Chapter Summaries

Meng Xinghe met the dying Qian Renxue and offered to preserve her soul in exchange for a future deal. After she accepted, he placed her soul inside the Angel Sacred Sword, leaving her to await a chance to reincarnate and reclaim the Angel God position.

• Qian Renxue recognized Meng Xinghe as the mysterious youth she had encountered years earlier and realized he was a humanoid Soul Beast.
• Meng Xinghe recalled how Qian Renxue's ascension to godhood had greatly accelerated his cultivation, allowing him to grow into a powerful ten-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Meng Xinghe offered to preserve Qian Renxue's soul and give her a chance to be reborn, while urging her to resist accepting Spirit Hall's defeat as final.
• Qian Renxue agreed to any trade that would let her soul survive and reincarnate.
• Meng Xinghe used Sky Power to separate Qian Renxue's soul from her body, stored her six Angel God Armor soul bones, and placed her soul inside the Angel Sacred Sword.

Meng Xinghe built the Holy Spirit Cult into a major power, while Huo Yuhao’s altered path led him to found the Spirit Pagoda and later ascend to the God Realm. After Huo Yuhao began a dangerous secret technique and left Tang Wutong behind, Meng Xinghe discussed the Soul Beast race’s future with Di Tian and began proposing a plan.

• Meng Xinghe established the Holy Spirit Cult as an organization for sacred- and light-attribute Soul Masters, and it grew into a dominant force across the continent.
• Over the centuries, the Holy Spirit Cult expanded while the Tang Sect declined, and Huo Yuhao was born and later obtained the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and a mysterious inheritance.
• Huo Yuhao founded the Spirit Pagoda and cooperated with the Holy Spirit Cult on the Spirit Soul Project, while the altered course of events kept him from joining Shrek Academy or the Tang Sect.
• Tang Wutong insisted that Huo Yuhao call her by her real name, Tang Wutong, and returned to the God Realm; Huo Yuhao then began a dangerous secret technique from his inheritance.
• Di Tian came to the Far North to reclaim the Emperor Auspicious Beast, and Meng Xinghe discussed the limits of the Soul Spirit Method before beginning to offer a plan for the Star Dou Great Forest.

Ten thousand years after the Sun Moon Empire unified the continent, Meng Xinghe arrived alone at the Holy East Sea Church for Awakening Day, intending to join the Spirit Pagoda rather than the Holy Spirit Cult. The Million-Year Soul Beast had survived nine Heavenly Tribulations but remained trapped by the laws that prevented Soul Beasts from becoming gods, and he planned to use the Spirit Pagoda as his next step.

• The Sun Moon Empire unified the continent, and the Federation's growing population raised the importance of the Holy Spirit Cult and Spirit Pagoda.
• Meng Xinghe arrived alone at the Holy East Sea Church, where a cleric assumed he had been bullied at an orphanage and offered to guide him through awakening.
• Meng Xinghe decided the Spirit Pagoda suited his plans better than the Holy Spirit Cult because its complicated internal factions offered him a stepping stone.
• Meng Xinghe recalled becoming a Million-Year Soul Beast after surviving nine Heavenly Tribulations, only to discover that the laws of the world barred Soul Beasts from becoming gods.
• Meng Xinghe concluded that Soul Beasts could escape their fate only by taking human form and starting over, and he rejected waiting for the Little Dragon God to be born.

Meng Xinghe awakened a Body Martial Soul with Innate Full Soul Power, revealing himself as a rare genius whose talent could attract powerful factions. The acolyte gave him an awakening certificate and advice, leaving him poised to seek opportunities beyond the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Meng Xinghe followed the priest into the church’s awakening room and stood in the center of the formation.
• The acolyte awakened Meng Xinghe’s Martial Soul and announced that it was Body, with Innate Full Soul Power.
• The acolyte recognized Meng Xinghe’s Body Martial Soul as the highest-grade kind and regretted that the Holy Spirit Cult’s rules barred him from joining because he lacked a sacred or light attribute.
• The acolyte considered how the Body Sect and Spirit Pagoda might seek to recruit Meng Xinghe, then advised him as an elder.
• The acolyte gave Meng Xinghe a certificate recording his Martial Soul and awakening information, which could help him join a major Federation faction.

