Chapter Summaries

Xia Ming entered the Evil Demon Forest to bring its powerful Soul Beasts under his new order and gather their Faith Power. He reached the forest’s central forbidden zone, where the strongest surviving creature after the Evil Emperor’s death awaited him.

• Xia Ming pursued reforms among humans and began unifying Soul Beast faith to support his God Trial.
• He traveled to the Evil Demon Forest, the last major Soul Beast forest he had not brought under his influence.
• Xia Ming considered whether the Evil Emperor’s descendants would accept his rule or resist, and prepared to replace them if necessary.
• Xia Ming used Inch-Near-Heaven-Far to appear above the forest’s central forbidden zone.
• Xia Ming confronted the forest’s strongest surviving being, a silver-white Giant Eye surrounded by enormous tentacles.

Xia Ming confronted the Evil Eye Tyrant ruling the Evil Demon Forest and demanded the faith of its soul beasts. After the first Beast Lord submitted, Xia Ming killed its defiant brother with the backlash from the brother’s mental attack and continued toward the other Beast Lords.

• Xia Ming’s presence terrified the nearly three-hundred-thousand-year-old Evil Eye Tyrant, and he demanded the faith of every soul beast in the forest.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant offered its own faith but warned that its Beast Lord siblings might refuse to submit.
• Xia Ming appeared before one of the siblings, who attacked him with a mental shriek.
• Xia Ming’s invisible defense reflected the attack into the Evil Eye Tyrant’s mental core, killing it instantly.
• The first Evil Eye Tyrant sensed its brother’s death, abandoned its hesitation, and submitted completely as Xia Ming sought out the other Beast Lords.

Xia Ming left Evil Demon Forest under the rule of a loyal Evil Eye Tyrant, ordering it to spread his faith and gather Faith Power. He then traveled to the deep sea and found a sleeping seven-hundred-thousand-year-old Deep Sea Octopus overlord.

• Xia Ming had purged Evil Demon Forest of Soul Beasts that refused to offer him Faith Power and made the surviving rulers serve him.
• Xia Ming appointed the tribulation-surviving Evil Eye Tyrant to lead the forest and ordered it to gather Faith Power within a month.
• Xia Ming vanished from Evil Demon Forest and appeared on the southern Sun Moon Empire coastline.
• Xia Ming followed a coordinate from the Demon Empress to a palace complex deep beneath the sea.
• Xia Ming approached the seven-hundred-thousand-year-old Deep Sea Octopus, which remained unaware of his arrival.

Xia Ming forced the Deep Sea Octopus to submit its sea region and clan’s faith to him, despite its fear of the Sea God. After rewarding the octopus with power that brought its next Heavenly Tribulation within reach, Xia Ming left to seek another deep-sea overlord.

• Xia Ming awakened the Deep Sea Octopus with his mental power and overwhelmed it with his strength.
• Xia Ming demanded the faith of the octopus’s sea region and clan, and said he intended to settle old debts with the Sea God.
• The Deep Sea Octopus asked whether Xia Ming could protect it and its clan from the Sea God, and Xia Ming reassured it that the Sea God’s faith had nearly been severed.
• The Deep Sea Octopus pledged the faith of its clan and the Sea Soul Beasts under its control to Xia Ming.
• Xia Ming used the Qilin God Position’s power to heal and strengthen the octopus, improving its prospects of surviving its eight-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation.
• Xia Ming left and flew toward another sea region guided by coordinates from the Demon Empress’s Soul Spirit.

Xia Ming learned that a mysterious Sea God claimant had seized control of one of the four great sea regions and went to confront it. He located the enormous, star-marked Beast Lord, but the chapter ended before they fought.

• Years after Xia Ming's massacre at Sea God Island, a powerful Beast Lord claiming the Sea God's orthodox lineage rose amid the struggle for control of the four great sea regions.
• The Beast Lord defeated challengers and gathered Sea God faith, while a clan of Demon Soul Great White Sharks bolstered its claim.
• Xia Ming learned of the new overlord from his subordinates and sensed Sea God Divine Power in its territory.
• Xia Ming decided the Beast Lord threatened his collection of faith and used his mental power to locate it.
• Xia Ming appeared before the colossal, single-eyed Beast Lord, whose back glowed with star-like organs.

