Recaps

Bo Saixi invited Su Mo and Xiao Wu to take part in Sea God Island's trials, but Su Mo declined while Xiao Wu agreed to try. Xiao Wu received the Top-Level Eight Trials and chose to pursue the early rewards without becoming Bo Saixi's successor.

• Bo Saixi invited Su Mo and Xiao Wu to attempt Sea God Island's trials, explaining that they could earn the Sea God's recognition and possibly inherit his divine position.
• Su Mo refused the Sea God's inheritance, while Xiao Wu agreed to participate after Bo Saixi assured her she would not be forced to stay unless she completed every trial.
• Bo Saixi brought Xiao Wu to the Sacred Pillar, where Xiao Wu's assessment produced eight red halos and a red forehead mark.
• Bo Saixi explained that Xiao Wu's Top-Level Eight Trials made her a candidate to become the next High Priest, but Xiao Wu said she wanted to return to the continent with Su Mo.
• Su Mo encouraged Xiao Wu to complete the first seven trials, and she learned that her first trial required climbing 108 steps through the Sea God's Light within one year.

Su Mo told Bo Saixi that Tang Chen had been parasitized by the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King and asked her to help free him. Bo Saixi learned that Tang Chen might still be saved, but that doing nothing would leave him to die in Slaughter City within a few years.

• Xiao Wu completed the Sea God's Light trial in five days and gained five hundred years on each of her soul rings.
• Su Mo told Bo Saixi that he wanted to find Xiao Wu another divine inheritance, the Asura God’s.
• Su Mo explained that Tang Chen had failed his final Asura trial and was now controlled by the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King in Slaughter City.
• Bo Saixi realized the parasitized man was Tang Chen, the man she had waited for, and told Su Mo about their relationship and agreement.
• Su Mo said Tang Chen could either die with the parasite in a few years or be freed from it after they defeated the King of Slaughter, though he would still have little time left.

Bo Saixi saw Tang Chen transformed into the King of Slaughter, and Tang Chen briefly regained control to beg her to kill him. She chose to have Su Mo defeat him and reclaim his body, then fought the King of Slaughter until he drew the Asura Blood Sword.

• Su Mo took Bo Saixi through a spatial rift to the ruined Slaughter City, where she saw Tang Chen as the King of Slaughter.
• Tang Chen briefly recognized Bo Saixi, fought the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King's control, and pleaded with her to kill him.
• After Tang Chen lost control again and charged at her, Bo Saixi asked Su Mo to defeat him and reclaim his body.
• Bo Saixi attacked the King of Slaughter with her soul skills, but he broke free of her Sea Burial vortex and drew the Asura Blood Sword.

Su Mo and Bo Saixi defeated the King of Slaughter and freed Tang Chen from the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King. Tang Chen, mortally weakened, reunited with Bo Saixi and thanked Su Mo for bringing them together before his death.

• The King of Slaughter attacked Bo Saixi and Su Mo with the Asura Blood Sword, but their combined assault created an opening for Bo Saixi.
• Bo Saixi struck the King of Slaughter with Sea God's Light, and Su Mo told her the light would harm the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King without hurting Tang Chen.
• Bo Saixi poured out her Sea God's Light, destroying the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King and freeing Tang Chen from its control.
• Bo Saixi caught Tang Chen as he fell, and Su Mo saw that Tang Chen's body was failing and quietly gave them time alone.
• Tang Chen recognized Su Mo and thanked him for bringing Bo Saixi to him, while Bo Saixi also expressed her gratitude to Su Mo.

Tang Chen reunited with Bo Saixi on Sea God Island and learned how Su Mo had transformed the soul master world after the soul beast extinction. He was astonished by Su Mo’s achievements and cultivation, then asked Bo Saixi how she had known he was in Slaughter City.

• Su Mo brought Tang Chen and Bo Saixi back to the Seaside Cottage, then left them alone together.
• Tang Chen asked Bo Saixi what had happened during his absence, and she described the soul beast extinction and the eleven-year crisis that followed.
• Bo Saixi told Tang Chen that Su Mo had created and shared the Ring Condensation Technique, restoring soul masters’ path to cultivation.
• Bo Saixi recounted Su Mo’s other achievements, including the Soul Power Cultivation Method, Su Mo Academy, and the Sea God Formula with thirteen complementary Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Tang Chen was stunned by Su Mo’s accomplishments and Eight-Ring Soul Douluo cultivation, then asked Bo Saixi how she had known he was in Slaughter City.

