Chapter Summaries

Ming Jiang attended Xuan Ziwen’s Soul Tool lesson and asked him to inspect a Core Magic Array in his notebook. Xuan Ziwen recognized it as part of a Humanoid Soul Tool and began explaining how to fix it.

• Meng Hongchen greeted Ming Jiang but kept her distance, then went to study while he headed to the laboratory.
• Ming Jiang attended Xuan Ziwen’s fast-paced lecture on Soul Tools and found it more valuable than other Rank 8 Soul Master classes.
• Ming Jiang followed Xuan Ziwen after class and asked him to find the flaw in a Core Magic Array in his notebook.
• Xuan Ziwen recognized the array as resembling a Humanoid Soul Tool’s Central Core Magic Array and pointed out a faulty pattern that could make it fail or explode.

Jiang Ming broke through the Level Eighty bottleneck after a month of seclusion, and a new silver-white spirit emerged from the Book of Spirits. The spirit entered the book’s final-page world, while Jiang Ming was left wondering about the mysterious thing that briefly covered his eyes and disappeared.

• Ming Jiang told Xuan Ziwen he was nearing the Level Seventy bottleneck and continued learning about Soul Tool Battle Armor before sealing himself in his room to cultivate.
• Jing Hongchen heard that Ming Jiang was preparing to become a Soul Saint and celebrated his potential, but a message summoned him to Bright Virtue Hall’s secret laboratories.
• Rongrong protected Jiang Ming’s meridians as he forced one final assault against the Level Eighty bottleneck, which finally collapsed.
• The Book of Spirits produced a silver-white spirit with spatial teleportation abilities, and the spirit entered the world through the book’s final page.
• Jiang Ming opened his eyes to seven Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and one white Ten-Year Soul Ring, then pulled a mysterious object from his face as it vanished from his hand.

After reaching Level Eighty, Jiang Ming gained a new spatial Spirit named Little Void and spent two months cultivating in Our World while Meng Bing underwent a lengthy evolution. He finally emerged from seclusion looking exhausted, to find Jing Hongchen and Bright Virtue Hall’s Advanced Soul Masters waiting outside.

• Jiang Ming’s eighth Spirit Ring produced a small silver-white Spirit with spatial abilities, and he named it Little Void.
• Little Ice told Jiang Ming that Meng Bing had begun evolving into a dragon-type Soul Beast and that the process could take at least half a year.
• Jiang Ming planned to conceal his Spirit Rings while Meng Bing evolved, then cultivated with Little Void to strengthen its Spirit Ring and Our World’s spatial power.
• During Jiang Ming’s two months in seclusion, Xuan Ziwen and other Advanced Soul Masters repeatedly visited his room, and Jing Hongchen eventually came to check on him.
• Jiang Ming opened his door in a disheveled state and asked Jing Hongchen and the gathered teachers what they needed.

Ming Jiang broke through to Level Seventy and left Radiant City to pursue his own plan for obtaining a Soul Ring, while Jing Hongchen and Xuan Ziwen feared he was attempting to hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. After getting lost west of the city, Ming Jiang unknowingly approached an area where a group of mysterious black-robed Soul Masters were active.

• Ming Jiang emerged from two months of seclusion having reached Level Seventy, and Jing Hongchen and Xuan Ziwen offered to help him obtain a Soul Ring.
• Ming Jiang planned to take Bright Virtue Hall’s Soul Tool technology back to Shrek, pursue Rank 9, become a Titled Douluo, and delay the coming war.
• Ming Jiang left Radiant City after leaving a letter saying he wanted to stop being overshadowed by his brother, Jiang Ming, and would try to obtain his own Soul Ring.
• Jing Hongchen explained Jiang Ming and Ming Jiang’s bitter history to Xuan Ziwen, and they suspected Ming Jiang intended to hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast alone.
• Ming Jiang lost his way west of Radiant City, unaware that mysterious black-robed Soul Masters were active near West Mountain.

Holy Spirit Cult members activated West Mountain’s mysterious power and threw captured Soul Masters into it, trapping Jiang Ming there as well. A golden-silver force drew Jiang Ming and the others to a strange lake, where its light swallowed them all.

