Chapter Summaries

A year after Xu Jiujiu and Jing Hongchen left, Snow Heart Emperor arranged a bidding contest over Yuwen Tuo while secretly maneuvering the Heavenly Soul succession struggle to secure Wei Na’s future. As Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao completed a year of secluded cultivation, Xiao Xiao reached Level Forty-Eight and Yuwen Tuo reached Level Fifty-Eight while focusing on mental power and his Body Martial Soul.

• Snow Heart Emperor made Yuwen Tuo the subject of a year-long bidding contest, with the Heaven Dou Empire deciding which offer was more valuable.
• Snow Heart Emperor concluded that Yuwen Tuo would remain loyal to Heavenly Soul if he went to the Sun Moon Empire, while Star Luo might eventually claim his allegiance through blood ties.
• Jiang Yuan openly supported Wei Na, while the Body Sect declared it would not interfere in the succession struggle and Ning Tian’s father brought the Red Dragon Douluo to support the princes.
• Snow Heart Emperor secretly arranged the rival factions’ support to stir conflict among the princes and prepare a stable court for Wei Na.
• After a year of secluded cultivation, Xiao Xiao reached Level Forty-Eight and Yuwen Tuo reached Level Fifty-Eight, with Yuwen Tuo concentrating on the Yin Yang Demon Eyes and the Secret of the Body.

Yuwen Tuo advanced his Yin Yang Demon Eyes to the Eye of Wisdom and began the unprecedented silver-grade Second Awakening of his Xuanyuan Sword. Du Busi emerged from seclusion, explained why Yuwen Tuo’s awakening had begun at silver, and brought the elders to assist him.

• Yuwen Tuo awakened the Eye of Wisdom, strengthening his Mental Power and extending the time he could summon or fuse with the Snow Empress.
• Yuwen Tuo used Xiao Xiao’s cultivation melody to begin the Second Awakening of his Xuanyuan Sword, which immediately radiated silver light.
• Wang Yanfeng, Jin Peng, Yun Yi, and Miao Xin saw the silver radiance and questioned why Yuwen Tuo’s awakening had skipped the lower grades.
• Du Busi emerged from seclusion, said his injuries had mostly healed, and explained that Yuwen Tuo’s Mental Power, Martial Soul quality, and Soul Power quality enabled a perfect, unprecedented awakening.
• Du Busi led the ten elders into the inner chamber to help Yuwen Tuo, while Miao Xin sent Xiao Xiao outside.

Yuwen Tuo completed a Gold Grade Second Awakening with the help of Du Busi and the Body Sect elders, strengthening his Xuanyuan Sword Soul and Fire Elephant Power. He revealed that his Xuanyuan Sword Soul had cut away the weaker Martial Soul from his imperial bloodline.

• Du Busi and ten Titled Douluo poured their Soul Power into Yuwen Tuo's Second Awakening formation, turning his first Xuanyuan Sword Soul ring pure scarlet and raising it to the 100,000-year level.
• The elders pushed the formation further, and Yuwen Tuo's Xuanyuan Sword Soul released golden light as it achieved an unprecedented Gold Grade awakening.
• Destruction God Xiao Zi's power concealed Yuwen Tuo's aura from the Divine Realm, while Long Aotian recognized the awakening's significance.
• Yuwen Tuo emerged from the Body Building and demonstrated his strengthened Xuanyuan Sword Soul and Fire Elephant Power, whose five rings had all become black.
• Yuwen Tuo explained that Fire Elephant was born from his soul and had gained some benefit from the awakening, then revealed that the Xuanyuan Sword Soul had cut away the weaker Martial Soul inherited through his bloodline.

Yuwen Tuo prepared to travel to the Sun Moon Empire to investigate his village’s massacre, while Du Busi arranged covert support and pressed him to explain how he would stay safe. Yuwen Tuo began telling Du Busi about his master and the source of his confidence.

