Chapter Summaries

At Mingdu Great Stadium, Long Yuan and Gu Yuena prepared for the Martial Arts Tournament to Recruit a Spouse while Tang Wulin watched with murderous resentment. Gu Yuena made a brief public appearance, then joined Long Yuan on the rostrum as the tournament began.

• Gu Yuena learned that Tang Wulin had used Disguise Art to conceal his identity, while Long Yuan embraced and kissed her before leaving for the screening test.
• Long Yuan appeared on the giant screen as a Spirit Pagoda participant, then concealed himself with his control of space.
• Tang Wulin saw Long Yuan and resolved to kill him, believing Long Yuan had taken what should have been his.
• The stadium presented a promotional video of Gu Yuena, then invited her to address the crowd.
• Gu Yuena appeared in the air, thanked the audience, and vanished after two brief sentences.
• Gu Yuena reappeared on the rostrum beside Qian Gu Dong Feng and Qiangu Zhangting, with Long Yuan seated beside her.

Gu Yuena explained why the Spirit Pagoda should promote her new Spirit Ascension Fluid as the prize for the Martial Arts Tournament to Recruit a Spouse. Long Yuan went to take the competition tests, while Qian Gu Dong Feng underestimated his strength and left to deal with a report about an unexploded Godslayer Soul Cannon Shell.

• Qiangu Zhangting praised Gu Yuena, questioned Long Yuan’s presence, and headed to the testing area, determined to win the tournament.
• Gu Yuena convinced Qian Gu Dong Feng that offering Spirit Ascension Fluid as a prize would promote the product and strengthen the Spirit Pagoda; he agreed to cover the prize expenses.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng spoke of arranging Gu Yuena’s marriage to Qiangu Zhangting and handing the Spirit Pagoda to them, while Gu Yuena silently reacted with an icy glint in her eyes.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng criticized Long Yuan for lacking recognition and judged his cultivation to be around Soul Douluo level; Long Yuan bowed and went to the testing area.
• Gu Yuena told Qian Gu Dong Feng that Long Yuan was as strong as she was, but he dismissed her claim and left after receiving a call about the missing Godslayer Soul Cannon Shell.

Qian Gu Dong Feng learned that the Spirit Pagoda had recovered the unexploded Godslayer Soul Cannon Shell, while Soul Masters began testing for the Martial Arts Tournament to Recruit a Spouse. Long Yuan met Lan Fozi in the testing line and began his Soul Power test.

• Qian Gu Dong Feng ordered his people to secretly transport the recovered Godslayer Soul Cannon Shell to Spirit Pagoda Headquarters and store it in a secret chamber.
• The tournament's first test began at Mingdu's Great Stadium, where contestants used Electronic Cards to record their results privately.
• Tang Wulin imagined winning the tournament, taking Gu Yuena away, and using the event's publicity to benefit the Tang Sect.
• Lan Fozi introduced himself to Long Yuan while they waited in line, and Long Yuan recognized him as someone connected to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Lan Fozi completed the Soul Power test, then Long Yuan stepped up and sensed how the device measured Soul Power through bodily stress responses.

Long Yuan and Lan Fozi both scored ten points in the first test, then competed in a speed-and-agility test that Long Yuan completed with a perfect score. They headed to the third testing area, where Lan Fozi vowed to beat him.

• Long Yuan earned ten points in the first test, and Lan Fozi showed him that he had also received ten.
• Lan Fozi used a strange technique to cross the speed-test corridor, avoiding all but three light-and-shadow attacks and earning nine points.
• Long Yuan appeared beside Lan Fozi almost instantly, avoiding the attacks and earning ten points.
• Lan Fozi was stunned by Long Yuan's performance and declared that he would win back the point in the third test.
• Long Yuan and Lan Fozi headed toward the third testing area and saw an alloy stone stele.

Long Yuan and Lan Fozi took the strength test, where Long Yuan’s casual punch sent the tester beyond its highest mark. After Lan Fozi asked about Long Yuan’s control of space, Long Yuan explained how it boosted his speed.

• Lan Fozi questioned why Soul Masters were being tested on strength, then agreed to go first.
• Lan Fozi punched the Strength Tester and earned a score above the previous best, reaching the seventh mark.
• Long Yuan casually punched the tester, sending its light past the top and earning a displayed score of ten despite exceeding the device’s scale.
• Lan Fozi praised Long Yuan but was unsettled by his perfect scores across the first three stages.
• Lan Fozi asked about Long Yuan’s speed in the second stage, and Long Yuan explained that it came from controlling the Space Mysteries.

