Chapter Summaries

Bei Gong Li and her allies tested the Holy Spirit Blood Mist and discovered that Qian Gu Huang Yu’s powerful domain could break through it, drawing the Dragon Lord’s attention. As the battle continued, Qian Gu Huang Yu exposed the Holy Spirit Cult’s method of consuming disciples’ lifespans to raise their cultivation, sowing doubt among Li Renwang’s followers.

• Bei Gong Li’s innate domain resisted the Holy Spirit Blood Mist, while Qian Ren Xue’s Angel Domain failed to disperse it.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu realized that breaking through the mist had attracted the Dragon Lord’s attention, and Bei Gong Li shielded her.
• The Dragon Lord ordered the Corpse Emperor and Ghost Emperor to capture Qian Gu Huang Yu alive, suspecting her domain’s power came from her bloodline.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu publicly accused Li Renwang of consuming disciples’ lifespans to increase their cultivation.
• The disciples behind the zombie army grew unsettled, and Lan Xiao began to suspect that Li Renwang had taken their lifespans.

The Holy Spirit Cult’s corpse explosion devastated the Federation forces at Mingdu, and Dragon Lord confronted Heavenly Favor Douluo Beddon and Prisoner of Heaven Douluo Jun Sheng Bai. The chapter ended as Dragon Lord’s protective barrier cracked under Jun Sheng Bai’s assault and fired a crimson beam at him.

• Corpse Emperor Li Renwang detonated tens of thousands of zombies, destroying mechas and killing many Federation soldiers and a War God.
• The Holy Spirit Cult disciples charged the weakened front line, while Yu Hao Sheng realized Li Renwang had drawn their forces forward before unleashing the explosions.
• Dragon Lord offered Beddon and the others a chance to surrender, but Beddon attacked him with the golden World Spear.
• Dragon Lord seized the spear and wounded Beddon with a strange crimson power, while Jun Sheng Bai attacked with White Jade-colored Chains.
• Dragon Lord’s Protective Charm blocked Jun Sheng Bai’s chains, then fired a crimson beam at him as cracks spread across the barrier.

Dragon Lord revealed that he possessed Heaven-Forged Four-word Battle Armor, sowing suspicion among the opposing forces. He then provoked Bei Gong Li by wielding her husband’s Coiled Dragon Staff and imitating his family’s technique, but she resisted the bait and left the fight to Chen Yi Ming and Beddon.

• Dragon Lord’s Four-word Battle Armor made Qian Gu Die Ting suspect that someone had secretly supplied Heaven-Forged metal to an Evil Soul Master, while Bei Gong Li urged caution.
• Bei Gong Li prepared to attack Dragon Lord over her husband’s death, but Yu Hao Sheng stopped her because the army needed her to maintain the domain against the Holy Spirit Blood Mist.
• Dragon Lord revealed the Coiled Dragon Staff and claimed that Qian Gu Shi Long’s martial soul had become a divine weapon after his death.
• Dragon Lord used the Coiled Dragon Staff to perform the Qian Gu Family’s Battle Heaven Battle Earth technique, leading Bei Gong Li to suspect he had searched or imprisoned her husband’s soul.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu and Chen Yi Ming warned Bei Gong Li not to take the bait, while Beddon blocked Dragon Lord’s strike with the World Spear and White Jade-colored Chains.
• Bei Gong Li regained her composure and left Dragon Lord to Chen Yi Ming and the others while she maintained the domain.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena faced attacks from the Ghost Emperor and Lan Xiao on the battlefield, while Leng Yang Jun intervened against the Ghost Emperor. With Gu Yuena amplifying her power, Shui Qingli sealed Lan Xiao’s Soul Skill, leaving him stunned.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu destroyed a frozen four-armed zombie, but Leng Yang Jun appeared and blocked the Ghost Emperor’s attack before carrying Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena out of danger.
• Leng Yang Jun knocked down the Ghost Emperor’s Soul-Chasing Nails and confronted him, while a concealed Black Sea Water Snake attacked Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena cut it apart.
• Lan Xiao emerged from the destroyed serpent and tried to capture Qian Gu Huang Yu for the Great Shepherd, but she rallied Gu Yuena, Chen Hanyu, and Shui Qingli against him.
• Lan Xiao summoned Sea Serpent’s Fang, but Shui Qingli sealed his Soul Skill with Gu Yuena’s amplification, causing the attack to collapse and injuring Lan Xiao.

