Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuena reviewed Nan Fusheng’s tournament profile, which showed impressive abilities and a strangely friendly encounter with a Golden Lion Mastiff, then went to a Spirit Pagoda banquet. She joined Qiangu Zhangting on the way to Qiangu Dongfeng and the Federation’s power brokers, intending to use the Myriad Beast Platform to advance her plans.

• Gu Yuena accessed Nan Fusheng’s contestant profile and found that he scored highly in speed, Martial Soul, Spiritual Power, mecha operation, and the Myriad Beast Platform trials.
• Gu Yuena read that Nan Fusheng had spared Soul Beasts and that a Golden Lion Mastiff had befriended and protected him; examiner Yakushi Kabuto speculated that he had canine bloodline.
• Gu Yuena judged Nan Fusheng’s strength no threat to her plans, then left with Di Tian to attend the Spirit Pagoda gathering.
• Gu Yuena entered the banquet hall, where attendees watched her arrive, and Qiangu Zhangting greeted her and offered to lead her to the discussions.
• Gu Yuena followed Qiangu Zhangting toward Qiangu Dongfeng and the War God Temple and Federation Parliament representatives, considering how the Myriad Beast Platform could help her plans.

At the banquet, Gu Yuena discussed the Myriad Beast Platform with Yu Guanzhi as Qiangu Dongfeng sought Federation support for developing the Star Dou Great Forest. Gu Yuena reunited with Nan Fusheng and Xu Xiaoyan, while Qiangu Zhangting approached Nan Fusheng.

• Gu Yuena told Yu Guanzhi that the Myriad Beast Platform could benefit Spirit Masters and potentially help Limit Douluos advance, but Yu Guanzhi declined to enter it.
• Yu Guanzhi asked Qiangu Dongfeng whether the Spirit Pagoda planned to develop the Star Dou Great Forest, and Qiangu Dongfeng endorsed the idea.
• Qiangu Zhangting led Gu Yuena around the banquet to meet Spirit Pagoda supporters, repeatedly trying to take her wrist while she kept her distance.
• Gu Yuena spotted Nan Fusheng, Xu Xiaoyan, Kiana, and Qingque across the hall and agreed to greet them with Qiangu Zhangting.
• Xu Xiaoyan warmly greeted Gu Yuena and teased her about no longer calling her Sister Xiaoyan; Gu Yuena relaxed after Xu Xiaoyan said she could simply call her Xiaoyan.
• Qiangu Zhangting approached Nan Fusheng.

At a Federation banquet, Qiangu Zhangting met Nan Fusheng and learned of his connections to Gu Yuena, Kiana Kaslana, and Nahida. Fors introduced Xu Xiaoyan to Fu Xuan, Long Tianwu, and Su Mengjun, and Fu Xuan and Gu Yuena exchanged a probing look.

• Qiangu Zhangting introduced himself to Nan Fusheng and learned that he was Skysea City's Governor and Xu Xiaoyan's husband, and that he and Gu Yuena had been classmates.
• Qiangu Zhangting approached Kiana Kaslana and tried to recruit her to the Spirit Pagoda, but she said she lived with Nan Fusheng, called herself his lover, and jokingly identified Nahida as their daughter.
• Fors joined Xu Xiaoyan and Gu Yuena, then introduced Xu Xiaoyan to Fu Xuan, a Central Legion lieutenant general and chief of staff, and War Gods Long Tianwu and Su Mengjun.
• Fu Xuan noticed Gu Yuena, and the two women met each other's gaze.

At the Martial Arts Matchmaking Convention, Gu Yuena and Xu Xiaoyan questioned Fu Xuan’s unusual closeness with Nan Fusheng, while Gu Yuena discovered that Long Tianwu had reached Limit Douluo strength. Long Tianwu and Qingque then publicly asked Qiangu Zhangting what he thought of soul beasts and the Soul Beast Captivity Project.

• Gu Yuena sensed that Fu Xuan was exceptionally powerful but could not recognize her, while Fu Xuan walked intimately beside Nan Fusheng and said he had cared for her when she was young.
• Xu Xiaoyan and Gu Yuena privately wondered about Fu Xuan’s closeness with Nan Fusheng, and Nan Fusheng reassured Xu Xiaoyan at the buffet.
• Qiangu Zhangting approached Long Tianwu to build a relationship, while Di Tian warned Gu Yuena that Long Tianwu was a serious threat.
• Gu Yuena realized Long Tianwu had reached Limit Douluo strength and considered bringing the War God Temple into the Myriad Beast Platform to expose its members to the Dragon God Secret Method.
• Long Tianwu asked Qiangu Zhangting what he thought of the Soul Beast Captivity Project, and Qingque pressed him to explain his views on soul beasts.

