Chapter Summaries

Tang Shan persuaded Flander and Yu Xiaogang to support her plan to revive Shrek Academy, then decided to seek funding from the Longsheng Commerce Association. Meanwhile, Lin Jiang returned safely to Return to Ruin Pavilion after the battle on Sea God Island and reunited with Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong.

• Tang Shan proposed rebuilding Shrek Academy by recruiting overlooked students, teaching Tang Sect arts, and taking commissioned work, and Flander and Yu Xiaogang agreed to support her.
• Tang Shan received a system reward that partially restored her facial skin, and she told Flander she would visit the Longsheng Commerce Association to seek help.
• Lin Jiang watched Tang Shan's renewed hope through a system screen and said that the greater her hope, the more interesting her despair would be.
• Lin Jiang returned to Return to Ruin Pavilion, where the waiting women gathered around him.
• Xiao Wu embraced Lin Jiang and told him how worried she had been, while Ning Rongrong warned him not to take such risks alone again.

After discovering that the gratitude and reverence of those he saved had formed an embryonic divine power, Lin Jiang resolved to forge his own path to godhood through the faith of living beings. He began turning Return to Ruin Pavilion into a sect and organizing its growth, while declaring that he wanted to make the rules of the world rather than follow them.

• Lin Jiang showed the women the golden power he had gained after killing Poseidon and explained that it came from the thoughts of those he had saved.
• A Yin recognized Lin Jiang’s ambition to create a new path to godhood, and he confirmed that he would use himself as its foundation and faith as kindling.
• Lin Jiang announced that Return to Ruin Pavilion would recruit soul masters and ordinary people alike and teach a broad cultivation system suited to each disciple.
• Ning Rongrong raised the need for resources, and Lin Jiang ordered Purple Pearl to expand the reformed pirate crew’s shipping business and establish coastal branches.
• Zhu Zhuyun proposed a land-based intelligence network, and Lin Jiang assigned her to lead it with Zhu Zhuqing’s assistance.
• As evening fell, Lin Jiang told Xiao Wu that he wanted to become the one who made the world’s rules.

Tang Shan went to Longsheng Commerce Association to ask Jin Wansan to fund Shrek Academy’s reconstruction, but he rejected her plea and decided to sell her as a slave. The chapter ended with his men seizing and restraining her.

• Tang Shan approached Longsheng Commerce Association and asked to meet Chairman Jin Wansan.
• Jin Wansan admitted Tang Shan and heard her proposal to invest in rebuilding Shrek Academy.
• Jin Wansan refused to invest, citing Tang Shan’s conflicts with Return to Ruin Pavilion, Spirit Hall, and Sea God Island.
• Jin Wansan declared that Tang Shan’s body was her only bargaining chip and ordered four men to seize her for sale as a slave.
• Tang Shan tried to escape, but one of the men twisted her arm behind her back and pinned her against the wall.

Tang Shan was imprisoned and brutalized in the Longsheng Commerce Association’s basement, where Emerald Swans were exploited to heal her so she could be sold. As she sank into despair, Lin Jiang burst into the basement and found her among the captive girls.

• Jin Wansan ordered his men to imprison Tang Shan and prepare her for an underground auction.
• The men abused Tang Shan in the basement, then used the Emerald Swans’ healing power to restore her injuries.
• Tang Shan realized the Commerce Association trafficked girls and used the swans to keep its captives fit for sale.
• A series of explosions shook the basement, and Lin Jiang blasted through the iron door.
• Lin Jiang entered, saw the captive girls, and met Tang Shan’s gaze.

Lin Jiang freed the captive girls and Emerald Swans, then told Tang Shan that he had dismantled the Longsheng Commerce Association and arranged for the victims to be returned or relocated. When Tang Shan attacked him in a frenzy, Lin Jiang stopped time and struck at the foundation of her existence, leaving her fallen on the floor.

• Lin Jiang broke open the cages and told Tang Shan that Jin Wansan and the Longsheng Commerce Association's core members had been killed, while the other accomplices had been crippled and handed over to the authorities.
• Lin Jiang said he had arranged for more than seven hundred girls to return home or find new places to live, and that he would return the Emerald Swans to the Star Dou Forest.
• Lin Jiang freed Tang Shan from her cage and said he felt sorry for her, but that she should live out the rest of her life in obscurity.
• Tang Shan blamed Lin Jiang for ruining her life and lunged at him, shouting that he had courted death.
• Lin Jiang froze the world, called Tang Shan incorrigible, and drew a line toward her that stripped away part of the foundation of her existence.
• Time resumed, and Tang Shan crashed to the floor as Lin Jiang was no longer in front of her.

