Chapter Summaries

Zu Yuan’s team faced Yun Ming’s team in a Stage Castle match, where performance themes shaped combat strength. After both sides chose their first three fighters, Qi Hongxuan was isolated and attacked, then discovered Zhuo Shi was using a True God-Tier Mecha.

• Zu Yuan’s team entered the Stage Castle map for a best-of-five competition built around theatrical performances and themed battles.
• Zu Yuan sent Duan Dongli, Qi Hongxuan, and Shi Yun Kong into the first match, while Yun Ming’s team fielded Zhuo Shi, Cai Yue'er, and Xu Yuanzhi.
• Xu Yuanzhi’s Star Crown and Zhuo Shi’s Silver Moon abilities formed a barrier that separated Qi Hongxuan from his teammates.
• Qi Hongxuan abandoned his attempt to break the barrier and pushed deeper into the enemy formation, but Zhuo Shi’s Crimson Dragon attack injured him while starlight formations restrained him.
• Qi Hongxuan saw a crimson mecha appear after the elements around him vanished and realized Zhuo Shi was piloting a True God-Tier Mecha.

Qi Hongxuan won the first battle by unleashing the Ultimate Kirin Arm, while Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin conceded the second match after their Martial Soul Fusion Skill overwhelmed Han Ming and Yu Wu Xing. Zu Yuan and Yun Ming began the third match, with Yun Ming's purple light drawing Zu Yuan into memories as their duel started.

• Zhuo Shi attacked Qi Hongxuan with Crimson Dragon Awakening, but Qi Hongxuan countered with the Ultimate Kirin Arm and won the first battle at the cost of his right arm.
• Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin trapped Han Ming and Yu Wu Xing with Emotions Move Heaven, and Zu Yuan conceded the second match when the pair began losing control.
• The score became one to one, and Zu Yuan chose to face Yun Ming in the one-on-one match themed around envy.
• Zu Yuan summoned the Tree of Life and brought out the Eternal Stone as Yun Ming approached in a True God-Tier Mecha carrying the Sky-Piercing Divine Spear.
• Purple light appeared in Yun Ming's eyes, and Zu Yuan's divine consciousness sank into a vortex as memories surfaced.

Zu Yuan and Yun Ming fought in the third match, where Zu Yuan used his Laws of Life to destroy Yun Ming and secure a two-to-one lead. The fourth match was announced as a two-versus-two contest themed around love.

• Zu Yuan recalled his rivalry with Yun Ming and Ya Li before the Eternal Stone’s red light broke him out of a spiritual influence.
• Zu Yuan and Yun Ming exchanged accusations while fighting, and Zu Yuan learned that Yun Ming’s Law of Heaven formed a separate world that attacks could not reach.
• Zu Yuan used Life Awakening to strengthen himself, but Yun Ming expanded his domain to isolate the Tree of Life from outside energy.
• Zu Yuan triggered Life Bloom and bound Yun Ming within the Tree of Life, then used Life Termination to interrupt Yun Ming’s spiritual attack.
• The Tree of Life exploded and destroyed Yun Ming, giving Zu Yuan’s side the third match and a two-to-one score.
• The screen revealed that the fourth match would be a two-versus-two contest themed around love.

Yun Ming drew strength from his memories of love and used it to defeat Zu Yuan and Long Yue in the two-on-two match. His team won, leaving the contest to continue.

• Zu Yuan chose himself and Long Yue to face Yun Ming and Ya Li, while Qi Hongxuan warned him not to underestimate them.
• Yun Ming recalled his life, love for Ya Li, and ambitions, awakening emotional power that strengthened him.
• Ya Li amplified Yun Ming with Archangel's Holy Spirit Dance as Long Yue empowered Zu Yuan's Tree of Life with moonlight.
• Yun Ming froze time and space, trapped Zu Yuan in Infinite Reincarnation, and destroyed his body and Martial Soul with Space Collapse.
• Yun Ming's attacks destroyed Zu Yuan's divine consciousness, and he quickly defeated Long Yue, giving his team the victory.

Yun Ming's team defeated Zu Yuan's team in the ideals-themed seven-on-seven battle, earning the second quarterfinal spot. Zu Yuan recognized that his arrogance and strategic mistakes had cost him the match, while a dark feeling began to grow within him.

