Chapter Summaries

Lu Jun defeated Underworld Emperor Douluo and freed the souls imprisoned in his thirteen Soul Rings, ending the pirate threat on Jiquan Star. As Elder Tianxuan recovered, he described the powerful Main Star Domain and the Big Dipper, leaving Jiquan Star’s leaders stunned by how small their world was in comparison.

• Lu Jun crushed Underworld Emperor Douluo with the power of his star system and shattered the Soul Rings, releasing the imprisoned souls.
• Jiquan Star’s warriors celebrated victory and followed Lu Jun’s orders to clear the battlefield, free captive souls, and distribute the pirates’ treasures.
• Tree God healed Elder Tianxuan, who thanked Lu Jun for rescuing him after thirty thousand years of imprisonment.
• Lu Jun asked what Jiquan Star knew about the outside world, and Ao Lie, Feng Xi, Zhan Chui, and Copper Hammer admitted their peoples had little reliable knowledge.
• Elder Tianxuan explained that Jiquan Star lay in the remote savage wilderness and described the Main Star Domain, where the Big Dipper’s seven planets held vastly greater power and resources.
• Elder Tianxuan revealed that he had been one of twelve mining foremen on Tianxuan’s sixteenth resource star, while Jiquan Star’s leaders struggled to grasp the scale of Tianxuan’s strength.

Elder Tianxuan explained the immense power and rivalries of the Main Star Domain, including the Big Dipper, the Southern Dipper, and the Twenty-Eight Mansions. Ao Lie and Feng Xi learned their races’ histories and origins, while the chapter ended with the Twenty-Eight Mansions Alliance surrounding the two great constellations as an independent power.

• Elder Tianxuan described the strength of the Big Dipper and explained that the Southern Dipper rivaled it while fighting over a divided divine fist scripture.
• Elder Tianxuan introduced the Eastern Azure Dragon mansions and told Ao Lie that the Dragon Race had once ruled them before war scattered its people, leaving Neck Gold Dragon as a stronghold.
• Elder Tianxuan explained that the Phoenix Clan had been driven from its own mansions after the Phoenix God and Empress Phoenix God failed to reach the Sixteenth Realm and entered Nirvana.
• Ao Lie vowed to return the Jiquan Star Dragon Race to Neck Gold Dragon after learning that their ancestors had been forced into exile by war.
• Elder Tianxuan introduced the Western White Tiger and Northern Black Tortoise mansions and identified the Twenty-Eight Mansions Alliance as an independent third power.

Elder Tianxuan explained the main Star Domain’s factions, the origins of Soul Ring cultivation, and the ranks of interstellar pirates. After Underworld Emperor Douluo revealed that he had sent Jiquan Star’s coordinates to a Limit Pirate Group, the Tree God searched his mind and learned that Soul Douluo cultivated through the Sea God Scripture.

• Elder Tianxuan explained that Soul Ring cultivation came from devouring souls and that interstellar pirates preyed on planets in the savage borderlands.
• Lu Jun asked Underworld Emperor Douluo to explain his cultivation method, and Underworld Emperor Douluo revealed that he had sent Jiquan Star’s coordinates to a Limit Pirate Group.
• The Tree God reassured Jiquan Star’s experts that Lu Jun and their growing strength might help them face a Fourteenth Realm Limit Douluo.
• Lu Jun proposed searching Underworld Emperor Douluo’s soul, and the Tree God used the World Tree’s branches to plunder his memories.
• The Tree God finished the soul search, leaving Underworld Emperor Douluo an empty shell, and identified the cultivation technique as the Sea God Scripture.

The Tree God revealed that Tang Shisan had created the Sea God Scripture by turning souls into Soul Rings, become the fifteenth-realm Sea God, and might still be alive. After learning the method from the pirates’ memories, the Tree God used their bodies and released souls to cultivate his own changing Soul Rings, leaving Jiquan Star’s experts stunned by his many abilities.

• The Tree God explained that Tang Shisan stole the Tang Sect Thirteen Needles, developed Soul Ring cultivation by using the souls of his victims, and became the fifteenth-realm Sea God.
• The Tree God said Tang Shisan’s supposed death could have been a cover story or that he might have revived through a special Soul Ring, and explained why he avoided drawing attention in the borderlands.
• Lu Jun asked about the Sea God Scripture, and the Tree God admitted he had learned its first thirteen levels from the pirate captains’ memories.
• The Tree God wrapped the pirate captains in branches and transformed them into infant-like husks after releasing the souls trapped within them.
• The Tree God drew on the husks’ remaining Soul Ring power, causing his thirteen rings to change colors and display more than a hundred abilities, astonishing the gathered experts.

