Chapter Summaries

Dai Yao persuaded Ice Empress to sacrifice herself for Xue Wu, promising to revive her after he became a god. After Xue Wu gained a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring and Dai Yao accepted another Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s sacrifice for his Sacred White Tiger Spirit, he left the Far North Land and thought about returning to his other wives and confronting Bibi Dong.

• Snow Empress introduced Dai Yao as the Sea God’s inheritor, and Ice Empress agreed to sacrifice herself for Xue Wu after he promised to revive her.
• Ice Empress returned to her clan to make arrangements, then sacrificed herself to Xue Wu a day later, giving her a dazzling red sixth spirit ring.
• Dai Yao accepted the sacrifice of a 190,000-year Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, turning his Sacred White Tiger Spirit’s first ring into a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring.
• Dai Yao promised the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion clan that it would see Ice Empress again, then flew south with Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu.
• Dai Yao considered his remaining spirit rings, his reunion with Zhu Qing and the others, and his unresolved feelings about Bibi Dong as Snow Empress watched him depart.

Shui Bing'er took the Blue Lotus, transforming her appearance and greatly strengthening her Ice Phoenix Spirit, but she and Xue Wu decided to wait at Skywater Academy rather than join Dai Yao in Vast Sea City. After Dai Yao returned to the city, Dugu Yan greeted him with a cold rebuke while Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong watched with teasing smiles.

• Shui Bing'er emerged from the Jade Cocoon transformed, and she explained that her Ice Phoenix Spirit had gained strength and substance.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu declined to accompany Dai Yao to Vast Sea City and agreed to wait for him at Skywater Academy.
• Dai Yao, Shui Bing'er, and Xue Wu shared a final visit at an inn before parting near the Heaven Dou Empire border.
• Three Soul Douluo arrived at the wooden hut seeking the vanished treasure, and the Snow Empress demanded to know what had happened there.
• Several days later, Dai Yao returned to Vast Sea City, where Dugu Yan coldly asked whether he still knew how to come back.

Dai Yao returned to Vast Sea City, where his wives confronted him about his dangerous rescue in Heaven Dou City and learned that he had replaced his lower-age Spirit Rings. Ning Fengzhi then warned him that a catastrophic Beast Tide was brewing, leaving Dai Yao determined to go to Spirit Hall and speak with Bibi Dong.

• Dugu Yan scolded Dai Yao for charging into Heaven Dou City alone, while Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong hid their worry behind the act of being angry.
• Dai Yao revealed four Spirit Rings—one hundred-thousand-year and three red rings—and explained that Sea God's Light had let him erase his lower-age Spirit Rings, though the method could not be used on others.
• Dai Yao recounted the Heaven Dou City conflict, and Dugu Yan warned him not to take such risks again while Zhu Zhuqing welcomed Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu to Vast Sea City.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo visited Dai Yao, and Ning Fengzhi praised his strength before asking to discuss an urgent matter.
• Ning Fengzhi told Dai Yao that unusually active spirit beasts had killed or injured thousands and that a devastating Beast Tide might soon strike the continent.
• Dai Yao recognized that the Beast Tide had not occurred in the original timeline and decided to go to Spirit Hall to meet Bibi Dong.

Dai Yao returned to Spirit City to meet Bibi Dong and investigate Spirit Hall’s relationship with the Beast Tide and the forces within the Worship Hall. Spirit Hall’s leaders gathered to receive him, and Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo escorted him toward Pope Mountain to meet the Pope.

• Dai Yao entered Spirit City using the Pope Token Bibi Dong had given him, and the guards admitted him despite his history as a traitor.
• News of Dai Yao’s return spread, and Spirit Hall’s bishops, Xie Yue, Yan, Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Cyan Luan Douluo gathered along the road to Pope Mountain.
• Xie Yue and Yan discussed Dai Yao’s immense strength, while Yan admitted he could not compete for Hu Liena’s heart.
• Dai Yao arrived, removed his bamboo hat, and greeted the gathered Spirit Hall figures as they sensed the danger he posed.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo invited Dai Yao to meet Bibi Dong, and he followed them toward Pope Mountain.

