Chapter Summaries

After Spirit Academy won the tournament, Gu Chen distributed the soul-bone rewards and received a lesson from Tang Hao in the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer. He bought a Leaf of Life and gave it to Tang San to pass on to his father, repaying Tang Hao’s guidance.

• Gu Chen awarded Hua Bu Luo, Luo Chen, and Jin Zi soul bones, and arranged for Feng Xiaoyu to receive a thousand-year soul bone from Godwind Academy.
• Feng Xiaoyu, Hua Bu Luo, Luo Chen, and Jin Zi began absorbing their soul bones while Gu Yuena guarded them.
• Tang Hao visited Gu Chen, demonstrated eighty-one hammer strikes, and asked him to spare Tang San in the future; Gu Chen promised he would not kill his younger brother.
• Gu Chen bought a Leaf of Life to treat Tang Hao’s old injuries and hidden ailments.
• Gu Chen found Tang San at the inn and gave him the Leaf of Life to pass on to Tang Hao.

Qian Xunji assigned Gu Chen to inspect all 261 Spirit Hall branch halls within five years, hoping to restrict his cultivation and keep him from gaining power. Gu Chen chose to use the task to enslave the branch hall masters and take control of Spirit Hall, setting out with Gu Yuena after receiving cultivation-boosting rewards.

• Qian Xunji told Qian Daoliu that Gu Chen's three hundred-thousand-year Spirit Rings threatened Spirit Hall, and the White Armor Douluo proposed sending Gu Chen to inspect its 261 branch halls over five years.
• Qian Xunji summoned Gu Chen and offered him the Grand Marshal position if he completed the inspections.
• Gu Chen chose the system's option to enslave the branch hall masters and take control of every branch, receiving talismans, cultivation acceleration cards, a soul tool blueprint, and system points.
• Qian Xunji allowed Gu Chen to bring the Saintess, but ordered him to depart within seven days and begin in Heaven Dou City.
• Gu Chen used cultivation acceleration cards on himself and Gu Yuena, then told her they would take control of Spirit Hall within five years to help soul beasts rise again.

Gu Chen left Spirit City’s students with God-bestowed Spirit Rings before confronting and enslaving Bibi Dong. He ordered her to summon five loyal Title Douluo, setting up a meeting five days later before his departure.

• Gu Chen told Hua Bu Luo and the others that he and Gu Yuena would be away for five years, then gave six companions God-bestowed Spirit Rings and instructed them to keep cultivating.
• Gu Chen went to Bibi Dong’s branch hall and attacked her to get within range of his advanced Enslavement Talisman.
• Bibi Dong used her Death Spider Emperor abilities against Gu Chen, but he broke through her attacks and reached her with Dragon Emperor Charge.
• Gu Chen enslaved Bibi Dong, who knelt before him and pledged her loyalty.
• Gu Chen ordered Bibi Dong to summon Ghost Douluo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, Snake Lance Douluo, Porcupine Douluo, and Demon Bear Douluo, and she scheduled their meeting for five days later.

Gu Chen made five Title Douluo his loyal subordinates and assigned them secret missions before traveling with Gu Yuena to Heaven Dou City. There, he went to the Speed Clan residence to recruit the clan, and its leader Bai He was informed of their arrival.

• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Yu Long, Ci Xue, and Mo Xun to serve Gu Chen, and Gu Chen used Enslavement Talismans to make all five completely loyal to him.
• Gu Chen ordered Yue Guan and Gui Mei to secretly protect his eight companions from Spirit Academy and tasked Yu Long, Ci Xue, and Mo Xun with assassinating Ghost Leopard Douluo.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena traveled to Heaven Dou City, inspected its Spirit Hall branch with Salas, and decided to visit the Speed Clan.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena reached the Speed Clan residence and asked its guard to tell Bai He that Spirit Hall's Holy Son and Saintess had come to visit.
• The Speed Clan guard hurried to Bai He's courtyard and reported that Gu Chen and Gu Yuena were requesting an audience.

Gu Chen subdued the Speed Clan, claimed its Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, and ordered its members to join the Shadow Guard in Spirit City. Afterward, he accepted missions to help Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong become gods ahead of schedule, and planned to meet Qian Renxue at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.

