Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen sought Wei En’s approval to establish the Body Advanced Soul Master Academy and fund it by selling household Soul Tools. He secured an academy license and turned the imperial banquet into a sales opportunity, leaving the nobles eager to buy the Body Sect’s products.

• Wei En toasted Du Busi for helping his daughter obtain a Soul Ring and congratulated him on becoming a Limit Douluo.
• Lu Chen asked Wei En to approve the Body Advanced Soul Master Academy, which he planned to enter in the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament and win under the Body Sect’s name.
• Wei En approved the academy and promised a Special Academy License, then agreed to support the sale of household Soul Tools and exempt the business from taxes.
• Lu Chen demonstrated a Soul Tool Lighter and revealed that the Body Sect could make them for five Gold Soul Coins each, prompting nobles to compete for orders.
• Lu Chen told the nobles that the Body Sect would offer other Soul Tool products as well, while Wei En privately resented the banquet becoming a sales event.

Lu Chen demonstrated the Body Sect’s Soul Power Detection Goggles to Wei En and the nobles, then negotiated their price and sales. The nobles rushed to secure orders, while Lu Chen planned to use future mass production to build enormous profits.

• Lu Chen showed Wei En the Soul Power Detection Goggles, which revealed Soul Master cultivation realms and estimated Soul Beast ages.
• Wei En and the nobles tested the goggles and were impressed by their usefulness and potential demand.
• Lu Chen claimed each pair cost 100 Gold Soul Coins to make and offered them for 150, prompting nobles to compete for the limited supply.
• Lu Chen announced that buyers could visit the Body Sect the next day to discuss orders for the goggles and other Soul Tool inventions.
• Wei En agreed to impose a ten-percent tax and asked Lu Chen to give the royal family priority on future products, while Lu Chen privately anticipated profits from industrial production.

Lu Chen traveled to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes with Twin Fists Douluo to cultivate and purified the Spirit-Eating Blade into Living Being Gold. The Immortal Herbs were astonished by his growth and the treasure’s life force, while Lu Chen tempted the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone with it.

• Lu Chen refused to return to the Body Sect, explaining that he would cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, and Twin Fists Douluo agreed to protect him.
• Luo Feng chose to head to the border war, while Du Busi let Lu Chen depart and Long Aotian resolved to train harder.
• Two days later, Lu Chen and Twin Fists Douluo crossed Sunset Forest’s poisonous miasma and reached the Immortal Herb patch, where the herbs marveled at Lu Chen’s strength and Soul Rings.
• Lu Chen sat beside the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, then used his divine power to purify the Spirit-Eating Blade and reveal a powerful piece of Living Being Gold.
• The Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone absorbed the released life force and showed signs of a breakthrough, and Lu Chen asked whether it wanted the Living Being Gold.

Lu Chen persuaded the Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes that sacrificing themselves could lead to freedom and a chance to reach the God Realm. The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum agreed to become his Soul Ring, and Lu Chen gave it Living Being Gold to raise its cultivation while coaxing the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone to grow stronger too.

• Lu Chen argued that he could become a god and that joining him offered the Immortal Herbs a way to escape their confinement and avoid death by Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Nether Abyss Water Thorn Vine began its sacrifice, but Lu Chen stopped it because its attributes did not suit him.
• The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum agreed to sacrifice itself, and Lu Chen promised to restore its consciousness early if possible.
• Lu Chen gave the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum Living Being Gold so it could increase its cultivation before becoming his Soul Ring.
• The Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone demanded Living Being Gold after seeing the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum absorb some, and Lu Chen urged it to reach two hundred thousand years.

Lu Chen absorbed the Living Being Gold, which transformed his body and helped him endure nearly two years of Golden Bone cultivation in the Ice-Fire Pool. A golden pillar of light erupted from the spring as he finally emerged, while his sectmates and Twin Fists Douluo had advanced during his long seclusion.

• Lu Chen absorbed the Living Being Gold, cleansing and strengthening his body while improving his vitality, comprehension, and cultivation foundation.
• Lu Chen plunged into the Ice-Fire Pool and used the Living Being Gold and Dragon Core to repeatedly repair the damage caused by tempering his bones.
• Over half a year, Lu Chen's skull turned completely golden and one-third of his bones completed their transformation as his sectmates continued cultivating and awaiting his return.
• Twin Fists Douluo advanced to Super Douluo, reaching Rank 95 while Lu Chen remained in seclusion.
• After nearly two years, the Icefire Spring Water shook, a golden pillar of light burst through the poisonous mist, and Lu Chen emerged from the spring.

Lu Chen emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes with the first stage of the Immaculate Golden Body complete, giving him strength enough to defeat an ordinary Titled Douluo with one punch. He discovered that the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum had forcefully reached 200,000 years by consuming its own potential and the other Immortal Herbs’ essence, then carried her away to attempt cultivating through her Fierce Beast Tribulation.

