Chapter Summaries

Su Tianyu saved Shui Bing’er and her companions from a Pink Fox in the Star Dou Great Forest, then told them their teacher had been killed by a Violent Gold Bear. Shui Bing’er grieved but resolved to become stronger, while Su Tianyu stayed with the group.

• Su Tianyu used Spatial Wind Tunnel to divert the Pink Fox’s mist and protect Shui Bing’er, Shui Yue’er, and their three companions.
• Su Tianyu used Spatial Distortion to crush the Pink Fox into powder.
• Shui Yue’er and Shui Bing’er introduced themselves to Su Tianyu, who asked whether he could help them hunt Soul Beasts.
• Shui Bing’er revealed that their teacher had stayed behind to hold off a twenty-thousand-year-old Violent Gold Bear while the students fled.
• Su Tianyu told the five young women that the Violent Gold Bear had swallowed their teacher, and they broke down in grief.
• Su Tianyu urged the students to grow stronger, and Shui Bing’er wiped away her tears and resolved to protect her friends and family.

Su Tianyu led Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and the other Skywater Academy girls safely out of the Star Dou Great Forest after five exhausting days of travel. He brought them to a flower-filled valley to camp, where the group prepared to eat his grilled fish.

• Su Tianyu guided the girls through the forest until they reached its entrance five days later.
• Shui Bing'er checked on her exhausted sister, while the three older girls teased her about riding on Su Tianyu's back.
• Su Tianyu led the group to a flower-filled valley he said was safe from Soul Beasts.
• The girls pitched their tents and admired the valley as Su Tianyu grilled fish over a campfire.
• Shui Bing'er called Shui Yue'er and the other girls over to eat.

Su Tianyu comforted Shui Bing'er by taking her into the sky to admire the stars and the glowing flower valley, where she kissed him. The next morning, he left Star Dou Town while Shui Bing'er watched reluctantly, heading toward Haagen-Dazs City.

• Shui Yue'er rushed over to eat Su Tianyu's grilled fish, and he persuaded Shui Bing'er to be patient with her sister.
• Shui Bing'er told Su Tianyu that she had rarely enjoyed her childhood and said she would not be lonely with him beside her.
• Su Tianyu carried Shui Bing'er into the night sky, where she admired the stars and kissed him.
• Shui Yue'er and the other girls spotted Su Tianyu and Shui Bing'er flying above the flower valley, and Shui Yue'er realized she had missed their departure from the table.
• Su Tianyu left Star Dou Town the next morning and headed toward Haagen-Dazs City.

Su Tianyu attended the Starlight Auction House in Haagen-Dazs City, hoping to find treasures or valuable metals, but the first items did not interest him. The fifteenth item was a Hundred Treasure Purse that could keep medicinal herbs fresh, just what he needed for his planned trip to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Su Tianyu followed the crowds to the Starlight Auction House and passed the entry check with a balance of 230,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Wang Qianqian opened the auction with a Three-Leaf Soul Grass, which an old man won after bidding from a private room.
• Su Tianyu grew puzzled as the auction offered several items without any metals he wanted.
• Wang Qianqian introduced the fifteenth item, a Hundred Treasure Purse that preserved medicinal herbs at their freshly picked potency.

The auction for the Hundred Treasure Purse escalated from a quarrel between Yang Tao and Qian Er to a hundred-thousand-Gold-Soul-Coin bid from a noble in a private room. When the commoner Soul Masters fell silent, Su Tianyu bid 120,000 Gold Soul Coins, drawing everyone’s attention.

• Yang Tao bid 40,000 Gold Soul Coins, and Qian Er answered with 51,000 before the two argued until Wang Qianqian warned them to stop.
• A young noble in a private room bid 100,000 Gold Soul Coins, and the commoner Soul Masters in the hall fell silent.
• Li Ergou criticized the commoners for praising the nobles, while Su Tianyu worried that Li Ergou’s outspoken words could put him in danger.
• Su Tianyu bid 120,000 Gold Soul Coins for the Hundred Treasure Purse, and the hall turned to stare at him.

