Chapter Summaries

Ling Feng coordinated the second and third batches of soul beasts and tribulation candidates as the fissures between realms remained stable. Jin Chen investigated a new seabed fissure, while Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing checked the existing fissure before returning to the lower realm; Ling Feng and Qian Renxue expected the next group to arrive in spring.

• Ling Feng confirmed that the first two batches had stabilized, while Di Tian prepared to handle the second batch of soul beasts and the third-batch list received approval.
• Jin Chen met a golden sea beast, learned of a glowing fissure on the seabed, and told it to stay away while he investigated.
• Ling Feng returned to Martial Soul Capital and compared the third-batch candidate records with Ning Rongrong, who had marked several name discrepancies.
• Tang San inspected the fissure and told Ah Yin it remained in place before deciding to refine his short sword's edge again.
• Dai Mubai returned from the God Realm to Shrek Academy, and Zhu Zhuqing crossed to the God Realm, sensed a stable connection to the fissure, and returned below.
• Ling Feng told Qian Renxue that the fissures were stable and the fourth batch would wait until the third batch had fully stabilized; Qian Renxue expected another group next spring.

Ling Feng and the God Realm committee monitored the rift and confirmed plans for the fourth batch of tribulation ascenders. On the seventh day of the first winter month, the batch passed through the rift one by one, and Ling Feng watched their powers begin to connect with the God Realm’s laws.

• The God of Destruction reported that the fourth batch would undergo tribulation at the beginning of next month, while the Goddess of Life said the God Realm’s capacity was sufficient.
• Jin Chen reported that a slowly expanding rift in the deep-sea region connected to an unknown space, and Ling Feng ordered it kept under observation.
• Di Tian said the second batch of soul beasts had completed their tribulations, and Gu Yuena wanted them to adapt before another batch was arranged.
• Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, and Jin Chen returned to Martial Soul Capital, where Ning Rongrong had prepared braised pork.
• On the seventh day of the first winter month, Du Qingshan, the teacher surnamed Chen from Thunder Academy, Feng Wanli, and the other ascenders passed through the rift and returned to the lower realm.
• Ling Feng watched the fourth batch pass through and sensed their powers stabilizing as they connected with the God Realm’s laws.

Tang San returned from the rift with a faint glow around his fingertips as changes spread through the God Realm. A dark purple presence began seeping through the expanding Abyss rift, and Gu Yuena agreed to go investigate.

• Tang San crossed the rift into the God Realm, sensed its solid ground and a glow around his fingertips, then returned home that evening.
• Ling Feng and Qian Renxue observed new growth on the Old Locust Tree and sensed that the realm's changes had settled into their own rhythms.
• The God of Destruction noticed a dark purple stain in the clouds, and Ling Feng confirmed a moving mark on the boundary map linked to the expanding rift.
• The Goddess of Life warned that continued widening could force apart the Defense Runes, so the God of Destruction sent Di Tian to summon Gu Yuena.
• Di Tian told Gu Yuena that the Abyss rift was expanding, and she agreed to go to the God Realm after recognizing its aura from the Dragon God's fall.
• Ling Feng and Qian Renxue reached the rift and found it wider than it had been that morning.

Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, and Gu Yuena prepared for the Abyss to force open a rift in the God Realm. When an Abyss creature emerged, Ling Feng severed its reaching hand and struck its vulnerable eye slit, causing it to begin fading away.

• Ling Feng and Qian Renxue sensed the Abyss pressing against the rift, while Gu Yuena identified it and estimated how long the Defense Rune could hold.
• Di Tian gathered materials, and Gu Yuena laid silver patterns around the rift to slow its expansion.
• The rift stopped widening, but the Abyss changed its pressure into a horizontal pull as it tried to open the passage itself.
• A dark membrane formed at the rift, and Gu Yuena warned that the Abyss creatures were ready to cross.
• A scaled hand reached through the torn membrane, and Ling Feng severed it with the Coiling Dragon Staff.
• An eyeless Abyss creature charged Ling Feng, who pierced its flame-filled slit and made its body begin to blur and disappear.

Ling Feng and Qian Renxue faced the first Abyss creature at a rift while the Abyss Fourth and Fifth Legions prepared to reinforce their forces after losing advance troops. The rift continued to narrow, and Nargas and the Fifth Legion’s commander discussed the shrinking route as the Abyss forces massed at the front.

• Ling Feng destroyed the first creature to emerge from the rift, and he told Qian Renxue that more would come once the Abyss confirmed the path was open.
• Nargas learned that the Fourth Legion’s third batch and its scouts had vanished after passing through the rift, and he concluded that someone was actively narrowing it.
• Nargas ordered the Fourth Legion to list its available personnel and requested reinforcements from the Fifth Legion.
• The Fifth Legion’s commander learned that both legions’ advance forces had been killed and decided to lead his troops to the front within two days.
• The Fifth Legion’s reinforcements arrived, nearly doubling the camps, while Nargas observed that the rift had narrowed further.

