Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue reluctantly left Su Chen in Salas’s care, while Su Chen used her guilt to secure 100,000 Gold Soul Coins. After Salas arranged a false identity and enrolled him at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Su Chen’s first day ended with noble students mocking him for being an orphan.

• Qian Renxue apologized to Su Chen for leaving him at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and insisted he accept a Gold Soul Coin Storage Card containing 100,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Qian Renxue ordered Salas to protect Su Chen and left Spirit Sacred Hall with She Long and Ci Xue.
• Salas forged Su Chen an identity as a twelve-year-old orphan with a level 23 Three-Legged Fire Crow Martial Soul and arranged his admission to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Su Chen enrolled in Sky Micro Grade Class One, attended a lesson on Soul Master classifications, and received a luxurious private room.
• Xue Beng and other young nobles questioned Su Chen about his background, then mocked him after he said he was an orphan.

Su Chen faced accusations from Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing after beating the noble students who bullied him, while Xue Qinghe took Su Chen’s side and ordered Xue Beng to apologize. The confrontation ended with Su Chen forgiving Xue Beng and saying he did not want to cause trouble for his busy sister.

• Xue Beng complained to the Education Committee, Prince Xue Xing, and Xue Qinghe that Su Chen had beaten him and demanded that Su Chen be killed.
• Xue Xing condemned Su Chen and demanded punishment, while Su Chen portrayed himself as a bullied orphan who had fought back.
• Meng Shenji urged the others to settle the dispute peacefully, but Xue Xing rejected his appeal and dismissed Su Chen’s claim that his sister was important in Spirit Sacred Hall.
• Xue Qinghe ordered Xue Beng to stand up and apologize to Su Chen, condemning him for leading older noble students in bullying a child.
• Xue Qinghe asked whether Su Chen was hurt and pressed Xue Beng to apologize, while Su Chen said he had forgiven Xue Beng and did not want to cause trouble for his sister.

Prince Xue Xing left the academy after Xue Qinghe defended Su Chen, who was then promoted to Tianzhi Class. There, Yu Tianheng challenged Su Chen after taking offense at his contempt.

• Xue Qinghe defended Su Chen against Prince Xue Xing and assured him she would uphold justice if anyone bullied him again.
• Xue Qinghe asked Su Chen to call her Brother Qinghe and ordered Meng Shenji to promote him to Tianzhi Class despite his Soul Power being below the usual requirement.
• Su Chen arrived in Tianzhi Class and recognized Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, Shi Mo, Osler, Yu Feng, and Ye Lingling among his classmates.
• Yu Tianheng confronted Su Chen over his special promotion, and Su Chen said Yu could not beat him.
• Yu Tianheng smashed a table and challenged Su Chen to fight.

Su Chen defeated Yu Tianheng with a single burst of speed and power in the academy’s spirit battle arena, leaving the students stunned. After claiming victory, he asked for directions to the library, and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling escorted him there.

• Yu Tianheng and Su Chen possessed their Martial Souls, and the spectators were shocked to see Su Chen’s Millennium Soul Ring.
• Yu Tianheng attacked Su Chen with his second Soul Skill, but Su Chen dodged the thunder arrows and appeared behind him.
• Su Chen used Golden Crow Chasing the Sun to kick Yu Tianheng unconscious with one blow, and the referee declared Su Chen the winner.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling admired Su Chen, with Ye Lingling sensing a special attraction between his Great Sun Golden Crow and her Nine-Hearted Begonia.
• Su Chen asked the students to take him to the library, and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling led him there while getting acquainted along the way.

Xue Qinghe learned that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and ordered She Long to secretly watch him in hopes of finding Tang Hao. Later, Qian Renxue visited Su Chen at night to comfort him over Xue Beng’s bullying and told him he could turn to Xue Qinghe for help.

• She Long reported that Tang San, who had awakened Blue Silver Grass with Innate Full Soul Power, was the son of the missing Tang Hao, whom Qian Renxue recognized as her father’s killer.
• She Long explained that Tang San disliked Su Chen out of jealousy and that Xiao Wu liked Su Chen, then offered to capture Tang San to draw out Tang Hao.
• Qian Renxue refused to alert Tang Hao and ordered She Long to keep Tang San under secret surveillance so they could locate Tang Hao through him.
• After returning to the palace, Xue Qinghe later went to Su Chen’s room as Qian Renxue and promised to stand up for him after Xue Beng bullied him.
• Qian Renxue told Su Chen that Xue Qinghe was trustworthy and that he could ask him for help if he ran into trouble.

