Chapter Summaries

Yan Shaozhe brought Lu Chen two rare dragon-bloodline Soul Beasts, and Lu Chen cured Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire with his Divine Power. The Shrek group left after the treatment, leaving Lu Chen ready to absorb the Soul Beasts’ Soul Rings.

• Yan Shaozhe returned with a Mystic-Armored Dragon Turtle and a Shaking-Mountain Dragon Rhino, both carrying powerful dragon bloodlines.
• Lu Chen accepted the Soul Beasts and agreed to treat Ma Xiaotao.
• Lu Chen used Divine Power to remove Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, and she embraced him in relief.
• Lu Chen told Ma Xiaotao she could contact him for help again, provided she brought payment.
• Yan Shaozhe departed with Ma Xiaotao and the other Shrek members after the transaction was complete.

Lu Chen fought and killed the thirty-thousand-year-old Mountain-Shaking Dragon Rhino to claim its Soul Ring, while Tang Ya absorbed life force from its corpse. The rhino yielded no Soul Bone, but Tang Ya sensed that the life force was strengthening her body and meridians.

• Lu Chen chose to fight the Mountain-Shaking Dragon Rhino first, and Luo Wei released it from its cage.
• Lu Chen used Demonic Ape Transformation and his other techniques to battle the rhino for over an hour, then killed it with Void-Splitting Shock.
• Lu Chen found no Soul Bone on the rhino's corpse and treated the fight as a warm-up.
• Tang Ya used her Dark Blue Silver Grass to absorb the rhino's life force after Luo Wei warned her about the risks of devouring Soul Beasts recklessly.
• Tang Ya sensed that the absorbed energy had strengthened her body and meridians.

Tang Ya absorbed the Mountain-Shaking Dragon Rhino and grew stronger, then Lu Chen endured the creature’s soul shock to absorb its Thirty-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. He succeeded and revealed a powerful second Soul Skill, though its enormous Soul Power cost immediately became clear.

• Tang Ya absorbed the Mountain-Shaking Dragon Rhino, increasing her Soul Power by about ten percent and strengthening her body.
• Luo Wei explained that Tang Ya’s Devouring Attribute absorbed the beast’s life force and that Lu Chen’s Ultimate Light could cleanse the negative energy she took in.
• Lu Chen began absorbing the Mountain-Shaking Dragon Rhino’s Thirty-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and endured its violent energy and soul shock while considering ways to strengthen his spiritual power.
• After two hours, Lu Chen successfully absorbed the Soul Ring and gained the Second Soul Skill Dark Gold Body.
• Lu Chen demonstrated Dark Gold Body, which boosted his strength, defense, vibration resistance, and Soul Power recovery, then admitted that it consumed a terrifying amount of Soul Power.

After absorbing a Soul Ring, Lu Chen reached Soul Power Level 30 and discussed his plans for increasingly powerful future Soul Rings. He and his companions arrived in Soul-Hunting Town, where they prepared to eat and encountered the town’s brutal lawlessness.

• Lu Chen refused to absorb the Mystic-Armored Dragon Turtle because he wanted a sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring next and hoped to absorb a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for his fifth.
• Luo Wei warned that Lu Chen needed stronger spiritual power, and Tang Ya offered to teach him the Tang Sect’s Purple Demon Eyes.
• Lu Chen told Long Aotian to keep the Mystic-Armored Dragon Turtle as a future Soul Ring, and Luo Wei carried it back toward the sect.
• Luo Wei left Lu Chen, Tang Ya, and Long Aotian in Soul-Hunting Town while she took the caged Soul Beast to the sect.
• At Hunter’s Rest, Lu Chen and Tang Ya watched a deadly street fight as Long Aotian explained the town’s violence and the backing that protected its shops.
• Lu Chen asked Long Aotian why he knew Soul-Hunting Town so well.

Long Aotian told Lu Chen and Tang Ya how his parents died and explained his resolve to become a Limit Douluo. Later, they saw Xue Ling'er confront the Mad Wolf Adventure Group, and Lu Chen stopped Long Aotian from intervening after noticing someone else had acted.

