Chapter Summaries

Jia Youcai woke beside Wu Qingxuan and, after she teased him about being inexperienced, impulsively turned the tables and tried to prove himself. Wu Qingxuan remained amused as he tugged at her nightgown.

• Jia Youcai woke beside Wu Qingxuan, wondered if he was becoming dependent on her, and kissed her cheek.
• Wu Qingxuan teased Jia Youcai about being a virgin and pinned him to the bed while questioning him.
• Jia Youcai's embarrassment and irritation erupted, and he rolled Wu Qingxuan onto her back.
• Jia Youcai declared that she would find out whether he was inexperienced and tugged at her nightgown, while Wu Qingxuan teased him about feeling insecure.

Jia Youcai and Wu Qingxuan’s morning teasing escalated into an intense encounter, after which Wu Qingxuan stopped his advances and they quietly washed and changed. The chapter ended with Wu Qingxuan remaking the bed while Jia Youcai watched her and felt increasingly attached to her.

• Jia Youcai kissed Wu Qingxuan in response to her teasing, and they clashed passionately before the encounter subsided.
• Wu Qingxuan gently brushed Jia Youcai’s hair aside and asked whether he had finished proving himself.
• Jia Youcai pulled Wu Qingxuan back into his arms and began caressing her, but Wu Qingxuan stopped him and got out of bed.
• Jia Youcai and Wu Qingxuan washed separately in the same washroom and changed into clean clothes.
• Wu Qingxuan stripped the soiled bedding and began making the bed while Jia Youcai watched her with a renewed sense of attachment.

After Wu Qingxuan sent Jia Youcai away and told him to return when he reached Soul Douluo, he reunited with Yan Lingzhuo in the Secluded Valley. The pair left the Star Dou Great Forest and set out for the Evil Demon Forest to find Yan Lingzhuo’s Seventh Soul Ring.

• Wu Qingxuan told Jia Youcai to return when he reached Soul Douluo and said Yan Lingzhuo’s Seventh Soul Ring could be obtained in the Evil Demon Forest.
• Jia Youcai left the underground space and found Yan Lingzhuo waiting in the Secluded Valley courtyard.
• Jia Youcai reunited with Yan Lingzhuo, and the two quickly left the valley together.
• Jia Youcai told Yan Lingzhuo they would travel to the distant Evil Demon Forest because Wu Qingxuan did not want them hunting soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo traveled from the Star Dou Great Forest to the Evil Demon Forest and entered its dangerous core region. After Yan Lingzhuo defeated three Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost-faced Apes, they hurried deeper into the forest to avoid attracting more Spirit Beasts.

• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo rested near a town for several days, gathered information, and set out for the Evil Demon Forest.
• After more than ten days of travel, they reached the forest and flew past the outer region to avoid repeated Spirit Beast attacks.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo landed in the core region, where Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts were common.
• Yan Lingzhuo fought three Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost-faced Apes, using her Phoenix phantom and fire attacks to leave them badly wounded.
• Jia Youcai urged them to leave after the battle drew attention, and the two concealed their auras and continued deeper into the forest.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo camped in the Evil Demon Forest, but a mysterious mental call lured Yan Lingzhuo away while Jia Youcai slept. She fought off a tentacled creature after the call’s influence broke, leaving her facing a danger hidden beneath the forest floor.

• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo stopped for the night, set a campfire, and placed warning Soul Tools around their clearing.
• A distant shriek sounded through the forest, and Jia Youcai warned that it might be a territorial declaration or a summons.
• After taking the second watch, Yan Lingzhuo heard an incomprehensible voice in her mind and walked alone into the forest while Jia Youcai slept.
• More than two hours later, Yan Lingzhuo stepped onto black mud, where three enormous tentacles burst from underground.
• Yan Lingzhuo used Fire Feather and then her Left Arm Spirit Bone Skill, Mad Thunder Grip, to burn and blast two tentacles as a surge of Spiritual Power struck her mind.

Yan Lingzhuo fought off the Earth Centipedes with her Spirit Bone Skills, but an enormous Evil Eye overwhelmed her mind and left her captured. As she struggled against the tentacles, the Evil Eye Clan’s Big Brother gave Third Brother permission to claim her.

• Yan Lingzhuo dodged the Earth Centipedes’ tentacles and blasted them with her Net Flame Meteor Shower, driving several underground.
• An enormous eye appeared above Yan Lingzhuo and crushed her mind with a powerful torrent of Spiritual Power, causing her to fall unconscious.
• The tentacles caught Yan Lingzhuo and restrained her, while icy mucus suppressed her Soul Power and resistance.
• Third Brother persuaded Big Brother to let him have Yan Lingzhuo, and dark-red child tentacles reached toward her as Third Brother revealed his purple, spiral-patterned form.

