Chapter Summaries

After severing his ties with Dai Hao, Huo Yuhao prepared to bury his mother while Chen Junting and Wuyan traveled to Volcano Island, where the Sun Moon and Heaven Dou Empires were contesting newly discovered fire-attribute metal deposits. As the two arrived, Wuyan attacked the Sun Moon navy with a vast Soul Power dragon claw.

• Huo Yuhao told Chen Junting he had cut ties with the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and carried his mother's urn; Chen Junting reminded him not to act impulsively again.
• Chen Junting received word that a volcanic island with valuable fire-attribute metals had emerged in disputed waters, and he arranged to meet Wuyan there.
• Huo Yuhao set off alone toward Shrek Academy to visit Dong'er, while Chen Junting and Wuyan traveled south to Volcano Island.
• The Sun Moon Empire's navy prepared to threaten the Heaven Dou Empire's fleet, then detected two approaching Titled Douluo-level figures.
• Chen Junting examined the island's Earth Vein and explained that he could sever and extract it with an Array Formation.
• Wuyan sensed a threat from the Sun Moon navy and unleashed a colossal Soul Power dragon claw over its fleet, terrifying both navies.

Wuyan and Chen Junting secured the volcanic island for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and extracted its earth vein, while the Heaven Soul Navy received the island and thirty percent of its rare metals. As they returned, Chen Junting considered whether the Heaven Dou Empire could defend the island against future Sun Moon Empire interference.

• Wuyan confronted the Sun Moon Navy commander and declared the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would take the volcanic island, prompting the Heaven Soul Navy to advance and the Sun Moon Navy to retreat.
• Wuyan negotiated with the Heaven Soul Navy, assigning the island and thirty percent of its rare metals to Heavenly Soul and seventy percent of the metals to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Chen Junting formed an array around the volcano, severed its branch earth vein from the main vein, and drew out its fire energy and primordial qi to create a dragon vein for the Necromancer Demigod Plane.
• Chen Junting returned to Wuyan after securing the earth vein, completing their agreement with the Heaven Soul Navy.
• On the journey home, Chen Junting and Wuyan discussed the island's strategic value, and Chen Junting worried about whether Heavenly Soul could protect it from future Sun Moon Empire actions.

Huo Yuhao mourned Huo Yun'er and tried to comfort Wang Dong'er, whose doubts about her memories and identity were worsening. Chen Junting suspected that Dong'er felt her life was an illusion, but Ning Tian responded with sympathy for her.

• Huo Yuhao knelt before Huo Yun'er's grave in the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's Mausoleum, and Wang Dong'er comforted him.
• Huo Yuhao sensed Wang Dong'er's turmoil and invited her to spend the day with him in Nine Treasures City.
• Ning Tian told Chen Junting that Wang Dong'er was in poor health and could only recover if she overcame her heart sickness.
• Chen Junting suspected that the exposed identity mark had made Wang Dong'er question whether her life was real, and he shared his theory with Ning Tian.
• Ning Tian listened to Chen Junting's explanation and said that Wang Dong'er was pitiful.

Chen Junting completed the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s Ice and Fire Dual Heaven Sect-Protecting Formation by transplanting the Golden Ancient Tree and bringing in two Dragon Veins. The formation created a cultivation environment and a powerful defense, and Electrolux praised Chen Junting’s Array Formation skills as having entered the hall.

• Chen Junting retrieved the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, transplanted the Golden Ancient Tree, and copied the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well’s terrain with the Eye of Destiny.
• Chen Junting discovered the Water Dragon King’s torso Soul Bone and the Fire Dragon King’s right arm Soul Bone, but left them in place because the Dragon Kings’ remains and cores sustained the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Gu Tianchen confirmed that the other ancient tree had been planted in the Mausoleum, and Electrolux released the two Dragon Veins from the Necromancer Demigod Plane.
• Chen Junting subdued the red and blue Dragon Veins and connected them to the Array Patterns and the two ancient trees, completing the Ice and Fire Dual Heaven Sect-Protecting Formation.
• The formation spread Primordial Qi and could create either a safe cultivation environment or a deadly defense, while Ning Bo Wen, Zhiyong, Ning Tian, and Wang Dong'er watched Chen Junting’s demonstration.
• Electrolux returned to Chen Junting’s Sea of Spirit and told him that his Array Formation attainments had entered the hall.

