Chapter Summaries

Zhu Ziyang discovered that his World-Pacifying Death Scythe could wound Niu Tian because it had absorbed the Divine Artifact Scythe of the Dead, but Niu Tian countered with a Divine Artifact sword and his Slowness Domain. As Zhu Ziyang was driven back, Ma Xiaotao drew the God of Fire Sword at the cost of her arms, leaving the battle poised for her to intervene.

• Zhu Ziyang attacked Azure Sky Dragon with his eighth soul skill, but the dragon broke through the Styx River Shore and barely suffered damage.
• Zhu Ziyang wounded Azure Sky Dragon with the World-Pacifying Death Scythe and realized the Scythe of the Dead within it had made the strike effective.
• Niu Tian returned to human form, summoned an azure Divine Artifact sword, and used his Slowness Domain to isolate Zhu Ziyang from his companions.
• Niu Tian pressed Zhu Ziyang with sword and lightning attacks, forcing him to retreat while Ma Xiaotao struggled to move through the domain.
• Ma Xiaotao pulled the God of Fire Sword from its scabbard despite its divine flames burning her arms down to bone.
• Ma Xiaotao drew the sword, whose blade was red on one side and blue on the other, and Niu Tian regarded it with surprise and wariness.

Ma Xiaotao and Zhu Ziyang fought Niu Tian, and Zhu Ziyang killed him with the World-Pacifying Death Scythe. Niu Tian’s corpse transformed into an Azure Sky Dragon and produced a golden god-level Soul Ring, which Zhu Ziyang recognized as the Heavenly Frost White Dragon King’s Ninth Soul Ring.

• Ma Xiaotao attacked Niu Tian with the God of Fire Sword, piercing his abdomen and weakening him, while Zhu Ziyang’s Fifth Soul Skill dragged them both into the Life-Ending Execution Platform.
• Niu Tian discovered he could not use his Soul Power or Soul Rings inside the execution ground, but Zhu Ziyang pinned him with ice spikes and killed him with the World-Pacifying Death Scythe.
• Zhu Ziyang and Niu Tian’s corpse returned to the Douluo World, where Ma Xiaotao confirmed that the white flame had restored her severed arm.
• Niu Tian’s corpse transformed into its Azure Sky Dragon form, and a golden god-level Soul Ring emerged from it.
• Zhu Ziyang decided the golden Soul Ring would become the Heavenly Frost White Dragon King’s Ninth Soul Ring.

Zhu Ziyang explained that the Azure Sky Dragon was the revived Sky Azure Bull Python and revealed his theory that the Sea God sought to control who could become gods on Douluo Continent. After learning Mu En died because he refused the Sea God’s order to kill Zhu Ziyang, Ma Xiaotao and the others resolved to keep advancing toward godhood; Zhu Ziyang and Ma Xiaotao then continued north toward Anyang City.

• Zhu Ziyang examined the Azure Sky Dragon’s Divine Right Arm Bone and explained that Niu Tian had once been the Sky Azure Bull Python, revived as a divine beast by the Sea God.
• Ma Xiaotao, Qian Lingyi, and Jiang Nannan refused the Soul Bone, and Zhu Ziyang stored it after Fifth Huan'er also rejected it.
• Zhu Ziyang theorized that the Sea God wanted to control who became gods on Douluo Continent and urged the women to grow strong enough to oppose him.
• Zhu Ziyang revealed that Mu En’s soul was damaged because he refused the Sea God’s order to kill Zhu Ziyang, and Ma Xiaotao lost her remaining faith in the Sea God.
• Zhu Ziyang and Ma Xiaotao left the Holy Law Demigod Plane and resumed their journey north toward Anyang City as Zhu Ziyang’s Soul Power reached rank 97 and his Martial Soul gained three Soul Skills.

After completing the God of Fire's Eighth Trial, Zhu Ziyang brought Ma Xiaotao and the others home before returning to Shrek Academy with the tournament champions. The reunion turned to concern when Cai Meier revealed that Xuan Zi and the Tang Sect members had not returned.

