Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue awoke in the Pokémon World after Arceus transformed her into its Judgment Angel and charged her with guarding the world and reforming its human-Pokémon balance. She recruited Mewtwo to help Giovanni challenge the Pokémon League while she set out to awaken legendary Pokémon, beginning with Lugia.

• Arceus revealed Qian Renxue's arrival and transformation, appointed her Judgment Angel, and entered slumber after asking Palkia, Dialga, and Giratina to assist her.
• Qian Renxue traveled to Mewtwo's territory and persuaded it to join her by claiming that Arceus had created them both and granting it access to Palkia's spatial power.
• Qian Renxue sent Mewtwo to find Giovanni and support a grassroots revolution against the Pokémon League's nobles and great families.
• Qian Renxue planned to gather talented Pokémon Eggs for Hai Ming and awaken legendary Pokémon to remind humans of the gods' power.
• Qian Renxue chose Lugia as her first target, intending to confront its leniency toward humans who had hunted it.

The Pokémon League leaders debated how to stop Lugia’s climate disasters, while Cynthia challenged them over the stolen Jewel of Life and refused to help without the culprit being handed over. The meeting ended with Cynthia leaving the others to face the crisis themselves unless they took responsibility.

• Damaranch confronted Yuan Zhen and the other League leaders about Lugia’s escalating disasters and blamed them for allowing Lawrence III to provoke the sea god.
• Drake and Pryce called for the regions to unite against Qian Renxue, while Leon and Kukui hesitated and Cynthia asked who had stolen the Jewel of Life.
• Yuan Zhen revealed the Clear Bell, which could summon Ho-Oh and the Legendary Beasts, and Drake presented the Meteor Flute, which could summon Rayquaza.
• Cynthia admitted she could summon Giratina and that her Darkrai had reached the level of a Third-Level God, but demanded to know why she should help the League.
• Lance appealed to Cynthia to consider the innocent people in the affected regions, but she said the League should hand over the culprit if it wanted Lugia’s anger calmed, then departed through a spatial vortex.

Hai Ming and his companions discussed the upheaval caused by Soul Masters, Qian Renxue’s dealings with Mewtwo, and the Pokémon League’s plans against her. Qian Renxue delivered thirty thousand talented Pokémon Eggs to Hai Ming, while the group revealed the League’s cruel experiments that had produced several exceptional Pokémon.

• Professor Carolina described how Soul Masters had unsettled the Pokémon League, while Qian Renxue explained that Zhu Zhuqing had spread Douluo World’s power through Arceus.
• Qian Renxue told Hai Ming that Giovanni had been stunned when she returned Mewtwo to Team Rocket, and Hai Ming and Carolina discussed Giovanni’s ambitions and the League’s dark organizations.
• Carolina reported that the Pokémon League intended to target Qian Renxue, and Hai Ming warned her not to underestimate the League’s influence.
• Qian Renxue gave Hai Ming a ring containing thirty thousand Pokémon Eggs with Elite Four-level talent for his Demon Martial World.
• Qian Renxue revealed that the League hoarded Starter Trio Eggs and conducted horrific experiments, including the deaths of more than ten thousand Eevee to create Hai Ming’s special Eevee and fifty thousand Nincada to produce a Champion-potential Shedinja.

After leaving the Pokémon World, Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing crossed the boundless void and entered an unknown cultivation world. They arrived in the middle of a battle over a rare spirit fruit, where a serpent challenged the powerful Purple-Gold Winged Lion King.

• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing left the Pokémon World after Hai Ming spoke with Arceus about its plan to resolve the threat of Ultra Space.
• In the void, Hai Ming used the Genesis power to reveal nearby worlds, then chose one and cut a passage into it with an ancient light sword.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing entered a dense forest in a world with unfamiliar energy and found that its laws suppressed their senses and power.
• They reached a battlefield where several powerful beasts fought over a young tree about to bear fruit.
• A giant serpent accused the Purple-Gold Winged Lion King of greedily claiming both its Purple Spirit Crystal Mine and the Azurewood Spirit Fruit, and threatened to join forces against it.

Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing confirmed they had arrived on the Battle Through the Heavens Continent and encountered the Amethyst Winged Lion King in the Magic Beast Mountain Range. After reaching Qing Shan Town, they visited Little Fairy Doctor, where Zhu Zhuqing asked her to examine why she and Hai Ming had no children.

