Chapter Summaries

Qiangu Yunche discussed the Sun Moon Empire, Soul Tool technology, and the future of the continent with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen over dinner. He explained that his powerful family and ambitions to reach godhood gave him confidence he could change the era, leaving the Hongchen siblings shocked and wondering whether gods truly existed.

• Xiao Hongchen offered Qiangu Yunche imperial wine, but Qiangu Yunche declined it after tasting it.
• Meng Hongchen asked Qiangu Yunche what he thought of the Sun Moon Empire, and he praised its future role in unifying the continent while arguing that Soul Masters and Soul Tool technology would remain intertwined.
• Xiao Hongchen challenged Qiangu Yunche to choose the Sun Moon Empire's side, but Qiangu Yunche said he could influence the era through his strength and family backing.
• Qiangu Yunche declared that he intended to surpass the mortal realm and attain godhood, shocking Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Qiangu Yunche whether gods truly existed.

Qiangu Yunche declined Xiao Hongchen’s recruitment offer but promised the Hongchen Family an opportunity if the Sun Moon Empire fell, while growing closer to Meng Hongchen. After saying goodbye to the siblings, he accepted Vina and Heavenly Spirit Douluo Han’s invitation to dessert.

• Qiangu Yunche told Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen about the countless planes in the universe and revealed that Ma Xiaotao descended from the Phoenix God, Ma Hongjun.
• Xiao Hongchen tried again to recruit Qiangu Yunche, who refused and offered the Hongchen Family a chance to join the new era if the Sun Moon Empire was defeated.
• Meng Hongchen drank with Qiangu Yunche, then told him she and Xiao Hongchen would study at Shrek Academy; they happily said goodbye while Xiao Hongchen watched helplessly.
• After the siblings left, Qiangu Yunche encountered Vina and Heavenly Spirit Douluo Han, who invited him to have dessert with them.
• Vina asked Qiangu Yunche to call her by her name, and Heavenly Spirit Douluo Han invited him to call her Aunt Han.

Qiangu Yunche learned about the Heavenly Spirit Douluo’s talent and her failed attempt to recruit Huo Yuhao, then asked her how powerful a soul-based Body Martial Soul might be. He returned to the Princess Mansion and fed Xu Jiujiu, whose embarrassment cut her dinner short.

• The Heavenly Spirit Douluo and Vina chatted with Qiangu Yunche over dessert, and he learned that the Heavenly Spirit Douluo was under fifty and had reached Rank 95.
• The Heavenly Spirit Douluo told Qiangu Yunche that Huo Yuhao had refused to leave Shrek Academy and that Xuanzi had driven her away with spit-covered chicken bones.
• Qiangu Yunche asked the Heavenly Spirit Douluo what rank a Soul Martial Soul would have, and she judged it a god-tier Body Martial Soul.
• Qiangu Yunche left for the Princess Mansion and found Xu Jiujiu having dinner in her bedchamber.
• Qiangu Yunche sat Xu Jiujiu on his lap and fed her, leaving her too flustered to finish her meal.

Qiangu Yunche left Star Luo City to prepare for awakening his second Martial Soul, revisiting old places until he found the calm state of mind he needed. At the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, he began absorbing its extreme energies as the surrounding plants and immortal herbs responded to the Seed of Life.

• Qiangu Yunche told Xu Jiujiu he might be away for months or more than a year to awaken his second Martial Soul, and she urged him to put his life first.
• Qiangu Yunche visited Xu Jiawei and Qiangu Qing before leaving Star Luo City.
• Qiangu Yunche retraced his travels, explained his plans to Ling Luochen, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming, and sought insights from Mu En about Soul Spirits.
• Qiangu Yunche returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where Electrolux explained that his Sea of Life could preserve his life if the awakening failed, though he might lose his Soul Rings, soul bones, and accumulated foundations.
• Qiangu Yunche entered a deep state of perception, drew life essence through his body, and used his Soul Core to devour the seven-colored energy above the springs.
• The Seed of Life released jade-green radiance that accelerated the plants' growth and awakened several hundred-thousand-year-old immortal herbs, which bowed toward Qiangu Yunche.

Qiangu Yunche endured the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well’s planar laws as his ultimate life power transformed into a terrifying deathly force. When planar judgment nearly annihilated him, he followed Electrolux’s guidance and sank his consciousness into death, leaving only gray-white aura behind.

