Chapter Summaries

Xu Xingyu offered to restore the Earth Dragon Ancestor and free him in exchange for Ya Lin'er and her father's loyalty, and Ya Lin'er accepted. She received the Dragon Mark and the Dragon King cores needed for their plan, while the Earth Dragon Ancestor quietly approved of her connection to Xu Xingyu.

• Xu Xingyu explained that he would give Ya Lin'er and the Earth Dragon Ancestor the Mountain Dragon King and Time Dragon King divine positions so they could restore the Earth Dragon Ancestor and break his seal.
• Xu Xingyu asked for their loyalty and for one of them to bear his Dragon Mark and guard the Dragon Valley Small World, then revealed that he and Gu Qiuxi came from a different plane and era.
• Ya Lin'er agreed to Xu Xingyu's proposal and volunteered to bear the Dragon Mark, partly because she wanted to remain connected to Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi.
• Ya Lin'er told Xu Xingyu that her father already knew about the possible condition and would not object.
• Xu Xingyu gave Ya Lin'er the two Dragon King cores and marked her hand with his essence blood, making her his servant.
• The Earth Dragon Ancestor had approved the arrangement because he trusted Xu Xingyu and hoped the bond would give Ya Lin'er a chance to grow closer to him.

Xu Xingyu and Ya Lin'er traveled to help Ji Dong, who was defending the Forest Demons from the Eastern Wood Empire’s Extermination Legion. Ji Dong held off Chen Long'ao despite their cultivation gap, but Chen Aolong gathered the power of a thousand knights for a deadly attack.

• Xu Xingyu sensed that Ji Dong had run into trouble and invited Ya Lin'er to go with him while Gu Qiuxi rested.
• Ji Dong and Huo'er fought alongside the Forest Demons as the Extermination Legion slaughtered their people and threatened their home.
• Chen Long'ao ordered his thousand knights to form the Battle-Killing Revolving Circle and isolate Ji Dong from the Forest Demons.
• Ji Dong used his Ultimate Twin Fires and a Five Elements Formation to clash with Chen Aolong's attacks despite being twenty levels weaker.
• Chen Aolong gathered the power of the thousand knights and unleashed the Annihilation Demon Spear against Ji Dong.

Ji Dong exhausted his Magic Power defeating Chen Long'ao’s thousand-rider attack, then faced a fatal spear strike. Xu Xingyu and Ya Lin'er arrived through a spatial rift and intervened, leaving Xu Xingyu to confront Chen Long'ao.

• Chen Long'ao combined the Magic Power of his thousand cavalrymen to unleash the Annihilation Demon Spear at Ji Dong.
• Ji Dong joined his Ultimate Twin Fires into the Sun Moon Yin Yang Realm, clashing with the spear and devastating more than half the Extermination Legion.
• Chen Long'ao charged the exhausted, immobile Ji Dong, but nine-colored scales protected him from the killing blow.
• A spatial rift opened, and Xu Xingyu and Ya Lin'er emerged, causing Chen Long'ao to retreat.
• Ji Dong recognized Xu Xingyu and Ya Lin'er, and Xu Xingyu told him to recover while he handled the rest.

Xu Xingyu arrived to rescue Ji Dong and the Forest Demons, then destroyed the Extermination Legion with his Thousand-Degree Fire God technique. Chen Long'ao fled after Xu Xingyu spared him and warned him not to return.

• Xu Xingyu ordered Ya Lin'er to take Ji Dong and the Forest Demons away while she repelled the cavalry's attacks with liquid metal weapons.
• The Extinction Cavalry drank the Source of Life, recovered, and formed the Annihilation Demon Spear again.
• Xu Xingyu summoned the Thousand-Degree Fire God and sent it to attack the Annihilation Demon Spear.
• The flame giant shattered the spear and engulfed the Extinction Cavalry, leaving Chen Long'ao as the sole survivor.
• Xu Xingyu warned Chen Long'ao to leave and never return, and Chen Long'ao ran for his life.

