Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang coaxed Ye Aoxin into revealing that the Sun Moon imperial family had records of past Level Ninety-Nine powerhouses, while no one had ever reached Level Ten. He and Gu Rong then considered possible God's Chosen Lands on Douluo Continent, focusing on Slaughter City and a mysterious palace in the Far North.

• Yu Xiaogang praised the Sun Moon Emperor's prospects of reaching the Realm of Perfection, and Ye Aoxin revealed that the imperial family kept the experiences of several past powerhouses.
• Yu Xiaogang asked whether Level Ten existed, and Ye Aoxin explained that her teachers believed it did but that people lacked something essential to reach it.
• Yu Xiaogang and Gu Rong inferred that the Sun Moon Continent had never produced a god and wondered whether gods had arisen on Douluo Continent or at sea.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled how Slaughter City prevented the use of soul skills, defeated even a Titled Douluo, and eventually became a refuge for criminals and Fallen Soul Masters.
• Yu Xiaogang considered Slaughter City a god's chosen domain and suspected that a legendary Ice and Snow Palace in the Far North might be another, accessible only during blizzards.

During the journey, Yu Xiaogang learned about the Sun Moon Empire’s secretive Shadow Fair and explained to Ye Aoxin how soul masters could create soul skills without spirit rings. The chapter ended with Ye Aoxin asking him to teach her, while Gu Rong watched their growing rapport with surprise.

• Ye Aoxin told Yu Xiaogang about the Shadow Fair, where people concealed their identities to trade rare items and knowledge, and Yu Xiaogang decided to investigate it.
• Yu Xiaogang demonstrated a soul skill without summoning his martial soul or revealing spirit rings, then explained how understanding a soul skill’s workings could let a soul master create it directly.
• Ye Aoxin asked whether Yu Xiaogang had developed his theories himself or learned them from a teacher, and Yu Xiaogang said he had both researched and learned them but kept his teacher’s identity secret.
• Ye Aoxin asked Yu Xiaogang to teach her how to understand her martial soul and create self-created soul skills, and he agreed with a warning that he could not guarantee success.
• Gu Rong watched Ye Aoxin eagerly accept Yu Xiaogang’s offer and wondered at how quickly the two had become close.

Yu Xiaogang traveled with Ye Aoxin to Silver Moon City to complete the Angel God's second trial and explore the nearby Spirit Sea Mountain Range. Ye Aoxin revealed that she had taken a treasure map from an imperial elder, giving their journey a new goal.

• Bibi Dong grew jealous as she watched Ye Aoxin and Yu Xiaogang together, while Liu Erlong resolved to seek Yu Xiaogang and force the happiness she wanted.
• The chapter described Silver Moon City as a chaotic border city where criminals and Evil Soul Masters hid from imperial officers in the dangerous Spirit Sea Mountain Range.
• Yu Xiaogang came to Silver Moon City to complete the Angel God's second trial and considered exploring the mountains.
• Ye Aoxin showed Yu Xiaogang a treasure map she had taken from an elder's secret chamber and said it marked a treasure in the Spirit Sea Mountain Range.
• Yu Xiaogang became curious about the treasure and added finding it and uncovering the imperial elder's secret to his plans.

Yu Xiaogang and his companions arrived in Silver Moon City and learned that its land—and perhaps Spirit Sea Mountain Range—could cause people to become aggressive. As they considered whether the mountains concealed a God's Chosen Land, Diao Laoxi's gang confronted them, and a thunderous voice interrupted their threat.

• Gu Rong and Ye Aoxin discussed Silver Moon City's violent customs, which Ye Aoxin said might stem from the land around Spirit Sea Mountain Range.
• Yu Xiaogang compared the region's effects to Slaughter City and speculated that the mountain range might hide another God's Chosen Land.
• Yu Xiaogang, Gu Rong, and Ye Aoxin entered Silver Moon City, where Gu Rong noticed the smell of blood and valuable herbs.
• Diao Laoxi and about a dozen men surrounded the group and claimed that everything in Silver Moon City belonged to City Lord's Manor, Benevolent Music Hall, and White Tiger Manor.
• Diao Laoxi said the rules came from His Majesty the Emperor, but a thunderous voice shouted that he had slandered His Majesty.

