Chapter Summaries

Li Tianlan entered the blood-red forbidden zone near Divine Craftsman Island to find the strange flame he needed to forge an Alchemy Furnace. He discovered a blue Variant Source with immense life energy and finally saw the flame, reacting in alarm to where it was located.

• Li Tianlan told Xiao Yan he planned to use the strange flame's concealment to refine the Immortal Source, then set out for Divine Craftsman Island's forbidden zone.
• A white-haired craftsman warned Li Tianlan that the blood-red land was deadly, while Li Tianlan explained it resembled a fragment of the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Xiao Yan sensed vast life energy in the area, and Li Tianlan cautiously entered the forbidden zone despite the craftsman's warning.
• Xiao Yan directed Li Tianlan to a large stone, and Li Tianlan uncovered a blue Variant Source whose energy made grass sprout from the barren ground.
• Li Tianlan stored the Variant Source and continued toward the strange flame, then cursed when he saw a huge black sphere radiating intense heat.

Li Tianlan found Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold in the ruins of Duoyang Ridge and approached its black sun to refine its flames with Flame Mantra. The flames nearly killed him, but his second Soul Ring restored his body, leaving him poised to continue.

• Li Tianlan recognized the ruins and black sun as Duoyang Ridge, where Emperor Hengyu had forged his Supreme Dao Weapon.
• Li Tianlan found a fist-sized stone in the palace and uncovered Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold sealed inside it, then stored it in his Soul Tool.
• Li Tianlan endured Duoyang Ridge’s heat by using the White Bone Spirit Cold Flame and then the Seven-Colored Heavenly Flame to approach the black sun.
• Li Tianlan grabbed a cluster of black flames and began refining them with Flame Mantra, but the heat rapidly destroyed his meridians and bones.
• Li Tianlan activated an ability from his second Soul Ring, restoring his nearly dying body to peak condition.

Li Tianlan survived Duoyang Ridge’s black fire, refined it into the Duoyang Flame, and used the heat of the black sun to forge a Purple Thorn Divine Copper Alchemy Furnace. When Bo Saixi, Qian Renxue, Bena, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong arrived to look for him, he hid and considered startling them.

• Li Tianlan endured the black fire until it became the eighth flame he controlled, raising his Soul Power to level thirty and strengthening Dao Tong Yan.
• Li Tianlan named the black fire the Duoyang Flame and began refining a massive piece of Purple Thorn Divine Copper.
• Li Tianlan carried the copper into the black sun’s central region and molded it by hand into an Alchemy Furnace.
• After finishing the furnace, Li Tianlan heard footsteps, hid in the ruins, and discovered Bo Saixi leading Qian Renxue, Bena, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong into the dangerous area to find him.
• Li Tianlan thought about scaring the women, but Xiao Yan warned that they might beat him for it.

Li Tianlan reunited with his companions after forging a sturdy Alchemy Furnace and revealed that he had found power beyond the World Rules. He promised to share it with his good friends and began preparing to strengthen them so they could withstand it.

• Li Tianlan stepped forward, reassured Bena and the others that he was fine, and showed them the Alchemy Furnace he had forged from Purple Thorn Divine Copper.
• Li Tianlan said he had come to the area to seek power beyond the World Rules, and the group eagerly agreed to search for it.
• The Sea God questioned Li Tianlan through Ye Lingling's Sea God's Trident, but Li Tianlan sealed the trident and put it in his Soul Tool.
• Li Tianlan revealed that he had obtained power beyond the rules and warned that his companions would need stronger bodies to absorb it safely.
• Li Tianlan promised to share his resources with his good friends, moved Ning Rongrong and the others, and summoned Duoyang Flame inside the furnace.

Li Tianlan and Xiao Yan refined Indestructible Golden Body Liquid to strengthen Qian Renxue and the others, then prepared a golden medicinal bath for them. After Li Tianlan destroyed the pill tribulation, Bo Saixi and the others entered the pool to begin strengthening their bodies.

• Li Tianlan asked Bena and the others to guard him while he prepared to refine Indestructible Golden Body Liquid, a pill meant to strengthen their bodies enough to bear Immortal Source Power.
• Xiao Yan took control of Li Tianlan's body and spent five days refining the herbs into a drop of golden liquid.
• A Pill Tribulation descended, and Li Tianlan destroyed it with the Wave-Splitting Flame Ruler.
• Li Tianlan forged a large pool, filled it with water, and diluted one drop of Indestructible Golden Body Liquid into it.
• Li Tianlan invited Qian Renxue, the others, and Bo Saixi to enter the pool and warned them to leave if the effects became too painful.
• Bo Saixi and the others took off their clothes and entered the pool, while Li Tianlan lamented that he would wait ten years to grow up.

