Chapter Summaries

Ratio brought Ji Xiang to a huge public lecture to present his Core Array research, but Ji Xiang’s nervous explanation was interrupted when Yu Xiaogang challenged Ratio and called the work fraudulent. Ratio allowed Yu Xiaogang to come onstage, leaving him poised to make his case before the crowd.

• Two million spectators gathered in the outer-city plaza to hear Ratio lecture on Core Arrays and Soul Tools.
• Ratio introduced Ji Xiang to explain Inscription Studies, and Ji Xiang nervously described his two methods for adapting Core Arrays.
• Yu Xiaogang stood up and accused Ji Xiang of fraud, claiming he had papers that disproved Inscription Studies.
• The crowd attacked Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong with insults and thrown shoes until Ratio ordered everyone to let them approach.
• Yu Xiaogang, accompanied by Flender and Liu Erlong, went onto the stage, believing he would defeat Ratio’s reputation and prove himself.

Yu Xiaogang publicly accused Ji Xiang of faking his research and demonstrated a Core Array failure, leaving the young scholar too flustered to answer. As the crowd began to doubt Ji Xiang and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect grew angry, Yu Xiaogang ignored Flender’s warning and continued his denunciation.

• Yu Xiaogang confronted Ji Xiang onstage, claimed he had deceived the Soul Master Realm, and announced that he would expose him.
• The audience, gods, Bibi Dong, and members of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect watched Yu Xiaogang’s outburst, while most spectators did not recognize him.
• Yu Xiaogang activated Ji Xiang’s Core Array on a wooden board, which glowed, caught fire, and burned to ash.
• Yu Xiaogang used the demonstration to accuse Ji Xiang of leaking Soul Power and being unqualified, while Ji Xiang grew too anxious to respond.
• Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong condemned Yu Xiaogang’s public attack, and Flender realized it could damage the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s standing.
• Flender urged Yu Xiaogang to stop, but Yu Xiaogang ignored him and continued speaking.

Yu Xiaogang publicly accused the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Spirit Hall, and Ratio of suppressing true Grandmasters and stealing knowledge, while Flender tried to stop him. After Yu Xiaogang revealed manuscripts and Tang San's cultivation methods as supposed proof, Ji Xiang challenged his claims by demonstrating his own Inscription Arrays.

• Yu Xiaogang denounced the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall, angering both factions while Flender and Liu Erlong feared the consequences.
• Qian Daoliu restrained the Mighty Lion Douluo, and Ning Fengzhi received a message from Yu Yuanzhen offering compensation for Yu Xiaogang's behavior.
• Yu Xiaogang pointed at Ratio and accused him of plagiarizing ancient knowledge and Tang San's Cultivation Methods, prompting Flender to tackle and punch him before Ratio allowed him to continue.
• Yu Xiaogang displayed manuscripts and copies of Tang San's Cultivation Methods, but most spectators rejected his accusations and Sword Douluo dismissed his supposed evidence.
• Ji Xiang presented three Inscription Arrays and explained that Ratio had helped him correct his earlier mistakes; Yu Xiaogang seized one board and began testing it.

Ji Xiang demonstrated the stability of Inscription Arrays, exposing Yu Xiaogang's accusations as false and causing him to collapse onstage. While the lecture continued, Tang Hao and Tang San entered Ratio's laboratory to take Ah Yin, and Tang Hao began smashing her container.

• Ji Xiang showed that Inscription Arrays resisted excessive Soul Power, water, and fire, while Yu Xiaogang demanded that Flender and Liu Erlong prove the boards could be destroyed.
• Liu Erlong explained that her Soul Power had been automatically rejected, and Yu Xiaogang realized his claims were wrong before collapsing after spitting blood.
• The crowd mocked Yu Xiaogang, while Ning Fengzhi praised Ji Xiang and Flender returned to his seat with Liu Erlong as the lecture continued.
• Tang Hao and Tang San slipped into Ratio's laboratory and found Ah Yin inside a container.
• Tang Hao accused Bi Ji of imprisoning his wife and smashed laboratory equipment against the glass container.

