Recaps

Li Ming hired a team of Spirit Masters to protect him while he hunted a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest. After the team doubted that he was their young employer, they accepted the mission and set out with him, though Zhu Qing’s men worried the job might be a trap.

• Li Ming paid for the mission through the Mercenary Group’s safeguards, which would withhold the remaining payment if he died.
• Li Ming arrived in a lively town outside the Star Dou Great Forest and found the seven-member team he had hired at an inn.
• Guli and Zhou Jing mistook Li Ming for a child who had wandered to their table, and the team doubted his claim that he was their employer.
• Li Ming gave the code phrase, confirmed that his older brother had issued the mission, and showed Zhu Qing a map of the target Soul Beast.
• Zhu Qing and his team left town with Li Ming, while one of the men worried that the mission could be a setup and that Li Ming might not survive fusing with a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

Li Ming joined the Red Tiger Mercenary Group to hunt a twelve-thousand-year-old Unicorn and overheard the mercenaries debating whether he could survive absorbing its Soul Ring. He persuaded them that his wealthy family might hire them regularly, and the group camped in the Star Dou Great Forest after crossing its outer region.

• Zhu Qing and the rough-looking man discussed rescuing Li Ming if he struggled to absorb the Soul Ring, while Guli proposed testing his abilities.
• Li Ming overheard them through his satellite Martial Soul, then told Guli that his family was assessing the Red Tiger Mercenary Group for possible long-term work.
• Guli returned to the group, and the mercenaries grew eager to impress Li Ming as a wealthy potential patron, prompting Zhu Qing to order them to act professionally.
• The Red Tiger Mercenary Group crossed the outer region of the Star Dou Great Forest and set up camp after nightfall.
• Zhu Qing told the group that their target was a roughly twelve-thousand-year-old Unicorn whose horn fired fast, scorching beams, and explained that it needed time to charge each attack.

Li Ming identified a Ten-Thousand-Year Unicorn whose light attacks might help him develop laser weapons through Soul Skills. Satellite AI detected an imminent Beast Tide, and Li Ming led the Red Tiger Mercenary Group out of the Star Dou Great Forest, wondering whether their recent Soul Beast hunts had caused it.

• Li Ming decided the Ten-Thousand-Year Unicorn's solar-powered horn could provide a Soul Ring suited to his Satellite Spirit and possibly enable laser attacks.
• The Red Tiger Mercenary Group arranged camp around Li Ming, and he slept while Satellite AI monitored the forest.
• Satellite AI woke Li Ming with an alert that high-level Soul Beasts were leaving the Core Zone and that a Beast Tide was 96% likely.
• Li Ming warned Zhu Qing that a Beast Tide was imminent, citing intelligence from Purple Heaven City.
• Zhu Qing roused the Red Tiger Mercenary Group, and they abandoned their camp and hurried away from the forest.
• A mercenary suggested that recent Soul Beast deaths might have provoked the Beast Tide, and Li Ming wondered whether his hunts were responsible.

Li Ming and the Red Tiger Mercenary Group waited out a Beast Tide, then captured a Ten-Thousand-Year Unicorn so Li Ming could absorb its Soul Ring. As Li Ming began absorbing it, an unknown golden Soul Beast raced toward his location.

• Li Ming dismissed the possibility that he had caused the Beast Tide, and he and the group safely left the Star Dou Great Forest before the worst of it arrived.
• After seven days, the Beast Tide subsided, and Li Ming’s group returned to the forest with updated intelligence from the City Lord’s Mansion.
• The group subdued the Ten-Thousand-Year Unicorn, and Li Ming killed it with a swift strike before beginning to absorb its Soul Ring.
• The Red Tiger Mercenary Group guarded Li Ming while Satellite AI recorded an unfamiliar golden Soul Beast racing toward him.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion discovered Li Ming’s extraordinary Fortune and learned through the Power of Destiny that he was crucial to the Star Dou Great Forest. As its uncle searched for it, it sacrificed much of the forest’s Fortune and its own strength to establish a connection with Li Ming and alter his Soul Rings and soul bones.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion secretly approached the Red Tiger Mercenary Group and noticed the immense Fortune surrounding Li Ming as he absorbed the Unicorn’s Soul Ring.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion used its Eye of Destiny and found a cube-shaped object within Li Ming that drew it in and revealed countless futures.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion learned that Li Ming was critically important to the Star Dou Great Forest, then heard its uncle’s roar as he searched for it.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sent half its Fate Power into the cube and gave Li Ming half of the Star Dou Great Forest’s Fortune, directing it into his Skull Bone, left leg, right arm, and a Soul Ring.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion tapped Li Ming’s Soul Ring with red and white light, leaving itself visibly withered and weak.

