Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Bai Ziyao discovers that Dragon Tiger Mountain has little money available for new projects. Li Qingfeng jokes that the treasury is empty and daily expenses come from Li Yingxue’s personal funds.
• Bai Ziyao promptly kneels outside Li Yingxue’s courtyard and loudly tells her that Qingfeng sent him to request funding for an academy. Despite Qingfeng’s dismay at being exposed, Li Yingxue approves the full budget, assigns Li Family guards, and gives Bai Ziyao healing pills.
• Six months later, Dragon Tiger Academy opens near the town at the mountain’s foot. Bai Ziyao leads it, with Dugu Xin and his wife as teachers, and he has recruited talented, principled children from across the continent.
• The Goddess of Life visits Zhang Qingxuan at the Star Gazing Platform. She says preparations for a previously discussed undertaking are complete, including the necessary materials, personnel, and divine artifacts. She and Zhang agree to wait a few days before leaving, and she asks permission to explore the mountain.
• During her tour, the Goddess of Life is impressed by the mountain’s rapidly advancing Soul Beasts and gifted, virtuous disciples. She privately worries that recruiting promising candidates for the Divine Realm will be difficult.
• The disciples notice the visitor and speculate about who she is. Li Qingfeng considers using divination, but Zhang Qingyang stops him, warning that it would be dangerous; he then reluctantly reveals what he knows.
• Separately, the Lunar Goddess identifies the visitor as the Goddess of Life. She tells Li Yingxue, the Snow Empress, and Xiao Bai not to fear her, explaining that Gu Shuang’er and Gu Fei’er—usually seen relaxing on the mountain—are God Kings, as is the Lunar Goddess herself. This means the mountain has four God King-level figures.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Ziyao shows initiative and comic bluntness: he secures the academy’s funding by publicly naming Qingfeng as the requester, then proves capable by building the school and recruiting its staff and students.
• Li Qingfeng tries to appear helpless about money but is caught off guard by Bai’s direct approach to Li Yingxue.
• Li Yingxue supports the academy generously, demonstrating her willingness to invest in the mountain’s future.
• The Goddess of Life arrives prepared and confident, but her tour reveals that Dragon Tiger Mountain’s resources and talent may frustrate her hopes of recruiting protégés.
• The disciples respond with curiosity and gossip, while Zhang Qingyang acts cautiously to prevent Li Qingfeng from provoking a powerful divine visitor.
• The Lunar Goddess uses her knowledge to reassure the other women and reveals the extraordinary strength of Gu Shuang’er and Gu Fei’er.

Significant themes

• Building for the future: The academy represents an effort to cultivate principled talent beyond the mountain itself.
• Abundance and unequal resources: The Goddess of Life’s efficient preparations contrast with Zhang Qingxuan’s earlier struggles to gather everything himself.
• Hidden power: Familiar, seemingly relaxed figures on the mountain are revealed to be formidable God Kings.
• Comic camaraderie and caution: Teasing, gossip, and impulsive schemes coexist with respect for the dangers posed by powerful visitors.

Key events

• Xiyue assesses the women’s likely divine ranks: Snow Empress could become a God King, Xiao Bai a First-Level God, and Li Yingxue a Second-Level God.
• She explains that Yingxue’s comparatively modest aptitude, comprehension, and fortune limit her prospects. Much of the Li Family’s success, she says, comes from Zhang Qingxuan’s help.
• Yingxue is discouraged until Xiyue clarifies that Qingxuan’s active support could help her attain First-Level Godhood. Her aptitude can improve, but her comprehension cannot—even Qingxuan cannot change that.
• Two days later, Zhang Qingxuan and the Goddess of Life arrive in the Divine Realm. God King Destruction warmly welcomes him, while the Five Elements Gods are struck by their inability to sense his presence.
• Zhang notices Asura God watching him coldly. Destruction mocks Asura as his “rebellious son,” prompting Asura to leave. The Goddess of Life reminds Destruction to show restraint and later explains that her younger brother has been provoking Asura.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yingxue moves from pride and indignation to dejection, then regains confidence when she remembers Qingxuan’s support. She ultimately accepts that some limits, especially comprehension, cannot be overcome.
• Snow Empress and Xiao Bai comfort Yingxue, and Xiao Bai promises to protect her in the Divine Realm.
• Xiyue gives a frank but ultimately reassuring account of Yingxue’s prospects, emphasizing both her limitations and her extraordinary good fortune.
• Zhang Qingxuan and God King Destruction greet each other warmly. Destruction’s playful hostility toward Asura contrasts with the Goddess of Life’s efforts to keep relations civil. Zhang privately admits that he too dislikes Asura and enjoys seeing Destruction get the better of him.

