Chapter Summaries

Minghui and Wang Qiu'er joined forces in a powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill and defeated the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, securing Soul Spirit Hall a place in the finals. Afterward, Xu Jiujiu reported that Mingdu's gates were heavily guarded, leaving the group to consider escaping through the West Gate.

• Jiang Nannan, Xiao Xiao, and their teammates defended against the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's coordinated artillery with layers of Soul Tool shields until both teams were drained.
• Minghui and Wang Qiu'er revealed their golden-armored Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Minghui froze and shattered Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen's Red Dust Yearning attack.
• Wang Qiu'er controlled the golden dragon through the enemy's attacks and destroyed the giant toad, defeating the Xiao Hongchen siblings and winning the match for Soul Spirit Hall.
• Xu Tianran ordered Zhongli Wu to investigate Minghui, while the host announced that the final would take place in one day at Mingdu Central Plaza.
• Xu Jiujiu told Minghui that three of Mingdu's gates were guarded by Level 9 Soul Engineers and Fixed Soul Tools, so the group concluded that they would have to flee west.

Minghui prepared to infiltrate Mingde Hall while his split body Arthas attended the Soul Engineer Tournament finals, where the Xishui Alliance offered a powerful Level 9 weapon as a prize. The finals began with the contestants gathered and the championship reward revealed, leaving Arthas to weigh the Sun Moon Divine Needle’s strengths and limitations.

• Minghui arranged the secret operation with Huo Yuhao and his teammates, then copied Arthas’s recent memories before waiting for the right moment to act.
• Arthas traveled with Xuechen, Ju Zi, and Keke to the Qingse Hotel, where Nangong Wan announced the finals and revealed a Level 9 Fixed Soul Tool shell as an additional prize.
• Chen An explained the tournament format, and Nangong Wan led the group to the competition venue, where thousands of spectators and contestants had gathered.
• The leaders of the three merchant associations announced lavish rewards, while Ju Zi warned Arthas that Shangguan Wei'er and the Ordinary Alliance’s women were dangerous.
• Ye Yulin introduced the Sun Moon Divine Needle as the championship prize, and Third Elder explained its charging, usage, and targeting limitations.

Arthas unveiled a humanoid Soul Tool during the merchant associations’ competition, passed the technique assessment, and defeated Zhao Shouze in the first elimination match. Meanwhile, Minghui used the absence of the Level 9 Soul Engineers to sneak toward Mingde Hall as the Sun Moon Empire began its operation.

• Nangong Wan and Shangguan Wei'er exchanged barbed remarks before the competition, while Arthas considered recruiting Ye Guyi into the Soul Spirit Hall.
• Arthas assembled a humanoid Soul Tool, impressing the judges and contestants, then completed the demanding technique assessment as only four of the nine contestants passed.
• Feng Ling rejected the idea of controlling Arthas with a Secret Art, insisting that the Holy Spirit Cult should focus on recruiting him without destroying his creativity.
• Minghui detected that the Level 9 Soul Engineers had left the residential area, activated his Simulation Soul Skill, and headed toward Mingde Hall.
• Arthas wore his humanoid Soul Tool and used its thrusters to fly at Zhao Shouze, striking him with a close-range blast that knocked him unconscious and won the match.

Arthas volunteered to fight Ye Guyi as a crisis erupted in Mingdu: Long Xiaoyao confronted Mu En, and Xuan Zi led the tournament contestants in a breakout. While the Sun Moon Empire’s forces battled the rescuing experts, Minghui infiltrated Mingde Hall’s underground warehouse and began stealing its Soul Tool reserves; the chapter left the city in chaos as Du Busi fought Ye Xishui.

• After Ye Guyi killed Huang Zheng and provoked the Ordinary Alliance, Arthas offered to fight her, and Feng Ling promised rewards if he did.
• Long Xiaoyao confronted Xuan Zi at Mingyue Hotel, but Mu En appeared and challenged Long Xiaoyao to their unfinished battle.
• Kong Deming engaged Xuan Zi while Xu Jiujiu and the contestants fled west, with Sun Moon Empire forces pursuing them.
• Minghui killed Li Chong, stole his identity, and persuaded Xu Guozhong to leave the underground warehouse before looting its Soul Tool reserves.
• Mu En’s warning brought Du Busi and other experts to Mingdu, where they fought the Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult forces as the breakout continued.
• Du Busi battled Ye Xishui and used the Light of Life in his Soul Power to restrain her.

