Chapter Summaries

Zhao Su returned to reality after a vision, and Qian Renxue suggested that an unrecalled memory was keeping her from understanding the Great Daos. After Tang Chen defeated Qian Daoliu, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King battled Xiao Bai until Bo Saixi intervened and challenged him to unleash his strongest attack.

• Zhao Su regained consciousness and wondered if Qian Renxue's forgotten memory prevented her from fusing the Great Daos.
• Tang Chen defeated Qian Daoliu and returned to the Sea God Hall.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King overwhelmed Xiao Bai's World-Destroying Divine Palm with his lightning spear.
• Bo Saixi appeared, blocked the spear, and forced the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to face her.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King trapped Bo Saixi in a Heaven-Refining Furnace, but she broke out with her axe and urged him to attack again.

Zhao Su used the Great Dream Spring and Autumn Art to recreate the primordial era, taking the Demon Venerable and himself back into the past while banishing Di Tian’s avatar. As the new age began, Zhao Su vanished with Qian Renxue, and a middle-aged man waited anxiously outside a closed door in Heavenly Citadel.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King attacked Zhao Su and sacrificed himself to flood him with evil energy, hoping to make him the enemy of all.
• Zhao Su’s eight divine dragons blocked the evil, and Qian Renxue revealed that she had survived and that the Demon Venerable had miscalculated.
• Zhao Su used the Great Dream Spring and Autumn Art to pull the Demon Venerable back toward the primordial era, while Bo Saixi deflected Di Tian’s Fangtian Halberd.
• Zhao Su banished Di Tian’s avatar and declared that his memories and cultivation would be sealed as he relived the primordial age.
• Zhao Su and Qian Renxue vanished as heaven and earth reshaped into the primordial era, while a middle-aged man paced outside a closed door in Heavenly Citadel.

Zhao Su defied Zhao Ru’s warning and left to rescue his senior sister, Qian Renxue, who had been driven into the Ten Thousand Demon Forest. As Zhao Ru and the others acknowledged that the Great Dream Spring and Autumn Art could not change the destined outcome, a mysterious sword struck down from the sky to save Qian Renxue from Xian Hong.

• Sixteen years after Zhao Su’s birth, Little Treasure told him that the Demon Tribe had ambushed his senior sister, and Zhao Su hurried to the main hall.
• Zhao Su demanded permission to rescue her, and Zhao Mei offered to go with him, but Zhao Ru let Zhao Su leave alone and warned him to bear the consequences.
• After Zhao Su left, Zhao Ru and Zhao Li discussed how the Great Dream Spring and Autumn Art could only recover Zhao Su’s memories and could not change the destined tragedy.
• In the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, Long Yang and Qian Renxue’s other protectors fought off Xian Hong and the Demon Tribe, but Long Yang was killed and Qian Renxue was cornered in a valley.
• As Xian Hong swung his axe at Qian Renxue, a sword descended from the sky and forced him back.

Zhao Su saved Qian Renxue from Xian Hong’s forces and learned that the Demon Venerable was preparing to attack the Heavenly Citadel. After Qian Renxue returned with him, her cultivation collapsed, and she secretly asked Zhao Ru to teach her how to atone without making Zhao Su hate her.

• Zhao Su destroyed Xian Hong’s Heaven-Refining Furnace, killed the pursuing Demon Tribe experts, and extracted Xian Hong’s memories.
• Zhao Su recalled that Cheng Feng had died protecting the Heavenly Citadel from the Demon Tribe, and he vowed to avenge his mother.
• The Demon Venerable ordered sixteen clan patriarchs and elders to prepare an assault on the Heavenly Citadel, then agreed to Willow Ancestor’s alternative plan after learning Xian Hong had failed and Qian Renxue was no longer under their control.
• Qian Renxue’s condition worsened after she returned from the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, and her cultivation fell from the Divine King Realm to the Douluo Realm.
• Zhao Ru ordered Zhao Su out of Qian Renxue’s room, and Qian Renxue knelt before Zhao Ru and pleaded for him to teach her how to atone.

