Chapter Summaries

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao revealed their soul-beast contract system to the Body Sect members and announced plans to spread it in the Star Dou Forest. The chapter left off with Xuan Ziwen demonstrating a new Soul Guidance Array discovery, while Huo Yuhao asked for an explanation.

• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao brought the lightning-struck Ji Juechen back to the Body Sect, where Jing Ziyan checked on him and learned his martial soul problem might be fixed.
• Xu Jie gathered the group and warned that anyone who stayed would be tied to his and Huo Yuhao’s plans, then Dugu Lu demonstrated his new dark-green soul ring.
• Xu Jie explained the soul-beast system and Huo Yuhao showed the group his contracted Silver Spirit Beast, Xiao Yin.
• Xu Jie announced that they would go to the Star Dou Forest in a month to spread the system, and the group considered whether they could reach a cultivation bottleneck in time.
• Xuan Ziwen showed Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao how a Soul Guidance Array could regulate Soul Power, and Xu Jie recognized the device as a resistor-like invention.

Huo Yuhao and Xu Jie recruited Xuan Ziwen to their organization by showing him the Soul Guidance Metal and tools they had stolen from Bright City's arsenal. Xuan Ziwen accepted their offer and eagerly began planning to use the vast supply for his research.

• Xuan Ziwen demonstrated how a Soul Power limiter could protect a Soul Guidance Array and enable stable output for civilian devices.
• Xuan Ziwen invited Xu Jie to study Soul Tools under him, but Xu Jie declined and offered to share his ideas if Xuan Ziwen joined their organization.
• Xuan Ziwen agreed to join Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao, who promised him access to their organization's treasury.
• Huo Yuhao transported Xu Jie and Xuan Ziwen to the Undead Demigod Plane, where they found a vast stash of Soul Guidance Metal and Soul Tools from Bright City.
• Xuan Ziwen realized Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao had stolen the arsenal and complained that the theft had caused Mingde Hall to cut his Soul Guidance Metal quota.
• Huo Yuhao and Xu Jie gave Xuan Ziwen permission to use the stash and build whatever he wanted.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao led a group from the Body Sect and newly recruited Rank 10 Soul Masters toward the Star Dou Great Forest to test the Soul Contract System. The group took flight with the children in their care, leaving Huo Yuhao feeling at home among his companions.

• Xiao Xiao worried that she had not yet reached Rank 60, but Xu Jie reassured her and offered to ask Jing Ziyan for help if needed.
• Xu Jie kept the destination and purpose of the journey secret from the group, explaining that he would tell them once they arrived.
• Du Busi arrived, and Huo Yuhao instructed the Body Sect members to escort the Rank 10 children as they prepared to leave.
• Huo Yuhao and six other Body Sect members carried children into the air using Flying Soul Guidance Devices.
• Xu Jie startled Qian Ran by launching into the air quickly, and Jing Ziyan caught up to scold him as the others watched.

Huo Yuhao and Xu Jie traveled with a group of children toward the Star Dou Great Forest to test the Soul Contract System, while Xiao Chen questioned whether Blue Silver Grass was worth cultivating. The group reached the Lake of Life, where Di Tian summoned Dugu Lu to inspect the successful experiment.

• Huo Yuhao told Xiao Chen stories of powerful Soul Masters, but Xiao Chen remained uncertain whether his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul was worth cultivating.
• Xu Jie explained to Wang Chen that Tang San's Martial Soul had been the Blue Silver Emperor, and said their journey might change the answer about ordinary Blue Silver Grass.
• Huo Yuhao led the group to the Star Dou Great Forest and used the Reverse Scale pendant as they passed through a dark barrier to the Lake of Life.
• Huo Yuhao told Di Tian that the Soul Contract System had one successful subject and that he and Xu Jie needed more cooperative Soul Beasts for experiments.
• Di Tian drew Dugu Lu out of the group, and Dugu Lu summoned his Martial Soul as Di Tian's aura pressed down on him.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao visited Di Tian to verify the Soul Contract System, and Dugu Lu’s successful contract with the Jade Phosphor Nine Absolute Flower confirmed it could work. After inspecting the remains of nine Evil Soul Masters and meeting Chen Pu, Xu Jie proposed creating a jointly supervised Soul Beast Alliance to advance the system and mediate between humans and soul beasts.

