Chapter Summaries

Zi Yan welcomed the returning clansmen as the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe grew to thirty-seven Dou Saints, while more were expected to return. With the tribe’s affairs settled, Liu Bai prepared to leave for the Central Plains, and Zi Yan agreed to send the three Dragon Kings with him.

• Qingshan reported that the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe had gathered thirty-seven Dou Saints, and Zi Yan welcomed the returning clansmen.
• Qingmu reported that 137 clansmen had returned, including thirty-seven Dou Saints and fifty-two Half-Saints, and said the number of Dou Saints could exceed fifty.
• Qingshan identified Zhu Tian as the strongest returned clansman, a late Five-Star Dou Saint who had left after the Dragon Island split apart.
• Liu Bai told Zi Yan he was leaving, and she reluctantly accepted after he promised she could visit him in the Central Plains.
• Zi Yan asked the North Dragon King, South Dragon King, and West Dragon King to accompany Liu Bai, then kissed him goodbye.

Liu Bai left Dragon Island with Qing Lin, Yao Ming, and the Three Great Dragon Kings, then returned to Holy Pill City and began refining pills to announce his presence. A month later, Pill Lightning from a Tier 8 Pill appeared above the city.

• Liu Bai parted from Zi Yan and left Dragon Island with Qing Lin, Yao Ming, and the controlled Three Great Dragon Kings.
• Liu Bai warned the North, South, and West Dragon Kings to keep a low profile after they arrived in Holy Pill City.
• Liu Bai settled his companions at his residence and decided to establish a faction, recognizing that he needed greater strength to face the Soul Clan.
• Liu Bai began refining pills with the Nether Prison Black Emperor Flame while the Three Great Dragon Kings guarded the alchemy chamber.
• After a month of refining, thunderclouds and seven-colored light gathered above Holy Pill City, and the people recognized the Pill Lightning of a Tier 8 Pill.

Liu Bai refined a supreme-grade Tier 8 pill that drew Seven-Colored Pill Lightning, then ordered Venerable Skyfire to establish Blood Fire Hall in the Central Plains. He planned his next steps toward gaining more power, focusing on Heavenly Flames and the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion as he prepared to face Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan.

• Liu Bai refined a Tier 8 pill that attracted Seven-Colored Pill Lightning, which his Heavenly Demon Puppet absorbed.
• Liu Bai emerged from the alchemy chamber with the finished pill and told Venerable Skyfire to establish Blood Fire Hall in the Central Plains.
• Liu Bai considered pursuing the Three Thousand Burning Flame and sent the Three Great Dragon Kings to search for other Heavenly Flames.
• Liu Bai assessed his forces and his need to grow stronger to challenge Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan.
• Liu Bai focused on the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion, where he could find Origin Qi and an Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill.

Liu Bai returned to Sea God Island in the Douluo World and reunited with Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong. He agreed to stay until Ning Rongrong completed her final divine trial.

• Liu Bai opened the Shuttle Gate and left the Battle Through the Heavens World for Sea God Island.
• Liu Bai sensed that Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had both become First-Level Deities, then revealed his overwhelming aura and drew them to him.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling welcomed Liu Bai back and kissed him.
• Ning Rongrong rushed to Liu Bai and told him she had completed seven of the Eight Trials of Phantom Color.
• Liu Bai agreed to wait on Sea God Island until Ning Rongrong finished her final trial.

Liu Bai reunited with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling on Sea God Island, where they shared intimate moments after his return. Ning Rongrong awaited him in the main hall, still hoping to complete her final trial and ascend with him.

• Dugu Yan told Liu Bai that her grandfather had become the God of Poison and Resentment and was stabilizing his power in seclusion.
• Dugu Yan said she had waited for Liu Bai by the sea every day, then kissed him and sent him to Ye Lingling.
• Ye Lingling reunited with Liu Bai and told him she had missed him before they kissed.
• Ning Rongrong waited for Liu Bai in the main hall and asked why he had taken so long to come.

Liu Bai spent a peaceful month on Sea God Island with Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling while Ning Rongrong completed the God of Phantom Colors inheritance. After she became a god, the four prepared to ascend to the God Realm.

