Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Chen Zhuo offers Qian Renxue a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, an immortal herb suited to her angel martial soul. He explains that it could help her develop three ultimate attributes. In return, he asks only that she keep the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud out of Tang San’s hands until she ascends.
• Qian Renxue accepts the herb and promises to protect the national treasure. Chen Zhuo also gives Porcupinefish Douluo a Red Sand Lotus, cultivating goodwill with Spirit Hall.
• Chen Zhuo asks Qian Renxue to help him and two companions obtain places in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s Thunder Dragon Nest, where they hope to find dragon-blooded soul beasts for their soul rings. Qian Renxue agrees to try, suggesting the clan’s more practical Yu Luomian may be easier to approach than its stubborn leader, Yu Yuanzhen.
• After the Spirit Hall party leaves, news arrives that Lin Chuan, head of the Ye Family, has died following a soul-ring hunt in the Star Dou Great Forest. Dugu Yan rushes to visit the family.
• The Ye Family’s grief is compounded by its vulnerability: Ye Xi, despite being a Titled Douluo, is a healer with no combat ability, and the Nine Heart Begonia’s inheritance is limited to two bearers per era. Lin Chuan had been the family’s principal protection, and his death leaves Ye Xi and her daughter, Ye Lingling, in danger.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Zhuo shows himself to be strategic but generous: he uses valuable herbs to build trust and influence, while remaining unconcerned about when Qian Renxue delivers the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. He also has covert support from Snake Lance Douluo and sees Spirit Hall as a potential ally and a route to its treasury.
• Qian Renxue responds to Chen Zhuo’s trust with a firm promise, accepting the herb without prying into his other resources. Their exchange establishes a mutually useful partnership.
• Porcupinefish Douluo is impressed by Chen Zhuo’s generosity and wishes he could receive an immortal herb himself; Snake Lance Douluo, unbeknownst to him, is already secretly aligned with Chen Zhuo.
• Dugu Yan’s concern for the Ye Family prompts her immediate departure after hearing of Lin Chuan’s death.
• Ye Xi’s hopes of securing her family’s future through her husband’s strength collapse with his sudden death.

Significant themes

• Trust and strategic generosity: Chen Zhuo trades gifts and confidence to cultivate allies without demanding immediate returns.
• Power and vulnerability: A prestigious martial soul and high cultivation do not guarantee safety; the Nine Heart Begonia’s healing-only nature and inheritance limit leave the Ye Family exposed.
• Political alliances and access: Secret realms are guarded privileges, so gaining entry depends on influence and negotiation.
• Fragile family continuity: The Nine Heart Begonia’s inheritance curse makes each generation’s survival—and the family’s future—precarious.

Plot points and events

• Heaven Dou’s nobles gather to offer condolences after Lin Chuan’s death. Marshal Ge Long arrives, drawing attention because of his power and his rumored past romance with Ye Xi.
• Ge Long privately tells Ye Xi he intends to marry Ye Lingling, arguing that the Ye family needs his protection now that Lin Chuan is gone. He plans to arrange the match through Emperor Xue Ye, regardless of Ye Xi’s objections.
• Ye Xi is shaken by the threat. She tells Lingling, who is furious and distressed at the prospect of being married to the much older marshal, a man with numerous wives and concubines. Mother and daughter embrace and weep, and Ye Xi vows to protect her.
• Chen Zhuo and Dugu Yan arrive and overhear the exchange. Dugu Yan comforts Lingling and reunites with her after a long absence. Chen Zhuo introduces himself, and Ye Lingling greets him formally.

Character developments and interactions

• Ge Long is revealed as calculating and entitled: he treats the Ye family’s vulnerability as an opportunity to secure its healing abilities and strengthen his political position.
• Ye Xi rejects Ge Long’s past advances and remains firm in her concern for her daughter, though she is initially overwhelmed by his threat.
• Ye Lingling shows both anger at Ge Long and fear of having little control over her future. Her determination to cultivate stems partly from wanting some say in whom she marries.
• Dugu Yan feels guilty for having neglected Lingling and immediately offers support.
• Chen Zhuo is relaxed and informal, inviting Lingling to address him by name; he also observes her beauty.
• Ge Long’s encounter with Ye Xi contrasts his forceful demands with the mother and daughter’s close, protective bond.

