Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen condensed two million-year Soul Rings from Divine Trial rewards, reaching God-level spirit, Soul Power, and body while remaining constrained by the plane. He gained abilities to foresee and force likely actions, then alter recent events, leaving him eager to comprehend the power of fate.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Snow Empress speculated that Lu Chen was condensing a Soul Ring through a Divine Trial reward.
• Lu Chen's second Soul Ring reached a million years, raising his Soul Power to level eighty and his spiritual power to perfection.
• Lu Chen saw the Fate Lines connecting those around him and gained the Fate Mark Soul Skill, which revealed likely actions and let him lock one in.
• Lu Chen absorbed another Divinely Bestowed Soul Ring, and Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and the others watched in shock as it also became a million-year Soul Ring.
• Lu Chen gained Causal Shift, which could slightly alter recent unfavorable outcomes, though it could not reverse absolute death and consumed immense power.

Lu Chen rejected Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s offer to become his Soul Ring and stopped Ice Empress from attacking when Tian Meng asked for help finding an Ultimate Ice Soul Beast for Huo Yuhao. After Tian Meng offered its nearly indestructible Shed Husk, Lu Chen addressed the Planetary Will, and Snow Empress cleared the others from the palace.

• Electrolux and Daju reacted to Lu Chen’s rare Soul Rings and his potential to gain more Divinely Bestowed Soul Rings.
• Snow Empress brought Tian Meng and Huo Yuhao to Lu Chen, and Tian Meng offered to become Lu Chen’s fourth Soul Ring, but Lu Chen refused.
• Tian Meng asked Lu Chen to help Huo Yuhao find an Ultimate Ice Soul Beast, prompting Ice Empress to attack until Lu Chen stopped her.
• Tian Meng offered Huo Yuhao’s Shed Husk as payment, and Xiao Bai confirmed that it was exceptionally tough.
• Lu Chen silently focused on the Planetary Will, which asked what he wanted; Snow Empress then took Ice Empress and Xiao Bai away.

Lu Chen negotiated with the Planetary Will over removing the Sea God Mark from Huo Yuhao in exchange for guiding and strengthening him. The Planetary Will revealed the location of the Rakshasa God’s scattered Godhead Fragments, leaving Lu Chen to prepare to act while Huo Yuhao remained unconscious.

• Lu Chen dismissed Huo Yuhao and asked the Planetary Will about the Sea God Mark in his head.
• Lu Chen offered to erase the mark and train Huo Yuhao as a Body Sect core disciple in exchange for information about other Divine Inheritances.
• Lu Chen reasoned that the Planetary Will needed Huo Yuhao to grow stronger but could not safely remove Tang San’s mark itself.
• The Planetary Will agreed to provide a Godhead Fragment location, explaining that no complete Divine Inheritances remained and naming the Rakshasa God.
• The Planetary Will sent Lu Chen memories of an island covered in black mist, where Rakshasa God fragments might be found.
• Lu Chen asked the Planetary Will to teleport him there, but it refused and Lu Chen turned toward the unconscious Huo Yuhao.

Lu Chen attacked Tang San’s Divine Thought hidden in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Spirit with Divine Punishment Thunder, while Electrolux devoured the weakened remnant. Electrolux fully recovered as the Holy Necromancer, leaving Tang San’s plans and his daughter’s Divine Thought in ruins.

• Lu Chen entered Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Spirit and discovered Tang San’s Divine Thought appearing as a blue-clad Tang Wutong.
• Lu Chen struck the Divine Thought with Divine Punishment Thunder, and Tang Wutong’s Golden Trident blocked his first attack.
• Tang San reacted from the Sea God Temple, and his Divine Thought opened Tang Wutong’s eyes and fought back against Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen’s lightning sword shattered the trident and struck the core of Tang San’s Divine Thought.
• Electrolux used necromancy to devour the shattered Divine Thought and fully restored his power as the Holy Necromancer.

