Chapter Summaries

Ren Tao and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger followed the underground blood river to a barrier concealing a vast prison of souls and a towering dragon-like figure. Ren Tao identified the figure as the Dragon God and broke into the barrier, leaving the two poised to confront it as the cavern shook.

• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger told Ren Tao that the Asura God imprisoned the souls of his victims in Asura hell, then devoured waves of wandering bat souls, including those of the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat and the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent.
• Ren Tao spotted a huge, coiled figure beyond a god king barrier, and it offered him the choice of absorbing its power or being devoured.
• Ren Tao shared the scene with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and told it to draw away the ghostly souls while he dealt with the figure, which he suspected was the Dragon God.
• Ren Tao struck the barrier with the World-Destroying Spear, and the Giant Kun tore open a crack by devouring the barrier's marks.
• The ghostly souls surged out as the figure transformed into a hundred-meter dragon and roared, shaking the underground space; Ren Tao slipped through the crack.

Ren Tao fought the Dragon God's consciousness while the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger battled a giant ghost, then uncovered the mental nature of the Dragon God's strongest attack. The world consciousness intervened, but the Dragon God struck back, and the Giant Kun pulled Ren Tao away as the world was consumed by light.

• The Dragon God formed a giant ghost to hold off Ren Tao, while the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger charged into battle against it.
• Ren Tao attacked the Dragon God with rapid spear strikes, but the Dragon God swallowed him and unleashed volleys of Dragon Scale Cutting.
• Ren Tao realized the scales mainly inflicted mental damage and challenged the Dragon God to a battle of minds inside the blood sea pagoda domain.
• The world consciousness appeared and revealed its intent to destroy beings who surpassed the mortal world, while Ren Tao's attack exposed that the Douluo World no longer had a world consciousness.
• The Dragon God's consciousness attacked the world consciousness, and their clash engulfed everything in light as the Giant Kun pulled Ren Tao to safety.

Ren Tao escaped the world consciousness with Giant Kun, gained new powers, and returned to find the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had reached the hundred-thousand-year level. After leaving Slaughter City, Ren Tao met Hu Liena for drinks, where a tavern owner's warning hinted that war was coming.

• Giant Kun explained that the world consciousness had withdrawn after the Dragon God's consciousness was destroyed, then devoured its remaining energy while Ren Tao's abilities grew stronger.
• Giant Kun returned Ren Tao to the Blood River, where the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was fighting Giant Ghost and had grown stronger during Ren Tao's absence.
• Ren Tao and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger emerged after Hu Liena and the Nine-Headed Bat King had waited seven days, and Ren Tao invited them to a tavern.
• Ren Tao told Hu Liena that Tang San was dead and urged her to let go of the past as they shared a toast.
• A tavern owner muttered that war would soon break out, prompting Ren Tao and Hu Liena to demand that he repeat himself.

Ren Tao and Hu Liena learned from tavern owner Ding Shanfeng that war was approaching and that the Spirit Hall Empire faced several threats. The chapter ended with Ren Tao learning that Qian Renxue intended to fight Bibi Dong over who would rule the empire, leaving him to wonder whether an outside force was provoking them.

• Ren Tao and Hu Liena heard Ding Shanfeng explain that Peerless Douluos and merchant movements pointed to an impending war across the continent.
• Ren Tao offered Ding Shanfeng a job managing a port and maritime shipping, and Ding predicted the Spirit Hall Empire would win while warning of three wild cards.
• Ding Shanfeng identified Ren Tao, the Tang Sect, and instability within the Spirit Hall Empire as major factors that could threaten the Empress.
• Xiao Qian told Ren Tao that Qian Renxue planned to go to war with Bibi Dong, and Ren Tao questioned whether an outside force was pushing them to fight.

Ren Tao asked Qian Renxue to delay her confrontation with Bibi Dong until he could help, while he formed a partnership with Ding Shanfeng. Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue began their divine battle as Heaven Dou’s leaders prepared to march against the Spirit Hall Empire at dawn.

