Chapter Summaries

Qian Daoliu confirmed that condensing a Soul Core increased Soul Power circulation and proposed that Spiritual Power might also be condensed into a core. Three days earlier, Yue Guan and Gui Mei began condensing a Soul Core together, but Gui Mei’s Soul Power cyclone lost control and Yue Guan intervened.

• Qian Daoliu confirmed the Soul Core method worked and said Golden Crocodile might reach Peerless Douluo if he successfully condensed one.
• Qian Daoliu suggested that Spiritual Power could also be condensed into a Spiritual Core, and the Enshrined considered the idea.
• Gui Yuan persuaded Bibi Dong that easing relations with the Worship Hall could help her mobilize more elders, and Bibi Dong let him leave.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei spent three days learning to condense Soul Cores and then began seclusion in Yue Guan’s room.
• Gui Mei’s Soul Power cyclone began to expand uncontrollably as it neared solidification, so Yue Guan sent his Soul Power through their interlocked hands to suppress it.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei each condensed a Soul Core after Gui Mei absorbed an immortal herb, and they discovered their Martial Soul compatibility had greatly improved. The next morning, Wang Mozhu saw them leave the same sleeping quarters and jumped to conclusions as they headed to visit Gui Yuan.

• Yue Guan learned that Gui Mei had reached level 96, and Gui Mei absorbed the Netherworld Shadow Flower to strengthen his Martial Soul.
• Gui Mei estimated that the immortal herb could help him reach level 97 within three to five years, then began helping Yue Guan condense a Soul Core.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei discovered their Martial Soul compatibility had risen to at least eighty, and Yue Guan successfully condensed the Yang Soul Core within two days.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei left the sleeping quarters together the next morning, and Wang Mozhu mistakenly imagined that they had become a couple.
• Yue Guan invited Wang Mozhu to accompany them to Gui Yuan, while Gui Mei joked that Gui Yuan would call them his Big Dad and Second Dad.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei reported that they had successfully condensed Soul Cores, and Wang Mozhu learned that Gui Yuan had proposed the theory. Bibi Dong rewarded Gui Mei, then granted Yue Guan and Gui Mei time off to visit Yue Guan’s sister’s grave, leaving Yue Guan moved by her consideration.

• Yue Guan told Gui Yuan and Wang Mozhu that he and Gui Mei had condensed Soul Cores, and Gui Mei had reached Level 96.
• Yue Guan explained the Soul Core theory and credited Gui Yuan with proposing it, then asked Wang Mozhu to document the process and research its dangers.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei reported their breakthroughs to Bibi Dong, who promised Gui Mei a Soul Bone.
• Bibi Dong remembered the anniversary of Yue Guan’s older sister’s death and offered him and Gui Mei several days off to pay their respects with Gui Yuan.
• Yue Guan became emotional over Bibi Dong’s gesture, and Gui Mei reassured him as they left the Pope’s Palace.

Bibi Dong awarded Gui Mei the Rapid Advance Wind Chasing Left Leg Bone, and he absorbed it to gain a powerful defensive and speed-based Soul Bone Skill. Ten days later, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Gui Yuan visited the memorial for Yue Guan’s older sister, where Yue Guan paid his respects before the three left.

• Bibi Dong gave Gui Mei the thirty-thousand-year Rapid Advance Wind Chasing Left Leg Bone, and Gui Yuan wondered what Spirit Hall would offer as tournament prizes in the future.
• Gui Mei absorbed the Soul Bone while Yue Guan stood guard, as Gui Yuan teased Hu Liena about their family seniority.
• Gui Mei tested Ghost Shadow Wind Chasing Slash, which doubled his speed, let him vanish in a black afterimage, and protected him from physical attacks while reducing energy damage.
• Ten days later, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Gui Yuan visited the memorial for Yue Guan’s older sister and laid flowers before it.
• Yue Guan told his sister that he, Gui Mei, and Gui Yuan were doing well, then bowed with Gui Mei and Gui Yuan before leading them away.

