Chapter Summaries

Ye Cheng explained that his Innate Skill let Soul Masters form Soul Cores early and cultivate automatically, then guided Zhu Zhuqing through condensing her first core. With his help, she formed a black-hole-like vortex surrounded by gray ripples that became a bead, leaving her with what appeared to be her first Soul Core.

• Ye Cheng explained that his cultivation technique could let Zhu Zhuqing form three Soul Cores in her dantians and that he had already formed his own.
• Ye Cheng used his Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda to calm Zhu Zhuqing and began guiding her through the technique.
• Zhu Zhuqing gathered and compressed her Soul Power in her Lower Dantian while Ye Cheng supplied her with purified energy.
• Zhu Zhuqing turned the solid Soul Power into a rapidly rotating black-hole-like vortex as Ye Cheng increased the energy flowing into her.
• The vortex stopped spinning, and gray ripples formed a bead around it, which Zhu Zhuqing recognized as her Soul Core.

Zhu Zhuqing successfully condensed a Soul Core, which greatly increased her cultivation speed and revealed the strength of her transformed aptitude. A month later, the Heaven Dou Auction House prepared to auction three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones to earn money and boost its reputation.

• Zhu Zhuqing awakened and told Ye Cheng she had successfully formed a Soul Core, which absorbed energy automatically and raised her active cultivation efficiency to more than eight times its former rate.
• Ye Cheng told Zhu Zhuqing that the Soul Core would support her future cultivation, while she explored how it reflected the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s evil attribute.
• Ye Cheng’s earlier use of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Inner Core had transformed Zhu Zhuqing’s aptitude, leading him to declare that she had the potential of a God King.
• Over the next month, the Heaven Dou Auction House promoted its upcoming auction of three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and sent invitations to major forces across the continent.
• The Heaven Dou Auction House aimed to earn Ye Cheng Gold Soul Coins while using the auction to strengthen its reputation against rival auction houses.

Ye Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing returned to Heaven Dou City for the auction of three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, drawing attention from powerful factions across the continent. The auction began, and the Heaven Dou Auction House’s senior figures escorted Ye Cheng to a private room.

• The announcement of three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones at the Heaven Dou Auction House drew buyers and spies from across both empires.
• Ye Cheng brought Zhu Zhuqing back to Heaven Dou City after a month of training in the mountains.
• The auction house’s Soul Douluo steward and other senior figures welcomed Ye Cheng and offered him a private room.
• The steward escorted Ye Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing to the auction venue as the auction began.
• The steward noticed Ye Cheng glancing at the female attendants and decided to offer him a gift after the auction.

Ye Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing entered the Heaven Dou Grand Auction House, where the auction staff gave Ye Cheng the emperor’s private room and presented five talented quintuplet girls as attendants. Zhu Zhuqing felt threatened as Ye Cheng studied them, and he sensed that her distress came from possessiveness and fear of losing his favor.

• An elderly Soul Douluo escorted Ye Cheng and Zhu Zhuqing into Room 1, the auction house’s most prestigious private room.
• The Soul Douluo left Ye Cheng with five beautiful, powerful quintuplet girls whom the auction house intended as gifts for him.
• Ye Cheng considered keeping the sisters as attendants, while Zhu Zhuqing felt a sense of crisis as he examined them.
• Ye Cheng sensed Zhu Zhuqing’s concealed distress and recognized it as possessiveness and fear of falling out of favor.

Ye Cheng met the five identical girls, learned their names, and found their lively manner strangely familiar as they chatted before the auction began. The top-tier auction opened with several valuable items, and the three soul bones remained among the final lots.

• Ye Cheng asked the five girls their names, and they introduced themselves as Yi Hua, Er Nai, San Jiu, Si Ye, and Wu Yue.
• Ye Cheng chatted with the quintuplets and noticed their distinct personalities, while Zhu Zhuqing sat left out.
• Er Nai activated an ancient Soul Tool that turned the private room’s wall into a screen, and Yi Hua explained how the auction worked.
• The host opened the auction and sold a storage bracelet for 1,600,000 Gold Soul Coins and an attack hairpin for 2,000,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Ye Cheng watched the items being auctioned and bid on some he liked as the sale progressed toward its final three lots.

