Chapter Summaries

Xu Tiandi took command as Federation aircraft and elite Soul Masters overwhelmed the remaining Green Skull members and killed three ferocious beasts. After the defenders celebrated, Lu Jun warned Leng Yaozhu that the Demon Empress was watching from the sea and told her to have Xu Tiandi deal with her.

• Xu Tiandi praised Dong Zian for defending the City of the Extreme North and took over the battlefield.
• Federation aircraft dropped rune devices while more than a hundred armored Soul Masters arrived and subdued the surviving Green Skull members.
• Federation experts bound the Demon Spirit Great White Shark King and two Two Hundred Thousand Year Octopus Ferocious Beasts, then killed them with dark-blue energy needles.
• Three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings emerged from the beasts' corpses, and Dong Zian and the defenders cheered at the Federation's victory.
• Lu Jun told Leng Yaozhu that the Demon Empress was observing from deep waters about a hundred miles north and asked her to inform Xu Tiandi.

Leng Yaozhu relayed Lu Jun’s warning about the Demon Empress’s hidden presence, prompting Xu Tiandi to pursue her. As the Demon Empress realized Lu Jun had exposed her, she was left wary of facing both him and Xu Tiandi.

• Leng Yaozhu warned Xu Tiandi that the Demon Empress was concealed in the northern sea, without revealing that Lu Jun had alerted her.
• Xu Tiandi ordered the battlefield secured, then used Shrink the Ground to Inches to head toward the Demon Empress’s hiding place.
• Lu Jun chose to conserve the Ice Abyss Sword’s God-tier energy and planned to observe the confrontation, intervening only if the chance arose to kill the Demon Empress.
• The Demon Empress watched the Federation’s forces secure the battlefield and grew alarmed when Xu Tiandi approached her hiding place.
• The Demon Empress realized Lu Jun had exposed her and became wary of facing him alongside Xu Tiandi.

The Demon Empress tried to flee from Xu Tiandi, but he slowed her with his staff and sent the Purple Blaze Annihilation Dragon after her. She transformed into a human form and revealed that she had attained Divine Power, while Xu Tiandi reacted with ecstatic excitement at proof that his own path to godhood remained possible.

• The Demon Empress fled into deeper waters, but Xu Tiandi used his staff to slow her escape.
• Xu Tiandi's Purple Blaze Annihilation Dragon caught up and attacked the Demon Empress.
• The Demon Empress transformed into a woman and forced Xu Tiandi's Spiritual Power out of the violet-gold sea around her.
• The Demon Empress declared that both her Spiritual Power and Soul Power had reached the divine level, though the Douluo Star Plane denied her a god position.
• The Demon Empress vowed to destroy the plane and use humanity's negative emotions to create her own God Realm.
• Xu Tiandi laughed with ecstasy at the proof that godhood was attainable, and the Demon Empress demanded to know why he was laughing.

Xu Tiandi revealed a half Divine Position and pursued the fleeing Demon Empress, while Lu Jun observed his hidden power through the Ice Abyss God Eye. The Demon Empress called for help, and a sinister rift opened to a destructive black world.

• Xu Tiandi broke through an invisible barrier and manifested half of a Divine Position, terrifying the Demon Empress into fleeing.
• Lu Jun saw Xu Tiandi’s half Divine Position, Level 10 Soul Tools, Divine Artifact Cane, and the national destiny gathered within it.
• Xu Tiandi pursued the Demon Empress, intending to take her Divine Power and use the Golden Ancient Tree’s Life Origin to ascend to godhood.
• The Demon Empress burned her Origin Divine Power and demanded that her accomplices open a passage or help her fight Xu Tiandi.
• The ocean trembled as a massive spatial rift opened before the Demon Empress, revealing a destructive black world.

After the Demon Empress escaped through a spatial rift, Xu Tiandi and Lu Jun wondered why the Abyss Plane had not launched a full invasion. Back at the battlefield, Xu Tiandi distributed the immense spoils, awarding five rare Soul Bones to Lu Jun.

• The Demon Empress fled through a rift that closed after a terrifying Abyss aura and godly pressure halted Xu Tiandi.
• Xu Tiandi and Lu Jun separately questioned what the Abyss Plane feared and why it had not invaded Douluo Star outright.
• Xu Tiandi returned to the City of the Extreme North and gave Leng Yaozhu several Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings for the Spirit Pagoda to manage.
• Dong Zian presented the recovered Soul Bones, and Xu Tiandi awarded one Two Hundred Thousand Year Octopus Ferocious Beast Soul Bone each to Dong Zian and Leng Yaozhu.
• Xu Tiandi gave Lu Jun the remaining three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, the Two Hundred Thousand Year Demon Spirit Great White Shark King Soul Bone, and the Five Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

Lu Jun received five powerful Soul Bones from Xu Tiandi and realized they completed a set of Soul Bones above one hundred thousand years old. He asked to exchange them for Ice Attribute bones, but Xu Tiandi explained that the Federation had none to spare, leaving Lu Jun to accept the Water Attribute bones.

