Chapter Summaries

Tang Hao insisted on bringing Hei Xing along, frustrating Tang Xiao and the Third Elder, who planned to kill her when Tang Hao was occupied. Back in Chuan Ling, Xu Xiao explained that Yu Xiaogang's pig Martial Soul retained Golden Holy Dragon blood, and Long Su said she could extract it if Yu Xiaogang summoned it.

• Tang Hao persuaded Tang Xiao to let Hei Xing travel with the Clear Sky Sect, then stayed by her side as Tang Xiao and the Third Elder waited for a chance to act.
• Bibi Dong told Xu Xiao and Long Su that Yu Xiaogang had been forced to eat waste after refusing leftovers.
• Xu Xiao explained that Yu Xiaogang's mutated Martial Soul retained Golden Holy Dragon blood and could have transformed if he had absorbed light-attribute dragon Soul Rings.
• Long Su said she could extract the Golden Holy Dragon bloodline if Yu Xiaogang summoned his Martial Soul, and Bibi Dong slipped out of the hall.

Xu Xiao, Bibi Dong, and Long Su watched Yu Xiaogang enter the Spirit Pagoda with a token Xu Xiao had arranged for him to find. After discovering that Luo Sanpao carried a weak Golden Holy Dragon bloodline, they considered whether Bibi Dong could use it to strengthen one of her spider martial souls.

• Xu Xiao and Bibi Dong discussed Yu Xiaogang’s mistreatment in the academy, and Long Su warned Bibi Dong to train more after she teased her martial uncles.
• Yu Xiaogang used a token he had found to enter the Spirit Pagoda, unaware that Xu Xiao had planted it for him.
• Yu Xiaogang found himself in a desolate wilderness and began searching for a treasure that could improve his aptitude.
• Long Su sensed the Golden Holy Dragon bloodline in Luo Sanpao and judged it too weak to be useful to her.
• Bibi Dong asked whether the bloodline could be used on her, and Long Su suggested sealing it inside one of her martial souls as a Dragon Soul.
• Xu Xiao doubted that a bloodline could be sealed and used the way a Dragon Soul could.

Xu Xiao and Long Su extracted a trace of dragon bloodline from Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul, then Xu Xiao took him to Slaughter City for punishment. There, Xu Xiao discovered that Chen Jianjun had become the Slaughter King but still needed to complete arena matches to leave.

• Xu Xiao agreed with Long Su to extract the bloodline from Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul, while Bibi Dong supported the attempt.
• Xu Xiao revealed that they had known Yu Xiaogang’s identity all along, and Long Su extracted a thread of pure bloodline from Luo Sanpao.
• Xu Xiao ordered Long Su to spread a false story through Blue Lightning that Yu Xiaogang had disappeared because of a Spirit Hall plot, and he planned to send Yu Xiaogang to Slaughter City.
• Xu Xiao teleported to Slaughter City, where Chen Jianjun complained that he could not leave despite becoming the Slaughter King.
• Chen Jianjun told Xu Xiao that he had won eighty arena matches and needed to reach one hundred to escape Slaughter City.

Xu Xiao visited Chen Jianjun in Slaughter City, then entered the chamber behind the Slaughter King's throne and used his Spirit Pagoda to claim the Asura Divine Sword. After sensing the Pagoda change, he hurried back and warned Chen Jianjun to stay away from Slaughter City.

• Chen Jianjun told Xu Xiao that he had killed the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King in the Slaughter Temple and gained its right arm bone.
• Xu Xiao brought Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang to Chen Jianjun, who welcomed Bibi Dong and agreed to handle Yu Xiaogang.
• Xu Xiao entered the chamber behind the Slaughter King's throne, where his Spirit Pagoda resisted the Asura Divine Sword's aura.
• Xu Xiao used the Spirit Pagoda's suction to draw the Asura Divine Sword inside, triggering a reaction from a figure in the Asura God Temple.
• Xu Xiao returned through the Spirit Pagoda and warned Chen Jianjun not to go to Slaughter City while he investigated the changes.

