Chapter Summaries

After Suotuo City fell under Spirit Hall's control, Xu Yu organized its administration and reviewed the campaign's spoils and casualties. He ordered the top reward recipients to receive actual coins in person, intending to make the rewards a public spectacle.

• Xu Yu left Snow Woman and Ah Yin to explore and went to the City Lord's Manor to oversee his performance as special envoy.
• Tai Bai had converted the manor into an administrative center with departments for Soul Engineers, soul masters, logistics, and the military.
• Xu Yu found that Tai Bai still avoided his attempts to hold her hand and kiss her, then reflected on his abilities and need for more soul rings.
• Tai Bai reported that their forces suffered thirteen injuries and one ordinary soldier's death, while seizing nearly a hundred million Gold Soul Coins, businesses, and forty percent of Suotuo City's houses and land.
• Xu Yu learned that Ma Hongjun had killed the city lord and ordered Tai Bai to rank the top hundred reward recipients and pay them in physical gold and silver coins.

Xu Yu rallied the people of Suotuo City with a speech about ambition and humanity’s progress, then began distributing rewards to those who had contributed to the campaign. The ceremony left the crowd devoted to him, while Xu Yu briefly sensed that their fervor was awakening his Sixth Senses consciousness sense.

• Xu Yu announced that thirty percent of Suotuo City’s spoils would be distributed unconditionally and promised new academies for promising applicants.
• Xu Yu delivered a speech urging people to pursue advancement and devote themselves to humanity’s progress, stirring the crowd into a fervent chant.
• Ah Yin snapped Snow Woman out of her blank stare and recognized that Snow Woman had become deeply attached to Xu Yu.
• Xu Yu felt the crowd’s emotions awaken his Sixth Senses consciousness sense, but the sensation vanished before he could understand it.
• Xu Yu began handing out rewards and gave Bai Shuang two thousand Gold Soul Coins and a promise of help obtaining a soul ring; she stumbled into his arms and scattered the coins.

Xu Yu distributed huge Gold Soul Coin rewards to the Envoy Legion members before the story shifted to Star Luo City, where Tang San reunited with Dai Mubai. Dai Mubai welcomed Tang San but revealed that Zhu Zhuqing had distanced herself from him over his past actions.

• Xu Yu encouraged Shui Bing'er and handed out rewards to Xue Wu, Shui Yue'er, Jiang Zhu, and Gou Sheng, with the heavy coin piles knocking Shui Yue'er and Jiang Zhu down.
• Xu Yu gave Ma Hongjun one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for his deeds, then buried him in coins after learning Jiang Zhu was pregnant and hearing his explanation.
• News and images of the coin rewards and Suotuo City's fall spread across the continent.
• Tang San arrived in Star Luo City, and Dai Mubai greeted him warmly despite Spirit Hall's kill order against him and his father.
• Tang San asked why Zhu Zhuqing was absent, and Dai Mubai admitted she had withdrawn from him because of what he had done in Suotuo City.

Tang San and Dai Mubai discussed the rift between Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, the Star Luo Empire’s weakness, and Spirit Hall’s growing influence. News that Suotuo City had fallen to the Lan Kingdom stirred fears of a wider war, while Xu Yu headed into the Star Dou Great Forest with a Seed.

• Dai Mubai told Tang San that a Spirit Hall Soul Master had exposed his children with another woman and worsened his rift with Zhu Zhuqing, leaving them unable to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Dai Mubai said he lacked military control and feared his clan might seize Tang San’s Hidden Weapon techniques if they established the Tang Sect in the Star Luo Empire.
• A messenger reported that the Lan Kingdom had captured Suotuo City and that Barak might fall, prompting Dai Mubai and Tang San to suspect Spirit Hall was behind the attack.
• Dai Mubai and Tang San learned that the empires and powerful families were meeting to discuss rumors that Tang Hao and his son were in the Balak Kingdom.
• Xu Yu entered the Star Dou Great Forest to plant his remaining Seed and strengthen himself and his summoned beasts.

