Chapter Summaries

Lu Yu arrived at Spirit City during the Soul Master Competition and drew attention after breaking the city’s flight ban. Bibi Dong welcomed him as a special guest, and he joined her on the elevated platform while the match resumed.

• Lu Yu recalled the unrest in the Star Luo Empire and entered Spirit City with Scarlet King and Snow Empress.
• When a Soul Master warned Lu Yu that flying was forbidden, Lu Yu thanked him, then flew toward the Pope’s Palace with Snow Empress; Scarlet King stayed behind because he could not fly.
• A Spirit Hall Title Douluo charged at Lu Yu and Snow Empress, but suddenly returned to the platform, leaving the spectators confused.
• Bibi Dong recognized Lu Yu as the special guest of the competition and welcomed the Sect Master of the Three-One Sect before the crowd.
• Lu Yu apologized to the contestants for interrupting their match, gave them crystalline grapes, and teleported with Snow Empress to the elevated platform.
• The contestants accepted Lu Yu’s gifts and resumed their match as the audience focused on Lu Yu seated near Bibi Dong.

Lu Yu reunited with Bibi Dong at the Soul Master Competition and learned how she had fused her Twin Martial Souls into a new path of power. After Bibi Dong threatened Snow Empress, an urgent report drew her away to confront a woman threatening to massacre the city.

• Lu Yu sat beside Bibi Dong on her throne, stunning the audience and Spirit Hall's upper ranks until Bibi Dong suspended the competition for the day.
• Bibi Dong explained that she had fused her Twin Martial Souls into one and reached a level of power beyond the continent's normal system, giving Lu Yu new insights.
• In the Pope's Palace, Bibi Dong threatened Snow Empress, but Lu Yu said he had promised to help her and would oppose Bibi Dong if necessary.
• A Title Douluo interrupted them with news that a woman had overwhelmed Spirit Hall's enforcement team and five elders, and threatened to massacre the city unless Bibi Dong accepted her conditions.
• Bibi Dong ordered Lu Yu and Snow Empress to remain in the hall, then vanished to confront the woman.

Lu Yu arrived in Spirit City's eastern district as Bibi Dong confronted Bi Ji, a powerful Soul Beast threatening to destroy the city. Bibi Dong agreed to spare Bi Ji in exchange for Lu Yu staying until the Soul Master Competition ended, and Lu Yu then offered Bi Ji a choice: go with him or risk being killed before she could self-destruct.

• Lu Yu left the hall after freezing a Title Douluo who tried to stop him from reaching the eastern district.
• Bi Ji faced Qian Jun Douluo and Jiang Mo Douluo, but Bibi Dong arrived and hurled the two enshrined aside without releasing her Martial Soul.
• Bi Ji warned Bibi Dong that she could destroy Spirit City by self-destructing, and Scarlet King arrived and told Bibi Dong she could not hurt her.
• Lu Yu arrived with Snow Empress and ordered Scarlet King to stand down, then asked Bibi Dong not to kill Bi Ji because she was useful to him.
• Bibi Dong agreed to spare Bi Ji on the condition that Lu Yu remain in Spirit City until the Soul Master Competition ended.
• Lu Yu offered Bi Ji the choice of coming with him or gambling that he could kill her before she self-destructed.

Bi Ji brought the Star Dou Great Forest’s proposal for peaceful coexistence between soul beasts and humans to Lu Yu, but he rejected it as unworkable and warned that the Silver Dragon King and Di Tian would not accept it. The chapter left their negotiations unresolved, while Bibi Dong secretly summoned Nana to see her.

• Bi Ji explained that she had come to Spirit City to negotiate on behalf of the soul beasts after failing to find Lu Yu for five years.
• Bibi Dong could not dispel the ice Lu Yu had placed around a Title Douluo, then arranged for Lu Yu and his companions to stay in the Pope's Palace.
• Lu Yu took Bi Ji into the Spirit Realm, where she proposed that humans stop hunting soul beasts in exchange for soul beasts near the ends of their lives providing soul rings without spiritual backlash.
• Lu Yu argued that Bi Ji could not speak for all soul beasts and that her plan could not meet human demand or win the Silver Dragon King and Di Tian's approval.
• Bibi Dong realized Lu Yu had excluded her from his private conversation and ordered a guard to summon Nana.

