Chapter Summaries

After Wang Rui died in a traffic accident, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion appeared and offered him a chance to live in the Douluo World by exchanging destinies with her. She explained that she had left Huo Yuhao because she could not bear seeing him with Tang Wutong, whom she believed was not Wang Dong'er.

• Wang Rui died beneath a truck and futilely tried to answer a call from his twin sister, Wang Rui.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked Wang Rui if he wanted to live and offered him a chance to exchange destinies with her.
• Wang Rui questioned how the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had appeared when she had fused with Huo Yuhao.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion said a part of her had separated from Huo Yuhao and attached itself to Tang Xiaoqi at Blue Silver Valley.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion vented her anger at Tang Wutong and said she had left Huo Yuhao because she believed Tang Wutong's love was false.

Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked Wang Rui to inherit her fate and return to the past as the Auspicious Beast, hoping he would protect the Star Dou Forest and help Yuhao. Wang Rui agreed, and she sent him back after revealing she had mistaken him for his twin sister because of a story the sister wrote online.

• Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained that she could transfer her fate to Wang Rui and send him fifteen thousand years into the past, and asked him to look after Yuhao and the Soul Beast clan.
• Wang Rui agreed to exchange fates, explaining that his family would be spared the pain of discovering his death.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion admitted she had chosen Wang Rui after mistaking him for his twin sister, whose online story about Tang San had impressed her.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion offered to copy her memories for Wang Rui, then sent him away before he could see his family or ask for a ceremony.
• Wang Jixiang put down her phone, forgot who she had meant to call, and cuddled a golden kitten.

Wang Rui was shaped by destiny into an egg that would become the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, while he desperately hoped to be born male. The egg’s arrival stirred the soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest, and Di Tian decided to let it hatch undisturbed.

• Wang Rui sensed the vast force of destiny molding his body and learned that the Auspicious Beast was created to bear the soul beasts’ fate.
• Destiny combined the Golden Dragon King’s bloodline with that of an ancient lion king, forming the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• As a golden egg formed around him, Wang Rui pleaded to be reincarnated as a male Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• The egg appeared in the Star Dou Great Forest, and its first heartbeat briefly halted every soul beast nearby.
• The giant tiger told Di Tian that the Auspicious Beast had appeared, and Di Tian decided not to send anyone to protect it before it was born.

The birth of an Auspicious Beast in Star Dou Forest drew the attention of powerful soul beasts across the world. Di Tian ordered guards to protect it, while Dark Cloud remained determined to face her coming tribulation, and a sealed golden spear in the Divine Realm trembled.

• Di Tian gathered Star Dou Forest's Fierce Beasts, ordered Scarlet King and Fox King to guard the Auspicious Beast, and warned the others not to disturb it before its birth.
• Bi Ji pleaded with Dark Cloud to abandon her plan because the Auspicious Beast could improve her chances of surviving her tribulation, but Dark Cloud refused and Di Tian said he respected her decision.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King sensed the Auspicious Beast and joked that he would capture it for his daughter, while his mate warned him against risking their family's safety.
• Snow Woman sensed the Auspicious Beast's birth and lamented that it had not appeared in the Extreme North, while Ice Bear King tried to comfort her.
• Evil Emperor sensed an omen of fortune, then scolded his offspring for neglecting its cultivation.
• In the Divine Realm, the golden spear sealed by the five God Kings trembled inside its formation.

Asura God, God of Goodness, and God of Evil investigated the Golden Dragon Spear’s unexplained reaction and considered what it meant for the Golden Dragon King’s seal and the Soul Beast Clan. They decided to keep the Dragon Kings alive for now and investigate Douluo World for whoever had triggered the spear.

• God of Evil questioned Asura God after the Golden Dragon Spear began trembling, and Asura God confirmed that the Golden Dragon King’s seal remained intact.
• God of Goodness suggested that someone carrying the Golden Dragon King’s pure bloodline might have been born in the lower realms, and the gods considered whether the Silver Dragon King was involved.
• God of Evil and God of Goodness proposed capturing the Silver Dragon King, but Asura God argued that killing either Dragon King could allow a new Soul Beast ruler to emerge.
• Asura God agreed to reinforce the spear’s seal, and the three gods decided to search the lower realms for the person who triggered it.
• Asura God chose Douluo World, the Dragon God’s homeland, as the starting point for their investigation.

Wang Rui awakened as a Three-Eyed Golden Lion hatchling in the Star Dou Great Forest and struggled to break out of his egg. His birth transformed the forest with golden light, and he opened his third eye after realizing he could not see with his newborn eyes.

