Chapter Summaries

Ye Lingling feared Xiao Yu would abandon her because of Qian Renxue, but he reassured her and she chose to begin a more intimate relationship with him. After they spent three days together, Xiao Yu and his companions resumed their search for Ye Lingling’s fifth spirit ring in Sunset Forest.

• Xue Ye sent royal retainers to the Star Dou Great Forest, and they escorted Xue Qinghe and Xue Ke back safely.
• Ye Lingling came to Xiao Yu’s room and asked whether he would ever abandon her; he comforted her and she chose to stay with him forever.
• Xiao Yu and Ye Lingling spent the night together, and Aiolia and Milo delayed their planned departure by three days.
• Xiao Yu and Ye Lingling woke at noon and shared more affectionate moments before preparing to continue their journey.
• At the Nine Stars Hall branch in Sunset Forest, the staff found Ye Lingling a Plant-type Soul Beast of a suitable age for her fifth spirit ring.

Xiao Yu returned to Nine Stars Hall and trained to master his soul skills after realizing his shortcomings in battle. His training was interrupted by Xue Qinghe, who arrived in Silvia City to ask for help suppressing a rebellion.

• Xiao Yu returned to Nine Stars Hall and focused his closed-door training on mastering his soul skills rather than increasing his Soul Power.
• Huo Wu discovered that Xiao Yu and Ye Lingling had become lovers and grew jealous, but she could not find time alone with him.
• Ye Lingling told Xiao Yu that Qian Renxue had arrived disguised as Xue Qinghe, and the two went to meet the Crown Prince.
• Xue Qinghe told Xiao Yu that Ferreira, lord of Hamos City, had started a rebellion that had spread to six or seven nearby cities.
• Xiao Yu wished Xue Qinghe success in suppressing the uprising.

Xue Qinghe asked Xiao Yu to send experts from the Nine Stars Hall to help suppress Ferreira’s rebellion, which the Star Luo Empire was supporting. While considering the request, Xiao Yu learned the rules governing succession in the Star Luo Royal House and questioned why Qian Renxue could not seek aid from Spirit Hall or the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Xue Qinghe told Xiao Yu that Ferreira’s rebellion had become a serious threat because the Star Luo Empire had tied down Heaven Dou’s border forces and sent Dai Heng and Zhu Yun to support the rebels.
• Xue Qinghe asked the Nine Stars Hall to provide one or two experts to accompany her and the fifty thousand imperial troops sent to suppress the rebellion.
• Xiao Yu questioned how the Star Luo Emperor could have a biological uncle if Star Luo princes fought to the death for the throne, and Xue Qinghe explained the age and Soul Power requirements for succession candidates.
• Xue Qinghe explained that princes excluded from the succession could serve the royal house as guest retainers and worshippers, while unqualified princes remained as powerless nobles to preserve the bloodline.
• Xiao Yu privately asked Qian Renxue why she did not bring Spirit Hall or Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect reinforcements, and Qian Renxue said Spirit Hall’s involvement would expose her identity while Ning Fengzhi had refused to help.

Xiao Yu agreed to help Qian Renxue suppress the rebellion in exchange for rewards and two conditions. He secured battlefield experience for his team and a year to copy and consult Spirit Hall’s collected books.

• Xiao Yu decided to help Qian Renxue draw closer to the Heaven Dou Empire, but asked her for personal compensation as well as official rewards.
• Xiao Yu teased Qian Renxue by asking her to become his concubine, and she threatened to tell Ye Lingling that she was pregnant with his child.
• Xiao Yu agreed to help after Qian Renxue promised not to spread the pregnancy lie, and he asked for his team to join the campaign under concealed identities and cultivation levels.
• Qian Renxue agreed to keep Xiao Yu’s team’s information secret from everyone, including Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Yu asked to borrow Soul Master cultivation books, and Qian Renxue offered one year to copy and consult Spirit Hall’s collected books, excluding its core texts and scholarly materials.

Xiao Yu proposed using his newly developed landmine Soul Tools to ambush Ferreira’s rebels after Xue Qinghe’s army commander obstructed her plans. Xue Qinghe considered his plan to weaken the main camp’s defenses and lure the rebels into a trap.

• Xue Qinghe marched with a fifty-thousand-strong army to suppress the rebellion, while Xiao Yu observed the contrast between Soul Masters and disciplined soldiers.
• Xue Qinghe complained that Lin Jun had blocked her plans, scattered the army to retake cities, and proposed peace talks with Ferreira.
• Xiao Yu recognized that Xue Qinghe had engineered the situation to enlist his help and suggested letting Lin Jun disperse the army.
• Xiao Yu revealed two hundred remotely detonated landmine Soul Tools and proposed using them to devastate the rebels when they attacked the weakened main camp.
• Xiao Yu advised Xue Qinghe to secretly keep three to five thousand loyal soldiers at the camp to encircle Ferreira’s troops after the landmines disrupted their formation.

