Chapter Summaries

After his system activated, Li Yuan received a powerful martial soul, ten Titled Douluo worshipers, and a fortune in gold, then set out to establish his force. He rewarded the villagers who had sheltered him and left with his subordinates to find a headquarters.

• Li Yuan’s Strongest Family Cultivation System activated and awarded him ten million gold soul coins, the World-Destroying Black Dragon martial soul, ten Titled Douluo worshipers, two god-bestowed soul rings, and an awakening stone.
• Li Yuan summoned the worshipers, led by rank-99 Di Jun, and they bowed before him in Li Family Village.
• The system assigned Li Yuan a marriage-alliance quest and a three-day quest to find a base and name his force.
• Li Yuan gave the village chief ten thousand gold soul coins to improve the village and thanked him for sheltering him.
• Li Yuan and the ten Titled Douluo departed to settle their new home, leaving the village chief stunned.

Li Yuan bought a ruined manor in Soto City, named it Nibelungen, and began building a faction there. After awakening the World-Destroying Black Dragon martial soul with innate full soul power at rank twenty, he was suddenly overcome by a blazing evil fire.

• Li Yuan bought an abandoned three-hundred-mu manor and named it Nibelungen, receiving a Spirit-Gathering Formation, a Rare Spirit Field, and two million gold soul coins from the system.
• The system tasked Li Yuan with recruiting a Soul Douluo within a month, and he ordered Yue Yao to hire craftsmen and announce Nibelungen's strict recruitment rules.
• Li Yuan fused with the World-Destroying Black Dragon martial soul, causing dark clouds and dragon roars that alarmed soul masters across Soto City.
• Li Yuan awakened his martial soul, gained innate full soul power at rank twenty, and learned that he could use Black King Nidhogg's Spirit Speech abilities.
• Li Yuan was suddenly struck by scorching evil fire, and Di Jun and the others rushed to his aid.

After the World-Destroying Black Dragon’s wicked fire nearly consumed Li Yuan, Yue Yao saved him by using her body to guide the energy out. Once he learned the fire could erupt again, Li Yuan chose Shui Bing’er as the nearest ultimate-ice cultivator who could help suppress it and prepared to go to Tianshui Academy.

• Li Yuan’s wicked fire backlashed after he fused with the World-Destroying Black Dragon, and Long Yuan warned that it could destroy his meridians or consume his mind.
• Yue Yao agreed to guide the wicked energy out of Li Yuan, while Di Jun and Long Yuan left them alone.
• Two hours later, Li Yuan woke and Yue Yao explained how she had saved him.
• Long Yuan warned Li Yuan that the wicked fire could return more violently and said an ultimate-ice woman could help stabilize it through dual cultivation.
• Li Yuan chose Shui Bing’er at Tianshui Academy as his immediate solution and said he would seek the Snow Empress and Ice Empress later.
• Li Yuan got out of bed and announced that they were going to Tianshui Academy.

Li Yuan and Long Yuan forced Tianshui Academy to join Nibelungen, then Li Yuan took Shui Bing'er with him because her Ice Phoenix martial soul could suppress a flaw in his martial soul. They left the academy with Shui Yan'er accepting Nibelungen's support and conditions.

• Li Yuan, Long Yuan, and Di Jun descended into Tianshui Academy's martial field, where Long Yuan's pressure subdued Shui Yan'er and the students.
• Long Yuan revealed he was a rank ninety-eight Peak Douluo and ordered Tianshui Academy to become a subordinate force of Nibelungen.
• Shui Yan'er agreed to submit after Long Yuan demonstrated his strength, and Li Yuan was identified as Nibelungen's founder.
• Li Yuan explained that Shui Bing'er's Ice Phoenix martial soul could suppress a flaw in his martial soul, and Shui Bing'er willingly agreed to go with him.
• Li Yuan promised Tianshui Academy monthly cultivation resources, protection from Nibelungen, and training for its annual chosen genius.
• Li Yuan, Long Yuan, and Shui Bing'er flew away from Tianshui Academy.

Li Yuan suffered a violent backlash from the evil fire in his body, and Shui Bing'er used her ultimate ice power to suppress it. Afterward, Li Yuan promised to take responsibility for her, and the group continued toward the depths of Sunset Forest, though Long Yuan warned that the suppression was only temporary.