Lu Yu told Bi Ji that soul beasts could escape being hunted if they became a new form of life that produced no soul rings or bones, then asked her to comprehend the Life Law. Bi Ji agreed to sacrifice herself once she succeeded, while Lu Yu left to pursue his own plans and promised to bring her niece Jiang Xiaoxiao to meet her.

• Lu Yu explained that Scarlet King had lost his cultivation and no longer counted as a soul beast, so his death would yield no soul ring or soul bone.
• Bi Ji questioned whether soul beasts under one hundred thousand years could undergo the same rebirth, and Lu Yu admitted he did not know because the Four Directions World Prison's life force was limited.
• Lu Yu taught Bi Ji about laws and told her to comprehend the Life Law, then sacrifice herself to him so he could control its source.
• Bi Ji accepted the arrangement for the sake of soul beasts, and Lu Yu warned that he would keep hunting soul beasts until he comprehended the Life and Reincarnation Laws.
• Lu Yu asked Bi Ji about Jiang Xiaoxiao, learned she was Bi Ji's niece and a Jade Swan clan soul beast, and promised to bring her to the Four Directions World Prison.
• After leaving the prison, Lu Yu considered Bi Ji's future sacrifice a valuable source of the Life Law and planned to use the Spirit Realm to gather soul beasts loyal to him.

Lu Yu advised Bibi Dong on reaching a divine soul, and his words triggered her breakthrough. He then returned to find that Snow Empress had hit a bottleneck in comprehending the Ice Law.

• Scarlet King told Lu Yu that Hu Liena had arrived with Xiao Wu, and Lu Yu said Bi Ji was cultivating in the Spirit Realm.
• Hu Liena greeted Lu Yu in Bibi Dong’s hall, and Bibi Dong reproached him before discussing her difficulty reaching godly spiritual power.
• Lu Yu explained that Bibi Dong should seek her Dao through her state of mind, prompting her soul to transform as she entered a breakthrough.
• Lu Yu left Bibi Dong to cultivate, while Hu Liena arranged to guard the Pope’s Palace and Scarlet King took up watch at its entrance.
• Lu Yu noticed that Xiao Wu had fused with nearly half of the Slaughter Law and decided she needed a teacher.
• Snow Empress told Lu Yu she had reached a bottleneck in comprehending the Ice Law, and he warned that isolated cultivation would eventually bring obstacles.

Lu Yu advised Snow Empress to travel the continent and return after comprehending the Ice Law, then focused on strengthening his spiritual power. After an unexpected encounter with Xiao Wu, he continued his quiet cultivation in the Pope’s Palace, where he had become the de facto leader of Spirit Hall’s Soul Master Competition preparations.

• Lu Yu advised Snow Empress to broaden her horizons before returning to him, and she left after telling him not to die.
• Lu Yu cultivated his spiritual power and considered whether he could fuse the origins of different Laws.
• Xiao Wu entered Lu Yu’s bedroom and admitted she wanted to be intimate with him; Lu Yu realized she was not Hu Liena and went along with her.
• Hu Liena returned, mistook the situation for an ordinary reunion, and settled into Lu Yu’s embrace.
• Lu Yu spent the next few days cultivating in the Pope’s Palace while Spirit Hall’s upper ranks accepted his authority because of his reported strength and Qian Daoliu’s absence.
• Lu Yu wondered why Qian Daoliu had not returned to Spirit City after swearing to stay out of the Heavenly Dou Empire.

Lu Yu awarded Skywater Academy two extra soul bones, then reaffirmed Spirit City’s rules as the Soul Master Competition ended. In the Pope’s Palace, Qian Renxue confronted Lu Yu and declared that she wanted to marry him.

• Lu Yu presented Skywater Academy’s Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er with the championship soul bone and two of his own soul bones.
• Lu Yu announced that Spirit City’s bans on fighting and flying remained in effect and warned that Spirit Hall and the Three-One Sect would blacklist violators’ blood relatives for a hundred years.
• Shui Yue'er teased Lu Yu about repaying his generosity, while Shui Bing'er reflected on her growing feelings for him.
• Lu Yu returned to the Pope’s Palace and found Qian Renxue sitting on the throne; he told her to stop disrespecting her mother, Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue told Lu Yu that she liked him and wanted to marry him and become the Three-One Sect’s mistress.