Arthas defeated Ye Guyi in the tournament final and sent her through his Gate of the Undead, then claimed the power came from his mutated Martial Soul. As conflict engulfed Mingdu, Nangong Wan became eager to recruit Arthas, while Shadow Douluo escorted him and Ju Zi toward the South Gate.

• Feng Ling and Ye Yulin sensed a battle in Mingdu and left the tournament venue to reinforce the fighting, while Arthas and Ye Guyi advanced to the final.
• Delayed Soul Guidance bombs exploded near the Imperial Palace, and Jing Hongchen joined the battle at the West Gate as Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo harassed the East Gate defenders.
• Arthas warned Ye Guyi that the Xishui Alliance included Evil Titled Douluo and offered to save her before the final began.
• Arthas defeated Ye Guyi and used the Gate of the Underworld to send her into the Undead Plane, then explained that his mutated Martial Soul could open the gate.
• Nangong Wan awarded Arthas his prizes and grew eager to recruit him, while Arthas left with Shadow Douluo and Ju Zi toward the South Gate.

As fighting in Mingdu ended, Mu En and Du Busi escaped to West Mountain, where the Sun Moon Empire prepared to contain them. Meanwhile, Minghui exploited the city’s weakened defenses to loot Mingde Hall and then entered the dungeon to rescue the captured tournament contestants.

• Arthas followed the academy students toward the south gate as the battle shook Mingdu, while the Shadow Douluo flew toward the fighting.
• Mu En used his Light power to help his side retreat and drive back Long Xiaoyao, then joined Du Busi as Ye Xishui and the Sun Moon Empire forces pursued them.
• Kong Deming ordered troops to surround West Mountain, while Xu Tianran assigned the cleanup and planned to blame Shrek Academy and the Body Sect for the attack.
• Minghui sent the warehouse guards away, moved goods with the Undead, and secretly looted Mingde Hall’s laboratories, including the Project Zero Machine.
• Minghui disguised himself as Shadow Douluo Xuechen and entered the dungeon, where he found Yu Tianlong being whipped and Nan Qiuqiu huddled with her injured mother, Nan Shuishui.

Minghui rescued the 188 captives from the dungeon and used a decoy to conceal their escape while he headed toward West Mountain. The Sun Moon Empire discovered that Mingde Hall’s underground warehouse had been emptied, and its leaders debated whether to control Arthas and exploit his ability to summon the Undead.

• Minghui healed and freed the captives, then sent them through the Gate of the Undead with Nan Shuishui leading them.
• Minghui disguised himself as the Shadow Douluo, escaped the prison, and later assumed a logistics officer’s appearance to leave Mingdu with a group bound for West Mountain.
• The emperor learned that the captives had vanished and that all the Soul Tools and laboratory equipment in Mingde Hall’s underground warehouse had been stolen, then fainted from rage.
• Kong Deming, Zhongli Wu, Jing Hongchen, and Xu Tianran discussed the theft and whether Arthas could provide the Empire with an Undead Army, while deciding not to control him for now.
• Xu Tianran sent the Shadow Douluo to fetch Arthas and ordered searches for the missing captives; Minghui arrived at West Mountain with his group.

Minghui joined Du Busi and the others in the fog-bound hidden land, where a golden-silver phenomenon separated them and drew them into a divine trial. At the Valley of Asking Love, Xu Jiujiu confessed her feelings for Minghui, and Ning Rongrong began testing whether she would still choose him despite the costs.

• Minghui fell into the valley and found Du Busi, Huo Yuhao, Xu Sanshi, and the others trapped in the fog.
• Minghui explained that he had rescued the captured contestants and emptied Mingde Hall's underground warehouse, easing the group’s fears about the war outside.
• A golden-silver radiance pulled the group apart, and Minghui persuaded Mu En and Du Busi to let the phenomenon take them, believing it was a trial.
• Minghui reached the Valley of Asking Love, where Xu Jiujiu admitted she had feelings for him and the trial selected him to answer questions about her.
• Minghui said he would consider a relationship with Xu Jiujiu only with her consent, and she continued to admire his responsible attitude.
• Ning Rongrong warned Xu Jiujiu that marrying Minghui could cost her her status and soul-master qualification, then asked whether she was still willing.

Ning Rongrong’s trial forced Minghui and the women who loved him to choose between one another’s lives, but they each offered to die rather than betray their feelings. Ning Rongrong spared them and declared that they had passed the first round, then the trial’s light shifted toward someone else.

