Chapter Summaries

Gu Chen prepared for Gu Yuena to sacrifice herself, hoping to obtain her God-level Spirit Bone while preserving her soul. Before the ritual began, he revealed the Wheel of Time and explained its limited abilities.

• Gu Chen told Gu Yuena that his Soul Spirit contract could preserve her soul and let her create an External Soul Bone, and Gu Yuena learned the method from the Yinglong Pendant.
• Gu Yuena warned that Artificial Soul Spirits could eventually make Spirit Beasts unnecessary and said she would tell Di Tian to keep humans away during her sacrifice.
• Gu Yuena placed her Silver Dragon Spear outside the small space as protection for the Star Dou Forest and gave Di Tian authority to use it.
• Gu Yuena prepared to begin her sacrifice, but Gu Chen stopped her and raised the Wheel of Time above the small space.
• Gu Chen explained that the Wheel of Time embodied the Origin of Time, was not fully under his control, and had little combat power.

Gu Chen accepted Gu Yuena’s sacrifice, gaining the Silver Dragon King’s bloodline and dragon horn as his bloodlines clashed inside his body. In the God Realm, Tang San sat amid the ruins of the Sea God Temple, worried about the missing Destruction Scepter and unable to investigate the lower realm.

• Gu Yuena agreed to trust Gu Chen, arranged for Di Tian to find Tang Wutong a Spirit Ring, and sacrificed herself to him.
• Gu Yuena lent Gu Chen the Godhead of Creation, transferred her spiritual origin and bloodline into him, and entered his Sea of Consciousness as her body collapsed.
• Gu Chen’s Silver Dragon King, Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, and Purple Desolation Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon bloodlines fought and fused, injuring him as he endured the process.
• Gu Chen judged that the bloodline conflict would need time to settle and used sleep to pass the period.
• Tang San sat among the ruins of the Sea God Temple after fighting the God of Destruction and worried that the Destruction Scepter might have been sent to the lower realm.
• Tang San hesitated to give up either the Sea God Trident or the Asura Magic Sword.

Tang San hesitated over sending the Sea God Trident to Douluo Planet, then a burst of Dragon Might alerted the gods to the Silver Dragon King’s power. Beneath the Lake of Life, Gu Chen emerged transformed, with silver hair and the Silver Dragon King’s Dragon Horns.

• Tang San weighed the Sea God Trident’s advancement against securing the new Child of Luck, then chose to send the artifact to Douluo Planet.
• A silver pillar of light carrying powerful Dragon Might rose from Douluo Planet, drawing the God of Destruction, the Life Goddess, and Tang San’s attention.
• The Life Goddess identified the aura as related to the Dragon God, and the God of Destruction concluded it belonged to the Silver Dragon King.
• The God of Destruction decided not to descend, but left strands of his Divine Sense inside the Destruction Scepter in case the Silver Dragon King attacked.
• Gu Chen finished transforming beneath the Lake of Life, gaining silver hair and two Dragon Horns that were the Silver Dragon King’s External Soul Bone.

Gu Chen finished absorbing Gu Yuena’s power, evolved into the Radiant Desolation Dragon God, and left the Lake of Life with Tang Wutong and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. In Shrek City, he learned that Di Tian had slaughtered intruders drawn to the forest by the silver light, while Gu Chen received the Destruction Scepter and its first trial.

• Gu Chen completed his bloodline fusion, transformed his martial soul, took the Wheel of Time and Gu Yuena’s small space, and left the Lake of Life.
• Gu Chen and Tang Wutong walked through Shrek City with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion concealed as a small cat, after a year had passed outside the Lake of Life.
• Tang Wutong recounted how Di Tian and Xiong Jun killed the human experts who attacked the Lake of Life, including how Di Tian nearly killed Ye Xishui before Long Xiaoyao forced him to retreat.
• Gu Chen said he felt no sympathy for the greedy intruders who died, and revealed that he had obtained the Destruction Scepter and the Destruction Nine Trials.
• Gu Chen dismissed the first trial’s reward as useless because he relied on Soul Spirits rather than soul rings.

Gu Chen and Tang Wutong continued walking together when Gu Chen ran into Huo Yuhao and sensed powerful soul-beast origins within him. After Gu Chen left, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao that the man was an immensely powerful Limit Douluo who had already noticed them.

