Chapter Summaries

Li Tianlan destroyed Skeleton Demon Shadow with his Immortal Gold Staff and Heavenly Flames, then learned that its last known location was Luoding City. Suspecting the World Rules had empowered Tang San to fulfill his fate, Li Tianlan decided to go there and observe him rather than kill him outright.

• Li Tianlan amplified his strength and smashed Skeleton Demon Shadow's giant form apart with the Immortal Gold Staff.
• Skeleton Demon Shadow tried to escape through a spatial rift, but Li Tianlan trapped it in Heavenly Flames and burned it to ashes.
• War God awakened and said God King Asura had summoned him to Luoding City, where he last remembered encountering the demonic energy.
• Li Tianlan realized Tang San remained a Child of Fate and suspected the World Rules had granted him power beyond the world to destroy Spirit Hall.
• Li Tianlan decided to travel to Luoding City and see whether Tang San would relinquish his fate before considering what to do next.

Li Tianlan prepared to travel to Luoding City, reunited Dugu Yan with his friends, and discussed Qin Ming’s wish to obtain godhood. After reaching Luoding City, Li Tianlan found that Tang San had already reached level ninety-nine and carried the power of two godhoods.

• Li Tianlan warned the War God not to lie, then decided to visit Luoding City with Dugu Yan and their friends.
• Back in Heaven Dou City, Dugu Yan reunited with Qian Renxue, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and the others while Li Tianlan visited Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming explained that he wanted godhood to protect his friends, and Li Tianlan promised to watch for one.
• Li Tianlan traveled to Luoding City with Xiao Wu and a large group, arriving five days later.
• Li Tianlan found Tang San at a blacksmith shop and sensed that the twelve-year-old had reached level ninety-nine and possessed the power of the Nether God’s and Asura God’s Nine Trials.

Li Tianlan entered a plane of death to hunt the escaped Skeleton Demon Shadow and assess the undead forces there. After powerful undead fled from an unseen attacker, the Demon Shadow struck him and vowed to kill him, but Li Tianlan’s Absolute Defense kept him unharmed.

• Li Tianlan warned Tang San that principles mattered more than strength, then left Tang San’s smithy to pursue the Skeleton Demon Shadow and eliminate the Asura God and Nether God.
• Li Tianlan found the Asura God and Nether God missing and sent a clone into a valley filled with deathly aura.
• The clone discovered the valley concealed a vast Plane of the Dead and drew out undead creatures, including a Bone Dragon, an Abomination, and a powerful lich.
• Li Tianlan found no sign of the Demon Shadow and feared its true body might already have entered the Douluo Continent.
• An unseen force caused the undead to flee, then the Skeleton Demon Shadow attacked Li Tianlan’s clone and declared that he would die.
• Li Tianlan’s Absolute Defense Soul Skill blocked the Demon Shadow’s barrage, leaving him unharmed.

Li Tianlan defeated the Boneyard Demon Dragon King, but its death curse severely weakened his avatar. When Tang San arrived at the Death Plane’s exit with Asura God and Nether God, they urged him to kill Li Tianlan, unaware that Li Tianlan had been waiting nearby.

• Li Tianlan used the Duoyang Flame and Purple Orchid Heart Flame to defeat the Boneyard Demon Dragon King and burn its soul fire.
• The Boneyard Demon Dragon King self-destructed, but Li Tianlan sealed its black Dragon Crystal before the blast and took the crystal as he left.
• The Demon Dragon King’s curses reduced Li Tianlan’s avatar to less than five-thousandths of his true body’s power.
• Li Tianlan hid in the void as Tang San arrived at the Death Plane’s exit with Asura God and Nether God, who assured Tang San that Li Tianlan would be badly injured.
• Li Tianlan sent his cursed avatar out of the Death Plane, and Nether God urged Tang San to attack, believing the avatar was only at Soul Saint level.

Li Tianlan let Kavi fight Tang San while he watched, despite the God Kings’ hopes that Tang San could defeat her. Kavi’s overwhelming power gave her the upper hand, leaving Tang San badly injured as the fight continued.

• Tang San unleashed his twin Martial Souls and eighteen blood-red Soul Rings, but Li Tianlan dismissed his display and called it not bad.
• Kavi appeared and volunteered to protect Li Tianlan, who gave her fifteen minutes to defeat Tang San.
• Kavi revealed nine divine-level Soul Rings, shocking Tang San and the God Kings and making them consider fleeing from Li Tianlan.
• Tang San and Kavi sized each other up before Tang San attacked with his Clear Sky Hammer and Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Kavi kicked Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer away and blasted him back, causing him to cough up blood.