The Tree God explained how he purified the souls of twelve pirate captains into Human-Body Fruits and borrowed their powers without imprisoning their souls. After the group debated the dangers of his growing strength, he offered Feng Xi a fruit that could help her break through to the Divine Soul Realm, and she accepted it.

• The Tree God revealed that he had purified the captains’ souls, formed thirteen Soul Rings, and could borrow the fruits’ powers through his roots and branches.
• Lu Jun and the Wood Elves proposed sending irredeemable criminals to the Tree God as Human-Body Fruits, while Elder Tianxuan, Ao Lie, Feng Xi, Copper Hammer, and Zhan Chui warned that unchecked power could corrupt him and threaten the alliance.
• The Tree God argued that his existence depended on Jiquan Star and that betraying the land would leave him rootless; the others acknowledged his reasoning but Elder Tianxuan called for clear limits.
• The Tree God brought Feng Xi a Human-Body Fruit made from Blaze Douluo and explained that its purified soul power could help her advance from the Twelfth Realm to the Divine Soul Realm.
• Feng Xi accepted the fruit after the Tree God said enough Ginseng Fruits could help Jiquan Star produce Thirteenth Realm experts in batches.

Feng Xi ate a Ginseng Fruit and broke through from the peak of the Twelfth Realm to the Thirteenth Realm, revealing the fruit’s power to grant breakthroughs across Jiquan Star’s races. The chapter ended with the gathered leaders celebrating the prospect of raising many Thirteenth Realm experts and facing their enemies.

• Feng Xi ate the fruit, transformed into a blazing phoenix, and broke through to the Thirteenth Realm as the Phoenix Clan protected her.
• Zhan Chui, Ao Lie, Copper Hammer, and Elder Tianxuan reacted with shock as they witnessed Feng Xi’s breakthrough.
• The Tree God explained that anyone could break through by eating a Human-Body Fruit of the corresponding attribute, without needing prior accumulation or comprehension.
• Zhan Chui, Ao Lie, Copper Hammer, and the Elf and Phoenix leaders learned that their races could also reach the Thirteenth Realm through the fruits.
• Zhan Chui, Ao Lie, and Copper Hammer declared that hunting pirates could supply souls for more fruits and help their races confront stronger enemies.

The races of Jiquan Star rallied behind the Tree God, sending their imprisoned criminals to nourish Human-Body Fruits and accelerate their breakthroughs. In private, the Tree God explained how he secretly retained some of each fruit’s power to build toward the Fourteenth Realm, while Lu Jun considered using Soul Douluo’s method to strengthen the Five Elements Gaia Spirits within him.

• Zhan Chui, Ao Lie, Feng Xi, Copper Hammer, and the Five Great Elf Ancestors agreed to send criminals from their races to the Tree God as nourishment for Human-Body Fruits.
• The races brought prisoners to the Divine Wood Forest, where experts guarded the growing collection of cages as the Tree God began nurturing new fruits.
• The Tree God told Lu Jun that he divided each fruit’s soul power among the forest, its eater, and his own core, allowing him to grow stronger as others broke through.
• The Tree God said the fruits could draw the attention of pirates and powerful figures from the Main Star Domains, but he intended to reach the Fourteenth and eventually Fifteenth Realm before they could threaten him.
• Lu Jun said he planned to adapt Soul Douluo’s cultivation method to improve the Five Elements Gaia Spirits inside his body, and showed the Tree God a tiny planet rotating in silver starlight.

Lu Jun and Tree God developed a way to turn prisoners’ souls into race-specific fruits that let Jiquan Star’s cultivators break through to the Thirteenth Realm. As more than a hundred people advanced and Elder Tianxuan received a fruit of his own, Tree God absorbed the remaining soul power and neared the peak of the Thirteenth Realm, setting his sights on the Fourteenth.