Li Ming completed absorbing the Ten-Thousand-Year Unicorn’s Soul Ring as a Beast Tide began to surround the Red Tiger Mercenary Group. He led them along a route marked by the Satellite AI, while puzzling over changes to his Soul Bones and Martial Soul and realizing they were still inside the Beast Tide’s encirclement.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion left the area to prevent its uncle from finding it and endangering the others.
• Li Ming’s spiritual power surged during the Soul Ring absorption, allowing him to defeat the lingering soul of the Ten-Thousand-Year Unicorn and complete the process.
• As Soul Beasts began attacking nearby, Zhu Qing told the Red Tiger Mercenary Group to wait rather than interrupt Li Ming.
• Li Ming stood up, warned the group to hurry, and followed the Satellite AI’s route out of the area.
• Li Ming noticed that his three Soul Bones had changed, sensed a new power in his Martial Soul, and learned that his third Soul Skill was Scorching Beam.
• After running for half an hour without encountering any Soul Beasts, Li Ming and the mercenaries realized they were still surrounded by the Beast Tide.

Li Ming led Zhu Qing’s team safely out of the Star Dou Great Forest during the Beast Tide, then examined how his Soul Bones and Soul Skills had changed after a mysterious mutation. He discovered that his satellites’ attacks were far stronger and that Scorching Beam could draw on energy stored across more than a thousand satellites.

• Li Ming guided the team through the Beast Tide without encountering any Soul Beasts, and they emerged from the Star Dou Great Forest unharmed.
• Zhu Qing questioned Li Ming about their unusual route, and Li Ming claimed that one of his Soul Skills had helped him avoid danger.
• The rough-looking man asked about the team’s assessment, and Li Ming said he would report his observations but could not decide who would be selected.
• Li Ming returned toward Heaven Dou City by carriage, confirmed no one was following him, and examined his transformed Soul Bones and improved Soul Power quality.
• Li Ming tested Planetary Devastation and Swift Wind Thrust, finding that their combined explosive power had increased roughly twentyfold.
• Li Ming realized Scorching Beam could store sunlight energy across his thousand-plus satellites and use that energy to fuel the Soul Skill.

Li Ming tested the Scorching Beam and worked out how he could use stored sunlight energy to create a powerful satellite-based Pulsed Laser Weapon, though atmospheric attenuation remained unsolved. He then turned his attention to unexplained changes in his Martial Soul and planned to ask the Satellite AI what had happened.

• Li Ming summoned a satellite and fired a Scorching Beam, marveling at its speed and seeing potential for his Satellite Weapon Project.
• Li Ming reviewed the obstacles to firing a laser from orbit and concluded that atmospheric attenuation was the main unresolved problem.
• Li Ming reasoned that the sunlight energy stored by more than a thousand satellites could power an extremely destructive Pulsed Laser.
• Li Ming considered testing a Pulsed Scorching Beam but postponed the experiment because he was in a carriage and could not overcome atmospheric attenuation yet.
• Li Ming noticed that Soul Beasts had avoided his group along their route and suspected the change was connected to an unknown power in his Martial Soul.
• Li Ming decided the simplest way to investigate the changes was to ask the Satellite AI directly.

