Chapter Summaries

Qin Fang and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy returned to Mingdu as champions and received a joyous welcome and generous rewards. Meanwhile, Ye Xishui learned Qin Fang had secured God-level Metal and Gold of Life, while Shrek Academy returned in defeat.

• Qin Fang and his teammates arrived in Mingdu to cheers, and the Sun Moon Old Emperor welcomed them and offered each a Soul Bone and a rank-eight Soul Tool.
• Jing Hongchen, the academy staff, and the citizens celebrated Qin Fang and the team's victory during a grand ceremony in Sun Moon Plaza.
• Long Xiaoyao delivered God-level Metal to Ye Xishui and told her that Qin Fang had won the tournament and found several dozen pieces of Gold of Life.
• Ye Xishui worried about the cost to Qin Fang's lifespan, then learned he had enough Gold of Life to recover and realized her blueprints could now be used to forge a rank-ten Soul Tool.
• Xuan Zi returned to Shrek Academy with Huo Yuhao and the defeated team, ordered the victory decorations torn down, and Bei Bei told the stunned teachers they had finished as runners-up.

After the tournament, Shrek Academy learned that Jiang Nannan and He Caitou had died and Huo Yuhao and Xu Sanshi were gravely injured. Mu En stabilized Huo Yuhao with the Ice Empress’s sacrifice, then punished Xuan Zi and Wang Yan before Du Busi arrived to collect two soul bones and left with the Body Sect.

• Bei Bei told Zhou Qina and Fan Yu that Jiang Nannan and He Caitou had been killed by students from Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Mu En and the Ice Empress stabilized Huo Yuhao’s injuries, with the Ice Empress sacrificing herself to repair his Spiritual Sea, body, and Martial Soul foundation.
• Mu En demoted Xuan Zi, revoked his Sea God Pavilion Master candidacy, and punished Wang Yan and Huo Yuhao for their conduct during the tournament.
• Du Busi demanded a hundred-thousand-year soul bone, and Mu En gave him two soul bones.
• Du Busi led the Body Sect’s Titled Douluo out of Shrek Academy after warning that fighting them could bring heavy casualties.

After the tournament, Huo Yuhao withdrew from everyone while the fallen contestants began new lives in the Undead Plane. More than a month later, Qin Fang visited the Sun Moon Treasury and chose a Hundred Thousand Year Life Spirit Vine Left Arm Soul Bone.

• Mu En ordered Sea God Pavilion to supervise Xuan Zi's efforts to quit drinking and urged Shrek Academy to correct its declining atmosphere after finishing second in the tournament.
• The Ice Empress's recording told Huo Yuhao that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had been taken by a powerful being, that she had become his Second Martial Soul, and that he should avoid cultivating through contact with Wang Dong.
• After recovering from his injuries, Huo Yuhao became withdrawn, applied for a Single Dormitory, and avoided Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Wang Dong.
• The Sun Moon Empire honored Lin Xi and the other fallen contestants, while Qin Fang healed Meng Hongchen and learned that his intervention had disrupted her plan to counterattack Xu Sanshi.
• Lin Xi, Chen Fei, Chen An, and Li Yan awoke as undead, and Electrolux told them they could return to their world by becoming Rank Nine undead; He Caitou and Jiang Nannan also vowed to make their way back.
• After the Sun Moon Old Emperor let Qin Fang and the others choose a soul bone and a Rank Eight Soul Tool, Peerless Solitary selected a Hundred Thousand Year Life Spirit Vine Left Arm Soul Bone for Qin Fang.

After collecting his tournament rewards and preparing to hunt for his fourth soul ring, Qin Fang left the academy with Ma Xiaotao, who had followed him to repay a debt. They traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest together, while Huo Yuhao also set out there to hunt a soul beast.

• Qin Fang chose the Hundred Thousand Year Life Spirit Vine Soul Bone, and the Green Lotus Phantom offered to try to revive it as a Soul Spirit.
• Qin Fang spent the following months cultivating and studying soul tools, while Jing Hongchen gave him two Ninth Level Automatic Trigger Invincible Shields in thanks.
• Qin Fang said goodbye to Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao before preparing to leave for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qin Fang encountered Ju Zi on the academy grounds, offered her Sugar-coated Haws, and hurried away.
• Electrolux told Qin Fang that Ma Xiaotao had followed him, and Qin Fang confronted her before inviting her to travel with him.
• Qin Fang and Ma Xiaotao set off for the Star Dou Great Forest, while Huo Yuhao also went there to hunt a soul beast with Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Xiao Xiao following secretly.