• Lu Jun explained to Tree God that Soul Rings absorbed by his five planetary Gaias could help them grow into true worlds and eventually nurture civilizations.
• Tree God refined prisoners’ souls into fruits suited to their races, preserving traits such as the Dragon Race’s physical power in Dragon-Body Fruits.
• Ao Lie gave Dragon-Body Fruits to twelve Twelfth Realm elders, who broke through to the Thirteenth Realm, followed by elders of the Phoenix, Orc, Dwarf, and Elf Races.
• Zhen Lanyue gave Human-Body Fruits to Elder Tianxuan, who ate one and broke through to the Thirteenth Realm.
• Tree God retained one-third of the prisoners’ soul power, rapidly advanced toward the peak of the Thirteenth Realm, and turned his attention to the Fourteenth Realm.

Lu Jun built Rainbow Bridges to connect the planets and satellites in his inner galaxy, then used their energy and spatial folding to open a gate toward his Sea of Divine Soul. The Heaven Ascension Path’s power surged into him, carrying him from the early Twelfth Realm toward its peak.

• The Tree God approached the Out-of-Body Realm while Lu Jun explained that his unique Heaven Ascension Path would connect his inner star system with Rainbow Bridges.
• Jin Ling tried to build a solid bridge from the Lung Star to a satellite, but the void’s turbulent currents repeatedly shattered it.
• Lu Jun directed all five Gaias to create energy-based Rainbow Bridges, linking the planets and satellites so they could travel between them instantly.
• Lu Jun combined the Rainbow Bridges with spatial folding, and the five Gaias opened a gate from his galaxy to his Sea of Divine Soul.
• The gate formed and released the power of the Heaven Ascension Path into Lu Jun, whose cultivation surged toward the peak of the Twelfth Realm.

Lu Jun broke through to the Twelfth Realm by forming a spatial Heaven Ascension Path of Rainbow Bridges, then led his five Gaias in breaking open the gate to his sea of consciousness. Their Five Elements Resonance carried him into the Thirteenth Realm without the Human-Body Fruits, leaving everyone astonished by his breakthrough.

• Lu Jun reached the Heaven Ascension Realm, creating Rainbow Bridges that linked the star system and connected the Bitter Sea to his sea of consciousness.
• Jin Ling repeatedly struck the five-colored gate alone but could not open it, and Lu Jun realized that all five Gaias needed to resonate together.
• The Tree God and the others warned Lu Jun against rushing into the Divine Soul Realm and offered him five Human-Body Fruits, but Lu Jun refused their external aid.
• Lu Jun summoned Jin Ling, Wood Spirit, Water Spirit, Fire Spirit, and Earth Spirit to strike the gate together using Five Elements Resonance.
• The five Gaias shattered the gate and entered Lu Jun’s sea of consciousness, allowing Lu Jun to break through to the Thirteenth Realm without using the Human-Body Fruits.

Lu Jun broke through to the early Divine Soul Realm through his own strength, astonishing the witnesses on Jiquan Star. Meanwhile, the Abomination Pirate Group emerged from a hidden route and learned that Jiquan Star held multiple powerful experts; its leader looked forward to reaching the planet in three years.

• The Tree God explained that Lu Jun’s deep foundation and preparations allowed him to break through without relying on a Human-Body Fruit, and Elder Tianxuan bowed in respect.
• Lu Jun opened his eyes as five Gaias expanded his sea of consciousness and his divine soul core began to take shape.
• The Abomination Pirate Group’s fleet emerged from a hidden fissure in the starry sky, with its flagship Stitch led by the Fourteenth-Realm Abomination Douluo.
• The Navigator told Abomination Douluo that the fleet had about three years left before reaching Jiquan Star by following coordinates left by the Nether Emperor.
• The Navigator reported that the Nether Emperor had died after encountering what were likely more than five Thirteenth-Realm experts on Jiquan Star.
• Abomination Douluo laughed with excitement at the prospect of facing the powerful inhabitants of Jiquan Star.

Abomination Douluo set a three-year course for Jiquan Star, intending to harvest its powerful cultivators and sell the planet. During those years, Jiquan Star’s forces grew stronger under the Tree God, who prepared them to face the coming invasion and began a group battle trial.

