Chapter Summaries

Huang Tian helped Xiao Wu develop her royal bloodline, raising her Soul Power to level 69, then visited Tang Yuehua at the Clear Sky Sect and explained the campaign against the Wolf Bandits. Tang Yuehua agreed to return home with him that night after her eldest brother and uncles emerged from seclusion.

• Huang Tian sorted out Xiao Wu's Soft Bone Charm Rabbit Royal Bloodline, and her Soul Power rose from level 63 to level 69.
• Huang Tian teleported to the Clear Sky Sect and told Tang Yuehua he had recalled Tang Hao to lead four hundred Title Douluo in patrolling the Star Dou Great Forest's outskirts.
• Huang Tian explained that Qian Daoliu was leading fifteen Title Douluo elders to hunt Wolf Bandits across the continent while Tang Hao's group blocked their escape routes.
• Tang Yuehua said her eldest brother and five uncles would emerge from seclusion that afternoon, allowing her to hand over the sect's affairs.
• Tang Yuehua agreed to return home with Huang Tian that night.

Tang Yuehua and Huang Tian returned from the Clear Sky Sect to Asura Valley, where Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong, and Liu Erlong welcomed them. A teasing conversation about Huang Tian wanting venison led Bibi Dong to accidentally insult his stamina, and Huang Tian left promising to punish her again.

• Tang Xiao agreed to guide the Clear Sky Sect disciples after Tang Yuehua and Huang Tian left for Asura Valley.
• Qian Renxue rushed to embrace Huang Tian, and he asked Liu Erlong to prepare dinner while he went to hunt venison.
• Qian Renxue asked Tang Yuehua whether Huang Tian wanted venison because he was weak, and Tang Yuehua assured her that he was not.
• Qian Renxue pressed Bibi Dong about the venison, and Bibi Dong accidentally repeated the question just as Huang Tian returned with a deer.
• Huang Tian said Bibi Dong had not been satisfied the previous night and warned her to wait, while Tang Yuehua and Qian Renxue teased her afterward.
• Qian Renxue suggested that she and the other women join forces against Huang Tian, and Tang Yuehua and Bibi Dong rejected the idea.

Huang Tian discussed learning new skills and predicted that the Heavenly Dao Golden Ranking might feature soul beasts. Tang Yuehua and Qian Renxue decided to prepare by raising soul beasts, and the group reunited over a celebratory meal.

• Huang Tian told Qian Renxue, Tang Yuehua, and Bibi Dong that they should pursue their own research and learn skills beyond cultivation.
• Qian Renxue asked whether Huang Tian's advice came from a prediction about the Heavenly Dao Golden Ranking, and he guessed it might rank mounts or soul beast bloodlines.
• Huang Tian explained that he had strengthened nine Dragon Horses with Immortal Herbs, and Tang Yuehua and Qian Renxue decided to raise soul beasts of their own.
• Bibi Dong told the others not to worry about making the rankings, and Huang Tian agreed that they should not force it for the sake of reputation.
• Liu Erlong brought venison and other dishes to the pavilion, and Huang Tian led everyone in a toast to their reunion.

A golden beam caused the Douluo Small World to expand and its spiritual energy to grow denser, prompting Huang Tian and the women to consider how the changes could affect Spirit Hall. Bibi Dong began planning to make Hu Liena Pope and eventually establish the Spirit Hall Empire, while Huang Tian urged caution before the coming tribulation.

• Huang Tian sensed that the golden beam had increased spiritual energy across the continent and caused the world to expand by one centimeter per minute.
• Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua recognized that the denser spiritual energy could benefit soul masters but that expanding territory might strengthen the two great empires.
• Huang Tian warned that Spirit Hall could be threatened if it failed to compete for new lands, and Bibi Dong concluded that Spirit Hall needed to secure its future.
• Tang Yuehua proposed uniting the nearby kingdoms and duchies into a Spirit Hall Empire, and Qian Renxue noted that Bibi Dong had once planned the same approach.
• Bibi Dong said she would abdicate in favor of Hu Liena and make her Pope before she became empress, but Huang Tian told her to avoid bloodshed and wait to see how events developed.

