Chapter Summaries

After leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Luo Chen received Luck Points and rewards from the system, including the Incarnation Technique and a 100,000-year increase to one Soul Bone. He strengthened his Space Attribute Right Arm Soul Bone and then entered the Ring of Life, where something unexpected awaited him.

• Luo Chen and Ning Fengzhi finished discussing cooperation between their factions, and Luo Chen returned to his City Lord's Mansion in Nuoding City.
• The system awarded Luo Chen Luck Points, the Incarnation Technique, and a 100,000-year Soul Bone lifespan increase for his actions involving Ning Fengzhi, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the continent's factions.
• Luo Chen chose to increase the lifespan of his Space Attribute Right Arm Soul Bone, raising it to 300,000 years and doubling the power of its soul skills while reducing their Soul Power cost.
• Luo Chen entered the Ring of Life to finish an unfinished matter and reacted with surprise at what he saw.

Luo Chen confronted the Soul Douluo he had brought into the Ring of Life and offered to spare him in exchange for joining the Purple Myrtle Heavenly Palace. The middle-aged man heard Luo Chen’s condition, but his response was left unresolved.

• Luo Chen revived the middle-aged man with Life Force and asked how he felt.
• The middle-aged man recognized Luo Chen and demanded to be released, then recalled how the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox and Shadow Divine Cat had beaten him after he attacked them.
• Luo Chen questioned the man about stealing a soul ring, but the middle-aged man refused to back down and told him to kill or torture him as he pleased.
• Luo Chen offered to spare the middle-aged man and help him obtain his ninth soul ring if he agreed to a condition.
• Luo Chen told the middle-aged man to join the Purple Myrtle Heavenly Palace and work for him.

Luo Chen recruited Yue Tianxing into the Purple Myrtle Heavenly Palace and learned how a mysterious place had transformed Yue Tianxing’s Martial Soul and soul skill. The account left Luo Chen determined to investigate the site, while he recognized that Yue Tianxing’s Dark Moon Martial Soul was near divine level.

• Yue Tianxing agreed to join the Purple Myrtle Heavenly Palace after Luo Chen promised to help him obtain a ninth soul ring, provided he was not forced to harm innocents.
• Luo Chen asked Yue Tianxing about his unusual Martial Soul and Eighth Soul Skill, and Yue Tianxing explained that both had changed after he encountered a strange place.
• Yue Tianxing recounted being swept away by black mist in the Star Dou Great Forest, where he found immense remains and absorbed an Eighty-Thousand-Year Soul Beast’s ring.
• A flash of black light entered Yue Tianxing’s mind, mutating his Martial Soul and Light of the Dark Moon, raising his Soul Power by ten ranks, and leaving him unconscious.
• Luo Chen found Yue Tianxing’s account credible, decided he would need to investigate the mysterious place, and judged the Dark Moon Martial Soul to be close to becoming divine.

Luo Chen discovered and destroyed a dark Remnant Soul controlling Yue Tianxing, then used its remaining power to help Yue Tianxing’s Dark Moon Martial Soul evolve into a Divine Martial Soul. The chapter ended with the transformation complete and Luo Chen concealing the darkness that engulfed the Ring of Life.

• Luo Chen used Eye of Darkness and discovered a Remnant Soul hiding within Yue Tianxing.
• Luo Chen attacked the Remnant Soul with Flame of Light, but it refused to reveal where it came from.
• Luo Chen killed the Remnant Soul with the Power of Light and gathered the dark vapor it left behind.
• Luo Chen injected the vapor into Yue Tianxing and used his creation skills and Liquid of Life to help evolve the Dark Moon Martial Soul.
• Yue Tianxing’s Martial Soul transformed into a Divine Martial Soul with extreme Darkness Power, and Luo Chen concealed the resulting phenomenon.

After Luo Chen destroyed the Remnant Soul in Yue Tianxing's body, Yue Tianxing awakened to find his Martial Soul had evolved into the Divine Martial Soul Heavenly Moon Divine Wheel. Luo Chen planned to investigate the strange place where the Remnant Soul may have come from, while Yue Tianxing recovered and prepared to lead him there.

• Luo Chen told Yue Tianxing that destroying the Remnant Soul had helped his Martial Soul evolve into a Divine Martial Soul.
• Yue Tianxing discovered that his Heavenly Moon Divine Wheel wielded Darkness Power more than ten times stronger than before.
• Luo Chen warned that other Remnant Souls might lurk in the strange place Yue Tianxing had entered and said he would investigate it in a few days.
• Yue Tianxing agreed to guide Luo Chen to the place, and Luo Chen told him to recover before absorbing a God-Bestowed Soul Ring.
• Yue Tianxing absorbed Life Force at the Lake of Life while keeping his distance from Xiao Jiu and Xiao Ying.
• Luo Chen asked the system how he could increase the ages of Soul Rings and Soul Bones.

