Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hai showed Ju Zi and the others around the Civilization Research Institute and explained its plans for advancing soul tool civilization. When Ju Zi asked him to support the Sun Moon Empire in a war against the Three Kingdoms, he refused and said the institute would stay out of the conflict.

• Jiang Hai restored Jiang Chuan's appearance and went with Xuan Ziwen to meet Kong Deming, Ju Zi, and the other visitors.
• Kong Deming congratulated Xuan Ziwen for becoming a Level 9 Soul Engineer at thirty-four, and Ju Zi greeted Xuan Ziwen and Jiang Hai.
• Jiang Hai gave the visitors a tour of the institute and explained its research areas and ambitions for soul tool civilization.
• Zhang Hong and Wang Kaiming asked to join the institute, and Jiang Hai welcomed them.
• Ye Yulin asked which side the institute would support in a war, and Ju Zi urged Jiang Hai to help the Sun Moon Empire unite the continent.
• Jiang Hai refused to involve the Civilization Research Institute in the war, saying it had been founded to pursue soul tool civilization rather than power struggles.

Jiang Hai and his allies fought Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult forces above the Civilization Research Institute. The battle escalated when Zhongli Wu summoned the Bone Dragon King, while Jiang Hai prepared to strike with the Fate-Reversing Blade.

• Ju Zi warned Jiang Hai that the emperor would not tolerate an independent force of Soul Engineers, but Jiang Hai stood by his decision as Zhongli Wu confronted him over the deaths of the cult’s elders.
• Kong Deming trapped Li Qingfeng with the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield, while Ye Yulin held off Shi Jingcheng and Xuan Ziwen and Jiang Hai led the others into the sky.
• Jiang Hai revealed the Fate-Reversing Blade, and Zhongli Wu attacked with the Death God Demon Puppet as Zheng Zhan blocked him and Zhang Hong and Wang Kaiming brought out their signature Soul Tools.
• Zhongli Wu opened a rift and summoned the Bone Dragon King, which endured Wang Kaiming’s Purgatory Cannon blast and attacked him with Extreme Fire.
• Zheng Zhan protected Wang Kaiming with his Unbreakable Shield as Zhang Hong struck the Bone Dragon King with lightning, and Jiang Hai shouted “Reverse Fate” at Zhongli Wu.

Jiang Hai fought Zhongli Wu with strength borrowed from the Bronze Coffin and unleashed Ten Thousand Thunders Heavenly Prison, while Zhang Hong and the others battled the Bone Dragon King. The chapter ended with Jiang Hai firing the fully charged Sun Moon Divine Needle at Zhongli Wu.

• Jiang Hai used his Soul Tool Arrays and the Bronze Coffin's power to trade blows with Zhongli Wu, who activated his Martial Soul Avatar and trapped Jiang Hai amid the Death Abyss Sea.
• Jiang Hai unleashed Ten Thousand Thunders Heavenly Prison, destroying the undead and damaging Zhongli Wu as Zhang Hong deployed three Thunder God Halberds against the Bone Dragon King.
• The Bone Dragon King broke through Zhang Hong's lightning net with Wind-Fire Dual Extremes Explosion, and Zheng Zhan shielded Zhang Hong from the blast.
• Jiang Hai summoned the Sun Moon Divine Needle and used the Flame of Civilization to charge it to its full power.
• Jiang Hai fired the Sun Moon Divine Needle at Zhongli Wu as Ye Yulin recognized the weapon's ultimate power.

Zhongli Wu escaped after the Sun God Needle destroyed his Death God Demon Puppet, and the Holy Spirit Cult withdrew without obtaining the blood qi soul core method. Jiang Hai announced an open Civilization Academy and Research Institute, and Ye Yulin and Kong Deming agreed to join as the story ended with Jiang Hai, Chen Yong, and Wu Feng disappearing in golden and silver light.

• Zhongli Wu survived the Sun God Needle with his Death God Substitute, then escaped on the Bone Dragon King after breaking through the soul engineers’ blockade.
• Ye Yulin ended his fight with Xuan Ziwen and Shi Jingcheng and prepared to leave with the Sun Moon Empire group.
• Jiang Hai invited Ye Yulin, Kong Deming, Zhang Hong, Wang Kaiming, and Zheng Zhan to lead research areas at the Civilization Research Institute.
• Jiang Hai announced that Civilization Academy would open in three months to qualified people from across the continent, with research knowledge accessible through a credit system.
• Ye Yulin accepted Jiang Hai’s offer, and Kong Deming also agreed to join the institute.
• Golden and silver light enveloped Jiang Hai, Chen Yong, and Wu Feng, and the three vanished.