Significant themes

• Cultivation’s unequal demands: advancement depends on aptitude, comprehension, and fortune, which people do not possess equally.
• Limits and acceptance: some qualities can improve, while others—such as comprehension—are presented as unchangeable.
• Dependence and gratitude: Yingxue’s advantages are tied to Qingxuan’s influence, prompting her to recognize how fortunate she is.
• Power and status: Zhang’s unreadable presence unsettles the Five Elements Gods, while the tension between Destruction and Asura shows that even God Kings have rivalries and family conflicts.

Plot points

• God King Destruction gives Zhang Qingxuan five exceptionally powerful divine materials and asks him to forge formation disks using cosmic energy. Zhang understands that the Divine Realm’s Heavenly Dao is behind the request, hoping to strengthen the realm’s foundations.
• Three years later, the first talented children selected by Bai Ziyao enter Dragon Tiger Mountain as outer disciples; others remain at the academy to train as teachers.
• Zhang Qingyang receives an invitation to Qian Xunji and Qin Luer’s wedding. He plans to bring three companions and afterward take them to Sea God Island for divine trials, which could help them reach Titled Douluo.
• His sister, Yun Lingyue, complains that he did not invite her. Zhang points out that she would refuse: she is pursuing self-created godhood rather than inheriting another’s.
• At the wedding in Spirit City, Qian Xunji gleefully claims the gifts as marital property and worries that Qian Daoliu will take them. Qin Luer defends her father-in-law, who arrives and gives Qian Xunji a purple-gold card, promising the rest after the couple has a child.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Qingxuan recognizes the divine materials’ extraordinary quality and cooperates with the Divine Realm’s plan.
• Zhang Qingyang shows practical concern for his companions’ advancement, while teasingly defuses Yun Lingyue’s protest. Her ambition and commitment to her own path are reaffirmed.
• Qian Xunji’s greed and playful rivalry with his father contrast with his tenderness toward Qin Luer. Qin’s graciousness wins Qian Daoliu’s approval, while Qian Daoliu’s gift suggests affection beneath the family’s financial bickering.

Significant themes

• Ambition and chosen paths: Yun Lingyue accepts a harder route because it better suits her goals.
• Divine power and responsibility: Cosmic energy may be used to reinforce the Divine Realm itself.
• Family, generosity, and humor: The wedding’s affectionate teasing reveals bonds between Qian Xunji, Qin Luer, and Qian Daoliu.

Key plot points and events

• The Divine Realm’s Yin-Yang Five-Element Grand Formation draws in cosmic energy, healing the land scarred by the Dragon God War. The Divine Realm’s Heavenly Dao awakens and rewards those who helped restore it.
• God King Destruction and the Goddess of Life begin to break through their long-standing bottleneck. The five elemental gods advance from First-Level Gods to Half-Step God Kings.
• Zhang Qingxuan asks only for a First-Level Godhood, which the Heavenly Dao grants.
• Zhang plans to return to Douluo Planet to rejoin his wives. Destruction suggests bringing them to the Divine Realm, but Zhang explains that they have their own ambitions and responsibilities.
• The Asura God bars Zhang from returning, arguing that Zhang’s immense power could endanger the planet and that divine rules require gods to ascend. Zhang counters that he is an immortal, not a god.
• Destruction fiercely defends Zhang, while the Goddess of Life urges Zhang to recognize his ties to the Divine Realm. The Asura God warns that Zhang’s companions will eventually enter the Divine Realm and must follow its rules.
• Zhang challenges the Asura God, who eagerly accepts a duel. The Divine Realm gathers to watch.
• As the two prepare to fight, a massive golden dragon stirs in the Divine Forbidden Land, secretly hoping the duel will distract everyone until it can break free of its seal.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Qingxuan remains modest about his reward but firmly independent, rejecting the idea that the Divine Realm’s rules automatically govern him. His loyalty to his wives motivates his return.
• Destruction openly treats Zhang as a brother and aggressively defends his freedom, despite the political difficulty of opposing the Asura God.
• The Goddess of Life admires Zhang and his wives, but becomes anxious when he distances himself from the Divine Realm.
• The Asura God is rigidly committed to enforcing divine rules, yet welcomes a contest of strength once Zhang challenges him.
• The golden dragon takes advantage of the gathering spectacle, revealing a hidden threat still present within the Divine Realm.