Tang Hao interrupted Ah Yin’s recovery, only for her to emerge with no memory of him and reject him, while Tang San refused to force her to leave. After a lecture on Inscription Studies and Cultivation Methods drew an enthusiastic crowd, Yu Xiaogang woke backstage to discover Spirit Hall considered him insignificant and let him leave freely.

• Tang Hao broke Ah Yin’s container before the agreed time, and Ah Yin emerged with the strength of a thousand-year Soul Beast but did not recognize him.
• Ah Yin rejected Tang Hao and hid behind Bi Ji, while Tang San refused to take her away and decided to wait for Saint Teacher Ratio’s guidance.
• Ji Xiang’s lecture on Inscription Studies and Yu Xiaogang’s presentation of Cultivation Methods impressed the audience, many of whom gathered at the exits to confront Yu Xiaogang.
• Flender persuaded Liu Erlong not to risk herself for Yu Xiaogang, and the Soul Guidance Cars arriving outside inspired her to consider a new purpose.
• Yu Xiaogang woke backstage and expected Spirit Hall to threaten or negotiate with him, but the Soul Masters mocked him and told him he was free to go.

Yu Xiaogang was rescued from the hostile crowd but lost the support of Flender and Liu Erlong, while the Seven Deadly Sins Gods assessed their weakened prospects against the Elemental God. At Ratio's laboratory, Ah Yin rejected recovering her former memories, leaving Tang San stunned.

• Spirit Hall Soul Masters carried Yu Xiaogang away from the square and left him locked in a room, where other Soul Masters later took him in a sack.
• Yu Yuanzhen surrendered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's Soul Tool achievement to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to protect Yu Xiaogang, then sent his son to Shrek with a human-skin mask and Gold Soul Coins.
• Flender cut ties with Yu Xiaogang and left the hotel with the Shrek members, while Liu Erlong rejected Yu Xiaogang and departed as well.
• The God of Wrath defeated Sword Douluo, and the Seven Deadly Sins Gods worried that they could not defeat the Elemental God while the God of Lust remained powerless.
• Saint Teacher Ratio told Tang San and Ah Yin that Ah Yin had nearly regained her former cultivation but had not recovered her memories, and Ah Yin refused to restore them.

Tang San met Ah Yin, but she did not recognize him, and he left after accepting that she would not recover her memories unless she sought them herself. Dr. Ratio demonstrated the Seven Elemental Gods’ World God fusion to Sea God Poseidon, then began helping them refine it.

• Tang San told Ah Yin that he would always be her son, then left after Dr. Ratio explained that she would not regain her memories on her own.
• Dr. Ratio restored Ah Yin’s container and let Bi Ji explain the current world to her, while testing the killing intent within the God of Slaughter Godhood on Bi Ji.
• Sea God Poseidon and the Seven Elemental Gods visited Dr. Ratio, and the Phase Spirit Fire took them to a barren small plane.
• The Seven Elemental Gods fused into the God King Level World God, convincing Sea God Poseidon that their strength was real.
• Dr. Ratio examined the World God’s godhood and guided the Elemental Gods in refining their fusion until it lasted about three minutes.
• Dr. Ratio told Sea God Poseidon that his complete God Position could not merge with another and that he might reach God King Level in about ten thousand years.

Ratio explained to Sword Douluo how higher-level planes could help him advance, while Tang San discovered that Ratio had made his cultivation methods public. Di Tian urged the Ferocious Beasts to prepare for humanity’s growth by developing Soul Tools and integrating Soul Beasts with humans.

