Chapter Summaries

Yun Jingheng and his companions raced toward the broken bridge, crossing a burning warehouse district after a damaged mecha crashed nearby. When an Evil Soul Master attacked emergency workers, Yun Jingheng killed him and told the survivors to continue evacuating civilians.

• Xie Xie drove the group around a security cordon, and they narrowly avoided a burning mecha that crashed into riverside warehouses.
• The explosion damaged their vehicle, so the group left it and entered the warehouse district through the breach.
• Xie Xie and Yuanen Yehui rescued an injured person while an emergency worker warned them the area was a war zone.
• An Evil Soul Master returned and attacked the warehouse district while watching the bridgehead.
• Yun Jingheng silently flew up and killed the Evil Soul Master with his Moonlight Sword, then told the emergency worker to continue evacuating civilians.

Tang Wulin and the others reached the broken bridge and discovered that Evil Soul Masters guarded its approaches while three leaders performed a suspected ritual overhead. Yun Jingheng attacked the leaders first, then warned the group to prepare for a hard battle as he moved to hold off the Title Douluo.

• Tang Wulin reported that the bridge approaches were guarded by at least seven or eight Evil Soul Masters and that the three leaders above the break appeared to be conducting a ritual.
• Xie Xie led the group through a maintenance passage onto the bridge, where they saw the purplish-black energy spreading from the fracture and the three hovering Evil Soul Masters.
• After the nearest leader sensed them, Yun Jingheng used Nine Sword Heavenly Prison and Moonlight Fills the Sky to freeze the three enemies and engulf them in Moon Blades.
• Yun Jingheng prepared to hold off the Title Douluo while the others braced for a hard battle.

Yun Jingheng killed one of three arriving Title Douluos before a gray-white-robed woman with a bell and a black phoenix intervened. He escaped their combined attack, but the stronger opponents remained in the air above the broken bridge.

• Three Title Douluos arrived, and Yun Jingheng expanded his domains and summoned the Moon Palace to confront them.
• Yun Jingheng froze the first Title Douluo with time stop and killed him by shattering his Battle Armor with Moon Blades and gravity.
• A gray-white-robed woman with nine Soul Rings rang her bell, disrupting Yun Jingheng's control of the Moon Palace and halting his attack on the other two Title Douluos.
• Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Ye Xinglan recognized the woman as a powerful Title Douluo, while a black phoenix appeared beside her.
• Yun Jingheng formed Reverse Moon and detonated his Moonlight Barrier to repel the bell and phoenix attacks, then retreated with the Moon Palace as the other two Evil Soul Masters fell.

Zang Xin arrived in time to save Yun Jingheng from Dark Bell and Leng Yulai, then confronted the two Holy Spirit Cult Heavenly Kings. When Leng Yulai learned Yun Jingheng was Yun Ming and Ya Li’s son, she unleashed her full power and attacked Zang Xin and Yun Jingheng.

• Dark Bell and the Dark Phoenix launched a coordinated attack on Yun Jingheng, trapping him between soundwaves and dark flames.
• Zang Xin appeared, redirected the Dark Phoenix’s flame with Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, and forced Dark Bell to evade his hidden weapon.
• Zang Xin reached Yun Jingheng and warned Dark Bell and the Dark Phoenix that the Tang Sect would not overlook their attack on its territory.
• Dark Bell asked Yun Jingheng’s name, and Zang Xin revealed that he was Yun Ming and Ya Li’s son.
• Leng Yulai erupted with Soul Power and unleashed Phoenix Annihilation at Zang Xin and Yun Jingheng.

Yun Jingheng and Zang Xin exploited Leng Yulai’s obsession with Yun Ming to disrupt her attack and fight back. The chapter ended with Leng Yulai unleashing another powerful soul skill inside Zang Xin’s suppressive Domain.

• Yun Jingheng used Thousand Laurels Burying the Moon to damage Dark Bell’s memories, then marked her with Laurel Soul Reflecting Shadow.
• Zang Xin drew the Passionate Sword and used Regret to make Leng Yulai relive her resentment toward her sister Leng Yaozhu.
• Leng Yulai’s Phoenix Annihilation veered away from Zang Xin and Yun Jingheng, while Yun Jingheng halted his Soul Bone skill.
• Leng Yulai recovered and sent a barrage of flaming feathers at Zang Xin.
• Zang Xin transformed with Passionate Sword: Martial Soul Avatar and suppressed Leng Yulai with Since Ancient Times, Passion Leaves Only Regret.
• Leng Yulai, weakened and enraged by the Domain, unleashed Evil Spirit Abyss-Shaking Roar.

