Chapter Summaries

The author explained that the novel’s ending would not arrive on a fixed date because some content still needed to be added. The wrap-up had begun, with the pace set to accelerate as Lin Xiao’s growth and the supporting characters’ stories were filled in.

• The author said the original plan had been to finish on November 1.
• The author decided to delay the ending because the story still had missing content.
• The author said the wrap-up had begun and the pace would soon speed up.
• The author planned to develop Lin Xiao’s rapid improvement and explain the prophecy of his noble destiny.
• The author planned to cover the supporting characters, including Aunt Ye.

Lin Xiao revealed that he had become both the Asura God and the Phoenix God, freed Bibi Dong from his mark, and urged her and Qian Renxue to resolve their conflict without harming ordinary people. Gu Yuena then arrived and summoned Lin Xiao to the Lake of Life, unaware that he intended to lure her into a trap.

• Lin Xiao showed his Asura Battle Armor and Phoenix Divine Armor to Dugu Bo, Shui Bing'er, Bibi Dong, and Qian Renxue.
• Lin Xiao removed the Fire Lotus Mark from Bibi Dong and told her she was free.
• Lin Xiao urged Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue to settle their grievances themselves and keep the war away from ordinary people, so the two women left to talk.
• Gu Yuena appeared and asked Lin Xiao to help her subdue the Emperor Auspicious Beast at the Lake of Life.
• Lin Xiao agreed to go with Gu Yuena but refused to bring Dugu Bo and Shui Bing'er.

Lin Xiao turned on Gu Yuena at the Lake of Life, overpowered her, and removed the restriction she had placed on his divine soul. He then revealed Feng Yu, whose sacred presence forced the surrounding Spirit Beasts to submit.

• Lin Xiao arrived at the Lake of Life with Gu Yuena while Wang Qiu'er planned to marry him and bring Bi Ji and Zi Ji as her dowry.
• Gu Yuena urged Lin Xiao to attack Wang Qiu'er, but Lin Xiao stabbed Gu Yuena with his greatsword and flooded her with Asura Killing Intent.
• Lin Xiao branded Gu Yuena's divine soul with Imperial Flame after she discovered her restriction on his soul had already been erased.
• Gu Yuena tried to flee as a silver dragon, but Lin Xiao seized her, drained her power, and forced her back into human form.
• Lin Xiao revealed Feng Yu, whose crimson light and sacred majesty made every Spirit Beast at the Lake of Life submit.

Feng Yu and Lin Xiao tortured Gu Yuena after her defeat, while Di Tian and the Fierce Beasts begged them to spare her. Wang Qiu'er and Zi Ji also pleaded for Gu Yuena and the Lake of Life, leaving Lin Xiao facing unexpected opposition to his decision.

• Feng Yu revealed herself as the reincarnated Phoenix God King, and Gu Yuena accused her of being behind Lin Xiao's rise.
• Lin Xiao activated the Emperor Flame Mark twice, causing Gu Yuena intense pain as Feng Yu watched.
• Di Tian knelt and offered the Fierce Beasts' submission in exchange for Gu Yuena's life, but Lin Xiao rejected his plea.
• The Fierce Beasts, Bi Ji, Zi Ji, and Wang Qiu'er all asked Lin Xiao to spare Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena accused Wang Qiu'er of betraying the Lake of Life, while Wang Qiu'er insisted she had only wanted to change Gu Yuena's mind.

Feng Yu and the Fierce Beasts persuaded Gu Yuena to accept defeat and live, but Lin Xiao rejected her attempt to preserve her dignity by making her his mount. After Feng Yu sealed Gu Yuena's powers, the Fierce Beasts acknowledged Lin Xiao as their master and he declared himself the sole Co-Lord of Soul Beasts.

