Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• In the seventeenth year of the simulation, Su Ming’s simulated self has made little progress toward quasi-godhood despite years of meditation. He takes a break and travels with the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and newly human Ah Yin.
• A persistent sense that he has forgotten something troubles him, but he dismisses it, confident he could handle any threat by absorbing his collected soul bones.
• When Ah Yin tries to become more intimate, he finds that his body cannot respond to romantic or physical advances, despite his own desire. He suspects something is seriously wrong.
• He tries to cure the condition with enormous quantities of whale glue and an extreme-dose medicinal mixture, but the treatment fails.
• The Ice Empress misunderstands his distressed state and offers to help, deepening his embarrassment. He continues searching for rare ingredients while traveling with the women.
• In the real world, Su Ming gleefully mocks his simulated counterpart’s predicament. Ah Yin is puzzled by his muttering but has grown used to it.

Character developments and interactions

• Simulated Su Ming shifts from confident and carefree to anxious, humiliated, and desperate to regain control of his body. His confidence in combat contrasts with his helplessness over this private problem.
• Ah Yin seeks closeness and affection, but interprets Su Ming’s lack of response as possible rejection or a sign that she is not attractive enough. She leaves dejected, unaware of the real cause.
• The Snow Empress notices Su Ming’s unease and comforts him, while Ah Yin envies their closeness and the Ice Empress wants the Snow Empress’s attention for herself.
• The Ice Empress later misreads Su Ming’s distress and offers intimate assistance. The three women notice his unusual behavior, but do not understand what he is trying to fix.
• Real Su Ming treats the simulated misfortune as comic revenge and mocks the contrast between having several women nearby and being unable to respond to them.

Significant themes

• The chapter uses comic irony and humiliation: Su Ming’s imagined romantic abundance is undermined by his inability to participate in intimacy.
• It explores the gap between desire and bodily control, as the simulated self’s intentions cannot overcome an inexplicable physical state.
• Pride and vulnerability are central: Su Ming is powerful enough to dismiss formidable enemies, yet feels helpless and ashamed about a problem he cannot solve.
• Misunderstanding and unspoken distress shape the relationships: Ah Yin and the Ice Empress misinterpret his behavior, while Su Ming hides the truth and struggles alone.

Key plot points and events

• By the twentieth year of the simulation, the protagonist gives up trying to fix his physical problems and focuses on building the West Wind Church and improving his strength. His inability to respond to Ah Yin and the Ice Empress romantically becomes clear, and he candidly tells them the problem is his, not theirs.
• He grows closer to Dugu Bo through discussions of medicine, though their relationship still feels constrained by the difference in their status. He also meets Dugu Yan, who remains with Yu Tianheng; he chooses not to disrupt her life.
• On Dugu Bo’s suggestion, the protagonist approaches the Ye Family, known for its medical traditions. The Ye Family and West Wind Church find their goals compatible and begin cooperating. Ye Lingling is initially wary of the elders but comes to see the protagonist and Dugu Bo as open-minded.
• In the twenty-first year, the protagonist continues spending time at the Dugu Residence. Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Ah Yin visit, but he sends them away when they become intrusive. Dugu Bo jokes about his lack of interest in finding a wife.
• A purple pillar over Spirit Hall signals that Bibi Dong has ascended to godhood earlier than expected. She raises an army to destroy the West Wind Church, driven by her hatred of the protagonist.
• The protagonist confronts her outside Spirit Hall City, with Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Ah Yin beside him. He faces Bibi Dong while the three women take on her allies. Ah Yin, having rapidly advanced to Titled Douluo, is warned to retreat if necessary.
• The protagonist and Bibi Dong fight to a standstill. Though he is a demigod, his combat strength and Soul Core let him match her directly. However, Bibi Dong uses the Power of Heaven and Earth to trap them in a spatial domain, turning the battle into a prolonged stalemate.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist accepts his physical limitations and sets clearer boundaries with Ah Yin and the Ice Empress, preferring honest friendship to leaving them with false hopes.
• His bond with Dugu Bo deepens through shared medical interests, while their unequal status keeps Dugu Bo deferential. Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling appear through this circle; the protagonist deliberately leaves Dugu Yan’s relationship undisturbed.
• Ye Lingling moves from suspicion of the two older men to greater comfort with them, sharing discussions about herbs.
• Bibi Dong’s early ascension makes her a direct threat, and the protagonist’s allies join him in facing her.

Significant themes

• Acceptance and boundaries: The protagonist stops pursuing an unlikely cure and is honest about romance.
• Illusion and protection: He believes Dugu Yan may be better off spared a painful reality.
• Power and responsibility: The West Wind Church’s charitable mission draws it into conflict with Bibi Dong’s campaign.
• Uncertainty and escalation: Bibi Dong’s unexpectedly early godhood, and the hidden divine assistance behind her new ability, transform a simmering rivalry into open war.

Key plot points and events

• Snow Empress and Ice Empress, supported by Ah Yin, are overwhelmed by Qian Daoliu and six other powerful Spirit Hall fighters. The narrator cannot turn the battle around.
• Bibi Dong blames the narrator and his allies for Yu Xiaogang’s death, driven in part by the Rakshasa God’s manipulations. She abandons her fight with the narrator and attacks Snow Empress’s group.
• The narrator breaks free of the world’s restraint with a powerful hurricane and blocks Bibi Dong’s strike. Snow Empress, under outside control, then pierces his chest and crushes his heart. She kills Ah Yin and Ice Empress before regaining control; Bibi Dong kills Snow Empress.
• As he dies, the narrator awakens the power of Survival from Desperate Situations, but grief and hatred consume him. He curses the Sea God and appears to die.
• The Simulation’s timeline continues: Bibi Dong establishes the Spirit Hall Empire; Qian Renxue and Tang San ascend as gods. The narrator’s earlier action—hiding the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud in the Lake of Life—prevents Tang San from starting the Sea God’s trials.
• Tang San later destroys Spirit Hall and the West Wind Church, then ascends with his family and companions. Over the following decades, Soul Power steadily drains from Douluo Star until only fifteen percent remains and the world enters an End of Dharma Age.
• A new being is born: the narrator, reborn without his memories. His Foundation has grown enormously, and his absorption of the world’s Soul Power raises his effective Foundation to 650%.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator shifts from mockery to helpless anger and devastation, then apparently survives through rebirth. His final fate gives the chapter a major reversal.
• Snow Empress becomes a tragic victim of supernatural control, killing her allies and the narrator before regaining herself and dying.
• Bibi Dong is consumed by grief and resentment, directing blame at the narrator’s group despite having killed Yu Xiaogang herself.
• Tang San rises to divine power and reshapes the mortal world, but the narrator’s earlier interference blocks his Sea God trials.
• Su Ming, who had mocked the Simulation’s poor progress, is moved by Snow Empress’s betrayal and ends by encouraging the narrator’s reborn self to seek revenge.

