Ch. 268Soul Contract, Cold on the Outside, Calculating Within

Lin Chen learned that Ya Li could transfer faith through a contract, but an ordinary contract required their strengths to match. Ya Li offered a permanent soul contract instead, and Lin Chen demanded that she sign it as his servant.

  • Lin Chen questioned Ya Li about her faith-transfer ability, and she explained that her Wish Angel martial soul let her transfer faith through contracts without loss.
  • Ya Li explained that an ordinary contract required comparable Soul Power, martial soul quality, and spiritual strength, so Lin Chen was currently too weak to sign one with her.
  • Ya Li revealed that a soul contract could carry faith through their soul origins regardless of cultivation, but it would permanently bind their lives and expose them to each other's injuries.
  • Lin Chen pressed Ya Li about wanting a child, and she admitted that she did.
  • Lin Chen ordered Ya Li to sign a soul contract as his servant and trusted that his Extraordinary Fertility Contract Book would prevent her from altering it.

Ch. 269Ya Li Lost, Completely Enslaved

Lin Chen and Ya Li formed a soul contract, but Ya Li tried to reverse it and make Lin Chen her servant. Lin Chen used the Extraordinary Fertility Contract Book to stop her, leaving Ya Li bound to him under an irreversible one-way contract.

  • Ya Li burned her divine soul origin to form a contract rune, and Lin Chen offered his soul origin to complete it.
  • As the contract took shape, Ya Li froze Lin Chen and secretly altered the rules so she would become his master.
  • Lin Chen activated the Extraordinary Fertility Contract Book, suppressed Ya Li, and restored the contract to its original terms.
  • The contract made Lin Chen Ya Li’s sole master and severed any possibility of backlash against him.
  • Lin Chen returned Ya Li’s soul to her body, and she collapsed in despair as he confronted her over her betrayal.

Ch. 270Immortal Herb Group Arrives, Things Have Been Too Weird Lately

Lin Chen used the completed master-servant contract to control Ya Li and ordered her to gather faith while he dismissed her. Meanwhile, Infernal Delicate Apricot and the other Immortal Herbs arrived at a Star Luo harbor, where Tang Sect’s missing contacts and a military inspection left them furious and confused.

  • Lin Chen summoned Myriad Demon King, Bear Lord, and Scarlet King, who said he treated them like family rather than slaves.
  • Lin Chen activated the contract, bound Ya Li’s soul, and told her she was now his slave and could not die without his permission.
  • Lin Chen ordered Ya Li to treat disaster victims and gather faith, then sent her away from her room.
  • More than twenty black-robed figures from Tang Sect disembarked at a Star Luo harbor and were placed under military surveillance.
  • Infernal Delicate Apricot complained that their journey had delayed them for a week and that no Tang Sect contact had appeared.
  • An Immortal Herb subordinate told Infernal Delicate Apricot that the situation on Douluo Continent had been strange lately.

Ch. 271Enci Makes a Move, Enci Gets Instantly Defeated

The Immortal Herb Group attacked Enci’s forces at a Star Luo port and then headed toward Lin Chen’s coordinates to seize Little Seven and a segment of Black Jade Divine Bamboo. After Dai Yun’er mistook them for Tang Sect revenge forces and begged Lin Chen to help, he agreed in exchange for a hundred years of tax exemption for his autonomous city.

  • The Infernal Delicate Apricot led the Immortal Herb Group through a secret route to a Star Luo port, where Enci confronted them.
  • The Immortal Herb ancestors overwhelmed Enci and the Star Luo forces, shattering Enci’s four-word battle armor and leaving him severely injured.
  • The Infernal Delicate Apricot ordered the group to fly to the coordinates, retrieve Little Seven, and seize the segment of Black Jade Divine Bamboo.
  • Dai Yun’er called Lin Chen and pleaded for help, mistakenly believing the attackers were Tang Sect experts seeking revenge.
  • Lin Chen recognized that the attackers were the Immortal Herb Group and agreed to intervene if the Star Luo Royal Family exempted his autonomous city from taxes for a hundred years.

Ch. 272Bear Lord: Are They Here to Give Us an Extra Meal?

Lin Chen prepared to face the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s powerful immortal herb faction after agreeing to protect the Star Luo Federation in exchange for tax exemption. The ancestors and their allies arrived, and Lin Chen’s forces stood ready for battle as Bear Lord taunted them and the Seven-Horned Mysterious Ice Grass was silenced with a single blow.

