Chapter Summaries

Qin Heng created a Soul Spirit Method that used Soul Contracts and Soul Guidance Arrays to let Soul Beasts form Soul Rings without dying, then designed Soul Spirit Orbs to house and cultivate them. He kept the method secret, deciding to find partners before revealing a discovery that could transform Soul Master cultivation.

• Qin Heng considered how his 180,000-year seventh Soul Ring made finding a suitable eighth Soul Ring difficult and decided to create a more equal Soul Spirit Method.
• Qin Heng captured Evil Soul Masters and low-level Soul Beasts for experiments in an abandoned mine, but his early Soul Contract attempts failed and caused severe harm to the test subjects.
• Qin Heng used his knowledge of Soul Tools to design a Soul Guidance Array that simulated the rules of a Soul Beast sacrifice, then refined it until a Nether Wolf formed a Soul Ring without losing its soul or life.
• Qin Heng spent six months and many experiments completing a method based on Soul Spirit Orbs, mutual cultivation, and Soul Beasts voluntarily providing bloodline power for Soul Rings and Soul Bones.
• Qin Heng decided to keep the method secret for now and seek partners before making it public.

After completing the Soul Spirit Method, Qin Heng traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to persuade its Beast Kings that Soul Masters could form Soul Rings without killing Soul Beasts. Di Tian recognized the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ scales Qin Heng carried and, though skeptical, demanded proof of the method.

• Qin Heng decided to seek a Soul Beast for his eighth Soul Ring and chose to visit the Star Dou Great Forest before searching for Snow Empress.
• Qin Heng forged ten Soul Spirit Orbs, destroyed the traces of his experiments, and flew to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qin Heng released his aura to announce his arrival, prompting Di Tian and the other Beast Kings to respond; Di Tian sensed the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ aura on him.
• Qin Heng showed Di Tian the dragon scales and explained that he had promised the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings to improve the Soul Beasts’ circumstances.
• Qin Heng presented a Soul Spirit Orb and explained how it could create Soul Rings while preserving Soul Beasts; Di Tian accused him of lying and demanded proof.
• Qin Heng proposed testing the Soul Spirit Method with a Soul Master and a Soul Beast before Di Tian and the other Beast Kings.

Qin Heng demonstrated his Soul Spirit Method at the Lake of Life, proving that a soul master could obtain a Soul Ring without killing a Soul Beast. The fierce beasts witnessed the Soft Bone Rabbit survive with its soul intact, leaving them to consider the method’s implications.

• Di Tian brought Qin Heng and two human soul masters to the Lake of Life, where the fierce beasts challenged Qin Heng’s claim that he could create Soul Rings without killing Soul Beasts.
• Zi Ji recognized the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s reverse scales on Qin Heng and urged the others to give him a chance to prove his method.
• At Di Tian’s request, Scarlet King brought an eight-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit and a badly injured twenty-four-thousand-year White-Armored Earth Dragon for Qin Heng’s tests.
• Qin Heng used a Contract Array and Soul Spirit Orb to transfer the Soft Bone Rabbit’s life force and Soul Power to a level-forty Quasi-Soul Ancestor, who gained a purple Soul Ring and broke through to level forty-two.
• The Soft Bone Rabbit emerged from the Soul Spirit Orb as a soul, and Bi Ji confirmed that its soul was complete and undamaged.

Qin Heng proved that the Soul Spirit Method could work on a White-Armored Earth Dragon, producing a Soul Ring and Left Arm Bone while preserving the beast’s body and soul. After killing a Shrek Academy student to prevent the method from spreading, he let Jin Shuo of the Body Sect leave under oath and awaited Di Tian’s report to the Silver Dragon King.

• Qin Heng used the contract array to transfer the White-Armored Earth Dragon’s power to a Quasi-Soul Emperor, who gained a black Soul Ring, a Left Arm Bone, and advanced to level sixty-three.
• Di Tian and Bi Ji examined the White-Armored Earth Dragon and confirmed that its body and soul remained intact, validating Qin Heng’s Soul Spirit Method.
• Qin Heng learned that the Soul Ancestor belonged to Shrek Academy and killed him with spiritual power to keep the method from reaching Tang San and Shrek.
• Qin Heng spared Jin Shuo, a Body Sect disciple, after Jin Shuo swore not to reveal what he had witnessed to Shrek or its allies.
• Qin Heng asked Di Tian how to handle the Soft Bone Rabbit’s Soul Spirit, and Di Tian told him to decide before leaving to report the method to the Silver Dragon King.

