Recaps

After watching Su Yi cultivate, Ghost Douluo realized that the boy was already a terrifying killing prodigy and that his own lessons had been unnecessary. He told Su Yi to focus on raising his Soul Power, then imagined the strength and title Su Yi might have as a future Titled Douluo.

• Ghost Douluo watched Su Yi cultivate and recalled how he had silently killed every bandit at the den, realizing Su Yi's skill far surpassed his own.
• Ghost Douluo felt humiliated as he remembered mistaking Su Yi's look of disbelief for fear and claiming he could teach him to kill.
• Su Yi finished cultivating and asked Ghost Douluo what training was planned.
• Ghost Douluo told Su Yi to focus on raising his Soul Power because he was only level fifteen, and Su Yi resumed cultivating.
• Ghost Douluo imagined Su Yi becoming a Titled Douluo who could defeat Tang Hao and wondered what title he should receive.

Su Yi reached Level 20 after months of relentless cultivation and physical training, while Hu Liena reached Level 30. Bibi Dong sent Hu Liena, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo to take Su Yi and Hu Liena to hunt Soul Beasts for their next Soul Rings.

• Bibi Dong heard that Su Yi had defeated a bandit gang and ordered Ghost Douluo to continue searching for Tang Hao.
• Su Yi cultivated and trained for half a year, reached Level 20, and reasoned that a strong physique could let him absorb higher-age Soul Rings.
• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong she had reached Level 30 and admitted she was working hard so Su Yi would not catch up to her.
• Bibi Dong ordered Hu Liena, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo to bring Su Yi and Hu Liena to Soul Beast Forest to hunt for Soul Rings.
• Bibi Dong allowed Su Yi's second Soul Ring to come from a Thousand Year Soul Beast, advising that its age should not exceed 1,500 years.

Hu Liena visited Su Yi at Spirit Academy, where his cold rejection made her cry and unexpectedly stirred memories of his former companion, Shadow. The chapter ended with Su Yi recalling her death and the emotions he had failed to understand.

• Hu Liena traveled with Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo to Spirit Academy, excited to see Su Yi.
• Hu Liena teased Su Yi about having kissed her, but he pulled away and told her to stay away from him.
• Hu Liena cried, and Su Yi asked what would make her stop, surprising her and the two Douluo.
• Hu Liena's tears reminded Su Yi of Shadow, his companion in Tianming who had tried to teach him about emotions before she died.

Su Yi traveled with Hu Liena and the two Douluo to an unnamed Soul Beast Forest to hunt soul rings, keeping his distance from Hu Liena despite her attempts to get him to talk. The group encountered an enormous unknown soul beast, and Yue Guan suspected it was more terrifying than the Titan Giant Ape.

• Su Yi chose not to seal away the painful memories Hu Liena’s gaze had stirred, then joined Hu Liena and the two Douluo on a journey to hunt soul rings.
• During two days of travel, Su Yi stayed silent, and he told Hu Liena that talking to her would not increase his strength.
• Yue Guan shushed the group after sensing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, then hid everyone in a dense tree.
• A colossal black ape more than thirty meters tall passed nearby, leaving the group stunned by its size and power.
• Yue Guan said Spirit Hall had no record of the beast and wondered whether it was more terrifying than the Titan Giant Ape.

Su Yi and Yue Guan searched for a suitable Soul Beast, and Su Yi absorbed a twelve-hundred-year Thousand Jun Ant Soldier’s Soul Ring. The new skill, Thousand Jun Strike, tripled the power of his next attack, while Su Yi’s level rose to twenty-two.

• Yue Guan split up with Ghost Douluo, sending Hu Liena with him while he took Su Yi to search for a Soul Beast.
• Yue Guan found a Thousand Jun Ant Soldier and explained how the Ant Queen prevented soldier ants from growing too powerful.
• Su Yi killed the ant and absorbed its twelve-hundred-year Soul Ring, raising his level to twenty-two.
• Su Yi gained Thousand Jun Strike, which tripled the power of his next attack and had a ten-minute cooldown.