• Ren Tao promised Qian Renxue he would find a way to support her, and she agreed to wait.
• Hu Liena tried to recruit Ding Shanfeng, but he declined Spirit Hall and accepted Ren Tao’s offer to inspect the Dock.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other Worships demanded Bibi Dong abdicate, while Bibi Dong waited for Qian Renxue and Hu Liena to return.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue confronted each other in the sky, spoke about Bibi Dong’s ambitions and Qian Renxue’s hopes for Chang'an, and began fighting.
• In Heaven Dou City, the Venerable Envoy ordered the army to march at dawn and requested that the Tang Sect captive be brought along.

Ren Tao and Hu Liena rushed toward Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue as the goddesses’ battle escalated into a struggle between Angel and Rakshasa. The Asura God and Sea God saw an opportunity in the conflict and prepared to recreate Tang San.

• Ren Tao sensed Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue fighting nearby, urged Hu Liena to have confidence in herself, and sped toward the battle with her while the Nine-Headed Bat King followed.
• Bibi Dong noticed Ren Tao’s group disappear from her perception as she and Qian Renxue continued clashing with their divine weapons.
• The goddesses’ battle stirred the divine mechanism and turned into a confrontation between the forces of light and evil, beyond their control.
• Qian Renxue combined her angelic techniques into a concentrated attack, and Bibi Dong answered with a powerful Rakshasa scythe whirlwind that isolated their clash in space-time.
• The Angel God and Rakshasa God exchanged furious insults within the isolated space before their wills collided and vanished, intensifying the goddesses’ battle.
• The Asura God told the Sea God to recreate Tang San, and the Sea God lamented the destruction of their plans.

Ren Tao reached Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue’s battlefield, where he clashed with a Rakshasa phantom and successfully devoured some of its divine power. Qian Renxue used the opening to destroy another phantom and force the duel into a brief pause, while Ren Tao disappeared at the battlefield’s center.

• Ren Tao brought Hu Liena and the weakened Nine-Headed Bat King closer to Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue’s battle through Parallel Space.
• Ren Tao spotted Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong fighting fiercely, and the Nine-Headed Bat King explained that their opposing divine powers drove them to fight to the death.
• When Rakshasa consciousness detected Parallel Space, Ren Tao sent out his Water Element Clone to fight the phantom and bind it with Devouring Golden Threads.
• Ren Tao devoured part of the Rakshasa phantom’s power, while Qian Renxue destroyed another phantom with Angel Light Slash and Angel Hexagram to protect him.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue retreated from each other, pausing their battle, as Hu Liena and the Nine-Headed Bat King appeared atop a huge lotus-shaped structure and Ren Tao vanished.

Ren Tao used the Dragon Blood Illusion Formation to make Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue attack each other by exploiting their deepest desires and emotions. Their divine powers collided, the Angel God and Rakshasa God vanished, and Qian Renxue was left beside the badly wounded but living Bibi Dong.

• Ren Tao formed the Dragon Blood Illusion Formation into a god-level domain that showed Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue visions of what they most desired.
• Ren Tao challenged Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue to fight him, then used illusions, decoys, and Xiao Qian to draw them into battle.
• Qian Renxue unleashed the Angel Holy Sword while Bibi Dong attacked with her Demon Scythe, but their strikes shattered the illusion and revealed each other as their true targets.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue tried to stop their attacks after realizing the truth, but their opposing divine powers collided and the Angel God and Rakshasa God disappeared.
• The Dragon Blood Illusion Formation returned to Ren Tao, while Qian Renxue knelt beside the wounded Bibi Dong, who remained alive.

Bibi Dong appointed Hu Liena as Pope and Qian Renxue as Empress, while Ren Tao helped Qian Renxue set aside her anger before returning toward the sea. The World Seed warned that war might begin early and urged Ren Tao to avoid Sea God Island, leaving him alarmed about what had happened there.

