Chapter Summaries

The fourth clone developed powerful spatial Soul Skills, condensed a Mental Soul Core, and chose two high-age sea Soul Beasts as Soul Spirits. After a costly Blood Sacrifice, he reached level 89 and needed only a second Soul Core to advance to level 90 and obtain his Ninth Soul Ring.

• The fourth clone condensed a Mental Soul Core with help from the Space Dragon King’s amplification and Sealed Milk Bottles.
• Di Tian presented six ten-thousand-year spatial Soul Beasts, while the Demon Empress offered older sea Soul Beasts that could provide stronger help with a Space Soul Core.
• Zhuge Lan chose the 580,000-year Abyssal Jellyfish Emperor and 590,000-year Star Ray to become Soul Spirits for the fourth clone.
• Zhuge Lan raised the Abyssal Jellyfish Emperor’s age to over a million years and selected its Spatial Phantom Soul Skill for the clone.
• After the Soul Spirit contracts and Blood Sacrifice, the fourth clone reached level 89 and still needed a second Soul Core to reach level 90.

Zhuge Lan and the gathered Soul Spirits and Soul Beasts began condensing a Space Soul Core for the Fourth Clone, using spatial power while keeping it separate from the Mental Soul Core. The process went smoothly at first, but they faced a shortage of spatial power, which only a limit Douluo could wield.

• Zhuge Lan placed the Eye of Life against the Fourth Clone’s forehead and prepared the Soul Spirits to condense a Space Soul Core.
• The Snow Empress assigned Yuanming and several powerful Soul Spirits to gather spatial power while others stabilized the Mental Soul Core and kept the two cores apart.
• Zhuge Lan formed a dimensional barrier in the Fourth Clone’s middle dantian, and the gathered allies poured spatial power into the Space Soul Core’s prototype.
• The Soul Spirits maintained the process as the Mental Soul Core gradually adapted to the new core, allowing the condensation to proceed without conflict.
• The group discovered that they lacked enough spatial power to complete the Space Soul Core, since only a limit Douluo could wield it.

Zhuge Lan’s fourth avatar completed its Space Soul Core, gained the God of Space’s inheritance and a divine artifact, and began learning the Dragon God Claw from Di Tian. The chapter ended with Zhuge Lan and Di Tian in the Far North’s core region, preparing for private instruction.

• The fourth avatar completed its Yin-Yang Balanced Dual Soul Core and forcibly transported everyone out of the Undead Demi-plane.
• Zhuge Lan used his new command over space, selected Star Ray’s Endbringer Rift Soul Skill, and demonstrated that he could use Soul Skills without a Martial Soul or Soul Rings.
• The God of Space mistook the fourth avatar for Zhuge Lan, offered him the God of Space position, and gave him spatial divinity and the Time-Space Divine Shuttle.
• Zhuge Lan examined the Space Soul Core’s capabilities, then asked Di Tian to teach him the Dragon God Claw.
• Zhuge Lan sent the others away and switched bodies, while Di Tian and the fourth avatar entered the Far North’s core region for private instruction.

Huo Yuhao entered a deep state of enlightenment while exploring the limits of Extreme Ice, as Zhuge Lan received his sixth Sea God Trial and attended Xu Tianran’s meeting about the Soul Master Competition. The meeting ended with Xu Tianran asking whether the humanoid Soul Tool could be deployed, and the fourth avatar saying the project was not ready.

• Huo Yuhao sensed the transformations between water and ice, entered enlightenment, and caused his Extreme Ice Soul Core to consume its stored power at an astonishing rate.
• Zhuge Lan received the Sea God’s sixth trial, which required him to master the Golden Thirteen Halberds’ eleventh style and obtain Tang Wutong’s soul body from Huo Yuhao.
• Zhuge Lan, the Hall Master of Light, and Jing Hongchen went to the imperial palace, where Xu Tianran gathered the Sun Moon Empire’s leaders to plan for the Soul Master Competition.
• Xu Tianran announced that sect masters could compete and ordered the empire to keep visiting guests under surveillance, then demanded that the Hall of Light God, Bright Hall, and Holy Spirit Cult secure top-ten results and an imperial championship.
• Zhongli Wu claimed the championship for his Sacred Fire Cult and demanded that the Holy Spirit Cult be declared the empire’s state-protecting divine cult.
• Xu Tianran asked the fourth avatar whether the humanoid Soul Tool could be used during the competition, and the avatar replied that the project was progressing but was not ready.

