Chapter Summaries

During the group’s long run, Dai Mubai rescued Zhu Zhuqing after she stumbled, but she rejected his concern and condemned his behavior. Dai Mubai blamed Tang San for revealing his private purchase of cultivation resources and turned his hostility toward him.

• After nearly two hours of running, Zhu Zhuqing stumbled while carrying the rabbit, and Dai Mubai rushed over to catch her.
• Ning Rongrong fell while distracted, and Li Xiaoyao used his Spatial Teleportation Spirit Bone to catch her and carry her.
• Zhu Zhuqing shook off Dai Mubai and told him to stay away, criticizing his playboy reputation and his failure to buy her cultivation resources.
• Dai Mubai suspected Tang San had told Zhu Zhuqing about his purchase at the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Hotel and had driven a wedge between them.
• Tang San noticed Dai Mubai's hostile stare, slowed to a stop, and wondered what he had done to offend him.

Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing argued over his failure to buy her cultivation resources, while Dai Mubai wrongly suspected Tang San of exposing the matter. Zhu Zhuqing walked away, and Dai Mubai challenged Ma Hongjun to a spar.

• Zhu Zhuqing confronted Dai Mubai about abandoning her and refusing to spend money on her cultivation resources.
• Dai Mubai defended his choice to buy one resource first and accused someone of driving a wedge between them, glaring at Tang San.
• Tang San took Dai Mubai’s suspicion as a hostile insult, while Li Xiaoyao advised Oscar to keep a low profile until he had strength.
• Zhu Zhuqing rejected Dai Mubai’s explanations and left, saying she would earn what she needed herself.
• Ma Hongjun mocked Dai Mubai over his lack of money, and Dai Mubai challenged him to a spar.

Dai Mubai beat Ma Hongjun after Ma Hongjun provoked him, and Zhao Wuji ended the argument before the group resumed its journey. After traveling nearly five hundred kilometers, they reached the town near the Star Dou Great Forest at dusk, where Zhao Wuji decided they would rest until morning.

• Dai Mubai caught Ma Hongjun as he tried to flee and beat him using his three Soul Skills until Oscar gave them Recovery Sausages.
• Zhao Wuji scolded Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ma Hongjun, then ordered the group to continue after their one-hour rest.
• Li Xiaoyao and Ning Rongrong led the group onward while Dai Mubai followed at the rear and watched Zhu Zhuqing.
• Li Xiaoyao carried the exhausted Ning Rongrong, while Tang San carried Xiao Wu as the group traveled nearly five hundred kilometers to the town outside the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhao Wuji praised Li Xiaoyao's stamina, resolved to train Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun harder, and told everyone to rest before entering the forest the next day.

Li Xiaoyao, Ning Rongrong, and Zhao Wuji took the exhausted Shrek group to the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Hotel, where Li Xiaoyao treated everyone to dinner. Ma Hongjun’s rude eating drew Zhao Wuji’s scolding, and he froze when he tried to take food from Li Xiaoyao and Ning Rongrong.

• Zhao Wuji suggested that the group stay at a nearby hotel until morning because entering the Star Dou Great Forest so late was dangerous.
• Li Xiaoyao proposed the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Hotel, and Zhao Wuji admitted he could not afford its expensive dishes.
• Li Xiaoyao offered to pay, thanking Dai Mubai for his hospitality, and Zhao Wuji gladly accepted the invitation.
• The group reached the hotel and ordered a large meal, where Ma Hongjun ate greedily and earned Zhao Wuji’s reprimand.
• Ma Hongjun tried to snatch the crystal crab from Li Xiaoyao and Ning Rongrong, but Li Xiaoyao’s calm, imposing gaze left him unable to move.

Li Xiaoyao uncovered the Blazing Heaven Earth Cover’s memories and discovered it was actually the Phoenix Universe Cover, a fallen Phoenix God King’s inheritance with Fire Attribute power incompatible with his Time Element. He forced the artifact to recognize him as its master and gained access to some of its divine power, though the God King’s divine trials remained unavailable.

• Ma Hongjun tried to get more food, but Zhao Wuji scolded him into sitting quietly and eating.
• Ning Rongrong told Li Xiaoyao she was going shopping with Zhu Zhuqing, then left the hotel with her.
• Li Xiaoyao used Chronos’s The Tenth Bullet (Yud) to read the Blazing Heaven Earth Cover’s memories and learned it held the Phoenix God King’s inheritance.
• Li Xiaoyao used his Time God Power to bind the Phoenix Universe Cover despite its scorching Fire Attribute power.
• The cover accepted Li Xiaoyao, formed a phoenix-wing mark on his forehead, repaired his meridians, and let him draw on some of its divine power.

