Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao received the Sea God Trial and sought Chen Ming’s help while Chen Ming traveled to Reincarnation Continent to confront the Sea Soul Beast invasion. Chen Ming intervened when the Demon Empress and Evil Emperor threatened Du Busi, and the chapter ended with him restraining the Evil Emperor.

• Huo Yuhao created a long-lasting clone for the Genius Battle, then received a Sea God Trial requiring him to complete other deities’ trials and urgently contacted Chen Ming for help.
• Chen Ming arrived at Reincarnation Continent, saw Sea Soul Beasts attacking alongside former enemies of its inhabitants, and learned that the Demon Empress was seeking to seize the Sea God’s followers.
• Chen Ming reached Vast Sea Island, where Du Busi was fighting the Demon Empress, and recognized that she had fused with the damaged Rakshasa God divine position.
• The Evil Emperor attacked Du Busi, but Chen Ming blocked the strike with the God Suppressing Stele and fought the Evil Emperor using his Soul Binding Lock.
• The Evil Emperor recognized Chen Ming’s Soul Binding Lock and tried to break free, while Chen Ming’s chains filled the surrounding space and dragged him back.

Chen Ming defeated Demon Empress and persuaded Evil Emperor to accept the Soul Spirit Path, while revealing his ability to resurrect through his soul bones. After absorbing Demon Empress’s power and explaining the system to Evil Emperor, Chen Ming watched the Reincarnation Empire’s forces dominate the battle against the Sea Soul Beasts.

• Chen Ming restrained Evil Emperor with the Soul Binding Locks, defeated his attempt to break free, and persuaded him to surrender and learn about the Soul Spirit Path.
• Chen Ming stopped Demon Empress from fleeing and joined Du Busi in attacking her, while Evil Emperor stayed out of the fight.
• Demon Empress detonated the Rakshasa God’s damaged divine position and self-destructed, severely injuring Du Busi and seemingly killing Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming resurrected through his soul bones, absorbed Demon Empress’s soul ring and power, and formed a Left Leg Bone with the compression attribute.
• Chen Ming explained the Soul Spirit Path to Evil Emperor as the Reincarnation Empire’s army overwhelmed the Sea Soul Beasts, and Evil Emperor began the sacrifice.

After absorbing Evil Emperor’s sacrifice, Chen Ming sought out the God of Destruction to challenge Tang San’s attempt to pass the Sea God position to Huo Yuhao. The God of Destruction confronted Tang San, then urged Chen Ming to enter the God Realm; Chen Ming refused, and the God of Life asked him to hand over the Rakshasa God’s divine position.

• Evil Emperor sacrificed himself to become Chen Ming’s Soul Spirit, retaining Destruction Light and Light of Spacetime, while Chen Ming returned to Vast Sea Island to digest his power and Demon Empress’s.
• After the Sea Soul Beast hunt ended, Chen Ming forced the God of Emotions’ assessment mark to appear and asked Rong Nianbing to contact the God of Destruction.
• The God of Destruction and the God of Life bestowed assessments on Huo Yuhao, then appeared with Chen Ming, who asked what they thought of Tang San passing down the Sea God position.
• The God of Destruction accused Tang San of forcing an unsuitable inheritance on Huo Yuhao, and Tang San defended his choice by citing Huo Yuhao’s training and Spiritual Power.
• The God of Destruction offered to withdraw the Sea God trial and compensate Huo Yuhao with three yellow-level assessments, then urged Chen Ming to come to the God Realm.
• Chen Ming refused to enter the God Realm, and the God of Life asked him to give the Rakshasa God’s divine position to her and the God of Destruction.

Chen Ming rejected the God of Life’s demand for the Rakshasa God Position, while Tang San persuaded the God of Destruction that Chen Ming was a threat to the God Realm. Chen Ming sealed Huo Yuhao’s trials and advanced his time soul ring to a million years as the Genius Battle finalists emerged, leaving Xu Tianran and Ju Zi preparing for the finals with their Soul Tools deployed.

• Chen Ming ignored the God of Life, and the God of Destruction ended his projection without answering her.
• Tang San accused Chen Ming of plotting against the God Realm, prompting the God of Destruction to order the Time Mist cleared and Douluo Star’s connection restored.
• Chen Ming sealed Huo Yuhao’s altered trials, and Huo Yuhao accepted Electrolux’s final inheritance.
• Chen Ming devoured the Time Mist for three months and raised his time soul ring to a million years.
• The Genius Battle finalists emerged: Huo Yuhao and Long Aotian in the youth division, Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao in the young adult division, and Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao in the peak division.
• Xu Tianran asked Ju Zi about the approaching finals, and she confirmed that their Soul Tools had been deployed.

