Recaps

Tang Hao and Ah Yin killed two Spirit Hall pursuers and escaped to the Blue Silver Forest, where Ah Yin healed Tang Hao after his Ring Detonation backlash. Meanwhile, the Asura God watched their flight and discovered that popular novels depicting him as a villain were spreading faith-derived power across the Douluo Plane, leaving him enraged and suspicious.

• Tang Hao detonated his Soul Rings to kill Elder Liu and a second cardinal, while the last cardinal escaped using a secret art.
• Ah Yin helped the injured Tang Hao retreat with her to the Blue Silver Forest, where she used her Blue Silver Emperor Origin to heal him.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin worried that they could not safely return to the Clear Sky Sect, but Tang Hao promised to protect her wherever they went.
• The Asura God watched the couple and planned to use their future child to oppose the Rakshasa God’s successor and inherit his divine position.
• The Asura God traced unfamiliar vow power to widely circulated novels that portrayed him as a villain, and he resolved to investigate how mortals had learned secrets of the Divine Realm.

The Asura God detected Wukong’s clone in Dragon Rising City, but Wukong escaped into Dragon Valley, where the pocket world’s defenses hid his true body. Knowing the Divine Realm would eventually uncover him, Wukong resolved to grow stronger and resumed dual cultivation with Zi JI.

• The Asura God’s Divine Sense found Wukong’s clone, but Truth-Breaking Golden Eyes shattered it before Wukong ordered Tian Meng to warn Di Tian and vanished.
• The Asura God searched the Douluo Plane, found no trace of Wukong, and began investigating which gods had descended into the mortal realm.
• In Dragon Valley, Wukong received his clone’s memories and realized the Asura God had noticed him, possibly as part of plans involving Tang.
• Wukong reassured Zi JI that Dragon Valley could shield him for now, but said they needed to strengthen themselves before the Divine Realm uncovered his identity.
• Wukong and Zi JI resumed dual cultivation, using the Dragon Clan method to improve their bodies and souls.

After learning that a god had noticed Wukong, the Silver Dragon King ordered Di Tian to check on him and urge him to recover the Dragon God's Heart. In Spirit City, Qian Xunji learned that Tang Hao's wife was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and prepared to hunt her in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger carried Tian Meng to the Lake of Life, where Tian Meng told Di Tian that Wukong's clone had vanished after a god noticed him.
• Di Tian found no sign of divine surveillance nearby, warned Tian Meng and the Evil God Tiger to keep Wukong's origins secret, and reported the news to the Silver Dragon King.
• The Silver Dragon King ordered Di Tian to visit the Dragon Valley Small World, check Wukong and Zi JI's cultivation, and urge Wukong to retrieve the Dragon God's Heart.
• A wounded Red-Clothed Cardinal told Qian Xunji that Tang Hao had defeated Spirit Hall's force and that Tang Hao's wife was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Qian Xunji summoned Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo and announced that he would go to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for Soul Rings.

Di Tian returned to Dragon Valley and learned that Wukong and Zi JI had earned the Dragon God's recognition and begun a God Trial. Wukong explained why his writings had drawn the Divine Realm's attention and revealed that his strength could now contend with First-Level Gods, leaving Di Tian reassured enough to invest further in him.

• Di Tian entered Dragon Valley and found the dragon bones buried, the resentment gone, and the valley transformed.
• The Dark Dragon King and Light Dragon King told Di Tian that Wukong had honored the fallen dragons, united with Zi JI, and opened the Dragon God Inheritance.
• Di Tian found Wukong and Zi JI by the Dragon God's Skeleton and saw that Zi JI's bloodline and Wukong's life force had grown immensely.
• Di Tian explained that Wukong's clone had warned of the Divine Realm's attention and asked about the Dragon God's Heart.
• Wukong revealed that writing novels let him draw on the faith and vows of living beings, and that his peak combat strength had surpassed the threshold of a First-Level God.
• Di Tian accepted that the situation had already advanced too far to undo and decided to invest further in Wukong.

Wukong learned that he had to complete all eight Dragon God trials to obtain the Dragon God's Heart, while Di Tian and the Silver Dragon King prepared to protect him from the Divine Realm. Meanwhile, the Asura God failed to identify who was behind the events on the Douluo Plane and chose to keep investigating a secret he feared exposing.

• Wukong told Di Tian that the Dragon God's Heart was bound to the inheritance and could only be claimed after all eight trials; Di Tian urged him to continue cultivating in Dragon Valley.
• Di Tian reported to the Silver Dragon King, who ordered stronger defenses and asked to see Wukong's novels; she and Di Tian read the God Realm Legend series and laughed at its portrayal of the gods.
• The Silver Dragon King declared that she would fight the Divine Realm rather than surrender Wukong, and Di Tian pledged to serve as her vanguard.
• The Asura God searched records of divine activity on the Douluo Plane but found only the Sea God and Rakshasa God, whom he ruled out as suspects.
• The Asura God decided to keep the matter from the other God Kings to protect his secret arrangements on the Douluo Continent, vowing to deal with the culprit after his plans were settled.

Tang Hao and Ah Yin were cornered by Spirit Hall after their son Tang San was born, and Ah Yin sacrificed herself to save them. Tang Hao escaped after injuring Qian Xunji, while Bibi Dong killed the wounded Pope and gained the Rakshasa God's recognition.

