Chapter Summaries

Xia Yang revealed his progress toward a God of Lava divine position, then investigated Bibi Dong’s Sea of Consciousness and purified the hidden Rakshasa Divine Sense. He reassured her and promised to teach her a method for increasing Soul Ring Year Limits once her cultivation stabilized.

• Xia Yang showed Bibi Dong his Fire Attribute Divine Power and explained that he had been researching Earth Attribute Divine Power to condense a God of Lava divine position.
• Xia Yang led Bibi Dong into a reinforced training room and used Uncertain Turbulence and the Sea God Trident to examine her Sea of Consciousness.
• Xia Yang found Rakshasa Divine Sense hidden beneath the Slaughter God’s inherited origin and purified it with Sea God Divine Power.
• Bibi Dong recovered, and Xia Yang told her the Rakshasa Divine Sense had been a minor problem that he had resolved.
• Bibi Dong asked about improving her Soul Ring Year Limits, and Xia Yang promised to teach her his method after her cultivation stabilized.

Xia Yang helped Bibi Dong raise all her spirit rings to the Ten Thousand Year Level, allowing her to break through to rank ninety-seven. Months later, the Soul Tool Furnace erupted in a pillar of life-giving golden light and exploded, leaving Xia Yang unharmed beside a mysterious golden cluster.

• Xia Yang verified the Soul Ring Year Limit Increase Method with Bibi Dong, then used divine power to raise all her spirit rings to the Ten Thousand Year Level, helping her reach rank ninety-seven.
• After six peaceful months, Lou Gao warned Xia Yang that the Soul Tool Furnace had become unstable and that the artifact inside was about to emerge.
• Xia Yang converted his Sea God Divine Power into Fire Attribute Divine Power and fed it into the furnace, while Bibi Dong evacuated the Imperial Palace as the furnace's heat and cracks intensified.
• On the third night, the furnace released a massive golden pillar that spread a soothing life force across Douluo City and helped many Soul Masters break through bottlenecks.
• The Soul Tool Furnace exploded, and Bibi Dong found Xia Yang unharmed in the scorched pit, watching a hazy golden cluster floating before him.

Xia Yang revealed the Emperor Armor, a Semi-Divine Artifact forged with evolving Life Spirit Gold, and demonstrated its extraordinary defense. Afterward, he dismantled the palace workshop and secured its research records in the Royal Treasury.

• Xia Yang manifested the Emperor Armor and explained that its Life Spirit Gold could let it evolve into a true divine artifact over time.
• Ah Yin struck Xia Yang's chestplate with her Blue Silver Overlord Spear, but the armor remained undamaged.
• Xia Yang estimated that the armor could greatly strengthen its wearer's combat ability, and Tang Yuehua said it could help protect their descendants.
• Xia Yang dismissed the armor into a golden orb, and his family gathered around it with hopes for the future.
• Xia Yang ordered the palace workshop dismantled and sent its organized research records to the Royal Treasury.

Xia Yang sealed away advanced Soul Tool blueprints because the continent lacked the resources to support them, then established Cang Lan Royal Academy beside Sunset Forest. After explaining the academy’s risks to Crown Prince Xia Tian, he took him to see the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Xia Yang concluded that Douluo Continent lacked the rare materials needed for advanced Soul Tool technology and sealed his blueprints in the treasury.
• Xia Yang chose the outskirts of Sunset Forest for Cang Lan Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy and stationed a thirty-thousand-strong Soul Master Legion nearby to protect it.
• A month later, Xia Yang inspected the completed academy with Xia Tian, the empire’s Crown Prince.
• Xia Tian questioned the danger of building near Sunset Forest, and Xia Yang explained that powerful Spirit Beasts would fear the empire’s retaliation.
• Xia Yang took Xia Tian toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and arrived at a dangerous, concealed stretch of woodland.

