Chapter Summaries

Jerry and Xiao Wu reached the Star Dou Great Forest, where Er Ming came to meet them and carried them to the Core Region. The chapter ended with Jerry arriving at Xiao Wu’s home by the lake, still shaken by the journey.

• Jerry and Xiao Wu entered the Star Dou Great Forest after several days of travel.
• Xiao Wu said Er Ming had sensed her return and would meet them at the forest’s edge.
• Er Ming appeared with a thunderous landing, and Xiao Wu introduced Jerry as her brother from the human world.
• Er Ming picked up Jerry and Xiao Wu and leaped with them toward the Core Region.
• Er Ming set them down beside a quiet lake, where Jerry collapsed from fear and numb legs.

Xiao Wu introduced Jerry to Da Ming and explained that a Titled Douluo had discovered her identity and intended to take her Soul Ring and Soul Bone. Da Ming agreed to let Jerry stay after Xiao Wu vouched for him, but warned him not to reveal his Soul Beast fertilizer cultivation method.

• Xiao Wu called Da Ming out of the lake, and his immense size frightened Jerry.
• Xiao Wu introduced Jerry and explained that he had cared for her and helped her cultivate with his Carrot Martial Soul.
• Jerry told Da Ming that a Titled Douluo had discovered Xiao Wu's Humanoid Transformation and planned to attack her for his son.
• Xiao Wu said she and Jerry had returned to cultivate in the forest, and explained that Jerry used Soul Beast fertilizer to speed up cultivation.
• Da Ming threatened to kill Jerry if he spread the cultivation method, and Jerry promised to keep it secret.

Jerry, Xiao Wu, and Er Ming settled beside a lake, building a wooden house and planting crops as they prepared to live self-sufficiently. After eating a Gale Wolf, Jerry used its bones as fertilizer for the crops and his Martial Soul, explaining how Soul Beast remains could support cultivation.

• Jerry and Xiao Wu worked with the Titan Giant Ape to build a flat-roofed wooden house beside the lake.
• Jerry and Er Ming cleared a plot and planted vegetable and grain seeds, while Jerry explained how Soul Power and fertilizer affected plant growth.
• Er Ming brought back a hundred-year Gale Wolf, which Jerry, Xiao Wu, and Er Ming ate.
• Jerry ground the wolf's bones into bone meal, buried some in the garden, and planted his Martial Soul over the rest.
• Er Ming asked about Jerry's method, and Jerry explained that Soul Beast meat and bones contained Soul Power and that bone meal could fertilize plants.

Jerry explored Er Ming's burial ground and found Soul Beast bones, rare plants, and the belongings of dead Soul Masters. He and Xiao Wu gathered materials and Space Equipment, then Jerry prepared to return and begin his experiments.

• Er Ming took Jerry and Xiao Wu to a valley where he had discarded the bones of Soul Beasts he had eaten.
• Jerry found ancient plants, including a ten-thousand-year-old Ghost Vine, growing among the bones, as well as human skeletons left by dead Soul Masters.
• Jerry discovered valuable belongings among the remains, including Storage Equipment and leather-bound books, while many stored items had decayed over time.
• Jerry gave Xiao Wu a ten-cubic-meter Storage Ring and a twenty-cubic-meter Storage Bracelet, and kept the fifty-cubic-meter ring for himself.
• Jerry collected thousand-year and ten-thousand-year Soul Beast bones and prepared to return to conduct his experiments.

After returning to the cabin, Jerry studied several rare manuals and discovered how much the Advanced Meditation Method could improve cultivation. He and Xiao Wu began practicing it, and Jerry resolved to train more diligently while considering how the other techniques might help him.

• Jerry examined five books, including the Advanced Meditation Method, Mind Control Technique, and Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon Body Refining Technique.
• Jerry learned that the Advanced Meditation Method taught Soul Power circulation and improved cultivation efficiency by around sixty percent.
• Jerry had Xiao Wu switch to the Advanced Meditation Method, greatly increasing their cultivation speeds.
• Jerry studied Mind Control Technique, learned its first realm was the Three Orifice Heart of Control, and decided to practice it diligently.
• Jerry found that the Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon body-tempering methods relied on dragon transformation or lightning and were not readily usable by him.

Jerry studied books on Soul Beasts and medicinal herbs, then decided to cultivate healing, detoxifying, and Soul Power-restoring Plant Type Soul Beasts to help their kind and humanity. Da Ming summoned powerful Soul Beasts to the Core Region, where they gathered and stared at Jerry despite his human form.

