Chapter Summaries

Lin Shu offered Xing Tianming a godhead in exchange for his loyalty, and Xing Tianming accepted, fused with it, and became a god. Lin Shu then sent him to the Endless Sea to secretly protect Ye Tianming and the Underworld God Spear, intervening only if Ye Tianming faced imminent death.

• Xing Tianming asked what Lin Shu wanted in return for making him a god.
• Lin Shu offered Xing Tianming a godhead if he followed and obeyed him, and Xing Tianming swore eternal loyalty before accepting it.
• Xing Tianming fused with the godhead over four days, repaired his Shattered Star Martial Soul, and reached level one hundred as a god.
• Lin Shu ordered Xing Tianming to go to the Endless Sea and secretly protect Ye Tianming and the Underworld God Spear, acting only if Ye Tianming faced imminent death.
• Xing Tianming agreed and departed for the Endless Sea.

Lin Shu learned about Yun Shuang, the Yun Family's powerless seventh daughter who founded the Mortal Institute to awaken and teach commoners' Martial Souls. Impressed by her efforts, he went to meet her and revealed that he had brought her an opportunity, summoning the Void Divine Throne before her.

• Lin Shu arrived in Yunling Commandery and learned that Yun Shuang was revered for founding the Mortal Institute despite lacking a Martial Soul or Soul Power.
• Lin Shu decided Yun Shuang was suited to receive the Void Divine Throne and traveled with Lin Yurou and Sun Kong to the Mortal Institute.
• Lin Shu had Sun Kong bypass the Mortal Institute's defenses and incapacitate the experts secretly guarding Yun Shuang.
• Lin Shu told the startled Yun Shuang that he admired her work at the Mortal Institute and had come to grant her an opportunity.
• Lin Shu identified himself as the Heavenly Pavilion's Pavilion Master and summoned the Void Divine Throne above Yun Shuang's courtyard.

Lin Shu chose Yun Shuang to inherit the Void Divine Throne and become a Divine Knight, on the condition that she uphold the Knight’s Code and remain loyal to him. After Yun Shuang swore her oath and took the throne, she advanced directly to become the Divine Knight of Protection and Justice.

• Yun Shuang felt overwhelming pressure from the Void Divine Throne, and Lin Shu explained that it was a divine artifact meant for someone without Soul Power.
• Lin Shu said Yun Shuang possessed the Knight’s Spirit and had been chosen to inherit the throne, then asked her to become a Divine Knight and remain loyal to him.
• Yun Shuang agreed to the conditions and swore a Knight’s Oath to uphold the Knight’s Code and serve Lin Shu.
• Lin Shu gave the Void Divine Throne its final command, and it revealed steps for Yun Shuang to climb.
• Yun Shuang sat on the throne and, after receiving its power and knowledge, advanced from knight apprentice to Divine Knight of Protection and Justice.

Yun Shuang became a Divine Knight and accepted Lin Shu’s task to expand the Mortal Institute across the continent. In Chizhou, Lin Shu discovered that a disciple of Incense Valley carried the Fire God’s inheritance, then sought out the sect’s strongest person, who greeted him as if he had been expected.

• Yun Shuang thanked Lin Shu for making her a Divine Knight and agreed to expand the Mortal Institute throughout the continent, planning to move its base to the Empire.
• Lin Shu’s group traveled to Chizhou and sensed a Divine Being’s aura coming from Incense Valley.
• Sun Kong and Yun Shuang found that the aura belonged to a person with Soul Power just above level seventy, whom Lin Shu recognized as the disciple who had received Incense Valley’s Demonic Soul Shark Soul Ring.
• Lin Shu decided to recruit the Fire God’s inheritor before a Divine Hall could emerge and poach him.
• Lin Shu, Sun Kong, and Yun Shuang slipped into Incense Valley and reached its strongest person, an old man by a volcanic crater, who opened his eyes and said, “You have finally come!”

