Chapter Summaries

Yan lured the three Thousand Catties Ant Emperors into a fight in the Star Dou Great Forest and used Solar Trueflame, his Elemental Body, and teleportation to withstand their attacks. The three brothers remained unwilling to surrender, leaving Yan ready to press the battle.

• Yan studied the three Thousand Catties Ant Emperors and used the Fifty-Thousand-Year Solar Worm Soul Bone to engulf them in Solar Trueflame and damage their wings.
• The three Ant Emperors escaped the flames, but Yan attacked again with a fire dragon and drove them from the overheated ground.
• The Ant Emperors surrounded Yan and tried to tear him apart with their combined strength, but his Elemental Body let their attack pass through him.
• Yan baited the Ant Emperors into charging, then avoided them with teleportation as their attacks collided harmlessly.
• Yan taunted the three brothers and demanded they become his Soul Ring, but they showed no sign of surrendering.

Yan defeated and refined the three Thousand Catties Ant Emperors, then absorbed their three soul rings at once. Xiao Wu worried about the danger, but Qiu'er judged that Yan’s powerful body could withstand the backlash as his absorption continued.

• Yan used Godfire Clone, teleportation, and relentless attacks to overwhelm the three Thousand Catties Ant Emperors and break down their defenses.
• Yan trapped the Ant Emperors in a pit beneath layered Flame Domains and refined them to death with intense heat.
• Yan sensed their energy gathering into a possible Soul Bone, but the three deaths instead produced three waves of soul light.
• Yan absorbed all three soul rings at once, and the surging Soul Power transformed his body into a cracking, crimson giant of mud and sand.
• Xiao Wu arrived and feared Yan was being reckless, while Three-Eyed Golden Lion Qiu'er reassured her that Yan’s body could withstand the soul backlash.

Yan refined the three Thousand Catties Ant Emperors’ power, broke through to level ninety-six, and evolved his Second Spirit Soul into the Gold-Stone Giant. The chapter ended with Qiu'er and Xiao Wu stunned by the three hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings that appeared around it.

• Yan endured the Ant Emperors’ soul backlash and the strain of refining their energy, while his cultivation rose to level ninety-five.
• Yan used the remaining Ant Emperor energy to break through the bottleneck and reach level ninety-six.
• Yan’s Second Spirit Soul evolved into the dark-golden Gold-Stone Giant, gaining the Ant Emperors’ strength, speed, and defense.
• Yan revealed three blood-red Soul Rings, leaving Qiu'er and Xiao Wu shocked that the Ant Emperors had produced hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings.

Yan refined the Thousand Catties Ant Emperors’ essence and transformed his Golden Radiance Right Arm Bone into a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone with a new strength skill. After reuniting with Qiu'er, he and she turned toward the Star Dou Great Forest’s core, where the Lake of Life had reappeared and its ferocious beasts had awakened.

• Yan absorbed the Ant Emperors’ special energy, advancing his right arm Soul Bone and gaining the skill Golden Thousand Catties Transformation.
• Yan startled Xiao Wu and Qiu'er with his power, then carried Xiao Wu into an earthen hut while Qiu'er left them alone.
• Qiu'er searched the forest for spiritual-type soul beasts but sensed a surge of life force from the core region.
• Qiu'er used her Eye of Destiny to see that the mist barrier had dispersed and the Lake of Life had reappeared as the core’s ferocious beasts awakened.
• Qiu'er rushed back to Yan, who comforted her and watched the forest’s center with anticipation and gravity.

The Lake of Life reappeared in the Star Dou Great Forest, drawing Soul Beasts from across the region and awakening ancient beasts from slumber. Yan ordered the Star Dou Branch Hall and nearby settlements to evacuate, then brought Xiao Wu and Qiu'er to witness the lake’s return.

• The Lake of Life’s spatial barrier shifted, releasing powerful life energy and stirring Soul Beasts throughout the forest.
• Xiao Wu recalled her father’s death in an earlier battle at the Lake of Life and recognized the return of the Source of Life.
• Yan sent an evacuation order across the continent and prepared the Star Dou Branch Hall for the coming Soul Beast upheaval.
• The Soft Bone Rabbit Empress led the Star Dou Branch Hall personnel out of the forest after receiving Yan’s order.
• Ancient Soul Beasts awakened and rushed toward the central region as the Lake of Life fully emerged.
• Yan, Xiao Wu, and Qiu'er watched from a tree as the emerald lake and its pillar of light appeared.

Yan arrived at the Lake of Life to fulfill his agreement with Da Ming and Er Ming, but Star Dou Great Forest’s soul beasts mistook him for an intruder and attacked. After overwhelming several defenders and demanding to speak with Di Tian, Yan pinned Scarlet King beneath his fire giant, leaving the ferocious beast threatening war if he was killed.

