Chapter Summaries

Mo Hui, a small beast seeking to bind himself to Tang San, was captured by Locke in a Gulu Ball before he could make contact. Yunxiao recognized Mo Hui as a rare Water Qilin cub but abandoned his plan to seize it after sensing Locke’s hidden power, and Locke named his new pet Little White.

• Yunxiao forced Tang San to continue running with a stone on his back as punishment for his poor stamina.
• Mo Hui spotted Tang San and prepared to bind himself to him through his system, hoping to share Tang San’s fortune and cultivation.
• Locke struck Mo Hui with a Gulu Ball and captured him, interrupting the system’s binding attempt.
• Yunxiao confronted Locke and recognized the creature inside the ball as an extinct Water Qilin cub.
• Yunxiao considered taking the cub but froze when he sensed Locke’s chilling power, then hid his greed.
• Locke put the Gulu Ball away and named the captured cub Little White.

Locke captured the Water Qilin Mo Hui in a Gulu Ball and took him to his office, where he watched as Mo Hui struggled with the ball’s isolation. Yunxiao realized Locke was an unfathomably powerful figure and continued Tang San’s punishing training, while Mo Hui’s anger gave way to despair in the darkness.

• Locke showed Tang San and the others the Water Qilin he had caught and said it would be his companion.
• Yunxiao sensed Locke’s overwhelming strength, worried about the upcoming tournament, and used lightning to force Tang San to keep running.
• Locke returned to his office and watched Mo Hui, who had awakened inside the sealed Gulu Ball.
• Mo Hui cursed and attacked the ball’s walls, but its darkness swallowed his Soul Power and blocked his system.
• Mo Hui began to fear he would remain trapped, then exhausted himself and sank into despair as the darkness continued.

Locke planned to sacrifice Mo Hui and other powerful beings to resurrect Iris, intending to use the Continental Young Soul Master Tournament in Spirit City to gather potential sacrifices. When Gui Mengguan, Qian Gujue, and Oupai came to see the captured Water Qilin, Locke hid his true motives behind a cheerful act.

• Locke looked at a photograph of Iris and vowed to succeed where Enzo had failed in bringing her back to life.
• Locke revealed that he had founded Locke Magic Academy and introduced special balls to draw out transmigrators, whom he intended to use as sacrifices.
• Locke identified Mo Hui, a Water Qilin, as the ideal core for his resurrection ritual and concealed that the sacrifice would drain its auspicious power.
• Locke focused on Spirit City and the Continental Young Soul Master Tournament, where he expected transmigrators and powerful Soul Masters to gather.
• Gui Mengguan, Qian Gujue, and Oupai visited Locke to see Mo Hui, and Locke presented the trapped Water Qilin while pretending it was merely a cute new find.

A golden curtain appeared across the Douluo Continent and announced rankings for Soul Masters at Level 90 or above, claiming to manifest the will of the Douluo World. The continent reacted with awe and alarm as the first rankings were scheduled for six hours later.

• Locke said he would not compete in the Continental Young Soul Master Tournament, preferring to watch the spectacle.
• A vast pressure swept across the continent, and a golden curtain covered the sky, even reaching Slaughter City.
• The Douluo World’s voice announced twenty places for Soul Masters with Soul Power Level 90 or above, with the first names to be revealed in six hours.
• Xue Qinghe watched the curtain from the Heaven Dou imperial palace and worried that the rankings might disrupt his plans.
• Dai Yutian questioned whether the rankings were truly the world's will and ordered the Star Luo Empire's border armies to full alert and its imperial family and sect experts to return to Star Luo City.

Bibi Dong convinced Spirit Hall’s leaders that the continent-wide ranking canopy was a trap devised by an unknown power to mark and prey upon powerful soul masters. She ordered Spirit Hall to conceal its strength, avoid the rankings and rewards, and watch for unusual geniuses.

• Spirit Hall’s elders and Qian Daoliu debated whether the golden canopy was a divine miracle, while Tang San asked Bibi Dong if the Angel God had created it.
• Bibi Dong rejected the divine explanation and compared the canopy’s enticing rewards to Yao Wuji’s jars, arguing that the rankings were designed to provoke competition and expose targets.
• She warned that the canopy’s rewards could mark soul masters for possession, citing Tang Chen’s fate as an example of a divine inheritance becoming a trap.
• Tang San realized he might have suffered Tang Chen’s fate if he had entered Slaughter City, and Qian Daoliu confirmed that the canopy’s will did not resemble any god he knew.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall’s Title Douluo to hide their abilities, avoid competing for rankings or accepting rewards, and monitor ranked figures for suspiciously powerful newcomers.