Ye Aoxin fought Diao Laoxi after he tried to claim her as a concubine for Young Master Ling, while Yu Xiaogang and Gu Rong dealt with Diao Laoxi’s men. The chapter left Diao Laoxi terrified after discovering his entire gang had been defeated.

• Ye Aoxin confronted Diao Laoxi and his men for slandering His Majesty, and Diao Laoxi decided to offer her to Young Master Ling.
• Ye Aoxin revealed her full Martial Soul Possession and six Spirit Rings, while Diao Laoxi revealed his Soul Saint strength and challenged her.
• Diao Laoxi’s underlings surrounded Yu Xiaogang and Gu Rong and demanded their valuables, but the two swiftly knocked them unconscious without using their Martial Souls.
• Ye Aoxin’s attacks kept Diao Laoxi occupied until he saw Yu Xiaogang sitting atop a pile of his defeated underlings.
• Diao Laoxi realized he had kicked an iron plate.

After Diao Laoxi explained that Silver Moon City’s three powers enforced rules with the Sun Moon Emperor’s approval, Ye Aoxin struggled to accept that the emperor she revered was responsible for the city’s abuses. Yu Xiaogang and Gu Rong suspected the emperor had gained his power through a God Trial in the Spirit Sea Mountain Range.

• Ye Aoxin beat Diao Laoxi while Yu Xiaogang stopped him from escaping, then demanded to know whether the emperor had set Silver Moon City’s rules.
• Diao Laoxi explained that Sun Moon Emperor Xu Hongyuan had visited the Spirit Sea Mountain Range as a prince and risen to power after his talent and cultivation improved.
• Diao Laoxi described how the City Lord’s Manor, Benevolent Music Hall, and White Tiger Manor controlled what people could keep from the mountain range, and said their will was the emperor’s will.
• Ye Aoxin questioned why the emperor would permit the city’s abuses, while Yu Xiaogang and Gu Rong suspected Xu Hongyuan had obtained God Trial qualifications in the mountain range.

Yu Xiaogang asked Diao Laoxi about Silver Moon City's strongest factions and learned how they were tied to the Sun Moon Emperor. Diao Laoxi named two dangerous Evil Soul Master groups, the Oblivion Society and the Evil God Cult, as the chapter ended.

• Yu Xiaogang asked Diao Laoxi to explain Silver Moon City's major powers and strongest figures.
• Diao Laoxi described the City Lord's Manor, led by Tier 9 powerhouse Jiang Sheng, and explained that local factions operated with its permission.
• Diao Laoxi said Ding Qiuxiang of Benevolent Music Hall was a powerful leader whom people suspected of being close to the Sun Moon Emperor, though Ye Aoxin challenged the rumor.
• Diao Laoxi described White Tiger Manor's young master Du Shanhe and powerful deputy Qian Zheng, explaining that the Emperor's trust made Du especially influential.
• Diao Laoxi warned Yu Xiaogang and Gu Rong that the Oblivion Society and the Evil God Cult were groups of Evil Soul Masters.

Diao Laoxi explained that Silver Moon City was threatened by two powerful Evil Soul Master organizations: Oblivion Society and the even more disturbing Evil God Cult. Yu Xiaogang and Ye Aoxin learned why the authorities had not eliminated them, and the chapter ended with Diao Laoxi describing the cult’s ritual sacrifices.

• Diao Laoxi explained that Oblivion Society admitted outside Evil Soul Masters who had survived the Empire’s pursuit and the Spirit Sea Mountain Range.
• Ye Aoxin learned that Oblivion Society’s leader was a Tier 9 Powerhouse, matching City Lord Jiang Sheng, and that the Empire avoided provoking such dangerous Evil Soul Masters.
• Diao Laoxi explained that the Evil God Cult was a local Silver Moon City organization that worshipped an unknown evil god.
• Diao Laoxi said the Evil God Cult sacrificed living people and, when it could not capture an outsider, made its members compete for the right to be sacrificed.