Lan Xiao realized Li Renwang had poisoned him and turned him into a zombie, then was destroyed by Qian Gu Die Ting before he could attack Qian Gu Huang Yu and the others. Qian Gu Die Ting praised the group and escorted them back to Bei Gong Li, where the leaders of the three sides had each left a Limit Douluo to guard their juniors.

• Lan Xiao panicked when he realized Li Renwang had made him an Evil Soul Master and feared his son had been caught in the cult's conspiracy.
• Li Renwang triggered the corpse poison inside Lan Xiao, transforming him into a giant zombie as Electrolux condemned his cruelty.
• Qian Gu Die Ting struck down and destroyed the transformed Lan Xiao before he could reach Qian Gu Huang Yu and the others.
• Qian Gu Die Ting praised Qian Gu Huang Yu and her companions for facing a Super Douluo-level opponent and led them back to Bei Gong Li.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu found Bei Gong Li, Yu Hao Sheng, and Chen Yi there, each guarded by a Limit Douluo from their respective side.

The Dragon Lord overwhelmed the three quasi-gods fighting him without revealing his Martial Soul or Soul Rings. He finally unveiled nine Orange Soul Rings, including rings from three-hundred-thousand- and five-hundred-thousand-year Fierce Beast Soul Spirits, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu returned to the Federation’s forces, where Ning Qing Lan checked on her before Chen Yi called Ning Qing Lan back.
• The Dragon Lord fought Beddon, Jun Sheng Bai, and Chen Yi Ming without using his Martial Soul or Soul Rings, repeatedly escaping their coordinated attacks.
• The Dragon Lord declared that he was tired of playing and intended to capture the young man.
• The Dragon Lord revealed his Soul Rings, including a three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirit’s rings and a five-hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirit’s rings.
• Chen Yi Ming realized the Dragon Lord had Twin Martial Souls, and everyone saw that all nine of his Soul Rings were Orange.

Chen Yi destroyed Dragon Lord’s Dagon while Dragon Lord trapped Beddon inside Enclosed Soul Garden. The other Limit Douluos failed to break the sphere, leaving Beddon alone with Dragon Lord.

• Dragon Lord trapped Beddon inside a small deep-blue sphere called Enclosed Soul Garden.
• Chen Yi sealed Dagon in space and shredded it with Myriad Swords Return to Origin.
• Chen Yi, Bei Gong Li, Jun Sheng Bai, and Chen Yi Ming attacked the sphere, but their combined power only made it shake.
• Bei Gong Li and Chen Yi could not sense what was happening inside the sphere.
• Dragon Lord told Beddon that Enclosed Soul Garden allowed them to fight one-on-one in a confined space and could not be broken from outside.

Dragon Lord trapped Beddon in the Enclosed Soul Garden and used Divine Pressure to overwhelm him, while the others struggled to break through the domain. After they finally shattered it, a colossal shark burst out and charged at Jun Sheng Bai.

• Dragon Lord explained how the Enclosed Soul Garden’s nearly unbreakable defense worked with Divine Pressure, then trapped Beddon inside and attacked him.
• Beddon failed to damage the domain and suffered severe pain when Dragon Lord activated Divine Pressure.
• Bei Gong Li, Chen Yi Ming, Jun Sheng Bai, and the others attacked the Enclosed Soul Garden, and cracks appeared across its surface.
• Jun Sheng Bai used Prisoner of Brightness, Shatterer of Heaven as the group unleashed their strongest attacks, eventually shattering the domain.
• A colossal shark emerged from the Enclosed Soul Garden and charged at Jun Sheng Bai.

Dragon Lord ambushed the Federation’s fighters after exhausting their Soul Power, gravely wounded Beddon, and prepared a powerful summon. Bei Gong Li tried to stop him, but Corpse Emperor Li Renwang and Motuo De intercepted her.

