Chapter Summaries

Su Ming completed cleansing his remaining Spirit Rings while preserving the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s essence. He began creating an artificial Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Soul Spirit as his life-bound Soul Spirit, aiming to awaken its devouring power.

• Su Ming sensed Dugu Bo had come to Suotuo City to assist the royal family’s investigation into the Fallen Spirit Masters and saw the commotion as useful cover for his plans.
• During seclusion, Su Ming cleansed his first three remaining Spirit Rings and preserved the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s power for later use.
• Su Ming decided the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger would be his life-bound Soul Spirit and planned to use Votive Power and its life-bound black pearl to create it.
• Su Ming began the creation process, weakening the black pearl’s seal and bringing its energy under his control.

Su Ming completed and bonded with an artificial Dark Demon Evil God Tiger soul spirit, gaining a powerful first soul skill. He tested his new Wind Lightning Wings at Devil's Path and prepared to try his remaining soul skills.

• Su Ming finished creating a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger soul spirit that retained its devouring power and showed affection toward him.
• Su Ming formed a contract with the soul spirit and smoothly absorbed it into his body, strengthening his Qi martial soul without changing its traits.
• Su Ming summoned his first soul skill, Wind Lightning Wings, which boosted his speed and let him create paralyzing afterimages and armor-piercing feathered arrows.
• Su Ming flew to Devil's Path, tested his speed, and summoned another black Spirit Ring to begin testing his remaining soul skills.

Su Ming tested the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s soul skills, including the devastating Soul Devourer Break, and decided to keep its power hidden. He then left to retrieve a major opportunity and prepare a version of the Soul Spirit Contract for wider use.

• Su Ming tested Spatial-Temporal Warp, using its marks to teleport among locations and then retracting them.
• Su Ming unleashed Soul Devourer Break, which drained all life within its range, and considered how its overwhelming power could expose him as a Fallen Spirit Master.
• Su Ming reflected that Soul Spirit Possession let him use Evil God Transformation and could provide new enhancement modes from future soul spirits.
• Su Ming decided to leave rather than return to Shrek Academy, intending to retrieve a major opportunity and compile an ordinary Soul Spirit Contract method.
• Su Ming used Spatial-Temporal Warp to depart for his destination.

Su Ming returned to the Far North Land using Spatial-Temporal Warp to claim a forgotten opportunity and found the sleeping Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. After sealing the soul beast away, he located another deposit of Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Marrow and teleported toward it.

• Su Ming used Spatial-Temporal Warp to return to the Far North Land and Willpower to locate his forgotten opportunity.
• Su Ming found Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sleeping in an underground ice cavern, nearing nine hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• Su Ming sealed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm inside the Sleeve Universe to mature for a future seventh Spirit Ring, then searched the cavern and found no cold marrow remaining.
• Su Ming recalled the Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Marrow in the Earth Dragon Sect's secret land and used Willpower to locate its position.
• Su Ming activated Spatial-Temporal Warp and headed toward the cold marrow.

Su Ming gathered the cold spring water and Extreme Ice Divine Crystals before descending into the cavern to refine its Myriad Year Cold Marrow. After thirteen days, he and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had absorbed seventeen pillars and greatly improved, while twenty-eight pillars remained.

• Su Ming collected the cold spring water, then descended into the newly exposed depths as the surrounding area froze over.
• Su Ming discovered that the cavern was made of Extreme Ice Divine Crystal and collected all of it.
• Su Ming found forty-five pillars of Myriad Year Cold Marrow and began absorbing it with his Evil God Hook and the Dark Demon Evil Tiger soul spirit.
• After thirteen days, Su Ming and the Dark Demon Evil Tiger had absorbed the marrow from seventeen pillars and improved tremendously.

After refining the Myriad Year Cold Marrow, Su Ming and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger gained immense strength, and Su Ming condensed a Soul Core in his Upper Dantian at the Soul King stage. He left the Ten-Thousand Year Ice Cave for the Icebound Forest to obtain his fifth and sixth Spirit Rings.

• Su Ming saw the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's cultivation rise from thirty thousand to three hundred and thirty thousand years, making it a ferocious beast.
• Su Ming recalled the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger so it could digest the remaining origin energy, then inspected his gains from the Myriad Year Cold Marrow.
• Su Ming's Evil God Hook reached one hundred and seventy thousand years and gained the Evil God Armor skill, while his Soul Power reached level 60.
• Su Ming examined the Soul Core he had condensed in his Upper Dantian, becoming the first soul master on the current Douluo Continent to form one, and doing so at the Soul King stage.
• Su Ming decided to head to the Icebound Forest to fill his fifth and sixth Spirit Ring slots, then used Spatial-Temporal Warp to leave the Ten-Thousand Year Ice Cave.

Su Ming arrived in the Icebound Forest to seek a Mirror Image Beast for his fifth Spirit Ring, while Fatu and his juniors fled after mistaking Su Ming for a Titled Douluo. After searching the forest, Su Ming settled on its strongest Mirror Image Beast and prepared to contact it through his Spatial-Temporal Mark.

• Su Ming appeared before Fatu and his juniors with his aura unrestrained, and Fatu hurriedly led them away after taking him for a Titled Douluo.
• Su Ming entered the Icebound Forest to search for a Mirror Image Beast, hoping to obtain another powerful soul skill or find a Hundred-Thousand-Year beast willing to become his soul spirit.
• Su Ming found a Mirror Image Beast with more than thirty thousand years of cultivation and placed a Spatial-Temporal Mark on it as a backup.
• Su Ming searched the forest for a day and chose a fifty-thousand-year Mirror Image Beast as his best available target.
• Su Ming prepared to use his Spatial-Temporal Mark to enter the Mirror Image Beast's spiritual sea and speak with it.

Su Ming persuaded the fifty-thousand-year Mirror Image Beast to become his soul spirit by offering it Myriad Year Cold Marrow and the benefits of the arrangement. As the beast refined the marrow under Su Ming’s protection, it reached one hundred thousand years of cultivation, and a Heavenly Tribulation began.

• Su Ming secretly marked the Mirror Image Beast and entered its sea of consciousness to offer it a chance to become his soul spirit.
• The Mirror Image Beast accepted after Su Ming presented his terms and summoned the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as proof.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger claimed its senior position among Su Ming’s soul spirits, and the Mirror Image Beast agreed to become its little brother.
• Su Ming gave the Mirror Image Beast enough Myriad Year Cold Marrow to reach one hundred thousand years and helped it refine the marrow.
• After night fell and the marrow was nearly gone, lightning struck and Su Ming realized the Mirror Image Beast’s Heavenly Tribulation was beginning.

Su Ming left the Mirror Image Beast to face its Heavenly Tribulation alone while guarding it from interference. After the Mirror Image Beast survived and became a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, Su Ming helped it recover and prepared to begin their Soul Spirit Contract.

• Su Ming instructed the Mirror Image Beast to undergo its Heavenly Tribulation without his help, then watched over it and turned away any investigating Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• As the lightning grew stronger, the Mirror Image Beast exhausted its defenses and endured the later strikes with its body, suffering severe injuries.
• The Mirror Image Beast survived the final bolt and gained the aura of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Su Ming returned to the Mirror Image Beast, gave it Myriad Year Cold Marrow to recover, and told it they would form a Soul Spirit Contract once it was ready.
• After the Mirror Image Beast absorbed the marrow, Su Ming began explaining the contract's precautions, and the beast listened carefully.