Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue used Zhao Su’s blood to summon Ye Rou’s souls and spirits, then told her parents how to help Ye Rou recover. Afterward, Zhao Su and Qian Renxue argued over Ye Rou and their unresolved past, and Zhao Su returned to the dormitory to find Liangzi unusually exhausted.

• Qian Renxue sent Zhao Su away and spent the night summoning Ye Rou’s two souls and seven spirits, using a drop of Zhao Su’s blood to help her succeed.
• Qian Renxue gave Ye Rou’s father pills and instructions for Ye Rou’s recovery, then left with Zhao Su.
• Zhao Su questioned whether the souls Qian Renxue summoned were really Ye Rou’s, and Qian Renxue pressed him about whether he still blamed her for the past.
• Zhao Su told Qian Renxue he did not blame her but asked her not to tell Liangzi, while Qian Renxue doubted that Ye Rou genuinely liked Liangzi.
• Zhao Su returned to the dormitory and found Liangzi looking unwell and complaining of persistent exhaustion, so Zhao Su checked his wrist.

Zhao Su discovered that Ye Rou had been draining Liangzi’s vital essence and warned him to break up with her, then taught him a healing art. After Li Fan revealed that Qian Renxue had been trapped and badly injured, Zhao Su went to the Taiqing Taoist Temple and learned that the Tree of Life might be the only way to break the curse destroying his body.

• Zhao Su sensed that Liangzi’s soul and vitality were depleted, learned Ye Rou had been draining his essence, and advised him to leave her.
• Zhao Su taught Liangzi the Resurrection Art to help restore his body.
• Zhao Su found records about Sky City in the school library before Liangzi and Li Fan arrived with news that Qian Renxue was unconscious after being trapped in a barrier.
• Li Fan revealed that he had been Zhao Jun’s disciple since childhood and asked Zhao Su to help Qian Renxue.
• Zhao Su, Liangzi, and Li Fan reached the Taiqing Taoist Temple, where Ye Rou allowed only Zhao Su to enter.
• Xue Ling and the elders told Zhao Su that the Darkness Overlord’s curse left him one year to live and that the Tree of Life could break it.

Zhao Su restored Qian Renxue’s divine soul and healed her by returning the World Tree to her as a Martial Soul, and the two reconciled after recalling their bond across three lifetimes. After they returned to school, Liangzi struggled with Ye Rou’s sudden distance and constant closeness to Qian Renxue.

• Xue Ling used a ritual to reveal Zhao Su and Qian Renxue’s shared memories from their past lifetimes and left them to decide what to do next.
• Zhao Su restored the World Tree within Qian Renxue, repairing her body and merging the tree with her Martial Soul.
• Qian Renxue woke, confronted Zhao Su about pretending not to know her, and promised to stay by his side as he vowed they would win.
• The next day, Zhao Su and Qian Renxue emerged in good condition, and Liangzi and Li Fan teased Zhao Su about their night together.
• Zhao Su and Liangzi returned to school, where Liangzi worried that Ye Rou barely acknowledged him and kept following Qian Renxue.

Zhao Su learned that Ye Rou’s new soul came from the Phantom Spirit Tribe and that Qian Renxue had helped it take over Ye Rou’s body. Qian Renxue revealed her Ten Thousand Demon Tribe heritage and her true connection to Zhao Jun, while Zhao Su left unsure whether to tell Liangzi the truth about Ye Rou.

• Zhao Su and Liangzi went to the Taiqing Taoist Temple after Liangzi complained that Ye Rou had changed and was clinging to Qian Renxue.
• Zhao Su privately asked Qian Renxue who Ye Rou’s new soul was, and she admitted it belonged to the Phantom Spirit Tribe and had replaced Ye Rou’s original soul with help from Zhao Su’s blood.
• Qian Renxue explained that Ye Rou had sold her soul to Gu Yuan and planned to turn Liangzi and Zhao Su into Battle Servants.
• Qian Renxue revealed that she was the daughter of the Ten Thousand Demon Tribe’s chief, had been raised by Zhao Jun in the Taiqing Dao Palace, and that Zhao Jun was her teacher rather than Zhao Su’s father.
• Zhao Su and Qian Renxue left the room, and Zhao Su called Liangzi to return to school while wondering whether to tell him what had happened to Ye Rou.

