Chapter Summaries

Jerry established Spirit Hall’s Teleportation Array plans and arranged to open a Soul Engineer class, while the new Spiritual Power requirement sparked widespread testing and complaints. The chapter ended with Golden Crocodile Douluo’s grandsons deciding they were better off relying on their tough Martial Souls than cultivating Spiritual Power.

• Jerry built a concealed cave and Teleportation Array on Sea God Island, then returned to Spirit City and presented his plans to the Great Elder.
• Jerry received unanimous approval to build Teleportation Arrays in major cities’ Spirit Halls, with the arrays initially reserved for transporting supplies.
• Jerry announced that people with Spiritual Power of at least 1,000 could study Soul Tool crafting and proposed a Soul Engineer class taught by Chrysanthemum Douluo and Elder Ghost.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo agreed to teach after Jerry pointed out that visiting Titled Douluo would have to address him as a teacher.
• Spirit City residents discussed the new class and Spiritual Power tests, where over thirty thousand people tested and only three reached the required level.
• Elder Jin E scolded his grandsons for their low Spiritual Power, but the three later decided their family’s defensive strength made Spiritual Power cultivation unnecessary.

Xue Beng struggled with Heaven Dou Empire’s inability to match Spirit Hall and considered abandoning the throne. In Star Luo Empire, Zhu Zhuqing attacked the imperial palace to punish Dai Weisi, Zhu Zhuyun, and the clansmen who had hunted her, leaving her forces poised to fight the Elder Council.

• Xue Beng complained that Heaven Dou Empire could neither infiltrate Spirit Hall nor compete with its influence, and Prince Xue Xing explained that Spirit Hall’s points system and benefits had weakened their leverage.
• Xue Beng learned that Xue Ye was enjoying life in Spirit City and that Xue Ke had joined Spirit Hall Soul Master Academy, then considered passing the throne to Prince Xue Xing.
• A spy reported that Zhu Zhuqing had arrived in Star Luo Empire with twelve Titled Douluo, destroyed the Zhu Clan, and was heading for the Imperial Palace.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun confronted Zhu Zhuqing, who accused them of breaking the rules and pursuing her when she was younger.
• Zhu Zhuqing ordered her forces to attack the Elder Council’s people and kill anyone who stood in their way.

Zhu Zhuqing suppressed the Star Luo Empire’s Elder Council, seized the throne, and transformed the empire with Spirit Hall’s support. As her rule won popular approval, Heaven Dou’s leaders worried that the Star Luo Empire’s rapid growth would leave them vulnerable.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters suppressed the Elder Council, and Zhu Zhuqing rejected Dai Weisi’s claim that the empire depended on him.
• Zhu Zhuqing took the imperial throne, invoked the ancestral decree, and had guards kill ministers who challenged her claim.
• Zhu Zhuqing imprisoned the Elder Council, confiscated its estates, abolished noble titles, and established a cabinet staffed by twelve Titled Douluo.
• Spirit Hall sent personnel to help implement Zhu Zhuqing’s reforms, improving ordinary people’s lives and earning her the name Iron-Blooded Empress as she gained Power of Faith.
• Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing discussed the Star Luo Empire’s growing strength, its border troop movements, and the need for Heaven Dou to adopt reforms.

Zhu Zhuqing and the others discussed their duties before Jerry learned that Yu Xiaogang had reached Level 30 and evolved his Martial Soul into the Golden Sacred Dragon. Jerry brought Xiao Wu to meet him, and their reunion left Yu Xiaogang confronting how wrong his old judgments about talent had been.

