Chapter Summaries

Su Fan and the Body Sect witnessed Du Busi break through to Limit Douluo, then learned his breakthrough had drawn attention from Ming Capital. Du Busi prepared to strike Mingde Hall while sending Su Fan to wait in Tianling City, and Su Fan asked him to destroy the Black Market if he had the chance.

• Su Fan and Electrolux observed Du Busi's breakthrough and discussed how Limit Douluo fused completely with their Martial Souls.
• Du Busi developed all one hundred and eight Apertures as he broke through and completed his advancement in a small city controlled by the Body Sect.
• Jing Hongchen detected the energy disturbance and sent Soul Engineers, including Kong Deming, to investigate.
• Du Busi relocated with the Body Sect to avoid the investigators and confirmed that the coordinates of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Embryo were accurate.
• Du Busi planned to strike Mingde Hall and ordered Su Fan to wait in Tianling City, while Su Fan asked him to wipe out the Black Market if possible.

Du Busi led the Body Sect in a surprise assault on Mingde Hall while Elder Qilin stole the Hundred-Thousand-Year Embryo. Elder Qilin escaped through an Aperture despite Jing Hongchen isolating space, and Du Busi withdrew as the Sun Moon Emperor learned Mingde Hall was under attack without Kong Deming there to confront him.

• Du Busi and the Body Sect broke into Mingde Hall’s underground laboratory, where Du Busi used his new Limit Douluo power to destroy Soul Cannons and wreck the facility.
• Elder Qilin reached the secret chamber and punched through its wall to seize the Hundred-Thousand-Year Embryo.
• Jing Hongchen recognized Du Busi’s breakthrough, ordered Kong Deming summoned, and directed Mingde Hall’s Soul Engineers to retreat and bombard Du Busi.
• Elder Qilin stored the embryo in an Aperture and escaped to the exterior of Mingde Hall, while Jing Hongchen’s spatial isolation restricted the jump.
• Du Busi stopped fighting and tried to withdraw as Jing Hongchen unleashed Mingde Hall’s firepower against him.
• The Sun Moon Emperor received Mingde Hall’s distress signal and realized Kong Deming was away investigating unusual fluctuations in the east.

After Du Busi broke out of Mingde Hall, he led Su Fan and the others out of the Sun Moon Empire, wary of its Soul Tools and the Evil Soul Masters led by Long Xiaoyao. They returned with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo, Soul Tools, blueprints, and rare metals, while Su Fan reflected on the cost of risking one’s reputation for the future of the Douluo Three Empires.

• Jing Hongchen discovered Kong Deming was absent and tried to hold Du Busi at Mingde Hall, but Du Busi broke through the blockade and escaped with his companions.
• Su Fan sensed the spatial blockade fail, and Du Busi’s group arrived at the Black Market before heading for the border.
• Du Busi told Su Fan that Mingde Hall had Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells and that Long Xiaoyao led a large group of Evil Soul Masters in the underground Black Market.
• Du Busi and the others crossed into the Douluo Three Empires, bringing back a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo, two Level 9 Soul Guidance Ray Cannons, a defensive Soul Tool, and a large haul of materials and Soul Tool plans.
• Su Fan praised the value of strength and wondered whether earlier Limit Douluos could have seized Sun Moon Empire technology, concluding that present guilt could earn merit for generations.

Su Fan returned to the Body Sect’s Snow Demon Mountain settlement, where he studied the stolen Soul Tools and continued refining his understanding of the Aperture Path. After discussing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Embryo with Du Busi, he sought to learn who would receive it.

