Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming seized the Soul Capturing Tablet from the Empress Medusa and killed her, then recovered with Dugu Bo and examined her Head Soul Bone. He discovered that the bone held the residual will and authority of Medusa, the God of Sin, along with a shattered Divine Throne.

• The Empress Medusa used the Soul Capturing Tablet to invade Chen Ming’s mind, but Chen Ming suppressed her remnant soul and took control of the artifact.
• Chen Ming unleashed the Dark Gold Dreadclaw despite its cooldown and killed the weakened Empress Medusa, while the surviving snakes fled.
• Dugu Bo helped Chen Ming recover, and Chen Ming then used his Soul Power and Life Force to heal Dugu Bo’s injuries.
• Chen Ming explained that the Empress Medusa was a Divine Beast, then cut open her head and removed a dark crimson Head Soul Bone.
• Dugu Bo resisted the malicious influence of the Head Soul Bone and warned Chen Ming to stay clear-headed; Chen Ming sensed the will of Medusa, the God of Sin, and a shattered Divine Throne within it.

Chen Ming absorbed Empress Medusa’s Soul Ring and chose Medusa’s Gaze and Time Freeze as its two Soul Skills. After learning that the Soul Bone contained the Medusa Goddess’s remnant Divine Will, he reassured Dugu Bo that he could handle the threat, leaving the Bone’s fate undecided.

• Chen Ming absorbed Empress Medusa’s Soul Ring and selected Medusa’s Gaze and Time Freeze as its Soul Skills.
• Chen Ming’s body and Spiritual Power grew stronger, and his aura forced Dugu Bo out of Martial Soul Possession.
• Chen Ming told Dugu Bo that Empress Medusa had been a pawn of the Medusa Goddess, whose Divine Will lingered in the Soul Devouring Plate and Soul Bone.
• Dugu Bo proposed destroying the Soul Bone, but Chen Ming insisted that the remnant posed no threat to him.

Chen Ming absorbed the God of Sin’s head Soul Bone, suppressed its remnant Divine Will, and gained Sin Gaze, an ability that exposed and punished people for their sins. After testing it on Dugu Bo and himself, Chen Ming realized even unintended consequences could leave a trace of Sin Power, and Dugu Bo grew thoughtful about his own past.

• Chen Ming overcame the Soul Bone’s resistance, suppressed the God of Sin’s remnant will, and contained the collapsing fragments of the shattered Divine Throne of Medusa.
• Chen Ming finished absorbing the Soul Bone and gained Sin Gaze, which revealed people’s sins and let him curse and torment major sinners.
• Chen Ming used Sin Gaze on Dugu Bo and sensed the sources of his minor sins, including collateral damage and harm caused without Dugu Bo’s awareness.
• Chen Ming checked himself and found only a faint trace of Sin Power, which came from servants exposed to fumes while preparing Whale Rubber.
• Dugu Bo worried Chen Ming had been possessed, then listened to his explanation and became quiet as he reflected on his own life.

Chen Ming and Dugu Bo harvested Soul Bones from the slain snake-type soul beasts and preserved their valuable corpses. They left the island with a vast haul of Soul Bones and materials, including a set Dugu Bo planned to pass on to Dugu Yan.

• Chen Ming and Dugu Bo searched the dead Emperor-level beasts and mutated soul beasts, finding several high-quality Soul Bones, including paired leg bones from the Three-headed Nether Python and Crimson Blood Demon Python.
• They discovered that every dead Medusa had yielded a rare Head Soul Bone, bringing the total harvest to an astonishing number.
• Dugu Bo imagined Dugu Yan inheriting the Soul Bones and helping the Poison Sect become a powerful legacy, then resolved to train harder.
• Dugu Bo cut open the remaining snake-type soul beasts to search for Soul Bones while Chen Ming harvested and froze the most valuable parts of the corpses.
• Chen Ming flew to a coastal city, bought Storage Soul Tools from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's merchant association, and returned to pack away the preserved materials.

