Chapter Summaries

Zhao Su rescued Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, killed their attackers, and took the Five-Element Flags before confronting Shanggu Jiran at Divination Mountain. As Zhao Su left to face the Buddhist and Dao Sect challengers, Shanggu Jiran’s divination left him warning that Ancient Ruins Mountain was on the brink of upheaval.

• Zhao Su arrived as Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing prepared to sacrifice themselves, killed their attackers, broke the Five-Element Flags’ barrier, and refined the flags.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing embraced Zhao Su, and he comforted them before turning his attention to Shanggu Fu.
• Shanggu Jiran recalled that the Sea God had pressured him to join a kill order against Zhao Su and sensed a God King’s aura around Zhao Su.
• A disciple told Shanggu Jiran that Huai Kong and Li Youran had come to vanquish a demon, and Shanggu Jiran offered Zhao Su protection in the Divine Hall.
• Zhao Su refused Shanggu Jiran’s offer and left with Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Hu Liena to confront the challengers.
• Shanggu Jiran used his Sacred Qimen Dunjia Compass to divine the future, collapsed and spat blood, then warned Shanggu Fu that the skies over Ancient Ruins Mountain were about to change.

Shanggu Jiran warned Shanggu Fu never to make an enemy of Zhao Su, while Zhao Su and his companions were ambushed at sea by the Buddhist School. Zhao Su defeated the eighteen monks and met Huai Kong’s next attack with a Death Spear.

• Shanggu Jiran told Shanggu Fu to stand firmly on Zhao Su’s side, even if Shanggu Jiran himself became Zhao Su’s enemy.
• Zhao Su, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and their companion left Divination Mountain by boat, and Zhao Su warned them that the Five-Element Flags could protect them.
• Huai Kong and eighteen monks trapped the boat with the Demon-Locking Chains and demanded that Zhao Su return to the Buddhist School.
• Zhao Su broke the chains and defeated the eighteen monks with the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Sword Array, while two Daoists retreated.
• Huai Kong attacked with the Six-Syllable Mantra and a Jiang Mo Pestle, but Zhao Su countered with a Death Spear.

Zhao Su fought Huai Kong and the eighteen venerable arhats after the Buddhist School tried to make him submit. He trapped them in a furnace with his Eighth Soul Skill and called on Ning Rongrong to refine them with her Chaos White Fire, but a distant voice invoked the Buddha’s name.

• Zhao Su’s Death-Destruction Intent activated Divination Mountain’s protective array and the Sacred Qimen Dunjia Compass.
• Zhao Su and Huai Kong clashed, while two Dao Sect disciples secretly sent reports to their respective factions.
• Huai Kong used the second syllable of the Six-Syllable Mantra and transformed into his Ancient Buddha Lord’s Ten-Zhang Golden Body as the eighteen venerable arhats activated their Martial Soul Avatars.
• Zhao Su summoned the Twelve-Winged Holy Angel and used his Eighth Soul Skill, the Six Paths Reincarnation Spell, to trap Huai Kong and the arhats in a furnace.
• Zhao Su asked Ning Rongrong to burn the furnace with her Chaos White Fire, but a distant voice invoked the Buddha’s name.

Zhao Su and his companions fought the Buddha Lord and Dao Lord after they tried to stop him from killing Huai Kong and the Eighteen Arhat Venerables. After Zhu Zhuqing was wounded, Zhao Su awakened a godlike power, defeated the two enemies, and left Zhu Zhuqing stronger after she absorbed the Buddha Lord’s soul power.

• The Buddha Lord and Dao Lord attacked Zhao Su and his companions, while Hu Liena and Zhu Zhuqing tried to protect Ning Rongrong.
• Zhu Zhuqing failed to injure the Buddha Lord and was struck down, enraging Zhao Su.
• Zhao Su unleashed the power of the red flower and the dragons within him, then pierced the Buddha Lord with the Death Spear and knocked the Dao Lord away.
• Zhao Su sealed the Buddha Lord and gave him to Zhu Zhuqing, who absorbed his soul power until her level rose to seventy-nine.

Ning Rongrong gained divine sense after refining Huai Kong and the Eighteen Arhat Venerables, while Zhao Su drove off the Sea God and defeated the Dao Lord. As Zhao Su and his companions sailed toward the likely entrance to Ancient Ruins Mountain, Xi Yao sent Mie Shang, a hundred-thousand-year soul beast in human form, out to temper himself.

