Ch. 222Battle Against the Emperors!

Zhongli, Gu Yue Na, and Narukami entered the Abyss and faced its gathered Emperors, who tried to suppress and attack Zhongli. Zhongli shielded his allies and handed Vortex Vanquisher to Narukami to guard the Abyss Tunnel as several Emperors launched another assault.

  • The Abyss Moon Emperor destroyed the petrified Abyss Emperor, but the gathered Emperors found no soul or flesh in the shattered remains.
  • Zhongli emerged from the Abyss Tunnel with Gu Yue Na and Narukami, and Gu Yue Na warned that their priority was to stop the Abyss gods from escaping into Douluo World.
  • Nicholas Wang Wu used Abyss Suppression against Zhongli, while the Black Armor Emperor attacked him with a black-flamed hammer.
  • Zhongli shattered the Black Armor Emperor's attack and drove the Shadow Emperor away when it tried to ambush him.
  • Zhongli raised shields around himself, Gu Yue Na, and Narukami, then gave Vortex Vanquisher to Narukami to guard the tunnel.
  • Four Abyss Emperors attacked Zhongli with powerful techniques, and he stood calmly as their attacks struck.

Ch. 223Abyssal Great Escape

Zhongli survived the Abyss Emperors’ combined assault, permanently killed the Black Armor Emperor, and forced the remaining Abyss forces to flee. As the Abyss Emperors began another fight against him, Du Gu Bo, Tang San, and their allies defended the Douluo World from the escaping monsters.

  • The Abyss Emperors bombarded Zhongli, but his shield emerged intact, and he killed the Black Armor Emperor with a blow that destroyed both body and soul.
  • The Shadow Emperor’s spatially empowered Shadow Claw shattered against Zhongli’s shield, while Nicholas Wang Wu confirmed that Abyss Suppression was still weakening Zhongli.
  • The Abyss Moon Emperor ordered the Abyss Emperors to flee, and Yuan Shang directed them to abandon the last forty Abyss levels and scatter.
  • Zhongli refused to let the Abyss Emperors escape, and another battle began as hordes of monsters poured through the Abyss Tunnel into the Douluo World.
  • Du Gu Bo and Tang San used their Azure Chaos God Domain to impale the incoming monsters with Azure God Vines, while Zi Ji attacked the airborne enemies with dark water.
  • The Snow Empress joined Zi Ji to freeze and restrain the monsters, and BiBi Dong flew up to support the defense.

Ch. 224Yuan Shang Escapes

Narukami used Vortex Vanquisher to devastate the Abyss’s 120th floor and halt the monsters’ advance into the Douluo World. She then discovered Yuan Shang fleeing through the horde, and she and Gu Yue Na prepared to stop him.

  • While Zhongli fought on the upper Abyss floors, Narukami used Vortex Vanquisher to unleash a lightning slash that nearly wiped out the monsters on the 120th floor.
  • Narukami’s attack filled much of the floor with lethal plasma, and waves of Abyss monsters continued charging into the lightning until their corpses formed a barrier.
  • Yuan Shang reached the 120th floor after sending a God King-level clone to fight above and transferring his soul connection to it.
  • Narukami spotted Yuan Shang moving through the horde and attacked, but Yuan Shang transformed into fire and escaped the strike.
  • Yuan Shang saw that Narukami and Gu Yue Na had shields, while Narukami and Gu Yue Na resolved to keep him from entering the Douluo World.

Ch. 225The Emperors' Total Annihilation

Zhongli annihilated the remaining Abyss Emperors and the Abyss Demiplane merged into the Douluo World, raising its energy level. He then learned that the world’s elevation had delayed the materials needed for Sky Island from five months to roughly six hundred years.

  • Yuan Shang used Abyss Light to disguise his escape into the Abyss Tunnel, but Gu Yue Na restrained him so Narukami could strike.
  • Zhongli pursued the fleeing Abyss Emperors into the thirtieth layer and destroyed all eleven with Geo attacks.
  • The Abyss forces were annihilated, and the Abyss Demiplane merged into the Douluo World, elevating the plane.
  • Bai'e told Zhongli that the elevated world required better materials for Sky Island and that gathering them would take roughly six hundred years.
  • Zhongli learned that without the Abyss Demiplane’s invasion, the materials would have been ready in about five months, and he lamented the delay.

