Chapter Summaries

Tang San and the Shrek students captured a Phoenix-Tailed Crested Serpent for Oscar, but Serpent Lady Chao Tianxiang arrived to claim it for Meng Yiran. After learning that both groups knew Zhou Chen, Chao Tianxiang proposed a contest to settle the dispute, but Zhou Chen appeared and declared that he would decide who got the Soul Beast.

• Tang San identified the approaching Phoenix-Tailed Crested Serpent, then stopped it with Ning Rongrong's speed boost and Zhao Wuji's help so Oscar could obtain its soul ring.
• Oscar hesitated with the short blade, giving Serpent Lady Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran time to arrive and claim the serpent for Meng Yiran.
• Chao Tianxiang recognized Zhao Wuji and Ning Rongrong, and the group learned that Zhou Chen was nearby in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ning Rongrong asked Chao Tianxiang to take her to Zhou Chen, while Meng Yiran reacted jealously and argued with her.
• Chao Tianxiang asked Zhao Wuji to yield the serpent for Meng Yiran, but Zhao Wuji explained that Oscar needed it too.
• Chao Tianxiang proposed that Oscar and Meng Yiran compete for the serpent, but Zhou Chen appeared and said he would make the decision.

Zhou Chen reunited with Ning Rongrong and used her affection for him to turn the dispute over a Phoenix-Tailed Crested Serpent in Meng Yiran’s favor. Oscar fainted after Zhou Chen and Ning Rongrong rejected him, and Zhao Wuji handed the snake to Zhou Chen, who passed it to Meng Yiran.

• Zhou Chen arrived at the forest with Yu Tianmeng and gave Ning Rongrong a letter from her father, telling her he had come looking for her.
• Ning Rongrong embraced Zhou Chen, while Meng Yiran grew jealous and Oscar seethed at seeing them together.
• Zhou Chen argued that Meng Yiran had first hunted the Phoenix-Tailed Crested Serpent and pressured Zhao Wuji to give it to her for her sake.
• Oscar accused Zhou Chen of favoritism, and Zhou Chen revealed that Oscar loved Ning Rongrong, who then told Oscar she did not return his feelings.
• Oscar fainted from rage, and Zhou Chen fed him an Ice Heart Pill that calmed him and stabilized his soul power.
• Zhao Wuji blamed himself for Oscar’s fainting and handed the Phoenix-Tailed Crested Serpent to Zhou Chen, who tossed it to Meng Yiran.

Meng Yiran absorbed a Phoenix-Tailed Crested Serpent Soul Ring and gained a flying ability while Zhou Chen’s companions competed for his attention. As the group camped for the night, Zhou Chen sensed danger, and a Titan Giant Ape emerged from the forest.

• Meng Yiran awakened with her third Soul Ring, thanked Zhou Chen with a kiss, and revealed that her new ability let her fly.
• Yu Tianling returned with Yu Tianmeng and Dragon Duke Meng Shu, then pleaded with Zhou Chen to help her find a Soul Ring too.
• Zhou Chen led the group in making camp, where Yu Tianling and Meng Yiran each showed him affection while Ning Rongrong asked him to help search for Soul Beasts the next day.
• Zhou Chen abruptly warned everyone to prepare and summoned his Xuanyuan Sword as a giant creature approached.
• A massive Titan Giant Ape appeared, and Zhao Wuji, Tang San, and the Peerless Dragon Serpent couple recognized it as a terrifying super Soul Beast.

Zhou Chen and the others fought the Titan Giant Ape after it approached Xiao Wu, but the beast overwhelmed them and carried her away. Zhou Chen pretended to pursue Xiao Wu while secretly tracking the Titan Giant Ape toward the Lake of Life, leaving Xiao Wu puzzled by his apparent concern.

• Zhao Wuji, the Peerless Dragon Serpent couple, Tang San, and Zhou Chen joined forces against the Titan Giant Ape, while Ning Rongrong boosted several fighters with her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• The Titan Giant Ape shrugged off their attacks, and Zhou Chen’s sword qi enraged it by shaving patches of fur from its body.
• The Titan Giant Ape struck the ground with a shockwave, sent the others flying, then seized Xiao Wu and bounded away with her on its shoulder.
• Zhou Chen handed Ning Rongrong to the Peerless Dragon Serpent couple and chased after the Titan Giant Ape, secretly tracking its route to the Lake of Life.
• Yu Tianmeng and the others followed Zhou Chen, while Xiao Wu looked back in confusion at Zhou Chen’s apparent pursuit.

