Chapter Summaries

Nan Liujing trained Mu Ye’s Innate Body Secret Method under extreme underwater pressure and opened five of his Eight Extraordinary Meridians. He then used his Rank 8 blacksmith status to negotiate a trade with the Star Luo Empire in exchange for a chance to meet Holy Dragon Douluo, while pursuing a way to earn the Empire’s gratitude and faith.

• Mu Ye took Nan Liujing underwater to train the first layer of the Innate Body Secret Method, and Nan Liujing asked to descend to fifteen hundred meters.
• Nan Liujing used his Bloodline Power and the water pressure to open five of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians in just over an hour.
• Yang Nianxia told Tang Wulin that the Star Luo Empire needed Soul Forged Metal, and Lin Yuhan offered to introduce him to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Nan Liujing showed Lin Yuhan and Sima Lanxiao his Rank 8 Saint Craftsman badge and demonstrated ten pieces of high-quality Fusion Grade Soul Forged Metal.
• Nan Liujing offered to trade the metals if the Star Luo Imperial Family arranged a private meeting with Holy Dragon Douluo before the competition.

Nan Liujing began the marrow-cleansing stage of Mu Ye’s Innate Secret Method and fought off a pack of Demon Soul Great White Sharks while refining his bone marrow with Water Element. The sharks fled and reported the attack to their Young Clan Leader, who vowed to seek help and track down the human.

• Nan Liujing described how opening all Eight Extraordinary Meridians let him absorb Heaven and Earth Yuan Power of any attribute, and Mu Ye explained the dangers and benefits of marrow cleansing.
• Mu Ye took Nan Liujing underwater to begin Water Elemental Refinement, where more than a hundred Demon Soul Great White Sharks gathered around the concentrated Water Element.
• Nan Liujing used his Demon Bodies and Dragon Subduing Staffs to disorient and repel the sharks while his bone marrow absorbed Water Element and was purified.
• After completing the refinement, Nan Liujing drove the surviving sharks away with Lightning Power, then collected their corpses and natural Soul Rings with Mu Ye.
• The Demon Soul Great White Shark Leader told the Young Clan Leader that a human had lured and killed their kin, and she ordered the clan to search for him and find help.

A massive Sea Soul Beast pack confronted the two continental delegations after Bai Xiuxiu demanded that humans surrender whoever had killed her clansmen. Nan Liujing’s unexpected authority over the Fierce Beast Long Ao ended the standoff, and Bai Xiuxiu withdrew while suspecting Nan Liujing had been addressed as the Sea God.

• Nan Liujing and five girls fished on the Star Luo’s deck before a dark purple water column struck the ship’s Soul Power Shield.
• Xia Zheng Leng warned Nan Liujing that hundreds of Demon Soul Great White Sharks and Deep Sea Demonic Whales, along with thousands of other Sea Soul Beasts, surrounded the ships.
• Bai Xiuxiu transformed into human form and demanded that the humans hand over the culprit behind the deaths of her clansmen, while five Fierce Beasts joined her.
• Blazing Sun Douluo Ao Rui used his Limit Douluo power to stop the Fierce Beasts’ tsunami and force both sides into a stalemate.
• Nan Liujing called Long Ao by name, and Long Ao recognized him as Your Excellency, ordered the Sea Soul Beasts to retreat, and fled after sensing Nan Liujing’s lightning aura.
• Bai Xiuxiu withdrew with the other Soul Beasts, resolving the crisis and leaving the humans stunned by Nan Liujing’s influence.

Xiao Bai concealed her loss of Sea God’s power while the Beast Kings learned that Long Ao had called a human “Your Excellency.” After the visiting delegations reached Star Luo Continent, Nan Liujing revealed that he planned to lure Zhang Geyang and Green Skull Organization into attacking him so he could destroy them.