Jia Youcai interrupted the Evil Eye Tyrant’s attack on Yan Lingzhuo, whose spiritual power revealed a connection to the beasts’ Big Uncle. Huang Yan and Sha Yan began escorting them into the forest, and Huang Yan identified Big Uncle as the Eye of Calamity Saracaron, a former human who ascended to godhood.

• Jia Youcai blasted the Evil Eye Tyrant with Atomic Breath, giving Yan Lingzhuo a chance to strike it with her Spiritual Power and break free.
• Jia Youcai flew to Yan Lingzhuo and discovered that she faced a hundred thousand year Evil Eye Tyrant and a three hundred thousand year Golden Eye Tyrant.
• Huang Yan and Sha Yan formed spiritual humanoid incarnations and recognized a power in Yan Lingzhuo that they associated with their Big Uncle.
• Sha Yan ordered Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo to follow, but they refused, and Huang Yan stopped Sha Yan from attacking them.
• Huang Yan confirmed that Big Uncle was Salakaron, the former human who became the Eye of Calamity, and began recounting an ancient Divine Realm war.

Huang Yan and Sha Yan explained that Yan Lingzhuo's eyes held power from the fallen god Saracaron and led her and Jia Youcai into the Evil Demon Forest's core to meet the Evil Emperor, Kong Yan. After examining Yan Lingzhuo, Kong Yan took her hand and dragged her toward a Space Rift.

• Huang Yan told Jia Youcai that Yan Lingzhuo's eyes contained power crystallized from Saracaron's source and said the Evil Emperor might save her.
• Jia Youcai decided to follow Huang Yan and Sha Yan, and Yan Lingzhuo went with him into the core of the Evil Demon Forest.
• Huang Yan and Sha Yan led Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo through the dark crystal wilderness to the enormous silver eye of the Evil Emperor.
• Kong Yan appeared in a humanoid avatar, studied Yan Lingzhuo's eyes, and held out his hand to her.
• Yan Lingzhuo placed her hand in Kong Yan's, and he opened a Space Rift and forcibly pulled her toward it.

Yan Lingzhuo followed Kong Yan through a Space Rift, lost a game of Go to him, and discovered his sleeping second daughter, a massive red Evil Eye preserved in a crystal container. Kong Yan explained that human Titled Douluo had gravely injured her six hundred years earlier, leaving her asleep with only a faint spark of life.

• Kong Yan brought Yan Lingzhuo into a secluded space and invited her to play Go.
• Kong Yan defeated Yan Lingzhuo in a game that left her surrounded and unable to recover.
• Kong Yan opened a Space Rift, and Yan Lingzhuo followed him into a black jade room containing a sleeping red Evil Eye.
• Yan Lingzhuo asked Kong Yan about the Evil Eye, and he revealed that she was his second daughter.
• Kong Yan said human Titled Douluo had targeted his daughter for her soul ring and soul bone, and her injuries had left her asleep for six hundred years.

Kong Yan considered placing Fei Yan’s intact soul in a compatible human vessel as a Soul Spirit, but the Soul Beasts’ iron law against voluntarily giving power to humans made the plan politically dangerous. He remained unable to act without risking his daughter, his clan, and the Evil Demon Forest.

• Kong Yan had deduced that Fei Yan might awaken in a compatible human vessel as a Soul Spirit and regain some strength as it grew.
• Kong Yan feared that making Fei Yan a Soul Spirit would brand him and his family traitors under the Soul Beasts’ prohibition against giving power to humans.
• Kong Yan recognized that the other Beast Kings could punish the Evil Demon Forest and that dissent within his own territory could threaten his rule.
• The chapter explained that Beast Kings faced pressure to protect high-ranking Soul Beasts from human hunters and could be challenged if they failed.
• The chapter established that Soul Beasts and humans could form personal bonds, but voluntary transfers of power remained forbidden.

Yan Lingzhuo accepted Kong Yan’s offer to cultivate with him for a week before hunting for her Seventh Soul Ring. Over the first seven days, Kong Yan trained her by playing chess, and she began to notice changes in her focus and control of her Soul Power.

• Kong Yan asked Yan Lingzhuo to stay and cultivate with him, and she hesitated before Jia Youcai encouraged her to accept.
• Kong Yan agreed to let Yan Lingzhuo seek her Seventh Soul Ring after one week of cultivation, requiring her to hunt a suitable soul beast by herself afterward.
• Huang Yan took Yan Lingzhuo and Jia Youcai to rest, and Yan Lingzhuo began visiting Kong Yan to play chess each day.
• Yan Lingzhuo lost every game during the first three days but became more focused and sensed sharper awareness of her body and Soul Power.
• Jia Youcai encouraged Yan Lingzhuo to continue experiencing Kong Yan’s unusual instruction, and the chess training continued unchanged for four more days.

