Chapter Summaries

Dai Tiexue and Lan Changsheng discussed the Beast God Cult’s offer to turn humans into Soul Beasts, and Dai chose to flee to Sea God Island rather than surrender to another empire. As Spirit Hall and the Star Dou Great Forest competed to recruit Star Luo’s people, Tang Hao focused on finding You Yu and learning how the world was destroyed.

• Dai Tiexue argued that the Beast God Cult’s human-Soul Beast fusion would ultimately help Soul Beasts evolve, while Lan Changsheng said people would accept changing races for power.
• After villagers brought Beast God Cult members toward their hiding place, Lan Changsheng urged Dai Tiexue to escape to Sea God Island, and Dai agreed.
• Lan Changsheng placed Talismans on himself and Dai Tiexue so they could leave.
• Tang Hao watched them depart and observed the Star Dou Great Forest and Spirit Hall competing to recruit Star Luo Empire’s people with food, money, power, and religious demands.
• Tang Hao decided to improve his strength by finding You Yu, absorbing his Golden Finger, and first asking about the world’s destruction.

Tang Hao tried to learn about the world's destruction from You Yu, but You Yu evaded his tracking, so Tang Hao turned to technology to hunt him down. Meanwhile, Xue Beng organized the search and advanced industrial reforms, but food shortages left him waiting on crop-breeding results and considering fertilizers and farm tools.

• Tang Hao concluded that You Yu might know the truth about the world's destruction, but You Yu concealed his aura and escaped Tang Hao's tracking spell.
• Tang Hao used a pager to contact Xue Beng and ordered him to issue a wanted notice for You Yu.
• Xue Beng passed on the order and considered how to identify You Yu, while worrying that You Yu might have fled to the Star Dou Great Forest or Spirit Hall.
• Xue Beng worked on plans to eradicate illiteracy and increase steel production, using Soul Masters to accelerate industrial development.
• Xue Beng recognized that industrial reforms required agricultural labor and that Douluo Continent could not produce enough food to spare workers.
• Xue Beng decided to await the Begonia Douluo's crop-breeding results and put fertilizer factories and convenient farm tools on the agenda.

Tang Hao investigated why Sea God Island showed no divine aura and sent an official inquiry, while Bo Saixi resisted two candidates demanding that she sacrifice herself so they could inherit the Sea God’s Divine Position. The confrontation remained unresolved when Tang Hao’s inquiry arrived at Sea God Island.

• Tang Hao stationed himself on the West Coast to prevent You Yu from escaping by ship and wondered where Sun Moon Continent was.
• Tang Hao noticed that Sea God Island had no aura of a Deity despite Lu Feng and another Hometown Fellow being there to inherit the Sea God’s Divine Position.
• Tang Hao asked a Heaven Dou Empire official to inquire through official channels about the Sea God’s absence.
• Lu Feng and a blond, blue-eyed youth pressured Bo Saixi to sacrifice herself and let them pass the Sea God’s Nine Trials.
• Bo Saixi refused to give the Sea God’s Divine Position to outsiders and used the Sea God’s Light to try to drive them from Sea God’s Temple.
• Tang Hao’s inquiry arrived while Bo Saixi faced Lu Feng and the blond youth.

After the Heaven Dou Empire asked why Sea God Island lacked a deity’s aura, Bo Saixi’s would-be successors pressured her to surrender the Sea God’s Divine Position. Their battle began as Tang Hao sensed the rising power from Vast Sea City and headed toward the island.

• Sea Dragon Douluo delivered the Heaven Dou Empire’s telegraph asking why Sea God Island had no deity’s aura.
• The blond, blue-eyed youth and Lu Feng urged Bo Saixi to ascend and give them the Sea God’s Divine Position, but she refused.
• The blond, blue-eyed youth attacked Bo Saixi with Ancient Greek God Fist Poseidon.
• Lu Feng summoned the Navy Three Admirals—Starfish, SpongeBob, and Squidward—as three Peerless Douluo auras surged from Sea God’s Temple.
• Tang Hao sensed the auras from Vast Sea City, bought grilled seafood, and vanished from the area.