Su Tianyu won the Hundred Treasure Purse at auction, then left the city knowing nobles might target him. Li Dabao and Hu Bing followed him outside Haagen-Dazs City and chased him for their own amusement.

• Li Dabao and Hu Bing planned to rob Su Tianyu after he left the city, intending to take the Hundred Treasure Purse and his other valuables.
• Su Tianyu won the Hundred Treasure Purse for 120,000 Gold Soul Coins when the nobles stopped bidding.
• An unnamed commoner Soul Master warned Su Tianyu that nobles might rob him outside the city, then left the auction.
• Su Tianyu collected the purse, tested it with a piece of fruit, and paid for it before leaving the auction house.
• Li Dabao and Hu Bing chased Su Tianyu outside the city as Li Dabao taunted him to keep running.

Su Tianyu lured Li Dabao and Hu Bing into the Soul Beast Forest, where Hu Bing exposed him with his Blood Bat Perception. After revealing his powerful Soul Rings, Su Tianyu attacked as Li Erbao tried to flee, leaving the forest covered by his illusion domain.

• Su Tianyu entered the Soul Beast Forest, turned invisible, and hid in the bushes while Li Dabao and Hu Bing pursued him.
• Li Dabao ordered Hu Bing to search for Su Tianyu, and Hu Bing used Blood Bat Perception to force him out of hiding.
• Hu Bing attacked Su Tianyu with Blood Bat Claw, but Su Tianyu dodged the strike and avoided the shattered tree.
• Su Tianyu revealed his yellow, purple, and purple Soul Rings, shocking Hu Bing with his Second Soul Ring.
• Su Tianyu saw Li Erbao try to run and activated Golden Pupil Illusory Realm, covering a five-hundred-meter area of the forest.

Su Tianyu killed Li Erbao and Hu Bing with Spatial Distortion, then continued toward Heaven Dou City. After resting in a small town, he went to a carriage agency to arrange transport.

• Li Erbao and Hu Bing defended against Su Tianyu's Mental Shock with their soul skills.
• Su Tianyu trapped the two with Spatial Distortion, immobilized them, and crushed them to death.
• Su Tianyu left the forest and walked two hundred miles toward Heaven Dou City before stopping in a small town to eat and sleep.
• The next morning, Su Tianyu asked the innkeeper where to find a carriage agency and went to one on the town's south side.
• Su Tianyu entered a relatively clean carriage shop and saw a middle-aged man asleep on a rocking chair.

Su Tianyu traveled to Heaven Dou City to gather information about Dugu Bo’s movements and find a chance to steal Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After exploring the capital, he entered the lavish Heaven Dou Royal Restaurant by revealing his three Soul Rings.

• Su Tianyu rented a carriage from Yao Jie and reached Heaven Dou City after ten days of travel.
• Su Tianyu entered the capital, checked into a hotel, and planned to learn when Dugu Bo left and returned.
• Su Tianyu explored the city and asked a passerby where to find its most luxurious restaurant.
• A young attendant told Su Tianyu he needed a reservation or proof that he was a Soul Master to enter the Heaven Dou Royal Restaurant.
• Su Tianyu displayed three disguised Soul Rings, and the attendant let him inside.
• Su Tianyu admired the restaurant’s golden, palace-like interior.

Su Tianyu learned that Qian Renxue’s apprenticeship banquet would begin in ten days and planned to use Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s absence to steal the Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He then went to pay for his tea and was shocked by its price.

• Su Tianyu overheard Zhang Long and Wu Hao discussing the royal family’s five-day banquet for Xue Qinghe’s apprenticeship to Ning Fengzhi and speculating that it was meant to warn the nobles.
• Su Tianyu concluded that Dugu Bo would bring Dugu Yan to the banquet, giving him a chance to enter Sunset Forest and take the Immortal Herbs.
• Su Tianyu imagined how the herbs could improve his cultivation and talent, perhaps helping him awaken his Martial Soul again and pursue godhood.
• Su Tianyu went to settle his bill, then challenged the young woman at the counter when she said his tea cost five Gold Soul Coins.

Su Tianyu searched for a useful map in Heaven Dou City and bought a map showing routes into Sunset Forest and known Soul Beast areas. He left the shop with the map and spent the evening enjoying the city streets.