• Xiao Bai told the gathered Fierce Beasts that Sea God was busy expanding the God Realm and ordered them to avoid the coast, though her power to command the ocean had failed.
• Bai Xiuxiu reported that Long Ao had called a human “Your Excellency,” and Long Ao defended his choice before the Beast Kings.
• The Sea Devouring Dragon Crocodile proposed that Xiao Bai join him in seizing the Devil Sea Region’s Life Energy and killing Long Ao during his next Heavenly Tribulation.
• The two delegations arrived safely at Star Luo Continent, where the officials held a welcoming ceremony and the Spirit Transfer Academy students explored the coastal city.
• Nan Liujing told Ao Rui and the War Gods that Green Skull Organization might attack their train, then explained to Xia Zheng Leng that he intended to use the Secret Realm as bait to target Zhang Geyang and Green Skull Organization.

The Spirit Transfer Academy students chose events for the Star Luo Continent’s Soul Master Tournament as their train traveled toward Star Luo City. After Green Skull ambushed the train and was defeated, the delegation arrived safely at the imperial capital.

• Xia Zheng Leng explained the tournament rewards and asked the students to choose events; Nan Liujing selected the Individual Competition, while several women arranged to enter Two vs Two.
• Nan Liujing warned Ao Rui that an attack was coming, and more than two hundred Green Skull Mechas ambushed the train with cannon fire.
• Ao Rui and the delegation’s experts defeated the attackers, though the Green Skull Third Elder escaped in a God-level Mecha.
• Ao Rui credited Nan Liujing for the warning and asked the Star Luo officials to publicize his role; Nan Liujing hoped Green Skull would target him and draw more forces into a future fight.
• After the Star Luo Empire sent Mechas to escort the train, the delegation reached Star Luo City two days later and marveled at its ancient city walls.

Nan Liujing met Holy Dragon Douluo Enci privately and negotiated help against the Green Skull Organization, warning him about Ning Fengzhi’s forged metal. Afterward, Dai Yueyan explained that his sister Dai Yun’er would soon have to choose a husband, leaving Nan Liujing wary of becoming her escape from the royal marriage rules.

• The Spirit Transfer Academy delegation visited Monster Academy, where Ma Yaozu showed them the Monster Tablet and its ranked students, including the Seven Heavenly Kings.
• Dai Yueyan asked to speak privately with Nan Liujing and led him to meet Holy Dragon Douluo Enci inside his Spirit Domain.
• Nan Liujing revealed that Ning Fengzhi’s forging metal was suspect and offered to swallow the Green Skull Organization in exchange for Enci’s assistance; Enci agreed to cooperate and keep Ning Fengzhi’s identity secret.
• Dai Yueyan told Nan Liujing that Dai Yun’er would have to choose a husband after the tournament and might target one of the Spirit Transfer Academy boys to evade a political marriage.
• Dai Yueyan led Nan Liujing to the welcoming ceremony, saying the other Heavenly Kings would return in two days.

At Monster Academy, Tang Wulin met a suspicious blacksmith who claimed to be a friend of his grandfather and knew his parents’ names. Nan Liujing suspected the man belonged to the Green Skull Organization, while the chapter ended with Nan Liujing and Wu Sidao sharing an intimate moment in the pool.

• Dai Yun'er watched Nan Liujing arrive and discussed with Dai Yueyan the possibility of escaping her marriage arrangement, despite Nan Liujing already having a girlfriend.
• Tang Wulin followed a student to a secluded courtyard, where Zhuo Shi secretly offered to help him train in the Crimson Dragon Nine Forms each week.
• Ning Fengzhi introduced himself as Tang Wulin’s grandfather’s friend, claimed Tang Wulin’s grandfather had been a great Soul Master, and offered help through the Blacksmith Association.
• Tang Wulin told Zhuo Shi that his father had said his grandfather was a researcher who died in an accident, and he concluded Ning Fengzhi was lying.
• Tang Wulin told Nan Liujing what happened, and Nan Liujing suspected Ning Fengzhi was a member of the Green Skull Organization and warned Tang Wulin not to trust him.
• After Tang Wulin left, Nan Liujing and Wu Sidao swam together and kissed in the pool.