Electrolux recovered his memories, and Lu Chen secured the Planetary Will’s help in finding Dragon Valley. Lu Chen obtained a Time Dragon scale containing the Time Dragon King’s blood essence and learned it would let him pass through Dragon Valley’s seal, while the Planetary Will warned him the Dragon God’s lingering pressure could kill him.

• Electrolux thanked Lu Chen for helping him recover and extracted Tang Wutong’s Soul Origin into a pearl for Lu Chen to keep.
• Lu Chen asked the Planetary Will for Dragon Valley’s entrance, and it reluctantly agreed to provide the coordinates.
• The Planetary Will gave Lu Chen a Time Dragon scale containing a drop of the Time Dragon King’s natal blood essence and explained that it served as the key to Dragon Valley’s spatial seal.
• The Planetary Will warned that the Dragon God’s lingering pressure could kill Lu Chen, then departed after declaring two of its three promised matters complete.
• Lu Chen brought Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm outside the Snow Empress’s palace, where both wondered why they had lost their memories again.

Lu Chen used Electrolux’s Soul Spirit Secret Art to fuse a hundred-year Ice Jade Scorpion with Huo Yuhao as his Second Martial Soul. The fusion began painfully, with Huo Yuhao enduring the scorpion’s icy origin while Lu Chen studied the process.

• Ice Empress provided a hundred-year Ice Jade Scorpion, explaining that a low-cultivation Soul Beast would be easier to fuse with and could evolve later.
• Lu Chen reassured Huo Yuhao that a Lifebound Soul Spirit could grow stronger, and Huo Yuhao agreed to begin the fusion.
• Lu Chen summoned Electrolux’s Necromancer’s Staff and formed a hexagram array around Huo Yuhao and the Ice Jade Scorpion.
• Lu Chen activated the Soul Spirit Contract, causing the scorpion to transform into energy as its icy origin began merging with Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao endured the painful fusion for the sake of revenge while Lu Chen observed the process to learn how a Second Martial Soul could be developed.

Lu Chen helped Huo Yuhao fuse with an Ice Jade Scorpion Lifebound Soul Spirit, giving him a controllable Second Martial Soul and Soul Rings that could grow. Huo Yuhao joined the Body Sect, while Lu Chen reflected that the youth remained caught in the Planetary Will’s schemes.

• The Ice Jade Scorpion fused with Huo Yuhao, granting him a possession form of his Second Martial Soul and two 150-year Soul Rings while preserving the Scorpion’s consciousness as a Soul Spirit.
• Huo Yuhao tested the Ultimate Ice power and learned from Lu Chen that the Soul Spirit could grow by absorbing ice-element energy, though its Soul Skills would need to be comprehended.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Lu Chen, who described his help as an equal exchange and said Body Martial Soul users belonged to the Body Sect.
• Tian Meng urged Huo Yuhao to join the Body Sect, arguing that Shrek could not compare and that Lu Chen could support his growth.
• Huo Yuhao asked to join the Body Sect, and Lu Chen accepted him as a disciple.

Lu Chen prepared to leave the Far North after obtaining the Ice God's Heart, while Huo Yuhao chose to stay and cultivate his new Martial Soul. Lu Chen secretly found the Ice God's Heart underground and descended toward it, unaware that the Planetary Will had intended it for Huo Yuhao.

• Lu Chen decided the Shed Husk would suit Xue Ling'er, then told Snow Empress and Ice Empress they could return with him to meet his family.
• Huo Yuhao declined to return to the sect because he wanted to cultivate his Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Soul in the Far North, and Lu Chen suspected he sought the Ice God's Heart.
• Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Xiao Bai, and A-Tai discussed who would rule the Far North while Huo Yuhao meditated in an ice cave.
• Lu Chen left camp and traveled to a ruined area above the Ice God's Heart, prompting the Planetary Will to fear he had discovered its location.
• Electrolux identified the Ice God's Heart beneath the snow, and Lu Chen descended through extreme cold while wondering if Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow lay farther below.