• Su Tianyu entered a map shop and rejected a map that only covered Heaven Dou City.
• Su Tianyu asked for a map of Soul Beast distributions in Sunset Forest, and the shopkeeper explained that he only had a rough map of routes into the forest.
• Su Tianyu inspected the Sunset Forest map, which marked routes, discovered Soul Beast areas, and paths to avoid them.
• Su Tianyu paid twenty Gold Soul Coins for the map and stored it in his Soul Tool.
• Su Tianyu bought candied hawthorns from a peddler and watched Heaven Dou City's streets grow busy as night fell.

Su Tianyu traveled through the Sunset Forest and found the poisonous valley containing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He reached the summit overlooking the well, where Immortal Herbs grew around its divided ice-and-fire lake.

• Su Tianyu left Heaven Dou City and headed for the Sunset Forest, racing to find the well before his five-day deadline.
• Su Tianyu entered the forest, killed a Soft Boned Charm Rabbit, and stored its body in his Soul Tool.
• Su Tianyu followed his map through the mixed Soul Beast zone and searched the mountain range for Dugu Bo’s poisonous mist.
• Su Tianyu found the bone-strewn valley, used his Spatial Wind Tunnel Soul Skill to clear a path through the poisonous mist, and entered.
• Su Tianyu teleported to the summit and looked down at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the Immortal Herbs growing around it.

At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Su Tianyu absorbed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, enduring their opposing powers as they balanced in his body. By morning, the herbs had triggered a Silver-Level Second Awakening of his eye Martial Soul, granting him immense strength and the Spatial Reordering Domain.

• Su Tianyu admired the Immortal Herbs in Dugu Bo’s valley, cleared his thoughts, and broke through to Soul Power level thirty-three.
• Su Tianyu stripped off his clothes and Soul Tool, then braved the well’s ice and fire energies to cut and combine the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Su Tianyu ate the combined Immortal Herb and spent the night soaking in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as its spring water helped balance the medicinal power in his body.
• At dawn, Su Tianyu emerged from the well and discovered that his eye Martial Soul had undergone a Silver-Level Second Awakening, gaining Innate Full Soul Power and greater physical strength.
• Su Tianyu released his Spatial Reordering Domain, which sealed space within three hundred meters and suppressed enemies with spatial pressure and gravity.

Su Tianyu harvested the Immortal Herbs growing around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, filling his Hundred Treasure Purse while leaving Dugu Bo’s own cultivated medicinal and poisonous herbs. He then consumed the dewdrops from the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, which could increase spiritual power.

• Su Tianyu collected the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and joked that Chrysanthemum Douluo and Dugu Bo would never discover he had taken it.
• Su Tianyu harvested the Aromatic Silk Beauty and identified other Immortal Herbs he intended to keep for himself or potentially give to future companions.
• Su Tianyu took every other Immortal Herb and spirit herb in the basin, leaving only the herbs Dugu Bo had cultivated himself.
• Su Tianyu drank the dewdrops from the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, causing the herb to wither into ash.

After refining Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, Su Tianyu advanced his Purple Demon Eye to the Mustard Seed Realm and collected the Lovesick Heartbreak Red. He escaped Dugu Bo’s poison barrier, planning to cure the old poison and rely on him for help hunting Soul Rings.

• Su Tianyu refined the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, advancing his Purple Demon Eye to the Mustard Seed Realm.
• Su Tianyu collected the Lovesick Heartbreak Red from the cliff and stored it in his Hundred Treasure Purse.
• Su Tianyu left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after concluding his theft of the Immortal Herbs.
• Su Tianyu passed through Dugu Bo’s poison barrier unharmed and flew away, intending to cure Dugu Bo’s poison and enlist his help.

Su Tianyu hid in a mountain cave for three months to refine the medicinal power of the Immortal Herbs, reaching rank thirty-four and gaining a Silver-Level Awakening for his eye Martial Soul. He left the cave and headed toward Sunset Forest, planning to attract Qian Renxue’s attention by building an undefeated Soul Fighting record in Heaven Dou City.