• Di Tian and Bi Ji revealed that nine of their ten human test subjects had died, while Dugu Lu showed them his successful contract with the Jade Phosphor Nine Absolute Flower.
• Bear Lord, Myriad Demon King, and Scarlet King appeared, and Bear Lord agreed to help Xu Jie’s friend find a talented soul beast after Xu Jie declined to stab him with the Golden Dragon Spear.
• Di Tian presented Chen Pu, who had contracted an Earth Bear, along with the nine skeletons; Huo Yuhao confirmed the dead humans had been Evil Soul Masters.
• Scarlet King’s account led Xu Jie to recognize Chen Pu as a man he had met years earlier, while Di Tian confirmed that his group’s successful contract worked as Xu Jie had described.
• Xu Jie asked Di Tian to provide soul beasts for further trials and proposed establishing a human-and-soul-beast organization called the Soul Beast Alliance; Di Tian agreed to cooperate.

Xu Jie and Di Tian agreed to establish a neutral Soul Beast Alliance with equal human and soul beast representation, and they began preparations to test the Soul Contract System. Xu Jie explained why the alliance would need to delay its public launch until the coming war had passed, while Bear Lord returned with a soul beast for Xiao Xiao.

• Xu Jie proposed a twelve-seat Soul Beast Alliance with equal representation and veto-wielding chiefs, and Di Tian accepted the preliminary plan before welcoming Du Busi into the discussion.
• Di Tian lifted the group’s restrictions, and Xu Jie arranged for the fierce beasts to find suitable soul beasts for the candidates’ martial souls.
• Xiao Xiao, Jing Ziyan, and the Body Sect members revealed their martial souls, while Dugu Lu displayed his unusual green soul ring as evidence of the Soul Contract System’s success.
• Xu Jie named Du Busi as the human chief chairperson and selected himself, Huo Yuhao, Dugu Lu, Jing Ziyan, and Xiao Xiao for the other human seats.
• Xu Jie told Di Tian that war between the Sun Moon Empire and the Three Great Empires could force the Soul Beast Alliance to take sides or face destruction, so its launch would need to wait.
• Bear Lord returned with a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear just over ten thousand years old for Xiao Xiao and teased Xu Jie by calling her his girlfriend.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao helped the gathered humans begin forming bonds with soul beasts for the Soul Contract System, while Jin Ling was introduced to Xiao Xiao. The chapter left Xu Jie with an Angel Godly Armor soul bone for Qian Ran, whose Angel Mark and martial soul resonated with it as a woman’s phantom emerged.

• Bear Lord introduced Jin Ling, a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear with a mutated metal-element bloodline, and directed her toward Xiao Xiao for a possible Soul Contract.
• Jin Ling introduced herself to Xiao Xiao, then embarrassed her by saying she had good taste in Xu Jie as a mating partner.
• The ferocious beasts brought soul beasts for the humans, and Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao explained that both partners had to willingly agree to a Soul Contract.
• Wang Chen briefly held a Soft Bone Rabbit before Huo Yuhao recommended a Jade Vine suited to his martial soul.
• Xu Jie asked Qian Ran to summon the Angel Holy Sword, and its light resonated with Bi Ji’s six-winged soul bone, which Di Tian identified as a relic of the Angel God.
• Di Tian gave Xu Jie the soul bone under a future condition, and Xu Jie passed it to Qian Ran, whose Angel Mark drew out a golden thread and a woman’s phantom.

Qian Ran began the Angel God’s trial, and Xu Jie and Ye Guyi supplied power that stabilized its thirteen steps. Qian Ran completed the trial and began absorbing its rewards, while Ye Guyi reached level seventy and Di Tian arranged a suitable soul beast for her.

• The Angel God’s phantom appeared from Qian Renxue’s soul bone, and Di Tian identified the golden steps as a failing Heavenly God Trial for Qian Ran.
• Xu Jie and Ye Guyi infused the Angel God’s phantom with solar and sacred power, stabilizing the steps so Qian Ran and Ye Guyi could climb them together.
• Qian Ran used his amplification skill while Ye Guyi supported him with Sacred Hymn, and he reached the thirteenth step and took the Angel Holy Sword.
• The Angel God’s phantom gave Qian Ran a thousand-year God-Bestowed Soul Ring and sent the golden soul bone into his head, while her power raised Ye Guyi to level seventy.
• Huo Yuhao determined that Qian Ran would need at least a week to absorb the soul bone, and Di Tian sent Bi Ji to find a suitable soul beast for Ye Guyi.

