Chapter Summaries

Bian Que cured Dugu Yan’s poison and broke through to Level 90, while Qian Daoliu and five Worships rushed back to Spirit Hall after learning Golden Crocodile had died. Dugu Bo asked Lin Jiang to accept Dugu Yan as his disciple, leaving her fate in Lin Jiang’s hands.

• Qian Daoliu learned that Golden Crocodile and Tang Xiao had died, suspected Bibi Dong’s involvement, and led five Worships toward Spirit Hall.
• Bian Que completed the Jade Phosphorous Nine-Turn Clear Toxin Pill, and Dugu Yan confirmed that her poison had been cured.
• Bian Que broke through the Level 90 bottleneck, and Lin Jiang created a God-Bestowed Soul Ring for him to absorb.
• Dugu Yan saw Lin Jiang create the Soul Ring and believed Ye Lingling’s claims about his power.
• Dugu Bo pledged his loyalty to Lin Jiang and pleaded with him to accept Dugu Yan as his disciple.

Dugu Yan became Lin Jiang’s disciple, and he gave her and Xiao Wu Immortal Herbs to absorb while ordering the valley’s defenses strengthened. After several hours, Xiao Wu awakened from her cultivation transformed by the Water Lily Jade Muscle Bone.

• Dugu Yan agreed to become Lin Jiang’s disciple, and he accepted her, gaining Divine Power through the system.
• Lin Jiang gave Xiao Wu the Water Lily Jade Muscle Bone and Dugu Yan the Myriad Poisons Crystal Condensing Orchid, then guarded them as they began absorbing the herbs.
• Lin Jiang ordered Daji to clear unrelated people from the hall, relocate or support nearby residents, and heighten military drills and defenses.
• Daji departed to carry out Lin Jiang’s orders as he warned that a storm was coming.
• After several hours, Xiao Wu finished absorbing the Water Lily Jade Muscle Bone and opened her eyes with a transformed appearance and aura.

Lin Jiang helped Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan refine their powers, break through, and absorb God-Bestowed Soul Rings. Their successful breakthroughs raised his accumulated Divine Power to Level 10, leaving him resolved to keep cultivating his disciples.

• Xiao Wu thanked Lin Jiang after the Water Lily Jade Muscle Bone raised her Soul Power to level 30, and he formed a God-Bestowed Soul Ring for her to absorb.
• Dugu Yan emerged from the isolation room with her poison refined into an Amethyst Poison Origin and her Soul Power at level 40, so Lin Jiang created a God-Bestowed Soul Ring for her too.
• Xiao Wu absorbed her Third Soul Ring, reached level 36, and gained a four-thousand-year ring.
• Dugu Yan absorbed her Fourth Soul Ring, reached level 44, and gained an 8,400-year ring.
• The system rewarded Lin Jiang with Divine Power for both disciples' breakthroughs, bringing his accumulated total to Level 10.

Lin Jiang ordered King's Hall to seal its gates and activate its defenses when the Beast Tide arrived. At the South Gate, Ying Zheng and Bai Qi prepared the Origin Energy Cannons as the first beasts charged within five li of the walls.

• Lin Jiang sensed the approaching Beast Tide and ordered Daji to seal all four gates, activate the defenses, and carry out Plan A.
• Daji relayed the orders as King's Hall sounded the highest-level alert.
• A massive Beast Tide emerged from the wilderness and surged toward King's City.
• Ying Zheng stood guard at the South Gate with Bai Qi and confirmed that the attack matched Lin Jiang's prediction.
• Bai Qi ordered the Cannon Soldiers to position and load the Origin Energy Cannons as the first beasts neared the walls.

King's Hall's defenses repelled the Beast Tide at three gates, but Bi Ji's healing pushed the East Gate's attackers steadily closer. Cao Cao faced the advancing soul beasts as they reached the walls, while Lin Jiang watched for the force behind the assault.

• Ying Zheng ordered concentrated Origin Energy Cannon fire at the South Gate, and Bai Qi coordinated strikes that annihilated many beasts but failed to stop the tide.
• Cao Cao directed archers and cannon fire at the East Gate until Bi Ji appeared and healed the wounded soul beasts across a vast area.
• Bi Ji continued healing her kin despite her grief and worried that the battle would become a prolonged slaughter against King's Hall's formidable defenses.
• Lin Jiang listened to the fighting from King's Hall and focused his attention on the hidden power controlling the Beast Tide.
• The healed soul beasts advanced toward the East Gate while the other three gates held, and a soldier warned Cao Cao that attackers were within two and a half miles and some were climbing the wall's base.

