Chapter Summaries

After becoming the Spirit Empire’s second emperor, Lin Bei inspected the continent and prepared it for space exploration while Bibi Dong remained in her giant egg. Tang San inherited the Shura God’s divine seat and was charged with judging Lin Bei, while the former Shura God challenged Lin Bei to a battle on a barren planet.

• Lin Bei became the Spirit Empire’s second emperor and announced a plan to reach outer space within one hundred years.
• Lin Bei spent a year inspecting the continent and resolving problems with its development.
• Tang San inherited the Shura God’s divine seat and learned that he had to judge Lin Bei or risk losing his authority over judgment and law.
• The former Shura God left Tang San to handle the judgment and challenged Lin Bei to a fight.
• Lin Bei accepted the challenge, and he and the Shura God began exchanging powerful blows on a barren planet.

Lin Bei sparred with the Shura God, then entered Douluo Continent’s Zombie Timeline to investigate its apocalypse. He found young Tang San and Xiao Wu hiding in Notting Junior Soul Master Academy and agreed to let them travel with him.

• Lin Bei and the Shura God fought for more than two months before parting ways, with the Shura God leaving to pursue his path beyond the realm.
• Lin Bei projected his consciousness into the Zombie Timeline, where he discovered that zombies could only be killed by destroying the Black Nucleus in their heads.
• Lin Bei reached Notting Junior Soul Master Academy and fought through its stronger zombies until he sensed living people in the cafeteria.
• Lin Bei found six-year-old Tang San and Xiao Wu hiding in the cafeteria and learned they were the academy’s only survivors.
• Tang San asked Lin Bei to let him and Xiao Wu join him, and Lin Bei agreed.

Lin Bei, Tang San, and Xiao Wu secured the cafeteria’s ingredients using Space Soul Tools they recovered from Zombie Yu Xiaogang, then left Notting Junior Soul Master Academy. Tang San asked Lin Bei to accompany him to Holy Soul Village to check on his father, and the group set out through streets filled with human and animal zombies.

• Lin Bei led Tang San and Xiao Wu through the academy in search of a teacher with a Space Soul Tool, killing zombies along the way.
• Tang San recognized Zombie Yu Xiaogang and explained that Yu Xiaogang had turned into a zombie when he first arrived at the academy.
• Lin Bei killed Yu Xiaogang, retrieved the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges from his belt, and gave Tang San and Xiao Wu the Space Soul Tools.
• The three returned to the cafeteria, stored its ingredients, and left Notting Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Tang San asked Lin Bei to accompany him to Holy Soul Village to check on Tang Hao, and Lin Bei agreed as they set out with Xiao Wu.

Lin Bei, Tang San, and Xiao Wu found Holy Soul Village devastated and discovered that Tang Hao was missing, though he had left Tang San a letter telling him not to search for him. After returning to Notting City, the three continued fighting zombies and searching for useful supplies.

• Lin Bei, Tang San, and Xiao Wu surveyed the ruined Holy Soul Village and saw that its villagers, including Old Jack, had become zombies.
• Tang San found his home empty and read a letter from Tang Hao saying he had left and Tang San should not look for him.
• The three rested in the village, then returned to Notting City, where Lin Bei protected them from the stronger soul master zombies.
• More than a week later, Lin Bei killed a rank-forty Soul Ancestor zombie and destroyed its Black Nucleus.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu were disappointed that the zombie had no Space Soul Tool, and Lin Bei told them such tools were not common.

Lin Bei explained Yu Xiaogang’s reputation to Tang San and Xiao Wu, then led them to Spirit Hunting Forest to gather supplies and seek soul rings. After discovering that zombie soul beasts produced no soul rings, the three fled a massive zombie tide, but a powerful beast zombie caught up and pounced on them.

• Lin Bei told Tang San and Xiao Wu that Yu Xiaogang’s Grandmaster title came from his family’s status and that his theories drew on Spirit Hall’s archives, though people criticized their contradictions.
• Lin Bei packed supplies and took Tang San and Xiao Wu toward Spirit Hunting Forest, planning to hunt for soul rings before traveling toward Suotuo City and Heaven Dou City.
• At the forest’s outskirts, Lin Bei killed the attacking soul beast and soul master zombies, then discovered the zombie soul beasts produced no soul rings.
• A huge tide of soul beast zombies poured out of Spirit Hunting Forest, and Lin Bei grabbed Tang San and Xiao Wu and ran.
• A fast, powerful beast zombie caught up with Lin Bei and leapt at the three of them.