Diao Laoxi explained why the Spirit Sea Mountain Range was extraordinarily dangerous, even compared with the Star Dou Great Forest, as Yu Xiaogang asked how to prepare for entering it. The group learned that an unknown force could leave entrants helpless and disoriented, and Diao Laoxi warned that this was only the beginning of the mountain range’s dangers.

• Diao Laoxi told Ye Aoxin, Yu Xiaogang, and Gu Rong that the Evil God Cult’s members competed for the chance to die in a prolonged sacrifice, and he did not know what they gained from worshipping the Evil God.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned Diao Laoxi about the factions near Silver Moon City and about how to enter and navigate the Spirit Sea Mountain Range.
• Diao Laoxi warned that only two or three people out of a hundred who entered with casual expectations usually survived, because a mysterious force made them lose control of their thoughts and bodies.
• Diao Laoxi explained that even a powerful mental Soul Master had been controlled by the force, leaving entrants disoriented and vulnerable to Soul Beasts and hostile people.
• Diao Laoxi said that surviving the force still left people lost in the dangerous mountains, then revealed that this was only the beginning of the dangers.

Diao Laoxi explained the Spirit Sea Mountain Range’s deadly trials, including mind-affecting dangers and poisonous plants. Dugu Bo envied his parallel-world counterpart’s freedom to explore it, while Dugu Yan blamed her world’s Yu Xiaogang for leaving their family in hardship.

• Diao Laoxi explained that the Spirit Sea Mountain Range first attacked entrants’ bodies and minds, then tested their ability to survive amid poisonous plants, food, and water.
• Ye Aoxin was shocked to learn that famous poisons came from the mountain range, and Yu Xiaogang recognized how survival there depended on luck.
• Yu Xiaogang imagined that Dugu Bo would want to study the mountain range’s poisons once he was free of his family’s toxin problem.
• Dugu Bo agreed that he would want to visit the Spirit Sea Mountain Range, but said he would not enter without first understanding its dangers.
• Dugu Bo reassured Dugu Yan that his parallel-world counterpart could explore only because Yu Xiaogang had uncovered the mountain range’s secrets.
• Dugu Yan stopped blaming herself and concluded that her world’s Yu Xiaogang was at fault for the Dugu Family’s hardship.

Yu Xiaogang learned how Silver Moon City's factions forced the poor into the Spirit Sea Mountain Range and kept the city trapped in a cycle of exploitation. As Ye Aoxin's faith in the Sun Moon Emperor collapsed, Diao Laoxi explained that the Mountain Entry Alliance supported those forced to enter the mountains.

• Yu Xiaogang questioned Diao Laoxi about how people survived the Spirit Sea Mountain Range, and Diao Laoxi said poverty and crushing debts drove them to risk entering it.
• Diao Laoxi explained that Silver Moon City's factions exploited the poor, while escapees were tracked down and punished unless they reached Level Six.
• Gu Rong remarked on Silver Moon City's cycle of oppression, and Yu Xiaogang identified the city's power structure as the source of its chaos.
• Ye Aoxin turned pale after Yu Xiaogang connected the Sun Moon Emperor's trusted factions to Silver Moon City's suffering, and her faith in the emperor collapsed.
• Yu Xiaogang asked how mountain entrants improved their chances of survival, and Diao Laoxi described the Mountain Entry Alliance as their sole source of support.

Diao Laoxi explained how the Mountain Entry Alliance helped people entering the Spirit Sea Mountain Range, while Ye Aoxin resolved to change Silver Moon City's desperate conditions. Yu Xiaogang suggested that if the current Emperor could not be persuaded, a future Emperor might be, leaving Ye Aoxin considering the Empire's succession struggle.