• Long Aotian recounted how his parents died in the Star Dou Forest and how Aunt Luo brought him to the Body Sect after he awakened his Skin Martial Soul.
• Long Aotian declared that he intended to become a Limit Douluo, and Lu Chen encouraged him by recalling Mu En and Long Xiaoyao's achievements.
• Lu Chen, Long Aotian, and Tang Ya ate wonton noodles at a tavern in Soul-Hunting Town.
• Lang Sha and the Mad Wolf Adventure Group surrounded Xue Ling'er and demanded that she return with them.
• Xue Ling'er threatened Lang Sha with a Soul Cannon, then ran when he exposed that she had not charged it; his two men pursued her.
• Long Aotian and Tang Ya prepared to intervene, but Lu Chen stopped them after noticing someone in a shadowed corner had already made a move.

Meiying and Xue Ling'er fought the Mad Wolf Adventure Group until Lu Chen and Long Aotian intervened. After Lu Chen killed Lang Sha and Long Aotian killed Dragon Two, Lang Kui arrived with two Soul Ancestors, and Lu Chen challenged his strength.

• Meiying killed a Soul Elder and rescued Xue Ling'er, but Lang Sha attacked them as Xue Ling'er used her Mental Network Soul Skill to help Meiying evade him.
• Lang Sha cornered Meiying and ordered Dragon Two to capture Xue Ling'er, prompting Meiying to prepare to swallow a red pill.
• Lu Chen stopped Meiying from taking the pill, blocked Lang Sha's attack with one hand, and killed him with a single punch.
• Long Aotian killed Dragon Two while the spectators marveled at Lu Chen and Long Aotian's strength.
• Lang Kui arrived with two Soul Ancestors and threatened Lu Chen, while Long Aotian volunteered to fight and Meiying urged Lu Chen to flee.
• Lu Chen mocked Lang Kui for being a Soul King without a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

Lu Chen revealed two black Soul Rings and killed the Soul King Lang Kui with a single punch. He offered Meiying a place in the Body Sect, leaving her to consider whether to join him.

• Lu Chen activated his Soul Skills and killed Lang Kui with one punch, stunning the onlookers.
• Long Aotian and Xue Ling'er reacted to Lu Chen's strength as bystanders identified him as the Undying Monster Lu Chen of the Body Sect.
• Lu Chen asked Meiying why she had come alone and explained that he had arranged for Princess Vina to send her to Dio Academy.
• Lu Chen revealed that he was the Body Sect's Young Sect Master and invited Meiying to join so she could fully awaken her abilities.
• Meiying watched Lu Chen leave and clenched her fists as she considered his offer.

Long Aotian defeated the two Soul Ancestors with Xue Ling’er’s support, and Lu Chen’s group learned that her Mutated Ice Silkworm Martial Soul gave her a powerful Mental Domain. After seeing her Mental Network in action, Lu Chen insisted that her ability could be more than support, leaving Xue Ling’er puzzled by his claim.

• Long Aotian killed one Soul Ancestor and pursued the other after a black vine tripped the fleeing man.
• Lu Chen, Long Aotian, Tang Ya, Meiying, and Xue Ling’er left the gathering crowd and went to a private room in a tavern.
• Xue Ling’er explained that her Mutated Ice Silkworm had awakened with a Mental Domain, though she believed its lack of attack power made it useless.
• Xue Ling’er demonstrated her Mental Network, sharing a clear bird’s-eye view of the tavern with Lu Chen and Tang Ya across a range of about three hundred meters.
• Lu Chen praised the domain’s battlefield potential and told Xue Ling’er that her ability could do more than support others.

Lu Chen offered Xue Ling'er a place in the Body Sect to study Soul Tools, joking that they could abduct a Level Seven Soul Engineer from the Sun Moon Empire. Du Busi and the elders arrived and examined Lu Chen’s two ten-thousand-year Soul Rings, prompting Lu Chen to ask how much a second awakening could raise a Soul Ring’s age.