• Zhu Zhuqing said the empire’s cabinet left her little to handle day to day, while Jerry explained that its system freed her to focus on cultivation and other interests.
• Jerry assigned Lingling to heal people at the plaza and told Ning Rongrong and Ren Xue to reach Spirit Sage before taking on duties.
• A guard reported that Yu Xiaogang had reached Level 30 and exchanged for an 8,000-year Soul Ring, and Jerry realized the Cultivation Tower had helped his Martial Soul evolve.
• Yu Xiaogang absorbed an Explosive Earth Dragon Soul Ring and saw his Martial Soul become the Golden Sacred Dragon, improving his health and appearance.
• Jerry and Xiao Wu met Yu Xiaogang at Jerry’s estate, where they recalled his past advice that Jerry should give up cultivating.
• Yu Xiaogang admitted that he had overvalued talent and said that diligence could make up for shortcomings.

Jerry discussed Yu Xiaogang’s incomplete cultivation theories and revealed conclusions about Martial Souls, but Yu Xiaogang refused to hear more. Jerry’s attempt to undermine him backfired, and Jerry turned to accelerating his plans before Bibi Dong emerged while noting that Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan had run short of points.

• Jerry explained to Yu Xiaogang how cultivating beyond a Soul Master’s limit slowed progress and why body-strength training could help make up for that delay.
• Jerry told Yu Xiaogang that Martial Souls could come from sources beyond parents, that equal Martial Souls could produce Twin Martial Souls, and that powerful bloodlines could create Soul Rings.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped Jerry from revealing more, saying the conclusions would unsettle him and explaining that Spirit Hall’s new methods had harmed some older cultivators.
• Jerry realized his attempt to disrupt Yu Xiaogang’s cultivation had failed, resolved to settle his plans before Bibi Dong emerged, and remained wary that Yu Xiaogang might use her to enter Spirit Hall’s inner circle.
• Jerry observed that Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan had spent their points on cultivation, fashionable clothes, and Soul Tools, leaving them short of resources.

Jerry proposed replacing the canceled national Soul Master Tournament with Spirit Hall rankings and Soul Guide Vehicle races, but the Great Elder assigned him the elders’ wages as well as their labor. Jerry realized he had been tricked and planned to leave the work to Yu Xiaogang before visiting Zhuqing.

• Jerry learned from Xiao Wu that Zhuqing wanted his advice and that other countries would not join the national Soul Master Tournament.
• Jerry proposed rankings, rewards, and Soul Guide Vehicle races to the Great Elder as new Spirit Hall events and sources of income.
• The Great Elder agreed to provide elders to help, but made Jerry responsible for paying their wages.
• Jerry realized the Great Elder had shifted Elder Hall’s wage burden onto him and decided to write a plan for Yu Xiaogang to handle.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo sneezed repeatedly after Jerry decided to let his master take over the work.

Jerry visited Zhu Zhuqing in the Star Luo Empire, where they toured the city and shared a meal and drinks. After returning to the palace, they drank tiger bone wine together, grew intoxicated, and kissed, leaving what happened next unstated.

• Jerry delivered instructions through Xiao Wu and teleported to the Star Luo Empire, where Zhu Zhuqing welcomed him in her bedchamber.
• Zhu Zhuqing showed Jerry around Star Luo City and took him to a restaurant serving dishes made with tiger meat.
• Jerry and Zhu Zhuqing toasted each other over dinner, and Zhu Zhuqing thanked him for helping her survive and become Empress.
• Jerry and Zhu Zhuqing returned to the palace, dismissed the attendants, and drank tiger bone wine while listening to music.
• As the wine affected them, Zhu Zhuqing confessed that she liked Jerry, kissed him, and the two began kissing passionately.

Jerry promised to take responsibility for Zhuqing, then worked with the Star Luo Empire’s officials to lower grain prices and distribute supplies from Spirit Hall. After Zhuqing announced the distribution and gained Power of Faith, she and Jerry embraced their new roles as husband and wife.

• Jerry told Zhuqing he liked her and would take responsibility for her, and they spent the morning together.
• Jerry approved grain supplies for the Star Luo Empire, ordered prices lowered, and instructed officials to keep key industries under the Empire’s control.
• Jerry examined over a thousand collected Soul Tools and crafted silver armor with ice and fire attacks, enhanced movement, and a defensive shield.
• Jerry brought Zhuqing to the grain shop, where she announced Spirit Hall’s grain distribution at a reduced price of ten points per jin.
• The citizens praised Zhuqing and Spirit Hall, and Zhuqing felt Power of Faith accumulating within her.
• Jerry asked Zhuqing to call him husband, and she shyly agreed.