Ye Guyi defeated the Holy Swan in a sparring match, securing his agreement to form a Soul Contract, while Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao explained the system’s safeguards to Di Tian. Over the following month, the humans and soul beasts negotiated the Soul Beast Alliance and began building trust with their prospective partners.

• Bi Ji introduced the Holy Swan to Ye Guyi, who fought him with her Angel Martial Soul until he surrendered and agreed to complete a Soul Contract.
• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao told Di Tian that Soul Contracts prevented either party from attacking the other and could dissolve if one party’s life force faded.
• Di Tian gathered the ferocious beasts and human representatives to discuss the Soul Beast Alliance, and negotiations continued over the following month.
• Xu Jie, Huo Yuhao, and Dugu Lu researched the Soul Contract System while the young soul masters cultivated and developed bonds with their chosen soul beasts.
• Wang Shi began giving an Earth-Burrowing Beast food and teaching it simple commands, while Ye Guyi sparred with the Holy Swan and Jing Ziyan fed Ziyan her purple smoke.
• Xiao Xiao struggled to break through Jin Ling’s defenses, while Jin Ling teased her and traded dirty jokes with Xu Jie.

Xu Jie began the Soul Contract System experiment by contracting Jin Ling with Xiao Xiao, whose Soul Power rose and whose Three-Life Soul Suppressing Cauldron gained a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear pattern. Bi Ji then successfully contracted Purple Smoke Bamboo with Jing Ziyan, leaving the gathering eager for more trials.

• At chen hour, Xu Jie, Huo Yuhao, and Bi Ji organized the humans and soul beasts into groups for the Soul Contract System experiment.
• Xu Jie guided Jin Ling and Xiao Xiao through a soul contract, and Jin Ling's Soul Ring was absorbed by Xiao Xiao as her Soul Power rose to level sixty-three.
• Xiao Xiao's Three-Life Soul Suppressing Cauldron changed, gaining a dark-gold section marked with a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear pattern, while Xu Jie suspected her martial soul's suppression ability had awakened.
• Bi Ji successfully contracted Purple Smoke Bamboo with Jing Ziyan, producing a purple-green Soul Ring and turning the bamboo into a hairpin in Jing Ziyan's hair.
• The two successful contracts reassured the fierce beasts and left the humans eagerly awaiting their turns.

Huo Yuhao and the other Soul Contract Masters completed contracts for humans and soul beasts, including Ye Guyi’s bond with the Holy Swan, which evolved her martial soul. After some contracts failed and damaged Spiritual Power, the Myriad Demon King restored those affected with Spirit-Nourishing White Jade Fruits, and Di Tian ordered the trials to continue.

• Huo Yuhao formed a Soul Contract between Ye Guyi and the Holy Swan, giving Ye Guyi a platinum soul ring and causing her martial soul to evolve into four wings.
• Xu Jie, Huo Yuhao, and Bi Ji continued forming Soul Contracts, while Wang Chen chose the Soft Bone Rabbit Xiao Rou despite Huo Yuhao’s doubts; Wang Shi and Wang Da also gained soul rings and advanced to rank fourteen and beyond.
• Wang Chen bonded with Xiao Rou, gaining a pale pink soul ring, while Xu Jie and Bi Ji each had failed contracts involving Body Sect members, and Bi Ji also failed to contract Li Qianqian with Little Skylark.
• The Myriad Demon King brought Spirit-Nourishing White Jade Fruits to heal the damaged Spiritual Power of the failed pairs, and the fruits also strengthened their Spiritual Power.
• After everyone recovered, Di Tian ordered the Soul Contract attempts to continue.

Huo Yuhao and Xu Jie examined the successful Soul Contract pairs and found that contracted soul beasts could use some soul skills. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained that Wang Chen’s Charm skill came entirely from Xiao Rou’s bloodline, so only the Soft Bone Rabbit could use it.