• Spirit Hall's forces led by Qian Xunji trapped Tang Hao, Ah Yin, and newborn Tang San in a secluded valley, where Tang Hao fought while protecting his family.
• Ah Yin sacrificed herself, giving Tang Hao her hundred-thousand-year cultivation and allowing him to break through to Titled Douluo.
• Tang Hao detonated his new ninth Soul Ring, gravely wounded Qian Xunji, and escaped into the forest with Tang San, the Soul Bone, and the seed.
• Qian Xunji returned to Spirit City with his origin damaged and unable to use Soul Power, and he vowed to destroy the Clear Sky Sect and kill Tang Hao.
• Bibi Dong isolated Qian Xunji in his bedchamber, pierced and devoured him, and gained the Rakshasa God's recognition.

Wukong learned that Zi JI was pregnant with their son, Sun Wufan, and arranged for her to leave Dragon Valley for the safer Lake of Life. While she prepared to go, Wukong wrote a new book about Yang Jian’s plan to revive the Great Sage by guiding the Destined Ones.

• Wukong used his Eye of Time and Space to learn that Zi JI was carrying a healthy, talented boy named Sun Wufan.
• Wukong persuaded Zi JI to leave Dragon Valley and nurture the baby at the Lake of Life under the Silver Dragon King’s protection.
• Wukong saw that Sun Wufan would become a brilliant scholar and a fierce ally against the Divine Realm, then decided to resume writing his book.
• Wukong spent the next few days writing a story in which the Asura God killed the Angel God while searching for the Great Sage’s Mind Relic.
• The Angel God entrusted the Great Sage’s Mind Relic to Yang Jian, who secretly gathered the other relics’ powers and planted them among the five great Ferocious Beast factions.
• Yang Jian placed the Mind Relic on Flower-Fruit Mountain and began choosing compatible monkeys to cultivate as the Destined Ones.

Yang Jian’s plan to resurrect the Great Sage ended when the Destined One defeated the Great Sage’s lingering will and inherited his power. Meanwhile, Di Tian followed a Fortune connection to Dragon Valley, where he discovered that Zi JI was expecting Wukong’s child.

• Yang Jian guided the Destined One through the Great Sage’s Mind Relic, hoping the Great Sage’s lingering will would possess his battle-tempered body.
• The Great Sage’s lingering will praised the Destined One, declared that he would be the Great Sage, and merged with him as the Mind Relic disintegrated.
• Di Tian sensed a strange Fortune-related fluctuation, and the Silver Dragon King concluded that someone was contacting him from afar through Fortune.
• Di Tian guessed Wukong was calling for help and traveled to Dragon Valley to find him.
• Di Tian saw that Zi JI was pregnant, congratulated Wukong, and offered to teach their child to cultivate.

Wukong arranged for Zi JI to avoid dangerous thunder tribulations by moving her into the Silver Dragon King's hidden space to nurture her pregnancy. After the Silver Dragon King agreed to protect Zi JI and their child, Wukong stayed in Dragon Valley to cultivate and obtain the Dragon God's Heart.

• Wukong asked Di Tian to bring Zi JI into the Silver Dragon King's inner space, where she could avoid thunder tribulations and benefit from the Lake of Life's gentle energy.
• Wukong gave Di Tian the Dragon God's Tears to open a direct spatial rift and handed him a manuscript for Xiao Rou to publish.
• Di Tian returned a day later with the Silver Dragon King's approval, and Wukong took Zi JI to the rift using Shrinking Earth to Inches.
• Zi JI entered the Lake-Heart Space, where the Silver Dragon King promised to protect her and the child while Wukong focused on cultivation.
• The Silver Dragon King showed Zi JI a furnished stone chamber, and Zi JI settled in to nurture her pregnancy as Wukong resumed cultivating in Dragon Valley.

Tang Hao settled in Holy Soul Village with his baby son as Bibi Dong consolidated power, blamed him for Qian Xunji’s death, and forced the Clear Sky Sect into seclusion. Meanwhile, Xiao Rou delivered Wukong’s new manuscript, whose opening killed the Angel God, prompting Li Shoumin and Ning Fengzhi to send it up the chain until it reached Bibi Dong.

• Tang Hao arrived in Holy Soul Village with his baby son, bought a house from Jack, and began working as a blacksmith.
• Bibi Dong became pope, blamed Tang Hao for Qian Xunji’s death, and launched a hunt against the Clear Sky Sect, which sealed its gates as Tang Xiao became sect master.
• The Four Single-Attribute Clans split from the Clear Sky Sect, while Qian Daoliu concealed his knowledge of Bibi Dong’s role and devoted himself to Qian Renxue’s God Trial.
• Di Tian gave Xiao Rou Wukong’s new manuscript, and she copied it before delivering it to Li Shoumin.
• Li Shoumin discovered that the book opened with the Angel God’s death and sent it for higher approval; Ning Fengzhi and a Red-Clothed Cardinal also reviewed it before it reached Bibi Dong.

After “God Realm Legend: Black Myth” went on sale, readers condemned the Asura God, while Qian Renxue grieved over the Angel God's death and decided to seek out Heaven-Equal in Dragon Rising City. Furious at the book, the Asura God set out to capture Heaven-Equal's Soul Beast friends and asked Poseidon to lend him manpower in the Douluo Plane.

• Bibi Dong approved the book's sale and ordered an envoy to warn Heaven-Equal in Dragon Rising City, unaware that Wukong was unreachable in the Dragon Valley Small World.
• Readers across the continent snapped up “God Realm Legend: Black Myth” and condemned the Asura God for his actions in the story.
• Qian Renxue cried over the Angel God's death, wondered why Monkey Bro had stopped replying, and resolved to go to Dragon Rising City.
• The Asura God grew furious after reading the book and decided to capture Heaven-Equal's Soul Beast friends to force him out of hiding.
• The Asura God went to the Sea God Hall and asked Poseidon to lend him people in the Douluo Plane, explaining that trouble in Slaughter City made his own forces unsuitable.