Chapter Summaries

Cinderella returned to Holy Soul Village, awakened the village children, and helped secure academy places for the two who had Soul Power. Two days later, she joined the Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy group as they set out for the Border Mountain Range to hunt Soul Beasts.

• Cinderella rested at Old Jack's home and spent the day revisiting Holy Soul Village.
• Cinderella awakened the village children; only a girl with a Peach Martial Soul and Level One Innate Soul Power and a boy with a Hoe Martial Soul and Level Two Innate Soul Power had Soul Power.
• Old Jack bought a neighboring village's unused work-study student slot so both children could attend the academy.
• Cinderella and more than twenty academy students left Notting City with the dean and teachers for the Border Mountain Range.
• The dean warned the students to follow the teachers' orders and not wander or act on their own.

Cinderella led the academy students into the Border Mountain Range and used her spiritual power to find suitable Soul Beasts for their first Soul Rings. After helping seven students obtain rings, she unexpectedly reunited with Pinocchio and Levin, who were traveling through the mountains to complete their Divine Examinations.

• Cinderella convinced the headmaster to let her select higher-quality Soul Beasts and lead the group into the mountains.
• Cinderella found a two-hundred-and-forty-year Ironback Boar, subdued it, and helped a student obtain its Soul Ring.
• Cinderella guided the students to six more suitable hundred-year Soul Beasts, and the students successfully obtained their Soul Rings.
• Pinocchio and Levin emerged from the woods and explained that they were traveling while completing their Divine Examinations.
• Pinocchio revealed that he had reached Soul Emperor rank sixty-five, while Cinderella said she had reached rank sixty-six.

Cinderella reunited with Pinocchio and Levin, agreed to travel with them, and the three helped students obtain Spirit Rings. In Spirit City, Hu Liena reported worsening uncertainty across the fronts, and Bibi Dong suspected the Anti-Spirit Hall Alliance was concealing its plans.

• Cinderella asked Pinocchio and Levin why Dai Weisi had let them leave, and they explained that they refused his offer and departed Star Luo City before the empire fell into chaos.
• Pinocchio invited Cinderella to travel with him and Levin, and she agreed to join them after helping the students.
• Cinderella, Levin, and Pinocchio helped the students hunt Soul Beasts, and thirteen students obtained their first Spirit Rings by afternoon.
• Bibi Dong reviewed reports on the Eastern, Southern, and Western Fronts as Hu Liena described halted offensives, wavering allies, and an unusually quiet Western Front.
• Bibi Dong told Hu Liena that the Anti-Spirit Hall Alliance was staying quiet to avoid alerting its enemies.

Hu Liena reported to Bibi Dong that Spirit Hall’s branch halls were growing fearful while villagers in Alliance-controlled regions missed Spirit Hall’s martial-soul awakening services. After asking about Qian Renxue and Qian Daoliu, Bibi Dong sent Hu Liena away, and the scene shifted to Ursula waiting in Fishbone Cave as a storm brewed in the deep sea.

• Bibi Dong told Hu Liena that Ning Fengzhi would wait for the fronts and allied sects to stabilize before making his next move.
• Hu Liena reported that branch-hall personnel were requesting leave or transfers and that local partners were delaying supplies out of fear of the Anti-Spirit Hall Alliance.
• Hu Liena explained that villagers in Alliance-controlled regions missed Spirit Hall because its absence left many children without access to martial-soul awakenings or support.
• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong that Qian Renxue remained inside the Worship Hall and Qian Daoliu had not appeared since before the Northern Frontier victory, stirring Bibi Dong’s memories of their last meeting.
• Bibi Dong ordered Hu Liena to monitor developments, especially on the Western Front, and Hu Liena left the hall.
• Ursula lay on the Giant Clam Altar in Fishbone Cave, waiting uneasily as another storm brewed in the deep sea.

Ursula prepared to break through to the Six-Hundred-Thousand-Year Realm and faced the Heavenly Tribulation far from Fishbone Cave. After surviving the first five lightning bolts with her formation and a black bead, she continued to endure as Lan Fozi and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King watched from afar.

• Ursula gathered treasures from Fishbone Cave and took a powerful black bead recovered from an ancient shipwreck.
• Ursula traveled to open waters, set up a defensive formation, and released the power she had suppressed to enter the Six-Hundred-Thousand-Year Realm.
• Dark clouds gathered, and Ursula faced the first lightning bolt with her formation shield, which cracked but held.
• Ursula used the black bead to absorb much of the second bolt, then endured the third, fourth, and fifth bolts as her injuries mounted.
• Lan Fozi asked the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King what was happening, and he recognized Ursula's tribulation from his own past experience.

