Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming discussed the mismatch between Spirit Masters’ cultivation and lifespans, proposed studying Spirit Beasts and developing ways to extend life, and gave Qian Daoliu an improved cultivation method. Qian Daoliu decided to keep the method under his control for now, and Chen Ming prepared to leave for the Star Dou Forest to hunt Spirit Rings.

• Chen Ming questioned conflicting records about Titled Douluo lifespans and proposed researching lifespan extension and Spirit Beast longevity.
• Qian Daoliu and the High Priests approved Chen Ming dissecting Spirit Beasts for research, and Mighty Lion Douluo offered to catch some for him.
• Chen Ming gave Qian Daoliu a revised Douluo Mental Method with a cultivation efficiency of about 1.45 and explained that further improvements would require individual testing.
• Qian Daoliu withheld the new method from the Golden Generation because he distrusted Bibi Dong and planned to let only Xue'er cultivate it for now.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo joined Chen Ming as they set out for the Star Dou Forest, hoping to find a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Chen Ming and Golden Crocodile Douluo entered Star Dou Forest’s core region to hunt a young Dragon Clan Variant for Chen Ming’s third Spirit Ring. They found the Hell Demon Dragon and its mother, and Golden Crocodile Douluo attacked the mother.

• Chen Ming targeted a 6,400-year-old wingless Dragon Clan Variant, the offspring of a White Armored Holy Dragon and a Hell Demon Dragon, as his third Spirit Ring.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo led Chen Ming through Star Dou Forest’s core region, where they fought off Spirit Beasts and collected specimens from their corpses.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo brought Chen Ming to the mountain that had once belonged to the White Armored Holy Dragon, where the Hell Demon Dragon and its child lived.
• The Hell Demon Dragon shielded its child and attacked Golden Crocodile Douluo with combined darkness and water energy.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo shattered the attack and punched the Hell Demon Dragon in the chest.

Golden Crocodile Douluo killed a Hell Demon Dragon and her child so Chen Ming could obtain their Spirit Rings, while Chen Ming defended prioritizing human suffering over sympathy for Spirit Beasts. The chapter ended with Golden Crocodile Douluo learning that Chen Ming had independently mastered Beast Soul Tool-ification.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo overwhelmed Little Dragon, severed the Hell Demon Dragon before she could self-destruct, and Chen Ming killed Little Dragon to claim its purple Spirit Ring.
• The Hell Demon Dragon died, and Chen Ming found a fifty-thousand-year Right Arm Bone on her body and handed it to Golden Crocodile Douluo.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo asked Chen Ming whether the deaths affected him, and Chen Ming said he prioritized helping humans over empathizing with Spirit Beasts.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo praised Chen Ming's decisive nature, then asked how his Beast Martial Soul had become a hammer.
• Chen Ming explained that he had mastered Beast Soul Tool-ification and demonstrated the ability to transform his body.

Chen Ming absorbed a roughly 6,400-year-old Spirit Ring from the Headless Dragon Corpse as his third ring, relying on his physical strength and precise Soul Power control. He gained a utility Spirit Skill and a changed right eye, then discovered that his cultivation had reached level thirty-three and his Dragon Transformation had advanced.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo explained that Bibi Dong could withstand unusually old Spirit Rings because her Twin Beast Martial Souls greatly strengthened her body.
• Chen Ming used the Earth Dragon Golden Melon and precise Soul Power control to absorb the Headless Dragon Corpse's Spirit Ring.
• Chen Ming chose the variant's utility Spirit Skill, which drew on darkness and water attributes and altered his Martial Soul's origin.
• Chen Ming opened his eyes with one yellow and two purple Spirit Rings, while his right eye had become a dark, water-infused vertical pupil.
• Chen Ming reached level thirty-three and used his second Spirit Ring to unfurl a pair of golden dragon wings through deeper Dragon Transformation.

Chen Ming examined his dragon wings and explained the defensive abilities and limits of his third Spirit Skill to Golden Crocodile Douluo. They stored the two dragon corpses and left, while a purple-clad woman and a black-haired man appeared at the cleared scene.

