Chapter Summaries

The author discussed possible side stories and endings for Tang Yin, Duoqing, Wuqing, Ya Li, Leng Yaozhu, Leng Yulai, the Qiangu Family, and other characters. The author planned to cover important characters in future side stories, including Ye Xinglan, whom the main story had skipped over.

• The author considered writing Tang Yin's trip to Devil Island and deciding whether Duoqing, Wuqing, and some Federation characters would appear or die in side stories.
• The author said Ya Li's side story might depend on the group chat but ruled out wife-stealing in the main story.
• The author reconsidered the original plan for Dark Phoenix to kill Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai, noting their importance as a nominal master and elder and a nominal aunt.
• The author discussed the Qiangu Family's poor reputation in Douluo fanfics, singling out Qiangu Dongfeng, and said other characters would also get side stories.
• The author admitted skipping too far ahead in the timeline and forgetting Ye Xinglan, and planned to make up for it in a side story.

In Chaos City, Gu Chen offered Ye Xinglan and Wu Sidao god positions in exchange for teaching his children swordsmanship and working for him. After he left, Ye Xinglan considered her future while Wu Sidao recognized the godhead’s connection to Star Luo’s divine ancestors.

• Gu Chen asked Ye Xinglan and Wu Sidao to teach his children, promising them god positions once they helped.
• Gu Chen showed the women photographs of his children, including Gu Yue, and gave Ye Xinglan a golden crystal and Wu Sidao a purple-gold godhead.
• Gu Chen said he would return in three months, then disappeared before the women could see how he left.
• Ye Xinglan decided to accept the teaching arrangement and fuse with her god position, while Wu Sidao learned the godhead came from Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ye Xinglan sat alone with her crystal, fell asleep, and remembered the greatest genius she had ever known.

Gu Yuena restrained Tang San’s soul in the Seed of Asura, where Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue confronted him. Tang Yin attacked to kill him, but the Golden Tree intervened and overwhelmed Tang Yin’s power.

• Gu Yuena trapped Tang San’s soul and the Seed of Asura in a cage of Dragon God divine power.
• Bibi Dong mocked Tang San, and Qian Renxue arrived and argued that he had survived only through luck.
• Tang Yin charged at Tang San with the Sea God Trident, while Qian Renxue failed to stop him and Bibi Dong refused to help.
• Tang San begged Bibi Dong to keep him alive until the absent person returned, but she watched as Tang Yin unleashed his full attack.
• The Golden Tree struck Tang Yin’s Trident with a golden branch, suppressing his divine power and triggering a clash of energies.

Tang Yin tried to kill Tang San, but Gu Yuena stopped him with a devastating spear strike and warned them to take their fight into the universe. Tang Yin abandoned the attempt as Qian Renxue approached, vowing to kill Tang San someday.

• Tang Yin broke free of the Golden Tree's suppression and unleashed Creation Divine Power to attack Tang San.
• Gu Yuena struck Tang Yin through the chest with a multicolored spear, interrupting his self-destruction and warning him not to damage the continent.
• Tang Yin cursed Tang San for taking his identity and life, while Tang San mocked him and then lost their exchange of insults.
• As Qian Renxue returned, Tang Yin withdrew his Sea God Eight Wings and Sea God Trident and resolved to wait for another chance to kill Tang San.
• Bibi Dong landed as the shattered space and earth repaired, the Golden Tree withdrew its branches, and Gu Yuena returned to silence.

Tang Wulin kept Tang San under guard while walking through Vast Sea City with Dai Yun'er, encouraging her despite the gap in their strength and growing closer to her. When he sensed Gu Chen had returned to Divine Dragon Continent, Tang Wulin agreed to meet Dai Yun'er's father and discuss their wedding.

• Tang Wulin explained that he was keeping Tang San away from the other unstable god-level fighters until Gu Chen returned.
• Dai Yun'er worried that her talent would leave her far behind Tang Wulin, and he encouraged her to strive to match the great Soul Masters of the past.
• Tang Wulin took Dai Yun'er's hand, and she accepted his reassurance as they walked together.
• Tang Wulin sensed Gu Chen's aura enter Divine Dragon Continent and decided they could visit him later.
• Dai Yun'er invited Tang Wulin to meet her father, the Star Luo Emperor, and brought up discussing their wedding; Tang Wulin said the idea felt fast and unreal.

