Chapter Summaries

Lu Jun condemned Tang Wutong’s arrogance, kept her alive as leverage against Tang San, and ordered Gu Yue Na to imprison her. He then declared he would give Xu Tiandi a chance to cooperate against the Crimson Realm or seize control of the Federation if Xu tried to eliminate him.

• Lu Jun challenged Tang Wutong to imagine living as an ordinary mortal and declared that her inherited status did not make her superior to those who struggled to survive.
• Lu Jun refused Yue Zhengyu’s request to kill Tang Wutong, deciding she would be more valuable as a bargaining chip against Tang San.
• Lu Jun entrusted Gu Yue Na with secretly taking Tang Wutong to their Douluo Continent stronghold and imprisoning her.
• Lu Jun said the battle’s energy had likely exposed his power to the Federation and declared that he would cooperate with Xu Tiandi against the Crimson Realm if Xu agreed.
• Lu Jun threatened to kill Xu Tiandi and take his authority if he tried to control or eliminate Lu Jun, while promising not to harm innocents or weaken the Federation’s defenses.
• Xie Xie, Yue Zhengyu, Long Chen, and Tang Wulin reacted with shock as Lu Jun clarified that his target was Xu Tiandi, not the Federation as a whole.

Lu Jun declared that he would kill Xu Tiandi if the Federation chairman chose control over cooperation against the Crimson Realm. After the battle, Tang Wulin vowed to atone for his father’s role in Chen Xinjie’s death, and the companions departed in separate directions.

• Lu Jun told his companions the Federation could either cooperate against the Crimson Realm or face his resolve to kill Xu Tiandi if he became a threat.
• Lu Jun ordered everyone to clear the battlefield and prepare to leave as the valley slowly repaired itself.
• Tang Wulin bowed to Chen Xinjie’s body and vowed to bear responsibility for his father’s sins and repay the Sea God Family’s blood debt.
• Lu Jun supported Tang Wulin and instructed him to take Chen Xinjie’s body back to the Federation.
• Lu Jun vanished using spatial power, and his companions followed him while Gu Yue Na carried the sealed Tang Wutong away in another direction.

Lu Jun and the others emerged from the valley after defeating the Green Skull Organization, carrying Chen Xinjie's body and bearing the signs of a fierce battle. Lu Jun ordered the group back to Sun Moon City, where Xu Tiandi had placed the city on the highest alert.

• En Ci, Tong Yu, and Di Yue waited outside the valley, sensing a dramatic change in the Douluo Star Plane.
• Lu Jun led Yue Zhengyu, Xie Xie, Yuanen Yehui, and the others out of the valley with Chen Xinjie's body.
• En Ci and Tong Yu questioned Lu Jun, who said the group had defeated an ambush by the Green Skull Organization and urged everyone to return to Sun Moon City.
• Long Yue watched Lu Jun in shock, while Qiangu Zhangting secretly renewed his jealousy and hatred.
• Xu Tiandi ordered the Federation legions in Sun Moon City to maintain the highest alert and deploy their defenses.

Lu Jun returned to Sun Moon City and gave Xu Tiandi a carefully limited account of the battle that destroyed the Green Skull Organization and stopped the Goddess of Beauty’s descent. He explained to his companions that he expected Xu Tiandi to investigate him, but chose to give the Federation a chance to cooperate or become his enemy.

• Xu Tiandi assembled the remaining forces to secure and repair Sun Moon City while they awaited Lu Jun’s return.
• Lu Jun reported that his group had disrupted the Goddess of Beauty’s Descent Ceremony and wiped out the Green Skull Organization, while concealing the full events in the valley.
• Xu Tiandi noticed Lu Jun and his companions had changed, but postponed questioning them and ordered them to rest while the city’s aftermath was handled.
• Yue Zhengyu asked whether Xu Tiandi intended to leave Lu Jun alone, and Lu Jun explained that the Speaker lacked the time and information to act against him yet.
• Lu Jun told his companions that he would let Xu Tiandi and the Federation choose cooperation or opposition, but would show no mercy if they chose to become enemies.

Lu Jun warned his companions that Xu Tiandi might view him as a threat, then thanked them for their support before they parted to rest. Several days later, Xu Tiandi convened the Federation’s leaders to hear En Ci and Tong Yu’s account of the valley incident.

• Lu Jun told Yue Zhengyu that Xu Tiandi might try to control or eliminate him, and hinted Yue Zhengyu could one day lead the Federation.
• Lu Jun thanked his companions for trusting and supporting him, then dismissed them to rest.
• Xu Tiandi studied a preliminary report about the energy fluctuations outside the valley while the city recovered.
• Several days later, Xu Tiandi gathered Federation leaders and asked En Ci and Tong Yu to explain what they encountered in the valley with Lu Jun’s team.

