Chapter Summaries

After absorbing the medicinal power of the Immortal Herbs, Ye Zhiqiu emerged from seclusion and set out to hunt his fifth and sixth Spirit Rings. He arrived at the Lake of Life and asked Da Ming about the Star Dou Great Forest’s fierce beasts, but Da Ming denied knowing anything.

• Ye Zhiqiu absorbed the remaining medicinal power of the Immortal Herbs and prepared to hunt high-age Spirit Beasts for his next Spirit Rings.
• Ye Zhiqiu appeared beside Tang San and Dugu Bo after eleven days in seclusion and told Tang San to remain behind and cultivate.
• Ye Zhiqiu vanished before Tang San could respond, leaving Tang San and Dugu Bo to discuss his rapid progress and the tournament.
• Ye Zhiqiu reached the Lake of Life, where Da Ming asked after Sister Xiao Wu and explained that Er Ming had gone to fight a new opponent.
• Ye Zhiqiu asked Da Ming where to find other fierce beasts over a hundred thousand years old, and Da Ming denied knowing what he meant.

Ye Zhiqiu suspected that ferocious beasts were hiding beneath the Lake of Life and used his Divine Sense to search the underwater caverns. He found seven powerful beast figures gathered in a hidden cave, including a man he believed was Di Tian, and wondered who the Silver-haired Woman was.

• Da Ming warned Ye Zhiqiu not to provoke the ferocious beasts, then dived into the Lake of Life.
• Ye Zhiqiu concluded that Da Ming was guarding something at the lake bottom and suspected an immortal herb was attracting the beasts.
• Ye Zhiqiu extended his Divine Sense into an unexplored underwater cavern and activated Mind's Eye of the Kagura when he reached its limits.
• Ye Zhiqiu's Divine Sense entered a vast underground cave and found seven human-shaped ferocious beasts gathered there.
• Ye Zhiqiu sensed that one black-haired man was as powerful as Qian Daoliu and suspected he was Di Tian, then wondered about the Silver-haired Woman.

Ye Zhiqiu discovered that seven ferocious beasts were draining a snow silkworm’s immense Life Energy beneath the Lake of Life, and decided to return for it once he was stronger. He then dove into the lake to rescue a silver-haired girl, using the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to conceal himself.

• Ye Zhiqiu considered attacking the seven ferocious beasts for their soul rings, but decided to retreat because Di Tian seemed too powerful.
• Ye Zhiqiu used his Divine Sense to discover a snow silkworm feeding Life Energy to the seven beasts, while Da Ming and Er Ming guarded outside.
• Ye Zhiqiu decided to return for the silkworm once he was stronger and resolved to rescue the silver-haired girl.
• Ye Zhiqiu jumped into the Lake of Life and worried that Da Ming would detect him as he approached the girl.
• Ye Zhiqiu asked the Sea God's Divine Sense to activate the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which spread a concealing field around him.

Ye Zhiqiu stole the Silver-haired Woman from the Lake of Life and took her to an island, where she woke and confronted him. He boasted about his status and past victories, but she challenged his strength by pointing out that he was only level fifty.

• Ye Zhiqiu used Flying Thunder God to bypass Da Ming and reach the Silver-haired Woman's crystal coffin at the bottom of the Lake of Life.
• Ye Zhiqiu packed the coffin and the Silver-haired Woman into his Ruyi Hundred Treasures Bag, then fled to a small island.
• Ye Zhiqiu placed the coffin on the beach, where the Silver-haired Woman opened her eyes and shattered it.
• The Silver-haired Woman accused Ye Zhiqiu of ruining her plan and refused to explain herself.
• Ye Zhiqiu bragged about his status and mocked the Soul Beasts, but the Silver-haired Woman questioned how a level-fifty human could claim to be powerful.
• Ye Zhiqiu retorted that he had killed Titled Douluo and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, then revealed his Soul Rings.

Ye Zhiqiu discovered that the Silver-haired Woman was a God-level expert with eleven spirit rings, but she sealed the space around him and took him hostage. When her personality suddenly changed mid-flight, she crashed into the sea, leaving Ye Zhiqiu free and wondering whether to kill her.

• The Silver-haired Woman revealed eleven platinum spirit rings and claimed that Di Tian was her underling.
• Ye Zhiqiu tried to escape with Flying Thunder God, but the Silver-haired Woman sealed the space and immobilized him.
• The Silver-haired Woman said she planned to use Ye Zhiqiu as a hostage and flew toward the continent with him.
• The Silver-haired Woman's eyes went vacant, and she plunged into the ocean while Ye Zhiqiu halted his fall above the water.
• Ye Zhiqiu noticed that the Silver-haired Woman now seemed confused and afraid, and considered killing her.

