Chapter Summaries

Tang Hao was displayed as a broken prisoner, and Tang San watched him with contempt before the tournament match began. When Chen Ming unleashed a destructive sword aura, the Asura God's Divine Sense took control of Tang San and revealed his Clear Sky Hammer's powerful Soul Rings to the shocked spectators.

• Tang Hao trembled helplessly in a prison cart as Tang San regarded him with disgust and contempt.
• Salas began the match, and Tang San targeted Chen Ming and Dugu Yan as the soul skills flew.
• Tang San opened with Blue Silver Bind, but Chen Ming's destructive sword aura tore through it and forced the Asura God's Divine Sense to seize control of Tang San's body.
• The Asura God's Divine Sense recognized Chen Ming's destructive power and suspected he was a successor of the God of Destruction, but it had no way to coordinate with the fragment inside Bibi Dong.
• The Divine Sense switched Tang San to the Clear Sky Hammer, revealing one purple, four black, and one red Soul Ring and prompting spectators to marvel at the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.

Chen Ming overwhelmed Tang San in the arena, while Dugu Bo’s immense power deterred the watching elites from interfering. Tang San ended the chapter bloodied and defeated, and the Asura God’s Divine Sense recognized that Chen Ming was drawing the fortune Tang San needed.

• Dugu Bo unleashed level ninety-seven Soul Power, suppressing the crowd as Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu sensed his approach toward godhood.
• The Asura God's Divine Sense used Tang San’s Teleportation skill and Clear Sky Hammer to ambush Chen Ming, but the Purple Emperor Dragon’s destructive light melted the hammer.
• Tang San charged through the light with Invincible Golden Body and attacked with his external soul-bone spikes, but Chen Ming’s Dragon Ascending Sword shattered them and cut him with Destruction Power.
• The Asura God's Divine Sense blocked Destruction Power from striking Tang San’s mind, while Tang San imagined Xiao Wu crying for help and threatened Chen Ming from the ground.
• The Asura God's Divine Sense awakened in Tang Chen and Bibi Dong, then realized Chen Ming was gathering the fortune Tang San needed and that Tang San’s path to power had been severely set back.

The Asura God’s Divine Will drove Tang Chen to attack Chen Ming, but Qian Daoliu intercepted him and the two Peerless Douluo fought, throwing the arena into chaos. As the spectators and factions weathered the battle’s shockwaves, Tang Xiao ended up surrounded by Spirit Hall enshrines while Dugu Bo escaped with the teams.

• Tang Chen charged at Chen Ming, but Qian Daoliu struck him down and confronted him.
• Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu exchanged powerful attacks, and their clash unleashed shockwaves across the venue.
• Soul Masters from many factions endured the battle’s aftermath to watch and learn from the two fighters.
• Dugu Bo and Tang Xiao protected the teams, then retreated in different directions as the fighting escalated.
• Spirit Hall’s five remaining enshrines surrounded Tang Xiao after his Clear Sky Sect companions were subdued.

Tang Chen summoned the Asura God’s Divine Will to fight Qian Daoliu, but Chen Ming called upon the God of Destruction to stop the Asura God from harming his successor. The Asura God retreated with Tang Chen and Tang San to the Star Dou Great Forest, while Destruction returned to the Divine Realm.

• Tang Chen used his Divine Power to summon the Asura God, who healed him, manifested an Asura Domain, and summoned the Asura Demon Sword.
• The Asura God challenged Qian Daoliu to withstand one sword strike, but Chen Ming rose into the air with the God of Destruction’s Divine Will.
• The God of Destruction accused the Asura God of violating Divine Realm laws and warned him not to target Chen Ming’s successor again.
• The Asura God blocked Destruction’s thunder, protected Tang San and the others, and left Spirit City with Tang Chen for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The God of Destruction struck Tang Chen once more, warned the Asura God against further interference, and returned to the Divine Realm.

The Asura God advanced a plan to devour the Sea God and combine divine powers, while the Silver Dragon King learned that the God of Destruction’s inheritor carried the Purple Radiant Sky Annihilating Dragon’s aura. She decided to create an avatar to approach him and ordered Di Tian to bring her an insect for its origin power.