Significant themes

• Marriage as political leverage: Ge Long views Lingling and the Ye family’s Nine Heart Begonia as assets to secure influence.
• Women’s limited agency: Lingling understands that noblewomen have few marriage choices, while Ye Xi struggles to resist a powerful man’s plans.
• Power and vulnerability: Lin Chuan’s death leaves the Ye family exposed to political coercion.
• Loyalty and friendship: Ye Xi’s promise to protect Lingling and Dugu Yan’s return provide emotional support amid the threat.

Plot points

• At a gathering at the Ye family manor, Ye Xi and Ye Lingling meet Chen Zhuo, Dugu Bo’s young relative. Both notice his striking presence and Dugu Bo’s unusual protectiveness toward him.
• Ye Xi considers how to protect the Ye family from Marshal Ge Long, whose influence and vindictive nature make him dangerous. A marriage alliance seems like the best defense, but most powerful candidates are unsuitable or out of reach. Chen Zhuo may be the family’s only realistic match; fleeing to Spirit City and seeking Spirit Hall’s protection is another risky option.
• Ye Lingling shows her mother a rare nine-grade purple ganoderma given to her by Chen Zhuo. She also reveals that Dugu Yan has reached level forty and that her martial soul has changed—evidence that the rumors about Dugu Bo finding a cure and transforming his family’s fortunes are true.
• Ye Lingling eats the herb and rises from level twenty-eight to twenty-nine. She asks for a large sum of money to pursue her own plans; Ye Xi agrees to provide twenty million.
• Ye Lingling admits Chen Zhuo may not be interested in her, but she has become interested in him. She resolves to shape her own future rather than accept a life arranged for political convenience.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Xi is exhausted and anxious about her family’s predicament, but ultimately prioritizes her daughter’s choices over her own pride. She is willing to provide resources without demanding an explanation.
• Ye Lingling demonstrates ambition, confidence, and independent judgment. Her comparison of Chen Zhuo with the polished Crown Prince Xue Qinghe reveals her discomfort with a life defined by status or duty.
• Chen Zhuo is mostly observed rather than heard in this chapter, but his gift of the ganoderma and his connection to Dugu Manor make him a potential route to greater security and opportunity.
• Mother and daughter speak candidly: Ye Xi cautiously probes Lingling’s feelings, while Lingling shares what she has learned and asks for the means to act on her own intentions.

Significant themes

• Agency versus political marriage: Ye Lingling wants to choose her future rather than become a tool in a family alliance.
• Family duty and sacrifice: Ye Xi considers extreme options to protect the Ye family but refuses to sacrifice her daughter.
• Power, wealth, and opportunity: Rare medicinal herbs and money can directly advance cultivation and create new choices.
• The uncertainty of alliances: Chen Zhuo may offer a path forward, but his intentions and Dugu Bo’s approval remain unknown.

Plot points and events

• At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Yu Tianheng approaches Dugu Yan and offers to help her obtain a suitable Soul Beast from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Dugu Yan learns that Ye Lingling had already bought an Earth Dragon Beast for her, but considers it too young.
• Dugu Yan asks whether Yu Tianheng can also help her younger sister, Meng Yiran. Unsure he can get permission for more than one outsider, he promises to ask the clan. Soon, Xue Qinghe sends three tokens granting access to the clan’s Thunder Dragon Nest.
• Dugu Yan and Meng Yiran prepare to enter the secret realm with Chen Zhuo, Dragon Duke, and Snake Granny. Ye Lingling joins them with her own token, having recently reached level thirty.
• The group travels to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. At the entrance to the Thunder Dragon Nest, a clan elder warns that the realm will close in three months and that its beasts and ancestral thunder restrictions make it dangerous.
• Yu Tianheng enters first, protected by a token-powered lightning barrier. Chen Zhuo and the others follow, beginning their trial.

Character developments and interactions

• Dugu Yan is touched by Ye Lingling’s thoughtful purchase, but recognizes that her own abilities and expectations have changed. She is no longer interested in Yu Tianheng romantically, though she still accepts his help when it may benefit her sister.
• Yu Tianheng remains eager to please Dugu Yan, but his confidence falters when she asks him to secure access for others. He eventually helps arrange entry and warns the group about the dangers ahead.
• Ye Lingling’s recent breakthrough and decision to join show her continued generosity and closeness with Dugu Yan. She and Meng Yiran quickly become comfortable with one another.
• Yu Tianxin, Yu Tianheng’s arrogant younger cousin and rival among the clan’s young elites, mocks Yu Tianheng for pursuing Dugu Yan. Their exchange reveals tension between the cousins.
• Chen Zhuo stays mostly in the background, curious about the clan’s history and quietly leading the group into the realm.