Su Yi returned to Spirit City after absorbing his Thousand Year Soul Ring and advanced from level twenty-two to level twenty-three during the journey. Hu Liena grew furious that her charm could not distract him and that he broke through as she had doubted he could.

• Yue Guan asked Su Yi about his Second Soul Skill, Thousand Jun Strike, and guessed that it was a single-target attack skill.
• Ghost Douluo brought Hu Liena back to Su Yi, and the two elders prepared to leave the Soul Beast Forest before encountering the huge creature again.
• In the carriage, Hu Liena leaned against Su Yi and tried to tempt him, but he called her boring and moved away.
• After two days of travel, Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo brought Su Yi and Hu Liena back to Pope's Palace in Spirit City.
• Hu Liena remembered that Su Yi had claimed he could advance in two days, then saw that he had indeed risen from level twenty-two to level twenty-three.

Su Yi reunited with Bibi Dong at the Pope's Palace and revealed how he sensed people approaching, impressing her with his abilities. He also reported his second Soul Ring and skill, while Yue Guan felt humiliated by Su Yi once again.

• Hu Liena complained to Bibi Dong that Su Yi had made her angry, and Bibi Dong greeted Su Yi after half a year apart.
• Su Yi told Bibi Dong he had sensed her visits to the Spirit Academy and explained how he tracked changes in airflow within a hundred meters.
• Bibi Dong urged Su Yi to develop his sensing ability, calling it a potential Divine Skill.
• Su Yi reported that his 1,200-year Soul Ring from a Thousand Jun Ant Soldier granted him Thousand Jun Strike, which increased his next attack's power by 300%.
• Bibi Dong praised the skill's potential, while Yue Guan silently regretted having bragged in front of Su Yi.

Su Yi entered Class Zero, Spirit Hall’s lethal training ground, alone and began hunting its inmates by stealth. After killing his first target, he planned to pick off the stronger soul masters one by one.

• Su Yi asked Bibi Dong to enter Class Zero early, and she agreed, ordering Yue Guan to take him to the Death Group and naming him the future Holy Son of Spirit Hall.
• Hu Liena worried that Su Yi would face Class Zero alone, but Bibi Dong reassured her that he was suited to survive there and called him a God of Slaughter.
• Yue Guan explained that Class Zero was a deadly training ground filled with captured criminals, then asked Su Yi if he had thought through entering alone.
• Su Yi silently drew his Black Dagger and rushed into the filthy camp, where he hid in a crate and surveyed more than sixty enemies across twelve tents.
• Su Yi ambushed a burly man who had left a tent, stabbed him through the throat, and resolved to assassinate the camp’s soul masters one by one.

Su Yi began a nighttime assault on the Death Group, using stealth to kill its members as they ate and tortured captives. After eliminating several men, including a Soul Elder, he waited above a tent for more prey.

• Su Yi hid a man's body and spent two hours watching the tents, learning that the Death Group's members were careless and preyed on the weak.
• A bald Soul Elder severed a captive's leg and fed it to his men, so Su Yi ambushed and killed him.
• Su Yi entered the tent and killed its three occupants, then climbed onto the tent and waited for approaching men.
• Su Yi killed the two men behind an arriving Soul Elder and impaled the Soul Elder through the heart with his spear.

Su Yi silently slaughtered the soul masters in the Death Group’s camp, killing more than forty before eliminating the group’s remaining members. He left the camp after killing the two women in the final tent.

• Su Yi infiltrated the tents and killed the sentries and sleeping soul masters one by one.
• Su Yi killed more than forty soul masters and identified the final tents as housing the camp’s strongest members.
• Su Yi entered the tent with ten soul masters, killed them, and left only the two Soul Elders alive.
• Su Yi entered the last tent and killed the two sleeping women with his Chaos Supreme Gun.
• Su Yi walked out of the tent after completing the slaughter.

Su Yi killed all sixty-four members of the Death Group in a single night without using soul skills, shocking Ghost Douluo, who had secretly watched over him. Ghost Douluo declared that Su Yi had graduated and become Spirit Hall’s Holy Son, but Su Yi remained indifferent and asked about his next training stage.

