Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Su Ming, a poor village boy with a weak Whirlwind Martial Soul, has two systems: his foundation grows with time, and a simulator lets him test future choices at the cost of foundation. Simulations can end in death but offer rewards.
• His first simulations reveal that he is vulnerable despite steady cultivation: his weak attacks leave him helpless against bandits, while a corrupt Vast Sea City Lord protects them. Su Ming repeatedly chooses permanent foundation increases over temporary cultivation or memories.
• A later simulation reveals a chance to find Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, which Su Ming locates in reality after recognizing it from the simulation. The material strengthens his body and enables him to advance much faster and absorb far older soul rings.
• In a further simulation, he secretly kills the City Lord’s son, steals Ah Yin’s hundred-thousand-year soul bone, and gains access to Dugu Bo’s Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. But he greedily consumes too many immortal herbs at once and dies from their overwhelming medicinal effects. He chooses the large foundation reward, bringing his foundation to 182% and triggering a major evolution of his Martial Soul toward pure wind.
• Now stronger but still cautious, Su Ming uses wind to undermine the City Lord’s mansion and terrorize the bandits who killed him in earlier simulations, stealing their valuables. He then leaves the village for Nuoding City, intending to pursue Xiao Wu, a transformed hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• In Nuoding City, he briefly encounters Yu Xiaogang and the young Tang San, pretends to have only rank-one innate soul power, and avoids drawing attention. He buys a room opposite the academy and waits for Xiao Wu.

Character development

• Su Ming grows from a powerless, cautious boy into a calculating and increasingly formidable strategist. He treats simulations as a way to identify dangers and opportunities, prioritizes lasting foundation gains, and uses stealth and indirect action rather than confronting stronger enemies openly.
• His ambition also grows: he begins planning to exploit major opportunities tied to Tang San’s world, including Xiao Wu and Ah Yin. His greed in the immortal-herb simulation demonstrates that his caution is not absolute and that overreaching can be fatal.
• Yu Xiaogang appears as an arrogant, dismissive figure, while Tang San is introduced as his young disciple.

Significant themes

• Preparation and risk management: Su Ming uses simulated futures to avoid predictable deaths and plan his next moves.
• Power, talent, and unfairness: His weak Martial Soul initially limits him, while exceptional talents like Dai Mubai highlight the gap between effort and innate ability.
• The cost of ambition: Pursuing powerful resources brings major gains, but reckless accumulation—especially the mass consumption of immortal herbs—can destroy him.
• Pragmatism and moral compromise: Su Ming’s pursuit of strength includes revenge, theft, manipulation, and plans to capture Xiao Wu.

Character interactions

• Su Ming’s simulations expose his conflict with the bandits and the City Lord’s corrupt protection of them; in reality, he retaliates indirectly against both.
• He secures the Vast Sea academy principal’s support in a simulated path by presenting himself as talented, though he keeps his real strength hidden.
• He encounters Yu Xiaogang and Tang San at Nuoding Academy, conceals his abilities, and avoids engagement.
• His planned pursuit of Xiao Wu—and his earlier theft of Ah Yin’s soul bone—shows that he views powerful figures and beings as opportunities to exploit rather than allies.

Key plot points and events

• Su Ming begins a new simulation with his foundation at 181%. He stays cautious, hides his wealth from the city lord he robbed, and focuses on cultivation.
• After high-quality whale products stop helping, he avoids the risk of a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and instead hunts a Thousand-Year wind-attribute beast. The narration reveals that someone is watching him and suspects he is wealthy.
• In Nuoding City, Su Ming encounters Yu Xiaogang arguing with his disciple. When Yu orders the disciple to attack, Su Ming easily defeats them both and brutally castrates them. He flees the city, though neither the academy dean nor anyone else pursues him.
• Su Ming settles in Heaven Dou City and befriends three-year-old Dugu Yan, hoping to gain Dugu Bo’s trust and eventually access immortal herbs. Dugu Bo watches their interactions and, impressed by Su Ming’s extraordinary talent, gradually accepts their closeness.
• By the simulation’s fourth year, Su Ming has grown close to both Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo. He tells Dugu Bo he knows how to resolve the hereditary flaw in the Dugu family’s martial soul.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ming is immensely powerful but remains wary of danger. He uses disguises and cautious choices to protect himself, while pursuing cultivation, immortal herbs, and a strategic alliance with the Dugu family. His approach to Yu Xiaogang is far more violent and impulsive.
• Dugu Yan is introduced as a very young, trusting child. Su Ming deliberately spends time with her, and their bond deepens over the years.
• Dugu Bo initially suspects Su Ming wants to attach himself to the family and briefly considers extracting the secret of his rapid progress. After determining that Su Ming’s talent is genuine, he comes to see him as a likely future protector for Yan and permits their growing closeness.
• Yu Xiaogang and his disciple provoke Su Ming by attacking him at Yu’s command. Su Ming humiliates and injures them, then escapes before any retaliation.
• The academy dean’s bizarre response to Yu’s injuries is described in a comic, grotesque aside; it underscores the chapter’s deliberately outrageous tone.

Significant themes

• Caution amid power: Su Ming’s strength does not make him careless; restraint helps him avoid a dangerous soul-ring ordeal and keep his wealth.
• Ambition and alliance-building: His friendship with Yan and approach to Dugu Bo are partly motivated by access to resources and the Dugu family’s inherited problem.
• Talent, trust, and suspicion: Dugu Bo’s view of Su Ming shifts as he observes both his extraordinary ability and his apparent lack of harmful intent toward Yan.
• Crude comedy and shock: The chapter contrasts strategic cultivation and family politics with intentionally extreme, vulgar humor.

Key plot points and events

• The narrator convinces Dugu Bo that he can solve the Dugu family’s hereditary poison problem, then uses Earth Dragon Golden Melons to make crude antidote pills. Dugu Bo rewards him with a Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch and freedom to gather herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The narrator consumes the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, awakening spiritual power and raising his foundation to 190%. He continues absorbing herbs and training, eventually reaching foundation levels of 220% and 270%, and Soul Power Level 63 before becoming a Soul Saint at age twelve.
• The Earth Dragon Golden Melon pills help Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul evolve into the Jade Phosphorus Poison Dragon, eliminating its harmful side effects. Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul evolves as well, and his cultivation rises to Level 95.
• While searching for a Soul Ring with Dugu Yan, the narrator sees Xue Qinghe with a blond girl and leaves quickly, worried he has stumbled on something that could affect Qian Renxue’s future plans.
• The narrator tells Dugu Bo about a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in Nuoding City and Tang Hao. Together they raid the city: Dugu Bo takes the unconscious Xiao Wu, while the narrator breaks into Tang Hao’s hideout, takes Ah Yin’s Soul Bone, and uproots Ah Yin, the Blue Silver Emperor.
• They return to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. The narrator plants Ah Yin there, leaving Dugu Bo puzzled and hinting at suspicions about Tang Hao’s treatment of her.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator grows rapidly in power and confidence, combining medicinal knowledge, scientific reasoning, and opportunistic scheming. He remains intensely focused on training and treats romance as a distraction, though he accepts Dugu Bo’s offer to join the family.
• Dugu Bo becomes the narrator’s ally and confidant. Grateful for the cure and impressed by his ability, he trusts him, supports his plans, and joins him in the raid.
• Dugu Yan benefits from the antidote and undergoes a major Martial Soul evolution, though the narrator gives her little attention beyond congratulating her.
• Tang Hao is left furious and devastated after losing Xiao Wu, Ah Yin, and Ah Yin’s Soul Bone.
• The narrator and Dugu Bo bond through their shared taste for audacious, morally dubious schemes, laughing together as they set out to rob Tang Hao.