Li Xiaoyao concealed the destruction caused when the Phoenix Universe Cover recognized him, then moved to a new room and told Ning Rongrong that a Fire Phoenix had accidentally burned the hotel floor. Ning Rongrong realized she might be dating someone from a Deity family and began to feel unworthy of him.

• Li Xiaoyao found the top floor burned by the Fire Attribute divine power and left to arrange another room, relieved that his domain had concealed the incident.
• Manager Ning arranged a new luxurious room for Li Xiaoyao without holding him responsible for the damage.
• Li Xiaoyao considered using the Phoenix Universe Cover's power during his trip to the Star Dou Great Forest and eliminating Tang Hao and the Titan Giant Ape.
• Ning Rongrong hurried in to check that Li Xiaoyao was safe, and he reassured her before explaining that a Fire Phoenix sent by his family had caused the fire.
• Ning Rongrong realized the Fire Phoenix might be a Deity and worried that her background was too modest for Li Xiaoyao's supposed Deity family.

Li Xiaoyao comforted Ning Rongrong about their different backgrounds, and the two shared an intimate night together. Meanwhile, Ma Hongjun forgot his sudden heart palpitations after spotting students from another academy and deliberately provoked two of them, setting off a fight.

• Li Xiaoyao reassured Ning Rongrong that she was irreplaceable to him and teased her about having more children.
• Ning Rongrong expressed her happiness at meeting Li Xiaoyao, then shared an intimate evening with him.
• Ma Hongjun felt unexplained heart palpitations in a Star Dou Town tavern, but dismissed them when a team from Blue Sunshine Academy entered.
• Ma Hongjun leered at a female student, while Dai Mubai made disrespectful remarks and Tang San warned Ma Hongjun not to cause trouble.
• Ma Hongjun knocked the food and drinks from the hands of two passing students, who summoned their Soul Rings and charged at him.

Li Xiaoyao comforted Ning Rongrong over her insecurity about his supposed background, and the two grew closer. At a tavern in Star Dou Town, Ma Hongjun spotted students from Canghui Academy and started a fight with them.

• Li Xiaoyao reassured Ning Rongrong that she was irreplaceable to him, and she responded affectionately.
• Ning Rongrong performed a private dance for Li Xiaoyao, and they spent the night together.
• Ma Hongjun felt a sudden pain in his heart at a tavern in Star Dou Town, but forgot about it when a Soul Master Academy team arrived.
• Oscar identified the newcomers as students and a teacher from Blue Sunshine Academy, while Tang San warned Ma Hongjun not to cause trouble.
• Ma Hongjun knocked food and wine from the hands of two Canghui Academy students, who summoned their Soul Rings and charged at him.

Li Xiaoyao and Ning Rongrong went ahead into the Star Dou Great Forest, where she absorbed a five-thousand-year soul ring and reached level thirty-five. He carried her back to the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Hotel, where she invited him to bathe with her and massage her shoulders.

• Li Xiaoyao and Ning Rongrong separated from Zhao Wuji's group and entered the Star Dou Great Forest to find Ning Rongrong's Third Soul Ring.
• Li Xiaoyao warned Ning Rongrong that the five-thousand-year soul beast she chose might be too powerful, but she insisted she could endure it with his safeguards and the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Li Xiaoyao wounded the soul beast with his Flintlock Pistol, and Ning Rongrong delivered the final blow before absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Ning Rongrong completed the absorption, reached level thirty-five, and found that her Third Soul Skill boosted Soul Power by thirty percent and provided some recovery.
• Li Xiaoyao carried the exhausted Ning Rongrong back to the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Hotel and prepared a hot bath for her.
• Ning Rongrong asked Li Xiaoyao to bathe with her and massage her shoulders, and he agreed.

Li Xiaoyao met with his Past and Future selves, who reported on their preparations to ambush Tang San and the Shrek group in the Star Dou Great Forest. He destroyed the Blue Silver Emperor and assigned his selves to help kill Xiao Wu, seize her Soul Ring and soul bone, and take Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances.

• After Ning Rongrong fell asleep, Li Xiaoyao went to the balcony and met his Past and Future selves.
• Past reported that he had found the dying Blue Silver Emperor in the cave behind the waterfall, but not Ah Yin’s Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone.
• Future reported that Tang San and the Shrek group would encounter the Titan Giant Ape the next morning, after he had guided it toward them using Xiao Wu’s aura.
• Li Xiaoyao used Domain: City of Eating Time to destroy the Blue Silver Emperor, leaving no trace.
• Li Xiaoyao assigned Future to watch Tang Hao and the Titan Giant Ape, Past to target Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances, and himself to watch Xiao Wu; he also planned to kill Ma Hongjun.

