Chapter Summaries

The Abyssal Sage King emerged from the Abyss Passage, transformed Douluo Star beneath a purple sun, and revealed himself as the ruler of the abyssal creatures. After Cao Xin declined to ask how he had descended, the Sage King began explaining his six-thousand-year plan and the Abyss Plane’s need for a source of energy.

• The Abyssal Sage King emerged from the Abyss Passage and claimed that devouring the world would make him a God King.
• The Sage King seized the Heavenly Saint Rift Abyss and spread darkness across Douluo Star, forcing the tribulation clouds away.
• The abyssal creatures stopped fighting the Blood God Legion and prostrated themselves before their king.
• The Sage King asked Cao Xin who he was, and Cao Xin introduced himself without showing curiosity about the Sage King’s descent.
• The Sage King explained that the Abyss Plane grew by devouring energy but needed a planet to overcome its development bottleneck and avoid being discovered by the Divine Realms.

Cao Xin used an Upgrade Pill to break through to God King-level combat power and defeated the Abyssal Sage King. After Cao Xin struck him down as he fled into the Abyss Passage, the purple sun vanished and sunlight returned to Douluo Plane.

• The Abyssal Sage King explained that he had waited six thousand years for Douluo Star and intended to absorb Cao Xin's divinity.
• Cao Xin took an Upgrade Pill, broke through his bottleneck, and reached strength rivaling a genuine God King.
• Cao Xin's sword strike pierced the Abyssal Sage King's shield and sent him crashing into the ice field.
• The wounded Abyssal Sage King tried to escape through the Abyss Passage, but Cao Xin pierced him with a second sword strike.
• The Abyssal Sage King and Heavenly Saint Rift Abyss fell into the Abyss Passage, and sunlight returned to Douluo Plane.

Cao Xin pursued the Abyssal Sage King into the Abyss Plane and defeated him by countering his attacks with the Ruthless Sword and Four Seasons Cycle. He refined the collapsing plane and the Sage King’s accumulated power into a massive pill, which hovered before him.

• Cao Xin entered the Abyss Plane and confronted the weakened Abyssal Sage King.
• Cao Xin split the Sage King's blue-violet flame vortex, evaded his strike, and pierced his shoulder with the Ruthless Sword.
• The Abyssal Sage King drew on the power of the Abyss Plane, transformed into a scaled giant, and fired a dark purple pillar of light at Cao Xin.
• Cao Xin used Four Seasons Cycle to devour the attack and spread silence across the plane, draining the Sage King's power and causing his form to crumble.
• Cao Xin summoned the Alchemy Furnace, which swallowed the collapsing Abyss Plane and the Abyssal Sage King, then produced a massive pill.

After destroying the Abyss Plane, Cao Xin returned to Sea God Island, where Ah Yin tried to seize the Golden Ancient Tree’s power and avenge Tang San. Cao Xin killed her and walked toward the Sea God Pavilion.

• Cao Xin announced the Abyss Plane’s destruction, and the soldiers celebrated the end of the war.
• The Blood God Legion disbanded after the Abyss Passage was sealed, and Cao Dezhi returned to the Tang Sect, where Zang Xin welcomed him.
• The Golden Ancient Tree flared as Ah Yin absorbed its life energy in an attempt to become the Douluo Plane’s life core and ascend to Second-Level God.
• Ah Yin accused Cao Xin of killing her husband and violating the Tang Sect’s ancestral precepts, but Cao Xin said Tang San’s Tang Sect no longer existed and his word was law.
• Ah Yin attacked Cao Xin with the life energy she had absorbed, but he dispersed her strike and killed her with a silvery-white beam.
• Ah Yin’s stolen life energy flowed back into the Golden Ancient Tree, and Cao Xin turned toward the Sea God Pavilion.

Cao Xin attacked Daming and Erming in the Myriad Beast Platform, using the Sentimental Sword to awaken their painful memories and resentment toward Tang San. Erming died, while Daming was left confronting whether Tang San had ever been his brother or had only treated him as a subordinate.

• Cao Xin entered the Myriad Beast Platform and waited for Daming and Erming to awaken.
• Daming and Erming appeared, and Erming attacked Cao Xin with overwhelming strength.
• Cao Xin used the Sentimental Sword to stir Erming's memories of the Star Dou Forest and his grief over losing that life.
• Cao Xin intensified Erming's buried anger toward Tang San, and Erming died as the emotion destroyed his consciousness and soul.
• Cao Xin sent the Sword's intertwined emotions into Daming, who remembered Tang San's treatment of the Soul Beast clan and questioned whether Tang San had been his brother or his master.

Cao Xin erased Erming and Daming, then traveled to Sea God Island and destroyed it with the Ruthless Sword. After killing its guardians and sinking the island, he returned toward the Douluo Continent.

• Cao Xin used [Set Facts Aside] to turn the Myriad Beast Platform Micro-Plane into a marble and took it with him.
• Cao Xin walked across the sea to Sea God Island and split the island in two with the Ruthless Sword.
• Sea God Island's guardians confronted Cao Xin, who challenged their loyalty to Tang San and his plan.
• Cao Xin killed all the guardians with a single sword strike.
• Sea God Island sank beneath the waves, and Cao Xin turned back toward the Douluo Continent.

Cao Xin entered Tang Wulin’s Sea of Spirit and destroyed Tang San’s soul fragment after Tang Wulin agreed to remove it. With Tang San gone, Tang Wulin felt a new sense of openness and ease.

• Cao Xin found Tang Wulin beneath the Golden Ancient Tree and asked whether he wanted to get rid of Tang San in his Sea of Spirit; Tang Wulin agreed.
• Tang Wulin used the Secret Art to enter his Sea of Spirit, where Tang San asked whether he had contacted Tang Hao and said his grandfather’s presence had vanished.
• Cao Xin appeared in Tang Wulin’s Sea of Spirit and told Tang San he would kill him, revealing that Tang San could not descend because the Divine Realm had been swept away by spatial and temporal turbulence.
• Tang San attacked Cao Xin with Boundless Sea, but Cao Xin struck him with the Ruthless Sword and wounded him.
• Cao Xin used the Sentimental Sword’s Mortal World Descent to erase Tang San’s soul fragment, identifying himself as Cao Xin of the Tang Sect.
• Tang Wulin asked whether Tang San was gone, and Cao Xin confirmed it as the Sea of Spirit settled and Tang Wulin felt at ease.