• The Asura God reviewed his ritual and planned to use Tang San to destroy the remaining power of the Rakshasa God and Angel God before ambushing and devouring the Sea God.
• The Golden Dragon King sensed the Asura God’s dragon scale and considered using the remaining power of the Purple Radiant Sky Annihilating Dragon.
• The Silver Dragon King awoke after sensing the Purple Radiant Sky Annihilating Dragon’s aura near Spirit Hall and told Di Tian it came from the God of Destruction’s inheritor.
• The Silver Dragon King decided to form an avatar to infiltrate the inheritor’s side and seek the dragon’s place of death or a way to free the Golden Dragon King.
• The Silver Dragon King began creating the avatar and ordered Di Tian to bring her the big bug so she could use its origin power.

Chen Ming learned from the God of Destruction that the Dragon God might be plotting in the lower realm, then set out to find Tang San and his companions in the Star Dou Great Forest. He disguised himself as the Myriad Soul Douluo and brought Ah Yin along to confront Tang San and Tang Hao while Tang Chen remained unconscious.

• The God of Destruction calmed down after Chen Ming warned him that the Dragon God might have left something behind on Douluo Continent, and urged Chen Ming to gather faith and become a god.
• Chen Ming used Ah Yin's ability to locate Tang San and the others, who were hiding in the Star Dou Great Forest while Tang Chen recovered from the Destruction Divine Thunder.
• Chen Ming merged with his Evil God Clone, used the God of Sin's Divine Power, and traveled through a spatial rift to the forest's outskirts.
• Ah Yin asked to join Chen Ming so she could settle things with Tang San and Tang Hao, and Chen Ming transferred her soul into the Evil God Spear.
• Chen Ming disguised himself as the Myriad Soul Douluo and advanced toward Tang San, corrupting the forest and driving nearby soul beasts into a frenzy.
• Tang Chen remained asleep after collapsing, leaving Tang Xiao to lead the group.

Tang Xiao sheltered the injured Tang Chen and imprisoned Tang Hao in a cave near the core of the Star Dou Great Forest. A gigantic Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor appeared at the entrance, terrifying the Clear Sky Sect and leaving Tang Xiao unsure whether it was a Ferocious Beast or a soul master’s Martial Soul Avatar.

• Tang Xiao hid Tang Chen in a cave and kept Tang Hao imprisoned, while the Clear Sky Sect members ignored and despised him.
• A sinister wind swept into the cave, and Tang Xiao summoned his Clear Sky Hammer to guard the entrance.
• A massive Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor emerged, mocking the Clear Sky Sect and poisoning the ground as it advanced.
• Tang San’s Man Faced Demon Spider Bloodline left him kneeling in fear and suppressed the power of both his Martial Souls.
• Tang Xiao sensed the creature’s overwhelming strength and wondered whether it was a Ferocious Beast or a soul master’s Martial Soul Avatar.

Tang Xiao fought Chen Ming, who controlled the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor, and learned that the enemy was Wan Gui, the one who had stolen and desecrated Ah Yin’s Soul Bone. Chen Ming summoned Ah Yin’s spirit, leaving Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and Tang San stunned by her appearance.

• Tang Xiao used the Clear Sky Nine Arts to crack the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor’s carapace, but its tiny spider derivatives poisoned and injured him.
• Tang Xiao activated his Martial Soul Avatar and a Torso Bone Soul Skill to recover, then questioned the spider’s master about his identity and intentions.
• Chen Ming introduced himself as Wan Gui, and Tang Xiao recognized him as the one who had stolen Ah Yin’s Soul Bone and desecrated her soul.
• Chen Ming halted Tang Xiao with a web and released controlled souls, including the spirit of Ah Yin.
• Tang Xiao called out to Ah Yin, and Tang Hao and Tang San heard him from inside the cave; Tang Hao desperately shouted her name from the Prison Cart.

