renxue concluded that Rakshasa’s influence explained Bibi Dong’s hatred and decided to become a god to free her mother.
• Qian Renxue considered Su Yu and Aornia potential allies, then resolved to cultivate seriously and pause her Nation-Stealing Plan.
• Qian Renxue disguised herself as Xue Qinghe, woke Su Yu, and ordered him to replace nightly sleep with meditation, eventually allowing him two days of normal rest each week.