Chapter Summaries

After the Soul Master Competition, Qian Renxue asked Ye Chen whether Spirit Hall’s younger generation could make him join them, while privately considering how to defeat him. Ye Chen refined and upgraded his Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull to 100,000 years, then considered how to find a suitable soul beast for his seventh Soul Ring.

• Qian Renxue asked Ye Chen whether he would join Spirit Hall if its younger generation defeated him, and Ye Chen assured her that he would not become her enemy.
• After Qian Renxue left, Ye Chen returned to his room and refined the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull.
• Ye Chen bought five Soul Bone age upgrade cards and raised the skull’s age to 100,000 years.
• Ye Chen checked his attributes and found that refining the skull had raised his Soul Power to Level 69 and increased his Spiritual Power.
• Ye Chen decided he would seek a 100,000-year bamboo-type soul beast in the Star Dou Great Forest for his seventh Soul Ring.

Ye Chen unlocked and renamed a powerful spiritual attack skill, then asked Xiao Wu about ancient bamboo soul beasts and learned of a nearly 100,000-year-old Demon Eye Tree. As the Heaven Dou teams left Spirit City, Qian Renxue received Bibi Dong’s request to recruit Ye Chen and felt hurt by her mother’s impersonal letter, while Ye Chen remembered too late that Hu Liena owed him a favor.

• Ye Chen gained the Spirit Light skill from his 100,000-year Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull and renamed it Creation God Light.
• Ye Chen asked Xiao Wu about old bamboo soul beasts, and she told him about a Demon Eye Tree nearing 100,000 years old.
• Qian Renxue received a letter from Bibi Dong asking her to defeat Ye Chen and recruit him into Spirit Hall, and she felt saddened that the letter contained no personal message.
• The Heaven Dou Empire’s teams left Spirit City, and Ye Chen remembered that Hu Liena owed him a request but decided not to turn back.

After Shrek Academy returned to Heaven Dou City, Xue Ye rewarded its members and the other finalist teams with noble titles and fiefs. Ye Chen then asked Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin to help locate a hundred-thousand-year bamboo-type soul beast, revealing that he was already a rank-69 Soul Emperor.

• Xue Ye welcomed the returning teams outside Heaven Dou City, while Flander awkwardly fended off a matchmaking offer with Liu Erlong watching.
• Xue Ye granted the finalist teams noble titles with fiefs, giving Shrek Academy members higher ranks and awarding Ye Chen and Ning Rongrong count titles.
• Ye Chen asked Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin to find a hundred-thousand-year bamboo-type soul beast for him.
• Chen Xin questioned why Ye Chen was searching so early, and Ye Chen revealed his rank-69 Soul Emperor strength.

Ye Chen told Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin that he was a Level 69 Soul Emperor with a fifty-thousand-year sixth soul ring, then asked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to find a near-ten-thousand-year bamboo-type Soul Beast for his seventh ring. Ning Fengzhi agreed to search while avoiding the Life Lake, and Ye Chen promised to treat Ning Rongrong well.

• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin were shocked to learn Ye Chen was a Level 69 Soul Emperor, and Ye Chen explained that his Soul Bones would help him absorb a powerful seventh soul ring.
• Ye Chen asked Ning Fengzhi to find a bamboo-type Soul Beast close to ten thousand years old, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to search the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ye Chen warned Ning Fengzhi not to send anyone to the Life Lake, explaining that Ferocious Beasts guarded the core region and could destroy the searching party.
• Chen Xin asked what Ferocious Beasts were, and Ye Chen explained that Soul Beasts older than twenty thousand years were known by that name.
• Ning Fengzhi promised to notify Ye Chen if his people found a suitable Soul Beast, then warned Ye Chen to treat Ning Rongrong well, and Ye Chen agreed.

Qian Renxue invited Ye Chen to inspect the lavish estate she had built for him, then summoned him to the woods outside Heaven Dou City to challenge him. She intended to defeat him fair and square and claim his promise to join Spirit Hall.

