Chapter Summaries

Zhao Su and his companions raced to a village attacked by the Half-Beasts and pursued the surviving raiders into the forest. Bibi Dong slaughtered most of them before Zhao Su stopped her, while their leader transformed and reached Titled Douluo rank, putting Hu Liena and the others on the defensive.

• Zhao Su and Bibi Dong sensed blood near the forest, and Zhao Su urged Liu Tianzheng to hurry toward the nearby villages.
• Zhao Su, Hu Liena, and their companions reached a village where the Half-Beasts had massacred its inhabitants, then pursued them into the forest.
• Zhao Su and his companions attacked the Half-Beasts, while Bibi Dong's Death Scythe cut down hundreds of them.
• Zhao Su stopped Bibi Dong from killing the remaining Half-Beasts and told Liu Tianzheng to search for surviving villagers.
• The Half-Beast leader transformed, broke through to Titled Douluo rank, and joined the three captains in forcing Hu Liena and the other six onto the defensive.

Zhao Su and Bibi Dong suspected the Half-Beast leader carried the Rakshasa God's power as the Spirit Hall Golden Generation fought him. After the leader devoured his three fellow Half-Beasts and reached Titled Douluo level, the seven coordinated their attacks and drove him into a desperate position.

• Bibi Dong sensed the Rakshasa God's aura in the Half-Beast leader, and Zhao Su suspected the god might be on the Douluo Continent.
• Hu Liena and the other six stabilized their fight against the Half-Beast leader while Zhao Su killed the remaining ordinary Half-Beasts.
• Liu Tianzheng rescued the surviving villagers, and Zhao Su gave him Soul Gathering Pills and sent him back to Vast Sea City with the villagers and spoils.
• The Half-Beast leader devoured the three captains, evolved to Titled Douluo level, and attacked Xu Yu and Zhang Ping inside the Golden Generation's defensive formation.
• At Xie Yue's direction, the seven members of the Golden Generation coordinated their martial souls and forced the Half-Beast leader back.

Zhao Su rescued Hu Liena from the Half-Beast chieftain and discovered through the chieftain’s memories that gods were manipulating events on the Douluo Continent and had deliberately brought him there. Bibi Dong encouraged the exhausted Golden Generation as the group prepared to return to Vast Sea City, while Zhao Su remained troubled by what he had learned.

• The Half-Beast chieftain overpowered the exhausted Golden Generation, grabbed Hu Liena, and tried to bite off her head.
• Zhao Su rescued Hu Liena, then battered the Half-Beast chieftain to draw out the Rakshasa God's aura.
• The Rakshasa God spoke through the Half-Beast chieftain and threatened Zhao Su, who extracted the chieftain's memories.
• Zhao Su learned that gods were seeking successors amid a war in the Divine Realm and that he had been deliberately brought to the Douluo Continent.
• Bibi Dong checked Hu Liena, reassured the Golden Generation, and told them to recover before returning to Vast Sea City.

Zhao Su warned Bibi Dong that gods might be using Ancient Ruins Mountain to hunt Soul Masters, but insisted they should still confront the conspiracy. He helped Li Kai control a berserk soul bone, and the Golden Generation began to trust him as they traveled back to Vast Sea City.

• Zhao Su told Bibi Dong that the gods might be hiding in Ancient Ruins Mountain and using its opening to hunt Soul Masters for their blood essence.
• Zhao Su gave the Half-Beast leader's Right Arm Soul Bone to Li Kai, who fused with it and briefly lost control to its berserk energy.
• Zhao Su stopped Li Kai's charge and used divine light to restore his awareness, after which Li Kai controlled the soul bone without losing himself.
• Zhao Su advised Li Kai to strengthen his spiritual power, and Li Kai thanked him as the Golden Generation's attitude toward Zhao Su softened.
• Yan and Xie Yue apologized to Zhao Su on the road back to Vast Sea City, and Zhao Su told them not to worry about their past hostility.

After Zhao Su and his companions defeated the Half-Beast leader, Vast Sea City celebrated their victory, while Zhao Su prepared for the dangerous journey to Ancient Ruins Mountain. Bibi Dong sought his reassurance and then boldly pressed him to become her lover.