Significant themes

• Fate and manipulation: divine forces control events and even the characters’ bodies and memories.
• Loss and grief: the narrator’s death and the deaths of his companions are driven by betrayal, misunderstanding, and vengeance.
• Endurance and rebirth: the narrator’s apparent death becomes the beginning of a transformed existence.
• Long-term consequences: one earlier decision affects Tang San’s path, while the narrator’s power eventually alters the balance of the entire world.

Key plot points and events

• Su Ming’s simulation continues after his resurrection. Winds and evil qi surge into him, greatly strengthening his body and transforming his appearance, though his cultivation remains almost nonexistent.
• He wanders Douluo Star for more than a century. By the time he reaches Heaven Dou City, he has traveled the continent but still has not reached Soul Scholar rank, as cultivation in this era is extraordinarily slow.
• Drawn by a sense of familiarity, Su Ming visits the ruined Dugu Residence. Its former owner, Dugu Yan, is now aged and mentally broken.
• The simulation reveals the Dugu family’s downfall: Dugu Bo died protecting Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng, but Yu Tianheng later betrayed that sacrifice, abused Dugu Yan, crippled her cultivation, and sold her. She eventually escaped, but was left deranged.
• Inside the residence, Su Ming finds two weed-stuffed figures seated in reclining chairs and decayed books on a table. He feels an unexplained grief, despite not understanding what he is seeing.
• Ye Lingling arrives and recognizes Su Ming’s face, though he does not recognize her. She doubts her own perception, since he supposedly died a century earlier.
• A group of Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan Soul Saints then threatens Ye Lingling. Though she is a Titled Douluo, her support abilities leave her unable to defend herself alone.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ming: Returns with greatly increased physical strength and an altered appearance, but has lost much of his memory and emotional context. Familiar places and objects stir feelings he cannot explain.
• Dugu Yan: Once a powerful young woman, she has been reduced to a traumatized, deranged survivor after Yu Tianheng’s betrayal and abuse.
• Ye Lingling: Now a mature-looking Titled Douluo and head of the Ye Family, she is still constrained by the clan’s weakness and by shifting political power. Seeing Su Ming unsettles her.
• Yu Tianheng: His betrayal of Dugu Bo’s sacrifice and brutal treatment of Dugu Yan reveal his corruption and help explain the Dugu family’s ruin.
• Su Ming and Ye Lingling: She recognizes him and addresses him as “Senior Su”; he barely connects her words to a fragmentary sense of his own name.
• Su Ming and Dugu Yan: He encounters her and her former home without recognizing her, while she reacts to him with fear.

Significant themes

• Memory and identity: Su Ming’s body and strength have returned, but his memories and understanding have not.
• The cost of betrayal: Dugu Bo’s sacrifice fails to earn gratitude and instead leaves Dugu Yan vulnerable to Yu Tianheng.
• Decline and the passage of time: A century transforms familiar people, families, and places beyond recognition.
• Power and vulnerability: Even high rank offers little protection when a character’s abilities, allies, or political position are inadequate.

Key plot points and events

• The narrator, emotionally detached and unable to recognize Ye Lingling, intervenes when several Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan members attack her and Dugu Yan. He kills the attackers effortlessly with black threads.
• Ye Lingling recognizes him as Su Ming and is overjoyed that he has returned, but he says he does not know either woman and leaves.
• As he travels, the narrator absorbs negative emotions and grows stronger, particularly in his control of the wind.
• In Shrek City, Yu Tianheng and several clan elders confront him over the earlier killings. He kills them instantly, then drains their bodies of death energy, negative emotions, and cultivation. He also kills Shrek Academy members who come after him.
• Over time, he slaughters members of several major factions—including the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Shrek Academy, the Clear Sky Sect, and the Tang Sect. Branded an enemy of the continent, he survives repeated assassination attempts and badly weakens those powers.
• The factions later send ordinary people to kill him, promising rewards to their families but instead enslaving them. The narrator remains unaware of this.
• He encounters Ye Lingling again, now destitute and caring for the mentally impaired Dugu Yan. He lets them accompany him, and his solitary travels become a journey shared by three.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator/Su Ming is powerful but emotionally numb, with little memory or recognition of people from his past. He treats killing and absorbing his victims’ power as practical, and continues wandering without concern for the consequences.
• Ye Lingling shifts from shocked recognition and desperate hope to hardship and survival. Despite his rejection, she later reunites with him and follows him while caring for Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan is mentally impaired and dependent on Ye Lingling, who carries and cares for her.
• The narrator’s relationship with the two women changes subtly: though he does not acknowledge their shared past, he chooses to protect them and permits them to travel with him.

Significant themes

• Memory and identity: Su Ming’s familiar face and voice remain, but his memories and emotional connections appear lost.
• Power and moral corruption: His immense strength makes violence effortless, while the factions’ supposed virtue contrasts sharply with their cruelty and exploitation.
• Exploitation and injustice: Ordinary assassins’ families are betrayed and enslaved, exposing the human cost of the powerful factions’ conflicts.
• Isolation and reluctant companionship: The narrator remains detached, yet his decision to shelter Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan creates the possibility of connection.