Qiangu Zhangting endorsed the Soul Beast Captivity Project and called Soul Beasts livestock, enraging Gu Yuena and Di Tian. Elsewhere, Yuanen Yehui awoke abducted in a forest, discovered she was facing powerful Evil Soul Masters, and found that one of them could destroy her Fallen Angel Soul Skill with a gesture.

• Qiangu Zhangting praised Artificial Soul Spirits but argued that the Spirit Pagoda should capture and breed Soul Beasts, and use them as meat if they resisted.
• Qiangu Zhangting dismissed Di Tian and the Star Dou Ferocious Beasts as unintelligent, while Gu Yuena suppressed her fury and Di Tian became enraged in disguise as a waiter.
• Yuanen Yehui woke alone in a forest outside Ming Capital and worried that Xie Xie had also been abducted.
• Two Black-Robed Persons confronted Yuanen Yehui, and one effortlessly defeated her Titan Giant Ape attack, revealing the pair as powerful Evil Soul Masters.
• Yuanen Yehui used her Fallen Angel Martial Soul and summoned Hell Gate, but one Evil Soul Master shattered the Soul Skill before it could form.

Yuanen Yehui discovered that the powerful Evil Soul Master Hui Ye was her deceased mother Ye Hui’s younger sister, while Hui Ye learned that Ye Hui had died. Xie Xie tried to rescue Yuanen Yehui but was overwhelmed by Hui Ye and Elizabeth’s domains; Hui Ye spared him and offered to train Yuanen Yehui in the Fallen Angel Martial Soul.

• Yuanen Yehui recognized that Hui Ye’s Fallen Angel power shared the same origin as her own, and Hui Ye revealed her six-winged form and nine soul rings.
• Hui Ye asked Yuanen Yehui about Ye Hui, and Yuanen Yehui explained that her mother had died more than ten years earlier.
• Hui Ye reacted violently to Ye Hui’s death, and Xie Xie arrived to protect Yuanen Yehui and attempt to teleport them away.
• Hui Ye and Elizabeth combined their domains, stopped Xie Xie’s escape, and forced him to spit blood.
• Yuanen Yehui stood between Hui Ye and Xie Xie, identified him as her boyfriend, and persuaded Hui Ye to spare him.
• Hui Ye explained why she had sought Yuanen Yehui and asked her to come learn to cultivate her Fallen Angel Martial Soul.

Yuanen Yehui learned that Hui Ye was her mother's sister and heard the truth about her mother's death and her father's imprisonment. Hui Ye offered the possibility of reviving her mother, and Yuanen Yehui agreed to help as Hui Ye summoned the mysterious being Kyubey to demonstrate its power.

• Yuanen Yehui refused Hui Ye's invitation to leave her companions and revealed that Yuan En Zhentian had forced her mother to kill herself and crippled her father's Soul Power.
• Hui Ye explained that she and Yuanen Yehui's mother had separated over the Holy Spirit Cult, then allowed Yuanen Yehui and Xie Xie to leave.
• Yuanen Yehui stopped when she heard Hui Ye planned to revive her mother and insisted on learning how, despite Xie Xie's warning that it could be a trap.
• Hui Ye asked Xie Xie to catch a living creature, and he brought back an Owl and killed it at her direction.
• Hui Ye activated a red gemstone and summoned Kyubey, a strange white lifeform that she said could grant wishes in exchange for a sufficient price.

Hui Ye paid Kyubey a seventy-five-thousand-year Sea Spirit Turtle to resurrect an owl, proving its power to Yuanen Yehui and Xie Xie. When Yuanen Yehui asked about reviving her mother, Kyubey named an immense price and confirmed that true-god-level beings existed on the Douluo Continent.