Xia Yang brought Xia Tian to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, introduced him to Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, and announced his intention to hold a Godhood Ceremony. Three months later, the ceremony began in Douluo City, where Xia Yang appeared with his Four Madams and briefly suppressed the assembled guests with his Deity Pressure.

• Xia Yang showed Xia Tian the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and explained its poisonous mist and rare medicinal herbs.
• Xia Yang introduced Xia Tian to Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, then announced that he would hold a Godhood Ceremony.
• Three months later, prominent forces gathered in Douluo City for Xia Yang's ceremony, including the Clear Sky Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Yu Luomian, Tang Hao, and Tang Xiao exchanged barbed remarks about their clans' standing and imperial connections, while Ning Fengzhi withdrew from the dispute.
• Xia Yang ascended the platform with Ah Yin, Bibi Dong, Tang Yuehua, and Liu Erlong, released his Deity Pressure over the plaza, then told the bowed guests that they need not observe formalities.

Xia Yang completed his arrangements in Douluo City and ascended to the God Realm with Ah Yin, Tang Yuehua, and Liu Erlong. A Reception God Official welcomed him on behalf of the God Realm Committee.

• Xia Yang told his relatives and allies that he would soon ascend, and the Clear Sky Sect, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Sea God Island pledged to support the empire and his descendants.
• Qian Daoliu apologized for Qian Xunji’s past actions, and Xia Yang accepted the apology and ended the old grudge.
• The ceremony ended, and the guests departed; Yu Luomian hurried back to pursue a breakthrough, while Tang Chen, Tang Hao, and Ning Fengzhi left with their companions.
• Xia Yang said farewell to his family as Bibi Dong promised to care for their children and said she would join him as the Asura God.
• Xia Yang stepped into the pull of the God Realm and ascended with Ah Yin, Tang Yuehua, and Liu Erlong.
• A Reception God Official welcomed Xia Yang to the God Realm on the Committee’s orders.

Liu Feng left his village to pursue a life beyond his family’s path, but after years of wandering and a career-ending injury, he returned to find his home and the surrounding town destroyed. He learned that a Beast Tide had wiped out the region and was left grieving his family and the home he could never return to.

• Liu Feng awakened Blue Silver Grass with level two Innate Soul Power and trained as a Healing Soul Master, learning medicine from his family.
• At eighteen, Liu Feng reached a cultivation barrier, but after breaking through level twenty and gaining his Second Spirit Ring, he left Liu Family Village to seek his own path.
• Liu Feng traveled across the empire, eventually reaching level thirty-two before a battle in the Sunset Forest left his foundation damaged and stopped his cultivation.
• Liu Feng returned to find Liu Family Village, Longxing Town, and the Third Great Camp reduced to ruins.
• Liu Feng learned that a Beast Tide had destroyed the region after a failed military hunt, and he wept over the loss of his home and family.

Liu Feng left his ruined home, found a new life in Xiling Harbor, and eventually became a respected marquis in the Cang Lan Empire. When his son Liu Yun awakened Blue Silver Grass with the same low innate Soul Power as Liu Feng, a gift from Emperor Xia Tian offered guidance for cultivating the Martial Soul.

• Liu Feng buried the remains of his old home by the family graves, left Liu Family Village, and wandered south to Vast Sea City.
• After learning about Spirit Hall's failed campaign against Sea God Island and its plans for Xiling Harbor, Liu Feng joined Xia Shi's fleet as its physician and spent two years at sea.
• Liu Feng followed Xia Shi ashore, became the Xia Family's butler, and eventually settled into a quiet life in Xiling Harbor.
• Liu Feng later became a marquis in the Cang Lan Empire and returned to govern the region around Longxing Town, where the Liu Family rebuilt its home.
• Liu Yun awakened Blue Silver Grass at age six with innate Soul Power level two, and Liu Feng received a cultivation booklet and letter from Emperor Xia Tian.

Liu Yun followed the cultivation method left by Xia Yang and reached Soul King rank, then traveled with Xia Guyi to the Star Dou Great Forest. The Blue Silver Emperor strengthened Liu Yun’s Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, though it did not evolve to the Blue Silver King level.

