Chapter Summaries

After returning to Suotuo City, Chen Hong began studying Soul Power particles with a microscope-like device, discovering that limiting his Black Lotus Soul Eye’s field of view reduced its harmful side effects. His observations suggested that Soul Power’s elemental attributes were a low-dimensional expression of deeper phenomena.

• Hu Liena explained that if the King of Slaughter matched her against Tang San, Spirit Hall and Chen Hong could retaliate if either of them died.
• Chen Hong returned to Suotuo City under Dugu Bo’s escort after arranging a Family Position for Ye Lingling.
• Chen Hong told Ning Lu and Chen Lin about his eyes, then began Soul Power research at the Suotuo Soul Guidance Research Institute.
• Chen Hong used a Temporary Soul Power Observer to study a Soul-Containing Crystal slice and found that microscopic observation let him examine Soul Power particles with little strain.
• Chen Hong proposed that the particles’ apparent elemental attributes were a low-dimensional expression of more complex phenomena.

Chen Hong investigated Soul Power Factors by examining Soul Beast essence blood and comparing it with samples from humans and powerful Soul Beasts. His findings showed that Soul Beasts vastly surpassed humans in the number, activity, and quality of their Soul Power Factors, and he explained the results to Qian Daoliu.

• Chen Hong reasoned that mastering divine authority and laws might bring him closer to understanding the Dimensional Star Chart.
• Chen Hong used the Black Lotus Soul Eye to observe Soul Power Particles in Wild Boar Bajie's essence blood and identified a dim Soul Power Factor surrounded by particles.
• Chen Hong hypothesized that Soul Power Factors attracted Acquired Soul Power and influenced Innate Soul Power levels and cultivation bottlenecks.
• Chen Hong spent nearly two months comparing Soul Beast and human essence-blood samples, including those of Qian Daoliu and the Evil Orca King.
• Qian Daoliu questioned Chen Hong's conclusion that Soul Beasts were humanity's superior race, and Chen Hong explained that Soul Beasts had far stronger innate Soul Power attributes.

Chen Hong theorized that the Soul Power Path ultimately required humans and soul beasts to take on each other’s traits, and discussed the Dragon God and divine hierarchy with Qian Daoliu. He then showed Qian Daoliu a fading crystal particle and asked whether granting mortals the qualification to cultivate was a god’s authority.

• Chen Hong told Qian Daoliu that soul beasts had greater bodily potential but seemed genetically constrained, while humans could fully develop their weaker innate attributes.
• Chen Hong proposed that the cultivation paths of humans and soul beasts converged, with the Soul Power Path ultimately leading to the Supreme God of Soul Beasts.
• Qian Daoliu outlined the levels of divinity and admitted he could not explain the Dragon God’s fate; Chen Hong set aside the question and returned to discussing cultivation.
• Chen Hong argued that Martial Soul Possession and Martial Soul Avatar let Spirit Masters temporarily gain soul-beast-like bodies and command Heaven and Earth Energy, and considered developing Divine Mark Gauze into a body technique.
• Chen Hong removed a pale-blue crystal particle from the Soul Power Observer, watched it decay into dust, and asked Qian Daoliu whether granting mortals the qualification to cultivate was a god’s authority.

At the Suotuo Soul Guidance Research Institute, Chen Hong revealed that he had created a Soul Core by extracting and condensing Soul Power from Blue Silver Grass, though it needed Lingling’s help and a life-rich environment to remain stable. Qian Daoliu recognized the breakthrough as a way for mortals to reproduce powers once thought to belong only to gods, and left awed by Chen Hong’s potential.

• Chen Hong explained that his Soul Core was refined from Blue Silver Grass and could only be preserved with the Soul Power Observer’s Healing Module in an area rich in Life Energy.
• Qian Daoliu realized Chen Hong’s research had broken down the divine secrets of Soul Rings, Soul Bones, Soul Power, and the Power of Faith.
• Qian Daoliu concluded that Chen Hong’s work could lead to a Self-Created Divine Position and make him an assembled-from-parts god.
• Qian Daoliu recognized the Soul Core as a means of creating Innate Soul Power and changing the course of Douluo Continent’s history.
• Chen Hong sensed Qian Daoliu staring at him fervently and told him to come back to his senses.

Chen Hong explained the Blue Silver Grass Soul Core’s limits and described how more advanced Soul Guidance Technology could turn Secondary Soul Cores into Super Soul Guidance Devices. He left Qian Daoliu with a vision of powerful, self-charging devices that could combine multiple Soul Cores and use combined or fusion Soul Skills.

