Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming, Kong Deming, and Zhang Lexuan discovered that a Golden Mane Lion Mastiff had been imprisoned for nearly five thousand years and was guarded by a Hundred-Thousand-Year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear. After seeing the Mastiff’s immense strength, Chen Ming agreed with Electrolux that it should become his Soul Spirit, and the group began planning how to capture both beasts.

• Kong Deming concealed the group’s auras and flew with Chen Ming and Zhang Lexuan into the ravine, where the Golden Mane Lion Mastiff was fighting its guard.
• Chen Ming recognized the Mastiff’s terrifying strength as it battered the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, whose defensive tactics kept it from escaping.
• The Mastiff stopped fighting after realizing it could not leave, and the bear cursed it and urged it to submit to Di Tian before its sealed lifespan ran out.
• The Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear left the ravine and vented its frustration by clawing the ground while the group followed.
• Electrolux judged that the Golden Mane Lion Mastiff could become an exceptionally powerful Soul Spirit, and Chen Ming discussed a plan with Kong Deming.
• Kong Deming stored Zhang Lexuan in his Storage Soul Tool, and he, Chen Ming, and Electrolux began planning how to capture both Soul Beasts.

Chen Ming and Kong Deming used a poisoned meal and a staged fight to capture the Hundred-Thousand-Year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and kill the Golden Mane Lion Mastiff. Electrolux extracted the Lion Mastiff’s soul and essence into a Soul Ring, and Kong Deming fled with Chen Ming before the other Fierce Beasts noticed.

• The aging Golden Mane Lion Mastiff emerged from its cave after smelling roasted bear meat and ate the meal laced with an aphrodisiac.
• Chen Ming and Kong Deming provoked the frenzied Lion Mastiff and lured it into a fight with the returning Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, then hid themselves.
• After the two beasts exhausted themselves, Kong Deming knocked out and sealed the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.
• Chen Ming killed the weakened Golden Mane Lion Mastiff with a Level 8 Soul Cannon Shell, and Electrolux used necromancy to extract its soul and essence into a Soul Ring.
• Kong Deming erased the evidence, stored Chen Ming in a Storage Soul Tool, and escaped the valley with both captured Soul Beasts secured.

Chen Ming absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Golden Mane Lion Mastiff as the First Soul Ring of his Body Martial Soul, gaining the Domination Domain and a major increase in his physical strength and Extreme Power. He persuaded the initially hostile Xiao Jin to accept their bond, then learned how the Golden Mane Lion Mastiff had grown up in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Chen Ming chose the Golden Mane Lion Mastiff for his Body Martial Soul, while reserving the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear for his Vajra Dragon Elephant.
• The Golden Mane Lion Mastiff attacked Chen Ming’s body and Sea of Consciousness during absorption, but Chen Ming’s Extreme Power prevailed and Electrolux bound it as his Soul Spirit.
• Chen Ming absorbed the Golden Mane Lion Mastiff as his first Body Martial Soul Soul Ring and gained its Domination Domain, along with greatly enhanced strength and denser Soul Power.
• The Golden Mane Lion Mastiff confronted Chen Ming, who argued that he had defeated it with a Level 8 Soul Cannon Shell and persuaded it that following him offered a chance to ascend to godhood.
• Chen Ming named the Golden Mane Lion Mastiff Xiao Jin and asked how Di Tian had imprisoned it; Xiao Jin began recounting its origins and said it had reached ten thousand years of cultivation at age eight thousand.

Chen Ming learned how Xiao Jin had been imprisoned alongside the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, then demonstrated the Innate Overlord Domain for Kong Deming. After Electrolux forcibly transformed the bear into Chen Ming’s fifth Soul Ring, Chen Ming’s accumulated power surged but hit a barrier imposed by the world’s rules.

