Chapter Summaries

After returning from two years away, Lu Chen reunited with Tang Ya and helped her and Luo Feng absorb energy from two dead Super Douluo. He learned that hot pot Soul Tools and assembly-line production had spread during his absence, and the chapter left him catching up on the sect’s industrial progress.

• Tang Ya greeted Lu Chen after his return, and he learned her Soul Power had reached Level 64 with the aid of a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Lu Chen privately showed Tang Ya and Luo Feng the corpses of Wu Xing and Night Owl, then removed the evil energy from their bodies.
• Tang Ya absorbed residual life energy and rose to Level 67, while Luo Feng reached Level 90 and planned to condense a Soul Core.
• Xue Ling'er demonstrated the Integrated Hot Pot Soul Tool, and Lu Chen learned it had helped popularize hot pot restaurants.
• Tang Ya and Xue Ling'er told Lu Chen that the sect had trained low-level Soul Engineers for assembly-line production and that Li Yan was developing an Industrial Mother Machine.

Lu Chen learned that footage of his battle against the Holy Spirit Cult was drawing crowds to the Body Sect’s new Contribution Hall, where disciples earned points through missions and exchanged them for resources. After examining the hall’s system and its coveted rewards, he wondered what missions awaited on the upper floors.

• Lu Chen discussed his cultivation bottlenecks and considered absorbing a Second Martial Soul, with the Evil Eye Tyrant as his preferred choice.
• Shi Potian and Long Aotian told Lu Chen that footage of his battle against the Holy Spirit Cult was being shown throughout the sect and explained how the Contribution Hall worked.
• Long Aotian and Shi Potian brought Lu Chen to the Contribution Hall, where disciples watched the battle footage and reacted to his techniques and appearance.
• Lu Chen inspected the hall’s missions, exchange system, and expensive high-level rewards, then turned his attention toward the second floor.

Lu Chen witnessed Xu Feng and his lackeys threaten Jiang Nannan over her refusal to become Xu Feng’s woman, and intervened by killing all three. He offered Jiang Nannan one request as compensation for the sect’s failure, leaving her hopeful that her bedridden mother could be saved.

• Lu Chen noticed Xu Feng, Guo Rong, and He Chenxu harassing Jiang Nannan as she selected missions.
• Xu Feng demanded that Jiang Nannan become his woman, while Guo Rong and He Chenxu threatened her with danger on her missions in the Star Dou Forest.
• Jiang Nannan revealed that she needed one hundred thousand Contribution Points to obtain a Ninth-Grade Spirit Herb for her bedridden mother and invoked the sect’s rules against threats.
• Lu Chen appeared through a spiritual projection, and Guo Rong, He Chenxu, and Xu Feng recognized him and begged for mercy.
• Lu Chen killed the three men by blasting apart their Seas of Spirit, then offered Jiang Nannan one request as compensation.
• Jiang Nannan realized Lu Chen might be able to save her mother and felt hope.

Lu Chen exposed the Outer Sect’s nobles for bullying and extorting fellow disciples, then killed those who admitted to their crimes. The chapter ended with Jiang Nannan reflecting that the Body Sect was different from Shrek.

• Lu Chen announced that a noble disciple had threatened a female fellow disciple and invited anyone who had been bullied to report their abusers.
• A bruised youth accused Xu Liang of stealing his Contribution Points and threatening his twelve-year-old sister; Lu Chen used spiritual force to make Xu Liang confess and then killed him.
• Lu Chen warned anyone guilty of similar abuses to confess at the Law Enforcement Hall, and rejected noble disciples’ offers of money and family donations.
• Lu Chen used his spiritual power to kill every noble disciple who confessed to wrongdoing.
• Jiang Nannan watched the scene and murmured that the Body Sect was different from Shrek.

Lu Chen approved the Contribution Point exchange policy but reformed it to stop nobles from monopolizing rare sect resources, introducing Honor Points and audits. After discussing the system’s implementation with Tang Ya and Meiying, he headed to the Soul Engineering Department to explore improving the exchange Soul Tool.