• Lu Chen told Xue Ling'er that the Body Sect could provide her with Soul Tool training and suitable Soul Rings if she joined.
• Lu Chen joked that the sect could go to the Sun Moon Empire and bring back a Level Seven Soul Engineer, while Long Aotian enthusiastically supported his plans to reform the sect.
• Du Busi and the five great elders appeared and overheard Lu Chen and Long Aotian criticizing the old guard, then Du Busi teased Lu Chen about his words.
• Elder White Bone asked Lu Chen to show his two ten-thousand-year Soul Rings, and Lu Chen summoned them before the astonished elders.
• Mo Yuan explained that some sect members gained ten-thousand-year first and second rings through a second awakening, and Lu Chen asked how much it could increase a Soul Ring’s age.

Du Busi explained how Body Martial Soul awakenings could greatly increase Soul Ring ages and predicted Lu Chen could obtain multiple Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings. After Lu Chen discouraged a dangerous trip to the Star Dou Forest, Du Busi confronted him about developing Soul Tools within the sect.

• Mo Yuan and Luo Wei explained that Second Awakening could increase Soul Ring ages, and Luo Wei said Lu Chen might raise his fourth Soul Ring to one hundred thousand years.
• Mo Yuan revealed that a Golden-Tier Second Awakening could give Lu Chen a seventh Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, while Du Busi described its risks and his own forty-thousand-year increase.
• Du Busi promised to seek five Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts for Lu Chen, but Lu Chen warned that the Star Dou Forest was too dangerous and suggested looking to the ocean instead.
• Du Busi postponed Lu Chen's Second Awakening and questioned his plan to work on Soul Tools within the sect.
• Lu Chen argued that the continent had entered the era of Soul Tools and reminded Du Busi of their power in the Sun Moon Empire.

Lu Chen persuaded Du Busi to let him establish a Body Sect Outer Sect for Soul Tool research, arguing that advanced weapons could threaten the sect and that Soul-Engineered Armor could strengthen its disciples. With Du Busi granting him a trial framework and startup funds, Lu Chen prepared to go to Heaven Dou City to settle his grudge and seek investment.

• Du Busi dismissed Soul Tools as inferior to the Body Sect's physical strength, but Lu Chen warned that massed high-level cannons could devastate the sect.
• Lu Chen had Xue Ling'er demonstrate her Mental Domain and explained how targeting networks could guide a barrage against the Body Sect and its vulnerable disciples.
• Lu Chen described close-combat Soul Tools and Soul-Engineered Armor, persuading the elders that such equipment could enhance Body Sect warriors.
• Lu Chen proposed an Outer Sect staffed by talented youths without Body Martial Souls to develop Soul Tools, citing Meiying's phasing attack as proof of the value of recruiting outside talent.
• Du Busi permitted Lu Chen to establish a basic Outer Sect framework and gave him startup funds, while warning him not to neglect cultivation.
• After Du Busi and the elders left, Lu Chen told Xue Ling'er and Meiying they would go to Heaven Dou City to settle his grudge and seek investment from Duke Beiyu's residence.

Lu Chen and Tang Ya led their companions to the Ironblood Sect to avenge Tang Ya’s parents and reclaim the Tang Sect’s home. After they killed the gatekeepers and attacked the sect, Tie Li arrived with two Soul Kings and four Soul Ancestors.

• Lu Chen took Tang Ya’s hand and vowed to avenge her parents as the group approached the Ironblood Sect residence.
• Lu Chen killed the two gatekeepers and challenged Tie Li, while Xue Ling'er detected 180 people inside and a Soul Emperor at the center.
• Tie Tang recognized Tang Ya and taunted her, but Lu Chen struck him down before he could finish speaking.
• Lu Chen ordered his companions to kill everyone; Long Aotian, Tang Ya, Meiying, and Xue Ling'er attacked the Ironblood Sect disciples.
• Tie Li emerged with two elders and four Soul Ancestors after Tie Tang threatened Lu Chen with his father’s power.

Lu Chen killed Tie Tang and fought Tie Li and the Ironblood Sect elders, revealing the power of his unusual Soul Rings and Immortal Body. With Long Aotian, he fused their fist techniques to destroy Tie Li just as someone outside the gates ordered them to stop.

