Chapter Summaries

Zhang Lexuan entered the Forbidden Land of Gods to seek the power she needed to find Zhou Huan, then encountered a strange world that transformed from ruined city to modern metropolis. The chapter left her staring at a bookstore displaying books titled Douluo Continent.

• Zhang Lexuan entered the Forbidden Land of Gods after Wang Tizhou and Ling Suzhen told her it might offer a chance to become a god.
• Zhang Lexuan explored the silent ruins alone, noticing familiar shop signs and feeling strangely more real there.
• A sudden sandstorm swept over Zhang Lexuan, but her Rank 9 Defensive Soul Tool and Soul Power protected her.
• The sandstorm erased the ruined city and revealed a modern metropolis more advanced than Mingdu.
• Zhang Lexuan spotted a bookstore window displaying a row of books titled Douluo Continent.

Zhang Lexuan investigated Sunshine Bookstore and read two books that appeared to depict the history of Douluo Continent, leaving her shaken by the possibility that her world was fictional. After Peerless Tang Sect contained no mention of Zhou Huan, she destroyed the city around the bookstore in anger.

• Zhang Lexuan entered Sunshine Bookstore with her Rank 9 Defensive Soul Tool activated and found it empty except for books.
• Zhang Lexuan read Douluo Continent in two minutes and questioned whether it was a novel or a detailed record of the Shrek Seven Devils' past.
• The books transformed into Douluo Continent II: Peerless Tang Sect, and Zhang Lexuan recalled Zhou Huan's words before deciding to read it.
• Zhang Lexuan finished Peerless Tang Sect in under three minutes and found no trace of Zhou Huan in it.
• Zhang Lexuan unleashed enough Soul Power to destroy everything within ten miles, and the city exploded around Sunshine Bookstore.

Zhang Lexuan arrived in the Forbidden Land of Gods, where a white-clothed woman revealed that she would oversee her trial and offered books about the future. Zhang Lexuan dismissed the claim that she was a character in a book, and the trial began when the woman vanished into the lake.

• Zhang Lexuan destroyed the modern metropolis with Moonlight Brilliance, then found herself standing on a moonlit lake after the surroundings changed.
• A white-clothed woman appeared and told Zhang Lexuan she would receive an opportunity if she passed the trial, but would die if she failed.
• The woman showed Zhang Lexuan books about later installments of Douluo Continent and claimed that Zhang Lexuan was a character in a book.
• Zhang Lexuan said she did not believe the claim and asked whether reading the books or answering the woman's question would bring her a benefit.
• The white-clothed woman abandoned her question, agreed to begin the trial, and disappeared into the lake as Zhang Lexuan moved across its surface.

Zhang Lexuan defeated Shadow Xuan by injuring herself, forcing the identical shadow to suffer the same wound and concede. The white-clothed woman declared that Zhang Lexuan had passed the trial and could accept an inheritance, but clarified that it was not a Deity Inheritance.

• Zhang Lexuan and Shadow Xuan fought with identical Soul Skills, and neither could gain an advantage after more than a hundred clashes.
• Zhang Lexuan realized Shadow Xuan had only neutralized her attacks and tested whether the shadow shared her injuries by piercing her own shoulder.
• Shadow Xuan vomited blood from the matching wound, confirming Zhang Lexuan's guess.
• Zhang Lexuan threatened to injure herself again, and Shadow Xuan conceded the trial.
• The white-clothed woman said Zhang Lexuan had passed and could accept an inheritance, then clarified that she had not said it was a Deity Inheritance.

Zhang Lexuan accepted the Clear Moon Heart and was transported into the body of Zhang Xuan'er, a powerful young Nascent Soul Cultivator in the Sky Scar Sect. After exploring her unfamiliar surroundings, she startled a young girl, who immediately knelt before her.

• The white-clothed woman gave Zhang Lexuan the Clear Moon Heart, and Zhang Lexuan refined it before losing consciousness.
• The white-clothed woman and her black-clothed counterpart discussed Zhang Lexuan's chances of surviving the Clear Moon Heart's trial.
• Zhang Lexuan awoke in Zhang Xuan'er's body and learned that she had become a Nascent Soul Cultivator with Spiritual Power instead of Soul Power.
• Zhang Lexuan left her quiet residence to explore the Sky Scar Sect and reached a library pavilion.
• A young girl saw Zhang Lexuan, cried out, and knelt before her.

Zhang Lexuan discovered that people and spirit beasts feared her because of her original self’s reputation, then met Elder Qingyue, who confirmed she had not been possessed. She reassured her great-grandmother that she had changed and regretted her former unruly behavior.

