Chapter Summaries

After Tang Chen suggested that Lin Xuan and his followers could create divine positions, Lin Xuan gave Tang Potian a Martial Soul Evolution Pill. The pill’s power was demonstrated when a young Title Douluo revealed his evolved Ten-Headed Fire Phoenix, leaving the continent’s Martial Soul experts shocked and hungry for the same transformation.

• Tang Chen identified the figures on the heavenly screen as future gods and speculated that Lin Xuan’s group could create divine positions.
• Lin Xuan told Tang Potian that his Martial Soul was too weak and left him to cultivate in the Endless Fire Domain.
• A month later, Lin Xuan gave Tang Potian a Martial Soul Evolution Pill and ordered him to eat it.
• A young Title Douluo explained that the pill had evolved his Evil Fire Phoenix into a Ten-Headed Phoenix of Ultimate Fire.
• Huo Wushuang's Father recognized the Ten-Headed Fire Phoenix as identical to the Fire God statue at Blazing Fire Academy, while Ma Hongjun and Martial Soul owners across the continent reacted with shock and greed.

Tang Potian used Lin Xuan’s Martial Soul Evolution Pill to transform his Black Iron Hammer into the Clear Sky Hammer, while Yu Xiaogang poisoned himself trying to imitate the process. The Clear Sky Sect celebrated the new martial soul until Lin Xuan called it cumbersome trash, and Tang Chen agreed that it had serious limitations before its secret techniques were mastered.

• Tang Potian swallowed Lin Xuan’s Martial Soul Evolution Pill and endured his Black Iron Hammer being dismantled and reforged.
• Yu Xiaogang frantically brewed poisonous herbs to test his theories, drank the mixture, and collapsed unconscious.
• Tang Potian’s Black Iron Hammer exploded and reformed into the dark-gold Clear Sky Hammer.
• Lin Xuan criticized the Clear Sky Hammer as cumbersome and only slightly stronger than the Black Iron Hammer.
• Tang Xiao challenged Lin Xuan, but Tang Chen agreed that the Clear Sky Hammer was cumbersome before its users mastered the Great Sumeru Hammer and Ring Detonation.

Lin Xuan taught Tang Potian the Clear Sky Ten Absolutes, revealing a tenth technique that drew on the Douluo Plane’s power. Tang Chen accepted Lin Xuan’s mastery, while the strike alerted Gu Yuena to someone drawing upon the plane’s origin.

• Tang Potian failed to lift his newly awakened Clear Sky Hammer, and Lin Xuan explained that its weight required a specialized body-tempering method.
• Lin Xuan began teaching Tang Potian the Clear Sky Ten Absolutes and demonstrated the first nine techniques with devastating strikes.
• Tang Chen recognized that Lin Xuan’s understanding surpassed his own and waited to see the tenth absolute.
• Lin Xuan unleashed the Divine Character Art, drawing on the Douluo Plane’s origin power and splitting the Endless Fire Domain’s sky with one hammer strike.
• Tang Chen kowtowed to the Sky Curtain and accepted Lin Xuan as his teacher.
• Gu Yuena sensed the use of the Douluo Plane’s origin power and reacted with shock beneath the Lake of Life.

Lin Xuan demonstrated the Clear Sky Tenth Absolute, a hammer technique that tore open the Endless Fire Domain, then ordered Tang Potian to master the first nine absolutes there. After two years of brutal training, Tang Potian reached peak Soul Douluo and completed all nine techniques, leaving the continent’s soul masters and Spirit Hall stunned.

• Lin Xuan’s hammer strike split the sky and revealed that he had wielded godlike power with only three soul rings, shocking soul masters across Douluo Continent.
• Lin Xuan explained that his Divine Character Art relied on overwhelming physical force and resonance with the plane, then gave Tang Potian a Clear Sky Hammer and ordered him to train in the Endless Fire Domain.
• Tang Potian trained through the flames, mastering the first three absolutes and reaching Soul King after six months, then mastering six and reaching Soul Emperor after one year.
• After two years, Tang Potian mastered all nine absolutes, cleaved the sea of flames, and reached level eighty-nine as a peak Soul Douluo.
• Tang Chen, Qian Daoliu, and other observers marveled at Tang Potian’s progress, while Qian Renxue hoped Lin Xuan might guide her Angel God trial.

