Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tianyang reviewed Eternal Night’s recovery and military growth, then investigated a gigantic creature brought to the palace. He learned it was an infant Void Beast captured by Mammon and Azazel as a potential mount.

• Xiao Tianyang reviewed Satan’s report on restored production facilities, Red Hare’s training, and the growing Demon Legion.
• Xiao Tianyang said Eternal Night could attack the evil gods openly within a year or two, but a furious cry interrupted him.
• Satan led Xiao Tianyang outside, where Iron Chains restrained a gigantic creature in the plaza.
• Satan explained that Mammon and Azazel had captured the newly born creature, a Void Beast from the Outer Domain, as a mount for Xiao Tianyang.
• Xiao Tianyang used [Ancient Divine Eyes] and learned the Void Beast could devour things, gain their abilities, and hide in shadows without being limited by its size.

Xiao Tianyang began taming the Infant Stage Void Beast, relying on his strength and his knowledge of the conditions required to make it a mount. After Azazel removed its restraints, Xiao Tianyang stopped its escape and battered it with three powerful attacks, leaving the Beast falling toward the ground.

• Xiao Tianyang learned that taming a Void Beast required defeating it and providing the resources to feed it, and he believed he could meet both conditions.
• Satan brought Azazel to the square, where Xiao Tianyang ordered him to remove the Void Beast’s Iron Chains and forbade anyone from interfering.
• Once freed, the Void Beast fled through the shadows, but Xiao Tianyang pulled it back with ink-black flames.
• Xiao Tianyang struck the Void Beast twice, sending it flying beyond the city walls and then launching it into the sky.
• Xiao Tianyang appeared above the Void Beast and smashed it downward with a third attack.

Xiao Tianyang fought the Void Beast with physical strength and gradually wore down its combativeness until it submitted. He named it Void and offered it an equal Soul Contract.

• Satan and Azazel watched as the Void Beast survived Xiao Tianyang’s attacks and warned that he needed to adapt to the creature from the Outer Domain.
• The Void Beast launched golden flames at Xiao Tianyang, who countered with God Slayer's Blade and continued fighting with the Congyun Blade’s Space Power and Void Power.
• After three hours of combat, Xiao Tianyang relied on his stamina and restrained attacks to exhaust the Void Beast and give it a chance to submit.
• Xiao Tianyang retreated and left Void Marks behind, and the Void Beast stopped fighting and prostrated itself before him.
• Xiao Tianyang named the Void Beast Void and offered to sign an equal Soul Contract with it.

Xiao Tianyang and Void formed a binding Life and Death Contract with a Life Chain, and Void became his named companion. After Satan and Azazel congratulated him, Xiao Tianyang asked how Void should develop, and Satan recommended training it as a Combat Mount.

• The Void Beast rejected Xiao Tianyang's equal Soul Contract and formed a Life and Death Contract with him instead.
• Xiao Tianyang added a Life Chain clause that let them share vitality, and they completed the contract.
• Void's panel changed to show its name, happy status, and newly awakened Light Flame ability alongside its inherited traits.
• Void nuzzled Xiao Tianyang, then growled a warning at Azazel, who had captured it.
• Xiao Tianyang asked Satan and Azazel how Void's abilities should develop, and Satan recommended the Combat Mount path.

Xiao Tianyang asked Satan whether he could use the [Heavenly Dao Contract] to challenge the Elemental Kingdom to a fair duel. Satan requested two days to build a data model and warned that the planes’ natures, especially their power systems and social structures, would shape the outcome; Xiao Tianyang realized Douluo Continent’s many competing power paths had created a serious hidden danger.

• Xiao Tianyang gave Void several treasures that transformed its body and strengthened its abilities, while Satan watched in speechless amazement.
• Xiao Tianyang entered the palace with Satan and explained that he intended to use the [Heavenly Dao Contract] against the Elemental Kingdom.
• Satan asked for two days to construct a data model and advised Xiao Tianyang to account for the nature of both planes.
• Xiao Tianyang described Douluo Continent’s Soul Masters, martial arts, Soul System, body arts, and Soul Engineers, then recognized that its power system had become chaotic without a unified mainstream.

Xiao Tianyang considered how incompatible power systems could hinder ascension, then turned to Satan for advice on the upcoming battle. Satan warned that Douluo Continent’s scattered factions were ill-suited to face the Elemental Kingdom’s unified forces, leaving Xiao Tianyang to question the purpose of expanding his legions.

• Xiao Tianyang reasoned that incompatible powers could make ascension difficult and explain why powerful figures had struggled in the war for the God Realm.
• Xiao Tianyang set aside the power-system problem and asked Satan to address the hidden dangers in the coming battle and its rules.
• Satan explained that the Elemental Plane could unite as a nation, while Douluo Continent’s independent factions had different foundations and struggled to cooperate.
• Xiao Tianyang recognized that his approach had a weakness and asked whether Douluo Continent would have to decide the conflict through competitions.
• Xiao Tianyang questioned the value of expanding his legions, while the chapter noted that only two Douluo Continent factions were qualified to build legions.