The auction sold two rare soul bones for enormous sums, leaving Ye Cheng astonished by the wealth of the private-room guests. The final lot, an exceptionally valuable Head Soul Bone, was introduced with a starting price of fifty million Gold Soul Coins.

• The auctioneer presented a sixty-thousand-year Shadow Wolf left arm bone, which sold to private room number five for thirty-one million Gold Soul Coins.
• The auctioneer revealed a sixty-thousand-year Earth Barbarian Bear right arm bone, which sold for fifty million Gold Soul Coins.
• Ye Cheng was surprised by the prices and reflected on how wealthy the bidders were.
• The auctioneer unveiled the final lot, a rare Head Soul Bone, and announced its fifty-million-Gold-Soul-Coin starting price.

The auction’s final 60,000-year Head Soul Bone sold to Spirit Hall for 150 million Gold Soul Coins after Qian Renxue let the bidding play out. Ye Cheng received the full 230.1 million proceeds, his purchased items, and the quintuplet sisters before leaving the auction house with his disciple.

• Qian Renxue decided to keep the Head Soul Bone from the Star Luo Empire and raised her bid to make Spirit Hall’s victory more likely.
• Private Room No. 4 raised the price to 145 million Gold Soul Coins, but Spirit Hall bid 150 million and won the Soul Bone.
• Ye Cheng marveled at the high prices the three Soul Bones had fetched at auction.
• The elderly Soul Douluo gave Ye Cheng a Gold Card containing the full 230.1 million Gold Soul Coins and waived the auction house’s commission.
• The auction house gave Ye Cheng his purchased items and the quintuplet sisters, and Ye Cheng left with his disciple.

After winning the auction, Ye Cheng resolved to build White Cloud City and recruit the four single-attribute families to help run it. He traveled to Longxing City to approach the Defense Clan, whose construction skills he needed most.

• Ye Cheng left the auction house with his disciple and five maids, determined to use his wealth and strength to build White Cloud City.
• Ye Cheng decided to recruit the four single-attribute families, prioritizing the Defense Clan for its construction expertise.
• Ye Cheng rested and made arrangements, then left Zhu Zhuqing and the five maids at his residence in Heaven Dou City.
• Ye Cheng flew to Longxing City, disguised his appearance with Dream Bubble, and entered the city unnoticed.
• Ye Cheng found the Defense Clan’s residence and scanned its concealed defensive mechanisms, approving of their skills.

Ye Cheng visited the Defense Clan and offered Niu Gao a choice between hiring the clan for construction work or having it join his service. Niu Gao recognized Ye Cheng as a powerful Limit Douluo but remained wary because the Clear Sky Sect had once abandoned his clan, though Ye Cheng’s offer began to sway him.

• Ye Cheng arrived at the Defense Clan’s residence, displayed his nine spirit rings, and was escorted to the reception hall.
• Niu Gao doubted Ye Cheng’s apparent age until Ye Cheng released his aura and proved he was a genuine Titled Douluo.
• Ye Cheng offered either a standard construction contract or for the Defense Clan to join his service, and Niu Gao questioned which force he represented.
• Ye Cheng removed his disguise and revealed himself, shocking Niu Gao, who considered the benefits of joining such a powerful and wealthy leader.
• Niu Gao hesitated because the Clear Sky Sect had abandoned his clan before, but Ye Cheng pointed out the Defense Clan’s financial struggles and responsibilities toward the Speed Clan.

Ye Cheng persuaded Niu Gao to bring the Defense Clan into White Cloud City by promising not to abandon them in a crisis and funding the city’s construction. Niu Gao accepted Ye Cheng as City Lord and agreed to contact the other three single-attribute clans about joining.

• Ye Cheng addressed Niu Gao’s distrust of powerful factions by promising that White Cloud City would stand with its people, even if it meant his own death.
• Niu Gao knelt, pledged the Defense Clan to Ye Cheng, and accepted the title of City Lord instead of Master.
• Ye Cheng gave Niu Gao a Gold Card containing over two hundred and thirty million and entrusted him with planning the city’s defenses and City Lord Manor.
• Ye Cheng transmitted his broad construction plans to Niu Gao and allowed him to make the detailed design decisions.
• Ye Cheng asked Niu Gao to approach the other three single-attribute clans, and Niu Gao considered persuading them to join White Cloud City.

