Chapter Summaries

After the Holy Spirit Cult’s attack forced Su Yun to confront the danger facing the Su Clan, he ordered the clan to relocate to the imperial capital and traveled with the grand elder to the Far North. There, he planned to enlist the Snow Empress’s help by warning her about a coming heavenly tribulation.

• Su Yun realized the Holy Spirit Cult might target the Su Clan after two of its experts were killed, and he blamed the Third Prince for forcing the confrontation.
• Su Yun ordered the Su Clan to announce that the grand elder had become a Titled Douluo, sell its Shanhai City properties, and move to the imperial capital.
• Su Yun told the grand elder to accompany him to the Far North while the other elders prepared the clan’s relocation and contacted the Illustrious Virtue Hall about concealing Soul Ring colors.
• At a town near the Far North, Su Yun revealed that he intended to ask the Snow Empress to shelter the Su Clan by warning her that she and the Ice Empress could die under a heavenly tribulation.

Su Yun offered the Snow Empress the location of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow in exchange for a century of protection for the Su Clan and arranged for the great elder to deliver the message. Meanwhile, Su Qingxue refused Xu Tianran’s gift and left, prompting him to privately vow to punish her once he became emperor.

• Su Yun told the great elder he knew where to find ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow and would trade its location for the Su Clan’s protection.
• Su Yun instructed the great elder to pass the offer to high-level Soul Beasts, then leave the snowy area and wait in Dragon City for up to two months.
• Xu Tianran visited Su Qingxue after her training and offered her a lightning-attribute Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Su Qingxue refused the Soul Bone, citing her lack of merit, and left without getting close to Xu Tianran.
• Xu Tianran dismissed his attendant’s complaint but privately vowed to sentence Su Qingxue to death in the cold palace after becoming emperor.

Xu Tianran learned that a Titled Douluo had protected the Su Clan from his secret attack, making it impossible to target Su Qingxue directly. He then decided to exploit her care for her younger brother by arranging for him to face danger that Xu Tianran could supposedly rescue him from.

• Xu Tianran returned to the palace and privately asked his confidants whether the Su Clan had been wiped out.
• A confidant reported that a Titled Douluo had appeared and killed the attackers, including the Soul Douluo-level Evil Soul Master.
• Xu Tianran confirmed that the dead Evil Soul Master could not expose him and felt reassured because he had acted under his third brother's identity.
• Xu Tianran asked how he could approach Su Qingxue, and his confidant revealed that she cared deeply for her younger brother.
• Xu Tianran approved a plan to put Su Qingxue's younger brother in danger so he could appear to save him.

Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to dispose of the aide who had saved him, while Su Yun secured the Snow Empress’s protection for the Su Clan in exchange for helping her obtain Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. The Snow Empress gave Su Yun a Snow Pill as insurance, and they set out for Dragon City.

• Xu Tianran told Ju Zi to have his trusted aide killed after the aide arranged for him to approach Su Qingxue.
• Ju Zi accepted the order and grew fearful of making any mistake around Xu Tianran.
• Su Yun persuaded the Snow Empress to shelter him and the Su Clan for eighty years if he helped her and the Ice Empress obtain enough Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow to survive their heavenly tribulations.
• The Snow Empress swore an oath to the Ice God and agreed to accompany Su Yun to Dragon City, where the marrow was located.
• The Snow Empress made Su Yun swallow a Snow Pill that would explode if she died, and Su Yun accepted it before they departed.

Su Yun brought the Snow Empress to Dragon City to find the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, then secured her protection for the Su Clan after her breakthrough. The clan reached the imperial capital with the grand elder's Titled Douluo strength on display, and the emperor offered to elevate him to duke.

• Su Yun led the Snow Empress to the Earth Dragon Sect, where she found the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow and completed her breakthrough.
• The Snow Empress agreed to protect Su Yun and his clan for eighty years, then changed the grand elder's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring to black after seeing it.
• Su Yun, the grand elder, and the Snow Empress returned to the Su Clan, where Su Yun arranged for an elder to attend to the Snow Empress.
• The Su Clan traveled to the imperial capital, where the grand elder revealed his Titled Douluo cultivation and drew the emperor's attention.
• The emperor offered to make the grand elder a duke, and the grand elder praised him while insulting the late emperor.

Su Yun turned down the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and ordered the Su Clan to strengthen itself while seeking rare Soul Bones and the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife. He planned to use the knife’s remnant soul as a Soul Ring, relying on his Soul Martial Soul, but intended to wait until he was strong enough.

