Chapter Summaries

Lu Yu joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy and agreed to compete in its upcoming Academy Grand Competition. After comprehending his fifth supreme talisman by the lakeside, he repeatedly encountered a mysterious girl whose presence escaped his spiritual detection, but she refused to explain how.

• Xue Beng scoffed at Lu Yu's special recruitment, then ordered a lackey to investigate him while secretly making his own calculations.
• Meng Shenji showed Lu Yu his furnished dormitory and offered him the chance to compete for one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and temporary VIP status at the Heavenly Dou Auction; Lu Yu accepted.
• Lu Yu explored the academy, then relaxed by a lake and unexpectedly comprehended his fifth supreme talisman as a blue glow rippled across the water.
• Lu Yu spotted a masked girl with blue hair watching him, but she denied spying and left before he could learn why his spiritual power had not detected her.
• Over the next month, Lu Yu balanced cultivation with visits to the lake, where he repeatedly saw the same girl standing alone.
• When Lu Yu asked whether she was trying to pick him up, he explained that he wanted to know how she evaded his perception; she said she could not tell him, and they sat quietly by the lake.

Lu Yu competed in the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Grand Competition and reached the top thirty-two without using his martial soul, drawing the attention of the academy’s leaders and Dugu Bo. After the first day ended, he set himself the goal of winning the championship using only his physical strength and martial soul.

• Lu Yu left the girl by the lake, and the next day the Academy Grand Competition began with a doubled champion prize and temporary VIP status at the Heavenly Dou Auction.
• Prince Xue Xing and Dugu Bo watched the competition, and Dugu Bo said his granddaughter was participating.
• The competition used cultivation-based elimination rounds, and Lu Yu advanced through several matches by defeating opponents with a single punch without using his martial soul.
• Lu Yu reached the top thirty-two, surprising the students and attracting the attention of Dugu Bo and other academy leaders; Dugu Yan also advanced without using her third soul skill.
• After the first day’s matches ended, Lu Yu went to the lake and resolved to win the championship without using the Golden Light Spell, Thunder Arts, External Soul Bone, or Heavenly Talisman.

Lu Yu met Ye Lingling by the lake and briefly touched the second layer of the Summoning God Talisman, then entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s tournament. He defeated Yu Tianheng without revealing his martial soul and left the spectators stunned by his strength and immunity to lightning.

• Lu Yu heard Ye Lingling approach, spoke with her by the lake, and learned her name while wondering how she had escaped his spiritual detection.
• The next morning, Lu Yu defeated a level-thirty-seven Three-Ring Soul Master in the tournament’s first round without revealing his martial soul.
• Lu Yu discovered Yu Tianheng was his second-round opponent and recalled Yu Xiaogang’s past attempt to use him as a lesson for Tang San.
• Yu Tianheng unleashed all three soul skills and struck Lu Yu with his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul.
• Lu Yu knocked Yu Tianheng across the arena with one punch, dispersed his Martial Soul Possession, and remained unharmed by the lightning as spectators erupted.

Lu Yu advanced through the academy tournament with effortless victories and faced Zhang Fang, a flying Level 47 Soul Sect, in the final. When Lu Yu finally summoned his Martial Soul, the audience and officials reacted with shock, leaving its nature unrevealed.

• Lu Yu defeated Yu Tianheng, then faced Dugu Yan, who flirted with him before conceding and leaving the arena.
• Lu Yu defeated his quarterfinal and semifinal opponents with one move, while two Four-Ring Soul Masters fought to decide who would face him in the final.
• Meng Shenji told Prince Xue Xing that Lu Yu was an eleven-year-old Three-Ring Soul Master brought from Nuoding City under the emperor's orders, astonishing the officials.
• After resting for one shichen, Lu Yu began the final against Zhang Fang, a Level 47 Agility Attack System Soul Sect who took flight and attacked with his fourth soul skill, Feather Kill.
• Lu Yu summoned his jade-seal Martial Soul for the first time, and Prince Xue Xing and the spectators reacted in disbelief.

