Chapter Summaries

The Silver Dragon King created a human-looking avatar named Long Na'er to investigate the human world and search for traces of the Dragon God's legacy. She sent Di Tian to find a suitable human faction for the avatar to join, leaving him with a long list of demands.

• The Silver Dragon King ordered Di Tian to retrieve the last ten-thousand-year Sacred Soul Grass near the Little Lake of Life, and he took it despite Da Ming's attempt to stop him.
• The Silver Dragon King combined the Sacred Soul Grass with Life Gold, her scales, part of her soul, and half a Ninth-Grade Ginseng King to create a human-looking avatar.
• She named the avatar Long Na'er, gave her the Silver Dragon Spear as a disguised martial soul, and set her apparent strength at level thirty-five with three fake Spirit Rings.
• The Silver Dragon King told Di Tian to place Long Na'er in a powerful human faction near enough to Spirit Hall to observe it, while meeting numerous other conditions.
• Di Tian accepted the assignment and worried that fulfilling the Silver Dragon King's demands would take considerable effort.

Chen Ming developed a method to conceal Spirit Rings and left the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with Dugu Bo, intending to seek a suitable Spirit Beast for a future ring. Back in Heaven Dou City, he went to the Crown Prince's Mansion and discovered that Qian Renxue urgently needed his help with a major matter.

• Chen Ming decided against coercing Xiao Wu, Da Ming, or Er Ming for a Spirit Ring and planned to ask Ah Yin about Spirit Beasts that could not survive their Heavenly Tribulation.
• Chen Ming developed a secret technique to draw Spirit Rings into the body and strengthen Spirit Skills, then gave the method to Dugu Bo.
• Chen Ming gathered medicinal herbs and left the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with Dugu Bo.
• Chen Ming received an overdue invitation from the Crown Prince's Mansion and went to see Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe.
• Qian Renxue pulled Chen Ming to her desk and asked him to help with the urgent matter shown in a large stack of documents.

Qian Renxue asked Chen Ming for help as the Heaven Dou Empire's northeastern crisis threatened to overwhelm the government. Chen Ming recognized that the chaos could also give him a chance to gain influence and pursue a powerful fifth Spirit Ring.

• Spirit Beasts seized nearly a third of the northeast in half a month, killing people, destroying infrastructure, and causing floods by breaking dams.
• Corruption, weak defenses, supply hoarding, tax failures, and separatist schemes deepened the crisis and threatened the Heaven Dou Empire with rebellion and collapse.
• Xue Ye handed much of his authority to Xue Qinghe, while Prince Xue Xing was sent to suppress rebellions and win support.
• Qian Renxue, exhausted by her duties, shook Chen Ming and begged him to help salvage the empire's situation.
• Chen Ming considered the potential benefits of intervening, including the chance to secure his fifth Spirit Ring using the nearby powerful Spirit Beasts.

Qian Renxue asked Chen Ming to help resolve the Heaven Dou Empire’s northeastern crisis, and he agreed to investigate the region with her. She hoped that restoring order and reclaiming the northern lands would strengthen her claim to the throne.

• Qian Renxue worried that the empire’s internal divisions were preventing it from dealing with the soul beast threat, and Chen Ming explained that the crisis required decisive action.
• Chen Ming advised Qian Renxue to stabilize prices through the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, pressure the aristocrats, and swiftly use experts and the army to suppress the unrest.
• Qian Renxue asked Chen Ming to help, explaining that success could improve her standing and bring her closer to the throne.
• Chen Ming said resolving the crisis required a lengthy on-site investigation with the Crown Prince, and Qian Renxue eagerly agreed to go with him.
• Chen Ming accepted Qian Renxue’s request to travel to the northeast.

Qian Renxue traveled with Chen Ming to the Heaven Dou Empire’s northeastern frontier, where she became increasingly fixated on him. After arriving, she found the crisis far worse than the reports had suggested and began planning relief and reconstruction, though she did not understand Chen Ming’s proposal for work-for-relief.

