Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuena split off an independent, emotionless self named Gu Yue to help rebuild the Soul Beast Clan’s power, but Gu Yue condemned her failures and claimed control of the clan’s remaining forces. Gu Yue left to take charge, while Gu Yuena insisted that she leave the Silver Lake Construction Company alone.

• Gu Yuena used her origin power to create Gu Yue, giving her thirty percent of her strength and the Silver Dragon Spear while keeping her own name and seventy percent of her power.
• Gu Yue accused Gu Yuena of causing Bi Ji, Zi JI, and Demon Spirit’s deaths through her poor judgment and demanded control over the Soul Beast Clan’s remaining forces.
• Gu Yuena threatened to reclaim and destroy Gu Yue, but Gu Yue argued that doing so would damage her soul and declared she would save the Soul Beast Clan and Dragon Clan herself.
• Gu Yue dressed and left to take over Bi Ji and Zi JI’s businesses and forces, while Gu Yuena stopped her from taking the Silver Lake Construction Company.

Yun Ming reincarnated as a Wind Baboon in Leng Yulai’s blood pool and began absorbing its blood and fiendish energy after summoning the Sky-Piercing Long Spear. Meanwhile, the Scarlet King completed the deliveries of Long Yeyue’s two pig incarnations, leaving one in a pigsty and the other in a kennel.

• Yun Ming awoke as a Wind Baboon in the Holy Spirit Cult’s blood pool and summoned the Sky-Piercing Long Spear to resist being devoured.
• The Sky-Piercing Long Spear drew blood and fiendish energy into Yun Ming, prompting Leng Yulai to recognize its aura and order everyone out of the hall.
• Leng Yulai confirmed the spear belonged to Yun Ming and fed Yun Ming top-grade natural treasures as a blood cocoon formed around him.
• The Scarlet King returned to Eastsea City after delivering Long Yeyue’s two pig incarnations to the War God Temple and Shrek Academy.
• Lin Ming asked where the pigs had been left, and the Scarlet King said one was in a pigsty and the other in a kennel.

Lin Ming learned how the Scarlet King had dumped the reincarnated Shrek figures into animal pens, while Long Yeyue awakened as a black pig and discovered she could still use her Martial Soul. After flying back to devastated Shrek, she burst into Tang Hao’s office, where he mistook her for a black pig demon.

• The Scarlet King explained that he had thrown the reincarnated figures into a kennel and a pigpen, and Lin Ming told him to rest.
• Long Yeyue woke in a pigpen as a black sow, drove off the other pigs, and lamented her humiliating reincarnation.
• Long Yeyue activated Martial Soul Possession, grew dragon wings, and flew over the ruins of Shrek City.
• Long Yeyue saw that Shrek had been devastated and flew to the Sea God Pavilion, believing Yun Ming was responsible.
• Tang Hao struggled with Shrek’s reconstruction and its inaccessible funds when Long Yeyue kicked open his office door, startling him.

Tang Hao and Ya Li discovered that Long Yeyue had returned in the body of a black pig, and Long Yeyue explained how her soul had survived death. After Long Yeyue proved her identity with a private secret, Tang Hao considered how her return might help him rebuild Shrek Academy and reclaim the Sea God Pavilion's assets.

• Tang Hao mistook Long Yeyue for a black pig Soul Beast until she revealed her Radiant Sacred Dragon Martial Soul and identified herself.
• Tang Hao searched Yun Ming's memories and recognized Long Yeyue, who explained that her soul had survived in a beast's body after her death.
• Ya Li arrived and questioned how a black pig could possess a Light Sacred Dragon Martial Soul.
• Long Yeyue told Ya Li that she had chosen to keep her memories and be reborn as a beast, then proved her identity by revealing Ya Li's congenital condition.
• Tang Hao believed Long Yeyue was genuine and considered using her return to rebuild Shrek Academy and reclaim her share of the Sea God Pavilion's assets.

Ya Li returned the Sea God Pavilion deputy master token to Long Yeyue, who reclaimed her authority and repeatedly humiliated Tang Hao. Long Yeyue demanded Shrek Academy be rebuilt, and Tang Hao explained that construction had stalled because he lacked access to the pavilion's funds.

• Ya Li offered Long Yeyue her deputy pavilion master token, and Tang Hao objected to Long Yeyue holding the position.
• Long Yeyue kicked and slapped Tang Hao, then asserted her authority over the Sea God Pavilion and Shrek Academy.
• Tang Hao swallowed his anger and argued that Long Yeyue's current form made it hard for others to respect her.
• Long Yeyue demanded to know why Shrek Academy had not been rebuilt, and Tang Hao said he could not access the funds without her approval.
• Long Yeyue agreed that construction could begin after her return, then insulted Tang Hao and blasted his face with a fart.