Lu Yu revealed his extraordinary Soul Ring configuration and defeated Zhang Fang to win the championship, earning a Heavenly Dou Auction token and a promised prize. Back at the dormitory, he confronted Dugu Yan about her grandfather secretly following them and returned her belongings, leaving her to storm out.

• Lu Yu used his Heaven-Defying Seal to pursue and knock Zhang Fang unconscious, winning the match.
• The spectators reacted with shock to Lu Yu’s three Soul Rings, and Prince Xue Xing gave him a VIP token for the auction and promised him one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Dugu Yan teased Lu Yu and followed him to his dormitory after he tried to brush her off.
• Dugu Yan revealed that Dugu Bo had secretly watched over them in the Star Dou Great Forest and demanded to know why Lu Yu had lied about saving her.
• Lu Yu returned the belongings Dugu Yan had given him and declared that neither of them owed the other anything, so she left in anger.

After Lu Yu’s extraordinary soul-ring configuration made him famous, Crown Prince Xue Qinghe visited to question him and offer imperial support. Lu Yu carefully concealed the truth about his strength and navigated the prince’s questions, then prepared to attend the Heavenly Dou Auction.

• Lu Yu received his tournament prize and monthly allowance, bringing his savings to 120,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Meng Shenji brought Crown Prince Xue Qinghe to meet Lu Yu, who recognized that Xue Qinghe was actually Qian Renxue in disguise.
• Xue Qinghe questioned Lu Yu about his thousand-year second soul ring, and Lu Yu claimed that a mysterious fruit had strengthened his body.
• Xue Qinghe gave Lu Yu three million Gold Soul Coins and a palace token after Lu Yu answered carefully about Spirit Hall and his loyalty to the empire.
• Xue Qinghe named Lu Yu captain of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team for the tournament in two years, and the Heavenly Dou Auction began two days later.

At the Heavenly Dou Auction, Lu Yu rejected recruitment offers from Ning Fengzhi and several other factions before watching the annual auction begin. He became intrigued when a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger who had transformed into a human was offered for sale, though the guests dismissed the Soul King as too weak to be worth the price.

• Lu Yu entered the auction house with his VIP token and received a visit from Ning Fengzhi, who asked him to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect; Lu Yu declined.
• Nobles, representatives of the Lower Four Sects, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan also tried to recruit Lu Yu, and he refused them all.
• The annual auction began, but Lu Yu showed no interest in its first nine lots, including a sword forged by Lou Gao.
• The auctioneer revealed that the elderly man offered as the tenth lot was a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger who had transformed into a human and was willing to sacrifice his soul ring.
• The guests learned that the old man was only a Soul King nearing the end of his life, and their excitement faded as they considered his limited value.

Lu Yu bought a mysterious old man who was actually a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, then cultivated with a Spirit Nurturing Orchid until he reached level forty. When the old man began his voluntary sacrifice, Lu Yu's Heaven-Defying Seal shattered the pearl containing his soul and absorbed its power, transforming Lu Yu's first three soul skills.

• Lu Yu bid for the old man at the Heaven Dou Auction House and purchased him along with a Spirit Nurturing Orchid.
• Lu Yu took the old man to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and asked Meng Shenji to keep watch over him.
• After three months of refining the orchid's medicinal power, Lu Yu reached level forty and retrieved the old man.
• Lu Yu asked the old man to sacrifice himself as a soul ring, and the old man revealed his Dark Demon Evil God Tiger form.
• The Heaven-Defying Seal pulled in and shattered the pearl formed from the old man, absorbing its power and transforming Lu Yu's first three soul skills.

Lu Yu discovered that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s power had strengthened his first three Soul Skills and given him a draining domain, though he had gained no fourth Soul Ring. Dugu Bo confronted him over Dugu Yan, who arrived and insisted that her grandfather stay out of the matter, while Lu Yu began explaining their past.