• Lu Chen crushed Tie Tang’s head in front of Tie Li and revealed two ten-thousand-year Soul Rings.
• Tie Li wounded Lu Chen, but Lu Chen killed two Soul King elders and healed from a seemingly fatal wound before Tie Li could attack Tang Ya.
• Lu Chen sensed soldiers approaching and called on Long Aotian to join him in a combined attack.
• Lu Chen and Long Aotian fused Flowing Water Rock-Shattering Fist and Whirlwind Iron-Cleaving Fist into the Fang-Twisting Dragon-Killing Fist.
• Their two-headed dragon technique destroyed Tie Li as a voice from beyond the gates shouted for them to stop.

Lu Chen and Long Aotian discovered that their combined fist techniques could fuse their Soul Power into a devastating attack, but Zhao Cheng arrived and tried to arrest and execute them. Lu Chen summoned Aunt Luo, whose Titled Douluo pressure subdued the soldiers, and confronted the frightened Zhao Cheng.

• Lu Chen and Long Aotian unleashed a powerful combined fist attack that seemed to fuse their Soul Power beyond ordinary coordination.
• Zhao Cheng arrived with six Soul King soldiers and accused Lu Chen's group of murder, ordering their arrest.
• Tang Ya revealed that Zhao Cheng had helped the Iron Blood Sect massacre the Tang Sect and had taken Gold Soul Coins from Tie Li.
• Zhao Cheng ordered his soldiers to execute the group to conceal his past involvement.
• Lu Chen said their Soul Power was depleted and called for Aunt Luo.
• Aunt Luo appeared and forced Zhao Cheng and the soldiers to the ground with her Titled Douluo pressure, while Lu Chen mocked Zhao Cheng for his sudden fear.

Lu Chen and Tang Ya wiped out the Iron Blood Sect after Tang Ya avenged her parents, while Bedrock Douluo Shi Jingyue watched and invited Lu Chen to meet his son. Tang Ya chose to leave the Tang Sect’s restoration to a future inheritor, and her Soul Power rose to level twenty-five.

• Zhao Cheng warned Lu Chen that killing the city defense soldiers would draw imperial scrutiny, but Shi Jingyue arrived and showed no interest in saving him.
• Shi Jingyue invited Lu Chen to meet his son, then left as Tang Ya killed Zhao Cheng by draining his life force.
• Tang Ya’s slaughter of the Iron Blood Sect survivors overwhelmed her with bloodlust, but Lu Chen calmed her with his Divine Power before she continued killing them.
• After the last Iron Blood Sect disciple died, Tang Ya mourned her parents, decided to leave the Tang Sect’s restoration to an inheritor, and agreed to follow Lu Chen.
• Tang Ya told Lu Chen that absorbing the sect members’ life essence had raised her Soul Power to level twenty-five.

Lu Chen visited Shi Jingyue’s residence, where Shi Potian eagerly challenged his idol after seeing his Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings. Meanwhile, Luo Feng and Viper returned from the Iron Blood Sect ruins with plans to reclaim what Luo Feng believed was his.

• Shi Jingyue welcomed Lu Chen, Tang Ya, Xue Ling'er, and their companions to his residence.
• Viper absorbed the Wraiths at the Iron Blood Sect ruins, while Luo Feng discussed returning with the Fourth Elder’s help and pursuing the Holy Son position.
• Shi Potian confronted Bei Yuxuan about meeting Lu Chen, then rushed to greet Lu Chen and begged him for a fight.
• Shi Jingyue kicked Shi Potian into a rockery, and Luo Wei identified his Martial Soul as the Mountain Divine Elephant.
• Lu Chen revealed his two Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and suggested Long Aotian fight Shi Potian instead.
• Shi Potian activated Divine Elephant Possession and prepared to battle Long Aotian.

Long Aotian defeated Shi Potian by exploiting weaknesses in his Rock Armor, and Shi Potian asked to join the Body Sect to learn the Flowing Water Rock-Shattering Fist. Lu Chen announced plans for an Outer Sect open to geniuses without Body Martial Souls, then told Shi Potian it lacked funds, prompting him to offer a soul coin card.

