Chapter Summaries

Ye Cheng took Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing on a safe outdoor picnic in the Star Dou Great Forest, then identified a fleeing Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent from Zhu Zhuqing’s observations. The thousand-year serpent charged at them, and Zhu Zhuqing attacked it as it sprayed a seven-colored mist.

• Ye Cheng used his Storage Ring to bring cooking supplies and ingredients, and the three enjoyed a picnic in the forest.
• After the girls cleaned up, Ye Cheng sensed a soul beast fleeing from several pursuers and told Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing that something interesting was coming.
• Zhu Zhuqing climbed a tree and described the approaching flying snake, and Ye Cheng identified it as a thousand-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent whose soul skill would likely involve speed.
• Zhu Zhuqing attacked the serpent with Hell Stab, but it dodged her strike and sprayed a seven-colored mist while accelerating.
• Ning Rongrong warned Zhu Zhuqing to be careful, while Ye Cheng stayed calm because he knew the serpent was nonvenomous.

Ye Cheng captured a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, but Zhao Wuji and the Shrek group arrived and claimed it for Oscar. Ye Cheng refused to hand it over, and the two sides prepared for a confrontation.

• Ye Cheng explained that the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent was harmless, subdued it, and told Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to leave it alive.
• Zhao Wuji arrived with Tang San, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun, then recognized Ye Cheng, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Tang San identified the serpent as a suitable soul beast for Oscar, and Oscar prepared to kill it for its soul ring.
• Ye Cheng released Soul Sage-level pressure after the Shrek group ignored him and began claiming the serpent.
• Zhao Wuji argued that his group had targeted the serpent first, but Ye Cheng refused to give up the beast he had captured.

Chao Tianxiang and her granddaughter arrived to claim the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, only to find Zhao Wuji and Ye Cheng already competing over it. After learning both men were Soul Saints and introducing herself as Serpent Granny, Chao Tianxiang still sought the serpent, while Zhao Wuji weighed the danger of provoking the Peerless Dragon Serpent.

• Chao Tianxiang and her granddaughter rushed into the standoff and asked for the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.
• Chao Tianxiang explained that she and her granddaughter had tracked the serpent first and wanted it for the granddaughter's third Soul Ring.
• Chao Tianxiang introduced herself as Serpent Granny and named her husband, Meng Shu, the Dragon Duke.
• Zhao Wuji recognized Chao Tianxiang as one half of the Peerless Dragon Serpent and considered the risk of fighting her while Ye Cheng watched.

Ye Cheng revealed his identity as a Titled Douluo and gave the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent to Meng Yiran. Dai Mubai watched Zhu Zhuqing leave his fate behind and seethed with jealousy.

• Zhao Wuji recognized Ye Cheng’s surname and bowed, while Tang San stopped Oscar from questioning the sudden show of respect.
• Ye Cheng dispelled his disguise, and Serpent Granny recognized him and begged his forgiveness.
• Ye Cheng gave the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent to Meng Yiran, and Oscar reluctantly accepted that he could not object.
• Dai Mubai realized Zhu Zhuqing had become Ye Cheng’s disciple and grew furious that she had escaped their arranged fate.
• Zhu Zhuqing met Dai Mubai’s resentful gaze and reflected that she had left Shrek without guilt after losing faith in him and the academy.

Meng Yiran absorbed the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent's Soul Ring after Ye Cheng gave it to her, while Zhao Wuji led Shrek away and warned Ma Hongjun to accept their loss. Ye Cheng continued through the forest with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, preparing to use the system to locate their intended Soul Beast.

• Meng Yiran killed the unconscious Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent and began absorbing its purple Soul Ring as Oscar watched in frustration.
• Ye Cheng left with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, and the forest plants parted before them without any visible Soul Power.
• After Ye Cheng's group disappeared, Zhao Wuji led Shrek away from Serpent Granny and Meng Yiran.
• Ma Hongjun complained that Ye Cheng had taken the Soul Beast they were pursuing, and Zhao Wuji struck him and warned him against provoking Dragon Duke and Serpent Granny.
• Tang San imagined that his Twin Martial Souls could eventually let him gain power like Ye Cheng.
• Ye Cheng prepared to use the Question and Answer System to locate the Soul Beast they had come to hunt.