Lin Bei saved Tang San and Xiao Wu from the Zombie Tide with a Blazing Tornado and led them away from Notting City. The three continued toward Suotuo City, where Lin Bei hoped to learn what had become of the people from the original story.

• Lin Bei halted the pursuing Zombie Tide with a Blazing Tornado, dodged a zombie soul beast, and carried Tang San and Xiao Wu back to Notting City.
• Lin Bei escaped the city with Tang San and Xiao Wu, and the zombies stopped pursuing them after they left its streets.
• Tang San wondered about Lin Bei's strength and worried that he could not grow stronger without finding a soul ring.
• Lin Bei, Tang San, and Xiao Wu set out for Suotuo City after Lin Bei recalled that Grandmaster Mashuno had died, Su Yuntao and Si Si had become zombies, and Tang Hao's whereabouts were unknown.
• Lin Bei cooked a large meal that Tang San and Xiao Wu believed he had left for them, and the three continued their journey the next day through zombie-filled cities.

Lin Bei, Tang San, and Xiao Wu searched Suotuo City and Shrek Academy for supplies before heading toward Heaven Dou City. A massive Zombie Tide forced them to flee for over two weeks, but Lin Bei finally lost it by leaping across a wide river.

• Lin Bei led Tang San and Xiao Wu across Suotuo City’s rooftops and searched Rose Hotel, where he killed two zombies and collected its rice and flour.
• The three searched Suotuo City for nearly a week, gathered supplies and five Space Soul Tools, then left for Shrek Academy.
• Lin Bei found Flander, Zhao Wuji, and the academy’s chef turned into zombies, destroyed Flander and Zhao Wuji’s Black Nuclei, and collected three more Space Soul Tools.
• Lin Bei, Tang San, and Xiao Wu set out for Heaven Dou City but encountered a Zombie Tide near two forests where they had hoped to find a soul beast for Tang San.
• Lin Bei carried Tang San and Xiao Wu as he fled the growing Zombie Tide for more than two weeks, then escaped by leaping across a river over a hundred meters wide.

After carrying Tang San and Xiao Wu to safety, Lin Bei reached Heaven Dou City and discovered that it, too, had no living survivors. His investigation of a zombie’s Black Nucleus revealed a tiny parasitic Virus Soul Beast, raising questions about its origin and why Tang San and Xiao Wu alone had escaped infection.

• Lin Bei kept Tang San and Xiao Wu safe while they slept for three days and nights, then fed them and told them they were two cities from Heaven Dou City.
• Lin Bei led Tang San and Xiao Wu to Heaven Dou City, where he found no living people and fought powerful zombies, including Poison Douluo, Dugu Bo, whose Black Nucleus he destroyed.
• Lin Bei found that Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, had also become a zombie and wondered whether everyone but Tang San and Xiao Wu had been infected.
• Lin Bei examined a Commoner Zombie’s Black Nucleus with his Soul Perception and discovered an extremely tiny creature that behaved like a parasitic soul beast.

Lin Bei traced the Virus Soul Beasts to a source deep beneath the North Pole Land and brought Tang San and Xiao Wu there to investigate. After reaching the frozen region and defeating several zombie soul beasts, the three crossed its outer mountain and headed toward its heart.

• Lin Bei examined Tang San and considered why Tang San and Xiao Wu had resisted the Virus Soul Beast, then sensed that the creatures were emerging from more than ten thousand meters underground in the North Pole Land.
• Lin Bei asked Tang San and Xiao Wu whether they would accompany him, and Tang San agreed to go with him.
• After preparing in Heaven Dou City, Lin Bei, Tang San, and Xiao Wu traveled for over a month toward the North Pole Land.
• At the snowy outskirts, Lin Bei warned Tang San and Xiao Wu about zombie soul beasts, and the three defeated five that attacked them.
• Lin Bei carried Tang San and Xiao Wu over the towering snowy mountain in a single leap, then ran toward the heart of the North Pole Land.

Lin Bei fought his way toward the heart of the North Pole Land with Tang San and Xiao Wu, battling a horde of powerful zombie soul beasts. He faced a more than one-hundred-thousand-year Mystic Ice White Polar Bear and collided with it at supersonic speed, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Lin Bei killed an eighty-thousand-year Ice Wolf zombie by piercing its Black Nucleus, then fled with Tang San and Xiao Wu from more than a dozen approaching zombie soul beasts.
• After six days, Lin Bei and his companions reached the heart of the North Pole Land, where a Mystic Ice White Polar Bear zombie blocked their path.
• Lin Bei sent Tang San and Xiao Wu clear of the battle and fought the enormous bear, dodging its attacks and knocking it into a distant forest.
• The bear charged back, and Lin Bei ran toward it, broke the sound barrier, and collided with it, blasting ice and snow outward from the impact crater.

