Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuena judged that the Golden Sky Curtain was likely impartial and would not expose her as long as she kept her power concealed, so she ordered the soul beasts to wait for the coming Soul Beast Power Ranking. A month later, as the ranking was about to appear, Qian Daoliu revealed that he had once sensed ancient, terrifying auras deep in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Gu Yuena told Di Tian that Lu Xiao was an inexplicable figure and that the Golden Sky Curtain seemed to follow impartial rules rather than deliberately target anyone.
• Gu Yuena ordered the core-area beasts to conceal their auras, avoid confronting or investigating the Sky Screen, and await the Soul Beast Power Ranking.
• Gu Yuena and Di Tian anticipated the ranking's rewards, hoping they might help heal her injuries.
• A month passed as the continent's factions adjusted their strategies, and Spirit Hall became more cautious toward Big Dipper Academy.
• Qian Daoliu told Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other worshippers that he had sensed ancient, powerful beings near the Lake of Life, some of which posed a fatal threat even to him.

Lu Xiao used the Origin Divine Pearl to make the Life Ancient Tree Seed sprout, transforming Big Dipper Academy into a sacred cultivation ground. As the Soul Beast Power Ranking prepared to open, powerful beings across the continent awaited its revelations.

• Qian Daoliu warned the enshrined ones that legendary beings might be sleeping deep within the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lu Xiao infused the Life Ancient Tree Seed with power from the Origin Divine Pearl, causing a shoot to emerge.
• Lu Xiao's new sapling released Life Energy and Soul Power that transformed Big Dipper Academy's plants and cultivation environment.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Sikong Zhen, and Li Bai sensed the change and guarded or admired the academy's new foundation.
• Lu Xiao anticipated the opening of the Soul Beast Power Ranking as Di Tian and the fierce beasts prepared, Gu Yuena awoke, and Bibi Dong watched with ambition.

The Sky Screen revealed the Titan Giant Ape as 20th and the Sky Azure Bull Python as 19th on the Soul Beast Power Ranking, with rewards that strengthened both beasts. Their low placements left the continent wary of stronger hidden Soul Beasts, and the screen began revealing 18th place.

• The Sky Screen ranked the Titan Giant Ape 20th, granting it 10,000 years of age and a stronger Gravity Domain.
• Er Ming questioned the ranking while Da Ming worried that even his own strength fell far below the continent’s greatest hidden Soul Beasts.
• Bibi Dong coveted the rewards and worried about the Star Dou Great Forest, while Qian Daoliu ordered Spirit Hall Soul Masters to avoid provoking unknown powerful beasts.
• The Sky Screen ranked the Sky Azure Bull Python 19th and granted it increased age, a doubled Slow Domain, and Azure Sky Divine Saliva.
• Da Ming received the reward but felt only unease, while the continent’s factions braced themselves as the Sky Screen announced 18th place.

The Soul Beast Power Ranking revealed the 180,000-year-old Titan Snow Demon King in 18th place, alarming Soul Masters across the continent. Snow Empress and Ice Empress wondered whether powerful ocean Soul Beasts explained the ranking, as everyone awaited the next reveal.

• The Sky Screen announced the Titan Snow Demon King's age, Ancient Ice God Bloodline, and reward, shocking Human Soul Masters with the Far North Land's powerful Soul Beasts.
• Bibi Dong regarded the Titan Snow Demon King as a hunting target, while Qian Daoliu ordered Golden Crocodile Douluo to gather records about the Far North Land.
• The Titan Snow Demon King received its rewards and declared its power to the humans.
• Ice Empress questioned why the Titan Snow Demon King ranked only 18th, and Snow Empress suggested that Soul Beasts in the vast ocean might occupy higher places.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress continued watching the Sky Screen as people across the continent awaited 17th place and the rankings beyond.

The Sky Screen ranked the Evil Orca King seventeenth and restored the gravely wounded sea overlord, alarming Xiao Bai and Sea God Island. It then announced the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger of Big Dipper Academy in sixteenth place, and a Golden Light Pillar descended on the tiger beside Lu Xiao.