Dai Yao met Bibi Dong in the Pope's Palace, where she tried to prove her remorse by letting his Sea God Trident pierce her chest. He stopped her from dying, relented toward her, and promised he would not leave again.

• Cyan Luan Douluo warned Dai Yao to call for help if Bibi Dong endangered him, and Dai Yao entered the Pope's Palace alone.
• Bibi Dong sealed the palace and pleaded for Dai Yao's forgiveness, while he accused her of leaving Mighty Lion Douluo untouched.
• Bibi Dong let Dai Yao's Sea God Trident pierce her chest and continued forward, risking death to show her sincerity.
• Dai Yao pulled back the trident and caught Bibi Dong as she collapsed, then told her to use her Soul Power to heal.
• Bibi Dong refused to heal, asked whether Dai Yao would hold her if she were uninjured, and Dai Yao embraced her and promised not to leave again.

Dai Yao reunited with Bibi Dong and heard her suspicions that Golden Alligator Douluo had helped Mighty Lion Douluo conceal his spirit beast identity. Dai Yao concluded Golden Alligator was likely another infiltrator, but his sudden transformation made Bibi Dong question who he was.

• Dai Yao promised Bibi Dong he would not leave again, and she healed her chest wound before sitting with him on the Pope's steps.
• Bibi Dong told Dai Yao that Golden Alligator Douluo had stopped her from killing Mighty Lion Douluo after Dai Yao left.
• Bibi Dong recounted how Golden Alligator's unexplained injury had allowed the Clear Sky Sect to emerge and disrupted the Heaven Dou Palace Change.
• Dai Yao reasoned that Golden Alligator's injury had likely been a staged ruse and concluded that Golden Alligator was a spirit beast infiltrating the Worship Hall.
• Dai Yao's hair and eyes turned black as he declared that the conspirators would pay, and Bibi Dong drew her scepter and demanded to know who he was.

Bibi Dong confronted Dai Yao’s evil persona, learned that he had gained the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger Spirit, and took him to the mountain valley where Da Ming and Er Ming were imprisoned. She offered the two hundred-thousand-year soul beasts as a gift, but they recognized Dai Yao as Xiao Wu’s killer and attacked him, prompting Bibi Dong to declare that their Soul Rings and Spirit Bones belonged to him.

• Bibi Dong threatened Dai Yao’s evil persona, who claimed that her betrayal had helped create him before Dai Yao’s normal persona returned.
• Dai Yao told Bibi Dong that the Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger Spirit Ring had created the evil persona and that he had gained a third Spirit.
• Bibi Dong brought Dai Yao to their former mountain valley and revealed Da Ming and Er Ming imprisoned beside the waterfall.
• Bibi Dong offered Da Ming and Er Ming’s Soul Rings to Dai Yao, but he refused the gift.
• Da Ming and Er Ming recognized Dai Yao as Xiao Wu’s killer and struggled to attack him, so Bibi Dong subdued them and insisted their Soul Rings and Spirit Bones belonged to him.

Dai Yao accepted Bibi Dong's gift of the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python's Spirit Rings, then comforted her and promised to treasure her trust. After Bibi Dong left, he revealed that he had revived Xiao Wu, shocking the two divine beasts.

• Dai Yao agreed to accept the two Spirit Rings after Bibi Dong insisted they were her gift and threatened to let them dissipate.
• Bibi Dong threatened Da Ming and Er Ming when they resisted, but Dai Yao calmed her and asked her to leave the valley.
• Dai Yao reassured Bibi Dong that she was beautiful, and she vowed to trust him before he sent her back to Spirit City.
• Dai Yao revealed his four Spirit Rings to Da Ming and Er Ming, who noticed Xiao Wu's Spirit Ring was missing.
• Dai Yao told Da Ming and Er Ming that he had revived Xiao Wu, leaving them horrified.

Dai Yao persuaded the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python that Xiao Wu had been revived, and they sacrificed themselves to him in exchange for his promise to protect her. After gaining their spirit rings and Spirit Bones, he returned to Spirit City and planned with Bibi Dong to counter the Beast Tide while the war against the Heaven Dou Empire continued.