• Xiao Jin told Chen Ming how he had crippled the Auspicious Beast, taken her golden bone, fought Scarlet King, and been imprisoned by Di Tian alongside the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.
• Xiao Jin explained that the bear had killed two Jade Swans for their life force and was serving a sentence as his guard.
• Chen Ming released the Domination Domain so Kong Deming could study it, revealing its powerful physical enhancements and heavy Soul Power consumption.
• Chen Ming, Kong Deming, and the others stayed near the Star Dou Great Forest for nearly a month while Chen Ming trained and Electrolux modified the sealed bear.
• Electrolux forcibly made the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear into a Soul Spirit, giving Chen Ming the fifth Soul Ring for his Vajra Dragon Elephant Martial Soul.
• Chen Ming’s Soul Power surged through Levels 52, 53, and 54 before the world’s rules stopped his breakthrough.

After absorbing the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear as a Soul Spirit, Chen Ming reached the threshold of level 60 and dealt with the bear’s anger and resignation. He then persuaded Kong Deming to pursue a Hundred-Thousand-Year Golden Terrapin in the Mixed Area, despite the heightened danger in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Chen Ming discovered that the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s origin had pushed him to the level 60 bottleneck and gained the Claw of Destruction and Bloodthirsty Seal soul skills.
• The Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear learned that Chen Ming had enslaved its soul as a Soul Spirit, lashed out at him, and then gave up after explaining how little it had enjoyed life since becoming a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Chen Ming returned the exhausted bear to his Sea of Consciousness, where it ignored Electrolux and the Golden Mane Lion Mastiff and went to sleep.
• Chen Ming, Kong Deming, and Electrolux discussed his cultivation limit and the risks of entering the Core Area while the forest’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were on alert.
• Chen Ming told Kong Deming that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Golden Terrapin lived in the Mixed Area, and Kong Deming agreed to investigate it before searching for the mother and child mentioned by the Evil Eye Heavenly Wolf.

Chen Ming and Kong Deming searched the Star Dou Great Forest for the Hundred-Thousand-Year Golden Terrapin King, and Chen Ming enlisted the reluctant Evil Eye Heavenly Wolf to trick the Terrapin Tribe into revealing its location. They found the secluded Golden Terrapin King, which objected when Chen Ming tried to carry it away in its shell.

• Chen Ming and Kong Deming tracked sea turtles to a Terrapin Tribe, where Chen Ming inspected two Golden Terrapins but found neither was his target.
• After the Terrapin Tribe began hiding, Chen Ming persuaded the reluctant Evil Eye Heavenly Wolf to impersonate an agent of Di Tian and demand the Golden Terrapin King's whereabouts.
• An old terrapin gave the Evil Eye Heavenly Wolf coordinates for the tribe's solitary, ancient Golden Terrapin King, whose condition seemed to be worsening.
• Chen Ming and Kong Deming found the Golden Terrapin King alone, and it protested when Chen Ming lifted its shell and tried to pack it away.

Chen Ming turned the Golden Terrapin, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast whose life force was being drained by Life Gold, into his sixth Soul Spirit and gained two powerful defensive skills. After the Golden Terrapin endured a rough welcome from the souls in Chen Ming’s mind, Chen Ming reported his level and abilities to Kong Deming.

• Chen Ming confronted the Golden Terrapin, revealed his strength and Xiao Jin, and convinced the desperate Soul Beast that a Soul Spirit contract could save it from the Life Gold draining its life force.
• Electrolux formed the contract, suppressed the rampaging Life Gold, and helped the Golden Terrapin enter Chen Ming’s body as a Soul Spirit.
• The Golden Terrapin boasted in Chen Ming’s Sea of Consciousness, where Electrolux beat it before the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and Xiao Jin also attacked it.
• Chen Ming told Kong Deming that his Soul Power Level had reached sixty-seven and described the physical improvements from absorbing the Golden Terrapin.
• Chen Ming explained that his sixth soul ring granted Invincible Golden Body, which made him immune to attacks below god-level for nine seconds, and Eternal Defense, which boosted his defense and converted half of his damage into Soul Power.

