Chapter Summaries

Tang San left Holy Soul Village for Notting Academy but was seized by Ghost Leopard Douluo, prompting Tang Hao to intervene before Jiang Mo and Qian Jun joined the fight. Meanwhile, Aornia reached level ten, but Orlando coldly dismissed her request for help choosing a soul ring, leaving her to return to school alone.

• Tang San left for Notting Academy with Old Jack after preparing hot porridge for Tang Hao.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo captured Tang San on the road, but Tang Hao appeared with his Clear Sky Hammer to confront him.
• Jiang Mo and Qian Jun arrived to help Ghost Leopard Douluo and announced they would kill Tang Hao.
• Aornia told Orlando she had reached level ten and asked him to help her obtain her first soul ring.
• Orlando told Aornia to rely on her teacher and dismissed her, so she left for school with her eyes reddened.

Su Yu found Aornia in the library, where she was researching what soul beast to hunt for her first soul ring, and offered her notes and help arranging the hunt. He took her to eat and introduced her to preparations for soul hunting, adding hundred-year Whale Rubber to their meal to gradually improve her physique.

• Su Yu searched the academy for Aornia and found her emerging from the library.
• Aornia asked Su Yu which soul beast she should hunt for her first soul ring, and he gave her a notebook of suitable choices.
• Su Yu offered to ask Brother Xue to arrange help for Aornia's soul hunt, and she thanked him.
• Su Yu took Aornia out to eat and explained the food, shelter, and medicines needed for a dangerous soul-hunting trip.
• Su Yu added softened hundred-year Whale Rubber to their dishes, and Aornia tasted it without learning what it was.

Su Yu and Aornia traveled with Snake Lance and four guards to Sunset Forest to hunt a suitable soul beast. Su Yu crippled a roughly 380-year-old Blood Crown Flower with his Brass Book, and Aornia delivered the final blow, creating a yellow soul ring.

• Qian Renxue sent Snake Lance and four guards with Su Yu and Aornia to find a suitable soul beast in Sunset Forest.
• The guards found a Blood Crown Flower estimated to be about 380 years old and waited until morning before approaching it.
• Su Yu summoned his Brass Book and punished the Blood Crown Flower until it was severely wounded and its vine was severed.
• Su Yu told Aornia to finish the Blood Crown Flower, and she burned it with oil and a torch until a yellow soul ring appeared.

Qian Jun and Jiang Mo’s ambush of Tang Hao failed after he unleashed his full strength and escaped, leaving Ghost Leopard Douluo gravely injured. In Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue learned of the failure and discovered that the search near Notting City had found no Shapeshifting Spirit Beasts.

• Qian Jun and Jiang Mo attacked Tang Hao while Ghost Leopard Douluo held Tang San hostage, but Tang Hao refused to surrender.
• Tang Hao used his Martial Soul Avatar and Explosive Ring, then unleashed Divine Slaughter’s Domain and shattered all five of his rings to overpower Qian Jun and Jiang Mo.
• Tang Hao struck at Ghost Leopard Douluo and escaped amid the dust, leaving Ghost Leopard Douluo with his right arm severed.
• Qian Jun and Jiang Mo found Ghost Leopard Douluo injured and took him back to Spirit City for treatment.
• Qian Renxue received the report that the encirclement had failed and learned that Demon Bear Douluo’s search near Notting City had found no Shapeshifting Spirit Beasts.

Aornia absorbed a Blood Crown Flower soul ring and gained a healing and draining first soul skill, prompting Su Yu to plan an all-round development path for her. The group returned from the hunt, and Aornia chose to go to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Su Yu.

• Aornia absorbed the yellow soul ring and broke through her cultivation bottleneck.
• Aornia discovered that her first soul skill, Moon Blood, produced healing medicinal liquid and could drain Soul Power from anyone illuminated by her moonlight.
• Su Yu told Aornia her martial soul mutation could let her become an all-round Soul Master and outlined possible roles for her future soul skills.
• Snake Lance led the group back from the hunt, and Aornia asked Su Yu about his plans for her development.
• Aornia had the carriage take her and Su Yu to the junior division of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, saying she now liked going to school.

Su Yu encountered Ning Rongrong at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where she had enrolled after losing a bet with her father. Meanwhile, Tang Hao left Tang San in Yu Xiaogang’s care, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to take Tang San to Monster Academy.

• Su Yu told Aornia that Ning Rongrong had to attend the academy after failing to break through to Soul Master within a month.
• Ning Rongrong completed her enrollment at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and joined Su Yu and Aornia’s classroom.
• Tang San dwelled on his fear of dying again as Tang Hao entrusted him to Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San agreed to become Yu Xiaogang’s adopted son after Yu Xiaogang deduced that he had Twin Martial Souls.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that he would take him to Monster Academy the next day.

