Chapter Summaries

Gu Chen revealed that Ye Wuyou, Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong were gods who could support the soul beasts without the God Realm watching. He used two god-tier cards to increase soul beast cultivation across the continent, then assigned Di Tian and the others their next tasks.

• Ye Wuyou, Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong revealed their identities as the Death God, Angel God, and Rakshasa God, and Gu Chen explained that his Heavenly Secret Concealment would let them act without the God Realm detecting them.
• Di Tian and the other leaders reported the numbers of ninety-thousand-year soul beasts in their legions, and Gu Chen recognized the ocean's vast population of powerful soul beasts.
• Gu Chen activated the All Soul Beast Enhancement Card and All Soul Beast Talent Enhancement Card, raising every soul beast's cultivation by ten thousand years and increasing their cultivation speed by nearly ten percent.
• More than three hundred Star Dou Forest soul beasts, dozens in other forests, forty-two in the Far North, and over two thousand in the ocean broke through to the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast realm.
• Di Tian and the others thanked Gu Chen and Gu Yuena, and Gu Chen began telling them their next assignments.

Gu Chen ordered soul beast armies to occupy the Spirit Hall Empire while Shadow Guards enforced his decree, and the conquest spread rapidly across Douluo Continent. More than half a month later, soul beasts controlled over eighty percent of the cities, where humans and soul beasts were beginning to coexist under new arrangements.

• Gu Chen assigned Di Tian and other leaders to divide soul beast legions among the Spirit Hall Empire’s cities, while Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Deep Sea Demonic Whale King received separate territorial orders.
• Gu Chen ordered Ye Wuyou, Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong to make cities accept the soul beasts, and he bought Teleportation Arrays so the decree could be delivered throughout the empire.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord reported that Demon Forest’s soul beasts had gained cultivation, but Gu Chen ordered them to remain there and recruit into the Demon Soul Beast Legion.
• After the Shadow Guards suppressed rebellions, more than a million soul beasts entered human cities, and nearly five percent of the Spirit Hall Empire’s population was killed.
• Within half a month, soul beasts controlled over eighty percent of the cities, establishing shared inner cities for humans and small soul beasts and outer cities for large soul beasts.

Gu Chen appointed Di Tian Imperial Tutor and issued the Soul Beast Ban Order, while soul beasts and the three deities killed humans who hunted them. On Sea God Island, Tang San completed his inheritance and returned as the Sea God, preparing to announce his return to the seas.

• Three deities protected soul beasts from attacking Title Douluo, and soul beasts came to rule every city in the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Gu Chen appointed Di Tian Imperial Tutor and ordered him to issue a decree forbidding soul masters from slaughtering soul beasts while also restricting soul beast attacks on humans.
• Soul masters left the cities to hunt soul beasts, but Ye Wuyou, Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong killed those who entered the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt.
• Tang San absorbed Sea God divine power and became a Level One Deity, the Sea God.
• Tang San returned to the Sea God Temple, reunited with his six companions, and unleashed a pillar of Sea God power to announce his return.

After inheriting the Sea Godhood, Tang San returned to Douluo Continent with the Shrek Seven Devils and discovered that the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires had fallen and Soul Beasts now ruled the continent. He learned that Gu Chen was the emperor of the Spirit Hall Empire.

• Tang San concealed his divine aura and reassured the Shrek Seven Devils that he was still their brother before they set out for Douluo Continent.
• Tang San and the other six reached a city filled with powerful Soul Beasts, where they found humans living safely among them.
• A resident told Tang San that the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires had been destroyed and that Spirit Hall had unified the continent.
• The resident explained that meteor showers had recently raised the cultivation of Soul Beasts across the continent, allowing them to take control of major cities.
• Tang San asked about Gu Chen and was shocked when the resident identified him as the emperor of the Spirit Hall Empire.

Tang San arrived in Spirit City and learned from Gu Chen why the Spirit Hall Empire had conquered the continent and why Gu Chen wanted Soul Beasts to rule. The chapter ended with Gu Chen enforcing a ban on hunting Soul Beasts, while Tang San challenged the consequences for soul masters.

• Tang San flew to Spirit City with Xiao Wu and the others, where Gu Chen and Gu Yuena greeted them.
• Gu Chen told Tang San that he had killed Qian Xunji and become emperor after the two great empires fell; Dai Mubai accused him of destroying the Star Luo Empire, and Gu Chen defended his rule.
• At Gu Chen's request, Xiao Wu explained his identity as the Golden Dragon King and Gu Yuena's identity as the Silver Dragon King, along with his goal of Soul Beast rule.
• A Shadow Guard member reported that Gu Chen's Soul Beast Ban Order had been issued throughout the Spirit Hall Empire, forbidding soul masters from hunting Soul Beasts.
• Tang San questioned how soul masters could advance without hunting, and Gu Chen declared that Soul Beasts would be protected and anyone who harmed one would die.

