Chapter Summaries

After transforming into a human, Wukong left the Star Dou Great Forest with Cai Lin and traveled toward human society. He reached Dragon Rising City at daybreak, ready to enter the city in borrowed clothes.

• Wukong rode Cai Lin to visit Fourth Sister, who was shocked that he had chosen Transformation and warned him about the dangers of humans.
• Wukong and Cai Lin traveled toward the forest’s outskirts, hiding by day and moving at night to avoid human Soul Masters.
• At the edge of the forest, Wukong sent Cai Lin into the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch and continued alone toward the nearest city.
• Wukong slipped into a village at night, took a child’s outfit from a clothesline, and left a Gold Soul Coin as payment.
• After changing, Wukong followed the official road and reached the gates of Dragon Rising City at daybreak.

Wukong reached Dragon Rising City and settled in by disguising himself as a wealthy young master, buying fine clothes, and renting a room at the largest inn. After eating and bathing, he fell asleep, leaving his plans for the city to continue after he rested.

• Wukong entered Dragon Rising City by pretending his father worked there and his mother had sent him to find him.
• Wukong bought two fine outfits with a Gold Soul Coin and changed into one to look like a young master.
• Wukong rented a superior room at the city's largest inn, ordered a meal, and tipped the waiter for hot water.
• Wukong bathed, lay down, and slept until the middle of the night.

Wukong surveyed Dragon Rising City's strongest Soul Masters and found the city safe enough for him to cultivate. He planned to build faith and become a god through stories, then visited the city's largest bookstore to gather books and study.

• Wukong used his Truth-Breaking Golden Eyes to assess Dragon Rising City's powerful figures and found no Soul Douluo or Titled Douluo there.
• Wukong examined his own fate, decided to focus on cultivation until Rank 30, and spent the rest of the night practicing despite his slow progress without a meditation method.
• Wukong resolved to pursue godhood through faith by adapting fantasy novels from his previous life and shaping the legend of Sun Wukong.
• Wukong asked an inn waiter where to buy books, ate breakfast, and followed the directions to Ink and Brush Bookstore.
• Wukong searched the bookstore for books to support his self-study, choosing to avoid an academy so he could keep his unusual Soul Ring and rank from drawing attention.

Wukong bought novels and Soul Master guidebooks, including the Universal Meditation Technique, then tested it in his tavern room. After finding that it accelerated his cultivation but would take months to reach level twenty, he decided to improve it using his Truth-Breaking Golden Eyes.

• Wukong browsed the bookstore’s novels, judged them formulaic, and selected four supernatural tales to study.
• Wukong bought basic reference books, the Universal Meditation Technique, and Yu Xiaogang’s Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul Theory for six Silver Soul Coins.
• Wukong studied the meditation method and, after half an hour of practice, found that it cultivated soul power about five times faster than his old approach.
• Wukong estimated that the method would take at least half a year to reach level twenty and decided to optimize it by examining his meridians with his Truth-Breaking Golden Eyes.

Wukong improved his meditation method by creating new Soul Power circulation routes, then ate and studied to prepare for life and writing on Douluo Continent. He ended the night asleep, planning to buy more books and seek Whale Rubber and medicinal herbs.

• Wukong used his Truth-Breaking Golden Eyes to study his meridians and carefully revised his meditation method, opening three new circulation branches.
• Wukong ordered a large meal and shared pork knuckle and roast duck with Cai Lin inside the Hundred Treasures Pouch.
• Wukong let his meridians recover instead of cultivating further, then read books about Soul Beasts and soul skills.
• Wukong planned to buy books on the continent's culture, geography, customs, and history, as well as Whale Rubber and medicinal herbs.
• Wukong read late into the night, then went to bed and fell asleep.

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.