• Feng Yu offered to spare Gu Yuena if she accepted the consequences of defeat, and the Fierce Beasts urged her to live and continue her mission.
• Gu Yuena asked Lin Xiao whether he had meant his earlier offer to become lifelong companions, and Lin Xiao said he could use a mount instead.
• Feng Yu sealed Gu Yuena's powers and privately advised Lin Xiao to keep her alive as a mount so he could watch her.
• Wang Qiu'er bowed to Lin Xiao and greeted him as her master, prompting the other Fierce Beasts to do the same.
• Lin Xiao accepted their allegiance and declared himself the one and only Co-Lord of Soul Beasts.

Lin Xiao took control of the Lake of Life and offered the Fierce Beasts a path to godhood through his future rule of the God Realm or by becoming his contracted Subordinate Gods. Bi Ji accepted his offer and swore never to betray him.

• Lin Xiao warned the Fierce Beasts that he would punish anyone who stayed while plotting against him, then promised to change the soul beasts’ path to godhood.
• Gu Yuena challenged Lin Xiao’s promise, and he admitted the God Realm’s gods would resist unless his will became the God Realm’s will.
• Lin Xiao offered the Fierce Beasts the chance to become his contracted Spirit Beasts and reach godhood within ten years, at the cost of placing their lives in his hands.
• Di Tian asked whether the Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Blue Silver Emperor were already Lin Xiao’s contracted Spirit Beasts, and Lin Xiao confirmed they were.
• Bi Ji stepped forward, agreed to form a contract with Lin Xiao, and swore to follow him and never betray him.

Lin Xiao contracted Bi Ji, and the divine power he infused into her Soul Core triggered a six-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation that he destroyed with one sword. Later, Feng Yu asked Wang Qiu'er and Gu Yuena to reveal the true cause of the Dragon God's death.

• Bi Ji accepted Feng Yu's phoenix Essence Blood, while Di Tian refused Lin Xiao's contract offer and the other Fierce Beasts held back.
• Lin Xiao contracted Bi Ji and infused her Soul Core with his power, unexpectedly raising her strength enough to trigger a six-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation.
• Lin Xiao destroyed the Tribulation Cloud with one strike of the Asura Divine Sword, leaving Bi Ji safe and the watching Fierce Beasts regretting their refusal.
• Wang Qiu'er pressed Lin Xiao to have a child with her, but Lin Xiao rejected the idea and Gu Yuena called her shameless.
• Feng Yu asked Wang Qiu'er and Gu Yuena how the Dragon God had truly died.

Feng Yu and Gu Yuena explained that the Dragon God’s collapse came from his own instability and overreaching ambitions, prompting Lin Xiao to reflect on avoiding the same mistakes. Lin Xiao challenged Gu Yuena to a bet over who could better lead the Soul Beasts, with her becoming his subordinate if he won decisively.

• Feng Yu rejected the claim that the Five Great Divine Kings had simply killed the Dragon God and argued that only the Dragon God himself could have caused his downfall.
• Wang Qiu'er said she knew little from the Golden Dragon King's fragmented memories, while Gu Yuena explained that the Dragon God had gone berserk, killed the other Dragon Kings, and then allowed the Asura God to split him in two.
• Gu Yuena listed the Dragon God's conflicting pursuits and long-term consumption of resentment as factors behind his loss of control, though she said no one knew the ultimate cause.
• Lin Xiao concluded that the Dragon God had taken on too many ambitions at once and resolved to focus his own powers through Imperial Flame rather than repeat those mistakes.
• Wang Qiu'er mocked Gu Yuena by pointing out that Lin Xiao's elemental abilities shared the characteristic of fire and could fuse into Imperial Flame.
• After Lin Xiao criticized Gu Yuena's leadership, she challenged him to prove he could accomplish more as Co-Lord of Soul Beasts, and he proposed a bet that would make her his subordinate if he far surpassed her.

Lin Xiao asserted control over the Fierce Beasts, took Bi Ji and Zi JI with him, and contracted with Zi JI before leaving for the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well. The chapter ended with the women there realizing that Lin Xiao had become a god.

