Chapter Summaries

Xue Ye used the Sea God Trident to kill Bone Douluo and force the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to accept judgment and pay half its assets. Afterward, he rewarded Yun Chen and began speaking privately with Xue Qinghe about the empire’s founding.

• Gu Rong unleashed his ninth soul skill, but Xue Ye’s trident suppressed it and pierced through him, killing him.
• Ning Rongrong and Ning Fengzhi mourned Gu Rong, and Ning Fengzhi offered half the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s assets as compensation.
• Xue Ye declared the matter settled, ordered Longhu to handle the cleanup and formalities, and arranged renovations to the Crown Prince’s Residence.
• Xue Ye took Xue Qinghe and Yun Chen to the palace, then sent Yun Chen with Eunuch Wei to choose a promised treasure from the treasury.
• Xue Ye asked Xue Qinghe why the Heaven Dou Empire had been founded.

Yun Chen entered the Heaven Dou Treasury and chose the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud over its more valuable-looking treasures. Afterward, Xue Ye’s health deteriorated under the strain of divine power and hidden poison, while Qian Renxue reflected on the secrets of the Xue family.

• Yun Chen and Eunuch Wei presented Xue Ye’s token, passed security, and entered the Heaven Dou Treasury.
• Yun Chen browsed the treasury’s catalog but ignored its soul bones and medicines when Eunuch Wei mentioned the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Yun Chen felt drawn to the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and insisted on choosing it, so Eunuch Wei opened its display case for him.
• Eunuch Wei told Xue Ye that Yun Chen had taken the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and Xue Ye dismissed him before coughing blood and weakening.
• Qian Renxue rode back with Yun Chen and grimly considered the hidden history of the Xue family.

After realizing that his assumptions about the strength-driven world had nearly cost him his life, Yun Chen tried to activate the Sea God's Heart and was pulled into a golden-red ocean in his consciousness. He stood beneath an enlarged Sea God's Heart and wondered how to get out.

• Yun Chen returned to his room and reflected on how Bone Douluo had tried to kill him after his clash with Ning Rongrong.
• Yun Chen recognized that he had underestimated a world where the strong could ignore rules, and resolved to become stronger.
• Yun Chen poured soul power into the Sea God's Heart until it glowed and fired a beam into his consciousness.
• Yun Chen collapsed from the pain, then awoke in a golden-red ocean beneath an enlarged Sea God's Heart.
• Yun Chen suspected he was inside his sea of consciousness and decided to find a way out.

Yun Chen discovered that the Sea God's Heart had greatly expanded his mental power and granted him four skills, but his low Soul Power left him exhausted when he tried one. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue escalated Spirit Hall's plan against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and weighed the Xue Family's ties to the Sea God.

• Yun Chen explored his vast Sea of Consciousness, learned the Sea God's Heart had boosted his mental power, and received the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud's four skills.
• Yun Chen activated the Vast Sea Bodyguard Shroud, but his rank fourteen Soul Power failed to sustain it and left him drained before he fell asleep.
• Qian Renxue wrote to Spirit Hall's Hall of the Pope and Worship Hall, supporting the Soul Hunting Operation and recommending Azure Luan Douluo and Mighty Lion Douluo join the attack on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Qian Renxue recalled Xue Ye's warning that the Xue Family represented the Sea God on land and had exhausted its inherited power.
• Qian Renxue remembered Xue Ye's request that she nurture Yun Chen and keep him loyal to the imperial family.

Qian Renxue worried that Yun Chen had lost faith in her after Xue Ye saved him, while the Sea God discovered Yun Chen as a promising inheritance candidate. The Sea God looked forward to leaving the Divine Realm and watching Yun Chen’s path unfold.

• Qian Renxue decided to continue poisoning Xue Ye and proceed with her plan to take over the Heaven Dou Empire, while becoming more cautious about his possible divine power.
• Qian Renxue worried that Yun Chen might be disappointed in her for failing to save him and admitted that he mattered more to her than her undercover mission.
• The Sea God noticed that his inheritance core had been activated and examined Yun Chen’s martial soul, soul ring, domain, and external soul bone.
• The Sea God judged Yun Chen talented enough to undertake the Sea God’s trials and wondered whether the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff could rival the Golden Dragon King.
• The Sea God anticipated escaping the Divine Realm and wondered whether Yun Chen would clash with the otherworldly soul sent to the Douluo Plane.

