Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hai destroyed the Golden Palace to awaken the Golden Demon Empress, then fought her using his Martial Soul, powerful artifacts, and borrowed strength. The battle escalated when she revealed her Golden True Form, leaving Jiang Hai facing her immense divine-body strength.

• Jiang Hai teleported Soul Guidance Bombs into the Golden Palace, retreated, and detonated them after preparing his defenses.
• The Golden Demon Empress survived the blast and struck Jiang Hai with overwhelming physical strength, sending him flying despite the Unbreakable Shield and Bronze Coffin.
• Jiang Hai counterattacked with the Bronze Coffin, the Heaven and Earth Dragon Soul Lamp, the Unbreakable Shield, and the Fate-Reversing Blade, prompting the Golden Demon Empress to offer an alliance.
• Jiang Hai rejected the Golden Demon Empress's offer, used the Bronze Coffin to borrow Kevin Dexi's strength, and attacked with the Fate-Reversing Blade.
• The Golden Demon Empress's divine body stopped the blade, and she transformed into her towering Golden True Form.

Jiang Hai fought the Golden Demon Empress, using heavenly tribulation, forbidden fire magic, and the Fate-Reversing Blade against her divine body. As the Golden Seven Absolute Seals consumed her soul, she seized Jiang Hai’s flesh and began casting a curse that promised his death beneath gold.

• The Golden Demon Empress overwhelmed Jiang Hai, but he restrained her with magnetic gravity and lightning that drew down heavenly tribulation.
• Jiang Hai used the Chess Realm cave heaven to sever and swallow one of her arms, but she regenerated it by devouring the tribulation lightning.
• The Golden Demon Empress burned her vital blood and broke through Jiang Hai’s defenses with a punch, while he escaped and unleashed Ten Suns in the Sky with the Falan Fire Tower.
• Jiang Hai charged through the flames and struck the Golden Demon Empress with the Fate-Reversing Blade, which drank her divine blood as the Golden Seven Absolute Seals weakened her.
• The Golden Demon Empress seized the blade, tore flesh from Jiang Hai’s chest, and swallowed it, but the curse spread across her body and consumed her soul.
• As Jiang Hai retreated, the Golden Demon Empress invoked her blood, bones, body, strength, vital energy, soul, and will to curse him to die beneath gold.

After the Golden Demon Empress cursed him with the Golden Seven Absolute Seals, Jiang Hai suppressed the curse but lost access to much of his power. He absorbed her divine body, then began forging a Level 9 Four Symbols Radiance Armor to prepare for the dangers ahead in the Abyss.

• The dying Golden Demon Empress inflicted the Golden Seven Absolute Seals on Jiang Hai, while the Fate-Reversing Blade devoured her vital blood and evolved into a Super Divine Artifact.
• The Fate-Reversing Blade attacked Jiang Hai, but the Heaven and Earth Dragon Soul Lamp and the Falan Fire Tower suppressed it and purified its blade spirit.
• Jiang Hai used the Ninefold Coffin Scroll to seal the curse, sacrificing access to most of his attributes and suffering a major loss of strength.
• Jiang Hai absorbed the Golden Demon Empress's divine body, breaking through from level seventy-six to level seventy-seven, but discovered that the curse grew with him.
• Jiang Hai stayed in the devastated Golden Plaza and began forging a Level 9 Four Symbols Radiance Armor from the Azure Dragon Claw and the Fire Phoenix Bone.

Jiang Hai forged the Four Symbols Radiance Armor and a new Sun Moon Divine Needle before fighting his way through the Abyss’s eighteen layers. Following a seven-colored path tied to the Douluo Continent, he emerged in that plane’s Abyss, bringing him closer to finding his way home.

• Jiang Hai completed the half-step Level 10 Four Symbols Radiance Armor and forged another Sun Moon Divine Needle over ten days.
• Jiang Hai destroyed the Golden Palace, entered the Fourth Abyss Layer, and spent more than a year crossing the Abyss’s eighteen layers while pursued by a Demigod-level Crimson Sovereign.
• Jiang Hai reached a star-filled expanse and realized the seven-colored light leading from the Abyss carried an aura connected to the Douluo Continent.
• Jiang Hai followed the seven-colored path through intense pressure and a terrifying presence, then emerged in an Abyss that he recognized as belonging to the Douluo Continent’s plane.
• Jiang Hai considered the possibility that war had broken out on the Douluo Continent and wondered how the Civilization Research Institute had fared.