Qian Renxue chose to alter the past despite the risk of vanishing, while Zhao Ru and the Heavenly Citadel’s allies sprang a trap against the Demon Venerable. The Demon Venerable invoked Ten Thousand Dreams Awaken, collapsing the reconstructed time-space and leaving Zhao Su surrounded by Li Yong and other Taoists in a ruined Heavenly Citadel.

• Qian Renxue accepted Zhao Ru’s help to change the past, and Zhao Ru gave her a porcelain bottle and placed a mark in her mind.
• The Demon Venerable led sixteen armies to besiege the Heavenly Citadel, where Zhao Li confronted him and Zhao Family techniques ambushed the demon forces.
• The Willow Ancestor reported that Qian Renxue had shed her demon body and that the human sects had allied with the Heavenly Citadel, while Zhao Ru and the allies attacked the Demon Tribe’s sacred land.
• The Demon Venerable used Ten Thousand Dreams Awaken to freeze and shatter the reconstructed time-space, transporting the story to a desolate Heavenly Citadel.
• Zhao Su appeared in the ruined city, where Li Yong and dozens of Taoists surrounded him and accused him of joining the Demonic Dao.

Zhao Su recovered his memories, entered the Origin Realm by merging with the Heart of the Universe, and returned to a peaceful new world eight years later. In a Heaven Dou City tavern, he overheard two girls searching for their father and wondered whether this peaceful reality was another dream.

• Zhao Su killed Li Yong and the others, then recovered memories of the ruined Heavenly Citadel and Qian Renxue's death.
• Zhao Su understood the three thousand Great Daos, returned to the waters before Sea God Island, and absorbed the Heart of the Universe to reach the Origin Realm.
• Zhao Su returned to Heaven Dou City and discovered that eight years had passed, the continents and Divine Realm had merged, and the world was ruled by the Zhao Family, the Demon Tribe, and Dark Shadow Island.
• Zhao Su saw that the races lived peacefully and that humans could cultivate without soul rings while members of the Demon Tribe could become gods without taking human form.
• Zhao Su sat in a tavern and overheard two girls talk about finding their father, then wondered if the peaceful world was itself a dream.

Zhao Su reunited with Ning Rongrong and their daughters in a peaceful dream, but an urgent voice woke him and revealed the dream was an illusion. He found himself back in the Heavenly Citadel, where the Demon Tribe had slaughtered its people, and saw Zhao Ru dying on the battlefield.

• Zhao Su recognized Qianqian and Youyou as his daughters, and they accepted him as their father.
• Zhao Su brought the girls to Ning Rongrong, who embraced him and wept at his return.
• Zhao Su spent several peaceful days with his family, though he noticed everyone else had vanished.
• An anxious voice called Zhao Su to wake, and he realized Ning Rongrong and the girls felt cold and unreal.
• Zhao Su awoke unseen in the fallen Heavenly Citadel and saw corpses throughout the city.
• Zhao Su found Zhao Ru dying among the battlefield’s fallen, still standing and gazing toward the city he had protected.

After Qian Renxue sacrificed herself to revive Zhao Su, he spent an immeasurable time seeking the Great Dao before the World Tree fused with his heart and revealed the Heavenly Dao's course. As the new three thousand Great Daos appeared, Di Tian arrived, and the final battle began.

• Qian Renxue died in Zhao Su's arms, then transformed into an ancient tree whose Dao rhythm and life force revived him.
• Zhao Su pondered the Great Dao for an unknown age, separated his body from his soul, and told his gathered soul to find the answer itself.
• Zhao Su's body reappeared on Sea God Island, where the five-pointed-star flag revealed the World Tree, which fused with his heart and let him sense the Heavenly Dao.
• The Dao Ancestor, Witch Ancestor, Zhao Ru, and Cheng Feng emerged through Spatial Gates as the new three thousand Great Daos appeared.
• The Dao Ancestor attacked the gate holding Di Tian back, but Di Tian blocked the strike and declared that he could destroy those he had created.
• The Witch Ancestor challenged Di Tian's claim, warning that the arrival of the new Heavenly Dao signaled the end of Di Tian's reign.