Chen Ming watched the Genius Battle finals, received a fragmentary God Position from Di Tian, and announced who could gain Reincarnation. The chapter ended with him confronting a critic who demanded that he reveal the method.

• Xu Tianran resolved to gather the Sun Moon Empire's strength to attack Heaven Dou City, kill Chen Ming, and seize the art of Reincarnation, while Di Tian brought the Silver Dragon King's gift to Heaven Dou City.
• Chen Ming accepted a fragmentary God Position of the God of Time from Di Tian and merged it into the Reincarnation Disk.
• Long Aotian defeated Huo Yuhao after entering a Platinum Rank Second Awakening, and Zhang Lexuan defeated Ma Xiaotao; Long Xiaoyao then forfeited his final against Ye Xishui.
• Chen Ming announced that Genius Battle champions could preserve their souls in the Reincarnation Tower and that believers in him would retain whole souls and be human in their next lives.
• When someone asked why Chen Ming did not reveal the method of Reincarnation, Chen Ming fixed his gaze on the speaker and asked whether they could bear the consequences.

Chen Ming revealed that reincarnation required a divine position, prompting Kong Deming to order a coordinated attack to destroy the Reincarnation Empire. Chen Ming survived the first strike by rebuilding himself through his six Soul Bones and began to overpower the Sun Moon Empire’s assault.

• Chen Ming told Kong Deming that only someone with a divine position could reincarnate at will, and mocked him for being unable to condense one.
• Kong Deming declared that the Reincarnation Empire had to be destroyed and unleashed over a hundred Eighth-Rank Soul Engineers and fifteen Ninth-Rank Soul Engineers against Chen Ming.
• The combined Soul Tool strike apparently killed Chen Ming, leaving five Soul Bones behind, but a sixth Soul Bone formed and the six fused into armor.
• Chen Ming’s soul phantom and Blue Silver Grass recreated his flesh and blood from the Soul Bones as Kong Deming prepared another attack.
• Kong Deming fired a second Silver Moon Divine Light Wave, which Chen Ming absorbed and compressed into his Right Leg Bone.
• Chen Ming stepped forward with nine red soul rings and declared his title to be Reincarnation.

Chen Ming annihilated Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Empire's elite soul engineers, then led the Reincarnation Empire's army to the brink of conquering Mingdu. As Xu Tianran revealed the God of Destruction's mark, Chen Ming suppressed him and began extracting the divine trial.

• Chen Ming absorbed Kong Deming's Silver Moon Divine Light Wave, shattered his defenses, and killed him before wiping out the attacking soul engineers.
• Chen Ming ordered the Reincarnation Empire to march against the Sun Moon Empire, then cultivated in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes and raised his first and third soul rings to a million years.
• The Reincarnation Army advanced to Mingdu while Chen Ming cultivated for three months, leaving the Sun Moon Empire weakened after its elite soul engineers were killed.
• Chen Ming led the army to Mingdu, where Xu Tianran ordered the city defenses to fire, but the remaining ninth-rank soul engineers refused and urged him to surrender.
• Xu Tianran revealed his Titled Douluo strength and the God of Destruction's mark, but Chen Ming suppressed him with the God Suppressing Stele and began extracting the trial.

After defeating Xu Tianran and uniting the continent under the Reincarnation Empire, Chen Ming accelerated his cultivation while racing against the clearing Time Mist. As Douluo Star’s origin began to surge, he announced the next Soul Master Competition and saw evidence of the empire’s growing pool of young talent.

• Chen Ming stripped Xu Tianran of the God of Destruction’s trial and his Destruction Attribute, killing him and ending the war with the Sun Moon Empire’s defeat.
• Chen Ming established the Reincarnation Empire, instituted free martial soul awakenings and talent protections, and gathered faith and destiny through its new systems.
• Chen Ming raised his Destiny Soul Ring to one million years, then raised his second soul ring and Primal Water to one million years as his Soul Power reached Rank 97.
• Chen Ming assessed that the accelerating clearance of the Time Mist left him about three years to complete his soul rings and condense a Reincarnation God Position.
• Chen Ming sensed Douluo Star’s origin nearing a transformation and announced that the Soul Master Competition would be held in ten months.
• Chen Ming reviewed the competition’s open team searches and discovered many young Soul Emperors, including Tie Li, whose cultivation had risen from Soul Ancestor to Soul Emperor in two years.

