Chapter Summaries

The Sky Screen revealed Chen Jianjun’s final duel with Qian Daoliu, his breakthrough to Soul Power Level 99, and Chen Xin’s regret at falling short of his father’s swordsmanship. It then exposed Ning Rongrong’s childhood antics and ranked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect ninth, leaving Ning Fengzhi optimistic about the sect’s future with the Akademiya’s support.

• The Sky Screen showed Chen Jianjun challenging Qian Daoliu, breaking through to Soul Power Level 99 as he died, and urging Chen Xin not to seek revenge.
• Chen Xin compared his own Seven Kill Sword Art with his father’s and knelt in guilt, while Qian Daoliu recalled Chen Jianjun and mentioned Tang Chen.
• The Sky Screen showed Gu Rong’s Ninth Soul Skill, and Chen Xin decided he might spend more time studying the Way of the Sword.
• The Sky Screen exposed Ning Rongrong’s embarrassing childhood memories, prompting Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing to react to them.
• The Sky Screen evaluated the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s strengths and weaknesses and ranked it ninth, while Ning Fengzhi remained hopeful because of the Akademiya’s support.

Ning Fengzhi received a compendium of Soul Tools and brought it to the Akademiya Branch, while Yu Luomian tried to take Yu Xiaogang back to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Tighnari and Sethos ended the resulting dragon battle with two arrows, and the Sky Screen then ranked the Clear Sky Sect eighth.

• The Sky Screen rewarded the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with a Compendium of Soul Tools, and Ning Fengzhi took it to the Akademiya Branch because he feared the clan could not protect the technology.
• Yu Luomian confronted Liu Erlong and ordered Yu Xiaogang back to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but Liu Erlong and Flender intervened with their Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Yu Luomian and another elder fought the Golden Sacred Dragon as the battle moved toward the Akademiya Branch.
• Tighnari and Sethos fired Dendro and Electro arrows that blasted apart the three dragon forms, leaving the fighters injured or unconscious.
• People from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan took Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong away, while Zhao Wuji and the other teachers decided to leave Heaven Dou City with Flender.
• The Sky Screen announced the Clear Sky Sect at rank eight, prompting dissatisfaction among its disciples.

The Sky Screen revealed the Clear Sky Sect’s strength and replayed Qian Daoliu’s defeat by Tang Chen, along with their shared history of loving Bo Saixi. The group arrived at Sea God Island, where Bo Saixi sensed them.

• The Sky Screen listed the Clear Sky Sect’s members and techniques, while Tang Xiao welcomed Tang Hao’s inclusion and other sect members blamed him for the clan’s decline.
• Qian Renxue questioned why Qian Daoliu had not destroyed the Clear Sky Sect, and the Sky Screen showed that he had wagered against Tang Chen and lost a direct clash.
• The Sky Screen showed Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen confessing their feelings to Bo Saixi, who said she would accept whoever became a god.
• Tang Chen left Sea God Island, promising not to return until he became a god, while Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi reacted awkwardly to the revelation.
• Scaramouche tried to explain romantic love to Little Durin, and Bo Saixi sensed their arrival on Sea God Island.

Little Durin and Scaramouche arrived at Sea God Island to discuss an Akademiya branch while the Sky Screen revealed Tang Chen’s downfall and the truth behind Ah Yin’s persecution. The chapter left Tang Hao traveling toward Slaughter City, unaware that the Clear Sky Sect had betrayed his hiding places to claim Ah Yin.

• Little Durin and Scaramouche met Xiao Bai, then Scaramouche told Bo Saixi he had come to discuss establishing an Akademiya Branch on Sea God Island.
• The Sky Screen revealed that Tang Chen had received Asura God’s Nine Trials before Rakshasa God’s Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King parasitized him and turned him into the King of Slaughter.
• Tang Hao learned that the King of Slaughter was Tang Chen and headed for Slaughter City, while Bo Saixi mourned Tang Chen’s fate and tried to contact the Sea God.
• The Sky Screen showed that Ah Yin had chosen Tang Hao, sacrificed herself after Tang San’s birth, and helped him defeat Qian Xunji with Ring Detonation and the Great Sumeru Hammer.
• The Sky Screen revealed that Tang Wei had summoned Tang Hao and Ah Yin to meet him, exposing Ah Yin’s identity, and that the Clear Sky Sect had betrayed their hiding places to claim her.