Lin Bei fought through the North Pole Land with Tang San and Xiao Wu, then entered the Abyss Rift alone to confront the source of the Virus Soul Beasts. After absorbing the creatures in the rift, he struck a colossal Virus Soul Beast and sent it into a spatial rift.

• Lin Bei defeated the Mystic Ice White Polar Bear by splitting its head and crushing its Black Nucleus.
• Lin Bei, Tang San, and Xiao Wu traveled for three days through the North Pole Land, battling powerful zombie soul beasts along the way.
• Lin Bei discovered Virus Soul Beasts pouring out of a vast Abyss Rift and asked Tang San and Xiao Wu to wait at its edge.
• Lin Bei descended into the rift and used his Devouring Domain to absorb the Virus Soul Beasts gathered inside.
• A colossal Virus Soul Beast attacked Lin Bei with tentacles and deadly black mist, but he absorbed the mist and grew stronger.
• Lin Bei punched open a spatial rift that sucked the colossal Virus Soul Beast inside.

Lin Bei devoured the Virus Soul Beasts beneath Douluo Star and found the Time-Space Rift that had brought them there. He crossed into an ordinary zombie world to investigate their origins and discovered a living human nearby.

• Lin Bei devoured the giant Virus Soul Beast after it split into tiny forms and tried to reassemble, growing stronger as Tang San and Xiao Wu sensed his aura above the Abyss Rift.
• Lin Bei descended ten thousand meters beneath Douluo Star, devouring nine Virus Soul Beast aggregates before finding a huge Time-Space Rift where ordinary viruses transformed into soul beasts.
• The simulator revealed that absorbing the Time-Space Rift would strengthen Lin Bei's Time-Space Door and let other people and objects pass through it.
• Lin Bei entered the rift and emerged in a ruined zombie-filled city, where he killed a zombie and confirmed that its head contained no Black Nucleus.
• Lin Bei concluded that the viruses became Virus Soul Beasts under Douluo World's laws, then sensed a surviving human in the city and decided to find them.

Roman and his dog Patchi struggled to survive in zombie-filled New York City until a Demon Zombie attacked their car and left them trapped after a crash. Lin Bei arrived and rescued them, leaving Roman stunned to find another living person.

• Roman scavenged a supermarket with Patchi, then drove away as ordinary zombies gathered around the Chevrolet.
• A Demon Zombie chased Roman’s car, and he shot it before driving off.
• The Demon Zombie caught up and attacked the Chevrolet, causing it to crash and flip over.
• Roman escaped the wreck but could not release Patchi’s seat belt as the Demon Zombie approached.
• Lin Bei arrived, tore open the car doors, and carried Roman and Patchi to safety.

Lin Bei brought Roman and Patchi from their fortified villa to a military base, then returned through the Time-Space Rift to Douluo Continent. He absorbed the rift, strengthening the Time-Space Door, and flew upward through the fissure.

• Roman welcomed Lin Bei into the reinforced villa and explained how he and Patchi had survived the apocalypse.
• Roman described the earthquake and his experiments with the Time-Space Rift, and Lin Bei told him the rift led to a magma-filled depth ten thousand meters underground.
• Roman explained that a failed cancer drug had created the airborne zombie virus that spread across Earth.
• Lin Bei offered to take Roman and Patchi to other survivors, then brought Roman to a military base in Manhattan the next day.
• Lin Bei returned to Douluo Continent and ordered the simulator to absorb the Time-Space Rift, which strengthened the Time-Space Door and erased the rift.

Lin Bei explained the Time-Space Rift and offered to take Tang San and Xiao Wu to another world, and they agreed after asking to visit loved ones first. At the mysterious valley outside Notting City, they found Zombie Tang Hao, and Lin Bei killed him at Tang San’s request.

• Lin Bei told Tang San and Xiao Wu that the Time-Space Rift had spread the zombie virus and that he planned to take them to a world fit for survival.
• Xiao Wu revealed that she was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and asked to visit Da Ming and Er Ming before leaving; Tang San agreed to go but asked to find his father.
• One month later, Lin Bei brought Tang San and Xiao Wu to a valley outside Notting City, where they found Zombie Tang Hao.
• Zombie Tang Hao attacked them with his Clear Sky Hammer, and Lin Bei rescued Tang San and Xiao Wu from the strike.
• Tang San asked Lin Bei to let his father rest in peace, and Lin Bei destroyed the Virus Soul Beast inside Tang Hao’s head.