• Su Fan refused Du Busi’s suggestion that he make Soul Tools, saying he would study their principles but focus on strengthening himself.
• Su Fan arrived at Snow Demon Mountain, met the Body Sect’s gathered members, and learned that many had been taught his 108-Aperture method.
• Su Fan reflected on how each Soul Master’s Heavenly Circuit Apertures needed to suit their own Martial Soul, and considered how his own Apertures might eventually enhance his Martial Soul.
• Su Fan studied the stolen Soul Tool blueprints and finished devices while Electrolux analyzed their Core Arrays and planned a framework for Soul Tool research.
• Su Fan went to Du Busi to ask whom he planned to give the Hundred-Thousand-Year Embryo to.

Su Fan received Du Busi’s promise that he could fuse with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Embryo after reaching level sixty, though he knew the Snow Empress inside was far more powerful than the sect leader believed. A year later, at level fifty-eight, Su Fan decided to seek faster cultivation at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and asked Du Busi to accompany him.

• Du Busi agreed that Su Fan could use the Hundred-Thousand-Year Embryo once he reached level sixty, and Su Fan discussed communicating with the Snow Empress with Electrolux.
• Su Fan spent the year after the tournament cultivating and reached level fifty-eight, but worried that his progress toward godhood would take too long.
• Su Fan decided to return to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to cultivate.
• Su Fan told Du Busi that the site held many Immortal Herbs, including some that had become powerful Soul Beasts, and asked for his help going there.

Su Fan returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with Du Busi to cultivate Ice and Fire Golden Body Refinement, despite the Immortal Herbs' objections. Du Busi took several treasures from the herbs, and Su Fan began the refinement by swallowing the Blazing Glue and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal.

• Su Fan and Du Busi traveled from Snow Demon Mountain to Sunset Forest and descended into the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• The Aromatic Silk Beauty accused Su Fan of breaking his promise, while Su Fan explained that he had returned to cultivate with Du Busi for protection.
• Su Fan announced that he would undergo Ice and Fire Golden Body Refinement, and the Infernal Delicate Apricot refused to help.
• Du Busi restrained the Infernal Delicate Apricot and took its Blazing Glue after Youyou offered it as sufficient for the refinement.
• The Aromatic Silk Beauty gave Du Busi a Silk Beauty Immortal Pill, and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass offered an Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal.
• Su Fan swallowed the Blazing Glue and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal to begin Ice and Fire Golden Body Refinement.

Su Fan endured the Ice and Fire Golden Body Refinement in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well while Du Busi learned that Tang San had claimed the valley and assessed its Immortal Herbs. After three days, Su Fan was still cultivating, far longer than the herbs said the process should take.

• Su Fan swallowed the Blazing Glue and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal, then entered the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to withstand their opposing forces.
• Youyou told Du Busi that Tang San had claimed the valley, and Du Busi found and read Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.
• Du Busi memorized the poison arts and began assigning the Immortal Herbs to Jin Peng, Long Aotian, and other disciples.
• Du Busi reflected that Su Fan had given him the foundation to pursue godhood and watched as Su Fan's body grew stronger in the spring.
• After three days, Du Busi checked the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and learned that the refinement should normally take one day; Jiaojiao and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass said Su Fan had received about a main body's worth of each herb.

Su Fan spent a month completing the Ice and Fire Golden Body Refinement of his Heavenly Circuit Apertures, leaving him too weak to stand. After Du Busi helped him recover, Su Fan asked him to preserve the Primordial Immortal Grass, which he intended to use to condense a Soul Core before Rank 90.

• Su Fan continued tempering his Heavenly Circuit Apertures in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and resonated them with his Soul Apertures as his refinement stretched on for a month.
• Du Busi pulled Su Fan from the well, gave him a pill, and learned that the long wait had been caused by Su Fan refining every aperture.
• Du Busi reflected on his own aperture cultivation and recognized how the Heavenly Circuit Apertures could function like a Body Martial Soul.
• Du Busi told Su Fan to rest, and Su Fan asked him to keep the Primordial Immortal Grass safe.
• Du Busi understood that Su Fan wanted the Primordial Immortal Grass to help condense a Soul Core, but wondered how he could absorb it after already using four Immortal Herbs.