Qin Fang entered the Star Dou Great Forest seeking a suitable Death Spirit Soul Beast while Electrolux worked on modifying Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. He encountered the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who recognized the Gold of Life on him, and Scarlet King moved to capture him as Xuan Zi blocked Long Xiaoyao from intervening.

• Electrolux continued reshaping Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in the Undead Plane while Qin Fang meditated, and Ma Xiaotao felt comfort from his Black Annihilation Evil Phoenix.
• Qin Fang and Ma Xiaotao reached a town outside the Star Dou Great Forest, parted ways, and Ma Xiaotao secretly followed him into the forest.
• Qin Fang used Green Lotus and Life Perception to avoid dangers as he listened to soul beasts gossiping, then steered clear of Huo Yuhao and the Taotie Douluo on Electrolux's advice.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion spotted Qin Fang, recognized the Gold of Life as stolen sacred gold, and ordered Scarlet King to capture him.
• Long Xiaoyao appeared to help Qin Fang, but Xuan Zi held him back while Scarlet King closed in.

Long Xiaoyao failed to rescue Qin Fang, who was taken to Life Lake and confronted by the Ferocious Beasts of the Core Circle. When Ginseng Baby appeared as Qin Fang’s Soul Spirit, Di Tian recognized a possible path toward peaceful coexistence between humans and soul beasts, while Ginseng Baby learned why the Ferocious Beasts had once taken his roots.

• Scarlet King took the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Qin Fang back to the Core Circle, while Long Xiaoyao threatened Di Tian and gave him three days to keep Qin Fang alive.
• At Life Lake, Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts suspected Qin Fang of killing the Little Ginseng Spirit and moved to kill him.
• Ginseng Baby emerged from Qin Fang and begged the Ferocious Beasts to spare his master, prompting Di Tian to ask Qin Fang for an explanation.
• Qin Fang explained that Ginseng Baby had become his Soul Spirit, and Di Tian saw their bond as a possible chance for humans and soul beasts to coexist.
• Bi Ji described Ginseng Baby’s past, and the Ferocious Beasts explained that they had taken his roots to help him survive his next Heavenly Tribulation.

Qin Fang negotiated with Di Tian to bring selected Soul Masters to contract with Soul Beasts, then revealed his Green Lotus Martial Soul, which caused Ten Thousand Demon King and every Plant-type Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest to submit to an unseen Emperor. Di Tian suspected the Emperor had returned, though he could not understand how she had become a human's Martial Soul.

• Ginseng Baby told Di Tian that becoming Qin Fang's Soul Spirit had accelerated his cultivation, preserved his Soul Skills, and saved his life, though he could no longer leave Qin Fang.
• Qin Fang argued that Soul Spirits could offer aging or noncombative Soul Beasts a chance at life and might reach the Divine Realm with a human who became a god.
• Di Tian agreed to cooperate with Qin Fang and invited him to bring up to nine gifted Soul Masters to contract with Soul Beasts in one year.
• Bi Ji took Qin Fang to Life Lake, where he revealed his Green Lotus Martial Soul and drew life energy from the surrounding plants.
• Ten Thousand Demon King submitted before the Green Lotus and welcomed its Emperor, while Plant-type Soul Beasts across the forest knelt in worship.
• Di Tian concluded that the Emperor had probably returned and wondered how she could have become Qin Fang's Martial Soul.

The Green Lotus Phantom saved the Silver Dragon King and ended the threat against Qin Fang, who was welcomed as an honored guest of the soul beast clan. Di Tian then showed Qin Fang his vast Soul Bone collection, leaving him to consider the newest and most tempting pieces.

