Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qing and his companions met the Rabbit Girl, who showed them her tree house and offered to trade gathered fruits for help finding her wife and child. She revealed that her child had been born in the Abyss Ruins after she and her wife became Fallen Ones, but her memories left her uncertain about her own past.

• Xiao Wu hugged the Rabbit Girl before learning she had once given birth to a child, while the Rabbit Girl admitted she had forgotten her age and much of her past.
• The Rabbit Girl led Zhou Qing and the others to her home inside a withered Holy Cup Fruit Tree and illuminated it with glowing caterpillars.
• The Rabbit Girl showed Riko her collection of special Holy Cup Forest fruits and offered to trade them for news of her wife and child from the lower levels.
• The Rabbit Girl explained that her child was born in the Abyss Ruins after she and her wife became Fallen Ones, and said she had named the house Mickey's Wonderful House after her happy times with Namiki.

The Rabbit Girl recounted how she and Namiki lived with an Exploration Team on the Third Layer and how the Heart of Dreams transformed Namiki into a Fallen One. Though it gave Namiki the ability to bear children, each child lived only one day, and the Explorers prepared to leave the Third Layer while Namiki wanted to stay with them.

• The Rabbit Girl recalled that Na explored the Abyss Depths and joined the Explorers settled on the Third Layer, where she met Namiki.
• Namiki, unable to bear children, became insecure, but Na kept her company and helped her feel happy again.
• Hope and the Exploration Team gave Namiki the Heart of Dreams, hoping it would restore her ability to have children.
• The Heart of Dreams turned Namiki into a Fallen One who gave birth to one rabbit-like child each day, but every child died after one day.
• Guilt-ridden, the Explorers decided to leave the Third Layer for the Fourth, while Namiki wanted to go with them so she could continue contributing to the team.

Rabbit Girl recounted how Na’s Exploration Team became stranded on the Fourth Layer and survived by eating the children Namiki gave birth to. As Riko comforted the grieving Rabbit Girl, Zhou Qing and his companions vowed that their own community would never descend into such cruelty.

• Rabbit Girl explained that Na and Namiki’s team became trapped on the Fourth Layer, where the Ascension Curse, dangerous creatures, and dwindling supplies made reaching the Steel Base nearly impossible.
• After the team ran out of food, its captain began eating Namiki’s children, and Na and the rest of the team followed.
• Namiki became a breeding machine, grieving each child’s death even as she rejoiced at their births, while Rabbit Girl remembered the suffering and blamed herself for bringing her there.
• Zhou Qing told Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina, and Wang Sheng that such a tragedy must never happen among their people, and they solemnly agreed.
• Riko hugged Rabbit Girl and sang softly until Rabbit Girl began sobbing in her arms.

Rabbit Girl recounted how Namiki became a vast refuge for the Fallen Ones through the second Heart of Dreams, while Na became a rabbit-eared Fallen One and learned that she was Namiki’s true child. The chapter ended with Namiki’s daughter hating the Explorers who had hurt her mother, while Namiki’s remaining consciousness protected them from her.

• After Namiki’s children were taken and eaten, her body transformed into a vast, vase-shaped creature, and the survivors used her children and floating bones to endure and build a ship.
• When a Soul Saint returned from the lower layers, he gave the survivors a second Heart of Dreams, which they used in an attempt to restore Namiki.
• Namiki grew to occupy much of the Sea of Corpses and formed an inner space where the Explorers became Fallen Ones, bound by Equivalent Exchange.
• The Explorers entered Namiki’s inner space out of guilt, while Na left with Odin and later tried to find a way to restore Namiki and the others.
• Na became a rabbit-eared Fallen One and learned that she was Namiki’s child, born with an Immortal Body, great strength, and memories of Namiki’s suffering.
• Namiki’s daughter vowed to kill the Explorers, but Namiki’s remaining consciousness created a protective barrier that kept her and Na from reaching them.