Li Tianlan and the women absorbed the Indestructible Golden Body Liquid until they reached their physical limits, with Qian Renxue lasting the longest. He then gave Qian Renxue Immortal Source Power, which transformed her Soul Power and soul bones as her Angel Martial Soul began to change.

• Ning Rongrong and Hu Liena left the pool after reaching their limits, while the others continued absorbing the Indestructible Golden Body Liquid.
• Xiao Wu left on the fifth day, Bo Saixi on the sixth, Ye Lingling on the eighth, and Bena on the ninth.
• On the tenth day, Qian Renxue reached her limit with strength of forty thousand jin, and Li Tianlan said she and Bena could bear Immortal Source Power.
• Qian Renxue volunteered to absorb a strand of Immortal Source Power, which raised her rank-seventy Soul Power to the level of Divine Power.
• The six pieces of Qian Renxue's Angel God Soul Bone Set reached one million years and became God Soul Bones.
• Immortal Source Power began transforming Qian Renxue's Angel Martial Soul, merging its six wings into one golden pair marked with silver-white patterns.

Li Tianlan used Immortal Source Power to transform Qian Renxue, giving her seven million-year Soul Rings, fifty-two million-year Soul Skills, and a new Holy Angel God Martial Soul. He then began upgrading Bena, whose Chef’s Knife and Soul Bones transformed as her third Soul Ring began surpassing the million-year level.

• Qian Renxue’s Angel Martial Soul and six Soul Rings transformed, and her Soul Power rose to Level 71 with seven golden Soul Rings.
• Qian Renxue told Li Tianlan and the others that she had fifty-two million-year Soul Skills and a Two-Winged Holy Angel God Martial Soul with a Soul Power limit of Level 150.
• Li Tianlan gave Bena Immortal Source Power and began her transformation.
• Bena’s Chef’s Knife grew into a massive golden blade, and her Soul Bones rose to the million-year level.
• Bena’s first two Soul Rings remained unchanged as her third Soul Ring broke through the million-year level and climbed toward ten million years.

Bena absorbed Immortal Source Power, gained a ten-million-year Platinum Soul Ring, and raised her Soul Power to level 40. As Li Tianlan’s group left the Forbidden Zone of Life, the hemp-clothed young man who had enhanced his Purple Thorn Divine Copper attacked Li Tianlan.

• Bena’s third Soul Ring became a ten-million-year Platinum Ring, and her Execution skill gained a hundredfold boost in speed and strength but could be used only once with her current Soul Power.
• Li Tianlan’s group prepared to leave Duoyang Ridge and search for the Sea Heart Flame, while Hu Liena explained that Holder had been told to wait three months.
• Holder and the mercenaries waited outside the Forbidden Zone of Life as an unidentified hemp-clothed young man entered it.
• Xiao Yan warned Li Tianlan that someone was charging toward him, and the hemp-clothed young man attacked with two jade-like flying swords.
• Li Tianlan dodged the swords with Three Thousand Lightning Movement and met the young man’s punch with Eight Extremes Collapse.

Li Tianlan, Qian Renxue, and Bena fought the young man in hemp robes, who demanded the Immortal Source and Dragon Pattern Black Gold. After Li Tianlan realized he was stalling, the three attacked together and killed him, leaving a pile of magical artifacts behind.

• Li Tianlan and the young man in hemp robes exchanged devastating blows, but the young man regenerated and nearly overcame Li Tianlan's defense.
• Bena severed the young man's head, but Li Tianlan used Teleportation and Absolute Defense to protect her from his divine swords as the young man reattached his head.
• The young man demanded the Immortal Source and Dragon Pattern Black Gold, while Qian Renxue and Bena joined Li Tianlan against him.
• Li Tianlan recognized that the young man was stalling and struck his soul with God Splitting Slash.
• Bena recovered her Soul Power and split the young man in hemp robes in two, killing him as multicolored magical artifacts spilled from his body.

Li Tianlan left after defeating the hemp-clothed youth and continued by ship toward the sea region, where he decided to hunt the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for his third Soul Ring. He attacked the whale king underwater, and their battle sent enormous waves surging across the sea.

• The hemp-clothed youth's soul dissipated, and Li Tianlan collected his magical artifacts, including an ancient scripture he could not read.
• Li Tianlan reunited with Holder and learned that the others were waiting on the ship, then set sail with the group.
• Holder warned Li Tianlan to avoid the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's territory, but Li Tianlan said the whale king was one of his hunting targets.
• Li Tianlan told Ye Lingling to guard the ship and dived into the sea to confront the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• Li Tianlan pierced the whale king's tail with the Titan Spear, then struck him with Eight Extremes Collapse and the Ancient Emperor Seal as the battle roiled the sea.