• Wei Na agreed to spread a rumor that the Sun Moon Emperor was gravely ill so Yuwen Tuo could use it as a pretext to enter the Sun Moon Empire.
• Du Busi promised to send disguised Body Sect members to Mingdu and taught Yuwen Tuo coded signals for requesting help.
• Yuwen Tuo told Xiao Xiao he expected to be gone for six months to a year, and she tearfully accepted his departure.
• Du Busi privately warned Yuwen Tuo that he might be unable to rescue him if danger arose without warning, and asked to hear part of his secret.
• Yuwen Tuo showed Du Busi an adorable doll and began recounting the story of his master, who had shared his name.

Yuwen Tuo prepared to leave the Body Sect to investigate the Evil Soul Masters and visit his critically ill father, while teaching Xiao Xiao the Subjugation and Transformation Art before they parted. His departure was approved by Heaven Dou, but the news left his mother Xu Yueran furious and suspicious.

• Du Busi supported Yuwen Tuo's plans to uncover what happened in the past and fight the Evil Soul Masters.
• Yuwen Tuo taught Xiao Xiao the Ghost Valley Sect's Subjugation and Transformation Art and promised to help her find a suitable soul beast before leaving for half a year to a year.
• Rumors that the Sun Moon Emperor was critically ill prompted Jing Hongchen to use the news to request Yuwen Tuo's return, and Heaven Dou approved his departure.
• Xu Jiujiu told Xu Yueran that Yuwen Tuo had reason to choose Sun Moon and visit his father, while Xu Yueran accused the emperor of faking his illness to lure Yuwen Tuo back.

Xu Jiawei decided to help Shrek and the Dou Ling Empire intercept Yuwen Tuo rather than let him reach the Sun Moon Empire, while Xu Jiujiu refused to take part. Yuwen Tuo departed Heaven Dou City, leaving Xiao Xiao behind as he began a journey he expected to be dangerous.

• Xu Jiawei told Xu Jiujiu that he had ordered Majesty of Shattered Star and Majesty of Great Strength to report Yuwen Tuo's route so Shrek and the Dou Ling Empire could stop him.
• Xu Jiujiu refused to obey Xu Jiawei's order, and Xu Yueran privately asked Xu Jiawei to capture Yuwen Tuo alive if possible.
• Wei Na and the others saw Yuwen Tuo off at Heaven Dou City's gates, and Jiang Peng gave him travel supplies while trying to impress Miao Xin.
• Yuwen Tuo headed west to meet Jing Hongchen, expecting other powers to try to kill him before he reached the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xiao Xiao waited at the gates until noon, then left with Miao Xin and Jiang Peng, determined to train while Yuwen Tuo was away.

Yuwen Tuo traveled with Jing Hongchen toward the Sun Moon Empire and received a powerful defensive Soul Tool from him. As they entered the Mingdou Mountain Range, an ambusher attacked them, and Jing Hongchen identified the gray-robed elder as the Dou Ling Empire’s Sun Yang Crown.

• Yuwen Tuo met Jing Hongchen, who presented him with Hongchen’s Blessing and a latest-model Flying Soul Tool.
• Yuwen Tuo and Jing Hongchen flew toward the Mingdou Mountain Range, then continued on foot because Star Luo’s troops guarded the border.
• Yuwen Tuo recognized the canyon as a likely ambush site, and rocks began crashing down from both cliffs.
• Jing Hongchen deployed 256 Soul Guided Cannons and blasted the falling rocks apart.
• A gray-white-robed elder confronted Jing Hongchen and melted his cannons with powerful fire, prompting Jing Hongchen to identify him as Sun Yang Crown.

Tianyuan Douluo, Jing Hongchen, and Xuanji Douluo fought over Yuwen Tuo as he tried to reach Sun Moon Empire territory. Wu Yan appeared claiming he had orders to kill Yuwen Tuo, but his actions suggested he might be protecting him.

• Tianyuan Douluo confronted Jing Hongchen and demanded that he hand over Yuwen Tuo for execution.
• Jing Hongchen told Yuwen Tuo to flee while he used his Level 9 Soul Tool to hold off Tianyuan Douluo.
• Xuanji Douluo intervened with the Xuanji Umbrella, blocking Jing Hongchen and leaving Tianyuan Douluo free to pursue Yuwen Tuo.
• Tianyuan Douluo attacked Yuwen Tuo, but Wu Yan arrived as a Red Dragon and blocked the flames with his own fireball.
• Yuwen Tuo absorbed the remaining flames with his Fire Elephant Martial Soul, while Wu Yan claimed he had come under the First Prince's orders to kill him.

