Chapter Summaries

The Celestial Screen revealed how Ye Wuhen became the leading suspect in the plague that destroyed Nuoding City, while the major powers feared his return. Hidden near the battlefield, Ye Wuhen plotted to make a dramatic rescue and spread his grandfather's name.

• Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall scholars compared plague records and identified Tang San and Ye Wuhen as suspects, though Ye Wuhen's disappearance and return made him seem the likeliest source.
• The scholars concluded that Ye Wuhen had probably been the plague's first infected person and spreader.
• Bi Shuo urged the Forest King to help hunt Ye Wuhen, but Xiong Jun dismissed the humans and demanded that they hand Ye Wuhen over.
• Ye Wuhen watched the confrontation from the Star Dou Great Forest, hidden among Blue Silver Grass and beside the remains of the Ten-Thousand-Year Emerald Swan.
• Ye Wuhen decided he might rescue the humans at a crucial moment and spread his grandfather's name across the continent.

Qian Daoliu mistook Ye Wuhen for an evil god's inheritor and resolved to eliminate him, while Bi Shuo endured mysterious whispers amid the doomed expedition. As Ye Wuhen prepared to unleash Grandfather's Nurgle Daemon Army, two Blue Bird-masked figures and a golden baby dragon appeared behind him.

• Qian Daoliu concluded that Grandfather and Khorne were evil gods and decided Ye Wuhen must be killed before he could become a god.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Bi Shuo that their expedition would likely die after a hundred-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear ruined their retreat plan.
• Bi Shuo heard whispers condemning him as imperfect, then came back to himself, confused by his momentary lapse.
• The Sons of Glory searched for Ye Wuhen while fear and disorder grew among the survivors in the trenches.
• Ye Wuhen prepared to summon Grandfather's Nurgle Daemon Army, but two Blue Bird-masked people and a wary golden baby dragon appeared behind him.

Ye Wuhen rejected the masked pair’s attempt to bargain for his absence from the Far North, then provoked the battlefield’s Soul Beasts with the Emerald Swan’s remains. As Xiong Jun struck at him, Ye Wuhen announced Grandfather’s blessing over the battlefield.

• Ye Wuhen demanded the golden dragon, but its masked owner refused, saying it was his Martial Soul and family.
• The shorter Blue Bird offered Ye Wuhen three figurines in exchange for staying away from the Far North, but Ye Wuhen accepted the dolls while insisting he still wanted the dragon, the Far North, and to sacrifice humans and Soul Beasts.
• The two Blue Birds fled as Ye Wuhen’s Blue Silver Grass attacked, and Ye Wuhen decided he would visit the Far North after the battle.
• Ye Wuhen threw the Emerald Swan’s remains into the battlefield, enraging Xiong Jun, who attacked him with a dark-golden claw strike.
• As dust rose from Xiong Jun’s blow, Ye Wuhen declared the Sevenfold blessings and called the assembled humans and Soul Beasts ignorant children.

Ye Wuhen summoned his Nurgle Daemon Army to battle the Soul Beast tide, turning the battlefield into a plague-ridden clash while Bi Shuo prepared to attack the survivors. Elsewhere, Yu Tiansheng revealed he had manipulated events to direct Ye Wuhen toward the Soul Beasts, and the Clear Sky Sect’s reinforcements arrived demanding to know who had disturbed their ancestors’ graves.

• Ye Wuhen summoned the Great Unclean One and unleashed his infected army through six Soul Ring portals against Xiong Jun, the Titan Giant Ape, and the Sky Azure Bull Python.
• The plague spread through the beast tide, quickly killing weaker Soul Beasts as the Great Unclean One fought the three powerful beasts.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo worried that the Infected might spread the plague, while Bi Shuo drew his purple sword and prepared to attack the survivors.
• Yu Tiansheng and Yu Tianming removed their masks, and Yu Tiansheng explained that he had steered Ye Wuhen toward the Soul Beasts to make them the conflict’s biggest losers.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s reinforcements arrived and demanded to know who had disturbed their ancestral graves.

Ning Fengzhi and the other factions reacted to the Four Gods and the chaos shown on the Celestial Screen, weighing alliances and the dangers posed by Ye Wuhen. The screen then showed a host of forces reaching the battlefield, where Yu Tianming realized his younger brother had dug up their own clan’s ancestral graves.

