Chapter Summaries

Zhuge Lan discovered that Tang San and the other gods had secretly tried to possess Huo Yuhao through Evil Emperor, and he moved to protect Huo Yuhao while turning the attempt to his advantage. Huo Yuhao’s soul was secured in a new Origin Core, leaving the gods unaware that the original had become a soul prison and new clone slots were available.

• Zhuge Lan used Create permission, learned of the gods’ hidden possession plan, and left the battlefield as his secret art clones collapsed.
• Tian Meng told Zhuge Lan that five gods’ divine consciousnesses had entered Huo Yuhao’s Origin Core and were trying to possess him.
• Zhuge Lan arranged for Snow Empress to provide life force while the gods’ power and Evil Emperor’s Mental Power fought over Huo Yuhao’s body.
• Zhuge Lan created a separate Origin Core containing Huo Yuhao’s soul, turning the original into a concealed prison while the gods continued fighting inside it.
• Huo Yuhao kept his surviving secret art clones pretending to be unconscious and realized that the blank Origin Core could provide new clone slots.
• Dai Mubai mistook Huo Yuhao’s condition for defeat, while Huo Yuhao resolved to add Evil Emperor to the list of people he would revive.

Dai Mubai and the other gods attempted to possess Huo Yuhao, believing they had nearly taken control of his sea of consciousness. Huo Yuhao then unleashed his hidden power and divine tools, turning the possession against them.

• Dai Mubai used the Evil Emperor to consume Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness while Electrolux secretly hindered the possession at great cost to the Undead Demi-plane.
• Huo Yuhao appeared to stop resisting and quietly gathered Soul Power, while Dai Mubai's influence spread through his body and spiritual world.
• Dai Mubai encircled Huo Yuhao's Mental Soul Core and began the final occupation, convinced that the possession had succeeded.
• Huo Yuhao suddenly activated his divine tools, battle armor, Eye of Life, and Soul Spirits, forcing the dark-red power to retreat.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed the Emotion God's power, ensnaring the five gods in its emotions as his Mental Soul Core shone golden red.
• Dai Mubai recognized the Emotion God's power and began to question how Huo Yuhao could wield it.

Huo Yuhao and Zhuge Lan trapped Dai Mubai after thwarting the gods’ attempt to seize Huo Yuhao’s body, leaving Dai Mubai without his God of War position. Zhuge Lan revealed that the God of War position had been given to Nirvana, and the group prepared to return to the battlefield.

• Snow Empress and the other Soul Spirits helped Huo Yuhao and Electrolux regain control of Huo Yuhao’s body, and Huo Yuhao used the core nucleus to trap Dai Mubai in a bead.
• Huo Yuhao sealed the gods inside the Platform of Conferring Gods, then went with Zhuge Lan to the God of War Inheritance Grounds.
• God King Tang and the God King of Destruction arrived; the God King of Destruction took Dai Mubai to the God Realm because he could no longer remain in the mortal world without a divine position.
• Zhuge Lan revealed that he had arranged for the God King of Destruction to intercept the God of War position and give it to Nirvana.
• Huo Yuhao and the Soul Spirits discussed Dai Mubai’s original body and returned toward the main battlefield, where Zhuge Lan resumed Lan Yu’s body and found the battlefield under a gray, smoke-filled sky.

Zhuge Lan saved Lu Renyi by binding him to Huo Yuhao, then learned that the Four Great Empires had fallen into a three-way stalemate as the Star Dou Great Forest joined the war. Xu Jiujiu abdicated the Star Luo throne to Huo Yuhao, who immediately passed it to Dai Luoli, just as urgent reports arrived from three empires.

• Zhuge Lan used the Golden Dragon Spear's energy to save Lu Renyi after making him sign a slave contract to Huo Yuhao.
• Xu He explained that the Four Great Empires had split into warring factions and that Di Tian's Soul Spirit and the Soul Beast army had arrived behind the coalition forces.
• Zhuge Lan asked the Four Great Empires to gather for talks, then returned to Huo Yuhao's spiritual world.
• Xu Jiujiu offered the Star Luo throne to Huo Yuhao, who accepted the Imperial Seal before handing it to Dai Luoli as the new emperor.
• Messengers from Star Luo, Heavenly Soul, and Dou Ling arrived with urgent reports.