Kavi defeated Tang San, Nether God, and Asura God, while Li Tianlan killed Tang San when he tried to escape. More than half a month later, as Li Tianlan prepared to leave Nuoding Academy, a spatial rift opened outside Luoding City and unleashed flames from beyond this world.

• Tang San challenged Kavi to withstand three moves, but his Guanyin's Tears missed when she teleported away.
• Tang San tried to flee toward the Plane of Death, but Li Tianlan grabbed him and burned him to ashes with Duoyang Flame.
• Kavi fought Nether God and Asura God, killing both God Kings after gaining the upper hand.
• Li Tianlan praised Kavi, and they went to lunch.
• More than half a month later, a spatial rift appeared thirty li outside Luoding City and flooded the area with flames, prompting Li Tianlan to rush over.

Li Tianlan entered the Ninefold Flame Domain and refined its increasingly powerful flames, while Ye Lingling led Qian Renxue and the others inside to catch up with him and cultivate Flame Mantra. After mastering the eighth level, Li Tianlan entered the ninth and began refining the Nine-Colored Sacred Flame.

• Li Tianlan refined the first four levels of flame, then slowly mastered the fifth-level black flames and the sixth-level Purple Qi Coming from the East.
• Ye Lingling led Qian Renxue and the others into the flame domain, but they stopped before the sixth level and began trying to refine flames with Flame Mantra.
• Li Tianlan refined the seventh-level Five-Colored True Flame, which doubled Emperor Flame's temperature when fused with it.
• Li Tianlan spent three months refining the eighth-level Seven-Colored True Flame, and Dao Tong Yan turned nine-colored.
• Li Tianlan entered the ninth level and began rapidly refining the Nine-Colored Sacred Flame.

Li Tianlan refined the ninth layer’s Nine-Colored Sacred Flame and encountered the Immortal Flame, whose consciousness battled Dao Tong Yan before granting him its inheritance. After the Immortal Flame departed, Li Tianlan decided to forge a weapon from Dragon Pattern Black Gold.

• Li Tianlan completed refining the Nine-Colored Sacred Flame, bringing Dao Tong Yan to a new level of power.
• Li Tianlan encountered the Immortal Flame in the Fire Domain, and it rushed into his body to confront Dao Tong Yan.
• Li Tianlan realized the Immortal Flame held the remnant soul of a quasi-Immortal Emperor and feared that it might awaken.
• The Immortal Flame’s consciousness overpowered Dao Tong Yan, then gave Li Tianlan its inheritance and departed.
• Li Tianlan emerged from the encounter and summoned a Dragon Pattern Black Gold staff to forge a weapon suited to him.

After spending a year and a half in the Fire Domain, Li Tianlan forged the Dragon Pattern Black Gold into a ruler that evolved during a heavenly tribulation, then reforged his alchemy furnace. He returned to find Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, Qian Renxue, Bena, and the maids cultivating in the Fire Domain.

• Li Tianlan forged the Dragon Pattern Black Gold into the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Ruler and inscribed it with Dao inscriptions.
• A heavenly tribulation struck, and the ruler absorbed lightning and developed new Dao inscriptions as Li Tianlan endured the attack.
• After the tribulation dispersed, Li Tianlan reforged the Purple Thorn Divine Copper Alchemy Furnace with Dao inscriptions.
• Li Tianlan returned to the sixth level and found Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, Qian Renxue, Bena, and the maids cultivating in the Fire Domain.
• Bena embraced Li Tianlan and said she had thought he died inside the Fire Domain, and he apologized for forgetting to contact them.

After leaving the Fire Domain, Li Tianlan learned that Douluo Continent had changed drastically during his year and a half away and that everyone believed he was dead. He headed to the Star Dou Great Forest to kill a Giant Wolf that had devoured over a hundred thousand people.

• Li Tianlan and his companions left the Fire Domain and discovered that the world’s energy and the limits of cultivation had increased dramatically.
• Li Tianlan arrived in Heaven Dou City and found it crowded with powerful Otherworlders from many worlds.
• Qin Ming told Li Tianlan that Xie Ji had reported his death, leading to a cenotaph funeral, while spatial rifts had brought Otherworlders and increased Heaven and Earth Vital Energy.
• Qin Ming explained that a Giant Wolf in the Star Dou Great Forest had grown to at least several million years of cultivation and devoured over a hundred thousand humans.
• Li Tianlan volunteered to kill the Giant Wolf and vanished to go after it.