• Ratio told Sword Douluo that Douluo Continent lacked the energy needed for god-level cultivation and advised him to seek the God Realm or another higher-level plane.
• Qian Daoliu asked Ratio to give Bo Saixi fewer assignments, and Ratio agreed.
• Tang San learned that Spirit City bookstores were selling the contents of his cultivation methods, grew resentful toward Ratio, and left without confronting him.
• Di Tian warned the Ferocious Beasts that Soul Beasts needed to catch up with humanity and proposed investing in the Soul Tool Divine Boat and integrating into human society.
• The Ferocious Beasts questioned the cost of integration, and Di Tian argued that humanity’s greatest strength was its enormous population.

Di Tian won the Lord Master's approval to expand the soul-beast population through the Soul Beast Merchant Group, while Xiao Wu was rescued and recruited in Spirit City. Tang San remained unaware that Yu Xiaogang had leaked his Cultivation Method, and the God of Lust still could not recover her sealed divine power.

• Di Tian proposed gathering breeding soul beasts in the human world and raising their offspring, and the Lord Master approved the plan after hearing about Spirit City's changes.
• A group of punks attacked Xiao Wu with Soul Guidance Electric Rods in a bar, but Scarlet King rescued her and invited her to join the Soul Beast Merchant Group.
• Tang San visited Yu Xiaogang and blamed Dr. Ratio for publishing his Cultivation Method, while Yu Xiaogang concealed that he had leaked it himself.
• The Goddess of Life failed to restore the God of Lust's divine power, and the Seven Deadly Sins Gods considered whether she should repent or apologize to Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue.

God of Lust sought Dr. Ratio’s attention before apologizing to Bibi Dong and regaining her divine power. She then warned the Gods of Sin that the Seven Elemental Gods were researching fusion, and they agreed to challenge them the next day.

• God of Lust tried to seduce Dr. Ratio in his laboratory, but he rejected her and told her that only sincere repentance and the women’s forgiveness could lift her restriction.
• The Seven Elemental Gods teased God of Lust, and Dr. Ratio stopped them before taking them away to continue their fusion experiment.
• God of Lust apologized to Bibi Dong, who forgave her on the condition that she appear before the Free Federation in a divine miracle to support it.
• God of Lust’s divine power returned, and she promised to leave soon to fulfill Bibi Dong’s request.
• God of Lust told the Gods of Sin that the Seven Elemental Gods were researching fusion, so the Gods of Sin agreed to challenge them the next day.

The Seven Elemental Gods fought the Seven Deadly Sins Gods after improving their fusion, and the Elemental Gods merged into the World God. The World God effortlessly destroyed the Original Sin Gods’ divine formation and captured God of Wrath.

• The Seven Elemental Gods told Sea God Poseidon their fusion could now last fifteen minutes and could also be performed in smaller groups.
• The Seven Deadly Sins Gods arrived at Poseidon’s residence and challenged the Elemental Gods, who agreed to fight them in the sky outside Spirit City.
• Saint Teacher Ratio, Bi Ji, and Ah Yin watched the battle through a scene opened by the Phase Spirit Fire, while the Five Great God-Kings and other observers gathered at the God War Ground.
• The Seven Deadly Sins Gods deployed the Descending Divine Punishment Array and trapped the Elemental Gods inside it.
• The Seven Elemental Gods fused into the World God, which tore apart the divine formation and left the Seven Deadly Sins Gods coughing blood.
• The World God seized God of Wrath, who could not break free, while the other Original Sin Gods stared at it in terror.

The Seven Elemental Gods fused into a new God King-level World God and defeated the Original Sin Gods, while the God-Kings found no harm in their transformation. The Original Sin Gods argued over Dr. Ratio’s experiments, and Tang San lost his temper after diners praised Dr. Ratio’s cultivation methods and mocked the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

• The World God subdued the Original Sin Gods, then submitted to examination by the Five Great God-Kings, who found no abnormalities before the Seven Elemental Gods separated again.
• The Original Sin Gods returned to their temple, where God of Lust and Jealousy decided to seek Dr. Ratio’s experiments, while the others lamented losing their chances to participate.
• News of the God War spread through Spirit City, and diners credited Dr. Ratio with enabling the Elemental Gods’ fusion.
• A burly Soul Master praised Dr. Ratio’s cultivation methods and disparaged Tang San’s Mysterious Heaven Skill, prompting Tang San to snap and shout at him.