• Jerry read the Compendium of Soul Beast Knowledge and recalled his hostile encounters with Master, who had mocked his Innate Half-Level Soul Power.
• Jerry studied the Basic Medicinal Herb Illustrated Guide and decided to develop useful Plant Type Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Jerry summoned Da Ming, Er Ming, and Xiao Wu and told them about his plan to cultivate healing, detoxifying, and Soul Power-restoring herbs.
• Da Ming roared and summoned Soul Beasts from across the forest, causing humans nearby to flee toward the outskirts.
• Powerful Soul Beasts gathered in the Core Region and fixed their scarlet eyes on Jerry, held back by Da Ming and Er Ming's pressure.

Da Ming rallied the Soul Beasts to help Jerry cultivate Healing, Detoxification, and Soul Power Recovery Plant Type Soul Beasts. Jerry recruited 130 ape Soul Beasts to plant a large batch of Thousand Year plants, and he assigned the apes to keep tending the fields.

• Da Ming introduced Jerry to the gathered beasts and ordered them to protect him and help develop Soul Beasts.
• The beasts gathered medicinal herbs and bones, while Jerry asked Er Ming to find Humanoid Soul Beasts to help with planting.
• Jerry learned how Soul Beasts advanced from one thousand years and prepared to use Thousand Year bones as fertilizer.
• Jerry taught the 130 apes to crush bones, dig pits, and plant the herbs five meters apart; Er Ming crushed a pile of bones with his fists and feet.
• The White Fur Water apes watered the fields with their skills, and Jerry assigned them to continue watering while the other apes kept planting.

Jerry developed the Core Region’s healing plants and had Er Ming order the Man Faced Demon Spiders exterminated, accidentally wiping them out across the forest. He found an External Soul Bone among their corpses but could not absorb it without a soul ring.

• Jerry’s cultivated plants reached the thousand-year level, attracting injured Soul Beasts and prompting them to reinforce the area and move in.
• Jerry told Er Ming to kill the Man Faced Demon Spiders near the forest’s edge and bring back their bodies.
• Er Ming passed along the order carelessly, and Soul Beasts killed more than sixty Man Faced Demon Spiders across the forest in a day.
• Jerry realized the spiders’ extinction had removed a threat to Xiao Wu and prevented Tang San from obtaining their Eight Spider Lances.
• Jerry found an External Soul Bone inside a thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider, but discovered he could not absorb it without a soul ring.

Jerry discovered that his martial soul could absorb the soul power and Spiritual Power in ruined soul bones, and he cultivated for four months until his Soul Power Level reached at least 40. He woke to find his martial soul had evolved into a child-shaped form and raised his Innate Soul Power to around level eight.

• Er Ming told Jerry that soul bones had been collected and thrown into the Lake of Life, but Da Ming retrieved only seven or eight that had rotted away.
• Jerry buried the ruined soul bones beneath his martial soul, whose roots pierced them and absorbed their soul power and original Spiritual Power.
• Jerry cultivated for four months while Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming left him undisturbed, then woke severely weakened from going without food or water.
• Jerry ate roasted meat prepared by Xiao Wu and checked his cultivation, finding that his Soul Power Level had reached 40 or higher.
• Jerry summoned his evolved martial soul, which had become child-shaped, and sensed that his Innate Soul Power had risen to around level eight.

Jerry’s First Soul Ring evolved to roughly eight thousand years, his Spiritual Power reached a six-hundred-meter range, and he reached Level 40. After seeing the thriving soul-beast settlement, he began planning his Fourth Soul Ring around new attributes for his Martial Soul.

• Jerry’s First Soul Ring absorbed excess soul power, becoming purple and strengthening its cultivation and recovery boosts; he renamed its soul skills Light of Recovery, Light of Healing, and Light of Instant Recovery.
• Jerry released his Spiritual Power and saw everything within six hundred meters, then learned that he had reached Level 40 while Xiao Wu was Level 37.
• Jerry and Xiao Wu visited the planting area, where Plant Type Soul Beasts had begun breaking through to ten thousand years and helping other soul beasts recover.
• Jerry decided to seek a non-plant soul beast for his Fourth Soul Ring and considered adding Lightning, Water, Defense, or Space attributes to his Martial Soul.

Jerry gathered special attribute plants and chose Electric Light Grass for lightning-based body tempering, then planted the finds with Ten Thousand Year Bone Powder. He considered the growing shortage of fertilizer and decided to seek ways to improve soul beasts’ cultivation environments and the soul power around them.

