Chapter Summaries

Rakshasa God stripped Bibi Dong of her divine power and attacked her and Lu Yan, but their coordinated counterattack weakened Rakshasa’s spiritual projection. Rakshasa recovered and declared that she would seize the secret hidden in Lu Yan’s soul.

• Rakshasa God took back the Rakshasa Divine Power surrounding Bibi Dong and ordered her to move aside.
• Lu Yan stood with Bibi Dong and gathered his Spiritual Power into an attack while Bibi Dong prepared to block Rakshasa’s divine power.
• Lu Yan fired the Seven-Colored Divine Light at Rakshasa as Bibi Dong’s Soul Impact met the oncoming wave, but Rakshasa overwhelmed Bibi Dong and blocked Lu Yan’s strike.
• Rakshasa’s barrier flickered when her control was disrupted, allowing Lu Yan’s Seven-Colored Divine Light to strike and drive her back five steps.
• Rakshasa recognized that Lu Yan had interfered with her soul and vowed to claim the secret within it.

Bibi Dong prepared to destroy her body and soul to save Lu Yan, but Asura appeared and eliminated the Rakshasa God's projection. Asura saved Bibi Dong, offered Lu Yan his God Position, and left him to claim the inheritance token and Asura Divine Sword in the City of Slaughter.

• Bibi Dong began self-destructing to push herself toward the God Realm and give Lu Yan a chance to survive.
• Lu Yan called on a hidden senior, and Asura revealed himself in the Sea of Consciousness.
• Asura confronted Rakshasa for violating the rules and erased her divine projection with his sword aura.
• Asura restored Bibi Dong's spirit body and praised Lu Yan's strength and perception.
• Asura offered Lu Yan his God Position, and Lu Yan agreed to inherit it.
• Asura told Lu Yan that he had to obtain the inheritance token and Asura Divine Sword in the City of Slaughter.

After Asura killed Rakshasa’s spiritual sense, Lu Yan and Bibi Dong agreed to go to the City of Slaughter after the All-Continent High-Level Soul Master Competition so Lu Yan could claim the Asura inheritance. Returning to their bodies, they accidentally woke in an intimate embrace, and Bibi Dong later watched Lu Yan reunite with Qian Renxue, feeling an unspoken heaviness.

• Bibi Dong agreed to accompany Lu Yan to the City of Slaughter after the All-Continent High-Level Soul Master Competition and warned him about the King of Slaughter’s strength.
• Bibi Dong told Lu Yan that her divine trial had stopped, but she did not regret giving up the inheritance after Rakshasa’s defeat.
• Lu Yan and Bibi Dong returned to their bodies and found themselves lying together on a bed; Bibi Dong hurried away when she realized their position.
• Bibi Dong noticed her lip mark on Lu Yan’s neck, and Lu Yan wiped it away and called their contact an accident.
• Qian Renxue anxiously checked Lu Yan for injuries, while Bibi Dong watched their closeness and felt stifled.

Lu Yan secured Qian Renxue’s support for pursuing the Asura God Position, while Bibi Dong declared that Yu Xiaogang no longer mattered to her. In the God Realm, Asura punished Rakshasa for interfering in the mortal realm, and Evil refused to protect her.

• Bibi Dong invited Qian Renxue back to Spirit Hall, but Qian Renxue chose to stay with Lu Yan a while longer.
• Lu Yan asked Bibi Dong to decide Yu Xiaogang’s fate, and Bibi Dong said he had nothing to do with her.
• After Bibi Dong left, Qian Renxue embraced and kissed Lu Yan, then noticed Bibi Dong’s fragrance on him; Lu Yan explained it as an accident, and Qian Renxue accepted his explanation.
• Asura confronted Rakshasa in the God Realm over her unauthorized descent and showed Evil what she had done in Lu Yan’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Evil judged Rakshasa guilty and refused to shield her, leaving Asura to sentence her to lose a thousand years of cultivation and guard the Forbidden Land of the Gods for a thousand years.
• Asura warned Rakshasa to report to the Forbidden Land within three days, and she raged over the dangerous sentence.

Emperor Xue Ye sought to bind Lu Yan to the Heaven Dou Empire through marriage, but Qian Renxue told him Lu Yan planned to enter the City of Slaughter and requested the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud for his protection. She then proposed honoring Lu Yan by imperial decree while branding the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as rebels, and Emperor Xue Ye approved her scheme.

• Emperor Xue Ye urged Qian Renxue to arrange a marriage alliance between Lu Yan and an Imperial Family woman to secure his bloodline for the Empire.
• Qian Renxue concealed her jealousy and told Emperor Xue Ye that Lu Yan planned to travel to the City of Slaughter after the All-Continent High-Level Soul Master Competition.
• Alarmed by the danger, Emperor Xue Ye agreed to lend Lu Yan the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and wanted the Empire's favor to bind him to Heaven Dou.
• Qian Renxue proposed issuing a decree that praised Lu Yan for protecting the Emperor and bestowed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud while condemning the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as traitors.
• Emperor Xue Ye recognized that the decree would leave the clan exposed to its enemies and approved Qian Renxue's proposal.