Jiang Hai confronted Tang San over his attempt to dictate the Civilization Research Institute’s alliances and refused the rewards and godhood Tang San offered. As the True-Heart Adventure began, Tang San tried to interfere with Jiang Hai’s trial, but the Love God’s lingering will stopped him from breaking the valley’s rules.

• Xuan Ziwen told the others that Jiang Hai was exploring a strange place and invited them to discuss opening the academy.
• After Jiang Hai, Chen Yong, and Wu Feng passed Deep Adventure, Tang San revealed himself and challenged Jiang Hai for refusing to align the Civilization Research Institute with the Three Great Empires.
• Jiang Hai defended his choice to oppose the Star Luo Empire’s corruption and make Civilization Academy’s knowledge available to everyone, and he rejected Tang San’s promised rewards and godhood.
• Tang San gathered the participants in the plaza and began the True-Heart Adventure, sending eighteen beams of golden light to carry them into separate trials.
• Tang San attempted to pursue Jiang Hai, but the Love God’s lingering will confronted him and forbade him from violating the Qiankun Asking Love Valley’s rules.

Jiang Hai relived his father’s death in Dujing City and witnessed the events that led Zhang Lexuan to promise to find him. The Love God’s remaining consciousness revealed itself and asked Jiang Hai to inherit the divine seat as the new Love God.

• Jiang Hai found himself sharing the body of his father as he carried a coffin through Dujing City, reliving the guilt and pain of his father’s final journey.
• Xi Men Tao seized Jiang Hai’s father and used him as a shield against Ye Zerong, Zhang Lexuan, Ling Luochе, and the other Shrek disciples pursuing him.
• Ye Zerong’s Three-Leaf Sword Grass pierced Jiang Hai’s father, and Xi Men Tao’s corpse poison fatally wounded him before the Shrek disciples defeated Xi Men Tao.
• Zhang Lexuan heard Jiang Hai’s father plead for her to find his son in Pinghai and help him become a Soul Master, and she promised to look for him.
• Jiang Hai witnessed visions of Xue Linglong and other people before the Love God’s remaining consciousness identified itself as the spirit of the Qiankun Asking Love Valley.
• The Love God asked Jiang Hai whether he would inherit the divine seat and become the world’s new Love God.

Jiang Hai accepted the Love God’s offer to inherit his divine seat while continuing on the path to becoming the God of Civilization. His first Tear Crystal raised him to level 70, and he returned to the others as Ma Xiaotao displayed a new divine power and Zhu Lu bore grievous injuries.

• Tang San discussed using the trials to influence Jiang Hai and help the Three Great Empires keep pace with the Sun Moon Empire.
• The Love God’s lingering consciousness offered Jiang Hai his divine inheritance, explaining that it would not prevent him from pursuing civilization’s divine seat.
• The Love God condensed Jiang Hai’s first Supreme Emotion Tear Crystal from the power of Qiankun Asking Love Valley.
• Jiang Hai absorbed the Tear Crystal, relived the memory of a boy mourning a man pierced by Sword Grass, and advanced from level 69 to level 70.
• Jiang Hai returned to the great hall, where Ma Xiaotao’s Ultimate Fire had grown stronger and Zhu Lu appeared severely injured as Dai Huabin looked at her with tenderness.

Jiang Hai rejected the gods’ indifference and used a Tear Crystal to give Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao a chance to share their lives, sacrificing his chance to inherit the Love God’s position. Tang San then rewarded Dai Huabin and Xue Linglong for their choices, revealing that Xue Linglong was the Snow Empress.