• Chen Ming concluded that his wings needed Soul Power to help him fly, but his weight and attributes made flight impractical for now.
• Chen Ming demonstrated Energy Devouring Shield and described how it reduced attacks, weakened status effects, and converted damage into a temporary boost, while consuming Soul Power and burdening his body.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo judged Chen Ming's Spirit Skill exceptionally powerful and warned that unusual Spirit Beasts in the Star Dou Forest might threaten him.
• Chen Ming and Golden Crocodile Douluo stored the two dragon corpses in their Soul Tools and quickly left the scene.
• A purple-clad woman and a black-haired man emerged from the void and reacted angrily to finding the scene cleared.

After Di Tian stopped Zi JI from avenging two slain Spirit Beasts, he justified his restraint as a way to protect the beasts until the Silver Dragon King recovered. Back in Spirit Hall, Chen Ming turned down a fifty-thousand-year Spirit Bone, while factions struggling to reproduce his Douluo Mental Method began suffering from reckless experiments.

• Zi JI confronted Di Tian for stopping her from avenging the Hell Demon Dragon clanswoman and her child, and Di Tian warned that the Angel God might retaliate against Star Dou Forest.
• Di Tian told Zi JI to endure until the Silver Dragon King recovered and could lead the Spirit Beasts against the Divine Realm, and Zi JI accepted his reasoning.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo offered to trade the fifty-thousand-year Hell Demon Dragon arm bone for Qian Xunji's Wisdom Skull of Spiritual Concentration, but Chen Ming declined and left his Head Bone position empty.
• Chen Ming and Golden Crocodile Douluo returned to Spirit Hall, where factions sought help learning the Douluo Mental Method from its other compilers but could not get it.
• The factions tried to adapt the Douluo Mental Method themselves, and reckless practitioners suffered cultivation deviation or shattered their meridians.

Bibi Dong privately met Chen Ming to commission specialized cultivation methods for Spirit Hall members, and Chen Ming agreed to assess them in exchange for compensation. He left the meeting waiting to examine the candidates and set his price.

• After Chen Ming returned to Spirit City, Bibi Dong requested a meeting through Qian Daoliu, and Chen Ming agreed.
• Bibi Dong asked whether Chen Ming had a more efficient version of the Douluo Mental Method, and he explained that improved methods required customization for each Spirit Master.
• Bibi Dong commissioned exclusive cultivation methods for selected Spirit Hall members, and Chen Ming said he would need to examine them first.
• Chen Ming demanded compensation for the research and requested medicines and precious materials alongside a smaller payment in Gold Soul Coins.
• Bibi Dong agreed to bring the Spirit Masters for assessment, after which Chen Ming would draw up a price list.

Bibi Dong pressed Chen Ming to admit that Yu Xiaogang had taught him, but Chen Ming firmly denied any connection and ended their discussion. Golden Crocodile Douluo and Qian Daoliu left with Chen Ming, then the Worship Hall elders condemned Bibi Dong and resolved to restrict her authority and compensate Chen Ming.

• Bibi Dong questioned Chen Ming about his teachers and repeatedly tried to establish that Yu Xiaogang had guided him.
• Chen Ming denied any meaningful connection to Yu Xiaogang, rebuked Bibi Dong for making presumptuous accusations, and ended the discussion.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo stopped Bibi Dong from grabbing Chen Ming, and Qian Daoliu left with Golden Crocodile Douluo and Chen Ming.
• After they left, Bibi Dong smashed things in the side hall in a rage.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo reported the incident to the Worship Hall elders, who angrily condemned Bibi Dong and called for limiting her power.
• Qian Daoliu declared that the Pope's actions would need their approval and promised that Spirit Hall would compensate Chen Ming and make Bibi Dong pay.