Meng Xinghe visited Holy East Sea Church and the East Sea Spirit Pagoda after awakening his Martial Soul, reflecting on the legends and faith surrounding the Godly Douluo. At the Spirit Pagoda, he was welcomed as a VIP by the local Pagoda Master.

• The old assistant priest explained the awakening certificate’s symbol and praised the Godly Douluo, while Meng Xinghe listened and recalled that he had founded the Holy Spirit Cult to gather Power of Faith.
• Meng Xinghe left Holy East Sea Church and crossed the road to enter the East Sea Spirit Pagoda.
• The receptionist recognized Meng Xinghe’s Holy Spirit Cult awakening certificate, escorted him to a VIP room, and anticipated a promotion.
• The East Sea Pagoda Master arrived, promoted the receptionist out of the front desk, and corrected her by crediting the Spirit Pagoda for her success.

Meng Xinghe arranged for Dong Qianqiu to pose as his teacher while he tested his physical abilities, and his unusually high spiritual power surprised Gu Yuena in Shrek City. The chapter ended by introducing the masked Angel Douluo, head of the Holy Spirit Cult’s Inquisition, whose past confrontation with Yun Ming had stopped him from taking Ya Li by force.

• Dong Qianqiu greeted Meng Xinghe, and he told her to treat him as her student in public and in private to make their cover convincing.
• Meng Xinghe chose to take a physical test rather than fabricate results, and the report showed his physical condition was rank 30 and his spiritual power was 361.
• Gu Yuena read Meng Xinghe’s test report and regretted limiting her own spiritual power score to 250, while Leng Yaozhu tried to comfort her.
• The chapter introduced the Angel Douluo, the masked head of the Holy Spirit Cult’s Inquisition, and revealed that she had once stopped Yun Ming from seizing Ya Li by force.

Qian Renxue, now living her third life as a human and serving as the Holy Spirit Cult’s Inquisition head, remembered Meng Xinghe and explained how her past defeat by Tang San shaped her cultivation. She had uncovered that a powerful deity had altered Douluo Planet’s laws to constrain soul beasts, and the chapter left her reflecting on how Meng Xinghe had used those same laws to save her soul.

• Qian Renxue removed her Bronze Mask and recognized Meng Xinghe in a dossier photograph, recalling that they had both become human again.
• Qian Renxue’s three lives had given her twin twelve-winged angel martial souls, the legacies of the Angel God and Rakshasa God, and extensive accumulated strength.
• Qian Renxue recalled that she had cultivated slowly after Tang San blamed his victory over her on her unstable foundation, though Meng Xinghe had believed Tang San’s greater soul-ring and soul-bone reserves were the real cause.
• Qian Renxue had defeated Yun Ming in their past battle and considered Meng Xinghe and the Master of Soul Beasts among the few humans who could still challenge her.
• Qian Renxue had concluded that a powerful deity had changed Douluo Planet’s laws to shackle soul beasts, while Meng Xinghe had used those laws with Electrolux to transform her soul into a wraith-type soul beast.

The chapter explained how Meng Xinghe and Electrolux’s complete Soul Spirit Method created equal contracts, independent Soul Spirits, and a path toward peaceful coexistence between humans and Soul Beasts. It ended by introducing the Reincarnation Plan as the Soul Beasts’ way to escape Heavenly Tribulations, while revealing that the Dragon God himself was responsible for the laws threatening them.

