Chapter Summaries

After the Dawn Agreement ended the war, the Star Dou Empire used aid and gradual reforms to extend its influence across the continent. In September, Mu En and his companions discovered the Ice and Fire Two Poles Eye in Sunset Forest, where Gu Yuena claimed the spring and Mu En sampled an Earth Dragon Golden Melon.

• In May of Star Dou Calendar Year 2, the Heavenly Soul King, the Dou Spirit King, the Star Luo Emperor, and Sun Moon representatives signed the Dawn Agreement, and the Sun Moon Empire became the Sun Moon Domain within Star Dou.
• Xu Mu showed the Star Luo Emperor and Xu Jiujiu Star City's institutes and technology, then explained how Star Dou planned to assimilate the continent gradually through aid and reform.
• The Star Luo Emperor accepted an aerospace fighter jet ride home after Xu Mu offered one, while warning him to settle the Heaven Dou Two Nations before turning to Star Luo.
• In September, Sun Moon University of Science and Technology opened in Mingdu, and Star Dou began distributing grain seeds, building infrastructure, and developing resources across the continent.
• Mu En, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Tang Lü Lü, and researchers found the Ice and Fire Two Poles Eye in Sunset Forest after Mu En tore apart its poisonous miasma.
• Gu Yuena emerged through a spatial rift, recognized the spring, and plunged into it; Mu En bit an Earth Dragon Golden Melon and questioned whether it was ripe.

Mu En and the Star Dou researchers entered the Ice and Fire Two Poles Eye, where Mu En intimidated its plant guardians and challenged their claim of ownership. He revealed that he was both the Sea God Pavilion Master and the Sea God, leaving the Immortal Herbs stunned.

• Mu En released the frightened Earth Dragon Golden Melon and ordered the Star Dou researchers to record and collect samples from the Immortal Herbs.
• Mu En threatened to use Aromatic Silk Beauty as an antidote if the researchers suffered a poisoning outbreak, and he silenced Infernal Delicate Apricot with a terrifying gaze.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty warned Mu En that the Ice and Fire Two Poles Eye had an owner, but Mu En argued that the heaven-born treasure basin could not be private property.
• Mu En named the Immortal Herbs and explained how Tang San had used them, shocking Aromatic Silk Beauty and the other plant guardians.
• Mu En revealed that Shrek had been destroyed and that he was the Sea God Pavilion Master.
• Mu En drew the Sea God's Trident from the void and declared that he was the Sea God.

Chen Fu revealed that Star Dou had begun developing the Ice and Fire Two Poles Eye while using a digital poker game with Tang San to train the World Will, Pan. At the spring, Gu Yuena emerged with the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, leaving Mu En to consider how many powerful beings the Douluo Realm could sustain.

• Chen Fu told Tang San that Star Dou had begun developing the Ice and Fire Two Poles Eye, then played a lone 3 in their Random Digital Poker game.
• Tang San, limited to the two joker cards he had deciphered, angrily played a joker bomb against Chen Fu as Pan gained learning progress.
• At the Ice and Fire Two Poles Eye, Mu En sensed a disturbance beneath the spring and warned Huo Yuhao and the Star Dou researchers to move back.
• Gu Yuena burst from the spring with the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, whose appearance sent Sunset Forest's Soul Beasts prostrating under their Dragon Might.
• Gu Yuena introduced the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King to Mu En, who recognized that they needed Star Dou's help to live a second life.

Gu Yuena consumed the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' remains and began recovering her strength while overseeing the Ice and Fire Two Poles Eye. At the Star Research Institute, the Dragon Kings' souls formed eggs, and Chen Hong revealed that his Law Core had opened a path toward the fourth-generation Ark Energy Core, the World Forge That Never Goes Out.

• Gu Yuena estimated that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' remains would restore her to peak First-level God strength within twenty years, and Mu En left her to watch over the Ice and Fire Two Poles Eye.
• The Sunset Biological Research Institute opened under Gu Yuena's security and Mo Ling's direction, while Empress Dawn began her postwar reckoning against the Soul Master clans and sects of the Heaven Dou Two Nations.
• Electrolux and the researchers observed the Ice Fire Dragon Kings' souls reborn as red and blue eggs, and discussed how the Dragon Kings could regain god-level strength without Godheads.
• Golden Scale said Ye Guyi had gone to argue with Ju Zi over her policies, and Chen Hong checked the Heavenly Dao network to confirm what she meant by wearing Ju Zi down.
• Chen Hong showed Electrolux the analyzed Azure Profound Core, explaining that it had become a Law Core and offered a path toward surpassing the fourth-generation Ark Energy Core.