• Lu Chen emerged from the spring with golden bones and a body so dense that his steps cracked the rock beneath him.
• Lu Chen told Twin Fists Douluo that he could kill a level 91 Titled Douluo with one punch and expected his strength to reach Super Douluo level after absorbing his fifth Soul Ring.
• Lu Chen discovered the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum had reached 200,000 years by overdrawing her potential, with the other Immortal Herbs contributing their origin essence to help her.
• The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum agreed to sacrifice herself, and Lu Chen said he would use her Fierce Beast Tribulation to temper his body.
• Lu Chen carried the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum away, while Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew recalled that a Soul Beast rebuilding itself as a human could become a Soul Master's second martial soul if absorbed during its embryonic stage.

Lu Chen used the two-hundred-thousand-year Fierce Beast Tribulation to temper his body, surviving devastating injuries as he began cultivating the second stage of his Immaculate Golden Body. Experts converged on the tribulation site, and Rose and the Zhongli brothers recognized Lu Chen as a target of the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Rose and the three Zhongli brothers sensed a Fierce Beast Tribulation in Sunset Forest and rushed toward it, hoping to claim a Soul Bone.
• Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiudi also headed toward the tribulation site, prepared to retreat if the danger grew too great.
• Lu Chen told the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum that he would withstand the tribulation and use its lightning to cultivate Organ Deification.
• Lu Chen endured the first lightning strike, which destroyed his flesh and heart, then recovered with the help of Living Being Gold as further strikes battered him.
• Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiudi recognized Lu Chen, while Rose and the Zhongli brothers identified him as the Body Sect's Young Sect Master and a target named by the Cult Leader.

Lu Chen endured a devastating Fierce Beast Lightning Tribulation, using its power to transform his heart and then meeting a Thunder Dragon head-on. As the exhausted Lu Chen faced the final tribulation, Rose and other greedy experts launched a surprise attack, and Twin Fists Douluo moved to protect him.

• Lu Chen healed rapidly under the lightning while channeling its power into his heart, and Rose recognized his ancient Soul Bones and warned that the Body Sect might have protectors nearby.
• A massive Thunder Dragon formed, so Lu Chen used Heaven-Earth Manifestation, his Second Awakening, and Only I Am Supreme to punch it head-on while the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum protected itself.
• The clash devastated the forest and badly injured Lu Chen, though he held his ground against the Thunder Dragon.
• Rose ordered an attack on the weakened Lu Chen, and she and the Zhongli brothers charged in as other experts joined the ambush.
• Twin Fists Douluo sensed the attackers and activated Unity of Heaven and Man and Super Saiyan Mode, while Rose unleashed her Blood Sea Blossoms Soul Skill.

As Rose and the Zhongli brothers attacked Lu Chen during his battle with the Heavenly Tribulation, he revealed overwhelming strength and annihilated the ambushers with one palm. After Lu Chen destroyed the Thunder Dragon, a mysterious strand of destructive energy entered his body, and he wondered whether he could absorb it.

• Rose attacked Lu Chen with blood vines, while Twin Fists Douluo arrived and engaged her in battle.
• Zhongli Tian and his brothers, joined by other experts, rushed to kill Lu Chen while Twin Fists Douluo was occupied.
• Lu Chen unleashed Whale King's Wrath and crushed the Zhongli brothers, more than ten Soul Douluos, and Black Vulture Douluo with one palm.
• Lu Chen destroyed the Thunder Dragon, ending the tribulation as the clouds began to disperse.
• A strand of purple-black Power of Destruction pierced Lu Chen's chest and began erasing his vitality, prompting him to consider absorbing it.

After surviving the Fierce Beast Tribulation, Lu Chen tried to refine its Power of Destruction and awakened an Ultimate Life attribute, but the process left him vulnerable to a spiritual invasion. The Demon Empress began possessing him, and Lu Chen used what he knew about the gods to unsettle her as he continued refining the destructive power.

• The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum survived the Fierce Beast Tribulation and celebrated while Lu Chen struggled to guide the Power of Destruction through his body.
• Lu Chen awakened an Ultimate Life attribute, used the Living Being Gold to strengthen it, and directed the Power of Destruction into his heart.
• The destructive power clashed with Lu Chen's vitality, damaged his heart, and began eroding his Sea of Spirit as he fought to control it.
• The Demon Empress invaded Lu Chen's Sea of Spirit and attempted to possess him while he was unable to fight back.
• Lu Chen identified the Demon Empress and warned her that the Sea God and higher-ranked gods made her revenge against humanity futile, leaving her shocked and doubtful.

Lu Chen survived Demon Empress’s attempt to devour his Divine Sense, and her failed attack left him with a surge of spiritual power. As the God of Destruction watched, Lu Chen fully fused the Power of Destruction with his life force, while Demon Empress’s hatred of Tang San deepened.