Xu Yu traveled into the Star Dou Great Forest with Snow Woman and Old Bi, hoping to find and absorb a powerful soul beast that had fallen from the God Realm. After discussing the danger and his plans to grow stronger, the group encountered a suspicious sixty-thousand-year-old tiger soul beast.

• Xu Yu asked Snow Woman whether the Star Dou Great Forest had an overlord-level soul beast, and she described a powerful being that had fallen there from the God Realm and might still be sleeping.
• Xu Yu explained that he planned to hunt the wounded soul beast to boost his cultivation and prepare for threats from Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu.
• Snow Woman warned Xu Yu to be careful, while he teased her as Old Bi carried them deeper into the forest.
• Old Bi detected an approaching soul beast, and Xu Yu told him to handle it as the others continued onward.
• The soul beast arrived before they could leave, revealing itself as a fast-moving wind-attribute tiger.

Xu Yu, Snow Woman, and Ice Jade Scorpion confronted the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, whose space-time skill dragged them into the Life and Death Arena. The duel was suspended while the arena processed Xu Yu, and Snow Woman realized the space was powered by forces beyond their understanding.

• Xu Yu and his companions suppressed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with three domains, but it activated its space-time skill and pulled them into a duel space.
• Xu Yu woke in the arena while the others remained unconscious and shrank toward the forms they had at six years old; the arena instead began calculating what strength he would have at six.
• A voice introduced the Life and Death Arena, named Xu Yu, Snow Woman, and Old Bi as the red side and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as the blue side, and suspended the duel because of an issue processing Xu Yu.
• Snow Woman and Ice Jade Scorpion found themselves transformed into childlike forms behind a powerful barrier, while the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger became a small kitten.
• The narration revealed that deities from other worlds had secretly created the arena to harvest negative emotions by making beings from Douluo Continent fight to the death.

Xu Yu returned to the Life and Death Arena with the strength of a level ninety-eight Titled Douluo, leaving the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger terrified. He weakened the tiger and tested his new spirit abilities while studying his borrowed power, then demonstrated a strange movement technique for Snow Woman and Old Bi.

• The Life and Death Arena repaired its error and sent Xu Yu back onto the stage in an adult body with two red 100,000-year Spirit Rings and level ninety-eight Soul Power.
• Snow Woman and the Ice Jade Scorpion warned Xu Yu about the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, but he chose to remain at his borrowed power level to study it before ending the duel.
• Xu Yu weakened the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with negative buffs, then sat down to comprehend the Moon Break Realm and his eighth and ninth spirit abilities.
• Xu Yu tested Divine Incarnation on Snow Woman and Old Bi, then used a ninth-ring ability to strengthen his body and frighten them with his overwhelming presence.
• Xu Yu shouted “Serious Repeated Horizontal Jump!” and darted sideways so rapidly that Snow Woman struggled to decide what to say.

Xu Yu defeated the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in the Life and Death Arena and used Devour Samsara to create a new body from it, then reunited with Snow Woman and Ice Jade Scorpion. He brought them into the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest, where the Titan Giant Ape and Azure Ox Python warned them to stay away, and left the choice between fighting and making peace to them.

• Xu Yu used his ninth Spirit Ability, Devour Samsara, to crush and purify the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, then emerged with a seed-grown body formed from the tiger.
• Snow Woman prepared to self-destruct when the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger came out of Xu Yu's Life and Death Wheel, but Xu Yu explained that he had transferred his consciousness into the tiger's body and proved his identity.
• Xu Yu returned to his original body, ended the duel, and traveled with Snow Woman, Old Bi, and Ice Jade Scorpion while joking with Snow Woman about making peace.
• As they neared the core region, the Titan Giant Ape and Azure Ox Python roared warnings after sensing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's presence.
• Xu Yu told the others not to attack, then led them into the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest to see whether the two Kings of the Forest would fight or negotiate.