• Shui Bing'er asked Li Yuan what kind of force Nibelungen was, but he said she would learn in the future.
• Li Yuan's evil fire erupted in midair, so Long Yuan and Di Jun carried him to a hidden cave in Sunset Forest.
• Long Yuan told Shui Bing'er that Li Yuan needed her ultimate ice power, and she released her Ice Phoenix martial soul to suppress the evil fire.
• Li Yuan woke at dusk and realized what had happened; he promised to take responsibility for Shui Bing'er, who quietly accepted his comfort.
• Long Yuan examined Li Yuan and said Shui Bing'er's ice could only suppress the evil power temporarily, then Li Yuan and the others set out for the depths of Sunset Forest.

Li Yuan brought Shui Bing'er to Sunset Forest, where Long Yuan attacked Dugu Bo and overpowered him. The beating stopped when Dugu Yan arrived, and Dugu Bo realized Li Yuan was Long Yuan’s master.

• Li Yuan took Shui Bing'er to a clearing in Sunset Forest and promised her a gift.
• Long Yuan called out Dugu Bo and unleashed his first soul skill, drawing the Poison Douluo from the valley.
• Dugu Bo attacked with his Jade Scale Snake Di Jun, but Long Yuan shattered it with his second soul skill and sent Dugu Bo flying.
• Long Yuan repeatedly beat Dugu Bo until the old man begged for mercy, while Li Yuan watched and considered recruiting him.
• Dugu Yan rushed to her grandfather, and Li Yuan ordered Long Yuan to stop; Dugu Bo realized Li Yuan was the true master.

Li Yuan forced Dugu Bo to join Nibelungen and invited Dugu Yan to its planned academy. After the system assigned Li Yuan an academy-building and tournament mission, the group headed into the valley so he could collect medicinal herbs.

• Dugu Bo agreed to join Nibelungen after Li Yuan and his followers overpowered him, and Long Yuan threatened him against betrayal.
• Long Yuan revealed he was a rank-ninety-eight Peak Douluo, while Di Jun identified himself as a rank-ninety-nine demigod and Nibelungen’s grand enshrined.
• The system tasked Li Yuan with establishing an academy, earning official certifications, and winning the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, with a Sky Curtain set to open afterward.
• Li Yuan invited Dugu Yan to join the new academy, but Dugu Yan objected because she had already joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Dugu Bo ordered Dugu Yan to cut ties with Yu Tianheng and said he would arrange her withdrawal from Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Li Yuan asked Dugu Bo to lead him to his cultivation site for medicinal herbs, and the group went deeper into the valley.

Li Yuan brought Dugu Bo and the others to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and ordered all its rare herbs moved to Nibelungen. He gifted Shui Bing'er and Dugu Yan immortal herbs, leaving Shui Bing'er at level forty and Dugu Yan beginning to consume a herb that could cure her family’s poison backlash.

• Li Yuan triggered a mission to transplant every immortal-grade herb at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and told Dugu Bo to move his entire collection to Nibelungen.
• Li Yuan had Long Yuan pick the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone and gave it to Shui Bing'er.
• Shui Bing'er consumed the herb and rose from level thirty-three to level forty, becoming a Soul Ancestor.
• Li Yuan gave Dugu Yan the Fragrant Silk Immortal Herb and explained that it could make her immune to toxins and solve her family’s poison backlash.
• Dugu Yan accepted Li Yuan’s gift and began consuming the Fragrant Silk Immortal Herb.

Dugu Yan’s inherited poison backlash was cured, and Dugu Bo joined Nibelungen as its Spirit Field Elder. After Li Yuan assigned Dugu Bo to transplant the immortal herbs into a new spirit field, he told Shui Bing’er she would sleep with him.

• Dugu Yan’s poison backlash vanished, and she tearfully thanked Dugu Bo as he checked that she was cured.
• Dugu Bo packed the immortal herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and Long Yuan carried them back to Nibelungen.
• Li Yuan introduced Yue Yao as Nibelungen’s third consecrator, a rank ninety-seven control-type Titled Douluo, astonishing Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Shui Bing’er.
• Li Yuan appointed Dugu Bo as Nibelungen’s Spirit Field Elder and ordered him to transplant the herbs into the new spirit field.
• Li Yuan told Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan they could settle into two side rooms, then told Shui Bing’er she was coming back with him to sleep.

Li Yuan brought Shui Bing'er to his room, where she agreed to help suppress the evil power in his martial soul. After midnight, he received a ten-thousand-year ice soul bone suited to Shui Bing'er and a reward for completing the immortal herb transplanting mission, then opened a high-tier gift pack.