Significant themes

• Friendship and reciprocity: Ye Lingling’s costly gift reflects how carefully she repays kindness and supports her friends.
• Access, status, and rules: Entry depends on clan connections and tokens, but the clan’s longstanding traditions limit even favored members’ influence.
• Danger and testing: The Thunder Dragon Nest is presented as a serious trial where strength, caution, and cooperation will matter.

Chapter Summary

Plot and events

Chen Zhuo’s group enters the Thunder Dragon Nest, a hidden realm whose strange environment may have been created by an ancient Dragon King. The realm has three layers: the Thunder Mist Cavern, home mainly to hundred- and thousand-year dragon beasts; the Dragonbone Abyss, where most ten-thousand-year beasts live; and the True Dragon’s Heart, rumored to contain beasts over fifty thousand years old. Chen Zhuo knows that the realm also holds the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s secret True Dragon Nine Crowns, but considers them inferior to genuine soul-bone armor and divine equipment. His main goal is to use the realm as a convenient place to hunt suitable soul beasts.
As the group advances through the lightning-filled Thunder Mist Cavern, Yu Tianheng takes command and promises to protect Dugu Yan and Chen Zhuo. Before they have traveled far, a swarm of Purple Lightning Thunder Lizards emerges from the cavern walls and surrounds the rear of the party. The lizards are small but numerous, agile, and resistant to lightning attacks. Yu Tianheng tries to hold the formation, while Yu Tianxin breaks through the swarm with his fourth soul skill, carrying his own teammates to safety—and taunting his older brother as he goes.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Zhuo remains composed and focused on the practical purpose of the expedition. Yu Tianheng underestimates his combat ability, assuming his Snake Pupil martial soul is weak.
• Yu Tianheng sees himself as the team’s strongest fighter and is eager to impress Dugu Yan and Chen Zhuo, whom he imagines may someday become his brother-in-law. He prioritizes protecting them when the lizards attack.
• Dugu Yan finds Yu Tianheng’s eagerness amusing and appears confident rather than worried.
• Meng Yiran is cautious and shows clear trust in Chen Zhuo’s strength. She switches places with Ye Lingling at Ye’s request.
• Ye Lingling feels somewhat outside the close-knit group and questions their relaxed approach to team positioning.
• Yu Tianxin, stronger and more relaxed than Yu Tianheng, demonstrates his power and competitive relationship with his brother by escaping the swarm first and mocking him.

Significant themes

The chapter highlights the contrast between perceived and actual strength, especially through Yu Tianheng’s assumptions about Chen Zhuo and his rivalry with Yu Tianxin. It also establishes the importance of team formation and trust in a dangerous environment, while foreshadowing the realm’s deeper secrets and the risks of the expedition.

Plot points and events

• Yu Tianxin knows his older cousin, Yu Tianheng, can survive the Purple Lightning Thunder Lizards, but two nine-thousand-year Purple Lightning Horned Dragons appear and force Yu Tianxin to flee back toward the group.
• Dugu Yan takes charge of the lizards, using her Jade-Phosphorus Poison Mist to kill many of them. Meng Yiran supports her by shielding Yu Tianheng with a wall of wind.
• Yu Tianxin’s escape draws more beasts into the fighting, triggering a beast tide. Yu Tianheng uses Dragon’s Wrath and joins Yu Tianxin to hold off the Horned Dragons while the others are scattered.
• Chen Zhuo and Dugu Yan slip away amid the chaos. Ye Lingling notices Chen Zhuo has not used a soul skill, but Meng Yiran quietly leads her away, killing attacking beasts with her scepter and protecting her from a viper.
• Chen Zhuo reveals that he deliberately lured the Horned Dragons with his spiritual power to create a diversion. He and Dugu Yan head for the Dragonbone Abyss, where they plan to find a ten-thousand-year soul beast for her fourth soul ring.
• In the deeper level, a twenty-thousand-year Red-Scaled Flame Python approaches Chen Zhuo and bows to him. He mounts it and invites Dugu Yan to join him.

