Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen killed the remaining Titled Douluo of the Holy Spirit Cult while War Demon rushed back to avenge them. Facing War Demon's locking ninth Soul Skill, Lu Chen began fusing his Martial Souls to push past his limits and attempt a Soul Exchange.

• Lu Chen killed two more Titled Douluo, including Fire Lizard Douluo, then used Soul Storm to slay four of the five fleeing elders.
• War Demon returned in Martial Soul Avatar form just as Lu Chen killed the last elder, leaving no Titled Douluo of the Holy Spirit Cult alive besides the two Super Douluo.
• War Demon unleashed his Hundred-Thousand-Year ninth Soul Skill, World-Ending: Sky-Eroding Rift, trapping Lu Chen in a destructive fissure and torrent of Eroding Demon Qi.
• Electrolux offered to intervene, but Lu Chen refused and said the pressure could help him break through so he could defeat War Demon and Zhongli Wu.
• Lu Chen explained his plan to fuse his Body Martial Soul and Evil Eye Tyrant Martial Soul, then use Mu En's Soul Exchange skill to enter War Demon's body while Electrolux restrained War Demon's soul.

Lu Chen fused his two Martial Souls and awakened the Sacred Dharma Avatar, unleashing a Sacred Domain and the Eye of Judgment against the Holy Spirit Cult. Zhongli Wu and War Demon retreated, but Lu Chen struck War Demon down and revealed the full form of his Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Lu Chen's two origin powers fused as his vertical eye opened, and golden Sacred Light erupted across a three-thousand-meter area.
• The Sacred Domain burned the black-robed old man and the three girls, weakened Zhongli Wu, and forced Zhongli Wu and War Demon to retreat.
• Lu Chen used Eye of Judgment: Sacred Gaze to tear apart nearly eighty percent of War Demon's soul.
• Lu Chen emerged in a three-zhang-tall Sacred Dharma Avatar, stunning Yan Shaozhe and the other witnesses.
• Electrolux explained that Lu Chen's separate Martial Souls could reach their peak by fusing, though their differing attributes carried a risk of conflict.

Lu Chen killed War Demon with the Sacred Dharma Avatar, then executed Zhang Lexuan, Bei Bei, and Yan Shaozhe after they considered attacking him. As Xuan Zi charged to avenge Yan Shaozhe, Lu Chen exhausted his Soul Power and teleported beside the Scarlet King, asking it to hold Xuan Zi off.

• Lu Chen used the Sacred Dharma Avatar to destroy War Demon's axe and kill the rank ninety-eight Super Douluo with one punch, while Zhongli Wu fled and vowed revenge.
• After Bei Bei urged Yan Shaozhe to attack Lu Chen, Lu Chen appeared before Shrek's group and killed Zhang Lexuan and Bei Bei.
• Lu Chen condemned Yan Shaozhe for colluding with the Holy Spirit Cult and beheaded him after interrupting his Phoenix True Body with Soul Storm.
• Xuan Zi arrived and attacked Lu Chen, but Lu Chen teleported away after his Sacred Dharma Avatar ran out of power.
• Lu Chen appeared beside the Scarlet King and asked it to hold Xuan Zi back while he recovered.

Xuan Zi attacked Lu Chen and Scarlet King, but Di Tian intervened and effortlessly defeated him. Di Tian drove Xuan Zi from the Star Dou Forest, leaving Lu Chen under his protection.

• Driven mad by the deaths of Bei Bei, Zhang Lexuan, and Yan Shaozhe, Xuan Zi charged at Lu Chen and Scarlet King, who shielded the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Di Tian's Dragon God's Claw emerged from a spatial rift, erased Xuan Zi's attack, and sent him crashing through three hills.
• Lu Chen and Electrolux assessed Di Tian's Demigod-level strength, and Electrolux agreed to help if the others attacked.
• Xuan Zi demanded that Di Tian hand over Lu Chen, but Lu Chen challenged Shrek Academy to swear its students would never enter the Star Dou Forest again.
• Di Tian ordered Xuan Zi to leave and struck him once more when he threatened Shrek's revenge, sending him fleeing from the forest.

