Chapter Summaries

Chen Huang absorbed the Evil Eye Soul Bone, raided Soul Tool research across the Sun Moon Continent, and gained the Evil Orca King's Spirit Ring and several Soul Bones. While searching for a Fire Attribute Spirit Ring, he and Yang Chan discovered a new continent with a small human population.

• Chen Huang absorbed the Evil Eye External Soul Bone, strengthening his Heavenly Eye and Mental Power.
• Chen Huang and Yang Chan entered Mingdu's Soul Tool headquarters and copied its blueprints and materials, then visited laboratories across the Sun Moon Continent.
• Chen Huang spared the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and its family, but killed the Evil Orca King and made it his third Martial Soul's fifth Spirit Ring.
• Chen Huang replaced several Soul Bones and reached Soul Power Level ninety, then decided to seek another Fire Attribute Spirit Ring.
• Chen Huang guided Yang Chan south, and they crossed the equator and discovered a new continent with a few small human settlements.

Chen Huang and Yang Chan encountered and killed the Black Striped Blood Python Emperor, a powerful death-attribute Soul Beast. After absorbing its Spirit Ring, Chen Huang’s Undying Grass reached twelve layers and twelve grades, and he awakened a Life and Death Domain.

• Chen Huang sensed several death-attribute Soul Beasts in the rainforest and found the Black Striped Blood Python Emperor in a great river.
• The python attacked Chen Huang and Yang Chan, but Chen Huang weakened it with Mental Interference and Divine Slaughter’s Domain before striking it with Death God Thunder and Soul Impact.
• Chen Huang killed the Black Striped Blood Python Emperor and claimed its Spirit Ring and torso Spirit Bone, which he intended for Xiao Shan.
• As Chen Huang absorbed the Spirit Ring, the Undying Grass grew to twelve layers and twelve grades, while life and death cycled through the grass around him.
• Chen Huang sensed that his Martial Soul had awakened a Life and Death Domain, though its range and potential were still limited.

Chen Huang and Yang Chan explored a poisonous rainforest and found a Poison Dragon guarding a Poison Flower. Chen Huang killed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, absorbed its Spirit Ring into his Cloud Martial Soul, and gained Poison Cloud Form and Poison Rain.

• Chen Huang tested his Life and Death Cycle Domain on the grass and trees, draining their vitality before he and Yang Chan flew south.
• Chen Huang and Yang Chan discovered a poisonous rainforest, where Chen Huang used his Heavenly Eye to identify a Poison Flower and they decided to seek a Poison Attribute Spirit Ring.
• Chen Huang and Yang Chan examined the rainforest’s deadly poisonous creatures and suggested Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan might benefit from hunting there.
• Chen Huang and Yang Chan reached the Poison Flower, where a Hundred-Thousand-Year Poison Dragon emerged from a pond and attacked them.
• Chen Huang overwhelmed the Poison Dragon with Soul Impact, killed it with his spear, and absorbed its Spirit Ring to gain Poison Cloud Form and Poison Rain.

Chen Huang and Yang Chan explored the Antarctic Ice Field, where Chen Huang hunted a snow eagle for his seventh Spirit Ring and searched for other unusual Soul Beasts. Beneath the aurora, he spotted an unknown dragon and flew after it.

• Chen Huang took a piece of the Poison Flower's root, left the flower in place, and marked the location for future travel.
• Chen Huang and Yang Chan reached the Antarctic Ice Field, where he searched for powerful Soul Beasts and possible ice-attribute treasures.
• Chen Huang identified five Hundred Thousand Year-level Soul Beasts, including two Fierce Beasts: a golden Imperial Wall Penguin and a snow eagle.
• Chen Huang hunted the snow eagle for his seventh Spirit Ring, gaining the Martial Soul Avatar of his third Martial Soul.
• Chen Huang spotted a dragon moving through the aurora, identified it as a possible Aurora Dragon, and flew toward it.