Jiang Hai subdued the Undead Horse King and used it to reach the center of the Abyss, where he built a Plane Spatial Teleportation Magic Array to return to the Douluo Continent. He activated the completed array, and the chapter ended as the teleportation began.

• Jiang Hai fought through the Undead Horses, defeated their king, and used the Soul-Swapping Mirror Image Technique to bring it under his control.
• Jiang Hai rode the Undead Horse King and its herd to the center of the Abyss.
• Jiang Hai used the Heaven and Earth Dragon Soul Lamp to locate the Douluo Continent and sealed his soul power to wield spatial magic.
• Jiang Hai assembled supreme-grade spatial void crystals and spent a day and night constructing the Plane Spatial Teleportation Magic Array.
• Jiang Hai stepped onto the array and activated the spell.

The Sun Moon Empire launched a war against the Three Great Empires, using its advanced soul tools and military strength to invade the Heaven Dou Empire while capturing the Ming Dou Mountain Range. Ju Zi prepared for a counterattack against Huo Yuhao’s forces, and the Star Luo Empire sounded the horns to reclaim the defensive line.

• The Sun Moon Empire used six soul engineer legions and level 9 fixed-load soul tools to break through the Star Luo Empire’s defenses in the Ming Dou Mountain Range, forcing the Northwest Group Army to retreat.
• Ju Zi learned that high-altitude detection soul tools had repeatedly disappeared and ordered her forces to guard the Ming Dou Mountain Range while preparing for battle.
• Ju Zi gathered the commanders and ordered the army to coordinate with the Holy Spirit Cult before advancing toward Heaven Dou City the next morning.
• Huo Yuhao had joined the Star Luo Empire’s army under a concealed identity and risen to command a regiment in the Northwest Group Army.
• The Star Luo Empire sounded the horns for a counterattack against the Ming Dou defensive line.

The Star Luo Empire’s attack on the Ming Dou Mountain Range was crushed by the Sun Moon Empire’s Death God Soul Tool, which erased hundreds of Soul Saints. Jiang Hai appeared and warned both sides that the Abyss Plane had locked onto their world and would invade, then vanished.

• The Star Luo Empire sent five hundred Soul Saints to attack the Ming Dou Mountain Range, and Huo Yuhao grew uneasy as their assault began to weaken the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses.
• A hidden Death God Soul Tool fired a beam that killed at least two hundred Soul Saints, leaving the rest unable to resist the renewed barrage.
• Huo Yuhao identified the weapon as the Death God Soul Tool, and Dai Hao realized the Star Luo forces could not break through the mountain range.
• Jiang Hai appeared in Cyan-Red Armor and used the Sun Moon Divine Needle to halt the fighting, prompting Ye Xishui to challenge his identity.
• Jiang Hai warned the battlefield that the Abyss Plane had locked onto the Douluo Continent and would invade, then disappeared.

Jiang Hai warned both armies that the Abyss threatened the Douluo Continent, then returned to Dongyang City to see how the Civilization Academy had changed. He arrived at the expanded academy and its fortified Civilization Building, leaving his reunion with old acquaintances for later.

• Ye Xishui questioned Jiang Hai's identity and ordered Teng Ming to investigate who else possessed the Sun Moon Divine Needle.
• Xu Jiujiu, Dai Hao, and Huo Yuhao debated whether Jiang Hai's warning about magic and the Abyss was true before Dai Hao turned attention back to the war.
• Jiang Hai realized a god-level being had used him to locate the Douluo Continent and considered how the nations might unite against the Abyss.
• Jiang Hai flew to Dongyang City, avoided soul-tool detection, and saw how much the city had grown around the Civilization Academy.
• Jiang Hai reached the Civilization Building and recognized that Shi Jingcheng had transformed it into a formidable composite soul tool.

Jiang Hai returned to the Civilization Research Institute after three years and learned about the continent’s rising tensions and the academy’s divided factions. He reunited with his former allies, and Ye Guyi revealed that she had become a Titled Douluo with nine Soul Rings.