• Lu Chen tried to persuade Demon Empress to become his Soul Ring and help him reach godhood, but she attacked his Divine Sense to devour his memories.
• A concealed crimson-purple light erased Demon Empress’s intelligence in Lu Chen’s Sea of Spirit, leaving behind energy that strengthened his spiritual power.
• Demon Empress recovered in an underground cavern in the Far North and blamed Tang San and humanity for the Soul Beasts’ inability to become gods.
• The God of Destruction watched Lu Chen from the God Realm and considered him as a candidate for inheriting the Divine Positions of Destruction and Life.
• Lu Chen completely refined the Power of Destruction into his heart, forming a rune that fused destruction with life force.

After surviving the heavenly tribulation, Lu Chen awakened the Ultimate Life and Ultimate Destruction attributes and gained a hundred-thousand-year External Soul Bone. As the Holy Spirit Cult’s Night Owl attacked him, Luo Wei and Lu Chen severely wounded Rose, and two powerful auras descended.

• Lu Chen emerged from the tribulation with Ultimate Life and Ultimate Destruction, and his External Soul Bone advanced to a hundred thousand years.
• Night Owl, a level ninety-seven Super Douluo and Third Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult, emerged from a shattered space and attacked Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen blocked Night Owl’s Void Slash and grabbed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum while Twin Fists Douluo tried to break away from Rose.
• Lu Chen struck Rose’s spirit with Infinite Hell Reincarnation, disrupting her Soul Skill as Luo Wei hit her with her ninth Soul Skill and Aerial Strangulation.
• An ink-colored vine caught the severely wounded Rose, and two powerful auras descended from the sky.

Lu Chen repelled Night Owl’s devastating attack with his Ultimate Light and revealed his astonishing healing ability, but the Holy Spirit Cult’s powerful fighters closed in. He ordered the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to sacrifice itself and strengthen him for the battle ahead.

• Night Owl attacked Lu Chen with his Eighth Soul Skill while Wu Xing restrained Twin Fists Douluo, and Luo Wei said the Body Sect’s reinforcements could arrive at any time.
• Lu Chen unleashed Holy Descent and destroyed Night Owl’s void scythes with his Holy Light Judgment Fist, frightening the Holy Spirit Cult experts with his Ultimate Light.
• Zhang Peng ordered the six Titled Douluo to join Night Owl in attacking Lu Chen, whose injuries healed instantly after Night Owl slashed his throat.
• Lu Chen told the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to sacrifice itself, placing its Soul Skills into a Soul Ring and an External Soul Bone.
• The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum began its sacrifice, shocking Night Owl and the six Holy Spirit Cult elders.

The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum sacrificed itself to Lu Chen, who used a newly comprehended fusion fist to kill six Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluo. The sacrifice made him a Soul King with a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, and his power continued to grow.

• The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum began sacrificing itself to Lu Chen, drawing the attention of Long Xiaoyao, Du Busi, Jin Peng, and Night Owl.
• Night Owl ordered the Holy Spirit Cult’s six Titled Douluo to stop Lu Chen, and they unleashed their ninth Soul Skills against him.
• Lu Chen combined life and destruction in his Roaring Qi Sky-Cracking Fist, annihilating all six attackers and carving a vast ravine through Sunset Forest.
• The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum completed its sacrifice, granting Lu Chen a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and raising his Soul Power from Level 50 to Level 57.
• Lu Chen became a Soul King and gained the [Indestructible Vajra] and [Eight Meridians Qi-Piercing] Soul Skills as the chrysanthemum’s power continued to flow into him.

Lu Chen survived Night Owl’s strongest attack and completed the fusion of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum’s External Soul Bone, advancing to Rank 60. As the Holy Spirit Cult’s Long Xiaoyao and War Demon clashed with Du Busi and Jin Peng, Lu Chen awakened a golden energy-absorbing divine wheel behind his back.

• Long Xiaoyao and War Demon attacked Du Busi and Jin Peng, while Luo Wei and Twin Fists Douluo continued fighting Zhang Peng and Wu Xing.
• Night Owl used his Martial Soul Avatar and eighth Soul Skill against Lu Chen, but Lu Chen’s defenses reduced the attack to a tiny wound that healed immediately.
• The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum’s essence formed an emblem-type External Soul Bone linked to Lu Chen’s spine and arms, and Lu Chen broke through to Rank 60.
• Lu Chen awakened the Soul Bone, which unfolded into a purple-gold divine wheel and drew in surrounding energy to restore his Soul Power.

Lu Chen used his newly activated External Soul Bone and nearly twentyfold boosts to overwhelm Night Owl, a Rank 97 Super Douluo. As cameras recorded the fight, Lu Chen caught up with Night Owl after he escaped through the void and struck again with Holy Light Judgment Fist.