Straw Hat Lu Feng and a blond, blue-eyed youth overwhelmed Bo Saixi with techniques based on the Dharma Form Secret Art, while their battle threatened Sea God Island’s shelters. Tang Hao stepped in after noticing the danger and appeared beside the fighters, leaving the battle interrupted by his massive presence.

• Straw Hat Lu Feng used the Dharma Form Secret Art and a Flash Rasengan to tear through Bo Saixi’s ocean waves and attack her.
• The blond, blue-eyed youth manifested a Deity True Body and struck Bo Saixi with a giant Sea God Trident, seizing half the power she drew from the sea.
• Sea Dragon Douluo and the others lamented that they could no longer contact the Sea God, while Tang Hao suspected the God Realm was in chaos.
• The fighters’ shockwaves threatened to destroy Sea God Island’s shelters, where the island’s residents had taken refuge.
• Tang Hao handed his barbecue to Sea Dragon Douluo and rose toward the battle, where his enormous figure appeared beside the blond, blue-eyed youth.

Tang Hao ended the battle on Sea God Island and questioned Bo Saixi about the spatial fluctuation he sensed around her. He left the dispute over the Sea God’s succession unresolved and asked whether the Sea God was still alive, raising fears about what had happened in the God Realm.

• Tang Hao appeared above Sea God Island, suppressing Straw Hat Lu Feng, the blond, blue-eyed youth, and Bo Saixi with his divine aura.
• Tang Hao sensed a spatial fluctuation from Bo Saixi that reminded him of the aura he had once detected in Xue Beng’s soul.
• Tang Hao returned to the ground with Bo Saixi and the two Otherworlders, while Sea Dragon Douluo offered him the barbecue he had been holding.
• Straw Hat Lu Feng denied harming anyone on Sea God Island, and Bo Saixi confirmed he had done nothing unlawful but refused to pass the Sea God position to a heretic.
• Tang Hao told everyone to let the ordinary people return to their lives, then asked Bo Saixi whether she could still sense if the Sea God was alive.

Tang Hao asked Bo Saixi about Sea God Island’s grain supplies and investigated a spatial fluctuation that appeared around her. Bo Saixi connected its aura to a mysterious young man who had traded unusual Soul Tools on the island years earlier, leaving Tang Hao intent on asking Xue Beng about him.

• Bo Saixi told Tang Hao she could no longer sense the Sea God's divine oracle, though she had received a dream eight years earlier directing her to pass the Sea God's Divine Position to Tang San.
• Tang Hao had Bo Saixi and Straw Hat Lu Feng evacuate the ordinary people, then asked Bo Saixi whether Sea God Island exported grain.
• Tang Hao demonstrated a spatial fluctuation, and an illusory door appeared around Bo Saixi.
• Bo Saixi recalled that a young man had arrived on a Heaven Dou Empire ship six years earlier and traded Sea God Island several strange, offensive Soul Tools.
• Bo Saixi showed Tang Hao a First-level Soul Tool modeled after the White Tiger Dagger and said the young man's aura resembled the spatial aura Tang Hao had produced.
• Tang Hao decided to ask Xue Beng about the mysterious young man.

Tang Hao rejected Lu Feng in the straw hat’s plan to form a pirate fleet and take Slaughter City’s criminals away, citing the threat to Douluo Continent’s fragile order. He let Lu Feng leave the continent, but required him to register, report his whereabouts, and surrender a personal item so Tang Hao could track him.

• Tang Hao spoke with Lu Feng in the straw hat, who asked whether Tang Hao wanted Sea God Island as a base for exploring the Sun Moon Continent.
• Lu Feng in the straw hat asked Tang Hao to let him build a pirate fleet and take the people of Slaughter City away to serve as explorers.
• Tang Hao refused, explaining that releasing Slaughter City’s powerful criminals would destabilize the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Lu Feng in the straw hat gave up on forming the fleet and asked to leave Douluo Continent.
• Tang Hao allowed Lu Feng in the straw hat to leave but ordered him to register in Heaven Dou City, report monthly, and hand over his straw hat for tracking.

