Chapter Summaries

The Soul Douluo elder killed two men while searching for the blue-robed youth, then seized the white Horn Bone and discovered he could not store it. As a blue-gold beam brought two newcomers into the pit, An Chen recognized the Fallen Star Knight who had arrived and disguised himself in the crowd.

• The elder questioned the people in the pit about the blue-robed youth, then killed the man with the giant bear Martial Soul and the man with the poisonous White Zhen Bird Martial Soul.
• The elder attacked the mud-covered man, knocked him unconscious, and picked up the white Horn Bone.
• A blue-yellow beam descended into the pit, weakening the elder's suppression and allowing the crowd to flee.
• The blue-gold light revealed a pale, exhausted man and the white-robed Fallen Star Knight, while the elder failed to put the Horn Bone into his Storage Soul Tool.
• An Chen recognized the Fallen Star Knight, changed his appearance, and hid among the crowd while suppressing his aura.

The Fallen Star Knight seized the Horn Bone from an old man and gave it to the Material Truth Research Institute, whose members built a room around it and performed a ritual. The Institute posted a bounty for An Chen, who evaded detection in disguise, while the ritual eventually caused a figure holding the Horn Bone to emerge from the room.

• The Fallen Star Knight subdued the old man, took his Horn Bone, and struck him with lightning as the survivors watched.
• The gray-clad old man confirmed the Horn Bone was the one the Institute sought, and the Institute members assembled a room and altar around it.
• The gray-clad old man announced a bounty for An Chen, offering two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones for him alive.
• An Chen disguised himself as an ordinary-looking woman and avoided detection when the gray-clad old man searched the crowd.
• The Fallen Star Knight and the gray-clad old man waited through the night, then watched as a figure emerged from the room holding the Horn Bone.

Ulysses Gesaer arrived from the Tindalos Galaxy, recognized that An Chen could change his appearance, and warned Nangong Pojun, who trapped the crowd in a deadly lightning barrier before fleeing. After surviving and scavenging the battlefield, An Chen was caught by a teleportation force as Nangong Pojun and Ulysses returned.

• Ulysses Gesaer emerged from the room, met Nangong Pojun, and noticed An Chen's wanted portrait among the crowd.
• Ulysses spotted An Chen in disguise and warned Nangong Pojun that the criminal could change his appearance.
• Nangong Pojun summoned Tai Tan and sealed the area with lightning, then escaped with Ulysses and the research institute's people while the lightning killed many trapped spectators.
• An Chen hid in Shadow Space until the storm ended, then found a blood jade containing cultivation ingredients and the Millennium Dragon Scale Fruit, and searched the corpses for useful items.
• A weakened teleporter returned with Nangong Pojun and Ulysses, and a suction force pulled An Chen toward them as he tried to flee.

An Chen escaped Nangong Pojun by using a Shadow Servant, but Ulysses tracked him to an inn, where a mysterious attendant arrived and revealed that he and Ulysses knew each other. The attendant restrained An Chen while the two discussed Ulysses's grandfather and the being who had allowed Ulysses to travel.

• Nangong Pojun ordered Carl to carry off an unconscious man while the real An Chen escaped into the shadows, though Ulysses appeared to notice.
• An Chen fled far from the battlefield, changed his appearance, and entered a small town, but Ulysses appeared in his inn room and saw through his Shadow Servant disguise.
• An Chen switched places with the Shadow Servant and asked Ulysses what he wanted, but a monocled inn attendant arrived and walked into the room.
• The attendant and Ulysses greeted each other as old acquaintances, and the attendant restrained An Chen and made him sit at the table.
• The attendant asked whether Ulysses's grandfather was dead, and Ulysses said he expected him to die within the next few years.

An Chen learned about boon Pathways and was sent away by the attendant, then traveled to Qingxi City. There, reports of villagers dying in faint black flames troubled him, and he followed young residents heading to a church to pray to a newly heard-of God of Love.

• Ulysses explained that An Chen had advanced through Potions or Beyonder Characteristics, while boon abilities came from Outer Deities and required regular replenishment.
• The attendant said An Chen could seek a second Pathway by praying to Ulysses's Lord, but warned that Ulysses's strange body came from a Sequence ability.
• The attendant forced An Chen to switch places with a Shadow Servant a hundred li away, and the servant's collapse cost An Chen a large amount of stored flesh.
• An Chen traveled toward Qingxi City, replenishing his flesh from nearby Soul Beasts and noticing the city's guards seemed hastily assembled.
• In Qingxi City, An Chen heard that villagers across the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire had burned to death in faint black flames.
• After hearing a bell summon young residents to pray to a God of Love, An Chen followed them toward the church.

An Chen investigated the Church of the God of Lust and discovered that its prayers filled the air with pink mist that put the congregation to sleep. The statue drew him into visions, and he awoke pinned beneath a tree with his heart missing.

• An Chen entered the church, sensed pink particles in the air, and suspected the God of Lust was connected to Undying Human Desire.
• The priest preached about the God of Lust, and An Chen grew drowsy as the church filled with pink mist.
• After the congregation fell asleep and the priest disappeared, the statue opened its eyes and An Chen was drawn into visions of a black insect burdened by possessions and a beautiful woman who killed him.
• An Chen broke free of the visions and woke beneath a tree whose roots pierced him and drained his blood, with a bloody hole where his heart had been.

An Chen endured an endless cycle of torture in a dark realm, recovered his memories, and absorbed the six figures who had tormented him. He awakened in a church with a newfound burden, while elsewhere a man with a monocle learned that only a sliver of An Chen’s future could be seen.

• An Chen was burned by a sunlike force that stripped away his memories and left him as a charred skeleton.
• A green light restored An Chen, but six figures repeatedly beat, dismembered, and ate him, restoring his body each time.
• After ten thousand years of suffering in his perception, An Chen remembered his name and devoured the six figures’ souls.
• An Chen recognized the ideas of guidance, redemption, and bearing the burden, then awakened inside the church as a priest turned to face him.
• At an inn, a man with a monocle asked whether the other man had seen An Chen’s future, and the purple-eyed man said he had glimpsed only a sliver.

An Chen killed Mokai’s uncle, learned about the Mother Tree of Desire, and gained two dream-related abilities. After reaching Arles City and completing his Shepherd Potion digestion, he cultivated to Level 58 before a disturbance outside interrupted him.

• An Chen pinned Mokai’s uncle, transformed him into a seven-colored mask, and destroyed the statue in the church.
• An Chen learned from the priest’s memories that the God of Lust was the Mother Tree of Desire and that the priest had recruited Mokai, but the priest’s reason for attacking him remained hidden.
• An Chen extracted the priest’s soul, Martial Soul, and Soul Skills, then gained the abilities to draw people into dreams and create a Dream Domain.
• An Chen left the church, traveled for five weeks, and reached Arles City, where Modili and Dongxi provided him with a Cultivation Room.
• An Chen’s system showed that his Shepherd Potion digestion was complete, and he cultivated until his Soul Power reached Level 58.
• A surge of Soul Power disrupted An Chen’s cultivation, so he went outside to investigate.