Chapter Summaries

Li Ming auctioned nine hundred Closed Beta slots in Purple Heaven City to representatives of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire. The auction ended with bids totaling 687,000 Gold Soul Coins, and winners had three days to pay and choose footholds in the Outer District.

• Li Ming explained that Closed Beta accounts would carry over to the Public Beta and that the auction winners would need to pay through Banks in either empire.
• Li Ming began auctioning the slots in groups of fifty, and the first group sold for 25,500 Dream Coupons.
• The Soul Masters raised their bids as the slots dwindled, with the final group selling for 61,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Li Ming reviewed Satellite AI's total of 687,000 Gold Soul Coins and ended the auction.
• Li Ming warned the winners to pay within three days or lose their qualifications and be blacklisted, then told them they could choose Outer District footholds.

Li Ming reviewed Purple Heaven City's Closed Beta plans and studied how physical fitness and mental strength affected Soul Ring fusion. After deciding to seek a Soul Bone to strengthen his mind, he spent six months hunting anomalous Soul Beasts and faced a powerful boar-like beast in Sunset Forest.

• Li Ming announced that approved Closed Beta users could open tax-free, rent-free shops in Purple Heaven City's Outer City.
• Li Ming studied the Satellite AI's Soul Ring model, which linked fusion limits to physical fitness and warned that Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings caused dangerous energy fluctuations.
• Li Ming decided to seek a Skull Bone to increase his mental strength and improve his chance of fusing a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Li Ming spent the next six months attending school while secretly searching for Soul Bones in Sunset Forest.
• Li Ming fought a nearly five-thousand-year boar-like Soul Beast, then used a hundred satellites to inflict a mental shock after its innate charge and resistance dispelled his Dream attack.

Li Ming killed a mutated Millennium Wild Boar and obtained a Head Soul Bone, which granted him the Swift Wind Thrust skill. After testing the skill and returning home, he realized his body and spiritual power could now withstand a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and entered the Dream Space in Purple Heaven City.

• Li Ming used hundreds of satellites to daze and bombard the Millennium Wild Boar, then killed it with a slash to the neck.
• A Head Soul Bone formed from the beast's corpse, and Li Ming absorbed it, gaining increased spiritual power and the Swift Wind Thrust Soul Skill.
• Li Ming tested Swift Wind Thrust and found that it propelled his Satellite Spirit more than twenty meters, making it a useful pairing with Planetary Devastation.
• Li Ming returned home safely and confirmed that his body and spiritual power had reached the requirements for absorbing a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Li Ming entered the Dream Space as a young man and walked into the transformed, bustling streets of Purple Heaven City.

Li Ming expanded Purple Heaven City’s commercial system and profited from his restaurants, milk tea shop, and tavern. He noticed Qian Renxue in the Dream Space and realized Soul Skills could exploit its security systems.

• Li Ming introduced shop ratings and individual Reputation Scores to help manage transaction disputes in Commercial Street.
• Li Ming earned substantial income from his McIntosh restaurant, Milk Tea Shop, and monopolized Tavern.
• Li Ming overheard Ning Rongrong, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing discuss the limited Closed Beta slots and recognized them.
• Qian Renxue sat near Li Ming, who knew she had entered the Dream Space disguised as Xue Qinghe before changing her appearance with a Seraphim Soul Bone.
• Li Ming realized Qian Renxue had used her Soul Skill to bypass Satellite AI’s identification system and create an independent account.

Li Ming strengthened the Dream Space’s security after discovering Qian Renxue had used her Soul Bone to disguise herself, then charged her ten thousand Dream Coupons for a second account. He hired the Red Tiger Mercenary Group to hunt a specific ten-thousand-year Soul Beast, selecting a powerful team and the City Lord’s Mansion’s Life Monitoring Service.

• Li Ming upgraded the Dream Space’s firewall and security system, with network disconnection and satellite shutdown as emergency measures.
• Qian Renxue paid Li Ming ten thousand Dream Coupons for a second account, while the Satellite AI detected other users connected to Spirit Hall branches.
• Li Ming visited the Red Tiger Mercenary Group and asked about hiring a team to hunt a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• The old man explained the group’s Soul Master roster, prices, and the benefits of using the City Lord’s Mansion Assistant for Soul Beast information.
• Li Ming selected four Spirit Saints and three Spirit Emperors for the mission, bringing the cost to twenty-six thousand Dream Coupons.
• Li Ming chose the Life Monitoring Service, which prioritized his safety and penalized the mercenaries if he died.

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.