Significant themes

• Power through knowledge and preparation: The narrator’s medical and scientific insight transforms the Dugu family’s condition and accelerates his own growth.
• Ambition and relentless self-improvement: His training takes precedence over relationships and nearly everything else.
• Trust and chosen loyalty: Dugu Bo’s gratitude develops into genuine friendship and active support.
• Moral ambiguity and opportunism: The pair’s successes come through theft, kidnapping, and ruthless exploitation of others’ vulnerabilities.
• Suspicion and hidden motives: The narrator questions Tang Hao’s choices regarding Ah Yin, suggesting that the story behind their relationship may be more complicated than it appears.

Plot and key events

• Su Ming and Dugu Bo discuss Tang Hao and Ah Yin’s past. They suspect Tang Hao may have deliberately exposed Ah Yin’s identity as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, perhaps engineering her sacrifice. Ah Yin overhears and begins to fear the truth, but cannot bring herself to examine it.
• They turn to Xiao Wu, who has been pretending to be unconscious. Su Ming offers to help her take revenge and possibly resurrect her and her mother if she sacrifices herself. He claims she can call on outside help to fight him in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but secretly never intends to let her leave.
• Su Ming reveals that he is a twelve-year-old Soul Saint, overwhelming Xiao Wu, who is only a Soul Scholar. Before agreeing to sacrifice herself, she makes him swear by the Dragon God to keep his promises. He does so, though he doubts the oath will bind him.
• Xiao Wu sacrifices herself. Su Ming gains her hundred-thousand-year soul ring and left leg bone. He gives Xiao Wu’s and Ah Yin’s soul bones to Dugu Bo rather than absorbing them himself, reasoning that they are unnecessary for his advancement and will help Dugu Bo grow stronger.
• Su Ming explains that soul bones may eventually hinder progress toward godhood unless refined into well-matched Divine Gear; simply combining ordinary soul bones produces little synergy.
• After adapting to his new power, Su Ming challenges Dugu Bo. His wind-based abilities make him nearly impossible to hit: in his flowing-wind state, attacks pass through him, and his Martial Soul Avatar lets him disperse into countless wind strands, regenerate, and draw wind-element soul power from the air. He thoroughly defeats Dugu Bo.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ming is calculating and coercive: he uses his strength and deceptive promises to secure Xiao Wu’s sacrifice, while also choosing to strengthen Dugu Bo as a powerful ally. He confidently tests his new abilities.
• Xiao Wu resists Su Ming’s offer but, faced with an impossible power gap, seeks a binding promise before sacrificing herself.
• Ah Yin is shaken by the possibility that Tang Hao betrayed her, though she remains too frightened to pursue the implications.
• Dugu Bo becomes more appreciative of Su Ming after receiving the soul bones and treats his morbid joke about harvesting Dugu Bo’s bones after his death with amusement. Their relationship is affectionate and teasing, but also marked by trust and a stark awareness of mortality.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and painful truth: Ah Yin must confront the possibility that her husband caused her fate.
• Power and coercion: Xiao Wu’s “choice” is shaped by Su Ming’s overwhelming advantage and deception.
• Oaths, trust, and self-interest: Su Ming swears by the Dragon God while doubting the oath’s consequences.
• Power and the path to godhood: Soul bones are valuable but may become obstacles unless combined into compatible Divine Gear.
• Loyalty and pragmatic affection: Su Ming’s willingness to give Dugu Bo the soul bones strengthens their bond, even as they joke about stripping bones from the dead.

Key events

• Su Ming’s Pure Wind Martial Soul made him nearly immune to attacks that did not affect a wide area. Dugu Bo judged his strength close to that of an ordinary Titled Douluo, with the potential to close the gap further.
• Su Ming visited Vast Sea City, killed its lord, and dumped a group of bandits into a men-only host club. He then returned to Nuoding City and discovered that the academy headmaster had arranged for Yu Xiaogang to be physically transformed into a woman. The headmaster had also murdered dozens of female students.
• Su Ming killed the headmaster and dealt with most of the accomplices, but spared Yu Xiaogang for now, fearing that harming him could attract the attention of the Asura God, who was watching Tang San.
• In the tenth year of the Simulation, Su Ming completed his use of Immortal Herbs, raising his foundation to 311%. His Martial Soul evolved dramatically: he became truly part of the wind, able to command and absorb it. Though his Soul Power reset to level ten and his previous Soul Skills vanished, his combat strength increased. He could now form Soul Rings by gathering wind energy rather than relying on Soul Beasts.
• Su Ming began traveling the continent and establishing a religious organization, temporarily named West Wind Church. Dugu Bo agreed to serve as its grand elder, lending the organization his reputation.
• The church spread through the Heaven Dou Empire, guided by three principles: provide adequate shelter, serve food to the poor at least twice daily, and forbid taking church property. By the fifteenth year, it had 137 branches.
• Facing the cost of supporting the growing network, Su Ming proposed turning it partly into a business: linking branches with trade routes and collecting a small fixed contribution from workers. He returned to Dugu Bo to discuss the plan.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ming grows more powerful but remains wary of consequences. He acts on his conscience to avenge the murdered students, yet restrains himself from harming Yu Xiaogang because of the risk of provoking the Asura God.
• Dugu Bo recognizes Su Ming’s exceptional strength and joins his project reluctantly, accepting a largely honorary role that does not restrict his freedom.
• Su Ming’s relationship with Dugu Bo shifts from testing combatant and mentor-like observer to organizational allies.
• Su Ming worries that Tang San remains dangerous and hopes that “Su Five” will survive and become a god.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: Su Ming has immense abilities but must weigh revenge against the danger of attracting divine attention.
• Freedom and belief: His brief insight into wind connects it with freedom and the yearning of intelligent beings; his church likewise allows people to come and go.
• Compassion and practical limits: West Wind Church aims to help the poor, but its growth forces Su Ming to seek a sustainable source of funding.
• Unintended consequences: Su Ming recognizes that earlier actions helped set events in motion, complicating his sense of responsibility.

