Chapter Summaries

Su Yu and Qian Renxue captured Tang Hao and Tang Yuehua, then planned to kill the Clear Sky siblings and obtain the Explosive Ring technique. Qian Renxue agreed to give Su Yu three days to make Tang Hao reveal the real technique, while Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Tang Yuehua were shown bound in a dungeon.

• Qian Renxue learned that scouts had spotted Tang Hao entering Moonlight Pavilion openly, and Qian Daoliu went to capture him.
• Tang Yuehua joyfully reunited with Tang Hao, but Qian Daoliu knocked them both unconscious and took them away.
• Qian Daoliu returned unharmed, and Su Yu and Qian Renxue discussed killing Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Tang Yuehua.
• Su Yu proposed obtaining the Explosive Ring technique from Tang Hao and said he needed three days to make him reveal it.
• Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Tang Yuehua were shown bound to torture racks in a dungeon.

Tang Hao awoke imprisoned with his Soul Power crippled and found Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua bound nearby. After he revealed Tang San’s location and entrusted him to Tang Xiao, Su Yu exposed the impersonation and killed Tang Hao and Tang Yuehua.

• Tang Hao woke in a cell, discovered his cultivation had been crippled, and saw Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua tied to racks.
• Tang Xiao said his Soul Power was sealed and weakening, while Tang Hao taught him the Great Sumeru Hammer and asked him to protect Tang San.
• Tang Hao told Tang Xiao that Tang San was at Shrek Academy in Suotuo City and urged him to escape alone.
• The fake Tang Xiao snapped his chains, but Tang Hao realized the scene was a deception as Su Yu and two others entered.
• Su Yu revealed himself and killed Tang Hao and Tang Yuehua with golden sword energy.

After Qian Renxue avenged her family by killing Tang Hao and his companion, Su Yu persuaded Qian Daoliu to monitor Tang San rather than attack him immediately, since the Asura God might intervene. The chapter ended with Su Yu reflecting on the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone he had absorbed and his rise to Quasi-Soul Ancestor.

• Qian Renxue mutilated Tang Hao's corpse after killing him, revealing six Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, while Su Yu led Qian Daoliu away to give her space.
• Su Yu warned Qian Daoliu that attacking Tang San could draw Tang Chen or the Asura God into the conflict, so Qian Daoliu decided to monitor Tang San instead.
• Su Yu advised Qian Daoliu to use two secret surveillance groups, both made up of men, and Qian Daoliu planned to gather intelligence on Shrek's students in Suotuo City.
• Qian Daoliu asked about Su Yu's rapid Soul Power breakthroughs, and Su Yu assured him that he knew what he was doing.
• Su Yu recalled absorbing the Hundred Thousand Year Thought Worm head Soul Bone, gaining Blind Idiocy and Stagnant Thought and advancing to Quasi-Soul Ancestor.

Tang San felt an unexplained sorrow while training at Shrek Academy, unaware of Tang Hao’s death. Meanwhile, Su Yu and Qian Renxue found Ah Yin’s hidden Soul Bone near the Clear Sky Sect and left Tang San with another sense of loss.

• Nine-year-old Tang San trained diligently at Shrek Academy, believing Tang Hao was secretly organizing against Spirit Hall, and felt sorrow in his chest.
• Qian Renxue discovered that Tang Hao’s Storage Soul Tool did not contain the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, so Su Yu and Pufferfish located it in a volcano near the Clear Sky Sect.
• Su Yu, Qian Renxue, Snake Lance, and Pufferfish flew to the volcano and found the hidden lava cave among the ruins of the Clear Sky Sect.
• Snake Lance broke open a stone wall, and Qian Renxue recovered the Right Leg Bone of the Blue Silver Emperor from a lead box.
• Su Yu stored the Soul Bone and dug up Ah Yin, placing her in a flowerpot and Soul Tool as a negative example.
• After training, Tang San felt that something important had left him again as he prepared to meditate.

Su Yu went to the Star Dou Forest with Di Tian to obtain a Soul Ring, and a Black-Striped Sheep King willingly sacrificed itself after learning about the Brass Book. The sacrifice raised Su Yu to level forty-four and unlocked new Soul Ancestor abilities, which Di Tian asked him to demonstrate with Pufferfish.

• Di Tian took Su Yu from the Star Dou Forest outskirts to the Mixed Area to find a Soul Beast, since Gu Yuena was recovering and could not be seen.
• Su Yu chose a Black-Striped Sheep King, and Di Tian explained that any sufficiently intelligent and willing Soul Beast could sacrifice itself.
• The Black-Striped Sheep King read the Brass Book, then sacrificed itself and became Su Yu’s fourth Soul Ring.
• The twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring raised Su Yu’s Soul Power to level forty-four and changed his appearance and stature.
• Su Yu told Di Tian that as a Soul Ancestor he could make judgments more directly and prohibit actions within the same cultivation realm.
• Di Tian asked Su Yu to demonstrate the new ability with Pufferfish.