Lu Chen recovered the Ice God's Heart and more than sixteen hundred pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow from the Far North before traveling with Ice Empress and Snow Empress toward the Body Sect. In Listening Sea Town, he encountered Emperor Beast and the others running a crowded market stall, just as his arrival was announced.

• Lu Chen retrieved the Ice God Pearl and collected all the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow in the cave, storing the haul in the Undead Demiplane.
• Lu Chen left the Far North with Ice Empress and Snow Empress and headed for the Body Sect.
• Lu Chen, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress reached Listening Sea Town, where Ice Empress and Snow Empress nervously observed the human world.
• Emperor Beast, Xue Ling'er, Meiying, Jiang Nannan, and Xiao Xiao sold sea goods at a street stall as a crowd gathered around them.
• Emperor Beast released her aura and revealed her five Soul Rings to drive the onlookers back.
• Lu Chen called out to the women, and they all turned toward his voice.

Lu Chen returned to Listening Sea Town and reunited with Xue Ling'er, Meiying, Jiang Nannan, and Xiao Xiao, while Emperor Beast greeted him with striking familiarity. After Snow Empress recognized Emperor Beast as the Auspicious Beast, Lu Chen stopped her from revealing the identity and led everyone back to discuss it privately.

• Lu Chen arrived in Listening Sea Town with the Ice and Snow Emperors, and the women greeted him as the crowd celebrated his return and debated reports of his battle against Gods.
• Emperor Beast rushed into Lu Chen's arms, revealing their close bond and surprising Xue Ling'er and the others.
• Emperor Beast told Lu Chen she had feared he was dead after sensing him disappear, and Lu Chen apologized for worrying her.
• Snow Empress objected to Emperor Beast entering the human world, and Emperor Beast answered with an imperial aura that made the Ice Empress recognize her.
• Lu Chen interrupted the Ice Empress before she could reveal Emperor Beast's identity and said they would talk after returning.

Lu Chen returned to the Body Sect and reassured its elders that he could face most gods, explaining the God Realm’s hierarchy and the power of his Glazed Golden Body. His strength reignited the elders’ ambition to expand the sect, and Du Busi asked Lu Chen whether they should pursue their larger plans.

• Lu Chen met Du Busi and the elders, who praised his victory over a Godhood and worried that the God Realm might retaliate.
• Mo Yuan revealed that he had reached Rank 98, while Jin Peng said his golden body needed more vitality; Lu Chen offered to help Jin Peng advance toward the Limit Douluo realm.
• Lu Chen told the elders that he was invincible below Second-Level Gods and explained the God Realm’s ranks and the limits of the Body Sect’s Innate Secret Art.
• Lu Chen revealed that his Immaculate Golden Body had evolved into a Glazed Golden Body, bringing him to the level of a Three-Level God.
• The Tenth Elder urged the Body Sect to stop concealing its strength, and Du Busi asked Lu Chen whether the sect should pursue its ambition to unify the continent.

Lu Chen told the Body Sect elders he held the divine inheritances of Destruction and Life, then outlined a plan to use the upcoming tournament to seize the Star Luo Empire and challenge Shrek. The elders agreed, and Lu Chen confirmed he would compete himself.

• Du Busi and Jin Peng described how the Body Sect had won the secret allegiance of most smaller sects and assessed the empires and Shrek as obstacles to unification.
• Jin Peng warned that Shrek’s gods, including Tang San, could intervene if the Body Sect attacked it.
• Lu Chen revealed that he bore the divine inheritances of the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life, convincing Du Busi and the elders that the sect could confront Shrek.
• Lu Chen proposed using the tournament in the Star Luo Empire to seize it first, then subdue the Dou Ling Empire and encircle Shrek; Du Busi and Mo Yuan endorsed the plan.
• Lu Chen confirmed that he would enter the tournament, and the elders marveled that he was only fourteen despite his god-level combat power.

Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu discussed preparations for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament and a video of Lu Chen fighting in the Far North. Xu Jiawei proposed raising the age limit and easing Soul Tool restrictions, then ordered an investigation into the video before the tournament rules were finalized.

• Xu Jiujiu reported that the tournament preparations were complete and said the Body Sect’s Body Academy would compete alongside Shrek and Mingde Hall.
• Xu Jiujiu showed Xu Jiawei a video of Lu Chen fighting in the Far North, but they doubted its claims that he possessed ten Soul Rings and Godhood.
• Xu Jiawei said Lu Chen’s strength could draw attention and boost tournament profits, but a one-sided contest would undermine his plans.
• Xu Jiawei ordered Xu Jiujiu to propose raising the age limit to twenty-five and allowing safe Soul Tools, except Fixed-Mounted Soul Tools.
• Xu Jiawei ordered the venue reinforced, security increased, and news of the proposed rule changes leaked to build anticipation.
• Xu Jiawei asked Xu Jiujiu to send investigators to the Far North to verify the video and assess Lu Chen’s strength.

Lu Chen returned to the Body Sect and reunited with his companions, who questioned him about the Far North and his battles there. He introduced the Ice and Snow Emperors and Emperor Beast, then promised to tell everyone what happened over hotpot as Snow Empress quietly watched him.

• Lu Chen walked through the rebuilt Body Sect and arrived at the brightly lit courtyard, where everyone welcomed him.
• Long Aotian, Shi Potian, and Bei Yuxuan asked Lu Chen about rumors that he had killed gods and explained that Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones had raised their Soul Power to level sixty.
• Lu Chen explained that the Ice and Snow Emperors had come for Soul Spirits and that Emperor Beast was the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in human form.
• Tang Ya teased Lu Chen about the women around him, while Vina greeted him with a forced smile and the others crowded around to ask about the Far North.
• Lu Chen asked everyone to sit and promised to tell his story over hotpot as Ice Empress whispered to Snow Empress about his closeness with women, and Snow Empress silently watched him.

Lu Chen reunited with his companions over hot pot, then shared an intimate moment with Tang Ya after she confessed her feelings. The chapter ended with Lu Chen and Tang Ya spending the night together.

• Long Aotian asked Lu Chen where Luo Feng was, and Lu Chen opened the Gate of the Undead to bring him back from secluded cultivation.
• The Snow Empress sensed the strange undead aura of Lu Chen's gate but could not probe the world beyond it.
• After the others left, Lu Chen stopped himself from approaching Tang Ya while she bathed.
• Tang Ya entered Lu Chen's bedroom, confessed that she liked him and feared falling behind, and kissed him.
• Lu Chen and Tang Ya agreed to be together and spent the night in each other's arms.

Lu Chen used his life force to heal Tang Ya after their morning together, then continued their intimacy until Xue Ling'er and Emperor Beast knocked at noon. After Lu Chen left to prepare spicy rabbit heads, Xue Ling'er teased Tang Ya about what had happened.

• Lu Chen woke beside Tang Ya and used his life force to restore her strength and ease her soreness.
• Lu Chen and Tang Ya continued their intimacy until nearly noon.
• Xue Ling'er and Emperor Beast knocked on the door, and Lu Chen hurriedly dressed and let them in.
• Emperor Beast demanded the spicy rabbit heads Lu Chen had promised, and he left to prepare them.
• Xue Ling'er teased Tang Ya about her time with Lu Chen, and Tang Ya blushed and denied knowing what she meant.

Lu Chen visited the rapidly expanded Soul Engineering Institute with Xue Ling'er, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Emperor Beast, and discovered that Thunder Crystals had enabled practical electric transport vehicles. He began considering the wider possibilities of electricity as the institute’s new technology pointed toward a major advance in Soul Tools.

