Chapter Summaries

Qian Chenzhou forced Dugu Bo to join his side by offering treatment for Dugu Bo’s poisoned son, using an Earth Dragon Golden Melon to ease the poison and giving Dugu Bo a Poison Core cultivation method. After leaving Ghost and Yue Guan to watch over the immortal herbs, Qian Chenzhou, Bibi Dong, and Golden Crocodile flew toward the Star Dou Forest, where Qian Chenzhou explained why the herb was worth spending on Dugu Bo’s family.

• Golden Crocodile subdued Dugu Bo, and Qian Chenzhou offered to help his poisoned son in exchange for Dugu Bo joining his side.
• Qian Chenzhou found a Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Herb, then unearthed an Earth Dragon Golden Melon and gave it to Dugu Bo’s son to help him endure the poison and stimulate his martial soul’s evolution.
• Dugu Bo’s son ate the Earth Dragon Golden Melon and improved, so Dugu Bo pledged the Dugu Clan’s allegiance to Qian Chenzhou.
• Qian Chenzhou revealed that he was Qian Daoliu’s son and gave Dugu Bo a Poison Core cultivation method, explaining that his son needed to learn to condense one to survive.
• Qian Chenzhou left Ghost and Yue Guan behind to guard the herbs, then flew with Bibi Dong and Golden Crocodile toward the Star Dou Forest.
• Golden Crocodile questioned whether the Earth Dragon Golden Melon was worth giving away, and Qian Chenzhou explained that it was only a half-finished herb and that Dugu Bo’s knowledge of poisons made him valuable.

Qian Chenzhou brought Golden Crocodile and Bibi Dong to Life Lake, where Xiao Wu was taking human form after her tribulation. Protected by Golden Crocodile’s strength, he negotiated with the Azure Bull Python and offered the Soul Beasts a chance to become gods without enduring tribulations, though they doubted his claims.

• After five days of searching Star Dou Forest without finding a suitable psychic-type Soul Beast, Qian Chenzhou spotted a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast undergoing a tribulation and asked Golden Crocodile whether he could face the Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape together.
• Golden Crocodile agreed to take Qian Chenzhou and Bibi Dong to Life Lake, provided they stayed within three meters of him.
• At Life Lake, the Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape guarded Xiao Wu as she completed her transformation, while A Rou watched nearby.
• Golden Crocodile revealed his level 98 strength, and Qian Chenzhou approached A Rou after the Azure Bull Python agreed to hear him out.
• Qian Chenzhou told the Soul Beasts that the God Realm’s rules forced them to undergo tribulations and offered them a way to become gods without them.
• The Azure Bull Python rejected his claims, and Qian Chenzhou challenged its belief that transformed Soul Beasts could inherit Godhood by reaching Titled Douluo.

Qian Chenzhou confronted the Soul Beasts guarding Life Lake and demanded to meet the Silver Dragon King, then offered her a bargain after demonstrating a power that healed her injuries. The Silver Dragon King agreed to help him obtain suitable Soul Rings and asked what she would gain in return.

• Qian Chenzhou told the Azure Bull Python that the Silver Dragon King was the true decision-maker beyond the light, provoking the beast’s rage.
• A black dragon phantom seized Qian Chenzhou and dragged him into Life Lake while pinning Golden Crocodile Douluo in place.
• Qian Chenzhou faced Di Tian and insisted on seeing the Silver Dragon King, warning that the gods could discover their hiding place if he died.
• The Silver Dragon King allowed Qian Chenzhou into her palace, where he released Spiritual Power that rapidly healed her injuries.
• Qian Chenzhou offered to make Douluo Continent independent of the God Realm and asked the Silver Dragon King to help him obtain suitable Soul Rings.
• The Silver Dragon King agreed but asked Qian Chenzhou what she would gain in return.

Qian Chenzhou negotiated with the Silver Dragon King for aid in exchange for power that could benefit her and the Soul Beasts, then arranged to choose a five-thousand-year mental-type Soul Beast and collect Soul Bones. After Di Tian brought him out of Life Lake, Qian Chenzhou reunited with Golden Crocodile and questioned whether Di Tian considered weaker Soul Beasts his own kind.