Tang Hao led Yanhuang Hall’s guards as they hunted Wolf Bandits in the Star Dou Great Forest and met Spirit Hall’s elders, who had arrived to block the bandits’ routes. The two factions recognized their shared mission and agreed to cooperate before attacking the Wolf Bandits’ central nest.

• Tang Hao urged Yanhuang Hall’s guards to use the spiritual energy surge to cultivate, while secretly enforcing discipline among them to prevent future conflict.
• Demon Bear Douluo challenged Tang Hao’s group, but the Yanhuang guards showed the Spirit Hall elders the Wolf Bandit corpses they had killed.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo explained that Spirit Hall was pursuing the Wolf Bandits and blocking their escape routes while Qian Daoliu hunted them elsewhere.
• Tang Hao revealed that his group belonged to Yanhuang Hall and consisted of four hundred Title Douluo, with another team stationed nearby.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo agreed to coordinate with Yanhuang Hall and proposed that both groups join forces to attack the Wolf Bandits’ nest when Qian Daoliu arrived.

Tang Hao and Golden Crocodile Douluo agreed to cooperate while Spirit Hall investigated the golden radiance in the Star Dou Great Forest. Across the continent, spiritual energy continued to surge, prompting concern at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect about its effects on humans and Spirit Beasts.

• Tang Hao explained that Yanhuang Hall's guards were ordered to patrol and seal off the forest perimeter, and Golden Crocodile Douluo agreed that Spirit Hall would seek their help if its forces faced an enemy they could not defeat.
• Tang Hao revealed that he was a Third-Rank Deity and said he would not attack Spirit Hall without his Hall Master's orders; Golden Crocodile Douluo thanked him for his restraint.
• Tang Hao warned Golden Crocodile Douluo that the golden radiance from the forest's central region had caused spiritual energy to rise, and Golden Crocodile Douluo led Spirit Hall's elders away to patrol.
• Tang Hao ordered Wang Wu and five guards to burn and bury the Wolf Bandit corpses while the remaining guards split into patrol teams.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Rongrong sensed the doubled spiritual energy, and Gu Rong warned that strengthened Spirit Beasts might launch a beast tide.

Ning Fengzhi and his elders discussed Spirit Hall’s renewed hunt for the Wolf Bandits and the danger they might pose amid the surge in spiritual energy. Ning Rongrong returned to cultivate while longing for her friends, and Ning Fengzhi was left behind as Chen Xin and Gu Rong argued about their chances of becoming deities.

• A guard reported that Spirit Hall’s Grand Elder and fifteen Title Douluo had pursued Wolf Bandits toward the Star Dou Great Forest, and Ning Fengzhi ordered the matter watched.
• Ning Fengzhi explained how Wolf Bandits had massacred people decades earlier and how Qian Daoliu had led Spirit Hall’s campaign against them.
• Chen Xin warned that the Wolf Bandits’ return might be linked to the spiritual-energy surge, while Gu Rong insisted that the continent’s deities could defeat any mastermind.
• Ning Fengzhi told Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Rongrong to cultivate, and Ning Rongrong privately missed Xiao Wu, Zhu Qing, and her school days.
• Gu Rong teased that Ning Rongrong might be longing for someone, prompting Chen Xin to defend her and the two elders to bicker about their chances of reaching deityhood.

As spiritual energy surged across the world, Bibi Dong returned to Spirit City and found that many Soul Masters had grown stronger. After Hu Liena reached Rank 80, Bibi Dong resigned as Pontiff and appointed her disciple as Spirit Hall’s new leader.

• Huang Tian and his companions returned to secluded cultivation, while Qian Renxue resolved to focus on becoming stronger as well.
• Bibi Dong cultivated overnight, returned to Spirit City, and discovered that many Soul Masters had advanced during the spiritual energy surge.
• Hu Liena revealed that the surge had helped her reach Rank 80, qualifying her to inherit the Pontiff’s position under Spirit Hall’s rules.
• Gui Mei and Yue Guan urged Bibi Dong to step down, and Bibi Dong challenged Hu Liena to decide whether she would take the position.
• Hu Liena accepted the role despite the possibility of opposition from the Elder Hall, and Bibi Dong resigned and named her the new Pontiff.