• The Silver Dragon King sent a Green Lotus Seed into Life Lake, thanked the Green Lotus Phantom, and ordered Di Tian to treat Qin Fang as the soul beast clan’s honored guest.
• The Green Lotus Phantom offered Ten Thousand Demons King a future chance to become Qin Fang’s Soul Spirit, and Ten Thousand Demons King became Qin Fang’s personal guard.
• Bi Ji summoned the hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, and Di Tian instructed them to respect Qin Fang while the beasts gathered in the Core Circle.
• Qin Fang watched the Evil God Black Panther perform for the assembled soul beasts before Di Tian took him to an underground cave.
• Di Tian showed Qin Fang thousands of Soul Bones and explained the origins and abilities of several, including a Soul Devouring Demon Beast Heart Soul Bone.

Qin Fang fused with the Soul Devouring Demon Beast’s Heart Soul Bone, and Electrolux purified its will while the Skeleton Emperor used it to temper Qin Fang’s bones. Qin Fang survived a brief burst of Soul Devouring cultivation, leaving his body strengthened but injured beside Life Lake.

• Qin Fang took more than thirty soul bones from Di Tian, including the Soul Devouring Demon Beast’s Heart Soul Bone, and began fusing with it beside Life Lake.
• The demon beast’s will tried to seize Qin Fang’s body, but Electrolux purified it and turned its will into motes of light that entered Qin Fang’s bones.
• The Skeleton Emperor tempered Qin Fang’s skeleton with the demon beast’s power, while the black-and-white bone patterns coexisted with the green aura in his muscles.
• Qin Fang activated Soul Devouring and drew Soul Power into himself through a vortex spanning ten miles, alarming Bi Ji and the six Ferocious Beasts.
• After cultivating for a hundred breaths, Qin Fang stopped, spat blood, and smiled despite his injuries.

Qin Fang agreed to hunt a Hundred Thousand Year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with Di Tian and summoned Long Xiaoyao to join them. Elsewhere, Huo Yuhao left after absorbing a Soul Beast, while Ma Xiaotao fought an eighty-thousand-year Crimson Earth Demon Elephant.

• Qin Fang wondered whether Soul Devourer patterns could improve Soul Tools after examining his new Soul Bone.
• Di Tian told Qin Fang about the immortal Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and offered to help him hunt it.
• Qin Fang agreed to depart immediately and contacted Long Xiaoyao, who reluctantly agreed to come to the Core Circle.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Taotie Douluo after absorbing a spiritual-type Soul Beast, then hurried toward Shrek City.
• Ma Xiaotao suppressed an eighty-thousand-year Crimson Earth Demon Elephant, drawing Taotie Douluo's attention.

Ma Xiaotao defeated the Crimson Earth Demon Elephant but was nearly killed by the Evil God Black Panther before Taotie Douluo drove it away. Meanwhile, Qin Fang joined Di Tian and Long Xiaoyao to investigate the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger’s lair, where they found its undead remains.

• Ma Xiaotao killed the Crimson Earth Demon Elephant with her Sixth Soul Skill, then faced an ambush by the Evil God Black Panther.
• Taotie Douluo kicked the Evil God Black Panther away, and Ma Xiaotao began healing and preparing to absorb the fallen beast’s soul ring.
• Ma Xiaotao told Xuan Zi that her investigation through Qin Fang had confirmed a massive Evil Soul Master organization was hidden in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Long Xiaoyao confronted Di Tian in the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Circle, but Qin Fang intervened and persuaded them to travel together.
• Di Tian led Qin Fang and Long Xiaoyao to the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger’s lair, where Qin Fang found the beast reduced to a huge skeleton and Electrolux offered to handle it.

Long Xiaoyao and Di Tian battled the Undead Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger, with Long Xiaoyao demonstrating his strength before Di Tian defeated it. Qin Fang approached the weakened tiger and asked it to become his Soul Spirit.

• Di Tian warned Long Xiaoyao about the Undead Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger’s Evil God Thorn, and the tiger awoke and challenged them.
• Long Xiaoyao used his Dark Saint Dragon form, domains, and attacks against the tiger, then shattered its tail hook with his strongest Level 9 Forging Hammer.
• Di Tian considered killing Long Xiaoyao, but Qin Fang reminded him that Long Xiaoyao had always treated him well, so Di Tian held back.
• Di Tian joined the battle, and Long Xiaoyao withdrew; Di Tian crushed the tiger and defeated it.
• Di Tian told Qin Fang to try to subdue the weakened tiger as his Soul Spirit, and Qin Fang approached it under Long Xiaoyao’s and Di Tian’s protection.
• Qin Fang used his Vertical Eye on Forehead to find the tiger’s hidden life force and asked whether it would become his Soul Spirit.