• Yan, Xie Yue, and the others named Zhao Su their leader, and they returned to Vast Sea City.
• Liu Tianzheng welcomed Zhao Su and his companions, and the people of Vast Sea City celebrated the defeat of the Half-Beasts with a three-day feast.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Zhao Su she would stay by his side at Ancient Ruins Mountain, and the two kissed on a rooftop.
• Bibi Dong asked Zhao Su whether he would protect her at Ancient Ruins Mountain, then confessed that she wanted to be cherished as a little woman.
• Bibi Dong kissed Zhao Su and suggested that he could be her little man.

Zhao Su rejected Bibi Dong’s advances and spent the night with Zhu Zhuqing before taking his companions to watch Tang San’s group fight at the Vast Sea City Great Soul Arena. After sensing Ning Rongrong and Tang Yuehua nearby, he went to reunite with them, where Ning Rongrong broke down in tears.

• Zhao Su pulled away from Bibi Dong, told her he could not love only her, and watched her leave without pressing the matter.
• Zhao Su spent the night with Zhu Zhuqing, then agreed to visit the Vast Sea City Great Soul Arena after learning Tang San’s group was there.
• Zhao Su found Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Dai Mubai, Bai Chenxiang, Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling in a VIP room and sensed that Tang San had reached Soul Douluo rank and carried a divine aura.
• Ma Hongjun and Bai Chenxiang fought two Sea Soul Masters, and Ma Hongjun won despite being pushed onto the defensive.
• Zhao Su left the arena and, after sensing Ning Rongrong and Tang Yuehua, found them with the one-armed Sword Douluo Chen Xin at a teahouse.
• Ning Rongrong and Tang Yuehua rushed to Zhao Su, and Ning Rongrong began crying as he comforted her.

Zhao Su learned why Chen Xin was heading to Ancient Ruins Mountain and promised to protect Ning Rongrong after Chen Xin entrusted her to him. Back at the City Lord’s Mansion, he heard how Tang San’s growing control over the Heaven Dou Empire had changed his allies’ plans, and prepared for a dangerous expedition drawing many powerful cultivators.

• Chen Xin told Zhao Su that his old wounds left him little time, and he intended to risk entering Ancient Ruins Mountain in search of a breakthrough while entrusting Ning Rongrong to Zhao Su.
• Ning Rongrong promised to fulfill Chen Xin’s wish, and Chen Xin departed without looking back.
• Zhao Su took Ning Rongrong and Tang Yuehua to the City Lord’s Mansion, where they reunited with Bibi Dong, Hu Liena, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Rongrong and Tang Yuehua explained that Tang San had grown gloomy and vicious, undermined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s standing with Emperor Xue Ye, and gained near-control of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Bibi Dong asked whether Tang San might be possessed like Tang Chen, and Zhao Su confirmed that the Nine-Headed Bat King had once parasitized Tang Chen.
• Ning Rongrong said that many clans, sects, unaffiliated cultivators, and secluded Titled Douluo were going to Ancient Ruins Mountain, while Zhao Su worried that its Soul Power suppression might also affect his Divine Sense.

Zhao Su and his companions sailed toward Ancient Ruins Mountain, battling seasickness aboard the Sea Demon Ship. During the night, hundreds of Deep Sea Demon Whales surrounded them, but a Demon Whale King’s cry diverted the creatures and revealed the powerful sea beasts lurking in the ocean.

• Zhao Su reluctantly let Ning Rongrong, Tang Yuehua, and Zhu Zhuqing accompany him to Ancient Ruins Mountain after they insisted on going.
• Zhao Su and his companions boarded Captain Haider’s chartered Sea Demon Ship and sailed away from the harbor.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing became severely seasick, and Zhao Su cared for them while also tending to Tang Yuehua and Bibi Dong.
• Zhao Su sensed hundreds of Deep Sea Demon Whales surrounding the ship and woke the passengers and crew.
• Captain Odell activated the ship’s protective barrier and ordered it forward, but a Demon Whale King’s cry sent the whales swimming away.
• Odell told Zhao Su and the others about the fifty-thousand-year Demon Whale King and the Million-Year Demon Whale King in the Deep Sea Demon Domain, prompting Bibi Dong to consider its soul ring.

Zhao Su forced Odell to take the Sea Demon Ship toward the Deep Sea Demon Domain, where he and Bibi Dong discovered evidence that Spirit Hall’s information about Ancient Ruins Mountain might be false. A swarm of Deep Sea Demon Whales attacked, and Zhao Su and Bibi Dong fought their way clear as the ship escaped.