Lin Shu went to Incense Valley to recruit Shuang Hongyi, who had inherited the Fire God Legacy, and promised protection for her home. After demonstrating Yun Shuang’s godly strength, he won Shuang Hongyi’s allegiance and used a divine spark to help Incense Valley’s elder Chi Qianxing become a god.

• Lin Shu revealed he was the Heavenly Pavilion’s Pavilion Master and asked Incense Valley’s elder to let Shuang Hongyi join him, promising protection in return.
• Shuang Hongyi said she had expected to return to the Fire God Hall, but Lin Shu promised the Heavenly Pavilion could handle it and showed that Yun Shuang was a god.
• Shuang Hongyi agreed to join the Heavenly Pavilion, and Lin Shu offered to make the elder a god if he pledged loyalty.
• Chi Qianxing swore loyalty to Lin Shu and fused with a divine spark over five days.
• Chi Qianxing completed the fusion, gained a tenth soul ring, and ascended to the hundredth-level divine realm.

Lin Shu sent the newly ascended Chi Qianxing to secretly protect Lei Yun, then returned to the Heavenly Pavilion and learned more about Shuang Baiyi’s Flame Empress Martial Soul. After breaking through to Soul Douluo, Lin Shu absorbed the 1.18-million-year Ghost Shadow Divine Vine Soul Ring, but his expression changed just as the blood-gold ring appeared.

• Lin Shu ordered Chi Qianxing to follow Lei Yun in secret and intervene only if Lei Yun was about to die, while Chi concealed his godhood and left for Leizhou.
• Lin Shu returned to the Heavenly Pavilion with Shuang Baiyi, learned that her Flame Empress Martial Soul had helped her inherit the Fire God, and arranged for her to cultivate with Lin Yurou in private.
• Lin Shu swallowed cultivation pills, advanced from Level 79 to Level 80 Soul Power, and began absorbing the 1.18-million-year Ghost Shadow Divine Vine Soul Ring with Sun Kong guarding him.
• Lin Shu fought the vine’s illusion using his divine cauldron, bone sword, and devouring power, weakening its divinity before destroying its tendrils and completing the absorption.
• A blood-gold eighth Soul Ring emerged around Lin Shu, and he suddenly realized something was wrong.

Lin Shu’s attempt to refine the divinity from the Ghost Shadow Divine Vine Soul Ring released a strange red airflow that inflamed his desires. He chose to endure it to preserve the divinity, and Lin Yurou helped him; afterward, Lin Shu recovered and the two grew intimate.

• Lin Shu suppressed the turmoil caused by absorbing the Soul Ring and began refining its divinity.
• A strange red airflow emerged, making Lin Shu’s blood boil and his desires intensify.
• Sun Kong explained that removing the airflow would also remove the divinity, while releasing Lin Shu’s desires could resolve the danger.
• Lin Shu asked Sun Kong to fetch Lin Yurou if she agreed, and Sun Kong brought her to the cultivation chamber.
• Lin Yurou agreed to help Lin Shu, and Sun Kong left them alone.
• After an hour, Lin Shu regained clarity, apologized to Lin Yurou, and kissed her.

After emerging from seclusion, Lin Shu promised Lin Yurou a grand wedding once his affairs were settled. He learned the auction preparations were drawing hidden factions to Qingzhou and went to meet Cai Shiyin, who had arrived to make a transaction on behalf of Empress Su Yao.

• Lin Shu and Lin Yurou left the cultivation chamber, and he reassured her that he would give her a grand wedding in the future.
• Lin Shu found that Lin Ye had fused with the Soul Devouring Divine Bamboo and reached Soul Power level ninety-seven.
• Lin Ye reported that factions from across the continent, including hidden factions, were arriving for the auction in Qingzhou.
• Lin Ye told Lin Shu that Cai Shiyin had arrived to make a transaction for Empress Su Yao.
• Lin Shu asked Lin Ye to invite Cai Shiyin to the Central Deliberation Hall.

