Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hai and his companions visited Shrek Academy, where Bai Yang challenged the Civilization Research Institute after taking offense at its reputation. Nana accepted the fight and quickly defeated him, leaving the visitors poised to meet Shrek’s other members.

• Jiang Hai, Jing Hongchen, Xue Linglong, Nana, and Ye Guyi entered Shrek City and crossed Sea God Lake to Sea God Island.
• Bai Yang greeted the women, then challenged the group to prove Shrek Academy was superior to the Civilization Research Institute.
• Nana stepped forward and revealed that she was a Soul Douluo, offering to fight Bai Yang without using soul skills.
• Bai Yang attacked with his Gale Demon Wolf soul spirit, but Nana used a soul tool to repel him and disperse the soul spirit.
• Nana rebuked Bai Yang for accusing her of fighting unfairly and said he was no match for even the weakest member of their group.

At Shrek Academy, Nana fought Wu Ming after Bai Yang insulted her, revealing the Civilization Research Institute’s powerful Soul Tools and its Level 9 Ghost Cave Heaven. Jiang Hai reunited with Shrek’s elders and revealed himself as the institute’s director, but left Xuan Zi’s question about the coming war unanswered, instead challenging Shrek’s stance on the continent’s future.

• Bai Yang doubted Nana’s age and strength, and Nana moved to confront him before Jiang Hai urged her to go to the Sea God Pavilion.
• Wu Ming attacked Nana, who countered with her Soul Tools and overwhelmed Wu Ming’s Golden Crow flames using the Ghost Cave Heaven.
• Chu Qingtian rescued Wu Ming from Nana’s pursuit, and Xuan Zi intervened before Nana could continue the fight.
• Xuan Zi disciplined Bai Yang, while Jiang Hai healed Wu Ming and revealed that he was the Civilization Research Institute’s director.
• Jiang Hai apologized for being absent and Xuan Zi explained that he had been presumed dead after vanishing into a spatial rift three years earlier.
• When Xuan Zi asked where the institute would stand in the war, Jiang Hai asked about Shrek Academy’s role and argued that Soul Guidance technology was the continent’s future.

Jing Hongchen revealed the Hongchen Mecha, a Level 10 humanoid soul tool, and challenged Elder Song above Shrek Academy. The mecha overwhelmed her in their sparring match, while Huo Yuhao and the Tang Sect learned firsthand how far the Sun Moon Empire’s soul guidance technology had advanced.

• Jiang Hai argued with Xuan Zi and Jing Hongchen over the Three Great Empires’ backwardness and the Civilization Research Institute’s role in the war.
• Elder Song challenged Jing Hongchen, who summoned the hundred-meter Hongchen Mecha and entered it to fight her.
• Fan Yu recognized the Hongchen Mecha as a completed Level 10 Soul Tool, and Shrek Academy’s experts watched in shock.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Sharing to show the Tang Sect the battle, and he and the others identified the mecha as a Level 10 Soul Tool.
• The Hongchen Mecha trapped Elder Song in a lightning net, struck her with its sword, and descended onto Sea God Island.

Jiang Hai warned Shrek Academy that the Abyss Plane threatened the entire Douluo Continent and urged it to join the war. The Sea God Pavilion agreed to mobilize allies, while Jiang Hai proposed that the Sun Moon Empire and the other nations defend separate fronts with Shrek Academy and the Civilization Research Institute coordinating between them.

• Xuan Zi caught Elder Song after her fight with Jing Hongchen, and Fan Yu criticized the limits of Jing Hongchen’s Hongchen Mecha.
• Jiang Hai asked Shrek Academy’s experts to help resist the Abyss invasion, and Xuan Zi convened a Sea God Pavilion Meeting.
• Jiang Hai recounted his travels and the Abyss threat, prompting the elders to agree that Shrek Academy should join the war and rally allies.
• Zhang Lexuan proposed a pact among the continent’s forces and asked whether Jiang Hai could open a passage into the Abyss, but he said only a god could open one for an army.
• Jiang Hai proposed that the Sun Moon Empire defend the western front while Shrek Academy led the other nations and soul beasts on the eastern front, with both institutions sharing information and resources.
• Xuan Zi assigned Huo Yuhao to invite the Clear Sky Sect, and Jiang Hai said he would seek an alliance with the Far North’s powerful soul beasts.

