Chapter Summaries

Su Mo explained to Zi Zhenzhu and the pirates that the God Realm opposed Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire unifying Douluo Continent because unity could threaten the Gods’ power and interests. Zi Zhenzhu was shaken by his account of the Gods as shepherds who treated humanity like property.

• Su Mo told Zi Zhenzhu that Spirit Hall was helping the Heaven Dou Empire unify Douluo Continent so it could later improve ordinary people’s lives, but the God Realm stood in their way.
• Zi Zhenzhu and the pirates questioned why the Gods would oppose unity, and Su Mo challenged their beliefs by exposing flaws in Sea God Poseidon’s legends about the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• Su Mo explained that the God Realm feared a unified Douluo Continent could develop powerful Soul Tools and reduce the Gods’ control over people’s faith.
• Su Mo argued that Sea God Poseidon especially opposed unity because it could threaten his influence over the Endless Sea.
• Zi Zhenzhu fell silent, shaken by Su Mo’s explanation that the Gods treated humanity like sheep whose well-being mattered only when it served their interests.

Su Mo invited Zi Zhenzhu and the Purple Pearl Pirate Group to join Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire, assuring them that he could stand against the God Realm and that their families would be protected. Zi Zhenzhu remained hesitant over her responsibility to the group, while its members split between those willing to join and veteran pirates who wanted to preserve their freedom.

• Zi Zhenzhu asked Su Mo what Spirit Hall would do if the God Realm opposed its plan to unify the continent, and Su Mo said he had already defeated powerful gods and revealed that he had helped destroy Sea God Island.
• Su Mo invited Zi Zhenzhu to join Spirit Hall and suggested she could become the Goddess of Water, but she hesitated because the Purple Pearl Pirate Group still depended on her leadership.
• Su Mo offered to let the entire group join, promising that the Heaven Dou Empire would care for their families and compensate them if they died in battle.
• Many pirates who had been driven to piracy by noble oppression supported joining Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire to fight for commoners.
• Most veteran pirates stayed silent because they secretly plundered commoners and wanted to keep their current way of life.

Zi Zhenzhu agreed to join Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire, while many of her trusted followers chose to go with her. Su Mo revealed that he knew the pirates’ pasts, and Wang Heizi’s panicked response exposed his role in a massacre, leaving Zi Zhenzhu angry and sorrowful.

• Zi Zhenzhu accepted Su Mo’s invitation and asked the pirates who shared her goals to join her.
• Many of Zi Zhenzhu’s trusted followers stood up to follow her, while most of the remaining pirates claimed they wanted to stay at sea and help common people.
• Zi Zhenzhu asked Su Mo to release the pirates who refused to join, but Su Mo said he knew their pasts and would judge them by their deeds.
• Su Mo explained that he had learned each pirate’s history and would not spare those who had secretly committed crimes.
• Su Mo questioned Wang Heizi about the massacre on Kongming Island, and Wang Heizi blurted out that Lü Shihan had committed it.
• Zi Zhenzhu accused Wang Heizi of deceiving her and realized she had shielded wicked pirates for years.

Su Mo exposed Wang Heizi, Lü Shihan, and the other captured Purple Pearl pirates as murderers and punished them, while Zi Zhenzhu accepted that their crimes were not her fault. After surviving pirates agreed to join, Su Mo introduced Zi Zhenzhu to Shui Bing'er and Xiao Bai, revealing that the Demon Soul Great White Shark King had sided with him after Sea God Island’s destruction.

• Wang Heizi and Lü Shihan blamed Zi Zhenzhu for their crimes, but Su Mo reassured her that they alone were responsible.
• Su Mo used his Death Domain to erode the guilty pirates into skeletons and scatter their remains into the sea.
• Some of Zi Zhenzhu’s followers who had committed no evil survived, then agreed to join Su Mo after witnessing his power.
• Shui Bing'er asked whether Zi Zhenzhu would join them, and Su Mo introduced the two women.
• Xiao Bai praised Zi Zhenzhu’s talent and ideals, and Su Mo revealed that Xiao Bai had followed Sea God Poseidon before joining him after Sea God Island was destroyed.

