Chapter Summaries

Han Yu and Ling Yuan discussed Spirit Hall’s offer for the Ling Tian Sect to replace the Clear Sky Sect as head of the Upper Three Sects, while Yu Xiaogang learned how powerful the Ling Tian Sect had become. The chapter left Yu Xiaogang determined to intensify Shrek Academy’s training ahead of the Elite Tournament.

• Gu Yu brought Han Yu soup and noticed the two teacups, but Han Yu said Ling Yuan had visited to discuss Spirit Hall’s offer.
• Han Yu told Gu Yu he would wait until after the Elite Tournament to negotiate with Spirit Hall, and Ling Yuan left through the window to avoid being discovered.
• Liu Erlong told Flender and Yu Xiaogang that Han Feng and Gu Yu had become Title Douluos and that the Ling Tian Sect now had five Title Douluos.
• Liu Erlong reported that Yu Yuanzhen had confronted Han Feng and Gu Yu but had failed to gain the upper hand, unsettling Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted Shrek could challenge the Ling Tian Sect because Dai Mubai had reached Soul Ancestor, then agreed with Flender that the team needed more strength.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Liu Erlong to intensify Dai Mubai and the others’ training starting the next day.

Han Yu took Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Bai Chenxiang, Meng Yiran, Yang Tie, and Niu Zhuang to the Great Soul Arena to train as a team, where they encountered Dai Mubai’s Shrek group and were matched against a team of older Soul Masters. Han Yu let his six companions fight without him, and the battle began with Niu Zhuang holding the front while Yang Tie and the poison users attacked.

• Han Yu brought the six members of Ling Tian Academy to the Great Soul Arena for team combat practice ahead of the Elite Tournament.
• Dai Mubai and his companions saw Han Yu, but Han Yu ignored them and led his group to their arena; Dai Mubai told his team to focus on training rather than cause trouble.
• In Arena Seven, a bald Soul Ancestor mocked Han Yu’s young team, then agreed to fight after Han Yu challenged him.
• Han Yu stayed at the rear and ordered Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Bai Chenxiang, Meng Yiran, Yang Tie, and Niu Zhuang to fight without him.
• Niu Zhuang blocked the first assault, Yang Tie narrowly missed the bald leader with his spear, and Meng Yiran and Dugu Yan combined their poisons until two opponents began coughing.

Han Yu’s team won its match, while news of Han Feng and Gu Yu’s return and their Soul Tool technology drew requests and envoys from powers across the continent. Han Yu rejected demands for blueprints and recognized Tang Xiao’s congratulations as a probe, leaving Clear Sky Sect free to visit but requiring an exchange for anything it wanted.

• Han Yu criticized the Ling Tian Sect team’s coordination after it defeated its opponents, then left for the next match as Dai Mubai won for Shrek nearby.
• Envoys and orders poured into Ling Tian Sect after news spread that Han Feng and Gu Yu had returned with Soul Tool technology.
• Han Feng and Gu Yu discussed orders for cannons from the Star Luo Empire and Haagen-Dazs Kingdom, while limiting sales to rank-four Soul Tools and setting delivery terms.
• Han Yu refused Spirit Hall’s offer for rank-one-to-rank-four Soul Tool blueprints, allowing it to buy finished products instead.
• Han Yu dismissed Tang Xiao’s congratulations as an attempt by Clear Sky Sect to sound them out and said it would need to offer something in exchange for anything it wanted.
• Han Yu left to cultivate on Back Mountain and told Han Feng and Gu Yu to handle the visitors.

Han Yu planned to expand Soul Tool production while Bibi Dong dismissed the need for blueprints and moved to restart the Seven Great Sects Ranking Tournament. She decided to eliminate Yu Yuanzhen and named Gu Rong as the one to kill him.

• Han Yu agreed with Gu Rong that trusted Ling Tian Sect disciples would be trained to manufacture Soul Tools after the Elite Tournament.
• Bibi Dong rejected the importance of obtaining Soul Tool blueprints and ordered Yue Guan and Gui Mei to restart the Seven Great Sects Ranking Tournament.
• Bibi Dong planned to use the tournament to reshape the Upper Three Sects and draw the powerful Ling Tian Sect into Spirit Hall’s plans.
• Bibi Dong resolved to destroy the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan by killing Yu Yuanzhen and letting Yu Luomian take his place.
• Bibi Dong told Yue Guan and Gui Mei that Gu Rong would kill Yu Yuanzhen because his spatial abilities would prevent Yu Yuanzhen from escaping.