• Su Tianyu found a cave and killed the black bear Soul Beast sleeping inside, then continued deeper into the cave.
• Su Tianyu began refining part of the Infernal Delicate Apricot and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to suppress the Immortal Herbs’ presence.
• After three months, Su Tianyu completed a breakthrough to rank thirty-four and discovered that his eye Martial Soul had received a Silver-Level Awakening.
• Su Tianyu left the cave, grateful that the black bear’s meat had sustained him, and flew toward the entrance of Sunset Forest.
• Su Tianyu planned to fight in the Great Soul Arena in Heaven Dou City and earn an undefeated record to draw the attention of Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe.

Su Tianyu entered the Heaven Dou City Great Soul Arena to gain practical fighting experience and registered for a same-level sparring match under the name Cloud Heavenly Emperor. He reached the waiting area for Platform Six, where other Soul Masters watched him with curiosity.

• Su Tianyu settled into a hotel in Heaven Dou City, then visited the Great Soul Arena after dark.
• He considered the Arena’s sparring and life-or-death matches and chose sparring as a way to face varied Soul Skills without risking his life.
• Su Tianyu paid the ten-Gold-Soul-Coin registration fee and registered as Cloud Heavenly Emperor, reporting that he wanted an opponent at his level.
• The receptionist gave Su Tianyu an iron medal and directed him to the waiting area for Platform Six.
• Su Tianyu entered the waiting area, and the Soul Masters there looked at him curiously because of his young age.

Su Tianyu entered his first Great Soul Arena match against Zhao Hu, a level-thirty-two Soul Master with the Iron Horn Rhinoceros Martial Soul. He caught Zhao Hu’s charge and used Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon to throw him off the arena.

• Su Tianyu reviewed the Soul Fighting medal points system and planned to win enough consecutive matches to advance to Silver Soul Fighter and attract Qian Renxue’s attention.
• The arena displayed Zhao Hu’s record and abilities while Su Tianyu’s record showed that he was a newcomer.
• Zhao Hu taunted Su Tianyu before both fighters released their Martial Souls and the match began.
• Zhao Hu used his Second Soul Skill, Rhinoceros Wild Charge, and charged at Su Tianyu.
• Su Tianyu caught Zhao Hu’s horn with Mysterious Jade Hand, redirected his force with Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, and threw him off the arena.

Su Tianyu won eighteen consecutive matches at the Great Soul Arena, drawing the attention of Heaven Dou City's factions and Qian Renxue, who was disguised as Xue Qinghe. He entered a private arena for a match before elite spectators, and a robed man asked Qinghe to assess his chances against his opponent.

• Su Tianyu defeated Zhao Hu, won his next match, collected his prize money, and resolved to build his power in Heaven Dou City.
• Over the next nine days, Su Tianyu won two matches each day and noticed spies from Heaven Dou City's factions watching him.
• Su Tianyu spotted lavish carriages outside the Great Soul Arena and entered a private arena where powerful guests watched from rooms above.
• Su Tianyu and the arranged Soul Master took their places on the platform as the host prepared to begin their match.
• A robed man asked Qinghe whether Cloud Heavenly Emperor or the arranged Soul Master was more likely to win.

Qian Renxue and Ning Fengzhi watched Su Tianyu compete against Wang Jie at the Great Soul Arena, each taking an interest in the talented Soul Master. Su Tianyu countered Wang Jie’s attacks with powerful defenses and abilities, leaving Wang Jie astonished as the match continued.

• Qian Renxue grew suspicious and irritated that Spirit Hall had not reported Su Tianyu, while Ning Fengzhi watched him with interest.
• Wang Jie opened the match with Wind-Tearing Claw, but Su Tianyu shattered it with his Mysterious Jade Hand.
• Su Tianyu activated Golden Pupil Illusory Realm, spreading his domain across a five-hundred-meter radius.
• Wang Jie attacked with Demon Wolf Light Blade and Wind Demon Wolf Tornado, and Su Tianyu dodged the blades before using his protective dome to withstand the tornado.
• Su Tianyu teleported out of the tornado’s range, leaving Wang Jie stunned by his ability.