En Ci reported to the Federation Council about the battle at the mysterious valley, where Lu Jun’s team encountered hidden god-level powers and a Green Skull Organization force. His account left the Council suspecting that Lu Jun had played a far more significant role than anyone knew.

• En Ci told the Council that Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan had detected an unusual spatial distortion and guided the team to a valley, where the Green Skull Organization, Clear Sky Sect remnants, and Tang Sect death warriors blocked them.
• En Ci said he sensed two presences stronger than himself, while Lu Jun headed toward them without fear and Di Yue appeared and spoke with him.
• En Ci and Tong Yu held off the Green Skull Organization’s soul tool corps as Lu Jun led his team into the valley.
• An intense supernatural cold turned the world white and killed the Green Skull soldiers, while leaving En Ci and the Federation troops unharmed.
• En Ci and Tong Yu could not breach an immense Spatial Seal, and Di Yue was expelled from the valley before Lu Jun and his team returned unharmed and stronger.
• The Councilors connected the strange events to Lu Jun and turned toward Chairman Xu Tiandi, awaiting his response.

Xu Tiandi put the Federation’s postwar recovery ahead of investigating Lu Jun, then accompanied Guan Yue to Wanghai Port for Chen Xinjie’s repatriation. As Douluo Star’s ascension loosened Xu Tiandi’s cultivation bottleneck, Guan Yue revealed that he could no longer sense the path to godhood.

• Xu Tiandi rejected an immediate investigation into Lu Jun and ordered the Councilors to focus on casualties, compensation, rebuilding the East Continent, and restoring public order.
• Xu Tiandi demanded a plan for handling Chen Xinjie’s recovered body and answering to the War God Hall, the Sea God Family, and Federation citizens.
• Several days later, Xu Tiandi and Guan Yue stood at Wanghai Port as a Federation ship prepared to carry Chen Xinjie’s body to Mingdu for a memorial and burial.
• Xu Tiandi told Guan Yue that Douluo Star’s denser Heaven and Earth Origin Power had begun loosening his cultivation bottleneck and might let him attempt level one hundred.
• Guan Yue said he had lost his perception of the godly level after Xu Tiandi saved him from Niu Tian, but he was grateful to have survived and accepted his quasi-god cultivation.

After the East Continent battles ended, Guan Yue and the generals reaffirmed their trust in Xu Tiandi, who ordered the Federation fleet to return to the Douluo Continent. Lu Jun and his companions sailed aboard the Federation Glory, where he began a week of rest after the exhausting campaign.

• Guan Yue told Xu Tiandi he had no regrets about risking his life and praised the Federation for proving that mortals could slay gods.
• Xu Tiandi accepted the generals’ support and vowed not to fail their trust or the era.
• Xu Tiandi ordered the fleet to return to the Douluo Continent by ship after order began recovering on the East Continent.
• Lu Jun and his team traveled with the Federation leadership aboard the Federation Glory, a massive flagship equipped to house troops and support a cross-continental voyage.
• Lu Jun rested in his cabin and reflected on the exhausting battles and events that had brought the East Continent journey to an end.

After five days of meditation, Lu Jun nearly completed the divine position he was forging, but he ran out of inspiration at the final step. Bored aboard the ship, he decided to attend a social mixer, while Xie Xie’s teasing suggestion earned him Gu Yue Na’s threat of a beating.

• Lu Jun spent five days in Deep Meditation and formed nearly all of his own divine position, but stalled before its final step.
• Lu Jun noticed an unusual surge of inflammatory posts online and saw that the Federation planned a Net Purification and Source Clearing Operation.
• Lu Jun invited his teammates to spar, but they declined, and Xie Xie told him about a social mixer in Star Sea Hall.
• Lu Jun decided to attend the mixer, hoping for a change of mood and perhaps inspiration for his divine position.
• After Lu Jun left, Gu Yue Na threatened Xie Xie for encouraging him to seek a romantic encounter, and the others teased Xie Xie.

Lu Jun attended a lavish gathering aboard the ship, where he kept to himself despite attracting attention and spotted his friends enjoying the party. The chapter ended when Leng Yulai joined him and teased him about attending the event.

• Lu Jun entered Star Sea Hall and chose a quiet seat by the viewing windows, ordering ice water.
• Several women approached Lu Jun, but he politely declined their invitations to talk.
• Lu Jun spotted Xie Xie, Yue Zhengyu, Long Chen, Tang Wulin, Yuanen Yehui, and Xu Xiaoyan socializing in the hall.
• Leng Yulai found Lu Jun, sat beside him, and asked why he had come to the gathering.