After Bibi Dong emerged from seclusion, Qian Renxue became a god and returned to Spirit City, where Lu Yu guessed that the previous Angel God had ordered her to kill him. The chapter ended as Qian Renxue’s reaction suggested his suspicion was correct.

• Qian Renxue confessed her admiration for Lu Yu, but he rejected her and left her determined to grow strong enough to conquer him.
• Spirit Hall and the Three-One Sect publicly announced their alliance, while Spirit Hall’s leaders grew uneasy over Qian Daoliu’s disappearance and Bibi Dong’s seclusion.
• Lu Yu spent a month guarding Spirit City, reaching level 87 before sensing divine consciousness from Bibi Dong’s hall as she emerged from seclusion.
• A golden pillar of light rose over Spirit City, and Lu Yu and Bibi Dong recognized the aura of a god returning to the city.
• Qian Renxue appeared before Lu Yu and asked whether he had reconsidered her proposal; he instead asked about her inheritance and guessed that the previous Angel God had ordered her to kill him.

Lu Yu offered Qian Renxue the choice to join him against the God Realm, and she accepted before reconciling with Bibi Dong. As Lu Yu prepared for Bibi Dong’s campaign against the Star Luo Empire, Dugu Bo reported an organized beast tide targeting the Heavenly Dou Empire, and Lu Yu ordered the Three-One Sect to defend Elderly Village.

• Lu Yu offered Qian Renxue the choice of ascending to the God Realm or severing ties with it and joining his future attack; Qian Renxue chose to join him.
• Lu Yu asked Qian Renxue to call Bibi Dong Mom, and she did before announcing that the Heavenly Dou Empire would become the Angel Empire.
• Lu Yu comforted Bibi Dong, who planned to attack the Star Luo Empire in three days.
• Dugu Bo reported that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was leading an organized beast tide toward the Heavenly Dou Empire.
• Lu Yu ordered Dugu Bo to rally the Three-One Sect and allied forces to defend Elderly Village, while he planned to gather support from Heaven Dou City.
• Lu Yu warned Bibi Dong that Qian Daoliu would have to sacrifice himself if Qian Renxue inherited the Angel God’s position.

Lu Yu prepared to face the Star Dou Great Forest’s coming beast tide while pressing Bi Ji to deliver an ultimatum to the Silver Dragon King. He then went to meet Qian Renxue, only to find her taking a bath in the palace hall.

• Bibi Dong agreed to investigate the Zhu sisters’ whereabouts and said she would visit Qian Renxue after the Star Luo Empire was settled.
• Lu Yu summoned Bi Ji near Sunset Forest and ordered her to tell the Silver Dragon King to submit or risk losing every hundred-thousand-year soul beast in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lu Yu organized Soul Masters from the four great academies and sent Liu Erlong and Shui Ningyan to support Elderly Village, with the Scarlet King assigned to protect them.
• Lu Yu and Hu Liena went to the Angel Imperial Palace to see Qian Renxue, but guards stopped them at the gates, so Lu Yu teleported into the palace hall.
• Lu Yu found Qian Renxue taking a bath in the hall.

Lu Yu warned Qian Renxue that a massive beast tide was approaching and ordered the Angel Empire to help defend against it while supporting Spirit Hall’s campaign against the Star Luo Empire. As Soul Beasts advanced on Elderly Village, more than ten thousand people assembled to block them before Lu Yu arrived.

• Lu Yu told Qian Renxue about the beast tide and asked her to divide the Angel Empire’s army between the defense and the attack on the Star Luo Empire.
• Qian Renxue learned that a god-level being might be sleeping in the Star Dou Great Forest, then flew there to investigate.
• More than ten thousand people gathered in four echelons outside Elderly Village as nearby villagers watched.
• Chen Gang approached the gathering, and a girl in white told him the people had come to help rather than cause trouble.
• Chen Gang spotted the approaching Soul Beast tide and ran to warn the others, while the assembled group vowed to hold the beasts back until the Sect Master arrived.