Qian Daoliu sidelined Bibi Dong and confined her to Pope Hall, while Chen Ming’s Douluo Mental Method spread across the continent and made him famous. The chapter left Chen Ming honored by both empires as ordinary Spirit Masters began benefiting from his teachings and medicine.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo joined Qian Daoliu’s faction, and he took practical control of Spirit Hall, leaving Bibi Dong powerless and under house arrest.
• Spirit Hall distributed the Douluo Mental Method and Chen Ming’s speech throughout the continent, making Chen Ming widely celebrated as a genius.
• Xue Ye granted Chen Ming a dukedom and land in Fasinuo Province, while the Star Luo Emperor offered him a hereditary kingdom and additional territory.
• Prince Xue Xing told Dean Lu that Nuoding City Intermediate Soul Master Academy would be moved to Holy Soul City and renamed Holy Soul City Royal Intermediate Soul Master Academy.
• Lu Zhen praised the Douluo Mental Method’s improved cultivation efficiency, and ordinary Spirit Masters began receiving major gains from it and its accompanying medicinal powder.

Yu Xiaogang spiraled into rage and envy as Chen Ming’s achievements drew widespread acclaim, then lashed out at Luo Sanpao and himself. He was left on the floor, consumed by resentment toward Chen Ming and the recognition he had long wanted.

• Yu Xiaogang read about Chen Ming’s new cultivation method, Spirit Hall honor, and imperial title, and brooded over how the child had achieved what he could not.
• Yu Xiaogang lost control and smashed furniture until a broken stool leg struck his eye.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao and ordered it to attack, but Luo Sanpao found no enemy and did not use its skill.
• Yu Xiaogang kicked Luo Sanpao, causing it to release gas and foul the room; their shared pain left Yu Xiaogang curled on the floor.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled how he had looked down on Chen Ming and resented him for surpassing him in talent, theory, and public acclaim.

Yu Luomian arrived at Yu Xiaogang’s room with Tang San and found it filled with foul gas and liquid. A lightning-triggered explosion left Yu Xiaogang gravely injured and publicly disgraced, while Tang San and the hidden Tang Hao recoiled from their connection to him.

• Yu Luomian reflected on Yu Xiaogang’s wasted life and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s knowledge of his whereabouts.
• Yu Luomian forced open Yu Xiaogang’s door, and his lightning ignited the flammable gas from Luo Sanpao, blasting Yu Xiaogang through a wall.
• Prince Xue Xing and Vice Dean Lu arrived at the scene, but Yu Luomian stopped Lu Zhen from striking the injured Yu Xiaogang and apologized for his nephew’s condition.
• Prince Xue Xing left in disgust as Yu Xiaogang pleaded with Yu Luomian to save him.
• Yu Luomian sent Tang San to help Yu Xiaogang, while Tang San hesitated and Tang Hao considered silencing Yu Xiaogang and those who knew about their relationship.

Chen Ming reviewed visiting cards from the continent’s powerful factions, and Golden Crocodile Douluo arrested those who had threatened or insulted him. He then met Ning Fengzhi and explained that faster cultivation methods would need to be developed specifically for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

• Chen Ming ranked the visiting cards and gave Golden Crocodile Douluo a list of the people and factions that had threatened or mocked him.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo gathered Spirit Hall elders, bishops, and knights to arrest the listed people.
• Chen Ming prioritized the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan for their resources, inheritance, and Martial Soul traits.
• Two days later, Chen Ming met Ning Fengzhi alone in a side hall in Spirit City.
• Ning Fengzhi asked whether the Douluo Mental Method could be improved and offered generous rewards for Chen Ming’s guidance.
• Chen Ming explained that broad compatibility limited cultivation speed and said a faster method would need to be researched specifically for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Ning Fengzhi discussed custom cultivation methods with Chen Ming, who explained that a method’s narrow compatibility could both protect and limit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After Ning Fengzhi agreed to provide Spirit Masters and information for research, Chen Ming examined his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and began assessing its properties.

