Recaps

Li Ming let Kong Desheng test Purple Heaven City's Dream Space by making a Soul Tool Long Spear, and Kong Desheng discovered that the city could magnify Core Arrays for inspection and reproduce the effects of flawed designs. The test confirmed that Purple Heaven City's upgraded Fate AI-based system could simulate reality far more accurately than its earlier data-driven system.

• Li Ming granted Kong Desheng temporary permission to manifest materials and tools in the Dream Space.
• Kong Desheng made a Soul Tool Long Spear and engraved an Armor-Piercing Array while Li Ming and the Fate AI observed and recorded the process.
• Li Ming magnified the spear and its Core Array, allowing Kong Desheng to inspect the engraving and spot its flaws.
• Kong Desheng completed the spear, deliberately introduced an error in its Core Array, and tested it against heavy armor; it failed to pierce the armor as expected.
• Li Ming recognized that Kong Desheng was testing the Dream Space and reflected that Purple Heaven City's upgraded Fate AI and Fate Power now produced results closer to reality.

Kong Desheng discovered that Purple Heaven City’s dream space could simulate materials for free soul-engineering practice, and Li Ming revealed that the Personal Cultivation Assistant could also analyze and improve soul-tool engraving. The chapter ended with Kong Desheng reading a detailed critique of his flawed armor-piercing array and realizing every correction was accurate.

• Kong Desheng tested the dream space by engraving and using an armor-piercing array, then concluded it realistically simulated materials and could train soul engineers without consuming resources.
• Kong Desheng recognized that the dream space could help the Sun Moon Empire produce skilled craftsmen and strengthen its military.
• Li Ming explained that the Personal Cultivation Assistant was Purple Heaven City’s main feature and could analyze and improve self-created soul skills.
• Kong Desheng realized that the assistant might also guide soul engineers, and Li Ming confirmed that it could help improve their craft.
• Li Ming displayed Kong Desheng’s flawed array and an analysis of its mistakes, leaving Kong Desheng astonished by how many accurate flaws it identified.

Kong Desheng recognized that Purple Heaven City's Personal Cultivation Assistant could accelerate Soul Tool research, but he feared it would expose the empires’ Core Array blueprints to Li Ming. After Kong Desheng left to consult his emperor, Li Ming checked the Space Station’s lunar mission and began testing the moon for sources of essence.

• Kong Desheng tested the Personal Cultivation Assistant and was impressed by its advice for improving the Armor-Piercing Array.
• Kong Desheng accused Li Ming of using Soul Engineers’ research to obtain their Core Array blueprints, and Li Ming admitted the engineers could choose not to use the assistant but warned that others might use it.
• Kong Desheng asked whether Li Ming could prevent the other empires from seeing their new Soul Tool designs; Li Ming promised the blueprints would remain private, and Kong Desheng left to report the matter to his emperor.
• Li Ming considered using a Milk Bottle, Whale Siphon, and Di Tian’s cells to create a steady supply of Soul Power, and he thought about asking Di Tian for help trading rare metals between continents.
• Li Ming watched the Space Station enter lunar orbit, found no signs of life on either side of the moon, and ordered it to land and examine the environment.
• Li Ming instructed Fate AI to measure the moon’s sun and moon essence and heaven and earth essence using Di Tian’s cells as detection instruments.

Li Ming tested whether Di Tian’s cells could survive on the moon and began building a lunar base of Di Tian Hearts. He then met Di Tian in a dream to learn spatial power, where Di Tian agreed to demonstrate his innate ability.

• Li Ming found that Di Tian’s cells remained resilient in the lunar environment and that cultivation there was only twenty percent less efficient than in the Star Dou Forest.
• Li Ming ordered the Space Station to begin welding a Di Tian Heart on the moon, hoping to eventually build a large network of them.
• Di Tian agreed to honor their wager by introducing Li Ming to the Star Dou Forest’s core soul beasts, and Li Ming reminded him that he had called him for another reason.
• Li Ming asked Di Tian to demonstrate his spatial power so he could learn it, and Di Tian doubted that Li Ming could master the bloodline ability.
• Li Ming brought Di Tian into a vast white dream space, which Di Tian praised before preparing to demonstrate his power.