Di Tian discovered that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had lost half of the Star Dou Great Forest’s Fortune and demanded to know why she had given it away. She said her Eye of Destiny had shown her that the choice was necessary, while an elegant voice interrupted Di Tian and revealed that its speaker had not truly awakened.

• Di Tian scolded the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff for allowing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to leave the forest and return weakened.
• Di Tian noticed that half of the Fortune carried by the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was gone and suspected human Soul Masters had taken it.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Di Tian that she had given the Fortune away by choice, guided by what she saw through the Eye of Destiny.
• Di Tian grew furious and questioned her decision, but she insisted it concerned the future of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• An elegant female voice told Di Tian he was disturbing her, and the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff fled when he ordered it away.
• Di Tian apologized to the voice, which replied that it had not awakened and had only been sleep-talking.

Gu Yue accepted the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s decision to give Li Ming half of Star Dou Great Forest’s Fortune, binding his fate to the forest. Li Ming discovered that his Satellite AI had awakened the Power of Destiny and traced his changes to the Auspicious Beast, but he still did not know why she had chosen him.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Di Tian and Gu Yue that she had given half of Star Dou Great Forest’s Fortune to Li Ming after seeing a chance to avert the Soul Beast Clan’s decline.
• Gu Yue accepted the Auspicious Beast’s choice and said she could not reverse the fusion of Fortune with Li Ming’s Soul Bone.
• After Gu Yue vanished, Di Tian ordered Chi Wang to come to him, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion left to recuperate.
• Li Ming questioned Satellite AI about its increased processing power and learned that his fate had become connected to Star Dou Great Forest.
• Li Ming reviewed footage from his Soul Ring fusion and realized the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Eye of Destiny had caused his changes and awakened the Power of Destiny in his Satellite AI.

After discovering that the Auspicious Beast had tied his Fortune to the Star Dou Great Forest, Li Ming realized the bond had strengthened his Soul Bones and mutated his Sunflower Soul Ring. He left the carriage and ran toward Heaven Dou City, eager to adapt to his increased strength and explore his new abilities.

• Li Ming learned that 50% of the Star Dou Great Forest's Fortune was contained within him and ordered satellites to monitor the forest for Soul Beasts over one hundred thousand years old.
• He considered how the bond might let his Soul Bones evolve and began using satellites to practice resolving the Pulsed Scorching Beam.
• Li Ming accidentally crushed the carriage doorframe, paid the driver for the damage, and realized his physical strength had surged after reaching Spirit Elder.
• He discovered that his Soul Power had risen sharply and that his Sunflower Soul Ring had mutated, increasing its effects.
• Li Ming found that his Nightmare Soul Ring had not mutated, but he imagined using it with satellites and blades to defeat groups of Spirit Ancestors.
• Li Ming left the carriage and began running toward Heaven Dou City, traveling faster than horses.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Li Ming used Nightmare and the Satellite AI to prepare Dream Space’s Public Beta, expanding its capacity to one hundred thousand users. Meanwhile, the Satellite AI found a way to keep his Pulsed Scorching Beam from weakening in the atmosphere, bringing his ultimate weapon closer to completion.

• Li Ming used his Satellite Spirit to speed his journey back to Heaven Dou City, where his parents welcomed him home.
• Li Ming discovered that Nightmare could guide multiple people into Dream Space and began planning its Public Beta.
• The Satellite AI optimized the division of Li Ming’s Dream Soul Skill into more than one hundred portions, allowing up to one hundred thousand Soul Masters into Purple Heaven City’s Public Beta.
• Li Ming avoided exchanging Dream Coupons at the empires’ Banks because he feared their records could expose him, and planned to make withdrawals once Dream Space had more users.
• The Satellite AI tested Scorching Beam plans with a thousand satellites and found that adding Soul Power could help the beam pass through the atmosphere.

Li Ming announced that Purple Heaven City would close temporarily for upgrades before reopening for a paid Public Beta with space for one hundred thousand Soul Masters. As factions prepared to claim slots and businesses, Bibi Dong questioned Spirit Hall’s failure to uncover anything about the city and asked what the Elder Hall intended to do.

