Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming strengthened his family and prepared for coming turmoil before completing the first trials of the God of Strength and the Thunder God, raising his Soul Power to level seventy-seven. A month before the Continental High-level Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, Tang San trained on Clear Sky Peak with a changed appearance and a pointed crown he tried to hide.

• Chen Ming shared Drunk Life Dream Death with Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and his relatives, helping Dugu Bo reach level ninety-seven, Dugu Yan reach level fifty-eight, and Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun become Quasi-Soul Emperors.
• Chen Ming took Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun to Sunset Forest, where they each absorbed a roughly twenty-five-thousand-year-old Phantom Scorpion as a Sixth Soul Ring.
• Chen Ming equipped the two men with Soul Tools, warned them about future unrest, and asked Demon Bear Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo to protect the Chen Family in return for gifts.
• Chen Ming completed the first trials of the God of Strength and the Thunder God at double the required level, advancing from level seventy-three to level seventy-seven and strengthening his Divine Thrones.
• A month before the Continental High-level Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, Tang San trained on Clear Sky Peak and tried to disguise his pointed crown with a styled upward ponytail.

Tang San struggled with impatience and signs of going astray despite reaching level forty-six after months of brutal training in the Clear Sky Sect. Tang Xiao soothed him, while the chapter recounted how Tang San was adopted as Tang Xiao’s son and isolated from a sect that rejected him.

• Tang San lamented that level forty-six was not enough and nearly lost control until Tang Xiao calmed him with Soul Power.
• After Tang Chen revealed Tang San’s identity, Clear Sky Sect members rejected his return, and several elders killed themselves in protest.
• Tang Chen arranged for Tang San to be adopted into Tang Xiao’s line, but sect members continued to harass and attack him until he was moved to a remote mountain.
• Tang Chen and Tang Xiao subjected Tang San to relentless cultivation, combat, devouring, and Soul Power purification, helping him gain five levels in about eight months.
• Tang Xiao reassured Tang San that he had done all he could, though Tang San remained impatient.

Tang San’s reliance on Demon Spider Devour deepened as his cultivation slowed, alarming Tang Chen and Tang Xiao. Xiao Wu returned to see him, while the chapter also revealed how Tang Chen had dealt with Dai Mubai and Yu Xiaogang ahead of the tournament.

• Tang San’s devouring had corrupted his martial souls and made him increasingly crave flesh and blood, so Tang Chen planned to forbid the ability after the tournament.
• Tang Xiao tried to dissuade Tang San, who was struggling with the temptation to devour more.
• Xiao Wu arrived, and Tang San happily rushed to embrace her before they went inside to talk.
• Tang Chen had sent Dai Mubai to Heaven Dou City and assigned Yu Xiaogang to copy books, but Yu Xiaogang’s unreliable additions enraged him.
• Tang Chen sent Yu Xiaogang to Blue Tyrant Academy to prepare for the tournament, and Yu Xiaogang hid his identity as Huang Sangui while borrowing Tang Chen’s name.

As the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan tolerated Yu Xiaogang’s influence at Blue Tyrant Academy, Tang San and Xiao Wu prepared for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament. The tournament opened amid unprecedented participation and growing interest from clans across the continent, with Tang San returning to a human settlement after months on Clear Sky Peak.

• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian let Yu Xiaogang manipulate Blue Tyrant Academy while Liu Erlong and Yu Tianheng remained there, and some clan members secretly supported him.
• Xiao Wu brought Tang San a basket of hard-boiled eggs, and Tang San eagerly ate the dusty eggs before she could clean them.
• The tournament began as sects and clans flocked to compete, amid rumors that Spirit Hall would hold a martial competition to choose a new Seven Great Sects.
• Chen Ming returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and joined its team in name, while Tang San joined the assembled Blue Tyrant Academy Team after months under house arrest on Clear Sky Peak.

Tang San joined Blue Tyrant Academy’s tournament team as captain amid internal rivalries and political maneuvering. The qualifiers opened in Heaven Dou City, where Tang Xiao’s public display of level ninety-seven Soul Power shocked the gathered Soul Masters.

