Chapter Summaries

Lu Mingfei awakened a mysterious dragon-related bloodline martial soul and began studying at Red Mountain Academy, where he befriended Tang Wulin and discovered how costly soul spirits and further Soul Master education could be. As he and his classmates considered their uncertain futures, Gu Yuena and Di Tian investigated the Dragon King aura that Lu Mingfei had unleashed.

• At an internet café, Lu Mingfei tried the owner's immersive virtual reality helmet and crossed into the Douluo Continent as a child.
• Lu Mingfei met Tang Wulin at the martial soul awakening ceremony and went with him to register at Red Mountain Academy.
• During his awakening, Lu Mingfei's golden eyes released Word Spirit: Emperor, and his Blue Screen revealed a censored bloodline martial soul and level-one soul power.
• Lu Mingfei moved to Red Mountain Academy, befriended Tang Wulin, and secretly passed him a humorous note after classmates mocked his Blue Silver Grass.
• Gu Yuena sensed Lu Mingfei's Dragon King aura, but told Di Tian to stop their search and return to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Wan Yunchao explained the high cost of soul spirits and described intermediate academies, while Zhou Shaolong challenged his praise of Eastsea Academy.

Three years before the Divine Realm Empire arrived at Skyfrost City, nine-year-old Long Yue drank with Dai Yueyan in Star Luo City and reflected on his future as a powerful soul master. A mysterious force tore the sky open and hurled the entire city into an unknown place, leaving Long Yue and Dai Yueyan to face an unfamiliar landscape beneath strange stars.

• Long Yue celebrated his ninth birthday with rank twenty-four soul power and accepted his future as a Titled Douluo.
• Dai Yueyan brought Bearblood Wine to Long Yue, and the two drank on a tower overlooking Star Luo City.
• Dai Yueyan sang about longing for Old Star Luo City, and Long Yue answered with a song celebrating their new home.
• An immense force struck Star Luo City, shattering its screens and plunging the city into darkness and weightlessness.
• Long Yue grabbed Dai Yueyan as the city was hurled through the void, then saw an unfamiliar wilderness and a sky crowded with strange stars.

After Star Luo City was displaced into an ancient wilderness, Emperor Dai Tianling and his ministers assessed the damage and sought answers from the Imperial Preceptor and the Spirit Pagoda. The chapter ended with news that the Tang Sect had vanished.

• Star Luo City’s railways and highways ended at primeval wilderness, and officials reported lost contact with surrounding cities and unknown soul beasts nearby.
• Emperor Dai Tianling convened his ministers to assess casualties, infrastructure, and the city’s survival needs.
• En Ci suggested that Star Luo City had been transported to its region from thousands of years earlier, possibly to Spirit Ice Douluo’s era or before.
• Netherflame Douluo Zhang Geyang arrived at the palace after failing to contact the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters and asked about Hu Jie.
• Emperor Dai Tianling received a message and announced that the Tang Sect had vanished.

After the world-shifting upheaval, En Ci and Zhang Geyang investigated the vanished Tang Sect and checked whether their organizations had been affected. Meanwhile, Long Yue, Su Mu, and Ye Zhi slipped past Star Luo City's patrols to find Hua Lantang, while Dean Wang and a Ye family retainer watched them go.

• En Ci found that the Tang Sect's former complex had become grassland, then flew off to check whether its senior members were missing as Zhang Geyang returned to the Spirit Pagoda branch to investigate.
• Long Yue and Su Mu left the Imperial Junior Soul Master Academy at night, and guard Uncle Qin reported their departure without stopping them.
• Long Yue and Su Mu avoided the city patrols and reached the back gate of Violet Thorn Manor to get Ye Zhi.
• Long Yue's Mountain Sprite led Ye Zhi through a tunnel beneath the manor pond, and she emerged outside to join Long Yue and Su Mu.
• Long Yue took Ye Zhi and Su Mu toward East City Park to find Hua Lantang as Dean Wang and a Ye family retainer watched them leave.

