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Wukong bought two pieces of Millennial Whale Rubber and three body-tempering medicinal baths at Spring Renewal Hall. When sea merchants arrived with a pitch-black piece of Whale Rubber, Wukong suspected it was Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, but the pharmacy owner mistook it for weathered Century Whale Rubber, leaving Wukong an opportunity to acquire it.

• Wukong visited Spring Renewal Hall and bought two pieces of Millennial Whale Rubber and three medicinal bath doses.
• A group of sea merchants arrived to sell marine goods to the pharmacy owner, Old Wang.
• The bearded merchant asked Old Wang to appraise an unusual pitch-black piece of Whale Rubber.
• Wukong recognized that the black Whale Rubber might be Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber and hid his excitement.
• Old Wang judged the piece to be weathered and deteriorated, then offered to buy it as Century Whale Rubber.

Wukong bought the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber cheaply, then gathered books and a wooden bathtub before heading to a hidden cave to prepare for refining it. After night fell, he summoned Cai Lin and retrieved the Ice-Fire Twin Dragons Staff.

• Wukong watched the sea merchants sell their Whale Rubber to the pharmacy owner without recognizing the Ten-Thousand-Year piece.
• Wukong bought all the Whale Rubber from the owner for the purchase price plus a forty-Gold-Soul-Coin fee.
• Wukong bought books on history, geography, factions, and legends, then purchased an oversized wooden bathtub for medicinal bathing.
• Wukong left Dragon Rising City and found a secluded cave where he waited for nightfall while cultivating.
• Wukong summoned Cai Lin from the Hundred Treasures Pouch, and she returned the Ice-Fire Twin Dragons Staff to him.

Wukong refined and swallowed Century Whale Rubber to strengthen his body, but an undercooked core triggered an uncontrollable burning heat. Cai Lin restrained and cooled him until the worst of the effects passed, leaving Wukong exhausted.

• Wukong used the Ice-Fire Twin Dragon Staff to refine Century Whale Rubber into translucent gel.
• Wukong swallowed the gel and began absorbing its energy, which strengthened his muscles and meridians.
• The undercooked Whale Rubber caused intense heat and an overpowering urge that Wukong could not suppress with Soul Power.
• Wukong called Cai Lin over and asked her to bind him; her icy body helped cool him as he continued refining the medicinal power.
• After half an hour, Wukong's symptoms eased, and he collapsed onto the ground in exhaustion.

After recovering from refining Century Whale Rubber, Wukong resolved to build his physique enough to absorb a ten-thousand-year second Soul Ring. He endured a medicinal bath and an all-night training regimen, then returned to Dragon Rising City and collapsed into sleep.

• Wukong assessed his improved physique and estimated that he could withstand a second Soul Ring approaching four thousand years old.
• Wukong decided to aim for a ten-thousand-year second Soul Ring, using the remaining Whale Rubber and intense physical training to strengthen himself.
• Wukong prepared a medicinal bath with herbs from Spring Renewal Hall and soaked until his body absorbed their medicinal power.
• Wukong completed hundreds of frog jumps and squats, then ran ten laps carrying a heavy rock through the night.
• Wukong rested, bathed, and flew back to Dragon Rising City on his Somersault Cloud with Cai Lin in his Hundred Treasures Pouch.
• Wukong returned to his inn room and fell asleep from exhaustion.

Wukong developed his Soul Skill Seventy-Two Transformations while planning and beginning a localized mythology novel titled "God Realm Legend." He outlined the Primordial World’s creation and the origins of its gods, cultivation system, and laws before a knock interrupted his writing.

• Wukong cultivated, read novels, and worked on Seventy-Two Transformations, which he intended to use to copy another person’s form and innate abilities.
• A month later, Wukong named his planned novel "God Realm Legend" and decided to adapt Primordial World mythology for readers of Douluo.
• Wukong began writing about Chaos, the Three Thousand Chaos Gods and Demons, Pangu opening the heavens, and the creation of the Primordial World.
• Wukong replaced Luohou with the Demon Ape in his outline, then wrote that Hongjun and other great powers defeated the Demon Ape and that Hongjun became the first God King.
• Wukong outlined Hongjun’s three sermons, the gods’ cultivation ranks, and the origins of the God Realm’s power structure.
• As Wukong began planning how to explain martial souls and Soul Rings, someone knocked on his door.