Chen Ming, Kong Deming, and Zhang Lexuan followed the Evil Eye Heavenly Wolf to find a mother and son in the Star Dou Great Forest, only to discover the pair trapped in a cave by an injured Vajra Long-armed Ape clan. Chen Ming charged at the apes to drive them away, and the clan mistook his transformed appearance for a rival beast.

• Chen Ming offered Kong Deming a piece of Life Gold, but Kong Deming returned it and proposed helping Chen Ming refine it into a Life-Bound Soul Tool.
• Kong Deming and Chen Ming stopped searching for Soul Beasts and asked the Evil Eye Heavenly Wolf to locate the mother and son associated with the Titan Giant Ape; Kong Deming allowed Zhang Lexuan to accompany them.
• The group found that a Vajra Long-armed Ape clan had taken over the mother and son's usual meeting place, and the Evil Eye Heavenly Wolf concluded that an intruder had recently fought the clan.
• The Evil Eye Heavenly Wolf tracked the mother and son to a cave where an injured woman and her child were besieged by the apes, who attacked from a distance with rocks.
• Kong Deming told Chen Ming to drive the apes away while minimizing deaths, and Chen Ming transformed through Martial Soul Possession and charged at them.
• The Vajra Long-armed Ape clan sensed Chen Ming's ferocious aura and mistook him for a beast competing for territory.

Chen Ming defeated the Vajra Long-armed Apes surrounding a cave and rescued eight-year-old Yuan Ensi Tai and his unconscious mother, Xiong Xiaoling. After examining her, he realized that her injuries did not explain why she remained unconscious and asked the boy for their names and ages.

• Chen Ming charged through the apes’ stones and battered the troop by swinging a Thousand Year Vajra Long-armed Ape as a weapon.
• The apes kept attacking because they were drawn to Yuan Ensi Tai’s Titan Giant Ape bloodline, so Chen Ming swept through them again until the survivors fled.
• Chen Ming found a rare Left Arm Bone on the ape he had killed and stored it in his Soul Tool.
• Chen Ming entered the cave and met Yuan Ensi Tai, who explained that the apes had attacked him and his mother after she was injured by their Monkey King.
• Chen Ming examined the unconscious Xiong Xiaoling and found that her injuries should not have left her unconscious; Yuan Ensi Tai said she was thirty and that he was eight.

Chen Ming rescued Xiong Xiaoling and Yuan Ensi Tai, explained the truth about the man she had waited for, and offered to recruit her son because of his exceptional Titan Giant Ape bloodline. After Xiong Xiaoling agreed to entrust Yuan Ensi Tai to him, Chen Ming surprised her by inviting her to come along too.

• Chen Ming provoked Yuan Ensi Tai into crying, which woke Xiong Xiaoling, and then explained that her exhaustion and despair had caused her to faint.
• Chen Ming told Xiong Xiaoling that the man she had waited for had once returned but never found her, while his friend had secretly kept Soul Beasts away during her yearly visits.
• Chen Ming offered Yuan Ensi Tai a place in the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy and revealed his powerful Martial Souls and Soul Spirits.
• The Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear recognized Yuan Ensi Tai as the first-generation direct bloodline of a Divine Beast-level Titan Giant Ape and decided to keep following Chen Ming.
• Xiong Xiaoling agreed to entrust Yuan Ensi Tai to Chen Ming, and Chen Ming told her he wanted her to come with them as well.

Chen Ming settled Yuan Ensi Tai into the Dragon Elephant Sect and gave him a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Soul Spirit, which bonded readily with his divine bloodline. After the group returned to Mingde Hall, Jing Hongchen delivered urgent intelligence that Xuan Zi had become a Limit Douluo and was ambushed by Long Xiaoyao and Mu En.

