Chapter Summaries

At seventeen, the narrator reaches Heaven Dou City with Ah Yin to avenge his family, but spares the young children of his enemies and chooses to expose the clans’ crimes instead. After the Mo and Liu families are punished, he realizes he loves Ah Yin and fears their relationship will settle into friendship because of the past she cannot leave behind.

• The narrator and Ah Yin arrive in Heaven Dou City, where Ah Yin uses her Blue Silver Domain to locate the Mo and Liu families and assess their strength.
• The narrator approaches the families’ residences to take revenge but turns back after seeing the children, unable to kill them.
• Ah Yin comforts the narrator, and he decides to pursue justice by gathering evidence of the clans’ crimes.
• The narrator and Ah Yin compile evidence and distribute leaflets, prompting public outrage and Xue Ye to order the families arrested.
• Seven days later, the principal offenders are publicly executed, their accomplices are exiled, and their assets are confiscated.
• After witnessing the executions, the narrator recognizes his love for Ah Yin and fears they will become only family and friends.

Su Yi decided to leave Ah Yin after realizing he could not win her whole heart, and made a hairpin containing a fragment of his consciousness and feelings as his farewell gift. He left it beside a note and vanished into the night.

• Su Yi resolved to withdraw from Ah Yin and use the Simulation to leave a lasting mark on her heart.
• Su Yi crafted a pale azure hairpin from rare materials and set jadeite crystal marrow into it.
• Su Yi painfully separated a fragment of his spiritual consciousness containing his memories and attachment to Ah Yin, then sealed it inside the hairpin.
• Su Yi placed the hairpin and a farewell note in a jade box on Ah Yin’s bed.
• Su Yi looked toward Ah Yin’s darkened room, then left without looking back.

Ah Yin recounted how she met and grew close to the human who nurtured her, and how he helped her reconcile her duties as Blue Silver Emperor with her approaching transformation. She gave him life-bound essence blood and a soul ring to transform his martial soul, then entered her transformation cocoon hoping to stand beside him as a human.

• Ah Yin awoke with only a few thousand years of cultivation in a human's courtyard, where a child cared for her with immortal herb essence until she spoke to him and they became acquainted.
• Ah Yin taught the child blue silver grass cultivation and accompanied him to hunt an Ancient Evergreen Vine, secretly planting a seed so it could grow again; he supported her effort.
• Ah Yin returned with him to the Blue Silver Forest, where his stories and teachings deepened her trust in him and stirred feelings she kept hidden.
• As Ah Yin neared her hundred-thousand-year tribulation, he gave her a Transformation Breath Concealment Technique and explained how transformed soul beasts could bridge humans and soul beasts.
• Ah Yin wanted to make him inherit the Blue Silver Emperor throne, but he refused; she then gave him life-bound essence blood and used her subjects' power to create a Life-bound Soul Ring before entering her transformation cocoon.

Ah Yin confronted the memories of her former self, who had sacrificed herself to protect her husband and child, and agreed to visit the child. Their consciousnesses merged, restoring Ah Yin’s lost memories and awakening the old Ah Yin’s tenderness and attachments within her.

• Ah Yin met her former self in the sea of blue-gold light and recovered memories of her human life, marriage, childbirth, and sacrifice.
• Ah Yin questioned why her former self had sacrificed herself and remained in the Cave, accusing her of making selfish choices for love.
• Her former self said she had come only to ask Ah Yin to visit her child, and Ah Yin agreed.
• Before merging with Ah Yin, her former self said she envied Ah Yin for meeting Su Yi.
• The two versions of Ah Yin merged, restoring her lost memories and stirring the former self’s feelings of love and motherhood within her.

After her transformation, the narrator’s memories of another life kept her from reconnecting with Su Yi, and their growing distance followed them to Heaven Dou City. Seeing children at his enemy’s residence made her realize she might never be able to be with him, and she wondered whether she would soon have to leave.

• The narrator recoiled from Su Yi when they reunited, and their relationship became courteous and distant as she struggled with her memories.
• When Su Yi announced he was going alone to Heaven Dou City to settle an old grudge, the narrator insisted on accompanying him.
• Their journey north deepened the distance between them as the narrator’s memories were stirred by sights of mortal life.
• In Heaven Dou City, the narrator used her Blue Silver Domain to follow Su Yi as he scouted his enemy’s residence and saw children and a mother there.
• After Su Yi returned without confronting his enemy, the narrator comforted him by laying her hand over his fist and feared she might soon leave him.

Ah Yin found that the man she had been staying with had left her the Azure Hairpin and a brief farewell, then followed her bloodline south to reunite with Tang Hao and their son, Tang San. She embraced Tang San but confronted Tang Hao for leaving their child to care for himself from the age of three.

