Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming entered the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Zone, prepared to test himself against Di Tian, and followed Little Spirit’s sensing toward the Lake of Life. He encountered Bi Ji, who ordered him to leave, but he refused.

• Jiang Ming merged with Little Spirit, Little Yellow, Little Void, and Little Time, raising his strength to Level Ninety-Eight Super Douluo and preparing safeguards before advancing.
• Little Spirit sensed an unusually dense life aura, and Jiang Ming followed it through the quiet Great Fiend Zone toward the Lake of Life.
• Jiang Ming felt a powerful presence watching him, and Snow Empress identified it as Bi Ji rather than Di Tian.
• Bi Ji appeared before Jiang Ming and told him the area was no place for a human, but Jiang Ming respectfully said he had no intention of offending her.
• Bi Ji ordered Jiang Ming to leave and warned that he would not be able to escape if he stayed, but Jiang Ming refused to go.

Jiang Ming entered the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Zone to challenge Di Tian, but Bi Ji tried to turn him away and persuade Little Spirit to stay by the Lake of Life. After Di Tian’s seclusion and Bi Ji’s refusal to help, Jiang Ming revealed his immense strength, drawing an angry roar from another powerful beast.

• Bi Ji’s six-hundred-thousand-year cultivation pressure failed to affect Jiang Ming, who explained that he had come to challenge Di Tian.
• Jiang Ming released Little Spirit, and she and Bi Ji spoke amicably before Bi Ji learned Jiang Ming’s purpose.
• Bi Ji said Di Tian was in seclusion, urged Jiang Ming to leave, and offered to notify the other Beasts if Little Spirit stayed with her.
• Jiang Ming refused to use Little Spirit as a bargaining chip and told Bi Ji he had heard their conversation.
• Jiang Ming removed his concealment and released an aura comparable to a Level Ninety-Eight Super Douluo, prompting Bi Ji’s shock and an angry roar from elsewhere in the Core Zone.

Jiang Ming revealed his Level Ninety-Eight strength near Bi Ji, drawing Xiong Jun into battle. After Xiong Jun’s opening strike damaged the Sky Piercer Spear and knocked Jiang Ming into a crater, Jiang Ming counterattacked with his Golden True Body and God of War Domain.

• Jiang Ming released his aura near Bi Ji, and Xiong Jun rushed toward them while Bi Ji feared the human was in danger.
• Jiang Ming flew to meet Xiong Jun with the Sky Piercer Spear and told Snow Empress, Little Prison, Little Jade, and Meng Bing to prepare for other beasts.
• Xiong Jun struck Jiang Ming with his Dark Gold Dreadclaws, shattering his defensive barrier and Golden Guard and leaving deep claw marks on the Sky Piercer Spear.
• Jiang Ming activated Golden True Body, expanded to three meters, and charged at Xiong Jun with the Nine Spears of the War God: Break the Army.
• Jiang Ming unleashed God of War Domain, Swallow Mountains and Rivers, devouring Xiong Jun’s aura as their spear and claw strike neared collision.

Jiang Ming fought Xiong Jun in the Star Dou Great Forest and revealed increasingly powerful abilities after Xiong Jun’s Sky-Tearing Claw pushed him to his limit. The chapter ended as Jiang Ming unleashed a massive punch against Xiong Jun and a five-hundred-thousand-year plant-type Soul Beast hurried toward the battle.

• Jiang Ming used his soul skills to gain an advantage over Xiong Jun, but Xiong Jun activated his Spirit Bone and wounded him with a Sky-Tearing Claw.
• Xiong Jun demanded to know where Jiang Ming’s Golden Soul Ring came from, while Bi Ji became alarmed by Jiang Ming’s three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and unusual abilities.
• Jiang Ming’s defenses, including Little Yellow’s Earth’s Protection and a spatial shield, delayed Xiong Jun’s attack until Xiong Jun strengthened his Sky-Tearing Claw and shattered the shield.
• Jiang Ming merged with six Spirits, reached Level Ninety-Nine, and activated Golden Battle Body, Swallow Mountains and Rivers, and Ruler of the World.
• Jiang Ming met Xiong Jun’s Sky-Tearing Claw with an Inch Punch, unleashing a shockwave that devastated the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Zone and sent Soul Beasts fleeing.
• A plant-type Soul Beast ranked fifth among the Ten Great Fierce Beasts rushed toward the battlefield to discover whom Xiong Jun was fighting.