Zhuge Lan sought Sun Moon Empire resources for his Sea God trial, using the threat of the Hall of Light God withdrawing its support to secure Xu Tianran’s approval. Xu Tianran granted Lan Yu access to one percent of the Empire’s rare-metal reserves, and Jing Hongchen agreed to join the negotiations with Huo Yuhao.

• Jing Hongchen reported that the first humanoid Soul Tool prototype would be ready for combat in a year, and Xu Tianran ordered preparations for the Soul Master Competition.
• The fourth clone said Lan Yu could kill a Level 97 non-defense-type Super Douluo at the cost of nearly destroying both battle suit Soul Tool legions, so Xu Tianran ordered Kong Deming to arrange joint training.
• Zhuge Lan asked Xu Tianran for rare metals to trade with Huo Yuhao for Tang Wutong’s original body as part of his Sea God trial.
• Jing Hongchen opposed giving Shrek resources or Soul Tool technology, but the fourth clone and the Hall Master of Light threatened to separate the Hall of Light God from the Empire’s projects and support.
• Xu Tianran granted Lan Yu one percent of the Empire’s rare-metal reserves, and Zhuge Lan invited Jing Hongchen to accompany him to negotiate with Huo Yuhao.

Xu Tianran and Ju Zi assessed the Hall of Light God's dependence on the Sun Moon Empire, while Zhuge Lan and the Hall Master of Light secretly planned to undermine the empire from within. Zhuge Lan brought Jing Hongchen to Shrek Academy and offered resources in exchange for something from Huo Yuhao, prompting Xuan Zi to summon Wang Dong'er and Zhuge Qiu'er.

• Kong Deming told Xu Tianran that cooperation with the Hall of Light God was an exchange of interests, and Ju Zi explained why the other empires could not take it in.
• Zhuge Lan and the Hall Master of Light celebrated their chance to move rare metals to the Sacred Fire Cult and planned to buy off Bright Hall's key personnel.
• Jing Hongchen followed Zhuge Lan through a spatial passage to Shrek Academy and arrived suffering from spatial sickness.
• Zhuge Lan attacked the skies above Shrek Academy with a divine skill, drawing Xuan Zi and other powerful figures to confront them.
• Zhuge Lan offered Bright Magic Scrolls, treasures, rare metals, and faith power in exchange for something from Huo Yuhao, and Xuan Zi arranged for Wang Dong'er and Zhuge Qiu'er to be summoned.

Ma Hongjun lured Zhuge Lan and Jing Hongchen into Shrek Academy, where Zhuge Lan unleashed a devastating attack and tested the Phoenix God's defenses. Zhuge Lan then annihilated his own body and soul before reviving through a spatial rift, leaving Ma Hongjun stunned.

• Ma Hongjun ordered Xuan Zi to bring in the Sea God Nine Trials inheritor, while Xuan Zi warned that Zhuge Lan could resurrect even after his soul was destroyed.
• Wang Dong'er realized Shrek intended to kill Zhuge Lan, who stored his equipment and emotional divinity before entering the inheritance grounds alone.
• Jing Hongchen followed Zhuge Lan into the grounds and barely escaped the combined assault of Zhuge Lan's Soul Ring detonation and Ma Hongjun's blazing barrier.
• Ma Hongjun explained why a god could withstand Zhuge Lan's attack, while Zhuge Lan considered ways to overcome the gap between mortals and gods.
• Zhuge Lan activated a Soul-Killing Curse Rune and destroyed his body and soul, then returned through a spatial rift and grinned at the shocked Ma Hongjun.

Zhuge Lan and Wang Dong'er negotiated with Jing Hongchen over the origin of Tang Wutong, daughter of the Sea God, using the threat of Zhuge Lan’s devastating attacks and resurrection to pressure him. Jing Hongchen agreed to nine sets of Level 9 Soul Tool materials, but the haggling over Level 8 resources remained unresolved.

• Zhuge Lan threatened to keep attacking Shrek Academy, and Wang Dong'er intervened to negotiate the exchange for Tang Wutong’s origin.
• Wang Dong'er demanded Soul Tool blueprints and then materials, while Jing Hongchen refused her increasingly high requests.
• Zhuge Lan pretended to leave through a spatial rift, prompting Jing Hongchen to raise his offer until he agreed to provide nine sets of Level 9 Soul Tool materials.
• Zhuge Qiu'er proposed negotiating for Level 8 Soul Tool materials, and Zhuge Lan suggested asking for a hundred sets.
• Jing Hongchen took over the negotiation, but Wang Dong'er invoked her divine inheritance and insisted that her conditions be met.
• Jing Hongchen realized he could simply refuse excessive demands, while the negotiation remained unfinished.