Gu Chen brought Jia Lin to Heaven Dou City to recruit Zhenhua for the Divine Realm and unexpectedly reunited with Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai. He warned Leng Yaozhu that he planned to leave with Heaven Dou City, while revealing that he and his family had other plans beyond the Divine Realm.

• Gu Chen explained to Jia Lin that he intended to recruit Zhenhua to handle the Divine Realm’s forging and logistics.
• Gu Chen and Jia Lin entered the Blacksmith Association, where they encountered Leng Yaozhu and exchanged a strained greeting.
• Leng Yulai appeared, and Gu Chen warned Leng Yaozhu that Leng Yulai should not casually approach him.
• Gu Chen told Leng Yaozhu he planned to take Heaven Dou City with him when he left, and she asked where he was going.
• Gu Chen introduced Jia Lin as his adopted daughter and said his child with Gu Yue was in the Divine Realm, while he planned to take his family elsewhere.

Gu Chen asked Leng Yaozhu for the Qiangu Family’s location so he could destroy them, while promising to help the Spirit Pagoda overcome its Artificial Soul Spirit bottleneck. Leng Yaozhu refused his offer of a divine position, choosing instead to watch over Leng Yulai, and Gu Chen remained unwilling to forgive her sister.

• Gu Chen left Jia Lin with instructions and took Leng Yaozhu to the Spirit Pagoda’s top floor to speak privately.
• Leng Yaozhu explained that Gu Yue’s departure had contributed to the Artificial Soul Spirit research bottleneck.
• Gu Chen asked where the Qiangu Family was and said he intended to eliminate them, while Leng Yaozhu urged him not to kill them himself.
• Gu Chen promised to help resolve the Spirit Pagoda’s Soul Spirit problem and explained that he wanted people to stop relying on Spirit Rings.
• Gu Chen offered Leng Yaozhu a divine position in his God Realm, but she declined so she could stay with Leng Yulai and help her atone.
• Gu Chen considered Leng Yaozhu’s feelings but rejected the idea of forgiving Leng Yulai.

Gu Chen recounted his past and his transformation to Leng Yaozhu before asking where the Qiangu Family had gone. After sharing a brief embrace with her, he departed through a spatial passage, while Leng Yaozhu held a panel containing a mysterious drop of blood.

• Gu Chen told Leng Yaozhu about his Martial Soul awakening, Na'er, and how his experiences changed his ability to feel guilt and empathy.
• Gu Chen explained that he had nearly died after provoking the Tang Sect by threatening its foundation, then declined to elaborate on his later cultivation.
• Gu Chen asked Leng Yaozhu where Qiangu Dongfeng and the Qiangu Family were, and she told him their current location.
• Leng Yaozhu asked Gu Chen for a hug, and he briefly embraced her before opening a spatial passage and leaving.
• Leng Yaozhu remained behind with a translucent panel bearing a drop of blood from an extraordinarily powerful lifeform.

Gu Chen confronted the Qiangu Family and destroyed them with a restrained God-Slaying Curse, then cursed their bloodline to prevent the Coiling Dragon Staff from returning. He left a blood-colored crystal beneath the ruined grounds for someone who would arrive ten thousand years later and inherit his legacy.

• Gu Chen forced Qiangu Dongfeng and the Qiangu Family to choose between attacking him with their strongest strike or being killed, while rejecting their pleas and justifications.
• Qiangu Dongfeng unleashed the Coiling Dragon Staff's Battle Heaven Fight Earth strike, and members of the Qiangu Family joined the attack.
• Gu Chen cast the God-Slaying Curse, shattering their Martial Souls and killing Qiangu Dongfeng and the gathered Qiangu Family.
• Gu Chen watched the ruined grounds become a crimson desert and buried a blood-colored crystal for a future inheritor.
• Gu Chen said he would deal with Qiangu Qingfeng and the others later, then decided to curse the Qiangu bloodline to prevent the Coiling Dragon Staff from being inherited.

Gu Chen brought Jia Lin to meet Divine Craftsman Zhenhua and bound him to the future Dragon Clan in exchange for entry to the God Realm and the use of his forging skill. After sending Jia Lin back to Gu Yuena, Gu Chen entered the River of Time and traveled into the past.

