Recaps

Wukong discovered that his clones could transform into Three-Eyed Golden Lions and stack their auspicious enhancement up to a tenfold limit, apparently with the Planetary Will’s support. The Silver Dragon King then ordered Di Tian to give Wukong the Ice-Fire Twin Dragons origin, elevate his standing, and assign him a protector.

• Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts praised Wukong after his transformation into an Imperial Auspicious Beast, and Wukong wondered whether his clones could stack the benefits.
• Wukong created clones and had them transform into Three-Eyed Golden Lions, confirming that their auspicious auras stacked.
• After creating more clones, Wukong found the enhancement capped at 1,100% including the real Golden Lion’s 100%, and concluded the Planetary Will limited the effect to tenfold.
• Wukong suspected the Planetary Will was backing him to change Douluo Star’s future, and Di Tian and the other beasts recognized its favor toward him.
• The Silver Dragon King told Di Tian to give Wukong the Ice-Fire Twin Dragons origin, treat him as equal to or above Golden Lion, fulfill his requests, and arrange a protector for him.

After Wukong accepted several powerful Soul Beast origins, Di Tian appointed Zi JI to guard him and granted him the Icefire Dragon Kings' origins for cultivation. Wukong asked to thank the Dragon Kings in person, and Di Tian took him through a spatial rift to Sunset Forest.

• Scarlet King admitted defeat and gave Wukong his ten-thousand-year origin, and Bi Ji, Zi JI, Xiong Jun, and Myriad Demon King also offered their origins.
• Di Tian announced that Wukong could use the Icefire Dragon Kings' origins, would hold status equal to the Imperial Auspicious Beast, and must have a guardian when traveling.
• Di Tian assigned Zi JI to guard Wukong until he became a Titled Douluo, and she accepted the duty.
• Wukong asked to thank the Icefire Dragon Kings in person before receiving their remaining origins, and Di Tian agreed to take him there.
• Di Tian opened a spatial rift and brought Wukong to the sky above Sunset Forest.

Wukong returned to Yin-Yang Spring Valley and found Dugu Bo occupying it behind a poison formation. He challenged Dugu Bo, overwhelmed him with his Immobility Technique and powerful attacks, and left the fight poised to escalate when Dugu Bo transformed into his Martial Soul Avatar.

• Wukong spotted Dugu Bo's poison formation around Yin-Yang Spring Valley and confirmed that Dugu Bo had reached level eighty-seven.
• Di Tian offered to kill Dugu Bo, but Wukong insisted on settling their old score himself and descended into the courtyard.
• Wukong revealed his four extraordinary Soul Rings and used the Immobility Technique to freeze Dugu Bo despite his Snake Python Heavenly Shield.
• Wukong struck Dugu Bo with a Rising Dragon Fist and a Somersault Cloud-assisted kick, driving him into the ground.
• The restraint on Dugu Bo broke, and he used his seventh Soul Skill to transform into a thirty-meter Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.

Wukong overwhelmed Dugu Bo, who unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and a barrage of poison attacks, but Wukong’s secondary awakening and Stone Monkey transformation let him defeat the Titled Douluo. Dugu Bo recognized Wukong as the Stone Monkey he had once encountered and begged for his life.

• Dugu Bo manifested his Martial Soul Avatar, but Wukong immobilized him and smashed him into the ground with a punch.
• Wukong underwent his Body Martial Soul’s Secondary Awakening, alarming Dugu Bo with his increased power.
• When the Immobility Technique ended, Dugu Bo attacked with six Soul Skills, but Wukong transformed into a Stone Monkey and evaded the barrage with Gather Form, Disperse Qi.
• Wukong ambushed Dugu Bo and pounded his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor until the Martial Soul Avatar collapsed and Dugu Bo begged for mercy.
• Wukong revealed that he was the Stone Monkey, and Dugu Bo recognized the monkey who had stolen his Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch and offered to serve him in exchange for his life.

