Chapter Summaries

Xiao Wu accepted Dai Yichen’s past relationships and told him she was content to have a place in his heart. Meanwhile, Ah Yin recovered her Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and disguised a ten-year Blue Silver Grass soul bone as a hundred-thousand-year one before leaving it in its place.

• Xiao Wu revealed that she had gained Ultimate Power and a stronger Charm attribute, then tested her Charm on Dai Yichen.
• Dai Yichen told Xiao Wu about his relationships with Zhu Zhuyun and Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu said she already knew and did not regret being with him.
• Dai Yichen sent Xiao Wu to cultivate with Dugu Yan and the others before going to the imperial palace to see Old Geezer.
• Ah Yin secretly returned to Holy Soul Village and retrieved the buried Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, then worried Tang Hao might harm the villagers if he discovered it was gone.
• Ah Yin asked the system for help and received a ten-year Blue Silver Grass Right Leg Bone and a Disguise Talisman.
• Ah Yin used the talisman to make the ten-year soul bone look and feel like her hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.

Dai Yichen asked Dai Yutian for wine, discussed why he would postpone having children and avoid taking the throne, and gave his father a Marrow Cleansing Pill. That night, he met Zhu Zhuyun for their promised drinks, and she appeared in a cat-eared maid outfit before they began drinking together.

• Dai Yichen asked Dai Yutian for more wine, and Dai Yutian learned that Dai Yichen had shared the aphrodisiac wine with someone else.
• Dai Yichen told Dai Yutian that he would not have children before the Soul Master Competition and suggested that Second Brother could inherit the throne, but Dai Yutian rejected the idea.
• Dai Yutian gave Dai Yichen more aged wine, and Dai Yichen gave him a Marrow Cleansing Pill to help with his hidden injuries and stalled cultivation.
• Dai Yichen went to Zhu Zhuyun's room and sealed the windows before offering her two bottles of medicinal wine.
• Zhu Zhuyun returned in a cat-eared maid outfit, sat on Dai Yichen's lap, and began drinking cross-cupped wine with him.

Tang Hao and Tang San visited Tang Yuehua and prepared to leave for the Clear Sky Sect, while Bi Ji and Zi Ji arrived at Star Luo Royal Academy seeking Dai Yichen. The chapter ended with Dai Yichen calmly asking what the two powerful soul beasts wanted to discuss.

• Dai Yichen kissed Zhu Zhuyun after watching her tease him, and they spent another sleepless night together.
• Tang Hao brought Tang San to Tang Yuehua and asked her to guide them back to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Yuehua welcomed Tang Hao and decided that they should set out for the sect immediately because their injuries needed treatment.
• Bi Ji and Zi Ji arrived at Star Luo Royal Academy and released their auras to draw Dai Yichen out.
• Dugu Bo, Dai Yu, the Three Great Education Committees, and Dai Yichen’s companions gathered at the entrance, and the committees shielded Dai Yichen.
• Dai Yichen recognized Bi Ji, calmly spoke with her and Zi Ji, and asked what they had come to discuss.

Dai Yichen met Bi Ji and Zi Ji, who revealed that the Soul Beasts had established an empire in the Star Dou Great Forest. The chapter ended with Dai Yichen asking whether Gu Yuena had recovered and awakened.

• Bi Ji and Zi Ji asked to speak privately with Dai Yichen, and he sent the others away, confident they would not harm him.
• Dai Yichen guessed that Bi Ji and Zi Ji had come to discuss cooperation with the Star Luo Empire and linked their visit to unusual changes in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zi Ji revealed that the ferocious beasts had spent five years establishing a Soul Beast Empire in the forest's core region and building cities to shelter weak Soul Beasts.
• Dai Yichen questioned why Di Tian had established the empire and whether he intended to attack humanity.
• Bi Ji told Dai Yichen that the empire had been Gu Yuena's idea, prompting him to ask whether Gu Yuena had healed and awakened.

Dai Yichen met Bi Ji and Zi Ji to discuss relations between the Star Luo Empire and the newly established Soul Beast Empire. He challenged their proposed cooperation over the danger of soul beasts being hunted, then implied that he had powerful trump cards if conflict came.