Qian Renxue used evidence of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s crimes to secure an imperial decree condemning the clan and honoring Lu Yan. As the clan resolved to seal itself off after failing to find allies, Lu Yan told Qian Renxue that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud was the key to the Sea God Inheritance.

• Qian Renxue gathered evidence against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the Heaven Dou Empire branded the clan traitorous while naming Lu Yan the Loyal and Brave Marquis and granting him the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s elders blamed Lu Yan for Yu Yuanzhen’s death and discussed killing him, potentially by capturing Tang Yuehua to prevent their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Yu Luomian proposed asking the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for help, but the elders revealed that Ning Fengzhi had already seized the clan’s properties.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan decided to seal off its mountain gate after killing Lu Yan, hoping to preserve a Core Flame for the clan.
• In the Crown Prince’s eastern palace, Lu Yan explained to Qian Renxue that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud was the key to the Sea God Inheritance, and Qian Renxue remarked that Xue Ye would regret giving it away.

Qian Renxue told Lu Yan her plan to destroy the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan by faking Xue Qinghe’s death, and Lu Yan helped carry it out. The staged assassination sent Heaven Dou City into chaos as Lu Yan and Qian Renxue vanished unnoticed.

• Qian Renxue said she had to return to Spirit Hall, and she and Lu Yan shared a tender farewell before agreeing to meet again at the All-Continent High-Level Soul Master Competition finals.
• Qian Renxue proposed faking Xue Qinghe’s death in an attack blamed on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Lu Yan approved the plan.
• Lu Yan used his abilities to create a masked Soul Douluo with a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul, who ambushed Xue Qinghe in Heaven Dou City and struck him down in front of his guards.
• The guards found a charred body and declared Xue Qinghe dead, while news of the assassination spread through Heaven Dou City and the empire.
• Lu Yan and Qian Renxue concealed themselves with Spiritual Power and slipped away amid the chaos.

After Crown Prince Xue Qinghe was assassinated in Heaven Dou City by someone displaying the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, Ning Fengzhi suspected a frame-up but could not identify its source. Xue Ye ordered the clan destroyed, while Yu Luomian and the elders realized they had been framed and faced imminent annihilation.

• A disciple reported Xue Qinghe’s assassination to Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong, saying witnesses had seen the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.
• Ning Fengzhi suspected the clan had been framed, then ordered Chen Xin to accompany him to the palace and Gu Rong to investigate the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Xue Ye destroyed his desk in fury and ordered one hundred thousand troops dispatched to wipe out the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• A messenger told Yu Luomian and the clan elders that Xue Qinghe had been killed and Xue Ye had ordered their destruction.
• Yu Luomian and the elders concluded someone had framed the clan, but they did not know who was behind it.

After Qian Renxue left to begin inheriting her divine position, Lu Yan attended Xue Qinghe’s funeral and vanished using his Void Dream Domain. He appeared at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s gates and began slaughtering its disciples, where Yu Luomian and eight other Elders confronted him.

• Qian Renxue told Lu Yan she would return to him after beginning the ritual to inherit her divine position, then left Heaven.
• Lu Yan entered the Imperial Palace hall, silently looked at Xue Qinghe’s charred body, and vanished with his Void Dream Domain.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin concluded Lu Yan was heading for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Xue Ye sent them to support the Loyal and Brave Marquis.
• Lu Yan appeared at the sect gates, spotted the concealed Gu Rong, and killed the two guards before entering the grounds.
• Lu Yan used Spiritual Deterrence and summoned dozens of swords to kill the fleeing disciples, absorbing their souls.
• Yu Luomian and eight other Elders arrived and blocked Lu Yan’s path.

Lu Yan attacked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, shattered its ancestral plaque, and faced nine elders in their dragon forms. As Lu Yan trapped four elders in his Void Dream Domain, Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin arrived to support him, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Lu Yan split the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's plaque and declared that the nine elders would die.
• The nine elders transformed into thunder dragons and attacked Lu Yan, who activated his Void Dream Domain and suppressed their Spiritual Power.
• Lu Yan used Gravity Compression to trap the four weaker dragons in Seven-Colored Mist, while Yu Luomian recognized his plan to divide the battlefield.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin arrived, and Ning Fengzhi augmented Lu Yan's Spiritual Power with the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Yu Luomian accused Ning Fengzhi of exploiting the clan's crisis, while Ning Fengzhi rejected his defense and ordered Chen Xin to attack.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s reinforcements broke the Seven-Colored Mist and surrounded Lu Yan, Chen Xin, and Ning Fengzhi. As the Elders launched a coordinated attack, Lu Yan used Soul Devour to put weaker disciples to sleep, leaving the battle poised to intensify.

