Chapter Summaries

Xia Tianling used the Jin Family’s resources to arrange construction of a massive metal ship, presenting it as a Rank Eight Combined Soul Tool and helping the shipbuilders refine its design. After returning to the academy a month late, he resumed studying Soul Tools while his cultivation and Jin Zheng’s had risen rapidly through spirit cuisine.

• Xia Tianling cooked rare ingredients for the Jin Family, raising its members’ cultivation by several levels and earning Old Master Jin’s deep respect.
• Xia Tianling asked the Jin Family to build his steel ship, and Old Master Jin took him and Jin Zheng to the seaside shipyard.
• Xia Tianling explained to the shipbuilders that the vessel was a Rank Eight Combined Soul Tool and taught them mathematics and physics to support its construction.
• Old Master Jin oversaw a costly shipbuilding effort that expanded to include fishing equipment and weapons, while Xia Tianling returned to the academy to focus on the ship’s core power system.
• Luo Hongchen checked Xia Tianling’s cultivation after his return, and Xia Tianling had reached Level Forty-Seven while Jin Zheng had gained eight levels.

Xia Tianling spent nearly a year studying and helping build the Steel Giant Wheel before realizing his cultivation was approaching a breakthrough that would trigger a tribulation. He obtained leave to travel to the Demonic Beast Forest, where he entered the core region alone while a Rank Eight Soul Master followed at a distance.

• Xia Tianling completed the Steel Giant Wheel’s engine module set and learned that construction of the vessel was only halfway finished.
• Xia Tianling stopped advancing his Soul Power to delay the tribulation, then raised his apparent cultivation to Level Fifty so he could request leave to seek a Spirit Ring.
• Luo Hongchen approved Xia Tianling’s leave and gave him the passive Peak Eighth Level Defensive Soul Tool Hongchen's Affection.
• Xia Tianling flew to the Demonic Beast Forest and met the Jin Family’s Rank Eight Soul Master, whom he arranged to keep more than ten kilometers away.
• Xia Tianling entered the Demonic Beast Forest, scanned the area with Spiritual Sense, and reached the core region after encountering increasingly powerful Spirit Beasts.

Xia Tianling encountered a nearly two-hundred-thousand-year-old Evil Eye Monarch in the Demonic Beast Forest, and the spirit beast attacked him to devour his Spiritual Power. Xia Tianling’s counterattack badly injured it, but the Evil Eye Monarch launched its Evil Eye Gaze as a black-and-white domain appeared around him.

• Xia Tianling cautiously entered the core area of the Demonic Beast Forest and encountered an Evil Eye Monarch with nearly two hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• The Evil Eye Monarch attacked Xia Tianling with its Mental Field, but his True Dragon Hegemony Body resisted its effects.
• Xia Tianling struck back with Deterrence, Soul Judgment, and Golden Halberds Weighing Ten Thousand Jun, severely damaging the Evil Eye Monarch’s soul.
• Xia Tianling charged through the spiritual explosions and punched the Evil Eye Monarch, sending it flying.
• The Evil Eye Monarch fired its Evil Eye Gaze at Xia Tianling, and a black-and-white domain spread out around him as the beam approached.

Xia Tianling defeated the Evil Eye Monarch, captured its Soul Crystal, and stored its body, but the Evil Emperor mistook the situation for his son’s death. As Xia Tianling’s tribulation began, the furious Evil Emperor searched the Demonic Beast Forest and made a Rank Eight Soul Master his prime suspect.

• Xia Tianling used his Storm Axe and elemental lightning to overwhelm and kill the Evil Eye Monarch, then split its Great Eyeball in two.
• Xia Tianling took the Evil Eye Monarch’s Soul Crystal and proposed that it sacrifice itself to his wife in exchange for a chance to become a god, then stored it and the corpse in his Qiankun Ring.
• Xia Tianling hurried to a cave to begin his tribulation, but the Evil Emperor’s furious Spiritual Power swept across the Demonic Beast Forest, making him fear he would be blamed for killing the Evil Eye Monarch.
• Xia Tianling lost control of his cultivation as blood lightning and a vast red pillar appeared over the forest, while the Evil Emperor searched for his child and identified the Rank Eight Soul Master as his prime suspect.

Xia Tianling completed his breakthrough by destroying his Inner Demon, then faced the Evil Eye Tyrant Master as a heavenly tribulation gathered overhead. The Evil Emperor attacked despite Xia Tianling’s warnings, and their fight began under the tribulation, leaving both battered as the Evil Emperor unleashed its full power.