Character developments and interactions

• Dugu Yan demonstrates that her poison is a powerful offensive weapon, surprising the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan members. Though worried about Meng Yiran, she follows Chen Zhuo’s plan.
• Yu Tianheng proves himself a responsible leader: despite his conflict with Yu Tianxin, he risks himself to contain the beast tide and protect the group.
• Yu Tianxin unintentionally worsens the danger by fleeing toward the others with the Horned Dragons behind him.
• Meng Yiran remains composed amid the chaos and reveals formidable combat ability, dispatching thousand-year beasts without using a soul skill. She protects Ye Lingling while warning her not to risk her own poisoned martial soul.
• Ye Lingling shows loyalty and courage by trying to shield Meng Yiran, while her suspicions about Chen Zhuo deepen.
• Chen Zhuo reveals his hidden influence over the events and his confidence in both Dugu Yan and Meng Yiran.

Significant themes

• Hidden strength and misjudgment: Dugu Yan, Meng Yiran, and Chen Zhuo are more capable than others realize.
• Strategy and sacrifice: The beast tide is used as cover, while Yu Tianheng’s sense of responsibility keeps him fighting.
• Ambition beyond convention: Chen Zhuo rejects standard soul-ring limits and seeks an exceptionally powerful fourth ring for Dugu Yan.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Zhuo and Dugu Yan search the Dragonbone Abyss for a suitable ten-thousand-year soul beast for Dugu Yan’s fourth soul ring. They pass up several dragon-related beasts because their attack-focused abilities would not address her main weakness: surviving close-range assaults.
• Chen Zhuo advises her to prioritize defense, movement, or evasion. Dugu Yan appreciates his concern and trusts his judgment.
• Chen Zhuo captures a roughly forty-thousand-year Azure Thunder Horned Dragon with his Time Freeze soul skill and the Main God Space. Dugu Yan is stunned: she has never seen him display soul rings and begins to suspect he is a transformed hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• They later find an exceptional twelve-thousand-year Golden Earth Dragon King. Chen Zhuo immobilizes it, and Dugu Yan kills it instantly with her Poison-Origin Serpent Shadow skill, producing a black soul ring for her to absorb.
• The chapter ends with Dugu Yan asking how powerful Chen Zhuo’s Time Freeze really is.

Character developments

• Chen Zhuo remains focused on strength and cultivation, viewing the Azure Thunder Horned Dragon as material for a bloodline potion. He also demonstrates immense, unexplained power and confidence in selecting Dugu Yan’s soul beast.
• Dugu Yan grows more emotionally attached to Chen Zhuo, admiring his generosity and extraordinary abilities. Her trust turns into near-reverence, though his sudden displays of power also leave her confused and wary.
• Dugu Yan’s imagined trial of fighting a soul beast for her ring never comes to pass: Chen Zhuo makes the hunt effortless.

Significant themes

• Survival before offense: A control-oriented fighter needs defenses and escape options to stay alive long enough to use her strengths.
• Power and mystery: Chen Zhuo’s abilities seem far beyond what Dugu Yan understands, prompting speculation about his identity.
• Trust and dependence: Dugu Yan defers to Chen Zhuo’s expertise and relies on him to guide her choices.
• Ambition and self-interest: Chen Zhuo’s help is genuine, but he also pursues his own cultivation and bloodline research.

Character interactions

• Chen Zhuo gently guides Dugu Yan’s soul-ring search and reassures her they will find a suitable beast.
• Dugu Yan responds with gratitude, affection, and unquestioning confidence in his decisions.
• Chen Zhuo’s effortless control of powerful beasts deepens her awe—and her suspicions—while her quick kill of the Golden Earth Dragon King shows her own poison abilities in action.

Dugu Yan absorbed the Golden Earth Dragon King’s ten-thousand-year soul ring and broke through to rank forty-three, while Chen Zhuo used dragon bloodline potions to push his Dragon-Form Fist and physique through a brutal transformation. The chapter ended with Chen Zhuo unlocking the second-stage gene lock.