• Hai Ming recognized the Amethyst Winged Lion King and halted the battle among the magical beast overlords with his power.
• Hai Ming searched the Amethyst Winged Lion King's memories, confirmed the world and its location, and told it to give Purple Spirit Crystal to any woman who asked for it.
• Hai Ming gave the Amethyst Winged Lion King two Hundred-Beast Fruits for its child, took the Azure Wood Spirit Fruit Tree, and left with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing reached Qing Shan Town and learned from two Wolf Head Mercenary Group members that they were in the town where the Child of Destiny would train.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing visited Little Fairy Doctor at Ten Thousand Medicine House, and Zhu Zhuqing asked her to examine her because she and Hai Ming had no children.

Hai Ming cured Little Fairy Doctor’s Woeful Poison Body and Zhu Zhuqing accepted her as a disciple of the Asura lineage. After giving her a Gastly as a bodyguard, Hai Ming set out to find Xiao Yan and other Children of Fortune in the Battle Through the Heavens world.

• Little Fairy Doctor checked Zhu Zhuqing’s pulse, and Hai Ming’s pulse proved impossible for her to read.
• Hai Ming cured Little Fairy Doctor’s Woeful Poison Body, then invited her to join them.
• Hai Ming asked Zhu Zhuqing to take Little Fairy Doctor as her disciple, and Zhu Zhuqing accepted her into the Asura lineage.
• Hai Ming summoned a powerful Gastly to guard Little Fairy Doctor and told her they would find her junior disciples.
• Zhu Zhuqing realized Hai Ming planned to seek this world’s Child of Fortune and worried about possible romantic conflicts among their disciples.

Hai Ming, Zhu Zhuqing, and Little Fairy Doctor arrived in Wu Tan City to find Xiao Yan and witnessed his humiliation at the Xiao Clan assessment. When Nalan Yanran came to dissolve her engagement with Xiao Yan, Hai Ming intervened and challenged the way she had handled it.

• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing sensed Wu Tan City's extraordinary radiance of destiny and entered the city with Little Fairy Doctor, who learned Xiao Yan would be at the back mountain.
• Hai Ming watched the Xiao Clan assessment and recognized Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er as children of destiny he wanted to recruit.
• The next morning, Hai Ming learned that Nalan Yanran had visited the Xiao Clan and brought Zhu Zhuqing and Little Fairy Doctor to the clan hall.
• Xiao Yan threw a letter of divorce at Nalan Yanran and challenged her to face him at the Misty Cloud Sect in three years.
• Hai Ming entered the hall, forced the Misty Cloud Sect members and Xiao Clan elders to their knees with his pressure, and criticized Nalan Yanran for using powerful allies to end the engagement.
• Hai Ming noticed Xiao Xun'er stirring her Heavenly Flames as Xiao Zhan demanded to know who the newcomers were.

Hai Ming accepted Xiao Yan as his disciple after intervening in Nalan Yanran’s attempt to break off their engagement, while Zhu Zhuqing secretly gave Nalan Yanran special training for their promised three-year contest. Hai Ming then transported the group to the back mountain, promised to make Xiao Yan strong enough to crush the Misty Cloud Sect, and revealed Yao Chen hiding in Xiao Yan’s ring.

• Hai Ming criticized Nalan Yanran for using the Misty Cloud Sect’s power to pressure the Xiao Clan, and her defiant words made Xiao Yan’s fortune flare brighter.
• Hai Ming released the pressure pinning the Xiao Clan and Misty Cloud Sect members, then accepted Xiao Yan as his disciple after Xiao Yan knelt to him.
• Nalan Yanran apologized for the disturbance but refused to honor the engagement, reaffirmed her three-year challenge to Xiao Yan, and asked Hai Ming to spare Ge Ye and the others.
• Zhu Zhuqing secretly passed Divine Slaughter's Domain and a sword technique to Nalan Yanran as training for the coming contest.
• Hai Ming moved the group to the back mountain and told Xiao Yan that becoming a Dou Emperor was far too modest a goal.
• Hai Ming called Yao Chen out of Xiao Yan’s ring, offered to restore his physical body, and asked him to teach Xiao Yan alchemy.

Hai Ming arranged for Xiao Yan to take Yao Chen as a second teacher and revealed that they would seek the Fallen Heart Flame at Canaan Academy to accelerate Xiao Yan’s cultivation. After strengthening the Xiao Clan with Yao Chen’s pills, the group reached the academy, where Hai Ming hinted that Xiao Yan could uncover the secrets of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s Palace beneath it.