After learning that ordinary residents had become wealthy while Soul Masters struggled, Jerry sought ways to lower housing costs and help ordinary people use Soul Tools. He invented a switch that activated a Soul Guide Stove without requiring users to supply Soul Power and began teaching students how to make one.

• Demon Bear Elder told Jerry that unemployed Soul Masters were scamming ordinary residents, who had grown wealthy from rental income while Soul Masters struggled to earn money.
• Jerry ordered Lan Qiaoqin to address rising housing prices and decided to research Soul Tools that ordinary people could operate.
• Jerry fitted a Soul Guide Stove with a switch containing a Small Energy Storage Device, allowing it to release stored Soul Power and ignite the stove when turned.
• Jerry redesigned production methods for household Soul Tools, compiled them into a booklet, and went to teach Ju's Soul Engineer students.
• Jerry demonstrated the new Soul Guide Stove and had the students make their own versions as classwork.

Jerry cooked an elaborate dinner, but the others refused to eat his dishes because he had carved them into likenesses of themselves and ate his plain noodles instead. Chrysanthemum Douluo then confronted Jerry over his schemes at the academy and assigned several of the women to begin learning Soul Tool crafting.

• Jerry prepared intricately carved dishes depicting Xiao Wu, Lingling, Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Qian Renxue, but everyone found them too difficult to eat.
• Xiao Wu took Jerry's ordinary bowl of beef noodles, and the others finished the pot while leaving his carved dishes untouched.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo grabbed Jerry by the ear and scolded him for giving him extra work and having his students make Soul Tools that Jerry sold.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo ordered Lingling, Xiao Wu, and Zhuqing to start learning Soul Tool crafting the next day, while Ren Xue and Rong Rong would continue cultivating.
• Ning Rongrong asked to learn Soul Tool crafting, but Chrysanthemum Douluo refused because her cultivation and Spiritual Power were too low.

Jerry developed a portable mobile Teleportation Array Disc and realized that its adjustable range could enable a much larger project. He began gathering materials to build something above Spirit City, but kept its purpose secret from the Great Elder.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo asked Jerry about expanding the leaderboard and Soul Guide racing, and Jerry outlined new rankings, rewards, challenges, and membership plans.
• Jerry discovered that adding rules to a Teleportation Array let him reduce its movable range to two meters by two meters, successfully creating the Portable Mobile Small Teleportation Array Disc.
• Jerry learned that the array’s range also set the upper limit of its teleportation space and recognized several possible applications.
• Jerry told Minister Lan Qiaoqin to halt the house renovation project and gather enough metal materials to build an entire city, allowing large hard rocks if needed.
• The Great Elder confronted Jerry about mobilizing Spirit Hall’s resources, and Jerry hinted that he planned to change the sky above Spirit City without revealing his project.

Jerry built and launched a floating courtyard, then presented Spirit Hall’s plan for a tiered city in the sky. The elders approved the proposal and named its levels, while Spirit Hall still needed more materials before construction could expand.

• Jerry built a courtyard on a rune-carved base, powered it with an anti-gravity system, and raised it to one thousand meters.
• Jerry added a Windbreak Shield and a Soul Gathering Array to the courtyard, which amazed the people of Spirit City.
• Jerry explained his plan to build Spirit City in floating tiers connected by Teleportation Arrays, with separate levels for offices and Soul Masters of different ranks.
• Jerry assured the elders that Spirit Hall would control each courtyard’s movement and attack functions, allowing the floating buildings to serve as defensive weapons.
• Jerry proposed names for the Floating City and its nine heavenly levels, and the elders approved them while teasing him about his naming skills.

