Chapter Summaries

The four Soul Power Pill Formulas sparked fierce bidding as the assembled forces recognized their potential to create vast armies of powerful soul masters. Su Yao waited for the contest to peak before bidding twenty thousand Soul Crystals, leaving the auction hall silent.

• The attendees learned that the Langya Auction House was selling four formulas for pills that could raise Soul Power by several levels, and they resolved to compete for them.
• Su Yao thanked Lin Shu inwardly for offering the formulas and waited to bid so she would not discourage other bidders or seem to abuse her power.
• Purple Cloud Palace bid one thousand Soul Crystals, and Poison God Mansion raised the price to three thousand.
• Lin Shu watched from a hidden location and recalled that he had added the Level 5–6 formulas after Su Yao’s willingness to abdicate impressed him.
• The bids climbed to ten thousand Soul Crystals before Su Yao offered twenty thousand, silencing the auction hall.

At the auction, Empress Yao revealed that the anonymous twenty-thousand-Soul-Crystal bid came from the Yaoquan Empire after Lin Shu advised her to bid openly. Li Long Stream then entered the bidding at thirty thousand Soul Crystals, leaving the crowd stunned and watching to see what would happen.

• Auction attendees demanded that the anonymous bidder reveal their identity and prove they could afford the bid.
• Su Yao explained that she had hidden the Yaoquan Empire’s identity to avoid intimidating other bidders and asked Lin Shu whether she should disclose it.
• Lin Shu told Su Yao to participate normally as long as she did not threaten anyone.
• Su Yao’s subordinate announced the Yaoquan Empire’s bid of twenty thousand Soul Crystals, prompting the crowd to apologize.
• Li Long Stream bid thirty thousand Soul Crystals, and the shocked attendees stopped bidding to watch.

At Heavenly Pavilion’s auction, Li Long Stream and the Yaoquan Empire competed for pill formulas while the Li Long Divine Maiden sensed powerful hidden auras, including one she suspected belonged to a Divine Dragon. The Empire won the formulas, and the auction moved on to a hundred-thousand-year Demonic Soul Shark soul ring.

• Lin Shu asked Huo Qingwu and Dong Xiaowan about Li Long Stream’s representatives, and they said they could handle the faction’s strongest fighter even if he used a Divine Artifact.
• The Li Long Divine Maiden warned her men that Su Yao was powerful enough to make a confrontation dangerous and told them to bid normally to drive up the Empire’s costs.
• The Divine Maiden sensed two terrifying auras near Lin Shu and suspected that he carried a higher bloodline, perhaps that of a Divine Dragon.
• Li Long Stream raised the bid for the four pill formulas to seventy thousand Soul Crystals, but the Yaoquan Empire won them for eighty thousand.
• The auctioneer introduced a hundred-thousand-year Demonic Soul Shark soul ring as the second auction item.

Su Qian defended the authenticity of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Demonic Soul Shark Soul Ring and guaranteed one-hundredfold compensation if it proved fake. The auction drew eager bidders, including the powerful Incense Valley, whose reason for bidding remained unclear.

• Auction guests questioned why Langya Auction House was selling a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and doubted whether it was genuine.
• Su Qian explained that the Pavilion Master had sealed the Soul Ring and promised, under her reputation and oath, one-hundredfold compensation if it was fake.
• The guests accepted Su Qian's guarantee and began bidding, hoping to buy the Soul Ring for their younger generations.
• Incense Valley of Chizhou entered the bidding with an offer of one thousand Soul Crystals.
• Guests wondered why Incense Valley would bid instead of hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and a knowledgeable attendee began to explain.

The auction crowd learned that Incense Valley had admitted a disciple with a Demonic Soul Shark Martial Soul despite its fire-attribute admission rules, and discussed how internal competition could damage smaller factions. Incense Valley and rival factions from Chizhou and elsewhere then bid on the Hundred Thousand Year Demonic Soul Shark Soul Ring, with Incense Valley offering five thousand Soul Crystals.

• Those in the know explained that an Incense Valley ancestor had personally admitted a disciple with a Demonic Soul Shark Martial Soul, despite the faction's fire-attribute rules.
• Several faction leaders reconsidered their systems of internal competition after hearing that vicious rivalry could weaken their organizations.
• Incense Valley and other factions began bidding on the Hundred Thousand Year Demonic Soul Shark Soul Ring for their disciples.
• Chizhou factions joined the bidding to keep Incense Valley from strengthening its position, while bidders from other provinces also raised the price.
• Incense Valley bid five thousand Soul Crystals, briefly silencing the auction venue.

Incense Valley and Jade Water Pavilion fought over a hundred-thousand-year Demonic Soul Shark soul ring, with Lin Shu learning that Incense Valley’s young disciple was exceptionally powerful. Incense Valley won the ring for ten thousand Soul Crystals, and Su Qian resumed the auction.