Su Yu tested the Brass Book’s punishments on Pufferfish, then showed Di Tian Ah Yin’s true body and criticized her choices as a warning for Soul Beasts. Di Tian accepted Su Yu’s proposal to educate intelligent Soul Beasts and began his first lesson after Xiao Wu arrived at the Lake of Life.

• Su Yu used the Brass Book’s confinement, exile, and whipping punishments on Pufferfish, then explained that judgments targeting individuals drained his own Soul Power.
• Su Yu showed Di Tian Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor true body and recounted how she became pregnant, was discovered, and sacrificed herself after her husband led her away from the Star Dou Forest.
• Di Tian condemned Ah Yin’s choices, and Su Yu urged him to educate intelligent Soul Beasts and use Ah Yin as a negative example.
• Di Tian accepted Ah Yin and agreed to take Su Yu’s compulsory education proposal seriously before Su Yu left.
• Xiao Wu returned to the Lake of Life to call for Da Ming, but Di Tian appeared instead and began teaching the trembling beasts with Ah Yin as his example.

Su Yu, Aornia, and Ning Rongrong arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy to advance to its advanced division, while Sword Douluo sensed that Su Yu's abilities were unusual. At Shrek Academy, Gui Ying sought admission and startled Li Yusong by revealing a thousand-year second soul ring.

• Qian Renxue saw intelligence about Yu Tianheng's anonymous life and Tang San's future trip to Spirit City, and reacted angrily to Tang San's plans.
• Su Yu and Aornia traveled to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Ning Rongrong joined them with Sword Douluo.
• Sword Douluo could not see through Su Yu's cultivation and was surprised when Su Yu sensed his probing.
• Su Yu, Ning Rongrong, and Aornia introduced themselves to the education ministers, who welcomed them and arranged their dormitories.
• At Shrek Academy, Gui Ying asked Li Yusong to let him join, and Li Yusong exclaimed at Gui Ying's thousand-year second ring.

Dugu Yan brought Su Yu to meet Qin Ming, who invited him to join the Heaven Dou Royal Team for the Spirit Master Tournament. Su Yu agreed to join and attend group training, then overwhelmed the other students with his pressure during a sparring match.

• Dugu Yan found Su Yu and brought him to the academy training grounds to meet Qin Ming.
• Su Yu met the Heaven Dou Royal Team members and agreed to join the team, though he said he would spend much of his time training outside the academy.
• Qin Ming arranged a sparring match and assigned Aornia, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Shi Mo to Su Yu's side.
• Su Yu stepped onto the platform, and his pressure left Yu Feng and the others frozen until he withdrew it.

Su Yu, Ning Rongrong, and Aornia attended the Full Moon Territory lantern festival, where they pursued suspected child traffickers. They trapped the gang in a house and began checking the sacks, where Ning Rongrong found something that startled her.

• Aornia explained that the annual lantern parade would pass through the streets, and she took Su Yu and Ning Rongrong to watch from a private room.
• Ning Rongrong spotted a man leading a little girl away from her mother and urged Su Yu and Aornia to investigate.
• Su Yu suspected the traffickers might be connected to the Marquis Mansion, and he revealed that Ning Rongrong's guards had secretly followed them.
• A trafficker carried a sack to a house where several accomplices waited with more sacks.
• Su Yu threw quicklime at the gang and used [Confinement] to trap them, while Ning Rongrong opened the sacks and called Su Yu over.

Su Yu uncovered a human-trafficking ring supplying the Star Luo Empire’s Gladiator Arena with men to serve as death warriors, then decided to travel there with Aornia and Ning Rongrong. After Su Yu’s Soul Power rose by a level, the three agreed to leave for the Star Luo Empire the next day.

• Ning Rongrong’s Shadow Guard rushed in, found the traffickers restrained, and left after Su Yu told him the captives were under control.
• Su Yu questioned the traffickers and learned that they abducted sturdy men for the Star Luo Empire’s Gladiator Arena, which needed death warriors for its lethal matches.
• Su Yu used the Brass Book to pass judgment on the traffickers, then left them for the City Lord’s Mansion to handle while he and his companions freed the captives.
• The traffickers tried to escape after the invisible cages vanished, but the Brass Book suspended them for three minutes and warned that escaping judgment meant immediate execution.
• Su Yu’s Soul Power rose by one level, and he proposed a trip to the Star Luo Empire; Ning Rongrong and Aornia agreed to leave with him the next day.