Plot points and events

• Su Ming and Ye Lingling continue wandering the continent, facing fewer assassination attempts. Ye Lingling cares for him and tells stories to help restore his lost memories, but with little success.
• Dugu Yan gradually regains some clarity, though age has left her near death. After finding and planting a seed, Su Ming tends it closely; it eventually grows into ordinary Blue Silver Grass.
• Dugu Yan dies in year 126, wishing she could return to the days when Su Ming and her grandfather were both present. Su Ming and Ye Lingling bury her, after which Su Ming goes to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Su Ming destroys the clan with a single blow and kills Liu Erlong and Yu Tianxin when they attack him. Absorbing the clan’s life energy lets him barely reach level ten, become a Soul Scholar, and form his first Soul Core—the Dark Soul Core. His power makes his daily Soul Power production exceed the planet’s total.
• In year 130, the Divine Realm abruptly loses contact with every world under its jurisdiction and is swept away somewhere unknown.
• In year 133, Ye Lingling confesses her love to Su Ming. They kiss before she dies; he buries her beside Dugu Yan. Ah Yin is now his only companion, though neither she nor Su Ming remembers their earlier time together.
• Years later, weary of repeated assassination attempts, Su Ming beats those who oppose him until the attacks stop. He then seeks a place to sleep.
• He and Ah Yin reach a poisonous valley and enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. A fire dragon dissolves into energy that rapidly strengthens the Immortal Herbs, including Ah Yin, whose cultivation rises from one hundred to one thousand years. Su Ming leaves Ah Yin by the spring and falls asleep.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ming remains powerful but memory-impaired, increasingly accepting of a quiet, solitary life. He shows tenderness by caring for the Blue Silver Grass and protecting Ah Yin from the poison. His concern about the Divine Realm hints at ties to events beyond this life.
• Ye Lingling stays devoted to Su Ming, becoming his caretaker and guide to his past. Her final confession reveals a love she had concealed for years.
• Dugu Yan recovers enough to share brief moments with Su Ming and Ye Lingling, then dies peacefully after expressing her longing for their earlier life together.
• Ah Yin grows stronger and gains a little intelligence, but her reunion with Su Ming is marked by mutual amnesia. She remains with him as his final companion.
• Liu Erlong and Yu Tianxin try to defend their clan, but their attacks are futile against Su Ming’s overwhelming strength.

Significant themes

• Memory and identity: Su Ming’s lost past shapes his relationships, while familiar people and places no longer carry their former meaning.
• Aging, death, and devotion: Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling spend their final moments with Su Ming, who honors them through their shared burial place.
• Immense power and isolation: Su Ming’s strength grows to extraordinary levels, yet his life becomes quieter as companions die and the world’s hostility fades.
• Cycles of loss and renewal: The deaths of his companions contrast with the Blue Silver Grass and Ah Yin’s renewed growth.
• Disrupted destiny: The Divine Realm’s premature disappearance suggests that the world’s expected timeline has been dramatically altered.

Key plot points and events

• As the continent forgets you, assassination attempts stop. Meanwhile, Douluo Star’s recovering soul power abruptly collapses, pushing the world toward the end of the Dharma age. Hidden weapons regain prominence, while soul tools become nearly useless.
• The Silver Dragon King detects the collapse and suspects either that something is draining the planet or that it is nurturing a monster. She chooses not to intervene.
• After a long sleep, you awaken in year 200, your foundation strengthened to 800%. By then, the Abyss has invaded and nearly wiped out the alliance of humans and soul beasts.
• You complete a damaged copy of the Mysterious Heaven Skill and reshape it into the Heaven Devouring Demon Skill, which converts what you consume into gains to your spirit, soul power, physique, and foundation.
• You devour the immortal herbs and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, raising your foundation to 813%. You preserve Ah Yin’s remaining seeds before leaving to fight the Abyss.
• You rapidly slaughter the invaders, restoring your soul power by devouring them. In year 201, the survivors see you as the signal for a counterattack—but you continue killing until almost every living being on Douluo Star is dead. Only the Lake of Life’s ferocious beasts, the Silver Dragon King, and a few others remain.
• Your grief turns into frenzied violence. Remembering the Snow Empress, you rage against the Abyssal Emperors, who mistake you for a madman and try to surround you. You mutilate and devour them, unaware that their usual revival will not occur.

Character developments and interactions

• You awaken vastly more powerful, focused on reaching godhood and taking revenge. Your grief and isolation have become a blood-soaked obsession, and your transformation into a monstrous figure is both physical and psychological.
• The Silver Dragon King remains cautious, observing the planetary crisis rather than acting.
• The Abyssal Emperors initially underestimate your brutality and believe they can defeat you together. They do not realize that being devoured prevents them from reviving.
• Ah Yin has been consumed by the medicinal herbs during your long sleep; you show no anger and keep only her residual seeds. The immortal herbs, in turn, become your nourishment.

Significant themes

• Power and sacrifice: In the end of the Dharma age, ordinary use of soul power costs life, while your devouring ability turns destruction into strength.
• Grief becoming vengeance: Your pain over the dead—especially the Snow Empress—drives you toward indiscriminate slaughter.
• Monstrosity and moral collapse: You begin as Douluo Star’s apparent savior but become a threat to its remaining life.
• A world’s vulnerability: The weakened planet cannot resist the Abyss, and the collapse of its defenses leaves survival in the hands of an uncontrollable force.

Key plot points and events

• Driven by an insatiable urge to kill and consume, Su Laoliu massacres more than half of the Abyss Plane’s seventy-two emperors, then wipes out the rest with his black-thread-like attacks.
• He moves to the passage into Douluo Star and devours incoming abyssal creatures. By the simulation’s year 202, he has greatly reduced their numbers and reached 900% foundation concentration, though his martial soul still has not evolved.
• The Abyssal Sage King sends another thirty-five emperors. Su Laoliu slices them apart, then tortures them grotesquely until they die in year 203. Their deaths push his foundation to 979%.
• Despite absorbing immense energy from hundreds of billions of creatures and 107 emperors, Su Laoliu has only reached Soul Elder. He has also acquired wind and evil soul cores alongside his original dark core.
• The Sage King realizes his subordinates have been killed, but cannot enter Douluo Star while its planar will resists. Su Laoliu continues consuming the world’s remaining life and resources, while postponing a visit to the Lake of Life.
• Su Laoliu reasons that reaching Soul Ancestor should make him comparable to a First-Level God, since both seem to him to involve four stages of advancement.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Laoliu’s power and foundation grow enormously, but so do his bloodlust and cruelty. He becomes an indiscriminate predator, treating emperors and ordinary abyssal creatures alike as nourishment.
• The emperors first fear and curse him, then become helpless victims of his violence. His treatment of the second group turns killing into deliberate, prolonged torture.
• The Abyssal Sage King shifts from dispatching forces to urgently wanting to intervene, but is blocked by Douluo Star’s defenses.
• Su Ming reacts to the simulation with horror at the torture and amusement at Su Laoliu’s faulty comparison between soul-master and divine ranks.