Wukong killed Dugu Bo, took his possessions, and devoured his remaining power to reach Rank 47 and strengthen his fourth Soul Ring. He then joined Di Tian at the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to meet the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King and seek their residual origin power.

• Wukong questioned Dugu Bo, learned that he had killed the only two Soul Saints who knew about the valley, and killed him.
• Wukong found Dugu Bo's Storage Soul Tool and Gold Card, then planned to use Dugu Bo's aura to withdraw the money.
• Wukong used the Ice-Fire Twin Dragon Staff to devour Dugu Bo's remains, reaching Rank 47 and absorbing the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor's origin into his fourth Soul Ring.
• Di Tian arrived, heard about the staff's devouring ability, and followed Wukong into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Di Tian and Wukong reached the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King's skeletons, bowed to them, and explained that they had come to draw out their residual origin power for Wukong's cultivation.

Wukong received the Ice-Fire Dragon Kings’ remaining power through the Ice-Fire Twin Dragon Staff, which advanced to a Quasi-Super Divine Artifact and gained the Ice-Fire Domain. He tested the new domain with Di Tian after returning to shore.

• The Dragon Kings’ True Spirits appeared and infused the Ice-Fire Twin Dragon Staff with their source power and the lake’s spiritual energy.
• The True Spirits entered the staff, entrusting Wukong with their final hopes and the possibility of returning if it became a Super Divine Artifact.
• The staff returned to Wukong as a Quasi-Super Divine Artifact, strengthening its three abilities and granting it the Ice-Fire Domain.
• Wukong asked Di Tian to go ashore with him so he could test his new domain.
• Wukong activated the domain, creating a hundred-meter field of interwoven ice and fire that empowered him.

Wukong returned to the Star Dou Great Forest with Di Tian after harvesting rare herbs from the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well, then gathered resources and cultivated his abilities. He mastered the Tenfold Gravity Domain and prepared to leave again.

• Wukong harvested high-year medicinal herbs from the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well, while Di Tian suggested that Zi JI would protect him and teased him about pursuing her.
• Di Tian brought Wukong back to the Lake of Life, where Wukong copied Da Ming and Er Ming’s Life Origin and spared Xiao Wu because she was breaking through.
• Wukong sparred gently with the recovered Golden Lion, then asked Myriad Demon King for medicinal herbs and shared his Clone Technique insights in return.
• Over the next month, Wukong comprehended the Titan Giant Ape’s origin and gained the ability to unleash the Tenfold Gravity Domain in its form.
• Wukong stabilized his cultivation, no longer needed Er Ming’s help to train against gravity, and felt ready to leave again.

Wukong returned to Dragon Rising City with Zi JI, reunited with Rou and Fourth Sister, and learned Xiao Wu was close to reaching a hundred thousand years. He then traveled with Zi JI to Hagen-Dazs City to withdraw Dugu Bo’s money, disguising himself as Dugu Bo before entering Tiandou Bank.

• Wukong collected a large supply of medicinal herbs from the Myriad Demon King and traveled back to human society with Zi JI and Cai Lin.
• Rou and Fourth Sister welcomed Wukong and Zi JI, and Wukong told Rou that Xiao Wu would soon reach a hundred thousand years and undergo Transformation.
• Wukong visited Ink and Brush Bookstore, collected his writing payments and bonuses, and received a new reader letter from Boss Li.
• Wukong took Zi JI to Hagen-Dazs City to withdraw money while Cai Lin stayed behind to guard the house.
• Wukong used his Truth-Breaking Golden Eyes to check Hagen-Dazs City for powerful opponents, then entered the city with Zi JI.
• Wukong transformed into Dugu Bo, entered Tiandou Bank, and demanded that the person in charge come out.

Wukong used Dugu Bo’s identity to withdraw five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, then toured Hagen-Dazs City with Zi JI in his Supreme Treasure appearance. He reached World-Saving Hall to buy medicinal ingredients in bulk, and the proprietor confirmed that nearly everything on his list was in stock.