• Ning Rongrong formed a Nine-Colored Flame and reached the Divine Origin Realm, then tried to seize the fleeing Dao Lord with her divine sense.
• The Sea God blocked Ning Rongrong, and Zhao Su struck the Sea God’s island with a destructive palm before his divine sense dissipated.
• Xi Yao gave Mie Shang an Illusory Sea Pearl and ordered him to leave the Myriad Sacred Dragon Palace to temper himself.
• Zhao Su severely wounded the Dao Lord, who escaped with the Buddha Lord, and the onlookers stopped attacking Zhao Su’s companions.
• Zhao Su and his companions boarded their boat and headed toward the likely entrance between the Douluo Continent and Ancient Ruins Mountain.

Zhao Su set out across the sea toward the Myriad Sacred Dragon Palace after learning Tang San’s group was hunting a hundred-thousand-year-old sea soul beast. Yan and Li Kai joined him and revealed that Tang San had killed Zhang Ping, leaving Zhao Su determined to oppose him.

• Zhao Su built a fortified platform at the entrance to Ancient Ruins Mountain and waited for his scattered companions to arrive.
• Ning Rongrong and Hu Liena told Zhao Su that Tang San’s group had gone to hunt a hundred-thousand-year-old sea soul beast near the Myriad Sacred Dragon Palace, where a nearly million-year-old White Dragon had also been seen.
• Zhao Su set the platform moving toward the Myriad Sacred Dragon Palace and left a flag to guide his missing companions and mark the territory as his.
• Yan and Li Kai arrived on a battered boat, and Zhao Su stopped the platform to take them aboard.
• Yan told Zhao Su that Tang San had ambushed their group after they escaped an encirclement, killing Zhang Ping with hidden weapons.
• Zhao Su promised Yan and Li Kai they would get a chance for revenge and recognized that he now stood completely against Tang San.

Zhao Su fought a hundred-thousand-year-old Baxia Dragon Turtle and offered to let it live in exchange for its soul ring. A woman in red appeared on the turtle’s back and used her pipa to draw everyone into an illusion, leaving Zhao Su and Ning Rongrong unaffected.

• Yan and Li Kai reported that a group was attacking a Baxia Dragon Turtle, and Zhao Su took Li Kai to claim it as his soul ring.
• Zhao Su drove off the attackers and struck the Baxia Dragon Turtle with his Emperor Seven Kill Sword and Overlord Divine Fist.
• The Baxia Dragon Turtle transformed and attacked Zhao Su, but Zhao Su used the Death Spear to pierce its defenses.
• Zhao Su demanded that the Baxia Dragon Turtle sacrifice its soul ring in exchange for its life, and the turtle refused.
• A woman in red appeared on the Baxia Dragon Turtle’s back and played her pipa, drawing everyone but Zhao Su and Ning Rongrong into an illusion.

Zhao Su confronted the Red-Clothed Woman, who overwhelmed him and took Zhu Zhuqing away, claiming she would return her when the time came. After the White-Clothed Goddess appeared and assured him Zhu Zhuqing was safe, Zhao Su asked whether she was the system.

• The Red-Clothed Woman challenged Zhao Su and unleashed Seven Transversal Absolutes, revealing a technique far stronger than his fusion skill with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing’s Yin-Yang Spirit Cat carried her to the Red-Clothed Woman, while Ning Rongrong failed to stop her and Zhao Su’s Six Paths Reincarnation Spell was easily shattered.
• The Red-Clothed Woman trapped Zhao Su in a bubble until a voice inside him broke it, and the White-Clothed Goddess appeared from within his body.
• Zhao Su transformed and attacked the Red-Clothed Woman to stop her from taking Zhu Zhuqing, but she and the Dragon Turtle vanished and she promised to return Zhu Zhuqing later.
• The White-Clothed Goddess assured Zhao Su that Zhu Zhuqing would be safe, and Zhao Su asked if she was the system.

The White-Clothed Goddess revealed that the system and its shop were tied to Zhao Su, then vanished after explaining she had brought him to the Douluo Continent. After the sea waterfall disappeared, Zhao Su left for Death Valley and learned Chen Xin was injured but heading there as well.