Qian Renxue comforted Yun Chen after the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect incident, while Yun Chen began plotting how to turn her against Tang San and recruit talented people through the Crown Prince’s Residence. The chapter ended with Yun Chen proposing that they use Spirit Hall’s resources for recruitment.

• Qian Renxue returned from court pleased that Xue Ye’s display had humbled the nobles and brought donations totaling about a year’s tax revenue.
• Qian Renxue embraced Yun Chen, believing he felt abandoned, and apologized for failing to protect him from Xue Ye’s intervention.
• Yun Chen reassured Qian Renxue, and she vowed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would pay for what it had done.
• Yun Chen decided he needed Qian Renxue to target Tang San and Tang Hao, since acting against them himself would put him at risk.
• Yun Chen suggested recruiting talented people through the Crown Prince’s Residence, then proposed using Spirit Hall’s resources to reach more candidates.

Yun Chen persuaded Qian Renxue to search Spirit Hall records for talented Soul Masters, hoping the investigation would expose Tang San. Bibi Dong learned that Qian Daoliu had redirected the records to Qian Renxue and, furious at the interference, resolved to move faster in pursuing her own plans.

• Yun Chen advised Qian Renxue to find talented Soul Masters in remote areas and recruit those she could trust, killing those hostile to Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue decided to ask her grandfather for records of Soul Masters with Innate Soul Power of level seven or above, especially talented commoners.
• In Notting City, Tang San sneezed and felt uneasy while Xiao Wu persuaded him to buy her food, and Tang Hao watched them from a tree.
• Bibi Dong discovered that Qian Daoliu had ordered Soul Master files and future Martial Soul Awakening records sent to Qian Renxue before reaching her.
• Bibi Dong raged at Qian Renxue and Qian Daoliu, then calmed down and decided she would have to move faster.

Yun Chen fought Mad Tyrant in a deathmatch at the Azure Cloud City Grand Soul Arena, seeking his hundredth consecutive Gold Soul Fighting victory and a Purple Gold Badge. Yun Chen killed Mad Tyrant and secured the milestone.

• The arena announcer introduced Yun Chen’s hundredth match and explained that a victory would earn him a Purple Gold Badge.
• Mad Tyrant revealed his five soul rings and charged Yun Chen with his rhinoceros martial soul.
• Yun Chen completed his martial soul possession and stopped Mad Tyrant’s rhinoceros horn with one hand before shattering it.
• Yun Chen used Lion Mastiff’s Fury and Blade of Annihilation to kill Mad Tyrant despite his plea to surrender.
• The announcer congratulated Yun Chen on his hundredth victory.

Yun Chen completed his hundred-win streak in Azure Cloud City, received his rewards, and continued traveling south rather than returning to Qian Renxue. Qian Renxue learned he was still away and grew possessive, while Yun Chen considered his next goal: obtaining the Blue Silver Emperor’s spirit bone and true body.

• Yun Chen accepted a violet-gold badge and a card holding one hundred million Gold Soul Coins after completing his hundred-win streak.
• A Soul Fighting Arena supervisor refused to follow orders to recruit or kill Yun Chen, warning that Spirit Hall would destroy the Seven Great Families if they harmed him.
• She Long reported to Qian Renxue that Yun Chen had completed his streak but was still heading south, and Qian Renxue reacted with anger and longing.
• Qian Renxue hugged and caressed a chibi doll modeled after Yun Chen while warning him not to let her catch him.
• Yun Chen sneezed in an Azure Cloud City hotel and worried that Qian Renxue was thinking about him, then resolved to keep traveling and pursue the Blue Silver Emperor’s spirit bone and true body.

Yun Chen traveled to the waterfall near Holy Soul Village to find Ah Yin’s soul bone, believing Tang Hao’s death had left the area unguarded. He found the Blue Silver Emperor hidden behind the falls and watered her, leaving her alive for his plans.

• Yun Chen recalled how Tang Hao had been killed by Qian Daoliu and several Spirit Hall worshippers after Shura’s divine power intervened to save him.
• Yun Chen worried that Tang San might inherit the Shura God’s power and considered ways to strengthen his own Sea God inheritance.
• Yun Chen reached the waterfall where Tang San had practiced the Clear Sky Hammer Technique and used his Insight Eye to locate a hidden cavity.
• Yun Chen broke through the hollow rock wall with Dark Gold Terrorclaw and found the wilted Blue Silver Emperor inside.
• Yun Chen poured water over the Blue Silver Emperor, who accepted it despite recognizing him as a bad person.

