Chapter Summaries

Huang Yun drove off Uncle Wang and challenged Feng Xiaotian to confront how he had wasted his talent and held back his cultivation. Feng Xiaotian was left questioning his choices and walked back to the inn with steadier steps.

• Huang Yun stopped Uncle Wang with a precise lightning strike, and Uncle Wang fled with his two subordinates.
• Huang Yun told Feng Xiaotian that he had not helped him, then criticized him for weak cultivation and an ineffective self-created skill.
• Huang Yun accused Feng Xiaotian of deliberately slowing his cultivation to wait for Huo Wu and urged him to focus on becoming stronger.
• Huang Yun left after warning Feng Xiaotian that he would face stronger opponents unless he reconsidered why he cultivated.
• Feng Xiaotian reflected on his training and decision to wait for Huo Wu, then adjusted his mask and headed to the inn with steadier steps.

Huang Yun investigated the Service Kingdom’s newly discovered Ancient Ruins and decided to join the royal family’s expedition. He concealed his Soul Saint strength, registered under the alias Yu Yun as a Six-Ring Soul Emperor, and prepared to gather with the explorers in three days.

• Huang Yun entered Service City and learned that the royal family was recruiting explorers after an initial team suffered casualties inside the Ancient Ruins.
• Huang Yun read the recruitment notice, which offered rewards to Soul Emperors and above who gathered at the northern military camp in three days.
• Huang Yun decided to explore the ruins, concealed his seventh Spirit Ring, and adopted the appearance of a Six-Ring Soul Emperor.
• Huang Yun registered as Yu Yun, a thirty-year-old independent agility attack type Soul Emperor, and received a bronze token.

Xue Qinghe was ordered to inspect the ancient ruins in the Service Kingdom, while Qian Renxue secretly prepared Spirit Hall agents and Titled Douluo to accompany her. At the military camp, Huang Yun joined an exploration squad and learned the expedition would set out at dawn.

• Xue Ye ordered Xue Qinghe to represent the Imperial Family and investigate the ruins in the Service Kingdom.
• Qian Renxue arranged for Spirit Hall spies and the Titled Douluo She Long and Ci Xue to accompany her in secret.
• Huang Yun arrived at the military camp, recognized Qian Renxue, and realized her hidden protectors might be nearby.
• The officers divided the gathered explorers into ten squads, and Huang Yun was assigned to the seventh squad.
• A general warned the explorers about the ruins' dangers and announced that they would depart at dawn.

Huang Yun entered the ruins with the seventh squad and used Kunpeng Eye to avoid the passage’s formation traps. He discovered a vast hall swarming with Yin Evil Beetles and unleashed his Sixth Spirit Ability, Thunder Prison, as the creatures charged him.

• Huang Yun traveled with the explorers to the Mountain Valley and joined the first group assigned to enter the ruins.
• Huang Yun entered the passage first and used Kunpeng Eye to see in the darkness and avoid a formation trap.
• Huang Yun navigated more traps and chose the passage with the strongest energy fluctuations.
• Huang Yun found a hall filled with thousands of Yin Evil Beetles surrounding rune-covered stone pillars.
• Huang Yun attacked the beetles with golden-purple lightning, then stomped his foot and activated his Sixth Spirit Ability, Thunder Prison.

Huang Yun destroyed a swarm of Yin Evil Beetles but found no Spirit Rings, then sensed Qian Renxue fighting nearby. Separated from her companions in the ruins, Qian Renxue faced a fifty-thousand-year giant centipede whose strength resisted her Angel Domain.

• Huang Yun used Thunder Prison to annihilate the Yin Evil Beetles, found old runes and scattered relics, and sensed a familiar golden aura in a nearby passage.
• Qian Renxue became separated from her companions when a stone wall sealed the passage behind her and the ruins’ magnetic field blocked communication.
• Qian Renxue abandoned her Xue Qinghe disguise, summoned her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, and pressed deeper into the ruins alone.
• Qian Renxue entered a chamber filled with Yin Evil Soul Beasts and used her Angel Domain and Spirit Abilities to purge many of them.
• The fifty-thousand-year giant centipede charged Qian Renxue, resisting the Angel Domain’s attempt to suppress it.

Huang Yun rescued Qian Renxue from the Soul Beast horde and treated her wound, then gave her the false name Yu Yun. Qian Renxue suspected he was the masked youth who had robbed the Treasury, while Huang Yun asked whether she came from Spirit Hall.