Di Tian returned to Lin Ming’s villa with Bi Ji and Zi JI’s bodies, and Lin Ming revealed the abuse suffered by the twin sisters he had bought. The sisters were knocked unconscious, while Xiong Jun killed their parents and younger brother in the slums.

• Di Tian returned to Lin Ming’s villa with the bodies of Bi Ji and Zi JI, whose red-gold soul rings remained intact.
• Lin Ming brought out Xia Bingxin and Xia Bingyu and described the years of abuse and neglect they had endured from their parents and younger brother.
• Lin Ming told the twins he had not bought them to save them, and a hidden guard knocked them unconscious before they could respond.
• Xiong Jun confronted the twins’ parents in their slum home, where they begged him to spare them and their son.
• After the three-year-old insulted him, Xiong Jun crushed the parents and child into a bloody mist.

Lin Ming reincarnated Bi Ji and Zi JI into the bodies of Xia Bingxin and Xia Bingyu after they agreed to serve him. He learned they had planned to bid on rebuilding Shrek City and Shrek Academy, leaving him interested in their construction company.

• Lin Ming let Di Tian see Bi Ji's and Zi JI's souls, and Di Tian explained how the Silver Dragon King had caused their deaths through her disastrous human transformation plan.
• Bi Ji and Zi JI agreed to follow Lin Ming and be reincarnated as humans.
• Lin Ming extracted the souls of Xia Bingxin and Xia Bingyu, then reincarnated Bi Ji and Zi JI into their bodies using the Reincarnation Tower.
• Bi Ji and Zi JI awakened with new appearances and pledged to serve Lin Ming, while the Golden Dragon King took their corpses to devour.
• Bi Ji told Lin Ming that she and Zi JI had been on their way to bid on rebuilding Shrek City and Shrek Academy, and Lin Ming asked about their construction company.

Lin Ming learned that Bi Ji controlled Silver Lake Construction Company and ordered her to manipulate its bids so his own company would win the Shrek reconstruction project. He devised a scheme to profit from Shrek and the Silver Dragon King before calling the Scarlet King to awaken Bi Ji's and Zi JI's Martial Souls.

• Bi Ji told Lin Ming that Silver Lake Construction Company was a well-funded competitor in the Shrek reconstruction bid and was secretly backed by Soul Beasts.
• Lin Ming learned that the Silver Dragon King owned the company without knowing about the bid, then ordered Bi Ji to have her agent bid one percentage point above his company.
• Lin Ming planned to win the project, inflate its costs, subcontract it to the Silver Dragon King at a high price, and eventually shift the blame onto her.
• Lin Ming called for the Scarlet King to bring the awakening stones and Soul Power Crystal Ball so he could awaken Bi Ji's and Zi JI's Martial Souls.
• The Scarlet King grinned at Bi Ji and Zi JI, and Bi Ji threatened to slap him.

Bi Ji and Zi JI awakened powerful mutated martial souls, then offered their soul bones to Lin Ming so he could overcome his weak innate talent. Lin Ming agreed to absorb the bones, leaving him poised to gain a major boost in cultivation.

• Bi Ji awakened the Emerald Swan and Jade Life Lotus, while Lin Ming recognized both as powerful, life-oriented martial souls.
• Zi JI awakened the Hell Demon Dragon and Hellfire Lotus, revealing two destructive, power-focused martial souls.
• Lin Ming returned Bi Ji's 590,000-year-old Jade Life Trunk Bone and Zi JI's 410,000-year-old Hell Demon Dragon Wings to them.
• Bi Ji and Zi JI offered their soul bones to Lin Ming, explaining that Bi Ji's healing and guidance could make the absorption safe and help raise his cultivation.
• Lin Ming's eagerness grew, and he decided to absorb the soul bones.

Lin Ming planned to conquer the Douluo Continent and the Abyss, using the Reincarnation Tower to gather souls and build power. He began absorbing Bi Ji’s 590,000-year Trunk Bone, with Zi JI beside him.

• Lin Ming reflected that his Soul Power had reached rank 6 and planned to expand the Reincarnation Tower’s soul-gathering system.
• Lin Ming decided to conquer the Douluo Federation, the Three Great Empires, and the Abyss to unite the world under his rule.
• Lin Ming planned to secure the Federation’s God-Slaying Soul Cannon Shells for the coming Abyss invasion.
• Lin Ming looked forward to gaining the Reincarnation Tower’s second ability and using two Soul Bones to rapidly raise his strength.
• Lin Ming began absorbing Bi Ji’s 590,000-year Trunk Bone while Bi Ji and Zi JI surrounded him.

Lin Ming endured a day-long, agonizing absorption of Bi Ji’s 590,000-year Trunk Bone, which healed and strengthened him with each cycle of destruction and recovery. He then absorbed Zi JI’s 410,000-year Hell Demon Dragon Wings External Soul Bone, emerging taller and stronger with life and destruction energy coexisting in his body.