Bibi Dong tried to enlist Gu Rong to kill Yu Yuanzhen in exchange for Spirit Hall’s support and discounted Soul Tool materials, but Han Yu demanded better terms before deciding. Meanwhile, Tang Xiao assessed Tang San’s training and noted that his Soul Power had reached rank thirty-eight.

• Bibi Dong ordered Ling Yuan to offer Ling Tian Sect support in claiming the top Upper Three Sects position and Soul Tool materials at a discount if Gu Rong killed Yu Yuanzhen.
• Ling Yuan delivered the offer to Han Yu and Gu Rong, who objected to being blamed for Spirit Hall’s plot.
• Han Yu countered by demanding Soul Tool materials at forty percent below market price for ten years, and Ling Yuan agreed to relay his terms to Bibi Dong.
• Han Yu told Gu Rong they would wait for Bibi Dong’s reply before considering the assassination, while Gu Rong admitted he felt guilty about killing Yu Yuanzhen.
• Tang Xiao stopped Tang San’s waterfall training and observed that his Soul Power had reached rank thirty-eight.

Tang San learned that Ling Tian Sect had become a formidable power and resolved to train for Clear Sky Sect's return through the Seven Great Sects Ranking Tournament. Meanwhile, Han Yu visited Prince Xue Xing in Heaven Dou City, leaving Xue Xing unsettled about his intentions.

• Tang San and Tang Xiao received news that Ling Tian Sect had five Title Douluo, had gained imperial and Spirit Hall support, and could not be matched easily by Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San lamented that he was only level thirty-eight, and Tang Hao urged him not to rush into a fight he could not win.
• Tang Xiao announced that Clear Sky Sect would leave the mountains and use the Seven Great Sects Ranking Tournament to prove itself, but Tang San had to reach Soul Ancestor first.
• Tang San returned to the waterfall and struck the torrent harder while Tang Hao and Tang Xiao discussed the burden he carried.
• Han Yu and Dugu Bo arrived in Heaven Dou City and went to Prince Xue Xing's Mansion, where Han Yu asked about Xue Beng before leaving without explaining his purpose.
• Dugu Bo asked Han Yu why his words had frightened Xue Xing.

Han Yu negotiated with Spirit Hall to secure cheaper Soul Tool materials and promised that Yu Yuanzhen would die within seven days. He then warned Qian Renxue that Heaven Dou City might soon become unsettled, leaving her to suspect he had learned to use the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

• Han Yu told Ling Yuan that Yu Yuanzhen would die within seven days and warned Bibi Dong not to break her promise.
• Han Yu explained to Dugu Bo that Ling Tian Sect needed Spirit Hall's stable, inexpensive Soul Tool materials and predicted the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would fall into Spirit Hall's orbit after Yu Yuanzhen's death.
• Han Yu and Dugu Bo went to the East Palace, where Qian Renxue wondered whether Han Yu had used the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to conceal his Soul Power aura.
• Han Yu asked Qian Renxue for her view of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, then warned her to be careful because Heaven Dou City might soon become unsettled.
• Han Yu cautioned Qian Renxue that knowing too much could be dangerous and left the East Palace, while she remained troubled.

Han Yu and Gu Rong planned to lure Yu Yuanzhen away from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect by using Yu Tianheng’s pursuit of Dugu Yan. Han Yu and Dugu Yan went to Heaven Dou City to put the plan in motion, leaving Dugu Yan wondering whether her carefully chosen outfit looked too deliberate.

• Qian Renxue decided not to interfere in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect’s affairs after Han Yu warned her that he knew her trump card.
• Han Yu told Gu Rong about Bibi Dong’s seven-day deadline and proposed luring Yu Yuanzhen out by drawing Yu Tianheng away from the sect.
• Dugu Yan suggested that Han Yu accompany her to Imperial Heaven Academy and wound Yu Tianheng so Yu Yuanzhen would come out personally.
• Han Yu agreed to go with Dugu Yan to Imperial Heaven Academy the next morning, when Yu Tianheng would be training.
• Han Yu and Dugu Yan traveled to Heaven Dou City, and Dugu Yan asked whether her carefully chosen outfit looked too deliberate.

