Chapter Summaries

Yan tested the enhanced Dark Gold Terror Claw, returned to Spirit City, and later broke through to level thirty after months of cultivation. He traveled with Yueguan and Guimei to the Icebound Forest to hunt a rare mutated fire-attribute soul beast for his third Soul Ring.

• Yan tested his modified Dark Gold Terror Claw, and Xie Yue declined to spar against it while Hu Liena admired it.
• Yan planned to reach level thirty, find a suitable third Soul Ring, and monitor the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger; his group ate the bear meat and returned to Spirit City.
• Spirit Hall sent Soul Masters to search major habitats for thousand-year fire-attribute soul beasts, following Pope Bibi Dong's order and bounty notices.
• After several months of cultivation, Yan broke through to level thirty and chose the Northern Icefield because Spirit Hall had discovered a rare mutated fire-attribute soul beast there.
• Yan arrived at the fortress outside the Icebound Forest with Yueguan and Guimei, where the Soul Masters stationed there welcomed them.

Yan learned that a rare fire-mutated Mirror Shadow Beast with unusual flames and possible Soul Bone had been found in the Icebound Forest. After resting overnight, he joined the hunt and attacked the surrounded beast, eager to test his Dark Gold Terror Claw and investigate its fire.

• Bishop Esno told Yan that the thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast could disguise itself, copy abilities, create clones, and wield strange flames that left difficult-to-heal wounds.
• Yan ordered Esno to prepare the hunt for the next day, choosing to rest with Guimei and Yueguan before setting out.
• The next morning, Yan's group and other Soul Masters surrounded the two-thousand-year Mutated Mirror Shadow Beast in a snow-pine grove.
• Yan released his martial soul and Flame Terror Claw, and the beast answered by spreading red light across its body and summoning silver-red flames.
• Yan sensed that the beast's flames were exceptionally powerful, reinforced his spiritual power, and rushed forward with a claw strike.

Yan fought the Mutated Mirror Shadow Beast in the Icebound Forest and discovered that its copied abilities included unusual penetrating flames, a powerful clone, and a spatial position swap. After narrowly escaping its surprise attack, Yan faced the battered beast with renewed interest.

• The Mutated Mirror Shadow Beast attacked Yan with frost that transformed into silver-red flames, and Yan countered with his own flames and Dark Gold Terror Claw.
• Yan wounded the beast in a direct claw clash and pursued it as it tried to flee.
• The Mirror Image Beast created a convincing physical clone, but Yan used Dawn and spiritual detection to identify the real body.
• Yan struck the clone to bait the true beast into attacking, then countered with his Dark Gold Terror Claw.
• The Mirror Image Beast used Shape Shift Position Swap to exchange places with its clone and blast Yan from behind, but Yan dodged most of the attack and survived.

Yan and Spirit Hall’s experts killed the Mutated Mirror Shadow Beast, allowing Yan to absorb its two-thousand-year Soul Ring and gain the Fire Shadow Clone Technique. He then extracted a red-agate Soul Bone with a trace of silver light from the beast’s left leg.

• Guimei pursued the Mirror Image Beast, but it escaped his grasp by teleporting and then created ten clones to flee.
• Yan identified the beast’s true body and explained how to counter its spatial switching, and Yueguan destroyed its clones while Guimei attacked it.
• Yan killed the unconscious Mutated Mirror Shadow Beast with his Dark Gold Terror Claw and sensed that it possessed a Soul Bone.
• Yan absorbed the beast’s Soul Ring and gained the Fire Shadow Clone Technique, which could create one strong clone or eight weaker ones.
• Yan cut open the beast’s corpse and removed a red-agate Soul Bone from its left leg.

Yan absorbed the Mutated Mirror Shadow Beast’s Soul Bone and discovered that it enhanced his clone ability and granted him spatial powers through Void Flame. After leaving the Icebound Forest with Guimei, Yueguan, and the others, he left Bishop Esno to handle the site and take care of the beast’s remains.