Su Yu used his Brass Book soul skill to help Qian Renxue search for a shapeshifting spirit beast, but the clues narrowed its location to Star Dou Forest rather than either empire. Xiao Wu was revealed to have returned to the forest after encountering four Title Douluo, though she planned to venture back into the human world soon.

• Qian Renxue asked Su Yu to use his soul skill to find a shapeshifting spirit beast, and Su Yu agreed.
• Su Yu made Chi Xue sign a contract and paid him one Gold Soul Coin to state the beast's location.
• Chi Xue named the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire, but each answer triggered punishment; he then named Star Dou Forest without consequence.
• In Star Dou Forest, Xiao Wu told Er Ming she had returned after encountering four Title Douluo in a remote human settlement.
• Xiao Wu refused to stay in the forest and said she would return to the human world after a few days.

Su Yu realized the plot had diverged and worried that Qian Renxue might claim the opportunities he knew about, so he began forming a plan to secure the Immortal Herbs. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue misread a future intelligence update about Su Yu’s trip to the Star Dou Forest as a sign that she would hunt a spirit beast after reaching level sixty.

• Qian Renxue concluded that the shapeshifting spirit beast was likely living in the Star Dou Forest, making it too difficult to hunt for now.
• Su Yu considered how his unexpected presence and the changed whereabouts of Xiao Wu and Tang San were eroding his foreknowledge.
• Su Yu decided his priority was to obtain the Immortal Herbs first or prevent Qian Renxue from getting them, while dismissing other treasures as impractical or unappealing.
• Qian Renxue read that Ning Rongrong had tried to avoid enrolling at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and that Su Yu would visit the Star Dou Forest years later.
• Qian Renxue assumed Su Yu’s future trip would help her find a rare light-attributed spirit beast after she became a Quasi-Soul Emperor, and dismissed the reported beast attack as harmless.

Over two and a half years, Qian Renxue received little useful intelligence from the system while tracking the rising talents of the Five Element Academies. She and Su Yu traveled to the Star Dou Forest so he could hunt his Second Soul Ring, and the chapter ended as their party approached the forest.

• Qian Renxue reviewed the system's intelligence about Tang San, Dai Mubai, and several geniuses from the Five Element Academies.
• Qian Renxue snapped out of her thoughts when Su Yu reminded her that they were traveling to hunt his Second Soul Ring.
• Snake Lance drove Qian Renxue, Su Yu, and their companions out of Heaven Dou City toward the Star Dou Forest.
• The group stopped overnight in a border town, where Qian Renxue warned Su Yu to prepare carefully for absorbing a thousand-year Soul Ring.
• At dawn, the four set out from the town and approached the Star Dou Forest.

Su Yu entered the Star Dou Forest with Qian Renxue and was abducted by Di Tian, who brought him to Gu Yuena after sensing the Brass Book’s power. Gu Yuena examined the book and ordered Su Yu to demonstrate his Soul Skill by establishing a rule against lying, leaving him caught off guard by her request.

• Su Yu entered the Star Dou Forest with Qian Renxue, Snake Lance, and Pufferfish, while Gu Yuena sensed his power and sent Di Tian to investigate.
• Su Yu began absorbing a thousand-year Soul Ring as Qian Renxue guarded him and sent Snake Lance and Pufferfish to find a light-attributed Soul Beast.
• Di Tian appeared, recognized Qian Renxue’s Angel God aura, and dismissed her before she summoned her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and challenged him.
• Di Tian seized Su Yu and carried him through a spatial rift to Gu Yuena at the Lake of Life.
• Gu Yuena asked Su Yu to release his Martial Soul, and the Brass Book revealed rules about Soul Masters, Soul Beasts, Heavenly Tribulations, and the prohibition against Soul Beasts becoming gods.
• After Di Tian cut off the book’s contamination, Gu Yuena asked Su Yu to establish a rule that no one could lie, leaving him stunned.

Su Yu tried to convince Gu Yuena that he was trustworthy, but she tested his rule-based Martial Soul and caught him changing its wording to avoid a harsher punishment. After being exiled and rescued by Di Tian, Su Yu returned to Gu Yuena, who remained suspicious of his attempt to escape.