• Qian Daoliu asked Chen Hong how far the Soul Core had progressed, and Chen Hong explained that extracting one remained difficult and that compatibility was a problem.
• Chen Hong told Qian Daoliu that the Blue Silver Grass Soul Core could give a zero-Soul-Power Blue Silver Grass Spirit Master the opportunity to cultivate, but its effects varied with the user’s attributes.
• Chen Hong explained that existing Soul Cores were Secondary Soul Cores, which handled elemental Soul Power, while Primary Soul Cores capable of ignoring attribute differences remained beyond reach.
• Chen Hong revealed that Secondary Soul Cores could power Super Soul Guidance Devices when combined with Soul Skills, Soul Power storage, self-charging cores, intelligent Soul Bone Spirits, and Mental Networks.
• Chen Hong said Soul Core Soul Guidance Devices could take a giant form, carry multiple Soul Cores, use different elemental energies, and potentially perform combined or fusion Soul Skills.

Chen Hong explained that Secondary Soul Cores could make Soul Tools more effective than Spirit Masters, impressing Qian Daoliu with the possibilities of Soul Guidance Technology. He gave Qian Daoliu a newly refined Angel Bone Spirit for Qian Renxue’s planned faith-based divine kingdom, while turning his attention to the Haotian Barbarians’ counterfeit New Soul Coins.

• Chen Hong explained to Qian Daoliu why Secondary Soul Cores were more efficient in Soul Tools than in Spirit Masters.
• Qian Daoliu recognized the potential of Chen Hong’s research, encouraged him to keep working, and offered to provide whatever he needed.
• Chen Hong summoned Big Head Doll [Huang] and gave Qian Daoliu the newly made Angel Bone Spirit, refined from the Emerald Swan Soul Bone.
• Qian Daoliu planned to use Angel to help Qian Renxue establish a pseudo divine kingdom by gathering the Power of Faith.
• Chen Hong considered using the Blue Lightning Bone Spirit to bring the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan into the Technology Guild’s sphere of influence.
• Chen Hong dismissed Qian Daoliu’s concern that Angel’s appearance differed from the original Soul Bone.

Chen Hong returned the Bone Spirit Angel to Qian Daoliu and described plans for the Angel Mental Network before turning his attention to Project Zero. Half a year later, Suotuo City had grown into a vast technological metropolis, and Chen Hong told Ye Lingling that the Secondary Biological Soul Core’s effects exceeded their expectations.

• Chen Hong explained Bone Spirit’s flexible forms and proposed letting Angel believers exchange faith for remote healing through the Angel Mental Network.
• Qian Daoliu took the Bone Spirit Angel away, while Chen Hong learned that Ning Quan and Xu Ke’er were training in the Far North.
• Chen Hong decided to prioritize a Soul Guidance Device Secondary Soul Core and ordered Huang to activate Project Zero.
• Over the next half year, Chen Hong reached Soul Power Level forty-nine and Mental Power Level eighty-four as Suotuo City rapidly grew into the continent’s most populous city-state.
• Chen Hong stood with Ye Lingling in a research institute and said the Secondary Biological Soul Core’s effects were more impressive than expected.

Chen Hong showed Ye Lingling the artificial spine soul bone and Golden Lotus pattern that helped his body handle a powerful Secondary Biological Soul Core. As his Soul Power rose rapidly, he speculated about how Soul Power Factors related to divine power.

• Chen Hong revealed that he had transformed a section of his spine into an Artificial Divine Mark Spine using Secondary Soul Core Crystal Grains and a Sage Divine Mark.
• Chen Hong explained that the spine rune operated like a soul bone and had raised his Soul Power Level from forty-eight to forty-nine in half a month.
• Ye Lingling said Chen Hong's Water Attribute Divine Mark Spine contained more Soul Power Factors than the samples from Senior Qian Daoliu's Innate Level 20 hosts.
• Ye Lingling explained that the Golden Lotus on Chen Hong's chest was her Nine Heart Begonia Divine Mark, which directed excess Soul Power to strengthen his body and sustain the Secondary Biological Soul Core.
• Chen Hong speculated that gods relied on a higher form of power than Soul Power, while the chapter noted that a God King Level Secondary Biological Soul Core could still make the gods' eyelids twitch.

After Ning Quan and Xu Ke'er went missing in the Far North, a mysterious twin-tailed girl who was actually the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion descended into a glacier fissure with the Ice Jade Scorpion King. She sensed an unusually pure, strange human aura beneath a ruined building that she could not perceive with her spiritual senses.

• Chen Hong learned that Ning Quan and Xu Ke'er had been missing for three days and ordered the information contained while he investigated.
• Ice Jade Scorpions gathered around a fissure in the Ice God Mountain Range, where ruins and ice marrow lay beneath the glacier.
• The Ice Jade Scorpion King arrived, carrying a mysterious twin-tailed girl whom the surrounding scorpions treated with fearful submission.
• The girl, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, sensed an unusual human soul master's aura beneath the glacier but could not detect the ruins with her spiritual perception.