Tang Hao captured the blond, blue-eyed youth and learned that the world would be destroyed, possibly sooner now that its plot had collapsed. The youth implied that the God Realm might hold a way to save the world, and Tang Hao turned his attention there.

• Tang Hao seized the blond, blue-eyed youth’s submarine and shattered his replicated Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• The youth revealed that a contract bound his soul and that speaking too freely would trigger a deadly backlash.
• The youth said the world was originally destined for destruction after the Battle of the Dual Gods, but the collapse of the plot could bring it forward.
• Tang Hao asked how to detect the coming destruction, and the youth suggested observing Tang San, the Child of Destiny.
• The youth indicated that a chance to save the world might be found in the God Realm, and Tang Hao looked toward it.

Tang Hao learned that the God Realm had lost contact with Douluo Continent, then returned to Vast Sea City to warn Xue Beng that the world might soon be destroyed. Xue Beng was troubled by the short timeline but became intrigued by the spatial fluctuations Tang Hao had noticed.

• Tang Hao killed the blond, blue-eyed youth and noticed spatial fluctuations like those around Bo Saixi’s door as the youth’s soul returned to Earth.
• After Tang Hao left, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King swallowed the youth’s corpse and began hibernating, apparently starting a new evolution.
• Tang Hao returned to Vast Sea City and contacted Xue Beng, intending to keep You Yu from escaping Douluo Continent.
• Xue Beng considered Tang Hao’s seafood supply and said that optimized food seeds and fertilizer factories were the lasting solutions to food shortages.
• Tang Hao told Xue Beng that the world could be destroyed when the Battle of the Dual Gods storyline ended, and Xue Beng worried that industrialization would take too long.
• When Tang Hao asked about the spatial fluctuations, Xue Beng froze, then became intrigued.

Tang Hao and Xue Beng investigated the force threatening the world and concluded that the God Realm Central Hub might be involved. Tang Hao decided that someone else would need to scout the God Realm while he remained on Douluo Continent.

• Tang Hao asked Xue Beng whether he remembered the spatial fluctuations linked to Bo Saixi’s Space Gate, but Xue Beng did not.
• Xue Beng recalled that Xue Ye had begun building an oceangoing fleet years earlier, prompting Tang Hao to suspect that Xue Ye might have been the youth Bo Saixi encountered.
• Tang Hao decided he could not search for Xue Ye at sea because he needed to watch Gu Yuena and Qian Liechen and protect the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xue Beng recalled that a future Temporal Storm destroyed the God Realm, but Tang Hao judged that power beyond the world’s reach and identified the God Realm Central Hub as a possible threat.
• Tang Hao decided to investigate the God Realm but turned his attention toward the sea, seeking a Deity who could scout ahead for him.

Tang Hao planned to use the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King as a scout for the God Realm, while Gu Yuena learned that he had appeared near the whale king’s territory and arranged to protect the beast during its breakthrough. She then heard that human souls were fusing with Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, but the supply of Soul Beast cubs could not keep up.

• Tang Hao watched over the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and planned to send him into the God Realm after he became a god.
• Di Tian reported Tang Hao’s presence near the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s territory to Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena told Di Tian the whale king was safe for now and ordered him to delay its tribulation when it broke through.
• Gu Yuena asked Di Tian about the human–Soul Beast fusion program in the Star Luo Empire, and he reported that 35,821 Soul Beasts had fused with human souls.
• Di Tian explained that the number of Soul Beast cubs could not keep up with demand, and Gu Yuena’s expression tightened.

