Chapter Summaries

Ling Xiao’s Destruction Slash nearly killed three God Kings before another expert blocked it, and the God Kings suspected he was the reincarnated Sword Emperor. Though they feared the consequences of attacking him, Tian Qi pressured them to obey their lord, and they agreed to kill Ling Xiao.

• Ling Xiao’s Destruction Slash struck the three God Kings, but a God-level expert intervened and was injured while blocking the attack.
• The arriving God King recognized Ling Xiao’s power as resembling the Sword Emperor’s and argued that Ling Xiao was the Sword Emperor himself.
• The four God Kings debated whether to attack, fearing the Sword Emperor’s allies and the God Realm’s response.
• Tian Qi insisted that Ling Xiao had to die for killing his younger brother and threatened to report anyone who refused to their lord.
• The other God Kings, afraid of defying their lord, agreed to kill Ling Xiao.

Lin Xiao broke through to the God King realm while on the brink of death and faced an offer from the four God Kings to surrender in exchange for power and protection. He rejected their premise, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Tian Qi God King struck Lin Xiao and shattered his ribs while the other God-level experts prevented Bibi Dong and the others from helping him.
• As the four God Kings closed in, Lin Xiao erupted with energy and broke through to the God King realm, forcing them to retreat.
• Ye Dan recognized that Lin Xiao had comprehended the mysteries of the God King realm, while another God King argued that his injuries still left him vulnerable to their combined attack.
• A God King demanded Lin Xiao surrender his divine artifact, martial soul, soul rings, and soul bones, promising advancement to God Emperor and safety for his family if he joined them.
• Lin Xiao dismissed the offer as tempting but questioned whether they thought he would bow and scrape, asking why he had descended from the God Realm in the first place.

Lin Xiao confronted four God Kings at Jialing Pass and killed Tian Qi with a single strike of the Asura Divine Sword. The surviving God Kings realized they could not match Lin Xiao, and Su Cheng fled while Qilin and Ye Dan remained to face him.

• Lin Xiao denounced the God Kings for their slaughter of the people of Douluo Continent and refused to surrender.
• Tian Qi attacked Lin Xiao, but Lin Xiao broke his steel whip and killed him with a powerful strike.
• Su Cheng and Ye Dan recognized Lin Xiao's strength, and Qilin prepared to fight with Ye Dan's support.
• Su Cheng abandoned Qilin and Ye Dan and fled, while Lin Xiao stayed to defend Jialing Pass.
• Ye Dan cursed Su Cheng for betraying him, but Su Cheng dismissed their brotherhood as meaningless in the face of death.

Lin Xiao killed Ye Dan and the Heavenly God Realm’s forces, unified Douluo Continent under Xue Beng, and received the Blood Demon Emperor’s power before returning to a God Realm under attack. There, Poseidon confronted the three enforcers over their refusal to defend the realm.

• Lin Xiao killed Ye Dan after defeating the leading God King, and his forces wiped out the Heavenly God Realm’s soul masters.
• Lin Xiao declared that the three great empires would be abolished and a unified empire established under Xue Beng, while Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue remained on the continent.
• The Blood Demon Emperor passed a surge of Soul Power to Lin Xiao, then vanished, taking Slaughter City away from Douluo Continent.
• Lin Xiao gave Li Bai a letter for Bo Saixi and returned to find the God Realm in chaos after God Emperor experts attacked it.
• Poseidon accused Asura God and Destruction God King of abandoning the God Realm, and Destruction God King glared at him coldly.

Poseidon demanded that the God Realm enforcers send troops to protect the continent, but the Destruction God King attacked him instead. Lin Xiao intervened, took command of the Heavenly God Realm, and reached the southwest city wall as a soul beast army advanced.

• Poseidon confronted the Destruction God King over his refusal to dispatch reinforcements, and Destruction broke Poseidon's Sea God Trident and wounded him.
• Destruction tried to kill Poseidon, but Lin Xiao appeared and knocked him through a pillar with one punch.
• Lin Xiao challenged Asura God and Destruction, declared himself commander of the Heavenly God Realm, and ordered reinforcements sent to the eastern city wall.
• Lin Xiao saw a soul beast army led by the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise, with the Moon Wolf King at the rear.
• Lin Xiao arrived at the southwest city wall, where the defending general warned that the four divine beasts had reached the peak of the God King realm and that the Enforcement Hall had sent no reinforcements.

Lin Xiao confronted a million-strong soul beast army at the Imperial Capital and fought its divine beasts to prevent them from advancing. The Moon Wolf King struck Lin Xiao and challenged his authority, leaving the confrontation on the brink of a greater battle.