Chen Huang completed his final Spirit Rings in the Antarctic Ice Field and returned to Nuoding City with Yang Chan, bringing back Spirit Bones for his companions. He asked Ah Yin about her sacrifice to Tang Hao as he considered merging the Soul Beast souls in his Sea of Consciousness into Spirit Rings.

• Chen Huang killed a three-hundred-thousand-year Aurora Dragon and a phoenix-related Soul Beast in a volcano, then completed his ninth Spirit Ring and added a Mental Power ring with Mental Whip and Mental Barrier.
• Chen Huang left a Flying Thunder God mark in Antarctica and returned to Nuoding City with Yang Chan, where Xiao Shan and Zhu Zhuqing were sparring.
• Chen Huang sorted Spirit Bones for Xiao Shan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan, then entrusted Yang Chan with passing Zhu Zhuqing her Spirit Bone.
• Chen Huang asked Ah Yin what she had experienced when she sacrificed herself to Tang Hao, hoping to learn how sacrifice might help him create soul spirits.
• After hearing Ah Yin's account, Chen Huang decided to test merging the Soul Beast souls in his Sea of Consciousness into Spirit Rings.

After Xiao Shan absorbed three Spirit Bones, Chen Huang experimented with turning Tian Meng into a Soul Spirit by fully merging his soul with his Spirit Ring. Tian Meng successfully switched between silkworm and Spirit Ring forms and showed he could leave Chen Huang’s body while sustaining himself on external power.

• Chen Huang showed Xiao Shan his twenty-seven Spirit Rings and gave her three Spirit Bones, which she began absorbing under his watch.
• Chen Huang explained the different types of Soul spirits to the souls in his Sea of Consciousness and chose Tian Meng for the first experiment.
• Chen Huang observed that Tian Meng had not fully merged with his Spirit Ring and explained that Tian Meng needed to fuse his soul with it.
• Tian Meng merged with the Spirit Ring and learned to switch between its form and his silkworm form.
• Tian Meng separated from the Spirit Ring and demonstrated that he could leave Chen Huang’s body in tiny silkworm form and sustain himself by absorbing external power.

Chen Huang discovered that several powerful beings in his Sea of Consciousness could become Soul Spirits, while the Spirit Hall Empire expanded by force. After an elder seized Fasnuo City and massacred its officials, Chen Huang arrived and killed him.

• The Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler asked Chen Huang to become a Soul Spirit, and Dragon, the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress, and the Titan Snow Demon King began the conversion as well.
• Bibi Dong continued the Spirit Hall Empire’s land-grabbing campaign and let its elders seize cities while blaming the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire for resistance.
• A Spirit Hall Empire elder took Fasnuo City, killed its city lord and military leaders, and ordered his men to extend the conquest across Fasnuo Province.
• After hearing from Hong Feng that the city had been attacked, Chen Huang rushed to Fasnuo City and found corpses throughout the City Lord’s Manor.
• Chen Huang killed the elder’s Soul Sage subordinate with his mental power, then killed the elder with a mental attack.

Chen Huang took Xiao Shan to the New World to find a high-ranked Spirit Ring, where she chose and absorbed a hundred-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider's ring. The absorption awakened the Eight Spider Lances as an External Soul Bone, leaving Xiao Shan in severe pain for several hours before she began to recover.

• Chen Huang returned to Nuoding City and offered to take Xiao Shan to the New World for her Spirit Ring.
• Chen Huang brought Xiao Shan to the forest beneath the poisonous mist and found a hundred-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Xiao Shan chose the spider, and Chen Huang severed its legs and exposed its weak point so she could kill it.
• Xiao Shan killed the Man Faced Demon Spider and began absorbing its hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring while Chen Huang stood guard.
• Chen Huang realized the spider's Spirit Bone had become the Eight Spider Lances on Xiao Shan's back as she struggled in pain for several hours.

Chen Huang examined Xiao Shan’s limits for absorbing Spirit Rings, introduced her to the Soul Spirit Tian Meng, and brought her to a troop of Vajra Baboons to find a suitable Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring. The chapter ended as Chen Huang planned to lure the troop’s leader away from the others.

