Chapter Summaries

After Ha Luosa retreated, Wang Chuan returned to Heaven Dou City with Zhen Hua and focused on forging. One month later, he passed his assessment and became a Level 6 Forging Grandmaster at ten and a half years old, breaking every known record.

• Yun Ming praised Wang Chuan and invited him to Shrek Academy, then left without speaking to Leng Yaozhu, who returned to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Zhen Hua and Wang Chuan remained at the ruined battlefield until Hua Lai City's chief administrative officer arrived and thanked Wang Chuan for helping protect the city.
• Zhen Hua took Wang Chuan back to Heaven Dou City in a high-end Sky Car and promised to find him one of his own.
• Wang Chuan devoted himself to forging after returning to the Blacksmith Association headquarters.
• Wang Chuan completed a Spirit Forging creation and passed the assessment, officially advancing to Level 6 Forging Grandmaster.

After earning the Level 6 Forging Grandmaster badge, Wang Chuan rested with Wu Sidu before discovering a fourth version of himself in his Mental Space. The new Undead Wang Chuan shared his memories, revealing his life as the strongest Lich in the Undead Semi-Plane.

• Zhen Hua awarded Wang Chuan the Level 6 Forging Grandmaster badge, and the Saint Craftsmen congratulated him.
• Wu Sidu waited in Wang Chuan's lounge, massaged his temples, and quietly left after he fell asleep.
• Wang Chuan woke that night and entered his Mental Space, where three versions of himself greeted a fourth figure.
• The newcomer identified himself as Undead Wang Chuan, and the four Wang Chuans began sharing memories and abilities.
• Douluo Wang Chuan learned that Undead Wang Chuan had become the Undead Semi-Plane's strongest Lich, whose peak strength rivaled a Douluo Plane Quasi-God.

The four Wang Chuans shared their power and knowledge, strengthening each of them and temporarily stabilizing Undead Wang Chuan and the Undead Semi-Plane. Undead Wang Chuan explained that the demiplane had decayed after the God Realm vanished and severed Huo Yuhao’s connection, and warned that it would still collapse in a few thousand years without a lasting solution.

• The sharing ended, raising Douluo Wang Chuan to Soul Power Level fifty and the Spirit Abyss Realm while granting him extensive Undead Magic knowledge.
• Phoenix Wang Chuan broke through the ten-thousand-year cultivation threshold, while Abyss Wang Chuan advanced to strength comparable to an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo.
• Undead Wang Chuan regained strength comparable to a Super Douluo and stabilized his connection to the Demiplane Core, delaying the demiplane’s collapse for several thousand years.
• Douluo Wang Chuan asked why the Undead Semi-Plane had decayed despite once belonging to Huo Yuhao.
• Undead Wang Chuan explained that Huo Yuhao had neglected Undead Magic and that the Space-Time Turbulence severed his divine connection to the demiplane.
• Undead Wang Chuan warned that the semi-plane and its remaining Undead would be annihilated in a few thousand years unless they found a solution.

Wang Chuan secured his brothers’ help in stabilizing the Undead Semi-Plane and learned that Leng Yaozhu had entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to Limit Douluo. He then told Zhen Hua that he had reached Rank Fifty, astonishing his master.

• Undead Wang Chuan explained that the Undead Semi-Plane could recover if someone strong enough became its new master, and the other Wang Chuans agreed that Douluo Wang Chuan would take charge.
• Undead Wang Chuan offered to awaken powerful Undead Creatures and help whenever Douluo Wang Chuan opened the Gate of the Undead.
• After failing to reach Leng Yaozhu, Wang Chuan asked Zhen Hua about her and learned she was in seclusion attempting to reach Rank Ninety-Nine.
• Wang Chuan told Zhen Hua he planned to visit the Spirit Pagoda because his Soul Power had reached Rank Fifty.
• Zhen Hua reacted with disbelief at Wang Chuan’s rapid advancement to a Five-Ring Soul King at ten and a half years old.