Xu Xiao opened the Spirit Pagoda’s final floor and met the Dragon God’s fading remnant, who explained the danger of the Asura Divine Sword’s lost connection to its god. The Dragon God told Xu Xiao to refine the sword with the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ aura, but Xu Xiao feared the Super Divine Artifact would kill him.

• Xu Xiao waited a month on the ninth floor as the Asura Divine Sword’s scarlet aura faded.
• The sword surged upward, opening the Spirit Pagoda’s final floor, and Xu Xiao entered the darkness there.
• The Dragon God appeared and revealed that he was dead, leaving behind a remnant of divine consciousness; he also confirmed he had foreseen the possibility of being split in two.
• The Dragon God warned that the Asura God would sense Xu Xiao if he left, because the sword had lost its connection to him.
• The Dragon God urged Xu Xiao to claim the sword by refining it with the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ aura, but Xu Xiao worried that the weapon would overwhelm him.

Xu Xiao learned that the drained Asura Divine Sword was safe to refine and bound it to himself. In the Divine Realm, the Asura God discovered the sword was missing, searched Douluo Continent with the other God Kings, and added finding the sword to his inheritance trials.

• The Dragon God explained that the Asura Divine Sword had lost its divine power and essence, so Xu Xiao could refine it by dripping blood on it and using Soul Power to bind it.
• Xu Xiao followed the Dragon God's instructions and established a connection with the Asura Divine Sword.
• The Asura God sensed that his sword's connection had been severed, killed a dancing woman in anger, and went to the God Realm Center to search for it.
• The Asura God and the Evil God King searched Slaughter City, then summoned the five God Kings to scan Douluo Continent with the God Realm Center, but they found no trace of the sword.
• The Life God King suggested making the Asura Divine Sword part of the inheritance trials, and the Asura God revised the trials so an inheritor could sense the sword within a hundred miles.
• After the other God Kings left, the Evil God King anticipated his chance to leave the Divine Realm, and the Kindness God King arrived.

The Kindness and Life God Kings offered Ye Shengxin a divine position, but he refused in favor of forging his own path; Gui Mei and Chen Xin also rejected the offers from Evil and Destruction. Meanwhile, Xu Xiao completed his refinement of the Asura Divine Sword, and the Dragon God revealed that Asura had searched the continent for it, leaving Xu Xiao asking if he could leave.

• The Evil and Kindness God Kings discussed candidates for succession, then asked Life and Destruction to let Kindness offer Ye Shengxin a divine position alongside Life.
• Life and Kindness appeared in Ye Shengxin's consciousness and offered him a position, but he refused because he wanted to become a god on his own.
• Gui Mei and Chen Xin each rejected the offers from Evil and Destruction, saying they had found their own paths.
• The four God Kings praised the candidates and looked forward to their eventual arrival in the God Realm.
• Xu Xiao completed refining the Asura Divine Sword atop the Spirit Pagoda and considered melting it down to make gauntlets.
• The Dragon God told Xu Xiao that Asura had searched the continent for the sword, and Xu Xiao asked whether he could leave.

Xu Xiao failed to reach the Silver Dragon King before the Dragon God’s three days were up, so he brought Long Su and the Soul Beasts to meet him instead. The Dragon God revealed the Spirit Pagoda’s origin and began explaining how Xu Xiao obtained it, leaving him unable to identify the stone from his childhood.

• Xu Xiao found the Silver Dragon King’s Slumbering Land sealed and learned he could not reach her or Di Tian in time.
• Xu Xiao brought Bi Ji and the other Soul Beasts, along with Long Su, to the Dragon God in the Spirit Pagoda.
• The Dragon God advised Long Su to obtain blood essence from the Silver Dragon King and the Golden Dragon King to awaken the Dragon God Heart.
• The Dragon God told Xu Xiao that the Spirit Pagoda came from a fragment of the Dragon God Realm’s core and that he himself was a strand of divine consciousness left behind after the war.
• The Dragon God asked Xu Xiao whether he remembered a stone he found by a river at age three, but Xu Xiao could not tell which stone he meant.

