Chapter Summaries

Su Chen and Dugu Bo launched a poison attack on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, using the sect’s enclosed valley to spread deadly mist. Yu Yuanzhen recognized Dugu Bo behind the slaughter, while Huo Yanbao worried the attack would leave him no chance to fulfill his God Trial.

• Su Chen and Dugu Bo surveyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s valley, and Dugu Bo identified it as ideal terrain for his poison arts.
• Dugu Bo released mist from the Five-Colored Myriad Poison Pouch, while Su Chen granted Huo Yanbao a God Trial requiring him to help destroy the sect.
• The mist spread through the valley unnoticed until Yu Yuanzhen detected the danger and warned the sect’s disciples.
• Dugu Bo sent the accumulated mist cascading into the valley, killing nearly all the sect’s Soul Masters below Soul Douluo rank.
• Yu Yuanzhen confronted Dugu Bo amid the poison and lightning, while Huo Yanbao feared the sect would be wiped out before he could help.

Yu Yuanzhen confronted Dugu Bo after finding the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s disciples dead, and the two sides began a battle. Su Chen reassured Dugu Yan that Dugu Bo had the upper hand as the fight continued.

• Yu Luomian told Yu Yuanzhen that nearly all the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s disciples were dead, while the surviving elders demanded an explanation.
• Yu Yuanzhen called Dugu Bo out through the poisonous fog and spotted Su Chen with him, then ordered his forces to kill them all.
• Dugu Bo attacked Yu Yuanzhen with poison while Huo Yanbao charged Yu Luomian and forced him back despite Yu Luomian’s greater Soul Power.
• Zhilin summoned vines to engage two Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect elders, while Snake Lance Douluo stayed beside Su Chen to protect him.
• Dugu Yan worried about Dugu Bo’s fight with Yu Yuanzhen, and Su Chen said Dugu Bo had the advantage based on their life forces.

Dugu Bo fought Yu Yuanzhen while his Spirits of Toxins weakened and trapped the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect elders, and Huo Yanbao killed one of them at great cost. When Yu Yuanzhen demanded evidence for the attack on Su Chen, Dugu Bo addressed Su Chen as his sect master and asked whether they needed evidence to destroy the sect.

• Dugu Bo used his Protective Poison Miasma and Spirits of Toxins to fight Yu Yuanzhen and trap him in a poison formation.
• Yu Yuanzhen unleashed his ninth Soul Ring to break the formation after hearing a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect elder scream.
• Huo Yanbao killed an eighty-second-level elder with a desperate attack, though lightning badly wounded his left arm.
• Yu Yuanzhen reached Yu Luomian and learned an elder had died, then noticed his own body growing weak as he fought Dugu Bo again.
• Yu Yuanzhen demanded to know why Dugu Bo was attacking the sect, and Dugu Bo said the sect had tried to assassinate Su Chen.
• Dugu Bo called Su Chen his sect master and dismissed Yu Yuanzhen's demand for evidence before destroying the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.

Dugu Bo used Thunder-Devouring Poison to defeat Yu Yuanzhen and destroy the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s remaining leaders. The chapter ended with Yu Yuanzhen and two elders dead, while Dugu Yan learned that the sect’s marriage-alliance scheme had targeted her.

• Yu Yuanzhen realized Dugu Bo had poisoned him, and the Thunder-Devouring Poison consumed his lightning, Soul Power, and body.
• Dugu Bo intensified the poison and demanded that Yu Yuanzhen apologize to the Sect Master as Yu Luomian and two elders rushed to attack him.
• Yu Luomian tried to capture Su Chen but Snake Lance Douluo killed him with a spear through the throat.
• Dugu Bo’s poison rapidly shriveled the two elders as Yu Yuanzhen pleaded for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect to be spared.
• Dugu Yan learned that Yu Yuanzhen had sought a marriage alliance involving her, and she stopped pitying the sect.
• The two elders died, followed by Yu Yuanzhen.

After the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect was destroyed, Su Chen assigned his allies to secure its territory and dealt with the question of its surviving students. He distributed the sect’s Soul Bones among Dugu Bo and She Long while leaving Zhilin without a reward for now.

• Su Chen ordered Huo Yanbao to gather Fire Leopard Sect disciples and collect the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s treasures and properties, while Zhilin stayed behind to deal with any returning disciples.
• Su Chen sent Dugu Bo to Thunder Academy but forbade him from killing its ordinary students.
• Dugu Bo gave Su Chen three Soul Bones from Yu Yuanzhen, and Su Chen awarded the arm bones to Dugu Bo.
• Su Chen gave She Long Yu Yuanzhen’s head Soul Bone, which She Long accepted with a promise to support him if needed.
• The group found four more Soul Bones, but Su Chen did not reward Zhilin because his service had not yet earned one.

