Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo realized he had been reborn as Di Tian in the golden age of Douluo I and resolved to change the Soul Beasts’ future by pursuing human rebirth and godhood. As he absorbed Tian Meng’s essence, he considered taking over a human body and wondered whether Bi Ji and Zi JI would remain with him.

• Lin Mo awakened as Di Tian beside the Lake of Life, recognized Bi Ji, and tested his immense Soul Power.
• Di Tian sensed the thriving Star Dou Great Forest and realized he was in the era of Douluo I, before the Soul Beasts’ later decline.
• Di Tian learned that the Silver Dragon King was secluded and decided to prevent the Soul Beasts’ tragic future by seeking a way to become human and pursue godhood.
• Zi JI told Di Tian it was their turn to absorb Tian Meng’s origin, and Di Tian returned to the Lake of Life with her.
• Di Tian began absorbing Tian Meng’s remaining essence and considered possessing a human body, then wondered whether Bi Ji and Zi JI would still stay with him.

Di Tian began planning to build human forces loyal to the Soul Beast Clan, after confirming that Tang San had not yet arrived in this era. He left the Star Dou Forest with Bi Ji and Zi JI, forced four Holy Dragon Sect Soul Masters to submit, and offered Tuo Ba Yun his sacred blood to evolve his Martial Soul.

• After a month of absorbing Tian Meng's essence, Di Tian reached 730,000 years of cultivation and decided to seek the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to form Dual Soul Cores.
• Di Tian left the Star Dou Forest with Bi Ji and Zi JI, then noticed four Soul Kings hunting in the forest's outer region.
• Di Tian suppressed the four Soul Kings with his dragon presence and demanded their submission; after they agreed, he killed the Soul Master with the Fire Ape Martial Soul.
• Di Tian gave Tuo Ba Yun, the Holy Dragon Sect's grand elder, a drop of sacred blood that could evolve his Martial Soul in exchange for lifelong service to the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King Clan.
• Di Tian told Bi Ji and Zi JI he intended to cultivate human forces for the Soul Beast Clan and asked them to build forces of their own.

Di Tian used the Lifebound Essence Blood of himself, Bi Ji, and Zi JI to transform three human Soul Kings into powerful Soul Masters and ordered them to build a faction loyal to him. A century later, after Tuo Ba Yun and the two women reached Titled Douluo, they left to establish Black Dragon Mountain, while Di Tian and his companions resumed their journey to the Ice and Fire Poles Eye.

• Bi Ji and Zi JI gave Lin Wanqing and Long Aoyang their Lifebound Essence Blood, while Tuo Ba Yun received Di Tian's.
• Tuo Ba Yun's Martial Soul evolved into a Golden-Eyed Black Dragon and he reached Soul Saint; Lin Wanqing and Long Aoyang also gained evolved Martial Souls and became Soul Emperors.
• Di Tian ordered the three humans to cultivate in the Star Dou Great Forest, with Tuo Ba Yun to lead them in establishing a sect and passing on their Martial Souls.
• After a hundred years of cultivation, Tuo Ba Yun became a Super Douluo, and Lin Wanqing and Long Aoyang both reached Titled Douluo.
• Tuo Ba Yun, Lin Wanqing, and Long Aoyang left the Star Dou Great Forest to establish Black Dragon Mountain, while Di Tian, Bi Ji, and Zi JI headed for the Ice and Fire Poles Eye in the Sunset Forest.

At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Di Tian helped Bi Ji attempt to condense a Soul Core while Zi JI cultivated nearby and learned why Di Tian planned to possess a human. After three months of practice, Bi Ji successfully condensed a Soul Core.

• Di Tian brought Bi Ji and Zi JI to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and began teaching Bi Ji to condense a Soul Core.
• Di Tian stopped Zi JI from picking the immature Lovesick Heartbreak Red and explained his plan to possess a human, reclaim godhood, and free Soul Beasts from their limits.
• Bi Ji repeatedly failed to compress her Soul Power, while Di Tian used his ultimate darkness Soul Power to help Zi JI endure cultivation in the spring.
• Di Tian gave Bi Ji focused instruction and helped her absorb the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' dragon Qi.
• After three months of practice, Bi Ji opened her eyes and told Di Tian she had succeeded in condensing a Soul Core.

Di Tian trained to form a Yin-Yang Complementary Second Soul Core while Bi Ji and Zi JI advanced their cultivation. Meanwhile, Tuo Ba Yun seized control of the Holy Dragon Sect, renamed it Black Dragon Mountain, and withdrew it from the continent’s affairs.

