Chapter Summaries

Qin Heng reunited with Qian Renxue and revealed that he had captured Xiao Wu, a hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit, as a candidate for his Soul Spirit method. He offered Xiao Wu continued consciousness and possible immortality if she became Qian Renxue’s Soul Spirit, leaving her to decide whether to accept or face being made into a Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

• Salas told Qin Heng that Qian Renxue would secretly visit the Martial Soul Holy Hall the following night, and Qin Heng arranged security for her visit.
• Qian Renxue met Qin Heng at his private palace, checked on his recovery from fighting Tang Hao, and heard that he had prepared her seventh Soul Ring.
• Qin Heng released the captive Xiao Wu and told Qian Renxue that she was a hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit.
• Qin Heng and Qian Renxue pretended Xiao Wu wore a collar that would kill her if she escaped, then Qin Heng explained his Soul Spirit method as an alternative to sacrificing her.
• Qin Heng offered Xiao Wu a chance to retain her consciousness and continue existing as Qian Renxue’s Soul Spirit, but warned that refusal would mean she was refined into a Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

Qin Heng let Xiao Wu move freely around Heaven Dou City, confident she would not escape, while Qian Renxue secretly tested her resolve. After Xiao Wu chose to return from the city gate, Qian Renxue began easing her into captivity with money and treats, and Xiao Wu slowly grew comfortable despite knowing their intentions.

• Xiao Wu agreed to cooperate, and Qin Heng removed her Golden Collar and sent Salas to arrange a guest room for her.
• Qin Heng explained to Qian Renxue that he expected Xiao Wu to stay and planned to bind her with a master-servant clause if she became a Soul Spirit.
• Qian Renxue ordered Porcupinefish Douluo to secretly watch Xiao Wu and let her test whether she could escape.
• Xiao Wu reached Heaven Dou City's gate but turned back toward the Martial Soul Holy Hall instead of fleeing to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After Xiao Wu stayed in the city for three days, Qian Renxue gave her a monthly allowance of one hundred Gold Soul Coins, which Xiao Wu accepted despite protesting.
• A week later, Qian Renxue brought Xiao Wu pastries, and Xiao Wu enjoyed them while beginning to feel at ease in the Martial Soul Holy Hall.

Qin Heng spent a year spreading the Basic General Meridian Cultivation Method across the Heaven Dou Empire, helping commoner Soul Masters break through bottlenecks and building support for his future inheritance of a Divine Position. As he headed back toward Heaven Dou City with Yue Guan and Gui Mei, he detected Soul Power in a blizzard and flew toward the Ice-Sealed Forest to investigate a possible high-level Soul Beast.

• Qian Renxue visited Xiao Wu, who admitted she was unsure whether she would still run away despite their supposed enmity fading.
• After recovering from his injuries, Qin Heng departed Heaven Dou City with Yue Guan and Gui Mei to promote the cultivation method.
• Qin Heng traveled through the Heaven Dou Empire, personally teaching the method and encouraging commoner Soul Masters to cultivate it.
• A year later, a report showed that more than two thousand Soul Masters in the northern provinces had broken through bottlenecks, while Qin Heng had advanced to the peak of level sixty-eight.
• Qin Heng set out for Heaven Dou City to see Qian Renxue and Xiao Wu, but detected traces of Soul Power in a blizzard near the Ice-Sealed Forest.
• Qin Heng flew toward the forest with Yue Guan and Gui Mei to investigate the possible threat from a high-level Soul Beast.

Qin Heng and the elders entered the Ice-Sealed Forest’s Core Zone, where Yue Guan and Gui Mei helped him kill two powerful Fallen Soul Masters attacking a Titan Snow Demon. The rescued beast revealed it was a wounded hundred-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon King who had been cast out of the Extreme North after angering A-Tai.

• Qin Heng, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei reached the Core Zone and found two Fallen Soul Masters fighting a badly wounded Titan Snow Demon.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei unleashed the Polar Static Domain, freezing the battlefield, and Qin Heng killed both Fallen Soul Masters with his God-Demon Annihilation Slash.
• The Titan Snow Demon recovered its movement, thanked Qin Heng by asking why he had spared it, and revealed that it was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Qin Heng questioned why the Titan Snow Demon King had fought so weakly, and it explained that A-Tai had injured it and banished it from the Extreme North.