Qin Heng met the Silver Dragon King, who approved his Soul Spirit Method and made him an ally of the Star Dou Great Forest. She ordered Di Tian to test whether the method could help Soul Beasts escape Heavenly Tribulation, and Di Tian proposed a Red Sun Flower as the test subject and Qin Heng’s next Soul Spirit.

• Bi Ji asked Qin Heng why he created the Soul Spirit Method, and he said it could let humans and Soul Beasts coexist without hunting.
• Di Tian returned from the Lake of Life and told Qin Heng that the Silver Dragon King wished to see him.
• The Silver Dragon King examined Qin Heng’s Dragon Scales and Soul Spirit Method, then asked whether a contracted Soul Beast could avoid Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Silver Dragon King recognized Qin Heng as an ally, allowed willing Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest to contract with him, and forbade using the method on Evil Soul Masters.
• Di Tian told the Fierce Beasts that Qin Heng was their ally and that he would test the method on a Soul Beast nearing its tribulation.
• The Demon Eye Demon Tree suggested a one-hundred-thousand-year Red Sun Flower, and Di Tian asked Qin Heng to choose it as his Soul Spirit to break through level 80.

Qin Heng rejected the Red Sun Flower as his Soul Spirit and planned to recruit Snow Empress, then forced Xiao Xiao to join his Spirit Hall and brought her to test a Soul Spirit method. The chapter ended as Qin Heng, Xiao Xiao, and Di Tian arrived at the Red Sun Flower’s clearing.

• Qin Heng told Di Tian that his 180,000-year seventh Soul Ring made the Red Sun Flower unsuitable, then asked to recruit Snow Empress as his Soul Spirit.
• Di Tian agreed to accompany Qin Heng to the Extreme North after they tested whether the Red Sun Flower could avoid its Heavenly Tribulation.
• Di Tian brought the unconscious Xiao Xiao to the Lake of Life and proposed using her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron to suppress the Red Sun Flower’s spiritual power.
• Qin Heng woke Xiao Xiao and made her swear upon her Twin Martial Souls to leave Shrek Academy, join Spirit Hall, and pledge her loyalty.
• Di Tian transported Qin Heng and Xiao Xiao to a forest clearing, where the Red Sun Flower stood in bloom.

Qin Heng successfully helped Xiao Xiao form a Soul Spirit Contract with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Red Sun Flower, giving her a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone while freeing the flower from Heavenly Tribulations. The revelation that the Soul Spirit Method could change the fate of Soul Beasts prompted Di Tian to keep it secret and depart with Qin Heng for the Extreme North to seek the Snow Empress.

• Di Tian introduced Qin Heng's Soul Spirit Method to the Red Sun Flower, which agreed to try the contract before its Heavenly Tribulation arrived.
• Qin Heng set up the Contract Array, and Di Tian used the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron to control the Red Sun Flower's resistance as Xiao Xiao received its bloodline.
• Xiao Xiao gained a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and a Head Soul Bone, while the Red Sun Flower entered the Soul Spirit Orb unharmed.
• The Red Sun Flower announced that its Heavenly Tribulation lock had vanished, and Di Tian explained that Soul Spirits could grow alongside their human contractors and might reach godhood.
• Xiong Jun, King of Ten Thousand Demons, and Scarlet King urged Qin Heng to choose them as his Soul Spirit, but he said he was set on seeking the Snow Empress.
• Di Tian ordered the ferocious beasts to keep the method secret and prepared to travel with Qin Heng to the Extreme North, while Xiao Xiao's fear of Qin Heng turned to worship.

After Xiao Xiao absorbed the Red Sun Wisdom Skull, Qin Heng sent her to study at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. On the journey, his Illusion Body revealed that Zhou Yi had pushed Xiao Xiao to cultivate her second Martial Soul for personal gain, leaving Xiao Xiao angry and disillusioned with Shrek Academy.