• Qiangu Yunche absorbed the well’s energy and fractured planar laws, enduring repeated destruction and healing as his power condensed into chaotic gray mist.
• The mist entered Qiangu Yunche’s Sea of Spirit, devoured the Sea of Life’s waves, and spread death through his body, stopping the Destruction Soul Core.
• Electrolux sealed the soul origins of the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor and the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King as the plane’s consciousness opened a fissure and unleashed planar judgment.
• Planar judgment shattered Qiangu Yunche’s body and damaged his Soul Core, while the Seed of Life broke open and sent a tiny sprout into the Sea of Life.
• Electrolux urged Qiangu Yunche to pass through death, and Qiangu Yunche restarted the Destruction Soul Core to shatter his remaining self-awareness.
• Qiangu Yunche’s consciousness and Sea of Spirit vanished into death, leaving only gray-white aura rotating beside the fissure in the laws.

After a year of recovery at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Qiangu Yunche was reborn through the plane's origin life force and reunited with his soul. He awakened with greatly enhanced power over time and space and summoned the small sapling that had helped restore him.

• The Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well recovered over the year, and plants transformed into Soul Beasts as they absorbed the remnants of the lightning tribulation.
• A jade-gold particle appeared above the spring and absorbed the lingering deathly aura and energy from the surrounding plants.
• The gray spiral object cracked open, absorbed a surge of primordial energy, and became a crystalline golden shell.
• Qiangu Yunche's body, soul bones, and Sea of Spirit were restored, and he awoke with his soul fully fused to his reborn body.
• Qiangu Yunche tested his powers over time and space, sensed the plants bowing to him, and summoned the small sapling, which sent a jade-colored pillar of light into the sky.

Qiangu Yunche established the Valley of Life and meditated on the power gained from awakening his second Martial Soul. After Electrolux restored his memories and passed on his magic inheritance, Qiangu Yunche received his first and second Soul Rings, and his aura grew stronger.

• Qiangu Yunche used the Tree of Life to revive plant-type Soul Beasts, organized them in the valley, and named the place the Valley of Life.
• Qiangu Yunche spent seven days meditating and adapting to his awakened second Martial Soul, which had greatly enhanced his spiritual power and control.
• Qiangu Yunche called on Elder Yi, and a leaf from the Tree of Life restored the final missing part of Electrolux's soul.
• Electrolux thanked Qiangu Yunche, passed on his magical inheritance, and departed from the Sea of Spirit.
• Qiangu Yunche absorbed a gray Soul Ring carrying Electrolux's inheritance, followed by a four-pattern Beast Soul Ring from the Blood Emperor.

Qiangu Yunche was drawn into a consciousness space by Tang San, who accused him of disrupting his plans for the Douluo Plane and declared that he would mark him and make him a servant. Tang San bound Qiangu Yunche and suppressed his Evil-Breaking Dragon Emperor Spear, leaving Qiangu Yunche facing the Sea God's next move.

• Qiangu Yunche considered seeking powerful Sea Soul Beasts for the Soul Rings his second Martial Soul still lacked, then sensed an overwhelming danger.
• Tang San pulled Qiangu Yunche's consciousness into a blank world and revealed himself as the Sea God.
• Tang San showed scenes of Qiangu Yunche's extraordinary achievements and accused him of obstructing his arrangements in the human world.
• Qiangu Yunche challenged Tang San's motives, and Tang San admitted that the Plane's recognition of Qiangu Yunche made killing him risky.
• Tang San threatened to imprint his mark on Qiangu Yunche's soul, promised him Xiao Qi and the Sea God's divine position, then bound him and suppressed his spear.

Qiangu Yunche fought Tang San’s divine consciousness after rejecting his attempt to control him, using the power of his former world to resist the Sea God. Tang San trapped him with the Golden Thirteen Halberds, but Qiangu Yunche struck back with Nine Nether Soul-Extinguishing Divine Light and called for help.

• Tang San claimed he had arranged Qiangu Yunche’s fate for his benefit, but Qiangu Yunche condemned his actions and refused to become his chess piece.
• Qiangu Yunche unleashed the power of his former world, broke Tang San’s divine chains, and attacked him with the Evil-Breaking Dragon Emperor Spear.
• Tang San fought back with the sea and the Golden Thirteen Halberds, while Qiangu Yunche’s destructive aura grew stronger and corroded Tang San’s divine power.
• Tang San struck Qiangu Yunche with Thousand Years of Empty Tranquility and bound him with Unfixed Storm, threatening to split his soul and control his body.
• Qiangu Yunche used Nine Nether Soul-Extinguishing Divine Light to injure Tang San’s divine consciousness, escaped Unfixed Storm, and called for someone to act.

Qiangu Yunche joined forces with the Spirit of Life and the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings to destroy Tang San’s divine sense. Afterward, he learned Tang San’s anchor in the Valley of Life had been destroyed and asked whether the Dragon Kings’ true spirits could still be awakened.