• Liu Yun cultivated according to the booklet’s guidance, inherited the Marquis title after Liu Feng’s death, and became a general in the Cang Lan Empire.
• Liu Yun broke through to rank 50 and asked Emperor Xia Tian for permission to hunt for his Fifth Soul Ring.
• Xia Tian sent Xia Guyi to accompany Liu Yun, and the two entered the Star Dou Great Forest to find a hidden Secret Realm.
• The Blue Silver Emperor recognized Xia Guyi’s care for Blue Silver Grass and agreed to help Liu Yun because of the Xia Family.
• The Blue Silver Emperor drew power from the valley’s Blue Silver Grass to give Liu Yun a black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and improve his Martial Soul beyond ordinary Blue Silver Grass.

Liu Yun received a Blue Silver Grass bloodline legacy and promised his ancestors that his family would grow stronger across generations. The chapter then recounted Xia Shi’s rise from an island fisherman’s son to a talented Soul Master, ending with his departure from Sea God Island after failing his third trial.

• The Blue Silver Emperor gave Liu Yun the Blue Silver Overlord Spear skill and a golden vine to cultivate Blue Silver Grass in his territory.
• Liu Yun visited his family’s cemetery, told his forebears about his breakthrough and evolved Martial Soul, and vowed to pass on his cultivation technique.
• Xia Shi awakened an Ice Turtle Martial Soul with Innate Soul Power at Level 5, surprising and heartening his parents.
• Xia Shi trained on Sea God Island, befriended Sea Spear Douluo, and evolved his Ice Turtle into a North Mystic Black Tortoise after passing his first two trials.
• Xia Shi failed to protect a boat during his third trial and left Sea God Island under its rules.

After leaving Sea God Island, Xia Shi built a powerful fleet along the West Coast, joined forces with the healer Liu Feng, and met Huo Yang while Spirit Hall established Xiling Harbor. He left piracy behind to help Huo Yang at the harbor after they fell in love.

• Xia Shi left Sea God Island and began working at sea before starting a small piracy operation with a handful of followers.
• Xia Shi recruited Liu Feng, a healer with Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, and his fleet grew into a major force on the West Coast.
• Xia Shi refused Steward Ning's offer to help develop trade routes across the Star Luo Empire because he preferred the sea.
• After Spirit Hall began building Xiling Harbor, Xia Shi met Huo Yang, and the two grew close while working through conflicts at the port.
• Huo Yang asked Xia Shi to stop being a pirate and help her at Xiling Harbor, and Xia Shi agreed.

Xia Shi built a peaceful life with Huo Yang in Xiling Harbor, where they raised their son Xia Yang and grew influential. The story then returned to Huo Yang’s past, ending with her being ordered to approach the pirate Xia Shi and realizing the Bishop expected her to use a honey trap.

• Xia Shi helped his former crew settle into new lives, recruited Liu Feng as his estate’s butler, and supported Huo Yang as she built the Harbor Guard and expanded trade.
• Xia Shi and Huo Yang’s son Xia Yang was born, and they arranged his betrothal to Zhao Yanran while preparing him for a promising future.
• Huo Yang recalled awakening her Blazing Flame Tiger Martial Soul with Innate Soul Power Level 5 and joining Spirit Hall as a child.
• At eighteen, Huo Yang was transferred to the newly established Xiling Harbor Branch Hall to gather maritime Soul Masters for Spirit Hall’s campaign against Sea God Island.
• The Purple-Clothed Bishop told Huo Yang to contact the pirate Xia Shi and hinted that she should use her attractiveness to bring him under Spirit Hall’s command.

Huo Yang’s mission to recruit Xia Shi turned into a genuine romance, and together they consolidated Spirit Hall’s influence in Xiling Harbor. Years later, Xia Shi established a legitimate merchant fleet, though its crew was still being assembled.