Li Tianlan defeated the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and claimed his Soul Ring and soul bone, then discovered a god hiding nearby and lured him into attacking. After wounding the attacker with the Titan Spear, Li Tianlan recognized his face as Tailong’s, though he realized the man was not truly Tailong.

• Holder and the mercenaries watched in shock as Li Tianlan fought the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King on equal terms.
• Li Tianlan nullified the whale king’s blood chains with Duoyang Flame, shattered his crimson blade, and overwhelmed him with a punch and a kick.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King transformed and prepared to self-destruct, but Li Tianlan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement and the Wave-Swallowing Ruler to kill him.
• A crimson Soul Ring and a blood-diamond soul bone appeared, and Li Tianlan pretended to absorb the ring to bait the hidden god into attacking.
• Li Tianlan struck the attacker with the Titan Spear, piercing his arm, and realized the wounded man looked like Tailong but was not Tailong.

Li Tianlan defeated and killed the God King Asura’s incarnation, driving the other gods away before absorbing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s Soul Ring and beginning to fuse its Soul Bone. The chapter ended as the powerful Soul Bone began merging with him.

• Li Tianlan attacked the God King Asura, overwhelmed him in battle, and vaporized his incarnation with the Wave-Splitting Flame Ruler.
• The gods watching from the void fled after seeing Li Tianlan kill the God King Asura’s incarnation.
• Li Tianlan absorbed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s Soul Ring, and his Soul Power rose to Level 40 as he formed a third Soul Ring with nine golden lines.
• Li Tianlan finished refining the Soul Ring’s energy and examined the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s high-grade right arm Soul Bone and its two external Soul Bones.
• Li Tianlan began fusing with the Soul Bone, and its power erupted inside him.

Li Tianlan completed his third refinement of the Immortal Source, greatly increasing his power, then set out with the mercenaries to find the Sea Heart Flame. As he approached the flame, a seventh-rank Lava Emperor Lizard emerged from the lava and attacked him.

• Li Tianlan refined the Soul Bone and Immortal Source until his Soul Rings and Soul Bones turned platinum and his power grew stronger.
• Li Tianlan stored the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's corpse and told Holder and the mercenaries to take him to the Sea Heart Flame.
• Qian Renxue advised Li Tianlan to wait before using the God-Bestowed Spirit Ring to advance, and he agreed to consolidate his cultivation first.
• Holder stopped the ship outside the dangerous lava region, and Li Tianlan dove into the sea toward the Sea Heart Flame.
• A Lava Emperor Lizard emerged from the lava and struck Li Tianlan, and Xiao Yan identified it as a seventh-rank magical beast.

Li Tianlan fought the seventh-rank Lava Emperor Lizard over the Sea Heart Flame, using the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations to reach peak Dou Zong strength. After their long battle left the beast badly wounded, Li Tianlan dropped his boosts and revealed a new power, then struck its weak point and rushed in to attack again.

• Xiao Yan warned Li Tianlan that the Lava Emperor Lizard guarded the Sea Heart Flame, and Li Tianlan chose to fight it.
• Li Tianlan used his soul skills and the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations to raise his strength to peak Dou Zong.
• Li Tianlan and the Lava Emperor Lizard battled for nearly three shichen while Qian Renxue, Bena, Bo Saixi, and Ye Lingling watched from the ship.
• As Li Tianlan's boosted aura faded, the Lava Emperor Lizard mocked him, but Li Tianlan claimed the real battle had only just begun.
• The Lava Emperor Lizard charged, and Li Tianlan struck its weak point, making it vomit blood before he sped toward it again.

Li Tianlan traded the Lava Emperor Lizard information about Duoyang Ridge in exchange for the Sea Heart Flame, then began refining the flame. As the Lava Emperor Lizard headed for Divine Craftsman Island, it killed the God King Asura, who was rushing to attack Li Tianlan.

• Li Tianlan used Heavenly Eye to find the Lava Emperor Lizard's weak point and offered it information about Duoyang Ridge instead of taking the Sea Heart Flame without compensation.
• Li Tianlan showed the Lava Emperor Lizard a memory of Duoyang Ridge and warned it not to slaughter the local humans; the Lava Emperor Lizard accepted and left for Divine Craftsman Island.
• Li Tianlan swallowed the Sea Heart Flame and began refining it while staying alert for the Lava Emperor Lizard's return.
• The Lava Emperor Lizard encountered the God King Asura, who was controlling Tang Hao's avatar and heading to kill Li Tianlan.
• The Lava Emperor Lizard struck the God King Asura with its tail, killing him before he could reach Li Tianlan.

Li Tianlan absorbed the Sea Heart Flame, transforming the Dao Tong Yan and creating a powerful flame from nine Heavenly Flames before returning to Heaven Dou City. Meanwhile, the God King Asura and the Nether God decided to seek out Tang San, the Child of Fortune, as a possible ally against Li Tianlan.