Significant themes

• Power without restraint: Su Laoliu’s escalating strength enables atrocities rather than wisdom or control.
• Consumption and depletion: His hunger damages both the Abyss Plane’s invasion effort and Douluo Star’s remaining resources.
• Distorted reasoning: Su Laoliu retains enough caution to avoid the Silver Dragon King for now, yet his “four stages” logic reveals how badly his judgment is warped.
• Dark comedy amid horror: The narration’s grotesque violence is undercut by Su Ming’s incredulous commentary.

Plot and key events

• Su Laoliu devours much of Douluo Star, wipes out its abyssal creatures, and leaves a clone guarding the Abyss Passage.
• He reaches Dragon Valley and consumes its terrain, bones, and other resources. When the Dark Dragon King’s Dragon Soul confronts him, he attacks; the Light Dragon King intervenes and easily reduces him to bloody mist.
• Su Laoliu reforms, creates millions of equally strong clones, and manages to behead both Dragon Kings—but their heads regenerate. He retreats, then unleashes billions of clones to consume Dragon Valley’s outskirts.
• After eating only a fraction of Dragon Valley’s abundant resources, his Foundation exceeds 1,000%. His linked Wind and Evil Spirits begin evolving together, drawing every clone back into him and attracting the energy left in Dragon Valley.
• The Dragon God observes the transformation without intervening, judging Su Laoliu to have great potential and recognizing that he has already inherited the Dragon Race’s power and obligations.
• In Year 210, the Abyssal Sage King arrives to find Douluo Star largely devastated. He confronts the recovering Silver Dragon King at the Lake of Life; their forces are roughly matched, and the Abyssal Sage King ultimately withdraws.
• In Year 220, after seventeen years in Dragon Valley, Su Laoliu finally completes his Martial Soul evolution.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Laoliu is reckless, voracious, and easily angered, yet his extraordinary ability to regenerate and multiply lets him survive encounters with far stronger opponents. His evolution may place him among the Dragon Race’s highest ranks, though it also binds him to the race’s power and karmic ties.
• The Light and Dark Dragon Kings remain formidable even after death, sustained by Dragon Valley. They repel Su Laoliu but cannot pursue him far from their remains.
• The Dragon God takes a watchful, potentially hopeful interest in Su Laoliu rather than treating him as a threat.
• The Silver Dragon King and Abyssal Sage King meet as near-equals under the limits imposed on the Sage King; their encounter ends with his retreat.
• Su Ming, commenting on the simulation, jokes that Su Laoliu’s success looks like “fools have all the luck,” and contrasts it with Su Laowu’s misfortune at inheriting a heavy karmic burden.

Significant themes

• Recklessness rewarded by luck: Su Laoliu’s poor judgment repeatedly causes danger, but his resilience and unusual powers turn disaster into opportunity.
• Power and consequence: Consuming Dragon Valley fuels immense growth, while inheriting Dragon power also brings obligations and karmic ties.
• Devastation and competition: Su Laoliu’s consumption leaves Douluo Star depleted, reshaping the stakes for the arriving Abyssal Sage King.
• Survival through retreat: Even extraordinary strength has limits; Su Laoliu escapes when he cannot finish his opponents.

Plot points and events

• Su Ming’s Martial Soul evolution leaves him with dragon scales, black-and-silver hair, and luminous Dragon Eyes—but his Martial Soul vanishes. Convinced the Dragon Valley elders caused this, he lashes out in rage.
• His intelligence and restraint deteriorate under the influence of Dragon Blood. He grows increasingly dragonlike, moves on all fours, and kills and devours weakened Dragon Souls.
• He attacks the weakened Light Dragon King and Dark Dragon King, beats them nearly to death, then eats them because he can no longer use Soul Power to heal them for further torment.
• His hunger becomes insatiable. He consumes dirt, bones, Dragon Souls, and even pieces of space; eating only makes him hungrier and enlarges the vast stomach within him.
• His scales give way to black fur, and his transformation reveals him as a true Taotie—not merely a member of the Earth Dragon King’s Taotie branch. His dragon bloodline and accumulated karmic ties are being converted into nourishment.
• He devours nearly all of Dragon Valley, but a powerful presence beneath its core region warns him away.
• Su Ming, watching the Simulation, panics over the outcome and considers whether choosing cultivation or foundation could cause a similar transformation. He views “memory” as the only safe choice for this Simulation.
• The Taotie’s power comes at a steep cost: although his bloodline is at least on par with the Dragon God’s and his foundation is immense, his cultivation has fallen to Third-Level Soul Power and progresses extraordinarily slowly. His three Soul Cores remain, but his combat strength is accompanied by serious instability and resource problems.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ming shifts from anger and confusion to fear and reflection as he realizes how dangerous his choices may be. His reaction also shows his contempt for Su Laoliu, whom he sees as selfish, destructive, and ungrateful.
• The simulated Su Ming loses his intelligence, empathy, and self-control, becoming a ravenous beast. He blames the Dragon Valley elders, attacks the Light and Dark Dragon Kings, and ultimately consumes them.
• The Light Dragon King and Dark Dragon King, already weakened, are helpless against him and become victims of his violence and hunger.
• A mysterious force beneath Dragon Valley’s core region exerts enough pressure to make the Taotie tremble, hinting at a threat stronger or more dangerous than anything he has consumed.