Chen Gang returned to help the Three-One Sect defend against the Star Dou Great Forest beast tide, while Bai Chenxiang scouted the approaching waves. She reported that a god-level powerhouse was behind the beasts and the defenders were too few to hold the extended battle line.

• Chen Gang sent the villagers into cellars and ran back to join the defense against the beast tide.
• Ning Fengzhi and Jade Flute Douluo assessed the first wave as weak soul beasts and worried about the waves to come.
• Bai Chenxiang volunteered to scout ahead, then flew out with her evolved Martial Soul and nine soul rings.
• Chen Gang charged into the fighting, impressing Ning Fengzhi and prompting Jade Flute Douluo to offer him a chance to join the sect if he survived.
• Bai Chenxiang returned and reported a god-level powerhouse behind the beast tide, a second wave of stronger soul beasts, and a battle line the defenders could not hold with their numbers.

Chen Xin held back the beast tide with a sword-qi curtain while the Three-One Sect suffered devastating losses. Lu Yu arrived, ordered the survivors to retreat, and made the charging soul beasts kneel as he called Di Tian out.

• Chen Xin used a single wooden-sword slash to create a sword-qi curtain, then told the Three-One Sect to pass through its gap.
• A Three-Ring Soul Master with pure Sword Intent repeatedly crossed the curtain to rescue the wounded, while the sect lost nearly four thousand members and two Title Douluos.
• Bai Chenxiang reported that another beast tide was gathering, and Chen Xin's curtain had only two shichen left before it failed.
• Lu Yu arrived and said the imperial army would come within a quarter of an hour, then let the sword-qi curtain shatter and sent the severely injured into the Spirit Realm.
• Lu Yu ordered the Three-One Sect to retreat, pulled Chen Gang to safety, and summoned heavenly tribulation pressure that made the soul beasts prostrate themselves.
• Lu Yu called Di Tian out from the depths of the beast tide.

Lu Yu halted the Star Dou Great Forest’s beast tide by challenging Di Tian to a seven-round wager battle, with the loser agreeing to withdraw. The Three-One Sect won its first two rounds, but when Di Tian sent out Xiong Jun, Lu Yu conceded and warned that he would fight personally if Xiong Jun appeared again.

• Lu Yu summoned tribulation lightning and confronted Di Tian, then proposed a seven-round wager battle between the Three-One Sect and the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Di Tian accepted the wager on behalf of the soul beasts, withdrew the beast tide, and selected the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor for the first round.
• Bone Douluo defeated the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor, giving the Three-One Sect its first victory.
• Liu Erlong adapted to her newly gained strength and defeated Zi Ji, putting the Three-One Sect ahead by two rounds.
• Di Tian sent out Xiong Jun, but Lu Yu conceded the round and threatened to fight personally in every later battle if Xiong Jun was sent out again.

Lu Yu fought Di Tian in the fifth round of the contest and unleashed his laws, spiritual abilities, and weapons against the dragon. As their attacks collided, Lu Yu drew on the Slaughter Law origin within Xiao Wu and began shaping it into a form beyond the Asura Demon Sword.

• Lu Yu agreed to fight Di Tian after learning that Di Tian's master might personally enter the next round.
• Di Tian attacked with Extreme Darkness and Myriad Dragon Flame, but Lu Yu froze him with Ice Soul Aurora and pierced his glabella with the God-Breaking Needle.
• Di Tian broke free in his true form and struck with the Black Dragon Sword and Black Dragon World Destruction, while Lu Yu countered with his own sword and layered abilities.
• Lu Yu activated Fallen Domain and drew Slaughter Law origin from Xiao Wu, causing a new weapon-like phantom to form in his mind.
• Lu Yu's and Di Tian's sword strikes collided, and Di Tian's golden, multicolored claw attack surged toward Lu Yu as the blood-red light in Lu Yu's hand burst apart.

Lu Yu fought Di Tian with the Nine Heavens Godslaying Spear, then summoned a Silver Armored Divine General after revealing that he had attained divine sense. As the General drove Di Tian back, the Dragon King offered cooperation, but Lu Yu demanded she become his Ninth Soul Ring, and she refused because she was not a soul beast.

