Chapter Summaries

After more than two years sealed in a Dragon Blood Crystal, Su Chen’s body finished reconstructing, and Ziji prepared to break through to one hundred thousand years. Once outside the crystal, Su Chen discovered his Soul Power had reached level thirty-three without a Third Soul Ring.

• Ziji explained that she would be able to take human form after becoming a Ferocious Beast and said she could break through to one hundred thousand years once Su Chen recovered.
• Ziji warned Su Chen that he still needed the crystal’s life force and forbade him from leaving before her Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Dragon Blood Crystal cracked and shattered, and Ziji caught Su Chen as he fell out with his body fully reconstructed.
• Ziji left her cave to find Su Chen meat and began preparing for her breakthrough to one hundred thousand years.
• Su Chen circulated his Soul Power, realized he had reached level thirty-three without a Third Soul Ring, and checked whether another soul ring had formed on its own.

Su Chen revisited the Gates of Hell and followed the Road to the Underworld to a blood-filled river, where he found a translucent cocoon containing a humanoid creature. When he tried to reach it with Soul Power, the cocoon devoured nearby resentful spirits and began draining him, but his higher-ranked Soul Power suppressed it and made it collapse.

• Su Chen entered the Gates of Hell again and found Little Black and Little White transformed into egg-shaped cocoons beside him.
• Su Chen tried to pick a red flower along the Road to the Underworld, but the resentful spirits kept him from reaching it.
• Su Chen crossed the Bridge of Helplessness and spotted a translucent blood-red cocoon containing a humanoid creature in the river.
• Su Chen infused the cocoon with Soul Power, causing resentful spirits to rush toward it as it began absorbing them and draining his Soul Power.
• Su Chen fought the cocoon for control with his Soul Power, and the cocoon collapsed under the suppression of his higher-ranked power.

Su Chen watched a mysterious girl emerge from a blood cocoon in the Blood River and discovered that their Soul Power could fuse. After she touched his Second Soul Ring, it began absorbing energy from the river.

• The blood cocoon rose from the Blood River and entered Su Chen's arms as wraiths surged into it.
• The girl repeatedly broke off and ate pieces of the cocoon, following Su Chen's advice to concentrate her blows.
• The cocoon shattered, and Su Chen caught the girl as the Blood River surged around them.
• The girl bit Su Chen's finger, and their Soul Power fused before separating into stronger streams.
• Su Chen lifted the girl so she could touch his Second Soul Ring, which began absorbing Soul Power, spiritual power, and wraiths from the Blood River.

After returning to life, Su Chen ate and went for a walk with Ziji while they dealt with his lack of clothes. His mysterious little girl grew after drawing Soul Power from Ziji, then called Ziji “Mama” and Su Chen “Dad.”

• Ziji returned from hunting and gave Su Chen a thousand-year soul beast to eat.
• Su Chen ate, then agreed to walk with Ziji as long as she stayed in sight.
• Su Chen realized he had no clothes, and Ziji found his coins and a mirror in her cave.
• Su Chen summoned the little girl from his Second Soul Ring, and she clung to Ziji while drawing Soul Power from her.
• The little girl grew, called Ziji “Mama,” then used spiritual power to tell them she called Su Chen Dad.

Su Chen discovered that the girl from the blood cocoon was Meng Po and tested his transformed Second Soul Skill against Ziji. After he managed to wound her with the skill, he worried that his blood-red Soul Ring would expose him, while Ziji asked him to stay with her in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• The little girl called Su Chen Dad and Ziji Mommy, then told Su Chen her name was Meng Po.
• Su Chen recognized the Blood River and bridges as Wangchuan River and the Bridge of Helplessness, then activated his blood-red Second Soul Skill, Wangchuan's Difficult Crossing.
• Su Chen trapped Ziji in a Blood River illusion, but she used her spiritual power to escape.
• Su Chen revealed that the wraiths had attached their Soul Power to Ziji, then detonated the Blood River and drew a drop of her blood.
• Ziji praised Su Chen's soul skill, and Su Chen worried that his blood-red Second Soul Ring would be mistaken for a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Ziji invited Su Chen to remain with her in the Star Dou Great Forest and said she would remember him for two hundred thousand years.

Ziji took Su Chen to a lake, but Di Tian interrupted them before they could bathe. As they headed toward a human town, they encountered Zhao Wuji and Dai Mubai hunting a first Soul Ring for Dai Mubai.