Su Mo helped Zi Zhenzhu become a Titled Douluo, then traveled across the Endless Sea with her and Shui Bing'er, raising both women to Limit Douluo while gathering Spirit Bones. Meanwhile, the Anti-Spirit Hall Faction struggled to find candidates for First Level God trials, with only Yu Tianheng qualifying for the God of Thunder’s Nine Trials.

• Su Mo sent the Purple Pearl Pirate Group and their families to the Heaven Dou Empire, then returned to sea with Shui Bing'er and Zi Zhenzhu.
• Zi Zhenzhu chose three hundred-thousand-year Sea Soul Beasts as Soul Spirits, and her Sea Viper Martial Soul evolved into a dragon-like Martial Soul as her cultivation reached the Titled Douluo realm.
• Over the next half year, Su Mo, Shui Bing'er, and Zi Zhenzhu hunted Sea Soul Beasts that defied the Sea Soul Beast Council or disrupted the Endless Sea, and Su Mo used their power to raise both women to rank ninety-nine.
• Su Mo killed nearly a hundred powerful Sea Soul Beasts and more than a dozen disruptive clans, collecting several hundred ten-thousand-year and hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bones.
• Dark Sword and the other Six Divine Officials led Anti-Spirit Hall Faction geniuses through the trials of fifteen Gods, and Yu Tianheng alone triggered a First Level God’s Nine Trials by qualifying for the God of Thunder’s trial.
• The Six Divine Officials accepted that the First Level Gods would not lower their standards further after the God Realm Committee had already urged them to ease their trials.

Su Mo returned to Heaven Dou Imperial City with Shui Bing'er and Zi Zhenzhu after helping them reach the peak of Limit Douluo and beginning efforts to spread faith in them as goddesses. Their arrival at Skywater Academy revealed Shui Bing'er's immense power, and Shui Linglong asked whether she had truly reached the Limit Douluo realm.

• Su Mo raised Shui Bing'er and Zi Zhenzhu to the peak of Rank 99 Limit Douluo and had the Sea Soul Beast Council spread faith in them as the Ice Goddess and Sea Goddess.
• Su Mo brought Shui Bing'er and Zi Zhenzhu back to Douluo Continent aboard the Black Pearl, then had Zi Ji carry them to Heaven Dou Imperial City in her Hell Demon Dragon form.
• Su Mo flew directly into Heaven Dou Imperial City, where residents recognized him and Shui Bing'er and wondered whether she had become a God.
• Su Mo, Shui Bing'er, and Zi Zhenzhu descended above Skywater Academy as Zi Ji returned to Su Mo's body as his Soul Ring.
• Shui Linglong saw Shui Bing'er flying and asked whether she had reached the Limit Douluo realm.

Su Mo returned to Heaven Dou Imperial City with Shui Bing'er and Zi Zhenzhu, and Shui Bing'er revealed her Limit Douluo cultivation to Skywater Academy. After Su Mo announced that he would unveil the next God Creation Plan candidates in three days, the city's Soul Master forces rushed to seek places for their geniuses.

• Shui Bing'er summoned her Ice Phoenix Spirit and displayed nine Soul Rings, including four 100,000-year rings, stunning Shui Linglong and Skywater Academy's students.
• Shui Linglong asked whether Su Mo had brought Shui Bing'er back to gather faith, and Su Mo confirmed it while introducing Zi Zhenzhu as a future Sea Goddess candidate.
• Su Mo explained that he had spread Shui Bing'er's faith through the Endless Sea and Far North Land, and that Emperor Xue Qinghe would help spread it further.
• Su Mo told Shui Linglong that he would announce the next God Creation Plan candidates at the Spirit Hall in three days, and she agreed to notify Heaven Dou Imperial City's major forces.
• News of Shui Bing'er's power and the coming selection spread throughout Heaven Dou Imperial City, prompting Soul Master factions to seek places for their geniuses.

As factions sought influence over Su Mo’s God Creation Plan, Ning Rongrong learned she had been chosen for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s next spot, while other sects waited to hear their fate. Su Mo opened the next-round presentation in Heaven Dou Imperial City and began announcing how candidates would be selected.