Ch. 226One Year Later

After the Abyss’s defeat, Douluo World rapidly developed as Zhongli guided Lonely Cloud Peak’s economic growth and oversaw changes to Soul Master advancement. Aserine brought him new strength standards, and the chapter ended with her finding him out in the city before he had paid his bill.

  • Zhongli and Aserine discussed rising land prices around Lonely Cloud Peak, and Zhongli chose to convey his wishes to merchants rather than impose a price cap.
  • Aserine passed Zhongli’s intentions to the merchants, who coordinated to accelerate development while Zhongli monitored the consequences of their business practices.
  • Over the following year, Zhongli became a more influential presence behind the world’s political and economic order, while Aserine handled public affairs on his behalf.
  • Aserine showed Zhongli new Soul Master standards: absorbing Spirit Rings determined rank, and nine rings could bring an ordinary Soul Master to the level of a Third Level God.
  • Zhongli explained that Soul Masters could create their own Spirit Rings, while artificial rings reduced the incentive to hunt Soul Beasts; he also admitted that Mo Yuqing had come to feel like a daughter to him.
  • Aserine tracked Zhongli down in the city and asked whether he had paid his bill, and Zhongli confirmed that he had not.

Ch. 227Liyue Empire

Zhongli established the Liyue Empire and watched it grow into a prosperous power before preparing to leave the Douluo World. He asked Bai'e to create God's Eyes so the power that granted dreams would continue after his departure.

  • Zhongli agreed to attend the Thousand Eyes Pavilion's gathering discreetly and told Aserine he wanted others to share his authority and responsibilities.
  • Zhongli proposed dividing his authority among seven Archons and appointing three maintainers to preserve the world's stability.
  • Liyue adopted a strength-based order system and declared independence from the Heaven Dou Empire; Bai'e, BiBi Dong, and Du Gu Bo became its rulers.
  • Qian Renxue joined Liyue after Xue Qinghe transferred the Heaven Dou Empire's treasury and his businesses there, while BiBi Dong passed Spirit Hall's leadership to Hu Liena.
  • Mutana became another ruler of Liyue, and Zhongli destroyed the Abyss Emperor within the Douluo God Realm, which then merged into the Douluo World.
  • Six years later, Zhongli told Bai'e he might leave the world and asked him to create God's Eyes; Bai'e said he could make ordinary ones, and Zhongli offered him limited power from Lonely Cloud Peak.

Ch. 228Zhongli Couldn't Starve to Death

After entering a new world, Zhongli found his power greatly restricted and his possessions inaccessible, then wandered the city while trying to figure out how to get food without working. He investigated an abandoned building tainted by a bizarre abnormality, while a female officer’s team prepared a food-based lure to keep him from interfering with their operation.

  • Bai'e agreed to arrange one genuine God's Eye per month for Lonely Cloud Peak, and Zhongli then spent thirty Skill Points to unlock a new world.
  • Zhongli awoke in a modern city, discovered he could use only about one percent of his power and had lost access to his Storage Space, then created a new one.
  • After three days without food, Zhongli wandered the city hoping to find extraordinary people who could provide meals, and he sensed a dark presence inside an abandoned building.
  • Zhongli approached the building, commented on its strange dripping sound, and raised his level-twenty Jade Shield when the surrounding pollution gathered.
  • A female officer identified Zhongli as the low-risk abnormality Mr. Melancholy and ordered her team to lure him away with roast ducks and fried chickens.

Ch. 229Damn, That Smells Good!

Zhongli entered an anomalous building, destroyed its contamination with Geo power, and found the food sent in by a team of Revolutionaries. He teleported to the team and asked whether they had ordered the delivery, leaving them terrified of how to answer.