• Xu Jiujiu and Zhang Lexuan said they accepted Minghui’s feelings for other women, while Wang Qiu'er admitted that she loved him.
• Minghui accepted Wang Qiu'er's love, and Zhang Lexuan said she had already approved of their relationship.
• Ning Rongrong presented Minghui with a deadly choice, and he chose Zhang Lexuan and Wang Qiu'er while offering his own life.
• Wang Qiu'er, Zhang Lexuan, and Xu Jiujiu each offered to die in Minghui’s place, and all four picked up daggers to kill themselves.
• Ning Rongrong dispelled the daggers before they could kill anyone, and the voice declared that the four had passed the first round.
• Golden bubbles carried the four back to the ground as the pillar of light turned toward another direction.

Minghui and the others faced Ning Rongrong’s trials, but the women who loved Minghui chose dangerous Deep Adventures rather than compete for him. Minghui’s mission sent him to assassinate Arthas, and after reaching the Undead Plane he revealed Arthas was his clone and warned that a powerful outsider intended to eliminate him.

• Ning Tian explained that she loved Minghui partly for his strength and the security he could offer her sect, while Minghui promised to support her and her family as an ally.
• Ning Rongrong’s first trial ended with Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er passing; then the Wheel chose Minghui for a tongue-kissing adventure with Ning Tian, but both refused and chose Deep Adventure.
• The women competing for Minghui all forfeited rather than fight, so Tang San took over and assigned Deep Adventures, including a mission for Minghui to assassinate Arthas in Mingdu.
• Minghui arrived in western Mingdu, concealed himself, and used the Gate of the Undead to return to his group in the Undead Plane.
• Minghui told Nan Qiuqiu, Nan Shuishui, and Ye Guyi that Arthas was a clone he had made from a dead Evil Soul Master and used to infiltrate the Sun Moon Empire.
• Minghui warned the group that a powerful outsider wanted to cause trouble and that Arthas probably could not be kept alive, though Minghui could not yet fight the enemy.

Minghui explained the West Mountain assessment to his companions, then arranged to leave the Sun Moon Empire with Ju Zi after revealing that Arthas was his clone. He reclaimed Arthas’s soul and power to complete the assassination assessment, but a shout of “Catch them!” rang out as he reached West Street.

• Minghui told Nan Shuishui, Ye Guyi, and the others about the god’s assessment, and they refused to risk taking it themselves.
• Minghui gave Nan Shuishui a booklet about his plans for the Undead World and gave Ye Guyi a separate booklet while inviting her to join the Soul Spirit Hall.
• At Mingde Hall, Arthas discussed storing Soul Power in apertures with Jing Hongchen, Kong Deming, and Ye Xishui, then received a message from Minghui.
• Arthas invited Ju Zi to leave with him, and Minghui revealed that Arthas was his clone and explained his infiltration of the Sun Moon Empire.
• Ju Zi agreed to join Minghui and promised to seek revenge only on Dai Hao, then entered the Gate of the Undead.
• Minghui reclaimed Arthas’s soul and power, left the corpse behind to make the assassination look convincing, and completed the assessment before someone shouted, “Catch them!”

Minghui helped Beibei and Xu Sanshi escape a pursuit in Mingdu, then unleashed an Undead Army to break through the Sun Moon Empire's encirclement. Tang San drew the three into the Valley of Asking Love, while back at the academy Xiao Hongchen discovered that Arthas's body might not be dead after all.

• Minghui guided Beibei and Xu Sanshi through the city, but Ye Yulin detected them with a Level 9 Soul Tool and the city gates were sealed.
• Minghui revealed Arthas's sickle-shaped Soul Tool, opened numerous Gates of the Undead, and rode a Bone Dragon toward the Western Suburbs with Beibei and Xu Sanshi.
• Ye Xishui and Kong Deming fought to control the Undead while Jing Hongchen reported Arthas's death and Ju Zi's disappearance; Long Xiaoyao and other Titled Douluo pursued Minghui.
• At West Mountain, Tang San used the Valley of Asking Love to repel Long Xiaoyao and draw Minghui, Beibei, and Xu Sanshi into the valley.
• Jing Hongchen returned to the academy with Kong Deming and Ye Xishui, while Xiao Hongchen pulled the dagger from Arthas's chest and saw green light rise from the wound as the flesh began to move.