Qin Heng spared the injured Titan Snow Demon King, returned to Heaven Dou City, and told Qian Renxue she needed stronger spiritual power before she could contract Xiao Wu as a Soul Spirit. After arranging for Qian Daoliu to search for Mermaid’s Tears, Qin Heng traveled to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to cultivate in seclusion.

• Qin Heng spared the Titan Snow Demon King and gave it healing medicine, earning its promise to repay his favor.
• Qin Heng returned to Heaven Dou City and found Xiao Wu eating carrots and living comfortably despite her lack of cultivation progress.
• Qian Renxue visited Qin Heng, who judged her spiritual power insufficient to contract a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and suggested Mermaid’s Tears as a remedy.
• Qian Renxue sent Snake Lance Douluo to deliver a letter asking Qian Daoliu to search the ocean for Mermaid’s Tears.
• Qin Heng left for the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and began preparing to enter seclusion under Mighty Lion Douluo’s protection.

Qin Heng cultivated at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, broke through to Rank 70, and used purified Asura Divine Power to create his seventh Soul Ring. The ring reached 180,000 years before his body hit its limit, while absorbing it transformed him and raised his spiritual power to Rank 98.

• Qin Heng broke through to Rank 69 after twenty-eight days in the spring and received Qian Renxue's letter about the twenty Mermaid's Tears Qian Daoliu had found for her.
• Qin Heng cultivated for four more months and broke through to Rank 70 as Mighty Lion Douluo watched.
• Qin Heng told Mighty Lion Douluo he would condense his seventh Soul Ring himself, then used the Asura Armor to erase the Asura God's will from the divine power he had taken during his battle with Tang Hao.
• Qin Heng combined the purified divine power with the spring's ice and fire energy to form a Soul Ring, which grew from white to a 100,000-year ring and then reached 180,000 years.
• Qin Heng absorbed the ring until his body reached its limit, and the process strengthened his physique and raised his spiritual power from Rank 97 to Rank 98.

After becoming a Soul Saint, Qin Heng learned that his Asura Armor could open a time-travel channel, then traveled ten thousand years into the future to gather Soul Tool knowledge and plunder the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. He left the intelligent Immortal Herbs alive as potential Soul Spirit candidates.

• Qin Heng discovered that his new Seventh Soul Ring had raised his Soul Power to level seventy-three and unlocked the Asura Armor's ability to travel through time, with a one-year minimum stay on each timeline.
• Qin Heng visited Qian Renxue in Heaven Dou City and brought her to Spirit City to see Qian Daoliu, who reported that Hu Liena had become Spirit Hall's only Soul Master capable of crafting level four Soul Tools.
• Qin Heng and Qian Renxue returned to Heaven Dou City, then Qin Heng went alone to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and opened a Space-Time Channel to the future.
• Qin Heng arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well ten thousand years later, where Tang San's lingering divine sense had vanished.
• Qin Heng harvested the unintelligent Immortal Herbs and spared the intelligent ones, intending to make them Soul Spirit candidates after learning the Soul Spirit Method.

Qin Heng traveled to the Sun Moon Empire to study its advanced Soul Tool technology and entered Ming Capital disguised as a young man accompanied by his grandfather, Illusion Pupil Douluo. After a Titled Douluo searched near their hotel, Illusion Pupil Douluo confronted him and revealed power far beyond what the visitor remembered.

• Qin Heng learned that roughly three years had passed and decided to seek out the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Tool research institutions.
• Qin Heng crossed into the Sun Moon Empire, created the Illusion Body of Illusion Pupil Douluo, and traveled with it to Ming Capital.
• Qin Heng and Illusion Pupil Douluo settled into a hotel and learned that the Soul Tool Exhibition Hall was open to visitors while the Research Institute was restricted.
• A Titled Douluo's spiritual power searched the hotel, so Illusion Pupil Douluo flew out and confronted him.
• Illusion Pupil Douluo recognized the intruder as Ye Yulin and displayed his nine Soul Rings, including a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Ye Yulin recognized Illusion Pupil Douluo from their encounter three years earlier and was shocked by his greatly increased spiritual power.