• Diao Laoxi explained that the Mountain Entry Alliance rented large-space Storage Soul Tools and provided support soul skills to help mountain entrants survive.
• Yu Xiaogang and the others realized the Alliance aided ordinary people and low-level soul masters, but that its existence reflected Silver Moon City's deeper problems.
• Ye Aoxin vowed to change Silver Moon City, and Yu Xiaogang warned that she lacked the power to overcome the Emperor's plans.
• Yu Xiaogang suggested that Ye Aoxin might persuade a future Emperor if the current one could not be changed.
• Ye Aoxin considered the leading princes and concluded that none seemed willing or able to overturn the Emperor's rules.

Yu Xiaogang revealed how he deduced that Ye Aoxin was a member of the royal family, and she admitted that her real name was Xu Aoxin, the Heavenly Dragon Princess. She reflected on how her journey outside the Imperial Capital had shattered her sheltered expectations, ending with a bandit’s claim that the emperor had forced them into banditry.

• Ye Aoxin ordered Diao Laoxi to watch the City Lord's Manor, Benevolent Music Hall, and White Tiger Manor, and he reluctantly agreed.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Ye Aoxin's abilities, knowledge, attitude toward the royal family, and name had led him to identify her as a royal.
• Ye Aoxin admitted that she was Xu Aoxin, the Heavenly Dragon Princess, and confirmed that she had run away from home to experience the outside world.
• Xu Aoxin recalled that her imagined adventure had instead brought betrayal, danger, and repeated escapes using her life-saving items.
• Xu Aoxin remembered hearing bandits say that the emperor had forced them into their crimes.

Xu Aoxin recalled how a bandit strategist’s tragic story had made her question the Sun Moon Empire and her father’s rule. After learning that Silver Moon City’s suffering had been deliberately inflicted by her father’s trusted subordinates, she resolved to become the next emperor and change the continent.

• Xu Aoxin remembered meeting a bandit strategist who blamed the emperor for driving ordinary people into becoming outlaws.
• The strategist recounted how bandits killed his family, constables blamed him for their escape, and he was sentenced to death before escaping during an Evil Soul Master attack.
• Xu Aoxin reflected on the strategist’s story and concluded that her father likely knew about the Empire’s injustices and may have deliberately enabled them.
• Xu Aoxin told Yu Xiaogang that Silver Moon City’s ordinary residents were suffering under rules created by her father’s trusted subordinates.
• Xu Aoxin decided to fight for the throne, become the next emperor, and change the Sun Moon Continent.

Xu Aoxin committed herself to competing for the Sun Moon Empire’s throne and changing the continent, despite being far weaker than her siblings and opposed to her father’s plans. Yu Xiaogang urged her to build strength and gather allies, arguing that even an unsuccessful bid could give her ideas influence.

• Xu Aoxin declared that she would become emperor and change the Sun Moon Continent, impressing Yu Xiaogang and Gu Rong.
• In the White World, Hu Liena and the other viewers wondered whether Xu Aoxin had won the throne, while Yu Xiaogang refused to reveal the outcome.
• Xu Aoxin lamented that her siblings had a long head start and could grow their factions while she cultivated.
• Yu Xiaogang told Xu Aoxin to improve her strength and win over people who shared her ideals, since a powerful following could make the next emperor heed her ideas.
• Yu Xiaogang described how Spirit Hall’s free Martial Soul Awakenings had expanded its influence, arguing that people had to act before they could discover what their efforts might achieve.

Yu Xiaogang, Xu Aoxin, and Gu Rong visited the Mountain Entry Alliance to learn about entering the Spirit Sea Mountain Range. After Chen Ming warned them about the dangers, they declined the alliance’s offers to rent Storage Soul Tools and prepare food and water.

• Xu Aoxin and Yu Xiaogang were surprised by the Mountain Entry Alliance’s modest headquarters, while Gu Rong reminisced about living in a similar house.
• Lu Wu approached Yu Xiaogang, Xu Aoxin, and Gu Rong after they asked about entering the mountains, and Chen Ming invited them inside.
• Chen Ming warned the three that the Spirit Sea Mountain Range held dangerous Soul Beasts, plants, people, and other hazards, but Yu Xiaogang said they could protect themselves.
• Chen Ming explained that mountain-goers should avoid eating local food or drinking local water, citing a Poison Attribute Soul Master who died after consuming a poisonous herb.
• Xu Aoxin and Yu Xiaogang said they had enough space in their own Storage Soul Tools and did not need the alliance to prepare provisions.