Han Yu accompanied Dugu Yan to Imperial Heaven Academy, where she rejected Yu Tianheng and openly sided with Han Yu. Humiliated after losing a brief fight, Yu Tianheng went to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect and told Yu Yuanzhen what happened, leaving his grandfather enraged.

• Han Yu and Dugu Yan arrived at Imperial Heaven Academy and learned Yu Tianheng was training at the Martial Arts Arena.
• Dugu Yan linked arms with Han Yu and told Yu Tianheng they were not close, prompting Yu Tianheng to challenge Han Yu.
• Han Yu caught Yu Tianheng's spear between two fingers and defeated him without summoning his Martial Soul.
• Dugu Yan told Yu Tianheng not to seek her out again and said she was doing well with Han Yu, so Yu Tianheng left in anger.
• Yu Tianheng rushed to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect, knelt before Yu Yuanzhen, and recounted his humiliation and Dugu Yan's choice.
• Yu Yuanzhen shattered his teacup and unleashed the pressure of a level ninety-five Super Douluo in the Council Hall.

Gu Rong intercepted Yu Yuanzhen on the road to Imperial Heaven Academy and killed him, Yu Tianheng, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders. He then told Han Yu the clan had been wiped out.

• Yu Yuanzhen ignored the Great Elder’s warning and led Yu Tianheng and several elders toward Heaven Dou City to confront Han Yu.
• Han Yu told Gu Rong through a Communication Soul Tool that Yu Yuanzhen was coming, and Gu Rong said he was already on his way.
• Gu Rong blocked Yu Yuanzhen’s group on the road and declared that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan should change leaders.
• Gu Rong killed Yu Yuanzhen with a single strike, then killed the Second Elder and beheaded the fleeing elders with spatial blades.
• Gu Rong killed Yu Tianheng and told him to blame Yu Yuanzhen’s stubbornness, then reported to Han Yu that none had survived.

Gu Rong returned from killing Yu Yuanzhen, Yu Tianheng, and several elders, bringing back a Thunder-Struck Wood Lingzhi and Yu Yuanzhen’s Dragon Transformation Secret Technique diary. Han Yu ordered Gu Rong to study adapting the technique for Ling Tian Sect’s dragon-type Martial Souls, while the sect concealed Yu Yuanzhen’s death; the chapter ended as Yu Luomian arrived to meet Han Yu.

• Gu Rong brought the corpses of Yu Yuanzhen, Yu Tianheng, and several elders to Ling Tian Sect, along with their Storage Soul Tools.
• Han Yu recognized a Thunder-Struck Wood Lingzhi among the spoils, and Gu Rong revealed Yu Yuanzhen’s diary about the Dragon Transformation Secret Technique.
• Gu Rong proposed adapting the technique for Ling Tian Sect’s dragon-type Martial Souls, and Han Yu assigned him to study it.
• Dugu Yan struggled with Yu Tianheng’s death, but Han Yu reminded her that she had not killed him, and she accepted that he had died in a sect conflict.
• Han Yu ordered Yu Yuanzhen’s body kept hidden until news confirmed Yu Luomian’s ascension, while the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan announced Yu Yuanzhen had entered seclusion.
• A Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan envoy arrived at Ling Tian Sect, introduced himself as Yu Luomian, and greeted Han Yu.

Han Yu negotiated with Yu Luomian over Yu Yuanzhen’s body and the Dragon Transformation Secret Technique while Gu Rong successfully adapted the technique for his Bone Dragon Martial Soul. With the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan now aligned with Spirit Hall, Han Yu chose to wait for future tournaments and his breakthrough before settling his debts.

• Yu Luomian asked Han Yu to return Yu Yuanzhen’s body, and Han Yu agreed to do so after Yu Luomian secured the patriarch’s seat and announced that Yu Yuanzhen had died of illness.
• Han Yu asked Yu Luomian for a complete copy of Yu Yuanzhen’s Dragon Transformation Secret Technique notes, and Yu Luomian agreed to deliver one.
• Gu Rong tested his adaptation of the Dragon Transformation Secret Technique and found it increased his Bone Dragon arm’s power by at least thirty percent.
• Gu Rong told Han Yu that the technique could be adapted for other dragon-type Martial Souls and potentially taught to qualified sect disciples.
• Han Yu told Gu Rong to receive the first Spirit Hall material shipment in half a month, while Ling Yuan reported that Bibi Dong was pleased with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s allegiance.
• Han Yu told Ling Yuan he would wait for the tournaments and his Titled Douluo breakthrough before settling his debts.