• Nearly thirty Soul Saint-rank experts and more than a hundred Soul Emperors arrived at the mountain gate, surrounding Lu Yan, Chen Xin, and Ning Fengzhi.
• The clan’s disciples unleashed a barrage of Soul Skills that shattered much of the Seven-Colored Mist and freed the four trapped Elders.
• Yu Luomian rallied the clan and ordered them to kill Lu Yan and defend their sect.
• Lu Yan activated his Fourth Soul Skill, Soul Devour, and sent weaker disciples collapsing into deep sleep.
• Yu Luomian and the eight Elders began unleashing their Eighth Soul Skills in two coordinated waves against Lu Yan.

Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi countered the nine Elders’ combined Thunder Dragon attack while Lu Yan incapacitated most of the Blue Lightning Sect’s disciples and protected Ning Fengzhi. Chen Xin’s empowered strike split the Nine Thunder Dragons, leaving Yu Luomian’s forces overwhelmed.

• Ning Fengzhi supported Chen Xin as he summoned his Seven Kill True Body and formed a giant sword to confront the Nine Thunder Dragons.
• Yu Luomian ordered the sect disciples to kill Ning Fengzhi, but discovered that Lu Yan had already incapacitated more than eighty percent of them with his Spiritual Power.
• The remaining disciples attacked Ning Fengzhi, and Lu Yan used Dream Phantom Shadow to protect them both from the attacks.
• Chen Xin brought down a vertical slash that split the Nine Thunder Dragons apart.

Lu Yan, Ning Fengzhi, and Chen Xin crushed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, leaving it on the brink of destruction. As Yu Luomian pleaded for the younger disciples and claimed the Crown Prince’s death had another mastermind, Lu Yan declared that he would destroy the clan first and seek the true culprit afterward.

• Chen Xin’s sword qi killed three of Yu Luomian’s nine Elders and critically wounded the other six.
• Lu Yan and Ning Fengzhi’s forces defeated the remaining Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan members, while Ning Fengzhi marveled at Lu Yan’s strength.
• Yu Luomian begged Ning Fengzhi to spare the younger disciples, and Ning Fengzhi left their fate to Lu Yan.
• Lu Yan said he had come only to destroy the sect, regardless of whether its members had killed the Crown Prince.
• Yu Luomian claimed another mastermind had killed the Crown Prince, but Lu Yan said he would destroy the clan and then continue searching for the culprit.

Lu Yan slaughtered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s remaining members and collected their souls, while Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin witnessed the strange deaths. He then tracked down the clan’s surviving young geniuses, including Yu Tianheng, and arrived as their guardian ordered them to flee.

• Lu Yan killed the wounded Blue Lightning Elders with his sword, then used his Illusion Eye to seize the souls of the unconscious disciples and stewards.
• Chen Xin sensed that the disciples had died and told Ning Fengzhi their souls were gone; Ning Fengzhi became wary of Lu Yan and accepted two Soul Tools while Lu Yan kept four.
• Lu Yan left to digest the harvested souls, then used fragments of Yu Luomian’s memories to locate the clan’s hidden survivors.
• Lu Yan reached a small city and found Yu Tianheng, eight other young geniuses, a Soul Douluo, and a Soul Saint in a courtyard.
• The Soul Douluo urged the young geniuses to carry the clan’s hopes, then spotted Lu Yan in the sky and shouted for everyone to run.

Lu Yan attacked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s remaining members, using his domain and Soul Skills to incapacitate the younger fighters. Yu Lin died and Yu Hao’s desperate counterattack failed, leaving Lu Yan in control of the courtyard.

• Lu Yan spread Void Dream Domain across the courtyard and used Soul Devour to knock the clan’s younger members unconscious.
• Yu Hao unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and ordered Yu Lin to take Yu Tianheng and the others away.
• Lu Yan appeared beside Yu Lin and killed him with Purple Divine Light before he could complete his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Yu Hao ignited his Soul Power and attacked Lu Yan with Thunder Tyrant Dragon, intending to finish him with Thunder Annihilation.
• Lu Yan used Mirror Moon Reflection to send Yu Hao’s attack past him, leaving Yu Hao reverted to human form and writhing in pain.

After destroying the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Lu Yan entered seclusion to stabilize the overloaded Dream Realm. Xue Ye rewarded him with a hereditary kingship, while Qian Renxue returned to Spirit City and confronted Hu Liena over their shared relationship with Lu Yan, until an urgent report from Heaven Dou arrived.