Lin Jiang finished rescuing the captive girls and returned twelve Emerald Swans to Star Dou Forest. At the Lake of Life, he sensed an ancient presence awakening beneath the water as a figure rose within a pillar of emerald light.

• Tang Shan dissolved into specks of light after Lin Jiang told her she had chosen her own death.
• Lin Jiang freed the caged girls and sent the twelve Emerald Swans into a special space.
• A steward reported that the Return to Ruin Pavilion had rescued 743 girls and dealt with the Longsheng Commerce Association’s members.
• Lin Jiang left the ruins and flew to Star Dou Forest, where he returned the Emerald Swans to the Lake of Life.
• As Lin Jiang prepared to leave, an ancient aura stirred beneath the lake, and a figure began rising in an emerald pillar of light.

Lin Jiang met Bi Ji, leader of the Emerald Swan clan, after rescuing her kin and received her token of friendship. Their meeting was interrupted by the arrival of an ominous God of Original Sin, whose presence spread pink clouds and a seductive fragrance across the sky.

• Bi Ji emerged from the Lake of Life and thanked Lin Jiang for bringing the Emerald Swans home.
• Bi Ji recognized Lin Jiang’s protective mark on her kin and asked about the faith he carried.
• Bi Ji introduced herself, declared Lin Jiang a friend of the Star Dou Forest and the Emerald Swan clan, and gave him a token granting access to the forest’s core region.
• Pink clouds and a seductive fragrance spread across the sky, and Bi Ji shielded the Emerald Swans from the aura.
• Bi Ji identified the presence as a God of Original Sin, while Lin Jiang wondered whether the god had come to avenge Tang San or punish him for killing Poseidon.

The God of Lust descended by the Lake of Life and confronted Lin Jiang and Bi Ji, but Lin Jiang resisted her power with pure faith. Before vanishing, she warned that all Seven Deadly Sin Gods would descend soon, leaving Bi Ji concerned about the danger ahead.

• The God of Lust appeared by the Lake of Life and studied Lin Jiang and Bi Ji.
• Bi Ji identified the God of Lust and warned that gods were forbidden from descending to Douluo Star in their true bodies.
• The God of Lust said she had come to see Lin Jiang, whose killing of Tang San had angered the Asura God, rather than to avenge Tang San.
• The God of Lust awakened desire with her pink gaze, but Lin Jiang's golden power of faith dispersed it.
• The God of Lust left after warning Lin Jiang that all Seven Deadly Sin Gods would descend soon, and Bi Ji cautioned him that they would be difficult to escape.

After the God of Lust departed, Lin Jiang discovered that Bi Ji had been secretly struck by its power, which intensified her attraction to him. As her desire overwhelmed her reason, she begged him to help her while he struggled to remain composed.

• Lin Jiang put away the emerald feather and declared that he was ready to face the gods.
• Lin Jiang's faith power cleared the God of Lust's influence from himself, but Bi Ji began showing signs of its hidden attack.
• Bi Ji realized that the god's power had magnified Lin Jiang's Soul Beast Affinity and Bewitching Touch, making her desire to approach him.
• Bi Ji tried to keep her distance, but Lin Jiang caught her when her legs weakened, and their touch intensified her desire.
• Bi Ji leaned close to Lin Jiang and pleaded for help as he tried to resist his own attraction and remember that they were in the open.

Lin Jiang and Bi Ji gave in to their desire by the Lake of Life, then discussed the danger their intimacy posed with Di Tian. The chapter ended with Di Tian sensing what happened and awakening in fury.

• Lin Jiang kissed Bi Ji, and the two became intimate beside the lake while the Emerald Swans swam away.
• Afterward, Lin Jiang and Bi Ji acknowledged that the God of Lust had engineered their encounter to provoke Di Tian.
• Lin Jiang and Bi Ji dressed and returned toward the center of the lake as the Emerald Swans swam back to their chieftain.
• Di Tian opened his golden eyes, realized what had happened, and roared in rage.

The God of Wrath provoked Di Tian into attacking Lin Jiang at the Lake of Life, but Lin Jiang stopped the dragon’s claw with a barrier of faith. Lin Jiang awakened the Void-returning Sword Casket and used seven divine swords to counter Di Tian’s Dragon God’s Claw, leaving their battle underway.