Xu Xingyu extinguished the forest fire and Buer restored the burned vegetation, allowing Ji Dong to feel safer about the Forest Demons’ migration. Xu Xingyu explained why gods were forbidden from interfering in lower realms, then challenged Ji Dong’s assumption that the Goddess of Nature had made no preparations to protect her followers.

• Xu Xingyu summoned a powerful rainstorm to extinguish the flames left by the Thousand-Degree Fire God.
• Buer spread a green sanctuary that healed the scorched earth and restored the forest, and the Forest Demons worshipped her as the Goddess of Nature.
• Ji Dong felt relieved that the Forest Demons could migrate to the Magical Beast Mountain Range under Vermilion Bird’s protection, but resented the Goddess of Nature for failing to defend them.
• Xu Xingyu explained that gods could damage a plane by controlling its laws, so Divine Realm rules required them to ascend after a year and stop interfering in lower realms.
• Ji Dong asked why the Goddess of Nature had not protected her followers before ascending, and Xu Xingyu asked why he thought she had taken no precautions.

Xu Xingyu explained that the Goddess of Nature’s exhausted protection had left the Forest Demon race vulnerable, and that divine restrictions prevented gods from intervening freely. Ji Dong renewed his resolve to become a god to protect Lie Yan, then learned Xu Xingyu planned to leave the plane and had tasks for him.

• Xu Xingyu told Ji Dong that the Goddess of Nature had left a Divine Sense to protect the Forest Demons, but its energy had finally run out.
• Xu Xingyu explained that divine rules were meant to prevent lower realms from depending too heavily on gods, and said the Forest Demons had failed to grow strong under their protection.
• Ji Dong asked whether becoming a god would let him protect Lie Yan, and Xu Xingyu said it was his only path but offered no guarantee of success.
• Ji Dong resolved to pursue godhood so he could stand beside Lie Yan.
• Xu Xingyu said he would leave the plane in a few days and asked Ji Dong to do some things for him, surprising Ji Dong.

Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi led the Five Elements Dragon Clan in the Divine Dragon Ceremony, where Xu Xingyu discovered that the clan’s accumulated faith in the Dragon God was flowing into him. Although the power could potentially raise him to God Level, he rejected becoming a god through faith and resolved to follow his own path.

• Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi presided over the Divine Dragon Ceremony in their dragon forms, leading the Five Elements Dragon Clan in roars and offerings of Dragon Flame.
• As the clan worshipped, Xu Xingyu felt his strength increasing and used his Divine Sense to investigate.
• Xu Xingyu discovered that the Power of Faith from this and earlier ceremonies was merging into him as the Dragon God's inheritor.
• Xu Xingyu realized that absorbing the accumulated faith might let him break through to God Level, but decided against relying on faith to become a god.

Xu Xingyu turned the Five Elements Dragon Clan’s Power of Faith into a Dragon God statue that strengthened and protected the clan, then explained why he refused to use faith to advance his own cultivation. He left the Dragon Emperor with control of the statue and revealed his plan to eventually create a divinity beyond the Dragon God’s.

• Xu Xingyu expelled the Power of Faith that had begun merging with him and transformed it, together with the dragon flames, into a Dragon God statue.
• The statue raised a shield around the Three Harmonies Mountain Range, expelled outsiders, and improved the Dragon Clan’s bloodline power and cultivation conditions.
• Xu Xingyu told the Dragon Emperor how the statue worked, warned that it needed replenishing with faith, and gave him a Star Dragon stone seal to activate it.
• The Dragon Emperor asked Xu Xingyu to absorb some Power of Faith for himself, but Xu Xingyu refused because he wanted to rely on his own strength rather than become constrained by faith.
• Xu Xingyu planned to study the Dragon God Divinity, eventually pass it to a suitable child, and create a divinity that surpassed it after facing the universe’s laws.

Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi prepared to leave the Five Elements Plane after arranging protection for Ji Dong and the Douluo Dragon Valley Small World. Xu Xingyu left the Dragon Emperor with a warning about a coming war, and the Dragon God Mark confirmed that the continent’s future was back on track.

• Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi bade farewell to Xiang Longhuang and the others before returning to their own world.
• Xu Xingyu gave Ya Lin'er the Time Dragon King's Dragon Core and appointed her guardian of the Douluo Dragon Valley Small World, with the Dragon Emperor guarding it until she was strong enough.
• Xu Xingyu arranged for Ya Lin'er to serve as Ji Dong's bodyguard for five years and gave her a protective dragon scale that could summon his Divine Sense and shield her from mental attacks.
• Xu Xingyu decided not to manipulate Sidong into seeking a mount partner and instead asked the Dragon Emperor to care for Ji Dong and warned him of a coming war between the Light and Dark continents.
• The Dragon God Mark confirmed that Xu Xingyu had brought the plot back on track and that the Light Five Elements Continent would not ultimately be conquered.

Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi returned to their own Dragon Valley after completing the Third and Fourth Dragon God Trials, where Gu Yuena and Ya Lin'er welcomed them. Ya Lin'er recounted how Xu Xingyu’s intervention had changed Lie Yan and Ji Dong’s fate, leaving Xu Xingyu wondering who now held the God Kings’ positions of Kindness and Evil.

• Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi returned to their own Dragon Valley and met Gu Yuena and Ya Lin'er, who had watched over the valley for ten thousand years.
• Ya Lin'er teased Xu Xingyu about compensation for her long service, but Gu Yuena and Gu Qiuxi guarded him and he chose to hear Ya Lin'er's account instead.
• Ya Lin'er explained that Xu Xingyu’s Divine Sense had helped Lie Yan defeat the God of Slaughter and brought her and Ji Dong before the Five Great God Kings.
• The Five Great God Kings gave Lie Yan and Ji Dong the Goddess of Nature and God of Destruction examinations, requiring them to prove themselves while resolving the Five Elements Plane’s crisis.
• Xu Xingyu realized Lie Yan and Ji Dong had become the Goddess of Nature and God of Destruction, then wondered who had inherited the positions of Kindness and Evil.

Xu Xingyu left Gu Qiuxi to continue cultivating in the Dragon Valley Small World, then returned to the Spirit Contract Pagoda with Gu Yuena after seven days. There, he faced the women he had kept waiting, who demanded compensation and warned him not to pursue any more women.

• Xu Xingyu said farewell to Ya Lin'er, while Gu Qiuxi chose to remain in the Dragon Valley Small World and improve her cultivation.
• Gu Yuena confronted Xu Xingyu about winning Qiu'er over and claimed her compensation during their journey back.
• Seven days later, Gu Yuena and Xu Xingyu arrived at the Spirit Contract Pagoda, where the staff welcomed them.
• Xu Xingyu entered Gu Yuena's office and found Wang Dong'er, Ma Xiaotao, Xu Jiujiu, Jiang Nannan, and Xu Yanxue waiting for him.
• The women confronted Xu Xingyu for making them wait and told him the seven of them, including Gu Yuena and Gu Qiuxi, were enough and that he must stop pursuing others.

After a seven-day poker battle, Xu Xingyu returned to his duties and pursued clues about the Space Dragon King’s remains, planning to question Yan Feng at the upcoming Soul Master Tournament in Mingdu. Before leaving the Spirit Contract Pagoda, he went to address the unstable Purifying Flame Hong Lian, which was eroding its seals.

• Xu Xingyu compensated Xu Yanxue, then summoned Gu Qiuxi and spent seven days in a one-against-seven poker battle with her and the other six women.
• With Xu Jiujiu’s help, Xu Xingyu handled his work as young master of the Spirit Contract Pagoda.
• Xu Xingyu connected the Stone of Space he had taken from Yan Feng to his search for the Space Dragon King’s remains and planned to capture Yan Feng at the tournament in Mingdu.
• Xu Xingyu went to the Pagoda’s eighth underground level, where Gu Yuena and Electrolux were guarding the dangerous Purifying Flame Hong Lian.
• Xu Xingyu learned that Hong Lian’s God Officer-level power was eroding Lie Yan’s seal, making it a threat that had to be dealt with before he left.