• Xiao Xiao absorbed the Red Sun Wisdom Skull, gained a rudimentary Sea of Consciousness, and received the Mental Simulation and Mental Combustion Soul Skills.
• Qin Heng told Xiao Xiao that her Martial Soul Oath barred her from returning to Shrek Academy and gave her a letter for Jing Hongchen at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Di Tian sent Xiao Xiao to the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, where Qin Heng's Illusion Body, Qian Huan, met her and escorted her toward the Sun Moon Empire.
• During the journey, Xiao Xiao explained that Zhou Yi had advised her to add a Soul Ring to her Nine Phoenixes Flute before the New Student Tournament and named Wang Dong and Xie Huanyue as her teammates.
• The Illusion Body realized Huo Yuhao was no longer on Xiao Xiao's team and suspected that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had taken him to the Body Sect.
• The Illusion Body warned Xiao Xiao that Zhou Yi had risked her future to win the tournament for herself, and Xiao Xiao became angry as she recognized her teacher's betrayal.

Di Tian and Qin Heng traveled to the Extreme North to save Snow Empress, whom they found in the middle of a perilous transformation and under attack by an Evil Soul Master. Di Tian killed the attacker, leaving the God Sealing Platform floating in the hall.

• Di Tian opened a spatial rift and took Qin Heng to the Extreme North, where Qin Heng's Ice Dragon Scale shielded him from the cold.
• When Snow Empress did not answer Di Tian's call, Ice Empress arrived and led Di Tian and Qin Heng to Snow Empress's palace.
• The three found Snow Empress injured and transforming into human form while a Rank 93 Evil Soul Master tried to capture her with the God Sealing Platform.
• The Evil Soul Master activated the God Sealing Platform and sealed Snow Empress as she struggled to resist.
• Di Tian seized the Evil Soul Master by the throat, snapped his neck, and turned his attention to the God Sealing Platform.

Di Tian saved Snow Empress from her collapsing Soul Core and offered her a Soul Spirit contract with Qin Heng to escape the next Heavenly Tribulation. During the contract, Snow Empress helped Qin Heng form a blank second Martial Soul and granted him the Wings of the Ice God External Soul Bone instead of a six-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year Soul Bone.

• Di Tian knocked the God Sealing Platform away, freeing Snow Empress, then used his Soul Power to stabilize her shattered Soul Core.
• Di Tian explained the Soul Spirit Method, and Snow Empress agreed to contract with Qin Heng after learning of his abilities.
• Qin Heng and Snow Empress began the Soul Spirit Contract, and Snow Empress discovered eight compatible Soul Beast origins within his Sea of Consciousness.
• Snow Empress offered Qin Heng a choice between a six-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year Soul Bone or a blank second Martial Soul and a ten-thousand-year External Soul Bone; Qin Heng chose the latter and requested wings.
• Snow Empress fused the eight origins into a blank second Martial Soul, and Qin Heng gained the Wings of the Ice God External Soul Bone.

Qin Heng broke through to Soul Douluo after Snow Empress formed his eighth Soul Ring, while Snow Empress recovered from her injuries through absorbed origin power. Ice Empress asked to become Qin Heng’s Soul Spirit but was refused; the chapter ended with Qin Heng offering Snow Empress a chance to obtain Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.

• Snow Empress formed a six-hundred-ninety-thousand-year eighth Soul Ring for Qin Heng, whose Soul Power surged to level eighty-five and whose spiritual power neared the Divine Origin Realm.
• Snow Empress discovered that origin power she had absorbed had restored her body and repaired the injuries from her shattered Soul Core.
• Ice Empress approached Qin Heng hoping to become his Soul Spirit, but Qin Heng refused because her cultivation was too low.
• Di Tian revealed that Qin Heng had also refused Xiong Jun, leaving Ice Empress unable to argue against his decision.
• Qin Heng noticed Snow Empress had recovered and offered her Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, exciting both Snow Empress and Ice Empress.

Qin Heng traveled with Snow Empress and Ice Empress to Earth Dragon Sect in search of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. After Snow Empress pressured Nan Shui-shui into revealing the Millennium Cold Spring, the group collected the marrow and left, with Qin Heng giving Nan Shui-shui a Ten Thousand Year Blood Ginseng in return.

• Di Tian declined to accompany Qin Heng to Dragon City, took three Soul Spirit Orbs, and returned to Star Dou Great Forest through a Space Rift.
• Qin Heng traveled with Ice Empress to Dragon City, located Earth Dragon Sect, and summoned Snow Empress there.
• Snow Empress released her Soul Power pressure over Earth Dragon Sect, and Nan Shui-shui agreed to lead the group to the Millennium Cold Spring.
• Qin Heng, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress descended into the spring, where Qin Heng collected Ice Extreme Divine Crystals and they found forty-five pieces of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Ice Empress took twenty pieces, Snow Empress took ten, and Qin Heng collected the rest.
• Qin Heng gave Nan Shui-shui a Ten Thousand Year Blood Ginseng and flew away with the Ice and Snow Emperors.