Significant themes

• Power versus control: Su Ming gains a formidable body and bloodline but loses his Martial Soul, judgment, and ability to control himself.
• Evolution as degeneration: His transformation appears to strengthen him, yet it strips away his identity and leaves him a ferocious, evil beast.
• The cost of an extreme foundation: Greater potential makes cultivation vastly slower and risks instability.
• Insatiable consumption: Feeding on more power does not satisfy the Taotie; it intensifies his hunger and makes the consequences worse.

Plot points

• In the 225th year of the simulation, the protagonist’s instincts have nearly taken control. He devours most of Dragon Valley’s food but refuses to touch the Dragon God’s remains.
• Returning to Douluo Star, he finds it overrun by Abyssal Creatures and begins consuming them. He kills and eats Xiong Jun, prompting Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts to confront him.
• The protagonist’s body grows to an enormous, monstrous scale. He kills the Scarlet King, consumes Di Tian’s Dragon God Claw, and withstands attacks from Di Tian and the Abyssal Sage King.
• The Abyssal Sage King and Silver Dragon King join forces against him, but their elemental and mental attacks barely affect him. He devours the Ferocious Beasts, then heads for the Lake of Life.
• Sensing the Emperor Auspicious Beast hidden beneath the lake, he tears through the spatial barrier and eats the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, deliberately seeking to inflict the same kind of loss the Silver Dragon King once caused him.
• The Silver Dragon King and Abyssal Sage King continue attacking, but even the Heavenly Saint Rift-Piercing Halberd causes little harm. The protagonist watches them with cruel amusement.

Character developments

• The protagonist has lost almost all bodily control to instinct, though his consciousness remains. His appetite and desire for revenge now drive his actions; he takes particular pleasure in the Silver Dragon King’s anguish.
• Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts are overwhelmed by the protagonist’s strength. Their initial outrage turns to panic as they realize they cannot stop him.
• The Silver Dragon King becomes desperate and grief-stricken after the Emperor Auspicious Beast is killed, but continues fighting alongside the Abyssal Sage King.
• The Abyssal Sage King recognizes the danger of allowing the protagonist to keep growing stronger through consumption and orders the Abyssal Creatures to retreat.

Themes

• Instinct versus conscious will: The protagonist can still think, but his body increasingly acts on its own.
• Revenge and cruelty: He kills the Emperor Auspicious Beast not merely to feed, but to make the Silver Dragon King suffer.
• Escalating, corrupting power: Each act of consumption makes the protagonist more formidable, turning former allies and enemies alike into prey.
• Monstrous dehumanization: His speech and behavior become increasingly bestial, while his immense power makes him seem almost impossible to harm.

Character interactions

• Di Tian challenges the protagonist over Xiong Jun’s death, but the confrontation quickly becomes a one-sided massacre.
• The Silver Dragon King and Abyssal Sage King coordinate their attacks, debating whether the protagonist represents the world’s last resistance and whether his energy could be exploited.
• The protagonist’s conflict with the Silver Dragon King becomes intensely personal: he targets the Emperor Auspicious Beast to mirror her past actions and savor her grief.

Key plot points

• In the simulation, Su Ming’s corrupted body releases spreading black Evil Qi. The Silver Dragon King and Abyssal Sage King try to contain it, then strike his heart and brain, but cannot stop his body from taking control. Su Ming dies, ending the simulation.
• Su Ming rejects the safer-seeming rewards and chooses a 932% Foundation increase, raising his total to 1,326%. He undergoes another Martial Soul Evolution, which takes only half a month rather than years.
• After evolving, Su Ming discovers his Soul Power has reset to level one again. He also realizes he somehow knows how much time has passed.
• Su Ming questions Ah Yin about her unusual behavior and possible hidden memories. She cannot explain herself, and he lets the matter drop for now.
• He takes Ah Yin to the Blue Silver Forest, where the Blue Silver King confronts him as a dangerous intruder. Su Ming expects Ah Yin to explain their presence, but she remains silent.

Character developments

• Su Ming takes a gamble on the massive Foundation reward despite fearing the disastrous evolution seen in the simulation. He remains curious about Ah Yin but is not overly troubled by her secrets.
• Ah Yin shows signs of a growing emotional attachment to Su Ming, though she distrusts the idea and is internally conflicted about their bond.
• The Blue Silver King acts protectively toward the forest despite sensing that Su Ming is exceptionally dangerous.

Character interactions

• Su Ming gently probes Ah Yin about her possible memories, then reassures her when she seems nervous.
• In the forest, Su Ming turns the Blue Silver King’s warning into a prompt for Ah Yin to clarify matters. Ah Yin’s silence leaves the misunderstanding unresolved.

Significant themes

• Power and risk: Su Ming chooses an uncertain, potentially dangerous reward for its enormous benefit.
• Identity and hidden memory: His unexplained knowledge of elapsed time and Ah Yin’s possible memories raise questions about what survives between simulations.
• Trust and attachment: Ah Yin’s feelings for Su Ming are developing even as she resists trusting him.
• Protection and misjudgment: The Blue Silver King’s duty to defend the forest leads him to confront someone whose intentions may not be hostile.

Key plot points and events

• Ah Yin finally tells the Blue Silver King that Su Ming is no intruder. Recognizing the emperor’s bloodline, the Blue Silver King greets Su Ming with great excitement and clings to his leg.
• Ah Yin scolds the Blue Silver King and calls Su Ming her “good friend,” prompting him to let them into the Blue Silver Forest. The King mistakenly interprets their awkwardness as evidence that Su Ming is Ah Yin’s husband.
• Su Ming settles Ah Yin in the forest and learns that the other Blue Silver Kings left after she disappeared.
• He studies his changed Martial Soul: its wind power is evolving toward time, but so far has only improved his perception of time. Meanwhile, his Soul Power cultivation has slowed dramatically.
• After Ah Yin’s recovered ability to communicate leads to more incessant conversation, Su Ming asks for quiet and starts a new Simulation.
• In the Simulation, Su Ming angrily curses the version of himself responsible for his body’s poor cultivation speed. He considers killing Bibi Dong but decides he is too weak, and instead plans to follow Tang San’s path toward a Divine Seat. He is also concerned about the future loss of contact with the Divine Realm and the Abyss’s invasion.
• On the Simulation’s first day, he takes Ah Yin to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to find a herb that will let her take human form. Because her cultivation is only around a thousand years, she appears as a child just over three years old.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ming remains blunt and pragmatic: he is uncomfortable with the Blue Silver King’s affectionate welcome, accepts the limits of his current strength, and chooses a cautious long-term plan in the Simulation.
• Ah Yin is increasingly able to communicate as her cultivation recovers. She shows embarrassment about Su Ming, tries to defend her dignity before the forest’s Blue Silver Grass, and is eager to explain her past—though Su Ming declines to press her.
• The Blue Silver King is devoted to Ah Yin and deferential to Su Ming, but misunderstands their relationship, imagining Su Ming as her husband.
• Su Ming and Ah Yin’s relationship is familiar and teasing: she chatters and seeks his attention, while he alternates between caring for her and asking her to stop.