Zhao Su learned that Ye Rou had deceived Liangzi, then met Zhao Jun and Ling Wan'er, who urged him to recover his strength as the Darkness Overlord attacked Sky City. Zhao Su chose to stop evading the conflict and trapped their avatars in the Taiqing Taoist Temple with the Red Flower as three powerful figures arrived.

• Zhao Su told Liangzi that Ye Rou had been using him to refine a Battle Servant, but Liangzi accused Zhao Su of lying and stormed away.
• Qian Renxue summoned Zhao Su to the Taiqing Taoist Temple, where Li Fan told him that Zhao Jun and Ling Wan'er had returned.
• Zhao Jun revealed that the Darkness Overlord was leading a million-strong army against Sky City and said Zhao Su could restore his strength through the Demon Tribe's Tree of Life and the third level of the Great Freedom Origin Scripture-Taiqing Void.
• Zhao Su said he would no longer run from the conflict, and Qian Renxue pledged to stand beside him.
• Zhao Su summoned the Red Flower to seal the temple, and three figures with auras beyond the Emperor Realm emerged through Spatial Gates.

Zhao Jun and Ling Wan'er sacrificed their avatars to form the Heavenly Dao Mark inside Zhao Su, while Xiao Lu and her companions departed. Zhao Su then set out with his companions for the Ten Thousand Demon Forest to gather more Dao Rhythm and complete the Mark.

• Xiao Lu confronted Zhao Jun, who disintegrated himself into Divine Dao Rhythm that the Mark inside Zhao Su absorbed.
• Ling Wan'er also sacrificed herself as Demonic Dao Rhythm, completing the Mark’s initial form as the Heavenly Dao Mark.
• Xue Ling left to guard Taiqing Village and prepare for the final battle, while Li Fan chose to stay with Zhao Su and received the Great Freedom Origin Scripture.
• Zhao Su explained that the Heavenly Dao Mark needed more Dao Rhythm and chose the Ten Thousand Demon Tribe as his first target.
• Unable to find Liangzi, Zhao Su left him a note and departed Immortal-Embracing City with Qian Renxue and the others for the Ten Thousand Demon Forest.

Zhao Su reunited with Shanggu Fu at an inn and learned that Ye Rou was a friend, though her fate remained concealed. Shanggu Fu warned Zhao Su to avoid the main route into the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, so the group took a detour into the mountains.

• Zhao Su and his companions settled in a city near the Ten Thousand Demon Forest to gather information before entering the territory.
• Zhao Su met Shanggu Fu at the inn, and Shanggu Fu warned him to be wary of Ye Rou because the workings of her fate were veiled.
• Shanggu Fu told Zhao Su to avoid the main route into the Ten Thousand Demon Forest and left after warning that they might not meet again until the final battle.
• The next day, Zhao Su led the group away from the city and into the mountains, explaining that they were still heading to the Ten Thousand Demon Forest.
• Ye Rou flew toward the summit, while Li Fan climbed the cliff ahead of Zhao Su and Qian Renxue.

Zhao Su and Qian Renxue entered a Head-Down Tradition technique on the mountain and encountered a rotting Battle Servant before reaching a secluded courtyard. They stayed the night with an old man, but woke to signs that the strange place held more than it seemed.

• Zhao Su and Qian Renxue followed Li Fan's trail toward the summit after receiving his talisman message about a Head-Descending Soul Master.
• Zhao Su recognized the murky haze surrounding them as Bewitching Sky Veil, a secret technique of the Head-Down Tradition.
• A rotting Battle Servant attacked Qian Renxue, and Zhao Su used a talisman and the Emperor Seven Kill Sword to get them through a black hole.
• Zhao Su and Qian Renxue arrived in a quiet courtyard and accepted the old man's offer to sleep in the western side room.
• Zhao Su and Qian Renxue fell asleep despite their suspicions and woke the next morning to the sound of someone chopping firewood.

Zhao Su and Qian Renxue discovered that Old Gu had turned a village into a graveyard and its people into Battle Servants. As Zhao Su fought Old Gu, a powerful presence emerged from the largest tomb and condemned him for making Battle Servants without permission.