Li Xiaoyao sent Past and Future to carry out a covert plan while he used Simulation to make Ma Hongjun appear to have peak Titled Douluo-level Soul Power. The Titan Giant Ape attacked Ma Hongjun, and Zhao Wuji rushed to block its fist.

• Li Xiaoyao ordered Future to watch Tang Hao and the Titan Giant Ape and told Past to steal Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances without revealing him.
• The Titan Giant Ape appeared before Tang San’s group and ignored Zhao Wuji’s offer to withdraw.
• Li Xiaoyao used his Angel head soul bone’s Simulation skill to give Ma Hongjun a powerful Soul Power aura.
• The Titan Giant Ape mistook Ma Hongjun for a threat, charged at him, and raised its fist to strike.
• Zhao Wuji activated his Martial Soul Avatar and charged forward to block the Titan Giant Ape’s attack.

Li Xiaoyao used his simulated peak Douluo aura to provoke the Titan Giant Ape into attacking Tang San, after Ma Hongjun was killed and Zhao Wuji was badly injured. Tang Hao arrived to rescue Tang San, then led the Titan Giant Ape deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving the group unconscious.

• Zhao Wuji activated his Martial Soul Avatar to block the Titan Giant Ape, but the beast broke his arm and knocked him unconscious.
• Ma Hongjun froze in terror and was killed by the Titan Giant Ape's punch.
• Li Xiaoyao simulated a peak Douluo aura around Tang San, drawing the enraged Titan Giant Ape toward him.
• Tang San attacked the Titan Giant Ape with hidden weapons, but they failed to harm it, and Xiao Wu pleaded with Er Ming to stop.
• Tang Hao struck the Titan Giant Ape with the Clear Sky Hammer, knocking everyone nearby unconscious, then lured the beast away into the forest.
• Zhao Wuji recognized Tang Hao's familiar aura and identified him as His Highness Clear Sky.

Li Xiaoyao took the unconscious Xiao Wu to a secluded valley, killed her, destroyed her soul, and absorbed her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. He reached the Soul Sage level, and Xiao Wu’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone appeared beside her corpse.

• Li Xiaoyao used Fourth Bullet to reverse Tang San’s time and ordered Past and Future to carry out their plan while he took Xiao Wu away.
• Li Xiaoyao killed Xiao Wu and used the City of Eating Time to extract her remaining life energy.
• Xiao Wu’s confused soul entered Li Xiaoyao’s sea of consciousness, where he shattered and destroyed it.
• Li Xiaoyao absorbed Xiao Wu’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring as his seventh Soul Ring and reached the Soul Sage level.
• A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone emerged beside Xiao Wu’s corpse.

Li Xiaoyao claimed Xiao Wu’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and destroyed her corpse so completely that even the Asura God could not revive her. Meanwhile, Future watched Tang Hao and the Titan Giant Ape battle fiercely, with both fighters wounded and neither yet victorious.

• Li Xiaoyao reached level seventy-three after absorbing Xiao Wu’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and examined the Soul Bone she had dropped.
• Li Xiaoyao decided to give the Hundred Thousand Year Soft Bone Rabbit Right Arm Soul Bone to Ning Rongrong, then took it and put it away.
• Li Xiaoyao used Shadow Manipulation and the City of Eating Time to annihilate Xiao Wu’s corpse before heading for the valley exit to await news from Past and Future.
• Future watched as Tang Hao used the Clear Sky Nine Absolute Techniques and Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer to wound and drive back the Titan Giant Ape.
• The Titan Giant Ape clawed Tang Hao’s shoulder, and Tang Hao retaliated with Heaven-Piercing Strike, leaving both combatants injured after their clash.

Li Xiaoyao appeared beside Future to watch Tang Hao and the Titan Giant Ape battle, warning him not to provoke the Silver Dragon King. Tang Hao unleashed the Great Sumeru Hammer, and the clash left both fighters gravely injured but alive.

• Future sensed a spatial ripple, raised his Flintlock Pistol, and lowered it when Li Xiaoyao appeared.
• Li Xiaoyao asked Future about the battle and warned him to avoid drawing the Silver Dragon King out of the Lake of Life.
• Future assured Li Xiaoyao that he would stick to the known course of events and leave after dealing with Tang Hao and the Titan Giant Ape.
• Tang Hao used the Great Sumeru Hammer—Nine Rings Return as One, channeling the power of all nine Soul Rings into a massive hammer phantom.
• The Titan Giant Ape met Tang Hao's attack with both fists, and their collision sent a shockwave through the forest.
• The clash tore open Tang Hao's old injuries and shattered bones in the Titan Giant Ape, leaving both badly wounded but not fatally injured.

Li Xiaoyao rejected the Eight Spider Lances and decided to alter the known future by targeting Tang San, hoping to force the Asura God to reveal his rule-breaking. Past and Future warned him that provoking the Asura God could ruin their plans, but Li Xiaoyao believed the risk could create an opening for the God of Destruction.