• Chen Ming brought Xiong Xiaoling and Yuan Ensi Tai to the Dragon Elephant Sect, where Yuan Ensi Tai began fitting in with the sect’s children and clansmen.
• Chen Ming decided Yuan Ensi Tai should train at the Dragon Elephant Sect before moving to Mingde Hall, and the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Soul Spirit willingly fused with him as his second and third Soul Rings.
• Xiong Xiaoling made Yuan Ensi Tai swear to keep the Soul Spirit secret and use it only in danger or with permission.
• After Kong Deming examined Yuan Ensi Tai, Chen Ming’s group ended their three-month Soul-Hunting Operation and returned to Mingde Hall.
• Jing Hongchen gave Kong Deming urgent intelligence that Long Xiaoyao and Mu En had severely wounded Xuan Zi, who had broken through to Limit Douluo before escaping and being rescued by an unknown Peerless Douluo.

After learning the truth about Xuan Zi’s massacre and Wu Ming’s disappearance, Mu En decided to eliminate the corrupted Pavilion Elder. When Mu En and the Sea God Pavilion Elders raided Xuan Zi’s hiding place, they found him devouring Soul Beasts, and their attempt to stop him drove him into madness and triggered his breakthrough.

• After Xuan Zi claimed Zhang Lexuan had betrayed Shrek, the Sea God Pavilion Elders unsealed Mu En to assess the crisis.
• Wu Ming told the Elders that Xuan Zi had forced the students to hunt Soul Beasts and abandoned them when a Hundred-Thousand-Year Beast King attacked; Zhang Lexuan had held the beast back.
• After Wu Ming vanished, Mu En resolved to eliminate Xuan Zi, but Xuan Zi evaded a meeting and hid in Closed-door Cultivation.
• Mu En, Long Xiaoyao, Elder Song, Elder Lin, and the other Elders raided Xuan Zi’s secret chamber and found him devouring a Soul Beast amid scattered skeletons.
• Mu En used Long Xiaoyao’s power to attack Xuan Zi with Sea God’s Light, but Xuan Zi blamed the Elders and went mad.
• Xuan Zi’s Soul Power surged, his bottleneck broke, and his Taotie True Body appeared as he began breaking through.

Xuan Zi transformed into a Peerless Douluo and unleashed Taotie’s devouring power across Sea God Island, forcing Mu En to make a final stand. As Mu En’s decisive strike drove Xuan Zi to devour his own body and attack, Long Xiaoyao prepared a counterattack.

• Xuan Zi’s Taotie Martial Soul drained energy and life force from the chamber, while Long Xiaoyao protected a wounded elder from being devoured.
• Mu En ordered the elderly to withdraw and sent Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, Cai Mei'er, Qian Duoduo, and the Inner Court disciples away from the battlefield.
• Mu En used the Sea God's Light to regain his youthful form and unleashed his strongest strike against Xuan Zi.
• Xuan Zi resisted with layers of shields, then devoured his own limbs and Soul Bones to strengthen Taotie and counter Mu En’s attack.
• Xuan Zi charged at Mu En intending to swallow him, and Mu En prepared to fight to the death.
• Long Xiaoyao unleashed the Dark Sacred Dragon’s power, sharply reducing his own strength as he prepared to strike.

Mu En and Long Xiaoyao used their Twin Holy Dragon fusion skill to defeat Xuan Zi, but a sudden change let him escape. As Mu En sacrificed his soul to strengthen Long Xiaoyao, Qingying Douluo pursued Xuan Zi and was captured by Zhongli Xuansha, the Holy Spirit Cult's Grand Elder.

• Xuan Zi devoured several Sea God Pavilion elders to regain strength, and Mu En and Long Xiaoyao joined their powers to trap him with the Twin Holy Dragon fusion skill.
• Xuan Zi begged for mercy as Mu En condemned him, but a shift in the Golden Ancient Tree's power let Xuan Zi escape as black mist.
• Mu En shattered his soul and gave its purified origin to Long Xiaoyao, who left Sea God Island after receiving Mu En's final will.
• Elder Song caught up with Xuan Zi near Shrek City, but a Beast Spirit intercepted her attack and Zhongli Xuansha appeared from the mist.
• Zhongli Xuansha subdued Qingying Douluo with his bell and Beast Spirits, identified himself as the Holy Spirit Cult's Grand Elder, and departed with Xuan Zi and his spirits.