• Zhao Su helped Old Gu stack firewood, and Old Gu warned him and Qian Renxue to leave the mountains.
• Qian Renxue sensed something strange in the courtyard, and Zhao Su struck the suspicious wall, exposing a graveyard and a giant tomb.
• Old Gu revealed his true form and attacked Zhao Su with two Scarecrows, which Zhao Su burned with Undying Divine Fire.
• Old Gu spilled blood onto the graves, releasing dozens of Battle Servants, while Zhao Su fought them with his sword and sent the black savage bull flying with Heaven-Destroying Palm.
• A powerful force from the largest tomb shattered Zhao Su's palm, and Old Gu knelt before the redwood coffin and begged the Divine Venerable to spare him.

Zhao Su and Qian Renxue trapped Cheng Feng and absorbed her Dao Rhythm, then reunited with Li Fan and Ye Rou after defeating Old Gu. The four continued through a seemingly endless mountain and reached a village whose lights appeared in a valley.

• Cheng Feng emerged from her coffin and killed Old Gu with a glance.
• Qian Renxue sealed Cheng Feng while Zhao Su used the Heavenly Dao Mark to absorb her Dao Rhythm, then buried her beneath rocks.
• Zhao Su and Qian Renxue left with Li Fan and Ye Rou, who woke and learned that Old Gu had been killed.
• Li Fan and Ye Rou explained how Old Gu had captured them and buried them to turn them into Battle Servants.
• Zhao Su, Qian Renxue, Li Fan, and Ye Rou traveled for three days through a mountain with no visible end, then headed toward a village that had appeared in a valley.

Zhao Su and his companions discovered an empty village trapped in a false world, where a red-robed woman emerged and overwhelmed them with her immense power. She restrained the group and transported them to a courtyard filled with blooming Other Shore Flowers.

• Li Fan entered an empty, lantern-lit village with Zhao Su, Qian Renxue, and Ye Rou, and they found the same strange fragrance in every house.
• Zhao Su realized the unchanging sky marked the village as a false world and hurled the Destruction Spear upward, shattering it and revealing a red-lantern altar.
• A masked red-robed woman appeared, repelled Zhao Su's attacks, recognized his Pentagram as a sign of the Heaven-Quelling Lineage, and asked him about Zhao Ru.
• Zhao Su struck back with the Heaven-Destroying Palm and Invincible Dharma Body, but the woman overpowered him and forced him back to his original form.
• The red-robed woman restrained Zhao Su, Qian Renxue, Li Fan, and Ye Rou, then transported them to a courtyard filled with red Other Shore Flowers.

Zhao Su learned that the red-robed woman was his grandmother Peng Ying, the master of the Heaven-Quelling Lineage, and received a cultivation method and a diagram to aid his search. After Zhao Su and his companions departed, Zhao Jun and Ling Wan'er confronted Peng Ying at the universe's boundary.

• Peng Ying explained that Heaven Suppression affected all three thousand universes and recognized Zhao Su as the child she had named and sent to Blue Star.
• Zhao Su and Qian Renxue recognized Peng Ying as Zhao Su's grandmother, and she revealed that she had sent him to Blue Star before he was brought to the Douluo Universe.
• Peng Ying gave Zhao Su the third level of the Great Freedom Origin Scripture, helping him break through to the emperor realm, and suppressed the Heavenly Dao Mark when it tried to absorb his Dao rhythm.
• Peng Ying gave Zhao Su the Heaven and Earth Myriad Things Diagram, which could locate the Curse Lord, the master of the Yin-Yang Way, and others, then sent Zhao Su and his three companions through a Spatial Gate.
• Zhao Jun and Ling Wan'er trapped Peng Ying and attacked her with the Ten-Thousand-Li Pagoda and a Primordial Eight Trigrams Diagram.

Zhao Su and his companions escaped the village’s strange ordeal and reached the Ten Thousand Demon Tribe’s sacred city, where Ye Rou reunited with Yin Zhu. Yin Zhu reacted coldly to Qian Renxue, and a domineering voice interrupted their meeting.

• Zhao Jun sacrificed his vital essence to draw Peng Ying into a black vortex, and Zhao Su later woke with Li Fan and their companions in the village.
• Zhao Su discovered he had gained the Supreme Clarity Void level of the Great Freedom Origin Scripture and learned from the village chief that the Heaven and Earth Chessboard was dangerous.
• Zhao Su chose to head for the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, and the group reached Ten Thousand City after Ye Rou identified herself to its guard as the Holy Maiden.
• The guard led Ye Rou and her companions to the city manor, where Yin Zhu welcomed Ye Rou and learned that she had found Qian Renxue.
• Yin Zhu showed hostility toward Qian Renxue and told the others to act for themselves, but a domineering voice interrupted from outside the hall.

