Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen became Han Tianyi’s disciple and persuaded him to remain at the Spirit Pagoda while Lin Chen prepared to inherit the Body Sect. He revealed his first soul skill, Genjutsu: Bringer of Darkness, and challenged Gu Yue to test it.

• Lin Chen told Han Tianyi to stay at the Spirit Pagoda until Lin Chen was ready to restore the Body Sect, easing Leng Yaozhu’s concerns.
• Han Tianyi asked Lin Chen to reveal his first soul ring, and Lin Chen showed his three-thousand-year Black-Scaled Horned Dragon soul spirit.
• Lin Chen explained that his first soul skill, Genjutsu: Bringer of Darkness, combined darkness and spiritual attributes and could affect opponents up to two major realms stronger than him.
• Leng Yaozhu offered Gu Yue as a test subject, and Gu Yue challenged Lin Chen’s claim that the skill could affect a true genius.
• Lin Chen learned that Han Tianyi was half Leng Yaozhu’s teacher, called himself Gu Yue’s senior, and challenged her to face his Bringer of Darkness.

Lin Chen and Gu Yue sparred on Leng Yaozhu’s dueling platform, with Gu Yue initially overwhelming him using six elements. Lin Chen then unleashed his soul skill, engulfing the arena and the room in darkness that even Gu Yue’s light element could not penetrate.

• Leng Yaozhu created a dueling platform and declared that Lin Chen and Gu Yue would decide who was senior by their strength.
• Lin Chen and Gu Yue released their martial souls and soul spirits, then Gu Yue attacked first with six elements.
• Gu Yue’s elemental strikes kept Lin Chen at a distance, and the observers expected her to wear him down.
• Lin Chen activated his purple soul ring, and darkness surged from the Heavenly Eye Hand to engulf Gu Yue, Han Tianyi, and Leng Yaozhu.
• Gu Yue summoned spheres of light but still could not see, realizing that Lin Chen’s skill seemed to strip away light itself.

Lin Chen demonstrated his deceptive soul skill by defeating Gu Yue, then explained how it blocked light and misdirected sound. After Han Tianyi praised the ability and discussed Lin Chen’s cultivation, Lin Chen learned about the Spirit Ascension Platform’s Rampage Period and asked his teacher to reserve him a spot.

• Lin Chen used darkness and sound deception to confuse Gu Yue, then knocked her unconscious and carried her to the sofa.
• Han Tianyi and Leng Yaozhu questioned Lin Chen about his soul skill, and he explained how it misdirected opponents’ hearing while obscuring their vision.
• Han Tianyi praised Lin Chen’s soul skill and said he would study Lin Chen’s martial soul to develop a suitable cultivation path.
• Han Tianyi told Lin Chen that his soul spirit had reached its limit and mentioned a Spirit Ascension Platform Rampage Period scheduled for a month later.
• Lin Chen asked Han Tianyi to save him a spot at the Rampage Period so he could broaden his horizons.

Lin Chen left the Spirit Pagoda after clashing with Leng Yaozhu and learned that a golden egg in his small world had hatched ahead of schedule. He hurried to see the hatchling, whose appearance had already settled his bet with Di Tian.

• Lin Chen told Leng Yaozhu that she would win the struggle against the Qiangu Clan, while privately intending to destroy the Spirit Pagoda.
• Han Tianyi defended Lin Chen to Leng Yaozhu and said he wanted to study Lin Chen's martial soul and the special virtual soul beast.
• Di Tian asked Lin Chen whether Gu Yue had discovered him, and Lin Chen explained that she and Bi Ji had come to infiltrate the Spirit Pagoda as hidden-family disciples.
• Lin Chen told Di Tian that the golden egg had hatched after only seven days, and Di Tian confidently predicted it was a Golden-Winged Dragon Boar.
• Lin Chen's soul communication device reported that the egg had hatched into a golden pig with wings.