Gu Yuena ordered Black Dragon Di Tian to complete one million high-potential Soul Beast Fusion Rituals within three years, threatening to use his body if he failed. Seeking help, he returned to Huishou Village, where Dai Tiexue, Lan Changsheng, and Hu Liena were gathered, and a young man's soul emerged from Hu Liena to speak with them.

• Black Dragon Di Tian reported that a shortage of suitable Soul Beast cubs was slowing the fusion rituals.
• Gu Yuena demanded one million rituals within three years, with every Soul Beast capable of becoming a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and threatened Black Dragon Di Tian if he failed.
• After Gu Yuena vanished, Black Dragon Di Tian cursed his predicament and decided he needed helpers.
• Black Dragon Di Tian went to Huishou Village, where Dai Tiexue and Lan Changsheng were trapped alongside Hu Liena.
• Lan Changsheng proposed that the three Hometown Fellows work together to escape, and a young man's soul emerged from Hu Liena to meet them.

Yao Yan, Hu Liena’s Second Martial Soul and the true Hometown Fellow, joined Lan Changsheng, Dai Tiexue, and Di Tian for mahjong after Di Tian arrived with a mission from Gu Yuena. Di Tian asked the others for help completing an impossible order to perform fusion rituals for one million high-potential Soul Beasts within three years.

• Yao Yan revealed that he was Hu Liena’s Second Martial Soul and had helped her escape Qian Liechen’s spiritual enslavement, though he was badly injured.
• Di Tian entered the room, and Lan Changsheng invited him and the others to play mahjong.
• Hu Liena took Yao Yan’s seat at the table, while Dai Tiexue joined despite his anger at Di Tian.
• Di Tian told the others that Gu Yuena had ordered one million fusion rituals for high-potential Soul Beasts within three years.
• Di Tian admitted that the Soul Beasts available across the Star Dou Great Forest, the Extreme North, and the sea could not meet the requirement, and he asked the Hometown Fellows to help him.

Yao Yan and the others examined Di Tian’s records of the Soul Beast Fusion Ritual, discovering the vast number of lives sacrificed to develop it. They tested the Beast Seed on a Mandala Snake and found that human wisdom could guide its rapid evolution, though Lan Changsheng saw flaws in the method.

• Di Tian said he cared only about surviving, and Yao Yan asked to see every record of the Soul Beast Fusion Ritual.
• Yao Yan, Hu Liena, Dai Tiexue, and Lan Changsheng read records documenting hundreds of thousands of deaths in the experiments.
• Di Tian explained that the Beast Seed’s Authority of Life aura came from their Auspicious Beast Hometown Fellow and agreed to provide a test subject.
• Di Tian brought in a hundred-year Mandala Snake, and Lan Changsheng implanted a Beast Seed in it.
• Yao Yan used the light of wisdom to suppress the Snake’s uncontrolled evolution, and it became a thousand-year Soul Beast within minutes.
• Lan Changsheng praised the technique’s use of life aura and human wisdom, but said it was still lacking.

Lan Changsheng transformed a Beast Seed into an external contract sphere that could guide a Soul Beast’s evolution while preserving its intelligence. He showed Di Tian that the method could make the fusion ritual far safer and allow humans to contract multiple Soul Beasts, leaving Di Tian wary of the consequences.

• Lan Changsheng explained that the Soul Beast fusion ritual was too violent because it compressed natural evolution into a short period inside the beast’s body.
• Di Tian admitted that the ritual had a high mortality rate, and Lan Changsheng proposed moving the process outside the body.
• Lan Changsheng refined a Beast Seed into a crimson sphere and used it to trigger a Soft Bone Rabbit’s evolution without implanting the seed inside it.
• Yao Yan added soul light to the sphere, calming the rabbit’s uncontrolled evolution and bringing out its intelligence.
• Di Tian realized the method could let humans contract multiple Soul Beasts, and Lan Changsheng argued that it could reduce ritual deaths and help fulfill the million-beast target.