• Xiao Shan discovered her Eight Spider Lance External Soul Bone, learned to control it, and changed into a new outer garment.
• Chen Huang used his Heavenly Eye to assess Xiao Shan and estimated that she could absorb a Spirit Ring of around a Hundred Thousand Years.
• While flying with Xiao Shan, Chen Huang introduced Tian Meng and explained how Soul Spirits could provide Spirit Rings and potentially grow.
• Chen Huang and Xiao Shan reached a troop of Vajra Baboons, and Chen Huang identified their scarred leader as a suitable Hundred Thousand Year target.
• Chen Huang said he would lure the leader away from the troop so they could hunt it.

Xiao Shan killed a Hundred Thousand Year Vajra Baboon and gained its Spirit Ring, while Chen Huang gave its Spirit Bone to Zhao Wuji. After training a special military unit, Chen Huang set out with Xiao Shan, Ah Yin, and Yang Chan for the Heaven Dou Empire’s war front, suspecting Bibi Dong’s campaign was tied to a God Trial.

• Chen Huang used Mental Power to lure a Hundred Thousand Year Vajra Baboon away, then restrained it while Xiao Shan drained its blood and killed it with poison.
• Xiao Shan absorbed the Vajra Baboon’s Spirit Ring, and Chen Huang gave its Right Arm Bone to Zhao Wuji.
• Chen Huang trained soldiers in disguise, ambushes, and Den Den Mushi techniques before preparing to head to the border.
• Chen Huang suspected Bibi Dong was pursuing a God Trial and decided to intervene before she could become a god.
• Xiao Shan insisted on joining Chen Huang, and they departed with Ah Yin and Yang Chan while Zhu Zhuqing stayed behind at the academy.

Chen Huang grew impatient with Heaven Dou Empire’s cautious response and sent Hasa Ge to establish a surveillance network before infiltrating a Spirit Hall Empire city to investigate its food supplies and propaganda. He found shortages in the market and newspapers shaping public opinion, while residents argued over whether the reports about the rival empires were true.

• Tang Hao reunited with his wife and daughter, then heard Chen Huang’s account of a Spirit Hall elder’s attack in Fasnuo Province and brought the threat to Heaven Dou’s leaders and the Upper Three Sects.
• Chen Huang told Hasa Ge that he would not wait for Heaven Dou Empire to act, and ordered him to set up surveillance outposts while Chen Huang entered Spirit Hall Empire territory.
• Chen Huang’s group dug concealed underground outposts near Spirit Hall Empire cities and along the route to Heaven Dou’s main army.
• Chen Huang used Phantom Camouflage to enter a Spirit Hall Empire city unnoticed, then disguised himself to explore its streets and markets.
• Chen Huang saw that the Spirit Hall Empire controlled food sales in the market, read its newspapers attacking Heaven Dou and Star Luo, and heard locals disagree about the rival empires.

Chen Huang killed the Soul Douluo Steve and took his identity to pursue the city lord position in Plaice City. He began controlling powerful colleagues while planning how to rise through the Spirit Hall Empire without drawing the attention of its highest-ranking figures.

• Chen Huang visited the City Lord's Manor and decided to take Ku Wei's position by using another man's identity.
• He found the dissatisfied Soul Douluo Steve, manipulated him into revealing his ambitions, read his memories, and killed him.
• Chen Huang transformed into Steve and planned to make Ku Wei a figurehead while pursuing achievements that could earn him promotion.
• After consulting his group chat, Chen Huang chose to start by excelling at his duties and kept a backup plan to seek support from Spirit City's elders and Offerings.
• The next day, Chen Huang arrived at the manor as Steve and secretly controlled several powerful colleagues.
• Qiu Ye, a Soul Douluo with the Ironclad Pangolin Martial Soul, gave Chen Huang Steve's work assignments.

Chen Huang used a controlled Titled Douluo to burn Plaice City's granary while Ku Wei was away, setting up blame for the city lord. The food was almost entirely destroyed before Soul Master troops arrived, and the Titled Douluo escaped.