Gu Chen confronted Tang San over his decision to oppose protections for soul beasts, and the two began fighting in the sky above Spirit City. Their clash escalated when Gu Chen launched five mysterious black Paper Cranes at Tang San.

• Tang San declared that he would protect soul masters, even though doing so meant he would not shelter all soul beasts, and Gu Chen challenged him over his disregard for Xiao Wu and his family.
• Gu Chen revealed his Rank 95 strength and asked Tang San to fight him; Gu Yuena stayed behind after Gu Chen told her not to interfere.
• Gu Chen and Tang San flew three thousand meters above Spirit City, where Tang San attacked with his Sea God Trident and Gu Chen blocked him with Golden Dragon Waterfall.
• Tang San sent his Blue Silver Emperor's Entanglement toward Gu Chen, who cut through the grass with five black metallic Paper Cranes and sent them flying at Tang San.

Gu Chen fought Tang San in Spirit City, using divine Paper Cranes, a puppet, and secret arts to wound and restrain him. As Gu Chen prepared to escalate the battle, Ye Wuyou sensed divine power in Spirit City and rushed there, leaving Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong to guard the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Tang San unleashed his Torrential Pear Blossom Needles, but Gu Chen evaded them with Paper Cranes and a convincing Xiao Wu puppet.
• Gu Chen's puppet stabbed Tang San and bound him with deathly steel wires, but Tang San broke free with his Sea God divine armor.
• Tang San attacked the puppet with the Sea God Trident, and Gu Chen retrieved it before using Scatter to escape Unfixed Wind Waves.
• Gu Chen struck Tang San's Sea God shoulder armor with Cross Flash, then announced, "National-server Yuan Ge requests permission to battle!"
• Ye Wuyou erased a soul master poaching in the Star Dou Great Forest, then sensed unfamiliar divine power in Spirit City and hurried there.

Gu Chen used his Golden Dragon bloodline and the Dragon Slaying Saber to counter Tang San’s Sea God attacks, injuring Tang San and destroying his Taiyin True Water Dragon. Tang San remained determined to fight and launched a Blue Silver Overlord Spear at Gu Chen.

• Gu Chen abandoned Yuan Ge’s inherited ability and used Golden Dragon Roar and Golden Dragon Hegemony to absorb and reflect Tang San’s Thousand Clouds.
• Gu Chen activated Golden Dragon’s Berserk Domain, then struck Tang San with Golden Dragon Shock Burst, cracking his Sea God armor and drawing blood.
• Tang San summoned the Taiyin True Water Dragon and sent it toward Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen drew the Dragon Slaying Saber and split the Taiyin True Water Dragon in two with a single strike.
• Tang San continued fighting and launched a Blue Silver Overlord Spear at Gu Chen.

Gu Chen and Tang San fought fiercely, and Tang San defeated Gu Chen by striking him with the Sea God Trident. Though Gu Chen expected Tang San to finish him, Tang San spared him and recalled the promise they had made as children.

• Gu Chen countered Tang San's Blue Silver Overlord Spear with Golden Dragon's Restraint, then summoned five golden dragons with Five Dragon Blood Soul Kill.
• Tang San protected himself inside a Blue Silver Grass cocoon, but Gu Chen broke through it with Golden Dragon Prison Kill and struck what he believed was Tang San.
• Tang San's water-element substitute took the hit, allowing Tang San to attack Gu Chen from behind with the Sea God Trident and send him crashing into a mountainside.
• Tang San exposed Gu Chen in the mountainside and held his trident near Gu Chen's neck, but withdrew it when Gu Chen challenged his hesitation.
• Tang San told Gu Chen he would not kill him and reminded him of the promise they had made when they were seven.

Gu Chen chose to reconcile with Tang San rather than kill him, accepting the system’s reward and ending the brothers’ conflict. Ye Wuyou then arrived and attacked Tang San, binding him with spiritual chains and draining his life force.

• Tang San admitted he would no longer oppose the Spirit Master Kill Ban and reminded Gu Chen of his promise to spare him.
• Gu Chen chose to make peace with Tang San, receiving Artificial Soul Spirit materials, an Electrolux spell inheritance, and system points.
• Ye Wuyou appeared and slashed at Tang San, who escaped the first attack with a Water Element Clone.
• Ye Wuyou bound Tang San with Spirit Binding Chains and struck his Sea God armor, cracking its headpiece.
• Ye Wuyou attacked again and used a black link to drain Tang San’s life force.

Gu Chen stopped Ye Wuyou from killing Tang San and explained that Artificial Soul Spirits could end the need to hunt soul beasts. Tang San agreed to forge the production equipment, while Gu Chen began organizing Spirit Pagoda branches across the Spirit Hall Empire.