• Xu Tiandi gave Lu Jun five Soul Bones, including gifts from Leng Yaozhu, and congratulated her on reaching the Limit Douluo rank.
• Xu Tiandi urged Dong Zian to absorb his Soul Bone and prove his potential to reach the quasi-god realm.
• Lu Jun realized the five new Soul Bones completed his set and could help him break through to Soul Emperor.
• Lu Jun asked Xu Tiandi whether he could exchange the Water Attribute Soul Bones for Ice Attribute ones, but Xu Tiandi explained that the Federation had no other hundred thousand year Ice Attribute bones.
• Lu Jun put away the Soul Bones, and Dong Zian pointed out that they could still raise Lu Jun's Soul Power several levels despite their attribute mismatch.

Lu Jun refused to absorb the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones in the Extreme North and left with Leng Yaozhu after Xu Tiandi encouraged his future progress. Xu Tiandi then revealed that he had sensed a hidden gaze that saw through his secrets and ordered a sweeping search, but his first inspection found no suspect.

• Xu Tiandi agreed that Lu Jun could wait until returning to Mingdu to absorb the two Soul Bones.
• Leng Yaozhu took Lu Jun away after Xu Tiandi praised his strength and urged him to pursue the Super Douluo threshold.
• Xu Tiandi told Dong Zian that a concealed gaze had seen through his secrets and might belong to someone from Shrek Academy or the Tang Sect.
• Dong Zian gathered everyone in the harbor district at the central square for Xu Tiandi to inspect.
• Xu Tiandi found no suspicious person and unleashed his Spiritual Power to search the entire city and surrounding ice plains.

Lu Jun secretly saw the level-twelve God-Slaying Fixed-Mounted Soul Cannon Shell inside Xu Tiandi, but Xu Tiandi failed to identify him and blamed Shrek and the Tang Sect. As Lu Jun told Leng Yaozhu what he had discovered, she reacted in horror and brought their car to a sudden stop.

• Xu Tiandi searched the Extreme North for the mysterious observer but found no trace and suspected Shrek or the Tang Sect.
• Xu Tiandi ruled out Lu Jun and unknowingly blamed Shrek and the Tang Sect for the intrusion.
• Leng Yaozhu sensed Xu Tiandi's Divine Origin Realm Spiritual Power while driving Lu Jun back to Mingdu and asked what he had done.
• Lu Jun explained that he had seen a level-twelve God-Slaying Fixed-Mounted Soul Cannon Shell inside Xu Tiandi, which he believed was Eternal Heaven Kingdom.
• Leng Yaozhu was so shocked by Lu Jun's revelation that she stopped infusing Soul Power into the car, causing it to brake suddenly.

Leng Yaozhu and Lu Jun discussed the terrifying weapon hidden inside Xu Tiandi before recalling the forbidden zone. There, Leng Yaozhu oversaw Lu Jun and the Ice Empress as they began a highest-level Symbiotic Soul Spirit Contract, which fused into a mark and entered Lu Jun.

• Leng Yaozhu and Lu Jun realized Xu Tiandi contained an intact Level 12 God-Slaying Fixed-Mounted Soul Cannon Shell, and agreed to keep the secret buried.
• Leng Yaozhu credited Lu Jun with helping her overcome her past, reach rank 99, and achieve true Ultimate Fire.
• In the Extreme North's forbidden zone, Leng Yaozhu asked Lu Jun and the Ice Empress whether they freely trusted each other and would share their powers and destinies.
• Lu Jun and the Ice Empress each gave their consent and contributed a drop of essence blood to the contract runes Leng Yaozhu created.
• The two contract runes fused into a single mark carrying both their auras, then entered Lu Jun's brow.

Lu Jun’s Spirit Soul Contract with the Ice Empress progressed unusually smoothly because his strength and life essence overwhelmed the contract’s normal effects. As the Ice Empress continued merging with him, Leng Yaozhu explained how Spirit Souls survived and grew through the Spirit Pagoda’s symbiotic system, then quietly thanked Lu Jun.

• The Ice Empress’s phantom began merging with Lu Jun, but he remained conscious and felt little effect from the contract.
• Leng Yaozhu explained that Lu Jun’s extraordinary foundation disrupted the usual contract process, leaving the Ice Empress to work harder to complete their connection.
• The Snow Empress asked whether a Spirit Soul died with its Soul Master, and Leng Yaozhu explained that Spirit Souls could return to the Spirit Pagoda for preservation and recovery.
• Leng Yaozhu described how Spirit Souls grew through Soul Masters’ cultivation and could later choose new partners, while sharing Soul Skills with them.
• Leng Yaozhu approached Lu Jun with rare vulnerability and thanked him.