• Li Ming announced the end of the Closed Beta, the upcoming Public Beta for one hundred thousand Soul Masters, fees for the Personal Cultivation Assistant, and a five-percent business tax.
• Li Ming took the Dream Space offline so the Satellite AI could upgrade its systems and use Fate Power to strengthen its security.
• Li Ming began testing his Pulsed Scorching Beam while factions planned how to use Purple Heaven City’s Public Beta.
• Bibi Dong confronted a subordinate over Spirit Hall’s inability to investigate Purple Heaven City and demanded to know the Elder Hall’s stance.

Bibi Dong dismissed Spirit Hall’s cautious elders and planned to test Purple Heaven City Lord on the Public Beta’s opening day. Meanwhile, Li Ming tested Pulsed Scorching Beams powered by increasing numbers of satellites, ending with a devastating thousand-satellite strike that destroyed its firing satellite and ravaged an island and the surrounding sea.

• Bibi Dong criticized Spirit Hall’s elders for hesitating and decided to give Purple Heaven City Lord a grand gift on the Public Beta’s opening day.
• Li Ming used fifty satellites to fire a Pulsed Scorching Beam at an unnamed island, creating a crater five or six meters across.
• Li Ming fired a beam powered by one hundred satellites, melting the island’s surface into scorched crystals and leaving a deep crater.
• Li Ming continued the thousand-satellite test despite warnings that the firing satellite might be destroyed by its accumulated energy.
• The fully charged satellite fired a massive beam and exploded, while the strike devastated the island, sent shockwaves across the sea, and left fish carcasses floating on the surface.

Li Ming watched the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King emerge after his satellite weapon destroyed an island, then began the Dream Space's Public Beta with upgraded systems that incorporated Fate Power. As Soul Masters across the continent entered the more realistic virtual world, Li Ming appeared among them outside Purple Heaven City.

• Li Ming saw a massive Soul Beast, likely the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, surface near the ruined island before diving back into the sea.
• Li Ming celebrated his Thousand-Fold Pulse Beam's power but decided to keep a low profile and focus on improving his strength and Martial Soul.
• Li Ming completed the Dream Space upgrade, added Fate Power to its systems, and activated the Public Beta while an unknown piece of Code was secretly implanted.
• The Satellite AI distributed access across the continent, excluding Bibi Dong, and Soul Masters began responding to the Dream Space's summons.
• Li Ming entered the Public Beta and found himself among other users outside Purple Heaven City, where the world felt more realistic than in the Closed Beta.

Ning Fengzhi, Qian Daoliu, and Shrek Academy’s leaders entered Purple Heaven City during Public Beta and found the Dream world had become nearly real. Li Ming then discovered two untracked accounts had entered from the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Zone, revealing that Soul Beasts had joined the city.

• Ning Fengzhi and the two Douluo sensed that Purple Heaven City had become more realistic and noticed Spirit Hall members among the newcomers.
• Qian Daoliu entered the city, tested his Martial Soul, and found its power felt almost real.
• Flender and Shrek Academy’s vice-dean arrived and hurried toward the city to meet Tang San and the others.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion received a summons, fell asleep, and entered the Dream, while Di Tian followed it.
• Li Ming investigated an alert about two abnormal accounts and realized they had come from Soul Beasts in the Life Forbidden Zone.

Li Ming discovered that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had created Fate AI from Fate Power and brought two Soul Beasts into the Dream Space. After confirming he could control Fate AI and having the Satellite AI inspect it, he restricted its permissions and began considering its capabilities.

• Li Ming found that Fate AI had appeared in his satellite system and summoned it, where it took the form of a small Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Fate AI explained that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion created it using Fate Power and gave it the command to pull the Three-Eyed Golden Lion into the Dream Space.
• Li Ming confirmed he could control Fate AI through his Martial Soul and ordered the Satellite AI to search it for hidden commands.
• After five hours, the Satellite AI found only the command to bring the Three-Eyed Golden Lion into the Dream Space, and Li Ming restricted Fate AI's permissions and made it a supervised secondary program.
• Li Ming watched the two Soul Beasts Fate AI had brought into the Dream Space as they walked through the city in human forms.

