Chapter Summaries

Lu Ren discovered the Earth Dragon Sect’s Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave and helped Ice Empress and Snow Empress harvest its Ice Extreme Divine Crystals and Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. After the two Soul Beasts absorbed the marrow and prepared to enter seclusion, Lu Ren decided to cultivate a third Soul Core and advance toward Level 99 before challenging the Divine Realm.

• Lu Ren, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress descended through the well and cold spring to reach the Earth Dragon Sect’s hidden ice cavern.
• Ice Empress and Snow Empress mined all the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals after Snow Empress warned the cave would not last in its current environment.
• The three found the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, and Ice Empress absorbed eleven pillars while Snow Empress absorbed fifteen.
• Snow Empress gathered the remaining marrow into Lu Ren’s Storage Soul Tool, explaining that the cave would eventually disappear because its surroundings could not sustain it.
• Lu Ren decided to enter seclusion and condense a third, Space Attribute Soul Core as he pursued Level 99 and prepared to storm the Divine Realm.

The Spirit Pagoda seized Shrek City and began rebuilding it as Spirit City while Tang San watched helplessly from the Divine Realm. The Sun Moon Empire then conquered the Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires, leaving their surviving defenders to reckon with the power of Soul Tool warfare.

• Nana led the Spirit Pagoda's forces in eliminating Shrek City's holdouts, claimed the city for the Spirit Pagoda, and renamed it Spirit City.
• Ju Zi and Xu Mochén approved the Spirit Pagoda's autonomous control of the city, and the Sun Moon Empire committed troops and resources to its reconstruction.
• Tang San watched Shrek's landmarks being destroyed but could not descend to interfere, and his hatred of Lu Ren deepened.
• The Sun Moon Empire captured the Heaven Dou capital, and Du Busi led Princess Vina and the surviving Body Sect members back toward their sect.
• Long Aotian and Du Busi told Vina that Lu Ren owed the Heaven Dou Empire nothing and that Soul Tool warfare and the empire's shortsightedness had caused its defeat.
• The Dou Ling Empire fell, and its emperor died by suicide as the Sun Moon Empire continued its conquest.

Ju Zi’s disciplined campaigns and the Spirit Pagoda’s generous public services raised Lu Ren’s standing across the continent, while his planned purge nearly eradicated Evil Soul Masters and inspired popular faith. As the Star Luo Empire struggled against the Sun Moon Empire, Huo Yuhao joined the Spirit Pagoda and received access to its core Soul Spirit technology, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen advanced their research.

• Ju Zi’s military discipline and the Spirit Pagoda’s relief and training programs earned broad public support and spread Lu Ren’s reputation across occupied territories.
• After half a year, the Spirit Pagoda announced that its campaign had nearly eradicated Evil Soul Master factions, and ordinary people began offering Lu Ren prayers that gathered into faith power.
• The Sun Moon Empire contained the Star Luo Empire for a year while Xu Jiawei feared its eventual defeat, and Huo Yuhao’s cultivation reached the Soul Saint rank.
• Du Busi recommended Huo Yuhao to Nana, and Lu Ren authorized him to study the Spirit Pagoda’s core Soul Spirit technology.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the opportunity despite his unresolved hatred of Lu Ren and began studying the confidential documents.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen became level-ninety-one Titled Douluos and Level 9 Soul Engineers, then turned to developing artificial Soul Spirits.

While Lu Ren remained in seclusion, Spirit City flourished and Huo Yuhao reached Titled Douluo before returning to the Star Luo Empire to take revenge on the White Tiger Duke's Mansion. After confronting Dai Hao and leaving him alive with his grief, Huo Yuhao unexpectedly joined the Star Luo Empire against the Sun Moon Empire's advancing army.

• Ye Guyi reached Rank 97, Nana reached Level 98, and Spirit City’s Soul Spirit system spread across the continent, though it still depended on Lu Ren’s Cursed Spirit supply.
• Huo Yuhao became a Titled Douluo, took leave from the Spirit Pagoda, and traveled to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.
• Huo Yuhao killed those who had abused his mother or bullied him, killed the Duchess, and burned the mansion down.
• Huo Yuhao revealed to Dai Hao that he was his son and described how Huo Yun'er and he had suffered, then left Dai Hao alive to face his regret.
• With Dai Hao incapacitated, the Star Luo army faltered before the Sun Moon Empire’s offensive, but Huo Yuhao joined the Star Luo Empire and confronted the invading forces.