• Zhao Su restrained Odell and his crew, took control of the Sea Demon Ship, and headed toward the Deep Sea Demon Domain.
• Zhao Su and Bibi Dong found battle corpses and sensed a powerful killing intent, prompting Zhao Su to question Spirit Hall’s information about Ancient Ruins Mountain and Qian Daoliu’s motives.
• Bibi Dong said she did not care if Qian Renxue took the position of Pope, then teased Zhao Su before Deep Sea Demon Whales attacked the ship.
• Bibi Dong charged into the swarm, while Zhao Su opened an escape route with his sword array and ordered the crew to speed through.
• Zhao Su and Bibi Dong retreated after the ship escaped, and Zhao Su’s sword array unleashed a devastating attack on the pursuing whales.

Zhao Su and his companions sailed to Pearl Island after Odell claimed it was safe, but they discovered that Evil Soul Masters had taken over the island. Odell agreed to follow Zhao Su’s instructions to help save the surviving pirates.

• Odell extorted Zhao Su for the Sea Demon Ship and wages, then guided the group out of the Deep Sea Demon Domain.
• Zhao Su chose to head for Pearl Island to rest and seek information about Ancient Ruins Mountain, despite knowing Odell was hiding something.
• Three days later, Zhao Su and Odell found Pearl Island strangely quiet, with signs of a fierce battle along the shore.
• After Yan threatened Odell and Zhao Su prepared to extract his memories, Odell’s son Xiao Liu revealed that Odell was a Purple Pearl Pirates deputy captain who had planned to lure the group onto pirate turf.
• Zhao Su discovered that Evil Soul Masters had occupied Pearl Island and told Odell to signal the island as if nothing were wrong; Odell ordered Xiao Liu to send the signal.

Zhao Su rescued Zi Zhenzhu from Wang Jie and learned that she was Spirit Hall’s former holy maiden, who had survived an attempt to sacrifice her soul for the Angel God’s inheritance. Zi Zhenzhu warned Zhao Su about Ancient Ruins Mountain and revealed that it contained a continent built by gods and inhabited by their descendants.

• Odell smelled blood on Pearl Island, and Wang Jie revealed his lustful intentions toward Bibi Dong and the other women.
• Zhao Su broke free and killed Wang Jie, while Yan and Xie Yue killed Wang Jie’s companions and Zhao Su’s divine sense forced the island’s people to kneel.
• Yan brought the injured Zi Zhenzhu to Zhao Su, and she explained that Wang Jie had drugged and imprisoned her to seize control of Pearl Island.
• Zi Zhenzhu warned Zhao Su against searching for Ancient Ruins Mountain, but he refused to turn back.
• Zi Zhenzhu revealed that she had entered Ancient Ruins Mountain with Qian Daoliu a hundred years earlier, escaped after he tried to sacrifice her soul to the Angel God, and later awoke on Pearl Island.
• Zi Zhenzhu told Zhao Su that Ancient Ruins Mountain held another continent built by gods, where their descendants lived.

Zi Zhenzhu explained that Ancient Ruins Mountain’s gods preyed on Soul Masters and used their descendants as puppets, while its escapees became Evil Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent. After the survivors left Pearl Island, Zhao Su and his companions prepared to open the island’s entrance to Ancient Ruins Mountain.

• Zi Zhenzhu told Zhao Su that the gods sustained themselves by absorbing souls and turned those who survived Ancient Ruins Mountain into puppets.
• Zi Zhenzhu explained that Evil Soul Masters were descendants of people who had entered Ancient Ruins Mountain and escaped, and that its Enforcers sealed breaches after each escape.
• Zi Zhenzhu warned that opening the entrance on Pearl Island would turn the entire island into a teleportation array and draw everyone there into Ancient Ruins Mountain.
• Zi Zhenzhu killed Wang Jie’s remaining followers and arranged for the island’s survivors to leave on the Sea Demon Ship.
• Zhao Su’s companions refused to leave with the survivors, and he told Captain Odell to set sail before Zi Zhenzhu led the group to prepare the entrance.

Zi Zhenzhu opened the entrance to Ancient Ruins Mountain on Pearl Island, and Zhao Su entered the black vortex with Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang Yuehua. As they lost consciousness, the system tried to enter Zhao Su's body, but a red light blocked it.