• Zang Xin and Cao Dezhi used Emotions Move Heaven, stirring the teams' shared ideals and sealing Qi Hongxuan before he could unleash the Ultimate Qilin Arm.
• Yun Ming's team coordinated their attacks and used Xu Yuanzhi's Eternal Starry Sky Domain to freeze Zu Yuan's group, allowing Yun Ming to strike with Space Collapse.
• Zhuo Shi, Cai Yue'er, Ya Li, and Xu Yuanzhi followed with attacks that eliminated Zu Yuan's teammates one by one, leaving only the sealed Qi Hongxuan.
• Zu Yuan conceded after realizing Yun Ming had understood the map's mechanics, and Yun Ming's team secured the second quarterfinal spot.
• After leaving the Simulation Pod, Zu Yuan reflected on his arrogance, poor teamwork, and failure to gather intelligence, as something dark began growing inside him.

Wang Haochen lectured on poison and newly developed sin magic at the Ten Sages Soul Master Forum before watching a Star Dou Battle Net match with Bai Ming. At Rose Girls' Academy, he saw its unequal student and maid system and resolved to oppose Silver Rose's vision for the future.

• Wang Haochen explained poison, the structure of the soul, and the principles and potential of sin magic at the forum while Meng Hongchen translated for the audience.
• Wang Haochen, Meng Hongchen, Bai Ming, and Leng Xuehan watched the Zu Yuan Team defeat the Yun Ming Team in the Star Dou Battle Net.
• Wang Haochen and Bai Ming discussed the wager involving Qi Hongxuan and whether the Ten Sages would honor it.
• Wang Haochen and Meng Hongchen strolled through Rose Girls' Academy, where he objected to the class divide between young ladies and maids.
• Wang Haochen resolved to push the era forward and resist Silver Rose's vision, and Meng Hongchen squeezed his hand.

Wang Haochen and the Sage Team defended a city against Liu Xiaoxiao's attackers, enduring a devastating siege bombardment before Chen Fang raised a vast domain that sealed the city and trapped one of Liu Xiaoxiao's clones. Wang Haochen planned to exploit the clone's connection to Liu Xiaoxiao and capture him.

• Liu Xiaoxiao's team drew the attacker role in a Siege Battle, while Chen Fang's team prepared to defend the city for an hour.
• Wang Haochen organized the defenders to abandon the walls, lure the attackers inside, and use War Fog and traps to delay them.
• The attackers bombarded the city from all four directions, burning away War Fog and severely damaging the barrier and walls.
• Wang Haochen sent his concealed Spirit Souls to gather intelligence while he prepared a countermeasure.
• The barrier shattered, and Chen Fang activated World Scroll and Creation Star, enclosing the city in a vast domain that prevented Space Shuttle.
• Wang Haochen expected Liu Xiaoxiao's clone carrying the Void Breaker Sword to be trapped inside and planned to use its connection to capture Liu Xiaoxiao.

Wang Haochen used Original Sin Magic to disrupt Liu Xiaoxiao’s linked minds, but Liu Xiaoxiao’s side struck back against Chen Fang’s domain and reclaimed the Void Breaker Sword. The chapter ended with Wang Haochen discovering that the apparent Chen Long was an enemy and Zheng Bei had been attacked.

• Wang Haochen used the Soul-Snatching Tablet and Original Sin Magic to agitate Liu Xiaoxiao and his connected incarnations, forcing Liu Xiaoxiao to abandon the trapped incarnation and leave the Void Breaker Sword behind.
• Liu Xiaoxiao summoned numerous soul spirits and divine artifacts to cast All-Attribute Element Containment against Chen Fang’s domain, while Zheng Bei used the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda to support Chen Fang.
• Wang Haochen ordered the group to abandon the city, plant explosive traps, and push forward, then allowed a figure posing as Chen Long to enter after secretly exposing him to toxins.
• Liu Xiaoxiao’s attack eroded Chen Fang’s domain, and an apparent Liu Xiaoxiao seized the Void Breaker Sword before vanishing through a method that left no detectable spatial trace.
• Wang Haochen realized the apparent Chen Long was suspicious as Zheng Bei’s body exploded and purple light flickered in the impostor’s eyes.