• Dai Yao explained the conditions for reviving Xiao Wu and used his Sea God Trident to convince the two divine beasts that he had brought her back to life.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape sacrificed themselves to Dai Yao after he promised to let Xiao Wu live safely.
• Dai Yao absorbed their hundred-thousand-year spirit rings and Spirit Bones, pushed his Soul Power past rank ninety, and vowed to confront Di Tian and the Spirit Beast Clan.
• Dai Yao returned to Spirit City and learned from Bibi Dong that a Beast Tide had devastated hundreds of villages and forced Spirit Hall to divert troops from its campaign against the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Dai Yao rejected Bibi Dong's offer to risk her godhood trial and proposed that she finish the war while he held back the Beast Tide in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Dai Yao told Bibi Dong that the Beast Tide had been provoked by the Spirit Beast Clan's schemes against him and declared that he would make them pay.

Before leaving Spirit City for the Star Dou Great Forest, Dai Yao visited old acquaintances. Bibi Dong confronted Qian Daoliu about a possible Beast Tide, then ordered Spirit Hall forces to reinforce Zhennan Pass and conquer the Heaven Dou Empire quickly.

• Dai Yao said farewell to Ferdinand and Salas, visited Xie Yue and Yan, and then left Spirit City carrying the Sea God Trident.
• Bibi Dong entered the Angel God Temple despite Golden Alligator Douluo’s resistance and spoke with Qian Daoliu while Qian Renxue continued her Angel God trial.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Daoliu that signs of a Beast Tide had appeared and asked him to secretly hold down the Spirit Hall Empire while she handled the war and the threat.
• Bibi Dong asked which trial Qian Renxue had reached, then told Qian Daoliu to have her find her after she became a god.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit City’s bishops of Soul Sage rank and above to reinforce Zhennan Pass and directed her senior forces to help take the Heaven Dou Empire within a month.

Dai Yao confronted Di Tian at the Lake of Life and refused to help the spirit beasts gain access to the Divine Realm, even when Di Tian threatened to unleash a Beast Tide on humanity. When Di Tian gathered the Star Dou Great Forest’s spirit beasts to force a choice, Dai Yao declared that he would fight them all and remain until his death.

• Dai Yao reached the Lake of Life and summoned Di Tian with the Sea God Trident.
• Di Tian explained that he would use any means necessary to save the Spirit Beast Clan from extinction and demanded Dai Yao agree to help them become gods.
• Dai Yao rejected Di Tian’s plan, arguing that it would endanger humanity, and challenged him to settle their dispute in battle.
• Di Tian refused to risk the Spirit Beast Clan’s future in a duel and summoned spirit beasts from across the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Dai Yao refused Di Tian’s terms and vowed to fight every spirit beast and remain until death, leaving the gathered beasts stunned.

Dai Yao used the threat of mutual destruction to convince Di Tian not to launch the Beast Tide, then agreed to remain at the Lake of Life while negotiations continued. Di Tian introduced six powerful spirit beasts and said Bi Ji and Zi Ji would accompany Dai Yao during his stay.

• Dai Yao confronted Di Tian with his prepared defenses and threatened to fight to the death if the Spirit Beast Clan launched the Beast Tide.
• Di Tian warned Dai Yao that the Beast Tide could kill his loved ones, but Dai Yao concealed his resolve and recognized that Di Tian was seeking a concession.
• Di Tian ordered the spirit beasts to retreat and proposed that Dai Yao stay in the Star Dou Great Forest instead of forcing an immediate decision, and Dai Yao accepted.
• Di Tian introduced Bi Ji, Ten Thousand Demons King, Bear Lord, Scarlet King, Demon Spirit, and Zi Ji, while Bear Lord threatened Dai Yao and Di Tian and Bi Ji stopped him.
• Dai Yao warned Bear Lord against offending him again, and Di Tian promised to restrain Bear Lord before saying Bi Ji and Zi Ji would accompany Dai Yao at the Lake of Life.

Di Tian hosted Dai Yao at the Lake of Life and explained that humans and spirit beasts depended on one another but were trapped in a cycle of killing over Spirit Rings. Dai Yao argued that peaceful coexistence was impossible while the two races competed for dominance, leaving Di Tian shaken before he departed and left Bi Ji and Zi Ji with Dai Yao.