• Ma Xiaotao and Fifth Huan'er received the rewards for completing the God of Fire's Eighth Trial, and Fifth Huan'er chose to wait for a Soul Spirit rather than absorb her God-bestowed Soul Ring.
• Zhu Ziyang returned to Beihe Village with Ma Xiaotao, Jiang Nannan, Qian Lingyi, and Fifth Huan'er, where Zhu Changhe and Liang Ying welcomed them to dinner.
• Liang Ying praised Zhu Ziyang after he told her his team had won the Soul Master Tournament, and he left for Shrek Academy early the next morning.
• Zhu Ziyang reunited with Cai Meier and Yan Shaozhe at Shrek Academy and summoned the tournament team before them.
• Cai Meier told Zhu Ziyang that Xuan Zi had not returned with Yuhao and the Tang Sect members, leaving the group worried about what had happened to them.
• A group appeared beneath the western evening clouds as Zhu Ziyang and the others worried about Xuan Zi's absence.

After the Tang Sect group returned with Xiao Xiao unconscious and dying, Zhu Ziyang learned from Electrolux that her soul had been taken, leaving her Life Force to drain away. He identified the Sea God as the likely culprit and urged Huo Yuhao to preserve Xiao Xiao’s body with Ultimate Ice while he investigated what had happened.

• Huo Yuhao begged Zhu Ziyang to save Xiao Xiao, whose Life Force was rapidly fading.
• Elder Zhuang examined Xiao Xiao and said she would die within a month, though he could only slow the loss of her Life Force.
• Electrolux told Zhu Ziyang that Xiao Xiao’s soul was missing, and Zhu Ziyang realized her condition resembled Soul Loss Syndrome despite her intact Martial Souls.
• Zhu Ziyang suspected the Sea God had abducted Xiao Xiao’s soul and began preparing for a divine war.
• Zhu Ziyang told Huo Yuhao to use Ultimate Ice to preserve Xiao Xiao’s body, then went to question Tang Ya and the others.

Zhu Ziyang learned how Xiao Xiao died during the God of Love’s Trial and suspected Sea God Tang San had manipulated the trial, but he believed Xiao Xiao might still be revived. He left to convene a Heavenly Origin Pavilion meeting while Huo Yuhao remained with Xiao Xiao.

• Zhu Ziyang told Wang Dong'er that Xiao Xiao’s fate was uncertain, and Tang Ya and Beibei sent the exhausted Tang Sect members away to rest.
• Beibei explained that a black-robed stranger drove the group into the Valley of Questions of Love, where Xiao Xiao died during the second stage of the God of Love’s Trial.
• Wang Dong'er said she and Xiao Xiao had both chosen to sacrifice themselves for Huo Yuhao, but Xiao Xiao died while she survived.
• Zhu Ziyang suspected Sea God Tang San had interfered with the trial and that the God of Love’s remaining power had disrupted his scheme.
• Zhu Ziyang told Beibei Xiao Xiao might be revived if Huo Yuhao became a god, then left with Jiang Nannan to convene a Heavenly Origin Pavilion meeting.

At the Heavenly Origin Pavilion, Zhu Ziyang urged Huo Yuhao to become a god to save Xiao Xiao and received a strand of Sea God's Divine Power from Mu En. In the God Realm, Sea God revealed that he held Xiao Xiao's soul and planned to pair Huo Yuhao with Xiao Qi, while God of Fire and Water God discussed Ma Xiaotao and their hope of escaping the God Realm.

• Zhu Ziyang confirmed that a god in the Valley of Questions of Love had either abducted Xiao Xiao's soul or that it had shattered, and he told Huo Yuhao that becoming a god was his only way to save her.
• Huo Yuhao resolved to cultivate toward godhood, and Zhu Ziyang advised him to reflect on his teacher's last words and promised to take him somewhere in a few days.
• Mu En appeared as a soul within the Golden Ancient Tree and gave Zhu Ziyang a jade stone containing the last strand of Sea God's Divine Power.
• Sea God reviewed his failed plans, revealed Xiao Xiao's soul in his possession, and said he had chosen Xiao Qi's future lover.
• God of Fire complained to Water God about Ma Xiaotao's ordeals, and Water God reassured him that Ma Xiaotao might soon complete her final trial.

Fifth Huan'er revealed to Zhu Ziyang that she was the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, but he told her he had known all along and agreed to seek a peaceful soul-spirit arrangement with the Star Dou Great Forest. The next day, they formed a soul spirit contract with the Crimson Gold Flame Lion King before Beast God Ditian and other Ferocious Beasts appeared to confront Zhu Ziyang.