Su Fan planned to turn the Primordial Immortal Grass into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and absorb it as a soul ring, while Du Busi took the Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. After recovering at Snow Demon Mountain, Su Fan assessed his gains and considered how the grass might help him condense a second or third Soul Core.

• Su Fan told Du Busi that he planned to transform the Primordial Immortal Grass into a soul beast and absorb it as a soul ring, and Du Busi agreed to keep it for him.
• Du Busi left the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with Su Fan after taking its Immortal Herbs and medicinal plants.
• Su Fan recovered at Snow Demon Mountain and reflected on his improved physique and Apertures, while noting that he had not completed his Martial Soul's Second Awakening.
• Su Fan inspected his five soul rings and concluded that his level-sixty Soul Power could support condensing his first Soul Core.
• Su Fan reasoned that the Primordial Immortal Grass would be more valuable for his second or third Soul Core, and considered the challenges of Isotopic Resonance and Yin-Yang Complement.

Su Fan successfully condensed his first Soul Core while breaking through toward Rank Sixty, reaching Rank Fifty-Nine at thirteen years old. After stabilizing the core, he considered how to make his Apertures operate independently and proposed nurturing spirituality within them.

• Su Fan kept the Primordial Immortal Grass growing in his Second Sea of Consciousness, where Electrolux said it could eventually transform into a Soul Beast.
• Su Fan told Du Busi he was ready to break through, and Du Busi was astonished to learn that the thirteen-year-old was nearing Rank Sixty.
• Su Fan drew in worldly vital energy through more than a thousand Apertures and condensed a Soul Core in his dantian, raising his Soul Power by nearly a rank.
• After a month of seclusion, Su Fan stabilized the Soul Core and confirmed that it circulated Soul Power and absorbed worldly vital energy on its own.
• Su Fan proposed that Apertures might operate independently if they developed sentience, and Electrolux began considering how Soul Apertures could nurture spirituality.

Electrolux connected Su Fan’s Aperture Sentience idea to the Douluo Plane’s spirit system and envisioned developing it further. At Shrek City’s Sea God Pavilion, Mu En concluded that Su Fan’s ability to inscribe Core Arrays in Apertures likely came from his Martial Soul.

• Electrolux associated Aperture Sentience with spirits and proposed further possibilities involving Soul Rings and Spirit Ascension.
• Su Fan praised Electrolux’s ideas and encouraged him to explore the spirit system.
• More than a year after the Soul Master Tournament, Shrek Academy reviewed the Aperture Path information Huo Yuhao and the others had brought back from Dou Ling Empire.
• Xuan Zi questioned how Su Fan had created densely packed Core Arrays in his Apertures when Huo Yuhao could manage only a first-grade Soul Tool array.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo explained that Apertures enhanced Soul Power and could produce Core Array effects, but the limited space and mental demands made Su Fan’s results difficult to reproduce.
• Mu En said the academy could explore Aperture locations itself and concluded that Su Fan’s Martial Soul likely let him create higher-grade Apertures.

Mu En urged Xuan Zi to cultivate the Aperture Path, hoping it could help him reach the Limit Douluo threshold and protect Shrek Academy from Du Busi. Meanwhile, Du Busi completed his Heavenly Circuit Apertures and began moving his Soul Power Soul Core toward his Sea of Consciousness to form a Mental Soul Core.

• Mu En told the Pavilion Elders that Su Fan's Aperture Martial Soul made him uniquely suited to the Aperture Path, but they could still learn from it and apply it to their own strengths.
• Mu En ordered Xuan Zi to cultivate the Aperture Path and threatened to withhold chicken legs if he failed to make progress; Xuan Zi promised to train seriously.
• Mu En worried that Du Busi had become a Limit Douluo and that Shrek Academy would lack protection after Mu En's death.
• After another half year, Du Busi completed his Heavenly Circuit Apertures and developed his own method for condensing Soul Apertures with Su Fan's guidance.
• Du Busi used his body's pink Aperture energy to compress his dark green Soul Apertures around his Sea of Consciousness vortex as he tried to form a Mental Soul Core.

