Chapter Summaries

Qian Daoliu brought Tian Meng to the Lake of Life to discuss cooperation on soul spirits with Da Ming and Er Ming. After they agreed to help, Qian Daoliu called for Di Tian to join the conversation.

• Tian Meng revealed that he was a million-year soul beast and used his spiritual pressure to overwhelm Da Ming and Er Ming before Qian Daoliu told him to stop.
• Da Ming and Er Ming led Qian Daoliu and Tian Meng to the Lake of Life, where they discussed the missing Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and agreed to watch for it.
• Qian Daoliu showed Da Ming two artificial hundred-year Ice Attribute soul spirits and explained that Spirit Hall wanted the soul beasts' help providing blood essence for more varieties.
• Da Ming warned that he could not command every clan in the Star Dou Great Forest because some ancient soul beasts obeyed only the sovereign beneath the lake.
• Qian Daoliu walked across the Lake of Life and called for Di Tian to come out and speak with him.

Qian Daoliu’s call awakened the powerful soul beasts beneath the Lake of Life, and the Five Great Ferocious Beasts emerged before him. Beast God Di Tian appeared as the true ruler of the Star Dou Great Forest and confronted Qian Daoliu, who met his gaze without backing down.

• Qian Daoliu called for Di Tian to come out and talk, stirring the Lake of Life and alarming Da Ming, Er Ming, Xiao Wu's Mother, Tian Meng, and Bibi Dong.
• The lake’s pressure darkened the sky and drove weaker soul beasts into hiding as an ancient dragon cry rang out.
• Bi Ji, the Myriad Demon King, Xiong Jun, the Scarlet King, and Zi JI emerged from the lake’s depths and watched Qian Daoliu’s group.
• Beast God Di Tian rose from the lake in his golden-eyed black dragon form and demanded to know who had disturbed their slumber.
• Qian Daoliu met Di Tian’s golden gaze without retreating.

Qian Daoliu sought a partnership with Di Tian and the Star Dou soul beasts, but Di Tian challenged the idea because humans had long hunted and harmed soul beasts. Tian Meng’s million-year cultivation and his claim that he had never faced a heavenly tribulation stunned Di Tian and the five ferocious beasts, while Qian Daoliu explained that the Divine Realm’s rules targeted threats to its rule; Di Tian then asked what partnership Qian Daoliu was proposing.

• Qian Daoliu approached Di Tian and proposed a mutually beneficial partnership between humans and Star Dou’s soul beasts.
• Di Tian rejected the idea at first, accusing humans of slaughtering soul beasts for their soul rings and soul bones.
• Tian Meng defended Qian Daoliu and revealed his ten golden markings, shocking Di Tian and the five ferocious beasts with proof that he had surpassed a million years.
• Tian Meng credited Qian Daoliu’s resources for his rapid cultivation and said he had never encountered a heavenly tribulation.
• Qian Daoliu explained that the Divine Realm brought down tribulations to restrain soul beasts whose soul power threatened the gods’ rule.
• Di Tian reflected on the Divine Realm’s suppression of his cultivation and asked Qian Daoliu to explain his proposed partnership.

Qian Daoliu explained that Spirit Hall wanted an equal partnership with the Star Dou Great Forest to develop artificial soul spirits, allowing humans and soul beasts to benefit together. Di Tian remained doubtful, and Xiong Jun demanded stronger assurances before the beasts would consider cooperating.

• Di Tian warned Qian Daoliu that the soul beasts would fight to the death rather than be treated as livestock, while the five great ferocious beasts prepared to attack.
• Qian Daoliu showed his Chaos Bell and Tian Meng’s million-year soul ring, then pointed out that Xiao Wu’s Mother had become Bibi Dong’s soul spirit without sacrificing her soul.
• Bi Ji recognized that Xiao Wu’s Mother had chosen to become a soul spirit, and Qian Daoliu said she and her daughter Xiao Wu sought godhood through shared cultivation.
• Di Tian argued that soul beasts had no realistic path to godhood without god positions, so Qian Daoliu explained that soul spirits could attain godhood through symbiosis with a soul master.
• Qian Daoliu displayed artificial ice-attribute soul spirits and said Spirit Hall wanted the Star Dou Great Forest’s help to expand their variety and support coexistence.
• Xiong Jun rejected Qian Daoliu’s assurances and demanded that he reveal his true purpose.