Su Yu, Ning Rongrong, and Aornia arrived in Star Soul City and learned that the Breaking Clan lived there. Ning Rongrong went to meet its patriarch to help her father, while Qian Renxue followed them; the chapter ended with Ning Rongrong unexpectedly encountering Ning Fengzhi at the clan’s gates.

• Su Yu, Ning Rongrong, and Aornia discussed Star Soul City's gladiatorial arena, thriving herb trade, and the possibility that the Breaking Clan lived nearby.
• Ning Rongrong decided to visit the Breaking Clan, hoping to help Ning Fengzhi find information about a rare herb.
• Qian Renxue, who had come to Star Soul City after receiving intelligence about a meeting between Ning Fengzhi and Yang Wudi, spotted Su Yu and followed the group with Pufferfish.
• Ning Rongrong presented her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect token at the Breaking Clan's entrance and asked to see its patriarch.
• Ning Rongrong found Ning Fengzhi arriving with Yang Wudi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and explained that she had come to help him with his herb research.

Su Yu visited the Gladiator Arena in Star Soul City with Ning Rongrong and Aornia to witness its deadly matches. After secretly investigating the arena and collecting the next match schedule, he watched a bout and asked Shadow Guard how its matchmaking worked.

• Qian Renxue decided to postpone attacking the Breaking Clan and meet Su Yu first.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Su Yu about the dangers of the Gladiator Arena, then allowed him and his companions to visit under strict conditions.
• Su Yu, Ning Rongrong, Aornia, and Shadow Guard arrived at the Gladiator Arena and rented a private room.
• Su Yu used the Brass Book to extend his Jurisdiction over the main arena, then obtained the upcoming match schedule.
• Su Yu watched a spearman win a match and asked Shadow Guard how two veterans had earned ten consecutive victories.

Su Yu learned how the Gladiator Arena matched contestants and bet five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins on a coming match ending with both fighters dead. He planned to keep betting until he earned thirty million, while the Shadow Guard warned that the arena might resort to secret violence if it lost too much.

• Su Yu understood that the Gladiator Arena conserved death-row fighters by matching them against contestants according to their winning streaks.
• Su Yu wagered five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins on the next match ending in both fighters' deaths within five minutes, and the staff registered the bet at odds of one to six.
• Su Yu returned to the private room, where Ning Rongrong and Aornia questioned how his bet could bankrupt the Gladiator Arena.
• Su Yu said they would test the waters with one round and joked that he would stop once he earned thirty million Gold Soul Coins.
• The Shadow Guard warned Su Yu that the Gladiator Arena might secretly attack them and deny responsibility if they won too much.

Su Yu watched Yang Kui and Qin Ying fight to the death in the Gladiator Arena, then revealed that he had bet on both men dying within five minutes. He and Aornia and Ning Rongrong left to collect his winnings, which came to three million Gold Soul Coins before the arena’s commission.

• Yang Kui and Qin Ying began their match, with Qin Ying using his speed to wound Yang Kui and keep out of reach.
• Yang Kui removed some of his armor and charged Qin Ying, who dodged until Yang Kui was badly weakened.
• When Qin Ying tried to sever Yang Kui’s arm, Yang Kui sped up, let the blade cut through it, and bit Qin Ying’s throat as they fell.
• The host announced that Yang Kui and Qin Ying had both died, prompting the crowd to erupt in anger and cheers.
• Su Yu told Aornia and Ning Rongrong that he had bet five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins on their deaths and the match lasting under five minutes, winning three million before commission.

Su Yu discussed the Gladiator Arena’s role in human trafficking with Qian Renxue and considered retaliating against the Star Luo imperial family. Qian Renxue focused on the Breaking Clan and Ning Fengzhi’s intentions, while an unfamiliar visitor arrived at the Star Soul City Spirit Hall carrying an Elder’s token.

• Su Yu explained that he had targeted the Gladiator Arena to punish the traffickers behind it and vent his anger, but Qian Renxue warned that the arena was backed by the White Tiger Dai Clan and urged him to focus on cultivation.
• Su Yu proposed kidnapping members of the Star Luo imperial family and selling them as slaves, but Qian Renxue warned that it could start a war between the empires.
• Snake Lance reported that Yang Wudi had gone to see Ning Fengzhi, and Qian Renxue decided to wait and judge whether to act against the Breaking Clan based on Ning Fengzhi’s intentions.
• An unfamiliar figure entered the Star Soul City Spirit Hall, showed the Red Cardinal an Elder’s token, and received his respectful greeting.

