Recaps

Hun Miesheng learned that thirteen Soul Hall branch halls had been destroyed and ordered his subordinate to find the attacker, suspecting powerful Central Plains factions. On Dragon Island, Yao Ming returned to Liu Bai with thirty-two Dou Venerate souls and bodies, along with a large cache of Soul Origin, leaving Liu Bai pleased with his gains.

• A Soul Hall subordinate told Hun Miesheng that thirteen branch halls had been destroyed, and Hun Miesheng ordered him to find the attacker.
• Hun Miesheng considered whether the Pill Tower or an ancient clan was responsible and decided to act more cautiously.
• Yao Ming returned to Dragon Island and presented Liu Bai with a Storage Ring containing thirty-two Dou Venerate souls and bodies.
• Yao Ming gave Liu Bai a second Storage Ring filled with Soul Origin he had found in hidden chambers beneath the destroyed branch halls.
• Liu Bai praised Yao Ming, stored both rings, and sent him to rest.

Liu Bai refined Soul Hall’s Soul Origin to remove a hidden remnant will, then absorbed it in secluded cultivation. As his soul pressure spread across East Dragon Island, the Ancient Dragon Clan adapted to it and used the pressure to temper their Soul Power.

• Liu Bai chose to absorb the Soul Origin before refining the Heavenly Demon Puppet and began secluded cultivation.
• Liu Bai used Flame to purge the Soul Origin of black mist and its hidden remnant will before absorbing it.
• Liu Bai’s soul body grew increasingly solid as he absorbed the Soul Origin, and his rising soul pressure spread through the hall.
• After a month, Qingshan, Qingmu, and Zhu Li sensed Liu Bai’s terrifying soul pressure and ordered the area sealed off.
• Over the following months, the pressure spread across East Dragon Island, and clan members found that enduring it increased their Soul Power.
• Tens of thousands of Ancient Dragon Clan members trekked toward Liu Bai’s cultivation area to temper themselves, leaving the three elders amused and impressed.

Liu Bai absorbed the Soul Origin and advanced to the Late Heavenly Realm, gaining soul power strong enough to affect reality. He left seclusion with his cultivation stabilized at Nine-Star Dou Venerate and considered seeking soul-focused secret arts.

• After two months of weakening soul pressure and two more days of waiting, Qingshan, Qingmu, and Zhu Li sensed Liu Bai nearing awakening.
• Liu Bai’s crystal-like figure absorbed the remaining Soul Origin, unleashing a massive fluctuation that shook the secret chamber and darkened the skies over East Dragon Island.
• Qingshan, Qingmu, and Zhu Li recognized the heavenly phenomenon as the birth of a Heavenly Realm soul.
• Liu Bai discovered that the Soul Origin had pushed his soul realm straight to the Late Heavenly Realm, transforming his soul ocean into a starry sky.
• Liu Bai tested his new soul pressure, reflected on his lack of soul secret arts, and rose from seclusion with his cultivation stabilized at Nine-Star Dou Venerate.

After emerging from seclusion with his soul power at the Heavenly Realm, Liu Bai learned that Zi Yan had become encased in solidified energy from the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit. He agreed to use his Heavenly Flames to help save her.

• Liu Bai left the secret chamber and received congratulations from Qing Lin, Yao Ming, Venerable Skyfire, Qingshan, Qingmu, and Zhu Li on his breakthrough.
• Liu Bai asked about Zi Yan, and Qingshan told him that the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit's energy had solidified inside her body.
• Zhu Li led Liu Bai and the others to a hall, where they saw Zi Yan lying on an altar, completely covered in golden-purple crystals and without signs of life.
• Qingshan explained that only two people had previously absorbed a Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit successfully, and Zhu Li said powerful Heavenly Flames were needed to melt Zi Yan's crystal shell.
• Liu Bai promised to do everything he could to save Zi Yan and asked Zhu Li what he needed to do.

Liu Bai used his Heavenly Flames to slowly melt the Dragon-Phoenix Crystal Layer covering Zi Yan while the Ancient Void Dragon Clan guarded him. After fifteen days of refining, the layer had begun to melt, and Liu Bai finally used a drop of Zhu Li’s Ancient Dragon Essence Blood to replenish his strength.

• Zhu Li gave Liu Bai five drops of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood and promised that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan would guard the area.
• Liu Bai formed a black Fire Dragon from his Heavenly Flames and wrapped it around Zi Yan to refine the Dragon-Phoenix Crystal Layer.
• After a day of continuous burning, Liu Bai condensed the flames into a hotter dark-purple Fire Dragon, which melted the first drop of the crystal layer.
• Liu Bai refined the crystal layer for ten days without rest, replenishing his Dou Qi with his own recovery pills.
• On the fifteenth day, Liu Bai’s Dou Qi neared depletion, so he swallowed a drop of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood.