• The Holy Spirit Cult’s black-clad leader ordered his men to activate West Mountain and use the captured Soul Masters to test it.
• A captured Soul Saint tried to escape, but the leader dragged her back with his hook and threw her into West Mountain; his men captured and threw in the others as well.
• Jiang Ming discovered that a mysterious force sealed the sky and earth, suppressed Spiritual Power, and prevented him from leaving West Mountain.
• A wave of golden-silver light engulfed Jiang Ming and the other captives, then pulled them through the fog toward a vast lake with golden and silver waters.
• The golden sun and silver moon at the lake’s center shone brightly and swallowed Jiang Ming and all the other Soul Masters.

Jiang Ming and twenty-four other Soul Masters were drawn into the Valley of Qiankun's Love Inquiry, a dangerous treasure basin that tested their romantic histories. The trial began by questioning a young girl and then Liu Ruyan, whose answers revealed that she had loved thirty-six men, leaving the middle-aged Soul King who claimed her as his lover stunned that he was not among them.

• Golden-and-silver bubbles separated Jiang Ming and the other Soul Masters, then carried them into a crystal world centered on a platform with twenty-five positions.
• Jiang Ming recognized the place as the Valley of Qiankun's Love Inquiry after Rongrong recalled information from a book Tang San had left with Youyou, and she warned him it was more dangerous than the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• A mysterious voice announced that the valley's true-hearted adventure had begun, and its golden beam selected a crying young girl for questioning.
• The young girl said she had no lover and joked that she liked pig trotters, so the valley permitted her to leave.
• The voice questioned a middle-aged Soul King, who named Liu Ruyan as his lover, and then asked Liu Ruyan whether she had loved anyone.
• Liu Ruyan named thirty-six men she had loved, and the Soul King realized he was not among them.

Jiang Ming passed the first round of Qiankun's Love Inquiry by explaining that he wanted Zhang Lexuan to become a god and spend an immortal life with her. In the second round, the wheel selected a battle, and Jiang Ming discovered his opponent was Eight-Ring Tang San.

• The middle-aged man admitted that he still loved Liu Ruyan, even though she had never loved him, and passed the test; Liu Ruyan said she felt nothing for him and was sent away.
• Jiang Ming told the voice that he wanted Zhang Lexuan to become a god so they could share an infinite life, and he passed the first round of true heart.
• Jiang Ming reasoned that the voice belonged to a god connected to the First Generation Shrek Seven Devils, then waited as the first round concluded.
• The voice began the second round of adventure and explained that participants would face wheel-selected challenges, with failure risking a deadly deep adventure.
• The wheel selected Jiang Ming first and assigned him a battle; the golden figure that appeared was identified as Eight-Ring Tang San.

Jiang Ming fought Eight-Ring Tang San in Valley of Qiankun's Love Inquiry, revealing two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and meeting Tang San's attacks with his own powerful techniques and domains. As their strongest moves clashed in a stalemate, Dai Lao Da offered Jiang Ming the God of War Deity Inheritance if he could defeat Tang San.

• Jiang Ming revealed his Soul Rings, including two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, and charged at Eight-Ring Tang San.
• Jiang Ming struck Tang San twice with Battle Intent-enhanced punches, but Tang San blocked them with Invincible Golden Body and counterattacked with the Blue Silver Overlord Spear and Clear Sky Hammer.
• Jiang Ming used the Sky Piercer Spear to overpower Tang San's spear and hammer attacks, while Tang San released Divine Slaughter's Domain and Clear Sky True Body.
• Jiang Ming merged Thunder Domain and Golden Armor Domain, then met Tang San's Shattering Technique with Unstoppable Advance, leaving their strongest attacks locked in a stalemate.
• Dai Lao Da praised Jiang Ming's strength and offered him the God of War Deity Inheritance if he defeated Tang San.