Ursula endured a powerful heavenly tribulation, using a dark-green formation and magic from the Fairy-Tale World to counter the lightning. As the bolts grew stronger, she remained airborne and prepared to face the next strike.

• Lan Fozi learned from the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King that Ursula was undergoing a tribulation and worried that she might be hurt, but he said he could not help her.
• Xiao Bai sensed a tribulation stronger than a Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulation and reported it to Bo Saixi, who ordered her to continue patrolling.
• Bo Saixi identified the tribulation as belonging to a Soul Beast of at least six hundred thousand years and chose not to interfere.
• Ursula endured successive lightning strikes until the black bead in her palm shattered, then began chanting and summoned dark-green pillars that intercepted the bolts.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King recognized that Ursula's formation gathered and converted the ocean's power to replenish her, while Lan Fozi watched from his back.
• The twenty-third bolt shattered Ursula's pillars and made her spit blood, but she stayed aloft and spread her hands as the seawater beneath her boiled.

Ursula survived her heavenly tribulation, gained greater strength, and began recovering with the help of a formation. The Sea Princess observed the new overlord’s rise and summoned every tribe’s leaders to a meeting in three days.

• Ursula survived the final lightning strike, refined the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s essence blood, and began healing while stabilizing her increased power.
• Lan Fozi visited Ursula with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s permission and gave her a Storage Shell containing rare healing treasures.
• Lan Fozi returned to the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, leaving Ursula to accelerate her recovery with the formation.
• The Sea Princess detected Ursula’s successful tribulation and recognized her as a new sea overlord.
• The Sea Princess ordered the leaders of every tribe to attend a council meeting in three days.

Tang San decided to leave Clear Sky City to search for his sister, Cinderella, after learning to control his killing intent. He followed clues from her letters northwest and continued his search after a local tea-stall owner had not seen her.

• Tang San played the harp for Tang Yuehua and told her he was ready to leave to find Xian Di.
• Tang San told Tang Hao he had restrained his killing intent and planned to leave the next day; Tang Hao agreed.
• Tang Yuehua gave Tang San supplies at the city gates and asked him to write when he found his sister.
• Tang San followed clues in Cinderella's letters northwest, traveling away from Clear Sky City for about twelve days.
• Tang San asked an old man at a roadside tea stall whether he had seen a golden-haired girl, but the man had not.

Tang San followed Cinderella’s trail into Spirit Hall territory and encountered Hu Liena while traveling through a forest. He continued toward a nearby city, while Cinderella, Pinocchio, and Levin remained together in an unnamed mountain hollow.

• Tang San used the Clear Sky Sect’s intelligence network to trace Cinderella westward until her trail led into Spirit Hall territory.
• Tang San found Hu Liena and several Spirit Hall Soul Masters resting around a bonfire in a forest clearing.
• Hu Liena invited Tang San to sit, gave him food, and recommended Drunken Moon Tower as an inn in the nearby city.
• Tang San left the clearing and continued toward the city, realizing Cinderella’s trail had vanished somewhere within Spirit Hall territory.
• Cinderella examined a medicinal herb beside a stream while Pinocchio searched nearby bushes and Levin surveyed the surrounding mountains.

Cinderella, Levin, and Pinocchio traveled north, gathering herbs and other natural treasures as an unexplained shared premonition guided them. At the Northern Frontier, Xiao Wu grew restless during the lull in fighting, and Zhu Zhuqing explained why the army could not rush into another campaign.

• Cinderella, Levin, and Pinocchio found a wetland and harvested mature medicinal plants while continuing their journey north.
• Cinderella recalled that all three had felt an urge to gather natural treasures, and they agreed to collect carefully without damaging what remained.
• The travelers reached a small town at dusk and planned to spend the night there.
• Xiao Wu complained to Zhu Zhuqing that daily drills and the lack of combat at the Northern Frontier were tedious.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Xiao Wu that war required long preparations and that the Alliance needed time to recover after its victory.

Xiao Wu visited Zhu Zhuqing and Rapunzel at the camp, finding comfort in Rapunzel’s company as they arranged to meet again the next afternoon. Outside Iron Gate Pass, Yue Guan used his plant Soul Skills to plant and awaken cold-resistant saplings, continuing his work under the watch of curious soldiers.

• Xiao Wu asked Zhu Zhuqing whether she had gotten used to life at the camp, and Zhu Zhuqing said she only needed to survive.
• Xiao Wu watched Rapunzel care for an injured soldier, then sat with her and arranged to visit her the next afternoon.
• Yue Guan used his Soul Skills to prepare frozen soil, plant seeds, and stimulate their roots to grow.
• Two soldiers watched Yue Guan plant trees and said he was doing it because Madam Eva had caught him.
• Yue Guan continued planting another patch of land, carefully returning a seed the wind had blown from its pit.

Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Ghost Leopard Douluo worked for the Northern Frontier, planting trees, repairing walls, and training soldiers under Eva’s supervision. As the first sprout emerged, Yue Guan wondered what Eva would do with him when she no longer needed him, while Ghost Leopard Douluo recognized that he was preparing soldiers who might fight Spirit Hall.

• Gui Mei moved heavy stones to repair the wall, while Ghost Leopard Douluo used his Soul Power to smooth damaged sections and check the cracks.
• Yue Guan tilled the frozen slope and planted seeds, finding unexpected peace in helping the Northern Frontier grow forests.
• Yue Guan wondered whether Eva would eventually let him go or keep him working until his antidote stopped arriving, then returned to tilling as the first sprout emerged.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo led soldiers in close-quarters sparring, correcting their technique while reflecting that their training would help them fight Spirit Hall.
• Gui Mei silently challenged soldiers one by one, knocking each down with controlled strikes to teach them how to face a much faster opponent.

Gui Mei’s training helped the Northern Frontier soldiers improve their defenses, while Xisu completed her transformation into the Dragon God and learned that the summoned fairy-tale characters must work together to fulfill their mission. After Xisu sent a call toward two distant powers, the Golden Dragon King began violently breaking the seals imprisoning him in the Divine Realm.

• Gui Mei continued training the soldiers until they could block and sometimes counterattack, while Ghost Leopard Douluo and Yue Guan returned to camp separately.
• Xisu absorbed the Dragon Realm’s power through the Dragon God’s Core and broke through to the level of the Dragon God.
• Xisu swore to protect the Dragon Clan, the Dragon Realm, and the souls of the departed and living, and the Dragon Realm’s spirits accepted her.
• Xisu recovered memories revealing the summoned fairy-tale characters’ shared mission and realized they would need to act together to accomplish it.
• Xisu sent a confirmation through the Dragon God Divinity toward a sealed presence in the Divine Realm and another power beneath the Lake of Life.
• The Golden Dragon King struck the Five Great God Kings’ seal repeatedly, making cracks spread across the array.

Golden Dragon King broke free from the God Realm’s seal after Xisu’s message carrying Dragon God’s aura reached him, and he escaped under the brief suppression of the gods’ Divine Power. The signal also reached Gu Yuena, who struggled with the news that Dragon God’s inheritance had passed to someone else, while Xisu opened a golden gate in the Dragon Realm.

• The five God Kings tried to reinforce the seal, but Golden Dragon King shattered it and rushed toward the distant call.
• Dragon God’s will briefly suppressed the gods’ Divine Power, allowing Golden Dragon King to break through their encirclement and escape.
• The God Kings recognized the descending will as Dragon God’s power and realized Golden Dragon King’s escape would throw the God Realm into turmoil.
• Xisu reflected that Golden Dragon King had responded to her signal with reckless urgency, unaware that he lacked the intelligence to weigh its meaning or consequences.
• Gu Yuena sensed the call and learned that Dragon God’s inheritance had passed to a new being, but she hesitated to approach or respond.
• Xisu withdrew her perception and opened a golden gate of light at the edge of the Dragon Realm.

Xisu opened the Dragon Realm gate and broke the Dragon God’s restriction on Soul Beasts becoming gods. Across Douluo Star, powerful Soul Beasts sensed new possibilities, while the Ice Snow Queen completed her Divine Examination and began ascending through the Ice Law.

• Xisu severed the ancient restriction in the Dragon God’s Divine Seat, freeing intelligent Soul Beasts across Douluo Star from its barrier to godhood.
• Gu Yuena sensed the restriction break at the bottom of the Lake of Life and wondered why the new Dragon God had lifted it.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King began breaking through the barrier, while Ursula realized she could pursue godhood by comprehending the law of trade.
• Di Tian sensed the path to godhood open but hesitated, torn between his loyalty to Gu Yuena and his enduring devotion to the Dragon God.
• The Ice Snow Queen told Snow Empress and Ice Empress that the restriction was gone, then announced her Divine Examination had ended and ascended within a pillar of ice-blue light.

The Ice Snow Queen completed her ascension and became the first Soul Beast on the continent to become a god. News of the new divine presence reached powerful figures across the continent, leaving Qian Daoliu worried about Snow White and Florian, while Bibi Dong considered whether the new god was connected to Eva.

