Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan revealed that he had targeted Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui to destroy the Holy Spirit Cult, then struck Long Xiaoyao with overwhelming force. The Dark Sacred Dragon Avatar was shattered, and both defenders were left badly injured as the battle continued.

• Long Xiaoyao transformed into his Dark Sacred Dragon Avatar and offered to abandon the Primordial Realm-Breaking Pill in exchange for ending the fight.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the pill was incidental, that the Evil Monarch had trapped most of the Holy Spirit Cult, and that he intended to eliminate the organization.
• Ye Xishui realized Xiao Yan had orchestrated the attack on the Holy Spirit Cult and glared at him with hatred, so Long Xiaoyao shielded her.
• Xiao Yan appeared beside Long Xiaoyao and punched his dragon claw, shattering it and sending him crashing into Ye Xishui.
• Xiao Yan's punch destroyed Long Xiaoyao's Dark Sacred Dragon Avatar, leaving Long Xiaoyao bloodied with a broken arm and Ye Xishui badly wounded by the shock wave.

After Xiao Yan’s attack destroyed Ye Xishui’s meridians and Soul Core, she rapidly aged and neared death in Long Xiaoyao’s arms. As Long Xiaoyao prepared to detonate his Soul Core, Ye Xishui stopped him and confessed that she had loved him all along, leaving him stunned by the truth he had misunderstood for a century.

• Ye Xishui’s meridians snapped and her Soul Core collapsed, leaving her cultivation ruined and her body aged.
• Long Xiaoyao tried to heal Ye Xishui, then decided to detonate his Soul Core and take the valley with him.
• Xiao Yan prepared to stop Long Xiaoyao, but Ye Xishui caught his robe and made him halt.
• Ye Xishui told Long Xiaoyao she had loved him throughout their lives together.
• Long Xiaoyao rejected the confession at first, believing Ye Xishui had loved Mu En, but she explained that she had always loved him.

Ye Xishui confessed to Long Xiaoyao that she had loved him all along, had engineered the split between him and Mu En to protect them from the Holy Spirit Cult, and had secretly borne his son. She revealed that Yan Shaozhe was their descendant, then Xiao Yan brought Yan Shaozhe and the supposedly dead Mu En to witness her confession, leaving Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui stunned.

• Xiao Yan secretly used spatial law while Ye Xishui began recounting her past to Long Xiaoyao.
• Ye Xishui revealed that she had loved Long Xiaoyao, but Old Ghost Zhongli forced her to drive a wedge between him and Mu En to keep them from threatening the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Ye Xishui explained that she later became the cult leader, kept Long Xiaoyao at a distance to protect his reputation, and had secretly borne his son after their one night together.
• Ye Xishui said she had sent their son away under her original surname, Yan, and identified Yan Shaozhe as their grandson or great-grandson.
• Xiao Yan brought Yan Shaozhe and Mu En through a spatial rift, and Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui stared in shock at the two familiar figures.

Yan Shaozhe learned that Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao were his grandparents, while Mu En revealed he had known their secrets for nearly a century. Mu En explained why he hid the truth from Long Xiaoyao, leaving Long Xiaoyao subdued by the weight of Mu En’s sacrifices.

• Yan Shaozhe reeled after Ye Xishui’s confession revealed that she and Long Xiaoyao were his grandparents, and Mu En calmed him with his Soul Power.
• Mu En told Yan Shaozhe that he had recognized his parentage from his father’s features and Mutated Black Dragon Martial Soul, then secretly nurtured him as their only surviving descendant.
• Mu En revealed that he had also suspected Ye Xishui’s connection to the Holy Spirit Cult and her century-old scheme, but had concealed his suspicions to protect her and Long Xiaoyao.
• Long Xiaoyao demanded to know why Mu En had kept the truth from him, and Mu En explained that Long Xiaoyao would have recklessly attacked the Holy Spirit Cult and gotten them both killed.
• Long Xiaoyao recognized that Mu En had protected them at great personal cost and lowered his head without replying.

Mu En comforted Yan Shaozhe and condemned Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao for enabling the Holy Spirit Cult’s atrocities. Long Xiaoyao killed himself and gave his remaining power to Yan Shaozhe, declaring that the Dragon Emperor Douluo was no more.

• Yan Shaozhe wept with gratitude as Mu En comforted him and urged him not to let his origins define him.
• Mu En accused Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao of using their power to support the Holy Spirit Cult’s slaughter and said they had brought their ruin upon themselves.
• Ye Xishui silently acknowledged that she had chosen the cult’s power and exploited Long Xiaoyao’s love.
• Long Xiaoyao asked Ye Xishui whether his life had meant anything, then crushed his own heart with his dragon claw.
• Long Xiaoyao transformed into the Dark Sacred Dragon and sent his remaining power into Yan Shaozhe before declaring that Long Xiaoyao and the Dragon Emperor Douluo were gone.

Xiao Yan secured Ye Xishui and left Mu En to guard Yan Shaozhe, then went to the Holy Spirit Cult’s Underground Headquarters to reward the Evil Monarch for capturing its members. The Evil Monarch refused the pill that could extend its life and asked to become Xiao Yan’s soul spirit.