• Lu Chen revealed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum's three light wheels and charged Night Owl with his speed and strength boosted nearly twentyfold.
• Lu Chen's Only I Am Supreme punch shattered Night Owl's Spatial Barrier and heavily injured him, sending him crashing into a boulder.
• Rose watched in disbelief as Night Owl was defeated, while Zhang Peng considered retreating because Lu Chen's light attribute suppressed Evil Soul Masters.
• Lü Liang and Chen Jie filmed the battle with a Camera Soul Tool and planned to use the footage to make Yihua Media famous.
• Night Owl escaped Lu Chen's next strike with Void Traversal, but Lu Chen tracked him down and attacked with Holy Light Judgment Fist.

Lu Chen escaped Night Owl’s Dimensional Exile by exchanging places with Rose, who was swallowed by the spatial crack. He then ambushed and killed Night Owl, leaving the battle with Wu Xing and the Holy Church still underway.

• Night Owl used his ninth Soul Skill, Dimensional Exile, to open a spatial crack that threatened to pull Lu Chen into the void.
• Lu Chen used Gemini Exchange to trade places with Rose and escape into the sky, while Rose was swallowed by the crack and lost an arm.
• Lu Chen revealed that Mu En’s left arm soul bone gave him Gemini Exchange and Mother-Child Teleportation, and that he had secretly marked both Rose and Night Owl.
• Lu Chen vanished, appeared behind Night Owl, and used Fang-Twisting Dragon-Killing Fist to interrupt his attempt to escape with Void Traversal.
• Lu Chen cut off Night Owl’s head, killing the Void Douluo as the battlefield fell silent.

Lu Chen killed Night Owl and turned his attention to Wu Xing, while Shrek's leaders debated joining forces with the Holy Spirit Cult and learned that the Clear Sky Sect had powerful hidden experts. Xuan Zi agreed to pursue Qian Duoduo's scheme, and Lu Chen launched a surprise attack on Wu Xing.

• Lu Chen killed Night Owl, a Rank 97 Super Douluo, and Shrek's leaders watched in alarm.
• Qian Duoduo proposed luring the Holy Spirit Cult into a fight with the Body Sect, then using the conflict to eliminate Lu Chen and weaken both sides.
• Qian Duoduo revealed that the Clear Sky Sect's master was a Limit Douluo and its deputy master was a Rank 98 Super Douluo, prompting Cai Meier to support the plan.
• Xuan Zi agreed to speak with Long Xiaoyao after seeing Lu Chen charge toward Wu Xing.
• Lu Chen stored Night Owl's corpse and attacked Wu Xing during his battle with the Twin Fists Douluo, striking with a transformed battle axe and the mental skill Infinite Hell.

Lu Chen killed Wu Xing and nearly killed Zhang Peng as the Holy Spirit Cult’s forces suffered heavy losses in Sunset Forest. Long Xiaoyao retreated with Zhang Peng and War Demon, while Lu Chen revealed that he had deliberately let Zhang Peng escape for a hidden purpose.

• Lu Chen and Twin Fists overwhelmed Wu Xing, and Lu Chen beheaded him with a spinning golden scythe despite Long Xiaoyao’s attempt to intervene.
• Lu Chen attacked Zhang Peng with Radiant Cross Blade, but Zhang Peng escaped using Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell after Luo Wei’s Infinite Hell briefly stunned him.
• Zhang Peng urged the Holy Spirit Cult to retreat, and Long Xiaoyao withdrew with him and War Demon after declaring vengeance against the Body Sect.
• Luo Wei questioned why Lu Chen had let Zhang Peng escape, and Lu Chen hinted that he intended to use him as a target for a spiritual imprint.
• Lu Chen wondered whether Qin Ming had finished building his missile.

After killing a Super Douluo, Lu Chen returned to the Body Sect, where its leaders praised his cultivation and revealed that a spy had helped them seize a cache of powerful Soul Cannons. The disciples welcomed Lu Chen back from seclusion, and he reunited with Long Aotian and Shi Potian.

• Lü Liang and Chen Jie hurried to return with their recorded footage of Lu Chen's battle so they could sell it before rival sects.
• Du Busi praised Lu Chen for killing a Super Douluo, and Lu Chen explained that he had completed the first layer of the Innate Secret Art and begun tempering his heart with tribulation lightning.
• Lu Chen declined to absorb a sixth Soul Ring for now, while Du Busi warned that the Holy Spirit Cult would seek revenge and led him back to the sect.
• Lu Chen learned that Viper had helped the Body Sect obtain hundreds of Level-Eight Fixed-Mounted Soul Cannons and two Level-Nine cannons from Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult warehouses.
• The Body Sect's disciples celebrated Lu Chen's return from seclusion, and Long Aotian and Shi Potian greeted him after reaching Soul King.