• Bai He refused to meet Gu Chen and Gu Yuena, but Gu Chen entered the courtyard and enslaved him with an advanced Enslavement Talisman.
• Gu Chen killed the Speed Clan disciple Bai Yu, took the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, and ordered the clan to become the Shadow Guard's Reconnaissance Department and relocate to Spirit City within two days.
• Gu Chen returned to Spirit Hall, stationed red-robed bishops at the Speed Clan residence, and ordered Salas to monitor the Strength Clan, Defense Clan, and Breaking Clan.
• The system offered Gu Chen three missions, and he accepted the missions to help Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong become gods five years ahead of schedule.
• Gu Chen decided to enter the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace the next day and tell Qian Renxue about her future inheritance of the Angel God's position.

Qian Xunji sent Ghost Leopard Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo to monitor Gu Chen, unaware that Demon Subduing and Thousand Jun Douluo served the Holy Son. Bibi Dong and six allies ambushed Ghost Leopard Douluo, and their fight ended with Yue Guan and Gui Mei unleashing their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Qian Xunji ordered Ghost Leopard Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo to watch Gu Chen while Thousand Jun Douluo stayed to guard Spirit Academy.
• Thousand Jun Douluo alerted Bibi Dong and five other Title Douluo that Ghost Leopard Douluo was outside Spirit City, and they went to assassinate him.
• Demon Subduing Douluo ambushed Ghost Leopard Douluo as the seven Title Douluo surrounded him, revealing that Thousand Jun and Demon Subduing served the Holy Son.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo fought back with his Martial Soul Avatar and spirit abilities, but Bibi Dong restrained him while Demon Bear Douluo blocked his attack.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei joined hands and activated their Two Poles Stillness Domain to stop Ghost Leopard Douluo from escaping.

Gu Chen arranged for Demon Subduing Douluo to frame the Clear Sky Sect for Ghost Leopard Douluo’s death, then visited Qian Renxue in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace and told her to pursue the Angel God’s godhood. The chapter ended with Qian Renxue preparing to obey his orders to fake her death and kill Xue Beng.

• Bibi Dong and the other Title Douluos killed Ghost Leopard Douluo, and Gu Chen ordered Demon Subduing Douluo to pose as an injured survivor and blame the Clear Sky Sect.
• Demon Subduing Douluo deceived Qian Xunji, who ordered Spirit Hall to kill Clear Sky Sect disciples and assigned Demon Subduing Douluo and the Sixth Consecrator to monitor Gu Chen.
• Demon Subduing Douluo and Thousand Jun Douluo agreed to travel to Heaven Dou City to help Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena teleported into Qian Renxue’s chambers, where Gu Chen told her to fake her death, find Qian Daoliu, and inherit the Angel God’s godhood within five years.
• Gu Chen ordered Qian Renxue to kill Xue Beng before leaving, and she resolved to follow her master’s instructions.

Gu Chen accompanied Bai He and the Speed Clan as they set out for Spirit City, but Titan, Niu Gao, and Yang Wudi blocked their departure. Gu Chen fought the three clan heads, killing Yang Wudi and turning his Golden Dragon Tail Sweep against Titan and Niu Gao.

• Gu Yuena asked Gu Chen how he had met Qian Renxue, and he explained that she had become his servant through a Soul Contract.
• Bai He led the Speed Clan out of Heaven Dou City to relocate to Spirit City under Gu Chen and Gu Yuena’s watch.
• Titan, Niu Gao, and Yang Wudi confronted Bai He, and Gu Chen declared that the Speed Clan had joined Spirit Hall.
• Titan attacked Gu Chen, who broke through his gravity skill and struck Niu Gao with Golden Dragon Claw Strike.
• Gu Chen blocked Yang Wudi’s Soul Breaking Spear, then used Forbidden Universe: Dragon Emperor Annihilation to pierce Yang Wudi’s heart.
• Titan and Niu Gao attacked Gu Chen from behind, and he swept his Golden Dragon Tail at them as they raised their defensive skills.

Gu Chen killed Titan and Niu Gao, secured control over a Spirit Hall branch in Hu Yang City, and discovered that a group of Evil Soul Masters had attacked its forces. The chapter left him questioning the threat posed by the surviving Evil Soul Masters.