Qian Daoliu thanked Gui Yuan for sharing the Soul Core Theory, which had helped the Worship Hall enshrined grow stronger, and offered to ease the Pope’s Palace’s shortage of support. He then suggested that Gui Yuan’s First Dad and Second Dad join the Worship Hall, leaving Gui Yuan worried that his teacher might object.

• Qian Daoliu visited Gui Yuan and thanked him for sending the Soul Core Theory to the Worship Hall.
• Golden Crocodile condensed a Soul Core, broke through from Level 98 to Level 99, and became a Peerless Douluo.
• Azure Luan and Lion reached the peak of Level 97, while Guang Ling, Qian Jun, and Jiang Mo advanced from Level 96 to Level 97.
• Gui Yuan told Qian Daoliu he hoped to ease tensions between the Pope’s Palace and the Worship Hall and reduce the burden on his First Dad and Second Dad.
• Qian Daoliu promised to assign two elders to assist Gui Yuan’s teacher and suggested that his First Dad and Second Dad join the Worship Hall.
• Gui Yuan questioned whether they could join because they belonged to the Pope’s Palace and his teacher might object.

Gui Yuan asked Qian Daoliu for a hundred-thousand-year soul bone and explained why an eighty-thousand-year spatial one would not suit him. He then revealed his plan to seek a soul skill from a Mirror Image Beast that could let him fight as a Food System Soul Master, leaving Qian Daoliu intrigued by the idea.

• Qian Daoliu offered Gui Yuan an eighty-thousand-year spatial soul bone, but Gui Yuan refused because he already had the spatial Six-Winged Golden Cicada Wings.
• Gui Yuan explained that he would only fuse with a soul bone below a hundred thousand years if he could not obtain a stronger one later, and Qian Daoliu promised to keep his request in mind.
• Qian Daoliu briefly considered matching Gui Yuan with Qian Renxue, then dismissed the idea because of their circumstances and his ties to Bibi Dong.
• Gui Yuan told Qian Daoliu that he wanted a soul skill that would let him fight as a Food System Soul Master.
• Gui Yuan named the Mirror Image Beast in the Frozen Forest of the Far North as the soul beast he hoped could grant him that skill.

Gui Yuan asked Qian Daoliu to find a hundred-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast in the Far North so he could gain its copying ability. Qian Daoliu and the other enshrined agreed to prepare an expedition, planning to preserve any Soul Ring they found until Gui Yuan could absorb it.

• Gui Yuan told Qian Daoliu that a Mirror Shadow Beast’s copying ability might let his singular velvet sky chrysanthemum copy other people’s Martial Souls or Soul Skills.
• Qian Daoliu agreed to search the Far North’s core region for a hundred-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast as a reward for Gui Yuan’s help to Spirit Hall.
• Qian Daoliu asked whether Gui Yuan had begun his Divine Trials, and Gui Yuan said he had not learned the deity’s name or received any trials.
• Qian Daoliu returned to the Worship Hall and told the enshrined about Gui Yuan’s request; Guang Ling explained that Mirror Shadow Beasts were rare and could grant copying abilities.
• The enshrined agreed to join Qian Daoliu on the expedition after he consulted relevant texts, and they decided to keep any hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring until Gui Yuan was strong enough to absorb it.

On his eighth birthday, Gui Yuan’s Soul Rings gained another 4,500 years of age, turning his second Soul Ring black. At the Pope’s Palace, Bibi Dong received Ghost Leopard Douluo and Ling Yuan Douluo, while Yue Guan and Gui Mei learned that Gui Yuan’s Soul Rings might grow older every year.

• Gui Yuan’s [Hedge Fund] triggered, raising each of his four Soul Rings by 4,500 years and transforming the second into a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong welcomed Ghost Leopard Douluo and Ling Yuan Douluo, whom Qian Daoliu had assigned to serve under her at Gui Yuan’s request.
• Bibi Dong gave Yue Guan and Gui Mei more time to rest and told them to spend it with Xiao Yuan.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei found Gui Yuan cooking and noticed that his second Soul Ring had turned black.
• Gui Yuan explained that his Soul Rings had gained age again and admitted they had also increased the previous year.
• Yue Guan told Gui Yuan to inform his teacher, warning that yearly increases could change which Soul Beasts he should choose for future Soul Rings.