• The Spirit of Life arrived in the divine sense space and explained that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ indestructible dragon souls could lend Qiangu Yunche their power.
• Qiangu Yunche and Tang San launched their strongest attacks, and their clash damaged the divine sense space as it began to collapse.
• Qiangu Yunche pierced Tang San’s chest with the Evil-Breaking Dragon Emperor Spear, then destroyed his head and erased the divine sense sustaining the space.
• Qiangu Yunche awoke in the Valley of Life with severe damage to his Sea of Spirit, and the Spirit of Life confirmed Tang San’s anchor had been destroyed.
• Qiangu Yunche looked at the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ dragon souls and asked the Spirit of Life whether their true spirits could be awakened.

Qiangu Yunche left the Valley of Life after preparing the Spirit of Life to guard it and returned to Star Luo City. He reunited with Qiangu Yunmei, who told him that she, Great-Grandfather, and Jiujiu had searched for him at the ruined Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

• Qiangu Yunche told the Spirit of Life to subdue the hundred-thousand-year-old Jade Phosphorus Nine-Absolute Flower and protect the Valley of Life, then gave her a soul anchor.
• Qiangu Yunche learned in Heaven Dou City that more than a year had passed and hurried to Star Luo City.
• Qiangu Yunche found Qiangu Yunmei at the Princess Mansion and dodged her attacks until a family anecdote convinced her he was her little brother.
• Qiangu Yunmei embraced Qiangu Yunche and explained that she, Great-Grandfather, and Jiujiu had found the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well destroyed while searching for him.

Qiangu Yunche reunited with Qiangu Yunmei and learned that Xu Jiujiu was cultivating at the Star Gathering Platform, unable to break through to Soul Saint. After finding her there, he discovered that her ambition and the Star Luo Spirit Pearl she had refined were likely responsible for her stalled cultivation.

• Qiangu Yunche reassured Qiangu Yunmei that he would return safely after she embraced him and pleaded with him to come home.
• Qiangu Yunche learned that Xu Jiujiu was in seclusion at the Star Gathering Platform and hurried to find her.
• Nebula Douluo and Xu Jiawei met Qiangu Yunche at the platform, where Xu Jiawei explained that Xu Jiujiu's growing ambition had disrupted her state of mind.
• Xu Jiawei revealed that the Star Gathering Platform held a dangerous concentration of Star Power and that Xu Jiujiu had absorbed far more than a Soul Saint breakthrough required.
• Qiangu Yunche concluded that a seed from the Star Luo Spirit Pearl inside Xu Jiujiu was absorbing the Star Power and had left her in a half-dormant state.

Qiangu Yunche began using the Star Gathering Platform’s Star Power to help the Star Luo Spirit Pearl reach the hundred-thousand-year level and become Xu Jiujiu’s first Soul Core. The revived Spirit Pearl called Xu Jiujiu “Mommy,” then accepted her request to call her big sister as they prepared to turn it into a Soul Spirit.

• Xu Jiawei told Qiangu Yunche to use the Star Gathering Platform’s power and prioritize Xu Jiujiu’s safety.
• Qiangu Yunche entered Xu Jiujiu’s Sea of Spirit, explained his plan, and gained her consent to proceed.
• Qiangu Yunche used his Destruction Soul Core and the Tree of Life’s origin life force to accelerate the Star Luo Spirit Pearl’s revival.
• The Star Luo Spirit Pearl called Xu Jiujiu “Mommy,” and Xu Jiujiu told it to call her big sister instead.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Qiangu Yunche to turn the Star Luo Spirit Pearl into a Soul Spirit, and he agreed.

Xu Jiujiu completed her fusion with the Star Luo Spirit Pearl, gained a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, and welcomed the pearl's lively incarnation. After reuniting with Qiangu Yunche and hearing about his past year, she urged him to visit Sister Ruoruo and the others.

• After seven days of meditation, the Star Luo Spirit Pearl's embryo drew on the ore vein's energy and triggered a lightning tribulation above the Star Luo Imperial Palace.
• Qiangu Yunche sent the royal consecrates away, and Xu Jiujiu endured the tribulation before he completed the Soul Spirit formation.
• Xu Jiujiu gained a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and reached about rank seventy-five as the Star Luo Spirit Pearl emerged as a little girl and called Qiangu Yunche her father.
• Xu Jiujiu ordered the Star Luo Spirit Pearl to return to its proper form, then recalled it into her body.
• After leaving the Star Gathering Platform, Xu Jiujiu questioned Qiangu Yunche about his year away, and the two reconciled and rested together.
• Xu Jiujiu urged Qiangu Yunche to visit Sister Ruoruo and the others, who had also worried about him.

