Chapter Summaries

Zhuang Xingyu’s swordsmanship lesson left Chen Xin shaken, prompting Ning Fengzhi to withdraw the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect from the expedition. At the Suotuo City ruins, Xiwai Ao Xie opened the excavation to the gathered forces while the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan, the Huangfu Family, and Xue Ye held back.

• Zhuang Xingyu gave Chen Xin a Spirit Bone, and Chen Xin returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s carriage in deep despair.
• Ning Fengzhi worried that Chen Xin had been attacked, but Chen Xin assured him that the crisis was his own; Ning Fengzhi then ordered the sect’s convoy back to its grounds.
• The gathered forces arrived at the Suotuo City ruins, where Xue Ye vowed to reclaim Balak Kingdom from the Xiwai Divine Cult.
• Xiwai Ao Xie announced that the forces could excavate the ancient ruins for half a month, and most groups rushed inside.
• Zhuang Jingxing challenged Xiwai Ao Xie over the Spirit Bones owed to his clan, while the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan, the Huangfu Family, and Xue Ye stayed outside.

Xiwai Ao Xie staged an excavation of fabricated ruins to make the Xiwai Family appear to have a 450,000-year history and undermine rival powers. The excavation ended with Xiwai Ao Xie claiming the relics for his ancestors, while Zhuang Jingxing, Zhuang Xingyu, Huangfu Bari, and Xue Ye recognized the scheme as a fabrication.

• Li Si exposed Zhang San’s supposed prescription, and Xiwai Ao Xie calmed the crowd by saying excavated treasures belonged to whoever found them.
• Excavators uncovered staged relics crediting the Xiwai Family with ancient achievements, inventions, and a history stretching back 450,000 years.
• Li Si beat a wandering cultivator who questioned whether the ruins were genuine.
• After the ruins were fully excavated, Xiwai Ao Xie claimed the relics belonged to his ancestors and offered to buy them from the excavators.
• Zhuang Xingyu, Xue Ye, and Huangfu Bari told Zhuang Jingxing that the Xiwai Evil Scripture and the Xiwai Family’s ancient history had been fabricated.

Xiwai Ao Xie used fabricated ancient ruins and staged generosity to promote the Xiwai Divine Cult, recruit followers, and gather faith and fortune for the Black Demon God. Zhuang Xingyu exposed the ruins as fakes, leaving the cult’s supporters disgraced and its scheme in danger of being revealed.

• Xiwai Divine Cult agents stirred up public support by claiming the cult master generously returned excavated treasures, prompting some people to announce they would join.
• Xiwai Ao Xie promoted the supposed ruins as proof of the Xiwai Family’s 450,000-year history while secretly pursuing the Black Demon God’s plan to gather fortune and faith.
• Zhuang Xingyu challenged the ruins’ authenticity and accused Xiwai Ao Xie of using the Barak Royal Family to stage the discovery.
• Xiwai Ao Xie dared Zhuang Xingyu to test the artifacts, confident that the Black Demon God’s soul skill would make them appear ancient.
• Zhuang Xingyu used a Chaos Bead fragment to dispel the disguise and struck a statue, revealing steel rebar inside.
• The crowd inspected the artifacts and found modern materials beneath their ancient-looking surfaces, while those who had praised the Xiwai Divine Cult turned red with shame.

The crowd exposed the Xiwai Divine Cult’s ancient ruins as fabricated, forcing Xiwai Ao Xie to admit they were fake. He blamed the Barak Royal Family and seized its members, leaving the cult trying to redirect the scandal.

• People who had praised the Xiwai Divine Cult condemned the ruins as fake, citing contradictions in the inscriptions and the supposed historical figures’ feats.
• Zhang San defended the Xiwai Divine Cult, but others accused him of being its shill and rejected the claims about Da Ba Shi’s maritime trade.
• The crowd demanded an apology and compensation, while forces including the Star Luo Empire condemned the cult.
• Xiwai Ao Xie admitted the ruins were fabricated and explained that he had assembled their history from the records of other powers.
• Xiwai Ao Xie denied that the Xiwai Divine Cult had knowingly deceived anyone, offered tenfold travel-cost compensation, and blamed the Barak Royal Family.
• Xiwai Ao Xie seized the Barak king and loyal royal family members, accusing them of framing the Xiwai Divine Cult.

