Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan and Little Herta arranged for Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang to demonstrate the Golden Sacred Dragon while Ruan Mei and Herta studied it. After the researchers identified Yu Xiaogang as the limitation on his Martial Soul, he used the transformed dragon to attack them.

• Flender and Liu Erlong confronted Lin Yuan over Yu Xiaogang's restraint, and Lin Yuan justified detaining him because he had carried an unauthorized Elder Command Token and threatened Spirit Hall.
• Little Herta directed the group to demonstrate the Golden Sacred Dragon, while Lin Yuan introduced Di Tian, Zi JI, and Xiong Jun as representatives of the Soul Beast Clan seeking research help.
• Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang combined their Soul Power, transforming Luo Sanpao into the Golden Sacred Dragon.
• Ruan Mei explained that the Golden Sacred Dragon was Luo Sanpao's latent potential, but Yu Xiaogang's body could not support its full evolution without outside power.
• Angered by the researchers' assessment, Yu Xiaogang ordered the Golden Sacred Dragon to attack Little Herta and Ruan Mei.

Ruan Mei effortlessly dissolved the Golden Sacred Dragon and concluded that Yu Xiaogang was limiting Luo Sanpao’s potential. She took Luo Sanpao into the laboratory and severed its connection to Yu Xiaogang, leaving him unable to sense his Martial Soul.

• Ruan Mei dissolved the Golden Sacred Dragon with a touch, forcing the Trinity Martial Soul Fusion to collapse and revealing Luo Sanpao.
• Ruan Mei told Yu Xiaogang that his Martial Soul was excellent but that he was restricting its growth, while Lin Yuan mocked him.
• Ruan Mei restrained Luo Sanpao and explained that it had an evolutionary path its host could not support.
• Ruan Mei brought Luo Sanpao into another laboratory, put it to sleep, and severed its connection to Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang suddenly clutched his chest as he lost his ability to sense Luo Sanpao.

Ruan Mei combined Di Tian’s dragon blood with a trace of Permanence, transforming Luo Sanpao into an egg that could hatch into a new dragon life-form. As Lin Yuan explained the Soul Beasts’ blocked path to advancement, Ruan Mei showed the group wreckage from the Divine Realm, and Di Tian recognized the broken Asura Sword.

• Ruan Mei used a drop of Di Tian’s blood to awaken Luo Sanpao’s hidden dragon structures, but its body could not sustain the evolution.
• Ruan Mei combined the dragon blood information with Permanence, and Luo Sanpao transformed into a golden-and-cyan egg.
• Little Herta examined the egg and explained that Luo Sanpao had abandoned its original body to reconstruct one capable of bearing high-order dragon structures.
• Lin Yuan told Ruan Mei and Herta that the Divine Realm had sealed the Soul Beasts’ path to advancement, prompting Herta to consider whether they could follow another Path.
• Ruan Mei showed the group images of wreckage in the universe, and Di Tian recognized the broken weapon in the image as the Asura Sword.

Di Tian learned that the Divine Realm had been destroyed and wondered whether Soul Beasts could finally become gods, but Ruan Mei argued that Godhood was only one path to evolution. As Little Herta began investigating the restriction on Soul Beasts, Di Tian realized the Golden Dragon King might have been trapped in the ruined Divine Realm.

• Di Tian recognized the Asura Sword and the ruins on the screen as the destroyed Divine Realm.
• Di Tian asked Lin Yuan whether the Divine Realm's destruction meant Soul Beasts could become gods, and Lin Yuan explained that the Dragon God himself had imposed the prohibition.
• Ruan Mei argued that Godhood was not necessary for life to surpass its limits and pointed to the dragon egg's evolution as evidence of another path.
• Little Herta decided to investigate the restriction linking the Divine Realm and Soul Beasts, hoping to find a way around it.
• Di Tian realized the Golden Dragon King had been suppressed inside the Divine Realm and asked what had happened to him.

Ruan Mei identified the escaped Golden Dragon King in her scans of the Divine Realm’s ruins and asked to examine the Silver Dragon King, whose injuries had never healed. Meanwhile, the Golden Dragon King fled through the universe, determined to find the Silver Dragon King and lead the Soul Beast Clan back against the weakened Divine Realm.