Wukong completed the worldbuilding for his novel, explaining how the Five Godkings, Witch Clan, and Demon Clan shaped the Douluo world and its four surviving planes. After more than a month of writing and revising, he finished God Realm Legend and decided to find a publishing house.

• Wukong wrote how the Five Godkings created the systems behind martial souls, Soul Rings, Soul Skills, and Soul Bones, then attained the God King Realm.
• Wukong described the Witch Clan and Demon Clan's war, the destruction of five planes, and the Five Godkings' establishment of the God Realm above the four survivors.
• Wukong spent more than a month writing and revising over three hundred thousand words for God Realm Legend.
• Wukong completed the manuscript, tied it with a red string, stored it in his Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch, and decided to seek a publishing house.

After reaching Rank 20, Wukong refined and absorbed a powerful piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber to strengthen his body for a second Soul Ring. Its energy combined with the remaining medicinal power of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, triggering the second awakening of his Martial Soul.

• Wukong broke through to Rank 20 and decided to use the Immobility Technique for his second Soul Ring skill while preparing to pursue a ten-thousand-year ring.
• Wukong flew to a secluded cave outside Dragon Rising City with Cai Lin and used the Twin Dragon Staff to refine the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber.
• Wukong swallowed the softened Whale Rubber and endured its intense heat as its medicinal power surged through his body.
• Cai Lin wrapped around Wukong to cool him while he absorbed the Whale Rubber's energy, which also activated the remaining medicinal power of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• The combined effects strengthened Wukong's body and pushed his Martial Soul through the threshold of its second awakening.

After his Golden Tier Martial Soul Second Awakening, Wukong increased the Soul Ring age his body could withstand and prepared to condense his second ring. He completed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and rose to level twenty-six.

• Wukong achieved a Golden Tier Secondary Awakening, strengthening his Indestructible Vajra Martial Soul and raising his body’s Soul Ring limit to twelve thousand years.
• Exhausted after the awakening, Wukong slept in the cave while Cai Lin kept watch.
• The next morning, Wukong ate the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid to strengthen his foundation and provide energy for condensing a Soul Ring.
• Wukong spent the day refining the orchid’s medicinal power and channeling it into his Martial Soul.
• Wukong completed his Ten Thousand Year second Soul Ring and broke through to level twenty-six.

After consuming the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, Wukong rose to level twenty-six and gained a powerful second Soul Skill, the Immobility Technique. He planned to publish God Realm Legend to grow his Fortune, while preparing to flee if the book attracted dangerous attention.

• The Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid strengthened Wukong and helped him form a fifteen-thousand-year second Soul Ring with the Immobility Technique.
• Wukong tested the skill on Cai Lin, immobilizing her for three seconds and draining only a small amount of Soul Power.
• Wukong returned to the inn, ordered a feast, and shared it with Cai Lin before falling asleep.
• Wukong inspected his Fortune and worried that it was not keeping pace with his cultivation.
• Wukong decided to publish God Realm Legend to gain faith-based Fortune and planned to move to another city if the book caused a major stir.

Wukong brought his novel, "God Realm Legend," to Ink and Brush Bookstore, where Li Shoumin was stunned by its epic story and agreed to pursue publication. The chapter ended with Wukong learning that the bookstore belonged to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, giving him an unexpected connection to the powerful sect.

• Wukong visited Ink and Brush Bookstore and told Li Shoumin he wanted to sell a novel he had written.
• Li Shoumin read over thirty thousand words of "God Realm Legend" and judged it a masterpiece with the potential to become wildly popular.
• Li Shoumin questioned whether Wukong had truly written the novel, and Wukong began to leave when he worried about the risk.
• Li Shoumin stopped Wukong, accepted his claim, and said the manuscript would be evaluated at headquarters for publication.
• Li Shoumin told Wukong that Ink and Brush Bookstore belonged to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and that the sect led publishing in the Heaven Dou Empire.

Wukong arranged for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to publish his novel, while concealing his true martial soul and talent from Li Shoumin. Back in seclusion, he focused on improving his cultivation and tempering his body for his goal of a fifty-thousand-year third Soul Ring.