After testing the sect’s new protective formation, Chen Junting offered to teach Array Formations to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and make the wider system public. He revealed that he sought faith as a path to godhood, and the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life concealed the faith generated by Array Formations in the Douluo Plane.

• Wuyan tested the Ice and Fire Dual Heaven Formation, which trapped or destroyed intruders below Super Douluo strength.
• Chen Junting gave Ning Bo Wen two booklets of Array Formation notes for the sect’s disciples and proposed sharing a third booklet of formation patterns with the world.
• Chen Junting told Ning Bo Wen and the elders that he sought the Power of Faith, explaining that the First Generation Angel God had used faith to become a god.
• Ning Bo Wen proposed publicizing Chen Junting and forming agreements with major powers, but Chen Junting asked him to keep the founder’s identity anonymous and delay revealing it.
• The God of Destruction told the Goddess of Life about Chen Junting’s Array Formations, and they concealed the resulting faith from the other deities in the Douluo Plane.

Chen Junting took Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Ning Tian to the Necromancer Demigod Plane after recognizing why they had come to see him. In the God Realm, the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life began monitoring the Douluo Plane, prompting Tang San to conceal his concerns about their scrutiny.

• The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect mass-printed Chen Junting’s Array Formation insights and trained selected disciples to spread the knowledge.
• Chen Junting rested with Ning Tian, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong'er after finishing his final lesson for the sect disciples.
• Chen Junting recognized why Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er had sought him out, then transported them and Ning Tian to the Necromancer Demigod Plane with a Gray Hexagram Array.
• Wang Dong'er asked where they had arrived, while Ning Tian and Huo Yuhao complained that the spatial journey was uncomfortable.
• Tang San considered taking a break from monitoring the planes, but the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life arrived to observe the Douluo Plane and its potential successors.
• Tang San assured the Goddess of Life that he would act fairly, while the God of Destruction displayed the Douluo Plane and wondered why Tang San had seemed strange.

Wang Dong'er learned that Sea God Tang San was her father and that he had planned to use her as a pawn in a scheme that would have erased her identity. Huo Yuhao comforted her with the Lovesick Heartbreak Red while Chen Junting, Ning Tian, and Elder Yi left them alone.

• Elder Yi overlaid Wang Dong'er's memories, allowing her to disclose her suspicion that she was the Sea God's daughter.
• Chen Junting, Huo Yuhao, and Ning Tian confirmed that Wang Dong'er was Tang San's daughter, leaving her shaken by the revelation.
• Chen Junting recounted the story of the Imperial Auspicious Beast, and Elder Yi explained how Tang San intended to use Wang Dong'er in a plan that would have changed her into someone else.
• Huo Yuhao grew furious on Wang Dong'er's behalf as she confronted the possibility that her father had treated her as a weapon.
• Huo Yuhao gave Wang Dong'er a Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and Chen Junting and Ning Tian left with Elder Yi to give the pair time alone.

After Wang Dong'er was devastated by the truth about Tang San, Chen Junting proposed to Ning Tian with a Lovesick Heartbreak Red. Their mutual love transformed the flower, and Chen Junting urged Ning Tian to eat it so her martial soul could evolve.

• Chen Junting and Ning Tian worried that Wang Dong'er would struggle with what she had learned about Tang San, but trusted Huo Yuhao to support her.
• Chen Junting showed Ning Tian a second Lovesick Heartbreak Red and asked her to marry him, and she accepted.
• Chen Junting and Ning Tian joined their blood drops on the flower, transforming it from white into pink and causing the Wujue Stone to crack.
• The transformed Lovesick Heartbreak Red seemed to bear fruit, and Chen Junting told Ning Tian it could give her martial soul a new transformation.
• Ning Tian asked Chen Junting to protect her as she prepared to eat the flower.