Long Yuan and Lan Fozi reached the martial soul assessment, where both revealed enough power to earn perfect scores. Long Yuan suspected Lan Fozi was hiding his true martial soul and considered Tang Wulin’s Sea God Power a potential threat in the tournament.

• Lan Fozi told Long Yuan that his martial soul used a turbocharger, then followed him to the fourth stage.
• Lan Fozi released his martial soul, overwhelming the testing instruments with his power, and claimed his martial soul was a vortex.
• The judges gave Lan Fozi a perfect score after learning he had Titled Douluo strength at age twenty-five.
• Long Yuan released his chaotic-colored dragon martial soul and also received a perfect score.
• Long Yuan noticed Tang Wulin in the crowd and resolved to prepare for the possibility that he would use Sea God Power.

Long Yuan and Lan Fozi argued over their shared desire to win Gu Yuena, then competed in the tournament’s Spiritual Power test. Both reached the Spirit Domain Realm and earned full marks, intensifying Lan Fozi’s rivalry with Long Yuan.

• Lan Fozi asked Long Yuan whether he had entered the tournament for Gu Yuena or its prizes, and Long Yuan admitted he wanted Gu Yuena while also planning to win as many prizes as possible.
• Lan Fozi declared that he loved Gu Yuena and would risk his life to win her, while Long Yuan calmly accepted him as a rival and promised to go easy on him.
• Long Yuan reflected that the Spirit Pagoda’s tournament was also intended to hunt Tang Wulin, counter damage to the Spirit Pagoda’s reputation, and assess the Douluo Federation’s younger generation.
• At the fifth-round Spiritual Power test, Long Yuan sensed that Lan Fozi had Spirit Domain Realm Spiritual Power and then released his own power to the same realm while concealing his God Origin Realm ability.
• A Spirit Pagoda staff member recognized Long Yuan as Sky Phoenix Douluo Leng Yaozhu’s disciple, and both Long Yuan and Lan Fozi received ten points for reaching the Spirit Domain Realm.
• Lan Fozi reacted angrily to Long Yuan matching his Spiritual Power, while the staff praised both competitors’ potential to become Limit Douluo.

Qian Gu Dong Feng learned that Long Yuan had reached the Spirit Domain Realm and worried about Qiangu Zhangting’s chances in the tournament, while Gu Yuena reassured him that she would choose for herself. After the committee awarded Long Yuan and Lan Fozi five bonus points each, Lan Fozi remained four points behind Long Yuan and grew dejected.

• A staff member told Qian Gu Dong Feng that Long Yuan had Spirit Domain Realm Spiritual Power and Titled Douluo-level strength, and Qian Gu Dong Feng reacted with disbelief and concern.
• Gu Yuena explained that Long Yuan concealed his aura, while Qian Gu Dong Feng said Qiangu Zhangting should earn a deserved victory and ordered an investigation into Lan Fozi.
• Gu Yuena admitted that Long Yuan seemed to have no feelings for her, then turned away from the testing area and cultivated.
• Long Yuan kept a perfect score across five trials, while Lan Fozi lost a point in one trial and scored seven in the strength test, leaving him four points behind.
• The tournament committee awarded Lan Fozi and Long Yuan five additional points each, but Lan Fozi remained four points behind Long Yuan and became dejected.

Long Yuan earned a perfect score in the forging trial, while Qiangu Zhangting advanced with a score of seven in mecha repair. Tang Wulin declared his intention to defeat Qiangu Zhangting and win Gu Yuena, as Long Yuan and Lan Fozi began the mecha-control trial.

• Long Yuan displayed Seventh Level forging skill and received ten points, while Lan Fozi went to the Mecha Manufacturer section.
• Qiangu Zhangting scored seven points in mecha repair and advanced to the Seventh Trial after learning that Long Yuan and Lan Fozi had Spirit Domain Realm Spiritual Power.
• Tang Wulin told another contestant that Qiangu Zhangting was Qian Gu Dong Feng's grandson and vowed to defeat him, using his remaining Sea God Power if necessary, to win the tournament and marry Gu Yuena.
• Long Yuan and Lan Fozi arrived at the mecha-control trial, where Lan Fozi admitted that he had never learned to control a mecha.
• Qiangu Zhangting boarded a mecha to begin the airborne control assessment as judges prepared to score the contestants.

Long Yuan and Qiangu Zhangting completed their Mecha Control tests, with Qiangu Zhangting demonstrating exceptional skill before Long Yuan tackled the S-Shape Phantom Assault. Long Yuan finished the course in one second without touching a light beam, earning full marks and stunning the spectators.