• The Sky Screen revealed that the two-hundred-thousand-year-old Evil Orca King was gravely wounded and hiding, and awarded him complete healing, twenty thousand years of age, and purified bloodline.
• The Evil Orca King healed, grew to two hundred and twenty thousand years old, and thanked the Sky Screen for giving him a new life.
• Xiao Bai recognized the Evil Orca King as her clan’s old enemy and feared that his restored strength would make revenge even harder.
• Bo Saixi and the Sea God Douluos worried that the Evil Orca King’s recovery would threaten the balance of the seas, while leaders across the continent were shaken by his power.
• The Sky Screen ranked the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger of Big Dipper Academy sixteenth and announced rewards that would strengthen its age, Evil God Bloodline, and Life and Death Arena.
• A Golden Light Pillar descended on the Black Little Tiger lying beside Lu Xiao at Big Dipper Academy.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger unleashed its power at Big Dipper Academy, but Lu Xiao’s restriction contained it. The Sky Screen then revealed Demon Spirit, a 230,000-year-old Soul Beast from the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving the continent anxious about what higher-ranked beasts would emerge.

• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s evil aura frightened Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Li Bai, and Sikong Zhen until Lu Xiao purified it and explained that his restriction kept the beast from harming anyone at the academy.
• Lu Xiao recalled that he had subdued the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger two years earlier and that it had already surpassed one hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• Bibi Dong learned of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and coveted its Soul Ring and Soul Bone for her Second Martial Soul, but doubted she could overcome Lu Xiao and the beast.
• The Sky Screen ranked Demon Spirit fifteenth, identifying it as a 230,000-year-old Soul Beast from the Star Dou Great Forest and granting it increased age, strengthened Evil Source, and improved concealment.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python suspected that unknown ancient beings were sleeping beneath the Lake of Life, while Qian Daoliu recognized the ranking as evidence of the forest’s hidden power.
• Lu Xiao said the ranking would expose the Ten Great Fierce Beasts, as people across the continent waited fearfully for the higher entries.

Demon Spirit and the Beast Lords considered why the Soul Beast Ranking might place sea-domain beasts above the Star Dou Great Forest’s strongest, while the Sky Screen revealed Zi Ji in fourteenth place. After Zi Ji received her reward, the ranking began revealing a terrifying three-headed beast.

• Demon Spirit protested its fifteenth-place rank, and Di Tian warned that powerful Soul Beasts from the Far North and the ocean could outrank it.
• Gu Yuena urged the Beast Lords to keep watching the list to learn who the continent’s strongest Soul Beasts were.
• The Sky Screen named Zi Ji, a roughly three-hundred-thousand-year Hell Demon Dragon from the Star Dou Great Forest, as fourteenth place and granted her a thirty-thousand-year age increase and enhanced bloodline and abilities.
• Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan feared Zi Ji’s superior dragon bloodline, while Bibi Dong recognized that Spirit Hall could not safely hunt her.
• Zi Ji accepted her rank, received the reward that raised her age to three hundred and thirty thousand years, and strengthened her bloodline and body.
• The Sky Screen began showing a massive three-headed beast with fire, evil energy, and destructive power.

Scarlet King ranked thirteenth, and Ice Empress ranked twelfth on the Sky Screen, revealing the terrifying strength of the Star Dou Great Forest and the Far North Land. As the Ice Empress received her reward, the continent waited for the eleventh-ranked Soul Beast to be revealed.

• Scarlet King appeared in thirteenth place with a reported age of 330,000 years, and the reward increased his age and strengthened his True Dragon Bloodline and Origin Power.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Spirit Hall members to stay out of the Star Dou Great Forest's Mixed Area and warned Bibi Dong to settle down.
• Ice Empress was revealed as the twelfth-ranked Soul Beast, a 380,000-year-old ruler of Ultimate Ice from the Far North Land.
• The Sky Screen's reward raised Ice Empress's age to 420,000 years and enhanced her Ultimate Ice and Frost Poison, while Snow Empress suspected the Sky Screen had concealed the rules behind Heavenly Tribulations.
• Lu Xiao and the others at Big Dipper Academy reacted to Ice Empress's appearance as the Sky Screen began gathering light to reveal the eleventh-ranked Soul Beast.