Qiangu Yunche left Xu Jiujiu to travel to Shrek City with Qiangu Yunmei, where he reunited with Han Ruoruo and the others. After they welcomed him back, Han Ruoruo asked what had happened during the year he was gone, and he began recounting his story.

• Xu Jiujiu sent Qiangu Yunche away to begin stabilizing her cultivation, and he teased her about painting her toenails wine red before escaping her thrown high heel.
• Qiangu Yunche traveled from Star Luo City to Shrek City with Qiangu Yunmei and settled at a private restaurant managed by Xu Jiujiu.
• Han Ruoruo, Ling Luochen, Ma Xiaotao, and Wu Ming rushed to greet Qiangu Yunche and showed their relief that he had returned.
• Wu Ming and Ma Xiaotao embraced Qiangu Yunche, but they stopped when he told them his sister was watching.
• Han Ruoruo asked Qiangu Yunche what had happened during his year away, and he began retelling his story.

Qiangu Yunche told Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, Ling Luochen, and Ma Xiaotao that Tang San had attacked him with divine sense, prompting them to discuss the threat Tang San might pose. Later, Qiangu Yunche met Mu En, who described his worsening condition and revealed that he had encountered an old acquaintance in the Sun Moon Empire.

• Qiangu Yunche revealed that Tang San had nearly killed him with a divine sense attack and warned that he would avoid returning to Sea God Island.
• Ma Xiaotao suggested that Tang San might target Qiangu Yunche's companions as leverage, and Qiangu Yunche urged everyone to prepare for possible retaliation.
• Qiangu Yunche promised to protect them and said he believed they would eventually be able to resist Tang San.
• Qiangu Yunche met Mu En at night and noticed that Mu En's vitality had declined since their previous meeting.
• Mu En explained that fighting Evil Soul Masters who attacked Sea God Island had hastened his decline, then said he had encountered an old acquaintance during a recent trip to the Sun Moon Empire.

Mu En and Qiangu Yunche discussed Long Xiaoyao, the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Sun Moon Empire before agreeing to visit the Star Dou Great Forest. Three days later, their group entered the forest openly and was stopped by Di Tian and several other great beasts.

• Mu En told Qiangu Yunche that Long Xiaoyao had become an Evil Soul Master and reflected on their painful past.
• Qiangu Yunche warned that the Sun Moon Empire might use the Holy Spirit Cult to pursue its ambitions, and Mu En agreed that they should travel to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Three days later, Mu En, Elder Lin, Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and other Shrek Academy members joined Qiangu Yunche and his companions for the journey.
• The human group flew into the Star Dou Great Forest's core region without hiding their auras, provoking the great beasts of the Land of Great Omen.
• Di Tian arrived with Scarlet King, Xiong Jun, the King of Ten Thousand Demons, Bi Ji, and Zi Ji, blocking the group's way and confronting them.

Mu En and Qiangu Qing entered the Star Dou Great Forest to propose Soul Spirits as a path to lasting peace between humans and soul beasts. After Bi Ji persuaded Di Tian to hear them out, Qiangu Yunche demonstrated a spiritual connection, and Scarlet King recognized the Golden Hawksbill Turtle and the group as old acquaintances.

• Xiong Jun challenged the humans, but Mu En revealed his powerful aura and silenced him before greeting Di Tian.
• Mu En told Di Tian that his group had come to explain how Soul Spirits could bring lasting peace between the two races.
• Bi Ji urged Di Tian to hear them out, and Di Tian ordered the fierce beasts to withdraw their auras and let the humans speak.
• Qiangu Yunche formed spiritual bridges to the six fierce beasts while Qiangu Yunmei released her Martial Soul and awakened the Golden Hawksbill Turtle.
• Scarlet King recognized the Golden Hawksbill Turtle and the returning group, and Qiangu Yunche greeted him.

Qiangu Yunche explained the Soul Spirit method to Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts, then argued that technological progress could ultimately end the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts. He demonstrated the destructive power of a Soul Guidance Cannonball, leaving the beasts to consider his proposal.

• The Golden Hawksbill Turtle recognized Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts, then calmed down after Qiangu Yunmei reminded it that it was her Soul Spirit.
• Qiangu Yunche transmitted an explanation of Soul Spirits and their advantages and disadvantages to Di Tian and the other five ferocious beasts.
• Di Tian warned Qiangu Yunche that Soul Spirits depended on Soul Beasts and might fail to prevent future human hunting or forced conversion.
• Qiangu Yunche fired a Rank 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonball and explained that higher-ranked weapons could match the attacks of powerful Douluo.
• Qiangu Yunche argued that technology could allow Soul Spirits to be mass-produced artificially and fundamentally resolve the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts.