Chapter Summaries

Zhou Sichen spoke with Elder Mu about Di Xi and the danger of Di Tian discovering her at Shrek, then discussed his Soul Core cultivation. Elder Mu gave Zhou Sichen the purified Dragon Pill to strengthen his foundation and help him prepare for condensing a Third Soul Core.

• Elder Mu deduced that Di Xi was the Emperor Auspicious Beast, and Zhou Sichen confirmed that she had secretly left the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Elder Mu warned Zhou Sichen that Di Tian might come for Di Xi, and Zhou Sichen said her aura was concealed and he could handle the danger.
• Elder Mu advised Zhou Sichen to keep his relationships from hindering his cultivation, and Zhou Sichen promised to manage them responsibly.
• Zhou Sichen and Elder Mu visited Hong Hong beneath the Golden Tree, where she said she was bearing her duties for Zhou Sichen's sake.
• Elder Mu asked about Zhou Sichen's Soul Cores and explained how the Dragon Pill had helped his cultivation before its savagery caused his injuries.
• Elder Mu gave Zhou Sichen the now-purified Dragon Pill, explaining that it could strengthen his foundation and reduce the risks of condensing a Third Soul Core.

Zhou Sichen absorbed Mu En’s Dragon Pill, completing his Impenetrable Golden Body and strengthening his Second Soul Core embryo and spiritual cultivation. He finished the process at Soul Power level seventy-eight, with the Dragon Pill’s remnant sealed in his Upper Dantian to nourish his soul.

• Mu En explained how the Dragon Pill would strengthen Zhou Sichen’s body, aid his Soul Cores, and support his Yin-Yang Complementarity path.
• Zhou Sichen swallowed the Dragon Pill, and Mu En guided its energy through his body as it reinforced his bones and bloodline.
• Zhou Sichen broke through the hidden acupoint at his collarbone with Mu En’s help, completing his Impenetrable Golden Body.
• The Dragon Pill’s energy awakened Zhou Sichen’s Second Soul Core embryo, which grew as Mu En helped him keep its yin and yang powers balanced.
• Zhou Sichen sealed the remaining Dragon Pill in his Upper Dantian, reached level seventy-eight, and finished absorbing it in two days.

Zhou Sichen absorbed the Thunderous Hell Vine Left Leg Soul Bone, reaching Soul Power Rank 80 and gaining two powerful soul skills. As he stabilized his strength, Mu En and Elder Yi watched their experiment to create a Sacred Light Dragon undead take shape.

• Mu En left Zhou Sichen to visit Elder Yi, whom he had given Sacred Light Dragon origin Soul Power for an undead experiment.
• Zhou Sichen opened the sealed treasure box and subdued the Thunderous Hell Vine’s rampaging lightning with his Impenetrable Golden Body and Reigning Over the World domain.
• Zhou Sichen stored the tamed lightning spirit, intending to give it to Beibei to strengthen his lightning attribute.
• Zhou Sichen absorbed the Thunderous Hell Vine Left Leg Soul Bone, which fused with his body and raised his Soul Power to Rank 80.
• Zhou Sichen began stabilizing his Soul Power while Mu En and Elder Yi watched a golden power and black mist form the shape of a dragon inside a crystal ball.

After completing his Thunderous Hell Vine Soul Bone, Zhou Sichen traveled with Mu En to the Dou Ling Empire to strengthen their alliance and meet Heavenly Sun Douluo. The chapter ended as Zhou Sichen and Heavenly Sun Douluo prepared to spar, with Zhou Sichen revealing seven Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and shocking the gathered royals and officials.

• Zhou Sichen finished absorbing the Thunderous Hell Vine Left Leg Soul Bone and gave Mu En a Thunder Spirit intended for Beibei.
• Mu En and Zhou Sichen arrived in the Dou Ling Empire, where Emperor Xue Ye and Heavenly Sun Douluo welcomed them and discussed their alliance.
• Xue Ye offered to introduce Zhou Sichen to his daughter Xue Yao, but Zhou Sichen politely declined and promised to uphold the alliance.
• Heavenly Sun Douluo offered to spar with Zhou Sichen, and Zhou Sichen accepted before the royal family and military leaders.
• At the arena, Zhou Sichen revealed his Book of Contracts Martial Soul and seven Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, astonishing Heavenly Sun Douluo and the spectators.