The Sky Screen revealed Xiong Jun, a four-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear ranked eleventh, and the Myriad Demon King, a five-hundred-thousand-year Demon Eye Magic Tree ranked tenth. Their rewards strengthened them, while the revelations shook the Clear Sky Sect and Shrek Academy and left Yu Xiaogang questioning his knowledge.

• The Sky Screen ranked Xiong Jun eleventh and described his space-tearing Darkgold Dreadclaws and reward.
• Xiong Jun accepted the Golden Light, reaching four hundred and ninety thousand years old and strengthening his claws and Sky-Tearing Claw.
• Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect Elders confronted how powerless their sect might be against the ancient soul beasts.
• Yu Xiaogang broke down at Shrek Academy, realizing his theories had overlooked these powerful soul beasts.
• The Sky Screen ranked the Myriad Demon King tenth and revealed its spirit, poison, time, and plant-based abilities.
• The Myriad Demon King absorbed its reward, reaching five hundred and forty thousand years old and improving its Mental Power, life essence, and domain skill.

After the Sky Screen revealed the Myriad Demon King's and Xiong Jun's terrifying abilities, Spirit Hall's leaders recognized that powerful ferocious beasts had long remained hidden beyond their reach. At Big Dipper Academy, Lu Xiao signed in, summoned the Storm Dragon King, and wondered whether his system had created the Sky Screen as the continent awaited the remaining rankings.

• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to treat the Star Dou Great Forest's Core Area, the Far North Land's core circle, and unknown deep-sea regions as forbidden zones.
• Qian Daoliu recalled sensing dangerous auras near the Lake of Life decades earlier and theorized that the ferocious beasts lived in secret realms or other hidden spaces.
• Lu Xiao signed in and received a five-thousand-year increase to his Soul Rings and Soul Bones, along with a Random Summoning Card.
• Lu Xiao used the card and summoned the Storm Dragon King, then speculated that his system might be behind the Sky Screen.
• The factions across the continent feared the Star Dou Great Forest and waited for the top nine rankings to be revealed.

The Sky Screen ranked Bi Ji ninth among soul beasts and granted her Ultimate Life, then revealed Sea Princess in eighth place and empowered her with greater age, Mental Power, and Ocean Authority. Their appearances prompted reactions from powerful beings across the continent and sea, as the story left the sea region’s strength increasingly apparent.

• The Sky Screen named Bi Ji the ninth-ranked soul beast and gave her Ultimate Life, greatly strengthening her healing and protective powers.
• Bi Ji tested her new power in the Star Dou Great Forest, healing hidden injuries and impressing Zi Ji and Xiong Jun.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress discussed the significance of Ultimate Life, while the Evil Emperor recognized Bi Ji’s strategic value.
• The Sky Screen revealed Sea Princess as the eighth-ranked soul beast and granted her increased age, bloodline, Mental Origin, and Ocean Authority.
• Sea Princess accepted the reward in her coral-and-crystal palace, while Di Tian and Bo Saixi acknowledged the sea region’s formidable strength.

The Sky Screen revealed the Deep Sea Demon Whale Clan’s Demon Empress as the seventh-ranked soul beast, rewarding her with greater age and ocean power while drawing attention to the sea’s hidden strength. Qian Daoliu and the other factions realized the ocean could rival the Star Dou Great Forest, and the continent awaited the final six rankings.

• The Sky Screen ranked Demon Empress seventh at approximately six hundred thousand years old and granted her rewards, including sixty thousand years of age and the Sky Sea Divine Sword.
• Demon Empress reached six hundred and sixty thousand years and told the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King that the ranking showed the continent’s soul beasts were formidable; he sensed his bottleneck had loosened and hoped to approach a million years.
• Gu Yuena warned Di Tian that the ocean’s strength exceeded her expectations and ordered him to proceed with greater caution.
• Qian Daoliu told the Spirit Hall Enshrined Ones that the deep sea contained countless powerful auras and that sea soul beasts had enjoyed a far more stable cultivation environment than land beasts.
• The continent’s factions recognized the sea as a danger on par with the Star Dou Great Forest and waited for the Sky Screen to reveal the remaining six soul beasts.

