Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming arranged for Tang San to absorb a Poison Sting Beast’s Soul Ring and gain a weak, poisonous-spine External Soul Bone instead of the Eight Spider Lances. Tang San reached Soul Elder level, but Xiao Wu was injured when she rushed to embrace him.

• Chen Ming prepared an enhanced Poison Sting Beast to give Tang San a low-quality External Soul Bone and occupy one of his Soul Bone slots.
• Tang San absorbed the Poison Sting Beast’s Soul Ring, and hooked, venomous spikes emerged along his spine as an External Soul Bone.
• Tang San advanced to Soul Elder at level thirty-one, far less powerfully than he would have after absorbing the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu caught up and rushed to embrace Tang San, but the spikes pierced her arms and left her writhing in pain.

Zhao Wuji rescued Xiao Wu and Tang San after Tang San’s newly absorbed External Soul Bone injured them, and Dai Mubai fed the unconscious Tang San mouth to mouth. Xiao Wu watched in jealousy as Tang San clung to Dai Mubai, while Tang Hao and the dormant Asura God’s Divine Will reacted to the scene.

• Chen Ming and Ah Yin silently mocked Xiao Wu as she suffered from the spikes on Tang San’s back.
• Zhao Wuji mistook Tang San for a beast, shattered the spikes, rescued Xiao Wu, and rushed both students to Oscar for treatment.
• Oscar exhausted himself making sausages, and Dai Mubai chewed and fed them to the unconscious Tang San mouth to mouth.
• Xiao Wu watched helplessly as Tang San embraced Dai Mubai and murmured that he did not want Xiao Wu to leave him.
• Tang Hao returned, saw Tang San kissing Dai Mubai, and nearly died from rage before the Asura God’s Divine Will awakened and questioned its chosen heir.

Asura God's Divine Will assessed Tang San and adjusted Tang Hao's and Xiao Wu's thoughts, while Asura God dealt with a dispute involving Hypnos in the Divine Realm. Asura God sent Hypnos to the Douluo Continent to observe the Dragon God's remnants and secretly guide his chosen inheritor.

• Asura God's Divine Will inspected Tang San's cultivation and soul bones, then coordinated with the strand in Xiao Wu to alter Tang Hao's and Xiao Wu's thoughts.
• Asura God watched the injured Hypnos after God of Pride beat him for boasting about his strength.
• God of Destruction confronted Asura God over Hypnos, and Asura God ended the dispute by making Hypnos apologize and accept punishment.
• Asura God assigned Hypnos to spend a hundred years on the Douluo Continent observing the Dragon God's remnants and assisting his chosen inheritor.
• Hypnos asked whether the conflict had been part of Asura God's plan, and Asura God claimed that everything was going according to plan.

The God of Destruction prepared to counter the Asura God's schemes in the Divine Realm while Dai Mubai's strange influence softened Tang San's anger after saving him. As the group prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang San decided Dai Mubai was a good person and his sworn brother.

• The God of Destruction arranged to send the God of Pride to the lower realm as a counter to the Asura God's plan to punish Hypnos, and kept Kindness and Evil in the Divine Realm.
• Tang San rinsed and vomited after Dai Mubai kissed him to save him, while Xiao Wu sat in a daze under the Asura God's Divine Will.
• Dai Mubai's mysterious influence made him treat Tang San gently, and Tang San accepted that Dai Mubai had saved him despite feeling that his dignity had been insulted.
• Dai Mubai encouraged Tang San to spend time with Xiao Wu, and Tang San gained more goodwill toward him.
• After Dai Mubai helped them pack and prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang San decided Dai Mubai was a good person and his sworn brother.

Tang San showed Yu Xiaogang his Blue Silver Thorn skill and struggled to recover his shattered External Soul Bone under an unsuitable training regimen. After Tang Hao intervened and Tang San’s bone mostly recovered, Chen Ming prepared a cultivation method that would keep targeting it.