Qian Daoliu faced the ferocious beasts’ suspicion of human cooperation by demonstrating his strength against Xiong Jun while deliberately holding back. After seeing his restraint and hearing the others’ support for the Soul Spirit System, Xiong Jun tacitly accepted Qian Daoliu’s proposal.

• Xiong Jun and the Scarlet King accused Qian Daoliu of planning to betray the soul beasts, while Di Tian watched to judge his strength and sincerity.
• Qian Daoliu revealed his six-winged angel martial soul and six black and three red soul rings, shocking the Myriad Demon King and Di Tian.
• Xiong Jun attacked Qian Daoliu, who stopped his first strike with his bare fist and explained that he sought cooperation rather than slaughter.
• Xiong Jun attacked again, but Qian Daoliu evaded him and wounded his shoulder with a controlled blow.
• Bi Ji healed Xiong Jun, and the Myriad Demon King pointed to Tian Meng and Xiao Wu’s Mother as evidence for the Soul Spirit System.
• Xiong Jun reconsidered Qian Daoliu’s strength and restraint, then lowered his head and tacitly accepted his words.

Qian Daoliu calmed the ferocious beasts and invited Di Tian to discuss Soul Spirit cooperation. Over life tea brewed from Spirit Hall’s Tree of Life leaves, Di Tian and the beasts felt the tea’s healing effects, and Qian Daoliu offered them a way to verify the Soul Spirit System.

• Qian Daoliu withdrew his pressure after overpowering Xiong Jun and asked Di Tian to discuss Soul Spirit cooperation.
• Di Tian took human form and led Qian Daoliu, Bibi Dong, Xiao Wu's Mother, and the ferocious beasts to the Lake of Life’s shore.
• Qian Daoliu brewed tea using leaves from Spirit Hall’s Tree of Life and water from Spirit Mountain.
• Di Tian drank the tea and felt his soul power recover, while Bi Ji and the Myriad Demon King praised its benefits.
• Qian Daoliu told the beasts they could verify that the Soul Spirit System was not a human deception.

Qian Daoliu demonstrated Bibi Dong’s twin martial souls and soul spirit rings to convince Di Tian and the ferocious beasts that the soul spirit system was safe. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong preparing to contract with a willing seventy-thousand-year Cave Demon Spider.

• Qian Daoliu proposed testing soul spirits with either young soul masters or a willing soul beast, and suggested Bibi Dong as the soul master for the trial.
• Bibi Dong revealed her twin martial souls and showed that her Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor had two hundred-thousand-year soul rings from Xiao Wu's Mother.
• Di Tian ordered Da Ming and Er Ming to find a willing soul beast, and they returned with a seventy-thousand-year Cave Demon Spider.
• Qian Daoliu explained the contract’s potential benefits to the Cave Demon Spider, which agreed to try becoming a soul spirit.
• Qian Daoliu made a semi-finished Cave Demon Spider soul spirit using the beast’s blood essence, and Bibi Dong began discussing the contract with it.

Bibi Dong completed a soul spirit contract with the Cave Demon Spider, adding a black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring to her Martial Soul. Qian Daoliu then proposed Spirit Hall oversight and soul beast participation in the system, while Di Tian and the others pressed him on safeguards against human abuse.

• Bibi Dong performed the Soulblood Resonance ritual, and the Cave Demon Spider became a miniature soul spirit that could fight alongside her.
• Qian Daoliu explained that soul spirits could cultivate with soul masters and potentially share their godhood.
• Di Tian warned that humans might coerce soul beasts or exploit blood essence, and Bi Ji and the Myriad Demon King echoed his concerns about accountability.
• Qian Daoliu proposed that Spirit Hall control contract rituals, certify practitioners, require voluntary consent, and allow soul beast observers to report violations.
• Qian Daoliu outlined Soul Hall departments, monthly contracting sessions near the Star Dou Great Forest, and records tracking artificial soul spirit production and distribution.
• Qian Daoliu said trained soul engineers would extract limited blood essence and provide restorative medicines, with the future goal of reproducing its properties without taking it from living soul beasts.

Qian Daoliu won Di Tian’s agreement to cooperate with Spirit Hall on soul spirits by offering life resources and safeguards for soul beasts. The negotiations ended with an alarming report that an eighty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had escaped near Star Dou Great Forest.