Di Tian demonstrated how to open spatial passages and pull objects through them, while Li Ming’s Fate AI analyzed the techniques. After the AI completed its model, Li Ming tested spatial power through his martial soul, leaving Di Tian convinced that his attempt would fail once it breached the spatial wall.

• Di Tian punched through space to create a passage, then explained how precise control kept the tunnel stable and directed its endpoint.
• Di Tian opened another passage and demonstrated pulling an apple across space through a small opening.
• Li Ming checked the Fate AI’s calculations and found that it had extracted a model for building and maintaining spatial tunnels.
• Li Ming revealed his martial soul and fired a Scorching Beam infused with spatial power, which began cracking the spatial wall.
• Di Tian assumed Li Ming’s beam would expose him to chaotic spatial turbulence, while recognizing the beam as Auspicious Beast’s power.

Li Ming built a stable spatial passage by copying Di Tian’s spatial technique, proving he could reproduce it in reality. After learning several more applications of spatial power from Di Tian, Li Ming considered studying the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s abilities next.

• Li Ming used the rotating Space Station and Scorching Beam to construct a stable spatial passage in the dream, astonishing Di Tian.
• Di Tian insisted Li Ming’s success was only possible because they were in a dream, so Li Ming agreed to test the technique in reality.
• Li Ming opened a spatial passage from the sea to the Star Dou Great Forest, and Di Tian sensed the result from the Life Forbidden Zone.
• Over several days, Li Ming copied Di Tian’s Spatial Folding, Spatial Lock, and Spatial Collapse, while Di Tian grew increasingly frustrated and eventually logged off.
• Li Ming considered using the Fate AI Database to record the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s abilities and improve his own techniques.

Li Ming and the Little Three-Eyed Golden Lion perfected Spatial Logistics, allowing goods to pass between the continents and launching a trade that drew interest from major factions. As representatives of the Sun Moon Continent’s Seven Great Empires gathered to ask about Dream Coupons for the Personal Cultivation Assistant, Li Ming left them waiting on his terms.

• The Little Three-Eyed Golden Lion reported that she and Li Ming had developed a stable, energy-efficient spatial passage, and Li Ming named the skill Spatial Logistics.
• Li Ming announced cross-continental barter trade in food and healing medicines for metal ores, charging a ten-percent shipping fee and a twenty-percent tax.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized that Li Ming had solved the transport problem, while Qian Daoliu directed Azure Luan Douluo to pursue Spirit Hall’s share of the trade.
• Representatives of the Seven Great Empires of the Sun Moon Continent gathered at the City Lord's Mansion to ask Li Ming how to obtain Dream Coupons for the Personal Cultivation Assistant.

Li Ming offered the Seven Great Empires access to Purple Heaven City's Personal Cultivation Assistant in exchange for precious metals and auctioned limited entry slots. As the empires formed alliances with major Douluo Continent factions, the first auctions began and bids rose sharply.

• Li Ming agreed to accept metals used for forging Soul Tools as payment and offered one thousand entry slots, auctioned in batches of one hundred.
• The empire representatives agreed to return in three days to bid, and Li Ming later saw them meeting with major Douluo Continent figures, including Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and Azure Luan Douluo.
• Li Ming allowed the empires' partners to attend the auction and expanded the City Lord's Mansion's inner hall.
• The first batch of one hundred slots sold for ten tonnes of refined gold and fifty kilograms of mithril, while the second batch's bidding reached fifteen tonnes of refined iron and five hundred kilograms of mithril.

Li Ming ended the auction for a thousand Purple Heaven City spots, gaining precious metals and drawing the Sun Moon Continent’s Soul Engineers into the city. He redirected their research toward Heat Soul Tools, then began his first attempt at crafting a Storage Ring from a fragile spatial shard.