Qin Heng used the Crystal of Life in the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife to evolve his Illusion Pupil, open a Second Sea of Consciousness, and reach the Divine Origin Realm. Electrolux absorbed the excess life energy and recovered a nearly physical form.

• Qin Heng returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with the Ice and Snow Emperors, who began refining the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow beside the Ice Spring.
• Qin Heng summoned Electrolux, who purified the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife before guiding the Crystal of Life’s power into Qin Heng.
• The Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife merged with Qin Heng’s Illusion Pupil, raising its age to around one hundred and fifty thousand years and opening his Second Sea of Consciousness.
• Qin Heng’s spiritual power broke through to the Divine Origin Realm, while Electrolux absorbed the excess life energy and restored his soul body.
• Qin Heng discovered that the evolved Illusion Pupil had stronger soul skills, immunity to mental attacks below the Divine Origin Realm, and a fifty-percent amplification to all attributes.
• Electrolux told Qin Heng that their exchange had benefited them both and thanked him for helping prevent his soul from dispersing.

Qin Heng recruited Electrolux to help protect ordinary people and created a Soul-Nurturing Orb for him, then cultivated while the Ice and Snow Emperors advanced. He discovered that his Illusion Body had encountered Long Xiaoyao and reviewed its recent journey with Xiao Xiao to Ming Capital.

• Qin Heng asked Electrolux to help defend the continent's ordinary people, and Electrolux agreed.
• Qin Heng made the Soul-Nurturing Orb from a Soul Spirit Orb and a Crystal of Life; Electrolux entered it and began modifying its formation.
• Qin Heng spent half a month stabilizing his cultivation in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• The Ice Empress reached five hundred and ten thousand years of cultivation, while the Snow Empress condensed Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores and reached Limit Douluo-level strength.
• Qin Heng sensed that his Illusion Body was confronting Long Xiaoyao and focused on their connection.
• Qin Heng recalled how the Illusion Body had brought Xiao Xiao to Ming Capital and taken her to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

Illusion Body and Jing Hongchen protected Xiao Xiao from Long Xiaoyao, who had come to take her for the Holy Spirit Cult. After Illusion Body revealed his Gold-Grade Secondary Awakening and Spirit Hall’s ancient research into Body Martial Souls, he accepted Long Xiaoyao’s challenge and flew out of Ming Capital to duel him.

• Jing Hongchen arranged Xiao Xiao’s enrollment at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, took her as his disciple, and watched her quickly excel in Soul Tool studies.
• After learning that Xiao Xiao had twin Martial Souls and a hundred-thousand-year First Soul Ring, Long Xiaoyao arrived to claim her for the Holy Spirit Cult, but Illusion Body blocked his way.
• Illusion Body vanished and returned with Qian Heng and Snow Empress, whose presence halted Long Xiaoyao and made him abandon his attempt to take Xiao Xiao by force.
• Illusion Body’s vertical eye turned azure-gold, and his spiritual power surged beyond Long Xiaoyao’s as he declared that he had achieved a Gold-Grade Secondary Awakening of his Body Martial Soul.
• Illusion Body claimed that Spirit Hall had researched Body Martial Souls ten thousand years earlier and mastered Secondary Awakening, then accepted Long Xiaoyao’s challenge to fight outside Ming Capital.
• Illusion Body flew toward the outskirts of Ming Capital, and Long Xiaoyao pursued him.

Qian Heng’s Illusion Body, posing as Qian Huan, fought Long Xiaoyao outside Ming Capital and used his Divine Origin Realm spiritual power and Ice God Wings to counter the Limit Douluo’s attacks. After breaking through Long Xiaoyao’s dragon-phantom encirclement, Qian Huan appeared directly before him.

• Qian Huan revealed his Illusion Pupil Martial Soul and Divine Origin Realm spiritual power, then trapped Long Xiaoyao in a starry illusion.
• Long Xiaoyao escaped the illusion by using his Dark Sacred Dragon’s devouring ability, forcing Qian Huan to dispel it.
• Long Xiaoyao unleashed his ninth Soul Skill, Ten Thousand Dragons Devour Heaven, sending countless black dragon phantoms toward Qian Huan.
• Qian Huan activated the Wings of the Ice God, freezing and slowing the dragon phantoms with Emperor Cold Heaven: Snow Dance Shining Sun.
• Qian Huan used his amplified speed to evade the dragon phantoms and struck Long Xiaoyao with Mental Shocks, disrupting his control of the attack.
• Qian Huan pierced the weakened encirclement and appeared before Long Xiaoyao.

