Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Huaxia Star’s leading Martial Soul researcher, Frightening Confucius, appears on the Sky Screen. His heavily muscled build shocks Yu Xiaogang, who dismisses him as a brute despite warnings from the Shrek members.
• Huaxia Star’s people confidently celebrate Confucius and challenge Yu Xiaogang, while Confucius jokes with his fellow councilors about his ranking and dangerous experiments.
• The Sky Screen announces Confucius’s claim that Soul Rings have no age limit—directly contradicting Yu Xiaogang’s theory.
• Confucius proves his willingness to test ideas on himself. In a recorded experiment, he absorbs a 500-year Soul Ring in ten minutes, then repeatedly absorbs and detonates Soul Rings without suffering injury. The display leaves Douluo Star’s onlookers stunned.

Character developments

• Yu Xiaogang remains arrogant and defensive, judging Confucius by appearance and insisting intellect matters more than strength. Yet the experiment puts his theories and credibility under increasing pressure.
• Frightening Confucius is portrayed as genial but fearless, a bold researcher who personally risks himself to test his theories.
• The Shrek members are wary of Yu Xiaogang’s overconfidence. They also recognize the irony that Confucius uses himself as a test subject, whereas they have been treated as Yu Xiaogang’s experimental subjects.

Character interactions

• Ning Rongrong and Dai Mubai warn Yu Xiaogang not to underestimate Confucius; Ma Hongjun agrees that his physique looks formidable.
• The Shrek group exchanges amused, uneasy reactions as Yu Xiaogang refuses to back down.
• Shen Nong and the other councilors tease Confucius about the dangers of his experiments and suggest their help has kept him alive.

Significant themes

• Challenging established knowledge: Confucius’s claim contests Yu Xiaogang’s accepted limits on Soul Ring absorption.
• Theory versus proof: The chapter contrasts Yu Xiaogang’s confidence in his ideas with Confucius’s dramatic self-experimentation.
• Risk and scientific curiosity: Confucius’s reckless testing makes research appear both daring and dangerous.

Key events

• Frightening Confucius conducts increasingly extreme experiments with Soul Rings, including Thousand- and Ten-Thousand-Year Rings, to test the limits of how many a person can absorb.
• His results support the claim that Soul Ring absorption has no fixed upper limit: the real constraint is the body’s ability to withstand the power.
• Huaxia Star’s people prepare by strengthening their bodies with Whale Rubber and medicines, ushering in an era of intensive physical training and “limitless” Soul Rings.
• The revelation sparks a continent-wide rush to acquire Whale Rubber. Ning Fengzhi offers a huge bounty, while Soul Masters and powerful factions scramble to secure supplies.
• The Sky Screen hints that Confucius’s experiments were also enabled by a distinctive Soul Ring system created by Huaxia Star’s Creation God.

Character developments and interactions

• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong are astonished by Huaxia Star’s methods. Ning Fengzhi now accepts that even a support Martial Soul such as the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda might become offensive.
• Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall’s leaders admire Confucius’s audacity but question where he obtains such a steady supply of Soul Rings.
• Di Tian and Xiong Jun initially assume the Rings came from Soul Beasts and become furious. Bi Ji challenges that assumption, calms Di Tian, and silences Xiong Jun by threatening to involve him in her experiments.
• Yu Xiaogang is devastated as his theory collapses; Shrek’s members increasingly regard him as a laughingstock. Meanwhile, the students focus on the unexplained source of Confucius’s Rings.

Significant themes

• Scientific inquiry and audacity: Extreme experimentation overturns accepted beliefs.
• The body as the true limit: Physical resilience, rather than a fixed rule, determines how many Soul Rings can be absorbed.
• Knowledge reshapes society: The discovery rapidly drives new training practices, resource competition, and changes in how people understand cultivation.
• Uncertainty and suspicion: The Soul Rings’ source remains a mystery, raising questions for both human factions and Soul Beasts.

Key events

• The Sky Screen reveals that Huaxia Star’s Soul Ring system was developed with help from the Creation God, Chen Tian, who supplied Frightening Confucius with unlimited Martial Soul Rings.
• Chen Tian had already invented Artificial Soul Ring Technology, which made it possible to create Soul Rings without hunting Soul Beasts.
• The revelation excites Huaxia Star’s citizens and prompts people from Douluo Star to seek details from their Huaxia friends. Douluo citizens also continue to condemn Yu Xiaogang.
• The Divine Realm’s gods react with alarm: Soul Rings without limits could let mortals grow powerful enough to threaten gods. The God Kings publicly question Chen Tian’s claim, though privately they fear his power.
• Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts see artificial rings as a possible escape from Soul Beasts’ dependence on humans. Bi Ji hopes it could bring peace between the two groups.
• Spirit Hall’s leaders, including Bibi Dong, wonder whether the technology could make their dream of allowing everyone to become a Soul Master possible.
• Yu Xiaogang rejects the revelation as impossible and accuses Huaxia Star of lying. The Sky Screen then announces another of Confucius’s theories: “Teaching According to Aptitude,” which claims a Martial Soul can be shaped through instruction after birth.

