Chapter Summaries

Ye Yu revealed that he knew Qian Renxue was a woman from Spirit Hall, after assuring her that Tang Chen had been killed while forcing his way into the imperial palace. Qian Renxue feared Ye Yu would leave her and begged him not to hate or abandon her.

• Ye Yu told Qian Renxue that he had killed Tang Chen with Thunder Punishment, and a Spirit Hall guard praised his overwhelming strength.
• Ye Yu pointed out that the claim Qian Renxue belonged to Spirit Hall was supposedly slander, making her fear he had uncovered her identity.
• Qian Renxue took Ye Yu to an empty side hall and asked what he wanted to say to her.
• Ye Yu told Qian Renxue he had realized the Crown Prince was a woman, then admitted he knew she was from Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue apologized for deceiving Ye Yu and pleaded with him not to hate or leave her.

Ye Yu reassured Qian Renxue that he accepted her true identity, and she revealed her real appearance and name to him. After Qian Renxue became emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire, she sent Ye Yu to destroy the Clear Sky Sect, and his forces began their assault by wiping out its outpost village.

• Ye Yu told Qian Renxue that he had long known she was a woman and cared for her regardless of her identity.
• Qian Renxue removed her Angel Soul Bone disguise, revealed her true appearance, and told Ye Yu her real name was Qian Renxue, though he could call her Xue'er.
• After Xue Ye died, Qian Renxue ascended the throne as Xue Qinghe, and Tang Chen and Tang San's deaths made the accusations against Xue Beng, Prince Xue Xing, and the Clear Sky Sect appear confirmed.
• Qian Renxue ordered Ye Yu to lead the Royal Knights and the Heaven Dou Imperial Family's soul masters to destroy the Clear Sky Sect.
• Ye Yu led Dugu Bo, Ye Zhilan, and Ling Zhantian to the Clear Sky Sect's outpost village, where the army killed every collateral disciple and reduced the village to ruins without suffering casualties.

Ye Yu confronted Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders over their alleged treason against the Heaven Dou Empire, then destroyed the sect and its mountain stronghold. The chapter ended with Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect disciples dead beneath the ruins.

• Clear Sky Sect patrol disciples reported that the Heaven Dou Imperial Family had attacked their collateral branch village, and Tang Xiao led the elders to confront the attackers.
• The Seventh Elder attacked Ye Yu, but Ye Yu’s overwhelming Soul Power pressure subdued Tang Xiao and the elders.
• Ye Yu accused the Clear Sky Sect of conspiring with Xue Beng and Xue Xing to seize the throne and sentenced the sect to death; Tang Xiao and the elders protested their innocence.
• Ye Yu froze Tang Xiao and the elders, then crushed them with the roots of his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree Martial Soul and collected the spirit bones they dropped.
• Ye Yu used his eighth spirit skill, Flower Tree Realm Descent, to destroy the Clear Sky Sect’s mountain and consume its disciples, including the helpless Tang Hao.

The Asura God resurrected Tang Chen and Tang San, then sent them to Sea God Island to grow stronger and prepare to face Ye Yu again. Meanwhile, Ye Yu founded the Temple of Creation with Qian Renxue’s help, while the families of Ning Rongrong and Huo Wu declined to join, leaving Ning Rongrong resentful.

• The Asura God restored Tang Chen and Tang San to life, reprimanded Tang Chen for failing, and directed them to undergo the Sea God Assessment.
• Tang Chen took Tang San to Vast Sea City, rented a ship, and set sail for Sea God Island.
• Ye Yu told Qian Renxue that he could gather faith and condense a divine position, and she agreed to help him establish the Temple of Creation.
• Ye Yu chose a defensible mountain near Heaven Dou Imperial City for the Temple of Creation’s headquarters, and news of its founding spread across the continent.
• Dugu Bo and the Nine Heart Begonia Family joined the Temple of Creation, while the Unicorn Fire Tyrant Dragon Family, the Ice Phoenix Family, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect sent gifts but declined to join.
• Ning Rongrong felt wronged and angry that her father had not led the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into Ye Yu’s organization.