• Historical records credited Huo Yuhao with inventing the Soul Spirit Method, but he had received it through a mysterious inheritance, and the complete version came from Meng Xinghe and Electrolux.
• Electrolux developed the method from the Soul Beasts’ perspective, creating equal contracts that let Soul Spirits live and cultivate independently, strengthen their partners, and choose how their abilities became soul skills.
• The method allowed Soul Spirits and Soul Masters to end their contracts by mutual consent, enabling powerful Legacy Soul Spirits to pass through generations of Soul Master families.
• Mature artificial Soul Spirit technology made Soul Spirits affordable and helped humans and Soul Beasts achieve peaceful coexistence, though Heavenly Tribulations still threatened Soul Beasts with more than one hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• The Soul Beasts pursued the Reincarnation Plan, hoping to take human form and grow strong enough to break the laws behind Heavenly Tribulations.
• Meng Xinghe had not told them that the Dragon God, the ancestor they revered, was the true culprit behind those laws.

Meng Xinghe explained how transformed Soul Beasts could preserve their origins by contracting Soul Spirits, and described his prepared Artificial Soul Spirits and first Body Martial Soul skill. The chapter ended with Gu Yuena sneezing twice and suspecting someone was cursing her.

• Meng Xinghe told Dong Qianqiu that transformed Soul Beasts should save their origins for reaching God Rank instead of using them to create Soul Rings.
• Meng Xinghe explained that he had spent ten thousand years developing Artificial Soul Spirits and prepared six for his new body.
• Meng Xinghe described his first Body Martial Soul Soul Ring, the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Star Compass, and its Fiendish Qi Shaping skill.
• Meng Xinghe concealed the Soul Ring's true age by making it appear to be a purple Millennium Soul Ring.
• Gu Yuena sneezed twice, recalled Qiu'er's superstition, and wondered who might be cursing her.

At Holy East Sea Church, the Xu Family recognized six-year-old Meng Xinghe as the Heavenly God foretold by their ancestors after Dai Mao showed him deference. Xu Xiaoyan, whose Star Staff Martial Soul had awakened on her sixth birthday, greeted Meng Xinghe as the first follower of his rebirth.

• The Xu Family head and other local powers attended Sunday worship to see Meng Xinghe, the commoner genius who had awakened Innate Full Soul Power and a Body Martial Soul.
• Meng Xinghe placed ten thousand Federation credits in the church's donation box, and the cardinal treated him with unusual reverence.
• The Xu Family head and Xu Xiaoyan took Meng Xinghe to a quiet room while the other family heads discussed how to approach him.
• Dai Mao entered the room and stood respectfully behind Meng Xinghe, confirming the Xu Family head's belief in the ancestral prophecy.
• The Xu Family head bowed to Meng Xinghe as the Heavenly God, and Xu Xiaoyan greeted him as the first follower of his rebirth.

Meng Xinghe recognized Xu Xiaoyan’s Star Staff Martial Soul and explained how her Evolved Starry Sky could grow. He strengthened it with the Twelve Zodiac Houses and agreed to become her Douluo Social App friend.

• After Xu Xiaoyan worshipped, her Star Staff Martial Soul and its Evolved Starry Sky appeared, and Meng Xinghe praised its purity and potential.
• Xu Xiaoyan explained that she had contracted the Starwheel Legacy Soul Spirit and described how her Soul Skill absorbed power from the stars.
• Meng Xinghe introduced his Twelve Zodiac Houses Soul Spirit and sent its twelve constellations into Xu Xiaoyan’s starry sky.
• Meng Xinghe told Xu Xiaoyan to call him her idol, and she asked to add his Douluo Number.
• Meng Xinghe agreed and used his Spirit Pagoda phone, which already had Dong Qianqiu and Gu Yuena as friends.

Yu Zhen invited Meng Xinghe to attend East Sea Academy, and Meng Xinghe agreed because he considered East Sea City his hometown. On the way back to the Spirit Pagoda, Meng Xinghe persuaded Gu Yuena to join him at the academy in three years and explained why her teacher had taken an early childhood education course.

