Chapter Summaries

Su Ming prepared the Body Sect’s juniors for their Martial Soul Second Awakenings while Du Busi led the sect’s experts to attack Evil Soul Masters. At Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi secured leadership of another Soul Beast hunt, and Elder Zhuang considered whether his newfound seriousness could help him break through.

• Su Ming agreed with Du Busi to help several Body Sect juniors awaken their Martial Souls while Du Busi led the sect’s experts against the Holy Spirit Cult with support from the Sun Moon Empire.
• Du Busi explained that Lan Luoluo, Lan Susu, Vina, and Long Aotian were candidates for Second Awakenings, and Su Ming outlined an approach for each of them.
• After Du Busi left Mingdu, Su Ming gave Vina, Long Aotian, and the Lan sisters guidance and forged Spiritual Metal for all four.
• At Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi overrode objections and claimed leadership of the next Inner Court Soul Beast hunt.
• Elder Zhuang reconsidered Xuan Zi’s appointment, wondering whether his serious attitude could help him control his Martial Soul and break through.

Su Ming joined Vina’s soul hunt after fate-guided visions revealed opportunities involving a rare soul beast and Xuan Zi. As the group traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest, Di Rui’s sealed cultivation began returning, while Su Ming watched their possible futures converge.

• After foreseeing a useful future, Su Ming asked Vina to let him join her soul hunt and brought Long Aotian, Lan Susu, and Lan Luoluo along.
• Su Ming contacted Zhang Wei, whose second martial soul awakening had brought him to Level 59, and arranged to meet him on the way to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Su Ming’s group met Zhang Wei in the Ming Dou Mountain Range and continued toward the forest.
• Di Rui told Su Ming that her cultivation was rising, and Electrolux explained that fate had sealed away the cultivation she had previously accumulated.
• Su Ming searched future timelines for how Di Rui’s seal had been undone, but found no trace of her role as the possible futures converged.

Su Ming discovered that Xuan Zi’s Martial Soul secretly devoured fortune and confronted him while Di Tian pursued him in the Star Dou Great Forest. The chapter left Su Ming suspecting that Shrek Academy’s location was chosen to compete with the forest for the Life Core.

• As Di Tian’s attack shook the forest, Su Ming sensed that Xuan Zi’s flourishing fortune came from a powerful Evil Martial Soul that devoured fortune.
• Su Ming left Vina and the others behind and went to intercept Xuan Zi, who was fleeing from Di Tian after hunting Soul Beasts.
• Di Tian confronted Xuan Zi over the Auspicious Beast and their unresolved grudge, and Xuan Zi transformed to fight back.
• Su Ming accused Xuan Zi of being an Evil Soul Master whose Martial Soul had devoured the fortune of Soul Beasts, Shrek students, and Shrek Academy.
• Su Ming traced the fortune Xuan Zi had taken to Ah Yin within the Golden Ancient Tree and concluded that Shrek Academy’s location let it contend with the Star Dou Great Forest for the Life Core.

Su Ming and Di Tian killed Xuan Zi, and Electrolux seized Xuan Zi’s Martial Soul. After Vina and her companions finished hunting Soul Beasts, Zhang Wei completed his Soul Ring fusion and revealed his new Sixth Soul Skill.

• Su Ming ordered Di Tian to kill Xuan Zi, and Di Tian overpowered him despite Xuan Zi trying to form a Second Soul Core.
• Di Tian killed Xuan Zi, and Electrolux took his Martial Soul and fused Xuan Zi’s earth-attribute Origin into it.
• Di Rui’s cultivation rose again, confirming to Su Ming that Xuan Zi had caused the change in her Fate by stealing fortune for Shrek Academy.
• Su Ming returned to Vina and the others, told them Xuan Zi was dead, and led them onward to hunt Soul Beasts.
• Two months later, Vina obtained a Silver Hero Beast Soul Ring, and Zhang Wei finished fusing with the Roar of the Heavens’ Soul Ring.
• Zhang Wei revealed that his Sixth Soul Skill, Deter, spread his Spiritual Power and will to intimidate nearby living beings like Dragon Might.

