Chapter Summaries

The Ice Empress froze the Tang Sect's mountain gate after its members attacked her while Ye Qing completed his task. When the Tang Sect Master tried to kill her with a Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus, she shattered its blast and pierced his chest with her scorpion tail.

• The Ice Empress spread her Eternal Frozen Domain across the Tang Sect, freezing streams, buildings, and disciples throughout the mountain gate.
• The Ice Empress repelled the Tang Sect's crossbow attacks, froze the attackers with Ultimate Ice, and let the remaining disciples flee.
• The Tang Sect Master followed the cold to the Inner Sect and confronted the Ice Empress, who explained that her people had attacked first.
• The Tang Sect Master moved closer as the light above Ye Qing dimmed, then launched a Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus at the Ice Empress.
• The Ice Empress shattered the lotus's golden-red tornado with her jade-green scorpion tail and pierced the Tang Sect Master's chest.

Ye Qing finished opening a passage between worlds while the Ice Empress defeated the Tang Sect members who attacked her, leaving them alive but injured. After learning that the other plane’s Spirit Qi would take centuries to recover, Ye Qing sent the Ice Empress to establish a base and offered the Zhuge Clan siblings a deal to guard the passage in return for their clan’s future prosperity.

• The Ice Empress shattered the Tang Sect master's Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus and struck him with her tail, leaving him alive but unable to fight.
• Ye Qing emerged after opening the passage and learned that the other plane’s Spirit Qi would take at least a thousand years to recover.
• Ye Qing decided to investigate the unstable world beyond the passage alone and told the Ice Empress to build a base with help from the two people nearby.
• The Zhuge Clan siblings recovered their lost repeating crossbow blueprints and discussed their ancestor’s prophecy about the coming changes.
• Ye Qing and the Ice Empress appeared before the siblings, and Ye Qing offered to ensure the Zhuge Clan prospered if they guarded an exit of the passage.

Ye Qing brought the Zhuge siblings to the new Path of Ascension near their home and appointed them its Gatekeepers, setting the clan up to rise when spirit qi revived a thousand years later. After entering the passage, he reached a new world, absorbed energy that awakened his demonic bloodline, and headed toward its planet as a golden figure predicted the beings Outside the Circle would become prey.

• Ye Qing explained that the revival of spirit qi and the relocated Path of Ascension were tied to the Zhuge Clan's home near Lanxi, then teleported the siblings there.
• At the Marquis Wu Shrine, Zhuge Liang's statue shattered and revealed the entrance; Ye Qing warned that only those tempered by a lightning tribulation could pass and recruited the siblings as Gatekeepers.
• A thousand years later, Zhuge Gong brought Zhuge Qing to the hidden mountain, where the Zhuge Clan's ancient Gatekeepers prepared to reveal their foundations as spirit qi began to revive.
• Ye Qing passed through the Path of Ascension into a star-filled world, where a Little Golden Man completed a circle around a planet despite being struck by a bracelet from beyond the heavens.
• Ye Qing absorbed the scattered energy with his Heaven-Swallowing talent, greatly strengthening his body, then vanished toward the planet below.
• In the Aolai Kingdom, the Little Golden Man told a three-eared woman that the monster who had landed Outside the Circle would turn its predators into prey.

Ye Qing hunted Outside-the-Circle Creatures, destroyed a Black Fox Clone, and headed toward the demons’ gathering place after the Heavenly Demon God-Slaying Halberd had eaten its fill. He crossed into the Southern Kingdom, where Huandu Qingtian had once crushed a rebellion, shocking the border guards.

• Ye Qing fought the approaching Outside-the-Circle Creatures and let the Heavenly Demon God-Slaying Halberd devour their energy because he found them too ugly to eat.
• The Black Fox Clone entered Ye Qing’s inner world to bewitch him, but Ye Qing destroyed it with a Soul-Shocking Roar and absorbed it as a chocolate-flavored treat.
• Outside-the-Circle Creatures began fleeing Ye Qing, who had also discovered that Golden Dawn tasted like honey mustard and fluffy white creatures tasted like gingerbread marshmallows.
• Ye Qing decided to return to the demon gathering place and received an optional mission offering a Bitter Love Tree sapling in exchange for the Power of True Love.
• Huandu Qingtian had used his perfected Myriad Poison Body to defeat the Seventy-Two Cave Lords and become the Poison Emperor of the Southern Kingdom.
• A humanoid Ye Qing walked in from Outside the Circle and crossed into the Southern Kingdom, astonishing the border guards.