• Yu Zhen introduced himself as East Sea Academy's principal and invited Meng Xinghe to consider attending the academy.
• Meng Xinghe agreed to enroll when he was old enough, and Xu Xiaoyan promised to go with him.
• Meng Xinghe told the Xu Family head that attending East Sea Academy would let him bring honor to his hometown, earning the head's praise.
• On his way back to the Spirit Pagoda, Meng Xinghe invited Gu Yuena to attend school in East Sea City, and she agreed to come in three years.
• Gu Yuena asked why her teacher had signed up for an early childhood education course, and Meng Xinghe suggested it was to help her get closer to her disciple.

After lunch, Meng Xinghe returned to his room and prepared to use the Star Dou Battle Network, a virtual world whose technology had advanced early in his timeline. The chapter explained the Ladder Tournament and its rankings, leaving Ya Li as an example of an auxiliary-type Soul Master who had reached the Continental Power Rankings.

• Meng Xinghe enjoyed a large meal and reflected that his Heavenly God Bloodline gave him an enormous appetite.
• Meng Xinghe returned to his room and examined the Star Dou Pod used to access the Star Dou Battle Network.
• The chapter explained how the Ladder Tournament matched Soul Masters, awarded points, and required promotion challenges to advance between ranks.
• The Douluo Federation created the Continental Power, Young Genius, and Young Prodigy Rankings based on Ladder Tournament standings.
• The chapter noted that Soul Spirits gave auxiliary-type Soul Masters combat ability and cited Ya Li’s place among the top one hundred Soul Masters.

Meng Xinghe entered the Star Dou Battle Network, customized his home and artificial intelligence, and joined the Ladder Tournament. He defeated the young Xie Xie in his first match and returned home with one point.

• Meng Xinghe reviewed the fierce competition among the fifth- and sixth-rank Young Prodigies.
• Meng Xinghe entered the Star Dou Battle Network, named his artificial intelligence Panda, and customized his private home.
• Meng Xinghe chose the ID Above the Galaxy and asked Panda to find him a first-rank opponent.
• Meng Xinghe recognized his opponent, I'm the Best, as Xie Xie and defeated him with a massive slap.
• Meng Xinghe returned home with one point while Xie Xie's points fell from three to zero.

Xie Xie lost his three Ladder Tournament points to Meng Xinghe, then discovered the Anti-Addiction System had ended his online session for the day. Meanwhile, Meng Xinghe began a winning streak and tested Fiendish Qi Shaping, leaving his next opponent stunned by his golden defense and Millennium Soul Ring.

• Xie Xie learned that losing to Meng Xinghe had cleared his three points, and he briefly suspected cheating before realizing he had faced a celebrated young genius.
• Xie Xie asked for another match, but his maid told him that the Anti-Addiction System had barred him from using the Star Dou Battle Network after two hours online.
• Meng Xinghe began winning matches against One-Section Soul Masters while experimenting with Fiendish Qi Shaping.
• Meng Xinghe’s twelve-year-old opponent struck him with an iron sword, but the attack rebounded from a patch of golden light.
• The opponent saw Meng Xinghe’s purple Millennium Soul Ring and realized he had been matched with a six-year-old genius.

Meng Xinghe swept through Rank One matches, then used his True Self's Intent domain to force his promotion opponent to concede and advance to Rank Two. Three years later, he remained undefeated but played Rank Four matches only occasionally to avoid drawing attention by defeating powerful Soul Masters.

• Meng Xinghe defeated a series of Rank One opponents and reached the promotion point limit.
• His promotion opponent sealed his Soul Ring, but Meng Xinghe expanded his True Self's Intent domain and made the Soul Master Projection concede.
• The system eventually awarded Meng Xinghe the Rank One-to-Rank Two promotion, raising his points to 108.
• Three years later, Meng Xinghe reviewed his undefeated achievements and explained why he rarely entered Ladder Tournament matches after reaching Rank Four.

Meng Xinghe learned that Gu Yuena had reached Rank Four in the Ladder Tournament and reminded her about the vacant slot for a second Martial Soul, promising a surprise tied to the other half of the Dragon God. Tang Wulin celebrated breaking through to Soul Grandmaster with Huo Yuhao, who planned to raise him well so he could witness Tang San’s past actions.