• Lin Xiao ordered Gu Yuena to carry him to the Lake of Life and told the Fierce Beasts that the Golden Dragon King would lead them while he was away.
• Lin Xiao chose Bi Ji to accompany him, then invited Zi JI to come along and offered to guide her cultivation.
• Zi JI asked to form a contract with Lin Xiao, and he agreed.
• The next day, Lin Xiao overcame his thunder tribulation with a sword strike and took Bi Ji and Zi JI to the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Ah Yin sensed their Soul Cores had evolved and concluded that Lin Xiao had become a god.

Lin Xiao made his contracted Spirit Beasts subordinate gods, assigning each a divine title and territory despite their fears of angering the God Realm. After seeing his commitment, Gu Yuena vowed to judge whether his actions matched his promises, and Lin Xiao emerged to confront her about her humiliation and loyalty.

• Lin Xiao introduced Bi Ji and Zi Ji to Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Ah Yin, then appointed the five Spirit Beasts as gods over their respective domains.
• Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Bi Ji, Zi Ji, and Ah Yin warned Lin Xiao that openly enfeoffing Spirit Beasts could provoke the God Realm, but he refused to back down.
• Gu Yuena watched Lin Xiao provide for the Spirit Beasts and privately vowed to submit to him if he proved trustworthy, or destroy him if he had deceived them.
• Lin Xiao found Gu Yuena outside the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well and admitted he had deliberately humiliated her by making her his mount.
• Lin Xiao told Gu Yuena that her loyalty made her dependable and said Di Tian was the Fierce Beast he valued most.

Lin Xiao stayed at the Lake of Life and helped his contracted Spirit Beasts transform their Soul Cores while conflict threatened Spirit Hall. Bibi Dong planned to capture powerful experts from the two empires, and Qian Renxue revealed that Yu Xiaogang had come to Spirit City to see her.

• Lin Xiao told Gu Yuena he had chosen her and Di Tian as subordinates because of their flaws, and teased her about becoming devoted to him.
• Lin Xiao remained at the Lake of Life, accelerating his contracted Spirit Beasts’ conversion of their Soul Cores into Divine Cores.
• Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong over Spirit Hall’s dangerous war with the two empires and warned her not to defy Lin Xiao.
• Bibi Dong proposed capturing the empires’ Soul Douluo-level and stronger experts instead of killing them, believing the empires would then collapse.
• Qian Renxue mocked Bibi Dong over Yu Xiaogang, then revealed that he had come to Spirit City looking for her.

Yu Xiaogang visited Bibi Dong at Spirit Hall to ask what happened to Tang San after the God War at Jialing Pass. Bibi Dong revealed that Tang San had died, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned.

• Bibi Dong agreed to meet Yu Xiaogang despite her growing weariness with him.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that he had come because he could no longer reach Tang San after the God War at Jialing Pass.
• Bibi Dong reminded Yu Xiaogang of the help she had given him, including wiping out the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to avenge his expulsion.
• Yu Xiaogang hid his resentment toward Bibi Dong and asked whether she had seen Tang San.
• Bibi Dong coldly told Yu Xiaogang that Tang San had died.

After learning that Tang San was dead and Lin Xiao had become the Asura God, Yu Xiaogang urged Bibi Dong to ambush Lin Xiao, but Qian Renxue exposed their conversation. Bibi Dong crushed Yu Xiaogang to death and, shaken by regret and self-hatred, said she would enter seclusion.

• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang that Tang San was dead and Lin Xiao was the Asura God, sending Yu Xiaogang into a furious breakdown.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that Bibi Dong kill Lin Xiao and urged her to ambush him with her Martial Soul abilities.
• Bibi Dong rejected Yu Xiaogang’s proposal and suspected he wanted her to die, as Qian Renxue entered and mocked them for conspiring.
• Qian Renxue said she would tell Lin Xiao what had happened, while Yu Xiaogang urged Bibi Dong to stop her.
• Bibi Dong stirred Yu Xiaogang’s Resentment until he raged against her, Lin Xiao, and Liu Erlong, then crushed him into a blood mist.
• Bibi Dong said she would enter seclusion as regret and self-hatred overcame her.

Lin Xiao visited Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing in the Star Luo Empire after learning that the Goddess of Abundance’s faith had spread throughout the realm. He praised Zhu Zhuyun’s work and began offering the sisters a choice about their future.

• Qian Renxue left the hall to seek Shui Bing'er and ask about reawakening Qian Daoliu’s consciousness.
• Bibi Dong returned to her secret chamber, reflected on Yu Xiaogang and the roots of her resentment, and began examining her own heart.
• Zhu Zhuyun complained to Zhu Zhuqing that Lin Xiao had neglected them, and Lin Xiao suddenly appeared in the imperial hall.
• Zhu Zhuyun reported that the Goddess of Abundance’s faith had spread across the Star Luo Empire and that its healing miracles had helped it surpass the Angel God’s faith.
• Lin Xiao praised Zhu Zhuyun, stopped her advances, and offered the sisters a first choice: remain in the empire with cultivation resources while he stayed out of its conflicts.

Lin Xiao agreed to let Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing follow him as Divine Attendants after they rejected the freedom and Godly Inheritance options, and he restored their Fire Lotus Marks at their request. Meanwhile, Shui Bing'er consolidated her authority as the New Sea God, and Qian Renxue found Lin Xiao to ask about restoring Qian Daoliu's Consciousness.

• Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing refused Lin Xiao's rewards and asked to remain by his side rather than accept freedom or serve as guardians of Godly Inheritances.
• Lin Xiao agreed to take the Zhu Sisters as Divine Attendants, and both sisters asked him to restore their Fire Lotus Marks.
• Shui Bing'er returned to Sea God Island and worked to establish the New Sea God's authority over the ocean.
• Bo Saixi and the enshrined elders began building statues of the Sea God and Lin Xiao.
• Qian Renxue asked Shui Bing'er how to restore Qian Daoliu's Consciousness, then traveled to the Star Luo Empire and found Lin Xiao.
• Qian Renxue approached Lin Xiao and asked if they could talk.

Qian Renxue agreed to help Lin Xiao secure the Angel God’s favor in exchange for his help reviving Qian Daoliu, while Lin Xiao planned for her to rule after he took Bibi Dong away. Bibi Dong then asked Hu Liena and Dugu Bo for something Lin Xiao had worn close to his body, as Hu Liena’s Lust God Trial required it.

• Qian Renxue confessed her feelings to Lin Xiao, who asked for time to consider them and agreed to help revive Qian Daoliu in exchange for the Angel God owing him a favor.
• Qian Renxue told Lin Xiao that Bibi Dong had killed Yu Xiaogang and planned to detain powerful experts from the two empires; Lin Xiao said he would let Bibi Dong unify the continent, then take her away and leave Qian Renxue to rule.
• Bibi Dong summoned Hu Liena and learned that the Ninth Trial of her Lust God Trial required something Lin Xiao had worn close to his body.
• Bibi Dong summoned Dugu Bo and awkwardly asked him for one or two items Lin Xiao had worn close to his body, leaving Dugu Bo stunned.

At the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, Lin Xiao offered Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan divine inheritances so they could join him in the God Realm. Ye Lingling chose the Flower God and Dugu Yan accepted the Poison God, while their teasing left Ye Qingxian puzzled.

