Chapter Summaries

Yang Ming conquered three more kingdoms and prepared to face the northern alliance in a decisive battle. The Blood Spirit, Nether, and Blood Shadow Kingdoms gathered at Zhennan Pass, where their leaders began discussing the threat from the south.

• Yang Ming defeated the Saint Spirit and Liexue Kingdoms and secured the Spirit Snow Kingdom’s surrender, bringing half of the Dou Ling Continent under his command.
• Han Yang reported that the Blood Spirit, Nether, and Blood Shadow Kingdoms had ended their hostilities and marched together toward Zhennan Pass; Yang Ming ordered his forces to appear weak while consolidating their new territories.
• Qing Shu and Zhong Zhengzhi questioned Yang Ming’s plan to let the enemy alliance gather, but he dismissed their concerns and reminded Qing Shu to address him as Your Majesty.
• Five days later, Blood Spirit King, Blood Shadow King, and Netherworld King met at Zhennan Pass and agreed they needed to unite against the southern kingdoms.
• A disturbance outside interrupted the meeting when Blood Spirit King’s grandfather roared, “Stop!!”

An amnesiac mysterious man overwhelmed the Blood Spirit Emperor and forced the Blood Spirit King and his army to serve under his command. Three days later, Yang Ming sensed his mark had been triggered and set out as the decisive battle began.

• The Blood Spirit Emperor attacked the falling mysterious man, but the man shattered his fist and struck him into the ground with a powerful punch.
• The Blood Spirit King tried to recruit the mysterious man by telling him about the war against the madman in the south, but the man realized he was being manipulated and slapped him.
• The mysterious man threatened the Blood Spirit Emperor and ordered the Blood Spirit King and his army to follow his command as he went to meet the madman.
• Three days later, Yang Ming sensed that his mark had been triggered and vanished in a flash of silver light.

The Heaven-Sent Tough Guy led the northern army to confront Yang Ming, then attacked the Blood Spirit King and fought the Blood Spirit Emperor in a brutal duel. As the Blood Spirit Emperor neared death, the tough man summoned a heavily patterned hammer, and Yang Ming recognized him.

• The Blood Spirit King reported that the northern forces had assembled, and the Heaven-Sent Tough Guy led them toward the southern army.
• Yang Ming arrived at the southern camp, ordered Nie Zheng and Han Yang to command the ground troops, and flew into the sky with the Saint Spirit Old Man to meet the enemy leaders.
• The Heaven-Sent Tough Guy questioned Yang Ming about his identity, then punched through the Blood Spirit King's chest when he learned nothing.
• The Blood Spirit Emperor transformed and fought the Heaven-Sent Tough Guy, but his strength and injuries worsened as the battle continued.
• The Heaven-Sent Tough Guy brought out a dark-gold-patterned hammer with seven black and two red Spirit Rings, and Yang Ming recognized him.

Tang Chen defeated Blood Spirit Emperor, then Shura God descended and offered Yang Ming a Supreme Divine Position, which Yang Ming refused. Shura’s arrival awakened Tang Chen, who recognized the Clear Sky Sect’s Inheritance Skull Bone in Yang Ming’s armor and confronted him.

• Tang Chen and Blood Spirit Emperor unleashed their strongest attacks, and Tang Chen killed Blood Spirit Emperor while Yang Ming and Saint Spirit Old Man survived the shock wave.
• As Tang Chen prepared to leave, Shura God possessed him, drove Saint Spirit Old Man away, and told Yang Ming that the God Realm’s Divine Positions were saturated.
• Shura God offered Yang Ming his Supreme Divine Position, but Yang Ming refused it twice and chose to pursue his own path.
• Shura God’s descent disrupted the balance within Tang Chen, awakening him and restoring his consciousness.
• Tang Chen sensed the aura of his sect’s Inheritance Skull Bone on Yang Ming and demanded to know how Yang Ming had obtained it; Yang Ming calmly confirmed that it was on him.

Yang Ming told Tang Chen that he had killed the Clear Sky Sect’s leaders and clansmen, provoking Tang Chen to draw the Shura Sword and attack. Yang Ming met him with his completed Quasi-Four-Word Battle Armor and Atlas Divine Spear, and their clash began a battle that remained undecided.

• Tang Chen demanded to know what had happened to the Clear Sky Sect, and Yang Ming said the sect had been annihilated.
• Tang Chen seized Yang Ming in disbelief, but Yang Ming struck him with an Atlas Knee Strike and described how Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, Tang Yuehua, and the other sect members had died.
• Yang Ming said the Clear Sky Sect members deserved to die, driving Tang Chen into a rage as he summoned the Shura Sword.
• Yang Ming donned his completed Quasi-Four-Word Battle Armor, entered the Limit Douluo realm, and met Tang Chen’s attack with the Atlas Divine Spear.
• Their weapons collided in a blast that sent both fighters flying and stunned the warriors battling below.
• Yang Ming and Tang Chen recovered, exchanged challenges, and charged back into battle.