Ning Tian absorbed Lovesick Heartbreak Red, transforming her Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and raising her amplification power while awakening the Time Attribute. Chen Junting considered how she could develop that power and reflected on using Ring Cleansing to pursue stronger, potentially divine skills.

• Ning Tian absorbed Lovesick Heartbreak Red as Chen Junting watched her Martial Soul merge with the herb’s power.
• Chen Junting sensed a strange power affecting memories and his body, tested it by cutting his finger, and realized it was the power of time.
• Ning Tian completed her absorption at rank 70 and revealed her transformed Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, whose amplification increased by fifteen percent per ten levels.
• Chen Junting showed Ning Tian that her Martial Soul had gained the Time Attribute, and she worried that Time Attribute Soul Beasts were too rare to provide a suitable soul ring.
• Chen Junting proposed developing Self-Created Soul Skills and showed Ning Tian a God-bestowed Soul Ring as he considered pursuing Self-Condensed Soul Rings and Ring Cleansing.
• Chen Junting reflected that Divine Skills likely came from soul skills transformed through growth, and noted that Ring Cleansing would not erase contracted Soul Spirits.

Chen Junting and Ning Tian discovered that Lovesick Heartbreak Red had produced a pair of rings that bound their souls and marked their engagement. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er remained trapped in the Necromancer Demigod Plane until Chen Junting and Ning Tian remembered them during a group meal.

• Chen Junting and Ning Tian agreed to wait until the next day before Ning Tian absorbed Aromatic Silk Beauty as her next Soul Ring and formed a contract with her second Soul Spirit.
• Chen Junting noticed the fruit-like object left behind by Lovesick Heartbreak Red and suggested that he try eating it, but Ning Tian offered it to him instead.
• When Chen Junting and Ning Tian touched the flower's stem together, the fruit split and its light formed rings on their middle fingers, binding their souls and marking their engagement.
• Huo Yuhao used a warming Soul Tool to comfort Wang Dong'er in the Necromancer Demigod Plane, and they wondered whether Chen Junting and Ning Tian had forgotten them.
• After Chen Junting and Ning Tian encountered Wu Feng and joined a group meal, they remembered Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er and opened the gate to free them.

Chen Junting forced Aromatic Silk Beauty to produce ten portions of essence before it formed a Spirit Pact with Ning Tian. The pact raised Ning Tian to Level 75 and gave her transformed Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda a powerful new Soul Skill.

• Chen Junting used Life Energy to make Aromatic Silk Beauty produce ten portions of essence, despite its protests.
• Chen Junting stored the essence in Jade Boxes, and Aromatic Silk Beauty complained to Ning Tian before agreeing to the Spirit Pact.
• Chen Junting set up the Spirit Pact Array, and Aromatic Silk Beauty merged with Ning Tian, leaving behind a crimson Soul Ring and a Torso Bone.
• Ning Tian broke through Level 70 and rose to Level 75 as the Soul Ring and Soul Bone fused with her.
• Ning Tian explained that her new Soul Skill halved all Soul Power consumption and kept its target in peak condition.

The Demon Queen called on a wary ally to strengthen her efforts to break Tang San’s seal while Lan Fozi was hunted by two Sea God Family Titled Douluo. The Demon Queen rescued her injured daughter and vowed revenge on the Sea God Family.

• The Demon Queen used a purple-black mark to contact an ally, who poured mist into her and strengthened her as she struggled against Tang San’s restraints.
• Two Titled Douluo Sea Soul Masters caught up with Lan Fozi, called her a remnant, and severely wounded her by severing half of her right whale fin.
• The Demon Queen destroyed the two Titled Douluo with a furious attack and swallowed their corpses in an Abyssal Maw.
• The Demon Queen tended to Lan Fozi’s injury and vowed to make the Sea God Family pay.

The Demon Queen persuaded the Saint Emperor to cooperate, proposing that they exploit a continental war to conceal their plans and let her pursue godhood. Their efforts were complicated by the Sun Moon Empire making peace, so they planned to remove its military disadvantages and stir conflict by other means.