Yun Chen found and absorbed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone hidden in the cliff, raising his Soul Power to about level 35. He then dug up Ah Yin, the Blue Silver Emperor, and took her with him despite her resistance.

• Yun Chen located a hidden compartment in the cliff and broke it open to retrieve a wooden box containing a blue-gold Soul Bone.
• Ah Yin tried to stop Yun Chen from taking the Soul Bone, but he forced her vine away and set up a barrier to keep her from interfering.
• Yun Chen absorbed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone into his right leg, gaining nearly five levels of Soul Power.
• Yun Chen invited Ah Yin to see the outside world, then dug her up and placed her in a flowerpot.
• Yun Chen told Ah Yin that Tang Hao had wanted her Soul Ring and Soul Bone, prompting her to struggle against him again.

Yun Chen kept Ah Yin alive to hinder Tang San’s growth and went to Notting City, where he encountered Tang San working at a blacksmith shop. He left the shop intending to buy two pieces of Tang San’s ironware as a small, insincere compensation for taking his mother.

• Yun Chen stored Ah Yin in the Ruyi Treasure Pouch and decided her survival would prevent Tang San from awakening the Blue Silver Emperor naturally.
• Yun Chen reviewed Tang San’s future opportunities and resolved to claim as many as he could to advance his own plans.
• After arriving in Notting City, Yun Chen visited a blacksmith shop and suspected that the young worker there was Tang San.
• Tang San noticed Yun Chen watching him and grew suspicious, while Yun Chen asked the shopkeeper about the boy’s wages and apprenticeship.
• Yun Chen asked the shopkeeper to wrap two pieces of Tang San’s ironware, framing the purchase as a small sponsorship.

Yun Chen sensed the Blue Silver Emperor responding to Tang San and secretly restrained her before buying a specially made leather whip from the blacksmith. He left the shop after resolving not to confront Tang San until he had enough strength to withstand the gods’ attention.

• Yun Chen noticed the Blue Silver Emperor reaching toward Tang San’s aura and compressed the space around her inside the Ruyi Treasure Pouch to immobilize her.
• Tang San felt an inexplicable resemblance between Yun Chen and his mother, then dismissed the thought.
• The blacksmith showed Yun Chen a dark golden leather whip designed as a bedroom toy and explained that it came with an aphrodisiac.
• Yun Chen paid one Gold Soul Coin for the whip and stored it in his Soul Tool, privately thinking of Qian Renxue.
• Yun Chen left the blacksmith shop after watching Tang San and deciding to delay their destined conflict until he had the strength to face the gods’ involvement.

Half a month after Qian Renxue released Yun Chen from the secret chamber, the two settled into life as a couple. Qian Renxue invited Yun Chen to attend the tournament finals at Spirit Hall and meet her family, and the chapter ended with her throwing him out after he called her Master.

• Qian Renxue let Yun Chen out of the secret chamber after half a month, and the two continued their relationship in her study.
• Qian Renxue asked Yun Chen whether he had learned his lesson, and Yun Chen teased her about calling him Master.
• Qian Renxue told Yun Chen that the tournament finals would take place at Spirit Hall in a couple of days and invited him to meet her family.
• Yun Chen admitted he was nervous about meeting Qian Daoliu, a level ninety-nine Limit Douluo, and worried that Qian Renxue's grandfather might beat him up.
• Qian Renxue challenged Yun Chen to call her Master, and when he did, she blushed and threw him out.

Yun Chen told Oscar that Dugu Yan was the only granddaughter of Title Douluo Dugu Bo and advised him not to flatter her. While wandering the academy, Yun Chen encountered Dugu Yan confronting two noble young ladies.

• Oscar told Yun Chen that Dugu Yan had poisoned Xue Beng unconscious after he relentlessly pursued her.
• Yun Chen explained that Dugu Yan was Dugu Bo's only granddaughter, and Oscar reacted with shock.
• Yun Chen told Oscar to rest and not worry about befriending or offending Dugu Yan.
• Yun Chen wandered around the academy and came across Dugu Yan arguing with two noble young ladies.
• Dugu Yan threatened to kill one of the girls if she pointed at her again, while Yun Chen watched with interest.