After Star Luo City appeared in the wilderness, Long Yue and his companions encountered frightened natives in East City Park and learned the city had appeared among their homes. En Ci arrived and ordered Long Yue to return to cultivation, then said he would take him to enroll at Monster Academy the next day.

• Long Yue swam in the artificial lake and wondered who had caused the upheaval that transported Star Luo City into the wilderness.
• Ye Zhi screamed when natives appeared, and Hua Lantang and Su Mu raised their martial souls to protect her.
• Long Yue summoned a surge of water that frightened the natives, who fled into the approaching Security Force and surrendered.
• Long Yue questioned the natives through gestures and learned that city buildings had suddenly appeared near their homes, frightening them into hiding or fleeing.
• Long Yue told Su Mu he was not afraid of the arriving headmaster, but En Ci appeared behind him and ordered him to return to cultivation.
• En Ci told Long Yue he would take him to enroll at Monster Academy the next day.

After Star Luo City arrived twenty thousand years in the past, En Ci and Dai Tianling considered the vanished Tang Sect and the empire’s place in the era of Tang San. Dai Tianling decided to build the empire’s legitimacy around Huo Yuhao and erase Tang San and Dai Mubai from its official history.

• En Ci escorted Long Yue and his companions to safety, then returned to the imperial palace as officials confirmed Star Luo City had traveled to Tang San’s era.
• Dai Tianling ordered the Green Scale King and his tribal alliance dealt with before they could grow into a future threat.
• En Ci told Dai Tianling that he could sense the Divine Realm again and suspected a god had removed the Tang Sect because of a grudge against Tang San.
• Dai Tianling rejected the idea of making the empire subordinate to Tang San or acknowledging Dai Mubai as an ancestor who could rule over them.
• Dai Tianling planned to claim the time journey was a miracle from Huo Yuhao, rename the Star Luo Continent and empire, and rewrite history to diminish Tang San and Dai Mubai.

The Divine Realm Empire sent Huang Zhengyang and the First Mecha Corps to seize the Green Scale Plain and subdue its indigenous tribes. Huang Zhengyang’s forces destroyed the Green Scale Tribe, then planted the empire’s flag at its former altar.

• Emperor Dai Tianling renamed the empire and continent and declared the first year of the Divine Realm era.
• Huang Zhengyang led one hundred mecha from the First Mecha Corps toward the Green Scale Tribe.
• The Green Scale King warned his warriors that the approaching machines were not soul beasts, but Huang Zhengyang beheaded him with Despair Reaper.
• A Green Scale elder transformed into a Kingfisher Martial Soul Avatar, but Despair Reaper immobilized and killed him.
• The mecha slaughtered the tribe and Huang Zhengyang planted the Divine Realm Imperial White Tiger Crest flag where its altar had stood.

Long Yue struggled with the pain of cultivating his Mountain Dragon King martial soul and proposed improving his soul spirit at the Spirit Ascension Platform. En Ci took him there, where Zhang Geyang warned that the platform now contained virtual soul beasts up to the ten-thousand-year level, and Long Yue accepted the risk.

• En Ci explained that Long Yue's rapid cultivation would bring increasing physical pain and gave him medicinal pills to support his training.
• Long Yue proposed turning his soul spirit into a thousand-year soul spirit, then described how he might rely on the Spirit Ascension Platform or hunt soul beasts for future soul rings.
• En Ci took Long Yue past a statue of Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong, and Long Yue privately recognized Tang Wutong as Tang San and Xiao Wu's daughter.
• At the Spirit Pagoda, Zhang Geyang told En Ci and Long Yue that the platform's divisions had vanished after the transmigration and that failed soul-spirit creations had become virtual soul beasts.
• Long Yue agreed to enter despite the possibility of encountering a ten-thousand-year virtual soul beast.

Long Yue entered the Spirit Ascension Platform and hunted soul beasts, seeking enough spiritual energy to evolve his soul spirit. After killing a Man Faced Demon Spider, he spotted a ten-thousand-year Crystal Bear and prepared to fight it before leaving.