• Abomination Douluo confirmed that Jiquan Star had no Fourteenth Realm powerhouse and ordered his fleet to arrive in three years and plunder the planet.
• Over the next three years, the Dragon Race, Phoenix Clan, and five great Elf Races produced many new Thirteenth Realm cultivators.
• The Tree God formed an avatar, accumulated a reserve of 3,600 abilities, and reached the peak of the Thirteenth Realm, but postponed his Fourteenth Realm breakthrough to prepare for the invasion.
• The Tree God built a vast trial ground and called eleven of Jiquan Star’s strongest cultivators to attack him together.
• Zhan Chui charged with his Five Elements Heaven-Breaking Slash as Ao Lie fired golden dragon breath at the Tree God.

Tree God trained eleven Thirteenth Realm experts in coordinated combat until their attacks began to resonate rather than merely combine. Ao Lie and Feng Xi developed the Dragon-Phoenix Combined Strike, while Zhan Chui and Feng Yu and the Five Great Elf Ancestors devised new cooperative formations, leaving the group preparing to perfect their techniques before the true enemy arrived.

• Tree God repelled the eleven experts’ attacks and explained that their scattered powers needed better coordination.
• The eleven trained for six months, gradually improving until they fought Tree God to a two-hour draw.
• Ao Lie and Feng Xi fused dragon breath and Nirvana Fire into the Dragon-Phoenix Combined Strike, destroying an ancient tree and resolving to perfect the move.
• Zhan Chui and Feng Yu combined wind and axe force into Wind-Axe Unity, allowing his axe light to change direction mid-flight.
• Zhen Lanyue led the Five Great Elf Ancestors in forming Five-Element Rotation, a circulating system designed to share attacks and sustain their power.

Yan Jin and Feng Xi pioneered a combined aerial fighting style, and Ao Lie and Zhan Chui followed by becoming a Dragon Knight pair. After three years of training strengthened the fighters’ Divine Souls and gave each of them new abilities, the Tree God raised the trial’s difficulty by using his Divine Soul Domain to slow everyone’s reactions.

• Yan Jin proposed that he and Feng Xi fight as one unit, and the Tree God approved their experiment.
• Yan Jin rode Feng Xi as their souls resonated, doubling her speed and flame power while improving his spell control.
• Ao Lie and Zhan Chui tried fighting together, awakening as a Dragon Knight pair with enhanced speed and attacks.
• After three years of training, Zhan Chui, Ao Lie, Feng Xi, Yan Jin, Ying Ge, Yan Ji, Shuang Han, Feng Yu, and Zhen Lanyue demonstrated the distinct powers of their Divine Souls.
• The Tree God enveloped the trial grounds in his Divine Soul Domain, slowing the trainees’ reactions and catching Zhan Chui off guard.

The Tree God trained Jiquan Star’s Thirteenth Realm powerhouses to resist divine-soul suppression and overlapping domains, gradually raising the challenge until he could fight more than eighty at once. After three years, the group coordinated its attacks against his thirteen-domain storm, and the chapter ended with their combined combat system pressing toward its core.

• The Tree God taught the eleven fighters to form Divine Soul Shields, then shattered their unstable defenses with multiple targeted abilities.
• The Tree God trained them against Gravity Distortion, Time Slow, and their overlapping domains, and the fighters learned to find the phase gap and escape.
• Over three years, the Tree God expanded his training battles until he could face more than eighty Thirteenth Realm powerhouses at once.
• The Tree God unleashed thirteen Divine Soul Domains on the assembled fighters, creating a storm that attacked and restrained them from every direction.
• Ao Lie directed the fighters to coordinate, and the Dragon Knights, Phoenix Knights, Five Elements formation, dwarves, and other combatants combined their efforts against the storm.

After three years of training, the Tree God and more than eighty Thirteenth Realm allies prepared to face the Abomination Pirate Group, whose fleet arrived at Jiquan Star. The pirates began their assault, led by Abomination Douluo and a force of elite Thirteenth Realm fighters, as the defenders formed their battle lines.

• The Tree God broke apart the group’s combined attack with the resonant power of three thousand six hundred abilities, then healed the fighters and declared them ready for battle.
• A rift opened above Jiquan Star, and hundreds of pirate warships emerged and began encircling the planet.
• Abomination Douluo learned that Jiquan Star held at least one hundred Thirteenth Realm auras and ordered his forces to seal the Heaven Ascension Path before landing.
• The Tree God identified Abomination Douluo as a Fourteenth Realm Limit Douluo, and Zhan Chui, Ao Lie, Feng Xi, and the Five Great Elf Ancestors pledged to fight.
• The Tree God assigned the defenders to their trained formations as pirate troops began descending toward the planet.
• Wailing Douluo, Lava Douluo, and twenty-two other Thirteenth Realm elites led the Abomination Pirate Group’s landing force.