Nan Liujing received the Star Luo Empire’s Imperial Medal for helping defeat a Green Skull ambush, then became entangled in Princess Dai Yun’er’s attempt to avoid an arranged marriage. The emperor and empress agreed to tie Dai Yun’er’s marriage to the Soul Master Tournament’s outcome, leaving Nan Liujing’s possible victory with major consequences for her future.

• Dai Tianling publicly credited Nan Liujing with predicting and helping repel Green Skull’s attack, then awarded him the Imperial Medal.
• At the banquet, Dai Yun’er asked Nan Liujing to reject a staged confession so she could escape her betrothal agreement, but he refused and revealed that he had two girlfriends.
• When Dai Yun’er grabbed Nan Liujing’s hand, he deflected attention by objecting to receiving an imperial title, and Dai Tianling offered him two Soul Bones if he won the tournament’s Individual Competition.
• Dai Tianling reprimanded Dai Yun’er for risking a scandal, while she explained that she did not want to marry someone she disliked.
• The Empress proposed making Dai Yun’er’s marriage depend on whether Nan Liujing or Long Yue won the tournament, and Dai Yun’er accepted Dai Tianling’s condition.

The Green Skull Organization agreed to target Nan Liujing after Ghost Emperor revealed that Qian Gu Dong Feng wanted him killed. At the tournament’s opening match, Nan Liujing effortlessly endured Su Mu’s attacks and overwhelmed him with the Dragon Subduing Staff, leaving the crowd and Long Yue stunned.

• Bone Emperor Douluo accepted Ghost Emperor’s order to kill Nan Liujing, enticed by permission to slaughter a city of around one hundred thousand people.
• Dai Tianling opened the Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament before a packed Star Luo Stadium.
• Su Mu faced Nan Liujing in the opening match and unleashed his five halo soul skills, but Nan Liujing stood unharmed.
• Nan Liujing swung the Dragon Subduing Staff down with enough force to press Li Zhanqiong’s Soul Power Shield nearly a meter into the platform, then withdrew the attack before it struck Su Mu.
• Nan Liujing named his Martial Soul the Dragon Subduing Staff and left the arena to roaring cheers, while Long Yue’s desire to fight awakened.

After Nan Liujing defeated Su Mu, the Star Luo Emperor and Enci decided to offer him the Vajra Ring in exchange for his help against the Green Skull Organization. Nan Liujing entered the Thunder God Secret Realm with Qiangu Qingfeng and Xia Zheng Leng, where Thunderclap Nether Vine began absorbing the bloodlines of thousands of vines.

• Nan Liujing reunited with Na'er and the Spirit Transfer Academy group after his match, and the Star Luo officials repaired the shattered platform.
• Dai Tianling and Enci judged Nan Liujing to be a trustworthy ally and agreed to gift him the Vajra Ring if he destroyed the Green Skull Organization.
• Nan Liujing traveled with Xia Zheng Leng to meet Qiangu Qingfeng, who reported that Qian Gu Dong Feng had asked about his seclusion.
• Nan Liujing opened the Thunder God Secret Realm with his Thunder God Mark and entered with Qiangu Qingfeng and Xia Zheng Leng.
• The three found a vast field of Thunderclap Nether Vines, and Nan Liujing's Soul Spirit revived them briefly to absorb their Thunder God bloodlines.

Nan Liujing entered the Thunder God Hall, completed the first Thunder God Trial, and gained control of the Thunder God Realm while learning about the Vajra Ring and its tribulation benefits. After reuniting with Qiangu Qingfeng and Xia Zheng Leng, he planned to attend an invitation at Star Luo Grand Theater and learned Zhang Geyang had discussed him with Qian Gu Dong Feng.

