Chapter Summaries

After Gu Zhaoqiu completed Fate Connection with Xu Tianxi, he gained the transformed Fate Moon Pupil and a major increase in Spiritual Power. He began learning spatial abilities from Electrolux while Tang San’s captive divine sense confronted him, and Xu Tianxi declared that he would defy Tang San’s schemes.

• Gu Zhaoqiu completed Fate Connection with Xu Tianxi, transforming his Life Eye and flooding his mind with memories of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xu Tianxi used Divine Water Descent to restore Gu Zhaoqiu, then asked Electrolux to assess his changed abilities.
• Electrolux explained that Xu Tianxi’s spiritual strength had grown greatly and began teaching him the mysteries of space.
• Xu Tianxi planned to find a precious cultivation site and reach Soul Douluo before the Second Tournament in Mingdu.
• Tang San’s divine sense challenged Xu Tianxi, who accused him of scheming against living beings and vowed to overturn his plans.

Xu Tianxi discussed Electrolux’s plan to weaken Tang San’s Divine Sense and eventually turn it into an undead creature, then studied spatial principles and made a breakthrough in his Spatial Attainment. He left Xu Tianxi cultivating in the Necromantic Demiplane while Gu Zhaoqiu returned to finish his forging.

• Xu Tianxi learned that Tang San’s Divine Sense was being drained by the Necromantic Demiplane and Nine-Colored Restriction, and Electrolux planned to study it until he could turn it into an undead creature.
• Xu Tianxi considered visiting the Earth Dragon Sect for Ice Extreme Divine Crystal and resolved to cultivate in seclusion until he reached Soul Douluo.
• Electrolux taught Xu Tianxi Spatial Attainment, helping him combine the lesson with insights from powerful figures and the Space Element of his Silver Moon Dragon Wolf Emperor.
• Xu Tianxi’s spatial fluctuations surged as he began to comprehend spatial laws and manifest the spatial abilities of several powerful experts.
• Gu Zhaoqiu woke and saw Xu Tianxi cultivating; Electrolux told her his Spiritual Power was near Level 98 Super Douluo, and she asked to be sent out to finish his forging.

After a month in Deep Meditation, Xu Tianxi prepared to travel to the Earth Dragon Sect for rare materials and left the Heavenly Court after checking on the forging work. At the Xuanming Sect, he discovered Du Busi, Prince Xue Yu, Wei Na, and a surviving Haotian Sect elder meeting with Xu Xiaoyun about a coming disaster.

• Xu Tianxi learned from Electrolux that his Deep Meditation had lasted a month and decided to head for the Earth Dragon Sect before the next Tournament.
• Xu Tianxi visited the Heavenly Court’s workshop, where Gu Zhaoqiu forged Deep Silver into top-grade Thousand Forging metal.
• Gu Zhaoqiu declined Xu Tianxi’s invitation to join his trip, and he arranged for Bear King to visit the workshop instead.
• Xu Tianxi reported to Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen, then traveled alone toward the Heaven Dou Empire to visit Xu Xiaoyun and find Xiao Changfeng.
• Xu Tianxi sensed Du Busi, Prince Xue Yu, Wei Na, and a Haotian Sect Super Douluo at the Xuanming Sect, then used Mirror Flower Water Moon to approach unseen.
• Xu Xiaoyun asked the visitors for evidence that Douluo Continent would soon face a great disaster.

Xu Tianxi listened as the Clear Sky Sect tried to pressure the Xuanming Sect into an alliance that would put other powers under its control. After Xu Xiaoyun drove off the Clear Sky Sect elders, Xu Tianxi disguised himself as Zhongli Wu and prepared to kill two of them at sea.

• Xu Tianxi observed the meeting and recognized Long Aotian, Huo Yuhao, and the twin sisters Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo among the Body Sect’s young disciples.
• The Fourth Elder of Clear Sky Sect claimed the Sea God had warned of an impending disaster, but refused to explain what it was or when it would arrive.
• Xu Fu and Xu Xiaoyun challenged the Clear Sky Sect’s assumption that the Xuanming Sect would submit to its leadership, while Du Busi revealed plans to pressure the Sun Moon Empire and seize its Soul Tools.
• Xu Xiaoyun struck the Fourth Elder and sent all four Clear Sky Sect experts flying into the sea after they threatened the Xuanming Sect.
• Xu Tianxi told Xu Xiaoyun he would kill two of the Clear Sky Sect elders, then disguised himself as Zhongli Wu and pursued them with a staff-type Soul Tool and a Bone Dragon.
• Xu Tianxi approached the four elders at sea and raised his hand to unleash the power of nature.