• Li Yuan told Shui Bing'er she was his woman and brought her to the prepared bedchamber with Yue Yao.
• Li Yuan said the evil power in his martial soul was becoming hard to suppress, and Shui Bing'er agreed to help him.
• After Shui Bing'er fell asleep, Li Yuan received the ten-thousand-year soul bone Lament of the Frost Speaker and decided it was suited to her.
• Li Yuan received a Spirit Herb Seed Bag for completing the immortal-grade herb transplanting mission.
• Li Yuan went downstairs, took out one of his unopened high-tier gift packs, and opened it.

Li Yuan opened high-tier gift packs and gained powerful equipment and cultivation resources, then planned to add soul rings to his martial soul after resting. The next morning, Yue Yao reported that recruitment had failed and that Spirit Hall was secretly watching the manor.

• Li Yuan obtained a God-Slaying Sword, a Panyan Right Arm Bone, a Concentration Art, Soul Power Pills, and a Void Ring.
• Li Yuan went to sleep beside Shui Bing'er and got up the following morning when Yue Yao called him for breakfast.
• Li Yuan asked Yue Yao about recruitment, and she said nobody had joined because commoners distrusted the generous offer.
• Yue Yao told Li Yuan that suspicious observers had been seen near the manor and identified them as Spirit Hall.

Li Yuan gave Shui Bing'er a ten-thousand-year ice Soul Bone and used a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring to gain three powerful Soul Skills and reach level twenty-four. As he began absorbing a second ring, Spirit Hall's Suotuo City bishop ordered an investigation into the unknown group offering free Martial Soul awakenings.

• Li Yuan dismissed concerns about Spirit Hall and sent Yue Yao to find a spacious site near Suotuo City for an academy.
• Li Yuan gave Shui Bing'er the Frost-Speaker Left Arm Bone and told her to absorb it.
• Li Yuan absorbed a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring that reached ten thousand years and granted him Dragon Might of the End, Scale of the Rebellious Dragon, and Dragon Breath of the End.
• Li Yuan's Soul Power rose to level twenty-four, and he summoned a second God-Bestowed Spirit Ring to absorb.
• Cardinal Krofu learned that an unknown group was offering free Martial Soul awakenings in Suotuo City and ordered his attendant to investigate its origins and leadership.

Li Yuan tested his second soul skill, Throne of Eternal Night, and demonstrated its ability to suppress enemies and strengthen allies. After checking the villagers’ martial souls at the manor, he noticed a strange man at the end of the line and learned that he was called A Liang.

• Li Yuan activated Throne of Eternal Night, suppressing Long Yuan and strengthening Di Jun within its fifty-meter domain.
• Li Yuan explained that the domain’s effects would grow with his soul power, though powerful opponents could resist its suppression.
• Li Yuan ended the test and went to see the villagers waiting at the manor for their martial souls to be tested.
• Li Yuan noticed a bamboo-hatted man leaning beneath a locust tree and approached him.
• The man introduced himself to Li Yuan as A Liang.

A Liang joined Li Yuan’s recruitment and challenged Tie Mu after the crowd mocked his Green Bamboo Sword and low-ranked soul rings. A Liang overwhelmed Tie Mu in their unarmed one-on-one fight, leaving the watching villagers stunned.

• A Liang introduced himself as a rank twenty-nine Grand Soul Master with a Green Bamboo Sword martial soul, drawing ridicule for his ten-year and hundred-year soul rings.
• Tie Mu revealed his rank forty-one Iron-Armored Black Water Turtle martial soul and asked Li Yuan if he qualified to join.
• A Liang dismissed Tie Mu’s strength, and Tie Mu challenged him to fight without using his martial soul, wagering that the loser would kneel and call the winner dad.
• Li Yuan approved the fight, and the crowd cleared a space outside the manor gate.
• A Liang darted forward and struck Tie Mu repeatedly with his bamboo pole while dodging every counterattack.

A Liang revealed his strength in a fight with Tie Mu, using his first soul skill to cut through Tie Mu’s defenses. Just before A Liang’s attack could strike Tie Mu, the Di Jun erased it with the Ruins of Time.

• A Liang dodged Tie Mu’s attacks with ease, prompting Tie Mu to acknowledge him and release his martial soul.
• Tie Mu used his Iron-Armored Black Turtle Shield and Triple Gravity to pin A Liang down and hurl his shield at him.
• A Liang activated his first soul skill, Ferocious, and cut Tie Mu’s shield and Black Turtle Protection with a sword strike from his bamboo pole.
• The Di Jun used the Ruins of Time to disperse A Liang’s attack just before it hit Tie Mu, leaving Tie Mu collapsed and the crowd silent.

After A Liang defeated Tie Mu, Li Yuan invited them to join him, but Spirit Hall deacon Zhou Hu tried to recruit them and then arrest Li Yuan. Long Yuan struck Zhou Hu into a wall, leaving him unconscious.