• Qian Renxue showed Ye Chen the nearly completed estate she had built near Heaven Dou Avenue, and he accepted her gift.
• Ye Chen returned to Shrek Academy and, three days later, received a letter from Qian Renxue inviting him to meet in the woods outside the city’s south gate.
• Ye Chen went alone to the woods, sensed Qian Renxue’s sacred Soul Power, and found her there in her original appearance.
• Qian Renxue reminded Ye Chen that he had promised to join Spirit Hall if a young spirit master there defeated him, then declared that she would defeat him fair and square.

Ye Chen and Qian Renxue made a bet: if he lost, he would join Spirit Hall, but if she lost, she would owe him an exponentially growing sum of money and one million Gold Soul Coins. Their duel began with Qian Renxue taking to the air, but Ye Chen broke her Angel Domain and launched a confinement attack.

• Ye Chen asked where She Long and Ci Xue were, and Qian Renxue revealed she had sent them away for private reasons.
• Ye Chen proposed a bet, promising to join Spirit Hall if he lost and demanding sixty days of doubled Copper Coins plus one million Gold Soul Coins if Qian Renxue lost; she accepted without grasping the enormous total.
• Qian Renxue activated her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul Avatar and flew above Ye Chen, who objected that fighting from the air was unfair.
• Qian Renxue used Angel True Body and her Angel Domain to suppress Ye Chen and strengthen herself, but Ye Chen's Purity Domain shattered hers.
• Ye Chen launched his First Soul Skill, Confinement, at Qian Renxue, who chose not to dodge so she could test its effects.

Qian Renxue countered Ye Chen’s control skills with Intangibility, then attacked with Angel Roar and her Sacred Sword. Ye Chen resisted her attacks with the Creation Green Lotus, leaving Qian Renxue wondering why his External Soul Bone seemed so powerful.

• Qian Renxue used Intangibility to avoid Ye Chen’s control skills and urged him to surrender.
• Ye Chen teased Qian Renxue about safety shorts, angering her into using Angel Holy Light and boosting her attributes.
• Qian Renxue attacked Ye Chen with Angel Roar, but his superior Spiritual Power left him unharmed.
• Qian Renxue switched to close combat and swung her Sacred Sword at Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen summoned the Creation Green Lotus to reduce the sword’s damage and blocked the strike, though it drove him deep into the ground.
• Qian Renxue recognized Ye Chen’s External Soul Bone and wondered why it seemed to be of such a high age.

Ye Chen defeated Qian Renxue with Creation God Light, healed her spiritual injuries, and took her to the Heaven Dou Grand Hotel. After she woke and acknowledged her loss, Ye Chen demanded the wager they had agreed on, but rejected her Gold Coin Card because he wanted her to sign an Indentured Servitude Contract.

• Qian Renxue kept attacking Ye Chen, so he used Creation God Light and knocked her unconscious despite her Intangibility Soul Skill.
• Ye Chen caught Qian Renxue, bought Soul Water to heal her spiritual injuries, and left with her before the City Garrison arrived.
• Ye Chen brought Qian Renxue to the Heaven Dou Grand Hotel, where she woke more than half an hour later and realized she had lost.
• Qian Renxue gave Ye Chen a Gold Coin Card worth one million Gold Soul Coins, but he demanded loose coins and revealed he wanted her to sign an Indentured Servitude Contract.

Ye Chen tricked Qian Renxue into signing an IOU whose doubling debt would become impossible to repay, then kissed her before she escaped. He returned to Shrek Academy and climbed into Ning Rongrong’s room, where her flirtatious behavior left him ready to discipline her.

• Ye Chen insisted Qian Renxue sign an IOU and indentured servitude contract covering a million Gold Soul Coins and a debt that doubled daily for sixty days.
• After calculating the debt’s growth, Qian Renxue realized she could not repay it, then denied owing Ye Chen anything.
• Ye Chen teased Qian Renxue about working for him, asked her to be his girlfriend, and kissed her before she knocked him away with Soul Power and fled.
• Ye Chen returned to Shrek Academy and climbed through the window into Ning Rongrong’s room.
• Ning Rongrong welcomed Ye Chen and flirted with him, prompting him to decide to teach her a lesson.

Ye Chen reached Level 70 and learned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had found a promising Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo Forest for his Seventh Soul Ring. Accompanied by Chen Xin and Lu Yang, he traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest to seek its bamboo king.