  • Dai Yun'er reported her bargain with Lin Chen, and Dai Tianning praised her for securing the empire’s safety at the cost of one city’s tax revenue.
  • Lin Chen waited at his base until six quasi-god ancestors and a host of powerful immortal herbs arrived from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
  • Lin Chen summoned Bear Lord, the Myriad Demon King, and Scarlet King, while Ya Li prepared to support them with her healing and faith-powered abilities.
  • The Seven-Horned Mysterious Ice Grass emerged from Lin Chen’s storage Soul Tool and boasted that its ancestors would avenge it.
  • Bear Lord struck the Seven-Horned Mysterious Ice Grass, cracking its body and silencing it before it could finish accusing Lin Chen.

Ch. 273Enemy? No, Food? Yes!

Lin Chen’s group overwhelmed Infernal Delicate Apricot and the other immortal herbs with Ya Li’s support and Myriad Demon King and Scarlet King’s flame domains. Bear Lord fought Infernal Delicate Apricot while the other herbs struggled to resist, and the battle ended with Bear Lord suppressing the physically fragile herbs as Lin Chen’s group continued their attempt to capture them.

  • Lin Chen ordered his group to defeat the immortal herbs, and Ya Li shielded Bear Lord, Myriad Demon King, and Scarlet King with her Holy Light Domain.
  • Myriad Demon King and Scarlet King engulfed the battlefield in scorching flame domains that weakened the immortal herbs and blocked their attacks.
  • Bear Lord charged Infernal Delicate Apricot, withstood her ultimate fire and fire poison, and gained the upper hand in their fight.
  • The other ancestral immortal herbs tried to reach Myriad Demon King and Scarlet King, but their attacks burned away in the flames.
  • Bear Lord unleashed Gravity Suppression and Sky-Sundering Claw, quickly suppressing the physically fragile immortal herbs.

Ch. 274Lord Seven-Horned Is Badass

Lin Chen captured the immortal herbs of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and brought them to Dragon Valley, where he discovered they could summon Tang Hao through spiritual marks. To keep them from being used to track or attack him, he planned to transform them into the Myriad Demon King’s descendants.

  • Bear Lord knocked out the Black Jade Divine Bamboo ancestor, and the Myriad Demon King and Scarlet King subdued the remaining immortal herbs.
  • Lin Chen sealed the herbs in a Soul Tool, rushed to Dragon Valley, and sent Dai Yun'er a message about the successful operation.
  • The immortal herbs woke beside Little Cai, and Seven-Horned Mysterious Ice Grass revealed that their ancestors had contacted a god through spiritual marks.
  • The Myriad Demon King discovered marks tied to the Asura Sword and Clear Sky Hammer, leading Lin Chen to expect Tang Hao to come for the herbs.
  • Lin Chen decided to use the Myriad Demon King's extraordinary creature contract to turn the immortal herbs into new descendants and erase their former marks.

Ch. 275Calling in People to Process Corpses—Ahem, Immortal Herbs

Lin Chen planned how to harvest the immortal herbs, soul bones, and soul rings in Dragon Valley without wasting the ferocious beasts’ enormous energy. He summoned more than fifty Spirit Pagoda masters, including Leng Yulai, to help turn the soul rings into soul spirits and gather their spiritual power.

  • Lin Chen assessed the immortal herbs, inner cores, soul bones, and soul rings in Dragon Valley and considered how to use the ferocious beast soul rings.
  • Lin Chen realized he could convert the soul rings into soul spirits and collect their spiritual power as they vanished.
  • Lin Chen ordered Zero Realm to summon high-level Spirit Pagoda masters from the small world and bring Leng Yulai from the Lin Clan Group’s underground secret chamber.
  • Zero Realm transported more than fifty people from Vast Sea City to Dragon Valley in about an hour.
  • The Spirit Pagoda masters lined up to await Lin Chen’s orders, while Leng Yulai showed her excitement at seeing him.

Ch. 276Myriad Demon King Overate, the Nine Hundred Thousand Year Lightning Tribulation

Lin Chen ordered Leng Yulai and the others to turn Dragon Valley’s ferocious beasts into soul spirits, while the Myriad Demon King absorbed their spiritual power and the immortal herbs’ energy. The Myriad Demon King reached nine hundred thousand years of cultivation and triggered a terrifying heavenly tribulation, leaving Lin Chen to face the danger.

