Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuena became intrigued by Lu Jing and used her overwhelming power to seize him, despite Wang Dong'er’s attempt to stop her. She took Lu Jing through a spatial rift, leaving Wang Dong'er trapped and grieving.

• Gu Yuena wondered why Lu Jing, heir to the God of Destruction, traveled with Snow Empress and had risked himself to awaken the Ice Fire Dragon King Remnant Soul.
• Gu Yuena grabbed Lu Jing from the hillside and pulled him through space to stand before her.
• Wang Dong'er activated her Martial Soul Avatar and Sea God's Light, but Gu Yuena froze her with a glance.
• Gu Yuena told Lu Jing to come with her, opened a Spatial rift, and vanished into it with him.
• Wang Dong'er could only watch Lu Jing disappear and wept in despair.

After Gu Yuena took Lu Jing through a spatial rift, Snow Empress broke through to the seven hundred thousand years realm and freed Wang Dong'er from the spatial confinement. Snow Empress took Wang Dong'er back toward Heaven Dou City, while Qian Renxue followed and the other witnesses were left to wonder what the abduction meant for Douluo Continent.

• Gu Yuena vanished through a spatial rift with Lu Jing, leaving Wang Dong'er frozen in place and devastated.
• Snow Empress broke through to the seven hundred thousand years realm and eventually shattered the spatial confinement around Wang Dong'er.
• Snow Empress caught Wang Dong'er and reassured her that Lu Jing might still be safe, though she could not track where Gu Yuena had taken him.
• Qian Renxue and other powerful figures arrived and questioned Snow Empress about the silver-haired woman and Lu Jing.
• Snow Empress refused to discuss what happened in front of the outsiders and flew toward Heaven Dou City with Wang Dong'er.
• Qian Renxue followed Snow Empress, while Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, Yu Yuanzhen, and the others remained at the devastated Sunset Forest site.

Gu Yuena brought Lu Jing to the hidden space beneath the Lake of Life and questioned his lack of fear. Lu Jing reasoned that she had kept him alive because he might be useful, then identified her as the Silver Dragon King, Senior Gu Yuena, surprising her.

• Lu Jing recognized the isolated space as the bottom of the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Gu Yuena asked why Lu Jing was not afraid after she had taken him to her territory.
• Lu Jing admitted that he feared she could kill him but concluded she would not kill him yet because she wanted something from him.
• Lu Jing suggested she might want information about the Ice Fire Dragon King, his Destruction Inheritance, or his relationship with the Snow Empress.
• Lu Jing addressed Gu Yuena as the Silver Dragon King, Senior Gu Yuena, and her calm expression shifted with surprise.

Gu Yuena interrogated Lu Jing about his secrets and his relationship with the Snow Empress. Lu Jing called the Snow Empress his friend and began explaining that time and shared experiences had made him an exception to her distrust of humans.

• Gu Yuena revealed that she would not kill Lu Jing yet but would not release him until he answered her questions about his identity, the Snow Empress, and his views on Soul Beasts.
• Lu Jing calmly said that he and the Snow Empress were friends who trusted each other and would risk themselves for one another.
• Gu Yuena doubted Lu Jing's claim, arguing that the proud Snow Empress hated human soul masters and would not befriend one.
• Lu Jing lightly rebuked Gu Yuena for interrupting and explained that time and shared experiences had made him an exception.

Lu Jing answered Gu Yuena’s questions about his bond with the Snow Empress, how he learned Gu Yuena’s identity, and how he awakened the Ice Fire Dragon King Remnant Soul. He began explaining his view of the future of humans and soul beasts, warning that both faced decline if nothing changed.

• Lu Jing described how six years of shared travel and danger built trust and friendship between him and the Snow Empress, and Gu Yuena accepted that their bond could be real.
• Lu Jing said he knew Gu Yuena was the Silver Dragon King through information he could not verify, and Gu Yuena accepted his explanation.
• Lu Jing explained that he had used the Destruction Divine Power and his World-Destroying Black Lotus to awaken the Ice Fire Dragon King Remnant Soul during the Snow Empress’s Heavenly Tribulation.
• Lu Jing warned Gu Yuena that soul beasts would face near extinction while humanity’s Soul Master system would weaken if the current course continued.