• Yan admired the Lake of Life’s powerful vitality before the Azure Shadow Divine Eagle attacked him, and he wounded it when it refused to stop fighting.
• The Six-Winged Darkgold Tiger joined the attack, and Yan used his Second Spirit Soul to severely injure both beasts, drawing a tide of furious soul beasts toward him.
• Yan’s Golden Bloodline repelled the beast tide, while Bi Ji emerged and healed the injured soul beasts with her emerald light.
• The Three-Headed Crimson Demon Mastiff, Scarlet King, attacked Yan, who demanded that it summon Di Tian and then countered its Hellfire with his First Spirit Soul.
• Yan crushed Scarlet King beneath the Gold-Stone Giant’s flaming foot, and Scarlet King warned that Star Dou would take revenge if Yan killed it.

Yan continued draining the Three-Headed Crimson Demon Mastiff when the Demon Eye Treant Myriad Demon King tried to ambush him, prompting Yan to overwhelm him with fire. Bear Monarch then challenged Yan and was badly beaten, until Black Dragon Di Tian emerged from the Lake of Life and cut off Yan’s access to the sun’s power.

• Yan used his flames and devouring ability to suppress the Three-Headed Crimson Demon Mastiff and drain some of Scarlet King's origin power.
• Myriad Demon King launched a sneak attack, but Yan countered him with flames that overwhelmed the plant-type beast.
• Bear Monarch burst from the Lake of Life and attacked Yan after Yan demanded to see Di Tian.
• Yan used his golden claws and Solar Trueflame to break Bear Monarch's Heaven-Rending Claw, punch him, and throw him through a small mountain.
• Di Tian rose from the Lake of Life in a mass of black clouds, blocked Yan's access to Solar Trueflame, and revealed a presence that threatened Yan's life.

Yan fought Di Tian in the sky above the Star Dou Great Forest after refusing to accept his attempt to mediate, and their clash shook the heavens. As the battle continued, Bi Ji explained the misunderstanding to Zi Ji and the newly arrived Da Ming and Er Ming.

• Yan challenged Di Tian after the soul beasts withdrew, and he unleashed his full strength with nine soul rings.
• Di Tian recognized Yan's twin martial souls and powerful soul rings, then attacked him with black dragon breath and other techniques.
• Yan countered with a Nine-Flame Lightwheel, and the two powerful attacks collided above the forest.
• Yan and Di Tian escalated their battle as Bear Monarch and the other beasts watched from below and tried to shield the land from the shockwaves.
• Zi Ji, Da Ming, and Er Ming emerged near the Lake of Life, and Bi Ji explained that Yan had come under an agreement with Da Ming and Er Ming before the Azure Shadow Divine Eagle attacked him.

Da Ming and Er Ming tried to persuade the ferocious beasts to stop Yan and Di Tian’s battle after discovering that Yan was fighting the ancient dragon. High above the forest, Yan provoked Di Tian into revealing his full strength, and their clash created a massive Black Hole before Yan unleashed a flaming dragon attack that stunned Di Tian.

• Er Ming recognized Yan fighting Di Tian, while Da Ming urged his brother to help clear up the misunderstanding.
• Da Ming told Zi Ji, Bi Ji, and the other ferocious beasts that Yan was Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and the creator of the Soul Spirit system.
• Di Tian transformed into human form, asked Yan his name, and moved their fight to an altitude of ten thousand meters.
• Di Tian spoke of his loneliness and desire to explore the world beyond the Douluo Continent, but Yan accused him of fearing the heavenly tribulation and fleeing responsibility.
• Yan and Di Tian collided with their full power, and their attack produced a Black Hole that drew in clouds and energy.
• Yan unleashed a flaming attack with a dragon’s roar, forcing Di Tian to evade at the last moment.

Yan summoned Jia Lin, a Fire Dragon Queen who had hatched from a dragon egg and recognized him as her master, provoking Di Tian. Di Tian used the Dragon King Claw against them, and his clash with Yan’s Golden Right Hand ended with both fighters thrown back and a black hole forming between them.

• Da Ming told Zi Ji that Yan had once taken away a damaged Fire Dragon egg, and Zi Ji realized the dragon might have hatched from it.
• Di Tian approached Jia Lin excitedly, but she blasted him with dragon breath and returned to Yan’s side as his companion.
• After Jia Lin told Di Tian that Yan was her master, Di Tian accused Yan of desecrating the dragon race and attacked him.
• Di Tian unleashed the Dragon King Claw, suppressing Jia Lin and causing the soul beasts below to bow in fear.
• Yan infused Jia Lin with Soul Power to help her resist the claw, then struck Di Tian’s Dragon King Claw with his Golden Right Hand, sending both of them flying and creating a black hole.