Across Douluo Continent, factions reacted to the Heavenly Dao Ranking with excitement or suspicion, while many hoped to gain rewards and restore their fortunes. The chapter left Yu Tianmeng alone in fearing that the golden screen concealed a predatory trap, as most people dismissed his concerns.

• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong sensed the golden light’s overwhelming power, and Ning Fengzhi ordered Xiao Chengu and the others to remain safely inside the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders celebrated the ranking as their chance to gain rewards and awaken the Golden Holy Dragon, but Yu Tianmeng warned that the screen could conceal a trap.
• Yu Yuanzhen dismissed Yu Tianmeng’s warning and declared that the clan would seize rewards from others if necessary, while Yu Tianmeng privately sensed a greedy will behind the golden light.
• Second Elder anticipated that Tang Xiao would make the list and revive the Clear Sky Sect’s prestige, but Tang Xiao remained numb over his family’s deaths and his fallen status.
• Small sects and unaffiliated soul masters eagerly speculated that the ranking would bring rewards and that further lists would eventually include soul masters of every rank and type.

The golden Heavenly Ranking appeared over the continent, prompting transmigrators and Shrek’s young fighters to speculate about its rankings and rewards. Yunxiao recognized it as the work of a powerful system holder who might expose secrets and harvest fortune, and feared the hidden threat.

• At Magic Academy, Oupai, Qian Gujue, and Gui Mengguan discussed the heavenly screen and agreed its creator could be a dangerous system holder targeting transmigrators.
• At Shrek, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun hoped a Genius Ranking might grant rewards, with Ma Hongjun wishing it could cure his evil fire and Dai Mubai wishing to evolve his Martial Soul.
• Tang Dieyi and the others discussed Dai Mubai’s failed attempts to reconcile with Zhu Zhuqing, who had used the Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill alone in a deadly arena match.
• Dai Mubai accepted that he and Zhu Zhuqing could not be together and resolved to evolve his Martial Soul and reclaim the Star Luo throne without her.
• Tang San worried the ranking might reveal that he was Tang Hao’s son and wondered whether the screen concealed another Evil God.
• Yunxiao recognized the screen as a Heavenly Dao Ranking Reveal created by a powerful system holder and feared it would expose secrets to harvest fortune and systems.

Gu Yuena identified the Heavenly Rankings as the work of an outsider rather than the God Realm or the world's will, while Di Tian and the other beasts prepared for danger. The rankings suddenly glitched and vanished, and Bibi Dong suggested that someone—or the true will of the world—had intervened.

• Gu Yuena told Di Tian and the other beasts that the Heavenly Rankings came from an outsider and warned that its rewards could conceal a trap.
• The Heavenly Rankings' text broke into static, its voice cut off, and panic spread across the continent.
• Bibi Dong told the Spirit Hall assembly that the rankings had been man-made and were already being dealt with.
• Tang San questioned Bibi Dong about who had created and destroyed the rankings, and she suggested other gods or the true will of the world might be involved.
• The golden curtain covering the sky exploded and vanished, leaving the continent's people shocked and confused.

Chu Xiu’s Heavenly Dao Ranking System was destroyed by a joint attack from other system hosts, leaving him only two hours to live. Before he died, he broadcast a warning to everyone on Douluo Continent that over a hundred transmigrators knew their stories and sought to steal the world’s origin, leaving the continent in shock.

• Chu Xiu’s system announced that its core was damaged and its defenses had been breached by higher-plane wills.
• Chu Xiu learned that the system binding had ended and its backlash had left him two hours to live.
• Chu Xiu used the system’s remaining energy to send a message across Douluo Continent warning its natives about the transmigrators.
• Chu Xiu withered into ash, and Mist-Hidden Mountain’s manor vanished with him.
• The people of Douluo Continent struggled to process his revelation.

After Chu Xiu exposed the existence of Otherworldly Visitors and warned that they might destroy the Douluo Continent, panic and violence spread across the world. In Spirit City, Bibi Dong suspected the revelation was meant to provoke a war between worlds, while Mighty Lion Douluo wondered whether God Slayer was behind it.

• Oupai, Qian Gujue, and Gui Mengguan discussed Chu Xiu's disclosure and feared that Locke would become a target as the only openly known Otherworldly Visitor.
• Ordinary people across the Douluo Continent panicked, and furious crowds beat several unfamiliar travelers to death after accusing them of being Otherworldly Visitors.
• At the Papal Palace, Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other elders debated whether Chu Xiu's final words were true and why the Heavenly Ranking had revealed them.
• Qian Daoliu suggested that the revelation was intended to throw the continent into chaos, and Tang San secretly feared that other Otherworldly Visitors might seek to overthrow the world.
• Bibi Dong called Chu Xiu's words the ravings of a dying madman and warned that someone might be trying to provoke a war between worlds.
• Mighty Lion Douluo asked whether God Slayer in Slaughter City was orchestrating the crisis to gain power from a war between worlds.

