Chapter Summaries

Xu Tianming discovered that his hundred-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast Soul Ring granted him a physical Mirror Image Clone with all his abilities, then headed with Mu Ye and Snow Empress toward the Star Dou Forest to seek his final Soul Ring. In the forest, Ma Xiaotao insisted that her teacher choose the highest-age fire-element Soul Ring she could endure, despite the danger it posed to her Evil Fire.

• Xu Tianming explained that the Mirror Shadow Beast Soul Ring had given him only one soul skill, and Snow Empress said that such a skill might be unusually powerful.
• Xu Tianming revealed Mirror Image Clone, which created a tangible copy with his abilities, and Mu Ye confirmed that its body and aura seemed real.
• Xu Tianming demonstrated that he could control both bodies at once, though they could not use the same Martial Soul simultaneously, then returned the clone to his Soul Ring.
• Xu Tianming decided to travel to the Star Dou Forest to seek the last Soul Ring for his Sun Moon Twin Pupils, and Mu Ye agreed.
• In the Star Dou Forest, an old man warned Ma Xiaotao that a fire-element Soul Ring could worsen her Evil Fire, but she insisted on obtaining the highest-age Soul Ring she could endure.
• Ma Xiaotao's teacher accepted her request and agreed to proceed.

Ma Xiaotao and Yan Shaozhe traveled into the Star Dou Forest to find a Soul Ring while discussing ways to control her Evil Fire. They heard a disturbance and arrived to find Xu Tianming facing Scarlet King and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, where a God-Level Choice appeared.

• Yan Shaozhe warned Ma Xiaotao that her Evil Fire could make her lose control and explained that an Ultimate Attribute Spirit Master might suppress it.
• Yan Shaozhe took Ma Xiaotao deeper into the Star Dou Forest to obtain her fifth Soul Ring.
• Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao heard a roar and rushed toward its source.
• Scarlet King demanded that Xu Tianming hand over the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, whom Xu Tianming had encountered while tracking a Ten-Thousand-Year Cyclops.
• Xu Tianming received a God-Level Choice to kill the Three-Eyed Golden Lion for a reward and Di Tian's pursuit, or release her for a Divine Sense Stripping Scroll.

Xu Tianming chose to protect the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and claimed a scroll that could erase foreign divine sense. After Mu Ye repelled the Scarlet King, Xu Tianming offered to return the Emperor Auspicious Beast to the Star Dou Forest in exchange for something of equal value.

• Xu Tianming chose the option that spared the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and received a Divine Sense Stripping Scroll.
• Xu Tianming claimed the scroll and considered using it to erase Tang Wutong's divine sense from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Xu Tianming shrank the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, inspected her, and rubbed her belly while the Scarlet King protested.
• The Scarlet King charged Xu Tianming, but Mu Ye fought him back with his palms and forced him to retreat.
• Xu Tianming told the Scarlet King he would return the Three-Eyed Golden Lion if the Star Dou Forest offered something of equal value.

Xu Tianming held the Emperor Auspicious Beast captive and threatened to trim her fur while bargaining with Scarlet King. After Scarlet King called for Di Tian, Xu Tianming and Mu Ye exposed Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao, leaving Xu Tianming to identify Yan Shaozhe as a Shrek Academy dean.

• Xu Tianming told Scarlet King that Di Tian should negotiate with him over the Emperor Auspicious Beast.
• Xu Tianming cut some of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s fur, and she threatened him while Scarlet King hesitated to intervene.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion called for Di Tian, and Scarlet King howled to summon him from the core region.
• Xu Tianming noticed hidden observers, and Mu Ye struck toward the bushes, forcing Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao to emerge.
• Yan Shaozhe revealed his nine Soul Rings and Super Douluo aura, while Ma Xiaotao stared at Xu Tianming.
• Xu Tianming recognized Yan Shaozhe as Mingfeng Douluo and the dean of Shrek Academy’s Martial Soul Department.

Di Tian learned that the Emperor Auspicious Beast had been captured and headed to confront the humans responsible. As Yan Shaozhe challenged Xu Tianming over the hunt, Xu Tianming accused him of acting like a traitor to humanity, while Scarlet King encouraged the dispute.