Rabbit Girl asked Zhou Qing and his companions to find out what had happened to Namiki and her child, while Riko helped her regain hope. The group accepted Rabbit Girl’s request and learned how the Waterfall carried explorers from the Third Layer down to the Fourth.

• Rabbit Girl explained that she had asked explorers to search for Namiki and her child, and admitted she had lost the courage to go down herself.
• Rabbit Girl said she wanted to know whether Namiki was alive and would take her own life if Namiki was already dead.
• Riko slapped Rabbit Girl, urged her not to give up, and comforted her until Rabbit Girl wept and thanked her.
• Rabbit Girl revealed that she had seen Riko as a baby with Lyra and had asked Lyra about Namiki, but Lyra told her to seek the answer herself.
• Zhou Qing and his companions agreed to help Rabbit Girl and accepted the fruits she had collected.
• At the edge of the Third Layer, Zhou Qing and the others discovered that the Waterfall had separate upward and downward currents, and that jumping into the outer current led safely toward the Fourth Layer.

Riko helped the Rabbit Girl overcome her fear and enter the outer Waterfall with the others. In Abyss Town, Bibi Dong explained to Qian Renxue that gods were forbidden from interfering in the Human Realm and warned that Asura would descend if she did.

• Riko invited the Rabbit Girl to join them and took her hand, helping her overcome her hesitation and jump into the outer Waterfall.
• Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina, and Wang Sheng followed them through the Waterfall.
• At a meal in Abyss Town, Qian Renxue asked Bibi Dong why she had attended the tournament in person, and Bibi Dong said she sought faith.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Renxue that the God Realm restricted gods from interfering in the Human Realm and that becoming a god meant reducing their influence.
• When Qian Renxue asked what would happen if she ignored that restriction, Bibi Dong warned that Asura would descend to set chaos right.

Bibi Dong explained the God Realm’s hierarchy and revealed that she had come to investigate ruins built by the First Generation Angel God, while she and Qian Renxue discussed resisting the gods’ control. Their fragile cooperation faltered when Qian Renxue demanded the truth about her past, and Qian Renxue’s Mind-Sense Qi Field resisted Bibi Dong’s Soul Pressure.

• Bibi Dong explained the ranks of deities and said the Asura God was an Enforcer, leading Qian Renxue to realize there were multiple God Kings.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Renxue that she had come to investigate an abyss containing ruins built by the First Generation Angel God and a settlement for people who kept their language and writing.
• Bibi Dong said she wanted to find a way to break free of the God Realm’s control, while Qian Renxue demanded to know the truth about Bibi Dong’s past treatment of her.
• Bibi Dong rose and released Peerless Douluo-level Soul Pressure, but Qian Renxue entered Martial Soul Possession and used her Mind-Sense Qi Field to resist it.

Qian Renxue explained the Qi Field Power theory to Bibi Dong, who recognized its potential as a new cultivation method and a weapon against gods. Qian Renxue then entered the Abyss Ruins with Snake Lance and discovered that the ruins sealed Soul Ring Skills while allowing some innate powers and Soul Bone Skills.

• Qian Renxue told Bibi Dong that Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Romantina developed the Qi Field Power theory, then gave her the book.
• Bibi Dong studied the theory, recognized its significance, and learned that Qian Renxue had paid two billion Gold Soul Coins for it.
• Qian Renxue told Bibi Dong that the Nuoding Team might be planning to establish a force and challenge the Two Great Empires.
• Qian Renxue decided to investigate the Abyss Ruins, and Bibi Dong agreed to let her proceed.
• Qian Renxue and Snake Lance entered the ruins, where they found that Soul Ring Skills were sealed but Qian Renxue's Innate Domain and Soul Bone Skills remained usable.

Qian Renxue and Snake Lance tested the Ascension Curse and continued downward, while Zhou Qing’s group reached the Fourth Layer and learned they needed a bone-built boat to cross the Sea of Corpses. They planned to seek answers about Namiki at the Steel Base, leaving Zhou Qing to suspect the sea served as a nutrient-rich decomposition space.