Tianyuan Douluo and Wu Yan’s attacks collided and fed their flames to Yuwen Tuo, while the Body Sect blocked reinforcements from the Dou Ling Empire and Shrek. As Tianyuan Douluo unleashed his ninth soul skill, Yuwen Tuo remained calm and said it was time.

• Tianyuan Douluo and Wu Yan attacked Yuwen Tuo together, but their attacks collided and Yuwen Tuo absorbed both their flames.
• Tianyuan Douluo struck Wu Yan aside and pursued Yuwen Tuo, while Wu Yan followed and challenged him.
• The Body Sect’s Lu Si and seven other Titled Douluo stopped the Dou Ling Empire’s reinforcements outside the canyon.
• Du BuSi held Shrek’s forces inside the city by guarding its gates.
• Tianyuan Douluo unleashed his ninth soul skill, Radiant Sky’s Extinction, as the Snow Empress and Ice Empress urged Yuwen Tuo to summon them.
• Yuwen Tuo reassured the Snow Empress and Ice Empress that everyone who needed to appear had arrived and that the time had come.

Yuwen Tuo and Jing Hongchen survived an ambush after Jin Peng intervened to protect the Body Sect’s disciple and drive off the attackers. They reached the Sun Moon Empire, where Jing Hongchen guessed Yuwen Tuo had a second, Body Martial Soul, but Yuwen Tuo kept the secret as they set out for the Imperial City.

• Tianyuan Douluo and Jin Peng clashed with their Ninth Soul Skills, and the blast buried Xuanji Douluo while Jing Hongchen protected Yuwen Tuo with Hongchen's Blessing.
• Jin Peng confronted Tianyuan Douluo for ambushing a child of the Body Sect, and Tianyuan Douluo fled after realizing the Dou Ling Empire might be under attack elsewhere.
• Wu Yan threatened to report the incident to the First Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire before Jin Peng departed and urged Yuwen Tuo to grow stronger.
• Jing Hongchen escorted Yuwen Tuo from the canyon, and they crossed into the Sun Moon Empire after an uneventful journey.
• Jing Hongchen asked whether Yuwen Tuo possessed Twin Martial Souls and a Body Martial Soul, but Yuwen Tuo treated the matter as a private secret and agreed to travel to the Imperial City.

Yuwen Tuo arrived in Mingdu with Jing Hongchen and stayed at Illustrious Virtue Hall before his scheduled meeting with the emperor. He reunited with Meng Hongchen, who gave him a Milk Bottle to restore his Soul Power, while remaining hopeful that he would join the Sun Moon Empire in unifying the continent.

• Jing Hongchen brought Yuwen Tuo to Illustrious Virtue Hall instead of taking him directly to the imperial palace, and prepared new clothes for him.
• The Snow Empress sensed a powerful threat from Mingdu's technology, while Yuwen Tuo hoped Soul Tools could eventually be used for peaceful purposes.
• Meng Hongchen visited Yuwen Tuo and proposed that he grow strong enough to unite the continent under the Sun Moon Empire, ending war.
• Meng Hongchen gave Yuwen Tuo a Rank 5-or-higher Milk Bottle before leaving, and he used it to replenish his Soul Power.

The three empires reacted to the failed attempt to kill Yuwen Tuo, learning that the Body Sect had intervened and protected him. Xu Jiujiu left the Star Luo palace disappointed in Xu Jiawei and Xu Yueran, while Yuwen Tuo remained in the Sun Moon Empire and harder than ever to reclaim.

• Xue Lingfeng demanded an explanation from Tianyuan Douluo, who revealed that the Body Sect had stopped the assassination and that two Dou Ling Titled Douluo had died while two others were badly injured.
• Wu Yan misrepresented the failed operation to the First Prince of Heavenly Soul, claiming Tianyuan Douluo had attacked him to help Yuwen Tuo escape.
• Xuanji Douluo returned to the Star Luo Empire, where Xu Jiujiu suspected Yuwen Tuo might possess a second, Body-type martial soul.
• Xu Jiawei admitted he had failed to bring Yuwen Tuo back, while Xu Yueran insisted they could not let him serve the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Jiujiu condemned Xu Jiawei and Xu Yueran for the assassination order and walked out of the palace hall.