• The Father of Sharks attacked Jun Sheng Bai while Chen Yi, Bei Gong Li, and Chen Yi Ming realized Dragon Lord had drained their Soul Power by luring them into breaking the Enclosed Soul Garden.
• Beddon fell from the sky with a fatal chest wound, and Leng Yang Jun caught him and flew down to seek treatment.
• Dragon Lord appeared beside the Father of Sharks and began coordinating his nine Orange Soul Rings to summon another creature as the Federation’s elites fought the retreating enemy forces.
• Bei Gong Li charged at Dragon Lord, but Corpse Emperor Li Renwang and Motuo De blocked her path.
• Bei Gong Li repelled Motuo De’s barrier, but Li Renwang altered its inscriptions and caused it to pull her back.

Dragon Lord unleashed a Black Tide that suppressed everyone and produced more than a thousand powerful Deep and Shallow, turning the battle against the Federation. As the others gathered around the mortally wounded Beddon, Qian Ren Xue said he could still be saved and explained that Dragon Lord had wounded him to divert fighters from the battlefield.

• Li Renwang used Motuo De to draw the Limit Douluos' attacks away from Dragon Lord while they kept their distance, wary of the Enclosed Soul Garden.
• Dragon Lord spread a Black Tide across the ruins, suppressing the Soul Power of both sides and summoning more than a thousand Deep and Shallow.
• Leng Yang Jun brought the gravely wounded Beddon to safety, and Yun Ming and Guan Yue mourned beside their teacher.
• Qian Ren Xue examined Beddon and said his fatal injuries could still be treated, though she believed Dragon Lord had inflicted them to tie up the Federation's fighters.
• Ning Qing Lan asked Qian Ren Xue how Beddon should be treated.

Qian Ren Xue and Ya Li began purifying Dragon Lord’s power inside Beddon, with Ning Qing Lan supporting them, but Dragon Lord’s yellow mist disrupted their treatment and drove ordinary people mad. As they resumed healing, Dragon Lord escalated the battle by merging the mist with the Father of Sharks inside a towering column of water.

• Qian Ren Xue explained that Dragon Lord’s Soul Power was eroding Beddon, then joined with Ya Li to purify it while Ning Qing Lan amplified their Soul Power.
• The Limit Douluo shattered Motuo De’s barrier as Li Renwang used the Father of Sharks to evade their attacks.
• Dragon Lord summoned yellow fluorescent mist that drove ordinary people mad, incapacitated some low-level Soul Masters, and filled them with visions of a monstrous being they called the Great Holy Emperor.
• The mist interrupted Ya Li’s life-energy treatment, causing Beddon to cough up blood, but Ning Qing Lan shielded the healers with her Mental Power Field and Qian Ren Xue and Ya Li continued their coordinated treatment.
• Dragon Lord lit all nine of his orange soul rings and sent the glowing mist toward the Father of Sharks, which then joined with it inside a huge column of water rising from the Black Tide.

The Dragon Lord summoned the Lord of Ten Thousand Sins, a Peak Quasi-God formed from his three strongest Summoned Beasts and the Black Tide, while Corpse Emperor Li Renwang held off the Federation’s Limit Douluo. With the Holy Spirit Cult seemingly poised to win, the Dragon Lord unexpectedly left the battlefield, assigning Li Renwang to command in his place.

• Corpse Emperor Li Renwang consumed his zombie army with Corpse Demon Returning Soul to strengthen himself and block the attacks of Bei Gong Li and Chen Yi Ming.
• The Dragon Lord completed his summoning as the Father of Sharks and the yellow mist vanished into the Black Tide.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Sins emerged from the tide and struck the combatants’ Seas of Consciousness with its Spiritual Power.
• Corpse Emperor Li Renwang stopped empowering himself and flew to the Dragon Lord, convinced their forces would soon conquer Mingdu.
• The Dragon Lord ordered Li Renwang to command the battle and said he had more important matters to attend to.

Dragon Lord left Corpse Emperor Li Renwang in command of the battlefield while pursuing Qian Gu Huang Yu, whom he believed could help him become a god. He confronted Qian Gu Die Ting at the Mingdu Spirit Pagoda and demanded that he hand over his daughter.