Jerry discovered that Soul Engineer talent varied widely, leaving him to build the Floating City’s foundations alone until he found capable helpers among Spirit Hall’s elders. Gong Ya reached ninth-class Soul Engineer and began learning the Teleportation Array’s Rule Symbols, while Jerry went to recruit Hu Liena and clashed with Yan.

• Jerry tested the Soul Engineer limits of his companions, master, and Ghost Douluo, then spent six months crafting the Floating City’s buildings and courtyards by himself.
• Jerry recruited four elders and used Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to raise their Spiritual Power before teaching them Rule Symbols; Gong Ya proved capable of ninth-class Soul Tools.
• Gong Ya crafted a ninth-class Soul Tool Ring, so Jerry began teaching her the Teleportation Array’s Rule Symbols.
• Jerry decided to seek Hu Liena’s help and found her sparring with Yan at the Golden Generation’s Training Ground.
• Yan accused Jerry of plotting against Hu Liena and challenged him, but Hu Liena agreed to accompany Jerry to the Research Department.

Jerry brought Hu Liena to the Research Department to investigate whether her seven-tailed Demon Fox Martial Soul was a Nine-tailed Demon Fox bloodline. He generated a Soul Ring from her blood and discovered that her Soul Power level was more precise than the usual whole-number measure, leaving him alarmed by the result.

• Jerry explained to Hu Liena that her seven-tailed Demon Fox might be a Nine-tailed Demon Fox and gave her a book describing its powers.
• Jerry said he wanted to study Hu Liena's bloodline and test whether she could learn Soul Tool knowledge and generate a Soul Ring herself.
• Jerry drew a large tube of Hu Liena's blood, then used a single drop in the Soul Ring Manufacturing Machine.
• The machine generated a black Soul Ring aged 73,654 years from Hu Liena's blood, and Jerry refused to upload it to the Spirit Hall database.
• Jerry measured Hu Liena's Soul Power at level 73.654, then shouted that something was wrong.

Jerry investigated whether Hu Liena’s blood could improve another person’s bloodline, then tested intensive body training and a fox-blood medicinal bath on Elder You Yi. The experiments increased You Yi’s cultivation speed and blood energy, leaving Jerry eager to combine the methods.

• Jerry identified Hu Liena’s blood as Type A and transfused it into Elder You Yi, whose matching blood type made her the only suitable test subject, but the initial transfusions caused no obvious changes.
• Jerry noticed that You Yi cultivated slightly faster after receiving Hu Liena’s blood and theorized that replacing more of her blood or improving her hematopoietic marrow could strengthen her.
• Jerry brought You Yi and Elder Lan Qiaoqin home and put them through a month of gravity training and exercise, finding that it compressed Soul Power and improved body, bone, and blood strength.
• Jerry adapted a Dragon Clan body-tempering technique using fox blood and prepared a medicinal bath for You Yi using blood from a Six-tailed Ice Fox.
• You Yi emerged from the bath feeling stronger, and Jerry confirmed that her blood contained much more energy, prompting him to consider combining the bath with transfusions.

Jerry’s experiments showed that fox blood, extreme training, and Medicinal Baths could evolve Beast Martial Souls and even grant ordinary people Soul Power. After presenting his findings and one hundred test subjects to Spirit Hall’s leaders, he faced requests to study other families’ Martial Souls.

• Jerry trained You Yi and Lan Qiaoqin with Medicinal Baths, and their Three-tailed Fox Martial Souls evolved into Four-tailed Ice Fox Martial Souls.
• With the Great Elder’s approval, Jerry recruited one hundred volunteers and recorded how long fox Martial Souls took to evolve through four tails.
• Jerry discovered that diluted Medicinal Baths helped ordinary people gain Soul Power, and after more than four months their Martial Souls had evolved to four tails.
• Jerry concluded that Three-tailed Soul Beast blood could not support further evolution and presented his report and the volunteers to Spirit Hall’s senior officials.
• Jin E, Demon Bear, Holy Dragon Douluo, and Elder Ghost Leopard asked Jerry to research the evolution of their families’ Beast Martial Souls.