• Tang San returned to Shrek, told Yu Xiaogang about the Star Dou Great Forest hunt, and demonstrated his Third Soul Skill, Blue Silver Thorn.
• Yu Xiaogang prescribed a medicinal bath and intense training to help Tang San recover his External Soul Bone, but the mismatched treatment weakened Tang San’s foundation.
• Tang Hao secretly gave Yu Xiaogang a Clear Sky Sect medicinal bath formula and brought back soul beasts so Tang San could eat nourishing meat.
• After another month, Tang San’s External Soul Bone mostly recovered, but his Soul Power quality and recovery speed had worsened.
• Chen Ming devised a cultivation method that consumed Soul Power and Life Force to strengthen Tang San’s External Soul Bone and increase its age.

Chen Ming delayed Tang San’s path to the tournament while helping Dugu Bo acquire a neglected academy. Dugu Bo told Chen Ming that poison-attribute Soul Masters lacked places to study and share knowledge, leaving him with the idea of addressing that need.

• Yu Xiaogang modified Chen Ming’s cultivation method for Tang San, improving its efficiency but making Soul Bone growth less stable and slowing Tang San’s cultivation.
• Chen Ming persuaded Qin Ming and Dugu Yan to return the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team to the academy, further disrupting its progress toward the tournament.
• After confirming Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Tang Hao would remain near Shrek, Chen Ming returned to Heaven Dou City and obtained a former academy estate from a declining noble family through Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo visited Chen Ming and described how poison-attribute Soul Masters lacked predecessors, academies, and useful opportunities to exchange knowledge.

Dugu Bo asked Chen Ming about founding a poison-attribute soul master academy, and Chen Ming supported the idea and offered a cultivation method for it. After several days in Heaven Dou City, Chen Ming declined Ning Fengzhi’s invitation to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Ning Fengzhi arrived at Dugu Manor with Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Ning Rongrong.

• Dugu Bo asked Chen Ming whether he could establish an academy for poison-attribute soul masters, and Chen Ming encouraged him to pursue the ambition.
• Chen Ming gave Dugu Bo a cultivation method for poison-attribute soul masters and proposed adapting it as the academy’s secret art.
• Chen Ming discussed Dugu Yan’s future cultivation and soul rings, and promised to improve Dugu Bo’s soul bones and soul ring ages.
• Dugu Bo and Chen Ming discussed the academy and family matters through the night, while Dugu Yan later took Chen Ming shopping around Heaven Dou City.
• Chen Ming declined Ning Fengzhi’s invitation to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and three days later Ning Fengzhi arrived at Dugu Manor with Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Ning Rongrong.

Ning Fengzhi visited Chen Ming to apologize for his earlier discourtesy and negotiate for more Soul Tools, bringing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone as a gift. After testing a Level Five Soul Ray Gun, Ning Fengzhi was thrilled by its destructive power and the chance to attack as a Support System Soul Master.

• Ning Fengzhi visited Chen Ming with Sword and Bone Douluo and Ning Rongrong, then apologized and offered him a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Chen Ming showed Ning Fengzhi five Soul Ray Guns ranging from Level One to Level Five and explained the strongest one could rival a Soul King's Soul Skill.
• Dugu Bo led the group to his training ground so Ning Fengzhi could test a Soul Ray Gun.
• Ning Fengzhi fired the Level Five Soul Ray Gun at more than a dozen targets, blasting them apart and leaving craters.
• The Soul Ray Gun overloaded and stopped working, and Ning Fengzhi lowered it, flushed and breathing heavily after his firing spree.

Ning Fengzhi recognized Soul Tools as a way to solve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s long-standing lack of self-defense and eagerly proposed marriage alliances to Chen Ming. Dugu Bo understood Ning Fengzhi’s desperation but remained angry that he had targeted Chen Ming, leaving the decision unresolved.