Lin Xuan introduced Tang Potian to Qian Yuhan and Poseidon, revealing that the future Angel God and Sea God were his disciples. After Tang Potian defeated Qian Yuhan in a spar, Lin Xuan proposed forging him a Battle Armor using the Clear Sky Hammer, Soul Beast materials, Heavenly Flames, and ancient formations.

• Lin Xuan introduced Qian Yuhan and Poseidon as his disciples and assigned them to cultivate with Tang Potian in the Endless Fire Domain.
• Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue recognized Qian Yuhan as the Angel God, while Bo Saixi realized that Poseidon and his trident had appeared.
• Qian Yuhan challenged Tang Potian, and Lin Xuan allowed them to spar as long as neither was seriously hurt.
• Tang Potian used the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes to break Qian Yuhan's Holy Sword Guard and win their battle by half a move.
• Lin Xuan said the Clear Sky Hammer had greater potential and proposed forging Tang Potian a Battle Armor.

Lin Xuan gave Tang Potian a seventy-eight-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape Soul Ring and taught him and Poseidon how to create Soul Tools. Their first Soul Tool Gun flattened a volcano, and Lin Xuan revealed that Level-Twelve Fixed-Installation Soul Tool Shells could severely wound gods.

• Lin Xuan summoned a Titan Giant Ape phantom and granted it to Tang Potian as his eighth Soul Ring.
• Tang Potian absorbed the ring and emerged with eight Soul Rings and the strength of a peak Rank Eighty-Nine Soul Douluo.
• Lin Xuan gave Poseidon and Tang Potian knowledge of Soul Tools and tasked them with recreating the lost era's technology.
• Poseidon traced the energy circuits while Tang Potian forged a Soul Tool Gun that destroyed the upper half of a thousand-meter volcano.
• Tang Xiao and Tang Hao praised the Soul Tool Gun and disparaged Tang San's hidden weapons, leaving him humiliated.
• Lin Xuan called the gun a low-tier Level-Three Soul Tool and revealed that Level-Twelve Fixed-Installation Soul Tool Shells could severely wound gods and reduce a Limit Douluo to ashes.

Lin Xuan taught Tang Potian and Poseidon Soul Tool theory, leading them to build a prosperous domain and create the Clear Sky Sect. Ten years later, they forged the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which Lin Xuan said could evolve beyond a Level-Twelve Soul Tool.

• Lin Xuan explained Soul Tool ranks, saying Level-Nine Soul Tools could let their users contend with ordinary Title Douluo.
• Tang Potian and Poseidon developed communication and agricultural Soul Tools, transforming the Endless Fire Domain over five years.
• With Lin Xuan's permission, Tang Potian founded the Clear Sky Sect, astonishing the Clear Sky Sect members watching through the Sky Curtain.
• After another five years of research, Tang Potian and Poseidon forged a Soul Tool identical to the Heaven Dou Empire's Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Lin Xuan said the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud could evolve endlessly and might become more powerful than a Level-Twelve Soul Tool.

The Sky Curtain revealed that Tang Potian opened the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes to anyone with a hammer Martial Soul and led the Clear Sky Sect through rapid growth. Ten years after its founding, the sect had surpassed Spirit Hall, leaving its descendants stunned and then jubilant.