After a week of silent chess games with Kong Yan, Yan Lingzhuo was sent to Phantom Spirit Abyss to hunt a Seventh Soul Ring, with Jia Youcai’s life tied to her success. She set out at dawn with Huang Yan, while Jia Youcai secretly refused to remain behind and wait.

• Kong Yan told Yan Lingzhuo to hunt for a suitable soul beast in Phantom Spirit Abyss and warned that failure would cost both her and Jia Youcai their lives.
• Yan Lingzhuo returned to Jia Youcai and explained the trial, saying her Spiritual Power and Soul Power control had improved during the week of chess.
• Yan Lingzhuo vowed to return alive with a Seventh Soul Ring, and Jia Youcai urged her to prioritize surviving and escaping danger.
• At dawn, Yan Lingzhuo left with Huang Yan for Phantom Spirit Abyss after saying goodbye to Jia Youcai.
• After Yan Lingzhuo disappeared from view, Jia Youcai chose not to stay behind and wait.

Yan Lingzhuo explored the Phantom Spirit Abyss while Jia Youcai secretly followed her, until Ling Tianjue lured him away to meet four powerful figures connected to the Kings of Destruction. The gathering ended with Ling Tianjue identifying them as the chosen spokespersons or partners of the old friends, with two exceptions still absent.

• Yan Lingzhuo fought off several soul beasts in the Phantom Spirit Abyss and camped overnight in a rocky hollow.
• Jia Youcai spotted Ling Tianjue, who deliberately let him notice and led him on a half-hour chase.
• Ling Tianjue stopped in a clearing, where Wu Qingxuan, Ye Mingshou, and Xue Qinghe arrived.
• Ling Tianjue, Wu Qingxuan, Ye Mingshou, and Xue Qinghe surrounded Jia Youcai and revealed their formidable Soul Rings and power.
• Jia Youcai recognized that Xue Qinghe had a Soul Devouring Demon Eagle Martial Soul rather than the imperial swan Martial Soul.
• Ling Tianjue said that, aside from the King of Plague Disaster and a fragment of the Eyes of Calamity attached to a little girl, the other old friends' chosen spokespersons or partners had gathered.

Ling Tianjue revealed that Asura’s faction was secretly forging the Investiture of the Gods, a super divine artifact that could let mortals enter the Divine Realm and help Asura seize absolute power. He warned that at least ten gods supported the plan, leaving the assembled figures to consider cooperating against the threat.

• Ling Tianjue said he had summoned everyone because their survival was at stake and revealed Asura’s faction was creating a super divine artifact.
• Ling Tianjue explained that the artifact could break the restrictions barring mortals from the Divine Realm, allowing Asura to install loyal divine officials and purge gods who opposed him.
• Jia Youcai asked what the artifact was called, and Ling Tianjue identified it as the Investiture of the Gods.
• Jia Youcai asked how many gods supported the plan, and Ling Tianjue answered that the number was in the double digits.
• Ling Tianjue said the gods could not descend directly into the mortal world before the artifact was completed, but could recruit agents like themselves.

After discussing the scattered remnants’ bleak prospects with Wu Qingxuan, Jia Youcai hurried to protect Yan Lingzhuo as she sought a powerful fire soul beast in the Phantom Spirit Abyss. Five days later, Yan Lingzhuo was locked in a grueling battle with a weakened Crimson Flame Crystal Phoenix, while Jia Youcai kept other soul beasts away.

• Ling Tianjue, Ye Mingshou, and Xue Qinghe left the black rock plain, leaving Jia Youcai and Wu Qingxuan alone.
• Jia Youcai worried that the remnants would be crushed by Asura’s organized forces, and Wu Qingxuan said she valued freedom over a divine position and that destruction had come looking for her.
• Wu Qingxuan pointed Jia Youcai toward Yan Lingzhuo near the Molten Heart Lake, and Jia Youcai raced to find her.
• For five days, Jia Youcai shadowed Yan Lingzhuo and watched her survive an ambush by an eighty-thousand-year Earth Core Flame Python.
• Yan Lingzhuo found a weakened seventy-five-thousand-year Crimson Flame Crystal Phoenix and fought it for hours, using her Spiritual Power to overcome its resistance as Jia Youcai drove off approaching soul beasts.