• Nan Liujing opened the lightning-sealed gate and followed Ling Ting into Thunder God Hall while Qiangu Qingfeng and Xia Zheng Leng waited outside.
• Ling Ting explained that the Vajra Ring had been created by the Martial God to store and help refine five Divine Artifacts, and Nan Liujing recognized it as the artifact seized by the Star Luo Empire's royal family.
• Nan Liujing completed the Thunder God's first trial by demonstrating his Extreme Attribute, earning twenty percent Godhood Affinity and control over the Thunder God Realm.
• Ling Ting explained that Beast Race experts could face Heavenly Tribulations in the Thunder God Realm with up to three attempts and little risk of death, then gave Nan Liujing a second trial to slay three powerful, deeply sinful Evil Soul Masters.
• Nan Liujing rejoined Qiangu Qingfeng and Xia Zheng Leng, learned Thunderclap had strengthened its bloodline, and revealed that the secret realm could become a burial ground for Zhang Geyang and the Green Skull Organization's upper ranks.
• Nan Liujing accepted Gu Yue's invitation to Star Luo Grand Theater and learned from Thunderclap that Zhang Geyang had spoken with Qian Gu Dong Feng about him.

At the Star Luo Grand Theater, Tang Sect fighters disrupted an Evil Soul Master plot while Tang Wulin spotted the real threat: a Level Seven Soul Guide Cannonball being assembled on the roof. The audience remained inside behind the activated shield as the attack’s outcome hung unresolved.

• Dai Yueyan welcomed Nan Liujing and the Spirit Transfer Academy students to a theater performance about Huo Yuhao’s battle with Di Tian.
• Nan Liujing sent two shadowy figures away while Evil Soul Masters planted timed bombs beneath the theater, but a cloaked figure removed the bombs and Tang Sect fighters ambushed the attackers.
• Hei Yi directed his fighters to search for bombs and pursue the fleeing Evil Soul Masters, while Tang Wulin watched the theater’s exterior.
• Tang Wulin spotted four Green Skull members assembling a Level Seven Soul Guide Cannonball on the roof and warned the fighters, prompting Hei Yi to send Zi San and Zi Si to stop them.
• The theater manager activated the Soul Power Shield and calmed the audience, while Yang Nianxia’s Martial Soul Possession briefly trapped Luo Guixing and Xu Yucheng in their seats.

Hei Yi stopped a Level Seven Fixed Soul Guide Cannonball from destroying the theater, but the Green Skull Organization launched a larger attack across Star Luo City. Nan Liujing’s Thunderclap Nether Vine intercepted the bombs, and he emerged as the one who had saved the city.

• Hei Yi tore the armed cannonball from the theater rooftop and carried it high into the sky, where it exploded without leveling the surrounding area.
• The Green Skull Organization launched more than a dozen Level Seven cannonballs and one Level Eight cannonball at locations across Star Luo City, while Enci and the Worship Hall realized they could not reach the targets in time.
• Nan Liujing’s Thunderclap Nether Vine caught the falling cannonballs and flung them above the city, where their explosions were suppressed by its lightning.
• The Sixth Elder ordered the Green Skull Organization members to retreat after Enci arrived and the attack failed.
• Nan Liujing walked out of Tianxing Theater, recalled the Thunderclap Nether Vine, and told Enci that the empire owed him a favor.

After Nan Liujing stopped the Green Skull attack on Star Luo City, he told Dai Tianling that the Abyss threatened Douluo Star and sought support for his plan to prepare humanity for its arrival. Dai Tianling agreed to help and gave him the Vajra Ring, while Zhang Geyang learned that Nan Liujing’s Thunderclap Nether Vine could lead him to the Thunder God’s fallen site and decided to kill him.