• Ah Yin discovered the empty courtyard, found the Azure Hairpin and farewell note, and left with the hairpin.
• Ah Yin followed her bloodline to the waterfall near Holy Soul Village, where she found Tang Hao and a boy training with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao tried to embrace Ah Yin, but she turned aside and went to the boy, recognizing him as their son and embracing him when he called her Mom.
• Tang Hao introduced the boy as Little San, and Ah Yin realized he had named him after the name she had used among her sworn brothers.
• Tang Hao praised Tang San for caring for himself and his father from age three, prompting Ah Yin to rebuke Tang Hao for neglecting their son.
• Tang San defended Tang Hao and reassured Ah Yin that he was glad she had returned.

Ah Yin stayed with Tang San, restored his Blue Silver Grass martial soul, and taught him to see soul beasts without judging them as inherently evil. Though she tried to guide her family and protect her kind, their rejection of her soul beast identity deepened her loneliness and longing for Su Yi; she watched him from afar, unable to bring herself to approach him.

• Ah Yin awakened Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline, cleansed his martial soul, and raised it to the Blue Silver King level before he sought a seventh soul ring.
• Ah Yin told Tang San a story about wolves and deer to explain that creatures should not be judged as evil based on personal preference, and he promised to hunt only when necessary.
• Ah Yin remained distant from Tang Hao, while Tang San tried to mend their relationship and vowed to avenge her against Spirit Hall.
• Ah Yin insisted that she was both human and a soul beast, but Tang Hao rejected that identity, leaving Tang San caught between them.
• Ah Yin met Xiao Wu, a transformed Soft Bone Rabbit, and learned that Xiao Wu also rejected her soul beast identity.
• Ah Yin sheltered young Blue Silver Grass, advised Tang San about hunting, helped transformed soul beasts conceal themselves, and secretly watched Su Yi while longing for him.

At eighteen, you entered the Star Dou Great Forest to seek a Sixth Soul Ring and found a gravely wounded Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. You lured it into a prepared valley and began draining and restraining it with Blue Silver Grass, intending to wear it down rather than fight it head-on.

• After reaching rank sixty-three, you left Heaven Dou City and traveled alone to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain your Sixth Soul Ring.
• While scouting the forest, you sensed a dangerous presence and discovered a badly injured Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with roughly sixty-five thousand years of cultivation.
• You prepared a valley with buried Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well Spring Water and fashioned a false, dying Dark Thunder Scale Armor Dragon as bait.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger tested the bait with Light Blade before entering the valley and lunging at it.
• You detonated the spring water, then ensnared the wounded tiger with Blue Silver Grass and used Essence Devouring Absorption to drain its energy as you tried to grind it down.

You killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with a trap and a spear coated in Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well water, then nearly died absorbing its Soul Ring. Ah Yin’s phantom helped suppress its resentment, and you emerged with a new Sixth Soul Skill before setting off into the night.

• You used mimetic phantoms, Blue Silver Grass, and the ice-and-fire mist to injure and exhaust the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, then pierced its core with the Blue Silver Dragon-Devouring Spear.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger died, and its Evil God Pearl escaped into the void before you could catch it.
• You drew the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring into your body, but its violent energy and resentment attacked your body and Sea of Consciousness.
• Ah Yin’s phantom appeared in your Sea of Consciousness and used blue-gold vines to suppress and destroy the tiger’s resentment.
• You survived the absorption, reached level sixty-five, and gained the Sixth Soul Skill, Evil God Forbidden Zone.
• You looked toward the moon, gathered your belongings, and walked into the night.

Su Yi spent a hundred days observing the Breaking Clan’s spear practice from outside Longxing City and integrated its techniques with the resilience of his Blue Silver bloodline. Having created a new spear art, he returned to the clan seeking the combat experience needed to test it.

• Su Yi arrived at the Breaking Clan’s village and offered a Soul Bone in exchange for instruction, but the clan disciples refused him entry.
• Su Yi settled on a mountain rock overlooking the training ground and studied the clan’s thirty-six-form Soul Breaking Spear Technique.
• By the thirtieth day, Su Yi grasped the technique’s penetrating intent, then refined his control until his attacks struck without wasting force.
• Su Yi recognized that the Soul Breaking Spear’s finality conflicted with Blue Silver Grass’s resilience and began integrating the two qualities.
• By the ninetieth day, Su Yi had created a spear style combining piercing force with unending follow-through.
• On the hundredth day, Su Yi returned to the Breaking Clan, intending to use its fighters to test his new spear art.

Su Yi entered the Breaking Clan seeking instruction and defeated a succession of clansmen using his Blue Silver Dragon-Devouring Spear. The Seventh Elder tested him personally and judged that he could withstand thirty percent of his strength, leaving Su Yi eager to study the true essence of the Soul Breaking Spear Technique.

