Chapter Summaries

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang were trapped by a supernatural punishment in the Soul Hunting Forest, while Tang Hao watched helplessly from behind an invisible barrier. After the ordeal ended, Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong realized their bet had triggered the punishment through a wording loophole.

• Tang San tried to restrain and treat the feverish Yu Xiaogang, but neither antidotes nor his Blue Silver Grass could stop their bodies from acting against their will.
• Tang Hao was blocked by an invisible barrier and failed to reach Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, who were surrounded by Gale Wolves.
• The punishment continued for a full day and night, with the Gale Demon Wolves joining in before leaving Tang San and Yu Xiaogang badly injured.
• Tang Hao vanished to find doctors after witnessing the ordeal and worrying about the pair's physical and mental injuries.
• Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong watched a censored projection and realized the punishment had triggered when Yu Xiaogang brought Tang San to obtain his first soul ring.

After Tang Hao brought the unconscious Tang San and Yu Xiaogang back to Notting Academy, a physician treated their injuries and explained that some damage would have to heal on its own. Yu Xiaogang paid for the treatment and learned that both of them should eat less while recovering.

• Tang Hao left Tang San and Yu Xiaogang with a physician, ordering him to treat them and keep quiet about how they had been found.
• The physician cleaned and treated the pair, and Tang San woke first, realizing that he had lost several teeth and that his body was not fully under his control.
• Tang San briefly considered killing Yu Xiaogang but decided he still needed his master's knowledge and that killing him would harm his reputation.
• Yu Xiaogang woke, guessed Tang Hao had brought them back, and wondered why Tang Hao had left them with the Gale Wolves.
• Yu Xiaogang paid the physician, who advised both men to train regularly and eat less during their recovery.

Zhu Zhuqing awakened her Netherworld Spirit Cat Martial Soul with Innate Full Soul Power after cultivating the incomplete Nine Yin Manual. Dai Yichen celebrated her success and reflected on his rising strength and new Soul Skill, Imperial White Tiger Wrath.

• Zhu Zhuqing awakened her Netherworld Spirit Cat Martial Soul, and Zhu Ming discovered she had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Zhu Zhuyun suspected Dai Yichen's cultivation method had helped Zhu Zhuqing, but she chose not to ask for it.
• Zhu Zhuqing hugged Dai Yichen and celebrated that she could now attend the academy with him.
• Dai Yichen reflected on reaching Soul Power Level Twenty-Three and gaining the five-thousand-year Soul Skill Imperial White Tiger Wrath.
• Zhu Ming playfully complained that Zhu Zhuqing was closer to Dai Yichen, so she hugged him too.

Zhu Ming took Zhu Zhuqing to the Royal Soul Hunting Forest to find a speed-focused first soul skill, while Dai Yichen encouraged her choice and protected her on the hunt. Zhu Zhuqing began absorbing the soul ring of a six-hundred-year Mottled Cat.

• Zhu Ming praised Zhu Zhuyun's rapid cultivation and prepared to take Zhu Zhuqing to obtain her first soul ring.
• Zhu Zhuqing said she wanted a soul skill devoted to speed, and Dai Yichen promised to protect her from anyone who tried to harm her.
• Zhu Ming led Dai Yichen, Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhu Zhuyun to the Royal Soul Hunting Forest to search for a suitable feline soul beast.
• Dai Yichen spotted a six-hundred-year Mottled Cat and used Tiger's Roar Flash to catch and badly wound it.
• Zhu Zhuqing killed the Mottled Cat and began absorbing its deep yellow soul ring.

After Zhu Zhuqing gained a speed-enhancing First Soul Skill and reached Soul Power Level fourteen, Dai Yichen returned with her, Zhu Zhuyun, and Zhu Ming. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Rongrong concealed how she learned Whale Rubber could strengthen the body, while Ning Fengzhi suspected the Star Luo Empire’s secret purchases were connected to her discovery.

