Chapter Summaries

Tang Hao interrupted the otherworldly gods’ effort to enlist the Silver Dragon King against him and challenged their claims about power and peace. He asked the Silver Dragon King for her personal name, leaving her uncertain why it mattered.

• The Western Youth Second-level God tried to persuade the Silver Dragon King to join forces against Tang Hao, arguing that Soul Beasts needed independence and warning they might otherwise be exterminated.
• The Silver Dragon King rejected the otherworlders’ demands and accused them of seeking to control the world, while Tang Ling and the Western Youth Second-level God pressed her to treat Tang Hao as a threat.
• Tang Hao suddenly appeared through the mist holding the Dragon Cauldron, and the Western Youth Second-level God blamed Heaven’s Will for concealing his approach.
• Tang Hao noticed Tang Ling’s phone and challenged the group for holding their meeting on Dugu Bo’s territory without permission.
• The Silver Dragon King introduced herself by title, and Tang Hao told her that communication required her to have a name of her own.

Tang Hao spoke with Gu Yuena about whether humans and Soul Beasts could coexist, while the Western Second-level Gods argued that conflict between the races was unavoidable and pressed her to accept their proposal. Gu Yuena postponed her decision, and Tang Hao left wondering whether the communication image had hidden her injuries with a beauty filter.

• Gu Yuena introduced herself to Tang Hao and asked what he thought the relationship between humans and Soul Beasts should be.
• Tang Hao said humans were not all alike and that he would not oppose Soul Beast independence as long as it did not hinder humanity’s normal development.
• The Western Youth Second-level God claimed that two races could not coexist and that one had to eliminate or drive out the other.
• Tang Hao ended the ideological debate, thanked the Otherworlders for their communication base stations, and left.
• The Western Youth Second-level God urged Gu Yuena to answer their proposal, but she said she needed to discuss it internally before ending the call.
• Tang Hao wondered how Gu Yuena appeared healthy despite her injuries and suspected the phone image had used a beauty filter.

Tang Hao planned a major strike against the Second-level Gods expected to make a last stand in half a month, while Xue Beng celebrated the new communications base station and struggled to find help with governing. Xue Beng refused Tang Hao’s request for ten thousand tons of explosives, offered the fifty tons he had stockpiled, and began considering a potential recruit from Skywater Academy.

• Tang Hao learned that the Second-level Gods had built a communications base station and decided to prepare for their expected desperate last stand in half a month.
• Xue Beng rejoiced at the prospect of using the base station to improve Heaven Dou City’s administration and advance his scientific research.
• Tang Hao asked Xue Beng to provide more than ten thousand tons of explosives, and Xue Beng refused but offered fifty tons from his private stockpile.
• Xue Beng considered asking Dai Tiexue to help govern, then rejected the idea because of the political consequences for the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xue Beng remembered a talented fellow from Skywater Academy and wondered about his abilities.

Ji Bochang was abruptly recruited by Xue Beng and Tang Hao to become emperor of Heaven Dou, then discovered that the throne came with a mountain of work. He ended the chapter trapped in the imperial study, facing an enormous pile of memorials.

• Ji Bochang opened his dorm door and saw the dean tied to a chair beside two men, then tried to flee when they called him a hometown fellow.
• Xue Beng explained that he wanted Ji Bochang to become emperor because Ji Bochang's Golden Finger suited the role.
• Tang Hao appeared, and Ji Bochang agreed to become emperor after Tang Hao asked him directly.
• Ji Bochang completed his coronation and succession ceremony in Heaven Dou City within half a day.
• Xue Beng handed Ji Bochang a person-high pile of memorials and said future communication devices would reduce his workload by only about a quarter.

Ji Bochang took over as emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire and discovered the sweeping reforms Xue Beng had begun, leaving him worried about how to govern the Soul Masters and keep himself safe while asleep. His succession was accepted because Tang Hao supported him, while Tang Hao noticed his Dragon Transformation Secret Method was advancing faster.

• Ji Bochang learned that the former emperor had taken the imperial staff away and the nobles' reserve of talent had been executed, leaving him to govern with little administrative support.
• Xue Beng reassured Ji Bochang that Tang Hao's strength would deter rebellion, then began handing over the throne and teaching him how to handle affairs.
• As Ji Bochang took over, he discovered Xue Beng's plans for universal education and for assigning Soul Masters to farms, mountains, factories, and other work.
• Ji Bochang feared the consequences of the reforms and considered finding someone else to take over, though his Golden Finger made subordinates overthink resistance when he was awake.
• The Heaven Dou Empire accepted Ji Bochang's succession because Tang Hao recognized him, while Tang Hao wondered why his Dragon Transformation Secret Method was progressing faster.