Character developments and interactions

• Frightening Confucius credits Chen Tian’s support for his achievements and is presented as a researcher whose work overturned Yu Xiaogang’s theories.
• Chen Tian is established as both a powerful divine figure and the source of technology that transformed Huaxia Star.
• Di Tian shifts from curiosity to intense hope, imagining a world where Soul Beasts are no longer hunted for Soul Rings. Bi Ji voices that hope, while Xiong Jun enthusiastically imagines the same future.
• Bibi Dong reveals a rare trace of hope as Spirit Hall considers the possibility of realizing its long-held ambition.
• Yu Xiaogang grows increasingly defensive and hysterical as his authority is challenged; the Shrek Seven Devils remain captivated by the new revelations.
• Douluo and Huaxia citizens interact through the exchange forum, with growing trust and friendship encouraging Douluo citizens to compare their society with Huaxia’s.

Significant themes

• Technology as liberation: Artificial Soul Rings could end Soul Beasts’ role as resources and broaden access to power.
• Hope for reconciliation: The technology suggests humans and Soul Beasts might coexist without conflict over Soul Rings.
• Knowledge versus pride: Confucius’s research and Huaxia’s achievements undermine Yu Xiaogang’s certainty.
• Fear of changing power structures: The gods worry that advances available to mortals could threaten their authority, while Spirit Hall sees the same changes as an opportunity.

Frightening Confucius’s seventy-two-transformations experiments showed that martial souls could be reshaped according to their owners’ wishes, inspiring envy and new ambitions across Douluo Star. As the Sky Screen introduced his theory of martial soul evolution, Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar imagined changing their own martial souls.

• The Sky Screen showed Frightening Confucius matching soul rings and soul bones to transform students’ martial souls, while Huaxia Star children awakened their own martial souls.
• Sun Moon Empire Emperor Xu Tian feared Huaxia Star would surpass Douluo Star, but his ministers defended the empire’s soul tools.
• After losing in the Virtual World Exchange Forum, Tang San blamed his teacher and resolved to seek Frightening Confucius as his master; Tang Hao also considered going to Huaxia Star.
• Zhu Zhuqing hoped to free her Hell Spirit Cat from the Hell White Tiger’s influence, while Ma Hongjun and Oscar imagined gaining new abilities through martial soul transformations.
• Oscar asked Ning Rongrong to help him become an attack-type soul master, and she told him to scram.
• The Sky Screen revealed that Frightening Confucius had developed a new idea called martial soul evolution.

The Sky Screen showed how Frightening Confucius’s research and the Creation God’s power could evolve weak Martial Souls, prompting Spirit Hall to consider copying the method. Yu Xiaogang was devastated when another person’s Luo Sanpao evolved into the Sacred Dragon, and Huaxia Star won the comparison and received rewards.

• Frightening Confucius used Lunyu to help weak Martial Souls evolve, and later experiments showed they could evolve with suitable guidance and the Creation God Chen Tian’s power.
• Ghost Douluo and Yue Guan marveled at Huaxia Star’s evolved Martial Souls, while Qian Daoliu suggested Spirit Hall seek out and evolve weak Martial Souls, a plan Bibi Dong considered.
• The Sky Screen revealed that another person’s Luo Sanpao had evolved into the Sacred Dragon, leaving Yu Xiaogang anguished and longing to be called Dragon God Douluo.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar discussed how Yu Xiaogang could have experimented, and Yu Xiaogang spat blood and cried that the achievement had been his.
• The Sky Screen declared Huaxia Star the winner and awarded every Martial Soul there one evolution, along with the Natural Selection Domain.

Huaxia Star received Martial Soul Evolution and the natural selection domain, which promised to strengthen its Martial Souls across generations. As Douluo Star’s people blamed Yu Xiaogang for missing out, the Sky Screen began a new comparison of the planets’ military strength.