• Chen Zhuo admitted that he could briefly control ordinary hundred-thousand-year soul beasts with Time Freeze, though doing so would drain his soul power.
• Dugu Yan absorbed the Golden Earth Dragon King’s soul ring, reached rank forty-three, and gained the fourth soul skill Golden Poison Dragon Armor.
• Chen Zhuo congratulated Dugu Yan, then sent her to hunt ten-thousand-year soul beasts while he secluded himself in the Golden Earth Dragon King’s lair.
• Chen Zhuo exchanged for the Azure Thunder Horned Dragon potion and practiced the Dragon-Form Fist, then consumed the Golden Earth Dragon King bloodline essence to force his evolution.
• Chen Zhuo endured intense pain and a drastic physical transformation, then recovered as his wounds healed and his bones and muscles changed; he unlocked the second-stage gene lock.

Chen Zhuo met the Thunder Dragon King's Divine Sense, learned of the Dragon God's fall, and received an inheritance seed for the Thunder Dragon King's Dragon Transformation Method. He returned to Dugu Yan and prepared to rejoin the others.

• The Thunder Dragon King summoned Chen Zhuo, asked about the outside world, and learned that the Dragon God had fallen and the Divine Dragon Realm no longer existed.
• Chen Zhuo explained how the Dragon God had split his origin with the Asura Demon Sword, and the Thunder Dragon King mourned his former ruler.
• The Thunder Dragon King refused to leave with Chen Zhuo but agreed to pass on an Inheritance Soul Seed for his thunder-attribute Dragon Transformation Method.
• Ye Lingling watched Meng Yiran absorb a four-thousand-year Coiling Dragon Soul Ring and was shocked that she exceeded the accepted limit for a third ring.
• Dugu Yan searched the Dragonbone Abyss for Chen Zhuo after seeing the phenomenon in the sky, and Chen Zhuo appeared before her with the Thunder Dragon King's help.
• Chen Zhuo comforted Dugu Yan, rewarded the Red-Scaled Flame Python with a medicinal herb, and prepared to reunite with everyone.

Yu Tianheng and his companions searched the Thunder Mist Cavern for the missing Dugu Yan and Chen Zhuo, then left the secret realm with them after its anomalies forced an early end to the expedition. Back at Dugu Manor, Ye Lingling grew convinced that Chen Zhuo’s group knew a way to exceed soul-ring age limits, and she knocked on his door at midnight.

• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin found Meng Yiran and Ye Lingling, and Ye Lingling absorbed a Thundervine Demon Serpent’s soul ring to reach level 31.
• After searching for several days, Yu Tianheng’s group reunited with Dugu Yan and Chen Zhuo, who claimed the beast tide had scattered them.
• Dugu Yan told Yu Tianheng that she had already obtained her fourth soul ring, deflating his attempt to impress her with his new breakthrough.
• The group ended its secret-realm expedition after one month, and Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin reported the realm’s anomalies to their clan.
• On the return journey, Ye Lingling saw Dugu Yan’s black fourth soul ring and suspected Chen Zhuo’s group had a method for exceeding soul-ring age limits.
• At midnight in Dugu Manor, Ye Lingling knocked on Chen Zhuo’s door.

Ye Lingling told Chen Zhuo about the Ye Family’s predicament, and he offered to help without asking anything in return. Chen Zhuo expanded his plans to control the Whale Glue trade and chose Ye Lingling for his future investment, before Qian Renxue sent word that she wanted to see him.

• Ye Lingling revealed Marshal Ge Long’s coercion and the Ye Family’s troubles to Chen Zhuo, who promised to resolve the problem without demanding payment.
• Dugu Yan saw Ye Lingling leave Chen Zhuo’s room and grew jealous, so she took Meng Yiran to the underground Soul Fighting Arena to fight.
• Chen Zhuo assigned the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny to manage new millennium-grade Whale Glue acquisitions and planned to secure overseas trade routes with Dugu Bo’s help.
• Chen Zhuo considered his cultivation and tournament preparations, deciding to help Ye Lingling rise as an auxiliary soul master rather than invest in Ning Rongrong.
• Qian Renxue sent someone to tell Chen Zhuo she wanted to meet him after refining the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower.

Chen Zhuo met Qian Renxue at a private banquet and persuaded her to postpone her seventh soul ring, promising to help her obtain a hundred-thousand-year soul ring. Meanwhile, in Sunset Forest, the Blue Silver King found the weakened Blue Silver Emperor and chose to sacrifice itself to save her.