Lin Chen and Di Tian examined the newly hatched Golden-Winged Dragon Boar, whose bloodline convinced Di Tian that it was his child despite its lack of dragon blood. They discovered it had absorbed the scattered fate of the soul beast race, leaving Di Tian convinced that his son could help restore that fate.

• Lin Chen rushed to the small world's incubation room and found the golden-winged piglet drinking milk.
• Di Tian examined the piglet's bloodline, protested that it had no dragon blood, and demanded a paternity test; Lin Chen confirmed it was his descendant.
• Lin Chen and Di Tian reviewed the nursery footage and saw golden light gather around the egg starting on its third day.
• Di Tian identified the light as the soul beast race's power of fate and explained how that fate had been scattered and lost.
• Lin Chen realized the piglet had absorbed soul beast fate, and Di Tian proudly claimed it as his child of fate.

Lin Chen chose Myriad Demon King as his second contract so he could obtain a spiritual-type soul beast, despite having promised Bear Lord that slot. Bear Lord discovered the change and flew into a rage in the small world, leaving Lin Chen to face his challenge.

• Di Tian urged Lin Chen to take them back to the Spirit Ascension Platform so the Golden-Winged Dragon Boar could absorb enough spiritual energy to reach a hundred thousand years.
• Lin Chen refused to risk using the Spirit Pagoda while his teacher and Leng Yaozhu were watching for Di Tian and his true body.
• Lin Chen told Di Tian he planned to contract Myriad Demon King second and leave Bear Lord for the third slot because he needed a spiritual-type soul beast for his second soul ring.
• Di Tian warned Lin Chen that Bear Lord would not accept the change, and Lin Chen agreed to explain it himself.
• Bear Lord transformed into his enormous true body, accused Lin Chen of breaking his promise, and roared that he refused to accept being third.

Lin Chen’s broken promise to Bear Lord sparked a battle between Bear Lord and Myriad Demon King, while Di Tian contained the fight. As the beasts battled, Lin Chen absorbed a soul ring for his Extraordinary Fertility Contract Book, which gained a new contract slot and a special ability.

• Lin Chen explained that he had to contract Myriad Demon King first, enraging Bear Lord, who challenged Myriad Demon King to a fight.
• Bear Lord and Myriad Demon King transformed and clashed, while Di Tian enclosed them in a barrier to protect the small world.
• Di Tian told Lin Chen that Bear Lord needed to vent his anger and that the battle would decide whether Myriad Demon King earned the contract spot.
• Bear Lord and Myriad Demon King fought for a day and a night without a victor, using Bear Lord’s claws against Myriad Demon King’s spiritual clones and poison.
• Lin Chen absorbed the Black-Winged Dragon Boar’s soul ring, nearly dying but raising his Soul Power to level fifteen.
• The Extraordinary Fertility Contract Book gained a new contract slot and a special ability after absorbing the soul ring.

After Bear Lord and the Myriad Demon King fought over who would become Lin Chen’s second contract, Di Tian stopped their battle and backed Lin Chen’s choice. Lin Chen began contracting the badly injured Myriad Demon King, who hoped the contract would restore his strength and let him raise a clan of his own.

• Lin Chen reviewed the Optimist trait granted by his martial soul, which made soul beasts born through Transcendent Reproduction less susceptible to negative emotions.
• Bear Lord and the Myriad Demon King ended their day-and-night battle gravely injured, and Di Tian stopped their final attacks.
• Bear Lord accused Lin Chen of breaking his promise, while the Myriad Demon King argued that Lin Chen needed his spiritual abilities and that Bear Lord had not won their fight.
• Di Tian explained that Lin Chen needed the Myriad Demon King’s spiritual attribute, and Lin Chen confirmed that the difference between later soul-ring slots would be small.
• Bear Lord left in anger, and Lin Chen summoned the Extraordinary Fertility Contract Book to begin contracting the Myriad Demon King.
• The Myriad Demon King accepted the contract eagerly, hoping it would heal him, strengthen him, and help him establish his own clan.