Di Tian unleashed the Dragon God Claw to kill Yan, believing Yan endangered the dragon race, but Yan broke free and wounded him with the Fire God Sword. Qiu'er intervened as the Emperor Rui Beast and ordered Di Tian to stop, leaving him stunned that Yan was using the Star Dou Great Forest's fortune.

• Di Tian transformed his Dragon King Claw into the Dragon God Claw and explained why he intended to kill Yan to protect the dragon race.
• Di Tian suppressed Yan, but Yan summoned the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and used the golden light to break through his restraint.
• Yan revealed the Fire God Sword and fought Di Tian, inflicting wounds and a deep cut across his chest.
• Qiu'er appeared before Di Tian as the Emperor Rui Beast and ordered him to cease fighting.
• Di Tian realized Yan was using the Star Dou Great Forest's fortune, while Zi Ji and Bi Ji rushed in to stop him.

Di Tian attacked Yan after Qiu'er chose to support him, but Yan and Qiu'er used their coordinated power of destiny to overpower Di Tian. The chapter left Di Tian battered and seemingly resigned to death as Yan’s Fire God Sword struck toward him.

• Di Tian demanded to know why Qiu'er, the Emperor Rui Beast, was helping Yan, and Qiu'er said destiny had led her to choose him for the good of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Di Tian attacked Yan with the Dragon God Claw, intending to seal Yan, Qiu'er, and Jia Lin.
• Yan and Qiu'er destroyed Di Tian’s dragon-head attack and fought back as the sky twisted with their clashing powers.
• Yan used Qiu'er’s contracted Soul Spirit power to amplify Destiny’s Light, immobilizing Di Tian and leaving him vulnerable to repeated blows from the Fire God Sword.
• Di Tian’s scales broke and his body was wounded as he reflected on his life and accepted what seemed to be his imminent death.

Yan spared Di Tian and explained how Soul Spirits could help resolve the conflict between humans and spirit beasts. Di Tian agreed to prepare injured spirit beasts for a first contract ceremony, and a strange silver light appeared beneath the Lake of Life after Yan departed.

• Yan stopped short of killing Di Tian, explaining that he needed Di Tian to manage the Spirit Beast Realm and help promote Soul Spirits.
• Di Tian gathered the ferocious beasts by the Lake of Life, where Yan explained the Soul Spirit system and argued that it could benefit both spirit beasts and humans.
• Bi Ji and Myriad Demon King asked about Soul Spirit contracts, and Yan explained their success requirements, risks, and limits.
• Di Tian proposed testing the contracts with injured spirit beasts first, and Yan agreed to arrange human Soul Masters and a public ceremony.
• Yan left with Jia Lin and Qiu'er, and Di Tian sent the other ferocious beasts away before a strange silver light emerged from the Lake of Life.

Di Tian received his lord’s orders to cooperate with Yan’s Soul Spirit system and began assigning tasks to the Star Dou Great Forest’s Spirit Beasts. As Yan left the forest with Xiao Wu and Qiu’er, he realized that Di Tian’s hidden lord was awake and that killing Di Tian could have cost him his life.

• The voice from the Lake of Life told Di Tian that Yan’s Soul Spirit system could benefit the Spirit Beasts and ordered him to support it while finding a way to keep Qiu’er and the Fire Dragon King in the forest.
• Di Tian asked Bi Ji to find willing Spirit Beasts for the first Soul Spirit contracts and sent Myriad Demon King, Da Ming, and Er Ming to the Star Dou Branch Hall to contact Spirit Hall.
• Di Tian warned Bear Monarch to keep his subordinates in the core region and not disrupt the plans, while Bear Monarch concealed his resentment.
• Yan left the Star Dou Great Forest with Xiao Wu and Qiu’er and assured Xiao Wu that Da Ming and Er Ming were safe.
• Yan told Xiao Wu and Qiu’er that he had sensed the awake presence behind Di Tian and had spared him because he could not guarantee surviving an attempt to kill him.

Yan gathered the continent’s powerful soul masters at the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest and summoned an enormous host of soul beasts, leaving the assembled factions stunned and uncertain about Spirit Hall’s purpose. After Di Tian calmed the beasts, two powerful women arrived with another group of soul beasts.

• Flander, Zhao Wuji, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong discussed Spirit Hall’s summons and watched Ning Fengzhi and Tang Xiao arrive at the camp.
• Yan learned that the summoned experts had arrived, then led Hu Liena and the others to signal the Star Dou Great Forest.
• A vast host of soul beasts emerged from the forest, including numerous ten-thousand-year beasts and at least a double-digit number of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• Di Tian appeared in human form and quelled the agitated beasts, while the soul masters speculated about Spirit Hall’s intentions.
• Two powerful women arrived from the sky with a group of fierce soul beasts, joining the humans and the Star Dou beasts.