• Ye Chen broke through to Level 70 after four months of cultivation and decided to wait briefly for news of a suitable bamboo-type soul beast.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ye Chen that Lu Yang had discovered a Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo Forest containing a roughly fifty-thousand-year bamboo soul beast.
• Ye Chen chose the bamboo king in the forest as the target for his Seventh Soul Ring, and Ning Fengzhi arranged for Chen Xin to escort him.
• Ye Chen, Chen Xin, and Lu Yang flew toward the Star Dou Great Forest and reached a Soul Hunting Town at night.

Ye Chen and Chen Xin reached the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo Forest, where Chen Xin sensed a bamboo king over ninety-five thousand years old. Ye Chen gave it an Immortal Spirit Grass in hopes of raising it to one hundred thousand years and obtaining its Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

• Chen Xin led Ye Chen and Lu Yang through the Star Dou Great Forest to the secluded Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo Forest.
• Ye Chen and Chen Xin sensed several bamboos over fifty thousand years old, including a king more than ninety-five thousand years old.
• Ye Chen decided to use an Immortal Spirit Grass to help the bamboo king reach one hundred thousand years.
• Ye Chen bought an Immortal Spirit Grass and gave it to Chen Xin, who flew over the grove and threw it toward the bamboo king despite its attack with sharp leaves.
• Chen Xin returned to the mountaintop with Ye Chen to watch what happened next.

Ye Chen and Chen Xin watched the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King absorb an Immortal Spirit Grass, hoping it would reach one hundred thousand years and yield a valuable soul ring and soul bone. When the herb’s power ran out just short of the threshold, the surrounding bamboo began channeling purplish-gold radiance into the king.

• The Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King claimed and devoured the Immortal Spirit Grass, driven by its bloodline’s desire for the treasure.
• Ye Chen and Chen Xin moved closer to observe the king, while Chen Xin sent Lu Yang back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• The Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King’s age rose past ninety-nine thousand years as Ye Chen and Chen Xin watched through the night.
• The king’s age stalled just short of one hundred thousand years after it finished refining the Immortal Herb, frustrating Ye Chen and Chen Xin.
• Ye Chen considered buying another Immortal Spirit Grass, but the nearby bamboo began glowing and the entire forest’s purplish-gold radiance flowed into the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King.

Ye Chen watched the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King advance to a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and considered how to obtain its soul ring without killing the surrounding bamboo clan. He bought a Soul Ring Storage Device to preserve the ring while he worked out a peaceful way to absorb it.

• The Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboos offered their origins to the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King, whose potential had been raised by the Immortal Spirit Grass.
• At sunrise, the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King broke through to become a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, exciting Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen worried that killing the king would provoke the surrounding bamboo clan and considered clearing the area, but rejected the needless deaths.
• Ye Chen recalled the Soul Ring Storage Device, found it in the System Shop, and spent ten million Gold Soul Coins to buy one.

Ye Chen prepared a Soul Ring Storage Device while Chen Xin fought the newly advanced hundred-thousand-year Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King. Chen Xin broke through its defenses and wounded it, but its rapid regeneration prompted him to unleash his ninth soul skill.

• Ye Chen explained how the Soul Ring Storage Device stored and released Soul Rings, then told Chen Xin they could begin.
• Chen Xin transformed into his Seven Kill True Body, and the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King mistook him for a Soul Beast.
• Chen Xin's Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin clashed with the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King's Leaf Blade Storm, but Purplish Gold Guard blocked the remaining attack.
• Chen Xin strengthened himself with the Seven Kill Domain and shattered Purplish Gold Guard with Move Mountains and Fill Seas, badly wounding the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King.
• The Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King used Endless Regeneration to heal its wounds, so Chen Xin launched God and Demon Dual Slash.

Chen Xin nearly killed the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King, and Ye Chen prepared to deliver the finishing blow and obtain its Soul Ring. The chapter ended with Ye Chen facing the wounded king while its regeneration skill remained on cooldown.