• Wang Rui dreamed that Wang Xiaohua had turned him into a girl, then woke in darkness, curled inside an egg.
• Wang Rui pushed against the eggshell and cracked it, sending a mysterious force and golden light throughout the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Soul Beasts sensed that the Imperial Auspicious Beast had been born, and the forest's fortune united with the fortune of its living beings.
• Wang Rui broke free of the egg as a golden kitten but stumbled and found that his newborn eyes could not see.
• Wang Rui sensed danger, recalled the feeling of tension in his forehead, and opened the third eye there.

Wang Rui used the Eye of Destiny and saw a giant eye open in the sky, whose searching gaze threatened him. He hid beneath the protective light of his eggshell, survived the search, and fell asleep as the Fierce Beasts gathered around him.

• Wang Rui used the Eye of Destiny to examine the forest, sensed a buried presence he could not investigate, and discovered a rift in the sky.
• A colossal eye opened above the world and swept the earth with a beam of sight.
• Wang Rui summoned his eggshell, which formed a concealing golden light that hid him from the giant eye.
• The giant eye passed over Wang Rui twice before closing, leaving him exhausted and unable to stand.
• Wang Rui failed to notice the Fierce Beasts surrounding him and fell asleep, trusting Di Tian to protect him.

The Auspicious Beast Wang Rui’s birth unsettled the Fierce Beasts of the Star Dou Forest when he sensed danger and refused to eat his eggshell. Di Tian identified the unseen watcher as an agent of the Divine Realm and left to warn the Silver Dragon King, while Dark Cloud took charge of Wang Rui and Bear Lord objected to her raising him.

• The Fierce Beasts gathered to witness Wang Rui’s birth, but the newborn growled uneasily and smashed his eggshell without eating it.
• Dark Cloud sensed a distant, malicious gaze watching the gathering, and Di Tian concluded that the Divine Realm was investigating the Auspicious Beast.
• Di Tian transformed into a black dragon and flew away, deciding not to return directly to the Lake of Life so he would not reveal the Silver Dragon King’s hiding place.
• After the sensation of being watched faded, Dark Cloud picked up the sleeping Wang Rui, tucked him beneath her belly, and told the other soul beasts she would raise him for now.
• Bear Lord objected that it was inappropriate for Dark Cloud to raise the Auspicious Beast.

Dark Cloud fought Bear Lord after he challenged her right to care for Wang Rui, defeating him with her new Shadow Realm ability. She returned to her cave with Wang Rui while the other Fierce Beasts expected Di Tian to punish Bear Lord.

• Bear Lord claimed his clan was better suited to raise Wang Rui and questioned whether Dark Cloud could protect him after giving birth.
• Dark Cloud accepted Bear Lord's challenge and swallowed him into her Shadow Realm.
• Bi Ji explained that Dark Cloud had layered space within her innate domain and revealed that Dark Cloud had once burned her life force in battle.
• Dark Cloud emerged in human form with a battered Bear Lord, then took Wang Rui and left for her cave.
• Bear Lord vowed revenge as the other Fierce Beasts expected Di Tian to beat him for challenging his decision.
• Dark Cloud returned to her cave, where a purple giant dragon stood guard and poked at a little black tiger cub.

Zi Ji visited Dark Cloud and met the newborn Auspicious Beast, while Di Tian learned from the mysterious presence at the Lake of Life that the cub carried the Golden Dragon King's bloodline and might be vital to the Dragon God's resurrection. The presence warned Di Tian to protect the cub and went back into slumber, leaving Di Tian resolved to keep him safe.

• Zi Ji played with Dark Cloud's cub, and Dark Cloud placed the sleeping golden lion cub beside her before tucking both cubs beneath her belly.
• Zi Ji sensed a powerful dragon bloodline in the Auspicious Beast, and Dark Cloud told her she had borne her cub for fun.
• Di Tian reported the Auspicious Beast's birth to the mysterious presence at the Lake of Life, which revealed the cub's bloodline came from the Golden Dragon King.
• The mysterious presence warned Di Tian that the Asura God threatened the soul beasts and ordered him to protect the Auspicious Beast, even preserving his corpse if he died.
• Di Tian pledged to devote all his strength to the Auspicious Beast's safety, and the mysterious presence returned to slumber for ten thousand years.
• In an appended skit, Bi Ji beat Dark Cloud after the tiger panicked over a moving lump of poop.