Ling Feng and the others defended the God Realm rift as increasingly powerful creatures emerged from a collapsing world. After Ling Feng killed a large attacker, the rift began forming a new, more humanoid shape, leaving the next confrontation imminent.

• Gu Yuena, Ling Feng, and their allies reinforced the rift and anticipated a stronger wave after the scouts’ information reached the other side.
• A large creature emerged, and Gu Yuena concluded that its world was adjusting the rift to send stronger troops through.
• A dark-red, heavily armored creature crossed the rift, confronted Ling Feng, and charged at him.
• Ling Feng dodged its attacks and killed it by piercing the weak carapace beneath its jaw, while Qian Renxue and Jin Chen inspected its remains.
• Gu Yuena warned that another wave would come, and Ling Feng stayed to defend the rift.
• Three days later, the rift’s flames formed a slender, broad-shouldered humanoid shape instead of producing another creature.

Ling Feng and his allies drove back the Abyss's Fourth Legion vanguard commander, who warned that more forces would come as the Abyss collapsed. After Gu Yuena reinforced the rift's edges, the fourth legion gathered to attack, and a much larger force tore the opening wider.

• The Fourth Legion's vanguard commander offered cooperation, but Qian Renxue and Jin Chen rejected its demand for a passage.
• Ling Feng struck the commander, who retreated through the rift after warning that the fourth batch would not be polite.
• Gu Yuena confirmed the Abyss was contracting and said she needed five days without intrusions to reinforce the rift's edges.
• Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, Jin Chen, and Di Tian guarded the rift while Gu Yuena completed the reinforcement on the fifth day.
• Gu Yuena sensed a force at least as large as the first three batches gathering, including a creature far larger than those before it.
• The rift split open much wider, and cracking sounds came from the rocks along its edges.

Ling Feng and the others forced a massive Abyss creature back through the rift and sealed the opening temporarily. While they prepared for its likely return, Nargas and the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Legions began coordinating an effort to reopen it.

• Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, Jin Chen, Gu Yuena, and Di Tian fought the Abyss creatures as Ling Feng held the rift's edge against the force trying to widen it.
• Di Tian blasted the rift with dark-golden light, forcing the enormous creature to lose its grip and slide back inside as the opening sealed.
• Gu Yuena said the seal would last about ten days without pressure, or five days if the Abyss continued pushing, and Ling Feng told the group to use that time to prepare.
• Nargas learned the Silver Dragon King's sealing layer was shrinking the rift, while the Fifth Legion's commander decided to seek help from the Sixth and Seventh Legions.
• Nargas ordered his adjutant to reopen the rift within six days, and the Sixth Legion's commander agreed to notify the Seventh Legion.

As the fissure’s seal failed and the Abyss Legion poured through in greater numbers, Ling Feng entered the breach to scout the Abyss Plane and try to stabilize it from within. In the Abyss Legion’s command hall, its leader learned that the God Realm’s defenses had stopped the assault and ordered greater strength for the next push.

• Gu Yuena told Ling Feng that the seal would last about one more day, then it dimmed and the fissure began widening.
• Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, and Di Tian fought the growing tide of Abyss creatures while Gu Yuena warned that the fissure could not safely be sealed again.
• Ling Feng decided to cross the fissure and stabilize its structure from the other side, then stepped into the dark-purple radiance.
• Nargas reported to the towering Abyss leader that Gu Yuena’s seal had stopped the front-line attacks and that the God Realm had committed its strongest fighters.
• The Abyss leader questioned why the Legion had attacked in separate waves, learned that the fissure could collapse under too many troops, and called for stronger warriors and weapons.

Nargas prepared the Seventh and Eighth Legions to enter the Abyss Plane once the rift reopened, while Ling Feng and his companions crossed into the contracting space. They explored an abandoned settlement and breeding pits, then encountered a massive creature that showed no immediate hostility.

• Nargas told the tall figure that the rift should reopen in about two days, and the figure ordered the legions to wait before threatening to go to the front lines himself.
• Nargas instructed the Seventh and Eighth Legions to stay on standby and watch the rift’s sealing layer as Ling Feng and Qian Renxue entered the Abyss Plane.
• Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, Jin Chen, and Di Tian crossed the rift and found that the space was slowly contracting, with Di Tian estimating it had about seven days left.
• The group discovered signs of a long-term settlement and pits containing fragments of growing creature shells, which Jin Chen suspected had been used for breeding.
• Ling Feng followed a deep sound and saw a huge, heavily scaled creature dragging a dark metal plate; it noticed him but neither fled nor attacked.