Xiao Yu's landmines devastated Ferreira's rebel force when it attacked the nearly empty camp, allowing Qian Renxue's hidden generals and the Nine Stars Team to counterattack. The Nine Stars Team overwhelmed Ferreira, and Huo Wu moved in to deliver the final blow.

• Xue Qinghe divided the army to capture cities, leaving fewer than a thousand soldiers in the camp.
• Ferreira led several thousand rebels into the camp, where Xiao Yu's landmines exploded and shattered their formation.
• Qian Renxue's hidden generals led Heaven Dou Empire troops out of ambush as the rebels fled in panic.
• Xiao Yu led the Nine Stars Team against Ferreira, whose earthquake skill killed soldiers from both sides.
• Yi Hui and You Na disrupted Ferreira with fire and wind attacks, then Zilong's sword strike forced him out of Martial Soul Possession.
• Huo Wu charged at the kneeling Ferreira and unleashed her Crimson Flame Burst.

Xiao Yu's team fought Dai Heng, a level seventy-eight Soul Saint, after he severely injured Huo Wu. The team combined their spirit skills to challenge him, and Rong Dou began an underground attack as the battle continued.

• Dai Heng appeared and struck Huo Wu with a sphere of light, leaving her badly injured.
• Xiao Yu entrusted Huo Wu to Ye Lingling, then chose to face Dai Heng and contacted Aphrodite to search for Zhu Yun.
• Eden restrained Dai Heng with lightning skills, but Dai Heng broke free using his Fifth Spirit Skill and charged at him.
• Miyi Mei enhanced Xiao Yu, Yi Hui, and Zilong, and the three drove Dai Heng back with a combined attack.
• Rong Dou and Xie Wu attacked Dai Heng, but Rong Dou's claws barely scratched his defenses.
• Dai Heng grabbed Rong Dou and hurled him away, while Rong Dou revealed that he had been preparing his Fourth Spirit Skill, Earth Rumble, underground.

Xiao Yu and his allies battled Dai Heng, whose White Tiger Avatar left him determined to seize Xiao Yu’s Soul Bone. As Dai Heng charged again, Cang Mo and You Na unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Flame Storm.

• Iao transformed into a Berserk Demon Bear and charged Dai Heng, but Dai Heng’s White Tiger God Extinction injured him and forced him back into human form.
• Xiao Yu used Death Gaze to overwhelm Dai Heng’s White Tiger God Extinction, then struck him with Hell’s Judgment and Underworld God Destruction.
• Dai Heng activated his Martial Soul Avatar and attacked Xiao Yu, who held him off with support from Miyi Mei, Yi Hui, and Zilong.
• Xiao Yu and the others retreated, leaving Dai Heng facing Cang Mo and You Na as they began their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Flame Storm.

Xiao Yu and the Nine Stars Team overwhelmed Dai Heng, using Cang Mo and You Na’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill and Xiao Yu’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to leave him badly wounded. After Aphrodite killed Zhu Yun, Xiao Yu finished Dai Heng with a sword strike through the heart.

• Cang Mo and You Na unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Xiao Yu’s Mind Imprisonment interrupted Dai Heng’s White Tiger Annihilation Kill.
• Yi Hui and Zilong struck Dai Heng with their strongest attacks, sending him flying and leaving him unable to fight effectively.
• Aphrodite revealed Zhu Yun, who had died from her rose fragrance attack, and Dai Heng charged at him in grief and rage.
• Xiao Yu intercepted Dai Heng, cut open his palms, and pressed him with Underworld Sword Thousand Decisive Strikes.
• Xiao Yu appeared behind Dai Heng and pierced his heart with Gale Piercing Shadow, killing the Soul Saint.

After Huo Wu was badly injured in the battle, Xiao Yu rushed to her bedside and confessed his feelings, believing she might die. Huo Wu revealed that she and Ye Lingling had staged her weakness to make him promise to marry her, and Xiao Yu pulled both women into the sealed tent.

• After Dai Heng died and the raid ended, Ye Lingling warned Xiao Yu that Huo Wu was gravely injured.
• Xiao Yu hurried to Huo Wu's tent, held her, and promised to marry her and treat her well after she feared she might not survive.
• Huo Wu suddenly recovered her usual strength, revealing that her apparent weakness had been an act coordinated with Ye Lingling.
• Ye Lingling admitted she had helped Huo Wu trick Xiao Yu into swearing the marriage oath.
• Xiao Yu pulled Ye Lingling into his arms, sealed the tent with Soul Power, and confronted both women.