• Bibi Dong named Hu Liena the next Pope and Qian Renxue her successor as Empress, but Qian Renxue rejected the offer and left with Ren Tao.
• Hu Liena asked Bibi Dong to rescind the decree, but Bibi Dong insisted she accept the responsibility and lead the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Ren Tao gave Qian Renxue a sugar figurine and cheered her up by promising to open a dessert shop after the war.
• Ren Tao returned to the sea, where the World Seed warned that variables might bring the coming war ahead of schedule.
• Ren Tao asked about combining Kunpeng's inheritance with the World Seed, but the World Seed had no clear answer and advised him to avoid Sea God Island.
• Ren Tao felt a wave of panic and asked what had happened on Sea God Island.

Ren Tao discovered that Sea God Island and its inhabitants had vanished, then sought the world seed’s legacy to gain the power to save the Sea Witch. As he began the world’s judgment, Divine Power helped him recognize that his companions shared his ideals and that he was not alone.

• Ren Tao found Sea God Island gone and learned from Hu Dong and the others that Xin Luo had mentioned a way to reach the mainland and the Merfolk’s disappearance.
• Ren Tao told the sea soul beasts to stop searching, gather together, and avoid acting rashly before he used Spatial Jump to reach the world seed.
• The world seed warned Ren Tao that receiving the world’s knowledge would subject him to the world’s judgment, where failure meant he would cease to exist.
• The world seed recreated Ren Tao’s life in the Imperial Capital, where Divine Power explained that knowledge mattered more than power and asked whether Ren Tao agreed.
• Divine Power showed Ren Tao a vision of his companions sharing the life he hoped to build, while Sea God Island’s disappearance marked the end of the Sea God’s era.

Ren Tao completed the World Prototype by linking an immense network of evolutionary paths, while the Giant Kun asked to make it its home. As the World Seed faded away, the Divine Realm appeared, and Ren Tao and the Giant Kun prepared to face its projection.

• The World Seed showed Ren Tao the evolution of life and revealed how he could connect countless evolutionary paths into an independent world's framework.
• Ren Tao recognized that his new power had created a World Prototype, and the Giant Kun asked for a place in it as its home.
• The World Seed withered into an ordinary stone and disappeared among the seabed stones.
• A vast storm revealed that the joint seal of the Five Great God Kings had broken, and the Asura God urged the Divine Realm to kill Ren Tao.
• Ren Tao faced the Divine Realm Projection as the Giant Kun gathered strength for an attack, but a greater will appeared in Ren Tao's consciousness.

Ren Tao faced the world consciousness’s inheritance trial, escaped its attempt to trap him in a distorted life, and challenged the rules governing the Douluo World with three questions. His final question caused the world consciousness to vanish, leaving the countdown to the ending underway.

• The world consciousness sealed off the space-time around Ren Tao and subjected him to a trial that made him relive a childhood in which he learned that rules could define correctness.
• The world consciousness forced Ren Tao to experience the soul beasts’ suffering through Tang San’s victories, but Ren Tao rejected the idea that power made injustice right.
• Ren Tao escaped the nightmare and deduced that the world consciousness was constrained by the rules it embodied.
• Ren Tao asked whether the world or living beings came first and what time was, arguing that time measured evolution toward what was right.
• The world consciousness insisted that Ren Tao ask his third question, and he asked whether its creator knew it was destroying the world.
• An invisible force pulled the world consciousness away, and the countdown to the ending began.

Ren Tao and the Giant Kun exploited the World Consciousness’s imprisonment to pull the Divine Realm toward the mortal world, while the gods tried to stop them. After clashing with the God of Destruction and rejecting the Evil God’s offer, Ren Tao attacked the Asura God as the Divine Realm continued to sink.

