Chapter Summaries

Kong Ming'an absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Thorn Dragon Soul Ring with Electrolux removing the beast’s soul before it could attack him. After gaining the unprecedented first ring, he discovered it seemed to grant him at least ten Soul Skills.

• Kong Deming opened the Beast Sealing Platform, and Kong Ming'an killed the bound Thorn Dragon and began absorbing its Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Electrolux pulled the Thorn Dragon’s soul out of the ring and purified its remaining soul fragments, preventing its Soul Shock from harming Kong Ming'an.
• After three hours, Kong Ming'an finished absorbing the ring and revealed that his first Soul Ring was a Ten Thousand Year ring with spatial properties.
• When Meng Hongchen asked what Soul Skill he had gained, Kong Ming'an said he could sense double-digit Soul Skills, leaving everyone stunned.

Kong Ming'an explained his Soul Ring Tri-element Theory, describing how a Soul Ring contained a remnant soul, memories, and Soul Skill Modules. He revealed that by purifying a Soul Ring and manually operating its modules, he could potentially use many skills from one ring, though doing so required precise control and carried risks.

• Kong Ming'an described Soul Rings as containing Soul Power, a Soul Beast's memories, and its remnant soul, which triggered Soul Skill Modules when a Soul Master supplied Soul Power.
• Kong Ming'an explained that a weak remnant soul usually anchored only one Soul Skill Module, while a powerful Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast's soul could anchor two.
• Kong Deming asked whether a sufficiently complete soul could trigger multiple Soul Skills, and Kong Ming'an said this was theoretically possible but limited by a Soul Ring's carrying capacity.
• Kong Ming'an explained that natural Soul Rings wasted much of their capacity on remnant souls and useless memories, leaving Soul Skill Modules buried within them.
• Kong Ming'an revealed that he had purified the soul in his Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, allowing him to seek out and manually operate multiple Soul Skill Modules.
• Kong Ming'an warned that manually activating a Soul Skill required precise control and could fail, weaken the skill, or cause Soul Power backlash.

Kong Ming'an explained the risks of removing Remnant Souls from Soul Rings and arranged for trusted Rank 9 Soul Engineers to test the technique. He then revealed that Electrolux had temporarily taken over Nangong Wan’s body using their newly developed Method of Possession.

• Kong Ming'an warned that extracting Remnant Souls could give Soul Rings room for additional Soul Skills, but failed experiments could cripple them, so he kept the research private.
• Xiao Hongchen volunteered to try the technique, but Kong Ming'an rejected him and gave Kong Deming ten Soul Capture devices to distribute to trusted Rank 9 Soul Engineers for experiments and records.
• Kong Ming'an reassured Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen that they could wait and benefit from the research later.
• After Kong Deming and the others left, Kong Ming'an opened a hidden compartment and used the Eye of Life to awaken the body of Nangong Wan, which Electrolux was inhabiting.
• Electrolux revealed nine purified Soul Rings, and Kong Ming'an explained that they had developed the Method of Possession by using Soul Rings to control a body after capturing and processing Nangong Wan.

Kong Ming'an continued researching Soul Ring self-editing and developed the Law Cultivator path, then began training to master his Soul Skill Modules and add the Undead Demiplane skill to his ring. Meanwhile, Da Ming and Er Ming stalled Tang San’s order to kill Ming, unable to locate Kong Ming'an and hoping to delay their deaths.

• Electrolux gave Kong Ming'an a Soul Ring containing the Soul Skill Module that opened the Undead Demiplane, then resumed his research.
• Kong Ming'an outlined the steps for mastering and editing Soul Skill Modules, explaining how Soul Rings could store many skills and supply the energy to use them.
• Kong Ming'an named his Soul Ring-based method the Law Cultivator path and set a goal to master every module in his ring before leaving seclusion.
• In a Mingdu tavern, Er Ming showed Da Ming a letter from Tang San demanding that they kill Ming, and Da Ming cautioned him to respect Tang San’s status as a God King.
• Da Ming and Er Ming admitted they had not found Kong Ming'an and resolved to keep delaying Tang San’s order, believing acting against their target would end badly.