• The Sky Screen’s rewards evolved the Martial Souls of Huaxia Star’s citizens, prompting Douluo Star’s factions to envy Huaxia Star and condemn Yu Xiaogang.
• Chen Tian welcomed the planet’s growing strength and learned that the natural selection domain would pass down the finest Martial Souls while eliminating weaker ones.
• Huaxia Star’s citizens celebrated the domain, and Confucius began researching how it could advance his Martial Soul theories.
• The Shrek Seven Devils criticized Yu Xiaogang, who collapsed in despair before Flender comforted him.
• The Sky Screen announced that its next dual comparison would examine the military strength of the two planets.

As the Sky Screen began a comparison of Douluo Star and Huaxia Star’s military strength and war potential, people on both planets prepared to show off their forces. The gods decided to stage a Divine Realm military parade, and the Sky Screen began the comparison with that parade.

• Citizens and officials on Huaxia Star, including Chi You and Xuan Yuan Tian, expected an easy victory, while Chen Tian considered the result assured.
• Douluo Star’s nations mobilized their forces, and their military preparations led to soldiers plundering supplies and conscripting able-bodied men.
• Xu Tian and his officials trusted the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tool factories to give Douluo Star a chance against Huaxia Star.
• The Evil God King urged the gods to rely on the Divine Realm’s armies, and the Asura God King and Destruction God King proposed a grand military parade.
• Qian Daoliu and Spirit Hall’s officials dismissed the nations’ efforts, while Bibi Dong investigated Huaxia Star’s military through the Virtual World Exchange Forum.
• The Sky Screen announced that the comparison would begin with the Divine Realm’s military parade.

The Divine Realm prepared a grand military parade to display its strength to Douluo Star and Huaxia Star, while people across both planets questioned the gods and compared their power with their own. As the parade began, Tang San watched the God Kings and declared that a great man should take their place.

• The Five Great God Kings appointed War God commander-in-chief, and he mobilized the Divine Realm for a military parade.
• Awakened citizens on Douluo Star called for people to rely on themselves, while Spirit Hall leaders, including Bibi Dong and Golden Crocodile Douluo, voiced support for awakening.
• Xu Tian questioned whether the Sun Moon Empire's soul tools could stand against a divine army, and its officials and citizens awaited the parade.
• Huaxia Star's councilors discussed the Divine Realm's strength with Chi You and Xuan Yuan Tian, who said Huaxia Star would not be outmatched.
• War God announced the parade, and divine generals and Divine Servants marched past the Five Great God Kings while displaying their powers.
• Tang San watched the parade on the Sky Screen and cried that a great man should take the gods' place.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang decided to support the Divine Realm, while its military parade stirred confidence and rivalry across Douluo Star and Huaxia Star. The parade ended with the Sun Moon Empire deploying its soul tool army, drawing Mozi’s attention.

• Tang San embraced Xiao Wu, who promised to enlist Da Ming and Er Ming to help him, and declared that they should side with the gods.
• Tang San contacted Yu Xiaogang through the Virtual World Exchange Forum, and the master and disciple agreed to support the Divine Realm.
• The Divine Realm’s parade impressed Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek members, while the War God struck the ocean with his spear to display divine power.
• The Star Luo Emperor and Douluo nobles boasted about the Divine Realm on the forum, and Chi You answered for Huaxia Star by mocking their forces.
• Xu Tian declared that mortals and soul masters also defended Douluo Star as the Sun Moon Empire’s soul tool army deployed, prompting Mozi to take notice.

The Virtual World Exchange Forum showed the Sun Moon Empire’s soul engineers and their devastating ninth-level soul power cannon, shocking people across Douluo. Tang San began taking apart his storage soul tool to develop Tang-branded weapons, while Huaxia Star’s councilors dismissed the cannon as primitive.

• Mozi stopped studying the Virtual World Exchange Forum and argued with Frightening Confucius as federal councilors watched the sky screen.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San belittled soul tools and promoted Tang San’s hidden weapons, winning praise from the Clear Sky Sect and Douluo Continent’s commoners.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s soul engineers demonstrated their weapons, and Xu Tian fired a ninth-level soul power cannon that pulverized a mountain outside Sun Moon City.
• Tang San recognized the cannon’s potential and began dismantling his Twenty-Four Bridge Bright Moon Night to develop Tang-branded soul tools.
• Mozi and the Huaxia Star councilors called the Sun Moon Empire’s cannon backward, as Huaxia Star citizens mocked it on the forum.

The gods and people of Douluo Star mocked Huaxia Star’s claims until a video showed a six-year-old assembling and detonating a Soul Tool Nuclear Bomb as a toy. As Douluo Star reeled from the demonstration, the Sky Screen began reviewing Huaxia Star’s military strength.