Zhou Sichen demonstrated his strength by having three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts overwhelm Heavenly Sun Douluo, then took Ling Luochen to Dragon City to obtain rare cultivation treasures. He visited the Heavenly Dragon Sect, where Sect Master Yu Tingyuan warmly welcomed him.

• Zhou Sichen summoned Ah Da, Big Bear, and Hellfire, and the three Soul Beasts pressured Heavenly Sun Douluo in a coordinated battle until Mu En stopped the spar.
• Heavenly Sun Douluo admitted he was inferior to Zhou Sichen, and the Dou Ling Empire's Royal Family resolved to follow the Pagoda Master.
• Zhou Sichen and Ling Luochen discussed her military training and plans to raise an army against the Sun Moon Empire before leaving the Dou Ling Empire for Dragon City.
• Zhou Sichen brought Ling Luochen to Dragon City to retrieve Ice Extreme Divine Crystals and Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow for her cultivation.
• Yu Tingyuan, Sect Master of the Heavenly Dragon Sect, greeted Zhou Sichen with the sect's elders and welcomed him as a respected relative and Spirit Pagoda Master.

Zhou Sichen and Ling Luochen visited the Heavenly Dragon Sect and then the Earth Dragon Sect to seek a Cold Spring that could help Ling Luochen cultivate her Extreme Ice martial soul. Nan Shuishui revealed that a sealed cave beneath the spring held mysterious ice-attribute ores, and she led the group there to investigate.

• Yu Tingyuan welcomed Zhou Sichen and Ling Luochen to the Heavenly Dragon Sect, where Zhou explained that he wanted to use the Earth Dragon Sect's Cold Spring for Ling Luochen's cultivation.
• Yu Tingyuan escorted Zhou Sichen and Ling Luochen to the Earth Dragon Sect with his grandson Yu Tianlong, whose soul spirit had helped him approach Level 66.
• Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiūqiū greeted the visitors, and Nan Shuishui readily agreed to let Ling Luochen use the Cold Spring.
• Nan Shuishui revealed that a sealed cave beneath the Cold Spring contained strange ores with dense ice-attribute energy and possible Rare Metals.
• Zhou Sichen accepted Nan Shuishui's offer to explore the Cold Spring, and she led the group there.

Zhou Sichen and Ling Luochen entered the Earth Dragon Sect’s hidden ice cave and discovered Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, which Zhou Sichen identified as signs of a nearby Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave. After they mined the crystals, the Cold Spring water burst into the cave, leaving them facing a sudden flood.

• Zhou Sichen and Ling Luochen descended into the Cold Spring and used Nan Shuishui’s instructions to open the hidden cave entrance.
• The pair entered the cave, endured its extreme cold with their Extreme Ice Soul Power, and found walls covered in blue crystals.
• Zhou Sichen identified the crystals as Ice Extreme Divine Crystals and explained that they accompanied a Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave and could be used to make powerful Soul Tools.
• Ling Luochen tested her Extreme Ice Soul Power on a crystal, found it softened and responded to her, then helped Zhou Sichen mine the cave using her Everfrost Domain.
• After Zhou Sichen and Ling Luochen stored the final crystal, Cold Spring water surged through the still-open entrance and rushed toward them.

Zhou Sichen and Ling Luochen reached a hidden cave beneath the cold spring and discovered its Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. Ling Luochen began cultivating on the cave’s surrounding energy while Zhou Sichen started collecting its forty-five strands of marrow.

• Zhou Sichen sealed the submerged passage and led Ling Luochen deeper through the cold spring toward its springhead.
• A powerful suction pulled Zhou Sichen and Ling Luochen into a hidden cave, where they found pillars of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Zhou Sichen explained that the marrow embodied the laws of ice and that the cave’s ambient energy could strengthen Ling Luochen’s Soul Power and Extreme Ice attribute.
• Ling Luochen followed Zhou Sichen’s instructions, resonated with the surrounding Ice Element, and began absorbing it as she cultivated.
• Zhou Sichen counted the cave’s forty-five strands of marrow and began collecting them while Ling Luochen continued cultivating.