• The White-Clothed Goddess told Zhao Su that the system was her avatar, its shop was his storage Soul Tool, and she had brought him to the Douluo Continent because he belonged there; she refused to give him the remaining Holy Angel Soul Bones and disappeared.
• The system erased the nearby witnesses’ memories of the Red-Clothed Woman, while those on Ning Rongrong’s protected platform remembered what had happened.
• Zhao Su spent fifteen days searching the sea without finding Bibi Dong, Tang Yuehua, or suitable sea soul beasts, then left for Death Valley after the strange waterfall vanished.
• Shanggu Fu met the group ashore and told Ning Rongrong that Chen Xin had killed his attackers despite being injured and continued toward Death Valley.
• Ning Rongrong worried about Chen Xin, and Zhao Su said Chen Xin’s Seven Kill Sword could handle those attackers and suggested he had gone to Death Valley for a reason.

Zhao Su reunited with Tang San near Death Valley and retaliated against the Tang Sect by destroying it and ordering its affiliated factions attacked. Tang San’s allies dwindled as they approached the valley, while Zhao Su’s group traveled there with Shanggu Fu and considered confronting the Eight-Headed Serpent.

• Zhao Su accepted Shanggu Fu’s company on the journey to Death Valley after Ning Rongrong supported him.
• Tang San approached Zhao Su in Eight-Headed Serpent City, and Zhao Su’s system warned that Tang San carried the Sea God’s aura.
• Zhao Su, Yan, and Li Kai burned the Tang Sect to ashes, while Shanggu Fu ordered subordinate factions to attack the Tang Sect’s allies.
• Tang San’s followers were killed or scattered by repeated attacks near Death Valley, and Tang San vowed to kill Zhao Su.
• Zhao Su asked Shanggu Fu about the Eight-Headed Serpent and considered provoking the nearly godlike creature.

Zhao Su encouraged Shanggu Fu to believe in his own strength, but Shanggu Fu took the advice to heart in a reckless way and attacked members of the Azure Origin Sect. Later, the group hunted a Blazing Fire Nine-Headed Bird, and Yan obtained its soul ring and an external soul bone carrying nine suns heavenly flame.

• Zhao Su convinced Shanggu Fu that his support-type Martial Soul did not make him useless, and Shanggu Fu became outspoken and aggressive.
• After entering Death Valley, Shanggu Fu attacked a dozen Azure Origin Sect members who tried to bar the group from the area.
• Zhao Su and his companions discovered a Blazing Fire Nine-Headed Bird, and Yan killed it with his flames.
• Yan absorbed the bird’s soul ring and reached level eighty, while Zhao Su picked up its external soul bone carrying nine suns heavenly flame.
• Yan hesitated to take the soul bone, but Zhao Su pushed it into his body and sent in a strand of divine sense to protect him during fusion.

Yan's soul bone transformed his martial soul into the Nine Suns Heavenly Flame, drawing the Sun God's Nine Divine Trials, which Zhao Su sealed for now. The group reached a cave in Death Valley where rival factions gathered, Qian Renxue sided with Tang San, and a fierce battle broke out inside.

• Yan's martial soul evolved into the Nine Suns Heavenly Flame and fused into a divine longsword, while symbols of the Sun God's Nine Divine Trials appeared around him.
• Shanggu Fu recognized the trials, and Zhao Su sealed them inside Yan to prevent him from accepting them before they were ready.
• Drawn by the light of Yan's transformation, Death Valley's disciples converged on the area, and Zhao Su's group left for the valley's heart.
• At a cave where the factions had gathered, Zhao Su saw Qian Renxue with Tang San and learned she had reached level 80 and begun the Nine Divine Trials.
• Hu Liena warned Qian Renxue against relying on Tang San, but Qian Renxue refused to listen and returned to his side.
• A fierce battle erupted inside the cave, and Yan sensed the Nine Suns Heavenly Flame reacting as the gathered factions waited outside.

Shanggu Fu identified the cave as the resting place of the Sun God Sword and explained the deadly trial awaiting anyone who sought to become the new Sun God. Tang San attacked Zhao Su’s group, but Xiao Lu severely wounded the Sea God and Zhao Su gravely wounded Tang San; Zhao Su then led his companions into the cave.