• Yao Chen revealed that he was an eighth-rank high-grade alchemist, and Xiao Yan accepted him as a teacher with Hai Ming’s approval.
• Hai Ming demanded Yao Chen’s Flame Mantra, but Xiao Yan asked to discuss it after he became a Dou Practitioner, and Yao Chen warned that cultivating the method was dangerous.
• Hai Ming dismissed Xiao Xun’er’s offer of a Heaven Tier cultivation method and decided to take Xiao Yan out to broaden his horizons.
• Yao Chen spent three days refining pills that greatly strengthened the Xiao Clan, while Gu Yuan was delayed from reaching the clan.
• Hai Ming led Xiao Yan and the others to Canaan Academy to pursue the Fallen Heart Flame and hinted at the ancient palace beneath the academy.

Hai Ming brought Xiao Yan and their companions to Canaan Academy to obtain the Fallen Heart Flame for his disciple. After demonstrating that he could create a gentler flame from its aura, he proposed a trade, while Xiao Yan rejected Su Qian’s invitation to enroll.

• Hai Ming announced his visit to Canaan Academy, and his powerful shout disrupted students’ Dou Qi before First Elder Su Qian came to meet the group.
• Su Qian recognized Yao Chen and invited Hai Ming and the others into the academy, where Hu Gan asked why they had come.
• Hai Ming stated that they wanted the Fallen Heart Flame, and Yao Chen explained that the academy’s seal was weakening while its headmaster was away.
• Hai Ming formed a new, gentler core flame from the Fallen Heart Flame’s aura and showed Su Qian that it could refine Dou Qi.
• Hai Ming explained that he wanted the original Fallen Heart Flame for Xiao Yan, and Su Qian invited Xiao Yan to study at Canaan Academy.
• Xiao Yan refused Su Qian’s invitation, confident in his teacher’s guidance and his own future.

Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing visited Canaan Academy, where Zhu Zhuqing fed the Fallen Heart Flame to Xiao Yan and Hai Ming protected him as it boosted his cultivation. After Xiao Yan broke through to the Dou Practitioner realm and mastered the Flame Mantra, Hai Ming discovered that Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flame had brought him one twenty-third of the World Origin.

• Su Qian led Hai Ming, Zhu Zhuqing, and their companions to the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, where Zhu Zhuqing pulled the Fallen Heart Flame from its seal and fed it to Xiao Yan.
• Hai Ming used a crimson stone tablet to protect Xiao Yan, and the Fallen Heart Flame’s energy raised Xiao Yan’s cultivation by three stages.
• Hai Ming traded Hundred-Beast Fruits for Canaan Academy’s Dou Skills and cultivation methods, while Zhu Zhuqing recognized Zi Yan’s true form and accepted her as a disciple.
• Hai Ming brought Zi Yan to the Xiao Clan and asked Gu Yuan to take her to the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan for her awakening ritual; Xiao Xun’er also became Zhu Zhuqing’s disciple with Gu Yuan’s consent.
• Xiao Yan broke through to the Dou Practitioner realm, absorbed the Fallen Heart Flame, and successfully cultivated the Flame Mantra.
• Hai Ming realized Xiao Yan’s merger with the Fallen Heart Flame had produced one twenty-third of the World Origin.

Gu Yuan returned Zi Yan to the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan and revealed that she was the Dragon Emperor’s daughter and a Dou Emperor’s disciple. Back in Wu Tan City, Hai Ming finished an experiment and prepared to teach Xiao Yan a powerful Dou technique.

• Gu Yuan brought Zi Yan to East Dragon Island, where Zhu Li confirmed her Dragon Emperor bloodline and learned that her master was a Dou Emperor.
• Zi Yan told Zhu Li that she had never met her father, and Gu Yuan left her with a jade slip so he could take her back after her bloodline awakening.
• The Xiao Clan used Yao Lao’s pills to defeat Wu Tan City’s other great clans, while Yao Lao trained Xiao Yan in pill refinement.
• Xiao Yan’s pill furnace exploded during a refining attempt as Hai Ming’s arrival interrupted him, and Hai Ming revealed that his experiment had succeeded.
• Hai Ming summoned Xiao Yan and showed him a High-Level Heaven Tier Dou technique called Buddha Fury Fire Lotus.

Hai Ming gave Xiao Yan the Buddha's Fury Lotus and a Bone Chilling Flame seed, helping him advance to Dou Master and evolve the Flame Mantra. After Xiao Yan successfully created the fire lotus, Hai Ming ordered him to travel the Jia Ma Empire and challenge his peers.