• Tang Ya left lunch early, and Meiying went with her while Bei Yuxuan teased Lu Chen about spending the night with Tang Ya.
• Lu Chen invited Xue Ling'er to tour the Soul Engineering Institute, and Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Emperor Beast joined them.
• Lu Chen found that the institute had expanded dramatically, with separate groups of white-uniformed Soul Engineers and black-clad smiths working among its new buildings.
• Xue Ling'er explained that Teacher Li Yan had developed sixteen-wheeled transport vehicles powered by Thunder Crystals, which could be charged at stations and driven by people without Soul Power.
• Xue Ling'er described how Level Seven and Level Three Soul Engineers could build charging stations cheaply, and Lu Chen recognized the broader potential of electric technology.

Lu Chen proposed developing electricity-powered everyday Soul Tools and learned that the sect’s Soul Engineering Department had grown to 25,000 staff and students. As he weighed paths to transcend the God Realm’s limits, he assessed the department’s top talent and heard that Level Nine Soul Engineers represented a major leap beyond Level Eight.

• Lu Chen instructed Xue Ling'er to have Soul Engineers develop electric lights and other household Soul Tools, explaining concepts for power grids and electrical appliances.
• Snow Empress asked why Lu Chen favored everyday Soul Tools over weapons, and Lu Chen said he intended to unify the continent, seize the Sun Moon Empire’s research, and spread practical technology.
• Lu Chen considered becoming a god, creating a God Realm, or becoming a Plane Lord, and asked Xue Ling'er about the Soul Engineering Department’s size and talent.
• Xue Ling'er reported 20,000 permanent staff, 5,000 reserve students, more than 5,000 Level Three-to-Five Soul Engineers, over 1,000 Level Six-to-Seven Soul Engineers, and 50 Pseudo-Level Eight Soul Engineers.
• Xue Ling'er said the department had three genuine Level Nine Soul Engineers, including Elder Qin, and explained that Level Nine represented a qualitative leap beyond Level Eight.

Xue Ling'er showed Lu Chen and the others the vast Soul Engineering Institute, which she had built to rival and surpass Mingde Hall. They entered the Core Laboratory and found three Ninth-Level Soul Engineers arguing over which Soul Bone to use for an Industrial Mother Machine drill bit.

• Xue Ling'er explained to Lu Chen and the others how Ninth-Level Soul Tools differed from Level-Eight ones and led them into the institute's core area.
• Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Emperor Beast were stunned by the institute's huge, disciplined Soul Engineering halls and its many Soul Tools.
• Lu Chen praised the institute's facilities, and Xue Ling'er said its scale exceeded Mingde Hall's and that its equipment matched Mingde Hall's configuration.
• Xue Ling'er led the group through heavily guarded corridors to the Core Laboratory, where senior Soul Engineers revered her for helping them break through the Level-Eight bottleneck.
• Qin Ming, Li Yan, and Zhao Shen argued over using Soul Bones to forge an Industrial Mother Machine drill bit, and Lu Chen entered the laboratory.

Lu Chen discovered that the research institute had been testing Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones for an Industrial Mother Machine and identified a remarkable metal used in a prototype chestplate as Thousand Forging metal. After learning that the metal came from Tai Zhen, he was left with the blacksmith’s identity and family history.

• Lu Chen arrived at the laboratory and found Qin Ming, Li Yan, and Zhao Shen arguing over whether to test their Industrial Mother Machine drill-bit designs on Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Lu Chen told the elders that the sect could afford to lose a few Soul Bones, while Snow Empress and the others inspected the laboratory’s advanced Soul Tool prototypes.
• Emperor Beast noticed a silver chestplate, and Xue Ling'er recognized it as a possible Battle Armor prototype; Qin Ming explained that it was only a shell made from unusual metal.
• Lu Chen identified the metal as having reached Thousand Forging, which produces Spirit, and explained that Thousand Forging was necessary to make Battle Armor.
• Qin Ming named Tai Zhen as the man who supplied the metal, and Xue Ling'er revealed that he was a Black Gorilla Soul Douluo, the sect’s only top-tier blacksmith, with son Tai Zhan and grandson Tai Ge.