Ye Qing crossed into the Southern Kingdom, exchanged information about Outside-the-Circle Creatures for snake-venom cultivation methods, and returned to the Douluo Continent. There, Sima Jinchi announced that the Heavenly Demon Sect would enter the Sect Grand Competition, and Qian Daoliu accepted that it would become the number one sect.

• Du Laozi opened the Southern Kingdom’s border gates for Ye Qing and learned that Huandu Qingtian had become emperor three years earlier.
• Ye Qing traded his handbook on Outside-the-Circle Creatures for the Southern Kingdom’s snake-venom cultivation methods and gave Du Laozi a stone ring that could summon a favor.
• Ye Qing returned to the Douluo Continent, where Tang Hao had become infamous for killing Qian Xunji and escaping Qian Daoliu’s pursuit.
• Qian Daoliu allowed Bibi Dong to become Pope after Qian Xunji’s death, while keeping Spirit Hall’s elite Worship Hall under his own control.
• Dugu Bo joined Ye Qing’s sect with his son Dugu Xin and granddaughter Dugu Yan, and Ye Qing cured the Dugu Family’s inherited poison affliction.
• Sima Jinchi gave Qian Daoliu the Heavenly Demon Sect’s roster, including Gang Zong, Niu Tian, and Dugu Bo, and announced that he would attend the Sect Grand Competition.

Ning Fengzhi chose not to pursue the title of Number One Sect Under Heaven at the Sect Grand Competition, while Yu Yuanzhen prepared the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to seize it. As the competition began, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect planned to preserve its standing and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan faced its chance to rise.

• The chapter explained that the Clear Sky Sect's withdrawal left an opening among the Upper Three Sects, though Spirit Hall had selected a new sect to participate.
• Ning Fengzhi told Chen Xin and Gu Rong that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would not forcefully pursue first place, and he revealed that Zhu Qinluo's Heavenly Demon Sect would compete as an ally.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong agreed to fight without revealing their full strength, then joked and wagered over who could visit Ning Rongrong.
• Yu Yuanzhen urged the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's two Spirit Douluo competitors to defeat the Lower Four Sects, while he planned to beat the Title Douluo opponents and claim first place.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect remained calm as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan prepared for battle, and the day of the Sect Grand Competition arrived.

The sect leaders gathered at the remote competition venue, where Yu Yuanzhen tried and failed to recruit Ning Fengzhi as an ally against the newly recognized Heavenly Demon Sect. The competition began with the Lower Four Sects withdrawing against stronger opponents, and Dugu Bo faced Hu Yanzhen as the Titled Douluo most likely to be defeated.

• Spirit Hall and the Seven Great Sects assembled at a barren mountain for the competition, with the Video Den Den Mushi directing a broadcast to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yu Yuanzhen realized the Heavenly Demon Sect had taken the Clear Sky Sect's place and suspected it had ties to Spirit Hall, so he sought an alliance with Ning Fengzhi.
• Ning Fengzhi refused to join Yu Yuanzhen against the Heavenly Demon Sect and warned that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan could not claim the title of Number One Sect Under Heaven.
• Ning Fengzhi told Gu Rong that Yu Yuanzhen would become their enemy over the competition, since the format made the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan unlikely to place first or second.
• The competition began, and several Lower Four Sect fighters withdrew rather than challenge Titled Douluo.
• Dugu Bo faced Elephant Armor Sect leader Hu Yanzhen after the Lower Four Sects viewed him as the easiest Titled Douluo to defeat.

Dugu Bo faced Hu Yanzhen in the arena and defeated him with his Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Poison. The poison spread beyond the arena before Dugu Bo recalled it, leaving Hu Yanzhen incapacitated and the spectators shaken by its ability to corrode Soul Power.