• Lu Chen asked Tang Ya and Meiying why Contribution Points could be exchanged for Gold Soul Coins, and Meiying explained the policy’s limits and purpose.
• After learning Lu Chen had purged sect parasites, Tang Ya worried about retaliation, while Lu Chen said he would welcome trouble from the Dou Ling Empire and described the empire’s weakness.
• Lu Chen ordered the sect to add Honor Points, restrict rare-resource purchases through audits, remove the exchange limit, and lower the exchange rate to one to five hundred.
• Tang Ya agreed to draft the new audit standards and raised concerns that more exchanges would create queues at the Contribution Hall.
• Lu Chen imagined making the Recording Soul Tool smaller and more convenient, then sent his spiritual body to the Soul Engineering Department to investigate.

Lu Chen visited the Soul Engineering Department, where Xue Ling'er completed a Level-Six Soul Tool core and proposed using wristwatches as relaying network nodes. The researchers began developing his Record Wristwatch concept, while Lu Chen later continued struggling to make his fused Soul Power, spiritual power, and will resonate with heaven and earth.

• Xue Ling'er successfully carved the core for a Level-Six Thousand-Stacked Prism Light Shield, impressing Lu Chen and the three Soul Engineers.
• Lu Chen introduced the Record Wristwatch, which would store identities, exchange information, connect to the sect database, and send coordinates and distress signals.
• Xue Ling'er proposed that wristwatches relay signals between nodes, and Qin Ming recognized the idea as a feasible way to extend network coverage.
• Li Yan and Zhao Shen debated the device's functions, size, cost, and practicality before Qin Ming directed them to focus on the prototype.
• Lu Chen approved the research and offered resources, encouraging the Soul Engineers to pursue their ideas even if the devices were not immediately practical.
• In the core cultivation chamber, Lu Chen wondered why his fused Soul Power, spiritual power, and will still could not resonate with heaven and earth.

Lu Chen gained a breakthrough in understanding fist intent as a path toward Unity of Heaven and Man, then accompanied Jiang Nannan to treat her gravely ill mother. He began channeling life energy into her mother, leaving her recovery still to be seen.

• Lu Chen abandoned his domineering fist intent and practiced Flowing Water Rock-Shattering Fist until he realized fist intent could connect him with heaven and earth.
• Jiang Nannan waited outside Lu Chen's cultivation chamber, worried that her mother's worsening condition required urgent help.
• Lu Chen emerged, healed Jiang Nannan's exhaustion and hidden injuries with life energy, and agreed to accompany her.
• Lu Chen and Jiang Nannan traveled to Listening Sea Town, where she thanked him for opening the Body Sect and improving life for commoner families.
• Jiang Nannan introduced Lu Chen to her frail mother, and he warned that her vitality was nearly exhausted before beginning treatment with a jade-green glow in his palm.

Lu Chen healed Jiang Nannan’s mother and left Jiang Nannan with an unrecognized feeling of affection. After half a month of cultivation, Luo Feng broke through to Titled Douluo and challenged Lu Chen, who told him to wait until he had obtained his ninth Soul Ring.

• Lu Chen restored Mother Jiang’s health and youth, and Jiang Nannan and her mother thanked him for saving her life.
• Lu Chen advised Jiang Nannan to exchange some of her Contribution Points to improve her living conditions, then left as she watched him go with gratitude and an unfamiliar flutter of emotion.
• Over the next half month, Lu Chen deepened his understanding of heaven and earth while the Outer Sect purge and revised exchange rates boosted trade in Contribution Points and Honor Points.
• Luo Feng condensed a Slaughter-Attribute Soul Core and broke through to Titled Douluo at the age of twenty-one.
• Luo Feng asked Lu Chen to fight, but Lu Chen told him to wait until he obtained his ninth Soul Ring.

Huo Yuhao left the Duke's Estate and entered the Star Dou Forest, where Lu Chen saved him from a Soul Beast and awaited the arrival of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. Sky Dream unexpectedly entered Huo Yuhao instead, and the sky darkened beneath a crushing pressure.

