Chapter Summaries

Zhuang Xingyu and Qian Daoliu discussed Spirit Hall’s future before Qian Renxue returned from her Angel God trial with greatly enhanced Soul Rings. The Worship Hall and Elder Hall were handed to Qian Renxue and Zhuang Xingyu, and the chapter ended with Qian Renxue telling him she was pregnant.

• Zhuang Xingyu reassured Qian Daoliu that he could prevent him from sacrificing himself to activate Qian Renxue’s ninth trial.
• Qian Daoliu denied having a good relationship with Bo Saixi, and Zhuang Xingyu agreed that Sea God Island and Clear Sky Sect should be investigated for ties to Evil Soul Masters.
• Qian Renxue returned with 20% greater affinity for the Angel God’s godhood and a 221,000-year Soul Ring, then proposed revealing her identity to the elders.
• Qian Daoliu announced Qian Renxue and Zhuang Xingyu’s marriage, transferred control of the Worship Hall and Elder Hall to them, and ordered the elders to keep their god trials secret.
• Half a month later, Qian Renxue told Zhuang Xingyu she was pregnant, and he eagerly helped her sit down.

Zhuang Xingyu learned that Qian Renxue was pregnant, reassured her and Qian Daoliu that he could help them avoid sacrifice, and gained Qian Daoliu’s loyalty. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong visited the Rakshasa God’s inheritance site and learned that beginning her ninth trial required the slaughter of at least 4.5 million people.

• Zhuang Xingyu confirmed that Qian Renxue was pregnant and agreed to let her continue her Heaven Dou Empire plan with a Level 98 Titled Douluo secretly protecting her.
• Qian Daoliu arranged healers and attendants for Qian Renxue, then asked Zhuang Xingyu to let their child carry the Qian surname and continue the Angel Lineage.
• Zhuang Xingyu explained that Qian Daoliu did not need to sacrifice himself to begin Qian Renxue’s ninth trial and promised to help Qian Daoliu become a god, earning his absolute loyalty.
• Bibi Dong continued killing Spirit Hall guards and servants before secretly traveling to the Rakshasa God Hall.
• The Rakshasa God told Bibi Dong to begin her ninth trial by personally killing, or directing her subordinates to kill, at least 4.5 million people.

Bibi Dong planned a mass slaughter to begin Rakshasa God's Ninth Trial, while Xue Qinghe gained more authority and support in the Heaven Dou Empire. Meanwhile, Xiwai Ao Xie reached the waters near Sea God Island seeking cooperation and prepared to continue despite the captain's warning.

• Bibi Dong learned that she had to kill more than 4.5 million people within ten years to begin her ninth trial, and decided to target at least ten million while using war to secure her position as Pope.
• Zhuang Xingyu brought Qian Renxue to the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan, where Murong Yunxue welcomed her and promised her unborn child the clan's succession; Qian Renxue then returned to her undercover mission in Heaven Dou City.
• As Xue Ye's health worsened from Zhuang Xingyu's poison, he transferred most court affairs to Xue Qinghe but kept control of the military and intelligence network; the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan publicly backed Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Qinghe learned that Xue Beng was Prince Xue Xing's son with Consort Hua, while Xue Xing continued secretly plotting to put him on the throne.
• Xiwai Ao Xie traveled alone toward Sea God Island to seek cooperation and assessed its isolated location as a useful base for expanding his cult.
• When the ship reached Sea God Island's dangerous surrounding waters, the captain warned Xiwai Ao Xie that the waves and guardian soul beasts made it unsafe to proceed, and offered to leave him with the ship.

Xiwai Ao Xie attacked Sea God Island, defeated Xiao Bai and the Seven Pillar Guardians, and forced the island’s defenders to flee or surrender. Bo Saixi confronted him, but he used the Western Demon Pearl to overpower her, leaving Sea God Island under his control despite suffering severe internal injuries.

• Xiwai Ao Xie sank the ship carrying the old captain and fought his way toward Sea God Island, where Xiao Bai and the Demon Soul Great White Sharks tried to stop him.
• Xiwai Ao Xie wounded Xiao Bai and killed three sharks, then explained that he intended to turn Sea God Island’s soul beasts and soul masters into Evil Soul Masters under his control.
• The Seven Pillar Guardians confronted Xiwai Ao Xie, but his Evil Soul Domain and successive Soul Skills overwhelmed them, and Sea God Island’s self-defense force fled or surrendered.
• Xiwai Ao Xie sealed the Seven Pillar Guardians’ Soul Power and entered Sea God Island, where its residents offered little resistance.
• Bo Saixi awakened and attacked Xiwai Ao Xie with borrowed divine power, but he used the Western Demon Pearl to defeat her at the cost of severe internal injuries.

