Chapter Summaries

Ren Tao’s million-year soul bone gambit drew the Heaven Dou and Star Luo rulers and Bibi Dong toward Vast Sea City. Bibi Dong decided to meet Ren Tao, while she remained puzzled by how the soul bone had been separated from its beast.

• At Xue Beng’s council meeting, Yu Xiaogang argued that the million-year soul bone was bait designed to draw the empires and Spirit Hall into a struggle, and he tempted Xue Beng with the chance to kill Bibi Dong and avenge the late emperor.
• After the meeting, Ning Fengzhi warned Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo that Xue Beng might accept Yu Xiaogang’s proposal, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect waited to see how the other powers responded.
• Dai Rong smashed the black pearl in the Star Luo palace, and Ren Tao’s recording revealed a million-year Torso Soul Bone and challenged him to enter the game.
• Bibi Dong saw the same recording, told Hu Liena she wanted to recruit Ren Tao, and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to accompany her to Vast Sea City while postponing the Hunting Plan for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Bibi Dong examined another black pearl and wondered how a soul bone could have separated from a soul beast without losing its power.

Ren Tao continued preparing for the arrival of the empire leaders while insisting that he sought world peace, then slipped away before Dai Delong and Wei Xili could negotiate with him. He left them a map-like set of crystal beads and warned them to avoid the coming battle as Heaven Dou forces approached Vast Sea City.

• Ren Tao completed another stage of his evolution, discussed his plans to defeat his enemies without fighting, and went to inspect the docks with E Laosi.
• Dai Delong and Wei Xili arrived at Ren Tao's residence to negotiate, but found it empty and read his letter explaining that he would not make separate deals with their empires.
• Ren Tao told Dai Delong and Wei Xili to look for clues at the Prosperity Casino and Moon-Gazing Tower, warned them that Heaven Dou forces were approaching, and said he had left them something to help them escape danger.
• Wei Xili guessed that Ren Tao had left the item at the hotel front desk, where the pair had to pay fifteen days of room charges before receiving it.
• Dai Delong and Wei Xili received three crystal beads whose golden threads formed a map, then argued over how to divide them and how much rent they should have paid.

With Vast Sea City sealed ahead of the Spider Hunt Operation, Xue Beng and Yu Xiaogang negotiated an alliance with Dai Rong to assassinate Bibi Dong. Dai Rong accepted their proposal but learned that the Star Luo Empire’s Titled Douluos were elsewhere, leaving the alliance formed amid mutual suspicion.

• Vast Sea City was sealed by armed troops and patrols as the emperors prepared to meet about the Spider Hunt Operation.
• Dai Rong belittled Xue Beng and challenged Yu Xiaogang before agreeing to hear their assassination plan.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that force could not defeat Bibi Dong and claimed her weakness was himself, proposing poison as the means to kill her.
• Dai Rong agreed to the plan and asked what he needed to do.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned whether the Star Luo Empire’s Titled Douluos were away, and Xue Beng, Yu Xiaogang, and Dai Rong toasted their alliance while privately distrusting one another.

Ren Tao lured Bibi Dong to Liupan Mountain and rejected her offer to join the Spirit Hall Empire, leaving them to settle their disagreement over the Million-Year Soul Bone in battle. Bibi Dong identified him as nonhuman and revealed her Death Spider Emperor martial soul as Ren Tao unleashed his Blood Sea Pagoda domain.

• Ren Tao told E Laosi to return to the Ghost Sea Region, then flew away after E Laosi insisted on waiting nearby with an escape-route map.
• Ren Tao sensed Bibi Dong tracking him and led her to Liupan Mountain, where they discussed the Million-Year Soul Bone and whether they could cooperate.
• Ren Tao asked whether Bibi Dong's student Hu Liena had come, but he concluded there was no prospect of cooperation for now.
• Bibi Dong agreed to play along with Ren Tao's test and began preparing to fight for the soul bone.
• Ren Tao released his Blood Sea Pagoda domain, and Bibi Dong deduced that he was not human before revealing her Death Spider Emperor martial soul.

Ren Tao and Bibi Dong tested each other in a fierce aerial battle over Liupan Mountain and the sea, revealing that their powers resonated and both sensed the other’s inhuman nature. Ren Tao escaped the exchange with a taunt, but Bibi Dong pursued him.

