Chapter Summaries

After Yu Yuanzhen and Golden Crocodile Douluo left Chuan Ling, Ning Fengzhi brought the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s compensation but was refused when he tried to pledge allegiance. Xu Xiao learned that Spirit Hall and other powers were building a rival central city, which quickly rose and drew major factions together; on its third day, an unidentified figure arrived at its gates.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo told Yu Yuanzhen that his son had probably left Chuan Ling and might return with a solution to his problems.
• Ning Fengzhi brought ten carriages of compensation to Chuan Ling, but Xu Xiao rejected his offer to join and ordered him to leave.
• Gui Mei told Xu Xiao that Ning Fengzhi had discussed playing both sides and that Spirit Hall planned to join other powers in building a central city.
• Xu Xiao said Chuan Ling would take over Heaven Dou City when the imperial family moved and could reinforce its walls with Soul Tools from Sun Moon Continent.
• The Heaven Dou and Star Luo imperial families, major sects, and smaller factions helped build and occupy a new central city, with six powers controlling it.
• On the new city’s third day, an unidentified figure stood beneath its gates and praised its appearance.

Xu Xiao learned that Qian Daoliu was leading an alliance to challenge Chuan Ling and prepared to plunder the factions’ resources while they were away. At Chuan Ling, Long Su confronted Qian Daoliu with extraordinary Soul Rings, and a mysterious dragon-winged figure arrived to reveal that they were real.

• Gui Mei reported that Qian Daoliu planned to challenge Chuan Ling, and Xu Xiao gave him the Spirit Pagoda projection to help steal Spirit Hall’s treasures.
• After three days of preparations, Xu Xiao watched Qian Daoliu’s alliance depart for Chuan Ling, then headed for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and other bases to strip them of their resources.
• Qian Daoliu led the allied powerhouses to Chuan Ling and demanded a challenge against the Grand Spirit Lord.
• Long Su rode out to face Qian Daoliu and displayed eight unusual Soul Rings, including platinum rings, leaving the alliance stunned.
• Qian Daoliu insisted the Soul Rings were an illusion, but a dragon-winged figure emerged from the sky and declared that platinum Soul Rings belonged to beings over a million years old.

Qian Daoliu challenged Chuan Ling’s Spirit Masters, but Xu Xiao arrived and overwhelmed him and his followers with his presence. The chapter ended with Qian Daoliu doubting whether even his Divine Power could defeat Xu Xiao.

• Gu Rong and Yue Guan appeared before Qian Daoliu and identified themselves as Chuan Ling’s Sixth and Third Spirit Masters.
• The Wind Sword Sect, Elephant Armored Sect, and other factions regretted choosing to support Spirit Hall, while Lady Ning and Ning Fengzhi recognized Gu Rong and Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo arrived on a green dragon and revealed his Jade Phosphor Snake Martial Soul had transformed, while Gu Rong taunted Lady Ning over her family’s past treatment of the Ye Family.
• Xu Xiao appeared after stripping Soul Union City’s major factions of their valuables, mocked Qian Daoliu, and unleashed pressure that forced Ning Fengzhi, Lady Ning, and most of Qian Daoliu’s followers to their knees.
• Qian Daoliu wondered whether his Divine Power could defeat Xu Xiao.

Xu Xiao overwhelmed Qian Daoliu with his Martial Soul Avatar and froze him with his eighth soul skill, but Qian Daoliu used Angel Divine Power to break free. Xu Xiao’s frost then severed Qian Daoliu’s right arm, leaving Golden Crocodile Douluo stunned.

• Ice Empress, Ye Qing, and Bibi Dong watched Xu Xiao’s fight as Ice Empress praised his strength.
• Xu Xiao summoned his Ice Fire Dragon Body and shattered Qian Daoliu’s Angel Longsword and Angel True Body.
• Qian Daoliu unleashed Angel Judgment, then infused it with Angel Divine Power to strengthen his attack.
• Xu Xiao used Frozen Heaven—Field of Extinction to freeze Qian Daoliu, his soul skill, and the surrounding space.
• Qian Daoliu used Angel Divine Power to break free, but the shattered ice struck him and severed his right arm.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo saw Qian Daoliu’s arm fall and realized that Qian Daoliu had lost.