Ling Luochen absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and reached the peak of level 79, while Zhou Sichen rewarded the Earth Dragon Sect and Heavenly Dragon Sect for their help. After leaving Dragon City, Zhou Sichen returned to the Spirit Pagoda, where Demon Empress had come back.

• Ling Luochen emerged from cultivation with purer Extreme Ice and peak level 79 Soul Power, and Zhou Sichen gave her ten strands of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Zhou Sichen told Nan Shuishui that the spring could support Earth Dragon Sect cultivation for three years, then gave the sect a thirty-five-thousand-year Red Armored Earth Dragon Torso Soul Bone and ten years of Soul Spirit supplies.
• Zhou Sichen rewarded Yu Tingyuan and the Heavenly Dragon Sect with ten Ten Thousand Year Soul Spirits, and the two sect leaders agreed to strengthen their relationship.
• Zhou Sichen left Dragon City with Ling Luochen, then parted from her so she could return to the Dou Ling Empire as a military commander.
• Zhou Sichen returned to the Spirit Pagoda after Snow Empress told him that Demon Empress had come back.

After returning to the Spirit Pagoda, Zhou Sichen reunited with its leaders and learned how the Soul Spirit Method and the organization had grown during his three-year absence. He called a full councilor assembly for three days later to review the Pagoda’s progress and decide its next steps.

• Zhou Sichen met Snow Empress, Du Busi, Xuan Zi, and Bi Ji, who described the Spirit Pagoda’s growth and the spread of the Soul Spirit Method across the Far North and Star Dou Great Forest.
• Dugu Xianmeng greeted Zhou Sichen and showed her progress as a Rank 77 poison master and the Pagoda’s Judicial Ruling Controller.
• Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan reported to Zhou Sichen after helping Dugu Xianmeng maintain order within the Spirit Pagoda.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Zhou Sichen for recommending him to Yun Yi and said his Soul Power had risen since he began learning about Soul Spirits.
• Zhou Sichen ordered the Spirit Pagoda to hold a full councilor assembly in three days and requested reports on Soul Spirit promotion, personnel changes, and cooperation with major powers.

Zhou Sichen welcomed the Demon Empress and Lan Fuzi to his office, where the Demon Empress pledged her support in exchange for revenge and a chance to ascend to the God Realm. Lan Fuzi agreed to become Zhou Sichen’s Soul Spirit, binding the mother and daughter’s future to his.

• Zhou Sichen hosted the Demon Empress and Lan Fuzi in his Spirit Pagoda office and discussed his rapid cultivation progress with the Demon Empress.
• The Demon Empress explained that she was willing to support Zhou Sichen to avenge her husband and break through to the God Realm.
• The Demon Empress told Zhou Sichen that she wanted him to protect Lan Fuzi from becoming entangled in her feud with Tang San.
• Zhou Sichen proposed that Lan Fuzi become his Soul Spirit, promising she would retain her consciousness and could accompany him to the God Realm.
• Lan Fuzi agreed to become Zhou Sichen’s Soul Spirit, and the Demon Empress accepted the arrangement.

Zhou Sichen contracted the Demon Empress and transformed Lan Fuzi into a Soul Spirit, reaching Soul Power level 85 and gaining three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings. He planned to prepare an attack on the Titan Giant Ape and Azure Sky Divine Dragon before using Lan Fuzi’s Whale Pearl to create her physical body.

• Zhou Sichen completed a contract with the Demon Empress, whose power helped him break through to level 81.
• Zhou Sichen transformed Lan Fuzi into a Soul Spirit, gaining three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and rising to level 85.
• Zhou Sichen gained Lan Fuzi’s Right Leg Soul Bone and considered hunting the Titan Giant Ape and Azure Sky Divine Dragon for his seventh and eighth Soul Rings.
• Zhou Sichen decided to prepare a surprise attack on the two Divine Officers, then used his Holy Necromancer Martial Soul and Lan Fuzi’s Whale Pearl to begin creating her physical body.
• The Demon Empress was astonished to discover that Zhou Sichen possessed a third Martial Soul.

Zhou Sichen led a powerful force to attack Clear Sky Castle and expose Niu Tian and Tai Tan as Tang San’s Divine Officer lackeys. The battle began with the castle’s defenses shattered, but the fighting remained underway as Zhou Sichen’s group overwhelmed its defenders.