Zhen Hua told Wang Chuan that Leng Yaozhu had prepared a Second Soul Spirit for him, and he accompanied Wang Chuan and Wu Sidu to the Leng Family Ancestral Residence. There, Leng Luotian revealed the Soul Spirit’s origins and explained that it was an Unyielding Soul Spirit.

• Zhen Hua told Wang Chuan that Leng Yaozhu had prepared a Soul Spirit for him at the Leng Family Ancestral Land, and offered to escort him there.
• Wang Chuan, Zhen Hua, and Wu Sidu traveled to the Phoenix Mountain Range and met Leng Luotian, the Leng Family’s Grand Elder.
• Leng Luotian welcomed the visitors and led them through the barrier into the expansive Leng Family Ancestral Residence.
• Leng Luotian explained that the Leng Family had used the remains of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Demon Bird to create two Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits, one with spatial abilities and one with temporal abilities.
• Leng Luotian said that both Blue Demon Bird Soul Spirits had become Unyielding Soul Spirits, prompting Wang Chuan to recognize the term.

Wang Chuan learned that the two Blue Demon Bird Soul Spirits Leng Yaozhu secured for him were Unyielding Soul Spirits, then prepared to fuse with them despite their danger. In the Spirit Fusion Chamber, he revealed the full authority of his Five Virtues Phoenix bloodline, leaving Leng Luotian and the Soul Spirits stunned.

• Leng Luotian explained the danger of Unyielding Soul Spirits and how Leng Yaozhu had persuaded the Elder Council to give Wang Chuan the two Blue Demon Bird Soul Spirits.
• Wang Chuan learned that Leng Yaozhu was secluded in the Heavenly Phoenix Secret Realm attempting a breakthrough, and he watched the mountain from afar.
• The next morning, Wang Chuan entered the Spirit Fusion Chamber with Leng Luotian and asked to see both Soul Spirits before choosing one.
• Leng Luotian released Kong, the Space Blue Demon Bird, and Shi, the Time Blue Demon Bird, whose defiant wills resisted Wang Chuan.
• Wang Chuan unleashed the full majesty of his Five Virtues Phoenix bloodline, causing Leng Luotian's Heavenly Phoenix Martial Soul to submit and the Blue Demon Bird Soul Spirits to react intensely.

Wang Chuan successfully fused with the two Blue Demon Bird Soul Spirits, gaining a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and a powerful teleportation skill. He then sensed that Leng Yaozhu’s attempt to form a second Soul Core had fallen into a deadly crisis.

• The two Blue Demon Bird Soul Spirits submitted to Wang Chuan and voluntarily fused with him, forming his fifth Soul Ring and raising his Soul Power to level fifty-nine.
• Wang Chuan learned that his fifth Soul Skill was Space Blink and sensed that Time was beginning to merge with his Martial Soul.
• Wang Chuan detected that Leng Yaozhu’s aura had turned turbulent and looked toward the Heavenly Phoenix Secret Realm.
• Leng Yaozhu’s memories of Leng Yulai’s accusations disrupted her second Soul Core construction, causing her Soul Power to spiral out of control.
• Leng Yaozhu failed to stabilize the collapsing Soul Core, gave up struggling, and reflected on her past as destructive energy threatened to consume her and the secret realm.

Wang Chuan entered the Heavenly Phoenix Secret Realm and used his chaotic power to help Leng Yaozhu stabilize her Soul Cores and reach Limit Douluo. He collapsed from the effort, and three days later awoke with Leng Yaozhu watching over him.

• As Leng Yaozhu prepared to die, Wang Chuan broke through the Secret Realm's restrictions and embraced her, pouring his power into her.
• Wang Chuan's bloodline and chaotic Soul Power calmed Leng Yaozhu's Heavenly Phoenix Martial Soul and helped her regain control of her Soul Power and Soul Cores.
• Leng Yaozhu stabilized her second Soul Core and became a Limit Douluo, while her Phoenix Cry and pressure reached the Leng Family Ancestral Residence.
• Leng Luotian celebrated Leng Yaozhu's breakthrough, and Zhen Hua welcomed the benefits it could bring to the Blacksmith Association's cooperation with the Spirit Pagoda.
• Leng Yaozhu found Wang Chuan unconscious from exhaustion, stayed by his side, and gently teased him as she cared for him.
• Three days later, Wang Chuan awoke to find Leng Yaozhu watching over him.