Na Nali used her remaining strength to help Leng Yulai escape Zang Xin as Yun Ming and Leng Yaozhu arrived at the Cross-Sea Bridge. Zang Xin warned them about the Holy Spirit Cult’s blood sacrifice anchor, while Leng Yaozhu saw the flames left by Yulai.

• Na Nali’s Evil Spirit Abyss-Shaking Roar disrupted Zang Xin’s emotional domain and gave Leng Yulai’s flaming feathers an opening.
• Na Nali transformed into her Martial Soul Avatar, urged Leng Yulai to flee, and warned her that Yun Ming and Leng Yaozhu were approaching.
• Na Nali opened a spatial rift, and Leng Yulai pulled her into the Dark Phoenix’s flames before escaping through it.
• Yun Ming arrived at the broken bridge, and Zang Xin told him the Holy Spirit Cult’s blood sacrifice anchor beneath it needed to be cleared.
• Leng Yaozhu arrived and looked at the flames on the bridge, saying, “Yulai...”

After the battle in Eastsea City, Zang Xin explained how the Holy Spirit Cult’s attack could have endangered the region and thanked Tang Wulin’s team for stopping it. He praised Tang Wulin’s leadership, then gave him a Tang Sect token and summoned him to the Tang Sect headquarters in Heaven Dou City in three days.

• Zang Xin counted forty-nine intercepted Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonballs and explained that the Holy Spirit Cult’s ritual could have opened a permanent spatial node and threatened Eastsea City and nearby strategic locations.
• Zang Xin thanked Tang Wulin and his companions for disrupting the Holy Spirit Cult’s planned offensive.
• Tang Wulin credited Zang Xin and Yun Jingheng for the victory, acknowledged the team’s mistakes, and said they had only completed their assigned tasks.
• Zang Xin praised Tang Wulin for recognizing his team’s contribution and for guiding them through the battlefield to safety.
• Zang Xin gave Tang Wulin a Tang Sect token and told him to come to the Tang Sect headquarters in Heaven Dou City in three days.

After waking from his injuries, Yun Jingheng discovered that everyone else had vanished from Sea God Island. Di Tian and Zi Ji appeared before him, and Zi Ji asked whether he would choose her as his Soul Spirit; Yun Jingheng agreed if both she and the other woman were willing.

• Yun Jingheng woke at noon with a severe headache and a bandaged burn on his shoulder, then dressed in the clean clothes Ya Li had prepared.
• Yun Jingheng sensed that every person on Sea God Island had disappeared, leaving only himself and a few small soul beasts.
• Yun Jingheng called Yun Ming, Ya Li, and five others, but none of them answered.
• Yun Jingheng detected a faint darkness-element aura and turned to find Di Tian and Zi Ji in the corridor.
• Zi Ji asked Yun Jingheng whether he would choose her as his Soul Spirit, and he said he would accept if she and the other woman agreed.

Zi Ji demanded that Yun Jingheng prove his strength before she became his soul spirit, so they fought in the Inner Court's Soul Fighting Arena. Yun Jingheng caught her off guard with a palm strike that staggered her and left a handprint on her dragon scales.

• Zi Ji told Yun Jingheng to conquer her with his strength and prove he was worthy of becoming her soul spirit.
• Yun Jingheng changed his shoes, then met Zi Ji in the Soul Fighting Arena as Di Tian oversaw their duel.
• Zi Ji transformed into her Hell Demon Dragon King true form and attacked Yun Jingheng with a powerful roar.
• Yun Jingheng's Crescent Slash failed to harm Zi Ji, and he used a spatial movement to appear beside her foreclaw.
• Yun Jingheng struck Zi Ji's chest with a palm, forcing her back several steps and leaving five clear finger marks on her scales.

Yun Jingheng defeated Zi Ji in a destructive battle in the Soul Fighting Arena. He demanded that she yield, but she refused.

• Zi Ji attacked Yun Jingheng with her dragon claw, and he used Moonlight Protection to evade the strike and formed a moonlight arrow.
• Yun Jingheng's arrow collided with Zi Ji's dragon breath, and the resulting explosion destroyed the arena and its protective barrier.
• Yun Jingheng spotted a brief disruption in Zi Ji's Soul Power and teleported above her, driving a Moonlight Sword into the sensitive gap at the base of her dragon horn.
• The Lunar Yin Cold Force disrupted Zi Ji's Soul Power, and she fell onto her back as Yun Jingheng landed on her chest.
• Yun Jingheng asked Zi Ji if she yielded, but she told him, "Yield... my ass!"

Yun Jingheng defeated Zi Ji in a brutal close-quarters battle after she unleashed her source power, proving himself worthy of becoming her contractor. Zi Ji accepted the contract, and Di Tian asked whether they were ready to proceed.