The Dragon God explained how the Divine Realm core fragment and a flood dragon’s soul transformed Xu Xiao’s two Martial Souls. Xu Xiao asked how he could surpass the Dragon God, and Long Su declared the same ambition as the Dragon God prepared to answer.

• The Dragon God told Xu Xiao that his ordinary tower Martial Soul became the Spirit Pagoda after fusing with a fragment of the Divine Realm’s core.
• The Dragon God explained that he had sealed the soul of a little flood dragon inside Xu Xiao’s self-type Martial Soul.
• The Dragon God said he had remained hidden inside the core after the Divine Realm’s purge, and confirmed that the Spirit Pagoda’s Divine Power would eventually dissipate.
• The Dragon God explained why the Silver Dragon King could not detect him or recognize the core fragment, and said Xu Xiao would understand the core’s rules in three days.
• Xu Xiao asked how he could surpass the Dragon God, and Long Su declared that she wanted to surpass him too.

The Dragon God advised Xu Xiao and Long Su on their future paths before exhausting his strength and dissipating. Afterward, Xu Xiao discussed whether the Silver Dragon King and Golden Dragon King could merge again.

• Long Su asked the Dragon God to teach her how to lead the Soul Beast race to prosperity, but he said she had to find her own path.
• The Dragon God told Xu Xiao that he could create and merge with a world, such as the Spirit Pagoda space, while Long Su should seek another path.
• Xu Xiao asked about refining laws, and the Dragon God said the path was possible only if Xu Xiao surpassed the laws the Dragon God had created.
• The Dragon God explained that Xu Xiao and his brothers could comprehend authority in the tower, then urged them to follow their hearts and asked Xu Xiao to tell the Silver Dragon King to live more freely.
• The Dragon God used up his remaining strength and vanished, leaving everyone silent.
• Xu Xiao said the Silver Dragon King and Golden Dragon King could still merge, since they had originally been one Dragon God.

After taking complete control of the Spirit Pagoda, Xu Xiao accompanied the Snow Empress to the Far North so she could receive the Ice God's inheritance. The Snow Empress obtained the inheritance route, while Xu Xiao revealed that he had already qualified for the Ice God's divine position.

• Xu Xiao speculated that merging the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King might awaken the Dragon God's divine soul, then realized he had fully taken control of the Spirit Pagoda.
• Xu Xiao brought Bi Ji and the other fierce beasts out of the Spirit Pagoda, and Bi Ji decided to return to watch over their companions.
• The Snow Empress asked Xu Xiao to accompany her to the Far North to receive her inheritance, and Xu Xiao gathered his brothers and invited Ye Lin and Chen Jianjun before teleporting there with her.
• The Ice Empress and Titan Snow Demon King arrived and mistook the Snow Empress's nausea from teleportation for pregnancy, but Xu Xiao explained what had happened.
• At the Ice God's inheritance site, the Snow Empress touched the stele, received the inheritance route, and excitedly embraced Xu Xiao.
• Xu Xiao revealed that he had qualified for the Ice God's divine position when he reached rank seventy.

Xu Xiao and the others reached the Ice God's inheritance beneath a frozen lake, where Snow Empress began the Ice God's Nine Trials. The Ice Dragon doubted Xu Xiao could have received the same trials until he revealed his extraordinary Soul Rings, leaving it speechless.

• The Ice Empress began breaking through the lake ice, but Xu Xiao used his Ninth Soul Skill to blast open a passage.
• Xu Xiao explained that his power could destroy the Far North, while the Ice Empress considered taking human form after Snow Empress's divine trial.
• The four reached the inheritance site, where an Ice Dragon recognized Xu Xiao and Snow Empress as inheritors and admitted them.
• Snow Empress sat on the throne and was sealed in transparent ice, prompting the Ice Dragon to announce that she had received the Ice God's Nine Trials.
• Xu Xiao said he could have received the Nine Trials too, and the Ice Dragon called him arrogant until he released his Soul Rings and left it stunned.