Chen Hong set out a plan to develop a fourth-generation Ark Core and transform the world’s energy system. Later, Kong Xuan enrolled at Sun Moon University of Science and Technology, where he urged Lin Yi to prepare for Sun Moon’s political future under the Star Dou Empire.

• Chen Hong told Electrolux that he would overthrow the Pandora Core’s limits, advance nuclear reactors, and lay the groundwork for a fourth-generation Ark God Heart.
• The Star Dou Empire continued absorbing the Heaven Dou Two Nations, while Bodian Academy and Sun Moon University of Science and Technology opened admissions.
• Kong Xuan met Lin Yi and a bald security guard at the university gates, and explained that he had refused to join a riot against its open admissions policy.
• Lin Yi described how old-established Soul Master clans had tried to use Sun Moon citizens to pressure the Star Dou Empire, while the empire’s grain harvest and public benefits strengthened its position.
• Kong Xuan warned Lin Yi that the Star Dou military dictatorship would need internal reform after the other nations were annexed, and advised him to seek influence in the empire’s leadership.
• Kong Xuan entered the university and declared that a country that treated people as people would be upheld by them, words later recorded in Star Dou history.

The Star Dou Empire unified Douluo Continent through referendums and the Star Luo Empire’s declaration that it had always been part of the empire. After the new era began, Chen Hong continued experiments to develop a way for ordinary people to cultivate Soul Power and asked to speak with the Dawn Governor about the empire’s future.

• Xu Jiujiu worried that Star Luo would lose its long history when it joined the Star Dou Empire, and Xu Mu warned her that the empire needed the world’s resources to face a powerful future enemy.
• The nobles of Heavenly Soul Nation and Dou Spirit Nation went on strike, and referendums with over 99% support brought both nations into the Star Dou Empire without military conquest.
• The Star Luo Emperor issued a Great Unification Declaration, claiming Star Luo and Heaven Dou had always been part of the Star Dou Empire and preserving Star Luo as one half of the empire.
• The Star Dou Empire took over the four major domains and proclaimed the unification of the world, dividing its territory into the central Star Dou Domain and four other domains.
• At the Star Research Institute, Chen Hong tested a revised Mysterious Heaven Purple Extreme Technique on Hu Hong, who had regained traces of Soul Power after several hours of practice.
• Chen Hong reviewed the experiment’s data and asked to be connected to the Dawn Governor to discuss Star Dou’s future.

Chen Hong persuaded Ju Zi to dissolve the Star Dou Sentient Dictatorship and restore the republic, then took office as the second governor and released the Foundation Building Method to all imperial citizens. The new cultivation method began an extraordinary era, while Chen Hong confronted Blue Sky for investigating his spiritual fluctuations.

• Chen Hong told Ju Zi that the military dictatorship should end as the people recovered from the war, and Ju Zi agreed to make a dignified exit.
• Ju Zi issued a decree dissolving the Star Dou Sentient Dictatorship and restoring the Star Dou Sentient Republic.
• On January 1st of Star Dou Calendar Year 6, the republic announced Hong as its second governor and released his photograph, prompting people to connect him to Chen Fu.
• Chen Hong's government released the Foundation Building Method, which allowed people to cultivate Soul Power and Spiritual Power by absorbing energy from Soul Crystals.
• Chen Hong told the captured Blue Sky that the Foundation Building Method belonged to the Hong Jun Dao Fa and declared that Hong Jun had imparted the law.

Chen Hong planned the Star Dou Empire’s spiritual signal network and considered disguising technology as mythology, while Ye Xiaoxi underwent Martial Soul Awakening and revealed an Innate Soul Power Level of twenty and a Light Phoenix Martial Soul with possible Netherfire Holy Phoenix evolution potential. Her awakening data was uploaded to the network for further verification.

• Chen Hong recruited Lan Tiantian, restored the Star Dou Empire’s operations, and planned spiritual signal towers to bring the low-power Sky Net back online.
• Chen Hong reflected on concealing technological processes behind mystical abilities and recognized that Star Dou’s lack of fear toward gods could make its civilization dangerous.
• Principal Ma welcomed Ye Xiaoxi, Ma Yun, and Ye Ming to the Phoenix Martial Soul Primary School for Ye Xiaoxi’s Martial Soul Awakening.
• The awakening array showed Ye Xiaoxi had Innate Soul Power Level Twenty and projected her Martial Soul evolving into a Netherfire Holy Phoenix, but the evolution stopped before completion.
• Ye Xiaoxi’s true Martial Soul appeared as a crimson-gold Light Phoenix, and the array recorded and uploaded her awakening data for verification.

