Chapter Summaries

Lin Ye and the two elders found a sixty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and launched an ambush after it discovered them. The tiger resisted their opening attacks and enveloped itself in a tornado as Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo attacked.

• Lin Ye, Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Zhu Zhuqing spotted the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger devouring a sixty-thousand-year Earth King.
• Lin Ye assigned Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to restrain and harass the tiger, while Zhu Zhuqing was told to cover him and retreat if needed.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger sensed the group and attacked their hiding place with a lightning sphere, which Lin Ye blocked with Evil God Guard.
• Lin Ye ordered the elders to attack, and Chrysanthemum Douluo unleashed a storm of golden petals while Ghost Douluo rushed toward the tiger's underside.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger summoned a huge tornado around itself to face Chrysanthemum Douluo's attack.

Chrysanthemum Douluo and Lin Ye failed to penetrate the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s tornado defense with their attacks. Ghost Douluo then caught the beast with his fifth soul skill, leaving it exposed and bound.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo’s golden petals were deflected by the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s tornado, while the few that hit only left faint marks.
• Lin Ye used Evil God Thirteen Slashes, but the tornado absorbed the lightning strikes and sealed itself against damage.
• Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing agreed they needed to restrict the tiger’s movement and disrupt its defense.
• Ghost Douluo emerged from the shadows beneath the tiger and used Ghost Shadow Binding Hands to seize its legs, tail, and wings.
• The tiger’s movement stopped, its tornado collapsed, and Ghost Douluo emerged sweating as Chrysanthemum Douluo rejoiced.

Chrysanthemum Douluo, Lin Ye, and Zhu Zhuqing launched their strongest attacks against the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger while Ghost Douluo struggled to restrain it. Their attacks struck the tiger together, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Ghost Douluo's fifth soul skill trapped the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, while Chrysanthemum Douluo prepared his ninth soul skill.
• Lin Ye summoned a massive Evil Thunder Star-Shattering Fall sphere, and Zhu Zhuqing prepared her fifth soul skill, Netherworld Light.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger broke free from Ghost Douluo's fifth soul skill and tried to flee.
• Ghost Douluo used his ninth soul skill, Hell Phantom, to seize the tiger with giant shadowy hands and drag it back.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo, Lin Ye, and Zhu Zhuqing struck the restrained tiger with their three attacks, triggering a blinding chain of explosions.

After Chrysanthemum Douluo’s explosion left the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger seemingly dead, it rose again and began using its Life-and-Death Arena to target Lin Ye. Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo activated their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Lin Ye tried to resist the arena’s pull with his Head Soul Bone Skill.

• Lin Ye protected Zhu Zhuqing from the explosion as Chrysanthemum Douluo’s attack blasted a massive crater into the ground and badly wounded the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo believed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was dead, but Lin Ye stayed wary.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger revived and struggled to its feet, prompting Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to prepare for another fight.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger began opening its Life-and-Death Arena and locked its spatial passage onto Lin Ye.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo joined hands to activate Two Extremes Still Domain as Lin Ye used his Head Soul Bone Skill, Mental Shock, against the passage’s suction.

Lin Ye disrupted the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Life-and-Death Arena, then coordinated with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to immobilize and kill the beast. The group confirmed its death and found a terrifying Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring above its corpse.

• Lin Ye struck the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with a mental attack, interrupting its attempt to activate the Life-and-Death Arena.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo trapped the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in their Two Extremes Still Domain.
• Lin Ye unleashed his right arm Soul Bone skill, Dark Evil Heaven-Splitting Palm, and told the elders to withdraw the domain just before the attack landed.
• The lightning palm crushed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, killing it as Zhu Zhuqing supported Lin Ye.
• A Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring formed above the corpse, and Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo praised Lin Ye’s judgment.

After the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was defeated, Lin Ye prepared to absorb its Soul Ring, but an Evil God Orb emerged from the beast’s remains and merged into his hand. Lin Ye lost consciousness, and Zhu Zhuqing leaped into the pit to reach him.