Zhang Wei demonstrated how his intimidation Soul Skill let his will command Spiritual Power, and Su Ming copied the skill and Vina’s Martial Soul. When the expedition reached a hidden continent, Su Ming discovered the Phoenix God’s inheritance and led Dugu Bo and Chen Xin through a spatial rift into its Small World.

• Zhang Wei used his intimidation Soul Skill to gather black energy around his fist, and Long Aotian and Su Ming assessed its power.
• Su Ming copied Zhang Wei’s Martial Soul and intimidation Soul Skill, then incorporated the functional abilities of Vina’s Brain Martial Soul into his Third Martial Soul.
• Dugu Bo told Su Ming that the small continent had arrived, and Su Ming spotted phoenix-shaped fortune above it and realized the Phoenix God’s inheritance was there.
• Su Ming led Dugu Bo and Chen Xin toward a sea of flames near the coast, where they found a spatial rift and entered a Small World.
• Chen Xin wondered whether the flames were phoenix Nirvana Fire, and Dugu Bo asked if the phoenixes could be reborn from it.

Su Ming and his companions discovered an altar in a Phoenix-filled Small World and received divine trials from the Phoenix God. As the first trial began, Su Ming sought to understand Nirvana True Intent and prepared to test whether he could combine Nirvana Fire with his resurrection ability.

• Su Ming, Dugu Bo, and Chen Xin reached the altar at the core of the Small World, where Su Ming activated its flames and received a Red Tier Seven Trials.
• Dugu Bo and Chen Xin received Purple Tier Three Trials, while Su Ming's first trial required him to endure Nirvana Fire and grasp Nirvana True Intent for a thousand-year increase to all Soul Rings and a God-Bestowed Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo learned that his first trial required him to undergo Nirvana Fire baptism and re-cultivate, while Chen Xin's trial would end once the others completed theirs.
• The altar gathered the Small World's Nirvana Fire and enveloped the three men, and Su Ming discovered that the flames could temper him and fuse into his Soul Rings.
• Su Ming reasoned that Nirvana Fire could preserve his power as he died and revived, then raised his hand to end his own life.

Su Ming mastered the Nirvana Fire in the Phoenix God’s examination and used it to revive Little Gold’s Soul Rings, then began developing a Nirvana-based cultivation path for him. The Phoenix God only discovered that Su Ming had completed the examination after the Asura God left, and was baffled by how quickly he had done it.

• The Asura God confronted the Phoenix God about helping Su Ming, but the Phoenix God insisted that his Divine Throne was incompatible with Su Ming and warned the Asura God not to push him.
• After three days of studying the Nirvana Fire, Su Ming created a flame with a similar aura and realized each cluster of Nirvana Fire corresponded to a phoenix that might awaken again.
• Su Ming detonated his first three Soul Rings and used the Nirvana Fire to revive Little Gold, then repeatedly put Little Gold through Nirvana so he could learn to sense his own death.
• Su Ming planned to develop Little Gold’s Dark Gold Dread Claw into a Nirvana Claw, while waiting for the examination reward to arrive.
• After the Asura God left, the Phoenix God learned that Su Ming had already completed the examination and wondered what cheat he had used.

Su Ming helped Little Gold comprehend Nirvana and complete the second trial by teaching him to send surrounding space into Nirvana and absorb its power. Little Gold began reviving slowly, while Dugu Bo asked Su Ming to control the Nirvana Fire before it burned away his Soul Power.

• The Phoenix God awarded Su Ming’s first trial, raising his Soul Ring limits and granting a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, which strengthened Little Gold’s Soul Rings.
• The Phoenix God issued Little Gold’s second trial, requiring him to master Nirvana and revive stronger, and Su Ming worked out how Little Gold could absorb power during Nirvana.
• Su Ming encouraged Little Gold and helped him practice the Nirvana Claw, using the power of Destruction to aid his comprehension.
• One month later, Little Gold sent the Small World’s space into Nirvana, and the Phoenix God declared the second trial complete and granted its rewards.
• Su Ming forcibly awakened Little Gold, who remained partly within Nirvana and struggled to digest the absorbed Space Power, so Su Ming urged him to strengthen the Nirvana Fire with his Nirvana Claw.
• Dugu Bo asked Su Ming to control the Nirvana Fire because it was about to burn away his Soul Power.