Xu Tianxi used a hundred-thousand-year illusion to lead four Clear Sky Sect elders into the Star Dou Great Forest, where he ambushed them while posing as Zhongli Wu. The attack killed the Sixteenth and Eleventh Elders, and the remaining Fourth and Fifteenth Elders faced the Holy Spirit Cult Leader’s revealed form.

• Xu Tianxi trapped the four Clear Sky Sect elders in an illusion and made them believe they were traveling back to their sect.
• The elders realized they had been led into the Star Dou Great Forest and blamed the Xuanming Sect for their misfortune.
• A voice claiming to be Zhongli Wu attacked the elders and killed the Sixteenth Elder, then dragged his soul away with a Soul-Detaining Hook.
• The hidden attacker overwhelmed the Fourth and Fifteenth Elders and killed the Eleventh Elder with a purple-black beam.
• The surviving elders lost their formation as the Holy Spirit Cult Leader began revealing himself from the forest.

Xu Tianxi disguised himself as Zhongli Wu, killed the Clear Sky Sect Fourth Elder, and captured the Fifteenth Elder before heading toward the Far North. Xiao Changfeng and the Xuanming Sect intervened, forcing Xu Tianxi to flee and abandon his crippled captive.

• Xu Tianxi, disguised as Zhongli Wu, overwhelmed the Clear Sky Sect elders and killed the Fourth Elder with wind, thunder, and spatial attacks.
• Xu Tianxi offered the Fifteenth Elder a chance to join the Holy Spirit Cult, then beat him unconscious when he refused.
• Xu Tianxi bound the Fifteenth Elder to the Bone Dragon and carried him toward the Far North Land.
• As the Bone Dragon approached Dragon City, Xiao Changfeng appeared in a blizzard and fought Xu Tianxi.
• Xu Tianxi spotted the Xuanming Sect, crippled the Fifteenth Elder's meridians, abandoned him, and escaped on the Bone Dragon.

Xu Tianxi and Xiao Changfeng deceived the Clear Sky Sect's Fifteenth Elder, leaving him crippled while steering suspicion toward the Holy Spirit Cult. They then entered the Earth Dragon Sect to investigate the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave, and Xu Tianxi put the sect to sleep before descending into its Cold Pool.

• Xu Tianxi destroyed the Fifteenth Elder's Soul Core, and Xiao Changfeng caught him before he fell to his death.
• Xiao Changfeng brought the Fifteenth Elder to Dragon City's City Lord, then attacked him when he questioned whether the Supreme Elder had harmed his mind.
• The Fifteenth Elder was rescued but left with shattered bones and meridians, and Dragon City's officials sent him away.
• Xu Tianxi told Xiao Changfeng that ancient texts and fragments of fate had led him to suspect an ice-type treasure beneath the Earth Dragon Sect.
• Xu Tianxi used Mirror Flower Water Moon to seal the senses of the Earth Dragon Sect's members, then left lead boxes behind and followed Xiao Changfeng into the Cold Pool.

Xu Tianxi discovered Ice Extreme Divine Crystals in the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave beneath the Cold Pool and began harvesting them for equipment. Ice Empress revealed that her clan had stored more crystals in the Far North Land, and Xu Tianxi offered to make a set of equipment for Snow Empress in exchange for the remaining crystals.

• Xu Tianxi and Xiao Changfeng entered the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave and found a chamber filled with Ice Extreme Divine Crystals.
• Ice Empress and Tian Meng recognized the cave and discussed how its treasures related to their past and to Snow Empress’s chances of surviving Heavenly Tribulations.
• Xu Tianxi began chiseling out crystals with Xiao Changfeng and learned from Ice Empress that they would regenerate if the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow remained untouched.
• Xu Tianxi asked whether other caves held more crystals, and Ice Empress said her clan had stored crystals from a depleted cave in the Far North Land.
• Xu Tianxi offered to make equipment for Snow Empress and asked for the clan’s remaining crystals, and Ice Empress eagerly agreed.

Xu Tianxi and his companions collected Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and the Ice Empress’s hidden treasures before parting ways so they could enter seclusion. On his return to the Sun Moon Empire, Xu Tianxi learned that the Grand Duke of Glory had rebelled and changed course to investigate and suppress him.