After Zhongli Xuansha rescued Xuan Zi, Feng Ling explained the Holy Spirit Cult and accused Shrek of driving many people into becoming Evil Soul Masters. She revealed the great elder’s fanatical devotion to the Holy Emperor, then escaped Shrek after attacking Yan Shaozhe and blasting Sea God Island; Yan Shaozhe collapsed and lost a level of cultivation.

• Lin Hui Qun brought the unconscious Qingying Douluo back, and Elder Song reported that Zhongli Xuansha had rescued Xuan Zi.
• Feng Ling described the Holy Spirit Cult’s Offerings and Elders, arguing that Shrek’s persecution had driven unusual Soul Masters into the Cult and increased the number of Evil Soul Masters.
• Feng Ling explained that the great elder was a Peerless Douluo who had become fanatically devoted to the Holy Emperor after witnessing a miracle.
• Yan Shaozhe attacked Feng Ling, but she repelled him with her Evil Phoenix and accused the Sea God Pavilion of hiding true evil behind claims of justice.
• Feng Ling revealed that the Cult Master was her husband and Yan Shaozhe’s uncle, then used Phoenix Meteor Shower to damage Sea God Island as she escaped.
• Yan Shaozhe collapsed after Feng Ling’s departure, and Qian Duoduo discovered that his cultivation had fallen from Level 95 to Level 94.

After Shrek Academy’s strongest experts vanished or fell, internal divisions and a string of disasters weakened its authority across the continent. Chen Ming learned that numerous powerful reclusive families had emerged, leaving the plot he knew uncertain and the Holy Spirit Cult wary of the new balance.

• Shrek’s elders chose Xian Lin'er as dean and Qian Duoduo as vice dean, while rival factions argued over how to respond to the academy’s decline.
• News of Shrek’s crisis spread, and Kong Deming returned to Shrek to investigate its condition.
• During the following months, Shrek suffered the looting of its Treasure Pavilion, the destruction of its Beast Arena, and Fan Yu’s murder.
• Chen Ming read reports of powerful reclusive families emerging across the continent, including the Angel Yue Family, the Star Holy Sword Family, the Xueling Clan, and the Qiangu Family.
• Chen Ming realized these new forces would make the future unpredictable, while their presence and abilities against Evil Soul Masters kept the Holy Spirit Cult from acting openly.
• The continent’s factions grew cautious of one another, and Shrek managed to resume operating amid the uneasy balance.

Du Busi urged Chen Ming to inherit the Body Sect’s Body Seed, but Chen Ming agreed only to visit later, after the turmoil around the Dragon Elephant Sect had eased. Du Busi then spent a month training Chen Ming in Body Martial Soul control and Bloodline Power, leaving Chen Ming stronger and with new insight into Blood Essence Soul Rings.

• Du Busi told Chen Ming that powerful hidden families and Extreme Attribute Soul Masters threatened the Body Sect’s future, and asked him to inherit the Body Seed.
• Chen Ming declined to visit the Body Sect immediately but agreed to consider inheriting the Body Seed later; Du Busi gave him a map and a 50,000 Year Blazing Winged Flying Dragon Right Arm Bone.
• Chen Ming revealed his Level 69 cultivation, his Second Martial Soul, and his Innate Overlord Domain from a Golden Mane Lion Mastiff Soul Ring.
• Du Busi saw Chen Ming’s Domain and began teaching him Body Sect methods for controlling his body and Bloodline Power.
• Du Busi stayed at Mingde Hall for a month, teaching Chen Ming Battle Skills and helping him unlock more of his Bloodline Power and glimpse the mysteries of Blood Essence Soul Rings.