• Di Tian explained that the Dragon God split into the Golden Dragon King, who inherited his body and destructive power, and the Silver Dragon King, who inherited his spirit and creation power.
• Ruan Mei’s recorded scan revealed a powerful, chaotic life-form escaping the Divine Realm, and Di Tian recognized it as the Golden Dragon King.
• Ruan Mei asked to meet and examine the Silver Dragon King, and Di Tian agreed to present her request for their sovereign’s approval after Lin Yuan nodded.
• The wounded Golden Dragon King fled through the starry expanse, recalling his escape and the blade-wielding woman who had nearly destroyed the Divine Realm.
• The Golden Dragon King sensed his bloodline connection to the Silver Dragon King and set out to find her so they could reunite and restore the Dragon God’s glory.

Di Tian told the Silver Dragon King that the Divine Realm had been destroyed and showed her a photograph of the broken Asura Sword. After hearing that Ruan Mei wanted to examine her injuries, the Silver Dragon King agreed to meet her.

• Di Tian reported his cooperation with the Xianzhou Alliance and the Interastral Peace Corporation, then revealed that the Divine Realm had been destroyed.
• Di Tian showed the Silver Dragon King a photograph of the Divine Realm's ruins and the broken Asura Sword, confirming the weapon that had wounded her.
• Di Tian told the Silver Dragon King that Ruan Mei had researched dragon bloodlines and offered to examine her injuries.
• The Silver Dragon King weighed the danger of meeting Ruan Mei against her lingering wounds and agreed to see her.
• Di Tian left the Lake of Life and told Lin Yuan that the Silver Dragon King had agreed to meet Ruan Mei.

Ruan Mei arrived at the Lake of Life with Lin Yuan and fascinated the surrounding Soul Beasts by calmly petting even the hostile ones. After asking the Ferocious Beasts for blood samples and agreeing to focus on treatment first, she followed Di Tian beneath the lake to meet the injured Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena.

• Ruan Mei and Lin Yuan landed near the Lake of Life, where the gathered Soul Beasts watched them with hostility.
• Ruan Mei stroked the Mountain-Splitting Tiger until it relaxed and exposed its belly, then calmed other Soul Beasts and drew several of them to follow her.
• Ruan Mei identified the Ferocious Beasts and asked each to give her a blood sample, but Di Tian redirected her toward the Silver Dragon King's injuries.
• Di Tian opened a path beneath the Lake of Life and led Ruan Mei to the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena sensed Ruan Mei and regarded her warily, while Ruan Mei stepped directly toward the injured dragon.

Ruan Mei examined the Silver Dragon King and removed the Asura Divine Power that had kept her wound from healing for countless years. The Silver Dragon King offered to repay her, and Ruan Mei asked for some of her blood.

• Ruan Mei touched the Silver Dragon King to study her biological structure and energy circulation.
• Di Tian explained that the Asura Divine Power had resisted every attempt to remove it and continually reopened the Silver Dragon King's wound.
• Ruan Mei drew a fist-sized mass of Asura Divine Power from the wound and sealed it in a bottle as a sample.
• Ruan Mei removed the remaining Asura Divine Power, allowing the Silver Dragon King's wound to begin healing normally.
• The Silver Dragon King thanked Ruan Mei and asked what she wanted in exchange, and Ruan Mei requested some of her blood.

Gu Yuena emerged from seclusion at the Lake of Life as Lin Yuan received a call about a golden dragon attacking Spirit City and badly injuring Bibi Dong. The attacker revealed itself as the Golden Dragon King, awakening a bloodline resonance in Gu Yuena.

• Gu Yuena returned from seclusion, and the Soul Beasts welcomed her as their lord.
• March 7th called Lin Yuan and reported that a golden dragon was attacking Spirit City.
• March 7th told Lin Yuan that Bibi Dong had been badly injured while fighting the dragon, and that Little Herta had collapsed after tasting Himeko's coffee.
• The Golden Dragon King declared its return over Spirit City, and Gu Yuena felt an ancient bloodline resonance awaken.

Lin Yuan and the others returned to Spirit City and found the Golden Dragon King unconscious after drinking Dan Heng’s coffee. Gu Yuena recognized her brother in him and reached out to him, leaving the long-separated Dragon Kings reunited at last.

• Lin Yuan’s spacecraft landed near Pope Hall, where the group found Spirit City damaged but quiet and the Golden Dragon King unconscious in the rubble.
• March 7th explained that the Golden Dragon King collapsed after Dan Heng brought him coffee, while Stelle tried to collect his scales and Dan Heng recorded his condition.
• Lin Yuan and Di Tian noticed the Golden Dragon King’s wounds, and Gu Yuena approached him as the Spirit Hall members made way.
• Gu Yuena touched the Golden Dragon King’s scales and softly called him “Brother.”