• The Evil Eye Tyrant Master obliterated a forest region while searching for the source of the powerful heavenly tribulation and located Xia Tianling in a cave.
• Xia Tianling’s Inner Demon appeared and was immediately purified by the Emblem of Justice, allowing him to emerge from the cave and prepare for the tribulation.
• Xia Tianling offered to return the Evil Emperor’s son’s Soul Crystal and body, but the Evil Emperor said it wanted to devour Xia Tianling and survive its own tribulation.
• The Evil Emperor attacked Xia Tianling as the first heavenly lightning bolts struck them both, and the Evil Emperor’s tentacle was badly charred when it tried to block one.
• Ah Shui and Ah Huo helped Xia Tianling repel the Evil Emperor’s spiritual attack, after which Xia Tianling trapped them in the Arena of Life and Death and used Justice Judgment and Divine Slaughter’s Domain to weaken the Evil Emperor.
• Xia Tianling and the Evil Eye Tyrant Master endured a third lightning strike, which cracked Xia Tianling’s dragon scales as the Evil Emperor launched its full attack.

Xia Tianling and the Evil Eye Tyrant Master endured the final heavenly tribulation while attacking each other, until the Evil Emperor unleashed his Light of Time and Space. Xia Tianling countered with Brilliant Bloom, and their attacks collided in a catastrophic explosion that knocked him unconscious and tore open a golden space rift.

• Xia Tianling deflected the Evil Eye Tyrant Master's spiritual paralysis rays with a spinning sphere of Bose-Einstein Condensate, then struck the Evil Emperor with the reflected attack.
• Xia Tianling and the Evil Eye Tyrant Master weathered the remaining tribulation strikes, and Xia Tianling used Attribute Guard to withstand the ninth lightning strike.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Master fired his Light of Time and Space at Xia Tianling, imprisoning him as the final tribulation descended.
• Xia Tianling gathered his remaining power with help from Ah Shui, Ah Huo, and Xiao Lei, fused his soul rings, and launched Brilliant Bloom at the Evil Emperor's attack.
• The two attacks collided, producing an immense explosion that knocked Xia Tianling unconscious and opened a golden space rift; Hongchen's Affection shielded him from the first impact before shattering.

Xia Tianling survived the battle with the Evil Eye Tyrant Master and was carried into the Dragon Realm, where the Heavenly Dao’s reward and Dragon Cloud healed and strengthened him. While he remained unconscious, the outside world panicked over the unknown powerhouse, and Luo Hongchen set out to find him.

• The Fire Dragon King, Water Dragon King, and Thunderous Hellvine carried Xia Tianling through a Space Rift as the explosion devastated the Demonic Beast Forest, leaving the Evil Eye Tyrant Master gravely wounded but convinced Xia Tianling was dead.
• In the Dragon Realm, the Dragon Kings realized Xia Tianling was near death and considered using Dragon Cloud to heal him, but a rainbow pillar of Heavenly Dao reward arrived and restored his body.
• The Fire Dragon King and Water Dragon King directed Dragon Cloud into Xia Tianling, strengthening him until his True Dragon Spirit manifested and the Dragon Clouds submitted to his power.
• Xia Tianling remained unconscious for two years in the Dragon Realm, while only half a month passed outside.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s upper ranks and Xia Tianling’s acquaintances grew anxious after reports of the battle and the Evil Eye Tyrant Master’s injuries spread.
• Luo Hongchen abandoned his work and headed to the Demonic Beast Forest to search for Xia Tianling.

After Xia Tianling vanished in the explosion, Luo Hongchen and the Jin Family searched the blast site and hoped he had survived. Xia Tianling awoke in the Dragon Tomb with the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King, then set out to explore the sealed realm and search for a way to escape.

• Old Master Jin sent a search team to find Xia Tianling after the explosion, while Luo Hongchen discovered a fragment of Hongchen's Affection at the devastated blast site.
• Luo Hongchen and the Jin Family found Xia Tianling's scattered belongings and concluded that he might have survived by preserving a Storage Soul Tool.
• Xia Tianling awoke after more than two years in the Dragon Tomb, drank water, and listened as the Water Dragon King explained how the Dragon Kings had brought him there.
• The Fire Dragon King told Xia Tianling that the Dragon Tomb was sealed and that their old methods of leaving no longer worked.
• Xia Tianling proposed exploring the Dragon Tomb and seeking the Dragon God Core, then headed out with the two Dragon Kings while considering the realm's Spirit Bones and the time he could spend there.