• Lin Ye thanked Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo for using their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to help defeat the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Zhu Zhuqing checked Lin Ye for injuries, and Chrysanthemum Douluo urged him to absorb the beast’s Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring while the elders kept watch.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s remains exploded, revealing a blackish-purple bead that Lin Ye recognized as the Evil God Orb.
• Lin Ye told the others the bead was the beast’s power core and approached it despite Chrysanthemum Douluo’s warning.
• The Evil God Orb turned to liquid and burrowed into Lin Ye’s palm, causing him intense pain before he collapsed unconscious.
• Zhu Zhuqing cried out and leaped into the pit toward Lin Ye.

After touching the Evil God Orb, Lin Ye lost consciousness and awoke in a strange place where he could use neither Soul Power nor Spiritual Power. He entered a vast hall beyond a huge black gate, where an imposing voice asked whether he was Lin Ye.

• Zhu Zhuqing found Lin Ye unconscious and panicked, while Chrysanthemum Douluo examined him and found no injuries.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo suspected the Evil God Orb caused Lin Ye's condition and decided to wait while Ghost Douluo stood guard.
• Lin Ye awoke on a jade road surrounded by evil mist and realized he could not use his Soul Power or Spiritual Power.
• Lin Ye walked along the road until he reached a gigantic black gate that opened when he touched it.
• Lin Ye entered the hall beyond the gate, which slammed shut behind him, and heard a voice ask if he was Lin Ye.

Lin Ye met the Evil God in the God Realm and accepted the trials to become his successor. After receiving the black sword inheritance mark, Lin Ye returned to the Star Dou Great Forest and woke up beside Zhu Zhuqing.

• A colossal phantom revealed itself as the Evil God and told Lin Ye he was in the God Realm.
• The Evil God praised Lin Ye’s temperament and Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Martial Soul, then offered him the chance to inherit his Godhood.
• Lin Ye accepted, and the Evil God poured power and knowledge into him, branding a small black sword mark between his brows.
• The Evil God sent Lin Ye back to the Star Dou Great Forest while Zhu Zhuqing, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo waited anxiously over his unconscious body.
• Lin Ye woke in Zhu Zhuqing’s lap and gently wiped away her tears.

After waking from the Evil God Orb’s influence, Lin Ye concealed his godhood inheritance from Zhu Zhuqing, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo. The orb produced a left arm Soul Bone with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Life-and-Death Arena skill, leaving Lin Ye delighted as Zhu Zhuqing asked what it did.

• Zhu Zhuqing hugged Lin Ye in relief, and Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo asked why he had passed out and what had happened to the bead.
• Lin Ye claimed he did not know what the bead had done and hid the truth about the godhood inheritance.
• Blackish-purple evil aura surged from Lin Ye’s left arm, and he stopped Chrysanthemum Douluo from touching it while he endured the pain.
• The aura condensed into a Soul Bone and fused with Lin Ye’s left arm, astonishing Zhu Zhuqing, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo.
• Lin Ye discovered that the Soul Bone granted Life-and-Death Arena, a skill that regressed an opponent’s body and Soul Power to their six-year-old state.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Lin Ye what skill the Soul Bone had as he struggled to hide his excitement.

Lin Ye absorbed a sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring, gained the Life-and-Death Arena skill, and rose to level 67. After Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo departed for Spirit City, Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing headed toward the Heaven Dou Empire's front line.

• Lin Ye revealed that his new Soul Bone skill was the Life-and-Death Arena, astonishing Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo with its power to reduce an opponent to their six-year-old state.
• Lin Ye absorbed the sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring over three hours, and his Soul Power surged from level 60 to level 67.
• Lin Ye told Zhu Zhuqing and the two elders that his Spiritual Power had also reached the level of a Titled Douluo.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo praised Lin Ye, then left to report to Spirit City.
• Lin Ye picked up Zhu Zhuqing and set off for the Heaven Dou Empire's front line to surprise the Star Luo Empire forces.

Lin Ye returned to the Heaven Dou Frontline camp as news arrived that Dai Tianfeng and fifty thousand Star Luo reinforcements would arrive in three days. He proposed raiding the enemy granary that night and asked Xiao Zhan for five fast agility-type Soul Sages, leaving the generals skeptical of his plan.

• Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing returned to the Heaven Dou Frontline camp and entered the command tent.
• A messenger reported that Dai Tianfeng was bringing fifty thousand elite troops, including more than three thousand Soul Masters, to reinforce Dai Shan.
• Lin Ye told Xiao Zhan that Dai Shan's army would be crippled before the reinforcements arrived.
• Lin Ye proposed a night raid on the Star Luo army's granary, but the generals warned that its defenses made infiltration nearly impossible.
• Lin Ye asked Xiao Zhan for five agility-type Soul Masters at Soul Sage level or higher.