Ye Zhiqiu realized that Gu Yuena’s innocent secondary personality had surfaced, while her dangerous primary personality remained a threat after he had awakened her ten thousand years early. He resolved to take responsibility rather than flee, but Gu Yuena became fascinated by the Life Energy in his finger.

• Ye Zhiqiu decided not to attack Gu Yuena and instead used Flying Thunder God to carry her from the sea to the island.
• Ye Zhiqiu asked Gu Yuena about her name and origins, but she could only remember her name and knew nothing else.
• Ye Zhiqiu realized Gu Yuena’s awakening had disrupted her plans and feared her primary personality might attack him.
• Ye Zhiqiu considered fleeing but decided he had to take responsibility for the conflict between humans and soul beasts.
• Gu Yuena washed the sand off herself, noticed Ye Zhiqiu’s bad mood, and stared longingly at the Life Energy he released to grow a chair.

Ye Zhiqiu let Gu Yuena absorb the Life Energy from his body to help heal her injuries, then fell asleep with her beside him. They woke as a heavy rainstorm began at sea.

• Ye Zhiqiu discovered that Gu Yuena was drawn to the Life Energy on his finger.
• Ye Zhiqiu put his Life Energy-coated finger in Gu Yuena's mouth, and she absorbed the energy to ease her injuries.
• Ye Zhiqiu estimated that Gu Yuena could absorb his Life Energy for about ten hours and decided to let her continue.
• Ye Zhiqiu and Gu Yuena fell asleep together in the sun, with Gu Yuena still sucking on his finger.
• A sudden downpour startled Ye Zhiqiu and Gu Yuena awake.

Ye Zhiqiu bargained with Gu Yuena after she used his Life Energy, forcing her to agree to six conditions in exchange for not killing him. The chapter left Gu Yuena preparing to give him a massage as his first condition.

• Ye Zhiqiu built a wooden pavilion to shelter himself and Gu Yuena from the rain, and Gu Yuena woke and released his bitten finger.
• Gu Yuena told Ye Zhiqiu she would spare him on one condition, but he demanded his own terms and dared her to kill him.
• Gu Yuena admitted his Life Energy healed her injuries, and Ye Zhiqiu realized she could not bear to kill him.
• Ye Zhiqiu kept increasing his demands until Gu Yuena agreed to six conditions.
• Ye Zhiqiu made a massage his first condition, and Gu Yuena approached him with a cold smile.

Gu Yuena tortured Ye Zhiqiu with a painful massage before agreeing to help him obtain two soul rings in exchange for his promise to stay with her until her injuries healed. They set off into the deep sea to search for a soul beast with a cultivation of about three hundred thousand years.

• Gu Yuena pinned Ye Zhiqiu down and gave him a brutal massage, leaving him aching and covered in red marks.
• Gu Yuena demanded Ye Zhiqiu's remaining conditions and required him to stay with her until she recovered after they were fulfilled.
• Ye Zhiqiu asked Gu Yuena to help him find and cripple two soul beasts so he could deliver the final blows and obtain their soul rings.
• Gu Yuena offered to hunt ocean soul beasts and agreed to search for one with a cultivation of around three hundred thousand years.
• Ye Zhiqiu and Gu Yuena plunged into the sea, traveling rapidly along the deep seafloor inside her divine protection.

Gu Yuena searched the deep seabed for a Soul Beast at least three hundred thousand years old while Ye Zhiqiu slept against her. She brought him to a vast seafloor rift, where Ye Zhiqiu sensed a powerful hidden presence nearby.

• Ye Zhiqiu asked Gu Yuena whether she knew where to find the ancient Sea Soul Beasts, and she admitted that she did not.
• Gu Yuena continued searching deeper into the ocean while Ye Zhiqiu clung to her and fell asleep.
• Gu Yuena found a great rift in the seafloor and descended into its darkness, believing her target was below.
• Ye Zhiqiu was thrown out of Gu Yuena's Soul Power protection and woke under the deep-sea pressure.
• Ye Zhiqiu joined Gu Yuena and sensed a powerful aura three miles away as a mountain-sized shadow shifted.

Ye Zhiqiu and Gu Yuena found a three-hundred-thousand-year-old Giant Squid, and Gu Yuena nearly killed it with a devastating attack. Ye Zhiqiu tried to harvest one of its tentacles for food, but the wounded squid retaliated with corrosive poison, prompting him to unleash Amaterasu.