• The emperor rewarded the grand elder with only the usual ducal status, and the grand elder silently saw him off.
• After a half-month of visits from nobles and Titled Douluos, the grand elder told Su Yun that Su Qingxue had joined the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s team and become its captain.
• Su Yun refused to attend the academy and told the Su Clan to keep a low profile, build strength, and buy External Soul Bones and mental-type Soul Bones.
• Su Yun ordered the clan to find the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife and preserve it, rejecting the grand elder’s suggestion to have an Angel Martial Soul purify it.
• Su Yun revealed that he wanted the knife’s Evil Soul Master remnant soul as a Soul Ring, and decided to wait until his soul strength and cultivation were greater before attempting it.

Two years after investing in Su Yun, the Snake-People Tribe and Misty Cloud Sect witnessed him barely refine a fifth-grade pill at age eleven, while he judged his alchemy progress insufficient. Back on the Douluo Continent, he learned how rapidly the Su Clan had grown and promised to secure powerful magic cores for its future Titled Douluos.

• Su Yun refined a low-quality fifth-grade Dragon Strength Pill after using eighteen sets of ingredients, astonishing Queen Medusa and Yun Shan with his age and ability.
• Su Yun reflected that he remained a fourth-grade alchemist despite two years of intensive practice and planned to pursue fifth-grade status before attending Jia Nan Academy.
• The first elder reported that the Su Clan had thirteen Soul Douluos trained in Ring Detonation and expected to gain at least five Titled Douluos within two years.
• The first elder explained that the clan lacked enough high-level magic cores for its Soul Douluos to advance, and Su Yun promised to find hundred-thousand-year-level cores.
• The first elder revealed that he had reached Level 95 and become a Super Douluo, making the Su Clan as strong as the Xu Clan.

Su Yun refined the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife’s remnant soul into a soul ring and discovered it granted him the Evil Soul Master’s nine soul skills, though using them brought on a dangerous urge to kill. After confirming the effect faded when he stopped using the skill, he heard that the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament was about to begin and the eldest young lady would compete as captain of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Tool Is Team.

• The grand elder told Su Yun that the Su Clan had found the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife but had not located an external soul bone, and warned him that the knife held a Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Master's remnant soul.
• Su Yun seized the knife and instantly refined its remnant soul, forming a black soul ring that made the grand elder fear something had gone wrong.
• Su Yun activated his second soul skill and found that the enlarged knife gave him combat instincts and access to the Evil Soul Master's nine soul skills, but also stirred an urge to kill that faded when he stopped using the skill.
• Su Yun explained that the soul ring was primarily spiritual and that he had chosen the remnant soul as a relatively safe experiment, while considering the possibility of gaining other powerful remnant souls as soul rings.
• The grand elder told Su Yun that the tournament was near and asked whether he should protect the eldest young lady, captain of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Tool Is Team, from Shrek.

The First Elder recounted how Shrek killed his son and grandson after changing tournament rules to protect its own students, and offered to guard Su Yun’s clan delegation at the next tournament. Su Yun kept the First Elder behind, planned to take Snow Empress as a hidden trump card, and said he would call Jing Hongchen to deal with Shrek’s Super Douluo.

• The First Elder told Su Yun that Shrek had killed his son and grandson, then used its influence to change tournament rules and retaliate against anyone who killed its students.
• The First Elder condemned Shrek and Grandmaster, and warned Su Yun that the Young Miss could face the same danger at the upcoming tournament.
• The First Elder volunteered to attend the tournament, but Su Yun refused because he was the clan’s only Titled Douluo and needed to guard the clan.
• Su Yun said Snow Empress would accompany him as a hidden trump card while two clan Soul Douluos handled ordinary threats.
• Su Yun said he would call Jing Hongchen to counter Shrek’s Super Douluo.

Su Yun learned that the Su Clan was burdened with expenses and decided to borrow money and bet on the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy winning the tournament. Meanwhile, Crown Prince Xu Tianran ordered a Soul Saint to kill Su Yun.

• Su Yun learned that the Su Clan could not sell its strongest pills and was spending heavily on Soul Tools.
• Su Yun asked about tournament betting odds and ordered the clan to borrow all the money it could so he could bet on the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• The grand elder told Su Yun that Su Ning had reached rank fifty-two and was among the academy team’s top three fighters.
• Su Yun agreed to bring Su Ning with him to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• After learning that Su Yun had come out, Xu Tianran recalled his injuries and his resentment toward Su Qingxue, then ordered a rank-seventy-eight Soul Saint to kill Su Yun.