• Shanggu Fu explained that the cave held the Sun God Sword and that accepting the Sun God's nine trials offered only a slim chance of survival.
• Yan chose to attempt the trials, broke the seals on the ancient characters within him, and charged into the cave.
• Tang San attacked Zhao Su's group with his Clear Sky Hammer while Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and their allies joined the assault.
• Zhao Su pierced Tang San's chest with the Death Spear, and Xiao Lu destroyed the Sea God's divine sense and severely wounded the Sea God.
• Yu Tianheng and Ma Hongjun rescued Tang San, and Ye Lingling healed him enough for Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng to lead their group out of Death Valley.
• Zhao Su refused to pursue them and led his companions into the cave after sensing the Eight-Headed Serpent and the Sun God's lingering consciousness.

Zhao Su and his companions found Chen Xin fighting over a sword spirit in the cave, where Chen Xin began refining it with the remnant soul of the Ancient Sword God. As Zhao Su guarded him, Xiao Lu revealed that Ancient Ruins Mountain was a cage for dead gods’ remnant souls, and the Red-Clothed Woman attacked to stop the Sword God’s return.

• Zhao Su led Ning Rongrong, Hu Liena, and the others through the dark cave, where Ning Rongrong sensed Grandpa Sword’s aura and Zhao Su identified a sealed sword spirit ahead.
• Zhao Su reached a lava cavern and drove back the people trying to seize the sword spirit, allowing Chen Xin to begin refining it.
• Xiao Lu told Zhao Su that the sword spirit belonged to the Ancient Sword God and that Ancient Ruins Mountain imprisoned the remnant souls of dead God Kings while they awaited successors.
• Xiao Lu warned Zhao Su that someone opposed to the Sword God’s return had arrived, and the Red-Clothed Woman began playing her pipa to disrupt Chen Xin’s refinement.
• Zhao Su raised his Divine Slaughter's Domain to shield Chen Xin, while the Red-Clothed Woman and her white-clothed companions joined their powers to resist it.

Zhao Su was overwhelmed by Blue Moon until a powerful presence took control of his body, drove her away, and bestowed a fortune on Chen Xin. After Zhao Su returned to himself, Shanggu Fu revealed that his vivid vision was real and that Zhao Su was not a complete person.

• Blue Moon defeated Zhao Su and immobilized everyone, including him, with her domain.
• Xiao Lu appeared and broke Blue Moon's domain, but Blue Moon brought out the Seven Transversal Absolutes and prepared to fight her.
• A different presence took control of Zhao Su, restrained Blue Moon, and forced her to leave with her companions.
• The presence enveloped Chen Xin, his Seven Kill Sword, the Ancient Sword God's remnant soul, and the sword spirit in red light as a gift of fortune.
• Zhao Su regained consciousness, and Shanggu Fu told him that his vision had truly happened and that he was not a complete person.

Shanggu Fu’s divinations revealed that Zhao Su’s soul was incomplete and tied to a conspiracy dating back to his previous life, driving Shanggu Fu into madness. Chen Xin awakened with the ancient Sword God’s inheritance and steadied Zhao Su, who continued into the cave before Xuan Yuan Qing’er approached him with something difficult to say.

• Shanggu Fu warned Zhao Su not to trust anyone, including the other half of his soul, then lost his sanity and left the cave.
• Ning Rongrong tried to calm Shanggu Fu and Zhao Su as they struggled with what he had revealed.
• Chen Xin broke free of the red light, regrew his arm, reached level ninety-nine, and gained the ancient Sword God’s memories and divine trials.
• Chen Xin placed a strange symbol inside Zhao Su, bringing him back to his senses, and urged him to absorb the nine guardian divine dragons.
• Zhao Su reassured Ning Rongrong that he would take her, Zhu Zhuqing, and Yuehua home, then led his group deeper into the cave to search for Yan, the Sun God’s remnant soul, and the Eight-Headed Serpent.
• That night, Xuan Yuan Qing’er approached Zhao Su in the forest of Death Valley and asked to speak with him.