After finding Xiao Yu with Ye Lingling and Huo Wu, Qian Renxue confronted him and learned that he considered her a friend, though his teasing quickly upset her again. She left to deal with the remaining rebel forces after reporting Ferreira’s capture.

• After disciplining Ye Lingling and Huo Wu overnight, Xiao Yu left their tent to prepare food for them.
• Xue Qinghe confronted Xiao Yu outside the tent, explaining she had come to find him after he missed the victory banquet.
• Qian Renxue recalled secretly sensing Xiao Yu with two women inside the tent and grew angry at what she believed she had discovered.
• When Xiao Yu teased her about being jealous, Qian Renxue criticized his behavior, and he told her he acted freely around friends.
• Qian Renxue asked whether he truly considered her a friend, and Xiao Yu said he did, then spoiled the moment by joking that he wanted her body.
• Qian Renxue told Xiao Yu that Ferreira had been captured and rebel remnants still held several cities, then left to attend to her duties.

Xiao Yu planned to separate the Angel Family from Bibi Dong’s faction, while Shrek’s arrival at Heaven Dou Royal Academy led to a decisive victory over the Royal Fight Team and a confrontation with Xue Beng. Flender later told Meng Shenji that Shrek was leaving the academy.

• Xiao Yu decided that his future enemies were Bibi Dong’s radical followers and hoped to draw Qian Renxue and the Angel Family away from them.
• Yu Xiaogang led Shrek through harsh training, then brought the team to Suotuo City for Spirit Battles as Qin Ming brought the Royal Fight Team there.
• The Shrek Seven Devils defeated the Royal Fight Team after Yu Tianheng and Ning Li were eliminated, and Xue Ying, Osler, and Yu Feng surrendered.
• Flender and Qin Ming reunited, and Yu Xiaogang led the plan for Shrek to enroll at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Dai Mubai beat Xue Beng after the Fourth Prince provoked the newly enrolled Shrek members.
• Flender told Meng Shenji that Heaven Dou Royal Academy was unsuitable for Shrek and that the academy was leaving.

Snow Star Prince retaliated against Shrek by stirring up fights and humiliating the teachers and students at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. After Flender reunited with Liu Erlong, she offered to give the group her academy, and Flender agreed while concealing her identity from Yu Xiaogang.

• Snow Star Prince ordered benefits cut and encouraged Heaven Dou Royal Academy students and alumni to harass the Shrek Seven Devils, sparking frequent fights.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai took the worst beatings, while Tang San and Xiao Wu deterred challengers with their fierce attacks; Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong remained uninjured.
• Flender wanted to leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Yu Xiaogang persuaded him to stay for Tang San's sake and the upcoming Spirit Master Competition.
• Flender met Liu Erlong in Heaven Dou City, and she learned that he and Yu Xiaogang had been mistreated at the academy.
• Liu Erlong offered to give Flender her Blue Tyrant Academy to rename as Shrek Academy, and Flender agreed.
• Flender told Yu Xiaogang and the others that an old friend would help them, hiding Liu Erlong's identity so Yu Xiaogang would not leave.

After leaving Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Flender and the Shrek teachers prepared to seek a better destination. Meanwhile, Xiao Yu and Qian Renxue finished quelling the rebellion, but a mysterious call from Xiao Yu’s martial soul led him into the mountains, where Qian Renxue revealed herself and caught up with him and his companions.

• Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek teachers agreed to leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Flender bade Meng Shenji farewell.
• Xiao Yu and Qian Renxue’s forces secured the rebel cities, which surrendered after Ferreira’s loyal troops were defeated.
• Xiao Yu’s martial soul sensed a mysterious call nearby, so he left camp with Ye Lingling and Huo Wu to investigate.
• Xiao Yu sensed someone following them and confronted Qian Renxue, who emerged from the darkness in her true appearance.
• Ye Lingling reassured Huo Wu that Qian Renxue was Xiao Yu’s friend, and Huo Wu muttered that Xiao Yu was a womanizer.

Xiao Yu followed the call resonating with his Martial Soul to a hidden altar, where he and Qian Renxue encountered the remnant soul of the Death God, Thanatos. Thanatos revealed that his body and godhood had been destroyed, leaving Xiao Yu to wonder whether the god’s fate resembled a familiar story.

• Qian Renxue questioned Xiao Yu about why he had left camp, and he explained that his Martial Soul had guided him toward something nearby.
• Xiao Yu broke through a mountain wall, then shielded Huo Wu and Ye Lingling from the powerful Soul Power surging out of the cave.
• Xiao Yu and Qian Renxue flew through the cave and discovered a sacred altar that transported them into a ruined palace.
• A phantom identified himself as Thanatos, the Death God, and recognized Qian Renxue as the Angel God's inheritor.
• Thanatos said that treacherous people had destroyed his true body and shattered his godhood, leaving only a remnant soul.

