Chapter Summaries

Xia Tianling organized Spirit Hall’s research projects and focused on discovering how transformed Soul Beasts condensed Spirit Rings. After Xiao Wu reached Level Sixty and began forming a ring, he observed an energy circuit that could reveal the next step in developing artificial Spirit Rings.

• Xia Tianling ordered the Spirit Research Institute to develop broadcasting and image-projection equipment for the Founding Ceremony, while Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, Ah Yin, and Dugu Yan advanced their immortal-herb research.
• Xia Tianling redirected Luo Hongchen, Zhe Tiannan, Liang Ming, and the other Soul Engineers from Level Nine Soul Tools to the Dragon Abyss Boat, Miniature Arrays, and portable energy-storage modules.
• Xia Tianling made Xiao Wu follow Zhu Zhuqing’s strict cultivation schedule and threatened to keep beating Tang San until Xiao Wu trained; after a month, Xiao Wu reached Level Sixty.
• Xia Tianling recorded Ah Yin’s cultivation and memories, then compared her transformed meridians with Xiao Wu’s and learned how their Beast Cores supported cultivation.
• Xiao Wu began condensing a Spirit Ring, and Xia Tianling observed her source Soul Power form a ring before revealing an illusory energy circuit linked to the Soft Bone Rabbit’s Void skill.

Xia Tianling discovered how spirit rings formed and rushed to develop a way for humans to condense them artificially. Meanwhile, Zhu Zhuqing began her Asura trial by challenging Tang San, and their fight ended with her attacking him from three directions.

• Xia Tianling watched Xiao Wu's spirit ring absorb energy and grow to ten-thousand-year level as she advanced from Level 60 to Level 61, then returned to his laboratory to develop artificial spirit-ring condensation.
• Xia Tianling explained why Exploding Ring was nearly useless for him, while Tang San practiced the Sea God's first three secret skills and learned Haotian secret techniques.
• Zhu Zhuqing challenged Tang San as part of the fourth Asura trial, while the Sea God gave Tang San a temporary trial requiring him to fight her without Battle Armor.
• Tang San opened the fight with the Sea God's Trident and Sea God's Light, but Zhu Zhuqing countered his attacks and used a convincing decoy to draw out his trident throw.
• Zhu Zhuqing vanished from Tang San's senses and attacked him with three blood-red sword strikes aimed at his vital points.

Zhu Zhuqing defeated Tang San and passed the fourth Asura trial, then received a new trial to master three Asura Divine Skills. Later, Xia Tianling began testing his Artificial Spirit Ring method on Tang San, whose first ring started to form successfully.

• Zhu Zhuqing used her concealment and swordsmanship to overcome Tang San's attacks, then defeated him with Man-Sword Unity and the Asura Divine Sword.
• The Asura God awarded Zhu Zhuqing twenty percent Asura God affinity and set her fifth trial: master three Asura Divine Skills within one year.
• Tang San told Xia Tianling he wanted an Artificial Spirit Ring rather than hunting soul beasts, and Xia Tianling gave him a compressed Soul Power Ball and instructions for the experiment.
• A week later, Tang San began forming the Artificial Spirit Ring at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye while Xia Tianling and the others stood ready to intervene.
• Tang San struggled as energy swelled his body, but a ring-shaped prototype formed, and Xia Tianling's method appeared to be working.

Tang San successfully created artificial spirit rings, proving that Xia Tianling’s technology could raise cultivation while avoiding spirit-beast hunts. Bibi Dong approved mass production and affordable pricing for ordinary Spirit Masters, ordering Spirit Hall to implement the system within a year.

• Tang San condensed an orange-gold, two-hundred-thousand-year artificial spirit ring, gained three cultivation levels, and celebrated the breakthrough with Xia Tianling and the others.
• Xia Tianling had Tang San record data and refine the ring-condensation method, then sent him to create more rings before taking him to inform Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue.
• Xia Tianling explained the low production costs and proposed distributing the method for free while pricing low-level compressed Soul Power balls cheaply and charging much more for exceptionally powerful ones.
• Bibi Dong approved the pricing plan and ordered the research institute to produce fifty compressors and Spirit Hall officials to learn the method.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall branches to survey and catalog Soul Skills, declaring that the artificial-ring program had to be implemented within one year.

Xia Tianling developed a Soul Spirit Contract that let the Dragon Kings and Thunderous Hellvine leave his Sea of Consciousness, then Spirit Hall announced Soul Spirits and Artificial Spirit Rings and recruited volunteers for testing. More than 150 volunteers gathered in Spirit City while Xia Tianling's group headed to the Star Dou Great Forest to begin the experiments.