The Ice Empress brought the Ice Jade Scorpion King to mysterious ruins beneath the Glacier Fissure and stopped at a barrier she believed was meant to keep Ice Attribute Soul Beasts out. She watched two injured Human Soul Masters recovering inside and realized the deadly cold was slowly draining their remaining life force.

• The Ice Jade Scorpion King offered to break through the weak barrier, but the Ice Empress rebuked it and warned that the ruins might contain dangerous restrictions.
• The Ice Jade Scorpion King submitted to the Ice Empress, relieved when she turned her attention back to the ruins.
• The Ice Empress studied the ancient ice pillars and suspected that some were made of Hundred-Thousand Year Ice Marrow.
• The Ice Empress saw two pale-faced Human Soul Masters inside the ruins and believed the cold would kill them despite the barrier keeping Ice Jade Scorpions away.
• One of the humans asked, “Big brother Ning, are we going to die?”

Trapped beneath the Ice God Ruins with Xu Ke'er freezing beside him, Ning Quan tried to decipher the ancient runes on a wall and find a way to escape. He identified two energy nodes and proposed that Soul Power or blood might activate them.

• Xu Ke'er told Ning Quan that traveling with him and witnessing the world's sights had fulfilled her life, while he held her and used Soul Power to warm her.
• The chapter recounted how Ning Quan and Xu Ke'er had slain a Ten-Thousand Year Ice Jade Scorpion, ruptured a glacier, and fled pursuing Soul Beasts into the glacial ruins.
• Ning Quan estimated that he and Xu Ke'er had only days to survive in the ruins' extreme cold, with five of their seven days already gone.
• Ning Quan studied the icy-blue runes on the wall and marked two points he believed were energy nodes.
• Ning Quan concluded that Soul Power or blood might activate the runes and help them escape.

Trapped in the freezing Far North, Ning Quan and Xu Ke'er chose to wait for rescue rather than risk activating the ancient Rune Wall with their dwindling Soul Power. Elsewhere, Chen Hong sensed danger near the Ice God Mountain Range and asked Qian Daoliu about the Star Crown Family.

• Xu Ke'er weighed the danger of gambling on the Rune Wall against waiting for rescue, while explaining that the Star Crown Family had sent her to scout amid chaotic celestial signs.
• Ning Quan promised Xu Ke'er they would wait for rescue together, and she accepted that their fate might already be sealed.
• Near the Ice God Mountain Range, Chen Hong told Qian Daoliu that he had a bad feeling and asked what he knew about the Star Crown Family.

Qian Daoliu explained how the Star Crown Family had used a supposed Star Martial Soul experiment to conceal its return to the world, while Chen Hong became interested in its Astrological Divination. Using the Black Lotus Soul Eye, Chen Hong found a group of Ice Jade Scorpions, and Qian Daoliu prepared to negotiate with them.

• Qian Daoliu described Spirit Hall's suspicions that ancient Ultimate Soul Beasts existed in the Ice God Mountain Range and the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qian Daoliu told Chen Hong that the Star Crown Family had used the prospect of a Star Martial Soul to hide its quiet return to the world.
• Chen Hong recognized Astrological Divination as an Extraordinary technique and silently decided to seek out the Star Crown Family.
• Chen Hong used the Black Lotus Soul Eye to search for Star-type Soul Power traces and detected a concentration of Ice Jade Scorpions.
• Chen Hong pointed out the Ice Jade Scorpions below and advised Qian Daoliu to prepare for armed negotiations.

The Ice Empress watched two human Soul Masters slowly perish in the Ice God Ruins, then entered the ruins and examined an ancient pillar depicting a god’s fall and a Legendary Venerable’s birth. She left the pillar with the humans still dying before a rune wall.

• The Ice Jade Scorpion King warned the Ice Empress that the two humans would die, and she said she knew.
• The Ice Empress entered the Ice God Ruins through a pressure barrier that did not affect powerful Soul Beasts.
• The Ice Empress studied a Rune Ice Pillar whose carvings depicted a god falling and a Legendary Venerable being born.
• The Ice Empress recalled fragments of the Ancient Era and the changing civilizations she had survived.
• The Ice Empress turned from the pillar and observed the man and girl by the Rune Wall, noting that the man’s aura was concealed and his Sword Intent had disappeared.

Ning Quan faced death beside Xu Ke'er in the Ice God Ruins as Ice Empress moved to freeze them and erase the ruins. He awakened the power of Tian Quan and struck back, but Ice Empress stopped his final sword; a blazing golden sword then crashed down through the ice.