• Zhu Zhuqing told Dai Yichen that her First Soul Skill, Netherworld Blink, doubled her speed, enhanced her senses, and that her Soul Power had risen to level fourteen.
• Dai Yichen asked Zhu Zhuqing to call him Brother, and her teasing made him flustered while Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Ming watched.
• Ning Fengzhi questioned Ning Rongrong about how she knew Whale Rubber could strengthen the body, and she claimed she had learned it from a dream.
• Ning Rongrong pretended to be hurt that her father and grandfathers doubted her, then ran to her room after they tried to reassure her.
• Ning Fengzhi told Chen Xin and Gu Rong that the Star Luo Empire had secretly acquired most of the continent’s high-year Whale Rubber, leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with only about five percent.

Ning Fengzhi and the elders discussed Ning Rongrong’s future and the growing threat posed by Dai Yichen, while Rongrong privately admitted her growing interest in him. In the Star Luo Empire, Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi reacted to Zhu Zhuqing’s talent, and Dugu Yan traveled with her grandfather, hoping to find a cure for their poison.

• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong agreed to reserve ancient Whale Rubber for Ning Rongrong and discussed finding her a suitable future husband.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed that Dugu Yan had left Heaven Dou Academy with Dai Yichen, and he rejected Gu Rong’s suggestion to assassinate them.
• Ning Rongrong recalled Dai Yichen and considered getting closer to him to obtain an immortal herb for her sect.
• Dai Mubai learned of Zhu Zhuqing’s talent and headed to the Imperial Study, hoping to restore her former image of him, while Dai Weisi summoned Zhu Zhuyun.
• Dugu Yan told her grandfather that someone in Star Luo City could cure their poison and challenged him over how long he had hidden his condition.

Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling persuaded Dugu Bo to investigate Dai Yichen and leave the Heaven Dou Empire’s influence. In the Star Luo Imperial Palace, Dai Yutian reprimanded Dai Mubai over his conduct and asked Dai Yichen whether he wanted Zhu Zhuqing as his fiancée.

• Dugu Bo explained that he had learned the truth about the Azure Phosphorus Serpent poison in himself and Dugu Yan, but doubted Dugu Yan’s dream because Dai Yichen had awakened his Martial Soul only a year earlier.
• Dugu Yan urged Dugu Bo to stop remaining tied to the Heaven Dou Empire and told him that Yu Tianheng’s attention toward her might be a ploy to secure Dugu Bo’s support for his clan’s succession struggle.
• Ye Lingling supported Dugu Yan’s suspicions, and Dugu Bo agreed to observe Dai Yichen from the shadows.
• Dai Mubai asked Dai Yutian to arrange his marriage to Zhu Zhuqing, but Dai Yutian scolded and kicked him for neglecting cultivation and pursuing pleasure instead.
• Dai Yichen arrived, and Dai Yutian’s anger turned to warmth as he asked whether Dai Yichen and Zhu Zhuqing wanted to become engaged.

Dai Yichen convinced Emperor Dai Yutian that he could create controllable Sub-Ability Locks to strengthen the empire’s forces, while Dai Mubai lost his chance to delay the elimination competition. Dai Yutian promised to support Yichen, and Yichen considered using the locks to build specialized legions and eventually enable powerful Martial Soul combinations.

• Dai Yutian scolded Dai Mubai for neglecting Zhu Zhuqing and declared that Dai Yichen and Zhu Zhuqing should be together.
• Dai Mubai argued that Dai Weisi’s greater strength made the competition unfair, and Dai Yutian kicked him again.
• Dai Yichen whispered to Dai Yutian that he could split off Sub-Ability Locks, which others could use but would leave them under his control.
• Dai Yutian realized the locks could help create powerful imperial legions and pledged to back Dai Yichen.
• Dai Yichen considered forming larger Martial Soul combinations and targeting the Speed Clan, while Dai Yutian dismissed the rules of the elimination competition.

On the first day of school, Dai Yichen was surprised when Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling transferred from Heaven Dou Royal Academy into his class. Dugu Yan explained that Dai Yichen had caught her attention, while he decided to seek royal support for Ye Lingling’s training.

