Chapter Summaries

Lu Yu and Qian Renxue learned from the innkeeper about Death Valley’s deadly Soul Beast hordes and the sinister energy of Death Origin, then entered the forest to search for Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo. After defeating a pack of Gale Wolves, they discovered that the beasts’ Soul Rings were God-Bestowed Soul Rings.

• The innkeeper explained that Death Valley’s sinister energy tested mental willpower and described the Soul Beast waves and Stone Pillar Forest at Death Origin.
• The innkeeper gave Lu Yu a hand-drawn map, and Lu Yu and Qian Renxue set out for Death Valley the next morning.
• Lu Yu and Qian Renxue entered the forest and felt its strange energy gradually seep into their minds.
• A pack of Gale Wolves charged at them despite their powerful auras, and Lu Yu killed the beasts with a few sword strikes.
• Lu Yu examined the wolves’ Soul Rings, and Qian Renxue realized one was a God-Bestowed Soul Ring.

Lu Yu discovered that Death Valley’s Soul Beasts were god-created, flesh-and-blood beings with identical meat and God-Bestowed Soul Rings, and suspected a hidden Soul Beast Origin was producing them. He and Qian Renxue headed toward Death Origin and found the source of the approaching danger, but had not yet seen what awaited them.

• Lu Yu examined a Gale Wolf’s God-Bestowed Soul Ring and concluded that Death Valley’s Soul Beasts were created by a god rather than ordinary beasts.
• Lu Yu and Qian Renxue tested the Gale Wolf meat, finding that it contained unusually rich Soul Power.
• Lu Yu killed groups of three other kinds of Soul Beasts and found their meat identical, prompting him to suspect a hidden Soul Beast Origin.
• Lu Yu chose to travel toward Death Origin, where he hoped to find Dugu Yan and investigate the surrounding Soul Beasts.
• Lu Yu and Qian Renxue reached a strangely silent area near Death Origin, concealed their auras, and approached the danger they sensed.
• Lu Yu and Qian Renxue spotted the source of the danger ahead.

Lu Yu and Qian Renxue discovered that Death Valley held enormous, orderly Soul Beast hordes guarding the approaches to Death Origin. After following their leaders, they watched four powerful beasts—the Black Tiger, Fire Sparrow, Azure Flood Dragon, and Mystic Tortoise—gather and head toward Death Origin, leaving their purpose unclear.

• Lu Yu and Qian Renxue saw a vast Soul Beast horde, including beasts nearly one hundred thousand years old, and realized they could not fight their way through.
• The Black Tiger left its horde, and Lu Yu and Qian Renxue secretly followed it to the edge of a huge Stone Forest before it turned away.
• Lu Yu and Qian Renxue found another Soul Beast horde guarding a different approach, where the Black Tiger met a gigantic Fire Sparrow.
• An Azure Flood Dragon and a Mystic Tortoise joined the Black Tiger and Fire Sparrow, confirming Lu Yu's suspicion that four hordes guarded the approaches to Death Origin.
• The four leaders headed toward Death Origin, and Lu Yu and Qian Renxue followed, still unsure what the beasts intended.

Lu Yu and Qian Renxue discovered how the Four Divine Beasts brought thousands of Soul Beasts out of the Soul Beast Origin, then entered the hidden space and found its Soul Beast-nurturing pools. They cultivated in the energy liquid until Lu Yu reached rank ninety, one Soul Ring short of becoming a Title Douluo, and he asked Qian Renxue what rank she had reached.

• The Four Divine Beasts activated the Stone Forest and opened a Gate of Space, through which thousands of Soul Beasts emerged and followed their assigned leaders or scattered away.
• Lu Yu and Qian Renxue waited until the Gate of Space closed and the Four Divine Beasts had left, then Lu Yu opened a spatial gate to the Soul Beast Origin.
• Lu Yu and Qian Renxue found countless light spheres nurturing lives and a pool of pure energy liquid connected to them by tubes.
• Lu Yu tested the energy liquid, confirmed he could absorb it safely, and invited Qian Renxue to cultivate with him.
• Lu Yu and Qian Renxue cultivated until Lu Yu reached rank ninety, then Lu Yu asked Qian Renxue what rank she had reached.

After reaching level ninety, Lu Yu and Qian Renxue entered the Stone Forest to investigate its sinister energy and search for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan. They discovered the forest seemed impossibly vast, and Qian Renxue suggested it might be an independent space, though Lu Yu sensed no spatial abnormality.

• Qian Renxue celebrated reaching level ninety-five, and Lu Yu confirmed he had reached level ninety and planned to hunt the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for its Soul Ring and Spirit Bone.
• Lu Yu reassured Qian Renxue that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was not as powerful as Odis, and the two left the Soul Beast Origin through the Gate of Space.
• Lu Yu and Qian Renxue entered the Stone Forest and found that its sinister energy was stronger inside, but neither of them was affected by it.
• Lu Yu examined the smooth stone pillars and found that his spiritual power and Soul Power could not penetrate them, while Qian Renxue flew upward and noticed the Stone Forest's immense size.
• Lu Yu realized the Stone Forest looked far larger than its estimated area and discussed the possibility of visual deception with Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue proposed that the Stone Forest might be an independent space, but Lu Yu sensed no spatial abnormality around them.