• Di Tian called himself the Heavenly Emperor, and Su Yu’s rule punished him by briefly tightening his throat before Su Yu’s Soul Power ran out.
• Gu Yuena restored Su Yu’s Soul Power and asked him to tell a lie so she could test his rule.
• Su Yu changed the rule’s wording from “others” to “other living beings,” then lied about having used rules only against humans and was exiled.
• Di Tian retrieved Su Yu from the Lake of Life, where he encountered the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape.
• Su Yu claimed he had been bound by the rule and could not have escaped, while Gu Yuena noticed he had avoided answering whether escape had been his intention.

Gu Yuena explained why the God Realm might threaten Su Yu and proposed an alliance against it. After Su Yu revealed he could rewrite the world’s rules to let soul beasts become gods, Gu Yuena and Di Tian pledged to help him ascend, but her claim that she could recover within fifteen years left Su Yu alarmed.

• Gu Yuena warned Su Yu that his rule-creating ability could threaten Asura’s authority and make the God Realm oppose him.
• Su Yu refused Gu Yuena’s alliance, arguing that joining her would pit him against all five God Kings instead of only Asura.
• Su Yu revealed that he believed he could rewrite the world’s rules after becoming a god and remove the prohibition against soul beasts becoming gods.
• Di Tian realized the implications of Su Yu’s ability, celebrated the soul beast clan’s newfound hope, and offered to provide Su Yu’s soul rings and soul bones.
• Gu Yuena promised to help Su Yu ascend and said she could recover to her peak within fifteen years.
• Su Yu grew suspicious when Gu Yuena asked how he knew she was injured.

Su Yu received a storage bracelet filled with powerful Soul Bones from Gu Yuena, including five Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and a Dark Gold Terrorclaw External Soul Bone. Before Di Tian escorted him out of the Lake of Life, Gu Yuena gave him a dragon scale and tasked him with helping soul beasts become gods once he ascended.

• Su Yu guessed that Gu Yuena had been injured in the dragons' struggle against the God Kings, then asked her to help him grow.
• Gu Yuena gave Su Yu a bracelet packed with Soul Bones and warned him against absorbing too many at once because of the dangers and attention they could bring.
• Gu Yuena described the abilities of five Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, including spatial skills, soul-stealing, illusions, and a life-saving substitute ability.
• Su Yu discovered several External Soul Bones among the collection, including a fifty-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Right Palm Bone.
• Gu Yuena told Su Yu to cultivate diligently, visit her after each major breakthrough, and help her people escape their fate after he became a god; she gave him a dragon scale to summon help.
• Di Tian escorted Su Yu out of the lake, where three pairs of enormous eyes watched him with curiosity instead of suspicion.

Su Yu left the Lake of Life with Di Tian and reunited with Qian Renxue, Snake Lance, and Chi Xue after Qian Renxue revealed her true identity. Qian Renxue began absorbing her sixth soul ring from a Radiant Unicorn while Su Yu promised to explain what had happened later.

• Di Tian told Su Yu that Qian Renxue had seen Xiao Wu, who was a soul beast in human form, at the Lake of Life.
• Snake Lance and Chi Xue returned with a twenty-thousand-year-old Radiant Unicorn and found Qian Renxue without her disguise.
• Di Tian appeared with Su Yu, set him down, and vanished, leaving the group to confront Qian Renxue's revealed identity.
• Su Yu teased Qian Renxue about her disguise, then claimed he had seen her protect him by confronting the eight-hundred-thousand-year-old Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King.
• Su Yu urged Qian Renxue to absorb the Radiant Unicorn's soul ring, and she began absorbing her sixth ring.

In the Crown Prince's Residence, Su Yu revealed his suspicions about the God Realm and warned Qian Renxue that the Angel God might have fallen. He proposed that they become gods and support each other against the gods who threatened them, leaving Qian Renxue shaken and preparing to consult her grandfather.

• Qian Renxue revealed her true appearance and told Su Yu that she was the daughter of Spirit Hall's previous Pope.
• Su Yu gave Qian Renxue an edited account of Di Tian's recruitment attempt and explained his theory that established gods suppressed newcomers to protect their authority.
• Su Yu relayed Di Tian's question about the Angel God's lack of oracles and suggested that the Angel God had fallen to a rival god.
• Su Yu told Qian Renxue that he believed she would become the new Angel God and proposed that they watch each other's backs.
• Qian Renxue said she needed to ask her grandfather's opinion, and Su Yu warned her not to neglect cultivation while pursuing political goals.

Su Yu told Qian Renxue about rare herbs near the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ burial place and asked her to obtain Chrysanthemum Douluo’s records. After Qian Daoliu received Qian Renxue’s letter and an illustrated herb catalog, he traveled to Heaven Dou City, where Su Yu met him for the first time.