Plot points and events

• Dugu Bo confides that Dugu Yan is determined to pursue Yu Tianheng. The narrator advises him not to interfere, and Dugu Bo reluctantly lets the matter go.
• Afterward, Dugu Bo subtly distances himself from Dugu Yan. She does not notice, devoting herself to her relationship with Yu Tianheng, while the narrator eventually loses touch with her.
• In the sixteenth year of the simulation, the narrator meets Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, while expanding the West Wind Church into the Star Luo Empire. After a tense confrontation, Qian Renxue agrees to concessions, and the narrator stays out of her plan to seize the throne. Spirit Hall and Qian Renxue later support the Church behind the scenes.
• Back at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the narrator tells Ah Yin that her son is dead and that someone else occupies his body. Shaken, Ah Yin retreats into her original form. The narrator then gains a ninth Soul Ring.
• By the seventeenth year, the narrator has reached Level 90 at age twenty-two and become powerful enough to control dissent within the West Wind Church. Dugu Bo is given an honorary elder position and retires as grand elder.
• As faith gathers around the narrator, they remain unsure what to make of it. Meanwhile, the Church grows strong enough to threaten Spirit Hall.
• The narrator battles Bibi Dong, now apparently near Limit Douluo strength. Their wind-form makes her attacks—including Eternal Creation—ineffective, while the narrator wounds her. Rather than kill her or destroy Spirit Hall, the narrator plans to exploit a future crisis to gain the people’s faith and ascend to godhood.

Character developments and interactions

• Dugu Bo accepts the narrator’s advice but quietly withdraws from Dugu Yan, revealing his affection for the narrator and disappointment in her choice.
• Dugu Yan remains passionately focused on Yu Tianheng, unconcerned by her grandfather’s changed attitude.
• The narrator is emotionally detached about Dugu Yan and increasingly calculating, prioritizing institutional power and a future path to divinity.
• Ah Yin is forced to confront doubts about her son’s survival. The narrator’s unusual, higher-order presence makes it difficult for her to dismiss the accusation.
• Qian Renxue and the narrator clash over her takeover plan, then reach an uneasy accommodation.
• Bibi Dong is enraged by her inability to harm the narrator and is left wounded after their fight.

Significant themes

• Emotional distance and family bonds: Dugu Bo’s disappointment and the narrator’s estrangement from Dugu Yan show how affection can persist even as relationships weaken.
• Identity and loss: Ah Yin’s painful uncertainty over her son’s fate raises the question of whether the person inhabiting his body is truly her child.
• Power and pragmatism: The narrator chooses political balance and future advantage over immediate victory.
• Faith and ascension: The growing flow of belief may become the means by which the narrator achieves godhood.

Key plot points and events

• After establishing the West Wind Church across the Douluo Continent, Su Ming expands overseas to gather more faith and prepare for ascension. His church and dynasty bring order and food to a newly discovered continent, whose people offer him especially pure faith—and an unfamiliar force called Vow Power.
• Su Ming later discovers the Sun Moon Continent, eliminates the Holy Spirit Cult and its Evil Soul Masters, and establishes the West Wind Dynasty there. A persistent sense that something major is imminent makes him increasingly severe toward potential opponents, though he remains tolerant of loyal officials.
• On the Douluo Continent, events unfold without Su Ming’s knowledge: Luo Sanpao sacrifices himself for Tang San, and Tang San’s hatred of Spirit Hall intensifies. Tang San and his teacher, Yu Xiaogang, secretly develop a mutual romantic relationship despite its forbidden nature.
• Dugu Bo leaves to search for Su Ming, telling Dugu Yan that she must take responsibility for her own choices. Once her father is gone, Yu Tianheng abandons Dugu Yan and pursues her friend Ye Lingling instead. Dugu Yan is devastated and begins remembering how well Su Ming once treated her.
• In the simulation’s twentieth year, Su Ming prepares to return to Douluo. Before leaving, he kills the Evil Emperor and Blue Silver Emperor with his mastery of wind. He takes the Evil Emperor’s unusual forehead Eye Soul Bone but keeps the Blue Silver Emperor’s corpse to use as fertilizer for Ah Yin. His Foundation reaches 338%.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ming continues prioritizing his rise to godhood, expanding his rule and faith networks. His growing power—and unexplained foreboding—pushes him toward a more tyrannical style, while his promise to help Dugu Bo become a god reflects lingering loyalty.
• Dugu Bo shows concern for Su Ming and leaves Dugu Yan to make her own way before setting out to find him.
• Dugu Yan has valued romance over family, but Yu Tianheng’s rejection and her friend’s apparent displacement leave her isolated and regretful.
• Yu Tianheng treats Dugu Yan as expendable once she loses her father’s protection and pursues Ye Lingling, whose family carries greater influence.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang cross the boundaries of teacher and student, secretly acting on mutual love.

Significant themes

• Power, rule, and faith: Su Ming consolidates authority through overwhelming strength, while faith—and the newly introduced Vow Power—becomes a resource for his ascent.
• Consequences and abandonment: Dugu Yan’s choices and dependence on romance leave her vulnerable when her father withdraws and her lover turns away.
• Forbidden love and betrayal: Tang San and Yu Xiaogang’s relationship challenges social boundaries, while Yu Tianheng’s rejection exposes the transactional nature of his attachment to Dugu Yan.
• Distant power and unseen events: Su Ming’s expansion leaves him unaware of dramatic changes back on Douluo, underscoring the gap between his grand ambitions and the personal crises unfolding in his absence.

Key events

• Su Wu returns to Douluo Continent and gives Ah Yin the Blue Silver Emperor’s remains and Soul Bone. She absorbs them, reaches 130,000 years of cultivation, and survives her first heavenly tribulation.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Su Wu finds and defeats the remnants of the Fire and Water Dragon Kings, then absorbs their god-level Soul Bones and numerous Immortal Herbs. His foundation rises to 370%, and his Wind Element gains fire- and water-based abilities, along with immunity to both elements.
• Afterward, Ah Yin asks permission to visit her child. Su Wu agrees and leaves, but realizes he feels profoundly alone and longs for a home and family.
• In the twenty-first year of the simulation, Su Wu remains emotionally numb and struggles with the meaning of life. Ah Yin visits Tang San and concludes that he is not truly her son. She, too, becomes miserable at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Wu grows vastly stronger but becomes increasingly hollow and detached. His grief and isolation overwhelm his usual indifference, leaving him unable to respond even when Ah Yin tries to speak with him.
• Ah Yin moves from cautious hope about Tang San’s identity to the painful certainty that he is not her child. She is also drawn to Su Wu, but his distant, unapproachable manner keeps her from connecting with him.
• Their shared solitude creates a bond of sorts: Ah Yin recognizes Su Wu’s distress and feels compassion, while both remain trapped in their own grief. Their time together brings no romance or meaningful conversation.
• Su Ming, watching the simulation, anxiously urges Su Wu to endure and seek comfort through relationships, but his crude advice does not reach or change Su Wu.

