Chapter Summaries

Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong planned to destroy the Strength Clan and conceal their responsibility. Meanwhile, Xue Ye appointed Sunday to senior roles in the Heaven Dou Empire, while Qian Renxue investigated his intentions and Snake Lance sent a confidential letter to the Spirit Hall’s Worship Hall.

• Ning Fengzhi outlined a cover story for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s planned attack on the Strength Clan, and Chen Xin agreed to carry it out.
• Meng Shenji reported the Shrek incident to Xue Ye, who ordered the Ministry of Justice to punish Qin Ming and Shrek.
• Xue Ye invited Sunday to become an Imperial Offering and named him Chief Grand Education Commissioner and leader of the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance to investigate whether anyone had contacted Xue Ye, and Snake Lance instead delivered a confidential letter to the Worship Hall through Salas.
• News spread through Heaven Dou City that Sunday was a Titled Douluo and had joined the empire as an Imperial Offering.

After becoming the Heaven Dou Empire’s Imperial Offering and head chairman of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s education committee, Sunday went to meet the Imperial Fighting Team. Yu Tianheng quit rather than serve under him, but Sunday remained unconcerned and told the rest that another power attack Soul Master could take his place.

• Sunday found a crowd of nobles and merchants outside his home and knocked them unconscious before heading to the academy.
• Meng Shenji told Sunday that he had been appointed Imperial Offering, head chairman of the academy’s education committee, and leader of the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Sunday overheard Yu Tianheng arguing with his teammates and saw him leave the team because he refused to serve under Sunday.
• When Dugu Yan and the others urged Sunday to reconsider, he asked whether a Soul Ancestor was really that strong and let Yu Tianheng go.
• Sunday asked the remaining teammates if anyone else wanted to leave; when they stayed, he said they could find another power attack Soul Master.

Ning Rongrong joined the Imperial Fighting Team, and Sunday considered using her Martial Soul to advance his plans. Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy seeking Sunday, setting up a confrontation.

• Sunday had Dugu Yan and the others fill out forms while they waited for a new teammate.
• Ning Rongrong arrived, introduced herself as a rank twenty-seven support-type Tool Soul Elder, and was welcomed by the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Sunday considered visiting Dugu Bo to help Ning Rongrong evolve her Martial Soul and potentially gain Ning Fengzhi as an ally.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian arrived at the academy and demanded to see Sunday.
• Meng Shenji warned Sunday that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders had come with hostile intentions, while Yu Luomian insulted Sunday for defeating Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Yuanzhen apologized to Sunday on Yu Xiaogang’s behalf and gave him a Thunder Jade Ganoderma as compensation. After Sunday accepted it and warned that Yu Xiaogang could ruin the clan, Yu Yuanzhen confronted Yu Luomian about his secret abuses of power.

• Yu Yuanzhen slapped Yu Luomian for insulting Sunday and explained that he had come to apologize for Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Yuanzhen offered Sunday a Thunder Jade Ganoderma, despite Yu Luomian’s protest that the herb was rare and valuable.
• Sunday accepted the gift, said he had not taken Yu Xiaogang’s behavior to heart, and warned Yu Yuanzhen that his son could bring down the clan.
• Sunday vanished from the academy gates, and Yu Yuanzhen left with Yu Luomian after warning him to stop complaining.
• Yu Yuanzhen erupted at Yu Luomian and accused him of suppressing branch families and driving out clan members with other surnames.

Yu Yuanzhen reprimanded Yu Luomian and ordered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to invest in its promising youths as danger gathered across the continent. Sunday visited Dugu Bo’s herb garden to collect medicine for his students and help Dugu Yan, leaving Dugu Bo exasperated by his bluntness.

• Yu Yuanzhen warned Yu Luomian against weakening the clan and told him to cultivate Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, and other loyal clan members.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered Yu Luomian to keep Yu Xiaogang from leaving Heaven Dou City, then agreed to let him stay with Erlong.
• Sunday traveled to Dugu Bo’s herb garden and explained that he needed medicinal herbs to strengthen his students and address Dugu Yan’s poison.
• Dugu Bo asked how Sunday had detected his stronger poison, and Sunday said it had simply gotten stinkier.
• Sunday gathered herbs while Dugu Bo complained about his personality, and Sunday replied that only someone who could beat him could argue reason with him.

Sunday helped Dugu Yan begin an evolution using the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to remove her inherited poison, then confronted the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings beneath the pool. He shielded Dugu Yan and prepared to fight the two dragons after they attacked him.