Xia Tianling, the Water Dragon King, and the Fire Dragon King traveled deeper into the Dragon Tomb, where the Dragon Kings mourned their fallen race and Xia Tianling found the Mountain Dragon King's remains. The Mountain Dragon King's corpse bore a deep wound and a grudge aimed somewhere farther into the tomb, and Xia Tianling continued toward a vast pit containing a flickering seven-colored light.

• Xia Tianling discovered that Dragon Clouds kept pouring into his body, while the Water Dragon King explained that they were drawn to his high bloodline.
• Xia Tianling used his bloodline Deterrence to scatter weak dragon souls, and the Fire Dragon King reunited with an aggrieved Blazing Fire Dragon soul.
• Xia Tianling and the two Dragon Kings reached a basin filled with dragon bones, where the Dragon Kings returned to their dragon forms and roared in grief.
• Xia Tianling descended into the Dragon Valley and reflected on the Dragon God's role in the dragon race's downfall as he examined the immense remains.
• Xia Tianling found the Mountain Dragon King's corpse, noticed a massive claw-like wound and its anger directed deeper into the tomb, then continued to a pit with a seven-colored light at its center.

Xia Tianling exposed and destroyed the Dragon God’s false dragon soul, seized the Golden and Silver Dragon King Cores, and confronted the Dragon God’s remains over its responsibility for the dragon race’s ruin. After Xia Tianling chopped off one of the Dragon God’s ribs, a voice in his mind asked him to stop and spare it some face.

• Xia Tianling ignored the Water and Fire Dragon Kings’ hesitation and fired a Disintegration Cannon at the Dragon God’s apparent soul, then shattered its deception with his Third Spirit Eye.
• Xia Tianling punched apart the false Dragon God Divine Soul, absorbed its energy into his system, and claimed the Golden and Silver Dragon King Cores.
• Xia Tianling forcibly refined the two cores with his blood and recognized that gaining an ultimate earth attribute would resolve his body’s imbalance.
• Xia Tianling challenged the Dragon God’s will in its skeletal remains, accusing it of destroying the dragon race and the God Realm through its selfishness.
• The Dragon God’s remains regained their colorful sheen and attacked Xia Tianling, so he used the Arena of Life and Death and his Storm Axe to sever one of its ribs.
• As Xia Tianling prepared to strike again, a voice in his mind asked him to stop and spare it some face.

Xia Tianling forced the Dragon God Divine Soul to cleanse the Gold Silver Core and grant him authority over Dragon Realm Control, then revived the Mountain Dragon King. He left Ah Shan with the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King while collecting dragon remains, spirit bones, and the Fire Dragon King's egg.

• Xia Tianling pressured the Dragon God Divine Soul into cleansing the Gold Silver Core and granting him authority to compete for Dragon Realm Control in exchange for preserving the Dragon God's remains and finding a successor.
• Xia Tianling told the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King that the Dragon God had entrusted the dragons and his Divine Position to him, then set off to revive the Mountain Dragon King.
• Xia Tianling showed the Mountain Dragon King's dragon soul the Dragon God rib he had taken, then revived the Mountain Dragon King with Reverse Meng Po's Soup Concentrate and Ancient Secret Medicine.
• The revived Mountain Dragon King reunited with Ah Huo and Ah Shui while Xia Tianling collected thousands of Giant Dragon Spirit Bones and stored the remains of fallen Dragon Kings.
• Xia Tianling found the Fire Dragon King's sister's dragon egg and sealed it in a Constant Formation Jade Box to keep the God Realm from noticing it.

Xia Tianling absorbed the Mountain Dragon King's torso spirit bone and spirit ring, completing his Five Elements Battle Armor and greatly increasing his combat power. After the Dragon Kings accepted his plans for the Fire Dragon Egg, Xia Tianling buried the dragon clan's remains and earned the Dragon Valley souls' gratitude, which strengthened his bond with the Gold Silver Core.