• Ning Fengzhi concluded that Soul Tools could transform the Soul Master world and handed his Soul Ray Gun to Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Fengzhi pleaded with Dugu Bo and Chen Ming, admitting that Ning Rongrong had affection for Chen Ming and asking to strengthen their ties.
• Dugu Bo objected, while Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo intervened and guarded Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Fengzhi explained the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s inherited hopes for self-defense and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, then offered to buy Soul Tools and Soul Engineer techniques.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed that Ning Rongrong marry Chen Ming or that Chen Ming and Dugu Yan’s future child be betrothed to the sect and share its leadership.
• Dugu Bo acknowledged Ning Fengzhi’s motives but remained angry, while Ning Rongrong privately accepted the possibility of marrying Chen Ming.

Chen Ming demonstrated Soul Tools to Ning Fengzhi, refused the proposal involving Ning Rongrong, and explained why selling Soul Tools was possible but transferring the technology was not. Ning Fengzhi returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and summoned its elders to reveal the Soul Tools, leaving them alarmed by their potential impact.

• Chen Ming told Ning Fengzhi that he saw Ning Rongrong only as a younger sister and was not ready to discuss their future.
• Chen Ming demonstrated various Soul Tools, including flight packs, and explained that he could sell commissioned tools but could not transfer the complex technology.
• Chen Ming gave Ning Fengzhi a book of First-Grade Soul Engineer formations and a Third-Grade Flying Soul Tool, and Ning Fengzhi left a gold card worth ten million Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Fengzhi took Ning Rongrong with him after Dugu Bo silently objected to leaving her at his residence.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi summoned the elders and showed them the Soul Tools.

Ning Fengzhi purged elders who wanted to attack Dugu Bo and seize Chen Ming’s Soul Tool technology, then directed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to build ties with Chen Ming and prepare to research his formations. Chen Ming returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to recover and focus on improving his stalled Soul Power cultivation.

• Ning Fengzhi secretly signaled Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, who killed several elders advocating that the sect kill Dugu Bo and force Chen Ming to surrender Soul Tool technology.
• Ning Fengzhi reminded the surviving elders to support the sect by winning over talented people and avoiding dangerous enemies, and they agreed to follow his lead.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect began forging currency and gold and silver bricks, gathering Spirit System Soul Masters and artisans, and preparing to study Chen Ming’s formations.
• Ning Fengzhi suspected Chen Ming had long influenced the Blacksmith Association and considered buying mass-produced Soul Tools rather than provoking him.
• Chen Ming inspected Shrek, returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and prepared to adjust his condition and raise his Soul Power, which had remained at level sixty-five for months.

Chen Ming entered the hidden realm of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings and used their remains to glimpse the ancient battle that killed them. The vision ended with their warning that the Dragon God was the greatest liar.

• Chen Ming fused his External Incarnation with his true body, descended into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and entered the realm that had once rejected him.
• He found the enormous, lifeless bodies of the Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King, whose shattered Dragon Souls could no longer be restored.
• Chen Ming sensed the power left in their wounds and suspected they had been killed by a force tied to the Power of Creation.
• He used his talent and authority over spirituality to glimpse the Dragon God battling the gods and Nine Great Dragon Kings, killing ten thousand gods and ten thousand dragons.
• In the vision, the dying Fire Dragon King warned Chen Ming about the Love God, the phoenix, the Dragon Realm, the God Star, and the union of creation and destruction, then said not to trust the Dragon God.

After pondering the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ cryptic warnings about the Dragon God, Chen Ming absorbed their lingering power and raised his Soul Power to level seventy. He then assembled Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Bones, and the pieces resonated as a complete set.

• Chen Ming wondered what the Dragon Kings meant by their references to the Love God, the Dragon God’s lies, and the union of creation and destruction.
• Chen Ming absorbed energy from the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, raising his Soul Power from level sixty-five to level seventy and strengthening the Dragon Ascending Sword.
• Chen Ming returned to the outer Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and confirmed that no one had approached while he was away.
• Chen Ming compared Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Bones and arranged the most compatible pieces into a rough human skeleton.
• The six assembled Soul Bones resonated, awakened their Man Faced Demon Spider bloodlines, and began sharing power that strengthened the set.