Ah Yin confronted Tang Xiao outside the cave, using her Blue Silver Grass to stop his attempt to reach her and insisting that she was fine. Tang Xiao unleashed his strongest attack, and Ah Yin answered with a gigantic Blue Silver Grass hand.

• Tang Xiao mistook Ah Yin’s appearance for a chance to be healed, while Ah Yin greeted him with anger and distance.
• Tang Xiao charged toward Ah Yin, smashing through her vines as they rooted through his protective Soul Power and grew into his flesh.
• Tang Xiao used footwork resembling Tang San’s Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to advance, but Ah Yin overwhelmed him with layers of vine nets.
• Tang Xiao activated his ninth Soul Skill, Clear Sky Invincible, and raised his power toward the threshold of Ultimate Gold.
• Ah Yin summoned a small forest of Blue Silver Grass and formed a gigantic purple palm that slammed toward Tang Xiao.

Ah Yin defeated Tang Xiao with a crushing Blue Silver Grass strike, but the Asura God intervened by sending the Asura Demon Sword to restore him. Chen Ming interrupted their fusion with the Soul Devouring Plate, leaving Tang Xiao petrified for several months.

• Ah Yin struck Tang Xiao with a massive Blue Silver Grass palm, and the impact badly wounded him.
• Ah Yin bound Tang Xiao with Blue Silver Grass and began draining his vitality and Soul Power while trying to spare his life.
• The Asura God sent the Asura Demon Sword to Tang Xiao, who accepted its power and began recovering as a hazy domain formed around him.
• Chen Ming used the Soul Devouring Plate to disrupt the sword's fusion with Tang Xiao and petrify his body and mind.
• The Soul Devouring Plate turned Tang Xiao and the Asura Demon Sword into a statue, though Chen Ming sensed Tang Xiao remained alive and would be petrified for months.

Chen Ming and Ah Yin confronted Tang Hao and Tang San in the cave, where Ah Yin tortured Tang Hao and reclaimed the power of her Ninth Soul Ring. Chen Ming then gave Tang San the Blood Skull Bone, returning it to the Clear Sky Sect.

• Chen Ming entered the cave with Ah Yin and incapacitated the remaining Clear Sky Sect elders with the Human Emperor Banner.
• Ah Yin attacked Tang Hao, then restored his body and dantian so she could forcibly extract and shatter her Ninth Soul Ring, leaving him helpless and in agony.
• Ah Yin transferred the reclaimed power to Chen Ming and told Tang Hao she belonged to her Master now.
• Chen Ming recalled Ah Yin’s soul before she could attack Tang San, then gave Tang San the Blood Skull Bone as repayment.

Chen Ming gave Tang San the Blood Skull Bone and vanished, leaving Tang San to devour Tang Hao and the injured Clear Sky Sect elders. Hypnos and the Asura God's Divine Sense arrived too late and found Tang San transformed into a monster, seemingly disqualifying him from the Sea God's inheritance.

• Chen Ming gave Tang San the Blood Skull Bone, revealed its connection to the Clear Sky Sect, and disappeared from the cave.
• Tang San fought his hunger and justified killing Tang Hao as an act of justice, then began eating him with the Blood Skull Bone beside him.
• Hypnos arrived and helped the Asura God's Divine Sense free the Asura Demon Sword from its petrification, but they found that the cave's violence had already ended.
• The Asura God's Divine Sense and Hypnos discovered Tang San eating Tang Hao's corpse and saw that he had also devoured the injured Clear Sky Sect elders.
• The Asura God's Divine Sense realized Tang San had become a monstrous creature and doubted that the Sea God would grant him the Divine Throne inheritance.

The Asura God had Hypnos take Tang San and the others to the City of Slaughter, where he altered their minds and powers to keep Tang San’s ruined condition useful. Tang San awoke with his memories reinforced and his mind unnaturally calm, then learned that Hypnos was the God of Slaughter and the City of Slaughter was the site of the Asura God’s Divine Trial.