Significant themes

• Duty versus freedom: Zhang’s personal commitments and status as an immortal clash with the Divine Realm’s authority.
• Recognition and reward: The Heavenly Dao acknowledges contributions across different ranks, though Zhang’s modest request surprises it.
• Power and responsibility: The Asura God frames Zhang’s strength as a danger, while Zhang and Destruction reject his unilateral judgment.
• Hidden danger amid celebration: The Divine Realm’s recovery and public excitement distract from the dragon’s continuing plan to escape.

Plot points and events

• Zhang Qingxuan and the Asura God clash, with neither gaining an advantage at first. The Asura God’s killing-intent domain is neutralized by Zhang’s Yin-Yang Domain, while Zhang’s thunder and divine fire counter the Asura God’s chains and sword strikes.
• The assembled gods are astonished that Zhang, despite not being a god, can match one of the Divine Realm’s Five Great God Kings.
• The Asura God escalates by invoking the Divine Realm’s laws with Asura Judgment. Zhang counters with Yin-Yang Reversal, which redirects the six blood-red attacks back toward their source.
• Zhang’s combined Nine Profound Divine Thunder and Yin-Yang Creation Fire overwhelm the Asura God, leaving him injured. As Zhang prepares to press the attack, the four God Kings fear their battle could damage the Divine Realm’s newly restored foundations.
• A terrifying aura erupts from the Divine Forbidden Land: the Golden Dragon King is close to breaking free. The God Kings rush to respond, and the Asura God abandons his fight with Zhang to join them. Zhang watches, anticipating further turmoil.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Qingxuan remains calm and confident throughout, revealing powerful techniques and seeming to hold strength in reserve. After injuring the Asura God, he taunts him, but withdraws when the greater threat appears.
• The Asura God begins as an imposing, experienced warrior but grows frustrated when Zhang’s defenses blunt his attacks. He is injured and enraged, yet postpones his grudge when the Golden Dragon King’s escape becomes the priority.
• The four God Kings debate who is likely to win: Goodness favors the Asura God, while Destruction and Life express confidence in Zhang. Destruction and Life then urge intervention to prevent the duel from damaging the realm.

Significant themes

• Power and perception: Zhang’s ability to challenge a God King forces the Divine Realm’s deities to reconsider what strength—and godhood—mean.
• Balance versus violence: Zhang’s Yin-Yang techniques harmonize, reverse, and counter the Asura God’s destructive power.
• Rivalry set aside for greater danger: The looming Golden Dragon King crisis interrupts the duel and redirects the characters toward a shared threat.

The Five Great God Kings arrived at the Divine Forbidden Land just as the Golden Dragon King nearly broke free, but discovered he had advanced to Half-Step God King. Zhang Qingxuan seized the Golden Dragon Spear while the kings resealed the dragon, then hinted he still wanted the dragon’s scales.

• The Five Great God Kings reinforced the seal after the Golden Dragon King used his spear to cut through its chains.
• The Golden Dragon King revealed his Half-Step God King power and called to Zhang Qingxuan, claiming they were friends because Zhang carried the Dragon Tribe’s aura.
• Zhang Qingxuan struck the Golden Dragon King’s spear-bearing claw with Nine Profound Divine Thunder and captured the Golden Dragon Spear in his Taiji Diagram.
• The God Kings dragged the disarmed Golden Dragon King back into the depths of the Divine Forbidden Land as he roared threats at Zhang Qingxuan.
• Zhang Qingxuan resumed eating his orange and mused about taking the Golden Dragon King’s scales to make armor for his wives.