• Long Aotian used the Flowing Water Rock-Shattering Fist to deflect Shi Potian's attacks and eventually disabled his right arm by striking a weakness in his Rock Armor.
• Shi Potian admitted defeat, praised Long Aotian's technique, and asked to learn it; Long Aotian revealed that Lu Chen had created the fist technique and that it was reserved for Body Sect members.
• Lu Chen announced that the Body Sect would establish an Outer Sect to recruit talented people without Body Martial Souls and research Soul Tools.
• Shi Potian eagerly asked to join the Outer Sect, but Lu Chen said it lacked funds and equipment and suggested the Royal Academy instead.
• Shi Potian dismissed the funding concern and handed Lu Chen a dark-gold soul coin card.

Lu Chen secured funding and a rare-material supply plan for the Outer Sect’s Soul Engineering Department, then set out for Duke Breaker Formation Estate to help Meiying find her sister. The chapter left Meiying anxious about what they would discover there.

• Shi Potian and Bei Yuxuan pledged ten million Gold Soul Coins each to support the Outer Sect, and Bei Yuxuan offered the Bei Yu Trading House’s help sourcing rare materials.
• At lunch, Lu Chen agreed to invite Soul Engineer instructors while Bei Yuxuan took responsibility for arranging a larger, steadier supply of core materials.
• After lunch, Lu Chen asked Shi Potian for directions to Duke Breaker Formation Estate, and Shi Potian warned him about Luo Du’s cruelty.
• Lu Chen explained that he was going to help Meiying find her younger sister, who had been missing from her sight for more than half a year.
• Tang Ya took Meiying by the hand and urged the group to leave for Duke Breaker Formation Estate at once.

Lu Chen's group discovered an evil aura around Duke Breaker Formation Estate, where Luo Feng and Holy Spirit Cult members had attacked the duke's family. Luo Chen revealed his plan to save Luo Feng from the Night Demon Spear's corruption, but Netherworld Douluo launched his ninth Soul Skill as the chamber's defenders faced him.

• Lu Chen sensed an evil aura above Duke Breaker Formation Estate, while Luo Wei and Xue Ling'er found their spiritual scans blocked by concealed Soul Tools.
• In the estate's underground chamber, Luo Feng confronted his wounded father, Luo Chen, and accused him of favoring Luo Du as Netherworld Douluo and Viper backed the coup.
• Luo Feng urged Cold Mountain Douluo to join him, but Cold Mountain Douluo explained that Luo Chen's strictness had been meant to help Luo Feng develop his Night Demon Spear.
• Luo Chen revealed that he had intended to sacrifice a Formation-Breaking Spear Titled Douluo's origin to purify Luo Feng's Martial Soul and evolve it into the Dark Night Divine Spear.
• Viper dismissed Luo Chen's explanation and urged Netherworld Douluo to attack, so Netherworld Douluo unleashed his ninth Soul Skill, Netherworld Blood Rakshasa.

Netherworld Douluo and Viper pressed their assault against the wounded Luo Chen and his allies, while Cold Mountain Douluo and Old Lady Wang struggled to protect them. As venomous snakes closed in on Luo Chen and Luo Du, an overwhelming pressure suddenly descended over the battle.

• Netherworld Douluo unleashed his ninth Soul Skill, and Cold Mountain Douluo countered with Myriad Peaks Suppress the Frost Abyss, destroying the Soul Tool that concealed the fight.
• Netherworld Douluo followed with Netherflame Thousand-Wave Blaze as Cold Mountain Douluo ordered Old Lady Wang to flee with Luo Chen and his father.
• Viper sent a swarm of wraiths after Luo Chen, and his wraith claw broke through Old Lady Wang's vine barrier and gravely injured her.
• Viper explained that the Soul-Devouring Bone-Corroding Powder had weakened Luo Chen, while Luo Du panicked and tried to flee.
• Viper sent venomous snakes after Luo Chen and Luo Du, and Netherworld Douluo prevented Cold Mountain Douluo from rescuing them.
• As the snakes surrounded Luo Chen and Luo Du, a terrifying pressure greater than any presence in the basement suddenly descended.