After Xue Beng died and Yu Tianheng left to train, Su Chen broke through to level 30 and absorbed a seven-thousand-year soul beast’s Soul Ring. His Great Sun Golden Crow Martial Soul awakened the Golden Crow Domain, though he could initially use only its Burning effect.

• Yu Tianheng left Heaven Dou Royal Academy to enter seclusion, while Xue Beng died in an inn’s artificial lake after an accidental drowning.
• Xue Ye suppressed news of Xue Beng’s death, and Xue Xing retreated to his residence, suspecting Xue Qinghe had arranged it.
• After another year and a half, Su Chen reached level 30 and asked Qian Renxue to help him obtain a third Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue, She Long, and Ci Xue helped Su Chen hunt a seven-thousand-year Scarlet Sky Crying Phoenix in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Su Chen delivered the final blow.
• Su Chen absorbed the Scarlet Sky Crying Phoenix’s Soul Ring, awakening the Golden Crow Domain and its Burning effect.

Su Chen absorbed a seven-thousand-year Soul Ring, gained the Golden Crow Sun Bathing Soul Skill, and awakened the Golden Crow Domain, though his Soul Power remained at level 31. After returning to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, he defeated Yu Tianheng in their rematch and left him unconscious.

• Su Chen finished absorbing the Scarlet Sky Crying Phoenix Soul Ring and discovered his Golden Crow Sun Bathing Soul Skill and Golden Crow Domain, while his Soul Power stayed at level 31.
• Qian Renxue reassured Su Chen that the Domain was worth the lost Soul Power, then flew with him back toward Heaven Dou City and made a pinky promise that he would carry her in the future.
• After returning to Heaven Dou City, Su Chen and Qian Renxue celebrated his breakthrough before parting for the academy and the Crown Prince's Residence.
• Yu Tianheng challenged Su Chen at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, declaring that he would erase his earlier defeat now that he had reached Soul Elder.
• Su Chen activated his Golden Crow Soul Skills and charged Yu Tianheng, burning his dragonized arm and knocking him unconscious.

Su Chen joined the Heaven Dou Class, where Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling competed for his attention, while Yu Tianheng seethed over another defeat. Meng Shenji announced plans to train a reserve team for the next tournament, and Qin Ming added Su Chen to the selected students.

• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling fawned over Su Chen in class, while Yu Tianheng watched resentfully after losing to him again.
• Meng Shenji told the Heaven Dou Class that the Heaven Dou Royal Team had placed third in the All-Continent Soul Master Elite Tournament.
• Meng Shenji introduced Qin Ming and announced that the academy would prepare a reserve team for the next tournament.
• Qin Ming named Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, Osler, Yu Feng, Shi Mo and Shi Mo, and Ye Lingling for the reserve team.
• Qin Ming added Su Chen to the reserve team, citing his combat strength and recent advancement to the Heaven Dou Class.

During Qin Ming’s grueling training, Dugu Yan collapsed when her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison flared up, and Su Chen used his Golden Crow True Flame to purge it. After waking the next morning cured, Dugu Yan left to tell her grandfather, Dugu Bo, that their family’s poison could be treated.

• Qin Ming made the Heaven Dou Royal Team Reserve members run ten laps around the academy without using Soul Power, and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling struggled through the training.
• Dugu Yan lost consciousness as her poison erupted, and Ye Lingling’s Nine-Hearted Begonia failed to help her.
• Su Chen channeled his supremely yang Soul Power into Dugu Yan, while Qin Ming arrived and let Su Chen take her to rest.
• Dugu Yan remained unconscious overnight as Su Chen and Ye Lingling took turns caring for her.
• Dugu Yan woke to find the poison gone, thanked Su Chen excitedly, and left to tell Dugu Bo about the cure.

Dugu Bo confronted Su Chen over his relationship with Dugu Yan and demanded his approval before they could be together. He took them to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, intending to intimidate Su Chen, but Su Chen recognized the valley as an ideal place for his martial souls and rushed in.

• Dugu Yan openly showed her affection for Su Chen, while Dugu Bo objected and said Su Chen had to pass his test.
• Dugu Yan asked Su Chen to cure Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison, but Su Chen criticized Dugu Bo for expecting help without asking politely.
• Dugu Bo argued with Su Chen, then grabbed him and Dugu Yan and flew away from Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Dugu Yan warned Dugu Bo not to hurt Su Chen, and Dugu Bo promised to take him somewhere good.
• Dugu Bo brought Su Chen and Dugu Yan to a lush valley in Sunset Forest and warned Su Chen not to touch its poisonous herbs.
• Su Chen recognized the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a perfect place to cultivate and charged into it.