• Huo Yuhao left the Duke's Estate, took his mother's surname, and set out for the Star Dou Forest.
• Lu Chen and his companions waited at the forest's edge for Huo Yuhao, whom Lu Chen had been expecting.
• A ten-year Godslayer Wind Baboon attacked Huo Yuhao, but Lu Chen killed it and rescued him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm emerged from the ground and chose to possess Huo Yuhao instead of Lu Chen.
• Huo Yuhao collapsed inside a golden cocoon as the sky darkened and an immense pressure descended.

Lu Chen received Electrolux into his Sea of Spirit, where the elder began restoring his soul with Lu Chen’s Life Origin. Suspecting the Plane Lord had altered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s choice, Lu Chen attacked Huo Yuhao and forced the hidden will to answer him.

• Electrolux formed a stable phantom in Lu Chen’s Sea of Spirit and introduced himself as the Holy Necromancer and Undead Scourge.
• Electrolux offered to help Lu Chen with light magic and protect him while he recovered his soul using Lu Chen’s Life Origin.
• Lu Chen severed Huo Yuhao’s limbs, seized him, and entered his Sea of Spirit despite Xue Ling’er’s alarm.
• Lu Chen confronted the Plane Lord, threatening to kill Huo Yuhao unless it explained why it had redirected Sky Dream Ice Silkworm from him.
• The Plane Lord took control of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and asked Lu Chen why he knew of its existence.

Lu Chen confronted the Planetary Will over its interference with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s sacrifice and negotiated compensation while holding the unconscious Huo Yuhao hostage. The Planetary Will granted him an Evil Eye Tyrant for a Second Martial Soul and the location of a Golden Behemoth cub, but refused his other demands before offering one further favor.

• Lu Chen accused the Planetary Will of favoring Huo Yuhao and demanded compensation for losing a Million-Year Soul Ring.
• The Planetary Will agreed to provide an exceptional, hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant that would transform into Lu Chen’s Second Martial Soul without retaining its consciousness.
• Lu Chen asked the Planetary Will to locate a Golden Behemoth cub sealed in a Money Bag storage Soul Tool, and it agreed.
• Lu Chen requested a blank Divine Sense Seed and information about other Divine Inheritances, but the Planetary Will said it could not provide either.
• Lu Chen increased his grip on the unconscious Huo Yuhao, prompting the Planetary Will to offer one favor within its power in exchange for releasing him.

Lu Chen forced the Planetary Will to provide a powerful Evil Eye Tyrant for his Second Martial Soul and healed Huo Yuhao before the beast began its Soul Beast Transformation. The transformation's red beacon drew Soul Masters and powerful beings toward them, while Lu Chen prepared to absorb the Dark Evil Tyrant with his companions guarding the area.

• Lu Chen demanded that the Planetary Will produce an Evil Eye Tyrant and raise its Soul Power age to two hundred thousand years, then restored Huo Yuhao's limbs and healed his hidden ailments.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant began its Soul Beast Transformation, releasing a pillar of red Soul Power that spread across the Star Dou Forest.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion noticed the transformation and hurried toward it with Scarlet King, while an old man and Yan Shaozhe's group also set out to claim the opportunity.
• Lu Chen told Luo Feng, Xue Ling'er, and Tang Ya that the Dark Evil Tyrant would become his Second Martial Soul and asked them to guard him as he prepared.

Lu Chen fused the Dark Evil Tyrant’s transformation embryo into his Life Origin, awakening the Evil Eye Heavenly Eye as his Second Martial Soul. Its birth pushed his Spiritual Power past its bottleneck into the realm of Form and Substance, while his companions guarded him from arriving Soul Masters.

• The Planetary Will formed the Dark Evil Tyrant into an embryo and fused it with Lu Chen as Electrolux offered to remove its dark origin, which Lu Chen chose to keep.
• Xue Ling'er sensed powerful Soul Masters approaching, and Luo Feng’s presence and Lu Chen’s reputation drove the intruders to flee without challenging them.
• Lu Chen’s fusion completed, forming the Evil Eye Heavenly Eye on his brow and summoning the Evil Eye Tyrant’s phantom with a scarlet Soul Ring.
• Lu Chen’s Spiritual Power broke through to Form and Substance, releasing a Mental Detection ripple that revealed familiar figures in the forest.