• Gu Yuena told Meng Xinghe that she had booked a flight to East Sea City and reached Rank Four with an undefeated record.
• Meng Xinghe asked whether Gu Yuena remembered reserving a slot for a second Martial Soul, and he promised her a shocking surprise.
• Meng Xinghe thought that Gu Yuena’s surprise would involve the other half of the Dragon God.
• Tang Wulin told Huo Yuhao that he had broken through, and thanked him for helping him develop his talent and Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao recalled replacing Tang San’s divine consciousness in Tang Wulin and resolved to guide Tang Wulin so he could witness Tang San’s actions.

Meng Xinghe revealed that he had cultivated a perfected Divine Embryo Rebirth Technique, creating another version of himself to conceal his cultivation and thwart Tang San’s plan. He had taken control of the sky authority and sealed the earth authority, leaving Tang Hao and Ah Yin with only the life authority as he prepared to draw out their true bodies.

• Meng Xinghe received Huo Yuhao’s report that Tang Wulin had become a Grand Soul Master and passed the Level Three Mecha Maker examination.
• Meng Xinghe explained that Huo Yuhao had used his incomplete Primary and Secondary Bodies technique to place a secondary body’s divine consciousness within Tang Wulin.
• Meng Xinghe met his other self and explained that the complete Divine Embryo Rebirth Technique let him rebuild his cultivation without being detected by Tang Hao and Ah Yin.
• After Tang Hao and Ah Yin began possessing Douluo Planet’s planar spirit, Meng Xinghe seized the authority of sky and obstructed the continent’s leylines to seal the authority of earth.
• Meng Xinghe forced Tang Hao to give Ah Yin the life authority, leaving Tang Hao as the powerless master of the plane and Ah Yin as its life core.
• Meng Xinghe sealed the Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape rather than killing them, preserving them for a plan to lure Tang Hao and Ah Yin’s true bodies into the open.

Gu Yuena flew to East Sea City while reflecting on humanity’s history and Meng Xinghe’s hidden influence on it. A call from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion revealed a plan involving a Golden Apple, and Gu Yuena found comfort in the idea that Meng Xinghe was protecting her.

• Gu Yuena watched a documentary about soul guidance aircraft and considered how Meng Xinghe had shaped human history and the Reincarnation Plan.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion called Gu Yuena, who scolded her for teaching her to use the internet and then answered her second call.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Gu Yuena she was heading to the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Mingdu to retrieve a Golden Apple tied to Lord Heavenly God's Draw Out the Snake Plan.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained that Meng Xinghe intended to let their enemies take the Golden Apple only after facing enough obstacles to conceal the plan.
• Gu Yuena heard that Meng Xinghe believed children should grow up peacefully while adults bore their burdens, and she said it was nice to have someone shelter her from the wind and rain.

Gu Yuena reunited with Meng Xinghe at East Sea Airport, and they discussed her wish to take responsibility rather than remain protected. Over dinner, Meng Xinghe explained their plan to use the Skysea Alliance Grand Tournament and its Golden Apple prize to draw out the Holy Spirit Cult and Shrek.

• Meng Xinghe welcomed Gu Yuena at East Sea Airport, and she told him she wanted to contribute and fulfill her responsibilities.
• Meng Xinghe introduced Sima Jinchi, Gu Yuena’s personal bodyguard and the weapon spirit of the Dragon Clan Magic Saber.
• At dinner, Gu Yuena asked about the plan involving the Skysea Alliance Grand Tournament and its Golden Apple prize.
• Meng Xinghe explained that the Holy Spirit Cult would use the Golden Apple to foster goodwill, while Wang Qiu’er would present it as a peace ambassador.
• Meng Xinghe warned that Shrek might enter the tournament and exploit the resulting chaos to steal the Golden Apple.
• Meng Xinghe revealed that he had planted spies across Douluo Planet, including in Shrek, the oceans, and the Star Luo and Dou Ling empires.