• Chen Ming explained to Ning Fengzhi how cultivation methods tailored to one Martial Soul could be highly effective yet unsuitable for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s other Spirit Masters.
• Ning Fengzhi accepted Chen Ming’s conditions for researching customized methods and asked him to study Ning Rongrong and the Pagoda’s level-seventy-nine limit.
• Chen Ming asked Ning Fengzhi to summon the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and examined its Spirit Rings and Martial Soul.
• Chen Ming found that Ning Fengzhi’s Spirit Rings were generally younger than those of ordinary Spirit Masters and that the Pagoda was a fragile, composite-material staff that amplified Soul Power and Spirit Skills.

Chen Ming examined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and concluded that its fixed structure made its rank limit difficult to break. Ning Fengzhi revealed that an ancestor had surpassed that limit with a seventh Spirit Ring from a Rainbow Dragon, leaving Chen Ming astonished by the rare beast’s significance.

• Ning Fengzhi used the Seven Treasures Have Names, First: Strength skill on Chen Ming, who studied the Pagoda’s structure with AI Thinking.
• Chen Ming explained that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s perfect, fixed design imposed a preset upper limit that ordinary treasures could not break.
• Chen Ming argued that raising the limit required reshaping the Pagoda and adding levels, and asked Ning Fengzhi what his ancestor had obtained to surpass it.
• Ning Fengzhi disclosed that the ancestor’s seventh Spirit Ring came from a Rainbow Dragon known as the Dragon Clan’s Queen.
• Chen Ming recognized the Rainbow Dragon as an exceptionally rare auxiliary dragon and speculated about its connection to the Dragon God and the Pagoda’s breakthrough.

Chen Ming explained how the Rainbow Dragon might have altered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and discussed studying its preserved skeleton with Ning Fengzhi. After Ning Fengzhi left, Chen Ming met Yu Yuanzhen, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan patriarch.

• Chen Ming told Ning Fengzhi that studying the Rainbow Dragon's origin might reveal how Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Spirit Masters could overcome their limit, and Ning Fengzhi offered the sect's preserved skeleton for investigation.
• Chen Ming agreed that the skeleton might help, provided many sect disciples cooperated with extensive testing, and Ning Fengzhi said he would consult the elders.
• Chen Ming offered Ning Fengzhi Small and Large Soul Ascension Pills at steep prices, and Ning Fengzhi left to discuss a purchase with his sect.
• The next day, Chen Ming met Yu Yuanzhen, the imposing patriarch of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yu Yuanzhen offered Chen Ming a high position and marriage prospects to join the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but Chen Ming deferred to his teacher. Yu Yuanzhen then asked Chen Ming to create a cultivation method tailored to the clan’s Martial Soul.

• Yu Yuanzhen invited Chen Ming to join the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as Vice Sect Master and offered him a choice of unmarried women from the clan.
• The chapter described the clan’s history, its recruitment of other dragon Martial Souls, and its former role as one of Spirit Hall’s six great families.
• Chen Ming declined to decide without consulting his teacher, and Yu Yuanzhen accepted his answer.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked Chen Ming to tailor a cultivation method for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.

Yu Yuanzhen agreed to let Chen Ming study the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and left a Spirit Bone as a deposit. After meeting with various factions, Chen Ming worked with Qian Daoliu to refine pills for Spirit Hall and finally produced a Three Treasures Dragon Transformation Pill.

• Yu Yuanzhen agreed to cooperate with Chen Ming and gave him a Lightning Speed Dragon leg bone as a deposit, while inviting him to visit the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Chen Ming reflected on Yu Yuanzhen’s strength, then spent several days negotiating with representatives of various clans and sects, favoring forces within the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Chen Ming asked Qian Daoliu to help refine pills, and Qian Daoliu supplied ingredients and Angel Fire in exchange for pills for Spirit Hall’s Spirit Masters.
• Chen Ming and Qian Daoliu refined batches of Small and Large Soul Ascension Pills, along with seven Dragon-Tiger Great Restoration Pills.
• Using Spirit Hall’s research on True Dragon Martial Souls and Spirit Beasts, Chen Ming overcame the remaining difficulties and refined a Three Treasures Dragon Transformation Pill.