• The Ice Snow Queen formed an Ice Divine Ring and completed her ascension, and the Snow Empress and Ice Empress congratulated her.
• The Ice Snow Queen told the Snow Empress and Ice Empress that they could also become gods now that the restrictions had been lifted.
• Bo Saixi sensed the birth of a god in the Far North, then returned to the Sea God Hall and focused on Ariel's Divine Examination.
• Qian Daoliu sensed the new divine aura and worried that it might affect Snow White and Florian, but stayed behind to guard Qian Renxue's Angel God's Trial.
• Bibi Dong sensed the god's aura and considered whether the new god was connected to Eva and the Northern Frontier.
• Di Tian and Xiong Jun sensed the divine aura and assumed the Snow Empress had become a god, while Bi Ji quietly rejoiced that a Soul Beast had ascended.

After Ice Snow Queen became a god, Eva spent her Reputation Points on a Godhead Seed and chose the path to becoming the Beauty Goddess. Ge Duo accepted Xisu’s request to procure rare materials, while Xisu began using the Power of Hope to stabilize the Golden Dragon King’s damaged soul.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King sensed that a Soul Beast in the Far North had become a god, then resumed trying to break through himself.
• Eva reflected on her rise in the Northern Frontier, bought a Godhead Seed, and committed to becoming the Beauty Goddess.
• Ge Duo, still short of the Reputation Points needed for a Godhead Seed, received Xisu’s request to refine and obtain rare materials and agreed to a fixed price.
• Xisu examined the unstable Golden Dragon King and used her Power of Hope to calm his chaotic thoughts and begin repairing his soul.

Xisu began using her Power of Hope to revive the Dragon Clan, while Cinderella, Levin, and Pinocchio realized their Divine Examinations were accelerating and prepared to investigate unusual energy to the west. In the Star Dou Great Forest, the Nine-Colored Deer began advancing toward godhood as Gu Yuena weighed whether to answer Xisu’s summons and Di Tian awaited her decision.

• Xisu withdrew her claw from the Golden Dragon King after his condition stabilized, then began using the Power of Hope to awaken the Dragon Clan’s sleeping souls and bones.
• Cinderella, Levin, and Pinocchio compared their Divine Examination progress and concluded that the gods were rushing to pass on their Divine Seats because Xisu had returned as the Dragon God.
• Cinderella told Levin and Pinocchio they would set out early to investigate unusual energy fluctuations to the west.
• The Nine-Colored Deer sensed that the world’s restrictions had lifted and began awakening her laws and approaching godhood as nine arcs of light formed around her.
• Gu Yuena watched the Nine-Colored Deer’s transformation while reconsidering whether to answer Xisu’s summons, and Di Tian waited for Gu Yuena to decide whether to go to the Dragon Realm.

The Silver Dragon King chose to keep her distance from the new Dragon God and relied on Di Tian and Zi Ji’s continued loyalty. In Balak Royal City, Eva and the allied leaders set a coordinated offensive for twenty days later, and the Northern Frontier camp began preparing for war.

• The Silver Dragon King decided not to contact the new Dragon God until her injuries healed, while Di Tian and Zi Ji remained at their posts and affirmed their loyalty to her.
• Eva, Dai Tianfeng, Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and Tang Xiao agreed that the allied forces would attack the Spirit Hall Empire on three fronts in twenty days, with each force retaining command of its own troops.
• The leaders assigned the sects to the Western Front, the Star Luo Empire to the Southern Front, and the Northern Frontier Allied Army to a central breakthrough.
• Eva ordered the Northern Frontier units to enter full combat readiness, register supplies, and maintain Ge Duo’s pill stockpile.
• Xiao Wu rushed to tell Zhu Zhuqing that the war was beginning, while Zhu Zhuqing urged her to wait for orders.
• Yue Guan, Ghost Leopard Douluo, and Gui Mei received the news at Iron Gate Pass and remained uncertain about their roles in the coming war.

Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to prepare for war as the Anti-Spirit Hall Alliance launched attacks on three fronts, only to find Spirit Hall ready with formidable defenses. The Southern Front fell back, the Western Front stalled, and Eva observed that Bibi Dong was treating the Northern Frontier differently as the story left its conflict unresolved.

• Bibi Dong reviewed reports of allied military preparations and ordered Spirit Hall's forces to enter the highest state of combat readiness.
• The Anti-Spirit Hall Alliance attacked the Western, Southern, and Northern Fronts at once, initially capturing border towns before Spirit Hall counterattacked.
• Spirit Hall's four Title Douluo on the Southern Front routed the Star Luo Empire's vanguard and retook the towns it had captured.
• Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and Tang Xiao recognized that Spirit Hall had more Title Douluo available than they had expected, and Ning Fengzhi told the Star Luo Empire to retreat and defend.
• Dai Tianfeng ordered his troops back to the second defensive line after assessing Spirit Hall's concentrated forces and trained Soul Master units.
• Eva watched the largely restrained fighting at Iron Gate Pass and recognized that Bibi Dong's approach to the Northern Frontier differed from her approach to the other fronts.