Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming studied the Tang Sect secret techniques and concluded that the Mysterious Heaven Skill inherited by the Tang Sect had been stripped of most of its abilities and might contain a way to counter its cultivators. Meanwhile, the Zhongli Brothers delivered Zhongli Dong’s heart to Zhongli Wu, who revealed his plan to make them the Holy Spirit Cult’s new Elders and confronted his captive half-brother.

• Chen Li confirmed that the Tang Sect secret techniques were genuine and advised Chen Ming to study the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Purple Demon Eye, and Mysterious Jade Hand.
• Chen Ming examined the techniques and found that the current Mysterious Heaven Skill was far weaker than the legendary version, suspecting Tang San had altered it and left countermeasures behind.
• Chen Ming set the Mysterious Heaven Skill aside and began studying the Purple Demon Eye and its annotations.
• The Zhongli Brothers infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters and presented Zhongli Dong’s still-beating heart to Zhongli Wu.
• Zhongli Wu rewarded the brothers with a token and promised them Soul Beast spirits, human sacrifices, and future positions as the cult’s three Elders.
• Zhongli Wu released Zhongli Dong’s soul and accused him of resenting Zhongli Wu’s inheritance of the Holy Spirit Cult.

Zhongli Wu devoured Zhongli Dong, awakened the Bone Dragon King’s power, and used the Holy Spirit Cult to help ignite a war between the empires. As Tang Chen arrived in Sunken Valley on a divine mission, Tang Hao warned him to obey Tang San’s orders.

• Zhongli Wu trapped Zhongli Dong’s soul and fed it to his Bone Dragon, advancing from level 94 to level 95.
• Zhongli Wu rode the Bone Dragon King out of the blood pool, crushed rebellious Evil Soul Masters, and advanced to level 96.
• Evil Soul Masters provoked border clashes, allowing the White Tiger Legion to invade the Sun Moon Empire as Xu Pingye mobilized forces to defend it.
• Tang Chen descended into Sunken Valley with the God of Life’s power, angered by Tang San’s threat to keep silent about what he saw.
• Tang Hao contacted Tang Chen and warned him to follow Tang San’s instructions and not betray them for outsiders.

Tang Chen confronted Tang Hao about the fate of his family and the Clear Sky Sect, then repaired Sunken Valley and rediscovered his purpose by demonstrating his hammer techniques. He left behind a booklet of his insights before returning to the God Realm, having accepted that he could not reclaim his old life.

• Tang Chen questioned Tang Hao about the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Xiao's descendants, and Sea God Island, and learned that his family and the island he remembered were gone.
• Tang Hao explained that he and Ah Yin had to remain asleep within the Golden Ancient Tree to suppress the Douluo Plane's core and conceal its erosion.
• Tang Chen sensed Chen Ming, Chen Li, and Chen Buban approaching, repaired the damage in Sunken Valley, and showed off his Clear Sky Hammer techniques.
• Tang Chen unleashed a Black Dragon of hammer force, vented his resentment, and resolved to stop tormenting himself over relatives who did not treat him as family.
• Tang Chen tossed a booklet containing his cultivation insights and refined techniques into the distance, then returned to the God Realm.

Chen Ming and his companions found a divine booklet in Sunken Valley, then returned to the Dragon Elephant Sect amid the war between the Sun Moon and Star Luo Empires. After months of cultivation and conflict, a black-robed visitor arrived at the sect, revealing a withered face and an alarming degree of aging.

• Chen Ming, Chen Li, and Chen Buban found a metal booklet written in Divine Script; reading it caused painful physical swellings and gave them faint insight into a technique for blocking and counterattacking.
• Chen Li and Chen Buban escorted Chen Ming through the battlefield, where Chen Ming killed a squad of Star Luo soldiers and brooded afterward about his first kills.
• Chen Ping told Chen Ming that the Dragon Elephant Sect had crushed a Star Luo force of over twenty thousand soldiers without suffering casualties, losing only Soul Cannon Shells and clothing.
• Chen Ming spent half a year cultivating as the Star Luo Empire withdrew and the Sun Moon Empire retaliated against its borderlands; his Soul Power rose from Rank 24 to Rank 26.
• A black-robed man arrived at the Dragon Elephant Sect and met Chen Li and Chen Ming in a secluded courtyard; he removed his robe, revealing a severely withered face.