Arthas began healing after Minghui’s assassination attempt, while Xu Tianran ordered Minghui and his Soul Tool destroyed and considered recruiting Arthas. In the Valley of Asking Love, Minghui fought Tang San’s avatar and pierced its chest, but Tang San restored it and raised its power.

• Arthas’s chest wound healed on its own, and Jing Hongchen stayed behind to watch over him while Kong Deming informed Xu Tianran of the situation.
• Xu Tianran suspected Ju Zi might be a traitor, ordered Minghui and his Soul Tool destroyed, and resolved to recruit Arthas if he survived.
• Minghui returned to the Valley of Asking Love, where Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen joined the group and the final True Heart Adventure began.
• Tang San’s avatar attacked Minghui, but Minghui used Destruction Divine Power and adapted techniques from the Golden Thirteen Halberds to strike back.
• Tang San’s avatar released an area attack while Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Wang Qiu’er were ordered to fight over Minghui at Ice Snow Lone Peak.
• Minghui pierced Tang San’s avatar through the chest with his weapon, but Tang San restored it with another Divine Sense strand and increased its power.

Minghui chose to endure Tang San’s overwhelming attack, using Life Divine Power to break and rebuild his body rather than kneel. As the four women fought over who would survive to support him, Wang Qiu'er withdrew from their contest while Minghui’s aura rose toward a frightening breakthrough.

• Minghui strengthened his body with his skills and charged Tang San’s avatar, but Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer shattered his blade and crushed him beneath its weight.
• Minghui refused to kneel despite his bones breaking and his body splitting open, while Life Divine Power continuously healed him.
• Zhang Lexuan urged the four women to fight so one could survive and carry the others’ wills; they attacked one another as Flame God protested and Destruction God told her to watch Minghui.
• Tang San increased the hammer’s pressure and showed Minghui the women’s battle, while Minghui activated Necromancy and entered a state of profound clarity as his aura surged.
• Wang Qiu'er stopped fighting, declared that she was withdrawing from the contest, and began to cry.

Minghui unleashed a devastating Space-Time Ray that pierced Tang San’s divine avatar and exposed the danger of his stored power being forced out early. After the trial ended, the God of Destruction confronted Tang San and challenged him to fight beyond the heavens.

• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen gave up the trial, and Tang San’s words jolted Minghui out of his immersed consciousness.
• Minghui’s Eye of Life fired a white ray that pierced Tang San’s avatar and shattered space, alarming the gods in the God Realm.
• Flame God suspected the attack had consumed some of Minghui’s accumulated power, and the God of Destruction left to confront Tang San as the Goddess of Life and Ji Dong followed.
• Ning Rongrong ended the trial, and the nine-colored light healed the contestants while Minghui recovered and resolved to settle the score with Tang San and Ning Rongrong.
• Tang San dismissed the gathered gods’ questions about the Space-Time Ray as a divine-skill test, but the God of Destruction challenged him to fight beyond the heavens.

The God of Destruction confronted Tang San over his treatment of Minghui and challenged him to fight, while Ning Rongrong’s group discovered the results of their assessments and Wang Dong’er’s mysterious condition. The chapter left Tang San and Destruction heading to battle as Huo Yuhao prepared to take Wang Dong’er to the Clear Sky Sect.

• The God of Destruction accused Tang San of mistreating Minghui and proposed that he be punished, then challenged him to a fight with ten years in the Forbidden God Zone as the proposed penalty if Tang San lost.
• Tang San accepted the challenge, and the watching deities followed them toward the God Realm Barrier; Ning Rongrong and Oscar also hurried to join the others.
• Ning Tian discovered that her Martial Soul had evolved into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, while the others found Minghui badly injured and Huo Yuhao carrying Wang Dong’er.
• Du Busi and Mu En examined Wang Dong’er but could not explain why her consciousness was closed, so Huo Yuhao decided to take her to the Clear Sky Sect with Du Busi.
• Du Busi learned that Huo Yuhao and Minghui had faced especially cruel assessments, and Huo Yuhao reported that his physical strength, Spiritual Power, and Body Martial Soul had improved after the Nine-Colored Light Pillar appeared.

Du Busi and Ning Tian discussed how Minghui’s baptism strengthened foundations and raised Ning Tian’s martial soul. Beyond the God Realm Barrier, Destruction God defeated Tang San in a clash over Tang San’s treatment of Minghui, and the gods left for the God Realm Assembly while Tang San remained weakened and humiliated.

