Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiao discussed godhood, law authority, and Divine Power with the Silver Dragon King before setting out to study time and space. On the way to Heaven Dou City, he subdued a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and ordered it to kill a group blocking his path.

• Xu Xiao asked the Silver Dragon King about inheriting Godhood, comprehending time and space, and using the Power of Faith.
• The Silver Dragon King gave Xu Xiao a strand of Divine Power and urged him to focus on time and space, treating fire and ice as a fallback.
• Xu Xiao left the Slumbering Land with Di Tian, gave Xiong Jun instructions, and used teleportation while trying to understand space.
• Xu Xiao encountered a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, suppressed it, and forced it to carry him toward Heaven Dou City.
• A wealthy young master tried to take the tiger and blocked Xu Xiao with a group of people, so Xu Xiao ordered the tiger to kill them.

Xu Xiao returned to Chuan Ling after forcing Prince Xue Xing to accept a compensation demand, then told his brothers and Snow Empress what the Silver Dragon King had taught him about godhood and divine authority. The group began considering their individual paths, and Xu Xiao planned for Ye Shengxin to seek the Power of Faith in a month.

• Xu Xiao ordered the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to attack Prince Xue Xing’s Soul Masters, then demanded that Xue Ye deliver compensation to Chuan Ling within three days.
• Xu Xiao returned to Chuan Ling Main Hall, greeted Bibi Dong, and let her play on the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Xu Xiao gathered his brothers and Snow Empress and recounted the Silver Dragon King’s knowledge about ascension, godhood, and authority.
• Gui Mei proposed that Ye Shengxin pursue the Power of Faith first, and Xu Xiao agreed that he would leave in a month for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Dugu Bo, Gu Rong, Gui Mei, Yue Guan, and Ling Yuan considered how their Martial Souls might guide their paths to divine authority.
• Xu Xiao urged everyone to keep improving their Soul Power and spiritual power and to reach Soul Power level one hundred.

Xu Xiao left his brothers to consider their paths and watched Gu Rong realize that protecting them was his purpose. Later, he let Bibi Dong and Ye Qing become sworn sisters and assigned them the Earth Cave Demon Spider, whose sudden appearance alarmed Zi JI and Zhong Ling.

• Xu Xiao told Gu Rong that he would understand his path once he stopped worrying about it, and Gu Rong realized he wanted to protect Chuan Ling and his brothers.
• Xu Xiao found Bibi Dong and Ye Qing asleep on the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and learned that they had become sworn sisters beneath the Spirit Pagoda.
• Xu Xiao approved their bond but refused to let them keep the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, offering them another Soul Beast instead.
• Xu Xiao summoned the Earth Cave Demon Spider, who revealed that it had reached a hundred thousand years and eagerly accepted its new role with the two girls.
• Bibi Dong and Ye Qing fled from the Earth Cave Demon Spider, while Zi JI and Zhong Ling moved to suppress it until Xu Xiao explained that it was one of them.

Xu Xiao discovered that killing Soul Beasts inside the Spirit Pagoda could raise a Soul Beast’s cultivation, while he bestowed Soul Rings on Bibi Dong and Ye Qing. Zi Ji and Zhong Ling asked him to dedicate an upper floor to the Soul Beast clan after testing the Pagoda and finding it contained a mysterious energy.

• The Earth Cave Demon Spider told Xu Xiao, Zi Ji, and Zhong Ling that killing Soul Beasts inside the Pagoda had caused its cultivation to rise to the hundred-thousand-year level.
• Xu Xiao brought the group into the Spirit Pagoda, where Zi Ji and Zhong Ling began testing its effects on Soul Beasts.
• Xu Xiao bestowed a thousand-year Soul Ring on Bibi Dong and a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring on Ye Qing, then told them to keep his ability secret.
• Xu Xiao and the girls discussed how his martial uncles had fought when they became sworn siblings.
• Zi Ji asked Xu Xiao to grant the Soul Beast clan one of the Pagoda’s upper three floors, explaining that she and Zhong Ling had tested the first eight floors and found that defeating the main Soul Beasts released a higher-level energy into their bodies.

