Chapter Summaries

Yang Dong met the Sea God in Sea God's Secret Hall and refused an offer to join the Divine Realm because it would endanger his friends and the Silver Dragon King. He offered to work with the Divine Realm for compensation, leaving the Sea God weighing whether he could trust him with his real objective.

• The Sea God appeared before Yang Dong and offered him a position as a righteous god if he joined the Divine Realm.
• Yang Dong refused, explaining that the Divine Realm might target his God Level friends and the Silver Dragon King once it had dealt with the Ghost Gate.
• Yang Dong challenged the Sea God to reveal his real purpose and offered to work for the Divine Realm in exchange for compensation.
• The Sea God hesitated and asked whether he could trust Yang Dong.

Yang Dong negotiated with the Sea God over helping the Divine Realm fight Ghost Gate, but rejected the terms on offer. He demanded control of Douluo Continent, and left when the Sea God refused.

• The Sea God asked Yang Dong to help the Divine Realm fight Ghost Gate and proposed seeking aid from Yang Dong’s Divine Realm.
• Yang Dong claimed his Divine Realm had been destroyed by a Time Black Hole and that he was its only survivor.
• Yang Dong offered to resolve crises on individual planes in exchange for Second-level Deity divine sparks, but the Sea God refused.
• Yang Dong demanded Douluo Continent as payment, and the Sea God flatly refused to cede it.
• Yang Dong ended the negotiations and turned to leave.

Yang Dong negotiated with the Sea God to earn a Sea God Fruit by helping the Divine Realm eliminate three Ghost Gate forces, then went to Sea God Island to resolve its crisis. He was ambushed by Fourth King Hall and counterattacked with an Underworld God's Thorn.

• The Sea God offered Yang Dong a Sea God Fruit in exchange for helping eliminate three designated Ghost Gate forces, and Yang Dong secured the right to reject the targets.
• Yang Dong agreed to help resolve Sea God Island's crisis first, with the Sea God promising to give him the fruit afterward.
• Yang Dong attacked the Ghost Gate above the sea with Heavenly Thunder—Demon Subduing Pestle, but Fourth King Hall emerged and trapped him with Erosion Lock.
• Fourth King Hall absorbed eerie power to reach First-level Deity strength and struck Yang Dong into the sea with Evil Eye God-Slaying Pillar.
• Yang Dong emerged protected by the Chaos Green Lotus and stabbed Fourth King Hall from behind with an Underworld God's Thorn.

Yang Dong killed Fourth King Hall, destroyed the Ghost Gate, and claimed the Sea God Fruit as payment. He left for the Sun Moon Continent with a Sea God Token, while the Sea God was left reflecting on whether he would have sacrificed himself to destroy the Ghost Gate.

• Yang Dong attacked Fourth King Hall with the Underworld God's Thorn and Ultimate Ghost Swordsmanship—Tempest Form, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Yang Dong struck Fourth King Hall with Heavenly Thunder—Demon Subduing Pestle, destroying his body and godhead.
• Yang Dong used the Dark Sky Wave Eye to break the Ghost Gate, then asked the Sea God for the promised Sea God Fruit.
• The Sea God revealed that the Sea God Fruit had been hidden in the secret hall and gave it to Yang Dong.
• Yang Dong teased the Sea God about the Thunder God's death and asked whether he would have sacrificed himself to destroy the Ghost Gate.
• The Sea God gave Yang Dong a Sea God Token, and Yang Dong left for the Sun Moon Continent.

Bibi Dong resisted the Evil Spirit’s demands to join the Sacred Gate unless he returned her daughter, but he used a sleeping child as leverage and threatened the people she had secretly helped. Meanwhile, Yang Dong reached the ghost-ravaged Sun Moon Continent and pretended to be an escapee so he could gather information from a settlement.

• The Evil Spirit told Bibi Dong that the Sun Moon Continent’s people called her Emperor, then demanded she join the Sacred Gate and handle her assigned work.
• Bibi Dong said the child the Evil Spirit had shown her was not her daughter, but he threatened to kill the child and withheld their meeting until she completed her task.
• The Evil Spirit warned Bibi Dong that he knew she had helped people in secret and would kill them if she did it again; she returned to Bi Emperor Hall, where the numb servants reminded her that Yang Dong was gone.
• Yang Dong arrived on the Sun Moon Continent half a month after leaving Sea God Island and sensed that it had become a ghost realm.
• After traveling through the mountains for seven days, Yang Dong let a group of escapees find him and claimed he had fled Anshan City.
• The escapees invited Yang Dong to their settlement to meet their leader.