After Zhang Qingxuan was allowed to return to Douluo Planet for only nine years, a mysterious Supreme God King attacked the Five Great God Kings. Meanwhile, Zhang Qingyang began the Sea God inheritance on Sea God Island, passed its first trial, and prepared for the next.

• The Five Great God Kings allowed Zhang Qingxuan to return to Douluo Planet for nine years, and he accepted their decision before leaving the Divine Realm.
• A black-clad intruder beat Asura God and sent Kindness, Evil, Life, and Destruction flying with a single slap, revealing the power of a Supreme God King before vanishing.
• Zhang Qingyang arrived on Sea God Island with three companions, called Bo Saixi his master's wife, and began the Sea God's Nine Trials while the others received red top-tier seven trials.
• After a year on the Sea God Stairway, Zhang Qingyang reached its thousandth step, passed the first trial, and absorbed a God-Bestowed Soul Ring exceeding five hundred thousand years.
• Zhang Qingyang reached soul power level ninety-three and learned that his second trial was to cross the Ring Sea without using soul rings, soul skills, or his usual practiced skills.

Zhang Qingxuan returned to Bright Moon Mountain, reunited with Lu Xueqi, and promised to wait while she pursued the Law-Proving Path. He then learned that Gu Qiu'er had become a Soul Sage after gaining the fortune of three great Soul Beast gathering grounds.

• Zhang Qingxuan returned to Bright Moon Mountain and learned that Lu Xueqi needed at least ten years to stabilize her foundation before proving her path, while he had to leave for the Divine Realm in nine years.
• Lu Xueqi offered to take the faster divine path, but Zhang Qingxuan refused to let her give up the better path and promised to wait for her.
• Zhang Qingxuan used his newly created Yin-Yang-Origin-Returning-Art with Lu Xueqi, and the next morning she fell asleep exhausted.
• Shui Wan'ning arrived to call Lu Xueqi for breakfast, and Zhang Qingxuan teased her about having eavesdropped for two hours.
• Zhang Qingxuan discovered that Gu Qiu'er had become a Soul Sage and heard how the Evil Demon Forest and Jingyang Mountain Range had named her their Auspicious Beast and shared their fortune with her.

Zhang Qingxuan promised Gu Qiu'er a powerful item if she subdued the soul beasts of the Sun Moon Forest and the Extreme South Land through her own strength. Back at the Dragon King Pavilion, Gu Qiu'er asked Di Tian to teach her the Dragon God Claw so she could complete the task, and Di Tian was shocked to hear Zhang Qingxuan had something that could affect her martial soul.

• Zhang Qingxuan told Gu Qiu'er he would take her to secure the fortune of the Sun Moon Forest and the Extreme South Land, then teased her about an item that had made her Golden Dragon Martial Soul react.
• Zhang Qingxuan challenged Gu Qiu'er to conquer the soul beasts of the Sun Moon Forest and the Extreme South Land without relying on her Auspicious Beast status in exchange for the item, and she accepted.
• Two days later, Zhang Qingxuan returned to the Douluo Continent with the others, while Gu Qiu'er rushed to the Dragon King Pavilion in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Gu Qiu'er asked Di Tian to teach her the Dragon God Claw so she could subdue soul beasts in the two regions and complete Zhang Qingxuan's task.
• Di Tian learned Zhang Qingxuan had an item that could make Gu Qiu'er's martial soul react and exclaimed in disbelief.

Gu Qiu'er revealed that her Golden Dragon Spear reacted to something tied to Zhang Qingxuan's visit to the Divine Realm, and Gu Yuena judged the Divine Realm could not safely descend to Douluo Planet. Gu Qiu'er proposed a marriage alliance with Dragon Tiger Mountain, then clarified she meant to match Zi JI and Bi JI with Zhang Qingxuan, leaving Gu Yuena quietly uncertain about her own appeal.