Ye Cheng waited at Niu Gao’s residence for the Four Sects gathering and met Bai He, patriarch of the Speed Clan. After Niu Gao explained why the Defense Clan had joined Ye Cheng, he offered Bai He the same opportunity, leaving Bai He stunned and hopeful.

• Niu Gao told Ye Cheng that persuading his old brothers to join White Cloud City might be difficult, and Ye Cheng agreed to wait for the Four Sects gathering.
• Niu Gao brought Bai He, the Speed Clan patriarch, and his granddaughter Xiang Xiang to meet Ye Cheng.
• Xiang Xiang recognized Ye Cheng and called him by name, and Bai He apologized for her discourtesy.
• Niu Gao revealed that the Defense Clan had joined Ye Cheng and explained that Spirit Hall’s suppression had left the Four Sects struggling to survive.
• Niu Gao told Bai He that he had recommended the Speed Clan to Ye Cheng, and Bai He reacted with shock at the opportunity.

Ye Cheng recruited the Speed Clan and Breaking Clan into White Cloud City, bringing the number of the Four Sects under his banner to three. The Strength Clan arrived last, and Ye Cheng prepared to see whether it would join as well.

• Bai He joined White Cloud City after Niu Gao urged him to trust Ye Cheng, making the Speed Clan the second of the Four Sects to pledge allegiance.
• Bai He hurried out to warn Yang Wudi, the Breaking Clan patriarch, to control his temper when he arrived.
• Yang Wudi recognized Ye Cheng from the Future Video, admired his treatment of Tang Hao, and agreed to join White Cloud City.
• Ye Cheng decided to wait for the Strength Clan despite doubting its loyalty and usefulness.
• The Strength Clan arrived with a booming greeting for Niu Gao, and the other patriarchs recognized their close friendship.

Titan refused Ye Cheng’s offer to join the Strength Clan with the other three clans because he remained loyal to Tang Hao. The brothers rejected Titan’s reasoning, and he left without reuniting the Four Single-Attribute Sects.

• Titan arrived and learned that Niu Gao, Bai He, and Yang Wudi had pledged their clans to Ye Cheng.
• Ye Cheng offered the Strength Clan a place in White Cloud City and relief from financial hardship and Spirit Hall’s suppression, but Titan refused.
• Bai He and Yang Wudi challenged Titan’s loyalty to Tang Hao, arguing that the Clear Sky Sect had abandoned the subordinate clans to face Spirit Hall’s retaliation.
• Titan admitted his brothers’ grievances but insisted he could not stop acknowledging Tang Hao as his master.
• Niu Gao ordered Titan to leave, while Bai He and Yang Wudi accepted that the clans would no longer work together.

After the Strength Clan left, Ye Cheng finalized plans for White Cloud City and returned to Heaven Dou City. He decided to create a god-level persona tied to Sea God Island for a new open question-and-answer event, hoping it would draw attention away from himself.

• Titan accepted Niu Gao's dismissal, wished the other clans well, and led the Strength Clan away.
• Ye Cheng discussed White Cloud City's construction with the three clan heads, and Niu Gao agreed to survey the ruins before drawing up a plan.
• Ye Cheng teleported back to his residence in Heaven Dou City and found that Zhu Zhuqing and the quintuplet sisters had put it in order.
• Ye Cheng considered creating alternate personas and rejected foreign power systems because they would be difficult to make believable and complete.
• Ye Cheng chose to create a god-level persona associated with Sea God Island and planned an open question-and-answer event with generous rewards and punishments for wrong answers.

A public Q&A showed the people of Douluo Continent a meteor striking the ocean and triggering a spreading undersea volcanic eruption. The video ended on Sea God Island, where a subordinate warned the Great Enshrinement that the disaster could boil and pollute more than half the ocean.

• A public Q&A began, and participants saw that Douluo Continent was a sphere beneath a vast star-filled sky.
• A massive meteor entered Douluo Star’s atmosphere and struck the ocean, boiling the water and killing fish and Sea Soul Beasts.
• The meteor pierced the ocean floor and triggered an undersea volcano, whose expanding eruption spread magma and heat through the surrounding sea.
• The video shifted to Sea God Island, where the Great Enshrinement listened to a subordinate report that the eruption could affect more than half the ocean.