Xiwai Ao Xie faced a united front of factions demanding compensation for the Xiwai Divine Cult’s deceptions, but the threat of war eased when Spirit Hall, the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan, and the Huangfu Family learned the cult was tied to divine power. After paying a heavy settlement, Xiwai Ao Xie blamed a subordinate for the fake ruins and decided to seek allies on Sea God Island.

• The major factions threatened the Xiwai Divine Cult with war and demanded apologies and compensation for its falsified history and attacks on other factions.
• Xiwai Ao Xie revealed his rank 98 Soul Power and hinted that the cult had divine connections, prompting Bibi Dong, Zhuang Jingxing, and Huangfu Bari to reconsider fighting.
• After consulting Zhuang Xingyu, Zhuang Jingxing and Huangfu Bari agreed to accept compensation and postpone conflict, and Bibi Dong also chose to withdraw.
• The Xiwai Divine Cult agreed to publicly admit its mistakes and provide the factions with Gold Soul Coins, food, and minerals, while the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan received the largest share.
• After the factions departed, Xiwai Ao Xie ordered a subordinate beheaded over the fake ruins and resolved to visit Sea God Island with the Black Demon God’s token.

Xue Ye worried that the Heaven Dou Empire was falling behind divine-inheritance powers and ordered an investigation into how to obtain a divine legacy. Meanwhile, Zhuang Xingyu and the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan’s convoy prepared to leave Balak Kingdom after witnessing the suffering caused by its rule.

• Xue Ye told Xue Qinghe that the Heaven Dou Empire was threatened by stronger forces with divine inheritances, and Xue Qinghe argued that the empire could benefit by supporting the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan.
• Xue Ye wondered whether the Heaven Dou Imperial Family could be chosen by a god and secretly sent his Shadow Guards to investigate divine inheritances.
• Zhuang Xingyu reflected on how nobles’ taxes, levies, grain destruction, and high-interest loans had driven Balak Kingdom’s common people off their land.
• The Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan’s convoy prepared to depart Balak Kingdom.

The Xiwai Divine Cult’s rule drove the Balak Kingdom into famine, violence, and growing resistance while exploiting its people to cultivate Evil Soul Masters. In a southern town, residents argued over whether the cult or the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan could save the kingdom, as former supporters admitted they regretted coming but had nowhere to return.

• The Xiwai Divine Cult welcomed criminals into the Balak Kingdom and used the Sacred Cult Spring to turn them into Evil Soul Masters by planting Demonic Seeds.
• Zhuang Xingyu vowed to liberate innocent people after completing his God Trial and becoming strong enough to face the Black Demon God.
• Two groups in a southern Balak town argued, with Group A praising the Xiwai Divine Cult and Group B defending the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan.
• People in Group B described how the cult’s rule had caused poisonings, disappearances, land seizures, and worsening poverty, while a peddler praised the Northern Plains’ safety and prosperity.
• Group B admitted that they regretted joining the Xiwai Divine Cult, but their former factions would not accept them and the cult could use them as nourishment for Evil Soul Masters.

After inspecting communities on the way back, Zhuang Xingyu ordered the clan to improve its publicity so people across Douluo Continent would understand the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan and the Northern Plains. The elders challenged the timing and feasibility of the plan, leaving the debate over helping and persuading commoners unresolved.

• Zhuang Xingyu and the elders inspected clan branches, villages, and other sites for a week before passing through Heaven Dou City.
• Zhuang Xingyu said the clan needed to counter slander and ordered the Fifth Core Elder to lead a publicity campaign through Task Pavilion branches.
• The Fifth Core Elder supported the goal but argued the clan should prioritize expanding its profitable operations and building strength.
• The Third Core Elder warned that poverty, illiteracy, and oppressive noble taxes would prevent publicity from persuading commoners without a costly effort to change their lives.
• The Fourth Core Elder said commoners outside the Northern Plains were too ignorant and easily misled to be worth educating.

Zhuang Xingyu rebuked the Core Clan Elders for dismissing ordinary people and explained why propaganda, education, and alliances with exploited commoners mattered. He began using Dragon Rise City as an example of how aristocratic control of knowledge kept people ignorant.