Zhuge Lan used Wang Dong’er’s hard bargaining to secure a vast supply of Soul Tool resources from Xu Tianran, while Jing Hongchen took the blame and lost control of Bright Hall. The chapter ended with Zhuge Lan meeting Blue Rain in the core research room, where they laughed over how smoothly their infiltration had gone.

• Wang Dong’er rejected Jing Hongchen’s offers and forced him to negotiate for three days over compensation for Zhuge Lan.
• Jing Hongchen presented Xu Tianran with a list of Soul Tool resources, and Zhuge Lan claimed the terms had been secured by Jing Hongchen.
• Jing Hongchen praised Zhuge Lan’s power, and Zhuge Lan promised to seek a divine inheritance for Jing Hongchen’s granddaughter while presenting additional resources from the Hall of Light God.
• Xu Tianran approved the resource agreement and appointed Blue Rain to manage Bright Hall, leaving Jing Hongchen in charge only of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Jing Hongchen fainted from anger, and Zhuge Lan left with the imperial decree to find Blue Rain.
• Zhuge Lan entered the core research room, where he and Blue Rain laughed about Jing Hongchen’s misfortune and Blue Rain’s new position as master of Bright Hall.

Zhuge Lan exchanged a vast stockpile of Soul Tool resources for Tang Wutong’s soul origin and completed the Sea God’s Sixth Trial. He revived Tang Wutong at the Hall of Light God and left to face the next trial: mastering Boundless Sea and winning the Sea God’s Trident’s recognition.

• Lan Yu prepared the Sun Moon Empire’s supplies, and Zhuge Lan delivered them to Huo Yuhao in the Far North.
• Huo Yuhao swallowed the supplies through a spatial rift and gave Zhuge Lan a Platform of Conferring Gods containing Tang Wutong’s soul origin.
• Zhuge Lan completed the Sixth Trial, received the Sea God’s Trident and learned the requirements for the Seventh Trial.
• God King Tang asked Zhuge Lan to revive Tang Wutong in exchange for teaching him Sea God’s Light, and Zhuge Lan agreed.
• Zhuge Lan’s third avatar used Mangekyo: Flesh Reshaping to rebuild Tang Wutong’s body, and she awoke facing Zhuge Lan.

Zhuge Lan revived Tang Wutong, then began his seventh trial by trying to claim the Sea God’s Trident despite Tang San’s interference. With help from the trident’s spirit and his Luck Value, he mastered Sea God’s Light and began lifting the weapon, leaving God King Tang panicking.

• Zhuge Lan subdued Tang Wutong after reviving her, and she later complained to God King Tang, who ordered her to apologize.
• Zhuge Lan asked to begin his seventh trial and gripped the Sea God’s Trident, enduring its pressure and scorching heat while Tang San interfered.
• Zhuge Lan used Luck Value to communicate with the trident’s spirit, which revealed its origins and offered him a chance to comprehend Sea God’s Light.
• Zhuge Lan used Luck Value and his Sea God affinity to comprehend Sea God’s Light while Meng Hongchen cultivated beneath its pressure.
• Zhuge Lan formed Sea God’s Light, stopped the trident’s patterns from slicing his hands, and began lifting it as God King Tang panicked.

Zhuge Lan completed the Sea God's Seventh Trial, claimed the Sea God's Trident, and angered God King Tang, while Meng Hongchen continued her trials for their cultivation benefits. Zhuge Lan then prepared for the next stage of his plans as the newly expanded All-Continent Youth Soul Master Competition began amid protests.

• Zhuge Lan used his blood and Soul Power to pull the Sea God's Trident from its resting place, completing the Seventh Trial and receiving its recognition and usage rights.
• The Sea God appeared above the inheritance grounds, and Zhuge Lan learned that his Eighth Trial required him to master the Golden Thirteen Halberds, gain a powerful Soul Spirit, reach Rank 99, help kill Huo Yuhao, and unify the continent.
• Zhuge Lan left the Sea God Palace with the trident, while God King Tang restrained himself from intervening and struck Tang Wutong when she made a demand.
• Zhuge Lan told Meng Hongchen that taking the trident had ended her chance to continue the divine trial, but she stayed to benefit from the Sea God's Light.
• Zhuge Lan showed Lan Yu his collection of Divine Tools, discussed his plans, and left to revise their arrangements; Huo Yuhao received one million Luck Value.
• The Sun Moon Empire renamed the competition the All-Continent Youth Soul Master Competition and opened it to all sects, provoking protests from the Star Luo Empire, Heaven Dou Empire, and Dou Ling Empire.