Hu Liena became Spirit Hall’s new Pontiff after Bibi Dong transferred the holy relics and announced her retirement from leadership. Hu Liena took her seat and began setting policy, while Bibi Dong prepared to withdraw behind the scenes.

• Bibi Dong crowned Hu Liena and handed her the Papal Seal and scepter, formally making her Pontiff.
• Hu Liena accepted the position and received the support of the bishops and elders in the conference hall.
• Bibi Dong said she would retire from the Pontiff’s role, transfer her loyal followers to Hu Liena, and intervene only when necessary.
• Bibi Dong left to pack her belongings, leaving Hu Liena to preside over Spirit Hall’s affairs.
• A Red-robed Bishop proposed slaughtering soul beast clans that attacked humans, while a white-robed bishop argued against indiscriminate killing.
• Hu Liena rejected reckless extermination of soul beasts and reaffirmed Spirit Hall’s protections for low-level soul masters and free martial soul awakenings for village children.

Hu Liena took charge of Spirit Hall while Bibi Dong left her former residence to cultivate in Asura Valley. In Heaven Dou City, Tang San demonstrated the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and prepared to sell it, while Qing Feng proposed selling the weapons to the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Hu Liena rejected exterminating soul beasts, and Gui Mei reported that the border troops needed food and replacement equipment.
• Bibi Dong packed her belongings, left Spirit Hall, and returned to Asura Valley to cultivate and modify the Nine Heavens Profound Technique.
• Tang San demonstrated that the Godly Zhuge Crossbow could pierce thick alloy and kill Soul Masters when it caught them off guard.
• Tang San set the price at one thousand Gold Soul Coins per crossbow, including twelve bolts, and Mo Ci agreed it was affordable.
• Qing Feng urged Tang San to sell the Godly Zhuge Crossbow to the Heaven Dou Empire for its soldiers.

Tang San improved the Godly Zhuge Crossbows for mass production and prepared to seek an order from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After a surge in spiritual energy threatened the forge’s future sales, he and his partners discussed developing stronger weapons and learning Soul Tool technology.

• Tang San rejected Qing Feng’s suggestion to approach the Heaven Dou Empire’s Royal Family and planned to seek an order from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect once the crossbows met his quality standards.
• Tang San and the master blacksmiths refined the crossbow’s mechanisms through repeated experiments, ensuring it could fire more than three hundred times and adding a safeguard against dismantling.
• Three days later, Tang San approved the improved crossbows for mass production, and Mo Ci inspected the first ten before Tang San stored them for his planned visit to Ning Fengzhi.
• After a golden flash crossed the sky, Tang San, Mo Ci, and Qing Feng sensed that spiritual energy had nearly doubled and discussed how it might rapidly strengthen Soul Masters.
• Tang San urged everyone to cultivate and warned that the forge’s crossbows might lose their market within two years; Mo Ci proposed developing more lethal weapons and securing Soul Tool technology.
• Tang San said he would try to find his father and learn Soul Tool manufacturing, though he did not know where Yanhuang Hall was based and feared he might not qualify.

Tang San urged his forge staff to cultivate as spiritual energy surged and left Mo Ci in charge while he went to discuss business with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. At Blue Tyrant Academy, Flender worried that the surge might be another illusion, while he and Zhao Wuji planned stricter admissions and graduation requirements.

• Mo Ci encouraged Tang San to take his time learning Soul Tool manufacturing, then told Qing Feng to drink the two cups he owed.
• Mo Ci announced he would cultivate to break through to rank sixty, and Tang San stressed that the forge needed greater strength amid the surging spiritual energy.
• Tang San left Mo Ci to oversee forge quality control and said he would visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect the next morning.
• Blue Tyrant Academy's teachers sensed the surge in spiritual energy and began cultivating after training.
• Flender told Zhao Wuji he feared the surge was another delusion like the fake Golden Ranking, and they agreed to wait for zither music as a sign.
• Zhao Wuji proposed tougher academy admissions and graduation standards, and Flender questioned whether they were too demanding.