• Su Yi emerged from the Death Group camp after killing every member.
• Ghost Douluo inspected the camp and found all sixty-four soul masters dead from single fatal strikes, many killed silently in their sleep.
• Ghost Douluo asked whether the two sisters’ alluring influence had affected Su Yi, and Su Yi said he saw only the living and the dead.
• Ghost Douluo congratulated Su Yi on graduating and becoming Spirit Hall’s Holy Son.
• Su Yi asked what training came next, and Ghost Douluo explained that there was no next stage and the Pope would decide what happened next.

Su Yi completed his trial and returned to Spirit Hall, where Bibi Dong named him its first Holy Son and offered him the future position of Pope. He rejected the role, saying he only knew how to kill, while Bibi Dong encouraged him to become strong enough that no one could threaten him.

• Ghost Douluo explained the Holy Son's status and future prospects, but Su Yi said the position had nothing to do with him.
• Ghost Douluo took Su Yi to Pope's Palace, where Bibi Dong confirmed he had completed the trial in a single day.
• Bibi Dong congratulated Su Yi on graduating early and declared him the first Holy Son in Spirit Hall's history.
• Bibi Dong said she would hand the position of Pope to Su Yi once he became a Titled Douluo, but Su Yi refused and said he was not interested.
• Bibi Dong accepted Su Yi's refusal and told him that becoming strong would keep others from threatening him.

Su Yi became Spirit Hall’s first Holy Son, and Bibi Dong visited him to teach him what it meant to be a true powerhouse. She urged him to learn to disguise his emotions, leaving Su Yi aware that his teacher carried deep, hidden pain.

• Bibi Dong defied Qian Daoliu’s objections and confirmed Su Yi as Spirit Hall’s first Holy Son.
• Hu Liena visited Su Yi every day, while he continued cultivating and advanced from Soul Power level twenty-three to twenty-four.
• Bibi Dong praised Su Yi’s resolve and discipline, then warned him that a powerhouse needed convictions and things to protect.
• Bibi Dong advised Su Yi to hide and disguise his emotions so others could not discover his weaknesses.
• Su Yi sensed a flash of violent, vicious aura from Bibi Dong and realized she had endured some unimaginable trauma.

Bibi Dong asked Su Yi whether he had anyone he wanted to protect, and he answered that he wanted to protect her by killing anyone who threatened her. She decided to send him to a place where he could change his temperament, and Su Yi left to begin the journey.

• Bibi Dong wondered whether Su Yi had someone he wished to protect and asked him directly.
• Su Yi told Bibi Dong that he wanted to protect her by killing anyone who hurt or threatened her.
• Bibi Dong accepted his promise and told him he would first need to change parts of his temperament.
• Bibi Dong explained that Su Yi would succeed once he met the requirements and gained recognition from the master of the place she planned to send him.
• Bibi Dong and Su Yi sat together beside the water for an hour before she told him to say goodbye to Hu Liena and said Yue Guan would take him.
• Su Yi said he would succeed, then stood and walked outside.

Su Yi arrived at Moonlight Pavilion in the Heaven Dou Empire, where Yue Guan arranged for him to study and change his emotionally detached nature. After Yue Guan returned to Spirit City, Marquis Charles brought Su Yi into the noble academy.

• Su Yi traveled with Yue Guan for a month, cultivating until he neared Soul Power level twenty-five while barely speaking to him.
• Yue Guan brought Su Yi to Moonlight Pavilion, and Su Yi asked whether he wanted him to slaughter everyone there.
• Yue Guan explained that Moonlight Pavilion was a powerful noble academy Spirit Hall could not attack, then took Su Yi to meet a subordinate.
• Yue Guan introduced Su Yi to the middle-aged man as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and ordered him to keep Su Yi’s identity secret.
• The man, who was known as Marquis Charles, escorted Su Yi into Moonlight Pavilion, where the noble students watched them arrive.

Marquis Charles brought Su Yi to Moon Pavilion and asked Yue Hua to take him in, presenting an elaborate, tearful story about Su Yi's suffering. Yue Hua stopped Charles from repeatedly striking his head, while Su Yi recognized Charles as dangerous and regarded Yue Hua as dangerous too.