Jiang Ming fought Xiong Jun and then suppressed several of the Star Dou Great Forest’s powerful beasts with his abilities. Bi Ji awakened Di Tian, who emerged from the Lake of Life after sensing the battle.

• Jiang Ming injured Xiong Jun’s right arm with a strange force, then fought him in close combat while Bi Ji healed him.
• Ten Thousand Monster King, Chi Wang, and Zi Ji joined the fight, but Jiang Ming countered their attacks with elementalization and Time-Space Reversal.
• Jiang Ming used his skills to restrain Ten Thousand Monster King, Chi Wang, and Zi Ji, trapped Bi Ji in a Spatial Cage, and resumed beating Xiong Jun.
• Bi Ji used the signal to awaken Di Tian, who sensed the battle and flew out of the Lake of Life.

Jiang Ming ended his fight with the five Beasts and unleashed his Bow of Nine Elements against the arriving Di Tian. After their attacks collided, Di Tian realized Jiang Ming had vanished and detected that he had used Spiritual Power to disguise his aura.

• Snow Empress warned Jiang Ming that Di Tian had emerged from seclusion, and Jiang Ming gathered his power to prepare for him.
• Jiang Ming hurled the battered Xiong Jun toward Di Tian, but Di Tian dodged and used Xiong Jun to propel himself forward.
• Jiang Ming summoned the Bow of Nine Elements, drew it to about seventy percent, and fired a powerful nine-element arrow at Di Tian.
• Di Tian countered Jiang Ming's arrow with the Black Dragon Sword, and their collision froze space and time before a shockwave blasted the surrounding Beasts away.
• Di Tian searched the battlefield, noticed Jiang Ming had disappeared from his spiritual lock, and identified the simulated aura Jiang Ming had left behind.

Jiang Ming tried to withdraw from the Star Dou Great Forest, but Di Tian blocked his escape and unleashed the divine Dragon King Claw. Jiang Ming sealed the claw with his Time-Space Seal and fled at full speed while firing a Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonball toward Bi Ji, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Di Tian shattered Jiang Ming's Nine-Colored Arrow while Ten Thousand Monster King attacked Jiang Ming's concealed position with Corrosive Venom, which Jiang Ming stopped with an Ice Fire Tornado.
• Snow Empress warned Jiang Ming that he could not defeat Di Tian, so Jiang Ming chose to break through Scarlet King's position instead of fleeing past Bi Ji or Zi Ji.
• Jiang Ming suppressed Scarlet King's Netherflame Hell with Little Ice's Endless Ice Seal and punched Scarlet King away, but Di Tian arrived and made the surrounding space too heavy for teleportation.
• Di Tian revealed the Dragon King Claw, and Jiang Ming used Emperor Sword, Ice Extreme Unrivaled, followed by Time-Space Seal to delay its descent.
• Jiang Ming launched a Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonball toward Bi Ji and used his Wind Thunder Wings External Soul Bone to fly away, gambling that Di Tian would stop to protect her.

Jiang Ming escaped Di Tian and the Star Dou Great Forest’s other powerful beasts by using a Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonball to force Di Tian to protect Bi Ji, but he fled badly injured and retreated into his Small World to recover. Di Tian and the others speculated that Jiang Ming might possess a Deity Inheritance, and Di Tian decided to ask the auspicious beast to search for him while expecting him to return.

• Jiang Ming detonated the Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonball after Di Tian intercepted it, weakening the Dragon King Claw and giving Jiang Ming a chance to escape.
• Jiang Ming fled from the Core Zone to the Mixed Zone, vomited blood, then entered his Small World to treat his injuries after ordering the Black Armored Giant Rhinoceros to guard the area.
• Di Tian and the other Beasts assessed the explosion’s damage and listened as Xiong Jun and Bi Ji described Jiang Ming’s unusual strength and abilities.
• Bi Ji revealed that Jiang Ming appeared to be under thirty and was accompanied by a powerful Life Spirit, leading Di Tian and the others to suspect he had a Deity Inheritance.
• Di Tian ruled out pursuing Jiang Ming directly and said he would ask the auspicious beast to find him, while declaring that he would wait for Jiang Ming to return.