Kong Ming'an completed the Soul Skill Module that opened the Undead Demiplane and discovered the vast undead army at his command. After leaving his laboratory, he encountered Xu Tianzhen, who had secretly come to find her fiancé—Kong Ming'an himself.

• Kong Ming'an finished familiarizing himself with his Soul Skill Modules and condensed the module that opened the Undead Demiplane.
• Kong Ming'an entered the demiplane and saw its sleeping undead army, including dozens of Bone Dragons, which Elder Yi had placed under his authority.
• Kong Ming'an used spatial power to return to his room, washed and changed, then headed out to find Miss Meng and later visit Shrek City.
• Kong Ming'an found Xu Tianzhen secretly watching his laboratory and, wearing a Mimicry Mask, asked why she was there.
• Xu Tianzhen told Kong Ming'an that her Emperor and Grandfather Kong had arranged her engagement to a laboratory recluse she had never met, and that she had waited for him for one or two months.

Kong Ming'an used Spiritual Power to draw Xu Tianzhen into revealing her thoughts about their political marriage, then revealed his identity as her fiancé. After he kept a recording of her remarks and teased her about holding the secret over her for life, Xu Tianzhen chased after him to destroy the evidence.

• Kong Ming'an guided Xu Tianzhen into explaining that she saw political marriage as a princess's duty and believed her match was acceptable.
• Kong Ming'an withdrew his Spiritual Power suggestion, and Xu Tianzhen realized she had disclosed too much to a stranger.
• Kong Ming'an removed his disguise and told Xu Tianzhen that he was her fiancé.
• Xu Tianzhen pleaded with Kong Ming'an to delete the recording of her remarks, but he kept it and teased her that he would hold the secret over her for life.
• Kong Ming'an left to question his old man about the marriage, and Xu Tianzhen chased after him to destroy the evidence.

Kong Ming'an discussed the political stakes of his marriage alliance with Xu Tianzhen and received the Kong Family Genealogy, which revealed a long-lost branch in the Heaven Dou Empire. After learning that a descendant with an Inherited Martial Soul might be at Shrek, he left with Xu Tianzhen and invited her to go out and explore.

• Kong Deming explained that the marriage alliance would protect Kong Ming'an from future conflict with Xu Tianran and said their child should inherit the throne if Kong Ming'an took power.
• Kong Deming gave Kong Ming'an the Kong Family Genealogy and confirmed that a Kong Family woman had left descendants in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Kong Ming'an said an Inherited Martial Soul descendant was at Shrek, and Kong Deming warned that dealing with Shrek could be difficult.
• Kong Ming'an took the genealogy and left the pavilion, while Xu Tianzhen hurried after him.
• Kong Ming'an asked Xu Tianzhen if she wanted to go out and look around.

Kong Ming'an brought Xu Tianzhen from Mingdu to Shrek City through a spatial transfer gate, then introduced her to Ju Zi at the Mingmeng Chamber of Commerce headquarters. Ju Zi reported on the guild’s expanding operations and its efforts to infiltrate Shrek Academy, leaving its campaign against the academy continuing.

• Kong Ming'an transported Xu Tianzhen from Mingdu to Shrek City through the Undead Demiplane transfer system, startling her with the method’s potential.
• Xu Tianzhen surveyed Shrek City from the office window while Kong Ming'an summoned Ju Zi.
• Kong Ming'an introduced Ju Zi, the Mingmeng Chamber of Commerce’s vice president, to Xu Tianzhen.
• Ju Zi reported increased profits, continued resource transfers, and the Qiming Plan’s recruitment of civilian Soul Masters and Soul Engineers.
• Ju Zi said the guild had placed informants among Shrek’s Core Disciples, recruited Shrek graduates, and established ties with teachers selling admission slots.
• Ju Zi reported that Mingmeng Daily and allied newspapers were spreading verified allegations of misconduct at Shrek Academy.