• Charles bribed a guard to arrange a private meeting with Yue Hua and brought Su Yi upstairs.
• Charles knelt before Yue Hua and claimed Su Yi was his illegitimate son, recounting a fabricated tale of neglect and hardship.
• Yue Hua felt disgust toward Charles and pity for Su Yi, while Su Yi silently judged Charles's convincing performance.
• Charles begged Yue Hua to take Su Yi in, then repeatedly struck his head against the floor until his forehead bled.
• Yue Hua enveloped Charles and Su Yi in a halo that stopped Charles, and Su Yi felt unusually peaceful and marked Yue Hua as dangerous.

Tang Yuehua accepted Su Yi as her direct disciple and began teaching him noble etiquette, starting with how to smile. Su Yi remained wary and emotionless, leaving Tang Yuehua to shape his face into a smile for him.

• Tang Yuehua used her Noble Ring domain, and Su Yi recognized her as a dangerous counter to his assassin instincts.
• Tang Yuehua accepted Su Yi as her direct disciple and told Marquis Charles that Su Yi would live at Moonlight Pavilion.
• Charles said goodbye to Su Yi, who showed no response, then left the room.
• Tang Yuehua tried to comfort Su Yi and explained that she would teach him etiquette, music, and emotional control.
• Tang Yuehua began Su Yi’s first lesson by asking him to smile; when he said he did not know how, she shaped his face into a smile with her hands.

Bibi Dong learned that Su Yi had become Tang Yuehua's direct disciple, and Tang Yuehua began teaching him to smile and study music in hopes of softening his cold demeanor. Su Yi found calm in her guqin performance, though his body remained tense.

• Yue Guan reported to Bibi Dong that Su Yi had entered Moon Pavilion and become Tang Yuehua's direct disciple.
• For three days, Tang Yuehua personally taught Su Yi to smile, but his cold eyes made his smile look frighteningly false.
• Tang Yuehua explained that music might help soften Su Yi's temperament and brought a guqin to his room.
• Tang Yuehua played under her Noble Ring domain, and Su Yi's eyes grew serene, though the rest of his body did not fully relax.

Su Yi spent two years studying music and noble etiquette under Tang Yuehua, growing into a composed young man who concealed his indifference behind a gentle manner. As he prepared for the graduation ceremony, he told Tang Yuehua that he already had someone he wanted to protect for life, then hurried off to class.

• Tang Yuehua discovered Su Yi's musical talent and brought him to study with noble youths, where the girls tried unsuccessfully to make him speak and the boys resented his status as her Direct Disciple.
• Bibi Dong asked Yue Guan whether news had arrived from Heaven Dou Imperial City; after hearing that none had, she dismissed him and later fell asleep in the Pope's Chair.
• Nearly two years passed, and Tang Yuehua asked the now-grown Su Yi to perform at the students' graduation ceremony.
• Su Yi assured Tang Yuehua that he would not disgrace her and told her someone already held his heart, whom he wished to protect for life.
• Tang Yuehua guessed that he meant Xue Qing, but Su Yi declined to answer and hurried toward class with her following.

Bibi Dong learned that Su Yi had transformed and would return after Moonlight Pavilion’s Graduation Ceremony, so she traveled there in disguise to see him. At the ceremony, she recognized Su Yi in his custom tailcoat and was delighted that he noticed her.

• Yue Guan told Bibi Dong that Su Yi would perform at Moonlight Pavilion’s Graduation Ceremony and could return afterward, while Nana had advanced to Soul Ancestor.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to prepare a carriage so they could bring Su Yi back, then arranged invitations through Charles and planned to attend in disguise.
• Tang Yuehua checked Su Yi’s preparations before the ceremony, and Su Yi showed her the custom-made black tailcoat he had designed.
• Su Yi arrived at the Graduation Ceremony with Tang Yuehua, drawing amazed reactions from the audience.
• Bibi Dong and Yue Guan recognized Su Yi from their seats, and Bibi Dong realized he had noticed her.

Su Yi performed at Moon Pavilion’s Graduation Ceremony, then said goodbye to Tang Yuehua and reunited with Bibi Dong and Yue Guan. After leaving the hall, he confronted a servant boy who had secretly followed him.

