Chapter Summaries

Chu Xuan chose the Divine Realm Living Ancestor title, binding his injury and death to every living being in the Divine Realm. He used its Sky Screen Communication to reveal the bond to the gods, who dismissed him and ordered him killed, as he prepared to prove his claim.

• Chu Xuan chose to bind the Divine Realm and received the Divine Realm Living Ancestor title, whose effects shared injuries and death with the gods and allowed yearly communication.
• Chu Xuan activated Sky Screen Communication, causing a vast golden screen to appear across the Divine Realm and alarming the Five Great God Kings.
• Chu Xuan appeared on the screen, introduced himself as a mortal from Douluo Star, and told the gods that his injuries and death would affect them too.
• The gods disbelieved Chu Xuan, and the God of Evil ordered an investigation and said Chu Xuan must die.
• Chu Xuan raised his hand and announced that he would prove the bond with a miracle.

Chu Xuan demonstrated that injuries he inflicted on himself were shared by the gods, then demanded their protection while threatening to hurt himself again. The gods believed the danger was real, but the God of Evil provoked Chu Xuan and triggered another round of shared pain.

• Chu Xuan slapped himself, causing the Asura God, the God of Evil, and many other gods to suffer matching blows across the Divine Realm.
• The Goddess of Life tried to heal the gods, but their slap marks remained, leading the God Kings to suspect their injuries would heal only when Chu Xuan's did.
• Chu Xuan offered to hang himself to prove the gods might share his death, and the Asura God shouted for him to stop.
• Chu Xuan told the gods to keep him safe in Spirit City and said he wanted to negotiate for their protection and benefits.
• The God of Evil threatened Chu Xuan, who pulled his own hair and made gods across the Divine Realm jerk their heads backward and hurt their necks.

After Chu Xuan tied his life to the Divine Realm, the God Kings agreed to protect him on Douluo Star, extend his lifespan, and help him become stronger while seeking a way to break the binding. A holy divine light then descended on Spirit City, signaling the gods’ first move.

• The Asura God stopped the God of Evil and God of Destruction from arguing, then asked Chu Xuan what he wanted from the gods.
• Chu Xuan told the gods to figure out how to help him survive and grow on Douluo Star, then ended the Sky Screen Communication.
• The Asura God and the God Kings agreed to keep Chu Xuan alive, protect him through the Spirit Hall, strengthen him, and investigate how to undo their binding.
• The Goddess of Life explained that her blessing could extend Chu Xuan’s lifespan to about a thousand years, but that becoming a god was the key to giving him more time.
• Chu Xuan considered using the Divine Realm’s surveillance of Douluo Continent to communicate his needs, then watched divine light and golden feathers descend over Spirit City and the Worship Hall.

The Angel God and the God Kings ordered Spirit Hall to find Chu Xuan, protect him, and treat him as supreme, naming him the Spirit Hall God Child. Afterward, the Asura God summoned the Gods of Curses and Contracts to investigate the binding linking Chu Xuan’s fate to the Divine Realm.

• The Angel God and the God Kings projected themselves into the Worship Hall, where the Asura God showed Chu Xuan’s portrait and ordered the worships to find him, obey his demands, and keep him safe.
• The Asura God told the worships to invite Chu Xuan to Spirit Hall and awaken his Martial Soul, stressing that they must invite him rather than force him.
• The Angel God declared Chu Xuan the Spirit Hall God Child, granting him supreme status and ordering all Spirit Hall members to obey him.
• Qian Daoliu ordered the seven great worships to search for Chu Xuan and summon Bibi Dong and the Elder Hall.
• The Asura God summoned the God of Curses and the God of Contracts to test whether they could undo Chu Xuan’s binding to the Divine Realm.

The God of Curses and the God of Contracts both suffered severe backlash when they tried to undo Chu Xuan’s binding, losing their First-Level God ranks. The gods then made Chu Xuan Spirit Hall’s supreme God Child, and their projections appeared before him as Spirit Hall’s leaders were forced to kneel.

• The God of Curses used his divine power and godhood’s origin to break the binding, but the attempt failed and the backlash reduced him to a Second-Level Deity.
• The God of Contracts tried the same approach despite warnings, suffered backlash, and also fell to the rank of a Second-Level Deity.
• The Asura God abandoned attempts to identify the binding and offered both injured gods treasures from his treasury.
• Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile escorted Chu Xuan to the Worship Hall and announced that he was Spirit Hall’s supreme God Child, whose orders everyone had to obey.
• Bibi Dong challenged the announcement, but divine pressure forced the gathered leaders to their knees as the gods’ projections appeared before Chu Xuan.