Cai Shiyin visited Lin Shu to buy Nine Netherworld Python corpses for Empress Su Yao and warn him that the continent’s isolation had ended after a true god appeared. Lin Shu learned that only First- to Third-Rank Gods could enter for now, and remained confident he could handle them.

• Cai Shiyin offered Su Yao’s prices for the Nine Netherworld Python corpses, and Lin Shu sold her 250 corpses for 2.9 million Soul Crystals.
• Lin Shu gave half of the Soul Crystals to Lin Ye to support the Langya Auction House.
• Cai Shiyin warned Lin Shu that the continent’s ancient seal had been broken and that factions beyond it might soon arrive.
• Cai Shiyin explained that Supreme God Halls were ruled by God Kings with divine positions, and that Su Yao could offer Lin Shu protection through the Light God Hall.
• Cai Shiyin said the five Supreme God Halls kept one another in check, limiting entrants to First- through Third-Rank Gods, and Lin Shu decided he could face that threat.

Yun Shuang arrived in Shenzhou and set out to establish a Mortal Institute at Cloud Peak Academy. After overpowering its headmaster and securing a list of more than thirty unaffiliated Title Douluos, she left to recruit them, while the headmaster began preparing the academy.

• Yun Shuang entered Shenzhou alone and chose Yunzhong Commandery and Cloud Peak Academy as the next place to establish a Mortal Institute.
• Yun Shuang reached Cloud Peak Academy and suppressed its Rank 97 headmaster in a single exchange before declaring herself the future head of its Mortal Institute.
• Yun Shuang admitted that she was the Yun Family's rumored eldest daughter, and the headmaster questioned how someone said to lack a spirit soul could be so powerful.
• Yun Shuang promised to recruit powerful instructors and asked the headmaster for a list of nearby unaffiliated Title Douluos and Super Douluos.
• The headmaster provided a list of more than thirty powerful figures, and Yun Shuang left to invite them while the headmaster began arranging the Mortal Institute.

Yun Shuang used her divine authority to recruit powerful Title Douluo and other experts as Cloud Peak Academy instructors, prompting the academy to establish the Mortal Institute. As Langya Auction House’s second continent-wide auction began in Qingzhou, crowds gathered hoping to witness its promised divine-grade items and perhaps a True God.

• Yun Shuang suppressed the An Family’s experts with a divine throne and ordered its two Title Douluo to teach at Cloud Peak Academy.
• The An Family’s two Title Douluo accepted Yun Shuang’s order and announced that they had joined Cloud Peak Academy as instructors while retaining their An Family identities.
• Title Douluo, Super Douluo, and Peerless Douluo across Shenzhou announced that they had joined Cloud Peak Academy.
• Cloud Peak Academy announced the creation of the Mortal Institute, which would recruit students publicly and employ the newly joined experts as instructors.
• Forces from across the continent gathered in Qingzhou for Langya Auction House’s second auction, anticipating divine-grade items and hoping to see a True God.
• Langya Auction House’s auction began.

Lin Shu prepared for the Langya Auction House’s second auction, gave the sole God-Breaking Pill to Shui Jieyu after she won a drawing, and attended the event with his subordinates. The auction opened with a hundred-thousand-year White Tiger soul bone, drawing concern from White Tiger Ridge, whose Divine Maiden chose to wait for a divine-grade treasure.

• Lin Shu warned his subordinates that the continent’s seal had lifted and instructed Sun Kong to watch for gods entering.
• Lin Shu held a drawing for his God-Breaking Pill, and Shui Jieyu won it and stayed behind to become a god.
• Lin Shu and his group went to the expanded Langya Auction House venue in Sky City as the second auction began.
• Su Qian opened the auction with a hundred-thousand-year White Tiger left leg soul bone, which sold for eighty thousand Soul Crystals.
• White Tiger Ridge members questioned the soul bone’s origin, but their Divine Maiden told them not to bid and to save their Soul Crystals for the divine-grade treasure.