• Long Xiaoyao’s power strengthened Yan Shaozhe’s Light Phoenix, while Mu En stayed to protect his disciple as he recovered.
• Xiao Yan bound Ye Xishui with Spatial Chains and said she would live to atone for the Holy Spirit Cult’s victims.
• The Snow Empress kissed Xiao Yan’s cheek before he left through a spatial rift to deal with the remaining Holy Spirit Cult members.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Evil Monarch and learned that its clans had trapped Zhongli Wu and the cult members in their Underground Headquarters.
• Xiao Yan offered the Evil Monarch a Primordial Realm-Breaking Pill that could help it survive two heavenly tribulations, but the Evil Monarch returned it and asked to become his soul spirit.

Xiao Yan considered the Evil Monarch’s request to become his Soul Spirit and gave it a Primordial Realm-Breaking Pill to strengthen it first. He then prepared with Electrolux to unleash the Divine-Level forbidden spell Bright Shore: Rebirth of All Souls against the Holy Spirit Cult’s Underground Headquarters.

• The Evil Monarch explained that it wanted to become Xiao Yan’s Soul Spirit so it could benefit from the laws in his Sea of Consciousness, and Xiao Yan considered using its Time-Space Light with the Eastern Emperor Bell.
• Xiao Yan told the Evil Monarch he would decide after dealing with the Holy Spirit Cult and gave it the Primordial Realm-Breaking Pill to help it raise its cultivation before their fusion.
• Xiao Yan summoned Electrolux, who condemned the Holy Spirit Cult’s Underground Headquarters and gave Xiao Yan a crystal containing the essence of light from nearly half the Undead Demiplane.
• Electrolux explained that Xiao Yan could use the crystal as the formation’s central nexus to cast Bright Shore: Rebirth of All Souls.
• Xiao Yan poured his Divine Power into the crystal, sending a platinum pillar of light through the miasma above the Evil Demon Forest.

Xiao Yan unleashed a divine forbidden spell that judged the Holy Spirit Cult by the karma in its members’ souls, destroying its bloodstained leaders and freeing their victims. As the rescued souls returned to reincarnation, the gratitude of the dead and the hope of survivors formed a divine wheel of all beings’ faith behind him.

• Xiao Yan invoked Bright Shore: Rebirth of All Souls, and its divine light exposed the Holy Spirit Cult’s crimes and stripped away its evil power.
• The World-Cleansing Sacred Flame burned the cult’s members, while karmic illusions forced them to relive the suffering they had inflicted; Zhongli Wu, Feng Ling, and the other murderous leaders perished.
• Zhang Peng survived the judgment after the spell stripped away his evil cultivation, because his crimes had involved relatively little harm to innocent people.
• Xiao Yan opened the Gate of Bright Rebirth, allowing the cult’s imprisoned souls to shed their resentment and return to reincarnation.
• The forbidden spell cleansed the corrupted land, and the gratitude and hope of the rescued souls and survivors formed a golden divine wheel behind Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan erased the Holy Spirit Cult, then studied the Divine Wheel of All Beings' Faith and used it to hide the Evil Monarch from heavenly tribulation. The Evil Monarch absorbed the Primordial Realm-Breaking Pill and reached 990,000 years of cultivation, half a step from the million-year limit.

• Xiao Yan carved a message declaring Fuxi the destroyer of the Holy Spirit Cult before returning to the Fuxi Dao Sect with the Evil Monarch.
• Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen arrived at the cult's former headquarters and found it completely erased, with Xiao Yan's inscription carved into the ground.
• Xiao Yan studied the Divine Wheel of All Beings' Faith and learned how it stored and converted vow power to aid his cultivation.
• Xiao Yan ordered the Evil Monarch to swallow the Primordial Realm-Breaking Pill, and the Evil Monarch broke through to 800,000 years of cultivation.
• Xiao Yan concealed the Evil Monarch's aura with the divine wheel, causing the heavenly tribulation to lose its target and withdraw.
• The Evil Monarch refined the pill's medicinal power and reached 990,000 years of cultivation.

Xiao Yan transformed the Evil Monarch into a soul spirit and used the Eastern Emperor Bell and power of faith to raise it to one million years. He converted its energy with two soul bones to awaken the bell’s fifth and sixth divine skills, gaining control over space and time.

• Xiao Yan transformed the Evil Monarch into a soul spirit and prepared it to merge with the Eastern Emperor Bell.
• The Evil Monarch entered the bell, and Xiao Yan infused it with power of faith, pushing its essence past the million-year threshold.
• Xiao Yan divided the Evil Monarch’s energy and extracted the essence of the Time Sundial Needle and Taixu Sound-Suppressing Hou soul bones.
• Xiao Yan combined the energies to create separate spatial and time powers, then infused them into the Eastern Emperor Bell.
• Two new divine spirit rings appeared, granting Xiao Yan the skills Xuanhuang: Universe Suppression and Xuanhuang: Cosmos Command.