• Qian Renxue thanked Chen Zhuo for the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, which had transformed her Six-Winged Angel flames and raised her soul power to level 70.
• Chen Zhuo told Qian Renxue about his Thunder Secret Realm trip and revealed that his fourth soul ring was ten-thousand-year.
• Qian Renxue planned to obtain her seventh soul ring, but Chen Zhuo urged her to wait and promised to help her get a hundred-thousand-year soul ring after he reached level 50.
• The Blue Silver King found the weakened Blue Silver Emperor in the Blue Silver Forest and chose to sacrifice itself to save her rather than devour her and become emperor.

Chen Zhuo killed the resurrected Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin, collected her hundred-thousand-year soul ring and right leg bone, and transplanted her remaining sprout into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. At Ye Lingling’s birthday banquet, Marshal Ge Long proposed marriage with a soul bone, but Dugu Bo’s arrival brought the gathering to the brink of conflict.

• The Blue Silver King sacrificed itself to revive Ah Yin, and Chen Zhuo used Dugu Bo’s Time Freeze to kill her as soon as she emerged.
• Chen Zhuo collected Ah Yin’s hundred-thousand-year soul ring and right leg bone, then transplanted her surviving Blue Silver Grass sprout into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Chen Zhuo decided to cultivate Ye Lingling and considered the Blue Silver Emperor’s healing potential a perfect match for her Nine Heart Begonia.
• Guests gathered at the Ye Residence for Ye Lingling’s sixteenth birthday banquet, where Marshal Ge Long offered a three-thousand-year Tyrant Tiger right arm bone to propose marriage.
• Dugu Bo arrived with Chen Zhuo and another youth, prompting Marshal Ge Long to confront him as the guests and Yazi Dragon Guards braced for violence.

At Ye Lingling’s birthday banquet, she rejected Marshal Ge Long and accepted Chen Zhuo’s marriage proposal, then absorbed aromatic silk beauty and evolved her Martial Soul. Ge Long was murdered in his home, and Imperial Guards summoned Chen Zhuo, Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo for questioning as the capital reeled from his death.

• Dugu Bo proposed a marriage alliance between Dugu Manor and the Ye Residence, and Ye Lingling rejected Ge Long’s Soul Bone and declared her love for Chen Zhuo.
• Chen Zhuo presented Ye Lingling with aromatic silk beauty, and he and Ye Lingling publicly announced their intention to marry.
• Ge Long returned to his estate in fury, killed several servants, and was slain by an unseen attacker in a sudden ambush.
• Ye Lingling absorbed aromatic silk beauty, evolved her Martial Soul into saint heart begonia, and rose from level 33 to level 40.
• Imperial Guards summoned Chen Zhuo and Dugu Yan for questioning about Ge Long’s death and said Dugu Bo would also be invited.

Chen Zhuo distributed the spoils from Marshal Ge Long’s death and led Qian Renxue and their team into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt the Titan Giant Ape. The ambush began after Chen Zhuo used Xiao Wu’s voice to lure the beast into Dugu Bo’s poison mist.

• Chen Zhuo gave Snake Lance Douluo She Long Ge Long’s fifty-thousand-year soul bone and ordered the other soul bone sold, while Dugu Bo sent Ge Long’s head to Prince Xue Xing.
• Chen Zhuo told Qian Renxue that the group would leave for the Star Dou Great Forest, where Ye Lingling could obtain a soul ring.
• Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance and Pufferfish to prepare for the hunt, while Chen Zhuo tracked the Titan Giant Ape instead of targeting the Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Weeks later, Chen Zhuo revealed a hundred-thousand-year soul beast aura and persuaded Qian Renxue to let him lure the Titan Giant Ape.
• Chen Zhuo imitated Xiao Wu’s voice, drawing the Titan Giant Ape toward the team, where Dugu Bo’s poison mist engulfed the forest.