• Dragon Lord gave Li Renwang command of the Deep and Shallow army and the Lord of Ten Thousand Sins before vanishing.
• Li Renwang realized Dragon Lord wanted Qian Gu Huang Yu for her powerful bloodline and decided to turn the Quasi-Gods on the battlefield into Corpse Puppets.
• Qian Gu Die Ting brought Qian Gu Huang Yu to the Mingdu Spirit Pagoda, believing they could not escape the Blood River God Slaying Great Array.
• Dragon Lord appeared before Qian Gu Die Ting and demanded that he hand over Qian Gu Huang Yu.
• Qian Gu Die Ting raised his Coiled Dragon Staff, but Dragon Lord's Spiritual Power suppressed his aura and left him drenched in cold sweat.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu considered calling Xue'er as Dragon Lord kept his attention fixed on her.

Qian Gu Die Ting unleashed his newly fused attack against Dragon Lord, but Dragon Lord stopped it with one finger and struck him with Void Demon Expulsion. Dragon Lord then offered to spare Qian Gu Die Ting, Bei Gong Li, and the others if Qian Gu Huang Yu surrendered everything to him, and she challenged his motives.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu weighed using her last two Command Spells to summon Qian Ren Xue and restore her godhood, knowing it would give Qian Ren Xue complete freedom and reveal her identity to Qian Gu Die Ting.
• Qian Gu Die Ting broke through under Dragon Lord's pressure, fused three hundred-thousand-year support soul skills, and struck Dragon Lord with his full strength.
• Dragon Lord stopped Qian Gu Die Ting's staff with one finger and used Void Demon Expulsion to exile his consciousness, sending him flying backward.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu's dragon roar helped Qian Gu Die Ting recover, and King Ghidorah's Dragon Universe Star Hunting domain filled the room with golden lightning and gales.
• Dragon Lord praised Qian Gu Huang Yu's bloodline and offered to spare Qian Gu Die Ting, Bei Gong Li, and the others if she gave everything to him.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu rejected Dragon Lord's proposal as a scheme to devour her, but Dragon Lord insisted that he wanted to let more people live.

Dragon Lord revealed that he planned to become a god by devouring Qian Gu Huang Yu, while Qian Gu Die Ting secretly prepared a counterattack. Die Ting detonated the Mingdu Spirit Ascension Platform and absorbed its plane-law fragments through the Coiled Dragon Staff, prompting Dragon Lord to unleash the Book of the Dead and seize some of the fragments himself.

• Dragon Lord admitted that he intended to devour Qian Gu Huang Yu to achieve godhood and would help the others ascend only after creating a God Realm.
• Qian Gu Die Ting detonated the Spirit Ascension Platform at the Mingdu branch, releasing a pillar of energy and plane-law fragments.
• Die Ting absorbed the fragments with the Coiled Dragon Staff and used the Heaven Punishing Earth Slaying technique, raising his power to the Quasi-God level.
• Dragon Lord summoned his nine Orange Soul Rings and the Book of the Dead, whose crimson force engulfed the battlefield.
• The Book of the Dead drew some plane-law fragments away from Die Ting, and Dragon Lord absorbed them.

Dragon Lord used his Divine Origin Realm Spiritual Power and the Book of the Dead to absorb the Spirit Ascension Platform’s law fragments faster than Qian Gu Die Ting could invoke them. Qian Gu Die Ting launched Heaven Punishing Earth Slaying, but Dragon Lord revealed an Invincible Golden Body that could block the attack.

• Electrolux and Mountain Dragon Tai Kun explained to Qian Gu Huang Yu that Dragon Lord had reached the Divine Origin Realm, and Qian Gu Huang Yu joined the struggle for the plane’s law fragments.
• Qian Gu Die Ting realized Dragon Lord was absorbing the fragments faster and across a wider area, then unleashed Defy Heaven and attacked with Heaven Punishing Earth Slaying.
• Dragon Lord waited until the Evil-Breaking Dragon was about to strike before activating Invincible Golden Body.
• Qian Gu Die Ting recognized that Dragon Lord’s Peak Quasi-God strength could let his Invincible Golden Body withstand attacks infused with divine power.