• Zhou Sichen outlined Spirit Pagoda reforms and told the Five Permanent Councilors that Niu Tian and Tai Tan were secretly serving Tang San as Clear Sky Castle’s sect masters.
• Xuan Zi went to fetch Mu En, while Bi Ji recruited Di Tian, and Zhou Sichen assembled the others for an attack on Clear Sky Castle.
• Zhou Sichen’s group reached the hidden castle, where Niu Tian and Tai Tan challenged them and Zhou Sichen revealed their identities and crimes.
• Zhou Sichen ordered the assault, and Mu En shattered the mountain gate as the attackers stormed Clear Sky Castle.
• The defenders sent out thirteen Titled Douluos, but Zhou Sichen’s allies engaged them and the sect’s other fighters, leaving corpses across the grounds.

Zhou Sichen killed Hammering Douluo, then joined the assault that killed Tai Tan and Niu Tian and destroyed the Clear Sky Sect. The chapter ended with Zhou Sichen recovering among Clear Sky Castle’s ruins while his allies gathered the sect’s spoils.

• Zhou Sichen defeated Hammering Douluo with his Ice-Fire Spear and golden body techniques, then killed him with a punch through the chest.
• Zhou Sichen saw Di Tian, Mu En, Du Busi, and the others fighting Niu Tian and Tai Tan, while Tang San failed to answer their calls for help.
• Zhou Sichen caught Tai Tan’s hammers and used them to crush Tai Tan’s skull before killing him with Extreme Ice, Extreme Fire, and Mental Soul Distortion.
• Di Tian, Du Busi, Mu En, the Snow Empress, and Xuan Zi overwhelmed Niu Tian, and Zhou Sichen tore off his head.
• The allied forces wiped out the remaining Clear Sky Sect members and recovered more than twenty Soul Bones and numerous resources.
• Zhou Sichen sat among Clear Sky Castle’s ruins to recover while his allies collected the spoils.

Tang Hao discovered that the Clear Sky Sect had vanished, while Tang San lost contact with Douluo Continent and grew wary of events there. Zhou Sichen resisted the Titan Giant Ape’s divine soul during his Soul Ring absorption, and Elder Yi refined it, allowing the Million Year Soul Ring to merge with him.

• Tang Hao felt his connection to the Clear Sky Sect sever and roared in fury after finding its land gone.
• Tang San told Destruction God King that he could not contact Douluo Continent, then felt pain in the arms that once held the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape Soul Bones.
• Du Busi, Xuan Zi, Big Bear, Hellfire, and Ah Da stripped and cleared the ruins of Clear Sky Castle while Zhou Sichen began absorbing the Titan Giant Ape’s Million Year Soul Ring.
• The Titan Giant Ape’s hidden divine soul appeared in Zhou Sichen’s spiritual world and tried to destroy his mind by detonating itself.
• Elder Yi appeared, bound and refined the Titan Giant Ape’s divine soul into a crystal core, and removed the obstacle to Zhou Sichen’s absorption.
• Zhou Sichen completed the fusion of his seventh Soul Ring as his Soul Power surged beyond level 85 toward the Titled Douluo realm.

Zhou Sichen reached Level 96 after absorbing the Titan Giant Ape and Azure Sky Divine Dragon, then distributed Clear Sky Castle’s spoils and strengthened his allies. He created undead Niu Tian and Tai Tan in the Undead Demiplane and planned to wait for the Sun Moon Empire to start a war before acting.

• Zhou Sichen formed Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores, absorbed the Titan Giant Ape and Azure Sky Divine Dragon’s Soul Rings and Soul Bones, and rose to Level 96.
• Mu En, Di Tian, and Du Busi congratulated Zhou Sichen, while Du Busi poisoned Clear Sky Castle before the group departed with its spoils.
• Zhou Sichen distributed Soul Bones and Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, helping Snow Empress and Ice Empress increase their cultivation.
• Zhou Sichen entered the Undead Demiplane, where Elder Yi had transformed Niu Tian and Tai Tan into powerful undead generals loyal to him and hostile to Tang San.
• Zhou Sichen decided to wait for the Sun Moon Empire to imprison tournament participants and start a war before taking action.