• Huo Yang approached Xia Shi through carefully arranged encounters, but she genuinely fell for him, and he agreed to bring his subordinates into Spirit Hall’s service.
• After the Purple-Clothed Bishop disappeared at sea, Huo Yang and Xia Shi took over the branch hall and built its influence through a jointly funded merchant fleet.
• Huo Yang became the branch hall’s Bishop, and she and Xia Shi later welcomed their son, Xia Yang.
• Xia Shi formed the legitimate Mystic Tortoise merchant fleet using funds pooled by branch hall members and recruited harbor Soul Masters instead of his former pirate crew.
• Zhang Feng joined as the fleet’s first Soul Master recruit, and Sun Chuanjun arrived to apply a few days later.

Xia Shi hired Zhang Feng, Sun Chuanjun, and Li Zhishu for the Mystic Tortoise, then learned that the three were former comrades who had survived the Beast Tide and escaped the Star Dou Great Forest together. Years later, Sun Chuanjun betrayed the fleet over a hundred-year Spirit Bone, and Xia Shi and Xia Yang brought the fleet’s story to an end.

• Xia Shi hired Sun Chuanjun for his skill at sea and Li Zhishu for the food and support created by his Baguette Martial Soul.
• After noticing the three newcomers’ unspoken familiarity, Xia Shi heard Zhang Feng explain that they had been comrades in the Third Great Camp of the Gulei Kingdom and had fled the Beast Tide together.
• Zhang Feng, Sun Chuanjun, and Li Zhishu told Xia Shi how they had survived for years in the Star Dou Great Forest before settling on the West Coast and joining his crew.
• Xia Shi accepted their explanation, and the three became trusted members of the fleet; Zhang Feng later pledged his life to Xia Shi after Xia Shi saved him from a pirate attack.
• Xia Yang grew up aboard the Mystic Tortoise, learning from Zhang Feng, Sun Chuanjun, and Li Zhishu.
• After the fleet found a hundred-year Spirit Bone, Sun Chuanjun rebelled, Li Zhishu and Zhang Feng were killed, and Xia Shi and Xia Yang exposed Sun Chuanjun’s poisoning scheme and killed him.

Ye Guyi rose to become the Cang Lan Empire’s acting leader after her parents ascended, putting down rebellions with help from the Clear Sky Sect and the Yu Clan. After discussing Xia Tian’s plan to obtain mass-produced Hidden Weapons, she went to meet Qian Renxue.

• Ye Guyi left Spirit Hall with Bibi Dong and Xia Yang after learning that Xia Yang had crippled Qian Xunji, then returned with her parents to Douluo City.
• After Xia Yang ascended, Ye Guyi helped govern the empire and used alliances with the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to defeat rebellions led by Xue Qinghe and the Dai brothers.
• Ye Guyi and Xia Tian rewarded Tang San and the Yu Clan’s three brothers for their service.
• Xia Tian asked Ye Guyi whether he should seek the Clear Sky Sect’s help to produce Hidden Weapons for the Imperial Guard, and she advised him to try without expecting their finest techniques.
• Ye Guyi went to the palace side hall to meet Qian Renxue.

Ye Guyi and Qian Renxue grew close again while helping govern their respective realms, then chose to inherit the twin God of Light and God of Darkness positions together. After settling their affairs in the mortal world, they ascended hand in hand.

• Qian Renxue reported the Angel God Cult’s development to Ye Guyi, then secretly visited her at the palace pool and rekindled their intimacy.
• Ye Guyi continued advising Xia Tian as he took on more duties, while Qian Renxue became Pope of the Angel God Cult and later returned to Spirit City.
• After Xia Tian assumed personal control of the government, Ye Guyi traveled the continent and reunited with Qian Renxue in Spirit City.
• Ye Guyi and Qian Renxue discovered an ancient Secret Realm and learned that its God of Light and God of Darkness inheritances required two people to ascend together.
• Qian Renxue gave up the Angel God Position, and she and Ye Guyi passed the twin gods’ trials together.
• Ye Guyi handed the Emperor Armor and her governing knowledge to Xia Tian, while Qian Renxue arranged for a successor to the Angel God Cult; then the two ascended together.