• Tian Meng vouched for the benefits of Spirit Hall’s dealings with the Far North clans, and Qian Daoliu argued that soul masters would accept soul spirits because they offered power and safety.
• Qian Daoliu promised that Spirit Hall would keep artificial soul spirit technology secure, while Di Tian agreed to provide Star Dou soul beast blood essence in exchange for life resources.
• Qian Daoliu gave Di Tian life leaves, Tree of Life bark powder, and Water of Life, and the beasts approved the cooperation with Bi Ji supervising soul spirit contracts.
• Qian Daoliu warned Di Tian that an eighty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had appeared near Star Dou a few years earlier.
• Da Ming and Er Ming confirmed that the tiger had severely injured Xiao Wu's Mother, been wounded by the Great Enshrined and his companions, and escaped despite their efforts.

Da Ming and Er Ming reported that they had found no trace of the escaped Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, so Di Tian ordered the Myriad Demon King to monitor the forest for its aura and spatial anomalies. Qian Daoliu explained Spirit Hall’s destruction of Slaughter City and showed the Ferocious Beasts Tang Hao’s punishment in the Netherworld Underworld, leaving Di Tian concerned that the Asura God would retaliate.

• Da Ming and Er Ming told Di Tian that years of searching had failed to find the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in Star Dou Great Forest.
• Di Tian ordered the Myriad Demon King to use plant-type soul beasts to watch for the tiger’s devouring aura and spatial disturbances.
• Qian Daoliu said the tiger was badly wounded and warned that Spirit Hall would respond if it resurfaced.
• Qian Daoliu explained that Spirit Hall had destroyed Slaughter City and remade it as the Netherworld Underworld after the Asura God interfered in worldly affairs.
• Qian Daoliu showed Di Tian and the Five Great Ferocious Beasts Tang Hao suffering in Steaming Cage Hell for his crimes.
• Di Tian warned Qian Daoliu that the Asura God might seek revenge and that Spirit Hall could struggle to withstand him.

Qian Daoliu convinced Di Tian that the Divine Realm’s God Kings would restrain the Asura God and that the Netherworld Underworld would protect the soul spirit order. Di Tian agreed to begin Star Dou’s cooperation with Spirit Hall and then went beneath the Lake of Life to report the news to his sovereign.

• Qian Daoliu showed the Five Great Ferocious Beasts a projection of the God of Destruction, the God of Evil, and the God of Kindness forcing the Asura God to withdraw from the Mortal Realm.
• Qian Daoliu explained that the Underworld would punish those who violated the soul spirit order, and Di Tian accepted that Spirit Hall could protect their cooperation.
• Di Tian agreed to bring Bi Ji to the eastern Spirit Hall Branch in one month to witness the first soul spirit contracts before Star Dou supplied blood essence.
• Qian Daoliu, Bibi Dong, Xiao Wu's Mother, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm departed for Spirit Hall while the ferocious beasts returned to their duties.
• Di Tian took the Water of Life and Life Leaves beneath the Lake of Life and knelt before the Silver Dragon King to report an important matter concerning the soul beast race.

Di Tian reported Qian Daoliu’s gifts and recent developments to the Silver Dragon King, whose injuries eased after she drank the Water of Life. She ordered Di Tian to destroy the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and warned that soul spirits could only bring coexistence while soul beasts retained equal strength, leaving the future of the proposed cooperation uncertain.

• Di Tian entered the Silver Dragon King’s chamber and presented Water of Life, life leaves, and powdered Tree of Life bark from Qian Daoliu.
• The Silver Dragon King drank some Water of Life, which suppressed the Asura divine power corroding her wound and gave her more time to recover.
• Di Tian reported the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s return, the Soul Spirit System, and Slaughter City’s transformation into the Netherworld Underworld.
• The Silver Dragon King ordered Di Tian to destroy the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger immediately if he found it.
• The Silver Dragon King said soul spirits might ease conflict if humans and soul beasts could coexist as equals, but warned that humans might eventually control or confine soul beasts if the beasts grew weak.

The Silver Dragon King approved cooperation with Spirit Hall but ordered Di Tian to watch Qian Daoliu and prepare Star Dou's forces for the Soul Spirit Pact Ceremony. Back in Spirit City, Qian Daoliu gathered Spirit Hall leaders and specialists to discuss expanding the Soul Spirit System.