• Incense Valley raised its bid for the Demonic Soul Shark soul ring to five thousand Soul Crystals, prompting bidders to speculate about the exceptional disciple it meant to support.
• Jade Water Pavilion bid against Incense Valley to prevent its rival from obtaining the ring, driving the price higher as Lin Shu watched with satisfaction.
• Lin Shu asked Huo Qingwu to investigate Incense Valley’s private room, and she identified a roughly twenty-year-old disciple with level-sixty-eight Soul Power and unusual strength.
• Incense Valley won the soul ring for ten thousand Soul Crystals after Jade Water Pavilion stopped bidding.
• Su Qian warned the rival forces against arguing at Langya Auction House, then announced the third auction item.

Su Qian auctioned the top-tier Violet Lightning Hammer Martial Soul, and Lin Shu explained how bidders could fuse it. The auction continued as powerful Soul Masters weighed the risks and possibilities of gaining a second Martial Soul.

• Su Qian revealed the Violet Lightning Hammer and began bidding, drawing fierce competition from factions seeking a top-tier Martial Soul.
• A bidder asked Su Qian how someone with an awakened Martial Soul could fuse the Violet Lightning Hammer safely.
• Lin Shu explained that the old Martial Soul could be abolished by a powerful Soul Master, with the auction house offering to perform the procedure once for free and guarantee a smooth fusion.
• Lin Shu revealed that the Violet Lightning Hammer could instead be fused as a second Martial Soul, exciting many powerful Soul Masters.
• Lin Shu warned that a second Martial Soul must not repel the Violet Lightning Hammer and that its violent lightning attribute could cause severe injury or death during fusion.
• The bidding resumed after Lin Shu finished explaining the fusion methods and risks.

Leizhou’s major factions competed for the Violet Lightning Hammer Martial Soul as Lin Shu learned that the legendary Lei Yun might still be alive and present at the auction. Lei Yun rejected the hammer, revealing that he sought to reclaim his full power and questioned whether godhood required inheriting a Godly Martial Soul.

• The Heavenly Sound Sect, Thunder Serpent Family, Thunder Tyrannosaurus Family, and Lei Yun Pavilion entered the bidding for the Violet Lightning Hammer, raising its price to 4,000 Soul Crystals.
• Huo Qingwu sensed a concealed, dangerous aura in the direction of Lei Yun Pavilion, and Dong Xiaowan judged its owner to be near Lei Yun’s level of strength.
• Lin Shu suspected that the person in Lei Yun Pavilion’s private room was Lei Yun, the legendary founder who had crossed the Thousand-Mile Thunder Marsh and lived for over eight hundred years.
• The Violet Lightning Hammer’s price climbed to 8,000 Soul Crystals as the Lei Yun Pavilion Master respectfully asked his ancestor whether he wanted it.
• Lei Yun said he did not need the hammer and wanted all his true power returned to himself, then wondered whether attaining godhood required inheriting a Godly Martial Soul.

Lei Yun recognized Heavenly Pavilion as a hidden power with several experts capable of matching him and planned to investigate it after the auction. With Lei Yun’s support, the Pavilion Master of Lei Yun Pavilion outbid Poison God Mansion and won the Violet Lightning Hammer Martial Soul for fifty thousand Soul Crystals.

• Lei Yun told the Pavilion Master of Lei Yun Pavilion that Heavenly Pavilion had at least five people who could contend with him, including two near Su Yao’s level.
• Lei Yun decided to enter Heavenly Pavilion under an assumed name after the auction to investigate its secrets.
• The Pavilion Master of Lei Yun Pavilion hoped to combine the Violet Lightning Hammer with his mutated Nine-Layer Thunder Blade Martial Soul and reach the Demigod realm.
• The Pavilion Master of Lei Yun Pavilion and Poison God Mansion competed for the Violet Lightning Hammer, while other factions stopped bidding.
• Lei Yun gave the Pavilion Master of Lei Yun Pavilion one hundred thousand Soul Crystals, and he won the Violet Lightning Hammer for fifty thousand.

Lin Shu’s auction sold a Ninth-Grade Cosmic Bowl to Carmen before unveiling a Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape right leg Soul Bone. Bidding for the Soul Bone quickly passed ten thousand Soul Crystals as Lin Shu converted the proceeds from the first four items into Auction Points.

• Su Qian announced that Lei Yun Pavilion had won the Violet Lightning Hammer, and Lin Shu agreed to meet its Pavilion Master in exchange for the auction house’s free service.
• Lin Shu auctioned the Ninth-Grade Cosmic Bowl, which Carmen won for thirty thousand Soul Crystals.
• Su Qian revealed the fifth item as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape right leg Soul Bone and opened the bidding.
• The Northern Region Wang Family bid three thousand Soul Crystals, but competing bids soon pushed the price past ten thousand.
• Lin Shu received the proceeds from the first four items and asked the system to convert them into Auction Points.