Xu Jiujiu worried that Yuwen Tuo might never forgive the Star Luo Empire, while Xu Yun looked forward to meeting her nephew. In the Sun Moon Empire, Meng Hongchen escorted Yuwen Tuo to meet its emperor, and Yuwen Tuo quietly suspected Crown Prince Xu Tianran of ordering his village’s massacre.

• Xu Jiujiu comforted Xu Yun and told her to dote on Yuwen Tuo when he returned.
• Yuwen Tuo recovered his strength, dressed in his new outfit, and met Meng Hongchen, who came to take him to the palace.
• Meng Hongchen told Yuwen Tuo that her brother Xiao Hongchen had avoided him since losing to him at the Soul Duel Tournament.
• Meng Hongchen led Yuwen Tuo through the heavily guarded Mingdu Imperial Palace and advised him to impress the emperor and Crown Prince Xu Tianran.
• Yuwen Tuo agreed to meet his eldest imperial brother while concealing his suspicion that Xu Tianran had sent the Evil Soul Masters who killed his village.

Yuwen Tuo confronted the Sun Moon Emperor, Xu Canglan, in court and demanded to know who had searched for him as a child. After Xu Tianran admitted he had led the search, Yuwen Tuo insulted the Crown Prince and identified him as his first target for revenge.

• Meng Hongchen brought Yuwen Tuo into the Sun Moon Empire's grand hall to meet Xu Canglan and Xu Tianran.
• Yuwen Tuo refused to kneel or show deference to Xu Canglan, then asked who had been sent to search for him.
• Xu Tianran claimed responsibility for the search and urged Yuwen Tuo not to blame their father.
• Yuwen Tuo called Xu Tianran a crippled wretch and a damned eunuch, enraging the Crown Prince in front of the assembled officials.

Yuwen Tuo confronted the Sun Moon Emperor and Xu Tianran over his village’s massacre, then revealed his overwhelming talent and backing. The Emperor chose to reconcile with him, granted him the title of Flame Prince, and gave him Flame City as his fief.

• Yuwen Tuo refused to apologize to Xu Tianran or address the Sun Moon Emperor as Father Emperor, and challenged them to kill or expel him.
• Yuwen Tuo revealed five ten-thousand-year Soul Rings and declared that his soul was a Gold Grade Second Awakened Body Martial Soul and one of his Twin Martial Souls.
• Jing Hongchen and the Sun Moon Emperor recognized Yuwen Tuo’s extraordinary talent and the danger of provoking him and the Body Sect.
• The Sun Moon Emperor decided to tolerate Yuwen Tuo, while Xu Tianran suppressed his anger and agreed not to blame his younger brother.
• The Sun Moon Emperor named Yuwen Tuo the Flame Prince, granted him Flame City, and invited him to visit the palace.

Yuwen Tuo entered the Sun Moon Empire’s court as Flame Prince while secretly planning to destroy the empire and avenge his village. Jing Hongchen mistakenly believed Yuwen Tuo was maneuvering to contend for the throne and predicted he would seek protection at Illustrious Virtue Hall.

• Yuwen Tuo suppressed his anger toward Xu Canglan and Xu Tianran, deciding to undermine the Sun Moon Empire before destroying it and hunting the Evil Soul Masters behind his village’s destruction.
• Xu Canglan made Yuwen Tuo a regional prince and invited him to dine at the palace.
• Jing Hongchen told Meng Hongchen that Yuwen Tuo had deliberately antagonized Xu Tianran to signal his ambition to claim the throne.
• Meng Hongchen imagined a future in which Yuwen Tuo became a celebrated general and married her, prompting Jing Hongchen to interrupt her fantasy.
• Jing Hongchen interpreted Yuwen Tuo’s appeal to his hardship as an attempt to gain Xu Canglan’s sympathy, while Yuwen Tuo privately counted the emperor among his enemies.
• Jing Hongchen reasoned that the Body Sect’s support could make Yuwen Tuo a serious contender and predicted he would seek shelter at Illustrious Virtue Hall.