• Bi Ji condensed her first Soul Core, and Di Tian began teaching Zi JI to refine the Ice-Fire Twin Dragon Kings’ energy with his Myriad Dragon Flame technique.
• Di Tian entered three months of seclusion to condense a Second Soul Core, but his first Soul Core repeatedly caused the new core to explode and injure him.
• Bi Ji practiced using her Soul Core while Zi JI endured the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, raising her cultivation from two hundred and forty thousand years to two hundred and eighty thousand years before leaving the spring.
• Tuo Ba Yun seized the Holy Dragon Sect, killed its sect master, and forced the elders to accept him as their new leader.
• Tuo Ba Yun renamed the sect Black Dragon Mountain, announced its withdrawal from continental affairs for a hundred years, named Long Aoyang and Lin Wanqing as his equal-status wives, and offered vassal status to other sects.
• The Elephant Armor Sect, Black Tiger Sect, Wind Sword Sect, Fire Leopard Sect, and Spirit Hall sought information, but Black Dragon Mountain turned visitors away; Qian Daoliu recalled Spirit Hall’s scout.

Di Tian condensed his second Soul Core, Purple Moon, with help from the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, whose Soul Spirits dissipated in the process. On the way back to the Lake of Life, he killed a fifty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and found a torso Soul Bone he planned to give to Tuo Ba Yun.

• After hundreds of failed attempts, Di Tian made another try at condensing Purple Moon alongside Eclipse.
• When the two Soul Cores clashed, the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings emerged from the pool and helped them stabilize, sacrificing their remaining energy and Soul Spirits.
• Di Tian woke three days later with both Soul Cores successfully formed, then left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Bi Ji and Zi JI.
• Di Tian told Bi Ji that he planned to share the Soul Beasts’ revival plan with the Ferocious Beasts and have them place undercover agents among humans.
• On the way to the Lake of Life, Di Tian killed a fifty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with one strike.
• Di Tian found the tiger’s Demon Evil God Devouring Heaven Bone and planned to give it to Tuo Ba Yun.

Di Tian shared Tian Meng’s essence with the Scarlet King and Myriad Demon King for a century before revealing his plan to have Soul Beasts possess humans and build a new future. When they hesitated, he took them to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he offered to teach them the Soul Core Method and showed the Myriad Demon King a collection of Immortal Herbs.

• Di Tian returned to the Lake of Life with Bi Ji and Zi JI, then shared portions of Tian Meng’s origin power with the Scarlet King and Myriad Demon King.
• For a hundred years, Di Tian continued sharing Tian Meng’s energy with the two beasts, while Xiong Jun privately mocked him for it.
• Di Tian told the Scarlet King and Myriad Demon King about the Dragon God and his plan for Soul Beasts to possess humans, but both hesitated to give their life-bound essence blood and abandon their cultivation.
• Di Tian used his dark and spatial powers to take the two beasts, Bi Ji, and Zi JI to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, demonstrating the Soul Core’s power along the way.
• Di Tian offered to teach the Scarlet King and Myriad Demon King the Soul Core Method, then showed the Myriad Demon King countless Immortal Herbs, leaving him trembling with excitement.

Di Tian forced the Myriad Demon King and Scarlet King to submit, rewarded the Scarlet King with an immortal herb, and helped him survive a heavenly tribulation that raised his cultivation to 350,000 years. After he and the Myriad Demon King began learning to form Soul Cores, Di Tian sensed Tuo Ba Yun arriving with two Soul Ancestors.

• Di Tian claimed the twelve immortal herbs and made the Myriad Demon King submit, promising him one herb of his choice.
• Di Tian pulled the Scarlet King from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, accepted his submission, and gave him the Infernal Delicate Apricot in exchange for half a year in the fire pool.
• The Scarlet King consumed the herb, faced his heavenly tribulation, and reached 350,000 years of cultivation.
• Di Tian sent Tuo Ba Yun a message to bring a Soul Ancestor with a plant Martial Soul and one with a fire-type Beast Martial Soul to the Sunset Forest.
• Tuo Ba Yun found two Soul Ancestors and set out with them for the Ice and Fire Poles Eye.
• Di Tian and Bi Ji began teaching the Scarlet King and Myriad Demon King to form Soul Cores, and Di Tian sensed Tuo Ba Yun approaching.