Gu Yuena asked Lu Jing whether he could stop the Soul Beast Clan’s extinction, but he admitted he had no solution and argued that Soul Masters hunting Soul Beasts followed the world’s rules. His blunt explanation left Gu Yuena shaken by the possibility that the system itself, not just human greed, doomed her people.

• Gu Yuena asked Lu Jing if he knew a way to change the Soul Beast Clan’s fate.
• Lu Jing said he had no permanent solution and explained that Soul Rings and Soul Master advancement were built into the world’s rules.
• Lu Jing challenged Gu Yuena, asking why he should share ideas with a potential enemy and insisting Soul Masters hunting Soul Beasts was natural under those rules.
• Gu Yuena reacted with killing intent and demanded to know how Lu Jing could call the hunt natural.
• Lu Jing argued that the world or the God Realm had established the cycle in which Soul Beasts produced Soul Rings and Soul Masters absorbed them.
• Gu Yuena could not refute him; her anger faded into grief and helplessness as she considered the cruelty of the system itself.

Lu Jing revealed that the Dragon God had voluntarily agreed with the Five Great God Kings to prevent Soul Beasts from ascending to godhood through their own cultivation. Gu Yuena rejected the revelation in shock and rage, while Lu Jing said he had learned the secret from the Destruction God King.

• Lu Jing waited for Gu Yuena to recover, then raised the Dragon God's agreement with the Five Great God Kings after the Ancient God War.
• Gu Yuena said she knew nothing of the agreement and listened as Lu Jing linked it to the Soul Beast Clan's inability to become gods.
• Lu Jing told Gu Yuena that the Dragon God himself had proposed the restriction on Soul Beasts ascending through their own cultivation.
• Gu Yuena staggered, accused Lu Jing of lying, and erupted in grief and anger at the possibility that the Dragon God had betrayed his people.
• Lu Jing said the Destruction God King had revealed the secret when he gave Lu Jing the inheritance mark.

Lu Jing convinced Gu Yuena that the Dragon God, not the Five Great God Kings, had proposed the agreement barring Soul Beasts from becoming gods. Gu Yuena collapsed as she realized the belief that had guided her and Di Tian might have been built on a betrayal by their own ancestor.

• Gu Yuena questioned why the Destruction God King had told Lu Jing about the agreement and whether the claim was a scheme against her and the Soul Beast Clan.
• Lu Jing argued that the God King had no reason to deceive his chosen successor and reasoned that the weakened Soul Beast Clan had not posed enough of a threat to warrant a ban imposed by the gods.
• Lu Jing concluded that the Dragon God had proposed the agreement near the end of the God War, and the Five Great God Kings had accepted it.
• Gu Yuena imagined how the agreement had condemned her people and wondered whether Di Tian's lifelong sacrifices and her own mission had been futile.
• Gu Yuena lost her faith and collapsed to the ground, while Lu Jing waited to see whether she would abandon hope or find a new path.

Snow Empress brought the unconscious Wang Dong'er back to the residence while Lu Jing remained missing after a silver-haired woman took him away. Snow Empress identified the woman as the Soul Beast Co-Lord and revealed that Di Tian, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, served as her spokesperson.

• Snow Empress carried Wang Dong'er into her bedroom, where Xiao Wu found her unconscious and asked what had happened to her and Lu Jing.
• Qian Renxue asked Snow Empress to identify the silver-haired woman who had taken Lu Jing.
• Snow Empress said the woman was likely the Soul Beast Co-Lord, shocking Qian Renxue and Xiao Wu.
• When Xiao Wu questioned how such a Co-Lord could exist without her knowing, Snow Empress said Xiao Wu had not been qualified to meet her.
• Snow Empress explained that Di Tian, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King with cultivation exceeding eight hundred thousand years, was the Co-Lord's spokesperson.

After Lu Jing was taken by the mysterious Co-Lord, Snow Empress left for the Star Dou Great Forest to seek answers from Di Tian, while Qian Renxue and Xiao Wu stayed behind to protect Wang Dong'er. Wang Dong'er awoke and broke down as she recalled watching Lu Jing disappear, leaving Qian Renxue to comfort her.

• Snow Empress told Qian Renxue that Lu Jing was likely not in immediate danger and decided to visit Di Tian in the Star Dou Great Forest for information.
• Snow Empress instructed Qian Renxue and Xiao Wu to stay and guard the injured Wang Dong'er, then flew toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qian Renxue reassured a distraught Xiao Wu that Snow Empress would find a clue and bring Lu Jing back.
• Qian Renxue watched over the unconscious Wang Dong'er until she awoke in a severely weakened state.
• Wang Dong'er clung to Qian Renxue and sobbed that she had seen the silver-haired woman take Lu Jing but had been unable to stop her.