• Su Yu asked Qian Renxue to get Chrysanthemum Douluo’s records on rare flowers and herbs, and Qian Renxue agreed.
• Qian Renxue wrote to Qian Daoliu about Su Yu’s secrets and asked Snake Lance to deliver the letter and request an illustrated herb guide.
• Su Yu considered his path to godhood and Gu Yuena’s unexpectedly healed injuries, then began meditating.
• Snake Lance delivered Qian Renxue’s letter to Qian Daoliu, who learned about the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King and ordered an illustrated herb catalog from Elder Ju.
• Qian Daoliu obtained the Immortal Herb Catalog and flew to Heaven Dou City after Qian Renxue arranged for Su Yu to meet him.
• Qian Renxue led Su Yu into the secret chamber, where he came face-to-face with Qian Daoliu.

Su Yu told Qian Daoliu that the Angel God might have fallen and revealed Asura's schemes, then urged him and Qian Renxue to prepare for a future fight against the God Realm. He concealed the full extent of the Brass Book's power while proposing that he could eventually make godhood easier and help others ascend.

• Qian Renxue introduced Su Yu to her grandfather, Qian Daoliu, and explained that Su Yu had guessed her identity.
• Su Yu asked whether the Angel God had stopped sending oracles and told Qian Daoliu that Di Tian believed the Angel God might have fallen.
• Su Yu created the rule [No Deceiving Others] and revealed what Gu Yuena had told him about Asura's schemes and struggle for authority.
• Su Yu proposed quietly gathering allies and potential gods, then confronting the God Realm once their side had built up its strength.
• Qian Daoliu checked Su Yu for harmful effects from his martial soul and confirmed that he was fine.
• Su Yu told Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue that he could alter the world's underlying rules after becoming a god, while privately hiding what he already knew about the Brass Book.

Qian Renxue agreed to return to Spirit City while Su Yu stayed behind to protect their plan and continue cultivating. Before she left, she warned him that Marquis Full Moon Orlando was secretly meeting Prince Xuexing and asked him to stop Orlando from joining their rival.

• Qian Daoliu agreed to support Su Yu’s plan to lower the difficulty of becoming gods, and Qian Renxue decided to return to Spirit City.
• Su Yu chose to remain in Heaven Dou City, so Qian Renxue arranged for Elder Pufferfish to protect him and told him to seek help from Salas if necessary.
• Qian Daoliu gave Su Yu Chrysanthemum Douluo’s catalog of herbs, and Su Yu found that Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew could help him pursue a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring.
• Qian Daoliu departed after encouraging Qian Renxue to complete the Angel Nine Trials within fifteen years.
• Qian Renxue warned Su Yu that Marquis Full Moon Orlando had been secretly meeting Prince Xuexing, and Su Yu agreed to handle the matter before Orlando committed himself to Xuexing.

Su Yu reunited with Aornia and Ning Rongrong at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and said he would enter the advanced district after reaching level twenty. Meanwhile, Dai Mubai reached Shrek Academy’s fourth admissions test, where Tang San challenged him to defeat him before an incense stick burned out.

• Su Yu returned to class, and Aornia asked whether his hunt for a Second Soul Ring had gone safely.
• Aornia said she and Ning Rongrong had worried about Su Yu, while Ning Rongrong denied it and admitted she would miss having fun with him.
• Su Yu told Aornia he would wait until she reached level twenty so they could enter the advanced district together.
• Dai Mubai pushed past the Shrek Academy admissions line, tested at level twenty-seven, and qualified to proceed directly to the fourth test.
• Ma Hongjun led Dai Mubai past Oscar’s sausage stall and into the clearing, where Tang San introduced himself and set the fourth-test challenge.

Qian Renxue received red intelligence revealing that Tang Chen had been possessed and that the “moon” would rise from the Star Dou Forest in ten years. Using Su Yu’s contract-based Punishment skill, she and Pufferfish searched for Tang Chen and concluded he was in the Capital of Slaughter.

• Qian Renxue learned that the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King had possessed Tang Chen and that the “moon” would rise from the Star Dou Forest ten years later.
• Qian Renxue realized Tang Chen no longer seemed a threat to Spirit Hall’s plans against the Clear Sky Sect and decided to tell her grandfather through Su Yu.
• Su Yu demonstrated that his Punishment skill could exile someone who violated a contract, then contracted Pufferfish to locate Tang Chen.
• Pufferfish searched the Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire, and the Star Dou Forest but found no sign of Tang Chen.
• Su Yu suggested searching beyond the empires and the Star Dou Forest, and Pufferfish identified the Capital of Slaughter as Tang Chen’s location.