Chapter Summaries

Xia Tianling began the final trial in a ruined world and discovered that it was overrun by zombies. After killing a Walking Corpse and absorbing its Crystal Core, he learned that the crystals replenished his Soul Power.

• Xia Tianling arrived in a devastated residential building and confirmed that his cultivation, soul skills, and flight worked in the unfamiliar world.
• He explored the ruins, found a North Sky Residential Area No. 15 sign, and suspected the world was a version of Huaxia Kingdom.
• From a chimney, Xia Tianling spotted a grotesque creature and recognized the setting as a zombie apocalypse.
• He killed the creature with the Dawnbreaker Axe, took its Crystal Core, and fled as more than a hundred zombies gathered nearby.
• The system identified the creature as a first-stage Walking Corpse and explained that its Crystal Core contained absorbable Life Energy.
• Xia Tianling absorbed the Crystal Core and rapidly recovered the Soul Power he had spent.

Xia Tianling explored the ruined Imperial Capital, learned that the world resembled his former one, and hunted walking corpses for Crystal Cores as he searched for survivors. Near the Third Ring, he found five people fighting a mutated giant dog, which killed one of them while he watched from cover.

• Xia Tianling confirmed from textbooks at Imperial Capital 18th School that the world and its year resembled Blue Star, then headed toward the city center to find a survivor and learn about the disaster.
• Xia Tianling concealed his Soul Rings and traveled through the ruined city, collecting Crystal Cores from walking corpses of different ranks.
• Xia Tianling reached the area near the Third Ring and followed the sounds of a battle to a group of survivors fighting a giant mutated dog.
• Xia Tianling watched from the ruins as the giant dog overwhelmed the five fighters and killed one of them.

Xia Tianling saved Liu Tao and his three companions from a giant mutated dog, then followed them to their hidden stronghold. There, he introduced himself as Xia Tianling and prepared to learn more about the situation.

• Liu Tao swallowed a second-tier Inner Core and transformed into a bull-like fighter to hold off the giant dog while his companions refused to abandon him.
• Xia Tianling decided the survivors were worth saving, transformed into his True Dragon Body, and killed the giant dog with one punch.
• Xia Tianling suppressed the energy overwhelming Liu Tao and warned the group that zombies were converging on the battlefield.
• Liu Tao led Xia Tianling and the others through a winding route to a sturdy, hidden temporary stronghold.
• Xia Tianling revealed his youthful appearance, said he was thirty-five, and introduced himself to Liu Tao as Xia Tianling.

Xia Tianling learned about the apocalypse and its ability system from Liu Tao’s group, then agreed to travel with them to their shelter. When their broken vehicle left them facing a slow journey, he returned with two Mutated Dogs to pull a modern off-road carriage.

• Liu Tao and his companions offered Xia Tianling Crystal Cores in gratitude, and he accepted only a handful before learning about their survivor base and the apocalypse.
• Xia Tianling learned that people awakened abilities by consuming zombie Crystal Cores, while Mutated Beast Inner Cores could trigger a risky second awakening.
• Yin Yang Inverted Mountain announced that the Background Story mission was complete, and Xia Tianling joined Liu Tao’s group for dinner and agreed to visit their shelter.
• Xia Tianling considered his trial’s purpose and concluded that his strength exceeded the local Tier 6 level, though he could not become a savior if the monsters kept growing stronger.
• After learning the group’s vehicle was broken, Xia Tianling went ahead and subdued two Mutated Dogs, then brought them back to pull a modern off-road carriage.

Xia Tianling reached the fortress shelter, met its elderly commander, and joined the Ability User legion as a Special Legion Commander. As he considered the widening divide between Ability Users and ordinary people, an unexpected event forced the issue upon him sooner than he had anticipated.

• Liu Tao and the others guided Xia Tianling to the mountain fortress shelter, where its disciplined guards admitted them without incident.
• Xia Tianling met the retired old general, a third-tier Ability User who had established the shelter and rescued more than two hundred thousand civilians.
• Xia Tianling accepted recruitment as a Special Legion Commander and silenced doubters by punching through the fortress's steel defenses.
• Xia Tianling helped clear Mutated Beasts and walking corpses while wondering whether ordinary people should risk death to awaken abilities.
• Xia Tianling considered how resentment between Ability Users and ordinary people might split the shelter, then was stunned when that crisis arrived unexpectedly.

A global announcement revealed that World Hubs would arrive on Blue Star to help defend against the apocalypse, and Yin Yang Inverted Mountain assigned Xia Tianling to assist one in transmitting. After the Old General’s meeting split over who should go, Xia Tianling proposed voluntary registration with supplies allocated by headcount, leaving the shelter’s factions divided as they prepared to depart.