• Dugu Bo promised to defeat Hu Yanzhen in one move, while Dugu Yan cheered for her grandfather from the spectators’ seats.
• Hu Yanzhen relied on his Diamond Mammoth Martial Soul’s defense and sealed his body with Soul Power, hoping to withstand Dugu Bo’s poison and push him out of the arena.
• Dugu Bo released Poison Overwhelms the World, filling most of the arena with poison fog and sending poison dragons at Hu Yanzhen.
• Dugu Bo counted to three, and Hu Yanzhen collapsed after the poison corroded the Soul Power protecting his body.
• Dugu Bo’s poison fog spread toward the spectators, forcing Spirit Hall to disperse it before Dugu Yan called for her grandfather to recall it.
• Dugu Bo drew the remaining poison back into his Poison Core, leaving Hu Yanzhen unconscious and bluish-purple.

The Lower Four Sects withdrew after Dugu Bo poisoned Hu Yanzhen, and the tournament continued with a battle between the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Heavenly Demon Sect. Chen Xin lost to Gang Zong but broke through to level 96, leaving Yu Yuanzhen worried about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s chances.

• Dugu Bo withdrew his poison from Hu Yanzhen, but the injured Elephant Armor Sect master could not continue, so the Lower Four Sects withdrew from the remaining matches.
• The Heavenly Demon Sect and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect fought, with Dugu Bo losing to Chen Xin and Gu Rong, while Da Ming defeated Gu Rong and drew with Chen Xin.
• Gang Zong defeated Gu Rong by outlasting him and knocking him from the arena after his Soul Power ran low.
• Chen Xin fought Gang Zong for three hours and lost, then broke through to level 96 during the battle.
• Qian Daoliu recognized Chen Xin’s talent, while Yu Yuanzhen worried that Chen Xin and Gang Zong would be difficult for his clan to defeat.

Da Ming faced Yu Yuanzhen after Dugu Bo lost to him, and Sima Jinchi urged Da Ming to reveal the full extent of Yu Yuanzhen’s power because his aura might carry the dangerous bloodline of the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon. Da Ming opened with his Slowness Domain, trapping Yu Yuanzhen in a crisis as every part of him, including his thoughts and Soul Power, slowed down.

• Yu Yuanzhen defeated Dugu Bo after his lightning neutralized Dugu Bo’s poison and overcame the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor in close combat.
• Sima Jinchi told Da Ming to attack without holding back and explained that Yu Yuanzhen’s dragon blood might come from the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon.
• Da Ming entered the arena and spread his Slowness Domain across it as soon as the match began.
• Gu Rong and Chen Xin recognized the domain’s effect, while Chen Xin reflected on the transformation he had experienced after reaching level 96.
• Yu Yuanzhen found that the domain slowed his movements, lightning, Soul Power, Spirit Skills, speech, and thoughts.

Da Ming and Yu Yuanzhen clashed in a fierce battle of domains and lightning, each using powerful abilities to overcome the other's attacks. Their final techniques collided in an explosion that sent both fighters out of the arena, leaving the match a draw.

• Da Ming used his Slowness Domain to slow Yu Yuanzhen and kicked him into a crater before Yu Yuanzhen could release his own domain.
• Yu Yuanzhen spread his Thunder Domain across half the arena, but Da Ming's kick continued to slow him.
• Yu Yuanzhen used Dragon Transformation to break free of the slowing effect and unleashed his eighth Spirit Skill, Dragon Soaring Heaven Thunder Blast.
• Da Ming countered with Sky Azure Extinction Divine Thunder, and the two attacks collided in a blinding explosion.
• The blast sent Da Ming and Yu Yuanzhen beyond the arena boundaries, ending their battle in a draw.

After the Heavenly Demon Sect claimed first place, Yu Yuanzhen brooded over the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s third-place finish, while Spirit Hall and the isolated Clear Sky Sect reacted to the shifting balance of power. Meanwhile, Ye Qing investigated a growing mass of deathly energy on the Sun Moon Continent, which transformed into a man and spoke.

• Yu Yuanzhen’s victories, draws, and defeats left the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan in third place, and he secluded himself to pursue level 95.
• Qian Daoliu reviewed the Heavenly Demon Sect’s recruitment and orphanage plans, while the Star Luo Empire supported its orphanages and sought good relations with the sect.
• A Clear Sky Sect disciple reported that the sect had been removed from the rankings, and Tang Xiao ordered the news kept quiet as the sect continued its seclusion.
• The Evil Emperor told Ye Qing that a growing gray-black mass of energy had appeared on the Sun Moon Continent, so Ye Qing flew there to investigate.
• Ye Qing identified deathly energy and signs of Holy Demon Continent magic in the mass, which transformed into a man who declared, “With sun and moon in hand, I pluck the stars... in all the world, none compares to me...”