Huo Yuhao and the other powers staged peace negotiations that gave them a way to end the war and decide who would unify the continent. The plan passed after corrupt Sun Moon Empire ministers were exposed, but Huo Yuhao and Hall Master of Light then began arguing over how to choose the ruler.

• Huo Yuhao agreed to represent the Star Luo Empire at peace talks, while Zhuge Lan, Zhang Lexuan, and Hall Master of Light represented the other sides.
• The four representatives secretly aligned with Huo Yuhao staged a dispute over the Sun Moon Empire's invasion and agreed to settle the war through unification negotiations.
• Huo Yuhao proposed choosing one power to rule the continent and end the fighting, and Hall Master of Light endorsed the plan while threatening opponents.
• Ji Juechen killed ministers who objected, and Jing Ziyan read out records of corruption that intimidated the remaining officials into silence.
• The unification proposal passed, but Huo Yuhao and Hall Master of Light began bickering over how to determine who would rule.

Blue Bamboo completed a dangerous fusion of his three Soul Cores in the Phoenix Palace, reaching power near the demigod level. With Ma Hongjun’s help, he prepared to begin his performance as Huo Yuhao and the Hall Master of Light continued their debate over unification.

• Blue Bamboo manipulated his Mental, Space, and third Soul Cores through a perilous fusion that nearly tore his Soul Power and Mental Power apart.
• Blue Bamboo used the Eye of Life and his control to bring the three Soul Cores into balance, successfully completing the fusion and reaching a level close to a demigod.
• Ma Hongjun praised Blue Bamboo and told him that he had informed the God King of Destruction, so Blue Bamboo could begin his performance.
• Huo Yuhao and the Hall Master of Light froze when they sensed that Blue Bamboo had succeeded.
• Huo Yuhao proposed a rotation system for leadership, with candidates chosen through a village-to-city recommendation process.

Huo Yuhao proposed uniting the empires as the Star Luo Federation Commonwealth, and Blue Bamboo was named its first president. Zhuge Lan then completed the Sea God's Eighth Trial and began the Ninth Trial, choosing to use the Sea God's Heart to open his path to godhood.

• Huo Yuhao proposed that the Four Great Empires become the Star Luo Federation Commonwealth and give up competing for its first term of leadership.
• The empires accepted the arrangement, and Xu He announced that Blue Bamboo would be the Commonwealth's first president.
• Zhuge Lan appeared as Blue Bamboo, promised to uphold the Commonwealth's principles, and gained 50,000,000 Luck Value when the crowd acclaimed him.
• Zhuge Lan declared that he had fulfilled the Sea God's Eighth Trial and demanded to begin the Ninth Trial.
• God King Tang offered Zhuge Lan the choice of a Limit Douluo's sacrifice or using the Sea God's Heart to open the path to godhood.
• Zhuge Lan chose to use the Sea God's Heart, while God King Tang anticipated that its loss might cause an accident during the trial.

Zhuge Lan accepted the Sea God’s inheritance and entered the Sea God Temple, where Tang San trapped him in a trial he expected him to fail. The God King of Destruction arrived and accused Tang San of breaking the God Realm’s rules by interfering with the inheritance.

• Zhuge Lan agreed to all eighty-one questions and began the Sea God’s Ninth Trial after the Sea God’s Heart shattered.
• Zhuge Lan entered the inheritance realm, bypassed the barrier without the Sea God’s Heart, and opened the Sea God Temple’s gates.
• Tang San challenged Zhuge Lan inside the temple, then engulfed him in a golden sphere and expected him to die in the trial.
• The God King of Destruction entered the temple and accused Tang San of interfering with the inheritance and violating the God Realm’s rules.
• Tang San denied the accusation and claimed that Zhuge Lan had chosen to shatter the Sea God’s Heart himself.