Thanatos revealed that the Asura God and Sea God had killed him and the Angel God, then asked Xiao Yu to avenge them. Xiao Yu accepted a deal to receive Thanatos's remaining divine power and a second martial soul, leaving him and Qian Renxue determined to grow stronger and eventually confront their enemies.

• Thanatos told Qian Renxue that the Angel God had fallen and explained that the Asura God and Sea God had killed him after he discovered their scheme to create a false Child of Fortune.
• Thanatos revealed that the Asura God had also caused the Angel God's fall and had chosen Tang San to seize Douluo Continent's fortune and destroy the Angel Temple.
• Xiao Yu told Qian Renxue that Tang San was Tang Hao's son, and Thanatos warned her not to act rashly because the Asura God had prepared contingencies to protect him.
• Thanatos offered to use his remaining divine power and remnant soul to give Xiao Yu a second martial soul that could help him evade the world's restrictions and reach Level 100.
• Xiao Yu accepted the deal and swore to avenge Thanatos and seek a way to revive him.

Thanatos gave Xiao Yu his power, allowing him to form a second Martial Soul: the Death Scythe. Xiao Yu and Qian Renxue agreed that they needed to join forces against the Asura God, but Qian Renxue’s proposal to marry Xiao Yu fell through when he refused to abandon Ye Lingling and Huo Wu.

• Thanatos transferred his power of death to Xiao Yu, and it strengthened Xiao Yu’s body as it merged with him.
• Xiao Yu condensed the Death Scythe as his second Martial Soul, while Qian Renxue felt jealous of his newfound advantage.
• Qian Renxue agreed that she and Xiao Yu should ally against the Asura God and his ally, the Sea God.
• Xiao Yu teased Qian Renxue about becoming partners, and she offered to marry him if he left Ye Lingling and Huo Wu.
• Xiao Yu refused to betray Ye Lingling and Huo Wu, and Qian Renxue said she would not share her husband.

Xiao Yu wagered that he and Qian Renxue would settle their strength in the Advanced Spirit Master Academy Tournament, and Qian Renxue agreed to join the competition. Qian Daoliu later told Bibi Dong that Qian Renxue intended to compete, prompting Bibi Dong to demand an explanation.

• Xiao Yu proposed that he and Qian Renxue wager on a match at the Spirit Master Competition, and she considered how joining might help Spirit Hall defeat the Nine Stars Team and embarrass Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue agreed to enter the competition and sealed the wager with Xiao Yu in a high-five.
• Several days later, Qian Daoliu received Qian Renxue's letter through a secret channel and went to Pope's Hall to tell Bibi Dong she wanted to compete.
• Bibi Dong questioned why Qian Renxue would abandon her infiltration plan in the Heaven Dou Empire, and Qian Daoliu brought up Nine Stars Hall.

Bibi Dong learned that Nine Stars Academy threatened Spirit Hall’s team, but Qian Daoliu warned her not to interfere with Nine Stars Hall or Qian Renxue’s plans. At Shrek Academy, the Seven Devils used pills bought through Ning Rongrong and Yu Xiaogang assured them that Xiao Yu’s rapid cultivation would soon stall.

• Qian Daoliu told Bibi Dong that Nine Stars Academy’s team would likely defeat the Spirit Hall Golden Generation and revealed that Qian Renxue had partnered with Nine Stars Hall.
• Bibi Dong threatened to deal with Nine Stars Hall, but Qian Daoliu warned that he could have her removed as Pope if she sabotaged Qian Renxue’s plans.
• Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun celebrated cultivation gains after Ning Rongrong spent a fortune to buy pills for the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed that Xiao Yu had advanced too quickly by consuming pills and would soon reach a cultivation bottleneck, then urged Tang San to focus on his own destiny.

After discovering that the pill contained traces of Immortal Herbs, Tang San became determined to obtain more from Nine Stars Hall and planned a break-in at its branch. He triggered the branch’s alarm system as soon as he climbed over the wall.

• Tang San recognized traces of Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Eight Petal Immortal Orchid in the pill and resented that Xiao Yu had obtained a superior Immortal Herb.
• Tang San reasoned that Nine Stars Hall might not know how to handle poisonous Immortal Herbs, then decided to steal them and asked Ning Rongrong for information about the sect.
• Over the following month, Tang San learned that the Heaven Dou City branch managed pills and repeatedly observed its defenses in Sunset Forest.
• Tang San mistook the branch’s single night patrol squad for weak security and climbed onto its wall.
• Alarm-type Soul Tools detected Tang San and set off deafening alarms throughout the Nine Stars Hall branch.