Lu Jun reassured Leng Yaozhu that revealing his true identity would not change their bond as teacher and student. Leng Yaozhu began explaining her past feelings for Yun Ming and why she had started to see him and their classmates differently.

• Leng Yaozhu thanked Lu Jun for trusting her with his identity and questioned whether she was still qualified to be his teacher.
• Lu Jun asked Leng Yaozhu to keep treating him as the student she had raised, and she agreed that she only needed time to adjust.
• Lu Jun noticed Yun Ming's name upset Leng Yaozhu and used his aura to calm her emotions.
• Leng Yaozhu told Lu Jun that she and Yun Ming had attended Shrek Academy in the same era, when she had been drawn to his brilliance.
• Leng Yaozhu recalled that as she learned more about Shrek Academy's ideals, Yun Ming and many of their classmates began to seem wrong to her.

Leng Yaozhu told Lu Jun that Yun Ming had changed after Shrek Academy’s followers began worshipping Sea God Tang San, becoming manipulative and careless with women’s feelings. She recalled leaving the Academy and confronting Yun Ming, but had not yet revealed how she answered him.

• Leng Yaozhu said she and Guan Yue traced the changes in people at Shrek Academy to their unquestioning belief in Sea God Tang San.
• Leng Yaozhu described Yun Ming as once upright and principled, but later narrow-minded and fond of attracting women’s affection before rejecting them cruelly.
• Leng Yaozhu said she distanced herself from Yun Ming and Shrek Academy, then graduated from the Inner Courtyard.
• Leng Yaozhu recalled Yun Ming asking why she avoided him and whether she liked him.
• Lu Jun asked how Leng Yaozhu had answered, and she recalled feeling disappointment and fear when she looked at Yun Ming.

Leng Yaozhu told Lu Jun how Yun Ming had tried to force himself on her after she rejected him, leading her and Guan Yue to leave Shrek Academy. She admitted that she feared Lu Jun would change after revealing his identity, and he promised to remain the same person she knew.

• Leng Yaozhu recalled rejecting Yun Ming, who accused her of pretending not to like him and tried to grab her hand.
• Guan Yue intervened and stopped Yun Ming, after which Leng Yaozhu returned to the Spirit Pagoda and Guan Yue joined the War God Hall.
• Lu Jun understood that Leng Yaozhu's lingering pain came from losing faith in the honorable Yun Ming she had once known.
• Leng Yaozhu confessed that she feared Lu Jun would become unfamiliar and frightening after revealing his identity.
• Lu Jun embraced Leng Yaozhu and promised he would always remain the person she knew.

Leng Yaozhu’s years-old emotional knot dissolved as she found comfort in Lu Jun, allowing her to break through to Level 99 and transform her Sky Phoenix True Fire into Ultimate Fire. Back in the Soul Tool Car, she and Ice Empress teased Lu Jun before Leng Yaozhu explained why preserving Ice Empress and Snow Empress’s full strength would benefit them more than having Lu Jun fuse with their soul bones.

• In the Far North, Leng Yaozhu cried herself to sleep in Lu Jun’s arms, and her heart knot quietly melted away.
• Leng Yaozhu broke through to Level 99 Limit Douluo and transformed her Sky Phoenix True Fire into pure Ultimate Fire.
• In the Soul Tool Car, Leng Yaozhu blushed at the memory while Snow Empress and Ice Empress teased her and Lu Jun about their closeness.
• Ice Empress confirmed that her Soul Spirit Contract with Lu Jun preserved her original form and peak power.
• Leng Yaozhu advised Lu Jun to keep Ice Empress and Snow Empress’s soul bones intact so he could later equip them with specialized Dou Armor and strengthen them as allies.

After returning to Mingdu, Lu Jun decided to seek Nether King Douluo Ha Luosa at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, believing Ha Luosa knew his identity and had previously protected him. Leng Yaozhu worried about the meeting, but Lu Jun reassured her before entering alone.

• The Ice Empress teased Leng Yaozhu in the car as the group returned from the Extreme North to Mingdu.
• Leng Yaozhu asked Lu Jun what he planned to do with the five Water Attribute soul bones, and he said he would seek help from the Spirit Pagoda.
• Lu Jun named Ha Luosa and recalled how Ha Luosa had defended him during his previous identity test, leading him to suspect the Nether King Douluo had a powerful hidden trump card.
• Leng Yaozhu offered to accompany Lu Jun, but he reassured her that he would protect her and Leng Yulai if anything went wrong.
• The car arrived at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, and Lu Jun entered alone to meet Ha Luosa while Leng Yaozhu stayed behind and wished him caution.

Lu Jun asked Ha Luosa for a way to exchange his Water Attribute Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones for Ice Attribute ones. Ha Luosa led him through the Undead Plane and revealed that their destination was where Douluo Star Plane Origin Power was stored.