Gui Yuan’s Soul Rings gained more age, prompting Bibi Dong to change his Soul Beast hunting plans and warn him to keep the ability secret. Bibi Dong later entered the Rakshasa Secret Realm to demand an explanation for receiving no rewards, while Yue Guan and Gui Mei decided to test their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei took Gui Yuan to the Pope’s Palace, where Yue Guan told Bibi Dong that Gui Yuan’s Soul Ring had increased in age.
• Bibi Dong ordered Gui Yuan to prioritize rare bloodlines when cultivating his Second Martial Soul and keep his Soul Ring ability secret from outsiders and Hu Liena.
• Yue Guan encouraged Gui Yuan to make friends and discuss Martial Soul Fusion Skills with Xie Yue, while Gui Mei explained that fusion skills had a windup.
• Bibi Dong entered the Rakshasa Secret Realm and demanded to know why her trials had given her no rewards, but received no answer.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei discussed their improved Martial Soul compatibility and agreed to test their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Gui Yuan asked Hu Liena and Xie Yue about reducing the windup of their Martial Soul Fusion Skill and learned that Spirit Hall planned to use Xu Yu’s Scepter of Light to help them. Yue Guan and Gui Mei tested their fusion after condensing their Soul Cores and found that its windup and power had improved.

• Gui Yuan visited Hu Liena and Xie Yue to ask about the windup for their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Xie Yue explained that repeated practice had reduced their Demon Charm fusion time to about two seconds, and Hu Liena invited Gui Yuan to spar with them.
• Gui Yuan declined the sparring match until he could hide his Soul Rings and fight without holding back.
• Hu Liena told Gui Yuan that Spirit Hall planned for Xu Yu to gain a Soul Skill that could speed up Martial Soul Fusion.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei tested their fusion, found that its windup had fallen to under a second, and Yue Guan excitedly clung to Gui Mei.

Gui Yuan learned to conceal his Soul Rings with the Darkin Bow’s Darkin Aura, while Qian Daoliu and the six worshippers searched the Far North for a Mirror Shadow Beast. The group found a young beast in the Frozen Forest, and Qian Daoliu marked it with golden light.

• Bibi Dong taught Gui Yuan to conceal his Soul Rings with Netherworld Power, and he gained an initial grasp of the technique.
• Gui Yuan used the Darkin Bow’s Darkin Aura to hide his Soul Rings more thoroughly, and Bibi Dong urged him to develop the artifact’s other uses.
• Bibi Dong told Gui Yuan that Light Feather Douluo could teach him bow techniques after returning from the Far North with the other worshippers.
• Qian Daoliu and the six worshippers heard mercenaries report a Mirror Shadow Beast in the Frozen Forest and set out to find it.
• After tracking for several days, Qian Daoliu’s group found a roughly twenty-thousand-year-old Mirror Shadow Beast and Qian Daoliu placed a golden mark on it.

Gui Yuan sparred with Hu Liena and Xie Yue’s Demon Charm, using his External Soul Bones, prepared food boosts, and Self-Created Soul Skills to counter the Red Mist Domain. The fight ended on the verge of a new attack as Demon Charm spotted a dark purple energy orb behind him and wondered whether Gui Yuan had created another Self-Created Soul Skill.

• Qian Daoliu left the Mirror Shadow Beast as a fallback and divided the group into four search parties across the Frozen Forest.
• A month later, Gui Yuan arranged a supervised spar with Hu Liena and Xie Yue’s Demon Charm at Spirit Hall’s training grounds.
• Demon Charm activated the Red Mist Domain, but Gui Yuan used his Dark Gold Dreadclaw Right Palm Bone and Six-Winged Golden Cicada Wings to cancel its suppression.
• Gui Yuan boosted himself with chrysanthemum products, dodged Demon Charm’s Full Moon attack, and rained Netherworld Needles down from above.
• Gui Yuan restrained Demon Charm with a ghost hand and sent a dark purple energy orb toward his back, prompting Demon Charm to wonder if it was a new Self-Created Soul Skill.