• Bi Ji warned Lin Ming that absorbing her Soul Bone would cause extreme pain, and Lin Ming agreed to endure it.
• Bi Ji merged her Trunk Bone into Lin Ming, repeatedly healing his shattered body with its vitality as Di Tian watched anxiously.
• After a day and night, Lin Ming stabilized, gained level 10 Soul Power, and found his body and cultivation aptitude greatly improved.
• Zi JI prepared and merged the Hell Demon Dragon Wings External Soul Bone into Lin Ming, removing its dangerous energy and hellfire first.
• Lin Ming completed the second absorption, manifested black demon dragon wings, and discovered that he had grown taller and his chin had become more pointed.

After absorbing Bi Ji and Zi JI’s soul bones, Lin Ming gained powerful life and destruction abilities and tested his spiritual power alongside his subordinates. The group began choosing unyielding soul spirits to cultivate both martial souls, starting with the limited supply of dragon-type spirits.

• Lin Ming learned that Bi Ji’s soul bone granted Life Devouring and Undying Body, while Zi JI’s soul bone granted World-Destroying Black Flame, Black Flame Control, and the Hell Demon Dragon Wings.
• Lin Ming ordered his subordinates to bring more than twenty unyielding soul spirits to the villa so they could choose spirits and obtain soul rings.
• Di Tian tested at five thousand spiritual power, Bi Ji at twelve hundred, Zi JI at one thousand, and Lin Ming at five hundred.
• Lin Ming and the others began selecting soul spirits and found only six dragon-type spirits for the group’s dragon martial souls.
• Lin Ming planned for everyone to cultivate both martial souls at once, using the Spirit Ascension Platform to strengthen their soul spirits.

Lin Ming and the others chose Soul Spirits and began absorbing them, but Lin Ming discovered he could not condense a Soul Ring on the Golden Dragon King. The Golden-Scaled Dragon instead awakened Lin Ming’s Golden Dragon Body Martial Soul, leaving the Golden Dragon King drained of his newly acquired blood essence.

• Lin Ming chose a hundred-year Golden-Scaled Dragon Soul Spirit, Di Tian chose a Hell Demon Dragon and an Emerald Swan, and Zi JI chose a Black-Scaled Dragon.
• Bi Ji kept an Emerald Swan for her Emerald Swan Martial Soul and chose a Titan Giant Ape to test whether her Jade Life Lotus could gain an offensive skill.
• Lin Ming absorbed the Golden-Scaled Dragon Soul Spirit and summoned the Golden Dragon King to help him condense a Soul Ring.
• Lin Ming could not condense a Soul Ring on the Golden Dragon King, but the Golden-Scaled Dragon Soul Spirit then surrounded his torso and formed a yellow Soul Ring.
• Golden patterns and scales appeared across Lin Ming’s body as the Golden Dragon King’s origin blood essence flowed into him.
• Lin Ming realized he had awakened a Golden Dragon Body Martial Soul, while the Golden Dragon King complained that his blood essence had dropped back to twelve percent.

Lin Ming absorbed a second soul spirit, reached rank 32, and discovered that his first soul skill gave him powerful full-body dragon armor. He began testing his new strength in the training chamber.

• Lin Ming's first soul spirit produced two soul rings and raised his soul power to rank 30.
• Lin Ming chose the Golden Hawksbill Turtle from three thousand-year unyielding soul spirits and successfully fused with it, reaching rank 32.
• The Golden Dragon King secretly absorbed some of Bi Ji and Zi JI's remaining essence and soul power.
• Lin Ming activated Gilded-Scale Dragon Armor, gaining full-body scales, dragon claws, increased strength and defense, and a vibrating force that bent an alloy testing post with a punch.

After reaching Soul Elder, Lin Ming tested his Golden Dragon Body’s powerful Soul Skills and discovered that two more floors of the Reincarnation Tower had unlocked. The new floors let him summon historical souls and reshape souls and Martial Souls, leaving him eager to exploit their potential.

• Lin Ming tested Ten Thousand Blades of Imperial Scales and found he could control six hundred Dragon Scales as versatile weapons and defenses.
• Lin Ming examined Golden Dragon Tyrant Body and found it granted five seconds of immunity to attacks, mental control, binding, and stunning.
• Lin Ming entered the Reincarnation Tower and discovered that the second and third floors had unlocked at Soul Elder level.
• Lin Ming learned that the Hungry Ghost Path’s Soul-Summoning Platform could summon a deceased person’s soul from up to ten thousand years ago using an identifying object and energy crystals.
• Lin Ming learned that the Soul-Shaping Path could modify souls and extract or replace Martial Souls, and he considered turning Martial Souls into Soul Spirits.