Chen Zhuo, Qian Renxue, and the others fought the Titan Giant Ape, combining control abilities and powerful attacks to weaken it. Chen Zhuo used Xiao Wu’s Soft Bone Rabbit soul bone skills to withstand its final assault, allowing Qian Renxue to kill it and claim a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

• Dugu Bo and Chen Zhuo froze the Titan Giant Ape while Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish struck it with their ninth soul skills.
• The Titan Giant Ape broke partly free, burned its origin, and launched a devastating punch at Qian Renxue and the others.
• Chen Zhuo teleported in front of the attack and used the Soft Bone Rabbit’s Invincible Golden Body to block it, enraging the Titan Giant Ape when it sensed Xiao Wu’s aura.
• Chen Zhuo held off the Titan Giant Ape with repeated uses of Invincible Golden Body while Snake Lance, Dugu Bo, and Porcupinefish helped pin it down.
• Qian Renxue pierced the Titan Giant Ape with her Divine Sword, killing it and leaving behind a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

The Sky Azure Bull Python appeared but sensed a more terrifying presence and retreated without attacking, while Qian Renxue absorbed the Titan Giant Ape’s hundred-thousand-year soul ring. After claiming the promised soul bone and storing the Titan Giant Ape’s remains, Chen Zhuo prepared to have Qian Renxue help him obtain his fifth soul ring.

• Chen Zhuo anticipated the Sky Azure Bull Python’s arrival, and it emerged from the forest as the group braced for its attack.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python showed fear, turned, and left without fighting the group.
• Qian Renxue absorbed the Titan Giant Ape’s soul ring overnight while the others stood guard and Ye Lingling healed them.
• Qian Renxue completed her absorption, gained a red seventh soul ring, and manifested her Angel Domain.
• Qian Renxue gave Chen Zhuo the promised Titan Giant Ape left arm bone, and Chen Zhuo stored the beast’s remains in the Main God Space.

Chen Zhuo’s group secured a Ten-Thousand-Year Solitary Bamboo Soul Ring for Ye Lingling, raising her to level 42. They then captured a sixty-thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Fox, and Chen Zhuo gave its head soul bone to Meng Yiran to absorb.

• Ye Lingling absorbed the Ten-Thousand-Year Solitary Bamboo Soul Ring and advanced from level 40 to level 42.
• Dugu Yan and Meng Yiran congratulated Ye Lingling, while Meng Yiran privately resolved to work harder to keep pace with her friends.
• Chen Zhuo led the group to the Three-Eyed Demon Fox’s cave, where Dugu Bo defeated and captured the sixty-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Chen Zhuo killed the Three-Eyed Demon Fox and extracted its Mental Condensation Charm Head Bone instead of absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Chen Zhuo gave the head soul bone to Meng Yiran because its charm-related ability suited her Snake Charm skill, and told her to absorb it.

Chen Zhuo and the others found a fifty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in a miasma-filled gorge and fought the powerful, evil soul beast. The battle left Chen Zhuo dodging its attacks as he called on Qian Renxue to use her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

• Meng Yiran fused with the Three-Eyed Demon Fox's Spirit-Condensing Charm Skull, gained two ranks of soul power, and reached the Spirit Sea Realm.
• Chen Zhuo found the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger after several weeks of searching in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qian Renxue recognized the legendary soul beast and decided its evil nature meant it had to be exterminated.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger unleashed powerful attacks and a domain, while Dugu Bo escorted Dugu Yan, Meng Yiran, and Ye Lingling away from the fight.
• Snake Lance Douluo and Dugu Bo attacked the tiger, but their strikes and Chen Zhuo and Dugu Bo's Time Freeze failed to stop it.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger pursued Chen Zhuo, who evaded its attacks with an Invincible Golden Body and teleportation before calling on Qian Renxue to join the fight.

Chen Zhuo, Qian Renxue, Porcupinefish Douluo, Snake Lance, and Dugu Bo defeated the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger before it could use its Life and Death Arena. After Chen Zhuo killed the beast, he intercepted the gray-wrapped light that fled from its body.

• Qian Renxue, Porcupinefish Douluo, Snake Lance, and Dugu Bo joined Chen Zhuo in fighting the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and kept it from using its tail-hook trump card.
• Chen Zhuo explained the dangers of the Life and Death Arena while the group pressured the tiger and Qian Renxue shattered its protective shield.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger unleashed Dark Demon Evil Thunder and tried to escape toward the Core Region, but Qian Renxue and the others pursued it.
• Chen Zhuo blocked the tiger with Invincible Golden Body, used Time Freeze, and killed it.
• Chen Zhuo used the Main God Space’s will to intercept the gray-wrapped light fleeing from the tiger’s body.