• Zi Zhenzhu warned Zhao Su and the others that the passage would suppress their soul power and scatter them, but Ning Rongrong refused to turn back.
• Zhao Su gave Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang Yuehua Buddha's Fury Tang Lotuses and Peacock Plumes to protect themselves if they were separated.
• Zi Zhenzhu activated the black five-pointed star, opening a vortex that drew the attention of those searching for Ancient Ruins Mountain.
• Bo Saixi ordered the Seven Sons of the Sea God not to intervene, saying the opening was unlike previous ones and might bring an end.
• The black vortex pulled Zhao Su and the others in, sealed their soul power, and caused them to lose consciousness.
• After Zhao Su passed out, the system appeared and tried to enter his body, but a red light blocked it.

Zhao Su reunited with the White-Clothed Goddess inside the black hole, then awoke naked in an unfamiliar sea and searched for his missing companions. After reaching a vast forest, he found Hu Liena and Xuan Yuan Qing'er cornered by six Myriad Sword Sect fighters, and descended to intervene.

• The Red Flower appeared as a blood-red lotus on Zhao Su, revealing him to the White-Clothed Goddess, and they reunited as husband and wife.
• Zhao Su and the White-Clothed Goddess embraced and kissed, and he told her that his body held another secret that would ensure her return.
• Zhao Su awoke naked and alone at sea, found that his clothes and Storage Jade Pendant were gone, and failed to locate Ning Rongrong, Bibi Dong, Hu Liena, or their companions.
• After drifting for three days, Zhao Su reached a primeval forest, fashioned a covering from leaves, and searched for people as he wandered.
• Zhao Su heard Hu Liena and Xuan Yuan Qing'er resisting Wang Hong and five other Myriad Sword Sect fighters, who had them surrounded.
• Zhao Su descended from the sky as Hu Liena and Xuan Yuan Qing'er faced defeat.

Zhao Su rescued Hu Liena and Xuan Yuan Qing'er from Wang Hong and the Myriad Sword Sect, then learned about the Xuanyuan Clan’s struggle and its destiny-linked fortune. Xuan Yuan Qing'er asked him to save her clan and revealed an ancient prophecy naming a young man as the cause of its revival.

• Zhao Su arrived and killed Wang Hong and his five companions, then absorbed their dissipating Soul Power through the System.
• Zhao Su reunited with Hu Liena, learned she had met Xuan Yuan Qing'er, and discovered that Qing'er belonged to the Xuanyuan family and wielded the Xuanyuan Sword.
• Xuan Yuan Qing'er explained that Ancient Ruins Mountain suppressed Soul Power and that the Myriad Sword Sect had attacked her clan during the hunting trials.
• Zhao Su and Hu Liena prepared to leave to find Ning Rongrong and the other two women, but Xuan Yuan Qing'er stopped them and knelt to ask for help saving her clan.
• The System revealed the Xuanyuan Clan’s fortune and its child-of-destiny status, and Xuan Yuan Qing'er presented the Book of Troubled Times and its prophecy of a young man restoring the clan.

Zhao Su agreed to help Xuan Yuan Qing'er and traveled with her and Hu Liena to Longxing City, where the Xuanyuan Family was under attack by the Myriad Sword Sect. Xuan Yuan Qing'er arrived in the middle of the battle and faced the sect's elders, while Zhao Su's response remained unrevealed.

• Zhao Su studied the Book of Troubled Times and agreed to help Xuan Yuan Qing'er after she identified him as the youth in its prophecy.
• Xuan Yuan Qing'er told Zhao Su about Ancient Ruins Mountain's leading powers, including Xi Yao's Ancient White Dragon martial soul and the declining Xuanyuan Family's conflict with the Myriad Sword Sect.
• Zhao Su, Hu Liena, and Xuan Yuan Qing'er traveled to Longxing City and found the Xuanyuan Family compound under attack.
• Wang Changsheng demanded that Xuanyuan Cheng surrender the Xuanyuan Sword and killed a captured Xuanyuan Family disciple.
• Xuanyuan Cheng tried to fight Wang Changsheng but was struck down by two Myriad Sword Sect elders and prepared to detonate himself.
• Xuan Yuan Qing'er arrived with Supreme Sword Intent, told Xuanyuan Cheng to rest, and faced the Myriad Sword Sect elders as the Fifth Elder directed his pressure at her.