Ye Cheng found the 51,000-year-old Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and flew with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to the forest where it lived. He revealed that he wanted something rarer than a Soul Ring or Soul Bone, then let Ning Rongrong examine his Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.

• Ye Cheng used the system to locate the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and flew with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing toward its location.
• The three arrived in a dim forest, where Ye Cheng explained that the tiger's domain caused the strange darkness and reassured the frightened girls.
• Ye Cheng told them the tiger was about fifty thousand years old and said he sought a treasure on its body other than its Soul Ring or Soul Bone.
• Ye Cheng summoned his Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Ning Rongrong eagerly examined it beside her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong returned the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda to Ye Cheng, who thought about helping her evolve her Martial Soul in the future.

Ye Cheng led Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and explained its power and its connection to Zhu Zhuqing’s future martial soul. Recognizing Ye Cheng from the Future Videos, the tiger realized it was the beast destined to be hunted and fled.

• Ye Cheng used the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda to illuminate a safe area as the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger appeared before him, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ye Cheng identified the beast and explained how his future self would help Zhu Zhuqing obtain its treasure and evolve her martial soul.
• Ye Cheng told the two girls that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger possessed supremely evil power comparable to the Six-Winged Angel.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger recognized Ye Cheng from the Future Videos and realized it was the unlucky beast shown there.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger decided to lure Ye Cheng toward the Core Area and escaped in a burst of black mist.

Ye Cheng trapped the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and easily wounded it, but the beast feigned weakness before launching its ultimate attack. The chapter ended as a massive black hole appeared between the tiger and Ye Cheng.

• Ye Cheng revealed the Soul Power barrier that blocked the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s escape and explained its cunning and strength to Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger unleashed its domain and Dark Demon Evil Lightning, but Ye Cheng protected the two girls and shattered the attack with a sword strike that grievously wounded it.
• Ye Cheng recognized that the tiger was pretending to be incapacitated and fired another streak of Sword Qi at it.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger charged Ye Cheng, was repelled by the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda’s protective light, then transformed its Evil God Hook into an Evil God Thorn and created a massive black hole.

Ye Cheng used Mental Power and the Nine Treasures Divine Light Shield to resist the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Life and Death Arena, then defeated the beast inside it. After returning to the Star Dou Great Forest, he stopped a strange pearl from escaping and captured it.

• Ye Cheng shattered the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s protective barrier with Mental Power and shielded himself, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing with the Nine Treasures Divine Light Shield as the beast’s black hole pulled them inside.
• Ye Cheng explained that the Life and Death Arena normally reverted its victims to six-year-old children, while the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger could protect itself from the effect.
• Ye Cheng killed the tiger in its juvenile form with a sword strike, ending the battle and returning with the two girls to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ye Cheng bound the strange pearl above the tiger’s corpse with Mental Power and caught it before it could escape into the closing black hole.

Ye Cheng revealed that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Evil God Pearl could give Zhu Zhuqing a chance to inherit its talents, but warned that absorbing it could be fatal. Zhu Zhuqing chose to proceed, and Ye Cheng used his Soul Skills to protect her as she began absorbing the Pearl’s power.

• Ye Cheng stored the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s corpse and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring in his Storage Ring.
• Ye Cheng explained that the Evil God Pearl held nearly half of the tiger’s power and could grant Zhu Zhuqing a rebirth, though absorbing it was extremely dangerous.
• Zhu Zhuqing rejected Ning Rongrong’s suggestion to give up and swallowed the Evil God Pearl.
• As the Pearl’s icy, evil energy threatened Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Cheng used his Third and Fourth Soul Skills to amplify her Soul Power and physique tenfold.
• Ye Cheng activated his Eighth Soul Skill, Divine Light Body Protection, isolating Zhu Zhuqing from the energy’s harmful effects.
• Zhu Zhuqing began using her Soul Power to wear down and absorb the Evil God Pearl’s energy.

