Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hai condensed a fifth soul core from his mental power, pushing his soul power to the peak of level 89 and awakening heavenly lightning spiritual awareness. A heavenly tribulation formed around him, and as he absorbed its lightning, he began condensing a sixth soul core.

• Jiang Hai used the Ninefold Coffin Scroll and three quasi-divine artifacts to isolate his other soul cores while condensing a spiritual soul core in his Niwan Palace.
• Jiang Hai completed his fifth soul core, and the resonance among his five cores pushed his soul power from level 88 to the peak of level 89.
• Jiang Hai's new spiritual soul core absorbed heavenly tribulation origin energy, giving his mental power the ability to wield heavenly lightning.
• Jiang Hai appeared above the clouds, where his newly awakened power triggered a heavenly tribulation that startled powerful humans and Soul Beasts.
• Di Tian arrived and saw Jiang Hai absorb the tribulation lightning as a sixth, heavenly tribulation soul core began forming in his lungs.

Jiang Hai completed his sixth soul core and used his power to reject the persecution of evil soul masters, while Ye Xishui renounced the Holy Spirit Cult and reunited with Long Xiaoyao. The chapter ended with Zhongli Wu rejecting their choices as Ye Xishui declared she would leave the cult.

• Jiang Hai endured a month-long heavenly tribulation and formed his sixth soul core, revealing that he possessed four ultimate attributes.
• Jiang Hai absorbed three God-Given Soul Rings into his existing rings, raising their ages and turning his eighth ring into a Million-Year Soul Ring.
• Jiang Hai told the Fourth Elder that evil soul masters should be judged by their actions, not their martial souls, and promised to protect them from persecution.
• Ye Xishui appeared as a demigod, supported Jiang Hai, revealed that Yan Shaozhe was her and Long Xiaoyao's grandson, and reconciled with Long Xiaoyao.
• Yan Shaozhe declined to become involved with his grandparents, while Zhongli Wu objected to their plans.
• Ye Xishui rejected the Holy Spirit Cult's cause and said it could become an ordinary sect, but Zhongli Wu refused to accept her decision.

After the battle, Jiang Hai prepared for the Abyss’s final invasion and gathered the Civilization Research Institute for a banquet that might be their last. He honored his father, sealed the grave’s valley with spatial power, then returned to the celebration, where Ning Tian drunkenly demanded to know if he liked her and kissed him.

• Jiang Hai returned to the Civilization and explained that his martial soul could not take a ninth soul ring, while congratulating Li Qingfeng on reaching the demigod realm.
• Jiang Hai asked Xuan Ziwen to organize a grand banquet, and Ju Zi arranged for the Sun Moon Empire’s troops to celebrate and receive rewards.
• Jiang Hai visited his father’s grave, told him about his achievements and the approaching Abyss invasion, and vowed to do everything he could to survive.
• Jiang Hai turned the valley around his father’s grave into a soul tool, sealing it away with spatial power and blade light.
• At the banquet aboard the Civilization, Ning Tian confessed her feelings to Jiang Hai and kissed him.

Jiang Hai and Ning Tian became a couple as the women close to him gathered to talk, and he reunited with Sun Yunhai and Chen Yong. Three days later, the Abyss Rift erupted into battle as the forces of the Douluo Continent assembled against the Holy Spirit Cult, the Sun Moon Empire, and the Civilization Research Institute.

• Jiang Hai returned Ning Tian's affection, and Zhang Lexuan brought her to join Ma Xiaotao, Xue Linglong, Nana, Long Ning, Ye Guyi, and Zhang Lexuan's circle of women.
• Jiang Hai reunited with Sun Yunhai and Chen Yong, learning that Sun Yunhai had won over Bingqin Huo Wu and that all three friends had become Titled Douluos.
• Three days later, a halberd strike darkened the sky above the Abyss Rift, and the continent's forces gathered for the ultimate battle.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong arrived as demigods, followed by Tang Hao, Ah Yin, Shrek Academy, and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Di Tian led the Star Dou Great Forest's Beast Kings and hundreds of thousands of soul beasts to join the defenders.
• The Holy Spirit Cult, the Sun Moon Empire, and the Civilization Research Institute assembled their Soul Engineers and Titled Douluos, while Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao stood apart from the cult.