Xia Ming reunited with Xiao Bai beside the ancient Abyssal Star Puffer, who blamed him for Sea God Island’s destruction and attacked. The puffer trapped Xia Ming in its Eternal Dark Star Domain, but Xia Ming calmly raised a hand to counter it.

• Xia Ming recognized the Abyssal Star Puffer as an ancient, immensely powerful species and spotted Xiao Bai beside it.
• Xia Ming greeted Xiao Bai, who recognized him as the enemy who had once defeated her and later destroyed Sea God Island.
• The Abyssal Star Puffer accused Xia Ming of destroying the Sea God’s sacred land and vowed that it would have crushed him if the Heavenly Tribulation had not wounded it.
• The Abyssal Star Puffer unleashed its Eternal Dark Star Domain, surrounding Xia Ming with darkness and powerful gravitational restraints.
• Xia Ming judged the domain’s threat and raised his right hand toward the darkness without summoning a Martial Soul or using divine power.

Xia Ming overwhelmed the Abyssal Star Puffer with a palm strike, then sealed it with his pressure and pierced through its head with a single punch. The Abyssal Star Puffer’s fate remained unclear after the devastating blow.

• Xia Ming struck the Abyssal Star Puffer with a palm wind that shattered its back scales and drove it thousands of meters away.
• Xia Ming praised the Abyssal Star Puffer’s defense, but the wounded Beast Lord took his words as an insult and prepared to unleash its power of Destruction.
• Xia Ming’s overwhelming pressure immobilized the Abyssal Star Puffer and forced its gathered power back into its origin.
• Xia Ming punched through the Abyssal Star Puffer’s forehead and out through its back, leaving a vast path of destruction through the sea.

Xia Ming questioned the dying Abyssal Star Puffer about Poseidon's hidden forces and learned it had been conditioned by a dream woven from Faith Power to serve as a weapon against the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. After it revealed several locations and asked for release, Xia Ming killed it and turned back to Xiao Bai.

• Xia Ming demanded that the Abyssal Star Puffer reveal any remaining powerful followers or trump cards of Sea God Poseidon.
• The Abyssal Star Puffer said it was Poseidon's final trump card and revealed that Poseidon had used Faith Power to make it believe it was a loyal guardian tasked with defeating the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• The Abyssal Star Puffer transmitted coordinates and descriptions of several devoted soul beast clans and powerful individuals to Xia Ming.
• The Abyssal Star Puffer asked Xia Ming to end its life, and Xia Ming killed it with a second punch that made its body vanish.
• Xia Ming turned his gaze toward the restrained Xiao Bai.

Xia Ming erased Xiao Bai and sent the Demon Empress Soul Spirit to attack the remaining Sea God believers. He stayed behind to continue gathering faith and prepare for his ascension to godhood and eventual confrontation with Tang San.

• Xia Ming restrained Xiao Bai and erased her completely with Annihilation Power.
• Xia Ming reviewed the Abyssal Star Puffer's intelligence and decided to accelerate his collection of faith from Sea God believers.
• Xia Ming summoned the Demon Empress Soul Spirit and ordered her to visit the remaining Sea God-aligned settlements, showing no mercy to those who resisted.
• The Demon Empress obeyed and sped toward the first coordinate while Xia Ming remained behind, thinking of his future ascension and Tang San.

The Demon Empress Soul Spirit hunted a Giant Turtle that had once publicly professed faith in the Sea God, despite its desperate insistence that it no longer believed. She prepared a killing blow, leaving the turtle’s fate seemingly sealed.

• The Demon Empress Soul Spirit wounded the Giant Turtle from tens of thousands of meters away, tearing open its shell and nearly scattering its Soul Power.
• The Giant Turtle explained that it had abandoned its faith in the Sea God and pleaded for its life.
• The Demon Empress Soul Spirit rejected the Giant Turtle’s plea, following Xia Ming’s order to eliminate possible remnants of the Sea God’s believers.
• The Giant Turtle poured its remaining Soul Power into its shell as the Demon Empress Soul Spirit gathered power for a final attack.
• A dark-purple torrent of destruction engulfed the Giant Turtle as the hunt approached its end.