The Myriad Demon King chose the aromatic silk beauty, while Di Tian had the Myriad Demon King and Scarlet King transform two human Soul Ancestors into beast-souled agents bound by Enslavement Contracts. Di Tian then led Bi Ji and Zi JI into Dragon Valley, where Zi JI reacted emotionally to the Dragon Clan’s remains as Di Tian explained the valley’s history.

• The Myriad Demon King chose the aromatic silk beauty after agonizing over the immortal herbs, and Di Tian gave it to him.
• Tuoba Yun brought two Soul Ancestors to Di Tian, who ordered the Myriad Demon King and Scarlet King to transform their Martial Souls and bind them with Enslavement Contracts.
• Di Tian told Tuoba Yun to arrange marriages for his children and gave him a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Soul Bone before sending him away.
• Di Tian set out for Dragon Valley with Bi Ji and Zi JI, explaining that Zi JI could find opportunities there to break her bottleneck and condense a Soul Core.
• Di Tian opened the entrance to Dragon Valley near the Star Luo Imperial Palace, and Zi JI wept as she sensed the Dragon Souls among the remains.
• Di Tian explained that the Dragon God had created Dragon Valley as a resting place for the Dragon Clan and recounted the Mountain Dragon Clan’s destruction.

After burying the dragons in Dragon Valley, Di Tian gained the Dragon God's Tears and the Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone, then faced his 800,000-year tribulation. When the final lightning overwhelmed him, he summoned the Dragon God's power, and an emerald dragon began to appear.

• Di Tian, Zi JI, and Bi Ji finished burying the dragon remains, and Zi JI earned the recognition of many dragon souls.
• The dragon souls formed the Dragon God's Tears and revealed the Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone, which Di Tian took after paying his respects.
• Di Tian absorbed the torso bone, reached 800,000 years of cultivation, and was caught in his great tribulation inside Dragon Valley.
• Di Tian used the Mountain Dragon Domain and swallowed tribulation lightning to refine his body and gain the nascent power of destruction.
• When the final wave of lightning overwhelmed him, Di Tian activated the Dragon God's Tears, draining his spiritual power to summon aid.
• The Dragon God's Tears produced a translucent emerald dragon whose form began to grow clearer.

After surviving his tribulation with help from the Emerald Dragon King, Di Tian returned to the Star Dou Great Forest and began preparing the Ferocious Beasts to take over human bodies and cultivate anew. Xiong Jun resisted the plan, but Di Tian defeated him and forced Slave Seals onto him, the Scarlet King, and the Myriad Demon King.

• The Emerald Dragon King shielded Di Tian from the final lightning bolts, allowing Di Tian to complete his tribulation and spend three months refining the divine lightning.
• Di Tian returned to the Lake of Life, where he caught Xiong Jun absorbing Tian Meng's life essence and transported them both away.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Di Tian fed Tian Meng to the pools and released dragon essence and souls, accelerating the refinement of Tian Meng.
• The Scarlet King and the Myriad Demon King told Xiong Jun that Di Tian planned to have them take over human bodies and cultivate anew.
• Xiong Jun rejected the plan and attacked Di Tian, who struck him down with the Dragon God Claw.
• Di Tian overpowered the three Ferocious Beasts' resistance and placed Slave Seals on Xiong Jun, the Scarlet King, and the Myriad Demon King.

Di Tian trained the Ferocious Beasts to condense Soul Cores and gather Soul Bones, then led them to the Far North to recruit the Snow Empress for his plan to break the Soul Beast Clan’s barrier to godhood. The Snow Empress refused and fought him, and the Ice Empress appeared as Di Tian pressed his demand.

• Di Tian spent a century training the Ferocious Beasts, who condensed Soul Cores and later gathered hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones.
• Di Tian ordered Tuo Ba Yun and his companions to reopen Black Dragon Mountain and establish a sect near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then gave them Soul Bones.
• Di Tian summoned the Ferocious Beasts and led them to the Far North to invite the Snow Empress to help break the rule preventing Soul Beasts from becoming gods.
• The Snow Empress refused Di Tian’s invitation, and Zi JI confronted her before Di Tian blocked her attack.
• Di Tian struck the Snow Empress’s ice wall and broke her Ultimate Ice Domain, then demanded that she join him.
• The Snow Empress refused again, and the Ice Empress appeared.