Jiang Ming fought Eight-Ring Tang San in the Valley of Qiankun's Love Inquiry, driving the battle into a fierce rhythm before Tang San used his Blue Silver Emperor abilities and spirit bone skills to counter him. The clash continued as Tang San struck at Jiang Ming with Orca Evil Axe and prepared Titan Sky Cannon.

• Dai Mubai sensed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum in Jiang Ming's power and decided Jiang Ming was fated to inherit from him.
• Jiang Ming charged Eight-Ring Tang San again, and the two traded rapid spear-and-hammer blows as Jiang Ming's battle rhythm intensified.
• Tang San attacked Jiang Ming's Sea of Consciousness with Purple Demon Divine Light, then tried to restrain him with Blue Silver Bind, Blue Silver Cage, Spider Web Restraint, and Parasitic.
• Tang San activated Blue Silver True Body and filled the arena with Blue Silver Emperors, but Jiang Ming used Stabilize the Three Armies and Soul Chaser to pursue him through the grass.
• Tang San stunned Jiang Ming with Blue Silver Orca Demon's Grasp, blocked his spear with Orca Evil Axe, and began gathering power for Titan Sky Cannon.

Jiang Ming fought Eight-Ring Tang San in the Valley of Qiankun's Love Inquiry, enduring his opponent’s powerful skills and the full eighty-one strikes of the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer to temper the Sky Piercer Spear. The spear awakened a spirit, and Jiang Ming gained the upper hand, but after Tang San countered with the Void skill and Hidden Weapons, Jiang Ming transformed into Golden Thunder and prepared a fully charged Heaven and Earth Cannon against him.

• Eight-Ring Tang San stunned Jiang Ming and battered him with the Titan Sky Cannon and Blue Silver Orca Mirror Annihilation, weakening his battle state.
• Tang San began charging the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, and Jiang Ming repeatedly clashed the Sky Piercer Spear against the Clear Sky Hammer after realizing the strikes were refining his spear’s Rank 9 materials.
• Jiang Ming endured the final hammer by activating the Golden Battle Body and the Nine Spears of the War God Fourth Form, and the Sky Piercer Spear shed a layer of golden fragments and gained a spirit.
• Jiang Ming forced Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer away and lunged for his heart, but Tang San used his final Invincible Golden Body, teleported, and attacked with Hidden Weapons.
• Jiang Ming tracked Tang San through the poisonous mist and struck, but Tang San used Void to avoid the attack and fired Pear Blossom Rain Needles at him.
• Jiang Ming transformed into Golden Thunder to pass through the needles and paralyze Tang San, then aimed a fully charged Heaven and Earth Cannon at him.

Jiang Ming survived the second trial when the revived Tang San vanished, then faced a vision of his parents’ deaths and a third trial that forced him to choose between four women. He rejected the cruel choice and was struck by lightning, which his Wind Thunder Prison-Suppressing External Soul Bone absorbed.

• Jiang Ming defeated Eight-Ring Tang San with the Heaven and Earth Cannon, but Tang San’s body was restored before he vanished and the voice declared Jiang Ming had passed the second trial.
• Jiang Ming found himself in the past at Clear Water City and watched his parents die defending the city from the Sun Moon Empire and an Evil Soul Master.
• After the vision ended, the authoritative voice began the real Truth or Dare trial and presented Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Meng Hongchen.
• The voice told Jiang Ming to choose one woman, revealing that the other three would die and that he would have to survive the chosen woman’s pursuing forces.
• Jiang Ming insulted the voice, which struck him with lightning, but his Wind Thunder Prison-Suppressing External Soul Bone absorbed the attack.

Jiang Ming endured divine lightning rather than choose who would die, then invoked the First Generation Shrek Seven Devils to bargain with the god behind the Valley of Qiankun's Love Inquiry. The test was changed into a truth round about the ancestors, but Jiang Ming was left badly injured and asked for help recovering.