• A worldwide announcement said the apocalypse had reached ten percent and World Hubs would be deployed to Blue Star transmission points.
• Xia Tianling brought Liu Tao to the command room, where the Old General gathered military leaders and Special Legion Commanders to discuss supporting Main City construction.
• Yin Yang Inverted Mountain issued Xia Tianling the mission [Dedication and Hope], requiring him to help a World Hub complete its transmission.
• The Old General argued that the military should go, while a fourth-tier dual-element Ability User objected and urged the group to stay and protect civilians.
• Xia Tianling proposed letting people choose whether to go and distributing supplies in proportion to those who registered.
• The Old General approved the plan, ordered registrations to begin that afternoon, and set a departure goal within seven days; the fourth-tier Ability User left confident in his position.

Xia Tianling joined the support faction’s month-long journey from the mountain fortress toward Chang'an, where the Main City was located. After the convoy was forced off a grassland route by mutated beasts and lost more than a hundred people, it stopped to clear a highway blocked by burnt vehicles, leaving Liu Tao asking how much longer the trip would take.

• Xia Tianling judged that the growing strength of Mutated Beasts would make the fortress’s food reserves unsustainable and that humanity needed safe zones near the Main City.
• More than ten thousand Ability Users and a little over a thousand ordinary people chose to leave with Old General’s support faction, while most residents stayed behind.
• Old General’s convoy set out for Chang'an with vehicles and supplies, and Xia Tianling stored fuel with his Qiankun Ring and traveled with Liu Tao and Old Zhang in his dog carriage.
• The convoy detoured after mutated animals on the Baxia Grassland attacked and killed more than a hundred people, then spent about a month traveling toward Qin Land.
• Old General halted the convoy at a highway blocked by burnt vehicles, and Liu Tao asked Xia Tianling how long it would take them to reach Chang'an.

Xia Tianling sensed a Mutated Beast attack and prepared the convoy to flee, but a zombie horde struck from behind before they could escape. He led his companions and thousands of Ability Users off the highway to fight their way through the surrounding threats.

• Xia Tianling's Spiritual Intuition warned him of danger, so he ordered the convoy to arm itself and prepare to evacuate.
• Xia Tianling discovered that a huge pack of Mutated Canines, led by a Tier 5 beast, was approaching, and the Old General ordered the convoy to retreat.
• Xia Tianling gathered Big Mao, Second Mao, Old Zhang, and Liu Tao, preparing to fight because the convoy could not turn around in time.
• A zombie horde attacked from behind, trapping the convoy between the walkers and the Mutated Canines.
• Xia Tianling ordered everyone to abandon the vehicles and supplies, then led Big Mao, Second Mao, and thousands of Ability Users off the highway into battle.

Xia Tianling led a small group through a massive mutated beast horde, then used his healing domain to save the exhausted survivors who escaped. He revealed his many abilities and urged the remaining Ability Users to consume mutated beast Inner Cores, promising they would awaken Beast Transformation abilities.

• Xia Tianling and his companions fought through the beast horde, while he held back from attacking the hidden canine king to protect the survivors behind him.
• After hours of battle, Xia Tianling led forty-two Ability Users out of the encirclement and onward to a hidden cave.
• Xia Tianling activated the Myriad Revival Wooden Domain, rapidly healing the survivors and revealing that he possessed numerous abilities.
• Xia Tianling gave Liu Tao Crystal Cores and Inner Cores to distribute, promising that anyone without a Beast Transformation Ability would awaken one by consuming an Inner Core.
• Two Tier 4 Ability Users stood and bowed deeply to Xia Tianling after he told the group they could leave if they did not trust him.

Xia Tianling awakened Beast Transformation abilities in his remaining fighters, built them into a stronger team, and led them toward Chang'an. The chapter left the team at Lijiakou, where Xia Tianling judged the local shelter’s walls too weak to protect it from stronger threats.

• Xia Tianling gave supplies to two Ability Users who chose to leave, then asked the remaining forty whether they would continue with him.
• Xia Tianling used Tier 4 Mutated Canine Inner Cores, Wood Domain, and Jade Guard to help more than thirty fighters awaken Beast Transformation abilities without dying.
• Xia Tianling ordered Liu Tao to distribute Crystal Cores so the fighters could advance, and warned them to stay quiet to avoid attracting beasts.
• Over three days, the remaining forty Ability Users reached Tier 4, while Big Mao and Second Mao reached Tier 5; Xia Tianling named the group the Martial Soul Special Operations Team.
• Xia Tianling led the team southwest toward Chang'an, bypassing the search for the Old General’s scattered forces.
• The team reached Lijiakou, and Xia Tianling judged the local shelter’s Steel Rebar and Cement wall inadequate against stronger Walking Corpses and Mutated birds.