• Jiang Hai met Xu Wenqing at Civilization Academy, where she explained East Cang Academy’s merger and recounted the continent’s developments during his absence.
• Xu Wenqing told Jiang Hai that the Sun Moon Empire might soon attack the Three Great Empires and described the factions forming within the academy.
• Jiang Hai asked about the institute’s leaders and learned that Ye Xishui headed the Military Research Area while several senior Soul Engineers remained at the institute.
• Jiang Hai entered the institute, causing the Flame of Civilization to blaze and the Golden Seven Absolute Seals to disperse as his Ninefold Coffin Scroll began circulating.
• Li Qingfeng, Xue Linglong, and Ye Guyi welcomed Jiang Hai back, and Ye Guyi showed him her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and nine Soul Rings, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

Jiang Hai returned to the Civilization Research Institute after three years away and reunited with its senior members. He described his travels to another plane and offered its rare materials and books to the institute, whose members eagerly anticipated studying them.

• Jiang Hai reunited with Ye Guyi and the institute’s senior members, who reacted with astonishment to the Heaven and Earth Dragon Soul Lamp and his claims about a Super Divine Artifact.
• Xuan Ziwen summoned the institute’s senior members, and Jiang Hai saw how the institute had grown into a powerful organization with numerous high-level Soul Engineers and Titled Douluo.
• Jiang Hai thanked the assembled members, introduced himself, and recounted his experiences over the past three years, including his time in the Abyss.
• Jiang Hai displayed the Falan Fire Tower and shared books, magic cores, magic crystals, and other resources he had gathered on the Longqinus Plane.
• Xuan Ziwen and the other Soul Engineers recognized the resources’ importance and became eager to investigate their potential for Soul Tool development.

Jiang Hai explained battle aura and magic to the Soul Masters and Soul Engineers, then demonstrated magic in a spar with Ye Guyi. He sealed Ye Guyi in an ice coffin, and she countered with her ninth Soul Skill, Archangel Descent.

• Jiang Hai told the gathered experts that Longqinus magic and battle aura offered useful powers and could be cultivated alongside Soul Master techniques.
• Xue Linglong challenged Jiang Hai to a spar, but Ye Guyi took the chance to fight him using magic, while Xue Linglong was left to face battle aura.
• Jiang Hai and Ye Guyi met in the Soul Tool Testing Area, where Jiang Hai declared he would use only his abilities as a Mage.
• Ye Guyi opened with her Sword of Judgment, but Jiang Hai evaded it with spatial magic, trapped her in a domain, and countered with Dimensional Slashes.
• Jiang Hai cast the forbidden spell Ice Seal Coffin and froze Ye Guyi, who broke free with her ninth Soul Skill, Archangel Descent.

Ye Guyi and Xue Linglong tested their strength against Jiang Hai, demonstrating the destructive power of magic and battle aura. Jiang Hai lost both matches, and the observers saw how formidable magic, spatial abilities, and Xue Linglong’s ice techniques could be.

• Ye Guyi melted free of the Ice Seal Coffin and attacked Jiang Hai with Angel of Death, but his Ten Suns in the Sky spell engulfed the plaza, and she conceded defeat.
• The observers saw Ye Guyi’s spatial Chess Realm Cave Heaven and recognized the power of her magic.
• Xue Linglong challenged Jiang Hai with her ultimate ice, while he wielded the Fate-Reversing Blade and battle aura.
• Jiang Hai countered Xue Linglong’s Emperor Sword with battle aura, Clear Wind saber intent, and the Golden King technique, but she defeated his attacks with her Emperor Sword and Great Cold Without Snow.
• Xue Linglong froze Jiang Hai with her Ice God Cave Heaven; the Heaven and Earth Dragon Soul Lamp freed him, and he admitted defeat.

Jiang Hai explained the forms of magic and battle aura the institute's members could learn, then warned that an Abyss invasion would begin in about three months. He assessed the Civilization Research Institute's forces and ordered preparations for a continent-wide war.