Yang Wudi fought Snake Lance as Spirit Hall attacked the Breaking Clan, while Ning Fengzhi suspected the raid was a warning to him. Yang Wudi then seemed to awaken from a vision and realized his medicine was burning, just as he heard the sound of a house on fire.

• Yang Wudi's medicine batch burned when a clansman reported that Spirit Hall had surrounded the Breaking Clan.
• Snake Lance attacked Yang Wudi, while Spirit Hall's forces and reinforcements overwhelmed the Breaking Clan members outside.
• Ning Fengzhi told Sword Douluo that Spirit Hall's attack might be a warning because it suspected them of opposing it.
• Snake Lance wounded Yang Wudi and gained the upper hand as the fighting around the residence subsided.
• Yang Wudi awakened to find himself beside his burning medicine cauldron, then heard crackling like a house on fire.

Snake Lance concealed the Spirit Hall’s destruction of the Breaking Clan by blaming the fire on Yang Wudi, while Qian Renxue and Su Yu discussed their return plans. New intelligence linked the Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin and Aornia to “moon” Divinity, leaving Qian Renxue alarmed by Su Yu’s role in choosing Aornia’s Soul Rings.

• Yang Wudi died in the flames consuming the Breaking Clan residence.
• Snake Lance claimed Yang Wudi’s overturned cauldron had caused the fire and departed after silencing the lord of Star Soul City.
• The Red Cardinal mocked the city lord and led the Spirit Hall group away.
• Qian Renxue and Su Yu discussed leaving the area the next day and Ning Rongrong’s return to Heaven Dou City.
• Qian Renxue’s intelligence screen revealed that Ah Yin had been contaminated by “moon” Divinity and that the Soul Beast Clan would produce a new emperor five years later.
• Qian Renxue connected the intelligence about Ah Yin and Aornia to Di Tian’s unusual healing and froze when she recalled that Su Yu had chosen Aornia’s Soul Rings.

Su Yu and Qian Renxue discussed Aornia’s connection to the Star Dou Forest, then Su Yu consulted the Brass Book to understand Divinity and authority. He realized Gu Yuena might also be contaminated by the Red Moon, but he had no way to help her.

• Qian Renxue asked Su Yu whether he knew anything about Aornia and the Star Dou Forest, and he admitted his knowledge was only a guess.
• Su Yu reconsidered Qian Renxue’s claim that Aornia’s power came from the Star Dou Forest and suspected Aornia might have been contaminated by it.
• Su Yu summoned the Brass Book and asked Qian Renxue to leave while he checked its contents.
• Su Yu read that Divinity allowed beings to approach authority and that awakened Martial Souls and soul beasts were contaminated by the Dragon God’s Divinity.
• Su Yu concluded that Gu Yuena’s use of Crimson Light might have entangled her with the Red Moon, leaving him worried that he could not help her.

Gu Yuena ordered Ah Yin to sacrifice herself for Su Yu and the soul beast race, and Ah Yin agreed. As Su Yu returned to Heaven Dou with Aornia, Ning Fengzhi decided to side with Spirit Hall, leaving Ning Rongrong worried that they would become enemies of Su Yu and Aornia.

• Gu Yuena told Ah Yin she had saved her so she could be sacrificed for Su Yu, and Ah Yin pledged to obey.
• At Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang defended the exhausting training he imposed on the students, while Gui Ying privately doubted it would help them safely absorb stronger Soul Rings.
• Su Yu urged Aornia to cultivate toward Title Douluo within fifteen years but kept the reason for his request secret.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong he would side with Spirit Hall to obtain Aromatic Silk Beauty and help her gain the Nine Treasure Glazed Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong worried that her family’s decision would put them against Su Yu and Aornia, who were allied with Heaven Dou.

Su Yu confronted Bibi Dong over corruption in Spirit Hall and announced that she was stripped of her position as Pope pending review. After Qian Renxue said her grandfather had approved the Tribunal, Snake Lance Douluo arrived at a Spirit Hall branch on its behalf.

• The Strength, Yu, and Min Clans gathered at the Strength Clan residence in Heaven Dou City with Xue Qinghe's sponsorship after the Breaking Clan's destruction.
• Qian Renxue and Su Yu entered the Pope's Palace, where Qian Renxue addressed Bibi Dong as her sister.
• Su Yu accused Bibi Dong of tolerating corruption and issued a judgment stripping her of the papacy and placing her conduct under observation.
• Bibi Dong released her killing intent, but a golden wave of Soul Power dispelled it, and Su Yu immediately broke through by one rank.
• Su Yu explained that he intended to establish a Tribunal, and Qian Renxue said her grandfather had agreed and sent Elder Snake Lance.
• Snake Lance Douluo arrived at the Fading City Spirit Hall branch on important business and cut off the Red Cardinal's flattery.