Chapter Summaries

Du Busi and Elder Qilin fought off the wolves while Du Busi subdued the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor. After the emperor unleashed its Chaos Domain and wounded Du Busi, Su Fan killed it and its blood-red Soul Ring appeared.

• Du Busi charged the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor and struck it hard, then pinned it down with spatial power as it struggled free.
• Elder Qilin used his Kirin Arm to suppress the Gold Wolf leading the pack as the wolves attacked Su Fan and the others.
• Du Busi beat the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor and prepared to let Su Fan finish it, but the wolf unleashed its seven-element Chaos Domain and tore open Du Busi’s defenses.
• Du Busi survived the attack with a deep wound, then battered the weakened Silver Moon Wolf Emperor for more than ten minutes before throwing it at Su Fan’s feet.
• Su Fan checked that Du Busi was all right, then stabbed the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor through the heart with a fifth-grade Soul Tool dagger.
• The Silver Moon Wolf Emperor died, and a blood-red Soul Ring formed above the valley.

Su Fan absorbed the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring with the help of his Apertures, gaining an evolved martial soul and two powerful Soul Skills. After the successful absorption, Du Busi urged him to absorb the accompanying soul bone.

• Du Busi and Elder Qilin watched Su Fan use his Apertures to stabilize and circulate the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Power through his body.
• Du Busi and Elder Qilin discussed how the Aperture Method could help Soul Masters absorb stronger Soul Rings and improve the Body Sect’s reputation.
• After five hours, Su Fan absorbed the Soul Ring, and his fifth Soul Ring appeared red as his martial soul evolved.
• Su Fan explained that his spatial attributes had strengthened, he had gained six other attributes, and his Apertures could draw on and command the power of heaven and earth.
• Su Fan described his two new Soul Skills, Elemental Stripping and Mental Chaos, prompting Du Busi and Elder Qilin to react with shock.
• Du Busi told Su Fan to absorb the soul bone and examine its effects.

Su Fan absorbed the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor’s right leg bone and gained powerful enhancement and domain skills. As he considered using his Elemental Metal Domain to inscribe Core Arrays across the world, Du Busi offered him an opportunity to study Soul Tools.

• Su Fan absorbed the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor’s right leg bone after leaving the Jingyang Mountain Range with Du Busi and the others.
• Su Fan explained that the Soul Bone strengthened his existing Soul Ring skills and granted him Wolf Emperor’s Wrath, which could boost his body, Soul Power, and spiritual power by up to two hundred percent.
• Su Fan revealed his Elemental Metal Domain, which let him turn the world into metal from his perspective and inscribe Core Arrays within it.
• Su Fan speculated that a vast Core Array might replace the power of heaven and earth within his domain, while Du Busi questioned whether Core Arrays could truly achieve that.
• Du Busi offered Su Fan an opportunity related to studying Soul Tools, and Su Fan asked what it was.

Du Busi explained the Body Sect’s plan to obtain the Hundred-Thousand-Year Embryo by infiltrating Mingde Hall, then brought Su Fan to the Su Family in Ming Capital to secure help studying Soul Tools. Su Fan used the Aperture Path to entice Patriarch Su, but offered only a way to understand it, leaving the family’s decision unresolved.

• Du Busi told Su Fan that the Body Sect planned to use the Su Family and Su Yue to gather information about the Hundred-Thousand-Year Embryo in Mingde Hall.
• Du Busi changed his appearance with a Body Secret Technique, and Su Fan asked to learn it while they traveled.
• Du Busi introduced Su Fan, under the name Su Yu, to Patriarch Su as a student seeking to study Soul Tools with the Su Family.
• Patriarch Su objected that the Su Family’s Soul Tool techniques could not be taught to outsiders, but Su Fan argued that the family wanted to explore higher realms of Soul Tools.
• Su Fan asked whether Patriarch Su knew of the Aperture Path and offered the Su Family a way to understand it without revealing the technique outright.