Significant themes

• Power versus fulfillment: Su Wu’s extraordinary strength and achievements cannot ease his loneliness.
• Identity and family: Ah Yin’s discovery that Tang San is not truly her son deepens the chapter’s sense of loss and disconnection.
• Emptiness and despair: Both Su Wu and Ah Yin are left without the family bonds they hoped for, though they respond differently—Su Wu withdraws, while Ah Yin feels concern for him.

• Su Wu and Ah Yin become a family: After nearly two years of withdrawal, Su Wu begins to re-engage with life—though not because he feels desire. He recognizes that Ah Yin’s actions were wrong, but accepts responsibility for their child and chooses to be a good father. He and Ah Yin leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Su Wu confronts Dugu Yan: At the neglected Dugu Residence, Su Wu learns that Dugu Bo has disappeared and left Dugu Yan behind. Dugu Yan, distressed and abandoned, begs Su Wu to forgive her and take her as another wife. He firmly refuses, explaining that he never loved her and is already committed to Ah Yin. He came to fulfill his duties to his wife and child and to look for Dugu Bo. Dugu Yan gives him Dugu Bo’s old letter and retreats in despair.
• A daughter is born: In the twenty-third year of the Simulation, Ah Yin gives birth to Su Yin’er, a girl born with the combined foundation of both parents and the status of a Child of Nature. Su Wu and Ah Yin name her and restore the Dugu Residence as their family home. Dugu Yan asks to be the baby’s godmother; Su Wu leaves the choice to Ah Yin, who agrees out of compassion.
• A new threat emerges: Su Wu searches for Dugu Bo through the West Wind Churches but finds no trace of him. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong ascends to godhood and launches an attack on the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires. She targets Su Wu’s West Wind Church network first, destroying its outposts in Spirit Hall territory in less than a day. Su Wu decides he cannot remain uninvolved.
  Character developments and themes: Su Wu moves from emotional numbness toward responsibility, committing himself to Ah Yin and their daughter while maintaining firm boundaries with Dugu Yan. Ah Yin is devoted to Su Wu and shows compassion toward Dugu Yan despite the painful history. Dugu Yan’s confidence collapses after losing her grandfather’s protection, leaving her remorseful, dependent, and envious of Su Wu’s family. The chapter explores responsibility, commitment and monogamy, the consequences of past choices, and the contrast between private family life and escalating political conflict.

Key plot points and events

• Su Wu confronts Bibi Dong over her destruction of the West Wind Church. He creates a palm-sized Chaos Vortex Orb by fusing three powerful tornadoes, then lands a near-instant strike that vaporizes both of them.
• Su Wu survives in wind form. Bibi Dong revives with her ninth Soul Skill, the Immortal Body, but cannot defeat him while he remains dispersed as wind. She orders her followers to stop attacking the Church and offers a temporary truce.
• The battle leaves Su Wu gravely weakened: he has spent much of his Life Origin, and his expected lifespan falls from over three thousand years to roughly three or four hundred. He returns to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, visibly aged.
• He sits out the coming war of the gods, choosing family life over fighting. Qian Renxue becomes a god, followed by Tang San; Tang San later dies and is revived by Oscar and Ning Rongrong.
• Qian Renxue asks Su Wu to aid Spirit Hall against Tang San, but he refuses. Spirit Hall is defeated: Tang San kills Bibi Dong and strips Qian Renxue of her godhood.
• Shrek Academy later investigates Su Wu’s supposed ties to Spirit Hall, but evidence of his deadly fight against Bibi Dong clears him. Tang San eventually decides Su Wu should become his subordinate.

Character developments

• Su Wu demonstrates immense power, briefly threatening a god, but learns the cost: his victory consumes a huge portion of his life. He prioritizes his daughter and family rather than risking his remaining years in the war.
• Bibi Dong recognizes Su Wu as a potentially lethal threat. Her survival depends on her Immortal Body, and fear of another attack forces her to retreat from the campaign against the West Wind Church.
• Qian Renxue seeks Su Wu’s help but leaves disappointed after he refuses; she later loses her Angel Godhood.
• Tang San rises to become the Asura God and ultimately turns his attention to recruiting Su Wu.

Significant themes

• Power and its price: Su Wu’s extraordinary attack nearly defeats Bibi Dong, but it costs him much of his life and strength.
• Family over ambition: He declines to join the divine war, choosing time with his wife and daughter instead.
• The limits of victory: Su Wu can destroy Bibi Dong’s divine body but cannot erase her divine consciousness, while the larger conflict proceeds without him.
• Fate and intervention: The major events of the original story unfold largely unchanged despite Su Wu’s presence.

Character interactions

• Su Wu and Bibi Dong’s confrontation ends in mutual destruction and uneasy restraint: she cannot finish him, and he is too depleted to press the advantage.
• Su Wu lives with Ah Yin and Dugu Yan as a family, focusing on raising his two-year-old daughter.
• Qian Renxue appeals to Su Wu for military support; he refuses, and she departs disappointed.
• Shrek Academy questions Su Wu’s loyalties, but the record of his battle with Bibi Dong resolves the matter.
• Tang San later approaches Su Wu not as an enemy but as a potential subordinate.

Plot points and events

• The narrator declines Tang San’s offer to join him, citing a short remaining lifespan. Tang San accepts the refusal for now but leaves a trace of Sea God power to keep the door open.
• In the Simulation’s twenty-ninth year, the narrator and Ah Yin’s daughter, Su Yin’er, awakens a Wood Spirit Martial Soul and reveals herself as a Child of Nature. She quickly suppresses the aura, and the narrator confirms her Martial Soul does not seem to require Soul Beasts. Her lack of the emptiness he expected leaves him puzzled.
• The Silver Dragon King senses major forces converging and sends Di Tian to investigate, but gives him no clear idea what he is looking for.
• Qian Renxue arrives with news that Tang San killed Dugu Bo to obtain the final two Soul Bones needed for his divine trial. The narrator is devastated: Dugu Bo had been a close confidant and family.
• After settling Qian Renxue at the Dugu residence, the narrator leaves his family and begins preparing for revenge in a future Simulation. He unifies Douluo Star’s major powers, then promotes regional trade and introduces new laws, establishing the West Wind Federation.
• The narrator rules as a capable but ruthless autocrat, using thousands of clones to administer a nation of tens of billions. His growing strength lets him defeat repeated attacks and later overcome the Shrek Seven Devils when they challenge him. He spares them, and they retreat to the Divine Realm.
• By the chapter’s end, the narrator is still racing against a limited lifespan: gaining enough faith to become a god within roughly three hundred years may require the support of nearly every human and Soul Beast. His daughter is seventeen and nearing adulthood.