• Ren Tao activated his Wisdom Halo, saw through Bibi Dong’s Death Domain, and struck before she could take flight.
• Ren Tao and Bibi Dong exchanged blows, briefly connected through their powers, and recognized that each was evolving beyond ordinary humanity.
• Bibi Dong pressed her advantage with a Spider Spear whirlwind and Spider Emperor Clone, driving Ren Tao high into the sky.
• Ren Tao jumped through space and attacked from above while sea-water columns surged beneath Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong switched to the Soul-Eating Spider Emperor and used Half Moon to break the attacks, but Ren Tao escaped and mocked her.
• Bibi Dong pursued Ren Tao, warning that he would not get away.

Ren Tao and Bibi Dong forced the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires to join their contest over the Million-Year Soul Bone, then attacked their representatives outside Vast Sea City's city lord's manor. The chapter ended as Ren Tao fought the Golden Iron Triangle and Bibi Dong attacked Dai Rong.

• Ren Tao and Bibi Dong fought their way toward Vast Sea City, while Spirit Hall's six Titled Douluo withdrew from the outskirts at Bibi Dong's command.
• Ren Tao and Bibi Dong arrived at the city lord's manor, where their fields shook the building and knocked Xue Beng and Yu Xiaogang to the floor.
• Bibi Dong taunted Xue Beng and Dai Rong, and Ren Tao demanded that the empires send representatives to compete for the Million-Year Soul Bone.
• Ning Fengzhi refused to get involved, but Dai Rong revealed a mysterious ninth Soul Ring that raised his power to Titled Douluo level.
• Ren Tao insulted Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, prompting Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong to enter the contest together.
• Ren Tao attacked the Golden Iron Triangle to disrupt their Martial Soul Fusion Skill as Bibi Dong struck at Dai Rong.

Ren Tao fought the Golden Iron Triangle and Bibi Dong while humiliating Xue Beng and Yu Xiaogang, then began devouring the Golden Sacred Dragon. The Asura God intervened with the Asura Sword, leaving Ren Tao badly injured and facing a second strike.

• Ren Tao abducted Xue Beng and Dugu Bo, then tricked Yu Xiaogang into redirecting the Golden Sacred Dragon’s attack at an empty cocoon that wounded nearby soul masters.
• Ren Tao provoked Yu Xiaogang into attacking, and Xue Beng appeared to accuse Yu Xiaogang of treason before Ren Tao tossed him back to his guards.
• Bibi Dong killed Dai Rong, then joined Yu Xiaogang in attacking Ren Tao with Eternal Wound and Luo Sanpao’s Heart-Piercing Deathblow.
• Ren Tao clashed with Bibi Dong, evaded Luo Sanpao, and used his Devouring Golden Threads to pierce Yu Xiaogang’s golden protection and begin devouring the Golden Sacred Dragon.
• The Asura God appeared and struck Ren Tao with the Asura Sword, blasting him into the ruins; its second strike arrived as Ren Tao struggled to rise.

Ren Tao escaped the King of Slaughter’s attack with the Soul Breaking Spear and fled Bibi Dong’s pursuit, then began refining the Asura divine power lodged in him. In the Sea of Inheritance, he discovered something unexpected inside that power.

• Bibi Dong tried to save Ren Tao, but Yu Xiaogang’s words and the Asura God’s influence disrupted her, leaving Ren Tao to face the King of Slaughter.
• Ren Tao used his third eye and Soul Breaking Spear to pierce the Asura God’s phantom, knocking the King of Slaughter away and dispersing the Magic Suppression Domain.
• Ren Tao escaped with Spatial Jump and evaded Bibi Dong by masking his presence with nearby marine creatures, while the two empires’ forces regrouped in Vast Sea City.
• Dai Rong rebuked Xue Beng and left with his attendants, while Xue Beng promised rewards to Heaven Dou’s officials.
• Ren Tao suppressed and slowly refined the Asura divine power within him, then entered the Sea of Inheritance and found that golden threads were repelled by something embedded in it.