After contracting with Lin Chen, Myriad Demon King revealed that his Transcendent Reproduction ability let him impregnate animals, plants, and soul beasts by wrapping them in a vine. Lin Chen realized he could use Myriad Demon King to create plant-type and hybrid soul beasts, then began planning how to use his three daily breeding chances.

• Lin Chen completed a contract with Myriad Demon King, whose transformed body gained two golden kidneys.
• Lin Chen invited Myriad Demon King to watch films, but Myriad Demon King explained that plants did not reproduce like animals.
• Myriad Demon King demonstrated a life-filled branch and explained that wrapping it around a female animal, plant, or soul beast could cause pregnancy after at least an hour.
• Myriad Demon King said he could reproduce three times a day, with offspring hatching from eggs after a month, and that animal partners might produce hybrid beings.
• Lin Chen decided Myriad Demon King could produce plant-type and hybrid soul beasts, then planned to allocate his three daily breeding chances among different breeding goals.

Lin Chen arranged for the Myriad Demon King to breed with a Black-Scaled Boar Dragon, a pig, and a pitcher plant, expanding his plans for producing soul-beast descendants. Na'er discovered the entrance to Lin Chen’s unused basement and secretly resolved to investigate him and Di Tian, while Lin Chen’s farming enterprise continued to develop over the following month.

• Lin Chen chose a pitcher plant and a pig to breed with the Myriad Demon King, while selecting a female Black-Scaled Boar Dragon as well.
• The Myriad Demon King used his golden vines to breed with all three, then fell asleep from exhaustion after an hour.
• Di Tian bragged that he could breed far more times, but Lin Chen pointed out that the Myriad Demon King had faced three partners while Di Tian had not.
• Na'er found the entrance to Lin Chen’s basement and decided to curry favor with him while secretly investigating his cooperation with Di Tian.
• Lin Chen’s farming enterprise entered a stable phase, and a month passed while he remained enrolled in school without attending.

Lin Chen inspected the breeding center as Myriad Demon King's descendants began hatching, and tallied the rapid growth of his Soul Beast population and Soul Power. With their spiritual energy supply exhausted, he prepared to enter the Spirit Ascension Platform during its riot period with Di Tian.

• Lin Chen saw a green egg hatch from Myriad Demon King's dying pitcher plant and learned how plant-type Soul Beasts reproduced.
• A purple egg from a sow hatched, while a pregnant Black-Scaled Boar Dragon remained healthy and continued her gestation.
• Lin Chen counted 114 adult dragon-beast descendants and 182 eggs, with five new eggs expected each day.
• Lin Chen calculated that breeding feedback and cultivation had raised his Soul Power to level eighteen.
• Lin Chen decided to begin his agreement with his teacher and take Di Tian into the Spirit Ascension Platform during its riot period to obtain spiritual energy.

Lin Chen left Na'er behind and teamed up with Gu Yue to enter the Spirit Ascension Platform during its dangerous riot period. As they began searching the outskirts, Lin Chen secretly summoned Di Tian, who charged into a forest full of soul beasts.

• Lin Chen refused to take Na'er to the Spirit Ascension Platform, and Na'er resolved to cultivate rapidly until she could no longer be kept at home.
• Lin Chen met Gu Yue outside the Spirit Pagoda, and she agreed to team up with him so they could hunt more efficiently and share spiritual energy.
• Han Tianyi and Leng Yaozhu warned Lin Chen and Gu Yue about the riot period's dangers before they entered the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Lin Chen and Gu Yue arrived in the platform and began searching the outskirts for soul beasts.
• Lin Chen opened a contract space and summoned Di Tian, who took the form of a giant snake and charged toward a forest packed with soul beasts.

Lin Chen and Gu Yue encountered two Soul Elders fighting a thousand-year Netherworld Wolf during the riot period, then clashed with them after one insulted them. Lin Chen’s illusion skill let Gu Yue overwhelm the arrogant Lion Soul Elder, and Lin Chen confronted him as the skill ended.