Su Ming helped Dugu Bo endure the Phoenix God’s Nirvana Fire trial and received a third trial requiring him to find a Phoenix God successor. He left the Phoenix Clan Land with Chen Xin, while Dugu Bo stayed behind to continue cultivating.

• Su Ming explained that Dugu Bo’s trial purified his Soul Power so he could rebuild his Poisonous Technique without relying on external toxins, then controlled the Nirvana Fire to ease his suffering.
• Su Ming received the Phoenix God’s Third Trial, which required him to find a successor and rewarded him with stronger Soul Ring limits and a God-Bestowed Soul Ring for a Nirvana Soul Skill.
• Su Ming considered giving the new God-Bestowed Soul Ring and the Behemoth Bloodline Soul Ring to Little Gold to help him evolve.
• Su Ming told Chen Xin and Dugu Bo that he might need to leave the Phoenix Clan Land, and they discovered they could not leave on their own.
• Chen Xin left with Su Ming, while Dugu Bo stayed to cultivate; Yue Guan and the others noticed Su Ming and Chen Xin return after a month away.

Su Ming left Phoenix Continent and returned to the Sun Moon Continent, then led a fleet back toward Douluo Continent while searching for a Phoenix Martial Soul holder. During the voyage, he condensed a Soul Core, reached Level 70, and planned to obtain Erming’s Soul Ring and strengthen it with the Titan Snow Demon King.

• Su Ming and Chen Xin told Azure Luan they had gone into seclusion, while Dugu Bo remained unconscious.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei abandoned plans to develop Phoenix Continent, and Su Ming departed to continue his Third Trial.
• Su Ming searched the Sun Moon Continent for someone with a Phoenix Martial Soul but found none, so he organized a return voyage to Douluo Continent with several hundred additional passengers.
• Aboard the Exploration, Su Ming resonated with his selves across three spacetime realms and began condensing a Soul Core, creating a massive storm and revealing his formidable Soul Rings.
• Su Ming completed his Soul Core, broke through to Level 70, and decided to seek Erming’s Soul Ring before raising its limit with the Titan Snow Demon King.

Su Ming took Shui Bing'er to the Lake of Life and killed Erming to obtain his Seventh Soul Ring. After absorbing Erming’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, he revealed his seven rings and drew a warning from another powerful presence at the lake.

• Su Ming returned to Douluo Continent and brought Shui Bing'er from Skywater City to the Star Dou Great Forest to prepare her for the Phoenix God's inheritance.
• At the Lake of Life, Erming attacked Su Ming, accusing him of taking his brother's life.
• Su Ming fought Erming with his Azure Divine Claw, Nirvana Claw, and Supreme Wave Fist, then killed the Titan Giant Ape.
• Su Ming absorbed Erming’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring while Shui Bing'er watched in shock.
• Su Ming displayed his seven Soul Rings, including two red rings, and an unseen voice ordered him to leave the Lake of Life.

Su Ming secured permission for Shui Bing'er to cultivate at the Lake of Life, then returned to Heavenly Forging City and urged Zhu Jiuyang to pursue cultivation and a divine inheritance. The Phoenix God’s mark reacted to the Death Mountain Range, leaving Su Ming and Zhu Jiuyang with a new place to investigate for the Fire God’s inheritance.

• Su Ming negotiated with Di Tian to let Shui Bing'er cultivate at the Lake of Life, where he summoned the Phoenix God’s consciousness and completed his third trial.
• Su Ming returned to Heavenly Forging City and told Zhu Jiuyang to focus on cultivation while the Blacksmith Association built signal base stations between the continents.
• Su Ming showed Zhu Jiuyang the Nirvana Fire and proposed tempering his foundation before they searched for the Fire God’s inheritance.
• Su Ming studied a map and considered several locations rich in fire energy, but the Phoenix God’s mark reacted to the Death Mountain Range near Spirit City.