• Dai Tianling ordered a hunt for the Green Skull attackers as footage of Thunderclap Nether Vine saving Star Luo City spread across the Empire.
• Nan Liujing met Dai Yueyan and Dai Yun'er on the way to the Imperial Palace, where Dai Yun'er questioned why the security chief had exposed himself over a limited supply of weapons.
• Nan Liujing told Dai Tianling that the Abyss could invade within ten years, explained his plan to unite humanity and gain Faith Power, and asked the emperor to publicize his role in stopping the attack.
• Dai Tianling agreed to support Nan Liujing and gave him the Vajra Ring, a Divine Artifact rumored to contain a method for achieving godhood.
• Zhang Geyang learned that Nan Liujing’s Thunderclap Nether Vine had reached Hundred Thousand Year cultivation and could locate where the Thunder God fell, then decided to work with Green Skull to kill Nan Liujing and seize the clone.

Nan Liujing attended the Star Luo Soul Fighting Competition as the crowd celebrated him, while Long Yue silently resolved to test his Mountain Dragon King bloodline against him. Yuan En Yehui and Na'er defeated Hua Lantang and Ye Zhi, and the next match began with Dai Yun'er discovering that Wu Sidao descended from an imperial family branch.

• Nan Liujing arrived at the stadium to loud cheers, and Dai Yun'er told Su Mu and Dai Yueyan about his hundred thousand years Soul Spirit while Long Yue watched in silence.
• Yuan En Yehui and Na'er faced Hua Lantang and Ye Zhi in the Two vs Two round of thirty-two into sixteen.
• Yuan En Yehui knocked Hua Lantang away and stopped Ye Zhi, while Na'er used her elemental spear auras to defeat Hua Lantang; the referee declared the Spirit Transfer Academy pair victorious.
• Ye Xinglan and Wu Sidao entered their match against Dai Yueyan and Dai Yun'er, but Dai Yun'er asked Wu Sidao about her Hell Spirit Cat lineage.
• Wu Sidao revealed that she descended from Dai Yueheng's branch, and Dai Yueyan urged Dai Yun'er to finish the match before discussing it further.

Wu Sidao and Ye Xinglan defeated Dai Yueyan and Dai Yun'er, and Wu Sidao publicly cleared her ancestors of rumors of betrayal with confirmation from Dai Tianling. One month later, Zhang Geyang learned of Xia Zheng Leng's secret operations and ordered the Skull Emperor summoned as he pursued a chance to become a Limit Douluo.

• Dai Yun'er tried to weaken Ye Xinglan with her Spirit Eye Martial Soul, but Ye Xinglan shattered the mental attack with her Sword Intent.
• Wu Sidao revealed her Netherworld Battle Armor and transformed into a Hell White Tiger, overpowering Dai Yueyan as Ye Xinglan kept Dai Yun'er at bay.
• Dai Yun'er surrendered after landing one harmless claw strike on Ye Xinglan, and Wu Sidao defeated Dai Yueyan.
• Wu Sidao explained that her ancestors had fought to protect the Star Luo Imperial Family, and Dai Tianling confirmed her account and thanked her family.
• A month later, Zhang Geyang learned that Xia Zheng Leng was secretly moving people and gathering Soul Spirit devices, then ordered his confidant to summon the Skull Emperor.

Nan Liujing lured Zhang Geyang and Green Skull into the Thunder God Secret Realm, where their ambush turned into a trap set by the Qian Gu Family and its allies. With Zhang Geyang exposed and the Green Skull leaders weakened, Nan Liujing prepared to finish them off himself.

• Nan Liujing gave Tang Wulin a Golden Ancient Tree bracelet to deliver to Ning Fengzhi, then learned from Xia Zheng Leng that Holy Dragon Douluo and Body Douluo had arrived.
• Zhang Geyang learned that Xia Zheng Leng and Nan Liujing were entering a Secret Realm and brought Bone Emperor and six Green Skull Elders to attack them.
• Xia Zheng Leng carried Nan Liujing into the Secret Realm as they escaped Zhang Geyang and the Green Skull members, who followed after Zhang Geyang reported the entrance was safe.
• Bone Emperor’s demons triggered the Secret Realm’s purple-gold lightning, destroying his formation and weakening the attackers before Qiangu Qingfeng, Enci, Mu Ye, Xia Zheng Leng, and Nan Liujing revealed themselves.
• Nan Liujing reclaimed the Thunderclap Nether Vine from Zhang Geyang, exposed how he had monitored Zhang Geyang through it, and declared that he would kill the seven Green Skull leaders while the others dealt with Zhang Geyang.