• Three pairs of soul masters and soul beasts successfully completed Soul Contracts, and Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao examined them before testing their soul skills.
• Ye Guyi and Jing Ziyan gained Martial Soul Avatar, Dugu Lu gained Poison Mist, Xiao Xiao gained Might of the Cauldron, and the Body Sect members gained Strength Enhancement.
• The contracted soul beasts used some of their partners’ soul skills, with the youths’ companions showing a stronger connection than those bonded to soul masters who had already absorbed soul rings.
• Wang Chen discovered that he could not use his pink-ring skill, Charm, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained that it belonged to Xiao Rou because it came entirely from the Soft Bone Rabbit’s bloodline.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained that soul skills could reflect the bloodline of a much stronger soul beast, while weaker soul beasts’ abilities could instead be shaped by a beast or plant martial soul.

Huo Yuhao and Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained why some soul masters could not use skills granted by Soul Contract soul rings, while Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao discussed how much contracted soul beasts and humans fused. The chapter left them puzzled when Wang Chen activated his Soft Bone Rabbit’s soul skill himself, even though the rabbit appeared to use it.

• Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained that Soul Contract soul rings were borrowed rather than seized, so soul masters could struggle to use skills from soul beasts with incompatible bloodlines or attributes.
• Xu Jie clarified that human soul skills ultimately came from soul beasts and that Soul Contract skills depended on how closely the contracted beast and soul master matched.
• Huo Yuhao explained that seventh soul rings could involve greater fusion with their soul masters, while Xiao Chen and his Soft Bone Rabbit had the lowest degree of fusion.
• Huo Yuhao asked Wang Chen to test whether his Soft Bone Rabbit could use a soul skill, and the rabbit’s eyes emitted alluring pink light.
• Huo Yuhao and Xu Jie realized that Wang Chen, not the Soft Bone Rabbit, had activated the skill, but Wang Chen saw nothing unusual.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao arranged for Di Tian to protect the young soul masters while they continued studying the Soul Contract System, and Xu Jie secured Di Tian’s promise to provide him with hundred-thousand-year soul rings. One week later, the Sun Moon Empire launched a surprise war against the Star Luo Empire, destroying its border defenses with high-level missiles.

• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao told Di Tian they planned to leave in a month and asked him to protect the young soul masters they would leave behind.
• Di Tian agreed to care for the youths and asked whether Huo Yuhao needed a soul beast contract, but Huo Yuhao said his cultivation was unstable and Xiao Jin said his Destiny was elsewhere.
• Xu Jie asked Di Tian to provide him with a hundred-thousand-year soul ring when he reached Level 80, and Di Tian also promised to arrange his ninth ring.
• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao recovered their Soul Power and Spiritual Power after Di Tian left.
• One week later, the Sun Moon Empire detonated high-level soul guidance missiles in the Mingdou Mountain Range and began its war against the Star Luo Empire.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s bombardment broke through the Star Luo Empire’s defenses and caused Duke White Tiger Dai Hao’s Western Army Group to collapse.

The Sun Moon Empire shattered the Star Luo Empire’s western defenses in a surprise assault, while Ju Zi ordered her forces to hold their position. At the Lake of Life, Golden Body Douluo reached Huo Yuhao, Xu Jie, and Du Busi with news that war had broken out.

• The Sun Moon Empire’s surprise attack overwhelmed the Star Luo Northwest Army Group, and Duke White Tiger Dai Hao retreated north to draw away enemy forces.
• Dai Hao and Xuanji Douluo forced back three Level 9 Soul Engineers, leaving the Sun Moon Empire’s troops stationed beyond the broken defenses.
• Ju Zi refused to pursue Dai Hao and asked for updates on the missing Body Sect leaders.
• Di Tian sent Huo Yuhao, Xu Jie, and Du Busi outside the Lake of Life to meet a powerful human searching for them.
• Golden Body Douluo arrived and told Du Busi that war had broken out.

After the Mingdou Defense Line fell, Xu Jie warned that the Sun Moon Empire’s attack on the Star Luo Empire was a feint and that Heaven Soul was its true target. Du Busi rejected Xu Jie’s suggestion to move the Body Sect to the Dou Ling Empire, while Xu Jie declared he would leave for Shandou City and Huo Yuhao chose to stay.