The Abyss’s third invasion began with nine Quasi-God emperors, forcing Tang Hao to divide the defenders into separate battles. Jiang Hai faced the Sage Emperor as the Abyss Army poured onto the battlefield.

• Xu Tianran brought nearly all of the Sun Moon Empire’s powerhouses to the Mingdou Defense Line, where they joined the Civilization Research Institute’s forces.
• Nine Abyss Quasi-Gods descended through a rift, followed by an endless tide of the Abyss Army.
• Tang Hao assigned defenders to face the Quasi-Gods, then used his Clear Sky Hammer to intercept the Spirit Emperor and Blaze Emperor while Ah Yin engaged the Scythe Emperor and Devil Emperor.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan drew down divine power and confronted the Longhorn Beetle Emperor and Transformation Emperor, while Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong joined forces against the Black Empress.
• Di Tian, Kong Deming, Ye Xishui, and Long Xiaoyao fought the Bee Emperor and its venomous figures, leaving Jiang Hai to face the Sage Emperor.

The Sage Emperor trapped the battlefield in his Nine Palaces Grid, intending to isolate and overwhelm his opponents, but Jiang Hai used his mastery of spatial rules to rearrange the fighters and turn the grid against him. As the two clashed within the grid, the Sage Emperor revealed its energy-draining advantage, and Jiang Hai answered by unleashing Heaven Devourer.

• The Sage Emperor created the Nine Palaces Grid, separating the combatants into nine spaces and leaving several allies outside it.
• The Sage Emperor taunted Jiang Hai about the Golden Seven Absolute Seals curse and claimed the grid would remain until one side died in every square.
• Jiang Hai used the Chess Realm to rearrange the grid, reunite allies, and restore several uneven battles.
• Jiang Hai attacked the Sage Emperor, but the Sage Emperor repeatedly evaded him by teleporting and explained that the grid drained the fighters' soul power to strengthen him.
• Jiang Hai activated his eighth soul skill, Heaven Devourer, and began devouring the energy sustaining the grid and the Sage Emperor.

Jiang Hai defeated the Sage Emperor by tricking him into believing the Golden Seven Absolute Seals had killed him, then struck from behind. After absorbing the Sage Emperor’s soul and rules, Jiang Hai gained a second million-year Golden Soul Ring as the battle continued below.

• Jiang Hai used Heaven Devourer to replenish his power, then outmaneuvered the Sage Emperor’s spatial blinks with the Fate-Reversing Blade.
• The Sage Emperor activated Absolute Control and waited for the Golden Seven Absolute Seals to kill Jiang Hai, while the armies clashed below and the allied front neared collapse.
• The golden flames consumed Jiang Hai’s Cicada Slough Clone, convincing the Sage Emperor that Jiang Hai had died, but the real Jiang Hai emerged behind him and beheaded him.
• Jiang Hai explained that he had hidden behind a spatial barrier and had only pretended the curse erupted, since he could still fight at quasi-god strength while suppressing it.
• Jiang Hai captured the Sage Emperor’s soul and fragments of rules with the Ninefold Bronze Coffin, and his second soul ring became a million-year Golden Soul Ring.

Jiang Hai entered the Black Empress’s grid space and used the flame of civilization to overwhelm her as the Douluo forces fought to halt the Abyss Army. In the Divine Realm, Tang San and the God of Destruction wagered over whether the newly emerging Civilization God King would support Destruction’s plan to expand the realm.

• The Spirit Emperor and Blaze Emperor attacked Tang Hao together, but he answered with the Great Sumeru Hammer-Ring Detonation and barely held them off.
• Jiang Hai joined the Black Empress’s grid space while Di Tian, Long Xiaoyao, Ye Xishui, Li Qingfeng, and Kong Deming descended to help stabilize the ground battle.
• The five Demigods devastated the Abyss Army, with Ye Xishui and Kong Deming especially slaughtering large numbers of its soldiers.
• Jiang Hai unleashed the flame of civilization against the Black Empress, burning her insect eggs as a new civilization soul core began forming above him.
• In the Divine Realm, Tang San and the God of Destruction argued over leadership and expansion, then wagered on whether the Civilization God King would support Destruction’s ideas.