Chen Ming searched Spirit Snake Island’s lake and found valuable Medusa snake eggs and a rib that sustained the island’s life-rich ecosystem. After he and Dugu Bo gathered their spoils, Dugu Bo absorbed a strange External Soul Bone and gained a disappointing bite-enhancing skill.

• Chen Ming found over a hundred Medusa-bloodline snake eggs in the lakebed and recognized their potential to improve serpent Martial Souls.
• Chen Ming dug deeper and discovered a rib from the Medusa Goddess that produced the lake’s Life Force, then decided to take it despite the island’s already-collapsing ecosystem.
• Chen Ming resolved to clear out the surviving sea snakes to protect nearby fishermen and cities.
• Chen Ming and Dugu Bo spent two days searching Spirit Snake Island, collecting frozen soul beast bodies and twenty Soul Bones.
• Dugu Bo absorbed a Nether Snake’s venom-fang External Soul Bone and gained a skill that strengthened his teeth and bite, leaving him depressed.

Chen Ming spent nearly a year at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well studying divine power, forging three Pseudo Demigodheads, and strengthening his artifacts and abilities. As he prepared to travel the continent, he learned the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ remains lay hidden in a collapsing pocket space that he could not yet enter, and considered further strengthening Dugu Bo.

• Chen Ming separated Medusa's damaged Divine Throne into Pseudo Demigodheads for the Snake God, sin, and poison, plague, and death, then directed the last one's painful faith toward the evil god's Godhead.
• Chen Ming claimed the Soul Capturing Tablet, reforged metal fragments into a miniature Angel Sword linked to his Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Right Palm Bone, and improved his Soul Ring configuration.
• Chen Ming mass-produced Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, while Dugu Yan ate snake eggs, absorbed Soul Bones and a Nine-Jointed Jade Soul Ring, and rose to rank forty-six, nearly rank forty-seven, with a Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Martial Soul.
• Dugu Yan and Chen Ming grew closer during their time in seclusion, and Dugu Bo approved of their relationship and urged them to have children.
• Chen Ming discovered that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' remains and Dragon Souls were sealed inside a failing pocket space and collected Dragon King-tainted mud and deep spring water because he could not enter it.
• Chen Ming prepared to leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and travel the continent, considering whether Dugu Bo could be strengthened further.

Chen Ming gave Dugu Bo the Snake God's Pseudo Demigod Position, then prepared to travel while demonstrating how his poison had developed into a contagious, corrupting plague. The chapter ended with Chen Ming burning away the plague’s spread and cleansing two corrupted Soul Bones, though the bones themselves were ruined.

• Chen Ming transferred the Snake God's Pseudo Demigod Position to Dugu Bo, who entered seclusion and emerged three months later at level ninety-six with improved comprehension.
• Chen Ming rejected Dugu Bo's suggestion that he remain safely at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and planned to travel the continent and visit other lands to spread his Faith.
• Chen Ming sparred with Dugu Bo and showed that his poison could absorb Soul Power, grow by consuming the energy of heaven and earth, and transform Soul Beasts into plague-filled Chaos Eggs.
• Chen Ming detonated a Chaos Egg, spreading poison and corruption through nearby plants and creatures before burning the contaminated area clean.
• Chen Ming and Dugu Bo discovered ominous Soul Bones inside the transformed Soul Beasts; Chen Ming removed their poison and plague, but the Soul Bones were left ruined.

Chen Ming found Tang Hao’s hidden cave near Holy Soul Village and discovered Ah Yin, the Blue Silver Emperor, near death from the harsh conditions. He rescued her and found the box containing her hundred-thousand-year right leg bone.