Xu Xiao learned how the Spirit Pagoda’s energy could rapidly raise Soul Ring ages and granted Zi JI’s clan limited access to the seventh layer. After using the Silver Dragon King’s Divine Power to break through the barrier, he opened the ninth layer and began sensing the pagoda’s energy.

• Zi JI explained how quickly Soul Beasts could reach a hundred thousand years by hunting on different layers of the Spirit Pagoda.
• Xu Xiao offered the Soul Beast clan access to the seventh layer, limited to three prodigies at a time, and asked Zi JI to consult the Silver Dragon King about the energy.
• Xu Xiao sent Zi JI and Zhong Ling away, assigned the Earth Cave Demon Spider to protect Bibi Dong and Ye Qing, and told the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to cultivate.
• Xu Xiao went to the eighth layer, tested the energy from slain sea Soul Beasts, and found that he could neither absorb it nor use it to raise his capped Soul Rings.
• Xu Xiao brought out the Silver Dragon King’s Divine Power, which broke the barrier and opened the Spirit Pagoda’s ninth layer.
• Xu Xiao arrived on the empty ninth layer, sensed that he could control every layer, and began studying the pagoda’s energy.

Xu Xiao discovered that the Spirit Pagoda’s ninth level contained energy that could raise the cultivation ages of Soul Rings, and he brought Ye Lin there to test it. He later showed the energy to the Silver Dragon King, who identified it as Pseudo-Divine Power and revealed that she would take the name Gu Yuena.

• Xu Xiao realized the ninth-level energy resembled Divine Power and brought Ye Lin to absorb it, where it raised the age of Ye Lin’s Soul Rings.
• After leaving Ye Lin to cultivate with a ninth-level token, Xu Xiao traveled to the Star Dou Forest and asked to see the Silver Dragon King.
• Xu Xiao brought the Silver Dragon King to the ninth level, where she recognized the energy as Pseudo-Divine Power.
• The Silver Dragon King transformed into human form, named herself Gu Yue, and accepted Xu Xiao’s suggestion to use the name Gu Yuena.
• Xu Xiao asked Gu Yuena to explain Pseudo-Divine Power and its appearance inside the Spirit Pagoda.

Xu Xiao learned from Gu Yuena that the Spirit Pagoda generated exceptionally potent fake Divine Power, which its rules directed toward Soul Beasts and Soul Rings rather than human cultivation. Gu Yuena agreed to stay in the Pagoda and help him study its rules, while reminding him that he could change them as their master.

• Gu Yuena explained that fake Divine Power was diluted Divine Power and said the Spirit Pagoda's energy was unusually close to true Divine Power in quality.
• Xu Xiao asked why he could not cultivate with the energy while Soul Beasts could use it to grow, and Gu Yuena traced the Pagoda's function to Soul Rings and their Soul Beast origins.
• Gu Yuena suggested Xu Xiao's Martial Soul had formed its own rules and that he might be able to change them after obtaining all nine Soul Rings.
• Xu Xiao told Gu Yuena that memories and Soul Beasts would appear on the ninth floor after he obtained his ninth Soul Ring, but Gu Yuena reminded him that he was the Pagoda's master.
• Xu Xiao accepted that he might eventually alter the Pagoda's rules, though his current strength remained insufficient.

Xu Xiao received Di Tian’s sacrifice and External Soul Bone, reaching Level 99 but failing to break through to Level 100. He and Gu Yuena examined the Spirit Pagoda’s memory replay, where Di Tian saw the Dragon God and Xu Xiao wondered whether his Martial Soul was connected to the Soul Beast clan.

• Xu Xiao and Gu Yuena found that he still could not change the Spirit Pagoda’s internal space, so Gu Yuena suggested he try again after obtaining his ninth Soul Ring.
• Gu Yuena summoned Di Tian and told him to sacrifice himself to Xu Xiao, who asked for Di Tian’s Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King External Soul Bone.
• After three days, Di Tian’s sacrifice raised Xu Xiao’s Soul Power to Level 99, but Gu Yuena explained that reaching Level 100 remained a difficult barrier.
• Xu Xiao spent a week refining Di Tian’s Soul Bone, then learned that he would need to become a god before he could fully master the Spirit Pagoda.
• Xu Xiao and Gu Yuena returned to the ninth floor, where Di Tian’s memories replayed and Di Tian excitedly recognized the Dragon God.