Ye Yulin met Illusion Body while investigating a strange spatial fluctuation in Ming Capital, then agreed to demonstrate his Level 9 Soul Tool, the Sun Moon Divine Needle. Outside the city, he fired it at Illusion Body, while Qin Heng watched through their shared senses; the attack’s outcome was not yet revealed.

• Ye Yulin explained that he was searching the western part of Ming Capital for an infiltrator after the detection array registered a powerful spatial fluctuation.
• Illusion Body revealed that he had brought his grandson Qin Heng to study Soul Tool technology and asked Ye Yulin to demonstrate a Level 9 Soul Tool.
• Ye Yulin took out his Sun Moon Divine Needle and led Illusion Body beyond the city to show its power.
• Qin Heng watched through Illusion Body’s senses and trusted that his Asura Armor abilities could protect Illusion Body from the weapon.
• Ye Yulin activated the Sun Moon Divine Needle under the moonlit sky and fired its concentrated golden beam at Illusion Body.

Illusion Body survived Ye Yulin’s Sun Moon Divine Needle by using the Shift Scene Technique, then revealed his desire to obtain the Sun Moon Empire’s complete Soul Tool technology. He offered to support the empire’s unification of the continent in exchange, leaving Ye Yulin astonished and eager to confirm the offer.

• Illusion Body used the Shift Scene Technique to exchange places with a distant piece of gravel, escaping the Sun Moon Divine Needle’s devastating blast without leaving Soul Power traces.
• Ye Yulin found Illusion Body unharmed after the explosion and realized he had used an undetectable method to evade the attack.
• Illusion Body praised the Sun Moon Divine Needle and privately resolved to acquire the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tool technology for Spirit Hall and his own ambitions.
• Illusion Body told Ye Yulin that he wanted his grandson to learn every aspect of Soul Tool technology, from Level 1 to Level 9.
• Illusion Body offered to support the Sun Moon Empire’s unification of the continent in exchange for all its Soul Tool technology, and Ye Yulin eagerly asked if he meant it.

Qin Heng used the Illusion Body to pose as a Spirit Hall descendant and offer the Sun Moon Empire a Rank 97 mental-attribute Super Douluo in exchange for access to Soul Tool technology. Ye Yulin brought the proposal to Kong Deming, who decided they needed to present it to the emperor, while Qin Heng and the Illusion Body waited in Ming Capital.

• The Illusion Body told Ye Yulin that his family descended from Spirit Hall and hated the Douluo Three Kingdoms, and he offered to swear loyalty to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Ye Yulin agreed to report the offer to Kong Deming and the emperor, then hurried back to Ming Capital.
• Qin Heng and the Illusion Body spent the following days quietly visiting Ming Capital's public library while waiting for the empire's response.
• Ye Yulin told Kong Deming about the Illusion Body's power, his offer, and his Spirit Hall identity.
• Kong Deming said the matter was too important for him to decide alone and went with Ye Yulin to seek an audience with the emperor.

Qian Huan and Qian Heng negotiated an alliance with the Sun Moon Empire, agreeing to swear Martial Soul Oaths in exchange for Qian Heng learning Soul Tool technology. After their oaths were accepted, Qian Heng was set to begin studying at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

• Xu Tianyuan consulted Kong Deming and Ye Yulin about Illusion Pupil Douluo’s offer and considered the risks of sharing Soul Tool technology.
• Kong Deming persuaded the imperial council to accept the alliance with safeguards, including staged disclosure and supervision of Qian Heng’s studies.
• Ye Yulin visited Qian Huan and presented the draft Martial Soul Contract, which Qian Huan accepted after reviewing its terms.
• Qian Huan asked Qian Heng if he was willing to proceed, and Qian Heng agreed in the name of Spirit Hall’s glory and their ancestors’ blood debt.
• Qian Huan and Qian Heng swore Martial Soul Oaths to serve the Sun Moon Empire and protect its Soul Tool technology from disclosure.
• Ye Yulin told them Qian Heng should report to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy the next morning, and Qian Huan agreed to take him.