After clashing with Di Tian, Jiang Ming acknowledged the gap between them and left the Core Zone to recover before heading to Zhang Lexuan’s group. There, three identical old Soul Masters demanded that the group reveal their Soul Rings, and Jiang Ming arrived to confront them.

• Jiang Ming told Snow Empress that Di Tian’s Dragon King Claw had exposed the gap in their strength, and he resolved to improve his skills and upgrade the Sky Piercer Spear.
• Little Spirit warned Jiang Ming that maintaining Nine Spirits Fusion had damaged his body, and he told her to rest while he recovered.
• Jiang Ming located Zhang Lexuan and hurried toward her group, where Bai Meng and Feng Ling had just obtained Soul Rings, leaving Huo Yuhao still searching for a spiritual-attribute Soul Beast.
• Zhang Lexuan’s group concealed two Ink Leopard corpses when three identical old men approached and demanded to know who they were and to see their Soul Rings.
• Jiang Ming arrived beside Zhang Lexuan, insulted the three old men, and asked whether they had come looking for trouble.

Jiang Ming and his companions confronted three Evil Soul Masters in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Jiang Ming exposed their strength before the group subdued them. The chapter ended with Jiang Ming demanding to know what the Evil Soul Masters had wanted to discuss.

• Three arrogant old men demanded that Zhang Lexuan reveal their elders, but Jiang Ming told them there were none and mocked their assumption that they were surrounded by Titled Douluo.
• When one old man attacked Jiang Ming with Soul Power, Jiang Ming easily dispersed the strike, and the three revealed their Rank 8 Soul Tools and Evil Soul Master auras.
• The old men summoned the tortured soul of a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, so Jiang Ming concealed the area and the group displayed their Martial Souls and Soul Rings, including Jiang Ming's nine red rings.
• Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen fought and subdued the three Evil Soul Masters with help from Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Share and Jiang Ming's Spiritual Domain.
• Jiang Ming asked the restrained men what they had wanted to discuss, while they stared in terror and insisted that the group's Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings were fake.

Jiang Ming used Mind Control to interrogate three Evil Soul Masters and learned they planned to steal two newborn Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear cubs. He led the group to the bear’s den, where he stopped its powerful claw with one hand.

• Jiang Ming forcibly controlled Zhong Li Tian, Zhong Li Di, and Zhong Li Ren, then learned their names and that they planned to steal two Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear cubs.
• Jiang Ming sent Zhong Li Di and Zhong Li Ren into his Small World, kept Zhong Li Tian under control, and had the group follow him toward the den.
• Huo Yuhao withdrew his Simulate Soul Skill, and Jiang Ming promised to help him find a suitable spiritual-type Soul Beast if needed.
• Zhong Li Tian led the group to the burrow, and Jiang Ming went ahead while the others waited.
• The Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear attacked Jiang Ming with its claws, but Jiang Ming caught the strike with one hand and prevented the bear from pulling back.

Jiang Ming brought Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Wang Qiuer into the Star Dou Great Forest's Core Zone to find Huo Yuhao a soul ring, then swiftly subdued two powerful Soul Beasts. The chapter ended with Jiang Ming sensing Di Tian and fleeing with the others and the incapacitated beasts in his Small World.

• Jiang Ming pulled a newly delivered Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear from its burrow, sent its two cubs to his Small World, and told Little Spirit to care for the family.
• Jiang Ming sent Zhang Lexuan and the others back to the academy, then continued toward the Core Zone with Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Wang Qiuer.
• Wang Qiuer led the group toward a Spiritual System Soul Beast and explained that she had spent a year in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Jiang Ming found an Earthshaker Roar battling a Silver Hero Beast and incapacitated both with Ruler of the World and Spiritual Shock.
• Jiang Ming swept the two Soul Beasts and his companions into his Small World, empowered himself, and flew toward the forest's edge after sensing Di Tian.