• Yan absorbed the Mutated Mirror Shadow Beast’s left leg Soul Bone and found that it increased his speed and jumping power.
• Yan learned that the beast’s mutation was Void Flame, which refined spatial power and could be combined with a clone to perform Shape Shift Position Swap.
• Yan discovered that the Soul Bone enhanced his Fire Shadow Clone Technique, allowing one clone to match his own strength and gain the Mirror Image Beast’s disguise abilities.
• Yan asked Bishop Esno to clean up the area, stored the Mirror Image Beast’s corpse, and left the Icebound Forest with Guimei, Yueguan, and the others.
• After Yan’s group departed, the onlookers whispered about his powerful abilities and access to the rare Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

Yan returned to Spirit City and helped Bibi Dong handle Spirit Hall’s growing workload. Bibi Dong offered him a thirty-thousand-year Soul Bone, which he accepted for safekeeping, while he asked her to give Xie Yue a different Soul Bone and suggested a future one for Nana.

• Yan brought Bibi Dong tea and pastries, then used Dawn to rapidly process Spirit Hall’s pending affairs.
• Bibi Dong asked about the Soul Bone Yan had obtained in the Icebound Forest, and Yan described his Mutated Mirror Shadow Beast left leg bone.
• Bibi Dong offered Yan a right arm bone from a thirty-thousand-year Crimson Flame Beast to strengthen him after his dangerous hunt.
• Yan declined to absorb the offered Soul Bone for now and asked Bibi Dong to give Xie Yue the Swift Pursuit Gale Leg Bone instead.
• Bibi Dong agreed to provide Xie Yue with the left leg bone and said Nana’s suitable Soul Bones would have to wait until she was stronger.
• Yan accepted the Crimson Flame Beast Soul Bone for safekeeping and told Bibi Dong that a Three-Eyed Magic Fox in Sunset Forest could provide Nana with a suitable skull bone.

Yan explained why he had accepted but would not absorb Bibi Dong’s thirty-thousand-year Soul Bone, then reviewed his research showing that matching Soul Bones and soul rings could strengthen each other. He went to his underground laboratory beneath the Hall of Elders to continue researching Soul Tools, where a strange device held two glowing fragments.

• Yan accepted Bibi Dong’s Crimson Flame Beast Soul Bone but decided to keep it as a trump card rather than absorb it.
• Yan recalled his research suggesting that a soul master who refined a soul ring and Soul Bone from the same beast could improve both, and described the enhanced abilities he gained from his Mirror Image Beast pair.
• Yan discussed Spirit Hall’s future plans with Bibi Dong, left her with the work, and returned to his research.
• Yan entered his underground laboratory beneath the Hall of Elders and examined a device containing two glowing Soul Tool fragments.

Yan activated a replicated Soul Tool called the Gate of Time and Space, which drew on his Soul Power and the Faith Power accumulated as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son. The device opened a hazy view into another plane, leaving Yan poised to discover what lay beyond it.

• Yan examined the door-like Soul Tool and prayed to the Angel God before beginning his experiment.
• Yan used his Soul Power and Faith Power to activate the device while Dawn collected data.
• Yan considered the risks of meddling with time, space, and faith, relying on his precautions and Spirit Hall’s protection.
• The Gate of Time and Space filled with holy Thought Power and opened a strange curtain of light that revealed a hazy region.

Yan inspected the Gate of Time and Space in Spirit Hall’s underground laboratory, but a powerful being in an Inner Earth world detected him and pulled him through. He survived the magma and began absorbing its energy before coming face-to-face with a beautiful goddess.

• Yan found the Gate of Time and Space’s image blurry and suspected it led to a world beneath the earth’s core.
• A goddess in the Inner Earth world sensed Yan spying on her and reached through the gate to seize him.
• Yan’s Shape Shift Position Swap failed against the goddess’s power, and she dragged him into the magma world.
• Yan activated his Martial Soul to withstand the heat, escaped the magma lake, and absorbed the dense fire energy as his cultivation rose.
• The goddess emerged from the magma before Yan, who stared at her and remarked on the world’s censorship.

Yan was pulled back from a shrinking portal by the Flame Empress, who questioned him about his origin and the device that brought him to the Inner Earth. After learning he was Angel God's Holy Son from Douluo Continent, she set him down and asked him to explain the Soul Tool.