Su Ming investigated Death Mountain Range and discovered that it held the Darkness God's territory, with spatial rifts leading to the Fire God and Wind God inheritances. He entered the Fire God's Small World with Zhu Jiuyang, received a Red Tier Seven Trials, and learned that Zhu Jiuyang's first trial required him to undergo Nirvana baptism at the Phoenix God's trial site.

• Zhu Jiuyang explained the eerie conditions and hostile Soul Beasts of Death Canyon, leading Su Ming to suspect that several divine inheritances lay in Death Mountain Range.
• Su Ming identified the Darkness God's territory and the Fire and Wind Gods' spatial rifts, then took Zhu Jiuyang into the mountains.
• Su Ming tore open space to create a temporary Space Channel and led Zhu Jiuyang into the Fire God's Small World.
• Su Ming received a Red Tier Seven Trials, while Zhu Jiuyang received Tier Five Trials.
• Zhu Jiuyang discovered that his first trial required him to go to the Phoenix God's trial site for Nirvana baptism.

Su Ming pursued more Element God examinations in Dou Yi while the gods defended his right to take them. In Dou Er, Du Busi overwhelmed Feng Ling, and Su Ming appeared behind Long Xiaoyao as he watched her defeat.

• Zhu Jiuyang told Su Ming about his situation, and Su Ming advised him to cultivate in Phoenix Continent while he sought more examinations.
• Su Ming activated the Wind God and Darkness God examinations, while the Fire God and Wind God assigned him the same wind-and-fire fusion trial.
• The Asura God challenged the Element Gods over their examinations, but they defended their judgment that Su Ming had the talent to control the Seven Elements.
• Unable to find more examination sites, Su Ming entered the Time River, possessed Yu Xiaogang, and searched history for locations where divine traces might exist.
• After Shrek Academy accepted that it could not retaliate against Di Tian, Du Busi heavily injured Feng Ling when she tried to escape West Sea City, and Long Xiaoyao left without helping her.
• Su Ming appeared behind Long Xiaoyao as he watched Feng Ling's defeat, startling him.

Su Ming confronted Long Xiaoyao, who attacked him after Su Ming condemned his support of the Holy Spirit Cult. Su Ming matched Long Xiaoyao’s power with his Gold-tier Second Awakening and Two-word Battle Armor as the Body Sect elders and Soul Master Corps closed in.

• Su Ming named Long Xiaoyao and accused him of aiding Evil Soul Masters by joining the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Long Xiaoyao unleashed his dark dragon form and attacked Su Ming with a dragon claw.
• Su Ming activated his Gold-tier Second Awakening, fused with his platinum Two-word Battle Armor, and used his Chaos Domain to meet Long Xiaoyao’s attack with the Supreme Wave Fist.
• Du Busi crippled half of Feng Ling’s body and rushed toward Su Ming while the Soul Master Corps prepared its Level 9 Soul Cannons.
• The Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps and three Rank 9 Soul Engineers from Mingde Hall aimed their charged cannons at Long Xiaoyao.

Su Ming and Du Busi pursued Long Xiaoyao to the Demonic Forest, where Su Ming sealed the surrounding space and drew Ye Xishui and Zhong Liwu into a trap. The four Evil Soul Masters gathered for battle as Su Ming prepared to complete his elemental systems and condense his Third Martial Soul.

• Long Xiaoyao escaped Su Ming's attack and Xu Tianyuan's Level 9 Fixed Soul Tool Cannonball by tearing through space, then fled toward the Demonic Forest with Su Ming and Du Busi in pursuit.
• Su Ming sealed the surrounding space with the Power of Destiny, preventing Long Xiaoyao from escaping by teleportation.
• Long Xiaoyao warned Ye Xishui about Su Ming's strength after she arrived with Zhong Liwu, who focused on the half-dead Feng Ling carried by Du Busi.
• Ye Xishui unleashed her Boundless Sea of Blood, and Zhong Liwu used the Blood Soul Great Method to devour its Vengeful Spirits and strengthen himself as the Bone Dragon King appeared.