• Wukong agreed to Li Shoumin's royalty offer and signed a contract defining the profits, liability, and copyright for his novel.
• Wukong disguised his Ice-Fire Twin Dragon Staff as an ordinary staff and claimed to have level-five Innate Soul Power.
• Li Shoumin promised to send Wukong's manuscript to headquarters for expedited evaluation and said it could reach major cities within half a month.
• Wukong returned to the inn and resumed secluded cultivation, planning to further optimize the Universal Meditation Technique.
• Wukong resolved to intensify body tempering to reach the fifty-thousand-year threshold for his third Soul Ring, considering rare Whale Rubber, medicinal baths, an immortal herb, or help from Di Tian.

Wukong planned to seek more Life Gold from Di Tian if his physical cultivation fell short, while Li Shoumin took Wukong’s manuscript to Heaven Dou City and arranged its publication. By the time Li Shoumin returned to Dragon Rising City, God Realm Legend had already filled the prominent displays of bookstores across Heaven Dou City.

• Wukong considered asking Di Tian for additional Life Gold and then entered deep meditation to cultivate.
• Li Shoumin traveled to Heaven Dou City and showed Wukong’s manuscript to Ning Jincheng at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s publishing house.
• Ning Jincheng praised the manuscript, increased Wukong’s share to thirty percent, and approved a five-hundred-Gold-Soul-Coin advance.
• Li Shoumin waited for sample copies, ordered five hundred books, and returned toward Dragon Rising City.
• God Realm Legend appeared in the most prominent displays of major bookstores throughout Heaven Dou City.

Tang Yuehua read Sun Wukong’s God Realm Legend through the night and began to wonder whether its detailed account of ancient history could be real. Her faith in the story gathered mysterious energy and fortune that flowed toward its author, while the chapter ended by introducing another reader: Xiao Wu’s mother, the hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit living as Teacher Xiao Rou.

• Huang Ying brought Tang Yuehua a copy of God Realm Legend, which was drawing crowds at Seven Treasures Bookshop.
• Tang Yuehua became absorbed in the book’s ancient world, magical treasures, mythological battles, and account of the origins of gods, humanity, and Soul Beasts.
• After reading through the night, Tang Yuehua questioned whether the story reflected real history and imagined whether its powers could help her overcome her rank-nine limit.
• As Tang Yuehua’s belief in the story arose, strands of faith and fortune gathered and flowed toward Sun Wukong, the author.
• The chapter shifted to Xilu City, where Teacher Xiao Rou read God Realm Legend in her office; she was secretly Xiao Wu’s hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit mother.

Xiao Rou admired God Realm Legend and planned to share it with Xiao Wu, while the novel’s growing readership brought Wukong royalties and a slow but steady stream of Faith Fortune. Wukong continued cultivating, convinced that writing books to create gods and gather fortune was a viable path.

• Xiao Rou believed God Realm Legend drew on ancient history, admired its author Sun Wukong, and decided to buy copies for Xiao Wu.
• Writers began borrowing the novel’s world framework and cultivation system, while Wukong asked Li Shoumin to tell fans that the sequel needed more time.
• Wukong received monthly profits from Seven Treasures Bookshop but found that Faith Fortune accumulated and refined far more slowly than he had expected.
• Wukong concluded that writing books to gather fortune could strengthen his foundation, then continued cultivating in his transformed, rapidly growing body.

Wukong returned from Dragon Rising City to the Star Dou Great Forest for the New Year after reaching level thirty. He gave Fourth Sister a custom-embroidered portrait and invited her to New Year's Eve dinner.

• Wukong decided to consume Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew after reaching level thirty to strengthen his spiritual power, while planning to ask Di Tian for help with body refinement.
• Wukong bought holiday goods and gifts, said goodbye to Li Shoumin, and left Dragon Rising City after breaking through to level thirty.
• Wukong flew to the Star Dou Great Forest on Somersault Cloud, then rode Cai Lin to the core region.
• Wukong reunited with Fourth Sister and explained that he had returned to celebrate the New Year with his Soul Beast friends.
• Wukong gave Fourth Sister a custom silk portrait of her true form and invited her to New Year's Eve dinner; after he left, she eagerly admired the gift.

Wukong met Xiao Wu’s mother, Xiao Rou, at the Lake of Life and warned her that Xilu City was dangerously close to Spirit Hall’s route into the Star Dou Great Forest. Xiao Rou decided to move to Dragon Rising City and live with Wukong.