• At Life Lake, Di Tian heard that Scarlet King had encountered trouble and suspected the Emperor Auspicious Beast was in danger.
• Di Tian told Wan Yao Wang and Xiong Jun to guard Life Lake, then left to rescue the auspicious beast and punish the human intruders.
• Yan Shaozhe confronted Xu Tianming over hunting Soul Beasts despite the pact with the Star Dou Forest.
• Xu Tianming argued that humans and Soul Beasts naturally hunted one another, then called Yan Shaozhe a traitor to humanity for taking the Soul Beasts' side.
• Scarlet King asked what a traitor to humanity meant, and Xu Tianming explained that Soul Beasts had their own equivalent term.

Xu Tianming defeated Ma Xiaotao with Ultimate Ice, forcing Yan Shaozhe to choose between ending her Evil Fire backlash and preserving her future potential. As Yan Shaozhe restored her strength, a hostile voice accused the Body Sect of provoking the Star Dou Forest again.

• Ma Xiaotao attacked Xu Tianming to defend Yan Shaozhe, but Xu Tianming suppressed her flames with Ultimate Ice and sent her flying.
• Xu Tianming warned Yan Shaozhe that the cold inside Ma Xiaotao could end her Evil Fire backlash but permanently cripple her cultivation if left untreated.
• Yan Shaozhe chose to expel the cold force and preserve Ma Xiaotao's potential, despite knowing her Evil Fire would return.
• Ma Xiaotao recovered with her Evil Fire temporarily suppressed, while Yan Shaozhe questioned whether Xu Tianming belonged to the Body Sect.
• An enraged voice accused the Body Sect of forgetting its past wounds.

Xu Tianming used the captured Emperor Auspicious Beast to bargain with Di Tian for a spiritual-attribute External Soul Bone and a near-death Golden Hawksbill Turtle. Di Tian agreed to the Soul Bone but had not yet answered Xu Tianming’s full demand.

• Di Tian emerged from a black vortex and confronted Mu Ye and Xu Tianming for trespassing in the Star Dou Forest and capturing the Emperor Auspicious Beast.
• Mu Ye shielded Xu Tianming with his Four-Word Battle Armor, and Di Tian demanded that they release the auspicious beast and leave.
• Xu Tianming threatened the Three-Eyed Golden Lion with his engraving knife and demanded that Scarlet King sacrifice herself as his Soul Ring.
• Di Tian refused to trade Scarlet King and offered a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone instead.
• Xu Tianming demanded a Hundred Thousand Year spiritual-attribute External Soul Bone and a thirty-thousand-year Golden Hawksbill Turtle nearing death, leaving Di Tian to decide whether to accept.

Xu Tianming negotiated with Di Tian for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, demanding a dying Golden Hawksbill Turtle and a hundred-thousand-year spiritual-attribute External Soul Bone. He challenged Di Tian’s plans for the Soul Beast clan and claimed they were not enemies, but Di Tian remained suspicious.

• Xu Tianming insisted that Di Tian trade a dying thirty-thousand-year Golden Hawksbill Turtle and a hundred-thousand-year spiritual-attribute External Soul Bone for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Di Tian ordered Scarlet King to fetch Bi Ji and the requested items if she knew of the turtle Xu Tianming described.
• Di Tian threatened Xu Tianming with another beast tide, but Xu Tianming argued that Soul Beasts would suffer greater losses and that the gods would not permit humans to be wiped out.
• Xu Tianming taunted Di Tian with the Soul Beast figures who had ascended with Tang San and called the clan pathetic, prompting Di Tian to denounce them as traitors.
• Xu Tianming explained that becoming Soul Rings for people with divine trials offered Soul Beasts a more reliable path to the God Realm than Di Tian’s plans, making Di Tian question how he knew so much.
• Xu Tianming told Di Tian they were not enemies, but Di Tian rejected the claim because Xu Tianming had captured the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and was extorting the Star Dou Forest.