Jiang Ming escaped Di Tian by hiding in the Book of Spirits' Small World, then recovered while Huo Yuhao absorbed a Soul Ring and Wang Qiuer explored the world's connection to fate. After returning to the academy, Jiang Ming was summoned to Sea God Pavilion, where Du Busi was waiting.

• Jiang Ming concealed himself and the others in the Book of Spirits' Small World, causing Di Tian to lose track of them.
• Jiang Ming explained that Di Tian had pursued him after he fought Beasts in the Core Zone and used a Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonball on Bi Ji.
• Jiang Ming rested while Huo Yuhao absorbed the Silver Hero Beast's Soul Ring, Wang Dong'er guarded him, and Wang Qiuer sensed that the Small World's Fate Power was connected to Jiang Ming.
• The Black Armored Giant Rhinoceros carried the group out of the forest, and Jiang Ming and the others flew back to the academy.
• Xuan Zi summoned Jiang Ming to Sea God Pavilion, where Du Busi greeted him with a broad smile.

Jiang Ming confronted Du Busi over the Body Sect’s proposal to deepen its cooperation with Shrek Academy. He rejected the Sect’s demand for Elders to become regular teachers but offered a more limited arrangement, leaving the two sides to negotiate its terms.

• Du Busi proposed sending Body Sect disciples to study at Shrek and having Body Sect Elders serve as teachers, but Jiang Ming challenged his vague pitch.
• Elder Lin revealed that Jiang Ming was Shrek’s honorary Master of Sea God Pavilion and had decision-making authority, surprising Du Busi.
• Du Busi outlined his first of three matters: placing Body Sect disciples at Shrek and appointing Body Sect Elders as teachers.
• Jiang Ming refused to let the Elders become regular teachers, arguing they could favor Body Sect students and exploit Shrek’s resources.
• Jiang Ming offered a dedicated Body Martial Soul division with Body Sect Elders as specially appointed instructors, equal access to Inner Court resources, and a contribution from the Body Sect to cover the added costs.

Jiang Ming and Du Busi discussed cooperation between Shrek Academy and the Body Sect before turning to the Sun Moon Empire’s proposed tournament reform. Du Busi asked Shrek to coordinate against dangerous opponents, and Jiang Ming realized the plan might involve more than ordinary tactical cooperation.

• Jiang Ming offered the Body Sect a training arrangement at Shrek, and Du Busi agreed to discuss the terms with his elders.
• Jiang Ming served Du Busi spirit tea and emphasized its value, while Du Busi tried to negotiate for more.
• Du Busi raised the Sun Moon Empire’s proposal to let sects compete in the renamed All-Continent Youth Soul Master Tournament, and Elder Song explained that the change was likely to pass.
• Jiang Ming recognized that the Body Sect wanted to use the tournament to make its return to prominence and questioned what the Sun Moon Empire gained from the reform.
• Du Busi proposed that Shrek and the Body Sect help weaken troublesome opponents before potentially meeting in the semifinals or finals, and Jiang Ming suddenly realized something was wrong.

Jiang Ming warned Du Busi that the Sun Moon Empire might use the tournament, with the Holy Spirit Cult’s help, to win the championship and trap the gathered factions in Radiant City before launching a war. Shrek and the Body Sect agreed they must attend and cooperate, but the chapter left them alarmed by the empire’s possible Limit Douluo allies and their own lack of equal strength.

• Jiang Ming agreed on behalf of Shrek Academy to cooperate with Du Busi and the Body Sect, then explained that the Holy Spirit Cult might join the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Jiang Ming warned that the Sun Moon Empire could use the tournament to detain the visiting factions and launch a war, and Du Busi agreed that Shrek and the Body Sect still had to attend and disrupt the plan.
• Jiang Ming urged the factions to contact allies and prepare a concealed escape route, warning that the Holy Spirit Cult might have a Limit Douluo.
• Elder Song explained that Zhang Peng had pledged himself to the Holy Spirit Cult and that Long Xiaoyao had ambushed Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er while aiding the Sun Moon Empire.
• Du Busi realized the Sun Moon Empire might have two Limit Douluos, while Shrek and the Body Sect had only himself and Xuan Zi, both at level ninety-eight.