• Ning Fengzhi concluded that Nurgle and Khorne were likely evil gods and proposed coordinating with the Upper Three Sects, the Heaven Dou emperor, and Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi considered using Yu Tiansheng’s and Dugu Feng’s connections to the Four Gods to benefit their factions.
• Yu Yuanzhen celebrated Yu Tiansheng’s connection to Tzeentch but worried about how disrespectfully the boy spoke of his god.
• Qian Daoliu worried that Dugu Feng might be chosen by an evil god, while Bibi Dong regretted not rescuing Bi Shuo sooner.
• The Celestial Screen showed forces from several sects and kingdoms arriving at the battlefield, and Yu Tianming confronted his younger brother about digging up their own ancestral graves.

The factions gathered in the Star Dou Great Forest to confront the grave robbers, only to find a beast tide and a chaotic battle already underway. Yu Tianming discovered that his younger brother Yu Tiansheng had robbed the graves to prevent Ye Wuhen from using the corpses, then beat him for the future trouble he would bring the clan before their elders intervened.

• Nine days earlier, mysterious grave robbers desecrated ancestral tombs across the continent and left a challenge directing the factions to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The angry factions entered the forest, where they encountered fleeing Soul Masters and a beast tide; Yu Luomian and the others charged toward the fighting.
• Yu Tianming confronted Yu Tiansheng about robbing their clan's graves and the Dugu Family's graves, and Yu Tiansheng claimed he had acted to stop Ye Wuhen from sacrificing Soul Beasts and using the corpses.
• Yu Tianming struck Yu Tiansheng with a black lightning whip for his future misdeeds until Yu Yuanzhen stopped him and reminded him that the boy had not done them yet.
• Yu Luomian carried the crying Yu Tiansheng away for treatment, while the brothers silently acknowledged that Yu Tiansheng had asked for the beating but Yu Tianming had intended to hit him regardless.

Lü Fengxian led the Heaven Dou Empire’s Trapped Formation Camp into the battle against infected fighters and soul beasts, inspiring several factions to join the fray. Watching from the imperial palace, Xue Ye recognized Lü as his adopted son and ordered a search for him, while Qian Renxue concealed her surprise.

• Yang Wudi urged the gathered factions to attack the infected, while Gui Mei led Spirit Hall reinforcements toward Chrysanthemum Douluo and Bi Shuo.
• Lü Fengxian charged into battle with the Trapped Formation Camp, and Yang Wudi, the Ye patriarch, Dugu Bo, and Meng Shenji followed with their people.
• Lü fought through the melee with his Fang Tian Painted Halberd, killing infected and ten-thousand-year soul beasts.
• Xue Ye watched Lü’s actions on the Celestial Screen, declared him his adopted son, and ordered people to find him.
• Qian Renxue congratulated Xue Ye, who imagined Lü returning to him and hoped Lü and the crown prince could preserve the empire.

On the Celestial Screen, Xiong Jun charged the Great Unclean One alone and began tearing into and eating its flesh, while his body shifted between green and blood-red. As the Ferocious Beasts mocked and watched, the Sky Azure Bull Python tried to pull the Titan Giant Ape away from the humans, but a threatening voice stopped them.

• Prince Xue Xing celebrated the appearance of Lü Fengxian and Tian Qingyue as two geniuses, but still feared the Heaven Dou Empire was doomed.
• The human army pushed back the beasts and Infected while the Titan Giant Ape, Sky Azure Bull Python, and Xiong Jun battled the Great Unclean One.
• Xiong Jun grew furious at the humans' greed and the Great Unclean One's resilience, then knocked the other two Soul Beasts aside and challenged the monster to fight him alone.
• Xiong Jun pinned the Great Unclean One and tore into its flesh as his fur and body alternated between green and blood-red; Yu Tiansheng panicked that the scene disrupted his plan.
• The Scarlet King mocked Xiong Jun for eating the Great Unclean One, and the Ferocious Beasts laughed while Di Tian silently watched the Celestial Screen.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python tried to lead the Titan Giant Ape toward the human crowd, but a voice warned them that they were toys it had chosen.