• The Mountain Dragon King agreed to become Xia Tianling's Soul Spirit and sacrificed his body, Dragon Core, torso spirit bone, and spirit ring to him.
• Xia Tianling completed his Five Elements spirit bones, formed the Five Elements Battle Armor, and gained stronger abilities with reduced Soul Power costs.
• Xia Tianling considered seeking a Spirit System Head Spirit Bone and vowed to kill the injured Evil Eye Tyrant Master after leaving the Dragon Realm.
• The Water Dragon King asked Xia Tianling to lay the dragon clan's remains to rest, and Xia Tianling used the Earth Collapse Technique to bury them and settle their souls.
• The dragon souls honored Xia Tianling with a seven-colored halo that strengthened his connection to the Gold Silver Core, and the Dragon Kings supported his plans for the Fire Dragon Egg.

After spending decades in the Dragon Realm developing powerful Battle Armor, Xia Tianling returned to Demonic Beast Forest and confronted the weakened Evil Eye Tyrant Master. He killed the Evil Emperor, ending its threat.

• Luo Hongchen tried to escape into Demonic Beast Forest to avenge Zhaoguang, but Elder Zhe and the others restrained him and took him back.
• Xia Tianling completed his Born Equal Battle Armor, refined the Gold Silver Core into his Heavenly Forging hammers, and escaped the Dragon Realm.
• Xia Tianling confronted the injured Evil Eye Tyrant Master, whose strength had fallen below a tenth of its former power.
• Xia Tianling activated his domains and Battle Armor, overwhelming the Evil Eye Tyrant Master and preventing it from using its abilities.
• Xia Tianling split the Evil Eye Tyrant Master with the Storm Axe and destroyed its soul crystal, killing the seven-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year-old Evil Emperor.

After absorbing the Evil Eye Tyrant Master's spirit ring and skull bone, Xia Tianling reached the Divine Origin Realm and reunited with his worried teacher, Luo Hongchen. He revealed his real identity and homeland to Luo Hongchen and the two elders, then explained why he had come to the Sun Moon Continent.

• Xia Tianling absorbed the Evil Eye Tyrant Master's spirit ring and skull bone, refining its spiritual power and advancing to the Divine Origin Realm.
• The skull bone transformed into the million-year-level Emblem of Justice, granting Xia Tianling Light of Time and Space, and he named his battle armor Crimson Dawn.
• Luo Hongchen embraced Xia Tianling when he returned, relieved that his disciple had survived, while Elder Zhe and Elder Liang realized Xia Tianling had concealed his true strength.
• Xia Tianling told Luo Hongchen, Elder Zhe, and Elder Liang that his real name was Xia Tianling, that he was a level 75 Battle Soul Saint, and that he came from Douluo Continent.
• Xia Tianling explained that a Space Rift had brought him to the Sun Moon Continent and that he had studied Soul Tools to build a ship home.
• Xia Tianling showed the three elders ancient storage Soul Tools from Douluo Continent and explained that Soul Tools there had been lost, leaving only antiques from tens of thousands of years ago.

Xia Tianling revealed his extraordinary cultivation and described Spirit Hall’s power to Luo Hongchen, Elder Liang, and Elder Zhe. They explained that the Sun Moon Empire suppressed Rank Nine Soul Tool research to protect the emperor’s rule, then asked Xia to help them relocate to the Douluo Continent and pursue their work; he eagerly agreed.

• Xia Tianling told Luo Hongchen he had reached level 75 after suppressing his cultivation at level 69, and he shared how he survived the Evil Eye Tyrant Master and escaped Dragon Valley.
• Xia Tianling claimed Spirit Hall controlled most Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent and had more than thirty Titled Douluo, including two level 99 teachers.
• Luo Hongchen and Elder Zhe explained that Rank Nine Soul Tools had not been developed because the Sun Moon Empire’s rulers feared the threat they posed to royal power and national stability.
• Xia Tianling recognized the emperor’s suppression of Soul Tool research and correctly guessed that royal informants had infiltrated the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy.
• Luo Hongchen asked whether Xia Tianling and Spirit Hall would welcome the three Soul Engineers, trusted academy elders, and disciples so they could develop Rank Nine Soul Tools and train Soul Engineers on the Douluo Continent.
• Xia Tianling enthusiastically agreed to welcome them.

Xia Tianling reunited with Luo Hongchen and Old Master Jin, then learned the Jin Family had completed his ocean-going ship and prepared an elite crew for his return to Douluo Continent. After naming the heavily armed vessel the Dongfeng Hao, Xia Tianling gratefully inspected the thousand Marine Soldiers Old Master Jin had trained for the voyage.