Illusion Body overwhelmed Long Xiaoyao with the Wings of the Ice God, the Domain of Emperor Cold Heaven, and Divine Origin Realm spiritual attacks, leaving the Limit Douluo gravely injured. Snow Empress froze Long Xiaoyao before he could self-destruct his Soul Core, and Illusion Body shattered his Sea of Consciousness, killing him.

• Illusion Body froze Long Xiaoyao, then battered him with rapid palm strikes and mental attacks until his Martial Soul Avatar shattered and he crashed into a crater.
• Long Xiaoyao struggled to his feet and threatened to self-destruct his Soul Core if Illusion Body tried to keep him there.
• Snow Empress immobilized Long Xiaoyao with her Ultimate Ice and sealed him inside an ice sculpture before he could detonate his Soul Core.
• Illusion Body explained that Snow Empress had been waiting to ensure Long Xiaoyao could not escape, then struck his Sea of Consciousness with Divine Origin Realm spiritual power.
• Long Xiaoyao's Sea of Consciousness shattered, and the Dragon Emperor Douluo died inside the ice sculpture.

After Qian Huan killed Long Xiaoyao, the Sun Moon Empire considered supporting the rebuilding of Spirit Hall to bind Qian Huan and his grandfather to its interests. At Shrek Academy, Mu En warned the elders that Qian Huan could kill him within ten exchanges.

• Illusion Body collected Long Xiaoyao’s storage ring and six Soul Bones after Snow Empress helped defeat him.
• Xu Tianran learned that Qian Huan had killed Long Xiaoyao and questioned how Qian Huan had gained enough strength to defeat a Limit Douluo.
• Xu Tianyuan agreed with Kong Deming that the Sun Moon Empire should fund Spirit Hall’s reconstruction to win Qian Huan and his grandfather’s allegiance.
• Mu En told the Sea God's Pavilion elders that Qian Huan would kill him within ten exchanges.

Mu En explained Qian Huan’s strength and Spirit Hall’s history to Shrek Academy’s leaders, warning that Qian Huan might expose the truth and damage Shrek’s reputation. As the Sun Moon Empire sought an alliance with Qian Huan, Ye Xishui vowed revenge for Long Xiaoyao’s death.

• Mu En told Yan Shaozhe that Qian Huan had defeated Long Xiaoyao’s ultimate attack and shattered his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Mu En explained that Qian Huan claimed descent from Spirit Hall’s Qian Family and that Spirit Hall had developed a second awakening method for Body Martial Souls.
• Mu En challenged Shrek’s official account of Spirit Hall, describing its good deeds and warning that Qian Huan would likely seek to clear his ancestors’ name.
• Mu En told the elders he had no clear plan for dealing with Qian Huan, and Xuan Zi offered to confront him but was told he could not hurt him.
• Xu Tianyuan sent a secret decree offering Qian Huan support to rebuild Spirit Hall in exchange for an alliance against the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
• Ye Xishui ordered her elders to investigate Qian Huan and everyone around him, vowing to avenge Long Xiaoyao.

After learning that Qian Huan had killed Long Xiaoyao, the Body Sect decided to send Golden Roc to offer him goodwill and focused on training its own young talents. The Star Luo Empire and other factions also prepared gifts for Ming Capital, leaving Qian Huan at the center of growing political attention.

• Wei Na confirmed to Du Busi that the report of Qian Huan killing Long Xiaoyao had come from her father, and the Body Sect elders debated how to respond.
• Du Busi admitted that he could not defeat Long Xiaoyao and ordered Golden Roc to carry the Body Sect's letter of goodwill to Qian Huan.
• Du Busi urged the elders to train Long Aotian and Huo Yuhao, while Wei Na told Golden Roc that the imperial family knew little about Qian Huan's mysterious past.
• Xu Jiawei regretted that the Star Luo Empire had not tried harder to win over Qian Huan and Qian Heng, then ordered Xu Jiujiu to send gifts and an imperial consecrated expert to Ming Capital.
• The imperial families of the Heavenly Soul and Dou Spirit empires also prepared to approach Qian Huan, bringing visitors from major factions to Ming Capital.