• Tang Wutong agreed with Gu Chen's thoughts about the God Realm and enjoyed the roujiamo as they walked.
• Gu Chen collided with Huo Yuhao, helped him up, and used Divine Sense to discover hidden origins and an aura of Ultimate Ice within him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recognized traces of the Ice Empress, Di Tian, and the Evil Emperor on Gu Chen, panicked, and worried about the Ice Empress's safety.
• Gu Chen left with Tang Wutong without paying Huo Yuhao further attention, while Huo Yuhao wondered why Tang Wutong resembled Wang Dong and felt drawn to the golden cat on Gu Chen's shoulder.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao that Gu Chen might be the strongest person on the continent and feared they would have to flee if no one at the academy could protect them.

Gu Chen weighed how to deal with the Golden Tree and Tang San while traveling with Tang Wutong and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion near Shrek. Jiang Nannan stopped when a young man tried to buy—or seize—the lion, and Tang Wutong reacted angrily.

• Gu Chen considered destroying the Golden Tree, weighing the risks of Tang San's retaliation and deciding whom he might take away from this time period.
• Gu Chen suppressed Tang Wutong's protests and insisted that she call him Teacher, while she argued that she had never accepted him as her master.
• Jiang Nannan walked through the crowd while trying to escape a young man who kept calling after her.
• The young man offered Gu Chen one thousand Gold Soul Coins for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and reached to grab it using Soul Power.
• Tang Wutong became furious at the young man for attempting to take the lion.

Tang Wutong fought Xu Sanshi after he tried to rob someone, while Jiang Nannan rebuked him for pestering her. Gu Chen watched the confrontation with Mu En and Xuan Zi, who questioned him about his identity and the Federation he claimed to come from.

• Tang Wutong knocked Xu Sanshi down with her Clear Sky Hammer and revealed her powerful spirit rings and Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
• Xu Sanshi questioned Tang Wutong about her spirit rings, and Jiang Nannan told him to stop pestering her and causing trouble.
• Gu Chen and Tang Wutong watched the argument and shared melon while Gu Chen asked what had happened between Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan.
• Mu En and Xuan Zi appeared beside Gu Chen, and Mu En asked how to address him.
• Gu Chen gave his title as Daybreak and said he was from the Douluo Continent and a Federation citizen, leaving Mu En and Xuan Zi puzzled.

Gu Chen joined Shrek after Mu En welcomed him, and he spent the next month repeatedly beating Xuan Zi in sparring sessions. As the Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament approached, Xuan Zi had learned to withstand three attacks before Gu Chen healed him again.

• Gu Chen told Mu En he had come to see Shrek and asked when the Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament would take place, learning it was one month away.
• Mu En invited Gu Chen to stay at Shrek, and Gu Chen agreed to become a teacher while Mu En sent Xuan Zi away.
• Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong stopped their confrontation, and Tang Wutong took the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to find food.
• Over the next month, Gu Chen repeatedly attacked Xuan Zi above Shrek City, making the disturbances a familiar sight to the residents.
• Gu Chen knocked Xuan Zi into a pit, praised his improved ability to withstand three attacks, and healed him with Divine Light of Creation.

Gu Chen beat Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe until their cultivation bottlenecks loosened, then discussed Shrek’s tournament teams and the danger Tang Wutong’s hidden divine power posed. As Xuan Zi prepared to take the students away, Gu Chen stayed with Mu En to discuss the tournament and Xuan Zi’s unreliability.

• Gu Chen repeatedly beat Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe, loosening their cultivation bottlenecks and bringing them under his control.
• Xuan Zi told Gu Chen the reserve team had been chosen as Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Bei Bei, Xiao Xiao, He Caitou, Jiang Nannan, and Tang Wutong, leaving Xu Sanshi out.
• Tang Wutong’s rapid rise in strength unsettled Wang Dong, while her Blue Silver Grass and Clear Sky Hammer made others suspect she was Tang San’s daughter.
• Gu Chen planned for the teams to face a powerful Evil Soul Master attack, hoping the crisis would force Tang San to act and help resolve the divine power in Tang Wutong’s spiritual sea.
• Xuan Zi prepared to take the students away, and Gu Chen went to Mu En to discuss the tournament, Shrek’s prospects, and his doubts about Xuan Zi.

Gu Chen discussed Shrek’s decline and his plans to cultivate allies with Mu En, then hurried to the Mingdou Mountain Range to check on Xuan Zi and the others. He considered using the Sea God’s power to draw Tang San into conflict with the God of Destruction, buying himself time while pursuing a godhood of his own making.

• Mu En agreed that Shrek needed to experience failure, while Gu Chen said he wanted to cultivate people who could keep pace with him.
• Gu Chen explained that he had supported Tang Wulin and Xie Xie as potential allies against the God Realm’s return.
• Gu Chen left Mu En and traveled to the Mingdou Mountain Range, where he found Xuan Zi still eating chicken as the Shrek group faced danger.
• Gu Chen considered triggering the Sea God’s divine power so Tang San and the God of Destruction would clash and stop watching the Douluo Continent.
• Gu Chen decided he would not inherit the God of Destruction’s position or merge existing Godheads, since he wanted to create a godhood with a higher ceiling.