After absorbing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Inner Core, Zhu Zhuqing's Martial Soul evolved and gained new Soul Rings and External Soul Bones. Ye Cheng began testing her enhanced abilities, leaving the extent of her strength still to be seen.

• Zhu Zhuqing finished absorbing the Inner Core after meditating for three days, and Ye Cheng and Ning Rongrong examined her evolved Martial Soul.
• Ye Cheng determined that Zhu Zhuqing's Martial Soul had inherited the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's traits and that she had gained a third Soul Ring.
• Zhu Zhuqing used Martial Soul Possession and revealed the Evil God Wings and Evil God Hook as External Soul Bones.
• After Zhu Zhuqing changed her torn clothes, Ye Cheng asked her to test her Soul Skills by attacking him.
• Zhu Zhuqing unleashed a fast attack, while Ye Cheng defended himself with only a Soul Power barrier.

Ye Cheng tested Zhu Zhuqing’s transformed martial soul and learned how her first two Soul Skills had changed after she absorbed the Evil God Pearl. He then decided to search the Star Dou Great Forest for soul bones, using the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda’s treasure-seeking ability.

• Zhu Zhuqing attacked Ye Cheng’s Soul Power barrier with her claws and Phantom Avatars, but ran out of Soul Power before breaking through it.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Ye Cheng that her Third Soul Skill, Evil God Guardian, created a shield that a Soul King could not break.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained that her first Soul Skill now greatly increased her speed for an extended time, and that her second could create controllable Phantom Avatars.
• Ye Cheng decided to search the Star Dou Great Forest for soul bones rather than leave empty-handed.
• Ye Cheng summoned his Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and activated its treasure-seeking ability while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing watched.

Ye Cheng found an extraordinarily rare sixty-six-year-old torso soul bone in a pool and realized its fart-based skill might be useful to Tang San. He decided to seek out the External Soul Bone in the forest before Tang San could obtain it, while the Shrek group found another potential soul beast for Oscar.

• Ye Cheng used the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda to locate a soul bone beneath a pool and pulled it out.
• Ye Cheng identified the bone as a sixty-six-year-old Pig-Boar Beast Torso Soul Bone with a poisonous-mist spray skill.
• Ye Cheng realized an External Soul Bone could be absorbed without its soul beast’s ring and decided to claim the one nearby before Tang San could benefit from it.
• After losing the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent soul ring, the Shrek group found a Gale Wind Baboon they chose as a possible soul beast for Oscar.

Zhao Wuji captured a thousand-year Gale Wind Baboon for Oscar, who absorbed its soul ring, but the kill drew two enormous ten-thousand-year Gale Wind Baboons. Zhao Wuji fought the larger one while Tang San and the others fled, and the second baboon pursued Tang San.

• Zhao Wuji used his soul skills to catch and incapacitate the thousand-year Gale Wind Baboon, and Oscar killed it and began absorbing its soul ring.
• Oscar successfully absorbed the soul ring and gained his third soul ring.
• A roughly thirty-meter Gale Wind Baboon arrived, mourned its dead young, and attacked the group.
• Zhao Wuji told Tang San and the others to escape while he held off the powerful baboon, then charged into battle.
• A second ten-thousand-year Gale Wind Baboon appeared, so Tang San and the others scattered in different directions; it chose to pursue Tang San.

Ye Cheng interrupted Tang San’s near-fatal fight with a Gale Wind Baboon, fused a Boar Hog Beast Torso Bone into him as “compensation,” and claimed the beasts’ valuable soul bones for himself. After killing an injured Man Faced Demon Spider, Ye Cheng found its External Soul Bone, leaving Tang San unconscious and without either prize.

• Tang San awakened his Blue Silver Domain while the Gale Wind Baboon cornered him, but Ye Cheng knocked them both unconscious with his Head Soul Bone skill.
• Ye Cheng fused the Boar Hog Beast Torso Bone into Tang San, preventing him from removing it, then killed the Gale Wind Baboon and took its ten-thousand-year Torso Soul Bone.
• An injured Man Faced Demon Spider appeared, and Ye Cheng killed it before it could become another opportunity for Tang San.
• Ye Cheng searched the spider’s remains and retrieved its External Soul Bone without absorbing its soul ring.