Long Xiaoyao left Phoenix City after choosing to live as a young god with the possibility of one day meeting Ye Xiaoxi again. Meanwhile, the Star Dou Empire completed its continent-wide Mental Network and restored the Heavenly Dao, bringing Youlan’s authority system back online.

• Long Xiaoyao considered giving Ye Xiaoxi the Martial Soul Lock that could restore Ye Xishui, but chose to leave her future open and transformed into the Black Dragon Youth.
• Mu En complained that Long Xiaoyao had abandoned the Sword Pavilion Bachelors Club, while Ye Guyi decided to visit Ah Yin and try matchmaking.
• Chen Hong used his Sword Wielder authority to direct powerful Sword Pavilion members in building Mental Network nodes across the continent.
• In June of Star Dou Calendar Year 7, the Star Dou Empire completed its Super Heavenly Dao Mental Network after a year of construction and expanded infrastructure.
• Chen Hong activated the Heavenly Dao, and Youlan’s voice announced All Beings’ Thought · Heavenly Dao Radiance as the network came online.

After [Youlan] gained enough capacity to manifest [Material Control], Chen Hong began preparing Phase Two of the God Hunting Project. [Youlan] explained the Refining God Matrix and [Ruins Authority] to Jin Lin, then revealed that Chen Hong’s flaw was the Brilliance of Life.

• [Youlan] manifested [Material Control] through the expanded Heavenly Dao Mental Network, giving its users access to her ability and freeing resources for Phase Two of the God Hunting Project.
• Jin Lin received confirmation of her [Ruins Authority] and asked [Youlan] about Chen Fu, learning that he had spent a simulated millennium in the Refining God Demi-plane with Tang San.
• [Youlan] explained that the Refining God Matrix used the people’s Mental Power to strengthen the Refining God Members, while Chen Fu absorbed part of their growth to raise his soul toward God King quality.
• Jin Lin asked about the sword-shaped pendant and learned that her [Ruins Authority] could bypass Chen Hong, break open the Refining God Demi-plane, and activate [Youlan]’s Ruins Program.
• [Youlan] said Chen Hong’s flaw was the Brilliance of Life.

Du Busi and Xuan Zi awakened from the Refining God Demi-plane after twenty years in the outside world, though they had experienced about five thousand years within it. Bing Xuan and Chizhu welcomed them back to a modern Soul Tool city and prepared to take them to the Empire’s leaders.

• Du Busi woke in the Heavenly Court palace, saw Xuan Zi awaken nearby, and found the world outside transformed into a steel city filled with aircraft and Soul Tool Battleships.
• Chizhu called out to the two elders, and Bing Xuan introduced himself as the one sent to bring them back.
• Bing Xuan explained that the outside world was in the twenty-first year of the Star Dou Calendar, while roughly five thousand years had passed inside the demi-plane.
• Bing Xuan used Electrolux’s plane anchor to open a temporary passage through the Refining God Matrix, and Du Busi and Xuan Zi crossed into the real world.
• Bing Xuan said he and Chizhu were Dragon King reincarnations, and Du Busi became more favorably disposed toward Chizhu.

Du Busi and Xuan Zi emerged from the Refining God Demi-plane with god-level souls and saw how far the Star Dou Empire had advanced. Chen Hong and the others discussed which practitioners and Soul Beasts might emerge next, then turned to forging gods and preparing the fourth-generation Ark Core.

• Bing Xuan explained the planet-class battleships, Energy Mines, and gravity engines to Du Busi and Xuan Zi as he led them to the Star Research Center.
• Chizhu tried to take Nian Dong to explore Chen Fu’s laboratory, but backed down after hearing that Huo Yuhao’s wife might punish him for damaging her armor.
• Chen Hong examined Du Busi and Xuan Zi and found no hidden dangers, then sent Bing Xuan to show them the transformed Douluo Continent.
• Chen Hong, Huo Yuhao, Electrolux, and Ah Yin estimated that no more than five people could reach god-level souls, and discussed the prospects of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Di Tian, Evil Emperor, Snow Empress, and Demon Empress.
• Chen Hong proposed forging gods for Du Busi and the others while testing [Law Cores] and preparing resources for the fourth-generation Ark Core, which Electrolux questioned the Douluo Realm’s ability to support.