• Jiang Hai comforted Zhang Lexuan as Tang San revealed Wang Dong'er's sacrifice to save Huo Yuhao and Wang Qiu'er's account of her feelings.
• Jiang Hai told Huo Yuhao to stop begging Tang San, transformed Huo Yuhao's Furnace Heart into a Level 7 Soul Tool, and set the Tear Crystal inside it.
• Jiang Hai offered the Tear Crystal to create a Sharing Life and Death contract between Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao, giving up his chance to inherit the Love God’s position.
• Tang San stopped Huo Yuhao from using the Blade of Life's Watch and gave Dai Huabin the choice to transfer Zhu Lu's injuries to himself or increase their soul power; Dai Huabin chose to take her injuries.
• Tang San rewarded Xue Linglong with Forgetting the Past Life and revealed that she was the Snow Empress, surprising the Shrek group and Wang Qiu'er.

Tang San rewarded the remaining trial participants, then tried to persuade Huo Yuhao to use the Tear Crystal for power instead of reviving Wang Dong'er. He revealed that he was the founding ancestor of the Tang Sect and warned that the Sun Moon Empire could conquer the Douluo Continent unless Huo Yuhao became a god.

• Tang San erased Xue Linglong's memories of her past life, then sent her away after her confusion quickly faded.
• Tang San rewarded Chen Yong and Wu Feng by raising their soul power to level 60 and sending them to find soul rings.
• Tang San urged Huo Yuhao to use the Tear Crystal to gain power, warning that reviving Wang Dong'er would bind their lives, halve their cultivation speed, and bar them from godhood.
• Huo Yuhao defended Jiang Hai after Tang San revealed that Jiang Hai's institute in the Sun Moon Empire had developed powerful soul tools and employed at least ten Level 9 Soul Engineers.
• Tang San identified himself as Tang San, the Tang Sect's founding ancestor, and warned Huo Yuhao that the Three Great Empires would fall unless he became a god.
• Tang San explained that newly ascended gods could act in the mortal world for a hundred years, but said the Qiankun Asking Love Valley's rules governed his opposition to saving Wang Dong'er.

Huo Yuhao accepted Tang San’s conditions for using the Tear Crystal to revive Wang Dong'er, while Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong set out for Sunset Forest so he could seek a seventh soul ring. Their destination was the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Jiang Hai also hoped to find powerful immortal-herb soul beasts.

• Wang Qiu'er offered her life to bring Wang Dong'er back, but Huo Yuhao refused and asked Tang San to grant him a way to save her.
• Tang San agreed that Huo Yuhao could use the Tear Crystal to revive Wang Dong'er, provided the two entered a life-symbiosis contract and shared each other’s fate, abilities, and soul power.
• Jiang Hai told Xue Linglong that returning the Tear Crystal to its rightful owners had not been a question of whether it was worthwhile, then asked why she had turned back in the valley.
• Jiang Hai announced that he had reached level 70 and planned to travel to Sunset Forest to find a suitable seventh soul ring and visit a miraculous place.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong took flight toward Sunset Forest, using their wings and soul power.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong crossed Sunset Forest’s lethal seven-colored miasma and found a valley overrun with jade phosphorus seven-absolute flowers. They stood before the poisonous plants, confident that their ultimate ice could overcome them, while the natural treasure beyond the valley remained their destination.

• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong flew into Sunset Forest to search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, which Jiang Hai believed lay near the forest’s center.
• Jiang Hai used his mirror to guide them toward the thickest poison miasma while Xue Linglong’s ultimate ice and his hellfire protected them.
• As the miasma grew more dangerous, Jiang Hai deployed Azure Luan Guard and Xue Linglong opened her Ice God Cave Heaven to shield themselves.
• The pair reached a valley filled with thousands of jade phosphorus seven-absolute flowers, including at least a thousand that had reached the ten-thousand-year level.
• Xue Linglong noted that no jade phosphorus twelve-absolute flower was present and remained unconcerned, since the flowers’ poison was vulnerable to their ultimate ice.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong crossed the poisonous jade phosphorus seven-absolute flowers and entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where they found a valley filled with immortal herbs and powerful plant Soul Beasts. Jiang Hai weighed five hundred-thousand-year herb Soul Beasts as potential targets and leaned toward the ink jade divine bamboo for his Seventh Soul Ring.