• Bibi Dong ordered the Spirit Hall News Agency to publish news about Artificial Spirit Rings, while Xia Tianling studied natural Soul Spirits and searched for a suitable contract incantation.
• After the system subtly identified the correct incantation, Xia Tianling tested it on Ah Shan, and the Soul Spirit Contract let the Dragon Kings and Thunderous Hellvine take human forms and live outside his Sea of Consciousness.
• Xia Tianling reported the Soul Spirit method to Bibi Dong, and Spirit Hall added announcements about Soul Spirits and Artificial Spirit Rings to its newspaper, including a call for volunteers.
• Spirit Hall's announcement prompted over a thousand Spirit Masters to travel toward Spirit City, where screening selected volunteers ranging from Spirit Soldiers to quasi-Spirit Douluos, including Flender and Zhao Wuji.
• Spirit Hall selected additional volunteers from its executives and academy, bringing the experiment's total to 151 alongside Tang San, while the arrivals stayed in Spirit City awaiting Xia Tianling's group, which had gone to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Xia Tianling brought a powerful group to the Star Dou Great Forest so Ning Fengzhi and the others could witness Soul Spirits and visit Xiao Wu’s old home. After introducing Tang San and Ah Yin to Da Ming and Er Ming, Xia Tianling prepared to head for the Land of Great Danger while leaving Xiao Wu with her brothers for safety.

• Xia Tianling led Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ah Yin, Qian Daoliu, Gui Mei, Yue Guan, and Ning Fengzhi to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Wu reunited with Er Ming at the Small Lake of Life, while Xia Tianling awakened Da Ming and introduced him to Tang San and Ah Yin.
• Ah Yin gave Da Ming and Er Ming Life Energy and declared them part of her family, helping Tang San grow acquainted with Da Ming.
• Da Ming warned Xia Tianling about the dangers of the Land of Great Danger, but Xia Tianling claimed he knew its secrets and could handle its ferocious beasts.
• Xia Tianling asked Da Ming and Er Ming to keep Xiao Wu safe while the group went to the Land of Great Danger, and Da Ming promised to protect her.

Xia Tianling led the group to the Lake of Life, where he instantly defeated Bear Lord after the beast insulted his mother, then confronted Di Tian. After Di Tian agreed to talk, Xia Tianling followed him into a hidden realm beneath the lake and found the captive Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

• Da Ming privately wished Tang San and Ah Yin a safe return, and Tang San promised to protect Xiao Wu.
• Xia Tianling brought the group to the Lake of Life and revealed their presence to the fierce beasts by throwing water into the lake.
• Bear Lord attacked Xia Tianling, who destroyed Bear Lord's paw with one strike and held him at the point of death.
• Di Tian arrived with Bi Ji and Zi Ji, recognized Xia Tianling's aura, and agreed to discuss the insult and their reasons for coming.
• Xia Tianling and Di Tian entered a hidden realm beneath the lake, where Xia Tianling found the restrained Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Xia Tianling met Di Tian in the Star Dou Great Forest, revealed the surviving Fire Dragon Egg and the resurrected Dragon King Soul Spirits, and explained how Soul Spirits and Artificial Spirit Rings could together protect spirit beasts. Di Tian agreed to help test Soul Spirit fusion, and Xia Tianling planned demonstrations and experiments in the coming days.

• Xia Tianling told Di Tian that spirit beasts would eventually face extinction if soul masters continued relying on hunted spirit rings, then revealed Jia Lin's Fire Dragon Egg.
• Xia Tianling summoned the Water Dragon King, Fire Dragon King, and Mountain Dragon King as Soul Spirits, and Di Tian reunited with his uncles.
• Xia Tianling explained the Soul Spirit System and showed Di Tian a Soul Power Compression Ball used to create Artificial Spirit Rings.
• Xia Tianling warned that Artificial Spirit Rings alone would leave spirit beasts vulnerable to mass slaughter for spirit bones, so both systems were needed to protect them.
• Xia Tianling asked Di Tian to gather near-death spirit beasts for fusion experiments, and Di Tian agreed to cooperate.

Xia Tianling and Di Tian persuaded the gathered soul beasts to support Soul Spirits and Artificial Spirit Rings, then began the first fusion experiment using Bear Lord and Tang San. The experiment was still underway when Xia Tianling raised his Dawnbreaker Hammer to complete the process.