Lu Jun and Leng Yulai shared an increasingly intimate conversation as he acknowledged his feelings for her and proposed spending a lifetime together. Leng Yulai urged him to relax with wine, and Lu Jun suspected Nana had sent her to check on him.

• Lu Jun caught Leng Yulai's hand as she teased him, and they reminisced about their past and the Hundred Thousand Year Immortal Herb she had risked her life to bring him.
• Leng Yulai reminded Lu Jun that she had stayed by his side before Gu Yue Na, and Lu Jun interlaced their fingers and said he could hold her hand for a lifetime.
• Leng Yulai teased Lu Jun about finally saying sweet things, and he admitted that he held her in his heart.
• Leng Yulai ordered Lu Jun a glass of wine and encouraged him to drink without using Soul Power to dispel its effects.
• Lu Jun noticed Leng Yulai's concern and asked whether Nana had sent her.

Lu Jun and Leng Yulai shared wine at the Star Sea Hall after Nana sent Leng Yulai to help ease his stress. They flirted, danced together, and agreed to visit the luxurious lounge on Lu Jun’s fourth floor that night.

• Leng Yulai told Lu Jun that Nana had asked her to check on him and help relieve his pressure.
• Leng Yulai rejected a young man who invited her to dance, and Lu Jun teased her about the attention she attracted.
• Lu Jun asked Leng Yulai when he would end her single life, and she flirted back by calling him her prey.
• Lu Jun invited Leng Yulai to dance, and she accepted as the onlookers watched them take the floor.
• Leng Yulai said she had not yet seen the luxurious lounge on Lu Jun’s fourth floor, and he agreed to take her there that night.

After Leng Yulai impulsively fled the Star Sea Hall with Lu Jun, they shared wine alone in his cabin and challenged each other with flirtatious taunts. Lu Jun declared her his prey and kissed her fiercely, leaving their encounter poised to intensify.

• Leng Yulai took Lu Jun's hand and ran with him from the Star Sea Hall to his cabin.
• Leng Yulai admired Lu Jun's luxurious cabin, and he poured them wine so they could enjoy a private drink.
• Lu Jun asked whether Leng Yulai feared he had drugged the wine, and she taunted him that he would not dare to devour her even if he had.
• Lu Jun pressed close to Leng Yulai, declared her his prey, and kissed her passionately.

Lu Jun and Leng Yulai spent their final days aboard the Federation Glory together, and their intimacy brought major breakthroughs in cultivation before they parted after the ship reached Douluo Continent. Lu Jun joined his waiting companions and prepared to return home, while Wu Sidu remained in seclusion.

• Lu Jun and Leng Yulai spent two days together, and both advanced in cultivation: Leng Yulai reached Level 99 Quasi-God Limit Douluo with Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Darkness, while Lu Jun reached level 98.
• As the Federation Glory arrived at Douluo Continent, Lu Jun and Leng Yulai shared one last private farewell before restoring their cabin and going their separate ways.
• Leng Yulai left to report to the Spirit Pagoda and her sister, while Lu Jun headed to meet Yue Zhengyu, Xie Xie, Long Chen, and the others.
• Yue Zhengyu and Long Chen teased Lu Jun about disappearing and ignoring the group chat, and Yue Zhengyu confirmed that Wu Sidu remained in seclusion.
• Lu Jun said he had important matters to handle, then thanked Xie Xie for helping him rest before leaving for home.

Lu Jun returned to his villa and found Gu Yue Na guarding the imprisoned Tang Wutong in the basement. He faced the bound First-Level God, considering whether he could win her over as an ally.

• Lu Jun returned to the villa, where the Ice Empress and Snow Empress rejoiced at being home.
• Lu Jun went to the basement to check on the prisoner while Gu Yue Na teased him about Leng Yulai.
• Gu Yue Na told Lu Jun that Tang Wutong had been behaving obediently in captivity.
• Lu Jun and Gu Yue Na entered the inner chamber and found Tang Wutong restrained by rune-engraved chains.
• Lu Jun calmly assessed Tang Wutong and considered whether he could persuade her to become their ally.

Lu Jun confronted the imprisoned Tang Wutong about Tang San’s failure to rescue her and challenged her belief that she was his cherished daughter. He revealed that Tang San had split her soul in childhood for his schemes, leaving her shaken as he asked whether she remembered the pain.

