Recaps

Battle Through the Heavens inspired new techniques and pill refining across Douluo Continent, while Qin He accidentally cured Dugu Bo and gained more influence. The arc ended with Shrek Academy attempting to profit from a dubious aphrodisiac and readers reacting angrily to Xiao Yan’s encounter with Yun Yun.

• Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue saw the novel’s cultivation system as possible knowledge for surpassing level one hundred, while Yu Xiaogang began testing its ideas and Huo Wu’s flame-eating attempt went awry.
• Qin He raised Douluo Continent’s world level to 1.6, and the resulting tremors unsettled Tang Chen and others as Battle Through the Heavens spread widely.
• Yu Xiaogang adapted a combat technique from the novel into Heaven-Crushing Eight-Level Collapse, while Dugu Bo sought a cure for his and Dugu Yan’s poison through Qin He.
• Qin He agreed to treat Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, and Xiao Chenyu proposed fighting poison with poison after drawing on Battle Through the Heavens.
• Dugu Bo joined Qin He and brought rare herbs from the Icefire Yin-Yang Well, while Qin He improvised with the ingredients and had Xiao Chenyu knead the paste into pills.
• Dugu Bo took a pill, collapsed, then recovered and declared his poison cured, and he offered to serve as a guest official, while Xue Ye and others credited Qin He with pill-refining knowledge.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin realized the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could make pill refining profitable, while Shrek Academy struggled to keep up and Dai Mubai’s experiment set a building ablaze.
• Dai Mubai introduced his Tiger Vigor Pill as an aphrodisiac, Xiao Wu misunderstood Qin He’s invitation to sit and chat, and Xue Ye and Meng Shenji angrily read the new volume about Xiao Yan and Yun Yun.

Shrek Academy’s Tiger Vigor Elixir business turned the Four Single-Attribute Clans against Tang San, while rumors about Qin He and Xiao Wu sparked a continent-wide dispute. Qin He’s attempt to step down was recast as a bid for peace, and Tang Hao tried to claim the credit as the Clear Sky Sect prepared to return.

• Xiao Chenyu and Xie Yue discussed Shrek Academy’s Tiger Vigor Elixir, while Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin condemned the academy for using Qin He’s reputation to sell it.
• Tang San’s elixir profits enraged the Four Single-Attribute Clans, who joined forces and attacked Shrek Academy after Bai He reminded them how the Clear Sky Sect had abandoned them.
• Bibi Dong warned Spirit Hall not to move against Shrek Academy while Tang Hao protected it, and Qin He continued writing Battle Through the Heavens after the academy was left in ruins.
• After a Clear Sky Sect Titled Douluo exposed Xiao Wu as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, Bibi Dong and Salas considered using the rumors against Qin He, while Qin He welcomed the controversy and declared his love for Xiao Wu.
• Qin He’s apparent choice to give up the Heaven Dou throne for Xiao Wu drew condemnation, but Salas argued that their marriage could ease conflict between soul masters and soul beasts.
• Xue Ye defended Qin He by disputing that he and Xiao Wu were married and citing records of human and soul-beast intermarriage, while Xiao Chenyu suggested Qin He’s novel could offer soul beasts another cultivation path.
• Public support turned Qin He’s relationship into a supposed sacrifice for peace, thwarting his plan to abdicate, and Tang Hao decided to present his marriage to A Yin as an earlier effort at coexistence.
• Tang Hao claimed the Clear Sky Sect would return to prominence and took credit for pioneering soul-beast marriage, but Tang San warned him that provoking Qin He was dangerous before a crowd gathered at the sect’s entrance.

Bibi Dong used Qin He’s novel as a pretext to attack the Clear Sky Sect while Spirit Hall maneuvered to expand its power. Qian Daoliu sought Qin He’s guidance and unexpectedly became the Simp God, leaving other factions eager or anxious about Qin He’s path to godhood.

• Bibi Dong led Spirit Hall against the Clear Sky Sect after blaming its publicity for pairing Tang Hao with Medusa, and Qin He suspected she had used his novel as a pretext.
• Bibi Dong and Salas decided Spirit Hall should avoid challenging Qin He directly and instead target the Clear Sky Sect and other factions, while Tang Xiao and Tang Hao sought allies.
• Qian Renxue and Qian Daoliu visited Qin He, who recounted Zi Yan’s story from Battle Through the Heavens, and Qian Daoliu asked for guidance on reaching godhood.
• Qian Daoliu pleaded for Qin He’s help, and Qin He told him to study Battle Through the Heavens, which Qian Renxue and the others interpreted as the key to godhood.
• Xie Yue and Xiao Chenyu revealed their unexpectedly high ranks, and Qian Daoliu then broke through to become a God with the divine position of the Dog God.
• Qian Daoliu learned that his divine position was the Simp God, but Qian Renxue comforted him and he celebrated becoming Douluo Continent’s first God.
• Bibi Dong envied Qian Daoliu’s effortless ascension, while Xue Ye, Meng Shenji, and the Shrek group considered whether Qin He could help them reach godhood.
• Tang San hesitated over the dangerous Sea God Island trials, while Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu what he had lost in becoming the Simp God.

Qin He’s novels and apparent ability to grant godhood turned Spirit Hall against him and drew the attention of Gods across Douluo Continent. As Xiao Wu’s mother returned as a God and the Sea God learned of Qin He, the story left the conflict with the God Realm looming.

• Qian Daoliu became the Simp God through Qin He’s separate divine system, while Qian Renxue remained committed to the Angel God’s inheritance.
• Bibi Dong banned Battle Through the Heavens, but Qin He’s Soul Hall storyline led readers to suspect Spirit Hall of planning to harvest souls, damaging its reputation and driving commoner soul masters away.
• Tang San’s Tang Sect Legend failed to compete with Qin He’s novel, and Tang San despaired over losing to him.
• Xiao Wu’s mother appeared as the Bone Rabbit God, and Xiao Wu believed Qin He had secretly resurrected her before her mother approved their marriage.
• Xiao Wu’s mother warned Qin He that Gods had noticed the abnormalities on Douluo Continent and might descend to investigate.
• Qin He released The Legend of Nezha, while Tang San refused to read it and Dai Mubai finished it without gaining any insight.
• The Sea God spoke to Bo Saixi, who described Qin He’s rise and his influence through books and godhood, prompting the Sea God to fear losing faith and his chosen inheritor.