Chapter Summaries

Zhuang Xingyu hunted down the three Thousand Jun Ant Emperor brothers in the Star Dou Forest with Puppet Zhuang Shushen and killed them to obtain their soul rings. After storing their bodies in the Chaos Bead, he and the puppet withdrew into its inner space.

• Zhuang Xingyu traveled to the Star Dou Forest with Puppet Zhuang Shushen and searched for the wandering Thousand Jun Ant Emperor brothers using the Chaos Bead.
• Zhuang Xingyu found the three brothers in the south-central forest and hid inside the Chaos Bead while Zhuang Shushen approached them.
• Zhuang Shushen attacked the brothers, who coordinated their defenses and tried to surround her from underground, the ground, and the air.
• Zhuang Xingyu emerged from the Chaos Bead and struck the exposed abdomens of the two flanking ants with poisoned divine spears.
• Zhuang Shushen wounded the central ant with her eighth soul skill, and Zhuang Xingyu killed it while the other two crashed to the ground.
• Zhuang Shushen finished off the remaining brothers, and Zhuang Xingyu stored all three bodies in the Chaos Bead before retreating inside with her.

Zhuang Xingyu absorbed three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings from the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor brothers, reaching level 59 and awakening the Samsara Dao Wave domain fusion skill. He left the Star Dou Forest and returned toward his clan, surveying its growing prosperity along the renamed Extreme Yin Yang Leopard River.

• Zhuang Xingyu absorbed the three soul rings as they transformed into Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, enduring their violent attacks with his domains and Spirit Bones.
• Zhuang Xingyu subdued the soul ring energy, raised his Soul Power to level 59, and advanced the Tai Chi Xuanqing Dao to the peak of the fifth Yuqing level.
• Zhuang Xingyu entered a strange realm as his Spiritual Power circulated, and his Life Domain, Primordial Merit Domain, and Extreme Yin Yang Domain fused into the Samsara Dao Wave.
• Zhuang Xingyu discovered that Samsara Dao Wave could reach the power of a level 97 Super Douluo but consumed eighty percent of his Soul Power, then found no Spirit Bones among the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor brothers' remains.
• Zhuang Xingyu returned toward the clan along the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard River and saw busy docks, renovated roads, and a thriving market.

Zhuang Xingyu demonstrated his new abilities to his clan and sparred with his grandmother Murong Yunxue, a level 98 Super Douluo. After their fierce battle drained his Soul Power, they agreed to settle the spar with one final move.

• Zhuang Xingyu told his father and relatives about his three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and three-domain fusion technique, then asked Murong Yunxue to spar with him.
• Zhuang Xingyu and Murong Yunxue began fighting in the sealed training ground as trusted clan members watched.
• Zhuang Xingyu used his domains, Extreme Atom Breath, and Eight Meridians Divine Spear against Murong Yunxue, who countered with her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone skill, Myriad Feathers Volley.
• Zhuang Xingyu blocked Murong Yunxue's attack with his Immortal Shield, but the battle damaged the training ground and injured several spectators.
• Zhuang Xingyu proposed deciding the spar with one move, and Murong Yunxue agreed.

Zhuang Xingyu and Murong Yunxue fought a fierce spar that briefly brought their attacks to Ultimate Douluo strength, leaving Xingyu unconscious but unharmed. After the battle drew attention across the continent, Xingyu recovered and decided to form a team for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.

• Murong Yunxue and Zhuang Xingyu unleashed powerful attacks that collided above the arena, destroying it and shaking the surrounding area.
• Zhuang Xingyu exhausted his Soul Power and fell from the sky, so Zhuang Jingxing and Zhuang Shushen caught him while the elders guarded the pair and concealed his strength.
• Zhuang Xingyu woke two hours later, reassured Murong Yunxue and Zihan, and reviewed his battle gains and limits.
• News of the battle spread, alarming Yu Yuanzhen and Bibi Dong while the Sword Douluo sought a chance to meet the mysterious sword-attribute powerhouse.
• Five days after recovering, Zhuang Xingyu told Zhuang Jingxing that he wanted to form a team for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, then left to recruit students at the Family Academy.

Zhuang Xingyu announced the new Soul Master Tournament rules and the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan’s plans to compete, including an early selection for six teams. As preparations began, Shui Bing’er struggled to hide her admiration for Zhuang Xingyu, while he considered how to assemble the strongest teams.