• Di Tian ignored Lin Chen’s warning to harvest only a limited amount of spiritual energy from the Golden-Winged Dragon Boar.
• Lin Chen and Gu Yue found two Soul Elders battling a thousand-year Netherworld Wolf and initially decided to hunt elsewhere.
• After one Soul Elder told them to leave, Gu Yue attacked the wolf and the burly Lion Soul Elder charged at them.
• Lin Chen used Genjutsu: Bringer of Darkness to mislead the Lion Soul Elder while Gu Yue struck him with elemental arrows.
• Gu Yue battered the Lion Soul Elder until his Soul Power was nearly depleted, and Lin Chen dispelled the illusion and taunted him.

Lin Chen and Gu Yue used his Bringer of Darkness skill and her elemental attacks to hunt soul beasts efficiently in the beginner Spirit Ascension Platform. They met Ouyang Zixin and Mu Xi, agreed to team up, and Lin Chen immediately trapped both women in darkness with his soul skill.

• Lin Chen killed the lion martial soul owner, then helped Gu Yue defeat a thousand-year Netherworld Wolf with Bringer of Darkness.
• Lin Chen and Gu Yue continued hunting together, and Gu Yue's soul spirit Lingxi absorbed spiritual energy from their kills.
• Lin Chen and Gu Yue defeated a Windshadow Leopard and hunted several more soul beasts before reaching the middle of the platform.
• Lin Chen encountered Ouyang Zixin and Mu Xi, proposed dividing their gains according to contribution, and formed a team with them and Gu Yue.
• Lin Chen activated Bringer of Darkness and trapped Ouyang Zixin and Mu Xi in darkness.

Lin Chen’s group hunted Soul Beasts until a mysterious beast tide forced the Spirit Pagoda to end their sessions. The monitoring room traced the crisis to a gigantic Datura Snake, while Gu Yue recognized Di Tian’s aura and wrongly concluded he had been captured and turned into a Soul Spirit.

• Lin Chen dispelled the darkness trapping Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin, demonstrated his power, and insisted on leading the group.
• Di Tian rampaged through the Spirit Ascension Platform, driving Soul Beasts into a growing tide that sent Soul Masters fleeing.
• Lin Chen’s group joined the fleeing crowd, and Lin Chen suspected Di Tian had caused the beast tide.
• Han Tianyi identified a Datura Snake behind the crisis and ordered the Spirit Pagoda Masters to forcibly end everyone’s sessions.
• Gu Yue sensed Di Tian’s aura and vowed to rescue him, believing the Spirit Pagoda had imprisoned him as a Soul Spirit.
• Lin Chen saw footage of the enormous Datura Snake and realized Di Tian’s rampage might destroy the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Lin Chen watched Di Tian slaughter nearly every soul beast in the Junior Spirit Ascension Platform to gather Spiritual Power for the Golden-Winged Dragon Boar. After Di Tian destroyed Han Tianyi’s projection and broke through the platform’s defenses, the Spirit Ascension Platform shattered.

• Lin Chen grew furious as Di Tian harvested the Junior Spirit Ascension Platform’s soul beasts, fearing its destruction would halt the nurturing of his soul beasts.
• Di Tian gathered the Spiritual Power but found the passage to the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform sealed, so he battered the barrier.
• Han Tianyi entered the platform through his administrator permissions and attacked Di Tian, who killed his spiritual projection with a single strike.
• Han Tianyi warned Lin Chen that the Spirit Ascension Platform might collapse if Di Tian broke through its barrier.
• Di Tian shattered the barrier, and the Spirit Ascension Platform broke apart into countless spatial fragments.

After Di Tian destroyed the Eastsea City Spirit Ascension Platform, Lin Chen confronted him over the damage and its impact on the soul beast breeding plan. Di Tian revealed that he had destroyed it to gather what he needed to revive Wang Qiuer, and claimed he had now fulfilled every condition.