After Ye Cheng left Tang San unconscious, Tang San awakened his Blue Silver Domain and discovered a weak Torso Soul Bone fused to his body. He tested its burst skill, which released a foul cloud from his rear just as Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun arrived, leaving Tang San humiliated and furious.

• Ye Cheng stored the Gale Wind Baboon and Man Faced Demon Spider corpses with their soul rings, then used Space Transfer to leave.
• Tang San woke and realized his Blue Silver Domain had fully awakened during his near-death crisis.
• Tang San discovered a low-age Torso Soul Bone fused to him and worried that it had wasted a valuable soul bone slot.
• Tang San activated the soul bone's burst skill, which expelled yellow-green smoke from his rear and tore his clothing.
• Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun walked into the smoke and vomited, while Tang San stood exposed and furious.

Tang San's torso soul bone caused him to release a foul, poisonous fart that left Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun vomiting. Tang San considered killing them to hide his humiliation but relented, and Zhao Wuji warned the others to keep quiet before they all pretended nothing had happened and left the forest.

• Tang San's soul-bone fart struck Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun, making them vomit and briefly weakening them.
• Tang San felt killing intent and considered silencing the witnesses, but Zhao Wuji pretended not to notice his bare backside and led the others away.
• Tang San decided against killing them, cleaned himself, changed clothes, and burned his ruined pants.
• Zhao Wuji and the others recovered with Oscar's detoxification sausages, and Zhao Wuji warned them that Tang San had wanted to kill them and that they must keep the incident secret.
• Tang San caught up with the group, and everyone acted as though nothing had happened before leaving the forest.

Ye Cheng and his companions uncovered 861 soul bones in the Star Dou Great Forest, giving him the means to fund his plans for White Cloud City. He arrived at the Heaven Dou Grand Auction House with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to sell them, where the attendants recognized him as a Limit Douluo and welcomed him inside.

• Ye Cheng, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing collected 861 soul bones from the Star Dou Great Forest, most of them hidden underground or in other concealed places.
• Ye Cheng planned to sell the soul bones to fund construction of White Cloud City and recruit people and forces to settle there.
• Ye Cheng flew to Heaven Dou City with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing and told them he had come to sell something at the Heaven Dou Grand Auction House.
• Ning Rongrong offered Ye Cheng her Gold Card, but he declined her money and led the group inside.
• The four attendants recognized Ye Cheng, knelt to greet him, and invited him into the auction house.

Ye Cheng entrusted three roughly sixty-thousand-year Soul Bones to an auction house, whose manager agreed to hold a dedicated auction in one month. The manager kept the treasures and began arranging security as Ye Cheng, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing left.

• The auction house staff welcomed Ye Cheng, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing without asking for bidding qualification certification and led them to a guest room.
• The auction house's middle-aged manager arrived and reacted with shock when Ye Cheng produced three Soul Bones.
• Ye Cheng identified them as a left arm bone, a right arm bone, and a skull bone, each around sixty thousand years old.
• The manager proposed publicizing the Soul Bones and holding a dedicated auction in one month, and Ye Cheng agreed.
• Ye Cheng left the Soul Bones with the manager and departed with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.
• The manager stored the Soul Bones and hurried to arrange their protection and consult the auction house's higher-ups.

Ye Cheng taught Zhu Zhuqing the cultivation art he called the Innate Skill, which allowed Soul Power to be cultivated continuously. After passing its essentials to her, he prepared to help her begin practicing it.

• Ye Cheng decided to use the month before the soul bone auction to guide Zhu Zhuqing in cultivating her Soul Power.
• Ye Cheng explained that his special meditation method had been devised to let him cultivate at all times, even while eating and sleeping.
• Ye Cheng used Dream Bubble to impart the cultivation art directly to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing learned the art's essentials and asked Ye Cheng what it was called.
• Ye Cheng named the art the Innate Skill and offered to help Zhu Zhuqing begin practicing it.