• Zhang Lexuan tried to comfort Ye'er, but the young girl fainted, and a frightened crowd fled from her.
• Elder Tianyang accused Zhang Lexuan of harming his granddaughter and challenged her to fight at the sect's martial arena.
• Elder Tianyang scooped up Ye'er and fled to another mountain peak, activating its defensive array.
• Elder Qingyue summoned Zhang Lexuan to the highest peak of the Sky Scar Sect and checked whether she had been possessed.
• Zhang Lexuan told Elder Qingyue that she had come to understand things and had been too unruly before.

Zhang Lexuan learned that the Heavenly Jade Heart would appear in the Twilight Cloud Mountain Range and decided she had to obtain it, believing it might be her way back to the Forbidden Land of Gods. Elder Qingyue agreed to let her join the expedition but warned her to stay out of the Nascent Soul battle.

• Elder Qingyue explained that the Heavenly Jade Heart was about to appear and that the immortal and demonic sects would soon clash over it.
• Elder Qingyue told Zhang Lexuan to protect herself and avoid fighting Nascent Soul Cultivators, while she and the other experts handled the strongest opponents.
• Sect Master Tian Kui reported that the Heavenly Jade Heart would likely appear in the Twilight Cloud Mountain Range in three days and that the sects had sent Disciples there.
• Elder Qingyue and Sect Master Tian Kui agreed that Zhang Lexuan's safety was a priority, but Zhang Lexuan insisted on joining the expedition.
• Elder Qingyue allowed Zhang Lexuan to go as long as she avoided the Nascent Soul battle, while Zhang Lexuan resolved to seize the Heavenly Jade Heart and find a way back to the Forbidden Land of Gods.

After three months of absorbing Abyss energy, Zhou Huan reached the Half-God level but learned that the Heaven Crocodile Emperor could no longer supply enough powerful Abyss creatures. Zhou Huan summoned three other Abyss Emperors to the lair, where he froze them and declared that he would become their master.

• Zhou Huan absorbed Abyss energy from a serpent-like creature and reflected on his rapid progress after consuming about a million Abyss creatures.
• The Heaven Crocodile Emperor warned Zhou Huan that the supply of high-energy Abyss creatures was running short, so Zhou Huan decided to invite other Abyss Emperors to a meal.
• The Heaven Crocodile Emperor summoned the Earth Crab Emperor, Lizard Devourer Emperor, and Spider Emperor to its lair.
• The Spider Emperor and the other Emperors attacked the Heaven Crocodile Emperor after learning it had a master.
• Zhou Huan and Le Wuxue emerged from the Floating Pagoda, froze all three Emperors, and Zhou Huan introduced himself as their new master.

Zhou Huan enslaved three Abyss Emperors and spent months absorbing Abyss energy until he broke through to the god-level. The Floating Pagoda expanded and produced an ice Godhead, which Zhou Huan gave to Snow Empress after Blue Dragon Qilin Horse declined it.

• Zhou Huan used the Floating Pagoda to make the Spider Emperor, Earth Crab Emperor, and Lizard Devourer Emperor his loyal subordinates, then traveled with Le Wuxue to the Earth Crab Emperor's lair.
• Zhou Huan absorbed Abyss energy for more than two months until his god-level progress reached its peak.
• Zhou Huan began his breakthrough inside the Floating Pagoda while Snow Empress, Wang Qiuer, and the others watched.
• After ten days, Zhou Huan reached the god-level, and the Floating Pagoda shook as its first-floor space expanded nearly tenfold.
• Zhou Huan revealed that the Floating Pagoda had given him an ice Godhead, and Blue Dragon Qilin Horse declined it.
• Zhou Huan handed the Godhead to Snow Empress.

Zhou Huan contacted Gu Yuena through the Silver Dragon Scale and learned that his friends on Douluo Continent were safe. He proposed joining forces to attack the God Realm and target Tang San and Tang Hao, leaving Gu Yuena weighing the danger of opposing a God King.

• Zhou Huan entered the Silver Dragon Scale and met Gu Yuena, who congratulated him on reaching god-level and explained that she was still recovering.
• Gu Yuena told Zhou Huan that the empires on Douluo Continent were at war, but his friends were safe and no other Deity had descended since the assassination attempt.
• Zhou Huan asked Gu Yuena whether she would someday storm the God Realm with him, and she favored securing a future for the Soul Beasts instead.
• Zhou Huan clarified that he wanted to target Tang San and Tang Hao, then revealed that Tang San held both the Asura God King and Sea God Positions.
• Gu Yuena realized Tang San's strength made the plan perilous and wondered whether she should agree.

Zhou Huan contacted Gu Yuena and arranged for her to help open a planar passage once she regained her god-level cultivation, while deciding to delay his return to Douluo Continent until he could protect himself. Back in the Abyss, he told Le Wuxue they needed to control more Abyss Emperors to meet his growing energy needs, despite the risk of detection.