Huo Yuhao helped the Star Luo Empire halt the Sun Moon Empire’s advance, then persuaded Di Tian that the Soul Spirit System could offer Soul Beasts a future without being hunted. Di Tian joined the Spirit Pagoda as Deputy Pagoda Master, though Xiong Jun remained hostile to humans as the beasts toured Spirit City.

• Huo Yuhao turned back Sun Moon Empire attacks with his combat strength and Spiritual Detection, and Ju Zi ordered her forces to withdraw and reinforce their defenses.
• Huo Yuhao defeated rank-ninety-five Kong Deming in battle, giving the Star Luo Empire a respite and winning recognition across the continent.
• Du Busi refused Huo Yuhao’s repeated requests for the Body Sect to join the war, and Huo Yuhao returned to the front line alone.
• Huo Yuhao built a relationship with Di Tian by explaining the Soul Spirit System, and Di Tian agreed to meet Nana at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters.
• Nana explained the Spirit Pagoda’s aims and Soul Spirit Contracts to Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts, who agreed to peaceful relations; Di Tian accepted the post of Deputy Pagoda Master and the others joined the Elder Council.
• Nana led Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts through Spirit City, where Xiong Jun remained angry about serving in a human organization and wanted Soul Beasts to enslave humans.

Nana subdued Xiong Jun and convinced Di Tian that the Spirit Pagoda sincerely sought cooperation with Soul Beasts, then revealed that Lu Ren controlled the organization. During Lu Ren’s fifth year in seclusion, a new eight-hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant emerged as Huo Yuhao rose to Limit Douluo with a three-core system and powerful Martial Souls.

• Xiong Jun attacked Nana, but three Cursed Spirits beat him into submission while Nana spared his life.
• Nana explained that humanity could destroy the Ferocious Beasts but chose cooperation, and Di Tian accepted her sincerity.
• Nana told Di Tian that Lu Ren was the Spirit Pagoda’s true leader; Di Tian recalled Huo Yuhao’s claims that Lu Ren had slain two God Officials and said he wanted to meet him.
• During Lu Ren’s fifth year in seclusion, an Evil Eye Tyrant in the Evil Demon Forest rapidly reached eight hundred thousand years of cultivation and claimed the title of Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler.
• Huo Yuhao reached Limit Douluo, formed three Soul Cores, awakened his Spirit Eyes into gold-ranked Asura’s Eye, and traveled to the Far North to seek Soul Rings for his Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Soul.

Huo Yuhao gained Xiao Bai and other powerful Soul Spirits, defeated Di Tian, and learned that he could not ascend until he surpassed Lu Ren. He returned to find the Star Luo Empire cornered in its capital as the Sun Moon Empire began its final assault.

• The Snow Empress arranged for Xiao Bai to become Huo Yuhao's Soul Spirit to save her from a likely fatal Heavenly Tribulation, and Huo Yuhao accepted despite his conflicting feelings about Lu Ren.
• Huo Yuhao gained other rare Soul Spirits, challenged Di Tian, and won their battle above the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Divine Realm summoned Huo Yuhao to ascend, but he refused because his divine trial required him to become the strongest on the Douluo Continent, a position he believed Lu Ren held.
• Huo Yuhao told Di Tian that Lu Ren's strength had left him afraid to approach Lu Ren's secluded location, then returned to the Star Luo Empire without knowing whether he could defeat him.
• The Sun Moon Empire reduced the Star Luo Empire to its capital, Star Luo City, while Kong Deming reached Level 99 Limit Douluo and became the continent's only Level 11 Soul Engineer.
• The Sun Moon Empire's army surrounded Star Luo City and advanced toward it as the Star Luo Empire faced its final battle.

Huo Yuhao returned to Star Luo City as the Sun Moon Empire prepared to attack, but Ye Guyi arrived to stop him from interfering in the war. Lu Ren then appeared and accepted Huo Yuhao's challenge, leaving the two strongest fighters poised to battle.

• Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao renewed their resolve to defend Star Luo City as the Sun Moon Empire's army approached.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the battlements, restoring the defenders' morale, while Ju Zi revealed that the Spirit Pagoda planned to stop him.
• Ye Guyi confronted Huo Yuhao and declared that he would have to defeat her to reach the battlefield.
• Lu Ren appeared on Star Luo City's walls, and Huo Yuhao challenged him to a wager: the loser would decide whether Huo Yuhao continued interfering in the war.
• Lu Ren accepted, and Huo Yuhao declared that the era belonged to him before Lu Ren promised to beat him back to reality.

Lu Ren overwhelmed Huo Yuhao with his Unlimited Void domain after Huo Yuhao's spiritual attacks and divine blade failed to penetrate Lu Ren's defenses. Lu Ren decapitated Huo Yuhao but spared his life for a future purpose, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Huo Yuhao unleashed his spiritual power and challenged Lu Ren, but his attacks had no effect.
• Huo Yuhao's Morning Dew Blade struck an invisible barrier, and Lu Ren repelled it before Huo Yuhao began a powerful blade technique.
• Lu Ren stopped Huo Yuhao with a clap and trapped him inside Unlimited Void, flooding his mind with overwhelming information.
• Lu Ren told the paralyzed Huo Yuhao that he would spare him for a future purpose, then severed his head and placed his bloodied foot on it.

Lu Ren killed Huo Yuhao, enabling Ju Zi to demand Star Luo City's surrender and take revenge on Dai Hao; Xu Jiawei died by suicide as the Star Luo Empire fell. After the Sun Moon Empire unified the continent, Ye Guyi reunited with Lu Ren and learned he planned to ascend to the Divine Realm, leaving her fearing they would never meet again.

• Lu Ren killed Huo Yuhao, earning the Sun Moon Empire's frenzied cheers, while Ju Zi and Ye Guyi reacted to his victory.
• Ju Zi demanded that Star Luo City surrender and hand over Dai Hao; Dai Hao accepted the city's decision and gave himself up to spare its people.
• Ju Zi killed Dai Hao with her sword, and Xu Jiawei took his own life after seeing Dai Hao fall, ending the Star Luo Empire.
• The Sun Moon Empire celebrated unifying the continent, while Ye Guyi rushed to Lu Ren, embraced him, and cried about missing him during his five years in seclusion.
• Ye Guyi asked whether Lu Ren would ascend to the Divine Realm and leave the Douluo Continent; Lu Ren confirmed he would, and she asked if that meant saying goodbye forever.

Lu Ren admitted that he had feelings for Ye Guyi but warned that his coming journey to the Divine Realm made their future uncertain. He agreed to stay on the Douluo Continent for now and spend time with her, while Ju Zi saw them together and quietly accepted that their paths were diverging.

• Ye Guyi confessed that she loved Lu Ren, and he told her he felt the same but could not promise what would happen after he ascended.
• Lu Ren and Ye Guyi discussed his other possible admirers, including Meng Hongchen, Ju Zi, and Nana, before Ye Guyi kissed him and asked him to stay with her for one night.
• Ye Guyi accepted that Lu Ren might also be with other women and asked only that he make time for her.
• Ju Zi finished arranging Dai Hao's burial and decided that their old grievances had ended with his death.
• Ju Zi saw Lu Ren and Ye Guyi kissing in the command tent and reflected that their paths had reached their end, though she still felt reluctant to let him go.

After the Sun Moon Empire conquered the continent, Ju Zi reported the surrender of Star Luo City to Lu Ren and received instructions to oversee the empire’s transition toward the Douluo Federation. Lu Ren gave her his courtyard’s address and invited her to visit if her feelings remained unchanged after her work was done, leaving Ju Zi and Kong Deming uncertain about his intentions.

• Kong Deming urged Ju Zi to report postwar matters to Lu Ren, then suggested that her feelings toward him might be more than gratitude.
• Ju Zi reported Star Luo City’s surrender, Dai Hao’s execution, and Emperor Xu Jiawei’s suicide to Lu Ren, who told her to carry out the prepared plans and gradually abolish the imperial system.
• Lu Ren appointed Ju Zi to lead the transition toward the Douluo Federation and told her to enforce the reforms under military law against anyone who obstructed them.
• Ju Zi asked Lu Ren to attend the unification ceremony, but he declined and gave her the address of his courtyard, telling her to visit if her feelings remained unchanged after her work was finished.
• Ju Zi ordered Kong Deming to draft the federation transition decree and an implementation plan, then asked him what Lu Ren had meant; Kong Deming advised her to follow his instructions and visit him.