• Zhuang Jingxing stopped Zhuang Xingyu and explained the tournament’s new rules, including the clan’s guaranteed entry and expanded qualification slots.
• The Seven Core Clan Elders told Zhuang Xingyu that young geniuses from subordinate powers, including Shui Bing’er, Shui Yue’er, and Xue Wu, were training at the Family Academy.
• Zhuang Xingyu announced that the clan would hold a preliminary selection in half a month, with individual and team matches to choose six teams.
• Shui Yue’er teased Shui Bing’er about her interest in Zhuang Xingyu, but Shui Bing’er denied it and urged her sister to focus on cultivation.
• Zhuang Xingyu assessed the potential competitors and planned to lead one team himself, with Zihan, Zhuang Shengye, and Zhuang Zhengjin leading others.

News of Tang Hao’s death and Bibi Dong’s crimes spread across Douluo Continent, while Tang San and Yu Xiaogang condemned them without realizing Tang Hao was Tang San’s father. Tang San grew furious that the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan had killed Tang Hao and taken the credit and Spirit Bones he wanted.

• Old Jack told the children of Sacred Soul Village to learn from the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan, and dismissed the idea that Tang Hao was the village’s former blacksmith.
• People across the continent mocked Tang Hao and Bibi Dong, while Spirit Hall tried to suppress discussion of Bibi Dong.
• Yu Xiaogang tested Tang San’s studies, and Tang San claimed he had absorbed another person’s life force only to fulfill Yu Xiaogang’s theory.
• Tang San praised the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan for killing Tang Hao, then resented them for taking the credit and Spirit Bones he believed should have been his.
• Tang San wondered whether the dead Soul Beast spy named Tang Hao had been a Titled Douluo, unaware that the man was his father.
• Yu Xiaogang disavowed any connection to Bibi Dong, and Tang San agreed that he and his teacher were both of noble character.

Yu Xiaogang ordered Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Dai Mubai to begin punishing training, but Dai Mubai beat him unconscious while Ma Hongjun distracted Tang San with a chance to secretly absorb life force. After Yu Xiaogang woke, Tang San and the others denied Dai Mubai had hurt him, leaving Yu Xiaogang bedridden and Dai Mubai treating Tang San as a brother.

• Yu Xiaogang assigned the four students high-intensity running training, and Dai Mubai challenged him to run with them.
• Dai Mubai used his Martial Soul’s pressure to knock Yu Xiaogang down and beat him while Ma Hongjun stopped Tang San from intervening.
• Ma Hongjun and Tang San hid behind straw, where Tang San secretly absorbed Ma Hongjun’s life force as Dai Mubai continued beating Yu Xiaogang.
• Oscar treated Yu Xiaogang with sausages, and Dai Mubai cleaned him up and instructed the others to claim he had fainted on his own.
• After a Healing System Soul Emperor revived Yu Xiaogang, Tang San and the other students backed Dai Mubai’s account to Frank.
• Dai Mubai praised Tang San and invited him out, while Tang San declined and hurried away when Dai Mubai teased him about a hidden ailment.

Spirit Hall reshuffled its competition teams, while Bibi Dong demoted Hu Liena’s group and gave Hu Liena a Spirit Bone to heal her injuries. At the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan, Zhuang Xingyu and Zihan grew closer, and their families prepared to formalize their engagement.

• Qian Renxue assembled a directly admitted Spirit Hall team from talented descendants of the Worships and Elder Hall.
• Bibi Dong demoted Hu Liena and the other six to a secondary team, then gave Hu Liena the Wisdom Condensing Spirit Soul Bone to heal her hidden injuries.
• Zhuang Xingyu and Zihan spent an intimate night together at Wangyue Residence and continued their affection the following day.
• Li Xuanhua welcomed Zihan into the family, gave her a treasured heirloom bracelet, and privately advised her to wait before having children.
• Murong Yunxue urged the family to arrange an engagement banquet for Zhuang Xingyu and Zihan.

The Dongfang Family prepared to enter the world under the Black Demon God's orders, plotting to manipulate Tang San while planning to establish their power. Meanwhile, Zhuang Xingyu and Zihan celebrated their engagement, and the Dongfang Family began a human sacrifice to their god.