• The Fourth Core Clan Elder called Xiwai Divine Cult supporters criminals or fools and argued they should all be killed.
• The Ninth Core Clan Elder urged Zhuang Xingyu to spend the clan’s resources only on the people of the Northern Plains.
• Zhuang Xingyu warned that public opinion and ideological education were essential because Xiwai Divine Cult propaganda could infiltrate factions and weaken them from within.
• Zhuang Xingyu agreed that committed supporters of the Xiwai Divine Cult should be executed and their relatives punished, but insisted that most commoners were not to blame for their ignorance.
• Zhuang Xingyu argued that exploited commoners and poor people should be allies, then began explaining how aristocratic families in Dragon Rise City monopolized and distorted knowledge.

Zhuang Xingyu instructed the Core Clan Elders to protect commoners and spread stories and prophecies that would improve the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan’s reputation. After returning to Heaven Dou City, he welcomed Xue Qinghe, who came to say farewell before Zhuang Xingyu returned to his clan.

• Zhuang Xingyu warned the Core Clan Elders against exploiting commoners like the Star Luo Empire and ordered them to add a strict prohibition to the clan rules.
• Zhuang Xingyu told the elders to improve the clan’s image through nursery rhymes, stories, plays, and staged prophecies, with clan members portrayed as righteous heroes.
• Zhuang Xingyu dismissed the others and reflected that political scheming exhausted him, then prepared to return to the clan after resting at the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan’s manor in Heaven Dou City.
• Zhuang Xingyu welcomed Xue Qinghe, who visited to spend time with him before they parted.
• Xue Qinghe told Zhuang Xingyu he was his only good friend among people their age, expressing both genuine and feigned reluctance to part.

Zhuang Xingyu and Xue Qinghe shared drinks and discussed Spirit Hall’s future before Zhuang Xingyu exposed Xue Qinghe as Qian Renxue, the undercover agent plotting to seize the throne. Qian Renxue realized he was keeping her secret for now and asked what he wanted in return.

• Zhuang Xingyu quoted a verse about friendship, and Xue Qinghe praised him as its author despite his denial.
• While drinking, Zhuang Xingyu predicted that Spirit Hall would destroy itself within fifteen years under Bibi Dong’s leadership.
• Zhuang Xingyu hinted that Spirit Hall’s fate depended on the contest between the Angel Lineage and the Rakshasa God.
• Zhuang Xingyu revealed that he knew Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue, granddaughter of Qian Daoliu and the agent carrying out a plan to seize a nation.
• Zhuang Xingyu used the Chaos Bead to dispel Qian Renxue’s disguise, and she asked what conditions he wanted.

Zhuang Xingyu captured Qian Renxue and rejected her threats and offers to form an alliance, explaining why Spirit Hall would not necessarily rescue her. When Qian Renxue tried to sway him with a tearful story, he saw through her act and punished her.

• Qian Renxue tried to negotiate her release by warning that Spirit Hall would retaliate, but Zhuang Xingyu reminded her that she was his prisoner and that Bibi Dong might welcome her death.
• Zhuang Xingyu challenged Qian Renxue’s faith in Qian Daoliu, and she began to suspect that the Angel God had prevented her grandfather from acting against Bibi Dong and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Qian Renxue claimed that she and Zhuang Xingyu shared enemies and offered to divide the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires with him, but he refused and explained that his Asura God inheritance gave him greater standing in the God Realm.
• Qian Renxue pretended to weep over her lonely life and her friendship with Zhuang Xingyu, but he recognized the performance and turned her over a table to punish her.
• After Zhuang Xingyu struck her, Qian Renxue admitted that she would stop lying.

Zhuang Xingyu discovered that Qian Renxue’s soul contained a sealed, shattered Eight-Winged Angel with power approaching the Half-step God King Realm. He concluded that the Angel God had survived her apparent death by reincarnating as Qian Renxue, leaving the reason behind the Sea God’s interference and Qian Renxue’s unusual dream explained.

• Zhuang Xingyu’s encounter with Qian Renxue raised his Soul Power to level 70 and restored a small fragment of the Chaos Bead, especially strengthening its Yin Yang Law.
• Zhuang Xingyu used the Primordial Merit Domain to soothe Qian Renxue, but she trembled and muttered about the Sea God, the Black Demon God, and the West Demon Universe in her sleep.
• Zhuang Xingyu examined Qian Renxue with the Chaos Bead and found a sealed, faint Eight-Winged Angel pattern deep within her soul.
• Zhuang Xingyu recognized the Angel God’s likeness within the pattern and realized that Qian Renxue was the Angel God’s reincarnation.