• The Silver Dragon King warned Di Tian that the Asura God might interfere again and ordered him to assess Qian Daoliu's commitment to equality at the upcoming ceremony and visit Spirit City.
• Di Tian assigned Da Ming and Er Ming to find intelligent Soul Beasts nearing the end of their lives and register volunteers for the Pact Ceremony.
• Di Tian ordered the Myriad Demon King to monitor Star Dou's outskirts for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and delay blood essence collection until the ceremony's success was confirmed.
• Di Tian told Bi Ji and the others that Qian Daoliu's life resources had eased the Silver Dragon King's injuries by suppressing the Asura Divine Power.
• Qian Daoliu returned to Spirit Hall, learned Qian Renxue was with Qian Meimei at the Tree of Life, and asked Qian Xunji to wait until the council assembled before discussing Star Dou.
• Qian Xunji summoned Yue Guan, Dugu Bo, and Lou Gao to join the Enshrinements in the Pope's Hall's Council Chamber for a discussion about expanding the Soul Spirit System.

Bibi Dong reported that Star Dou was far stronger than expected, but Qian Daoliu subdued Bear Lord and secured an agreement for cooperation. The Council planned a soul spirit ceremony in one month and ordered the search for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to expand to the Far North.

• Qian Meimei brought the sleeping Qian Renxue into the Council Chamber and settled her beside Xiao Wu.
• Bibi Dong told the council that Star Dou held six powerful ferocious beasts, including Di Tian and Zi JI.
• Bibi Dong explained that Bear Lord had attacked Qian Daoliu but was subdued without him using a soul skill, persuading the ferocious beasts to negotiate.
• Bibi Dong reported that Star Dou agreed to hold the first Natural Soul Spirit Contracting Ceremony at the Eastern Spirit Hall Branch in one month and provide soul beast blood essence.
• Lou Gao, Dugu Bo, Yue Guan, and Qian Xunji offered preparations for the ceremony, while Qian Daoliu told the Ice Empress to have her kin search for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

Spirit Hall prepared to publicize its cooperation with Star Dou and expand the soul spirit research and treaty ceremony preparations. In Heaven Dou, Xue Ye weighed the system’s benefits and Spirit Hall’s influence as Ning Fengzhi proposed attending the ceremony and seeking direct contact with Star Dou’s soul beasts.

• Qian Daoliu learned that research on hundred-year soul spirits had succeeded and thousand-year soul spirits had reached the experimental stage.
• Qian Daoliu chose to notify the Star Luo Empire, Heaven Dou Empire, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and smaller factions about the Pact Ceremony.
• Qian Xunji ordered the Eastern Branch Hall to expand the ceremony venue, and Spirit Hall sent news of its Star Dou cooperation across the continent.
• Xue Ye questioned whether Spirit Hall’s soul spirit system was a bid for control, while Xue Qinghe argued it could reduce soul master casualties and resource costs.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin confirmed that soul spirits were real and that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had million-year cultivation.
• Ning Fengzhi advised Xue Ye to send representatives to the ceremony and seek direct cooperation with Star Dou, while Xue Xing warned that the plan could antagonize both Spirit Hall and the soul beasts.

Heaven Dou, Star Luo, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan prepared to investigate Spirit Hall’s soul spirit system and its pact with Star Dou. Yu Yuanzhen received an invitation to the ceremony but had not yet decided whether his clan would attend.

• Xue Ye ordered Xue Qinghe to lead one hundred elite soul masters to the Eastern Branch Hall, accompanied by Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin, to investigate soul spirits and represent Heaven Dou.
• Zhu Tianyu told Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai to observe soul spirits, monitor Heaven Dou’s delegation, and prepare elite testers and Recording Crystals for Star Luo.
• Zhu Tianyu warned the princes to treat Star Dou’s ferocious beasts respectfully, and Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai agreed to follow his instructions.
• Yu Luomian brought Yu Yuanzhen an invitation from Spirit Hall to the soul spirit pact ceremony scheduled for one month later.
• Yu Tianxin questioned whether the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan should attend, and Yu Yuanzhen had not yet answered.