• Tang San met his Blue Tyrant Academy teammates, including Tai Long, Yu Tianheng, and Bai Chenxiang, and the team largely accepted him as captain.
• Tang Chen supported the struggling Speed Clan and arranged for Bai Chenxiang to join the team while secretly hoping to bring her and Tang San together.
• Yu Xiaogang, under the alias Huang Sangui, began planning tactics for the team despite Tang San’s doubts about him.
• The Heaven Dou qualifiers opened before leaders and powerful Soul Masters from across the continent, including Xue Ye, Xue Qinghe, and Ning Fengzhi.
• Tang Xiao appeared for the Clear Sky Sect and revealed level ninety-seven Soul Power, stunning the audience before the first round began.

Dugu Yan revealed her Soul King strength and deadly poison while leading the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team to defeat Sky Armor Academy, making her team a tournament favorite. Tang San remained confident he could counter her poison, but Blue Tyrant Academy did not face her team before meeting a veteran Five Elements Academy team.

• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling led the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team against Sky Armor Academy while Chen Ming stayed out of the exhibition match.
• Dugu Yan revealed her five Soul Rings, including a black fourth ring, and paralyzed Sky Armor Academy's team with controlled poison.
• Ye Lingling treated the defeated opponents after Dugu Yan ended the match, and spectators celebrated the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team's victory.
• Tang San privately planned to use Realgar Wine and his Mysterious Heaven Skill to counter Dugu Yan's poison, while claiming only that he had a way to resist it.
• Blue Tyrant Academy won several matches against ordinary teams with Tang San's poisoned Blue Silver Grass before encountering Five Elements Academy.

Blue Tyrant Academy struggled against the Elephant Armor Team, whose Diamond Mammoth soul masters overwhelmed them with their strength and defense. After Xiao Wu was crushed into the arena, Tang San erupted in rage and attacked the opposing team with his poisoned thorns, leaving several members dead or poisoned.

• The Elephant Armor Team used its Diamond Mammoth Martial Souls to overpower Blue Tyrant Academy from the start, knocking Jingling Huangyuan unconscious and trapping Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng in a physical brawl.
• Tang San abandoned his Blue Silver Grass and attacked Huyan Li with the Clear Sky Hammer, but Huyan Li endured the blows.
• An Elephant Armor soul master and the gravity-controlling soul master caught Xiao Wu and crushed her into the arena.
• Tang San pierced Huyan Li with a poisoned thorn and then hurled more thorns at the Elephant Armor Team, killing two soul masters and poisoning others.
• Tang San focused a barrage of thorns on the soul master who had crushed Xiao Wu, leaving him covered in wounds and blackish-purple blood.

Blue Tyrant Academy defeated Elephant Armor Academy in a brutal match that left several contestants dead and Xiao Wu gravely injured. Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin saved several of the Elephant Armor disciples, while Tang Xiao stopped Tang San from attacking Ye Renxin and turned against him in disappointment.

• Huyan Zhen tried to leap into the arena to save his family, but Tang Xiao struck him with a Clear Sky Hammer and refused to let him interfere.
• The referee declared Blue Tyrant Academy the winner; four Elephant Armor Academy contestants died, Huyan Li was near death, and Xiao Wu suffered severe injuries.
• Dugu Bo removed the poison from Huyan Li, and Ye Renxin healed him and several other Elephant Armor disciples, though three could not be saved.
• Tang San carried the badly injured Xiao Wu to Ye Renxin and tried to get him to heal her, but Ye Renxin turned away.
• Tang San drew his Godly Zhuge Crossbow toward Ye Renxin, but Tang Xiao took Xiao Wu from him and slapped him across the arena.

Tang San’s attack on Ye Renxin turned public opinion against him and widened the rift between him and Tang Xiao. To force Tang San toward victory in the tournament, Tang Chen used dangerous methods that greatly increased Tang San’s power while damaging his body and future potential.