• Gu Qiu'er told Gu Yuena that both her golden dragon martial soul and her fifth soul skill, the Golden Dragon Spear, had reacted intensely to something familiar.
• Gu Yuena concluded that Zhang Qingxuan had been to the Divine Realm, while Di Tian worried it might know she was on Douluo Planet; Gu Yuena said the planet's consciousness would weaken any gods who descended.
• Gu Qiu'er said the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King had recovered and proposed forming a marriage alliance with Dragon Tiger Mountain.
• Di Tian supported the idea, but Gu Qiu'er revealed she intended to take Zi JI and Bi JI to meet Zhang Qingxuan as potential partners, not Gu Yuena.
• Gu Qiu'er compared the women's looks and personalities, arguing Zi JI and Bi JI would appeal to Zhang Qingxuan, while Gu Yuena silently began to doubt her own appeal.

Gu Yuena and her companions settled on Dragon Tiger Mountain, where Gu Yuena resolved to win Zhang Qingxuan’s heart for the Soul Beast Clan. After she resisted the urge to take the Golden Dragon Spear, Zhang Qingxuan watched her leave with an approving smile.

• Gu Yuena, Zi JI, and Bi JI asked Zhang Qingxuan to let them stay on Dragon Tiger Mountain, and he prepared guest rooms for them.
• Gu Shuang'er and Gu Fei'er revealed they had become God Kings, but Gu Shuang'er stopped Gu Fei'er from explaining who had helped them.
• Gu Yuena told Gu Shuang'er and Gu Fei'er she wanted to find a path to survival for soul beasts.
• Gu Fei'er teased Gu Shuang'er about fearing Gu Yuena would win Zhang Qingxuan's heart, and Gu Shuang'er agreed to join forces with her.
• Gu Yuena insisted she must become Zhang Qingxuan's woman to protect the Soul Beast Clan, then denied recognizing the Golden Dragon Spear and left.
• Zhang Qingxuan appeared outside the room and silently praised Gu Yuena for resisting the Golden Dragon Spear.

Over three years, Zhang Qingxuan’s cultivation guidance helped the women advance, while Gu Yuena, Gu Shuang'er, and Gu Fei'er began pursuing him. In Xiyue’s room, the women discussed the newcomers and learned that Gu Yuena was a Dragon God incarnation whose original mission may have been to restore the Soul Beast Clan, though Xiyue believed her love for Zhang Qingxuan had distracted her from that cause.

• Over three years, Snow Empress and Lu Xueqi made especially rapid cultivation progress as Zhang Qingxuan taught and helped the women cultivate.
• Li Yingxue, Xiao Bai, Lu Xueqi, and Snow Empress gathered in Xiyue’s room to discuss the women who were joining their ranks, including Bo Saixi on Sea God Island.
• Snow Empress said Gu Shuang'er and Gu Fei'er seemed sincere, while Lu Xueqi suspected Gu Yuena, Zi JI, and Bi Ji had come to revive the soul beasts and challenge the Divine Realm.
• Xiyue revealed that Gu Yuena was likely a Dragon God incarnation with God King-level spiritual power and that the Dragon God had barred soul beasts from godhood unless he returned.
• Xiyue suggested that Gu Yuena’s pursuit of Zhang Qingxuan had left her too lovestruck to focus on the Soul Beast Clan’s cause.

Gu Shuang'er and Gu Fei'er confessed their love to Zhang Qingxuan, and he accepted them. After he took the sisters away, Gu Yuena resolved to act before he left for the Divine Realm, while Zi JI decided she wanted to stand at his side.

• Xiyue explained that Gu Yuena's duty to the Soul Beast Clan and the Dragon God's plan would prevent her from freely following love.
• Gu Shuang'er asked Zhang Qingxuan if he liked her, and Gu Fei'er boldly confessed that they both loved him and asked him to accept them.
• When Zhang Qingxuan hesitated, Gu Shuang'er kissed him, and he then took both sisters away through a spatial rift.
• Gu Yuena lamented that the sisters had acted first and resolved to pursue Zhang Qingxuan before he went to the Divine Realm; Zi JI decided she wanted to stand beside him.
• A day later, Zhang Qingxuan found the sisters asleep and resolved to strengthen his body, then wondered if he might need to drink goji berry tea.