• The Golden Body Douluo told Du Busi and Huo Yuhao that the Sun Moon Empire had used Class 9 Soul Guidance Missiles to attack the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Xu Jie warned that Xu Tianran intended to invade Heaven Soul and reach Heaven Dou City while the Three Great Empires were distracted by the attack on Star Luo.
• Xu Jie urged Du Busi to relocate the Body Sect to the Dou Ling Empire, but Du Busi refused to flee without fighting.
• Xu Jie announced that he would eventually leave the Body Sect and settle in Shandou City.
• Huo Yuhao told Du Busi that he would remain with the Body Sect as its Young Sect Master rather than accompany Xu Jie.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao prepared to leave the Lake of Life after war broke out, while Xu Jie warned Du Busi that the Heaven Dou Empire would fall. Xu Jie then told Dugu Lu that the war threatened his family and set out with him to visit their home.

• Xu Jie refused to remain in the Body Sect, and Du Busi asked him to offer shelter if his warning about the war came true.
• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao departed after Xu Jie urged Du Busi to preserve the people rather than the land, but Golden Body Douluo dismissed his prediction.
• Back at the Lake of Life, Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao agreed to act on their plans and told Dugu Lu that war had begun.
• Xu Jie warned Dugu Lu that his family's Jade Phosphorous Serpent soul skills would make them a target for conscription.
• Dugu Lu agreed to go with Xu Jie to visit his family.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest after Di Tian gave them silver Reverse Scales, and Huo Yuhao placed his in the Eye of Destiny at Xiao Jin’s request. Huo Yuhao returned to the Body Sect with its members and six Strength Apes, while Xu Jie’s group stayed behind briefly before asking Di Tian to help them.

• Di Tian gave Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao silver Reverse Scales that could block a fatal attack from a god, and Xiao Jin asked Huo Yuhao to keep his scale in the Eye of Destiny because it stirred her Golden Dragon bloodline.
• Xu Jie told Chen Pu to remain in the Star Dou Great Forest with the young men and women, promising to return for them in a few years, and Di Tian agreed to let them stay.
• Xu Jie gave Huo Yuhao instructions about protecting the Body Sect’s strength, warning nobles and sects in the Heaven Dou Empire, and sending Teacher Xuan and Ji Juechen to the Dou Ling Empire.
• Di Tian transported Huo Yuhao, six Body Sect members, and six Strength Apes to Du Busi and Golden Body Douluo, and Huo Yuhao concealed the apes with his Mimicry Soul Skill before they set off for the sect.
• After Huo Yuhao’s group departed, Xu Jie joined Jing Ziyan’s group and asked Di Tian to do them a favor as they prepared to leave with Chen Pu and the young men and women.

Xu Jie and Dugu Lu left the Star Dou Great Forest and traveled toward Shandou City, learning that the Dou Ling Empire and Shrek Academy were treating the Sun Moon Empire’s advance as a minor conflict. They neared Dou Mountain as Xu Jie chose not to intervene in the war.

• Xu Jie used the Dark Gold Spirit Staff to send Xiao Xiao, Qian Ran, Jing Ziyan, and Ye Guyi away, while Di Tian sent Xu Jie and Dugu Lu to the Outer Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xu Jie and Dugu Lu flew toward the Dou Ling Empire as Dugu Lu explained the region and his family’s ties to Shandou City and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Over two days of travel, Xu Jie learned that Star Luo reinforcements had arrived, but the Dou Ling Empire and Shrek Academy still viewed the Sun Moon Empire’s advance as a minor skirmish.
• Xu Jie decided not to act, reasoning that the Sun Moon Empire’s conquest might benefit ordinary people and that the Holy Spirit Cult remained constrained.
• Dugu Lu pointed out Dou Mountain as he and Xu Jie approached Shandou City.

Xu Jie and Dugu Lu arrived outside Shandou City and learned about the Dugu Family’s martial-soul awakening ceremony and indenture contracts. Xu Jie then examined the old man’s son, Ming’er, and sensed weak Soul Power in the boy.

• Xu Jie and Dugu Lu discussed keeping their arrival in Shandou City low-profile as they approached the city.
• Xu Jie offered the old man’s son a candy and asked about his family’s visit to Shandou City.
• The old man explained that he had brought Ming’er for a martial-soul awakening and hoped the boy could join the Dugu Family through an indenture contract.
• Dugu Lu described the Dugu Family’s fees, rewards, and terms for young soul masters who signed contracts.
• Xu Jie placed his hand on Ming’er’s shoulder, sensed weak Soul Power in the boy, and patted him.