• Du Busi explained that the baptism had strengthened the body and foundation, and Ning Tian said it had promoted her martial soul to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Destruction God had Xiao Wu complete Tang San’s Asura Godhood, then challenged him beyond the God Realm Barrier.
• Destruction God overwhelmed Tang San’s attacks and criticized his cultivation before Tang San launched a blood-sword assault that Destruction God countered.
• Destruction God accused Tang San of harming Minghui and threatening his loved ones during the test, while Ning Rongrong and Oscar tried to defend Tang San’s actions.
• Tang San admitted his methods had been extreme but defended them as a trial for Minghui, then conceded when Destruction God refused to stop fighting.
• Destruction God withdrew and departed for the God Realm Assembly with the other gods, while Tang San dispelled the fusion and suffered exhaustion and worsened hidden injuries.

Tang San and Ning Rongrong faced punishment after the gods reviewed their interference in the lower realm, while Minghui recovered and left the Valley of Asking Love to pursue a new Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Arthas revived at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and explained the limits of his ability as Kong Deming asked how it could be strengthened.

• Ji Dong presented the trial footage, and the gods condemned Tang San and Ning Rongrong for manipulating the trials and interfering with the lower realm.
• The gods supported God of Destruction's proposal to punish Tang San, who accepted confinement in the Forbidden God Zone after warning that a future crisis awaited the God Realm; Ning Rongrong was confined at home for one year.
• God of Destruction told Minghui that Tang San and Ning Rongrong would be unable to interfere for a long time, that the inheritance trials would be removed, and that Tang Wutong would soon awaken after Tang San's Divine Sense was erased.
• Minghui reassured Huo Yuhao that Wang Dong'er would recover, then left the Valley of Asking Love with his companions and flew with Du Busi toward the Evil Eye Forest to obtain his Seventh Soul Ring.
• Minghui used Necromancy to revive Arthas, who told Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming that his resurrection had drained his life energy and left him unable to use his summoning talent for now.
• Kong Deming asked Arthas whether there was a way to strengthen his ability quickly.

Arthas explained his Undead World contract to Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Empire, while Minghui captured a hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant and turned it into a Soul Spirit. After returning to Soul Spirit Hall, Minghui welcomed Ju Zi and arranged for her to help manage the hall and attend an upcoming meeting.

• Arthas told Kong Deming and Xiao Hongchen that his Undead talent came from a contract with Electrolux, and Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen reported the matter to Xu Tianran, who ordered the empire to support Arthas and keep the secrets from the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Minghui and Du Busi found and defeated a hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant in Evil Eye Forest, then escaped the pursuit of its eight-hundred-thousand-year father, the Evil Emperor.
• Minghui persuaded the captured Evil Eye Tyrant to become his Soul Spirit, gaining his seventh Body Martial Soul Soul Ring and advancing to Rank 79; he then proposed that they beat the Evil Emperor into submission.
• Minghui returned to Soul Spirit Hall, scheduled a meeting with the major factions, and discussed Ju Zi's future with Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Wang Qiu'er.
• Minghui told Ju Zi she could make Soul Spirit Hall her home, offered to help heal her and advance her Martial Soul, and asked her to support him at the meeting; afterward, he went to consolidate his cultivation.

Minghui secured agreement to trial the Soul Spirit System and began condensing his first Soul Core, while the God of Destruction uncovered Tang San’s plot to seize the Douluo Plane. The God of Destruction planned to remove Tang San’s Divine Sense, but Minghui held off on examining Wang Dong’er, leaving Tang San’s hidden presence undisturbed.

• Minghui proposed a Council overseeing the Soul Spirit System, gained the factions’ approval for a trial at Shrek City, and assigned Ju Zi to negotiate the Council seats.
• Minghui entered seclusion and successfully condensed his first Soul Core as the Goddess of Life’s divination revealed a crimson Ancient Tree of Life.
• The God of Destruction and his allies linked the coming crisis to a possible Space-Time Storm, discovered Tang San was directing faith toward the Golden Ancient Tree to seize the Douluo Plane, and decided to wait before confronting him.
• The God of Destruction warned Minghui that he would soon clear Tang San’s Divine Sense from the lower realm, and Minghui decided to wait before examining Wang Dong’er.
• Huo Yuhao asked Minghui about Wang Dong’er’s continued unconsciousness, and Minghui examined her briefly before leaving without detecting Tang San’s hidden Divine Sense.