Xu Xingyu and his companions discussed how to control the unstable Purifying Flame Hong Lian, which could explode with the force of a God Level expert. Electrolux proposed making it Xu Xingyu’s third Soul Spirit, and Buer offered to repair his Sea of Consciousness during the dangerous ritual, leaving the decision to him.

• Gu Yuena and Electrolux explained that the Purifying Flame Hong Lian was absorbing energy to attempt Spirit Gathering, but its soul-burning nature kept it from gathering enough spiritual Qi.
• Electrolux warned that helping Hong Lian with Divine Sense was too dangerous and suggested strengthening its seal instead, but then proposed making it Xu Xingyu’s third Soul Spirit.
• Gu Yuena objected that the incomplete Hong Lian might self-destruct during the contract and severely damage Xu Xingyu’s Divine Sense, but Xu Xingyu asked to hear Electrolux’s plan.
• Electrolux offered to preside over the contract and add a Spirit Gathering mark, raising the chance of success to around twenty or thirty percent while Xu Xingyu endured the flames.
• Buer appeared and offered to use her energy as the Life Core to repair Xu Xingyu’s Sea of Consciousness, potentially raising the chance of success to about fifty percent, though he would suffer both soul-burning and repair pain.

Xu Xingyu chose Electrolux’s method to form a Soul Spirit Contract with the Purifying Flame Hong Lian, despite Gu Yuena’s concerns about the danger. As the contract began, the flame rejected the runes and attacked Xu Xingyu’s Sea of Consciousness, leaving him to endure the pain and gather spiritual Qi for the crucial next step.

• Xu Xingyu decided to attempt the contract and asked Buer to protect his Sea of Consciousness, while Gu Yuena reluctantly supported his choice.
• Electrolux prepared the contract, and Gu Yuena sealed the surrounding space so she could intervene if the attempt failed.
• Electrolux began the ritual, and Xu Xingyu accepted the contract request through his Divine Sense.
• The Purifying Flame Hong Lian rejected the contract and attacked Xu Xingyu’s Sea of Consciousness with soul-burning flames.
• Buer’s green-gold seed repaired the damage as Xing Xuan and Abyss hindered the flames, and Xu Xingyu endured the pain while gathering spiritual Qi.

Xu Xingyu completed a Soul Spirit Contract with the Purifying Flame Hong Lian, gaining two Soul Rings and her soul-burning ability. Hong Lian took human form as Miss Lysithea, and her flirtatious introduction left Gu Yuena exasperated.

• Xu Xingyu fed spiritual Qi to the Purifying Flame Hong Lian, who stopped resisting and accepted him.
• Electrolux completed the Soul Spirit Contract, giving Xu Xingyu eighth and ninth pinkish-white Soul Rings and the ability to burn souls.
• The Purifying Flame Hong Lian thanked Xu Xingyu for giving her a true self and transformed into a pink-haired young woman.
• The young woman introduced herself as Miss Lysithea and invited Xu Xingyu to call her darling, making Gu Yuena wonder why there was another one.

Xu Xingyu learned why Lysithea was so forward with him, then got caught between her and Buer as they fought over his attention. Gu Yuena approached with a chilling smile, leaving Xu Xingyu expecting trouble for the night.

• Xu Xingyu realized Lysithea’s boldness came from the love-filled emotions she had absorbed while sealed, which also shaped her desire for a romance with him.
• Lysithea clung to Xu Xingyu and teased him, but he tried to resist her advances out of loyalty to his partners.
• Buer appeared in her complete form, accused Lysithea of troubling her daddy, and argued with her over Xu Xingyu.
• Lysithea pulled Xu Xingyu into her embrace and continued teasing Buer, leaving him trapped between them.
• Gu Yuena approached Xu Xingyu with a cold smile and demanded that he introduce Lysithea to her as his wife.
• Xu Xingyu noticed Xing Xuan and Leiying had also come out.