Ye Wuhen subdued the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python with the Blue Silver Emperor’s help, then left to confront Tang San and other old acquaintances. As the battle turned against the Soul Beasts, Yu Tiansheng sought reinforcements while Yu Tianming wondered how often this kind of conflict would repeat in the millennia to come.

• Ye Wuhen used the Blue Silver Emperor’s Blue Silver Grass to bind and drain the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python, then sent them to the Garden of Nurgle.
• Ye Wuhen sensed Tang San and other old friends, left to meet them, and human Soul Masters rushed to claim the weakened Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts’ Soul Rings and Soul Bones.
• Yu Tiansheng urged Khorne to take Xiong Jun from Nurgle, then summoned Golden Tangerine and demanded that Tzeentch send him to the heart of the Lake of Life.
• Yu Tiansheng entered the vortex gate, leaving Yu Tianming to watch the humans and daemon army push back the Soul Beasts as two deities fought over Xiong Jun.
• Yu Tianming wondered how far Yu Tiansheng’s eyes had seen and reflected that similar battles would recur countless times in the millennia ahead.

Qian Daoliu resolved to keep Dugu Feng safe and prepare Qian Renxue to become the Angel God. At the Star Dou Great Forest, Yu Tiansheng convinced Di Tian to strike down the transformed Xiong Jun, whose soul ring then shattered.

• Qian Daoliu decided that Qian Renxue should pursue her divine trial immediately and that Dugu Feng should avoid Slaughter City and stay under his protection.
• Di Tian failed to reach Xiong Jun through soul power transmissions as Xiong Jun and two other powerful soul beasts remained beyond his control.
• Yu Tiansheng arrived at the Lake of Life and urged Di Tian to kill Xiong Jun, invoking secrets about the Dragon God and the Divine Realm.
• A weak voice addressed Di Tian as its lord and ordered him to kill Xiong Jun and bring Yu Tiansheng before it.
• Di Tian struck Xiong Jun with the Dragon God Claw, shattering his body and leaving behind a soul ring and soul bone.
• Xiong Jun's soul ring shifted through several colors before it shattered.

Yu Tiansheng told Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts that the Divine Realm had fallen and that the Chaos Gods were claiming their souls. He explained that four ancient gods had cast the Divine Realm away, but admitted he did not know what had happened since.

• Yu Tiansheng ordered Di Tian to kill the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python, and Di Tian obeyed, then destroyed the beasts’ Soul Bones.
• Di Tian ordered the Myriad Demon King to withdraw the beast tide and demanded that Yu Tiansheng meet a supreme being, but Yu Tiansheng refused and warned that the Silver Dragon King could fall prey to the Chaos Gods.
• Yu Tiansheng told the Ferocious Beasts that the Divine Realm was gone and that they were all listed as targets whose souls might be stolen and transformed after death.
• Bi Ji asked whether the Chaos Gods would take and alter their souls, while the Scarlet King dismissed Yu Tiansheng’s claims and challenged his credibility.
• Yu Tiansheng described the four Chaos Gods—Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle, and Slaanesh—and said they had joined forces to cast away the Divine Realm.

Di Tian considered leading the Soul Beasts to conquer the continent after learning the Divine Realm had fallen, but Yu Tiansheng exposed his thoughts and warned him of the Silver Dragon King's predetermined death. Yu Tiansheng then tried to leave, while Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts demanded he reveal everything he knew.

• Di Tian planned to unite the Star Dou Great Forest's Ferocious Beasts with the sea Soul Beasts and seize control of the continent.
• Yu Tiansheng revealed that he had anticipated Di Tian's ambitions and said the Golden Dragon King had become the four Chaos Gods' puppet.
• Yu Tiansheng declared that the Silver Dragon King would die at the Golden Dragon King's hands and urged her to prepare the Soul Beasts for their future.
• Di Tian attacked Yu Tiansheng with Soul Power, but Scarlet King and Bi Ji restrained him and protected Yu Tiansheng.
• Yu Tiansheng mentioned the Dragon Kings' current situations and said he would explain the Dragon God's death another time.
• When Yu Tiansheng tried to leave, Di Tian demanded that he tell them everything he knew.