Nan Liujing annihilated the Green Skull Organization’s leaders and discussed the remaining threat posed by Qian Gu Dong Feng. He then awakened the Martial God’s remnant consciousness through the Vajra Ring and was asked to choose an inheritor, leaving him to consider Xinglan or Yuan En.

• Nan Liujing used the Thunder Realm to destroy the Skull Emperor and the six Evil Soul Master elders, then collected their Soul Bones.
• Nan Liujing and his allies defeated Zhang Geyang and captured the three Soul Spirits before Enci left to report the empire’s victory.
• Nan Liujing told Mu Ye that Qian Gu Dong Feng still had to die, though he would not expose him publicly yet, and learned that his Thunder God trial stood at one of three required kills.
• Nan Liujing brought the Vajra Ring to Ling Ting, awakening the Martial God, who asked him to select a suitable inheritor for her Godhood.
• Nan Liujing considered Xinglan and Yuan En as candidates for the Martial God Inheritance and postponed his decision until he learned what God Position Seeds he could obtain.

Nan Liujing overwhelmed Long Yue in the Individual Competition final, suppressing his earth powers before defeating him with the Dragon Subduing Staff and six time-displaced attacks. The Star Luo Empire acclaimed Nan Liujing as champion and Thunder God, while Long Yue survived with his Battle Armor shattered.

• Dai Tianling announced that the winner would receive a Soul Bone from the imperial treasury and the hereditary title of Marquis.
• Long Yue warned Nan Liujing that he would unleash his full strength, but Nan Liujing said he wanted to finish quickly and go fishing.
• Long Yue transformed into the Mountain Dragon King and used his earth-based Soul Skills, but Nan Liujing’s Coiling Dragon Staff suppressed the mountains and rivers.
• Long Yue put on his Two-word Battle Armor and charged Nan Liujing, who summoned Behemoth and trapped him in the River of Time.
• Six Nan Liujings struck Long Yue with their Dragon Subduing Staffs, leaving him alive in a crater with his Battle Armor shattered.
• Enci declared Nan Liujing the champion, and spectators across the Star Luo Empire cheered for him as the Thunder God.

Nan Liujing’s fishing outing with Na’er, Ye Xinglan, Gu Yue, Yuan En Yehui, and Wu Sidao exposed the women’s feelings for him and led him to accept Ye Xinglan as another girlfriend. Meanwhile, the Star Luo Empire launched a campaign that destroyed the Green Skull Organization, and a warning prompted Ning Fengzhi to flee before his disguise was uncovered.

• Nan Liujing fretted over his inability to enter Dragon Valley while Wu Sidao privately revealed that the fishing competition was meant to decide the women’s future order as his partners.
• Wu Sidao deliberately brought Ye Xinglan to Nan Liujing, who pulled Ye Xinglan into his embrace and kissed her; Ye Xinglan questioned his relationship with Wu Sidao and accepted that he considered her his girlfriend too.
• Nan Liujing returned to the fishing ground, saw Yuan En Yehui leading the competition, and resolved to make his feelings clear to all five women.
• Dai Tianling’s Evil Extermination Army attacked all twelve Green Skull Organization bases, while Yue Zhengyu joined a team to absorb the energy left by the defeated Evil Soul Masters.
• Ning Fengzhi received a warning that Holy Dragon Douluo had obtained the Green Skull personnel register and was about to discover his identity, so he left Monster Academy to go into hiding.
• Tang Wulin received Yue Zhengyu’s invitation to dinner at the Spirit Ice Restaurant and left the Forging Room to exercise before the meal.