Xia Tianling brought the Martial Soul Special Operations Team to Fierce Tiger Shelter to recruit survivors for the World Hub’s defense, but a gatekeeper repeatedly extorted them. The chapter ended with the gatekeeper demanding a Tier 1 Crystal Core or Inner Core from every member, pushing Xia Tianling’s patience to its limit.

• Yin Yang Inverted Mountain issued Xia Tianling the long-term side quest [The World's Salvation], which rewarded him for leading survivors to the World Hub and enlisting them in its defense.
• Xia Tianling led the Martial Soul Special Operations Team, Big Mao, and Second Mao to the entrance of Fierce Tiger Shelter, where gatekeepers routinely extorted Ability Users and scavengers.
• The gatekeeper mocked Xia Tianling’s claim that the group came from the Imperial Capital and demanded food as an entry fee.
• Liu Tao gave the gatekeeper two packs of cigarettes, but the gatekeeper raised his demands and insisted that the group also hand over a Tier 1 Crystal Core or Inner Core apiece.

Xia Tianling led the Spirit Legion to Chang'an, where he took command of the Main City’s defense as the World Hub transmission began under attack from vast hordes of Mutated Beasts and Walking Corpses. After the defenders held the walls for more than ten hours, a Tier 6 darkness-element Ability User breached the western gate, and Xia Tianling rushed to confront him.

• Xia Tianling exposed the gate guard’s extortion at Fierce Tiger Shelter, and Xiong Da Neng killed the guard and escorted the group inside.
• Xia Tianling recruited more than a hundred people, including Xiong Da Neng, and led them west while training them into a battle-ready force.
• After months of fighting and recruiting, Xia Tianling’s renamed Spirit Legion reached Chang’an with over twelve hundred members and took charge of the Main City’s construction and defense.
• Xia Tianling organized the Main City’s defenders and traps as the World Hub transmission began and the Walking Corpse and Mutated Beast hordes attacked.
• The defenders repelled the assault for more than ten hours, but a Tier 6 darkness-element Ability User broke through the western gate, prompting Xia Tianling to rush there.

Xia Tianling killed Commander Slaith by completing the Circulation of Stars God-Locking Array, but learned that the apocalyptic battle had taken place in a real fragment of history that could not be changed. After completing the [Miracle] mission, he received two million-year spirit rings and a Dark Sky-Rending Beast spine bone, then prepared to return to Douluo Continent.

• Xia Tianling killed the traitor, but his unease persisted as the World Hub transmission continued and Slaith appeared to attack him.
• Xia Tianling fought Slaith through the day, rejected the option to abandon the city, and accepted Ma Yuan's help to buy time for a formation.
• Ma Yuan, Liu Tao, Old Zhang, and thousands of Ability Users sacrificed themselves while Xia Tianling completed the Circulation of Stars God-Locking Array.
• Xia Tianling trapped Slaith, sealed his abilities, and killed him with Brilliant Bloom, completing the [Miracle] mission.
• Yin Yang Inverted Mountain revealed that the battle was real history and that humanity had lost in the original outcome, then sent Xia Tianling back to his villa with two million-year spirit rings.
• Xia Tianling absorbed the spirit rings, received a Three-Hundred-Thousand-Year Dark Sky-Rending Beast spine bone from the mountain spirit, and returned to the wasteland where he had entered the trial.

Xia Tianling received a mysterious jade pendant and returned from his trials to Spirit Hall Academy, where he learned how his friends had progressed during his absence. The chapter ended with Sword Douluo urging Zhu Zhuqing to prepare for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.

• Xia Tianling discovered that his pendant had turned green, and the system said it was a gift from the remnant will of a world he had visited.
• Xia Tianling asked the system to teleport him back to Spirit Hall Academy, eager to reunite with his family and friends after more than three years away.
• Over four months, Zhu Zhuqing reached Level Forty-Five under Sword Douluo’s guidance, while Ning Rongrong, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena also advanced at different rates.
• Sword Douluo stopped Zhu Zhuqing’s training and reminded her that the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament finals were less than six months away.

After returning from the Apocalyptic World, Xia Tianling reunited with Zhu Zhuqing and gave her a rare Dark Sky-Rending Beast Torso Bone. He used a Spirit Bone Fusion Card to begin fusing it with her, leaving her unconscious inside a cocoon of light.

• Xia Tianling returned after four months away, and Zhu Zhuqing embraced him, telling him she had missed him.
• Xia Tianling explained that he had narrowly escaped death, and he and Zhu Zhuqing caught up before he cried with happiness at seeing her again.
• Xia Tianling showed Zhu Zhuqing a Dark Sky-Rending Beast Torso Bone with space and darkness attributes, but she protested that it was too precious to accept.
• Xia Tianling used the Dao Scripture to guide Zhu Zhuqing's Soul Power, then activated a Spirit Bone Fusion Card that placed her unconscious in a cocoon with the Spirit Bone.