Lin Ye convinced Xiao Zhan to assign him five Phantom Squad Soul Sages, then used his Spiritual Power to scout the heavily guarded Star Luo camp and identify a likely granary. He mapped an infiltration route and led Zhu Zhuqing and the five Soul Sages toward it.

• Lin Ye persuaded Xiao Zhan to send him the five strongest members of the Phantom Squad for an urgent mission.
• Lin Ye demonstrated overwhelming Spiritual Power pressure to the five Soul Sages, earning their fear and respect.
• Lin Ye, Zhu Zhuqing, and the five Soul Sages traveled under cover of night to a hill near the Star Luo camp.
• Lin Ye secretly surveyed the camp, locating Dai Shan's hiding place and a heavily guarded area likely to be the granary.
• Lin Ye planned a route through the patrol gaps, then led the group forward and warned them to stay close.

Lin Ye led Zhu Zhuqing and five Soul Sages into the Star Luo Camp, where they secretly contaminated the granary’s food with his laxative. They returned safely to the Heaven Dou camp, and Lin Ye told Xiao Zhan to let the troops rest while they waited for the effects to unfold.

• Lin Ye guided the five Soul Sages and Zhu Zhuqing past the Star Luo Camp’s patrols and sentries to reach the granary.
• Lin Ye used Mental Shock to distract the guards at the entrance, allowing the group to slip inside.
• Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing, along with the five Soul Sages, spread Lin Ye’s laxative powder through the granary’s rice and flour.
• Lin Ye guided everyone back to the Heaven Dou Military Camp, where the scar-faced Soul Sage reported their success to Xiao Zhan and the generals.
• Lin Ye told Xiao Zhan to let the soldiers eat, drink, and rest before they watched the results the next day.
• Star Luo Empire’s cookhouse soldiers prepared breakfast as food aromas spread through the camp.

Lin Ye poisoned the Star Luo army’s food, leaving its fifty thousand soldiers incapacitated by severe diarrhea just as Heaven Dou launched its offensive. Xiao Zhan’s forces overwhelmed the camp, and Dai Shan ordered a retreat as the Star Luo troops collapsed.

• Star Luo soldiers ate food laced with a special ingredient and soon suffered a camp-wide bout of severe diarrhea.
• Dai Shan realized the food had been poisoned, but Heaven Dou sounded its war horn and began its general offensive.
• Xiao Zhan praised Lin Ye’s plan, then ordered the Heaven Dou army to attack the helpless Star Luo camp.
• Heaven Dou soldiers broke through the Star Luo defenses while Dai Shan struggled in his command tent.
• Dai Shan ordered a retreat as Xiao Zhan and the Heaven Dou generals celebrated the enemy’s withdrawal.

Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing joined the pursuit of the fleeing Star Luo army and overwhelmed its soldiers with their spirit skills. As Dai Shan tried to escape, Lin Ye gathered power for a devastating attack, leaving the battlefield beneath him in terror.

• Lin Ye received the Evil God's first trial, which tasked him with conquering the Star Luo Empire within three years, and set off with Zhu Zhuqing to join the battle.
• Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing raced into the fleeing Star Luo army, killing soldiers with their spirit skills and cutting through its ranks.
• Zhu Zhuqing used Netherworld Light to clear a stretch of the battlefield, then hunted Star Luo officers with her Netherworld Thousand Shadows Step.
• Dai Shan ordered his troops to scatter and flee, but Lin Ye told Zhu Zhuqing to retreat before preparing his Fifth Spirit Skill.
• Lin Ye formed a massive sphere of fused energy above the battlefield, and the fleeing soldiers and Dai Shan trembled beneath its pressure.

Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing broke Dai Shan’s desperate defense, annihilating the Star Luo marshal and the soldiers who remained behind. Heaven Dou captured the Star Luo frontline camp, and the chapter ended with Xiao Zhan and the generals celebrating Lin Ye’s victory.