Xu Yu convinced Da Ming and Er Ming that Tang San had exposed Xiao Wu's identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, then descended into the lake to plant a seed. The seed grew into an enormous tree that burst through the lake's surface, leaving everyone startled.

• Xu Yu argued that Tang San had used Dragon Capturing Crane Controlling to make Xiao Wu's Lovesick Heartbreak Red fall off and reveal her identity.
• Da Ming and Er Ming reluctantly moved aside after Xu Yu offered to help rescue Xiao Wu from Spirit City.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger jumped into the lake, and Xu Yu followed with the Ice Jade Scorpion to search the lakebed.
• Xu Yu sensed unusual life force in the water and planted a seed with the Ice Jade Scorpion's help.
• The seed rapidly grew into an enormous tree that burst through the lake's surface, tossing Xu Yu, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and Snow Woman upward.

Xu Yu and Snow Woman investigated the vast, lightless space beneath the lake, where the ancient tree’s roots had uncovered a source of silver blood. While Xu Yu absorbed the tree’s energy to advance, Snow Woman followed a pulse deeper into the darkness and discovered an immense, wounded creature.

• Xu Yu and Snow Woman found silver life-filled liquid flowing from a deep hole beneath the lake and suspected it came from an unknown soul beast.
• Xu Yu led the group into the vast empty space below, and Snow Woman estimated that the ancient tree’s hidden energy source belonged to a soul beast with over nine hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• Xu Yu absorbed the ancient tree’s energy and advanced to Soul Power Level seventy-nine while Snow Woman and the others stood guard.
• After the roots reached the space’s bottom and detected a faint pulse, Snow Woman descended with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to investigate.
• Snow Woman found an immense creature covered in wounds, with silver blood flowing from its body.

Snow Woman discovered a sleeping Silver Giant Dragon while Xu Yu absorbed the Dragon Blood Ancient Tree’s energy and broke through to Spirit Douluo. Xu Yu used the tree to help the Treasure Codex contract with the dragon, but the dragon transformed into a silver-haired woman when the roots touched her.

• Snow Woman examined the sleeping Silver Giant Dragon, then landed and entered enlightenment while the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger remained behind.
• Xu Yu broke through to Spirit Douluo and transferred some of the ancient tree’s energy to Old Bi.
• Xu Yu took control of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, saw the giant dragon, and discovered the Treasure Codex was slowly imprinting a contract on it.
• Xu Yu redirected the Dragon Blood Ancient Tree’s roots to imprint the contract directly onto the dragon’s body.
• Silver-white light erupted as the roots touched the dragon, which transformed into a silver-haired woman.

Xu Yu considered candidates for his eighth soul ring while the Silver Dragon’s contract continued merging, and he shared excess energy with Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu. The energy helped them break through to Soul King during a siege at Barak Capital, where they survived an ambush and turned the attack against their enemies.

• Xu Yu assessed the Deep Sea Demon Whale and the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King as possible eighth soul ring candidates, but decided to keep searching.
• Snow Woman dressed the sleeping Silver Dragon, then learned Xu Yu had enough extra energy to raise Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu to level fifty-five or fifty-six.
• Snow Woman explored the distorted space beneath the small lake and regretted that she could not claim the fallen God Realm land as a treasure.
• Xu Yu ordered a full-scale assault on Barak Capital, where Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu used their Ice Phoenix fusion skill to freeze the defenders.
• Xue Wu sensed danger and urged Shui Bing’er to retreat, but a city-wall ambush trapped them after they had spent much of their Soul Power.
• Xu Yu’s energy restored Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu and raised them to level fifty-five, letting them evade the attack as the Spirit Hall experts wiped out the ambushers.

Xu Yu met Da Ming and Er Ming beneath the Dragon Blood Ancient Tree and tried to persuade them to support his plan for contract spirit rings. He warned that their identities had been exposed, but said he would leave their escape to Tang San.