Su Fan and Du Busi negotiated with the Su Family Head over the Aperture Method, which the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers were eager to study. They rejected the demand to hand over a practitioner and instead offered to teach the method in exchange for training opportunities and permission for their people to enter the empire.

• The Su Family Head weighed the Aperture Method’s importance to the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer research and recognized its potential advantage for the Su Family.
• The Su Family Head offered Su Yu a place to study Soul Tools and promised help concealing his identity, but demanded that a practitioner of the Aperture Method be handed over for research.
• Su Fan looked to Du Busi, who refused to surrender any Soul Master and offered to teach the Heavenly Soul Royal Family’s Aperture condensation techniques so at least three members of the Su Family could condense Apertures within a year.
• Du Busi added that some of his people must be allowed into the Sun Moon Empire without restrictions on their personal freedom, while promising they would avoid Soul Tool projects and politics.
• Su Qian worried that Du Busi’s people might cause trouble, but Du Busi did not explain their purpose for coming.

Su Fan explained why ordinary Soul Masters faced greater difficulty cultivating the Aperture Path and helped set realistic progression targets. Su Qian approved Du Busi’s plan to send fifty Body Sect members into the Sun Moon Empire to recruit disciples, while Du Busi began gathering cultivation data and training for a breakthrough.

• Su Fan explained that other Soul Masters encountered repulsion between Apertures, and Du Busi warned that coordinating more than eighty-one would require difficult resonance techniques.
• Su Fan outlined a slower Aperture Path progression for ordinary Soul Masters, since his own cultivation was beyond their reach.
• Su Qian agreed to let Du Busi send up to fifty Body Sect members into the Sun Moon Empire to recruit Soul Masters with Body Martial Souls.
• Du Busi said the recruits had been trained by Vina to work across five neighboring cities each, and Su Fan promised support from the Ming Capital area if they faced danger.
• Du Busi ordered the disciples to condense Apertures and share their experiences, then cultivated diligently himself in hopes of breaking through level ninety-eight.

Su Fan joined the Su Family under the name Su Yu to gain access to Ming Capital’s Soul Tool world, while sharing the path of Apertures with Du Busi to strengthen his backer. After deciding the Su Family’s lessons were unnecessary, he began visiting the imperial Soul Tool Pavilion to acquire Soul Tools gradually.

• Su Fan taught Du Busi about the path of Apertures, and Du Busi decided to condense more Heavenly Circuit Apertures before attempting to make them contain space.
• Su Qian welcomed Su Fan into the Su Family as Su Yu and offered him a room, a Soul Tool workshop, and foundational lessons at the family school.
• Su Fan attended one lesson from a fourth-rank Soul Engineer, judged it useful but unnecessary, and never returned to the school.
• After hearing that Su Fan neither attended lessons nor used his workshop, Su Qian ordered the family to watch him and prevent him from contacting the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy or Mingde Hall.
• Su Fan left the Su Family and went to the Soul Tool Pavilion to begin buying one or two Soul Tools at a time.

Su Fan studied auxiliary Soul Tools in Ming Capital and adapted their Core Arrays to create the Heavenly Eye Technique and improve his spiritual cultivation. After half a year, he continued learning while the Body Sect’s tunnel beneath Ming Capital neared Mingde Hall.

• Su Fan bought a calming pendant and spiritual-scanning glasses from the Soul Tool Hall, and Electrolux analyzed their Core Arrays.
• Electrolux simplified the glasses’ arrays, and Su Fan inscribed them into his eye apertures to create the Heavenly Eye Technique.
• Su Fan inscribed the pendant’s spiritual-power-condensing arrays into his Soul Aperture.
• Su Qian grew anxious that Su Fan had not made a Soul Tool despite his time in Ming Capital.
• After half a year, the Body Sect had dug most of its tunnel toward Mingde Hall, though it had not yet located the Hundred-Thousand-Year Embryo.