• Jerry asked the forest’s soul beasts to find attribute plants, and they returned with several varieties, including Electric Light Grass and a spiritual plant.
• Jerry sorted the plants by attribute and chose the lightning attribute for body tempering, leaving water attribute plants for later.
• Jerry planted the gathered plants and fertilized them with Ten Thousand Year Bone Powder.
• Jerry reflected that Ten Thousand Year Bone Powder was becoming scarce and that Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast droppings were hard to obtain.
• Jerry decided to improve animal soul beasts’ mimicry environments and increase the Soul Power Concentration in the air, since he could not provide them with standardized Meditation Methods.

Jerry gathered the Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts and explained a plan to speed their cultivation by raising soul power levels and creating attribute-based mimicry grounds. He left them with instructions to make fertilizer, relocate by attribute, and establish guarded borders and waterways across the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Jerry asked Da Ming to summon the Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts to the Core Region, where Da Ming translated his speech for those who did not understand human language.
• Jerry explained how Plant Type Soul Beasts enriched the air with soul power and proposed cultivating more of them throughout the forest.
• Jerry taught the soul beasts to replenish soil soul power with bone, fecal, and plant-leaf fertilizers, prompting them to prepare to try the methods.
• Jerry announced plans for ten attribute-based Mimicry Training Grounds and instructed the soul beasts to relocate according to his map and dig canals where needed.
• Jerry ordered Poison Attribute soul beasts and Blood Sucking Vine Plants to guard the Ten Thousand Year Region's borders, leaving one guarded entrance per region for Thousand Year Soul Beasts to use once they reached ten thousand years.

Jerry reorganized the Star Dou Great Forest and improved its plant cultivation while human Soul Masters panicked over coordinated Soul Beast attacks. He discovered that Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts rarely reproduced and ordered them to have more offspring, with the forest tasked with protecting them.

• Jerry explained his plan, and Soul Beasts gathered and relocated Attribute Plants and Soul Beasts to their corresponding regions before moving the animal Soul Beasts.
• Soul Beasts in the Ten Thousand Year Region began coordinating attacks on Human Soul Masters, prompting the Two Great Empires, Spirit Hall, and sects to meet and send troops and investigators to the forest.
• After a month, the Soul Beasts had not left the forest, but investigating sect disciples suffered devastating losses, and Spirit Hall lost two Titled Douluo.
• Jerry led the Soul Beasts in digging canals, transplanting plants, and making fertilizer, then discovered that plant cuttings could take root and absorb Soul Power.
• Jerry investigated why there were few Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts and concluded that weak bloodlines and scarce reproduction were major causes.
• Jerry ordered Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts to have more offspring and arranged protection for those who had given birth; he rejected using Estrus Grass to force reproduction.

Jerry spent a year strengthening his cultivation and the forest, but his bond with Electric Light Grass ended in its sacrifice to give him a powerful Fourth Soul Ring. He planted the seed Electric Light Grass left behind and planned to expand his cultivation efforts through the Thousand Year Region.

• Jerry advanced Heart Separation Control to the Five Orifice Heart of Dispersion, improved his close-combat skills, and cultivated his Attribute Plants, including Electric Light Grass to twenty thousand years.
• Xiao Wu reached level 40 and gained a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, prompting Jerry to complain to Electric Light Grass about her showing off.
• Electric Light Grass sacrificed its Soul Ring to Jerry, leaving behind a seed, and Jerry absorbed it as his Fourth Soul Ring.
• Jerry rose to Level 48 and gained Lightning Flash, an attack that fired a paralyzing bolt of lightning, then planted Electric Light Grass's seed in a flowerpot.
• The Ten Thousand Year Region and Core Region filled with powerful Plant Soul Beasts, and rising Soul Power made the forest more dangerous as plant consciousnesses helped detect intruders.
• Jerry planned to increase the cultivation years of plants in the Ten Thousand Year Region and extend that work into the Thousand Year Region with help from Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts.

Jerry refined his Lightning Body Tempering method to strengthen specific parts of his body while avoiding damage to his brain and organs. Da Ming then asked him to help a Sacred Light Unicorn prepare for the Thunder Tribulation that awaited it at 100,000 years of cultivation, and Jerry agreed to try.

• Jerry began Lightning Body Tempering but found that shocking his entire body caused severe pain, so he used Healing Soul Skills to recover.
• Jerry adjusted his method to temper his muscles, skin, bones, and bone marrow separately, then healed himself and noticed a slight increase in body strength.
• Jerry explained the method to Xiao Wu, but she could not endure the lightning; Da Ming and Er Ming were too large for Jerry to temper with his available Soul Power.
• Da Ming explained that Soul Beasts faced Thunder Tribulations at each 100,000-year threshold and that many died rather than undergo Humanoid Transformation.
• Da Ming asked Jerry to help a 99999-year-old Sacred Light Unicorn withstand its coming Thunder Tribulation, and Jerry said they could try.