Significant themes

• Power versus potential: A high Foundation does not guarantee immediate strength, and Su Ming’s slow cultivation leaves him vulnerable.
• Pragmatism and survival: Rather than pursue revenge against Bibi Dong recklessly, Su Ming prioritizes gaining power and preparing for looming threats.
• Loyalty and belonging: The Blue Silver King’s devotion reflects the bonds between Ah Yin and her subjects.
• Comic misunderstanding and intimacy: The King’s mistaken assumptions and the easy banter between Su Ming and Ah Yin add humor and warmth to the chapter.

Key plot points and events

• After taking Ah Yin’s transformed human form, the protagonist harvests the usable Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, collects the Water and Fire Dragon Kings’ Soul Bones, leaves a note and the Earth Dragon Golden Melon for Dugu Bo, and departs with Ah Yin.
• They settle in Holy Soul Village, where they secretly care for the infant Tang San. Their goal is to win his trust and make him an ally in the protagonist’s path to godhood.
• Over several years, Tang San grows more attached to them than to Tang Hao, whose drinking and neglect deepen Tang San’s resentment. By age four, Tang San moves in with the couple and asks them to adopt him, while cutting ties with Tang Hao.
• The protagonist gives Tang San a rare medicinal herb as a birthday gift—but has altered it to remove his inherited bloodlines. At Ah Yin’s request, they strip away both her and Tang Hao’s direct bloodlines and replace them with a mutation. Tang San retains his Clear Sky Hammer and Blue Silver Grass, but can now establish a lineage of his own.
• In the sixth year, the protagonist returns to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and finds the herbs regrowing. Dugu Bo has left a sign thanking the unknown benefactor and offering access to the garden and help from his residence in Heaven Dou City.

Character developments

• The protagonist pursues a long-term plan to secure Tang San’s loyalty, combining genuine care with calculated emotional influence. They also alter Tang San’s heritage without his knowledge.
• Ah Yin initially recoils at the plan because Tang San is not her son and Tang Hao sought her Soul Bone and Soul Ring. She eventually agrees, and later requests the removal of her own bloodline from Tang San.
• Tang San grows frail but increasingly self-reliant and resentful of Tang Hao. He comes to view the protagonist and Ah Yin as his real parents and chooses them as his adoptive parents.
• Tang Hao is portrayed as an absent, drunken father whose neglect and behavior alienate his son.

Significant themes

• Family and parenthood: Tang San’s emotional bonds are shaped more by care and presence than by biological ties.
• Manipulation and sacrifice: The couple’s affection is sincere in part, but also carefully used to influence Tang San; Ah Yin struggles with the moral and emotional cost.
• Identity and inheritance: Tang San keeps his powers but is secretly freed from both families’ bloodline claims, opening the possibility of founding a new lineage.
• Nature versus nurture: Tang San’s character and loyalties are molded by the people who raise him rather than by his birth family.

Character interactions

• Ah Yin objects to approaching Tang San and Tang Hao, but the protagonist respects her hesitation and offers to go alone; she ultimately joins the plan.
• The protagonist and Ah Yin nurture Tang San quietly, letting him conclude for himself that Tang Hao has failed him.
• Tang San formally asks both of them to adopt him, and they welcome him into their family.
• The protagonist presents the altered herb as a loving gift, while secretly changing Tang San’s bloodline at Ah Yin’s request.

Key plot points and events

• After six years of cultivation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Su Ming reaches level ten. Unable to gather enough Wind Element to form a Soul Ring, he draws on the well’s power instead. After half a month, he becomes a Soul Scholar and forms both his First Soul Ring and First Wind Soul Core.
• During this period, Tang San awakens his twin martial souls, Blue Silver Grass and Clear Sky Hammer. He hides the Clear Sky Hammer from Tang Hao, who dismisses his Blue Silver Grass, deepening Tang San’s disappointment in him.
• Su Ming spends a few days with Tang San and Ah Yin in Holy Soul Village, then sets off to handle other matters and help shape Tang San’s future.
• At Shrek Academy, Su Ming subjects Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and the Bu Le Trio to prolonged, grotesque punishment. The ensuing chaos leads Flender to mistake and eat a fist-sized object as a frozen pear.
• Su Ming then beats Flender and the other Shrek teachers whenever they abuse their authority. After a month, they have become markedly more respectful. He leaves thirty-three powerful clones to keep the academy in line.
• Before leaving, Su Ming muses about further humiliating the group, but Ah Yin appears and catches part of his remark. He quickly claims he was conversing with the wind.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang San grows closer to Su Ming and Ah Yin than to Tang Hao, whose cold reaction to his Blue Silver Grass worsens their strained relationship. Ah Yin provides the warmth and affection Tang Hao does not.
• Su Ming demonstrates immense strength and a crude, vigilante approach to correcting behavior: rather than reforming Shrek’s staff through discussion, he beats them into compliance. He also sees his actions as a way to remove potential bad influences from Tang San’s future.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun are left psychologically and physically traumatized by Su Ming’s punishments; the chapter presents their resulting bond with each other as an absurd comic consequence.
• Flender unwittingly becomes the chapter’s central joke by eating the object he mistakes for a frozen pear.
• Ah Yin remains trusting and innocent, accepting Su Ming’s implausible explanation that he was talking with the wind.