Jiang Hai returned to Shrek Academy and discussed the growing balance of power between the allied factions, while Zhang Lexuan and the women close to him reflected on their bonds and ambitions. As Jiang Hai reunited with Zhang Lexuan, her Soul Power broke through, and he protected her as moonlight essence transformed her.

• Jiang Hai agreed to deliver equipment for a five-hundred-member Soul Engineer Legion to Shrek Academy in one month, and he left Abyss Creature specimens behind before departing the Sea God Pavilion.
• Zhang Lexuan reproached Jiang Hai for confronting the Holy Spirit Cult alone, then let him take her hand as they walked beside Sea God Lake.
• Ye Guyi, Xue Linglong, and Nana discussed their feelings for Jiang Hai, while Ye Guyi mentioned that Long Ning had reached Soul King level and gone to obtain her fifth Soul Ring.
• Ma Xiaotao absorbed the Divine Fire Golden Pearl and revealed that she had reached Level 95, while Zhang Lexuan had reached Level 96.
• As Jiang Hai and Zhang Lexuan sat together beneath the moonlight, Zhang Lexuan broke through again, and Jiang Hai used his Soul Power and Chess Realm Cave Heaven to protect her cultivation.

After Zhang Lexuan broke through to level 97, Jiang Hai and his companions set out across the East Sea to find a powerful sea soul beast for his eighth soul ring. At the first satellite-marked site, Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong descended to the seabed, where he split the silt with the Fate-Reversing Blade and revealed a golden light.

• Zhang Lexuan broke through to level 97, and Jiang Hai promised to inscribe a Life-Bound Soul Tool Array for her and help her condense a Blood Qi Soul Core.
• The next day, Jiang Hai told Jing Hongchen and the others they would travel by sea toward the Far North to seek a powerful soul beast for his eighth soul ring.
• Jiang Hai, Xue Linglong, Jing Hongchen, Ye Guyi, and Nana reached the first East Sea location marked by the soul tool satellite as a possible home of a powerful being.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong descended through the sea, but Jiang Hai’s Glazed Heart Mirror found no sign of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast above the seabed.
• Jiang Hai continued to the seabed, unleashed the Ninefold Coffin Scroll, and used the Fate-Reversing Blade to split the silt and expose a golden light.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong discovered and mined a vast golden crystal vein beneath the East Sea, including over a thousand kilograms of unusually powerful golden crystal cores. After returning to the Magnetic Cave Heaven, they showed the cores to Jing Hongchen and prepared to investigate another powerful moving energy source near the Far North.

• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong investigated a golden crystal vein exposed by the Fate-Reversing Blade and found more than a thousand kilograms of supreme-grade golden crystal cores.
• The two extracted 1,784 kilograms of golden crystal cores and left the rest of the vein for the Civilization Research Institute to mine later.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong returned to the surface, where Ye Guyi asked whether they had found a hundred-thousand-year sea soul beast.
• Xue Linglong revealed the vein, and Jiang Hai showed Jing Hongchen a core capable of producing a Class 9 Invincible Shield.
• Jiang Hai suggested that the cores might support reusable soul tools, while Jing Hongchen recognized their potential for advancing the Civilization Research Institute.
• Jing Hongchen reported that the Soul Tool Satellite had detected a fast-moving energy source in waters northwest of them, near the Far North.

Jiang Hai and his companions found a colossal Soul Beast in the North Sea, a five-hundred-thousand-to-six-hundred-thousand-year-old fish with Kunpeng blood. They began fighting it at the surface, and Nana struck the crown of its head with her dagger as the battle continued.

• Jing Hongchen explained that the Soul Tool Satellite had detected an enormous, fast-moving Soul Beast in the North Sea, and Jiang Hai ordered the White Sea Eagle to search for it.
• The great fish attacked the White Sea Eagle, and Jiang Hai used his Chess Realm to halt its spatial ripples while the group evaded its tail and shielded themselves from its leap.
• Ye Guyi and Xue Linglong identified the creature as a Soul Beast with Kunpeng blood rather than the divine beast Kun, and Xue Linglong prepared to fight using her Ice God Cave Heaven and Martial Soul Avatar.
• Ye Guyi struck the great Kun with Descent of the Angel God, Xue Linglong held off its tail and wounded it with frigid sword light, and Jing Hongchen drove the Hongchen Mecha's sword into its back.
• Nana stabbed the crown of the great Kun's head with her dagger and triggered her Ghost Martial Soul's Soul Touch, causing the beast to roar madly.