After Dugu Bo destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, Qian Renxue learned of the attack and strengthened her cautious alliance with Su Chen. Over the next year, Su Chen’s followers recruited several more sects, and he prepared to visit Star Dou Forest before formally founding his sect.

• Qian Renxue learned that Dugu Bo had wiped out the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and suspected Su Chen’s inheritance had strengthened him.
• Qian Renxue ordered more rare metals and gemstones gathered for Su Chen and decided to inform Qian Daoliu but not Bibi Dong.
• Dugu Bo returned to Heaven Dou City, planned to deal with Yu Tianheng, and continued recruiting subordinates for Su Chen.
• Su Chen advanced his Soul Tool crafting while Dugu Bo recruited the Sparrow Bee Sect and Black Tiger Sect and merged them with the Fire Leopard Sect.
• Dugu Bo reached level ninety-six, while Su Chen reached level thirty and asked the elders to accompany him to Star Dou Forest before the sect’s founding.

Su Chen gathered his Soul Douluo subordinates and gave them Flying Soul Tools before leading them toward the Star Dou Forest. At Notting Academy, Tang San rejected Yu Xiaogang’s plan for his second Soul Ring, and Yu Xiaogang’s warning reminded him of his past.

• Su Chen assembled nine Soul Douluo, including Zhilin, Huo Yanbao, Hu Qianxing, and Ye Tanghua, and announced that they would travel to the Star Dou Forest.
• Su Chen’s subordinates received Flying Soul Tools, learned to use them, and took to the sky as onlookers watched in amazement.
• Snake Lance Douluo continued to struggle with whether to pledge complete loyalty to Su Chen, while Su Chen considered the time nearly right.
• At Notting Academy, Yu Xiaogang told Tang San he had arranged a safe trip to the Soul Hunting Forest for his second Soul Ring.
• Tang San refused, dismissing the Soul Hunting Forest’s Soul Beasts as too poor in quality, and Yu Xiaogang urged him not to aim too high before Tang San recalled the Lone Bamboo incident.

Tang San rejected Yu Xiaogang’s safer plan and set out with him and Xiao Wu for the Star Dou Forest to obtain his Second Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Su Chen followed the God of Destruction’s directions to a hidden place in the forest to obtain his third Soul Ring, where his group encountered a chilling environment.

• Tang San insisted on going to the Star Dou Forest with Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang chose to accompany them despite his doubts about their protection.
• Su Chen and his elders flew from Heaven Dou City to the Star Dou Forest and followed his guide to a desolate rocky valley.
• Su Chen reached a shadowy gorge and learned from the God of Destruction that his Second Soul Ring could open a passage through the mountain wall.
• Su Chen used the Life-Killing Spear to reveal a hidden passage, and Hu Qianxing led several elders inside to scout.
• The elders warned Su Chen that strange creatures lurked in the darkness and an intense chill filled the hidden place.

Su Chen and the others explored a hidden place filled with malice and grotesque creatures, which the God of Destruction confirmed was connected to the God of Evil. At the end of the passage, they encountered a humanoid shadow that Su Chen said only he could handle.

• Snake Lance Douluo and Dugu Bo sensed powerful malice as they entered the hidden passage and captured two creatures stitched together from different soul beasts.
• Su Chen recognized the malice as connected to the God of Evil, and his Second Soul Ring began absorbing it.
• The group advanced through increasingly bizarre monsters and plants bearing soul beast bones and bodies while the God of Destruction explained that the malice had gathered from soul beasts killed in Star Dou Forest.
• Su Chen and the others reached a vast chamber filled with green flames and mountains of bones, where a humanoid black shadow emerged.
• Hu Qianxing tried to capture the shadow, but it exploded and re-formed; Su Chen said only he could deal with it and prepared to fight evil with evil.

Su Chen fought a humanoid shadow that could turn intangible and gather itself from green flames, while Dugu Bo and the others watched from the sidelines. The shadow transformed into an opponent with Su Chen’s face, and the battle reached a turning point when four Su Chens appeared.

• Su Chen pierced the humanoid shadow with the Life-Killing Spear and detonated Evil Thought inside it, blasting its physical form apart.
• The shadow turned intangible and swept toward Su Chen, but he sensed its malice, gathered the surrounding Evil Thought, and fed it into his Second Soul Ring.
• The gathered Evil Thought broke free as green flames descended and merged with the shadow, revealing its true body as a human identical to Su Chen.
• The shadow attacked Su Chen at great speed, but he parried and redirected its strikes while Hu Qianxing and the others held back from intervening.
• Su Chen matched the shadow’s relentless assault with his spear techniques, then four Su Chens appeared in the arena as Snake Lance Douluo recognized the move.