  • A female captain had her team send a robot carrying roast duck and fried chicken into the building to investigate the anomaly without exposing themselves.
  • Zhongli sensed the building’s Filth Power, broke through its attacks, and expelled the contamination with Geo Elemental Power.
  • The team saw the building’s anomalous aura vanish and debated whether Zhongli had consumed the anomaly or simply erased its contamination.
  • Zhongli found the delivery, ate some of the food, and packed most of it into his Storage Space.
  • Zhongli teleported to the team and asked whether they had ordered the delivery for him.

Ch. 230Blade and Wish

Zhongli enhanced the girl’s inherited blade, Ming Shi, after she fulfilled his wish by ordering him food, then tried to persuade her to let him stay by her side. She refused, fearing his presence would endanger humanity, and the chapter ended when a signal sounded from the captain’s waist.

  • The girl admitted she had ordered food for Zhongli because she had seen him watching the shops, and Zhongli offered to grant one of her wishes in return.
  • The girl asked Zhongli to make her family’s inherited blade, Ming Shi, sharper and more powerful.
  • Zhongli enhanced Ming Shi with greater strength, a holy attribute, and a safeguard that would activate Jade Shield when the girl faced mortal danger.
  • The girl refused Zhongli’s offer to further improve the blade and became wary when he proposed staying by her side.
  • The girl refused Zhongli’s request, prepared to kill herself if necessary, and a signal sounded from the captain’s waist.

Ch. 231Meatball Game

Zhongli stopped Meatball Game from forcing the squad to play, subdued the anomaly, and asked Li Xinyue about the world’s ranks and Calamities. The chapter ended with Zhongli correcting her assumption that he was an ancient god by declaring himself a demon god, which frightened her even more.

  • The squad secretly deployed Meatball Game, and the anomaly rose into the air after someone said, “play a game.”
  • Zhongli refused to play, changed the crimson lightning with a snap, and made Meatball Game surrender and shrink back into an ordinary meatball.
  • Zhongli caught Meatball Game and asked Li Xinyue her name, while she and the other squad members feared his strength and friendly smile.
  • Zhongli asked Li Xinyue about Meatball Game’s rank, and she explained that anomalies above SSS-Rank were called Calamity-level.
  • Li Xinyue said people believed powerful Calamities were Supreme Ancient Gods from another world, and Zhongli corrected her by saying he was a demon god.

Ch. 232Demon God? Ancient God? Humans?

Zhongli made a deal with Li Xinyue, who had only three months left to live because the Demon Mountain Ancient God had cursed her, and learned that his own power surpassed the strongest ranks of Ancient Gods. He followed her home, where she began to realize how unlike an Ancient God he was as they settled in to watch a movie.

  • Li Xinyue offered everything she owned in exchange for Zhongli letting the other four members of the squad leave, and Zhongli accepted.
  • After the squad left, Li Xinyue told Zhongli that the Demon Mountain Ancient God had cursed her and would take her life in three months, so Zhongli marked her and sent her home.
  • Zhongli questioned Meatball about Ancient God rankings and demonstrated that he could shatter space, placing his strength above the legendary Ultimate Supreme level.
  • Li Xinyue reported her encounter to the authorities, who told her to stay alive or use their final method and kill herself if survival became too painful.
  • Zhongli followed Li Xinyue home, read the text on her phone, and insisted that she stop comparing him to Ancient Gods.
  • Li Xinyue put on a movie, and Zhongli made sunglasses, found her popcorn, and settled down to watch with her.

Ch. 233Ancient God Realm

Zhongli settled into Li Xinyue’s home, asked her to buy him supplies, and began purifying the surrounding filth despite Meatball’s warning that it could provoke the Ancient Gods. After learning that his power had been weakened more than a hundredfold in this world, Zhongli became eager to visit the Ancient God Realm, where he believed he could unleash his full strength.

  • Zhongli watched a movie with Li Xinyue, who mistook his casual kindness for romantic interest before he asked her to buy more popcorn and cola.
  • Zhongli gave Li Xinyue a Storage Ring and asked her to buy daily necessities, food, and electronics, so she went out while requesting funds from her superiors.
  • Zhongli complained that the world’s filth contaminated his roast duck and formed a small sun to purify the environment around him.
  • Meatball warned Zhongli that purification could provoke the Ancient Gods and interfere with their descent, but Zhongli refused to stop.
  • Meatball explained that Ancient Gods were weakened in this world and that Zhongli’s strength would return in their realm, prompting Zhongli to demand its location.