Bibi Dong arranged Spirit Hall’s cooperation with Ling Tian Sect while keeping Gu Rong’s death in mind, and Han Yu tended the Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After breaking through to level eighty, Han Yu prepared to travel to the Extreme North to hunt the Frost Explosion Dragon, and Dugu Bo asked to join him.

• Bibi Dong learned that Gu Rong had killed Yu Yuanzhen and that Yu Luomian planned to bring the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan over to Spirit Hall, then ordered Ling Yuan to monitor Soul Tool materials and warned her about her closeness to Han Yu.
• Han Yu planted the Thunder-Struck Wood Lingzhi and checked the seedlings and the growing Blue Silver Emperor at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Han Yu told Gu Rong the Blue Silver Emperor was nearing one hundred thousand years of cultivation, and Gu Rong suggested hunting the Frost Explosion Dragon in the Extreme North once Han Yu reached level eighty.
• Han Yu broke through to level eighty five days later and told Gu Rong to prepare for the journey to the Extreme North.
• Dugu Bo arrived and asked to accompany Han Yu and Gu Rong, arguing that his peak level ninety-three strength would still be useful there.

Han Yu, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo encountered Skywater Academy students fighting an 85,000-year Ice Jade Scorpion in the Extreme North. After they rescued the students and killed the scorpion, Han Yu discovered that it had yielded a left arm Soul Bone.

• Gu Rong opened a spatial rift and led Han Yu and Dugu Bo into the Extreme North, where he sensed a powerful ice-attributed Soul Beast about three hundred li away.
• Han Yu, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo found Shui Bing'er and six other Skywater Academy students struggling against an Ice Jade Scorpion.
• Han Yu ordered Dugu Bo to trap the scorpion with a Poison Array and Gu Rong to break its tail hook.
• Gu Rong snapped off the Ice Jade Scorpion's tail hook, while Dugu Bo's poisonous miasma slowed it and Gu Rong's spatial chains pinned it down.
• Han Yu killed the 85,000-year Ice Jade Scorpion with his dragon-transformed claw and pulled a left arm Soul Bone from its corpse.

Han Yu, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo left Shui Bing'er’s team after defeating an Ice Jade Scorpion and traveled deeper into the Extreme North to find the Frost Explosion Dragon. They began fighting the more than 120,000-year-old beast, with Gu Rong drawing its attacks and Dugu Bo closing in with poison.

• Han Yu gave the Ice Jade Scorpion’s ultimate-ice left arm bone to Gu Rong, who stored it away.
• Bing Yun and Shui Bing’er thanked Han Yu, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo for saving their team, and Bing Yun explained they had sought an Ice Jade Scorpion for Shui Bing’er’s upcoming tournament.
• Han Yu warned Shui Bing’er about absorbing a high-age Ice Jade Scorpion soul ring, then told her to salvage the creature’s corpse before departing with Gu Rong and Dugu Bo.
• Gu Rong sensed the Frost Explosion Dragon northwest of them, and the trio traveled to an ice lake where they found it sleeping.
• Gu Rong attacked the Frost Explosion Dragon and drew its counterattack, while Dugu Bo spread poison across the ice to restrict its movement.

Han Yu and his companions rescued Shui Bing'er and Skywater Academy from an Ice Jade Scorpion, then continued into the Extreme North to hunt the Frost Explosion Dragon. They found the over-100,000-year soul beast and began their attack, with the battle still underway.

• Han Yu gave Gu Rong the Ice Jade Scorpion's left arm bone, and Bing Yun and Shui Bing'er thanked the three men for rescuing them.
• Bing Yun explained that Shui Bing'er needed a powerful soul skill for the upcoming tournament, and Han Yu warned that absorbing the scorpion's soul ring would be risky.
• Han Yu left the scorpion's corpse to Shui Bing'er and her team, who dismantled it for its useful parts.
• Gu Rong sensed the Frost Explosion Dragon northwest of them, and Han Yu, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo traveled to an ice lake where it slept.
• Han Yu assigned Gu Rong to attack from the front and Dugu Bo to restrict the dragon with poison; Gu Rong struck first, and Dugu Bo's poison began narrowing its movement.