• Wukong passed Tiandou Bank’s identity check using Dugu Bo’s appearance, martial soul, and Soul Rings, then collected the Gold Soul Coins.
• Wukong changed into his Supreme Treasure appearance and joined Zi JI for a stroll through Hagen-Dazs City, buying her dresses and jewelry.
• Wukong and Zi JI entered World-Saving Hall, where Wukong handed a clerk a long list of medicinal ingredients and requested all available stock.
• The clerk brought Wukong and Zi JI to a private room and summoned the proprietor, who confirmed that nearly all the requested ingredients were in stock and being counted.

Wukong finished buying a vast supply of medicinal herbs and discovered that Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Ah Yin had come to the same shop seeking some of the same ingredients. He invited them into his private room, leaving the story at their first meeting.

• Wukong paid eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins for the shop’s available herbs and left another twenty thousand as an advance for future stock.
• A clerk told the shop owner that three Soul Masters were demanding herbs and threatening to smash the World-Saving Hall’s signboard in Tang Hao’s name.
• Wukong recognized the three visitors’ cultivation and realized they were Tang Hao’s group, including Ah Yin.
• Wukong invited the visitors into his private room and offered to share some herbs to make their acquaintance.
• The shop owner brought Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Ah Yin into the room, where Wukong recognized Ah Yin by her blue hair and Life energy.

Supreme Treasure met Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Ah Yin while buying medicinal herbs, and he and Zi Ji discovered that Ah Yin was a transformed Blue Silver Emperor. After sharing a meal and drinks, Supreme Treasure asked the Tang brothers to demonstrate the Clear Sky Hammer.

• Tang Xiao apologized to Supreme Treasure and Zi Ji for the earlier offense, while Ah Yin recognized Zi Ji as the Hell Demon Dragon.
• Zi Ji identified Ah Yin as a level-seventy Blue Silver Emperor who had undergone Transformation, then reassured her through a voice transmission.
• Supreme Treasure sold Tang Hao and Tang Xiao ten medicinal herbs for their original price, and eventually accepted their offer of ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Supreme Treasure, Zi Ji, Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Ah Yin went to a hotel, where they ate, drank, and talked about Soul Beasts and Soul Master battles.
• Tang Hao recounted driving back an eighty-thousand-year Rock Armor Bear, and Supreme Treasure asked the Tang brothers to exchange moves so he could see the Clear Sky Hammer.

Wukong, posing as Supreme Treasure, accepted Tang Hao’s challenge and fought him outside Hagen-Dazs City. Their clash left Tang Xiao astonished as Wukong appeared to hold a slight advantage while concealing his full strength.

• Tang Xiao arranged for Tang Hao, an eighty-third-level Soul Douluo, to fight Wukong, whose claimed cultivation was level eighty-two.
• Wukong and Tang Hao revealed their martial souls and eight Soul Rings before beginning their battle in the Star Dou Mountain Range.
• Wukong struck Tang Hao with a powerful staff blow, and Tang Hao barely held his ground against the force.
• Wukong deliberately limited his strength to make the fight seem close and to encourage Tang Hao to use the Clear Sky Secret Technique.
• Tang Hao attacked with a rapid barrage of hammer strikes, while Wukong met them with his staff in a fierce close-range clash.
• Tang Xiao watched in disbelief as Wukong matched Tang Hao’s raw strength and seemed to gain a slight advantage.

Wukong fought Tang Hao and used the Truth-Breaking Golden Eyes to learn the Clear Sky Sect’s hammer techniques as they clashed. Tang Hao launched the Nine-Character Formula Unification, and Wukong answered with his Sixth Soul Skill, sending ice and fire dragons toward the descending hammer.