• Gu Chen identified Tang San to Ye Wuyou, who withdrew his life-draining attack and released Tang San from the Spirit Binding Chain.
• Gu Chen told Tang San about Soul Spirits and revealed that he had blueprints for equipment to produce Artificial Soul Spirits without harming soul beasts.
• Tang San agreed to forge the equipment, and Gu Chen gave him the blueprints and estimated that the work would take about a week.
• Gu Chen ordered Spirit Pagoda branches established in every city and sent Ye Wuyou to arrange construction and summon Qian Renxue from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Gu Chen welcomed Gu Yuena and arranged accommodations and a forge room for Tang San and his companions before teleporting with Gu Yuena to the imperial palace.

Gu Chen arranged new duties and divine trials for Qian Renxue, Ling Xiaojiu, and Lu Yan while settling Tang San and his companions in the imperial palace. He then asked Tang San for the King of Hell’s Sticker, leaving Tang San shocked that Gu Chen knew about the poison.

• Gu Chen gave Qian Renxue the Spirit Pagoda Management Manual and assigned her to govern the Spirit Pagoda.
• Qian Renxue removed Ling Xiaojiu’s barrier, and Ling Xiaojiu revealed her next trial required treating one hundred injured patients.
• Lu Yan revealed her sixth trial required planning an event capable of changing a continent, and Gu Chen arranged for her to travel to Sun Moon Continent in three days.
• Gu Chen brought Tang San and his companions from the inn to the palaces he had assigned them and told Tang San the Forge Room would be ready the next day.
• Gu Chen asked Tang San for the King of Hell’s Sticker, and Tang San was shocked that Gu Chen knew about it.

Gu Chen gave Mo Yun Tang San’s King of Hell’s Sticker, allowing Mo Yun to complete the Scorpion God’s second trial and create his Natal Scorpion Poison. He brought Mo Yun to meet Tang San the next morning so Tang San could teach him a movement technique for his third trial.

• Tang San gave Gu Chen one of his three unused King of Hell’s Stickers and warned him about its deadly poison.
• Mo Yun took the King of Hell’s Sticker without harm and completed the Scorpion God’s second trial, gaining three Soul Power levels and the ability to fuse its poison with his Natal Scorpion Poison.
• Mo Yun fused the King of Hell’s Sticker with his Natal Scorpion Poison, then told Gu Chen that his third trial required mastering an unusual movement technique.
• Gu Chen decided Tang San might teach Mo Yun Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and brought him to visit Tang San at sunrise.
• Gu Chen and Mo Yun found Tang San cultivating Purple Demon Eyes on the palace roof, and Gu Chen explained that Mo Yun had inherited a Level One deity position.

Mo Yun asked Tang San to teach her Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track for her third divine trial, and he agreed. At the Shadow Guard Logistics Department, Ling Xiaojiu treated grievously injured guards and used her eighth spirit ability to replenish the Soul Power of an unconscious man.

• Mo Yun told Tang San that she needed to master an unusual movement technique for her third divine trial, and he agreed to teach her Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Tang San said he would teach Mo Yun the basics for three days before building the Artificial Soul Spirit device, and Gu Chen left her with him.
• Ling Xiaojiu entered the Shadow Guard Logistics Department's secret chamber, where nine grievously injured Shadow Guards were being treated.
• Ling Xiaojiu healed one wounded guard in a quarter of an hour, though she could not restore his missing arm.
• Ling Xiaojiu healed another guard's injuries but found that he remained unconscious because his Soul Power was depleted.
• Ling Xiaojiu used Nine-Leaf Energy Recirculation Grass to convert energy into Dark Element Soul Power and inject it into the unconscious guard.

Ling Xiaojiu treated a series of grievously injured people with her restorative soul skills while Gu Chen used a God-tier lottery draw to obtain bloodline enhancement cards. Gu Yuena's Silver Dragon King bloodline strengthened, and Gu Chen's Golden Dragon King bloodline evolved into the Golden Dragon God bloodline.

• Ling Xiaojiu restored the injured patients' energy and treated three more members of a task force who had suffered grievous injuries.
• Gu Chen opened the God-tier Lottery Wheel and won Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King bloodline enhancement cards.
• Gu Chen gave Gu Yuena the Silver Dragon King card, and she used it to raise her bloodline strength to 275 percent of its original level.
• Gu Chen activated the Golden Dragon King card, raising his bloodline strength beyond 300 percent and evolving it into the Golden Dragon God bloodline.

A Year Beast emerged from a black hole and slaughtered coastal villages, prompting Gu Chen to use the System’s New Year Mall to arm his companions with red paper and fireworks. They drove the beast away, then returned to Spirit City to celebrate the New Year together; Gu Chen ended the chapter with Gu Yuena in his arms.