Zhou Chen pursued Xiao Wu and the Titan Giant Ape to the Lake of Life, where he revealed that he wanted to reach its bottom. The Sky Azure Bull Python attacked him and ordered the beasts to kill everyone, while the Black Dragon Emperor Tian awoke beneath the lake.

• Xiao Wu urged Er Ming not to fight Zhou Chen, but Er Ming used its Gravity Control Domain to slow his pursuit.
• Zhou Chen tracked Xiao Wu to the Lake of Life, where Tang San and the others caught up and found her in Er Ming's grasp.
• Zhou Chen ignored Xiao Wu and Er Ming, reached the lake shore, and called the Sky Azure Bull Python out of the water.
• Zhou Chen said he wanted to take someone to the bottom of the lake, and the Sky Azure Bull Python blasted him back and unleashed its Sluggish Domain.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python ordered Er Ming to kill the humans, while Xiao Wu pleaded with Da Ming to stop.
• Black Dragon Emperor Tian opened his golden eyes at the bottom of the Lake of Life.

Di Tian awakened beneath the Lake of Life and watched Zhou Chen battle the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape. After the Titan Giant Ape struck Zhou Chen down twice, Zhou Chen healed himself with Rebirth Pills and counterattacked with the Xuanyuan Sword, leaving the giant ape blasted into the ground.

• Di Tian sensed Zhou Chen's Xuanyuan Sword from beneath the lake and decided to investigate while the other ferocious beasts guarded Gu Yuena and continued absorbing Tianmeng Iceworm's Soul Power.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python sneak-attacked Zhou Chen with azure light, severely injuring him, but Zhou Chen swallowed a Rebirth Pill and recovered.
• The Titan Giant Ape leaped at Zhou Chen, while the Peerless Dragon Serpent couple tried to stop it and were defeated by its Titan Sky Shattering punch.
• Yu Tianmeng used her Space Soul Skill to evade the Titan Giant Ape, and the injured Peerless Dragon Serpent couple reverted to human form as Zhou Chen prepared to retaliate.
• Zhou Chen exploded his Fifth Soul Ring and wounded the Titan Giant Ape with the Xuanyuan Sword, but the ape's counterpunch smashed him into a crater.
• Zhou Chen healed himself with another Rebirth Pill, then exploded another Soul Ring and used Universe Shattering to drive the Titan Giant Ape into the ground.

Zhou Chen crippled Da Ming and Er Ming in battle, then comforted Xiao Wu after she revealed her bond with the two soul beasts. He offered the brothers a chance to live by accepting Soul Slave Contracts.

• Zhou Chen used a devastating sword strike to sever Da Ming's tail and wound Er Ming, who lost an arm while protecting his brother.
• Xiao Wu wept over her injured brothers, while Tang San and the others struggled with her revealed identity as a soul beast.
• Zhou Chen comforted Xiao Wu and admitted he had known she was a soul beast since they first met six years earlier.
• Zhou Chen told Xiao Wu he would spare Da Ming and Er Ming, then offered them Soul Slave Contracts in exchange for their lives.

Zhou Chen offered to heal the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python in exchange for their agreement to God's Contracts, while Xiao Wu pleaded with them to accept. Before they could decide, Bi Ji arrived and healed them herself, then revealed that she had known Xiao Wu's mother.

• Zhou Chen showed the brothers a Rebirth Pill and promised to restore their injuries if they agreed to his God's Contracts.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python rebuked the Titan Giant Ape for considering submission, and Xiao Wu tearfully begged both brothers to accept Zhou Chen's terms.
• A surge of emerald light healed the brothers and regenerated their severed limbs, frustrating Zhou Chen's plan to secure their agreement.
• Bi Ji arrived, identified herself as chief of the Emerald Swan clan, and praised the brothers' cultivation.
• Bi Ji comforted Xiao Wu and revealed that she had been friends with Xiao Wu's mother, who was killed while Bi Ji was asleep at the Lake of Life.