• Past returned with the unabsorbed Eight Spider Lances and suggested Li Xiaoyao absorb them, but Future dismissed them in favor of the Angel Soul Bone Set and stronger angel abilities.
• Li Xiaoyao took the Eight Spider Lances, said they did not suit him, and put them away for later.
• Seeing Tang Hao and the Titan Giant Ape badly wounded, Li Xiaoyao prepared to close in and said he had a plan.
• Future and Past urged Li Xiaoyao not to kill Tang San, warning that it could attract the Asura God and noting Tang Chen's future intervention to protect Tang San.
• Li Xiaoyao said he would change the future by sparing Tang Hao and the Titan Giant Ape from their known fate while using Tang San to draw out the Asura God.
• Li Xiaoyao argued that if the Asura God intervened to protect Tang San, his actions could be exposed and give the God of Destruction an opportunity.

Li Xiaoyao convinced Past and Future to lure out the Asura God by attacking Tang San, trusting Chronos to undo any disastrous outcome. He launched Divine Skill: Phoenix Descent at Tang San, Tang Hao, and the Titan Giant Ape, and the chapter ended as its flames engulfed them.

• Li Xiaoyao argued that the Asura God could be punished by the God of Destruction if he intervened to save Tang San, leaving the trio decades to grow stronger.
• Past and Future agreed to attack while Tang San, Tang Hao, and the Titan Giant Ape were vulnerable, believing Chronos could rewind time if anything went wrong.
• Li Xiaoyao teleported a compact sphere of Phoenix God Power in front of Tang Hao and the Titan Giant Ape, then he, Past, and Future escaped beyond its range.
• Tang Hao and the Titan Giant Ape fled as the sphere erupted, while Tang San also tried to escape using the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• The Phoenix flames swept across the Star Dou Great Forest and engulfed Tang San, Tang Hao, and the Titan Giant Ape.

Phoenix God Power killed Tang Hao and the Titan Giant Ape, but Asura divine power saved Tang San from the blast. Li Xiaoyao sent Past and Future to recover the remains while hiding their identities from the Asura God.

• The Phoenix God Power explosion incinerated the Titan Giant Ape, leaving its Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone intact.
• Asura divine power teleported Tang San away, but Tang Hao was too close to escape and burned to ash, leaving his Soul Bones and the Blue Silver Emperor's Soul Bone behind.
• Tang San reached a safe distance and stared in horror at the flames and crater where Tang Hao and the Titan Giant Ape had died.
• Future explained that the Asura God had saved Tang San but failed to rescue Tang Hao, and Past noted that Tang San had been brought to the continent by the Asura God.
• Li Xiaoyao ordered Past and Future to collect the Soul Bones and seal the Titan Giant Ape's Soul Ring, while using disguises as Bibi Dong and a Fire God successor.
• Past and Future activated their disguises and hurried toward the crater while Li Xiaoyao stayed behind at a safe distance.

Past and Future collected Tang Hao’s Soul Bones and the Titan Giant Ape’s Soul Ring, but Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena caught them in the act. After exposing their disguises, Gu Yuena blocked their attempt to escape with spatial power.

• Past and Future arrived at the crater disguised as Rakshasa God and Fire God inheritors, then secretly collected Tang Hao’s Soul Bones and the Titan Giant Ape’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Future spotted someone watching from the forest and fired at the shadow, but a silver barrier stopped the bullet.
• Gu Yuena emerged and identified the divine power disguising Past and Future, while Li Xiaoyao recognized her through their shared vision.
• Gu Yuena said she would take the name Gu Yuena after sensing an old acquaintance nearby and crushing the Asura God’s divine sense fragment inside Tang Hao.
• Past and Future tried to flee with their Angel Soul Bone teleportation skill, but Gu Yuena sealed the surrounding space and left them unable to escape.

Gu Yuena saw through Past and Future’s disguises, identified them as manifestations of Li Xiaoyao’s Time Authority, and sealed Li Xiaoyao’s power before dragging him across thousands of miles. The chapter left Li Xiaoyao and both of his temporal selves in Gu Yuena’s grasp.

• Gu Yuena restrained Past and Future with Space Power and shattered their Phoenix God disguises.
• Gu Yuena recognized Past and Future as the Phoenix God inheritor’s past and future selves and deduced that Li Xiaoyao was nearby.
• Li Xiaoyao tried to use Chronos to rewind time, but Gu Yuena sealed his Time God Power.
• Gu Yuena opened a Space Rift, seized Li Xiaoyao, and dragged him thousands of miles to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Gu Yuena identified Li Xiaoyao as the Phoenix God inheritor and wielder of Time Authority.