Qin Heng enrolled at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and began studying under Xuan Ziwen, while Illusion Body went to meet Kong Deming. Their meeting ended with Kong Deming asking Illusion Body his age.

• Xuan Ziwen and Lin Jiayi welcomed Illusion Body and Qin Heng to the academy, where Qin Heng completed his enrollment as a Mingde Hall student.
• Xuan Ziwen assigned Qin Heng a Soul Tool textbook and gave him three days to study it, while Qin Heng privately resolved to start his training from the basics despite already being able to make Level 3 Soul Tools.
• Illusion Body asked Ye Yulin to arrange a meeting with Kong Deming, and Ye Yulin escorted him to Kong Deming's residence.
• Illusion Body and Kong Deming agreed to address each other as brothers, shared tea, and Kong Deming asked how old Illusion Body was.

Illusion Body presented Kong Deming with a ten-thousand-year healing herb disguised as the Qian Family’s Flower of Life, hoping to win the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial family’s trust by offering to cure Xu Tianran. Kong Deming accepted the gift, arranged a meeting with the imperial family in three days, and Illusion Body left to buy rare metals for Qin Heng’s Soul Tool work.

• Illusion Body claimed to be eighty-six years old and Rank 97, and he and Kong Deming discussed cultivation and the Sun Moon Empire before Kong Deming asked why he had come.
• Illusion Body showed Kong Deming the Flower of Life and offered it as a gift for Crown Prince Xu Tianran, whose legs and meridians had been ruined in an assassination attempt.
• Kong Deming accepted the herb, praised Illusion Body’s loyalty, and said he would report the gift to the emperor at once.
• Kong Deming told Illusion Body that Xuan Ziwen would teach his grandson at Mingde Hall and invited him to a banquet in three days with the emperor and Xu Tianran.
• After leaving Kong Deming’s residence, Illusion Body went to buy rare metals while Qin Heng learned of the upcoming imperial meeting and planned to focus on making Soul Tools.

Qin Heng quickly mastered the Basic Theory of Soul Tools, impressing Xuan Ziwen and earning a plan for accelerated training. At a banquet hosted by Kong Deming, he met Emperor Xu Tianyuan, the recovered Crown Prince Xu Tianran, and Ju Zi, while the royal family began testing his interest in her.

• Qin Heng completed Xuan Ziwen’s theory test flawlessly, including its advanced bonus question, so Xuan Ziwen planned to accelerate his Soul Tool studies.
• Qin Heng and Illusion Body arrived at Kong Deming’s guarded residence, where they met Emperor Xu Tianyuan, Crown Prince Xu Tianran, and Ju Zi.
• Xu Tianyuan and Xu Tianran thanked Illusion Body and Qin Heng for the Flower of Life that had restored Xu Tianran’s legs and health.
• Qin Heng sat across from Ju Zi at the banquet and observed Xu Tianran’s guarded manner and Ju Zi’s practiced service.
• Xu Tianyuan asked whether Qin Heng had a girl he fancied, and Xu Tianran asked Ju Zi what she thought of Young Master Qian Heng.

Xu Tianran arranged for Ju Zi to spend time with Qian Heng, hoping to secure both her future and Qian Heng’s loyalty to the Sun Moon Empire. Ju Zi accepted his request, while Qian Heng privately planned to keep his own freedom and pursue his goals.

• Xu Tianran proposed matching Ju Zi with Qian Heng, and Qian Heng agreed only to become friends if Ju Zi was willing.
• At the banquet, Xu Tianran and Kong Deming discussed Soul Tool technology with Illusion Body while Ju Zi watched Qian Heng with curiosity.
• After the banquet, Xu Tianran told Ju Zi he wanted her to win over Qian Heng and help bind him and Illusion Pupil Douluo to the empire.
• Ju Zi accepted Xu Tianran’s request, deciding that Qian Heng was preferable to the other husband he might have chosen for her.