Bi Ji healed Xiao Wu and revealed the presence of the Star Dou Great Forest’s hidden ferocious beasts, while Di Tian appeared and confronted Zhou Chen. After restoring his destroyed Soul Rings, Zhou Chen faced Di Tian in the sky, where Di Tian attacked him with the Black Dragon Sword.

• Bi Ji comforted Xiao Wu after her painful memories returned and healed the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Zhou Chen sensed a disturbance overhead and discovered Di Tian, a colossal black dragon, above the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhou Chen used the System to restore three destroyed Soul Rings, returning his Soul Power to level 60 despite having too few Gold Yuan Points to feel confident against Di Tian.
• Di Tian gathered life energy through his domain, accused Zhou Chen of invading the Lake of Life and harming young soul beasts, and demanded to know how he wanted to die.
• Zhou Chen recognized Di Tian and revealed that he knew about Gu Yuena, prompting Di Tian to attack with the Black Dragon Sword.

Zhou Chen survived Di Tian’s Space Black Hole by using the Heaven Annihilating Seal, then tried to stop the fight by threatening to reveal the Silver Dragon King’s hiding place. Di Tian attacked anyway, and Zhou Chen used Hundredfold Amplification to prepare to fight back.

• Di Tian attacked Zhou Chen with the Black Dragon Sword and trapped him with Space Guidance—Space Black Hole.
• Zhou Chen used the Heaven Annihilating Seal to destroy the black hole, then healed his backlash with a Rebirth Pill.
• Di Tian recognized Zhou Chen as a threat and decided he had to kill him before he grew stronger.
• Zhou Chen told Di Tian he had arranged for the God Realm to learn that the Silver Dragon King was hiding in the Star Dou Great Forest, but Di Tian refused to back down.
• Di Tian unleashed Ten Thousand Dragons Flame, and Zhou Chen activated By Heaven's Mandate, Yellow Emperor's Decree: Hundredfold Amplification.
• After his strength increased a hundredfold, Zhou Chen transformed into golden light and began his counterattack with Imperial Sky Shocking Fist.

Zhou Chen and Di Tian fought with their strongest powers as both sought to decide the battle in a single strike. Their clash drew the other great beasts to the Lake of Life, where a mysterious female voice stopped Bear Lord from attacking the humans and insisted they wait for the duel to end.

• Zhou Chen used Imperial Sky Shocking Fist to batter Di Tian in dragon form, but Di Tian took human form and prepared to fight back.
• Zhou Chen summoned the Ancient Emperor Seal while Di Tian unleashed Black Sun Shines and the Dragon God Claw.
• Zhou Chen and Di Tian struck at the same time, creating a vast energy storm and a black hole above Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ten Thousand Demons King, Bear Lord, Scarlet King, Zi Ji, and Tiger King emerged from the Lake of Life and watched the duel.
• Bear Lord prepared to kill Yu Tianmeng, Meng Yiran, Tang San, and the others, but Xiao Wu tried to stop him.
• A female voice from the Lake of Life told Bear Lord to wait until Di Tian and Zhou Chen had decided the victor.

Zhou Chen defeated Di Tian with the Ancient Emperor Seal but spared his life, turning the battle into goodwill ahead of his planned negotiation with Gu Yuena. After his amplification ended, Zhou Chen descended to the ground weakened, while Di Tian promised not to make trouble for him.

• A mysterious female voice ordered Bear Lord to wait, and Yu Tianmeng recognized her as the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena.
• Zhou Chen’s Ancient Emperor Seal pierced Di Tian’s spatial barriers and struck him, sending him hurtling toward the Lake of Life.
• The Titan Giant Ape caught Di Tian and used his Gravity Control Domain to slow his fall, while Bi Ji and the other beasts gathered around him.
• Bi Ji healed Di Tian, who realized Zhou Chen had spared him and ordered the ferocious beasts not to attack Zhou Chen.
• Zhou Chen’s amplification expired, and he used the Xuanyuan Sword to descend safely; Di Tian then promised not to make trouble for him.