Liu Bai refined the Dragon-Phoenix Crystal Layers covering and filling Zi Yan, allowing her to awaken as the Supreme Dragon Emperor. After reaching Three-Star Dou Saint, Zi Yan joyfully reunited with Liu Bai.

• Liu Bai used Ancient Dragon Essence Blood to restore his Dou Qi and strengthen his body while continuing to refine Zi Yan’s crystal layers.
• After a month, Liu Bai completely refined the crystal layers and told Zhu Li that Zi Yan would awaken within days.
• Three days later, Zi Yan awakened with the Supreme Dragon Emperor bloodline and the strength of a Three-Star Dou Saint.
• Zhu Li, Qingshan, and Qingmu knelt and hailed Zi Yan as their Dragon Emperor.
• Zi Yan recognized Liu Bai, rushed into his embrace, and thanked him for saving her.

Zi Yan declared Liu Bai the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe’s most honored person, then accidentally infused him with Dragon Emperor Power that awakened and transformed his dragon and phoenix bloodlines. Nearly half a year later, Liu Bai and Zi Yan had been cultivating together, helping her reach the Four-Star Dou Saint level and approach the Fifth Star.

• Zi Yan told Zhu Li and the other elders that Liu Bai outranked everyone in the tribe except her, and they accepted her order.
• Zi Yan kissed Liu Bai and passed Dragon Emperor Power into him, triggering his Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heaven Phoenix bloodlines before he fainted.
• Zi Yan discovered Liu Bai’s bloodlines were evolving under the Dragon Emperor Power and carried him away to rest and enter seclusion.
• Zhu Li, Qingshan, and Qingmu sensed the Supreme Dragon Emperor aura on Liu Bai and decided not to interfere in Zi Yan’s affairs.
• Nearly half a year later, Liu Bai and Zi Yan discussed their cultivation together, which had helped Zi Yan reach Four-Star Dou Saint and near Five-Star Dou Saint.

Liu Bai and Zi Yan grew closer as their fused bloodlines and Dragon Emperor Power sparked talk of him becoming a Supreme Dragon Emperor. He then refined thirty-three Heavenly Demon Puppets, including three at Half-Saint level.

• Zi Yan told Liu Bai that his Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heaven Phoenix bloodlines had surpassed those of the dragons on Dragon Island, and she hoped he would become a Supreme Dragon Emperor.
• After spending the night together, Zi Yan left to discuss unifying the four Dragon Islands with the Great Elder and the others, while Liu Bai went to refine his puppets.
• Liu Bai used Nether Prison Black Emperor Flame to refine three Half-Saint corpses, seven Dou Venerate corpses, and thirty-two souls from Soul Hall experts.
• One month later, Liu Bai completed thirty-three Heavenly Demon Puppets: Bing Hezi, three Half-Saint-level puppets, and thirty Dou Venerate-level puppets.

Liu Bai took thirty-three Heavenly Demon Puppets to the Void Lightning Pool to strengthen them, placing the Dou Venerate puppets in dense lightning and the three Half-Saint puppets in Black Demon Lightning. He returned to Zi Yan and planned to unify Dragon Island in half a month, once the puppets had absorbed all they could.

• Liu Bai showed Zi Yan the thirty-three Heavenly Demon Puppets and asked Zhu Li to take him to the Void Lightning Pool.
• Liu Bai entered the pool, protected by his Heavenly Flames, and advanced into its dangerous depths.
• Liu Bai placed thirty Dou Venerate Heavenly Demon Puppets in dense lightning so they could absorb its energy.
• Liu Bai placed the three Half-Saint Heavenly Demon Puppets in the Black Demon Lightning, where they began absorbing its power.
• Liu Bai returned to Zi Yan and said the puppets would finish absorbing lightning in half a month, after which they would unify Dragon Island.

Liu Bai returned from the Void Lightning Pool with four Dou Saint-level Heavenly Demon Puppets and thirty Half-Saint-level puppets. At Dragon Emperor Palace, he and Zi Yan prepared to unite the other Three Great Dragon Islands.