Yan Lingzhuo absorbed the Crimson Flame Crystal Phoenix’s spirit ring, became a Soul Saint, and began Kong Yan’s next stage of training. After two hundred days, Jia Youcai decided to leave the Evil Demon Forest to pursue his own goals, and the two parted with a promise to grow stronger and face their troubles together.

• Yan Lingzhuo overcame the Crimson Flame Crystal Phoenix’s lingering will and absorbed its seventy-five-thousand-year spirit ring, gaining her seventh ring.
• Yan Lingzhuo reunited with Jia Youcai, who helped her treat her injuries before they returned to the Evil Emperor’s palace.
• Kong Yan began training Yan Lingzhuo to perceive what lay within an apparent void, and her Spiritual Power and perception gradually grew sharper.
• Jia Youcai waited outside the alternate space for half a year as Yan Lingzhuo’s training sessions grew longer.
• After two hundred days, Yan Lingzhuo emerged calmer and stronger, and Jia Youcai told her he was leaving the Evil Demon Forest.
• Yan Lingzhuo accepted Jia Youcai’s decision, and they promised to become stronger and face their troubles together.

Jia Youcai followed She Long to a secluded valley, where Bibi Dong questioned him about his recent journeys and raised the possibility of a Soul Master activating a Second Martial Soul later in life. He suspected she knew something about his circumstances, but the chapter ended before she revealed her purpose.

• Jia Youcai concealed himself when he sensed someone approaching, then recognized She Long and reminded him of their agreement to help fight the Clear Sky Alliance.
• She Long evaded committing to the agreement and told Jia Youcai that someone wanted to meet him.
• Jia Youcai followed She Long to a valley pavilion and met Bibi Dong, who had been waiting for him.
• Bibi Dong asked Jia Youcai about his encounters with the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python and his trip to the Evil Demon Forest.
• Bibi Dong asked whether a Soul Master could activate a Second Martial Soul later in life, and Jia Youcai cautiously claimed he had never heard of it.

Bibi Dong received the Sea God Gathering Order and brought Jia Youcai with her to answer the summons. In the Orca Sea, Tang San and Sea God Island’s forces nearly killed the Evil Orca King before the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King appeared and accused them of breaking their agreement.

• Bibi Dong identified the glowing token as the Sea God Gathering Order, which summoned Beast Spirit Hall’s core members to the deep sea.
• Jia Youcai offered to help, and Bibi Dong told him to accompany her.
• In the Orca Sea, Tang San, Bo Saixi, the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardian Douluos, Tang Chen, Tang Hao, Yu Xiaogang, Xiao Bai, and her clan attacked the Evil Spirit Orcas.
• Tang San launched Meteor Chasing the Moon at the wounded Evil Orca King, but a black pillar of light shielded it.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Lan Yuanba, emerged and accused Bo Saixi and the others of violating their agreement.
• Bo Saixi defended the attack by citing the Evil Spirit Orca clan’s past crimes and the harm it had caused.

Tang San had Tang Chen engage the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Lan Yuanba, to hold him off and reveal his strength while Tang San prepared to claim the poisoned Evil Orca King's Soul Ring and soul bone. The chapter ended with Tang Chen and Lan Yuanba trading powerful hammer blows over the sea.

• Lan Yuanba accused Bo Saixi and Sea God Island of using the Evil Orca King as an excuse to seize its Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Tang San explained that the Evil Orca King was dying from his poison and asked Tang Chen to restrain Lan Yuanba while gathering combat data.
• Tang Chen agreed and summoned his nine Soul Rings as Lan Yuanba transformed into human form and wielded his Eight-Edged Plum Blossom Hammer.
• Tang Chen and Lan Yuanba charged at each other and met in a hammer clash that sent a shockwave across the sea.
• Tang Chen and Lan Yuanba separated and immediately resumed their battle at greater speed.

Tang Chen and Lan Yuanba continued their fierce battle, trading powerful hammer techniques across the sea and sky. After their escalating attacks left them facing off again, both unleashed new arts, and Tang Chen met Lan Yuanba’s Raging Waves Consecutive Attack with the Clear Sky Sect’s Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.

• Tang Chen and Lan Yuanba exchanged hammer blows as they fought between the sea and sky, each struggling against the other's power and skill.
• Lan Yuanba summoned a storm of lightning-wrapped water blades, but Tang Chen endured it behind his Unbreakable Bastion barrier.
• Tang Chen used the Quake Character Art and Army-Sweeping to shake Lan Yuanba's hammer and drive him backward.
• Lan Yuanba unleashed Raging Waves Consecutive Attack, building power through a rapidly escalating series of hammer strikes.
• Tang Chen advanced into Lan Yuanba's hammer-shadow storm and began using the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer to redirect and accumulate its force.