• Qian Renxue arranged the expedition and traveled with Chen Ming, Dugu Bo, a royal High Priest, and an elite Soul Douluo toward the northeast.
• During the journey, Qian Renxue repeatedly sought Chen Ming’s advice and watched him with an unsettling intensity that left him uneasy.
• After more than ten days, the army reached the mountain pass and learned that ruined roads, Spirit Beasts, and displaced people had made the region difficult to reach and support.
• Qian Renxue ordered the army to fortify the pass, organize relief for refugees, reopen roads, register residents, and prepare for famine, disease, and Spirit Beast movements.
• Chen Ming proposed work-for-relief and renewed planting, but Qian Renxue asked what work-for-relief meant.

Chen Ming helped Qian Renxue organize relief efforts in the Heaven Dou Empire’s northeastern disaster zone, while becoming disappointed by her focus on consolidating power. After discovering signs that the Spirit Beasts were deliberately driving people from the region, Chen Ming and Qian Renxue reached a once-prosperous city and found its landscape transformed.

• Chen Ming explained the work-relief process to Qian Renxue, who asked whether she could promote her own people after placing them in key positions.
• Chen Ming felt disappointed by Qian Renxue’s political priorities and compared her temperament with those of past and present divine successors.
• Qian Renxue began organizing troops and registering households, but Chen Ming took charge to speed up the preparations.
• Chen Ming discovered that many civilians had escaped the Spirit Beast tide and suspected the beasts were deliberately targeting ordinary people and low-level Soul Masters to prevent humans from reclaiming the region.
• Chen Ming and Qian Renxue led three hundred Heaven Dou Empire soldiers and accompanying experts into the northeastern corner, reaching a former commercial and political center that had become chaotic terrain.

Chen Ming and Qian Renxue learned that Spirit Beasts had destroyed the main roads and driven civilians onto narrow escape routes as part of a coordinated strategy. They suspected a powerful being was directing the beasts, while Qian Renxue considered hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and Chen Ming warned that capturing one could cost them dearly.

• Chen Ming asked Shui Longjing to inspect nearby human-made routes for signs of deliberate destruction.
• Shui Longjing reported that the main roads had been ruined and patrolled by Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts, while narrow paths remained open for fleeing humans.
• Chen Ming explained that the Spirit Beasts' actions suggested a powerful commander capable of uniting different species and restraining their hostility toward humans.
• Qian Renxue considered whether their group could attack a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast with help from Dugu Bo, Snake Lance Douluo, and Pufferfish Douluo.
• Chen Ming warned that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast could use its territory and subordinate Spirit Beasts to escape, making a successful capture too costly without careful planning.

Someone had blocked the keyhole again, more than a week after the police had failed to investigate the first incident. The narrator suspected the police were not even trying to find the culprit.

• Someone blocked the keyhole again.
• The police had come after the first report but had not caught anyone or provided an update after more than a week.
• The narrator suspected the police had not bothered to investigate.

Chen Ming organized a temporary camp and exposed the Imperial Guards’ poor wilderness skills, while Qian Renfeng reported the devastation among nearby human settlements. The chapter left Chen Ming facing the scale of the casualties as he learned that a settlement of nearly a hundred thousand people had fewer than ten thousand survivors.

• Chen Ming directed the Imperial Guards as they built a temporary camp, set up defenses, and organized supplies and duties.
• Chen Ming struggled to compensate for the guards’ lack of wilderness skills, and an Imperial Guard was left burned rice despite the camp’s orderly operation.
• The old Soul Douluo with the Thunderfire Sword led faster guards back to the pass to fetch auxiliary soldiers and logistics personnel.
• Qian Renfeng reported that three small settlements of former soul masters and nobles could be won over, while scattered commoner settlements had suffered heavy losses.
• Chen Ming learned that a nearby settlement that had once held nearly a hundred thousand people now had fewer than ten thousand survivors.

Chen Ming’s forces gradually cleared the mountain roads and rescued survivors while Spirit Beasts began attacking their camp. During a nighttime assault, Shui Longjing and Dugu Bo’s forces fought off earth-attributed beasts until a black giant ape and its small white companion appeared.