After recovering from stabilizing a Super Douluo’s Soul Core, Wang Chuan advanced to Soul Emperor and gained the defensive Soul Skill Step Back. Over the next two years, his rise strengthened the Spirit Pagoda’s influence, while Gu Yue became his junior sister and Wu Sidu continued to struggle to stand out beside him.

• Wang Chuan awoke after three days, then rested for over a month at the Leng Family Ancestral Residence before returning to Spirit Pagoda Headquarters with Leng Yaozhu.
• Under Leng Yaozhu’s guidance, Wang Chuan broke through level sixty in one month and gained his sixth Soul Skill, Step Back, which let him evade an attack by shifting slightly into the past.
• Leng Yaozhu had Qiangu Dongfeng test Step Back, and Wang Chuan avoided even the Quasi-God’s full-force strike, though he could use the skill only once per day for a brief moment.
• Wang Chuan persuaded Leng Yaozhu to accept Gu Yue as her disciple, and Gu Yue often visited him at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters.
• Wang Chuan’s achievement of Soul Emperor at age eleven attracted support from major clans, helped Qiangu Dongfeng expand the Spirit Pagoda’s influence, and earned Wang Chuan a position as one of its Four Great Spirit Envoys.
• Shrek Academy watched the Spirit Pagoda’s rise calmly, while Zang Xin considered the shifting balance among the major organizations a temporary change.

Gu Yue and Wu Sidu continued their quiet rivalry for Wang Chuan's closeness while he trained at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters. When Leng Yaozhu asked when he would report to Shrek Academy, Wang Chuan questioned what the academy could offer him that he did not already have, leaving her unable to answer.

• Gu Yue repeatedly edged Wu Sidu away from Wang Chuan, while Wu Sidu chose to retreat and build a quiet, trusted companionship with him.
• Leng Yaozhu told Wang Chuan that Yun Ming had asked when he planned to report to Shrek Academy.
• Wang Chuan said he had never agreed to join Shrek and argued that attending might not matter much to his development.
• Leng Yaozhu affirmed that Wang Chuan could reach Limit Douluo or even the Quasi-God realm without Shrek Academy.
• Wang Chuan asked what Shrek could provide that the Spirit Pagoda, the Blacksmith Association, the Leng Family, and his other supporters could not.
• Leng Yaozhu considered his existing mentors, resources, status, and connections, but could not find a clear benefit Shrek would offer him.

Wang Chuan declined Yun Ming’s invitation to attend Shrek Academy and left the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters to travel, stopping in Heaven Dou City to visit Zhen Hua. There, Dark Bell, Na Nali ambushed him, and Wang Chuan suspected the Qiangu Clan had revealed his whereabouts to the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Leng Yaozhu accepted Wang Chuan’s reasons for refusing Shrek Academy and agreed to decline Yun Ming’s invitation on his behalf.
• Wang Chuan told Leng Yaozhu he wanted to travel and train, and she approved while reminding him to stay in contact.
• Several days later, Wang Chuan arrived alone in Heaven Dou City and headed toward the Blacksmith Association to visit Zhen Hua.
• Dark Bell, Na Nali enveloped Wang Chuan in darkness and silence, then revealed she had been waiting for him near Heaven Dou City.
• Wang Chuan recognized Na Nali as a Holy Spirit Cult Heavenly King and suspected Qiangu Dongfeng had helped the cult target him.

Wang Chuan confronted Dark Bell after she attacked him with soul-corroding soundwaves and Wraiths. He revealed powerful Chaos light and opened a bone-gray door that swallowed her attacks, leading Dark Bell to declare that he was an Evil Soul Master who commanded pure Undead power.