Ren Tao discovered that Asura divine power contained God King marks that resisted his attempts to break them down and seemed to expose his location to the King of Slaughter. He used E Laosi as bait by planting a mark on him, drawing the King of Slaughter into a confrontation that stirred Tang Chen’s consciousness.

• Ren Tao extracted an ornamental lotus-shaped God King mark from the Asura divine power, then learned from E Laosi that the King of Slaughter was searching for him.
• Ren Tao and E Laosi moved between hidden escape points while Ren Tao continued studying the marks and noticed that extracting them seemed to reveal his position.
• After sensing the King of Slaughter approaching, Ren Tao sealed the marks and fled with E Laosi to another escape point.
• Ren Tao decided to plant a God King mark on E Laosi so he could lure the King of Slaughter away from him.
• The King of Slaughter followed the mark to E Laosi, whose questions about Tang Chen, the Clear Sky Hammer, and Bo Saixi caused the two consciousnesses within him to clash.

Ren Tao and the Nine-Headed Bat King joined forces against Tang Chen in the Sea of Inheritance, where Ren Tao used the sea and his Soul Breaking Spear to weaken him. Ren Tao’s resolve drew on the purple mist to withstand Tang Chen’s decisive hammer strike, but his body began to shatter as his golden threads devoured Tang Chen’s power and the Asura God’s Divine Sense.

• Ren Tao clung to Tang Chen and entered the Sea of Inheritance, where the Nine-Headed Bat King offered to help kill Tang Chen.
• Ren Tao and the Nine-Headed Bat King attacked Tang Chen together, and Ren Tao learned the bat was fighting because the Asura God had mistreated his mistress, the Rakshasa God.
• Ren Tao used the sea’s waves and whirlwinds to corrode Tang Chen, then pierced his right shoulder with a Soul Breaking Spear and knocked the Clear Sky Hammer from his grip.
• Tang Chen kicked the hammer toward Ren Tao in a devastating attack, while an unknown power cut Ren Tao off from the Sea of Inheritance.
• Ren Tao drew the purple mist into himself and met the hammer with his indomitable resolve, as golden chains seized Tang Chen and began devouring his power and the Asura God’s Divine Sense.
• Ren Tao’s body shattered during the clash, and E Laosi cried out in alarm from outside.

Ren Tao defeated Tang Chen and absorbed the Asura divine power, but the Asura God appeared in the Sea of Inheritance and offered him the chance to inherit the divine position. After Ren Tao repaired his ruined body and sent E Laosi to search Tang Chen, the Five-Headed Bat revealed that the Asura Sacred Sword was inside Ren Tao.

• Ren Tao absorbed the Asura God's power and used the Red Crystal to consume the evil thoughts in the Sea of Inheritance, while Tang Chen was expelled after being drained.
• The Asura God manifested through the fused God King Marks, offered Ren Tao his inheritance, and explained that tribulation lightning could transform Ren Tao into a higher form of life.
• Ren Tao left the Sea of Inheritance and began repairing his badly damaged body as he asked the Five-Headed Bat about the Asura God and Rakshasa.
• Ren Tao sent E Laosi to search Tang Chen for the Asura Sword or a Clear Sky Token, then urged the Five-Headed Bat to go to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Five-Headed Bat said the Asura Sacred Sword was inside Ren Tao, then flew away before Ren Tao finished warning it not to repeat Slaughter City's past.

Ren Tao freed Tang Chen from the Asura God's influence, leaving him alive but weakened and with a degenerated Clear Sky Hammer. Two days before the Million-Year Soul Bone Appraisal Conference, the Heaven Dou Empire prepared to execute the Pleasant Sea Villa staff as bait for Ren Woxing, while the Golden Iron Triangle arrived to confront him.

• Ren Tao found that Tang Chen's Soul Power and divine powers were gone, and Tang Chen discovered his Clear Sky Hammer had degenerated into a hammerhead without a handle.
• Ren Tao told Tang Chen that the Asura God had never intended to pass on his Divine Position and revealed that Bo Saixi had paid for Tang Chen's rescue because the Sea God inheritance required her sacrifice.
• Ren Tao left Tang Chen behind and ordered E Laosi to follow him and ensure he returned to Sea God Island.
• Emperor Xue Beng surrounded the Pleasant Sea Villa and planned to publicly execute its owner and staff for allegedly betraying the nation to Spirit Hall.
• Liu Erlong questioned the trap at the Pleasant Sea Villa, while Yu Xiaogang told her the Golden Iron Triangle only needed to hold Ren Woxing back.
• The Golden Iron Triangle's carriage arrived at the Pleasant Sea Villa.