Du Busi’s cultivation of Su Fan’s Aperture Path transformed his body and powers, bringing him close to Limit Douluo-level control over space. He realized that Apertures might also strengthen the embryonic form of a second Soul Core.

• Du Busi reflected on how Su Fan’s teachings had deepened his understanding of Apertures and enabled his cultivation to advance.
• Du Busi discovered that 108 Apertures had purified his vitality, awakened Bloodline Power, and strengthened his poison arts.
• Du Busi found that his Apertures resonated with his Soul Core, greatly increasing its size and enhancing his Soul Power.
• Du Busi tore open a crack in space and concluded that his control over heaven and earth had reached the Limit level.
• Du Busi reasoned that Apertures might enhance the embryonic form of his second Soul Core.

Du Busi realized the 108 Apertures could help him condense a Second Soul Core and chose to risk a breakthrough, while Su Fan used the opportunity to disappear and pursue his plans. Su Qian learned Su Fan was missing and feared the Su Family had been trapped into covering for him.

• Du Busi concluded that the 108 Apertures could balance the Soul Cores during Isotopic Resonance and decided to risk condensing a Second Soul Core.
• Du Busi told everyone he was preparing to break through, then left Ming Capital for a remote city to cultivate in seclusion for up to half a year.
• Su Fan was pleased by Du Busi's news, changed his appearance with the sect's secret technique, and vanished into the crowd using a Space Jump.
• A Su Family member lost track of Su Fan, searched for him without success, and returned to report his disappearance to Su Qian.
• Su Qian grew furious as he realized the Su Family might now have to help cover Su Fan's actions despite his plan to reclaim the family's concessions.

Su Qian realized Su Fan’s apparent ties to the Su Family could cost the family its autonomy and ordered him found. Unaware of this, Su Fan entered Ming Capital’s Black Market and confronted a Holy Spirit Cult-linked figure in the Xishui Alliance, leaving the figure convinced he might be a Holy Cult higher-up.

• Su Qian concluded that the Sun Moon Royal Family could hold the Su Family responsible for Su Fan’s actions and ordered his people to find Su Fan and seek an explanation from the Heavenly Soul Royal Family.
• Su Fan disguised himself with a black robe and a Body Sect secret technique, then entered Ming Capital’s underground Black Market.
• Su Fan followed his gathered intelligence to a meeting with a figure connected to the Xishui Alliance and demanded that the figure provide what he wanted.
• Su Fan warned that he could disrupt the Xishui Alliance and revealed that he knew about the Holy Spirit Cult’s schemes and Xu Tianran’s importance to them.
• The figure, an Evil Soul Master at the Soul Saint level, tested Su Fan with a sinister surge of Soul Power, then withdrew after Su Fan’s Purification Fire frightened him.
• The figure acknowledged that Su Fan had the standing to threaten the Xishui Alliance and wondered whether he was a Holy Cult higher-up inspecting its operations.

Su Fan intimidated an Evil Soul Master into handing over a Level 9 Soul Cannon, then escaped the Black Market through one of his prepared Space Jump nodes. He arranged for Electrolux to study the weapon and considered whether to tell Du Busi about Qiankun Asking-Love Valley, deciding to wait until they had a way to resist Deities.

• Su Fan demanded a Level 9 Soul Cannon from the Evil Soul Master, who gave it to him after seeing the Purification Fire.
• Electrolux confirmed the Soul Cannon was genuine, and Su Fan stored it before leaving the Evil Soul Master to burn in the Purification Fire.
• Su Fan used a prepared Space Jump node to escape the Black Market before the Xishui Alliance members arrived.
• Su Fan took the Soul Cannon to a Body Sect house and asked Electrolux to study its Core Array.
• Su Fan considered sending Du Busi to explore Qiankun Asking-Love Valley but decided not to reveal its location until they could resist Deities.