Gui Yuan tested his new offensive Ghost Hand technique, Shadow Ball, against Xie Yue and Hu Liena’s Demon Charm fusion. He conceded when his Soul Power ran low, though the battle revealed how dangerous his new skill could be.

• Bibi Dong and Gui Mei recognized Gui Yuan’s Shadow Ball as a new offensive form of Ghost Hand, while Gui Mei considered developing his own technique and Yue Guan complained that he spoke in riddles.
• Gui Yuan struck Demon Charm with Shadow Ball, sending him skidding across the battlefield, but the attack left Gui Yuan exhausted.
• Demon Charm used spatial power to pursue Gui Yuan in the air and cut apart his Shadow Balls with Full Moon, avoiding the explosions as he pressed his attack.
• Gui Yuan clashed with Demon Charm’s Moon Blade using his Dark Gold Dreadclaw, then conceded when his wings and Soul Power could no longer sustain him.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena separated from Demon Charm, and Xie Yue helped the exhausted Gui Yuan up, admitting that several more Shadow Ball hits might have made them lose.

After Gui Yuan’s fight with Hu Liena and Xie Yue, Bibi Dong assigned them ways to improve Demon Charm, and Gui Mei quickly recreated Gui Yuan’s Shadow Ball. Gui Yuan was left stunned by how fast his Second Dad learned the technique.

• Gui Yuan explained Shadow Ball to Hu Liena, who planned to learn a fire-based version, while Xie Yue admitted that their fight against Gui Yuan had been difficult.
• Bibi Dong sent Gui Yuan to rest and summoned Hu Liena and Xie Yue to the Pope’s Palace.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue identified Demon Charm’s limited attacks and its difficulty against flying opponents, and Bibi Dong told Hu Liena to learn Shadow Ball and Xie Yue to develop spatial attacks.
• Yue Guan praised Gui Yuan for creating Shadow Ball, and Gui Yuan explained that he had designed it to combine Netherworld Power with Ghost Hand.
• Gui Mei condensed a Netherworld Shadow Ball after hearing its principle, surprising Gui Yuan, then explained that producing one with Titled Douluo-level power would be difficult.

Over half a year, Gui Yuan and Hu Liena advanced their cultivation while Hu Liena developed a Flame Ball technique based on Gui Yuan’s Shadow Ball. The chapter ends with Yue Guan and Gui Mei relaxing together on Spirit Hall’s rooftop.

• Gui Mei explained that Gui Yuan’s Shadow Ball required precise Soul Power control and strong Spiritual Power, then advised him to improve its compression or control multiple balls as he grew stronger.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei left Gui Yuan’s home together, leaving Gui Yuan to complain about their affectionate behavior.
• Over the next half year, Gui Yuan reached rank forty-eight, Hu Liena reached rank forty-eight, and Xie Yue reached rank forty-five.
• Hu Liena defeated Xie Yue with her Flame Balls and mind-control Soul Skill, marking her seventh victory over him that month.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei sat together on Spirit Hall’s rooftop and discussed whether the Pope would assign them more missions.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei reflected on their long life together before demonstrating the self-created Soul Skills they had developed over six months. Their spar revealed that Gui Mei had enhanced his fourth Soul Skill, and Yue Guan prepared to answer in kind.