Xu Tianming negotiated with Di Tian by taking the Three-Eyed Golden Lion as insurance while demanding a dying Golden Hawksbill Turtle and a hundred-thousand-year spiritual External Soul Bone. In the Undead Half-Plane, he told Snow Empress that he intended to remove a safeguard someone had placed on the Emperor Auspicious Beast, not claim the Soul Beast race’s fortune.

• Xu Tianming challenged Di Tian’s distrust by condemning the gods’ interference in Douluo Plane affairs.
• Xiong Jun, Zi Ji, and Scarlet King joined Di Tian, and Xiong Jun demanded the humans return the Emperor Auspicious Beast.
• Xu Tianming sent the Three-Eyed Golden Lion through a spatial rift and swore to protect her in exchange for what he wanted.
• Scarlet King told Di Tian that Bi Ji had gone to find a dying Golden Hawksbill Turtle, and Di Tian agreed to the exchange while warning Xu Tianming not to harm the Emperor Auspicious Beast.
• Xu Tianming explained to Snow Empress that the Emperor Auspicious Beast held thirty percent of the Soul Beast race’s fortune, then revealed that he planned to remove someone else’s safeguard on her.

Electrolux discovered that a foreign divine sense was influencing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Xu Tianming used a scroll to tear it from her Sea of Consciousness. The Golden Lion fainted, leaving an illusory woman marked with a blue-gold Trident exposed, though Electrolux sensed that her divine sense was incomplete.

• Electrolux detected a foreign presence in the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Sea of Consciousness and suspected a god was behind it.
• Xu Tianming warned the Snow Empress that the gods, particularly God King Tang, sought to control the Douluo Plane and its path to godhood.
• Xu Tianming revealed a Divine Sense Stripping Scroll and assured the Snow Empress he had taken precautions against the risks.
• Xu Tianming used the scroll on the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, causing her to cry out in pain as a female figure was pulled from her Sea of Consciousness.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion fainted, and Electrolux observed that the Trident-marked figure’s divine sense seemed incomplete.

Xu Tianming stripped away one-third of Tang Wutong’s divine sense while trading for a Golden Hawksbill Turtle and a Spirit Bone with Di Tian. He returned the Emperor Auspicious Beast and escaped with Mu Ye, while Tang San sensed that his plans had been disrupted and vowed revenge.

• Xu Tianming used the Divine Sense Stripping Scroll to erase one-third of Tang Wutong’s divine sense, overcoming the Seagod Trident mark’s resistance.
• Bi Ji brought Xu Tianming the Golden Hawksbill Turtle and the Single Eye External Soul Bone, and Snow Empress confirmed the goods were genuine.
• Xu Tianming demanded that Di Tian escort him and Mu Ye to the edge of the Star Dou Forest before he returned the Emperor Auspicious Beast.
• Di Tian escorted Xu Tianming and Mu Ye to the forest’s edge, where Xu Tianming released the Emperor Auspicious Beast and escaped with Mu Ye.
• Tang San sensed that Xiao Qi’s projected divine sense had been erased and vowed to kill whoever had sabotaged his plans.

Tang San discovered that the fragment of Tang Wutong’s divine consciousness implanted in the Emperor Auspicious Beast had been damaged, while the Child of Destiny’s fortune was also draining away. He questioned Da Ming and Er Ming, who suspected a Divine Level expert in the Star Dou Forest was responsible.

• Tang San told Xiao Wu that something had happened to Xiao Qi and concealed that he had secretly projected a fragment of her divine consciousness onto the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Da Ming and Er Ming examined Wang Dong'er and concluded that her divine consciousness had been injured, then suspected someone from the God Realm was involved.
• Tang San projected his image through the Trident mark on Wang Dong'er's forehead and asked Da Ming and Er Ming about unusual people or events on the continent.
• Da Ming suggested that the Divine Level expert in the Star Dou Forest might have discovered the fragment inside the Emperor Auspicious Beast.