Lu Chen confronted Scarlet King after the Fierce Beast charged into the clearing with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. He used Spiritual Strangulation to create an opening and sent Scarlet King flying with a single punch, while Luo Feng and the others prepared to target the Auspicious Beast.

• Lu Chen sensed Scarlet King approaching with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Yan Shaozhe recognized the Fierce Beast’s roar.
• Scarlet King arrived and attacked Lu Chen, enraged by the crimson Soul Ring at his feet.
• Lu Chen told Luo Feng to watch the Three-Eyed Golden Lion while he drew Scarlet King away.
• Lu Chen shattered Scarlet King’s flaming claw with a punch, then used Spiritual Strangulation to disrupt him.
• Lu Chen followed with Exploding Core Destruction Fist and blasted Scarlet King across the forest, leaving a massive trail of destruction.

Lu Chen fought Scarlet King, a three-hundred-thousand-year Fierce Beast, and matched him in a brutal clash of physical strength. As the battle continued, Yan Shaozhe decided Lu Chen had to be eliminated and prepared to act while the two fighters weakened each other.

• Lu Chen sent Scarlet King crashing into a hillside, but Scarlet King rose, recognized Lu Chen’s Ultimate Destruction Power, and enlarged himself to attack again.
• Lu Chen used Heaven-Earth Manifestation and stacked his enhancement skills before meeting Scarlet King’s Flame-Splitting Claw with Exploding Core Destruction Fist.
• Scarlet King’s flames failed to harm Lu Chen, so Scarlet King abandoned flame attacks and challenged him to a close-quarters fight.
• Lu Chen and Scarlet King traded punches and claws at tremendous speed, with Lu Chen’s destructive power eroding Scarlet King’s body.
• Zhang Lexuan and the others watched in shock as Bei Bei grew jealous and Yan Shaozhe realized Lu Chen’s strength was not merely due to attribute suppression.
• Yan Shaozhe crushed a black figurine and waited for Lu Chen and Scarlet King to wound each other, intending to eliminate Lu Chen.

Lu Chen defeated Scarlet King in a direct physical battle, while Huo Yuhao fled and discovered his body and Soul Power had grown stronger. In Star Dou Forest, Di Tian and the other Fierce Beasts watched Lu Chen, and Di Tian stopped Xiong Jun from attacking when human experts arrived.

• Lu Chen overwhelmed Scarlet King with his fists and defeated it with Ultimate Will: Hundred Fists Collapse.
• Luo Feng, Xue Ling'er, and Tang Ya reacted to Lu Chen's victory while Yan Shaozhe wondered whether he should intervene.
• Huo Yuhao fled the battlefield and learned from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that his body had strengthened and his first Soul Ring limit had risen above five hundred years.
• Huo Yuhao envied Lu Chen's strength and resolved to become powerful enough to avenge his mother; Sky Dream Ice Silkworm promised to help him obtain a Second Martial Soul at Level Twenty.
• Di Tian and the other Fierce Beasts discussed Lu Chen's strength and Ultimate Destruction, and Xiong Jun demanded permission to kill him.
• Di Tian stopped Xiong Jun, warning that multiple human experts had arrived.

Lu Chen defeated the Scarlet King in battle, then healed it after Zhongli Wu’s surprise attack nearly killed it. As twelve Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluos surrounded him, including Zhongli Wu and War Demon, Lu Chen faced a siege by two Ninety-Eighth-Level Super Douluos.