Qin Heng let Ju Zi’s mission to win him over conceal his gradual mental imprint, then used their engagement to gain broad access to the Sun Moon Empire’s resources. After a year of research, he left for the Star Dou Great Forest to intercept Electrolux before Huo Yuhao’s destined encounter.

• Ju Zi brought lunch to Qin Heng and began visiting him daily, while the two cautiously probed each other in conversation.
• Over six months, Qin Heng reinforced mental suggestions in Ju Zi until she loved him and regarded him as her master, though she believed her feelings were genuine.
• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran that she had won over Qin Heng, and the emperor arranged for her to become a princess and Qin Heng’s fiancée.
• Qin Heng used his new imperial standing to obtain rare metals and secret Soul Tool research materials, raising his Soul Power from level 73 to 76 and earning a Level 6 Soul Tool badge.
• Qin Heng concealed his ability to make Level 7 Soul Tools, claimed he needed a Soul Ring to advance to Soul Emperor, and left with Illusion Body for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After learning that Huo Yuhao’s mother had died and that Huo Yuhao would soon meet Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux, Qin Heng hurried to the forest to seize Electrolux.

Qin Heng intercepted Huo Yuhao’s encounter with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and captured Electrolux’s fragment of divine consciousness in the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife. After Tian Meng fused with Huo Yuhao, Qin Heng seized eighty percent of Tian Meng’s Spiritual Origin and left a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma for Huo Yuhao.

• Qin Heng hid near the Star Dou Great Forest, waited for Huo Yuhao, and used a spiritual suggestion to keep him from joining the Tang Sect.
• Huo Yuhao entered the forest, killed a God-Slaying Wind Baboon, and began absorbing its Soul Ring as Tian Meng emerged and fused with him.
• Electrolux’s gray mist flew toward Huo Yuhao, but Qin Heng redirected it into the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife, where it became a gray bead.
• Qin Heng sealed Tian Meng and extracted eighty percent of his Spiritual Origin, leaving Tian Meng with his self-awareness and the remaining portion.
• Qin Heng left a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma, which Tian Meng made Huo Yuhao swallow.

Qin Heng left the Star Dou Great Forest with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Spiritual Origin, Electrolux’s cooperation, and the Tang Sect’s secret arts. He agreed to help Electrolux rebuild his body in exchange for his knowledge and inheritance, then began absorbing them.

• Qin Heng watched Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eyes awaken a second time after he ate the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma, and directed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm toward the Body Sect in Heaven Dou City.
• Qin Heng found Bei Bei and Tang Ya unconscious, avoided probing Tang Ya’s memories, and took the Tang Sect’s four secret arts from Bei Bei’s memories.
• Qin Heng left the Star Dou Great Forest and considered the risks of taking Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Spiritual Origin and the Tang Sect techniques.
• Qin Heng summoned Electrolux’s consciousness through the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife and offered to help reconstruct his body in exchange for his knowledge and Undead Semi-Plane.
• Electrolux agreed to cooperate with Qin Heng, and his knowledge and consciousness began entering Qin Heng’s mind and Sea of Consciousness.

Qin Heng entered the sealed Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, found that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ remnant souls had vanished, and collected their skeletons and crystallized blood. After cultivating with the crystals for three months, he broke through to level eighty and needed only one more Soul Ring to become a Soul Douluo.

• Qin Heng used the Asura Armor’s Shift Scene Technique to bypass Tang San’s divine-sense restriction and enter the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Qin Heng dived into the depths of the springs and found the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ skeletons, but confirmed that their remnant souls had dissipated.
• Qin Heng transferred both dragon skeletons into Electrolux’s Undead Semi-Plane and collected thirty-seven Ice Dragon Blood Crystals and forty-two Fire Dragon Blood Crystals.
• Qin Heng returned to the surface, left an Illusion Body to guard the Immortal Herbs, and cultivated with the crystals using the Pure Yang Infinite Skill and Taiji True Meaning.
• After three months of cultivation, Qin Heng broke through to level eighty, one Soul Ring short of becoming a Soul Douluo.