Chen Hong discussed the fourth-generation Ark Core and the progress of Huo Yuhao’s Gungnir god-slaying weapon as the Star Dou Empire continued its rapid expansion. Sword Pavilion’s power and the empire’s Soul Master population had grown dramatically, and the chapter left the Douluo Realm nearing the strength of the former Dragon God’s central divine domain.

• Chen Hong explained that the Douluo Realm could support only one fourth-generation Ark Core, and Electrolux accepted the limit.
• Huo Yuhao reported that Gungnir research was on schedule but admitted he doubted it could devastate a God King; Chen Hong said breaking a deadlock would be enough.
• Chen Hong and Electrolux teased Huo Yuhao about repeatedly testing Wang Dong’s Haotian: Great Sumeru Hammer, and Chen Hong warned him that rebuilding his body burdened his spirit.
• The Star Dou Empire’s population rose above sixty million, including forty million Soul Masters, while its expanding resource use threatened to consume Douluo Star’s reserves over the coming centuries.
• Sword Pavilion’s roster included nine combat-capable God-level members, while Youlan’s mental curtain concealed the entire Star Dou Empire from the God Realm.
• The chapter noted that Du Busi, Xuan Zi, Bing Xuan, and Chizhu were expected to reach the peak of their power and ascend, as Douluo Continent’s Soul Power density reached a historic high.

Nick learned that the Sky Fox High Priest’s return had enabled Sky Fox Nation to join Star Dou Empire, then agreed to accompany his mentor Goer to Star Dou Great Forest for the Empire’s continent-wide [Zero] project. Goer revealed that the Empire had reached its final critical stage, with its returned Titled Douluo and Red Realm Soul Beasts gathered for a major undertaking.

• Nick reassured fellow Sky Fox students that their High Priest, not he, had made their incorporation into Star Dou Empire possible.
• Nick met his mentor Goer at Myriad Beast Cliff, where they discussed planetary engines and the limits of fleeing a god.
• Goer invited Nick to Star Dou Great Forest to observe the Empire’s super project [Zero], and Nick agreed to go.
• Goer explained that the first Pandora Core was named [Zero] and that a mysterious Dao technique numbered 000 stood above 001 [Slay Myself].
• Goer told Nick that most of the missing Titled Douluo and Red Realm Soul Beasts had returned, and that the Empire had entered its final critical stage.

Di Tian, the Demon Empress, and Evil Emperor awakened in the Refining God Demi-plane and learned that freedom from the God Realm’s laws let powerful Soul Beasts begin transforming their Soul Power into divine power. Evil Emperor recounted Chen Fu’s battle with Tang San, while Chen Fu uncovered Tang San’s reliance on his Asura God King position and Asura God Sword; the chapter ended with Chen Fu questioning why Tang San clung to his divine position.

• Di Tian awoke, saw the crimson World Tree, and realized that the God Realm’s laws—not the Douluo Realm—had suppressed Soul Beast breakthroughs.
• The Demon Empress awakened and discussed with Di Tian how Chen Fu’s demi-plane shielded them from the God Realm while the Douluo Realm’s plane will supported them.
• Evil Emperor awakened and explained that Tang San had discovered the vanished observing wills, attacked Chen Fu, and begun a slaughter.
• Chen Fu endured Tang San’s blood-blade attacks, sent a soul pearl into the void, urged Tian Meng to support the Refining God Matrix, and severed the demi-plane’s connection to the outside.
• Tang San declared that the Asura God King position and Asura God Sword protected his power, and Chen Fu realized why Tang San refused to relinquish his divine position.
• Chen Fu considered ways the God Realm could make its gods compete and exchange divine positions, then asked why Tang San was so unwilling to give his up.

Chen Fu fought Tang San in the Refining God Demi-plane while explaining how he used the Godhead system to study its root rules and develop his own divine wheel path. He revealed how Tang San’s attempt to strip him of Soul Power cultivation had instead helped bring about Acquired Soul Masters, then left Tang San furious as he turned his attention to correcting his own altered perceptions.

• Tang San attacked Chen Fu with the Asura God Sword, but Chen Fu’s four divine wheels let him withstand the blows, tear Tang San’s spiritual body apart, and rapidly heal himself.
• Chen Fu explained that he had allowed Tang San to draw on the demi-plane’s Godhead-system rules so he and World Will [Pan] could study them, and Tang San warned that Chen Fu’s strength would fail outside the demi-plane.
• Chen Fu challenged Tang San’s assumptions about Soul Power Factors and recalled how Tang San’s attack had deprived him of innate cultivation qualifications but led him to become an Acquired Soul Master.
• Chen Fu said he had obtained the Mysterious Heaven Skill from Tang Ya in a fair exchange, modified it into the Foundation Building Method, and shared it across the continent.
• Tang San raged after Chen Fu revealed that the Spiritual Power sealing him came from Tang Sect disciples, while Chen Fu briefly stopped himself from indulging in thoughts shaped by his altered perceptions.

