Chapter Summaries

Mu Tianchen rode with Blood Eight and Blood Nine aboard a Soul Guidance Armed Helicopter bound for Ming Capital, learning how to pilot as they crossed the desert. After an unidentified convoy attacked them with tracking rockets, Blood Eight defended the helicopter and dove toward the convoy.

• Mu Tianchen quickly memorized several helicopter-piloting books while Blood Nine supplied Soul Power to cool the cabin.
• Blood Eight spotted a large convoy crossing the desert, and Mu Tianchen noticed a Level 5 Soul Guidance Rocket closing on their helicopter.
• Blood Eight evaded the tracking rocket and released decoy flares that destroyed it without damaging the helicopter.
• Blood Eight identified the convoy as likely belonging to Desert Pirates or another terrorist organization and dove toward it.
• The convoy fired three more tracking rockets, but Blood Eight used the helicopter's Vulcan Cannon to destroy them in midair.

Blood Eight’s helicopter devastated a convoy before three Black-Grade Mechas emerged and forced her team into battle. Blood Nine destroyed one Mecha, while Mu Tianchen engaged a powerful pilot and prepared to test his strength against the other.

• Blood Eight piloted her helicopter through the convoy’s defenses, destroying vehicles with its Vulcan Cannon and air-to-ground missiles as Mu Tianchen watched.
• A furious man launched a Black-Grade Mecha, and two more Mechas rose to surround the helicopter.
• Blood Eight ordered Blood Nine and Mu Tianchen to leave the helicopter and fight; Mu Tianchen equipped his Holy Dragon Battle Armor, while Blood Nine donned his Three-Word Battle Armor.
• Blood Nine used Snake Lance True Body to destroy one Black-Grade Mecha in a single attack.
• Mu Tianchen enhanced himself with Dragon Scale Light Armor and Golden Overlord Transformation, then attacked a Black-Grade Mecha piloted by a rank eighty-five Soul Douluo.

Mu Tianchen defeated the Soul Douluo piloting a Black-Grade Mecha after their strength initially matched, using his Holy Dragon of Light Bloodline and Ruling the World technique. After Blood Eight and Blood Nine arrived, Blood Eight said they would inspect the convoy because she suspected it carried Federation-prohibited contraband.

• Mu Tianchen and the Dark Iron-Armored Dragon Soul Master clashed evenly, surprising both fighters.
• Mu Tianchen unleashed Ruling the World, while the Soul Master used Martial Soul Possession and attacked with Dark Shockwave.
• Mu Tianchen's light energy purified the dark attack, shattered the Soul Master's shield, and left him vulnerable.
• Mu Tianchen pierced the Black-Grade Mecha's energy core and killed the Soul Master with a lance strike.
• Blood Nine praised Mu Tianchen, and Blood Eight arrived and assessed his fighting.
• Mu Tianchen asked about inspecting the convoy, and Blood Eight said she suspected it carried prohibited contraband.

Mu Tianchen, Blood Eight, and Blood Nine discovered that the convoy had been forced by the Holy Spirit Cult to transport military materials, then a hidden Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonball exploded and severely injured them. Blood Eight and Blood Nine found Mu Tianchen alive afterward, but the convoy and its people had been destroyed.

• Blood Eight questioned convoy captain Xu Long, who explained that the Holy Spirit Cult had threatened his family and forced his team to transport stolen goods.
• Blood Nine identified the cargo as rare metals and minerals used to manufacture Soul Guidance Cannonballs, and Blood Eight decided to report the theft.
• Mu Tianchen sensed a bomb, but a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonball exploded before anyone could escape, killing the convoy members and destroying the cargo trucks.
• Mu Tianchen survived by activating his dragon transformation and armor, while Blood Eight and Blood Nine also survived with severe injuries.
• Blood Eight searched for Mu Tianchen and sighed in relief when he returned alive.

After surviving the Holy Spirit Cult’s attack, Mu Tianchen reached Ming Capital with Blood Eight and Blood Nine and went to the Spirit Pagoda branch. Qin Wenlong told him its Soul Spirits could not meet his needs, leaving him to consider returning to Spirit Pagoda Headquarters for the Soul Spirit Tower.