Kong Ming'an reviewed his plans to infiltrate and weaken the Douluo Three Kingdoms, then focused on recruiting Zhang Lexuan by revealing clues about her heritage and Shrek's corruption. After promising Xu Tianzhen a tour of Shrek City, the chapter shifted to Zhang Lexuan as her confinement ended.

• Kong Ming'an explained that his newspapers and other operations served to gather intelligence, influence public opinion, poach talent, and undermine the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
• Ju Zi reported that Zhang Lexuan had investigated her origins after encountering planted clues about the Kong Family, the Silver Moon Martial Soul, and royal inheritance.
• Ju Zi said Zhang Lexuan was also investigating Shrek's corruption and that evidence had been planted for her to find.
• Kong Ming'an told Xu Tianzhen that Zhang Lexuan was a potential recruit and that he wanted her to help dismantle Shrek from within rather than be killed.
• Kong Ming'an offered to show Xu Tianzhen around Shrek City, and she eagerly took his hand to leave.
• At Shrek Academy, someone opened Zhang Lexuan's Mimicry Cultivation Room and announced that her confinement was over.

After Zhang Lexuan was released from a month of confinement for killing a corrupt teacher, she struggled with Shrek Academy’s protection of powerful offenders and went to collect a Soul Tool. At the Mingmeng Chamber of Commerce, she noticed Kong Ming'an, while he sensed that she and her friends might be worth recruiting.

• Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo met Zhang Lexuan as her confinement ended, and Zhang Lexuan remained troubled despite reaching Rank 69.
• Zhang Lexuan recalled how she uncovered the Academy’s repeated cover-ups of misconduct and killed a teacher who had exploited students and mocked their deaths.
• Yan Shaozhe suppressed the incident, and the elders punished Zhang Lexuan with confinement after her merits and faults were judged to cancel each other out.
• Zhang Lexuan went with Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo to the Mingmeng Chamber of Commerce to collect her Soul Tool.
• At the Merchant Guild, Zhang Lexuan noticed Kong Ming'an with Xu Tianzhen, while Wu Ming teased her about finding him handsome.
• Kong Ming'an sensed Zhang Lexuan and her friends’ presence and considered recruiting them.

Months after Kong Ming'an settled into his research and military work, a pair of powerful attackers ambushed him on the road to the military camp. Da Ming’s full-power strike was stopped by Kong Ming'an’s defenses, leaving the attacker stunned.

• Kong Ming'an spent his days researching Soul Rings with Electrolux, monitoring soldiers practicing the improved Body Forging Method, and collecting samples from Rank 9 Soul Engineers.
• Several months later, Kong Ming'an rode to the military camp with Ye Yulin, who had reached Rank 95, while reflecting on Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s progress and Xu Tianran’s survival after an assassination attempt.
• A burly attacker appeared in the road, and Ye Yulin used seven of his Soul Rings to hold back the Rank 98 Super Douluo and urged Kong Ming'an to flee.
• A second attacker, Da Ming, tore through the void and struck Kong Ming'an from behind as he tried to enter the Undead Demiplane.
• Kong Ming'an’s Eye of Life and Silver Bracelet formed overlapping defenses that blocked Da Ming’s full-power attack and left Kong Ming'an unharmed.

Da Ming and Er Ming ambushed Kong Ming'an on Tang San's orders, but Electrolux and Kong Deming intervened to protect him. Realizing Kong Ming'an was the Child of Fortune and the Plane Will had joined the fight, the brothers prepared to attack him anyway as their only chance of escape.