Tang San challenged a Soul Master who praised Saint Teacher Ratio’s cultivation methods and was decisively defeated by techniques Ratio had developed. The next morning, Di Tian led a group of Soul Beasts to Spirit City to begin their new lives, while Three-Eyed Golden Lion eagerly asked to meet Brother Ratio.

• Tang San challenged the burly Soul Master to a contest using their respective cultivation methods, and Yu Xiaogang failed to stop him.
• The burly Soul Master overwhelmed Tang San with techniques including Wind God Leg, leaving him bloodied and defeated as the crowd applauded.
• The next morning, Da Ming led more than fifty Soul Beasts to Spirit City, where a City Guard Officer explained the city’s new developments to them.
• Di Tian and Bibi Dong welcomed the Soul Beasts into Spirit City, and Di Tian sensed the Silver Dragon King within Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked whether Bibi Dong or Brother Ratio was greater, and Bibi Dong said no one, not even gods, surpassed Saint Teacher Ratio.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion eagerly demanded to see Brother Ratio, and Di Tian told her to follow the arrangements and wait.

Di Tian brought more than fifty Soul Beasts into Spirit City, where Bibi Dong and Scarlet King showed them how Soul Beasts could live and work alongside humans. Gu Yuena arrived in a phantom form inside the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to study Ratio’s knowledge, while Ratio examined the God of Lust’s Divine Seat and continued researching the God of Slaughter’s Divine Seat frameworks.

• Di Tian led the Soul Beast representatives through Spirit City, and Scarlet King introduced its vehicles, lights, businesses, and welcoming human residents.
• The Soul Beasts learned that they could live in Spirit City after transforming and passing a public safety examination, and Bibi Dong assured them that the law would protect them.
• Di Tian settled the Soul Beasts at the Soul Beast Merchant Group, then brought the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to a room, where Gu Yuena emerged as a phantom and approved of his plan.
• Gu Yuena asked Di Tian about Ratio’s purpose and said she had come to learn from the knowledge he had made public.
• The God of Lust apologized to Ratio and offered to cooperate with his experiments; Ratio examined her Divine Seat after putting away frameworks he had created from the God of Slaughter’s Divine Seat.

The God of Lust agreed to let Ratio study her God Position in exchange for research into transforming her form, while the Original Sin Gods and God-Kings struggled to keep up with his knowledge. The God-level Committee set out to find Immortal Spiritual Energy and create God Positions, and Gu Yuena began studying Tang San's unfamiliar Cultivation Method.

• The God of Lust lost control of her lust and lunged at Ratio, who froze her, finished examining her God Position, and offered to study her ability to transform in exchange for research data.
• The God of Lust returned to the Original Sin Temple and said Ratio would not give them more experimental slots, but promised to teach them how to transform their forms; the God of Envy and the God of Greed left to join his experiments.
• The God-Kings admitted they could not understand God Positions, and the God of Destruction opposed the God of Evil's suggestion that they risk studying their own.
• Qian Daoliu proposed that the God-level Committee seek Immortal Spiritual Energy and create God Positions independently, then summoned its experimental participants after Ratio sent word about concluding work.
• Gu Yuena created a Fourth-level Soul Tool and, after Tang San gave her the basic Cultivation Method, recognized it as a new knowledge system and began studying it intently.

The God-level Committee saw that Ratio had created more than a hundred Acquired Godhoods and eagerly agreed to help test them. Ratio postponed their absorption so he could make final refinements to the Cultivation Method.