• Blood Eight used a Space Rectifier to escape the desert with Blood Nine and Mu Tianchen, while Dark Hummingbird arrived afterward and ordered his followers to erase all evidence.
• The group hurried to Ming Capital, and Mu Tianchen resolved to grow stronger before the Holy Spirit Cult’s future attack on Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect.
• Mu Tianchen told Blood Eight that his injuries had mostly healed and urged the group to go directly to the Ming Capital Spirit Pagoda branch.
• Qin Wenlong, the Qin Family head and a level ninety-eight Super Douluo, welcomed Mu Tianchen and arranged for Blood Eight and Blood Nine to wait in a VIP room.
• Qin Wenlong explained that the branch’s Soul Spirits were unsuitable for Mu Tianchen and recommended the Soul Spirit Tower at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters.

Mu Tianchen traveled to Shrek City with Blood Eight and Blood Nine to visit the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, where his junior sister Gu Yue met them. The visit began with Qiangu Zhangting confronting Mu Tianchen and ordering him to leave.

• Mu Tianchen took Blood Eight and Blood Nine aboard a high-speed Soul Guidance Train to Shrek City, meditating throughout the three-day journey.
• After arriving, the three traveled to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, where Gu Yue greeted Mu Tianchen and said Sky Phoenix Douluo was waiting for him.
• Mu Tianchen introduced Gu Yue to Blood Eight and Blood Nine, then entered the headquarters with her.
• Inside the headquarters, Qiangu Zhangting blocked Mu Tianchen and accused him of ruining his sister before demanding that he leave.

Mu Tianchen confronted Qiangu Zhangting at the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, and Qiangu Dongfeng arrived to stop their dispute and invite Mu Tianchen back to the Spirit Pagoda. Mu Tianchen refused, then left with Gu Yue to meet their teacher and continue his plans to obtain a Soul Spirit and enter the Spirit Ascension Platform.

• Mu Tianchen rejected Qiangu Zhangting's demand that he leave the Spirit Pagoda, and Qiangu Zhangting challenged him to a duel.
• Qiangu Dongfeng arrived and used his overwhelming aura to subdue the confrontation, while Mu Tianchen stood firm.
• Qiangu Dongfeng praised Mu Tianchen's breakthrough to the seven-ring Soul Saint level and offered him a place among the Spirit Pagoda's Thirty-Six Council Members and elders.
• Mu Tianchen declined Qiangu Dongfeng's offer, and Qiangu Dongfeng ordered Qiangu Zhangting to leave and focus on his cultivation.
• Qiangu Zhangting left after vowing to prove his strength, and Qiangu Dongfeng departed without further comment.
• Gu Yue joined Mu Tianchen and led him upstairs to meet their teacher, as he continued his plans to obtain a Soul Spirit and enter the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Gu Yue brought Mu Tianchen, Blood Eight, and Blood Nine to Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, where Mu Tianchen asked Leng Yaozhu for help obtaining Soul Spirits and using the Advanced Spirit Ascension Platform. Leng Yaozhu arranged a future visit to the platform and sent them to Aunt Lin for treatment, leaving them at the office of a Holy Light Begonia Martial Soul bearer.

• Gu Yue led Mu Tianchen, Blood Eight, and Blood Nine up the Spirit Pagoda’s restricted red elevator to the eightieth floor.
• Mu Tianchen told Leng Yaozhu he wanted new Soul Spirits and hoped to raise the ages of his existing ones; she arranged for him to challenge the Soul Spirit Tower and enter the Advanced Spirit Ascension Platform during its Riot Period in ten days.
• Leng Yaozhu told Gu Yue to take the three visitors to Elder Lin for treatment of their injuries and said she would take Mu Tianchen to meet his parents in a few days.
• Gu Yue brought the group to Aunt Lin’s office, where Aunt Lin was surprised by the strength of the three men she had brought.