Su Qian revealed a Three Hundred Thousand Year Sawtooth Demon Shark Torso Bone as the eleventh auction item, shocking the bidders and prompting reclusive faction leaders to suspect Heavenly Pavilion came from beyond the sealed continent. The bidding began as the Divine Power Sect's Sect Master and other leaders resolved to meet the Pavilion Master after the auction.

• Su Qian introduced the Three Hundred Thousand Year Sawtooth Demon Shark Torso Bone as a mid-grade Ninth-Grade treasure.
• The bidders realized that a Soul Beast of this age must have belonged to a powerful race, yet the Saber-toothed Demon Sharks had shown no sign of retaliation.
• The Sect Master of the Divine Power Sect concluded that Heavenly Pavilion likely came from beyond the continent and decided to meet its Pavilion Master.
• Leaders in other mysterious private rooms reached the same decision, seeing Heavenly Pavilion as their only link to the world beyond the seal.
• Su Qian opened bidding for the soul bone with no starting price and a minimum increase of one thousand Soul Crystals.

Lin Shu anticipated divine inheritances and forces from beyond the continent disrupting his auctions, while hidden powers gathered among the bidders. As the auction for a Three Hundred Thousand Year Sawtooth Demon Shark Soul Bone intensified, a starship appeared over Douluo Hall and its occupants demanded that the local experts bow to them.

• Lin Shu reflected on the coming divine inheritances and outside forces, and counted the gods and potential breakthroughs under his command.
• Lin Shu sensed unfamiliar experts in the auction’s VIP rooms and hoped they would bid on the valuable Soul Bones.
• Bidding for the Three Hundred Thousand Year Sawtooth Demon Shark Soul Bone surged past one hundred thousand Soul Crystals.
• A starship appeared above Douluo Hall, prompting dozens of its Soul Douluo and Title Douluo experts to confront the vessel.
• Someone aboard the starship called the Douluo Hall experts native ants and ordered them to bow to the true gods.

A true god and his followers arrived at Douluo Hall, learned of the god associated with Heavenly Pavilion, and set out for Qingzhou to investigate. At Langya Auction House, Sun Kong sensed a god’s aura and warned Lin Shu.

• A massive flying warship appeared over Douluo Hall, and its Title Douluo passengers emerged alongside a god whose aura forced the defenders down.
• The god spared Douluo Hall’s experts and questioned them about the reported god from Heavenly Pavilion.
• Douluo Hall’s experts said the god had appeared over twenty days earlier and directed the newcomers to Heavenly Pavilion’s auction in Qingzhou.
• The god rejected his followers’ suggestion to attack first, noting that the continent had been sealed by someone powerful, and traveled toward Qingzhou with Douluo Hall’s experts.
• At Langya Auction House, Sun Kong sensed a god’s aura and alerted Lin Shu.

Lin Shu learned that a god had descended somewhere northwest of Qingzhou and discovered that Seven Kill Valley had concealed formidable strength. The chapter left Seven Kill Valley’s Young Hall Master holding the three-hundred-thousand-year soul bone and preparing to pursue godhood and take revenge on the five Supreme God Halls.

• Sun Kong told Lin Shu that a godlike aura had come from far northwest of Qingzhou, and Lin Shu decided to wait for the newcomer to approach the Heavenly Pavilion.
• Lin Shu noticed that Seven Kill Valley was bidding for the three-hundred-thousand-year Sawtooth Demon Shark Soul Bone and discovered that its private room held two demigods.
• Lin Shu recognized Jian Chen, the Sword God, and realized that he had concealed his level ninety-nine strength and demigod realm.
• Su Qian announced that Seven Kill Valley had won the soul bone for two hundred and thirty thousand Soul Crystals, surprising the other auction attendees.
• Jian Chen handed the soul bone to Seven Kill Valley’s Young Hall Master, who said it increased his chance of becoming a god and vowed to make the five Supreme God Halls pay.

