Chapter Summaries

The Light Screen revealed that Phanes had erased a nation to stop the Abyss from consuming Teyvat, and Tang Wulin reacted to the threat with the scars of his own war against the Abyss. The vision then began recounting Phanes’ nine betrayals, showing the Primal Angel turn away from their creator for love.

• The Light Screen explained that Phanes had come to preserve Teyvat from the Abyss and had fought its corrupting Will.
• Tang San realized that humanity’s return of Abyss Power had threatened the world Phanes had saved, while Ning Tian and Niu Tian accepted the destruction as protection.
• Tang Wulin recalled his battle against the Abyss, and his Golden Dragon Spear stirred as he faced the Abyssal image on the Light Screen.
• The vision introduced the first of Phanes’ nine betrayals, showing the Primal Angel leave their creator and enter a forming shadow out of love.
• Huo Yuhao felt the angel’s love, while the Goddess of Flame took Ji Dong’s hand, recognizing a choice like her own.

The Light Screen revealed humanity’s forbidden pursuit of Abyssal knowledge, the King of Red’s pact with the Grass Dragon King, Elysia’s transformation of water spirits, and Furina’s plan to challenge the Heavenly Principles. It then showed that Phanes’ three Regents had also broken their commandments, leaving the Douluo Gods stunned by the scale of the betrayals.

• Scholars in Phanes’ kingdom investigated Abyssal energy, prompting the Light Screen to name humanity’s transgression its second betrayal.
• The King of Red made a pact with the Grass Dragon King to challenge the Heavenly Principles, and a calamity destroyed the desert kingdom.
• Elysia sacrificed her divine body and used the Primordial Sea’s power to transform water spirits into humans.
• Furina carried out a five-hundred-year deception to gather power and put the Heavenly Principles on trial.
• The Time Regent, Death Regent, and Void Regent were revealed to have violated their commandments, and Tian Hen and A'Dai reflected on Phanes’ creations turning against him.

The Light Screen revealed the nine betrayals against Phanes and the punishments he delivered while struggling against the Abyss. It then introduced Khaenri'ah, a nation without Gods whose Earth Vein-powered Ruin Machines rivaled the Demon Gods.

• The Light Screen showed the nine betrayals together, leaving the Douluo World’s viewers shaken by the scale of Phanes’s suffering.
• A golden tear struck an unseen barrier and shattered before the screen introduced Khaenri'ah as a nation without Gods.
• The voice-over explained that Khaenri'ah rejected divine rule and believed humanity should create its own future.
• The screen showed Khaenri'ah harnessing Earth Vein energy through alchemy and an immense network of pipes.
• The screen revealed Khaenri'ah’s Ruin Machines, which needed no pilots and possessed strength rivaling the Demon Gods.

The Light Screen showed Khaenri'ah's war machines, its dangerous research into the Abyss, and the Heavenly Principles' decision to punish the underground kingdom. It left the observers watching the light nail strike Khaenri'ah before the screen revealed the city beneath the earth.

• He Caitou and Huo Yuhao examined the Ruin Graders, while Huo Yuhao concluded they were living war machines rather than Soul Tools.
• The Light Screen showed Khaenri'ah's alchemists studying the Abyss, and one alchemist mutated into a mindless monster after touching its energy.
• The Dragon God, Tang San, and the other observers felt the power of the Heavenly Principles as the floating island appeared above the clouds.
• The Light Screen declared that Khaenri'ah would be punished, then showed a colossal nail of light plunging toward the underground kingdom.
• The Light Screen faded to darkness and revealed Khaenri'ah's vast subterranean city beneath an artificial Dome.

Ilmin, the last king of Kandria, declared that gods were prisoners of a higher dimension and revealed the civilization’s colossal Ruin Graders. Their destructive power shocked observers across Douluo Continent and the Divine Realm, leaving Gu Yuena to identify the machines as weapons meant to challenge the world’s highest Rules.

• Ilmin rose from his throne and declared that gods were prisoners of a higher dimension, shocking the Divine Realm and Douluo Continent.
• Ilmin claimed that Kandria’s people were shackled by the Heavenly Principles beneath a false Sky Vault and questioned why they should obey the gods.
• Enormous machines called Ruin Graders rose from the underground plain, and Tai Tan and Niu Tian gaped at their size and construction.
• A Ruin Grader fired a beam that destroyed a distant mountain, prompting Dai Hao and He Caitou to compare its force favorably to the greatest weapons and attacks they knew.
• Gu Yuena said the Heavenly Principles were likely the highest Rules in Kandria’s world and that the Ruin Graders were weapons designed to challenge them.