Xiao Tianyang weighed the costs of becoming emperor before turning his attention to Void’s transformation and new abilities. He assigned Duma to design weapons for Void and returned to the palace with Void in his shadow.

• Xiao Tianyang reflected that ruling an empire could force him to suppress his emotions and sacrifice the freedom he valued.
• Xiao Tianyang left the throne room with Satan to inspect Void, which had absorbed the treasures and gained great strength.
• Xiao Tianyang confirmed that Void’s strength rivaled a Limit Douluo and watched it demonstrate its ability to absorb Void Energy.
• Xiao Tianyang asked Satan about forging weapons for Void, and Satan recommended weapons suited to Void’s abilities.
• Xiao Tianyang assigned Duma to design Void’s weapons and authorized him to use materials from the palace treasury.
• Xiao Tianyang returned to the palace as Void merged into his shadow, and Satan bowed to see him off.

Xiao Tianyang checked on Void in the Shadow Plane and learned about the major schools and rankings of Douluo Continent. The chapter ended with him discovering that schools from the Hundred Schools of Thought dominated the top ten of the Hundred Schools Ranking.

• Xiao Tianyang visited Void in the Shadow Plane and observed how its feeding disrupted the local shadow lifeforms.
• Xiao Tianyang reviewed Snow Woman's materials on the powerful figures who remained on Douluo Continent and asked why they stayed.
• Snow Woman explained that many powerful figures remained to develop their schools, and that the Dragon Tiger Daoist sought an heir and wanted to improve his school's ranking.
• Snow Woman described the Peak Ranking, Storm Ranking, and Hundred Schools Ranking, including the criteria used to rank schools.
• Snow Woman listed the top ten schools, and Xiao Tianyang realized that more than seven belonged to the Hundred Schools of Thought.

Xiao Tianyang researched the leaders and beliefs of the Hundred Schools before asking Snow Woman to assess his proposal. She warned that exchanging ideas could be harmless, but deliberately provoking clashes between schools risked serious conflict, and the chapter left her explaining the dangers.

• Xiao Tianyang learned the ten schools’ leaders and discovered that many were high-ranking Divine Might members or close to the faction.
• Xiao Tianyang asked Snow Woman what she thought of his proposal, and she hesitated because of Baihua Tower’s rules separating personal matters from official duties.
• Snow Woman set aside their argument over those rules and explained that a simple exchange of ideas was acceptable, but forcing schools into head-on ideological conflict was dangerous.
• Snow Woman described how the Mohist School’s reliance on Soul Tools clashed with Extreme Combat’s belief in offense without defense, with some extremists viewing Soul Tools as a hindrance.
• Xiao Tianyang agreed that the rivalry between the schools posed a real danger, and Snow Woman continued explaining that it was not the only risk.

Xiao Tianyang reflected on Snow Woman’s concerns and recalled how Situ Yan founded the Legalist School by presenting a code to the Plane Spirit during a crisis of crime and unrest. The code was recognized and placed under Divine Might’s supervision, while Situ Yan survived and was tasked with training the next generation of Legalists.

• Xiao Tianyang considered that Snow Woman feared the danger of the Hundred Schools Exchange Meeting’s ultimate purpose, and he recalled the diverse culture developing across the continent.
• After Soul Masters left to fight on the Frontline, bandits ravaged more than a dozen cities, killing over a hundred thousand commoners and soldiers.
• Situ Yan knelt before Shenwu Hall and offered his code, declaring that law could establish trust, regulate hearts, and restrain martial force.
• Situ Yan merged his soul with the code and sacrificed it to the Plane Spirit, which recognized the code and granted it authority to govern serious crimes.
• Divine Might supervised the code’s implementation, the Legalist School enforced it, and its Soul Masters cultivated Heaven and Earth Edict.
• Divine Might sent Situ Yan to teach at Shenwu Academy so he could train the next leader of the Legalist School.

Xiao Tianyang considered how to unite the schools while respecting their foundations, then reviewed the tournament rankings and Iron Pagoda’s condition. The chapter ended with the team’s battlefield capabilities explained as they prepared to face the Elemental Kingdom.

• Xiao Tianyang thanked Snow Woman for her advice and said he would consult Yue Shen before acting on his plan.
• Snow Woman told Xiao Tianyang that the tournament rankings had arrived and that Iron Pagoda’s members had only minor injuries.
• Snow Woman listed the top ten teams, with the Douluo Federation first, Spirit Hall second, and True Body Sect third.
• Xiao Tianyang learned that the rankings were based on contributions during the battle, avoiding another competition after many teams had been injured.
• The chapter explained that the Elemental Kingdom created a million soldiers by splitting Elemental Cores, weakening each resulting Elemental Envoy.
• Guo Ming’s report showed that Iron Pagoda’s seven members could hold back a company-level Elemental Envoy regiment and potentially destroy an isolated squad.