• Tang Hao broke away from Wukong and announced he would use the Clear Sky Sect’s Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer technique.
• Wukong activated the Truth-Breaking Golden Eyes and blocked all eighty-one of Tang Hao’s increasingly powerful hammer strikes with his Seventy-Two Slashes.
• Tang Hao challenged Wukong to face the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, and Wukong accepted while studying the nine force-generation methods.
• Tang Hao fused the Nine Absolutes into the Nine-Character Formula Unification and brought his hammer down on Wukong.
• Wukong activated his Sixth Soul Skill, Ascending Dragon Ice-Fire Slash, and sent intertwined Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Ice dragons toward Tang Hao’s hammer.

Wukong and Tang Hao escalated their sparring match by unleashing their ultimate techniques, but Wukong’s Demon Ape Avatar and Fire Demon Slash matched Tang Hao’s Ring Detonation in a draw. Tang Hao accepted that he could no longer underestimate others, while still planning to challenge Wukong again after recovering.

• After Wukong’s Ascending Dragon Ice-Fire Slash sent Tang Hao flying, Tang Hao resolved to use Ring Detonation rather than admit defeat.
• Tang Xiao recognized the danger of Tang Hao’s desperate technique and prepared to intervene if Wukong was badly injured.
• Tang Hao shattered his eighth Soul Ring and empowered his Clear Sky Hammer with Ring Detonation.
• Wukong used Martial Soul Avatar, a Demon Ape Avatar, and Fire Demon Slash to meet Tang Hao’s attack.
• The two attacks collided in a blast that sent both fighters dozens of zhang back, leaving the match a draw.
• Tang Hao reflected on the battle, resolved not to look down on others, and planned to fight Wukong again after recovering.

After his fight with Tang Hao, Wukong pretended to be badly injured and concealed his true condition from the Tang brothers. He later asked Ah Yin for a small portion of her Blue Silver Emperor origin so he could copy its healing abilities.

• Ah Yin discovered that Wukong had no internal injuries, but followed his request to tell Tang Xiao that he and Tang Hao were equally hurt.
• Tang Hao and Wukong praised each other after their spar, and Tang Hao agreed to a Titled Oath to fight again once they both became Titled Douluo.
• Wukong stayed behind closed doors to maintain his act while drinking and boasting with Tang Hao and Tang Xiao.
• Wukong summoned Ah Yin and explained that he wanted to copy her Blue Silver Emperor origin, assuring her that taking a small amount would not harm her foundation.

Wukong obtained Ah Yin’s origin, then returned to the Star Dou Great Forest for New Year, where Xiao Wu broke through to a hundred-thousand-year cultivation and transformed. After spring, Wukong returned to Dragon Rising City and began a new cultivation push, aiming to strengthen his body to three hundred thousand years before reaching level fifty.

• Ah Yin gave Wukong a portion of her origin, and she discovered that he was only a Soul Ancestor with an unusual Soul Ring configuration.
• Wukong declined Tang Xiao and Tang Hao’s invitation to spend New Year in Hagen-Dazs City and left with Zi JI the next morning.
• Wukong returned to Dragon Rising City, handled business at Ink and Brush Bookstore, and took his companions and New Year goods to the Lake of Life.
• Xiao Wu broke through to a hundred-thousand-year cultivation and transformed into a six-year-old girl, and Wukong celebrated New Year with the Soul Beasts.
• Wukong used his clones to study the Titan Giant Ape’s gravity origin and the Clear Sky Secret Technique while Auspicious Beast clones boosted nearby Soul Beasts’ cultivation.
• After spring, Wukong returned to Dragon Rising City with Xiao Wu and his companions, with his Soul Power at level forty-eight, Fortune at level fifty-six, and physical body at one hundred and eighty thousand years.

After returning to Dragon Rising City, Wukong and his companions resumed their routines, and Wukong broke through to Level Fifty while continuing to temper his body. He finished a new book and brought its manuscript to Li Shoumin, who eagerly began reading it.