• Chen Ming traveled to the area near Holy Soul Village and used his Spiritual Power to uncover the concealed entrance to a cave behind a waterfall.
• Chen Ming found Ah Yin, the Blue Silver Emperor, sickly and nearly lifeless in a small stone chamber.
• Ah Yin weakly asked Chen Ming to take her out, and he gave her a small amount of Life Force.
• Chen Ming placed Ah Yin in a Storage Soul Tool that could sustain life and conceal her aura.
• Chen Ming found and opened the lead box containing the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.

Chen Ming stole the Soul Bone and left a deranged inscription blaming Tang Hao for aiding an Evil Soul Master, hoping to wound his enemy. Tang Hao sensed something was wrong in Nuoding City but denied his fears, and his avoidance kept him from discovering Chen Ming’s message.

• Chen Ming hid the Soul Bone in his Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch and carved an inscription portraying himself as an Evil Soul Master who revered Tang Hao and planned to torment Ah Yin’s soul.
• Chen Ming thanked Tang Hao in the inscription for killing a Spirit Hall pursuer and the Pope, then left the cave while erasing his traces.
• Tang Hao felt a sharp pain in his heart while watching Tang San and Xiao Wu, summoned his Martial Soul, and searched for a threat that was not there.
• Tang Hao imagined disasters involving his family and sect, then dismissed his unease as indigestion and drank wine in a tree.
• Tang Hao avoided thinking about Ah Yin and never learned what Chen Ming had written in the cave.

Chen Ming reunited with the frail Lou Gao in Gengxin City and learned that the blacksmith’s spiritual power had advanced dramatically at the cost of his health. Lou Gao then revealed a strange metal that Chen Ming sensed contained Soul Power, spirituality, and even elements of life.

• Chen Ming reached Gengxin City after repeatedly sustaining the dying Blue Silver Emperor with life force and Soul Power during his journey.
• Lou Gao came to meet Chen Ming, appearing decades older but possessing spiritual power near the Titled Douluo realm and an artistic conception associated with Super Douluo.
• Lou Gao’s disciples diverted the crowd, and he took Chen Ming to his private forging room, where Chen Ming used Soul Power to ease his condition.
• Lou Gao led Chen Ming to a disguised metallic wall and transformed it into a silver sphere whose contents seemed to include life.

Chen Ming discovered that Lou Gao had reached Soul Forging, but the breakthrough had nearly cost the master craftsman his life. Chen Ming restored Lou Gao with Life Force, and Lou Gao explained how he had advanced his forging over the past year.

• Chen Ming recognized that Lou Gao's silver metal sphere had been Soul Forged, a level far beyond Spirit Forging.
• Lou Gao's vitality failed after he handed the sphere to Chen Ming, who infused him with Life Force and Soul Power to restore him.
• Lou Gao tried to kneel in gratitude, but Chen Ming stopped him and said his forging progress mattered more than formalities.
• Lou Gao told Chen Ming that he had studied the golden sphere, awakened metal's spirituality, and reached Spirit Forging after about three months.
• Lou Gao used an ancient Divine Craftsman's secret technique and repeated experiments to give metal life, eventually achieving Soul Forging and creating the shape-changing sphere.

Lou Gao recounted how his enlightenment had advanced his forging while draining his life, then gave Chen Ming the Blacksmith Association’s comprehensive forging tome. With Chen Ming having resolved his lifespan crisis, Lou Gao hoped to return to forging and pursue even greater mastery.

• Lou Gao explained that he had reached seventh-level Soul Forging and begun to touch eighth-level Fusion Forging by burning his life force during enlightenment.
• Lou Gao’s disciples had found him unconscious on his workshop floor before he could die alone in the forging room.
• Lou Gao gave Chen Ming a massive metal book containing the Blacksmith Association’s accumulated forging knowledge and techniques.
• Chen Ming recognized that the book could help him train skilled blacksmiths and establish a forging legacy of his own.
• Lou Gao told Chen Ming he could dispose of the book as he wished and looked forward to forging again now that he no longer needed to die.