Ling Feng and his companions learned that the Abyss’s moving pillars of light detected outsiders and that patrols killed previous arrivals. With the pillars closing in, they chose to face the approaching Abyss forces, ending as an armored leader appeared at the front of a squad.

• Ling Feng questioned a creature hauling a metal plate, who explained that the pillars detected foreign auras and that the group had roughly one shichen before the area was swept.
• Ling Feng, Jin Chen, Di Tian, and Qian Renxue inspected the pits and found signs that they had been cleaned out and refilled, with traces of dried liquid remaining in one.
• Ling Feng followed a steady vibration and spotted an orderly formation of Abyss creatures marching nearby.
• As the pillars brightened and converged on their position, Ling Feng told his companions that they had been discovered and refused to retreat.
• Ling Feng and his companions prepared to meet the interception, and an armored Abyss creature appeared leading a squad in neat ranks.

Ling Feng and his companions learned that the Abyss was disintegrating from within and negotiated with a coordinator from the Abyss Seventh Legion to establish dialogue with the God Realm. They began drafting a preliminary agreement, but Ling Feng left the terms for Abyss residents to evacuate through the rift unresolved.

• The Abyss Seventh Legion coordinator explained that the Abyss was collapsing from within and that the rift was its only exit.
• Qian Renxue identified herself and her companions as powerful gods and proposed opening dialogue between the Abyss and the God Realm.
• Ling Feng agreed to wait while the coordinator consulted the Legion’s higher-ups, and Di Tian confirmed that the light pillars and rift seal remained stable.
• The coordinator returned with approval to establish a dialogue channel, provided the God Realm supplied a stable energy source for a contact point.
• The two sides began drafting terms, and Ling Feng accepted maintaining the rift’s current width and allowing regulated exchanges but said evacuation rules needed further negotiation.

Ling Feng and the others negotiated terms with the Abyss for a contact point near the rift, and the Abyss accepted most of their proposals. They chose a stable site and built the contact point, while Jin Chen returned with materials for energy transmission.

• Qian Renxue proposed dividing management duties and allowing either side to suspend the contact point if persistent problems arose.
• The Abyss higher-ups accepted the terms except for the number of those withdrawing, and proposed a stable site southwest of the rift.
• Di Tian inspected the site and confirmed it was suitable, and Ling Feng agreed to build the contact point there.
• Ling Feng sent Jin Chen to inform Gu Yuena about the location and construction progress.
• The Abyss team built the contact point's metal-plate foundation and rope boundary by dusk.
• Jin Chen returned after nightfall with treated ore and components for energy transmission.

Ling Feng oversaw negotiations with the Abyss and signed an agreement that took effect immediately. When Gu Yuena arrived, the liaison point began operating and successfully exchanged its first batch of information, leaving Ling Feng determined to build a future in which the Abyss no longer needed war.

• Ling Feng and Qian Renxue watched the newly established liaison point stabilize as Jin Chen reported that Gu Yuena would arrive in about three days.
• Jin Chen and Di Tian led Ling Feng and Qian Renxue to observe new, steadily moving points of light near the rift, which the Abyss Seventh Legion confirmed would not disrupt the liaison point.
• The Abyss Seventh Legion's plenipotentiary representative met Ling Feng and negotiated Articles Six and Seven before both sides signed the agreement and made it effective that day.
• Gu Yuena arrived on the third day, and Jin Chen reported that the liaison point was officially operational and had delivered its first successful information exchange.
• Ling Feng told Qian Renxue that they would continue building a way for the Abyss to seek a future without war.

Ling Feng and Qian Renxue watched the God Realm’s energy flow more steadily into Douluo Continent as life in the city carried on. He visited Tang San’s new smithy, where ordinary tools and neighbors’ needs reflected the peaceful days taking shape.

• Qian Renxue returned from the contact point, and Ling Feng watched the boundary’s light settle into a steadier pattern.
• Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, and Jin Chen discussed the increased flow of spiritual energy and the rising number of talented children at Kindergarten.
• Ning Rongrong told Ling Feng that Tang San had invited him to see his new smithy, and Ling Feng agreed to visit that afternoon.
• Ling Feng visited Tang San’s Three-Wood Smithy and examined tools Tang San had made for local neighbors and Ah Yin.
• Ling Feng and his companions left the smithy, passed a young man reading beneath an Old Locust Tree, and walked through Martial Soul Capital as its shops opened.

Tang San and Ah Yin watched children undergo Heaven Dou Academy’s selection, while Ling Feng observed their efforts and met a newly awakened soul master selling herbs. Ling Feng returned to the Worship Hall, where Qian Renxue waited with tea, and they sat together in silence.

