Chapter Summaries

After the Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Scale Fruit strengthened Zeng Tian but failed to awaken his dragon bloodline, he ate Di Tian’s Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Grass. The grass engulfed him in blood-red flames that the Scarlet King recognized as ultimate fire, leaving Zeng Tian in the midst of a major transformation.

• Zeng Tian ate the Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Scale Fruit, gained nearly three levels, and improved his physical strength and flames, but did not awaken his dragon bloodline.
• Miss Auspicious Beast comforted Zeng Tian, while the Scarlet King concluded that his dragon bloodline was probably exceptionally high quality.
• Zeng Tian noticed the Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Grass and ate it, unleashing a scorching energy that turned his skin blood-red.
• Blood-red flames covered Zeng Tian and incinerated the grass around him, forcing Miss Auspicious Beast and the Scarlet King to retreat.
• The Scarlet King sensed that Zeng Tian’s flames were ultimate fire and predicted that his strength would leap forward, perhaps enough to defeat Miss Auspicious Beast.

Zeng Tian evolved from Charmeleon into Charizard, gaining ultimate fire and greater strength. After the Scarlet King explained the power of ultimate fire, Zeng Tian asked Miss Auspicious Beast to spar, and the Scarlet King led them to a place where they could fight safely.

• Zeng Tian completed his evolution into Charizard as blood-red flames engulfed him.
• Miss Auspicious Beast admired Zeng Tian's new appearance, and the Scarlet King confirmed that his flames had become ultimate fire.
• The Scarlet King explained ultimate fire's power and wondered why Miss Auspicious Beast's bloodline pressure and flames did not affect Zeng Tian.
• Zeng Tian asked Miss Auspicious Beast to spar so he could test his changed strength.
• Di Tian told the Scarlet King to take them away from the Lake of Life, and the Scarlet King led Zeng Tian and Miss Auspicious Beast elsewhere to fight.

After evolving, Zeng Tian tested his newfound speed and fought the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in a desert, where his firepower surprised them both. He discovered that his mutated species granted him Deep Crimson Blaze, a powerful ability that increased his Fire-type moves’ strength.

• Zeng Tian flew faster than before, broke the sound barrier, and caught up with the Scarlet King.
• The Scarlet King led Zeng Tian to a desert battlefield, where the Three-Eyed Golden Lion arrived and challenged him.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion unleashed a golden dragon phantom, and Zeng Tian met it with Flamethrower; their attacks collided with equal force.
• Zeng Tian checked his panel and found that his species was mutated and that he had gained Deep Crimson Blaze.
• Zeng Tian learned that Blaze strengthened his Fire-type moves by 50% normally, while Deep Crimson Blaze increased their power by 200% and added a burn effect.

Zeng Tian discovered that Crimson Blaze had greatly increased his combat power and fought the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, defeating her through speed and tactics. After she burst into tears, he promised to teach her how to use her strength better.

• Zeng Tian wondered whether Ash's Infernape might have had a unique version of Blaze like his Crimson Blaze.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion caught Zeng Tian distracted and struck him into a crater, but he recovered and challenged her to fight seriously.
• Zeng Tian and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion clashed at high speed until his attacks wore her down and she stopped fighting.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion called Zeng Tian shameless, then cried when he explained that he had used tactics instead of facing her head-on.
• Zeng Tian comforted the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and promised to teach her how to use her strength and handle opponents like him.

Zeng Tian defeated the Auspicious Beast in a spar and showed strength comparable to an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast despite having no more than five thousand years of cultivation. Di Tian decided to assess Zeng Tian as a possible successor and planned to nurture him if his character proved suitable.

• Zeng Tian promised the Auspicious Beast he would take her to see the human world someday, then questioned whether keeping her isolated was wise given the dangers of the Douluo Continent.
• The Scarlet King praised Zeng Tian's strength and warned him to be careful around humans, and Zeng Tian agreed before going with the hungry Auspicious Beast to eat.
• The Auspicious Beast asked how Zeng Tian had moved so quickly, and he explained that Flame Charge was one of his special moves.
• At the Lake of Life, the Scarlet King reported Zeng Tian's victory over the Auspicious Beast and said he had likely held back.
• Di Tian concluded that Zeng Tian's abilities and combat skills made him worth evaluating as a successor, and ordered the Scarlet King to watch him closely.

Di Tian asked about the Auspicious Beast and left after hearing she was spending time with Zeng Tian, while the Scarlet King worried about the consequences of Di Tian choosing a successor. In a golden valley, Zeng Tian began training and agreed to teach the Auspicious Beast how to improve her fighting technique.