Xu Xiao suspected that the Spirit Pagoda was created to help Soul Beasts and that the Dragon God had somehow noticed him. After receiving Divine Power from Gu Yuena, he left with Zi Ji and three Soul Beasts, determined to investigate the mystery further.

• Xu Xiao reasoned that the Spirit Pagoda was connected to the Dragon God and Soul Beasts, then told Gu Yuena and Di Tian that he had felt the Dragon God glance at him.
• Gu Yuena and Di Tian doubted that the dead Dragon God could have looked at Xu Xiao, but Gu Yuena agreed to give him more Divine Power.
• Xu Xiao sped up the memories by accident, and Gu Yuena ended the viewing, urging him to become a god and uncover the Spirit Pagoda's secrets.
• Gu Yuena gave Xu Xiao a ball of Divine Power and told him that the Soul Beast race had placed its bet on him.
• Xu Xiao rejoined Zi Ji and met three Soul Beasts who had chosen to follow him, then decided to return through the Spirit Pagoda.

After failing to open the Spirit Pagoda’s hidden summit with the Silver Dragon King’s Divine Power, Xu Xiao prepared to travel to Sun Moon Continent and search for Universe Asking Love Valley. He arrived there with his companions, resumed court, and announced that eight people would be made kings to share the realm with him.

• Xu Xiao tested a cluster of the Silver Dragon King’s Divine Power at the top of the Spirit Pagoda, but it was not enough to open the hidden place.
• Xu Xiao decided to search for Universe Asking Love Valley, then watched the ninth-floor memories and left disappointed that the Dragon God did not look at him.
• Xu Xiao gave Zhong Ling the Spirit Pagoda’s third projection and led his companions to the forbidden grounds of the Chuan Ling Imperial Dynasty on Sun Moon Continent.
• Mo Hongchen and Kong Yi greeted Xu Xiao, who inspected their Soul Rings and ordered them to summon the court.
• Xu Xiao held court at Chuan Ling Hall and announced that the people beside him would receive the titles of eight kings and share the realm with him.

Xu Xiao named his brothers Equal-Rank Princes and sent them to inspect the Chuan Ling Imperial Dynasty, while Mo Hongchen investigated a way to add an External Soul Bone. After three months, Xu Xiao offered a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone as a reward for solving the problem, then sent Ye Shengxin out to practice medicine and build his reputation.

• Xu Xiao appointed Gui Mei, Yue Guan, Dugu Bo, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, Ye Shengxin, Ling Yuan, and Long Su as Equal-Rank Princes whose commands equaled imperial decrees.
• Xu Xiao assigned Kong Yi and Mo Hongchen to accompany the princes on an inspection of the dynasty and root out corrupt officials.
• Xu Xiao reassured Zhong Ling that the group could handle the danger, and they shared a quiet moment together on the throne.
• After three months of research, Mo Hongchen said that adding an External Soul Bone would likely require a Rank 9 Soul Tool, so Xu Xiao offered a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone as a reward for developing a solution.
• Xu Xiao told Ye Shengxin to practice medicine, build his fame, and return through the Spirit Pagoda whenever he missed them.

Ye Shengxin left to seek faith through medicine while Xu Xiao arranged for Ling Yuan and Chen Xin to remain in the Sun Moon Continent. After rejecting Qian Xunji’s proposed exchange, Xu Xiao’s threat drove Qian Xunji to seek the Angel God’s trial.