• Li Ming observed alliances and rivalries during the auction as Douluo Continent’s powers reconsidered Soul Tool technology and negotiated cooperation with Sun Moon Continent empires.
• The auction ended with two weaker empires squeezed out, while the next day a thousand users arrived in Purple Heaven City and Li Ming received valuable metals and materials.
• Li Ming ordered Fate AI to steer Soul Engineers toward developing Heat Soul Tools, hoping to guide their research beyond cold-weapon designs.
• Li Ming began inscribing a Storage Array onto a spatial shard so he could pour molten mithril into it and craft a Storage Ring.

Li Ming crafted his first Storage Ring and ordered Fate AI to investigate using the Space Station’s spatial power directly. A month later, his lunar Di Tian Heart project was underway and his immortal herbs had matured, giving him a path toward large-scale cultivation and greater strength.

• Li Ming used Scorching Beam to engrave a storage array on a spatial shard, then made and tested a one-cubic-meter Storage Ring.
• Li Ming told the Little Three-Eyed Golden Lion to analyze and improve the storage array so the Space Station could harness its spatial power.
• Li Ming explored the moon and discovered that God Realm Laws blocked his Spatial Teleportation above the surface, though the Space Stations could cross the boundary.
• Li Ming established five Di Tian Hearts on the moon, bringing his total to six and increasing daily heartblood production.
• Li Ming found that heartblood culture medium had matured his cultivated immortal herbs, though they were less potent than the originals, and planned to scale up the project.

Li Ming reviewed the rapid advances in soul tool technology and considered using a Compression Array to form a soul core by solidifying soul power before setting it spinning. The Little Three-Eyed Golden Lion judged the idea viable, but said the array needed modification and the method required safety testing.

• The Fate AI accelerated the Seven Great Empires’ Soul Engineers’ research in Purple Heaven City, producing a month’s worth of core array blueprints for Li Ming.
• Li Ming studied a first-generation soul tool gun array that compressed soul power into high-energy rays and used its principles to improve Pulse Beam’s power by twenty-three percent.
• The Fate AI explained that soul cores formed when compressed soul power spun rapidly, drawing in origin energy and condensing into a solid.
• Li Ming considered whether he could use an array to solidify soul power first, then spin it with spiritual power to form a soul core.
• The Little Three-Eyed Golden Lion said the approach could work if the Compression Array was modified to create solid soul-power crystals and the process passed safety testing.

Li Ming decided to establish Purple Heaven City's own soul tool institute and recruit top Soul Engineers with powerful benefits. He invited Kong Desheng to the City Lord's Mansion, where Kong arrived eager and uneasy to learn the truth behind the Personal Cultivation Assistant.

• Li Ming concluded that Purple Heaven City needed its own Soul Engineer team to advance the compression array and soul tool technology.
• Li Ming planned to recruit Soul Engineers by offering the upgraded Personal Cultivation Assistant, rights to their inventions, generous salaries, and rare resources.
• Li Ming invited Kong Desheng, valuing his pioneering work on Core Array blueprints and soul tool firearms.
• Kong Desheng reflected on how the Personal Cultivation Assistant had transformed his research and left him feeling both indebted and apprehensive.
• Kong Desheng entered the City Lord's Mansion and found Li Ming waiting with a banquet.

Li Ming summoned Kong Desheng to discuss his recent progress with soul tools and offered him a place in Purple Heaven City's new Soul Engineer Academy. Kong Desheng struggled to choose between loyalty to the Sun Moon Empire and the academy's powerful cultivation assistant and benefits, ending stunned by Li Ming's promise of medicines that could improve martial soul potential.

• Kong Desheng enjoyed a meal with Li Ming before asking why the City Lord had summoned him.
• Li Ming explained that Kong Desheng had been using a special Personal Cultivation Assistant that could help develop a self-created soul skill in half an hour, unlike the ordinary version.
• Li Ming said he planned to withdraw the support and proposed that Kong Desheng join Purple Heaven City's Soul Engineer Academy to keep using the full-powered assistant.
• Kong Desheng hesitated because joining would mean leaving the Sun Moon Empire, and Li Ming told him the ordinary assistant was only five percent as effective.
• Li Ming offered Kong Desheng priority access to useful research, an annual salary of one million Dream Coupons, and cultivation medicines that could improve innate aptitude and martial soul potential.
• Kong Desheng was shocked by the medicine offer and wondered whether it could help him become a Titled Douluo.