Chen Ming created a second flesh-and-blood body and fused a complete set of Human-Faced Demon Spider Soul Bones into it. He awakened it as the Evil God Clone, then strengthened its Soul Bone Set with Eight Spider Lances, discovering that the fused bones could now grow.

• Chen Ming built an infant-shaped vessel from his flesh, bones, and organs, then used it to fuse all six Soul Bones into a complete set.
• Chen Ming implanted a crystal made from his spirituality and several sources of power, allowing the vessel to stabilize and grow into a young man.
• Chen Ming entered the new body with his will and awakened its Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor Martial Soul at Innate Full Soul Power.
• Chen Ming named the body the Evil God Clone and helped it form a Natal Soul Ring with the ability Spider God (Evil God) Possession.
• Chen Ming helped the Evil God Clone absorb a ninety-thousand-year Eight Spider Lances Soul Bone, which grew to one hundred thousand years and enabled the Soul Bone Set to grow.

Chen Ming forged his seventh Natal Soul Ring, transforming his Scorpion Emperor Martial Soul into the God-Tier Poison God Martial Soul. Though he became a level seventy-one Soul Saint with power close to divinity, he decided to remain in the Douluo Plane and seek more strength.

• Chen Ming refined his Evil God Clone and fused with it through a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then checked on Tang San, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Yan before returning to cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• After a month of preparation, Chen Ming resonated with the World Consciousness and drew upon his origins and the first six Soul Rings to forge his seventh Natal Soul Ring.
• The transformation consumed vast Heaven and Earth Origin Energy and the Life Force of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Chen Ming's Martial Soul became the God-Tier Poison God with scorpion, hybrid, and human forms.
• Chen Ming realized he could ascend to the Divine Realm but judged his accumulated power insufficient, and considered the Evil Emperor, Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and Di Tian for future Soul Rings.
• Chen Ming restored the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's plants with his Life Force and saw the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and Nine Bends Ascending Dragon Grass beginning to develop into Soul Beasts.
• Chen Ming planned to let the Nine Bends Ascending Dragon Grass become Dugu Yan's sixth Soul Ring when she neared level sixty, potentially transforming her Martial Soul into a dragon.

The World Consciousness created a catastrophic Lightning Tribulation in Sunset Forest to conceal Chen Ming’s breakthrough, drawing the attention of powerful Soul Beasts and divine wills across Douluo Continent. As gods sensed the changes, the weary Sea God ordered Bo Saixi to investigate and seek a successor, while the chapter left the Divine Realm’s trapped gods still longing to pass on their Divine Thrones and escape.

• The World Consciousness struck down a 150,000-year Blazing Fire Demonic Leopard with a tribulation intended for a 500,000-year Soul Beast, creating a vast crater in Sunset Forest.
• Di Tian, the Silver Dragon King, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and the Evil Emperor sensed the tribulation and wondered whether a Soul Beast was becoming a god.
• Chen Ming sensed the much stronger tribulation and feared the World Consciousness meant to kill him, then learned it had been covering up his breakthrough.
• An Asura God's Divine Will and the God of Life's Divine Will awakened and reported the changes to their main bodies; the God of Life also empowered a seven-colored flower as a Soul Beast and instructed it.
• The Sea God learned from Bo Saixi that Douluo Continent had changed, then ordered her to investigate and look for a potential successor.
• The Sea God and other gods reflected on their stagnant lives in the Divine Realm and their growing desperation to pass on their Divine Thrones and leave.

Chen Ming and Dugu Bo reinforced the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s defenses after Chen Ming’s breakthrough and a soul beast’s Heavenly Tribulation drew attention to Sunset Forest. Chen Ming helped Dugu Yan absorb a Fifty Thousand Year Man Faced Demon Spider’s Eight Spider Lances, then absorbed Changyou’s left arm bone and gained new powers.