Liu Xiaoxiao defeated Chen Fang’s team in the round of sixteen by combining his clones, domains, and a decisive Void Breaker Sword attack. Back in the Six Paths Abyss, he joined the Sea God and Asura God in contesting the Netherworld Nexus and began working on a substitute that could maintain the seal while his true body left.

• Liu Xiaoxiao escaped Wang Haochen’s poison, rallied his clones, and covered the city with the Two Forms Tai Chi Domain to weaken the enemy’s defenses and disrupt its Soul Tools.
• Liu Xiaoxiao struck Chen Fang with Creation Blade, Vastness of Heaven and Earth, then used Time-Space Seal and Guanyin’s Tears to pierce his brow and destroy his mecha, armor, and spiritual sense.
• Liu Xiaoxiao regained consciousness outside the match and learned that his team had won, prompting spectators to reassess his strength.
• In the Six Paths Abyss, Liu Xiaoxiao connected with the Sea God and Asura God, who explained how the Rakshasa God had trapped them and why the Underworld’s seal remained in danger.
• Asura God told Liu Xiaoxiao that the Beast Path contained the spiritual sense and destructive intent of the Progenitor of Sub-Dragons, sealed there by the Dragon God.
• Liu Xiaoxiao continued contesting the Netherworld Nexus and considered creating a substitute to maintain the seal so that his true body could leave and become a god.

Fan Yihuang continued refining his divine body and studying combat techniques while cultivating on a white dwarf in the Star Dou Battle Net. Liu Xiaoxiao brought him the Universe Qi cultivation method and asked him to investigate whether Soul Masters could cultivate and combine it with their existing powers.

• Fan Yihuang trained in magma and on a white dwarf, improving his divine power and adjusting his divine body to withstand extreme pressure.
• Liu Xiaoxiao arrived on the white dwarf and told Fan Yihuang about the Universe Qi cultivation method he had received from Yi Tianzhi.
• Liu Xiaoxiao explained that Universe Qi could improve the body, absorb energy from the Universe, and work alongside different cultivation systems, but that its risks needed further investigation.
• Fan Yihuang considered how Universe Qi might combine with Soul Power, Spiritual Power, and bloodline power.
• Liu Xiaoxiao transmitted the cultivation method, and Fan Yihuang began attempting to cultivate Universe Qi.

Rong Yunping revealed his strength in the Boundless Desert match, fusing with Aetherius and using the Power of Chaos to defeat Fan Yihuang. His team secured victory, leaving one final round-of-sixteen match to be played.

• Little Fatty replaced Rong Luoyun as commentator for Rong Family Team's match against Sage Shrek United Team in the Boundless Desert.
• Rong Yunping and Fan Yihuang encountered each other, and Fan Yihuang enlarged himself with Heavenly God Transformation.
• Rong Yunping fused with Aetherius, achieving Human-Dragon Unity and wielding the Dragon Domain and Power of Chaos.
• Rong Yunping opened his Heavenly Eye and struck Fan Yihuang with a Spiritual Sense attack, leaving him unable to defend against Rong Yunping and his summoned beasts.
• Rong Yunping's team had seven members remaining against Sage Shrek United Team's four at the half-hour checkpoint, securing the win.
• The audience reassessed Rong Yunping's strength, and the chapter left only one round-of-sixteen match remaining.

At a biology conference, Little Fatty and Yi Tianzhi discussed how cosmic forces might shape the evolution of intelligent life and the origins of humans and other races. They ended by considering whether Douluo Star’s humans came from Earth, before Little Fatty asked Yi Tianzhi about soul beast evolution.

• Yi Tianzhi asked Little Fatty to explain his theories of convergent evolution and inevitable destiny, and Little Fatty outlined how the Cosmic Will might favor humanlike life across the Universe.
• Little Fatty discussed the biological classification and origins of elves, giants, dwarves, beastmen, half-beastmen, transforming soul beasts, and immortal essences.
• Little Fatty explained that the Creation God's influence had made Primate-form life flourish and predicted that the Cosmic Will would eventually need new apostles to preserve order.
• Yi Tianzhi argued that fossil and genetic evidence suggested Douluo Star's humans appeared suddenly and might have originated from Earth.
• Little Fatty speculated that humans may have reached Douluo Star through objects left from Earth's Age of the Gods, then asked Yi Tianzhi about soul beast evolution.