Xia Ming allowed the Demon Empress Soul Spirit to kill Sea Soul Beast Beast Lords connected to the Sea God, using their deaths to establish authority while planning to spread his faith through the rulers of the ocean. After subduing another Beast Lord, he sensed a sudden surge of faith from the Evil Demon Forest and learned that the Evil Eyes had rapidly built a Soul Beast worship network.

• The Demon Empress Soul Spirit continued slaughtering Beast Lords with ties to the Sea God, while Xia Ming accepted the killings as a warning to others and a way to secure control of the ocean.
• Xia Ming focused on subduing regional Beast Lords so he could spread his authority and faith among the vast populations of Sea Soul Beasts under their rule.
• More than half a month later, after Xia Ming subdued a Beast Lord in turbulent waters, he sensed a powerful new stream of Faith Power rising from the continent.
• Xia Ming identified the source as the Evil Demon Forest and praised Evil Eye and the others for converting its high-tier Soul Beasts and spreading worship of him through the forest.
• Xia Ming judged that the Evil Demon Forest’s Soul Beast faith was purer and more efficiently gathered than the more complicated faith coming from the Spirit Pagoda.

Xia Ming realized that organizing the ocean’s Soul Beasts could provide immense Faith Power, then learned the Demon Empress had discovered a new continent. When he reached it and recognized Dragon Valley’s location, he decided to seal and guard it until he was strong enough to face the Dragon God’s remnant soul.

• Xia Ming considered how unifying the vast ocean and organizing its Sea Soul Beasts could accelerate his gathering of Faith Power.
• Xia Ming headed for the next sea region, determined to speed up his efforts.
• The Demon Empress informed Xia Ming that an unknown continent had been discovered at the location of Dragon Valley.
• Xia Ming crossed space to the new continent and sensed the ancient pressure coming from Dragon Valley.
• Xia Ming decided to designate Dragon Valley a heavily monitored forbidden zone and avoid entering it until he was strong enough.

Xia Ming explored Star Luo Continent, finding its human civilization and Soul Masters primitive but its soul beasts numerous and powerful. He located Dragon Valley and examined how its aura had transformed the nearby settlement’s soul beasts and Martial Souls.

• The Demon Empress Soul Spirit dissolved into the sea mist and continued hunting soul beasts that believed in the Sea God while Xia Ming entered Star Luo Continent alone.
• Xia Ming surveyed the continent, noting its primitive settlements, weak Soul Masters, and abundant powerful soul beasts.
• Xia Ming followed the region’s spatial fluctuations and found the settlement outside Dragon Valley.
• Xia Ming discovered that Dragon Valley’s aura had given nearby soul beasts traces of Dragon Clan bloodline and caused beneficial Martial Soul mutations among the human Soul Masters.

Xia Ming visited the settlement near Dragon Valley and demanded the elderly Soul Douluo tell him what he knew about the nearby small world. After the old man shared his limited knowledge, Xia Ming vanished, leaving him to fear that the settlement’s long-standing way of life would soon be disrupted.

• Xia Ming sensed several powerful Soul Masters and an elderly Soul Douluo in the settlement, then instantly appeared inside the old man's stone house.
• Xia Ming asked the old man to tell him everything he knew about the small world near Dragon Valley.
• The old man recalled that earlier expeditions into the small world had suffered heavy losses and admitted that his people knew little about it.
• The old man decided that hiding information would be dangerous and explained what his ancestors and the settlement's explorers had learned.
• Xia Ming listened, nodded, and silently disappeared from the stone house.
• The old man watched Dragon Valley's entrance and feared that Xia Ming's arrival would endanger the settlement and the aura it depended on.

Xia Ming sealed Dragon Valley off from the Douluo Plane with divine power, preventing anyone below the strength of a First-Class God from interfering with the Dragon God's remnant soul. After completing the blockade, he turned to plans for spreading faith across Star Luo Continent.

• Xia Ming unleashed the Qilin God Position's power and formed a barrier around Dragon Valley's spatial rift.
• The elderly Soul Douluo and powerful soul beasts across the region felt the barrier's divine pressure and stared toward Dragon Valley's entrance.
• Xia Ming released his Qilin Transformation after spending enormous Divine Power to isolate Dragon Valley from interference below First-Class God level.
• Xia Ming concluded that Gu Yuena's injuries prevented her from breaking the barrier, and that no one on the Douluo Plane could challenge it without help from the God Realm.
• Xia Ming planned to spread faith on Star Luo Continent by demonstrating divine power, teaching cultivation and Soul Tool knowledge, and guiding promising locals.