The Five Great God Kings tried to awaken a Martial Soul for Chu Xuan, but his choice to reject their ceremony gave him the Creator God-level Myriad Manifestations Origin Martial Soul and Innate Soul Power at level thirty. After the Goddess of Life extended his lifespan, the gods offered him several gifts to support his growth.

• The Five Great God Kings began awakening Chu Xuan’s Martial Soul, and the system offered him a choice between accepting their ceremony for a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring or rejecting it for the Myriad Manifestations Origin Martial Soul.
• Chu Xuan chose to reject the ceremony, and the power of his new Martial Soul repelled the gods’ origin power before a colorful droplet entered his dantian.
• The Asura God confirmed that Chu Xuan had awakened a more terrifying Martial Soul on his own and revealed that his Innate Soul Power was level thirty.
• The Goddess of Life gave Chu Xuan Life Blessing, raising his lifespan to a thousand years.
• The Asura God promised Chu Xuan the Asura God Sword, and the other gods offered him a hundred-thousand-year-old Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, Kindness Blessing, and three God-Given Soul Rings.

Chu Xuan accepted the God of Destruction’s Soul Rings, upgraded them into three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, and used his new blessing to detect Bibi Dong’s hostility. He accused Bibi Dong of putting Yu Xiaogang ahead of Spirit Hall and demanded an explanation.

• The Asura God offered Chu Xuan the gods’ support and urged him to seek help at the Angel Temple if he faced problems.
• Chu Xuan chose to accept three God-Given Soul Rings, then used Soul Ring Upgrade Cards to turn them into rings aged ten, twenty, and thirty thousand years.
• Qian Daoliu and the others praised the gods after seeing Chu Xuan’s upgraded Soul Rings, while Chu Xuan considered his blessings from the Godess of Kindness and the Goddess of Life.
• Chu Xuan saw that Bibi Dong had the strongest mark of malice among those present and ordered everyone except the Worship Hall members, Bibi Dong, Ghost Douluo, and Chrysanthemum Douluo to leave.
• Chu Xuan sat on a throne, accused Bibi Dong of neglecting Spirit Hall for Yu Xiaogang, and challenged her to answer for it.

Chu Xuan challenged Bibi Dong’s judgment of Yu Xiaogang and warned that her personal feelings threatened Spirit Hall. After choosing to expose Yu Xiaogang, he recounted how Yu Xiaogang had pursued Bibi Dong to access Spirit Hall’s library, leaving her to confront the possibility that she had been deceived.

• Bibi Dong rejected Chu Xuan’s accusations, while Qian Daoliu and the worshippers lined up behind him.
• Chu Xuan chose the reward that exposed Yu Xiaogang, which granted him the Wheel of Time.
• Chu Xuan told the gathering that Yu Xiaogang had pursued Bibi Dong to reach restricted library floors and left Spirit City after finding no solution to his Martial Soul problem.
• Chu Xuan claimed Yu Xiaogang had pretended to be a tragic lover and let Bibi Dong believe she was responsible for their separation.
• Chu Xuan asked whether Yu Xiaogang had ever cared about Bibi Dong’s position or the risks she took for him.

Chu Xuan used the Wheel of Time to prove that Yu Xiaogang had pursued Bibi Dong to steal Spirit Hall’s research and had never loved her. Bibi Dong was left devastated, and Chu Xuan urged her to step aside as Pope while she recovered.

• Chu Xuan accused Yu Xiaogang of using Bibi Dong to gain access to Spirit Hall’s restricted library floors and of later becoming involved with his cousin Liu Erlong.
• Bibi Dong demanded proof, so Chu Xuan summoned the Wheel of Time and showed Yu Xiaogang arriving in Spirit City and seeking entry to the library’s restricted floors.
• The Wheel of Time revealed Yu Xiaogang privately mocking Bibi Dong and admitting through his actions that he had feigned affection to pursue his research.
• Bibi Dong collapsed in tears as the images confirmed that Yu Xiaogang had deceived her, while the worshippers and Spirit Hall officials watched in silence.
• Chu Xuan asked Bibi Dong what she would do next and suggested that she hand the position of Pope to someone else while she calmed down.

Bibi Dong accepted Chu Xuan’s revelation about Yu Xiaogang and began planning to ruin him, while Chu Xuan warned Spirit Hall that Tang Hao’s son threatened its future. The enshrined ordered a search for the boy, and Chu Xuan settled into the Worship Hall to consider how to gain his fourth Soul Ring.