• The God of Wrath used his Anger technique to inflame Di Tian’s buried resentment toward humans.
• Di Tian erupted from the Lake of Life and attacked Lin Jiang, while Bi Ji was pinned by the pressure.
• Lin Jiang stepped in front of Bi Ji and stopped Di Tian’s claw with a barrier of faith.
• Lin Jiang released his rank ninety-seven soul power and awakened the Void-returning Sword Casket, summoning thirteen divine swords.
• Di Tian attacked with Dragon God’s Claw, and Lin Jiang’s seven-sword formation blocked and weakened the strike.

Lin Jiang defeated Di Tian, bound him with the Beast God System, and gained the submission of the Star Dou Forest’s Soul Beasts. Their faith and the system’s feedback raised Lin Jiang to level 98, leaving him poised to confront the Seven Original Sin Gods.

• Bi Ji used Emerald—Hymn of Life to sustain Lin Jiang as he combined the divine swords’ powers to trap Di Tian and exploit a momentary opening.
• Lin Jiang teleported to Di Tian and pierced his reverse scale with Eternal Darkness, defeating him and forcing him to kneel.
• Myriad Demon King, Bear Lord, Red King, and the other Soul Beast overlords gathered at the Lake of Life and witnessed Di Tian’s defeat.
• Lin Jiang bound Di Tian to the Beast God System and declared that Di Tian and the Star Dou Forest would obey him.
• Di Tian accepted Lin Jiang as his master, and the Soul Beast overlords and beasts across the forest bowed in submission.
• Lin Jiang received a surge of faith, Dragon God Bloodline Essence, and Soul Beast Dominion Authority, breaking through from level 97 to level 98 before sensing the Seven Original Sin Gods’ lingering divine power.

The God of Anger descended over Lake of Life and attacked the Soul Beasts for submitting to Lin Jiang, but Lin Jiang blocked his strike with Mountain Suppressor. Lin Jiang mounted Di Tian and charged into battle against the God of Anger, leaving the fate of Star Dou Forest hanging in the balance.

• The God of Anger appeared above Lake of Life in a battle avatar and demanded that the Soul Beasts and Lin Jiang kneel.
• The Soul Beasts resisted the God of Anger's divine pressure, and he attacked them with Divine Wrath: Heaven's Collapse.
• Lin Jiang summoned Mountain Suppressor and blocked the God of Anger's strike, though the sword's light dimmed from the impact.
• Lin Jiang ordered Di Tian to carry him into the sky so they could fight the God of Anger, while Bi Ji supported them from below.
• Di Tian and Lin Jiang clashed with the God of Anger's flame dragons above the clouds and held their own against his avatar.

Lin Jiang and Di Tian resisted the God of Wrath until the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena awakened and erased his attack. The Seven Deadly Sin Gods then arrived at the Lake of Life and confronted Gu Yuena and Lin Jiang.

• The God of Wrath unleashed Flames of Fury Scorching the World, making Di Tian and Lin Jiang struggle against its emotional and spiritual effects.
• Lin Jiang prepared to use Jingzhe and Eternal Darkness, but an ancient pressure rose from the Lake of Life and halted the God of Wrath's domain.
• Gu Yuena emerged from the lake, saw the battle, and erased the domain with a speck of silver light.
• The God of Wrath recognized Gu Yuena as the Silver Dragon King, and she ordered him to leave the Star Dou Forest.
• Six spatial rifts opened, and the Seven Deadly Sin Gods arrived; the God of Pride confronted Gu Yuena and Lin Jiang.

The Seven Original Sin Gods formed the Original Sin Divine Punishment: Descent Formation to subdue Gu Yuena and destroy the resistance in Star Dou Forest. As the formation corrupted everyone’s minds and warped the laws, Lin Jiang charged at the God of Pride, but the God of Envy’s curse struck toward his back.

• The Seven Original Sin Gods invoked the Original Sin Divine Punishment: Descent Formation, and Gu Yuena refused to surrender to them.
• The formation spread across Star Dou Forest, distorting its laws and magnifying the Original Sins in Di Tian, Bi Ji, the Myriad Demon King, and the other Soul Beasts.
• Lin Jiang resisted the formation’s mental assault with his power of faith and ordered Di Tian to carry him toward the God of Pride.
• Lin Jiang unleashed all thirteen divine swords with Sword Formation: Rotation to break through the formation’s attacks.
• The God of Envy sent a curse aimed at Lin Jiang’s talent and fortune, striking toward his back.