Ch. 234Statue, Faith!

After Meatball self-destructed and damaged Li Xinyue’s home, Zhongli repaired and reinforced it, then built a statue powered by Little Sun to purify the residential complex. The golden light drew grateful believers and their faith, while Li Xinyue returned and mistook Zhongli’s growing following for the work of a terrifying Demon God.

  • Meatball panicked when Zhongli tried to trace its connection to its true body and self-destructed, splashing corrosive filth across the room.
  • Zhongli purified the filth, restored and reinforced most of Li Xinyue’s damaged home, and left the broken television unrepaired.
  • Zhongli raised a ten-meter statue in the residential complex and placed Little Sun inside the cube in its hand, where its golden light purified the area.
  • Residents gathered around the statue as the light expelled their bodily filth, and an old man knelt and prayed to the statue for salvation.
  • Zhongli sensed the residents’ faith, returned half of it as power to the believers, used twenty percent to strengthen the statue, and kept the rest.
  • Li Xinyue returned, saw the crowd worshipping the statue, and feared that Zhongli had turned them into slaves to his faith.

Ch. 235Ice and Fire Pearl and the Night Watchers

Li Xinyue questioned Zhongli about the Ancient God’s self-destruction and tested the destructive power of his Ice and Fire Pearl. After they returned home, Zhongli revealed a hidden mutated girl, and Li Xinyue reflected on the secret Night Watcher experiments that protected humanity.

  • Li Xinyue returned home and learned that Zhongli had forced the Meatball Game to self-destruct while trying to locate the Ancient God Realm.
  • Zhongli gave Li Xinyue an Ice and Fire Pearl as compensation for her broken television and took her to test it in a remote forest.
  • The Ice and Fire Pearl flattened a mountain and devastated the surrounding area, leaving Li Xinyue alarmed by its power.
  • Li Xinyue asked Zhongli about the neighborhood statue, and he said its golden light cleared corruption but denied influencing the people who gathered around it.
  • Zhongli revealed an invisible, mutated little girl in the corner of his home, prompting Li Xinyue to recall the brutal experiments that created humanity’s secret Night Watchers.

Ch. 236Worthy of a Demon God

Zhongli learned that the Night Watcher Thirteen had become attached to him after absorbing his Geo power, and took her in as his daughter, Zhong Li. Days later, he began training her to control her abilities and demonstrated a powerful roar, which she tried to imitate.

  • Zhongli examined the Night Watcher and learned from Li Xinyue that she had undergone a mutation caused by an Ancient God and had once been known as Thirteen.
  • After Zhongli restrained her, the girl called him Daddy, apologized for threatening Li Xinyue, and accepted the names Morax and Zhong Li for them both.
  • Zhongli discovered traces of Ancient God power in Zhong Li and suspected her father’s death had shaped her mental side effects.
  • Days later, Li Xinyue reported that the Night Watcher had become Zhongli’s daughter, while Zhongli trained Zhong Li to control her scales and vertical pupils.
  • When Zhong Li struggled with that training, Zhongli asked about her combat abilities and demonstrated a powerful roar that blasted a mountaintop.
  • Zhong Li copied his technique and launched a golden energy ball that exploded in the sky.

Ch. 238What Do You Take Human Lives For?

Zhongli entered Seven City and discovered the Scarlet Ancient God’s cruel exploitation of its people and abnormalities. He defeated and sealed the god, leaving a golden blade behind as the young survivor approached it with the resolve to ensure the Scarlet Ancient God would not live another hundred years.

  • Zhong Li told Li Xinyue that Zhongli had killed over a hundred Abyss gods when he was seven, while the phone caller marveled at his Rock Spears.
  • Zhongli crossed Seven City’s black mist barrier, saw the suffering of its cursed residents, and continued toward the city center in anger.
  • The Scarlet Ancient God revealed that he tormented humans for entertainment, and Zhongli’s Geo power erased the city’s filth and exposed the eight Rock Spears surrounding it.
  • Zhongli identified himself as Demon God - Morax, wounded the Scarlet Ancient God with a Sacred Attribute blade, and sealed him to a void cross for one hundred years.
  • Zhongli left the blade embedded in the throne and declared that any mortal brave enough could draw it; a young man then faced the Scarlet Ancient God and walked toward the blade.