Di Tian appeared after Xuan Zi vanished, killed the surrounding Soul Masters, and confronted Lu Chen for using the Auspicious Beast as leverage. Lu Chen revealed a burst of Divine Sense that stopped Di Tian’s attack and proposed helping the Soul Beast Clan; their discussion ended with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion questioning whether humans were truly so bad.

• Di Tian appeared before Lu Chen and killed more than a hundred nearby Soul Masters while sparing Lu Chen, Luo Feng, Tang Ya, and Xue Ling'er.
• Di Tian pressured Lu Chen and attacked him, but Lu Chen’s Divine Sense erupted and halted Di Tian’s dragon claw just before it reached his throat.
• Di Tian recognized Lu Chen’s aura as Divine Sense and asked whose inheritance he carried; Lu Chen refused to reveal it and said he wanted to help the Soul Beast Clan.
• Lu Chen acknowledged that he could not let Soul Beasts become gods but offered to reduce the number humans killed; Di Tian argued that the God Realm protected humans and would destroy the Soul Beasts if they attacked humanity.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked whether humans were really that bad.

Lu Chen warned Di Tian that human civilization and replicable Soul Tools could threaten the survival of Soul Beasts more than the God Realm’s restrictions. He left Di Tian shaken by the possibility that future technology could become powerful enough to kill even gods.

• Lu Chen challenged Di Tian’s claim that humans alone were responsible for Soul Beasts’ decline, arguing that competition and extinction were natural risks and that human civilization could eventually overwhelm Soul Beasts.
• Scarlet King mocked Lu Chen’s warning and dismissed Soul Tools as toys incapable of threatening powerful Soul Beasts.
• Lu Chen revealed that the Sun Moon Empire had developed replicable Ninth-Level Soul Tools that could kill a Limit Douluo, shocking Scarlet King and making Di Tian reconsider his assumptions.
• Di Tian questioned whether such weapons could truly be replicated, while Lu Chen urged him to investigate the Sun Moon Empire himself.
• Lu Chen warned that Tenth- and Eleventh-Level Soul Tools might one day threaten or kill ordinary gods, leaving Di Tian deeply shaken by humanity’s technological potential.

Lu Chen proposed Soul Spirits as a way to reduce Soul Masters’ dependence on hunting Soul Beasts, and Electrolux judged the idea feasible but in need of testing. Di Tian agreed to provide willing Soul Beasts for research in the core region, where Lu Chen and his companions would travel under his supervision.

• Di Tian questioned how Lu Chen could reduce casualties among Soul Beasts, and Lu Chen explained that Soul Spirits could preserve a Soul Beast’s consciousness while providing Soul Rings that grew stronger over time.
• Lu Chen asked Electrolux whether the Soul Spirit concept could work, and Electrolux said soul-level contracts might enable a stable symbiosis but would require experimentation.
• Di Tian doubted Lu Chen could carry out the research, and Lu Chen cited the powerful figure behind him and that figure’s preliminary contract theory.
• Di Tian agreed to send willing or aging Soul Beasts for study, provided the research took place under his supervision in the core region.
• Lu Chen insisted that Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Xue Ling'er accompany him, and Di Tian raised no objection before Scarlet King offered to lead them onward.

After absorbing the Holy Spirit Cult corpses, Tang Ya reached Soul Saint and Luo Feng raised his seventh Soul Ring to 250,000 years. Lu Chen uncovered two hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones and gave one to Luo Feng and the other to Xue Ling'er, then prepared to continue toward the Core Zone.

• Lu Chen summoned the corpses of War Demon, Yan Shaozhe, and seven other Titled Douluo so Tang Ya and Luo Feng could absorb their energy.
• Tang Ya absorbed the corpses and broke through to level seventy, while Xue Ling'er reacted with shock to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's talk of eating brains.
• Luo Feng absorbed War Demon's negative energy and raised his seventh Soul Ring's cultivation age to 250,000 years.
• Lu Chen revealed two hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones among the remains and gave War Demon's dark-attribute Torso Bone to Luo Feng.
• Lu Chen gave Yan Shaozhe's wind-and-light Left Leg Bone to Xue Ling'er to strengthen her Mental Domain and help her reach level sixty.