• Di Tian asked the Scarlet King about the Auspicious Beast, then vanished after learning she had taken Zeng Tian home.
• The Scarlet King worried that Di Tian was preparing to choose a successor and that Xiong Jun and humans might react to the news.
• The Auspicious Beast told Zeng Tian she wanted him to stay with her forever after he explained that his tail flame reflected his life.
• Zeng Tian finished eating a Radiant Tiger and invited the Auspicious Beast to join him for training.
• Zeng Tian pointed out the delays in the Auspicious Beast's Golden Dragon Fist and suggested streamlining it or linking it with other abilities.
• The Auspicious Beast eagerly asked Zeng Tian to teach her how to practice.

Zeng Tian explained two ways for the Auspicious Beast to improve her skills, and she resolved to pursue both while aiming to surpass him. As they trained, Zeng Tian mastered Growl and began combining it with Scary Face, ending as the two effects started to merge into a new attack.

• Zeng Tian told the Auspicious Beast that she could improve by practicing more or by studying how skills worked together, and she chose to do both.
• The Auspicious Beast declared that she would learn Zeng Tian's skills and become stronger than him, then started training Golden Dragon Fist while Zeng Tian practiced Scary Face.
• Zeng Tian spent his remaining training time practicing Scary Face and trying to combine it with Growl, gradually reducing the conflict between the two moves.
• Zeng Tian's Growl reached lv10, and he unleashed a roar that left soul beasts within several miles trembling, with those under ten thousand years collapsing.
• Zeng Tian combined his terrifying expression and Scary Face's Pressure with Dragon's Roar, causing the Pressure to merge into the sound waves and tint them faint purple.

Zeng Tian developed Terrifying Growl by combining Scary Face and Growl, while the Auspicious Beast showed him her new Golden Dragon Flame Fist. After seeing her progress, he agreed to teach her Flame Charge, though he warned it would be difficult.

• Zeng Tian tested his combined move, found that it reduced enemies’ attack power and speed, and named it Terrifying Growl.
• The Auspicious Beast asked about the move, and Zeng Tian explained how he had created it.
• Zeng Tian asked about her Golden Dragon Flame Fist, and she demonstrated it by striking him with a golden, flame-wreathed dragon head.
• Zeng Tian said her punch was at least fifty percent stronger than before, and the Auspicious Beast protested that he had underestimated her.
• The Auspicious Beast reminded Zeng Tian that he had promised to teach her Flame Charge, and he agreed despite warning that it would take time.

Zeng Tian taught the Auspicious Beast how Flame Charge worked and estimated that she could learn it within half a year. After secretly studying his techniques, the Scarlet King overcame his reluctance and asked Zeng Tian to teach him Flame Charge too.

• Zeng Tian demonstrated Flame Charge and explained how fire quality, physical strength, and fine control affected the move.
• Zeng Tian told the Auspicious Beast she could likely learn Flame Charge in half a year, and she eagerly began practicing its energy circulation.
• The Scarlet King secretly listened to Zeng Tian's lessons and realized the techniques could be used by Soul Beasts of different species.
• The Scarlet King decided that learning from Zeng Tian was worth setting aside his pride and hurried to the training grounds.
• The Auspicious Beast challenged the Scarlet King for interrupting her training, and he asked Zeng Tian to teach him Flame Charge.

The Scarlet King asked Zeng Tian to teach him Flame Charge and offered him the Blazing Flame Valley in return. Zeng Tian accepted and arrived at the valley with the Scarlet King and the Auspicious Beast, where he found it filled with blazing fire grass.

• The Scarlet King asked Zeng Tian to teach him Flame Charge and offered the Blazing Flame Valley as payment.
• Zeng Tian accepted the offer, but the Auspicious Beast objected because she feared the Scarlet King would interfere with her plans to spend time with Zeng Tian.
• Zeng Tian reassured the Auspicious Beast that he would teach her a stronger acceleration skill first, and she advised him to demand payment for any future lessons.
• The Scarlet King led Zeng Tian and the Auspicious Beast to the Blazing Flame Valley and ordered two Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Hounds to leave, declaring that the valley belonged to Zeng Tian.
• Zeng Tian saw a scarlet cavern filled with blazing fire grass at the end of the passage.

Zeng Tian cultivated in the Blazing Flame Valley and taught the Scarlet King and the Auspicious Beast Flame Charge. Three months later, the Scarlet King had grasped the skill’s basics and credited Zeng Tian with saving him hundreds of thousands of years of detours, just as an urgent summons called him away.