Zhao Su fought Di Tian after merging with the World Tree, but Di Tian retreated when the Annihilation Formation appeared. The Witch Ancestor told Zhao Su that the formation’s last member was on Dark Shadow Island, and the chapter ended with Qianqian and Youyou recognizing Zhao Su as their father.

• Zhao Su’s sword clashed with Di Tian’s Fangtian Halberd as the Dao Ancestor and the others contained the destructive force.
• Ning Rongrong, Tang Yuehua, Zhu Zhuqing, Bibi Dong, Tang San, Qian Renxue, and others arrived in separate camps, followed by Xiao Lu and Xi Yao.
• Xiao Lu and the other women activated the incomplete Annihilation Formation, prompting Di Tian to retreat with Tang San and his faction.
• The Witch Ancestor told Zhao Su to find the formation’s last member on Dark Shadow Island before Di Tian’s True Form broke free of its seal.
• The Dao Ancestor took Qian Renxue away, while Cheng Feng and Zhao Ru departed through Spatial Gates.
• Qianqian and Youyou called Zhao Su “Daddy” and threw themselves toward him.

Zhao Su explored Dark Shadow Island and found its different settlements concealed cruelty, coercion, and numbness beneath their appearances. Zhang Ying revealed that the island reflected the imperfect nature of all heaven and earth, warning that Zhao Su’s fantasies could cause the new rules to collapse before he faced Di Tian.

• Zhao Su left his daughters and traveled to Dark Shadow Island, sensing that the forces sealing Di Tian were weakening and that he needed to complete the Annihilation Formation.
• A woman in a peaceful town explained that men were sent to a battlefield at sixteen and women were forced to bear children for them after turning eighteen.
• Zhao Su passed through settlements marked by exploitation and numb routine, then used a Spatial Gate to reach a city where people lived varied, ordinary lives.
• Zhang Ying appeared beside Zhao Su, and the tavern and city dissolved to reveal the island’s sordid reality.
• Zhang Ying warned Zhao Su that Dark Shadow Island reflected the imperfect world and that his fantasies could make the new rules collapse, leaving him unable to defeat Di Tian.

Zhao Su created the rules of the New Heaven and Earth, giving up the chance to become its permanent ruler and setting up a contest for the authority to govern. He lost his cultivation in the process and would have to reach the Origin Realm again before facing Di Tian in the final showdown.

• Zhang Ying urged Zhao Su to recover his invincible heart, and Zhao Su formed the World Tree and used it to create new rules of heaven and earth.
• Di Tian sent a clone to merge with the new Heavenly Dao rules, then confronted Zhao Su and declared that he would become their ruler.
• Zhao Su revealed that the new rules made the ruler's authority temporary and unchangeable, and Di Tian vowed to destroy the New Heaven and Earth if he won.
• The Dao Ancestor told Qian Renxue that Zhao Su had given up his cultivation and needed to reach the Origin Realm again to challenge Di Tian.
• The Dao Ancestor asked Qian Renxue whether she wanted to renew her bond with Zhao Su and become the final member of the Annihilation Formation.

Qian Renxue, Zhao Su, Dao Ancestor, Witch Ancestor, Zhao Ru, and Cheng Feng merged into the new rules of heaven and earth to begin new lives. In the new Douluo epoch, Cheng Feng faced Spirit Daoist’s wrath for refusing to leave Zhao Ru and revealed that she was carrying his child.

• Dao Ancestor merged Qian Renxue into the new rules of heaven and earth, and Zhao Su followed, hoping not to miss his chance with her again.
• Dao Ancestor and Witch Ancestor confessed their feelings and merged into the new rules of heaven and earth, followed by Zhao Ru and Cheng Feng.
• In year 520 of the new Douluo epoch, Spirit Daoist demanded that Cheng Feng renounce Zhao Ru, but she refused and pleaded to remain with him.
• Cheng Feng revealed to Xue Ling that she was pregnant and did not want her child to be born without a father.
• Spirit Daoist attacked Cheng Feng, and Xue Ling accused him of being the one who had fallen into the demonic Dao.