• Tang San tried to attack Ye Renxin after Ye Renxin refused his plea, and Tang Xiao apologized before carrying Tang San and Xiao Wu away.
• A week later, Tang San returned with a gloomy demeanor and addressed Tang Xiao as Sect Master, while Tang Xiao left the tournament team in another Soul Douluo’s hands.
• Tang Chen stopped the Blue Tyrant Academy Team from being disqualified, but Tang San’s reputation led later opponents to withdraw or surrender, and his team barely qualified for the second round.
• After Tang San struggled against Huo Wu, Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er, and Feng Xiaotian, the Asura God’s Divine Will urged Tang Chen to strengthen him at great cost.
• Tang Chen gave Tang San Soul Bones and the Blood-draining Vine, then took him to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Soul Rings and consume Soul Beast essence.
• Tang San’s strength rose to level fifty-eight, but his mind grew more unstable, spider-like fuzz appeared on his arms, and his body began to show the strain.

Tang San arrived in Spirit City with Tang Chen while ignoring the danger of his unstable body, and Chen Ming traveled to the Sun Moon Continent to hunt the Evil Emperor for his eighth soul ring. Chen Ming found the Evil Emperor resting in the Demonic Forest and sensed that the powerful soul beast was still weakened by an old injury.

• Tang San reached Spirit King rank at fourteen but continued to dismiss the danger of his overstrained body, trusting Tang Chen despite his anxiety and isolation.
• Chen Ming bought the Crystal Dragon Blood Ginseng from Bai He, reached level eighty, and set out to obtain his eighth soul ring from the Evil Emperor.
• Chen Ming traveled to the Sun Moon Continent and entered the Demonic Forest after locating the Evil Emperor's aura.
• Chen Ming saw the Evil Emperor resting atop a mountain while Evil Eye Apes massaged his tentacles, and sensed that an old injury had left him weakened.

Chen Ming confronted the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord in the Demonic Forest and demanded that the fierce beast become his Eighth Soul Ring. The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord recognized the danger Chen Ming posed but refused to surrender, threatening to self-destruct and offering his eldest son instead.

• Chen Ming surprised the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord and the Evil Eye Ape clan, then used his Spiritual Power to pull the Evil Eye Ape Emperor's soul from his body.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord severed Chen Ming's connection to the Evil Eye Ape Emperor and attacked him with Spiritual Power, but Chen Ming blocked the assault with his Poison God Martial Soul and seven Soul Rings.
• Chen Ming told the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord that he had come from the Douluo Continent to claim him as his Eighth Soul Ring, by sacrifice or by force.
• Chen Ming revealed that he was a Demigod with a Divine Throne, and the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord feared that he could not win against him.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord threatened to self-destruct rather than let Chen Ming take his Soul Ring or Soul Bone, and offered his nearly three-hundred-ninety-thousand-year-old eldest son instead.

Chen Ming fought Evil Emperor and offered him a place on his path to godhood, persuading him to consider a plan involving the Wisdom Soul Ring. Evil Emperor accepted the invitation after seeing proof that Chen Ming’s methods could work.

• Chen Ming challenged Evil Emperor’s suspicions by attacking through their competing Domains and severed several of his tentacles with a powerful synthesized attribute.
• Evil Emperor accused Chen Ming of wanting to absorb his son, then explained that lingering injuries from his battle with Di Tian limited his strength.
• Chen Ming offered Evil Emperor a chance to join his path to godhood and warned that he would not help him evade his approaching Heavenly Tribulation if he refused.
• Evil Emperor agreed to hear Chen Ming’s plan after Chen Ming mentioned the Wisdom Soul Ring and sent him a private invitation with the proposal.
• Chen Ming showed Evil Emperor the transformed Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as evidence, then returned it to the Dragon Ascending Sword.

Chen Ming forced Evil Emperor to become his Wisdom Soul Ring, explaining that he wanted the faith and cultivation of the Demonic Forest. Evil Emperor demanded a fight before agreeing, but after hours of battle and being warped by Chen Ming’s Divine Power, he surrendered and regretted resisting.