• Liu Bai comforted Ning Rongrong as she asked to sleep in his arms and whether she could be with him after becoming a god; he promised she could.
• The next morning, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling joined Liu Bai and Ning Rongrong, and Liu Bai suggested visiting Senior Dugu.
• One month later, Ning Rongrong completed her final trial and emerged wearing the Seven-Colored Divine Raiment as the God of Phantom Colors.
• Ning Rongrong reunited with Liu Bai, and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling praised her divine raiment.
• Liu Bai and the three women agreed to ascend to the God Realm after arranging their affairs on the continent.

Liu Bai prepared to ascend to the God Realm with Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Ning Rongrong, and Dugu Bo, while Qian Renxue stayed behind to arrange Spirit Hall’s affairs. As the four gods called for an ascension passage, Liu Bai unleashed his black flame aura.

• Liu Bai gathered with Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Ning Rongrong, and Dugu Bo on Sea God Island before their departure.
• Qian Renxue arrived and told Liu Bai she would ascend in a few years, after preparing Spirit Hall for her absence.
• Liu Bai and Qian Renxue agreed to meet again in the God Realm before she departed.
• Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Ning Rongrong, and Dugu Bo released their godly auras to summon an ascension passage.
• Liu Bai stepped forward and sent a sacred black flame aura into the sky.

Liu Bai’s evolved God of Fire Godhead triggered a continent-wide display as five Deities began ascending from Sea God Island. Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Bo rose toward the God Realm, leaving the continent to bid them farewell.

• Liu Bai unleashed the Nether Prison Black Emperor Flame, revealing his God of Fire projection and drawing the resonance of the Law of Fire.
• Golden light and five-colored radiance spread across the continent, and people recognized the spectacle as a mass ascension to the God Realm.
• Ning Fengzhi watched Ning Rongrong’s pillar from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and wished her a safe journey, while Yu Yuanzhen and reclusive experts bowed to the departing Deities.
• Five pillars of light appeared above Sea God Island, carrying five figures toward the golden passage as the continent paid homage.
• Ning Rongrong saw her father below and grew emotional, so Liu Bai reassured her that they could return; Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Bo also looked back before Dugu Bo urged them onward.

Liu Bai and the others entered the God Realm after five Deities ascended from the continent. As soon as he arrived, his God of Fire Position evolved into a God King’s Godhood, leaving the Deities across the God Realm stunned.

• The continent’s people watched Liu Bai and the other four Deities enter the golden passage and bid them farewell.
• Liu Bai, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Bo arrived in the God Realm and marveled at its divine landscape.
• Liu Bai’s dormant God of Fire Position activated, and his divine aura surged as his first eight Divine Rings appeared.
• Liu Bai’s Heavenly Flames poured their origins into his Godhood, creating a ninth Divine Ring and transforming him into the Flame God King.
• The God King’s pressure swept across the God Realm, and Deities everywhere looked toward Liu Bai’s golden pillar of fire in shock.

Liu Bai arrived in the God Realm and transformed into a God King through the God of Fire Position, becoming its sixth God King. The other God Kings welcomed him, and he prepared to explore his new Flame Divine Domain with his companions.

• Five God Kings appeared and recognized Liu Bai as a God King whose fire Godhood had advanced upon entering the God Realm.
• Liu Bai greeted the God Kings, who congratulated him and welcomed him as their new companion.
• God King of Evil teased Asura God King about still holding the God of Fire Godhood, and Asura God King told Liu Bai to keep it for someone fated to inherit it.
• The God Kings praised Liu Bai's companions and offered their help as he learned about the God Realm.
• Asura God King told Liu Bai that the Flame Divine Domain belonged to him, and God King of Evil invited him to share wine another day.

Liu Bai settled into the Flame Divine Domain with Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Bo after the God Kings congratulated him on becoming a God King. The chapter ended with Qian Yu beginning to test the time difference between the God Realms of the Battle Through the Heavens World and the Douluo World.

• Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Bo congratulated Liu Bai after the five God Kings departed.
• A God Official sent by the Asura God King escorted Liu Bai and his companions to the Flame Divine Domain.
• Liu Bai shielded his companions from the domain’s heat and cleaned out a Divine Temple for them to use as their home.
• Dugu Bo left to rest while Liu Bai stayed with Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling.
• Qian Yu traveled repeatedly between the Battle Through the Heavens World and the Douluo World to compare the flow of time.

Liu Bai discovered that Immortal Spirit Qi in the God Realm slowly strengthened his soul power, giving him a chance to develop a powerful new trump card. As he absorbed it and refined his Flame Divine Domain, he realized the Burning Heaven Art was poorly suited to cultivating with the God Realm’s energy and system.

• Liu Bai confirmed that the Shuttle Gate adjusted time flow between worlds, eliminating his worry that time would pass much faster in the Battle Through the Heavens World.
• Liu Bai sensed and absorbed Immortal Spirit Qi, discovering its exceptional quality and its gradual effect on his soul power.
• Liu Bai considered using Immortal Spirit Qi together with his God King position to briefly wield power comparable to an Emperor Realm Soul.
• Liu Bai spent the following days refining the Flame Divine Domain and absorbing Immortal Spirit Qi, strengthening his soul power.
• Liu Bai realized that the Burning Heaven Art was inefficient for circulating Immortal Spirit Qi because it was designed for Dou Qi rather than the God Realm’s cultivation system.

Liu Bai set out to create a cultivation art that could combine Dou Qi, his Godhead, and Immortal Spirit Qi. After abandoning an unsuccessful revision of the Burning Heaven Art, he began studying how the three powers worked within his body.

• Liu Bai decided to create a new cultivation art to improve his cultivation efficiency.
• Liu Bai spent a month modifying the Burning Heaven Art, then discarded the approach because it could not properly use Immortal Spirit Qi or preserve the strengths of Dou Qi.
• Liu Bai started over from scratch and observed how Dou Qi, his Godhead, and Immortal Spirit Qi operated within his body.
• Liu Bai studied Dou Qi flowing through his meridians and acupoints, then examined how his God King Godhead resonated with the Law of Fire.
• Liu Bai drew Immortal Spirit Qi into his body and observed it permeate his flesh, bones, meridians, acupoints, and soul.

Liu Bai experimented with Immortal Spirit Qi to find a way to fuse his physical body, laws, and soul, then completed the initial framework of a nine-transformation cultivation method. By the chapter’s end, he had defined the first four transformations, from Foundation Establishment to Convergence.

• Liu Bai realized Immortal Spirit Qi could strengthen both his body and Godhead, but could not make them fuse on its own.
• Liu Bai used his soul as a medium to connect his body’s power with the Godhead’s laws, briefly forming a new power before the connection dissipated.
• Liu Bai experimented for eighty days and concluded that balancing the body, laws, and soul was essential to achieving true fusion.
• Liu Bai completed the initial framework of a nine-transformation cultivation method and set out its first four stages: Foundation Establishment, Spirit Condensation, Soul Refinement, and Convergence.

Liu Bai refined and tested the nine transformations of the Burning World Art, successfully uniting his body, laws, and soul. He remained in seclusion, believing the art could still be improved and might one day help him reach the Emperor Realm.

• Liu Bai completed the First Transformation by guiding Immortal Spirit Qi through his body and strengthening his flesh, bones, and meridians.
• Liu Bai succeeded in the Second and Third Transformations, connecting his Godhead to his body and tempering his soul to stabilize its link with the laws.
• Liu Bai completed the Fourth Transformation by fusing the power of his body, laws, and soul into a new force.
• Liu Bai advanced through the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Transformations, opening the channels between the three powers, balancing them, and breaking past his limits.
• Liu Bai completed the Ninth Transformation as black flames enveloped the Divine Temple and his body, laws, and soul became one.
• Liu Bai called the result the Burning World Art, reflected on its potential to reach beyond the Ninth Transformation and toward the Emperor Realm, and stayed in seclusion.

Liu Bai completed his cultivation with the Burning World Art, forging his Dou Qi, Godhead laws, and soul into a new power that brought him close to the Emperor Realm. His aura swept across the God Realm, leaving the other God Kings astonished as he advanced toward a realm none of them had reached.