Xu Xiao drove Qian Daoliu from Chuan Ling and learned that Angel Divine Power had saved him, while Gui Mei returned with Spirit Hall’s treasury. In Soul Union City, Qian Daoliu turned down the alliance’s request to join Spirit Hall’s Godhood trial and pointed them toward Sea God Island instead.

• Xu Xiao spared Qian Daoliu because he feared the old man might self-destruct and kill Chuan Ling’s students, then ordered Gu Rong to hang Qian Daoliu’s severed arm at the gate.
• Xu Xiao explained that Qian Daoliu’s Angel Divine Power could make his self-destruction too dangerous to contain.
• Gui Mei returned with what he had taken from Spirit Hall, and Xu Xiao revealed that he had already emptied Soul Union City’s treasuries.
• At the alliance meeting, Ning Fengzhi asked Qian Daoliu whether Chuan Ling could have killed him, and Qian Daoliu said either of them could kill the other.
• Qian Daoliu refused to let the alliance join Spirit Hall’s Angel Godhood trial because its members lacked Angel Martial Souls.
• Qian Daoliu told the alliance to send its most talented disciples to Sea God Island to seek another Godhood trial.

Qian Daoliu and the faction leaders agreed to seek Godhood inheritances and avoid fighting Chuan Ling directly, while Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile considered investigating Death Valley. Their plans were interrupted by news that Spirit Hall had been robbed.

• Ning Fengzhi proposed seeking a Godhood on Sea God Island, and Qian Daoliu warned that the voyage was dangerous.
• Ning Fengzhi suspected that someone from Chuan Ling had received the Sea God's inheritance, and Qian Daoliu decided that made their journey to Sea God Island more worthwhile.
• Ning Fengzhi advised the factions to watch Chuan Ling, train young talent, and seek inheritances instead of starting a direct fight.
• Qian Daoliu ordered the factions to pool their resources and train their young people, then warned them to put aside their grudges.
• Golden Crocodile suggested surrendering, but Qian Daoliu said he would investigate Death Valley with him.
• A messenger reported that Spirit Hall had been robbed before Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile could return.

Qian Daoliu learned that Spirit Hall’s resources had vanished just as Ning Fengzhi reported the same theft from Soul Union City, and he gave up pursuing the culprit. The next day, Xu Xiao and Gui Mei entered Death Valley to investigate its secrets, while Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile followed, and Gui Mei suddenly lost contact with his two copies.

• Qian Daoliu found Spirit Hall’s resource stores empty and killed the Soul Ancestor who had failed to guard them.
• Ning Fengzhi told Qian Daoliu that all the resources in Soul Union City had disappeared without a trace, and Qian Daoliu ended the inquiry.
• Qian Daoliu questioned whether he had been wrong to oppose Chuan Ling, then told Golden Crocodile to accompany him to Death Valley the next day.
• Xu Xiao and Gui Mei entered Death Valley, sending two copies ahead to search for the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast while they investigated the valley’s depths.
• Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile entered Death Valley behind Xu Xiao and Gui Mei, and Gui Mei discovered that his two copies had vanished.

Xu Xiao and Gui Mei entered Death Valley’s gorge, where a black wind drained mental power and Gui Mei sensed something hidden deeper inside. Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile followed them, while Xu Xiao and Gui Mei pushed through the worsening wind.

• Xu Xiao and Gui Mei found a faint golden glow where Xu Xiao’s shadow had vanished, then traced the limits of Xu Xiao’s mental power to a cliff above a gorge filled with black wind.
• Gui Mei felt drawn toward something in the gorge, so Xu Xiao and Gui Mei jumped down to investigate.
• Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile arrived at the cliff, and Qian Daoliu said the place’s aura disgusted him before they descended.
• Xu Xiao and Gui Mei discovered that the black wind grew stronger deeper in the gorge and steadily drained their mental power.
• Gui Mei sensed the source of his pull behind the strongest wind, and Xu Xiao agreed it was likely where the secret lay.
• As the wind intensified, Xu Xiao fired a black laser, grabbed Gui Mei, and charged forward.