Di Tian forced the Snow Empress to agree to join his plan to transform and claim Divine Positions for Soul Beasts after defeating the Ice and Snow Empresses. He then searched the continent for a white dragon’s remains, recovered its Dragon Core, and prepared the Ferocious Beasts for the next stage of his plan.

• Di Tian demanded that the Snow Empress join his plan, then defeated her and the Ice Empress’s fusion skill and seized the Ice Empress to force her sister’s agreement.
• The Snow Empress agreed to join Di Tian, who released the Ice Empress and gave her three days before they discussed their transformation.
• Di Tian led the Ferocious Beasts across Douluo Continent and found the remains of a White Dragon King deep in the mountains.
• Di Tian recovered the White Dragon King’s Dragon Core and told Zi JI to cultivate beside the corpse to seek its recognition.
• Di Tian gave the Ferocious Beasts three days off and ordered them to arrange successors for their races.

Di Tian took the Snow Empress from the Far North and led the Ferocious Beasts to hunt whale Soul Beasts for Whale Rubber, despite Bi Ji’s concerns about the sea’s balance. Meanwhile, Tuo Ba Yun visited the Tianshui Family to recruit it into Black Dragon Mountain and threatened its leaders when they hesitated.

• Di Tian told Tuo Ba Yun to prepare the Tianshui Family as a human faction for the Snow Empress’s future possession.
• The Snow Empress appointed the Ice Empress sole ruler of the Far North and left with Di Tian’s group.
• Di Tian hunted an Azure Sword Whale, explained Whale Rubber’s uses, and directed the Ferocious Beasts to collect it from whale-type Soul Beasts.
• Bi Ji warned Di Tian that hunting whales could affect other Sea Soul Beasts, and he proposed hunting Great White Sharks as well.
• Tuo Ba Yun demanded that Shui Qinghan let the Tianshui Family join Black Dragon Mountain, summoned its elders, and threatened violence if she refused.

Tuo Ba Yun moved Skywater Academy and the Skywater Family into Sunset Forest, then announced the founding of the Black Dragon Sect and invited the continent’s major powers to its ceremony. As the powers prepared to attend and Spirit Hall postponed its papal succession ceremony, Di Tian hunted a hundred-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast and delivered Whale Rubber to Tuo Ba Yun, who looked ahead to the sect’s founding.

• Eleven Titled Douluo arrived in Skywater City, addressed Tuo Ba Yun as Sect Master, and helped move Skywater Academy after Shui Binghan agreed to his demands.
• Heaven Dou spies saw the Titled Douluo and fled, while the Skywater Family took Skywater City and Skywater Academy into Sunset Forest.
• Tuo Ba Yun announced the founding of the Black Dragon Sect and invited the empires, Spirit Hall, and the major sects to a ceremony in three days.
• Qian Daoliu suspended Spirit Hall’s papal succession ceremony, and the invited powers called meetings to discuss the Black Dragon Sect.
• Di Tian and the six other Ferocious Beasts killed a hundred-thousand-year Netherworld Whale King and collected its Whale Rubber.
• Di Tian brought Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber to Tuo Ba Yun, gave him a reverse scale, and departed; Tuo Ba Yun reassured pregnant Long Aoyang that he was ready for the sect’s founding ceremony.

The Black Dragon Sect held its founding ceremony at Black Dragon Mountain, drawing the Star Luo and Heaven Dou Imperial Families, Spirit Hall, and the continent’s major sects. Tuo Ba Yun formally established the sect before the gathered guests.

• The Tianshui Family welcomed visitors to Black Dragon Mountain as its members served as hostesses for the ceremony.
• Dai Weiheng and Zhu Zhuyu arrived with the Star Luo Imperial Family and learned that the Tianshui Family had joined the Black Dragon Sect.
• Qian Daoliu arrived with Spirit Hall’s powerful delegation, followed by the major sects, while Tang Chen asked where Qian Daoliu had gone.
• Shui Ling'er told members of the Elemental Academies that her family head had decided to join the Black Dragon Sect and praised the mountain’s cultivation conditions.
• Tuo Ba Yun declared the Black Dragon Sect established and vowed that its flame would be passed down forever.

At the Black Dragon Sect’s founding celebration, Tuo Ba Yun received the visiting factions and revealed his Golden-Eyed Black Dragon Martial Soul to Yu Chenxiao. As several sects considered joining the Black Dragon Sect, Golden Crocodile Douluo challenged Tuo Ba Yun to a match.