• Gu Chen killed Niu Gao and Titan after defeating them alongside Yang Wudi, then allowed Bai He and the Speed Clan to leave for Spirit City.
• Gu Chen ordered Salas to recruit the three clans whose leaders he had killed, and Salas killed a Heaven Dou royal guard who challenged Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena left Heaven Dou City and traveled toward Hu Yang City with Thousand Jun Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo driving their carriage.
• Gu Chen enslaved Branch Master Long Ming and began reviewing the branch's files with Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena found a report that 123 branch Soul Masters had died while fighting a group of Soul Masters with evil-aura martial souls, and Long Ming said the survivors had escaped.
• Gu Chen realized that the attackers were Evil Soul Masters.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena learned that the Evil Soul organization had attacked villages and enslaved Soul Beasts, but Long Ming had no leads on its whereabouts. The organization launched a nighttime assault on Hu Yang City’s Spirit Hall branch, where Gu Chen and the others prepared to confront its six-ringed leader.

• Long Ming told Gu Chen that Evil Soul Masters had refined Soul Beasts into corpse-beast slaves and attacked unguarded cities.
• The Evil Soul Boss gathered more than twenty followers and ordered them to raid the Hu Yang City Spirit Hall branch for revenge.
• The Evil Soul Masters crossed Hu Yang City’s walls, slaughtered the guards, and killed the people on the branch’s first floor.
• A wounded Soul Grandmaster reached Gu Chen and Long Ming on the second floor, then died as Poison Blood consumed his body.
• Gu Chen released his Golden Dragon King Martial Soul, Gu Yuena summoned the Silver Dragon King’s phantom, and Long Ming confronted the attackers.
• The Evil Soul Boss revealed six corrupted Soul Rings, while Long Ming faced him at the stairway.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena defeated the Evil Soul Masters at Hu Yang City Spirit Hall, then traveled to Sunset City to investigate Dugu Bo’s lair near Sunset Forest. After arriving, Gu Chen used a Beginner Enslavement Talisman on Sunset City’s hall master, Lin Ying Shuo.

• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena killed the Evil Soul Boss and the other Evil Soul Masters, while Long Ming ordered funerals and settlement allowances for the dead Spirit Hall staff.
• Gu Chen ordered the Evil Soul Masters’ heads displayed on the city walls and warned against embezzling the settlement money.
• Gu Chen gave Long Ming a Communication Talisman Stone, then left Hu Yang City with Gu Yuena, Thousand Jun Douluo, and Demon Subduing Douluo.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena reached Sunset City after a day of travel and were welcomed by Hall Master Lin Ying Shuo.
• Gu Chen checked Lin Ying Shuo’s Character Panel and used a Beginner Enslavement Talisman to enslave him.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Gu Chen enslaved Dugu Bo and claimed the site. They strengthened the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings with divine soul power, then Gu Chen considered who might inherit their god positions.

• After leaving the Sunset City branch, Gu Chen chose to enslave Dugu Bo and received 258 Communication Talisman Stones and an advanced Enslavement Talisman from the system.
• Gu Yuena teleported Gu Chen past Dugu Bo’s poisonous miasma and into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo recognized Gu Chen and Gu Yuena, accused them of taking his immortal herbs, and attacked Gu Chen with poison.
• Gu Chen used the advanced Enslavement Talisman to control Dugu Bo and ordered him to guard the well, which Gu Chen claimed for himself and Gu Yuena.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena gave the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King divine soul power so they could persist as artifact spirits.
• Gu Chen considered Xue Youyou as a possible heir to the Ice Dragon King’s god position and rejected Ma Hongjun as a candidate for the Fire Dragon King’s position.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena inspected the Sunset Soul Beast Legion before returning to Spirit City, where Gu Chen checked the loyalty and abilities of the Speed Clan and Night Clan members in the Shadow Guard. The chapter ended with Gu Chen reviewing the information of the hundred-odd guards.