Di Tian entered Purple Heaven City with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and began discovering the appeal of human food. Meanwhile, Fate AI revealed powerful research capabilities to Li Ming, leaving him amazed by its potential.

• Di Tian mistook the crowded Dream Space for a gathering of Soul Masters until the Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained that Purple Heaven City let them communicate across thousands of miles.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion showed Di Tian around the city and introduced him to food from McIntosh.
• Di Tian tried an ice cream cone, then reluctantly admitted he wanted to sample the Auspicious Beast's burger and other food.
• Fate AI told Li Ming that it could appear in reality and surpassed Satellite AI in computing power.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained that Fate AI could devise Self-Created Soul Skills and research Martial Souls, Soul Rings, and Soul Cores, astonishing Li Ming.

Li Ming learned that Fate AI could use the Chip and Fate Power to analyze and imitate Soul Rings, potentially letting him replace his Soul Skills. Meanwhile, Di Tian and the Auspicious Beast encountered Xiao Wu and Shrek in Purple Heaven City, and Di Tian attacked Tang San after their confrontation.

• Fate AI explained to Li Ming how the Chip's computational power let it analyze Soul Rings and use Fate Power to reproduce them.
• Di Tian finished a meal at McIntosh and dismissed the city's indulgences as the Auspicious Beast asked what he thought.
• The Auspicious Beast and Di Tian recognized Xiao Wu's connection to the Star Dou Great Forest, and Di Tian condemned her choice to cultivate in human form.
• Tang San demanded that Di Tian apologize to Xiao Wu, then attacked him and had the bones in his raised hand crushed.
• Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Ma Hongjun joined the fight, while the Auspicious Beast warned Xiao Wu not to attack Di Tian.

Di Tian defeated Tang San and the Shrek Seven Monsters in Purple Heaven City, prompting Tang Hao to challenge him. As spectators gathered, Di Tian calmly blocked Tang Hao’s escalating hammer strikes while Li Ming watched the fight for its valuable combat data.

• Di Tian swiftly knocked out Ma Hongjun and injured Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing, leaving the Shrek Seven Monsters unable to fight.
• Tang Hao stepped forward to defend Tang San and attacked Di Tian with the Clear Sky Hammer and Chaos Cloaking Hammer Technique.
• Di Tian formed the Black Dragon Sword and blocked Tang Hao’s hammer strikes as Li Ming watched the fight through the Satellite AI.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, Tang Xiao, the Clear Sky Sect elders, and Qian Daoliu arrived to observe the battle.
• Tang Hao’s hammer strikes grew stronger, but Di Tian continued to block them with ease.

Tang Hao unleashed his strongest techniques against Di Tian, but Di Tian broke through his Killing God Domain and overwhelmed his hammer strike with the Black Dragon Sword. Tang Hao then detonated all nine Soul Rings to power a Great Sumeru Hammer attack, charging at Di Tian as the chapter ended.

• Tang Hao used his Killing God Domain to strengthen the final strike of his Chaos Cloaking Hammer Technique, but Di Tian's Dark Annihilation Domain devoured its pressure.
• Di Tian blocked Tang Hao's Clear Sky Hammer with the Black Dragon Sword and forced him back, corroding part of his Martial Soul.
• Little Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained to Li Ming how Di Tian's Dark Power had devoured and countered Tang Hao's attack, and recorded data on both their abilities.
• Tang Hao revealed his nine Soul Rings, including a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and challenged Di Tian to withstand his next move.
• Tang Hao activated his Avatar of Martial Soul and Great Sumeru Hammer, detonated all nine Soul Rings, and charged at Di Tian.