After the battle of Star Luo City, Lu Ren returned to his courtyard with Ye Guyi, and they spent the night together before he reassured her that he would make time for her before ascending. Meanwhile, Meng Hongchen worked to create artificial Soul Spirits, and the chapter ended with her announcing that she had succeeded.

• Lu Ren teleported from Star Luo City to his courtyard in Mingdu with Ye Guyi, who told him how much the place meant to her.
• Ye Guyi asked how long Lu Ren would remain on the Douluo Continent, and he promised to leave time for them before his ascension; they spent the night together.
• Meng Hongchen continued working in the laboratory on artificial Soul Spirits, while Xiao Hongchen urged her to rest and pointed out that she was working for Lu Ren.
• Meng Hongchen used Huo Yuhao's research as the basis for her experiments, determined to preserve the Soul Spirit System after Lu Ren ascended.
• Xiao Hongchen brought food to the laboratory, but Meng Hongchen ignored him until she suddenly shouted that she had created artificial Soul Spirits.

Meng Hongchen successfully created the first artificial Soul Spirit, and Nana encouraged her to report the achievement to Lu Ren in person. Huo Yuhao awoke after Lu Ren revived him, only to learn that Lu Ren intended to ascend by establishing a God Position and wanted to make a deal.

• Meng Hongchen showed Xiao Hongchen the newly hatched artificial Soul Spirit, a ten-year white snake, and said she planned to develop stronger versions.
• Xiao Hongchen teased Meng Hongchen about her feelings for Lu Ren, then praised her for her years of work.
• Meng Hongchen presented the artificial Soul Spirit to Nana, who authorized mass production and safety testing for civilian Soul Master academies.
• Nana told Meng Hongchen that Lu Ren had left seclusion and was in Mingdu, so Meng Hongchen agreed to report her results to him personally.
• Huo Yuhao awoke after Lu Ren revived him, confirmed his Divine Nature Seed remained intact, and questioned why Lu Ren had saved him.
• Lu Ren told Huo Yuhao that he planned to establish a God Position himself and asked whether Huo Yuhao wanted to make a deal.

Lu Ren brought Huo Yuhao and Ye Guyi into his Undead Plane, where they discovered that its undead combined death and holy light and that it was a prototype Divine Realm. Electrolux explained that the plane could ascend into Lu Ren’s own Divine Realm when it gained enough Divine Realm Energy and Cursed Energy, leaving Huo Yuhao stunned by how far Lu Ren had advanced beyond him.

• Lu Ren insisted that Huo Yuhao follow him into a portal, and Ye Guyi joined them after Lu Ren invited her.
• Huo Yuhao entered the portal and found a vast Undead Plane filled with powerful undead armies, bone dragons, liches, and creatures that could evolve by merging.
• Lu Ren revealed that he was the plane’s master, while Ye Guyi learned that purifying its undead did not strengthen her because they possessed both undead and holy attributes.
• Electrolux appeared and explained that the plane was an Undead Kingdom and a Divine Realm prototype bound to Lu Ren, whose foundations were ready for further energy.
• Huo Yuhao realized Lu Ren was preparing to create his own godhood and Divine Realm rather than inherit a God Position.

Lu Ren used his Chaos Godhood and Electrolux’s help to seal the divine seed in Huo Yuhao, preventing a First-Level God from eavesdropping. He then offered Huo Yuhao a deal with three conditions, ending by requiring him to forget the deal’s details.

• Electrolux explained that Lu Ren could conceal their conversation from a chief god by using Chaos and Harmony to block the divine seed inside Huo Yuhao.
• Lu Ren consulted Chaos and Harmony, learned the three requirements for sealing the seed, and worked with Electrolux to meet them.
• Lu Ren summoned his Chaos Godhood and used Cursed Energy and planar laws to isolate the divine seed from its owner’s divine consciousness.
• Lu Ren introduced himself to Huo Yuhao as the Plane Master and God of Chaos, then explained how he had created his own God Position.
• Lu Ren told Huo Yuhao his deal required him to ingest Lu Ren’s Soul Clone and ascend to the Divine Realm, help Lu Ren obtain the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and forget every detail of the deal.