• Qian Chenzhou offered to heal the Silver Dragon King's injuries and place his power in Life Lake, then promised he could help her reach the Dragon God’s strength.
• The Silver Dragon King agreed to provide seventy-two thousand-year Soul Bones and have Di Tian or the Azure Bull Python gather five-thousand-year mental-type Soul Beasts for Qian Chenzhou to choose from.
• The Silver Dragon King flew out of Life Lake with Qian Chenzhou and ordered Di Tian to take him to choose a Soul Beast and collect the Soul Bones.
• Di Tian released Golden Crocodile and Bibi Dong from his pressure after Qian Chenzhou asked him to, then ordered the Azure Bull Python to summon the Soul Beasts and Soul Bones.
• Qian Chenzhou told Golden Crocodile that Di Tian was a nine-hundred-and-seventy-thousand-year Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, then asked Di Tian whether he considered Soul Beasts below a hundred thousand years his own kind.

Qian Chenzhou chose a five-thousand-year Crystal Illusion Butterfly for his first Soul Ring and absorbed it successfully. Afterward, he told Golden Crocodile they would need to remain in Star Dou Forest longer.

• Qian Chenzhou told Di Tian and Bibi Dong that demons could grow more powerful and transform by compressing Soul Power into Spiritual Power.
• A swarm of Soul Beasts arrived carrying over a hundred thousand Soul Bones, and Di Tian ordered A Rou to collect them with Xiao Wu.
• Qian Chenzhou chose and killed a five-thousand-year Crystal Illusion Butterfly, then absorbed its Soul Ring.
• In his sea of consciousness, Qian Chenzhou defeated the butterfly’s spiritual attack and refined its energy, which barely affected his vast spiritual realm.
• Golden Crocodile celebrated Qian Chenzhou’s successful first Soul Ring absorption, and Di Tian struck him for being too noisy.
• Qian Chenzhou opened his eyes and told Golden Crocodile that they would need to stay in Star Dou Forest longer.

Qian Chenzhou established a Foundation Anchor formation around Life Lake to gather Spiritual Power and negotiated with the Silver Dragon King to leave the Star Dou Forest and continue his plans. Di Tian took him out while secretly ordered to watch him and bring him back once he reached the required level.

• Qian Chenzhou brought seventy-two Soul Bones to Life Lake and used Crimson King's blood to create two sets of Foundation Anchors.
• Qian Chenzhou buried thirty-six Millennium Foundation Anchors around Life Lake and activated their formation to gather Spiritual Power.
• Qian Chenzhou explained that stronger Foundation Anchor formations would require greater strength and took the second set for his own use.
• The Silver Dragon King agreed to let Qian Chenzhou leave with A Rou accompanying him, and ordered Di Tian to watch him and return him when he met the level requirement.
• After five days, the Silver Dragon King sensed that Spiritual Power around Life Lake had increased, then Di Tian carried Qian Chenzhou out and tossed him toward the ground.

Qian Chenzhou took A Rou from the Star Dou Forest under an agreement with Di Tian and brought her to the Ice Fire Mandarin Duck Pot in Sunset Forest. There, he rewarded Yue Guan and Ghost with rare herbs to help their martial souls evolve.

• Golden Crocodile carried Qian Chenzhou and Bibi Dong away, while Di Tian restrained the Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape from pursuing them after A Rou was taken.
• Di Tian threatened the Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape into continuing their guard duty, then vanished into the Star Dou Forest.
• Dugu Bo welcomed Qian Chenzhou back at the Ice Fire Mandarin Duck Pot, where A Rou followed, worried about her fate.
• Qian Chenzhou gave Yue Guan the Auspicious Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and explained that consuming it could evolve his martial soul.
• Qian Chenzhou found the Yin-Born Ghostshade Flower and gave it to Ghost.

Qian Chenzhou distributed rare herbs, directed several allies toward their futures, and descended to the Ice Fire Mandarin Duck Pot’s depths, where he revealed the Silver Dragon King’s scale to the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings. After reassuring the Dragon Kings that they could live again, he gathered the mature immortal herbs and prepared to take A Rou away.