Su Chen explored the Immortal Herbs in Dugu Bo’s valley while Dugu Bo fought Qian Renxue’s Titled Douluo guards. Qian Renxue reunited with Su Chen, but her jealousy flared when Dugu Yan called herself his girlfriend, while Dugu Bo insisted the abduction was a misunderstanding.

• Su Chen identified the Immortal Herbs in the valley and praised it as a treasure trove.
• Qian Renxue arrived demanding that Dugu Bo return Su Chen, and Dugu Bo flew out to confront her.
• Su Chen carried Dugu Yan to the valley entrance, where Snake Lance and Pufferfish were overpowering Dugu Bo.
• Qian Renxue reunited with Su Chen, then grew jealous when Dugu Yan called herself his girlfriend and said she wanted to devote herself to him.
• Dugu Bo pleaded that he had only taken Su Chen to help detoxify him and offered to let Qian Renxue take him away.

At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Su Chen revealed his Twin Martial Souls to Qian Renxue and used his Lunar Jade Rabbit Martial Spirit to identify and refine Immortal Herbs. He created an Icefire Essence-Stabilizing Pill, while Qian Renxue agreed to keep his secret and secured permission to touch his rabbit ears every ten days.

• Qian Renxue remarked that Dugu Bo had failed to grow stronger despite possessing the treasured valley, leaving him embarrassed and resentful.
• Su Chen embraced Qian Renxue and revealed that he had awakened a second martial soul, then transformed through Lunar Jade Rabbit possession.
• Qian Renxue admired Su Chen's rabbit ears, negotiated to touch them once every ten days, and promised to protect the secret of his Twin Martial Souls.
• Su Chen explained that his second martial soul could identify plants and that the valley's vegetation consisted of Immortal Herbs with useful medicinal effects.
• Su Chen used the Yin and Yang springs to refine the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Infernal Delicate Apricot, and other herbs into an Icefire Essence-Stabilizing Pill.

Su Chen absorbed the Icefire Essence-Stabilizing Pill in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, awakening the first stage of his Golden Crow Divine Body. He then helped Qian Renxue, She Long, and Ci Xue with pills and began detoxifying Dugu Bo, who agreed to his relationship with Dugu Yan.

• Su Chen entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and used the Sun Immortal Scripture to absorb the pill’s power, awakening golden-red Golden Crow Divine Runes that greatly strengthened his body.
• Su Chen emerged and told Qian Renxue he could fight a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast without using his martial soul.
• Su Chen refined a Blazing Sun Pill for Qian Renxue and pills for She Long and Ci Xue to boost their Soul Power.
• Su Chen asked Dugu Bo to trust him as he used Golden Crow True Flame to suppress the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison in his body.
• Su Chen removed one-tenth of Dugu Bo’s poison, estimated nine more treatments would be needed, and Dugu Bo agreed to his relationship with Dugu Yan.

Su Chen returned from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Dugu Yan after harvesting its Immortal Herbs and helping her evolve her Martial Soul. Back at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Ye Lingling confessed her determination to compete for Su Chen’s affection, and he gave her an Immortal Herb to improve her cultivation.

• Su Chen used Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to improve his spiritual power, and Dugu Bo gave him a Hundred Treasures Pouch for storing living things.
• Su Chen harvested most of the Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and refined a Dragon Transformation Pill for Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan took the pill, evolving her Jade Phosphorous Serpent into a Jade Phosphorous Dragon and raising her Soul Power from rank 31 to rank 38.
• Dugu Bo brought Su Chen and Dugu Yan back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Ye Lingling hugged Su Chen and declared she would compete fairly with Dugu Yan.
• Su Chen gave Ye Lingling an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, and she accepted it after he urged her not to fall behind in cultivation.

After three years of cultivation, Su Chen reached Rank 40 and absorbed a twenty-thousand-year Blackflame Purplecloud Eagle Soul Ring, becoming a Rank 42 Soul Ancestor. He gained the powerful Golden Crow Shooting Sun Bow and agreed to visit Nuoding Academy, where he might encounter Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Tang Hao.

• Su Chen spent three years cultivating, reached Rank 40, and asked Qian Renxue, She Long, and Ci Xue to help him find a suitable soul beast.
• Qian Renxue, She Long, and Ci Xue found and grievously wounded a twenty-thousand-year Blackflame Purplecloud Eagle, which Su Chen killed with his first and second soul skills.
• Su Chen absorbed the Blackflame Purplecloud Eagle's Soul Ring after eight hours and advanced to Rank 42 Soul Power.
• Su Chen discovered his fourth soul skill, the Golden Crow Shooting Sun Bow, and demonstrated its destructive power by shooting down a towering tree.
• Qian Renxue suggested that Su Chen visit Nuoding Academy, and Su Chen agreed, wondering whether he might encounter Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Tang Hao.

