Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming placed seals on Silver Dream and used her energy to help cultivate the Dragon Ascending Sword avatar, while he continued designing a divine artifact for the soul master system. The chapter then revealed how the City of Slaughter survived its collapse by luring Fallen Ones inside and forcing them to work as slaves.

• Chen Ming spared Silver Dream, planted seals in her sea of consciousness and dantian, and returned the Destruction Twin Hammers to the Divine Trial demiplane.
• Chen Ming sent Silver Dream with his Dragon Ascending Sword avatar to an underground chamber, where the avatar asked her to help him cultivate.
• Chen Ming reflected on exploring the Lands of Fallen Gods after obtaining his Ninth Soul Ring and worked on a model for a divine artifact that could awaken Martial Souls and grant Limited Soul Rings.
• A Fallen One who had come to the City of Slaughter seeking refuge was beaten by an overseer and forced to keep farming.
• The chapter explained that the City of Slaughter had lured Fallen Ones inside to obtain resources and turned its Blood Bags into laborers after the King of Slaughter lost Spirit Hall's support.

Tang San continued recovering in the City of Slaughter by consuming human remains, while Hypnos watched the Asura God’s plan reshape his sword. Elsewhere, Chen Ming asked the God of Forging to build a complicated divine artifact that could extract power and turn it into Soul Rings.

• A slave Soul Master died in the City of Slaughter, and the supervisor processed his body into Corpse Starch and a Blood Crystal Stone.
• Tang San ate the organs and Blood Crystal Stone, gradually regained a more human appearance, and resolved to win sixty more arena matches before leaving the City of Slaughter.
• Tang San met Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng and joined them in a fight.
• Hypnos lamented that his own sword was absorbing the City of Slaughter’s Evil power and being remade to resemble the Asura Demon Sword.
• Chen Ming showed the God of Forging his plans for a pyramid-like divine artifact that would extract a person’s power and convert it into Soul Rings.

Chen Ming persuaded the God of Forging to create a costly Main God artifact for distributing growable Artificial Soul Rings, while the God of Pride agreed to finance part of it. After testing Chen Ming’s strength and giving him two Life Fruits, the God of Pride warned him to reach Rank 1 or higher; the God of Destruction observed that Chen Ming was forging a distinct path toward godhood.

• Chen Ming explained that his Main God artifact would distribute Artificial Soul Rings, gather power and faith, and help raise his world’s people into Soul Masters.
• The God of Forging agreed to make the artifact for an increased price, and the God of Pride paid a one-third deposit from his treasury.
• The God of Pride took Chen Ming to the Mountain of Strength and fought him for a day and a night to assess his progress.
• Impressed by Chen Ming’s abilities, the God of Pride gave him two Life Fruits and warned him to become at least a Rank 1 God.
• After Chen Ming left, the God of Destruction watched him depart and reflected on how he had begun forming his own Divine Throne and gathering authorities.

Chen Ming’s territory began educating tens of thousands of common children, alarming the two great empires as it continued growing beyond their control. Tang Chen visited Xue Ye and revealed that Xue Qinghe was a Spirit Hall impostor, then offered to eliminate him in exchange for Heaven Dou’s protection and other concessions.

• God of Destruction suspected that Asura and the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King might threaten Chen Ming and the Divine Realm.
• Chen Ming’s territory opened compulsory schools for children from families that had paid taxes for three years, teaching literacy, arithmetic, history, and basic sciences.
• The two great empires feared Chen Ming’s rapidly growing population of educated subjects and struggled to stop his territory from developing into a Third Empire.
• Tang Chen secretly appeared in Xue Ye’s bedchamber and warned him that Xue Qinghe was not his biological son but someone from Spirit Hall in disguise.
• Xue Ye admitted that he had long suspected Xue Qinghe and asked what Tang Chen wanted in return for removing the Crown Prince.
• Tang Chen offered to eliminate Xue Qinghe in exchange for Heaven Dou protecting the Clear Sky Sect’s Core Flame, one item from its treasury, and Xue Ke marrying Tang San as his principal wife.

Tang Chen coerced Xue Ye into supporting the Clear Sky Sect and arranging Xue Ke’s marriage to Tang San, while Qian Renxue learned of his plans and alerted Qian Daoliu. They decided to replace the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and send it to Sea God Island, using it to enlist Bo Saixi against Tang Chen.

• Tang Chen threatened Xue Ye with his killing intent until the emperor agreed to shelter Clear Sky Sect disciples, provide resources, open the royal treasury, and arrange Xue Ke’s marriage to Tang San.
• Xue Ye explained that he could not take the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from the treasury without following formal procedures, then began the process while Tang Chen watched.
• Xue Ye’s spies reported his unusual actions to Qian Renxue, who used her Angel God Divine Trial to alert Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu met Qian Renxue in the underground chamber beneath the Crown Prince’s residence and learned that Tang Chen was seeking the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• The Angel God recognized the Shroud as the Heart of the Sea God and suspected its absence was connected to Asura’s plans.
• Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue decided to secretly replace the Shroud, send it to Sea God Island, and ask Bo Saixi to help oppose Tang Chen.

Qian Renxue secretly replaced the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud in the Heaven Dou treasury, while Tang Chen later entered the treasury and discovered the item was a fake. His doubts awakened the Asura God's Divine Sense, which realized the real artifact was missing and recalled the history of Douluo humans and Soul Tool Civilization.

• Qian Renxue secretly removed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from the treasury and replaced it with an Invincible Golden Body barrier.
• Tang Chen entered the treasury with Xue Ye, took several valuable materials for the Clear Sky Sect, and questioned why the Heaven Dou Empire had hoarded resources instead of cultivating powerful experts.
• Tang Chen activated the azure crown and shattered its barrier, realizing it lacked the Sea God's Divine Power and might not be the genuine artifact.
• Tang Chen questioned how the Heaven Dou Empire had obtained the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, awakening the Asura God's Divine Sense, which realized the crown was a fake and wondered where the real artifact had gone.
• The Asura God's Divine Sense recalled how Douluo humans had emerged from unions between people from other planes and transformed Soul Beasts, and how Soul Tool Civilization had developed before the Dragon God's fall changed the plane's laws.

The Asura God uncovered signs that ancient Soul Tool technology had survived and took a shield-type Soul Tool from the Heaven Dou treasury, while manipulating Tang Chen into promising to aid Xue Ye. Qian Renxue then secretly emptied the treasury and staged the theft to implicate Tang Chen, following the Angel God’s guidance.

• The Asura God examined the Soul Tool and realized its technology echoed the civilization he had once destroyed, raising questions about the missing Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and the surviving human legacy.
• The Asura God hid the shield-type Soul Tool, altered Tang Chen’s thoughts, and let him awaken; Tang Chen then promised Xue Ye he would help expose Spirit Hall and punish the false Crown Prince.
• Xue Ye led Tang Chen out of the treasury, hoping Spirit Hall would intervene against him.
• Qian Renxue entered the treasury disguised as a Nine-Pouch Elder and used Chen Ming’s Storage Soul Tools to take its treasures, including hidden items beneath the floor tiles and inside the walls.
• The Angel God guided Qian Renxue in stripping the treasury bare and staging the scene to make it appear Tang Chen had smashed his way through the hidden stores.