• Dai Yichen learned that Gu Yuena had established a Soul Beast Empire in the Star Dou Great Forest, alarming Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, and other women who read his diary.
• Dai Yichen considered how a Soul Beast Empire could help spread Soul Spirit Contracts and learned that the auspicious beast could help soul beasts gain sentience sooner.
• Bi Ji explained that the Soul Beast Empire needed food and supplies and offered recently deceased soul beasts' remains, herbs, and treasures in exchange.
• Dai Yichen questioned how the two empires would prevent Star Luo soul masters from killing protected soul beasts, and Bi Ji asked him to propose a solution.
• Dai Yichen argued that the soul beasts feared the gods despite their strength, while Zi Ji warned that the continent could be devastated before the gods descended.
• Dai Yichen dismissed the danger to the wider continent and declared that he could protect most of the Star Luo Empire's people, hinting that he had hidden trump cards.

Dai Yichen proposed a Soul Spirit Contract that let soul beasts become soul masters’ Soul Spirits while preserving their chance to survive and return to life. He and Bi Ji and Zi Ji agreed to establish a jointly managed Spirit Pagoda at the border, with construction beginning immediately.

• Dai Yichen explained that Soul Spirits could grant soul rings, grow alongside their masters, and reform their bodies if their masters died.
• Dai Yichen added protections against Soul Spirits causing their masters’ accidental deaths, and Bi Ji and Zi Ji accepted the contract’s terms.
• Dai Yichen proposed that Bi Ji and Zi Ji stay in Star Luo City while both sides jointly managed a Spirit Pagoda on the border.
• Dai Yichen, Bi Ji, and Zi Ji chose a site and renamed the area Spirit Transfer Town.
• Dai Yichen ordered Niu Gao to lead the remaining Defense Clan members to build the town and Spirit Pagoda, and the group discussed administration, publicity, and affordable fees.

Dai Yichen explained how the Spirit Pagoda and Soul Spirit Contracts would let soul masters obtain soul rings more safely, while he reflected on the conflict between humans and soul beasts. Gu Yuena and the others wondered what his trump card was, and he claimed that he could rapidly become a Titled Douluo and use his Psychic Locks against the ferocious beasts.

• Dai Yichen told Bi Ji and Zi Ji that soul masters would pay reasonable fees to obtain soul spirits and could receive soul bones when contracting with older soul beasts.
• Dai Yichen decided to send soldiers to help the Defense Clan build Spirit Transfer Town and the Spirit Pagoda faster.
• Dai Yichen criticized Douluo Star's cultivation system and compared the strength of long-lived soul beasts with human Titled Douluo.
• Gu Yuena, Bibi Dong, and Qian Renxue considered whether Spirit Hall soul masters would be allowed to use the Spirit Pagoda, while Gu Yuena and the empresses recalled that Dai Yichen had inspired their empires.
• Dai Yichen identified Old Monster's Poison Array as a defense against soul beast attacks, but Zi Ji doubted it could stop ferocious beasts.
• Dai Yichen said he could reach Titled Douluo within a month by filling his second martial soul's soul ring slots, then challenge the ferocious beasts with his Psychic Locks.

Dai Yichen’s comments made Gu Yuena and the women realize that Gu Yuena would have had to call Xiao Wu “mom” if she married Tang Wulin. The women then discussed the Tang Family’s strange traditions and concluded that Tang San had treated his relatives and Huo Yuhao as tools, while Gu Yuena feared the Asura God might be backing him.

• Dai Yichen pointed out that Gu Yuena’s planned relationship with Tang Wulin would make Xiao Wu her mother-in-law, leaving Gu Yuena embarrassed and Xiao Wu horrified.
• The women questioned the Tang Family’s alleged traditions of men inheriting Blue Silver Grass, women inheriting Clear Sky Hammers, and male descendants marrying soul beasts.
• The women suspected Tang San had arranged Wang Dong’s disguise and used Tang Wutong to control Huo Yuhao, including allegedly fitting her with a chastity lock.
• The women suspected Tang San had seized Huo Yun’er’s soul and used it to force Huo Yuhao into marrying Tang Wutong.
• The women concluded that Tang San had used his family to control powerful people, while Gu Yuena wanted to confront him but feared the Asura God was supporting him.