Su Chen returned to Notting Academy and told Headmaster Gao Lu that he had reached Soul Ancestor. After Yu Xiaogang challenged him, Su Chen defeated Luo San Pao and left Yu Xiaogang injured; Yu Xiaogang decided to move out overnight.

• Su Chen visited Notting Academy alone, and Gao Lu welcomed him and asked about his cultivation.
• Su Chen revealed that he had broken through to Soul Ancestor, prompting Yu Xiaogang to accuse him of boasting.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo San Pao and threatened to teach Su Chen a lesson, but Su Chen crushed the spirit beast with one stomp.
• Yu Xiaogang vomited blood from the backlash, and Su Chen mocked him as Gao Lu led the teachers away with Su Chen.
• Yu Xiaogang vowed that Tang San would clear his name, then struggled back to his attic to pack and leave.

After leaving Nuoding Academy, Su Chen returned to Holy Soul Village with Qian Renxue and pledged to help her capture Tang Hao and Tang San. While visiting Old Jack, Su Chen gave him an Immortal Herb, then suggested searching the back mountain for clues about Tang Hao.

• Su Chen visited the Spirit Hall Branch, where Su Yuntao thanked him for helping secure his promotion and Sisi's affection.
• On the journey, Qian Renxue revealed that Tang Hao had killed her father and was wanted by Spirit Hall, and Su Chen promised to help her confront Tang Hao and Tang San.
• Su Chen and Qian Renxue arrived at Holy Soul Village, where Old Jack welcomed them and their guards, She Long and Ci Xue.
• Su Chen gave Old Jack a mild Immortal Herb that would strengthen his health and extend his lifespan.
• At Tang Hao's former home, Qian Renxue explained her suspicions about Tang Hao and Tang San, and Su Chen suggested searching the back mountain for clues.

Qian Renxue and her companions found Tang Hao’s hidden cave, took the Blue Silver Emperor and the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, and left a message challenging him to come to Spirit Hall. When Tang Hao discovered the theft, he flew into a rage and attacked Spirit Hall, damaging Pope Hall.

• Qian Renxue, She Long, Ci Xue, and Su Chen entered a hidden cave behind Holy Soul Village and found a Blue Silver Emperor.
• Su Chen discovered an iron box containing the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, and Qian Renxue ordered him to take it.
• Qian Renxue left a message telling Tang Hao to come to Spirit Hall if he wanted the Blue Silver Emperor and the Soul Bone back.
• Su Chen warned Qian Renxue that they were not yet strong enough to confront Tang Hao, and the group returned to Heaven Dou City.
• Tang Hao returned to the cave, found Ah Yin and the Soul Bone gone, and charged to Spirit Hall in fury.
• Tang Hao wreaked havoc in Spirit Hall and smashed part of Pope Hall while Qian Daoliu stayed away.

Su Chen joined Qin Ming and the Imperial Fighting Team on a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest after Yu Tianheng reached level 40 and prepared to challenge him again. At an inn in Soul Hunting Town, Xiao Wu rushed into Su Chen’s arms, leaving Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling stunned and Tang San furious.

• Qin Ming insisted Su Chen train with the Imperial Fighting Team and accompany them to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Yu Tianheng would hunt for a Soul Ring.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling embraced Su Chen, and Yu Tianheng vowed to challenge him after becoming a Soul Ancestor.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling rebuked Yu Tianheng for challenging Su Chen, but Su Chen agreed to fight him.
• Qin Ming made the group run to Soul Hunting Town, where they stayed overnight at an inn.
• Xiao Wu recognized Su Chen, leaped into his arms, and asked to follow him, while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling questioned her and Tang San seethed with anger.

Su Chen reunited with Xiao Wu, who rejected Tang San and defended their relationship as Tang San’s jealousy boiled over. When Tang San attacked, Su Chen revealed his powerful Soul Ancestor cultivation and burned away Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass, leaving everyone stunned.

• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun encouraged Tang San to fight for Xiao Wu, and Tang San angrily demanded that she return to him.
• Xiao Wu told Tang San that Su Chen had been taken away years earlier and warned him to stop sowing discord or lose her friendship.
• Tang San kept insisting that he knew what was best for Xiao Wu, while Xiao Wu rejected him and clung to Su Chen.
• Tang San unleashed his First Soul Skill, Blue Silver Entanglement, and Su Chen stepped in front of Xiao Wu to face him.
• Su Chen revealed his Golden Crow form and four Soul Rings, including a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, shocking both teams.
• Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass touched Su Chen and was burned to ashes by the Golden Crow True Flame.