• Qiangu Zhangting drew Double-Variant Sudden Rush and executed the difficult maneuver with exceptional speed and control.
• Long Yuan drew S-Shape Phantom Assault and prepared to guide a Yellow-Grade Mecha through the narrow aerial course.
• Long Yuan shot through the S-shaped route without touching its light beams and pierced the recording alloy plate in one second.
• The judge awarded Long Yuan full marks, while Lan Fozi and the spectators reacted with shock.

Long Yuan and Lan Fozi entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform, where contestants had to survive attacks from Soul Beasts in a simulated world. Long Yuan arrived in a lush Small World resembling the Star Dou Great Forest, subdued an Azure Jade Bird, and began exploring as he considered the Douluo Federation’s plans to seek new places to live.

• Lan Fozi learned that the Eighth Level took place inside the newly developed Ten Thousand Beasts Platform, and he followed Long Yuan through its entrance.
• Long Yuan examined the stable spatial teleportation and reached the platform’s Small World, which resembled the Star Dou Great Forest.
• An Azure Jade Bird dived at Long Yuan, but he caught it with a phantom Dragon Claw and released it after warning it to watch its opponent.
• Long Yuan walked deeper into the life-filled world and reflected on the Douluo Federation’s plans to invade nearby empires and explore space for habitable planets.

Long Yuan reflected on protecting Douluo Star and condemned Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect as he explored the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform. After rescuing a giant ape from a Soul Douluo, he continued observing the area.

• Long Yuan considered the Seed of Life’s safety in the Dragon God Realm and criticized Tang Wulin, Shrek Academy, and the Tang Sect.
• A Soul Douluo attacked a giant ape with his Flame Battle Axe, and Long Yuan intervened to stop him.
• The Soul Douluo tried to overpower Long Yuan, but Long Yuan used Fire Element Control to turn the man’s flames against him.
• The platform’s laws teleported the badly burned Soul Douluo to the Eighth Level exit, where Spirit Pagoda staff took him for treatment.
• The giant ape escaped, and Long Yuan continued exploring the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform.

Lan Fozi encountered Nightmare Man-Eating Flowers in the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform and struggled against their poisonous fragrance. Elsewhere, Long Yuan drove off soul beasts with his powerful Dragon Might and demonstrated the countless combinations of his Soul Skills.

• Lan Fozi approached a patch of giant flowers, unaware they were Nightmare Man-Eating Flowers.
• Lan Fozi repelled a flower’s attack, then used his Spiritual Power to resist its paralyzing Nightmare Toxin and fled.
• Long Yuan’s Progenitor Dragon Blood Energy frightened nearby soul beasts into fleeing.
• Long Yuan defeated a ten-thousand-year Lion Mastiff Howl with his Ancestor Dragon Terrorclaw.
• Long Yuan, now a rank ninety-nine Quasi-God, could freely combine his thirty-six Soul Skills with fourteen elements.

Long Yuan discovered Lan Fozi unconscious after her destructive Spiritual Domain erupted and learned she had been poisoned by Nightmare Toxin. He concealed them from others and began removing her clothes so Aromatic Silk Beauty could detoxify her, leaving the treatment underway.

• Long Yuan sensed a Spiritual Domain that devoured Spiritual Power and found Lan Fozi surrounded by lifeless Soul Beasts.
• Lan Fozi collapsed as her Black Hole-like Spiritual Domain vanished, and Long Yuan examined her disordered meridians.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty identified the Nightmare Toxin and explained that she needed Lan Fozi's clothes removed to draw it out.
• Long Yuan concealed himself and Lan Fozi by distorting space, then undressed her to prepare for the detoxification.

Long Yuan detoxified the poisoned Lan Fozi, who woke while he was trying to dress her and attacked him after finding herself exposed. After he explained what happened and concealed her so she could dress, he released the space and saw her return to her convincing male disguise.

• Aromatic Silk Beauty expelled the Nightmare Toxin from Lan Fozi while Long Yuan prepared to dress her.
• Lan Fozi woke, struck at Long Yuan, and found herself naked after he accidentally pressed his hand against her chest while restraining her.
• Long Yuan explained that he had removed her clothes to detoxify her and reminded her that he had saved her from the Nightmare Toxin.
• Lan Fozi recalled being poisoned and overwhelmed by Soul Beasts, then accepted that Long Yuan had helped her and put on her clothes inside his concealed space.
• Lan Fozi tried and failed to break the space before Long Yuan dismissed it, revealing her flawless male disguise.