After burying Tang Hao, Lin Bei took Tang San and Xiao Wu through the zombie-infested Star Dou Great Forest to a parallel world. They arrived at Shrek Academy’s gate and settled in an inn in Suotuo City, where Lin Bei suspected they had arrived shortly before Tang San would join the academy.

• Lin Bei took the unusual Blue Silver Grass from Tang Hao’s grave and stored it in his Space Soul Tool before leaving the gorge with Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Lin Bei led Tang San and Xiao Wu through the Star Dou Great Forest, evading the zombie horde and reaching the lake where Xiao Wu recognized Da Ming and Er Ming as zombies.
• Xiao Wu chose to leave the world, and Lin Bei opened a Time-Space Door to another parallel space-time, through which the three of them passed safely.
• Lin Bei, Tang San, and Xiao Wu emerged at Shrek Academy and learned from Lin Bei that this parallel world could contain other versions of them.
• Lin Bei brought Tang San and Xiao Wu to Suotuo City, where they found an inn room and ordered food.

Lin Bei brought Tang San and Xiao Wu to meet their adult counterparts from this world, and Xiao Tang San explained that they had fled a world destroyed by a collision with other worlds. Da Tang San confirmed Xiao Tang San’s identity through their shared martial souls and Tang Sect knowledge.

• Lin Bei learned from an innkeeper that Shrek Academy’s entrance exam would begin the next day, then took Tang San and Xiao Wu sightseeing around the city.
• Lin Bei’s group encountered Da Tang San and Xiao Wu, who were stunned to see child versions of themselves.
• At a teahouse, Xiao Tang San explained that he and Xiao Xiao Wu came from another Douluo Continent destroyed by a collision between worlds.
• Da Tang San took Xiao Tang San to a deserted alley to test his identity, and Xiao Tang San summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and Blue Silver Grass martial souls.
• Xiao Tang San offered to recite the Tang Sect’s Xuantian Treasure Record, convincing Da Tang San that he was truly another version of himself.

Lin Bei left Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu in Da Tang San and Xiao Wu’s care, then returned to the Zombie Timeline and devoured the planet’s remaining life and energy. After planting A Yin’s Blue Silver Grass at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he returned to the parallel timeline and reunited with the others at Shrek Academy’s entrance exam.

• Lin Bei asked Da Tang San and Xiao Wu to look after Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu, then bought the children a house in Suotuo City.
• Lin Bei returned to the Zombie Timeline, devoured the zombies across Douluo Star, and advanced his strength and Time-Space level.
• Lin Bei planted A Yin’s Blue Silver Grass at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and released life force and energy to help it grow.
• Da Tang San and Xiao Wu accompanied Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu to Shrek Academy’s entrance exam.
• Lin Bei arrived at the academy and called out to Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu, while the Soul Emperor overseeing the test sensed immense pressure from him.

Lin Bei prepared to take Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu to hunt spirit rings, while Da Tang San and Xiao Wu continued Shrek Academy’s entrance tests. The chapter left Dai Mubai upset after Zhu Zhuqing asked Tang San to introduce her to Lin Bei.

• Da Tang San and Xiao Wu passed the age test, while Lin Bei explained that Xiao Xiao Wu could condense her own spirit ring and offered to help Xiao Tang San hunt for one.
• Da Tang San described his Mandala Snake and Ghost Vine spirit rings, and Dai Mubai led him and Xiao Wu to the next entrance test.
• Lin Bei took Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu to Suotuo City, left Xiao Xiao Wu at home, and headed with Xiao Tang San for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Tang San to introduce her to Lin Bei, and Tang San agreed while Dai Mubai reacted with visible anger.

Lin Bei helped Xiao Tang San obtain his first soul ring in a parallel space-time, then returned to find Bibi Dong resurrecting from the Golden Giant Egg. Bibi Dong reunited with Hu Liena and learned that Lin Bei had become emperor and planned to reach outer space within a hundred years.

• Lin Bei found Xiao Tang San a four-hundred-and-sixty-two-year-old Poison Flame Ghost Fire Spider, and Tang San gained the Ghost Fire Poison Vine soul skill.
• Lin Bei returned to the real world and witnessed Bibi Dong emerge from the Golden Giant Egg; he hurried out while she asked for clothes.
• Ning Rongrong brought Bibi Dong clothes, and Bibi Dong later went to see Hu Liena instead of meeting Lin Bei.
• Lin Bei spent the following days searching for new space-times with the simulator and spending time with Ning Rongrong.
• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong that Lin Bei had succeeded to the throne, the empire was flourishing, and he had proposed reaching outer space within a hundred years.