Cao Cao sent Xiahou Dun and the Tiger Leopard Camp out through the East Gate to fight the Beast Tide and regain firing range, but Bi Ji’s healing turned the battle against them. Cai Wenji joined the fight with her zither, strengthening and healing the soldiers as Bi Ji watched in astonishment.

• Cao Cao ordered Xiahou Dun to lead the three thousand Tiger Leopard Camp soldiers out of the East Gate and push back the Beast Tide.
• Xiahou Dun and the Tiger Leopard Camp tore into the Soul Beasts, but Bi Ji healed the beasts and their counterattack surrounded the soldiers.
• Cai Wenji arrived on the wall and told Cao Cao she wanted to help protect the army.
• Cai Wenji played her first Soul Skill, Si Wu Xie, restoring the soldiers’ strength and Soul Power while enhancing their defense and vitality.
• Bi Ji saw the humans recover from their wounds and exhaustion and reacted with astonishment.

Cai Wenji’s healing music helped Xiahou Dun and the Tiger Leopard Camp stabilize the East Gate, but Di Tian sent the Fierce Beast Emperors into battle. As Scarlet King, Xiong Jun, and the Myriad Demon King attacked three gates, the Snow Empress and Ice Empress arrived at the East Gate, where the Ice Empress unleashed her Eternal Frozen Domain.

• Cai Wenji’s zither music strengthened the defenders and helped Xiahou Dun and the Tiger Leopard Camp push back the Beast Tide at the East Gate.
• Di Tian ordered the Fierce Beast Emperors to join the fight, and Scarlet King attacked the North Gate, Xiong Jun struck the West Gate, and the Myriad Demon King assailed the South Gate.
• The three emperors’ assaults overwhelmed the city’s defenses and turned the battle sharply against the humans.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress descended over the East Gate, where the Ice Empress rebuked Bi Ji and raised her hand toward Xiahou Dun, the Tiger Leopard Camp, and the walls.
• The Ice Empress invoked the Eternal Frozen Domain against the East Gate defenders.

The Ice Empress froze the East Gate battlefield with her Eternal Frozen Domain, trapping Xiahou Dun and the Tiger Leopard Camp as the soul beasts prepared to crush them. Cao Cao sent Dian Wei to stop the Titan Snow Demon King, and Dian Wei’s first blow wounded the giant and revealed his growing strength; Cao Cao then called for A Mi.

• The Ice Empress used the Eternal Frozen Domain to freeze the soldiers and soul beasts across the East Gate battlefield, including Xiahou Dun and the Tiger Leopard Camp.
• The Titan Snow Demon King charged toward the frozen humans, intending to crush Xiahou Dun and the soldiers beneath its foot.
• Cao Cao ordered Dian Wei to attack the Titan Snow Demon King before it could trample the trapped defenders.
• Dian Wei awakened his Ancient E Lai form and struck the Titan Snow Demon King with his twin axes, breaking its ice armor and forcing it back.
• The Ice Empress was stunned by Dian Wei’s brute strength, while Cao Cao said that E Lai grew stronger when he encountered strength.
• Cao Cao called A Mi to his side.

Zhen Ji and Xiahou Dun helped turn back the Soul Beast assault, but the Snow Empress and Ice Empress fused their domains and froze the battlefield. Dian Wei resisted the extreme cold and grew into a giant, revealing that the stronger the control effects on him, the more powerful he became.

• Zhen Ji unleashed Goddess of the Luo River Descends, sweeping Soul Beasts away and freezing them while avoiding the Tiger Leopard Camp soldiers.
• Xiahou Dun broke out of the Ice Empress’s Eternal Frozen Domain and charged into battle, killing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress merged their powers to create the Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain, freezing Xiahou Dun again and halting Zhen Ji’s attack.
• Dian Wei roared against the extreme-cold domain and grew to nearly two hundred meters tall, matching the Titan Snow Demon King in size.
• Cao Cao explained that Enrage made Dian Wei stronger whenever he suffered suppression or control effects.

Dian Wei killed the Titan Snow Demon King, and Wang Zhaojun arrived to combine Winter Has Come with Zhen Ji’s Water of Luo Shen. Their power froze nearly the entire Soul Beast army and temporarily trapped Bi Ji, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress in ice.

• Dian Wei unleashed Bloodthirst and split the Titan Snow Demon King in half, killing the Soul Beast Emperor.
• Wang Zhaojun appeared above the East Gate battlements and cast her ninth soul skill, Winter Has Come.
• Wang Zhaojun’s blizzard merged with Zhen Ji’s Water of Luo Shen to unleash an overwhelming Absolute Zero Feast.
• The combined cold froze the charging Soul Beasts and sealed those already caught in Zhen Ji’s water.
• The blizzard suppressed the Snow Empress’s domain, weakened Bi Ji’s healing, and temporarily froze all three Fierce Beast Emperors.
• The Soul Beast army became an Ice Sculpture Forest, while Dian Wei remained standing at the battlefield’s center.