Zhao Su fought Qian Cheng and, using Supreme Clarity Void, merged his suppressed demonic and divine bodies with his original body. He overwhelmed Qian Cheng and the ten Demon Tribe elders, then the Heavenly Dao Mark absorbed the clone containing Dao rhythm.

• Qian Cheng challenged Zhao Su, and they fought with their full strength while the ten Demon Tribe elders sealed off the area.
• After nearly three hundred exchanges, Zhao Su used his blood to summon the demonic and divine bodies he had kept suppressed within himself.
• Zhao Su merged all three bodies through Supreme Clarity Void and emerged with a powerful Dao rhythm and black-and-white eyes.
• Qian Cheng unleashed his World-Destroying Strike, but the devouring-heaven dragon cat swallowed it whole.
• Zhao Su seized Qian Cheng and shattered the elders' attempt to trap him, blasting all ten elders away.
• Qian Cheng split into two people, and the Heavenly Dao Mark absorbed the clone containing Dao rhythm.

Zhao Su absorbed the Demon Tribe Dao Rhythm and traveled with Li Fan to Dark Shadow Island to find Zhang Ying. Zhang Ying revealed that Peng Ying had created the three thousand universes using the Pillar of Creation, and began recounting how an ancient cultivator awakened her.

• Zhao Su gave Qian Cheng Spirit-Gathering Pills, reassured Qian Renxue, and left her at the Ten Thousand Demon Tribe Sacred Ground while he and Li Fan departed.
• Zhao Su and Li Fan went to Dark Shadow Island, where the chaotic laws of heaven and earth suppressed Li Fan’s divine power and sense.
• Zhao Su met Zhang Ying, commander of the Witch Tribe’s Shadow Army, and she took him into a secret chamber.
• Zhang Ying revealed that the Pillar of Creation stood in cosmic deep space and that Peng Ying had been the heavenly dao of the Blue Star Universe.
• Zhang Ying explained that Peng Ying destroyed the Blue Star Universe, built the Pillar of Creation, created three thousand universes, and sealed herself inside it.
• Zhang Ying recounted that a cultivator who had reached the void realm came to destroy the Pillar of Creation a billion years ago, but awakened Peng Ying instead.

Zhang Ying revealed that Peng Ying had created the three thousand universes and that the Heaven and Earth Chessboard was her game, but Zhao Su refused to accept that their fate was fixed. He traveled alone to the Barbarian Land to seek the Curse Lord and Yin-Yang Way Master's Dao Rhythm, and arrived in a futuristic realm where Li Qingfeng led him toward its ruler.

• Zhang Ying told Zhao Su that Peng Ying had deceived Zhao Qi, whose descendants carried Peng Ying's blood, and that the Heaven and Earth Chessboard was her game.
• Zhao Su rejected the idea that their defeat was inevitable, while Zhang Ying doubted they could overcome Peng Ying unless the Pillar of Creation shattered.
• Zhao Su learned that the Curse Lord and Yin-Yang Way Master had submitted to the Ten Barbarian Tribes, so he left Li Fan on Dark Shadow Island and went to the Barbarian Land alone.
• Zhao Su crossed the World Barrier and found a futuristic land filled with towering buildings, aerial tracks, and armored forces.
• Li Qingfeng, commander of the Ironclad Legion, recognized Zhao Su and said the ruler was waiting for him.
• Zhao Su followed Li Qingfeng to a flattened mountain summit crowned by a vast castle, wondering whether Peng Ying ruled the Barbarian Land.

Zhao Su completed the Heavenly Dao Mark and met Zhao Qi, his grandfather, who warned that Zhao Su could not win against the Great Dao of Chaos. Zhao Su was then returned to the moment he first met Zhang Ying, and the chapter left him questioning the past as he asked whether she had served the Witch Ancestor from the beginning.