• Xu Yu considered killing Da Ming and Er Ming but chose to speak with them instead.
• Xu Yu asked whether Da Ming and Er Ming wanted to visit human society and explained his plan to replace spirit beast hunting with contract spirit rings.
• Da Ming and Er Ming agreed to keep high-level spirit beasts from attacking Xu Yu's experimental zone if his plan was genuine.
• Xu Yu admitted he did not intend to take the brothers out of the forest and told them to let Tang San do it.
• Xu Yu warned Da Ming and Er Ming that their existence was known in the soul master world and that they would not survive if they stayed.

Spirit Hall and Lan Kingdom captured Suotuo City after Xu Yu killed the Great Soul Arena manager in one strike. After the victory, Xu Yu discussed soul-beast contracts with Ah Yin, who revealed details about Xiao Wu and the other beasts’ pasts.

• Xu Yu killed the Great Soul Arena manager with Universe Demon Breaking, and Spirit Hall won the battle for Suotuo City.
• Xu Yu ordered the forces to secure the city while protecting civilians, then spoke with Ah Yin and Snow Woman outside it.
• Xu Yu told Ah Yin that he was developing soul-beast contracts and claimed he needed her help researching contracts for plant-type soul beasts.
• Ah Yin explained that she had fought the Soft Bone Rabbit and left the Star Dou Great Forest after surviving heavenly tribulation.
• Ah Yin revealed that Xiao Wu had saved the young Azure Ox Python and Titan Giant Ape, while those beasts and Ah Yin had lived only around fifty or sixty thousand years.
• Ah Yin concluded that Xu Yu had already entered Snow Woman’s heart, though Snow Woman had not noticed her feelings.

Xu Yu tried to persuade the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python to let him search the lake, using Xiao Wu’s safety to win their trust. Er Ming devised a scheme in which Tang San planned to exploit Xiao Wu and the two forest kings for their hundred-thousand-year Spirit Rings and soul bones, and Xu Yu realized Er Ming had guessed a truth he had not known.

• Xu Yu asked the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python to let him search the lake, while the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger acted cute to mock their suspicions.
• Xu Yu revealed that Xiao Wu’s identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had been exposed in Spirit City and that Tang Hao had intervened.
• Xu Yu told the two beasts that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son, prompting Er Ming to accuse the father and son of plotting to make Xiao Wu sacrifice herself for her Spirit Ring and soul bone.
• Er Ming extended his theory, claiming Tang San would later trick Da Ming and himself into sacrificing themselves under the pretense of helping revive Xiao Wu.
• Xu Yu silently realized Er Ming had uncovered a truth he had not known, then confirmed the accusation and continued the discussion.

Xu Yu returned to Suotuo City, learned that Bibi Dong had recalled the Ninth Elder, and traveled alone to Spirit City to demand her return. Bibi Dong challenged his authority but recognized his level-eighty Soul Power, leaving the administrators startled by his growing influence.

• Xu Yu returned to a transformed Suotuo City, reunited with A Lan, and summoned Moss Head to accompany her shopping.
• Xu Yu learned that Bibi Dong had recalled the Ninth Elder and that troops from the Two Great Empires had gathered near the Balak Kingdom.
• Xu Yu ordered his staff to stabilize the kingdom and develop production, then traveled alone to Spirit City to retrieve the Ninth Elder.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to support the Ninth Elder's Soul Tool work and apply Barak's management methods across Spirit City.
• Xu Yu confronted Bibi Dong over the Ninth Elder's recall, and she asserted her authority before praising his level-eighty Soul Power.

Xu Yu negotiated with Bibi Dong over Golden Goose’s release and examined the problems afflicting Bibi Dong’s Spirit Souls. Bibi Dong agreed to release Golden Goose if she wanted to leave, while the Rakshasa Woman began watching Xu Yu in a disturbing silence.