• Zhou Huan asked Gu Yuena to help construct a temporary planar passage with the Silver Dragon Scale, and she agreed to do so after recovering her god-level cultivation in about a year.
• Zhou Huan told Gu Yuena he would return to Douluo Continent only after he could protect himself, then reassured Wang Qiuer that Tang San and the God Realm would not directly attack the Star Dou Great Forest's Soul Beasts.
• Zhou Huan emerged from seclusion and found Le Wuxue absorbing Abyss energy; he noted that she had reached Rank 74 and condensed her Seventh Soul Ring herself.
• Le Wuxue questioned whether it was too risky to seek treatment from the Heaven Crocodile Emperor while they were still on the 107th level.
• Zhou Huan explained that his energy needs had increased more than tenfold and that they would have to control more Abyss Emperors while avoiding the Abyssal Sage King's notice.

During a year and a half of secretly absorbing Abyss energy through the Emperors he controlled, Zhou Huan reached True God-level and settled on the Abyss's eighty-fifth floor. As the adult creatures on the forty-nine floors were nearly exhausted, he prepared to expand deeper into the Abyss and summoned the Green Fox Emperor.

• Zhou Huan used the Heaven Crocodile Emperor's feasts and connections to control Abyss Emperors across forty-nine floors, then reached level one hundred and thirteen.
• Zhou Huan considered the Floating Pagoda's new Soul Rings and Godhead while discussing the risks of continuing to absorb Abyss creatures with Le Wuxue.
• Le Wuxue warned that the adult Abyss creatures on their controlled floors were nearly used up, and Zhou Huan agreed to expand into lower layers.
• Zhou Huan summoned the Green Fox Emperor, made her change back into a little fox, and asked when she last saw her big sister Mei Huang.

The Green Fox Emperor lured Mei Huang into revealing her guarded beliefs about the Abyss Plane, then Zhou Huan’s allies ambushed and froze her. Mei Huang was left trapped as an ice sculpture, with an unfamiliar human man and woman reflected in her eyes.

• The Green Fox Emperor visited Mei Huang in Charm Emperor's Hall after Mei Huang ignored her invitation to the one hundred and fifth layer.
• The Green Fox Emperor offered Mei Huang wine and suggested they could live in another world beyond the cruel Abyss Plane.
• Mei Huang rejected the idea, warning that Abyss creatures could not survive outside their plane, but the Green Fox Emperor claimed they could leave.
• Mei Huang sensed something was wrong and tried to seize the Green Fox Emperor, but a snowflake froze her in place.
• An unfamiliar human woman touched Mei Huang's forehead with a sword finger, turning her into an ice sculpture as a human man and woman appeared in her eyes.

Zhou Huan captured Mei Huang and used her connection to the Black Empress to expand his influence through the Abyss Plane. After four years, he reached the Transcendent God level and consumed nearly all adult Abyss creatures outside the Ten Abyss Emperors’ worlds, forcing him to stop hiding and prepare for what came next.

• Zhou Huan froze Mei Huang, then used the Floating Pagoda to make her his obedient soul slave.
• Mei Huang told Zhou Huan that the Black Empress was her ally and one of her partners, giving Zhou Huan a possible opening to the Ten Abyss Emperors.
• Zhou Huan continued absorbing Abyss energy from the Thirty-third Layer and expanded his control over Abyss Emperors and layers.
• One year and eight months later, Zhou Huan broke through to the Twelfth Order, becoming a level 124 Transcendent God.
• After four years in the Abyss Plane, Zhou Huan had consumed ninety percent of adult Abyss creatures from the Eleventh through the 108th Layers, leaving him unable to keep lying low.

Zhou Huan revealed himself to the Sage Emperor’s avatar and, with the Abyss Emperors under his control, began absorbing the 108th layer. The Abyssal Sage King noticed the collapse and reached down to seize Zhou Huan.

• The Sage Emperor arrived on the Seventeenth Layer and found its Abyss creatures gone and its Emperor serving Zhou Huan.
• Zhou Huan revealed that the Sage Emperor had sent an avatar, then destroyed it with an Emperor Sword strike.
• Mei Huang, the Green Fox Emperor, the Black Empress, and other Abyss Emperors appeared and pledged themselves to Zhou Huan.
• Zhou Huan killed the Heaven Crocodile Emperor, and the Floating Pagoda began absorbing the collapsing 108th layer.
• The Abyssal Sage King appeared as a vast shadow and reached toward Zhou Huan with a colossal hand.

Zhou Huan used the Floating Pagoda to withstand the Abyssal Sage King's attacks while destroying Abyss Emperors and devouring their worlds. The Abyssal Sage King sacrificed the remaining nine layers to empower his halberd and vowed to kill Zhou Huan.