Huo Yuhao revealed his plans for a million-year Soul Beast and an artificial second Martial Soul to Chen Ming, who trusted him and assigned him to search Mingdu for useful intelligence. Huo Yuhao uncovered a Holy Spirit Cult hideout and became involved in a hunt for an Angel Inheritor, prompting Chen Ming and Jing Hongchen to rush to his aid.

• Huo Yuhao told Chen Ming about the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and their plan, and Chen Ming admitted he had known about the Soul Beast all along.
• Chen Ming explained the Xueling Clan’s Ultimate Ice inheritance and postponed Huo Yuhao’s trip to hunt a Soul Beast until he could accompany him to the Extreme North Land.
• Chen Ming assigned Huo Yuhao to explore Mingdu under the protection of a Level 8 Soul Master and a Rank 9 Soul Engineer, hoping he would uncover useful intelligence.
• Chen Ming had a three-thousand-year Evil Eye turned into a Soul Spirit and prepared Simulation and Soul-Seizing Gaze for Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao discovered a Holy Spirit Cult hideout and followed its members as they searched for an Angel Inheritor.
• Chen Ming and Jing Hongchen reached the outskirts of the city and found Huo Yuhao’s protectors under attack from the Holy Spirit Cult’s Myriad Soul Douluo.

Chen Ming joined Jing Hongchen and Huo Yuhao after they learned the Holy Spirit Cult had pursued the injured Angel Inheritor, who had escaped. At Electrolux’s suggestion, Chen Ming attacked the Myriad Soul Douluo to test whether his unusual Martial Soul could be seized, forcing the Evil Soul Master to unleash his Martial Soul Avatar.

• A Level 8 Soul Master reported to Jing Hongchen that the Holy Spirit Cult had tried to capture the Angel Inheritor, and Huo Yuhao said he had memorized her aura so he could track her once he recovered.
• Electrolux judged that the Myriad Soul Douluo’s partly materialized Myriad Soul Banner might be separable from him and instructed Chen Ming to destroy his fierce spirits and provoke backlash.
• Chen Ming gained Jing Hongchen’s permission to join the fight, summoned his Vajra Dragon Elephant Martial Soul, and charged the Myriad Soul Douluo.
• Chen Ming’s Light Power and tempered will instantly destroyed the fierce spirits sent against him, causing backlash that nearly let the Rank 9 Soul Engineer kill the Myriad Soul Douluo.
• The Myriad Soul Douluo strengthened some spirits with his fifth soul skill, then froze when he saw Chen Ming’s red fifth and sixth Soul Rings; the Rank 9 Soul Engineer used the opening to destroy the enhanced spirits.
• Chen Ming launched a powerful attack, and the Myriad Soul Douluo transformed into his Myriad Soul Banner through his Martial Soul Avatar, spreading a domain that resonated with the Vengeful Spirits.

Chen Ming and Electrolux defeated Myriad Soul Douluo by purifying the souls trapped in his Myriad Soul Banner and seizing the weakened artifact. Electrolux explained that the banner could be reforged into a powerful artifact, then fell asleep after asking Chen Ming to obtain pure Soul Power from Angel Douluo within two months.

• Chen Ming resisted Myriad Soul Douluo's evil spirits and attacks with his strength, Light Attribute Soul Power, and defensive Soul Skills.
• As Myriad Soul Douluo tried to flee, Electrolux took control of Chen Ming's body and used light to free and rally the captive souls against him.
• The freed souls overwhelmed Myriad Soul Douluo inside the Myriad Soul Banner, and Electrolux purified and stabilized the banner.
• Electrolux told Chen Ming that the banner could be reforged into a Demigod Artifact and might help him recover faster, but it still needed to become ownerless.
• Electrolux asked Chen Ming to obtain Soul Power from Angel Douluo at the gathering in two months, then fell asleep while Chen Ming sealed away the banner.