Lin Yue used her Holy Light Begonia to completely heal Mu Tianchen, Blood Eight, and Blood Nine after examining their severe injuries. As the three left, Lin Yue asked Gu Yue whether Mu Tianchen had a girlfriend so she could introduce him to her niece.

• Gu Yue introduced Mu Tianchen as her teacher's eldest disciple and explained that Lin Yue had been asked to treat him, Blood Eight, and Blood Nine.
• Lin Yue examined the trio, identified their serious internal and external injuries, and summoned her Holy Light Begonia Martial Soul.
• Lin Yue used her eighth soul skill, Holy Light Healing, to repair all three of them, including their spiritual injuries.
• Mu Tianchen thanked Lin Yue, and he left with Blood Eight and Blood Nine after she said she needed to recover her strength.
• Lin Yue asked Gu Yue whether Mu Tianchen had a girlfriend and said she hoped to introduce him to her twenty-year-old niece.

Mu Tianchen entered the Soul Spirit Tower and defeated a thirty-five-thousand-year Flame Lion King on the fifty-third floor, then declined its Soul Spirit and advanced. On the fifty-fourth floor, he discovered that the speaking soul beast attacking him was a ten-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider, which charged at him after he wounded it.

• Gu Yue brought Mu Tianchen to the Soul Spirit Tower, where he entered through the golden vortex gate and appeared on the fifty-third floor.
• Mu Tianchen used the Holy Dragon of Light Martial Soul and Sky-Piercing Lance to kill the thirty-five-thousand-year Flame Lion King.
• Mu Tianchen refused to absorb the Flame Lion King Soul Spirit and entered the passage to the next floor.
• On the forest-covered fifty-fourth floor, Mu Tianchen dodged silk attacks and inferred that the hidden soul beast could speak despite being below the hundred-thousand-year level.
• Mu Tianchen hurled the Sky-Piercing Lance into the forest, wounding a ten-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider and forcing it into view.
• The Man Faced Demon Spider recognized Mu Tianchen as its target and attacked him in fury.

Mu Tianchen defeated a thirty-five-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider on the Soul Spirit Tower’s fifty-fourth floor but declined to choose it as a Soul Spirit before continuing onward. Watching the fight, Gu Yue considered Mu Tianchen’s strength and wondered how she would face him if they met on a future battlefield.

• Mu Tianchen used Golden Overlord Body to overpower the Man Faced Demon Spider, withstand its venomous attacks, and tear off one of its legs.
• Mu Tianchen pierced the spider with the Sky-Piercing Lance and finished it with Holy Dragon Judgment Sword.
• Mu Tianchen declined the Man Faced Demon Spider as a Soul Spirit and entered the golden vortex gate to continue climbing the Soul Spirit Tower.
• Leng Yaozhu asked Gu Yue to assess Mu Tianchen’s fight, and Gu Yue praised his physique, defense, and use of his strengths.
• Gu Yue reflected on Mu Tianchen’s Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff Soul Spirit and wondered how she would deal with him on a future battlefield.

Mu Tianchen battled through the Soul Spirit Tower to its sixtieth floor, where he found a Hell Demon Dragon suited to become his Dark Holy Dragon’s Soul Spirit. After the dragon rejected his offer and unleashed Abyssal Hell, Mu Tianchen was pulled toward its devouring vortex.

• Mu Tianchen used the Vajra Bear on the fifty-fifth floor to practice his inherited battle skills, then defeated it and continued climbing the tower.
• Mu Tianchen fought through the fifty-sixth to fifty-ninth floors without choosing any of the suitable soul beasts he encountered.
• On the sixtieth floor, Mu Tianchen used his golden wings and Dragon Scale Light Shield to withstand the Hell Demon Dragon’s Black Dragon Breath, then countered with a Light Cannon.
• Mu Tianchen invited the Hell Demon Dragon to become his Soul Spirit, but the dragon refused because of its hatred for humanity.
• The Hell Demon Dragon unleashed Abyssal Hell, and Mu Tianchen was pulled toward the Dark Vortex beneath him.