• Xu Tianxi, the Ice Empress, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Xiao Changfeng gathered nearly all the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow before the cave began to lose its Heaven and Earth Origin Power.
• Xu Tianxi visited the Ice Jade Scorpion tribe and moved the Ice Empress’s stored Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, Soul Bones, metals, coins, and other possessions.
• Xu Tianxi and Xiao Changfeng parted on the Far North Plain, each planning to enter seclusion and strengthen their cultivation.
• Xu Tianxi crossed into the Sun Moon Empire and discovered that the Grand Duke of Glory had raised an army and declared his territory an independent principality.
• Xu Tianxi changed course toward the Grand Duke of Glory’s territory to investigate and put down the rebellion.

Xu Tianxi mobilized the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment to crush the Grand Duke of Glory’s rebellion and take control of the aftermath. As the army marched, Kong Deming considered reclaiming noble territories and strengthening defenses, while Jing Hongchen remembered that the empire still had no Crown Prince.

• Xu Tianxi ordered Qian Gu Canghai to bring the Imperial Dragon Token and lead the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment to suppress the rebellion, saying the Grand Duke of Glory’s family would be eliminated and its remaining forces disarmed.
• Qian Gu Canghai gathered his clan members, took command of the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment without resistance, filled its depleted ranks with Qian Gu Family members, and marched toward the rebellion.
• Kong Deming and Ye Yulin watched the regiment depart, and Kong Deming said the empire might need to reclaim noble territories after the Grand Duke of Glory’s rebellion.
• Jing Hongchen urged Kong Deming to consider preparing for war against the Original Three Kingdoms, explaining that their attack had nearly destroyed Mingde Hall and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Kong Deming told Jing Hongchen to finish the Linked Soul Guided Array and giant Humanoid Soul Tool while warning him not to use Xu Tianxi as a test subject.
• Jing Hongchen remembered that the Old Emperor had not chosen a new Crown Prince since the Former Crown Prince was confined to his home.

Xu Tianxi crushed the Grand Duke of Glory’s rebellion, executed its leaders, and announced a campaign to strip the empire’s nobles of their power. After Meng Hongchen questioned his plans for the empire, he offered her a rare treasure, and she declared she wanted to become empress.

• Meng Hongchen and Qian Gu Canghai led the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment into the Grand Duke of Glory’s territory, where white flags flew and tens of thousands of troops stood trapped in Xu Tianxi’s illusion.
• Xu Tianxi emerged from cultivation and told the regiment to arrest the Grand Duke of Glory’s household according to Qian Gu Canghai’s prepared register.
• Xu Tianxi ordered the adult males of the ducal family and their accomplices executed, then directed the regiment to confiscate noble property and punish tax evaders who had joined the rebellion.
• Xu Tianxi told Meng Hongchen that he planned to strip nobles of their territories and armies, sending those who surrendered to guard the imperial tombs and using two other Soul Engineer Regiments to help enforce the campaign.
• When Meng Hongchen asked whether Xu Tianxi intended to make a move after the Old Emperor died, Xu Tianxi gave her a Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, and she said she wanted to become empress.

Xu Tianxi completed the purge of the Sun Moon Empire’s old nobles, returned his military authority, and entered secluded cultivation. Meanwhile, Zhongli Wu received the Holy Emperor’s decree and ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to gather resources to open a planar passage and summon the Abyss.

• Xu Tianxi rejected Meng Hongchen’s offer to poison rival princes and discussed the Giant Humanoid Soul Tool and Xiao Hongchen’s training with her.
• Xu Tianxi finished suppressing the dukes’ rebellion, and over the next month his forces drove out or killed the Sun Moon Empire’s nobles outside Mingdu.
• The Old Emperor promoted Duke of State Protection to Commandery Prince and granted him the privilege of wearing swords and shoes to court.
• Xu Tianxi returned his military authority and entered secluded cultivation, telling others not to disturb him unless something major happened.
• Zhongli Wu received the Holy Emperor’s message about opening a planar passage and summoning the Abyss.
• Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to collect resources and work to open the passage, promising its followers great power.

Xiao Hongchen arranged for Xuan Ziwen to join the Heavenly Court, while the Clear Sky Sect learned of devastating losses to the Holy Spirit Cult and was ordered by Tang to endure and rebuild. After two and a half years of uneasy calm, the Sun Moon Empire and Heavenly Court continued to develop.