Su Ming confronted Long Xiaoyao, Ye Xishui, and Zhong Liwu, killing the Bone Dragon King and absorbing its Wind and Fire Origins. He revealed that Ye Xishui could provide the Light Origin he needed, leaving Long Xiaoyao and Zhong Liwu demanding an explanation.

• Long Xiaoyao fought Su Ming while Zhong Liwu and Ye Xishui attacked Du Busi, and Zhong Liwu fused with Feng Ling to reach Limit-level strength.
• Su Ming reached for Zhong Liwu but seized the Bone Dragon King through space, and Electrolux refined it with Purifying Fire.
• Su Ming absorbed the Bone Dragon King's Wind and Fire Origins, completing a cycle of Water, fire, earth, and wind.
• Long Xiaoyao accused Su Ming of acting like an Evil Soul Master, but Su Ming argued that he could take Origins from enemies and foes.
• Su Ming named Ye Xishui as his source of Light Origin, and Ye Xishui asked how he had learned the truth.
• Long Xiaoyao and Zhong Liwu turned to Ye Xishui, and Long Xiaoyao asked how she had Light Origin.

Ye Xishui revealed that she possessed twin Martial Souls, including the Light Phoenix, while Su Ming and his allies faced the Holy Spirit Cult leaders. After Ye Xishui summoned the Evil Emperor, Su Ming persuaded him to consider a partnership, leaving the cult leaders without the ally they had expected.

• Ye Xishui admitted that she possessed the Light Origin and twin Martial Souls, and she refused to flee because Su Ming could kill Yan Shaozhe.
• Ye Xishui used the Holy Spirit Cult’s secret technique to summon the Evil Emperor from the Demonic Forest.
• The Evil Emperor arrived, recognized Du Busi, and showed greater wariness toward Su Ming than toward the others.
• Su Ming offered the Evil Emperor a partnership and summoned Little Chaos, who said that Su Ming treated him well and could help him grow.
• The Evil Emperor rejected Ye Xishui’s appeal, explaining that his agreement with the Holy Emperor did not require him to cooperate with the Holy Spirit Cult.

Su Ming offered Evil Emperor several paths to becoming a God in exchange for his cooperation, eventually proposing that Evil Emperor take human form and let Su Ming use his cultivation to nurture Chaos. Evil Emperor was intrigued by the possibilities but had not yet agreed.

• Evil Emperor established a Spiritual Power link with Su Ming and demanded details before deciding whether to join the conflict.
• Su Ming proposed helping Evil Emperor become a God through a million-year breakthrough, a Divine Throne for the Evil Eye Tyrant Clan, or human re-cultivation.
• Evil Emperor rejected the first plans but became interested when Su Ming suggested breaking through Level 100, transforming his bloodline, and then returning to human form to bypass the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Su Ming asked Evil Emperor to pay an equivalent price and revealed that, if Evil Emperor took human form, Su Ming wanted to use his cultivation to nurture Chaos.
• Evil Emperor recognized that Su Ming had been aiming for his cultivation and considered the request reasonable.

The Evil Emperor sided with Su Ming and helped him subdue Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao while Su Ming used Soul Deprivation to leave Ye Xishui defenseless. After Ye Xishui’s Light Phoenix Martial Soul emerged and revealed her balanced Light and Darkness Origins, Su Ming killed her with a small world formed from the Origins.

• The Evil Emperor rejected Ye Xishui’s appeal to his old agreement with the Holy Emperor and attacked the Holy Spirit Cult trio.
• Zhong Liwu attacked Su Ming as Ye Xishui fired the Death God’s Light, but Su Ming teleported behind her and used Soul Deprivation while the Evil Emperor struck her mind again.
• Ye Xishui lost consciousness and fell from the Death God Tower as the Evil Emperor held off Long Xiaoyao.
• Ye Xishui’s Light Phoenix Martial Soul appeared, and Long Xiaoyao realized she had other descendants and that Yan Shaozhe might be among Mu En’s descendants.
• Su Ming said Ye Xishui’s Light and Darkness Origins had reached balance, then crushed her with a small world and had Electrolux extract the two Origins.