• Yue Guan told Gui Mei that meeting him had made the past decades easier to endure, and Gui Mei promised to stay by his side for the next sixty years.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan and Gui Mei to demonstrate their self-created Soul Skills while Ghost Leopard and Ling Yuan watched.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei began a spar in the plaza, using their existing Soul Skills and newly developed techniques rather than their most dangerous abilities.
• Gui Mei combined Shadow Ball with his fourth Soul Skill, enabling dozens of ghostly shadows to launch ranged attacks at Yue Guan.
• Yue Guan said he could use the same move as Gui Mei as the barrage of Shadow Balls descended.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei tested their enhanced group Soul Skills before Bibi Dong praised their progress and ordered Ghost Leopard and Ling Yuan to learn the techniques and Soul Core method. After learning that Gui Yuan had devised both, Yue Guan insisted he was their son, while the group discussed the secret behind Spirit Hall’s growing strength.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei sparred using energy-ball-enhanced Soul Skills until Bibi Dong called an end to the match.
• Bibi Dong told Ghost Leopard and Ling Yuan to learn the Soul Skills and Soul Core method, but to keep them from disloyal Elders' Hall members.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei explained that Soul Cores could increase a Titled Douluo’s Soul Power and help break through the Level 95 bottleneck.
• Yue Guan revealed that the Worship Hall’s seven Enshrined had condensed Soul Cores and gone to the Far North to seek Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• Ling Yuan asked whether Gui Yuan had devised the Soul Core method, and Yue Guan insisted Gui Yuan was his and Gui Mei’s son, not their adopted son.
• Yue Guan explained the principles behind energy balls and Soul Cores, leaving Ghost Leopard amazed by Gui Yuan’s intelligence.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei prepared to teach Ghost Leopard and Ling Yuan how to condense Soul Cores and energy balls. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue arranged a mission to Spirit Hall, unaware that its senior members were searching the Far North, where Azure Luan Douluo and Light Feather Douluo encountered a powerful, unfamiliar species.

• Yue Guan warned Ghost Leopard and Ling Yuan that a Soul Core could explode if their Soul Power went out of control, then promised to teach them the techniques the next morning.
• Xue Ye approved Xue Qinghe's preparations to lead a routine Heaven Dou mission to Spirit Hall to discuss spirit master subsidies.
• After leaving Xue Ye, Xue Qinghe revealed that he was Qian Renxue and planned to use the mission to visit her grandfather, while privately thinking of her mother.
• Azure Luan Douluo and Light Feather Douluo encountered two unfamiliar Ice Jade Scorpions in the Far North and found that the beasts' ice attribute and armor were exceptionally powerful.
• Guang Ling fired a signal arrow to summon the Great Enshrined and the others so they could investigate the newly discovered species.

Qian Daoliu and his companions encountered and marked a hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion before learning that Qian Jun and Jiang Mo had found likely traces of a hundred-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast. At Spirit Hall, Gui Yuan and Hu Liena continued their energy-ball spar, and Hu Liena stopped to question why his Shadow Ball was stronger than her Flame Ball.

• Qian Daoliu arrived after Azure Luan and Guang Ling fired a signal flare and identified one of their two unfamiliar Ice Jade Scorpions as a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Qian Daoliu wounded the weaker Ice Jade Scorpion and marked both creatures before the hundred-thousand-year one carried its companion away.
• Qian Jun told Qian Daoliu that he and Jiang Mo had found footprints and droppings likely belonging to a hundred-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast, so Qian Daoliu ordered the group to investigate.
• Gui Yuan and Hu Liena practiced attacking only with Shadow Balls and Flame Balls while Xie Yue watched from the steps.
• Hu Liena stopped after their repeated exchanges and asked Gui Yuan why his Shadow Ball was stronger despite their similar compression.

Gui Yuan and Hu Liena stopped their sparring, and the Heaven Dou convoy arrived in Spirit City for discussions with Spirit Hall. After Gui Yuan became curious about Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, Qian Renxue removed her disguise and went to meet Bibi Dong at the Pope’s Palace.

• Hu Liena complained that Gui Yuan’s Shadow Ball was stronger than her Flame Ball, and he promised to control his power during their next spar.
• Xue Qinghe met with Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall officials to confirm that the Heaven Dou Empire’s Soul Master subsidy would remain unchanged.
• Gui Yuan asked Yue Guan and Gui Mei about Xue Qinghe and said he wanted to see what the crown prince looked like.
• Qian Renxue removed her Xue Qinghe disguise in her hotel room and secretly left to visit the Worship Hall and then the Pope’s Palace.
• Bibi Dong waited in the Pope’s Palace and told Qian Renxue to come out when she sensed her nearby.