• Ice Empress refused to save Ning Quan and Xu Ke'er, then began sealing the ruins with Ultimate Ice.
• Ning Quan revealed that he had secretly absorbed a fragment of Hundred-Thousand Year Ice Marrow, while Xu Ke'er had lost all Life Fluctuation.
• Ning Quan realized he was Tian Quan and unleashed a vast Sword Intent that summoned the Big Dipper constellation and drew starlight into the Seven Star Sword.
• Ning Quan used Dao Technique: Tian Quan—Sever the Self, but Ice Empress froze him with Eternal Freeze Domain and Ice Emperor's Wrath before he could finish his strike.
• An enraged voice shouted as a blazing golden sword plunged through the ice and struck Ice Empress's Ice Pincers.

Qian Daoliu and Chen Hong faced the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion after she endangered Ning Quan and Xu Ke'er, who were trapped in Ultimate Ice. Qian Daoliu prepared to capture the four-hundred-thousand-year beast with Chen Hong’s support.

• Qian Daoliu shielded Chen Hong and the frozen Ning Quan and Xu Ke'er while the Ice Empress rescued her tribe members from the battle’s shockwaves.
• Chen Hong said Ning Quan’s Cold Poison and injuries were too severe for the new Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to cure, then demanded the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s Ultimate Ice soul ring.
• Qian Daoliu carried Chen Hong and Ning Quan’s ice block out of the collapsing glacier and confronted the Ice Empress on the ice field.
• The Ice Empress revealed her massive form and accused Qian Daoliu of enraging her.
• Qian Daoliu judged his strength to be around Level 99.6 and believed that, with Chen Hong’s support, he could capture the Ice Empress alive.

Qian Daoliu confronted the Ice Empress after clashes in the Glacier Fissure killed many of her kin. He revealed his strengthened soul rings and attacked in Angel True Form, leaving their battle raging after his flaming greatblade struck her strongest defense.

• The Ice Empress transformed into her enormous ferocious beast form and prepared to attack Qian Daoliu and Chen Hong.
• Qian Daoliu revealed five black and four red soul rings, and he reminded the Ice Empress of her past encounters with the Angel Qian Family.
• The Ice Empress attacked Qian Daoliu after he called her an old relic abandoned by the times.
• Qian Daoliu caught the Ice Empress's Pincers with his Angel True Form and counterattacked with a blazing greatblade.
• The Ice Empress activated Ice Emperor's Protection, and her defense clashed with Qian Daoliu's Angel Sacred Flame amid an explosive collision of heat and cold.

Qian Daoliu’s Six-Winged Angel fought the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion in the Far North, using its Angel Domain and superior speed to suppress her while protecting Chen Hong and the others. The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion could not overcome the Angel’s defenses or reach Chen Hong, and the battle continued with her attacks largely neutralized.

• The Six-Winged Angel and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion were blasted apart after their first clash, but both recovered and prepared to fight again.
• The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion spread her Eternal Freeze Domain, while the Six-Winged Angel deployed Angel Domain to protect Chen Hong and the others and contest her domain.
• The Six-Winged Angel gave up its aerial advantage and repeatedly struck the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion with its Blazing Greatblade, gradually wearing down her armor.
• The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s domain-dependent attacks proved ineffective against the Six-Winged Angel’s resistance to freezing and purification abilities.
• The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion tried to break through and attack Chen Hong, but the Six-Winged Angel blocked every attempt.

Qian Daoliu overwhelmed the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion with his perfected Six-Winged Angel avatar, now a pure-energy Soul Art he called Dharma Appearance of Heaven and Earth. As the battle reached its turning point, he saluted the ancient beast on behalf of generations of the Six-Winged Angel Family.

• Qian Daoliu used his Six-Winged Angel’s energy form and Sacred Flame to break through the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s defenses and overpower her despite her enhanced ice domain.
• Qian Daoliu reflected on the Angel lineage’s duty to protect human Soul Masters and the generations who had challenged the Far North’s supreme Emperor.
• Qian Daoliu’s state of mind reached completion, and his combat grew more effortless as the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s resistance faltered.
• After a system voice announced that its analysis was complete, Qian Daoliu forced back the battered Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.
• Qian Daoliu introduced himself as Spirit Hall’s current Great Angel Priest and former Angel Douluo, then offered the ancient Emperor his salutations.

Qian Daoliu and Chen Hong combined their powers to break through the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s defenses and leave the Ice Empress severely wounded. The Snow Empress appeared to stop Qian Daoliu’s Sword of Judgment, ending the attack.

• Chen Hong deconstructed the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s Ice Emperor’s Protection and disabled its Soul Power defenses.
• Qian Daoliu transformed the Six-Winged Angel’s weapon into the Radiant Greatsword and unleashed Angel—Sword of Judgment.
• The Sword of Judgment pierced the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s armor and carved a severe wound into the Ice Empress’s true body.
• The Snow Empress appeared before the Ice Empress and ordered Qian Daoliu to stop.
• Qian Daoliu withdrew his attack, shrank the Six-Winged Angel, and greeted the Snow Empress.