• Qian Daoliu explained that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud was a Half-Divine Artifact that could not unleash its full power without the Sea God's power, while the Sea God's Trident was the true Super Divine Artifact.
• Tang Potian announced that anyone with a hammer Martial Soul could learn the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, angering Tang Xiao and Tang Hao but winning praise from commoners and minor nobles.
• Tang Potian expanded the sect by teaching its disciples Soul Tool manufacturing and using Heavenly Flames to support their cultivation.
• Five years later, the Clear Sky Sect had become a steel city spanning hundreds of miles, with over one million residents and Soul Cannons lining its walls.
• The Sky Curtain reported that the sect had three hundred thousand disciples, including five Soul Douluos, and had surpassed Spirit Hall in strength.
• Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect disciples abandoned their anger and celebrated Tang Potian's achievement.

The Clear Sky Sect prepared to face an unprecedented beast tide from the Star Dou Great Forest, but the 530,000-year-old Myriad Demon King’s soul attack immediately devastated the defenders. As demonic vines surged toward the Desperate Great Wall, Fire God Douluo appeared with five hundred-thousand-year soul rings.

• The mysterious man warned Tang Potian and the Clear Sky Sect that a massive beast tide, including ferocious beasts, was approaching from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang Potian rallied the three hundred thousand Clear Sky Sect disciples and called on the Sea God Pavilion, Spirit Hall, and other sects to join the defense.
• The allied forces deployed along the Desperate Great Wall, where the Myriad Demon King’s evil spiritual assault drove more than a hundred low-level soul masters to kill themselves and left Tang Potian struggling to stand.
• The heavenly screen identified the attacker as the 530,000-year-old Myriad Demon King, whose true body was the Evil Eye Demon Tree and who was stronger than Xiong Jun.
• As demonic tree vines advanced on the wall, Fire God Douluo appeared and revealed four ten-thousand-year soul rings and five hundred-thousand-year soul rings.

Fire God Douluo, War God Douluo, and God of Speed crushed the Beast Tide’s strongest attackers, forcing Myriad Demon King to retreat. After the battle, the dying Three-Eyed Golden Lion revealed that she had transferred her race’s fate to an unborn clansman and that Lin Xuan would live across ten thousand years to witness changing eras.

• Fire God Douluo burned away Myriad Demon King’s demonic vines with a crimson-gold flame.
• War God Douluo killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with one spear thrust, while God of Speed slew dozens of hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts attacking the soul cannon crews.
• Myriad Demon King retreated with the remaining Soul Beasts, and Tang Potian went into the forest to find the injured Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Di Tian revealed that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had transferred her Fate Power and the Soul Beast race’s ten thousand years of fortune to an unborn clansman.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Tang Potian that the future belonged to humanity and that Lin Xuan would live long enough to cross ten thousand years of history.

Three-Eyed Golden Lion revealed that Lin Xuan could live for ten thousand years and that she had been punished by the God of Soul Beasts for trying to bring soul-beast fortune into the human world. Near death, she sacrificed herself to Tang Potian, betting that following his master would let him reach heights beyond the gods.

• Three-Eyed Golden Lion said Lin Xuan could live for ten thousand years, stunning the soul masters and leaving Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, and Tang Chen shaken.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Tang Potian that divine punishment had grievously wounded her for defying the God of Soul Beasts.
• Gu Yuena realized that she had wounded Three-Eyed Golden Lion and regretted her actions after seeing Lin Xuan’s power revealed.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion declared that she would rather sacrifice herself to Tang Potian than be devoured or erased, and said she had seen him reach heights beyond the gods by following his master.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion began her sacrifice, prompting Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts to protest that she was betraying the soul beast race.

Tang Potian absorbed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s sacrifice without resistance and became a Titled Douluo with a Hundred Thousand Year soul ring and soul bone. Lin Xuan discovered that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion remained alive inside Tang Potian’s spiritual world and revealed that they had formed a new kind of symbiosis called a Soul Spirit.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s sacrifice gave Tang Potian a Hundred Thousand Year soul ring and a right arm soul bone in just ten breaths.
• Tang Potian reached the level of a Titled Douluo and reported the strangely painless absorption to Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan examined Tang Potian’s sea of consciousness with his divine sense and found the Three-Eyed Golden Lion alive within it.
• Lin Xuan declared that Tang Potian and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had formed a symbiosis, naming her his Soul Spirit.