• Tang San attacked Hypnos at the cave entrance, and Hypnos knocked him unconscious before the Asura God ordered him brought to the City of Slaughter.
• Hypnos cleaned up the cave and took Tang San, Dai Mubai, Yu Tianheng, Tang Xiao, and Tang Chen to the City of Slaughter.
• The Asura God reinforced Tang San’s memories of his previous life, damaged part of his mind, and sealed his muddled Soul Power after discovering that much of his bloodline had become Man Faced Demon Spider and Blue Silver Grass.
• The Asura God began unsealing Tang Xiao, placed Tang Chen in a blood pool, and altered Dai Mubai’s and Yu Tianheng’s Martial Souls to help absorb Tang San’s negative power.
• Tang San awoke and saw Hypnos worshipping the Asura Demon Sword, then learned Hypnos’s identity and that the City of Slaughter was the site of the Asura God’s Divine Trial.

After revealing his Divine Trial and Second Martial Soul, Chen Ming attracted the continent’s powerful factions and began consolidating his influence. He met with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi offered the sect’s support in exchange for future benefits.

• Chen Ming received increased Power of Faith and attention from clans and sects after revealing his divine connection.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin visited Chen Ming at his temporary residence in Spirit City.
• Chen Xin asked about Chen Ming’s Second Martial Soul, and Chen Ming summoned the Dragon Ascending Sword, whose pressure overwhelmed Chen Xin’s Seven Kill Sword.
• Chen Xin used his blood to calm and strengthen his Seven Kill Sword as its nine Soul Rings transformed into gemstones.
• Chen Ming told Chen Xin that a place he knew could help him further temper his sword intent.
• Ning Fengzhi offered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support, seeking benefits such as restoring its pagoda and helping Chen Xin and Gu Rong advance.

Chen Ming secured the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support and established a base among factions from both empires, including by forcing the Star Crown Sect’s master to abandon his demands. With pioneering charters from Heaven Dou and Star Luo, he began developing undeveloped land as a refuge for displaced commoners and a foundation for his faith.

• Chen Ming and Ning Fengzhi agreed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would spread his faith and fund his church in exchange for his promise to resolve its Martial Soul issue or help it nurture a Peerless Douluo within a hundred years.
• Sects and families from both empires approached Chen Ming, but the Star Crown Sect’s master tried to make Chen Ming and Dugu Bo submit to the Star Luo Empire.
• Dugu Bo fought the Star Crown Sect’s master, returned with him battered and poisoned, and the old man gave Chen Ming Soul Bones, cultivation materials, and Gold Soul Coins before withdrawing from the dispute.
• Chen Ming obtained pioneering charters from both Heaven Dou and Star Luo, granting him tax-free rights to develop land and conduct missionary work in their undeveloped regions.
• Chen Ming carved out a thousand-li settlement in soul-beast territory and began bringing in refugees, slaves, and selected people accused of minor offenses, while excluding actual criminals.

Chen Ming strengthened his territory with strict enforcement and generous reforms, then developed seven transformations that dramatically improved the talents and abilities of selected Commoner Soul Masters. Their success drew Soul Masters from across the continent to his territory, where they volunteered to help reclaim land and build infrastructure.

• Chen Ming brought his family to Biluo City, appointed trusted relatives as enforcers, and punished corrupt officials while rewarding those who upheld his laws.
• Chen Ming introduced tax relief, farming support, education, and family subsidies, prompting commoners to prosper and pray for him.
• Chen Ming developed seven transformative rituals for Soul Masters, and seven candidates completed them, greatly improving their innate power, Martial Souls, bodies, and spiritual strength.
• Chen Ming publicized the transformed Soul Masters as proof that commoners could improve their talents, and offered them cultivation techniques and rewards for contributions.
• Soul Masters flocked to Chen Ming's territory and used their abilities to farm, clear land, build roads, dig wells, and improve soil, forcing the territory to pause its expansion.

Chen Ming developed Artificial Soul Rings that grew stronger by absorbing their bearers’ energy, while building a devout guard force and expanding his influence. After establishing himself as the God of Life and Death, he prepared to bring specialists and Soul Masters to develop Sun Moon Continent.