• Su Yi challenged the Breaking Clan at its entrance, disarmed a young disciple, and revealed that his blue-and-gold spear was a self-created Soul Skill rather than his Martial Soul.
• The Seventh Elder brought Su Yi to the training ground and arranged spear-only matches against Yang Cheng and Yang Lie; Su Yi defeated both and displayed moves resembling the Soul Breaking Spear Technique.
• The Seventh Elder called on increasingly skilled clansmen to test Su Yi, and Su Yi won against opponents ranging from Soul Elders to Soul Kings.
• The Seventh Elder grew wary of Su Yi's mastery of the clan's techniques, then took up a black spear and challenged him himself.
• Su Yi blocked the Seventh Elder's thrust but was driven back three steps, and the elder said Su Yi had withstood thirty percent of his strength.

You fought the Seventh Elder, steadily mastering the Soul Breaking Spear Technique and forcing him back before he escalated the duel with Soul Power. The chapter ended with both combatants driven back and the Seventh Elder shocked by your six Soul Rings and ten-thousand-year fourth ring.

• The Seventh Elder increased the force of his spear attacks, and you endured them while learning to deflect and redirect his strength.
• You healed your injured hand and arms with All Things Revive, then turned to offense and developed a wave-like, renewing spear momentum.
• You copied the Seventh Elder’s Three Stars Chasing the Moon during their exchange and cut his robe, forcing him back and astonishing the watching clan disciples.
• The Seventh Elder decided you were too talented to be allowed to live, released his seven Soul Rings, and attacked with his fourth Soul Skill, Shatter.
• You activated Blue Silver Overlord Spear and collided with the Seventh Elder’s attack, carving a furrow as you were driven back more than ten steps.
• The Seventh Elder was also forced back, then exclaimed in shock at your six Soul Rings and ten-thousand-year fourth ring.

Su Yi fought the Seventh Elder to a standstill before Yang Wudi intervened and offered to take him as a disciple. When Su Yi refused to join the Breaking Clan, he escaped into the forest, and Yang Wudi chose not to pursue him.

• The Seventh Elder used his Tool Soul True Body and Shatter against Su Yi, but Su Yi’s armor dispersed much of the attack and his spear force wounded the elder in return.
• Yang Wudi stopped the duel, praised Su Yi’s ability, and offered to teach him the Soul Breaking Spear Technique as his disciple.
• Su Yi refused to join the Breaking Clan, and Yang Wudi threatened to keep him because he had learned the clan’s spear technique.
• Su Yi argued that he had only watched practice from outside the village and understood the spear’s principles, then used Evil God Forbidden Zone to escape.
• Yang Wudi pursued Su Yi, but Su Yi blocked his attack and fled through the forest using vines and tree branches.
• Yang Wudi stopped the elders from pursuing Su Yi, saying he had not stolen the technique and that letting him go was better than making him an enemy.

Su Yi returned to Heaven Dou City to repay Dugu Bo for stealing the Immortal Herbs from his medicinal garden ten years earlier. After offering an External Soul Bone and drinking Dugu Bo’s poison wine as a test of his sincerity, Su Yi earned the Poison Douluo’s approval, though their reconciliation remained unfinished.

• Su Yi arrived in Heaven Dou City and visited Dugu Manor to make amends to Dugu Bo for taking the Immortal Herbs years earlier.
• Dugu Yan let Su Yi wait inside and learned that he was unaffected by the poisonous plants surrounding the manor.
• Su Yi admitted that he had robbed Dugu Bo’s garden and offered an External Soul Bone as an apology.
• Dugu Bo challenged Su Yi to drink Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison Wine, while Dugu Yan reminded him that Su Yi had helped save her and improve her Martial Soul.
• Su Yi drank the wine unharmed, and Dugu Bo praised his courage and judgment.

The young man explained how Dugu Bo had used his advice to cure his and Dugu Yan’s poison and help their martial souls evolve. Dugu Bo accepted the External Soul Bone as a gesture of friendship and promised to protect the young man in Heaven Dou City.

• The young man explained that Dugu Bo’s jade phosphorous serpent poison tonic only imitated the poison’s scent and aura, then asked whether Dugu Bo’s backlash had been cured.
• Dugu Bo recounted finding the young man’s advice at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, using the soul bone method and an earth dragon golden melon to cure himself and reach rank ninety-three.
• Dugu Bo said the second earth dragon golden melon had evolved Dugu Yan’s martial soul and allowed her to cultivate safely; she revealed she was a rank sixty-seven Soul Emperor.
• The young man refused to reclaim the External Soul Bone, explaining that it could protect Dugu Bo’s descendants from future bloodline poison backlash and that he wanted to repay the stolen immortal herbs.
• Dugu Bo accepted the soul bone as a token of friendship, shared the losses his family had suffered from the poison, and offered the young man his protection in Heaven Dou City.
• The young man accepted Dugu Bo’s offer, then said farewell and left as night deepened.