• Sunday prepared medicinal reagents and explained that Dugu Yan could not safely absorb his blood, offering the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as an alternative.
• Dugu Yan chose the well treatment, ate a singular velvet sky chrysanthemum, and entered the pool with the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot.
• After waiting more than a day, Sunday noticed a surge of energy, shielded Dugu Yan's evolving energy sphere, and descended into the well.
• Sunday found the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' skeletons at the bottom of the pool, where they attacked him with underwater vortices.
• Sunday declared that the dragon kings' divine bodies would found his paradise.

Sunday captured and refined the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, collected the treasures from their bones, and returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where he gave nutrient solutions to the Imperial Fighting Team. After Ning Rongrong reacted excitedly to the effects, she rushed toward Sunday, who dodged her embrace.

• Sunday pulled the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings from their skeletons, refined their souls, and collected fourteen Soul Bones from their remains.
• Sunday confirmed Dugu Yan was safe, then waited with Dugu Bo for her to emerge from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and instructed him to help her obtain a Soul Ring.
• Sunday returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and learned that Xue Qinghe had repeatedly been looking for him.
• Sunday gave the Imperial Fighting Team nutrient solutions, and the members drank them and began refining the energy.
• Sunday pondered using a world tree and Order to remake the Divine Realm and Douluo Star, but Ning Rongrong suddenly rushed at him, and he stepped aside to avoid her embrace.

Ning Rongrong showed Sunday her evolved martial soul and asked him to help her obtain a soul ring, while several other students also revealed they had reached level forty. Xue Qinghe then summoned Sunday to the public trial of Qin Ming and hinted that an unexpected incident involving the Strength Clan had made his attendance necessary.

• Ning Rongrong tried to surprise Sunday, showed him her evolved Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and asked him to help her find a soul ring.
• Osler, Yu Feng, Ye Lingling, Shi Mo, and Shi Mo emerged after breaking through to level forty, and Sunday promised to take them for soul rings after the public trial.
• Xue Qinghe told Sunday that Qin Ming would be stripped of his cultivation and reduced to a commoner at a public trial the next day.
• Xue Qinghe brought Sunday and Ning Rongrong into Heaven Dou City and explained that an unexpected incident involving the Strength Clan had drawn the clan into the trial.
• Sunday connected the incident to Tang San, and Xue Qinghe confirmed that the Strength Clan was involved.

Sunday, Xue Qinghe, and Ning Rongrong visited the newly renamed Shrek Academy and learned that Tai Tan would attend Qin Ming’s public trial alongside its staff. They left the academy’s future uncertain after seeing its costly admissions terms, while Xue Qinghe explained that Emperor Xue Ye planned to use the trial to curb the nobles’ power.

• Xue Qinghe showed Sunday and Ning Rongrong Shrek Academy, and Ning Rongrong angrily criticized the school for using her name and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to recruit students.
• Xue Qinghe explained that Liu Erlong had renamed Blue Tyrant Academy as Shrek Academy and that Tai Tan had acknowledged Tang San as his master, agreeing to attend the public trial.
• Xue Qinghe told Sunday that Emperor Xue Ye would attend the trial to keep Heaven Dou City’s nobles in line and gradually reduce their influence.
• Sunday stopped Ning Rongrong from confronting the academy, then led her and Xue Qinghe inside to inspect it.
• Ning Rongrong and Xue Qinghe showed Sunday Shrek Academy’s steep registration and tuition fees, which Xue Qinghe said would drive away commoner students and likely bankrupt the school.

Sunday, Xue Qinghe, and Ning Rongrong visited Shrek Academy to discuss the arrangements for Qin Ming’s Public Hearing. Sunday confronted a frightened Dai Mubai at the gate, then entered the office and startled Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang.

• Sunday criticized Shrek Academy’s finances and its treatment of ordinary students while traveling with Xue Qinghe and Ning Rongrong.
• Sunday told the guards that the group had come from Heaven Dou Royal Academy to discuss the Public Hearing, and a guard went to report them.
• Flender agreed to receive the visitors, and Liu Erlong sent Dai Mubai to escort them from the gate.
• Dai Mubai recognized Sunday and Ning Rongrong, tried to flee, and begged Sunday for mercy when Sunday stopped him.
• A Woman in Black watched Dai Mubai cower and wet himself, then left.
• Sunday found the office himself and surprised Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang, who greeted him nervously.

Xue Qinghe warned Flender that nobles would attend the Public Hearing, while Sunday watched the Shrek party arrive with Tai Tan and Tang Yuehua. Sunday suspected Tang Yuehua had come because of Tang Hao as the hearing began.