• Factions crowded the Dugu Family, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Blue Tyrant Academy to ask Dugu Bo, Ning Fengzhi, and Liu Erlong to recommend them to Su Mo, but they refused to interfere.
• Ning Rongrong complained that Su Mo had chosen Shui Bing'er first, and Dai Lingxuan explained that Shui Bing'er's ice attribute and access to sea Soul Beasts made her a suitable candidate.
• Ning Fengzhi received a letter announcing that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had one spot in the next round, which would go to Ning Rongrong; after learning why Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo Gu Rong were unsuitable, she accepted.
• Hu YanZhen told the anxious Elephant Armor Sect elders to trust Su Mo's judgment and wait, while other factions also hoped to be considered.
• Three days later, representatives gathered at Awakening Plaza, where Su Mo said candidates would be chosen mainly for Martial Soul attributes and strength and talent, with ties to Spirit Hall also considered.

Su Mo announced the second-round candidates for the God Creation Plan, leaving Feng Xiaotian disappointed but choosing Huo Wu. In Star Luo Imperial City, Dark Sword and the other Six Divine Officials saw an opportunity to recruit overlooked Heaven Dou geniuses for their own divine trials and reported Su Mo’s plan to their chief Gods.

• Su Mo named nine candidates for the next round, including Ning Rongrong, Yu Tianxin, Hu YanZhen, Feng Xingyun, and Huo Wu, but not Feng Xiaotian.
• Feng Wuji reasoned that Su Mo favored the Wind Sword Sect because it had closer ties to Spirit Hall, while Feng Xiaotian felt lost despite being glad Huo Wu had been chosen.
• Su Mo took the candidates to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain soul spirits before planning to help them grow stronger in the Endless Sea.
• Dark Sword and the other Six Divine Officials returned to Star Luo Imperial City and learned about Su Mo’s God Creation Plan.
• The Six Divine Officials considered recruiting Feng Xiaotian and other overlooked or dissatisfied geniuses to attempt the Wind, Ice, and other Gods’ trials.
• Dark Sword and the other Six Divine Officials reported Su Mo’s God Creation Plan to their chief Gods, including the Asura God and Sea God Poseidon.

The God Realm’s leaders dismissed Spirit Hall’s plan to create Gods, believing faith-based ascension would take centuries. Meanwhile, the Divine Officials in Star Luo Imperial City chose Yu Tianheng to help recruit talented candidates for their side, and he agreed.

• Sea God Poseidon told the Divine Kings that Spirit Hall’s attempt to mass-produce Gods would take too long to matter, and Asura God and the others agreed.
• The Divine Officials in Star Luo Imperial City discussed how to recruit geniuses from Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire’s camp.
• Dark Sword and the other Divine Officials chose Yu Tianheng to approach candidates in Heaven Dou Imperial City because he knew them and had ties to Su Mo.
• Dark Sword and the others visited Yu Tianheng at the Thunder God's Chosen Land and explained their plan.
• Yu Tianheng agreed to help recruit candidates so he could better avenge his grandfather, father, and clan.

Yu Tianheng returned to Heaven Dou Imperial City to recruit former acquaintances into the Anti-Spirit Hall Faction and secretly met Ye Lingling. He told her he had good news for the Nine Heart Begonia Clan, but had not yet explained what it was.

• Yu Tianheng recalled fleeing Heaven Dou after Spirit Hall killed his family and his second uncle, Yu Luomian, took control of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• After triggering the Thunder God Nine Trials and reaching Soul Douluo, Yu Tianheng returned to recruit allies against Spirit Hall and his former teacher, Su Mo.
• Yu Tianheng avoided Dugu Yan and other former classmates, then sneaked into the Nine Heart Begonia Clan residence to wait for Ye Lingling.
• Yu Tianheng entered Ye Lingling's room at night, revealed himself, and told her he had something good to share with her clan.

Yu Tianheng tried to recruit Ye Lingling and the Nine Heart Begonia Clan to Star Luo Empire by offering them a chance to inherit the God of Healing, but she refused. After leaving the clan, he set his sights on Feng Xiaotian as his next recruitment target.

• Yu Tianheng told Ye Lingling about his life after leaving Heaven Dou Royal Academy and revealed that Star Luo Empire had gained the God Realm’s support and fifteen God positions.
• Yu Tianheng explained that Star Luo Empire’s divine trials could offer Ye Lingling’s clan a path to godhood and urged them to join.
• Ye Lingling refused, reasoning that her clan had a more reliable opportunity through Spirit Hall’s plans, and warned Yu Tianheng to leave before he was discovered.
• Yu Tianheng left the Nine Heart Begonia Clan and decided to approach Feng Xiaotian, whom he believed he could recruit through Huo Wu.