• A Liang shattered Tie Mu’s defensive soul skill with one sword, and Tie Mu accepted his defeat and knelt to call A Liang father before A Liang told him to stand.
• Li Yuan invited A Liang and Tie Mu to stay, and A Liang agreed as long as he had food and wine.
• Zhou Hu arrived on behalf of Spirit Hall and ordered A Liang and Tie Mu to join him, but Tie Mu refused because he had already pledged himself to Li Yuan.
• A Liang insulted Zhou Hu and rejected Spirit Hall, while Long Yuan welcomed A Liang’s temper.
• Zhou Hu accused Li Yuan of deceiving and abducting commoners, then tried to force him to come along.
• Long Yuan slapped Zhou Hu into a wall, where Zhou Hu fainted.

Li Yuan and his companions dealt with the Spirit Hall men and brought Tie Mu and A Liang into Nibelungen. After the newcomers proved their loyalty, Li Yuan gave Tie Mu a ten-thousand-year soul bone and A Liang the God-Slaying Sword as a second martial soul.

• Long Yuan knocked Zhou Hu into a wall, and Li Yuan ordered Di Jun to ensure the incident remained secret.
• Di Jun aged the two Spirit Hall attendants to death and erased their bodies.
• Tie Mu and A Liang killed the wounded Zhou Hu with daggers, pledging themselves to Nibelungen.
• Li Yuan called Nibelungen the realm of gods and homeland of kings, then gave Tie Mu a ten-thousand-year soul bone.
• Li Yuan bestowed the God-Slaying Sword as A Liang's second martial soul, and A Liang accepted it.

Li Yuan arranged the founding of Black Dragon Academy and gave Shui Bing'er a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring to help her reach Soul Ancestor. Shui Bing'er accepted it and vowed to remain by his side, while the academy awaited official certification.

• Yue Yao reported that he had bought an abandoned academy site, and Li Yuan asked Dugu Bo to obtain approvals from the Heaven Dou Imperial Family and Spirit Hall for Black Dragon Academy.
• Dugu Bo agreed to secure the certifications within two days and took Dugu Yan to handle her withdrawal from Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Li Yuan gave Tie Mu and A Liang copies of Concentration Art, and Shui Bing'er announced that she had successfully absorbed an Immortal Herb.
• Li Yuan introduced Shui Bing'er to Tie Mu and A Liang, then sent the two men with Mu Sheng to settle in.
• Li Yuan gave Shui Bing'er a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring, explaining that she could absorb it directly and that it would suit her martial soul and physique.
• Shui Bing'er accepted the ring and pledged to serve Li Yuan faithfully for the rest of her life.

Li Yuan helped Shui Bing'er advance, unlocked his Devour talent, and claimed powerful resources for Black Dragon Academy after it received official approval. As Cardinal Krofu grew suspicious of the academy and worried about a missing investigator, a divine figure appeared and announced that it would eliminate the threat at its lord's command.

• Shui Bing'er absorbed the dark-gold light, reached rank forty-three, and was assigned to train under Yue Yao.
• Li Yuan cultivated to rank thirty and unlocked the Devour talent, which let him consume soul beast soul rings to strengthen his own rings and raise his rank.
• After Black Dragon Academy received official certification, Li Yuan claimed a gift pack containing funds, cultivation facilities, defensive arrays, teachers, and other resources.
• Cardinal Krofu examined the academy's approval document, suspected someone powerful was behind it, and decided to report the matter to the Pope.
• Krofu remembered that Zhou Hu had been missing for two days, then a divine figure appeared and declared it would pull out the weeds by the roots at its lord's command.

The Di Jun used his time powers to kill Krofu and erase the Soto City Spirit Hall branch, while Li Yuan woke beside Shui Bing'er and gathered his followers for an announcement. The chapter ended as Li Yuan began addressing the assembled group at the manor.

• The Di Jun slowed time around Krofu, aged him into dust, and erased the Soto City Spirit Hall branch and everyone inside it with Time Annihilation.
• Li Yuan woke beside Shui Bing'er, signed in, and received a sexy lace outfit set from the system.
• Li Yuan set aside the reward and woke Shui Bing'er before they joined the others for breakfast.
• Li Yuan entered the manor's main hall, where Dugu Yan, Shui Bing'er, Tie Mu, A Liang, the Di Jun, Long Yuan, Yue Yao, Mu Sheng, and other worshippers had gathered.
• Li Yuan told the assembled group that he had called them together because he had something to say.