Yu Luomian and Qian Daoliu reacted to the future Yu Tiansheng had revealed, with Qian Daoliu fearing for the Angel God’s legacy and Spirit Hall. In the sky-screen scene, Yu Tiansheng refused to meet the Silver Dragon King yet, sent her warnings through Di Tian, and demanded supplies from the Star Dou Great Forest before leaving.

• Yu Luomian worried about Yu Tiansheng’s future audacity, then hoped his cleverness could protect the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan despite recalling his threat to dig up its ancestral graves.
• Qian Daoliu feared that the Divine Realm’s disappearance would prevent Qian Renxue from becoming the Angel God, and he collapsed after his faith faltered.
• Qian Daoliu warned Dugu Feng not to follow Khorne as he apparently had in the future, and worried about the fate of Spirit Hall and the Angel God’s people.
• Yu Tiansheng told Di Tian that he would meet the Silver Dragon King later, warned her against investigating strange things, and asked Di Tian to relay his message.
• The Silver Dragon King asked Yu Tiansheng to bring more information next time, and Di Tian offered him ten Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Yu Tiansheng demanded more Soul Bones, rare herbs, Gold of Life, and that the Great Forest preserve the Big Fat Silkworm for him.

After the Great Unclean One survived the Soul Masters’ attacks, Beast God Di Tian destroyed it with a series of dragon-claw strikes. The battle ended with Yu Tiansheng giving Di Tian intelligence about the Chaos Gods and sending him away.

• The beast tide retreated after three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and other powerful fighters were killed, but the humans saw that the Great Unclean One and the “Blue Silver Emperor” had survived.
• Dugu Bo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, Bone Douluo, and other Soul Masters attacked the Great Unclean One, but it shrugged off their Soul Skills and recovered from its wounds.
• A dark-gold dragon claw struck the Great Unclean One twice, killing the “Blue Silver Emperor” and knocking the monster down.
• Beast God Di Tian unleashed a final, empowered dragon-claw attack that tore the Great Unclean One apart and made it dissipate into green light.
• Yu Tiansheng introduced Di Tian to Yu Tianming and gave Di Tian a Brocade Pouch containing intelligence about the Chaos Gods before sending him away.

Yu Tiansheng gave Yu Tianming supplies and instructions to prepare for humanity’s coming crises, while planning to contain Ye Wuhen and establish a secret army. He named that army the Ranger Knights and parted from his brother with hope that humanity might endure.

• Yu Tiansheng confirmed Di Tian had left, then thanked Yu Tianming and explained that he would travel to the Far North to keep Ye Wuhen in check.
• Yu Tiansheng gave Yu Tianming a pouch containing an immortal-herb redemption code and cultivation instructions, plus a soul tool holding soul bones, manuals, and a herb guide.
• Yu Tiansheng urged Yu Tianming to take Dugu Bo’s herbs and form a secret army, while dismissing Spirit Hall, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the Clear Sky Sect as unreliable allies.
• Di Tian watched the sky screen and reconsidered an alliance with humanity, doubting whether the human powers could be trusted.
• Yu Tiansheng warned Yu Tianming that humanity would eventually perish in the gods’ game, but the brothers agreed that hope remained.
• Yu Tiansheng named the secret army the Ranger Knights before saying goodbye to Yu Tianming.

Xue Ye planned to recruit Lü Fengxian to strengthen Heaven Dou, while Qian Renxue secretly intended to lure him and his army to Spirit Hall. At the Star Dou Great Forest, Ye Wuhen confronted Tang San and Flender, surrounding them with plague monsters and demanding Tang San choose between surrender and sacrificing Flender.

• Xue Ye praised 'Xue Qinghe's' idea to find Lü Fengxian and have him train a new army, then urged the crown prince to treat Lü well.
• Qian Renxue privately resolved to recruit Lü Fengxian and his army for Spirit Hall.
• At the Star Dou Great Forest entrance, Ye Wuhen confronted Li Ji and Ximen Yun, who fled by using Li Ji's Twin Martial Souls and left Yu Xiaogang in their sack.
• Flender arrived with Tang San, recognized Ye Wuhen as the culprit behind the plague, and prepared to fight while urging Tang San to escape with Yu Xiaogang.
• Ye Wuhen summoned plague monsters, taunted Tang San about his past sacrifice of a Soul Douluo, and displayed the head injury Uncle Tang had once inflicted on him.