Su Chen fought the creature imitating him, overcame its malice with Three Rivers Converging, and defeated it with his Life-Killing Spear and Life-Protecting Shield. As he absorbed the creature's Evil Thoughts as a Soul Ring, God of Destruction uncovered God of Evil and God of Goodness's plan to draw Tang San away from God of Asura and offered to help.

• Su Chen used Three Rivers Converging to seize control of the Evil Thoughts and fought the imitating monster over the malice in the strange space.
• Su Chen burned the Evil Thoughts in his Second Soul Ring, amplified his strength tenfold, and pierced the monster's Evil Intent Dharma Image with his Life-Killing Spear.
• The monster's flaming spear struck Su Chen, but Su Chen extinguished it with his Life-Protecting Shield and let the monster's remaining Evil Thoughts gather into a Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo reassured the others as Su Chen absorbed the Soul Ring, and he told Hu Qianxing and the others that serving Su Chen was an honor.
• God of Destruction discovered that God of Evil and God of Goodness planned to lure Tang San away from God of Asura and offered them his support.

Su Chen absorbed a Soul Bone that gave him the Armor of Hatred, a powerful defense that also continuously produced Evil Thoughts. As Su Chen prepared to return, the God of Destruction spotted Tang San heading toward Star Dou Forest and looked forward to testing his ambitions.

• After absorbing his Soul Ring, Su Chen picked up the monster’s Soul Bone despite Dugu Bo’s warning that it filled the mind with Evil Thoughts.
• Su Chen absorbed the Torso Bone, gaining the Armor of Hatred, which boosted his defense, could block one fatal attack, and generated Evil Thoughts.
• Su Chen considered using the armor as the foundation for a Battle Armor and said he might ask the God of Destruction for help.
• The God of Destruction examined the Destruction Divine Power and Life Divine Power fabricated by the Evil God and recognized their genuine God King power.
• The God of Destruction found Tang San heading toward Star Dou Forest and wondered whether he had already absorbed his Second Soul Ring there.
• The God of Destruction welcomed the chance to test Tang San, who he suspected might be guided toward inheriting his divine position.

Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang entered the Star Dou Forest to search for a spirit beast, where a powerful beast approached and Xiao Wu ran off to divert it. After it left, Yu Xiaogang tried to comfort Tang San, who insisted on continuing toward the danger to search for a suitable spirit beast.

• Yu Xiaogang entered the Star Dou Forest with Tang San despite his fears, and Tang San rejected a five-hundred-year Lone Bamboo as a spirit ring.
• A powerful spirit beast approached, frightening Yu Xiaogang and making Xiao Wu realize Da Ming and Er Ming were coming for her.
• Xiao Wu ran toward the disturbance to lure the beast away, while Yu Xiaogang held Tang San back and urged him to flee.
• The tremors and destruction receded after Xiao Wu reached Da Ming and Er Ming, and Yu Xiaogang assumed she had been lost.
• Tang San walked toward the fading sounds to continue searching for a spirit beast, and Yu Xiaogang reluctantly accepted his reasoning.

Xiao Wu returned to Tang San after the Titan Giant Ape carried her away, and she arranged to bring him a suitable soul beast. Tang San resumed searching for a life-based Second Soul Ring despite Yu Xiaogang’s warnings, and the chapter ended as Xiao Wu returned with something for him.

• The Titan Giant Ape carried Xiao Wu away, and she told Da Ming and Er Ming she wanted to return to her human friends.
• Xiao Wu asked the Titan Giant Ape to find a roughly seven-hundred-year Life-Breathing Lotus for Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San that a life-focused Soul Ring would not strengthen his Blue Silver Grass’s combat abilities, but Tang San stood by his choice.
• Tang San found a four-hundred-year Resurrection Grass but continued seeking an older soul beast.
• Xiao Wu returned and called out to Tang San, while Yu Xiaogang suspected she might be a disguised soul beast.
• Xiao Wu greeted Tang San and announced that she had brought something back for him.

Tang San absorbed the Life-Breathing Lotus’s Soul Ring and briefly sensed the Goddess of Life’s divine power, convincing himself that he could pursue her inheritance. He planned to secure divine positions for his family, while the God of Destruction became certain that something was seriously wrong with him.