Kong Desheng tested Li Ming’s medicines, saw his talent and strength begin to improve, and accepted the deanship of the Soul Engineer Academy to protect the Sun Moon Empire’s interests. The academy’s leading Soul Engineers then completed Li Ming’s first research assignment in four days, producing a complex solid-state soul power Compression Array.

• Kong Desheng took a tablet from Li Ming’s package and sensed that it had improved his Martial Soul and the quality of his soul power.
• After testing the other medicines, Kong Desheng realized they could help him overcome his limits and decided to accept Li Ming’s offer to become dean of the Soul Engineer Academy.
• Kong Desheng recruited leading Soul Engineers from the various empires, and Li Ming transported them to Heaven Dou City to establish the academy.
• Li Ming assigned Kong Desheng’s team to develop a Compression Array that could turn soul power into solid-state soul power, advising them to consider complex designs without worrying about reproducibility.
• With Fate AI’s assistance, the Soul Engineers worked together for four days and presented Li Ming with an extraordinarily complex three-dimensional Compression Array.

Li Ming and the Fate AI tested a fate-power Compression Array, then formed a compressed Soul Core in Li Ming’s lower dantian during a dream experiment. The core began rotating and boosting his cultivation, but Li Ming kept pushing it faster as soul power surged through his body.

• Li Ming tested the Compression Array, which turned soul power into crystals that quickly evaporated, and considered applications for Milk Bottle Soul Tools and solid explosives.
• The Little Three-Eyed Golden Lion said the array could shape compressed soul power into a Soul Core, so Li Ming moved the project to its next stage.
• In a dream experiment, the Fate AI used fate power to form a fragile Soul Core in Li Ming’s lower dantian, then compressed it until it became sturdier.
• Li Ming used spiritual power to start the Soul Core rotating, but the motion sent soul power chaotically through his meridians.
• The Little Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Li Ming to meditate and absorb heaven and earth essence, which guided the soul power back into his lower dantian.
• Li Ming pushed the Soul Core to spin faster, producing liquid soul power and accelerating cultivation, then continued trying to increase its speed.

Li Ming successfully tested a self-sustaining Soul Core and learned that shrinking it could make its energy intake suitable for ordinary Soul Masters. He began planning Soul Master trials and a Soul Core for the Di Tian Heart, then summoned the Red Tiger Mercenary Group to propose changing their working relationship.

• Li Ming let the Soul Core spin on its own, confirming it could automatically absorb Heaven and Earth Essence and convert it into Soul Power while repairing its cracks.
• Fate AI simulated smaller Soul Cores and found that they drew in less Heaven and Earth Essence, though cores that were too small could not convert it into solid-state Soul Power.
• Li Ming ordered Fate AI to simulate a Soul Core for the Di Tian Heart and prepare Soul Master trials, deciding to select the participants himself.
• Li Ming summoned Zhu Qing, Zhou Jing, Guli, and the other core members of the Red Tiger Mercenary Group, who feared he was ending their employment or cutting their pay.
• Li Ming reassured the group that he was satisfied with their work and proposed taking their agreement and working relationship a step further.

Li Ming offered the Red Tiger Mercenary Group full membership in his organization and revealed the Full-Power Personal Cultivation Assistant by letting Guli test a Temporary Golden Key. After Guli completed and demonstrated a powerful Soul Skill, the group eagerly reconsidered joining as Li Ming offered them twenty-four hours of access each month.