The Sky Screen revealed Tang San’s past life and the Clear Sky Sect’s role in Ah Yin’s sacrifice, leaving Tang Xiao and Tang Hao shaken. The Clear Sky Sect ranked eighth and received a Teyvat Fried Egg that could resurrect someone, setting the sect’s elders against one another over its use.

• Tang Xiao confronted the five elders after learning his father had orchestrated the events that led to Ah Yin’s sacrifice, while Tang San wondered whether to seek revenge on the Clear Sky Sect or the Spirit Hall.
• The Sky Screen showed Tang San stealing the Tang Sect’s secret arts, being hunted by its elders, and jumping from a cliff before being reborn as Tang Hao’s son.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Ouyang Kong reacted to Tang San’s revealed past, while Nahida suggested testing the compatibility between his soul and body to distinguish possession from reincarnation.
• The Sky Screen ranked the Clear Sky Sect eighth, and Tang Hao apologized to Ah Yin before continuing toward Slaughter City.
• The Clear Sky Sect received a Teyvat Fried Egg, and Tang Xiao learned it could resurrect someone, prompting the five elders to eye the reward.

The Sky Screen revealed Slaughter City’s connection to Asura God and exposed Asura God’s bachelor status before showing Tang Hao battling the King of Slaughter. Tang Chen awakened during the fight, freeing himself from the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King and reuniting with Tang Hao.

• The Sky Screen ranked Slaughter City seventh and revealed that it served Asura God, with the King of Slaughter as its high-level fighter.
• The Sky Screen showed Slaughter City’s brutal streets and Hell Slaughter Arena, then introduced Asura God as one of the Five God Kings and the only bachelor among them.
• Asura God’s review showed him helping the other God Kings defeat the Dragon God, while God King of Destruction mocked him for being unmarried.
• Tang Hao fought the King of Slaughter in Slaughter City, detonated seven Soul Rings, and used the Great Sumeru Hammer to block his opponent’s attack.
• Tang Chen awakened and suppressed the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King, then recognized Tang Hao and apologized for the trouble.

Tang Chen returned to the Clear Sky Sect with only days left to live, while Asura God sent a powerful puppet to take over Slaughter City. On Sea God Island, Poseidon approved the Akademiya branch, and the Sky Screen’s ranking revealed that the Angel God was dead, shaking Spirit Hall’s faith.

• The Sky Screen explained Slaughter City’s origins and ranked it seventh, then awarded Asura God a Slaughter Puppet that he sent to rule the city.
• Tang Chen left Slaughter City with Tang Hao and headed for the Clear Sky Sect, deciding to use his remaining days to preserve Asura God’s inheritance rather than visit Bo Saixi.
• Poseidon confronted Bo Saixi, then agreed that an Akademiya branch could be established on Sea God Island after Scaramouche assured him it was not meant to spread faith.
• The Sky Screen ranked Spirit Hall sixth, and Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue discovered that the Angel God had died.
• Qian Renxue feared the revelation would destroy Spirit Hall’s faith, while Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other Worship Hall elders felt their faith crumble.

The Sky Screen revealed the First Angel God's origins and Spirit Hall's efforts to protect civilians, then exposed corruption within its ranks and showed Qian Daoliu ordering Qian Renxue to purge the guilty. It also showed that the Angel God had sacrificed herself fighting evil, after which the Sea God and Asura God took part of her authority.

• The Sky Screen showed the First Angel God establishing a church, creating the Angel Godhood through faith, and leaving behind the institution that became Spirit Hall.
• The Sky Screen revealed Spirit Hall's Enforcement Squad hunting fallen and its deacons awakening children's Martial Souls, restoring the faith of Golden Crocodile Douluo and other elders.
• Tang Chen returned to the Clear Sky Sect, told Tang Xiao and Tang Hao he had less than three days to live, and urged them to pass on the Asura God's legacy.
• Tang Xiao told Tang Hao that the Sky Screen's resurrection reward could save Tang Chen, though he had intended to use it on Ah Yin.
• The Sky Screen exposed Spirit Hall bishops abusing their power, and Qian Daoliu gave Qian Renxue the Judgment Elder Token and ordered her to root out the corrupt officials.
• The Sky Screen showed the Angel God sacrificing herself to destroy evil forces, then revealed that the Sea God and Asura God had divided some of her authority.