The Golden Dragon King awakened in Spirit City and reunited with Gu Yuena, but his plan to lead the Soul Beasts back to conquer the Divine Realm was met with her revelation that it had already been destroyed. He was left questioning what purpose there could be in returning to it.

• The Golden Dragon King woke in the ruins of Spirit City and prepared to attack the people around him until Stelle’s coffee made him hesitate.
• The Golden Dragon King changed into human form, recognized Gu Yuena, and shielded her from the humans and Astral Express crew.
• Gu Yuena told the Golden Dragon King that the others were not enemies and had helped stabilize her injuries.
• The Golden Dragon King described the weakened Divine Realm and urged Gu Yuena and Di Tian to gather the Soul Beasts for an invasion.
• Gu Yuena told the Golden Dragon King that the Divine Realm had already been destroyed and asked what purpose there would be in returning.

Gu Yuena argued that Soul Beasts did not need to reclaim the Divine Realm, but the Golden Dragon King distrusted the humans and attacked Ruan Mei. Ruan Mei stopped him effortlessly, then made him blurt out the truth about his painful wounds, leaving him stunned.

• The Golden Dragon King insisted that the dragons should return to the Divine Realm and defeat the weakened gods, while Lin Yuan said the Dragon God had imposed the restriction on Soul Beasts becoming gods.
• Gu Yuena told her brother that the universe offered other paths for Soul Beasts, but the Golden Dragon King dismissed her claims as human lies.
• Ruan Mei warned the Golden Dragon King that he was too injured to fight, so he attacked her with his dragon claw.
• Ruan Mei blocked the Golden Dragon King's attack with one finger and knocked him back with a light tap.
• Ruan Mei tapped the Golden Dragon King's chest, and he blurted out that his wounds hurt badly and he was fighting through sheer grit.

Ruan Mei used truth serum on the Golden Dragon King, removed the God of Destruction’s power from his wound, and bottled it before Qian Daoliu returned to Spirit City. Beneath Spirit Hall, God King Tang San awakened in Tang San’s body and was confronted by the other consciousness within it.

• Ruan Mei used truth serum on the Golden Dragon King, causing him to admit how badly his wounds hurt and that Destruction had ambushed him.
• Ruan Mei extracted the God of Destruction’s power from the Golden Dragon King’s wound and sealed it in a bottle.
• Qian Daoliu returned to Spirit City and attacked the Golden Dragon King, who admitted through the truth serum that he was too injured to fight.
• Tang San awakened in the dungeon and resolved to find Xiao Wu.
• God King Tang San realized another consciousness shared his body when this life’s Tang San demanded to know who he was.

God King Tang San awakened in Spirit Hall's prison and persuaded his younger self that they were the same person from different times, while hiding his plan to take over the body. Aboveground, Aventurine calculated the Golden Dragon King's damages from his attack on Spirit Hall, leaving the injured king facing a bill of more than 1.38 billion Credits.

• God King Tang San woke in Spirit Hall's prison, struggled with the younger Tang San for control of their shared body, and convinced him of his identity by naming their past-life techniques.
• Tang San asked how his future self had defeated Spirit Hall despite its ties to the Interastral Peace Corporation, the Xianzhou Alliance, the Astral Express, and the Genius Society, and God King Tang San concealed his ignorance.
• God King Tang San privately resolved to take full control of the body and keep Xiao Wu for himself, then joined Tang San in trying to escape the cell.
• Aventurine sat down with Qian Daoliu, the Golden Dragon King, Gu Yuena, and Di Tian to calculate compensation for the destruction caused by the Golden Dragon King.
• Aventurine totaled the first phase of damages at 1,387,640,000 Credits and asked the Golden Dragon King whether he would pay by card.

The Golden Dragon King agreed to a two-hundred-year Interastral Peace Corporation employment contract to repay his debt and signed a research cooperation agreement. After escaping Spirit Hall’s underground prison, God King Tang San saw how much Spirit City had changed and encountered Yu Xiaogang, who had been separated from Luo Sanpao.