Li Tianlan killed the Giant Wolf, which had devoured hundreds of thousands of humans, by burning it alive with Earth Core Green Lotus Flame. After absorbing its unexpectedly powerful Soul Ring and collecting its soul bone, he discovered a piece of blue-gray jade among the ashes.

• Li Tianlan ignored the Giant Wolf's flames and attacks, then trapped it in a cage of Earth Core Green Lotus Flame.
• Li Tianlan prolonged the Giant Wolf's suffering for three hours until its soul collapsed and it died.
• A hundred-million-year Soul Ring and soul bone appeared, and Li Tianlan absorbed the Soul Ring after refining it for an hour.
• Li Tianlan put away the Giant Wolf's left arm bone and noticed a piece of blue-gray jade among the ashes.

Li Tianlan discovered a map to a Saint’s Tomb on Beidou, then reached Rank 90 and chose a Deep Sea Demon Whale as his target for a ninth Soul Ring. When Qian Renxue told him Spirit Hall would wage war on the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires, he accepted the conflict and advised her to negotiate with the factions tied to the empires.

• Li Tianlan found a map to a Saint’s Tomb on Beidou inside a jade fragment and stored it away rather than exploring the dangerous site.
• After more than half a month, Li Tianlan reached Rank 90 and decided to seek a Deep Sea Demon Whale for his ninth Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue told Li Tianlan that Spirit Hall planned to wage war against the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire, and he said he would not interfere.
• Li Tianlan warned Qian Renxue that Dugu Yan, Poison Douluo, and Ning Rongrong had ties to the Heaven Dou Empire, and advised her to talk with them.
• After Qian Renxue left to relay his advice, Xiao Yan told Li Tianlan to try mediation but let factions fight if they refused to listen.

Li Tianlan searched the Extreme Ice Sea for the Deep Sea Demon Whale but instead discovered a mutated Great Kelp draining the life force of captured sea soul beasts. As he attacked its roots to claim it as his ninth Soul Ring, he noticed strange patterns on its leaves that seemed familiar.

• Li Tianlan decided to avoid Douluo Continent’s power struggle and traveled to the Far North to seek his ninth Soul Ring.
• Spirit Hall destroyed the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, the Heaven Dou imperial family surrendered, and Star Luo prepared to resist.
• After searching the Extreme Ice Sea for half a month, Li Tianlan sensed a powerful presence beneath the ice and plunged into the sea.
• Li Tianlan found a mutated Great Kelp enclosing marine soul beasts in cocoons and draining their life force.
• The Great Kelp attacked Li Tianlan with a Spirit Impact and tentacles, and he fought his way toward its roots.
• Li Tianlan noticed strange, familiar patterns on the Great Kelp’s leaves and prepared a powerful strike against its shield of tentacles.

Li Tianlan shattered Black Kelp’s shield, but an injured otherworldly creature struck him and revealed its immense soul power. After stacking his buffs and overwhelming it in combat, Li Tianlan faced its final Spiritual Domain attack and protected his soul with the Purple Orchid Heart Flame.

• Li Tianlan broke Black Kelp’s tentacle shield and prepared to strike its exposed roots, but a black-winged creature attacked and sent him flying.
• Xiao Yan warned Li Tianlan that the creature’s soul power was more dangerous than its physical strength and that it fed on human souls.
• Li Tianlan stacked his soul skills, increasing his strength and speed nearly ten thousandfold, and frightened the creature into fleeing.
• Li Tianlan used Teleportation to catch the creature and smashed it with the Immortal Gold Ruler, badly crushing its body.
• The creature unleashed its Spiritual Domain, and Li Tianlan wrapped his soul in the Purple Orchid Heart Flame to defend against the attack.

Li Tianlan escaped the mysterious creature’s nested illusion realms and found himself on a lava-lined path leading toward its mental core. He summoned Dao Tong Yan, whose nine-colored flames terrified the creature and destroyed half of its first fire dragon.

• Li Tianlan realized the creature had trapped him in a mental illusion realm and found a flaw in its altered flow of time.
• After escaping the first illusion, Li Tianlan recognized that the apparent passage of decades was another illusion and reasoned that the creature could maintain only a limited number of layers.
• Li Tianlan shattered the second illusion and appeared on a narrow path surrounded by lava, with the creature’s mental core in a palace ahead.
• Ninety-nine mental fire dragons attacked Li Tianlan, who summoned Dao Tong Yan and evaporated half of the first dragon.
• The creature screamed in terror at Li Tianlan’s nine-colored flames.