• Lu Yu used the Nine Heavens Godslaying Spear to withstand Di Tian's Dragon God's Claw, leaving both fighters injured.
• Lu Yu revealed his divine sense and met Di Tian's punch with a talisman-enhanced strike before summoning a Silver Armored Divine General.
• The Silver Armored Divine General battled Di Tian and forced him into retreat while Lu Yu restored his Soul Power and steadied his injuries.
• The Dragon King ordered them to stop, then offered to cooperate with Lu Yu and make concessions rather than submit.
• Lu Yu demanded that the Dragon King become his Ninth Soul Ring in exchange for aiding the soul beasts and attacking the God Realm; she refused because she was not a soul beast.

Lu Yu forced the Silver Dragon King to end the beast tide and accept his terms, then bound the Ferocious Beasts to him with Dragon Clan contracts. The Silver Dragon King revealed why she and Di Tian had fought humanity, while Lu Yu’s plan to help soul beasts escape their fate gave the beasts hope.

• Qian Renxue appeared to support Lu Yu, and the Silver Dragon King agreed to have Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts submit, halt the beast tide, and swear loyalty to Lu Yu.
• Lu Yu stopped the Silver Armored Divine General, and the beast tide withdrew; Qian Renxue healed the wounded Three-One Sect disciples.
• At the Lake of Life, the Silver Dragon King manifested as a phantom and gave Lu Yu the Dragon Clan secret art for forging master-servant contracts.
• Lu Yu contracted Di Tian, the Myriad Demon King, Xiong Jun, Zi Ji, and the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor, then ordered four of them to accompany him and sacrifice themselves for suitable candidates.
• The Silver Dragon King explained that Bi Ji and Lu Yu’s progress with the Life and Reincarnation Laws could allow soul beasts to be reborn, and Di Tian recognized that the beasts had taken a desperate risk because their lineage could not wait.

Lu Yu moved the Lake of Life and the ferocious beasts into the Spirit Realm, healed the Three-One Sect members, and set plans in motion to support Spirit Hall and unify the continent. In a remote village, he began using Ring Devouring to awaken the Heaven-Defying Seal’s power and seek insight into the Reincarnation Law.

• Lu Yu transferred the Lake of Life, the Silver Dragon King, and the four ferocious beasts into the Spirit Realm, where the Silver Dragon King hoped to recover within three years.
• Lu Yu healed the injured Three-One Sect members, ordered the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor to guard the Star Dou Great Forest, and Qian Renxue left to support the front lines.
• Lu Yu sent the Three-One Sect members to Elderly Village to ask Yu Xiao to dispatch elite members to aid Spirit Hall and consolidate soul master forces after the Star Luo Empire fell.
• Lu Yu reached a poor village in the Star Luo Empire and reflected on the village chief and his wife’s hardships as he considered the continent’s suffering.
• Lu Yu began his attempt to comprehend the Reincarnation Law by devouring his first four soul rings into the Heaven-Defying Seal, awakening its runes and straining himself.

Lu Yu fused his Soul Rings into the Heaven-Defying Seal and sent his divine sense into reincarnation, leaving him severely weakened but alive. After recovering and traveling to Spirit City, he learned that Spirit Hall and the Angel Empire had defeated the Star Luo Empire and that Bibi Dong had founded the Spirit Federation, whose council governed by vote.

• Lu Yu fused his sixth, fifth, eighth, and final Soul Rings into the Heaven-Defying Seal, grasped the Reincarnation Law, and sent the seal and his divine sense through an illusory gateway.
• Lu Yu collapsed after losing his Martial Soul and most of his power, but discovered that his dormant sea of consciousness left him immune to spiritual attacks and that he could still wield limited law power.
• Lu Yu recovered in the village, left Gold Soul Coins for the village chief and his wife, and traveled to Spirit City over the course of a month.
• Lu Yu learned that Spirit Hall and the Angel Empire had crushed the Star Luo Empire, slaughtered the Dai Clan, and placed the Zhu Clan and part of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan under their control.
• Lu Yu learned that Tang San and the Shrek Six Monsters had rescued survivors from Star Luo City with help from the Sea God's divine sense and Tang San's god-level strength.
• Bibi Dong abolished the nobility system and established the Spirit Federation and its Federal Council, while Qian Renxue abolished the nobility system in the Angel Empire and allied it with the federation.