Ning Fengzhi learned that Li Ji possessed twin martial souls and a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, then discussed how the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect might find and train him. In the Celestial Screen, Ye Wuhen tormented Yu Xiaogang and Flender before Tang San attacked him with hidden weapons and Blue Silver Entanglement.

• Ning Fengzhi recovered from his shock as Chen Xin slapped him, and Gu Rong reassured him that the Celestial Screen gave the sect a chance to change its fate.
• Ning Fengzhi said he suspected Li Ji was an unregistered illegitimate child of a Ning clan member, while Chen Xin urged him to restrain the clansmen's behavior.
• Ye Wuhen revived Yu Xiaogang by yanking at his rotten body, then taunted Tang San and said Tang San's mother had exploded again.
• Ye Wuhen noticed strange growth and decay around Yu Xiaogang's flesh and suspected that four gods were watching Tang San.
• Ye Wuhen subdued Flender with Blue Silver Grass and stomped on him as Tang San removed his mask and attacked with Dragon Whisker Needles and other hidden weapons.
• Tang San unleashed his two soul skills, including Blue Silver Entanglement, against Ye Wuhen.

Ye Wuhen withstood Tang San’s poisoned hidden weapons and revealed that Tang Hao and Tang San had caused the plague by killing him and sacrificing a Soul Douluo. As Ye Wuhen tortured Tang San, he sensed that Tang San’s body was occupied by another soul, leaving his true identity in question.

• Tang San attacked Ye Wuhen with hidden weapons and Soul Skills, but Ye Wuhen’s body withered the Blue Silver Grass and devoured or expelled the weapons and poison.
• Ye Wuhen accused Tang San and Tang Hao of killing him and unleashing the plague, and Tang Xiao and Qian Daoliu reacted to the revelations on the Celestial Screen.
• Bibi Dong vowed revenge on Ye Wuhen while grieving over Yu Xiaogang’s suffering.
• Ye Wuhen slapped Tang San as Wang Sheng and the other former Nuoding City working students kicked Yu Xiaogang back and forth.
• Ye Wuhen questioned why Tang Hao had tried to kill him when he was a child, then realized Tang San’s body was under someone else’s soul possession.

Ye Wuhen accused Tang San of taking over another body and brought him through a portal toward the Garden of Nurgle, but Tang San vanished during the journey. Back in the real world, Tang San denied the accusation and vowed to defeat Ye Wuhen, while Ye Wuhen suspected Nurgle had personally taken Tang San.

• Ye Wuhen questioned Tang San about when he had taken over his body, but Tang San denied it while the real-world Tang San panicked at the possibility that Ye Wuhen was right.
• Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San that Ye Wuhen probably meant his twin martial souls, and Tang San vowed to protect his family and prove himself.
• Ye Wuhen bound Tang San with Blue Silver Grass and opened a portal to the Garden of Nurgle, intending to take him there.
• Ye Wuhen arrived in the Garden of Nurgle and discovered Tang San had disappeared during the journey.
• Ye Wuhen speculated that Nurgle had personally taken Tang San and worried that he had fallen out of favor.

The Celestial Screen showed Ye Wuhen’s transformation and Tang San’s remaking into a Chaos Warmaster, then left the real Tang San fearing that the original owner of his body still existed. Zhong Xuan decided to use his growing Truth Points to bring the Warp into existence.

• Ye Wuhen’s grandfather turned Yu Xiaogang’s Luo Sanpao into a Rotting Dragon, and Ye Wuhen rode it through the Garden of Nurgle.
• Four gods remade Tang San’s infant soul into a black-haired Chaos Warmaster with the Golden Dragon King’s power, while the original Tang San remained behind.
• After the Celestial Screen ended, Tang San realized people might believe he had possessed someone else’s body and feared his father, Tang Hao, would learn of it.
• Zhong Xuan claimed that the original owner’s soul existed because he said so, making the continent’s belief in Tang San a body-snatching monster part of his plan.
• Zhong Xuan used his growing Truth Points to prepare to bring the Warp into existence.