• Xiao Hongchen told Ju Zi, Ke Ke, Zi Mu, and Wang Shaojie that Xuan Ziwen had been recruited to lead the Heavenly Court's Special Agent Department, then asked Ju Zi and Ke Ke to pack his belongings.
• Tai Tan demanded revenge after the surviving Fifteenth Elder reported the Holy Spirit Cult's attack, but Niu Tian reminded him that Tang needed the cult for his plan to open a channel to the Abyssal Plane.
• Niu Tian proposed rebuilding the Clear Sky Sect by targeting smaller sects instead of the Xuanming Sect, and he and Tai Tan received Sea God's decree to take Little Seven and act when an opportunity arose.
• The Douluo Plane entered a period of calm as the noble forces withdrew or weakened, Mingdu's attack crisis faded, and the Sun Moon Empire rebuilt and cooperated with the Heavenly Court.
• Two and a half years passed as Soul Ring-type Soul Spirits spread through the Sun Moon Empire and relations between humans and beasts improved.

Xu Tianxi and his allies killed the Purple Azure Dragon Lord and claimed her External Left Palm Bone before tracking down the Sea Princess. They began their attack on her while she was recovering, leaving the battle underway.

• Xu Tianxi, with the Heavenly Tyrant Ancestor, Xu Xiaoyun, and Kong Deming surrounding her, killed the Purple Azure Dragon Lord and took her six-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Destruction-attribute External Left Palm Bone.
• Xu Tianxi asked the Heavenly Tyrant Ancestor to locate the Sea Princess, whose Soul Ring he planned to use as his First Martial Soul’s Eighth Soul Ring.
• The Heavenly Tyrant Ancestor warned that Sea God Island had regained strength and that its High Priest could borrow the Sea God’s power, while Di Tian suggested attacking the island and was advised against it.
• The Heavenly Tyrant Ancestor led the group to the Sea Princess’s refuge, where Xu Tianxi recognized her Spiritual Power and they found her recovering in a shell.
• Gu Yuena used the Dragon God Core to isolate the area, and Xu Tianxi struck the Sea Princess’s shell before activating the Martial Soul Avatar of the Illusory Moon Mystic Eyes.

Xu Tianxi and his allies wiped out the Sea Princess Clan, killed Sea Princess, and seized her six-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone. After absorbing the Soul Ring and reaching the Eight-Ring Soul Douluo realm, Xu Tianxi prepared to absorb the Head Soul Bone as Di Tian urged him to challenge the Evil Emperor.

• Xu Tianxi and his allies surrounded the Sea Princess Clan, and Xu Tianxi’s Martial Soul Avatar overwhelmed the weakened Sea Princess.
• Di Tian killed mermaid princesses Li Jing and Li Ya, extracted their souls, and gave them to Gu Yuena for Soul Spirit research.
• Xu Tianxi refused Sea Princess’s plea to spare her clan, then killed her with a sword; her remaining clan members were captured or slain.
• Xu Tianxi absorbed Sea Princess’s six-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and advanced to the Eight-Ring Soul Douluo realm.
• Heavenly Tyrant Ancestor gave Xu Tianxi Sea Princess’s six-hundred-thousand-year Head Soul Bone, and Di Tian challenged him to face the Evil Emperor in the Evil Forest.

After absorbing the Sea Princess's Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone, Xu Tianxi demonstrated his growing strength and helped plan how the Sun Moon Empire would handle the Sea God Alliance during the upcoming tournament. He agreed to take Gu Yuena to the Heavenly Court to visit Gu Zhaoqiu, leaving the group preparing for the journey and the competition.

• Xu Tianxi absorbed the Sea Princess's Head Soul Bone, greatly expanded his Spiritual Power, and sparred with Xu Xiaoyun, who praised his strength.
• Xu Tianxi chose to refine the Sea Princess's Spiritual Power before completing his Second Martial Soul's Martial Soul Avatar, then continued training with Xu Xiaoyun.
• On the journey back to the mainland, Xu Xiaoyun told Kong Deming that the Clear Sky Sect and Sea God Island had drawn many forces into the Sea God Alliance.
• Xu Tianxi proposed inviting sects and families to compete in the upcoming tournament so the Sun Moon Empire could keep their young elites gathered in Mingdu and disrupt their unity.
• Xu Tianxi persuaded Gu Yuena to try Dou Armor, then agreed to take her to the Heavenly Court to visit Gu Zhaoqiu.