The Abomination Pirate Group attacked Jiquan Star, where more than eighty Thirteenth Realm defenders relied on three years of formation training to face twenty-four stronger veteran Douluos. The battle began with the pirates’ strange soul abilities, but Jiquan Star countered with a Dragon-Phoenix Combined Strike that broke through five layers of defense.

• Wailing Douluo opened the attack with Soul Wail, stunning many of Jiquan Star’s weaker fighters until Zhen Lanyue used the World Tree’s life force to shield them.
• Lava Douluo, Withered Bone Douluo, Undead Douluo, Blood Blade Douluo, Decay Douluo, and Wraith Douluo attacked Jiquan Star’s formation with magma, bone spikes, skeletons, blade-light, decay, and wraiths.
• The Tree God urged the defenders to rely on their training, and Zhan Chui called for Feng Xi and Yan Jin to use the Dragon-Phoenix Combined Strike.
• Feng Xi and Yan Jin fused dragon breath and Nirvana Fire into a giant gold-and-red dragon that blasted through the pirates’ formation.
• Wailing Douluo retreated in shock as the combined attack destroyed five layers of defense, and Lava Douluo was badly burned by its aftershock.

Jiquan Star’s fighters used coordinated formations and combined attacks to hold off the stronger pirate experts, but Abomination Douluo entered the battle and nearly crushed their formation with thirteen Divine Soul Domains. Tree God confronted him, and their domains collided as the battle shifted into a direct clash between Abomination Douluo and a half-step Fourteenth Realm opponent.

• Zhan Chui, Feng Yu, and the Five Great Elf Ancestors injured the pirates and disrupted their formation with coordinated attacks, but the pirates countered with Soul Storm, bone walls, undead, and wraiths.
• Jiquan Star’s warriors struggled against the Peak Douluos, while Ao Lie, Zhan Chui, Feng Xi, Yan Jin, and the Five Great Elf Ancestors used combined attacks to turn the fighting into a stalemate.
• Abomination Douluo learned from the Navigator that the World Tree held immense soul power and declared that he would challenge its guardian.
• Abomination Douluo unleashed thirteen Divine Soul Domains, warping Jiquan Star’s formation until Tree God stepped forward and blocked them with his own domains.
• Tree God used the resonance of his abilities to push back Abomination Douluo’s domains, and the two commanders began a direct clash.

Tree God fought Abomination Douluo, whose Fourteenth Realm cosmic power overwhelmed his defenses despite Tree God’s vast array of abilities. Wounded and running low on soul power, Tree God faced another taunt and hinted that his abilities exceeded the 3,600 he had revealed.

• Abomination Douluo used cosmic power to break through Tree God’s wooden shield and drive him back.
• Tree God evaded Abomination Douluo’s attacks with rapidly switched abilities, then revealed that his Soul Rings connected to a store of 3,600 abilities.
• Abomination Douluo grew greedy for Tree God’s abilities and declared that he would seize Tree God’s body.
• Tree God judged that he could only defend against Abomination Douluo’s Fourteenth Realm power as his soul power dwindled.
• Abomination Douluo attacked from three directions, leaving Tree God injured; Tree God ordered Zhan Chui to keep holding off the Thirteenth Realm fighters.
• Tree God stood despite his injuries and hinted that he possessed more than 3,600 abilities.

The Tree God turned his abilities into life force and endured Abomination Douluo’s full-power attack while secretly learning to use cosmic power. Lu Jun revealed that he had been stealing Abomination Douluo’s power and converting it to help the Tree God, leaving Abomination Douluo stunned.

• The Tree God transformed all 3,600 abilities into life force and withstood Abomination Douluo’s full-power beam for ten breaths.
• Abomination Douluo discovered that his cosmic power was being absorbed and accused the Tree God of stealing it.
• The Tree God explained that he was using Abomination Douluo’s power and attacks as a reference for breaking through to the Fourteenth Realm.
• Abomination Douluo raged and prepared to unleash three attacks, but Lu Jun appeared between him and the Tree God.
• Lu Jun revealed that he had secretly intercepted Abomination Douluo’s cosmic power, purified and transformed it, and sent it to the Tree God.