  • Leng Yulai rushed into Lin Chen’s arms, clashed with Ya Li, and learned that Lin Chen had brought her out of prison to work for him.
  • Lin Chen ordered Leng Yulai to make soul spirits and directed the fifty assembled workers to build a laboratory and convert Dragon Valley’s ferocious beasts as quickly as possible.
  • The workers made soul spirits from the ferocious beasts, while the Myriad Demon King absorbed their spiritual power and consumed the beasts’ remains to create soul beast embryos.
  • After devouring the immortal herbs’ remaining power, the Myriad Demon King reached nine hundred thousand years of cultivation and triggered his second heavenly tribulation in half a month.
  • A massive lightning tribulation gathered over Dragon Valley, and Lin Chen watched it with narrowed eyes and no sign of fear.

Ch. 277Di Tian: Is It My Turn to Show Off?

The Myriad Demon King faced a devastating nine-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, but Di Tian awakened after completing his bloodline transformation and intervened. Di Tian’s newly strengthened body shrugged off the lightning as he charged into the thunderclouds to fight the tribulation directly.

  • The Myriad Demon King prepared to endure his tribulation while Ya Li supported him with soul skills and summoned angels.
  • The first three lightning strikes shattered the Myriad Demon King’s defenses and left him severely injured, while Ya Li’s angels were destroyed.
  • Lin Chen prepared to use the Extraordinary Fertility Contract Book, but Di Tian appeared and blocked the next lightning strike.
  • Di Tian revealed that his bloodline transformation had raised his cultivation to the peak of nine hundred and ninety thousand years, and the Myriad Demon King explained that he had consumed dozens of ancient immortal herbs.
  • Di Tian smashed apart the lightning with his claws, absorbed its power, and charged into the thunderclouds as the tribulation intensified.

Ch. 278Di Tian: I'm So Strong It's Scary—Time to Get Breeding

Di Tian purified his bloodline, survived a devastating tribulation, and helped Myriad Demon King reach the ninety-thousand-year level. Lin Chen continued building Dragon Valley into a breeding and cultivation base as Di Tian prepared to resume breeding.

  • Di Tian used the Dragon God's Heart to raise his bloodline rank, then endured all nine bolts of his ninety-thousand-year tribulation and the doubled fourteen bolts that followed.
  • Xiao Cai restored Dragon Valley's shattered space, while Myriad Demon King healed from his wounds and stabilized at the ninety-thousand-year level.
  • Leng Yulai recognized Di Tian and Myriad Demon King, and Lin Chen told Di Tian to catch up on recent events before returning to breeding.
  • Lin Chen described how Dragon Valley's Dragon Blood Pool accelerated soul beast gestation and hatching, and how it could help Body Sect members awaken their martial souls again.

Ch. 279Multi-Headed Genes, Here Comes the Nine-Headed Serpent

Lin Chen reviewed the new bloodline traits and breeding potential of his contracted beasts, then inventoried his recent harvest of soul bones, soul spirits, and immortal herb materials. He split Infernal Delicate Apricot’s powerful inner core and gave half to Leng Yulai, intending to use it immediately.

  • Bear Lord’s descendants displayed Golden Behemoth traits, while Scarlet King’s offspring inherited multiple heads and elemental abilities, including increasingly many heads across generations.
  • Lin Chen judged Bear Lord’s bloodline to be the best foundation for breeding diverse soul beasts, while Myriad Demon King had become an all-purpose body with nearly every element.
  • Lin Chen planned to accelerate and breed the immortal herbs gestating in Dragon Valley after they hatched.
  • Lin Chen stored his soul bones and immortal herb materials, kept the soul spirits in others’ care, and selected Infernal Delicate Apricot’s six-hundred-and-eighty-thousand-year inner core.
  • Lin Chen split the inner core in half and gave one piece to Leng Yulai, explaining that he intended to use it immediately.

Ch. 280Leng Yulai: I Understand, You Want Both Sisters

Lin Chen gave Leng Yulai half an Infernal Delicate Apricot's inner core and left Dragon Valley with Ya Li, while the continent's powers moved to seize Shrek's and Tang Sect's assets. Tang Hao awoke to find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well stripped of its immortal herbs and Tang Sect besieged, then learned what had happened.