• Evil Emperor considered seizing Chen Ming’s body, but Chen Ming noticed his malicious intent and warned him.
• Chen Ming explained that Evil Emperor’s Soul Ring would provide faith and help him raise his Divine Throne, then threatened to kill him if he refused.
• Evil Emperor agreed to sacrifice himself as Chen Ming’s Wisdom Soul Ring if Chen Ming could defeat him.
• Chen Ming unleashed his divine powers, and the ensuing battle ravaged the Demonic Forest and terrified its soul beasts.
• After several hours, Evil Emperor surrendered, badly twisted in body and mind, and regretted making Chen Ming fight him.

Chen Ming guided Evil Emperor through a cooperative sacrifice, absorbing nearly eight hundred thousand years of accumulated power and transforming his Eighth Soul Ring. He completed its ninth golden pattern and forged two powerful Soul Skills from Evil Emperor’s abilities.

• Chen Ming altered the forest, empowered the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and prepared for Evil Emperor’s sacrifice while Evil Emperor raised a defensive Spiritual Force Field.
• Evil Emperor willingly sacrificed himself, and Chen Ming shaped his soul into an Eighth Soul Ring while absorbing his accumulated power.
• Chen Ming used Divine Power to complete the Soul Ring’s ninth golden pattern after a day and night of channeling energy from the Demonic Forest.
• Chen Ming forged Soul Shatter, a devastating attack that extracted and crushed an enemy’s soul.
• Chen Ming chose Light of Time-Space, which aged its target by tens of millions of years.

Chen Ming transformed Evil Emperor’s Soul Core into a Heavenly Eye and raised the Medusa Goddess Head Soul Bone’s age, while Evil Emperor became a powerful soul-form companion. At Evil Emperor’s lair, his eldest son pretended to protect the treasures, then attacked him as soon as he turned away.

• Chen Ming fused Evil Emperor’s Soul Core with the Medusa Goddess Head Soul Bone, creating the Heavenly Eye with long-range perception and Soul Skill casting abilities.
• Evil Emperor appeared in a soul-like form, celebrated his newfound potential to become a god, and praised Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming followed Evil Emperor to his lair, where they discovered Evil Eye Tyrants and Evil Emperor’s relatives trying to break into it.
• Evil Emperor’s eldest son claimed he had come to guard the treasures, and Evil Emperor drove the intruders away after knocking several unconscious.
• As Evil Emperor opened the barrier, his eldest son turned back and attacked him with a deadly wave of Spiritual Power.

The Evil Emperor defeated his treacherous eldest son and subdued the soul beasts in the cave, then welcomed Chen Ming into his treasury. He showed Chen Ming the vast collection of treasures he had gathered over tens of thousands of years, which now belonged to him as the Evil Emperor’s master.

• The Evil Eye Tyrant Crown Prince tried to devour the Evil Emperor, but the Evil Emperor absorbed his power and used a hidden force to bring him down.
• The Evil Emperor sealed the Crown Prince’s thoughts and knocked out the other soul beasts with a mental assault.
• The Evil Emperor greeted Chen Ming, opened the cave’s barriers, and prevented outsiders from disturbing them.
• Chen Ming considered turning the subdued soul beasts into Soul Spirits for his allies and future sect.
• The Evil Emperor guided Chen Ming through his treasury, revealing dragon remains, rare ores, spatial gemstones, and a huge stockpile of Golden Crystal Stone.

Chen Ming examined Evil Emperor’s hoard and learned that the nearly drained Demonic Demon Tree Emperor was the last of its clan. He planned to use the tree’s remains and its preserved fruits to cultivate a new emperor and forge an artifact of the God of Sin.