• Xia Tianling and Di Tian agreed to use Bear Lord as the target for Tang San’s Soul Spirit fusion and presented themselves to the others as friends.
• Xia Tianling explained Soul Spirits, Artificial Spirit Rings, and the looming threat to soul beasts, while Di Tian urged the ferocious beasts to take the plan seriously.
• Bi Ji asked about Xia Tianling’s aura, and he described the Yin Yang Inverted Mountain and warned that the God Realm prevented soul beasts from becoming gods.
• Xia Tianling revealed that he had erased Bear Lord’s consciousness and memories, then prepared Tang San to fuse with the beast’s soul imprint.
• Xia Tianling guided Bear Lord’s soul, Spiritual Power, Beast Core origin, and bloodline energy together for over an hour as the golden light gathered at its head.
• Xia Tianling raised the Dawnbreaker Hammer and began chanting an incantation as the fusion reached its decisive stage.

Xia Tianling’s Soul Spirit contract experiment succeeded when Tang San fused with Bear Lord, forming three soul rings and proving that soul beasts could become Soul Spirits. The group began recruiting more volunteers, and Ning Fengzhi successfully bonded with a Crystal Glazed Tree that also produced the Head Spirit Bone he lacked.

• Xia Tianling guided Tang San and Bear Lord through the Soul Spirit contract, and Bear Lord’s energy fused into Tang San as three orange-gold soul rings.
• Tang San’s new Soul Spirit manifested as a powerful Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, while Bear Lord’s four-hundred-thousand-year soul bone emerged and Xia Tianling accepted it for Golden Crocodile.
• Xia Tianling sent Zhu Zhuqing and Tang San to report the experiment’s success, asked Ah Yin to tell Xiao Wu the news, and tasked Bi Ji and other fierce beasts with finding willing soul beasts nearing death.
• Myriad Demon King brought a Crystal Glazed Tree close to death, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to become its contractor after they connected through Spiritual Power.
• Ning Fengzhi and the Crystal Glazed Tree completed their contract, giving Ning Fengzhi a red soul ring and a Head Spirit Bone while the tree regained its health as a Soul Spirit.

After revealing that the Dragon God fabricated the memories behind the Silver Dragon King's hatred of humanity and the God Realm, Xia Tianling showed Di Tian the truth about the Dragon God's fall. Di Tian collapsed under the revelation, and Xia Tianling gave him Forget Worry Wine, which immediately put him to sleep.

• Ning Fengzhi completed his Soul Spirit experiment, and news of Tang San's success spread across the continent as volunteers set out for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xia Tianling exposed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Golden Tortoise hiding beneath the Nine-Patterned Ice Silkworm's platform and erased its consciousness before sealing it in a small space.
• Xia Tianling told Di Tian that the Silver Dragon King would recover and awaken in the future, then explained why her hostility toward humanity and the God Realm made her dangerous.
• Xia Tianling manifested memories of the Dragon Graveyard and showed Di Tian that the Dragon God had fabricated the story that the God Realm barred soul beasts from becoming gods.
• Di Tian grieved over the Dragon God's deception, and Xia Tianling urged him not to resent the Silver Dragon King before giving him Forget Worry Wine.
• Di Tian drank the wine and promptly fell into a deep sleep.

Di Tian recovered after drinking Forget Worry Wine, and Xia Tianling introduced a Life Crystal designed to accelerate the Silver Dragon King's recovery while keeping her under control. At the gathering between Spirit Hall and the soul beasts, Zhao Wuji became the first volunteer to complete a Soul Spirit fusion, and the chapter ended with his Great Strength Vajra Bear appearing restored in spirit form.

• Di Tian woke after three days of sleep feeling refreshed, and Xia Tianling explained the Life Crystal and its safeguards.
• Bi Ji and Zi Ji arrived, and Di Tian joined Xia Tianling in leading the group to the Star Dou Great Forest's outskirts, where Spirit Hall and several thousand soul beasts had gathered for the Soul Spirit experiment.
• Di Tian and Qian Daoliu agreed to begin, and Xia Tianling called for a human volunteer and introduced Zhao Wuji as a Level Eighty Quasi Spirit Douluo.
• Xia Tianling paired Zhao Wuji with an aged Great Strength Vajra Bear of roughly sixty thousand years, and the two completed the Soul Spirit fusion ceremony.
• Zhao Wuji gained an ink-black Soul Ring, and the Great Strength Vajra Bear reappeared as a healthy, powerful spirit form.

Xia Tianling completed a large-scale Soul Spirit experiment, and more than two hundred Spirit Masters successfully formed contracts, with failures caused only by Soul Beasts whose souls were too weak. He outlined Spirit Hall’s plans for Soul Spirits and Soul Beast protection, then presented findings on compatibility, abilities, and Spiritual Power requirements.