Tang Hao discovered that restoring Heaven Dou City and organizing its agricultural labor accelerated his Dragon Transformation Secret Method, possibly by granting him the empire’s Imperial Fortune. With Tang San and five Second-level Gods due to return in three days, Tang Hao prepared to stop them from reaching the city.

• Tang Hao promised to help Ji Bochang become a god in ten years, persuading him to remain emperor despite his Golden Finger being consumed.
• Xue Beng wondered whether Tang Hao could devour Imperial Fortune and began considering how fortune might support his plans for scientific research.
• Tang Hao used his strength and Golden Finger power to restore order in Heaven Dou City, while plant-type Soul Masters joined the Agricultural Department to develop crops.
• Tang Hao noticed that the city’s recovery had shortened his Dragon Transformation Secret Method’s cultivation time and suspected he was benefiting from Heaven Dou Empire’s Imperial Fortune.
• Tang Hao went to the route out of Sunset Forest to intercept Tang San and the five Second-level Gods, while Xue Beng’s workers spread dirt over explosives beneath the road.

The Western Second-level Gods planned to use an obvious gunpowder ambush to trap Tang Hao and secure Tang San’s return to Heaven Dou City. Tang Hao prepared to face them alone, while Xue Beng revealed the imperial tea he gave Ji Bochang would keep him awake for three days and nights.

• The Western Second-level Gods learned that Gu Yuena would not help until she dealt with Spirit Hall, so they agreed to fight Tang Hao head-on and assigned two gods to protect Tang San.
• Xue Beng helped bury the gunpowder outside Sunset Forest, explained the fuse to Tang Hao, and fled to Heaven Dou City with the Heaven Dou Royal Academy group.
• Tang Hao judged that the blast could restrain one Second-level God and that his improved strength might let him hold off four, but he planned to kill one quickly and refused to retreat.
• Tang Hao waited in meditation outside Sunset Forest as the five Second-level Gods sensed his growing strength from inside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xue Beng offered Ji Bochang imperial tea, then explained that drinking it would prevent sleep for three days and nights.

Xue Beng sought the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support for Tang Hao’s coming battle against five Second-level Gods, then introduced a Soul Tool that could synchronize their Martial Souls. The Array of Synchronization showed promise but proved unstable, and with only three days left, Xue Beng turned to Ning Bubai.

• Xue Beng used Ji Bochang’s authority while he stayed awake to secure the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s aid for Tang Hao.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could not normally support a deity so far beyond his cultivation, leaving the sect discouraged.
• Xue Beng presented the Array of Synchronization, a Soul Tool formation made by a reformed Otherworlder that gathered the strength of multiple Martial Souls.
• Ning Fengzhi and the others activated the formation and briefly felt its combined power, but emotional and Soul Power fluctuations made it collapse.
• Ning Fengzhi said there was too little time to train with the unstable formation, and Xue Beng looked to Ning Bubai.

Ning Bubai revealed the Lesser Formless Skill, giving Xue Beng and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect a way to help Clear Sky Your Excellency. Three days later, Tang Hao confronted five Second-level Gods near Sunset Forest as Spirit Hall attacked Star Dou Great Forest, and the gods refused to back down.

• Xue Beng directed attention to Ning Bubai, who revealed that she had created the Lesser Formless Skill to help solve the Soul Power synchronization problem.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo recognized the skill’s potential, and Xue Beng asked whether it could help them assist Clear Sky Your Excellency.
• Tang Hao learned through his Natal Magic Tool that Xue Beng had arranged help, then waited outside Sunset Forest as the plot’s appointed time approached.
• Three days later, Spirit Hall attacked Star Dou Great Forest, and five Second-level Gods confronted Tang Hao outside Sunset Forest.
• The Western Youth Second-level God offered Tang Hao a general’s position and warned that the world would be destroyed, but Tang Hao refused and prepared to fight using his Dragon Cauldron Martial Soul and fifty tons of gunpowder.

Tang Hao trapped the Western Youth Second-level God and the others by forcing them to escort Tang San and Dugu Bo toward a heavily prepared explosive trap. The explosion began as Tang Ling and two companions attacked Tang Hao, while Wang Hengren and the Western Middle-aged Second-level God stayed behind to protect Tang San and Dugu Bo.

• Dugu Bo asked Tang Hao to free him before the battle, but Tang Hao promised to rescue him after defeating the gods.
• Tang Hao confronted the five Second-level Gods with an explosive trap they could not safely avoid or trigger in advance.
• Tang Ling and the Western Youth Second-level God tried to set off the explosives, but Heaven's Will's restrictions destroyed their attempts.
• Tang San neared the edge of Sunset Forest as Xue Beng's allies prepared to act and Ji Bochang struggled to stay awake to support Tang Hao.
• Tang Ling detonated the trap, Wang Hengren and the Western Middle-aged Second-level God shielded Tang San and Dugu Bo, and Tang Ling and two others attacked Tang Hao.