Bo Saixi watched a vision of a future undersea volcanic disaster devastate the ocean and realized the public question-and-answer session might offer a way to save it. The video showed a powerful, unidentified Titled Douluo briefly suppressing the eruption before the question asked how he ultimately stopped it and saved hundreds of millions of marine lives.

• Bo Saixi saw herself in the vision and feared that a future meteor impact would trigger an unstoppable disaster across the ocean.
• The undersea volcano spread, boiling Sea Soul Beasts alive and threatening island inhabitants with steam and volcanic ash.
• A blue-haired Titled Douluo pressed down on the eruption and temporarily extinguished its glow, but the magma soon reignited.
• The man said he might have calmed the volcano if he had advanced one more step, and the video then asked how he ultimately saved the marine lives.
• The viewers speculated that the man had become a god, but none dared answer the question.

Bo Saixi declined to answer a question about how the man in the future stopped a catastrophic undersea volcano, and the Live Stream Room revealed that he inherited the Sea God's Throne. The footage showed Neptune rescuing people as the eruption spread, leaving hundreds of thousands of survivors drifting on a vast ice floe.

• Bo Saixi considered answering but chose not to risk punishment because she was unsure how the man had gained the power to save the sea.
• Thousands answered that the man became a god, and the Live Stream Room revealed the correct answer: he inherited the Sea God's Throne.
• Bo Saixi realized the inheritance would require her sacrifice and thought of the man she had once hoped would return.
• The footage showed Neptune rescuing people trapped on islands by creating an ice floe and pushing it toward safety with controlled seawater.
• Over three months, Neptune saved more than a hundred thousand people, and the growing floe became a drifting refuge where he supplied fresh water.
• The Live Stream Room identified the handsome man as Neptune.

Neptune brought hundreds of thousands of refugees to safety on the continent, then decided to seek the Sea God's inheritance so he could gain the power to stop the undersea volcano disaster. He reached Sea God Island and was escorted toward its trials after revealing he was a Titled Douluo.

• Neptune guided the refugees' ice floe to a continental port and persuaded its authorities to take them in.
• After settling the refugees, Neptune decided to pursue the Sea God's Throne as a shortcut to gaining the power needed to end the volcanic disaster.
• Neptune arrived at Sea God Island and told the Yellow Clothes guarding the way that he wished to join the island.
• Neptune revealed his nine soul rings, prompting the Yellow Clothes to recognize him as a Titled Douluo and offer to take him to the trial.

Neptune arrived at the Sea Witch Saint Pillar to request a Sea God trial and demonstrated extraordinary control over water on his way there. The Sea Witch revealed that she could not read his powerful mind, and Neptune coldly asked to begin the trial.

• The man in Yellow Clothes led Neptune to the Sea in the Sea and explained that the Seven Saint Pillars could administer Sea God trials.
• The man in Yellow Clothes asked the Sea Witch Great One for permission to give Neptune a trial, and she invited him to come to her platform.
• Neptune calmed the turbulent water and shaped it into stairs, then walked across the sea to the Sea Witch Saint Pillar.
• The Sea Witch changed her fish tail into legs and said Neptune's spiritual power prevented her from reading his thoughts.
• Neptune asked to begin the trial, while the Live Stream Room's viewers inferred that the Sea Witch's mind-reading attempt had angered him.

Neptune underwent the Sea Witch Saint Pillar assessment, which transformed into a golden Sea God inheritance and left a golden trident mark on his forehead. Bo Saixi arrived and identified his challenge as the Sea God First Trial.

• The Sea Witch began Neptune’s assessment, but the pillar’s blue light initially failed to change.
• The assessment light raced through the colors and turned blood-red, while seven pillars and a golden beam appeared across Sea God Island.
• Nine golden trial screens merged into one and entered Neptune’s forehead, leaving him with a golden trident mark.
• Neptune asked the Sea Witch what the golden assessment meant, and she admitted she did not know.
• Bo Saixi appeared before the Sea Witch Saint Pillar and announced that Neptune would undergo the Sea God First Trial.