Lin Jiang and Gu Yuena joined forces against the Seven Gods’ Original Sin Divine Punishment formation, but the formation’s retaliation badly injured them. Gu Yuena burned most of her avatar’s origin to disrupt the formation for three breaths, leaving Lin Jiang his chance to strike.

• Gu Yuena appeared beside Lin Jiang and declared that she would face the Seven Gods with him.
• Lin Jiang and Gu Yuena attacked the formation together, piercing its defenses and forcing the Seven Gods to pour more power into stabilizing it.
• The formation’s backlash weakened Gu Yuena and Lin Jiang, while Di Tian, Bi Ji, and the other Soul Beasts sent them support.
• Gu Yuena told Lin Jiang she would burn most of her avatar’s origin to disrupt the formation’s core, and Lin Jiang agreed to use the opening to kill the Seven Gods.
• Gu Yuena unleashed Silver Radiance: Endfall, striking the formation’s core and disrupting the Seven Gods’ links to the formation and one another.

Lin Jiang sacrificed the origin of his martial soul to unleash a forbidden sword art, helping defeat the seven Original Sin God avatars and destroy their divine formation. He survived barely, while Gu Yuena fell into a deep slumber beneath the Lake of Life, and Lin Jiang woke to look toward her resting place.

• Gu Yuena's desperate strike disrupted the divine formation, giving Lin Jiang an opening against the seven Original Sin God avatars.
• Lin Jiang sacrificed his martial soul's origin and fused the thirteen divine swords into a sphere that erased the formation and defeated the seven gods.
• Di Tian caught the falling Lin Jiang, and Bi Ji used her healing power to keep his faint heartbeat alive.
• Gu Yuena's exhausted body sank beneath the Lake of Life, and the Soul Beasts mourned their sovereign.
• Lin Jiang regained consciousness and turned his gaze toward the center of the Lake of Life.

After the battle with the Seven Deadly Sin Gods, Lin Jiang collapsed with his martial soul destroyed and his body near death, while Gu Yuena sank into a deep slumber. Months later, a golden thread of faith reached Lin Jiang’s consciousness and offered him the chance to bind Bi Ji as a faith source.

• Lin Jiang learned from Bi Ji that Gu Yuena had exhausted her origin and fallen asleep in the forbidden area beneath the lake.
• Lin Jiang vowed to take revenge on the Seven Deadly Sin Gods and restore his martial soul before losing consciousness.
• Bi Ji and the Soul Beast overlords kept Lin Jiang alive for months at a cottage beside the Lake of Life.
• A golden halo appeared at Lin Jiang’s brow as his consciousness began sensing threads connected to the sphere of faith.
• Lin Jiang reached through a golden thread to Bi Ji and received a system prompt asking whether to bind her as a faith-source unit.

While unconscious, Lin Jiang discovered that his faith had formed a vast network of connections, allowing him to bind systems to those connected to him. Alarmed by Xiao Wu’s impending labor, he sent binding requests and missions across the continent in an effort to recover and awaken.

• Bi Ji’s life essence flowed along her faith connection to Lin Jiang and slightly repaired his sphere of faith.
• Lin Jiang realized that his faith connections let him locate people and force-bind systems to them.
• Lin Jiang sensed his connections with allies, rulers, Soul Beasts, rescued girls, and the deeply slumbering Gu Yuena.
• Lin Jiang felt that Xiao Wu was going into labor and urgently resolved to wake up.
• Lin Jiang sent system-binding requests and missions to people and Soul Beasts across the continent, and Gu Yuena’s silver radiance rippled faintly.

Lin Jiang completed his transformation from a ruined soul master into a being with a new, faith-born divine power. After awakening, he placed Bi Ji and Di Tian in charge of Star Dou Forest and prepared to return to Return to Ruin Pavilion, drawn by his bond with Xiao Wu and the child.

• Faith energy surged into Lin Jiang, forming a new divine power within his shattered dantian and healing his body.
• Lin Jiang awoke with a newly formed golden mark and demonstrated his divine power by creating a small golden lotus.
• Bi Ji knelt before Lin Jiang and praised his rise into the divine realm.
• Lin Jiang ordered Bi Ji and Di Tian to command Star Dou Forest, restrain the beasts, and complete his assigned tasks.
• Lin Jiang sensed Xiao Wu and the child calling to him from Return to Ruin Pavilion and left the cabin for the Lake of Life.