The Light Screen showed Ilmin declaring Kandria’s war against the Heavenly Principles and its ambition to conquer the Seven Kingdoms. It then revealed that Pantalone was Kandria’s surviving Chief Court Mage, knowledgeable about the Earth Veins and Abyss, who had opposed the king’s decision to stake the nation’s fate on Abyss Power.

• Ilmin declared that Kandria would use the field tillers to conquer the Seven Kingdoms and wage war against the Heavenly Principles, leaving viewers across the world stunned.
• Tang San concluded that Kandria’s conflict was a war between civilization and the World Law.
• The Light Screen introduced Pantalone as a survivor of Kandria and its former Chief Court Mage, prompting Tang San and Huo Yuhao to suspect the Fatui Executives were tied to Kandria’s fall and seeking revenge.
• The Light Screen revealed Pantalone’s expertise in the Earth Veins and Abyss, stirring Tang Wulin’s hatred of the Abyss and prompting Tang San to suspect it was connected to Kandria’s downfall.
• The Light Screen showed that Pantalone had questioned the king’s decision to stake Kandria’s fate on Abyss Power, astonishing the viewers.

The Light Screen revealed that Pierro, once Khaenri'ah’s chief court mage, became the Fatui’s First Seat after witnessing his nation’s fall and joining its resistance against the Gods. He pledged to the Tsaritsa to pursue revenge against the Gods, leaving the onlookers shaken by the Fatui’s five-hundred-year blood feud.

• The onlookers sympathized with Pierro’s failure to save Khaenri'ah and reflected on the sorrow behind his Pantalone identity.
• The Light Screen identified Pierro as the Fatui’s First Seat, shocking the assembled figures.
• The Light Screen revealed that Pierro had witnessed Khaenri'ah’s fall and taken part in resistance against the Gods.
• The Light Screen showed Pierro kneeling before the Tsaritsa in Snezhnaya and pledging to challenge the Heavenly Principles and avenge Khaenri'ah.

The Light Screen revealed Capitano’s origins in Khaenri’ah, where a nameless boy survived brutal training and became the kingdom’s greatest warrior. After receiving a technological heart and the title of Pillar Knight, he faced the Abyss invasion as monsters poured through rifts in the sky.

• The Light Screen ranked Capitano ninth among the tragic heroes and introduced him as Khaenri’ah’s Pillar Knight and Snezhnaya’s First Seat.
• The screen showed a nameless boy enduring years of brutal combat training until he rose above his rivals.
• Khaenri’ah’s king gave the grown warrior a technological heart, and Capitano accepted the transformation.
• The king crowned Capitano Khaenri’ah’s Pillar Knight as the artificial heart’s power surged through him.
• An Abyss invasion began when the sky over Khaenri’ah split open and monsters poured through the rifts.

The Light Screen revealed Capitano's sacrifice to save Natasha, deepening the Douluo God Realm's understanding of the fallen Kandrian hero. It then introduced the next ranking: Kandria's chief alchemist, Golden Rhinedott.

• Capitano used one sword strike to destroy the Abyssal Monsters and close Kandria's rift, but the Maintainer of Heavenly Principles later devastated the kingdom and cursed its survivors.
• The Light Screen revealed that Capitano became the Fatui's First Seat after Kandria's destruction, and Huo Yuhao suggested he sought revenge for his people.
• In war-torn Natasha, Capitano offered his immortal cursed body as a substitute in the Fire God's sacrifice, accepting endless torment to bring about a new beginning.
• The Light Screen displayed the line, “A hero's tragedy lies in always choosing to be a hero,” then went dark as the Douluo God Realm mourned Capitano.
• The Light Screen announced its ninth-ranked creator as Kandria's chief alchemist, Golden Rhinedott.

The Light Screen revealed Rheindott, a master of the Black Soil Technique whose alchemy approached the Authority of Creation. It showed her creations as weapons that could devastate the world, leaving the onlookers horrified by the monsters and dragon she had made.

• The Light Screen showed Rheindott working in an underground kingdom and identified her as a master of the Black Soil Technique.
• The narration described Rheindott's alchemy as a craft that sought the origin of life and approached Creation, shocking Tang San, Tang Wulin, Gu Yuena, and the Dragon God.
• The Light Screen revealed Beast Domain Pack Wolves that eroded the world's boundaries, ignored physical defenses, and drained their targets' Life Force.
• The Light Screen showed the Demon Dragon Dulin, a dragon created through the Black Soil Technique with powerful vitality and venomous blood, born for war.
• The Dragon God and the dragon-blooded onlookers reacted with fury and disgust at Dulin's existence as an experimental weapon.