• Chen Xin used his Seven Kill True Body to shred the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King's branches and leaves, leaving it near death.
• The Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboos attacked Chen Xin, but he shielded himself and injured the older bamboos with Sword Qi to protect Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen activated his Soul Bone Skills and rushed toward the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King.
• Chen Xin noticed Ye Chen's Creation Green Lotus External Soul Bone and asked whether Ye Chen could kill the king despite lacking offensive Soul Skills.
• Ye Chen assured Chen Xin that his Soul Bone Skills could deliver the finishing blow as the king's regeneration remained weakened and unavailable.

Ye Chen killed the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King with Creation God Light, stored its soul ring, and collected the soul bone it dropped. He planned to take the massive bamboo stalk back with him, while Chen Xin watched in surprise.

• Ye Chen used Creation God Light to kill the badly injured Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King.
• Ye Chen used a Soul Ring Storage Device to store the soul ring, and Chen Xin asked how the device worked.
• Ye Chen collected the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King's left leg bone after finding it had dropped only one soul bone.
• Ye Chen examined the giant bamboo stalk and planned to pack it up, prompting Chen Xin to ask whether he intended to take it home.

Ye Chen absorbed the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King's 100,000-year soul ring and left leg bone, advancing to a Seven Ring Soul Saint at level 75. The chapter ended with his updated attributes confirming his new red seventh soul ring and Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo soul bone.

• Chen Xin chopped the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King's stalk into sections, and he and Ye Chen left the Star Dou Great Forest.
• On a barren mountain, Ye Chen began absorbing the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King's 100,000-year soul ring while Chen Xin stood guard.
• The Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King's remnant soul attacked Ye Chen's consciousness, but Ye Chen used Rising Untainted from the Mud to withstand the spiritual shock.
• After two days and one night, Ye Chen refined the soul ring and advanced to a Seven Ring Soul Saint.
• Ye Chen refined the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo left leg bone, and his soul power rose to level 75.

After absorbing the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, Ye Chen awakened as a level 75 Soul Saint and tested his new abilities. His son’s increased tribute promised him more than twelve hundred million Gold Soul Coins a year, and Ye Chen left the chapter marveling at his son’s filial devotion.

• Ye Chen awakened at level 75 Soul Saint, surprising Chen Xin with how far his Soul Power had risen.
• Ye Chen tested his Purity True Body and Purity Domain, whose combined boosts increased his Soul Skill effects by 200%.
• Ye Chen examined the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo Left Leg Bone’s Endless Regeneration and Purplish Gold Guard skills.
• Ye Chen concluded that his new abilities let him contend with weaker Titled Douluo, though he still fell short of powerhouses like Tang Hao and Chen Xin.
• Ye Chen discovered that his son now gave him 40 Gold Soul Coins each time, amounting to more than twelve hundred million a year, and celebrated his son’s filial devotion.

Ye Chen returned to Heaven Dou City and reunited with Ning Rongrong, who had reached level 55. He showed her his red Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and promised to help her obtain one after she reached level 70, before Xiao Wu interrupted their kiss.

• Ye Chen returned to his residence in Heaven Dou City after Chen Xin went back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Rongrong greeted Ye Chen and said Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing were cultivating.
• Ye Chen noticed Ning Rongrong had become a level 55 Soul King and showed her his six black soul rings and one red soul ring.
• Ning Rongrong begged for a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, and Ye Chen promised to take her to get one once she reached level 70.
• Ning Rongrong kissed Ye Chen, but Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing caught them fooling around in the courtyard.

Ye Chen took up wood carving to practice controlling his Soul Power and completed an awkward dragon carving from the Purplish Gold Demonic Bamboo King. After Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing mocked it, he bet that it would sell for over one million Gold Soul Coins at auction within three years, then went to meet Sect Master Ning and Bone Douluo.

• Ye Chen decided to practice wood carving to improve his control over his rapidly increased Soul Power.
• After three days, Ye Chen finished his first carving, the Purplish Gold True Dragon Diagram.
• Xiao Wu called the carving a four-legged lizard, while Ning Rongrong mocked it as a snake-skin picture and Zhu Zhuqing laughed.
• Ye Chen bet that the True Dragon Diagram would sell for more than one million Gold Soul Coins within three years, with the girls agreeing to grant him a request if he won.
• A maid reported that Sect Master Ning and Bone Douluo had arrived, so Ye Chen took Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing to the living room.