Mu Tianchen escaped the Hell Demon Dragon’s Abyssal Hell, defeated it with Dragon Emperor Evil-Breaking Slash and Dragon Emperor Domain-Shaking Realm, and absorbed it as a Soul Spirit. The contract completed his Dark Holy Dragon’s seven Soul Rings, and he began testing the power of ultimate darkness.

• The Hell Demon Dragon trapped Mu Tianchen in Abyssal Hell, but Mu Tianchen used Ultimate Light to break free.
• Mu Tianchen dispersed the Hell Demon Dragon’s Dark Beam and severely wounded it with Dragon Emperor Evil-Breaking Slash.
• Mu Tianchen killed the Hell Demon Dragon with Dragon Emperor Domain-Shaking Realm and chose to absorb it as a Soul Spirit.
• Mu Tianchen absorbed the Hell Demon Dragon’s power of ultimate darkness and completed a Soul Spirit Contract with it.
• Mu Tianchen gained seven black ten-thousand-year Soul Rings for his Dark Holy Dragon Martial Soul and tested his new power of ultimate darkness.

Mu Tianchen advanced through the Soul Spirit Tower, reaching its seventy-ninth floor and setting a thousand-year record for Soul Masters under twenty. As Qiangu Dieting, Qiangu Dongfeng, and Qiangu Zhangting watched his fight against a seventy-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape, they witnessed the power of his Holy Dragon Family inheritance battle skill.

• Mu Tianchen stopped challenging the tower for the day, told Leng Yaozhu he had chosen the Hell Demon Dragon Soul Spirit, and returned to rest.
• Over the next ten days, Mu Tianchen repeatedly challenged the Soul Spirit Tower, honed his combat skills, and climbed to the seventy-ninth floor.
• Qiangu Dieting, Qiangu Dongfeng, and Qiangu Zhangting watched a live broadcast of Mu Tianchen fighting a seventy-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape.
• Mu Tianchen used Dragon Emperor Evil-Breaking Slash to meet the Titan Giant Ape's Titan Sky Cannon head-on, blasting the beast away while remaining unharmed.
• Qiangu Dieting identified Mu Tianchen's move as a lost Holy Dragon Family inheritance battle skill, and Qiangu Dongfeng recounted Mu Tianchen's origins and rapid rise.

Mu Tianchen defeated the seventy-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape on the Soul Spirit Tower’s seventy-ninth floor and advanced to the eightieth floor, hoping to find a Holy Dragon of Light or Dark Holy Dragon Soul Spirit. He entered the new floor and found himself in a golden world.

• Mu Tianchen used his Dark Holy Dragon abilities to escape the Titan Giant Ape’s Gravity Swamp, strike its back, and evade its counterattack.
• Mu Tianchen trapped the Titan Giant Ape with Abyssal Dragon Devour, switched to the Holy Dragon of Light, and killed it with Ruling the World.
• Mu Tianchen declined the Titan Giant Ape as a Soul Spirit after clearing the seventy-ninth floor.
• Mu Tianchen entered the eightieth floor, where the world around him turned golden.

Mu Tianchen encountered the Holy Dragon of Light on the Soul Spirit Tower’s eightieth floor and endured its trial to earn it as his fifth Soul Spirit. The Holy Dragon of Light asked him to help humans and soul beasts coexist peacefully, and Mu Tianchen promised he would.

• Mu Tianchen resisted the Holy Dragon of Light’s dragon might and revealed his Holy Dragon of Light Martial Soul.
• The Holy Dragon of Light offered to become Mu Tianchen’s Soul Spirit if he endured its dragon might for the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Mu Tianchen withstood the Light of Holy Punishment without using Soul Power or spiritual power.
• The Holy Dragon of Light entered Mu Tianchen’s Sea of Consciousness and became his fifth Soul Spirit.
• Mu Tianchen promised the Holy Dragon of Light he would work toward peaceful coexistence between humans and soul beasts.

Mu Tianchen reached level seventy-three after contracting the Holy Dragon of Light and stopped his Soul Spirit Tower challenge to ask Leng Yaozhu how Soul Spirits broke through to one hundred thousand years. He learned that his Holy Dragon of Light would need to be nurtured until it faced a Heavenly Tribulation, which Leng Yaozhu believed could happen within ten years.