A corpse explosion devastated the cave, killing several Shrek students and gravely injuring Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao. Xuan Zi arrived and killed Death Messenger, but Tang Wutong confronted him for leaving the students unprotected.

• A series of corpse explosions killed Gongyang Mo, Xi Xi, and Yao Haoxuan, while Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao were critically injured and several others were hurt.
• Tang Wutong used Blue Silver Grass to attack Death Messenger but was wounded when he shattered it.
• Xuan Zi rushed into the cave and killed Death Messenger with a single strike.
• Xuan Zi blamed himself for the casualties, but Tang Wutong accused him of having left to look for chicken.
• Huo Yuhao glared at Xuan Zi, who feared Mu En would punish him and recognized how replaceable he had become at Shrek.

After the ambush left several Shrek students dead and Dai Yueheng gravely injured, Gu Chen stabilized the survivors but refused to fully heal them, criticizing their carelessness. Ma Xiaotao vowed that Shrek would still win the tournament as the team prepared to continue.

• Xuan Zi argued with Tang Wutong and Wang Dong, then carried the dead and wounded out of the collapsing cave and blamed himself for Shrek's losses.
• Gu Chen appeared, blasted Xuan Zi away, confirmed that Xi Xi, Gongyang Mo, and Yao Haoxuan were beyond saving, and stabilized Dai Yueheng's injuries.
• Xuan Zi took Dai Yueheng and the three corpses back toward Shrek, intending to resign and accept responsibility.
• Gu Chen healed the survivors' corpse-poison wounds enough to stabilize them but left them partially injured, telling Ma Xiaotao that their careless fighting had contributed to the casualties.
• Ma Xiaotao insisted that the team would win the championship and protect Shrek's ten-thousand-year glory, and Gu Chen let her pursue that goal.

Gu Chen arrived in Star Luo City with Shrek Academy for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament and considered which Spirit Ring to take for his Body Martial Soul. He was interrupted while studying the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, realizing the speaker was not Tang Wutong and worrying about the children.

• Shrek Academy arrived at the Star Emperor Hotel, where Wang Yan led the team to register and prepare for the tournament.
• Xiao Hongchen and Ma Xiaotao exchanged insults when the Sun Moon Imperial Spirit Soul Academy entered the hotel, while Meng Hongchen stared at Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen ignored the rivalry and studied the Deep Sea Demon Whale King as a possible first Spirit Ring for his attribute-less Body Martial Soul.
• Gu Chen considered the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's powers and strength as he read the Soul Beast Compendium.
• Gu Chen realized the person addressing him was not Tang Wutong and thought, “Oh no. The children.”

Gu Chen repelled Meng Hongchen’s approach, exposed and injured spies hidden nearby, and left Tang Wutong to keep cultivating. Jing Hongchen then recognized Gu Chen’s likely imperial Martial Soul and considered whether he might return to the Sun Moon Empire, while Meng Hongchen admired him.

• Meng Hongchen approached Gu Chen to make friends, but he sent her back to the Sun Moon Team by manipulating space.
• Jing Hongchen arrived to protect the Sun Moon students, and Gu Chen collapsed the surrounding space to expose hidden observers and drive them away after injuring them.
• Gu Chen told Tang Wutong to continue cultivating and vanished, leaving her frustrated by his dullness.
• Jing Hongchen told the Sun Moon Team that Gu Chen was a supreme powerhouse, while Meng Hongchen admitted she thought he was handsome.
• Jing Hongchen showed a recording of Gu Chen crossing the Mingdou Mountain Range as the Purple Desolation Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon, and the Sun Moon leaders speculated about his connection to the imperial family.

Jing Hongchen worried that the Sun Moon Empire could not recruit Gu Chen and might have to treat him as a threat. In the Far North, Gu Chen subdued the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign and offered the captured Ferocious Beasts a chance to follow him and become gods.

• Jing Hongchen told Elder Ma that winning Gu Chen over would be difficult, and the Sun Moon Empire might have to dispose of him if he obstructed its ambitions.
• Gu Chen returned to the Far North and trapped the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign and other powerful Soul Beasts in his Chaos Space.
• Gu Chen overpowered the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign and told the Snow Empress that he would not use her as a Spirit Ring unless she chose to sacrifice herself.
• Gu Chen revealed that he had triple Martial Souls and threatened to destroy the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign's soul unless he sacrificed himself willingly.
• Gu Chen promised that those who followed him would gain at least the power of a First-Class God after he ascended.