• Zhu Zhuqing began her first year at the Low-Level Academy, while Dai Yichen skipped ahead to the sixth year.
• Dai Yichen recognized Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling when they introduced themselves as transfer students from Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• The homeroom teacher seated Dugu Yan beside Dai Yichen and Ye Lingling across the aisle from him.
• Dugu Yan told Dai Yichen she had heard of his talent and was curious about him, leading him to suspect the butterfly effect had changed events.
• Dai Yichen realized Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia martial soul could be immensely valuable and planned to ask his Father Emperor to provide her with the best resources.

Dai Yichen considered the Nine Heart Begonia’s weakness and decided to support Ye Lingling with more resources, while reflecting on how he judged and helped the women around him. He ended by recalling how Tang San labeled the Thousand Jun Ant Emperors evil after they occupied Da Ming and Er Ming’s former territory, giving himself an excuse to hunt them.

• Dai Yichen wondered whether the Nine Heart Begonia’s healing could justify its flaw and resolved to allocate more resources to Ye Lingling.
• Ye Lingling listened to class while wondering why Dai Yichen treated her so well, and Dai Yichen privately admitted that her beauty was one reason.
• Dai Yichen compared how different women responded to kindness and considered Dugu Yan’s arrival a sign that Dugu Bo might have come too.
• Dai Yichen reflected that he would help others only when he had the strength to protect himself and those he cared about.
• Dai Yichen recalled Tang San’s promise to Xiao Wu to hunt only evil soul beasts and mocked how Tang San defined suitable soul beasts as evil.
• Dai Yichen remembered Tang San condemning the three Thousand Jun Ant Emperors as evil after they occupied Da Ming and Er Ming’s former territory.

Dai Yichen described the Sea God’s hidden motives in having Tang San kill the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, whose wife, Demon Empress, might be even more powerful. Bo Saixi worried that Demon Empress remained unaccounted for, while the discussion turned to Xiao Wu and Ah Yin’s concern for other soul beasts.

• Dai Yichen argued that the Sea God had used the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King as a source of Tang San’s final soul ring rather than acting to protect sea soul beasts.
• Bibi Dong and Bo Saixi reacted to the revelation that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had a wife named Demon Empress, and Bo Saixi feared her unknown whereabouts and strength.
• Bo Saixi began to share Dai Yichen’s view that the Sea God had neglected the sea soul beasts who believed in him.
• Dai Yichen criticized Xiao Wu and Ah Yin for worrying about soul beasts beyond their own clans while powerful soul beasts also hunted their own kind.

Dai Yichen’s diary led Xiao Wu and Ah Yin to reconsider whether they were responsible for protecting all soul beasts, while Snow Empress explained that people should focus on themselves and their loved ones before taking on broader concerns. Xiao Wu and Ah Yin began changing their views, and Snow Empress reflected on what she had learned from Dai Yichen over the past year.

• Xiao Wu and Ah Yin read Dai Yichen’s thoughts and reconsidered their sympathy for soul beasts that might also see them as prey.
• Xiao Wu recalled how her parents had protected her, Da Ming, and Er Ming from powerful soul beasts when they were young.
• Dai Yichen wrote in his diary as Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling secretly read their copies, while Bibi Dong, Bo Saixi, and Liu Erlong understood his point about responsibility and status.
• Xiao Wu and Ah Yin gradually accepted that protecting their loved ones and clansmen mattered more than taking responsibility for every soul beast.
• In the Extremely Northern Land, Snow Empress told Ice Empress that those with limited ability should focus on themselves and their loved ones, while leaders such as Di Tian should consider the wider population.
• Snow Empress reflected that Dai Yichen’s diary had taught her many things despite bringing her few rewards over the past year.

Dai Yichen’s diary described how future soul masters would increasingly exploit soul beasts for pills and Dou Armor, threatening the soul beast race with extinction. The Ice Empress, Snow Empress, Ah Yin, Xiao Wu, and Three-Eyed Golden Lion wondered whether their future leaders could stop this fate, while the diary recounted Gu Yuena’s tragic love for Tang Wulin and the cost of her choices.