Xiwai Ao Xie used the Black Demon Token to turn Sea God Island from a defeated stronghold into an ally of the Xiwai Divine Cult, implanting Demonic Seeds in its Soul Masters. After a month of hunting sea life and building up his forces, he led a fleet into the deep sea and prepared to wage war across Douluo Continent.

• Xiwai Ao Xie defeated Bo Saixi and Sea God Island’s guardians, then compelled the island’s residents to gather before him.
• Bo Saixi recognized the Black Demon Token as the Sea God Token and cited a prophecy that Sea God Island should cooperate with the Xiwai Divine Cult, so Xiwai Ao Xie lifted the seals and forged an alliance.
• Xiwai Ao Xie implanted Demonic Seeds in more than three thousand Sea God Island Soul Masters, bringing them under his control and planning to use the island as a base for hunting sea life.
• Over the following month, the Xiwai Divine Cult hunted sea Soul Beasts around Sea God Island, and the Fourth Elder broke through to level ninety.
• Xiwai Ao Xie transferred Bo Saixi, Sea Horse Douluo, Sea Dragon Douluo, and other Titled Douluo into the Xiwai Divine Cult, raising its total to ten Titled Douluo.
• Xiwai Ao Xie led nearly a hundred warships into the deep sea, where his followers slaughtered sea Soul Beasts for three days, and he vowed to destroy every non-Evil Soul Master.

As the Soul Master Tournament approached, rival factions prepared and argued over the revised qualification slots while Xiwai Ao Xie planned a future attack. In the Barak preliminaries, Tang San’s team won second place after he broke Gemstone One’s illusion at great cost, earning public praise as Xiwai Ren Gui began plotting against him.

• Feng Xiaotian fantasized about winning the tournament and asking Huo Wu’s father for her hand, while his vice-captain silently criticized his devotion.
• Yu Luomian urged Yu Yuanzhen to enter the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s heirs under their own banner, but Yu Yuanzhen dismissed his concerns.
• Xiwai Ao Xie raged over the revised tournament slots, then backed Xiwai Ren Gui’s plan to win the championship while preserving their raid on the factions’ headquarters.
• Xiwai Ren Gui’s team took first place in the Barak preliminaries, while Tang San’s team faced Gemstone One’s Canghui Team for the second slot.
• Tang San feigned falling into the Seven Asura Illusory Realm, then used his Purple Demon Eye to defeat the Canghui Team, suffering severe injuries and exhausting his Soul Power.
• The Fourth Elder awarded second place to Tang San’s Fencing Team and named the Canghui Team its reserve squad; the crowd praised Tang San as Xiwai Ren Gui began devising ways to kill him.

Pig Rider Express came to take Zhuang Xingyu out of the Douluo Plane and erase his existence, but Zhuang Xingyu resisted and defeated his avatar by mastering the Chaos Bead. Pig Rider Express revealed that the encounter was a final test and gave Zhuang Xingyu one year before his true body would descend.

• Pig Rider Express bound Zhuang Xingyu, sealed his powers, and opened a spacetime tunnel to take him away from the Douluo Plane.
• Zhuang Xingyu's family and allies attacked Pig Rider Express to protect him, but Pig Rider Express froze time across the Douluo Plane and the nearby West Demon Universe.
• Zhuang Xingyu challenged Pig Rider Express's doubts and urged him to remember his original dream, weakening the binding rope and the laws sealing the Chaos Bead.
• Zhuang Xingyu broke free, mastered the Chaos Bead, and struck down Pig Rider Express's avatar, then vowed to protect his world and resurrect Pig Rider Express someday.
• Pig Rider Express appeared as a larger projection, revealed that his true body would descend in one year, and erased everyone's memories of the encounter after restoring the universes.
• Pig Rider Express revealed that Zhuang Xingyu had passed his final test and said the heavens and myriad worlds would depend on him to be saved.

After defeating the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and the Silver Dragon King, Zhuang Xingyu absorbed their Soul Rings and reached Soul Power level 99. He set his sights on creating the Creation God's God Position and returned home ready to unify Douluo Continent.

• Zhuang Xingyu decided to abandon the Asura God's trials and hunt the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for his eighth Soul Ring.
• Zhuang Xingyu killed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and absorbed its million-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Zhuang Xingyu went to Lake of Life, knocked out Da Ming and Er Ming, and forced the Silver Dragon King to emerge from her underwater refuge.
• Zhuang Xingyu defeated the Silver Dragon King and absorbed her half-step God King-level Soul Ring, raising his Soul Power to level 99.
• Zhuang Xingyu stored the unconscious fierce beasts and Da Ming and Er Ming in the Chaos Bead, then returned to his family to begin his campaign to unify Douluo Continent.