  • Lin Chen gave Leng Yulai half of the Infernal Delicate Apricot's inner core and said he would give the other half to her sister, Leng Yaozhu.
  • Lin Chen left Dragon Valley with Ya Li after instructing the person in charge of the small world.
  • The Spirit Pagoda took nearly half of Shrek's industries, while the Qiangu Clan grew richer.
  • The Federation and allied powers branded Tang Sect traitors and prepared to divide up its assets after Tang Sect refused to surrender.
  • Tang Hao awoke, found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well stripped of its immortal herbs, and discovered the continent's powers besieging Tang Sect.
  • Tang Hao secretly read the gathered souls' memories through their soul communicators and learned about recent events.

Ch. 281Tang Hao: What Did Tang Sect Do Wrong? Is Taking One's Own Things Theft?

Tang Hao considered Tang Sect’s collapse unjustified and resolved to protect his son’s legacy, despite the limits placed on his power as Lord of the Plane. He traveled to the hidden God Soul Village, where he surveyed the powerful community he and Tang San had cultivated as a means of influencing Douluo Continent.

  • Tang Hao judged Tang Sect’s pursuers to be the greater offenders and decided it was time to set matters right, while acknowledging that the plane’s laws restricted his direct intervention.
  • Tang Hao used an anchor point to teleport to the isolated Hundred-Thousand Mountains and passed through the Heaven-Sealing Formation he had created with Tang San.
  • Tang Hao observed God Soul Village, a hidden settlement of eight hundred residents whose weakest cultivators were Soul Sages and whose hunters included Title Douluos.
  • Tang Hao reflected that he and Tang San had gathered exceptional bloodlines in the village, supplied them with divine resources, and raised generations of orthodox soul masters who hunted soul beasts for soul rings.

Ch. 282Tang Hao: Yun Ming Ruined a Max-Level Account—What a Useless Fool

Tang Hao explained how he controlled the Douluo Continent by raising and deploying geniuses from God Soul Village to preserve the Tang Sect and Shrek’s dominance. After judging Yun Ming’s failures and Shrek’s collapse, he sent another force to restore the academy, leaving both institutions backed by equal strength.

  • Tang Hao revealed that he had gathered soul beasts in the Hundred Thousand Mountains and used God Soul Village’s imprinted geniuses to influence the continent and maintain the Tang Sect and Shrek’s power.
  • Tang Hao said he had sent Halos, Zang Xin, and Cao Dezhi from God Soul Village to serve his plans, though Halos had become an evil soul master.
  • Tang Hao dispatched two quasi-gods and four Limit Douluo to reinforce the Tang Sect after it urgently needed powerful experts.
  • Tang Hao blamed Yun Ming for mishandling his schemes and lamented Shrek Academy’s losses, including its three crippled quasi-gods.
  • Tang Hao issued a second divine decree, sending two quasi-gods and four Limit Douluo to Shrek Academy so it would receive the same protection as the Tang Sect.

Ch. 283The Great Ten-Thousand-Year Plan—My Son Has World-Shaking Wisdom

Tang Hao completed his arrangements to secure the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and returned to refining the plane origin, confident in his son’s plan and Tang Wulin’s future. As Tang Sect’s barrier fell under an allied assault, powerful reinforcements from God Soul Village arrived and revealed that Tang Sect and Shrek still had two quasi-gods and several Limit Douluo.

  • Tang Hao sent transformed plant-type soul beasts to guard the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, checked on his wife at Shrek Academy, and returned to the plane will space to sleep and refine the plane origin.
  • Super Jack mobilized God Soul Village after receiving Tang Hao’s decree and sent its strongest experts through a passage to Tang Sect.
  • The War God Hall, Spirit Pagoda, and Federation bombarded Tang Sect until its defensive matrix cracked, while Qian Gu Dongfeng and the Federation’s representative argued over who would lead the assault.
  • Tang Zhen, Yu Wuhen, Zhao Ding, Jian Wuqing, and other reinforcements appeared above Tang Sect and revealed their formidable strength, including two quasi-gods and multiple Limit Douluo.
  • Tang Sect’s members knelt before the arriving seniors, pleaded that they had been wronged, and asked them to deliver justice.