Zhuang Xingyu realized that Qian Renxue carried a damaged, half-step God King inheritance from her previous life, and its restoration triggered an Angel God miracle across Spirit City and the continent. Qian Renxue awakened with an Eight-Winged Angel Martial Soul and stronger memories, while Bibi Dong faced renewed pressure and Zhuang Xingyu left Qian Renxue with an order to clean his room.

• Zhuang Xingyu connected Qian Renxue’s recovery to the Eight-Winged Angel Imprint and speculated that her past-life memories would return over the coming years.
• The Angel God Statue in Spirit City released a divine miracle that restored vitality, dispelled Rakshasa influence, and led Qian Daoliu and the enshrined elders to worship.
• Qian Daoliu persuaded the eager enshrined elders to wait before confronting Spirit Hall’s rivals, while citizens across Spirit City knelt before the apparition.
• Bibi Dong felt the Angel God’s power and feared losing the Pope’s position as support for the Qian Family grew across the continent.
• The Eight-Winged Angel Imprint broke Zhuang Xingyu’s Soul Power seal, and Qian Renxue’s Martial Soul gained a fourth pair of wings as her Soul Power rose to level 80.
• Qian Renxue woke with clearer memories of the Angel God’s past life, and Zhuang Xingyu told her to clean the room.

Zhuang Xingyu revealed that Qian Renxue’s Martial Soul had evolved into a super god-tier Eight-Winged Angel and told her the Angel God had been assassinated by the Sea God. Qian Renxue accepted their relationship and begged him to keep her identity secret, but he kept her at his manor while she worried about returning to her role in the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Qian Renxue woke beside Zhuang Xingyu, realized she had not been drugged, and proposed that they rule Douluo Continent together.
• Zhuang Xingyu told Qian Renxue her Martial Soul had evolved into an Eight-Winged Angel and confirmed that her Soul Power had risen from Rank 75 to Rank 80.
• Qian Renxue inferred that Zhuang Xingyu had helped his clan members evolve their Martial Souls, and he said the Angel God had been assassinated by the Sea God.
• Qian Renxue thanked Zhuang Xingyu and offered him anything she had; after they spent time together, she begged him to conceal her identity and promised to share the Heaven Dou Empire with him.
• Zhuang Xingyu told Qian Renxue that he wanted to unite Douluo Continent and bring their close family to the God Realm, and she agreed to treat his parents as her own while insisting Bibi Dong must be excluded.
• Qian Renxue asked to return before Xue Ye grew suspicious, but Zhuang Xingyu insisted she stay at King Qi’s Manor for a few more days.

Zhuang Xingyu absorbed Law Fragments while cultivating with Qian Renxue, then completed the four-domain fusion skill, the Chaos Dao Wave. He and Qian Renxue exchanged tokens and arranged to meet again in five days, after he pursued the next stage of the Asura God's assessment.

• Zhuang Xingyu absorbed six Law Fragments from Qian Renxue and saw the Chaos Divine Seed begin to sprout.
• Zhuang Xingyu fused the Primordial Merit Domain, Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Domain, Life Domain, and Slaughter Domain into the Chaos Dao Wave.
• Qian Renxue praised Zhuang Xingyu's domains, and he explained how his Slaughter Domain differed from Bibi Dong's Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Zhuang Xingyu invited Qian Renxue to meet his parents, but she postponed the visit because she was unprepared.
• Qian Renxue gave Zhuang Xingyu a Spirit Hall token and told him about her grandfather's restrictions, while Zhuang Xingyu gave her a clan token.
• Zhuang Xingyu agreed to visit Qian Renxue in Heaven Dou City in five days, after completing the Asura God's fourth-test reward.

Zhuang Xingyu warned Qian Renxue about the Heaven Dou court, gave her a poison to replace the one she had used on Xue Ye, and completed the Asura God's fourth trial. After absorbing the reward, he gained an 850,000-year seventh Soul Ring and resolved to accelerate his plan to unify Douluo Continent.