• Xue Qinghe told Flender that the Public Hearing would include nobles, and Flender promised he understood the situation.
• The next morning, Imperial Knights surrounded the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena as officials and nobles arrived for the hearing.
• Imperial Knights stopped the Shrek party at the entrance until Tang Yuehua arrived and secured their admission.
• Sunday asked Xue Qinghe about Tang Yuehua, who explained her ties to the Clear Sky Sect and Moonlight Pavilion.
• Sunday concluded that Tang Yuehua had come to the hearing for her brother, Tang Hao.

At Qin Ming's public trial, Sunday told Ning Fengzhi that Ning Rongrong's martial soul had evolved, and Ning Fengzhi asked him not to interfere in an impending attack on the Strength Clan. Sunday agreed as long as civilians were not endangered, while Ning Fengzhi prepared to exploit Tang Hao's absence and the trial ended with Qin Ming sentenced.

• Sunday told Xue Qinghe that his knowledge of Moonlight Pavilion came from imperial family members studying there.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin joined Sunday and Xue Qinghe in the stands before Emperor Xue Ye opened Qin Ming's public trial.
• Sunday revealed that medicinal herbs had helped Ning Rongrong and the other girls break through, and that Rongrong's martial soul had evolved; Ning Fengzhi asked him to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi told Sunday that he planned to attack the Strength Clan while Tang Hao was away and asked Sunday not to interfere.
• Sunday agreed not to intervene unless Ning Fengzhi endangered civilians, and Ning Fengzhi turned his attention toward Tai Tan.
• The Ministry of Justice concluded Qin Ming's trial, sentencing him to have his cultivation abolished and be reduced to a commoner.

After the hearing punished Qin Ming and announced that educational laws would be redrafted, Sunday explained to Xue Qinghe that building his equal paradise would require sacrifices. As Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin prepared to attack the Strength Clan, Sunday spread his power across Heaven Dou City and put its people into a shared dream.

• Yu Xiaogang objected to Qin Ming's punishment, and Sunday knocked Liu Erlong into the ground when she tried to attack.
• The Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice upheld Qin Ming's punishment and announced that educational laws would be redrafted.
• Sunday told Xue Qinghe that creating a new paradise would require the old order and its people to be sacrificed.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin left Gu Rong to stage an attack at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect while Chen Xin planned to strike the Strength Clan.
• Sunday spread his Order Divine Power across Heaven Dou City, causing its people to fall asleep and live out their ordinary activities in dreams.

Sunday put Heaven Dou City to sleep, allowing Chen Xin to destroy the Strength Clan before joining Ning Fengzhi. The massacre and an attack on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect reached Xue Ye, who began an investigation while Sunday suggested the crisis might soon be resolved.

• Sunday’s Dream of the Great Unity put everyone in Heaven Dou City to sleep, while Chen Xin remained awake and discovered Snake Lance and Pufferfish had also fallen unconscious.
• Chen Xin used the Seven Kill Sword to slaughter Tai Tan and the rest of the Strength Clan, then flew to meet Ning Fengzhi.
• After the dream lifted, news of the Strength Clan’s extermination spread, and Xue Qinghe confronted Sunday, who confirmed Chen Xin was responsible.
• Xue Qinghe brought Sunday to Xue Ye, where they learned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had also been attacked.
• Sunday advised Xue Ye to wait for Ning Fengzhi’s response, and Xue Ye agreed while ordering an investigation into the Strength Clan massacre.

Xue Ye accepted Ning Fengzhi’s explanation of the attacks on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and sent Sunday to investigate the Strength Clan’s destruction. At the ruins, Sunday questioned Tang Yuehua about the Clear Sky Sect’s absence and its plans for Tai Long, while she sought information about the attacker and worried that Xue Ye was turning against her.

• Xue Ye read Ning Fengzhi’s and Bone Douluo’s letters, concluded Ning Fengzhi had orchestrated the affair, and ordered Qinghe to draft an edict limiting its impact.
• Sunday went to the ruined Strength Clan compound and watched coroners collect the bodies, as Xue Ye feared survivors might remain.
• Tang Yuehua introduced herself to Sunday and said she had come to see the aftermath of the massacre.
• Sunday questioned Tang Yuehua about the Clear Sky Sect’s failure to send a representative and asked what she would do about Tai Long.
• Tang Yuehua reflected on the Clear Sky Sect’s neglect of her and feared Xue Ye would suppress the Moonlight Pavilion.
• Tang Yuehua asked Sunday whether he knew who had attacked the Strength Clan and whether the culprit was a Titled Douluo with a sword martial soul.