Zhao Su agreed to help Xuan Yuan Qing'er retrieve the Xuanyuan Sword from Barbarian King Mountain in exchange for the Xuanyuan Family's energy of fortune. Chen Xin revealed his father's history with the Ancient Barbarian God and his betrayal by Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu, then gave Zhao Su the sealed remnant soul as payment for guarding him.

• Xuan Yuan Qing'er asked Zhao Su to retrieve the Xuanyuan Sword from Barbarian King Mountain and offered the Xuanyuan Family's energy of fortune in return, and Zhao Su accepted.
• Zhao Su told his companions about the journey, and Chen Xin revealed that he possessed the Ancient Barbarian God's remnant soul.
• Chen Xin explained that his father, Jian Feng, had found two ancient remnant souls before Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu attacked him and left him gravely wounded.
• Jian Feng escaped through a barrier to the Douluo Continent, later sought revenge, and was wounded again by Qian Daoliu, causing Chen Xin to hate Spirit Hall and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Ning Rongrong promised to kill Qian Daoliu for Chen Xin, and Chen Xin gave Zhao Su the sealed Ancient Barbarian God remnant soul.

Zhao Su and his companions traveled to a Xuanyuan Family branch to teleport east toward Barbarian King Mountain, where they discovered the family had set an ambush. Chen Xin faced the Xuanyuan ancestor Xuanyuan Junming for his first Ancient Sword God trial, while Zhao Su attacked the Xuanyuan Killing Formation.

• Zhao Su gave the ancient Savage God's remnant soul to Li Kai and warned him not to break its seal lightly.
• The group set out with Xuan Yuan Qing'er for a Xuanyuan Family teleportation array, and Zhao Su and Chen Xin sensed danger at the branch.
• Zhao Su crushed the servant who had brought them tea and extracted his memories as eighteen Xuanyuan swordsmen surrounded the courtyard with a killing formation.
• Chen Xin attacked the formation but was stopped by Xuanyuan Junming, whose defeat became Chen Xin's first Ancient Sword God trial.
• Zhao Su protected Ning Rongrong, Hu Liena, and Li Kai with the Five-Element Flags, then entered the formation and summoned the Thirty-Six Heavenly Stars swords to strike its Golden Holy Sword.

Zhao Su and Chen Xin defeated the Xuanyuan Family’s forces, killed Xuanyuan Junming, and left the family estate in ruins. As the group departed, Xuan Yuan Qing’er offered Zhao Su the family’s fortune qi.

• Zhao Su’s Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Killing Array annihilated the eighteen men in the Xuanyuan Killing Formation, while Chen Xin severed Xuanyuan Junming’s arm.
• Zhao Su exposed Xuanyuan Junming’s attempted escape and refused his offer to trade the sealed fortune qi for his life.
• Zhao Su freed Xuan Yuan Qing’er from the hidden chamber, but Xuanyuan Junming tried to self-detonate; Zhao Su restrained him and Chen Xin killed him.
• Chen Xin passed the Ancient Sword God’s first divine trial, gaining divine aura as his first Soul Ring grew close to a hundred-thousand-year ring.
• Zhao Su released Xuan Yuan Qing’er’s seals and left without blaming her, then she called him back and offered the Xuanyuan Family’s fortune qi as a golden orb.

Xuan Yuan Qing'er gave up the Xuanyuan Family’s fortune qi, which became Hu Liena’s Million-Year Soul Ring and raised her to Soul Douluo. Hu Liena awakened the sword technique Heaven and Earth in a Single Thought, and Zhao Su’s group continued toward Barbarian King Mountain by carriage.

• Xuan Yuan Qing'er gave Zhao Su the Xuanyuan Family’s fortune qi after Xuanyuan Junming destroyed the teleportation array, leaving her martial soul dimmed and her strength at the Soul King rank.
• The fortune qi entered Hu Liena, formed a crimson-gold Million-Year Soul Ring, and helped her break through to level eighty.
• Hu Liena unleashed Heaven and Earth in a Single Thought, injuring Li Kai before Chen Xin stopped the strike with his Seven Kill Sword.
• Hu Liena sensed that Heaven and Earth in a Single Thought had four strikes and possibly a dangerous fifth, and Chen Xin warned her not to use the fifth lightly.
• Ning Rongrong treated Li Kai, and Zhao Su decided the group would continue to Barbarian King Mountain by carriage rather than teleportation.