• Fifth Huan'er confessed that she was the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and the Auspicious Beast of the Star Dou Great Forest, and Zhu Ziyang revealed that he had already recognized her.
• Fifth Huan'er asked Zhu Ziyang not to hurt Ditian or Bi Ji and urged him to discuss creating a soul spirit system with the soul beasts; he agreed to negotiate.
• Zhu Ziyang and Fifth Huan'er entered the Star Dou Great Forest the next morning and followed her to the Crimson Gold Flame Lion King.
• Fifth Huan'er told the Crimson Gold Flame Lion King about soul spirits, and it agreed to become one; Zhu Ziyang formed a Soul Spirit Contract between them.
• Ditian and the other Ferocious Beasts appeared around Fifth Huan'er, and Ditian confronted Zhu Ziyang, who introduced himself as Jing Tian Douluo and Shrek Academy's new Heavenly Origin Pavilion Master.

Zhu Ziyang confronted Di Tian and demonstrated that his Ultimate Light could match Di Tian’s Ultimate Darkness. Their battle paused when Fifth Huan'er woke and revealed that Zhu Ziyang had found a way to resolve the conflict between Soul Beasts and Soul Masters, though Di Tian remained skeptical.

• Di Tian demanded that Zhu Ziyang leave the Star Dou Great Forest, but Zhu Ziyang refused and challenged him.
• Zhu Ziyang and Di Tian exchanged blows, each matching the other's elemental power and leaving a vast area drained of light and darkness.
• Di Tian invited Zhu Ziyang to continue their fight in the sky, and Zhu Ziyang accepted.
• Fifth Huan'er awoke from the Soul Spirit Contract and stopped the two from fighting.
• Fifth Huan'er refused Di Tian's order to return and said Zhu Ziyang had found a way to resolve the conflict between Soul Beasts and Soul Masters.

Zhu Ziyang demonstrated that Fifth Huan'er could summon the Crimson Gold Flame Lion King as a Soul Spirit, then explained how Soul Spirits could reduce Soul Beasts’ deaths and might become gods. Di Tian demanded proof, and Zhu Ziyang revealed Ultimate Ice, an Ice Dragon King bloodline, and seven red and two gold Soul Rings, leaving Di Tian shocked and wary.

• Fifth Huan'er summoned the Crimson Gold Flame Lion King from her Soul Ring, and it explained to Bi Ji that it had become a Soul Spirit with its self-awareness and strength intact.
• Di Tian examined the Crimson Gold Flame Lion King and asked Zhu Ziyang whether Soul Spirits could replace Soul Rings; Zhu Ziyang said they could not but could reduce Soul Masters’ need to kill Soul Beasts.
• Zhu Ziyang explained that one Soul Spirit could provide up to three Soul Rings and claimed Soul Spirits could become gods if their Soul Master ascended.
• Di Tian demanded proof that Soul Spirits could provide multiple Soul Rings and become gods.
• Zhu Ziyang released Ultimate Ice and an Ice Dragon King aura, then revealed seven red and two gold Soul Rings, shocking the Ferocious Beasts and unsettling Di Tian.

Zhu Ziyang demonstrated to Di Tian that Snow Empress had become a Soul Spirit and showed him his Godhood aura as evidence that Soul Spirits could offer Soul Beasts a path forward. Di Tian and Zhu Ziyang reached an initial agreement to promote the Soul Spirit System, with both sides making limited commitments to protect Soul Beasts.

• Zhu Ziyang summoned Snow Empress, and she confirmed that he had shown her hope of ascending to godhood.
• Zhu Ziyang explained how Soul Spirits could provide Soul Rings and revealed his Godhood aura to convince Di Tian of their potential.
• Di Tian agreed that Soul Spirits could benefit Soul Beasts but demanded a guarantee that humans would stop hunting them once the system was established.
• Zhu Ziyang said he could not control all humanity, and the two argued over how much protection he could promise.
• Di Tian compromised, agreeing to gather Douluo Continent's Soul Beasts for cooperation and spare Shrek Academy members who did not provoke them in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhu Ziyang promised to advance the Soul Spirit System and discourage wanton hunting, and he and Di Tian struck hands three times to establish their cooperation.

Zhu Ziyang revealed to Huo Yuhao that the Sea God had attacked Xiao Xiao to stop him from becoming a god, then brought him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Huo Yuhao began the Beautiful Silk Tulip’s test for Tang San’s book while Zhu Ziyang gathered medicinal herbs.

• Zhu Ziyang returned to Shrek Academy without Fifth Huan'er, who stayed in the Star Dou Great Forest as a liaison with the soul beasts.
• Zhu Ziyang met the haggard Huo Yuhao and confirmed his suspicion that the Sea God had attacked Xiao Xiao because Huo Yuhao was creating a god.
• Huo Yuhao vowed to become a god and enter the God Realm to rescue Xiao Xiao, and Zhu Ziyang promised they would fight side by side.
• Zhu Ziyang took Huo Yuhao to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest and introduced him to the Beautiful Silk Tulip as a Tang Sect successor.
• Huo Yuhao exchanged the proper code with the Beautiful Silk Tulip and began its test for Tang San’s book while Zhu Ziyang collected medicinal herbs.