Long Yuan agreed to protect the injured Lan Fozi until she recovered, then left her and appeared in another forest. There, he heard cattle lowing from a mist-covered lake and began investigating its source.

• Lan Fozi asked Long Yuan to keep what he had discovered secret and protect her while she recovered, and he agreed after healing her finger.
• Vines entangled Lan Fozi, and Long Yuan freed her and lent her Soul Power so she could recover through cultivation.
• Lan Fozi cultivated for three hours, regained most of her strength, and thanked Long Yuan, who immediately left.
• Long Yuan appeared in another forest, heard cattle lowing, and approached a small emerald-green lake shrouded in water mist.
• Long Yuan concealed his aura and used his Spiritual Power to observe the lake after its mooing stopped and ripples spread across the water.

Long Yuan fought off the Titan Giant Ape and discovered that the other Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast in the Forbidden Zone was the Sky Azure Bull Python. As the two prepared to attack together, he recognized them as the former overlords of the Star Dou Great Forest and wondered whether he should preserve the Divine Armor forging legacy.

• Long Yuan withstood the gale, struck an unseen attacker into the lake, and then knocked a giant ape away from him.
• The giant ape launched a barrage of punches, but Long Yuan redirected its attacks with Space Element Control and suppressed it with his Progenitor Dragon Bloodline.
• Officials monitoring the Forbidden Zone discussed reporting Long Yuan’s presence and sealing the news if he could not escape.
• A water tornado formed, and Long Yuan identified the serpent-bodied, bull-headed Soul Beast as the Sky Azure Bull Python and the giant ape as the Titan Giant Ape.
• Long Yuan recalled that the two Soul Beasts had once been sacrificed to Little Bum, while the Sky Azure Bull Python raised her claws and unleashed a strange power resembling the Domination Domain.

Long Yuan overwhelmed the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape with his Dragon Kings and Progenitor Dragon Bloodline, then left without harming them. Meanwhile, Gu Yuena returned to cultivate, and Qian Gu Dong Feng reflected on his lost son and his determination to pursue greater power.

• Long Yuan summoned the Mountain Dragon King and Fire Dragon King, who seized the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape and hurled them into craters.
• The two Kings of the Forest recognized Long Yuan’s powerful dragon bloodline, wondered who he was, and considered whether Tang San had left him behind as a seed.
• Observers discussed the Forbidden Zone falling quiet and hoped the person inside could leave alive with their memories erased.
• Gu Yuena asked Qian Gu Dong Feng to return to cultivation, and he allowed her to leave while celebrating Qiangu Zhangting’s perfect score and the tournament’s growing influence.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng remembered his son’s death in a collapsed Small World and reaffirmed his resolve to reach a level where he could control fate.

Long Yuan escaped the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform’s Forbidden Zone and learned that the Spirit Pagoda’s environment had evolved his spirits and herbs. After he spotted the badly injured Tang Wulin, the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape realized Tang Wulin might be Tang San and Xiao Wu’s son and decided to protect him.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape saw a mysterious woman leave after confirming Long Yuan had disappeared, then stayed behind to guard the resurrected Soul Beasts.
• Long Yuan opened a spatial passage out of the Forbidden Zone after sparring with its powerful Soul Beasts without killing them.
• Long Yuan feigned confusion to a Spirit Pagoda staff member, learned that the platform could evolve Soul Spirits, and received full marks for his time inside.
• Long Yuan saw staff members carry out the barely breathing Tang Wulin and recognized him.
• The Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python concluded Tang Wulin might be Tang San and Xiao Wu’s son, then agreed that the Titan Giant Ape would leave to find and mark him for protection.

After the Spirit Pagoda revealed the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform, its reputation rose while public pressure against the Tang Sect intensified. The Martial Arts Tournament advanced to the Elimination Round, and Long Yuan walked through Mingdu with Na'er and Gu Yue, hiding their appearances.

• More than a hundred Soul Masters saw their Yellow Grade Soul Spirits evolve into Purple Grade Soul Spirits after leaving the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform.
• The Spirit Pagoda announced that the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform could enhance Soul Spirits over time, drawing worldwide attention and boosting its reputation.
• Articles blamed the Tang Sect and the failed war for resource shortages, and some people demanded that the Federation eradicate the Tang Sect.
• The tournament advanced to the Elimination Round, with a little over sixteen hundred contestants qualifying for four rounds of elimination.
• Long Yuan strolled through Mingdu with Na'er and Gu Yue, using Space Power to conceal them from onlookers.
• Na'er asked Long Yuan to buy her candied hawthorns, while Gu Yue teased her for acting like a child.