Xia Tianling returned from Yin Yang Inverted Mountain with two soul bones and a heavy burden from the apocalyptic world he had visited. After Bibi Dong sensed the negative emotions in him, he began telling her what he could about his experiences.

• The system explained to Xia Tianling that Slaith’s people saw planetary destruction as natural, so Justice Judgment had weakened him by only thirty percent.
• Zhu Zhuqing completed her fusion with the Dark Sky-Rending Beast Torso Bone, then playfully attacked Xia Tianling before thanking him for his support.
• Xia Tianling returned to Spirit City, reported his trip to Qian Daoliu, and learned that Qian Renxue had become Chief Judge of the Spirit Judgment Hall.
• Xia Tianling visited Bibi Dong and told her he was close to becoming a Soul Emperor and had acquired two soul bones.
• Bibi Dong detected the intense negative emotions within Xia Tianling and pressed him to explain what had happened during his four months away.
• Xia Tianling told Bibi Dong that Yin Yang Inverted Mountain had taken him to another world facing an unprecedented crisis.

Bibi Dong soothed Xia Tianling through the accumulated trauma of his time in the Apocalyptic World, and he slept for seven days. After waking, he visited Old Jack and learned how the old man's soul-powered farming had inspired residents and drawn Spirit Hall's attention to a dramatic increase in grain production.

• Xia Tianling described the horrors he had witnessed in the Apocalyptic World and worried that a similar disaster might strike Douluo Continent.
• Bibi Dong used her divine power to draw out Xia Tianling's negative emotions and helped him fall asleep from exhaustion.
• Xia Tianling slept for seven days, then visited Old Jack in the residential district and shared a meal with him.
• Old Jack's soul-powered farming inspired residents, including low-ranking soul masters, to cultivate fields at the foot of Douluo Mountain.
• Old Jack harvested more than twice the grain an ordinary farmer could produce in a year, and Spirit Hall's Elder Council recognized the method's potential to increase food supplies.

Xia Tianling asked Bibi Dong to help him hunt a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger for his sixth Spirit Ring, and she agreed to leave with him the next day. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong reminding him that she had a mountain of work to finish first.

• Old Jack’s farming hobby flourished, and his Soul Power rose by two levels despite his never meditating.
• Xia Tianling used a tracker to locate a roughly sixty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger near the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xia Tianling asked Bibi Dong to assist with the hunt, and she approved his choice of Spirit Beast for his sixth Spirit Ring.
• Bibi Dong offered to kill the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python for Xia Tianling, but he refused because their abilities did not suit his plans.
• Bibi Dong agreed to set out the next day, then pointed out that she needed to finish her work as Pope first.

Xia Tianling accompanied Bibi Dong into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger for his sixth spirit ring. They found it near the Thunderous Hellvine’s former nest and discovered it had reached eighty thousand years of cultivation, leaving the tiger poised to attack despite Bibi Dong’s presence.

• Bibi Dong made Xia Tianling review and annotate a pile of scrolls before taking him to the Star Dou Great Forest the next day.
• Xia Tianling used the Myriad Revival Wooden Domain to sense the forest’s plants and locate the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Xia Tianling and Bibi Dong found the tiger near the Thunderous Hellvine’s former nest, where lingering lightning concealed it from Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Bibi Dong estimated that the tiger was nearing one hundred thousand years of cultivation, and the system identified its actual cultivation as eighty thousand years after it devoured an unknown substance.
• Xia Tianling transformed with True Dragon Possession, and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger approached, eager to devour him and grow strong enough to rule the Star Dou Great Forest.

Xia Tianling and Bibi Dong confronted the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Xia Tianling used his domains and skills to overpower it. As the tiger launched a furious counterattack, Xia Tianling stopped it with a terrifying cry of “kill.”

• Xia Tianling revealed his five spirit rings and expanded his Yin Yang Tai Chi Domain and Gold Domain against the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s dark domain.
• Xia Tianling recognized a trace of Rakshasa Divine Power in the tiger’s aura and suspected that part of Bibi Dong’s Rakshasa Trial power had attached itself to Dai Mubai.
• Xia Tianling used Spiritual Sense to track the tiger’s rapid movement, then slowed and paralyzed it with his skills.
• Xia Tianling struck the tiger’s tail with the Storm Axe, cracking its bones and severing nearly half of it.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger rushed at Xia Tianling with a claw strike, but Xia Tianling’s cry of “kill” froze it and threatened to shatter its soul.