• Lin Xiao learned that thirty First-level Gods remained to defend the Imperial Capital, while the God Kings had left.
• Lin Xiao ordered the soul beast army to return to its territories and joined the human experts in forming a defensive line.
• The Azure Dragon attacked Lin Xiao, but Lin Xiao restrained it and fought off the White Tiger and Vermilion Bird.
• Lin Xiao threw Kai's armor-piercing martial soul at the Black Tortoise, but abandoned the attack when a deadly force approached.
• The Moon Wolf King appeared, shattered Lin Xiao's sword shield with a powerful strike, and threatened him.
• Lin Xiao demanded that the Moon Wolf King withdraw, but it laughed and declared the Moon Wolf King lineage ruler of the world.

Lin Xiao fought Lang Ji, the Moon Wolf King, until an imperial decree ordered the soul beast army to retreat and summoned Lin Xiao to the Imperial Capital. There, Lin Xiao sensed a God Emperor’s powerful aura and realized humanity might be outmatched by the soul beasts.

• Lin Xiao confronted Lang Ji, wounded him with the Asura Demon Sword, and clashed with his divine weapon as their battle devastated the area.
• A leopard commander delivered His Majesty’s decree ordering the soul beasts to abandon their attack, retreat, and bring Lin Xiao to the Imperial Capital.
• Lang Ji reluctantly ordered the army to retreat, and Lin Xiao agreed to accompany the leopard commander.
• Lin Xiao reached the soul beasts’ Imperial Capital and entered the grand hall, where the surrounding soul beasts watched him with hostility.
• A powerful aura filled the hall, and Lin Xiao sensed that the soul beasts had a God Emperor, prompting him to fear that humanity was outmatched.

Lin Xiao revealed himself as the reincarnated Sword Emperor to Lang Mi, the Moon Wolf King and ruler of the soul beast realm. Over wine, Lang Mi explained the soul beasts’ strength and the reasons behind their war with humanity, while Lin Xiao realized the human God Emperors were accelerating events as their lifespans neared their end.

• Lang Mi confronted Lin Xiao over the sword strike, and Lin Xiao recognized him as the Moon Wolf King from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lin Xiao put on his mask, causing Lang Mi to recognize him as the Sword Emperor from a million years ago.
• Lang Mi welcomed Lin Xiao, ordered a feast with his million-year ginseng king, and introduced his son Lang Ji.
• Lang Mi told Lin Xiao that he had risen to the peak of the God Emperor realm and that the soul beast world had thirteen God Emperors and over fifty God Kings.
• Lang Mi explained that border clashes and the human God Emperors’ withdrawal from protecting the God Realm had prompted the soul beasts’ offensive against humanity.
• Lin Xiao suspected the human God Emperors were acting quickly because their lifespans were nearly over.

Lin Xiao discovered that Lang Mi intended to keep him in the soul beast territory and might kill him, while Lang Mi ordered his forces to monitor the Sword Emperor. Lin Xiao chose to wait out the three days, knowing that leaving would provoke a fight with Lang Mi, and explained that reaching the God Emperor realm would require years of cultivation in the God Realm.

• Lang Mi told Lang Ji that Lin Xiao's return offered a chance to kill him and restore the soul beasts' rule over the God Realm.
• Li Bai warned Lin Xiao that Lang Mi had briefly shown killing intent, and Lang Mi invited Lin Xiao to stay in the soul beast territory.
• Lin Xiao said he could stay for at most three days, and Lang Mi ordered Lang Ji to watch him and kill him if he tried to escape.
• Lin Xiao sensed that Lang Mi had surrounded his quarters with experts, including three God Kings, and decided to wait rather than risk a direct confrontation.
• Lin Xiao told his companions that he was still far from breaking through to the God Emperor realm and that cultivating in the God Realm was much faster than in the Mortal Realm.

Lin Xiao escaped the soul beast world after Lang Mi ordered his capture, but Lang Mi chased him to the border. A woman used her clan’s token to send Lin Xiao safely to the human world, leaving Lang Mi vowing to kill him.

• Lang Mi and his ministers debated whether to recruit or kill Lin Xiao, while Lin Xiao escaped the Imperial Capital with help from the system and a decoy.
• After learning Lin Xiao had fled, Lang Mi killed the God King who reported it and ordered the borders sealed before pursuing Lin Xiao himself.
• Lang Mi caught up with Lin Xiao and demanded that he cripple his cultivation, but Lin Xiao continued fleeing and accused Lang Mi of repaying kindness with betrayal.
• Lin Xiao ran into a Kunpeng carrying Long Yin and other young people, and a woman gave him her clan’s token to escape the soul beast world.
• Lang Mi attacked the Kunpeng but was blocked by its Supreme Divine Artifact, then spared the group after learning their powerful family ties.
• Lin Xiao arrived safely in the human world and vowed to one day kill Lang Mi.