Dai Yichen received the advanced Douluo III Soul Spirit Contract Method, which reduced the number of Soul Spirits needed for Soul Masters and eased the burden on soul beasts. He considered pairing affordable Soul Spirit access with loans and subsidies, while leaving Soul Masters free to risk hunting soul beasts themselves.

• Dai Yichen received the Douluo III Soul Spirit Contract Method and realized it let Soul Spirits grant more Soul Rings than his earlier contract system.
• Bi Ji, Zi Ji, and Gu Yuena recognized that the advanced contract method would reduce demand on the soul beast population, while Xiao Wu felt proud of her choice of Dai Yichen.
• Xiao Wu worried that commoner Soul Masters could not afford their first Soul Spirits, and Ning Rongrong proposed that the Spirit Pagoda let them borrow money and repay it from their subsidies.
• Dai Yichen considered having the Star Luo Imperial Family and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect establish a state-owned bank with low-interest loans for Soul Masters.
• Dai Yichen planned monthly subsidies for Soul Masters, Soul Grand Masters, and Soul Elders, and concluded that Soul Masters could still hunt soul beasts if they rejected Spirit Pagoda Soul Spirits.

Dai Yichen decided to share the Wind God Leg with his companions, while Gu Rong received Ning Fengzhi’s urgent orders to prepare the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s relocation. Near Star Luo City, masked attackers surrounded the Heaven Dou Team’s convoy and called for Yu Xiaogang to die.

• Dai Yichen considered the Wind God Leg’s techniques and decided that Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, and his other companions could learn it.
• A sleep-deprived Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciple delivered Ning Fengzhi’s letter to Gu Rong and collapsed.
• Gu Rong learned that Ning Rongrong’s martial soul had evolved, Dai Yichen’s side had developed powerful hidden weapons, and the sect needed to withdraw from the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Gu Rong ordered the sect to move businesses and disciples overnight to a new location near Star Luo City.
• Masked people surrounded the Heaven Dou Team’s convoy near Star Luo City and demanded that Yu Xiaogang come out and die.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed how quickly the attackers had acted and how Yu Xiaogang’s past actions had harmed smaller sects and families.

Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin protected Yu Xiaogang from the attackers, while Flender accepted that Shrek had fallen apart. Dai Yichen and the Star Luo leadership continued planning the Spirit Pagoda, with officials debating how to fund it and restrict access for rival powers.

• Ning Fengzhi asked the black-clad attackers to let him escort Yu Xiaogang to Heaven Dou City, and Chen Xin's presence forced them to withdraw.
• Ning Fengzhi advised Yu Xiaogang to return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan for safety, while Flender thanked him and reflected on Shrek's end.
• Dai Yichen spent several days discussing the Spirit Pagoda with Bi Ji, Zi Ji, and Dai Yutian.
• Dai Yutian gathered trusted officials, who approved Dai Yichen's Spirit Pagoda proposal and considered charging Spirit Hall and Heaven Dou for access.
• The Minister of Revenue proposed denying rival Soul Masters affordable soul spirits unless their factions helped pay for the project.
• The chapter explained that the Ministry of Revenue had struggled to fund Dai Yichen's projects, while hidden weapons had only recently begun generating profit.

Dai Yichen funded the Spirit Transfer Town and discussed the soul beasts’ future and Gu Yuena’s recovery with Bi Ji and Zi Ji. He asked the two fierce beasts to become his companions’ soul spirits, and Bi Ji learned that he wanted her to join Ye Lingling.

• Dai Yichen invested ten million Gold Soul Coins in Spirit Transfer Town and the Spirit Pagoda, while Dai Yutian gave another ten million to the Ministry of Revenue.
• Dai Yichen told Bi Ji and Zi Ji that he intended to unify the continent and asked about Gu Yuena’s injuries.
• Bi Ji and Zi Ji discussed the Gods and the soul beast race’s possible cooperation with Dai Yichen.
• Dai Yichen asked Bi Ji and Zi Ji to become soul spirits, explaining that they could regain bodies at one hundred thousand years of cultivation and retain their freedom.
• Bi Ji agreed that the arrangement could work and asked whose soul spirit she would become, and Dai Yichen said he wanted her to join Ye Lingling.