• Lu Jun asked Ha Luosa whether he knew a way to exchange five Water Attribute Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones for Ice Attribute Soul Bones, and Ha Luosa said he did.
• Lu Jun remained wary until Ha Luosa explained that he had concealed Lu Jun's identity and protected him when he was vulnerable.
• Ha Luosa led Lu Jun from the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters to a hidden teleportation gate in his office, and Lu Jun followed him through it.
• Lu Jun arrived with Ha Luosa in a vast hall containing a portal to the Undead Plane and several Elemental Secret Realms.
• Ha Luosa told Lu Jun that they would pass through the Undead Plane to reach the place where Douluo Star Plane Origin Power was stored.

Ha Luosa led Lu Jun through the Undead Plane, where Lu Jun discovered an undead army fighting the Abyss under the direction of Ha Luosa’s mysterious teacher. They passed through a gate into the Origin Land at Douluo Star’s core, which Ha Luosa said had not yet been invaded.

• Lu Jun entered the Undead Plane and saw vast undead legions marching through its dark landscape.
• Lu Jun used his Divine Eye to discover the undead army fighting Abyss beings through the Gates of the Undead.
• Ha Luosa explained that the Spirit Pagoda formed Undead Contracts with willing creatures in the plane and said all his Spirit Souls came from there.
• Ha Luosa called on his teacher to open a gate to Douluo Star’s core, and a voice welcomed Lu Jun as an honored guest.
• Ha Luosa and Lu Jun crossed the gate into the Origin Land and found its primordial energies still untouched by invasion.

Ha Luosa explained that the Undead Plane had helped defend Douluo Star from a god-level invader and used the plane’s Origin Energy and Lu Jun’s Ice Abyss Sword to transform his Water Attribute Soul Bones into Ultimate Ice Soul Bones. The transformation succeeded, and Lu Jun wondered whether the plane itself had chosen him.

• Ha Luosa told Lu Jun that a mysterious god-level being had spent ten thousand years trying to invade Douluo Star and steal its Origin Energy, while the Undead Plane helped protect the barriers.
• Ha Luosa explained that the plane’s power and the Ice Abyss Sword could transform Lu Jun’s five Water Attribute Soul Bones into Ice Attribute Soul Bones.
• Lu Jun summoned the Ice Abyss Sword and presented his five Soul Bones as Ha Luosa gathered the plane’s Origin Energy around them.
• Lu Jun infused the Soul Bones with the Ice Abyss Sword’s Divine Power, completing their transformation into three Ultimate Ice Soul Bones.
• Lu Jun sensed that the transformed Soul Bones were perfectly compatible with him, and Ha Luosa suggested the plane had acted from an instinct to help itself survive and grow.
• Lu Jun asked whether the plane had chosen him.

Lu Jun absorbed three top-tier ice-attribute soul bones in the Plane Origin space and rose to Soul Emperor Level sixty-six, then learned from Ha Luosa and his teacher that an Abyss invasion was expected within ten years. He returned to Spirit Pagoda Headquarters and called Leng Yaozhu to report that Ha Luosa was an ally whose origins were extraordinary.

• Ha Luosa explained that he served as the Douluo Star Plane's agent and offered Lu Jun a safe place to absorb his soul bones.
• Lu Jun absorbed the three soul bones without difficulty, reaching Soul Power Level sixty-six at nearly thirteen.
• Ha Luosa urged Lu Jun to prepare to forge his Two-Word Dou Armor, and Lu Jun hinted that he knew two beings stood behind Ha Luosa before disappearing from the Plane Origin space.
• Ha Luosa spoke with his teacher about Lu Jun's unlikely return to peak strength within ten years and the coming Abyss invasion, while they worried over Huo Yuhao's condition and Douluo Star's fate.
• Lu Jun appeared at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, called Leng Yaozhu, and told her Ha Luosa was on their side and had a remarkable background.

Lu Jun reunited with Leng Yaozhu and found Leng Yulai overwhelmed by the workload she had handled during her sister’s vacation. He revealed his plan to make Two-Word Dou Armor and that his Soul Power had reached level sixty-six, leaving Leng Yulai stunned.

• Lu Jun went to Leng Yaozhu’s office after learning she had returned to headquarters.
• Leng Yulai complained about the workload, clung to Lu Jun for help, and was pulled away by Leng Yaozhu.
• Leng Yaozhu explained that Leng Yulai was unused to handling so many documents and teased her about doing more work.
• Lu Jun told Leng Yaozhu that his Soul Power had reached level sixty-six and asked where Teacher Gu was so he could begin making his Two-Word Dou Armor.
• Leng Yulai questioned how Lu Jun had gained sixteen levels in a month, and Leng Yaozhu credited his Spirit Soul and rare Soul Bones.