Jiang Hai joined the battle against the Great Kun and killed the Kun King with his Fate-Reversing Blade and a forbidden spell, claiming his soul ring. He began absorbing the ring while Xue Linglong, Ye Guyi, and Nana guarded him.

• The Great Kun blasted Jing Hongchen, Nana, and Xue Linglong away, but they regrouped and attacked; Jing Hongchen pierced the Great Kun's heart with the Hongchen Mecha's Plasma Piercing Ray.
• Ye Guyi weakened the Great Kun with Angel of Death, Nana amplified his pain, and Xue Linglong struck him with Great Cold Without Snow, but he escaped through spatial power.
• Jiang Hai leapt from the White Sea Eagle and nearly cleaved the Great Kun in two with the Fate-Reversing Blade, but the wounded beast transformed and fled into the sea.
• Jiang Hai intercepted the Great Kun, learned that he was the Kun King, and killed him with the forbidden spell A Thousand Threads after the Kun King tried to fight back.
• Jiang Hai suppressed the Golden Seven Absolute Seals, took in the Kun King's corpse, and began absorbing his soul ring as Xue Linglong, Ye Guyi, and Nana guarded him; Jing Hongchen watched from nearby.

Jiang Hai absorbed Kun King's soul ring, rose to Level 83, and gained two powerful soul skills. His martial soul reached its perfect nine-coffin form, leaving him unable to obtain a ninth soul ring or become a Titled Douluo, but he accepted that his strength could still continue growing.

• Jiang Hai completed his absorption of Kun King's soul ring and broke through to Level 83 as his eighth soul ring formed.
• Jiang Hai gained the Heaven Devourer skill, which could restore his vitality and heal injuries, and Transform into Peng, which granted spatial power and extraordinary speed.
• Jiang Hai's martial soul perfected itself as the Ninefold Bronze Coffin, becoming the World-Suppressing Bronze Coffin, but he realized it could hold only eight soul rings.
• Jiang Hai set aside his concern about being unable to reach the Titled Douluo realm and told Xue Linglong that the absorption had gone well.
• Jing Hongchen asked why Jiang Hai had not absorbed Kun King's soul bone, and Jiang Hai explained that his martial soul refined soul beast corpses and soul bones to evolve whenever he absorbed a soul ring.
• Jing Hongchen and Ye Guyi learned that Jiang Hai's martial soul had evolved eight times, and Ye Guyi understood why his strength was so extraordinary.

Jiang Hai told Jing Hongchen that he could now hold his own against a Limit Douluo, while the White Sea Eagle began his first heavenly tribulation. With Jiang Hai’s aid, the eagle survived and transformed into the Sea Eastern Azure God, a powerful divine beast.

• Jiang Hai told Jing Hongchen that his strength could rival a Limit Douluo, and Jing Hongchen reflected on the rise of the younger generation.
• The White Sea Eagle flew into the sky as dark clouds gathered, beginning his first heavenly tribulation.
• The lightning battered the White Sea Eagle, while its power refined his bloodline and gradually transformed him.
• When the White Sea Eagle neared death, Jiang Hai sent out all nine coffins and used Heaven Devouring to pour the thunder’s vitality into him.
• The White Sea Eagle completed his transformation into the Sea Eastern Azure God, tore apart a bolt of lightning, and emerged with divine might that could cow evil spirits.

Jiang Hai and his companions entered the Far North’s Core Circle, where the Titan Snow Demon King challenged them after sensing the Sea Eastern Azure God’s arrival. Jiang Hai fought him in a contest of strength until Xue Linglong revealed herself, and the Titan Snow Demon King knelt before her.

• The Sea Eastern Azure God carried Jiang Hai, Xue Linglong, Ye Guyi, Jing Hongchen, and Nana into the Far North’s Core Circle.
• The Titan Snow Demon King hurled a boulder at the group, and Jiang Hai caught it and threw it back.
• Jiang Hai and the Titan Snow Demon King exchanged blows, with Jiang Hai using his Bronze Coffin and gravity control as the battle intensified.
• Xue Linglong called out to the Titan Snow Demon King and revealed that she was the Snow Empress he remembered.
• The Titan Snow Demon King knelt respectfully before Xue Linglong, and the titan snow demon apes prostrated themselves behind him.