• Qian Renxue discovered she was unaffected by the Ascension Curse, while Snake Lance felt dizzy whenever he moved upward, so they headed toward the first layer’s central area.
• A four-armed Gray-White Figure descended after Qian Renxue and Snake Lance.
• Zhou Qing, Tang San, Wang Sheng, Romantina, Xiao Wu, Riko, and Rabbit Girl reached the Fourth Layer and dried off after swimming to its ring-shaped platform.
• Rabbit Girl wondered whether Namiki and the Explorers who lived inside her had died, and Riko explained that Saundin ruled the Steel Base and had sought Namiki’s tissue.
• Rabbit Girl warned that only boats built from floating creature bones could cross the Sea of Corpses safely, while Tang San found that its salty, fishy liquid could be drunk and might nourish plants.
• Zhou Qing suspected the Fourth Layer was a composting space where the sea’s creatures decomposed material and its nutrient-rich liquid circulated through the waterfalls.

Zhou Qing confirmed that the Sea of Corpses received powerful creatures from the Fifth Layer and suspected the Fourth Layer had an interconnected cycle beneath it. With only three days to explore, he led the group across the sea toward its center using Stacked Wave Force and ice footholds.

• Rabbit Girl identified the massive skeleton as a Dragon Mane Snail Dove, a powerful land creature from the Fifth Layer.
• Zhou Qing guessed that a cycle beneath the Sea of Corpses carried remains between the Abyss Ruins' layers, and Tang San praised his reasoning.
• Riko worried that they could not cross the sea in time, while Xiao Wu reminded everyone they had about seventy hours left.
• Zhou Qing sent Wang Sheng back up to practice controlling Stacked Wave Force and his qi field.
• Zhou Qing carried Rabbit Girl and crossed the water by sensing the tides, leaving ice footholds as Xiao Wu, Romantina, and Tang San followed with Riko toward the Fourth Layer's center.

Zhou Qing and the others reached the Steel Base, where Saundin explained that only White Whistle holders and Fallen Ones could enter the Fifth Layer. He revealed that White Whistles formed through a person's self-sacrifice, while Zhou Qing connected an earlier Soul Saint's passage through the Gate to the life force in a seed and the Radiant Goddess Butterfly Egg.

• Zhou Qing, Xiao Wu, Romantina, and Tang San recovered after running seventy kilometers across the sea, then followed the Rabbit Girl to the Steel Base.
• Saundin warned the group they could not reach the Fifth Layer, and Riko admitted she did not know how to get there.
• Saundin said entering the Fifth Layer required a White Whistle or being a Fallen One, and that forcing the Gate without one could destroy the body.
• Saundin explained that White Whistles formed when someone willingly sacrificed everything for a person they deeply longed for.
• Saundin recounted that a Soul Saint had once entered without a White Whistle by enduring the Gate's damage with a life-force-filled seed and an insect egg.
• Zhou Qing and Tang San realized that Soul Saint was the one from Holy Soul Village, and suspected the seed and Radiant Goddess Butterfly Egg had enabled him to pass.

Zhou Qing and the others learned that White Whistles were the only known way for ordinary people to pass through the Fourth Layer’s Gates, but each whistle could only serve the person it was made for. Saundin offered to help them find a way to obtain whistles without sacrificing themselves, suggesting they befriend an extraordinarily innocent child.

• Saundin led Zhou Qing and the others into the Steel Base and showed them how the Gates turned an apple to ash.
• Saundin explained that a White Whistle could only be used by the person whose loved one had been sacrificed to create it, and Romantina and Xiao Wu apologized for asking to borrow his.
• Zhou Qing reasoned that the White Whistle might imitate a trait of Fallen Ones, while Saundin revealed that passages beneath the Sea of Corpses also led to the Fifth Layer.
• Rabbit Girl learned that Namiki had gone to the Fifth Layer by diving through the seabed passages and began crying.
• Saundin invited Zhou Qing and the others to stay while he sought a way to help them obtain White Whistles, telling them to befriend an extraordinarily innocent child.