• A spy reported Tang San's background and whereabouts to Dongfang Ao Xie, who praised his words and ordered the spy to keep the information secret.
• Dongfang Ren Gui questioned why the family should serve Tang San, but Dongfang Ao Xie struck him and both begged the Black Demon God for forgiveness.
• Dongfang Ao Xie warned his son not to oppose Tang San and ordered him to win the Soul Master tournament in three years while the family built its influence.
• Two days later, the Dongfang Family performed a ritual and offered 999 captured humans to the Black Demon God.
• Zhuang Xingyu and Zihan held their engagement banquet, and Zhuang Xingyu took Zihan to their joined residence to cultivate together.

The Dongfang Family launched the Dongfang Divine Cult, spreading its influence through poison, healing, and displays of power while secretly turning people into Evil Soul Masters. Dongfang Ao Xie planted a Demonic Seed in Tang San and left him unable to resist, setting up a gradual plan to cripple and replace him.

• Dongfang Ao Xie ordered the Dongfang Family to hide, hunt and assimilate people, then led part of the clan to Canghui Academy and turned it into the base of their public identity as the Dongfang Divine Cult.
• The Dongfang Divine Cult poisoned water sources near Suotuo City and gained followers by curing those affected, then revealed two powerful Titled Douluo after provoking a rival faction into attacking.
• Ning Fengzhi, Xue Ye, and Yu Yuanzhen worried about the new power's rise, while the Star Luo Emperor and Spirit Hall welcomed the trouble it could cause in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Tang San secretly practiced Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track behind Shrek Academy, where Dongfang Ao Xie appeared and captured him.
• Dongfang Ao Xie planted a Demonic Seed in Tang San and concealed its effects so Tang San would not become an Evil Soul Master for three years, then threatened him into keeping quiet.

The Task Pavilion expanded across the continent, offering ordinary people a way to report injustices despite limits on whom it could challenge and the risk of retaliation. After more than a hundred villages were massacred, Zhuang Xingyu accepted a mission to investigate the killings in western Heaven Dou Empire, where he and his group found their first village of victims.

• Task Pavilion branches spread through most of the continent, while Wang Tieniu explained to his wife that the service could help the poor but could not safely take on powerful figures or entire factions.
• More than a hundred remote villages were secretly massacred in half a month, leaving tens of thousands dead, and the Task Pavilion received a flood of related missions.
• Zhuang Xingyu accepted a mission to investigate the massacres in western Heaven Dou Empire and led soul masters and young squads to track down the mastermind.
• At Li Family Gully Village, a Heaven Dou Empire official gave Zhuang Xingyu his findings and showed him victims with no visible wounds; Zihan demanded that the killers be captured and punished.

Zhuang Xingyu investigated the Evil Soul Masters’ drained victims and camped in Li Family Gully Village to lure the attackers into a trap. Dongfang Chitie led an assault on the camp at midnight, where Zhuang Xingyu and his people stood ready.

• Zhuang Xingyu identified the corpses’ unusual aura as evidence of the Dongfang Family’s involvement and ordered the officials to leave while he handled the criminals.
• Zhuang Xingyu reasoned that the Evil Soul Masters would target him and set up camp in Li Family Gully Village as bait.
• Dongfang Chitie learned of Zhuang Xingyu’s camp and persuaded the cautious Dongfang Ziping to join a raid rather than wait for reinforcements.
• Shui Bing’er offered Zhuang Xingyu rice cake, and Shui Yue’er nearly revealed her sister’s feelings before Shui Bing’er pulled her away.
• Dongfang Chitie led the Evil Soul Masters through the trees and brush toward Zhuang Xingyu’s camp, where the group was already prepared to fight.

Zhuang Xingyu captured Dongfang Chitie and helped the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan suppress the Evil Soul Masters, drawing a mass migration toward the Northern Plains and forcing other powers to respond. After returning from training, Zhuang Xingyu spent time with Zihan, who encouraged him to pursue Shui Bing'er, and Shui Bing'er arrived the next day to measure him for a new outfit.