• Zhang Geyang left after Long Yue challenged him, and Long Yue entered the Spirit Ascension Platform under En Ci's watch.
• Long Yue ignored weaker soul beasts and killed a blue-green avian soul beast and an Iron-Armed Ape to draw stronger prey.
• Long Yue used Mountains and Rivers and powerful punches to kill a two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider.
• A hundred-year single-horned dragon fled from Long Yue but was struck down by a ten-thousand-year Crystal Bear.
• Long Yue recognized the Crystal Bear as a chance to evolve his soul spirit and planned to defeat it before pressing the rescue button.

Long Yue fought and killed a ten-thousand-year Crystal Bear inside the Spirit Ascension Platform, using his River soul skill to drown and weaken it before landing the finishing blow. The battle raised his Mountain Sprite soul spirit from a hundred-year to a thousand-year spirit, and Long Yue left the platform after achieving his goal.

• Long Yue used his Mountain Dragon King martial soul to fight the Crystal Bear at close range, but its crystals encased and shattered one of his arms.
• Long Yue unleashed his River soul skill, forcing floodwater and high-pressure currents into the Crystal Bear and exposing its organs.
• Long Yue charged the wounded Crystal Bear and snapped its cervical spine, killing it.
• The Mountain Sprite evolved from a hundred-year soul spirit into a thousand-year soul spirit and could transform between a cute monkey and a fearsome Ape Monster.
• Long Yue completed the spirit ascension, frightened the surrounding soul beasts with his aura, and pressed the rescue button to leave the Spirit Ascension Platform.

In Year 4 of the Divine Realm Calendar, Long Yue explained to Su Mu why the empire was sending an ocean-going fleet to the Douluo Continent, then revealed that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was the real prize. En Ci agreed to take Long Yue along to claim an immortal herb and temper his body.

• Long Yue and Su Mu discussed the empire's fleet to the Douluo Continent and debated the merits of overseas expansion versus developing their homeland.
• Long Yue argued that the Douluo Continent's resources and historical role as the center of civilization made it strategically important, and his words excited Su Mu.
• Long Yue told Su Mu that the empire could use its advanced soul guidance technology to define civilization's perspective, then admitted to En Ci that the emperor's true aim was the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• En Ci agreed that Long Yue would travel to the Douluo Continent with his senior brother and choose an immortal herb to temper his body.
• Long Yue cheerfully jumped into the Heavenly Spring Pool and swam toward its center.

The fleet’s journey to the Douluo Continent brought Long Yue into contact with Tong Yu, the Qilin Douluo, who had been living under house arrest after killing the woman who crippled his mother. Long Yue challenged Tong Yu’s guilt and urged him to clear his name, leaving Tong Yu reconsidering the life sentence he had accepted.

• The envoy’s fleet departed South Fragrance City with Tong Yu hidden aboard under Long Yue’s care.
• Long Yue asked Tong Yu to tell the story of his childhood love and learned that she had crippled Tong Yu’s mother before he tortured her to death.
• Long Yue mocked Tong Yu’s infatuation with an older schoolmate and enraged him by asking what his mother would have thought of it.
• Long Yue reminded Tong Yu that his mother and En Ci deserved his gratitude, while the woman he loved also had to answer for crippling his mother.
• Long Yue offered to help clear Tong Yu’s name, and Tong Yu was left wondering whether he might still change his fate.

The Divine Realm Empire's fleet crossed the sea, stopped at East Sea Island, and finally reached the Douluo Continent, where its arrival alarmed Skyfrost City. The Heaven Frost Grand Duke recognized the fleet's white tiger flags as belonging to the Star Luo Empire and feared an invasion.