Tang Chen learned how Su Mo had arranged for Bo Saixi to find him and chose to leave the Asura God's inheritance to Su Mo in gratitude. Su Mo revealed that Xiao Wu would inherit it while he pursued his own path to create a god position, and Tang Chen transferred the inheritance into the Asura Blood Sword.

• Bo Saixi told Tang Chen that Su Mo had sought her help to find him and wanted the Asura God's inheritance.
• Tang Chen decided to give the inheritance to Su Mo because Su Mo had helped him regain his sanity and reunite with Bo Saixi.
• Su Mo told Tang Chen that Xiao Wu would inherit the Asura God's trials while he aimed to create his own god position.
• Tang Chen accepted Su Mo's decision and transferred the Asura God's inheritance into the Asura Blood Sword for Xiao Wu.

Tang San opened the Tang Sect in Barak City and taught its new disciples several Self-Created Soul Skills, drawing Clear Sky Sect's attention. Seventh Elder arrived and ordered Tang San to dissolve the sect, leaving Tang San to privately reveal that his father belonged to Clear Sky Sect.

• Tang San accepted thirty-seven members into the Tang Sect and taught them Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Tang Xiao learned that the Tang Sect taught a system of soul skills and sent Seventh Elder with four stewards to confront Tang San.
• Seventh Elder arrived at the Tang Sect and ordered Tang San to dissolve it within three days.
• Tang San asked why the sect had to close, then privately told Seventh Elder that his father was a member of Clear Sky Sect.

Tang San learned that the Clear Sky Sect regarded his father, Tang Hao, as a traitor and threatened to disband the Tang Sect in three days. Tang San refused to yield, while Yu Xiaogang and Flender began planning how to defend the sect.

• The Seventh Elder called Tang Hao a traitor and ordered Tang San to disband the Tang Sect and stop publicly teaching soul skills within three days.
• Tang San rejected the order, and Yu Xiaogang supported him as Flender and the other former Shrek Academy members vowed not to disband the Tang Sect.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang whether his father had truly been a traitor, but Yu Xiaogang could not answer.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Flender that the level ninety-two Seventh Elder could overpower them when he returned in three days.
• Yu Xiaogang and Flender decided they needed to hold the line for Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to seek Er Long.

Yu Xiaogang and Flender persuaded Liu Erlong to reunite the Golden Iron Triangle and help defend the Tang Sect from Tang Lie. When the Clear Sky Sect attacked, the Golden Iron Triangle blocked Tang Lie while Zhao Wuji and the Shrek teachers defeated his stewards, and the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Flender urged Yu Xiaogang to seek Liu Erlong’s help, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to leave for her at dawn.
• Flender explained the Clear Sky Sect’s threat to Liu Erlong, who agreed to help and leave with them the next morning.
• Tang San refused Tang Lie’s demand to disband the Tang Sect and return to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong formed the Golden Sacred Dragon and stopped Tang Lie’s attack on Tang San.
• Zhao Wuji and the Shrek teachers defeated the six Clear Sky Sect stewards as Tang Lie’s blows began to weaken the Golden Sacred Dragon.
• Someone shouted for Tang Lie to stop, warning that his disciples would die if he continued.

Tang San forced Tang Lie and the Clear Sky Sect disciples to retreat, prompting Tang Xiao to investigate Tang Hao’s son and send word to Tang Yuehua. Tang Yuehua came to Tang Sect and revealed she was Tang San’s aunt, then learned he had no news of his missing father.

• Tang San made Tang Lie withdraw after the Clear Sky Sect elder’s disciples were restrained, and Tang Sect celebrated its victory.
• Tang Lie returned to the Clear Sky Sect and reported that Tang San claimed to be Tang Hao’s son.
• Tang Xiao accepted that Tang San was likely Tang Hao’s son and told the elders to leave the matter alone for now.
• Tang Xiao sent a trusted subordinate to inform Tang Yuehua and ask whether she knew where Tang Hao had gone.
• Tang Yuehua traveled to Tang Sect, introduced herself to Tang San as his aunt, and learned that he was also searching for his missing father.

Tang Yuehua confirmed that Tang San was her nephew and told him that his mother, Ah Yin, had been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor who sacrificed herself to save Tang Hao. Tang San vowed to find his missing father, and Tang Yuehua promised to help while resolving to protect him and the Tang Sect.