• Dai Yichen’s diary explained that future soul masters would use soul beasts for essence blood, fur, bones, and Soul Cores as their arts and equipment developed.
• The Ice Empress, Snow Empress, Ah Yin, and Xiao Wu were shocked by the prospect that soul beasts would be exploited beyond their Soul Rings and Soul Bones.
• The Zhu family sisters wondered how Dou Armor compared with Dai Yichen’s martial soul and whether soul masters could use Martial Soul Avatar while wearing it.
• The Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Three-Eyed Golden Lion wondered whether Di Tian or the Silver Dragon King could protect soul beasts from humanity’s future power.
• Dai Yichen’s diary said Gu Yuena fell in love with Tang Wulin, let him strike her with the Golden Dragon Spear, and died with him, leaving the soul beast race without its strongest protector.

Dai Yichen’s diary explained the unfair pressures on soul beasts, the Sun Moon Continent’s advanced Soul Tool technology, and how auspicious beasts helped soul beasts grow. The women learned that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings became common among strong figures ten thousand years later, while Bibi Dong left to search Spirit Hall’s archives for records of auspicious beasts.

• Dai Yichen explained that soul beasts faced increasingly difficult Heavenly Tribulations while ferocious beasts like Di Tian stayed isolated instead of investigating human development.
• Dai Yichen revealed that the Sun Moon Continent had developed Soul Tool technology, shocking Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue, who had believed Douluo Continent was the only continent.
• Dai Yichen said the Three-Eyed Golden Lion gathered the Star Dou Great Forest’s fortune, doubling soul beasts’ cultivation speed and helping explain the many Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts of the future.
• Dai Yichen discussed future methods of improving physical constitution, including Whale Rubber, and criticized Zhou Qi’s weighted running exercises at Shrek Academy.
• Bibi Dong went to search Spirit Hall’s ancient archives for records of auspicious beasts as the women wondered how future soul masters obtained multiple Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Dai Yichen revealed that Du Busi’s Body Martial Soul, Golden Second Awakening, and the Body Sect’s resources enabled him to possess three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.

Ning Rongrong considered developing a gravity training ground for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Dai Yichen reflected on Di Tian’s long guardianship of Gu Yuena and her eventual fate. The chapter left the proposed training technology as a difficult project and emphasized that Di Tian’s devotion had ultimately failed to save the Soul Beast race.

• Ice Empress asked Snow Empress whether the Extremely Northern Land could borrow the Star Dou Great Forest’s Auspicious Beast power, and Snow Empress admitted she did not know.
• Xiao Wu decided to seek an intermediate Soul Master Academy near Star Luo City so Dai Yichen might hear of her and let her join him.
• Ning Rongrong planned to tell her father and grandfather about creating a gravity training ground and supporting research into a Gravity Soul Tool.
• Dai Yichen considered how a Gravity Training Room could improve Soul Masters’ cultivation, but concluded that current Soul Tool technology lacked the necessary blueprints.
• Dai Yichen reflected that Di Tian had protected Gu Yuena for tens of thousands of years, only for her and Tang Wulin to die after their opposing roles in the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts.

Dai Yichen’s diary made the Auspicious Beast question whether soul beasts could overcome the Heavenly Tribulation and challenge the gods, but his account of the Tang Family’s dominance and the beast gods’ relationships left her disheartened. He ended by pointing out that she herself was love-struck, despite her criticism of others.

• Dai Yichen speculated that the Dragon God had created the soul beast Heavenly Tribulation, prompting the soul beasts to wonder whether they had been doomed to decline.
• The Auspicious Beast considered helping ferocious beasts become gods in human form, but recognized the risks and their likely reluctance.
• Dai Yichen described numerous beast gods in the future Divine Realm, but said they failed to change the lower realm’s tribulation system while Tang San’s family held power.
• The Auspicious Beast concluded that half of the future beast gods were love-struck and wondered whether Di Tian could lead the Soul Beast race better than Gu Yuena.
• Dai Yichen reminded the Auspicious Beast that Tang San had implanted Tang Wutong’s soul fragments in her and called her love-struck too.