With the All-Continent Advanced Youth Soul Master Elite Competition about to begin, the factions assembled their teams and learned the new rules, while Xu Tianran’s hidden plan threatened to exploit the gathering of elite Soul Masters. Huo Yuhao and the Sacred Fire Cult arrived in Mingdu, met Xu Jiujiu’s group, and prepared to set their own plan in motion at the opening ceremony.

• Shrek Academy struggled to assemble a team after its former prodigies left or became too old, so it gathered Zhuge Qiu'er, Sima Jinchi, and four additional competitors.
• The tournament announced its new elimination and team-battle format, with Level 7 through Level 9 Soul Tools as prizes, drawing 171 teams to Mingdu.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and their Sacred Fire Cult allies checked into Mingyue Hotel, where Zhuge Lan joked that Shrek might have Soul Douluo competitors.
• Xu Jiujiu invited Huo Yuhao to return to the Star Luo Empire and inherit the White Tiger Duke title, but he refused because the Sacred Fire Cult served as the Dou Ling Empire’s state religion.
• After Xu Jiujiu departed, Huo Yuhao told the Sacred Fire Cult members to prepare for the opening ceremony and said everything would proceed according to plan.

The Soul Master Competition began with the teams entering and taking their seats, while Huo Yuhao and the Sacred Fire Cult drew loud cheers. Tensions rose over seating and the staged rivalry between Wang Dong'er and Tang Wutong, leaving them glaring at each other as Huo Yuhao reassured Wang Dong'er.

• The teams entered the packed arena, and spectators discussed Shrek Academy's new lineup before cheering loudly for Huo Yuhao and the Sacred Fire Cult.
• Xu Jiujiu's team clashed with Zhang Peng over their pavilion seats, but Ning Tian secured them new seats by offering another sect a fifty-thousand-year inherited Soul Spirit.
• Zhuge Lan arranged for the Sacred Fire Cult and Clear Sky Sect to sit beside each other, bringing Wang Dong'er and Tang Wutong face to face.
• Tang Wutong accused Wang Dong'er of taking her divine soul and divine body, and Wang Dong'er silently questioned Huo Yuhao's former attraction to her.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong'er that he had always loved her, not Tang Wutong or the Daughter of the God King, and Tang Wutong erupted in rage.

Xu Tianran and Ju Zi arrived to open the All-Continent Advanced Youth Soul Master Elite Competition, with Hall Master of Light and Lan Yu given prominent places beside them. After Jing Hongchen announced the rules, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was matched against the Dragon Slaying Sect, and Meng Hongchen stepped forward as the academy’s first contestant.

• Tang Wutong began to summon her Clear Sky Hammer but stopped when her companions reminded her of the master's plan.
• Lan Yu positioned the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Corps around the platform as Xu Tianran and Ju Zi arrived and were escorted to the stage with Hall Master of Light and Lan Yu.
• Zhongli Wu appeared under the pressure of Long Xiaoyao's display, then traded insults with Hall Master of Light until Xu Tianran told them to focus on winning the championship.
• Jing Hongchen officially opened the competition and announced that Shrek Academy had a bye while the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy would face the Dragon Slaying Sect.
• The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and the Dragon Slaying Sect each sent seven contestants to the waiting area, and Meng Hongchen became the academy's first individual competitor.

Meng Hongchen easily defeated a Dragon Slaying Sect contestant, and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy won after the sect surrendered. Later, the Sacred Fire Cult faced Star Luo National Academy in a heavily promoted elimination match, and Zhuge Lan accused Jing Hongchen of manipulating the draw as he prepared to fight alone.

• Meng Hongchen revealed she was an eight-ring Soul Douluo and froze the Dragon Slaying Sect's five-ring contestant, winning instantly.
• The Dragon Slaying Sect surrendered the individual elimination match, giving the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy the victory.
• The day's matches continued, including a Clear Sky Sect Soul Sage who defeated all seven of his opponents.
• Jing Hongchen announced the final match of the day between the Sacred Fire Cult and Star Luo National Academy, introducing both teams' leading contestants.
• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jiujiu that Zhuge Lan would fight alone for the Sacred Fire Cult, and Jing Hongchen warned that the lineup could not change for the team battle.
• Zhuge Lan accused Jing Hongchen of manipulating the draw to make the teams meet early and challenged him to come fight.