• Qian Renfeng told Chen Ming that thoroughly searching the area would take months, and Chen Ming decided the main force would need to keep advancing.
• Chen Ming’s troops brought disaster-stricken survivors into camp, while Spirit Beast attacks increased as the beasts noticed the human advance.
• Dugu Bo killed several Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beasts and forced open a route through their blockade.
• Dozens of earth-attributed Spirit Beasts tried to bury the road in a nighttime landslide, but Shui Longjing and the prepared Soul Masters counterattacked while Dugu Bo weakened the beasts with poison.
• A gigantic black ape appeared as the humans neared victory, and Shui Longjing noticed that a small white ape riding on its neck had spoken and ordered it to stop.

Chen Ming identified the aged Spirit Beast as a ninety-five-thousand-year Sacred Illusion Demon Ape, which confronted the humans over their destruction of Spirit Beast territory. The ape attacked Chen Ming and Qian Renxue with the black giant ape, but Dugu Bo revealed his strength and wounded the giant ape.

• Chen Ming identified the aged ape as a Sacred Illusion Demon Ape and explained why it could speak.
• The Sacred Illusion Demon Ape demanded that the humans leave Spirit Beast territory and threatened to fight if they refused.
• The Sacred Illusion Demon Ape detected Dugu Bo’s poison and used its spiritual power to gather and hurl it back at the Soul Masters, but Dugu Bo absorbed it.
• The Sacred Illusion Demon Ape directed the black giant ape to unleash dark blades that killed weaker Soul Masters and targeted Chen Ming and Qian Renxue.
• Dugu Bo released his Martial Soul and cut through the dark blades, wounding the black giant ape and recognizing that it had cultivated for only a little over fifty thousand years.

Chen Ming watched Dugu Bo battle the Sacred Illusion Demon Ape and its giant ape mount until a powerful Hundred-Thousand-Year dragon-turtle Spirit Beast intervened. The turtle demanded that the humans leave, while Dugu Bo weighed the danger of escalating the fight and knew other powerful soul masters were waiting nearby.

• The Sacred Illusion Demon Ape used varied elemental attacks while its black giant ape mount fought in darkness and endured Dugu Bo's poison.
• Dugu Bo gradually gained the advantage, but the two apes' coordination and combat skill kept the battle going.
• Shui Longjing killed the earth-attribute giant wolf with his Thunderfire Sword, prompting a powerful aura to rush toward the battlefield.
• A Hundred-Thousand-Year dragon-turtle Spirit Beast arrived, healed the wounded Spirit Beasts, and forced Dugu Bo and the giant ape apart with a water-element hand.
• The Sacred Illusion Demon Ape demanded that the humans leave, and Dugu Bo considered the risks of unleashing his poison while knowing powerful allies were hidden nearby.

Chen Ming and the others faced the Dragon Turtle as it drew on its Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulation, while Old Monkey exposed the Dragon Turtle’s plan to evade the tribulation by transforming into a human. The Dragon Turtle retaliated by revealing Old Monkey’s limited lifespan and then explained that his rebellion had been intended to secure a future for his son as the tribulation began to gather overhead.

• The Dragon Turtle’s aura stirred, and Chen Ming realized it was using its Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulation to threaten everyone with mutual destruction.
• Old Monkey revealed that the Dragon Turtle planned to transform into a human and warned that it might infiltrate human society.
• The Dragon Turtle exposed Old Monkey’s old injury and said he had only about a hundred years left to live.
• Old Monkey dismissed the revelation, explaining that he had little to gain from fighting and could self-destruct if attacked.
• The Dragon Turtle accused Old Monkey of leading the Spirit Beasts’ rebellion to protect his eldest son and help awaken his Dark Titan Bloodline.
• The Dragon Turtle’s power surged, and its Lightning Tribulation began to manifest in the sky.