After Lu Chen’s group collected the Holy Spirit Cult’s Soul Bones, they headed toward Star Dou Forest’s core region. At the cult’s altar, Zhongli Wu returned badly wounded and revealed that Lu Chen had annihilated their forces, while Long Xiaoyao stopped Ye Xishui from charging into Star Dou Forest to seek revenge.

• Lu Chen’s group gathered sixteen Soul Bones from the fallen Holy Spirit Cult members and Yan Shaozhe, then followed Scarlet King toward the forest’s core region.
• At the Holy Spirit Cult’s altar, Long Xiaoyao told Ye Xishui that Du Busi and the Body Sect’s reinforcements had been held back, but he worried that Zhongli Wu and the others had not returned.
• Ye Xishui dismissed Long Xiaoyao’s concerns and coveted Lu Chen’s Soul Bones, insisting the cult would conquer the continent with them.
• Zhongli Wu staggered into the hall and reported that Lu Chen had defeated the Supreme Elder and wiped out their forces, including ten Titled elders, using powerful techniques and a Sacred Domain.
• Ye Xishui erupted in fury and tried to rush to Star Dou Forest, but Long Xiaoyao blocked her and warned that confronting Lu Chen there could provoke Di Tian.

Lu Chen and his companions reached the Lake of Life, where they learned the Three-Eyed Golden Lion used its water as a bath. After Electrolux sensed a sleeping Godhood beneath the lake, Xiong Jun arrived and attacked Lu Chen, leaving Scarlet King to intervene.

• Scarlet King led Lu Chen and the others to the Lake of Life, and Lu Chen explained its origins and potent life energy.
• Luo Feng drank some lake water, then retched when the Three-Eyed Golden Lion revealed it was her bathwater.
• Electrolux sensed a vast piece of Living Being Gold and a sleeping Godhood beneath the lake, which Lu Chen recognized as Gu Yuena.
• Xiong Jun and other powerful auras appeared, and Xiong Jun attacked Lu Chen until Scarlet King stepped in front of him.
• Xiong Jun insulted Scarlet King and demanded that he move aside so Xiong Jun could test Lu Chen himself.

Lu Chen fought Xiong Jun at the Lake of Life, revealing his Destruction Avatar and nearly killing him before Di Tian intervened. Di Tian accepted the fallen Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear as compensation for Lu Chen, who intended it for Luo Feng’s ninth Soul Ring and Soul Spirit research.

• The Myriad Demon King and other powerful Soul Beasts surrounded Lu Chen’s group as Xiong Jun challenged him.
• Lu Chen unleashed his Destruction Avatar and struck Xiong Jun with Core Burst, Destruction Fist, then targeted his soul with Asura’s Eye.
• Di Tian diverted Lu Chen’s soul attack, but it killed a Ten-Thousand-Year Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear; Bi Ji could not save its shattered soul.
• Di Tian stopped Xiong Jun from attacking again and agreed that Lu Chen could take the fallen bear as compensation.
• Lu Chen revealed that the bear was suited to Luo Feng’s ninth Soul Ring and walked toward its body while Xiong Jun seethed.

Lu Chen used Electrolux’s Living Soul Reconstruction to restore the shattered consciousness of the dying Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear and offered it a choice between a new way to live and final death. The bear rejected him, and Lu Chen began a ten-minute countdown in his Sea of Spirit.

• Xiong Jun fled after Lu Chen’s soul attack, while the other Fierce Beasts and Myriad Demon King withdrew and chose not to challenge him.
• Tang Ya, Luo Feng, and Xue Ling'er hurried to stay close to Lu Chen, and Bi Ji apologized for Xiong Jun and asked him to pursue his Soul Spirit research.
• Lu Chen entered his Sea of Spirit, where Electrolux cast Living Soul Reconstruction and used Lu Chen’s life force to restore the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear’s consciousness temporarily.
• The revived bear recognized Lu Chen and attacked him, but Lu Chen restrained it with his will in his Sea of Spirit.
• Lu Chen offered the bear a choice between living in another form and dying so Luo Feng could absorb its Soul Ring; the bear refused, and Lu Chen started a ten-minute countdown.