As fear of Otherworldly Visitors plunged Heaven Dou City into violence, Xue Qinghe used the crisis to pursue a plan to reclaim power from the nobles. The chapter ended as the old prime minister demanded that Xue Qinghe surrender command of the city guards at court.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo warned that Locke's possible misfortune and the magical world's power could bring grave consequences, and Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to prepare.
• A mob burned Duke Li's estate and killed his household, while accusations of being Otherworldly Visitors fueled looting, arrests, and chaos across Heaven Dou City.
• Xue Qinghe learned that the old prime minister and twelve nobles planned to impeach him and seize control of the city guards.
• Xue Qinghe ordered a screening decree that required outsiders to register, ended nobles' private punishments in such cases, and limited their private armies.
• Xue Qinghe directed his agents to plant evidence implicating at least three nobles in collusion with Otherworldly Visitors.
• At court, the old prime minister accused Xue Qinghe of failing to stop the violence and demanded he surrender command of the city guards.

Xue Qinghe used evidence against Duke Li to silence nobles challenging his rule, then imposed the Otherworld Visitor Screening Order to curb noble privileges and restore order across the Heaven Dou Empire. Dai Weisi took similar measures in the Star Luo Empire, while the question of the Otherworldly Visitors’ intentions remained unresolved.

• Xue Qinghe exposed Duke Li’s crimes with testimony and an account book, then ordered his execution and confiscated his property and fief.
• Xue Qinghe presented the Otherworld Visitor Screening Order, abolishing nobles’ right to impose private punishments and limiting their private forces to one hundred men.
• Xue Qinghe declared the edict effective immediately, and the old chancellor and other nobles submitted.
• Xue Qinghe executed three leading noble opponents, folded their forces into the Royal Knights, and sent envoys to enforce the edict across the empire.
• The Heaven Dou Empire quelled its unrest within a month, and Dai Weisi used the crisis to weaken powerful nobles in the Star Luo Empire.

Spirit Hall’s leaders decided to let Xue Qinghe and Dai Weisi weaken the nobles before taking control themselves, while a storyteller brought ideas of equality and public welfare to Heaven Dou’s oppressed poor. The chapter left the first stirrings of unrest among the miners and farmers of Bluestone Town.

• Qian Daoliu, Bibi Dong, and Golden Crocodile Douluo discussed Xue Qinghe and Dai Weisi’s purges and agreed to let the empires centralize power before Spirit Hall struck.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu suggested Spirit Hall could impersonate the Otherworldly Visitors to intensify the turmoil.
• Suotuo City’s residents continued to trust Locke, whose magical tools had helped them and whose enemies had disappeared.
• Xue Qinghe celebrated his gains in Heaven Dou, unaware that discontent was spreading among the empire’s common people.
• A traveling storyteller in Bluestone Town described an otherworldly society with elected rulers, free education and healthcare, housing, and pensions.
• Miners and farmers gathered around the storyteller and voiced their anger at the nobles’ abuse and their longing for a fairer life.

Handwritten texts calling for equality and an end to noble privilege spread across the Douluo Continent, inspiring commoners to resist oppression. Xue Qinghe and Dai Weisi ordered brutal crackdowns, but the ideas reached even the empires’ armies and continued to spread.

• Commoners across the continent secretly copied and shared texts promising equality, free education, and medical care.
• Wang Er copied the text in Heaven Dou City, hoping his son might live in a better world.
• Miners at the Black Rock Mine revolted over their treatment, and a miner’s death sparked a violent clash with the mine owner’s soldiers.
• The Black Rock uprising spread to mines and other communities, prompting Xue Qinghe and Dai Weisi to order arrests, executions, and the burning of copies.
• Despite the crackdowns, the texts multiplied, and common-born soldiers in both empires began passing them around.

Ordinary soldiers and miners were stirred by writings from another world that condemned noble rule and promised equality, while General Wang threatened those who believed them. In Blackstone Town, Wang Tiezhu, Su Wen, and three miners were chained beneath a gallows as the townspeople were forced to watch.

• A veteran soldier lamented his poverty and his son’s life in the mines, while a young soldier defended writings calling for equality and democratic elections.
• General Wang kicked over the campfire, threatened the soldiers with execution, and insisted that only awakening a martial soul could lift a family out of poverty.
• The young soldier recalled nobles taking a gifted child and his family’s suffering, then swallowed the scraps of the paper and resolved that someone would one day change their fate.
• In Blackstone Town, Earl Balen's Estate's private soldiers forced more than three thousand residents into the square beneath a gallows.
• The chained Wang Tiezhu, Su Wen, and three miners faced execution for spreading forbidden ideas and demanding an eight-hour workday.