The Sky Screen ranked the Spirit Hall sixth and resurrected the Angel God, who returned to Spirit City and urged her descendants to mend the Spirit Hall’s corruption. It then ranked Sea God Island fifth and began revealing how Poseidon gained the ocean’s faith.

• The Sky Screen judged the Spirit Hall’s history, criticized its corruption and Qian Renxue’s loss of the Angel God’s ideals, and ranked it sixth.
• The Sky Screen resurrected the Angel God, whose statue shattered as she rose; Qian Daoliu welcomed her, and she acknowledged that the Spirit Hall could still change.
• Nahida and Ouyang Kong met the Angel God, while Poseidon worried that her return might cost him the authority he had taken from her.
• The Sky Screen ranked Sea God Island fifth, citing Bo Saixi, Sea Dragon Douluo, and the Seven Sacred Pillars among its strengths.
• The Sky Screen showed Poseidon subduing Sea Soul Beasts with the Seagod Trident, facing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and riding Xiao Bai.

The Sky Screen revealed that Poseidon had built Sea God Island to collect faith and preserve his godhood, while offering little protection to the ocean’s creatures. Its assessment left Xiao Bai questioning her faith and ended by declaring Sea God Island a poor steward of the sea.

• The Sky Screen showed how Poseidon defeated the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, gathered the ocean’s faith, and ascended to godhood.
• The Silver Dragon King condemned the Sea Soul Beasts who worshipped Poseidon, while the Sky Screen showed the sea’s ongoing violence and the Evil Orca King hunting the Demon Soul Great White Sharks.
• Xiao Bai watched her younger brother’s death and her plea to Bo Saixi replay, then questioned why Poseidon and Bo Saixi had not helped her.
• Scaramouche mocked Poseidon for doing nothing for the ocean, and the Sky Screen revealed that Sea God Island’s trials used gathered faith to reward followers and preserve Poseidon’s divine sense.
• The Sky Screen showed Sea God Island defeating Spirit Hall, then assessed the island as a source of faith for Poseidon rather than a protector of the sea.

Sea God Poseidon received a reward that turned the Seagod Trident into a Super Divine Artifact, then challenged Scaramouche and was decisively outmatched. The Sky Screen ranked the Soul Beasts fourth and began revealing how the Silver Dragon King came to be.

• The Sky Screen warned against faith-based scams and rewarded Sea God Island with an evolved Seagod Trident, alarming the Five God Kings.
• Sea God Poseidon challenged Scaramouche to a spar, and Scaramouche defeated his Divine Sense with Shouki no Kami.
• Sea God Poseidon apologized after realizing Scaramouche was far stronger than he had expected, and Little Durin promised to master the power of the Abyss.
• The Sky Screen ranked the Soul Beasts fourth and listed their high-tier combatants, including Di Tian, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and Evil Emperor.
• The Sky Screen showed that Asura God split the Dragon God into two orbs: the Golden Dragon King stayed in the Divine Realm, while the Silver Dragon King fell into Star Dou Forest and gave rise to the first Soul Beasts.

The Sky Screen revealed how the Silver Dragon King gathered the Ferocious Beasts and showed Di Tian’s battles with Xiong Jun and the Evil Emperor. It then launched a contest to rank the Soul Beast Realm’s ten beauties, and voting began as different groups rallied behind their favorites.

• The Sky Screen showed the Silver Dragon King recovering beneath the Lake of Life and Di Tian recruiting Ferocious Beasts, then displayed Di Tian’s fights with Xiong Jun and the Evil Emperor.
• The Sky Screen revealed ten contestants for the beauty ranking, including Xiao Wu, Ah Yin, and the Silver Dragon King.
• The Sky Screen announced that all intelligent beings could vote, with the champion receiving a reward.
• Nahida explained that different tastes and organized campaigning would make the contest difficult to predict.
• Ice Empress rallied the Far North’s Soul Beasts to vote for Snow Empress, while Di Tian directed Star Dou Forest’s Soul Beasts to vote for the Silver Dragon King.
• Tang San struggled to choose between Xiao Wu and Ah Yin, then decided to vote for Ah Yin and promised Xiao Wu he would vote for her next time.