Three-Eyed Golden Lion warned Di Tian that the Silver Dragon King's awakening alone would not save the soul beast race, since the Gods of the Upper Realm could intervene. Di Tian reconsidered his plans and looked toward the Lake of Life, while Three-Eyed Golden Lion remained unable to find a solution.

• Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked Di Tian when the Silver Dragon King would awaken, and he estimated she needed at least another ten thousand years to recover.
• Di Tian said he expected the Silver Dragon King to lead a successful counterattack against human soul masters once she regained her god-level strength.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion questioned whether the Gods of the Upper Realm would descend if the Silver Dragon King launched a counterattack.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion warned Di Tian that the soul beast race needed him to attain god-level strength and that the Gods might prevent his breakthrough even if he survived a million-year Heavenly Tribulation.
• Bi Ji healed Three-Eyed Golden Lion after she developed a headache, while Di Tian considered the Silver Dragon King's injuries and the need to travel across the continent.

Gu Yuena read Dai Yichen's diary while trapped in her Mental Space and learned that she would fall in love with Tang Wulin and die by his hand. She vowed not to repeat that future, then discovered that reading the diary could heal her hidden injuries.

• Xiao Wu worried that she had become Tang San's Asura Sword Sheath, while Ah Yin and the Ice and Snow Two Emperors considered their possible roles in the Soul Beast race and the God Creation Plan.
• Gu Yuena sensed a terrifying power in her Sea of Consciousness, where a black diary appeared and prevented her from moving or waking.
• Gu Yuena read the diary and became furious at the prospect of abandoning the Soul Beasts for Tang Wulin and letting him kill her.
• Gu Yuena reflected on her incomplete memories and noticed that the Auspicious Beast's Diary Copy seemed to have increased its Soul Power circulation.
• The system offered to heal part of Gu Yuena's hidden injuries if she continued reading the diary daily for a month.

Dai Yichen had dinner with Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing after Dugu Yan explained that she had transferred to Star Luo partly to avoid Yu Tianheng. The chapter left Dai Yichen planning to visit the Blacksmith Association while Dugu Bo went to meet the Star Luo Emperor.

• Dai Yichen accepted Dugu Yan's invitation to eat and picked up Zhu Zhuqing from the junior Soul Master Academy.
• Zhu Zhuqing questioned Dugu Yan about leaving Heaven Dou, and Dugu Yan said she had come to Star Luo after Yu Tianheng's unwanted advances and that Ye Lingling had accompanied her.
• Dai Yichen privately wondered whether Yu Tianheng had been a simp from the start and attributed Dugu Yan's transfer to the butterfly effect caused by him.
• Dugu Bo watched Dai Yichen and the three girls before agreeing to accompany an education committee member to the palace to meet the Star Luo Emperor.
• After the meal, Dai Yichen parted from the girls and decided to look into the Blacksmith Association.

Dai Yutian and Dai Yichen discussed Dugu Bo’s arrival and the possibility of recruiting him, while Dugu Bo secretly listened from the void. Dai Yichen then asked his father about Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia martial soul, leaving Dai Yutian unsure of its details.

• Dai Yichen saw Dugu Bo leaving the Imperial Study and entered to meet Dai Yutian.
• Dai Yutian explained his concerns about Dugu Bo’s arrival and concluded that Dugu Yan’s interest in Dai Yichen could help secure the elder’s loyalty.
• Dai Yutian and Dai Yichen shared an unspoken understanding that they should recruit Dugu Bo for the Star Luo Empire.
• Dugu Bo concealed himself in the void and eavesdropped as Dai Yutian and Dai Yichen exchanged cryptic looks and spoke indirectly.
• Dai Yichen asked about the Nine Heart Begonia martial soul, and Dai Yutian recalled only that it had a healing ability.