Kong Jie came to Chen Li near death to ask for forgiveness, help protecting his soul, and to warn him about the emperor’s alliance with the Holy Spirit Cult. Chen Li gave him Holy Water made with a Divine Armor Fragment, leaving Kong Jie with a chance to keep Evil Soul Masters from claiming his soul.

• Chen Ming recognized Kong Jie as the Black Moon Douluo, and Kong Jie explained that Dai Hao had shattered his Martial Soul Avatar and left him with little time to live.
• Kong Jie asked to visit Ai’s grave, but Chen Li struck at him and refused; Kong Jie then revealed that he feared Evil Soul Masters would claim his soul because he had used Blood Medicine to become a Titled Douluo.
• Kong Jie gave Chen Li his Storage Soul Tool, which contained leverage against nobles, Soul Tool research, and a Level 8 blueprint from Kong Deming, and warned that the emperor was cooperating with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Kong Jie described the ancient noble family linked to the Fourth Prince’s maternal relatives and explained his suspicion that Evil Soul Masters had controlled it for centuries.
• Chen Li took Chen Ming to a secret chamber and showed him a Divine Armor Fragment from Qian Renxue’s collapsed Angel God inheritance, which had been used to make the sect’s Holy Water.
• Chen Li gave Kong Jie a bottle of Holy Water and told him to use it before death to protect his soul from Evil Soul Masters below Peerless Douluo level.

After grieving Kong Jie, Chen Li released the knot in his heart and quietly became a Rank 95 Super Douluo. Back at the Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Chen Ming discovered three first-year girls brutally bullying a classmate and stepped in to protect her.

• Kong Jie died of old age, and after mourning him and his childhood sweetheart, Chen Li broke through to Rank 95.
• Chen Li returned to Mingdu, continued discussions with Jing Hongchen, and brought Chen Ming back to the Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Chen Ming saw that Xiao Hongchen had reached Rank 26 by absorbing energy from forged metal, while Xiao Hongchen put off challenging him until later.
• While walking past the first- and second-year Training Ground, Chen Ming found three girls beating a black-haired student.
• Chen Ming knocked the bullies away, helped the injured girl, shattered the arena with a stomp, and demanded that the three girls tell the truth.

Chen Ming rescued Ju Zi from three students who had bullied and beaten her, then brought them before the Dean of Students and forced the academy to acknowledge her injuries and promise a fair response. The chapter ended with Chen Ming taking Ju Zi to the School Infirmary after securing compensation and the Dean’s assurance that the incident would be explained truthfully.

• Chen Ming struck the lead bully and used Gravity Suppression to stop her two companions from fleeing, then ordered them to accompany him to the Dean of Students.
• Ju Zi recovered enough to summon her orange Food-type Martial Soul, and Chen Ming suspected she was the Ju Zi from the Original Work.
• At the Dean of Students’ office, the two bullies falsely accused Chen Ming of sexual harassment, but the Dean recognized him and demanded the truth.
• The girls confessed that they had bullied Ju Zi for refusing to share homework and pay them, and the Dean condemned their actions.
• Chen Ming insisted the Dean answer to Ju Zi, secured an authorization for temporary medical compensation, and warned that the academy must prevent false rumors about him.

Chen Ming helped Ju Zi recover from a bullying incident and learned how war and illness had left her orphaned before she joined the Royal Soul Engineer Academy. He escorted her back to her dormitory and promised that the academy would address the matter, while Ju Zi resolved to repay his kindness someday.

• Chen Ming took the injured Ju Zi to the School Infirmary, where a Healing Soul Master treated her wounds, cleaned her up, and gave her follow-up medicine and Pills.
• Ju Zi thanked Chen Ming, and he explained that he had intervened because he disliked seeing her bullied and told her not to worry about retaliation.
• Ju Zi recounted how her father died in the war, her mother died after an epidemic, and the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Regiment helped her enter the academy.
• Chen Ming explained that he had also lost his parents young, then told Ju Zi to stay in her dormitory while he ensured the academy handled the bullying.
• Ju Zi told Chen Ming that she was in class four and had not qualified for Mingde Hall; he then escorted her back to her dormitory.