The four other God Kings accused Asura God of conspiring with the Dragon God and sought to restrict his power, using Zhuang Xingyu as their pretext. Asura God seized part of the God Realm Origin, strengthening his position, while the confined Sea God secretly sent divine power to Douluo Continent.

• God of Destruction and God of Evil questioned how Zhuang Xingyu had killed the Silver Dragon King and gained god-level Combat Power, while Asura God defended his disciple and rejected their accusations.
• God of Life and God of Goodness joined the confrontation, and Asura God accused the four God Kings of targeting him to prevent him from accessing the God Realm Origin.
• Asura God exposed recordings of God of Life and God of Goodness trying to seduce him, but God of Evil and God of Destruction continued accusing him of colluding with the Dragon God.
• Asura God pretended to head for the Golden Dragon King's seal, then rushed to the God Realm Origin and seized part of God of Destruction and God of Life's shares.
• The confrontation ended with Asura God's prestige increased and Zhuang Xingyu's deeds spreading through the God Realm, while the confined Sea God secretly sent divine power to Douluo Continent.

After reaching Rank 99, Zhuang Xingyu distributed the spirit bones he had obtained from the Star Dou Forest among his clan and allies, strengthening their forces. He then ordered the Storm Plan to begin, leaving the armies poised to strike while Bibi Dong and the Xiwai Divine Cult remained unaware.

• Zhuang Xingyu revealed a vast collection of spirit bones, explained the Silver Dragon King and the Star Dou Forest's ferocious beasts, and distributed bones according to each recipient's contributions and abilities.
• The Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan gained eight new Titled Douluo, bringing its total to fifteen, while the City of Slaughter gained another Titled Douluo.
• Representatives of the Huangfu Family, the City of Slaughter, Xue Qinghe, and Spirit Hall's Elder Hall and Worship Hall met secretly with Zhuang Xingyu to coordinate their forces.
• Zhuang Xingyu declared the Storm Plan and ordered Xue Qinghe to seize the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall's Seventh Enshrined Elder to help Qian Daoliu purge Bibi Dong's faction.
• Zhuang Xingyu assigned Huangfu Ba to contain the Xiwai Divine Cult and directed the clan's armies to attack the Star Luo Empire, support Xue Qinghe, and strike at the cult and Bibi Dong.
• As the Soul Master Tournament preliminaries continued, the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan's forces began the Storm Plan, unbeknownst to Bibi Dong and the Xiwai Divine Cult.

As the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan prepared to overthrow the Two Great Empires, Zhuang Xingyu traveled to the Extreme North Ice Plains to subdue its powerful soul beasts. He forced the Snow Empress to submit, then welcomed the approaching beast horde.

• The Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan and its allied factions put their plans against the Two Great Empires into motion while Zhuang Xingyu headed for the Extreme North Ice Plains.
• Zhuang Xingyu located the Snow Empress in her ice castle and demanded that she submit or die.
• Zhuang Xingyu overwhelmed the Snow Empress, reducing her cultivation age to six hundred and fifty thousand years.
• The Snow Empress agreed to serve Zhuang Xingyu as her Master after he refused to bargain over her submission.
• A large group of soul beasts approached across the ice plains, and Zhuang Xingyu prepared to face them.

Zhuang Xingyu subdued the powerful Soul Beasts of the Extreme North Ice Plains after Snow Empress urged them to submit. He raised Snow Empress’s cultivation to seven hundred thousand years and destroyed her lightning tribulation with one punch, leaving the other beasts in awe.

• Ice Empress, Ice Bear King Xiao Bai, Titan Snow Demon King, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm rushed to Snow Empress’s palace after sensing the battle.
• Zhuang Xingyu used his Slaughter Domain to overwhelm the gathered Soul Beasts, and Snow Empress explained that he was her master and urged the others to submit.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm surrendered first, followed by the other ferocious beasts, and Zhuang Xingyu healed them.
• Zhuang Xingyu raised Snow Empress’s cultivation to seven hundred thousand years, triggering her Heavenly Tribulation.
• Snow Empress endured six lightning bolts before collapsing, and Zhuang Xingyu shattered the remaining tribulation with a single punch.
• Titan Snow Demon King accepted Zhuang Xingyu’s strength, while Ice Empress praised him and Xiao Bai was surprised by her fawning behavior.

Zhuang Xingyu declared Snow Empress a member of the Spirit Race, appointed her its first Patriarch, and named four soul beasts as its Protectors. He ordered them to unify the soul beasts of the Extreme North and build an army before suddenly rushing toward the region underground to the east.

