Chapter Summaries

After the auction, Xiao Long hinted that the people from Mingde Hall might not live long enough to use the hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo they bought. Ma Xiaotao noticed his strange behavior and followed him when he left, insisting she had to protect him.

• Ma Xiaotao lamented that the Sun Moon Empire had obtained the hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo, while Xiao Long hinted that Mingde Hall might not get to use it.
• After the auction ended, Xiao Long quietly left the group to attend to business.
• Ma Xiaotao followed Xiao Long, saying he had been acting strangely and that she was his senior.
• When Xiao Long said he was going to the toilet and questioned whether she should follow, Ma Xiaotao insisted she had to protect him.
• Ma Xiaotao mocked Xiao Long by saying she had seen him before and had no interest in looking at his little peanut.

Xiao Long tried to shake off Ma Xiaotao after she confronted him, but she insisted on following him. After leaving Star Luo City, Xiao Long mounted a ten-thousand-year eagle-type soul beast and flew away, leaving Ma Xiaotao behind.

• Xiao Long intimidated Ma Xiaotao until she crouched down and cried.
• Xiao Long left, but Ma Xiaotao caught up and insisted on following him.
• Xiao Long warned Ma Xiaotao not to blame him if she ran into danger, and she stubbornly followed.
• Xiao Long left Star Luo City on a ten-thousand-year eagle-type soul beast, leaving Ma Xiaotao behind.

Xiao Long left Ma Xiaotao behind and joined Lin Da Niu’s group as they confronted Mingde Hall over the Soul Beast Embryo. The two sides stood on the brink of battle after Ma Ru Long refused to surrender it.

• Xiao Long flew ahead to the battlefield, leaving Ma Xiaotao to return to Star Luo City.
• Lin Da Niu’s five Titled Douluo faced Mingde Hall’s three Titled Douluo and seven Soul Douluo, whose soul tools kept the fight at a stalemate.
• Ma Ru Long asked why Lin Da Niu’s group was attacking Mingde Hall, and Lin Da Niu demanded the Soul Beast Embryo.
• Ma Ru Long recognized Lin Da Niu as the bidder from Star Luo City and refused to give up the embryo.
• Lin Da Niu threatened to use force, while Ma Ru Long warned him against making an enemy of Mingde Hall and the Sun Moon Empire.

Xiao Long exposed Lin Da Niu’s opponents as stalling, and the five Titled Douluo launched an attack on Ma Ru Long’s group. The Sky-shattering Thunder broke through the ninth-grade defensive soul tool, leaving the attackers to fight over the Soul Beast Embryo and the remaining soul tools.

• Xiao Long warned Lin Da Niu that Ma Ru Long’s group was stalling, and Lin Da Niu ordered the five Titled Douluo to attack.
• Ma Ru Long’s group relied on their ninth-grade defensive soul tool and their distress call for help from the Sun Moon Empire and Star Luo Empire.
• The five Titled Douluo threw Sky-shattering Thunder at the defensive soul tool and blasted a hole through it.
• Ma Ru Long ordered his people to use their offensive soul tools, but more Sky-shattering Thunder exploded inside, killing two Soul Douluo.
• Lin Da Niu attacked Ma Ru Long to seize the Soul Beast Embryo, while the other four Titled Douluo split into pairs to face the two Titled Douluo carrying ninth-grade soul tools.

Bi Ji intercepted Ma Ru Long as he fled with the Snow Emperor embryo, and Di Tian arrived to reclaim her. After killing Ma Ru Long, Di Tian returned to Xiao Long and the others, whose battle had already ended.

• Ma Ru Long used his eighth-grade flying soul tool to escape Lin Da Niu with the Snow Emperor embryo.
• Bi Ji destroyed Ma Ru Long's flying soul tool and seized the soul tool containing the embryo.
• Di Tian appeared, recognized the embryo as the Snow Emperor, and decided to take her away.
• Di Tian killed Ma Ru Long in a single move and went to reunite with Xiao Long and the others.

Xiao Long demanded Snow Emperor’s embryo from Di Tian, then revealed Ice Empress as proof that he could absorb a powerful soul beast. Di Tian still refused to hand Snow Emperor over, revealing that Bi Ji had taken her into her care.