Ning Rongrong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to confront Ning Fengzhi for not joining Ye Yu’s Temple of Creation. She told him Ye Yu had surpassed Limit Douluo strength and was pursuing godhood, leaving Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo stunned.

• After leaving Dugu Manor, Ning Rongrong decided to persuade her father to bring the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into the Temple of Creation.
• Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, and Shui Yue'er also returned to their families to urge them to join Ye Yu’s temple.
• Ning Rongrong arrived at the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and angrily accused Ning Fengzhi of lacking vision.
• Ning Rongrong reminded Ning Fengzhi that Ye Yu had helped her evolve the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and that the Dugu and Nine Heart Begonia families had joined his temple.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that Ye Yu had become stronger than a Limit Douluo and was preparing to pursue godhood, shocking Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo.

Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi that Ye Yu had become a Limit Douluo and was pursuing godhood, prompting Ning Fengzhi to bring her and Bone Douluo to Dugu Manor and seek a place for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect in the Temple of Creation. There, Ye Yu gave hundred-thousand-year spirit bones to Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, leaving Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo watching with envy and regret.

• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo about Ye Yu’s achievements and the exceptional potential of his companions.
• Ning Fengzhi realized Ye Yu intended to become a god and decided the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect should join the Temple of Creation, though he regretted not supporting Ye Yu sooner.
• Ning Fengzhi brought Bone Douluo and Ning Rongrong through a spatial gate to Dugu Manor, where they found Ye Yu holding several hundred-thousand-year spirit bones.
• Ye Yu explained that he was rewarding Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Dugu Bo, and the Nine Heart Begonia Family for supporting him, indirectly reminding Ning Fengzhi that his sect had not done so.
• Ye Yu gave Dugu Yan a fire-and-spiritual-attribute left leg bone and a Sacred Illusion Demon Ape skull, then gave Ye Lingling a Purple Spirit Wolf skull, a Soft Bone Rabbit left leg bone, and a Three-Headed Sea Demon Snake torso bone.
• Ning Fengzhi watched Ye Yu distribute the spirit bones and bitterly regretted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s delay in supporting him.

Ye Yu accepted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Unicorn Fire Tyrant Dragon Family, and the Skywater Family into the Temple of Creation, then gave Dugu Bo three extraordinarily old soul bones. After fusing them, Dugu Bo rose from rank ninety-five to rank ninety-nine Limit Douluo.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Ye Yu to accept the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into the Temple of Creation, and Ye Yu agreed.
• Huo Xiaotian and Shui Qianshan arrived at Dugu Manor and asked to bring their families into the Temple of Creation, and Ye Yu accepted them.
• Ye Yu gave Dugu Bo a nine-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year Deep Sea Demon Whale King torso bone, a five-hundred-thousand-year Seven-Colored Peacock Tail Mantis Shrimp right arm bone, and a three-hundred-thousand-year Evil Orca King left leg bone.
• Dugu Bo fused the three soul bones and advanced from rank ninety-five Titled Douluo to rank ninety-nine Limit Douluo.

Ye Yu rewarded Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, and Shui Yue'er for bringing their families into the Temple of Creation, then gave spirit bones to Ling Zhantian and Ye Zhilan. As the Nine Heart Begonia family prepared to reveal a long-kept secret, Ye Yu learned that they had planned to tell him after he became a Titled Douluo.

• Ye Yu gave Huo Wu a ten-thousand-year Left Arm Bone, which granted her the defensive spirit skill Earth Guardian.
• Ye Yu gave Shui Bing'er the Ice Heart Snow Lotus and Shui Yue'er the Ice Spirit Vermilion Fruit; their martial souls evolved into an ultimate-ice Ice Phoenix and an ice-attribute Ice Jade Dolphin.
• Ye Yu visited the Nine Heart Begonia Family with Dugu Yan and gave Ling Zhantian a Hundred Thousand Year Howling Moon Silver Wolf Skull and a Torso Bone, and Ye Zhilan an earth-attribute Left Leg Bone.
• Ling Zhantian and Ye Zhilan accepted the spirit bones after Ye Yu insisted they were rewards for their family's support of the Temple of Creation.
• Ye Zhilan told Ye Yu that the Nine Heart Begonia Family had kept a secret and decided it was time to reveal it.