• Hui Ye summoned Kyubey and offered it a seventy-five-thousand-year Sea Spirit Turtle in exchange for reviving Xie Xie's owl.
• Kyubey swallowed the Sea Spirit Turtle and restored the owl, which Yuanen Yehui examined and confirmed was alive and ordinary.
• Hui Ye warned Yuanen Yehui that Kyubey knew much about the Douluo Continent and demanded a steep price for its wishes.
• Kyubey identified Yuanen Yehui's mother as her sister, who had died by suicide sixteen years earlier, and said reviving her required two true-god-level experts.
• Kyubey explained that a true-god-level expert meant a Rank 100 Spirit Master or a Million-Year Soul Beast, then confirmed such beings existed on the Douluo Continent.

Kyubey traded Hui Ye information about Million-Year Soul Beasts for an Energy Purple Crystal, revealing that one target was hidden in the Myriad Beast Platform and naming several people whose sacrifice could also meet her goal. Yuanen Yehui rejected sacrificing her companions and confronted Hui Ye over the possibility, while Kyubey warned that capturing those people would be even harder than killing Million-Year Soul Beasts.

• Kyubey demanded a Ferocious Beast with at least two hundred thousand years of cultivation for information, but Hui Ye negotiated the price down to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and offered an Energy Purple Crystal.
• After swallowing the crystal, Kyubey revealed two Small Planes containing million-year Soul Beasts, including a True Dragon and, in the Myriad Beast Platform, a Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Kyubey said it possessed part of the authority of omniscience and suggested Yuanen Yehui and Xie Xie ask Tang Wulin to confirm the Myriad Beast Platform's secrets.
• Kyubey offered Tang Wulin, Gu Yuena, Nan Fusheng, and Xie Xie as alternative sacrifices, assigning them values of two, two, one, and half a True God respectively.
• Yuanen Yehui refused to sacrifice her companions and warned Hui Ye she would stop her if she targeted them; Hui Ye questioned Kyubey about why the alternatives were harder to capture than Million-Year Soul Beasts.

Kyubey explained why Tang Wulin, Gu Yuena, and Nan Fusheng would be difficult targets, then identified the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python as easier prey. It revealed that Yuanen Yehui’s family descended from a girl abandoned by the Titan Giant Ape, and Yuanen rejected the beast as her ancestor.

• Kyubey said Tang Wulin possessed dormant divine power, Gu Yuena had Limit Douluo protectors and God Level power, and Nan Fusheng had a powerful protector.
• Kyubey dismissed Xie Xie as an ordinary weakling, provoking his angry protest.
• Kyubey named the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python as the easiest targets because they were accessible in the Myriad Beast Platform and weakened outside it.
• Kyubey said Yuanen Yehui’s origins could help draw the two beasts out, then told her that a Titan Giant Ape had fathered her family’s ancestor and abandoned her.
• Yuanen Yehui rejected the Titan Giant Ape as her ancestor, citing her family’s mistreatment of her parents and her own refusal to belong to them.

Hui Ye’s group learned from Kyubey that the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python were plotting against humanity, but Kyubey demanded a True God-level equivalent for details, so Hui Ye ended the negotiation and began seeking allies. The next day, Yuanen Yehui and Xie Xie withdrew from the competition while keeping the encounter secret, and Yuanen considered whether she would accept Kyubey’s terms after Ya Li confirmed the resurrected Owl was healthy.

• Kyubey claimed the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python planned to overthrow human society and offered further details in exchange for a True God-level equivalent.
• Kyubey warned Xie Xie that Yuanen Yehui might die in the future, but Hui Ye ended the negotiation and gave Yuanen a ruby that could summon Kyubey.
• Hui Ye said she would contact potential allies, while Xie Xie resolved to stop the two Soul Beasts and protect Yuanen Yehui.
• The next day, Yuanen Yehui and Xie Xie told Tang Wulin they were withdrawing from the competition to focus on cultivation, and Yuanen asked whether he had encountered the two Beast Kings.
• Ya Li confirmed that the Owl Yuanen had brought her was ordinary and healthy, and Yuanen decided to keep monitoring it while considering Kyubey’s proposed exchange.

Nan Fusheng won his first elimination match in seconds, then met Gu Yuena in secret and received one of her inverse scales for protection. When the scale violently rejected attempts to merge with him, Gu Yuena sensed a Monocle and a key inside his body.

• Nan Fusheng defeated his Spirit Emperor opponent with a single Mental Shock in under five seconds.
• Gu Yuena disguised herself in black robes, led Nan Fusheng to a secluded room, and gave him one of her inverse scales as a protective pendant.
• The inverse scale began to bond with Nan Fusheng, but an unseen force blasted it into the wall.
• Gu Yuena retrieved the scale and tried to fuse it with him using her Spiritual Power, then sensed the phantom images of a Monocle and a key inside his body.