• Zi Ji ignited her source power and attacked Yun Jingheng, breaking his ribs and sending him crashing through the ruins.
• Yun Jingheng used Moon Marrow Light to overpower Zi Ji with precise strikes to her scales, joints, and muscles, knocking her from the sky.
• After Moon Marrow Light wore off, Yun Jingheng stood on Zi Ji’s chest, and she acknowledged that he had defeated her.
• Zi Ji accepted Yun Jingheng as her contractor, and Di Tian asked whether they were ready for the contract.

A Soul Spirit contract at Shrek Academy sent a silver-white and dark-purple pillar of light into the sky, overwhelming people across Shrek City. Qiangu Dongfeng recognized it as a willing bond between a young human and a dragon-clan ferocious beast, then ordered an investigation and decided to accelerate his plan.

• A dragon's roar and a soul-level pressure froze customers and pedestrians as a pillar of light rose from Shrek Academy.
• An elderly Soul Master identified the display as a Soul Spirit Contract with a true dragon ferocious beast and realized the creature had chosen its human partner willingly.
• Qiangu Dongfeng saw the pillar from the Spirit Pagoda and recognized the contract as the sacrifice of a dragon-clan ferocious beast with over two hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• Qiangu Dongfeng suspected Sea God Pavilion had produced a powerful young person and ordered his secretary to gather information about it.
• Qiangu Dongfeng concluded that his plan needed to be moved up.

Yun Jingheng absorbed Zi Ji’s origin essence and gifts, gaining an orange-gold seventh Soul Ring and her Right Arm Soul Bone to reach rank seventy-eight. In his Sea of Spirit, Zi Ji saw its enormous moon, Moon Laurel Tree, and nine pillars of light before Xiao Jiu greeted her.

• Zi Ji’s dragon body dissolved into origin essence, which entered Yun Jingheng and clashed with the Lunar Primordial Sovereign’s moonlight as his body was reforged.
• Yun Jingheng formed an orange-gold seventh Soul Ring and received Zi Ji’s sensing mark and Hell Demon Dragon King Right Arm Soul Bone.
• Yun Jingheng reached rank seventy-eight, and Di Tian asked how his new power felt; Yun Jingheng called it overwhelming.
• Zi Ji appeared in Yun Jingheng’s Sea of Spirit and marveled at its enormous moon, Moon Laurel Tree, and nine pillars of light.
• Xiao Jiu greeted Zi Ji as Sister Zi Ji and said it had been a long time.

After Di Tian left Yun Jingheng with a warning about his father’s debt and the Golden Dragon King bloodline, Yun Ming and Ya Li healed him and explained why Sea God Island had been cleared. The family returned to the Sea God Pavilion, where Yun Ming offered to talk later as Yun Jingheng continued to worry about Di Tian’s threat.

• Di Tian left Yun Jingheng alone in the ruined Soul Fighting Arena after saying he would use Yun Ming’s final condition to keep Yun Jingheng trapped while reclaiming the Golden Dragon King bloodline.
• Yun Ming soothed Yun Jingheng’s injuries, and Ya Li examined him and healed the damage to his meridians.
• Ya Li explained that Yun Ming and she had evacuated Sea God Island so Yun Jingheng could decide alone whether to accept Zi Ji’s power.
• Yun Ming praised Yun Jingheng’s choice, and Yun Jingheng kept Di Tian’s warning to himself.
• Yun Jingheng walked back to the Sea God Pavilion with his parents, distracted by the threat, while Yun Ming noticed but did not question him.
• At the Sea God Pavilion doors, Yun Ming told Yun Jingheng to rest and said they could talk later.

Tang Wulin and his friends decided to visit the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well without Yun Jingheng, who had entered seclusion. Yun Jingheng revealed that Di Tian had used an old condition to confine him to Sea God Island until an unnamed matter was completed, leaving him to suspect Di Tian was preparing to target Tang Wulin.

• Yun Jingheng told Tang Wulin that he would miss the trip to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to enter seclusion.
• Tang Wulin decided that the others would still go and would find a suitable herb to bring back for Yun Jingheng.
• Gu Yue watched Tang Wulin and the Ice-Fire Seal before catching up with the group.
• Yun Jingheng recalled that Yun Ming had told him Di Tian used his final condition to keep Yun Jingheng from leaving Sea God Island until a certain matter was completed.
• Yun Jingheng concluded that Di Tian had confined him to prevent him from interfering with Gu Yue's move against Tang Wulin.

Yun Jingheng began the Lunar Moon God's fourth trial, which would purify his body with deadly frost and greatly strengthen his first four Soul Rings if he survived. Meanwhile, Tang Wulin and the others set out from Heaven Dou City for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to find an immortal herb for him.