Luo Chen learned the Soul Ring Cultivation Technique and used the Lake of Life to raise the ages of his Soul Rings, while Yue Tianxing recovered and absorbed a 150,000-year ninth Soul Ring. They reached the place where Yue Tianxing had entered an unknown land, and Luo Chen prepared to expose its hidden space using Yue Tianxing’s Darkness Power.

• Luo Chen spent 100,000 Luck Points to obtain the Soul Ring Cultivation Technique and discovered that the Lake of Life’s Liquid of Life could fuel it.
• After hours of cultivating above the Lake of Life, Luo Chen gave the recovered Yue Tianxing a God-Bestowed Soul Ring and explained how to use it.
• Yue Tianxing absorbed a 150,000-year ninth Soul Ring, while Luo Chen used more than half the Lake of Life to increase his Soul Rings’ ages by roughly 100,000 years on average.
• Luo Chen and Yue Tianxing searched the Star Dou Great Forest’s inner region for the unknown land but found no trace of it.
• Luo Chen suspected the land was hidden in an alternate space and instructed Yue Tianxing to release his martial soul and use its Darkness Power to draw it out.

Luo Chen and Yue Tianxing opened a passage into an Alternate Space and found the remains of countless powerful Soul Beasts and Titled Douluo. After Luo Chen destroyed an attacking Remnant Soul, he suspected the dead came from another plane and that a passage to Douluo Continent remained somewhere.

• Luo Chen sensed a spatial disturbance and joined Yue Tianxing in tearing open a rift to the Alternate Space.
• Luo Chen and Yue Tianxing entered the space, and Luo Chen restored the shattered area around its entrance.
• Luo Chen illuminated a vast black world filled with the remains of powerful Soul Beasts and human Soul Masters.
• A black Remnant Soul shot from a skeleton toward Luo Chen, but he froze and burned it away.
• Luo Chen explained to Yue Tianxing that the Remnant Souls might belong to beings from other planes and speculated that a passage connected those planes to Douluo Continent.

Luo Chen and Yue Tianxing cleared Remnant Souls as they searched for a route into Douluo Continent, then found a tunnel filled with Darkness Power and Power of Destruction. A powerful being struck them down and revealed himself as the Bee Emperor, the emperor of the eighth layer of the Abyss Plane.

• Luo Chen urged Yue Tianxing to destroy the Remnant Souls and search for passages that could let unknown experts enter Douluo Continent.
• Luo Chen and Yue Tianxing traveled deeper, destroyed countless Remnant Souls, and reached a mysterious tunnel they suspected led to Douluo Continent.
• A vast spiritual force overwhelmed Luo Chen and Yue Tianxing, and an Illusory Figure appeared and devoured the surrounding corpses.
• Luo Chen recognized the figure as an Abyss Plane being and asked which emperor he was.
• The Illusory Figure identified himself as the Bee Emperor, emperor of the Abyss Plane's eighth layer.

Luo Chen and Yue Tianxing were trapped by the Bee Emperor’s avatar and faced its overwhelming attack. A mysterious woman descended through a seven-colored vortex, erased the attack, and confronted the Bee Emperor.

• The Bee Emperor revealed that its avatar possessed Limit Douluo-level strength and attacked Luo Chen and Yue Tianxing to keep them from exposing its secret.
• Luo Chen and Yue Tianxing combined their defenses and tried to escape, but the Bee Emperor shattered their defenses and sealed the Alternate Space.
• As the Bee Emperor’s attack closed in, a surge of divine power erased it and broke through the space seal.
• A mysterious woman descended from a seven-colored vortex, leaving Luo Chen and Yue Tianxing stunned by her appearance and power.
• The woman addressed the Bee Emperor with cold recognition, and the Bee Emperor realized it was facing a terrifying god-level expert.

The Silver Dragon King killed the Bee Emperor’s avatar and sealed the tunnel connecting the battlefield to the Abyss Plane. After learning how Luo Chen and Yue Tianxing had entered her alternate space, she sensed that Luo Chen’s martial soul might threaten the Soul Beast World and approached him with killing intent.

• The Bee Emperor recognized the Silver Dragon King as the woman who had once annihilated the Abyss Plane’s invasion and realized he could not escape her.
• The Silver Dragon King destroyed the Bee Emperor’s avatar with a single attack and restored the area damaged by her power.
• The Silver Dragon King sealed the tunnel, leaving even god-level experts needing several years to break through it.
• Luo Chen identified the mysterious woman as the Silver Dragon King, while he and Yue Tianxing stood stunned by her strength.
• The Silver Dragon King learned that Luo Chen and Yue Tianxing had entered her alternate space through a fortunate coincidence.
• The Silver Dragon King sensed that Luo Chen’s powerful martial soul could threaten the Soul Beast World and walked toward him with killing intent.