• Xiao Long told Di Tian he wanted Snow Emperor’s embryo, but Di Tian refused and warned that Xiao Long could not absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• Di Tian agreed to give Snow Emperor to Xiao Long if he could absorb her, believing Xiao Long could not do so yet.
• Xiao Long released Ice Empress, shocking Di Tian by revealing that she had become his soul ring.
• Di Tian said Snow Emperor was not in his hands and revealed that Bi Ji was protecting her.
• Bi Ji looked at Ice Empress with disappointment and asked why she had chosen to do this.

Bi Ji initially refused to give the Snow Emperor to Di Tian, fearing for the Extreme North, but Xiao Long bribed them with Humanoid Pills. After they handed her over, Xiao Long made plans for the Star Dou Great Forest and took the Snow Emperor as his soul ring.

• Bi Ji refused to give the Snow Emperor to Di Tian, arguing that the Extreme North could not afford to lose another powerful soul beast.
• Xiao Long tempted Bi Ji and Di Tian with Humanoid Pills, and they handed over the Snow Emperor before leaving with him.
• Xiao Long sent Di Tian and Bi Ji to loot the Star Dou Great Forest and ordered two Titled Douluo to return to the Extreme North.
• Xiao Long took the Snow Emperor as his soul ring, and the Ice Empress suggested Tianmeng Iceworm give her Profound Ice power to help her recover.
• Tianmeng Iceworm pleaded with the Ice Empress, who asked him what he thought.

Xiao Long returned to Star Luo City after Tianmeng Iceworm began offering himself to the Ice Empress. When Ma Xiaotao confronted him, Xiao Long revealed his extraordinary soul rings and struck while she was stunned.

• Tianmeng Iceworm opened his eyes and offered himself to the Ice Empress, who responded with a cold smile.
• Xiao Long left the Ice Empress and Tianmeng Iceworm and returned to Star Luo City.
• Ma Xiaotao confronted Xiao Long for leaving her behind, and he calmly dismissed her complaints.
• Ma Xiaotao attacked Xiao Long, but he revealed his soul rings, including a ten-thousand-year ring and two hundred-thousand-year red rings.
• Ma Xiaotao froze in disbelief at the soul rings' power, and Xiao Long struck during her distraction.

Shrek Academy won the competition and traveled to the Sun Moon Empire for an academic exchange, where Ju Zi received them. Xiao Long planned to take advantage of the visit, and he left his room at night without Ma Xiaotao, who had been kept behind by Shrek Academy.

• Xiao Long left Ma Xiaotao after their confrontation, and she left resentfully, excited by his strength.
• Experts in Star Luo City rushed to investigate the Soul Beast pressure but found no one, while the Sun Moon Empire blamed Soul Beasts for the stolen embryo and its losses.
• Shrek Academy won the competition and returned to the academy before accepting Sun Moon Empire Academy's invitation for an academic exchange.
• Xiao Long joined the trip to the Sun Moon Empire, intending to take valuables and involve himself in the emperor's succession.
• Ju Zi received the Shrek delegation, and Xiao Long suspected Xu Tianran had sent her to learn Shrek's secrets.
• Xiao Long left his room at night without Ma Xiaotao, whom Shrek Academy had refused to let accompany him.

Xiao Long visited Ju Zi late at night and revealed that he knew she was an empress. Ju Zi planned to lure him into range of a hidden Rank 9 soul tool, but Xiao Long recognized her intentions and confronted her.

• Xiao Long went to Ju Zi's room and said he wanted to chat with her.
• Ju Zi reacted with hostility when Xiao Long called her Empress and exposed her identity.
• Ju Zi invited Xiao Long inside, intending to use a hidden Rank 9 soul tool to kill him.
• Xiao Long recognized Ju Zi's plan and told her he knew she meant to activate the soul tool.

Xiao Long confronted Ju Zi after seeing through her plan to kill him, then offered her a pill as proof that he could help her. He left her with two pills to test, while Ju Zi remained suspicious of his claims.