Jerry built a vast field of lightning rods to gather tribulation lightning and create a cultivation ground for Lightning-Attribute Soul Beasts. He then invited the Sacred Light Unicorn, whose cultivation suppression was failing, to test the new refuge.

• Jerry had a Vajra Iron-Eating Ant shape iron ore into lightning rods and made weapons, cookware, and a staff for Er Ming.
• Jerry and Er Ming planted ten rods in a circle and tested them with lightning, which the rods drew into the ground for nearby Lightning-Attribute Plant Soul Beasts to absorb.
• Jerry had more rods planted throughout the Lightning Area, and the Soul Beasts helped until the area was densely covered a week later.
• Jerry met the Sacred Light Unicorn and learned that increased Soul Power Concentration had shortened the time it could suppress its cultivation from over a hundred years to only a few years.
• The Sacred Light Unicorn agreed to be the first to try Jerry's lightning refuge, hoping its success would encourage other Soul Beasts to attempt their breakthroughs.

Jerry helped the Sacred Light Unicorn pass its Hundred Thousand Year thunder tribulation by using lightning rods to divert the strike into the ground. Nine more Soul Beasts followed, leaving the Star Dou Great Forest’s scouts and the major factions alarmed by ten tribulations in one day.

• The Sacred Light Unicorn refused Humanoid Transformation and survived its thunder tribulation when Jerry’s lightning rods redirected the strike into the ground.
• Lightning Attribute plants absorbed the diverted energy, with more than a dozen becoming Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts.
• The Sacred Light Unicorn thanked Jerry and promised to help him, while Da Ming organized the other Soul Beasts’ turns at the Tribulation Crossing Ground.
• Nine more Soul Beasts passed their tribulations, bringing the total to ten Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts born in one day.
• Scouts outside the Star Dou Great Forest reported the repeated tribulations, prompting panic among the major factions.
• Lightning Attribute plants throughout the area absorbed the remaining energy and rapidly advanced in cultivation, with some reaching Sixty Thousand Years.

After the Lightning Attribute Area’s Soul Power surged, Jerry discovered that ordinary plants could evolve attributes by absorbing enough Attribute Soul Power and set the forest to work spreading that process to every region. With the Soul Beasts’ regions developing, Jerry prepared an experiment using ores that he hoped could change the entire continent.

• Ten Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were born in one day, freeing other Soul Beasts from suppressing their cultivation to avoid lightning tribulations.
• The Lightning Attribute Area’s Soul Power Concentration rose to about twenty times its original level, while other regions lagged behind and sent representatives to the Core Region for help.
• Jerry realized that ordinary plants could gain attributes by absorbing large amounts of Attribute Soul Power.
• Jerry told representatives from each region to mine local attribute ores and bring them to the Core Region, where Soul Beasts buried them beneath ordinary plants.
• Jerry planned to turn every region into an extreme environment and began preparing an experiment with ores of every attribute.

Jerry experimented with growing his Martial Soul in the Water Attribute-rich Lake of Life, hoping to make it absorb Water Attribute Soul Power and gain a new attribute. He confirmed that its roots could absorb Water Attribute Soul Power and decided to continue cultivating it in the water.

• Jerry reasoned that his Martial Soul could acquire additional attributes without losing its original Wood Attribute, as plants gained attributes by absorbing Soul Power.
• Jerry realized that Mimicry Cultivation worked by increasing the concentration of a particular Attribute Soul Power and considered using Water Element to strengthen his Martial Soul.
• Jerry recalled hydroponics and wondered whether his Martial Soul could grow in water instead of soil.
• Jerry immersed his Martial Soul's roots in the Lake of Life, where it gradually adapted and absorbed Soul Power from the water faster and faster.
• Jerry used his Spiritual Power to confirm that the roots absorbed Water Attribute Soul Power and chose to continue the experiment.

Jerry examined his Wood Attribute Martial Soul and discovered a Soul Power Seed that absorbed matching Soul Power from the environment. He began directing all absorbed Soul Power into the seed to improve its quality, accepting that the change would take time.

• Jerry decided to research a Self-Created Soul Skill after confirming his Martial Soul had Wood and Lightning Attributes.
• Jerry used his Spiritual Power to discover and name the Soul Power Seed inside his Martial Soul.
• Jerry theorized that the seed's quality determined Innate Soul Power and that matching-attribute Soul Rings strengthened it.
• Jerry realized his plant Martial Soul could absorb Soul Power from air, soil, and water, making seed cultivation faster.
• Jerry controlled the Soul Power Seed to stop sending Soul Power into his body and sensed it beginning to change.