Lu Chen tested his Soul Spirit Contract by joining the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear with Luo Feng, creating an intelligent Soul Spirit and proving the concept to Di Tian. The experiment succeeded but the Soul Spirit seemed unable to grow, leaving Lu Chen considering what creature to choose for his sixth Soul Ring.

• The Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear agreed to Lu Chen’s Soul Spirit experiment rather than face death, and Lu Chen asked Luo Feng to absorb its Soul Ring.
• Lu Chen and Electrolux used a magic array to draw out the bear’s origin and merge its soul with Luo Feng.
• Luo Feng broke through to level 92 and gained a third 100,000-year Soul Ring, while the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear appeared as an intelligent Soul Spirit beside him.
• Bi Ji and Di Tian recognized that the experiment had succeeded, and Di Tian declared that the new path was proven and offered to find willing Soul Beasts for future experiments.
• Lu Chen acknowledged that the bear’s Soul Spirit likely could not grow and began considering a powerful, fast-growing Soul Beast for his sixth Soul Ring.

Lu Chen shared roasted meat from the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear with Tang Ya, Xue Ling'er, and the arriving Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King. The Soul Beasts were won over by the seasoned food, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion grew affectionate toward Lu Chen.

• Lu Chen, Tang Ya, and Xue Ling'er roasted and ate the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear's meat while its Soul Spirit watched and protested.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion followed the smell of the roast to the lakeshore, tasted the bear meat, and eagerly ate more.
• Lu Chen invited Scarlet King to share the food despite their fight earlier that day, and Scarlet King accepted.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion settled beside Lu Chen, ate the meat he offered, and rubbed her head affectionately against his arm.

Lu Chen postponed fusing with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion until he could build trust and secure a safer opportunity, while Luo Feng’s rapid cultivation breakthrough showcased the rewards of his Soul Spirit and Soul Bone. The chapter ended with Luo Feng revealing the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear’s External Soul Bone and Lu Chen considering how to obtain one for himself.

• Lu Chen declined Electrolux’s suggestion to fuse with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion immediately, deciding to wait until after the Soul Spirit experiment and his sixth Soul Ring.
• Luo Feng broke through to level 93 after receiving the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear Soul Spirit, Soul Bones, and negative energy, then thanked Lu Chen.
• Luo Feng reported that the Formation-Breaking Legion had grown to more than two thousand members, most of them Soul Emperors, with some reaching Soul Saint.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion demanded more roasted meat, and Lu Chen fed and petted her.
• Luo Feng demonstrated that he had gained an External Soul Bone, the Darkgolden Terrorclaw, and used it to create three spatial rifts.

Lu Chen gathered aged Soul Beasts and low-level Blue Silver Grass to test Electrolux’s idea for creating Soul Spirits, then brought Body Sect disciples to the Star Dou Forest. The chapter ended as he began the first experiment with a Rank 50 Red Wolf Martial Soul disciple and an old Red Wolf.

• Di Tian brought five aged Soul Beasts who volunteered for the experiment, and Myriad Demon King supplied Blue Silver Grass plants of varying ages.
• Lu Chen explained that he planned to test whether low-level Soul Beasts could form Soul Spirits, then left the Lake of Life with Di Tian, Bi Ji, and the other Soul Beasts.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion wanted bear paws for lunch, and Lu Chen promised to return with food.
• Du Busi and Jin Peng waited with more than twenty youths, including disciples with Blue Silver Grass Martial Souls, until Di Tian, Bi Ji, Myriad Demon King, and Lu Chen arrived.
• Lu Chen explained the Soul Spirit experiment to the Body Sect members and selected a Rank 50 youth with a Red Wolf Martial Soul to begin.
• Lu Chen asked the youth to relax and called forward one of the aged Red Wolves.

Lu Chen and Electrolux tested a Soul Spirit ritual that could turn Soul Beasts into partners and provide Soul Rings. After a Ten-Thousand-Year Red Wolf Soul Spirit succeeded with a limited benefit, they created a sentient, evolving Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass Soul Spirit, and Lu Chen ordered further tests.