Wang Dong'er grieved over Lu Jing’s disappearance and wanted to search for him, but Qian Renxue made her rest while the Snow Empress went to the Star Dou Great Forest. At the Lake of Life, Lu Jing offered the devastated Gu Yuena a possible lead on how soul beasts might become gods.

• Qian Renxue comforted Wang Dong'er and explained that the Silver Dragon King was a god-level existence beyond their ability to confront.
• Wang Dong'er asked where the Snow Empress had gone, then tried to leave for the Star Dou Great Forest to find Lu Jing.
• Qian Renxue stopped Wang Dong'er and urged her to recover rather than become a burden to the Snow Empress.
• Lu Jing waited as Gu Yuena struggled to accept that the Dragon God had once restricted soul beasts from becoming gods.
• Lu Jing told Gu Yuena that the problem might have traces to follow, and Gu Yuena asked whether he had a way.

Lu Jing told Gu Yuena that changing the God Realm’s restrictions would require someone influential to speak for Soul Beasts, but that lifting the ban alone would not save the clan. He argued that only absolute power could overturn the existing order, leaving Gu Yuena overwhelmed by despair as she remembered the strength she had lost.

• Lu Jing suggested that the Goddesses of Life and Goodness might support revising the restriction on Soul Beasts becoming gods.
• Gu Yuena doubted that anyone in the Soul Beast Clan could persuade the God Kings or find a god willing to speak for them.
• Lu Jing warned that lifting the restriction would not stop Soul Beasts from being hunted or prevent the clan’s decline.
• Gu Yuena asked how the Soul Beast Clan’s plight could truly be changed, and Lu Jing said absolute power was needed to rewrite the world’s rules.
• Gu Yuena fell silent, despairing that she had once possessed great power but had lost it and could not yet regain it.

Snow Empress arrived at the Lake of Life to draw out Di Tian, but the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape attacked her before she could meet him. She subdued both with the life-level pressure of her seven-hundred-thousand-year cultivation.

• Snow Empress reached the Lake of Life and recalled Di Tian’s past attempt to enlist her and Ice Empress.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape emerged and mistook Snow Empress for an intruder.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python fired an azure beam at Snow Empress while the Titan Giant Ape leaped forward and struck at her.
• Snow Empress released her life-level pressure with a glance, stopping both attacks and overpowering the two beasts.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python was forced into the lake, and the Titan Giant Ape crashed to the ground, leaving both unable to move.

Snow Empress confronted Di Tian at the Lake of Life and told him that a silver-haired woman with god-level power had appeared in Sunset Forest and taken Lu Jing. Di Tian reacted with alarm when he learned she might be the awakened Silver Dragon King, leaving him to consider what Snow Empress had witnessed.

• Snow Empress suppressed the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, then called for Di Tian to appear.
• Di Tian emerged from the Lake of Life and asked Snow Empress why she had come to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Snow Empress asked whether the Silver Dragon King had awakened, and Di Tian became wary.
• Snow Empress explained that she had seen a silver-haired woman at Sunset Forest whose power exceeded level 99 and who recognized the Ice Fire Dragon King's will.
• Snow Empress recounted how Lu Jing awakened the Ice Fire Dragon King Remnant Soul, survived the Heavenly Punishment, and was taken away by the silver-haired woman.
• Di Tian reacted with shock and concern upon hearing that Lord had taken Lu Jing.

Snow Empress warned Di Tian that Lu Jing and Wang Dong'er were successors to powerful gods, making the Silver Dragon King's actions a danger to the Soul Beast Clan. After insisting she had come as Lu Jing's friend, she waited by the Lake of Life while Di Tian left to contact the Silver Dragon King.

• Di Tian told Snow Empress that neither of them could control Lu Jing's fate after the Silver Dragon King took him.
• Snow Empress revealed that Lu Jing was the God of Destruction's successor and Wang Dong'er was the Sea God's successor, warning that the God Realm might intervene.
• Di Tian suspected Snow Empress was threatening him with the God Realm, but Snow Empress said she was stating a danger and would prioritize Lu Jing's life.
• Snow Empress urged Di Tian to contact the Silver Dragon King quickly and explained that she had come as Lu Jing's friend, not as a Soul Beast emperor.
• Di Tian vanished to confirm what had happened and address the danger, while Snow Empress waited for his answer and news of Lu Jing.