Character developments

• The narrator shifts from reluctant engagement with Tang San to grief-driven, single-minded rule and preparation for revenge. His power grows to Pseudo-God level, but his methods grow increasingly authoritarian.
• Su Yin’er is raised with care by Ah Yin and Dugu Yan and is not spoiled. Her unusual awakening suggests a connection between the narrator’s Foundation and Ah Yin’s talent, though the narrator cannot explain why she feels no emptiness.
• Ah Yin remains a loving, protective mother. Her unusual human form lets her retain her Soul Beast strength without its aura, though Su Yin’er’s Child of Nature aura still affects her.
• Tang San advances his divine plans and kills Dugu Bo for the Soul Bones he needs. Despite learning of the narrator’s unification, he cannot intervene under the Divine Realm’s rules.
• The Shrek Seven Devils oppose the narrator’s rule, but discover they cannot match his strength and flee to the Divine Realm.
• Dugu Bo’s death removes one of the narrator’s few close relationships and becomes the chapter’s emotional turning point.

Significant themes

• Grief and revenge: Dugu Bo’s death pushes the narrator toward a future confrontation with Tang San.
• Power and tyranny: The narrator brings order and prosperity through unification, but enforces obedience with lethal force.
• Faith, time, and godhood: The narrator’s political consolidation is also a race to gather the faith needed to ascend.
• Nature and inheritance: Su Yin’er’s awakening and Ah Yin’s unusual transformation raise questions about Soul Beast identity and the narrator’s Foundation.

Character interactions

• Tang San respects the narrator’s refusal while leaving a means of future contact.
• Su Yin’er apologizes to Ah Yin after her aura overwhelms her mother; the narrator questions her about the awakening.
• The Silver Dragon King sends Di Tian on a vague mission, prompting the narrator’s sarcastic frustration.
• Qian Renxue brings the news of Dugu Bo’s death, after which the narrator entrusts her to the Dugu residence and bids farewell to his family.
• Dai Mubai invokes Tang San while opposing unification, but Tang San tells him he can reclaim the Star Luo Empire only after becoming a god.
• The Shrek Seven Devils confront the narrator, are spared, and leave for the Divine Realm.

Key plot points and events

• Di Tian, wandering west on an assignment from his liege, recognizes Su Yin’er’s unusual aura near Heaven Dou City and visits Dugu Manor. He identifies her as the Child of Nature and offers to take her to join the Soul Beast faction.
• Su Yin’er confronts him, but before Di Tian can explain much, her father arrives and beats him severely, then drags him away from the city.
• After learning that Di Tian came for Su Yin’er, her father lets her decide whether to go. She asks whether Di Tian can provide money or resources.
• Di Tian produces an enormous fortune from a hidden extradimensional treasury: hundreds of rare Soul Bones, more than fifty Immortal Herbs, External Soul Bones, Divine-Grade Metal, and a Divine Artifact Embryo. The bizarre location of the treasury’s entrance makes the family reluctant to touch the goods.
• Tempted by the offer—and by the prospect of finding Gold of Life at the Lake of Life—Su Yin’er’s parents decide they will accompany her and seek even more resources.

Character developments

• Su Yin’er proves powerful, confident, and discerning: despite Di Tian’s status and her own extraordinary destiny, she asks what practical benefits joining him would bring.
• Her father is fiercely protective and impulsive, attacking first and asking questions later. Once he understands the situation, he leaves the decision to his daughter but sees an opportunity to bargain for wealth and longevity.
• Di Tian is respectful toward Su Yin’er and eager to recruit her, yet his intimidating reputation contrasts with his helplessness under her father’s assault. He also turns out to be astonishingly wealthy.
• Ah Yin and the others at the manor witness the confrontation and the treasure reveal, sharing the family’s mixture of astonishment and revulsion.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Di Tian’s divine-level offensive power cannot compensate for his mortal physical limits when facing Su Yin’er’s father.
• Destiny and choice: Su Yin’er is celebrated as the Child of Nature, but her parents leave the decision to her rather than forcing her into a faction.
• Wealth and absurdity: A serious political offer becomes comic through Di Tian’s lavish treasury—and its grotesque access point.
• Family loyalty and self-interest: Her father protects Su Yin’er while also eyeing the Soul Beast faction’s resources and the life-extending Gold of Life.

Character interactions

• Di Tian approaches Su Yin’er politely and offers to take her away, even promising to bring her family if she wishes.
• Su Yin’er shields the adults from him and challenges his intentions.
• Her father misreads Di Tian’s silence during the beating, then blames him for not volunteering an explanation.
• After the truth comes out, father and daughter discuss the offer; Su Yin’er focuses on resources, and Di Tian tries to persuade her with increasingly valuable gifts.
• Di Tian confirms that Su Yin’er’s parents are her biological parents and concludes that they share her interests.

Key plot points and events

• Di Tian mistakes Su Wu and Ah Yin for members of the same Soul Beast family and brings them to the Lake of Life. Su Wu gets them there in minutes by riding the wind.
• As Su Yin’er absorbs the lake’s life energy, the Silver Dragon King suddenly emerges and swallows her. Su Wu senses through their blood bond that she is truly dead.
• Su Wu kills Di Tian, sends Ah Yin far away for her safety, and attacks the Silver Dragon King with a devastating wind technique. He manages only a tiny wound before dying.
• The simulation ends. Su Ming rejects the tempting Limit Douluo cultivation reward in favor of a 213% foundation increase, believing it will better support future growth and Martial Soul Evolution.
• During Su Ming’s nearly two-week evolution, the real Ah Yin—still a young Blue Silver Grass—recalls the simulation as a vivid dream and senses a familial connection unlike anything she has felt with Tang Hao.
• Once recovered, Su Ming discovers that he can sustain himself by drawing on air and wind, and that his new Soul Ring is pale cyan and somewhat illusory.
• He visits Nuoding Academy, where he finds the dean assaulting a girl. Su Ming restrains the dean with wind and suffocates him; the girl flees in terror.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Wu/Su Ming: Su Wu’s grief at Su Yin’er’s death erupts into lethal rage against Di Tian and the Silver Dragon King. In reality, Su Ming prioritizes long-term potential over immediate power, then uses his new abilities to intervene against an abusive authority figure.
• Su Yin’er and Ah Yin: Su Yin’er is killed by the Silver Dragon King. Ah Yin, sent away before the confrontation, is left with uncertain memories of a dream but an unfamiliar sense of family and belonging.
• Di Tian: Initially helpful and confused by the events, he is killed by Su Wu once Su Wu realizes Su Yin’er is dead.
• Silver Dragon King: She treats Su Yin’er as a source of nourishment, dismisses Su Wu’s wind-based attack, and survives his strongest strike with only a minor wound.
• The girl at the academy: Su Ming saves her from the dean, though his violent intervention leaves her frightened.