• Lu Yan extracted Yu Hao's soul, sent him and the young geniuses to the Dream Realm, seized the clan's Storage Soul Tools, and secluded himself to stabilize the realm.
• Ning Fengzhi told Xue Ye that Lu Yan had destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Xue Ye named Lu Yan the hereditary Loyal and Brave King and granted him lavish rewards.
• Qian Renxue returned to Spirit City and found Bibi Dong speaking warmly with Hu Liena, whom she recognized as Lu Yan's woman.
• Qian Renxue declared that Lu Yan was her man, and Hu Liena answered that she was also Lu Yan's woman.
• Qian Renxue and Hu Liena faced off until a messenger announced an urgent report from Heaven Dou.

After hearing that Lu Yan had helped destroy the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and then disappeared, Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, and Hu Liena worried about him. Meanwhile, Tang San embraced a dark devouring path and set out to slaughter again, vowing revenge on Spirit Hall and Lu Yan.

• Ghost Douluo reported that Lu Yan, Ning Fengzhi, and Sword Douluo Chen Xin had wiped out the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and that Lu Yan had been named the hereditary Loyal and Brave King.
• Bibi Dong asked where Lu Yan was and whether he was injured; Ghost Douluo said Lu Yan had vanished after leaving the clan, though signs suggested he had survived.
• Qian Renxue remembered how much Lu Yan cherished Zhu Zhuqing, and the news eased the hostility between Qian Renxue and Hu Liena.
• Tang San killed a storyteller who praised Lu Yan, then used blood-draining vines to kill more than a dozen cheering diners.
• Tang San revealed that a Blue Silver King Torso Bone had awakened his bloodline but led his Blue Silver Grass toward devouring, and that consuming life force had rapidly raised his cultivation to Soul Ancestor.
• Tang San rejected his father's instruction to seek the Clear Sky Sect, vowed revenge on Spirit Hall and Lu Yan, and left the city to continue slaughtering.

After emerging from seclusion, Lu Yan returned to Heaven Dou, learned of the continent's changing power balance, and visited the royal residence granted to him as the Loyal and Brave King. He left the residence with Tang Yuehua warning him that his bloodline had become a target for powerful factions.

• Lu Yan emerged from seclusion after absorbing the Blue Lightning Disciples into the Dream Realm, then planned to use it to create a Second World and gather faith.
• Lu Yan examined his captured Soul Tool and found over ten million Gold Soul Coins, rare resources, and three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones before returning to Heaven Dou.
• Tang Yuehua told Lu Yan that the sects would decide who joined the Upper Three Sects through martial contests after the All-Continent High-Level Soul Master Competition, and that the Crown Prince would be buried in three days.
• Lu Yan refused Xue Beng's invitation and spent the night with Tang Yuehua at Moonlight Pavilion.
• Lu Yan and Tang Yuehua visited the Loyal and Brave King's Mansion, where Lu Yan found dozens of beautiful maids selected by Xue Ye.
• Tang Yuehua warned Lu Yan that factions would covet children carrying his bloodline because of his Dream Butterfly martial soul.

Lu Yan secluded himself in the Prince's Mansion to study Ah Yin's soul and develop a secret technique that connected sleepers to the Dream Realm. After succeeding, he emerged from seclusion and reunited with Dugu Yan.

• Lu Yan made Tang Yuehua responsible for managing the Prince's Mansion, and she eagerly took charge.
• Lu Yan brought Ah Yin to the Secret Chamber and repeatedly examined her soul to understand the connection between it and the Dream Realm.
• After more than half a year of research, Lu Yan developed a secret technique that let sleeping people enter the Dream Realm.
• Lu Yan told Ah Yin he had succeeded and said he planned to draw people into the Dream Realm to harvest faith.
• Lu Yan met Dugu Yan, who explained that her team had come to Heaven Dou for a Soul Fighting Competition and that Ye Lingling was making soup for him.

Lu Yan continued developing the Dream Realm and introduced its first hundred low-level Soul Master adventurers, giving them a world where fighting could bring strength and rewards. After Wang Long defeated his first savage wolf and gained hope and power, Lu Yan watched the Dream Realm begin to thrive on the adventurers’ battles and emotions.

• Ye Lingling served Lu Yan nourishing soup, and he praised her cooking while Dugu Yan teased him and asked him to watch the Heaven Dou Team compete.
• Lu Yan continued building the Dream Realm and secretly guided a hundred struggling low-level Soul Masters into it, scattering them so they would not know about one another.
• Lu Yan announced himself as the Soul Master and sent the Dream Realm’s game-like rules into the adventurers’ minds, promising that courage and combat could lead to power.
• Wang Long overcame his fear and killed a savage wolf with a stone, then gained healing, strength, and a butcher knife from its dropped rewards.
• Wang Long charged into the forest seeking more prey and dreaming of becoming Emperor, while Lu Yan observed the adventurers’ battles and drew power from their emotions.