Xue Linglong returned to the Far North, summoned its soul beasts, and told them she would soon seek godhood after cultivating as a human. She announced that half the Far North’s soul beasts would enter the human world to resist an approaching calamity, leaving the assembled beasts uneasy and the Titan Snow Demon King enforcing order.

• Xue Linglong danced before the Titan Snow Demon Apes, then summoned thousands of Far North soul beasts, who gathered and knelt before her.
• The Ice Bear King Xiao Bai approached Xue Linglong, who affectionately rubbed his head; Jiang Hai joked about the Sea Eastern Azure God sharing his name.
• Xue Linglong told the gathered soul beasts she had cultivated anew as a human with a hundred-thousand-year snow lotus to seek a chance of surviving her next tribulation.
• Xue Linglong announced she would return to the human world to strive for godhood and lead half the Far North’s soul beasts there to resist an approaching calamity.
• A hundred-thousand-year soul beast questioned whether entering the human world would expose the Far North’s people to human hunters, and other beasts grew restless.
• The Titan Snow Demon King roared and intimidated the protesting soul beasts into silence.

Xue Linglong secured the Far North’s support for the coming Abyss invasion, named the Titan Snow Demon King its new ruler, and prepared to lead its soul beasts south to fight. After condensing a soul core, she declared that she would go by Xue Linglong rather than the Snow Empress.

• Jiang Hai made a binding contract that promised the Civilization Research Institute would punish anyone who killed a Far North soul beast during the journey.
• Xue Linglong revealed that the Abyss Plane would invade in three months and called on the Far North to defend the Douluo Continent, winning the soul beasts’ support.
• Xue Linglong named the Titan Snow Demon King, whom she called A-Tai, the new ruler of the Far North and condensed a soul core, reaching the Titled Douluo realm.
• Xue Linglong declared that she was now only Xue Linglong and ordered half of the soul beasts over a thousand years old, one-third of the ten-thousand-year soul beasts, and all hundred-thousand-year soul beasts to join her campaign.
• The Titan Snow Demon King accepted responsibility for protecting the Far North, and Xue Linglong told the departing soul beasts to assemble in three days before she led them south.

Xue Linglong revealed that she had developed simulated soul rings that let soul masters advance without hunting soul beasts, then began an Equal Life Contract with Ice Bear King Xiaobai. As their powers began to complement each other, Jing Hongchen considered studying magic contracts too.

• Xue Linglong asked Ice Bear King Xiaobai to leave the Far North with her, and he agreed to stay by her side.
• Xue Linglong displayed her eight soul rings and explained that her illusory eighth ring was a simulated soul ring created with a soul tool.
• Xue Linglong described how she had discovered the soul ring factor, prompting Jing Hongchen and Jiang Hai to recognize the potential of her research.
• Xiaobai learned that simulated soul rings could reduce the conflict between humans and soul beasts, and Xue Linglong clarified that the technology was still preliminary.
• Xue Linglong and Xiaobai began an Equal Life Contract, strengthening Xiaobai’s ice attribute and deepening Xue Linglong’s aura as her soul core brightened.
• Jing Hongchen said he wanted to study magic so he could learn the contract.

During three days of preparation in Jing Hongchen’s Level 8 villa, Jiang Hai and his companions trained and studied soul rings, magic, martial arts, and golden crystal cores. Xue Linglong then mustered the Far North Army and led it south, leaving the Titan Snow Demon King to protect their homeland.

• Jing Hongchen sheltered the group in his villa while Xiaobai returned to arrange the Ice Bear Clan’s departure and the Far North’s defenses.
• Nana studied necromancy, Ye Guyi practiced Longqinus Continent martial arts, Jiang Hai investigated simulated soul rings with Xue Linglong, and Jing Hongchen researched golden crystal cores.
• The Titan Snow Demon King reported that 10,389 soul beasts had assembled, and Xue Linglong organized them into the Far North Army with Xiaobai as commander and the Snow Demon King as deputy.
• Xue Linglong ordered the army south, entrusted the Far North to the Titan Snow Demon King, and rode on Xiaobai’s back at the head of the advancing force.
• The Sea Eastern Azure God flew into the clouds as Jiang Hai and the others prepared to follow the army.