• The Giant Kun told Ren Tao that the World Consciousness had been imprisoned and that the world’s rules were spiraling out of control, causing the Divine Realm to sink and illusion and reality to reverse.
• Ren Tao learned that the Abyss could not emerge, then joined the Giant Kun in breaking lightning chains and pulling the Divine Realm down with a gray chain.
• The God of Destruction struck at Ren Tao, who blocked the attack and taunted him as the Divine Realm sank further.
• The Goddess of Life and the Evil God urged Ren Tao to stop, but he negotiated over his grudges against the Asura God and the Sea God.
• The Asura God attacked Ren Tao with the Asura Blood Sword, and Ren Tao used World Destruction’s second form, Eternal Wound, to open a starry rift before the Divine Realm.

Ren Tao reached Sea God Island and discovered that the Sea God had sacrificed its inhabitants to build a forbidden-power trap. As Ren Tao and the Sea God clashed, Ren Tao realized the Sea God’s scheme extended beyond the island, while the Sea Witch and Bo Saixi’s fates remained unresolved.

• The Goddess of Kindness agreed to tell Ren Tao where Sea God Island was, and the Giant Kun stayed behind to watch over Shui Ling'er and the others.
• Ren Tao entered the blood-red barrier around Sea God Island and found a barren realm and the remains of the Merfolk's home.
• The Sea God revealed that he had sacrificed Sea God Island's followers and used forbidden power to set a trap for Ren Tao.
• The Sea God guessed that Ren Tao cared deeply for the Sea Witch, prompting Ren Tao to demand that the Sea God hand over her and Bo Saixi.
• Ren Tao destroyed the Sea God's phantom trident and bound him with water chains, while the Sea God's forbidden-power rings ensnared Ren Tao in return.

Ren Tao escaped the Sea God's attempt to kill him by using the Time Chain, whose evolutionary power let him age and decay the Sea God into a reef. After the Sea Witch joined Ren Tao, Bo Saixi revealed that the Sea God's blood ritual had created another Tang San.

• The Sea God sealed Ren Tao's powers and threatened to kill Bo Saixi, the Sea Witch, and Tang Chen unless Ren Tao surrendered.
• The Sea God shattered Ren Tao, but Ren Tao regenerated as the Time Chain rewound the scene and freed the captives.
• Ren Tao used the Time Chain to accelerate time within the Sea God, causing his body to decay and become overrun by sea creatures.
• Ren Tao explained that the Sea God's past abuses had caught up with him, while the Sea Witch admitted she had wanted to visit the mainland and discussed a dessert business with Ren Tao.
• Bo Saixi interrupted Ren Tao and the Sea Witch to reveal that the Sea God's blood ritual had created another Tang San.

After the Sea God’s defeat, Ren Tao returned to the continent and learned that Tang San had revived and war was gathering around Jialing Pass. He promised Qian Renxue he would disrupt the Heaven Dou Empire’s advance, then flew toward it to seek Tang San.

• Ren Tao asked Tang Chen and Bo Saixi about their plans, and the Sea Witch took Bo Saixi to Purple Pearl Island.
• Ren Tao returned to the Giant Kun, learned that the missing people and belongings might have been processed for energy, and left it guarding Shui Ling’er and the Evil Spirit Orcas.
• Ren Tao arrived near Xilu City and saw beacon smoke and several armies marching toward Jialing Pass.
• Qian Renxue told Ren Tao that Tang San had revived, attacked cities along the Heaven Dou Empire’s borders, and was avoiding her while the Shrek Five Monsters and Yu Xiaogang joined the enemy forces.
• Ren Tao told Qian Renxue he had executed the Sea God and promised to disrupt the Heaven Dou Empire’s march before flying toward its forces.

Ren Tao confronted Asura God, who used Ning Fengzhi and Yu Xiaogang to provoke the Heaven Dou army and cloud Ren Tao’s divine sense. Ren Tao used the Buddha’s Fury Tang Lotus to kill over a hundred soldiers, then approached the flame knight and asked how they would fight.