Su Yun took the Snow Empress along in secret for protection on his journey to the Douluo Empire, learning that she had reached Quasi-God strength. When a Holy Spirit Cult Soul Douluo attacked him in an alley, the Snow Empress killed the assailant with a single finger, leaving a watching Soul Saint stunned.

• Su Yun asked the Snow Empress to protect him on his trip, and she agreed, revealing that her cultivation was equivalent to a Quasi-God's.
• The Snow Empress explained how Soul Beast cultivation compared with human realms, then agreed to use the name Di Xue outside the clan.
• Su Yun concealed the Snow Empress in a living Storage Soul Tool and headed alone toward the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• A Soul Saint sent by Xu Tianran followed Su Yun into a secluded alley as a Holy Spirit Cult Soul Douluo launched an attack.
• The Snow Empress appeared and froze the Soul Douluo with one finger, while the watching Soul Saint was left speechless.

Su Yun captured and killed the Soul Douluo and Soul Saint sent to ambush him, then stored their souls in his Human Emperor Banner. He suspected Crown Prince Xu Tianran might have ordered the attack and considered how to turn the incident against him as he continued toward the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.

• Su Yun froze the Soul Douluo and extracted his soul into the Human Emperor Banner while Xu Tianran's Soul Saint watched in fear.
• When the Soul Saint tried to flee, the Snow Empress froze him in place, and Su Yun killed him with a punch before adding his soul to the banner.
• Su Ning mistook the banner's black smoke for evidence that it was a Ten Thousand Soul Banner, but Su Yun insisted it contained concentrated Primordial Purple Qi.
• Su Ning asked whether the crown prince had targeted the Su Clan, and Su Yun said he lacked enough information but would act if Xu Tianran was responsible.
• Su Yun suggested that spreading a rumor about Xu Tianran becoming a eunuch after the attack could prompt others to deal with the crown prince.

After a rumor spread that Crown Prince Xu Tianran had been made unable to father children, the Sun Moon Emperor confirmed it and ordered his son killed. The chapter left Xu Tianran at the emperor’s mercy as the guards carried out the order.

• The fourth prince ordered his followers to spread the rumor that Xu Tianran had become a eunuch, and other princes joined in.
• The Sun Moon Emperor dreamed that the former emperor had returned and was about to kill him, then awoke in terror.
• The Sun Moon Emperor overheard two eunuchs discussing the rumor and demanded to know what had happened to Xu Tianran.
• The palace guards dragged Xu Tianran before the emperor, who ordered them to strip his trousers and confirmed the rumor.
• The Sun Moon Emperor denounced Xu Tianran for threatening the Xu Clan’s succession and ordered the guards to beat him to death and throw out his corpse.

Xu Tianran was executed before his Martial Soul could finish mutating, while Su Yun introduced Jing Hongchen to pills that protected him as he shattered Soul Rings for a burst of power. Jing Hongchen used the technique to refine the released Soul Power and broke through to Level 94.

• The Sun Moon Emperor ordered Xu Tianran's execution and felt relieved after learning his son had planned to give the imperial line to an outsider.
• Xu Tianran's Martial Soul began mutating as he resisted death, but two Soul Douluos killed him before the change could finish.
• Su Yun gave Jing Hongchen a jade box of pills and explained how they could protect his meridians while he shattered Soul Rings.
• Jing Hongchen tested the technique, swallowed a Pulse-Protecting Pill, and shattered his Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Soul Rings.
• Jing Hongchen refined the released Soul Power and broke through to Level 94.

Jing Hongchen reached Level 94 through Ring Detonation and strengthened his ties with the Su Clan over its Pulse-Protecting Pills. He agreed to lead the tournament team personally, while Su Qingxue retained her captaincy after defeating a Soul Emperor challenger.

• Jing Hongchen broke through to Level 94 using Ring Detonation and considered a future attempt to reach Level 95.
• Su Yun told Jing Hongchen that Pulse-Protecting Pill production was limited and warned him to wait thirty-six days before using Ring Detonation again.
• Jing Hongchen volunteered to lead the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament team personally to protect Su Qingxue.
• Jing Hongchen gave the Su Clan elder a nominal teaching position and appointed him as the academy's accompanying tournament teacher.
• Su Yun and the others found Su Qingxue sitting on a defeated Soul Emperor, who had challenged her captaincy and lost a bet to serve as her chair for a year.