Yang Dong joined Tianming Settlement and learned that Ghost Gate was building four altars to send troops to the Sun Moon Continent. He accompanied Qian Shaoshao and Wu Xiu to join a group of nearby settlements preparing to seize a supply shipment, and they gathered with around thirty Soul Masters, including three Soul Sages.

• Yang Dong accepted Qian Shaoshao's invitation to join Tianming Settlement after observing its people and learning that Ghost Gate controlled the continent.
• Over the following month, Tianming Settlement grew to more than four hundred residents, while Yang Dong investigated Ghost Gate and learned it was constructing four massive altars.
• Qian Shaoshao secretly told Yang Dong and Wu Xiu that settlements nearby planned to intercept supplies traveling from Qingshui City to Zhuozhou Prefecture.
• Yang Dong, Qian Shaoshao, and Wu Xiu traveled through the night and rested before meeting the other groups.
• Yang Dong arrived at the gathering and found around thirty Soul Masters, including three Soul Sages and more than ten Soul Emperors.

Yang Dong joined Qian Shaoshao, Zhao San, and Ma Jin in ambushing a Ghost Gate supply convoy at Chaotic Wind Ridge. After Yang Dong deployed five Ghost Arrays to strengthen the attackers and weaken their enemies, the battle began against the convoy’s Soul Douluo leader.

• Qian Shaoshao, Zhao San, and Ma Jin planned to ambush a Ghost Gate convoy and brought Yang Dong along for his powerful control and support skills.
• At Chaotic Wind Ridge, a plant-type Soul Emperor spotted the approaching convoy, and the attackers waited until half of it had passed before launching their assault.
• The Ghost Gate leader transformed into a giant Black Bear and used Collapse to split the ground, briefly disrupting the attackers’ formation.
• Ma Jin activated his Splendid Bird Martial Soul Avatar and Zhao San charged the Black Bear in his Spirit Cat Avatar.
• Yang Dong activated five Ghost Arrays, boosting his allies and weakening the enemy, while the others urged their group to finish the fight before his Soul Power ran out.

Yang Dong helped Ma Jin, Qian Shaoshao, and Zhao San defeat Black Bear and the Ghost Gate followers, then staged his own death after suppressing the black mist that emerged from Black Bear’s corpse. The three men mourned Yang Dong and left to transport the supplies back.

• Yang Dong used the Frost, Rakshasa, and Nether Flame arrays to weaken the Ghost Gate fighters while Ma Jin, Qian Shaoshao, and Zhao San battled Black Bear.
• Black Bear charged at Yang Dong, but Yang Dong evaded him and struck from behind, giving Qian Shaoshao the chance to kill Black Bear with Treasure Dropping Coin.
• Black mist emerged from Black Bear’s corpse and attacked the three fighters, so Yang Dong intercepted it and suppressed it with his Divine Sense.
• Yang Dong pretended the black mist was taking control of him, ran away, and staged an explosion that made the others believe he had died.
• Ma Jin, Qian Shaoshao, and Zhao San grieved for Yang Dong, then left to carry the supplies back.

Yang Dong used Mei’s identity to gain access to the City Lord’s Mansion in Sky Wave City and secured a place on the journey to the Southern Great Altar. Three days later, he joined several condemned travelers as a Purple Gold War Chariot arrived to take them away.

• Yang Dong reached Sky Wave City while disguised with Mei’s black mist aura and pleaded with the Chief Steward to spare him for losing supplies meant for the Southern Great Altar.
• Yang Dong offered the Chief Steward a Thousand-Year Ghost Face Grass, and the Chief Steward agreed to cover up Mei’s failure.
• Yang Dong asked to join the trip to the Southern Great Altar, and the Chief Steward told him to gather at the City Lord’s Mansion in three days.
• Yang Dong learned that his fellow travelers had been sent there for their offenses and regretted not asking to go sooner.
• A Purple Gold War Chariot arrived above Sky Wave City, and the Chief Steward led Yang Dong and the others toward it.

Yang Dong returned to the Southern Great Altar and claimed a room at the foot of Trial Mountain, where residents competed for rooms according to their strength. After learning that summit rooms required God Level strength, he kept his own abilities hidden and killed a man who tried to drive him from his room.

• Yang Dong arrived at the Southern Great Altar and headed to the assigned quarters after being driven from the Purple Gold War Chariot.
• A bald man tried to extort Yang Dong for information about vacant rooms, but Yang Dong repelled his punch and learned about Trial Mountain’s ranks.
• The bald man told Yang Dong to take Room Five in the fifth row and explained that the weakest summit residents were God Level.
• Yang Dong entered the empty room and decided to investigate the Great Altar without revealing his strength.
• A man demanded Yang Dong’s room, so Yang Dong killed him and ordered the onlookers to clean up the corpse.