Xuan Yuan Qing'er and Zhao Su destroyed the Myriad Sword Sect and helped the Xuanyuan Family take control of Longxing City. Later, Xuanyuan Cheng reported finding a woman with a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda in the Trial Grounds, giving Zhao Su a lead on Ning Rongrong.

• Xuan Yuan Qing'er summoned the Emperor Seven Kill Sword and killed the Myriad Sword Sect's nine elders and disciples, leaving Wang Changsheng badly wounded.
• Wang Changsheng attacked Xuan Yuan Qing'er, but Zhao Su emerged from hiding and crushed him, absorbing his memories and erasing the Sea God's divine will inside him.
• Zhao Su told Xuan Yuan Qing'er to eliminate the Myriad Sword Sect, and she led the Xuanyuan Family's surviving disciples to destroy it and take control of Longxing City.
• Xuanyuan Cheng told Zhao Su that their disciples had found a woman with a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda in the Trial Grounds, and Zhao Su recognized the news as a lead to Ning Rongrong.

Zhao Su learned that Ning Rongrong was safe as Shanggu Jiran’s adopted daughter and set out with Hu Liena for the northern sea. Along the way, the Upper Three Sects issued a joint kill order against him, and after he fought off attackers in a coastal city, he realized a god had spread the accusation that he carried a dangerous demonic physique.

• Xuanyuan Cheng told Zhao Su that Ning Rongrong had become the Divine Hall’s holy maiden under Shanggu Jiran’s protection.
• Zhao Su left Longxing City with Hu Liena, refusing Xuan Yuan Qing’er’s company and warning Hu Liena not to trust the people of Ancient Ruins Mountain.
• The Upper Three Sects distributed Zhao Su’s portrait and a kill order, offering an elder’s position and two Soul Bones to anyone who killed him.
• Zhao Su and Hu Liena reached the coastal city, where Zhao Su sensed danger but stayed at a restaurant to eat.
• A group of people attacked Zhao Su, and he used the Devouring-Heaven Dragon Cat to devour them and extract their memories.
• Zhao Su learned that a god had spread the claim that a great demon lay within him, and Hu Liena worried that they were in danger.

Zhao Su and Hu Liena learned that Tang San’s Myriad Poisons Sect was attacking outsiders to seize opportunities in Ancient Ruins Mountain, then headed toward the Northern Sea Waters to find the Divine Hall’s holy maiden. Zhao Su warned Hu Liena that Tang San was not their ultimate enemy and that a more powerful opponent was beginning to act.

• Zhao Su dismissed the Upper Three Sects’ joint kill order and asked a restaurant owner about the Divine Hall’s holy maiden, learning she was likely in the Northern Sea Waters near a passage to the outside world.
• Zhao Su and Hu Liena left for the Northern Sea Waters, but an attacker shot Dragon Whisker Needles at them as they exited the restaurant.
• Hu Liena captured and killed the attacker, and Zhao Su absorbed his memories, discovering that Tang San controlled the Myriad Poisons Sect and was targeting outsiders to monopolize Ancient Ruins Mountain’s opportunities.
• Zhao Su concluded Tang San probably had not issued the joint kill order and told Hu Liena that their true opponent would be far more difficult to defeat.
• Hu Liena worried that their small group could not withstand the many powerful forces and gods within Ancient Ruins Mountain.

Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing were hunted across the North Sea and nearly trapped outside Divination Mountain, despite Shanggu Fu’s attempt to shelter them. As their pursuers charged again, the women unleashed their Peacock Plumes and prepared another weapon, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Zhu Zhuqing fought off the pursuers while Ning Rongrong and their two companions boosted her and sought an escape route into Divination Mountain.
• Shanggu Fu declared Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing his friends and invited them into Divination Mountain, but the Five-Element Flags blocked their way.
• The bounty hunters overwhelmed the women, and Zhu Zhuqing was struck by a hammer before Ning Rongrong healed her and summoned her Yin-Yang Spirit Cat.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing fired their Peacock Plumes, killing the scar-faced leader and leaving many of his followers dead or wounded.
• The remaining pursuers charged again as Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing took out exquisitely beautiful lotuses.