Tang San discovered that the Silver Dragon King may have erased part of Tang Wutong’s divine consciousness and ordered Da Ming and Er Ming to protect the unconscious Wang Dong'er. Meanwhile, Xu Tianming returned from the Star Dou Forest with a Hundred-Thousand-Year External Soul Bone and a Golden Hawksbill Turtle he identified as a disguised hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.

• Tang San told Da Ming and Er Ming that a strand of his divine power and Xiao Qi’s divine consciousness inside the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had disappeared, and he suspected the Silver Dragon King had erased it.
• Tang San said Wang Dong'er would have to restore her divine consciousness herself and refused to merge Xiao Qi’s remaining consciousness with her yet.
• Tang San ordered Da Ming and Er Ming to guard Wang Dong'er, then vanished; afterward, the Sky Azure Bull Python mocked his priorities to the Titan Giant Ape.
• Xu Tianming celebrated obtaining a Hundred-Thousand-Year External Soul Bone and a Golden Hawksbill Turtle from Di Tian, while noting that Wang Qiu'er would no longer exist.
• Snow Empress sensed that the Golden Hawksbill Turtle was only thirty thousand years old, but Xu Tianming insisted it was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast whose age had been concealed by something it ate.
• Xu Tianming tapped the turtle’s shell and demanded that it explain itself, knowing it could speak.

Xu Tianming revealed how the Golden Hawksbill Turtle had secretly absorbed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's life force and been slowly drained by the green metal it swallowed. With little time left, the turtle chose to sacrifice itself to Xu Tianming, who hinted it might be reborn in the future.

• Xu Tianming told Snow Empress that the Golden Hawksbill Turtle had helped the Star Dou Forest's ferocious beasts drain the million-year Ice Silkworm and that Evil Emperor had fought Di Tian over it.
• Xu Tianming revealed that the Golden Hawksbill Turtle had swallowed life-filled green metal from the depths of Life Lake, which now drained its life force.
• The Golden Hawksbill Turtle explained that it could neither seek Di Tian's help nor remove the metal from its stomach.
• Xu Tianming offered the turtle a choice between sacrificing itself willingly or being killed, and said it might have a chance to be reborn.
• The Golden Hawksbill Turtle accepted the sacrifice, and crimson bloodflame gathered around it before settling around Xu Tianming.

Xu Tianming accepted the Golden Hawksbill Turtle’s hundred-thousand-year sacrifice, choosing a left leg bone instead of a torso bone. Electrolux identified the metal freed from the turtle as Gold of Life and sent it into Xu Tianming’s brow, where it transformed the Cyclops External Soul Bone into a cyan-gold third eye.

• Xu Tianming asked the Golden Hawksbill Turtle to form a left leg bone, and it reshaped its Spirit Bone at the cost of some of his Soul Power increase.
• The turtle’s Spirit Bone separated from the Gold of Life that had tormented it, and the turtle vanished as its sacrifice formed a blood-red Soul Ring around Xu Tianming.
• Xu Tianming absorbed the golden left leg bone and brought the hundred-thousand-year Cyclops External Soul Bone to the center of his forehead.
• Electrolux recognized the freed metal as Gold of Life and sent it into Xu Tianming’s brow, causing intense pain before its life force spread through his body.
• Xu Tianming’s forehead split open, and the Cyclops External Soul Bone became a cyan-gold third eye.

Xu Tianming gained immense benefits from the Gold of Life, while Huo Yuhao emerged from the snow after absorbing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Ice Plains Mammoth’s Soul Ring and torso bone. Huo Yuhao resolved to fulfill Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s wish and his own.

• Electrolux explained that the Gold of Life and Spirit Bone had formed an Eye of Life that greatly strengthened Xu Tianming and nourished his Soul Spirits.
• The Snow Empress considered how Bing'er and Xiaobai becoming Xu Tianming’s Soul Spirits might help him become a god.
• Huo Yuhao emerged from beneath the snow, displaying a blood-red Soul Ring and the phantom of a mammoth.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recounted how Huo Yuhao had killed the tribulation-struck Ice Plains Mammoth and absorbed its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and torso bone.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said it had sealed the energy Huo Yuhao could not yet absorb within the Spirit Bone, and Huo Yuhao thanked it.
• Huo Yuhao promised to help fulfill Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s wish and to pursue his own wishes.