• Xue Linglong used the Ice God Cave Heaven to freeze a path through the poison clouds, and she and Jiang Hai crossed the jade phosphorus seven-absolute flower formation with the Azure Luans shielding them.
• Jiang Hai explained that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was a cultivation treasure trove whose environment nurtured immortal herbs and plant Soul Beasts.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong saw the valley's rare herbs and the divided icy and fiery spring, along with five immortal herbs that had become hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts.
• Jiang Hai ruled out Fragrant Silk Rose, octagonal mysterious ice grass, and infernal delicate apricot because their benefits would add little to his existing abilities.
• Jiang Hai favored the ink jade divine bamboo for its potential to strengthen his body and endurance, while deciding that the earth dragon golden melon was unsuitable for his Seventh Soul Ring.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong confronted the sentient immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to claim the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo’s soul ring and secure a place for Jiang Hai to conduct research. After Xue Linglong and Jiang Hai weakened the valley’s defenders, Jiang Hai attacked the bamboo, whose counterattack left their fight unresolved.

• Jiang Hai told Xue Linglong he had chosen the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo for his seventh soul ring and asked her to handle the other four hundred-thousand-year soul beasts.
• Jiang Hai activated the Sun Moon Divine Needle, drawing out the aromatic silk beauty and other plant-type soul beasts, and demanded the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo’s soul ring and a plot at the well.
• The infernal delicate apricot attacked Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong with scorching spring water, but Xue Linglong blocked it with her Ice God Cave Heaven.
• The spring’s two manifested figures attacked, but Jiang Hai’s Sun God Needle shattered them and drained the valley’s plant-type soul beasts.
• Xue Linglong used her Martial Soul Avatar to freeze the plant-type soul beasts while Jiang Hai charged the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo with the Fate-Reversing Blade.
• Jiang Hai’s strike failed to cut through the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo, which answered with a Bamboo Blade Storm; Jiang Hai summoned a Flame Gate figure and eight ice azure luans to break the flying leaves.

Jiang Hai killed the hundred-thousand-year Ink Jade Divine Bamboo and absorbed its soul ring and torso soul bone, triggering the bamboo’s rebirth as a powerful new immortal herb. After fusing with the seventh soul ring, he reached Level 72 Soul Saint, and the reborn bamboo’s patterns hinted at further growth.

• Jiang Hai used the Fate-Reversing Blade and ultimate fire to defeat the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo, which left behind a blood-red soul ring and a rare torso soul bone.
• Xue Linglong suppressed the figures formed from the Extreme Cold Spring and the Scorching Spring, whose rain nourished the valley’s immortal herbs and spirit grasses.
• Jiang Hai drew the bamboo, its soul bone, and its soul ring into his united Bronze Coffin, awakening an Ink Jade Coffin and restoring the bamboo from its stump.
• The reborn Ink Jade Divine Bamboo rapidly grew into a ten-year soul beast, developed seven colored patterns, and caused the other soul beasts to envy its apparent chance of surviving heavenly tribulation.
• Jiang Hai absorbed the hundred-thousand-year soul ring, raised his soul power to Level 72, and strengthened his vitality, body, and bloodline.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong investigated the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Jiang Hai’s Magnetic Cave Heaven evolved after the ink jade divine bamboo took root inside it. The bamboo and an octagonal mysterious ice grass chose to leave the well with them, hoping to grow stronger in their cave heavens.

• Jiang Hai unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and considered whether a god’s remains lay beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, since refining such a corpse could greatly increase his strength.
• Jiang Hai invited Xue Linglong to explore the well with him, and she agreed that its unusual power and abundance of immortal herbs suggested a god’s influence.
• Jiang Hai activated Magnetic Cave Heaven, and the newborn ink jade divine bamboo entered it, grew rapidly, and stabilized the technique as a Level 9 Soul Guidance Technique.
• Jiang Hai invited the ink jade divine bamboo to accompany him, and it agreed to stay with him.
• The octagonal mysterious ice grass asked to leave with Xue Linglong, who opened Ice God Cave Heaven and let it take root inside.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong descended into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and discovered the enormous remains of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King beneath its divine barriers. After enduring the springs’ extreme power, they returned to the valley with Jiang Hai’s blood and qi greatly strengthened and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass empowered.