• Chen Huang learned that Ku Wei had taken men outside Plaice City to hunt and fish, leaving Chen Huang to plant crops.
• Chen Huang emptied the granary of its potatoes, had them planted, and planned to accelerate their growth with a diluted agent.
• While Ku Wei was away, Chen Huang sent a Reanimated Titled Douluo to force the granary guards to burn its food.
• Chen Huang's supporters stirred the crowd to blame Ku Wei as people gathered at the burning granary.
• The Spirit Hall Empire's Soul Master troops arrived after most of the food had burned, and the Titled Douluo flew away.

Chen Huang helped defeat the Spirit Hall Empire, then spared Bibi Dong and brought her to Qingyun Academy to teach while arranging for her to reconcile with Qian Renxue. The Douluo arc ended with Qian Renxue joining her sealed mother at the academy, where their relationship gradually improved.

• Chen Huang revealed himself on the battlefield and used his controlled Soul Masters to make Spirit Hall troops surrender as Tang Chen returned to fight Qian Daoliu.
• Chen Huang and more than a dozen Reanimated Titled Douluo joined the battle, and Chen Huang defeated Bibi Dong after unleashing three Martial Souls and five soul spirits.
• Chen Huang spared Bibi Dong and persuaded her to become a teacher at his academy, promising to help her repair her relationship with Xiao Xue.
• After Qian Daoliu withdrew and Golden Crocodile Douluo left, the Spirit Hall Empire collapsed, and Chen Huang returned to Nuoding City with Bibi Dong.
• Chen Huang sealed Bibi Dong’s Soul Power and had her write to her daughter; Qian Renxue came to Qingyun Academy, where Chen Huang sealed her Soul Power too.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue gradually improved their relationship while teaching and spending time with the academy’s children.

Chen Huang agreed to visit Old Yao’s world and help him regain a physical body while bringing Xiao Shan along. In Wutan City, Xiao Yan endured another humiliating cultivation test before Old Yao revealed himself and offered to become his master.

• Chen Huang offered to travel to Old Yao’s world, and Old Yao welcomed him and invited him to bring Xiao Shan and stay as long as he wished.
• At the Xiao Clan’s annual test, Xiao Mei reached the sixth stage of Dou Qi while Xiao Yan remained at the third stage and faced mockery.
• Xiao Xun’er reached the eighth stage and comforted Xiao Yan, continuing to support him despite his misfortune.
• At the Back Mountain, Old Yao appeared from the Bone Flame Ring and admitted he had been borrowing Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi to sustain himself.
• Old Yao offered to guide Xiao Yan as his disciple and help him recover his cultivation, but Xiao Yan insisted he could improve on his own.

Chen Huang and Xiao Shan visited Old Yao in Xiao Yan’s world and learned what was needed to restore Old Yao’s body. After they left to gather the ingredients, Old Yao warned Xiao Yan that Nalan Yanran might break off their engagement, prompting Xiao Yan to commit to becoming stronger.

• Xiao Yan accepted Old Yao as his master and asked for powerful techniques, but Old Yao refused to hand them out casually.
• Chen Huang traveled with Xiao Shan to meet Old Yao and Xiao Yan in the Back Mountain, bringing news that he had a Titled Douluo corpse suitable for refining a body.
• Old Yao listed the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill and Seventh-Order Magical Beast Essence Blood needed for his revival, then gave Chen Huang the pill formula.
• Chen Huang left a Flying Thunder God marker with Xiao Yan and flew away with Xiao Shan to search for the required materials.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that Nalan Yanran might come to break off their engagement, and Xiao Yan asked him to help him grow stronger.
• Old Yao agreed to begin Xiao Yan’s training the next day and told him to prepare money for medicinal ingredients and pills.

Chen Huang and Xiao Shan explored the Monster Beast Mountain Range, where they encountered Xiao Yi Xian gathering herbs. After Xiao Yi Xian drove off a pack of Monster Beasts with medicinal powder, she met the two travelers and wondered if they were Dou Zongs.