• Dark Bell attacked Wang Chuan with soundwaves and Wraiths after he used Space Blink to escape.
• Wang Chuan swept his Phoenix wings forward and used Five-Colored Divine Light to dissolve Dark Bell’s attack.
• Dark Bell grew excited by Wang Chuan’s strength and launched three stronger soundwaves at him.
• Wang Chuan opened a bone-gray door to a deathly gray world, and it swallowed all three soundwaves.
• Dark Bell recognized the Undead power beyond the door and accused Wang Chuan of being an Evil Soul Master with a possible Twin Martial Souls.

Wang Chuan lured Dark Bell into underestimating him, then summoned Undead Wang Chuan to capture her. Afterward, he continued toward the Blacksmith Association headquarters, while the story shifted to Sea God Island.

• Dark Bell tried to recruit Wang Chuan into the Holy Spirit Cult, but he refused and warned her that she was about to die.
• Wang Chuan called for his brother, and a terrifying aura emerged from a gray-white door.
• Undead Wang Chuan seized Dark Bell with a bone hand and sealed her Soul Power before dragging her through the door.
• Wang Chuan revealed that his apparent weakness had been an act and looked forward to using captured Evil Soul Masters to help Undead Wang Chuan recover.
• Wang Chuan resumed his stroll toward the Blacksmith Association headquarters, and the scene shifted to a tranquil lake on Sea God Island.

Yun Ming learned that Wang Chuan had refused Shrek Academy’s invitation, while Ya Li urged him not to take his disappointment out on Gu Yue. At Eastsea Academy, Xie Xie celebrated the chance to take Shrek’s entrance examination, and Tang Wulin hoped that passing would let him reunite with Wang Chuan at the academy.

• Yun Ming learned from Yao Ju that Wang Chuan did not want to attend Shrek, and Ya Li comforted him about the rejection.
• Ya Li warned Yun Ming not to make Gu Yue’s upcoming entrance examination harder because of Wang Chuan, and Yun Ming abandoned the idea of giving her special attention.
• Xie Xie excitedly anticipated taking Shrek’s entrance examination, while Xu Xiaoyan reminded him that it would be difficult.
• Tang Wulin hoped that he and Wang Chuan could study together again if he passed the examination.
• Gu Yue worked in a special Quiet Room at the Spirit Pagoda Branch in Eastsea City, studying Soul Spirit data.

A Spirit Pagoda researcher pursued her plans for the Soul Beast race while Ghost Emperor investigated Dark Bell Na Nali’s disappearance and ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to stop direct attacks on Wang Chuan. In the Sea of Spirit, Abyss Wang Chuan revealed that he had risen to become the Abyss Monarch of the 71st Layer.

• The researcher used her Spirit Pagoda connections and Soul Spirit expertise to gain access to deeper projects for her plans concerning the Soul Beast race.
• A cult follower reported that Na Nali had vanished after attacking Wang Chuan, and Ghost Emperor killed the messenger for his failure.
• Ghost Emperor suspected that a powerful outsider had defeated Na Nali and ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to suspend direct actions against Wang Chuan while investigating Heaven Dou City.
• Undead Wang Chuan said that absorbing Na Nali’s soul and life essence had restored more than half his origin and made him strong enough to face ordinary Quasi-Gods.
• Abyss Wang Chuan told his brothers that he had killed the Abyss Monarch of the 108th Layer and advanced to become the monarch of the 71st Layer.

The four Wang Chuans planned to lure the Six-Claw Demon Emperor to the Douluo Plane and kill him for his Abyssal Energy. Wang Chuan then asked Leng Yaozhu to let him go to the Blood God Legion, but she worried about the danger and recognized he had already made up his mind.