Zhou Sichen confronted the Evil Eye Tyrant Master in the Demon Forest and demonstrated that he could match its Spiritual Power and restrain it. After reviewing Zhou Sichen’s information about their potential cooperation, the Evil Emperor agreed to sign a contract, requesting a life-or-death rematch with Ditian.

• Zhou Sichen secretly entered the Demon Forest and challenged the Evil Emperor at its secluded cultivation grounds.
• The Evil Emperor attacked Zhou Sichen, who transformed into a giant and matched its spiritual strike with the combined powers of his soul cores, Eyes of the Soul, and Eyes of Destiny.
• The Evil Emperor appeared in its true form and threatened Zhou Sichen, who restrained it with the Body Secret Technique—Locking God Ring.
• Zhou Sichen sent the Evil Emperor information about his strength and possible cooperation, causing it to stop fighting and consider the contract.
• The Evil Emperor agreed to sign a contract on the condition that it could fight Ditian once more in a battle to the death.

Zhou Sichen secured Evil Emperor’s contract by offering him a path toward godhood and a role in developing the Spirit Pagoda’s Soul Spirit System. As Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao wondered who had stopped the battle in the Demon Forest, they ordered an investigation focused on the Spirit Pagoda.

• Evil Emperor agreed to contract with Zhou Sichen after hearing he could help him reach eight hundred thousand years of cultivation and arrange a battle with Di Tian.
• Zhou Sichen and Evil Emperor entered an underground space, where Zhou restored his Soul Power while Evil Emperor studied the memories about the Spirit Ascension Platform and Soul Spirit System.
• Evil Emperor accepted the role of Chosen Worker and began devising plans for the Spirit Ascension Platform, seeing the system as a possible benefit to his clan.
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao sensed the battle’s powerful fluctuations and concluded that the unknown opponent had forced Evil Emperor to stop fighting.
• Ye Xishui ordered a subordinate to investigate unfamiliar powerful Soul Masters in the Demon Forest, especially anyone from the Spirit Pagoda.

Zhou Sichen formed a contract with the Evil Emperor and absorbed his Spiritual Power cultivation insights, breaking through to Level 97 and Tangible and Formed Spiritual Power. His breakthrough also raised the cultivation of his contracted Soul Beasts to 850,000 years, leaving the Evil Emperor eager to challenge Di Tian.

• The Evil Emperor agreed to help build the Spirit Ascension Platform and asked Zhou Sichen to begin their contract.
• Zhou Sichen used the Book of Contracts to contract with the Evil Emperor, who passed on his lifetime of Spiritual Power cultivation insights.
• Zhou Sichen fused the Spiritual Power of the Evil Emperor, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Sea Princess, reaching the Tangible and Formed realm and forming a Spiritual Power Clone.
• Zhou Sichen reached Level 97 and formed a ninth Soul Ring, while the contract links raised Ah Da, Hellfire, Big Bear, Hong Hong, and Little Mirror to 850,000 years of cultivation.
• The Evil Emperor recovered and claimed he could now defeat Di Tian, while Di Tian sensed the contracted beasts' increased strength and called Zhou Sichen a monster.

Zhou Sichen met the Silver Dragon King, won her support for the Soul Spirit System and Spirit Ascension Platform, and proposed helping her recover and gain a foothold in the God Realm. The Silver Dragon King agreed to provide resources but questioned whether Zhou Sichen could persuade the God Realm’s deities.

• Zhou Sichen visited Xuan Ziwen and Nana before returning to Spirit Pagoda, learning that Xuan Ziwen had joined Mingde Hall’s Project One and that Nana’s standing in the Holy Spirit Cult had improved.
• Bi Ji told Zhou Sichen that the Silver Dragon King wanted to meet him, so he convened a Spirit Pagoda meeting and tasked Evil Emperor with helping complete the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Di Tian led Zhou Sichen through a passage at Lake of Life to meet the Silver Dragon King, who appeared in a silver dragon-shaped crystal.
• Zhou Sichen explained that the Soul Spirit System could help Soul Masters and Soul Beasts coexist, and the Silver Dragon King promised Star Dou Great Forest’s full support and resources for the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Zhou Sichen asked whether the Silver Dragon King would gamble on his plan to help her recover and gain a foothold in the God Realm, and she challenged his confidence in changing the deities’ minds.