• The Great Strength Vajra Bear became Zhao Wuji’s Soul Spirit, and an Armored Scale Horn Horse became a Spirit Hall student’s Soul Spirit, encouraging humans and Soul Beasts to cooperate.
• After dozens of successful fusions, Xia Tianling lost one fragile Soul Beast soul during a contract; replacing it with a stronger Soul Beast allowed the fusion to succeed.
• By the afternoon of the next day, more than two hundred Spirit Masters had gained Soul Spirits, while three Soul Beasts failed because their souls shattered; Oscar declined a Soul Spirit, and Xia Tianling kept a Golden Tortoise for Ning Rongrong.
• Myriad Demon King brought a badly injured man to Xia Tianling, who treated him and arranged for him to be sent to Spirit City Hospital.
• Spirit Hall announced plans for a Spirit Transmission Department, Soul Spirit services, Artificial Spirit Rings, and reduced hunting of Soul Beasts, while the human leaders approved the measures.
• Xia Tianling presented the experiment data, explaining Soul Spirits’ retained consciousness and combat abilities as well as the compatibility and Spiritual Power requirements for different cultivation levels.

Xia Tianling explained the Spirit Soul System’s benefits and safeguards, then organized its founding and negotiated protections with Spirit Beasts. After establishing the Spirit Transmission Department’s plans, he traveled with Di Tian and Zhu Zhuqing to the Extreme North to seek the Ice and Snow Empresses’ support.

• Xia Tianling explained that Spirit Souls could provide extra skills and let spirit masters fuse with powerful Spirit Beasts without ordinary soul-ring limits, while Spirit Transmitters would ensure safe contracts.
• Di Tian appointed the Myriad Demon King as the Spirit Beasts’ representative, and the factions agreed on safeguards and signed agreements for the Spirit Transmission Department.
• Xia Tianling inscribed two original Spirit Soul System records, returned to Spirit City with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Myriad Demon King, and helped organize the department under Hu Liena and the Myriad Demon King.
• Spirit Hall established plans for the department’s headquarters, its first service location near the Star Dou Great Forest, and a railway connection.
• Di Tian accompanied Xia Tianling and Zhu Zhuqing to the Extreme North, where they crossed the deadly frozen core region to negotiate with its Three Heavenly Kings.

Xia Tianling and Di Tian traveled to the Extreme North to seek cooperation with Snow Empress, while Xia Tianling revealed his overwhelming power and knowledge of her impending tribulation. Snow Empress appeared to confront him, and seven-colored tribulation lightning began gathering overhead.

• The Water Dragon King scolded Di Tian until he agreed to address Xia Tianling as an equal and call him Elder Brother.
• Xia Tianling and Zhu Zhuqing passed four Ice Plain Bears unseen and continued with Di Tian toward the Extreme North's core region.
• Di Tian summoned the Extreme North's soul beasts and explained that he had come to discuss cooperation on behalf of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xia Tianling and Zhu Zhuqing revealed their powerful auras, alarming Ice Empress and the other soul beasts, and Xia Tianling inferred that Snow Empress was in seclusion preparing for her seventh heavenly tribulation.
• Snow Empress appeared and questioned Xia Tianling about his immense life essence and claims about deities.
• Xia Tianling declared that even a deity would have to show him respect as seven-colored tribulation lightning gathered in the sky.

Xia Tianling convinced Snow Empress and Ice Empress to join the Soul Spirit System after demonstrating his control over Elemental Tribulation and explaining how it could help soul beasts survive. The chapter ended with Snow Empress learning that Di Tian had abandoned the Silver Dragon King and that Xia Tianling had killed Evil Emperor, then reacting in shock to his God-Tier soul rings.

• Xia Tianling dispersed and resummoned Elemental Tribulation to convince Snow Empress of his power, then warned that she, Ice Empress, and Xiao Bai might not survive their next heavenly tribulations.
• Xia Tianling explained the Soul Spirit System to Snow Empress and Ice Empress, and they agreed to cooperate with Spirit Hall after hearing the dragon kings support it.
• Snow Empress privately asked Di Tian about the Silver Dragon King, and Di Tian said he no longer recognized her as his master after learning the truth about the Dragon God War.
• Snow Empress urged Xia Tianling to bring Evil Emperor into the Soul Spirit System, but Xia Tianling revealed that he had killed Evil Emperor five years earlier and made him his Seventh Spirit Ring.
• Xia Tianling displayed his soul rings, and Snow Empress was stunned by their extraordinary colors, including three gold rings.