• The gods considered restricting the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tool weapons after watching its military parade, then grew uneasy at Huaxia Star’s mockery of their power.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San challenged Huaxia Star’s citizens, while Bibi Dong publicly disavowed Yu Xiaogang in front of Spirit Hall’s elders.
• A Huaxia Star citizen shared a video of a six-year-old assembling a Level One Soul Tool Nuclear Bomb from a toy kit and detonating it at a training ground.
• Douluo Star’s people and gods were horrified by the demonstration, and the Sky Screen announced the start of Huaxia Star’s military review.

After the Nuclear-Peace Toy shocked Douluo Star, Spirit Hall and the Divine Realm reconsidered their assumptions about Huaxia Star, while Douluo Star’s nobles felt humiliated at being ignored. The Sky Screen then announced the Huaxia Star Soul Master Corps’ exhibition, commanded by Federation Councilor Xingtian.

• Douluo Star citizens and Soul Masters reacted to learning that Huaxia Star’s Nuclear-Peace Toy could threaten a Titled Douluo, and some ordinary citizens began considering how they might challenge Soul Master rule.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to reassess Huaxia Star and prepare for the worst, while the Asura God and the God King of Goodness led the Divine Realm to revise its plans.
• Douluo Star nobles complained that their armies had been left out of the Sky Screen’s presentation, and Yu Xiaogang accused the Sky Screen of targeting him.
• Ning Rongrong pointed out that Douluo Star could not produce anything like the Nuclear-Peace Toy, prompting its rulers to demand a look at Huaxia Star’s real military strength.
• The Sky Screen revealed a massive army and announced the exhibition of the Huaxia Star Soul Master Corps, commanded by Federation Councilor Xingtian.

The Sky Screen revealed that Huaxia Star’s Soul Master forces fought enemies across the starry sea, shocking Douluo Star and the Divine Realm. It left viewers watching Xingtian charge alone into a vast cosmic fleet with his axe and shield.

• Douluo Star’s people and the gods gathered to see the Huaxia Star armies, while Chen Tian anticipated showing them interstellar warfare.
• At a Huaxia Federation training base, Xingtian ordered the recruits to continue their grueling Soul Power and physical training.
• The Sky Screen revealed that Huaxia Star’s Soul Master army fought enemies from the starry sea, prompting disbelief and questions from Douluo Star’s viewers.
• A vast cosmic fleet appeared on the Sky Screen, followed by Xingtian, who manifested ten Soul Rings and charged at it alone.
• Xingtian raised his shield and struck at the fleet with his giant axe as its energy cannons attacked, leaving viewers stunned by his battle.

Xingtian and the Huaxia Star Soul Master Corps destroyed a cosmic fleet through a combination of direct assault and precise boarding tactics, leaving Douluo Star stunned by their strength. As Chen Tian recalled that the battle made Xingtian famous, he warned that the cosmic fleets were only the beginning.

• Xingtian cleaved and battered cosmic warships while citizens on Huaxia Star watched with confidence and those on Douluo Star watched in fear.
• Hundreds of Huaxia Star soul masters used back-mounted propulsion devices to cross space, board the warships, and attack from within.
• The soul master corps disabled energy cores and command systems as Xingtian broke the fleet's formation, leaving its warships powerless or destroyed.
• Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, and Spirit Hall's leaders accepted Huaxia Star's strength and considered it an opportunity for Spirit Hall to join them.
• Yu Xiaogang, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, and Di Tian reacted with shock as they watched the soul masters fight in space.
• Chen Tian recalled that the battle had made Xingtian famous and said the cosmic fleets were only the beginning.

The sky screen revealed Xingtian and the Huaxia Star Soul Master Corps’ desperate infiltration during an invasion that threatened Huaxia Star. Xingtian led thousands through the enemy lines toward the Invasion Alliance’s leadership, and the chapter left them facing the enemy headquarters as their comrades vowed to break through or die.

• Xuan Yuan Tian, Chi You, and the federal councilors watched the sky screen recall Huaxia Star’s perilous war against an alliance of cosmic races.
• The sky screen showed the invasion overwhelming Huaxia Star, forcing the Federation to fight to protect its homeland.
• Xingtian gathered thousands of Soul Masters and launched an infiltration to cross the war zone and strike the Invasion Alliance’s leadership.
• Xingtian and his corps tore through successive enemy defenses, destroying warships without stopping for reinforcements.
• Xingtian reached the enemy’s central fleet and War Fortress, declaring that infiltration meant beheading the general and seizing the banner.
• As Xingtian led the corps toward the surrounded headquarters, a voice behind him called for them to break the enemy lines or die trying.