Gu Yuena asked Lu Jing, the Inheritor of Destruction, to advocate for abolishing the God Realm’s ban on Soul Beasts becoming gods. Lu Jing refused to treat his concern for the Snow Empress or humanity as a reason to help the Soul Beast Clan, leaving Gu Yuena to find something valuable enough to offer him.

• Gu Yuena recognized Lu Jing as the Inheritor of the God of Destruction and asked him to argue for the Soul Beast Clan at the God King Conference.
• Lu Jing explained that he could help the Snow Empress become a god through simpler means, so her fate alone would not justify challenging the Soul Beast prohibition.
• Gu Yuena asked what the Soul Beast Clan could offer in exchange for Lu Jing’s support.
• Gu Yuena argued that the loss of Soul Beasts would harm future Soul Masters, but Lu Jing said their fate did not concern him and that he acted according to his own interests.

Lu Jing rejected Gu Yuena’s appeals and insisted that she offer something valuable if she wanted his help. After Snow Empress arrived with news that the God Realm might be contacted, Gu Yuena released Lu Jing, who left her a possible path to approach him again; Snow Empress then waited tensely by the Lake of Life.

• Lu Jing told Gu Yuena that appeals to racial duty would not persuade him and that he cared only about those close to him.
• Di Tian reported that Snow Empress had arrived with information about contacting the God Realm over Gu Yuena’s capture of Lu Jing and the risk her whereabouts had been exposed.
• Lu Jing promised not to reveal Gu Yuena’s location and asked her to let him go, and Gu Yuena removed the spatial barrier.
• Lu Jing left after telling Gu Yuena to find him again if she could offer something worth his speaking for her before a God King.
• Snow Empress waited by the Lake of Life as Di Tian stood nearby, growing increasingly impatient.

Lu Jing emerged safely from the Lake of Life and returned to Heaven Dou City with Snow Empress, who admitted her gratitude for his saving her. They arrived at their residence near dawn, where Wang Dong'er rushed out to meet them.

• Lu Jing emerged from the whirlpool and reunited with Snow Empress at the lake.
• Lu Jing teased Snow Empress about coming to find him, then hugged her and thanked her for saving him.
• Snow Empress thanked Lu Jing for awakening the Dragon King Remnant Soul and helping her overcome her bottleneck.
• Lu Jing and Snow Empress flew toward Heaven Dou City, leaving Di Tian, the Sky Azure Bull Python, and the Titan Giant Ape bewildered at the Lake of Life.
• Lu Jing and Snow Empress landed in their residence's courtyard, and Wang Dong'er rushed out of her bedroom, overjoyed to see them.

Lu Jing returned safely, and Wang Dong'er found relief in his embrace as dawn broke. Elsewhere, the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena, emerged from the Life Space and gazed toward Heaven Dou City.

• Wang Dong'er saw Lu Jing in the courtyard and ran barefoot into his arms, weeping with relief.
• Lu Jing held Wang Dong'er and gently reassured her that he had returned safely.
• Snow Empress, Qian Renxue, and Xiao Wu quietly watched the reunion, then left the pair undisturbed.
• The Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena, emerged from the Life Space beside Lake of Life and looked toward Heaven Dou City.

Gu Yuena considered forming a risky alliance with Lu Jing to help the Soul Beast Clan escape its worsening plight. She ordered Di Tian to secretly investigate Lu Jing and find out what might persuade him to cooperate.

• Gu Yuena asked Di Tian whether Lu Jing could be a potential ally in seeking to lift the God Realm's ban on soul beasts becoming gods.
• Di Tian warned that Lu Jing's Destruction inheritance made cooperation dangerous and could expose the Soul Beast Clan's plans.
• Gu Yuena argued that the Soul Beast Clan needed a variable to break its deadlock and that Lu Jing might become an ally or remain neutral.
• Di Tian asked what the Soul Beast Clan could offer Lu Jing, and Gu Yuena concluded they needed to discover what he truly valued.
• Gu Yuena ordered Di Tian to discreetly investigate Lu Jing's background, experiences, and desires without alerting him or Snow Empress.