Xia Tianling reviewed the Spirit Transmission Department’s progress and learned that Oscar had received competing divine inheritance offers from the God of Gluttony and the God of Destruction. Unable to advise Oscar, Xia Tianling sought the Angel God, who appeared before him and heard his request.

• Over six months, Xia Tianling and Hu Liena expanded the Spirit Soul System and Artificial Spirit Rings, helping hundreds of Soul Masters and sparing many soul beasts from slaughter.
• At a Spirit Transmission Department meeting, Xia Tianling reported that the Star Dou branch tower was complete, the Extreme North tower was underway, and 118 Spirit Transmitters could perform contract ceremonies.
• Oscar and Ning Rongrong visited Xia Tianling after Oscar received inheritance marks from the God of Gluttony and the God of Destruction, who competed for him as their successor.
• Xia Tianling sent Oscar away to consider his options, then traveled to the Angel God Temple to ask the Angel God for advice.
• The Angel God appeared before Xia Tianling after Qian Daoliu summoned her and praised Xia Tianling’s rapid cultivation before hearing his request.

Xia Tianling learned from the Angel God that a corrupting invasion was ravaging the God Realm and that several gods, including the Destruction God King, were close to death. He helped arrange inheritances for Oscar and Ma Hongjun, then joined Bibi Dong in accelerating Douluo Continent’s unification and preparations for war.

• The Angel God told Xia Tianling that an unknown corrupting force had invaded the God Realm, killed many gods, and threatened the Destruction God King and the God of Gluttony.
• The Angel God recommended that Oscar inherit the God of Destruction’s position and revealed that Ma Hongjun had been chosen to inherit the God of Fire’s position after its previous holder died.
• The Angel God agreed to protect Qian Daoliu while he trained to become a Third-Rank God, and Xia Tianling saw her fighting the endless monsters pouring into the God Realm.
• Xia Tianling informed Bibi Dong of the invasion, and she ordered Spirit Hall to accelerate divine inheritances and unite Douluo Continent and the Sun Moon Continent.
• Bibi Dong gave Xia Tianling authority to mobilize forces, and he promised to invade Star Luo within three months and unify Douluo Continent within half a year.
• Xia Tianling arranged for Oscar to begin the God of Destruction’s trial, then encouraged Ma Hongjun to complete the God of Fire’s trials for the sake of his family.

As Spirit Hall mobilized for war, a survivor from the Star Luo Empire revealed that the Xu Family and other secluded groups had been massacred and villages emptied. Xia Tianling discovered the Seven Great Families were creating Holy Spirits and accelerated his preparations, ending by taking Zhu Zhuqing and Tang San to confront the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

• Xia Tianling visited the awakened Xu Family Soul Saint, who reported that masked attackers had destroyed the Star Crown Sect and other secluded families, while villages across the Star Luo Empire had been emptied.
• The Soul Saint revealed that the attackers included Titled Douluo with black and red Spirit Rings, then a planted evil presence inside him tried to detonate his Soul Power.
• Xia Tianling silenced the Soul Saint’s Soul Power, exposed and destroyed the evil spirit, and learned from its memories that the Seven Great Families had created seven Holy Spirits.
• Xia Tianling ordered Spirit Hall to accelerate its preparations and told Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun that they needed to gain divine power as soon as possible.
• After learning that Zhu Zhuqing’s seventh Asura God Trial required her to subdue or kill the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Xia Tianling took her and Tang San to confront him.

Xia Tianling, Tang San, and Zhu Zhuqing confronted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, who attacked them and revealed that he had merged with his wife and sought to become a Demon God. After Xia Tianling recognized a corrupting power within the whale, the three launched a full assault, leaving Xia Tianling’s god-level strike bearing down on him.

• Xia Tianling took Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing to the Demon Whale Sea Domain and explained the whale’s strength, their battle roles, and the need to prepare for a fight.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King ambushed the trio with a pillar of energy, which Xia Tianling deflected with a lightning strike.
• Xia Tianling struck the whale’s forehead with Time and Space Judgment, and the whale emerged from the sea with a scar and a blood-red eye.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King said he had merged with his wife to gain power and planned to devour the trio, destroy Sea God Island, and become a Demon God.
• Xia Tianling warned Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing that the whale carried a dangerous corrupting power, and all three attacked him.
• Zhu Zhuqing cut apart the whale’s tail attack as Xia Tianling descended with a powerful blow and Tang San attacked with the Sea God’s Trident.