Chapter Summaries

Lin Bei killed Han Feng and crushed the Soul Hall member who tried to seize Han Feng’s soul. Meanwhile, Shura God ordered Poseidon to search for a newly advanced god in the lower realm, and Sea Dragon Douluo was sent from Sea God Island to investigate.

• Shura God asked Poseidon to mobilize his followers to find a hidden god who had appeared in the lower realm.
• Poseidon issued a Divine Edict, and Bo Saixi sent Sea Dragon Douluo to search the continent for the newly advanced god.
• Lin Bei beheaded Han Feng with the Star Blood Sword as onlookers watched.
• A Soul Hall member attacked Lin Bei with a chain, but Lin Bei blasted apart his black mist with Soul Power and captured him.
• Lin Bei crushed the Soul Hall member, then destroyed Han Feng’s soul as well.

Lin Bei absorbed the Sea Heart Flame, left the Black-Corner Region, and traveled to the Yunlan Sect before returning to the Douluo Continent. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, he learned that Spirit Hall was mobilizing for a war against the empires and allied sects, leaving the continent on the brink of conflict.

• Lin Bei absorbed the Sea Heart Flame, burned Han Feng's corpse, and claimed the treasures in Han Feng's Storage Ring.
• Canaan Academy discovered that the Fallen Heart Flame had vanished and dispatched Wu Tianlang's Law Enforcement Team to pursue Lin Bei.
• Lin Bei reached the Yunlan Sect, learned Yun Yun was away, and waited in the Imperial City while studying Strange Fire.
• Lin Bei sensed someone searching for him, visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and learned that Spirit Hall had begun mobilizing its forces.
• Ning Fengzhi and the elders told Lin Bei that the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires and several sects were preparing an alliance against Spirit Hall, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect struggled to plan its withdrawal.

Lin Bei helped Ning Fengzhi plan how the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would weather the coming war, then Shura God confronted him in the lower realm. Shura God discovered Lin Bei was a god with no mark of law and realized he was outside the God Realm’s system.

• Lin Bei told Ning Fengzhi to send most of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s people toward Spirit City while he stayed behind to protect the sect.
• Ning Rongrong returned from cultivating at rank forty-five, reunited affectionately with Lin Bei, and joined the others for dinner.
• Poseidon told Shura God that his subordinate, Bo Saixi, had found the newly ascended god Lin Bei, who had become a god before turning fifteen.
• Shura God borrowed Poseidon’s inheritance grounds and sent a bloodthirsty divine sense toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Shura God confronted Lin Bei and demanded that he ascend to the God Realm, but Lin Bei said its rules had no authority over him.
• Shura God sensed that Lin Bei had no mark of law and realized he had become a god outside the God Realm’s system.

Lin Bei refused the Shura God's demand to ascend, prompting the Shura God to seek heirs who could defeat him. Lin Bei continued preparing for future conflicts, but his first simulation in the Death Timeline ended with him dying immediately after transmigrating.

• Lin Bei refused to ascend to the God Realm, and the Shura God ended their conversation with a threat of judgment.
• The Shura God told Poseidon that Lin Bei had become a god without merging with a law and planned to find an inheritor to fight him.
• The Shura God asked Poseidon to find an inheritor too, so their successors could join forces against Lin Bei.
• Lin Bei continued activating the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's defensive array and searched for a new simulation timeline.
• After seven days, Lin Bei found the Douluo Continent: Death Timeline and spent one Simulation Point to test it.
• The simulation showed Lin Bei drowning in a whirlpool, transmigrating to Douluo Continent, and dying immediately without any rewards.

Lin Bei projected his consciousness into the dead timeline and discovered a gigantic spider soul beast covering much of Douluo Star, with the gods’ artifacts scattered across its body. He penetrated a barrier inside a hole in the spider’s head and found Bibi Dong at its center.

• Lin Bei spent one hundred Simulation Points to project his consciousness into the dead timeline, where his life began draining away.
• Lin Bei used Soul Perception to discover that the moving mountains and continent were the legs and abdomen of an enormous spider clinging to Douluo Star.
• Lin Bei found the Shura Sword in the lifeless wasteland and rode it beyond the atmosphere, where he saw divine outfits and Artifacts hanging from the spider.
• Lin Bei flew toward a hole in the spider’s head despite the devouring force draining his vitality, then pushed his Soul Perception through a hidden barrier.
• Lin Bei sensed Bibi Dong inside the strange purple-black space at the spider’s center.

Lin Bei entered the spider’s body and learned that Bibi Dong had destroyed Douluo Star after her Devouring Domain consumed Tang San and eventually the gods. As her body collapsed, her power flowed into Lin Bei, awakening the Devour talent and forming a second God Ring around his true body.