• Xu Xiao warned Ye Shengxin to look for Universe Asking Love Valley, and Ye Shengxin departed with Zhong Ling and Xiong Jun to practice medicine and gather faith.
• Ling Yuan chose to stay in the Sun Moon Continent to hunt Fallen Ones, and Chen Xin agreed to remain until she obtained her Sixth Soul Ring.
• Ye Lin told Xu Xiao that Qian Xunji had repeatedly requested an exchange, and Gui Mei learned that Spirit Hall and other factions wanted to study Chuan Ling’s development.
• Xu Xiao rejected the exchange despite Qian Xunji’s offer of a fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone and told Ye Lin to relay his challenge to Spirit Hall.
• Enraged by Xu Xiao’s words, Qian Xunji went to Worship Hall and demanded to undergo the Angel God’s trial.

Qian Xunji underwent the Angel trial and received only the Angel’s seven trials, then left Spirit Hall’s affairs with Golden Crocodile while preparing to complete his divine trial. Qian Xunji and Golden Crocodile arranged to send Yu Xiaogang to Chuan Ling, and Yu Xiaogang discovered a passage about Chuan Ling in the library.

• Qian Xunji knelt before Qian Daoliu and spent a hundred days in the Angel Sanctuary before touching the Angel Statue.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Xunji that he had received the Angel’s seven trials and ordered him to hand Spirit Hall’s affairs to Golden Crocodile before beginning the divine trial.
• Qian Xunji gave Golden Crocodile instructions to watch out for Chuan Ling and suggested sending Yu Xiaogang to Chuan Ling by hinting at treasures that could improve his aptitude.
• Golden Crocodile agreed to the plan and went to the Library Pavilion to arrange matters concerning Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang found a passage about Chuan Ling in a book and became excited, then despaired that the information led him there.

Yu Xiaogang decided to leave Spirit Hall and seek strength at Chuan Ling under the false name Gang Xiao, but Bibi Dong turned him away at the gate. Inside the academy, Xu Xiao asked Bibi Dong about the would-be student, leaving Yu Xiaogang stranded outside.

• Golden Crocodile secretly arranged for someone to give Yu Xiaogang a hint, and Yu Xiaogang resolved to join Chuan Ling despite fearing his identity would be discovered.
• After a class lesson about traveling abroad for experience, Yu Xiaogang resigned from his post with Golden Crocodile Douluo and set out for Chuan Ling.
• Yu Xiaogang reached Chuan Ling and introduced himself to Bibi Dong as Gang Xiao, asking to join the academy.
• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang that Chuan Ling was not accepting anyone, then carried her chair into the academy and left him waiting at the gate.
• Xu Xiao asked Bibi Dong whether she had met anyone outside, and Bibi Dong told him Gang Xiao wanted to join Chuan Ling.

Xu Xiao and Bibi Dong recognized that Yu Xiaogang had come to Chuan Ling at Qian Xunji’s urging, and planned to keep him around until Gui Mei could extract his Martial Soul’s bloodline energy. Bibi Dong read Dark Hall’s records, then caught Yu Xiaogang lying about his qualifications as he tried to enter the academy.

• Xu Xiao told Bibi Dong that Yu Xiaogang was a level-0.5 Innate Soul Power waste from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, sent by Qian Xunji to cause trouble for Chuan Ling.
• Xu Xiao told Bibi Dong to pretend she knew nothing and wait for Gui Mei to extract the bloodline energy from Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul.
• Bibi Dong went to Dark Hall, where Gui Mei directed her to the records on Yu Xiaogang before vanishing into the darkness.
• Bibi Dong read the records, confirmed Yu Xiaogang was a waste, and went back toward the gate with her lounge chair.
• Yu Xiaogang approached Bibi Dong and lied that his Martial Soul was Luo Sanpao and his Innate Soul Power had been level three.

Bibi Dong humiliated Yu Xiaogang over his weak Martial Soul and refused to let him join Chuan Ling as a dog. After first rejecting him, she accepted his desperate offer to do anything, while Yu Xiaogang secretly resolved to take revenge once he gained power.

• Bibi Dong made Yu Xiaogang summon Luo Sanpao, mocked the purple piglet and his low Soul Power, and told him he was not fit to be her dog.
• Su Li brought newly awakened youngsters into Chuan Ling, and Yu Xiaogang angrily questioned why they could enter when he could not.
• Yu Xiaogang convinced himself that becoming Chuan Ling's dog would be a temporary humiliation and that nobody would discover his identity as the young master of Blue Lightning.
• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang he was not even qualified to be a dog, and he pleaded to join Chuan Ling in any capacity.
• Bibi Dong agreed to take Yu Xiaogang with her, while he secretly celebrated and vowed to take revenge after rising to power.