• The Demon Queen confronted the Saint Emperor about the Sea God’s attention to the Douluo Plane and convinced him that they needed to act during continental chaos.
• The Demon Queen proposed triggering a war and becoming a god at the same time the Saint Emperor reached his final step, and the Saint Emperor agreed.
• Ye Xishui reported that the Sun Moon Empire had made peace and lacked an advantage against the Three Great Douluo Empires and their allies.
• The Demon Queen proposed restraining Di Tian and carrying out a Soul Extermination Operation with the Evil Emperor’s help.
• The Saint Emperor offered to use Parasitism to control the empires’ leaders and provoke internal strife, while Ye Xishui vowed to destroy Shrek Academy and the other two powers before attacking the Star Dou Forest.

Xu Tianran agreed to cooperate with the Holy Spirit Cult on a Soul Hunt Operation against Shrek Academy, the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and the Body Sect, timed for his wedding in two months. Meanwhile, Demon Queen offered the Evil Emperor a Method to Become a God in exchange for cooperation, and he agreed.

• Ye Xishui proposed wiping out Shrek Academy, the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and the Body Sect, and Xu Tianran agreed to provide six Level 9 Soul Engineers for an attack on his wedding day.
• Xu Tianran ordered Shadow Douluo Xue Chen to investigate the Body Sect's location through agents in the Heaven Soul Imperial Family and said they should target Shrek Academy and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect first.
• Ye Xishui told Zhongli Wu to hunt Sea Soul Beasts with Demon Queen and break through to Level 99 before joining the attack with four Limit Douluo.
• Demon Queen healed the Evil Emperor's injuries with Life Energy and offered him the Method to Become a God.
• Demon Queen explained that the method was related to an existence within the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Evil Emperor agreed to cooperate.

Chen Junting and Ning Tian’s engagement ceremony was set for two months later, the same day Xu Tianran planned to launch the secret Soul Hunt Operation. Meanwhile, Chen Junting gathered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s talented young fighters to cultivate with the purified energy from the Ten-Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, and Huo Yuhao left to return to Shrek Academy and deal with Dai Huabin.

• Ning Bo Wen set Chen Junting and Ning Tian’s grand engagement ceremony for two months later, and news of it spread among the major forces.
• Xu Tianran welcomed the coinciding date in secret, intending to use the engagement and Xu Tianran’s wedding to conceal the Soul Hunt Operation.
• Chen Junting summoned Ning Tian, the Soul Duelling Competition’s Main Team members, Ji Juechen, Ye Guyi, and Nan Qiuqiu to a cultivation basement beneath the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Chen Junting used an Array Formation to separate the Ten-Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow’s cold from its Primordial Qi, preserving the cold in an ice ball.
• Chen Junting sent Huo Yuhao to escort Wang Dong'er back to Shrek Academy and suggested he speak with Dai Huabin about the Duchess’s death.
• Wu Feng encouraged Huo Yuhao to confront Dai Huabin, then joined the others as they gathered in the basement and were stunned by its dense energy.

Chen Junting created Energy Crystals from the Ten-Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and led the group into a month of secluded cultivation. After the others made rapid breakthroughs, Dugu Xin became the last to advance, and the chapter ended as he opened his eyes and acknowledged he was the last one.

• Chen Junting distributed Energy Crystals to Ning Tian and the others, then gave the ninth crystal to Nan Qiuqiu and ordered everyone to cultivate until they reached their next ten-level threshold.
• Chen Junting used the Gathering Yuan Formation, the Golden Ancient Tree, and Ice and Fire Energy to strengthen the group and accelerate their cultivation.
• Nan Qiuqiu and Xiao Xiao broke through to Soul Emperor, while Chen Junting stopped Ning Tian from forming a soul ring until he could help her obtain a suitable one.
• Wu Feng broke through and learned that her grandfather had prepared a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring for her Seventh Soul Ring.
• Ye Guyi, Ji Juechen, Gu Tianchen, Huo Yuhao, and Chen Junting made further progress, while Dugu Xin remained behind because he had to manage the poison in his body.
• Five days later, Dugu Xin broke through, and Chen Junting sealed off the disturbance as Dugu Xin opened his eyes and said he was the last one.