• Gu Chen gave Dugu Bo a Communication Talisman Stone, then summoned Xiong Jun and Scarlet King and ordered them to expand and train the Sunset Soul Beast Legion.
• Xiong Jun and Scarlet King told Gu Chen that ninety-four ten-thousand-year soul beasts had joined the legion and agreed to send dragon-blooded soul beasts to cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena inspected the legion's disorderly base in Sunset Forest, then left after Gu Chen told the two ferocious beasts to continue organizing it.
• Over the next two years, Gu Chen and Gu Yuena visited Spirit Hall branches across the Heaven Dou Empire, enslaved their hall masters, and suppressed their cultivation at level seventy.
• Back in Spirit City, Gu Chen learned from Ye Wuyou that some Speed Clan members had tried to defect after joining the Shadow Guard, so he went to inspect the Reconnaissance Department.
• Gu Chen used the system to inspect the information of the hundred-odd former Speed Clan and Night Clan members in the Shadow Guard.

Gu Chen gave his trusted companions Talent Enhancement Cards, and Ye Wuyou unexpectedly received the Death God's inheritance. The group discussed the requirements of the first trial and the shifting balance among Spirit City's great families.

• Gu Chen told Ye Wuyou to secretly assassinate four disloyal Shadow Guards and learned that Dongfang Po was away hunting a soul ring with his younger brother.
• Gu Chen gave Ye Wuyou, Dongfang Po, Su Bai, and Lu Yan Talent Enhancement Cards, raising the Soul Power Levels of Dongfang Po, Su Bai, and Lu Yan by three levels.
• The Death God sent Ye Wuyou a divine inheritance, and Ye Wuyou learned he had to complete nine trials, beginning with killing ten thousand people who had each taken at least one life.
• Gu Chen learned that Ye Wuyou's first trial could be completed through Shadow Guard assassination missions and heard how Spirit City's great families had changed after the Shangguan Family was wiped out.
• Ye Wuyou explained that He Langfeng's He Family might join Spirit Hall, while the Xiao Family remained aligned with the Star Luo Empire but posed little threat unless war broke out.

Gu Chen killed Luo Qingshan for defying him and embezzling Spirit Hall funds, then installed An Zimu as the Luoyang City branch hall master. After leaving Luoyang City with Gu Yuena, he visited the Luoyang Soul Beast Legion and saw its disciplined formation.

• Gu Chen discovered that Luo Qingshan had low loyalty and killed him when he refused to kneel, while Gu Yuena burned the body.
• Gu Chen enslaved An Zimu, made him the new branch hall master, and ordered him to conceal Luo Qingshan's death and review the branch records.
• After learning Luo Qingshan had embezzled Spirit Hall funds and owned twenty-one residences and an auction house, Gu Chen ordered An Zimu to seize his assets and execute his family.
• An Zimu's forces overcame resistance from Luo Qingshan's private soul masters, executed the Luo family, and recovered more than two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins; Gu Chen accepted forty thousand for himself.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena traveled to Luoyang Forest, where Zi Ji and Yao Ling led them to inspect the well-organized Luoyang Soul Beast Legion.

Gu Chen rejected Gu Yuena’s offer to sacrifice herself so they could become the Dragon God, insisting they would strengthen their bloodlines and fight together. In Chess Cloth City, he discovered that Dong Hongzhi was being undermined by two vice hall masters and began seeking a way to resolve the problem.

• Zi Ji suggested that Gu Chen and Gu Yuena merge their Dragon King bloodlines, and Gu Yuena decided she was willing to be devoured for his sake.
• Gu Chen refused to sacrifice Gu Yuena, saying they would surpass the Dragon God’s power as independent individuals, and carried her out of Luoyang Forest.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena traveled to Chess Cloth City, where Dong Hongzhi welcomed Gu Chen as the Spirit Hall branch master.
• Dong Hongzhi told Gu Chen that two Soul Sage vice hall masters had taken most of his authority, but warned against killing them because the local soul masters might resent Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen contacted Ling Xiaojiu and asked how many people her sixth soul skill’s illusion could affect when amplified by her skull bone.

Gu Chen investigated the corrupt Chess Cloth City branch and decided to deal with its two abusive Vice Hall Masters, while Ling Xiaojiu and Jin Zi traveled there to help him. Their journey stopped at a village, where a black-robed man attacked Old Wang, leaving them facing a new danger.