• Li Tianlan's Dao Tong Yan fused nine Heavenly Flames into a black-and-white advanced flame and changed from 108 flames to twelve slots.
• Li Tianlan took several Sea Heart Lotus seeds, left the lotus behind, and returned to his ship, where Holder and the others welcomed him.
• The God King Asura feared the ancient creature that had killed the Slaughter King's avatar, and the Nether God proposed finding the Child of Fortune.
• The Nether God identified Tang San at Nuoding Academy as the Child of Fortune, and he and the God King Asura set out to see him.
• Li Tianlan returned to Heaven Dou City, where the factions already regarded him as invincible.

Five years passed as Li Tianlan cultivated, gathered Heavenly Flames, and grew powerful enough to reach level eighty at age twelve. He concealed his strength in Heaven Dou City while new gods and other powerful outsiders arrived in search of a rule-breaking treasure.

• Li Tianlan spent the years researching alchemy and cultivating, healed Sword Douluo, helped Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo reach level ninety-nine, and evaded Dugu Bo’s complaints about Dugu Yan’s transformation into a Dragon Egg.
• Five years later, Li Tianlan reached level eighty, with seven hundred-million-year Purple-gold Spirit Rings and six enhanced soul bones giving him a total of 208 soul skills.
• Li Tianlan considered finding another Soul Ring but struggled to choose a Fierce Beast, since he did not want to kill beasts that had done little evil.
• Kavi and more than a dozen maids passed the Sea God’s Eight Trials and became level-ninety-nine Limit Douluo after Li Tianlan gave the Sea God Immortal Source Power.
• Li Tianlan walked through Heaven Dou City in disguise and sensed newly arrived gods searching for a treasure, along with other powerful outsiders unfamiliar to the continent.

After Dugu Yan awakened from six years of sleep and completed her evolution into a powerful Dragon Emperor, Li Tianlan protected her from hundreds of gods who tried to attack. The gods remained outside his barrier as Dugu Yan greeted him.

• Xiao Wu reminded Li Tianlan that they had planned to visit Luoding City, and he agreed to leave the next day.
• Dugu Yan stirred inside her Soul Tool, and Li Tianlan teleported with her to his valley breakthrough site.
• Dugu Yan’s golden eggshell cracked as her dragon aura filled the valley and a giant Golden Dragon appeared overhead.
• Hundreds of gods rushed toward Dugu Yan, but Li Tianlan sealed the valley behind his Purple-gold Sky Curtain.
• A Third-level God attacked the barrier and was killed by its reflected force, leaving the other gods afraid to approach.
• Dugu Yan finished evolving in golden armor with White-gold Dragon Wings and greeted Li Tianlan.

Dugu Yan awoke after five years with power beyond even a God King, while Li Tianlan revealed that Otherworlders had become a growing threat. As the pair headed back to Heaven Dou City, a War God empowered by strange power from another world confronted them.

• Dugu Yan emerged with ten Platinum Spirit Rings and overwhelming strength, prompting many gods to flee while Li Tianlan advised her to master her power.
• An Otherworlder attacked Li Tianlan, who traced the assault through a spatial gate and killed the attacker in a valley.
• Li Tianlan told Dugu Yan that increasingly powerful Otherworlders had been invading the Douluo Continent, and the two set off for Heaven Dou City.
• A second-class War God blocked their way and demanded the divine item, so Dugu Yan volunteered to fight him.
• Xiao Yan warned Li Tianlan that something was wrong with the War God, whose aura surged with power from another world; Li Tianlan moved in front of Dugu Yan.

Li Tianlan fought the Skeleton Demon Shadow and its summoned undead creatures, defeating a Bone Dragon before confronting a giant skeleton whose strength exceeded his. The chapter ended with Li Tianlan injured and his Wave-Swallowing Ruler shattered as the Skeleton Demon Shadow taunted him.

• Li Tianlan used Dao Tong Yan to clear the War God's undead aura, then attacked the Skeleton Demon Shadow with a Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame made from forty-nine Heavenly Flames.
• The Skeleton Demon Shadow summoned a Bone Dragon, and Li Tianlan activated the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations by swallowing the Emperor Flame.
• Li Tianlan battered the Bone Dragon, shattered its bones, and burned its soul away with Heavenly Flames.
• The Skeleton Demon Shadow summoned a mountain-sized giant skeleton wielding a Bone Blade, and Li Tianlan met its attack with the Wave-Swallowing Ruler.
• The giant skeleton overpowered Li Tianlan, injured him, and shattered the Wave-Swallowing Ruler, while the Skeleton Demon Shadow mocked him.