The Sky Screen ranked the Snow Empress sixth and rewarded her, raising her age beyond seven hundred thousand years and strengthening her Ultimate Ice. It then revealed the Evil Emperor in fifth place, whose unfamiliar affiliation to the Sun Moon Continent stunned the continent.

• The Sky Screen revealed the Snow Empress as a 670,000-year-old soul beast ranked sixth and granted her a major increase in age and power.
• The Snow Empress reached 740,000 years without facing a Heavenly Tribulation, and Ice Empress congratulated her.
• Di Tian and the other Star Dou Great Forest soul beasts assessed the Snow Empress as a powerful rival, while Zhu Zhuqing and others at Big Dipper Academy reacted to her strength.
• The Sky Screen revealed the Evil Emperor, a 750,000-year-old soul beast ranked fifth, and awarded it increased age and spiritual power along with a Demigod Artifact.
• The continent was shocked to learn that the Evil Emperor belonged to the unfamiliar Sun Moon Continent.

The Sky Screen revealed the existence of the Sun Moon Continent, an unknown landmass across the sea, and Lu Xiao explained that its Soul Masters had developed Soul Tools. Spirit Hall, the Worship Hall, and Sea God Island ordered increased maritime scouting, while the story left the continent’s people wary of the changes its discovery might bring.

• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to search its archives for the Sun Moon Continent, but Ghost Douluo and a cardinal said they had found no record of it.
• Qian Daoliu and the Worship Hall elders admitted they had never heard of another continent, then ordered increased maritime scouting.
• Lu Xiao told Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling that the Sun Moon Continent lay across the ocean and used Soul Tools to channel and amplify Soul Power.
• The Evil Emperor focused on the stronger, more destructive Mental Power he had gained from the reward and showed no objection to his fifth-place ranking.
• Bo Saixi said even her perception could not confirm what lay beyond the known seas, then ordered the Seven Holy Pillar Guardians to increase patrol vigilance.

Di Tian ranked fourth on the Soul Beast Power Ranking, and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King ranked third, breaking through the million-year bottleneck and receiving a divine artifact. The chapter ended with the continent stunned that even the newly empowered whale was outranked by two unknown beings.

• Di Tian appeared in fourth place with an age of approximately 840,000 years and received rewards that raised his age to 920,000 years and strengthened his abilities.
• Gu Yuena, the other beasts, Bo Saixi, and people across the continent wondered who could rank above Di Tian.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King appeared in third place at approximately 990,000 years, with the ranking reward exempting him from the million-year Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King broke through to one million years, gained divine power, and saw his Abyss Blade evolve into the Abyss Divine Blade.
• Di Tian recognized that the million-year Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had surpassed him, yet still ranked below two unknown existences.

After the Sky Screen ranked the million-year Deep Sea Demonic Whale King third, the continent’s leaders feared the two remaining Soul Beasts and scrambled to prepare. The newly empowered whale set out to destroy Sea God Island, where Bo Saixi activated its defenses and prayed for the Sea God’s protection.

• Bo Saixi, Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, and Ning Fengzhi reacted with shock to the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s million-year breakthrough and divine artifact, and ordered their people to take precautions.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King vowed revenge on Bo Saixi, Sea God Island, and the Sea God for blocking his path to enlightenment and oppressing his clan.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King told the Demon Empress to wait and raced across the sea toward Sea God Island, his divine power tearing through the waves.
• Bo Saixi sensed his approach, ordered the Seven Holy Pillar Guardians to activate the Seven Sacred Pillars Guardian Array, and moved civilians and low-level Soul Masters toward the Sea God Temple.
• Bo Saixi knelt before the Sea God Temple and prayed for the Sea God’s protection as the island’s defensive screens rose against the approaching whale.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King attacked Sea God Island, forcing Sea God Poseidon’s manifested will to fight him with the Sea God Trident. Poseidon gravely wounded the whale king but exhausted his power, and the whale king retreated temporarily as Poseidon warned Bo Saixi that he could not protect the island again.