• Lu Yu realized the old man had tried to possess him, and found that the bead’s power had enhanced his Diamond Seal, Thousand Jun Seal, and Control Seal with wind, strength, and lightning attributes.
• Lu Yu awakened a domain that weakened enemies, absorbed life force to heal and restore Soul Power, and converted negative emotions into his own power; he named it Death Domain.
• Dugu Bo arrived at Lu Yu’s courtyard and demanded to know what he had done to Dugu Yan after she returned from the mountain and shut herself away.
• Dugu Yan arrived and told Dugu Bo that her relationship with Lu Yu was between them and that he should not interfere.
• Lu Yu reminded Dugu Yan that he had saved her in the Star Dou Great Forest and purged the poison from her body when he was only Level 20.

Lu Yu cleared up the misunderstanding with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, then spoke with Ye Lingling about joining Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s tournament team. After agreeing to represent the academy on an exchange trip to the Star Luo Empire, he went to Sunset Forest to seek a fourth soul ring and investigate the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, unaware that two groups were following him.

• Lu Yu explained that Dugu Bo had secretly watched him treat Dugu Yan, making his resentment understandable; Dugu Bo admitted he could not cure her hereditary poison and abruptly urged the pair to settle their relationship.
• Dugu Yan apologized and told Lu Yu to keep the items from their previous encounter, then left the courtyard.
• Lu Yu met Ye Lingling by the lake and said he planned to lead a second Heaven Dou Royal Academy team through the tournament; she agreed to participate.
• Meng Shenji asked Lu Yu to represent Heaven Dou Royal Academy on an imperial exchange delegation to the Star Luo Empire, and Lu Yu accepted.
• Lu Yu left for Sunset Forest to search for a suitable fourth soul ring and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while two groups—including one led by a Soul Emperor—secretly followed him.

Lu Yu brushed off a coercive invitation from a haughty young noblewoman, then encountered Xue Beng and answered his questions about the imperial succession. After entering Heaven Dou City, Lu Yu learned that the old man's family had disappeared after receiving the money.

• A Soul Emperor named Granny Zhou tried to force Lu Yu to meet her young lady, but Lu Yu resisted her pressure and walked away.
• The young lady ordered Granny Zhou to cripple Lu Yu, but Granny Zhou refused because the Sect Master had forbidden them to make an enemy of him.
• Lu Yu spotted a recruitment notice for Blue Tyrant Advanced Soul Master Academy and recognized its connection to the events surrounding Shrek Academy.
• Xue Beng secretly asked Lu Yu who should inherit the throne if there were no Crown Prince, and Lu Yu said the Fourth Prince would be the only suitable choice.
• Lu Yu visited the Heaven Dou Auction House to find the family of the old man who had mentioned the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, but learned they had vanished after receiving the money.

Lu Yu disguised himself and applied to teach at Blue Tyrant Academy, hoping to get close to Liu Erlong and disrupt Yu Xiaogang’s plans. After defeating three academy Soul Masters without revealing his martial soul, he was brought to meet Liu Erlong.

• Lu Yu left the Heaven Dou Auction House, disguised himself in a black robe, and went to Blue Tyrant Academy to apply for a job.
• When the academy’s examiners demanded that he reveal his martial soul, Lu Yu challenged them to test his strength together.
• Lu Yu used four Heavenly Gang Talismans and a burst of golden light to knock Yin Shu and the two Soul Ancestors down in one strike.
• Impressed by Lu Yu, Yin Shu and the others escorted him to the academy’s restricted grounds to meet the dean.
• Yin Shu introduced Liu Erlong as Blue Tyrant Academy’s Eight-Ring Soul Douluo, and Lu Yu praised her youthful appearance.

Lu Yu recruited Liu Erlong’s Blue Tyrant Academy to train a team for the Soul Master Competition after telling her Yu Xiaogang had joined Spirit Hall. A month later, Lu Yu joined the Heavenly Dou exchange delegation to the Star Luo Empire, whose members gathered at Heaven Dou City’s gates before departure.