Lin Xiao returned to the Heaven Dou Empire after eighty years of seclusion and found Xue Beng near death. Xue Beng died after entrusting the empire to Lin Xiao or, if he refused the throne, to Xue Qing.

• Lin Xiao told Xue Beng he would enter seclusion for perhaps a hundred years and learned that Tang San and Master had died.
• After eighty years in the Mortal Realm, Lin Xiao returned to the Heaven Dou Empire and met acting emperor Xue Qing, who said Xue Beng was near death.
• Xue Qing brought Lin Xiao to Xue Beng, where Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Liu Erlong had gathered.
• Xue Beng asked Xue Qing to honor Lin Xiao and offered him the throne, naming Xue Qing as successor if Lin Xiao refused.
• Xue Beng died, and Xue Qing and the ministers wept as Lin Xiao mourned him.

Lin Xiao returned to Shrek Academy and found Ning Rongrong being bullied by Zhou Qing, the arrogant grandson of a powerful God-level expert. When Zhou Qing threatened Lin Xiao, his half-god subordinate recognized him and begged for mercy, leaving Zhou Qing facing the consequences of his arrogance.

• Flender and Zhao Wuji said goodbye to Lin Xiao after Xue Qing arranged Xue Beng's burial.
• Lin Qiu visited Shrek Academy and saw Ning Rongrong teaching students, including the talented Zhou Qing.
• Zhou Qing insulted Ning Rongrong and threatened her with his grandfather's power, while a half-god expert warned her not to retaliate.
• Lin Xiao confronted Zhou Qing, who ordered his half-god subordinate to kill him.
• The half-god expert fell to his knees and begged Lin Xiao for mercy after recognizing him from a portrait.

Lin Xiao reunited with Ning Rongrong and learned that Zhou Ling and his allies had seized power while Bibi Dong was in seclusion. After hearing that Ning Fengzhi had been killed, Lin Xiao prepared to confront Zhou Ling, who arrived at Shrek Academy with two God-level experts.

• Zhou Qing left Shrek Academy to summon his grandfather after Lin Xiao challenged him to bring Zhou Ling within half a day.
• Lin Xiao reunited with Ning Rongrong, comforted her, and listened as she described the continent’s upheaval over the past eighty years.
• Ning Rongrong told Lin Xiao that Zhou Ling ruled the continent, that eight God-level experts had emerged, and that one of Zhou Ling’s followers had killed Ning Fengzhi.
• Ning Rongrong told Lin Xiao that Xiao Wu was waiting in the Star Dou Great Forest and that Zhu Qing was in seclusion with her; Lin Xiao asked Ning Rongrong to be with him, and she accepted.
• Zhou Ling arrived above Shrek Academy with two God-level experts and threatened to destroy it unless Lin Xiao came out.

Lin Xiao confronted Zhou Ling, Zhou Qing, and the God-level experts who had attacked Ning Rongrong’s family. He executed Long Yin, forced the other two experts to take their own lives, and left Zhou Qing dead, ending the threat to the continent for now.

• Zhou Ling recognized Lin Xiao as the Imperial Tutor and knelt, while Zhou Qing continued to insult him.
• Lin Xiao ordered Zhou Qing to kneel and warned Zhou Ling that he would destroy the family for its crimes.
• Ning Rongrong identified Long Yin as the man who killed her father and destroyed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Lin Xiao killed him.
• Lin Xiao gave Zhou Ling and another God-level expert the choice to die or see their families destroyed, and both killed themselves.
• Zhou Qing threatened to avenge his grandfather, but soldiers stabbed him to death.

After avenging Ning Rongrong’s father, Lin Xiao reformed the Mortal Realm and returned to the God Realm, where he confronted the God Emperors. He and his daughter Lin Xiao'er faced the elders as they questioned his claim that the God Emperor realm was the highest level.

• Ning Rongrong declared that her father's vengeance had been avenged, and Lin Xiao promised to abolish oppressive rules and protect the continent’s people.
• Lin Xiao spent more than a decade reforming the Mortal Realm before returning to find the God Realm still at war.
• Ba Ye and the other God Emperors were shocked that Lin Xiao had reached the God Emperor realm, but they dismissed his warning and challenged him.
• Chi Yue recognized Lin Xiao as the Sword Emperor and questioned his claim that no realm existed beyond the God Emperor realm.
• Lin Xiao'er arrived to support her father and revealed that she had also reached the God Emperor realm.
• The elders explained that God Emperor strength was measured in water drops; Lin Xiao had three drops, while Feng Ling had five hundred.

Lin Xiao fought the Fire Spirit God Emperor and the other elders, refusing to surrender despite their overwhelming strength. After unleashing the Asura Divine Sword and the inherited powers of Dragon Emperor, Feng Ling, and Blood Demon Emperor, he forced the elders to prepare to attack together.