Sunday met Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing at the ruins, where Rongrong revealed she had reached level thirty. When Zhu Zhuqing asked how she had advanced so quickly, Sunday admitted he had made a soul-power-boosting potion from rare medicinal herbs, drawing Tang Yuehua’s interest.

• Sunday told Tang Yuehua to ask Sword Douluo about the sword martial soul, and she denied suspecting him.
• Ning Rongrong arrived with Zhu Zhuqing and explained that Ning Fengzhi had sent her to inspect the incident while he, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo were injured.
• Ning Rongrong revealed she had advanced from level twenty-seven to level thirty, and Zhu Zhuqing pressed her to explain how.
• Ning Rongrong said Sunday had helped her and directed Zhu Zhuqing to ask him.
• Sunday said he had prepared a potion from rare medicinal herbs to increase soul power, and Zhu Zhuqing and Tang Yuehua reacted with interest.

Tang Yuehua and Zhu Zhuqing sought Sunday’s herb-enhancing formula, but he refused to share or sell it. Zhu Zhuqing asked to become his disciple so she could grow stronger and change her fate, but Sunday rejected her after learning she intended to help Dai Mubai compete for the Star Luo throne, leaving her tearful and embarrassed.

• Tang Yuehua and Zhu Zhuqing praised Sunday and asked him about the herbs, but he refused to reveal their secret or sell the formula.
• Tang Yuehua left, planning to return to the Clear Sky Sect and have her eldest brother offer soul bones for the formula.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked to buy a dose of the potion, then pleaded with Sunday to accept her as his disciple because she wanted to change her fate.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained that she planned to join Dai Mubai in defeating Zhu Zhuyun and Dai Weisi, and Sunday refused to take her as his disciple.
• Zhu Zhuqing cried over losing her chance to obtain the potion, then blushed as she wondered whether Sunday wanted something else from her.

Sunday refused to give Zhu Zhuqing the potion or take her as a disciple until she reconsidered her dependence on Dai Mubai and the Star Luo Empire’s rules. He then headed to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Osler and the others were waiting as they prepared to hunt for Soul Rings.

• Sunday refused Zhu Zhuqing’s request for the potion and told her to think carefully about what she truly wanted.
• Sunday explained to Ning Rongrong that Zhu Zhuqing’s reliance on Dai Mubai and the imperial rules would keep her from changing her fate.
• Sunday suggested that the Star Luo and Dai families had allowed Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai to escape, and said Zhu Zhuqing could build strength and seek a faction’s protection instead.
• Sunday told Ning Rongrong he would not relent unless Zhu Zhuqing changed her understanding, then sent her to fetch Osler and the others.
• Sunday reached Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Osler and the others were waiting to prepare for their Soul Ring hunt.

Sunday took the Imperial Fighting Team to Sunset Forest to prepare for their Soul Ring hunt and worked on a rifle blueprint as a way to reduce Soul Masters’ dependence on Soul Power. After Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling exposed a trafficking operation protected by Duke Teling, Sunday decided to act before official help arrived.

• Sunday brought the students to Sunset Forest, delayed their hunt until the next day, and explained that they would need to build their strength and teamwork.
• Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling went shopping while Sunday marked them with Aura Tracking and drafted plans for a rifle.
• Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling returned with the team and told Sunday that traffickers were using women and children as bait for soul beasts.
• Yu Feng and Osler revealed that the traffickers had ties to Duke Teling’s Mansion and the Crown Prince’s faction, while Ning Rongrong said she had summoned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Empire Law Enforcement Team.
• Sunday rejected waiting for official justice, declared that the strong should help the weak, and asked for the traffickers’ address.

Sunday tracked the people responsible for abducting women and children to a valley outside Soul Hunting Town and punished them. He rescued the captives and used music and divine power to comfort and heal them.

• Yu Feng and Osler agreed to act after Ning Rongrong gave Sunday the address she had received.
• At the courtyard, the bald man beat two underlings for letting a woman escape, while the black-robed man urged him to stop.
• Sunday arrived and froze the courtyard, then learned from the bald man where the captives were being held.
• Sunday summoned Dominicus, burned the bald man and the black-robed man to ashes, and imprisoned their souls in Echoes of Old Dreams.
• Sunday destroyed the house and lifted away the earth over the hidden chamber, revealing the captives inside.
• Sunday played the piano, sending golden notes that soothed the children and healed the injured women.