• Hai Ming taught Xiao Yan the Buddha's Fury Lotus and gave him a Bone Chilling Flame seed to absorb.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the flame, broke through to Dou Master, and evolved the Flame Mantra to the middle Earth tier.
• Xiao Yan's first attempt to fuse the Fallen Heart Flame and Bone Chilling Flame exploded, but he tried again more carefully.
• Xiao Yan created a two-colored Buddha's Fury Lotus that produced an attack comparable to a Dou King's full-powered strike.
• Hai Ming ordered Xiao Yan to travel the Jia Ma Empire with Yao Lao and challenge people of his generation over the next two years.

Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing traveled across the Dou Qi Continent, collecting nearly every Heavenly Flame they could find while leaving the Pure Lotus Demon Flame and Void Devouring Flame unobtained. After almost two years away, they prepared to return to the Jia Ma Empire and see how Xiao Yan had progressed.

• Hai Ming suppressed the Ten Thousand Fires Mountain Range with the Flame Slate and subdued the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame before traveling onward to gather more Heavenly Flames.
• Hai Ming took the Yin-Yang Twin Flames from the Pill Tower, collected the Netherworld Poison Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame, and left Queen Medusa a Ninth Rank Transformation Pill and a Hundred-Beast Fruit.
• Xiao Yan encountered Yun Yun and Queen Medusa during his training, while Queen Medusa awakened after her bloodline breakthrough as Xiao Yan's pet.
• Hai Ming forcibly extracted Heavenly Flames from Yan Jin and Huo Yao, then collected the remaining available flames from the Yan Clan and Yao Clan as his reputation spread among the major factions.
• After obtaining the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame from the Gu Clan, Hai Ming explained his goal to Gu Yuan and decided to return to the Jia Ma Empire with Zhu Zhuqing and their disciples.
• Hai Ming learned that Xiao Yan had killed Han Feng after Hai Ming took his Seaheart Flame, while Xiao Xun'er, Little Fairy Doctor, and Zi Yan had grown stronger during their stay with the Gu Clan.

After killing Han Feng, Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan to rest and prepare for the Three-Year Agreement with Nalan Yanran. Hai Ming rewarded Xiao Yan’s breakthrough to Dou King with techniques and three mysterious flames, while Nalan Yanran continued training for their coming duel.

• Xiao Yan killed Han Feng with a Buddha's Fury Lotus, and Yao Lao explained that Han Feng had betrayed him to obtain the Flame Mantra and Bone Chilling Flame.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan to return to the Xiao Clan, cultivate for a year, and then travel to the Central Plains after completing the Three-Year Agreement.
• Xiao Yan agreed to let Cai Lin meet Master, and Yao Lao opened a spatial passage that brought them back to the Xiao Clan.
• Nalan Yanran reached the third level of the Asura Sword Technique and insisted that she could still defeat Xiao Yan in the Three-Year Agreement.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Zhan, then welcomed Hai Ming, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Xun'er, Little Fairy Doctor, and Zi Yan back to the Xiao Clan.
• Hai Ming gave Xiao Yan a storage ring of Dou Techniques and a box of porcelain bottles; Xiao Yan selected the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame and Three-Thousand Lightning Movement, then opened bottles containing Xuanhuang Flame, Green Lotus Core Flame, and Seaheart Flame.

Soul Hall learned that Yao Chen had returned to the Jia Ma Empire and identified the Xiao Clan there as remnants of the ancient clan, prompting Soul Heavenly Emperor to send Hun Miesheng after them. Soul Heavenly Emperor revealed that he was preparing a move he believed could slay even a Dou Emperor.

• Hun Miesheng confronted Elder Mu Gu over failing to locate Yao Chen, then learned the Jia Ma Empire's Xiao Clan was likely descended from the ancient Xiao Clan.
• Void Devouring Flame ordered Hun Miesheng to personally pursue the Xiao Clan after reporting that Gu Yuan had stationed three Dou Saints to guard them.
• Hun Miewang reasoned that the Xiao Clan had sought Gu Clan protection while keeping the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Jade, and Hun Miesheng resolved to destroy them and seize it.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor explained to Void Devouring Flame that he would let Hun Miesheng act to avoid provoking Gu Yuan and disrupting their plans.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor dismissed reports of a Dou Emperor attacking the Yan and Yao Clans, then declared that he possessed a move capable of slaying a Dou Emperor.