• Zhuang Xingyu promised Snow Empress and four soul beasts that loyal service and sufficient merit could earn them divine positions, and they pledged their loyalty.
• Snow Empress explained that she was neither human nor like the other soul beasts, and Zhuang Xingyu identified her as a member of the Spirit Race.
• Zhuang Xingyu gave Snow Empress the Spirit Race Token and appointed her the first Patriarch, while naming Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Titan Snow Demon King, and Ice Bear King as the four Protectors.
• The token empowered Snow Empress and the four Protectors, and Zhuang Xingyu explained that he intended to establish multiple races to preserve biodiversity and prevent humanity from facing a united Demon Race.
• Zhuang Xingyu ordered Snow Empress and the Protectors to unify the Extreme North’s soul beasts and form a Spirit Race Guardian Army, then hurried underground toward the eastern region.

Zhuang Xingyu captured and refined a remnant of the Douluo Universe’s foundational code, learning how the first-generation gods divided the unborn Heavenly Dao and created the God Realm. He resolved to reunify the divided universe, while the Asura God contacted him after uncovering a major secret and sought to prepare him for coming changes.

• Zhuang Xingyu tracked the foundational code underground and used the Human Race Token to draw it close, capture it, refine it, and release it back into the universe.
• Zhuang Xingyu learned that the first-generation Dragon God and Five God Kings had taken fragments of the unborn Heavenly Dao to form the first God Positions, while the remainder became the God Realm Origin.
• Zhuang Xingyu concluded that the division between the God Realm and mortal realm was weakening the universe and planned to merge them after unifying the Douluo Universe.
• The Asura God contacted Zhuang Xingyu after gaining control of one-third of the God Realm Origin and discovering a major secret.
• The Asura God sought to ease tensions among the Five God Kings and settle Zhuang Xingyu in advance of the changes to come.

After refining the Heavenly Dao code fragment, Zhuang Xingyu spoke with the Asura God, who revealed that an evil force from another universe threatened the God Realm and delayed Zhuang Xingyu’s inheritance of the Asura God Position. Zhuang Xingyu shared evidence of the Xiwai Divine Cult’s infiltration, refused a temporary Rank 1 God Position, and the Asura God departed to investigate and unite the God Realm.

• Zhuang Xingyu sensed the Asura God’s summons and entered his inheritance space, where the Asura God warned that he could not yet pass on his God Position.
• The Asura God revealed that a Half-Step Creation God Realm evil god from another universe was attacking the Douluo Universe and suspected the Xiwai Divine Cult of serving it.
• Zhuang Xingyu confirmed that Evil Soul Masters were disguised members of the Xiwai Divine Cult and gave the Asura God intelligence linking Bo Saixi, Sea God Island, and the cult.
• The Asura God concluded that the Sea God might have been infiltrated and explained that he needed to retain his God Position while the God Realm faced the coming invasion.
• Zhuang Xingyu declined the offer of a temporary Rank 1 God Position and said he wanted to create his own; the Asura God praised him and shared what he knew about Self-Created God Positions.
• The Asura God left to investigate the God Realm’s gods and rally them against the external threat, while he and Zhuang Xingyu kept their concerns about each other’s power unspoken.

Xue Ye died after naming Xue Qinghe his successor, and Qian Renxue took control of the Heaven Dou Empire. Zhuang Xingyu’s forces then seized Spirit Hall and secured Heaven Dou’s surrender, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect remained isolated.

• Xue Ye left the throne to Xue Qinghe, entrusted Qian Renxue with the imperial family’s forces and assets, and died.
• Qian Renxue suppressed Xue Xing and Xue Beng’s attempted rebellion, purged opposing aristocrats, and took control of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Zhuang Xingyu secretly weakened Bibi Dong during her battle with Qian Daoliu’s forces, and Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo killed her.
• Qian Renxue became Pope, and Spirit Hall submitted to Zhuang Xingyu and the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan.
• Xue Qinghe announced Heaven Dou’s surrender, bringing the empire under the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan within a week.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect recalled their forces rather than surrendering or resisting openly.

The Star Luo Emperor refused to surrender to the advancing Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan and forced his ministers to remain in the palace while seeking allies. In Suotuo City, Tang San revealed his plan to flee with his companions to Sea God Island and pursue the Sea God's inheritance.

• After the Star Luo ministers favored surrender, the Star Luo Emperor denounced them and declared that the Dai Family would keep resisting.
• The Star Luo Emperor confined officials and their families in the palace, temporarily stabilizing the empire as the allied army advanced toward Star Luo City and Suotuo City.
• The Zhu Family head finalized cooperation with the Xiwai God Realm, while the surrounded Seven Treasure and Blue Lightning forces could not be contacted.
• At the Xiwai Divine Cult base, Tang San told Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and the others that he had received the Sea God's inheritance and urged them to escape with him to Sea God Island.
• Tang San used Demonic Energy to influence his companions and secretly vowed to destroy Xiwai Ao Xie after becoming the Sea God.