Tang Hao killed Tang Ling with a single Clear Sky Hammer strike while fighting the Western Youth Second-level Gods, then recovered with Ye Xilan’s healing before she escaped. As the four enemies regrouped to attack him, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect began an array to amplify its support abilities.

• Tang Hao attacked Tang Ling first, shattered the Saint’s power within her, and killed her with a mountain-sized Clear Sky Hammer.
• The Western Youth Second-level Gods wounded Tang Hao, but Ye Xilan healed him with her Nine Heart Begonia and escaped using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• The remaining four enemies regrouped and linked their auras to face Tang Hao together.
• Several hundred members of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect activated the Array of Synchronization, prompting the Western Youth Second-level Gods to move against them.
• A refined middle-aged man at the array’s center revealed his Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and activated Nine Treasures True Body.

Ning Fengzhi’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda doubled Tang Hao’s power, letting him fight the Western Second-level Gods while they tried to protect Tang San from the devastation. The battle continued to reshape the battlefield, leaving Dugu Bo terrified amid the aftershocks.

• Ning Fengzhi’s support empowered Tang Hao, who tore apart the Western Youth Second-level God’s hand of divine power and overwhelmed the gods’ initial attacks.
• The Western Youth Second-level God and two other Western Second-level Gods used Angel God Fist, while Wang Hengrong merged their attacks; Tang Hao blocked the combined strike with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao’s hammer blows shattered the ground and threatened Tang San, so the Western Youth Second-level God raised a road for him while dodging Tang Hao’s attack.
• Dugu Bo used his Dharma Image Secret Method to survive a shockwave and pleaded with Tang Hao not to strike him by accident.
• The Western Second-level Gods fought Tang Hao while protecting Tang San and the others from the battle’s aftershocks, which Dugu Bo watched in terror.

Tang Hao fought the Western Second-level Gods, killing two while Ye Xilan’s healing kept him alive. With only Wang Hengrong and one other god left, Wang Hengrong began explaining what would happen to the plot world after its story ended.

• The Western Youth Second-level God ordered Dugu Bo to take Tang San toward Heaven Dou City, but Dugu Bo refused to risk the deaths of its people.
• Tang Hao broke through the gods’ blockade and crushed the Western Youth Second-level God, though their attacks left him gravely wounded.
• Ye Xilan healed Tang Hao with the Nine Heart Begonia, and he resumed fighting the Western Second-level Gods.
• Tang Hao killed another Western Second-level God and challenged Wang Hengrong and the Western Middle-aged Second-level God, who warned that the world would still be destroyed.
• Wang Hengrong agreed to explain the world’s fate after the plot ended and identified Douluo Continent as a plot world.

After defeating Wang Hengrong and the other Second-level Gods, Tang Hao rejected their warnings that the world would be destroyed if the plot changed. He restored Tang San’s memories and killed Jiang Xian, whose soul was protected by a Saint, while remaining determined to find a way to save the world.

• Tang Hao killed the Western Middle-aged Second-level God, and Wang Hengrong warned him that the world would disappear if the plot did not proceed normally.
• Wang Hengrong ended his own life, and Tang Hao buried the invaders’ bodies in Sunset Forest.
• Tang Hao lifted the illusion on Tang San, who recovered his memories of the past two years and fainted.
• The alternate space expelled Jiang Xian, who mocked Tang Hao and threatened to enslave him after the world was reshaped.
• Tang Hao stopped the lightning meant to expel Jiang Xian and burned his soul with Amaterasu before crushing him.

Tang Hao defeated Jiang Xian and considered what to do with the captured Tang San. After celebrating with his allies, Tang Hao decided that Tang San would attend school.

• Tang Hao burned Jiang Xian to ashes with Amaterasu and survived the battle.
• Xue Beng, Ning Bubai, Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Dugu Bo arrived and acknowledged Tang Hao's victory and their part in the conflict.
• Tang Hao thanked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and reassured Dugu Bo about his former alliance with him.
• Xue Beng asked how Tang Hao would handle Tang San, and Tang Hao said he would send him to school.
• Xue Beng reconsidered his objection after remembering the strict schooling Tang Hao had experienced.

Tang Hao discovered that Gu Yuena and Qian Liechen had both become First-level Gods, alarming Xue Beng’s plans for scientific research. He then followed the Thousand Mile Tracking Technique to Fish Pond Village, where he found Qingli hiding.