• Gu Yuena noticed Ye Zhiqiu had Divine Sense, then led him toward a Giant Squid she estimated was about three hundred thousand years old.
• Gu Yuena struck the sleeping Giant Squid with a powerful beam that severely wounded it but left it alive.
• Ye Zhiqiu rushed to the squid, relieved it had survived, and decided to take a tentacle for Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ye Zhiqiu formed Susanoo and swung its greatsword at the squid's fattest tentacle, but the tough limb stopped the blade after it cut only partway through.
• The Giant Squid released black corrosive poison that damaged Susanoo, and Ye Zhiqiu responded by using Amaterasu.

Ye Zhiqiu killed the three-hundred-thousand-year Giant Squid and absorbed its soul ring while Gu Yuena protected him. He chose Impure World Reincarnation as his fifth soul skill, leaving a gray galaxy of Soul Power forming in his meridians.

• Gu Yuena burned the Giant Squid's brain with black flames and removed its venom, while Ye Zhiqiu reflected on the difference between their strength.
• Ye Zhiqiu asked Gu Yuena to cut off a tentacle, then stored it and teased her by calling her Nana despite her demand to be addressed as Your Majesty the Queen.
• Gu Yuena created a safe, quiet space as Ye Zhiqiu absorbed the Giant Squid's three-hundred-thousand-year soul ring, and his Tailed Beast Origins divided its Soul Power among themselves.
• Ye Zhiqiu purchased the S-rank forbidden technique Impure World Reincarnation as his fifth soul skill.
• The Tailed Beast Origins fed Soul Power back to Ye Zhiqiu, forming a faint gray galaxy in his meridians.

Ye Zhiqiu completed his fifth spirit ring, which reached nine hundred thousand years and granted him an enhanced Impure World Reincarnation ability. He used Gu Yuena’s promise to secure a condition that she could never beat him, then prepared to test whether she would keep her word.

• The Kurama Origin provided enough Soul Power to raise Ye Zhiqiu’s fifth spirit ring to nine hundred thousand years, though it fell short of the million years he had hoped for.
• Ye Zhiqiu inspected his new Impure World Reincarnation skill and learned that its enhanced effects could revive souls without a living sacrifice and forcibly retrieve souls from the Reaper.
• Gu Yuena demanded to know how Ye Zhiqiu had strengthened his spirit ring, but he refused and tried to cut meat from the Giant Squid.
• Gu Yuena grabbed Ye Zhiqiu by the shoulder, and he invoked the condition that she could never beat him to vent her anger.
• Gu Yuena accepted the condition, and Ye Zhiqiu slyly asked whether he could test her promise.

Ye Zhiqiu proposed a bet with Gu Yuena that he could turn an ordinary sea snail into a Three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast. Gu Yuena accepted, wagering a five-minute French kiss if she lost, while Ye Zhiqiu prepared to begin the transformation.

• Ye Zhiqiu cut a piece from the Giant Squid's corpse and searched for a creature to use as a sacrifice.
• Ye Zhiqiu caught an ordinary sea snail and claimed he could transform it into a Three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast.
• Gu Yuena and Ye Zhiqiu negotiated a bet, settling on a removed condition if Ye Zhiqiu lost and a five-minute kiss if Gu Yuena lost.
• Gu Yuena accepted the wager despite Ye Zhiqiu's attempts to back out, and urged him to begin.

Ye Zhiqiu used his fifth soul skill, Impure World Reincarnation, to restore the Three Hundred Thousand Year Giant Squid, proving that he had won his bet with Gu Yuena. Gu Yuena faced the prospect of fulfilling her promise to kiss him, but glared at him as he backed away warily.

• Gu Yuena tried to pressure Ye Zhiqiu into accepting the original terms of their bet, and he revealed his five soul rings.
• Ye Zhiqiu used Impure World Reincarnation to summon the Giant Squid's soul and form it a body from the seabed sand.
• Gu Yuena argued that the reconstructed Giant Squid would not count without the power of a Three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast.
• The Giant Squid finished forming and unleashed a powerful vortex, showing that it retained nearly its former strength.
• Ye Zhiqiu controlled the Giant Squid and reminded Gu Yuena that she had lost the bet and promised to kiss him.
• Gu Yuena glared at Ye Zhiqiu, who backed away and asked if she planned to attack him rather than admit defeat.

Gu Yuena approached Ye Zhiqiu as if to punish him for losing their bet, but kissed him instead, and the two carried on long past their agreed time. She then attacked the Giant Squid that had witnessed them, only for it to regenerate and leave her unable to silence it.