• Da Ming tried to break Kong Ming'an's defense, but Kong Ming'an recognized that Tang San had sent the assassins, and Electrolux appeared to restrain Da Ming.
• Er Ming overwhelmed Ye Yulin and reached for Kong Ming'an, but Kong Deming arrived and drove him back with a powerful punch.
• Kong Deming and Electrolux agreed to face Er Ming and Da Ming, while Kong Ming'an explained that he had strengthened his protectors in anticipation of danger.
• The Plane Will lent its power to Kong Deming and Electrolux, and Da Ming realized Kong Ming'an was the Child of Fortune.
• Da Ming concluded that fleeing would mean certain death under the Plane Will's suppression, so he and Er Ming prepared to attack Kong Ming'an.

Da Ming and Er Ming fought Electrolux and Kong Deming to protect Kong Ming'an, but the two attackers overwhelmed them. As Da Ming and Er Ming unleashed their hidden Divine Power and launched a desperate strike, the God of Destruction appeared and froze the battlefield.

• Da Ming trapped Electrolux in his Slowdown Domain, but Electrolux cast a barrage of ninth-tier spells that broke the domain and pierced Da Ming.
• Er Ming used his Gravity Domain against Kong Deming, but Kong Deming overpowered him with his physical strength and Silver Moon Divine Light Shield.
• Da Ming sensed more powerful auras approaching and ordered Er Ming to release the seal, causing them to unleash the Divine Power Tang San had infused into them.
• Da Ming and Er Ming forced back their opponents, then launched a desperate attack at Kong Ming'an while preparing to flee.
• Electrolux and Kong Deming sent defenses toward Kong Ming'an, but the God of Destruction appeared and froze everyone and everything on the battlefield.

Kong Ming'an impressed the God of Destruction with his preparations and willingness to accept death, prompting the God King to offer him his Divine Seat inheritance. Kong Ming'an suspected his Energy Martial Soul made him compatible with every Divine Seat, then offered to treat the God of Destruction’s inability to have children.

• The God of Destruction erased Da Ming’s attack and lifted the restrictions on Kong Ming'an, then asked whether he feared death.
• Kong Ming'an explained that he had prepared defenses and trusted allies, and would accept death if his plans failed.
• Kong Ming'an revealed a Remnant Soul backup that would escape through the Undead Demiplane and pursue revenge, prompting the God of Destruction to call him extreme.
• The God of Destruction offered Kong Ming'an a trial to inherit the God King of Destruction's Divine Seat.
• Kong Ming'an reasoned that his Energy Martial Soul could make him compatible with every Divine Seat, then told the God of Destruction he might be able to treat his infertility.

Kong Ming'an struck a deal with the God of Destruction: he would seek a solution to the God King's inability to conceive in return for protection, with a month to become a god before he had to inherit the Divine Seat. The God of Destruction gave Kong Ming'an control of Da Ming and Er Ming, then confronted Sea God Tang San in the God Realm over his crimes in the lower realm.

• Kong Ming'an offered to help resolve the God of Destruction's problem with conceiving offspring in exchange for protection until he became a god, and the God of Destruction accepted with a one-month deadline.
• Kong Ming'an asked the God of Destruction to spare Da Ming and Er Ming, and received a Triangular Mark that let him control them and summon the God of Destruction's aid.
• The God of Destruction's main body pinned Sea God Tang San in his seat with Destruction Power in the God Realm Committee conference hall.
• The God of Destruction accused Sea God Tang San of allowing his Divine Officials to target the Plane's Child of Fortune and attempt to kill a God Position Inheritor.

The God Realm Committee stripped Tang San of his authority to observe and interfere with the Douluo Plane, while the Plane Will redistributed fortune and altered a sick boy’s fate. The chapter ended with Di Tian and the Green-Skirted Woman learning that the Plane Will had taken fortune from the Auspicious Beast.