• The Fifty-Thousand-Year centipede overwhelmed Qian Renxue's Angel Domain, wounded her, and corroded her mask with venom.
• Huang Yun arrived and unleashed golden-purple lightning that annihilated the surrounding Soul Beasts and crippled the centipede.
• Huang Yun killed the centipede with a bolt of lightning, then gave Qian Renxue Jinchuang Ointment for her shoulder wound.
• Qian Renxue introduced herself as Jin Xue'er and suspected Huang Yun was the mysterious youth who had robbed the Treasury, but he called himself Yu Yun.
• Huang Yun asked Qian Renxue whether her Angel Martial Soul meant she came from Spirit Hall.

Huang Yun and Qian Renxue agreed to explore the ruin together, finding a vast underground hall with dormant formations and an enormous door engraved with a Thunder Kunpeng. The unexpected image left Huang Yun wondering whether the ruin was connected to the Thunder Kunpeng as he prepared to investigate the hall.

• Qian Renxue admitted she belonged to Spirit Hall's Angel Clan and said its records contained nothing about Soul Beasts that left no Spirit Rings.
• Qian Renxue proposed that she and Huang Yun explore together, and he accepted.
• Huang Yun and Qian Renxue descended through the passage, using their powers together to navigate the ruin.
• Huang Yun and Qian Renxue entered a vast underground hall filled with complex, mostly dormant formations.
• Huang Yun heard a low sound and spotted a black metal door engraved with a giant Thunder Kunpeng.
• Huang Yun noticed empty recesses at the pillars' bases and suggested that he and Qian Renxue take a closer look.

Huang Yun and Qian Renxue discovered that Huang Yun’s Thunder Kunpeng Martial Soul could activate the ancient gate and entered a chamber filled with pure Thunder Power. The chapter left Huang Yun facing a vast golden sphere whose aura matched his Martial Soul, while Qian Renxue struggled under its suppression.

• Huang Yun and Qian Renxue found seven empty grooves that Qian Renxue identified as nodes in an ancient sealing formation.
• Huang Yun’s Thunder Kunpeng Martial Soul resonated with the gate, and his lightning activated its runes and opened it.
• Huang Yun and Qian Renxue entered the passage, where the Thunder Power strengthened Huang Yun but drained Qian Renxue’s Soul Power.
• Huang Yun and Qian Renxue emerged into a vast circular hall and saw a massive sphere of golden Thunder Power.
• Huang Yun sensed the Thunder Kunpeng’s aura within the sphere and recognized the ruin as a major opportunity.

Huang Yun touched the Thunder Source in the ruins and was drawn into it as the Thunder Kunpeng named him a candidate for its inheritance. Qian Renxue and the other survivors were teleported out as the ruins collapsed, while Huang Yun accepted the first of the Thunder Kunpeng's Nine Trials.

• Huang Yun touched the golden sphere, and its Thunder Power flooded his body, drawing him into the Thunder Source.
• The sphere's power engulfed Huang Yun and shattered his mask, allowing Qian Renxue to recognize him as Yu Yun, the Treasury thief who had stolen the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• The ruins' Formations teleported Qian Renxue, the two Titled Douluo, and the other surviving explorers out as the ruins sank and collapsed.
• Qian Renxue resumed Xue Qinghe's appearance and wondered who Yu Yun was as she stared at the vanished ruins.
• The Thunder Kunpeng identified Huang Yun as a candidate for its inheritance and began the first trial, Thunder Source Body Tempering.
• Huang Yun accepted the Thunder Kunpeng's Nine Trials.

After the ruins vanished, Karen counted the survivors and learned that forty-three explorers were missing, including Yu Yun. Xue Qinghe ordered the valley sealed and left Spirit Hall agents to watch it, while a faint golden light continued pulsing beneath the gravel.

• Karen found the ruins replaced by flat gravel and questioned the explorers, but none knew why they had been expelled.
• Xue Qinghe arrived safely and told Karen that a force had suddenly sent him out of the ruins.
• Karen counted 173 survivors from the 216 people who entered and recorded the other 43 as dead or missing.
• Xue Qinghe ordered Karen to seal the area, then quietly instructed an attendant to keep watch while he sought answers about Yu Yun and the golden orb.
• She Long and Ci Xue confirmed Xue Qinghe was safe and decided to remain near him rather than investigate Yu Yun without his orders.
• As the soldiers worked into the night, a faint golden point of light pulsed beneath the gravel.