• Gu Yuena grabbed Ye Zhiqiu by the collar, but kissed him instead of beating him, and he drew her into a closer embrace.
• Gu Yuena and Ye Zhiqiu kissed for more than ten minutes before she broke away, embarrassed and annoyed that they had exceeded the agreed five minutes.
• Gu Yuena sent a ribbon of energy past Ye Zhiqiu and cleaved the Giant Squid in half, warning him not to reveal what had happened.
• Ye Zhiqiu explained that his revived Giant Squid had an immortal body, and it reassembled itself before Gu Yuena could silence it.
• The Giant Squid watched Gu Yuena hesitate, then saw Ye Zhiqiu rummage through its original corpse for soul bones.

Ye Zhiqiu and Gu Yuena followed Xiao Liu into a deep-sea stone formation to confront a four-hundred-thousand-year-old Soul Beast. They discovered the target was a Black Flood Dragon, which fled after Gu Yuena grievously wounded it with the Law of Light.

• Xiao Liu led Ye Zhiqiu and Gu Yuena to the Black Flood Dragon's territory, hoping to take revenge on its former foe.
• The Black Flood Dragon emerged from the stone pillars and charged toward them.
• Ye Zhiqiu recognized the creature's resemblance to a dragon and asked Gu Yuena to attack.
• Gu Yuena explained that she was using the Law of Light and pierced the Black Flood Dragon with a concentrated ray.
• The wounded Black Flood Dragon fled, and Xiao Liu chased after it.

Ye Zhiqiu killed the Black Flood Dragon and began absorbing its spirit ring, hoping to make it a Million Year Spirit Ring. Five hours later, he remained unconscious as Gu Yuena worried over him and sensed her time outside was nearly up.

• Ye Zhiqiu asked Gu Yuena how her strength compared with the gods, and she said she could defeat a First-level God at her peak but could currently handle only a Third-level God.
• Ye Zhiqiu approached the unconscious Black Flood Dragon, and Gu Yuena followed to keep him safe.
• Ye Zhiqiu used Susanoo's sword to pierce the Black Flood Dragon's eye and kill it.
• Ye Zhiqiu invited Gu Yuena to bet on whether he could turn the spirit ring into a Million Year Spirit Ring, but she refused.
• Ye Zhiqiu began absorbing the spirit ring, and after five hours a dazzling platinum-white ring descended above him while Gu Yuena grew anxious.

Ye Zhiqiu completed his Million Year divine ring and gained the ability to summon and merge with Kurama. After Gu Yuena lost consciousness and reverted to a confused personality, Ye Zhiqiu collected the black flood dragon’s torso soul bone, revived it as Spicy Strip, and returned with her to the island, where he planned to take advantage of her amnesia.

• Ye Zhiqiu absorbed the Million Year divine ring, reached level 66, and gained a powerful Kurama-summoning skill with divine amplification and Jinchuriki abilities.
• The energy barrier vanished, and Gu Yuena collapsed as her consciousness grew hazy; Ye Zhiqiu caught her and realized she had switched personalities.
• Ye Zhiqiu found the black flood dragon’s torso soul bone, revived the beast with Impure World Reincarnation, named it Spicy Strip, and ordered it to coexist with Xiao Liu.
• Ye Zhiqiu teleported with Gu Yuena to the island and decided to spend the day relaxing before returning to the mainland.
• At the shore, Ye Zhiqiu and Gu Yuena played in the water, and she agreed to eat grilled squid and go to sleep with him.

Ye Zhiqiu brought Gu Yuena to Shrek Academy after she beat him badly for taking liberties with her, and he tried to guide her around the human world. The chapter left Ye Zhiqiu challenging Zhao Wuji after Zhao recognized him by his voice and laughed at his swollen face.

• Ye Zhiqiu took liberties with Gu Yuena’s secondary personality, and her primary personality vowed to beat him when she regained control.
• Gu Yuena beat Ye Zhiqiu through the night, leaving his face badly swollen even after he recovered through the morning.
• Ye Zhiqiu brought Gu Yuena to Shrek Academy, where she warned him that she might attack if provoked and reaffirmed that his six conditions still counted.
• Gu Yuena left the dormitory to explore the human world, and Ye Zhiqiu followed to keep her from causing trouble.
• Zhao Wuji recognized Ye Zhiqiu by his clothes and voice, then laughed at his appearance.
• Ye Zhiqiu challenged Zhao Wuji to spar after Zhao Wuji said that Dean Flender and the others were still in Sunset Forest.