Ch. 239Daha Progenitor

Daha Progenitor dismissed Dong’s report about Zhongli but sent Gith to investigate the human world, then descended there herself. In Seven City, she found the Scarlet Ancient God pinned by Zhongli’s spears and being attacked with the Golden Blade as Gith arrived in a massive suit of armor.

  • The young man pulled Zhongli’s Golden Blade free and began striking the immobilized Scarlet Ancient God while Zhongli watched from afar and then left Seven City.
  • Dong reported Zhongli’s presence to Daha Progenitor, who ordered Los to cut off one of Dong’s tails and sent Gith to investigate the human world.
  • Daha Progenitor decided to visit the human world herself, absorbed nearby filth and anomalies, and traveled to Seven City.
  • Daha Progenitor saw the Scarlet Ancient God pinned in midair while the young man stabbed him with the Golden Blade.
  • Gith arrived near the city in a massive suit of armor, and Daha Progenitor chose to keep observing while he tested the situation.

Ch. 240El the Improper

The Gith Ancient God arrived to rescue the Scarlet Ancient God, but Morax’s eight Geo Spears suppressed him and let an ordinary youth wound him with the Golden Blade. On a rooftop, Daha El met Zhongli, mistook him for an ordinary passerby, and asked to go with him.

  • The Gith Ancient God dismissed the supposed Demon God Morax and unleashed Filth Power over Seven City.
  • Morax’s eight Geo Spears erased the Filth Power and forced Gith to his knees.
  • A human youth approached Gith under the suppressive force and repeatedly cut him with the Golden Blade, inflicting Sacred Attribute injuries.
  • Daha El watched the youth’s attacks from a rooftop, where she encountered Zhongli and tried to get money from him.
  • Daha El told Zhongli her name and asked him to take her with him as the youth continued cutting Gith below.

Ch. 241Friend Special Attack

Zhongli gave a green God's Eye to a young man, then teleported Daha El to a giant Ancient God and killed it with an enormous Rock Spear. He brought Daha El home, where Zhong Li and Li Xinyue assessed the mysterious newcomer.

  • Zhongli explained that his Rock Spears could draw on Geo Elemental Power to suppress Ancient Gods indefinitely, then teleported away with Daha El.
  • Daha El questioned Zhongli about his power, and he revealed that he intended to visit the Ancient God Realm and had once destroyed the Abyss Plane.
  • Zhongli formed a Rock Spear over three thousand meters long and brought it down on a giant Ancient God while Daha El watched.
  • Back home, Zhongli introduced Daha El as his provider, and Daha El asked him for Public Grain.
  • Zhong Li sensed the danger beneath Daha El's playful behavior, while Daha El recognized Zhong Li's immense strength and Li Xinyue decided to keep the newcomer comfortable.

Ch. 243True Form

Zhongli took Zhong Li to confront a sealed ancient god, where she transformed into a dragon and devoured it before he overwhelmed her with his true form. After using his unleashed power to suppress ancient gods and cleanse the world of filth, Zhongli waited for the Daha Progenitor to reveal herself.

  • Zhongli considered how to draw out the Daha Progenitor and woke Zhong Li to take her to an ancient god.
  • Zhongli challenged Zhong Li to ram a sealed octopus ancient god, but she decided it might make good food and attacked it with her Dragon King Wave.
  • Zhong Li transformed into a dark-golden dragon and ate the ancient god, growing larger and roaring at Zhongli until he changed into a colossal golden dragon and subdued her.
  • An operations center detected Zhongli's planet-spanning dragon form, and its officer ordered the evidence erased and the incident concealed.
  • Daha El reacted excitedly to Zhongli's true form as Zhongli summoned Rock Spears worldwide to suppress ancient gods and disperse filth.
  • Zhongli concluded that his display had made the Daha Progenitor uneasy and decided to wait for her to appear rather than enter the Ancient God Realm.
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