Lu Ren made a deal with Huo Yuhao: Huo Yuhao would absorb Lu Ren’s soul avatar, search for the hidden Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and forget the arrangement in exchange for Lu Ren helping him ascend and restore his mother. After Huo Yuhao swallowed Lu Ren’s ten fingers and their binding vow took hold, Lu Ren erased his memory and sent him back to Douluo Continent, where he unknowingly headed toward Sunset Forest.

• Lu Ren explained that Huo Yuhao had to swallow his ten fingers to carry Lu Ren’s soul avatar and find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well hidden by the gods.
• Lu Ren said Huo Yuhao had to forget the deal because the God of Emotion could use the seed of divinity inside him to learn Lu Ren’s plans, and Lu Ren proposed faking his own death to allow Huo Yuhao to ascend.
• Lu Ren offered to bring Huo Yun’er back to life, explaining that Tang San had taken her soul to the Divine Realm as leverage over Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the deal, and Lu Ren established a binding vow before Huo Yuhao swallowed all ten fingers and absorbed their power.
• Lu Ren erased Huo Yuhao’s memory of the deal and returned him to Douluo Continent, where Huo Yuhao woke confused and set off toward Sunset Forest.

Huo Yuhao followed an unexplained summons into Sunset Forest while struggling with a blank stretch of memory after Lu Ren killed him. In the Divine Realm, Rong Nianbing learned that the Divine Nature Seed in Huo Yuhao had been blocked, but Tang San dismissed Lu Ren as a mortal he could suppress when he ascended.

• Huo Yuhao felt an unseen pull drawing him deeper into Sunset Forest, and his Emotion God Divine Nature Seed warmed in response.
• Rong Nianbing discovered that he could no longer sense the Divine Nature Seed he had planted within Huo Yuhao and decided to check whether his successor was alive.
• Rong Nianbing went to the God Realm Committee and told Tang San that the seed had been blocked.
• Tang San said Lu Ren had touched the level of Laws but claimed he was still only a mortal and promised to suppress and kill him if he threatened the Divine Realm's order.
• Rong Nianbing left uncertain about Lu Ren, while Tang San insisted that the Douluo Plane remained under his control.

Tang San watched Huo Yuhao break the seal concealing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest. The chapter ended with Tang San realizing Huo Yuhao’s arrival might be connected to Lu Ren and fearing that Lu Ren was slipping beyond his control.

• Tang San reflected that he would not interfere in mortal affairs himself, though he still hated Lu Ren for destroying Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao followed a mysterious pull into Sunset Forest and discovered a spatial seal concealing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• An uncanny voice urged Huo Yuhao to break the seal, and he entered the hidden realm to find the legendary springs and a crystal bound by blue light.
• Huo Yuhao struck the blue chain at its weakest point until it shattered, breaking the spatial lockdown over the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang San sensed the seal’s destruction, saw Huo Yuhao at the basin, and suspected Lu Ren had guided him there.

Tang San called an emergency God Realm Committee meeting to secure permission to kill Lu Ren, while Lu Ren claimed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and prepared a spectacular assault on the Divine Realm. Lu Ren struck the Divine Realm Barrier before the watching inhabitants of the Douluo Continent, and the sky began to fracture around him.

• Tang San recognized Lu Ren as a growing threat and sent a summons for an emergency God Realm Committee meeting to discuss intervening in the Lower Realm.
• Huo Yuhao found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well exposed, but Lu Ren arrived, claimed the entire treasure ground, and told Huo Yuhao to prepare to ascend to the Divine Realm.
• Lu Ren transplanted the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to the Undead Plane, where Electrolux said its immortal herbs would offer little help at their current strength.
• Ye Guyi encountered Lu Ren's Frostbone Dragon, and Lu Ren explained that it would serve as a vessel for the dragon souls of the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King.
• After telling Ye Guyi he intended to break through to God Level and die, Lu Ren began forcing his way toward the Divine Realm, drawing the attention of Di Tian, Ju Zi, Meng Hongchen, Nana, and people across the continent.
• Lu Ren struck the Divine Realm Barrier again, causing the continent to tremble as space twisted and rifts tore across the sky.