• Ren Tao reached the Heaven Dou army and landed on the golden carriage carrying Ning Fengzhi, Yu Xiaogang, and the flame-marked knight controlled by Asura God.
• Asura God urged the others to kill Ren Tao and revealed that Xue Beng was an actor, while Ning Fengzhi and Yu Xiaogang were rendered unable to move or speak.
• The army, Ning Fengzhi, and Yu Xiaogang were driven to attack Ren Tao, and the massed blood vitality and thoughts of the soldiers disrupted his divine mechanism.
• Ren Tao escaped into the air and released a Buddha’s Fury Tang Lotus, prompting the Shrek Five Monsters and Tang Family Army disciples to recognize the danger and flee.
• The Tang Lotus killed over a hundred Heaven Dou soldiers, and Marshal Ge Long halted the army’s advance after Ren Tao said he sought only a personal grudge.
• Ren Tao approached the flame knight and asked how they would fight, and the knight challenged him to kill Yu Xiaogang and enter a sea of blood.

Ren Tao confronted the Asura God inside Trinity Asura Purgatory and killed him after foiling his escape. Ren Tao concluded that the ritual was a three god sacrifice, but the White-Haired Woman’s ultimate purpose remained unknown.

• Ren Tao entered Trinity Asura Purgatory by possessing Yu Xiaogang, while preserving a wisp of his divine soul as leverage with Bibi Dong.
• Ren Tao told the Asura God that a dual god sacrifice was meant to recreate Tang San, and the Asura God grew fearful that he was only a pawn.
• The Asura God attacked Ren Tao, then detonated his divine domain and tried to escape by transferring into Ning Fengzhi.
• Ren Tao’s Time Chain trapped the Asura God in Yu Xiaogang’s body, and Ren Tao snapped his neck.
• Ren Tao realized the ritual was a three god sacrifice and wondered what the White-Haired Woman had ultimately intended.

Ren Tao defeated the Asura God and confronted the transformed Tang San, who confirmed he was a cosmic being and challenged Ren Tao to discover the truth within seven days. Tang San then reshaped the world around Ren Tao, leaving him reborn as an unschooled child in a mountain family.

• Xiao Qian told Qian Renxue and the enshrined elders that Ren Woxing had killed the Asura God, shocking them with the news that a God King had fallen.
• Ren Tao ordered Ning Fengzhi to send the Heaven Dou army toward Jialing Pass, warned the Shrek Five Monsters they would answer for the Evil Spirit Orca Group, and left the battlefield.
• Ren Tao learned from Yu Xiaogang's divine soul that Tang San was waiting with Xue Beng, then tracked them to a town near Jialing Pass.
• Ren Tao met Tang San by a campfire, and Tang San confirmed that a cosmic being had descended into the world through him.
• Tang San gave Ren Tao seven days to find the answer before he unleashed a slaughter, then revealed his immense form and altered the world's laws around them.
• Ren Tao became a child born into a family deep in the mountains, and he recognized the life as possibly the one he had glimpsed in the divine mechanism's vision of the White-Haired Woman.

Ren Tao witnessed Xiao Ji and Liu Xiang’s tragic bond, from their years of killing together to Liu Xiang’s sacrifice and Xiao Ji’s rise to godlike power. Xiao Ji created the Douluo World, divided his existence, and made himself a Soul Beast so he could atone for harming Liu Xiang across generations.

• Xiao Ji met Liu Xiang, and the two grew up slaughtering creatures together as they developed their powers.
• When Xiao Ji carved his fifth leaf, he declared that his curse required him to kill the person he cherished most, and he and Liu Xiang fought to the brink of death.
• Xiao Ji confessed that he cherished Liu Xiang, but she sacrificed her life and soul to fulfill his wish to escape the death zone.
• Liu Xiang’s red companion leaves turned Xiao Ji’s curses into blessings, and he eventually reached level one hundred and became the sovereign of wind and fire.
• Xiao Ji created a world and combined Liu Xiang’s divine soul imprint with his genes to create noble humans, while making himself a Soul Beast; the Douluo World was born.