Xu Xiao and Gui Mei reached the source of the dark wind, where Gui Mei found Death God's inheritance. Gui Mei refused the Godhood but agreed to seek an inheritor, and Death God gave him the Death Scythe and instructions for starting its Divine Trial.

• Xu Xiao carried Gui Mei through the dark wind and entered a pitch-black hall containing a black pillar.
• Gui Mei sensed the pillar was calling to him and used his mental strength to transform it into a staff.
• Death God's remnant appeared in Gui Mei's Sea of Consciousness and learned that Gui Mei had also rejected Evil God King's Godhood.
• Gui Mei offered to find an inheritor for Death God, but asked for compensation.
• Death God gave Gui Mei the Death Scythe and agreed to explain how to activate its inheritance and Divine Trial.

Gui Mei and Xu Xiao met the Death God's fading divine consciousness and brought him to the Spirit Pagoda, where he agreed to help create a black wind for mental-strength training. Qian Daoliu reached the wind's source only to find the place empty, while the Death God arrived at the Pagoda's ninth floor to recuperate.

• The Death God warned Gui Mei that a successor needed powerful mental strength and explained that Divine Power could prolong his fading consciousness by a few years.
• Gui Mei persuaded the Death God to meet Xu Xiao, who offered him a place to stay in exchange for guidance and help making another black wind.
• Xu Xiao learned that the black wind was bound to the space, which would disappear in about ten years, and the Death God agreed to create a new one using his Divine Artifact.
• The black wind in Death Valley weakened, allowing Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo to approach its source; Qian Daoliu found nothing there after Xu Xiao had taken everything.
• Xu Xiao brought the Death God's divine consciousness to the Spirit Pagoda's ninth floor, where Gui Mei introduced him to Bi Ji and Zi JI.

Xu Xiao worked with the Death God to design the Spirit Pagoda’s mental power trials, using the Asura Divine Sword as their foundation. After discussing the trials and the Soul Beasts’ place in his plans, Xu Xiao began merging the tower’s floors and memories, leaving the new layout in progress.

• The Death God appeared as a wisp of divine consciousness, sensed the Dragon God’s aura, and learned from Xu Xiao about the Spirit Pagoda and its connection to a fragment of the God Realm Center.
• Xu Xiao showed the Death God the Asura Divine Sword and proposed four increasingly difficult trial stages combining black wind and illusions, with rewards spread across three trial floors.
• Zi JI asked for trials suited to Soul Beasts, and Xu Xiao offered to create something suitable later; he also learned from Bi Ji that the Silver Dragon King had not yet responded.
• The Death God agreed to build Xu Xiao’s enhanced trials with the sword, while Xu Xiao told Gui Mei to train and seek the senior’s advice.
• Xu Xiao took control of the Spirit Pagoda, sent everyone except those at its top outside, and began merging the floors’ memories according to his plan.

After reorganizing the Spirit Pagoda, Xu Xiao learned that Spirit Hall factions were searching for Sea God Island and discussed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. He later went to the seal at Star Dou Forest and touched it with his Spirit Pagoda, awakening the Silver Dragon King.

• Xu Xiao completed the Spirit Pagoda’s new floors and emerged from seclusion to hear that Spirit Hall elders Qian Jun and Jiang Mo had led factions toward Sea God Island.
• Xu Xiao explained that the factions could not reach the Sea God’s final trial without the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which the Heaven Dou Imperial Family possessed.
• Xu Xiao learned that Gui Mei and the others were on the Sun Moon Continent testing themselves against Titled Douluo, with Bi Ji accompanying them as a precaution.
• A week later, Xu Xiao returned from the Sun Moon Continent and went with Zi JI to the Star Dou Forest seal holding the Silver Dragon King.
• Xu Xiao summoned the Death God, followed his advice, and gently touched the seal with his Spirit Pagoda, causing the Slumbering Land to tremble and the Silver Dragon King to awaken.