• Di Tian assigned Bi Ji and Zi Ji to accompany Dai Yao and showed him the former home of Er Ming, who had become Dai Yao's Spirit Ring.
• Bi Ji served Dai Yao and Di Tian Water of Life, and Di Tian compared the drink's scarcity to the spirit beasts' slow growth and vulnerability to human consumption.
• Di Tian asked Dai Yao what relationship humans and spirit beasts truly had, and Dai Yao answered that it was one of killing and being killed.
• Di Tian warned that spirit beasts' extinction would leave human spirit masters without Spirit Rings, making the two races interdependent.
• Dai Yao rejected peaceful coexistence as impossible and challenged Di Tian to choose which race should dominate, leaving Di Tian shaken by the risks of surrendering the Spirit Beast Clan's power.
• Di Tian left Dai Yao with Bi Ji and Zi Ji beside the Lake of Life.

Di Tian concealed his plan to enter the Divine Realm and protect Bi Ji and Zi Ji by sending them to Dai Yao. After Dai Yao and Bi Ji grew closer, Di Tian’s unease about Dai Yao prompted him to send Bear Lord to investigate the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Bear Lord confronted Di Tian for sending Bi Ji and Zi Ji to Dai Yao, and Di Tian told the spirit beasts that their sacrifice could help the clan reach the Divine Realm.
• Di Tian privately told his Lord that he planned to sneak into the Divine Realm, then reflected that sending Bi Ji and Zi Ji to Dai Yao was meant to protect them.
• After more than ten days with Dai Yao, Bi Ji asked why he kept teasing Zi Ji, and Dai Yao explained that he understood the women’s mission and Zi Ji’s conflicted feelings.
• Dai Yao told Bi Ji he would seek a way to solve humanity’s need for Spirit Rings; Bi Ji accepted his promise and became intimate with him while Zi Ji watched from the forest.
• Di Tian grew uneasy about Dai Yao’s behavior and ordered Bear Lord to go to the Heaven Dou Empire to investigate.

Dai Yao intercepted and killed Bear Lord before he could reach the Heaven Dou Empire, then preserved his spirit ring and claimed his External Soul Bone. At Zhennan Pass, Bibi Dong ordered the Spirit Hall Empire to assault the city the next morning, saying she was fulfilling a promise.

• Dai Yao left Bi Ji and Zi Ji by the campfire after sensing Bear Lord heading toward the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Dai Yao used the God Slaying Spear to kill Bear Lord, then sealed his spirit ring and took his Dark Gold Terror Claw External Soul Bone.
• Dai Yao decided to avoid using the Chaos Cyan Lotus Spirit again before becoming a god, fearing it would draw the Divine Realm's attention.
• Bibi Dong inspected Hu Liena's preparations at Zhennan Pass and ordered the Spirit Hall Empire to attack the next morning, demanding the pass be taken within three days.
• Bibi Dong told Hu Liena that she was acting to fulfill someone's promise.

Tang San and the Heaven Dou Empire prepared to defend Zhennan Pass against Spirit Hall’s massive invasion, while Tang San hoped the Beast Tide would force the enemy to withdraw. Bibi Dong appeared and ordered an overwhelming assault, leaving the defenders fighting to survive the first wave.

• Tang San reassured Marshal Ge Long and discussed the enemy’s strength and possible reinforcements with Yu Xiaogang and Tang Xiao.
• Tang San dismissed concerns that Vast Sea City would intervene and pinned his hopes on the Beast Tide in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Spirit Hall Empire advanced with the Xiangjia Sect’s battering force, and Tang San assembled Heaven Dou’s soldiers and Spirit Masters to defend Zhennan Pass.
• Bibi Dong appeared at the front and ordered the attack, sending tens of thousands of Spirit Masters against the pass and its surrounding heights.
• The Spirit Hall assault overwhelmed the defenders’ defenses as Hu Yan Zhen and the Xiangjia Sect struck the gates; Tang San ordered reserves and Zhuge Repeating Crossbows forward to hold the first wave.

Bibi Dong unleashed her full strength and led Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluo in an assault on Zhennan Pass, while Tang San realized Dai Yao’s plans might be tied to Di Tian and the coming Beast Tide. As the pass collapsed and Tang San faced defeat, he sent Tang Hao toward the Star Dou Great Forest with a dragon scale, entrusting their last hope to him.