• Qian Chenzhou gave Bibi Dong a Double Spider Darklife Flower to improve her martial soul and gave Golden Crocodile an Earth Dragon Golden Melon, persuading him to consume it for a chance to reach Rank 99 and eventually become a god.
• Dugu Xin thanked Qian Chenzhou for curing his poison and evolving his martial soul, then agreed to go to Spirit Hall with his wife and Dugu Yan.
• Qian Chenzhou swallowed the Eight-Angled Mysterious Ice Grass and Blazing Apricot Delicate Orchid, entered the Ice Fire Mandarin Duck Pot, and reached the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ remains.
• Qian Chenzhou showed the Dragon Kings the Silver Dragon King’s scale and told them they could live again and later aid her; the Dragon Kings agreed to wait.
• Qian Chenzhou gathered and labeled the mature immortal herbs, then A Rou questioned why he was taking her away.

Qian Chenzhou returned to Spirit City and revealed the power of his first Soul Ring before giving the Spirit Hall offerings immortal herbs and Soul Bones that could help them grow stronger and potentially become gods. He then gave Qian Xunji a Blazing Sunlight Flower, while Golden Crocodile warned the offerings about powerful Soul Beasts in Star Dou Forest.

• Qian Chenzhou told A Rou that Xiao Wu would sacrifice herself for a human boy, whose father had also obtained a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring through a sacrifice.
• Three days later, Golden Crocodile brought Qian Chenzhou and Bibi Dong back to Spirit City, while Ghost and Yue Guan retrieved the carriage from Sunset Forest.
• At the Offering Hall, Qian Chenzhou revealed that his first Soul Ring was five thousand years old and demonstrated Human Sovereign Might, which could affect Soul Masters two major realms above him.
• Qian Chenzhou gave the offerings immortal herbs and used thirty blood-stained Soul Bones to form a formation that could help them gain power and possibly break through level 100.
• Golden Crocodile told the offerings about the powerful Soul Beasts in Star Dou Forest after Qian Chenzhou left.
• At Pope Hall, Qian Chenzhou gave Qian Xunji a Blazing Sunlight Flower that could improve his talent and help him approach the threshold of level 99.

Qian Xunji agreed to hand the position of Pope to Bibi Dong, but she postponed taking it so she could travel to Slaughter City for the Rakshasa God's God Test. Meanwhile, Tang Hao hid Ah Yin behind a waterfall and resolved to keep her from growing until Tang San awakened the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline.

• Qian Xunji agreed to hand the position of Pope to Bibi Dong, who said she would first complete the Rakshasa God's God Test in Slaughter City.
• Bibi Dong left Spirit City with Ju and Gui after Qian Chenzhou saw her off and urged her to return alive.
• A young man from Holy Soul Village approached Ah Yin, intending to hunt her for a Soul Ring, and Tang Hao killed him.
• Tang Hao carried Ah Yin and her roots behind a waterfall, hid a hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone nearby, and protected the space with Soul Power barriers.
• Tang Hao decided to keep Ah Yin hidden until Tang San awakened the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline.

Four-year-old Tang San encountered Zhang Sanwei, another Tang Sect disciple who had reincarnated on Douluo Continent and knew Tang San’s secret techniques. Though they agreed to rebuild the Tang Sect together, Tang San secretly resolved to kill Zhang Sanwei, while Tang Hao watched their meeting from a tree.

• Tang San cultivated Purple Demon Eyes and resented the force that had dragged him from the God Realm back to Douluo Continent.
• Zhang Sanwei surprised Tang San by recognizing and countering his Tang Sect techniques, then revealed that he was an inner disciple of the Shu-region Tang Sect.
• Tang San and Zhang Sanwei introduced themselves and recalled their past lives as Tang Sect disciples.
• Zhang Sanwei invited Tang San to join him in rebuilding the Tang Sect, and Tang San accepted while privately deciding to judge Zhang Sanwei’s martial soul and eliminate him if it proved weak.
• After Zhang Sanwei left, Tang San declared that the Tang Sect would not have two sect masters, while Tang Hao watched from a tree branch.

Tang Hao realized Tang San’s body held the soul of an outsider, while Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai had also returned to childhood with memories of their former lives. The chapter ended with an exhausted child arriving in Spirit City and being taken in by a passing Soul Master.