• Abyss Wang Chuan told the others that Emperor Heavenly Ox had mistaken his rapid rise for the Abyss Will's favor, and that the Six-Claw Demon Emperor and Ant Emperor now served beneath him.
• Phoenix Wang Chuan said Da Ming and Er Ming had stopped searching for him, while Douluo Wang Chuan updated the others about the Douluo Continent's factions and current situation.
• Abyss Wang Chuan proposed luring the Six-Claw Demon Emperor to the Douluo Plane so the four Wang Chuans could kill him and divide his Abyssal Energy.
• The Six-Claw Demon Emperor felt a sudden, unexplained dread on the Abyss Plane's 97th Layer as an unseen trap began to take shape.
• Wang Chuan returned to Spirit Pagoda Headquarters and told Leng Yaozhu he wanted to go to the Blood God Legion.
• Leng Yaozhu warned Wang Chuan about the Abyssal Creatures and the Legion's dangers, then realized he was determined to go.

Leng Yaozhu agreed to let Wang Chuan travel to the Blood God Legion and gave him a powerful defensive Soul Tool before he set out west. After crossing the desert and reaching the Blazing Fire Basin, he continued toward the snow-covered Endless Mountains where the Legion was based.

• Leng Yaozhu investigated the Blood God Legion and its commanders for three days before agreeing to let Wang Chuan go.
• Leng Yaozhu gave Wang Chuan the ninth-rank defensive Soul Tool Phoenix Protection and explained its automatic barrier and thirty-second Absolute Protection.
• Wang Chuan departed west by Soul Guidance Train and on foot, traveling through the western region to the edge of the Sea of Death.
• Wang Chuan crossed the desert using his control over wind and earth elements and arrived at the Blazing Fire Basin.
• Wang Chuan headed toward the Endless Mountains, where the Blood God Legion's base was hidden, and stopped in awe at the sight of the mountains.

Wang Chuan gained an initial insight into the Law of Creation while crossing into the snow mountains, then completed the arduous journey to the Blood God Legion. He arrived at its headquarters and sensed soldiers hidden around the snowfield.

• Wang Chuan entered an epiphany at the snow line, resonated with the surrounding world, and glimpsed the embryonic Law of Creation.
• Wang Chuan awoke after nightfall with strengthened Soul Power and Mental Power, and believed he could now confront Dark Bell without summoning Undead Wang Chuan.
• Wang Chuan followed the Blood God Legion’s rules and crossed the mountains on foot, sustaining himself with the active elements around him.
• Wang Chuan reached the Blood God Legion’s snowfield headquarters several days later and sensed concealed soldiers in camouflage uniforms.

Wang Chuan arrived at the Blood God Legion and impressed Long Yuxue by seeing through her snow camouflage and remaining composed in the cold. After she verified his recommendation and brought him to the new recruit reception, he recognized that Long Yuxue and the lieutenant processing his assessment were mother and daughter.

• Wang Chuan used his control over wind to uncover Long Yuxue, who had been hiding under snow to receive new recruits.
• Long Yuxue inspected Wang Chuan's recommendation token, confirmed it was genuine, and gave him the Legion's military salute.
• Long Yuxue escorted Wang Chuan through the orderly, bleak camp to the new recruit reception building.
• Long Yuxue introduced Wang Chuan to a female lieutenant and requested his assessment.
• Wang Chuan recognized Long Yuxue and the lieutenant as mother and daughter, despite their formal military exchange.

Wang Chuan prepared to take the Blood God Legion’s dangerous assessment, refusing the weapons offered because he trusted his physical abilities and combat awareness. Long Yuxue took over as his examiner after reviewing his journey through the Snow Mountain region, leaving the two alone in the elevator.

• Long Yuxue’s mother explained the Blood God Legion’s ranks and warned Wang Chuan that fewer than one-third of recommended recruits passed the assessment.
• The lieutenant brought Wang Chuan to the weapons warehouse, where he declined to take a weapon and said he rarely relied on Soul Power.
• The lieutenant led Wang Chuan to the camp’s central assessment building and toward its Soul Guidance Elevator.
• Long Yuxue arrived, ordered the lieutenant to leave, and announced that she would personally oversee Wang Chuan’s assessment.
• Long Yuxue told Wang Chuan she had reviewed his journey through the Snow Mountain region and regarded him with surprise and shock.