Yu Yuanzhen and other major powers prepared to pursue cooperation over soul spirits, while Spirit Hall advanced its plans and developed the first thousand-year soul spirits. At the Eastern Branch Hall, Xiong Jun rejected the visiting powers and declared that Star Dou would cooperate only with Spirit Hall.

• Yu Yuanzhen decided to attend the pact ceremony and seek exclusive cooperation between the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Star Dou's dragon soul beasts.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Spirit Hall to prepare for the major powers' arrival and guard the soul spirits' core technology.
• Lou Gao reported that his team had developed four thousand-year soul spirits, including an Ice Jade Scorpion, an ice silkworm, an Ice Bear, and a Snow Fox.
• Qian Daoliu, the Enshrinements, the Ice Empress, Dugu Bo, and other Spirit Hall representatives arrived at the expanded Eastern Branch Hall, where the Heaven Dou, Star Luo, and Blue Lightning parties had gathered.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked Bi Ji for priority cooperation with dragon soul beasts, while Xue Qinghe and Zhu Tianyu also approached her with their own interests.
• Xiong Jun unleashed his pressure, rebuked the human representatives, and declared that Star Dou would cooperate only with Spirit Hall.

Xiong Jun confronted Yu Yuanzhen outside the Branch Hall over Star Dou’s soul spirit cooperation agreement with Spirit Hall. Yu Yuanzhen attacked despite Bi Ji’s attempt to defuse the dispute, and Xiong Jun left him gravely wounded with a single swipe.

• Xiong Jun scorned the human delegation and declared that Star Dou cooperated only with Spirit Hall, provoking Yu Yuanzhen.
• Yu Yuanzhen revealed his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul and challenged Xiong Jun, while their forces gathered outside the Branch Hall.
• Xiong Jun revealed that he was the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear clan chief with four hundred and fifty thousand years of cultivation and prepared to strike.
• Bi Ji intervened, apologized for Xiong Jun’s words, and urged Yu Yuanzhen to preserve peace before the Pact Ceremony.
• Yu Yuanzhen ignored Bi Ji and unleashed his ninth soul skill, Tyrant Dragon Break, against Xiong Jun.
• Xiong Jun blocked the attack with one swipe, hurled Yu Yuanzhen into a tree, and left him bleeding and unable to move.

Xiong Jun challenged the human factions after crushing Yu Yuanzhen, exposing how far their strength and intentions fell short of Star Dou’s expectations. Qian Daoliu halted the confrontation and led the representatives into the Branch Hall for the Pact Ceremony, warning that cooperation depended on equality and respect.

• Xiong Jun transformed into his enormous true form and challenged the factions to withstand three moves or defeat him for a chance to cooperate with Star Dou.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin recognized Xiong Jun’s terrifying strength, while Prince Xue Xing realized the factions had badly overestimated their position.
• Qian Daoliu arrived and subdued Xiong Jun’s aggression; Xiong Jun withdrew into the Branch Hall after warning the factions not to disrespect Star Dou or soul spirits.
• Bi Ji arranged for an Emerald Swan to heal Yu Yuanzhen and reminded him that pride could not overcome a gap in strength.
• Zhu Tianyu realized the factions could not control the Pact Ceremony or easily win Star Dou’s cooperation.
• Qian Daoliu invited the representatives into the Branch Hall for the ceremony and emphasized that cooperation required equality and respect.

Qian Daoliu hosted the Pact Ceremony, introduced Star Dou’s powerful ferocious beasts, and explained how soul spirits could let humans gain soul rings without killing soul beasts. The ceremony had not yet begun, but the gathered powers were left considering the system’s potential after seeing its first examples.

• The human representatives followed Qian Daoliu into the hall and waited with Bi Ji for Di Tian and the other Star Dou companions to arrive.
• While waiting, Qian Daoliu used two lucky draws and obtained a Light Elemental Spirit Tribe Summoning Card and three God-given Soul Rings.
• Di Tian arrived with the Myriad Demon King, the Scarlet King, and Zi JI, and Qian Daoliu introduced them and their cultivation levels to the gathered powers.
• Qian Daoliu displayed four thousand-year soul spirits and explained that they were created from soul beast blood essence and energy reconstruction, allowing soul masters to obtain soul rings without killing soul beasts.
• Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi considered the soul spirit system’s possibilities, while Yu Yuanzhen regretted challenging Xiong Jun before learning how it worked.