Xuan Ziwen recounted his work as Heavenly Court’s research minister while Xu Tianxi, Gu Yuena, and Ji Juechen discussed the threats Heavenly Court had faced and its retaliation against hostile factions. The chapter ended with Xuan Ziwen unveiling standardized Two-Word Battle Armor, which could raise a Soul Sage’s strength to the level of a Titled Douluo.

• Xuan Ziwen told Meng Hongchen how unlimited funding and authority had persuaded him to lead Heavenly Court’s research department, and he summarized his work on Humanoid Soul Tools and Sealed Milk Bottles.
• Xu Tianxi brought Gu Yuena and Ji Juechen to watch the lecture, then explained how Shrek, the Sea God Alliance, and other enemies had sent spies and attackers against Heavenly Court.
• Ji Juechen described Heavenly Court’s crackdown on infiltrators and attacks, including the killing of more than two hundred Soul Masters and the capture of Shrek Inner Courtyard students.
• Xu Tianxi and Ji Juechen discussed the captured students’ fate, revealing that those who refused to submit had been used for their Martial Souls through forced breeding.
• Xuan Ziwen demonstrated a Humanoid Soul Tool that formed armor across eleven body parts and unfolded metal wings, revealing Heavenly Court’s standardized Two-Word Battle Armor.

Xuan Ziwen unveiled Two-Word Battle Armor at a public lecture while Xu Tianxi discussed its limits, research, and secrecy with Gu Yuena and Ji Juechen. Gu Yuena agreed to let Xiao Hongchen study under her, and Xu Tianxi left to prepare for a breakthrough to his Martial Soul Avatar.

• Xuan Ziwen presented Two-Word Battle Armor to the lecture audience and described its power, while Meng Hongchen’s armor and the secret Battle Armor force underscored its potential.
• Xu Tianxi refused Ji Juechen’s challenge until Ji’s armor harmonized with him, and Ji explained his efforts to fuse it with his sword and domain.
• Xu Tianxi explained to Gu Yuena that metal forging remained the chief obstacle to advancing Battle Armor technology and praised her rare-metal fusion skill.
• Xu Tianxi told Gu Yuena that Xiao Hongchen wanted to learn from her, and she agreed to teach him the principles when he had time.
• Ji Juechen assured Xu Tianxi that Battle Armor research had not leaked, and Xu Tianxi left after the Mountain Dragon King told him to prepare to extract the Purple Azure Dragon Lord’s Soul Ring.

Xu Tianxi absorbed the Purple Azure Dragon Lord’s six-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, awakened and separated his Purple Emperor Annihilation Dragon from the Black Tortoise, and completed the Purple Sword Mystic Shield. Meanwhile, the Sea God awakened Wang Dong’er’s memories, and she rose as a Soul Sage with an extraordinary Soul Ring configuration.

• Xu Tianxi entered the Necromantic Demiplane and began absorbing the Purple Azure Dragon Lord’s Soul Ring with Electrolux and the Mountain Dragon King’s help.
• The Mountain Dragon King, Ice Empress, and Heavenly Little Bixi helped transform the Soul Ring and complete Xu Tianxi’s second Martial Soul Avatar.
• Xu Tianxi separated the Purple Emperor Annihilation Dragon from the Mystic Armor Divine Tortoise, turned the dragon into a sword, and completed the Purple Sword Mystic Shield.
• The Sea God told Niu Tian and Tai Tan to search the Sun Moon Empire for a child of destiny and awakened Wang Dong’er’s memories.
• Wang Dong’er rose from the Mystic Ice Bed with her Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul and seven Soul Rings, including six black rings and one red ring.

Bei Bei fused a high-grade Soul Bone and broke through to rank seventy as Yan Shaozhe prepared him for the tournament, while Du Busi and Zhongli Wu each planned to send their forces to the Sun Moon Empire. The chapter left the rival factions preparing to exploit the tournament and its loosened border security.

• Yan Shaozhe gave Bei Bei a sixty-thousand-year Light Lion King Right Arm Bone, and Bei Bei broke through from rank sixty-nine to rank seventy.
• Yan Shaozhe took Bei Bei to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a soul beast for his seventh soul ring.
• Du Busi learned about the tournament rules and his younger disciples' progress, then decided to enter them under another sect's name and act cautiously.
• Zhongli Wu discussed the tournament with Xu Tianran, who pledged himself to the Holy Spirit Cult in exchange for help reclaiming the throne.
• Zhongli Wu ordered the Blue Silver Holy Maiden, Yan Feng, and other young members to enter under Dou Ling Royal Academy's Reserve Team and attack powerful opponents when the chance arose.