After Star Luo fell, Zhu Zhu Qing lived free of the deadly marriage rules linking the Zhu and Dai families, but her weakened clan urged her to meet Tang San. She led Tang San and the Clear Sky Sect to attack Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai, and the battle began with Tang San revealing his Clear Sky Hammer.

• Zhu Zhuyun told Zhu Zhu Qing that their father wanted her to meet Tang San, and Zhu Zhu Qing agreed despite disliking the idea of a marriage alliance.
• Zhu Zhu Qing arrived with her father to meet Tang San and was asked to guide the Clear Sky Sect toward the Dai Family remnants.
• Zhu Zhu Qing led Tang San and his disciples through the mountains to the Dai Family's hidden valley.
• Tang San's group surrounded the camp, forcing Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai and their followers to fight.
• Tang San attacked Dai Weisi while Zhu Zhu Qing faced Dai Mubai, and Tang San unveiled his Clear Sky Hammer.

Tang San and Zhu Zhu Qing defeated Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai, then spent three years traveling the former Star Luo lands together. After their growing closeness culminated in Tang San promising to explain their relationship to his father, Zhu Zhu Qing agreed.

• Tang San killed Dai Weisi with hidden weapons and rushed to help Zhu Zhu Qing against Dai Mubai.
• Tang San and Zhu Zhu Qing fought together, killed Dai Mubai, and overcame the remaining Dai Family forces.
• By a campfire, Zhu Zhu Qing explained how she and her sister had abandoned the Zhu-Dai martial fusion path, and she agreed to guide Tang San through the former Star Luo lands.
• Over three years of travel and battles, Tang San and Zhu Zhu Qing grew to understand and trust each other.
• After Tang San was injured protecting Zhu Zhu Qing in an ancient ruin, he said he would tell his father about their relationship, and Zhu Zhu Qing nodded.

Oscar rose from a refugee child with an exceptional food-type Martial Soul to a high-level imperial official and Soul King. After returning from the northern frontier, he met Emperor Xia Tian, who told him Zhu Zhuyun was seeking a husband.

• Tang San and Zhu Zhu Qing married, while Zhu Zhuyun decided to take in a husband to secure the Zhu Clan's future.
• Oscar's family fled their village during the Cang Lan Empire's conquest and settled in Silves City.
• Oscar awakened a sausage Martial Soul with Innate Full Soul Power and received admission to Cang Lan Royal Academy.
• At twenty-five, Oscar returned to Douluo City as a fifty-seventh-level Soul King after obtaining a ten-thousand-year left arm bone from a Titan Snow Demon.
• Xia Tian told Oscar that Zhu Zhuyun had publicly announced she was seeking a husband, and Oscar admitted he had not heard the news.

At Emperor Xia Tian’s urging, Oscar traveled to Ao Chen City to pursue a marriage alliance with the Zhu Clan and was chosen by Zhu Zhuyun. They married, but Oscar’s wedding-night experience and Zhu Zhuyun’s demanding attentions soon left him exhausted and visibly weakened.

• Emperor Xia Tian persuaded Oscar to seek Zhu Zhuyun’s hand, mentioning the Zhu Clan’s possible Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone betrothal gift.
• Oscar registered for the Zhu Clan’s husband selection in Ao Chen City and was invited to marry Zhu Zhuyun.
• Oscar and Zhu Zhuyun held their wedding, where she explained that his talent and background suited what the Zhu Clan needed.
• Oscar and Zhu Zhuyun married, and Oscar later found himself worn down by her considerable stamina and attentions.
• A Healing Soul Master treated Oscar in Zhu Mansion’s inner courtyard and restored some of his strength.