• Lu Chen ended his Heaven-Earth Manifestation and reflected that his Soul Power consumption made condensing a Soul Core urgent.
• The Scarlet King transformed into a humanoid form and charged Lu Chen, but Zhongli Wu appeared behind him and attacked with his Eighth Soul Skill, Death God's Scythe.
• Lu Chen used Gemini Exchange to switch places with the Scarlet King, causing Zhongli Wu’s strike to sever the Scarlet King’s arms and tear open its chest.
• Lu Chen healed the Scarlet King with life and light energy, explaining that he accepted the natural law of survival of the fittest; the Scarlet King developed a grudging recognition of him.
• Lu Chen sensed a powerful aura from the Star Dou Forest’s Core Zone and chose to save the Scarlet King rather than risk provoking the Soul Beast Clan.
• Twelve Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluos appeared overhead, led by the Ninety-Eighth-Level Super Douluos War Demon and Zhongli Wu, and Lu Chen confronted them.

Lu Chen confronted Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult’s twelve powerful Soul Masters in the Star Dou Forest, while Zhongli Wu exposed Yan Shaozhe as the one who had betrayed Lu Chen’s whereabouts. Lu Chen rejected the cult and prepared to fight as its forces attacked.

• Shrek’s Zhang Lexuan worried about the Holy Spirit Cult’s presence near the academy, while Yan Shaozhe discouraged her from seeking help and Bei Bei hoped the cult would kill Lu Chen.
• Zhongli Wu offered to spare Lu Chen and make him the Holy Son if he joined the Holy Spirit Cult, and Lu Chen declined Electrolux’s offer to intervene so the elder could conserve his strength.
• Lu Chen pretended to consider joining the cult and demanded to know who had informed them of his location, so Zhongli Wu named Shrek’s Yan Shaozhe and shocked the gathered spectators.
• Yan Shaozhe denied the accusation, while Lu Chen recognized Zhongli Wu’s attempt to deepen the conflict between Shrek and the Body Sect.
• Lu Chen rejected the Holy Spirit Cult, activated his Soul Rings and Golden Armor, and challenged Zhongli Wu and his forces.
• Zhongli Wu ordered the twelve black-robed figures to attack Lu Chen and everyone around him.

Lu Chen and Luo Feng joined forces against the Holy Spirit Cult’s Titled Douluo, killing two enemies and revealing Luo Feng’s extraordinary Soul Rings. As War Demon unleashed a devastating axe attack, Lu Chen and Luo Feng combined their fist techniques into a fusion combat technique and launched it against the descending axe shadows.

• War Demon and five other Titled Douluo attacked Lu Chen while the remaining enemies moved against Luo Feng, Tang Ya, and Xue Ling'er.
• Lu Chen unleashed Soul Storm and used Gemini Exchange to redirect War Demon’s axe strike, causing War Demon to kill Blood Wolf Douluo by mistake.
• Luo Feng struck down Demon Bat Douluo with Godslayer—Break, and his two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings stunned the watching fighters.
• War Demon attacked Lu Chen with Thousand Demon Axe Shadows, and Lu Chen called on Luo Feng to help protect Tang Ya and Xue Ling'er.
• Lu Chen and Luo Feng fused their Soul Rings and fist techniques, then launched Blast Qi, Sky-Shattering Fist at War Demon’s axe shadows.

Lu Chen and Luo Feng joined forces to severely wound War Demon, a Level 98 Super Douluo, before Zhongli Wu ambushed Lu Chen. Lu Chen revealed he had anticipated the attack, revived after being shattered, and struck Zhongli Wu with a Divine Power blade as their fight continued.

• Lu Chen and Luo Feng overpowered War Demon with the Roaring Qi Sky-Cracking Fist, shattered his battle axe, and blasted him away with severe injuries.
• The onlookers reacted in disbelief, while Yan Shaozhe feared Lu Chen and Bei Bei celebrated what he thought was Lu Chen’s death.
• Zhongli Wu ambushed Lu Chen and shattered his body with the Death Scythe, but Lu Chen reassembled himself and revealed he had allowed the attack to land.
• Lu Chen pierced Zhongli Wu with a blade of light and Divine Power, burning him and disrupting his soul with the Light Holy Seal.
• Zhongli Wu swung his Death Scythe at Lu Chen, but Lu Chen switched places with a Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluo, who was cut in half.
• Lu Chen transformed both arms into curved blades of light and prepared to continue attacking Zhongli Wu.