Flender and Zhao Wuji discussed the academy’s training arrangements before putting their suspicions aside and cultivating. As spiritual energy surged, Huang Tian and those around him focused on advancing their strength, while Huang Tian aimed to become powerful enough to use the Sky-Opening Axe.

• Flender explained to Zhao Wuji that other academies would have to pay more if they wanted their students trained to Soul Saint level.
• After four hours without hearing a zither, Flender accepted that the spiritual energy surge was real and returned to his room with Zhao Wuji to cultivate.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji cultivated with the Nine Heavens Profound Technique, which had helped them reach level ninety Title Douluos in five months.
• Huang Tian continued cultivating as spiritual energy rose above three times its previous level, hoping to advance and eventually use the Sky-Opening Axe.
• Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, Bibi Dong, and Qian Renxue cultivated in seclusion, following Huang Tian’s advice to seize the opportunity and grow stronger.

Tang San took shelter at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as an unprecedented rainstorm began flooding the continent. Two hours later, much of the land was submerged, countless people were fleeing to higher ground, and the rain had not stopped.

• Tang San arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect but took refuge from the downpour with gate guard Zhang San before he could submit his calling card.
• Tang San told Zhang San he had come to discuss a business deal with Ning Rongrong’s father, while the rising flood swept away Tang San’s carriage and horses.
• The relentless rain triggered floods, mudslides, collapsing houses, and deaths across villages and cities, while forest soul beasts fled for shelter.
• Teachers at Blue Tyrant Academy stopped training and sheltered from the storm as the temperature fell and dark clouds blocked the sunlight.
• Two hours into the storm, eighty percent of residential areas across the continent had become flooded wastelands, and people fled with their families toward higher ground.

Huang Tian ended the catastrophic seven-day rain by dispersing the clouds and spent days absorbing floodwaters, which pushed him into the late stage of First-level God. As survivors rebuilt under Yanhuang Hall’s leadership, they founded Yanhuang City and named Huang Tian its City Lord, though he remained in seclusion.

• Tang Hao contacted Huang Tian and reported that seven days of rain and flooding had devastated the continent and threatened the survivors.
• Huang Tian scattered the black clouds with Sword Qi, then used Black Hole Space to absorb the floodwaters for three days and broke through to the late stage of First-level God.
• Huang Tian cleared mud and debris across nearly one hundred million square kilometers while Asura Valley residents helped survivors rebuild near Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Yanhuang Hall organized survivors into a planned supercity, controlled its markets, and coordinated farming, manufacturing, and administration as the old empires and kingdoms collapsed.
• The residents named the supercity Yanhuang City and honored Huang Tian as its City Lord, but Tang Hao said Huang Tian was still in seclusion.

After months in seclusion, Huang Tian returned to find his four women readying for their tribulations and asked about their Soul Tool research. Qian Renxue, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua reported their progress, and Huang Tian was astonished by Tang Yuehua’s advanced Dragon Abyss Boat design.

• Huang Tian emerged from four months of seclusion after reaching the peak of the late First-level God stage, leaving his cultivation to protect the women during their coming tribulations.
• Huang Tian met the four women and learned that Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, and Qian Renxue had reached the early Second-level God stage, while Bibi Dong had reached the late Second-level God stage.
• Qian Renxue described her offensive and defensive Soul Tools and admitted she had made less progress on Spatial Soul Tools because she had focused on cultivation.
• Liu Erlong reported advances in offensive, defensive, and spatial Soul Tools, while Tang Yuehua described her Soul Tools and a Dragon Abyss Boat able to travel underwater and through the starry river.
• Huang Tian questioned Tang Yuehua about how she obtained the Dragon Abyss Boat technology and how she improved it so dramatically.

Tang Yuehua and Bibi Dong presented the Soul Tool technologies they had developed, and Huang Tian urged them to exchange and study their findings. Qian Renxue mocked Bibi Dong's slow progress, so Huang Tian gave Qian Renxue until the next day to develop armor that could withstand attacks from early-stage Second-level Gods.