• Jiang Hai described the requirements for magic and battle aura, introduced the Spiritual, Divine Sound, Summoning, Space, and Necromancy Departments, and gave Bingqin Divine Sound Department texts to study.
• Jiang Hai revealed that Abyss powerhouses had traced the Douluo Continent's coordinates and predicted an Abyss Rift would open in the Ming Dou Mountain Range in roughly three months.
• Li Qingfeng reported the institute's current combat strength, including its five-hundred-member Guard Corps and hundreds of additional Soul Engineers.
• Jiang Hai said the institute's forces were still insufficient, promised to persuade the Sun Moon Empire to cease hostilities, and asked Xuan Ziwen how many legions could be equipped.
• Xuan Ziwen estimated that the institute could equip six more Soul Engineer legions and three battle aura legions, astonishing the Level 9 Soul Engineers.

Jiang Hai mobilized the Civilization Research Institute to prepare for the Abyss's invasion and set out to persuade the nations to unite against it. Before leaving, he formed a life equality contract with White Sea Eagle, greatly increasing her power, and they arrived at Mingdu's Imperial Palace.

• Jiang Hai ordered the Civilization Research Institute to recruit Soul Masters and Soul Engineers, prepare two legions, and redirect its researchers toward the coming war.
• Jiang Hai asked Kong Deming to help persuade Xu Tianran to halt the war and said he would visit the other empires and Shrek Academy to seek support.
• Jiang Hai chose Jing Hongchen, Xue Linglong, Ye Guyi, and Nana to accompany him, while Li Qingfeng stayed behind to train the legions.
• Jiang Hai formed a life equality contract with White Sea Eagle, strengthening himself and transforming her into a hundred-thousand-year soul beast with new attributes.
• White Sea Eagle carried Jiang Hai and the others to Mingdu, where alarms sounded as Soul Tools locked onto them above the Imperial Palace.

Jiang Hai negotiated with Xu Tianran to halt the Sun Moon Empire’s invasion and prepare for the Abyss war, offering the Civilization Research Institute’s support and proposing Ju Zi lead its forces. Xu Tianran agreed, and Jiang Hai left after accepting an offer to become his future child’s teacher.

• Long Xiaoyao sensed Jiang Hai’s arrival and told Xu Tianran that the Civilization Research Institute’s director had returned after three years.
• Jiang Hai asked Xu Tianran to suspend the war for three months and explained that the Abyss invasion threatened the whole continent.
• Jiang Hai proposed that the Sun Moon Empire build defenses in the Ming Dou Mountain Range, provide recruits for five legions, and lend Ju Zi to command the institute’s forces.
• Xu Tianran agreed to halt the invasion and send the recruits to Dongyang City, while warning that the Holy Spirit Cult might resist.
• Jiang Hai presented the corpse of an Abyss creature, and Long Xiaoyao recognized that its death energy would tempt the Holy Spirit Cult to stop fighting.
• Xu Tianran offered Jiang Hai the role of his future child’s teacher, and Jiang Hai and Jing Hongchen left the Imperial Palace.

Jiang Hai persuaded Xu Tianran to halt the Sun Moon Empire’s war and went to Heaven Dou City to urge the Heaven Dou Empire to prepare for an Abyss invasion. The Sun Moon forces withdrew, but Heaven Dou’s leaders doubted Jiang Hai’s warning as he threatened anyone who restarted the fighting.

• Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to halt the campaign against Heaven Dou, withdraw most troops, and bring three thousand elite soldiers to the Civilization Research Institute.
• Jiang Hai explained to Ye Guyi that Xu Tianran accepted a temporary truce because the Sun Moon Empire stood to gain powerful legions and needed to prepare for the Abyss.
• White Sea Eagle carried Jiang Hai and Jing Hongchen to Heaven Dou City, where Du Busi attacked them and Jing Hongchen repelled his poisonous-cloud hand.
• Jiang Hai asked Ning Qingdeng to introduce him to the Heaven Dou emperor and warned that an Abyss invasion would arrive within three months.
• Ju Zi relayed Xu Tianran’s order to withdraw, and Zhongli Wu led the Holy Spirit Cult’s experts away from Heaven Dou City.
• Jiang Hai urged the Three Great Empires to stop fighting and prepare for the Abyss, then warned that he would punish anyone who started a war.

Jiang Hai used the Fate-Reversing Blade to intimidate the Heaven Dou Empire, then explained the limits of his demigod-level power and the blade’s dangers. He arrived in the Dou Ling Empire and requested an audience with its emperor, while Xu Shouwei questioned his credentials.