Zhou Chen presented a device he called the Soul Beast Breeding Amplifier, claiming the Goddess of Life had made it to boost soul beast populations and growth tenfold. As Gu Yuena and Di Tian reacted to its promise, the chapter recounted how the Divine Realm’s war against the Dragon God and its later actions had driven the Soul Beast Clan into decline.

• Zhou Chen told Gu Yuena, Di Tian, and the others that the Goddess of Life had created the Soul Beast Breeding Amplifier to help soul beasts.
• Zhou Chen explained that the device would multiply the reproduction, growth, and cultivation rates of soul beasts in its habitat by ten.
• Gu Yuena and Di Tian recognized the Soul Beast Clan’s dire situation, while younger soul beasts struggled to understand their concern.
• The chapter recounted how the Dragon God War shattered the True Dragon Clan, left the Soul Beast Clan without a leader, and allowed humanity’s soul masters to rise.
• The account described how the Angel God, Sea God, and Asura God’s agents hunted soul beasts, with Shu Pulos establishing prisons such as the Dragon Graveyard.

Zhou Chen and Gu Yuena negotiated the transfer of the Soul Beast Breeding Booster, then bound their agreement with an Equality Contract. After Gu Yuena obtained the device, she activated it in Lake of Life, and its green light spread across the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Gu Yuena agreed to spend a day and night with Yu Tianmeng in exchange for the Soul Beast Breeding Booster, and Zhou Chen proposed an Equality Contract to secure their deal.
• Gu Yuena discovered she could not read Zhou Chen’s modern script, so Xiao Wu read and explained the contract before Gu Yuena and Zhou Chen placed their spiritual imprints on it.
• The Equality Contract took effect with a voice of immense power, leading Gu Yuena to suspect Zhou Chen had powerful backing beyond the Douluo God Realm.
• Zhou Chen handed the Soul Beast Breeding Booster to Gu Yuena and explained that it could cover nearly all of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Gu Yuena cast the Booster into Lake of Life, where it emitted a green pillar of light that spread over the forest.

Gu Yuena saw the Soul Beast Breeding Amplifier boost the Star Dou Great Forest’s life force and fate, while Di Tian broke through to 8.8 million years of cultivation. After taking Yu Tianmeng to her underwater temple, Gu Yuena began considering how to persuade Zhou Chen to provide more amplifiers for other soul beast habitats, and identified Bi Ji and Zi JI as possible bargaining chips.

• Gu Yuena realized the amplifier could help soul beasts flourish, and Di Tian broke through to 8.8 million years of cultivation under its effects.
• Gu Yuena thanked Zhou Chen, who said he wanted her to remember his kindness, and then honored her promise to take Yu Tianmeng to the bottom of the Lake of Life.
• Yu Tianmeng began her system check-in inside Gu Yuena’s temple and lost consciousness as powerful silver light burst from her body.
• Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts proposed negotiating with Zhou Chen for more amplifiers to help the Sunset Forest, the Far North, and sea soul beasts.
• Gu Yuena concluded that Zhou Chen liked beautiful women and turned her attention to Bi Ji and Zi JI as possible ways to negotiate.

Gu Yuena decided to offer Bi Ji and Zi Ji to Zhou Chen in exchange for more soul beast amplifiers, despite Di Tian’s objections. While Zhou Chen waited by the Lake of Life, he went searching for Zhao Wuji and Oscar and discovered that Ma Hongjun had been captured by Black-Robed Men.

• Gu Yuena ordered Bi Ji and Zi Ji to attend Zhou Chen so the soul beast clan could obtain more amplifiers, and overruled Di Tian’s proposal to seize them by force.
• Bi Ji agreed to help the clan, and Zi Ji accepted the plan; Gu Yuena said they would act in one day.
• Zhou Chen and the others set up camp beside the Lake of Life, while Xiao Wu remained alone by the lake, distressed after her identity was exposed.
• Ning Rongrong pointed out that Zhao Wuji and Ma Hongjun had not arrived, so Zhou Chen flew off to search for them.
• Zhou Chen found Zhao Wuji badly injured and Oscar tending to him, while Ma Hongjun was missing; Zhao Wuji said Black-Robed Men had captured him.