On his last day in the Sun Moon Empire, Xiao Tianyang visited Sleepless City with Yan Lingji and Snow Woman to see Yue Shen begin her Divine Strategy. As the ritual started, he watched Yue Shen’s mesmerizing movements and let his attention drift from its purpose.

• Xiao Tianyang brought Yan Lingji and Snow Woman into Sleepless City, where the fallen royal family’s associates had mostly abandoned their businesses.
• The three arrived at a pavilion marked with White Bone Forest’s sign, which Divine Might had requisitioned two years earlier.
• Yue Shen told Xiao Tianyang that her preparations were complete and that tracking Lady Saber would fulfill half of his objective.
• Yue Shen led Xiao Tianyang into a vast, starry ritual space and began Divine Strategy with her female musicians.
• As the ritual’s mysterious aura awakened, Xiao Tianyang became distracted by Yue Shen’s graceful movements.

Saber and her allies discussed the God Realm’s expanding encirclement and the unusual movements of its forces. Saber sensed Xiao Tianyang’s return through her token, and Tang San concluded that the God Realm likely knew he was back.

• Qian Renxue asked whether Saber’s group should retreat as the God Realm tightened its control over the surrounding regions.
• Tang San warned that their elite fighters could not stop the enemy army, and Saber agreed that the group needed to plan how to repel it.
• Bibi Dong and Madam Mingzhu noted that the enemy’s sudden troop movements were unusual and might signal a change within the God Realm.
• Saber said the encirclement made battle unavoidable, then began crying after sensing someone through her token.
• Bibi Dong identified Xiao Tianyang as the person who had returned, and Tang San reasoned that the God Realm was likely wary of him and knew he was back.

Saber and the others decided to hold their position in the God Realm and recalled their personnel, while Xiao Tianyang’s plan on Douluo Continent advanced toward a Hundred Schools Exchange Meeting. Yue Shen agreed the meeting could help unify different power systems, but only if it centered on Xiao Tianyang, focused on coexistence, and prohibited fighting.

• Madam Mingzhu, Bibi Dong, Tang San, and Saber concluded that the God Realm intended to capture them as leverage against Tianyang, and Saber ordered everyone to return for discussion rather than retreat.
• Saber and Bo Saixi led separate groups of newcomers from Douluo Continent, with smaller units organized around combat strength and leadership ability.
• After Yue Shen’s ritual connected with the God Realm, Xiao Tianyang supported her to the lounge, where she said Saber would know how to arrange matters.
• Xiao Tianyang asked Yue Shen whether the Hundred Schools Exchange Meeting was feasible, and she said it could quickly unify the power systems.
• Yue Shen set two conditions for the meeting: it must center on Xiao Tianyang and discuss coexistence, and it must allow words but no fighting.
• Xiao Tianyang questioned how participants could test their ideas without practice, while recognizing that Douluo Continent needed a way to coexist within the God Realm.

Xiao Tianyang and Yue Shen planned how to keep the Hundred Schools Exchange Meeting balanced and chose props to help participants present and evaluate their Power Systems. The meeting would use the Star River Sand Table in its first round and the Apocalypse Compass in a later round, with Xiao Tianyang agreeing to operate the Compass.

• Yue Shen explained that Xiao Tianyang needed to lead the meeting and gradually test the various schools’ limits and tolerance.
• Xiao Tianyang compared the Apocalypse Compass with the Star River Sand Table and chose the Sand Table for the first round because it could visualize participants’ ideas without requiring them to express everything as numbers.
• Xiao Tianyang realized he could link the two props together and discussed the plan with Yue Shen, who suggested using the Sand Table first and the Compass for collective deduction afterward.
• Xiao Tianyang asked who should operate the Apocalypse Compass, but Yue Shen explained that Su Ziming and You Mingyue’s school affiliations could invite suspicion.
• Xiao Tianyang reluctantly agreed to operate the Compass himself, while Yue Shen’s plan kept him at the center of the meeting to maintain trust and balance.

Xiao Tianyang returned to Shenwu and went to Shenwu Branch Academy, where he met the Silver Dragon King and the Soul Beast leaders. He explained that the extended preparation period had changed how he would test the Silver Dragon King, but he left the new method unrevealed.