Dragon Lord defeated Qian Gu Die Ting after the Mingdu Spirit Pagoda self-destructed, then confronted Qian Gu Huang Yu and explained why he planned to devour her. The chapter ended with Dragon Lord removing his mask and claiming to be Qian Gu Die Ting’s father.

• Qian Gu Die Ting fled the exploding Mingdu Spirit Pagoda with Qian Gu Huang Yu, but Dragon Lord caught up using the Soft Bone Bewitching Rabbit soul bone’s abilities.
• Dragon Lord used the Coiled Dragon Staff to defeat Qian Gu Die Ting and left him gravely wounded.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu rushed to help Qian Gu Die Ting, but Dragon Lord intercepted her and said she resembled an old friend before declaring that he would devour her.
• Dragon Lord explained that he was avoiding the Federation’s three generals because they might have God-Slaying Soul Cannonballs.
• Qian Gu Die Ting pleaded with Dragon Lord to stay away from his daughter and accused him of killing his father, so Dragon Lord removed his mask and said, “I am your father!”

Dragon Lord revealed that he was Qian Gu Die Ting’s father, Qian Gu Shi Long, and defended using the Blood River God Slaying Great Array as a means to achieve godhood. When Qian Gu Die Ting rejected his father’s methods, Dragon Lord showed him scenes from his own past, beginning with his birth as Xiang Nian.

• Dragon Lord removed his mask and revealed his identity as Qian Gu Shi Long, shocking Qian Gu Die Ting and Qian Gu Huang Yu.
• Qian Gu Die Ting demanded to know why his father had joined the Holy Spirit Cult, and Dragon Lord said becoming an Evil Soul Master helped them pursue godhood.
• Dragon Lord claimed history could be rewritten to portray Shrek and the Tang Sect as conspirators and the array’s victims as willing sacrifices.
• Qian Gu Die Ting denounced using other lives for one person’s ambition, but Dragon Lord argued that his son’s success depended on the evil deeds Dragon Lord had committed.
• Dragon Lord used thought materialization to show how he had been born as Xiang Nian to a woman who resented him, then awakened the Coiled Dragon Staff with rank-four Innate Soul Power.

Dragon Lord revealed how Xiang Nian’s impoverished childhood, his mother’s madness, and his lover’s betrayal drove him to awaken the Book of the Dead and become Qian Gu Shi Long. He explained that he needed Qian Gu Huang Yu, while Qian Gu Die Ting tried to protect him.

• Dragon Lord showed Qian Gu Die Ting and Qian Gu Huang Yu Xiang Nian’s difficult youth and his loving relationship with Xia Qing'er.
• Xia Qing'er abandoned Xiang Nian for Young Master Li, who offered her wealth, a Ten-thousand-year Soul Spirit, and help obtaining Rank 2 Battle Armor.
• After Xiang Nian’s second martial soul, the Book of the Dead, awakened, he used it to devour his mother and later killed Young Master Li and Xia Qing'er.
• Xiang Nian changed his name to Qian Gu Shi Long, reached Titled Douluo, and was accepted by the Qian Gu Family, where he first experienced the thrill of power.
• Qian Gu Shi Long explained that he sought to devour those ahead of him in the succession so he could become Tower Master of the Spirit Pagoda and Clan Head of the Qian Gu Family.

Dragon Lord revealed how he had murdered Spirit Pagoda leaders to seize power and pursue godhood, and argued that Qian Gu Die Ting had benefited from his crimes. Qian Gu Die Ting rejected his father’s justification and formally declared war on him.

• Dragon Lord explained that, as Xiang Nian, he had once dreamed of becoming a god before his ambitions narrowed to a modest life in Mingdu.
• Dragon Lord described killing those who opposed his authority, taking control of the Spirit Pagoda and its council, then leaving to pursue godhood.
• Dragon Lord told Qian Gu Die Ting that his power and privileges came from the evil deeds Dragon Lord had committed on his behalf.
• Qian Gu Die Ting recognized that he had reaped the benefits of his father’s crimes and declared war on Dragon Lord as Tower Master of Spirit Transmission Tower and War God Douluo.