Ye Qing revived Electrolux, learned how he had reached this world, and recruited him to teach magic before taking him to see Long Haochen. On the parallel Holy Demon Continent, Long Haochen and the allied Human and Demon Races fought to contain the awakened Austin Griffin as they waited for Ye Qing’s arrival.

• Ye Qing recognized Electrolux, replenished his damaged soul, and asked about Long Haochen and the Eternal Tower.
• Electrolux explained how Dragon God's Power had interfered with the Eternal Tower, how he had passed on his Light Power and Death Power, and how he had reached Ye Qing’s world through the safer passage.
• Ye Qing asked Electrolux to teach magic and told him that the Sun Moon Divine Snail was still alive; Electrolux agreed to meet her and see Long Haochen.
• After sensing that Austin Griffin had awakened, Ye Qing took Electrolux through the passage to the parallel Holy Demon Continent.
• Long Haochen led the Human and Demon Races in attacking Austin Griffin while Feng Xiu and the Demon Gods formed the Ten Earths Nine Heavens God-Extinguishing Array around him.
• Austin Griffin's Nine-Headed Chimera form began shaking the formation, and Long Haochen urged Feng Xiu to hold on until Ye Qing arrived.

Ye Qing arrived as Austin Griffin destroyed the sealing array and used his Dharma Manifestation to subdue him, separating and absorbing the God of Heavenly Punishment’s power. Austin Griffin became Haoyue, Ye Qing reached the God King realm, and the survivors prepared for a changed world as Ye Qing stopped Feng Xiu from taking his own life.

• Austin Griffin destroyed the array’s Demon God Pillar cores, causing the formation to collapse and devastating both Human and Demon Race forces.
• Electrolux appeared to Sheng Cai’er and revealed that the one who could confront Austin Griffin had arrived.
• Ye Qing absorbed Austin Griffin’s attack, transformed into his Dharma Manifestation, and subdued him with his soul and Dragon God powers.
• Ye Qing separated Austin Griffin’s souls and absorbed the God of Heavenly Punishment’s power, leaving Haoyue alive but unable to become a god.
• Ye Qing broke through to the God King realm, while Feng Xiu entrusted the Demon Race’s future to Agares and Vassago and resolved to find Bai Lingxuan.
• Ye Qing stopped Feng Xiu from killing himself and asked whether he had heard of a Reincarnation Vow.

Ye Qing arranged for Feng Xiu to seek Bai Lingxuan’s reincarnation, then traveled with him and Electrolux to the Fox Demon World. There, Ye Qing arrived during the fall of Jinling and attacked the invading army, while the chapter ended with a tour guide describing the resulting fissure decades later.

• Ye Qing told Feng Xiu that Bai Lingxuan’s remnant soul still existed and could be reborn in another world, where the Bitterness Tree might restore her memories through their renewed bond.
• Long Haochen’s Human Alliance approved plans for postwar reconstruction and interworld travel, and Feng Xiu entrusted the Demon Race to Agares and Vassago before joining Ye Qing and Electrolux on the journey.
• In 1937, Zhuge Dali led Outsiders in using a thunderstorm and the Ten Thousand Thunder Array to strike enemy positions near the Songhu battlefield, but the human forces eventually retreated to Jinling.
• Ye Qing sensed the fall of Jinling and crossed from West Shu to the city, where he struck the invading army with his halberd.
• In 2013, a tour guide described the fissure outside Jinling where the invaders had perished as a famous water-conservation site.

Ye Qing brought Feng Xiu to the world beyond the circle to arrange Bai Lingxuan’s rebirth, then returned to find Xiao Tong injured after an assassination mission. Zhao Wuji, the bodyguard who fought her, was left with even worse injuries and a hefty medical bill.