Jiang Ming urged Du Busi to challenge the final barrier to becoming a Limit Douluo and pressed the factions to prepare for a possible Sun Moon Empire plot at the tournament. Du Busi invited Jiang Ming to become the Body Sect's Honorary Sect Master, but Jiang Ming refused and was invited to visit the sect to study its research on Body Martial Souls.

• Jiang Ming encouraged Du Busi to enter seclusion and attempt to break through, and Du Busi resolved to try after returning to the Body Sect.
• Jiang Ming called for the factions and the Three Great Empires to prepare their strongest fighters for the Sun Moon Empire's potential scheme, and Du Busi agreed to consult his elders.
• Du Busi invited Jiang Ming to become the Body Sect's Honorary Sect Master, prompting Elder Song and Elder Lin to accuse him of trying to poach Jiang Ming.
• Du Busi explained that the Body Sect lacked a younger disciple with a Golden Second Awakening and feared the sect would be vulnerable after his death, but Jiang Ming declined the honorary position.
• Du Busi invited Jiang Ming to visit the Body Sect and learn from its research on Body Martial Souls.

Jiang Ming agreed to visit the Body Sect with Du Busi after allowing him to stay in Shrek for a few days, but his injuries from fighting Di Tian flared up and forced him into seclusion. As Jiang Ming began healing, Zhang Lexuan sensed his return to the Sea God Pavilion and wondered when he would come see her.

• Jiang Ming agreed to visit the Body Sect but refused Du Busi's offer to make him an honorary sect master.
• Jiang Ming arranged for Du Busi to stay in Shrek for a few days before they traveled to the Body Sect together.
• After Du Busi left, Jiang Ming reassured Elder Song that the Body Sect could not hold him, then his injuries flared up.
• Jiang Ming entered seclusion and used the Golden Heart, Rongrong, and Little Spirit to repair the severe damage to his body.
• Zhang Lexuan finished meditating, sensed Jiang Ming had returned to the Sea God Pavilion through the Moonlight Guardian, and wondered why he went there directly.

Zhang Lexuan learned that Jiang Ming had entered seclusion after meeting with Du Busi, while Elder Lin showed the Body Sect Master Shrek City's new developments and welcomed him to the Shrek Grand Hotel. Du Busi settled into his lavish room and then went downstairs after learning that Jiang Ming was waiting for him.

• Zhang Lexuan came to the Sea God Pavilion to see Jiang Ming, but Elder Song told her he was in seclusion and explained the meeting with Du Busi.
• Elder Lin brought Du Busi to the Shrek Grand Hotel, where he admired Shrek City's prosperity and considered the benefits of cooperating with Shrek.
• The hotel receptionist escorted Du Busi to a Heavenly Grade Room and demonstrated its facilities, including its cultivation room and Soul Tool laboratory.
• Du Busi inspected the room for surveillance and then explored its facilities, impressed by Shrek's technology.
• The receptionist contacted Du Busi through the Voice Transmission Soul Tool to tell him Jiang Ming was waiting downstairs, and Du Busi hurried to meet him.

Jiang Ming showed Du Busi around Shrek City, shared a feast and powerful medicinal wine with him, and refused to leave Shrek Academy. Du Busi departed after hinting that the Body Sect might yet recruit Jiang Ming, then secretly gave him medicine for his injuries.

• Jiang Ming escaped the attention of a group of admirers at the Shrek Grand Hotel and offered to show Du Busi around Shrek City and Shrek Academy.
• Jiang Ming and Du Busi sampled street food and drank Jiang Ming and Elder Xuan's medicinal wine, whose potency surprised Du Busi.
• Du Busi lamented that the Body Sect had missed Jiang Ming as a disciple and asked whether he would leave Shrek; Jiang Ming said he would stay.
• Du Busi told Jiang Ming to show him around again the next day and asked him to bring another jar of wine.
• After Du Busi left, Jiang Ming caught a medicinal pill that Du Busi secretly sent him to help heal his injuries.