After converting auction earnings into 1.7 billion Auction Points, Lin Shu raised the ninth-grade draw probability and won five divine-grade items in a hundred draws. Meanwhile, the Titan Giant Ape Right Leg Soul Bone sold for 80,000 Soul Crystals to the Divine Power Sect.

• Lin Shu converted 170,000 Soul Crystals into 1.7 billion Auction Points and learned that reaching a 100% ninth-grade draw probability would require Level 100 Soul Power.
• Lin Shu spent 21.87 million Auction Points to raise the ninth-grade probability to 81%, increasing the divine-grade probability to 4%.
• Lin Shu spent 1.28 million Auction Points on a hundred draws and received five divine-grade items, twenty ninth-grade items, and seventy-five lower-grade items.
• Lin Shu set aside the ninth-grade items and began inspecting the five divine-grade items.
• The Titan Giant Ape Right Leg Soul Bone sold for 80,000 Soul Crystals, with the Divine Power Sect winning the bidding.

The Divine Power Sect stunned the auction crowd by bidding eighty thousand Soul Crystals for the Titan Giant Ape Soul Bone, while Su Qian discovered that its members included two Peerless Douluo and a Godly Martial Soul. In the system space, Lin Shu found the god-grade Soul Devouring Divine Bamboo Martial Soul and decided to give it to Lin Ye, then turned to inspect a second god-grade item.

• The auction crowd questioned how the unknown Divine Power Sect could afford eighty thousand Soul Crystals, and Su Qian confirmed its assets.
• Su Qian discovered that the Divine Power Sect was led by two Peerless Douluo and carried the aura of a Godly Martial Soul, then announced that it had won the Titan Giant Ape Soul Bone.
• Lin Shu found the god-grade Soul Devouring Divine Bamboo Martial Soul in the system space and decided to give it to Lin Ye.
• Lin Shu put the Martial Soul away and turned to the second god-grade item, which surprised him.

Lin Shu examined a godhead and decided not to fuse with it because it would cap his future power, leaving him to consider who might use it instead. At the auction, Su Qian revealed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Nine-Heart Begonia skull soul bone, shocking Begonia Pavilion and stirring Tang Xin’s hopes of evolving her Martial Soul.

• Lin Shu learned that anyone could fuse with the godhead to become a god quickly, but their power would be capped at its original owner’s level.
• Lin Shu ruled out Yu Rou, Lin Ye, and Huo Qingwu as candidates, then stored the godhead while he considered whom to ask.
• Su Qian presented the auction’s sixth item as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Nine-Heart Begonia skull soul bone.
• Begonia Pavilion’s Pavilion Master lamented that the rare soul bone was being auctioned rather than raised, while Tang Xin hoped it could evolve her Seven-Core Begonia Martial Soul.

The Empire outbid Cai Shiyin for the hundred-thousand-year Nine-Heart Begonia Soul Bone, then invited the continent’s greatest support Soul Master to meet the Empress. Cai Shiyin accepted, as the auction moved on to its seventh item.

• Begonia Pavilion, the Glazed Sect, and other powerful factions bid against each other for the hundred-thousand-year Nine-Heart Begonia Soul Bone, pushing its price to seventy thousand Soul Crystals.
• Cai Shiyin bid eighty thousand Soul Crystals, drawing attention as the continent’s greatest support Soul Master.
• Su Yao decided to invite Cai Shiyin, and the Empire raised the bid to one hundred thousand Soul Crystals.
• Cai Shiyin withdrew, and Su Qian announced that the Empire had won the Soul Bone.
• A representative from Private Room 501 invited Cai Shiyin to meet the Empress, and Cai Shiyin agreed.
• Su Qian introduced the seventh auction item.

Lin Shu gave the God-Breaking Pill to Sun Kong after a lot draw among his five level ninety-nine subordinates, making Sun Kong the first of them able to ascend to godhood. Meanwhile, the auction sold two more items and began bidding on a Hundred Thousand Year Nine Netherworld Python Soul Bone.

• Lin Shu decided to give the God-Breaking Pill to one of his level ninety-nine subordinates and arranged a lot draw among Huo Qingwu, Shui Jieyu, Yu Fu, Sun Kong, and Yu Lian.
• Sun Kong drew the lot marked 'God,' and Lin Shu gave him the God-Breaking Pill.
• The Ninth-Grade Soul Tool Heavenly Wind Fan sold for twenty thousand Soul Crystals.
• Three Soul Ascension Pills sold together for sixty thousand Soul Crystals after fierce competition from smaller forces.
• Su Qian introduced the ninth auction item, a Hundred Thousand Year Nine Netherworld Python Soul Bone, and bidding began.