Xingtian led Huaxia Star’s soul masters through the Invasion Alliance’s defenses and killed its leaders, turning the war in Huaxia Star’s favor. As Mozi credited the Soul Engineer Corps with helping secure victory, the Sky Screen revealed its Gundams, leaving the people of both planets stunned.

• Xingtian and over a thousand Huaxia Star soul masters formed a battle array and broke through the Invasion Alliance’s barriers.
• Xingtian led the corps into the enemy camp and cleaved the Invasion Alliance leaders’ war palace in half, killing them and throwing the enemy fleet into chaos.
• The Sky Screen hailed the corps as legends, while Chi You and Mozi discussed how the Soul Engineer Corps had helped the battle succeed.
• The Sky Screen showed Huaxia Star’s Soul Engineer Corps deploying colossal metal mechas, and Mozi identified them as Gundams.

Huaxia Star’s soul engineers held the frontline with individual Soul Guidance Mechas while Xingtian’s forces fought deep in enemy territory. Commander Mozi combined hundreds of mechas into the colossal Pangu and led the Mecha Legion in a devastating assault on the alien fleet.

• Douluo Star’s citizens and soul engineers, including Xu Tian and Bibi Dong, watched in shock as giant Soul Guidance Mechas appeared on the sky screen.
• Qian Daoliu deduced that the mecha troops were holding the frontline while Xingtian and his companions carried out a pincer-strike decapitation.
• Mozi and the Huaxia soul engineers stood their ground against the alien fleet, firing from their individual Soul Guidance Mechas.
• Mozi combined hundreds of mechas into Pangu, a several-thousand-meter steel colossus armed with a massive Soul Guidance Battle Axe.
• Mozi commanded the Mecha Legion to attack, and Pangu led the charge, unleashing relentless firepower that devastated the alien fleet.

The Sky Screen showed Mozi leading Huaxia Star’s Soul Engineer and Mecha forces against an Alien Fleet, shocking Douluo Star and the Five Great God Kings with their firepower and remote-controlled, self-destructing mechas. Tang San abandoned his Hidden Weapons and resolved to focus on Soul Tools, while Mozi unveiled a colossal mechanical planet as Huaxia Star’s true weapon.

• Mozi argued that Soul Engineer legions had been the main force in the earlier war, sparking renewed disputes among Soul Engineers, Soul Masters, and Mecha Masters on Huaxia Star.
• Mozi ordered Huaxia Star’s fleet to fire on the Alien Fleet, then sent the Pangu Mecha and tens of thousands of mechas into battle.
• A mecha self-destructed among the enemy ships, but its remotely operating pilot reappeared unharmed, revealing that the mechas could fight without pilots aboard.
• Tang San smashed the Hidden Weapon he was holding and decided to focus on Soul Tools and transform the Tang Sect.
• Mozi summoned his Tiangong Furnace Martial Soul, opened a spatial rift, and revealed a massive mechanical planet that stunned the Five Great God Kings.

Mozi transformed a mechanical planet into a Planetary Cannon and devastated the Alien Fleet with a single shot, stunning Douluo Star and Huaxia Star. The Douluo God Realm recognized Huaxia Star as a threat and began seeking a way to survive.

• Mozi commanded the mechanical planet to transform, revealing a gigantic cannon as the Planetary Cannon.
• Mozi fired the cannon, annihilating alien warships and experts across a vast stretch of space.
• Federal councilors revealed the cannon was the smallest of Mozi's Planetary Cannons and alluded to a more powerful creation.
• Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek Seven Devils were shaken by Huaxia Star's technological superiority, while Tang San vowed to build a greater Soul Tool.
• The Five Great God Kings realized Huaxia Star could threaten the Divine Realm, and the Life God King said they needed a way to survive.

The Five Great God Kings approved a plan to unify Douluo Star after witnessing Huaxia Star’s overwhelming military power. As Huaxia Star launched a counterattack against the Alien Alliance, Di Tian resolved to make the Soul Beast Clan study Soul Guidance technology so it could catch up.

• The Asura God King persuaded the Five Great God Kings to approve the Douluo Unification Plan and prepare Douluo Star to face Huaxia Star.
• Huaxia Star’s planetary cannon annihilated the alien fleet, and its troops completed the defense of the planet.
• Chi You said the battle was only the beginning as the sky screen revealed Huaxia Star’s vast cosmic fleet and its mission to annihilate an enemy nation.
• Di Tian ordered all Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to study Soul Guidance knowledge, despite Xiong Jun’s protests.
• Huaxia Star’s fleet set out for the Alien World to exact blood-for-blood revenge.