• Leng Yaozhu searched the collapsed Spirit Ascension Platform but found no trace of Di Tian and sent Gu Yue and Lin Chen away for the week.
• Gu Yue questioned Lin Chen about the Spirit Ascension Platform riot and tried to visit the Lin Clan Group, but Lin Chen put her off.
• Lin Chen summoned Di Tian in an alley, berated him for destroying the platform, and returned with him to the small world.
• Di Tian explained that he had acted impulsively because he could no longer endure what had happened to the Emperor Auspicious Beast Wang Qiuer.
• Di Tian told Lin Chen that he wanted to revive Wang Qiuer and had fulfilled every condition needed to do so.

Di Tian explained his plan to revive Wang Qiuer using her preserved soul fragment, her original eggshell, Life Gold, and the Golden-Winged Dragon Boar. Lin Chen realized Tang San had likely removed the fragment long ago, and Di Tian said he would make the newborn Auspicious Beast into a new body for Qiuer before summoning the rest of her soul back from Huo Yuhao.

• Di Tian showed Lin Chen the eggshell, golden crystal, and Life Gold, and explained how Wang Qiuer’s sacrifice had prevented another Auspicious Beast from being born.
• Di Tian said Huo Yuhao was no longer in the God Realm and revealed that a hundred-thousand-year Golden-Winged Dragon Boar was essential to his revival plan.
• Di Tian explained that the crystal held a fragment of Wang Qiuer’s soul, which he had preserved after finding it inside her original eggshell.
• Lin Chen concluded that Tang San had removed the fragment from Wang Qiuer’s soul to make room for his daughter’s soul.
• Di Tian said he would fuse Qiuer’s origins and soul with the newborn Auspicious Beast, turn it into a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, and summon the rest of her soul back from Huo Yuhao.

Lin Chen agreed to help Di Tian resurrect Wang Qiuer as a new auspicious beast, while Di Tian asked him to use his superior control to keep her in line. The chapter ended with Di Tian preparing to empower the Golden-Winged Dragon Boar and Lin Chen anticipating his first Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast subordinate.

• Lin Chen understood how Di Tian planned to resurrect Wang Qiuer by combining her legacy with the Golden-Winged Dragon Boar and reconstructing her body with Life Gold.
• Lin Chen questioned whether Huo Yuhao would still control Wang Qiuer, and Di Tian revealed that Lin Chen’s authority over the beast born from his contract surpassed his own.
• Di Tian admitted he was willing to put the soul beast race’s future in Lin Chen’s hands, despite knowing Lin Chen could control its descendants.
• Di Tian asked Lin Chen to ruthlessly control Wang Qiuer and explained that her restored soul would gradually draw itself away from Huo Yuhao.
• Lin Chen agreed to proceed, and Di Tian summoned a million years of spiritual power to transform the Golden-Winged Dragon Boar into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Di Tian transformed the Golden-Winged Dragon Boar into a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast and used Lin Chen to make its body begin taking human form for Wang Qiuer’s remnant soul. When Di Tian fused her soul into the forming body, a tremendous aura shook the small world and spread across Douluo Star, forcing him to flee with Wang Qiuer and Lin Chen to a remote island.

• Di Tian fused Qiuer’s eggshell essence into the Golden-Winged Dragon Boar, changing its appearance toward that of a Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Di Tian erased the Golden-Winged Dragon Boar’s consciousness, then infused it with Life Gold and one million years of spiritual power until it reached the hundred-thousand-year level.
• When Di Tian could not connect to the body, Lin Chen entered its spiritual sea and urged it to take human form through repeated self-hypnosis.
• The Golden-Winged Dragon Boar transformed into a glowing embryo, and Di Tian fused Wang Qiuer’s remnant soul into it.
• Wang Qiuer’s soul triggered an overwhelming aura that shook the small world and swept across Douluo Star, so Di Tian took her and Lin Chen to a remote island.