• Bibi Dong promised Chu Xuan she would handle Yu Xiaogang within three days or resign as Pope.
• Chu Xuan told the seven enshrined that Tang Hao’s son was tied to Spirit Hall’s future, then asked them to decide how to respond.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Spirit Hall to investigate Tang Hao’s route and find and kill his son.
• Bibi Dong sent Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to locate Yu Xiaogang, suppress the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s businesses, and publicize evidence that he had borrowed the source material for the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.
• Chu Xuan checked his status panel, saw that his Soul Power had reached level thirty-nine, and considered stirring up trouble to trigger another God-Level Choice.

Chu Xuan decided to leave the Worship Hall in search of people who might trigger a God-Level Choice, while Spirit Hall made plans to protect him and announced that it had a God Child. The announcements exposed Yu Xiaogang’s plagiarism, leaving the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan bracing for Spirit Hall’s retaliation.

• Chu Xuan decided to explore Spirit City and seek out people connected to the plot so he could trigger a God-Level Choice.
• Qian Daoliu assigned Huo Ling Douluo to protect Chu Xuan and ordered two cardinals to manage his daily affairs.
• Spirit Hall announced that Yu Xiaogang had taken information for the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul from its library and revealed that it had a God Child.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to investigate Spirit Hall’s God Child and prepare for possible retaliation over Yu Xiaogang’s actions.
• Yu Yuanzhen disowned Yu Xiaogang and ordered the clan’s members and businesses to stay alert.

Ning Fengzhi assessed Spirit Hall’s announcement of a mysterious God Child while the Five Great God Kings searched for a way to escape Chu Xuan’s binding. Their attempt to withdraw the God of White Clouds from the Divine Realm failed, destroying his divine godhood and confirming that the binding still reached him.

• Ning Fengzhi warned Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo that Spirit Hall’s God Child could be a powerful young talent and ordered them to investigate.
• Ning Fengzhi defended Ning Rongrong’s choice to attend Shrek Academy, while Sword Douluo left angrily.
• The Godess of Kindness proposed that leaving the Divine Realm might free a god from Chu Xuan’s binding, and the God Kings chose the God of White Clouds to test it.
• The God of White Clouds withdrew from the Divine Realm, but his divine rank rapidly fell; the God Kings declared him back, stopping the decline only after his divine godhood had vanished.
• Chu Xuan received a system notification that the God of White Clouds had tried to undo the binding and been punished.

Chu Xuan spotted Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan spies in Spirit City and used a system choice to capture them. After defeating both spies with his Myriad Manifestations Clone, he left them unconscious and considered the fight easy.

• Chu Xuan learned that the system had marked two Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan spies and chose to capture them for a reward.
• Chu Xuan followed the spies through Spirit City while Elder Huo Ling watched over him from a rooftop.
• Yu Shuyin and Yu Shuhua discussed how difficult it would be to uncover the Spirit Hall’s secrets as they prepared to investigate elsewhere.
• Chu Xuan appeared in the spies’ hotel room and sent a golden dragon and white tiger clone to attack them.
• Chu Xuan knocked Yu Shuyin and Yu Shuhua unconscious, then emerged from space and dismissed how easily they had been defeated.

Chu Xuan captured two Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan spies in Spirit City, prompting Spirit Hall leaders to criticize their security and tighten their response. In the following days, Chu Xuan searched unsuccessfully for more spies while learning about his new Soul Bone, then considered investigating Spirit Hall Academy.

• Chu Xuan captured two unconscious spies and brought them to the Martial Soul Temple, while Elder Huo Ling realized he had acted before she noticed them.
• Chu Xuan rebuked Bibi Dong for Spirit Hall’s lax security and left the captured spies for interrogation; Qian Daoliu then reprimanded Huo Ling for failing to protect him.
• Huo Ling explained how Chu Xuan had captured the spies, and Qian Daoliu ordered Spirit Hall agents to patrol closely and investigate suspicious people.
• Bibi Dong suspected the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had sent spies in response to Spirit Hall’s announcement and business suppression, then ordered intensified pressure on the clan.
• Chu Xuan spent the next few days searching Spirit City for spies and learned that his Soul Power had reached rank forty and his fused Myriad Manifestations Torso Bone could generate Soul Power.
• Chu Xuan considered searching Spirit Hall Academy because he thought spies might be targeting its teachers and students for intelligence.

Chu Xuan searched Spirit Hall Academy for spies and spotted a boy whose strange behavior drew a system mission identifying him as a Heaven Dou Empire secret guard. Chu Xuan chose to capture him and received a red line pointing toward the plaza.

• Chu Xuan searched Spirit Hall Academy for spies but found none until he reached the plaza where students had gathered around Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan.
• A boy confessed to Hu Liena, and Yan knocked him down and beat him when he refused to give up.
• Chu Xuan noticed that the boy’s breathing stayed steady despite Yan’s beating and suspected that he was hiding his strength.
• The system revealed that the boy was a Heaven Dou Empire secret guard and offered Chu Xuan three choices.
• Chu Xuan chose to capture the secret guard for the Myriad Treasures Divine Eyes, and a red line appeared before his eyes leading toward the plaza’s center.