• Dai Shan used his White Tiger Shield and White Tiger True Body to protect the fleeing Star Luo soldiers from Lin Ye’s attack.
• Zhu Zhuqing struck the shield with Netherworld Light, and Lin Ye followed with his Dark Evil Heaven-Splitting Palm.
• The shield shattered, killing Dai Shan and more than ten thousand Star Luo soldiers in the resulting blast.
• Xiao Zhan rallied the Heaven Dou army, which captured the Star Luo camp in less than two hours.
• Xiao Zhan and the Heaven Dou generals held a victory banquet and toasted Lin Ye.

Lin Ye warned Xiao Zhan that Dai Tianfeng was approaching with fifty thousand reinforcements and planned to ambush them at Azure Peak Gorge with his Edge Blade Battalion and Phantom Squad. As Dai Tianfeng’s army marched toward the front, Wei Qingshan reported that Dai Shan and nearly all of his fifty thousand troops had been destroyed.

• Lin Ye warned the celebrating generals that Dai Tianfeng would arrive within two days with fifty thousand elite soldiers and proposed an ambush at Azure Peak Gorge.
• Lin Ye rejected Xiao Zhan’s offer to move the main army and chose to lead his Edge Blade Battalion and Phantom Squad on the operation.
• Lin Ye spent the night planning the ambush while Zhu Zhuqing slept beside him.
• Wei Qingshan and other routed soldiers met Dai Tianfeng’s advancing army and reported that Dai Shan had died and their fifty-thousand-strong force had been almost wiped out.
• Dai Tianfeng reacted with shock and pressure, then demanded that Wei Qingshan explain what had happened.

After hearing that Lin Ye had killed Dai Shan, Dai Tianfeng rushed his fifty thousand troops toward the Heaven Dou camp. Lin Ye ambushed the army at Azure Peak Gorge, destroyed its supplies and siege weapons, and faced Dai Tianfeng’s counterattack.

• Wei Qingshan and escaped soldiers told Dai Tianfeng that Lin Ye had killed Dai Shan and thousands of troops.
• Dai Tianfeng ordered his fifty thousand soldiers to accelerate toward the Heaven Dou camp.
• Lin Ye, Zhu Zhuqing, Li Ze, and their forces waited in Azure Peak Gorge until the Star Luo army’s supply wagons and siege weapons entered the pass.
• Lin Ye and his allies attacked the rear of the column, killing soldiers and destroying the supplies and siege equipment.
• Dai Tianfeng rushed toward the rear with fifteen Soul Sage experts after learning of the attack.
• Zhu Zhuqing fired Netherworld Light at Dai Tianfeng, and a bald Soul Sage stepped forward to block it with Martial Soul True Body.

Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing fought Dai Tianfeng and his fifteen Soul Sages, revealing Lin Ye’s six Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings and overwhelming power. Their Martial Soul Fusion Skill created a Dark Nether Tiger that killed the Soul Sages and used Lin Ye’s Devour ability to strengthen both of them, leaving Dai Tianfeng facing the tiger alone.

• Lin Ye revealed six Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings, and Dai Tianfeng recognized him as the Spirit Hall Holy Son before ordering his Soul Sages to attack.
• Lin Ye’s Evil Tiger Annihilation Strike shattered three Soul Sages’ defenses and seriously injured them.
• Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing fused their Martial Souls into a Dark Nether Tiger that withstood the Soul Sages’ attacks and killed six of them.
• Lin Ye used Devour through the fusion, absorbing three Soul Sages and strengthening both himself and Zhu Zhuqing.
• The Dark Nether Tiger devoured the remaining six Soul Sages, and Dai Tianfeng realized he could no longer escape.

Dai Tianfeng unleashed his White Tiger True Body and Soul Bone clones against Lin Ye, who remained inside the Dark Nether Tiger. After Lin Ye broke through Dai Tianfeng’s binding barrier, Dai Tianfeng and his five clones launched their strongest attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Dai Tianfeng overcame his fear and activated his White Tiger True Body.
• Dai Tianfeng used his right leg Soul Bone skill to create five powerful clones.
• Dai Tianfeng and his clones trapped the Dark Nether Tiger with White Tiger Binding.
• Lin Ye smashed the barrier with the Dark Nether Tiger, damaging Dai Tianfeng.
• Dai Tianfeng and his five clones unleashed White Tiger Heaven-Splitting Slash from six directions.