Over six months at Dugu Manor, Su Yi studied poison under Dugu Bo and developed Poison Body Tempering for Dugu Yan, with Ye Lingling’s healing support. After examining Dugu Bo’s unstable Poison Pill and identifying his weak physique as the obstacle to condensing a Soul Core, Su Yi proposed an External Condensation Method, and Dugu Bo went into seclusion to try it.

• Su Yi studied Dugu Bo’s poison arts and learned to prepare poisons and antidotes, then devised Poison Body Tempering using Blue Silver Grass life force.
• Dugu Yan began tempering her body with poison while Ye Lingling protected her meridians with Nine Heart Begonia healing.
• Su Yi asked Dugu Bo about Soul Core condensation and examined his Poison Pill and years of research notes.
• Su Yi determined that Dugu Bo’s toxin-damaged physique had caused his repeated Soul Core failures.
• Su Yi proposed forming a Soul Power Vortex outside the body and gradually transforming the Poison Pill into a Soul Core.
• Dugu Bo accepted the risks, invited Su Yi to stay at the manor, and entered seclusion to attempt the External Condensation Method.

After months of studying poison arts and helping Dugu Yan, the protagonist witnessed Dugu Bo form a soul core and reach rank ninety-five. The protagonist asked Dugu Bo to help punish Crown Prince Xue Beng, and they agreed to break both of Xue Beng’s legs.

• The protagonist studied Dugu Bo’s poison texts, practiced the Zhou Tian Star Dou Art, and guided Dugu Yan’s cultivation while staying at Dugu Manor.
• Dugu Yan challenged the protagonist, but their poison immunity and Blue Silver Grass subdued her; she later grew closer to them despite sulking over the deception.
• The protagonist learned that Xue Beng had become a dissolute crown prince and quietly instructed an informant to track his movements.
• Dugu Bo formed a soul core, became a rank-ninety-five Super Douluo, and thanked the protagonist for saving him and Dugu Yan.
• The protagonist told Dugu Bo about their enmity with Xue Beng and proposed breaking both of his legs; Dugu Bo agreed.

Dugu Bo celebrated his rise to Super Douluo while hosting visitors, then helped the narrator take revenge on Xue Beng before the narrator prepared to leave. The narrator departed with gifts and Dugu Bo’s token, promising Dugu Yan to visit again.

• Dugu Bo received a stream of congratulatory visitors after advancing to Super Douluo, then closed the manor to guests after several days.
• Dugu Bo secretly brought Xue Beng to the narrator, who broke both of Xue Beng’s lower legs before Dugu Bo returned him to his villa.
• The narrator spent three more days helping Dugu Yan sort gifts and discussing cultivation and poison theory with Dugu Bo.
• The narrator formally said farewell, and Dugu Yan gave the narrator a medicine box of rare herbs.
• Dugu Bo gave the narrator a Jade Phosphorous Serpent token for protection, and the narrator left the manor after promising to visit Dugu Yan again.

Su Yi learned that the simulator’s worlds were real lives and that simulated memories could endanger fated ones if they conflicted with reality. He continued the simulation, where his past self chose to travel to Spirit City and confront unresolved feelings about Qian Renxue.

• Su Yi asked whether the simulated life was false or real, and the system said it was both.
• The system explained that Su Yi was unique across worlds, while other people’s simulated selves and real-world selves were independent individuals sharing the same true spirit.
• Su Yi learned that fated ones inherited memories without possession, but conflicting memories could cause severe damage to their souls.
• After considering the risks, Su Yi told the system to continue the simulation.
• In the simulation, Su Yi decided to go to Spirit City to clear his thoughts about Qian Renxue, despite the danger posed by its powerful Soul Masters.

After reaching Spirit City, you found that the inner city was inaccessible and your attempts to contact Qian Renxue failed. You used the aura of immortal herbs to draw Chrysanthemum Douluo’s attention, and on the fourth evening a powerful Soul Power fluctuation reached the bamboo grove.

• You arrived in Spirit City and stayed at the Quiet Bamboo Residence in the outer city while seeking a way to challenge Qian Renxue.
• You learned that the guarded inner city housed Spirit Hall’s central halls and that forcing your way inside would be fatal.
• You tried Dugu Bo’s token, an anonymous challenge letter to Qian Renxue, and Blue Silver Grass to reach into the inner city, but none succeeded.
• You decided to attract Chrysanthemum Douluo, Yue Guan, by releasing the distinctive aura of your immortal herbs and keeping your Lovesick Heartbreak Red and Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew as bargaining chips.
• You cultivated and practiced spear techniques for three days, then sensed a vast Soul Power fluctuation spreading through the bamboo grove on the fourth evening.