Di Tian and Snow Empress gathered with human powerhouses at the Star Dou Great Forest to begin verifying the Soul Spirit system. After Snow Empress admitted she might someday become a Soul Spirit, the factions prepared their first contracts, with Xie Yue emerging as a potential volunteer.

• Snow Empress arrived with Ice Empress, A'Tai, Xiao Bai, and other powerful spirit beasts, and told Di Tian that she viewed becoming a Soul Spirit as an opportunity.
• Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, Qian Renxue, and Spirit Hall's other powerful figures arrived, leaving Di Tian wary of the faction's strength.
• Yu Xiaogang, Flander, and Liu Erlong discussed the absent Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders and worried that Spirit Hall might have taken them prisoner.
• Yan asked Di Tian and Snow Empress to present spirit beasts for the Soul Spirit verification, and Di Tian brought out a group of aged, injured, and weak beasts.
• Yan accepted Di Tian's choice after warning that the spirit beasts' poor condition could affect the results, and Xie Yue stood out among the human candidates as a Rank 70 backup.

Xie Yue volunteered to form a Soul Spirit contract, but the first spirit beast chosen was revealed to be a trap, sparking a confrontation between Yan and Bear Monarch. Di Tian punished Bear Monarch and supplied a fifty-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and Yan began guiding its contract with Xie Yue.

• Xie Yue stepped forward to volunteer, and Yan rejected a dying ten-thousand-year Golden-Pattern Demon Tiger King as too weak for him.
• The Golden-Pattern Demon Tiger King tried to self-destruct and attack Xie Yue, so Yan burned it to ashes.
• Bear Monarch accused the humans of provoking the spirit beasts and charged at Xie Yue, but Yan restrained and badly burned him.
• Di Tian rebuked Bear Monarch, then spared his life after Yan demanded a fifty-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear for Xie Yue.
• Di Tian injured Bear Monarch and brought a fifty-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear to Xie Yue, and Yan began guiding their contract ritual.

Yan successfully guided Xie Yue and the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear through a Soul Spirit contract, making Xie Yue a Soul Sage and demonstrating the benefits of their partnership. After repeated trials achieved a success rate above ninety-five percent, humans and spirit beasts approved the plan for Soul Spirit Hall.

• Yan guided Xie Yue and the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear through a Soul Spirit contract that exchanged their origin energy.
• Xie Yue gained a seventh soul ring, reached roughly level seventy-two, and fought alongside the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear to demonstrate their combined strength.
• Di Tian and Snow Empress inspected the pair, then asked Yan about the ritual's failure rate and whether he could help spirit beasts in poor condition.
• Yan explained the factors affecting success and agreed to improve the chances for struggling spirit beasts before beginning more contracts.
• Further contracts succeeded and restored some spirit beasts' life origins, while a few attempts failed due to resistance or poor physical condition.
• The experiments achieved a success rate above ninety-five percent, and the plan for Soul Spirit Hall was placed on the agenda.

Yan oversaw the successful launch of the Soul Spirit system and the construction of Soul Spirit Hall, which aimed to replace Spirit Beast hunting and reshape relations between humans and Spirit Beasts. As the two sides began unifying their factions, Yan continued his experiments in the Soul Spirit Tower with Bi Ji’s help.

• The first Soul Spirit experiments succeeded, and Yan’s plan for Soul Spirit Hall began taking shape at the former Star Dou Branch Hall.
• Spirit Hall expanded Soul Spirit research and planned to phase out hunting permits, while the stabilized Douluo Empire supported the system’s spread through its branches and academies.
• Yan left negotiations over Soul Spirit Hall’s power structure to the factions and continued his work in the Soul Spirit Tower.
• Ice Empress recognized Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in the Star Dou Great Forest, but Snow Empress and Di Tian restrained the resulting dispute.
• Di Tian and Snow Empress began unifying Spirit Beast gathering grounds, while Yan conducted a new experiment with Bi Ji’s assistance.

Yan considered Di Tian’s secret request to keep Qiu'er and Jia Lin in the Star Dou Great Forest, then returned to Spirit City and reunited intimately with Bibi Dong. He told her he planned to visit the Five Elements Continent and might travel farther, while she urged him to slow down now that their position was secure.

• Yan and Qiu'er suspected Di Tian’s request was connected to the being beneath the Lake of Life, and Yan advised Qiu'er to stay alert and seek help from Bi Ji and Zi Ji after he left.
• Yan reunited with Bibi Dong in the Papal Hall, and they spent the night together before waking the next morning.
• Bibi Dong asked when Yan would see Qian Renxue and Hu Liena, and Yan said they should focus on their cultivation and duties.
• Yan told Bibi Dong he planned to visit the Five Elements Continent and might undertake another long journey, prompting her to complain that he was always leaving Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong reminded Yan that his plans had neutralized threats across the continent and that she could become the Rakshasa God, but Yan said he was not ready to stop keeping busy.