• Tang Hao suspected that an old monster from the Shu-region Tang Sect had possessed Tang San and vowed to kill him if he proved useless.
• Tang San returned home to find Tang Hao drunk as usual, but sensed an unexplained danger around him.
• Ma Hongjun lamented having to relive his painful childhood and hoped Flender would soon take him as a disciple.
• Dai Mubai realized Dai Weisi did not exist yet and planned to find Tang San and obtain the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• A child collapsed in the streets of Spirit City, and a passing Soul Master picked him up and took him away.

Spirit Hall’s strength grew as Qian Chenzhou’s cultivation advanced, while Qian Renxue settled into her new life with her father and uncle. Qian Chenzhou prepared to travel with Ci Xue to the Heaven Dou Empire and privately concluded that Qian Renxue had also been reborn.

• At the orphanage, a healer treated a frightened child who remembered only the name Oscar, and Spirit Hall took him in.
• Two Soul Douluo broke through to level 90 using the Worship Hall’s cultivation formation, and the Grand Worshiper promised they would hunt Soul Rings with the previous six.
• Qian Chenzhou reached level 20 and said he would obtain a Soul Ring with Ci Xue while making arrangements in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qian Chenzhou visited Pope Hall, where Qian Renxue happily called him Uncle Chenzhou and told him she ate Whale Rubber with her meals.
• Qian Chenzhou inferred that Qian Renxue had been reborn but chose not to reveal that he knew.

Qian Chenzhou told Qian Xunji he planned to take the Heaven Dou Empire without bloodshed and bring it into Spirit Hall, then visited the Star Dou Forest to obtain a soul ring. He chose a Purple-Gold Earth Dragon and began absorbing its black Soul Ring as Snake Lance and Ci Xue worried about the Soul Shock.

• Qian Chenzhou told Qian Xunji he intended to support Xue Qinghe’s ascension and unite the empires with Spirit Hall without war, and Qian Xunji offered Spirit Hall’s backing.
• Qian Renxue recognized Qian Chenzhou’s plan as the Heaven Dou Empire usurpation plot and asked who would go undercover, but Qian Chenzhou said Xue Qinghe himself was the ideal piece.
• At Life Lake, Qian Chenzhou ordered the Sky Azure Bull Python to summon every soul beast older than fifteen thousand years.
• Qian Chenzhou chose a Purple-Gold Earth Dragon from the gathered beasts and killed it with his Human Emperor Sword.
• Qian Chenzhou began absorbing the Purple-Gold Earth Dragon’s black Soul Ring, while Snake Lance and Ci Xue questioned whether he could withstand its Soul Shock.

Qian Chenzhou left the Star Dou Forest with Golden Crocodile Douluo and encountered Liu Erlong, Yu Xiaogang, and Flender in a nearby town. After Golden Crocodile forced Yu Xiaogang to his knees, Liu Erlong recognized Qian Chenzhou and embraced him.

• Golden Crocodile reassured Ci Xue and Snake Spear that Qian Chenzhou had his reasons for remaining still, and Qian Chenzhou later stood up and prepared to leave.
• As Golden Crocodile carried Qian Chenzhou toward the forest’s outskirts, Qian Chenzhou spotted acquaintances in a town and asked the group to conceal their auras.
• Liu Erlong rebuffed Yu Xiaogang and Flender, mocking Yu Xiaogang for being nearly forty and still only a Grand Soul Master.
• When Yu Xiaogang ordered the concealed group to be quiet, Golden Crocodile released his pressure and drove him to his knees.
• Liu Erlong recognized Qian Chenzhou beneath his bamboo hat, stepped forward, embraced him, and began to cry.

Qian Chenzhou gained two useful rewards after disrupting Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong’s relationship, then brought Xue Qinghe to Spirit Hall’s Worship Hall. He asked Xue Qinghe whether he wanted to become crown prince, leaving Xue Qinghe poised to accept Spirit Hall’s backing.