Huang Yun completed the Thunder Kunpeng’s first trial after a year of thunder-source tempering, reaching rank seventy-five and gaining powerful body, eye, and inheritance abilities. With the coordinates for the next trial imprinted in his consciousness, he left the Inheritance Space as an unrivaled Soul Saint.

• Huang Yun endured a year of thunder-source tempering that strengthened his body and transformed his Thunder Kunpeng Eyes while his soul power rose from rank seventy-two to rank seventy-five.
• The thunder source released its power into Huang Yun, raising his seven spirit rings’ ages by fifty thousand years and leaving him with five black rings and two red rings.
• A Thunder Source Mark appeared on Huang Yun’s brow, and inherited memories revealed that the Thunder Kunpeng came from a higher-order world beyond this universe.
• The ancient voice declared the first trial complete, issued all rewards, and imprinted the next trial’s coordinates on Huang Yun’s consciousness.
• Huang Yun opened his eyes, assessed his new power, and concluded he could fight and defeat Soul Douluos or Titled Douluos.

After a year of cultivation, Huang Yun emerged from the ruins and learned that Tang San had revealed his Clear Sky Hammer and advanced to the tournament finals. In Spirit City, Yu Xiaogang learned Bibi Dong had sent Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to kill Tang San, then left hoping his student would survive.

• Huang Yun broke through the ruins, emerged after a year underground, and flew toward Service City to learn what had happened.
• Huang Yun learned that the Shrek Team had advanced to the tournament finals and Tang San had revealed his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Huang Yun decided to head to Spirit City, where he expected Spirit Hall to ambush Tang San on the way.
• Yu Xiaogang visited Bibi Dong and asked for advice on cultivating Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls.
• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang she had already sent Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to kill Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang left Spirit City fearing for his student.

A year after the ruins vanished, Qian Renxue learned that Yu Yun was presumed dead and ordered the investigation ended. She turned her attention to Spirit Hall’s planned ambush of Tang San and Tang Hao before the Finals.

• Qian Renxue heard that a year of surveillance had found no trace of Yu Yun or the vanished ruins.
• Ci Xue and She Long described three possible explanations for the ruins: a Sacrificial Ruin, a Sealing Ruin, or a Divine Test Ruin, though the Great Enshrined considered the last unlikely.
• Qian Renxue recalled Yu Yun’s strength and decided that he was dead, then sent a sealed order to stop investigating him.
• Qian Renxue read that Tang San had revealed his Clear Sky Hammer and learned that Bibi Dong had arranged an ambush targeting Tang San and Tang Hao on the way to Spirit City.
• Qian Renxue chose not to interfere with Bibi Dong’s plan and focused on the coming Finals.

Tang San and the Shrek Team were ambushed by Spirit Hall forces in Fallen Soul Gorge, led by Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei. Sword Douluo Chen Xin, Bone Douluo Gu Rong, and Tai Tan intervened, but another pair of reinforcements began arriving as the battle continued.

• The procession entered Fallen Soul Gorge, where Yue Guan and Gui Mei led more than a hundred masked Soul Masters in an ambush.
• Tang San dodged Yue Guan’s attack, then joined the Shrek Team in defending against the attackers and used their Seven-in-One Fusion Skill to strike back with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Yue Guan repelled Tang San’s hammer and recognized the Clear Sky Hammer before Chen Xin arrived to protect Tang San.
• Gu Rong fought Gui Mei and withstood his attacks with his Bone Dragon Martial Soul armor.
• Tai Tan charged into the gorge and struck down three black-clad Soul Masters, while an old woman and another companion announced their arrival.

Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang, Dragon Duke Meng Shu, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong helped the Shrek group break the ambush and escape toward Spirit City. Tang Hao and Huang Yun watched the battle from afar, and Huang Yun left for Spirit City after assessing how the fight had changed from the original story.

• Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang and Dragon Duke Meng Shu used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill while Ning Fengzhi enhanced the Shrek group and their allies.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo released his Martial Soul Avatar and repelled the Shrek group’s attacks, but Sword Douluo Chen Xin then engaged him in a Titled Douluo duel.
• Bone Douluo Gu Rong used his Martial Soul Avatar and Bone Dragon Roar to injure Ghost Douluo.
• Tai Tan carried Tang San out of the encirclement as Ning Fengzhi, Dragon Duke, Snake Granny, and the Shrek group covered their retreat; Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo withdrew.
• Tang Hao watched from a distant peak and chose not to intervene, while Huang Yun observed the battle from above and then flew toward Spirit City.