Dai Yichen secured Bi Ji and Zi Ji’s agreement to become spirit souls for Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan, while Tang Yuehua brought Tang Hao and Tang San back to Clear Sky Sect. The chapter ended with Tang Xiao opening his door and confronting Tang Hao.

• Dai Yichen asked Bi Ji and Zi Ji to become spirit souls for Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan, and they agreed to begin the ritual that night.
• Dai Yichen said Bear Monarch’s soul bone would suit him best, while Zi Ji suggested he seek the Ice Emperor and Snow Empress in the Extremely Northern Land.
• Tang Yuehua led Tang Hao and Tang San through a secret route to Clear Sky Sect, where Tang Hao acknowledged his past wrongdoing and Tang San resolved to seek the sect’s recognition.
• Clear Sky Sect members reacted with resentment when they recognized Tang Hao, and Tang Yuehua stopped one clan member from confronting him.
• Tang Yuehua brought Tang Hao and Tang San to Tang Xiao’s room, and Tang Xiao opened the door and greeted Tang Hao.

Tang Hao and Tang San asked the Clear Sky Sect to let them return, explaining Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls and Tang Hao’s hidden injuries. The elders agreed on conditions, beginning with Tang San reaching Titled Douluo before Tang Hao and obtaining a hundred-thousand-year eighth soul ring for his Blue Silver Grass.

• Tang Hao told Tang Xiao that his injuries had worsened while protecting Tang San and that Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls could help revive the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Xiao asked Tang San to reveal his Clear Sky Hammer and Blue Silver Grass, then brought them before the Five Great Elders to decide whether they could return.
• Tang Hao explained their situation to the elders and offered to return the two inherited Soul Bones the sect had given him.
• The Second Elder consulted the other elders, and they permitted Tang Hao and Tang San to return under several conditions.
• The Second Elder required Tang San to become a Titled Douluo before Tang Hao and to obtain a hundred-thousand-year eighth soul ring for his Blue Silver Grass, and Tang Hao agreed to hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast when Tang San reached level eighty.

Tang Xiao and the Five Great Elders decided that the Clear Sky Sect would emerge from seclusion by joining the Heaven Dou Team in the upcoming Soul Master Competition. Dai Yichen then prepared to help Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan fuse with Bi Ji and Zi Ji as Soul Spirits, using their torso spirit bones and sealing some of their power.

• Tang San warned the Clear Sky Sect elders that the Star Luo Team and Spirit Hall had grown too powerful for him to promise a championship.
• Tang Yuehua described the Star Luo Team's strength, and Tang Xiao proposed that Clear Sky Sect members join the Heaven Dou Team and support the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• The Five Great Elders approved Tang Xiao's proposal and arranged treatment for Tang Hao and Tang San's injuries.
• Dai Yichen told Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan that Bi Ji and Zi Ji would become their Soul Spirits, with their powerful torso spirit bones sealed in part during fusion.
• Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan accepted the opportunity but asked why Dai Yichen would not take Bi Ji and Zi Ji as his own Soul Spirits.

Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan endured the fusion of soul bones from Bi Ji and Zi Ji while Dai Yichen helped them form soul spirit contracts. Ye Lingling succeeded, gained flight and new healing abilities, and learned that her torso bone granted the Emerald Guardian skill.

• Dai Yichen gave Dugu Yan the Eight Spider Lances soul bone and prepared the cultivation room for the soul spirit contracts.
• Ye Lingling endured the painful fusion of Bi Ji’s torso bone as Bi Ji transferred her energy.
• After Dugu Yan fused with the Eight Spider Lances, she began her contract and soul bone fusion with Zi Ji, whose powerful dragon bloodline made the process painful.
• After several days and nights, Dai Yichen, Bi Ji, and Zi Ji sealed the soul bones’ energy, and Ye Lingling’s Soul Power rose from level fifty-three to level fifty-six.
• Ye Lingling gained Emerald Swan wings and a transformed Nine Heart Emerald Begonia martial soul, and Bi Ji explained that her torso bone granted her Emerald Guardian.

Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul evolved into the Biphosphorus Demonic Dragon Emperor, and her Eight Spider Lances transformed into four pairs of wings after she fused with Zi Ji’s torso bone. Zi Ji explained Dugu Yan’s new abilities and warned her about the costly emergency technique she could use after Bi Ji and Zi Ji returned to the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Ye Lingling learned that Bi Ji’s soul bone granted her powerful single-target and group healing skills.
• Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul evolved into the Biphosphorus Demonic Dragon Emperor, while her Eight Spider Lances transformed into four pairs of dark purple wings.
• Dugu Yan kissed Dai Yichen in front of Bi Ji, Zi Ji, and Ye Lingling, then awkwardly tried to explain her impulsive action.
• Zi Ji told Dugu Yan that her Soul Power had risen from Rank 63 to Rank 66 and described her new Abyssal Barrier and Demonic Field skills.
• Zi Ji reassured Dugu Yan that she could control Demonic Field so it drained an enemy’s strength without shortening their lifespan.
• Zi Ji said she and Bi Ji would return to the Star Dou Great Forest the next day and taught Dugu Yan about Demonic Dragon Descent, a powerful technique that would exhaust her Soul Power.

After Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling completed their soul-spirit contracts, Bi Ji gave Ye Lingling a protective ability and the group celebrated at a restaurant. The meal ended with Dugu Yan passing out after one cup of liquor, and Dugu Bo asked Dai Yichen to take her back to rest.

• Bi Ji left a trace of Source Power in Ye Lingling’s Sea of Consciousness that could empower Emerald Guardian to reflect powerful attacks and summon a phantom for a Mental Attack.
• Dugu Bo greeted Dai Yichen and the others after they emerged, then joined them for a celebratory meal at the academy restaurant.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling sat beside Dai Yichen, while Dugu Bo suspected that Dai Yichen and his granddaughter had become a couple.
• Dugu Bo urged Dai Yichen to drink, and Dugu Yan took his cup and drank it herself.
• Dugu Yan immediately passed out, and Dugu Bo asked Dai Yichen to carry her back to rest.

Dai Yichen carried the drunken Dugu Yan to her residence, where she asked him not to leave and the two fell asleep together. When Dugu Yan woke and found him holding her, she let him touch her, kissed his forehead, and went back to sleep with him.

• Dugu Bo teased Dai Yichen about taking responsibility for Dugu Yan and warned him not to mistreat her.
• Dai Yichen carried Dugu Yan home as she thanked him and pleaded with him not to die or leave her.
• Dai Yichen tucked Dugu Yan into bed, but she grabbed him and asked him to stay, so he lay beside her and fell asleep.
• Dugu Yan woke to find Dai Yichen holding her and, after deciding he was asleep, let his hands roam and removed some of her clothing.
• Dugu Yan kissed Dai Yichen on the forehead, held him, and fell asleep again with him.

Dai Yichen and Dugu Yan woke to discover they had inexplicably slept together, and he gave her the Jade Phosphorous Psychic Lock to fuse with her martial soul. Ah Yin returned to Dai Yichen in Star Luo City, and a year later the Spirit Transfer Pagoda and Spirit Pagoda had begun trials ahead of the All-Continent Soul Master Elite Competition.

• A system notification revealed that Dai Yichen and Dugu Yan had taken their relationship further while asleep, and the two woke up naked together.
• Dugu Yan explained that Dai Yichen had been restless in his sleep and taken her first time, then asked to wait until Zi Ji left her Sea of Consciousness before being intimate again.
• Dai Yichen gave Dugu Yan the Jade Phosphorous Psychic Lock and told her to fuse it with her martial soul.
• Ah Yin arrived at Star Luo Royal Academy, where Dai Yichen embraced her and welcomed her home.
• A year passed as Spirit Transfer Pagoda Town and the Spirit Pagoda were preliminarily completed, and the empires began trials of soul master and soul beast contracts with costs reimbursed.