Recaps

Chen Hong negotiated with the Ice and Snow Empresses, treated Ning Quan and used him to test a new Soul Power system. He won the Ice Empress’s agreement to sacrifice her Soul Ring, then began the ritual with her consciousness intact.

• Chen Hong faced Snow Empress’s demand for compensation and used his knowledge of her coming tribulation to secure negotiations over Ning Quan and Xu Ke’er.
• Chen Hong learned about the Far North’s history and the Rune Ice Pillar, then reconstructed most of the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Pattern and identified its links to Ice Silkworms and the Emerald Swan.
• Chen Hong returned to Suotuo City, where he fused martial souls with Ye Lingling and implanted five elemental Secondary Soul Cores in Ning Quan, forming a stable Soul Power Engine.
• Ning Quan awakened with a female body, rapidly gained Soul Power and Self-Evolved Soul Rings, and Chen Hong identified the Tian Quan Divine Mark behind the process.
• Chen Hong proposed research into Spirit Masters condensing their own Soul Rings, prompting Qian Daoliu to mistake the idea for a lethal artifact before Ye Lingling explained its potential.
• Chen Hong negotiated with Ice Empress and Snow Empress, offering the Ice Dragon King’s Remains and research in exchange for their cooperation, and Ice Empress agreed to sacrifice.
• Chen Hong revealed that he might oppose a god, asked the empresses to leave the remains untouched for fifty years, and received Ice Empress’s commitment to sacrifice.
• Chen Hong used his Sage, Contract, and Overclock Divine Marks to link his consciousness with Ice Empress’s and guide her into the sacrificial state.

Chen Hong gained the Snow Empress’s sixth Soul Ring, then sailed with Bibi Dong toward a meeting with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King while attempting Martial Soul Fusion with her. Their resonance brought Chen Hong into Bibi Dong’s Soul Consciousness, where he encountered Qian Xunji in a ruined bedroom.

• Chen Hong tested No-Self on Ice Empress, then withdrew its rune and explained how the skill froze thought through the Domain Realm.
• Chen Hong returned to Suotuo City, advanced his Soul Core Engine research, and later watched Oscar spar with Tang San as the Shrek Seven Devils reunited.
• Chen Hong reached Soul Power level 60 and Mental Power level 89, while the Technology Guild expanded and Chen Lin sealed Chen Hong’s research into making humans explode Soul Rings.
• Chen Hong brought the Ice and Snow Empresses to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Snow Empress warned him about the Star Dou Great Forest and agreed to provide his sixth Soul Ring.
• Snow Empress sacrificed herself to Chen Hong, raising him to rank 70 and Mental Power rank 90, but his sixth Soul Ring did not respond when he tried to activate it.
• Chen Hong traveled with Bibi Dong toward the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and she explained her difficulty fusing her Twin Martial Souls.
• Chen Hong and Bibi Dong began a Martial Soul Resonance experiment aboard the fleet, entered Bibi Dong’s Soul Consciousness, and found Qian Xunji in a ruined bedroom.

Chen Hong helped Bibi Dong complete her Martial Soul Fusion, then negotiated with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and was swept to the Sun and Moon Continent while studying the king’s power. He left Yue Xi with protection and continued toward Ming City, investigating the continent’s Soul Mark Civilization and fallen gods.

• Chen Hong helped Bibi Dong defeat her inner demon and permanently fuse her Spider Emperor Martial Souls into the Death Devouring Spider God, raising her Soul Power to Rank 99.7.
• Chen Hong confronted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, learned of his plans for the Sea Soul Alliance and the Sea Abyss Passage, and agreed to hand over the alliance while dealing with other threats himself.
• Chen Hong studied the Demon Whale King’s true form, but the resulting Demon Whale Rule Model overwhelmed his mind and left him drifting far from the fleet as the Technology Guild searched for him.
• Chen Hong recovered on a boat in the East Sea with Xu Hai and Yue Xi, then traveled with them to Purple Dragon Village and discovered that its villagers offered Blood Food to a terrifying creature.
• Chen Hong protected Yue Xi from an Evil Eye Soul Beast that put a boy and his parents into Eternal slumber, then gave her his Divine Mark Robe before following the creature into the forest.
• Chen Hong met an Evil Eye Tyrant, traveled to Ming City, examined the Sun and Moon Continent’s Soul Tools and legends, and climbed toward the Valley of Asking Love while reflecting on the gods who had fallen on Douluo Star.

Chen Hong returned to the Sun and Moon Continent and defeated the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord with the help of his allies, then studied and armed himself with the Evil Emperor’s power. He learned that the Evil Emperor and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King came from Abyss planes, leaving the possibility of other planes looming over the story.

• The Technology Guild’s fleet battled the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, while Ye Lingling’s Life Domain revived the fallen and Seeds of Collapse weakened the whale.
• Ye Lingling restrained the whale king instead of killing him, and the Orca King went to search for the missing Sea Conch Ship carrying Ning Rongrong.
• Chen Lin’s group found Chen Hong’s Spatial Mark near the Sun and Moon Continent and sailed there, where Evil Eye creatures attacked Yue Xi and the others.
• Chen Hong arrived through a Spatial Divine Rune to protect Ye Lingling, then fused with her and confronted the Evil Emperor in Evil Spirit Forest.
• Chen Hong fought the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord with Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu fused into Creator, survived its Light of Time and Space, and revealed his Seventh Soul Ring, True Self.
• The Evil Emperor admitted defeat and let Chen Hong inspect his soul, after which Chen Hong gained the Evil God’s Eye and combined the Evil Emperor’s Dark Element with Bibi Dong’s Space Element.
• The Evil Emperor told Chen Hong that he and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King came from different Abyss planes, described the eighteen-layer Crimson Abyss, and warned him against opening a passage to another plane.