• Tang Hao left Tang San’s education to Qin Ming and began restoring Sunset Forest, while Xue Beng persuaded him to provide divine remains for a research institute.
• Tang Hao saw Gu Yuena and Qian Liechen clash with Spirit Hall in Star Dou Great Forest and recognized that both possessed First-level God strength.
• Xue Beng warned Tang Hao that Qian Liechen’s theocratic plans threatened scientific research, but Tang Hao said he had found Qingli.
• Tang Hao traveled to Fish Pond Village, where Qingli watched the villagers eat plain rice after preparing a fish meal.

Tang Hao tracked Qingli to a fishing village, killed her, and absorbed the Nine-tailed Fox Cat demon soul, advancing his Dragon Transformation Secret Method and gaining First-level God strength. Qian Liechen appeared afterward and demanded compensation for Qingli, whom he had planned to make the Angel Church’s Holy Maiden.

• Qingli fled through a concealed passage and used her Illusion Technique to create chaos in the fishing village, hoping to delay Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao froze the village, crushed the Nine-tailed Fox Cat soul that attacked him, and rejected Qingli’s plea for mercy.
• Tang Hao killed Qingli, took the light ball containing her demon soul, and absorbed it to advance his Dragon Transformation Secret Method to the eighth level.
• Tang Hao reached level ninety-eight Soul Power and First-level God strength, then restored the fishing village and dispelled its illusions.
• Qian Liechen appeared in the sky and asked Tang Hao how he would compensate him for killing Qingli; Tang Hao asked who he was.

Tang Hao confronted Qian Liechen, learned that he was a native of their world who had seized control of the Angel Church, and clashed with him over the empires and Spirit Hall. As Tang Hao’s attack on Spirit City was blocked by Qian Liechen’s Sun Moon God King Curse, Tang Hao recognized him as a Saint from the Nalan family.

• Tang Hao tested Qian Liechen’s identity by demanding he sing an entire national anthem, and Qian Liechen admitted he was not from Earth and had used the Western Church’s gods to learn how they spread faith.
• Qian Liechen claimed the Star Luo Empire and sent more than a dozen Peerless Douluo into it, while Tang Hao agreed to take the Heaven Dou Empire but demanded Spirit Hall for himself.
• Tang Hao struck at Spirit City with his Clear Sky True Body, but Qian Liechen appeared and blocked the giant palm with a Sun Moon God King Curse barrier.
• Tang Hao recognized Qian Liechen’s curse as resembling Saint Nalan’s power and declared that a Saint had entered the Douluo Continent world.

Tang Hao took Qian Daoliu’s statue from Spirit City, where Qian Liechen had transformed the city into Angel God City, and brought it to Xue Beng in Heaven Dou City. He freed Qian Daoliu from the Curse Script and reunited with him, leaving Qian Daoliu to warn Tang Hao about Qian Liechen’s strength.

• Tang Hao mocked Qian Liechen for transforming Spirit City and its people into objects of Angel God worship, then took the Qian Daoliu statue from Spirit Plaza.
• Qian Liechen let Tang Hao leave, erased the believers’ memories of the theft, and returned to Spirit Hall.
• Tang Hao returned to Heaven Dou City, where Xue Beng noticed that Tang Hao had reached First-level God strength and asked about the statue.
• Tang Hao explained what had happened in Spirit City and used Dragon Vein Aura to remove the Curse Script power from Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu woke, recognized Tang Hao, and warned him that Qian Liechen had reached the Angel God’s true level.

Tang Hao killed Qian Daoliu after receiving his Martial Soul True Body Armor cultivation method, then watched Spirit Hall and the Star Dou Great Forest invade the Star Luo Empire. In Magra Province, Dai Tiexue saw the Beast God Cult win over villagers and undermine his army while he recovered in hiding.

• Qian Daoliu gave Tang Hao documents on Martial Soul True Body Armor cultivation, then attacked and was killed by Tang Hao in one strike.
• Tang Hao sent Qian Daoliu's body to Xue Beng and told him to provide a proper Spirit Hall funeral.
• Tang Hao sensed that Spirit Hall and the Fierce Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest were joining forces to carve up the Star Luo Empire and went to observe the invasion.
• Spirit Hall's Angel Legion advanced from the west while the Soul Beast Legion entered from the east, and both forces preached to the people they encountered.
• Dai Tiexue watched villagers in Huishou Village abandon resistance and join the Beast God Cult, which had helped reduce his Iron-Blood Legion to about a thousand soldiers.
• Lan Changsheng mocked Dai Tiexue for losing soldiers to a cult that offered commoners food and power, and Dai Tiexue conceded that he was right.