• Xiao Tianyang left the Hundred Schools Exchange Meeting's arrangements to Liu Ruyi and prepared to shift his focus to the Elemental Kingdom.
• Xiao Tianyang told Yan Lingji and Yue Shen that the exchange meeting would lay the groundwork for a counterattack and invited Yue Shen to join the group.
• Xiao Tianyang and the others traveled from Sleepless City to Shenwu and went to Shenwu Branch Academy.
• Xiao Tianyang met Xiao Ba and the Silver Dragon King at the academy, teasing and scolding Xiao Ba as they greeted him.
• Xiao Tianyang told the Silver Dragon King that her preparation period had exceeded the original deadline and that he would change how he tested her.

Xiao Tianyang arranged a virtual battlefield test to determine whether the Silver Dragon King could lead an army, rather than merely train one. As the forces entered the simulation, Yue Shen judged that the Silver Dragon King had a chance to win if she could seize a fleeting opportunity.

• Xiao Tianyang explained that the Virtual Battlefield would let the Silver Dragon King, Xiao Ba, and Long Yu fight without risking their lives, and the sides agreed to the test.
• Xiao Tianyang set the opposing forces at roughly equal combat strength, with Long Yu and Xiao Ba each leading three thousand troops and the Silver Dragon King bringing her Twelve Zodiacs and twelve thousand troops.
• The Silver Dragon King's force paired humans with Soul Beasts acting as mounts, while her senior subordinates included Di Tian, Bi Ji, Xiong Jun, and Demon Spirit.
• The three armies entered the virtual battlefield, while Xiao Tianyang, Yue Shen, Yan Lingji, and Snow Woman watched without being able to interfere.
• Snow Woman doubted the Silver Dragon King's chances because her force lacked battlefield experience and coordination, but Yue Shen said she could win if she seized a fleeting opportunity.

Xiao Tianyang and his companions assessed the Spirit Beast Legion, the Sun Society, and the Silver Dragon King's Zodiac Legion while watching the battle. The Zodiac Legion's plans brought Xiao Ba and his forces close to defeat, and Xiao Tianyang was impressed by the Silver Dragon King's abilities and leadership.

• Xiao Tianyang and his companions compared the Spirit Beast Legion's coordinated divisions with the Sun Society's reliance on brute strength and the Zodiac Legion's deliberate tactics.
• Yue Shen and Snow Woman explained how the Silver Dragon King had used Xiao Ba's impulsiveness and Xiao Longyu's disrupted rendezvous to prepare her ambush.
• Xiao Tianyang watched the Bronze Kui Niu hold off the Earthquake Twin-Horned Rhinoceros while the Hell Demon Dragon King fought the Crimson Flame Beast and other commanders pressed the Carp King.
• Xiao Tianyang examined the Silver Dragon King's Elemental Control and Elemental Proliferation, as well as the distinctive abilities and teamwork of the Zodiac Legion's commanders.
• Xiao Tianyang remained optimistic about the Zodiac Legion's future and focused on the Silver Dragon King's performance as Xiao Ba's defeat drew near.

The Silver Dragon King used the Virtual Battlefield’s terrain and rules to cripple Xiao Ba and Xiao Longyu’s legions, even though they eventually defeated her in a two-against-one fight. The exercise ended with the Silver Dragon King earning an excellent rating and Xiao Ba objecting to her tactics.

• After a day of fighting, the Silver Dragon King withdrew rather than waste strength trying to defeat Xiao Ba.
• Two days later, the Silver Dragon King held off Xiao Ba and Xiao Longyu in a basin while her Zodiac Legion turned the battle around.
• The Five-Headed Crimson Demon Mastiff killed Carp King, while Dragon Blade was eliminated and Dragon Armor could no longer hold out.
• The Silver Dragon King was eventually defeated by Xiao Ba and Xiao Longyu, but both legions were wiped out, giving her the victory under the Virtual Battlefield’s rules.
• More than ten thousand participants returned to the square, where Yue Shen received an excellent rating and Xiao Ba complained that the Silver Dragon King had exploited the game.

Xiao Tianyang’s officials gathered at Shenwu Hall to discuss Divine Might’s internal and external organizations while Esdeath silenced civilians who criticized him. The meeting began with representatives filling in for absent commanders, and Xiao Tianyang recognized Xue Tieshan as Li Cunxiao’s envoy.

• Xiao Tianyang led the Silver Dragon King and others to Shenwu Hall while deputies returned the three legions to their bases.
• Esdeath threatened civilians who questioned Xiao Tianyang, but Liu Ruyi stopped her by invoking the meeting and Xiao Tianyang’s interests.
• Liu Ruyi left for Golden Light Temple on an assignment, and her deputy attended the conference in her place.
• Xiao Tianyang’s officials gathered in tiers representing Divine Might’s internal agencies, legions, oversight groups, diplomatic staff, and discreet allies.
• Xue Tieshan attended as Li Cunxiao’s representative while Li rebuilt the Flying Tiger Legion and Wanyan Chenheshang formed the Mounted Legion.