• Electrolux used the ritual on a Ten-Thousand-Year Red Wolf, creating a Soul Spirit that granted a disciple four Soul Rings, though the process had initially faltered.
• Du Busi and the others realized that powerful Soul Spirits could reduce the need to kill Soul Beasts and bypass cultivation bottlenecks, while Lu Chen explained the limits of ordinary Soul Spirits.
• After several Soul King trials failed, Lu Chen and Electrolux tried the formation on a level-twenty disciple named Long Chen and a Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass.
• Electrolux added soothing runes and fused the plant’s life energy with Long Chen’s essence blood, successfully creating a Soul Spirit that resonated with his Martial Soul.
• Long Chen’s Blue Silver Grass developed basic consciousness, strengthened its abilities, and gained a Soul Ring that could grow in age, astonishing the onlookers.
• Lu Chen ordered Electrolux to continue testing the method, hoping to stabilize the new kind of Soul Spirit for his own sixth Soul Ring.

Lu Chen and Electrolux’s experiment successfully created growable Lifebound Soul Spirits for seventeen Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters, though only low-level Soul Beasts could be used so far. Lu Chen continued testing while considering Xue Ling'er’s sixth Soul Ring, and he ended the chapter still searching the Star Dou Forest for a suitable Soul Beast for his own.

• Electrolux’s experiment gave all seventeen Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters Lifebound Soul Spirits, and Lu Chen explained their benefits and limits to Di Tian and Bi Ji.
• Lu Chen arranged for Du Busi to bring more disciples for further experiments, then allowed Electrolux to draw on the Lake of Life’s energy to restore memories and develop the method.
• While preparing lunch with Xue Ling'er, Lu Chen suggested she take a thousand-year Lifebound Soul Spirit for her sixth ring and raise its age later, and she agreed.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion joined Lu Chen and Xue Ling'er for food, then spent the following days helping Lu Chen search the forest for ingredients.
• At the edge of the Star Dou Forest’s Mixed Zone, Lu Chen rejected a mutated Thunderbright Rabbit as unsuitable for his sixth Soul Ring.

Lu Chen sought a low-level Ultimate-attribute Soul Beast and asked Three-Eyed Golden Lion to lead him to a lightning-filled valley in the Star Dou Forest. They reached the valley, where Electrolux noticed the lightning was striking toward one place, and Lu Chen led the way inside to investigate.

• Electrolux advised Lu Chen to seek a single-attribute Ultimate Soul Beast, and Lu Chen decided to stop waiting for a perfect target.
• Lu Chen persuaded Three-Eyed Golden Lion to take him to the valley where lightning struck, promising to make her a feast afterward.
• Lu Chen told Three-Eyed Golden Lion he could not stay in the forest forever, alarming her and strengthening her resolve to keep him close.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion carried Lu Chen east across the Star Dou Forest as Myriad Demon King followed behind them.
• At the valley entrance, Electrolux observed that its lightning seemed to converge on one location, and Lu Chen entered to investigate.

Lu Chen discovered a Thunder Crystal Vein and found a rare Thunderclap Hellvine in the lightning-ravaged valley. He prepared to absorb the vine as a Soul Ring while Three-Eyed Golden Lion realized he had used a promised food hunt as an excuse, and Myriad Demon King watched with suspicion.

• Lu Chen identified the valley’s lightning-struck rocks as a Thunder Crystal Vein and planned to send people to mine it.
• Lu Chen absorbed the weak lightning around him to temper his kidneys, then found a thousand-year Thunderclap Hellvine.
• Electrolux warned that the vine’s accumulated lightning would destroy it within a year or two, while Lu Chen resolved to raise it using Lightning Tribulation.
• Lu Chen told Three-Eyed Golden Lion to stay back as he prepared to absorb the Thunderclap Hellvine, and she angrily accused him of lying about finding food.
• Myriad Demon King recognized the vine’s ultimate lightning attribute and wondered whether Lu Chen intended to absorb it as a Soul Spirit.