Jiang Hai defeated the Bee Emperor by reversing the predicted outcome of a fatal attack, then absorbed the Bee Emperor’s death-related rules and gained his third Million-Year Soul Ring. He entered the Transformation Emperor’s battle with Tai Tan and began testing his spatial powers against the Transformation Emperor’s Scythe Emperor form.

• Jiang Hai summoned the Death God Tower and other Level 10 Soul Tools, then used Death God's Light to strip away the Bee Emperor’s disguise and weaken him.
• The Bee Emperor launched his guaranteed-hit venomous sting, but Jiang Hai used Reverse Cause and Effect to change the predicted outcome and survived by sealing the death qi inside the Ninefold Coffin.
• Jiang Hai used the Soul Refining Art to refine the Bee Emperor’s compatible death rules into his Ink Jade Divine Bamboo soul ring, creating his third Million-Year Soul Ring.
• Jiang Hai arrived at the battle between the Transformation Emperor and Tai Tan, where the Transformation Emperor had been using the Spirit Emperor’s form to overwhelm Tai Tan with Spiritual Shocks.
• The Transformation Emperor changed into the Scythe Emperor and attacked Jiang Hai, who rearranged his Divine Artifact Spaces and unfolded the Chess Realm Cave Heaven to counter him.

Jiang Hai and the Titan Giant Ape combined their Gravity Domains to trap and defeat the Transformation Emperor. The Titan Giant Ape ascended to the Divine Realm to survive his injuries, while Jiang Hai’s Soul Ring advanced and he assessed the remaining battles.

• The Titan Giant Ape increased gravity within the Nine Palaces Grid to a hundredfold, and Jiang Hai’s Magnetic Cave Heaven raised it to a hundred and seventyfold, immobilizing the Transformation Emperor.
• The Titan Giant Ape battered the trapped Transformation Emperor until he weakened, then yielded the final attack to Jiang Hai.
• The Transformation Emperor changed into a Death God Bee and tried to use Venomous Sting, but Jiang Hai killed him with a lightning-charged punch before he could strike.
• The Titan Giant Ape ascended to the Divine Realm as his injuries neared a fatal point, while Jiang Hai used the Soul Refining Art to advance his Sixth Soul Ring.
• Jiang Hai surveyed the remaining battles: Tang Hao fought the Spirit Emperor and Blaze Emperor, Ah Yin faced the Scythe Emperor and Devil Emperor, Niu Tian fought the Longhorn Beetle Emperor, and Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong battled the Black Empress.

Jiang Hai watched the Abyss Army overwhelm the defenders as Ju Zi and the Douluo Continent's fighters struggled to contain its poison and advance. Ye Guyi purified the battlefield and gained the recognition of the Angel God, while Xue Linglong demonstrated her formidable Ice God Cave Heaven.

• Jiang Hai looked down at the battlefield as the Abyss Army drove the defenders back and poisonous clouds spread toward the Sun Moon and Star Luo Empires.
• Ju Zi ordered the Royal Soul Master Legion to fire Purification Shells, and Sun Yunhai raised a cloud barrier before Shadow Ghost attacked him; Hua Cangsheng sealed Shadow Ghost in his Landscape Scroll.
• Ye Guyi used her holy light to cleanse the poisonous clouds and empowered the Extreme Ice Angel Cavalry Legion as it fought the Abyss Army.
• Zhongli Wu fought Abyss forces while Xue Linglong froze Rat King and added him to the ice sculptures in her Ice God Cave Heaven.
• Ye Guyi continued purifying the Abyss's evil, and the Angel God's shattered Divine Seat was restored in the Divine Realm.

Ye Guyi reforged the Angel Godhood but turned away from the Divine Realm to fight the Abyss, while the war’s heavy losses devastated Jiang Hai and the allied forces. Meng Hongchen sacrificed herself to save Xiao Hongchen, and Jiang Hai’s Ninefold Coffin Scroll awakened as the battle neared its end.