Cheng Feng gave birth to Zhao Su, whose three martial souls drew the attention of Spirit Daoist and Xue Ling as Zhao Ru and the Darkness Overlord attacked the Spirit Talisman Gate. A thousand years later, Zhao Su lived in Taiqing Village, where the damaged seal on the Evil Ghost King's three souls threatened the villagers.

• Cheng Feng gave birth to Zhao Su at Reflection Cliff, and Spirit Daoist sensed that the child possessed three martial souls, including one imbued with Dao rhythm.
• Zhao Ru arrived at the Spirit Talisman Gate searching for Cheng Feng, and the Darkness Overlord's forces attacked while Spirit Daoist and the disciples fought back.
• Spirit Daoist, Zhao Ru, and the Darkness Overlord vanished after the battle, and the Witch Cult and Spirit Talisman Gate later split into separate factions.
• In 1520 of the new Douluo epoch, Grandpa Li brought Zhao Su to the village clearing after a child damaged the seal on the Evil Ghost King's three souls.
• Zhao Su saw a dozen villagers drained of soul power and the village's weak cultivators struggling to hold the Evil Ghost King's three souls back.

Zhao Su used a secret art to restore the seal on the Evil Ghost King and return stolen Soul Power to the villagers, but the effort caused him severe pain. His grandmother treated him and revealed that his broken seal left him at most a year to live, while a mysterious figure planned to have Xue'er return; the next morning, Zhao Su went to the closed ancestral hall and met a flustered Li Fan.

• At the old village chief's urging, Zhao Su used the Emperor Seven Kill Sword and Soul-Seizing Art to recover the villagers' Soul Power and reseal the Evil Ghost King's three souls.
• Zhao Su collapsed with a severe headache, and the old village chief took him home to await Third Sister-in-Law.
• Third Sister-in-Law used a talisman to treat Zhao Su and told a phantom that his seal had broken and he had at most a year to live; the phantom said Xue'er would return to extend his life.
• The next morning, Third Sister-in-Law gave Zhao Su medicine and sent him to the ancestral hall after he washed.
• Zhao Su saw hazy images when he looked at the sunrise, then met a flustered Li Fan outside the tightly shut ancestral hall.

Zhao Su awakened the Devouring-Heaven Dragon Cat and Emperor Seven Kill Sword, rose to Soul King rank, and learned that his grandmother would reveal his parents’ identities only after he became a god. Back at school, his worsening headaches led Liang Rongsheng to suggest that transfer student Qian Renxue might examine him, and her name stirred a sense of familiarity in Zhao Su.

• Li Fan told Zhao Su that a sword had appeared inside him and severed the Evil Ghost King’s three souls, giving the villagers the spirit power it drew out.
• At the ancestral hall, Old Third Sister-in-Law and five elders performed a ritual that awakened Zhao Su’s Devouring-Heaven Dragon Cat and Emperor Seven Kill Sword, raising his soul power to level fifty-nine.
• Zhao Su asked his grandmother about his parents, but she said he would learn the truth after surpassing Titled Douluo and becoming a god.
• A month later, Zhao Su returned to school with worsening headaches that his grandmother’s medicine could no longer suppress.
• Liang Rongsheng told Zhao Su that transfer student Qian Renxue had cured Liu Xuan and might be able to examine him; Zhao Su felt that her name was familiar.

Zhao Su and Liangzi encountered Qian Renxue fighting a Head-Down Master in an alley, and Zhao Su sensed a connection to her. After defeating the enemy, Qian Renxue warned Zhao Su that he had little time left to live and told him to visit her at the Taiqing Taoist Temple in three days.

• Zhao Su learned that Qian Renxue had left school, so he and Liangzi headed out for a drink.
• Zhao Su sensed a familiar aura in an alley, where a rotting Battle Servant attacked Liangzi.
• Qian Renxue pursued the black-robed Head-Down Master and defeated him, but his soul essence escaped.
• Qian Renxue told Zhao Su that he had little time left to live and invited him to find her at the Taiqing Taoist Temple in three days.
• Liangzi urged Zhao Su to take Qian Renxue's warning seriously and said he would accompany him.