• The Aromatic Silk Beauty, Infernal Delicate Apricot, and Earth Dragon Golden Melon asked Jiang Hai to find them humans with cave heavens so they could leave the valley.
• Jiang Hai entered the Scorching Spring while Xue Linglong descended into the Extreme Cold Spring, each protected by their respective cave heaven.
• Jiang Hai continued deeper after putting the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo in the Bronze Coffin, and he and Xue Linglong found the divine barriers and vast skeletons of the Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King.
• Jiang Hai’s Blood Qi Soul Core reached Level 95, while the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass absorbed vitality and ultimate ice energy.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong shot back to the valley and changed into fresh clothes.

Jiang Hai selected three immortal herbs for Zhang Lexuan, Ning Tian, and Sun Yunhai, then left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Xue Linglong and the octagonal mysterious ice grass. As the octagonal mysterious ice grass's hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation began, Xue Linglong prepared to defend it, but it warned them not to interfere.

• Jiang Hai explained that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings had fallen beneath the well and that their blood and divine power had created it.
• Jiang Hai took the narcissus jade muscle bone, aromatic silk beauty, and eight-petal immortal orchid for Zhang Lexuan, Ning Tian, and Sun Yunhai.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong left the well with the octagonal mysterious ice grass, after Fragrant Silk Rose learned Jiang Hai's name.
• Dark thunderclouds gathered as the octagonal mysterious ice grass's heavenly tribulation began.
• Xue Linglong summoned her Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul and drew her Emperor Sword, but the octagonal mysterious ice grass warned that their intervention would draw their own tribulations.

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass began its heavenly tribulation, drawing Du Busi, Vina, and other powerful soul masters to the Sunset Forest. As Du Busi prepared to seize the immortal herb from Xue Linglong and Jiang Hai, Vina intervened to question Xue Linglong.

• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and faced its heavenly tribulation inside the Ice God Cave Heaven.
• Jing Hongchen sensed the hundred-thousand-year soul beast's tribulation from Heaven Dou City but chose not to get involved.
• Du Busi, Long Aotian, and Vina arrived at the Sunset Forest and recognized the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass as a hundred-thousand-year immortal herb.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong arrived and warned Du Busi's party that the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass already had an owner.
• Du Busi threatened Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong, but Vina stopped him and offered to let Xue Linglong keep the herb if she answered her questions.

Vina tried to recruit Jiang Hai into the Heaven Dou Empire, but he refused, so Long Aotian challenged him to a wager for his freedom and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass. Jiang Hai revealed he had become a Soul Saint and disrupted Long Aotian’s unity with heaven and earth, leaving their duel underway.

• Xue Linglong said she would defend Jiang Hai, while Vina questioned her about the Civilization Research Institute’s plans and inferred Jiang Hai’s hidden identity.
• Vina offered Jiang Hai the rank of Imperial Preceptor and imperial support, but he said he was doing well in the Sun Moon Empire and refused.
• Vina declared Jiang Hai an enemy, and Du Busi prepared to attack before Long Aotian stopped him and proposed a wager.
• Jiang Hai accepted Long Aotian’s challenge, agreeing to fight without soul tools or outside power, with the winner deciding Jiang Hai’s fate and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass’s ownership.
• Long Aotian entered Martial Soul Avatar and attacked with a punch strengthened by his unity with heaven and earth, but Jiang Hai’s eight coffins froze the surrounding world and knocked him back.
• Jiang Hai revealed seven soul rings, shocking Vina and Du Busi, while Long Aotian’s surprise turned into renewed fighting spirit.

Jiang Hai defeated Long Aotian, then fought Du Busi with powerful soul tools and martial skills. He left Du Busi badly wounded, with his head split open and bleeding.

• Long Aotian unleashed his self-created soul skill, Heaven and Earth Lose Their Colors, but Jiang Hai stopped it with his eight Bronze Coffins and defeated him.
• Vina healed Long Aotian, while Du Busi set aside the agreement and attacked Jiang Hai.
• Jiang Hai used the Sun Moon Divine Needle, Magnetic Cave Heaven, the Four Symbols Radiance Armor, and the Fate-Reversing Blade against Du Busi.
• Du Busi defended himself with his Martial Soul Avatar and soul skills, drawing the attention of the onlookers and Jing Hongchen.
• An ink jade divine bamboo flew out of Magnetic Cave Heaven and struck Du Busi on the crown, splitting his head and drawing blood.