After the Spirit Beasts withdrew, Qian Renxue and the human leaders decided to wait for them to weaken rather than risk confronting them. Chen Ming warned that the Dragon Turtle could escape or survive its tribulation, and that the Sacred Illusion Demon Ape’s son could become another Beast King; the meeting ended with the humans considering how Spirit Beasts might grow stronger by consuming their dead.

• The Dragon Turtle and Sacred Illusion Demon Ape argued over the ape’s son, but neither side attacked while human powerhouses watched.
• As dawn broke, the Sacred Illusion Demon Ape fled with its son, and the Dragon Turtle also departed; Dugu Bo could not stop them.
• Qian Renxue, posing as Xue Qinghe, led a meeting where the humans agreed to wait for the Spirit Beasts to weaken and prioritize valuable Soul Bones over the land.
• Chen Ming warned that the Dragon Turtle could escape through waterways or survive its tribulation, then explained that rare Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts could become Beast Kings.
• Chen Ming cautioned that the Sacred Illusion Demon Ape’s son could grow into another powerful Spirit Beast, possibly by consuming its father’s corpse.
• A Spirit Master questioned whether an intelligent Spirit Beast would eat its father, and Chen Ming compared it to humans digging up a corpse to obtain a Soul Bone.

Chen Ming considered how to obtain the Dragon Turtle’s soul ring and soul bone, while Qian Renxue abandoned her plan to hunt it and kept her motives for wanting the bone to herself. Chen Ming then asked Qian Renfeng and Dugu Bo how to make the Spirit Beasts sacrifice themselves, but Dugu Bo proposed killing the Dragon Turtle instead.

• Chen Ming weighed the benefits of having the Dragon Turtle or Sacred Illusion Demon Ape sacrifice itself, but he did not know how to persuade either Spirit Beast.
• Qian Renxue secretly asked Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo whether they could kill the Dragon Turtle before its Heavenly Tribulation, and they indicated that several powerful Worships would be needed.
• Qian Renxue gave up on the hunt, since the Dragon Turtle’s water-attributed soul bone conflicted with her Angel Clan attributes, though she had also hoped to use it to bind Chen Ming closer to her.
• Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo kept Qian Renfeng’s presence near Chen Ming from Qian Renxue, while they continued their duty to protect her.
• Chen Ming asked Qian Renfeng and Dugu Bo how to persuade the two Spirit Beasts to sacrifice themselves, and Qian Renfeng doubted it was possible.
• Dugu Bo proposed restraining the Dragon Turtle with his control skills so Qian Renfeng could kill it and claim its soul bone.

Chen Ming sought a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast willing to offer itself as a Sacrifice, and his Dragon Spear revealed his second Martial Soul to Qian Renfeng. He and Dugu Bo tracked the Dragon Turtle to a deep pool, where Chen Ming used the Dragon Qi within him to draw it out and propose a deal.

• Chen Ming summoned his Dragon Spear and explained that ancient blessings had awakened his second Martial Soul, which could not be replicated.
• After hearing Chen Ming wanted a Sacrifice, Qian Renfeng accepted the possibility and planned to report the matter to Grand Worship.
• Chen Ming bade Qian Renxue farewell, then went with Dugu Bo and Qian Renfeng to investigate the Dragon Turtle's traces.
• The group tracked the Dragon Turtle to a deep pool, where Dugu Bo released his Titled Douluo aura.
• The Dragon Turtle sensed Chen Ming's powerful Dragon Qi and surfaced, astonished that the aura came from a human's Martial Soul.
• Chen Ming released the auras of the Water Dragon King, Fire Dragon King, Mountain Dragon King, and Earth Dragon King, then offered to make a deal with the Dragon Turtle.

Chen Ming urged the Dragon Turtle to Sacrifice itself by promising to revive it as a divine beast after becoming a god. After sensing Chen Ming’s overwhelming Dragon King bloodline, the Dragon Turtle accepted that he would be qualified to become a god, though it suspected he was more than an ordinary human.