Qin Fang forced the Undead Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger to become his soul spirit after defeating it in a spiritual-power fight. The tiger’s Hundred Thousand Year soul ring and torso Soul Bone empowered Qin Fang, who reached Level 41 as the Skeleton Emperor began transforming.

• Qin Fang revealed the Undead Stone Fragment that sustained the Undead Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger and pressured it into becoming a soul spirit.
• The tiger entered Qin Fang’s Spiritual Sea and tried to seize his body, but Electrolux confronted it and demanded a contract.
• The tiger refused to submit to a weaker human, so Electrolux arranged a spiritual-power duel between it and Qin Fang.
• The tiger’s temporal domain turned it into a small cub, but Qin Fang beat it until it surrendered.
• Electrolux created a master-servant Soul Spirit Contract, binding the tiger to Qin Fang.
• The tiger’s Hundred Thousand Year soul ring and torso Soul Bone appeared, Qin Fang’s Fourth Soul Ring turned scarlet, and his Soul Power rose to Level 41 while the Skeleton Emperor began transforming.

Qin Fang absorbed the Undead Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger’s Soul Ring and returned to the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Circle with Di Tian and Long Xiaoyao. After weighing Di Tian’s proposal for several days, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion agreed to undergo Attribute Guidance and Fate Link with Qin Fang.

• The Skeleton Emperor subdued the Undead Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger, and Qin Fang absorbed its Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, reaching Soul Power level forty-four.
• Qin Fang examined the Undead Saint Stone, then agreed to follow Di Tian back to the Core Circle with Long Xiaoyao.
• Di Tian proposed that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion undergo Attribute Guidance and Fate Link with Qin Fang, citing her failing Destiny Force and Qin Fang’s growing fortune.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion used her Eye of Destiny and saw that Qin Fang’s fortune blazed like the sun, then considered Di Tian’s suggestion that she cultivate in human form beside him.
• Long Xiaoyao fought Bear Monarch while Qin Fang waited at Life Lake, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion eventually approached Qin Fang and agreed to the Attribute Guidance and Fate Link.

Qin Fang and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion completed their Fate Link, but she briefly discovered his life beyond Douluo Continent before a strange power erased those memories. The Emperor Auspicious Beast decided to accompany Qin Fang to the human world, leaving Long Xiaoyao worried about the consequences if she came to harm.

• Long Xiaoyao told Qin Fang to open his Vertical Eye on Forehead as he and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion began Attribute Guidance.
• Qin Fang and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion exchanged memories and linked their fates beside Life Lake.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion saw Qin Fang's past life as a cancer patient and learned he came from beyond the fourth wall, then panicked until Qin Fang comforted her.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion woke after a day with her memories of Qin Fang's previous life erased, and she and Qin Fang greeted each other warmly.
• The Emperor Auspicious Beast asked to accompany Qin Fang to the human world, and Qin Fang agreed after she threatened to reveal an embarrassing childhood story.
• Long Xiaoyao warned Qin Fang that the Emperor Auspicious Beast's death in the human world could provoke another Beast Tide.

Qin Fang brought the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Ten Thousand Demons King to Mingdu, while Tang San discovered that his scheme involving the Auspicious Beast was disrupted. Electrolux and the two emperors agreed to act against the hidden danger, and Qin Fang revealed he knew of a Realm that could help.

• Di Tian entrusted the Emperor Auspicious Beast to Qin Fang, and the Fate Link controlling her was severed but remained partly connected.
• Tang San sensed the change in Wutong's fate, saw Qin Fang's connection with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and failed to deduce Qin Fang's fate.
• Electrolux told the Green Lotus Emperor and Skeleton Emperor about the god's scheme and urged them to act; they agreed to find a separate Realm for their plan.
• Long Xiaoyao escorted Qin Fang, Ten Thousand Demons King, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion into Mingdu, then left to consult Ye Xishui.
• Qin Fang settled Little Jin Ni and Ten Thousand Demons King into his academy villa, and Little Jin Ni frolicked with him in her lion form while they bathed.
• Electrolux informed Qin Fang about the hidden danger and the need for a Realm, and Qin Fang said he knew of a suitable place.