Lan Changsheng, Dai Tiexue, and Yao Yan presented Di Tian with a Blood Qi Red-White Ball that could make Soul Beast Contracts safer and benefit ordinary people. Di Tian questioned whether they could produce it at scale, and Dai Tiexue revealed his Iron Blood Great Banner as the solution to the Blood Essence requirement.

• Di Tian argued that ordinary people would not willingly accept Soul Beast Contracts if they gained no power from them.
• Dai Tiexue used his Blood Essence Soul Rings to add a Blood Essence Hub to the red-and-white ball, allowing humans and Soul Beasts to gain power through blood.
• Di Tian recognized the ball's potential but warned that Lady Silver Dragon King could discover their true purpose and questioned whether it could be widely produced.
• Yao Yan explained that anyone with a Martial Soul could supply the necessary power, while Lan Changsheng offered Di Tian the Divine Contract Technique for making the balls.
• Dai Tiexue pulled the Blood Essence Great Banner from his spine and identified it as the solution to producing Blood Essence Soul Rings.

Yao Yan, Lan Changsheng, and Dai Tiexue presented Di Tian with a workable plan to mass-produce the Blood Qi Red-White Ball, and Dai Tiexue gave up his Iron Blood Great Banner to help make it possible. Di Tian named the device the Ball of Life and left to report to Gu Yuena, while the others worried about the Auspicious Beast after hearing beasts across the continent wail.

• Di Tian realized Yao Yan, Lan Changsheng, and Dai Tiexue had prepared their solution to the Soul Beast Fusion Ritual well in advance.
• Dai Tiexue explained that his Iron Blood Great Banner could transform the Red-White Ball into a Blood Qi Red-White Ball, then handed the banner to Di Tian despite its importance to his hopes of becoming the God of War.
• Di Tian accepted the banner and the ball, intending to leave the decision about the plan to Gu Yuena.
• Lan Changsheng, Yao Yan, and Dai Tiexue argued over what to name the ball, but Di Tian said the Auspicious Beast had already named it the Ball of Life.
• Dai Tiexue wondered aloud about the Auspicious Beast's fate, and the others fell silent as they recalled the wails of beasts across the continent.

Three months after Heaven Dou City stabilized, Xia You finished rebuilding the city and encountered Tang San volunteering at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Xue Beng explained that Tang San and his companions had lost their memories of the time they were controlled by the Illusion Technique.

• Xia You recalled how Tang Hao had recruited him to oversee Cursed Spirit construction crews, leaving him exhausted by repeated changes to Heaven Dou City's plans.
• Tang San greeted Xia You while volunteering to maintain order during academy tours, but he did not recognize him.
• Tang San demonstrated how his Blue Silver Grass could respond across a wide area and sweep litter into trash bins.
• Xiao Wu called Tang San away because Qin Ming wanted to see him, and Tang San left without recognizing Xia You.
• Xue Beng told Xia You that Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, the Master, and Oscar had lost their memories of being controlled by the Illusion Technique.

Xue Beng explained how the Star Dou Great Forest’s Ball of Life let ordinary people cultivate blood essence and helped Soul Beasts grow more intelligent, threatening to draw people away from the Heaven Dou Empire. He asked white-haired Xia You to lend him Cursed Spirits so the empire could explore a similar contract system, and Xia You handed some over.

• Xue Beng met white-haired Xia You at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and asked him to come along, promising he would not have to work.
• Xue Beng explained that the Star Dou Great Forest had created the Ball of Life, which let people contract with Soul Beasts and borrow their power to cultivate blood essence.
• Xue Beng said contracted Soul Beasts could grow smarter over time, potentially forming a civilization, while people without Innate Soul Power could gain the ability to cultivate.
• Xue Beng explained that families were considering moving to territories controlled by the Star Dou Great Forest, so he had opened Heaven Dou Royal Academy to visitors to encourage loyalty to the empire.
• Xue Beng asked to borrow Xia You’s Cursed Spirits to research a Cursed Spirit contract system, and Xia You handed him several.