Chen Ming accepted Lou Gao’s Forging Encyclopedia and examined Little Silver, a living Soul Forged Metal Slime that Lou Gao had created but could no longer refine. Chen Ming branded Little Silver and made it obey him, leaving Lou Gao stunned as the Metal Slime transformed into a patterned wristguard.

• Chen Ming accepted Lou Gao’s Forging Encyclopedia and shared insights about forging and heaven and earth with him.
• Lou Gao showed Chen Ming Little Silver, which absorbed metal shavings and displayed unusual intelligence.
• Lou Gao explained Little Silver’s mixed-metal origins, unstable traits, and the limits of his ability to refine it further.
• Chen Ming entered Little Silver’s body, branded it with his imprint, and made it forget Lou Gao.
• Chen Ming shaped Little Silver into a wristguard decorated with Five Poisons Patterns, stunning Lou Gao.

Chen Ming worked with Lou Gao in Gengxin City, helping him create a Soul Forging-grade bracer and a Soul Bone belt while learning forging. After discovering that Soul Tool knowledge had been lost on the continent, Chen Ming prepared to seek technology and Soul Engineers from Sun Moon Continent, then began secluded cultivation with the Blue Silver Emperor.

• Lou Gao accepted that Little Silver had chosen Chen Ming as its Master, and Chen Ming promised to honor Lou Gao’s craftsmanship.
• Chen Ming and Lou Gao spent a month developing forging techniques, and Lou Gao forged the Green Pearl Bracer from Earth Vein Flame Crystal and other special metals.
• Chen Ming and Lou Gao used Little Silver as the core of a belt that could contain a Soul Bone and activate some of its Soul Skill.
• Chen Ming practiced forging and the Chaotic Cape Style, quickly surpassing Lou Gao’s disciples, though he judged the style poor for fighting.
• Lou Gao told Chen Ming that Soul Tool technology had been lost and that people on Douluo Continent understood Soul Tools mainly as Storage Soul Tools, so Chen Ming decided to seek knowledge and Soul Engineers from Sun Moon Continent.
• Chen Ming borrowed Lou Gao’s underground secret chamber, began secluded cultivation, and took out the Blue Silver Emperor, whose condition had improved under his care.

Chen Ming drew the weakened Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin into his spiritual world, where she experienced a lifelike Memory Palace and regained some Life Force by drinking tea. The chapter ended with Ah Yin disbelieving Chen Ming’s claim that he was only thirteen years old.

• Chen Ming used his Spiritual Power to pull Ah Yin into a realistic room within his spiritual world.
• Ah Yin explored the room, found a readable medical book, and saw herself in a human form from her early years in the human world.
• Chen Ming explained that the room was part of his Memory Palace, which his abundant Spiritual Power had made real.
• Ah Yin mistook Chen Ming for an ancient Titled Douluo who had returned to youth, while Chen Ming secretly read her thoughts.
• Chen Ming poured tea for Ah Yin, and its warmth restored some of the Life Force she had long craved.
• Ah Yin introduced herself as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Shapeshifting Soul Beast who had survived her sacrifice, and Chen Ming told her he was thirteen; she refused to believe him.

Chen Ming questioned Ah Yin about her imprisonment and learned she was the Blue Silver Emperor who had sacrificed herself for Tang Hao. Under the influence of Chen Ming’s power, Ah Yin revealed that she had long suspected Tang Hao’s motives, but she had not yet explained what happened after her identity was exposed.

• Chen Ming identified Ah Yin as the Blue Silver Emperor involved in Tang Hao’s killing of Pope Qian Xunji.
• Ah Yin described spending nearly ten years trapped in a stone chamber, too weak to contact her clan and surviving by hibernating between brief periods of sunlight.
• Chen Ming pressed Ah Yin to explain who had imprisoned her and left her Soul Bone beside her, warning that a new Blue Silver Emperor could cause her to vanish.
• Chen Ming used the Evil God’s power to magnify Ah Yin’s negative emotions, causing her to break down and confess her suspicions about Tang Hao.
• Ah Yin recalled that Tang Hao’s expression changed when she told him she was pregnant, and that he showed her a strange malice even as he cared for her.
• Ah Yin said her identity was exposed just before she gave birth, despite her efforts to avoid humans, and began explaining that Tang Hao could have taken her away but did not.