Little Fatty and Yi Tianzhi debated how Soul Beasts evolved and discussed Yi Tianzhi’s theories on Martial Soul heredity, cultural influence, and scientific development. As their discussion drew a crowd, Liu Xiaoxiao secretly probed a Silver Rose councilor for intelligence about Qin Lingxue.

• Yi Tianzhi argued that competition between Soul Beasts drove evolution, and Little Fatty countered that their intelligence and low reproduction made population-level natural selection unlikely; Yi Tianzhi proposed neutral mutations, and Little Fatty accepted the explanation.
• Little Fatty asked Yi Tianzhi about Martial Soul Evolution, and Yi Tianzhi explained how genes, family inheritance, culture, and personal experiences could shape Martial Souls and their mutations.
• Yi Tianzhi described research into Twin Martial Souls, delayed awakening, Second Awakening, and scientific methods for developing Martial Souls.
• A Silver Rose core councilor objected internally to the prospect of normalizing Twin Martial Souls, which could threaten his position.
• Liu Xiaoxiao secretly entered the councilor’s Sea of Consciousness to extract intelligence while Little Fatty continued speaking with Yi Tianzhi.

Liu Xiaoxiao investigated Qin Lingxue’s origins and considered how the mysterious Witch and the transmigrators might have reached Douluo Star. As he explored the universe’s layered spaces, laws, and dimensional evolution, his new understanding of destiny led him to reconsider how parallel universes worked.

• Liu Xiaoxiao finished investigating Silver Rose’s core members but found no useful information about Qin Lingxue’s origins.
• Liu Xiaoxiao connected Qin Lingxue’s sudden appearance with his doubts about Hermes, Qi Hongxuan, and the other transmigrators.
• Liu Xiaoxiao reviewed the structure of True Space, interdimensional space, deeper space, and the law worlds, drawing on his own past experiences.
• Liu Xiaoxiao considered how life and the universe evolved through dimensional ascension, and how destruction and pruning affected that process.
• Liu Xiaoxiao recalled Time and Space’s explanation of multidimensional space theory and realized that his deeper understanding of destiny let him understand parallel universes.

Liu Xiaoxiao developed his theory of how Destiny, Parallel Universes, and higher dimensions governed the universe, then traced the origins of several beings connected to his world. He suspected the time travelers might be targeting the God of Divine Retribution’s final Reincarnation, so he decided to move up preparations and remove unstable factors.

• Liu Xiaoxiao reasoned that the Cosmic Will’s converging force kept similar histories from branching endlessly, while pruning worlds that had no future.
• Liu Xiaoxiao concluded that someone intervening across Parallel Universes must have reached at least the six-dimensional level, and he outlined how higher dimensions could alter possibilities and universal laws.
• Liu Xiaoxiao used the threads of Destiny to determine that Qi Yue, Hermes, Belial, and the others came from distant Parallel Universes, while Witch Qin Lingxue and the Joker seemed to come from the future.
• Liu Xiaoxiao considered why time travelers had returned to this particular point in history and suspected their target might be the God of Divine Retribution’s final Reincarnation.
• Liu Xiaoxiao decided to advance certain plans and eliminate unstable factors before the decisive battle with Hermes and the others.

Liu Xiaoxiao questioned Qin Lingxue about her purpose, then sought the Dragon God’s help and discussed rebirth, inheritance, and the possibility of saving his younger brother. He ended by turning the conversation to Qin Lingxue, leaving the Dragon God ready to hear what Liu Xiaoxiao knew.

• He Qiang and Liu Xiaoxiao discussed their enemies, their limited ability to monitor Douluo Star, and the preparations needed to reach Saint Demon Star.
• Liu Xiaoxiao visited Qin Lingxue at the Silver Divination House and learned that neither she nor her companions currently targeted the God of Divine Retribution; Qin Lingxue said they had come for a game.
• Liu Xiaoxiao met the Dragon God in the Dragon Clan’s graveyard and connected his consciousness to the Star Dou Battle Net.
• The Dragon God explained why he needed an inheritor before rebirth and described the challenges of restoring the deceased God Kings and returning to the God Realm.
• Liu Xiaoxiao suggested he might have a way to let the Dragon God’s younger brother be reborn, then said he had come to discuss Qin Lingxue.