• Fire Spirit trapped Lin Xiao and the elders inside his Flame Domain and demanded that Lin Xiao surrender.
• Lin Xiao refused to abandon the world he wanted to protect, and Fire Spirit struck him with a punch that sent him flying and left him bleeding.
• Fire Spirit offered to spare Lin Xiao if he returned to his continent, but Lin Xiao rejected the offer and awakened the Asura Divine Sword's crimson power.
• Ba Ye recognized the auras of Dragon Emperor, Feng Ling, and Blood Demon Emperor in Lin Xiao's power and urged the elders to kill him before he disrupted their mission.
• Luo Feng prepared to fight Lin Xiao despite admiring him, because he feared he would die if he failed to complete the mission.

Lin Xiao unleashed the Asura Divine Sword’s judgment power against the God Emperors, but Chi Yue’s Supreme Divine Artifact struck him as Fire Spirit fell with an unhealable wound. Fire Spirit died, and the others ordered an inspection of Lin Xiao in the palace ruins.

• Chi Yue mocked Fire Spirit as Lin Xiao’s power rose to fifty drops, surpassing Fire Spirit’s forty-five.
• Ba Ye and the other God Emperors attacked Lin Xiao, while Li Bai and Lin Xiao’s guardian beasts joined the battle against them.
• Lin Xiao invoked Asura Judgment, and Fire Spirit burned his life force to launch a desperate attack as Chi Yue threw his Supreme Divine Artifact at Lin Xiao.
• Fire Spirit was pinned by the Asura Demon Sword, while Chi Yue’s artifact struck Lin Xiao and sent him crashing into a palace.
• Ba Ye failed to heal Fire Spirit’s wound, and Fire Spirit died after Chi Yue said the injury could only be endured by its victim.
• The God Emperors confirmed Fire Spirit’s death and ordered others to check whether Lin Xiao had survived in the ruins and kill him if he had.

Asura, furious that Chi Yue had gravely injured his grandson, challenged the God Emperor and was brutally beaten. He burned his life and soul in a final attack, but Chi Yue effortlessly dispelled it, leaving Asura's fate uncertain.

• Chi Yue ordered the God Emperors to search the ruins for Lin Xiao, but Asura arrived and vowed to avenge his injured grandson.
• Chi Yue grabbed Asura by the throat, then beat him into a crater after Asura spat in his face.
• Asura rose and charged Chi Yue while burning his Soul Power, but Chi Yue knocked him into the ruins and left him badly wounded.
• The Destruction God King and the Goddess of Life arrived, and Asura announced that he would sacrifice himself to take Chi Yue down.
• Asura unleashed Soul Extinction and burned his life and soul, but Chi Yue waved his hand and collapsed the blood-red attack.

After Chi Yue killed the Asura God King, Lin Xiao’s family and allies tried to protect him while he began breaking through, hoping to avenge his grandfather and escape Chi Yue’s grasp. Chi Yue attacked the defenders, leaving Lin Ling injured and his divine artifact shattered as Lin Xiao continued to cultivate.

• The Asura God King died, and Lin Ling wept with Lin Xiao as Chi Yue ordered his followers to capture Lin Xiao for a pill refining scheme.
• Lin Xiao knelt beside his grandfather’s corpse, and Destruction pleaded with Chi Yue to spare him, but Chi Yue refused.
• Lin Ling vowed to buy Lin Xiao time to break through, while Tian Xue and the others prepared to defend him.
• Tian Xue attacked Chi Yue but was knocked back, then helped Lin Ling withstand Chi Yue’s whip, which shattered Lin Ling’s divine artifact and wounded him.
• Lin Xiao entered meditation and drew the blood around him into his body as Chi Yue moved to stop his breakthrough.

The Destruction God King, the Goddess of Life, and other allies protected Lin Xiao as he broke through, holding off Chi Yue and his assault. Long Tian arrived with an overwhelming aura, and the chapter ended with him preparing to attack everyone defending Lin Xiao.

• Chi Yue wounded Lin Ling and Tian Xue, but Zhou Shan gathered his Soul Power to form a shield and vowed to protect Lin Xiao.
• The Goddess of Life and several allies joined Zhou Shan, while two God Emperor experts strengthened the shield around Lin Xiao.
• Chi Yue attacked the shield with his Supreme Divine Artifact, but the combined Soul Power held firm as the other God Emperors refused to help him.
• Long Tian arrived, and the two old men recognized him as the Dragon Heaven Great Emperor, whose aura suggested he had broken through to three hundred drops.
• Long Tian rebuked Chi Yue and the other God Emperors, then declared he would eliminate everyone protecting Lin Xiao.