Ye Zhilan revealed that a family ancestor's unfinished divine trial had left the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul half-evolved and seemingly cursed, allowing only two to awaken at once. Ye Yu accepted the map to the secret realm and planned to investigate, then gave soul bones to Ye Zhilan and Ling Zhantian.

• Ye Zhilan explained that an ancestor entered a secret realm, began a deity's trial, and abandoned it after passing only part of it, after which the family could awaken only two Nine Heart Begonia Martial Souls at once.
• Ye Yu suspected that the Goddess of Life had cursed the family after its ancestor abandoned her trial and considered whether the secret realm was her chosen land.
• Ye Zhilan offered Ye Yu the family's map to the secret realm and asked him to try to lift the curse.
• Ye Yu accepted the map and said he would visit the secret realm the next day, hoping to meet the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction and discuss choosing Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan as successors.
• Ye Yu gave Ling Zhantian a Hundred Thousand Year Silver Moon Wolf King Skull and a torso bone, and gave Ye Zhilan a Hundred Thousand Year Evil Orca Left Leg Bone.

Ye Yu traveled to the Life Forest and entered the Goddess of Life’s hidden realm, where he accepted a divine trial. Impressed by his talent and life-attribute Martial Soul, the Goddess of Life granted him the Nine Trials, though Ye Yu knew he would have to refuse her god position.

• Ye Yu flew from Heaven Dou Imperial City to the Life Forest and entered the hidden realm through the Ancient Life Tree.
• Ye Yu found the Goddess of Life’s temple and agreed to undergo its potentially dangerous trial.
• An old man transformed from an Ancient Life Tree prayed to the Goddess of Life and summoned her attention to Ye Yu.
• The Goddess of Life sensed Ye Yu’s strength and talent, then changed his trial into the Goddess of Life’s Nine Trials.
• Nine golden leaf marks appeared on Ye Yu’s forehead as he received the trial, though he planned to refuse the Goddess of Life’s god position.

Ye Yu refused the Goddess of Life's offer to inherit her divine position, insisting that he wanted to gather faith and create one himself. He recommended Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan as possible successors to the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction, who agreed to consider them.

• Ye Yu thanked the Goddess of Life for granting him her Nine Trials but refused them, saying he wanted to condense a divine position through his own efforts.
• The Goddess of Life descended through her statue and tried to persuade Ye Yu to inherit her and the God of Destruction's divine positions together.
• Ye Yu introduced himself and maintained his refusal, then offered to recommend two talented soul masters as successors.
• Ye Yu told the Goddess of Life about Ye Lingling, a nineteen-year-old Soul Sage with a Nine Heart Begonia martial soul, and Dugu Yan, a twenty-year-old Soul Sage with a Seven-Headed Crimson Scale Flood Dragon martial soul.
• The God of Destruction arrived and angrily wanted to question Ye Yu, but the Goddess of Life persuaded him to hear about the two candidates first.

Ye Yu brought Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to the Life Forest so they could seek the Goddess of Life’s and God of Destruction’s divine trials. Both women triggered golden Nine Trials of Deity, leaving them with the chance to inherit the two divine positions.

• Ye Yu told Dugu Yan that he had triggered the Goddess of Life’s Nine Trials but planned to cultivate his own divine position, and he brought her to find Ye Lingling.
• Ye Yu reassured Ye Zhilan that the Goddess of Life would not blame Ye Lingling for her ancestor’s actions, then took both women to the secret realm.
• Ye Lingling underwent the Goddess of Life’s trial and triggered her Nine Trials of Deity, marked by a golden pillar of light.
• Dugu Yan underwent the God of Destruction’s trial and also triggered his Nine Trials of Deity, marked by a golden pillar of light.