Zhu Ziyang took the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record from Huo Yuhao and recognized that Sea God Tang San had attached a Spirit Word to influence him. After returning to the academy, Zhu Ziyang began refining an Origin Core Golden Pill and rested after completing the long process, leaving the pill uninspected.

• Zhu Ziyang realized the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record carried Sea God Tang San's Spirit Word, while Huo Yuhao said he hated the book and let Zhu Ziyang keep it.
• Zhu Ziyang forced Beautiful Silk Tulip to leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and placed her in a jade box for safekeeping.
• Huo Yuhao chose seven immortal herbs for others but none for Wang Dong'er, then accepted her Mysterious Ice Bed for Xiao Xiao while keeping his distance from her.
• Wang Dong'er lamented that Huo Yuhao had closed his heart to her, and Zhu Ziyang encouraged her to cultivate so she could help him face the gods.
• Zhu Ziyang used a Level 9 Soul Tool pill furnace to refine an Origin Core Golden Pill from eighty-one medicinal ingredients over nearly a week, then meditated to recover without checking the result.

Zhu Ziyang swallowed an Origin Core Golden Pill and began a dangerous, all-out effort to refine its overwhelming power. Meanwhile, Zhang Lexuan consolidated the Moon Vein faction’s rule over the Sun Moon Empire as rebellions continued and neighboring empires prepared for war.

• Zhu Ziyang recovered, removed nine Origin Core Golden Pills from the furnace, and stored eight of them in his Starflame Ring.
• Zhu Ziyang swallowed one pill, whose violent medicinal power made his body swell, and summoned both Martial Souls to refine it completely.
• Three months after the Mingdu Incident, Zhang Lexuan led a meeting with her allies to plan the suppression of the Sun Moon Empire’s rebellions within half a year.
• Kong Deming’s new Rank 10 Soul Engineer status gave him standing to negotiate with Shrek Academy, while a powerful woman in a black dress remained Zhang Lexuan’s protector.
• The Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire watched the Sun Moon Empire’s turmoil and prepared for war as a continent-wide storm began to gather.

After advancing to Rank 99 with an Origin Core Golden Pill, Zhu Ziyang completed the God of Death’s Ninth Trial and met the God of Death in the inheritance palace. The God of Death delayed the inheritance to chat, then sent Zhu Ziyang back to the Heavenly Origin Pavilion, where he realized he had spent a year cultivating.

• Zhu Ziyang used an Origin Core Golden Pill to rise from Rank 97 to Rank 99 and completed the God of Death’s Ninth Trial.
• Zhu Ziyang climbed to the hundredth step, collected the final two God-Locking Pillars, and entered the God of Death’s Palace.
• The God of Death revealed that Xiaobai was a divided part of his consciousness and asked Zhu Ziyang to call him Xiaobai.
• Xiaobai postponed the inheritance, asked Zhu Ziyang to keep him company, and promised to answer his questions about the God Realm.
• Xiaobai sent Zhu Ziyang back to the Heavenly Origin Pavilion, where Zhu Ziyang discovered that a year had passed during his cultivation.

After emerging from seclusion, Zhu Ziyang learned that Zhang Lexuan had become empress and given birth to his twins, and he caught up on events involving his friends and the academy. He rushed to the Sun Moon Empire to see his family, but froze at the sight of Zhang Lexuan, Jiang Nannan, and the babies together.

• Zhu Ziyang emerged from seclusion and learned from Qian Duoduo that Zhang Lexuan had given birth to their twins three or four months earlier.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo told Zhu Ziyang that Zhang Lexuan had taken the Sun Moon Empire's throne with support from Quan'er, Kong Deming, and Ju Zi.
• Zhu Ziyang heard that Jiang Nannan had left to find Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao had resumed seclusion, and Qian Lingyi had departed to travel and train.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that Wang Dong'er had taken Xiao Xiao from the Golden Ancient Tree and that Huo Yuhao had left to seek a way to become a god and bring Xiao Xiao back.
• Zhu Ziyang proposed creating a Soul Spirit system with Di Tian, gave Yan Shaozhe Origin Core Golden Pills for the academy's leaders, and hurried to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Zhu Ziyang arrived at the imperial palace and saw Zhang Lexuan, Jiang Nannan, and the twins, leaving him flustered about how to approach them.