Yuwen Tuo went to Illustrious Virtue Hall to evade Xu Tianran’s surveillance and considered a way to summon a more readily available bodyguard. Jing Hongchen and Meng Hongchen discussed Yuwen Tuo’s ambitions and agreed to receive him without promising political support.

• The Snow Empress warned Yuwen Tuo that someone was following him, and he decided to seek shelter at Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• The Ice Empress suggested that Yuwen Tuo could summon ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts as personal guards, and he formed a plan involving half-subdual.
• Yuwen Tuo carved Body Sect coded messages in hidden alleys so the sect’s agents in Mingdu could report his situation.
• Meng Hongchen questioned why Yuwen Tuo had openly antagonized Xu Tianran, and Jing Hongchen reasoned that the ailing emperor’s condition left Yuwen Tuo little time to act.
• Jing Hongchen told Meng Hongchen not to promise Yuwen Tuo political support, then agreed to receive him when an Illustrious Virtue Hall disciple announced his arrival.

Yuwen Tuo offered to cure Meng Hongchen's Cold Syndrome in exchange for lodging at the Illustrious Virtue Hall, outlining four ways to treat it. Meng Hongchen proposed combining the methods, and Yuwen Tuo recognized that this could make her treatment more effective.

• Jing Hongchen sent Meng Hongchen to prepare a room for Yuwen Tuo instead of receiving him personally.
• Yuwen Tuo identified Meng Hongchen's cold poison and offered to cure her as payment for staying at the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Yuwen Tuo explained four treatment options: dissolving the poison with flames, gradually treating it with medicine, transferring it to a Soul Bone, or cultivating a Cold Attribute Skill.
• Meng Hongchen rejected the option that would weaken her martial soul and considered the other treatments.
• Meng Hongchen asked whether she could combine all four methods, and Yuwen Tuo realized the combination could ease her suffering while curing the poison at its root.

Yuwen Tuo gave Meng Hongchen a prescription and a Cold Attribute Skill to treat her cold poison, impressing Jing Hongchen and winning his favor. Jing Hongchen began to see Yuwen Tuo as a better choice than Xu Tianran for the throne, while Xu Tianran continued plotting to kill him.

• Yuwen Tuo gave Meng Hongchen a prescription and the first level of a Cold Attribute Skill, and she took both to Jing Hongchen for appraisal.
• Jing Hongchen judged the skill profound and effective, and realized Yuwen Tuo’s Soul Power had quality comparable to that of a Titled Douluo.
• Xiao Hongchen envied his sister’s opportunity but refused to ask Yuwen Tuo for a skill of his own.
• Jing Hongchen concluded that Yuwen Tuo was using Meng Hongchen to win the Hongchen Family’s support and considered him a better imperial candidate than Xu Tianran.
• Xu Tianran learned that Yuwen Tuo had entered Illustrious Virtue Hall and ordered that he be killed once he came out.

Meng Hongchen’s cold poison flare-ups had become pleasurable thanks to Yuwen Tuo’s Supreme Pure Fire, and she helped him receive coded messages from the Body Sect. Yuwen Tuo left Illustrious Virtue Hall with Meng Hongchen to meet his elders and pursue a soul beast, while a hidden watcher let them go.

• Meng Hongchen happily hurried to Yuwen Tuo’s room when her cold poison flared, and Xiao Hongchen silenced disciples who feared she was nearing death.
• Yuwen Tuo used his Supreme Pure Fire to relieve Meng Hongchen’s cold poison, then asked whether she had handled his matter.
• Meng Hongchen gave Yuwen Tuo a paper of Body Sect contact codes she had copied from locations around Mingdu.
• Yuwen Tuo learned that the Body Sect elders had arrived outside the city and decided to leave to meet them despite the danger of being watched.
• Meng Hongchen offered to accompany Yuwen Tuo, and they flew out of Illustrious Virtue Hall together.
• A black-robed watcher saw Yuwen Tuo and Meng Hongchen leave but did not follow them.