• Lin Xiao told Ye Qingxian that faith in the Goddess of Abundance had spread throughout the Three Great Empires, making it possible for her to ascend with him.
• Ye Lingling asked Lin Xiao not to leave her and Dugu Yan behind, and he offered them the Flower God and Poison God inheritances.
• Lin Xiao suggested Ye Lingling might eventually surpass Rank 1 gods by gaining the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well's Immortal Grass as subordinate gods, and estimated Dugu Yan's potential against Bibi Dong's Rakshasa God.
• Ye Lingling happily chose the Flower God and teased Lin Xiao about whether her mother’s Goddess of Abundance was stronger.
• Dugu Yan accepted the Poison God, explaining she preferred poisons to the painful path Dugu Bo had taken, then playfully hinted she would create a poison that could affect Lin Xiao.
• Ye Lingling blushed at Dugu Yan’s insinuation, while Ye Qingxian wondered what the three were talking about.

Spirit Hall conquered and unified the continent, while Lin Xiao took Bibi Dong away before her coronation and arranged for Qian Renxue to rule the empire. As Qian Renxue became Empress and reshaped Spirit Hall’s religious symbols, Lin Xiao prepared to face the rivalries of the God Realm with Bibi Dong and Hu Liena as potential allies.

• Zhu Zhuyun accepted the fall of the Star Luo Empire and planned to leave Star Luo City with Zhu Zhuqing, while Xue Ye passed the Heaven Dou throne to Xue Beng, who chose to surrender.
• Three months later, the three empires merged into the Spirit Hall Empire, but Lin Xiao took Bibi Dong away before her coronation and said Qian Renxue would govern the continent.
• Lin Xiao offered Bibi Dong two favors and asked her to bring Hu Liena to the God Realm, while warning that Destruction God King might target or recruit Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue became Empress and began stabilizing the new empire, expanding Spirit Hall’s branches and promoting the Faith of the Goddess of Abundance.
• Qian Renxue changed the Angel God Statue to resemble herself and placed a statue of Lin Xiao beside it.

After ten years, Lin Xiao prepared to ascend to the God Realm with his companions, leaving Di Tian and others in the Lower Realm. He departed after encouraging his disciple Ma Hongying to hold fast to her principles, while she vowed to become a god and join him.

• Lin Xiao offered Di Tian a Spirit Beast contract, but Di Tian chose to remain in the Lower Realm and cultivate into godhood on his own.
• Wang Qiu'er confronted Lin Xiao about not taking her to the God Realm or giving her a child, and Lin Xiao told her and Gu Yuena to live peacefully until he invited them up.
• Lin Xiao's companions gathered to say goodbye; he asked Shui Bing'er and the others whether they had parted from their families, while Ning Rongrong and Shui Yue'er remained behind to complete their inheritances.
• The Rakshasa God Bibi Dong, the Angel God Qian Renxue, and the God of Lust Hu Liena arrived as Lin Xiao prepared to leave.
• Ma Hongying ran to Lin Xiao and asked him to wait for her; he reminded her to follow her principles, and she watched him ascend with a new determination to become a god.

The Four Great Divine Kings debated Lin Xiao’s arrival as the new Asura God King, with the Destruction God King opposing his immediate entry into the God Realm Committee. The Destruction God King arranged for his own Deities to test Lin Xiao before returning the Asura God’s authority, and the Life God-King reluctantly agreed to stay out of the matter.

• The Destruction God King complained that Lin Xiao had brought eight Rank 1 Deities to the God Realm and questioned how much authority he should receive.
• The Goddess of Kindness noted that the Goddess of Abundance had created her own Divine Throne and that the Plague God was unfamiliar to the God Realm.
• The Evil God King argued that the arriving Deities brought fresh blood to the God Realm and proposed letting Lin Xiao settle into his duties before convening the committee.
• The Destruction God King insisted that Lin Xiao should not join the committee until he proved himself, and the God Kings accepted his proposal to have the Destruction God King’s Deities test him.
• The Life God-King questioned the plan, but the Destruction God King told her he wanted to prevent one Deity from dominating the committee, and she agreed to pretend she knew nothing.