• Zeng Tian surveyed the Blazing Flame Valley, learned that its oldest Blazing Fire Grass was eighty thousand years old, and agreed that the available herbs could still benefit his cultivation.
• Zeng Tian invited the Scarlet King to join his lessons with the Auspicious Beast instead of secretly eavesdropping, and the Scarlet King eagerly accepted.
• Zeng Tian taught Flame Charge to the Scarlet King and the Auspicious Beast before beginning secluded cultivation with the blazing fire grass.
• Three months later, the Scarlet King grasped the basics of Flame Charge after battling the Auspicious Beast and Zeng Tian above a desert.
• The Scarlet King thanked Zeng Tian for teaching him combat techniques and flame control that greatly increased his strength, then received an urgent summons.

Zeng Tian’s rapid growth left him strong enough to challenge the Scarlet King, while he considered seeking powerful herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to keep advancing. Di Tian summoned the Scarlet King, praised his newly learned Flame Charge, and asked what he thought of Zeng Tian.

• Di Tian summoned the Scarlet King, who left Zeng Tian and the Auspicious Beast to answer the call.
• The Auspicious Beast questioned Zeng Tian about his strength, and he reflected that his Blazing Fire Grass-fueled growth had slowed and considered visiting the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Scarlet King told Di Tian that Zeng Tian had taught him Flame Charge and demonstrated how it greatly increased his speed.
• Di Tian praised the Scarlet King’s new skill and said his growing strength could make him a great general.
• Di Tian asked the Scarlet King what he thought of Zeng Tian after spending several months with him.

Di Tian decided to bring Zeng Tian and the auspicious beast to the next gathering, intending to announce something about Zeng Tian. Meanwhile, Zeng Tian tested his newly learned Fire Blast, forcing the auspicious beast to dodge before the attack smashed into a distant rock wall.

• The Scarlet King told Di Tian that Zeng Tian's strength, creativity, and training had made him a formidable soul beast, while describing his guarded attitude toward humans.
• Di Tian judged Zeng Tian's pride to be understandable and decided his caution toward humans could later be guided.
• Di Tian instructed the Scarlet King to bring Zeng Tian and the auspicious beast to the next gathering so he could make an announcement.
• Zeng Tian practiced Fire Blast, launching a massive flame shaped like 大 at the auspicious beast.
• The auspicious beast dodged with Flame Charge, and Fire Blast struck a towering rock wall hundreds of meters away.

Zeng Tian tested Fire Blast and discussed advanced techniques with the Auspicious Beast before the Scarlet King brought news that Di Tian wanted them to attend the ferocious beasts’ next gathering. The Auspicious Beast explained that the gathering took place every hundred years and would happen in a few months.

• Zeng Tian used Fire Blast, leaving a huge star-shaped scar in the cliff, and told the Auspicious Beast he could not teach her the move yet.
• Zeng Tian urged the Auspicious Beast to focus on mastering Dragon Flame Roar, while she asked about learning Great Sun Dragon Fist and then gave up when she heard how difficult it was.
• The Scarlet King returned and declined Zeng Tian’s invitation to spar, saying he had come to pass on a message from Di Tian.
• The Scarlet King told Zeng Tian and the Auspicious Beast to attend the next gathering, and the Auspicious Beast explained that it was a hundred-year meeting of the ferocious beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Zeng Tian and the Auspicious Beast headed to Di Tian’s gathering as powerful Soul Beasts woke throughout the Star Dou Great Forest, triggering a devastating migration toward its outskirts. Zeng Tian arrived near the Lake of Life, where the Ferocious Beasts’ auras filled the area.

• The Auspicious Beast told Zeng Tian that Di Tian’s gathering would take place in a few months, and Zeng Tian wondered what Di Tian wanted from them.
• A Soul King and a group of young Soul Masters encountered a Soul Beast rampage and fled as the Beast Tide swept through the forest.
• Zeng Tian woke in Blazing Flame Valley to find powerful auras stirring outside, and the Auspicious Beast arrived to take him to the gathering.
• As Zeng Tian and the Auspicious Beast flew toward the Lake of Life, she explained that lesser Soul Beasts were fleeing because powerful beasts had awakened for the gathering.
• Zeng Tian and the Auspicious Beast reached the Lake of Life, where Zeng Tian sensed several Ferocious Beasts and felt confident in his own strength.