Hun Miesheng led Soul Hall forces to attack Wu Tan City in search of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Jade, but Hai Ming effortlessly defeated them. Soul Heavenly Emperor and Gu Yuan arrived, and Hai Ming struck Soul Heavenly Emperor down as Void Devouring Flame surrendered.

• Hun Miesheng and Hun Miewang led Soul Hall experts through a spatial passage to attack Wu Tan City, where Gu Nanhai and two Gu Clan Dou Saints defended the Xiao Clan.
• Hun Miewang overwhelmed the defenders until Hai Ming appeared and took him down with one slap, revealing that Hun Miesheng was a Five-Star Dou Saint.
• Hun Miesheng tried to escape through a spatial tunnel, but Hai Ming pulled him back and killed him as Soul Heavenly Emperor emerged from a spatial rift to save him.
• Gu Yuan arrived with Gu Clan elders, and Soul Heavenly Emperor accused him of scheming to gather Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Jade.
• Hai Ming kicked Soul Heavenly Emperor out of the sky, while Void Devouring Flame surrendered and returned to the ground.

Hai Ming overwhelmed Soul Heavenly Emperor, who revealed an imperial blood blade forged from the essence blood of two ancient races, but Zhu Zhuqing and Hai Ming survived its strike and Soul Heavenly Emperor died. Gu Yuan’s forces swept through the Soul Realm, and Gu Yuan ordered the Soul Clan destroyed while being reminded to leave Soul Hall for Xiao Yan to use as training.

• Hai Ming battered Soul Heavenly Emperor and destroyed the protective Heaven-Defying Luan, prompting Gu Yuan to recognize it as the Iron Clan’s lost clan-protecting treasure.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor admitted that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Iron Clan with help from a spy and used its stolen treasure to conceal the attack.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor summoned the Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade, forged with essence blood from two exterminated ancient races, and slashed at Hai Ming.
• Zhu Zhuqing stopped the blood blade, and Hai Ming emerged unharmed before killing Soul Heavenly Emperor; Void Devouring Flame surrendered and returned to its origin flame.
• Gu Yuan’s forces entered the Soul Realm, discovered the remains of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan and Nine Netherworld Python Clan, and seized the Soul Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s Jade.
• Gu Yuan ordered the Soul Clan eliminated and Soul Hall swept from the continent, but Gu Nanhai reminded him that Soul Hall should be left for Xiao Yan to train with.

Hai Ming helped Xiao Yan absorb several Heavenly Flames, then reforged his bloodline with Xiao Xuan’s remnants and power supplied by Void Devouring Flame, raising him to peak one-star Dou Venerable. Xiao Yan learned that Nalan Yanran had advanced far beyond his expectations, and Xiao Xun’er revealed Hai Ming had also given her a powerful inheritance.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Cloudfire Water Flame and Seaheart Flame, reaching two-star Dou Emperor before Yao Chen worried he had hit his limit.
• Hai Ming gave Xiao Yan bloodline power from Xiao Xuan and Void Devouring Flame, and Xiao Yan spent half a year reforging his bloodline and awakening the Xiao Clan sigil.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the cocoon at peak one-star Dou Venerable, and Hai Ming warned him not to become overconfident about the three-year agreement.
• Xiao Xun’er told Xiao Yan that Nalan Yanran had defeated Yun Shan, moved to the Central Plains, and joined the Flower Sect.
• Xiao Xun’er revealed that Nalan Yanran was a three-star Dou Emperor whose released strength rivaled a seven-star Dou Venerable, and that Hai Ming had given her an inheritance of roughly two high-level Heaven Tier Dou Skills.

Xiao Yan prepared to leave for the Central Plains while Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing learned that Arceus’s failed invasion of Ultra Space had left the Pokémon World exposed and its Creator God gravely injured. Hai Ming went to the Pokémon World, where Arceus gave him its World Origin Token and left to return to the Infinite Continent.

• Xiao Xun'er reminded Xiao Yan to seek the Pure Lotus Demon Flame, and Xiao Yan set out for the Central Plains.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing returned to the Demon Martial World and received Qian Renxue’s message about Arceus’s disaster in Ultra Space.
• Hai Ming explained that Arceus’s expedition had been routed, an Ultra Necrozma had devastated Alola, and the Pokémon World’s Ultra Wormholes had opened uncontrollably.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing traveled to the Pokémon World, where Hai Ming pressured Arceus to choose what to do with its world.
• Arceus fused its eighteen Elemental Tokens into the World Origin Token, handed it to Hai Ming, and departed for the Infinite Continent.