Chen Ming discovered that Universe Asking Love Valley contained a world that could become the foundation of his reincarnation system. As he began transforming it, the God of Space assigned him a trial to establish that system and offered Space Origin as the reward.

• Chen Ming revised the Soul Master Competition rules to protect the top teams from meeting too early.
• Chen Ming linked his Destiny Soul Ring with the Soul Suppressing Stele and devised a plan for his Soul Rings to nurture, suppress, and govern a world.
• Chen Ming entered Universe Asking Love Valley, suppressed its attacks with the God Suppressing Stele, and studied its half-real, half-illusory world.
• Chen Ming decided to turn the Universe World into a place of Reincarnation that would receive the dead, judge their deeds, erase most memories, and send souls to rebirth.
• Chen Ming received the God of Space's fourth trial: transform the Universe World and establish a reincarnation system in exchange for Space Origin.

Chen Ming transformed the Universe World with his powers and the Douluo Plane’s destiny, then prepared to establish Reincarnation across the plane. He traveled to the New Continent to explore its opportunities and discovered that it was especially suited to plant life.

• The God of Space decided to continue backing Chen Ming and considered arranging an assessment for the Auspicious Beast using the Dragon God's legacy.
• Chen Ming erased the Nine-Colored Goddess's power from the Universe World and infused it with his Soul Rings, the Karma Reincarnation Mirror, and the laws of Yin and Yang, life and death, and destiny.
• The Douluo Plane poured destiny into the Universe World, and Chen Ming spent six months transforming it while both his Body Martial Soul and Reincarnation Disk Martial Soul reached rank ninety-eight.
• Chen Ming planned to establish Reincarnation across the Douluo Plane after the Soul Master Competition and set out for the New Continent.
• Chen Ming surveyed the New Continent and found abundant rare medicinal herbs and an environment uniquely suited to plant growth.

Chen Ming discovered that the New Continent concealed the Heaven and Earth Limitless Realm, where he comprehended the evolution of heaven and earth and greatly advanced his Reincarnation Disk. After leaving the realm to prepare for the Soul Master Competition in Mingdu, he left Du Busi to handle affairs, including news that Gu Yuena had entered Dragon Valley.

• Chen Ming surveyed the New Continent, found its resources and unusual regions, and eventually recognized that its landscape formed the Heaven and Earth Limitless Realm.
• Chen Ming entered the realm's state of shifting heaven and earth and spent three months immersed in its evolution, gaining insights that inspired his heaven-bestowed soul rings.
• Du Busi received news that Gu Yuena had entered Dragon Valley, could not reach Chen Ming, and ordered the soul masters there not to interfere.
• Du Busi focused the Reincarnation Hall on preparing for the approaching Soul Master Competition while Chen Ming remained in seclusion.
• Chen Ming confirmed that the Heaven and Earth Limitless Realm remained stable, sealed off the area, and left to condense a Reincarnation Soul Ring before the competition.
• Chen Ming arrived in Mingdu, where the city lord struggled to showcase soul tools as Chen Ming had ordered.

The Lord of Mingdu and Xuan Ziwen prepared to promote Soul Tools alongside the Soul Master Competition, developing Soul Guiding Armor as a bridge between Soul Tools and Soul Bone Armor. Chen Ming opened the largest Soul Master Competition in Douluo Continent’s history, where hundreds of teams gathered for a massive melee format and the arena showcased major advances in Soul Guidance technology.

• The Lord of Mingdu interpreted Chen Ming’s priorities as civilian Soul Tool development and planned citywide displays and a joint Soul Engineer Competition.
• Xuan Ziwen’s team, unable to complete Soul Tool and soul bone fusion in time, chose to build Soul Guiding Armor for their competition team.
• Chen Ming announced the Soul Master Competition in Mingdu, which drew seven hundred teams, including hundreds of grassroots teams.
• The organizers introduced three rounds of seventy-person melees, with the top 160 teams advancing.
• Chen Ming raised nine enormous arenas, while Soul Guidance platforms and screens provided views of the matches and set a flight limit.