Xu Xiao declined the Ice God's inheritance after learning about Ice Sea, the Ice God's steward, while the Snow Empress received the nine Divine Trials. With Ice Sea's advice, the Ice Empress decided to take human form and asked the Snow Empress to look after her clan.

• Xu Xiao showed the Ice Dragon his Soul Rings, explained that he had rejected the Ice God's inheritance for the Snow Empress, and learned the steward's history and name, Ice Sea.
• The Snow Empress broke free of the ice, received the nine Divine Trials, and accepted Ice Sea as Uncle Hai.
• Xu Xiao asked Uncle Hai to help the Snow Empress and assigned the Titan Snow Demon King to stay with her.
• Uncle Hai advised the Ice Empress that taking human form would help her understand divine authority and cultivate toward godhood.
• The Ice Empress resolved to take human form, asked the Snow Empress to find a new leader for her clan, and began preparing to transform.

Xu Xiao brought the newly human Ice Empress to the Spirit Pagoda and discussed how his companions would use it to cultivate. He outlined plans to reshape the pagoda into their home and training grounds, while leaving its current trials unchanged for now.

• The Ice Empress took human form as a six-year-old girl, and Xu Xiao took her from the Snow Empress's inheritance ground to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Xu Xiao introduced the Ice Empress to his companions, and Ling Yuan apologized after learning who she was.
• Gui Mei told Xu Xiao that the group would keep their duties on the Sun Moon Continent and cultivate in the pagoda for three months each year.
• Xu Xiao explained that he could convert Soul Power into Divine Power because he now controlled the Spirit Pagoda's core fragment.
• Xu Xiao outlined plans to bring in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, create a medicinal garden and trial grounds, and merge the remaining floors into their headquarters.
• Xu Xiao said he would pursue both world-merging and world-advancement, but would leave the pagoda's trials unchanged until he had worked out the details.

Xu Xiao collected the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well into his Spirit Pagoda after learning that people from Blue Lightning had come to Spirit Pagoda looking for a son. Yu Yuanzhen confronted Xu Xiao and demanded his son back, leaving their dispute unresolved.

• Xu Xiao let Chen Jianjun return to Slaughter City while warning him to stay cautious, and Chen Jianjun agreed to bring the unconscious Gangzi back with him.
• Chen Xin and Gui Mei told the others that the Destruction God King and Evil God King had approached them about inheriting divine positions, but they said they wanted to remain with their brothers.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Xu Xiao explained the Dragon God's appearance to Zi Ji and announced he would take the well away.
• Gui Mei reported that people from Blue Lightning had arrived at Spirit Pagoda looking for Yu Yuanzhen's son, and Xu Xiao collected the well and its occupants into his Spirit Pagoda.
• Yu Yuanzhen arrived with several allies disguised in Blue Lightning clothing and demanded that Xu Xiao return his son.

Xu Xiao confronted Yu Yuanzhen and his companions after they came to Chuan Ling searching for Yu Xiaogang, then turned their failed search into an excuse to demand enormous compensation. He began listing what Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had to surrender, and ordered Su to kill the man who refused.

• Xu Xiao denied knowing whether Yu Xiaogang was in Chuan Ling and threatened Yu Yuanzhen's group for trespassing.
• Yu Yuanzhen pleaded for his son and offered compensation if Yu Xiaogang was not there, but Xu Xiao punched him and allowed the group to search.
• Yu Yuanzhen and the others found no trace of Yu Xiaogang, so Xu Xiao had Long Su and the others surround them and demanded compensation.
• Xu Xiao demanded five Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, a year's income, a third of its resources, and access to Death Valley from Spirit Hall.
• Xu Xiao demanded the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's books, five years of income, and its Heart Separation Control technique, then ordered Su to kill its protesting representative.