Baron Frey ordered the execution of Wang Tiezhu, Su Wen, and two miners for spreading ideas of equality, but a masked young man rescued them with a strange weapon and killed three Soul Elders. Baron Frey panicked and ordered his soldiers to attack, promising a reward.

• Baron Frey denounced the booklets and ordered Wang Tiezhu, Su Wen, and three others hanged for spreading heresy.
• Wang Tiezhu encouraged the townspeople as he and Su Wen were hoisted by the executioners.
• A sudden gunshot snapped the ropes, and the four condemned men fell onto the execution platform.
• A masked young man arrived with a spear-wielding woman and a burly man, then shot and killed a Soul Elder who charged him.
• The masked young man killed the two remaining Soul Elders with gunshots.
• Baron Frey turned pale and ordered his soldiers to attack, offering them a reward.

Lin Ye, Shi Lei, and the girl defeated Baron Frey’s private soldiers and rallied Blackstone Town’s civilians to take up weapons against the nobles. The crowd turned on Frey, and Lin Ye left him to be thrown into a vat of oil.

• Shi Lei used explosives while the girl, Lin Ye, and Shi Lei fought off the private soldiers, leaving Baron Frey alone and begging for mercy.
• Lin Ye freed Wang Tiezhu and Su Wen, then urged the civilians to resist noble oppression and promised to provide weapons and teach them to use them.
• Wang Tiezhu, Su Wen, and more than three thousand civilians pledged to fight, raising their tools and weapons in a roar against aristocratic rule.
• Lin Ye aimed his pistol at Frey, but a companion said Frey should be thrown into oil instead, and the crowd shoved him into a vat.

Xue Qinghe learned that armed commoners had seized Blackstone Town and ordered a brutal crackdown. At Black Rock Mine, a mysterious man gave a miner the Qianyuan Blood-Burning Art, offering ordinary people Soul Power at the cost of their lifespan as the miner considered whether to use it for revenge.

• A messenger told Xue Qinghe that three ordinary people armed with guns and explosives had killed powerful fighters and led Blackstone Town and nearby mines into rebellion.
• Xue Qinghe ordered the Third Legion to crush the uprising and commanded that the weapons and anyone hiding them be destroyed.
• At Black Rock Mine, Lord Yuri had a miner executed and threatened the workers after an earlier rebellion had been crushed by his Soul Elder guards.
• A gray-robed man gave a young miner the Qianyuan Blood-Burning Art and explained that it traded lifespan for Soul Power.
• The young miner thought of his family’s suffering and stared at the booklet as he weighed the price of taking revenge.

Mo Bai taught the miners the Qianyuan Blood-Burning Art, letting them trade their lifespans for Soul Power and the strength to resist their oppressors. After they killed Lord Yuri and his guards, Mo Bai founded the Black Earth Cult, knowing the miners’ sacrifices would cost them their lives.

• A young miner cultivated the Qianyuan Blood-Burning Art, gained Soul Power, and urged the other miners to learn it so they could save his sister and take revenge on Lord Yuri.
• The middle-aged man distributed the art to the miners, who secretly cultivated and burned their lifespans for strength.
• The miners charged Lord Yuri’s platform, and the young miner killed a Soul Elder guard with one punch.
• The miners killed the guards and beat Lord Yuri to death, then hung his corpse at the mine’s main gate.
• The middle-aged man declared that the miners were believers of the Black Earth Cult, and they cheered for a world without oppression.
• Mo Bai reflected on his failed efforts to help commoners and accepted that the blood-burning art would sacrifice one generation to give the next a chance at peace.

The Black Fire Army and Black Earth Cult spread firearms and the Blood Burning Art, terrifying nobles, empires, and sects that failed to copy or suppress them. With their rule threatened, the continent’s rulers and factions converged on Spirit Hall to demand intervention, leaving the decision in the Papal Palace.

• The Black Fire Army harassed imperial forces and killed commanders, while the empires branded its firearms and the Blood Burning Art as evil and tried unsuccessfully to reproduce them.
• Commoners massacred seventeen small sects, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Clear Sky Sect, and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect took steps to guard or appease their territories.
• The empires, sects, and kingdoms concluded that only Spirit Hall could suppress the rebellion and preserve their rule.
• Xue Ye sent Xue Qinghe to Spirit City, Dai Yutian dispatched his younger brother, and leaders of major sects and kingdoms gathered at Spirit Hall to request troops.
• Spirit City filled with petitioners as attention turned to the Papal Palace, where the atmosphere was tense.