The Light Screen revealed Rheindott’s creations, including the pure and humanlike Child of Chalk, Albedo, alongside the disasters caused by her experiments. It then announced that Kandria’s Black King Ilmin planned to capture Descenders as vessels for Abyss Power to oppose the Heavenly Principles, leaving the viewers stunned and fearful.

• Zhou Weiqing and Duke Dai Hao reacted with horror to the Demon Dragon Dulin and its battlefield potential.
• The Light Screen introduced Albedo as Rheindott’s artificially created Child of Chalk, astonishing the viewers with his lifelike nature.
• The review showed Rheindott’s creations serving Kandria as weapons while also causing widespread death and destruction.
• Albedo caught a snowflake as the Light Screen displayed his words: “If one day, I lose control...”
• The Light Screen revealed that Ilmin intended to capture Descenders and use them as vessels for Abyss Power against the Heavenly Principles.
• Tang San, Gu Yuena, Huo Yuhao, and the others questioned the Heavenly Principles, the Abyss, and Ilmin’s plan.

The Light Screen revealed that Black King Ilmin planned to drain Kandria’s Earth Vein core and use the Reverse Starry Sky Summoning Array to seize the Descender twins. The array activated, and the twins were ripped from their paths and pulled toward its vortex.

• The Light Screen explained that the Abyssal Institute predicted the twins’ paths would intersect and that Ilmin planned to summon them using the Earth Vein core.
• Tian Hen, Zhou Weiqing, Longgong Wei, Ning Rongrong, Rong Nianbing, Lie Yan, Ji Dong, Niu Tian, Tai Tan, Xue Ye, Dai Hao, and A’Dai reacted to the scheme and its threat to Kandria.
• The Light Screen showed the array draining energy from the Earth Vein core, dimming its light.
• The Reverse Starry Sky Summoning Array sent a column of energy into space and formed a chaotic vortex.
• The vortex seized the gold and black shooting stars carrying the twins and pulled them toward Kandria.

Kandria used the Reverse Starry Sky Summoning Array to break through its False Sky and summon the twins Kong and Ying, but a mysterious force attacked them as they crossed over. Ying was dragged back through the rift, while Kong fell into Kandria and was captured after its forces exhausted and bound him.

• Kandria activated the Reverse Starry Sky Summoning Array to tear open its False Sky and summon Outsiders.
• A malicious power sent scarlet chains around Kong and Ying, separating the twins as they crossed through the rift.
• The chains dragged Ying back into the starry sky, while Kong broke free of part of his restraints and crashed into Kandria.
• Kong tried to find Ying, but Kandria's array pinned him down and its Ruin Machines surrounded him.
• Kong exhausted his strength and Kandria captured him with Shackles, drawing angry condemnation from Tang Ya.

The Light Screen revealed that Kandrian scholars erased Kong’s real memories and implanted a false identity before turning him into a vessel for Abyss Power. After the Kandria King declared him the kingdom’s hope against the False Heavenly Principles, a golden tear vanished in the Abyss corruption, and the Light Screen lit up again to begin a new review.

• Kandrian scholars restrained Kong, destroyed his memories of traveling with Ying, and implanted a false life as the Kandria Prince.
• The scholars forced Abyss Power into Kong, transforming him into a vessel and Living Weapon for Kandria’s ambitions.
• The Kandria King named Kong the kingdom’s hope and final weapon against the False Heavenly Principles.
• A golden tear fell from Kong’s eye, but Abyss Power corrupted it into black smoke.
• The Light Screen shone again, signaling that a new review was about to begin.

The Light Screen revealed that Kong had been transformed into an Abyss Prince who commanded Abyssal Monsters and sought revenge on the Heavenly Principles, while Ying had been sealed in a Fallen Spaceship for five hundred years. The observers feared what would happen when Ying woke and faced the brother she had been searching for.

• Zhou Weiqing and Tang San reacted with shock to the revelation that Kong had become the Abyss Prince and planned to take revenge on the Heavenly Principles.
• Rong Nianbing, Gu Yuena, and Tang Wulin considered the darkness and destruction associated with Kong's transformation.
• The Light Screen revealed that Ying had slept sealed inside the Fallen Spaceship for five hundred years, leaving Huo Yuhao and the others distressed by her isolation.
• Tian Hen recognized that the siblings had been traveling in a spaceship from another world, while the Dragon God condemned the Heavenly Principles' manipulation of fate.
• Bei Bei asked whether Ying would have to face Kong as the Abyss Prince after she woke.