Yang Ming and Tang Chen fought an increasingly fierce duel with the Atlas Spear and Shura Sword, testing their domains, weapon techniques, and will against each other. Both ended the exchange badly wounded, and Yang Ming announced that three final moves would decide their lives before activating Severing Boundary.

• Tang Chen used the Slaughter Domain and struck with Shura Slash, but Yang Ming met it with Sky Support Space Rending and the two clashed weapons head-on.
• Tang Chen used the Emptiness Word Incantation and Entanglement Word Incantation to defend and redirect Yang Ming’s spear, while Yang Ming countered with his own control of force.
• Yang Ming used Teleportation and Space Prohibition to counter Tang Chen’s close-range attacks, and both fighters recognized the other’s skill before preparing for a contest of power.
• Tang Chen’s Collapse Technique and Yang Ming’s Annihilation Technique led into a head-on clash of Slaughter Assault and Absolute Dominance, followed by more than a thousand exchanges.
• The duel blasted both fighters apart, leaving Tang Chen spiritually injured and Yang Ming severely wounded, with one Battle Armor wing severed.
• Yang Ming declared that three final moves would determine the winner and activated his eighth orange-gold Spirit Ring with Severing Boundary.

Yang Ming’s defenses failed against Tang Chen’s Shura Other Shore, leaving him gravely wounded and near death. As Tang Chen moved to finish him, Yang Ming revealed that his third move had begun.

• Tang Chen unleashed Shura Other Shore, while the two Ao Tians used Eternal to try to restrain him and protect Yang Ming.
• Tang Chen’s Shura Sword countered Eternal with Heroic Soul Breaking Calamity, then battered Yang Ming’s Eternity Barrier until it began to break.
• Yang Ming canceled his barrier and struck with an incompletely charged Severing Boundary, but Tang Chen’s remaining Shura Swords pierced his chest and destroyed his Battle Armor.
• Tang Chen fixed the falling Yang Ming in place, declared that he had lost, and raised the Shura Sword to kill him.
• Yang Ming summoned the Atlas Divine Spear, lit his Ninth Soul Ring, and told Tang Chen that he had three moves as his final soul skill took effect.

Yang Ming revealed that he had saved Soul Power in his Soul Spirit to prepare his Ninth Soul Skill, while Tang Chen shattered his remaining Spirit Rings to unleash a final divine sword strike. Their opposing attacks collided in a blinding explosion that engulfed Yang Ming, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Tang Chen realized Yang Ming had prepared his Spear Intent in advance, and Yang Ming confirmed that he had stored Soul Power in his Soul Spirit.
• Tang Chen detonated his seven remaining Spirit Rings, broke free of the Spear Intent, and reached the threshold of divine transformation.
• Tang Chen summoned the Divine Generals’ power and unleashed Sumeru Extermination against Yang Ming.
• Yang Ming’s hidden Ninth Soul Skill, Return to Origin · Sky Support Sun Shooting, appeared as an Atlas Divine Spear controlled by Di Hong.
• Tian Ling fled with Yang Ming as Tang Chen sacrificed himself to unleash Clear Sky’s Final Echo against the spear, and the collision’s white shockwave swallowed them both.

After Yang Ming and Tang Chen’s aerial battle ended in a blinding collision, Netherworld King and Blood Shadow King believed Tang Chen was dead and tried to persuade Saint Spirit Old Man to help kill the fallen Yang Ming. Saint Spirit Old Man hesitated and left Han Yang undefended, but a surge of Soul Power interrupted Netherworld King’s attack just as Han Yang awaited death.

• The ground forces retreated while Han Yang and Saint Spirit Old Man watched Yang Ming and Tang Chen battle above.
• A blood-colored sword plunged into the earth, then a blinding collision forced everyone to the ground until the fighters’ power subsided.
• Yang Ming’s charred body fell from the sky, and Netherworld King and Blood Shadow King concluded that Tang Chen had died and Yang Ming had barely survived.
• Netherworld King urged Saint Spirit Old Man to help eliminate Yang Ming, while Han Yang pleaded with Saint Spirit Old Man to protect his master.
• Netherworld King knocked Han Yang down and launched a fatal Soul Power attack, but a sudden surge of Soul Power erupted in front of him.

Evil King emerged from Yang Ming’s Spirit Space and saved Han Yang, then learned the surrounding conflict by reading Han Yang’s thoughts. He defeated Netherworld King and Blood Shadow King, exposed Saint Spirit Old Man’s false loyalty, and ordered Han Yang’s group to collect the bodies and leave.