Yang Dong and the other newcomers endured a deadly fight over houses at the Southern Great Altar before the Ghost Gate sent them through a Teleportation Array to explore another world. Yang Dong recognized the destination as the Great Abyss, while the Ghost Gate members who stayed behind vanished without a trace.

• At dusk, the Ghost Gate ordered everyone without a house to die unless they fought until only ten remained; only five survived the battle and were led away.
• After two quiet days, an armored God Level being gathered the remaining newcomers and ordered them to map territory in another world for a month.
• Yang Dong and the others received maps and were sent through the Teleportation Array in groups.
• Yang Dong recognized the silent, dim landscape as the Great Abyss and realized the Ghost Gate had sent them to explore it despite its dangers.
• Yang Dong set out alone, and after the others had left, a chilling gust swept away every Ghost Gate member who had remained by the Teleportation Array.

Yang Dong encountered a red-eyed creature that had swallowed the other travelers and demanded he open a dimensional gateway. After Yang Dong fought back, the creature dragged him into its body, where it tried to dissolve him in corrosive gastric fluid.

• Yang Dong found that the chilling wind had stopped and the people traveling near him had vanished, so he tried to open a gateway out of the area.
• A red-eyed creature emerged and demanded that Yang Dong reopen the gateway, revealing it had saved him for last because it liked his scent.
• Yang Dong attacked the creature with Sword Qi, but its wounds quickly healed and it retaliated with Erosion Wind.
• The creature dragged Yang Dong underground and dropped him into a pale green pool as red eyes appeared across the walls.
• Yang Dong forced the corrosive fluid away with his power, then realized the creature had swallowed him and was trying to digest him with gastric fluid.

Yang Dong escaped Thousand-Faced Granny’s flesh prison and destroyed her true form, a towering tree, before catching a strange fruit that emerged from its remains. A fog-shrouded figure then appeared and fixed its attention on the fruit.

• Yang Dong used the Dark Throne and his sword skills to break through Thousand-Faced Granny’s corrosive flesh barriers.
• Thousand-Faced Granny released ghost servants to attack Yang Dong, but his thunder skills burned them to ash.
• Yang Dong drained Thousand-Faced Granny’s blood and blasted open an exit, then escaped her body.
• Thousand-Faced Granny’s tree form collapsed and turned to ash, releasing a crystal-clear fruit that Yang Dong caught.
• A figure shrouded in fog appeared, remarked on Thousand-Faced Granny’s death, and focused on the fruit in Yang Dong’s hand.

Yang Dong fought off the Black Flood Dragon King, a quasi-God King who pursued him for a mysterious fruit, and escaped when eerie bells froze his pursuer. The Black Flood Dragon King remained motionless in the Great Abyss as Yang Dong hurried away, still unaware of what the fruit was.

• The Black Flood Dragon King demanded the fruit from Yang Dong and attacked when he refused to hand it over.
• The Black Flood Dragon King transformed into a giant flood dragon, coiled around Yang Dong, and tried to crush him.
• Yang Dong unleashed his sword skills and Ultimate Divine Sword Art (Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect), cutting through the Black Flood Dragon King's body and escaping.
• The wounded Black Flood Dragon King pursued Yang Dong as he fled through the Great Abyss and wondered about the fruit.
• Eerie bell chimes rang through the Great Abyss, freezing the Black Flood Dragon King in place, and Yang Dong seized the chance to leave.

Yang Dong returned to the Black Flood Dragon King while fleeing the bell, and the bell revealed the Heavenly Court Ancient Road, a trial for choosing a new Heavenly Emperor. As powerful figures watched and discussed the road, the Evil God struck down one who disparaged the Age of Gods and challenged him to fight.

• Yang Dong found that the bell kept drawing close no matter which direction he took, so he returned to the Black Flood Dragon King.
• The bell's toll forced the Black Flood Dragon King to the ground, and Yang Dong approached him, calling him Little Black.
• The Heavenly Court Ancient Road appeared from the void, and the Black Flood Dragon King explained that whoever reached its end could become the Heavenly Emperor.
• The Black Flood Dragon King revealed that his ancestors had served the Heavenly Court by pulling carriages.
• Powerful figures debated sending their descendants to the trial, and one dismissed the Age of Gods as trash.
• The Evil God severed that speaker's arm and challenged him to face the Evil God in combat.

Yang Dong and the Black Flood Dragon King watched powerful contestants arrive on the Heavenly Court Ancient Road after the Heavenly Court Ancient Bell resisted an attack from a giant hand. Ao Qi exposed the Black Flood Dragon King's identity as Black Cheng and threatened him before leaving.