• Lin Bei entered the purplish-black space and found Bibi Dong bound by blood vessels that the Shura God Sword could not cut.
• Lin Bei awakened Bibi Dong with a slap and received her memories of how she had devoured Tang San, destroyed all life on Douluo Star, and driven the gods into retreat.
• Bibi Dong’s body collapsed, and the blood vessels drained Lin Bei’s vitality before pouring their power into him.
• A purplish-black God Ring formed around Lin Bei’s true body at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and its pressure knocked out the sect’s people and those in Heaven Dou City.
• Lin Bei awakened the solidified talent Devour and opened his eyes beneath the newly formed God Ring.

After reaching Level 3 God Beyond the Realm, Lin Bei told the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect that he was now about as powerful as a God King. Crown Prince Xue Qinghe visited to discuss an agreement and ask about the aura that had knocked out Heaven Dou City, leaving Lin Bei's accidental breakthrough explained but Xue Qinghe privately suspecting it was a warning.

• Lin Bei awakened the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after his breakthrough and explained the ranks of gods, saying he was roughly equal to a God King.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong marveled at Lin Bei's strength and wondered whether he was a reincarnated god.
• Xue Qinghe arrived at the sect, greeted Lin Bei and Ning Fengzhi, and said he had come to discuss an agreement and ask about the previous night's aura.
• Lin Bei told Xue Qinghe that his breakthrough had accidentally knocked out Heaven Dou City and assured him it would not happen again.
• Xue Qinghe privately interpreted Lin Bei's explanation as a warning against Heaven Dou allying with the Star Luo Empire, then relayed Xue Ye's offer that the sect could stay in Heaven Dou without being attacked.

After Spirit Hall founded the Spirit Empire and named Lin Bei crown prince, he returned to its territory and began building factories and newspapers to strengthen the empire. His newspapers promoted Spirit Hall’s policies and exposed abuses by nobles in the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires.

• Ning Fengzhi and Lin Bei agreed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would remain neutral and stay in Heaven Dou, while Xue Ye postponed his trip to Star Luo before eventually setting out.
• Spirit Hall declared itself the Spirit Empire, gained the allegiance of more than ten kingdoms and duchies, and appointed Bibi Dong as its ruler and Lin Bei as crown prince.
• Lin Bei placed a powerful defensive barrier around the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and returned to the Spirit Empire, where Bibi Dong was occupied with governing.
• Lin Bei built a Knowledge Pagoda to rapidly train people in industrial skills, then established factories that produced modern weapons for the army.
• Lin Bei launched newspapers to promote Spirit Hall’s policies and expose the nobles’ abuses, including the trafficking of girls with nonhuman martial-soul traits.

Lin Bei’s newspaper strengthened the Spirit Empire’s public support while Tang San and Tang Hao learned how the empire’s rise had changed the political landscape. In Spirit City, Lin Bei built the Soul Ring Tower, which let qualified soul masters earn spirit rings through trials instead of hunting soul beasts.

• Lin Bei’s reports turned Spirit Empire commoners against the royal families and nobles of Heaven Dou and Star Luo, helping them accept their new citizenship.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that Spirit Hall had founded the Spirit Empire, that Xue Ye was gravely ill in Star Luo, and that he had still heard nothing from his eldest uncle.
• Tang San said he thought Lin Bei might preserve an alliance with Star Luo, and Tang Hao ended their conversation before they continued toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lin Bei brought Bibi Dong, Hu Liena, Yue Guan, and Ghost Douluo to a large field in Spirit City and began forming a massive tower from prepared materials.
• Lin Bei unveiled the Soul Ring Tower and explained that soul masters could undertake trials there to obtain spirit rings suited to their rank and performance.

Su Yuntao went to the Black Tower to learn how Spirit Hall soul masters could obtain soul rings there and unexpectedly reunited with Lin Bei. Lin Bei invited Su Yuntao and his wife Si Si to dinner before explaining the tower’s functions to the assembled soul masters.

• Su Yuntao worried over Spirit Hall’s brief announcement about obtaining soul rings through trials at the Black Tower, and Si Si urged him to visit it.
• Su Yuntao arrived at the Black Tower with other soul masters and asked his friend Te Lu what it was for, but Te Lu did not know.
• Lin Bei arrived with a woman and two Titled Douluo, and the soul masters knelt to greet him as Your Grace.
• Lin Bei recognized Su Yuntao as Uncle Tao, and Su Yuntao became emotional when Lin Bei remembered him.
• Su Yuntao told Lin Bei that he had married Si Si, whom Lin Bei knew as Auntie Si Si, and Lin Bei invited them to dinner.
• Lin Bei began explaining the Black Tower’s functions, causing an uproar among the assembled soul masters.