Feng Xiaotian trained obsessively after Huo Wu was selected for the God Creation Plan, fearing that he would never be worthy of her. Yu Tianheng visited him at Godwind Academy and claimed he could offer him a First Level Godhood, revealing that he served a force beyond the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Feng Xiaotian used his Gale Demon Wolf Consecutive Slashes to destroy an Ironwood mannequin, and Feng Lie praised his progress.
• Feng Lie tried to reassure Feng Xiaotian that Spirit Hall might choose him for a future God Creation Plan slot, but Feng Xiaotian remained convinced he could not match Huo Wu's Fire Godhood.
• After training all day, Feng Xiaotian returned to his dorm and found a cloaked visitor waiting inside.
• Yu Tianheng revealed himself and said he had come to help Feng Xiaotian obtain a First Level Godhood comparable to Huo Wu's.
• Feng Xiaotian challenged Yu Tianheng about his ties to Spirit Hall, and Yu Tianheng replied that the force behind him was no longer the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yu Tianheng recruited Feng Xiaotian to the Star Luo Empire by promising him the Wind God trials and a chance to win Huo Wu's favor. Feng Xiaotian agreed and planned to leave secretly, keeping his choice from his father and Godwind Academy.

• Yu Tianheng told Feng Xiaotian that the God Realm supported the Star Luo Empire and offered him the First Level Wind God position.
• Yu Tianheng persuaded Feng Xiaotian that becoming the Wind God could let him protect Blazing Academy and win Huo Wu's heart.
• Feng Xiaotian met Yu Tianheng in a forest outside Heaven Dou Imperial City, where Yu Tianheng revealed his Soul Douluo cultivation and eight Soul Rings.
• Feng Xiaotian agreed to join the Star Luo Empire if it truly had the Wind Godhood, and Yu Tianheng celebrated recruiting him.
• Feng Xiaotian decided to leave with Yu Tianheng without telling Feng Lie, so his choice would not implicate his family or Godwind Academy if the Star Luo Empire lost.

Yu Tianheng brought Feng Xiaotian to Star Luo Imperial City, where the Six Divine Officials prepared him for the Wind God’s trial and recruited other dissatisfied factions. The group successfully triggered all fifteen remaining divine trials, leaving the Anti-Spirit Hall Faction confident it could overwhelm Spirit Hall and Heaven Dou Empire.

• Yu Tianheng introduced Feng Xiaotian to the Six Divine Officials, and Lingluo told him to wait until the other recruiters returned before taking the Wind God’s trial.
• More sects and clans, especially those in Heaven Dou Empire, joined the Anti-Spirit Hall Faction by relocating or sending their geniuses to Star Luo Imperial City.
• The Six Divine Officials led the recruited geniuses to the remaining God Chosen Lands, where Feng Xiaotian triggered the Wind God Nine Trials and stayed in Hurricane Valley.
• A female Soul Master triggered the God of Healing’s Nine Trials at Emerald Valley, and a Soul Master with a Rock Giant Martial Soul triggered the God of Earth’s Nine Trials.
• The group triggered the God Nine Trials at all fifteen remaining divine sites, prompting the Six Divine Officials and allied factions to celebrate the prospect of gaining fifteen new Gods.
• The Six Divine Officials regretted that Rakshasa God’s and Sea God’s Chosen Lands had been destroyed, but believed their faction could still defeat Spirit Hall and Heaven Dou Empire.

After learning that Anti-Spirit Hall Faction candidates were advancing quickly through their God Trials, Su Mo decided to begin the war before they could become Gods. Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall mobilized their forces, choosing the Balak Kingdom as their first target.

• Su Mo returned to Heaven Dou Imperial City after turning Ning Rongrong, Hu YanZhen, Huo Wu, and others into Limit Douluos and helping them earn the land Soul Beasts’ faith.
• Dai Tianfeng’s report informed Su Mo that several Anti-Spirit Hall Faction geniuses had reached the sixth or seventh stage of their God Trials.
• Su Mo abandoned plans to take his candidates to the Endless Sea and Far North Land, wary that delay would let the opposing candidates complete their trials.
• Su Mo told Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong that the war against the Star Luo Empire and the major kingdoms and duchies could begin.
• Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall mobilized their troops and supplies, and their joint legion set out to attack the Balak Kingdom first.