Xu Xiao found Gu Yuena and told her about meeting the Dragon God's divine consciousness and refining the Asura Divine Sword. Gu Yuena agreed to let him take Dragon Valley and her sealed space into the Spirit Pagoda, then asked whether it could accommodate the Soul Beasts.

• Gu Yuena tore open her seal, sensed Xu Xiao, and pulled him and his companions inside to meet her and Di Tian.
• Xu Xiao relayed the Dragon God's message to Gu Yuena, who accepted that she could not meet the Dragon God and reassured Di Tian that she was fine.
• Xu Xiao explained that he had refined the Asura Divine Sword with the Dragon God's help, and Gu Yuena agreed that he could take Dragon Valley and her sealed space.
• Gu Yuena made a sphere of light for Xu Xiao to absorb and helped him transfer everyone into the Spirit Pagoda.
• Xu Xiao asked King of Ten Thousand Demons and the other Soul Beasts whether they would come with him, and Gu Yuena asked if the Spirit Pagoda had a suitable place for them to live.

Xu Xiao refined the Silver Dragon King’s Slumbering Land and learned that claiming Dragon Valley would take at least three years. Gu Yuena said that refining Dragon Valley could raise Xu Xiao’s Soul Power to level 100, leaving him eager to begin.

• Xu Xiao sent the King of Ten Thousand Demons and the other soul beasts into the Spirit Pagoda to cultivate, warning them to stop at bottlenecks and later serve as generals.
• Gu Yuena told Xu Xiao that Long Su could claim Dragon Valley with the Dragon God Heart, though Xu Xiao would first need to refine Gu Yuena’s space.
• Xu Xiao took Life Gold and half the water from Life Lake, then learned the Evil Emperor had taken Black Gorilla to a brothel and mentally controlled the House of Beauty.
• Xu Xiao began refining the Slumbering Land while Gu Yuena and the others watched over him.
• A week later, Xu Xiao finished refining the Slumbering Land, expanding the God Realm Center and the pagoda’s upper space.
• Gu Yuena estimated that refining Dragon Valley would take at least three years and could bring Xu Xiao’s Soul Power to level 100.

After refining the Silver Dragon King's Slumbering Land, Xu Xiao learned that refining Dragon Valley could bring him closer to Rank 100 and began discussing how its Dragon Souls might reincarnate. The Silver Dragon King and Death God offered to help establish reincarnation, but they expected Xu Xiao to handle the Reincarnation Law.

• The Silver Dragon King explained that refining Dragon Valley could expand the Spirit Pagoda and help Xu Xiao break through to Rank 100, but the Dragon Souls needed a new home.
• Xu Xiao suggested reincarnation for the Dragon Souls, and Death God described his original self's abandoned idea of rebirthing souls with their memories intact.
• Xu Xiao proposed six paths of reincarnation, with most souls forgetting their past lives and potentially awakening those memories after reaching a certain level of cultivation.
• Death God recalled that his original self had wanted the Dragon God to create reincarnation and believed the Laws of Death could help draw souls into it.
• Xu Xiao outlined a more complete system requiring a realm, six Dao Masters, and underworld officials, then agreed to work with the Silver Dragon King and Death God to establish it.
• The Silver Dragon King and Death God both looked to Xu Xiao to manage the Reincarnation Law because neither knew anyone else who had comprehended it.

Xu Xiao and Long Su condensed Soul Cores and strengthened themselves as they prepared for Xu Xiao to claim Dragon Valley. After Long Su refined Gu Yuena’s essence blood, her sealed Dragon God bloodline awakened, but the Silver Dragon King said the Golden Dragon King’s essence blood was needed to remove the final shackle.