• Xiao Wu returned with a Life-Breathing Lotus and gave Yu Xiaogang a suspicious explanation for how she found it.
• Tang San chose to absorb the Lotus’s Soul Ring despite Yu Xiaogang’s concerns, and completed the process without difficulty.
• Tang San’s consciousness drifted to a vast life force containing the Goddess of Life’s divine power, along with a separate power he recognized as the God of Destruction’s.
• After waking, Tang San decided his Blue Silver Grass should follow the path of life and considered guiding his Clear Sky Hammer along the path of destruction.
• Tang San planned for his great-grandfather to inherit the God of Asura’s divine position and considered his father or Xiao Wu for the Sea God’s inheritance.
• In the God Realm, the God of Destruction became convinced that something was seriously wrong with Tang San.

God of Destruction realized Tang San had likely been reborn and looked forward to making him face the consequences of his past life. After leaving Star Dou Forest, Tang San revealed his second soul skill to Yu Xiaogang, and the two encountered Soul Masters spreading rumors that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect had been destroyed.

• God of Destruction concluded that Tang San had probably been reborn and welcomed the chance to take revenge on him.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that his second soul skill, Endless Life, enhanced vitality, recovery, endurance, and lifespan rather than directly improving combat ability.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San met five Soul Masters who blocked their path as they left Star Dou Forest, and Yu Xiaogang invoked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's name.
• The oldest Soul Master mentioned rumors that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect had suffered a disaster or been wiped out, surprising Yu Xiaogang.
• The five Soul Masters chose to leave, while Yu Xiaogang reacted anxiously to the rumors about his clan.

Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Xiao Wu set out to find Flender before investigating rumors that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect had been destroyed. Meanwhile, Su Chen learned about the Heart of the Sea God and demonstrated his new third soul skill, shocking Snake Lance Douluo with its domain.

• Yu Xiaogang admitted that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect was his birth clan and agreed to find Flender before going there with Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• The God of Destruction recognized Tang San's shock at the rumors as evidence that he had been reborn and located the Heart of the Sea God in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
• The God of Destruction told Su Chen to obtain the Heart of the Sea God, also known as the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and suggested Qian Renxue help retrieve it.
• Su Chen agreed to acquire the Heart of the Sea God and sparred with Snake Lance Douluo to demonstrate his third soul skill.
• Su Chen's third soul skill created a domain, leaving Snake Lance Douluo astonished that a Soul Elder had mastered one.

Su Chen demonstrated the Abomination Domain to Snake Lance Douluo, revealing its power to weaken enemies and kindle their malice. After sending Snake Lance Douluo to arrange a meeting with Qian Renxue, Su Chen returned to tending Ah Yin, whose transformation into a metallic plant was progressing toward becoming a special soul tool.

• Su Chen tested his Abomination Domain on Snake Lance Douluo, weakening his thoughts and reactions while its Fire of Abomination stirred his buried malice.
• Su Chen summoned soul beasts from malice and attacked Snake Lance Douluo, then stopped the sparring before the domain could affect him further.
• Snake Lance Douluo praised Su Chen and admitted that Qian Renxue's talent seemed ordinary beside his.
• Su Chen told Snake Lance Douluo to return to Qian Renxue and arrange a meeting, and Snake Lance Douluo left relieved that he was not being sent away permanently.
• Su Chen watered Ah Yin, and the God of Destruction confirmed that her changing life essence could allow her to be forged into a special soul tool.

Qian Renxue met with Su Chen, who asked her to obtain the Heaven Dou Empire’s Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. Their conversation also revealed that an Angel God could bring two relatives to the God Realm, strengthening Qian Renxue’s resolve to pass her divine trial and take Qian Daoliu with her.

• Qian Renxue learned from Snake Lance Douluo that Su Chen had reached Soul Elder after obtaining his third Soul Ring, and she went to visit him at Dugu Manor.
• Qian Renxue gave Su Chen a collection of gems and agreed to obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud for him.
• Qian Renxue asked Su Chen about the God Realm and learned that the Angel God could bring up to two relatives there.
• Qian Renxue was delighted that she could bring Qian Daoliu to the God Realm and regretted spending time away from her cultivation.

Qian Renxue learned that gods could alter the difficulty of God Trials, then delivered her thanks and promised to send Su Chen the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. Su Chen brought his elders to the Sunset Forest, where divine light transformed the mountain into a vast sect, and they asked him to name it.

• Qian Renxue asked Su Chen about God Trials and learned that some gods could lower their difficulty or grant godhood directly.
• Qian Renxue thanked Su Chen and promised to have the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud delivered before leaving.
• Su Chen gathered the elders and led them from Heaven Dou City to the Sunset Forest, telling them the sect site and construction were already prepared.
• The elders received notifications that their God Trial assessments to help establish a sect had been completed.
• Ten clusters of divine light merged into the mountain, expanding it and creating a magnificent sect complex that left the elders astonished.
• The elders asked Su Chen to name the sect as they stood before its blank jade plaque.