Luo Chen confronted Gu Yuena after the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox emerged and revealed its greatly increased cultivation. He proposed a deal based on his methods for strengthening Soul Beasts and extracting soul rings without killing them, then followed Gu Yuena through a spatial gate with Yue Tianxing.

• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox broke Gu Yuena's Space Lock, and Gu Yuena recognized it as the one Luo Chen had once taken from Di Tian.
• Gu Yuena imprisoned the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, but Luo Chen challenged her restraint and then sent the fox into the Ring of Life.
• Gu Yuena demanded Luo Chen's method for increasing Soul Beast cultivation, and he offered to reduce Soul Beast casualties and help humans and Soul Beasts coexist.
• Luo Chen claimed he could extract soul rings without killing Soul Beasts, and Gu Yuena invited him to demonstrate the method elsewhere.
• Gu Yuena opened a spatial gate, and Luo Chen and Yue Tianxing followed her through it into an unknown place.

Luo Chen demonstrated to Gu Yuena that he could use his Power of Creation to strengthen a Shadow Cat’s Divine Beast bloodline. Gu Yuena accepted that his ability was real and pressed him for details about his technique for extracting soul rings without killing spirit beasts.

• Luo Chen summoned one of Xiao Ying’s children, a Shadow Cat, from the Ring of Life, prompting Gu Yuena to suspect he kept spirit beasts captive.
• Gu Yuena recognized that the Shadow Cat carried a trace of Shadow Divine Cat bloodline, and Luo Chen claimed he could help it become a Divine Beast.
• Luo Chen used his Nine-Colored Staff Martial Soul and second soul skill, Power of Creation, to strengthen the Shadow Cat’s bloodline and cultivation.
• Gu Yuena sensed the immense Origin Power of Luo Chen’s Martial Soul and watched the Shadow Cat’s Divine Beast bloodline grow stronger.
• Gu Yuena believed Luo Chen’s demonstration and asked him about the Secret Technique for extracting soul rings without harming spirit beasts.

Luo Chen demonstrated that he could extract a spirit beast’s soul ring without killing it and offered the Star Dou Great Forest Liquid of Life in exchange for cooperation. Gu Yuena accepted his proposal, and Luo Chen agreed to help cultivate a divine beast bloodline spirit beast each year while providing one hundred thousand drops of Liquid of Life annually.

• Luo Chen extracted a white soul ring from Shadow Cat, leaving the spirit beast alive and unharmed apart from losing ten years of cultivation.
• Gu Yuena realized Luo Chen’s technique could change the relationship between spirit beasts and Soul Masters, and asked what cooperation he wanted.
• Luo Chen proposed taking spirit beasts from the Star Dou Great Forest to extract soul rings, promising a drop of Liquid of Life to each spirit beast.
• Gu Yuena recognized the Liquid of Life’s extraordinary power and asked Luo Chen how much he had.
• Gu Yuena agreed to cooperate on the condition that Luo Chen help cultivate one spirit beast with a divine beast bloodline each year and provide ten thousand drops of Liquid of Life annually.
• Luo Chen accepted and increased his offer to one hundred thousand drops of Liquid of Life per year.

Luo Chen learned from Gu Yuena how she had stopped an Abyss Plane invasion and sealed the passage, then offered her a treasure to help heal her injuries. He entered the Ring of Life to retrieve it, while the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox worriedly asked whether Gu Yuena had harmed him.

• Gu Yuena agreed to Luo Chen’s offer of Liquid of Life, and Luo Chen asked her about the Abyss Plane.
• Gu Yuena explained that the Abyss Plane had invaded the Douluo Continent several thousand years earlier, and she had defeated the attackers and sealed the surviving humans’ memories.
• Gu Yuena revealed that a god-level expert had sealed the passage, forcing her to contain the battlefield in an Alternate Space rather than pursue the Abyss Plane.
• Luo Chen thanked Gu Yuena for protecting the continent and offered her a treasure that could heal her injuries.
• Luo Chen entered the Ring of Life, sent Yue Tianxing to the Purple Myrtle Heavenly Palace to recover, and headed for the Lake of Life.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox asked Luo Chen whether the silver dragon had harmed him.