Chen Ming used the Soul Master and Soul Engineer Competitions to promote Soul Guiding Armor, then harnessed the resulting destiny and faith to form his Reincarnation Soul Ring and ascend toward godhood. After announcing a unified Genius Battle, he discovered that the Time Mist was dissipating faster than expected and might last less than three years.

• Chen Ming announced that future Soul Master Competitions would include Soul Engineer Competitions and allowed contestants to use any Soul Tools they created there.
• The Research Institute team, led by Xuan Ziwen and wearing Soul Bone Armor, impressed spectators with its power, while Chen Dong told Xuan Ziwen about Heavenly Jewel Change's Consolidated Equipment ability.
• The Soul Master and Soul Engineer Competitions concluded after a month, and Chen Ming used the gathered destiny and faith to form a 100,000-year Reincarnation Soul Ring as he ascended toward godhood.
• Chen Ming announced that the next Genius Battle would bring contestants from both continents to Reincarnation City and be broadcast through Soul Tools.
• Chen Ming entered the space between layers and found that the Time Mist was thinning so quickly that it might not last three years.

Chen Ming prepared the Universe World and planned the Genius Battle as a way to gather fortune and help Douluo Continent break through to the god level. As the God Realm grew wary of his power of reincarnation, the tournament drew six Titled Douluo, ending with the newly announced Taotie Douluo.

• Chen Ming postponed completing reincarnation, inspected the still-unstable Universe World, and fused his six soul rings with its laws.
• God of Destruction and Tang San learned of Chen Ming's spread of reincarnation faith and feared he could keep reviving and eventually threaten a God King.
• Chen Ming announced he would enter the Genius Battle's peak division and then prepared to enter the Heaven and Earth Limitless Realm.
• The Reincarnation Hall promised live broadcasts, and public acceptance of Soul Tools grew as they were presented as aids for showing and supporting battles.
• Du Busi, Mu En, Long Xiaoyao, and the suspected Ye Xishui announced they would compete in the peak division.
• A sixth Titled Douluo registered for the Genius Battle under the name Taotie Douluo.

Chen Ming studied the origins of planes in the Heaven and Earth Limitless Realm while the Genius Battle advanced and powerful figures, including Di Tian and Gu Yuena, entered. The God Realm’s leaders realized the contest could help Douluo Star become a god-level plane and break free of their control, leaving the God of Destruction furious and unable to intervene directly.

• Xuan Zi revealed that he had become Taotie Douluo, and Di Tian and Gu Yuena joined the Genius Battle alongside several other Titled Douluo.
• Chen Ming entered the Heaven and Earth Limitless Realm to study how to establish a small world, but his two phantom soul rings faded before forming.
• After four months in the realm, Chen Ming returned as the Genius Battle’s regional selections neared completion and resumed testing the Universe World’s integration with Douluo Star.
• The God Realm Committee learned that Douluo Star’s fortune and resistance to their control were growing, and the God of Destruction concluded the Genius Battle could trigger its transformation into a god-level plane.
• The God of Destruction demanded that the Genius Battle be stopped, but the God Realm’s leaders could not intervene directly, and Tang San recognized that Douluo Star might soon break free.

Tang San saw Douluo Star’s separation from the God Realm as a chance to claim it, while the God of Destruction and others feared the consequences for their advancement. Chen Ming expanded his Universe World’s reincarnation system and returned to review the Genius Battle, where the top contenders had emerged.

• Tang San considered taking control of Douluo Star if Chen Ming freed it from the God Realm, while the God of Destruction warned Rong Nianbing and Zhou Weiqing that losing the star could block their path to God King positions.
• Rong Nianbing and Zhou Weiqing urged the God of Destruction to disperse the Time Mist first, then reclaim Douluo Star if it advanced; he accepted that its separation was inevitable.
• Chen Ming used the Soul Nurturing Coffin and Universe World to collect souls from Douluo Star, sort them, and begin reincarnation, while also gathering outside souls as nourishment.
• Chen Ming returned to Reincarnation City during the Genius Battle quarterfinals and reviewed the youth and young adult divisions, noting the resource-backed Soul Sage contestants and the dominance of Huo Yuhao, Long Aotian, and their peers.
• Chen Ming found that the peak division’s top eight consisted of himself, Du Busi, Mu En, Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, Xuan Zi, Di Tian, and Gu Yuena.