Tang San and the Shrek Team arrived in Spirit City, where Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San that Spirit Hall had tried to kill him. As Bibi Dong shifted her attention toward Xiao Wu, Huang Yun reunited with Dugu Yan and faced Yu Tianheng.

• Tang San reunited with Yu Xiaogang, recounted the canyon ambush, and agreed to stay cautious in Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo not to attack Tang San again for now, while quietly investigating Xiao Wu’s unusual aura.
• Huang Yun found Dugu Yan at the Emperor Team’s compound while Yu Tianheng was pressing her to name the person she liked.
• Huang Yun revealed himself, greeted Dugu Yan after a year apart, and told Yu Tianheng that he was the person she liked.

Huang Yun accepted Yu Tianheng’s challenge after demanding a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins if he won. As Yu Tianheng unleashed his Soul Skills, Huang Yun dodged every attack effortlessly and left him demanding a direct fight.

• Yu Tianheng challenged Huang Yun to stay away from Dugu Yan, offering to leave her alone if he lost.
• Huang Yun demanded a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins in addition, and Yu Tianheng agreed to the terms.
• Yu Tianheng used his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and attacked Huang Yun with his first Soul Skill, but Huang Yun dodged every strike.
• Yu Tianheng unleashed his second Soul Skill, Thunderous Might, but Huang Yun calmly stepped through the lightning without being hit.
• Yu Tianheng boosted his speed and strength with his third Soul Skill, Thunderous Fury, yet Huang Yun evaded his attacks and Yu Tianheng angrily demanded that he fight head-on.

Huang Yun effortlessly defeated Yu Tianheng, who had challenged him over Dugu Yan, and collected the 100,000-gold bet. After Yu Tianheng left for treatment, Huang Yun told Dugu Yan that he had spent the past year in the Ancient Ruins and would explain more later.

• Yu Tianheng used his fourth spirit skill against Huang Yun, but a faint golden shield stopped the attack without making Huang Yun move.
• Huang Yun kicked Yu Tianheng into a courtyard wall, leaving him injured but alive, then told Dugu Yan he had held back.
• Yu Tianheng paid Huang Yun the 100,000-gold bet and left to seek treatment from Ye Lingling, while promising to challenge Huang Yun again someday.
• Dugu Yan defended Yu Tianheng's character, and Huang Yun said he had spared him partly for her sake.
• Dugu Yan asked where Huang Yun had been for a year, and he said he had visited the Ancient Ruins and would tell her more later.

Yu Tianheng returned injured after Huang Yun defeated him, and Ye Lingling healed him with her Nine Heart Begonia. Qin Ming learned Huang Yun’s name and suspected he was the masked boy who had defeated Shrek’s Seven Monsters; meanwhile, Huang Yun prepared for the Finals opening ceremony and looked toward the Pope’s Palace.

• Osler, Shi Mo, and Yu Feng helped the badly injured Yu Tianheng into the quarters, where Ye Lingling healed his broken ribs and internal injuries with her Nine Heart Begonia.
• Yu Tianheng refused to identify his attacker until Qin Ming pressed him, then said a fifteen-year-old boy named Huang Yun had defeated him with one kick without using a martial soul or soul skills.
• Qin Ming recognized similarities between Huang Yun and the masked, lightning-attribute boy who had defeated Shrek’s Seven Monsters, but decided to investigate before acting.
• Huang Yun rested beside a Gold Card worth one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and looked toward the Pope’s Palace ahead of the Finals opening ceremony.

Huang Yun joined Dugu Yan for breakfast with the Imperial Fighting Team and revealed that he was a fifteen-year-old Seven-Ring Soul Sage. He refused Qin Ming’s offer to join Emperor Academy and left with Dugu Yan to attend the opening ceremony, while Qin Ming decided to inform the academy’s leaders.

• Dugu Yan brought Huang Yun to meet the Imperial Fighting Team, where Yu Tianheng avoided his gaze and the others studied him.
• Qin Ming questioned Huang Yun about injuring Yu Tianheng and asked his age, Martial Soul, and Soul Power rank.
• Huang Yun revealed that his Martial Soul was the Thunder Kunpeng and that he was a Seven-Ring Soul Sage, shocking the team and Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming invited Huang Yun to join Emperor Academy, but Huang Yun refused and briefly released his aura to confirm his strength.
• Huang Yun left with Dugu Yan for the opening ceremony, and Qin Ming departed to tell Dean Flender and the others about him.