The Royal Knights launched a rapid campaign to seize the Balak Kingdom, whose position was vital to Heaven Dou’s defense against the Star Luo Empire. After reaching the Barak River, Yan Yao rested his troops, scouted the approach, and prepared to lead them across toward Barak Royal City.

• Qian Renxue addressed the Royal Knights and sent them toward the Gold Iron Mountain Range, where they crossed into the Silves Kingdom and raced across the Barren Gold Plain.
• Yan Yao halted the exhausted Royal Knights at the Barak River so they and their soul spirit mounts could recover before attacking Barak Royal City.
• Yan Yao crossed the river alone to scout a crossing point and the route near Barak Royal City.
• At night, Yan Yao rallied the Royal Knights by reminding them of their imperial duty and promised rewards, then ordered them to cross the river.

Yan Yao led more than five thousand Royal Knights across the Barak River and charged toward Barak Royal City, alerting loyalists along the way. King Xue Song hurriedly organized the city’s defenses and sought outside aid, hoping to hold out until reinforcements arrived.

• Yan Yao led more than five thousand Royal Knights across the Barak River on their soul spirit mounts and charged toward Barak Royal City.
• Loyalists and Soul Masters in towns along the route recognized the Heaven Dou Empire’s Royal Knights and sent warnings to Xue Song.
• Xue Song learned the approaching force was less than a hundred li from the city and raged that the invasion had gone undetected.
• A liaison envoy from the Star Luo Empire urged Xue Song to focus on the crisis, and Xue Song ordered the city’s Royal Knights and defenders to prepare.
• Xue Song asked Barak Royal City’s Anti-Spirit Hall Faction Soul Masters to help defend and sent envoys to the Silves Kingdom and Häagen-Dazs Kingdom for reinforcements.
• Xue Song hoped the city could withstand the Royal Knights until aid arrived, though he knew the neighboring kingdoms would take more than a month to send troops.

Yan Yao led the Heaven Dou Empire’s Soul Controller Knights to Barak Royal City and launched a charge against the Balak Kingdom’s Royal Knights. Their overwhelming strength left Xue Song and his allies facing the decision to enter the battle before the defenders were wiped out.

• Xue Song worried that the Balak Kingdom’s Royal Knights could not withstand the Soul Beast-riding knights and hoped the city’s Soul Master factions would help defend Barak Royal City.
• Yan Yao reached Barak Royal City and found the Balak Kingdom’s Royal Knights deployed outside its gates, with defenders on the walls.
• Yan Yao ordered the Soul Controller Knights to charge, and his Scarlet Flame Demon Tiger burned and scattered the enemy knights.
• The Soul Controller Knights tore through the Balak Kingdom’s formation while Xue Song watched the one-sided slaughter from the city walls.
• The Soul Master faction leaders realized they had to intervene immediately, before the Balak Kingdom’s Royal Knights were wiped out.

Soul Master families and academies joined the battle outside Barak Royal City, where Yan Yao and the Scarlet Flame Demon Tiger killed Tie Shan and clashed with the attackers. Dragon Duke Meng Shu, Serpent Granny Chao Tianxiang, and their allies arrived to confront the Soul Masters intervening in the war.

• Soul Saint- and Soul Douluo-level academy heads and family patriarchs leaped from Barak Royal City's walls in their Martial Soul Avatar forms and led their followers into battle against the Royal Knights.
• Yan Yao warned his knights to avoid the powerful Soul Masters, then watched the Iron Armor Rhinoceros Soul Sage Tie Shan charge at him.
• The Scarlet Flame Demon Tiger dodged Tie Shan's charge, burned and stunned him, and let Yan Yao kill him with a lance thrust through his eyes.
• The other enemy Soul Masters began attacking ordinary Royal Knights, while the Iron Arm Demon Bear Soul Sage held Yan Yao back.
• Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Serpent Granny Chao Tianxiang arrived with the Dragon Serpent Family and allies, declaring that the intervening Soul Masters had violated the rules of the Soul Master World.