Chen Ming announced that he had established the Netherworld and completed reincarnation, causing Douluo Star to break free from the universe and the God Realm and become a god-level planet. He then declared that the Peak Group would compete first to help produce god-level soul masters, but Mu En proposed that Chen Ming be declared champion without a contest.

• Chen Ming examined the Peak Group contestants, noting Ye Xishui's completed second Martial Soul cultivation and Xuan Zi's awakened Taotie Bloodline, then inspected the thinning Time Mist and resolved to absorb its remaining power.
• Chen Ming announced that the Netherworld had merged with Douluo Star and would receive the dead, preserve their souls, and send them into reincarnation with their memories erased.
• Chen Ming established the Reincarnation system, and the faith it inspired helped Douluo Star break free from the universe's suppression and the God Realm's control.
• In the God Realm, Zhou Weiqing and Rong Nianbing reported the severed connection to Douluo Star, while the God of Destruction and the God of Life fused to cleanse the Time Mist using the God Realm Central Hub.
• Chen Ming declared Douluo Star a god-level planet where soul masters could surpass level one hundred without inheriting a god position, and said the Peak Group matches would begin first.
• Mu En stepped forward and told Chen Ming that the contestants would not contend for the championship because the gap between them and Chen Ming was too great.

Mu En proposed that Chen Ming skip the top-eight matches and face the other powerful experts together, with Gu Yuena reserving a later solo duel. As the competition continued, Chen Ming sensed how Douluo’s breakthrough had changed the plane and realized the Netherworld could anchor his Reincarnation God Position, while a universe-wide reincarnation system remained a distant ambition.

• Mu En asked Chen Ming to let the other seven experts determine the rankings before joining forces to challenge him, and Chen Ming agreed.
• Gu Yuena rejected the proposal’s terms and secured the right to fight Chen Ming alone after taking second place.
• The top-eight battles began, and Chen Ming used the coming seven days to examine the changes caused by Douluo’s advancement.
• Chen Ming sensed that Douluo’s laws were expanding into the surrounding universe and that the Netherworld had fused with the plane during its breakthrough.
• Chen Ming discovered that the Netherworld could anchor his Reincarnation God Position, but concluded that its small size would limit his power.
• Chen Ming considered anchoring a stronger god position in cosmic space and planned to pursue universal reincarnation only after opening the world within his Soul Nurturing Coffin.

Chen Ming fought the peak division’s remaining challengers as Ye Xishui, Mu En, and Long Xiaoyao unveiled a trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill. During the battle, Du Busi broke through to godhood and began facing a nine-colored tribulation, becoming the first soul master in the Soul Master World to challenge the god rank.

• Chen Ming reflected that his Path of Reincarnation was nearly complete as the Genius Battle’s finals concluded and Gu Yuena claimed second place in the peak division.
• Mu En, Long Xiaoyao, and Ye Xishui revealed their dragon and phoenix powers, and Yan Shaozhe realized that Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao were likely his parents.
• Xuan Zi charged Chen Ming as a Godly Taotie Bull, but Chen Ming sent him flying while Ye Xishui fused her powers with Mu En and Long Xiaoyao into a trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Chen Ming fought Ye Xishui, Du Busi, and Di Tian, countering Ye Xishui’s attack and exchanging powerful blows with Du Busi and Di Tian.
• Du Busi broke through the barrier to godhood, summoned a nine-colored tribulation, and began fighting it as Chen Ming, Di Tian, and Ye Xishui watched.

Du Busi endured a prolonged heavenly tribulation, broke through to god level, and gained a tenth soul ring that fused him with his martial soul. After fighting Chen Ming for three days, he lost and explained that the tenth ring granted Human-Soul Unity, which he called a Destiny Soul Ring.

• Du Busi broke through the boundary to god level as a nine-colored heavenly tribulation tempered his body and soul bones.
• The tribulation formed Du Busi's tenth soul ring and raised his Soul Power to level one hundred and ten.
• Du Busi used Human-Soul Unity to fuse his soul rings and martial soul, then fought Chen Ming for three days and three nights.
• Mu En, Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, Di Tian, and the other spectators withdrew or fainted as the battle overwhelmed them.
• Du Busi admitted defeat, and Chen Ming agreed to fight Gu Yuena after she and Du Busi recovered.
• Du Busi told Chen Ming that Human-Soul Unity was the fixed skill of a tenth soul ring and named the ring a Destiny Soul Ring.