Lin Ming considered the Reincarnation Tower’s power to reshape souls and build an army, then set out for Shrek City to ruin Shrek’s finances and reclaim his identity. His train journey began peacefully, but an incident struck halfway through the trip.

• Lin Ming realized the Reincarnation Tower could modify living people’s martial souls and help souls grow stronger across its floors.
• Lin Ming decided to focus on Shrek’s upcoming public bidding and planned to leave Shrek unable to recover after taking its money.
• Lin Ming prepared to reveal his true identity after years of disguising himself and deceiving his eldest uncle and the world.
• Lin Ming brought Bi Ji and a group of business staff aboard the Soul Guidance Train in Eastsea City, while keeping Xiong Jun nearby for protection.
• Halfway to Shrek City, something suddenly happened aboard the Soul Guidance Train.

Lin Ming survived a bombing targeting the construction companies traveling to bid on Shrek Academy and concluded that the attacks were part of a calculated scheme. He ordered an investigation, then drew a wisp of Long Yeyue’s consciousness into the Reincarnation Tower to play along with the mastermind’s tactics.

• A bombing destroyed the carriages around Lin Ming, but he protected Bi Ji and survived with minor injuries.
• Lin Ming learned that construction companies in several cities had also been bombed, and suspected the mastermind was among the bidders.
• Lin Ming reasoned that the attacks were designed to keep companies from reaching the Shrek Academy bidding and might serve a larger scheme.
• Lin Ming ordered an investigation into every company that could still reach Shrek City in time, then fell asleep in a tent.
• Lin Ming entered the Reincarnation Tower and summoned a wisp of Long Yeyue’s consciousness from her dreams.
• Long Yeyue awoke in Lin Ming’s Netherworld space and asked if he was the Lord of the Netherworld.

Lin Ming used a fabricated Netherworld warning to delay Shrek City's bidding for three days and keep outsiders away. After learning the Douluo Federation had orchestrated the bombings, he sent Bi Ji to Shrek and traveled to Heaven Dou City to meet Xu Hui.

• Lin Ming told Long Yeyue that wandering ghosts needed three days to enter the Netherworld and warned Shrek to keep outsiders out.
• Long Yeyue ordered Tang Hao to postpone the bidding, and Shrek announced the three-day delay to the bidders.
• Lin Ming's shadows identified the Douluo Federation as the force behind the attacks on the construction companies.
• Lin Ming arranged recovery and compensation for the train victims, sent Bi Ji to Shrek, and traveled toward Heaven Dou City with Xiong Jun following secretly.
• Lin Ming arrived in Heaven Dou City and went directly to the Xu Family residence to meet Mayor Xu Hui.

Lin Ming visited the Xu Family with Xiong Jun and challenged its elders over how the former rulers of the Sun Moon Continent had lost their power. He offered to find them a capable leader to overthrow the Federation, and the Xu Family’s highest authority heard him out.

• Xiong Jun’s demigod aura kept the Xu Family members from stopping Lin Ming, and Xu Hui led the pair inside after Lin Ming said he had a deal that could affect the entire Douluo Continent.
• Xu Hui explained that the Xu Family’s elderly patriarch held the real authority and had sent for him.
• Lin Ming taunted the patriarch about the Xu Family’s decline and asked whether he wanted to restore the Sun Moon Empire.
• The patriarch admitted that the Xu Family wanted to reclaim power but lacked the ability and courage.
• The patriarch said the Xu Family had eight hundred members, and Lin Ming asked whether they would accept a capable, bold leader to help overthrow the Federation.

Lin Ming persuaded the Xu Family to gamble on his plan to oppose the Douluo Federation, demanding their most gifted Soul Master, heavenly treasures, and an heirloom linked to Xu Tianran. The Xu patriarch accepted the risk, leaving Lin Ming alone with Xu Tianjiao and Xiong Jun as Xu Hui waited outside.

• Lin Ming revealed that the Douluo Federation had caused the Soul Guidance Train explosion and said he intended to use the Xu Family against it.
• Lin Ming urged the Xu patriarch and Xu Hui to restore their nation and end the Federation's rule, and the patriarch ordered Xu Hui to bring Xu Tianjiao.
• Xu Hui brought his eighteen-year-old great-nephew, the Xu Family's greatest young genius, whose Purple Brilliant Dragon Martial Soul made him a suitable candidate for Lin Ming's plan.
• Lin Ming requested heavenly treasures and Xu Tianran's belongings, and Xu Hui brought a trove of treasures and Xu Tianran's preserved wheelchair Soul Tool.
• The Xu patriarch told Xu Hui to wait, reasoning that Lin Ming's power and domineering confidence made the gamble worth the risk of losing their possessions or lives.