Chen Junting explained the Poison Core Method, which could contain Dugu Xin’s deadly toxins and be passed down, though it required suppressing the poison and melting a high-year poison-type Soul Bone. He offered Dugu Xin the Mutated Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core as a vessel and proposed testing the method at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after he absorbed his Eighth Soul Ring.

• Chen Junting told Dugu Xin that he could resolve the poison in his body and help his Martial Soul evolve with the Poison Core Method.
• Chen Junting explained that the method required someone to suppress Dugu Xin’s poison, a poison-type Soul Bone over fifty thousand years old, and melting that Soul Bone.
• Ning Tian offered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s help in finding a suitable Soul Bone for Dugu Xin and future talented members of the Dugu Clan.
• Chen Junting revealed the Mutated Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core and explained that it could serve as a Poison Core vessel and help Dugu Xin’s Martial Soul evolve.
• Chen Junting promised to take Dugu Xin to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after absorbing his Eighth Soul Ring so they could develop the Poison Core Method, and Dugu Xin agreed.

After the sect learned of the group’s rapid breakthroughs, Chen Junting explained that he planned to test a Self-Condensed Soul Ring, while Wu Feng received a prepared Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. Wu Feng absorbed the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower’s Soul Ring and Right Arm Bone, bringing her Martial Soul to Ultimate Fire and raising her to rank 74.

• Ning Bo Wen and the Grand Elders celebrated the group’s breakthroughs, then learned from Chen Junting that he intended to test self-condensing Soul Rings.
• Wu Feng refused to absorb her grandfather Wuyan’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring under normal circumstances, so Chen Junting proposed using the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower to help her withstand it.
• Chen Junting brought Wu Feng to the Fire Vein’s core region, where Electrolux controlled the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower into offering its Soul Ring and Right Arm Bone.
• Wu Feng absorbed the blood-red Soul Ring and Right Arm Bone, and her Martial Soul transformed into Ultimate Fire.
• Wu Feng awoke at rank 74, tested her new fiery power, and hurriedly dressed after Chen Junting reminded her she was uncovered.

Chen Junting used a God-bestowed Soul Ring and Di Yao’s lifeblood essence to create a Rose Gold Eighth Soul Ring modeled on the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. He successfully reached Soul Douluo and learned two destiny-based Soul Skills.

• Chen Junting returned the preserved Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower to Wu Feng and congratulated her on becoming a Soul Master of the Ultimate Fire attribute.
• Chen Junting broke a God-bestowed Soul Ring bead and used the Eye of Destiny to observe and disrupt the formation of its Soul Skills.
• Chen Junting used nine drops of Di Yao’s lifeblood essence to inscribe new lines into the nine golden rings, forming a Rose Gold Eighth Soul Ring.
• Di Yao sensed Chen Junting’s success from Shrek Inner Academy and excitedly realized he had succeeded.
• Chen Junting learned that his new Soul Skills were Destiny Judgment and Destiny’s Sorrow.

Chen Junting cleansed the soul skills from his Third Soul Ring and Fourth Soul Skill, trying to preserve their energy by absorbing it into the Seven Kills Sword. The rings were replaced by new transparent stars, and he began building them up with Primordial Qi to bear hundred-thousand-year strength.

• Chen Junting decided to test engraving new Soul Skill Patterns onto his Third Soul Ring and Fourth Soul Skill after cleansing away their existing skills.
• He realized he might preserve the rings’ soul skills, mental power, and Soul Beast origins by absorbing them into the Seven Kills Sword while the rings were stars.
• Chen Junting used Shrek’s Ring Cleansing Secret Art on the two stars, then drew their cleansed energy into the sword.
• The stars’ energy and ring foundations began draining into the Seven Kills Sword, and Chen Junting could not stop the process.
• Chen Junting poured Primordial Qi into the emptied ring positions, forming new transparent stars once the original energy had fully merged into his Martial Soul.
• Chen Junting recognized that the process might let soul masters obtain new high-age soul rings after cleansing old ones, and began strengthening the new stars toward hundred-thousand-year capacity.