Su Fan robbed all three major powers in the underground black market, prompting them to tighten security and form a joint Enforcement Team. When Su Fan returned to browse the market, the team stopped him and demanded that he submit his Storage Soul Tools for inspection or leave them outside.

• Su Fan found a spatial anomaly beyond West Mountain, confirmed it might lead to an alternate dimension, and left an Aperture there before returning to Ming Capital.
• After Su Fan stole a Level 9 Soul Cannon, the Xishui Alliance investigated without finding a trace and increased its safeguards in the black market.
• Su Fan robbed the Ordinary Alliance of rare metals and the Aodu Chamber of Commerce of three Level 8 Soul Tool blueprints, spreading the losses across all three powers.
• Su Qian suspected that Su Yu’s disappearance and the black-market robberies were connected, and feared Su Fan might expose himself.
• Su Fan returned to the black market and discreetly marked a shop selling Soul Tools before continuing to browse.
• The joint Enforcement Team stopped Su Fan and told him he had to submit his Storage Soul Tools for inspection or leave them outside.

Su Fan bypassed the Black Market’s Storage Soul Tool inspection rules, stole a shop’s goods, and escaped the sealed market by using Space Jump. After moving the goods to the Body Sect’s hotel and disguising himself, he continued through the Black Market without any Storage Soul Tools.

• Su Fan left the Black Market after refusing to surrender his Storage Soul Tool, then used a concealment formation at the Body Sect’s hotel to hide his tools.
• Su Fan returned to the Black Market, bought a Storage Soul Tool from a shop connected to Deacon Zhang, and filled it with the shop’s goods before running off.
• The shopkeeper called the enforcers, and Su Fan found the Black Market sealed against escape and space travel from inside to outside.
• Su Fan discarded the Storage Soul Tool and used Space Jump within the Black Market, while the enforcers found the tool empty and failed to track the goods through a formation’s interference.
• Su Fan revealed that he had transferred the goods through his Apertures to the hotel before the lockdown began, then changed his appearance with a Body Sect secret technique and continued moving openly.

Su Fan escaped the underground black market’s search and returned to the Su family with an Eighth-Level Soul Tool blueprint. Su Qian accepted the blueprint despite realizing it could implicate the family in Su Fan’s raids.

• Su Fan passed the Enforcement Team’s search by claiming he had no Storage Soul Tool, then left the black market safely.
• Su Fan and Electrolux discussed the unusual strengths of Douluo Continent’s cultivation and soul tool systems.
• Su Fan returned to the Su family and warned Su Qian that imprisoning him could expose his recent actions.
• Su Fan showed Su Qian the Sky Thunder Blade blueprint, which Su Qian recognized as the Ordinary Alliance’s stolen Eighth-Level Soul Tool design.
• Su Qian took the blueprint and eagerly studied its lightning arrays as Su Fan asked him for guidance.

Su Fan questioned Su Qian about the Black Market’s spatial blockade and the Sun Moon Empire’s control of rare-metal mining, then decided he wanted the ninth-grade spatial Soul Tool. He sought Elder Qilin and asked for the Body Sect’s help, but the chapter ended before he explained what he needed.

• Su Fan asked Su Qian how the underground Black Market had isolated space, and Su Qian explained that it likely used one or more ninth-grade Soul Tools.
• Su Fan questioned Su Qian about rare-metal extraction, and Su Qian described how the imperial family controlled mining Soul Tools and restricted access to their technology.
• Su Fan asked Su Qian about mining Soul Tools and vein locations, but Su Qian said he knew nothing and warned him that such inquiries could cause misunderstandings.
• Su Fan returned to his room, vanished, and decided he had to obtain the ninth-grade spatial Soul Tool.
• Su Fan appeared at the Body Sect’s hotel and asked Elder Qilin when the Sect Master would break through and when they would strike Mingde Hall.
• Su Fan told Elder Qilin he needed the sect’s help with another matter, and Elder Qilin asked him to explain.