• Yan pretended to be an innocent child when the Flame Empress approached him, but she froze his portal and pulled him back when he tried to escape.
• The Flame Empress held Yan and asked whether he knew what the blue light screen was.
• Yan called the screen a Soul Tool, and the Flame Empress identified it as something unfamiliar to the Five Elements Continent.
• Yan introduced himself as the Holy Son of Spirit Hall from Douluo Continent and claimed he would uphold Angel God's faith among mortals.
• The Flame Empress set Yan down and asked about the Soul Tool, and Yan said it had been assembled from fragments and he did not know how it connected to the Inner Earth.

Yan tried pastries and a Soul Skill steamed bun with Flame, explained Martial Souls to her, and agreed to keep the Inner Earth's existence secret in exchange for being sent back to Douluo Continent. The chapter ended with Yan asking whether he would be able to see Flame again.

• Yan deliberately made his stomach rumble and offered Flame pastries from his storage Soul Tool.
• Flame tried the pastries and was far more impressed by a steamed bun created by a Food-type Soul Sage's Martial Soul.
• Yan explained the Martial Soul system to Flame, who questioned how it worked.
• Flame asked Yan to keep the Inner Earth secret and offered to send him back to Douluo Continent in return.
• Yan asked Flame whether they could meet again after she sent him back.

Yan bid farewell to Flame in the Inner Earth and returned to Spirit Hall with a powerful boost to his Soul Power. Flame left a Red Lotus Mark over his heart that would kill him if he revealed her or the Inner Earth.

• Flame asked Yan to visit her again with stories and objects from his world, and Yan promised to return.
• Flame tapped Yan on the head, sharpening his mind and raising his Soul Power closer to Level 34.
• Flame warned Yan to keep their meeting and the Inner Earth secret, then sent him away inside a red fire lotus.
• Flame reflected on her fear of the God Realm and her hope that Yan could become her friend.
• Yan reappeared in Spirit Hall's underground research chamber, where the lotus entered his chest and left the Red Lotus Mark over his heart.

Yan returned to Spirit Hall after Flame took him away during an experiment, and he explained to Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, and the others that his Gate of Time and Space required Faith Power to operate. He demonstrated the Soul Tool again, and its light screen began to ripple as something seemed ready to emerge.

• Hu Liena told Yan that Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu had mobilized Spirit Hall to search for him after his disappearance.
• Yan reassured Hu Liena and went to the Hall of Elders, where Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, Qian Renxue, and other Spirit Hall experts had gathered.
• Yan explained that his disappearance was connected to the Soul Tool he was researching and led the group to his underground research chamber.
• Yan showed the group the Gate of Time and Space and said it needed Faith Power, prompting Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, and Qian Renxue to consider the secrets of godhood and the God Realm.
• Yan activated the Gate of Time and Space with his remaining Faith Power, and its light screen rippled as something seemed about to emerge.

Yan used the Gate of Time and Space to haul a pile of meteorite debris and gemstones into Spirit Hall's underground laboratory, revealing its ability to transport resources from other worlds. Bibi Dong realized Yan had previously crossed realms by accident and warned him about the danger.

• The Gate of Time and Space spewed earth, stones, and toxic fumes into the laboratory, leaving a heap of debris.
• Qian Daoliu inspected the debris as Yan found valuable gemstones scattered among the meteorite fragments.
• Yan explained that he had connected to a stable region beyond Douluo Star and modified the Gate to sweep resources through without sending anyone across.
• Bibi Dong and the others recognized the Gate's potential to bring back valuable materials from other worlds.
• Bibi Dong confronted Yan about his earlier cross-realm trip, and Yan said he had been sucked through by accident and would return safely in the future.

Yan warned Bibi Dong that the transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest might be protected by powerful ferocious beasts and urged her not to hunt it. He proposed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as a better match for her Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, leaving Bibi Dong to consider his advice.

• Bibi Dong scolded Yan for planning to risk his life by using the Gate of Time and Space again, while he meekly agreed.
• Spirit Hall expanded its underground laboratory as Yan wandered Spirit City to gather Thought Power for another use of the Gate of Time and Space.
• Bibi Dong ordered elite soul masters to search the Star Dou Great Forest for a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that could provide her missing soul rings.
• Yan questioned Bibi Dong about the forest's core region, then warned that the Lake of Life concealed ferocious beasts powerful enough to make hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast dangerous.
• Yan argued that the transformed soul beast was unlikely to suit Bibi Dong's spirit soul and suggested she hunt the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger instead.