Liu Xiaoxiao introduced the Dragon God, Mo Xiao, as a special guest on the Star Dou Battle Net broadcast, drawing attention from across Douluo Star. As the teams for the final round-of-sixteen match appeared, Liu Xiaoxiao began planning how to use Mo Xiao’s knowledge and fame.

• Rong Luoyun invited the Dragon God to commentate, and he agreed to let them reveal his identity as a form of atonement.
• Liu Xiaoxiao and Xue Menghuai introduced Mo Xiao to the livestream audience as the former Supreme God King of the Divine Dragon Realm.
• Mo Xiao reassured viewers that no demon or monster could threaten Douluo Star and predicted that a new God Realm would soon protect the star region.
• Mo Xiao’s speech prompted Liu Xiaoxiao to gain new insight into the Word Spirit Law and consider using it to rewrite destiny.
• Liu Xiaoxiao planned to make Mo Xiao a teacher and promote his history through books, comics, and animation.
• Da Bao’s and Lin Bo’s teams appeared on the livestream platform for their match.

Lin Bo’s team overwhelmed Da Bao’s team in the Myriad Demon Realm by destroying six Demon God Pillars to their three. The quarterfinalists were decided, and the matches to determine the final four were about to begin.

• Xue Menghuai explained the teams, their captains, and the Myriad Demon Realm rules, where destroying the most Demon God Pillars within three hours won.
• Lin Bo led his team across the map, and Feng Xiu defeated Azure Demon Rider Xier while Lin Bo destroyed the first Demon God Pillar.
• The Dragon God asked about Lin Bo’s martial soul, and Liu Xiaoxiao explained its ancestral dragon bloodline and its connection to the God of Divine Retribution.
• Lin Bo’s team fought Archer Demon God Lielajin as its members battled the demon hordes, then Lin Bo killed Lielajin and destroyed the Fourteenth Pillar.
• Lin Bo Team finished with six destroyed pillars against Da Bao’s team’s three, deciding the quarterfinalists and setting up the matches for the final four.

Liu Xiaoxiao fused his spiritual sense, bloodline power, and Power of Chaos to form a Chaos Primordial Spirit and break through to the god level. His Two Forms Tai Chi Domain expanded, but dark clouds gathered as the heavenly tribulation arrived.

• Liu Xiaoxiao drew on his understanding of the Chaos Law and began merging his three energies in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Liu Xiaoxiao pulled the Core of Consciousness and Core of Blood and Qi into his Chaos Vortex, forming a Chaos Core.
• Liu Xiaoxiao gathered the energies in his apertures and shaped the Chaos Core into a Chaos Primordial Spirit as his Power of Chaos rose into Creation Holy Power.
• Liu Xiaoxiao stabilized his Chaos Primordial Spirit, manifested his Netherworld Heart Eye and seventh soul ring, and expanded his Two Forms Tai Chi Domain across a thousand li.
• Liu Xiaoxiao reached the god level, and dark clouds gathered as the heavenly tribulation began.

Liu Xiaoxiao underwent a nine-colored heavenly tribulation in the Star Dou Battle Net, completed his Chaos Divine Body, and created the Wind Thunder Tremors technique. After examining his new powers, he continued teaching God-Tier Experts about cosmic laws and the Universe.

• Liu Xiaoxiao faced the nine-colored heavenly tribulation without armor and absorbed its power while his body transformed into a divine body.
• Liu Xiaoxiao defeated the final lightning bolt with the Dragon Tiger Sacred Soul Saber and created the Wind Thunder Tremors saber technique and Wind Thunder Tribulation Storm domain skill.
• Liu Xiaoxiao examined his Chaos Divine Body, discovered the Heavenly Heart Aperture and Heavenly Palm Aperture, and found that his Creation Holy Power had risen to level 79.
• Liu Xiaoxiao entered the Star Dou Battle Net to teach God-Tier Experts, including Rong Lingji, Zhou Tianyu, Ma Xiaotao, and Yi Tianzhi, about cosmic knowledge and laws.
• Liu Xiaoxiao expanded the virtual classroom into a cosmic starry sky and taught until the following day.