• Rou enrolled six-year-old Xiao Wu in the Soul Master Academy and repeatedly apologized for the trouble she caused there.
• Cai Lin’s cultivation accelerated under the Ice-Fire Twin Dragon Staff and Wukong’s Super Auspicious Amplification, while Wukong pushed his body training to fiftyfold gravity.
• Wukong’s Soul Power surged during training, breaking through to Level Fifty, but he decided to delay condensing his fifth Soul Ring until his body was stronger.
• Wukong received the memory of his writing clone’s completion of a new book, finished his training, and took the manuscript to Ink and Brush Bookstore.
• Wukong gave the manuscript to Li Shoumin, who was delighted by the finished book and began reading its lengthy story.

Wukong's book recounted Yang Jian's tragic origins, his rescue of Yao Ji, and his pledge to join the Investiture undertaking. It then explained how the Divine Realm planned to use a dynastic war to seize the Human Emperor's faith, and the cataclysm began.

• Li Shoumin praised Yang Jian's story, and Wukong urged him to continue reading.
• Yang Jian and Yang Chan saw Yang Tianyou killed and Yao Ji imprisoned, escaped the God Official, and joined Nezha and Ao Bing.
• Yang Jian trained under Yu Ding Zhenren, split Peach Mountain with the Heaven-Opening Axe, and watched the Sun God kill Yao Ji.
• The Life God King revived Yao Ji and Yang Tianyou, and Yang Jian and Yang Chan swore to join the Investiture undertaking.
• Wukong's book described the Five Godkings' lineages and their plan to overthrow Shang and turn the Human Emperor into a Son of Heaven so they could claim the world's faith.
• The Kindness Goddess kept Buddhism out of the war, the Evil Sect withdrew, and the Investiture Cataclysm officially began.

Li Shoumin feared Wukong’s new novel would anger Spirit Hall because it portrayed the Divine Realm as the true villain. Wukong insisted the manuscript be sent to headquarters unchanged for review, while Li Shoumin pressed him about the direction of his future books.

• Li Shoumin finished reading Wukong’s manuscript and recognized that its story blamed the gods for manipulating the human world and suppressing the Four Planes.
• Li Shoumin worried Spirit Hall or the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s headquarters would ban the book, and urged Wukong to revise its ending.
• Wukong revealed that he had made the Divine Realm the villain to attract readers and direct faith toward the Demon Ape’s reincarnations.
• Li Shoumin warned Wukong that the book was taboo and suggested portraying the gods as deceived, but Wukong told him to submit the original manuscript to headquarters.
• Li Shoumin asked whether Wukong’s next book would again make the Divine Realm the villain and how it would portray the Angel God.

Li Shoumin and Ning Fengzhi secured approval for the God Realm Legend books by promising that the next installment would portray the Angel God as a heroic protagonist. When Bibi Dong read the manuscripts, she discovered a reference to the Rakshasa God and realized the author somehow knew about her secret inheritance trial.

• Wukong reassured Li Shoumin that the Angel God would appear as a virtuous main character in the next book, and Li Shoumin rode to Heaven Dou City to report the news.
• Ning Jincheng brought the manuscript and Li Shoumin's outline to Ning Fengzhi, who read the earlier books and approved their content.
• Ning Fengzhi sent the manuscript and a letter to the local Spirit Hall branch, and the bishop, impressed by the series, forwarded them to Spirit City for judgment.
• Qian Xunji passed the matter to Bibi Dong, who opened the books and froze when she found the Rakshasa God mentioned in Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child.
• Bibi Dong wondered how the author Heaven-Equal had learned about her secret Rakshasa God inheritance trials.

Bibi Dong approved Investiture Cataclysm while arranging to investigate its author, Heaven-Equal. Spirit Hall invited Wukong to write his next book in Spirit City, and he agreed to go next year, leaving him to tell his family about the trip.