Du Busi attempted a dangerous Soul Core Transfer, using his Heavenly Circuit Apertures to replace a dispersed Soul Core and stabilize a new Mental Soul Core. He succeeded, and Su Fan realized the Aperture-for-Soul-Core Method could make condensing Dual Soul Cores easier for others.

• Du Busi began transferring his Soul Core by using poison energy to merge his nine Soul Apertures into the vortex in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Du Busi dispersed his first Soul Core and activated the Heavenly Circuit Apertures to control his rampaging Soul Power while the new Mental Soul Core resonated with his remaining Soul Core.
• Du Busi transferred the pink energy from his dispersed Soul Core through the Heavenly Circuit Apertures, completing the transfer and restoring his spiritual power.
• Du Busi adapted to his new state, strengthened his Soul Power with the Mental Soul Core, and used his apertures to simulate the lost Soul Core's power.
• Electrolux told Su Fan that Du Busi's breakthrough had succeeded, and Su Fan recognized that the perfected method could make condensing Dual Soul Cores easier.

After the Body Sect’s Aperture Path breakthroughs, Su Fan studied Du Busi’s cultivation method while waiting for the Primordial Immortal Grass to transform. A year later, the grass began its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast tribulation, and Su Fan deliberately endured its lightning alongside it.

• Body Sect disciples and elders broke through, and Du Busi used his Apertures to simulate a second Soul Core.
• Su Fan declined the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo for his sixth Soul Ring and planned to absorb the Primordial Immortal Grass’s Soul Ring instead.
• Du Busi led a large Soul Hunting expedition, while Su Fan studied the new Aperture circulation diagram and continued cultivating.
• Over the following year, the Body Sect completed three Soul Hunting expeditions, and Su Fan assimilated his abilities while nurturing the Primordial Immortal Grass.
• A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast aura emerged above Su Fan’s room, drawing Du Busi and the sect’s powerful members to witness the Primordial Immortal Grass’s lightning tribulation.
• Su Fan rushed into the lightning and deliberately took the first strike alongside the Primordial Immortal Grass.

Su Fan used the Hundred-Thousand-Year Lightning Tribulation to temper his body and force the Primordial Immortal Grass to undergo a powerful rebirth, greatly strengthening its future potential. After the tribulation ended, the Primordial Immortal Grass answered his summons and merged into his glabella as his Soul Spirit.

• Su Fan used the Heavenly Gate to study the Lightning Tribulation inside his body and adjusted its destruction and rebirth properties to temper himself.
• Su Fan intensified the tribulation's destructive force against the Primordial Immortal Grass, then amplified its rebirth and raised its benefits to the equivalent of two hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• The Lightning Tribulation dispersed, and the Body Sect disciples on Snow Demon Mountain watched the transformed Primordial Immortal Grass.
• Du Busi praised Su Fan's achievement and said that even Dual Soul Cores or Three Soul Cores would not block his future progress.
• Su Fan beckoned to the Primordial Immortal Grass, which stopped digesting its inheritance and merged into his glabella.

The Primordial Immortal Grass chose to become Su Fan’s Soul Spirit, hoping to use the Blade of Life to overcome the limits facing immortal herbs. With Electrolux overseeing a contract, the Primordial Immortal Grass began sacrificing itself to Su Fan, and the chapter ended as it asked where its Soul Bone should condense.