Significant themes

• Chosen affection versus parental rejection: Tang San’s closeness to Su Ming and Ah Yin contrasts with Tang Hao’s disdain.
• Power used as justice: Su Ming believes force can curb abuse of authority, though his methods are extreme and played for dark comedy.
• Absurdist humor and shock comedy: The chapter relies on grotesque misunderstandings, exaggerated punishment, and Flender’s bizarre “frozen pear” episode.
• Control over Tang San’s future: Su Ming intervenes at Shrek to remove influences he considers harmful and to keep the academy’s staff in check.

Chapter 36 Summary

• Plot and key events: After leaving Shrek Academy, the protagonist decides to target Yu Xiaogang before Tang San can meet and become his disciple. He abducts Yu Xiaogang from Nuoding Academy and brings him to Bibi Dong’s bedchamber in Spirit Hall. After drugging him with a powerful aphrodisiac and concealing himself, the protagonist waits for Bibi Dong to arrive.
• Yu Xiaogang, acting under the drug’s influence, attacks and verbally abuses Bibi Dong. His insults reveal what the protagonist presents as Yu Xiaogang’s hidden contempt: he claims superiority over her, belittles her position, accuses her of using sex to gain power, and suggests he only pursued her for access to Spirit Hall’s resources.
• Bibi Dong initially struggles to believe that Yu Xiaogang could truly think this way. Her disbelief turns into fury as he continues insulting and humiliating her. She beats him severely, then briefly breaks down and tries to convince herself that his words are false.
• When Yu Xiaogang slaps and continues degrading her, Bibi Dong finally loses control. Her Death Demon Spider spirit takes over, and she kills him brutally, continuing to attack his remains until nothing recognizable is left.
• The protagonist reveals himself only through the wind, taunting Bibi Dong and promising further suffering before departing. He intends to continue tormenting her and eventually kill her and Qian Renxue as revenge for the deaths of Su Laowu and Su Laoliu.

Character Development

• The protagonist becomes increasingly consumed by vengeance. He treats psychological torment as more satisfying than a quick death and views both Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong as irredeemable enemies.
• Yu Xiaogang is portrayed as arrogant, selfish, and cruel beneath his respectable public image. His drug-induced behavior exposes his alleged resentment toward Bibi Dong and his belief that she owes him for his attention.
• Bibi Dong shifts from anger and disbelief to emotional collapse and murderous rage. Her lingering love for Yu Xiaogang makes his insults especially devastating, but her grief ultimately gives way to violent destruction.

Major Themes

• Revenge and psychological torture: The protagonist seeks not merely to kill his enemies but to make them suffer emotionally before death.
• The collapse of idealized love: Bibi Dong’s romantic image of Yu Xiaogang is destroyed when his apparent inner contempt is exposed.
• Hidden corruption and hypocrisy: The chapter contrasts public reputations with the characters’ alleged private motives and cruelty.
• Cycles of violence: Bibi Dong’s past actions and the protagonist’s desire for revenge create an escalating chain of brutality.

Character Interactions

• The central interaction is between Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong, moving from confrontation and verbal abuse to physical violence and murder.
• The protagonist remains physically hidden but manipulates the encounter, using Yu Xiaogang as a weapon against Bibi Dong and later taunting her directly.
• Bibi Dong’s emotional attachment to Yu Xiaogang conflicts with her outrage at his behavior, producing the chapter’s climactic breakdown.

Key plot points and events

• After departing, Su Ming leaves a clone to torment Bibi Dong by whispering in Yu Xiaogang’s and other victims’ voices.
• He returns to Holy Soul Village, checks on Tang Hao—still drinking in the blacksmith’s shop—and then visits Ah Yin and Tang San in Nuoding City.
• Su Ming gives Tang San a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone. As Tang absorbs it, his Blue Silver Grass evolves early into Blue Silver King.
• Su Ming tells Tang San a veiled story about a Soul Master, his transformed Soul Beast wife, and their child. Tang San is moved to tears and appears to infer that the story concerns his own family, but does not ask.
• Su Ming and Ah Yin raise Tang San with both affection and discipline. Su Ming’s head pats prove to spark insight and clear the mind, helping Tang San’s cultivation; Su Ming names the technique Ming Father’s Care.
• Ah Yin also becomes dependent on the head pats, turning the discovery into a playful part of their marriage.
• In the eighth year, Tang San brings Xiao Wu home to live with the family. Su Ming buys the neighboring apartments to make the home a private, standalone building.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang San grows up with parental care rather than the neglect and unfair treatment he might otherwise have faced. He accepts Su Ming as “Ming Father,” benefits from his guidance, and grows closer to Xiao Wu.
• Su Ming acts as Tang San’s mentor and father figure, giving him a powerful Soul Bone and helping him develop. His affection is expressed through head-patting, which becomes both a cultivation aid and a family ritual.
• Ah Yin is affectionate and openly close with Su Ming. She helps investigate the head-pat ability and shares its teasing, intimate side with him.
• Tang Hao remains in the background, still appearing to be a drunken, useless father—a role Su Ming hopes he will continue to play.
• Tang San quietly recognizes a possible connection between Su Ming’s story and his own parents, while choosing not to confront them.

Significant themes

• Parenthood and nurture: Tang San receives affection and discipline, and grows in a more stable family environment.
• Truth and restraint: Su Ming hints at painful family history without revealing it outright, leaving Tang San to understand at his own pace.
• Growth through guidance: The Soul Bone and Su Ming’s insight-giving head pats accelerate Tang San’s development.
• Family intimacy and playful humor: The head-pat ability becomes an amusing, affectionate bond between Su Ming and both Ah Yin and Tang San.