• The princes of the Star Luo and Heaven Dou Empires traded barbs over the Tianshui Family joining the Black Dragon Sect, and Tuo Ba Yun gave them a cool reception.
• Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen sensed abundant energy and possible heavenly treasures within the Black Dragon Sect, then spoke with Tuo Ba Yun at the celebration.
• Ning Meilan considered investing in the Black Dragon Sect, but Long Hua cautioned her after noticing Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen had both come.
• Yu Chenxiao asked about the Martial Soul that made his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon tremble, and Tuo Ba Yun identified it as the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon.
• Tuo Ba Yun courteously toasted the four Lower Four Sects, whose leaders considered joining the Black Dragon Sect, before Golden Crocodile Douluo challenged him to a match.

Golden Crocodile Douluo Jin Cangya challenged Tuo Ba Yun on Spirit Hall’s behalf, but Tuo Ba Yun revealed three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and overwhelmed him with his Golden-Eyed Black Dragon. The fight continued as Jin Cangya relied on a spiritual Soul Bone to resist Tuo Ba Yun’s attack and countered with his own abilities.

• Jin Cangya provoked Tuo Ba Yun into a duel, and the Defense Clan built a reinforced arena with help from Tang Chen and the Black Dragon Sect’s Soul Masters.
• Jin Cangya released his Golden Crocodile King Martial Soul and challenged Tuo Ba Yun to reveal his Soul Rings.
• Tuo Ba Yun displayed three red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, leaving Jin Cangya to ask if they could reconcile.
• Tuo Ba Yun transformed into his Golden-Eyed Black Dragon True Body and used Golden Dragon Intimidation to daze Jin Cangya.
• Jin Cangya’s spiritual skull Soul Bone helped him recover, and he activated Golden Scale Armor before dodging most of Tuo Ba Yun’s Black Dragon Flame.
• Jin Cangya struck with his tail, but Tuo Ba Yun’s darkness power caused piercing pain at its base.

Tuo Ba Yun brutally defeated Jin Cangya despite Qian Daoliu’s warning, then refused to back down when Qian Daoliu confronted him. Qian Daoliu entered the arena and challenged Tuo Ba Yun, who accepted as Tang Chen watched.

• Tuo Ba Yun used Spatial Guidance and his Black Dragon Sword to sever Jin Cangya’s arm, then overwhelmed him with spatial and spiritual attacks.
• After more than ten minutes, Tuo Ba Yun had severed Jin Cangya’s other arm and a leg, prompting Qian Daoliu to demand that he stop.
• Tuo Ba Yun rejected Qian Daoliu’s appeal, defending his actions as necessary to uphold the Black Dragon Sect’s authority.
• When Qian Daoliu asked whether Tuo Ba Yun would deny him face, Tuo Ba Yun openly challenged him, alarming the assembled sect leaders.
• Qian Daoliu spread his Six-Winged Angel wings, rescued Jin Cangya, and entered the arena to fight Tuo Ba Yun.
• Tuo Ba Yun accepted Qian Daoliu’s challenge as Tang Chen watched from below.

Di Tian possessed Tuo Ba Yun and used the Dragon God Claw to defeat and badly injure Qian Daoliu during the Black Dragon Sect’s founding ceremony. After the ceremony, Di Tian returned to the western sea, where he and the Ferocious Beasts hunted a powerful Taixu Ancient Dragon and discovered that its Whale Pearl could aid the creation of a Second Soul Core.

• Qian Daoliu pressured Tuo Ba Yun to apologize, but Tuo Ba Yun used his reverse scale and ordered the Black Dragon Sect members not to intervene.
• Di Tian left his hunt in the western sea and possessed Tuo Ba Yun, transforming his Golden-Eyed Black Dragon into the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King.
• Di Tian unleashed the Dragon God Claw, sacrificing Tuo Ba Yun’s eighth and ninth Soul Rings and shattering his Soul Bones to overwhelm Qian Daoliu’s Angel’s Breath and leave him bleeding.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo begged Di Tian for mercy and fled with Qian Daoliu, while Tang Chen declined to fight Tuo Ba Yun; the Black Dragon Sect then ended the ceremony and postponed cooperation talks for seven days.
• Di Tian returned to the western sea and, with the Ferocious Beasts, hunted a Taixu Ancient Dragon for half a year, obtaining its Whale Pearl, which could resonate with a Soul Core.
• Di Tian kept the Whale Pearl, told Bi Ji it could help her condense a Second Soul Core, and spent the night with her.