• Gu Chen met Zhenhua at the Blacksmith Association and heard that the Divine Craftsman wanted to enter the God Realm to pursue the ultimate forging skill.
• Gu Chen had Jia Lin sign a contract in the future Dragon God's name, binding Zhenhua's body, soul, freedom, and forging skill to the Dragon Clan.
• Zhenhua signed the contract with his blood, and Gu Chen took him to the Void and placed him with Xiong Jun to forge.
• Jia Lin asked Gu Chen about Leng Yaozhu, and Gu Chen said she could be considered his Teacher before sending Jia Lin to ask Gu Yuena for the Dragon God Godhead.
• Gu Chen tore open the universe's barrier, split the River of Time, and traveled into the past.

Gu Chen and Leng Yaozhu watched a mysterious True Dragon egg hatch into a powerful black female dragon. The hatchling bonded intensely with Gu Chen, and he decided to keep her with him despite the danger of others targeting her.

• Leng Yaozhu examined the cracking dragon egg while Gu Chen brushed off questions about where it came from.
• The black dragon hatchling emerged and curled around Gu Chen’s neck, startling him with its size and slick scales.
• The hatchling bit Leng Yaozhu when she tried to touch it, but calmed when Gu Chen soothed it.
• Leng Yaozhu identified the hatchling as female and arranged for the Spirit Pagoda to bring beast milk.
• Leng Yaozhu warned that the hatchling’s powerful bloodline could attract danger, but Gu Chen chose to keep her with him and asked how strong she might become.

Gu Chen cared for his rapidly growing dragon hatchling with Leng Yaozhu before freezing the past and beginning a dangerous transformation using the Underworld’s souls and death-reincarnation energy. He left the frozen moment to search for lost souls and prepare to take his loved ones beyond the limits of the Douluo universe.

• Gu Chen fed the dragon hatchling beast milk, watched it grow quickly, and discussed its future expenses with Leng Yaozhu.
• Gu Chen and Leng Yaozhu began choosing a name for the hatchling, but silver, white, and green light froze the world and put everyone unconscious.
• Gu Chen recognized that he had arrived when he was one year old and used the Fate Heavenly Ring to search for souls that had vanished over twenty thousand years.
• Gu Chen decided to retrieve those souls and pursue greater realms so he could bring Gu Yuena and the others beyond the Douluo universe’s eventual end.
• Gu Chen weakened himself to the level of a rank-99 Limit Douluo, crushed the Underworld’s souls, and placed the Underworld in his chest to evolve through death and life energy.

Gu Chen entered the body of his younger self and relived the moment he named and bonded with the young dragon A-Meng, while reflecting on how much he had changed. After leaving the memory, he confronted the system about its role in shaping his fate, and it told him that he had changed.

• Gu Chen’s primordial spirit descended into his younger self and watched as he named the young dragon A-Meng and accepted her affection.
• Leng Yaozhu left Gu Chen to care for A-Meng and warned him to keep her away from Qiangu Dongfeng and Qiangu Zhangting.
• Time stopped again, and Gu Chen cut himself off from the Douluo Universe’s laws and lifespan before preparing to leave.
• Gu Chen reflected that he had once trusted the system as his only confidant but no longer needed its help or comfort.
• The system spoke to Gu Chen and said he had changed, prompting him to accuse it of guiding events and arranging his return to the past.

Gu Chen condensed his Dao Fruit and traveled into the past, reflecting on his earlier lives and the strange Dao chants echoing in his mind. He suspected a connection to a Chaos Demon God but tried to dismiss the possibility.

• After Gu Chen left, the system revealed a fragment of the future Golden Tree and accepted that Gu Chen had left it a way to live, even if it would become a tree.
• Gu Chen completed the condensation of his Dao Fruit, surpassed the universe in strength, and traveled to an earlier point in time.
• Gu Chen sensed that Leng Yaozhu’s group possessed a drop of his blood and decided not to interfere with their attempt to use it.
• While journeying through the past, Gu Chen examined his cultivation, lifespan, and growing mastery of the Space-Time Dao and his Double Pupils.
• Gu Chen heard unfamiliar Dao chants in his own voice and suspected they might point to a Chaos Demon God, though he tried to dismiss the idea.

Gu Chen descended into the era when Sky-Prop Douluo rose to fame and encountered the young Ya Li in a slum. He took her away after healing her companions, while Gu Yuena sensed his familiar aura and chose to keep sleeping until their destined first meeting.