• Tang Yuehua demonstrated her martial soul and Noble Ring, allowing Yu Xiaogang to confirm that she was Tang San's aunt.
• Tang San told Tang Yuehua about his childhood with Tang Hao and how he had not seen his father since being left at Nuoding Academy.
• Tang Yuehua said Tang Hao must have been trapped somewhere rather than choosing to abandon Tang San.
• Tang Yuehua revealed that Spirit Hall hunted Tang Hao and Ah Yin, and that Ah Yin sacrificed herself to save him.
• Tang San blamed Spirit Hall and vowed to find Tang Hao, while Tang Yuehua promised to search for him and protect her nephew.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to arrange a place for Tang Yuehua to rest, unaware that other forces had set their sights on the Tang Sect.

After Tang Yuehua returned to the imperial capital, several Tang Sect disciples disappeared, and Tang San learned that multiple forces were abducting them to steal the sect’s techniques. Huyan Zhen led a coalition to surround the Tang Sect and demand its entire inheritance, leaving Tang San facing their ultimatum.

• Tang Yuehua left the Tang Sect after promising to investigate Tang Hao’s whereabouts and urging Tang San to stay careful.
• Several Tang Sect disciples went missing, and an investigation linked their abductions to the Elephant Armor Sect, Wind Sword Sect, Fire Leopard Sect, White Tiger Sect, and local families.
• The four major sects examined techniques taken from Tang Sect disciples and agreed to attack together to seize the Tang Sect’s full inheritance.
• Before dawn, Huyan Zhen led more than a thousand people to surround the Tang Sect’s gate.
• Tang San confronted Huyan Zhen, who demanded every Tang Sect technique and ordered Tang San to come with them or face the destruction of the sect.

The Lower Four Sects attacked the Tang Sect to seize its cultivation techniques, leaving Tang San and his allies overwhelmed by four Title Douluo. Su Mo and Xiao Wu watched from above as the Tang Sect faced collapse.

• Huyan Zhen led the four sects in an assault on the Tang Sect, while Zhao Wuji, Flender, and Liu Erlong fought to protect its disciples.
• Tang San admitted to Yu Xiaogang that he had recruited too many disciples and revealed the techniques before he could protect them.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to escape through the back mountain, then joined Flender and Liu Erlong to unleash their Golden Sacred Dragon Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Huyan Zhen and the other three sect masters revealed themselves as Title Douluo, overwhelming the Golden Sacred Dragon and leaving Tang San fearing the Tang Sect would fall.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu watched the battle from above, and Su Mo explained that Tang San had made the Mysterious Heaven Skill easy for anyone to learn, inviting powerful factions to seize it.

Tang San’s Tang Sect was overwhelmed by the four allied sects, who had stolen its Cultivation Techniques and demanded the rest. Convinced he had doomed the sect, Tang San detonated his Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus, leaving everyone at the mountain gate caught in the blast.

• Huyan Zhen and the four sects’ forces broke through the Tang Sect’s defenses, defeating its disciples and driving Tang San back to the mountain gate.
• Huyan Zhen revealed that the sects had obtained the Tang Sect’s Cultivation Techniques from abducted disciples and demanded its remaining secrets.
• Tang San blamed himself for leaking the techniques and concluded that he deserved to die along with his enemies.
• Tang San poured his Soul Power into Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus and detonated it at the mountain gate, engulfing the four sects’ front lines and their four Title Douluo in a crimson explosion.
• Yu Xiaogang cried out in shock as the blast swept toward him and the others.

Tang San unleashed the Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus, killing himself and nearly everyone gathered outside the Tang Sect. Su Mo confirmed Tang San was dead, then let Xiao Wu take revenge on the only survivor, Huyan Zhen.

• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, Liu Erlong, and Zhao Wuji realized Tang San meant to kill everyone and could not stop him.
• Huyan Zhen tried to shield himself as Tang San's Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus exploded, destroying the surrounding buildings and killing the Tang Sect disciples and the four sects' forces.
• Huyan Zhen survived the blast but was gravely wounded, while Yu Xiaogang, Flender, Liu Erlong, and Zhao Wuji died.
• Su Mo confirmed Tang San had died, and Xiao Wu asked whether they should avenge him.
• Su Mo agreed and sent Xiao Wu to kill Huyan Zhen, who was still alive among the ruins.

Xiao Wu killed Huyan Zhen after the Tang Sect's destruction, while Su Mo left the ruins untouched so Bibi Dong would learn of Yu Xiaogang's death. When the news reached Spirit City, Bibi Dong erupted in grief and killing intent, then flew to the Tang Sect to confirm whether Yu Xiaogang was truly dead.