• Xu Xiao rejected reincarnation as his current path and asked Long Su to absorb six Soul Bones so she could help him claim Dragon Valley.
• Long Su refined the Soul Bones and condensed a fire-attribute Soul Core while Xu Xiao condensed his second, ice-attribute Soul Core.
• Long Su reached Soul Power Level ninety-nine after refining all six Soul Bones, then accepted a drop of Gu Yuena’s essence blood.
• A month later, Long Su’s Dragon God bloodline awakened, but Xu Xiao sensed that something was still suppressing her.
• The Silver Dragon King explained that Long Su needed the Golden Dragon King’s essence blood to unseal her Dragon God bloodline completely and that the seal did not affect her cultivation.

Xu Xiao prepared his allies for a long absence, then entered Dragon Valley with Long Su and moved the entire realm into his Spirit Pagoda. He began refining and merging Dragon Valley into the pagoda while Long Su guarded it, leaving the outside world quiet as the major powers built up their strength.

• Xu Xiao arranged for Ye Lin and his brothers to oversee Chuan Ling while he went into seclusion, and Gui Mei returned the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to him for safekeeping.
• Xu Xiao ordered Bibi Dong and the Ice Empress to reach specific cultivation levels before his return and told Ye Qing to keep watch over them.
• Two months later, Xu Xiao and Long Su opened Dragon Valley and drew its core into the Spirit Pagoda over ten days, relocating the entire realm inside.
• The Silver Dragon King told Xu Xiao to refine all of Dragon Valley to merge it into the Spirit Pagoda rather than merely control it through the core.
• Xu Xiao began refining Dragon Valley, while Long Su guarded the Spirit Pagoda and the six major powers remained quiet.

The major factions learned that the expedition had reached Sea God Island despite deadly losses, while Golden Crocodile urged them to focus on Chuan Ling. Qian Daoliu received the High Priestess’s refusal to get involved, and Tang Zhan ordered Tang Hao and Tang Xiao to leave for Sea God Island.

• Golden Crocodile told the gathered faction leaders that the expedition had survived the shipwreck and reached Sea God Island, then rebuked them for fretting over casualties and reminded them that Chuan Ling was their greatest enemy.
• Qian Jun Douluo delivered the High Priestess’s letter to Qian Daoliu, who accepted that Sea God Island would stay out of the continent’s affairs.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Jun Douluo to train and mentioned a place in Death Valley that could strengthen their mental power, though its possible divine relic was missing.
• Tang Hao refused to go to Sea God Island, so Tang Zhan threatened to kill Axing and ordered Tang Hao and Tang Xiao to leave the next day.

Tang Hao stayed behind while Tang Xiao secretly told Tang Zhan Xing's address, then traveled toward Sea God Island with his companions. A Flying Shuttle Swordfish attack destroyed their ship and left Tang Hao unconscious after severing his arm.

• Tang Hao pleaded to visit Xing, but Tang Xiao refused to let him leave and agreed to deliver his letter instead.
• Tang Xiao gave Tang Zhan a letter containing Xing's address before he and Tang Hao departed with Bai He and the others.
• After two months at sea, Flying Shuttle Swordfish attacked the ship, and Tang Xiao's group fought back.
• Tang Hao's arm was severed by a water blade, and the swordfish smashed the ship apart before fleeing.
• The Title Douluo stopped Tang Hao's bleeding and blamed himself for provoking the swordfish by killing their leader.

Tang Xiao's group reached Sea God Island after Tang Hao lost an arm, and the newcomers received their Divine Trials at the Seahorse Sacred Pillar. The chapter ended with Tang Xiao learning that Tang Hao's injury may have lowered his trial level.

• Tang Xiao stopped the elder from blaming himself and ordered the group to paddle toward Sea God Island while Tang Hao recovered.
• After another month at sea, Bai He spotted Sea God Island, and the Demon Soul Great White Shark escorted them ashore after learning they were allies of Spirit Hall.
• Tang Xiao reunited with Ning Fengzhi, who told him that only six people from his group had survived and explained the island's Divine Trials.
• At the Seahorse Sacred Pillar, Tang Hao and Tang Xiao received Black Level Five Trials, while Bai He, Tai Tan, Yang Wudi, and Niu Gao received Yellow Level Trials.
• Ning Fengzhi privately told Tang Xiao that Tang Hao's lost arm explained why he had received the same Black Level Five Trials as his brother.