After Chen Ming learned that Ju Zi’s bullies had been expelled, he trained with a new Level 8 Soul Tool while Xiao Hongchen rapidly advanced to Soul Elder. The chapter ended with Chen Ming and Xiao Hongchen sparring in Jing Hongchen’s arena, where Chen Ming used gravity and force-redirection techniques to counter Xiao Hongchen’s attacks.

• The Dean of Students expelled Ju Zi’s three bullies, barred them from military and government service, and ordered public apologies and compensation.
• A White Tiger Duke’s illegitimate son awakened the Spirit Eyes Martial Soul instead of the White Tiger Martial Soul, easing First Madam’s worries about him and his mother.
• Jing Hongchen gave Chen Ming a Level 8 armor Soul Tool that interfered with Soul Power and bodily training, and Chen Ming adapted to wearing it over the next two months.
• Xiao Hongchen returned with three Soul Rings at Level 31 and challenged Chen Ming to a spar, inviting Meng Hongchen to watch.
• Chen Ming and Xiao Hongchen began their match; Chen Ming used gravity control and redirected Xiao Hongchen’s metal projectiles with his arms.

Chen Ming defeated Xiao Hongchen in a spar after surviving a devastating barrage of Soul Cannons, while both recovered and returned to their routines. Over the following months, Chen Ming continued cultivating, met Ju Zi’s friend A Ke, and heard of events unfolding in Mingdu.

• Xiao Hongchen fired three volleys from thirty-two Level 3 Soul Cannons, but Chen Ming survived with only a few broken bones and defeated him.
• Chen Ming and Xiao Hongchen received treatment, and the Healing Soul Master found Xiao Hongchen’s Soul Power exhaustion more serious than Chen Ming’s injuries.
• Xiao Hongchen returned to cultivation, spending money, and forging Soul Tools, while Chen Ming trained his body and Soul Power.
• Chen Ming occasionally spoke with Ju Zi and met her friend A Ke, who stopped challenging him after he twice defeated her without using his Martial Soul or Soul Power.
• As months passed, Chen Ming heard about several events in Mingdu that Jing Hongchen mostly kept outside the academy.

After reaching Level 30, Chen Ming met with his elders to choose a Third Soul Ring. He chose an 8,200-year-old Dragon Elephant despite the danger, leaving Chen Li worried but unable to change his mind.

• Chen Ming broke through to Level 30 after a year and three months of steady cultivation, avoiding further medicines that could harm his foundation.
• Chen Li and great elder Chen Ping visited Chen Ming, and Chen Ping gave him two specially modified Level 8 Soul Cannon Shells.
• Chen Li, Chen Ping, and Jing Hongchen reviewed candidate Soul Beasts and estimated that Chen Ming could absorb a Soul Ring of around seven thousand years.
• Chen Ming chose the 8,200-year-old Dragon Elephant, arguing that his Vajra Dragon Elephant Martial Soul could suppress it and that he needed to surpass his limits.
• Chen Li warned Chen Ming that the Soul Ring was too old for his Soul Power, but Chen Ming insisted on taking the risk.

Jing Hongchen, Chen Li, Chen Ping, and Chen Ming hunted a rare Golden-Blooded Dragon Elephant in the Star Dou Great Forest so Chen Ming could absorb its Soul Ring. As Chen Ming began the dangerous absorption, a powerful seven-person squad appeared and demanded a share of the corpse, leaving Chen Li to face them.

• Jing Hongchen and the others found a sleeping Dragon Elephant with an unusually powerful Golden Bloodline.
• Chen Li subdued the Dragon Elephant and brutally wounded it so Chen Ming could kill it with a Rank 9 Close-Combat Soul Tool.
• Chen Ming killed the Dragon Elephant, then began absorbing its deep purple Soul Ring despite the Great Elder's warning about the risks.
• Chen Ming endured the Soul Ring's immense power by redirecting it through his meridians and gradually absorbing it.
• A seven-person squad arrived, claimed the Dragon Elephant as their target, and demanded a share of its corpse from Chen Li.

Chen Li subdued seven Shrek-affiliated bandits who attacked while Chen Ming absorbed an 8,200-year Dragon Elephant Soul Ring, then exposed their hypocrisy and offered their leader a chance to fight Chen Ming. Chen Ming became a Soul Elder, though his Soul Power remained at Level 31, and the chapter ended with the challenge still unanswered.