Xu Xiao forced the sect and empire representatives to promise compensation and threatened Heaven Dou and Star Luo with territorial demands, then began planning an unequal treaty for Chuan Ling. Yu Yuanzhen left for Spirit Hall after realizing his son was missing, but Golden Crocodile Douluo insisted Yu Xiaogang had been sent to Chuan Ling.

• Long Su killed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Soul Douluo elder, and Xu Xiao demanded compensation from the representatives.
• Xu Xiao ordered Heaven Dou to move its capital and demanded that Star Luo hand Silves City to Chuan Ling, while also requiring Blue Lightning to surrender all its resources.
• Xu Xiao told the representatives to return in a month to sign a treaty, and Ye Lin made them take their compensation documents before they could leave.
• Xu Xiao and the others drafted a hundred favorable treaty clauses, which he described as bargaining terms.
• Yu Yuanzhen went to Spirit Hall to confront Golden Crocodile Douluo about Yu Xiaogang's disappearance, while Golden Crocodile insisted Yu Xiaogang had entered Chuan Ling.

Qian Daoliu agreed to lead an alliance of factions threatened by Chuan Ling, while admitting Spirit Hall did not know the full extent of its strength. The factions accepted his plan and agreed to pay Chuan Ling’s demands for now as they prepared to unite against it.

• Yu Yuanzhen agreed to go with Golden Crocodile Douluo to ask the Grand Spirit Lord about Yu Xiaogang, while the compensation demand was sent to Qian Daoliu.
• Prince Xue Xing, Lady Ning, and the Zhu Family representative told Qian Daoliu that Chuan Ling had demanded cities, resources, books, and secret techniques from their factions.
• Lady Ning proposed uniting their forces under Spirit Hall’s leadership, and Qian Daoliu agreed to gather the factions and establish a shared base in another city.
• Qian Daoliu said they should pay Chuan Ling’s demands for now because Spirit Hall did not know its full strength, including that of the Grand Spirit Lord.
• Lady Ning told Prince Xue Xing to inform the emperor that Heaven Dou’s capital should be moved.

Lady Ning joined Spirit Hall’s leaders in opposing Chuan Ling, then went to bring Ning Fengzhi home from the academy. After hearing what had happened, Ning Fengzhi argued that the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Clan should ally with Chuan Ling, which he believed held the greater advantage.

• Qian Daoliu agreed to challenge Chuan Ling in a month after Lady Ning explained the upcoming event.
• Lady Ning found Ning Fengzhi at Spirit Hall Academy and told him he would be leaving after Yu Xiaogang’s actions made her uneasy about keeping him there.
• On the way home, Ning Fengzhi told Lady Ning she had made a mistake by siding with Spirit Hall instead of seeking an alliance with Chuan Ling.
• Ning Fengzhi argued that Chuan Ling might have a god or many Titled experts, and that Yu Xiaogang’s search for a way to improve his talent suggested Chuan Ling possessed powerful resources.
• Ning Fengzhi concluded that Chuan Ling’s secrecy and apparent advantages made it the strongest power, while Lady Ning considered his claims.

Ning Fengzhi persuaded Lady Ning to hedge the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s survival by favoring Chuan Ling while keeping ties to Spirit Hall. At Chuan Ling, Xu Xiao received Golden Crocodile Douluo and Yu Yuanzhen, denied knowing Yu Yuanzhen’s missing son, and demanded Blue Lightning pay its compensation.

• Ning Fengzhi proposed betting on both Chuan Ling and Spirit Hall, with the larger bet on Chuan Ling, and Lady Ning agreed to prepare for either outcome.
• Ning Fengzhi volunteered to deliver compensation to Chuan Ling, and Lady Ning allowed him to go after he argued Chuan Ling would not attack him.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and Yu Yuanzhen arrived at Chuan Ling, where Xu Xiao received them in the main hall.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo asked whether Yu Yuanzhen’s son was at Chuan Ling, and Xu Xiao denied knowing him or having admitted him.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked Xu Xiao to pass along any news about his son, but Xu Xiao demanded that Blue Lightning first deliver its compensation to Chuan Ling.