The God Kings used the Divine Realm Eye to watch the lower realm while the Destruction God King challenged their secretive use of the Divine Realm Core. He later told the Goddess of Life that the other God Kings opposed their plans to expand the Divine Realm, leaving their disagreement unresolved.

• The Asura God, God King of Goodness, and God of Evil watched the lower realm and dismissed the Black Dragon clan patriarch as no threat.
• The God of Evil claimed that he and Goodness had used the Divine Realm Eye to look for potential inheritors, and the Destruction God King questioned their use of the Divine Realm Core.
• The Asura God and God of Evil argued that Destruction had no standing to interfere, while Goodness framed the matter as the committee’s responsibility.
• Destruction left the committee chamber and visited the Goddess of Life, who was making a bird from leaves; his power transformed it into a living golden chick.
• Destruction told Life that the other God Kings feared his plan to expand the Divine Realm, and Life said she pitied talented people unable to ascend.

The Goddess of Life questioned the Divine Realm’s treatment of soul beasts and regretted helping suppress the Dragon God, while the God of Destruction defended their choice. Five thousand years later, Tang San learned about the Three-Eyed Golden Lion from Xiao Wu and secretly resolved to seize her Power of Destiny before they left for the Divine Realm.

• The God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life discussed why the Golden Dragon King had been sealed instead of killed, and disagreed over the decision to suppress him.
• The Goddess of Life mourned the loss of beasts from the Forest of Life and condemned the laws that forced soul beasts to provide humans with soul rings.
• The Goddess of Life gave the God of Destruction a sprout from the Ancient Tree of Life, and one descended into the Star Dou Great Forest to observe the lower realms.
• Five thousand years later, Xiao Wu identified a classified Spirit Hall record as describing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, the Star Dou Great Forest’s auspicious beast.
• Tang San concealed his interest from Xiao Wu and decided to plan how to obtain the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Power of Destiny, possibly for himself or their future child.

Huo Yuqing visited her mother’s grave and confessed that she had killed a servant who attacked her. Having decided she could no longer remain at the Duke’s Mansion, she left her mother’s grave with renewed resolve.

• Huo Yuqing slipped out of the Duke’s Mansion and visited her mother Huo Yun’er’s grave.
• Huo Yuqing recalled how the Duchess’s household had mistreated her and how Dai Huabin’s men had beaten her mother, leading to Huo Yun’er’s death.
• Huo Yuqing told her mother that a servant had grabbed her and pulled her hair after she finished washing clothes.
• Huo Yuqing confessed that she had used the White Tiger Dagger to kill the servant when he attacked her.
• Huo Yuqing said she had thrown the servant’s body into a well and insisted she did not regret defending herself.

Huo Yuqing said goodbye to her mother’s grave, cut her hair, and took the name Huo Yuhao as she set out to become a Soul Master and seek justice from the Duke’s Mansion. Aunt Rat joined her, while a swift and a group of silver-striped rats acted secretly after she left.

• Huo Yuqing told her mother that her Soul Power had reached level ten and that she would disguise herself as a boy named Huo Yuhao while seeking a Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuqing remembered her mother’s guilt and suffering, resolved that the Duke was responsible, and vowed to return to the Duke’s Mansion to seek justice.
• Huo Yuqing cut her hair with the White Tiger Dagger, kissed her mother’s gravestone, and prepared to leave.
• Aunt Rat brought Huo Yuqing berries and followed her by climbing into her pocket.
• A swift flew away as Huo Yuqing departed, and silver-striped rats dug up a glowing sphere from behind Huo Yun’er’s gravestone.

Wang Rui, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in human form, learned that Huo Yuhao had left the White Tiger Duke Estate and prepared Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to become his host. He sent Tian Meng toward the human child, while Di Tian watched over their plans in Star Dou Forest.

• A Swift-tailed Swallow reported to Wang Rui that Huo Yuhao had left the White Tiger Duke Estate, and Wang Rui rewarded it with a trace of fortune.
• Wang Rui woke Tian Meng and told him Huo Yuhao was a spiritually gifted Child of Destiny who could become his host.
• Wang Rui explained that he hoped to use Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng's God-Creation Plan to strengthen the Soul Beasts' position in the human world.
• Wang Rui urged Tian Meng to leave for Huo Yuhao and promised to improve the boy's aptitude himself.
• Tian Meng worried that Di Tian would object, but Wang Rui reassured him, and Tian Meng sank into the ground to depart.
• Di Tian emerged from behind the dead tree and questioned Wang Rui's friendship with the Ice Silkworm.