Lin Xuan explained how Soul Spirits could form equal contracts with Soul Masters, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion revealed that she had chosen to trust his future. The Sky Curtain showed the Spirit Pagoda twenty thousand years later, where Soul Spirit contracts had transformed human-soul beast relations and a Spirit Ascension Platform could increase soul ring age.

• Lin Xuan defined Soul Spirits as soul beasts whose consciousness and memories were preserved in equal contracts, while warning that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was a rare embryonic exception.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Lin Xuan she had seen humanity’s future dominance, the decline of soul beasts, and his role in founding the Spirit Pagoda, so she had chosen to submit to him.
• The Sky Curtain showed the continent twenty thousand years later, with powerful human cities and a greatly diminished Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Sky Curtain revealed that the Spirit Pagoda promoted voluntary Soul Spirit contracts, supervised their distribution, and let Soul Masters raise their soul ring ages through the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Yu Xiaogang fainted after seeing the Spirit Pagoda, while Soul Masters fixated on the possibility of increasing their soul rings to hundred-thousand-year levels.

Lin Xuan’s plan to raise Soul Ring ages stunned Soul Masters across the continent, while his attempt to evolve his second Martial Soul led to an explosive discovery. He realized that releasing a Soul Ring’s power all at once could produce an ultimate attack beyond one’s limits: Ring Detonation.

• The Chat Group and the Clear Sky Sect reacted with shock and reverence to the Spirit Pagoda’s ability to increase Soul Ring ages, while Xiao Wu recognized the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s sacrifice as a gamble for the future of Soul Beasts.
• The Sky Curtain returned to the Desperate Great Wall, where Tang Potian’s new Title Douluo status prompted Spirit Hall worshippers and Clear Sky Sect members to argue over their respective strengths.
• Yu Xiaogang coveted the Clear Sky Sect’s Great Sumeru Hammer and Ring Detonation techniques, drawing Flender’s concern and Tang Chen’s contempt.
• Lin Xuan summoned his Bronze Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul and put Heavenly Flames into it, producing a powerful blast that left the furnace unharmed.
• Lin Xuan realized that instantly releasing energy could enable an ultimate strike beyond one’s limits, and identified this principle as Ring Detonation.

Lin Xuan demonstrated Ring Detonation by detonating a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, blasting away more than half of the Endless Fire Domain. He judged the attack too dispersed and hinted that the technique would suit his other martial soul better.

• Lin Xuan explained that he had inferred Ring Detonation using his prior knowledge and Dao-Enlightenment Pills, then prepared to test the concept.
• The Mysterious Person revealed that his Bronze Alchemy Furnace martial soul now had a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
• Lin Xuan compressed the ring’s energy and detonated it, unleashing a blast that leveled mountains and destroyed more than half of the Endless Fire Domain.
• Tang Chen concluded that the strike’s power had surpassed that of a Limit Douluo.
• Lin Xuan said the attack was too dispersed and suggested using the technique with his other martial soul.

The Mysterious Person demonstrated that he could perfect Ring Detonation into an attack that left its Soul Ring intact, naming the technique Undying Ring Detonation. The Sky Curtain then showed him and Tang Potian in the Slaughter Lair, which Qian Daoliu recognized as the predecessor of Slaughter City.

• The Mysterious Person ordered Tang Potian to imitate Ring Detonation, but Tang Potian failed and admitted he could not grasp the technique.
• The Mysterious Person declared that Nine Rings Detonation could slay gods, and Tang Potian recorded the technique on a stone stele for the New Clear Sky Sect to worship.
• The Mysterious Person pulled Ning Wuqian through a spatial crack, then studied his damaged Soul Ring and deduced a way to release its power without destroying it.
• The Mysterious Person used the hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring to unleash an equally powerful attack while leaving the ring intact, and named the technique Undying Ring Detonation.
• The Sky Curtain shifted to the Slaughter Lair, and Qian Daoliu recognized it as the legendary predecessor of Slaughter City.