• Jiang Ming refused to choose and cursed the unseen god, taking repeated lightning strikes that left him charred and unable to move.
• Jiang Ming realized that mentioning the First Generation Shrek Seven Devils made the god hesitate, and he used their connection to demand an end to the deadly test.
• In the God Realm, Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong watched Jiang Ming; Dai Mubai became angry when Jiang Ming compared him unfavorably with Ma Hongjun.
• Jiang Ming offered to reveal dirt about the Shrek ancestors in exchange for changing the third-round challenge, and Dai Mubai agreed to hear him out.
• The god removed Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, Meng Hongchen, and Ling Luochen's projections and changed the third round to freely spoken truths.
• Jiang Ming asked to recover from his injuries, but Dai Mubai told him to reveal what dirt he knew first.

Jiang Ming used supposed historical records to reveal embarrassing secrets about the First Generation Shrek Seven Devils to the listening deities Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong. He began recalling stories about Tang San, leaving both ancestors surprised and eager to hear what else the records said.

• Jiang Ming claimed he would reveal explosive secrets if the deities promised not to tell the First Generation Shrek Seven Devils.
• Jiang Ming said Dai Mubai had been involved with twins, and Dai Mubai denied the claim while Ning Rongrong questioned him.
• Jiang Ming recalled that Ning Rongrong had once cried at Shrek and offered Tang San ten thousand Gold Soul Coins to kill Dai Mubai, then mentioned Dai Mubai's threat against her.
• Jiang Ming brought up Ma Hongjun's breakup with Cuihua and hinted that Oscar might have visited places to vent his desires before joining Shrek.
• Ning Rongrong questioned whether Dai Mubai had taken Oscar along, and Dai Mubai denied it.
• Jiang Ming said Tang San had also been involved with other women, surprising Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong.

Jiang Ming recounted the historical accounts of four women connected to Tang San, while Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong listened and questioned his claims. The account ended when the voice in the Valley of Qiankun's Love Inquiry announced a new challenge and a towering opponent appeared.

• Jiang Ming explained that Meng Yiran had kissed Tang San on the cheek after losing a Hidden Weapons duel, prompting Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong to question what he meant by intimate contact.
• Jiang Ming recounted how Huo Wu had wanted to repay Tang San with her first kiss, and how Xiao Wu kissed Tang San to assert her claim.
• Jiang Ming described Tang San's time with Hu Liena in the City of Slaughter and said Qian Renxue may have had feelings for him.
• The majestic voice declared that the truth segment had ended and ordered them to defeat their opponent as a towering figure emerged from the chaotic space.

Jiang Ming recovered from his injuries and exhausted Soul Power with help from Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong, then agreed to face Dai Mubai in the third trial of the Valley of Qiankun's Love Inquiry. The fight began with Dai Mubai restricting himself to level ninety-five Soul Power, while Jiang Ming prepared to use Fusion.

• Dai Mubai appeared before the badly injured Jiang Ming and used divine power to heal him, deliberately making the recovery painful.
• Ning Rongrong restored Jiang Ming's Soul Power while Dai Mubai decided to fight him with level ninety-five Soul Power.
• Dai Mubai told Jiang Ming that defeating him would clear the third trial, and Jiang Ming made him promise not to raise his Soul Power.
• Dai Mubai launched spheres of Soul Power at Jiang Ming, who smiled and called out, "Fusion!"

Jiang Ming fought Dai Mubai in the Valley of Qiankun's Love Inquiry, repeatedly merging with spirits to raise his cultivation and power. The chapter ended with Jiang Ming's Battle Intent surging until his strike approached Level Ninety-Nine, leaving Dai Mubai dumbfounded.

• Jiang Ming activated his Golden Heart enhancements and merged with Little Void to teleport past Dai Mubai's defenses.
• Jiang Ming merged with Little Light and Little Dark, raised his cultivation to level ninety-three, and shattered Dai Mubai's White Tiger Protection Barrier.
• Dai Mubai used White Tiger Adamant Transformation and White Tiger Demon God Transformation, then transformed into his Evil Eye White Tiger Martial Soul Avatar to meet Jiang Ming's attack.
• Jiang Ming merged with Little Ice and Little Lotus, reached level ninety-five, and struck Dai Mubai's White Tiger Annihilation Kill with a powerful descending punch.
• Dai Mubai's Tiger Roars Through Forest barely affected Jiang Ming, who rallied his spirits to strengthen his body and Battle Intent.
• Jiang Ming's strike reached the peak of level ninety-eight and glimpsed Level Ninety-Nine, leaving Dai Mubai dumbfounded.