• Luo Hongchen explained that he had been sidelined from the Hongchen Family and agreed to secretly gather people at the Jin Family within a month.
• Xia Tianling met Old Master Jin in Baoshi City, revealed his true identity and the ship’s purpose, and learned the completed vessel had passed its sea trials.
• Old Master Jin showed Xia Tianling the enormous, heavily armed ship, and Xia Tianling named it the Dongfeng Hao.
• Old Master Jin took Xia Tianling to a camp where he introduced the thousand trained Marine Soldiers and their experienced officers, prepared to crew the ship.

Xia Tianling prepared the Dongfeng Hao for its ocean voyage, welcoming Luo Hongchen and a group of Soul Engineers aboard. The steel ship departed the Sun Moon Continent and reached a steady speed as its passengers marveled at its design.

• Xia Tianling toured the barracks with Old Master Jin and discovered that Tudou had made a precision navigation compass from Yuantie Ore.
• One month later, Luo Hongchen arrived at the port with around three hundred people, including Soul Engineers, their families, Sun Mingfeng, and Jin Zheng.
• The academy approved Luo Hongchen’s exploration expedition, while the royal faction supported the departure in hopes of sidelining the academy faction’s elders.
• Xia Tianling ordered the thousand-strong crew to load supplies and rare metals aboard the Dongfeng Hao.
• Xia Tianling commanded the ship to set sail, and its Spirit Guide Engines pushed it away from the harbor as Luo Hongchen admired the vessel.
• The Dongfeng Hao accelerated to around twenty knots, with Xia Tianling explaining its higher potential speed and the hull’s Soul Power jet ports.

Xia Tianling and the crew of the Dongfeng Hao encountered a powerful Yao Bian Fire Pattern Octopus in unknown waters, but discovered that she was curious rather than hostile. Xia Tianling left the warship to speak with her and learned that she called herself Xiao Ba.

• Tudou sensed an approaching Sea Soul Beast, and the Eye of Observation detected an octopus-like creature heading toward the Dongfeng Hao.
• The Marine Soldiers readied the warship’s weapons, but Xia Tianling discovered the approaching Yao Bian Fire Pattern Octopus was at least a Hundred-Thousand-Year old and might be a ferocious beast.
• The octopus waved flaming tentacles to drive the noisy ship from her territory, while Xia Tianling sensed no killing intent and flew toward her to ask what she wanted.
• Xia Tianling used Spiritual Power to introduce himself, and the octopus called Xiao Ba mistook him for a land-dwelling fish and repeatedly poked his scales.

Xia Tianling met Xiao Ba, a 290,000-year-old Yao Bian Fire Pattern Octopus who had approached the Dongfeng Hao because its engine scared away her food. He brought her aboard with a meal and began trying to persuade her to guide the ship.

• Xiao Ba complained that the Dongfeng Hao had scared away her fish, and Xia Tianling offered to compensate her with lunch.
• Xiao Ba transformed into a young woman, and Xia Tianling introduced her to the crew as a 290,000-year-old Yao Bian Fire Pattern Octopus.
• Xia Tianling told Luo Hongchen that Xiao Ba was powerful but peaceful, and they planned to lure her into guiding the Dongfeng Hao.
• Tudou brought a storage bracelet full of seafood, and Xia Tianling began preparing a giant hot pot for Xiao Ba.

Xia Tianling treated Xiao Ba and the crew to a seafood hot pot feast, then helped Xiao Ba retrieve her giant clam bed and uncovered a trove of soul bones. As the Dongfeng Hao continued its voyage, Xiao Ba guided the ship through the sea, the crew grew stronger, and Xia Tianling gave Tudou a Spirit Enlightenment Pill.

• Xia Tianling cooked a lavish seafood hot pot feast for Xiao Ba, the Marine Soldiers, and the Soul Engineers aboard the Dongfeng Hao.
• Xiao Ba agreed to visit the human world if Xia Tianling brought along her giant clam shell bed, and he retrieved it from the seabed.
• Xia Tianling discovered numerous buried soul bones beneath Xiao Ba's shell, including bones she said had belonged to her parents, and took them with her permission.
• Xiao Ba joined the voyage and helped Tudou chart the route, while the Dongfeng Hao avoided dangerous Sea Soul Beast territories and fought off creatures that attacked it.
• The crew gained enough strength to hold a collective soul hunt, and Xia Tianling gave Tudou a Spirit Enlightenment Pill that let people without Innate Soul Power cultivate.