• Gu Chen suppressed the Universal Laws and sent energy to the Star Dou Forest to help Gu Yuena recover without changing the timeline.
• Gu Chen found Ya Li being pressured by a burly man to leave the slum and pursue her Soul Master talent.
• Gu Chen paid Ya Li’s debt, healed her sick and disabled companions, and offered to take her away in exchange for their continued well-being.
• Ya Li agreed to leave with Gu Chen and began calling him A-Ming after he said she could become stronger than him.
• Gu Yuena sensed Gu Chen’s familiar aura beneath the Lake of Life, sealed away her memories, and returned to sleep until their future meeting.

After rescuing Ya Li from the slums, Gu Chen settled her in a villa and explained her Prayer Angel Martial Soul and cultivation path. Their relationship grew closer, and he sent her to bed on their first night together.

• Gu Chen bought a villa in Ming Capital and told Ya Li to wash up and change into clean clothes.
• Ya Li finished washing, and Gu Chen reassured her that he would not abandon her.
• While Ya Li dried her hair, Gu Chen considered the powerful figures and enemies in the era.
• Gu Chen explained Ya Li's Prayer Angel Martial Soul and her need to absorb Faith Power.
• Ya Li asked Gu Chen's age, and he thumped her head before sending her to bed.

Gu Chen received a visit from Gu Yuena, who had awakened early and sought him out, and sent her away with advice to seal her memories. He then spoke with Ya Li about his coming departure and his lover, leaving Ya Li curious about the woman he loved.

• Gu Chen had the Chaos Beast open the door for Gu Yuena and explained that he knew her from the future.
• Gu Yuena asked why Gu Chen had saved her during the Dragon God War, and he said he had done it simply because he was willing.
• Gu Chen advised Gu Yuena to leave and seal away her memories until he returned, and she vanished without responding.
• Gu Chen called Ya Li out of hiding and told her he would leave in about two months, after which the house would be hers.
• Ya Li asked Gu Chen about his lover, and he described her as interesting and said they had lived together when they were young.

Gu Chen secured Ya Li’s enrollment at Ming Capital Royal Academy by storming the Federation Parliament, then spent a month growing closer to her. He decided to leave and correct errors connected to a strange living creation that had stolen some of his power, and planned to tell Ya Li first.

• Gu Chen told Ya Li parts of his past, helped her feel at home, and sent her to bed.
• After a distant battle shook Ming Capital, Gu Chen broke into a Federation Parliament meeting and forced the Speaker to process Ya Li’s enrollment.
• Over the next month, Ya Li’s Prayer Angel developed quickly, and she came to regard Gu Chen as family.
• Gu Chen decided to leave his avatar behind and address strange errors tied to a living creation that had stolen a trace of his power.
• Gu Chen resolved to tell Ya Li about his departure and the situation first.

Gu Chen returned to the original universe and confronted the monster created from a stolen drop of his blood, then the two disappeared after their battle. In the aftermath, a red-haired woman mourned the destruction at the Spirit Pagoda and learned that roughly thirty percent of all life had perished.

• Ya Li returned after reaching the two-ringed Soul Grandmaster level, and Gu Chen told her he would enter seclusion before vanishing to the villa basement.
• Gu Chen sent a strand of Divine Sense to the original universe and found it devastated by a monster born from the stolen drop of his blood.
• The monster emerged, and Gu Chen attacked it with overwhelming force, unleashing a battle that tore through the starfield.
• The world recorded that two supreme gods had fought and then vanished together.
• A red-haired woman wept among the ruins of the Spirit Pagoda as she considered the slaughter and learned that roughly thirty percent of all life had perished.

A year after the Spirit Pagoda disaster, Gu Chen spoke with Yun Ming about the destruction and refused to accept responsibility for saving the universe's people. He planned to visit the God Realm and return the next day with Na'er's children, while continuing to pursue his own transformation.

• Gu Chen met Yun Ming among the Spirit Pagoda ruins, and Yun Ming revealed that his apparent mutual destruction with the Chaos Monster had been an image he chose to present.
• Gu Chen told Yun Ming he had erased the monster only because it was connected to him, then asked Yun Ming to negotiate with the Federation for rebuilding funds.
• Yun Ming asked Gu Chen to visit Leng Yaozhu and bring Na'er to see Ya Li, but Gu Chen declined the first request and promised to bring Chu Li and Xiyao the next day.
• Gu Chen considered how Gu Yuena, Snow Empress, and the others could follow his path of transformation and gain enough lifespan to accompany him.
• A supreme ruler stabilized Gu Chen's collapsing projection, and Gu Chen reflected that the world's materials could no longer keep pace with his weapon-making before leaving with the two children.