• Bo Saixi told Sea God Poseidon’s phantom that the million-year Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was approaching Sea God Island with a Divine artifact.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King shattered the Seven Holy Pillar Guardians’ barrier with one strike, and Bo Saixi ordered the Soul Masters to protect the civilians and retreat.
• Poseidon took up the Sea God Trident and fought the whale king, whose attacks gradually weakened the phantom.
• Poseidon restrained the whale king with Thirteen Golden Halberds—Unsettled Waves, then pierced it with Thirteen Golden Halberds—Never Return, gravely wounding it.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King retreated to heal, while Poseidon’s phantom nearly dissipated and told Bo Saixi that the island’s Sea God’s Light had been exhausted and he could not protect them again.

The Sea God ordered Bo Saixi to evacuate Sea God Island, while the Sky Screen revealed the Storm Dragon King as a divine guardian of Big Dipper Academy. Gu Yuena viewed the unknown Dragon King as a potential threat and ordered the Beast Lords to watch the academy without making contact.

• The Sea God Phantom told Bo Saixi and the Seven Holy Pillar Guardians to evacuate Sea God Island and seek a new Inheritor or outside aid.
• The Sky Screen ranked the Storm Dragon King second among Soul Beasts, identifying it as a Divine Beast affiliated with Big Dipper Academy and awarding it advancement to a Second-rank God.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling questioned Lu Xiao about the Storm Dragon King, and he claimed it had slept in the Academy Secret Realm since the academy's founding.
• Gu Yuena asked Di Tian about the Storm Dragon King's origins, and he said it was absent from the Dragon Race Inherited Memories and possessed the might of a high-ranking True Dragon.
• Di Tian warned Gu Yuena that the Storm Dragon King's ties to humans could make it an obstacle to the Soul Beast Race, and Gu Yuena ordered the Beast Lords to gather information on Big Dipper Academy without approaching or antagonizing it.

The Sky Screen ranked Gu Yuena, the Silver Dragon King, first among soul beasts and granted her full recovery, a transformed Super Divine Artifact, and increased elemental control. Recovered and empowered, she ordered the Star Dou Great Forest to prepare for threats while forbidding soul beasts from starting large-scale conflicts with humans.

• The Sky Screen revealed Gu Yuena as the first-ranked soul beast, a Dragon God Clone and co-lord of soul beasts whose injured strength rivaled a First-rank God.
• Bibi Dong realized Gu Yuena’s reward would make her an even greater threat than before.
• The reward healed Gu Yuena, restored her to peak condition, transformed the Silver Dragon Spear into a Super Divine Artifact, and strengthened her control over the elements.
• Di Tian and the soul beasts welcomed Gu Yuena as their leader, and she ordered the Star Dou Great Forest to enter its highest alert while forbidding unprovoked large-scale conflicts with humans.
• People across the continent panicked at the revelation that the soul beasts had a leader whose power could overwhelm the known human forces.

Three days after the Soul Beast Power Ranking, the Sky Screen announced an Opportunity Ranking that would reveal treasure lands and empower those who entered them. Factions across the continent prepared to pursue the opportunities, while Lu Xiao promised that Big Dipper Academy would take part.

• The sects forbade their disciples from approaching the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Area, while Bibi Dong feared the Silver Dragon King’s power and Lu Xiao reassured his students.
• The Sky Screen announced that, after three days, it would reveal the Opportunity Ranking and grant enhanced comprehension and reduced danger to those who entered listed lands.
• Gu Yuena and Di Tian hoped Dragon Valley would appear on the list, and Gu Yuena directed the Beast Lords to seek opportunities that could strengthen their race.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to gather records of dangerous sites and secret realms and to monitor powerful soul beasts, while human factions began studying their own records.
• Lu Xiao named several possible opportunity lands, including the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and Dragon Valley, and told Big Dipper Academy to prepare for the ranking.