• Wukong and Cai Lin arrived at the Lake of Life and found Xiao Rou with Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming.
• Xiao Wu introduced Wukong to her mother, and Wukong charmed Xiao Rou into letting him call her Sister Rou.
• Xiao Rou told Wukong that she lived and worked in Xilu City and invited him to live with her.
• Wukong used a map to explain that Xilu City’s route through Sword City put Xiao Rou at risk of encountering powerful Soul Masters.
• Xiao Rou decided to resign, sell her house, and move to Dragon Rising City to live with Wukong.

Wukong watched Rou praise his anonymously published book, God Realm Legend, while trying to hide that he was its author. He then gave Xiao Wu gifts and offered to buy Rou a Storage Soul Tool, leaving the bundle of presents open before them.

• Xiao Wu interrupted Wukong and Rou's conversation to ask her mother about the gift she had brought.
• Rou showed Xiao Wu God Realm Legend and enthusiastically praised its account of Soul Beast history and the God Realm, while Wukong secretly enjoyed the compliments.
• Xiao Wu teased Wukong about blushing, and Rou offered to let him read the book.
• Xiao Wu coaxed Wukong into revealing the gifts he had brought, and he offered to buy Rou a Storage Soul Tool.
• Wukong opened his bundle to reveal a carrot pillow, boxes of cakes, and two dresses for Xiao Wu.

Wukong gave Xiao Wu, Da Ming, Er Ming, and Rou thoughtful gifts during his visit to the lake, strengthening his bonds with them. After chatting with everyone, he prepared to go to the lake bottom to deliver gifts to the Ferocious Beast seniors and Little Golden Lion and discuss the Life Gold with Boss Di Tian.

• Wukong gave Xiao Wu gifts, and she delightedly hugged him and licked his face.
• Da Ming and Er Ming watched Xiao Wu and Wukong's closeness, while Xiao Rou considered Wukong a suitable future partner for Xiao Wu.
• Wukong gave Da Ming and Er Ming vats of strong liquor, and both praised its powerful flavor.
• Wukong presented Rou with a golden hairpin, which she admired and accepted happily.
• Wukong chatted with everyone before preparing to visit the Ferocious Beast seniors and Little Golden Lion and speak with Boss Di Tian about the Life Gold.

Wukong returned to the underwater space, visited Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts, and handed out gifts, including one for the Silver Dragon King. His gift to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed its deep longing for the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, leaving the beasts stunned by Wukong’s claim that the two might have been in love.

• Wukong entered the underwater space and reunited with Di Tian, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and the other Ferocious Beasts.
• Wukong told the beasts about his time among humans and gave them gifts, including clothes and jewelry, liquor, snacks, and books.
• Wukong left the Silver Dragon King documents about human powers and intelligence, and she accepted the box from the lake.
• Wukong explained that he owed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for helping him break through his bottleneck and gave it a crystal figurine of the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sobbed over the figurine and cried out for Bing Bing, and Wukong told the shocked beasts that love could cross species.

Wukong asked Di Tian for resources to strengthen his body so he could form a fifty-thousand-year third Soul Ring, then persuaded the Ferocious Beasts to support his unusual cultivation path. Di Tian gave him Life Gold, leaving Wukong confident that his goal was within reach.

• Wukong explained that he had learned about Tian Meng's past from memories glimpsed while absorbing the Sky Dream Origin, and Di Tian silenced Tian Meng with Soul Power.
• Wukong told Di Tian that he needed treasures to strengthen his body, revealing his goal of forming a fifty-thousand-year third Soul Ring.
• Wukong showed his two-thousand-year purple first Soul Ring and twenty-thousand-year black second Soul Ring, then recounted his training and Gold Secondary Awakening.
• Wukong urged the Ferocious Beasts to help him pursue an extraordinary path to godhood by pushing Soul Ring cultivation to its limits.
• Di Tian agreed to help and gave Wukong a piece of Life Gold that had been intended for his lord's injuries.

Wukong absorbed the enormous Life Gold with Di Tian's help, enduring a near-collapse of his Sea of Spirit before the Three-Eyed Golden Lion aided him. The refinement transformed his Ice-Fire Twin Dragons Staff into a divine artifact and greatly strengthened his spiritual power and body, leaving him with a much higher cultivation potential.