Su Qingxue demonstrated her strength by defeating the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students, impressing Jing Hongchen. In the Dou Ling Empire, the emperor welcomed the academy’s enormous bet on itself, confident Shrek would still win the tournament.

• Jing Hongchen asked Su Qingxue to demonstrate her strength, and she challenged six Soul Engineers to attack her together.
• Su Qingxue used her Medusa’s Eye and lightning-infused whip to defeat the students, including Qin Teng Shan, while Jing Hongchen recognized the power of her domain.
• Su Qingxue revealed the Purple Lightning Netherworld Python within her strengthened domain, and Jing Hongchen ended the fight before anyone was killed.
• Du Weilun placed Shrek’s one-million-Gold-Soul-Coin championship bet in the Dou Ling Empire casino.
• The Dou Ling emperor learned that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had wagered one hundred million Gold Soul Coins on itself and rejoiced at the expected profit.

Su Ning’s overwhelming performance made Du Weilun suspect the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had invested heavily in powerful Soul Bones and rare Soul Rings. Reassured by Zhang Lexuan’s strength, he urged Shrek’s team to target their opponents ruthlessly.

• Su Ning defeated an opposing Soul King with his fourth Soul Skill, Cloud’s Wrathful Thunder, as the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy advanced to the quarterfinals.
• The Dou Ling Empire gave Du Weilun the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s roster, drawing his attention to captain Su Qingxue and the powerful Su Ning.
• Du Weilun deduced that Su Ning’s fourth Soul Ring was unusually old and boosted by a matching Soul Bone, and suspected he possessed several more Soul Bones and formidable skills.
• Du Weilun worried that the academy’s captain and vice-captain might be even stronger, but regained confidence because Shrek had Zhang Lexuan.
• Du Weilun told Shrek’s students to kill as many Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students as possible for Shrek’s honor.

Du Weilun warned Shrek’s team that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had assembled an unusually powerful lineup and wagered heavily on winning the tournament. As Shrek’s prospects looked uncertain, Yan Shaozhe appeared and promised to intervene if necessary.

• Zhang Lexuan asked Du Weilun what had happened, and he explained that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had wagered a hundred million Gold Soul Coins on winning the championship.
• Du Weilun revealed that the academy’s captain was a Five-Ring Soul King rather than a royal Soul Emperor, while its vice-captain was a Soul Emperor.
• Du Weilun and Zhang Lexuan assessed the academy’s third-strongest fighter, who had an exceptionally powerful fourth Soul Ring and several Soul Bones.
• Du Weilun told Zhang Lexuan that Shrek’s chances were limited and urged her to kill several opponents in the opening one-on-one matches to give Shrek an advantage in the team battle.
• Dai Yueheng worried that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s teachers might retaliate, but Yan Shaozhe appeared and declared that he would step in.

Yan Shaozhe reassured Shrek’s students that he would protect them and revealed that winning the tournament would earn them a Soul Ring hunt led by a Level 98 Titled Douluo. Qiangu Liefeng vowed to help Shrek win, and the academy advanced through its opponents to face the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the final.

• Yan Shaozhe promised to protect the students if danger arose, and Du Weilun assigned Qiangu Liefeng to lead Shrek in the coming matches.
• Yan Shaozhe revealed that Shrek’s tournament reward would be a Soul Ring hunt led by an exceptionally powerful expert, whom the students inferred was a Level 98 Titled Douluo.
• Qiangu Liefeng pledged to defend Shrek’s honor and hoped to use the reward to help mend the rift between his family and Shrek.
• Qiangu Liefeng led Shrek through its matches, and the academy reached the final against the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

As the tournament finals began, Dai Yueheng challenged Su Yun to a match after realizing he might lead the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the next tournament. Su Yun considered accepting, leaving the proposed fight unresolved.

• The Dou Ling Empire's emperor entered the opening ceremony guarded by six Titled Douluos, whose strength Su Yun judged far below the Su Clan's high-level fighters.
• The Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy teams assembled, and Dai Yueheng noticed Su Yun stood as the Sun Moon team's captain for the next tournament.
• Su Yun gave Dai Yueheng an indifferent answer and explained nothing about his lack of interest in competing next time.
• Dai Yueheng challenged Su Yun, hoping to assess or eliminate a future threat to Shrek Academy's chances in the next tournament.
• Su Yun considered Dai Yueheng's rank and decided that playing along might be worthwhile.