• Di Tian confronted Ziji and warned her not to do anything inappropriate with Su Chen, then left.
• Ziji carried Su Chen toward the forest’s outskirts, where they spotted Zhao Wuji and the young Dai Mubai searching for Soul Beasts.
• Su Chen and Ziji watched as Zhao Wuji attacked a hundred-year Gold Cat, and Dai Mubai killed it.
• Zhao Wuji took the Gold Cat’s gold coin, judged its Soul Ring unsuitable, and continued the search.

Su Chen confronted Zhao Wuji and Dai Mubai over their indiscriminate hunting of soul beasts, then challenged Zhao Wuji to test his sword techniques. As Zhao Wuji unleashed his second soul skill, Su Chen summoned Meng Po and revealed a blood-red second soul ring, leaving Zhao Wuji stunned.

• Ziji confronted Zhao Wuji and Dai Mubai, and Su Chen said they would pay for wantonly killing soul beasts.
• Su Chen challenged Zhao Wuji to fight while asking him to use only his first soul ring.
• Su Chen struck Zhao Wuji with Shang Yang Sword Qi and Zhong Chong Sword Qi, cutting his cheek before Zhao Wuji activated his Immovable Bright King Body.
• Su Chen judged that his sword techniques were not enough to defeat Zhao Wuji and told him to activate his second soul ring.
• Zhao Wuji used his second soul skill as Su Chen summoned Meng Po and revealed a blood-red second soul ring, which Zhao Wuji recognized as a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.

Su Chen fought Zhao Wuji while Zhao Wuji wondered whether the boy was a human-form Soul Beast and tried to recruit him to Shrek Academy. Su Chen refused and prepared to use his Third Soul Ring as Zhao Wuji raised his Soul Power.

• Zhao Wuji suspected Su Chen might be a Soul Beast in human form, while Su Chen activated his Overclock state.
• Su Chen used his speed and Soul Power to evade Zhao Wuji’s strength during their close-quarters fight.
• Zhao Wuji invited Su Chen to join Shrek Academy, but Su Chen rejected the offer and criticized its teaching.
• Dai Mubai watched Su Chen’s performance and wondered whether he could ever become that strong.
• Su Chen asked Zhao Wuji to raise his Soul Power and began activating his Third Soul Ring, whose glow remained faint.

Su Chen used his soul skills to suppress Zhao Wuji and trap him and Dai Mubai in the Wangchuan Blood River. Zhao Wuji was immobilized and drained of Soul Power, then activated his Martial Soul Avatar as Dai Mubai sank deeper.

• Zhao Wuji used Gravity Enhancement, but Su Chen shrugged off the added weight and activated Animal Path to suppress Zhao Wuji's strength and Soul Power.
• Zhao Wuji used Location Tracking twice, and Su Chen shattered the first tracking mark before allowing the second to take hold.
• Su Chen combined Animal Path with Wangchuan's Difficult Crossing, sending Zhao Wuji and Dai Mubai into the Blood River, where wraiths attacked them.
• Zhao Wuji tried to use Location Tracking to reach Su Chen, but Su Chen immobilized him with Soul-Reaping Ghoul and drained his Soul Power through Life-Claiming Impermanence.
• As Dai Mubai sank into the Blood River and called for help, Zhao Wuji activated his Seventh Soul Ring, Martial Soul Avatar.

Zhao Wuji fought Ziji to buy Dai Mubai time to escape, but Su Chen captured Dai Mubai and defeated Zhao Wuji’s last resistance. Ziji spared Zhao Wuji and Dai Mubai at Su Chen’s request, ordering them to leave their clothes behind.

• Zhao Wuji broke free of the Wangchuan Blood River and threw Dai Mubai away, telling him to flee while he held off Ziji.
• Zhao Wuji attacked Ziji with Earthshaking and Gravity Crush, but she countered his attacks and fought him in close combat.
• Zhao Wuji used Wangchuan's Difficult Crossing to keep fighting, but Ziji interrupted his Soul Power and left him kneeling in the vanished blood sea.
• Su Chen appeared behind Zhao Wuji with the unconscious Dai Mubai, leaving Zhao Wuji convinced they were about to die.
• Ziji told Zhao Wuji that Su Chen did not want to kill anyone and let the two men go, while demanding that they leave their clothes behind.

Su Chen went to a human city for clothes, where he unexpectedly encountered Xue Wu and Shui Binger. Ziji intervened before Shui Binger could reach him and took Su Chen away, leaving Shui Binger convinced that her Master was alive.