• The Heavenly Court Ancient Bell repelled a giant hand, allowing pathways from across the heavens to connect to the Heavenly Court Ancient Road.
• Yan Wang attacked the other pathways as he arrived, and Third Eye and Hu Jingjing challenged or mocked him.
• The Black Flood Dragon King identified several famous contestants for Yang Dong, including Yan Wang, Tie Niu, and Hu Jingjing.
• Ao Qi arrived with attendants and revealed that the Black Flood Dragon King was his discarded older brother, Black Cheng.
• Ao Qi threatened Black Cheng and dismissed Yang Dong before walking away, and Yang Dong remarked that Black Cheng's life seemed difficult.

Yang Dong learned that the Thousand Faces Fruit could help him break through, then entered a mysterious gateway after his martial soul resonated with the Heavenly Court Ancient Bell. The gateway led him to an ancient structure he recognized as the South Heaven Gate.

• Yang Dong left the Black Flood Dragon King, returned to ask about the Thousand Faces Fruit, and learned that the Black Dragon Clan had nurtured the Thousand Faces Tree for its fruit.
• The Black Flood Dragon King explained that the fruit could raise a peak First-level Deity to God King, while Yang Dong decided it could strengthen him sooner and departed.
• Yan Wang stepped onto the Heavenly Court Ancient Road first, and Ao Qi followed with the others; Yang Dong also set out along the road.
• Yang Dong found himself alone when his Gate of Time and Space Martial Soul resonated with the Heavenly Court Ancient Bell, which formed a gateway for him.
• Yang Dong entered a vast white world, absorbed spiritual rain that raised his divine power to level 128, and discovered a colossal ruined gate bearing the characters for South Heaven.

Yang Dong reached the ruins of the Heavenly Court and met the Former Heavenly Emperor, who revealed that Yang Dong was meant to inherit the Heavenly Court. The Former Heavenly Emperor began tempering Yang Dong in an Eight Trigrams Furnace while watching intruders fight along the Heavenly Court Ancient Road.

• Yang Dong followed the ancient bell through the ruined Heavenly Court and found the Former Heavenly Emperor inside it.
• The Former Heavenly Emperor told Yang Dong that he was the second-to-last Heavenly Emperor and that Yang Dong was destined to be the last.
• The Former Heavenly Emperor explained that the Gate of Time and Space had once been his and had been sent out to find an heir.
• The Former Heavenly Emperor brought Yang Dong to an Eight Trigrams Furnace and ignited it to purify Yang Dong's unstable divine power.
• Yang Dong swallowed the Sea God Fruit and began cultivating inside the furnace as the Former Heavenly Emperor watched the fighting on the Heavenly Court Ancient Road.

Yang Dong used the Eight Trigrams Furnace and the Thousand-Faced Fruit to break through to First-level Deity, then cultivated his Blood-Soaked Demonic Body to greater mastery. The World Heavenly Emperor sent him to the Heavenly Court Ancient Road, where he faced two groups fighting over a Sandscale Fruit.

• Yang Dong swallowed the Thousand-Faced Fruit inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace and rebuilt his shattered divine spark, breaking through to First-level Deity.
• Yang Dong absorbed the furnace's energy for twenty years, reaching the limit of First-level Deity, then spent a hundred years cultivating his Blood-Soaked Demonic Body to greater mastery.
• The World Heavenly Emperor told Yang Dong that thieves had entered the Heavenly Court Ancient Road and ordered him to use his enemies' blood as the foundation for ascending to emperorhood.
• Yang Dong appeared in a desert where two groups were fighting over a Sandscale Fruit, and their leaders agreed to kill him to keep it secret.
• Two quasi-God Kings attacked Yang Dong, who emerged from the sandstorm and killed one with Soul Annihilation Hand before seizing the other.

Yang Dong slaughtered the followers of two quasi-God Kings and traveled to a city protected by Light Soul God King. After revealing himself as the feared madman, he trapped the city in a devastating assault, and Light Soul God King appeared to confront him.

• Yang Dong killed a quasi-God King who claimed Black Dragon King Ao Qi as his brother, then used Blood Qi Burst and Dark Sky, Wave Eye to kill the fleeing followers.
• At a tavern, Yang Dong told the patrons discussing the madman that he had come, identified himself, and killed a man who attacked him with Sword Qi.
• Yang Dong unleashed Demonic Blood Meteor and Sword skills, enclosing the city in a blood sphere and sword light while it drained and killed its residents.
• Light Soul God King appeared and attacked the blood sphere with a white jade spear, but the spear shattered without stopping Yang Dong's attack.