• Bibi Dong offered Xu Yu a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in exchange for ten years of obedience, but he refused and she summoned him for a private conversation.
• Bibi Dong blamed Xu Yu for the mutations in her Spirit Souls and questioned how he knew about god-bestowed Spirit Rings and divine positions; Xu Yu claimed his teacher had told him.
• Bibi Dong offered to release Golden Goose if Xu Yu solved the problems with her Spirit Souls, and Xu Yu agreed to try.
• After Xu Yu remarked that mothers became strong, Bibi Dong softened and said Golden Goose could leave even if he failed to solve the problems.
• Xu Yu examined Xiao Wu's Mother and worried that he had no solution for the Rakshasa Woman, who silently watched him and frightened him.

Xu Yu took Xiao Wu's Mother to the dungeon, hoping to ease her lingering obsession by showing her that Xiao Wu was alive, but Xiao Wu did not recognize her. Xiao Wu's Mother then revealed she had deceived Xu Yu and pressured him to help free her daughter, leaving him to weigh the risk of defying Bibi Dong.

• Xu Yu brought Xiao Wu's Mother, the Rakshasa Woman, and the female Death Spider Emperor to Xiao Wu's cell and asked Xiao Wu if she wanted to escape.
• When Xiao Wu ignored him, Xu Yu tried to provoke a reaction by touching Xiao Wu's Mother, but Xiao Wu showed no concern.
• After Xu Yu returned to the Pope's Palace, Xiao Wu's Mother revealed that she had deliberately lured him into a compromising situation so she could threaten him into helping Xiao Wu escape.
• Xu Yu refused her request, but feared Bibi Dong's reaction if she learned what had happened, so he considered secretly releasing Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu's Mother activated Invincible Golden Body when Xu Yu tried to retaliate, then held back her counterattack after he warned that a fight could endanger Xiao Wu's rescue.

Xu Yu made Xiao Wu’s Mother help him gather information about Bibi Dong in exchange for rescuing Xiao Wu, while the Rakshasa God rejected her proposal to cooperate. After encountering Li Kai and Zhou Ping, Xu Yu went to the Ninth Elder’s residence and waited to meet him.

• Xu Yu warned Xiao Wu’s Mother that she had to report Bibi Dong’s Soul Power, soul bones, and soul skills, and promised to find a way to rescue Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu’s Mother revealed that she knew the Rakshasa Woman retained her consciousness and proposed they work together, but the Rakshasa God dismissed her.
• Xu Yu met Li Kai and Zhou Ping, learned that they had chosen the Fourth Worshipper as their teacher, and left after they exchanged awkward remarks.
• Li Kai insulted Zhou Ping over her apparent interest in Xu Yu, then panicked and followed her to apologize.
• Xu Yu found the Ninth Elder’s residential district and waited in its reception hall after the maidservants said the Elder was busy.

Xu Yu went to Spirit Hall to persuade the Ninth Elder to return to Suotuo City, and she agreed to ask Bibi Dong for permission. Their teasing turned serious when Xu Yu revealed his overwhelming strength and cornered her.

• The Ninth Elder continued researching her mechanical wolves while Xu Yu waited at her residence, then left without entering after deciding to make himself look pitiful.
• After five days of exhausting himself, Xu Yu returned looking haggard and clung to the Ninth Elder, pleading with her to come back to Suotuo City.
• The Ninth Elder agreed to return if Bibi Dong approved, but explained she felt indebted to Bibi Dong for killing the enemy who had murdered her family.
• Xu Yu claimed Bibi Dong had already agreed, and the Ninth Elder said she would ask her before deciding.
• Xu Yu admitted he had liked the Ninth Elder for a long time and asked what she would do if he could no longer control his feelings.
• When Xu Yu said he could not control himself, he cornered the Ninth Elder and revealed seven soul rings, including two red ones, leaving her afraid she could no longer defeat him.