• Ziji let Zhao Wuji flee with the unconscious Dai Mubai, and Su Chen thanked her before heading to the human city for clothes.
• Su Chen bought several outfits and decided not to reveal Ziji's identity to Bibi Dong or his other acquaintances.
• Su Chen recognized Xue Wu and Shui Binger in the city but tried to leave without speaking to them.
• Shui Binger recognized Su Chen and pursued him, but Ziji's roar darkened the city and stopped her approach.
• Su Chen rode away with Ziji after striking Shui Binger's wing with Shang Yang Sword Qi, while Xue Wu comforted Shui Binger and promised they would find him someday.

After years away, Su Chen left the forest with Ziji and went to a human city for clothes, where he unexpectedly encountered Xue Wu and Shui Binger. When Shui Binger recognized him, Ziji intervened and took Su Chen away, leaving the two girls behind.

• Zhao Wuji fled with the unconscious Dai Mubai after Ziji ordered him to leave Dai Mubai's clothes behind.
• Su Chen went to the nearby city to buy clothes, while keeping Ziji's identity secret to protect her from Bibi Dong and the others.
• Su Chen recognized Xue Wu and Shui Binger in the city but tried to avoid them because he feared exposing Ziji.
• Shui Binger recognized Su Chen as her Master and chased after him, but Ziji darkened the city and blocked her approach.
• Su Chen struck Shui Binger's wing with Shang Yang Sword Qi before he and Ziji vanished through a purple portal.
• Shui Binger broke down in Xue Wu's arms, and Xue Wu promised they would search for Su Chen together when they were older.

Ziji brought Su Chen to a Dragon Blood Crystal ravine and prepared to break through to a hundred thousand years. Before attempting it, she revealed that she had planned to draw the Heavenly Tribulation toward Su Chen if her breakthrough failed, using him as a substitute for death because their Soul Power affinities were unusually compatible.

• Ziji told Su Chen she had completed her preparations and would break through to a hundred thousand years that day.
• Ziji carried Su Chen to a ravine filled with Dragon Blood Crystals and explained that they held the life force of dead Dragon Clan Soul Beasts.
• Su Chen thanked Ziji for using Dragon Blood Crystals to reconstruct his body and worried about the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts.
• Ziji settled at the center of the crystal formation and asked Su Chen to sit opposite her and circulate his Soul Power as usual.
• Ziji claimed she no longer needed Su Chen's help, then confessed that she had intended to redirect the Heavenly Tribulation to him if her breakthrough failed.

Su Chen encouraged Ziji as she broke through to a hundred thousand years, but her Heavenly Tribulation became abnormally powerful after Little Black and Little White absorbed its first strike. Just as Su Chen threw himself toward Ziji to protect her, they were transported with the eggs to a strange place, where Ziji survived but Su Chen struggled under an immense pressure.

• Su Chen reassured Ziji that she could overcome the Heavenly Tribulation and promised to stay by her side as she began her breakthrough.
• Dark Soul Power surged through the valley, drawing power from the Dragon Blood Crystals as Ziji transformed and Little Black and Little White rose from their egg-shaped forms.
• The first bolt of heavenly lightning struck Little Black and Little White, who absorbed it without damage, but the Heavenly Tribulation continued with increasingly violent strikes.
• The lightning injured Ziji and shattered Dragon Blood Crystals, and Su Chen leapt toward her as another wave descended.
• Little Black and Little White emitted strange light, and Su Chen, Ziji, and the eggs vanished before the lightning could hit them.
• Ziji awoke in a place filled with darkness and death, while Su Chen struggled under its immense pressure.

Su Chen and Ziji explored a mysterious Netherworld of palaces and divine statues, which Su Chen identified as the Ten Kings of Hell. At the ninth palace, Ziji underwent a transformation as power from the King Equality statue joined with her Soul Power, while Su Chen cultivated outside and grew stronger.

• Su Chen led Ziji through the Gates of Hell and past a series of palaces containing statues that radiated divinity.
• Little Black and Little White emerged from Su Chen's soul ring at the fifth palace and began absorbing its power, preventing him from using his first soul skill.
• Su Chen and Ziji continued through the eighth palace, and Su Chen suspected the halls belonged to the Ten Kings of Hell.
• At the ninth palace, Su Chen saw the plaque naming King Equality and recalled the legends of his hall and Avici Hell.
• Ziji's body changed as black-gold light surrounded her and Soul Power from the statue merged with hers.
• Su Chen stayed outside while Ziji received the power, cultivating as his Soul Power and spiritual power rapidly increased and became denser.