Revived by the Asura God, Tang Chen brought Tang San to Sea God Island to seek the Sea God’s trials and rally resistance against Spirit Hall. Meanwhile, the Asura God warned Poseidon that Spirit Hall’s impending unification of Douluo Continent could threaten his faith, leaving their response unresolved.

• The Asura God ordered Tang Chen to take Tang San to Sea God Island, strengthen them through divine trials, and gather forces against Spirit Hall.
• After sailing for more than half a month, Tang Chen and Tang San crossed the waters guarded by Demon Soul Great White Sharks and reached Sea God Island.
• Tang Chen reunited with Bo Saixi and told her about the Asura God’s decree and the crisis unfolding on Douluo Continent.
• The Asura God visited Poseidon and warned that Spirit Hall’s unification could lead it to expand into the Endless Sea and threaten Poseidon’s faith.
• The Asura God cited the forgotten Spirit Tool Empire, which had once tried to conquer the Endless Sea before it was destroyed.

After Qian Renxue became emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire, Ye Yu advised her on how to cooperate with Spirit Hall without turning the public against them. They planned to use a sect reselection tournament and the suffering caused by war to build support for unification, and Spirit Hall announced the tournament the next day.

• On Sea God Island, Bo Saixi received Sea God Poseidon's response and brought Tang Chen and Tang San to choose Sea God Pillars, where they began the Eight Trials and Nine Trials respectively.
• Qian Renxue asked Ye Yu how the Heaven Dou Empire could cooperate with Spirit Hall without damaging its reputation among the commoners.
• Ye Yu proposed that Spirit Hall convene a tournament to reselect the Upper Three Sects and Lower Four Sects, while his people searched for villages destroyed by the war with the Star Luo Empire.
• Qian Renxue sent a letter to Spirit City that night with Ye Yu's plan.
• The next day, Spirit Hall accused the Clear Sky Sect of conspiring with Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing to rebel, announced that the sect had been exterminated by the Heaven Dou Empire, and called for a sect reselection tournament.

Ye Yu gathered the Temple of Creation’s affiliated forces to plan their participation in Spirit Hall’s selection tournament for the Upper Three Sects and Lower Four Sects. After Huo Xiaotian and Shui Qianshan advanced with precious spiritual medicines, Ye Yu’s forces set out for Yellow Sand Valley, where he prepared a grand show.

• Ye Yu summoned representatives of his affiliated forces to Dugu Manor and urged them to enter the selection tournament.
• Ling Zhantian, Ning Fengzhi, Dugu Bo, Shui Qianshan, and Huo Xiaotian agreed to participate on behalf of their respective families and sects.
• Ye Yu gave Huo Xiaotian Dragon Blood Grass and Shui Qianshan Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Ice Lingzhi to help them strengthen their chances in the tournament.
• Huo Xiaotian and Shui Qianshan consumed the medicines, reached Rank 90, and saw their Martial Souls evolve; Ye Yu then arranged for Ling Zhantian to help them hunt their Ninth Spirit Rings.
• Over the next half year, Ye Yu and Qian Renxue plotted to use the tournament to unite Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire, while Ye Yu continued training the women.
• Spirit Hall announced that the tournament would take place at Yellow Sand Valley, and Ye Yu’s forces traveled to nearby Servi City as he prepared a grand show.

On the way to the Upper Three Sects and Lower Four Sects Selection Tournament, Ye Yu and the others saved a starving boy whose parents had been killed in a border conflict. After learning his story, Ye Yu treated the boy as the trigger for his next plans, and the crowd continued on to Yellow Sand Valley.

• Ye Yu, Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, Ning Fengzhi, and the others saw a starving boy being attacked by stray dogs in an alley in Servi City.
• Ye Zhilan drove off the dogs, healed the boy, and asked how he had ended up alone.
• The boy said Star Luo Empire soldiers had killed his parents and massacred his village during a border conflict, while he survived by hiding in a cellar.
• Huo Xiaotian condemned the Star Luo Empire, and Ning Fengzhi and other soul masters spoke against war.
• Ye Zhilan arranged for someone to take in the boy, whom Ye Yu considered crucial to his plans.
• The crowd traveled to Yellow Sand Valley, where Spirit Hall and other tournament participants and spectators had already gathered.