Xia Ming assessed the balance of power around Dragon Valley and decided to win faith by first subduing the strongest Soul Beast clans. He confronted the Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard, whose territory he entered without warning, and unleashed an overwhelming pressure.

• Xia Ming sensed nearby humans and Soul Beasts, finding that powerful Soul Beast clans dominated the region while human settlements struggled to survive.
• Xia Ming decided that winning over powerful Soul Beasts would spread his influence more efficiently than approaching scattered human settlements.
• Xia Ming traveled to a basin and appeared before the Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard, a nine-hundred-thousand-year sub-dragon guarding a deep pool.
• The Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard noticed Xia Ming and prepared to attack him.
• Xia Ming released a vast pressure that filled the basin and made the Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard's soul tremble.

Xia Ming declared himself the God of Qilin and recruited powerful Soul Beasts by promising blessings that could help them survive the Heavenly Tribulation. After winning the faith of Dragon Valley’s Soul Beast overlords, he turned his attention to humans.

• The Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard sensed Xia Ming’s overwhelming power and asked who he was.
• Xia Ming called himself the God of Qilin and asked the Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard to become his first believer in the region.
• Xia Ming promised divine blessings that could purify the Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard’s bloodline and improve its chances of surviving the Heavenly Tribulation, and it pledged its faith.
• Xia Ming gave the Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard a seven-colored blessing that nourished its body and soul and purified its bloodline.
• Xia Ming took the Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard to a volcano, where a Flame Dragon Hawk and other Dragon Clan-blooded Soul Beast overlords submitted and placed their faith in him.
• After dozens of Soul Beasts over fifty thousand years old submitted, Xia Ming said that humans were next.

A tribe’s guardian Soul Douluo prepared to sacrifice himself when more than twenty powerful Soul Beast overlords approached. The Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard then announced that the beasts had come under the divine decree of their master, the God of Qilin, to deliver guidance, not to attack.

• A young perimeter watchman warned the tribe’s guardian that a horde of Soul Beast overlords was approaching.
• The old Soul Douluo saw more than twenty beasts, including several near or at one hundred thousand years of cultivation, and realized the tribe could not fight them.
• The old man ordered his trusted Soul Saint disciple to lead the strongest children through a secret passage and flee.
• The Soul Douluo prepared to hold off the horde as the tribe braced for slaughter.
• The Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard spoke in human language and declared that the beasts came peacefully to deliver guidance under the decree of the God of Qilin.

The Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard led a host of Soul Beast overlords to a human settlement and delivered the God of Qilin’s decree. The settlement accepted the faith and received cultivation and Soul Tool knowledge, though some people rejected the gift; the old man kept the settlement’s young people hidden as a safeguard.

• The Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard announced that the settlement must hear the God of Qilin’s decree and warned against resistance.
• The old man weighed the threat against the chance of protecting his people and secretly kept the children and young people away through a hidden passage.
• The old man accepted the God of Qilin’s gospel on behalf of the settlement, and the tribespeople lowered their weapons.
• The Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard bestowed an improved Soul Power cultivation method and foundational Soul Tool knowledge upon the believers.
• A small number of people rejected the incoming knowledge, which left them without the gift.

Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard delivered Xia Ming’s cultivation method and Soul Tool knowledge to the settlement before departing with the Soul Beast overlords. The old Soul Douluo recognized the gifts’ potential, then rushed to bring back the young people who had fled through the hidden passage.

• Earth-Radiant Dragon Lizard declared its mission temporarily complete and led the Soul Beast overlords away from the settlement.
• The old man realized the improved cultivation method could have helped him reach Nine Rings, but his age and exhausted potential left him with regret.
• The old man shifted his hopes to the settlement’s young people and saw the Soul Tool knowledge as a chance to transform their way of life.
• The old man remembered that a trusted Soul Saint had led the most talented youths through a hidden escape passage.
• The old man erupted with Soul Douluo strength and raced toward the passage to bring the youths back.