Chen Fu challenged Tang San’s certainty about the Dragon God and explained his theories about Soul Power Factors, provoking Tang San into a battle in the Refining God Demi-plane. Chen Fu endured Tang San’s attacks and condemned his arrogance, while Tang San reclaimed his full authority and demanded that Chen Fu kneel.

• Chen Fu used cognitive regression and claimed that the Dragon God might still be alive, making Tang San furious and afraid.
• Chen Fu described Soul Power Factors in Soul Beasts and criticized Tang San for failing to investigate the Douluo Realm’s unusual phenomena.
• Tang San attacked Chen Fu with his God King authority in the Refining God Demi-plane, while Chen Fu relied on his divine wheels and the demi-plane’s supporting souls to withstand him.
• Tang San noticed that the souls supporting Chen Fu were leaving and concluded that he had uncovered how the Refining God Demi-plane worked, then intensified his assault.
• Chen Fu survived Tang San’s attacks and accused him of stagnating and becoming an enemy of the world.
• Tang San felt his full power return and declared, “Chen Fu! Now that you have seen a God King, why do you not kneel?!!”

The Asura God Sword’s activation shook the God Realm as the Douluo Realm began annexing the Refining God Demi-plane, while the Destruction God King noticed a mysterious presence connected to the Heavenly Dao Mental Network. The chapter left him seeing a cycle of reincarnation and a history repeating across the cosmos.

• Tang San’s remote activation of the Asura God Sword caused the God Realm’s Asura authority to erupt and drew hundreds of gods to the Douluo Realm’s boundary.
• Oscar, Ning Rongrong, Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and the other gods witnessed the World Barrier turning illusory as the Douluo Realm began taking over the demi-plane.
• The Destruction God King told the Evil God King and the others that the demi-plane’s annexation could not be stopped and that Tang San had not noticed it.
• The Destruction God King suspected a terrifying possibility after observing the Heavenly Dao Mental Network, and the Life God King comforted him.
• The Destruction God King met the mysterious presence’s pale-purple eyes and saw a past, a future, and a repeating history tied to a supreme being.

Chen Hong, through his incarnation Lord Hong, announced a new path of cultivation to the Douluo Realm and the God Realm: the Ascension to Godhood Method. As the God Realm’s gods debated the danger and history of creating a Dao, an unknown existence warned Lord Hong not to reveal something, and he continued by introducing the new method.

• Chen Hong welcomed Di Tian, the Evil Emperor, and the Demon Empress to the Lord Hong Dao Arena after they completed their transformation into divine beings.
• Chen Hong summoned the Star Dou higher-ups and projected his Dharma image beyond Douluo Star’s Heavenly Dao mental curtain, revealing the dark, silent starry sky.
• Lord Hong explained that the Soul Power Dao underlay all extraordinary powers and declared that Hong would impart the Ascension to Godhood Wheel System to all living beings.
• The Destruction God King considered attacking the Douluo Realm to stop Lord Hong, while the Life God King urged the gods to witness his creation of a new Dao and began explaining the ancient origins of cultivation paths.
• An unknown existence warned Lord Hong not to speak, so he skipped part of his explanation and introduced the Ascension to Godhood Method; a teacher then called out a student for defeating practitioners of its path.

As Chen Hong taught the Ascension to Godhood Method and granted divine blood to nine pioneers, the super energy core beneath the Dragon Soul ruins began activating. Chen Hong then linked Heavenly Dao and World Disk, used Order to embed himself in the plane’s laws, and began transforming into the Dao as Douluo Realm burned and a black hole appeared beneath its northern sea.

• Lan Fuzi and Bubble warned Sea Soul Beasts away from the Dragon Soul Sea Domain as the Fourth Generation Energy Core heated the sea and began to awaken.
• Chen Hong explained the Ascension to Godhood Method, while the God Kings recognized that its later stages could surpass the God Realm’s power.
• Chen Hong gave nine drops of divine blood to Du Busi and eight of his students, appointing them pioneers to spread the path to godhood.
• Chen Hong connected Heavenly Dao and World Disk, activated Order on himself, and began merging with the plane’s laws.
• Chen Hong declared, “My lords! Please Ascend!” as his body dissipated, Douluo Realm caught fire, and a black hole appeared in the northern deep sea.