• Zhuang Xingyu killed Dongfang Ziping, captured Dongfang Chitie, and learned details about the Dongfang Divine Cult and its continent-wide plan.
• The Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan defeated the remaining Evil Soul Masters in the region, and Zhuang Xingyu ordered the clan to keep his strength secret.
• Zhuang Xingyu's forces suppressed Evil Soul Masters across the western Heaven Dou Empire and northwestern Star Luo Empire, while refugees began migrating in large numbers to the Northern Plains.
• Other major powers investigated the organized killings, failed to identify the Dongfang Divine Cult, and publicly attributed the attacks to a new force called Evil Soul Masters.
• Zhuang Xingyu rewarded his squad with time off, and Zihan encouraged him to take Shui Bing'er as another partner while they grew closer through practicing the Yin Yang Law.
• Shui Bing'er visited Zhuang Xingyu the next day to take his measurements for an outfit, then fell onto him and agreed when he suggested she measure him more intimately.

Zhuang Xingyu gave Shui Bing'er several pills, and she refined them while cultivating with his help, advancing to level 40 and evolving her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul into a Divine Ice Phoenix. Afterward, Zihan welcomed Shui Bing'er into the family, and Shui Yue'er embarrassed her with questions about her new relationship.

• Shui Bing'er measured clothes for Zhuang Xingyu and received Life Origin Spirit Liquid as payment, which she began refining.
• Zhuang Xingyu gave Shui Bing'er five pills and explained that their cultivation together could help her absorb them and comprehend the Yin Yang Law.
• Shui Bing'er advanced from the middle stage of level 35 to level 40, and her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul evolved into a Divine Ice Phoenix.
• Zihan brought Zhuang Xingyu and Shui Bing'er food, then took Shui Bing'er to talk privately while Zhuang Xingyu ate and cultivated.
• Zhuang Xingyu walked outside with Zihan and Shui Bing'er, and the others greeted Shui Bing'er as his sister-in-law.
• Shui Yue'er questioned Shui Bing'er about her relationship with Zhuang Xingyu, and Shui Bing'er covered her mouth after she spoke too loudly.

Zhuang Xingyu returned safely with his clan, while Shui Bing'er gained a powerful fourth soul skill and her allies envied her transformation. At the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Xiao faced the elders’ fury over Tang Hao’s actions and was left to pursue a humiliating peace with the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan to buy the sect time.

• Zhuang Xingyu safely led everyone back to the clan, and Shui Bing'er obtained a fourth soul ring that gave her a stronger version of her familiar soul skill.
• The Second Elder accused Tang Xiao and Tang Hao of bringing ruin upon the Clear Sky Sect, and the other elders sided with him in confronting Tang Xiao.
• The First Elder warned that the sect had been branded traitors and had made a dangerous enemy of the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan.
• Tang Xiao refused to teach the elders the Great Sumeru Hammer’s profound meaning and asked them how to address the sect’s troubles.
• The First Elder proposed disowning Tang Hao publicly and buying time for the elders to grow stronger, then left Tang Xiao to take responsibility for seeking peace with the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan.

Tang Xiao tried to improve the Clear Sky Sect’s position by blaming Tang Hao and sending Tang Juquan to negotiate with the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan. After the clan humiliated and injured the envoys, Tang Xiao accepted its demands and planned to take the sect’s experts to the Star Dou Forest, while Zhuang Xingyu agreed to terms he could evade with the Chaos Bead.

• Tang Xiao publicly disavowed Tang Hao, accused him of stealing the Clear Sky Sect’s inherited Spirit Bones, and reissued a wanted order for him.
• Tang Juquan led the Clear Sky Sect delegation to the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan, where the Tenth Core Clan Elder insulted and injured the envoys before demanding three Spirit Bones and twenty million Gold Soul Coins or equivalent resources.
• Tang Juquan returned to the Clear Sky Sect, where Tang Xiao beat him, then agreed to the clan’s demands after the Fifth Elder objected that the sect could not afford them.
• Tang Xiao required the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan’s Titled Douluo to swear to ten years of peaceful coexistence and ordered most of the Clear Sky Sect’s experts to hunt Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Forest.
• Zhuang Xingyu accepted Tang Xiao’s terms, planning to use the Chaos Bead to conceal the oath and make it ineffective.