The auction of a hundred-thousand-year Nine Netherworld Python soul bone drew bids from the continent’s poison sects and Lei Yun Pavilion, which tried to drive up Poison God Mansion’s price. Just as Poison God Mansion appeared poised to win, an unknown bidder offered one hundred thousand Soul Crystals.

• The bidders discussed the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s fallen experts and the soul bone’s possible origin.
• Mandala Mansion, Golden Toad Palace, and Thousand Spider Gate entered the bidding for the soul bone.
• Lei Yun Pavilion bid fifty thousand Soul Crystals to raise the price, and its Pavilion Master explained his desire to get revenge on Poison God Mansion.
• The Li Long Divine Maiden said Nine Netherworld Cave was strong outwardly but weak within, and that the Heavenly Pavilion had a divine aura.
• Poison God Mansion bid ninety thousand Soul Crystals after Lei Yun Pavilion raised the price to eighty thousand, then Lei Yun Pavilion withdrew.
• An unidentified old man bid one hundred thousand Soul Crystals just as Su Qian was about to declare Poison God Mansion the winner.

At the auction, Ye Guangming revealed that he had survived for three hundred years and bid one hundred thousand Soul Crystals for a hundred-thousand-year Nine Netherworld Python soul bone. Lin Shu learned that Ye Guangming had reached demigod strength and decided to seek him out, leaving Huo Qingwu on her way to invite him for a meeting.

• A bidder offered one hundred thousand Soul Crystals for the soul bone, and Su Qian asked him to verify his funds.
• The bidder revealed he was Ye Guangming, the legendary Radiant Martial Emperor, and said he had hidden for three hundred years after surviving the Sea Soul Beasts’ pursuit.
• Ye Guangming explained that he had recovered from his injuries and grown stronger, then won the auction for the hundred-thousand-year Nine Netherworld Python soul bone.
• Lin Shu learned from Huo Qingwu and Dong Xiaowan that Ye Guangming was likely a demigod, stronger than the woman from Li Long Stream but weaker than the Empress of the Empire.
• Lin Shu decided to recruit Ye Guangming and sent Huo Qingwu to invite him to a private meeting.

Su Qian introduced Spirit Awakening Incense, which increased cultivation speed tenfold, and bidding erupted. Huo Qingwu delivered Ye Guangming’s soul bone and invited him to meet the Pavilion Master, leaving his answer unknown.

• Su Qian revealed that the tenth auction item was Spirit Awakening Incense and explained that it boosted cultivation speed tenfold for a month, even for Title Douluo.
• The auction hall erupted into fierce bidding as soul masters hoped to use the incense to break through their cultivation bottlenecks.
• Huo Qingwu entered Ye Guangming’s private room and startled him with her formidable presence.
• Huo Qingwu delivered Ye Guangming’s hundred-thousand-year Nine Netherworld Python soul bone and invited him to speak with the Pavilion Master on Lin Shu’s orders.

Lin Shu summoned Ye Guangming and learned why he had slaughtered a hundred thousand Sea Soul Beasts while searching for the Underworld God’s inheritance. After Lin Shu hinted that he knew another path to godhood, Ye Guangming pledged to follow him.

• Huo Qingwu brought Ye Guangming to Lin Shu, whose power and gathered experts left Ye Guangming wary.
• Lin Shu asked why Ye Guangming had slaughtered a hundred thousand Sea Soul Beasts three hundred years earlier.
• Ye Guangming explained that he had mistaken the Netherworld Blood Sea clue for a blood-stained sea while seeking the Underworld God’s inheritance, and had nearly died when the inheritance ground failed to open.
• Ye Guangming revealed that the Sea Empress had inherited the Sea God’s legacy in the Endless Sea.
• Lin Shu invited Ye Guangming to follow him and hinted that he knew another way to become a god.
• Ye Guangming agreed to follow Lin Shu.

Lin Shu offered Ye Guangming a Divine Power Pill that would make him a Rank 100 god but permanently limit his growth, and Ye Guangming chose to wait for another path. At the auction, the Medicine God Hall won the Spirit Awakening Incense, and Su Qian revealed the final item, a Soul-Breaking Robe that could make someone a god.

• Lin Shu explained that the Divine Power Pill could make Ye Guangming a god within a year but would cap his Soul Power at Rank 100.
• Ye Guangming rejected the pill, and Lin Shu praised his choice and promised to grant him a suitable opportunity in the future.
• The Medicine God Hall won the Spirit Awakening Incense with a bid of 120,000 Soul Crystals.
• Su Qian unveiled the final auction item, a garment called the Soul-Breaking Robe.
• Su Qian confirmed that the Soul-Breaking Robe could make someone a god, stunning the auction audience.