• Chen Ming created Limited Soul Rings from the origin energy of Evil Eye Crown Prince, and one test ring grew from ten-year to hundred-year strength within a month.
• Chen Ming learned that bearers could absorb only one growable ring of the same species at a time, and that repeated extractions left Evil Eye Crown Prince in pain and dormancy.
• Chen Ming assigned rings to select followers who had completed the Sevenfold Blessing and planned small trials before attempting universal Soul Master cultivation.
• Small clans and independent Soul Masters joined Chen Ming, whose followers grew to nearly one million after a year and a half of expansion.
• Chen Ming established his Divine Throne as the God of Life and Death, Plague and Healing, Decay and Rebirth.
• Chen Ming assigned Soul Engineers and other specialists to develop his territory under Dugu Bo, while preparing to take some of them and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect specialists to Sun Moon Continent.

Chen Ming inspected the Soul Engineers and his territory’s rapid development, then encountered a silver-haired girl whose aura seemed linked to a false Silver Dragon King. The girl called herself Silver Dream Ice Silkworm, while an outsider was hidden within the ten golden lights in her sea of consciousness.

• Chen Ming discovered that the Soul Engineers in Rising Sun City had built a secret Shadow Government, stolen technologies and treasures, and accelerated Soul Tool research, so he rewarded them and brought selected engineers back to Douluo Continent.
• Chen Ming advanced materials-based Soul Tool technology in his territory, leading to powerful weapons, prototype armor, Soul Tool infrastructure, and rapid urban and economic growth.
• Chen Ming gave two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bones to Dugu Yan and reviewed his growing strength, divine trials, and readiness to approach godhood.
• While inspecting his territory, Chen Ming noticed a silver-haired girl whose presence resonated with his Dragon Ascending Sword and revealed a distorted phantom of a silver dragon with ten dim Golden Rings.
• The girl excitedly identified herself as Silver Dream Ice Silkworm and said she had escaped the Star Dou Great Forest to seek something connected to gods and take revenge, while an outsider remained hidden within her sea of consciousness.

The Silver Dragon King had remade Sky Dream Ice Silkworm into Silver Dream Ice Silkworm and sent her to seek power, but Chen Ming ignored her in the crowd. After he caught her in an alley and interrogated her, Silver Dream unleashed her Silver Dragon Martial Soul and spiritual powers.

• The Silver Dragon King recalled modifying Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s body, bloodline, memories, and identity to make her a tool for obtaining the Golden Dragon King’s or Purple Radiant Sky Annihilating Dragon’s power.
• Silver Dream Ice Silkworm shouted at Chen Ming as he passed through the cheering crowd, then cowered when bystanders glared at her; the Silver Dragon King altered her thoughts so she could slip away unnoticed.
• Silver Dream Ice Silkworm complained in an alley before Chen Ming seized her by the head, and she begged him to spare her.
• Chen Ming questioned Silver Dream about her identity and tested her supposed knowledge of life near the Star Dou Great Forest by asking about grain prices and Soul Beast materials.
• Silver Dream released her Silver Dragon Martial Soul, revealing two purple Soul Rings and launching an indiscriminate spiritual attack.

Chen Ming captured Yin Meng Ice Silkworm and discovered that she had been remade from her original consciousness and fragments of the Silver Dragon King's power. As he threatened to kill her for a Soul Ring, Yin Meng desperately searched for a way to prove she could still be useful.

• Yin Meng Ice Silkworm unleashed a destructive elemental blast, but Chen Ming seized her and overwhelmed her with a white dragon's attack.
• Yin Meng awoke imprisoned in Chen Ming's dungeon and begged for her life while Chen Ming questioned her origins and cultivation.
• Yin Meng confessed that she was a Million-Year Soul Beast from the Extreme North Land and explained how she had escaped.
• Chen Ming revealed that he had shattered the Silver Dragon King's fragment of consciousness and rebuilt Yin Meng from her primary consciousness and part of the Silver Dragon King's power.
• Chen Ming threatened to kill Yin Meng for her Soul Ring, and she clung to him and listed ways she could be useful.
• Yin Meng suddenly remembered an advantage she had gained as a result of her transformation and kowtowed as she offered it to Chen Ming.