Xu Xingyu selected candidates for the Spirit Contract Pagoda’s team in the upcoming Soul Master Tournament, which now allowed sects to compete. As the team took shape, the chapter also explained how Ye Guyi joined the Pagoda and how Tang Ya’s Tang Sect had become its covert division.

• After being punished by Gu Yuena and the six sisters, Xu Xingyu returned to his duties and began selecting tournament team members.
• Xu Xingyu’s candidate list included Wang Dong'er, Gu Qiuxi, Jiang Nannan, Xu Yanxue, Ye Guyi, Nan Qiuqiu, and Tang Ya, each with their own reasons for competing.
• Ye Guyi mistook Electrolux and his light-attribute undead for Evil Soul Masters, fought him, then learned the truth and became his third disciple.
• Tang Ya joined the team to repay the Spirit Contract Pagoda’s support and demonstrate the Tang Sect’s value as its covert division.
• Xu Sanshi, Dugu Yanran, and He Caitou chose to compete for Shrek instead.

Xu Xingyu decided to join the Soul Master Tournament as a reserve so he could confront the Holy Spirit Cult. He told Gu Yuena he suspected the cult had a spy inside the Spirit Contract Pagoda’s Sun Moon branch, and resolved to pursue them for both public and personal reasons.

• Xu Xingyu judged the tournament roster unusually powerful and decided to take a reserve spot in case he faced the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Gu Yuena questioned why Xu Xingyu wanted to compete when the tournament posed no challenge to him.
• Xu Xingyu told Gu Yuena about fighting Yan Feng and obtaining the Stone of Space connected to the Space Dragon King.
• Xu Xingyu showed Gu Yuena a report stating that the Spirit Contract Pagoda’s attack found supplies left behind at the Holy Spirit Cult’s former headquarters.
• Xu Xingyu reasoned that the cult had likely learned of the attack in advance through a spy in the Spirit Contract Pagoda’s Sun Moon branch.
• Xu Xingyu vowed to confront the Holy Spirit Cult regardless of the cost.

Xu Xingyu trained the tournament team for a month before driving them to Mingdu in a newly developed Soul Tool car. As the team arrived in the Sun Moon Empire's heavily fortified capital, Gu Yuena admired human ingenuity and reflected on how meeting Xu Xingyu had changed her path.

• Xu Xingyu taught the team through captain-led scrimmages and restricted battles against himself, recording the fights so they could review their performance.
• After about a month of training, Xu Xingyu and Gu Yuena led the team toward the Sun Moon Empire in a Soul Tool car.
• The team entered Mingdu and saw its advanced defenses, including fortified towers, armed patrols, and Soul Guidance barriers.
• Gu Yuena detected Soul Tools near the palace that could store compressed Soul Power and potentially kill a Limit Douluo.
• Gu Yuena felt grateful that she had met Xu Xingyu and thought about how foolish her counterpart in the original story had been.

Xu Xingyu took Gu Yuena and the other girls to register the Spirit Contract Pagoda for the Soul Master Tournament, where he spotted Huo Yuhao with a team he believed belonged to the Holy Spirit Cult. He concluded that Huo Yuhao had become an Evil Soul Master and decided he would have to eliminate him before he grew even more dangerous.

• Xu Xingyu examined the Sun Moon Empire soldiers’ Soul Tool Armor and suspected their engineers had advanced toward creating Humanoid Soul Tools.
• Xu Xingyu stopped at the tournament registration area, concealed his soul-powered car, and used his pressure to deter people from approaching the girls.
• Xu Xingyu and the girls registered the Spirit Contract Pagoda for the Soul Master Tournament and received their entry passes and hotel keys.
• Xu Xingyu recognized Huo Yuhao among a black-robed team and inferred that the team belonged to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xu Xingyu reflected on his past conflict with Huo Yuhao and decided that, as an Evil Soul Master carrying evil god Qi, Huo Yuhao needed to be eliminated.