• The God of Destruction proposed punishing Niu Tian and Tai Tan and suspending Tang San’s authority over the Douluo Plane, and the Goddess of Life supported him while Ji Dong and Lie Yan abstained.
• Tang San lost his direct observation and interference authority, then struggled to control the Asura God Seat and began planning to act through a Divine Sense at the Clear Sky Sect.
• The Plane Will took three quarters of a sick boy’s remaining fortune and set his future so a Body Sect Elder would heal his mother and take them both away.
• The Plane Will reached the Star Dou Great Forest, where Golden Big Cat realized her fortune was being stripped away.
• Di Tian questioned what had happened, and a dignified, cold voice identified the Plane Will as responsible.

Gu Yuena learned that the Plane Will had taken Soul Beast fortune to empower a new Child of Fortune and considered seeking him out. Meanwhile, Kong Ming'an assessed the gains from the assassination attempt and arranged to compete in the next Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament.

• Gu Yuena told Di Tian that the Plane Will’s fortune redistribution had awakened her and taken a large share from the Soul Beast race.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed that its lost fortune had gathered in the direction of the Sun Moon Empire, and Gu Yuena grew curious about the new Child of Fortune.
• Kong Ming'an counted Da Ming and Er Ming as valuable research materials and recognized that the God of Destruction’s protection had reduced the threat from the Ice Pure Jade God King.
• Kong Ming'an asked Kong Deming to enter him in the next Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament, and Kong Deming agreed to arrange for Elder Ye to protect him.

After Electrolux and Kong Deming entered seclusion, Kong Ming'an ordered High-level Undead to collect blood from Da Ming and Er Ming before studying the battle’s insights himself. When he emerged days later, Meng Hongchen teased him, shared news about the battle outside Mingdu, and accepted his invitation to Shrek City.

• Electrolux and Kong Deming left together to enter seclusion and refine their cultivation systems.
• Kong Ming'an sent High-level Undead to draw blood from Da Ming and Er Ming and fill ten containers.
• After several days of contemplation, Kong Ming'an returned to his room and found Meng Hongchen waiting for him.
• Meng Hongchen teased Kong Ming'an, then told him that the battle outside Mingdu had involved four people, though their identities remained unknown.
• Kong Ming'an invited Meng Hongchen to Shrek City, and she eagerly agreed.

Kong Ming'an and Meng Hongchen toured Shrek City, where they briefly crossed paths with Zhang Lexuan as she investigated corruption in Shrek's Outer Court. After they returned to the Mingmeng Chamber of Commerce, Ju Zi reported that the Star Luo City branch had purchased a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.

• Kong Ming'an gave Ju Zi Life Essence to ease her physical fatigue, and Meng Hongchen showed jealousy over his concern for her.
• Kong Ming'an and Meng Hongchen strolled through Shrek City and briefly met eyes with Zhang Lexuan, who was watching a suspected sale of Academy resources.
• Kong Ming'an reflected on the difficulty of Zhang Lexuan's efforts to reform Shrek, then set the matter aside to enjoy the outing with Meng Hongchen.
• Ju Zi hurriedly informed Kong Ming'an that the Star Luo City branch had purchased a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.

Kong Ming'an released the Snow Empress from the God Sealing Platform and offered to help her and Ice Empress survive their Heavenly Tribulations in exchange for her trust. He claimed he could also protect the Extreme North, then revealed a divine power bearing a God Trial’s Destruction Aura.

• Kong Ming'an used Spiritual Power to break key seals on the God Sealing Platform, freeing the Snow Empress from her embryo.
• Snow Empress awoke and prepared to attack, but the two powerful experts behind Kong Ming'an locked onto her, forcing her to hold back.
• Snow Empress demanded to know where she was and who Kong Ming'an was, and he introduced his laboratory and proposed a deal.
• Kong Ming'an offered to help Snow Empress survive her seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation and Ice Empress survive her three-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation.
• Kong Ming'an promised to protect the Extreme North and revealed a Dark Purple Triangular Mark that released divine power carrying a Destruction Aura.