• Mu Tianchen's Holy Dragon of Light contract raised his level from seventy-two to seventy-three and greatly increased his light energy.
• Mu Tianchen stopped challenging the Soul Spirit Tower so he could use his remaining time to strengthen his Soul Spirits.
• Mu Tianchen visited Leng Yaozhu and asked how a Soul Spirit could surpass the ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-year limit.
• Leng Yaozhu explained that a Soul Spirit must be nurtured by its master's Soul Power, spiritual power, and source power before it can face a Heavenly Tribulation and reach one hundred thousand years.
• Leng Yaozhu revealed that an ancestor of Mu Tianchen's Holy Dragon Family created the Holy Dragon of Light Soul Spirit, and estimated it could reach one hundred thousand years within ten years of nurturing.

After gaining two Soul Spirits, Mu Tianchen learned about advancing Soul Spirits and Battle Armor through Heavenly Tribulations. Blood Nine and Blood Eight persuaded him to enter Shrek City's Soul Fighting Tournament, where his registration drew disbelief and the attention of a formidable opponent.

• Leng Yaozhu told Mu Tianchen to rest before the next day's Spirit Ascension Platform Riot Period, and he reflected on how Soul Spirits and Three-Word Battle Armor could advance through Heavenly Tribulations.
• Mu Tianchen met Blood Eight and Blood Nine, who discussed his peak Spirit Abyss Realm spiritual power and suggested he join Shrek City's Soul Fighting Tournament for experience and rewards.
• Mu Tianchen agreed to participate, and Blood Eight and Blood Nine accompanied him to the Soul Fighting Arena's monthly grand event.
• Mu Tianchen registered for the Rank Seventy-Three individual competition, prompting disbelief from the crowd and a challenge from the purple-skinned Blade Demon King.
• Blood Nine registered for the Rank Ninety-Three individual competition and revealed his Soul Rings to the astonished receptionist and onlookers.

Mu Tianchen watched a Soul Saint match and correctly predicted that the lower-ranked Ice Butterfly would defeat the Earth Lion by conserving her strength and exploiting her advantages. His own first individual match was then announced, revealing that he had chosen the name Dragon Emperor.

• Blood Nine and Mu Tianchen discussed Mu Tianchen's status as a young, ninety-third-rank Title Douluo before they took their seats in the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Mu Tianchen analyzed the match between the Ice Butterfly and Earth Lion Soul Saints, predicting that the Ice Butterfly would win by building up an ice spear while her opponent spent more Soul Power.
• The Ice Butterfly broke through the Earth Lion's defenses and defeated him with a massive ice lance, validating Mu Tianchen's prediction.
• Mu Tianchen explained that the Ice Butterfly's stronger foundation and resources outweighed the Earth Lion's higher Soul Power rank.
• The host announced Mu Tianchen's match against War Tiger and introduced him as Dragon Emperor, prompting Blood Nine to praise his chosen name.

Mu Tianchen, competing under the name Dragon Emperor, faced War Tiger in a Soul Fighting Arena match and overwhelmed him with his Holy Dragon of Light Martial Soul and immense strength. War Tiger was blasted out of the arena by Mu Tianchen’s golden dragon, giving Dragon Emperor the victory.

• Mu Tianchen entered the arena as Dragon Emperor and learned the one-on-one match rules alongside War Tiger.
• Mu Tianchen revealed his Holy Dragon of Light Martial Soul and seven black Soul Rings, astonishing the audience and putting War Tiger on guard.
• War Tiger summoned his Golden-Eyed White Tiger Martial Soul and attacked Mu Tianchen with his sixth soul skill, but Mu Tianchen kicked him nearly a hundred meters away.
• War Tiger activated Tiger Descent and attacked again, but Mu Tianchen struck him in the abdomen and tried to throw him out of the arena.
• War Tiger used his seventh soul skill to transform into a giant white tiger, but Mu Tianchen summoned a massive golden dragon that swallowed him and blasted him out of the arena.