• Chen Huang explained the differences between the Dou Qi and Douluo cultivation systems as he and Xiao Shan flew toward the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
• Chen Huang surveyed the area around Qing Shan Town, hunted unfamiliar Monster Beasts for their magic cores, and considered ways to develop Poisonous Cultivation Techniques and soul spirits.
• Chen Huang spotted Xiao Yi Xian gathering herbs with two guards nearby, and Tian Meng warned that a Monster Beast pack was approaching.
• The guards abandoned Xiao Yi Xian, but she scattered medicinal powder that drove off the rat-like Monster Beasts.
• Xiao Shan approached Xiao Yi Xian and introduced herself, Chen Huang, and Tian Meng after helping her stand.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked whether Chen Huang and Xiao Shan were Dou Zongs.

Chen Huang explored a cave beneath a cliff and found Poison Scriptures, Purple Cloud Wings, and a map fragment for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. He gave Xiao Yi Xian a Poison Scripture and a cultivation method for her Calamity Poison Body, leaving her with a path toward controlling it.

• Chen Huang and Tian Meng descended beneath a cliff, killed several snake-type magical beasts, and broke into a cave containing a corpse, treasure, and medicinal herbs.
• Chen Huang collected the cave's herbs, Poison Scriptures, Dou Techniques, Purple Cloud Wings, and Gold Coins, while Tian Meng found a fragment of the map to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame hidden in a bone.
• Chen Huang explained Heavenly Flames to Tian Meng and said the Fire Dragon King's Fire surpassed them, except perhaps the highest-ranked flame.
• After returning from the cave, Chen Huang gave Xiao Yi Xian a Poison Scripture and a method for cultivating her Calamity Poison Body.
• Chen Huang explained how the Calamity Poison Body grew stronger from poison and could erupt, while Xiao Shan and Tian Meng reassured Xiao Yi Xian that her physique was not something to be ashamed of.
• Chen Huang said Xiao Yi Xian would need outside assistance to form the Poison Pill that could control her Calamity Poison Body.

Chen Huang began studying alchemy in the Jia Ma Empire’s imperial city while Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Shan traveled with him. After discovering that his Life Force greatly strengthened the pills he made, he left Xiao Yi Xian to test their effects, and his Hemostasis Pills worked twice as fast as ordinary ones.

• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to accompany Chen Huang and Xiao Shan, and she emptied the Thousand Medicines House’s medicine garden before they left.
• Chen Huang planned to seek rare ingredients for the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill and traveled with Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Shan to the Jia Ma Empire’s imperial city.
• Chen Huang bought medicinal ingredients and an Alchemy Cauldron, then began making first-grade pills, but repeatedly burned the ingredients with his Fire Dragon King’s Fire.
• Chen Huang switched to the cauldron’s ordinary flame and successfully formed pills, then infused them with Life Force and produced Hemostasis Pills with unusually strong fragrance.
• Xiao Yi Xian tested Chen Huang’s Hemostasis Pills and found that they stopped bleeding twice as quickly as pills bought from a shop.
• Chen Huang judged his Hemostasis Pills to be around second grade and healed Xiao Yi Xian’s test wounds with his healing Spirit Skill.

Chen Huang improved his control over the Fire Dragon King's Fire and passed the first-, second-, and third-tier alchemist examinations with ease. He began the fourth-tier examination, using the Chat Group to study the Red Heart Qi Nourishing Pill before starting to refine it.

• Chen Huang trained his control over the Fire Dragon King's Fire by shaping it into fire dragons, while his Shadow Clones handled ingredients and pillmaking.
• Chen Huang entered the Jia Ma Alchemist Guild, passed the first-tier examination, and disrupted other examinees' attempts with his Mental Power.
• Chen Huang passed the second- and third-tier examinations one after another.
• Chen Huang copied the fourth-tier pill's ingredients through the Group Mall and studied its refining process using the Chat Group's pill furnace.
• Chen Huang prepared to refine the Red Heart Qi Nourishing Pill with the Fire Dragon King's Fire as fourth-tier alchemists watched.