Jerry began a large-scale project to cultivate Six-tailed Foxes, settling in the Soul Beast Forest and using food, a safe habitat, and training to help the foxes thrive. His Little White Fox evolved into a rare Two-tailed Fox, and Jerry began preparing it for further training.

• Jerry persuaded Spirit Hall's elders to approve his costly fox-cultivation experiment without revealing his ultimate goal for Hu Liena.
• Jerry built a protected courtyard and habitat, then fed foxes until they grew accustomed to him and gathered around his home.
• Jerry used medicinal herbs in the food as the foxes bred, and he raised a young Little White Fox in his courtyard and Training Ground.
• Jerry observed that fox cubs generally inherited their parents' tails, while some One-tailed Foxes became Three-tailed upon reaching a hundred years of cultivation.
• The Little White Fox evolved into a Two-tailed Fox, and Jerry placed it in a Gravity Field to begin strengthening it.

Jerry increased the concentration of the medicinal liquid used to cultivate the Little White Fox, which evolved into a Three-tailed Fox and absorbed stronger doses. He began applying individualized medicinal treatments to Fox Martial Soul Soul Masters, while the Great Elder shared Jerry’s Soul Beast breeding principles with other Elders.

• Jerry tested increasingly concentrated Medicinal Liquid on the Little White Fox, finding its limits at 260% before it evolved into a Three-tailed Fox and absorbed liquid at concentrations up to 320%.
• Jerry concluded that bloodline evolution required substantial energy and began adjusting Medicinal Baths for Fox Martial Soul Soul Masters while recording their results.
• Hu Liena asked Jerry for Medicinal Liquid and Chrysanthemum Douluo’s Meditation Method, but Jerry refused and fled when he noticed her acting strangely around him.
• The Great Elder told the Elders that fox populations bred using Jerry’s method had grown more than sixfold in a few months.
• The Great Elder explained Jerry’s breeding principles, including recreating wild habitats, providing abundant food, adding a small amount of catalytic medicine, and recording daily data.

Jerry used concentrated Medicinal Liquid and gravity training to help the foxes evolve, while Little White Fox broke through to the hundred-year level and became a Five-tailed Fox. He then refined Medicinal Liquid into pills and began developing a way to purify them further.

• Jerry fed the foxes Three-tailed Fox Medicinal Liquid, and many One-tailed foxes evolved into Two-tailed foxes while higher-bloodline offspring remained rare.
• Jerry expanded the Training Ground, gradually raised the Gravity Field, and saw many Two-tailed foxes evolve into Three-tailed foxes after adapting and eating more.
• Little White Fox endured a painful breakthrough, and Jerry's Healing Skill intensified its evolution before it reached the hundred-year level and became a Five-tailed Fox.
• Jerry found that Medicinal Liquid concentration maxed out at five times its original strength, then used a pill furnace to turn it into pills and burn away some impurities.
• Jerry built a layered filtering device and connected ten filters; the refined pills reached roughly seven times the original strength, but they still contained impurities.

Jerry refined potent Fox Blood Pills, tested them on foxes and Soul Masters, and expanded his research after a Three-tailed Fox evolved into a Four-tailed Fox. He then began searching for ingredients for cultivation-enhancing pills, but found that common plants and fruits had little or no medicinal value.

• Jerry improved his filtration process and refined ten crystal-clear Fox Blood Pills with ten times the potency, then tested them safely on the Little White Fox.
• Jerry developed Fox Blood Pills of varying potencies, tested them on foxes and Soul Masters, and began large-scale use among Spirit Hall's Soul Masters, including Yu Shu.
• A Three-tailed Fox evolved into a Four-tailed Fox, allowing Jerry to test four-tailed fox blood and refine pills with up to fifteen times the potency.
• Jerry turned to developing cultivation-enhancing pills and found that even high-cultivation Blue Silver Grass and ordinary fruit trees offered little medicinal value.