Su Fan asked Elder Qilin to help obtain a Class 9 Soul Tool that could isolate space, and Elder Qilin advised him to investigate the Black Market before they acted. Meanwhile, Su Qian told Su Yue about the Su Family’s ties to Su Fan and tasked her with pursuing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo, while giving her Aperture research that could help her join Mingde Hall.

• Elder Qilin learned that Su Fan had robbed the Black Market four times and agreed to help pursue its Class 9 Soul Tool, while telling Su Fan to investigate its resource distribution.
• Su Fan explained how to make Apertures new structures in the body, and Elder Qilin went into seclusion to condense thirty-six Apertures in his right arm.
• Su Qian told Su Yue that the Su Family had cooperated with the Heavenly Soul Royal Family and that Su Fan, who had stayed with them, was responsible for the recent robberies.
• Su Yue reconsidered Su Fan after learning he had stolen several Soul Tool blueprints and agreed to make investigating the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo her priority.
• Su Qian gave Su Yue the Su Family’s Aperture research results to polish and present as her own work, and she realized the materials could let her join Mingde Hall immediately.

Su Yue and Su Qian discussed how to use the Su Family’s Aperture research to advance in Mingde Hall while keeping their cooperation with the Heavenly Soul Royal Family secret. Meanwhile, Su Fan completed a dangerous cultivation breakthrough, and Electrolux warned him that heaven and earth could assimilate him.

• Su Yue said she would convert the Su Family’s Aperture research results but acknowledged that the family lacked the resources to fully develop them.
• Su Yue proposed drawing her mentor into a research project, but Su Qian warned that the mentor might use the results and abandon the Su Family.
• Su Qian suggested using information about a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo to pressure the mentor into growing closer to the Su Family and gradually benefiting from their results.
• Su Fan cultivated by resonating the Apertures in his body with those in the surrounding space, using the power of heaven and earth to circulate his Soul Power and purge impurities.
• Electrolux warned Su Fan that his cultivation method risked being assimilated by heaven and earth.

Electrolux warned Su Fan that his cultivation risked Heaven-Earth Assimilation, but accepted Su Fan’s reasoning that his Martial Soul could anchor him and promised to intervene if necessary. Meanwhile, the Xishui Alliance failed to track Su Fan, and Jing Hongchen was impressed by a promising research idea submitted by Qin Jing on behalf of her student.

• Electrolux explained that cultivators from his world were assimilated after exceeding a million units of spiritual power, and warned Su Fan that his cultivation showed similar signs.
• Su Fan argued that his Martial Soul and strengthening Apertures would resist assimilation, and Electrolux agreed to help seal his cultivation if the process became irreversible.
• The Xishui Alliance and Holy Spirit Cult failed to track Su Fan, while Nangong Wan demanded news about the Aperture Path and learned they still had none.
• Qin Jing submitted a report about a promising idea from one of her students, and Jing Hongchen praised its potential after reading it.

Jing Hongchen approved a Mingde Hall project based on Su Yue’s proposal to create Aperture Soul Tools, while quietly suspecting the Su Family had hidden secrets. Three months later, Su Yue located the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo, and Su Fan prepared to steal it with the Body Sect’s help.

• Jing Hongchen praised Su Yue’s proposal and established a Mingde Hall research project, offering Qin Jing and Su Yue a chance at promotion if they contributed.
• Jing Hongchen suspected Su Yue’s deep knowledge of Apertures pointed to problems within the Su Family, but chose not to investigate and instead restricted the family’s access to advanced technology.
• Over three months, Su Yue appeared ordinary to Jing Hongchen while secretly mapping Mingde Hall and locating the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.
• Su Yue passed the embryo’s location to Su Fan, who relayed it to the Body Sect and used his knowledge of the original plot to assess the intelligence.
• Su Fan prepared to rob the embryo and the Black Market, hoping the Snow Empress inside the embryo would cooperate with him.