A transformed soul beast mother prepared to take Xiao Wu to live in the human world, but grew wary when winged Soul Saints entered the Star Dou Great Forest searching for something. She sent Xiao Wu to find Da Ming and Er Ming and left in another direction as the hunters closed in.

• The young woman told Xiao Wu about human life and planned for them to enter the human world after she broke through Rank Seventy.
• Xiao Wu asked about Da Ming and Er Ming, and her mother explained that she hoped to persuade them to cultivate human forms later.
• Noticing a faint breeze, the young woman asked where Da Ming and Er Ming were and learned they had gone west to deal with three troublesome ants.
• The young woman sent Xiao Wu to find Da Ming and Er Ming, then gathered a few belongings and departed in another direction.
• Winged figures, each at least a Soul Saint, swept through the forest as its powerful soul beasts hid.

Yan persuaded Bibi Dong to abandon the idea of taking the transformed Soft Bone Enchanting Rabbit’s soul ring and Soul Bone because it was poorly suited to her. He then asked Xiao Wu’s mother to help Spirit Hall hunt the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, leaving her response uncertain.

• Xiao Wu’s mother tried to escape the encirclement while searching for a chance to reunite Xiao Wu with Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Guimei captured the Soft Bone Enchanting Rabbit and summoned the Spirit Hall forces led by Bibi Dong and five Titled Douluo.
• Yan asked Liya to treat the captured woman, and she recognized Liya as an Emerald Swan.
• The Soft Bone Enchanting Rabbit revealed her identity, and Bibi Dong accepted Yan’s argument that the rabbit’s soul ring would not suit her.
• Yan asked Xiao Wu’s mother to help Spirit Hall hunt the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

Yan tried to gain the Soft Bone Enchanting Rabbit’s trust by offering himself as a hostage and proposing that they kill the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger together. The Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python arrived to rescue her, and Yan asked the two kings for help hunting the tiger.

• The Soft Bone Enchanting Rabbit recalled how the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python had once driven the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger from the forest’s inner region, and suspected it had killed the Emerald Swan’s protector.
• Yan explained that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger preyed on powerful beings and needed to be killed in one strike, then offered himself as a hostage to reassure the Soft Bone Enchanting Rabbit.
• The Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python arrived with Xiao Wu after hearing the Soft Bone Enchanting Rabbit cry for help.
• Yan approached the two wary kings and asked them to help surround and kill the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger that had harmed the Emerald Swan.

Yan proposed luring the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger into a trap, and the soul beast kings agreed to a plan that kept him under watch. As the group set out, Yan befriended Xiao Wu with snacks, while the tiger sensed its old enemies approaching and noticed their auras split apart.

• Yan proposed wounding the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger before surrounding it, and the Sky Azure Bull Python and Soft Bone Enchanting Rabbit agreed to the plan.
• The group placed Yan under Xiao Wu and her mother's watch while Spirit Hall's experts prepared to cover three directions.
• The Titan Giant Ape carried Yan, Xiao Wu, and her mother, and Yan gave Xiao Wu pastries that quickly won her over.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger sensed the auras of its old enemies, then noticed that they had split up and wondered whether they had come to hunt it.

The Titan Giant Ape attacked the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger for ambushing and killing the Emerald Swan, and the two clashed across the Star Dou Great Forest. The Sky Azure Bull Python joined the fight and slowed the tiger, leaving it trapped as the Titan Giant Ape prepared a crushing blow.

• The Titan Giant Ape confronted the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which admitted no remorse for devouring the Emerald Swan and was eager to fight.
• The Titan Giant Ape and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger exchanged powerful attacks, including the tiger’s Dark Demonic Evil Lightning and the ape’s Titan Sky-Piercing Smash.
• The Titan Giant Ape caught the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Evil God Hook during close combat.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python appeared on the Titan Giant Ape’s shoulder and used Sky Blue Sluggish Divine Light to slow the tiger.
• The Titan Giant Ape pulled the tiger’s tail hook and raised a gravity-enhanced fist toward its head.