• Su Yi played the guqin at the Graduation Ceremony, earning enthusiastic applause while Bibi Dong and Tang Yuehua watched proudly.
• Su Yi told Tang Yuehua he was leaving to protect someone, and she embraced him before letting him go.
• Su Yi thanked Tang Yuehua for teaching him over the past two years, bowed, and left Moon Pavilion after she called him her pride.
• Su Yi met Bibi Dong and Yue Guan in an alley and reassured Bibi Dong that he was still her disciple.
• Su Yi suddenly appeared outside the alley wall before a servant boy who had followed him, startling the boy.

Su Yi reunited with Bibi Dong and Yue Guan in Heaven Dou Imperial City after killing a servant who had followed him. A golden-haired youth revealed his desire to take Su Yi from Bibi Dong, then disappeared into the darkness.

• Su Yi killed the servant who had followed him and told Bibi Dong and Yue Guan that the tail had been dealt with.
• Bibi Dong asked Su Yi about his cultivation, and he said he was Soul Power level 30 without a Soul Ring because he had focused on learning other things.
• Su Yi sensed someone hiding in the alley and nearly struck the golden-haired youth with his Chaos Supreme Gun before Bibi Dong stopped him.
• The golden-haired youth argued with Bibi Dong, then offered Su Yi a future as Spirit Hall's Pope if he joined him.
• Bibi Dong seized the youth by the throat, but Su Yi and Yue Guan intervened before Bibi Dong released him.
• The youth vowed to take Su Yi away from Bibi Dong and vanished into the darkness.

Bibi Dong and Su Yi left Heavenly Capital Imperial City together, and Su Yi comforted her without pressing her to explain her heartbreak. Afterward, the disguised golden-haired youth revealed herself as Qian Renxue and became determined to claim Su Yi as her future partner.

• Bibi Dong asked Su Yi whether he had missed her, and he said he had not because he knew he would return.
• Su Yi told Bibi Dong he would help her deal with the golden-haired youth if she wanted him killed, then sat beside her in the carriage.
• The golden-haired youth entered a hidden underground chamber and removed his disguise, revealing herself as Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue recalled becoming curious about Su Yi, seeing him at Moon Pavilion, and sensing that their martial souls could form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Qian Renxue decided Su Yi was her perfect match and future partner, and said she intended to take him from Bibi Dong.

Bibi Dong brought Su Yi to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his third soul ring. After absorbing an eight-thousand-year soul ring, Su Yi gained a new support skill and increased the weight of his Chaos Supreme Gun.

• Yue Guan was delighted when Su Yi called him Uncle Yue, but his teasing about Nana made Su Yi ask Bibi Dong if he could kill him.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to find a soul beast, then asked Su Yi whether he was pretending around her; Su Yi said he was sincere with her.
• Yue Guan returned with an eight-thousand-year Gravity Maniac Rhino, and Su Yi killed it with his black dragon-headed iron spear.
• Su Yi absorbed the purple soul ring, rose from level 30 to level 32, and gained the support skill Gravity Burst Flow.
• Su Yi told Bibi Dong and Yue Guan that the soul ring also increased the weight of his Chaos Supreme Gun by two thousand jin without affecting him.

Under the stars, Bibi Dong told Su Yi how her teacher had abused and imprisoned her, separating her from the man she loved, and revealed that she was Xue Qinghe’s mother. Su Yi pledged to protect her and blamed the world for her suffering, leaving Bibi Dong stunned by his loyalty.

• Bibi Dong asked Su Yi to listen to her story while Yue Guan moved away to give them privacy.
• Bibi Dong recounted how she had fallen in love with the Grandmaster, her teacher had assaulted and imprisoned her, and she had given birth to his child.
• Bibi Dong revealed that she had killed her teacher and that the golden-haired Xue Qinghe was her daughter in disguise.
• Su Yi offered to find the man Bibi Dong had loved, but she said she already knew where he was hiding.
• Su Yi told Bibi Dong he would protect her and said the world, not she, was filthy, leaving her stunned.