At the Selection Tournament, Hu Liena spotted Ye Yu and mistook him for An Lan, the man she had loved since the City of Slaughter. She followed him to the Temple of Creation's pavilion, where the people beside him left her confused, as a sneaky figure came up behind her.

• Ye Yu and his companions entered Yellow Sand Valley and were directed to the pavilion for the Temple of Creation.
• Hu Liena recognized Ye Yu as An Lan and asked Bibi Dong for permission to take a walk so she could follow him.
• Ye Yu led Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and the others to the Temple of Creation's pavilion, where the factions prepared to compete for sect positions.
• Hu Liena saw Ye Yu seated with Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling and wondered why he appeared to be An Lan.
• A tall, sneaky figure silently followed Hu Liena to the pavilion.

Hu Liena realized that An Lan was Ye Yu and reunited with him, but Bibi Dong forbade her from seeing him because she viewed him as a future enemy. The selection tournament for the Upper Three Sects began, with competing factions registering as Spirit Hall prepared the matches.

• Hu Liena recognized An Lan as Ye Yu, met him in private, and embraced him while Yan watched in anguish.
• Hu Liena returned to Spirit Hall, where Bibi Dong confronted her and forbade her from being with Ye Yu.
• The selection tournament for the Upper Three Sects and Lower Four Sects began, starting with registration for the Upper Three Sects.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, Dugu Bo, Ling Zhantian, Ye Zhilan, Hu Yan Zhen, Tuoba Xi, and the Peerless Dragon Snake registered their factions.
• Spirit Hall arranged the Upper Three Sects selection tournament after registration ended.

The factions competed to establish the new Upper Three Sects and Lower Four Sects, while Ye Yu’s plan used the tragedy of a beggar child to spur petitions demanding unity between the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall. After three mass appeals, Qian Renxue disguised as Xue Qinghe and Bibi Dong answered the crowds, as Ye Yu prepared for the next stage of his plan.

• Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Hu Yan Zhen withdrew from the Upper Three Sects selection after discovering that several competitors were Titled Douluo.
• With Ye Yu’s help, Dugu Bo defeated Sword Douluo, Tuoba Xi, and Ling Zhantian to claim first place; the Nine Heart Begonia Sect took second and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect third.
• The Lower Four Sects were ranked as the Ice Phoenix Sect, Fire Dragon Sect, Mysterious Tortoise Sect, and Holy Dragon Sect.
• The new sects petitioned Xue Qinghe and Bibi Dong to unite the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall, and Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect spread the beggar child’s story to build public support.
• After the rulers initially stayed silent and then warned that unification could cause war, commoners rallied behind the petitions and representatives knelt outside Heaven Dou Imperial City and Spirit City.
• Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, and Bibi Dong appeared to address the crowds, while Ye Yu watched and anticipated the next part of his plan.

Dai Tianfeng learned that the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall had agreed to unite, and he tried to form an opposing coalition with the kingdoms and duchies of both empires. After Qian Renxue began the campaign to unify the continent, Ye Yu joined the attack on the Balak Kingdom and immobilized its army with his eighth spirit skill.

• Dai Tianfeng recognized that the commoners’ pleas for unification had been orchestrated and grew alarmed by Xue Qinghe’s alliance with Bibi Dong.
• Dai Tianfeng contacted the kingdoms and duchies across the continent, whose rulers promised to resist the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall if they joined forces.
• Dai Tianfeng proposed a surprise attack, but the allied rulers refused because they feared retaliation and hoped to preserve their lands and status.
• Qian Renxue represented the Heaven Dou Empire in its alliance with Spirit Hall, and they began their unification campaign by attacking the strategically important Balak Kingdom.
• Ye Yu joined the attack to spread faith in the Lord of Creation, then used Flower Tree Realm Descent to bind the Balak Kingdom’s soldiers without harming them.