The Ice Empress failed to catch Han Yu and his companions after they killed the Frost Explosion Dragon, and the Snow Empress identified their leader as Gu Rong of Ling Tian Sect. Back at the sect, Gu Rong proposed that Han Yu fill the Light Sacred Dragon’s empty Spirit Ring slots with Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings.

• The Ice Empress pursued the humans who killed the Frost Explosion Dragon, but Gu Rong’s Spatial Shuttle let them escape.
• The Ice Empress told the Snow Empress what happened, and the Snow Empress identified Gu Rong as a Rank 96 spatial-type Super Douluo from Ling Tian Sect.
• Gu Rong returned with Han Yu and Han Feng to Ling Tian Sect, where Han Yu revealed that he had gained a one-hundred-twenty-thousand-year eighth Spirit Ring and reached Rank 83.
• Gu Rong showed the Hundred-Thousand-Year right arm Soul Bone dropped by the Frost Explosion Dragon, while Han Yu said his physique had let him absorb the Spirit Ring safely.
• Gu Rong proposed that Han Yu add Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings to the Light Sacred Dragon, arguing that their family’s strength now made hunting powerful Soul Beasts possible.

Han Yu absorbed the Frost Explosion Dragon’s hundred-thousand-year soul bone, reached rank eighty-four, and revealed four powerful soul skills. He declined a meeting with Star Luo Empire envoys and checked on his team’s training as preparations for the Elite Tournament continued.

• Han Yu agreed with Gu Yu and Gu Rong that he would fill the Light Sacred Dragon’s nine soul-ring slots with hundred-thousand-year soul rings after the Elite Tournament, then pursue the Nine Evil Trials.
• Han Yu absorbed the Frost Explosion Dragon right arm bone and reached rank eighty-four.
• Han Yu described Ice Dragon Annihilation, Ice Seal Thousand Miles, Frost Armor Protection, and Ice Dragon Break, while Gu Rong and Han Feng assessed his strengths and limits.
• Han Yu told Bai Chenxiang to let Gu Yu and Han Feng handle the Star Luo Empire envoys’ Soul Cannon discussions.
• Bai Chenxiang reported that Dugu Yan, Sister Leaf, Meng Yiran, Yang Tie, and Niu Zhuang had been training hard and improving their abilities and teamwork.

Han Yu corrected Dugu Yan and her teammates’ combat training while Gu Rong pressed Yu Luomian to announce Yu Yuanzhen’s death from illness. Ling Yuan delivered ten carts of materials from Spirit Hall, which Gu Rong transported to the Back Mountain courtyard.

• Gu Rong told Han Feng and Gu Yu that Ling Yuan would bring Spirit Hall’s materials, and said Yu Yuanzhen’s corpse would remain in the secret chamber until Yu Luomian gave a formal explanation.
• Han Yu watched Dugu Yan, Niu Zhuang, Yang Tie, and Bai Chenxiang train, then advised Dugu Yan to control her poisonous mist and ordered her to add an hour of daily practice.
• Han Yu warned Dugu Yan and the others that their current level would not get them into the Elite Tournament’s top eight.
• Ling Yuan delivered ten carts of metal billets and Soul Power Crystal Cores to Gu Rong and said Yu Luomian planned to announce Yu Yuanzhen’s death from illness in three days.
• Gu Rong demanded the announcement by the next day, then used a spatial rift to transport the carts and their coachmen to the Back Mountain courtyard.

Han Yu secured a steady supply of Soul Tool materials after Yu Luomian announced Yu Yuanzhen’s death and took control of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Three months later, Gu Rong attended the Heaven Dou Empire division’s tournament opening alongside other Ling Tian Sect allies, while Ning Fengzhi reflected on how far Gu Rong had moved from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Gu Yu confirmed that Spirit Hall had delivered genuine materials, and Gu Rong instructed Han Feng to conserve them while keeping Sun Moon Empire supply channels open.
• Yu Luomian announced that Yu Yuanzhen had died and that he would oversee the clan, after which Han Yu ordered Gu Rong to return the body without delivering it personally.
• Three months later, Gu Rong arrived at the tournament opening with Dugu Bo, Meng Shu, and Chao Tianxiang, and Emperor Xue Ye welcomed them into the VIP section.
• Emperor Xue Ye declared the tournament open and introduced Gu Rong and his companions as special guests.
• Ning Fengzhi watched Gu Rong sit among the Heaven Dou Imperial Family’s guests and felt troubled that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had only Chen Xin as its remaining Title Douluo.