Significant themes

• Grief, vengeance, and power: Su Wu’s grief fuels a desperate attack, but even overwhelming effort cannot overcome the gap between mortal and godlike strength.
• Family and belonging: The blood bond confirms Su Yin’er’s death, while Ah Yin’s dream raises questions about the emotional reality of simulated memories and kinship.
• Long-term growth: Su Ming chooses a stronger foundation over immediate cultivation, accepting short-term sacrifice for future development.
• Justice and violence: Su Ming’s rescue of the girl is protective, but he delivers justice through lethal force rather than restraint or law.

Key plot points and events

• After helping deal with the beasts at Nuoding Academy, Su Ming remembers that Yu Xiaogang was behind the incident. He finds him with a healing Soul Master and kills the healer, but leaves Yu Xiaogang alive.
• Su Ming travels to Holy Soul Village to take Ah Yin from Tang Hao years earlier than in the original timeline. He retrieves a hidden Soul Bone from her cave and carries her away.
• Tang Hao senses the theft and attacks with his hammer, showing no concern for Ah Yin’s safety. Su Ming escapes with her.
• From a distance, they hear Tang Hao blame and insult Ah Yin, claiming she and Su Ming ruined his life. His words confirm her growing suspicion that he regarded her as a tool rather than someone he loved.
• Su Ming brings Ah Yin to a safe woodland area. When she begs him not to leave, he reluctantly agrees to keep her with him and searches his wind space for a suitable container for her—finding a string of absurd golden bathroom fixtures instead.

Character developments

• Su Ming acts on behalf of his simulated counterpart, Su Wu, by rescuing Ah Yin, though he remains emotionally detached and treats the task as an obligation. His irreverent humor persists even in tense moments.
• Ah Yin shifts from confusion and resistance toward trusting Su Ming. Tang Hao’s attack and cruel words devastate her and help her accept that her past love may have been false. She wants to recover her human form and remembers the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a place that may help.
• Tang Hao is revealed as violent, selfish, and resentful. His fury over the Soul Bone—and his willingness to risk Ah Yin’s life—contradicts any image of him as her loving protector.
• Yu Xiaogang remains alive despite Su Ming’s anger, while the healer is killed.

Significant themes

• Love versus exploitation: Ah Yin’s realization that Tang Hao treated her as a means to an end drives the chapter’s emotional turn.
• Trust and emotional refuge: In her shock, Ah Yin reaches for Su Ming, whose presence becomes a possible source of safety.
• Changed timelines and responsibility: Su Ming’s actions alter events and reflect an obligation to protect someone important to his simulated self.
• Violence and moral ambiguity: Su Ming punishes the healer but spares Yu Xiaogang; Tang Hao’s reckless attack exposes his own brutality.

Character interactions

• Su Ming confronts the aftermath of Yu Xiaogang’s actions, then rescues Ah Yin and takes the Soul Bone.
• Tang Hao attacks Su Ming without regard for Ah Yin, prompting her to question her former love.
• Su Ming condemns Tang Hao and offers Ah Yin protection, though his blunt jokes and reluctant commitment contrast with her desperate need for comfort.

Key plot points and events

• Su Ming plants the sleeping Ah Yin in the Golden Toilet, briefly considers using his urine as fertilizer, then stops himself.
• He reviews his unfinished plans: avenge Dugu Bo and deal with Yu Xiaogang. He considers targeting Xiao Wu to provoke Tang San, but catches himself and refocuses on Yu Xiaogang.
• Su Ming starts his final available Simulation, traveling north without a clear destination, drawn by a powerful but mysterious pull.
• He leaves Ah Yin safely in the Blue Silver Forest before continuing into the Far North.
• The pull leads him to the Snow Empress and Ice Empress. The Snow Empress recognizes Su Ming as a fellow spirit born of nature—he is a wind spirit, while she is a spirit of ice and snow.
• After an awkward first encounter, Su Ming invents a story about being a transformed Soul Beast with lost memories. He gains the Snow Empress’s protection, though the Ice Empress remains suspicious of him.

Character developments

• Su Ming remains irreverent and impulsive, but shows a flash of restraint when he stops himself from “fertilizing” Ah Yin. He is also increasingly aware of his unexplained connection to spirits and the Far North.
• Ah Yin is still asleep and unaware of Su Ming’s antics. In the Simulation, she is distressed after he leaves her in the Blue Silver Forest.
• The Snow Empress becomes protective of Su Ming after recognizing their shared nature.
• The Ice Empress is jealous and wary after the Snow Empress embraces Su Ming, and continues to watch him closely.

Significant themes

• Nature and spiritual kinship: Su Ming’s identity as a wind spirit creates a rare bond with the Snow Empress.
• Belonging and longing: The mysterious pull and Su Ming’s fading emptiness suggest a search for connection or a sense of home.
• Comedy amid danger: Su Ming’s crude jokes and improvised lies contrast with the formidable Soul Beasts he encounters.
• Trust and suspicion: The Snow Empress accepts Su Ming more readily, while the Ice Empress remains guarded.

Character interactions

• Su Ming’s relationship with Ah Yin is gently comic: he cares for her by planting her safely, but nearly behaves foolishly before thinking better of it.
• Su Ming’s thoughts about Yu Xiaogang and Tang San show his lingering resentment and scheming, though he struggles to stay focused.
• The Snow Empress physically catches and embraces Su Ming, then questions his nature. He answers with an invented backstory.
• The Ice Empress reacts with hostility to their closeness, establishing a tense dynamic around Su Ming’s new protection.

Key plot points and events

• After hearing how Su Yin’er was killed and consumed as a tonic, the Snow Empress becomes furious. The narrator privately mourns Su Yin’er and vows revenge on the Silver Dragon King.
• The narrator tries to leave the Far North, but the Snow Empress uses the Power of Heaven and Earth to stop him. She insists on accompanying him, and the Ice Empress follows them both.
• Outside the Far North, the narrator discovers the Snow Empress’s restraint no longer works, suggesting her power can seal him only within her territory.
• In the second year of the Simulation, the trio reaches the Blue Silver Forest. Ah Yin accepts the two empresses with little jealousy, viewing multiple mates as normal for powerful Soul Beasts.
• Introducing the Snow Empress makes Ah Yin worry that her status as the narrator’s principal partner is threatened. The narrator carefully presents the Ice Empress as the Snow Empress’s partner, but this sparks a comic cycle of slaps and protective fussing between the empresses.
• Outside the Simulation, Su Ming complains about watching his simulated self’s romantic and humiliating encounters, then admits he envies them.

Character developments

• The narrator/Su Liu grows more aware of his limits after the Snow Empress briefly restrains him. He also shows deep grief over Su Yin’er and strong hostility toward the Silver Dragon King.
• The Snow Empress becomes fiercely protective of the narrator, apparently shaken by Su Yin’er’s fate and the danger it represents for spirits.
• The Ice Empress remains jealous and quick-tempered, especially when the Snow Empress shows affection toward the narrator.
• Ah Yin proves accepting and understanding of Soul Beast relationships, though she privately worries about losing her special place.
• Su Ming shifts from irritated embarrassment to openly envious amusement at the narrator’s situation.