• Li Ming asked the Red Tiger Mercenary Group to become full members of his organization, but they initially refused because they wanted to keep their independence.
• Li Ming explained that a secret full-power version of the Personal Cultivation Assistant could create Soul Skills quickly and offered a Temporary Golden Key for them to test.
• Guli used the Golden Key to activate the full-power assistant and completed her unfinished Soul Skill in less than half an hour.
• Guli demonstrated the Soul Skill, which suited her Martial Soul and unleashed power comparable to a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill.
• The Red Tiger Mercenary Group eagerly asked about Li Ming's offer, and he promised members twenty-four hours of access to the Full-Power Personal Cultivation Assistant each month.

Li Ming recruited Zhu Qing, Guli, Zhou Jing, and the rough-looking burly man into the Heavenly Court by offering cultivation benefits and access to advanced soul-core technology. At a secret base in the Star Dou Forest, they began an experiment to condense soul cores early, while Li Ming considered whether the technique could let ordinary people cultivate.

• Li Ming offered the group self-created soul skill training, monthly salaries, immortal herb tablets, and access to the Heavenly Court’s research and development.
• Li Ming explained the compressed soul-core project, and Zhu Qing, Guli, Zhou Jing, and the rough-looking burly man agreed to join the Heavenly Court.
• Li Ming brought the new members to a secret base in the Star Dou Forest and warned them that the soul-core experiment carried risks, but everyone chose to participate.
• Li Ming used the Space Station to pose as a palm-sized young Daoist and instructed the group to spin their emerging soul cores with spiritual power.
• The Little Three-Eyed Golden Lion used fate power to form Solid-State Soul Power Compression Arrays in the participants’ lower dantians as they absorbed Heaven and Earth essence.
• Li Ming wondered whether a Milk Bottle soul tool could supply the soul power needed for soul cores and let ordinary people cultivate.

Li Ming successfully condensed a soul core in reality and returned to his relaxed life at Shrek Academy. After noticing Li Ming’s confidence, Dugu Bo began to suspect that the student was far stronger than he appeared.

• After Fate AI confirmed the followers’ successful soul-core experiments, Li Ming condensed a soul core of his own in the Star Dou Forest.
• Li Ming returned to Shrek Academy, where he enjoyed campus life and learned that Tang San had been released and Dugu Bo had joined the academy as a teacher.
• Xiao Wu declined Li Ming’s invitation to eat at McIntosh because she and the others had been called to discuss the upcoming tournament in Purple Heaven City.
• Yu Xiaogang observed Li Ming’s progress, while Dugu Bo questioned why Li Ming showed no deference toward him and wondered where his confidence came from.

Li Ming reviewed the rapid growth of his Di Tian Heart project and the Soul Engineer Academy’s advances, then planned to fuse the hearts into a single source for a five-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. He was still waiting for the necessary preparations, while the Academy compromised on which Sun Moon Continent empire could receive licensed Soul Tool technology.

• Li Ming entered the Dream Space and found that the Moon Base held nearly five hundred large Di Tian Hearts, with their combined Soul Power equivalent to over four hundred thousand years.
• Li Ming used his Space Station’s spatial power to move the Di Tian Hearts between the two lunar bases during the moon’s long night, preserving their access to sun and moon essence.
• Li Ming decided to wait until Fate AI linked the hearts into a unified chain and cultivated Di Tian brain tissue before absorbing a five-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• The Soul Engineer Academy developed the Soul-Charging Treasure and advanced its Soul Tool Gun Firearms, while Kong Desheng sought rare materials through technology licensing.
• Kong Desheng abandoned his plan to license firearm technologies exclusively to the Sun Moon Empire after other Soul Engineers threatened to strike.

Li Ming strengthened the Soul Engineer Academy’s research incentives and helped develop the top-secret Soul-Charging Treasure while using newly gained fortune to enhance his strongest soul ring. At the Moon Base, the Di Tian Hearts reached five hundred thousand years, bringing him close to fusing with his fifth soul ring.