• The God-level Committee gathered three thousand experimental personnel and went to Ratio's laboratory.
• Qian Daoliu, Bo Saixi, and the others saw over a hundred Godhoods floating before Ratio and were astonished by their rarity.
• Ratio explained that he had replicated and remolded the God of Slaughter Godhoods into Acquired Godhoods, retaining much of their basic functionality but not their authority.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and the others volunteered to serve as experimental personnel in exchange for Acquired Godhoods.
• Ratio put the Godhoods away and led the group out of the laboratory to make final refinements to the Cultivation Method.

Ratio completed experiments confirming that his Cultivation Methods worked, then arranged for a continent-wide Soul Master Tournament to be co-hosted by Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. As the nobles worried about the changes the methods could bring, the Star Luo Royal Family approached Zhu Zhuqing to discuss her new Soul Tool.

• Bi Ji presented Ratio with data from the three thousand experimental participants, and he reviewed it before testing their Cultivation Methods.
• The participants demonstrated the Heavenly Essence Skill, Heavenly Eye Visualization Method, Vajra Shield, and Tai Chi, and Ratio confirmed that the methods met his standards.
• Ratio ended the experiments and said the Cultivation Methods would be released in a few days, after final confirmation.
• Ratio proposed a continent-wide Soul Master Tournament, agreed to provide prizes, and named Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as co-hosts.
• The Star Luo Royal Family approached Zhu Zhuqing, and the Star Luo Prince asked about the new Soul Tool she had mentioned.

Zhu Zhuqing gave the Star Luo Prince new Soul Tool designs and assembly-line standards before turning her attention to the World's First Martial Arts Tournament. When news of the tournament reached Spirit City, Yu Xiaogang and Tang San resolved to enter, with Tang San convinced he could win.

• Zhu Zhuqing described her new Soul Tools to the Star Luo Prince and gave him a Storage Soul Tool containing designs and production standards.
• Zhu Zhuqing told the Star Luo Prince not to disturb her while she prepared for the tournament, and he agreed.
• The Star Luo Prince rebuked Dai Weisi for insulting Zhu Zhuqing and warned him to maintain their relationship.
• Spirit Hall and the Scholars Alliance arranged the World's First Martial Arts Tournament, which would prohibit Martial Souls and Soul Skills.
• After hearing the tournament announcement, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang became excited, and Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to win.

Gu Yuena deciphered and refined the Mysterious Heaven Skill, believing her version could improve soul beast cultivation, while Di Tian concealed that Ratio’s Heavenly Essence Skill was far more effective. In Spirit City, Ning Fengzhi organized the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to support the World's First Martial Arts Tournament and began reviewing its new Soul Tool products.

• Gu Yuena announced that she had adapted the Mysterious Heaven Skill to soul beasts and could increase its cultivation speed by around twenty percent, while Di Tian silently compared it with Ratio’s nearly twice-as-fast Heavenly Essence Skill.
• Gu Yuena decided to study her revised method further before letting the soul beasts adopt it, then promised the Three-Eyed Golden Lion it could visit Ratio and hinted at her plans for meeting him.
• Ning Fengzhi gathered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s leaders, including Ning Rongrong and Ji Xiang, to discuss winning the World's First Martial Arts Tournament and making it a regular event.
• An elder reported that the sect had developed several marketable products and presented a horn-shaped Soul Tool called the Soul Tool Gramophone.

Yu Yuanzhen and Tang Xiao prepared their clans to enter the World's First Martial Arts Tournament, which would suppress Soul Power and seal martial souls. At Ratio's laboratory, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion eagerly showed her affection for Ratio, while Gu Yuena experienced the lion's sensations through their connection.

• Yu Yuanzhen urged Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng to compete in the tournament and began planning special training for them.
• Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders decided to enter the tournament, hoping their physical strength and combat skills would let them win despite their crippled cultivation.
• Bi Ji brought the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to Ratio's laboratory, where the lion eagerly pounced at Ratio.
• Ratio stopped the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in midair, patted her head, and released her restraints.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion confessed that she missed Ratio and rubbed against him, transmitting her pleasure to Gu Yuena and leaving her furious and ashamed.