Ren Tao disrupted the execution at Pleasant Sea Villa and discovered Yu Xiaogang’s secret plan to use the Twin Bloom to drain Bibi Dong’s life. Bibi Dong was betrayed and dismembered, but the Nine-Headed Bat carried away her remains while Ren Tao escaped into the sea.

• Yu Xiaogang ordered the execution of Pleasant Sea Villa’s prisoners, and Ren Tao arrived in a massive wave that destroyed the execution site and killed Yu Xiaogang.
• Ren Tao used his abilities to probe Yu Xiaogang’s fear and discovered the Twin Bloom linking him to Bibi Dong, then left the ruins as Bibi Dong arrived and revived Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that the Twin Bloom was the Life-Reaping Orchid and used its exchange of vitality to weaken Bibi Dong before plotting to kill her.
• A War Halberd Douluo stabbed Bibi Dong, and he and the Golden Saber Douluo cut her into pieces while Yu Xiaogang watched.
• The Nine-Headed Bat attacked the Douluo, carried away Bibi Dong’s remains, and left Yu Xiaogang badly wounded; Ren Tao then swam away into the sea.

At Jade Tide Bay, Ren Tao displayed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's Soul Bone and faced a coalition led by Yu Xiaogang, Dai Rong, and Xue Beng. Ren Tao’s assault exposed Xue Beng’s decoy, and the chapter left Ren Tao buried beneath Sword Douluo Chen Xin’s devastating strike.

• Xue Beng and Dai Rong traveled with their forces to Jade Tide Bay after locating the conference site from the Golden Thread Map.
• Ren Tao arrived in dramatic fashion and displayed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's Soul Bone, while Dai Rong said Bibi Dong had died.
• Ren Tao demanded that Dai Rong and Xue Beng fight for the Soul Bone, but Dai Rong and Yu Xiaogang instead mobilized their forces against him.
• Ren Tao attacked Xue Beng and discovered he had struck a decoy, as Yu Xiaogang used Luo Sanpao’s blasts to disrupt Ren Tao’s Spatial Jump.
• Ren Tao exchanged blows with Chen Xin and the two Star Luo Douluos, then countered their attacks with his World-Destroying Grasp.
• Gu Rong trapped Ren Tao in Dragon Soul Purgatory, and Chen Xin struck him with a star-filled sword attack that blasted him into a trench nearly a hundred meters deep.

Ren Tao escaped the battle at Jade Tide Bay and pursued Xue Beng, while Yu Xiaogang and the others followed. Ren Tao realized Xue Beng had remained in Vast Sea City, returned there, and confronted him as the chapter ended.

• Ren Tao escaped underground, then used Spatial Jump to leave the battlefield and pursue Xue Beng.
• Yu Xiaogang realized Ren Tao had left and urged the others to follow and protect Xue Beng.
• Ren Tao stopped during the pursuit, reconsidered Xue Beng’s likely actions, and turned back toward Vast Sea City.
• Dai Rong realized Xue Beng was still hiding in Vast Sea City and cursed him for putting both empires at risk.
• Ren Tao reached Vast Sea City and found Xue Beng waiting in a lit building; Xue Beng opened the window and greeted him.

Ren Tao attacked Dai Rong while Qian Renxue’s deception turned Yu Xiaogang into the apparent assassin of Emperor Xue Beng. The chapter left Dai Rong crippled, the Heaven Dou Empire’s plans disrupted, and Ren Tao weighing whether to target Qian Renxue.