Qin Fang sought a small plane to remove a hidden danger inside the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Ye Xishui gave him the locations and keys to two abandoned divine inheritance planes. After returning to the Holy Spirit Cult, Qin Fang learned that the cult was preparing to gain another Black Annihilation Saintess.

• Qin Fang listed possible planes to Electrolux and agreed to resolve the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's problem within seven days.
• Long Xiaoyao told Ye Xishui that Di Tian had sent the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and the Ten Thousand Demons King to Mingdu with Qin Fang.
• Qin Fang brought the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and the Ten Thousand Demons King to Ye Xishui, then asked her and Long Xiaoyao for help finding a small plane.
• Ye Xishui gave Qin Fang a map and the keys to the abandoned Rakshasa God and Angel God inheritance planes.
• Ye Xishui told Long Xiaoyao that she had touched the barrier to becoming a god.
• Scorpion Tiger Douluo brought Qin Fang to the Holy Spirit Cult, where Zhong Liwu announced that the cult would gain another Black Annihilation Saintess.

Qin Fang left the Holy Spirit Cult’s celebration and traveled to the ruins of Spirit City to treat the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. In Rakshasa God's plane, he and his allies began removing Tang Wutong’s Spiritual Power from her Spiritual Sea.

• Zhong Liwu introduced Ma Xiaotao as the Black Annihilation Saintess, and an elder announced that she and Qin Fang would compete to become the next Sect Leader in five years.
• Qin Fang took the Ten Thousand Demons King and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to the ruins of Spirit City, where he opened a hidden passage and entered Rakshasa God's plane.
• The Skeleton Emperor absorbed most of the plane’s evil aura and negative emotions while Qin Fang, the Undead Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion remained there.
• Electrolux, the Green Lotus Phantom, and the Skeleton Phantom began treating the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, soothing her into a deep sleep as they joined their powers in her Spiritual Sea.
• Qin Fang saw that Tang Wutong’s strand of Spiritual Power had formed a second head on the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s spiritual phantom and was consuming her body’s nutrients.

Electrolux and Qin Fang separated Tang Wutong’s Origin soul from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion while Tang San tried to protect his plan. Qin Fang escaped with the sleeping beast, and Di Tian discovered that the Emperor Auspicious Beast’s destiny thread had been severed.

• Electrolux used Soul Decomposition to separate Tang Wutong’s Will from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, while the Green Lotus Phantom kept the beast’s Spiritual Power intact.
• Tang San’s spiritual avatar confronted the simulated Rakshasa God, but the God of Destruction erased Tang San’s intrusion with Destruction Divine Thunder.
• The God of Destruction recovered Tang Wutong’s Origin soul and demanded an explanation from Tang San, who blamed the Rakshasa God and charged off to confront him.
• Electrolux imprisoned Tang Wutong’s Spiritual Power in the Tri-Color Halo, then sent her Origin soul into the Rakshasa God’s realm as Qin Fang and the others fled.
• The Ten Thousand Demons King brought Qin Fang and the sleeping Three-Eyed Golden Lion back to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Di Tian found that the Emperor Auspicious Beast’s destiny thread had been severed.

Qin Fang returned to Mingdu with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, while Huo Yuhao remained consumed by grief and Tang San began plotting against the soul beasts again. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion led Qin Fang to an Antique Street stall, where she asked about a supposed soul bone.

• Di Tian let the Ten Thousand Demons King take Qin Fang away from the Star Dou Great Forest after sensing the forest had improved and developing killing intent toward Qin Fang.
• Qin Fang reached Mingdu safely with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who woke in his arms and joined him for steamed buns.
• At Shrek Academy, Mu En warned Huo Yuhao that his hatred could turn him into an Evil Soul Master, but Huo Yuhao returned to his cold, relentless training.
• Tang San merged a fragment of Tang Wutong's soul origin into Wang Dong, then began plotting renewed persecution of the soul beasts.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion led Qin Fang to Antique Street and asked an elderly vendor the price of a supposed soul bone, while Qin Fang suspected a scam.