The Light Screen showed Kong transformed into a vessel for the Abyss by Ilmin’s ritual, which tore open the False Sky above Kandria. As the Black Tide and Abyss Monsters flooded the kingdom, the observers condemned Ilmin for sacrificing his people to gain power.

• The observers grieved that Ying would awaken to find her brother gone and face him as an Abyss Prince.
• The Light Screen revealed Kong floating in darkness, changed into an icy figure who seemed to embody the Abyss’s will.
• Ilmin bound Kong at the center of a ritual beneath Kandria and forced Abyss Power through him to open a path into Teyvat.
• The Abyss Power tore a fissure through the False Sky, revealing the darkness beyond it.
• The Black Tide and Abyss Monsters poured into Kandria, devastating its cities and killing its people.
• Rong Nianbing, Dai Hao, and Xue Ye condemned Ilmin as he continued pursuing power despite the destruction of his kingdom.

Ilmin sacrificed Kandria and Kong to the Abyss to gain power and become the new Heavenly Principles, while the gods watched in horror. As Ilmin neared his transformation, the screen focused on Kong’s faint golden light and an ominous prophecy appeared, leaving the gods wondering whose past they had witnessed.

• Ilmin ignored Kandria’s people as the Black Tide and monsters destroyed the kingdom, rejoicing in the Abyss Power he had summoned.
• The Dragon God explained that Ilmin had sacrificed his civilization to surpass the Heavenly Principles, and the watching gods condemned his cruelty.
• Ilmin declared that he would destroy the old Laws and establish himself as the Heavenly Principles of a new world.
• As Ilmin’s body transformed and he neared merging with the Abyss Power, the screen revealed Kong trapped in the ritual, with a faint golden light in his eyes.
• The screen faded to darkness and displayed a prophecy, prompting Lie Yan to warn that the person who heard it was what made it frightening.

Nicole prophesied that Kandria would face unavoidable destruction, with a chance of salvation if it set aside its arrogance. Ilmin twisted her warning into a justification for treating the heavenly star as a weapon against the Gods, leaving Kandria’s fate in the hands of a king blinded by ambition.

• Nicole showed Ilmin a prophecy of Kandria’s destruction and said a star from beyond the heavens offered a chance for salvation.
• Nicole warned that Kandria had to set aside its deep-rooted arrogance to seize that chance.
• Ilmin dismissed the warning and decided the star was a divine weapon he could use against the Gods.
• Viewers across the Myriad Worlds condemned Ilmin for twisting the prophecy to suit his ambition.
• The Dragon God, Gu Yuena, Tang Wulin, Huo Yuhao, and Ye Yinzhu reflected on how arrogance and rejected counsel could lead a ruler and kingdom to ruin.

The Light Screen showed how Vinster King Ilmin’s arrogance and misreading of the prophecy led to Kandria’s destruction, then revealed a second prophecy about Kong’s return and the reckoning of old sins. It left Tang San and the others watching a corrupted Kong serve as a vessel for world-scale Abyss Power.

• Ilmin rallied Kandria to prepare for divine warriors while he erased Nicole’s warnings about destruction and the need to cast aside arrogance.
• Kong and Ying descended, but Sky Island’s Maintainer of Heavenly Principles answered with Divine Punishment, destroying Kandria and turning its people into monsters.
• A blood-red message revealed that when the star from beyond the heavens descended again, the sins and punishments of the Old Days would be settled together.
• Tang San and the others struggled to understand the warning about world-scale Abyss Power as the Light Screen showed a ruined Kandria consumed by corruption.
• Kong floated above the ruins with a cracked, glasslike body as living darkness seeped from him and the world’s Laws groaned in pain.

Kong’s Golden Dragon King power erupted as Abyssal corruption, consuming Kandria and killing Ilmin, the World Tree. The five Sages concluded that Kong had become the calamity’s heart and decided he had to be sacrificed to save what remained of the world.

• Kong’s chest cracked open, and Abyssal power burst forth, consuming Kandria and turning the sky black-purple.
• The corruption spread through Ilmin, erasing the world’s knowledge, memories, and history as the World Tree withered.
• The five Sages and Dainsleif arrived, but the lead Sage said Ilmin could not be saved while the Abyss continued to spread.
• The Sages identified Kong as the vessel and source of the corruption, and the lead Sage declared that he had to die.
• Zhou Weiqing protested the decision, while Ning Rongrong and others recoiled at the choice to sacrifice Kong.