• Bibi Dong revealed her Rakshasa Scythe and powerful aura, then joined eleven Titled Douluo in pressing the attack on Zhennan Pass.
• Tang San inferred that Dai Yao was stalling in the Star Dou Great Forest and that Bibi Dong was counting on Zhennan Pass falling before the Beast Tide erupted.
• Tang Xiao rallied the Clear Sky Sect elders, and the five formed an array to hold Bibi Dong while the other Titled Douluo attacked the pass.
• Spirit Hall’s forces seized Shendu Peak and Tiandu Peak, broke through the defenses, and drove the defenders toward collapse as Tang San watched Zhennan Pass fall.
• Tang San admitted to Tang Hao that their hopes rested on Di Tian, gave him a black dragon scale, and sent him to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Bibi Dong captured Zhennan Pass, defeated and executed the Clear Sky Sect's five Titled Douluo, and advanced on Heaven Dou City while Tang San's group fled toward the Clear Sky Sect's old retreat. After Heaven Dou City fell, she spared Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua as gifts for Dai Yao and ordered Yu Xiaogang and the others killed, then changed her mind and had the two women imprisoned as leverage.

• Bibi Dong ordered the pursuit of the Heaven Dou forces after Zhennan Pass fell, then sentenced Tang Xiao and the other four Clear Sky Sect elders to death and had their Spirit Bones taken.
• Tang San, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and the Seventh Elder hid in a reed marsh; Oscar disguised himself as Tang San to draw off pursuers while Tang San and the others escaped toward the Clear Sky Sect's former retreat.
• Bibi Dong's forces reached Heaven Dou City, where rebels overthrew the Heaven Dou Royal Family; Chrysanthemum Douluo reported that the Heaven Dou Empress had hanged herself and that Tang Yuehua had been captured.
• Bibi Dong had Yu Xiaogang, Flender, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua brought before her, called Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua gifts, and ordered the others killed.
• After Liu Erlong threatened to die with Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong ordered Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua imprisoned instead, intending to use them as leverage.

Dai Yao stalled Di Tian while waiting for Bibi Dong to prepare, but Tang Hao’s arrival exposed his deception and forced Di Tian to begin gathering a Beast Tide. As the spirit beasts prepared to fight, Dai Yao summoned the imprisoned Sky Dream Ice Silkworm as his final trump card.

• Di Tian gave Dai Yao ten more days to decide whether humans and spirit beasts would coexist, while Dai Yao continued to conceal his real plan from Bi Ji and Zi Ji.
• Dai Yao revealed his secret to Bi Ji, and she promised to stay by his side and keep her promise to the Spirit Beast Clan.
• Tang Hao arrived at the Lake of Life carrying a dragon scale and warned Di Tian that Bibi Dong had assembled three hundred thousand troops and twelve Titled Douluo to attack the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Dai Yao admitted that he had killed Bear Lord and held his Spirit Bone, while Bi Ji chose to remain with him despite Zi Ji’s pleas.
• Di Tian began summoning spirit beasts to launch a Beast Tide, so Dai Yao used his Golden Trident to awaken the imprisoned Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Dai Yao used Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s sacrifice to gain a million-year spirit ring and delay Di Tian while Bibi Dong prepared against the Beast Tide. After Bibi Dong bluffed the spirit beasts into standing down, Dai Yao learned the defenses were still incomplete, and she admitted she cared only about keeping him safe.

• Dai Yao told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to begin his sacrifice, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm rejected the spirit beasts’ accusations of betrayal.
• Di Tian agreed to wait while the sacrifice restrained the spirit beasts, and Dai Yao used the delay to give Bibi Dong time to prepare.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s sacrifice gave Dai Yao a platinum ninth spirit ring, raised his Soul Power to rank ninety-six, and left him a head Spirit Bone.
• Bibi Dong arrived and told Di Tian that the Empire had broken through Zhennan Pass, convincing the spirit beasts that humanity’s defenses were ready and persuading Dai Yao to leave.
• After they departed, Bibi Dong admitted the defenses were incomplete and said she cared only about Dai Yao’s safety, and Dai Yao embraced her.