The battle at the East Gate turned in the defenders’ favor, while Cheng Yaojin bewildered and overwhelmed Xiong Jun at the West Gate. At the South Gate, Bai Qi leaped from the wall to confront the Myriad Demon King, and the chapter ended as he began using his Eighth Soul Skill.

• Dian Wei slaughtered the remaining soul beasts after killing the Titan Snow Demon King, while Wang Zhaojun and Zhen Ji helped reverse the East Gate battle.
• Cheng Yaojin endured Xiong Jun’s attacks, healed and grew stronger with his Sixth Soul Skill, then threw the bear into a crater with Love’s Backbreaker.
• The Myriad Demon King sent poisonous vines and soul beasts against the South Gate, gradually pressing the defenders back.
• Bai Qi leaped from the three-hundred-foot city wall and began invoking his Eighth Soul Skill.

Bai Qi drew Myriad Demon King's forces away from the South Gate and harvested them with his scythe while Ying Zheng unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill against the demon king. At the North Gate, Angela joined Arthur's defense and disrupted Scarlet King's flames, though the battle continued.

• Bai Qi used Arrogant Taunt to provoke Myriad Demon King and the surrounding soul beasts into attacking him instead of the South Gate.
• Bai Qi used Blood Echo and Scythe of the Death God to cut down the attacking vines and beasts, creating a widening field of death.
• Ying Zheng unleashed Supreme Royal Authority, sending a storm of golden swords toward Myriad Demon King's hidden true body.
• Scarlet King assaulted the North Gate with destructive flames, forcing Arthur to struggle to hold the wall.
• Angela answered Arthur's plea for help and used Chaos Fire Seed to disrupt Scarlet King's central head, while its other heads continued attacking.

Angela defeated Scarlet King at North Gate, while Di Tian descended at East Gate and prepared to destroy King's Hall with the Dragon God Claw. As his attack was about to fall, a calm voice invoked Divine Radiance: Advent.

• Angela used Blazing Radiance to overwhelm Scarlet King's flames and burn the beast emperor to death.
• Lin Jiang received reports that Scarlet King and the Titan Snow Demon King had fallen, several soul beasts were trapped, and Xiong Jun and the Myriad Demon King had been stopped.
• Di Tian appeared above East Gate, and his pressure cracked the ice imprisoning Bi Ji, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress.
• Di Tian declared that he would erase King's Hall and raised his claw to unleash the Dragon God Claw.
• A calm voice announced the Fifth Soul Skill, Divine Radiance: Advent, just as Di Tian was about to strike.

Lin Jiang appeared before Di Tian and exposed the Beast God's ambitions behind the Beast Tide, but Di Tian attacked him with the Dragon God Claw. Lin Jiang summoned his Soul Spirit, the Storm Dragon King, as the battle reached a new stage.

• Lin Jiang materialized above East Gate and halted Di Tian's attack on the city.
• Lin Jiang told Di Tian that the Beast Tide was meant to seize land and restore the Soul Beasts' former dominion, making Bi Ji and Snow Empress question the war.
• Di Tian denounced Lin Jiang and struck at him with the Dragon God Claw.
• Lin Jiang summoned his Storm Dragon King Soul Spirit, which emerged amid wind and lightning.

Lin Jiang's Storm Dragon King overwhelmed Di Tian in a clash of claws, injuring him with wind and thunder that suppressed his healing. Di Tian brought out the Phoenix Eye of Immortality to counter the Storm Dragon King's Judgment effect.

• Di Tian recognized the Storm Dragon King as a soul beast spirit bound to Lin Jiang and was shaken when his Dragon God bloodline submitted to its aura.
• Di Tian attacked the Storm Dragon King with the Dragon God Claw, but the Storm Dragon King met it head-on and blasted him backward.
• The Storm Dragon King's claw left Di Tian's foreclaw badly wounded, and its wind and thunder prevented the wound from healing normally.
• Lin Jiang explained that the Storm Dragon King's Judgment effect reduced Di Tian's recovery and healing by ninety percent, potentially for a day.
• Di Tian revealed the Phoenix Eye of Immortality, claiming its immense healing power could offset Judgment.

Lin Jiang explained that Di Tian’s Divine Artifacts could not overcome the Storm Dragon King’s lingering Judgment, then unleashed Storm Awakening. Di Tian survived by using Pure Firmament, but his shield was badly damaged and Lin Jiang warned that more attacks could follow; meanwhile, an ominous presence stirred in the darkness of the Pope’s Palace.

• The Phoenix Eye of Immortality sped up Di Tian’s healing, but Lin Jiang explained that the Storm Dragon King’s Judgment severely weakened recovery and continued to corrupt the wound.
• Di Tian prepared to burn part of his origin and attack, so Lin Jiang commanded the Storm Dragon King to unleash Storm Awakening.
• The Storm Dragon King fired a massive lightning sphere at Di Tian, who retreated and summoned the Divine Artifact Pure Firmament to block it.
• Pure Firmament stopped the attack but cracked, leaving Di Tian weakened as Lin Jiang warned that the Storm Dragon King could attack again.
• In the dark Inner Hall of the Pope’s Palace, a pair of eyes slowly opened amid unnatural lightning and thunder.

Bibi Dong used the Cloud Seal Instrument and Rakshasa Demon Scythe to devour Spirit Hall’s Worships and turn them into puppets, then broke through the final limits of her Rakshasa Divine Power. She stood in the Pope’s Palace with Qian Daoliu and the other Worships under her control, preparing to strike at her enemies.

• Bibi Dong examined the Cloud Seal Instrument and vowed revenge on Qian Daoliu, the Angel Clan, and Lin Jiang’s King’s Hall.
• Bibi Dong had secretly devoured Spirit Hall Elders, the Clear Sky Sect’s Fifth Elder, and Golden Crocodile Douluo, refining some of the dead into puppets.
• Bibi Dong ambushed Qian Daoliu and the other Worships when they returned to Spirit Hall, using Golden Crocodile Douluo’s puppet to cripple Qian Daoliu.
• Bibi Dong defeated and devoured Qian Daoliu and the other five Worships, turning them into puppets and absorbing their power.
• Bibi Dong broke through the final shackles of her Rakshasa Divine Power as purple lightning battered the Pope’s Palace.

Bibi Dong completed her Rakshasa God ascension, but the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking rejected and halted its rewards. At the King's Hall, Lin Jiang faced Di Tian after devastating losses and urged it to end the conflict, leaving Di Tian to weigh its pride against the survival of the soul beasts.

• Bibi Dong invoked the Rakshasa God and unleashed a pillar of evil power as the divine seat returned to her.
• The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking resisted Bibi Dong's ascension and stopped its rewards from reaching her.
• Bibi Dong mocked the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking and vowed to slaughter the King's Hall, blood-sacrifice the continent, and take control of the ranking.
• Lin Jiang sensed Bibi Dong's power and decided to retrieve the Cloud Seal Instrument himself.
• Lin Jiang asked Di Tian whether it wanted to continue fighting and explained that the King's Hall sought peace but had the strength to defend itself.
• Di Tian fell silent as it considered the soul beasts' losses and Lin Jiang's warning.

After overpowering Di Tian, Lin Jiang offered soul beasts a chance to study at King's Hall and pursue cultivation beyond their inherited limits. Bi Ji, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress accepted, while Lin Jiang warned Di Tian that a catastrophe would soon threaten the entire continent.

• Di Tian reconsidered continuing the battle and conceded that it had been reckless to underestimate Lin Jiang.
• Lin Jiang invited soul beasts seeking to advance their cultivation to study at King's Hall and access its methods, resources, and insights into Heaven and Earth Laws.
• Bi Ji trusted Lin Jiang's compassion and volunteered to be the first soul beast to enter King's Hall.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress also agreed to study at King's Hall, despite Ice Empress's initial suspicion.
• Lin Jiang suggested the soul beast emperors could surpass Di Tian with suitable methods, unsettling the Beast God.
• Lin Jiang warned Di Tian that a catastrophe would sweep across the continent and leave neither humans nor soul beasts untouched.

As Di Tian considered Lin Jiang’s offer of cooperation, Linghu Wen hosted Ming Shiyin and other guests at a Flowing Wine Cups gathering inside King’s Hall. Li Bai arrived and interrupted Linghu Wen’s apparent attempt to use an Emerald Cloud Butterfly against Ming Shiyin.

• Lin Jiang urged Di Tian to consider joining hands with humans rather than pursuing conquest and old grudges, and Di Tian fell silent in deliberation.
• Linghu Wen and Ming Shiyin drank wine and discussed their reunion at a poetry gathering inside King’s Hall.
• Ming Shiyin questioned whether they should be drinking while the Beast Tide raged outside, and Linghu Wen reassured him that The Venerable One would handle it.
• Linghu Wen draped an arm over Ming Shiyin’s shoulders and sent an Emerald Cloud Butterfly phantom toward his neck.
• Li Bai arrived by flat boat, prompting Linghu Wen to withdraw his arm and welcome the Green Lotus Sword Immortal.