Zhou Chen learned that the Holy Spirit Church had captured Ma Hongjun and agreed to search for him while the group prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest. After Yu Tianmeng returned with a breakthrough, Gu Yuena gave Zhou Chen a protective dragon scale and announced she had another gift for him.

• Zhou Chen returned to the Lake of Life with the injured Zhao Wuji and Oscar, and told everyone that Black-Robed Men had taken Ma Hongjun.
• Oscar explained that the attackers had summoned corpses and skeletons, leading Zhou Chen and the others to identify them as members of the Holy Spirit Church.
• Zhou Chen said the church had likely targeted Ma Hongjun because of his Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul, and Ning Rongrong proposed leaving the forest to rescue him after Yu Tianmeng returned.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu reacted with anger and guilt, while Zhou Chen promised to have Purple Micro Palace search for Ma Hongjun.
• The next morning, Gu Yuena and Yu Tianmeng emerged from a spatial gate, and Yu Tianmeng revealed that she had reached level 85.
• Gu Yuena gave Zhou Chen Silver Dragon King's Protection, a dragon scale that could block one attack from even a first-class god, then called for Bi Ji and Zi Ji.

Zhang Luo Shen faced Prince Xue Xing’s attempt to force her into marriage and seize control of the Silves Kingdom. After she revealed Zhou Chen’s Big Dipper Token, Xue Xing and his retainers fell to their knees and begged for mercy.

• Zhang Luo Shen and Zhang Ling Yun waited in the palace to receive Prince Xue Xing, fearing the Heaven Dou Empire would force the betrothal.
• Prince Xue Xing arrived with powerful retainers, insulted the Silver Moon Family, and ordered his men to capture Zhang Luo Shen and Zhang Ling Yun.
• Zhang Luo Shen declared that she was Zhou Chen’s woman, stopping the retainers in their tracks.
• Zhang Luo Shen threw Prince Xue Xing the Big Dipper Token, and he recognized its authority to summon Purple Micro Palace’s Titled Douluos.
• Prince Xue Xing and the threatening retainers prostrated themselves and pleaded with Zhang Luo Shen to spare them.

After finding A Yin reborn as Blue Silver Grass, Zhou Chen brought her toward Heaven Dou City and collected Tang Hao’s body. Back in the city, Yu Tianmeng suggested Blue Tyrant Academy as a source of commoner soul masters for Purple Micro Palace, but Zhou Chen worried the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family might use it to infiltrate his organization.

• Zhou Chen located A Yin’s cave, where Bi Ji explained that the Blue Silver Emperor had sacrificed herself and regressed into Blue Silver Grass.
• Yu Tianmeng began digging up A Yin so she could be moved to Heaven Dou City, while Zhou Chen collected Tang Hao’s body from the mountaintop.
• Five days later, Zhou Chen worked on plans to recruit thousands of soul masters for Purple Micro Palace, and Yu Tianmeng suggested absorbing Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Yu Tianmeng explained that her aunt Liu Erlong had founded the academy, which accepted only commoner students and had the scale Zhou Chen needed.
• Zhou Chen suspected that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family had funded Blue Tyrant Academy and worried it might use Purple Micro Palace’s involvement to gain influence.

Tang Yuehua learned from Xue Qinghe that Tang Hao had died while serving as Purple Micro Palace’s First Guest Elder, and Zhou Chen confirmed the news. After seeing Tang Hao’s body, she grieved and asked to take him back to the Clear Sky Sect for burial, while Zhou Chen revealed that Tang Hao might be revived if his soul could be found.

• Tang Yuehua asked Zhou Chen whether Tang Hao was alive and revealed that Xue Qinghe had given her the news.
• Zhou Chen confirmed Tang Hao had died, though he did not know whether the Holy Spirit Church or Spirit Hall was responsible.
• Tang Yuehua questioned how Xue Qinghe knew the cause of Tang Hao’s death, and Zhou Chen privately considered whether Qian Renxue might be involved.
• Zhou Chen brought out Tang Hao’s body, and Tang Yuehua embraced it and wept over their twelve years apart.
• Tang Yuehua asked to take Tang Hao’s body to the Clear Sky Sect, and Zhou Chen agreed while explaining that finding his soul might allow his revival.