• The Primordial Immortal Grass reflected on how the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well trapped immortal herbs and saw Su Fan and the Blade of Life as its chance to survive.
• Du Busi urged Su Fan to fuse with Hunyuan’s Soul Ring, and Su Fan assured him that the Primordial Immortal Grass was willing to become his Soul Ring.
• Su Fan summoned the Primordial Immortal Grass and yielded control of his body to Elder Electrolux, who formed a Contract Array.
• The Primordial Immortal Grass and Su Fan joined their Soul Power in the array, establishing a connection before Su Fan told it to begin the sacrifice.
• The Primordial Immortal Grass dissolved into starlight that entered Su Fan as a blood-red Soul Ring formed, and it asked where its Soul Bone should condense.

Su Fan absorbed Hunyuan’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and torso Soul Bone, reaching level sixty-eight after converting his accumulated cultivation and Hunyuan’s Soul Power. He then asked Du Busi to prepare for a seventh Soul Ring from a ferocious beast, considering one as powerful as a four-hundred-thousand-year beast.

• Su Fan chose the torso bone for Hunyuan’s Soul Bone, and Hunyuan resolved to live up to Su Fan’s trust and help him grow.
• Su Fan absorbed Hunyuan’s Soul Ring and torso bone, remaining inside for a day and night while Du Busi waited anxiously outside.
• Su Fan emerged unharmed and revealed that he had reached level sixty-eight, shocking Du Busi.
• Su Fan told Du Busi to start preparing for his seventh Soul Ring and said he wanted one from a ferocious beast.
• Su Fan considered challenging a four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, leaving Du Busi worried about how he would help Su Fan obtain his later Soul Rings.

Su Fan considered which ferocious beast to hunt for his seventh Soul Ring and settled on Scarlet King, while also plotting to obtain the Auspicious Beast’s Power of Fate through another route. He and Electrolux began planning a risky scheme that would challenge the God King.

• Su Fan weighed Xiong Jun, Scarlet King, and Ice Empress as candidates for his seventh Soul Ring, then told Du Busi he might need Scarlet King's Soul Ring.
• Du Busi agreed to prepare for hunting Scarlet King and the Beast Tide that could follow.
• Su Fan considered capturing the Auspicious Beast as well, since its Eye of Fate could strengthen his Heavenly Gate, and wondered how he might obtain its power without using one of his remaining Soul Ring slots.
• Su Fan decided to pursue a plan that could pit him against the God King and discussed it with Electrolux.
• Electrolux proposed letting someone else absorb the Auspicious Beast's power, then extracting that power from them and refining it into a divine artifact.

Su Fan and Electrolux planned to turn the Snow Empress Embryo into Su Fan’s Second Martial Soul and use the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s power to offer the Snow Empress hope of becoming a god. The chapter ended with Su Fan preparing to negotiate with her.

• Electrolux proposed using the Snow Empress Embryo to help Su Fan form a Second Martial Soul.
• Su Fan and Electrolux reasoned that the Snow Empress might cooperate if the Auspicious Beast’s power gave her a chance to evade heavenly tribulations and reach godhood.
• Su Fan proposed combining the Snow Empress’s ice-attribute form with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s ultimate fire attribute through his Ice and Fire Golden Body Refinement.
• Su Fan took out the God-Sealing Platform and asked Electrolux to establish contact with the Snow Empress.

Su Fan tried to persuade Snow Empress to become his Soul Spirit by explaining how their equal contract could help them both reach godhood. Snow Empress considered his plan, but the damaged seal left her little time to decide.

• Su Fan established communication with Snow Empress and asked her to become his Soul Ring, but she rejected the request and questioned whether he could withstand it.
• Su Fan let Snow Empress sense his Soul Power and Soul Rings, then suggested fusing with her Soul Bone first.
• Su Fan explained that an equal Soul Spirit contract would preserve Snow Empress’s spiritual origin and give her a chance to cultivate toward godhood alongside him.
• Su Fan proposed using an Auspicious Beast as his Second Martial Soul, with Snow Empress’s original body as its slot, and said a Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave could accelerate her cultivation.
• Snow Empress became absorbed in Su Fan’s plan, and he pressed her for an answer before their communication further damaged her sealed state.