Li Tianlan destroyed the mysterious creature and the corrupted kelp, then claimed its billion-year Soul Ring and external attached soul bone. Absorbing them pushed him to the peak of Rank 99 and began another transformation as energy from across the planet gathered around him.

• Li Tianlan used Infinite Stamina to outlast the fire ape in the illusion and destroy it, ending the mysterious creature’s mental domain.
• Li Tianlan returned to the seabed, incinerated the creature’s remains, and killed the rapidly regenerating kelp.
• After the kelp’s soul was destroyed, its tentacles grew chaotically, so Li Tianlan followed Xiao Yan’s advice and burned them all with Heavenly Flames.
• Li Tianlan found a billion-year Soul Ring and a black-gold external attached soul bone, then refined the soul bone and absorbed the ring.
• Li Tianlan’s Soul Power surged to the peak of Rank 99, and his Dao Tong Yan transformed into platinum flames that formed a new Soul Ring.
• Energy from across the Douluo Continent gathered around Li Tianlan, enclosing him in a thick shell.

Li Tianlan completed his transformation into a god after a year of consuming energy, gaining vastly increased strength and enhanced soul skills. He released Xiao Yan, who returned to Cangqiong Continent because Douluo Continent could not withstand his power, then set off to see Qian Renxue and the others.

• Li Tianlan transformed inside the energy eggshell, evolving his body and soul skills as his ten Soul Rings changed toward crimson gold.
• After a year of consuming much of Douluo Star's energy, Li Tianlan emerged with immense physical strength and learned to suppress the aura that could damage the world around him.
• Li Tianlan released Xiao Yan, whose soul rebuilt a complete body and whose aura rose to the level of a Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan told Li Tianlan that Douluo Continent could not bear his presence and returned to Cangqiong Continent through a spatial gate.
• Li Tianlan decided to visit Qian Renxue and the others, then flew above Douluo Continent.

Li Tianlan discovered a spatial vortex over Douluo Continent and arrived as an invading legion overwhelmed the defenders. After destroying the invaders, he said he had to enter their world to close the vortex, leaving Qian Renxue worried he might not return.

• Li Tianlan spotted a black vortex above Douluo Continent and recognized the aura of the creature he had killed beneath the sea.
• Dai Mubai and the Star Luo Empire army faced a million Otherworldly Creatures, while Qian Renxue, Ye Lingling, Bena, Xiao Wu, and other powerful fighters arrived to help.
• A gigantic Otherworldly Creature attacked the defenders, but Li Tianlan arrived and destroyed it with a punch.
• Li Tianlan used his Sacred Domain of Light to kill the invading Otherworldly Creatures across the battlefield.
• Li Tianlan told Qian Renxue that he had to enter the other world to close the vortex, and she asked whether he would be able to return.

Li Tianlan entered the Demon Race’s world, defeated Elro, and learned from his memories that the demons had destroyed hundreds of worlds and planned the invasion of Douluo Continent. He destroyed the altar and closed the spatial vortex, then set out to find a demon king while Qian Renxue wondered whether he would return safely.

• Li Tianlan crossed the spatial vortex and arrived on an altar surrounded by hundreds of thousands of demons.
• Elro, a demon general under the Demon Empress, ordered the demons to attack Li Tianlan, but Li Tianlan stopped time and wiped out the attackers, leaving Elro alive.
• Elro tried to self-destruct and flee as a soul, but Li Tianlan captured him, read his memories, and learned about the Demon Race and its invasion plans.
• Li Tianlan destroyed Elro’s soul and used a Nine-Colored Fire Lotus to demolish the altar, causing the spatial vortex to disappear.
• Li Tianlan headed toward a demon king to gather more information, while Qian Renxue on Douluo Continent worried about whether he would return safely.

Li Tianlan confronted the Demon General Duoluo in his palace, where he killed Duoluo’s subordinates and fought the powerful demon. Duoluo regenerated and boosted his strength, but Li Tianlan shattered his body with the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Ruler.

• Li Tianlan reached Duoluo’s palace and found the Demon General surrounded by Quasi-Demon Generals.
• Li Tianlan killed a Quasi-Demon General, triggering a black crystal’s blast that destroyed the palace and killed the other subordinates.
• Duoluo attacked Li Tianlan, who wounded him severely with a Buddha’s Fury Lotus Flame.
• Duoluo regenerated, grew larger, and increased his strength to roughly three billion jin.
• Li Tianlan struck Duoluo with the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Ruler, shattering his bones and leaving him stunned.