Ch. 284Things Are Getting Hairy—the Continent Has Changed Again

Tang Zhen and Yu Wuhen led the Tang Sect’s attack against the allied army, overpowering Qian Gu Dongfeng and Chen Xinjie in battle. The two leaders decided to retreat rather than risk their lives against the Tang Sect’s newly revealed strength.

  • Tang Zhen and Yu Wuhen charged into the allied formation, smashing its defenses while Jian Wuqing and Zhao Ding watched from the air.
  • Qian Gu Dongfeng and Chen Xinjie finally entered the fight, with Tang Zhen confronting Qian Gu Dongfeng and Yu Wuhen facing Chen Xinjie.
  • Tang Zhen shattered Qian Gu Dongfeng’s defenses and injured him with a barrage of Clear Sky Hammer strikes.
  • Yu Wuhen used his lightning to overwhelm Chen Xinjie, turning the seawater from Chen Xinjie’s Sea God martial soul against him.
  • Qian Gu Dongfeng and Chen Xinjie judged that continuing the battle could cost them their lives and ordered a retreat.

Ch. 285Coming Home, Coming Home, Adorable Na'er

Tang Zhen forced the Federation to back down after the attack on Tang Sect headquarters, and the Federation cleared Tang Sect’s name while joining a massive hunt for Chen Lin. Unaware of the bounty, Lin Chen returned home after a month away, where Na’er hid her anger and tried to resume her innocent persona.

  • Qian Gu Dongfeng and Chen Xinjie covered the Spirit Pagoda and War God Hall’s retreat, and Tang Zhen let the remaining Federation forces go after warning them to relay Tang Sect’s message.
  • The Federation’s media outlets deleted Tang Sect’s criminal records and recast its alleged military smuggling as the sale of everyday supplies.
  • Tang Sect and other Federation powers announced a three-billion-credit bounty on Chen Lin, prompting teams across Douluo Star to search for him.
  • Lin Chen returned to the Lin Clan Group after resting in Dragon Valley and found Na’er waiting for him, upset that he had disappeared for a month.
  • Lin Chen teased Na’er about dropping her usual act, and she quickly resumed calling him Brother Lin Chen before he went to check on the group.
  • After Lin Chen left, Na’er blamed soul-guide television plotlines for nearly exposing her plan and decided to block them.

Ch. 286Gu Yue's Message and Shorting the Spirit Pagoda

After a month away, Lin Chen explained his absence to Gu Yue and learned that the Spirit Pagoda and Qiangu Clan were preparing to sell mass-produced Super Blue Silver Grass. He uncovered their costly cultivation scheme and ordered his followers to buy up every Spirit Pagoda soul spirit, setting up a strike against the clan’s plans.

  • Lin Chen answered Gu Yue’s flood of missed calls and claimed he had spent the month training with the Body Sect.
  • Gu Yue said the Qiangu Clan planned to sell mass-produced Super Blue Silver Grass next month, using seeds from the mother plant they had taken from Lin Chen.
  • Lin Chen asked A Lan to report on the Spirit Pagoda’s cultivation efforts and learned they were balancing God-Sealing Platform energy with pure soul spirits to conceal the plants’ evil traits.
  • Lin Chen concluded that the Qiangu Clan had invested its reserves in the scheme and ordered his followers to purchase every circulating and privately hoarded Spirit Pagoda soul spirit, offering up to double the market price.

Ch. 287Leng Yaozhu Acting Cute

Lin Chen ordered a covert campaign to buy up the Spirit Pagoda’s soul spirits, then visited Leng Yaozhu and gave her half of Infernal Delicate Apricot’s inner core. Leng Yaozhu absorbed it under his watch, and her Sky Phoenix Martial Soul began a powerful transformation before its flames suddenly faded.

  • Lin Chen ordered his people to use legitimate and underground channels to buy most of the Spirit Pagoda’s soul spirits over the next month.
  • Lin Chen visited Leng Yaozhu after a month away and gave her half of Infernal Delicate Apricot’s inner core.
  • Leng Yaozhu insisted that Lin Chen stay and watch over her while she absorbed the inner core.
  • Leng Yaozhu refined its fire-attribute power into her Sky Phoenix Martial Soul, strengthening it and doubling the power of her soul skills.
  • The flames and heat in the room abruptly vanished, and Leng Yaozhu’s phoenix began to dissipate.
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