• Ju Zi denied planning to kill Xiao Long, but he dismissed her denial and teased her about her five Rank 9 soul tools.
• Xiao Long revealed that he knew Ju Zi carried the soul tools Xu Tianran had given her, leaving her stunned by his perception.
• Ju Zi demanded to know who Xiao Long was and rejected his claim that he could give her everything she wanted.
• Xiao Long gave Ju Zi two pills that could help a Soul Douluo become a Titled Douluo, telling her to test one on a Soul Douluo above Rank 85.
• Xiao Long left Ju Zi to verify the pill's power for herself.

Ju Zi went to Xiao Long to demand his alchemical formula, but he rejected her offer and used the Star Luo Empire as leverage. The chapter ended with Xiao Long deciding not to give her the pills until he had humbled her arrogance.

• After two days without Ju Zi visiting, she slipped into Xiao Long's room in the middle of the night and asked what he wanted for the formula.
• Xiao Long said he wanted Ju Zi, angering her, and she offered him one hundred million Gold Soul Coins instead.
• Xiao Long revealed a bottle containing ten pills, and Ju Zi realized they could help her cultivate ten Titled Douluo.
• Ju Zi insisted Xiao Long could not protect or mass-produce the pills and offered him wealth and honor in exchange for the formula.
• Xiao Long threatened to cooperate with the Star Luo Empire and decided he would not give Ju Zi the pills until he had ground down her arrogance.

Ju Zi decided Xiao Long was a threat to the Sun Moon Empire and planned to kill him, but she left after his icy pressure made her regain her composure. Xiao Long expected her to summon Long Xiaoyao, whom he hoped to recruit.

• Ju Zi became enraged when Xiao Long proposed cooperating with the Star Luo Empire and becoming its imperial son-in-law.
• Xiao Long challenged Ju Zi with his cold gaze, and the amplified pressure made her shudder and calm down.
• Ju Zi left to gather the Sun Moon Empire's Titled Douluo and kill Xiao Long.
• Xiao Long let Ju Zi go and hoped Long Xiaoyao would come so he could try to win him over.

Xiao Long baited Ju Zi’s assassins and prepared a hidden ally to face Long Xiaoyao. When Long Xiaoyao arrived to demand an item, Xiao Long warned him that refusing to listen would bring lifelong regret.

• Ju Zi sent assassins ranging from Soul Emperors to Titled Douluos after Xiao Long, but none returned.
• Xiao Long taunted Ju Zi that the Sun Moon Empire had no worthy opponents, and she returned to the imperial palace in anger.
• Xiao Long asked a hidden ally, whom he had helped reach level ninety-nine and extended the lifespan of, whether he could repay him by defeating Long Xiaoyao, Mu En, and Ye Xishui.
• The hidden ally sensed Long Xiaoyao’s arrival and vanished into the darkness.
• Long Xiaoyao entered and demanded that Xiao Long hand over an item, but Xiao Long invited him to sit and warned him to listen before he regretted it for the rest of his life.

Xiao Long tried to recruit Long Xiaoyao after telling him that Ye Xishui truly loved him, but Long Xiaoyao refused and demanded that Xiao Long hand over an item. Du Busi stepped in to confront Long Xiaoyao, revealing that he had reached level ninety-nine.

• Xiao Long told Long Xiaoyao that Ye Xishui truly loved him, but Long Xiaoyao struggled to believe it.
• Long Xiaoyao ignored Xiao Long's account and demanded that he hand over the item Xu Tianran and Ye Xishui wanted.
• Xiao Long refused, and Long Xiaoyao threatened to kill him; Xiao Long said Long Xiaoyao lacked the ability.
• Du Busi intervened and agreed that Long Xiaoyao could not defeat Xiao Long.
• Long Xiaoyao suspected Du Busi was behind the events, but Du Busi denied taking credit and revealed he had become a level ninety-nine Limit Douluo.

Long Xiaoyao discovered that Du Busi had reached Rank 99 and abandoned his attempt to seize the item. Back at the Holy Spirit Cult, he told Ye Xishui about Du Busi and awkwardly asked whether she still had Mu En in her heart.