• Di Tian warned Wukong that the Life Gold could overwhelm his weak spiritual power and began guiding its refinement into Wukong's body.
• The Life Gold caused Wukong's Sea of Spirit to tear and heal repeatedly, while the Ice-Fire Twin Dragons Staff struggled to stabilize it.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion used its innate divine ability to help Wukong endure the pain and accelerate the Life Gold's fusion, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• The Life Gold merged with the Ice-Fire Twin Dragons Staff, granting it three new abilities and transforming it into a divine artifact.
• Wukong's spiritual power rose tenfold to the middle stage of the Spirit Abyss Realm, his Sea of Spirit became a self-recovering space, and his body gained the ability to withstand sixty-thousand-year Soul Rings.

After reaching sixty-thousand-year physical strength, Wukong used Sky Dream Origin to condense a sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm helped him understand Simulation and Seventy-Two Transformations, and Wukong turned his attention to forming his Soul Skill.

• Wukong awoke with greatly increased strength and spiritual power, while Golden Lion recovered from fainting after helping him fuse.
• Wukong asked Di Tian for Sky Dream Origin to support his Soul Ring condensation, and Di Tian told him his quota was always available.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm willingly supplied pure origin power and thanked Wukong for promising to ask Di Tian to spare his life someday.
• Wukong promised to help Tian Meng and asked him for guidance on Simulation and Seventy-Two Transformations.
• Tian Meng advised Wukong to use his Sea of Spirit as a model and transfer station to prevent Soul Power conflicts during transformation.
• Wukong completed his sixty-thousand-year black Soul Ring and began condensing its Soul Skill.

After awakening from condensing his third Soul Ring, Wukong learned that his External Body Technique could create up to nine independent clones. Di Tian arranged a spar between Wukong and Golden Lion so the gathered Ferocious Beasts could assess their strength, and the fight was about to begin.

• Wukong learned that his third Soul Skill, the External Body Technique, could create up to nine clones whose memories returned to him when dismissed.
• Golden Lion greeted Wukong after his two-and-a-half-day Soul Ring condensation and excitedly looked forward to playing with his clones again.
• Di Tian proposed a spar to test Wukong's combat abilities and chose Golden Lion as his opponent.
• Golden Lion eagerly accepted the fight, while the Ferocious Beasts gathered and placed bets on who would win.
• Bi Ji reminded Wukong and Golden Lion to avoid hurting each other, and Di Tian started the match.

Wukong fought Golden Lion, using the Immobility Technique and his Body Martial Soul’s Gold Secondary Awakening to gain the upper hand and batter her with the Ice-Fire Twin Dragons Staff. Golden Lion broke free and launched a claw strike at close range, leaving the fight unresolved as her attack nearly reached Wukong.

• Golden Lion charged Wukong, but he resisted her bloodline pressure with his Truth-Breaking Golden Eyes.
• Wukong immobilized Golden Lion with the Immobility Technique, activated his Body Martial Soul’s Gold Secondary Awakening, and struck her with the staff’s Ultimate Ice power.
• Wukong repeatedly hit Golden Lion’s forehead while the Ferocious Beasts watched, and Di Tian stopped Scarlet King from intervening.
• Golden Lion recovered, caught the staff in her teeth, and Wukong shrank it so it slipped free.
• Golden Lion lunged at Wukong and swung her right claw at him, with the blow about to land as the chapter ended.

Wukong used his Soul Skills and clones to defeat Golden Lion in their battle, stopping his final staff strike short of her head. Golden Lion broke down in tears, leaving Wukong desperately trying to comfort her and appease Scarlet King.

• Wukong used Somersault Cloud to evade Golden Lion's claw, then immobilized her again with his Freeze skill.
• Wukong summoned two powerful clones, which attacked Golden Lion while his main body charged an Ice-Cold Heavy Slash.
• Golden Lion broke one clone, but the other knocked her down as Wukong swung his staff toward her.
• Wukong redirected his strike to hit the ground beside Golden Lion, but the shockwave sent her flying and left her terrified.
• Golden Lion cried that Wukong had tried to kill her, and Wukong apologized and promised treats, games, and more visits to soothe her.