Lin Xuan entered the Slaughter Lair, where a projection identified as Hypnos, God of Slaughter, attacked him. Lin Xuan effortlessly erased its strike, leaving the observers stunned as he dismissed the projection as a remnant divine thought.

• Tang Potian entered the Slaughter Lair and collapsed under its overwhelming killing intent.
• Qian Daoliu identified the place as the ancient Slaughter Lair, a prison for Fallen Spirit Masters and Evil Soul Masters that bore traces of gods.
• Tang Chen revealed that the lair held the inheritance of the Asura God and a fragment of the Rakshasa God.
• Lin Xuan calmly stepped forward, causing the lair to summon a Limit Douluo-level projection called Hypnos, God of Slaughter.
• Hypnos attacked Lin Xuan with its crimson scythe, but Lin Xuan stopped and erased the strike with one finger.
• Lin Xuan called Hypnos a mere projection containing a remnant divine thought.

Lin Xuan confronted Hypnos, a divine projection empowered by a Second-Level God, and declared he would kill it with Nine Rings Detonation. As Hypnos revealed the gods’ ancient plans for Douluo Continent, Lin Xuan urged Tang Potian not to kneel and revealed nine Soul Rings, including three crimson-gold Beast King Soul Rings.

• Lin Xuan used an invisible flame to purify the Slaughter Lair’s killing aura and identified Hypnos as a Limit Douluo-level projection empowered to fight like a Second-Level God.
• Lin Xuan declared he would use Nine Rings Detonation to kill Hypnos, shocking the continent and overturning Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi’s beliefs.
• Hypnos revealed that the Slaughter Lair was meant to create a killing purgatory for the Asura God and God of Destruction as part of their plan to secure Supreme Godhood.
• Tang Potian nearly knelt under Hypnos’s divine pressure, but Lin Xuan steadied him and declared that humans could slaughter gods too.
• As Hypnos prepared to attack, Lin Xuan revealed nine Soul Rings, including three radiant crimson-gold Beast King Soul Rings.

Lin Xuan detonated all nine of his soul rings to destroy Hypnos and purify the Slaughter Lair with a nine-colored fire lotus. When the flames faded, twenty hundred-thousand-year soul rings appeared across the land.

• Lin Xuan revealed nine soul rings above a hundred thousand years, including crimson-gold ferocious beast rings, terrifying Hypnos and stunning observers across the continent.
• Lin Xuan detonated all nine rings and formed their power into a nine-colored fire lotus.
• Hypnos summoned a divine shield and begged Lord Asura for help, but the fire lotus annihilated the shield and burned Hypnos to ash.
• The fire lotus spread across the Slaughter Lair, erasing its evil soul beasts and turning the land into glass-like ground.
• Twenty hundred-thousand-year soul rings rose from the purified land, shocking the continent and stirring the Clear Sky Sect into celebration.

The Sky Curtain revealed how Tang Potian preserved Lin Xuan’s divine technique, and how Tang Chen spent a century studying it before ranking the Clear Sky Sect eighth. Seventh place was Sea God Hall, but Sea God Poseidon resisted returning to the God Realm and declared that he wanted to remain with his master in the Endless Fire Domain.

• Tang Potian engraved Lin Xuan’s Nine Rings Detonation technique onto a stone wall in the Clear Sky Sect’s forbidden grounds, then flew toward the Endless Fire Domain.
• Ten thousand years later, Tang Chen studied the stone wall for a hundred years and admitted that he had grasped only a trace of the technique.
• The Sky Curtain ranked Sea God Hall seventh, surprising Soul Masters across the continent and confusing Bo Saixi.
• Sea God Poseidon appeared through a divine sense projection, but resisted the gate to the God Realm and declared that he wanted to stay with his master in the Endless Fire Domain.