• Evil King awakened from his evolution, shielded Yang Ming from the battle’s aftershocks, and saved Han Yang from Netherworld King’s attack.
• Evil King read Han Yang’s thoughts to learn why the three Title Douluo had turned against Yang Ming and Han Yang.
• Evil King beat Netherworld King unconscious and killed the king’s advancing subordinates.
• Evil King blasted Blood Shadow King with Dark Demon Evil Lightning, leaving him severely injured as his followers fled.
• Saint Spirit Old Man claimed loyalty, but Evil King read his thoughts and struck him down after he falsely praised him.
• Evil King told Han Yang to collect the bodies and leave.

Yang Ming awakened after the Evil King devoured the Sword Intent of Asura, then judged three former enemy rulers and began organizing the unified continent. In the God Realm, Poseidon learned that Asura’s offer to Yang Ming had been rejected and considered recruiting him instead.

• Qing Shu visited the unconscious Yang Ming and told him the Blood Spirit Three Kingdoms had surrendered; after she left, Yang Ming and the Evil King removed the Sword Intent of Asura from his soul, and Yang Ming awakened.
• Yang Ming heard the officials’ views on the three captured rulers, executed the Netherworld King, abolished the Blood Shadow King’s cultivation, and sealed the Saint Spirit Elder’s cultivation for five years.
• Yang Ming approved holding the nation’s founding after the harvest, let the three royal families govern temporarily, and spent more than a month discussing the new nation’s arrangements while receiving the Shura Sword.
• Asura asked Poseidon to intensify Tang San’s trial, and Poseidon discovered that Yang Ming had rejected Asura’s offer to become his successor.
• Poseidon laughed at Asura’s embarrassment and considered recruiting Yang Ming, while deciding he no longer wanted Tang San as a successor.

Yun Ming founded the Dou Ling Empire after uniting the Blood Spirit Continent, then organized its government and worked through the demands of reconstruction. Just as he finally returned to cultivation, his surroundings changed, and he found himself somewhere other than his Spirit Space.

• Before the founding ceremony, Han Yang thanked Yun Ming for giving him a chance, and Yun Ming urged him to govern well.
• Yun Ming held the founding ceremony, named the dynasty the Dou Ling Empire and its capital Dou Spirit City, and announced benevolent policies and a general amnesty.
• Auspicious signs appeared during Yun Ming’s speech, prompting officials and commoners to acclaim him; Yun Ming suspected someone in the God Realm had intervened.
• After the celebration, Yun Ming established Dou Spirit Hall as the realm’s highest authority and assigned Han Yang and other officials to organize the imperial court and local administration.
• Yun Ming spent more than a month managing the new empire before his surroundings abruptly changed while he was preparing to cultivate.

Yang Ming met Sea God Poseidon in an illusion and challenged his authority, then learned the God Realm would soon run out of vacant Divine Positions. Yang Ming revealed his plan to create a God Realm and wagered that he could escape Poseidon's Cangming Abyss Prison, leaving Poseidon to watch as he prepared to break through it.

• Yang Ming identified Poseidon and resisted his divine pressure, arguing that gods were merely stronger humans and questioning Poseidon's greatness.
• Yang Ming challenged Poseidon's claims about the sea and the God Realm, and Poseidon warned him that the remaining Divine Positions would be filled within three hundred years.
• Yang Ming revealed that he intended to create a God Realm, angering Poseidon, who attacked him with the Cangming Abyss Prison.
• Yang Ming proposed a wager: Poseidon would imprison him for thirty years if he failed to escape, but would help him if he succeeded.
• Poseidon accepted the wager, and Yang Ming's eyes filled with golden light as he prepared to act.

Poseidon trapped Yang Ming in Cangming Abyss Prison, where immense pressure and shifting array patterns thwarted his attempts to escape. Yang Ming revealed a Divine Position rune, leaving Poseidon shocked as the chapter ended.

• Poseidon activated Cangming Abyss Prison and explained how it suppressed Yang Ming’s senses, strength, and Spiritual Power.
• Yang Ming used his World domain to study the prison, but he could not claim control of the artificial world.
• Yang Ming struck the prison’s array nodes with a spatial rune, but Poseidon’s divine barrier shattered it and the currents swept Yang Ming away.
• Poseidon suppressed Yang Ming’s World domain and changed the prison’s array patterns, preventing him from gathering reliable information.
• Yang Ming told Poseidon the ordeal was over, then summoned a golden rune that made the space freeze and prompted Poseidon to cry out, “Divine Position!”

Yang Ming destroyed the Cangming Abyss Prison with the Light of Breaking the Sky and secured Poseidon’s promise to cooperate with him. After Poseidon sent him back and later summoned him again, Yang Ming prepared to meet him at midnight in the Sea God Illusion.