As Zhao Su’s headaches overwhelmed him, Qian Renxue used the Three-Lifetime Reincarnation Curse to complete the Annihilation Formation and restore much of his power. Zhao Su recovered to rank ninety-nine, but failed to break through to the God Realm as the third Dark Invasion approached.

• Zhao Su’s headaches worsened, and Liangzi and Li Fan carried him unconscious to Qian Renxue at the Taiqing Taoist Temple.
• Qian Renxue revealed that the Three-Lifetime Reincarnation Curse linked her to Zhao Su and was the key to the Annihilation Formation against Di Tian.
• A mark from Zhao Su joined the mark on Qian Renxue, and seven figures emerged from Spatial Gates to complete the formation with her.
• The nine formation members sent red petals and Dao Rhythm into Zhao Su, restoring his meridians and Soul Bones while his spiritual power reached the God Realm.
• Zhao Su’s soul power rose to rank ninety-nine, Peerless Douluo, but he did not cross the rank-one-hundred barrier.

After recovering from the curse triggered by his unsealed martial soul, Zhao Su learned that his parents were alive and began studying the Taiqing Dao Palace’s cultivation method. That night, Qian Renxue summoned him to the school gates, and he went to meet her.

• Zhao Su woke after a day and night of sleep, and Qian Renxue told him she had treated him and that his parents were still alive.
• Qian Renxue explained that the Darkness Overlord had cursed Zhao Su at birth and that unsealing his martial soul had triggered the curse.
• The chapter recounted how Spirit Daoist mistakenly wounded Zhao Ru, how Cheng Feng went on a rampage, and how Spirit Daoist sealed her before dying in regret.
• Zhao Su studied his Soul Bones and the Thirteen Taiqing Arts, discovering that the method could be fused with the Innate Dao Arts.
• After receiving a talisman message from Qian Renxue, Zhao Su left the dormitory and headed to the school gates to meet her.

Zhao Su and Qian Renxue confronted Head-Down Master Gu Yuan, who tried to turn Ye Rou into a battle servant. After Zhao Su’s blood disrupted his attack, Gu Yuan summoned two god-realm battle servants and declared he would refine Zhao Su and Qian Renxue.

• Zhao Su learned that Head-Down Masters gained power by devouring souls and Soul Power, then traveled with Qian Renxue to a small town.
• Qian Renxue told Ye Rou’s father to seal the room and keep everyone out while she and Zhao Su waited beside Ye Rou.
• When bells rang, Qian Renxue used a drop of Zhao Su’s blood to stop a giant battle servant from attacking Ye Rou.
• Gu Yuan appeared and accused the Heaven-Suppression Lineage’s bloodline of being a bane to Head-Down Masters, while Qian Renxue condemned his use of ordinary people as battle servants.
• Gu Yuan summoned two battle servants whose auras had reached the god realm and announced he would refine Zhao Su and Qian Renxue.

Zhao Su defeated Gu Yuan’s two God Realm Battle Servants and killed Gu Yuan, then learned that the servants had belonged to the Curse Lord and uncovered a clue to the land of the outworld barbarians. With Ye Rou’s souls and spirits now impossible to recover from Gu Yuan, Zhao Su and Qian Renxue faced the need to tell her father and Liangzi what had happened.

• Qian Renxue summoned an Angel Holy Sword and trapped Gu Yuan in her Angel Domain while Zhao Su stepped forward to fight him.
• Zhao Su protected Qian Renxue and Ye Rou, then used the Death Spear to pierce and absorb the divine power of Gu Yuan’s two Battle Servants.
• Zhao Su extracted the Battle Servants’ memories, learned that the Curse Lord had sacrificed their clan and turned them into servants, and killed Gu Yuan.
• Gu Yuan’s memories led Zhao Su to the land of the outworld barbarians, which Qian Renxue identified as a forbidden land guarded by the Six Great Imperial Families of Sky City.
• Qian Renxue told Zhao Su that Gu Yuan’s death left her unable to summon Ye Rou’s two souls and seven spirits, so they discussed how to tell Ye Rou’s father and Liangzi.