Chen Ming refined his cultivation plans, created powerful pills, and studied the Coiling Dragon Staff and the Heavenly Awakening Sacred Golden Dragon Soul. After recovering from a pill’s effects and learning the Gu Clan’s account of how its staff gained a Dragon Soul, he remained uncertain of the legend’s truth but found it plausible.

• Chen Ming developed a technique that used the Three Treasures Dragon Transformation Pill’s medicinal power to fuel and restore his dragon-type Martial Soul Origin.
• Chen Ming formulated an extremely costly cultivation pill and planned to prioritize a strong foundation, knowledge, and ability development over rapid breakthroughs.
• Chen Ming swallowed a Dragon-Tiger Great Restoration Pill, whose intense life force caused his hair, nails, skin, and teeth to change, so he stayed in Spirit Hall for several days.
• Chen Ming persuaded Qian Jun Douluo and Falling Devil Douluo to summon their Coiling Dragon Staff Martial Souls so he could study them.
• Qian Jun Douluo and Falling Devil Douluo told Chen Ming that their ancestor’s courage had moved the Heavenly Awakening Sacred Golden Dragon to join its soul with his staff, creating the clan’s Dragon Soul inheritance.
• Chen Ming reasoned that the Gu Clan’s account was likely true, though he remained unsure of its accuracy.

Chen Ming studied Yu Long’s unusual Martial Soul Avatar to understand how a Martial Soul could develop independent thought, paying him a thousand-year Spirit Bone for his cooperation. He learned that Yu Long’s seventh Spirit Ring had transformed his Snake Lance into a Purple Gold Snake Lance and left Yu Long offering further evidence from the Two-Headed Python he had killed.

• After witnessing the Heavenly Awakening Sacred Golden Dragon’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Chen Ming spent several days replaying the battle and seeking inspiration.
• Chen Ming visited Yu Long and offered him a thousand-year Lightning Speed Dragon Leg Bone in exchange for examining his Martial Soul and seventh Spirit Ring.
• Yu Long accepted the gift, summoned his Snake Lance, demonstrated his Spirit Skills, and activated his Martial Soul Avatar for Chen Ming to inspect.
• Chen Ming observed that the Two-Headed Python Avatar showed confusion and disgust, suggesting it possessed limited independent thought despite Yu Long retaining control.
• Yu Long explained that his seventh Spirit Ring came from a twenty-five-thousand-year Two-Headed Python, which had mutated his Snake Lance into a Purple Gold Snake Lance and helped him become a Titled Douluo.
• Yu Long brought the Two-Headed Python’s two skulls to his residence in Spirit Hall for Chen Ming to examine.

Chen Ming analyzed how She Long’s Snake Lance manifested the soul of a Two-Headed Python, then experimented with restraining his Sacred Earth Dragon Martial Soul into a dragon-patterned staff. He succeeded in briefly summoning an artificial Dragon Soul and left the chapter considering how to cultivate a Companion Dragon Spear.

• Chen Ming concluded that fragments of the Two-Headed Python’s soul had remained attached to Yu Long’s Spirit Ring, enabling She Long’s Snake Lance to manifest it as a Martial Soul Avatar.
• Chen Ming used his AI Dragon Soul subprogram to repeatedly transform his Sacred Earth Dragon Martial Soul into a staff, replenishing his origin with the Three Treasures Dragon Transformation Pill after failures.
• Chen Ming succeeded in creating a dark-gold dragon-patterned staff and briefly summoned an illusory Dragon Soul, but the transformation consumed most of his Soul Power.
• Chen Ming withdrew from the transformation, recovered with a True Small Soul Ascension Pill, and judged that his artificial Dragon Soul remained far less efficient than an innate one.
• Chen Ming considered using his research to cultivate a Companion Dragon Spear that could strengthen his Martial Soul and expand its potential.