• Long Xiaoyao learned that Du Busi had reached Rank 99, while Xiao Long remained unconcerned by Long Xiaoyao’s threats.
• Long Xiaoyao left without fighting Du Busi because he could not seize the item while Du Busi was there.
• Long Xiaoyao reported Du Busi’s advancement to Ye Xishui, who called him a dangerous threat and said she would kill him if he became their enemy.
• Long Xiaoyao asked Ye Xishui whether she still had Mu En in her heart, and she told him he could leave if he did not want to stay.
• Ye Xishui turned away with a faint blush, while Long Xiaoyao dismissed Xiao Long’s claim as nonsense.

Long Xiaoyao left for Shrek Academy to investigate whether Yan Shaozhe was his grandson, while Ju Zi failed to keep Xiao Long in the Sun Moon Empire. Xiao Long returned to Shrek Academy and committed himself to cultivation.

• Xiao Long told Long Xiaoyao that Yan Shaozhe was supposedly his grandson, prompting Long Xiaoyao to leave secretly for Shrek Academy to verify it.
• After Long Xiaoyao departed, Ju Zi tried to negotiate with Xiao Long, but he refused and left the Sun Moon Empire.
• Ju Zi vowed to continue her plans against the Star Luo Empire and accelerate work on her trump card.
• Ju Zi learned that Mingde Hall, imperial relatives' homes, and the imperial treasury had been raided, costing the Sun Moon Empire about twenty percent of its war-weapon preparations.
• Xiao Long returned to Shrek Academy and focused on cultivation.

Xiao Long cultivated in the Extreme North and became a seven-ring Soul Saint, while Di Tian and the other soul beasts used Humanoid Pills to transform and pursue godhood. A year later, Tang San arrived carrying two divine cores, leaving Xiao Long to wonder why Tang San had come to him.

• Xiao Long devoted himself to cultivation in the Extreme North and reached the realm of a seven-ring Soul Saint within a year.
• Xiao Long delayed the Sun Moon Empire's war and planned to find the Angel God and Rakshasa God divine positions after reaching Titled Douluo rank.
• Di Tian and the other soul beasts used Xiao Long's Humanoid Pills to transform and hid in the Star Dou Great Forest to learn human cultivation.
• A year later, Tang San entered the Extreme North, and Xiao Long sensed two divine cores in his aura.
• Xiao Long recognized Tang San and wondered whether he had come to pass on a divine position because Rong Nianbing had already acted or had not noticed him.

Xiao Long met Tang San, who offered him the Sea God godhood after observing him for a year. Tang San made accepting it conditional on Xiao Long courting his daughter, and Xiao Long asked who she was.

• Xiao Long welcomed Tang San into his ice pavilion and reflected on his life in the Extreme North.
• Tang San said he had watched Xiao Long for a year and wanted to pass the Sea God godhood to him.
• Xiao Long pretended to decline before telling Tang San he would devote himself to the God Realm if he became a god.
• Tang San added that Xiao Long had to woo his daughter as a condition of receiving the godhood.
• Xiao Long pretended not to know who Tang San’s daughter was, and Tang San praised her at length.

Xiao Long received the Sea God godhead from Tang San and planned to become a god after raising his cultivation. After reaching Soul Douluo, he returned to Shrek Academy, where Yan Shaozhe proposed making him the next dean, but Xiao Long recommended Huo Yuhao instead.

• Xiao Long reminded Tang San that Tang Wutong was close to Huo Yuhao, and Tang San insisted they were only friends before giving Xiao Long the Sea God godhead.
• Xiao Long sensed at least five other godheads in Douluo Continent and resolved to claim them after ascending to the God Realm.
• Tianmeng Iceworm, Ice Empress, and Snow Emperor rejoiced when they learned Xiao Long possessed a godhead.
• After Xiao Long reached Soul Douluo and visited Shrek Academy, Yan Shaozhe praised him and considered him for the dean position.
• Yan Shaozhe recounted how Long Xiaoyao had beaten him and stolen a drop of his blood, while Xiao Long declined the dean position and suggested Huo Yuhao.