Bi Ji was named the Soul Beast Realm’s Number One Beauty and received a Hydro Vision, while the Sky Screen ranked the Soul Beast Clan fourth and criticized its leadership and prospects. The Silver Dragon King received the Heart of the Dragon God, and Ouyang Kong and Nahida discussed researching a way for Spirit Masters to advance without hunting Soul Beasts.

• The Sky Screen ranked Bi Ji first, Princess Lina second, and the Silver Dragon King third in the beauty contest, then gave Bi Ji a Hydro Vision.
• Bi Ji used Hydro to create a healing swan, and the Silver Dragon King found its healing power stronger than Bi Ji’s own ability.
• The Sky Screen ranked the Soul Beast Clan fourth and criticized its fragmented society, the Silver Dragon King’s governance, and its worsening conflict with humans.
• The Silver Dragon King questioned Di Tian about the Soul Beast Clan’s future, and Di Tian assured her that it would improve under her rule.
• Ouyang Kong asked the Angel God about the origin of Spirit Masters’ Soul Ring system, while Nahida said the Amurta was researching it and Xiao Wu might help.
• The Sky Screen awarded the Soul Beast Clan the Heart of the Dragon God, and the Silver Dragon King recognized it as Father God’s heart.

The Silver Dragon King sought the Akademiya’s help with the Soul Beast Clan’s heavenly tribulations and conflict with human Spirit Masters, then began studying in the House of Daena. The Sky Screen showed the Akademiya ranked third and revealed the first Sabzeruz Festival, ending with Nahida watching the Goddess of Flowers sacrifice herself as the Skyfrost Nail fell.

• The Silver Dragon King fused with the Heart of the Dragon God, regained God King strength, and asked Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts to find solutions to the Soul Beast Clan’s problems.
• The Silver Dragon King, Di Tian, and Bi Ji visited Alhaitham, who advised them to seek the source of the heavenly tribulation and said Amurta was researching the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts.
• The Silver Dragon King took Alhaitham’s advice and began reading in the House of Daena with Di Tian and Bi Ji.
• The Sky Screen ranked the Akademiya third, listed Ouyang Kong and Scaramouche among its fighters above the god level, and showed the first Sabzeruz Festival.
• Candace, Dehya, Nilou, and Nahida recognized the Goddess of Flowers and the Scarlet King in the Sky Screen’s scenes, while Nahida wondered who Greater Lord Rukkhadevata was.
• The Sky Screen showed the Goddess of Flowers giving her life to open a path for the Scarlet King, then the Skyfrost Nail turning the oasis into a desert; Ouyang Kong comforted Nahida as the gods of the Douluo God Realm feared the Nail’s power.

The Sky Screen revealed that Greater Lord Rukkhadevata created Nahida before vanishing into Irminsul, after which Sumeru’s sages imprisoned the newly born Lesser Lord Kusanali. Nahida realized she had forgotten Rukkhadevata because Irminsul erased her, and the chapter ended with the revelation that Nahida spent five centuries gathering knowledge through people’s dreams but lacked the confidence to free herself.

• The Sky Screen showed the Scarlet King sacrificing himself to restrain Apep and Apep’s corruption by Forbidden Knowledge.
• Greater Lord Rukkhadevata used her power to suppress Forbidden Knowledge, became tainted, created Nahida from an untainted Irminsul branch, and vanished into Irminsul.
• Nahida realized Irminsul had erased Greater Lord Rukkhadevata and concluded that she had erased the one who had been like a mother to her; Ouyang Kong comforted her and promised to preserve Rukkhadevata’s story.
• The Sky Screen showed the Akademiya sages rejecting the newly born Nahida and imprisoning her while claiming she was in seclusion.
• Nahida spent five hundred years using the Akasha Terminal to enter people’s dreams and gather knowledge, but her insecurity kept her from trying to escape and overthrow the sages.

The Sky Screen showed Nahida’s birthday, her 500 years of loneliness, and how the Sabzeruz Festival loops helped the Akademiya create a god. It then showed Nahida and the Traveler entering Greater Lord Rukkhadevata’s corrupted final memories, where they found a desolate landscape tainted by Forbidden Knowledge.