• Yun Jingheng learned that his fourth trial would scour his body with Moon Palace Frostfiend, with failure destroying his body and soul and success raising his first four Soul Rings to one hundred thousand years.
• Yun Jingheng began the trial as the cold aura descended from the Full Moon, while Zi JI woke frozen in his Sea of Spirit and frost spread over his body outside it.
• Tang Wulin sent Yun Jingheng a message saying the group was going to find an immortal herb at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Yuanen Yehui, Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, and Gu Yue gathered outside the Tang Sect Hotel and prepared to travel to the Sunset Mountains.
• Tang Wulin used the Ice-Fire Seal to point the group north, and they set out for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Tang Wulin led the team from Heaven Dou City to the Sunset Mountains and guided them into its poisonous miasma with the Ice-Fire Seal. They found small soul beast skeletons along the way, while Zang Xin watched from outside and waited to see whether they could make it through alone.

• Tang Wulin led Xie Xie, Yuanen Yehui, Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, and Gu Yue north from Heaven Dou City toward the Sunset Mountains.
• Yuanen Yehui and Ye Xinglan recognized the colored haze covering the mountains as poisonous miasma, and Tang Wulin gave everyone Tang Sect poison-warding pills.
• Tang Wulin used the Ice-Fire Seal to guide the group to the mountain foothills and warned them to stay close together as they entered the miasma.
• The miasma reduced visibility, but Tang Wulin followed the seal's arrow until Xie Xie accidentally crushed a bone beside several small soul beast skeletons.
• Zang Xin watched the six enter the miasma, praised their courage, and chose not to follow them.

Tang Wulin and his companions crossed a deadly poisonous valley, where piles of soul beast skeletons marked the path to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Inside, they found a garden of immortal herbs, and a giant pale-pink tulip invited each of them to choose one herb suited to them.

• Xu Xiaoyan, Tang Wulin, and Ye Xinglan discovered countless Wind Baboon skeletons and realized the pack had not been hunted down.
• Yuanen Yehui pointed out mountains of soul beast skeletons piled at the valley entrance, while Gu Yue explained that poisonous herbs released the miasma.
• Tang Wulin raised the Ice-Fire Seal, which made the Jade Phosphor Seven-Extremes Flower vines part to reveal a narrow passage through the barrier.
• Tang Wulin and the others crossed into the valley and saw the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well surrounded by immortal herbs.
• A giant pale-pink tulip told the group that each of them could choose one immortal herb best suited to themselves.

Tang Wulin obtained a Black Jade Lunar Ganoderma for Jing Heng and learned that Aromatic Silk Beauty wanted to become his soul spirit after recognizing him as the Son of Nature. Before he could absorb her, Di Tian appeared, knelt before Gu Yue, and reported that Yun Jingheng had been trapped in Shrek City.

• Tang Wulin asked Aromatic Silk Beauty for an immortal herb suited to Jing Heng’s yin attribute, and she directed him to the Black Jade Lunar Ganoderma on the cliff.
• Tang Wulin retrieved the Black Jade Lunar Ganoderma, then released his Blue Silver Grass for Aromatic Silk Beauty to examine.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty recognized Tang Wulin as the Son of Nature and offered to become his soul spirit, and he accepted.
• Gu Yue stopped Tang Wulin before he could absorb Aromatic Silk Beauty and said she had something to tell him.
• Di Tian appeared, forced Ye Xinglan, Xu Xiaoyan, Xie Xie, and Yuanen Yehui to their knees, then knelt before Gu Yue and reported that Yun Jingheng had been trapped in Shrek City.

Gu Yuena revealed to Tang Wulin and their companions that she was the Silver Dragon King and had approached Tang Wulin to take his Golden Dragon King bloodline. After explaining why she had kept her identity secret and why Di Tian had trapped Yun Jingheng, she told Tang Wulin she intended to restore the Dragon God, but did not know whether she would die.

• Gu Yuena ordered Di Tian to release Xie Xie, Yuanen Yehui, Ye Xinglan, and Xu Xiaoyan, then revealed her identity as the Silver Dragon King.
• Gu Yuena admitted she had sought Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King bloodline from the beginning, and Di Tian explained he had used Yun Ming’s debt to confine Yun Jingheng on Sea God Island.
• Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Yuanen Yehui, and Ye Xinglan confronted Gu Yuena about her deception and asked whether their friendship had meant anything to her.
• Gu Yuena said their time together had been real, but she had concealed the truth to spare them the choice between helping her and betraying humanity or refusing and living with guilt.
• Gu Yuena explained that Di Tian had trapped Yun Jingheng without her permission, though she had not stopped him because she believed his absence would spare him suffering.
• Tang Wulin asked Gu Yuena what she intended to do, and she said she would take his Golden Dragon King bloodline to restore the Dragon God, though she did not know whether she would die.