• The Star Dou Seven Monsters ambushed Chen Li, Jing Hongchen, and the cultivating Chen Ming, hoping to seize the Dragon Elephant corpse.
• Chen Li crushed the attackers’ soul skills, suppressed the group, and destroyed the Dragon Pattern Staff and Star Luo Chess Martial Souls after recognizing their Shrek inheritances.
• Chen Li injured the Star Luo Chess woman, then kept the bandits pinned while Chen Ming completed his absorption and awoke as a Soul Elder at Level 31.
• The scar-faced leader blamed Chen Li and the Sun Moon Empire while insisting on Shrek’s superiority, and Chen Li secretly discussed a plan with Chen Ming.
• Chen Li offered to spare the group if their injured leader could defeat Chen Ming, who had just absorbed the Soul Ring.

Chen Ming killed Scarface and the rest of the soul-hunting squad after absorbing the Dragon Elephant’s Soul Ring, revealing a powerful new enhancement skill and learning that the beast carried Tyrant Dragon bloodline. The chapter ended with Chen Ming questioning whether his Vajra Dragon Elephant Martial Soul was truly an Extreme Martial Soul because his cultivation speed had not slowed much.

• Chen Ming used Ancient Strength and Dragon Elephant’s Wrath to overpower Scarface, breaking through his defenses and killing him in seconds.
• Chen Ming killed the remaining five members of the soul-hunting squad and found more than a dozen Storage Soul Tools among their corpses.
• Chen Ming told Chen Li, Chen Ping, and Jing Hongchen that Dragon Elephant’s Wrath doubled his attack, strength, defense, and abnormal status resistance while granting level-based armor piercing and damage reduction.
• Chen Ming explained that the Dragon Elephant’s bloodline came from a winged Tyrant Dragon and that he had suppressed its lingering spiritual force during Soul Ring absorption.
• Chen Li considered capturing the Tyrant Dragon for Chen Ming’s future Ninth Soul Ring, but Chen Ping reminded him that Chen Ming was still far from Titled Douluo level.
• Chen Ming asked Chen Li and Chen Ping whether his Vajra Dragon Elephant Martial Soul was truly an Extreme Martial Soul, since his cultivation speed had not slowed much after level thirty.

Chen Ming realized that the Vajra Dragon Elephant Martial Soul only approached Extreme Power, while the Golden Bloodline might let it temporarily transform into a higher form. After recovering from a failed attempt to trigger that transformation, he searched the battlefield and found two Soul Bones, though Chen Li and Chen Ping urged him to save the empty positions for stronger ones.

• Chen Ming examined his Soul Power purity and concluded that the Vajra Dragon Elephant Martial Soul was not truly extreme, despite its power and its resemblance to Extreme Attributes.
• Chen Ming tried to awaken an innate ability by combining the Golden Bloodline with his Martial Soul, but the attempt failed and left him weakened; Chen Li and Chen Ping supported him while Jing Hongchen watched.
• Chen Ming recovered after Chen Ping gave him a mild Pill, then explained that his Martial Soul might temporarily transform if he gathered enough Golden Bloodline and dragon blood.
• Chen Ming collected the Dragon Elephant's corpse but found no Soul Bone, then searched the dead Soul Masters and discovered a Thousand Year Head Bone and a Ten Thousand Year Right Leg Bone.
• Chen Li and Chen Ping warned Chen Ming not to absorb the Right Leg Bone and advised him to leave key Soul Bone positions open for stronger bones from future hunts.

Chen Ming and the three Titled Douluo exposed the crimes of the Seven Evils of Star Dou and the Shrek former Soul Sage who had supported them. The witnesses fled after the man summoned the Shrek Inspectorate, while Dai Yueheng rushed off in pursuit and Zhang Lexuan remained with the old man.

• Chen Ming and his companions found evidence of the Seven Evils’ atrocities among their belongings, and Chen Ming decided to expose them.
• Jing Hongchen presented the corpses and evidence in a hunting town, where Soul Masters celebrated the Seven Evils’ deaths and the local Soul Sage confessed to trading supplies with them.
• Jing Hongchen crippled the former Soul Sage’s cultivation and left with Chen Ming, Chen Li, and Chen Ping; the witnesses then surrounded the man and fled when he signaled the Shrek Inspectorate.
• The former Soul Sage attacked the fleeing witnesses, but they escaped after one Soul Master struck him with a Level 3 Soul Cannon Shell.
• Dai Yueheng arrived with the Shrek Inspectorate, kicked away the former Soul Sage, and charged after the witnesses; Zhang Lexuan stayed behind after the old man told her to let him vent.