• Jiang Hai unleashed the Fate-Reversing Blade, destroying Heaven Dou City's walls and forcing the Heaven Dou powerhouses to stand down.
• Du Busi told Emperor Vija that Jiang Hai’s slash had demigod-level power, and Vija sent Vina and Ao Tian to Shrek Academy for information about the Abyss.
• Jiang Hai explained to his companions that Super Divine Artifacts let him briefly fight at demigod level, but a demigod’s curse restricted his power.
• Jiang Hai told Jing Hongchen that the Fate-Reversing Blade had evolved after consuming a demigod’s blood, but its fierce nature made it dangerous to wield.
• Jiang Hai arrived in the Dou Ling Empire and asked to meet its emperor; former Profound Water Sect Master Xu Shouwei demanded proof of his identity and Shrek Academy membership.

Jiang Hai negotiated with the Dou Ling Empire for military aid against the Abyss, offering soul tools and legion training methods in exchange for a Black Tortoise bloodline soul bone. The Snow Soul Emperor accepted the deal, and Jiang Hai left with Xu Shouwei to collect the soul bone from the Profound Water Sect.

• Xu Shouwei verified Jiang Hai's identity and escorted him to meet the Snow Soul Emperor.
• Jiang Hai warned that the Abyss would open in three months and asked the Dou Ling Empire to send its armies and soul masters to the Star Luo Empire.
• Jiang Hai offered soul tools and training methods in exchange for a Black Tortoise bloodline soul bone, while Xu Shouwei argued that the bone warranted a greater price.
• Jiang Hai set his final offer at a Soul Engineer Battalion's equipment and Sun Moon Empire legion training methods, and the Snow Soul Emperor agreed in return for Abyss intelligence and delivery within a month.
• The Snow Soul Emperor sent Xu Shouwei to take Jiang Hai to the Profound Water Sect, and they traveled there aboard Jiang Hai's White Sea Eagle.

Jiang Hai obtained the Profound Water Sect’s Dragon Turtle Sea-Quelling Right Arm Soul Bone, bringing him one step closer to completing the Four Symbols Radiance Armor. After learning that the Civilization Research Institute had multiple Level 10 Soul Engineers, Xu Shouwei showed Jiang Hai the sect’s pills, and Jiang Hai chose three Divine Soul Pills.

• Xu Shouwei brought Jiang Hai and the researchers to Turtle Spirit Island, where Xu Dahe led the researchers on a tour of the Profound Water Sect’s soul tool research base.
• Xu Shouwei opened the sect’s inheritance chamber and retrieved the Dragon Turtle Sea-Quelling Right Arm Soul Bone for Jiang Hai.
• Jiang Hai explained that the soul bone was needed for a soul tool requiring four divine-beast bloodline soul bones, and Xu Shouwei realized the Civilization Research Institute had multiple Level 10 Soul Engineers.
• Xu Shouwei showed Jiang Hai the Profound Water Sect’s Pill Hall and offered him three pills as a gift.
• Jiang Hai selected three Divine Soul Pills, while the White Tiger soul bone remained the final piece needed to complete the Four Symbols Radiance Armor.

Jiang Hai and his companions traveled from the Profound Water Sect to Shrek City, where he warned Bi Ji that the Abyss Plane would invade the Douluo Continent within three months. Bi Ji took evidence to the Star Dou Great Forest to discuss the threat, and the group continued toward Shrek Academy.

• Jiang Hai and his companions left the Profound Water Sect after receiving pills and other gifts, and the White Sea Eagle carried them to Shrek City.
• Bi Ji confronted the group near the Spirit Pagoda, mistaking the White Sea Eagle for an enslaved hundred-thousand-year soul beast until Jiang Hai explained she was his companion.
• Jiang Hai revealed the Scarlet King's soul ring and displayed Abyss Creature corpses, then warned Bi Ji that the Abyss would invade within three months.
• Bi Ji took ten Abyss Creature corpses and flew to the Star Dou Great Forest to discuss the invasion with the soul beasts.
• Jing Hongchen and the others discussed the Spirit Pagoda and soul spirits, and Jiang Hai led them toward Shrek Academy.