Saundin explained that he had used people’s emotional bonds and self-sacrifice to amplify the Ascension Curse, hoping to evolve by merging his Martial Soul and flesh more completely. He offered Zhou Qing’s group a place to stay and invited them to cooperate, leaving them to decide how to respond to his experiments.

• Zhou Qing accused Saundin of manipulating people into willingly sacrificing themselves, and Saundin explained that genuine emotional bonds were necessary to create White Whistles.
• Saundin revealed that he used willing test subjects to amplify the Ascension Curse on himself and pursue a more perfect evolution of his Martial Soul and body.
• Saundin said he sought greater power to reach deeper layers after a Peerless Douluo had failed to pass the Guardians’ test for the Eighth Layer.
• Saundin showed Zhou Qing’s group the northern living quarters and invited them to cooperate with his research before leaving with his people.
• Tang San considered attacking Saundin, but the Rabbit Girl affirmed that Saundin never lied, prompting Xiao Wu to question whether Abyss People’s words were always reliable.

Zhou Qing and his companions decided to leave the Fourth Layer of the Abyss Ruins, while Riko and Rabbit Girl stayed behind to investigate the Gates. As the group prepared to return, Qian Renxue and Snake Lance Douluo arrived and confronted them.

• Tang San asked Zhou Qing how much time remained, and Zhou Qing concluded the group should turn back rather than risk exploring farther.
• Riko and Rabbit Girl refused to leave, so Zhou Qing gave each a Divine Crossbow of Zhuge, Version 2 for protection.
• Zhou Qing spotted a golden light approaching across the sea and recognized Qian Renxue and Snake Lance Douluo.
• Qian Renxue landed before Zhou Qing's group and asked why the Nuoding Team was exploring the Abyss Ruins instead of preparing for the next round.
• Qian Renxue introduced herself, while Zhou Qing pretended not to know who she was.

Zhou Qing and his companions confronted Qian Renxue and Snake Lance Douluo, exposing Qian Renxue’s identity as Xue Qinghe and learning she was injured. Qian Renxue agreed to Zhou Qing’s demand for hush money, leaving their uneasy confrontation unresolved.

• Snake Lance Douluo released his Soul Pressure, but Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina’s combined Qi Field overwhelmed him and disrupted Qian Renxue’s Angel Domain.
• Qian Renxue formed her own Mind-Sense Qi Field, and Tang San recognized her as Xue Qinghe.
• Zhou Qing accused Qian Renxue of being involved in a scheme between Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire, then rejected her invitation to serve Spirit Hall.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina prepared to fight, but Qian Renxue coughed blood and Zhou Qing proposed they keep each other’s secrets in exchange for payment.
• Qian Renxue agreed to Zhou Qing’s hush-money arrangement and told him she expected him to keep his promise.

After Snake Lance Douluo stole Saundin’s White Whistle, Saundin killed him with his exoskeleton armor and reclaimed it. Qian Renxue left without challenging Saundin, believing the Abyss Ruins might offer powerful tools for opposing the gods.

• Qian Renxue agreed to pay Zhou Qing sixty billion Gold Soul Coins and wrote an IOU because she could not pay immediately.
• Saundin arrived and offered to help Qian Renxue obtain a White Whistle, but she refused his offer.
• Snake Lance Douluo seized Saundin’s White Whistle, and Saundin fought back with his exoskeleton armor.
• Saundin pierced Snake Lance Douluo with his spear, then killed him with a crimson energy beam despite Qian Renxue’s attempt to intervene.
• Saundin reclaimed the White Whistle and took Snake Lance Douluo’s right leg bone, while Qian Renxue chose not to attack him.

Tang San and the others left the Steel Base after witnessing Saundin’s power, then sensed a disturbance as they climbed through the Abyss Ruins. In Abyss Town, a mission appeared for a team from the orthodox Douluo World, ordering them to win the Continental Elite Tournament and target Zhou Qing, Wang Sheng, and Romantina.