• Lu Yu defeated a Soul King and two Soul Ancestors without using his martial soul, then told Liu Erlong that Yu Xiaogang had become a Spirit Hall elder.
• Lu Yu offered to train Blue Tyrant Academy students for the upcoming competition, and Liu Erlong agreed to gather eligible students within three months.
• Lu Yu explained that he planned to use the Three-One Sect’s cultivation techniques to build a group of supporters, then spent the following month cultivating and studying.
• The Heavenly Dou Empire announced an exchange delegation led by Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, with Lu Yu and Meng Shenji representing Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Xue Qinghe and representatives of the Five Great Elemental Academies gathered at Heaven Dou City’s gates as onlookers watched the delegation assemble.

Lu Yu joined the Heaven Dou Empire’s exchange delegation as it traveled toward the Star Luo Empire, drawing attention from the academies and Crown Prince Xue Qinghe. At the border camp, his grilled meat brought the delegation together, and a young man arrived with a rabbit hoping for a place at Lu Yu’s fire.

• Lu Yu and Meng Shenji arrived late, and Xue Qinghe warmly greeted Lu Yu before leading the exchange delegation out of the city.
• Dugu Yan refused Dugu Bo’s offer to join the delegation, choosing to cultivate until she reached Level 40 so she could compete alongside Lu Yu.
• After ten days of travel, Xue Qinghe warned the delegation to stay alert before they entered Star Luo Empire territory.
• Lu Yu’s grilled meat drew Hu Yanli, Hu Yanzhen, and students from the other academies to his campfire, so Lu Yu limited meals to ten paying guests who brought their own prey.
• A silver-gray-haired young man from Godwind Academy brought Lu Yu a rabbit and waited for a turn to eat.

Lu Yu tried to recruit talented students from the Five Great Elemental Academies while traveling with the exchange delegation into the Star Luo Empire. After suspecting Spirit Hall was planning an attack, he faced a terrifying enemy whose pressure threw the convoy into chaos.

• Lu Yu grilled game for the students, then openly invited them to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, though Shui Yue'er was dragged away by Shui Bing'er and Feng Xiaotian returned to Blazing Fire Academy.
• Lu Yu questioned why Hu Yanzhen and Xue Qinghe had joined the delegation and concluded that Spirit Hall might attack the convoy on the road.
• Shui Yue'er repeatedly visited Lu Yu's carriage over the next three days, until Shui Bing'er brought her back.
• On the fourth day, bandits attacked the delegation, but the guards defeated them without pursuit, reinforcing Lu Yu's suspicion that the attack had tested their strength.
• On the fifth day, a powerful pressure panicked the horses, and Meng Shenji warned Lu Yu that a Title Douluo might be approaching.

Lu Yu realized the attack on the exchange delegation was likely a staged assault aimed at Xue Qinghe, then fled toward Star Soul Canyon to seek a fourth soul ring. A Soul Sage ambushed him near Skywater Academy’s students and pursued him into the forest.

• Masked attackers appeared with thirty Soul Sages and thirteen Soul Douluos, forcing Meng Shenji and the delegation’s powerhouses to hold them off while the students fled.
• Lu Yu suspected Spirit Hall was behind the attack and concluded that Xue Qinghe was the likely target of a staged rendezvous.
• Lu Yu found Star Soul Canyon on his map and headed there, hoping to obtain his fourth soul ring.
• Shui Yue'er and six other Skywater Academy students caught up with Lu Yu, but he used the Heaven-Defying Seal to knock them clear of a hidden Soul Sage’s attack.
• The Soul Sage pursued Lu Yu toward Star Soul Canyon, and Lu Yu realized the attacker was an Agility Attack System Soul Master.

Lu Yu killed a pursuing Seven-Ring Soul Sage after carefully using talismans, martial soul suppression, and a feigned weakness to land a decisive strike. He learned the attacker had served Ghost Douluo and then headed toward Star Soul Canyon, while a nearby cave remained unexplored.