• Nilou, Dehya, and Candace recalled the Sabzeruz Festival loop as Nilou became a star among the Douluo Continent’s viewers.
• The Sky Screen replayed Nahida’s birthday in imagined loops before revealing that she had spent 500 years alone in the Sanctuary of Surasthana.
• Ouyang Kong comforted Nahida and showed her a picture card of the joyful Sabzeruz Festival they had arranged for her.
• The Sky Screen revealed that the 168 festival loops had been steps in Dottore and the Akademiya’s plan to create a god.
• Little Durin teased Scaramouche about his former declaration as the Traveler and Nahida’s battle against Shouki no Kami appeared on the Sky Screen.
• Nahida used the power of two Gnoses to bring herself and the Traveler into Greater Lord Rukkhadevata’s final memories, where they sensed corruption and pain from Forbidden Knowledge.

Nahida learned from Greater Lord Rukkhadevata that she was Irminsul’s purest branch and the former god’s reincarnation, though they would have different fates. Rukkhadevata began explaining how she fought Forbidden Knowledge 500 years ago, leaving Nahida to ask why everyone had forgotten her.

• Nahida and the Traveler defeated monsters born from Forbidden Knowledge and continued by Flying Boat to their destination beneath Irminsul.
• Greater Lord Rukkhadevata told Nahida that she was her reincarnation, a branch of Irminsul who could grow into a god with a fate of her own.
• Greater Lord Rukkhadevata explained that 500 years ago the other Archons went to Khaenri'ah while she remained to protect Irminsul from Forbidden Knowledge.
• Greater Lord Rukkhadevata said she created the Akasha to gather human wisdom and used Sumeru's people's dreams to drive most Forbidden Knowledge out of Irminsul.
• Nahida asked Greater Lord Rukkhadevata why she had been forgotten.

Greater Lord Rukkhadevata revealed that erasing her from Irminsul was the only way to destroy the last Forbidden Knowledge, even though the world would forget she had existed. Nahida erased her, and Rukkhadevata’s final gift healed Sumeru before she said farewell.

• Greater Lord Rukkhadevata explained that the Forbidden Knowledge tainting her would survive her death in Irminsul, so she had created Nahida as her reincarnation to erase her existence.
• Nahida protested that she did not want to forget Rukkhadevata, while Ouyang Kong comforted her and promised to stay by her side.
• Greater Lord Rukkhadevata shared her final reflections as Nahida embraced her and used Irminsul’s authority to erase her.
• Rukkhadevata vanished into leaves that spread across Sumeru, curing Eleazar and bringing peace to those they touched.
• Rukkhadevata returned all dreams to humankind, bade the people of Sumeru farewell, and Collei, Tighnari, Sethos, Cyno, Nefer, and Dori bowed solemnly.

Nahida faced the Doctor after he incapacitated the Traveler and explained that he had created independent versions of himself from different points in his life. The Doctor ended their conversation and moved toward Nahida to retrieve the Gnosis, leaving her in danger.

• Nahida told the Sky Screen that Sumeru was thriving and that she missed Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, then forgot why she felt so sad.
• The Doctor used a sound wave to knock out the Traveler and confronted Nahida alone.
• The Doctor revealed that he had preserved versions of himself from different ages as independent individuals to study the world across time.
• Nahida condemned the Doctor for treating life and Scaramouche as experimental subjects, while he said the experiment had disappointed him.
• The Doctor declared the experiment over and approached Nahida to retrieve the Gnosis, worrying the people watching.

Nahida used the threat of destroying the Raiden Shogun's Gnosis to make the Doctor negotiate, then demanded that he erase his other segments in exchange for it. As the deal was made, Thoth revealed that he had once met the Doctor when he was still the scholar Zandik.

• Nahida warned the Doctor that destroying the Gnosis might awaken the Heavenly Principles and make the Fatui answer for their actions.
• The Doctor acknowledged the risk and asked Nahida to state her terms.
• Nahida demanded that the Doctor erase all his other segments, and he agreed to trade them for the Gnosis.
• The Akademiya learned of Nahida's deal, and Thoth possessed Asheru to speak with Nefer.
• Thoth told Nefer that he had met the Doctor long ago, when he was a scholar named Zandik, and that Zandik had refused his third question.