• Bibi Dong approved Investiture Cataclysm, invited Heaven-Equal to write in Spirit City, and ordered an investigation into his origins.
• The Platinum Bishop told Ning Fengzhi about Spirit Hall's invitation, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to arrange a meeting with the author.
• Ning Jincheng and Li Shoumin traveled to Dragon Rising City and met Wukong, whom Ning Jincheng invited to write a book about the Angel God in Spirit City.
• Wukong weighed the risks and promotional benefits, then agreed to visit Spirit City next year and said he would inform his family himself.
• Ning Jincheng returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to report that Wukong had accepted.

The release of “Investiture Cataclysm” stirred readers and nobles across the continent, while Wukong absorbed the refined faith fortune the novel generated. The chapter left him confident that his writing could fuel his cultivation as high as the Soul Douluo realm.

• Tang Yuehua finished “Investiture Cataclysm,” praised its heroes, and wrote to Heaven-Equal about the gods’ cruelty.
• Qian Renxue read the book, urged Heaven-Equal to write the Angel God’s story quickly, and sent him her pocket money.
• Dai Weisi vowed to unite the continent and rule as a Human Emperor after reading the novel.
• Xue Qinghe worried that Heaven Dou’s independent vassal states could rebel and resolved to centralize power.
• Wukong absorbed the pure faith fortune generated by the novel and estimated it could advance his cultivation to Soul Saint or even Soul Douluo.

After months of training, Wukong absorbed Tian Meng's origin energy and formed a three-hundred-thousand-year fifth Soul Ring with two powerful Soul Skills. He emerged from cultivation feeling stronger and more confident in his ability to protect himself and the Soul Beast Clan.

• Wukong reached the three-hundred-thousand-year threshold in physical strength and prepared to absorb more of Tian Meng's origin energy.
• Di Tian, Xiong Jun, Bi Ji, and the other Ferocious Beasts encouraged Wukong to take the energy and promised the clan would support him.
• Wukong began forming the Forbidden Word Art and Life-Sustaining Method as his fifth-ring Soul Skills while absorbing Tian Meng's energy.
• After a month, Wukong formed a deep blood-red three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and gained both Soul Skills.
• Wukong realized the Forbidden Word Art could greatly boost his combat power and the Life-Sustaining Method could heal injuries, restore strength, and aid others.
• Di Tian asked how Wukong felt, and Wukong answered that he had never felt so refreshed.

Wukong emerged from training and sparred with Er Ming at Di Tian’s request, revealing his strength and a powerful new Soul Skill. The chapter ended as Wukong sealed his First Soul Ring and stacked Forbidden Word Art with his Martial Soul Awakening for a tenfold boost.

• Di Tian arranged for Er Ming to spar with Wukong, and the Ferocious Beasts gathered to watch.
• Er Ming attacked first, but Wukong dodged with Gather Form, Disperse Qi and struck Er Ming with the Ice-Fire Twin Dragon Staff.
• Er Ming countered with Indestructible Vajra, but Wukong blocked his blow and endured its force.
• Wukong activated Martial Soul Awakening and used Forbidden Word Art to seal his First Soul Ring.
• The sealed Soul Ring doubled Wukong’s awakened power, raising his combat strength to ten times its normal level and astonishing Di Tian.

Wukong defeated Er Ming by sealing three Soul Rings to increase his combat power, then exhausted his soul power and began meditating. As Di Tian guarded him, his lord suggested that Wukong could seek the soul ring condensation energy he needed in Dragon Valley.

• Wukong sealed his second Soul Ring and raised his combat power enough to overpower Er Ming, forcing him onto the defensive.
• Er Ming unleashed his Hundredfold Gravity Domain and regained the advantage by restricting Wukong's movement.
• Wukong sealed his third Soul Ring, broke through the gravity field, and struck Er Ming down with a powerful blow.
• Bi Ji healed Er Ming while Wukong meditated, and Di Tian, Zi JI, and Cai Lin stayed to guard him.
• Di Tian's lord told him that he could take Wukong to Dragon Valley if Wukong could not find the soul ring condensation energy he needed.