• Chen Ming explained that the Dragon Turtle could become a god by Sacrificing itself to him and later being revived through divine power.
• The Dragon Turtle objected that Sacrifice meant destroying its body and soul, and questioned whether Chen Ming could become a god or would revive it.
• Chen Ming displayed his Seven Luminaries Sacred Dragon Martial Soul and revealed powers from four Dragon Kings, along with other Dragon attributes.
• The Dragon Turtle’s bloodline compelled it to submit, and it admitted Chen Ming would surely be qualified to become a god.
• Chen Ming swore to revive the Dragon Turtle if it Sacrificed itself, but the Dragon Turtle asked whether he was a Dragon King’s reincarnation or a supreme being.
• Chen Ming insisted he was merely human, and the Dragon Turtle pretended to accept his denial.

Chen Ming accepted the Dragon Turtle’s voluntary Sacrifice and chose the Spirit Bone and Spirit Skills he wanted, while the Dragon Turtle mistook him for the Dragon God and believed the Sacrifice served a grand plan. The Sacrifice began transforming the Dragon Turtle toward a True Dragon as his power merged with Chen Ming.

• The Dragon Turtle became convinced that Chen Ming was the Dragon God and eagerly offered his Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone through Sacrifice.
• Chen Ming requested that the Dragon Turtle’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone become a left leg bone and asked him to describe his abilities and specialties.
• The Dragon Turtle explained that he specialized in defense, with water as his main attribute and earth as a supplement, and described his Water Dragon and Black Tortoise bloodlines.
• After hearing the Dragon Turtle’s abilities, Chen Ming stated his requirements, and the Dragon Turtle agreed to fulfill them for the glory of the Dragon Clan and Spirit Beast race.
• The Dragon Turtle burned his bloodline and origin, enveloped Chen Ming in red light, and began transforming toward a True Dragon as his power merged with Chen Ming.

Chen Ming completed the Dragon Turtle’s Sacrifice, gaining a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone with four powerful skills. He returned to camp after explaining his Martial Soul to Dugu Bo and Qian Renfeng, while the Sacred Illusion Demon Ape and its son remained the next Spirit Beasts to face.

• The Dragon Turtle’s Sacrifice fused its crimson Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring into Chen Ming’s Dragon Spear and granted him four Spirit Skills, including Ancient Dragon Vein and World-Ending Dragon's Roar.
• Chen Ming sensed that the Dragon Turtle’s soul within his Dragon Spear was growing stronger and might one day assist him in battle.
• Chen Ming explained his Martial Soul’s ancient Dragon King power to Dugu Bo and Qian Renfeng, who accepted his account without pressing him further.
• Chen Ming returned to camp and told Qian Renxue that he had persuaded the Dragon Turtle to leave, and she did not suspect that it had sacrificed itself.
• The Sacred Illusion Demon Ape and its Titan Giant-blooded son remained the only powerful Spirit Beasts left to face, though the elder creature’s frailty limited its strength.

Chen Ming oversaw the Heaven Dou Empire’s recovery of the northeastern territory as Yu Yuanzhen’s battle with the Sacred Illusion Demon Ape shattered the remaining beast tide. Chen Ming, Dugu Bo, and Qian Renxue tracked the wounded ape and its son into the deep forest, where Chen Ming confronted it with the Dragon Turtle’s red Spirit Ring.

• Chen Ming coordinated road construction and the return of human settlements while Spirit Masters drove scattered Spirit Beasts back into the forest.
• Yu Yuanzhen arrived in the northeastern corner and hunted Spirit Beasts, hoping to draw out a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and claim its Spirit Bone.
• Yu Yuanzhen fought the Sacred Illusion Demon Ape and the Black Ape, injuring both and causing the final beast tide to collapse.
• Chen Ming left Qian Renxue and followed clues with Dugu Bo and Qian Renxue to find the wounded Sacred Illusion Demon Ape and its son hiding in a giant tree.
• The Sacred Illusion Demon Ape ignited its Spiritual Power to protect its child, but Chen Ming revealed his Dragon Spear and the Dragon Turtle’s red Spirit Ring, prompting the ape to demand how he had made the Dragon Turtle sacrifice itself.