• Dugu Bo arrived with Dugu Yan, and Chen Ming explained that his breakthrough and a soul beast’s Heavenly Tribulation had caused the disturbances in Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo and Chen Ming strengthened the poison barrier, creating four powerful poison-element lifeforms to guard its nodes.
• Soul Masters and soldiers from the Heaven Dou Empire headed toward Sunset Forest after the anomaly drew attention.
• Dugu Bo and Chen Ming found only a huge crater where the soul beast had undergone its tribulation, then returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Chen Ming helped Dugu Yan absorb the Fifty Thousand Year Man Faced Demon Spider’s Eight Spider Lances.
• Chen Ming absorbed Changyou’s left arm bone, advanced from Level Seventy-One to Level Seventy-Four, and gained Monster Control, which let him create monsters using different elements.

As news of treasures and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in Sunset Forest spread, Spirit Hall and Shrek Academy turned their attention there. Shrek set out for the forest, Tang Hao was sent after Tang San, and three Titled Douluo from Sea God Island quietly came ashore.

• High-level soul masters searching Sunset Forest discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but Dugu Bo drove them away with his poison and force.
• Bibi Dong dispatched Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo to investigate Sunset Forest.
• Flender persuaded Yu Xiaogang to move Shrek Academy to Sunset Forest, then read a pleading letter and resolved to help Er Long fulfill her wish.
• Three days later, Yu Xiaogang, Flender, Zhao Wuji, Tang San, and the rest of Shrek Academy departed for Sunset Forest with their belongings.
• The Asura God's Divine Sense partly healed Tang Hao and sent him to follow Tang San and Little Rabbit to Sunset Forest.
• Three Titled Douluo from Sea God Island quietly came ashore with a group of Sea Soul Masters.

Hypnos and the God of Pride descended toward the Douluo World to investigate the soul beasts, each secretly carrying plans and contraband that could disrupt the Asura God’s scheme. Meanwhile, the Shrek group reached Heaven Dou City and found Sunset Forest under tight control as sects hunted for Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

• The Five Great God Kings sent Hypnos and the God of Pride to the lower realm after the Asura God restated the rules and the God of Destruction opened the passage.
• The Asura God trusted that Hypnos could use the Asura Demon Sword to advance his plan, while the God of Destruction secretly knew the God of Pride’s seal was weak and that he carried numerous forbidden treasures for Chen Ming and himself.
• Hypnos worried that the Asura God’s plan would be exposed, while the God of Pride checked the arsenal and gifts he had concealed in his spatial divine artifact.
• The Asura God and the God of Destruction returned to their divine halls, each privately mocking the other for exploiting the Divine Realm’s rules.
• The Shrek group arrived in Heaven Dou City after nearly a month of travel and learned that the Black Tiger Sect leader had become the Titled Douluo known as Black Tiger by absorbing a Soul Bone before a Soul Ring.
• The Heaven Dou Empire restricted access to Sunset Forest with permits and security deposits as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Elephant Armor Sect hunted the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts found there.

After the Shrek group was denied entry to Sunset Forest without permits, Flender brought them to Liu Erlong at Blue Tyrant Academy, where she reunited with Flender and Yu Xiaogang. Liu Erlong arranged forest permits and invited them to stay, while news of Yu Xiaogang’s return reached Yu Luomian, who was furious that his daughter had brought him back.

• Flender calmed down after Zhao Wuji stopped him from forcing the Shrek group into Sunset Forest, then led them to Heaven Dou City to seek help.
• Flender presented his token at Blue Tyrant Academy, and Liu Erlong rushed out to greet him and Yu Xiaogang.
• Liu Erlong dragged Yu Xiaogang into her courtyard and invited Flender and the Shrek group to follow, while Flender recounted the Golden Iron Triangle’s history.
• Liu Erlong obtained permits for the group to enter Sunset Forest and offered Flender the headmaster position at Blue Tyrant Academy, which he accepted after persuading Yu Xiaogang to stay.
• A teacher secretly reported Yu Xiaogang’s return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s camp, and Yu Luomian erupted in anger over Liu Erlong bringing him back.