Wang Rui convinced Di Tian to let him travel to the human world to link attributes with Huo Yuhao and pursue control over the Power of Destiny. Di Tian accepted his decision, and Wang Rui departed on a Crimson Feather Eagle, planning to return the following year.

• Di Tian offered to capture Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for dinner, and Wang Rui admitted that he had come to regard Tian Meng as a friend.
• Wang Rui explained that linking attributes with Huo Yuhao would let him draw upon human fortune and gain influence over human destiny.
• Wang Rui revealed his ambition to master the Power of Destiny and eventually change the laws that endangered Soul Beasts.
• Di Tian urged Wang Rui to avoid personally entering the dangerous human world, but Wang Rui insisted he had reasons to go himself.
• Di Tian accepted that Wang Rui had secrets and told him to stay safe, and Wang Rui flew away on a Crimson Feather Eagle.

Wang Rui waited in Star Dou Forest for Huo Yuhao, the Child of Destiny, hoping to meet him and win his favor. When Huo Yuhao arrived looking much thinner and more feminine than Wang Rui expected, Wang Rui wondered whether the story had changed, then discovered he had burned his meal to charcoal.

• Wang Rui followed the fated bond toward Huo Yuhao and waited beside a river in the forest.
• Wang Rui failed to start a campfire by rubbing sticks together, then used Soul Power to ignite the wood and caught rabbits and fish.
• Wang Rui amused himself by conjuring ninja outfits before reflecting that fifteen thousand years had blurred his memories.
• Huo Yuhao emerged from the forest, and Wang Rui was surprised by his delicate, skinny appearance.
• Huo Yuhao pointed out that Wang Rui's rabbit had burned, leaving only a lump of charcoal.

Huo Yuqing met Wang Rui by a river near the Star Dou Forest and helped him grill a rabbit, unaware that he was the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. Their meal was interrupted by Tang Ya and Beibei, and Wang Rui offered to cook their ingredients for a fee.

• Huo Yuqing reached the vicinity of the Star Dou Forest while traveling to obtain her first soul ring and found Wang Rui cooking by a river.
• Huo Yuqing introduced herself as Huo Yuhao, seasoned Wang Rui's rabbit, and asked him to lower the heat from his fire-attributed Soul Power.
• Wang Rui sensed people approaching, and Tang Ya and Beibei emerged from the woods, drawn by the smell of the grilled meat.
• Tang Ya asked whether the rabbit was for sale, and Wang Rui said they could bring their own ingredients and pay Huo Yuqing two copper coins per portion for cooking.

Huo Yuqing shared a campfire meal with Tang Ya, Beibei, and Wang Rui, but Tang Ya’s comments about Aunt Rat as a potential soul ring hurt Huo Yuqing and lowered Tang Ya’s standing with Wang Rui. Beibei then asked whether Huo Yuqing belonged to the Beast Sect.

• Tang Ya coaxed Beibei into hunting, and Huo Yuqing earned three silver soul coins for processing the game.
• Wang Rui praised Huo Yuqing’s cooking and ate the roasted rabbit, bones and all.
• Wang Rui sent a soul-beast ripple that drew Aunt Rat out of Huo Yuqing’s pocket, and Tang Ya briefly examined the rat before returning her.
• Tang Ya warned Huo Yuqing not to use Aunt Rat as a soul ring, leaving Huo Yuqing quietly hurt despite her understanding that Tang Ya meant well.
• Wang Rui approved of Huo Yuqing’s attachment to Aunt Rat, while Beibei changed the subject by asking whether Huo Yuqing was from the Beast Sect.

Wang Rui explained Beast Sect’s history, ideals, and role in easing conflict between humans and Soul Beasts to Huo Yuqing, Beibei, and Tang Ya. Huo Yuqing left after the meal, and Wang Rui prepared to follow her, anticipating that he would soon encounter the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

• Beibei described Beast Sect as an ancient, powerful sect with five affiliated cities and few disciples who traveled the continent.
• Wang Rui explained that Beast Sect promoted peaceful coexistence with Soul Beasts through equal partnerships, and recounted the legend of its founder, Wolf Pack Douluo.
• Beibei and Tang Ya discussed Beast Sect’s history and the conflict between Soul Masters’ need for Soul Rings and Soul Beasts’ protection.
• Huo Yuqing expressed interest in Beast Sect, finished preparing the roasted meat, and said goodbye to Beibei and Tang Ya.
• Wang Rui said farewell to the others and thought that he would see Huo Yuqing again soon because he could sense the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm nearby.