• A Year Beast emerged from a black hole off the eastern coast and massacred three villages near Eastsea City.
• The City Lord of Eastsea City reported the attack to Gu Chen, and Tang San identified the monster as the Year Beast.
• Gu Chen chose to fight the Year Beast, bought red blessing papers and fireworks from the New Year Mall, and led his companions to Eastsea City.
• Qian Renxue’s attack failed, but the group used red papers to trap the Year Beast and fireworks to drain its energy until it vanished.
• Gu Chen received a super-sized fireworks reward, returned with everyone to Spirit City, and celebrated the New Year with Gu Yuena and the banquet guests.

Gu Chen's bloodline evolved completely into the Golden Dragon God bloodline, and he traveled to the Sun Moon Empire to order its rule transferred to Soul Beasts. He left Lu Yan in charge of the takeover, and she began issuing an imperial proclamation.

• Gu Chen's bloodline evolved into the Golden Dragon God bloodline, and he told Gu Yuena that they were no longer blood-related.
• Three days later, Gu Chen traveled with Lu Yan and Ye Wuyou to the Sun Moon Empire's palace during the morning court session.
• Gu Chen announced that Soul Beasts would rule the Sun Moon Continent and warned Xu Haoran that resisting cities could be forcibly occupied and massacred.
• Gu Chen appointed Lu Yan to exercise his authority and lead the Soul Beasts' takeover, ordering the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord to obey her.
• Lu Yan promised to unify the continent in half a month and began issuing an imperial proclamation in Xu Haoran's name.

Lu Yan brought the Sun Moon Continent under soul beast rule, while Zhang Haisheng completed the Moon God’s inheritance and went to Mingdu to confront Gu Chen. Zhang Haisheng defeated the city’s defenders, but Gu Chen appeared and revealed he had known about Zhang Haisheng’s inheritance.

• Lu Yan issued orders for the Sun Moon Empire and sent them to its cities through teleportation arrays, while the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord prepared the Demon Soul Beast Legion to garrison them.
• Most cities accepted soul beast rule, but the Demon Soul Beast Legion slaughtered the people in cities whose lords resisted, and all of the Sun Moon Continent’s cities fell within half a month.
• Zhang Haisheng completed the Moon God’s inheritance, became a Level One Deity, and flew toward Mingdu seeking revenge on Gu Chen.
• Zhang Haisheng arrived above Mingdu and attacked nearly ten Title Douluo and more than twenty Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts with his divine power and Moon God Silk, severely injuring them.
• Gu Chen appeared in golden dragon armor and told Zhang Haisheng that he had known about the Moon God’s involvement in his escape and inheritance.
• Zhang Haisheng dismissed Gu Chen as a mortal and asserted that his new status as a deity made him superior.

Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou defeated Zhang Haisheng, the Moon God, after he attacked Gu Chen over Marcia Aguilar’s death. Gu Chen offered Zhang Haisheng a chance to pledge loyalty, but Zhang Haisheng refused and accepted whatever punishment awaited him.

• Zhang Haisheng confronted Gu Chen over Marcia Aguilar, and Gu Chen pierced his chest with the Golden Dragon Spear.
• Zhang Haisheng unleashed his Moon God Domain and Moon’s Wrath, but Gu Chen’s Golden Dragon God bloodline resisted the domain and his Golden Dragon Waterfall blocked the attack.
• Ye Wuyou revealed himself as the Death God and wounded Zhang Haisheng with his Death God Scythe, breaking the Moon God Silk and leaving Zhang Haisheng severely injured.
• Ye Wuyou seized Zhang Haisheng and asked Gu Chen how to deal with him, and Gu Chen offered Zhang Haisheng a chance to pledge loyalty.
• Zhang Haisheng refused because Gu Chen had killed Marcia Aguilar and told him to kill or torture him as he pleased.

Gu Chen persuaded Zhang Haisheng to temporarily serve him by promising that his companions could revive Marcia Aguilar with the Revival Divine Light. Back in the imperial palace, Lu Yan reached level ninety, received a God-bestowed Spirit Ring, and revealed that she had inherited the Chess God’s divinity.

• Gu Chen explained that Marcia Aguilar could be revived because her intact body and sealed soul met the Revival Divine Light’s conditions.
• Zhang Haisheng refused to sign the Master-Servant Soul Contract but swore to serve Gu Chen if Marcia Aguilar was revived.
• Gu Chen accepted Zhang Haisheng’s oath and brought him to the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial palace.
• Lu Yan’s divine power raised her Soul Power Level to ninety, and she received a God-bestowed Spirit Ring.
• Lu Yan told Zhang Haisheng that she had inherited the Level One Chess God’s divinity.