• Tang San admired Saundin’s beam cannon and armor but decided not to investigate the Steel Base, while Qian Renxue retreated after admitting defeat.
• Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina left Riko and Rabbit Girl, unaware that a Four-Armed Gray Five-Tailed Fox was heading toward the Steel Base.
• As the group climbed toward the Second Layer, Zhou Qing felt a brief disturbance, and Dugu Bo independently sensed a tremor in his Inner Scenery World.
• Seven members of the Spirit Hall Team arrived in Abyss Town, where their mission tasked them with winning the Continental Elite Tournament and defeating or killing Zhou Qing, Wang Sheng, and Romantina.
• Chai Jiazhe explained that the mission targeted people who had altered history in a mutated Douluo World, and the team’s leader reacted angrily to the supposed offenders.

Zhou Qing and Tang San learned more about Qian Renxue’s clash with Odin, while Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong discussed Snake Lance Douluo’s death and the Abyss Ruins. At the tournament finals, Zhou Qing claimed the Spirit Hall Team’s members had changed, and Tang San recognized their captain’s techniques and suspected he had stolen them.

• Zhou Qing and Tang San helped Odin remove the Six-Winged Angel Soul Power from her wound, and Odin said she had fought Qian Renxue.
• Zhou Qing returned to the Nuoding Team and described the Abyss Ruins to Mo Hen and Bu Yi, while Qian Renxue told Bibi Dong how Snake Lance Douluo had died.
• Bibi Dong concluded the Abyss Ruins could help them contend with the God Realm and ordered Qian Renxue to resume her disguise as Xue Qinghe.
• At the tournament finals, Zhou Qing asked whether teams could replace members and pointed out that the Spirit Hall Team looked different from three days earlier.
• Tang San recognized the Spirit Hall captain’s Mysterious Heaven Skill and Purple Demon Eye, suspected he had stolen Tang San’s techniques, and decided the man had embarked on the Path to Death.

Zhou Qing’s suspicion that the Spirit Hall Team had been replaced led Ning Fengzhi and Bibi Dong to notice inconsistencies in their memories and the team members’ unusual Martial Souls. Bibi Dong arranged for Nuoding Team to face Spirit Hall Team, and Zhou Qing suspected the replacement might be connected to the blow that injured him.

• Chai Jiazhe and the black-haired youth discussed Zhou Qing’s ability to sense that they were different and dismissed Nuoding Team as no threat.
• Ning Fengzhi and Bibi Dong realized that the Spirit Hall Team members’ unusual Martial Souls and the rewards Bibi Dong remembered giving them did not add up.
• Zhou Qing backed away from his accusation, but Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to match Nuoding Team against Spirit Hall Team.
• The Nuoding Academy Dean told Nuoding Team to avoid seriously injuring their opponents, while Tang San angrily focused on Huo Zhanji.
• Zhou Qing told Tang San he suspected the replacement had caused his head injury and wondered whether the Abyss Ruins had altered everyone’s memories; Huo Zhanji avoided his gaze.

Zhou Qing realized that the Blue Silver Team had come from a parallel time and space and that Huo Zhanji was Huo Yuhao’s son, prompting him and Tang San to focus on the threat ahead. The chapter explained the multiverse and dimensional plans behind the team’s arrival, while Huo Zhanji remained unaware of his sealed family connection to Tang San.

• Zhou Qing recognized that the Spirit Hall roster included the Blue Silver Team from a later parallel Douluo time and space, led by Huo Zhanji.
• Zhou Qing reasoned that an existence beneath the Abyss Ruins had altered everyone’s memories about the Spirit Hall Team’s members.
• Zhou Qing explained the ten dimensions and how the Great God Circle aimed to expand its reach across parallel universes.
• Zhou Qing urged Tang San to beat Huo Zhanji, and Tang San agreed after noticing Huo Zhanji’s imitation of his appearance and knowledge of his cultivation techniques.
• Huo Zhanji felt Tang San’s hostile gaze, steadied himself, and remained unaware that his memories of meeting his grandfather, Great God-King Tang, had been sealed.