• Long Yue asked Tong Yu why the fleet had not encountered more Sea Soul Beasts, and Tong Yu could offer no explanation.
• After a month at sea, the fleet landed at an uninhabited island, which a Titled Douluo named East Sea Island; Sima Lanxiao planted the Divine Realm Empire's flag there.
• A Black Level Soul Guidance Mecha scout spotted the Hekemu Mountains to the northwest, and the fleet resumed its voyage toward the Douluo Continent.
• In year 2638 of the Douluo Calendar, the Divine Realm Empire's warships arrived at Skyfrost Bay, sending Skyfrost City into alarm.
• The Heaven Frost Grand Duke saw the fleet's white tiger flags and concluded that the Star Luo Empire might be preparing a sea invasion.

The Heaven Frost Grand Duke mistook the Divine Realm Empire’s White Tiger for a Star Luo Empire invasion fleet and sent envoys to demand it leave Heaven Frost Harbor. The visitors discovered the local officials had misidentified them, and a diplomatic meeting began aboard the warship.

• The Heaven Frost Grand Duke feared the Star Luo Empire would seize the isolated Heaven Frost Principality and ordered a white-flag boat to investigate the fleet.
• The White Tiger entered Skyfrost City’s harbor as Long Yue and Sima Lanxiao discussed the Divine Realm Empire’s view of the Douluo Continent and its purpose of friendly exchange.
• Xie Sen and Liu Wei approached the White Tiger and ordered the Star Luo Empire to leave Heaven Frost Harbor.
• Sima Lanxiao explained that the white tiger flag had caused the misunderstanding and sent a diplomatic officer to receive the two officials.
• Xie Sen and Liu Wei boarded the White Tiger, where the diplomatic officer offered them seats and tea as Long Yue observed.

Xie Sen and Liu Wei learned that the fleet belonged to the Divine Realm Empire from the Spirit Ice Continent, not the Star Luo Empire, and reported its diplomatic requests to the Heaven Frost Grand Duke. When the Grand Duke tried to keep the fleet offshore, a Titled Douluo from the Divine Realm Empire came ashore, forcing the confrontation to a new stage.

• Joander told Xie Sen and Liu Wei that the fleet represented the Divine Realm Empire and requested port resupply, diplomatic relations, and trade.
• Xie Sen said he would report the requests, and Long Yue had the encounter photographed while expecting the Douluo nations to respond slowly.
• Joander advised Sima Lanxiao to display the empire's strength with a Titled Douluo, and Sima Lanxiao approved.
• Xie Sen and Liu Wei's report reached the Heaven Frost Grand Duke, who decided to keep the fleet out of port and refer the matter to the Heaven Dou Emperor.
• An attendant told the Heaven Frost Grand Duke that the Divine Realm Empire's people had come ashore because one of them was a nine-ring Titled Douluo.

Sima Lanxiao sent Blood-Weeping Douluo Chu Tiange to establish the Divine Realm Empire’s strength in Skyfrost City, and Long Yue joined him. Their arrival forced the Heaven Frost Grand Duke to allow the delegation ashore, with Spirit Hall’s bishop intervening to ease the standoff.

• Sima Lanxiao asked Blood-Weeping Douluo Chu Tiange to impress the Douluo Continent’s people, offering the Heaven Frost Grand Duke’s antique weapons as an incentive.
• Long Yue joined Chu Tiange, carrying a White Tiger Banner and explaining that he wanted to leave the ship as well.
• Chu Tiange and Long Yue flew to Skyfrost City’s government offices, where Chu Tiange displayed his nine soul rings and Long Yue demanded that the Heaven Frost Grand Duke appear.
• The Heaven Frost Grand Duke and Spirit Hall’s bishop arrived, and Long Yue invoked the Pope to pressure them into welcoming the delegation.
• Spirit Hall’s bishop proposed letting the delegation ashore to replenish supplies and lodge at Spirit Hall, and the Heaven Frost Grand Duke reluctantly agreed.

After Spirit Hall welcomed the Divine Realm Empire’s delegation, Long Yue explained how the reception could strengthen Spirit Hall’s claim to represent the Douluo Continent. Tong Yu realized that his presence might expose his secret mission and asked Long Yue for help, while Sima Lanxiao’s observations began to soften his suspicions of Spirit Hall.