Ziji survived the hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation and transformed into the Hell Demon Dragon King, while Su Chen’s Soul Power rose to level 40. They returned to the devastated dragons’ graveyard, where Su Chen began burying the remains before meeting the Earth Dragon Elder.

• Ziji absorbed the divine power in the statue, overcame the Heavenly Tribulation, and transformed into the Hell Demon Dragon King as Su Chen reached level 40.
• Su Chen and Ziji returned to Douluo World and found the dragons’ graveyard wrecked by the tribulation.
• Su Chen decided to investigate the dragons’ territory with Ziji and began reburial of the scattered dragon remains.
• Ziji brought the Earth Dragon Elder to meet Su Chen, who explained that he was burying the bones to honor the dead and repay the dragons’ kindness.
• The Earth Dragon Elder praised Su Chen’s character after learning he had refused to profit from the dragon remains.

The Earth Dragon Elder brought Su Chen and Ziji to Dragon Clan territory after Ziji survived her Heavenly Tribulation, warning that the valley’s destruction had a deeper cause. There, Su Chen examined the ancient Wood Soul Beast King, whose lifespan exceeded two hundred thousand years but whose cultivation remained just below the hundred-thousand-year threshold.

• The Earth Dragon Elder explained that he descended from the Mountain Dragon King and said the Dragon Clan had abandoned its burial ground after heavenly lightning killed two more youngsters.
• Ziji told Su Chen that her Heavenly Tribulation had been unusual and urged him to return to investigate once he was stronger.
• The Earth Dragon Elder led Su Chen and Ziji to the allied Dragon Clan territory, where Di Tian held final authority.
• The Fire Dragon King questioned Su Chen’s presence, but Ziji rebuked him for comparing his long cultivation to Su Chen’s rapid progress.
• The aged Wood Soul Beast King invited Su Chen to examine him, and Su Chen sensed that its life-filled Soul Power contrasted with its near-death condition.

Su Chen learned that the Wood Dragon King had survived a failed hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation by sacrificing his cultivation, but his life force was still fading. When Di Tian arrived, he attacked Su Chen and clashed with Ziji over her refusal to remain with the Dragon Clan.

• The Wood Dragon King explained to Su Chen that he had preserved his life after failing the Heavenly Tribulation by giving up his cultivation, and Su Chen admitted he could not treat him.
• The Wood Dragon King and the other dragons said they would wait for Di Tian to decide how to handle Ziji's new status as a Dragon King and elder.
• Ziji told the dragons she would not stay with the Dragon Clan, saying she had gained a new perspective after overcoming the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Di Tian arrived in human form and unleashed a black slash of Soul Power at Su Chen, but Ziji deflected it and shielded him.
• Di Tian argued that Ziji's bloodline and status made her vital to the Dragon Clan, while Ziji rejected his demands, leaving the two sides facing off in the rear hall.

Di Tian confronted Ziji over her Soul Contract with Su Chen, but Bi Ji intervened and persuaded him to spare them. Su Chen agreed to fight Di Tian in a hundred years, and he and Ziji left the Dragon Clan Territory to begin a life together.

• Di Tian discovered that Ziji had formed a Soul Contract with Su Chen and attacked her, but Su Chen used his Third Soul Ring to slow Di Tian and help Ziji block the strike.
• Bi Ji arrived and persuaded Di Tian to let Ziji go, so he expelled Ziji and Su Chen from the Dragon Clan instead of killing them.
• Su Chen challenged Di Tian to a battle in a hundred years, and Di Tian accepted.
• Ziji opened a portal and took Su Chen from the Dragon Clan Territory to her cave.
• Ziji asked Su Chen to return with her to a human city and introduce her to his friends.

Su Chen returned to Spirit City after years away, met with Ping Su to exchange medical research, and reunited with Oscar and Xie Yue while keeping his return secret from Bibi Dong. He learned that Hu Liena had trained relentlessly since his apparent death and had reached the peak of Rank 47.

• Su Chen left Ziji outside Spirit City and asked Ping Su to keep his return from Bibi Dong for now.
• Su Chen and Ping Su exchanged their theoretical notes and research records on medical development.
• Su Chen returned to his old room and reunited with Oscar, whom he told not to inform Bibi Dong.
• Su Chen found Xie Yue in Hu Liena's room and learned that she had trained obsessively since the Great Forest incident.
• Su Chen worried that Hu Liena's rapid rise to the peak of Rank 47 might have weakened her foundation.