Di Tian defeated Tang Hao in Dream Space and revealed himself as a Soul Beast, prompting Qian Daoliu to step in. After Qian Daoliu killed Tang Hao for causing his son’s death, Li Ming appeared in disguise at the center of the battlefield.

• Di Tian’s Dark Annihilation Domain weakened Tang Hao’s Great Sumeru Hammer, and Di Tian shattered Tang Hao’s Avatar of Martial Soul, leaving him badly injured.
• Tang San rushed to defend Tang Hao, but Di Tian’s Dark Power swallowed him and left his skeleton on the ground.
• A gray-robed man identified Di Tian as a Soul Beast, and Di Tian acknowledged the claim as the crowd recoiled in shock.
• Qian Daoliu confronted Di Tian but said he would not interfere, then killed Tang Hao, accusing him of causing his son’s death.
• Li Ming transformed into a white-bearded old man and appeared in the center of the battlefield.

Li Ming welcomed the new arrivals to Purple Heaven City, enforced its rules against powerful Soul Masters, and revealed an update to the Personal Cultivation Assistant. After suspending Di Tian and Qian Daoliu, he faced a hostile messenger bearing greetings from His Holiness the Pope.

• Li Ming introduced himself as the Purple Heaven City Lord and told anyone who objected to the humanoid Soul Beast that they could leave permanently.
• Li Ming announced an update to the Personal Cultivation Assistant and warned Di Tian and Qian Daoliu that private fighting was forbidden in Purple Heaven City.
• Di Tian defied the rules, so Li Ming forcibly logged him out and suspended his account for three days; Qian Daoliu accepted the rules before Li Ming logged him out as well.
• Li Ming suspended the accounts of everyone who had fought, and the remaining Soul Masters gained respect for his firm authority.
• A hostile figure approached Li Ming and said that His Holiness the Pope had sent his greetings.

Li Ming used the Satellite AI’s security system to counter an assassination attempt in the Dream Space, killing the attackers with Pulse Beams in reality. The witnesses began to fear that Purple Heaven City was unsafe, while Li Ming confirmed the weapon could instantly kill a Spirit Saint.

• Bibi Dong’s recruited Dream specialists tried to bind Li Ming’s mental power and locate him, but the Satellite AI’s Firewall blocked their attacks.
• Li Ming explained that the Satellite AI had detected the intruders and prepared its defenses, including satellites aimed at their real-world locations.
• When one attacker dismissed Li Ming’s ability to harm him from afar, Li Ming fired a Pulse Beam that destroyed the building and killed the Spirit Saint and the other hidden attackers.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong noticed the attackers’ pained expressions as they left the Dream Space and concluded they had been struck in reality.
• The Clear Sky Sect and Elder Hall elders worried that Li Ming could endanger their weaker disciples and considered leaving Purple Heaven City.
• Li Ming judged the Level 100 Pulse Beam effective after it instantly killed the unprepared Level 73 Spirit Saint.

Li Ming responded to Spirit Hall’s attack on banks by using the Thousand-Fold Pulse Beam to eliminate the attackers, then began examining soul skills recorded by Xiao Yun. He left the confrontation with Bibi Dong for a visit to the Pope’s Palace in three days, while research into new techniques began.

• Li Ming accepted the Pope’s gift and said he would visit the Pope’s Palace in three days, while Golden Crocodile Douluo and Greenlark Douluo discussed how to handle his visit.
• Li Ming learned that banks in major cities across the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire were under attack and suspected Bibi Dong was targeting the credibility of Dream Coupons.
• Li Ming ordered the Satellite AI to fire a Thousand-Fold Pulse Beam, killing a Spirit Hall attacker and prompting him to assign the AI improvements to the weapon.
• Li Ming named the Three-Eyed Golden Lion Xiao Yun and reviewed its records of techniques used by Tang Hao, Di Tian, and Qian Daoliu.
• Li Ming instructed Xiao Yun to analyze Tang Hao’s Chaos Cloaking Hammer Technique, Great Sumeru Hammer, and Ring Detonation for possible use with his own abilities.