Zhuge Lan began Blue Bamboo’s Sea God inheritance while the God King of Destruction forced Tang San to pass on the Sea God’s Eight Wings. Blue Bamboo endured the painful removal of his ribs, but nearly ruined the trial by stepping toward the wings before Zhuge Lan warned him to stay in place.

• The God King of Destruction challenged Tang San over the inheritance rules and made him agree to pass the Sea God’s Eight Wings to Blue Bamboo.
• Zhuge Lan arrived at the golden trial platform, where the inheritance sealed his abilities and began painfully removing his ribs.
• Zhuge Lan switched to Huo Yuhao’s Second Spiritual World while his secret art clone endured the trial’s pain.
• The removed ribs transformed into the Sea God’s Eight Wings, and Blue Bamboo recognized Tang San’s divine artifact.
• Tang San warned Blue Bamboo not to leave the platform’s center, but Blue Bamboo nearly stepped toward the wings before Zhuge Lan warned him to remain in place.
• The first trial platform returned to its position, and the second platform arrived.

Blue Bamboo endured the Sea God’s emotional trials as his Soul Bones were stripped away and Sea God power transformed his body. As the sixth trial began, Zhuge Lan confronted the God King of Destruction, who admitted that their plan involving Dragon Valley might help the God Realm escape spatial turbulence.

• Blue Bamboo passed the sorrow trial by dismissing an illusion involving Xu Tianran, then passed the next trial by resisting an illusion of Meng Hongchen.
• Blue Bamboo endured the fifth trial’s illusion of Ye Guyi and broke it by declaring that her feelings were for Brother Lan or the Hall Master of Light, not him.
• The sixth trial began stripping Blue Bamboo’s Torso Bone, causing extreme pain as his blood and body turned blue-gold with the Sea God’s power.
• Zhuge Lan complained that Tang San had increased the pain, and the God King of Destruction entered his spiritual world in response.
• The God King of Destruction praised Zhuge Lan’s Dragon Valley plan and said it could help the God Realm escape spatial turbulence and explore the universe.

Blue Bamboo completed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s Soul Spirit contract despite Tang San’s attempt to stop it, then entered the final Soul Bone trial. The trial presented him with the Hall Master of Light, whom he rejected as a possible temptation.

• Blue Bamboo endured the extraction of his Torso Bone before the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King emerged and tried to steal his Sea God inheritance and Soul Bones.
• Zhuge Lan took over Blue Bamboo’s body, resisted the whale king’s possession, and persuaded him to become a Soul Spirit and help oppose Tang San.
• Blue Bamboo contracted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King into his Eighth Soul Ring, where the whale king discovered Di Tian occupying the Ninth Soul Ring.
• Tang San’s golden trident appeared and threatened Blue Bamboo, but Blue Bamboo completed the contract before the trident could strike.
• Blue Bamboo’s left-arm Soul Bone was extracted, and a new trial presented him with the Hall Master of Light; Blue Bamboo declared that he did not like men or the Hall Master of Light.

Blue Bamboo restored the Sea God's Heart and began the godhood ceremony, despite Tang San’s attempt to use the final trial to force his failure. The Sea God's Eight Wings joined the ceremony, and Blue Bamboo was enveloped by golden light as they settled onto his back.

• The eighth circular platform appeared, revealing that Blue Bamboo needed to restore the Sea God's Heart to complete the final trial.
• Zhuge Lan asked the God King of Destruction whether Tang San could refuse to give up the Sea God's position if Zhuge Lan revealed information, and the God King of Destruction assured him the inheritance would soon become irreversible.
• Zhuge Lan revealed the Platform of Conferring Gods and used the Sea God's Divine Sense to create a new Sea God's Heart while leaving Tang San’s aura on it, daring Tang San to interfere.
• Zhuge Lan completed the Sea God's Heart and withdrew, letting Blue Bamboo—actually Huo Yuhao—experience the moment of becoming a god.
• The Sea God's Trident erased Tang San’s aura, and the godhood ceremony began as the Sea God's Eight Wings transformed and settled onto Blue Bamboo’s back.