Gu Chen revealed that he came from ten thousand years in the future, where the Ferocious Beasts and their clans faced extinction or ruin. The Snow Empress and Evil Emperor offered sacrifices in exchange for his protection, and Gu Chen prepared to accept the Evil Emperor’s sacrifice.

• Gu Chen showed the Ferocious Beasts a vision of the future and explained that they had disappeared, while humans hunted Soul Beasts and wiped out the Evil Eye Clan.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign erupted in anger upon learning his clan would be destroyed, and the Snow Empress and Ice Empress grew hostile toward humanity.
• The Snow Empress offered her nearly seven-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring in exchange for Gu Chen protecting the Far North, but Gu Chen began repairing her Soul Core and promised to help her attain godhood.
• The Evil Emperor offered his cultivation in exchange for Gu Chen taking the Evil Eye Tyrants to safety and protecting them, and Gu Chen agreed.
• Gu Chen transformed and prepared to begin the Evil Emperor’s sacrifice, considering how his Martial Souls could let him create two powerful avatars.

Gu Chen completed the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign’s sacrifice, raising its Spirit Ring to eight hundred thousand years and gaining an initial command of time and space. He then took the Snow Empress to the Earth Dragon Sect to obtain Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow so she could repair her Soul Cores and grow stronger.

• Gu Chen infused the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign’s Spirit Ring with divine power, raising it to eight hundred thousand years and advancing his Double Pupils with the Evil Eye.
• Gu Chen discovered that the souls of his Soul Spirits, including the Little Evil Eye Tyrants, had been sleeping beneath his Sea of Consciousness, and the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign went dormant again.
• Gu Chen opened a rift and brought the Snow Empress to find Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, planning to repair her first and second Soul Cores.
• The Snow Empress froze the Earth Dragon Sect’s disciples and guards without killing them, and she and Gu Chen went to the sealed well holding the marrow.
• Gu Chen stopped the Snow Empress from destroying the well and prepared to take the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow for her advancement.

Gu Chen and Snow Empress found and gathered Ice Extreme Divine Crystal and Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow in a hidden cave, helping Snow Empress advance her cultivation. After storing her in the Chaos Space, Gu Chen searched the Far North Ice Sea for the Demon Empress, intending to make her his second Spirit Ring.

• Gu Chen and Snow Empress descended into a hidden well, where they found Ice Extreme Divine Crystal and forty-five pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Gu Chen collected the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal for armor and weapons, while Snow Empress absorbed twenty pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Snow Empress said she had reached seven hundred thousand years of cultivation and would enter deep sleep to repair her Soul Cores and prepare for her next Lightning Tribulation.
• Gu Chen stored Snow Empress in the Chaos Space and took the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave into the Chaos Space.
• Gu Chen flew to the Far North Ice Sea to search for the Demon Empress, then noticed sharks, killer whales, and blue whales in the water.

Gu Chen found the 990,000-year-old Demon Empress hidden beneath the battle between the Demon Soul Great White Shark and Evil Spirit Orca clans and overwhelmed her in combat. After learning of his hatred for Tang San and his confidence that he could become a god, the Demon Empress agreed to sacrifice herself if he protected her daughter.

• Gu Chen spotted the Demon Empress hiding beneath the two battling clans and transformed into the Desolation Extinction Dragon God.
• Gu Chen dragged the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King from the seabed and battered her until she changed into human form.
• Gu Chen introduced himself as Qiming and offered the Demon Empress a choice between sacrificing herself and dying without a chance to fight Tang San.
• The Demon Empress fixated on Tang San’s name and asked whether Gu Chen shared her hatred of him.
• Gu Chen said he was certain he could become a god and offered to take the Demon Empress to the God Realm to confront Tang San.
• The Demon Empress agreed to sacrifice herself if Gu Chen protected her daughter until she could defend herself.

Gu Chen rejected the Demon Empress’s offer to sacrifice herself and defeated her in battle, severing her head with his Dragon God Severing Slash. He spared her soul in his Sea of Consciousness, where he explained that she had not deliberately harmed ordinary people.

• Gu Chen refused the Demon Empress’s surrender and declared that he would kill her for her Spirit Ring.
• The Demon Empress summoned waves and lightning, but Gu Chen amplified his power and entered a berserk state.
• Gu Chen sealed the surrounding space and severed the Demon Empress’s arm with a single strike.
• Gu Chen used Dragon God Severing Slash to behead the Demon Empress and bring her soul into his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Demon Empress asked why Gu Chen had spared her soul, and he said she had not deliberately slaughtered ordinary people.