After Shrek’s cover-up destroyed evidence and Xuan Zi’s suppression made the scandal spread, Mu En forced the Academy to admit fault and apologize. Back in the Sun Moon Empire, Chen Ming spent six months studying his Vajra Dragon Elephant, discovering that it was not truly an Extreme Martial Soul but combined with his exceptional body to surpass ordinary extreme power in combat.

• Zhang Lexuan warned Xuan Zi that Dai Yueheng had gone to kill witnesses, and Xuan Zi’s rush to stop him accidentally crushed the corpses that could have served as evidence.
• Survivors spread accusations about Shrek across the continent, and Xuan Zi’s attempts to silence them only fueled rumors and public resentment.
• Mu En investigated the scandal, captured Xuan Zi, suppressed Shrek’s cover-up efforts, and publicly apologized on behalf of the Academy and himself as the Dragon God Douluo.
• Chen Ming returned to the Dragon Elephant Sect and spent six months researching his Martial Soul, reaching Level 33 and learning that his extreme strength came from the combination of his body and Martial Soul rather than a true Extreme Attribute.
• Chen Ming chose to strengthen his Golden Bloodline instead of gaining two or three Soul Power levels, and he considered the untapped potential of a winged Tyrant Dragon.

Chen Ming returned to the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy after Jing Hongchen summoned him for the All Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition. When classmates challenged his selection for the reserve-team trials, Chen Ming revealed his strength and invited the whole class to fight him.

• Chen Ming asked Chen Li to search across the continent for the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife, hoping its Life Gold could complete his innate ability and strengthen his Martial Soul.
• After receiving Jing Hongchen's letter, Chen Ming ended his secluded cultivation and returned to the academy ahead of the reserve-team selection for the competition in the Dou Ling Empire.
• Chen Ming greeted Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Ji Juechen, and Ju Zi before returning to Mingde Hall.
• When Chen Ming's teacher named him as a candidate for the reserve team, a student questioned why he deserved a place, and many classmates suspected he was a privileged insider.
• Chen Ming requested the Training Ground and displayed his Martial Soul Possession and three Soul Rings, astonishing classmates who remembered him as a Level 16.7 student.
• Chen Ming told Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to move aside, then challenged the entire class to attack him together.

Chen Ming overwhelmed his Sun Moon Empire classmates in an arena challenge, defeating Soul Masters of several types while showing off his defense and self-made combat techniques. He ended the two-minute bout with the Defense System Soul Ancestor Student Niu, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen remained the only classmates he had not challenged.

• An eagle-type Soul Ancestor attacked Chen Ming with a feather tornado, but Chen Ming’s Soul Power defense repelled it, and he forced the student to surrender with a gravity-assisted leap.
• Chen Ming challenged the class to attack together, then used force-generation techniques inspired by the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes to knock out a Soul Ancestor and three Soul Elders.
• The remaining students rushed Chen Ming, and their classmates pressured the reluctant Defense System Soul Ancestor, Student Niu, into joining them.
• Student Niu strengthened his defense with Soul Skills, support abilities, and a Soul Tool, then endured Chen Ming’s first punch and believed he had caught up.
• Chen Ming struck Student Niu again with the Penetration Word Art and knocked him down, ending the arena fight after two minutes.

Chen Ming secured a reserve-team spot after defeating his class, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen won the remaining places and joined the teams in Mingde Hall. After meeting their teammates, the group traveled under Old Wang’s protection to the Dou Ling Empire’s capital for the tournament.

• Chen Ming defeated nearly everyone in his class, and the teacher told him that selection trials might no longer be necessary.
• Jing Hongchen arrived and ordered Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to compete for the remaining two spots; both defeated their challengers at once.
• Jing Hongchen brought Chen Ming, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen to Mingde Hall, where they met the main and reserve selection teams, including Ma Rulong.
• Chen Ming recognized Ma Rulong as the future wielder of the Sword of Judgment and considered taking the weapon if it appeared.
• After a short adjustment period, both teams traveled to the Dou Ling Empire under the protection of the elderly Rank 9 Soul Engineer Old Wang and reached its capital.