Chen Ming explained the Mountain Entry Alliance’s three tiers of assistance for entering the Spirit Sea Mountain Range, emphasizing how its experienced members could reduce the dangers. The chapter ended before Yu Xiaogang and Xu Aoxin responded to the high cost of the third tier.

• Chen Ming described the first tier, in which all available members used enhancement skills to help entrants endure Brain Fog.
• Chen Ming explained that the second tier arranged additional support Soul Masters, including Elder Wang, a Tier 8 Soul Master and Alliance founder.
• Chen Ming presented the third tier: an Alliance member would guide the three visitors through the mountains and back, with guides ranging from Tier 5 to Tier 7.
• Chen Ming explained that guides reduced risks by avoiding Soul Beast territories and dangerous areas and by preparing food, water, and antidotes.
• Chen Ming warned that accidents and Evil Soul Masters remained unpredictable dangers, then noted that the third tier carried a very high fee.

Yu Xiaogang and his companions considered buying information about the Spirit Sea Mountain Range, but Chen Ming and Lu Wu warned them that guides could not protect reckless explorers from its dangers. Their account of arrogant travelers who had died in the mountains prompted Yu Xiaogang to reflect on how hardship had shaped his life.

• Yu Xiaogang asked Chen Ming how much information about the mountain range’s dangerous areas and Soul Beast territories would cost.
• Chen Ming warned that detailed guides could not keep unfamiliar travelers safe, and Lu Wu explained that recordings from rented Storage Soul Tools showed how reckless explorers met their deaths.
• Xu Aoxin asked whether travelers really ignored life-threatening warnings, and Chen Ming confirmed that many dismissed them as scare tactics.
• Lu Wu explained that members of the Mountain Entry Alliance resented privileged people who wasted their lives through arrogance despite having talent and resources.
• Yu Xiaogang considered how his past mental suffering had driven him to grow and imagined that without it he might have ended up as only a Soul King or Soul Emperor.

Shrek Academy’s residents compared Yu Xiaogang’s prospects in the Parallel World with the Grandmaster’s poor record, while the video showed Yu Xiaogang, Xu Aoxin, and Gu Rong arguing over whether to hire a guide before entering the Spirit Sea Mountain Range. Gu Rong insisted on hiring one so they could explore the dangerous mountains with greater protection.

• Ning Rongrong and the others concluded that Yu Xiaogang from the Parallel World could have become at least a Soul King even without working hard, unlike the Grandmaster who remained Level 29.
• Zhao Wuji, Flender, Shao Xin, Li Yusong, and Lu Qibin reflected on how much effort and danger they had endured to reach their own ranks.
• Yu Xiaogang and Xu Aoxin decided they did not need another person to accompany them into the Spirit Sea Mountain Range.
• Gu Rong firmly opposed their plan and insisted they hire a mountain guide for their safety.
• Gu Rong supported exploring the range because it might contain a God's Chosen Land, and he believed Yu Xiaogang had enough safeguards to face its dangers.

Yu Xiaogang agreed to Gu Rong’s plan to hire someone familiar with the Spirit Sea Mountain Range, while Xu Aoxin tried to guess Yu Xiaogang’s identity. She concluded that he might be her father’s hidden son and her brother, leaving Yu Xiaogang dumbfounded and Gu Rong laughing.

• Gu Rong insisted that they hire someone familiar with the Spirit Sea Mountain Range to avoid unnecessary risks, and Yu Xiaogang agreed.
• Xu Aoxin recalled how Yu Xiaogang had told her to guess their identities in an exaggerated direction.
• Xu Aoxin imagined Yu Xiaogang as an abandoned prince whose family would regret mistreating him after his death.
• When Yu Xiaogang asked what she had been thinking, Xu Aoxin admitted her imagined story and apologized.
• Xu Aoxin guessed that Yu Xiaogang was her father’s son left outside the palace and therefore her brother, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned and Gu Rong laughing.