• Aventurine presented the Golden Dragon King with a two-hundred-year repayment employment agreement and a technology research cooperation agreement.
• The Golden Dragon King signed both contracts and went with Aventurine to the Corporation’s R&D department.
• God King Tang San escaped his cell, criticized this life's Tang San’s Soul Ring choices, and took a guard’s access token.
• God King Tang San emerged into a transformed Spirit City filled with advanced technology and Corporation activity.
• Researchers threw Yu Xiaogang out of an experimental building after separating him from Luo Sanpao, and God King Tang San recognized him.

God King Tang San took control of Tang San’s body and learned from Yu Xiaogang that Tang Hao had been captured and taken by the Interastral Peace Corporation for research. He faced the Spirit Hall Golden Generation and prepared to show Tang San how to use the Clear Sky Hammer.

• Yu Xiaogang lamented losing Luo Sanpao and his Soul Power before Tang San arrived at the research base.
• God King Tang San mocked Yu Xiaogang and struggled with Tang San for control of their body.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that Tang Hao had been captured and taken by the Interastral Peace Corporation for research.
• Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena confronted Tang San, suspecting he had escaped from the dungeon.
• God King Tang San summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and prepared to fight the three Soul Kings while demonstrating its use to Tang San.

God King Tang San took control of his body and overwhelmed Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena with Clear Sky Hammer techniques. Before he could continue the fight, an Interastral Peace Corporation security mech subdued him and asked the bystanders for a five-star review.

• God King Tang San used the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes to injure Yan, but Xie Yue intervened and deflected a killing blow.
• Hu Liena called for help, and she, Yan, and Xie Yue attacked Tang San together; he evaded their strikes and resisted Hu Liena’s Charm with Purple Demon Eye.
• Tang San used Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer to drive the three Soul Kings back, then smashed the road with Great Sumeru Hammer.
• An Interastral Peace Corporation security mech grabbed Tang San and incapacitated him with electric shocks.
• The mech identified Tang San as a prison escapee who had assaulted staff and damaged public facilities, then asked Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena for a five-star review.

Tang San escaped Spirit Hall custody using poisonous smoke and fled through the city, while Spirit Hall and Corporation security forces failed to catch him. Lin Yuan ordered a continent-wide wanted notice with a reward of twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins, and the chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang still awaiting a decision about his fate.

• Tang San broke free from his guards with two poisonous smoke bombs and escaped the security officers by using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena caught Yu Xiaogang trying to wheel himself away and brought him before Qian Daoliu and Lin Yuan.
• Yan and Xie Yue described Tang San's unfamiliar techniques, and Qian Daoliu identified them as the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes and Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Lin Yuan ordered Spirit Hall to issue a continent-wide wanted notice for Tang San with a reward of twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• A communications Soul Master reported that the wanted notice was reaching branch halls and that the Corporation would assist.

After Yu Xiaogang returned badly beaten, he told Shrek Academy that Tang San had escaped Spirit Hall and was wanted across the continent for a large bounty. Tang San and God King Tang San headed toward Sunset Forest for immortal herbs, but discovered the wanted notice had already reached the city they entered, just as danger approached from behind.

• Tai Long brought Yu Xiaogang, badly swollen and in a wheelchair, to Flender and the others at the hotel.
• Yu Xiaogang reported that Tang San had escaped Spirit Hall and that Spirit Hall was offering twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins for information about him.
• Tang San and God King Tang San decided to seek immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest, stopping first at a nearby city for food and a map.
• God King Tang San dismissed Tang San’s worries about the wanted notice reaching the city and led him through an inspection checkpoint, where a machine identified him as wanted but the staff member let him pass.
• Tang San saw a citywide announcement showing his face and bounty, and a sharp sound came from behind him as his hair stood on end.

God King Tang San escaped a citywide pursuit and traveled to Sunset Forest to find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He reached the remembered valley, only to discover it had become a jointly managed research and conservation area.

• God King Tang San fought off bounty hunters in Clear Creek City, but alarms and patrol airships forced him to flee.
• He dodged volleys of tranquilizer darts and escaped into a dense forest, where the patrol airships eventually lost him.
• After hiding in a mud pool, God King Tang San recovered and traveled for several days using his memories to reach Sunset Forest.
• God King Tang San followed the route to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, expecting to pass through Dugu Bo's poison formation.
• God King Tang San found a paved road and a sign identifying the valley as the Interastral Peace Corporation-Spirit Hall Joint Rare Plant Research and Conservation Area, and his smile vanished.