Zhuge Lan dominated the Sacred Fire Cult’s elimination match against Star Luo National Academy, defeating Wu Feng and the remaining competitors with his strange force and Soul Power-draining abilities. After winning, he flew away unaided, stirring speculation that he was a Titled Douluo, while the competition’s dangerous stakes unsettled the teams at Mingyue Hotel.

• Lan Yu said the drawing of lots was being overseen fairly, and the match between Sacred Fire Cult and Star Luo National Academy began.
• Wu Feng attacked Zhuge Lan with her Red Dragon Martial Soul, but he repelled her strikes, repeatedly hurled her back, and drained her Soul Power until she lost.
• Zhuge Lan won five consecutive matches, draining Xu Jiujiu and her flying dragon Soul Spirit before Ning Tian surrendered.
• Jing Hongchen announced Sacred Fire Cult’s victory, and Zhuge Lan flew away without a Soul Skill or Soul Tool, prompting the crowd to suspect he was a Titled Douluo.
• Zhuge Lan gained Luck Value from rewriting the teams’ fates, while the teams at Mingyue Hotel grew tense after seeing defeated competitors leave and hearing that some had died.

Huo Yuhao met with Xu Jiujiu and Vina, learned of their plan to assassinate Xu Tianran, and agreed to join their alliance. He then left with Wang Dong'er to attend an underground Soul Tool crafting competition organized by Mingdu's three major black markets.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er met Xu Jiujiu and Vina at the Mingyue Hotel's lobby bar.
• Xu Jiujiu revealed that her spies had disappeared in Mingdu and asked Huo Yuhao to join forces for their departure.
• Huo Yuhao warned that the Sun Moon Empire planned to target foreign teams and hidden forces, and Xu Jiujiu disclosed the plan to raid the Sun Moon Imperial Palace and kill Xu Tianran.
• Huo Yuhao agreed that the Dou Ling Empire would take part in the plan, and Xu Jiujiu and Vina left to make arrangements.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er left for an underground Soul Tool crafting competition hosted by the Xishui Alliance, the Ordinary Alliance, and the Aodu Chamber of Commerce.

Huo Yuhao planned to exploit the underground black market’s betting during the Soul Master Competition, while Zhuge Lan watched the elimination matches from beside Xu Tianran. The Holy Spirit Cult defeated the Earth Dragon Gate, and Shrek Academy’s match against the Tianjia Sect began with Sima Jinchi entering the arena.

• Huo Yuhao planned to have his secret-technique avatars enter the Soul Engineer competition and use coordinated bets to win rare metals from the underground forces.
• Zhuge Lan watched the Holy Spirit Cult face the Earth Dragon Gate, while Blue Bamboo warned Zhang Peng not to harm Nan Qiuqiu.
• Wang Xiaolei defeated Nan Qiuqiu and the Earth Dragon Gate’s remaining contestants with mental attacks and life-force absorption, earning the Holy Spirit Cult its first victory.
• Shrek Academy and the Tianjia Sect were called to the arena, and Shrek sent Sima Jinchi out first instead of captain Zhuge Qiu’er.
• Xu Tianran asked Zhuge Lan and Hall Master of Light whether they knew the captain of Shrek’s team.

Sima Jinchi’s overwhelming strike forced the Tianjia Sect to concede, and Xu Sanshi then defeated the Iron Sword Sect’s Wang Chengxi without leaving his spot. The Ice God Temple awaited its next opponent after the Iron Sword Sect failed to send another contestant.

• Sima Jinchi shattered Han Yu’s shield and nearly broke the arena barrier, leaving Han Yu gravely injured despite the referee’s intervention.
• The Tianjia Sect conceded, and Jing Hongchen announced Shrek Academy’s victory as the crowd chanted for Shrek.
• Xu Sanshi took the arena for the Ice God Temple and ignored Wang Chengxi’s attempt to distract him with her appearance.
• Wang Chengxi revealed her Medusa Martial Soul and attacked with sword light, snake-like hair, and beams from her eyes, but Xu Sanshi blocked and countered her attacks with turtle-shell plates.
• Xu Sanshi knocked Wang Chengxi out of the arena without moving from his place, and the Iron Sword Sect sent up no further contestant.