• The Soul Engineer Academy awarded technical contribution points that Soul Engineers could exchange for technology licenses, renewing their empires’ support and spurring research.
• The academy developed the Soul-Charging Treasure, which stored compressed solid-state soul power, and Li Ming put safeguards in place to prevent its technology from leaking.
• Li Ming intercepted the fortune gained by the Space Soul Beast Project and infused it into the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, strengthening Whale Siphon and the Demon King Annihilation Cannon.
• At the Moon Base, Li Ming saw the nearly five hundred connected Di Tian Hearts reach an age of five hundred thousand years, making him ready to fuse with his fifth soul ring.
• The Fate AI began stitching an AI spirit into cultivated brain tissue as Li Ming anticipated soul skills tied to the Di Tian Heart’s heartblood and dark power.

Li Ming completed a painless fusion with a five-hundred-thousand-year soul ring, breaking through to level sixty and gaining two new soul skills. He examined the first skill, Bloodline Dragon Body, and began learning how the ring had changed him.

• The Little Three-Eyed Golden Lion assured Li Ming that the perfected sacrifice program would make the soul ring fusion safe and painless.
• Li Ming used Nightmare on the Di Tian Hearts, and the AI Spirits burned their life and soul power to form a blood-colored soul ring.
• With the AI Spirit guiding the ring's power, Li Ming absorbed it for a day and broke through from level fifty to level sixty.
• Li Ming's spiritual power, physical attributes, and soul core strengthened, while the Little Three-Eyed Golden Lion became more solid and lifelike.
• Li Ming manifested his Space Station Martial Soul with five soul rings and discovered that his new skills involved heartblood and dark power.
• Li Ming identified his first new soul skill, Bloodline Dragon Body, which temporarily infused him with true-dragon bloodline power and transformed his body.

Li Ming tested his Bloodline Dragon Body Soul Skill and discovered that spending more Soul Power created a stronger dragon transformation. In his full transformation, his Soul Ring powers became innate abilities that he could use through his body and even through his space stations.

• The Fate AI explained that the Bloodline Dragon Body Soul Skill grew stronger with the amount of Soul Power used.
• Li Ming used a small amount of Soul Power, transforming into a tougher, two-meter-tall Half-Dragon before reverting to his human form.
• Li Ming spent all his Soul Power to transform into a three-meter-tall, black-scaled dragonlike form and tested its immense strength, speed, and defense.
• Li Ming discovered that his Soul Ring powers fused with his dragon body as innate abilities, letting him unleash Scorching Beam and Demon King Annihilation Cannon in new ways.
• Li Ming realized he could use spatial and devouring powers through his Bloodline Dragon Body, and that every space station could serve as an extension of those abilities.

Li Ming tested the innate Devouring Power awakened by his Bloodline Dragon Body and used his stored soul power to evolve into a high-level sub-dragon. He hoped to push the transformation further toward a true dragon as his soul power reserves continued to drain.

• Li Ming used a sea station to devour a sea soul beast and confirmed that Devouring Power could increase his soul power.
• Fate AI explained that his second transformation had raised his bloodline concentration enough to unlock innate powers.
• Li Ming poured more soul power into Bloodline Dragon Body, grew dragon wings, and learned to fly.
• Li Ming's body reached twenty meters, but he remained a sub-dragon despite the continued bloodline infusion.
• Li Ming realized his stored reserves might let him surpass the soul skill's usual limit, while his evolving bloodline made his innate powers easier to control.

Li Ming evolved into a pure-blooded true dragon and mastered the Dark Domain, a soul skill that could repel powers and trap enemies in a darkness without time or space. With half his soul power left, he continued strengthening his dragon body, while Fate AI urged him to try using fate power.

• Li Ming broke through a bodily bottleneck and transformed into a fifty-meter pure-blooded true dragon.
• Li Ming used his Dark Domain, discovering it could block senses and powers, briefly halt time, and erase the concept of distance, though powerful counters could break through it.
• Li Ming withdrew the Dark Domain and considered whether further bloodline evolution might let him become a dragon king.
• Li Ming poured his remaining soul power into Bloodline Dragon Body, and his dragon body began expanding again.
• Fate AI urged Li Ming to use fate power, believing his current state would help him gain new insight.