• Xiao Wu used her teleportation and sword to kill the wounded Huyan Zhen, avenging Tang San.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu decided to leave the Tang Sect ruins untouched so Spirit Hall and Bibi Dong would learn what had happened.
• Spirit Hall's reinforcements found the Tang Sect destroyed, and news of the deaths of Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and others spread through the Soul Master world.
• Ning Fengzhi concluded that Tang San's exposed techniques and the four sects' siege had led to the Tang Sect's destruction.
• Bibi Dong read the report of Yu Xiaogang's death, lost control of her killing intent, and damaged the Pope Palace.
• Bibi Dong flew to the Tang Sect and arrived above the ruins, determined to see Yu Xiaogang's corpse herself.

Bibi Dong mourned Yu Xiaogang at the Tang Sect ruins until Su Mo pulled them both into his Void Space, where he and Xiao Wu confronted her over Xiao Wu’s mother. Bibi Dong chose to fight, and the chapter ended as Xiao Wu charged her again.

• Bibi Dong found Yu Xiaogang’s corpse among the bodies at the Tang Sect ruins and wept over him.
• Su Mo opened a rift and drew Yu Xiaogang’s corpse into the Void Space, and Bibi Dong was pulled in as she clung to his legs.
• Su Mo told Bibi Dong that she would die for killing Xiao Wu’s mother, and Bibi Dong accepted his challenge.
• Bibi Dong summoned the Death Spider Emperor and attacked Su Mo and Xiao Wu, but they turned intangible and evaded her blades.
• Xiao Wu struck at Bibi Dong, was repelled by her web-like Soul Power, and charged at her again.

Su Mo and Xiao Wu fought Bibi Dong across the Floating Island, using their abilities to withstand her attacks and wear her down. After three days and nights, Bibi Dong was defeated, and Xiao Wu killed her to avenge her mother.

• Su Mo attacked Bibi Dong with Ring Detonation and Great Sumeru Slash, while Xiao Wu battered her with Eight-Stage Explosive Throw.
• Bibi Dong countered with her Soul Devouring Domain, spider web, and Eternal Scar, but Xiao Wu evaded the killing blow with the void.
• Bibi Dong unleashed both Martial Souls in a relentless assault, and Su Mo intervened to save Xiao Wu before they attacked her together.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu severed four of Bibi Dong's spider spears, then continued fighting her for three days and three nights until she was exhausted and defeated.
• Xiao Wu raised her sword and killed Bibi Dong to avenge her mother.

After Xiao Wu avenged her mother by killing Bibi Dong, she recovered her mother's Soul Bone while Su Mo refined Bibi Dong's remaining Soul Bones into every bone in his body. Bibi Dong's body appeared before the Pope Palace, plunging Spirit Hall and the continent into uncertainty, while Qian Daoliu arranged her funeral and worried about Qian Renxue's reaction.

• Xiao Wu mourned Bibi Dong's death and told her mother that she had avenged her.
• Seven Soul Bones emerged from Bibi Dong's corpse, and Su Mo gave Xiao Wu her mother's hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit left leg bone.
• Su Mo refined the remaining Soul Bones with his cultivation method until every bone in his body became a Soul Bone, while Xiao Wu guarded him.
• Su Mo sent Bibi Dong's corpse to the steps before Spirit City's Pope Palace, where deacons discovered it and news of her death spread across the continent.
• Spirit Hall investigated Bibi Dong's death but found no answers, while Qian Daoliu ordered a grand funeral and worried that Qian Renxue would be heartbroken.

Su Mo returned to Su Mo Academy and announced that its second class would openly teach its Cultivation Techniques and Self-Created Soul Skills without Secrecy Contracts. The academy’s vast curriculum drew Soul Masters and major powers from across the continent as enrollment approached.

• Xiao Wu stayed on Sea God Island to continue her Top-Level Eight Trials while Su Mo returned to prepare the academy’s second enrollment.
• Ning Fengzhi visited Su Mo, who told him students could take and share everything they learned at the academy.
• News of the open enrollment spread across the continent, prompting Soul Masters, sects, and clans to rush toward Seven Treasure City.
• Su Mo trained the first class’s ten veteran students in new Cultivation Techniques while Xiao Wu was away.
• Su Mo listed the academy’s extensive cultivation methods and weapon-based Self-Created Soul Skills on a stone, and readers across the continent reacted with excitement.

Su Mo Academy’s second admissions exam selected one thousand students, and its openly shared cultivation methods and weapon skills spread across Douluo Continent, transforming how Soul Masters trained. As Xiao Wu praised Su Mo for changing the continent, she asked whether he had found a way to cultivate Faith Power.