Luo Chen brought a three-hundred-thousand-year Ancient Tree of Life to help Gu Yuena heal her injuries. Gu Yuena agreed to let him take it back after her recovery and asked him to cultivate another for the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Luo Chen reminded the Shadow Divine Cat and the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox to cultivate because of the threat from the Abyss Plane.
• Luo Chen asked the three Ancient Trees of Life by the Lake of Life to help heal Gu Yuena, and all three volunteered.
• Luo Chen drew lots, chose one Ancient Tree of Life, and brought it to Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena recognized the tree's healing power and realized it could help remove the divine power from her injuries within ten years.
• Luo Chen explained that he would take the tree back after Gu Yuena recovered and offered to cultivate another for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Gu Yuena accepted his terms and asked that the new Ancient Tree of Life reach at least one hundred thousand years of cultivation.

Luo Chen sent Tang San to Shrek Academy after sabotaging his progress for six years, leaving him with two ten-year Soul Rings and little confidence in his prospects. Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived at the shabby academy, unaware that Luo Chen had planned for Tang San to face more trials there.

• Gu Yuena used Space Power to send Luo Chen to the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, and he returned to Nuoding City.
• Six years passed, during which Luo Chen weakened Tang San's second Soul Ring and Xiao Wu secretly obstructed him while growing stronger.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu left for Shrek Academy with Yu Xiaogang's recommendation letter, while Xiao Wu followed Luo Chen's order to bring Tang San there.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived at Shrek Academy and were astonished by its dilapidated appearance.

Xiao Wu displayed her exceptional talent while applying to Shrek Academy with Tang San, whose two ten-year soul rings led the examiner to reject him. Tang San offered a recommendation letter from his teacher, leaving the old man wondering whether it could persuade Flender or Zhao Wuji to admit him.

• Xiao Wu introduced herself as a Level 35 Battle Soul Elder and revealed her yellow and two purple soul rings, astonishing the examiner and the applicants.
• The old man gave Xiao Wu enrollment papers, but she said she would only join Shrek Academy with Tang San.
• Tang San revealed his Blue Silver Grass martial soul and two white ten-year soul rings, and the old man refused to admit him despite his Level 25 Soul Power.
• Xiao Wu threatened to leave if Tang San could not join, pressuring the old man to reconsider.
• Tang San presented a recommendation letter from his teacher and said Flender or Zhao Wuji should accept him, leaving the old man uncertain.

Tang San and Xiao Wu entered Shrek Academy after the recommendation letter secured Tang San an exception, then learned that their final enrollment test required them to defeat Teacher Luo. Dai Mubai warned them that Luo Chen’s strength was unfathomable, while Ning Rongrong dismissed the possibility that he was a Titled Douluo and prepared to meet him.

• The old man verified Tang San’s recommendation letter, dismissed the remaining applicants, and led Tang San and Xiao Wu into Shrek Academy to enroll.
• Tang San observed the academy’s shabby buildings and resolved to study there until he could obtain his third soul ring.
• Dai Mubai explained that the newcomers had to defeat Teacher Luo together to pass their final test.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing voiced confidence that their group could win, but Xiao Wu recognized the danger and nearly revealed that she knew Luo Chen.
• Dai Mubai warned everyone not to anger Luo Chen and said he might be a Titled Douluo, but Ning Rongrong rejected the claim and set out to meet him.

Luo Chen faced the Shrek students at the examination site, where his appearance stunned everyone and Tang San recognized him as his former teacher from Nuoding Academy. The students dismissed Dai Mubai’s warnings and prepared to fight, unaware of Luo Chen’s plans for Tang San.

• Dai Mubai warned the students to surrender if they could not win and cautioned Zhu Zhuqing before leading everyone to the examination site.
• The students met Luo Chen, whose imposing presence and handsome face left them stunned; Tang San sensed a strange pressure around him.
• Tang San recognized Luo Chen as his former teacher from Nuoding Academy, and Luo Chen pretended to be surprised that Tang San had joined Shrek Academy.
• Luo Chen privately resolved to cripple Tang San and seize his fortune before killing him once he was no longer useful.
• Ning Rongrong and the others decided Dai Mubai had exaggerated Luo Chen’s strength and believed they could defeat him together.

Luo Chen tested the Shrek Academy students by allowing them one incense stick to plan before challenging them to withstand three moves. He effortlessly froze and defeated their first coordinated attack, leaving them to face two more moves.

• Luo Chen gave the students one incense stick to plan their battle and told them they would pass the final assessment if they withstood three of his moves.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that she had become a Soul Elder and used her Nine Treasure Glazed Pagoda to boost the group's strength and speed.
• Tang San and the others unleashed their soul skills at Luo Chen, who had not released his martial soul.
• Luo Chen spread silver ripples across the clearing, freezing the students and their attacks before striking them down; Tang San coughed blood while the others suffered lighter injuries.
• Luo Chen told the students that his first move was over and urged them to take the remaining two seriously.