• Bishop He Mian hosted the Divine Realm Empire’s delegation at Spirit Hall and declined Sima Lanxiao’s offer to pay, presenting the reception as a gesture of goodwill.
• Long Yue told Tong Yu that receiving the delegation first could give Spirit Hall greater legitimacy and influence over diplomatic relations with the Divine Realm Empire.
• Tong Yu worried that the delegation might travel to Spirit City and expose his plan to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, so he decided to leave immediately.
• Long Yue warned Tong Yu that Spirit Hall had likely recorded the delegation’s members and that his unusual clothing would attract attention, leaving Tong Yu to ask him for help.
• Sima Lanxiao reviewed Spirit Hall’s conduct and learned from Joander’s reports that residents had trusted Spirit Hall more than the Heaven Frost Grand Duke when the warships arrived.

Sima Lanxiao considered the diplomatic implications of the Divine Realm Empire’s planned visits, while Long Yue and Joander accompanied Spirit Hall Deacon Grandmaster Liu on a village martial-soul awakening trip. Grandmaster Liu revealed that Spirit Hall charged neither villages nor the empire for the work, leaving Joander surprised by its charitable practices.

• Sima Lanxiao determined that the delegation would visit Heaven Dou City first, then Spirit City, and leave its visit to the Star Luo Empire until later.
• Long Yue and Joander joined Grandmaster Liu as he traveled from Skyfrost City to awaken children’s martial souls in nearby villages.
• Grandmaster Liu explained that Spirit Hall had helped him discover his soul power and that he now saw awakening children as a legacy to pass on.
• Joander asked how much villages paid for the awakenings and whether Grandmaster Liu received a commission for each child with soul power.
• Grandmaster Liu said the villages paid nothing, Spirit Hall provided no subsidies, and he received only his salary.

Joander accompanied Grandmaster Liu and Long Yue to a village to observe and record Spirit Hall’s free martial soul awakening ceremony, questioning his beliefs about Spirit Hall along the way. None of the eight children had soul power, and Joander left with a changed impression of Spirit Hall’s members.

• Joander wondered whether Spirit Hall’s free awakenings were a recruitment scheme, while Long Yue compared Spirit Hall favorably to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Grandmaster Liu, Long Yue, and Joander arrived at a village, where Old Peter and the villagers welcomed them.
• Long Yue joked about the village’s low birth rate, and Grandmaster Liu redirected the awkward conversation before gathering the children for the ceremony.
• Joander filmed the awakening ceremony for comparison with the Divine Realm Empire, and Long Yue recorded it from a wide-angle position.
• Grandmaster Liu awakened the martial souls of all eight children, but none possessed soul power.
• Long Yue cheered up the disappointed children with playful tricks, while Joander reflected that Spirit Hall’s members were selflessly serving soul masters.

Bibi Dong and Emperor Xue Ye received reports about the Divine Realm Empire’s arrival and considered how their realms should respond. Bibi Dong sent Chrysanthemum Douluo to invite the delegation to Spirit City, while Xue Qinghe was tasked with managing the Heaven Dou Empire’s contact with them.

• Bibi Dong discussed the Divine Realm Empire, its soul-powered warships, and Blood-Weeping Douluo with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.
• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to invite the overseas delegation to Spirit City and privately suspected Blood-Weeping Douluo had twin martial souls.
• Emperor Xue Ye lamented that the Heaven Dou Empire had no Titled Douluo of its own, and Xue Qinghe urged him to treat Blood-Weeping Douluo with respect.
• Xue Qinghe advised Emperor Xue Ye to learn whether the Divine Realm Empire was friend or foe and to prevent Spirit Hall from monopolizing contact with its delegation.
• Emperor Xue Ye assigned Xue Qinghe to handle the delegation, and Xue Qinghe welcomed the chance to earn political achievements.