Tang Xiao’s Clear Sky Sect slaughtered Soul Beasts for Spirit Bones, then escaped after Da Ming and Er Ming drove them from the Star Dou Forest. The sect traded its spoils and wealth—including goods stolen from its ancestors’ tombs—to reconcile with the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan, unaware that Zhuang Xingyu had made their oaths powerless and that danger was approaching.

• Tang Xiao’s group killed nearly five thousand Soul Beasts, but Da Ming and Er Ming forced them to flee after Tang Xiao detonated five Soul Rings and four Soul Douluo died.
• Da Ming persuaded the gathered Soul Beasts not to launch a beast tide, instead urging them to target Clear Sky Sect Soul Masters they encountered.
• Tang Xiao rejected raiding other factions and proposed taking valuables from the Clear Sky Sect’s ancestral tombs to fund a reconciliation with the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan.
• The Clear Sky Sect exchanged Spirit Bones, equipment, and twenty million Gold Soul Coins for three twenty-thousand-year Spirit Bones, while Zhuang Xingyu secretly nullified the clan’s oaths with the Chaos Bead.
• After returning to the sect, Tang Xiao learned the ancestral tombs had been emptied and ordered the First Elder to claim the valuables came from a secret treasury, as the sect lowered its guard.

Zhuang Xingyu developed the Chaos Qi into the Chaos Sacred Seed, a prototype of his Creation God godhood, and decided to travel to the City of Slaughter for Divine Slaughter's Domain and possibly the Asura God's godhood. His family worried but ultimately supported him, and he spent his last night at home with them before departing.

• Zhuang Xingyu shaped the Chaos Qi into a seed that formed an illusion of the World Sea and recognized it as the Chaos Sacred Seed, the foundation of his future Creation God godhood.
• Zhuang Xingyu planned to visit the City of Slaughter to obtain Divine Slaughter's Domain and potentially the Asura God's godhood, confident his abilities would keep him safe.
• Li Xuanhua tried to stop Zhuang Xingyu from going, but Zhuang Jingxing and Murong Yunxue supported his decision and promised the clan would help if needed.
• Zhuang Xingyu shared a reunion dinner with his family, then recited a poem beneath the plum tree as Zihan and Shui Bing'er joined him.
• Zhuang Xingyu spent the night with Zihan and Shui Bing'er, claiming their intimacy would help him cultivate before his journey.

Zhuang Xingyu entered the City of Slaughter and overwhelmed its guards with his spiritual flames, establishing himself as a powerful newcomer. He ignored his guide’s attempt to recruit him and insisted on going straight to the Hell Slaughter Arena.

• Zhuang Xingyu traveled to the town concealing his powers, then entered the City of Slaughter through a spatial passage beneath the tavern.
• Zhuang Xingyu burned Terror Knight Scott and the hundred warriors with his Innate Ice-Fire Two Forms Yan, then accepted Scott’s damaged Ten Thousand Year Spirit Bone and spared them.
• Scott worried that Zhuang Xingyu might become a new Slaughter God as Zhuang Xingyu entered the city with token 8266.
• The veiled guide warned Zhuang Xingyu about the Hell Slaughter Arena and offered him safety if he stayed with her, but he rejected her advances and ordered her to lead him there.

Zhuang Xingyu dominated the Hell Slaughter Arena while the Asura God and Rakshasa God both took notice of him as a potential inheritor. The Rakshasa God tried to sway Zhuang Xingyu and lost affinity with Bibi Dong, while Zhuang Xingyu remained wary of the divine power surrounding him.

• Zhuang Xingyu won five Hell Slaughter Arena matches in less than two hours, then claimed a house and cultivated after no one else dared to fight him.
• The Asura God recalled an outsider soul entering the Douluo Universe and wondered whether it had caused the recent God Realm disturbance, but he did not connect it to Zhuang Xingyu.
• The Asura God discovered Zhuang Xingyu's extraordinary strength and Twin Martial Souls, decided he was an ideal inheritor, and secretly marked him with divine power.
• Zhuang Xingyu sensed the Asura God's mark and secretly monitored it with the Chaos Bead while pretending not to notice.
• The Rakshasa God noticed Zhuang Xingyu and concentrated Rakshasa God Power around him, while Bibi Dong screamed as her affinity with the Rakshasa God declined.
• The Rakshasa God regretted choosing Bibi Dong too early, but Zhuang Xingyu remained uninterested in inheriting a Rank 1 God's divine position.