Chu Xuan exposed a disguised Heaven Dou Imperial Family spy at Spirit Hall Academy and knocked him unconscious. Hu Liena became captivated by Chu Xuan, who left with the captured spy while she still did not know his name.

• Chu Xuan identified the student Yan was beating as a disguised Soul King and a Heaven Dou Imperial Family secret guard.
• Hu Liena stepped in to protect Chu Xuan and showed an immediate interest in him, alarming Yan and Xie Yue.
• Chu Xuan announced that the academy had failed to notice an infiltrator and struck the disguised man unconscious with one punch.
• Chu Xuan tore off the man's human-skin mask, revealing an elderly spy, then carried him away from the square.
• Hu Liena regretted not learning Chu Xuan's name, while Elder Huo Ling wondered how he had found the spy.

Chu Xuan handed a captured Heaven Dou Shadow Guard to Bibi Dong, who planned to hunt down the other spies and punish Yu Xiaogang and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. He then sent Elder Huo Ling to retrieve a special Blue Silver Grass near Holy Soul Village, warning him that a powerful expert might be nearby.

• Chu Xuan brought a Heaven Dou Imperial Family Shadow Guard to Pope Hall and urged Bibi Dong to strengthen Spirit City's defenses.
• Bibi Dong said she would use the captured spy to draw out the others and ordered Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo to prepare a search.
• Bibi Dong told Chu Xuan she had sent people after Yu Xiaogang and was attacking the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's businesses.
• Bibi Dong offered to arrange a place for Chu Xuan at Spirit Hall Academy, but he said he would leave Spirit City after some time.
• Chu Xuan gave Elder Huo Ling a map and ordered him to find a special Blue Silver Grass in a cave near Holy Soul Village, warning him about a powerful expert.

Chu Xuan crushed the God of Destruction’s God-Given Soul Ring and gained a sixty-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring, then heard that Bibi Dong planned to travel to Nuoding City after Spirit Hall’s investigation into Yu Xiaogang and Tang San hit a wall. He told Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to accompany Bibi Dong and watch how she handled the matter.

• Chu Xuan considered bringing Ah Yin to Spirit Hall and attending Shrek Academy, while Elder Huo Ling went to the cave near Holy Soul Village.
• Bibi Dong’s orders led Spirit Hall to arrest fifteen Heaven Dou Shadow Guards and other spies in Spirit City.
• Chu Xuan chose to crush the God of Destruction’s descending God-Given Soul Ring, gaining a sixty-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring and rising from Soul Power Level forty to forty-six.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo told Chu Xuan that someone was concealing information about Yu Xiaogang and his disciple Tang San.
• Chu Xuan told the two Titled Douluo to accompany Bibi Dong to Nuoding City and observe how she handled the investigation.

Chu Xuan chose to accompany Bibi Dong to Nuoding City, where he demonstrated a self-created flying Soul Skill and Bibi Dong stayed close to him. Yu Xiaogang spotted Bibi Dong in the city and feared she had come to deal with him.

• Chu Xuan chose the system reward that sent him to Nuoding City to witness Bibi Dong's awakening, and Bibi Dong agreed to the trip.
• Bibi Dong offered to carry Chu Xuan, but he revealed his self-created Wings of Gale Soul Skill and flew on his own.
• Chu Xuan and Bibi Dong traveled with a small group to Nuoding City and settled at its Spirit Hall Branch.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to Nuoding Academy after spotting Bibi Dong and feared she had come to punish him.

After Spirit Hall exposed Yu Xiaogang’s plagiarism, he worried about his reputation but decided to stay in Nuoding City for Tang San’s sake. Chu Xuan visited Nuoding Academy, met Xiao Wu, and chose to reveal Tang San’s future nature in exchange for powerful rewards.

• Yu Xiaogang learned that Spirit Hall’s announcement had reached Nuoding City and feared everyone would discover he had plagiarized his theories from its library.
• Chu Xuan set out for Nuoding Academy without an escort, relying on Elder Huo Ling to protect him from the shadows.
• The gatekeeper recognized Chu Xuan’s fine clothes and let him enter the academy, where Chu Xuan observed the students and their limited potential.
• Xiao Wu approached Chu Xuan and asked whether he was a new student; after learning he was only visiting, Chu Xuan triggered the God-Level Choice System.
• Chu Xuan chose to tell Xiao Wu about her future and Tang San’s hypocrisy, then asked her to show him around the academy.