• Yang Ming used the Light of Breaking the Sky to shatter the formation and collapse the Cangming Abyss Prison.
• Poseidon acknowledged Yang Ming’s success and promised to honor their bet.
• Yang Ming began to discuss creating the God Realm, but Poseidon sent him back to his room.
• Poseidon realized Yang Ming had maneuvered him into the bet and sent him a divine message three days later.
• Yang Ming accepted Poseidon’s invitation to meet at midnight in the Sea God Illusion.

Yang Ming explained his plan to create a God Realm by linking the space within his Martial Soul to his personal time axis. Poseidon recognized that the idea might make an Artificial Meson God Realm possible, though the challenge of combining space and time remained.

• Yang Ming entered the Illusion World and discussed the God Realm with Poseidon.
• Yang Ming described a God Realm as four-dimensional space, and Poseidon explained how the Creation God had formed the world and its earliest God Realm.
• Poseidon warned Yang Ming that creating a God Realm as a mortal was extraordinarily difficult, but Yang Ming insisted he would try before considering conventional godhood.
• Yang Ming proposed connecting the real space within his Martial Soul to his own time axis instead of controlling the time of a vast world.
• Poseidon considered Yang Ming's proposal and realized that an Artificial Meson God Realm might be possible if its space and time could be combined.

Yang Ming and Poseidon discussed Yang Ming’s proposed Meson God Path, identified its challenges, and agreed on methods and support to pursue it. Yang Ming returned to Douluo Star, while Poseidon reflected on how the theory could disrupt the God Realm if it became known.

• Poseidon advised Yang Ming that his Martial Soul’s inner space needed expansion and more complete laws, and taught him a method to expand it.
• Yang Ming agreed to Poseidon’s offer of help controlling his personal timeline in exchange for an unspecified condition that would not violate his principles or exceed his abilities.
• Yang Ming demonstrated his proposed solution to the final problem, and Poseidon’s divine power model showed that it could work after further refinement.
• Poseidon proposed meeting once every month in the Human World to compare progress, and Yang Ming returned to Douluo Star.
• After Yang Ming left, Poseidon privately considered the threat the new cultivation theory could pose to the God Realm and returned to his research.

Yang Ming developed the Microcosm Divine Path Method with Poseidon’s help, then left the newly stabilized Dou Ling Empire under Han Yang’s care and returned to the Douluo Continent. He reached Spirit City as Ya Li and Qian Renxue worried over his disappearance.

• Yang Ming credited Tang Xiao’s Great Sumeru Hammer with inspiring his idea to incorporate the God Realm into a Martial Soul, beginning the Microcosm Divine Path Method.
• For three months, Yang Ming cultivated at night and met Poseidon monthly to discuss their progress.
• Yang Ming gave Han Yang an Unsealing Token and the Dou Spirit Hall Master Token, ordering him to manage state affairs and use them to respond to unrest while Yang Ming was away.
• Yang Ming announced that he was entering seclusion, entrusted authority to Han Yang, and traveled east toward the Douluo Continent.
• Qian Daoliu rejected Bibi Dong’s request to send out troops, while Ya Li and Qian Renxue continued to worry about Yang Ming’s disappearance.
• Yang Ming arrived in Spirit City and looked toward Pope Mountain.

Yang Ming returned to Spirit City after two weeks away and reunited with Ya Li in Douluo Hall, where his affectionate greeting caused tension with Qian Renxue and the Angel elders. Qian Daoliu left after telling Yang Ming to visit him the next day, while Qian Renxue departed to cultivate.

• Yang Ming returned to Spirit City and used his Teleportation Technique to appear in Douluo Hall.
• Jin E attacked the apparent intruder, but Yang Ming stopped him with a Soul Power barrier and revealed himself.
• Ya Li rushed to Yang Ming, and they embraced and kissed while Qian Renxue watched nearby.
• Jin E warned them to stop kissing before the Angel God, and Qian Daoliu left after telling Yang Ming to see him the next day.
• Yang Ming exchanged awkward greetings with Qian Renxue, who then took her leave to cultivate.

Yun Ming and Ya Li reunited in Spirit City, teased each other over Qian Renxue, and shared a day of strolling and affectionate banter. The next morning, Ya Li outwitted Yun Ming while tending her plants, then reminded him they needed to visit her teacher after breakfast.

• Ya Li grew jealous after Qian Renxue left, but Yun Ming reassured her and took her for a walk in Spirit City.
• Yun Ming and Ya Li discussed their experiences apart, including her Angel God trials and his battles and travels.
• The couple returned home and spent the night together.
• Yun Ming watched Ya Li tend her plants the next morning, and she teased him for not offering to help.
• Ya Li told Yun Ming they needed to visit her teacher after breakfast, and he pulled her into a kiss before she ate an extra bun to ease her indignation.