Significant themes

• The vulnerability of spirits: Their rarity and valuable essence can make them targets even after they are fully formed.
• Power and its limits: The Snow Empress’s regional authority can restrain the narrator, challenging his sense of invincibility.
• Love, jealousy, and acceptance: The chapter contrasts Ah Yin’s accommodating view of multiple partners with the Ice Empress’s possessiveness and the Snow Empress’s protectiveness.
• Grief and revenge: The narrator’s sorrow for Su Yin’er turns into a vow to punish the Silver Dragon King.
• Comedy through contrast: The serious discussion of spirits’ exploitation gives way to romantic rivalry, slapstick, and Su Ming’s jealous commentary.

Character interactions

• The Snow Empress confides in the narrator about spirits and then refuses to let him leave alone; the Ice Empress follows, resentful and protective of her bond with the Snow Empress.
• Ah Yin welcomes the newcomers but feels insecure about the Snow Empress’s shared nature as a spirit.
• The narrator tries to manage the empresses’ rivalry with careful introductions, but his flattery and insinuations trigger a repeated pattern of the Ice Empress striking him and the Snow Empress defending him.
• Su Ming reacts to the Simulation as though personally taunted by Su Liu’s flirtatious, physically comic encounters.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Su Ming continues observing the simulation, in which he travels with Snow Empress and Ice Empress to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• To repay Dugu Bo for his assistance in earlier simulations, Su Ming gives him all five Earth Dragon Golden Melons and orders him to leave. Dugu Bo initially resists but immediately obeys after Snow Empress intimidates him.
• Over the next year, Su Ming, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress divide nearly all the useful Immortal Herbs between them. The herbs slightly improve Su Ming’s foundation but greatly strengthen the two Empresses, allowing them to advance their tribulations ahead of schedule.
• Because Immortal Herbs alone cannot help Su Ming condense Soul Rings, he begins traveling across the continent to absorb vast amounts of Wind Element.
• During the journey, Su Ming rapidly advances from Soul Scholar to Soul Saint. He only needs more Wind Element to reach Rank 80 and become a Soul Douluo.
• Snow Empress remains constantly by Su Ming’s side, while Ice Empress follows behind and becomes increasingly jealous of their intimacy. Ice Empress dyes her green hair white, seemingly in response to her suspicions.
• After Ice Empress reaches four hundred thousand years of cultivation, she attacks Su Ming more viciously, though his overwhelming strength reduces her blows to harmless breezes.
• Snow Empress ultimately sides with Su Ming during Ice Empress’s complaints, embracing him and choosing him over her longtime friend. This intensifies Ice Empress’s anger and jealousy.
• In the fifth year, Su Ming decides to fulfill his agreement with Xiao Wu and settle his grudge against Bibi Dong. He infiltrates Spirit Hall with both Empresses, has Snow Empress knock Bibi Dong unconscious, seals her Soul Power, Martial Soul, and Soul Bones, and abandons her in Nuoding City near Yu Xiaogang.
• When Bibi Dong awakens, she is powerless except for her spiritual strength and is immediately threatened by local hooligans. Su Ming does not rescue her, instead calmly watching while eating sunflower seeds, disappointing Ice Empress’s expectations of a heroic rescue.
• Snow Empress becomes increasingly possessive of Su Ming, while Su Ming’s real-world observer, Su Ming, grows jealous and frustrated at the simulated intimacy.

Character Developments

• Su Ming: Becomes dramatically stronger, reaching the Soul Saint realm through passive Wind Element absorption. He remains playful, detached, and somewhat ruthless, treating powerful figures and dangerous situations casually. He shows no romantic interest in Bibi Dong and values his promises and personal grudges more than conventional heroism.
• Snow Empress: Grows more openly affectionate and protective toward Su Ming. Her choice to prioritize him over Ice Empress reveals a developing possessiveness and romantic attachment after thousands of years of solitude.
• Ice Empress: Becomes jealous and insecure about Su Ming and Snow Empress’s closeness. Her hair-dyeing, accusations, and violent “discipline” reflect her emotional confusion and growing attachment to Su Ming.
• Bibi Dong: Is abruptly stripped of her powers and placed in a humiliating, vulnerable position, setting up a major confrontation with Yu Xiaogang.
• Dugu Bo: Serves as an example of Su Ming’s altered relationships from previous simulations; he is rewarded but forcibly removed from the Immortal Herb site.

Significant Themes

• Power and progression: Su Ming’s cultivation advances effortlessly through his unique Wind Element absorption, contrasting with the normal difficulty of cultivation.
• Jealousy and possessiveness: The central interpersonal conflict is the rivalry between Ice Empress and Snow Empress over Su Ming’s attention.
• Loyalty and promises: Su Ming’s decision to help Xiao Wu and repay Dugu Bo demonstrates that he continues to honor agreements, even while acting selfishly in other matters.
• Subversion of heroism: Su Ming deliberately refuses to rescue Bibi Dong, mocking the conventional “hero saves beauty” scenario and exposing Ice Empress’s assumptions about him.
• Loneliness and companionship: Snow Empress’s attachment stems from ten thousand years of isolation, making Su Ming’s presence exceptionally precious to her.
• Simulation versus reality: The observer’s jealousy highlights the strange distance between Su Ming watching the simulated version of himself and emotionally reacting as though the events were happening directly to him.

Character Interactions

• Su Ming and Dugu Bo interact through a mixture of repayment and coercion, with Snow Empress providing the intimidation necessary to end the dispute.
• Su Ming and Snow Empress become increasingly physically and emotionally intimate, culminating in her embracing him and defending him against Ice Empress.
• Ice Empress repeatedly confronts Su Ming, accusing him of inappropriate behavior and resenting his closeness with Snow Empress. Su Ming responds with amusement and confusion rather than genuine hostility.
• Snow Empress is forced to choose between her longtime friend Ice Empress and Su Ming, ultimately choosing Su Ming and worsening the rivalry.
• Su Ming’s treatment of Bibi Dong creates a sharp contrast with Ice Empress’s expectations: she assumes he wants to rescue and charm a beautiful woman, while he remains indifferent and exploits the situation for his own purposes.

Key plot points and events

• Bibi Dong is cornered by thugs after Yu Xiaogang sees her but walks away. She imagines he has gone for help, but Ice Empress kills the attackers with a chunk of ice. She scolds the protagonist for standing by; he says he has no reason to help someone he resents.
• In the simulation’s eighth year, the protagonist reaches Limit Douluo again and founds the West Wind Church with Dugu Bo. He devotes himself to expanding it and gathering faith, distancing himself from Snow Empress and Ice Empress while pursuing his goal of becoming a god.
• He targets the Silver Dragon King and later takes the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from the Heaven Dou Empire, with no intention of returning it.
• Qian Renxue discovers him through the Angel Martial Soul’s influence over the sky. He uses his strength to secure Spirit Hall’s support for the West Wind Church.
• A later meeting with Qian Renxue, Qian Daoliu, and Golden Crocodile turns hostile when they test him with their pressure. Rather than reveal his full power, he retaliates by causing the Crown Prince Residence’s septic tank to explode. The others shield themselves with soul power, foiling his plan to shower Qian Renxue directly.