Plot points and events

• After years of providing daily “fatherly headpats” to Tang San, Ah Yin, and Xiao Wu, Ming grows weary of being called “Dad” by three people—two of whom are vastly older than he is—and decides to leave.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ah Yin desperately cling to him and beg him to stay, but Ming resists their pleas and escapes, leaving them heartbroken.
• Su Ming reacts with disbelief that Ming turned down Ah Yin’s advances, then suspects he may be heading to pursue Ice Empress and Snow Empress.
• Ming travels to the Far North and merges his wind-spirit aura with its winds, an act that draws the attention of the region’s three great soul-beast leaders. He easily defeats the still-young Titan Snow Demon King.
• Ice Empress and Snow Empress arrive. Ming’s aura misleads the beasts into thinking he is a soul beast in human form, but its bloodline pressure has little effect on them.
• Ice Empress challenges Ming. Before he can surrender, Snow Empress strikes Ice Empress on the head, introduces herself, and appears to fall for Ming at first sight.
• The cause is a misunderstanding: spirits court one another by extending their presence into another’s aura. Ming’s merging with the Far North’s winds unintentionally served as a courtship signal.
• When Snow Empress explains this to Ice Empress, Ice Empress becomes furious, declares Snow Empress belongs to her, and challenges Ming to fight for her.

Character developments and interactions

• Ming prioritizes freedom and a peaceful life over his oddly familial household, but his attempt to escape domestic complications lands him in an unexpected romantic one.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ah Yin show strong emotional dependence on Ming, pleading with him not to leave. Their closeness is framed comically through their shared “fatherly headpat” routine.
• Su Ming reacts with jealousy and disbelief as Ming’s simulated life appears to offer him romantic opportunities.
• Snow Empress shifts from distant observer to bashful admirer after interpreting Ming’s aura as courtship.
• Ice Empress goes from confronting Ming as an intruder to treating him as a rival for Snow Empress’s affection; her possessiveness and jealousy drive the chapter’s cliffhanger.

Significant themes

• Comedy through misunderstanding: Ming’s practical attempt to blend with the Far North is mistaken for a romantic gesture.
• Attachment versus independence: Ming wants to escape the emotional and ritual demands of his household, while its members cannot bear his absence.
• Jealousy and unexpected romance: The courtship misunderstanding sparks rivalry between Ming and Ice Empress.
• Different cultural meanings: A natural act of aura-sharing has a specific courtship meaning among spirits, though Ming is unaware of it.

Key plot points and events

• The narrator effortlessly evades the Ice Empress’s attacks, then teases and provokes her. His wind-like body makes him impossible to touch, frustrating her further.
• The Snow Empress watches the fight, sends the Titan Snow Demon King flying when he intrudes, and then asks the narrator to mate with her. The Ice Empress wants to join, but the Snow Empress buries her in the snow.
• Alarmed by the Snow Empress’s intense interest, the narrator flees the Far North. He escapes even the Snow Empress’s control over heaven and earth, but returns to Nuoding City only hours later because he is so fast.
• Back home, Ah Yin, Tang San, and Xiao Wu compete for his affection and headpats. He tries to impose limits, despite their dramatic protests.
• In the simulation’s ninth year, his headpat ability has helped all three advance rapidly: Tang San and Xiao Wu are Soul Elders, while Ah Yin is nearing Soul Saint. Concerned that Ah Yin still looks very young, he chooses to live separately from her.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator remains overwhelmingly powerful and playful, but turns cautious when the Snow Empress’s advances threaten to overwhelm him. At home, he struggles to set boundaries with his clingy companions.
• Ice Empress and Snow Empress shift from combat and rivalry to comic romantic competition: the Ice Empress is jealous of the Snow Empress’s proposal, while the Snow Empress takes out her frustration on her.
• Su Ming initially watches the narrator and Ice Empress with jealous, “cuckolded” dismay, but later regains his spirits and celebrates his brotherly bond with the narrator.
• Ah Yin, Tang San, and Xiao Wu are affectionate and dependent on the narrator’s headpats. Their rapid cultivation underscores how powerful his ability is, while their tantrums highlight their attachment to him.

Significant themes

• The chapter uses comic exaggeration and role reversal: the narrator is untouchable in battle but overwhelmed by affection at home.
• Power and vulnerability are played for humor: extraordinary speed and strength cannot prevent awkward romantic situations or clingy companions.
• It also touches on responsibility and boundaries, especially in the narrator’s decision to limit headpats and keep his distance from Ah Yin because of her youthful appearance.

Plot and key events

• Frustrated that your body still doesn’t respond to physical needs, you try to synchronize your consciousness with it. The effort works only slightly and may take eighty to a hundred years, so you set it aside and turn to helping Tang San become a god.
• You visit Shrek Academy, where your earlier training has left the staff and students unusually obedient. Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, traumatized by past abuse, have become intensely devoted to cultivation; Ma Hongjun has also grown into a handsome young man.
• Claiming you want your child admitted and the academy certified, you provoke Zhao Wuji into a confrontation and beat him. You then pressure Flender and the rest of the academy into cooperating, using Xiao Wu’s supposed strength and the threat of force to make your case.
• Feeling somewhat guilty for frightening Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar, you give them—and then the academy staff—your “Ming’s Fatherly Headpat.” It now clears blocked meridians as well as offering a moment of insight. The recipients find it blissful, and several become your godsons.
• You plan to merge Shrek with Blue Tyrant Academy. Before leaving, however, you discover that Zhao Wuji and Flender have developed a romantic relationship. Your clone explains that continued “education” at Shrek led to resistance, shared routines, and eventually intimacy between the two men; Flender also became enamored with playing cards.

Character developments and interactions

• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar quickly kneel when they suspect you intend to target them, revealing how thoroughly your reputation has frightened them. After the headpat, their fear turns into admiration and a desire to call you godfather.
• Zhao Wuji and Flender shift from wary, reluctant cooperation to an affectionate couple, teasing and kissing each other openly. Their behavior leaves you shocked and unnerved.
• You remain forceful and domineering, but your small gesture of compensation shows a flicker of guilt. The academy’s submissiveness—and the strange romantic outcome of your clone’s “lessons”—both exceed your expectations.

Significant themes

• Power and coercion: You secure cooperation through intimidation and violence, even as you frame the result as friendly persuasion.
• Trauma and recovery: Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun respond to past abuse by immersing themselves in cultivation; the headpat offers physical relief and a brief sense of insight.
• Transformation and unintended consequences: Your interventions reshape the academy in unpredictable ways, most strikingly in Zhao Wuji and Flender’s relationship.
• Embodiment and patience: Your unsuccessful attempts to connect body and consciousness underscore the vast timescale required for personal change.