• Liu Bai tempered all his Dou Qi with the Burning World Art, merging it with Immortal Spirit Qi to create a new energy.
• Liu Bai fused the power of laws in his Godhead with his new energy, then began tempering his soul.
• Liu Bai's divine sense spread across the entire God Realm, and he sensed power approaching the Emperor Realm.
• On the sixteenth day, Liu Bai released a terrifying aura and sent a pillar of black flame into the sky above the Flame Divine Domain.
• The God Kings gathered in the Kindness Divine Domain and agreed that Liu Bai's strength had surpassed theirs and that his power was unlike anything they knew.

After completing his transformation through the Burning World Art, Liu Bai reached the Pseudo-Emperor Realm and advanced to Sixth-Turn Dou Venerate. He considered using the Asura Godhead, while Qian Renxue resolved to grow stronger and draw closer to him.

• Qian Renxue sensed Liu Bai's power from the Angel God Temple and decided to work harder to catch up to him.
• Liu Bai completed half a month of cultivation and converted all his cultivation into the power of the Burning World Art.
• Liu Bai sensed that his soul power was close to the Emperor Realm and recognized his new state as the Pseudo-Emperor Realm.
• Liu Bai advanced to Sixth-Turn Dou Venerate and estimated that he could contend with a Dou Saint.
• Liu Bai reflected on the limits of Immortal Spirit Qi's effects and resolved to progress steadily.
• Liu Bai recalled the Asura Godhead, summoned it into his hand, and considered making use of it.

After completing the ninth turn of the Burning World Art, Liu Bai began directly fusing the Asura Godhead with his already-integrated Fire God Godhead. By the tenth day, the two powers had begun to resonate, and Liu Bai’s strength was rapidly increasing.

• Liu Bai completed the ninth turn of the Burning World Art, making the Fire God Godhead an inseparable part of his body.
• Liu Bai decided to fuse the Asura Godhead directly, relying on his powerful body, near-Emperor soul, and new power system to withstand it.
• The Asura Godhead tried to seize control of Liu Bai’s soul, but Liu Bai and the Fire God Godhead suppressed it until it stopped resisting on the fifth day.
• Liu Bai used the Burning World Art’s power to connect with the Asura Godhead, achieving an initial fusion on the seventh day.
• On the tenth day, the Fire God’s Power and Asura’s Power began to resonate, causing Liu Bai’s strength to rise rapidly.

Liu Bai completed his fusion with the Asura Godhead, combining Asura’s Power with the God of Fire’s Power and becoming far stronger. The four God Kings sensed his breakthrough and anticipated the heights he might lead the God Realm to, while Liu Bai turned his attention to what came next.

• On the fifteenth day of the fusion, Liu Bai released a powerful aura carrying both the God of Fire’s Power and Asura’s Power.
• Destruction God, God King of Life, God King of Kindness, and God King of Evil gathered and recognized that Liu Bai had fused with the Asura Godhead.
• The four God Kings discussed Liu Bai’s unprecedented growth and resolved to get used to his future breakthroughs.
• Liu Bai confirmed that the Asura Godhead had fully merged with his body and that his power had more than doubled.
• Liu Bai looked outside and considered his next move.

Liu Bai returned to Holy Pill City and learned that the Blood Fire Hall had risen to rival the Soul Hall after Qing Lin and the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe drove off Soul Hall forces. He also heard that Zi Yan had visited and that the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe now had fifty-four Dou Saints.

• Liu Bai returned to Holy Pill City, where Qing Lin and Yao Ming greeted him.
• Qing Lin told Liu Bai that the Blood Fire Hall had joined the Central Plains' leading forces, changing the balance to two halls, one tower, two sects, three valleys, and four pavilions.
• Qing Lin recounted how Venerable Skyfire's clash with the Soul Hall's Ninth Venerable escalated, leading Qing Lin and the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe to force the Soul Hall's experts to retreat.
• Liu Bai resolved to support the Blood Fire Hall despite its conflict with the Soul Hall, while recognizing that the Soul Clan was unlikely to intervene openly.
• Qing Lin told Liu Bai that Zi Yan had visited last month and had asked about the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe, whose number of Dou Saints had risen to fifty-four.