• Chen Ming inspected Evil Emperor’s lair and discovered the remains of powerful soul beasts, including a still-living Demonic Demon Tree Emperor.
• Evil Emperor explained that it had defeated the 450,000-year tree and spent millennia draining it to produce spiritual fruits.
• Evil Emperor admitted that its actions had wiped out the Demonic Demon Tree Clan, leaving only the exhausted emperor and a dozen preserved fruits.
• Chen Ming sensed the tree’s affinity for his divine power and declared that he would cultivate a new Demonic Demon Tree Emperor from its remains and use it to forge his artifact.
• Evil Emperor handed Chen Ming the carefully preserved fruits, each selected from a different harvest.

Chen Ming used the Demonic Demon Tree Emperor’s ashes and seven fruits to grow a new evil tree, then sacrificed the Evil Eye Ape Emperor to refine it into a divine artifact. As the tree condensed into a shadowy spear, Chen Ming fed it blood from his Evil God Clone, leaving the artifact’s refinement unfinished.

• Chen Ming extracted the Demonic Demon Tree Emperor’s origin into seven fruits and cultivated them into a new Demonic Demon Tree using the Emperor’s ashes.
• Evil Emperor brought the unconscious Evil Eye Ape Emperor and Purple Winged Flying Dragon Emperor to serve as sacrificial material, and Chen Ming chose the ape while sparing the dragon for a possible future Soul Ring.
• Chen Ming sacrificed the Evil Eye Ape Emperor, extracting his Soul Core and feeding his flesh, blood, and bones to the tree while preserving a remnant of his soul for reincarnation.
• The Demonic Demon Tree twisted and shrank into the shape of a shadowy long spear.
• Chen Ming released his Evil God Clone and injected blood from the wound in its heart into the tree.

Chen Ming forged a nascent sin divine artifact for the Evil God Clone and looted treasures from the Evil Emperor's lair, learning how the Evil Eye Empire had once worshipped the Evil Emperor. As he prepared to deal with the captured soul beasts before returning to Douluo Continent, he discovered the Magic Tentacle King's bloodline came from another world.

• Chen Ming used the Demonic Demon Tree's blood and his divine power to integrate a budding magic spear into the Evil God Clone as a second martial soul.
• Chen Ming filled his storage tools with treasures and stunted immortal herbs from the Evil Emperor's treasury, then crafted more storage tools when his supplies ran out.
• The Evil Emperor told Chen Ming that humans had offered him artifacts while the Evil Eye Empire's founders tried to establish his faith, but he could not condense a divine throne.
• Chen Ming considered extracting faith from the Evil Eye Empire and reviewed the powerful soul beasts he planned to deal with before returning to Douluo Continent to disrupt Asura God's plan against Tang San.
• Chen Ming sensed that the Magic Tentacle King's bloodline came from another world and contained laws not fully assimilated by Douluo Continent.

Chen Ming assessed the captured fierce beasts and decided how to use each one, seeking to turn the Evil Eye Tyrant Crown Prince into a Soul Spirit for Dugu Yan and reserve the Purple Winged Flying Dragon Emperor’s bloodline for the Dragon Ascending Sword. The Explosive Bear King submitted, while the Purple Winged Flying Dragon Emperor’s defiance faded when Chen Ming revealed the sword’s powerful Dragon Qi.

• Chen Ming concluded that the tentacled monster possessed dormant Ultimate Life potential and could be useful as material for a divine artifact.
• Chen Ming planned to make the Evil Eye Tyrant Crown Prince a Soul Spirit for Dugu Yan, use the Purple Winged Flying Dragon Emperor to strengthen the Dragon Ascending Sword, and save the other fierce beasts for future Soul Spirits.
• Chen Ming decided the ordinary hundred-thousand-year Explosive Bear King would serve Xiao Lan’s followers if it proved useful, but would otherwise become food.
• Evil Emperor showed no concern for the captured traitors, and the Explosive Bear King obediently accepted Chen Ming’s demands after waking.
• The Purple Winged Flying Dragon Emperor resisted Chen Ming’s demand until Chen Ming summoned the Dragon Ascending Sword, whose Dragon Qi made him lower his head.
• The Purple Winged Flying Dragon Emperor’s obsession with becoming a True Dragon was revealed through his desire to devour dragon-type Soul Beast skeletons.