• Ye Guyi felt the Angel God’s summons as her grandfather died, then declined to enter the Divine Realm and unleashed quasi-god-level power against the Abyss Army.
• Ma Xiaotao descended as the Divine Fire Phoenix and fought with strength approaching the quasi-god level while Tang Hao battled the Blaze Emperor and Spirit Emperor.
• The Fourth Elder sacrificed himself to kill an Abyss king, and Bloodthorn Flower died after avenging him; Unbreakable City fell, with its defenders and the Heavenly City and Unbreakable Soul Engineer Legions annihilated.
• Jiang Hai’s allies and acquaintances, including Yu Lang, Qian Zhongwen, Xu Yunxiu, Feiyan, Baozi, and the Sea God Pavilion elders, died across the battlefield.
• Meng Hongchen used her last life-saving soul tool to send Xiao Hongchen away and died in an explosion; Jiang Hai’s Ninefold Coffin Scroll then awakened, merging its nine layers as golden demon flame covered him.

Jiang Hai and his allies slaughtered the Abyss emperors as Tang Wutong awakened the final Tear Crystal. Jiang Hai killed the Devil Emperor and Scythe Emperor, and the Fate-Reversing Blade ascended to divine-artifact level.

• Jiang Hai killed the Black Empress as Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong resumed their assault on the Abyss forces.
• Tang Wutong condensed the final Tear Crystal through her love for all living beings and continued fighting beside Huo Yuhao.
• The Longhorn Beetle Emperor charged Jiang Hai and died, after which Niu Tian ascended to the Divine Realm.
• Jiang Hai killed the Devil Emperor with the Fate-Reversing Blade, causing his first soul ring to begin turning purple-gold.
• The Scythe Emperor burned his bloodline and soul to attack Jiang Hai, but Jiang Hai killed him and claimed his head.
• The Fate-Reversing Blade broke through the mortal world's limits and became a divine artifact.

Jiang Hai defeated the Blaze Emperor, while Tang Hao killed the Spirit Emperor, but the Abyssal Sage King revealed that the emperors’ deaths had powered a vast net meant to capture them both. As the net dragged Jiang Hai and Tang Hao toward the Abyss, the Abyssal Sage King declared that devouring them would let him pursue god king and god emperor realms.

• Jiang Hai fought the Blaze Emperor in the final square of the Nine Palaces Grid, while Tang Hao held off the Spirit Emperor.
• The Blaze Emperor sacrificed his body and soul to strengthen his divine power, but after six hours of battle, Jiang Hai defeated him and absorbed his rules into his fourth soul ring.
• Tang Hao destroyed the Spirit Emperor’s body with his tenth soul ring, and the Spirit Emperor killed himself before Jiang Hai could claim his final soul ring.
• The Abyss Rift began closing, and black flames consumed the remaining Abyss Army as its energy flowed into a black Nine Palaces Grid in the sky.
• The grid caught Jiang Hai and Tang Hao and began dragging them toward the Abyss, where the Abyssal Sage King revealed that he planned to devour them and ascend beyond the God King realm.

Jiang Hai resisted the Abyssal Sage King's net with the power of civilization, resurrected many fallen people, and sealed the path between the Divine Realm and the Douluo Continent before falling into the Abyss. He defeated the Abyssal Sage King, destroyed the Abyss, and returned to Pinghai City thirteen years later to reunite with his father and friends.

• Tang San freed Tang Hao from the Nine Palaces Grid, but Ma Xiaotao's ascension could not save Jiang Hai, who remained trapped in the net.
• Jiang Hai showed humanity his life and asked people to raise their right hands to help him; many supported him, but most people in the Three Great Empires lowered their hands, and Zhongli Wu refused to help.
• Jiang Hai used the power of civilization to resurrect many fallen people, then cast the Spacetime Grand Formation to sever the path between the Divine Realm and the Douluo Continent before entering the Abyss.
• In the Abyss, Jiang Hai revealed that he had formed nine Soul Cores and defeated the Abyssal Sage King after a ten-year battle, completing his ninth Soul Ring and destroying the Abyss.
• Thirteen years later, Jiang Hai returned to Pinghai City, where Jiang Tian and Zhang Lexuan, Xue Linglong, Ning Tian, Ye Guyi, Nana, and Long Ning welcomed him home.