Ah Yin recounted how Tang Hao’s choices led Spirit Hall to capture them and how, on the day she gave birth, she sacrificed herself to save him and their child. After confronting the pain and betrayal she had buried, she asked Chen Ming to let her live as ordinary Blue Silver Grass and said she no longer wanted revenge.

• Ah Yin explained how she concealed herself and evaded Spirit Hall, but Tang Hao’s actions repeatedly drew their pursuers closer.
• Ah Yin described how Qian Xunji’s forces cornered them and how Tang Hao fought until he was nearly defeated on the day she gave birth.
• Ah Yin sacrificed herself to save Tang Hao and their newborn, sensing his joy, pain, and hesitation as he took her Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Chen Ming helped Ah Yin uncover her suppressed emotions, and she wept as she condemned Tang Hao’s greed and mourned the life she had lost.
• Ah Yin asked Chen Ming to plant her as ordinary Blue Silver Grass and rejected revenge, saying she no longer wanted to face the past.

Chen Ming offered Ah Yin the chance to see Xiao San, learn what had happened to Tang Hao and the continent, and return to the Blue Silver Forest in exchange for her faith and the Blue Silver Grass Clan’s faith. After he revealed his Plague God Divine Throne, Ah Yin agreed, though she was unsure whether she had accepted for her child, her clan, or her own yearning for godhood.

• Chen Ming used Ah Yin’s desire to see Xiao San, Tang Hao, and her clansmen to persuade her to hear his offer.
• Chen Ming explained that he was pursuing godhood and needed Ah Yin’s faith and the faith of the Blue Silver Grass Clan.
• Chen Ming revealed his nascent Divine Throne, whose power centered on poison, plague, and death, and Ah Yin was overwhelmed by its aura.
• Chen Ming withdrew the Divine Throne and restored Ah Yin with Life Force and Soul Power after she recognized him as a Plague God.
• Ah Yin agreed to Chen Ming’s request, though she could not tell what had ultimately persuaded her.

Chen Ming bound Ah Yin to himself, helped her reconnect with the Blue Silver Grass Clan, and refined her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone. The soul bone granted him powerful healing and flight abilities while his Life Force rapidly restored Ah Yin, leaving her growing stronger under his imprint.

• Chen Ming implanted a strand of his spirituality and Spiritual Power into Ah Yin, strengthening her spiritual body and letting her sense her clan's concern through their network.
• Chen Ming removed Ah Yin's right leg Soul Bone, and Ah Yin drew on its power to grow from about an inch tall to over two inches before handing it over.
• Chen Ming refined the Soul Bone and gained the Never-ending Life and flight skills, greatly improving his regeneration and aerial maneuverability.
• Chen Ming's newly enhanced Life Force nourished Ah Yin, whose branches wrapped around him as she grew and advanced toward the Thousand-Year Soul Beast level.

Chen Ming gained insight into the unity of opposing forces, concluding that poison was fundamentally disharmony, and his Soul Power reached level sixty. He considered candidates for his Sixth Soul Ring and decided to investigate the remaining Super Soul Beasts marked by the Douluo World’s World Consciousness.

• Chen Ming made Life Force and Death Power transform into and resonate with each other, forming a cycle in his palm.
• Chen Ming realized that poison was disharmony and contemplated uniting contradictory powers and divine attributes.
• Chen Ming emerged from several days of meditation with a better understanding of how opposing Divine Thrones could be unified.
• Chen Ming’s Soul Power reached level sixty after absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone and cultivating.
• Chen Ming ruled out several powerful soul beasts as too dangerous and considered hunting one of the three remaining Super Soul Beasts at the coordinates given by the World Consciousness.