• Lu Jun told the chained Tang Wutong that he had come to offer her a choice, while she mocked him and insisted Tang San would save her.
• Lu Jun questioned whether Tang San valued Tang Wutong as a daughter or as a tool, pointing out that he had not come to rescue her.
• Lu Jun suggested Tang Wutong had lost value to Tang San after Huo Yuhao refused to be won over, and Tang Wutong tried to defend her father.
• Lu Jun asked why Tang Wutong’s childhood memories belonged to Wang Dong’er on Douluo Continent despite her claim that she was born and raised in the God Realm.
• Lu Jun said Tang San had forcibly split Tang Wutong’s soul, sending one half to become Wang Dong’er and fusing the other with the Emperor Beast, then asked whether she remembered the pain.

Lu Jun confronted Tang Wutong with accusations that Tang San had torn apart her soul, used her as a political tool, and exploited her to advance divine rule. As he challenged her memories and beliefs, Tang Wutong began to falter, and Lu Jun pressed her to recall signs of her erased trauma.

• Tang Wutong froze as Lu Jun claimed Tang San had torn her soul apart and used her as a bargaining chip.
• Lu Jun said Tang San had destroyed Tang Wulin's origin and argued that both siblings had been used for their father's plans.
• Tang Wutong fought against her chains and defended Tang San, while Lu Jun accused him of using the Green Skull Organization to suppress mortals and cause suffering.
• Lu Jun argued that Tang San had treated Tang Wutong as a tool and had not protected her, shaking her faith in her father.
• Tang Wutong insisted her blank memories were proof Lu Jun was lying, but Lu Jun called them scars left by Tang San and asked her to remember phantom pain and distance from ordinary fathers and daughters.

Lu Jun tried to break Tang Wutong’s loyalty to Tang San by uncovering her sealed memories, but Tang San’s divine restriction suppressed them and kept her defiant. Lu Jun stopped questioning her, then stabbed her with the Ice Abyss Sword to drain her Divine Power while Gu Yue Na watched over her.

• Lu Jun confronted Tang Wutong with fragments of her sealed memories and accused Tang San of treating her as a tool.
• Tang Wutong’s memories briefly resurfaced, but Tang San’s Divine Power suppressed them and reinforced her loyalty to him.
• Gu Yue Na warned Lu Jun that pushing Tang Wutong further could trigger a mental collapse or a self-destruction contingency.
• Lu Jun backed off and asked Gu Yue Na to watch Tang Wutong.
• Lu Jun stabbed Tang Wutong in the lower abdomen with the Ice Abyss Sword and began draining her Divine Power to replenish his strength.

Lu Jun left Tang Wutong imprisoned and draining her Divine Power through the Ice Abyss Sword, while cracks in her memories began to undermine Tang San’s mental shackles. Back at the villa, Gu Yue Na proposed using the Ice Abyss Sword herself to strengthen Lu Jun’s plan to enslave Tang Wutong.

• Lu Jun mocked and abused the chained Tang Wutong, explaining that the Ice Abyss Sword would drain her Divine Power until he got what he wanted.
• Lu Jun and Gu Yue Na left Tang Wutong alone in the dark chamber, where her pain and memories deepened a faint spark of doubt about Tang San.
• At the villa, the Ice Empress condemned Tang San for scheming against his own children, and Lu Jun described how power had changed him.
• Gu Yue Na said Tang Wutong’s cracked memories could eventually weaken Tang San’s mental shackles if they gave her time to question what she believed.
• Lu Jun explained that he might forcefully activate Tang Wutong’s dormant Ice Golem Mark if her mind collapsed, but warned that the mark could be unstable.
• Gu Yue Na proposed temporarily taking control of the Ice Abyss Sword so she could use her First-Level Deity power to establish and stabilize the mark.

Lu Jun learned that Qiangu Dieting had injured Leng Yaozhu during the Thousand Ancient Family’s escalating conflict with her faction, and rushed to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters. He bypassed security and headed for Leng Yaozhu’s office after finding Qiangu Dongfeng absent.

• Lu Jun refused Gu Yue Na’s plan to force a breakthrough against Tang Wutong, warning that the backlash could injure her and jeopardize their plans.
• Leng Yulai told Lu Jun that Qiangu Dieting had personally injured Leng Yaozhu amid the Thousand Ancient Family’s clashes with her faction.
• Lu Jun raced to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters and landed on its exclusive upper terrace.
• When guards blocked him from entering, Lu Jun used spiritual camouflage and surveillance interference to slip inside.
• Lu Jun found Qiangu Dongfeng’s office empty and continued toward Leng Yaozhu’s Deputy Tower Master office.