• Gu Chen asked Ling Xiaojiu to bring Jin Zi to Chess Cloth City, then ordered Dong Hongzhi to introduce him to Vice Hall Masters Li Qi and Ao Pei Peng.
• Gu Chen examined the branch records and confronted Li Qi and Ao Pei Peng over taking one thousand Gold Soul Coins; Ao Pei Peng defended their right to use the treasury and relied on his mouth martial soul to deceive the branch’s soul masters.
• Ling Xiaojiu and Jin Zi departed for Chess Cloth City, while Hua Bu Luo and the others stayed behind to cultivate.
• After traveling for two days, Ling Xiaojiu and Jin Zi lodged with a farming couple when their carriage horse needed rest.
• A scream rang through the village, and the farmer went to investigate Old Wang; Ling Xiaojiu and Jin Zi followed, where they saw a black-robed man with five soul rings gripping Old Wang by the throat.

Jin Zi and Ling Xiaojiu fought an Evil Soul Master who was draining a village’s blood, and Ling Xiaojiu rewound time so Jin Zi could kill him before he slaughtered the villagers. After recovering from their injuries, the pair left the village together, neither regretting the sacrifices they had made.

• The Soul King-level Evil Soul Master drained Old Wang’s blood and began drawing blood from the villagers, so Jin Zi and Ling Xiaojiu stepped in to stop him.
• The Evil Soul Master stripped the villagers of their blood to temporarily reach Soul Emperor strength, killing several hundred people before Jin Zi could intervene.
• Ling Xiaojiu used Nine-Leaf Time Reversal Grass to rewind time by three seconds, sacrificing her Soul Power for seven days and preventing the villagers’ deaths.
• Jin Zi unleashed Golden Crocodile Sky Breaker and annihilated the Evil Soul Master, but the attack severely injured her and left her unconscious.
• The villagers cared for Jin Zi and Ling Xiaojiu; after recovering enough to travel, the pair set off by horse-drawn carriage and said they did not regret their choices.

Ling Xiaojiu recovered her Soul Power and used her Nine-Leaf Fantasy Nightmare Grass to make the Chess Cloth City branch’s soul masters believe Ao Pei Peng had cut their salaries. Gu Chen and Gu Yuena restrained Ao Pei Peng and Li Qi in reality while the illusion turned the soul masters against Ao Pei Peng.

• Gu Chen explained that he wanted Ling Xiaojiu to use her illusion skill to make Ao Pei Peng offend the soul masters in the Chess Cloth City branch.
• Ling Xiaojiu spent two days recovering, then returned to the branch’s second-floor administrative area and activated her sixth soul skill and skull bone skill.
• Li Qi and Ao Pei Peng broke free of Ling Xiaojiu’s illusion, but Gu Yuena used Spatial Confinement to trap them.
• Inside the illusion, Ling Xiaojiu impersonated a soul master and led the others in protesting after the illusory Ao Pei Peng announced a salary cut.
• Ao Pei Peng tried to force the protesting soul masters to kneel, deepening their resentment toward him.

Gu Chen and Ling Xiaojiu used an illusion to turn the Soul Masters of Spirit Hall’s Chess Cloth City branch against Li Qi and Ao Pei Peng, allowing Gu Chen to kill them and restore order. The next day, Gu Chen and Gu Yuena left for another city while Ling Xiaojiu and Jin Zi headed back to Spirit City.

• Ling Xiaojiu’s illusion made the Soul Masters resent Li Qi and Ao Pei Peng, while Gu Chen appeared to defend them and was seemingly wounded by the two Vice Hall Masters.
• The Soul Masters attacked Li Qi and Ao Pei Peng in the illusion, and Gu Chen timed his movements to match it as Ling Xiaojiu dispelled the illusion.
• Gu Yuena released her Spatial Confinement, and Gu Chen killed Li Qi and Ao Pei Peng with Golden Dragon Tail Sweep.
• Gu Chen assigned the branch’s affairs to Dong Hongzhi and announced that the Soul Masters’ salaries would be doubled.
• Gu Chen gave Ling Xiaojiu a Foundation-Fortifying Dragon Ganoderma Leaf and thanked her for helping him.
• The next day, Gu Chen and Gu Yuena departed for another city, while Ling Xiaojiu and Jin Zi left for Spirit City.