• Li Qingfeng sent Zhao Su alone across a Rainbow Bridge to the castle’s highest floor, where Zhao Su crossed deadly darkness and completed his Heavenly Dao Mark.
• A man inside the Pillar of Creation invited Zhao Su into a courtyard and revealed that he was Zhao Qi, Zhao Su’s grandfather and the founding ancestor of the Heaven-Quelling Lineage.
• Zhao Qi told Zhao Su that he could not win and admitted he did not understand whether the Great Dao of Chaos truly existed.
• Zhao Qi’s courtyard vanished, returning Zhao Su to Dark Shadow Island at the moment he first met Zhang Ying; she remarked that he had grown stronger, while Zhao Su confessed his growing fear.
• Zhao Su and Zhang Ying went to the Central Island, where Zhao Su asked whether Zhang Ying had been with the Witch Ancestor from the beginning or had joined him later.

Zhao Su activated the Heavenly Dao Mark, merging the new heaven and earth rules with the old Heavenly Dao and triggering the final battle. At the Chaos boundary, Zhao Jun and Ling Wan'er reached the Void realm to stop Peng Ying, while Zhao Ru and Cheng Feng arrived to join them.

• Zhao Su decided to unleash the great calamity and sent the Heavenly Dao Mark into the sky, announcing that whoever refined it would rule the Heavenly Dao.
• The new heaven and earth rules began devouring Di Tian's Barbarian Land, and the final battle between Sky City's Six Great Imperial Families and the Ten Barbarian Tribes began.
• The Heavenly Dao Mark's call awakened Cheng Feng, who emerged from her buried coffin in a red gown.
• Peng Ying confronted Zhao Jun and Ling Wan'er at the Chaos boundary, but they merged their diagrams into the new rules and reached the Void realm together.
• Peng Ying attacked Zhao Jun and Ling Wan'er with a Dao-infused sword, forcing them back despite their combined strength.
• Zhao Ru and Cheng Feng appeared beside Zhao Jun and Ling Wan'er, and Zhao Ru challenged Peng Ying after reaching the Void realm.

Peng Ying and Zhao Qi completed their plan to bring forth the new Heavenly Dao, while Zhao Su discovered that he had never escaped their chessboard. As darkness overwhelmed the world, Zhao Qi sealed Zhao Su and left through a Spatial Gate.

• Peng Ying crushed Zhao Ru, Cheng Feng, Zhao Jun, and Ling Wan'er and trapped their souls in a Furnace Cauldron as the new Heavenly Dao was born.
• The Heavenly Dao Mark lured Emperor Realm powerhouses to their deaths, while Peng Ying and Zhao Qi discussed their sacrifices and hoped their children would return.
• The Darkness Overlord led the Ten Barbarian Tribes in an assault on Sky City and the allied forces as the new laws reshaped Dark Shadow Island.
• Zhao Su refused to visit Rongrong and the others, and Zhang Ying urged him to stay out of the conflict despite her evasiveness.
• Zhao Qi appeared to Zhao Su as the Darkness Overlord breached Sky City's gate and the Dark Army broke through the allied defenses.
• Zhao Qi sealed Zhao Su and left through a Spatial Gate, and Zhao Su realized Zhang Ying had helped keep him on the Heaven and Earth Chessboard.

Zhao Qi revealed to Zhao Su that Tianlan, a superintelligence from the original Tianlan Continent, had nearly conquered the universes and that Zhao Su was humanity’s chosen fighter. Zhao Su agreed to help merge the Douluo and Blue Star universes to deceive Tianlan, and Zhao Qi implanted a black sphere in him.

• Zhao Qi explained that Tianlan had evolved from a human-made intelligence, declared itself the leader of the God Race, and nearly exterminated humanity on the Tianlan Continent.
• Zhao Qi said Peng Ying had created the Pillar of Creation and split off three thousand universes to find someone capable of defeating Tianlan.
• Zhao Qi revealed that Zhao Su was the only cultivator among the human-centered galaxies to reach the Void Realm, while Zhao Qi and Peng Ying would be detected by Tianlan’s super soul system.
• Zhao Qi explained that the Douluo Universe and Blue Star Universe were humanity’s last hidden worlds and that they planned to merge them, using Zhao Su to draw Tianlan’s attention.
• Zhao Su agreed to the plan to protect the Douluo Universe and the people he cared about.
• Zhao Qi placed a black sphere inside Zhao Su, and its energy spread through his body.