Yun Chen encountered Dugu Yan after she drove away two noblewomen, introduced himself as a genius from the Crown Prince's Residence, and accepted her challenge. Their fight began immediately, and Yun Chen proved immune to her poison.

• Dugu Yan chased off two noblewomen who had insulted her, then confronted Yun Chen when he appeared nearby.
• Yun Chen introduced himself as a genius from the Crown Prince's Residence, and Dugu Yan said she wanted to test whether he deserved his reputation.
• Yun Chen accepted Dugu Yan's challenge, and she insisted they fight at once.
• Dugu Yan released her Jade Phosphor Snake martial soul and spread poison mist, while Yun Chen revealed his level 37 Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff martial soul.
• Yun Chen let Dugu Yan's poison enter his body without harm and told her that her poison was mediocre.

Yun Chen fought Dugu Yan, dismissed her poison, and accidentally choked her unconscious before keeping watch until she recovered. He left her angry and embarrassed, while still intending to use her to approach Dugu Bo and claim the immortal herbs.

• Dugu Yan flew into a rage after Yun Chen insulted her poison and called her sick, then charged at him.
• Yun Chen dodged Dugu Yan, seized her by the throat, and ignored her poisonous mist because his Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff abilities protected him from negative effects.
• Yun Chen got distracted by thoughts of Qian Renxue while holding Dugu Yan until she began foaming at the mouth and nearly passed out.
• Yun Chen dropped Dugu Yan, checked her pulse, and watched over her until she regained consciousness at sunset.
• Dugu Yan accused Yun Chen of doing something to her, but she confirmed she was unharmed and admitted she had attacked because he insulted her family.
• Yun Chen again told Dugu Yan that her family was sick, leaving her staring at him in disbelief.

Yun Chen told Dugu Yan that her family had been poisoned, prompting her to leave and question her grandfather. After Yun Chen defeated Yu Tianheng when he attacked him, the chapter left Yu Tianheng injured and threatening retaliation from his clan.

• Dugu Yan asked Yun Chen why he believed something was wrong with her family, and he told her they had been poisoned and that it might have caused her parents' deaths.
• Dugu Yan recalled her parents' strange deaths and her grandfather's evasiveness, then left to ask him about Yun Chen's claim.
• Yu Tianheng rushed out from a grass hut and attacked Yun Chen, accusing him of bullying Dugu Yan.
• Yun Chen used his Martial Soul Possession to overpower Yu Tianheng with one punch, breaking his forearm and leaving him on the ground.
• Yu Tianheng identified himself and threatened Yun Chen with retaliation from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

After breaking Yu Tianheng's arm, Yun Chen mocked him for his unrequited pursuit of Dugu Yan, leaving Yu Tianheng humiliated and vowing revenge. Dugu Bo learned that Yun Chen had uncovered his secret and decided to contact him to discover his intentions.

• Yun Chen taunted Yu Tianheng until the injured Yu Tianheng silently walked away, then threatened revenge against Yun Chen and his clan.
• Yu Tianheng's memories revealed how his infatuation with Dugu Yan began and how his pursuit had provoked jealousy among the academy's noble young ladies.
• Dugu Bo considered killing Yun Chen after learning he knew Dugu Bo's secret, but changed his mind to protect Dugu Yan and avoid provoking a powerful enemy.
• Dugu Bo decided to contact Yun Chen and find out what he wanted and whether someone had pushed him into the matter.

Yun Chen cooked for Qian Renxue after learning she had not eaten all day, and the two shared a tender, flirtatious meal. Qian Renxue got her wish to add “golden milk” to her porridge, leaving Yun Chen's appetite ruined and his desire unfulfilled.

• Dugu Bo reflected on his difficult life and feared that his granddaughter might suffer the same fate as his son.
• Yun Chen went to the Crown Prince's Residence kitchen to cook for Qian Renxue after learning she had skipped meals and fallen asleep at her desk.
• Qian Renxue watched Yun Chen cook, recalled his domineering side, and imagined a peaceful future together before hugging him from behind.
• Yun Chen finished the porridge and urged Qian Renxue to eat before they did anything else.
• Qian Renxue teased Yun Chen during dinner and asked him to add golden milk to her porridge, while Yun Chen lost his appetite.