• Qian Renxue told Zhuang Xingyu about her plan to poison Xue Ye and her suspicions that Xue Yi and Xue Er were unusual; Zhuang Xingyu gave her a stronger poison and urged her to investigate safely.
• After Xue Qinghe left King Qi's Manor, Xue Ye suspected the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan meant to help the crown prince seize power, but his worsening headaches distracted him.
• Zhuang Xingyu reached the Asura God's inheritance ground and completed the fourth trial, earning a God-Bestowed Soul Ring and receiving the fifth trial: win the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Zhuang Xingyu absorbed the divine power in the reward and formed an 850,000-year seventh Soul Ring, raising his Soul Power to Level 74 and a half.
• Zhuang Xingyu decided to launch his unification war after winning the tournament and completing the fifth trial, rather than waiting until he became a god.

Zhuang Xingyu reorganized the City of Slaughter and ordered the Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan to prepare for war as he pursued continental unification. He then secretly entered Qian Renxue’s bedroom in Heaven Dou City and woke her.

• Zhuang Xingyu reviewed the City of Slaughter’s growth, then reprimanded Sky Douluo for proposing that it become self-sufficient in food and supplies.
• Zhuang Xingyu returned to his clan and revealed that his combat power had reached the god level after obtaining an 850,000-year soul ring.
• Zhuang Xingyu ordered the clan to pursue a hard-line strategy, investigate grievances dating back five hundred years, expand its army by eight hundred thousand, and prepare for war while using affiliated forces as proxies.
• Zhuang Xingyu arrived secretly at Qian Renxue’s residence, removed her disguise, and climbed into bed beside her.
• Qian Renxue woke in alarm when Zhuang Xingyu grabbed her waist.

Qian Renxue and Zhuang Xingyu left Heaven Dou City for Spirit Hall, where her evolved Eight-Winged Angel appearance made Qian Daoliu mistake her for the Angel God. The chapter ended with Zhuang Xingyu explaining that Qian Renxue’s martial soul evolution had made her resemble the Angel God.

• Qian Renxue arranged for Zheng Xiufang to impersonate Xue Qinghe while she left Heaven Dou City with Zhuang Xingyu, Pufferfish Douluo, and Phoenix Douluo.
• Pufferfish Douluo and Phoenix Douluo speculated about Qian Renxue and Zhuang Xingyu’s relationship, while Snake Lance Douluo had already begun calling Zhuang Xingyu Lord Son-in-Law.
• The group reached Spirit City, where Zhuang Xingyu noticed the Angel God’s renewed prominence and Qian Renxue told him that Qian Daoliu lived in the Worship Hall.
• Qian Renxue and Zhuang Xingyu entered the Worship Hall from behind to avoid the Papal Palace’s spies, and the Angel God Statue resonated with Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue’s Eight-Winged Angel appearance was revealed, causing Qian Daoliu to mistake her for the Angel God and kneel before her.
• Zhuang Xingyu told Qian Daoliu that Qian Renxue was his granddaughter and that her evolved martial soul had made her resemble the Angel God.

Qian Renxue revealed her evolved Eight-Winged Angel Martial Soul to Qian Daoliu, who accepted her relationship with Zhuang Xingyu and blessed them. The Angel God Statue transported Qian Renxue to the inheritance grounds, where she received the second-trial reward and completed a 221,000-year eighth Soul Ring.

• Qian Renxue explained her Eight-Winged Angel evolution to Qian Daoliu, who celebrated her and then grew wary of Zhuang Xingyu.
• Qian Renxue defended Zhuang Xingyu, introduced him as her husband, and said he had helped her Martial Soul evolve and raised her Soul Power to Rank 80.
• Zhuang Xingyu and Qian Renxue told Qian Daoliu how they became a couple, and he approved of their relationship and gave them the Six-Winged Angel Yin-Yang Pendants.
• Qian Daoliu asked how Zhuang Xingyu had helped Qian Renxue, but Zhuang Xingyu declined to explain; then the Angel God Statue transported Qian Renxue to the inheritance grounds to receive her early second-trial reward.
• Qian Renxue gained 20% more divine-position affinity, increased ages for her first three Soul Rings, and a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, which she absorbed as her eighth Soul Ring at 221,000 years.