• Qian Chenzhou received a lottery draw for changing Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong’s relationship, then won a Millennium Soul Beast Secret Realm and Minor Concealment Art.
• Qian Chenzhou left Liu Erlong after telling her to find him once she reached Soul Douluo, while Golden Crocodile advised him about choosing a wife.
• Golden Crocodile abducted Xue Qinghe from the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace and brought him to Spirit Hall’s Worship Hall.
• Two newly promoted Titled Douluo greeted Qian Chenzhou and left to stabilize their Soul Power before hunting for ninth Soul Rings.
• Qian Chenzhou asked Xue Qinghe if he wanted to become crown prince, and Xue Qinghe showed his ambition while kneeling.

Xue Qinghe agreed to serve Spirit Hall and eventually annex the Heaven Dou Empire in exchange for his life and a future bishop position. Qian Chenzhou then placed a Millennium Soul Beast Secret Realm in Spirit Hall, and its visitors discovered a forest filled with ten-year soul beasts and absorbable soul rings.

• Xue Qinghe accepted Qian Chenzhou’s demand to impersonate him and later offered to annex the Heaven Dou Empire into Spirit Hall.
• Dugu Bo presented matured immortal herbs to Qian Chenzhou, who sent him to check on his family.
• Qian Chenzhou promised Xue Qinghe a bishop position if he annexed the empire and assigned Ci Xue and Snake Spear to accompany him.
• Qian Chenzhou placed the Millennium Soul Beast Secret Realm in Spirit Hall’s martial arts arena, drawing Qian Daoliu and Ghost’s attention.
• Qian Chenzhou led them inside, where Qian Daoliu and Ghost saw a vast forest of ten-year soul beasts and watched a soul beast yield a white soul ring.

Qian Chenzhou and Qian Daoliu tested the Millennium Soul Beast Secret Realm, where Qian Daoliu killed its beasts and gathered more than a thousand Soul Bones. Later, Qian Chenzhou accompanied Bibi Dong on a journey across the continent to help her refine her killing intent, while Qian Xunji remained stuck handling Spirit Hall’s affairs.

• Qian Daoliu unleashed his Soul Skills in the secret realm, destroying the forest and killing Soul Beasts as Ghost watched in awe.
• Qian Daoliu gathered more than a thousand Soul Bones, and then designated the secret realm a protected area that Spirit Hall would guard.
• Bibi Dong returned from confronting the Clear Sky Sect and calmed down in Qian Chenzhou’s arms as he suggested they travel together.
• Qian Xunji sighed over the growing backlog of Spirit Hall business while Qian Chenzhou and Bibi Dong left Spirit City in an ordinary carriage.
• Qian Chenzhou accompanied Bibi Dong across the continent for a year, and she gained a deeper understanding of life under the nobles.

Bibi Dong revisited her reasons for wanting to unify the Douluo Continent after seeing the suffering of low-ranking Soul Masters, while Qian Chenzhou reassured her that he would handle everything beyond her duties. They visited Spirit City’s orphanage, where Qian Chenzhou examined its talented children and found Oscar on the roster.

• Bibi Dong remembered how Spirit Hall had rescued her village and recognized that she had grown distant from ordinary Soul Masters.
• Qian Chenzhou comforted Bibi Dong and told her to focus on Spirit Hall, cultivation, and becoming the Rakshasa God while he handled the rest.
• Bibi Dong woke beside Qian Chenzhou in the Saintess Hall, helped him dress, and went with him to Spirit City.
• Qian Chenzhou asked the orphanage director, a Titled Douluo, to bring in its most talented children.
• Qian Chenzhou noticed a girl’s puzzlement as he reviewed the roster, then found Oscar listed with a sausage Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power.

Qian Chenzhou recruited Oscar as a pawn and left Bibi Dong to choose Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation. In Holy Soul Village, Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass and asked Su Yuntao to test his soul power before the Soul Master departed.

• Qian Chenzhou selected Oscar for a future task and entrusted Bibi Dong with choosing Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation.
• Bibi Dong chose Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, while Qian Chenzhou explained that he intended to send Oscar back to Shrek to limit the Heavenly Dao’s influence.
• Qian Chenzhou promised Bibi Dong he would return and urged her to convert her soul power into spiritual power before leaving Spirit City.
• Old Jack dragged Tang San from Tang Hao’s house to the village’s martial soul awakening, where Su Yuntao awakened Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San stopped Su Yuntao from leaving and asked him to test his soul power, hoping to obtain the certificate needed to attend Notting Spirit Elementary Academy.