Gu Yuena tried to merge her reverse scale with Nan Fusheng, but the key and Monocle hidden inside him repelled her Spiritual Power and injured her. Nan Fusheng recalled that Fors had given him the Monocle, and Gu Yuena kept the objects’ presence secret while deciding to investigate them herself.

• Gu Yuena's attempt to merge her reverse scale with Nan Fusheng was blocked by the key and Monocle phantoms inside him, which unleashed a Mental Shock that hurt her.
• Na'er helped Gu Yuena defend her Sea of Consciousness, and Nan Fusheng checked on her after she recovered.
• Gu Yuena asked Nan Fusheng about unusual gifts, and he recalled swallowing a key given to him by Nahida about a month earlier.
• Nan Fusheng explained that Fors had given him a peculiar Monocle when they first met in Shrek City, but it later vanished from his Storage Soul Tool.
• Gu Yuena concealed what she had discovered and decided to investigate the key and Monocle secretly, then resolved to confront Nan Fusheng about his intimacy with Nahida.

Gu Yuena tried to use the Dragon God Secret Method to control Nan Fusheng, but when it failed, she used her strength to force him to obey. Elsewhere, Ye Xinglan broke up with Xu Lizhi, who broke down before a dessert shop owner coaxed him inside with a Mung Bean Soup eating challenge.

• Gu Yuena ordered Nan Fusheng to remove her shoes and lick her stockings, then tried to make him continue when he hesitated.
• Gu Yuena realized Nan Fusheng had resisted the Dragon God Secret Method, which she had secretly activated through the Myriad Beast Platform to counter the influence of the Soul Spirits within him.
• Gu Yuena pressed Nan Fusheng down by force and told him that her barrier would keep anyone from hearing them.
• Ye Xinglan told Xu Lizhi that she wanted to break up, and Xu Lizhi agreed to remain friends as members of the Shrek Seven Devils.
• After Ye Xinglan left, Xu Lizhi collapsed in tears, while the Dessert Shop Owner played a sad song and scattered artificial snow to comfort him.
• The Dessert Shop Owner invited Xu Lizhi to try a challenge offering a free green hat to anyone who could eat one hundred servings of Mung Bean Soup, and Xu Lizhi entered the shop to take it.

Xu Lizhi grieved over Xing Lan rejecting his feelings while the Dessert Shop Owner comforted him and charged him for hundreds of bowls of mung bean soup. Meanwhile, Gu Yuena continued her intimate encounter with Nan Fusheng, reflecting on her plans for the Soul Beast and Dragon clans, until Fors called and Gu Yuena urged Nan Fusheng to keep talking.

• Xu Lizhi told the Dessert Shop Owner that he had loved Xing Lan, trained to impress her, and was devastated when she rejected him.
• The Dessert Shop Owner comforted Xu Lizhi but pointed out that he had eaten over four hundred bowls of mung bean soup and broken the shop's record.
• Gu Yuena held Nan Fusheng beneath her and reflected on her progress toward overturning human society and reviving the Dragon Clan.
• Gu Yuena noticed signs of life within her abdomen and considered how difficult it was for powerful dragons to have descendants.
• Fors called Nan Fusheng to ask why he had not returned, and he claimed he was busy while Gu Yuena silently encouraged him to keep talking.

Xu Lizhi left the dessert shop in a green suit after the owner rewarded him for eating more than five hundred bowls of Mung Bean Soup. In Ming Capital, Gu Yuena ended her encounter with Nan Fusheng, urged him to divorce Fors, and left him five million Federal Coins; Nan Fusheng refused her proposal and returned to the night, while Gu Yuena wondered whether Fors knew about the changes caused by his Monocle.

• Xu Lizhi accepted the Dessert Shop Owner's green suit and hat as gifts, then strode into the night feeling encouraged.
• Gu Yuena ended her attempt to revive the Dragon Clan after Fors's suspicious calls interrupted her and Nan Fusheng.
• Gu Yuena asked Nan Fusheng to divorce Fors and promised to fulfill his desires, but he firmly refused.
• Gu Yuena gave Nan Fusheng five million Federal Coins, ordered him not to be with other women that day, and left.
• As she departed, Gu Yuena wondered whether Fors had noticed the changes in Nan Fusheng after he absorbed the Monocle.
• Nan Fusheng stored Gu Yuena's card, dressed, and left the room for the night.