Jiang Hai led the Far North soul beast army south to support the Sun Moon Empire against the coming Abyss invasion, startling Xu Tianran and drawing the attention of the Ice Sea’s Sea Princesses. The army gathered near Dongyang City as both sides prepared for the invasion expected in three months, while the Mermaid Empress decided to speak with the Far North’s leaders.

• Mu Sen sounded the alarm when a huge Far North soul beast army approached Ice Fortress, and Jiang Hai announced that it was marching south to support the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Tianran learned of the army and considered the Civilization Research Institute’s growing strength and its hidden reserves.
• The Mermaid Second Princess, Li Xue, warned that her premonition of a calamity might be connected to the Far North army, so the Mermaid Empress resolved to speak with the Far North’s powerhouses.
• The Far North army approached Dongyang City, where the soul beasts would be stationed on the plains while the Civilization Research Institute and Sun Moon Empire prepared for the Abyss invasion.
• Xu Tianran weighed the risks of trusting Jiang Hai’s warning against the value of the institute’s researchers and the Sun Moon Empire’s military advantage.

Jiang Hai brought the Far North army to Dongyang City, where Ju Zi had arranged a camp and protections for the soul beasts. He agreed to train Ju Zi and meet her son Xu Yunhan as a possible student, then encountered Long Ning waiting at the Civilization Academy.

• Ju Zi welcomed Jiang Hai and the Far North army, outlining the camp, supplies, and rules protecting the soul beasts.
• Jiang Hai introduced Xue Linglong as the reincarnation of the Snow Empress and offered to train Ju Zi for the coming war against the Abyss.
• Ju Zi asked Jiang Hai to teach her three-year-old son Xu Yunhan, and Jiang Hai agreed to meet him the next day.
• Jiang Hai explained that he wanted Xu Yunhan to grow into a capable ruler because the Sun Moon Empire would become a powerful nation.
• Jiang Hai reached the Civilization Academy, where Long Ning greeted him.

Jiang Hai reunited with his friends in Dongyang City, then accepted Xu Yunhan as his founding disciple and named him Ming. He began his first lesson by sending the child into a cloud-covered wilderness, insisting that Xu Yunhan endure hardship himself.

• Jiang Hai reunited with Long Ning and learned how his friends had fared during the war and in their careers.
• Xiao Hongchen thanked Jiang Hai for repairing his foundation, saving his grandfather, and helping him find purpose at the Civilization Research Institute.
• Jiang Hai met Ju Zi’s son Xu Yunhan, accepted him as his disciple, and gave him the courtesy name Ming.
• Jiang Hai led Xu Yunhan out of Dongyang City, gave him a Heavenly Mirror with a body-strengthening breathing method, and told him he would no longer make allowances for him.
• Sun Yunhai gave Xu Yunhan a Cloud Concealment Ring, then summoned clouds to cover the wilderness as Jiang Hai began a hardship trial for his new disciple.

Sun Yunhai used his Cloud Painting Technique to recreate the Abyss so Jiang Hai could teach Ju Zi and Xu Yunhan about its environment, creatures, and dangers. Ju Zi learned that the Abyssal Race could unite under powerful rulers despite internal competition, and that it sought to devour the Douluo Continent to grow stronger.

• Sun Yunhai painted an illusion of the Abyss, and Jiang Hai explained how its lack of life energy and elemental conditions affected soul masters and soul tools.
• Jiang Hai demonstrated how the Abyss strengthened hellfire and described the creatures that lived there, including abominations and higher races.
• Jiang Hai showed Ju Zi and Xu Yunhan an abomination devouring its fallen companion, explaining that Abyss Creatures evolved by consuming corpses and that human and soul beast bodies were especially valuable to them.
• Ju Zi asked how Abyss Creatures could cooperate despite devouring one another, and Jiang Hai explained the Abyss’s hierarchy, eating limits, and the rulers who maintained order.
• Jiang Hai revealed that the Abyss had one hundred and eight layers, waged constant wars, and sought to devour the Douluo Continent for its origin energy.