Lin Bei introduced the Soul Ring Tower, where soul masters could safely earn suitable soul rings and skills by completing trials for a fee. Su Yuntao became the first to return with a powerful fourth soul ring, while the other participants also succeeded and Lin Bei left to attend to his work.

• Lin Bei explained that soul masters could enter the Soul Ring Tower by touching it, and that each attempt cost 100 Soul Gold Coins.
• Soul masters touched the tower and were teleported into simulated trials, leaving the venue empty except for those maintaining order.
• After more than two hours, Su Yuntao returned from the fourth floor with a fourth soul ring and advanced to level forty-one.
• Su Yuntao demonstrated his Storm Iron Claw soul skill, impressing the crowd with its power.
• Other soul masters returned with suitable soul rings and skills, and Lin Bei invited Su Yuntao to bring Si Si to dinner before leaving with Hu Liena and the others.
• Su Yuntao told the gathered soul masters about awakening Lin Bei's martial soul, then departed as they envied his connection to Lin Bei.

Lin Bei spent three months building the Spirit Empire’s industry, roads, and Soul Ring Towers while rival powers organized and prepared for war. As the continent settled into a tense calm, Tang San began his training in Slaughter City, where the Shura God considered him a potential successor and hoped he would undo Lin Bei’s changes.

• Lin Bei oversaw the Spirit Empire’s firearms factories, engine laboratories, and nationwide road construction as Bibi Dong and his subordinates took on more administrative work.
• After Xue Ye died, Xue Qinghe became emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire, rejected an alliance with the Star Luo Empire, and sent troops to the border, but neither empire began a war.
• The Clear Sky Sect and five other great sects formed the Heaven Soul Alliance under Howling Sky Douluo, while Lin Bei’s Soul Ring Towers drew Spirit Masters into the Spirit Empire and rapidly increased its strength.
• After Lin Bei stepped back from daily work, Tang San awakened his martial soul in the Star Dou Great Forest, reached rank fifty-one, and followed Tang Hao to Slaughter City, where the Shura God noticed him as a possible successor.
• Hu Liena stayed in the Spirit Empire to help with administration, while Qian Renxue continued ruling the Heaven Dou Empire as Xue Qinghe and the Heaven Soul Alliance made contact with the Star Luo Empire.

Lin Bei returned to the Battle Through the Heavens spacetime, demonstrated his new Devour Talent, and reunited with Xiao Yan in Gama Holy City. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan struggling to accept Lin Bei’s astonishing rise to Dou Huang and asking how he had advanced so quickly.

• Lin Bei activated his Devour Talent at the hotel, drawing in the surrounding worldly energy until he stopped it before it drained nearby people’s dou qi.
• Queen Medusa asked Lin Bei about the energy disturbance, and he told the hotel owner it had come from his cultivation.
• Lin Bei sensed Xiao Yan nearby and left the hotel, with the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python hiding in his clothes.
• Lin Bei and Xiao Yan met on the street and sat down together at a restaurant, where they talked about their time apart and Little Fairy Doctor.
• Yao Lao sensed multiple Strange Fire auras on Lin Bei and identified him as a peak Dou Huang, shocking Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan asked Lin Bei how he had advanced from a five-star Dou Zhe to Dou Huang in only a few months.

Lin Bei gave Xiao Yan the All-Automatic AFK Cultivation Method and hinted that they shared a hometown, leaving Xiao Yan wondering whether Lin Bei was also a transmigrator. After Yao Lao found no obvious flaws in the method, Xiao Yan practiced it and broke through to Two-Star Dou Shi in under half an hour.

• Lin Bei offered to teach Xiao Yan a cultivation method and passed the All-Automatic AFK Cultivation Method into his mind.
• Lin Bei said that old friends from the same hometown met with tears in their eyes, then disappeared, leaving Xiao Yan to wonder whether they came from the same world.
• Xiao Yan returned to the hotel with Yao Lao, who examined the method and found no obvious problems.
• With Yao Lao's guidance, Xiao Yan began cultivating the method and advanced from One-Star Dou Shi to Two-Star Dou Shi in less than half an hour.

Lin Bei reunited with Yun Yun and stayed by her side as the Yunlan Sect prepared for Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s three-year agreement. After Xiao Yan gained the upper hand in their match, Gu He learned Lin Bei was Yun Yun’s partner and grew hostile toward him.

• Lin Bei met Yun Yun after she returned to the Yunlan Sect, and she told him that her teacher had not listened to her concerns about the Soul Hall.
• Lin Bei revealed that he had advanced to Dou Huang and began visiting Yun Yun, beating Yun Leng badly when the elders objected.
• Xiao Yan arrived for his three-year agreement with Nalan Yanran and was surprised to find Lin Bei beside Yun Yun.
• Xiao Yan fought Nalan Yanran with seemingly inexhaustible Dou Qi and pressed her hard with the Mystic Heavy Ruler.
• Gu He asked Yun Leng about Lin Bei, learned he had been a mercenary from Green Mountain Town, and grew cold with jealousy.

Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran, then freed her from their old agreement and severed the Xiao Clan’s ties with her. Yun Leng accused Xiao Yan of killing Mo Cheng, and Lin Bei admitted it while warning that Yun Leng’s plans against the Xiao Clan would turn the other factions against the Yunlan Sect.

• Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran, who tried to take her own life rather than become his servant, but Lin Bei knocked away her sword.
• Xiao Yan rejected the servant agreement, burned the divorce letter, and declared that Nalan Yanran and the Xiao Clan had no connection.
• Yun Leng accused Xiao Yan of involvement in Mo Cheng’s death, and Lin Bei openly explained that Xiao Yan had killed Mo Cheng after he kidnapped Qing Lin.
• Lin Bei argued that Xiao Yan had been justified and accused Yun Leng of planning to attack the Xiao Clan to restore his own standing.
• Lin Bei warned Yun Leng that an attack would prompt the other factions to use the conflict to destroy the Yunlan Sect.

Lin Bei defended Yunlan Sect by killing Yun Leng after he attacked, then used his strength to deter the assembled factions from moving against the sect. Jia Xingtian proposed discussing the Soul Hall, and Lin Bei and Yun Yun entered the main hall with the others.

• Lin Bei rebuked Yun Leng for provoking conflict and warned that Yun Shan's alliance with the Soul Hall endangered Yunlan Sect.
• Yun Leng challenged Lin Bei and struck at him, but Lin Bei absorbed his Dou Qi, broke his hand, and killed him with a punch.
• Lin Bei revealed his Dou Zong strength and asked whether anyone objected to his protecting Yunlan Sect, causing the gathered factions to back down.
• Jia Xingtian denied that the Gama Empire planned to attack Yunlan Sect and asked Lin Bei to explain what he knew about the Soul Hall.
• Yun Yun invited everyone into the main hall, and Lin Bei reassured her that the Soul Hall would soon have reason to fear him.

Lin Bei discussed Soul Hall’s threat with the leaders of the Northwest Region, then destroyed its local branch and grew to the strength of a two-star Dou Venerate. After discovering the Calabash Brothers timeline, he projected his consciousness into the world as a poor villager named Lin Bei and set out toward Calabash Mountain.

• Lin Bei explained Soul Hall’s plan to control the Northwest Region, while Yao Lao confirmed its history of hunting souls and Xiao Yan vowed to avenge his teacher.
• Lin Bei killed Wumu Protector and later wiped out Soul Hall’s Northwest Region branch, growing to a two-star Dou Venerate and prompting Yun Shan to consider making him sect master.
• Lin Bei returned to reality to help Bibi Dong develop the Spirit Empire while occasionally visiting Yunlan Sect, where Xiao Yan had left for Canaan Academy.
• Lin Bei discovered the Calabash Brothers timeline and used 100 Simulation Points to project his consciousness into it as a poor villager at the foot of Calabash Mountain.
• Lin Bei promised Ya Ya he would bring back little red fruits, warned her not to play by the river, and headed into the mountains to gather herbs.

Lin Bei met the elderly Grandpa while gathering herbs, then protected Lin Family Village after the demons escaped from Calabash Mountain. As Scorpion Spirit led an army toward the village, Grandpa and Pangolin had already planted the Calabash Seeds.

• Lin Bei met Grandpa while gathering herbs on Calabash Mountain and later returned to Lin Family Village with medicine and wild fruits for Ya Ya.
• Calabash Mountain split open, and Lin Bei warned the villagers to stay indoors and avoid the mountain.
• Lin Bei defended the village from several groups of demons, killing them and absorbing their Spirit Power with Devour Talent.
• Snake Spirit noticed that none of the demon squads had returned, but Scorpion Spirit dismissed her concern and marched toward the village.
• Grandpa and Pangolin planted the Calabash Seeds in front of Grandpa's courtyard while Snake Spirit and Scorpion Spirit remained unaware.

Lin Bei fought Scorpion Spirit after finding Lin Family Village burned and defeated him and the lesser demons, absorbing their power. The Snake Demon watched the scene through a Magic Mirror and realized that Scorpion Spirit and the demons were missing.

• Lin Bei escorted the villagers to Calabash Town, then returned to find Lin Family Village burning and its monsters gone.
• Lin Bei sensed Scorpion Spirit nearby, and the two clashed in a contest of strength.
• Scorpion Spirit revealed his true form and attacked Lin Bei with his tail and Phantom Poison Sting.
• Lin Bei used Heavenly Sword to knock Scorpion Spirit unconscious, then killed the lesser demons and devoured them all.
• The Snake Demon viewed the burning village through the Magic Mirror and saw Lin Bei looking back at her.