After advancing to the top one hundred, Nan Fusheng attended the Round-Robin Tournament draw, where the Spirit Pagoda began a supervised ceremony. The draw started with the contestants awaiting their groupings and the sudden arrival of God Craftsman Lu Fa drawing intense attention.

• Nan Fusheng won his last three elimination matches against Spirit Emperor-level opponents and advanced to the Round-Robin Tournament.
• Nan Fusheng recognized Tang Wulin and his disguised companions among the contestants, noticed the Big White Goose and Lan Fuzi, and awaited the draw.
• Qiangu Dongfeng announced that the Round-Robin Tournament would begin the next day and introduced God Craftsman Lu Fa and Fu Xuan as draw supervisors.
• Gu Yuena declared the draw open, and the number-drawing machine began mixing the contestants' numbered balls.
• Lu Fa and a pink-haired woman descended above the machine, preventing interference with their auras and prompting the Titled Douluo contestants to react eagerly to the God Craftsman.

Tang Wulin watched Lu Fa announce a game offering priority Four-word Battle Armor forging to contestants who reached the final ten and defeated Gu Yuena. Qiangu Dongfeng realized the prize could turn Gu Yuena’s exhibition matches into dangerous battles and wondered whether Lu Fa was targeting Spirit Pagoda.

• Tang Wulin admired Lu Fa’s Heaven Forging skill and assessed Fu Xuan as a powerful, little-known Federation military leader.
• Lu Fa announced that he would witness the convention and offer unlimited priority forging slots for Four-word Battle Armor to contestants who reached the final ten and defeated Gu Yuena.
• The contestants grew eager to compete for the prize, and some assumed defeating Gu Yuena would be easier than reaching the final ten.
• Qiangu Dongfeng recognized that Lu Fa’s offer would pressure Gu Yuena to fight seriously and risk damaging her reputation if she surrendered.
• Gu Yuena told Qiangu Dongfeng that she had competed against Lu Fa at Shrek Academy, but she knew of no reason for him to hold a grudge.

The Martial Arts Matchmaking Convention completed its group draw, revealing a brutal Sixth Group that included Yu Longyue, Qiangu Zhangting, and Bianka. The Round-Robin Tournament was scheduled to begin the next day, while Gu Yuena resolved to overcome any obstacles and use the competition to strengthen her standing.

• Qiangu Dongfeng reviewed the top contestants’ strength and considered how the convention could boost the Spirit Pagoda’s influence, while Gu Yuena blamed Fors for Lu Fa’s announced challenge and remained confident in her own power.
• Lu Fa and Fu Xuan confirmed the drawing results were valid, and the host announced the contestants assigned to each group.
• Nan Fusheng discovered that he and Ye Xinglan, competing as Ye Lan, were in the same group, while Qiangu Zhangting was relieved to avoid Cai Xukun before learning he had been placed in the Sixth Group.
• The Sixth Group roster included Yu Longyue, Qiangu Zhangting, Bianka, and seven other Titled Douluo, earning it attention as the convention’s Group of Death.
• The host announced that the Round-Robin Tournament would begin the next day and take forty-five days to complete.

Nan Fusheng clashed with Lan Fuzi outside Ming Capital Stadium after she blocked and threatened him, and Bai Xiuxiu and his companions intervened when Lan Fuzi attacked. A Spirit Pagoda Titled Douluo stopped the confrontation and questioned Lan Fuzi after Xu Xiaoyan cited surveillance footage and her connection to Fors.

• Lan Fuzi confronted Nan Fusheng, threatened him, and challenged him to fight, while he rejected her taunts and reminded her that he had saved her.
• Lan Fuzi attacked Nan Fusheng, but Xu Xiaoyan restrained her with starlight and Bai Xiuxiu struck back, causing a clash that froze several contestants in the crowd.
• Xu Xiaoyan, Wu Sidu, and Zheng Yiran joined Bai Xiuxiu to shield Nan Fusheng and confronted Lan Fuzi as the two sides prepared to fight.
• A Spirit Pagoda Titled Douluo arrived and ordered everyone to stop fighting in the street.
• Xu Xiaoyan explained that Lan Fuzi had started the conflict, offered to have the surveillance footage reviewed, and invoked her friendship with Fors, prompting the old man to question Lan Fuzi.