Bibi Dong brought Yu Xiaogang to Chuan Ling and assigned him a toilet to live in while secretly arranging for Dark Hall to monitor him. That night, Yu Xiaogang sneaked out to Spirit Pagoda, where Bibi Dong and two watchers caught him inspecting the tower.

• Bibi Dong led Yu Xiaogang to the student quarters and assigned him a room in the first-floor toilet, along with cleaning duties.
• Bibi Dong told two Dark Hall members to keep Yu Xiaogang under watch, conceal that he was a Spirit Hall spy, and record what happened to him.
• Xu Xiao praised Bibi Dong’s handling of Yu Xiaogang, ordered her not to kill or expose him, and warned her to improve her cultivation.
• After night fell, Yu Xiaogang crept out of the toilet and went to Spirit Pagoda, stroking its stone surface with eager interest.
• Bibi Dong and two Dark Hall members watched Yu Xiaogang from the shadows and reacted with disgust at his behavior.

Yu Xiaogang failed to enter the Stone Tower and was humiliated by Bibi Dong’s students, while Xu Xiao prepared to act against Tang Hao and went to the Star Dou Forest. There, he forced the Black Gorilla to transform after it reached a hundred thousand years, then summoned the Evil Emperor in disgust when it began eating excrement.

• Yu Xiaogang searched the Stone Tower at night but could not find a way inside, while Bibi Dong and the others planned to lure him back.
• Bibi Dong’s students trampled Yu Xiaogang, threw him into a cesspit, and left him covered in filth.
• Three months later, Gui Mei told Xu Xiao that Tang Hao was going to hunt for a Soul Ring, and Xu Xiao decided to set out the next day.
• Xu Xiao teleported to the Star Dou Forest, found the Black Gorilla close to reaching a hundred thousand years, and returned a week later to make it transform.
• The transformed Black Gorilla began eating excrement, so Xu Xiao vomited and summoned the Evil Emperor.

Xu Xiao recruited the Evil Emperor to help keep Hei Xing hidden and influence Tang Hao, then brought her to the Star Dou Forest. Tang Hao fell in love at first sight when Hei Xing ran toward the Clear Sky Sect group calling for help.

• Xu Xiao persuaded the Evil Emperor to watch over Hei Xing and protect her relationship with Tang Hao for about thirty years.
• Xu Xiao forced Hei Xing to acknowledge the Evil Emperor as her master, poisoned her, and promised her an antidote every three years.
• Hei Xing eagerly accepted Tang Hao as her mate, and Xu Xiao named her Hei Xing before taking her toward the Star Dou Forest.
• Tang Xiao and Tang Hao arrived at the outskirts of Star Dou Forest with members of the Clear Sky Sect, and Tang Xiao warned his brother to be careful.
• A woman ran toward the group calling for help, and Tang Hao told Tang Xiao he had fallen in love with her at first sight.

Tang Hao fell for Hei Xing after the Evil Emperor’s trick made him see her as a beautiful woman, while Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect saw a hulking, foul-smelling beast. Tang Hao refused to let Hei Xing leave the group, and Tang Xiao turned to the Third Elder for advice.

• Tang Hao mistook Hei Xing for an elegant woman and killed the tiger pursuing her with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao helped Hei Xing up and introduced her to Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect, while Tang Xiao and the others questioned his judgment.
• Xu Xiao praised the Evil Emperor’s bewitching trick, told him to keep Hei Xing alive, and teleported away.
• Tang Hao explained that Hei Xing’s soul-hunting party had been wiped out and asked for her to travel with them.
• Hei Xing’s stench made Tang Xiao, the Third Elder, and the other sect members vomit, but Tang Hao refused to send her away.
• Tang Xiao asked the Third Elder what they should do about Hei Xing.