• Liu Bai summoned the enhanced puppets from the Void Lightning Pool, including one Two-Star Dou Saint puppet, three One-Star Dou Saint puppets, and thirty Half-Saint puppets.
• Liu Bai brought the puppets to Dragon Emperor Palace and revealed their strength to Zi Yan, Qing Lin, the Three Great Elders, Qingshan, Qingmu, Zhu Li, and Yao Ming.
• Zi Yan celebrated Liu Bai’s achievement, while Yao Ming and the elders were stunned by the four Dou Saint-level puppets.
• Liu Bai announced that it was time to unite the other Three Great Dragon Islands, and Zi Yan and the elders agreed that their strength gave them a decisive advantage.

Liu Bai persuaded Zi Yan to attack the North Dragon King first, and East Dragon Island launched a surprise assault on North Dragon Island. Zi Yan and her allies overwhelmed the North Dragon King, leaving him pinned and badly injured.

• Liu Bai recommended targeting the ambitious and powerful North Dragon King before the other Dragon Kings, and Zi Yan agreed to attack immediately.
• The North Dragon King wondered why East Dragon Island had become unusually quiet while he relaxed in his palace.
• Qing Lin appeared before the North Dragon King and used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to stun his soul.
• Zi Yan seized the North Dragon King and smashed him into the ground, destroying the Dragon Emperor Palace.
• Qingshan, Qingmu, Yao Ming, and Qing Lin joined Zi Yan to suppress the North Dragon King, who recognized Zi Yan's royal bloodline.

Zi Yan and her allies captured the North Dragon King and forced North Dragon Island to submit to East Dragon Island. They then traveled to South Dragon Island, where the South Dragon King grew uneasy after hearing that North Dragon Island had gone silent.

• Zi Yan beat the weakened North Dragon King, and Yao Ming sealed his Dou Qi.
• Zi Yan declared that North Dragon Island would join East Dragon Island and used her royal bloodline pressure to make its clansmen submit.
• Zi Yan told the North Dragon Island clansmen to wait for East Dragon Island's forces, then teleported away with Liu Bai and the others.
• The South Dragon King learned that North Dragon Island was unreachable behind a powerful spatial barrier and ordered his clansman to keep investigating.
• The South Dragon King went to the window and watched the northern void, uneasy about the North Dragon King's sudden actions.

Zi Yan and her allies defeated the South Dragon King and secured his submission, then attacked the West Dragon King on West Dragon Island. After repeated blows, the West Dragon King also submitted, bringing Zi Yan closer to unifying the Dragon Clan.

• Qing Lin stunned the South Dragon King, allowing Zi Yan and their allies to overwhelm and capture him.
• The South Dragon King recognized Zi Yan's royal bloodline and submitted.
• Zi Yan and her allies ambushed the West Dragon King during a feast and subdued him.
• After Zi Yan punched him repeatedly, the West Dragon King lowered his head and submitted.

Zi Yan reunited the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe under her rule and proclaimed herself its sole Dragon Emperor. After the clansmen and Three Great Dragon Kings submitted, Liu Bai demanded that the kings accept his control or die, and the West Dragon King agreed.

• Zi Yan led the forces of East Dragon Island to subdue the North, South, and West Dragon Islands, capturing the North Dragon King and forcing the West Dragon King to submit.
• Zi Yan returned to East Dragon Island, where the tribe celebrated her as Dragon Emperor and the three elders rejoiced at the tribe's reunion.
• Zi Yan declared that the tribe would have one Dragon Island and one Dragon Emperor, and the clansmen and Three Great Dragon Kings pledged their submission.
• Zi Yan asked Liu Bai whether they should kill the three kings, and he offered them a choice between accepting his control and death.
• The West Dragon King agreed to be controlled, while the North Dragon King resisted and the South Dragon King lowered his head bitterly.

Liu Bai bound the Three Great Dragon Kings to him with the Blood Soul Dragon Seal, and Zi Yan led the reunification of the four Dragon Islands. The Ancient Void Dragon Tribe summoned its scattered clansmen, and powerful figures began returning to Dragon Island.

• Liu Bai planted the Blood Soul Dragon Seal in the North Dragon King, South Dragon King, and West Dragon King, making them submit as his masters’ subordinates.
• Zi Yan, Liu Bai, Qing Lin, Yao Ming, Qingshan, Qingmu, the Three Great Dragon Kings, and four Heavenly Demon Puppets combined their spatial power to merge the four Dragon Islands over three days and nights.
• Qingshan, Qingmu, and the others sent a secret summons announcing Zi Yan as the new Supreme Dragon Emperor and calling the scattered clansmen to return.
• Half a month later, a white-haired Peak Three-Star Dou Saint arrived at Dragon Island, followed by a middle-aged Three-Star Dou Saint and other powerful returning clansmen.
• Three months later, the story reached Dragon Island’s main hall.

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.