Lin Shu considered the mysterious Divine Hall connected to Seven Kill Valley, then discovered that devouring a powerful soul beast could increase the soul-ring age of his God of Devouring Martial Soul. He left the auction to experiment in seclusion and ended confident he could eventually raise the ring to a million years.

• Lin Shu suspected that Jian Chen's Young Hall Master belonged to a Divine Hall once opposed by the five Supreme God Halls, and ordered his subordinates to investigate.
• After the twentieth auction item sold, Lin Shu converted the 3.2 million Soul Crystals into 32 billion Auction Points.
• Lin Shu noticed that his God of Devouring Martial Soul's soul ring had reached 100,000 years and concluded that absorbed divinity might have increased its age.
• Lin Shu entered a secret chamber and devoured part of a 600,000-year Nine Netherworld Python, raising the soul ring's age from 100,000 to 100,024 years.
• Lin Shu estimated that consuming the entire python would add about 6,000 years and began devouring another section of its corpse.

Lin Shu increased his lottery odds to 97% after learning that higher odds guaranteed ninth-grade and divine-grade prizes across set numbers of draws. He spent ten billion Auction Points on one hundred draws and received ninety-eight ninth-grade items, one eighth-grade item, and one divine-grade item.

• Lin Shu finished devouring the Nine Netherworld Python, raising his Devouring Martial Soul's sole soul ring to 106,000 years.
• The system told Lin Shu that his Auction Points allowed him to raise his ninth-grade lottery odds as high as 99%, with divine-grade odds rising alongside them.
• Lin Shu learned that raising the odds to 99% would cost 218.7 billion Auction Points and that each draw after an upgrade would cost one hundred million.
• After calculating the potential value of the prizes, Lin Shu raised his ninth-grade lottery odds to 97% for 24.3 billion Auction Points.
• Lin Shu spent ten billion Auction Points on one hundred draws and received ninety-eight ninth-grade items, one eighth-grade item, and one divine-grade item.

Lin Shu examined four divine-grade treasures, including a pill that could control a god, before Ji Wuyou arrived at the Langya Auction House demanding to meet the Heavenly Pavilion’s true god. Sun Kong went to meet him as Lin Shu revealed himself, confirming to the auction crowd that the Heavenly Pavilion had a god.

• Lin Shu examined the Divine Sword Hooking Star, the God-Controlling Pill, a Divine Bone from a 1.1-million-year-old Li Dragon, and the Light God Butterfly martial soul.
• Lin Shu decided to save the Li Dragon Divine Bone for later and put away the Light God Butterfly because its fusion requirements were too difficult to judge.
• Ji Wuyou announced that he had come to meet the Heavenly Pavilion’s true god, and Lin Shu recognized him as the god Sun Kong had previously sensed beyond Qingzhou.
• Lin Shu instructed Sun Kong to meet Ji Wuyou and investigate his purpose, assuring him not to worry if Ji Wuyou intended to fight.
• At the Langya Auction House, the crowd recognized Ji Wuyou as a god, then watched Lin Shu reveal his own godly aura from the venue’s top floor.

Lin Shu suspended the Langya Auction House auction as Sun Kong confronted the visiting god Ji Wuyou outside. Ji Wuyou proposed sharing the continent, but after Sun Kong said the Heavenly Pavilion's Pavilion Master would decide, he threatened to kill Lin Shu and was suddenly targeted by five powerful auras.

• Lin Shu ordered the auction paused, and the crowd rushed outside to witness the gods meeting.
• Sun Kong introduced himself to Ji Wuyou, who asked how a native of the continent had become a god.
• Ji Wuyou offered to divide the continent with Sun Kong in exchange for information, but Sun Kong said the Pavilion Master would decide its fate.
• Onlookers were stunned that Sun Kong deferred to the Pavilion Master, and Ji Wuyou dismissed the claim because Lin Shu had only seven soul rings.
• Ji Wuyou threatened to kill Lin Shu, and five auras locked onto him.