• The Abyssal Sage King's palm struck the Floating Pagoda, but Zhou Huan's artifact remained unharmed and continued devouring the 108th Layer.
• The Abyssal Sage King appeared, questioned Zhou Huan, and attacked the Floating Pagoda with the Heavenly Saint Abyss Splitting Halberd when Zhou Huan refused to answer.
• Zhou Huan activated the mark in the Earth Crab Emperor's soul, destroying him and causing the 107th Layer to collapse into energy for the Floating Pagoda.
• Zhou Huan detonated ninety-nine Abyss Emperors, and the Floating Pagoda began devouring their corresponding Abyss Worlds.
• The Abyssal Sage King drove his halberd into the plane, collapsing its remaining nine worlds and gathering their energy into the weapon.

The Abyssal Sage King drained the final nine Abyss layers to empower his halberd, killing several Abyss Emperors while attacking Zhou Huan’s Floating Pagoda. After a year of absorbing energy from all ninety-nine Abyss layers, Zhou Huan reached God King level just as the Abyss Plane disintegrated.

• The Abyssal Sage King drained the final nine Abyss layers, killing the Sky Bull Emperor and causing the other Abyss Emperors to face certain death.
• The Peak Emperor mourned Bull Bull, then exploded as the Abyss Plane’s energy continued to drain.
• The Abyssal Sage King struck the Floating Pagoda relentlessly, but Zhou Huan remained protected inside and absorbed the plane’s energy to raise his level.
• Over the course of a year, the Abyssal Sage King kept attacking while Zhou Huan absorbed the energy of the ninety-nine Abyss layers.
• The Abyss Plane disintegrated, and Zhou Huan opened his eyes at Level 150, having reached God King level.

After reaching God King level and attaining Absolute Zero, Zhou Huan emerged from the Floating Pagoda to face the Abyssal Sage King. The Sage King destroyed his Super Divine Artifact to escape, and Zhou Huan and Snow Empress prepared to return home.

• Snow Empress confirmed that Zhou Huan had reached the realm beyond Extreme Ice and Extreme Cold, which he called Absolute Zero.
• Zhou Huan left the Floating Pagoda, and the Abyssal Sage King attacked him with the Heavenly Saint Abyss Splitting Halberd.
• Zhou Huan caught the halberd between two fingers, and his Absolute Zero Cold Ice Qi erased its divine power.
• The Abyssal Sage King detonated the halberd to escape through a Space Rift, while Zhou Huan used the Floating Pagoda to withstand the blast.
• Snow Empress criticized Zhou Huan's newly reached God King level, then told him it was time to go home.

Zhou Huan and the Snow Empress returned to the Douluo Continent after five years in the Abyss Plane, and Zhou Huan considered how to build support before confronting Tang San. After reuniting Wang Qiuer with Gu Yuena, Di Tian, and Bi Ji, Zhou Huan left for the Wang Family in Falling Shore City.

• Zhou Huan and the Snow Empress emerged from a planar passage at the Lake of Life, where Gu Yuena, Di Tian, and Bi Ji were waiting.
• Zhou Huan told Gu Yuena that he had no immediate plan to confront Tang San and intended to visit his companions first.
• Zhou Huan brought Wang Qiuer out of the Floating Pagoda, and she paid her respects to Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena left, while Bi Ji comforted Wang Qiuer and Di Tian reunited with her.
• Zhou Huan and the Snow Empress left the Lake of Life, and Zhou Huan traveled to the Wang Family in Falling Shore City.

Zhou Huan returned to the Wang Family with the Snow Empress, astonishing Wang Tizhou and Ling Suzhen with their power. He learned that Le Xuan had entered the Forbidden Land of Gods five years earlier, but his attempt to follow her failed, leaving him to wait for her return.

• Zhou Huan and the Snow Empress appeared before Wang Tizhou and Ling Suzhen, who were shocked that Zhou Huan had survived and grown beyond their ability to sense his realm.
• Zhou Huan introduced the Snow Empress, and Wang Tizhou and Ling Suzhen recognized her as a Soul Beast who had reached god-level.
• Ling Suzhen told Zhou Huan that Qingya was cultivating, Xiao Xiao and the others were traveling, and Le Xuan had entered the Forbidden Land of Gods five years earlier.
• Zhou Huan learned that time flowed differently in the Forbidden Land of Gods and asked to enter it to find Le Xuan.
• Wang Tizhou and Ling Suzhen opened a passage, but it collapsed when Zhou Huan tried to enter because those above god-level were forbidden from crossing.
• Wang Tizhou asked Zhou Huan what he planned to do now that he had returned.