Jing Hongchen learned that Yuanen Yehui would only join the All-Continent Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament if Xu Tianming competed or asked her to. Xu Tianming returned to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy after nearly a year away, and his astonishing Soul Rings left Jing Hongchen stunned.

• Ma Yun told Jing Hongchen that Yuanen Yehui refused to compete unless Xu Tianming participated or asked her to.
• Jing Hongchen worried that Xu Tianming had been missing for nearly a year while seeking his fourth Soul Ring in the Star Dou Forest.
• Xu Tianming arrived at Jing Hongchen's office and revealed he had reached the bottleneck of Rank 60 and gained a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Jing Hongchen ordered Ma Yun to test all academy students and choose tournament participants based on their attributes, combat experience, and teacher recommendations.
• Xu Tianming released five Soul Rings—purple, black, black, red, and red—and his powerful aura made Jing Hongchen leap from his chair in shock.

Jing Hongchen discovered that Xu Tianming had two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and questioned how he had obtained them. Xu Tianming accepted Jing Hongchen’s demand to lead the academy team in the tournament and received a single-use Heaven-Veiling Array from the system.

• Jing Hongchen mistook Xu Tianming’s two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings for an illusion before sensing his level-sixty Soul Power and realizing they were real.
• Xu Tianming claimed that two dying Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts had voluntarily sacrificed themselves to him, leaving Jing Hongchen skeptical.
• Jing Hongchen told Xu Tianming to lead the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy team in the Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• The system offered Xu Tianming rewards for accepting or rejecting Jing Hongchen’s proposal, and Xu Tianming chose to compete.
• The system awarded Xu Tianming a single-use Heaven-Veiling Array that could prevent an area from being detected for one month.
• Xu Tianming assured Jing Hongchen that he would bring honor to the academy and the empire.

Xu Tianming returned to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy and learned that Xiao Hongchen had advanced his forging under Zhang Tiezhu, attracting Kong Deming’s attention. He reunited with Xiao Hongchen, Zhang Tiezhu, and Meng Hongchen in the Forging Room, where Xiao revealed his growth and Spirit Forged Metal.

• Jing Hongchen told Xu Tianming that Yuanen Yehui rarely attended classes and trained mostly on her own, and said she had been practicing Xu’s forging method with Zhang Tiezhu.
• Jing Hongchen explained that Xiao Hongchen had learned forging from Zhang Tiezhu and that Kong Deming had taken an interest in the resulting metals.
• Jing Hongchen told Xu Tianming that he and Yuanen Yehui would both have to take the academy assessment for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Xu Tianming left Jing Hongchen’s office and went straight to Zhang Tiezhu’s Forging Room instead of returning to his dormitory.
• Xu Tianming reunited with Xiao Hongchen, Zhang Tiezhu, and Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen showed him his Soul King cultivation and a Soul Guidance Cannon assembled from Spirit Forged Metal.

Xu Tianming reunited with Xiao Hongchen, Zhang Tiezhu, Meng Hongchen, and Yuanen Yehui, learning how forging had strengthened Xiao Hongchen and helped Zhang Tiezhu advance. He appointed Meng Hongchen and Yuanen Yehui to join his team for the upcoming tournament, and Yuanen Yehui asked to speak with him privately.

• Xu Tianming praised Xiao Hongchen for reaching Spirit Forging, and Xiao Hongchen thanked him for bringing him to train in forging.
• Zhang Tiezhu said his progress in forging had given him hope of advancing beyond the Eighth-Level Soul Engineer realm, and Xu Tianming congratulated him.
• Xu Tianming offered to accompany Meng Hongchen to the Far North to find a Zhuqing Ice Toad for her fifth Soul Ring.
• Xu Tianming revealed that Dean Jing Hongchen had appointed him team captain for the upcoming Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament and said Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen would join his team.
• Yuanen Yehui greeted Xu Tianming, accepted his invitation to join the team, and asked to speak with him privately.