• The black-clad Soul Sage caught up with Lu Yu, who used the Control Seal, lightning attacks, and his Wind Thunder Wings to injure and suppress him.
• Lu Yu feigned exhaustion, protected himself with layered talismans, and smashed the Soul Sage’s head with the Heaven-Defying Seal before tearing apart his body with a Wind-Thunder Tornado.
• Lu Yu used a Thousand Mile Soul Seizing Talisman to question the attacker’s soul and learned that Ghost Douluo had given the Soul Sage orders not to pursue the exchange delegation’s students.
• Lu Yu concluded that Spirit Hall’s actions likely supported Xue Qinghe’s undercover mission, collected the remains, and ran toward Star Soul Canyon.
• Inside a nearby cave, something remained as Lu Yu departed.

Lu Yu searched Star Soul Canyon for an evil-attributed Soul Beast and found a Ghost God Butterfly that stirred the fourth rune of his Heaven-Defying Seal. After driving it off with his Death Domain, he pursued it to claim it as his fourth Soul Ring.

• Shui Bing'er reassured the other girls that they were safe, while Shui Yue'er worried that Lu Yu could not escape a Soul Sage.
• Bibi Dong and Xue Qinghe discussed Spirit Hall’s plans and argued over whether Lu Yu belonged to Xue Qinghe or Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong ordered Ghost Shadow to leave searchers behind and send the rest to Star Luo City to meet Lu Yu.
• Lu Yu searched Star Soul Canyon for three days, then encountered a wounded Man Faced Demon Spider, a silver-haired young man, and a pursuing Ghost God Butterfly.
• The Ghost God Butterfly abandoned the silver-haired young man and attacked Lu Yu, but Lu Yu used his Death Domain to make it flee.
• Lu Yu pursued the Ghost God Butterfly with his Concentration Talisman active as the silver-haired young man chased the Man Faced Demon Spider.

Lu Yu killed the Ghost God Butterfly with the Heaven-Defying Seal and began absorbing its black soul ring. Xie Yue discovered Lu Yu’s extraordinary strength and tried to recruit him into Spirit Hall by offering his sister as a match, but Lu Yu walked away.

• Lu Yu stunned the Ghost God Butterfly with the Nine-Character Mantra, then crushed it with the Heaven-Defying Seal and prepared to absorb its black soul ring.
• Xie Yue became a five-ring Soul King after absorbing a Man Faced Demon Spider’s soul ring, breaking Spirit Hall’s record as its youngest Soul King.
• Xie Yue found Lu Yu beside the Ghost God Butterfly’s corpse and was shocked by Lu Yu’s four soul rings, domain, and powerful spiritual strength.
• Xie Yue introduced himself as a member of Spirit Hall and tried to persuade Lu Yu to marry his talented younger sister and join the organization.
• Lu Yu rejected Xie Yue’s offer and left, while Xie Yue chased after him and continued trying to recruit him.

Lu Yu returned to the Heavenly Dou Empire exchange delegation after being separated from them, and they continued their journey to Star Luo City under the Star Luo Empire’s escort. He reached Rank 44 and advanced his techniques during the trip, while the chapter ended with the delegation arriving at a heavily guarded Star Luo City.

• Xie Yue stopped trying to recruit Lu Yu and decided to report him to Ghost Douluo for evaluation.
• Xue Qinghe ordered the delegation to stay and search for Lu Yu, who soon returned unharmed and said he had gotten lost.
• The delegation resumed its journey and later received an escort from Star Luo Empire soldiers, though Lu Yu knew the empire feared being blamed for the border attack.
• During the twenty-day trip, Lu Yu broke through to Rank 44, perfected his Golden Light Spell, and advanced his other techniques.
• The Heavenly Dou Empire exchange delegation arrived at Star Luo City, where soul master soldiers had sealed the main gate.