Zeng Tian arrived at the Lake of Life for the Ferocious Beasts' gathering, confident in his improved combat strength and newly learned Sunny Day. After meeting the assembled leaders, he faced Xiong Jun's angry objection to his presence as a young Soul Beast.

• Over half a year, Zeng Tian advanced to level 53, strengthened his existing moves, learned powerful attacks, and gained Sunny Day.
• Zeng Tian and the Auspicious Beast reached the Lake of Life, where Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts were gathered.
• Zi JI greeted the Auspicious Beast, who dodged her attempt to pat her head and surprised her with her strength.
• Zeng Tian recognized the red-haired middle-aged man as the Scarlet King and learned that Soul Beasts over two hundred thousand years old could assume human form.
• Xiong Jun struck the table and angrily challenged the Scarlet King for bringing Zeng Tian, whom he considered too young for the gathering.

Xiong Jun challenged Zeng Tian’s presence at Di Tian’s gathering, but Di Tian confirmed he had invited him before the ferocious beasts discussed the soul beasts’ worsening position. Zeng Tian realized that humanity’s expansion and technological growth were making the soul beasts’ eventual defeat increasingly likely.

• Xiong Jun insulted Zeng Tian, but Di Tian stopped their confrontation and said he had invited Zeng Tian.
• The ferocious beasts examined Zeng Tian before Di Tian asked them to report on their territories.
• The Myriad Demon King and Zi JI reported declining soul beast numbers, shrinking habitats, and the loss of the Fire Luan Bird Clan leader.
• Di Tian learned that six hundred-thousand-year soul beasts had been killed in the past century while only five had replaced them.
• Zeng Tian concluded that soul beasts would eventually lose their war of attrition unless a powerful figure could halt humanity’s growth.

Di Tian announced that Zeng Tian would be his successor and begin managing soul beast affairs, shocking the assembled ferocious beasts. He defended his choice by revealing Zeng Tian’s exceptional talent and ferocious-beast-level strength, while Zeng Tian suspected Di Tian intended to prepare him to oppose humanity.

• Di Tian declared Zeng Tian his successor and said he would devote himself to nurturing him and letting him manage soul beast affairs.
• Xiong Jun objected, while Bi Ji and the Myriad Demon King questioned Di Tian’s decision; Zi JI resented that Zeng Tian had been chosen over her.
• The Scarlet King approved of Di Tian’s choice, and Zeng Tian guessed that Di Tian planned to train him to help halt human civilization’s advance.
• Bi Ji asked Di Tian what made Zeng Tian worthy of becoming his successor.
• Di Tian praised Zeng Tian’s cultivation speed and ability to develop Self-Created Skills, then revealed that Zeng Tian had reached ferocious-beast-level strength and could defeat the Scarlet King.

Di Tian confirmed that Zeng Tian could fight on the level of a 300,000-year ferocious beast, prompting Xiong Jun to challenge him to last fifteen minutes. As Zeng Tian and Xiong Jun prepared to fight, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion warned that Xiong Jun might use Sky-Rending Claw, and Xiong Jun angrily insisted he would not need it.

• Di Tian confirmed Zeng Tian’s combat strength, and Scarlet King and the young Auspicious Beast vouched for him.
• Xiong Jun challenged Zeng Tian to last a quarter of an hour, promising to acknowledge him as successor if he succeeded.
• Bi Ji worried that Xiong Jun would overpower Zeng Tian, while Scarlet King encouraged Zeng Tian to accept the challenge.
• Zeng Tian revealed he had grown stronger and agreed to fight Xiong Jun ten li east of the Lake of Life.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion stopped them and warned that Xiong Jun might use Sky-Rending Claw, provoking Xiong Jun to protest.

Di Tian approved a fight between Zeng Tian and Xiong Jun, while the Auspicious Beast worried about Zeng Tian and the other ferocious beasts watched. Zeng Tian opened with a powerful fire attack, but Xiong Jun emerged unharmed and demanded that he use his strongest skill.

• Xiong Jun dismissed the need to use Sky-Rending Claw against Zeng Tian, but Di Tian ended their argument and agreed to oversee the fight.
• Zeng Tian reassured the Auspicious Beast, then sped toward the battleground; Scarlet King overtook Xiong Jun on the way.
• Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts gathered to watch Zeng Tian and Xiong Jun face off across the grassland.
• Bi Ji and Zi JI teased the worried Auspicious Beast about her feelings for Zeng Tian, while Zi JI assessed his abilities.
• Zeng Tian struck Xiong Jun with Flamethrower, but Xiong Jun brushed off the damage and challenged him to use his strongest skill.