Jiang Ming unleashed the power of all eight Spirits and overwhelmed Dai Mubai in their trial, though the strain left his body collapsing. After using his life skill to heal Dai Mubai, Jiang Ming asked whether he had passed the trial.

• Jiang Ming fused with all eight Spirits and attacked Dai Mubai with his full strength, unleashing a devastating Inch Punch that shattered Dai Mubai's mark and crippled one of his arms.
• Jiang Ming used lightning transformation, light and darkness attacks, and fire, earth, ice, and wind skills to keep battering Dai Mubai, who refused Ning Rongrong's offers to intervene.
• Ning Rongrong realized Jiang Ming's body was collapsing from the power of his Second Martial Soul, and Dai Mubai told her to keep Jiang Ming alive after the battle.
• Jiang Ming's body failed under the strain, so he used Revival of All Things to heal Dai Mubai before asking whether he had passed the trial.

After passing Dai Mubai’s trials, Jiang Ming endured Ning Rongrong’s healing so the Spirits inside him could absorb divine power and grow stronger. Dai Mubai offered Jiang Ming the Rank 2 God of War inheritance, but Jiang Ming questioned whether the deity’s rank was high enough.

• Dai Mubai recognized Jiang Ming and asked Ning Rongrong to heal him after the trial, while Jiang Ming urged the Spirits inside him to absorb the divine power.
• Ning Rongrong noticed the Spirits were draining her divine power and sent more, allowing Little Void’s cultivation to rise to ninety thousand years before she warned Jiang Ming to stop.
• Jiang Ming dismissed the Spirits and recovered, then asked Dai Mubai to let him leave after completing the three trials.
• Dai Mubai said more trials awaited, then offered Jiang Ming the inheritance of the God of War.
• Jiang Ming asked the God of War’s rank and remarked that Rank 2 was a little lacking.

Jiang Ming rejected Dai Mubai’s God of War inheritance because he did not want to become a god without his lover, Zhang Lexuan. Dai Mubai arranged for Zhang Lexuan to be considered for a deity inheritance and secured Jiang Ming as his inheritor, while Ning Rongrong granted him a Soul Ring reward that Jiang Ming began absorbing.

• Jiang Ming explained that he refused a Rank 2 Deity inheritance because he could not bring his loved ones to the God Realm, and Dai Mubai confirmed the limitation.
• Dai Mubai decided to seek a deity inheritance for Zhang Lexuan and asked whether Jiang Ming would accept his inheritance if she could also become a god.
• Jiang Ming agreed, and Dai Mubai sent divine power into him, confirming him as the God of War Deity’s inheritor.
• Ning Rongrong let Jiang Ming choose a reasonable reward for clearing the Valley of Qiankun's Love Inquiry, and he requested a Soul Ring for his Golden Heart Martial Soul.
• Jiang Ming prepared his body and summoned his Golden Heart Martial Soul as Ning Rongrong presented a colorless Soul Ring for him to absorb.

Jiang Ming pushed the age of his God-Bestowed Seventh Soul Ring to Four Hundred-Thousand-Year and endured the grueling absorption. He succeeded, emerging with a formidable new build and a smile as he looked at his seven Soul Rings.

• Ning Rongrong and Dai Mubai discussed Jiang Ming’s Soul Ring limit, and Ning Rongrong began raising the God-Bestowed Soul Ring’s age.
• When the Soul Ring reached Hundred-Thousand-Year, Little Prison and Rongrong suppressed its aura inside Jiang Ming’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Jiang Ming stacked his spirits and Soul Ring abilities to withstand the rising pressure, eventually pushing the Soul Ring’s age to Four Hundred-Thousand-Year.
• Jiang Ming began absorbing the Soul Ring, enduring pain as his body swelled while the process continued for a full day.
• Jiang Ming successfully absorbed the Four Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and his swollen body condensed into sturdy muscles as he admired his seven Soul Rings.