• Emperor Xue Beng shut the window after speaking with Ren Tao, while Ren Tao suspected the emperor was an impostor and recognized Qian Renxue’s involvement.
• Soul Masters gathered to confront Ren Tao, and Xue Beng summoned Yu Xiaogang from inside the building.
• Ren Tao attacked Dai Rong, using a shock wave and Orca Demon Axe to separate him from his protectors before capturing him.
• Qian Renxue’s apparent Xue Beng cried out that Yu Xiaogang was assassinating him, and a bloody silhouette appeared at the window as Yu Xiaogang stabbed the emperor.
• Ren Tao used the distraction to drain Dai Rong’s Soul Power and sever his limbs, then considered whether to target Qian Renxue next.

After defeating both empires, Ren Tao revealed that he was a sea soul beast and declared that he would secure a place for sea soul beasts in the human world. As the assembled soul masters turned against him, an unseen voice accused him of being an evil soul master as well.

• Yu Xiaogang was dragged away after Emperor Xue Beng’s death, while the Star Luo Emperor’s soul power and meridians were destroyed.
• Dai Rong conceded defeat and asked Ren Tao to spare the Star Luo Empire, then urged Ning Fengzhi to investigate Xue Beng’s death without rushing to condemn Yu Xiaogang.
• Dai Rong asked why Ren Tao had arranged a game that devastated both empires, prompting Ren Tao to reflect on his bonds with sea soul beasts and his struggle against the gods.
• Ren Tao declared that he was a sea soul beast and said he would stop the war and secure respect and a place for sea soul beasts.
• Ning Fengzhi and the gathered Douluos and Shrek members formed an encirclement around Ren Tao after his revelation.
• An unseen speaker warned that Ren Tao could threaten the human world and accused him of being an evil soul master.

Ren Tao fought Qian Daoliu’s assembled allies and discovered that Qian Daoliu wanted to make him an enemy of the whole world. After Ren Tao took Ning Fengzhi hostage, Qian Daoliu prepared to enter the battle himself.

• Qian Daoliu ordered War Halberd Douluo and Golden Saber Douluo to attack Ren Tao and commanded the others to join the fight.
• Sword Douluo Chen Xin pierced Ren Tao, but Ren Tao trapped him with golden threads and gravely wounded Gu Rong with World-Destroying Grasp.
• War Halberd Douluo, Golden Saber Douluo, Dugu Bo, and Chen Xin coordinated attacks that injured Ren Tao and struck down his Pagoda Substitute.
• Ren Tao threatened Qian Daoliu by grabbing Ning Fengzhi and warning he would drain his martial soul if Sword Douluo kept attacking.
• Ren Tao healed his injuries, while Chen Xin retrieved Ning Fengzhi and Qian Daoliu prepared to fight.

Ren Tao used lightning, fire, and a series of bluffs to trap Qian Daoliu and force him back, then drew the Divine Thunder toward him. Qian Daoliu revealed the Angel Holy Sword and unleashed a purifying strike at Ren Tao, as a voice urged Ren Tao to use the Asura Sword.

• Qian Daoliu engulfed the area in his Angel Domain and attacked Ren Tao, whose Blood Sea Domain caught fire.
• Ren Tao let Qian Daoliu break his arm, then trapped him inside an explosive fireball and claimed the falling lightning was heavenly tribulation lightning.
• Qian Daoliu retreated from the supposed tribulation, and Ren Tao revealed the bluff while pursuing him.
• Ren Tao used refined asura divine power to draw the Divine Thunder toward Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu manifested the Angel Holy Sword, cleaved through the lightning, and swung at Ren Tao with a strike meant to destroy his soul.
• A voice urged Ren Tao to use the Asura Sword.

Ren Tao escaped Qian Daoliu’s attack and used poetry and illusion to buy time while recovering and preparing for another clash. He launched his World-Destroying Spear at Qian Daoliu, but both Ren Tao and the spear vanished as the Angel Holy Sword struck.

• Ren Tao used the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's torso bone to survive Qian Daoliu’s strike, then escaped with Spatial Jump.
• Qian Daoliu led the group to the shore, where they found Ren Tao drinking beneath an illusion of pavilions and towers.
• Ren Tao recited poetry and shaped the illusion while restoring his body and completing preparations for battle.
• Qian Daoliu transformed through his Martial Soul Avatar as Ren Tao formed the World-Destroying Spear and attacked first.
• Qian Daoliu’s Angel Holy Sword struck through empty space, and Ren Tao and his spear abruptly vanished.