• Tang San and Ah Yin watched the academy candidates demonstrate their martial souls, and Tang San assessed the curly-haired boy’s water control.
• Liu Jiachang demonstrated his shortsword martial soul, and the examiner recommended the strong attack path.
• A twin-ponytailed girl demonstrated her Azure Leaf martial soul, and the examiner suggested she develop in the support direction.
• After the selection, Ling Feng watched the curly-haired boy repeatedly practice compressing his water martial soul until he succeeded.
• Ling Feng bought herbs from a young soul master at a roadside stall and noticed that the youth had recently broken through.
• Ling Feng returned to the Worship Hall, where Qian Renxue offered him tea, and they sat together quietly.

Ling Feng observed how the God Realm’s spiritual energy had changed the Old Locust Tree and listened as Qian Renxue described people quietly developing their abilities. As night fell, he settled into watching over the courtyard, confident that growth would continue beyond his sight.

• Qian Renxue told Ling Feng that the Old Locust Tree’s delayed leaf fall and darker bark suggested a mild, late winter.
• Jin Chen brought home a fresh fish and decided to make fish soup.
• Tang San accepted radishes from his neighbor, continued forging, and joined Ah Yin for dinner.
• The curly-haired boy practiced gathering water in his palm, and the examiner encouraged him after he said he had managed it only once.
• Qian Renxue told Ling Feng that an unregistered cultivator had recently begun sensing and controlling his Soul Power after years without guidance.
• Ling Feng listened to the night sounds, reflected on people continuing to develop their skills, and went inside to rest.

Ling Feng and his companions visited Tang San’s shop, where they examined better-quality iron from a new mine in Sea Breeze City. They discussed several children with unusual Martial Souls and decided Spirit Hall should assess them once they had stabilized.

• Ling Feng, Qian Renxue, and Jin Chen ate breakfast and heard that customers were lining up at Tang San’s shop for his new dagger.
• Tang San repaired customers’ tools and cookware while Ling Feng watched, then showed him a new piece of high-quality iron from Sea Breeze City.
• Jin Chen reported that a child at the Kindergarten had displayed powerful Soul Power during Martial Soul awakening, and Qian Renxue proposed examining the child after he stabilized.
• Ning Rongrong brought a Heaven Dou Academy list identifying Chen Yuan’s mist Martial Soul and Lin Mu’s three-colored-leaf branch Martial Soul.
• Ling Feng and Tang San discussed the children’s potential, and Ling Feng said Spirit Hall should assess their circumstances and cultivation environments once they stabilized.

Ling Feng and Qian Renxue returned to the Worship Hall after Ning Rongrong filed Lin Mu’s records, where they discussed a youth in Sea Breeze City who had seen a silvery fissure beneath the sea. Ning Rongrong later confirmed that Lin Mu’s martial soul had three differently colored leaves, though he could only activate one reliably.

• Ning Rongrong left the blacksmith shop to organize and file Lin Mu’s list, while Ling Feng and Qian Renxue headed back to the Worship Hall.
• Qian Renxue told Ling Feng that a sixteen-year-old youth in Sea Breeze City had seen a memory of a deep underwater fissure edged with silvery-white light and gained two levels of Soul Power.
• Ling Feng said the light resembled the light Gu Yuena used to reinforce the fissure, and Qian Renxue planned to send someone to investigate the youth.
• Ling Feng and Qian Renxue listened to children laughing at the Kindergarten, and Qian Renxue explained that they had answered questions about martial souls correctly.
• Ning Rongrong reported that Lin Mu’s three differently colored leaves had all lit up briefly during his awakening, but only the first responded when he tried to activate them again.
• Ling Feng said Lin Mu needed sustained practice to gain control and gradually activate more leaves.

Ling Feng and Ning Rongrong discussed guidance for children with unusual martial souls while awaiting news about Sea Breeze City and the Abyss rift. The next morning, Lin Mu practiced controlling his lightning-aspected leaf, keeping it lit for several breaths.

• Ning Rongrong recommended specialized training for a child with three elemental leaves, and Ling Feng arranged for him to report to Spirit Hall twice a week.
• Ling Feng advised that Shen Yue train with an ice-attribute teacher after her bronze lamp produced a dark blue flame.
• Jin Chen reported that Chen Yuan had briefly condensed his mist martial soul into a narrow shape, and Ling Feng and Qian Renxue judged his control promising.
• Di Tian told Ling Feng that the Abyss contact point was stable and that Gu Yuena had confirmed a narrow natural rift near Sea Breeze City that was expected to close gradually.
• The next morning, Lin Mu told Ling Feng he could light two leaves at once but struggled to sustain the lightning-aspected leaf.
• Lin Mu practiced with the bluish-gray leaf and kept it lit for several breaths while Ning Rongrong recorded his progress.