• Ye Qing took Feng Xiu beyond the circle, where Feng Xiu chose to be reborn as a member of the Human Race and offered his Spiritual Power crystallization to help locate Bai Lingxuan.
• Ye Qing built a Sky Island stronghold and agreed to cooperate with Old Bai of Aolai Kingdom, who promised Feng Xiu safe passage through demon territory while Aolai Kingdom observed the rebirth method.
• Ye Qing left Feng Xiu with Old Bai and returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, where he learned Xiao Tong had been injured fighting a bodyguard during her first assassination mission.
• Xiao Tong vowed to make the bodyguard pay, while Zhao Wuji recovered at a Black Market Doctor clinic with broken bones and was charged 800 Gold Soul Coins.

Zhao Wuji recounted to a black market doctor how he had fought Xiao Tong while guarding a slave trader. Their brutal close-range battle ended when Xiao Tong used her sixth-pattern skill, Intentional Bombing Fist, and sent Zhao Wuji flying through a wall.

• Zhao Wuji paid the doctor for treatment and charged him two hundred Gold Soul Coins for information about the assassin who had attacked him.
• Zhao Wuji explained that he had accepted a bodyguard job protecting a slave trader who feared an attack after one of his business partners was killed.
• On the seventh night, Xiao Tong infiltrated the trader's home, but Zhao Wuji detected her with his gravity field and tried to stop her from reaching the target.
• Xiao Tong and Zhao Wuji exchanged powerful blows, and Xiao Tong kept fighting through injuries that would have disabled an ordinary opponent.
• After Zhao Wuji broke her arm with Vajra Palm, Xiao Tong unleashed Intentional Bombing Fist and blasted him through a nearby wall.

Xiao Tong broke through Zhao Wuji’s defenses and killed the merchant after Spirit Hall failed to intervene. The chapter revealed that Bibi Dong had ordered the city’s Spirit Hall forces to ignore the disturbance, and Xiao Tong had disappeared by the time the Heaven Dou Empire troops arrived.

• Xiao Tong used Intentional Bombing Fist to shatter Zhao Wuji’s defense and blast him through several walls.
• Xiao Tong fought past the merchant’s guards and broke into his Secret Chamber.
• Yue Guan ignored a Bishop’s report of the disturbance because Bibi Dong had ordered Spirit Hall not to interfere.
• The Bishop withdrew after Yue Guan warned him against meddling.
• Xiao Tong killed the merchant, and the Heaven Dou Empire’s city defense troops arrived to find ruins and corpses.

After Xiao Tong stopped using Zhao Wuji as a punching bag, Tai Tan and Spirit Hall hunted him for past offenses, forcing him to flee and fight for his life. Zhao Wuji escaped by hiding in a culvert beneath a waterfall, then left his wandering life behind to teach at Shrek Academy.

• Xiao Tong failed her assassination evaluation, then spent months beating Zhao Wuji and using him as a sparring partner until she advanced to the seventh rank.
• Tai Tan confronted Zhao Wuji over injuries to his son and cousin, chased him for a month, and eventually lost him.
• Spirit Hall Bishops ambushed Zhao Wuji over an old grudge, and he fought sixteen Soul Emperors before diving into a river near a waterfall.
• Spirit Hall presumed Zhao Wuji dead and removed his wanted notice, but he survived by hiding in a culvert beneath the waterfall.
• Zhao Wuji found his old friend Flender and became a teacher at Shrek Academy.

Ye Qing prepared Xiao Qing for her transformation and arranged protection along her route to the sea. Xiao Qing survived the Lightning Tribulation and emerged as a Nine-Section Jade Jiao.

• Zhao Wuji began his new, impoverished life as a teacher at Shrek Academy, where Shao Xin gave him Sugar Beans with breakfast.
• Ye Qing refined a foundation-strengthening medicinal liquid for Xiao Qing and had her absorb it as her transformation approached.
• When torrential rain flooded Holy Soul Village, Old Jack evacuated Tang Hao and one-year-old Tang San.
• Xiao Qing began her journey through the rivers toward the eastern sea, while Ye Qing, Xiong Jun, Er Ming, Mermaids, and Demon Soul Great White Sharks kept her route clear.
• At the river mouth, Xiao Qing faced the Lightning Tribulation after restoring her energy with Ye Qing's energy pearl.
• Xiao Qing emerged from her charred shell as a Nine-Section Jade Jiao.