After emerging from seclusion, Zhu Ziyang reunited with Zhang Lexuan and met their newborn twins, then spent two months caring for them and helping Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Nannan advance their cultivation. He left Mingdu and headed into the Star Dou Great Forest to confirm whether his cooperation with Di Tian still stood.

• Liang Ying welcomed Zhu Ziyang and urged him to treat Zhang Lexuan well before he reunited with Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Nannan.
• Zhu Ziyang learned that Zhang Lexuan had given birth to a son and a daughter, whose pet names were Huanghuang and Jingjing, and promised to name them.
• Zhu Ziyang stayed in Mingdu for nearly two months, named the twins Zhu Yuhuang and Zhu Yuyue, and gave Origin Core Golden Pill medicinal liquid to Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Nannan.
• Zhang Lexuan, already at Rank 97 after completing the Eight Lunar Trials, began slowly absorbing the medicinal liquid, while Jiang Nannan entered seclusion after reaching Rank 92.
• Zhu Ziyang left Liang Ying five bottles of diluted medicinal liquid, then departed Mingdu and flew north from Shrek City into the Star Dou Great Forest to meet Di Tian.

Zhu Ziyang reached Rank 99, agreed with Di Tian to begin the first human–Soul Beast cooperation in three days, and returned to Shrek Academy with Fifth Huan'er. He introduced the Soul Spirit System to the selected Inner Court disciples, who agreed to take part in its first construction.

• Zhu Ziyang met Di Tian and Bi Ji at the Lake of Life and agreed to hold the first Soul Spirit System construction at the northern outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest in three days.
• Zhu Ziyang took Fifth Huan'er back to Shrek Academy after Di Tian allowed her to leave with him.
• Zhu Ziyang learned that more than a dozen Inner Court disciples with vacant Soul Ring slots were ready to participate.
• Zhu Ziyang summoned the Snow Empress and explained Soul Spirits and the upcoming construction to the disciples.
• The selected disciples chose to remain and take part in obtaining their own Soul Spirits.

Zhu Ziyang brought Shrek Academy disciples to meet Di Tian and the Soul Beast Clan, beginning the cooperation to establish the Soul Spirit System. As the disciples approached the gathered Soul Beasts to choose partners, Huo Yuhao also gained hope that Zhu Ziyang would help him seek answers from the Clear Sky Sect.

• Huo Yuhao told Zhu Ziyang he felt powerless to find Xiao Xiao or take revenge, and Zhu Ziyang promised to bring him to the Clear Sky Sect after handling the Soul Spirit System.
• Zhu Ziyang, Cai Meier, Elder Lin, and thirteen Inner Court disciples met Di Tian, Bi Ji, and the Soul Beast representatives at the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhu Ziyang appointed Elder Lin to oversee the Soul Spirit System for Shrek Academy, while Bi Ji took charge of the Soul Beast Clan's affairs.
• Zhu Ziyang introduced the thirteen disciples, and Bi Ji presented thirty-five Soul Beasts, including seventeen with over ten thousand years of cultivation.
• The thirteen disciples approached the Soul Beasts to choose potential partners for Soul Spirit Contracts.

Shrek Academy and Star Dou Great Forest completed their first Soul Spirit cooperation, with nine Inner Court disciples contracting Soul Spirits and four receiving suitable matches after Di Tian returned with more Soul Beasts. The two sides then formed an organization to oversee the system, which Zhu Ziyang named the Eternal Spirit Pagoda in honor of Electrolux.

• Beibei, Xu Sanshi, Tang Ya, and Ning Tian gained Soul Spirits, and Xu Sanshi's Golden Hawksbill Turtle became a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast after Zhu Ziyang removed the Gold of Life it had swallowed.
• When four disciples lacked suitable Soul Beasts, Zhu Ziyang told Di Tian that multiple gods were watching Huo Yuhao, prompting Di Tian to return with three matching Soul Beasts and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Three-Eyed Demonic Fox for Huo Yuhao.
• Zhu Ziyang contracted the three returning Inner Court disciples with Soul Spirits, then completed Huo Yuhao's contract with the Three-Eyed Demonic Fox, leaving Huo Yuhao stunned.
• After the cooperation succeeded, Shrek Academy and Star Dou Great Forest established an organization to manage the Soul Spirit System, and Zhu Ziyang named it the Eternal Spirit Pagoda to honor Electrolux.