• Tang Yuehua explained how she improved the Dragon Abyss Boat so it could fly through space, withstand powerful attacks, and travel vast distances.
• Bibi Dong revealed that she had deduced how to manufacture the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and described its defensive, immobilizing, and offensive abilities.
• Bibi Dong explained that she had avoided recognizing the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud as her master because it carried the Sea God's soul imprint, and said she hoped its design would help guide future Three-Type Fusion Soul Tool research.
• Bibi Dong reported that her Defensive Soul Tool could withstand late-stage Third-Rank Deity attacks for two hours, while her Spatial Soul Tool still held fifty thousand cubic meters.
• Qian Renxue urged Huang Tian to punish Bibi Dong for her limited research progress, but he instead ordered Qian Renxue to improve her Defensive Soul Tool by the next day or face consequences.

After Qian Renxue left to research stronger defensive Soul Tools, Huang Tian heard how the flood had devastated the continent and searched for the missing Tang San. His scan revealed that humanity had regrouped in the vast, rapidly modernizing Yanhuang City, but Tang San remained unaccounted for.

• Qian Renxue agreed to enter seclusion and research Defensive Soul Tool technology after Liu Erlong urged her to obey Huang Tian.
• Liu Erlong reported that the flood had killed nearly sixty percent of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while survivors from across the continent had gathered in Yanhuang City.
• Tang Yuehua said the Clear Sky Sect had mostly survived, but Tang San had disappeared while visiting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Tang Yuehua suspected he was dead.
• Huang Tian scanned Douluo Continent and found that Yanhuang City had become humanity's main settlement, with more than nine million residents and only a tiny fraction of the continent's territory.
• Huang Tian discovered that the city's research center had developed Soul-Powered Puppet Horses and other advanced transportation, then considered how quickly civilization might continue to develop.

Huang Tian searched for Tang San and assessed the survivors and major factions after the flood. He proposed restructuring Blue Tyrant Academy into three Yanhuang Soul Master Academies, then Liu Erlong asked how Yanhuang City would be governed.

• Huang Tian searched the continent and found no trace of Tang San, while learning that most of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s disciples and many people on the overseas islands had died in the flood.
• Huang Tian found that Sea God Island had survived under Bo Saixi and Tang Chen’s protection, and that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had grown powerful but remained hidden.
• Huang Tian told Tang Yuehua that Tang San appeared to have died, and Liu Erlong reported that Tang San’s forge and everyone there, including Mo Ci, had vanished in the flood.
• Bibi Dong reported that Spirit Hall had suffered no personnel losses and that its members were helping rebuild; Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong said their sects had also relocated to Yanhuang City and joined the reconstruction.
• Huang Tian proposed dividing Blue Tyrant Academy into junior, intermediate, and senior Yanhuang Soul Master Academies, with the junior and intermediate schools overseen by Yanhuang City’s Ministry of Education.
• Liu Erlong asked whether Yanhuang Hall would govern Yanhuang City alone or share administration with Spirit Hall and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Huang Tian and the others debated Yanhuang City's future administration, prioritized building free Soul Master Academies, and considered a canal to support trade and fisheries. They then discussed teaching the Nine Heavens Profound Technique across the continent to reduce reliance on Soul Rings, leaving Liu Erlong worried that gods would target cultivators without divine positions.

• Huang Tian and Bibi Dong proposed ways to organize Yanhuang City's government, but Liu Erlong warned that faction-controlled offices could create a monopolistic ruling class, so they postponed the decision.
• Tang Yuehua proposed establishing elementary and intermediate Soul Master Academies, and Huang Tian tasked Zhang Tianning, Tang Hao, and Flender with the work.
• Zhang Tianning, Tang Hao, and Flender planned five hundred elementary academies and one hundred intermediate academies, with tuition, food, and lodging provided free.
• Liu Erlong proposed digging a canal to the sea, while Tang Yuehua raised concerns about trade and Sea Soul Beast attacks.
• Huang Tian proposed teaching the Nine Heavens Profound Technique so people could advance without Soul Rings, and Bibi Dong explained that it could help cultivators reach godhood or create divine positions.
• Liu Erlong learned that creating a divine position could be deadly and worried that gods would see them as threats if they ascended without divine positions.