• Su Mo announced the two-part admissions test, and academy students tested applicants’ Martial Souls, Soul Power, and ability to follow a meridian route.
• The academy selected exactly one thousand students, who began carrying its teachings back to their clans and sects a month later.
• Su Mo Academy’s universal and attribute cultivation methods spread across the continent, helping Soul Masters strengthen their Soul Power and break through bottlenecks.
• Weapon skills taught by the academy improved combat ability, while even Clear Sky Sect collected the public techniques and Tang Xiao worried they would undermine the sect’s advantage.
• Soul Masters called Su Mo Academy a holy land of transmitted teachings, and Su Mo dismissed claims that he sought to set new rules for the continent.
• Xiao Wu praised Su Mo in the academy’s rear mountain pavilion, then asked whether he had found a way to cultivate Faith Power.

Su Mo created the God-Sealing Art to absorb Faith Power, and his cultivation rapidly rose as his teachings spread across Douluo Continent. After Xiao Wu completed the Sea God's Seventh Trial and reached Level 91, Su Mo broke through to Level 99 at age twenty-six and made the achievement public, astonishing Soul Masters everywhere.

• Su Mo used the newly devised God-Sealing Art to absorb Faith Power, and his cultivation climbed to Level 97 within a year.
• Xiao Wu completed the Sea God's Seventh Trial, declined the Eighth Trial, and teleported to Su Mo at Level 91.
• Su Mo's cultivation methods spread throughout Douluo Continent, while the revised Mysterious Heaven Skill became known as the Foundation Establishment Skill.
• Two years later, Su Mo reached Level 99 at age twenty-six and ordered Feng Xiaotian to announce his breakthrough.
• Su Mo Academy spread the news across the continent, and Soul Masters everywhere reacted with astonishment.

After raising all nine of his Soul Rings to one hundred thousand years, Su Mo made the Ring Ascension Technique public, setting Soul Masters across the continent to work improving their rings. As he and Xiao Wu watched the continent’s lights, Xiao Wu asked whether Su Mo could give Self-Condensed Soul Rings Soul Skills.

• Su Mo raised his Soul Rings one by one until all nine were red, each reaching one hundred thousand years.
• Su Mo told Ning Fengzhi he would publish the Ring Ascension Technique, which could raise Soul Ring quality with enough Soul Power.
• Su Mo carved the technique onto a stele at Su Mo Academy and distributed copies to major academies, sects, and the two empires.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy, the Clear Sky Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and other powers began prioritizing the technique for their members.
• Soul Masters across the continent practiced the Ring Ascension Technique day and night while Su Mo and Xiao Wu watched the glowing rings from a cliff.
• Xiao Wu asked Su Mo whether he could imprint Soul Skills onto Self-Condensed Soul Rings.

Su Mo resolved the controversy over the Ring Ascension Technique by developing and publicly releasing the Soul Skill Inscription Method, completing a cultivation system that spread across the continent. After five years of widespread cultivation and growing Faith Power, Su Mo sensed that he was ready to ascend to godhood through faith.

• Soul Masters complained that improved Soul Rings still lacked Soul Skills, and the Ring Ascension Technique faced growing criticism.
• Su Mo Academy announced that Su Mo was researching a method to imprint Self-Created Soul Skills onto Soul Rings.
• Two months later, Su Mo developed and released the Soul Skill Inscription Method, earning widespread admiration and greater Faith Power.
• Su Mo traveled with Xiao Wu and occasionally visited Su Mo Academy as his cultivation methods spread across the continent over the next five years.
• The cultivation system reached remote villages, ordinary people gained ways to cultivate, and Su Mo's Faith Power grew to an immense scale.
• Su Mo sensed that the moment had arrived for him to ascend to godhood through faith.

Su Mo used the faith of people across the continent to create his own Divine Position and ascend to godhood without a divine inheritance. He proclaimed his success to every living being, leaving the continent’s powerful figures and the people of Sea God Island stunned.

• Su Mo gathered Faith Power as the God-Sealing Art operated, and his nine red Soul Rings turned golden before a tenth Soul Ring formed.
• Su Mo attained a Divine Position through his own cultivation and the wishes of countless people, then announced his ascension across the Douluo Continent.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo recognized that Su Mo had truly become a god.
• Yu Yuanzhen, Yu Tianheng, and Yu Tianxin reacted with shock and reverence, while Tang Xiao realized the Clear Sky Sect could never catch up to Su Mo.
• Qian Daoliu recognized Su Mo’s divine authority and concluded that godhood was possible without an inheritance.
• Bo Saixi remembered Su Mo’s promise to create his own Divine Position and acknowledged that he had succeeded.