Character developments

• The protagonist becomes increasingly ambitious, politically calculating, and arrogant as his power grows. He focuses on building a religious organization and collecting faith, while resorting to crude revenge when challenged.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress remain with him, but his work increasingly strains their closeness. Ice Empress shows compassion toward Bibi Dong despite her conflict with the protagonist.
• Bibi Dong’s attachment to Yu Xiaogang persists even as he abandons her; she interprets his departure as an attempt to get help. The narration later reports that she kills him after their relationship breaks down.
• Qian Renxue demonstrates perceptiveness through her martial soul, while her allies’ attempt to intimidate the protagonist fails.

Significant themes

• Power and arrogance: The protagonist’s immense strength lets him bypass negotiation, but it also feeds his contempt for others.
• Ambition and sacrifice: His pursuit of faith and godhood takes priority over his relationships.
• Loyalty and betrayal: Bibi Dong’s imagined loyalty from Yu Xiaogang contrasts with his actual abandonment; the protagonist, meanwhile, treats alliances as strategic necessities.
• Crude comedy amid dark events: Sexual threat, death, political maneuvering, and supernatural power are undercut by grotesque scatological humor.

Character interactions

• Ice Empress challenges the protagonist’s indifference to Bibi Dong’s danger, exposing the tension between his grudges and her empathy.
• The protagonist bargains with Qian Renxue for Spirit Hall’s backing, then clashes with her faction when Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile test him.
• The chapter’s framing character, Su Ming, reacts with disbelief to the protagonist’s bizarre revenge, questioning whether the simulation’s power has made him this depraved.

Plot and events

• The protagonist continues trying to condense a soul core through painful trial and error. Each failure injures him and forces a long recovery, but he believes a soul core is essential to becoming invincible and avenging Su Wu.
• Snow Empress asks Ice Empress to stop him. Ice Empress agrees, but even while hurt, the protagonist defeats her with ease.
• In the simulation’s twelfth year, he travels to Sea God Island to test whether the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud can awaken the Sea God’s trials. It grants him the red-level eight trials, whose first two demands are to deliver the Shroud to Tang San and then sacrifice himself to him.
• He technically completes the first trial by knocking the Shroud onto Tang San, then rejects the second: he throws the artifact into the Lake of Life and sends Tang San to the Sun Moon Continent instead.
• The Sea God retaliates with a divine imprint, but the protagonist’s stronger spiritual power lets him resist. He then returns to Sea God Island to capture Xiao Bai, the Demon Soul Great White Shark.
• Bo Saixi confronts him. The protagonist attacks the island with nine stored level-20 typhoons, forcing the Sea God himself to intervene. He escapes with Xiao Bai; the Sea God cannot pursue him effectively because divine intervention in the lower world is limited.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist’s relentless training reveals that revenge for Su Wu—whom he considers himself—drives his ambition. He refuses to be dissuaded by Snow Empress and proves his strength by defeating Ice Empress.
• Snow Empress is deeply distressed by the injuries his cultivation attempts cause, while Ice Empress’s confidence collapses after her defeat.
• The protagonist openly defies the Sea God’s trials and treats both Tang San and Sea God Island as tools in his schemes. His confrontation with Bo Saixi escalates from a fight into a devastating attack on the island.
• The Sea God is shown to be powerful but constrained: his projected strength is limited, and he cannot simply kill the protagonist.

Significant themes

• Ambition and self-sacrifice: The protagonist accepts severe pain and risk in pursuit of strength and revenge.
• Defiance of divine authority: He rejects the Sea God’s demands and exploits the limits on divine power.
• Power and control: The chapter contrasts the protagonist’s growing strength with the constraints faced by Ice Empress, Bo Saixi, and the Sea God.

Key plot points and events

• Su Ming continued retaliating against Sea God Island after being deceived by the Sea God. He captured and roasted Xiao Bai, shared the meat with Dugu Bo, the Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Qian Renxue, then periodically battered the island with super typhoons.
• Tang San reappeared in the wider world during the thirteenth year, gained power while traveling through the Sun Moon Continent, and was transported to Slaughter City. By the time Su Ming investigated, Tang San had escaped.
• To avoid disturbing the established sequence of events, Su Ming put Tang San’s friends and family—especially Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar—under surveillance rather than killing them. He also decided not to enter Slaughter City, fearing the Asura God might intervene.
• Su Ming expanded the West Wind Church and brought the Sun Moon Continent, other territories, and the Far North under his control. He held off on unifying all nations until Tang San ascended, when he expected to rule openly and begin gathering faith.
• He settled his grudge with Vast Sea City by arranging severe punishment for its lord and eight bandits.
• In the sixteenth year, Su Ming finally learned to condense wind and spiritual soul cores. But forming a third proved difficult: the first two cores’ complementary structure would have to be redesigned to accommodate all three.
• Condensing the cores increased Su Ming’s combat power but reduced his cultivation from peak Quasi-God to Demigod. Because his soul power was so dense and his foundation demanded immense resources, recovering and advancing again would be extraordinarily slow.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ming remains powerful and strategic, but divine interference frustrates him. He cannot dismiss the Sea God’s trials or control when the Sea God’s consciousness intrudes, and he suspects either the Sea God or Asura God helped Tang San escape.
• His political ambition grows: he plans to create his own godhood, gather faith, and eventually challenge the Silver Dragon King. Yet he remains cautious about acting before Tang San’s ascension.
• The Snow Empress grows increasingly clingy toward Su Ming, while the Ice Empress repeatedly inserts herself between them. Su Ming jokes that Ah Yin joining them would make the situation even more dramatic.
• Ah Yin worries that Su Ming may be forgetting her, but reassures herself that she will soon reach 100,000 years and gain a human form.
• Dugu Bo, the Empresses, and Spirit Hall help support the West Wind Church’s rapid growth, which draws increasing numbers of commoners.

Significant themes

• Power versus limits: Su Ming’s strength and ambitions are immense, but divine trials, cultivation mechanics, and resource demands remain beyond his control.
• Strategic restraint: He avoids actions that could disrupt the plot or provoke the gods before he is ready.
• Institutional power and faith: The West Wind Church becomes the foundation for his long-term plan to rule and gather belief.
• Personal grudges and humor: Su Ming pursues revenge with exaggerated severity, while his domestic entanglements provide comic contrast to the political and divine conflicts.